I was actually a classmate of one of the two guys doing this (Aaron Perell) and I distinctly recall being incredulous when he described a project he was working on as "playing a lot of video games." It's funny to see this get thrown on to the CSM, since I got the impression that it was a minor exercise to keep bored college IT folk occupied. Hopefully this ends up producing some interesting research so we can justify further studies of this nature - to the delight of grad students everywhere.
The only method of communicating is the chalice. We must assume the chalice is able to be manipulated by the king, flipped or not, every time a prisoner is sent back. Therefore, the chalice essentialy randomizes itself, and we have to assume that it may do it as the king wishes. This means that each new prisoner is potentially coming back into the room with no trace of the previous prisoner's presence, no indication of how many have been there before. If their only method of communication erases itself every time they take their eyes off it (or can erase itself, which is basically the same thing), then they HAVE no method of communication, and the problem is impossible to solve. I really think this is an impossible problem. How can any data be gleaned from a randomly randomizing randomizer?
Hehe... That's something that I can put on a resume... I brought down the NASA site with a paragraph of writing and several thousand geeks worth of curiosity.
Well, considering that they have a virus (likely windows), they are interested in cheap, purely functional computers (windows), and that I'm from Colorado and can tell you what they run on (windows), then I'd say its a pretty safe assumption.
What these scientists are overlooking is that all that the rock shows is that a rock could achieve escape velocity. There would need to be life present, and pretty hardy life at that, in order to be moved to Earth. Everyone keeps saying that life is everywhere in the Universe, why not have it evolve independently on both planets (or on just one). I would love nothing more than a confirmation of cross-pollination to be discovered, but we just don't know enough to say that this is conclusive.
We can't ever have a workable spam filter because of the adaptability of spam. However much you try, the spammers will come up with a way to circumvent your block. How long do you think that it would take for the spammers to figure out how to send emails that the whitelist software would mistake for legit? Nothing short of a trained monkey going through your inbox will sort this out effectively.
I think that it is quite an interesting development that we can use robotic harvesters to gather previously cost-ineffective resources. Maybe next we can go after the tons of gold dissolved in seawater. Robots are nothing if not patient...
I seem to remember that they hooked up a building in New York so that you could play tetris using the lights in the windows as the squares for the falling blocks. This is a bit different, but it's interesting that we keep going for the bigger screens. I think my racing skills are best kept hidden on a cell screen...
That Yahoo and Hotmail are pretty much the most used/spammed services out there, and therefore will have their security holes pinponted sooner than lesser-known services. Doesn't mean that the lesser knowns are more secure, just blissfully ignorant. Something to ponder...
I hate to break it to you, but the few that don't have spyware could very well represent the tiny, tiny percentage of people that are smart enough not to use Windows or IE. We are all alone... Out of necessity. No space at the top.
Most spyware remains undetected because it makes copies and backups of itself that are near to invisible. Although spyware is easily visible on 1 in 20, it is probably present in some form on almost every computer with an internet connection.
Is it pronounced z-view or zavooey? I vote for the latter... Either way, I think that the ZVUE will lose out to other devices, such as the steadily cheaper PDA's that are also able to play video and audio, as well as a host of other even more useful functions. This is fundamentally the same as a portable dvd player with card support instead of the more useful dvd's, and should receive no more hype than all of the other things that now suddenly support cards that don't need them.
This is part of a trend that I've seen grow over the past few years of games taking into account the moral and ethical aspects of a player's style of gaming. The idea of having a player's environment be changed in accordance with his in-game morality is really pretty interesting. Past examples of this are in Resident Evil:Zero, Black & White, and many of the MMORPG's out there.
We all have a tendency to perceive what we expect to be there. It only takes one certifiable nut to post something up, and the pictures are swarmed with people blindly confirming the initial opinion. I refer to the now-famous martian "face". Sure, it looks like a face. I know of several Earth-based sites which have topographical similarities to a face. Seeing as we are biologically equipped to recognize patterns, it should come as no surprise that we see something other than what really caused the resemblence: coincidence.
Although the grey goo is a problem that is constantly hovering about the use of nanotechnology, we have to consider that we have other far more developed methods of mass destruction. Nuclear, radiological, and especially biological weapons are potentially as destructive as the goo, and require far less technical expertise to manufacture and distribute. More troubling, they allow us to be destroyed with current technology, rather than a bothersome wait for nanotech to catch up. On the bright side, those suicidal people that feel the inclination to do away with all of us are a bit psychotic and thus less able to organize something like a mass release of a weapon of mass what-have-you. I'm not worried about anything besides the price on the first tickets up that space elevator.
Do they have any idea what such restictive nastiness does to legitimate businesses? They had to amend that bill so that they wouldn't suffer severe economic damage as companies were forced to connect every computer individually to the internet, and throw their arms open for the now firewall-uninhibited hackers in states OTHER than Tenn.
How do they get elected?
Capitalism is a self-regulating system. The glut of money in the U.S. has resulted in us sending money and jobs overseas, distributing the wealth. It's nothing new.
How far does this extend? Sure, you can sue phonetic copies, but what if someone makes a macrohard.com? Is that infringement as well? Or maybe micrsoft.com, or some other creative misspelling... What are the boundaries for this type of suit?
This offers possibilities in the vein of Uplink... If you've ever seen the brainstorms on the Introversion server about Uplink 2, they talk about having a Mission: Impossible type link between hacker support and combat team. That would be really nice, but has headache potential.
I think that people often overlook that we are known by our exports. When I travel to South America, I am offered Coke because I am an American, and that's "what Americans drink". What does our entertainment say about us? Do we really want to be known for Vice City?
It's a didtinct possibility that the Indonesians are exaggerating a bit. The previous record is only half of what they claim their snake to be. Records are normally broken by less than a 10% ish margin. This seems a little unlikely. Mind you, it would also be very cool if it were true, but I'll wait for more conclusive evidence.
The technology for the glove interface is somewhat present in wearable computers, some of which have a single-hand keyboard replacement that functions off of hand motions and/or button presses on a device. Also, a prize was given recently to a kid that developed a glove to translate sign language into text. It only worked on letters, but it's a start. Also, the motion sensing technology needed is present at a primitive level in certain arcade games that incorporate the movements of the player's body into camera motion in the game. We just need to put it all together...
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I was actually a classmate of one of the two guys doing this (Aaron Perell) and I distinctly recall being incredulous when he described a project he was working on as "playing a lot of video games." It's funny to see this get thrown on to the CSM, since I got the impression that it was a minor exercise to keep bored college IT folk occupied. Hopefully this ends up producing some interesting research so we can justify further studies of this nature - to the delight of grad students everywhere.
The only method of communicating is the chalice. We must assume the chalice is able to be manipulated by the king, flipped or not, every time a prisoner is sent back. Therefore, the chalice essentialy randomizes itself, and we have to assume that it may do it as the king wishes. This means that each new prisoner is potentially coming back into the room with no trace of the previous prisoner's presence, no indication of how many have been there before. If their only method of communication erases itself every time they take their eyes off it (or can erase itself, which is basically the same thing), then they HAVE no method of communication, and the problem is impossible to solve. I really think this is an impossible problem. How can any data be gleaned from a randomly randomizing randomizer?
Hehe... That's something that I can put on a resume... I brought down the NASA site with a paragraph of writing and several thousand geeks worth of curiosity.
Well, considering that they have a virus (likely windows), they are interested in cheap, purely functional computers (windows), and that I'm from Colorado and can tell you what they run on (windows), then I'd say its a pretty safe assumption.
What these scientists are overlooking is that all that the rock shows is that a rock could achieve escape velocity. There would need to be life present, and pretty hardy life at that, in order to be moved to Earth. Everyone keeps saying that life is everywhere in the Universe, why not have it evolve independently on both planets (or on just one). I would love nothing more than a confirmation of cross-pollination to be discovered, but we just don't know enough to say that this is conclusive.
We can't ever have a workable spam filter because of the adaptability of spam. However much you try, the spammers will come up with a way to circumvent your block. How long do you think that it would take for the spammers to figure out how to send emails that the whitelist software would mistake for legit? Nothing short of a trained monkey going through your inbox will sort this out effectively.
I think that it is quite an interesting development that we can use robotic harvesters to gather previously cost-ineffective resources. Maybe next we can go after the tons of gold dissolved in seawater. Robots are nothing if not patient...
I seem to remember that they hooked up a building in New York so that you could play tetris using the lights in the windows as the squares for the falling blocks. This is a bit different, but it's interesting that we keep going for the bigger screens. I think my racing skills are best kept hidden on a cell screen...
That Yahoo and Hotmail are pretty much the most used/spammed services out there, and therefore will have their security holes pinponted sooner than lesser-known services. Doesn't mean that the lesser knowns are more secure, just blissfully ignorant. Something to ponder...
I hate to break it to you, but the few that don't have spyware could very well represent the tiny, tiny percentage of people that are smart enough not to use Windows or IE. We are all alone... Out of necessity. No space at the top.
Most spyware remains undetected because it makes copies and backups of itself that are near to invisible. Although spyware is easily visible on 1 in 20, it is probably present in some form on almost every computer with an internet connection.
Is it pronounced z-view or zavooey? I vote for the latter... Either way, I think that the ZVUE will lose out to other devices, such as the steadily cheaper PDA's that are also able to play video and audio, as well as a host of other even more useful functions. This is fundamentally the same as a portable dvd player with card support instead of the more useful dvd's, and should receive no more hype than all of the other things that now suddenly support cards that don't need them.
This is part of a trend that I've seen grow over the past few years of games taking into account the moral and ethical aspects of a player's style of gaming. The idea of having a player's environment be changed in accordance with his in-game morality is really pretty interesting. Past examples of this are in Resident Evil:Zero, Black & White, and many of the MMORPG's out there.
I'm sorry, Dave... That Nigerian guy looks suspicious and I can't let you send him money.
We all have a tendency to perceive what we expect to be there. It only takes one certifiable nut to post something up, and the pictures are swarmed with people blindly confirming the initial opinion. I refer to the now-famous martian "face". Sure, it looks like a face. I know of several Earth-based sites which have topographical similarities to a face. Seeing as we are biologically equipped to recognize patterns, it should come as no surprise that we see something other than what really caused the resemblence: coincidence.
Although the grey goo is a problem that is constantly hovering about the use of nanotechnology, we have to consider that we have other far more developed methods of mass destruction. Nuclear, radiological, and especially biological weapons are potentially as destructive as the goo, and require far less technical expertise to manufacture and distribute. More troubling, they allow us to be destroyed with current technology, rather than a bothersome wait for nanotech to catch up. On the bright side, those suicidal people that feel the inclination to do away with all of us are a bit psychotic and thus less able to organize something like a mass release of a weapon of mass what-have-you. I'm not worried about anything besides the price on the first tickets up that space elevator.
Do they have any idea what such restictive nastiness does to legitimate businesses? They had to amend that bill so that they wouldn't suffer severe economic damage as companies were forced to connect every computer individually to the internet, and throw their arms open for the now firewall-uninhibited hackers in states OTHER than Tenn. How do they get elected?
i'm going to lay on the floor and cry... Why?!!
Capitalism is a self-regulating system. The glut of money in the U.S. has resulted in us sending money and jobs overseas, distributing the wealth. It's nothing new.
How far does this extend? Sure, you can sue phonetic copies, but what if someone makes a macrohard.com? Is that infringement as well? Or maybe micrsoft.com, or some other creative misspelling... What are the boundaries for this type of suit?
This offers possibilities in the vein of Uplink... If you've ever seen the brainstorms on the Introversion server about Uplink 2, they talk about having a Mission: Impossible type link between hacker support and combat team. That would be really nice, but has headache potential.
I think that people often overlook that we are known by our exports. When I travel to South America, I am offered Coke because I am an American, and that's "what Americans drink". What does our entertainment say about us? Do we really want to be known for Vice City?
It's a didtinct possibility that the Indonesians are exaggerating a bit. The previous record is only half of what they claim their snake to be. Records are normally broken by less than a 10% ish margin. This seems a little unlikely. Mind you, it would also be very cool if it were true, but I'll wait for more conclusive evidence.
I don't advocate hours of dedicated research. 15 minutes on google is sufficient for a basic knowledge of the subject.
The technology for the glove interface is somewhat present in wearable computers, some of which have a single-hand keyboard replacement that functions off of hand motions and/or button presses on a device. Also, a prize was given recently to a kid that developed a glove to translate sign language into text. It only worked on letters, but it's a start. Also, the motion sensing technology needed is present at a primitive level in certain arcade games that incorporate the movements of the player's body into camera motion in the game. We just need to put it all together...