Because it has a small market share. Nobody wants to write a program that will work on unix based systems because it just isn't practical. The main reason for this is that Linux systems vary wildly in terms of operation and security. Windows does not have this "problem" (and lack of standardization is what has kept Linux out of the mainstream) and, to a degree, neither do Macs. Who would want to write a botnet for linux systems? Now, if our dreams become a reality, and Linux becomes the de facto standard then we will have problems too, this is a perfect example of security though obscurity. The opportunity costs outweigh the benefits, as long as this is true then Linux users have little to fear.
If you played this when it first came out you'll probably agree with me that Shodan was an implacable and reactive enemy that would not only threaten you but follow through. And this was all obviously scripted (the best way to create a realistic intelligence, look at how intelligent the NPCs in the Fallout series were compared to your average level of interaction in a RPG). I don't think that an average game developer has the resources to create an amazing AI for just one game leaving simple algorithms + scripting for specialized situations as your best bet to get a realistic feel to the in game situation.
Using all available dimensions is the main point, and get furniture that doubles as storage, trunks are your friend.
Before you do that though, get rid of everything. Except that which you really need/want/use. If I haven't thought about it in a while and I don't need it when I find it then I usually toss or sell said item.
You're old? Is twenty one old? I use records everyday (don't even own a cd player i'm afraid) and you can get any current release (and a lot of music has been repressed) on a 2xLP for about $12 US. If its a punk-ish band with short songs on a single 12'' then usually its ~8-9. Also vinyl is durable, i can walk into any thrift store and get a disc that happens 30 years old and still plays with far less sonic damage than a cd skip from a scratch. How many cds do you expect to work perfectly in 30 years? The cd got obsoleted by slick sound compression formats like mp3 and ogg (my favorite) anyway. Plus, if you have a good enough sound system records tend to sound better.
this is what extropianism forgot about
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All those people talking about the "Singularity" (supposedely the moment when the growth of human knowledge becomes near enough to asymptotic that radical social changes take place) totally forget about things like this.
i.e. Goethe was aware of the details of all major scientific fields in his day, a renaissance man as they were known, same for DaVinci, who actually pushed the boundries of knowledge in most fields. Today, to do groundbreaking work in physics requires a: mandatory 12 years (at least in the U.S.), a bare minimum of 8 more at an institute of higher learning and that is followed up with an apprenticeship program where you work for more experienced scientists for 5 years (or more). This gives us a standard educational model that lasts 25 years from entry to specialty.
As human knowledge increases, and the flood of it into our heads is turned from a trickle to a torrent, we'll be increasingly unable to find it (which is why Google was invented, i suppose, but the problem is larger than just finding things). But as the article points out: focus is a valuable thing. Realizing this can make one spend time and energy on acquiring it. As an aside, multitasking is useful too, but when you actually need to get something done...
what about a commercial game like this
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It would be practical for someone to write linux games and sell them so that the cd is a live cd and immediatly launched the game when it started, turning your computer into a sort of console system. This way, as the developer, you would have a custom OS to run/design your game in.
by Haruki Murakami, modern Japanese author. Very amazing, spectacularly existential, well translated to boot. Please read it, give it to others, you'll have a blast. (oh yeah, all of his books are good too, if you like vonnegut then you might get a kick out of his sense of reality)
for one I like having the actual real book in my hands (among many reasons: i enjoy the smell). I adore being able to annotate to my hearts content (a lot of books, like some of J. Joyce's offerings, are impossible without taking notes in the margins).
But mostly I doubt ebooks taking off because once you move to a digital format you have a lot of problems selling your product because the cost to the customer of replication is nil. This is why going to cds in the 80s eventually led to p2p once the personal computers got powerful enough. It is a byproduct of the digital asthetic (or paradigm) in general. You can see this in action at Project Gutenburg. Information wants to be free (speech and beer).
instead of actually creating a movie this might end up being a damn good way to storyboard (and pre-production is the most important part of successful movie making).
Anybody been paying attention to the mind machine interface? From computer chips that can connect to nerves to allowing quadrapalegics to use computers via electrodes in their brains the advancement of the mind machine interface seems to be advancing at a solid clip. As compared to the stagnation of AI research over the last four decades (especially in regards to a true intelligence as opposed to solving complicated math problems like chess) there is a significant gap. I think that by the time a real AI gets out into the internet and tries to wreak havoc it'll have to deal with a ton of bio-mechanical human intelligences on their home turf. Just my two cents.
in china they execute white collar criminals because they feel the distributed social harm of ripping off several thousand people is greater than stealing a purse from a single person on the street.
of course, bush gets WMDs wrong again and again but baseball is so much more important, so we'll cover Kerry's lack of attention to the most recent game (maybe he is a busy man and wasn't spending the whole night right before the election watching a game).
this is so stupid... i'm supposed to care what the leader of the free world said about a baseball game? Whats next? Kerry not fit to be president cause of a peanut allergy? There has been no talk of issues this election, hyper-politics and imagism have replaced dignity and discussion. They aren't parties anymore, they're brands.
the solution is to take down the RIAA so that more of the money goes to the artists who actually make the music. We've seen the middleman disappear in a variety of industries as a result of the internet, why not music? I haven't noticed any of the small independant labels i pay attention to bitching about slow sales or a shitty music scene in the states. I think its just the behomoth that is collapsing, and the faster it does so the better off the artists and consumers will be.
actually almost everything comes out on vinyl these days. The strokes, radiohead, the white stripes, fucking kid rock and limp bisquit for christs sake releases a 12'' of their albums. Almost anything hip hop or electronic is out on vinyl (and a lot thats _only_ on vinyl). Most indie rock comes out on vinyl (sleater kinney, fugazi, unwound... could go on, but i won't). Name a band, i bet they have a record.
i draw a line between physical violence and social violence. I'm ok with the former being illegal but any attempt to make the latter illegal will generally be impossible to implement. Adultery is definately social violence.
I think we'll see a movement back to the live performance being the primary way to make money as a musician. Plus merch sales (some still buy the cd if they really like the band, there are still plenty of people without any internet access in the US, but we see the trend is south korea here) like t-shirts and stickers and posters and anything you can think of really will keep people paying money (directly) to artists.
i like to think of it as a migration to the DIY ethic, but thats probably optimistic of me.
whoa! i don't know about you but the most successful music stores in the US focus of vinyl because people who buy records don't care about going from one digital format (ie CDs) to another (mp3s).
as for myself, i own about 3 cds, one of them is a free demo and about 200 or so records.
actually, it will never drop to $10000 thanks to inflation, you'll actually be waiting till $100000 is minimun wage for a year of simple labor. We'll also have to build about 100 space elevators before the cost drops to a level that the top 5% of the global population can afford (ie, the united states public). Wooo, boy i wish i had a billion laying around.
there are too many coders for a software patent to be enforceable, especially since a lot of you are the people at the companies. Enforcing a ridiculous software patent is akin to the United States "war" on drugs. A senseless and expensive (lots and lots of jails for non-violent crime) effort that has completely failed to keep drugs out of white suburbia. There are too many of us to keep track of, and even if a specific tool is banned it isn't so hard to make another one, especially with so many millions of copies of the source code for any infringing program would be all over the world.
its not about issues anymore, its about image. I feel like i'm being sold two brands, do you want pepsi or coke in the whitehouse? (me, i vote coke, but thats cause i like hard drugs more than soda)
i'm impressed with the alertness the bush team is picking up on ways to use the internet.
GoBase has a lot of information on Go. Including professional games that you can review online (reg req tho).
No two games of Go have ever been the same (something that can't be said of chess). After playing almost nothing but Go for the last several years the chessboard feels incredibly cramped to me. Whereas chess is a limited battle, Go is a full scale war.
The best way to learn the basics is to look at The Way To Go. And then download the KGS client so you can play some real people.
It might also be good to start playing 9x9 games until you get the idea of the game (it'll take a few tries till it clicks in your head).
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Because it has a small market share. Nobody wants to write a program that will work on unix based systems because it just isn't practical. The main reason for this is that Linux systems vary wildly in terms of operation and security. Windows does not have this "problem" (and lack of standardization is what has kept Linux out of the mainstream) and, to a degree, neither do Macs. Who would want to write a botnet for linux systems? Now, if our dreams become a reality, and Linux becomes the de facto standard then we will have problems too, this is a perfect example of security though obscurity. The opportunity costs outweigh the benefits, as long as this is true then Linux users have little to fear.
If you played this when it first came out you'll probably agree with me that Shodan was an implacable and reactive enemy that would not only threaten you but follow through. And this was all obviously scripted (the best way to create a realistic intelligence, look at how intelligent the NPCs in the Fallout series were compared to your average level of interaction in a RPG). I don't think that an average game developer has the resources to create an amazing AI for just one game leaving simple algorithms + scripting for specialized situations as your best bet to get a realistic feel to the in game situation.
If any company started selling "future proof" hardware, they would put themselves out of business.
Using all available dimensions is the main point, and get furniture that doubles as storage, trunks are your friend.
Before you do that though, get rid of everything. Except that which you really need/want/use. If I haven't thought about it in a while and I don't need it when I find it then I usually toss or sell said item.
You're old? Is twenty one old? I use records everyday (don't even own a cd player i'm afraid) and you can get any current release (and a lot of music has been repressed) on a 2xLP for about $12 US. If its a punk-ish band with short songs on a single 12'' then usually its ~8-9. Also vinyl is durable, i can walk into any thrift store and get a disc that happens 30 years old and still plays with far less sonic damage than a cd skip from a scratch. How many cds do you expect to work perfectly in 30 years? The cd got obsoleted by slick sound compression formats like mp3 and ogg (my favorite) anyway. Plus, if you have a good enough sound system records tend to sound better.
i.e. Goethe was aware of the details of all major scientific fields in his day, a renaissance man as they were known, same for DaVinci, who actually pushed the boundries of knowledge in most fields. Today, to do groundbreaking work in physics requires a: mandatory 12 years (at least in the U.S.), a bare minimum of 8 more at an institute of higher learning and that is followed up with an apprenticeship program where you work for more experienced scientists for 5 years (or more). This gives us a standard educational model that lasts 25 years from entry to specialty.
As human knowledge increases, and the flood of it into our heads is turned from a trickle to a torrent, we'll be increasingly unable to find it (which is why Google was invented, i suppose, but the problem is larger than just finding things). But as the article points out: focus is a valuable thing. Realizing this can make one spend time and energy on acquiring it. As an aside, multitasking is useful too, but when you actually need to get something done...
It would be practical for someone to write linux games and sell them so that the cd is a live cd and immediatly launched the game when it started, turning your computer into a sort of console system. This way, as the developer, you would have a custom OS to run/design your game in.
by Haruki Murakami, modern Japanese author. Very amazing, spectacularly existential, well translated to boot. Please read it, give it to others, you'll have a blast. (oh yeah, all of his books are good too, if you like vonnegut then you might get a kick out of his sense of reality)
for one I like having the actual real book in my hands (among many reasons: i enjoy the smell). I adore being able to annotate to my hearts content (a lot of books, like some of J. Joyce's offerings, are impossible without taking notes in the margins).
But mostly I doubt ebooks taking off because once you move to a digital format you have a lot of problems selling your product because the cost to the customer of replication is nil. This is why going to cds in the 80s eventually led to p2p once the personal computers got powerful enough. It is a byproduct of the digital asthetic (or paradigm) in general. You can see this in action at Project Gutenburg. Information wants to be free (speech and beer).
instead of actually creating a movie this might end up being a damn good way to storyboard (and pre-production is the most important part of successful movie making).
Anybody been paying attention to the mind machine interface? From computer chips that can connect to nerves to allowing quadrapalegics to use computers via electrodes in their brains the advancement of the mind machine interface seems to be advancing at a solid clip. As compared to the stagnation of AI research over the last four decades (especially in regards to a true intelligence as opposed to solving complicated math problems like chess) there is a significant gap. I think that by the time a real AI gets out into the internet and tries to wreak havoc it'll have to deal with a ton of bio-mechanical human intelligences on their home turf. Just my two cents.
in china they execute white collar criminals because they feel the distributed social harm of ripping off several thousand people is greater than stealing a purse from a single person on the street.
this is so stupid... i'm supposed to care what the leader of the free world said about a baseball game? Whats next? Kerry not fit to be president cause of a peanut allergy? There has been no talk of issues this election, hyper-politics and imagism have replaced dignity and discussion. They aren't parties anymore, they're brands.
this is really basic... of course you don't tell the point infantry unit what they're running into, if you did they probably wouldn't go.
1. play a show
2. sell t shirts
3. sell CDs or LPs to truly loyal fans
4. be as creative as possible, remember you ARE an artist
as a side benefit the artist gets to keep a much larger portion of the wealth that they create.
the solution is to take down the RIAA so that more of the money goes to the artists who actually make the music. We've seen the middleman disappear in a variety of industries as a result of the internet, why not music? I haven't noticed any of the small independant labels i pay attention to bitching about slow sales or a shitty music scene in the states. I think its just the behomoth that is collapsing, and the faster it does so the better off the artists and consumers will be.
actually almost everything comes out on vinyl these days. The strokes, radiohead, the white stripes, fucking kid rock and limp bisquit for christs sake releases a 12'' of their albums. Almost anything hip hop or electronic is out on vinyl (and a lot thats _only_ on vinyl). Most indie rock comes out on vinyl (sleater kinney, fugazi, unwound... could go on, but i won't). Name a band, i bet they have a record.
i draw a line between physical violence and social violence. I'm ok with the former being illegal but any attempt to make the latter illegal will generally be impossible to implement. Adultery is definately social violence.
i like to think of it as a migration to the DIY ethic, but thats probably optimistic of me.
as for myself, i own about 3 cds, one of them is a free demo and about 200 or so records.
actually, it will never drop to $10000 thanks to inflation, you'll actually be waiting till $100000 is minimun wage for a year of simple labor. We'll also have to build about 100 space elevators before the cost drops to a level that the top 5% of the global population can afford (ie, the united states public). Wooo, boy i wish i had a billion laying around.
i'm impressed with the alertness the bush team is picking up on ways to use the internet.
regardless of the article's merits, he does link to a good page on the underground economy that is well researched and presented.
No two games of Go have ever been the same (something that can't be said of chess). After playing almost nothing but Go for the last several years the chessboard feels incredibly cramped to me. Whereas chess is a limited battle, Go is a full scale war.
The best way to learn the basics is to look at The Way To Go. And then download the KGS client so you can play some real people.
It might also be good to start playing 9x9 games until you get the idea of the game (it'll take a few tries till it clicks in your head).