I've seen a lot of distributions that do these fairly minor tweaks and provide useful synergistic defaults to some subset of a distribution, and I've long wondered why they don't go the route of building a package set that can just be installed on the base distribution. I've read in these comments that the crunchbang installer is pretty damn close to installing debian with preseedable options, the line doesn't always make sense.
The fact that you can make different choices with the same input proves that the human brain is not deterministic. Some religions call this a soul.
The fact that you can make different choices with the same input - hold up, that's not right. It's a different decision if it's made again with similar inputs. The fact that the decision was made with the same inputs before makes it so the future decision is not the same. The context has changed. The inputs are different. In order to show that the brain is non-deterministic, you need situations where the inputs are actually the same.
AI has been a hobby of mine for 20 years. I have grave doubts that we will *EVER* make a robot so sophisticated that it can ignore it's programming
Spend less time on the artificial intelligence side and a little more time on the human intelligence side. Humans don't drop their programming that easily. The storage capacity of the brain makes it so an input can linger for what may be the entire lifetime of the system. Keep in mind that human sensory input takes time to develop in the first place, the brain spends years learning to interpret the sensory data before complex interaction is even possible. Ask an elderly bigot what they think of gay marriage and try to de-program them.
You don't think Artificial Intelligence has the potential for this within a reasonable amount of time, I can see that, but I also don't see you AI guys raising them from a zygote and giving them the full brunt of physical and cultural influence that goes into a functioning human brain. Honestly, I'm about at the point where I feel like we've developed intelligent systems that were written off as dead ends solely based on the fact that the unfiltered stream of consciousness was interpreted as garbage data.
You're making an awful lot of illogical assumptions about the way the brain 'should' work that don't correlate to the way the brain actually functions. Using your dog training as an example, you aren't able to control their input to such a degree as to assure they're getting the same message from you every time. One key bit is that you're not the only thing feeding input to the dogs. Sensory input in this sense is only a small part of the sensory input that a brain is receiving at any given time. There are countless external factors beyond your control that are influencing things in ways that you're simply not aware of that make the basis for your argument completely illogical.
It's trivial now, after the war has been going on for more than a decade. In 2013, they've come incredibly close to winning the war against used game sales. GameStop is about the last remnant of a formerly enormous used games market, and they've been flailing to keep up for a few years now. It's not trivial, it's murder.
I think you need some UNIX in your life. Having to use a GUI to perform administrative functions on a server is a terrible waste of network resources. In my technological world, remote system administration is done using a secure shell server that allows me to log in and perform maintenance commands over an encrypted terminal link. The bandwidth used in comparison to logging into a graphical environment over a network is negligible, the added strain on the server is negligible, the actual electricity used to move the necessary information from one point to another is greatly reduced, and if I need to use GUI tools from the server for some reason I can actually forward them over the secure terminal link. Windows on the server tosses out 40 years of technological advancement and brings the minimum power bar to perform server tasks to a ridiculously high, wasteful level. They don't even NEED to - Windows can do remote terminals and simple administration, but Microsoft makes their users jump through licensing hoops to access the full power of the operating system.
We're standing by and watching our Windows-oriented technology corporations eat themselves alive with this garbage. It's time to move on to solutions that aren't built on planned obsolescence.
Not sure how you expect them to do that on a game which was designed to utilize server-side processing through and through. The simulation is reliant on the server, it's not as simple as an "unlock patch".
As we humans increase our numbers, we are causing the extinction of countless other forms of life. We're constantly finding that the reasons we consider other life to be inferior or different are plainly false. I see no reason the reincarnating souls would not stretch among all forms of life, making a closed planet-side system entirely possible.
I'm afraid that the community cares more about preservation of these historical items than the copyright owners' rules. The idea that archival copies of historical works is tantamount to unapproved sub-licensing is a completely ridiculous notion and the companies involved will have to eventually come to terms with that for any project on the scale of the Computer History Museum to truly succeed. Historical records cannot be owned and restricted in that manner and still be considered a historical record. Indeed, I feel that the very mission of the Museum includes bringing this level of understanding to those who would otherwise be turned off by it. This is history, not commerce. While it might make some unwilling to release, that is a problem with the angle they're coming at it from, and that needs to be well understood.
He was fighting it. He was fighting it for years and they just kept putting more pressure on. Documents that should have been available to him from the beginning were locked away and kept secret despite him fighting for them. The idea that he wasn't facing decades in jail is made under the assumption of a successful defense, which was being denied to him the entire time. Looking at the surface of the situation and deciding they were selfish for removing themselves from it? The selfishness and cowardice that people go off about when someone does this, is entirely their own. They're too caught up in their own selfish expectations of how others should act and feel that they will outright deny the events and reasoning leading up to someone offing themselves because of it. Seriously, it's disgusting.
You missed the part where he's a special effects guy and this is his horror movie portfolio, that his work on the project slowed to a crawl because his special effects career started taking off. To defy anyone to prove otherwise, is to ignore the blatant facts of the case.
ZFS support on all platforms is significantly lacking in the specified featureset. Every time I've come across a post talking up some awesome thing about ZFS, I've taken a moment to do some research and found that (with the exception of a few things in the Solaris implementation) the major features that everyone is hailing it for are not actually implemented. That means it doesn't have those features. That means it doesn't have the benefits that people are using it for. That means it's garbage.
The conversion between AC and DC is such a disgustingly common act that I have a hard time figuring how you can be aware of both of them and yet still consider it an issue.
erm, yes? I'm not a Surface user, but I've been around technology long enough to know that silly oversights like that happen ALL the time. So I'm curious and asking an honest question?
I have an older Toshiba Gigabeat running Rockbox. Sweet little MP3 player, one of the pre-touch ancestors of the Zune (It's a newer rebranded Gigabeat). Microsoft just has a bad case of the Corporations, they like to swallow up things of value but (mistakenly) leave behind the parts that made them valuable. It's sad, it's a sickness, and too many of our fledgling little organizatons grow up and catch it. I get the impression that the fatality rate of Corporations infection is getting ready to go way up...
Because as a Unix system, OS X is terribly supported. They made awkward changes to break POSIX compatibility in their basic userland. Sure, we can iTunes all day, but when it comes down to actual work, Linux saves the day with by being a serious UNIX that's not trying to glam over its shortcomings.
7 will run as fast as XP when it has double the RAM and no applications being used. Once you start putting some load on it, the difference makes itself apparent quickly. Here's a logical fallacy for you: New Operating System faster than Old Operating System! (on New Hardware. Much of which can't be used as a basis of comparison with the old Operating System because of Vendor's insistence on trying to cut off the driver flow for the older revision.)
I swear anyone who thinks 7 is fast has never used it alongside a solid XP install.
The place I live has some pretty severe weather around this time of year so the power signal gets muddled and starts causing all kinds of crazy things to happen with the computers. An Uninterruptable Power Supply will generally soak all of it and keep providing clean power to the devices and thus remove all that wear and tear. I've lost two power supplies in as many years, they were the only two that weren't on the power protection. I've seen countless weird machines coming in from customers every time the weather kicks up, always those who don't have a UPS. I recently did some work in an office that had an issue with a server and their internet connection - turned out to be the only devices in the building not on the power protection. It's not going to keep your spinners from wearing out or anything miraculous like that, but it will cut out 95% of the problems any of our customers will run in to as far as failing hardware. Don't tell your customers not to spend a little extra on quality gear - just make sure that they have the power protection to go with it.
I'm gonna recommend that you check out the Spring Engine. It's a fully 3D real-time strategy engine originally developed with the intent of recreating the 1997 RTS "Total Annihilation". If you've played Supreme Commander (Spring predates Supreme Commander and influenced the design), you have something of an idea of what to expect from the Total Annihilation style mods..
I wasn't a fan of 3D real time strategy games until I played Spring. Almost every time I go back to another RTS now, I find myself utterly spoiled by Spring's excellent zooming and command queueing. Give it a whirl and see how shoddy those old timer RTSes actually are. Did I mention that it's Free? It's Free. That's important.
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Of course, when you avoid and shun 'such dangerous people' ... aren't you the one making them dangerous?
I've seen a lot of distributions that do these fairly minor tweaks and provide useful synergistic defaults to some subset of a distribution, and I've long wondered why they don't go the route of building a package set that can just be installed on the base distribution. I've read in these comments that the crunchbang installer is pretty damn close to installing debian with preseedable options, the line doesn't always make sense.
The fact that you can make different choices with the same input proves that the human brain is not deterministic. Some religions call this a soul.
The fact that you can make different choices with the same input - hold up, that's not right. It's a different decision if it's made again with similar inputs. The fact that the decision was made with the same inputs before makes it so the future decision is not the same. The context has changed. The inputs are different. In order to show that the brain is non-deterministic, you need situations where the inputs are actually the same.
AI has been a hobby of mine for 20 years. I have grave doubts that we will *EVER* make a robot so sophisticated that it can ignore it's programming
Spend less time on the artificial intelligence side and a little more time on the human intelligence side. Humans don't drop their programming that easily. The storage capacity of the brain makes it so an input can linger for what may be the entire lifetime of the system. Keep in mind that human sensory input takes time to develop in the first place, the brain spends years learning to interpret the sensory data before complex interaction is even possible. Ask an elderly bigot what they think of gay marriage and try to de-program them.
You don't think Artificial Intelligence has the potential for this within a reasonable amount of time, I can see that, but I also don't see you AI guys raising them from a zygote and giving them the full brunt of physical and cultural influence that goes into a functioning human brain. Honestly, I'm about at the point where I feel like we've developed intelligent systems that were written off as dead ends solely based on the fact that the unfiltered stream of consciousness was interpreted as garbage data.
You're making an awful lot of illogical assumptions about the way the brain 'should' work that don't correlate to the way the brain actually functions. Using your dog training as an example, you aren't able to control their input to such a degree as to assure they're getting the same message from you every time. One key bit is that you're not the only thing feeding input to the dogs. Sensory input in this sense is only a small part of the sensory input that a brain is receiving at any given time. There are countless external factors beyond your control that are influencing things in ways that you're simply not aware of that make the basis for your argument completely illogical.
I'm kinda bothered that it's considered an ISSUE that a RIFLE cartridge was too much for a HANDGUN.
It's trivial now, after the war has been going on for more than a decade. In 2013, they've come incredibly close to winning the war against used game sales. GameStop is about the last remnant of a formerly enormous used games market, and they've been flailing to keep up for a few years now. It's not trivial, it's murder.
I think you need some UNIX in your life. Having to use a GUI to perform administrative functions on a server is a terrible waste of network resources. In my technological world, remote system administration is done using a secure shell server that allows me to log in and perform maintenance commands over an encrypted terminal link. The bandwidth used in comparison to logging into a graphical environment over a network is negligible, the added strain on the server is negligible, the actual electricity used to move the necessary information from one point to another is greatly reduced, and if I need to use GUI tools from the server for some reason I can actually forward them over the secure terminal link. Windows on the server tosses out 40 years of technological advancement and brings the minimum power bar to perform server tasks to a ridiculously high, wasteful level. They don't even NEED to - Windows can do remote terminals and simple administration, but Microsoft makes their users jump through licensing hoops to access the full power of the operating system.
We're standing by and watching our Windows-oriented technology corporations eat themselves alive with this garbage. It's time to move on to solutions that aren't built on planned obsolescence.
All it did was make it so "set-top box" means the set goes on top.
Whoa man, where are your citations? Wikipedia is not a source.
Not sure how you expect them to do that on a game which was designed to utilize server-side processing through and through. The simulation is reliant on the server, it's not as simple as an "unlock patch".
As we humans increase our numbers, we are causing the extinction of countless other forms of life. We're constantly finding that the reasons we consider other life to be inferior or different are plainly false. I see no reason the reincarnating souls would not stretch among all forms of life, making a closed planet-side system entirely possible.
I'm afraid that the community cares more about preservation of these historical items than the copyright owners' rules. The idea that archival copies of historical works is tantamount to unapproved sub-licensing is a completely ridiculous notion and the companies involved will have to eventually come to terms with that for any project on the scale of the Computer History Museum to truly succeed. Historical records cannot be owned and restricted in that manner and still be considered a historical record. Indeed, I feel that the very mission of the Museum includes bringing this level of understanding to those who would otherwise be turned off by it. This is history, not commerce. While it might make some unwilling to release, that is a problem with the angle they're coming at it from, and that needs to be well understood.
Bullshit. Every game I have on Steam in Linux was purchased on the Windows side.
He was fighting it. He was fighting it for years and they just kept putting more pressure on. Documents that should have been available to him from the beginning were locked away and kept secret despite him fighting for them. The idea that he wasn't facing decades in jail is made under the assumption of a successful defense, which was being denied to him the entire time. Looking at the surface of the situation and deciding they were selfish for removing themselves from it? The selfishness and cowardice that people go off about when someone does this, is entirely their own. They're too caught up in their own selfish expectations of how others should act and feel that they will outright deny the events and reasoning leading up to someone offing themselves because of it. Seriously, it's disgusting.
You missed the part where he's a special effects guy and this is his horror movie portfolio, that his work on the project slowed to a crawl because his special effects career started taking off. To defy anyone to prove otherwise, is to ignore the blatant facts of the case.
ZFS support on all platforms is significantly lacking in the specified featureset. Every time I've come across a post talking up some awesome thing about ZFS, I've taken a moment to do some research and found that (with the exception of a few things in the Solaris implementation) the major features that everyone is hailing it for are not actually implemented.
That means it doesn't have those features.
That means it doesn't have the benefits that people are using it for.
That means it's garbage.
And that saddens my soul.
The conversion between AC and DC is such a disgustingly common act that I have a hard time figuring how you can be aware of both of them and yet still consider it an issue.
erm, yes? I'm not a Surface user, but I've been around technology long enough to know that silly oversights like that happen ALL the time. So I'm curious and asking an honest question?
I have an older Toshiba Gigabeat running Rockbox. Sweet little MP3 player, one of the pre-touch ancestors of the Zune (It's a newer rebranded Gigabeat). Microsoft just has a bad case of the Corporations, they like to swallow up things of value but (mistakenly) leave behind the parts that made them valuable. It's sad, it's a sickness, and too many of our fledgling little organizatons grow up and catch it. I get the impression that the fatality rate of Corporations infection is getting ready to go way up...
Does that back button stay visible when you start the scrolling process?
Because as a Unix system, OS X is terribly supported. They made awkward changes to break POSIX compatibility in their basic userland. Sure, we can iTunes all day, but when it comes down to actual work, Linux saves the day with by being a serious UNIX that's not trying to glam over its shortcomings.
7 will run as fast as XP when it has double the RAM and no applications being used. Once you start putting some load on it, the difference makes itself apparent quickly. Here's a logical fallacy for you: New Operating System faster than Old Operating System! (on New Hardware. Much of which can't be used as a basis of comparison with the old Operating System because of Vendor's insistence on trying to cut off the driver flow for the older revision.)
I swear anyone who thinks 7 is fast has never used it alongside a solid XP install.
It's the power grid.
The place I live has some pretty severe weather around this time of year so the power signal gets muddled and starts causing all kinds of crazy things to happen with the computers. An Uninterruptable Power Supply will generally soak all of it and keep providing clean power to the devices and thus remove all that wear and tear. I've lost two power supplies in as many years, they were the only two that weren't on the power protection. I've seen countless weird machines coming in from customers every time the weather kicks up, always those who don't have a UPS. I recently did some work in an office that had an issue with a server and their internet connection - turned out to be the only devices in the building not on the power protection. It's not going to keep your spinners from wearing out or anything miraculous like that, but it will cut out 95% of the problems any of our customers will run in to as far as failing hardware. Don't tell your customers not to spend a little extra on quality gear - just make sure that they have the power protection to go with it.
I'm gonna recommend that you check out the Spring Engine. It's a fully 3D real-time strategy engine originally developed with the intent of recreating the 1997 RTS "Total Annihilation". If you've played Supreme Commander (Spring predates Supreme Commander and influenced the design), you have something of an idea of what to expect from the Total Annihilation style mods. .
I wasn't a fan of 3D real time strategy games until I played Spring. Almost every time I go back to another RTS now, I find myself utterly spoiled by Spring's excellent zooming and command queueing. Give it a whirl and see how shoddy those old timer RTSes actually are. Did I mention that it's Free? It's Free. That's important.
I can't remember the last time I saw a home Windows PC running Terminal Services to provide multiple user accounts to the family members.