He just trolled (fishing style) the internet for... questionable material, no matter how... disturbing. That's not too hard to do, just type "p0rn" into any search engine.
If your interest is in finding out more about the world, then speed doesn't really matter. If your willing to risk imprisonment (as numberous people have been , then you can afford to take things slow. Being able to SSH at a slow speed is a lot better than being in jail. Actually a lot of things are better than not being in jail, and SSH ranks near the bottom, but for Chinese Dissidents I'd say it's a lot higher on the list of priorities.
Hype is the very thing that keeps SETI@Home alive. Without hype they would have no userbase for their search algorithms. Without hype they would have no program, no money, no purpose. Hype is very much in their best interest. Even if they deny it.
No no, the real prize is for Google, that will (has) gained publicity, something ever so important for private companies. I'm sure their motives are far from altruistic, even assuming no commercial benefit arrises from this event, TopCoder will gladly hand over the names of say, a few new hires for Google to contemplate? Having the pick of the litter of new programmers (as a quick search of some of the top profiles will, anecdotaly,show) is a very valuable upperhand for Google over it's competitors.
What effect does this have on their copyright? Does a Chapter 11 company that reincorporates under a new name still retain their intellectual property rights? It would appear that the creditors now own the rights to acclaim software, but would you pay fees to individual creditors, and would any one creditor own the copyright/code to their game(s)?
I am sure this is just one example of the vagaries of bankruptcy cases, and a field day for lawyers.
What is unbelievable, is that the computer can come up with something good. Good music takes talent and an inherent understanding of what is good. If computers could decide what's good, than AI would be no sweat, and musicians would be out of a job.
In Canada we have 3mb/s internet, and contrary to many of the comments so far, it is not nearly so great. This person seems to have faster internet than ours, and we effectively max out at 300kb/s downstream. The reliability is also shoddy, as the internet is prone to dropping. That is not to say that ours seems much cheaper, but then again ours is run by a monopoly as well, Bell Sympatico, via Bell Nexxia is most people's subscriber. Bell Nexxia is everybody's subscriber due to the fact that they own the hardware with which DSL is transmitted. This effectively places a lower limit on the DSL prices, as everyone is just reselling the same service. All is not well North of the border
Populous was certainly not the first Real Time Strategy Game, but it did set a new bar for strategy games. It ran well on reasonable computers and it let you play as god. The playing as god aspect has always been a component of top-down games, but not with the level of control that you are provided in Populous. Fireballing people and starting volcanos on their happy little settlements was also a great way of taking out your frustration... on all those tiny little people in your real-life.
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He just trolled (fishing style) the internet for... questionable material, no matter how... disturbing. That's not too hard to do, just type "p0rn" into any search engine.
If your interest is in finding out more about the world, then speed doesn't really matter. If your willing to risk imprisonment (as numberous people have been , then you can afford to take things slow. Being able to SSH at a slow speed is a lot better than being in jail. Actually a lot of things are better than not being in jail, and SSH ranks near the bottom, but for Chinese Dissidents I'd say it's a lot higher on the list of priorities.
Hype is the very thing that keeps SETI@Home alive. Without hype they would have no userbase for their search algorithms. Without hype they would have no program, no money, no purpose. Hype is very much in their best interest. Even if they deny it.
No no, the real prize is for Google, that will (has) gained publicity, something ever so important for private companies. I'm sure their motives are far from altruistic, even assuming no commercial benefit arrises from this event, TopCoder will gladly hand over the names of say, a few new hires for Google to contemplate? Having the pick of the litter of new programmers (as a quick search of some of the top profiles will, anecdotaly,show) is a very valuable upperhand for Google over it's competitors.
What effect does this have on their copyright? Does a Chapter 11 company that reincorporates under a new name still retain their intellectual property rights? It would appear that the creditors now own the rights to acclaim software, but would you pay fees to individual creditors, and would any one creditor own the copyright/code to their game(s)? I am sure this is just one example of the vagaries of bankruptcy cases, and a field day for lawyers.
What is unbelievable, is that the computer can come up with something good. Good music takes talent and an inherent understanding of what is good. If computers could decide what's good, than AI would be no sweat, and musicians would be out of a job.
I think they will find that there is a difference between what they are learning and the real world. Indians are polite.
In Canada we have 3mb/s internet, and contrary to many of the comments so far, it is not nearly so great. This person seems to have faster internet than ours, and we effectively max out at 300kb/s downstream. The reliability is also shoddy, as the internet is prone to dropping. That is not to say that ours seems much cheaper, but then again ours is run by a monopoly as well, Bell Sympatico, via Bell Nexxia is most people's subscriber. Bell Nexxia is everybody's subscriber due to the fact that they own the hardware with which DSL is transmitted. This effectively places a lower limit on the DSL prices, as everyone is just reselling the same service. All is not well North of the border
Populous was certainly not the first Real Time Strategy Game, but it did set a new bar for strategy games. It ran well on reasonable computers and it let you play as god. The playing as god aspect has always been a component of top-down games, but not with the level of control that you are provided in Populous. Fireballing people and starting volcanos on their happy little settlements was also a great way of taking out your frustration... on all those tiny little people in your real-life.