There was a Star Trek episode (I think it was Star Trek) where a memorial caused you to relive a massacre. I think Star Trek Enterprise.
Also I could swear there was a stargate episode where someone was punished by experiencing the crime from the perspective of the victim.
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It's under settings. Along with enabling the "home" button.
The "Review" in this instance is refering to the rating not the justification (essay/article/review).
I can receive "Good reviews" and "Bad Reviews". But very rarely will an english speaker pass judgement on the quality of a review. Only agreeability.
Substitute the word Review with Opinion or Ratings and it will function in most cases.
No but mock arresting yourself and hiding for 2 months might get a lot of media attention... if that's what you want.
"I don't know what happened I was interrogated for weeks and then thrown in isolation they just let me go last week in the middle of nowhere and I flagged a van to rescue me!"
It's quite simple. When you sit down. Ask the guy to your right and to your left to watch your shit. As long as one of them is honest then your stuff won't get stolen.
I would implement a simple SQL server and a still camera.
As someone checks in take a picture of their driver's license, case and their monitor. When they leave with gear type in their name and check the photo. Then hook a webcam to the computer and point it at the LAN party. Tracking 60 people in a room is pathetically easy.
Then just lie and say the parking lot is under surveilance.
The reason NVidia requires such symetrical cards isn't just because of speed and frame buffer synchronization but also because different cards render different scenes slightly differently. This is the reason why OpenGL rendering isn't used very often in post production. You can't have two frames come back to you with slightly different gammas, whitepoints, blending algorithms etc etc.
I'm actually very very curious how they intend to resolve every potential source of image inconsistancy between frame buffers. It seems like it would have to almost use the 3D Cards abstractly as a sort of CPU accelleration unit not an actual FrameBuffer generator.
Sideshow is designed for small screens, however there is nothing which would prevent you from using a full screen except for increased power consumption for the backlight.
I'm just saying that it's not like Microsoft is ignoring the "Instant On Sub Computer" concept. It's just that Dell is deciding to make their own implementation.
Yes but your definition of free will is still just a self-teaching data processing node.
A WHILE loop meets that definition. The internal logic might process external data based on the last loop but that doesn't mean it's not a purely deterministic and by my definition non-free-agent.
To be 'free' the outcome has to be completely unpredictable. If in a hypothetical scenario you could scan my brain and put us both into a virtual reality and feed us both the exact same information we should be able to predict very accurately the outcome of duplicate scenarios. However even then the margins of error compound extremely fast.
However sophisticated and introspective deterministic systems still aren't 'free'. Freedom assumes that a reproduceable result can be made independent of any external manipulation. If my introspective self-awareness can be accounted for in the manipulation of my decision making by deterministic models then I'm an introspective autonomoton.
If my cloned brain and my brain do not perform similarly then either I can make decisions independent of cirumstance and hardware/memory instancing then either the random non-deterministic (quantum interaction) is large enough to cause compounding deterministic branching decisions or the agents actually are exhibiting true free will.
I am happy to call both free will but that's why I said we need to be more specific. The free will most people commonly accept is not calling the illusion of assigning intent to deterministic and causal decisions it's the "I can actually decide what is right external of genetics, experience, memory and environment.
Eventually we'll be able to perfectly model the human brain and if it doesn't function then we'll be able to effectively determine that humans do not have free will and that the source of the unpredictability is chaos and happenstance not some super-natural decision making agent which transmits decisions to the meat.
Sorry posted too quick.
That should read:
Eventually we'll be able to perfectly model the human brain and if it doesn't fail to function then we'll be able to effectively determine that humans do not have free will and that the source of the unpredictability is chaos and happenstance not some super-natural decision making agent which transmits decisions to the meat.
If an agent with free will is defined as an agent whose behavior is unpredictable then free will can exist. Sub-atomic particles CAN fall under that definition as having free will.
If an agent with free will is defined as an agent who is capable of changing its state through means which are impossible to predict and NOT-RANDOM then it will be impossible to determine whether or not sub-atomic particles or people have free will.
There is no evidence or suggestion that human decision making (moral, religious or otherwise) is anything other than the product of chemical reactions occuring in the brain. Eventually we'll be able to perfectly model the human brain and if it doesn't function then we'll be able to effectively determine that humans do not have free will and that the source of the unpredictability is chaos and happenstance not some super-natural decision making agent which transmits decisions to the meat. (Personally I would argue that alcohol and other physical decision impairing forces are proof that our brain and not some supernatural morality engine is the source of our decisions.)
There are three methods that I know of by which something can happen: 1) Deterministic 2) Random 3) Free Will
Number 2 and 3 are effectively impossible to discriminate between so even if a sub-atomic particle is demonstrated to be unpredictable it still doesn't make it free of will. However even the word "unpredictable" has to be carefully used because the weather is unpredictable and yet most people believe it is deterministic and not the hand of say... Thor.
Number 1 is impossible to prove as well. However counter examples where an agent can be forced into acting against its normal behavior is very strong evidence to support a definition of determinism.
And just to head off the obligatory nihlist: I can't prove that Jesus wasn't Budha's mother or that I'm not a delusional apple hanging from a tree in Iowa so please let's apply occum's razor to this matter before blurting out some nonsense like "but you can never know FOR SURE if a sub-atomic particle is random therefore it has free will."
It would greatly lower the cost of doing special effects if you did special effects frame by frame.
The problem with most of these technologies is that they never reach photo-realistic visual effect quality results.
Any time you have to do frame by frame VFX you're doing it for the sole purpose of getting a more perfect result. If you need average to crappy results you won't be doing it frame by frame.
This tech has cool potential and will be used by the VFX industry but it won't be automatic and it'll be to augment existing techniques.
I'm a VFX artist. I got into the business in JrHi through pirating. I wanted to use the software but there was 0% chance I was going to afford $12,000 for Maya or $3,500 for Max. Since then prices have plummeted in some areas (Some versions of Maya are now in line with reality around $3,000). And now I have a home copy of Max and my studio pays for a license for work.
Educational software is dramatically more affordable than it used to be. But even then piracy offers a 0 risk point of entry for people to dabble without investment. I think most people who have a copy of Photoshop fall into this camp. It's the pirates who later 'settle down' and actually decide they want to use it for real who are most of their customers.
I wouldn't say $3,500 for software is unreasonable. I think it's probably about right for what you get. It's just unreasonable for someone who isn't making an income from it. And I don't mean a profit I mean an income.
3D Studio Max is still outsells just about every other piece of 3D software by 2-3x I believe. And I suspect a suspiciously large number of customers at some point in their lives dabbled in illicit copies.
That's why I applaud companies like Splutterfish who offer professional tools with very few limitations to the masses for free. They understand that there are lots of people who might want to play with something but not badly enough to actually spend any money. And as soon as the crack gets installed you've lost a customer. This is the point of inflection that has to be fought at all costs. As soon as someone has cracked their software they're not dramatically less likely to convert to a customer. You need to keep them using your software but not get comfortable pirating your work. Even if it means giving away more than you would like for free you want to keep them inside your sanctioned legitimate fence so that when the time comes that they do want limitless access they don't look to the Pirate Bay.
If you're under 18 I think these companies should be handing out their software like political buttons. You want customers who think your product is *the* product so that employers buy your product because it's *what people use*. It'll also broaden the horizons of people who might not even consider your category of software something they would want or need.
Well I don't know much about large datacenter switches but I would imagine you have a lot more flexibility in how the data is segmented when it's traveling across your pipes.
If we're just talking about the big fat pipes and this technology could justify it you could normalize the packet sizes at the fringes and pass it into the backbones as a normalized optical packet. Then you would know exactly where the routing information was located.
A little bit of bloat in exchange for significant increases in speed might be worth it. Even if every packet was 50% padding it would mean you only need a 2x increase in routing performance assuming the fiber was already 100% saturated to be right back where you started.
It's my understanding that fiber capacity is not our bottleneck it's the processing.
It's exactly the same reason I advocate modern image compression in video production. Yes it takes 4x longer to decode but your CPU is being upgraded 5x faster than your hard drive.
Ok if 99% of your customers get through instantly then it's fine. I thought every order took between 1-8 hours. That would be insane!
I'm curious what percentage of that 1% manual reviews actually fail to check out. Might it be in your best interest for the sake of customer loyalty to err on the side of covering the cost yourself and eat the costs of the fraction of the 1% which fail completely?
So if it needs manual review complete the order anyway and then charge them later if possible?
There was a very interesting one in someone's book who I forget the name of. Anyway it was a cheating test. And the more anonymous and less tangible the monetary system became the more people stole.
It's the old "would you steal $1 from work? Would you take home a pen? Paradox. People have a hard time assigning value and morality when they're anonymous. Doubly so when the monetary unit is removed from by one or two stages from actual value.
Yes but if you think of it like a relational database you can trick it into doing both at the same time.
The idea is you only convert the relevant frame (the routing information) into electrons. Process it. Then pass along the bulk of the data optically.
So the Relational Database example would be to only query the PK and an FK column. The bandwidth then is minimal for the query results. The application processes then finds the row it wants and requests the entire row's contents. In this case you've saved transmitting an enormous amount of useless columns. In the case of optical buffering you've skipped converting most of the optical data into electrical data and done intelligent routing based on minimal conversion.
It could be argued that as long as nobody knows about the flaws then the system wasn't poorly implemented. Most street hooligans aren't MIT trained computer scientists.
If nobody knows where a door is the lock on it doesn't matter.
Exactly. I dropped $20 in one standing playing Time Crisis II. You get into the heat of the moment and the next thing you find yourself yelling at your friend. QUICK QUICK MORE QUARTERS!
The incredible thing about Online distribution and sales is that you aren't restricted to selling a box. And the moment piracy becomes more convenient.. you've lost. Make it super convenient and easy to begin for almost no money and then once they're hooked nickle and dime them to death.
I like the other idea of the $5 per month accumulating to the cost of the game. It's sort like the Arcade crossed with netflix crossed with nagware.
You can pay off a game from the start or get nagged for every month until you put down more money. Maybe the first month it nags and the second month it stops working until you put in another $5.
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There was a Star Trek episode (I think it was Star Trek) where a memorial caused you to relive a massacre. I think Star Trek Enterprise. Also I could swear there was a stargate episode where someone was punished by experiencing the crime from the perspective of the victim.
It's under settings. Along with enabling the "home" button.
How can you like Hillary Cliton and Palin? Besides sharing similar genitalia they're practically diametrically opposite.
And somehow you're COMPLETELY overlooking who won that debate.
The "Review" in this instance is refering to the rating not the justification (essay/article/review). I can receive "Good reviews" and "Bad Reviews". But very rarely will an english speaker pass judgement on the quality of a review. Only agreeability. Substitute the word Review with Opinion or Ratings and it will function in most cases.
No but mock arresting yourself and hiding for 2 months might get a lot of media attention... if that's what you want.
"I don't know what happened I was interrogated for weeks and then thrown in isolation they just let me go last week in the middle of nowhere and I flagged a van to rescue me!"
It's quite simple. When you sit down. Ask the guy to your right and to your left to watch your shit. As long as one of them is honest then your stuff won't get stolen.
I would implement a simple SQL server and a still camera.
As someone checks in take a picture of their driver's license, case and their monitor.
When they leave with gear type in their name and check the photo. Then hook a webcam to the computer and point it at the LAN party. Tracking 60 people in a room is pathetically easy.
Then just lie and say the parking lot is under surveilance.
Don't you mean Wierd(er).
The reason NVidia requires such symetrical cards isn't just because of speed and frame buffer synchronization but also because different cards render different scenes slightly differently. This is the reason why OpenGL rendering isn't used very often in post production. You can't have two frames come back to you with slightly different gammas, whitepoints, blending algorithms etc etc.
I'm actually very very curious how they intend to resolve every potential source of image inconsistancy between frame buffers. It seems like it would have to almost use the 3D Cards abstractly as a sort of CPU accelleration unit not an actual FrameBuffer generator.
Sideshow is designed for small screens, however there is nothing which would prevent you from using a full screen except for increased power consumption for the backlight.
I'm just saying that it's not like Microsoft is ignoring the "Instant On Sub Computer" concept. It's just that Dell is deciding to make their own implementation.
Isn't Sideshow pretty much exactly what ON was supposed to do except it's attached to the main screen?
By building pebble bed reactors.
They cool temselves using liquid helium or CO2. They can't meltdown and they don't require a river.
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Yes but your definition of free will is still just a self-teaching data processing node.
A WHILE loop meets that definition. The internal logic might process external data based on the last loop but that doesn't mean it's not a purely deterministic and by my definition non-free-agent.
To be 'free' the outcome has to be completely unpredictable. If in a hypothetical scenario you could scan my brain and put us both into a virtual reality and feed us both the exact same information we should be able to predict very accurately the outcome of duplicate scenarios. However even then the margins of error compound extremely fast.
However sophisticated and introspective deterministic systems still aren't 'free'. Freedom assumes that a reproduceable result can be made independent of any external manipulation. If my introspective self-awareness can be accounted for in the manipulation of my decision making by deterministic models then I'm an introspective autonomoton.
If my cloned brain and my brain do not perform similarly then either I can make decisions independent of cirumstance and hardware/memory instancing then either the random non-deterministic (quantum interaction) is large enough to cause compounding deterministic branching decisions or the agents actually are exhibiting true free will.
I am happy to call both free will but that's why I said we need to be more specific. The free will most people commonly accept is not calling the illusion of assigning intent to deterministic and causal decisions it's the "I can actually decide what is right external of genetics, experience, memory and environment.
Eventually we'll be able to perfectly model the human brain and if it doesn't function then we'll be able to effectively determine that humans do not have free will and that the source of the unpredictability is chaos and happenstance not some super-natural decision making agent which transmits decisions to the meat.
Sorry posted too quick.
That should read: Eventually we'll be able to perfectly model the human brain and if it doesn't fail to function then we'll be able to effectively determine that humans do not have free will and that the source of the unpredictability is chaos and happenstance not some super-natural decision making agent which transmits decisions to the meat.
Furthermore we still have to define free will.
If an agent with free will is defined as an agent whose behavior is unpredictable then free will can exist. Sub-atomic particles CAN fall under that definition as having free will.
If an agent with free will is defined as an agent who is capable of changing its state through means which are impossible to predict and NOT-RANDOM then it will be impossible to determine whether or not sub-atomic particles or people have free will.
There is no evidence or suggestion that human decision making (moral, religious or otherwise) is anything other than the product of chemical reactions occuring in the brain. Eventually we'll be able to perfectly model the human brain and if it doesn't function then we'll be able to effectively determine that humans do not have free will and that the source of the unpredictability is chaos and happenstance not some super-natural decision making agent which transmits decisions to the meat. (Personally I would argue that alcohol and other physical decision impairing forces are proof that our brain and not some supernatural morality engine is the source of our decisions.)
There are three methods that I know of by which something can happen:
1) Deterministic
2) Random
3) Free Will
Number 2 and 3 are effectively impossible to discriminate between so even if a sub-atomic particle is demonstrated to be unpredictable it still doesn't make it free of will. However even the word "unpredictable" has to be carefully used because the weather is unpredictable and yet most people believe it is deterministic and not the hand of say... Thor.
Number 1 is impossible to prove as well. However counter examples where an agent can be forced into acting against its normal behavior is very strong evidence to support a definition of determinism.
And just to head off the obligatory nihlist: I can't prove that Jesus wasn't Budha's mother or that I'm not a delusional apple hanging from a tree in Iowa so please let's apply occum's razor to this matter before blurting out some nonsense like "but you can never know FOR SURE if a sub-atomic particle is random therefore it has free will."
It would greatly lower the cost of doing special effects if you did special effects frame by frame.
The problem with most of these technologies is that they never reach photo-realistic visual effect quality results.
Any time you have to do frame by frame VFX you're doing it for the sole purpose of getting a more perfect result. If you need average to crappy results you won't be doing it frame by frame.
This tech has cool potential and will be used by the VFX industry but it won't be automatic and it'll be to augment existing techniques.
So what happened to all the people bitching about Google driving around taking pictures of THEIR buildings?
Take a picture of my house and OMFG invasion of privacy! Big Brother!
Take a picture of someone's office and it's suddenly censorship?
Make up your minds or are the Tin Foil Hats interfering with your brain waves?
The answer in my life would have been "No".
I'm a VFX artist. I got into the business in JrHi through pirating. I wanted to use the software but there was 0% chance I was going to afford $12,000 for Maya or $3,500 for Max. Since then prices have plummeted in some areas (Some versions of Maya are now in line with reality around $3,000). And now I have a home copy of Max and my studio pays for a license for work.
Educational software is dramatically more affordable than it used to be. But even then piracy offers a 0 risk point of entry for people to dabble without investment. I think most people who have a copy of Photoshop fall into this camp. It's the pirates who later 'settle down' and actually decide they want to use it for real who are most of their customers.
I wouldn't say $3,500 for software is unreasonable. I think it's probably about right for what you get. It's just unreasonable for someone who isn't making an income from it. And I don't mean a profit I mean an income.
3D Studio Max is still outsells just about every other piece of 3D software by 2-3x I believe. And I suspect a suspiciously large number of customers at some point in their lives dabbled in illicit copies.
That's why I applaud companies like Splutterfish who offer professional tools with very few limitations to the masses for free. They understand that there are lots of people who might want to play with something but not badly enough to actually spend any money. And as soon as the crack gets installed you've lost a customer. This is the point of inflection that has to be fought at all costs. As soon as someone has cracked their software they're not dramatically less likely to convert to a customer. You need to keep them using your software but not get comfortable pirating your work. Even if it means giving away more than you would like for free you want to keep them inside your sanctioned legitimate fence so that when the time comes that they do want limitless access they don't look to the Pirate Bay.
If you're under 18 I think these companies should be handing out their software like political buttons. You want customers who think your product is *the* product so that employers buy your product because it's *what people use*. It'll also broaden the horizons of people who might not even consider your category of software something they would want or need.
Well I don't know much about large datacenter switches but I would imagine you have a lot more flexibility in how the data is segmented when it's traveling across your pipes.
If we're just talking about the big fat pipes and this technology could justify it you could normalize the packet sizes at the fringes and pass it into the backbones as a normalized optical packet. Then you would know exactly where the routing information was located.
A little bit of bloat in exchange for significant increases in speed might be worth it. Even if every packet was 50% padding it would mean you only need a 2x increase in routing performance assuming the fiber was already 100% saturated to be right back where you started.
It's my understanding that fiber capacity is not our bottleneck it's the processing.
It's exactly the same reason I advocate modern image compression in video production. Yes it takes 4x longer to decode but your CPU is being upgraded 5x faster than your hard drive.
Ok if 99% of your customers get through instantly then it's fine. I thought every order took between 1-8 hours. That would be insane!
I'm curious what percentage of that 1% manual reviews actually fail to check out. Might it be in your best interest for the sake of customer loyalty to err on the side of covering the cost yourself and eat the costs of the fraction of the 1% which fail completely?
So if it needs manual review complete the order anyway and then charge them later if possible?
Actually I've seen quite a few studies.
There was a very interesting one in someone's book who I forget the name of. Anyway it was a cheating test. And the more anonymous and less tangible the monetary system became the more people stole.
It's the old "would you steal $1 from work? Would you take home a pen? Paradox. People have a hard time assigning value and morality when they're anonymous. Doubly so when the monetary unit is removed from by one or two stages from actual value.
Yes but if you think of it like a relational database you can trick it into doing both at the same time.
The idea is you only convert the relevant frame (the routing information) into electrons. Process it. Then pass along the bulk of the data optically.
So the Relational Database example would be to only query the PK and an FK column. The bandwidth then is minimal for the query results. The application processes then finds the row it wants and requests the entire row's contents. In this case you've saved transmitting an enormous amount of useless columns. In the case of optical buffering you've skipped converting most of the optical data into electrical data and done intelligent routing based on minimal conversion.
It could be argued that as long as nobody knows about the flaws then the system wasn't poorly implemented. Most street hooligans aren't MIT trained computer scientists.
If nobody knows where a door is the lock on it doesn't matter.
If only there were some branch of the government whose job it was to ensure that people's constitutional rights were protected!
Exactly. I dropped $20 in one standing playing Time Crisis II. You get into the heat of the moment and the next thing you find yourself yelling at your friend. QUICK QUICK MORE QUARTERS!
The incredible thing about Online distribution and sales is that you aren't restricted to selling a box. And the moment piracy becomes more convenient.. you've lost. Make it super convenient and easy to begin for almost no money and then once they're hooked nickle and dime them to death.
I like the other idea of the $5 per month accumulating to the cost of the game. It's sort like the Arcade crossed with netflix crossed with nagware.
You can pay off a game from the start or get nagged for every month until you put down more money. Maybe the first month it nags and the second month it stops working until you put in another $5.
My timeframe of "Blonde Spectacle" is:
Peru: 5 years ago. (Mob of girls chasing me.)
China, Malaysia, Japan and Thailand: 10 years ago and 18 years ago.
Just for reference.