I noticed the same thing about Watson giving the same wrong answer as the other contestant. My wife pointed out to me that human contestants do the same thing sometimes. You are so caught up in your answer and ready to give it that you don't even listen to what the other person said.
In this case though, it was because Watson does not have ears.
Right, but the fact that Microsoft fakes the results for pretty much any search doesn't bother you and the other MS fans. Search for Linux and you get all kind of Microsoft sites and sites that say how bad Linux is but not the sites that a person would actually be searching for.
Remember, Bing isn't a search engine, it is a decision engine. Microsoft decides where they want you to go today!
The GPS on the Droid is probably switching to cell tower triangulation when you are indoors also. I use I much more accurate hiking GPS reciever and it only gets a signal when there is a clear view of the sky. Perhaps if you were right next to the window or something, but not anywhere indoors. Even a dense pine tree forest will block the GPS satalite signal.
That indicates a central intelligence with charisma. It may be a group intelligence, but there's something there that is irresistable to disillusioned youths.
That is like saying when a site gets slashdotted, there is a central intelligence with charisma behind it. It's just a bunch of people who want to jump on the bandwagon and cause trouble for something they think is a good cause.
I think you're over-estimating people's squeamishness.
I'm quite sure that I'm not. I've killed and eaten stuff,
. . .
That doesn't mean that I think everyone wants to do the same. But there's really no way to know other than to put the plan in to practice.
I agree with you that a lot of modern people are pretty squeamish about killing and cleaning animals for food. But I don't think your plan of having people do it would make more vegetarians. I think people would just get used to it. Back in the old days when everyone killed their own animals for food you didn't have more vegetarians. Moders farmers don't seem like a large vegetarian group.
There needs to be a better political process where, when the political message is later proven to be a lie, we can shoot the original messenger.
I think this is a great idea. I think something similar should be done with laws that a polititian sponsers that are later found to be unconstitutional. Simple hanging for the sponser. It will cause the polititians to take much more care about the laws they write.
I heard this morning on NPR that the full body scanners are at every airport now. So I guess it is important to take pictures of our junk through our pants.
"Why do we remain in the virtual dark ages, when clearly we have better alternatives readily available?"
Because it would take a politician to change the law. But both parties like the broken system we have now because they each want to game the system for their own advantage. Fair and accurate voting doesn't help the political parties or the candidates, it only help the voters!
There are a limited number of ways of making that happen. You either emit the pictures in different directions resulting in a very small area in which they can be seen properly, or you emit them in all directions and wear glasses to only pick up on the correct one for the corresponding eye.
There's no magic way to make 3d happen.
This sounds more like a limited case of imagination rather than limited ways of doing 3D. What if you projected the image onto the retina using lasers. The TV would detect the placement of eyes in pairs and send the two images out to the two eyes that are a pair. It could even detect multiple people and send the same image pairs out the the sets of eyes in the room. They are already detecting eyes with IR for mouse devices and the Nintendo handheld thing, so that isn't out of the question. I'm not saying that this idea is feasible at this time, but I can imagine a way for it to work.
The current 3D TVs that don't need glasses look crappy to me. They all have artifacts that mess up the image. It is like looking at the animated stickers that have the verticle ridges on them. As the image changes from one frame to the next, you get a portion where you see part of one image and a part of the other. The picture gets cut in half there. The 3D TVs do the same thing if you move your head.
This is a goo.gl shortened link to the very thread that it is placed in. Is that some sort of infinite loop or something? Am I going to unravel space-time with this?
You can still watch it in non-3d. Nobody is forcing you to see it in 3d.
Maybe today you can. But can you get a DVD or BluRay without the crappy extra scenes in it. No! I hate that added scene with Jabba in the space port and Han Solo walks around him. It looks bad, Han passes through Jabba and they had to manipulate him up and down to make it look like he stepped on Jabba's tail. Total crap. I could put up with the extra environment stuff, the creatures walking around the town or whatever, they don't mess things up and might even enhance the feeling of activity. But the Jabba scene and the "Han Shot First" scene are crap and should not have been changed. Give me a DVD with the original scenes there and your statement that nobody is forcing me would stand!
Making the deoderant is only the first step. The real trick will be getting the birds to buy it and use it. I guess if they have commercials showing how the smelly birds don't get the girls, it will convince them to buy the deoderant. Kind of like the Axe commercials, but with Kiwis in it.
Right, because my fingers don't block my view of a physical keyboard! Sure it lack the tactile feel of the buttons pressing, but so does the iPhone virtual keyboard. The iPhone virtual keyboard is is also obscured by the light blocking fingers. This is similar to that, but larger.
It's the EXACT SAME "leash" you have with physical books. I hate DRM as much as the next slashdotter, but this is an attempt to have ebooks work identically to physical books.
It's not really exactly the same. With a physical book I can choose to keep it past the return date and pay a late fee. With the digital version I do not have that choice, the book returns itself and if somebody else checked it out before you were able to get it back, you would be out of luck. Hope you didn't have a big report due where you needed to get more information from that book within the next few hours!!
Maybe this example isn't such a big deal, but saying that it is identical to a physical book is just plain inaccurate.
Once you choose that life exists outside of our planet you are operating on faith, not science. That it is more likely either true of false is *not* that same things as it *being* true or false
You make a lot of good points, but nothing in science is ever proven to be True or False. It only fits the theory or it doesn't. There were tests on the Viking lander that did show signs of life.
Millions of kilometres away on Mars, the Viking landers have scooped up some soil and mixed it with carbon-14-labelled nutrients. The mission's scientists have all agreed that if Levin's instruments on board the landers detect emissions of carbon-14-containing methane from the soil, then there must be life on Mars.
So one test shows signs of life, and another shows no signs. We still don't know for sure if life was there or not, but it isn't just a made up idea that there was life there and the one test messed up the search. It looks like there may have been life, and one of the tests messed up the results. See the difference?
Actually the most efficient base to use is base e. Something about the number of symbols needed multiplied be the length of the resulting numbers, and base e comes out to be the most efficient. I don't know how you can use a base that is not an integer, but those really awesome math people can do it.
It seems that many people here do not read Maximum PC magazine. I trust their reviews. For one, they have shown that they use the full 1-10 scale, and not just give everything a rating in the 8-10 range. In fact you almost never see a 10, and even 9 is hard to get. I remember seeing a bad (2 rating) review ripping apart a product that was on the opposite page from a large (possibly full page) ad for that very product. They have stated before in the editorials or answers to letters that they keep the advertizing department seperate from the reviewing department. They supposedly don't have any influence. It would seem that way after reading them for years. Best computer magazine out there!!! (Now I sound like an astroturfing review!)
They also do sometimes cover a bit more that just the graphics of the game, if there is more to cover. The only draw-back is, you don't get the review when you want it, you would have to wait for it to be in the magazine. I havn't used their website much, but maybe they have added more stuff there.
And Futurama is missing also. Fry goes into the future as the premiss of the show, but there is some other time travel in some of the other episodes also. In fact, in one of the new episodes, Professor Farnworth invents a time machine that can only go forward through time. They went much further than the minute they wanted to go, so just had to keep going forward looking for a time when people have built a backwards time machine. Eventually they loop around and try to stop in their time again, but they missed it and had to loop around again.
Futurama is an awesome show, it should have been on the timeline chart.
This is a great example of bitching just for the sake of bitching. Sorry! You probably have had problems with computers running Ubuntu. But how can you say that Windows does not have the same problems!!!
A coworker and I had Windows XP machines that would not install the new HP printer drivers because we had a previous HP printer installed that crapped out. It was an HP driver install exe. They didn't give you just the driver to install through Windows. The install program would just freeze up and never finish. We removed all driver files, did unistall and tried everything we could think of short of an OS reinstall. We just printed to the copier instead and if we needed something it color we would email it to someone who's computer took the drivers. Eventually I set my computer up as a dual boot because I had to work with some Linux files for one of the projects we had. The Ubuntu install detected the printer and worked right out of the box with no downloads or installs necessary.
Now to me, that is an example where Ubuntu was much, much easier to get working than Windows was. I find that alot. If you just start trying to learn how things work in Linux, how they are different, you start to see that it is easier in a lot of ways.
Installing software is a ton easier in Linux. It is more like the Apple iTunes store than it is in the Windows world. Except that it is all free.
I followed the link also. After you click the Plus or Minus to tell the system what you think of the comment, it shows you the moderation that the comment got. Some of the comments that I had on the page were moderated, you just don't get to see what the moderation is until you say if you think the comment is a positive addition to the conversation, or a negative one. If you choose positive, then (presumably) each positive moderation gets a boost and the negative moderators are thus marked against them. I think I can see what the idea is, but it did make more sense to me when you judged the actual moderation itself directly.
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I noticed the same thing about Watson giving the same wrong answer as the other contestant. My wife pointed out to me that human contestants do the same thing sometimes. You are so caught up in your answer and ready to give it that you don't even listen to what the other person said.
In this case though, it was because Watson does not have ears.
Right, but the fact that Microsoft fakes the results for pretty much any search doesn't bother you and the other MS fans. Search for Linux and you get all kind of Microsoft sites and sites that say how bad Linux is but not the sites that a person would actually be searching for.
Remember, Bing isn't a search engine, it is a decision engine. Microsoft decides where they want you to go today!
Plus the Epic has the full number key row on the keyboard. Which many people seem to be saying they like.
The GPS on the Droid is probably switching to cell tower triangulation when you are indoors also. I use I much more accurate hiking GPS reciever and it only gets a signal when there is a clear view of the sky. Perhaps if you were right next to the window or something, but not anywhere indoors. Even a dense pine tree forest will block the GPS satalite signal.
That indicates a central intelligence with charisma. It may be a group intelligence, but there's something there that is irresistable to disillusioned youths.
That is like saying when a site gets slashdotted, there is a central intelligence with charisma behind it. It's just a bunch of people who want to jump on the bandwagon and cause trouble for something they think is a good cause.
I think you're over-estimating people's squeamishness.
I'm quite sure that I'm not. I've killed and eaten stuff, . . . That doesn't mean that I think everyone wants to do the same. But there's really no way to know other than to put the plan in to practice.
I agree with you that a lot of modern people are pretty squeamish about killing and cleaning animals for food. But I don't think your plan of having people do it would make more vegetarians. I think people would just get used to it. Back in the old days when everyone killed their own animals for food you didn't have more vegetarians. Moders farmers don't seem like a large vegetarian group.
There needs to be a better political process where, when the political message is later proven to be a lie, we can shoot the original messenger.
I think this is a great idea. I think something similar should be done with laws that a polititian sponsers that are later found to be unconstitutional. Simple hanging for the sponser. It will cause the polititians to take much more care about the laws they write.
I heard this morning on NPR that the full body scanners are at every airport now. So I guess it is important to take pictures of our junk through our pants.
You mean like combining a fish and a tomato, oh wait. They already did that. Fish genes in your tomato.
"Why do we remain in the virtual dark ages, when clearly we have better alternatives readily available?"
Because it would take a politician to change the law. But both parties like the broken system we have now because they each want to game the system for their own advantage. Fair and accurate voting doesn't help the political parties or the candidates, it only help the voters!
I like the way it switches to a 45 degree angle as you zoom in. And it even switched to the street view when you zoom in enough. Wow!
People who complained about the street view are really going to love this picture of their house. You can look into peoples swimming pools now!
They could use it instead of the blur they use on people's t-shirts. I would much prefer this than having that stupid blur.
No, no, 'e's uh,...he's resting. he's...he's, ah...probably pining for the fjords.
There are a limited number of ways of making that happen. You either emit the pictures in different directions resulting in a very small area in which they can be seen properly, or you emit them in all directions and wear glasses to only pick up on the correct one for the corresponding eye.
There's no magic way to make 3d happen.
This sounds more like a limited case of imagination rather than limited ways of doing 3D. What if you projected the image onto the retina using lasers. The TV would detect the placement of eyes in pairs and send the two images out to the two eyes that are a pair. It could even detect multiple people and send the same image pairs out the the sets of eyes in the room. They are already detecting eyes with IR for mouse devices and the Nintendo handheld thing, so that isn't out of the question. I'm not saying that this idea is feasible at this time, but I can imagine a way for it to work.
The current 3D TVs that don't need glasses look crappy to me. They all have artifacts that mess up the image. It is like looking at the animated stickers that have the verticle ridges on them. As the image changes from one frame to the next, you get a portion where you see part of one image and a part of the other. The picture gets cut in half there. The 3D TVs do the same thing if you move your head.
This is a goo.gl shortened link to the very thread that it is placed in. Is that some sort of infinite loop or something? Am I going to unravel space-time with this?
Oh well, only one way to find out!
http://goo.gl/iiuP
You can still watch it in non-3d. Nobody is forcing you to see it in 3d.
Maybe today you can. But can you get a DVD or BluRay without the crappy extra scenes in it. No! I hate that added scene with Jabba in the space port and Han Solo walks around him. It looks bad, Han passes through Jabba and they had to manipulate him up and down to make it look like he stepped on Jabba's tail. Total crap. I could put up with the extra environment stuff, the creatures walking around the town or whatever, they don't mess things up and might even enhance the feeling of activity. But the Jabba scene and the "Han Shot First" scene are crap and should not have been changed. Give me a DVD with the original scenes there and your statement that nobody is forcing me would stand!
Making the deoderant is only the first step. The real trick will be getting the birds to buy it and use it. I guess if they have commercials showing how the smelly birds don't get the girls, it will convince them to buy the deoderant. Kind of like the Axe commercials, but with Kiwis in it.
Right, because my fingers don't block my view of a physical keyboard! Sure it lack the tactile feel of the buttons pressing, but so does the iPhone virtual keyboard. The iPhone virtual keyboard is is also obscured by the light blocking fingers. This is similar to that, but larger.
It's the EXACT SAME "leash" you have with physical books. I hate DRM as much as the next slashdotter, but this is an attempt to have ebooks work identically to physical books.
It's not really exactly the same. With a physical book I can choose to keep it past the return date and pay a late fee. With the digital version I do not have that choice, the book returns itself and if somebody else checked it out before you were able to get it back, you would be out of luck. Hope you didn't have a big report due where you needed to get more information from that book within the next few hours!!
Maybe this example isn't such a big deal, but saying that it is identical to a physical book is just plain inaccurate.
Once you choose that life exists outside of our planet you are operating on faith, not science. That it is more likely either true of false is *not* that same things as it *being* true or false
You make a lot of good points, but nothing in science is ever proven to be True or False. It only fits the theory or it doesn't. There were tests on the Viking lander that did show signs of life.
Earlier in the discussion thread VShael posted this: http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1781330&cid=33519006
Millions of kilometres away on Mars, the Viking landers have scooped up some soil and mixed it with carbon-14-labelled nutrients. The mission's scientists have all agreed that if Levin's instruments on board the landers detect emissions of carbon-14-containing methane from the soil, then there must be life on Mars.
So one test shows signs of life, and another shows no signs. We still don't know for sure if life was there or not, but it isn't just a made up idea that there was life there and the one test messed up the search. It looks like there may have been life, and one of the tests messed up the results. See the difference?
Actually the most efficient base to use is base e. Something about the number of symbols needed multiplied be the length of the resulting numbers, and base e comes out to be the most efficient. I don't know how you can use a base that is not an integer, but those really awesome math people can do it.
It seems that many people here do not read Maximum PC magazine. I trust their reviews. For one, they have shown that they use the full 1-10 scale, and not just give everything a rating in the 8-10 range. In fact you almost never see a 10, and even 9 is hard to get. I remember seeing a bad (2 rating) review ripping apart a product that was on the opposite page from a large (possibly full page) ad for that very product. They have stated before in the editorials or answers to letters that they keep the advertizing department seperate from the reviewing department. They supposedly don't have any influence. It would seem that way after reading them for years. Best computer magazine out there!!! (Now I sound like an astroturfing review!)
They also do sometimes cover a bit more that just the graphics of the game, if there is more to cover. The only draw-back is, you don't get the review when you want it, you would have to wait for it to be in the magazine. I havn't used their website much, but maybe they have added more stuff there.
And Futurama is missing also. Fry goes into the future as the premiss of the show, but there is some other time travel in some of the other episodes also. In fact, in one of the new episodes, Professor Farnworth invents a time machine that can only go forward through time. They went much further than the minute they wanted to go, so just had to keep going forward looking for a time when people have built a backwards time machine. Eventually they loop around and try to stop in their time again, but they missed it and had to loop around again.
Futurama is an awesome show, it should have been on the timeline chart.
This is a great example of bitching just for the sake of bitching. Sorry! You probably have had problems with computers running Ubuntu. But how can you say that Windows does not have the same problems!!!
A coworker and I had Windows XP machines that would not install the new HP printer drivers because we had a previous HP printer installed that crapped out. It was an HP driver install exe. They didn't give you just the driver to install through Windows. The install program would just freeze up and never finish. We removed all driver files, did unistall and tried everything we could think of short of an OS reinstall. We just printed to the copier instead and if we needed something it color we would email it to someone who's computer took the drivers. Eventually I set my computer up as a dual boot because I had to work with some Linux files for one of the projects we had. The Ubuntu install detected the printer and worked right out of the box with no downloads or installs necessary.
Now to me, that is an example where Ubuntu was much, much easier to get working than Windows was. I find that alot. If you just start trying to learn how things work in Linux, how they are different, you start to see that it is easier in a lot of ways.
Installing software is a ton easier in Linux. It is more like the Apple iTunes store than it is in the Windows world. Except that it is all free.
I followed the link also. After you click the Plus or Minus to tell the system what you think of the comment, it shows you the moderation that the comment got. Some of the comments that I had on the page were moderated, you just don't get to see what the moderation is until you say if you think the comment is a positive addition to the conversation, or a negative one. If you choose positive, then (presumably) each positive moderation gets a boost and the negative moderators are thus marked against them. I think I can see what the idea is, but it did make more sense to me when you judged the actual moderation itself directly.