I graduated high school in 1994. I didn't come from a wealthy family (hell, we were barely blue collar) but I got into a good college on scholarship. My inclinations were always towards math and science so I spent all of my graduation money on a Hewlett Packard 486 sx 33 Mhz (not top of the line by any means but the best that I could do with no outside help). I had just enough money to buy one game, which took forever for me to decide on. I took everything home, cleared off the dining room table and fired everything up. It was late so all of the lights were off and after what seemed to be an eternity of load time I hear John Williams triumphant score and see the words X-Wing scroll across my 14" svga monitor. One of the most satisfying moments of my young life.
We all know that a male geek's second brain most certainly isn't Google (unless that is a clever nick name he bestowed upon it). I can just imagine wil wheaton shuddering at being linked to this thought as well as all the spam geared towards "natural google enhancement".
Michael Bay? Too bad it won't be Lucas. It would crank up the Unintentional Comedy Scale (TM) to 11 to see the actors being more mechanical than the robots.
You know it's only a matter of time before some idiot comes along and figures out a way to amplify the signal and then start spamming us from a "soapbox" (TM - patent pending) with this crap.
Just once i would like to see MS take a "when it's finished" attitude about their OS releases. I'm really starting to be annoyed by the thought of scheduled patches and fixes. I understand that OSes are probably the most complex bit of software written but the idea of a release occuring while the dev team then immediately starts patching is a bit off putting. I know, MS isn't the only one that does this and I know this isn't a new complaint but we all need to vent. I'm surprised that a whole new branch of psychology hasn't sprung up dealing with OS rage. By the amount of flamebait being spewed by all camps (except the Amiga crew... they're still blissfully happy listening to their Flock of Seagulls and A-Ha albums while doing pixel art... lucky bastards) I'm surprised that none of the developers have really taken the hint. But when you have that much of a market share who do you really have to answer to other than shareholders? Hmmm... if only i could figure out how to code clay tablets and start the whole industry over... Cunieform v1.5 - Code Name: Babylon... although at release 5.0 I think I might run into some legal troubles with Mr. J. Michael Straczynski.
The tech support calls for this will trump all:
Tech Answer 1: Data loss? Ma'am, it says clearly in the instructions that this device is not to be used near any singularity of any kind. It's been known to warp and bend results.
Tech Anser 2: Sir, the machine is acting slowly? Are you by chance going 299,792,458 m/s? That drops performance to 286 levels. What's that? you're running BSD? So why are you complaining? Plenty of horsepower for that.
More preachy than Muppet Babies? Pshaw. That leftist swill warped my fragile little mind. To this day I'm terrified of obscenely tall nannies in green and white socks with their tales of inclusion and imagination. Bastards all of them. Although, Rolf was still da man... err, dog... err, whatever. Look! A chicken! (slips out the side door)
I was wondering why all of my hairbrushes started floating this morning and why John Lithgow was wearing that stupid hat. (I keep trying to tell myself that that movie never happened but alas...)
I don't know about you but I certainly don't want the guy next to me in the fox-hole rolling for initiative before deciding to fire. Besides, the pointy wizard's hats stick out of the top of most fox-holes.
There has been some progress in studies dealing with a language's base components. Research is leaning towards the idea that most if not all languages have a common base at the syllable level (or below... read the study a couple years ago and it isn't my field) and from there the mixing and matching of syllables fleshes out the entire language. To him it could represent just another long equation or number string with seemingly infinite combinations and permutations (if you throw in pronunciation, cadence, etc...).
Wow, you're a bright ray of sunshine:) This is just one of the small steps necessary to reaching your destinations listed. Because of the structure of our economy, industry, legal and governmental entities throughout the world these small steps need to be taken. The age of true exploration is over until the world suddenly discovers the concept of altruism. This is the most movement we've seen since the 60's, so instead of bashing it let's embrace it and nurture it as much as possible. One day we'll get there but not without taking the little steps we currently are. Keep the faith. All it takes is one dreamer and amazingly enough we have several willing to stick their necks out at the same time.
"it's not the process that determines intelligence but the results" - so by that logic the brute force hacking of a code is just as intelligent as number theory and cryptography? or if a cop knows a crime was committed in an area and he just arrests every other person and happens to nab the right guy that makes him a genius? That argument smacks of "the end justifies the means". AI is the idea of making leaps of logic based on limited information and some experience and being able to apply that knowledge to unforseen problems on the fly without more coding. Just answering static questions about text is a matter of looking up a known answer, something computers excel at already.
or - it stores everything it read in a db and does a massive search pairing up strings in the text vrs those in the question and narrows down based on any number of text recognition algorithms. That is not congitive reasoning, that is still regurgitation. Schools do also teach memorization skills... bit of a narrow arguement you made there with the school analogy.
Teaching a machine to read a text book and answer questions doesn't necessarily mean cognitive reasoning. It's just a new form of input/output. Ask it to write an essay with a definative argument and solid conclusion based on the material read would impress me, not regurgitating facts and figures found in a book.
Mortars are raining down. The stacatto of gunfire plays a constant ballad that would make even Robert Townshend say "Damn, that's loud". All of a sudden there is one of those deafening silences as everyone waits and reloads. One shout pierces the silence: "Hey Sarge? What's my password again?"... And that son, is how the US Army's systems were compromised. Good night.
I'm hoping that this guide is not for the average grunt. You'd probably lose them at the title page:).
PS - This scenario also applies in loud bars when you lean over to your buddy to comment one of the female carbon units you find decent mating material.
Is this really a surprise? None of us could ever possilby imagine what pressures the man is under. Love him or hate him he has alot more on his mind then most, you know, what with controlling the free world through an information hegemony. The idea of him not being a "natural leader" or the inability to focus his mind are character traits of most nerd-like beings. When those brief moments of clarity do visit us we're able to focus with laser like precision and accomplish some amazing things. It could also be a case of him suffering what mathematicians have long endured, your window of genius and relevance closes faster the older you get. The idea that mere "doodles" defines one's being is about as reliable as "rumpology" (look up sly stallone's mom for an explanation) or frenology (sp?). I am by no means a Gates apologist but to use this as justification for a "Gates-Bash-A-Thon"(tm) when there are so many other great examples (bad OS, bad prices, bad hair) would be rather juevenile... sorry, forgot where I was:) I would love to see a comparative analysis of Jobs, the Woz, Linus and just for shits and giggles Joh Stewart. Any psych folks out there that can shed light on the reliability of these types of analysese?
moving to the UK. Anyone know where I can go to make fun of the Queen and scream "Beckham sucks!" at the top of my lungs? Oh, wait, that's Ireland. My, err, bad. Umm... yeah... LOOK A CHICKEN!
Having played both WoW and FFXI I am indeed gripping that these zoom-tards will destroy the WoW economy the way they did FFXI. It is because of them that casual players (you know, the ones who saw the word "game" on the box or on the shelf) feel like they HAVE to farm to save up a Donald Trump like sum just to afford equipment that makes you "adequate" in a party of peers. That's not a game... It's a work out for you mouse finger and as we all know, nerds fear muscles that aren't encased in skulls (myself included). Is there a solution? I just don't know, other than recommend that casual players stick with the underpopulated servers. The bot-masters won't see enough of a business opportunity to frequent servers with a limited number of people on it. Here's hoping the wizened council of elders that runs Blizzard can figure out this quagmire of shite.
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First rule of Steve Jobs Fight Club .... No one writes a dummies book about Steve Jobs Fight Club.
I graduated high school in 1994. I didn't come from a wealthy family (hell, we were barely blue collar) but I got into a good college on scholarship. My inclinations were always towards math and science so I spent all of my graduation money on a Hewlett Packard 486 sx 33 Mhz (not top of the line by any means but the best that I could do with no outside help). I had just enough money to buy one game, which took forever for me to decide on. I took everything home, cleared off the dining room table and fired everything up. It was late so all of the lights were off and after what seemed to be an eternity of load time I hear John Williams triumphant score and see the words X-Wing scroll across my 14" svga monitor. One of the most satisfying moments of my young life.
"An interested public != public interest"
That is the best piece of code I've seen posted on here yet. Had to convert to ASP on the fly but it should work on my next web shopping cart.
Seriously, a clearer, more succinct argument could not have been made. Kudos.
We all know that a male geek's second brain most certainly isn't Google (unless that is a clever nick name he bestowed upon it). I can just imagine wil wheaton shuddering at being linked to this thought as well as all the spam geared towards "natural google enhancement".
Michael Bay? Too bad it won't be Lucas. It would crank up the Unintentional Comedy Scale (TM) to 11 to see the actors being more mechanical than the robots.
You know it's only a matter of time before some idiot comes along and figures out a way to amplify the signal and then start spamming us from a "soapbox" (TM - patent pending) with this crap.
Just once i would like to see MS take a "when it's finished" attitude about their OS releases. I'm really starting to be annoyed by the thought of scheduled patches and fixes. I understand that OSes are probably the most complex bit of software written but the idea of a release occuring while the dev team then immediately starts patching is a bit off putting. I know, MS isn't the only one that does this and I know this isn't a new complaint but we all need to vent. I'm surprised that a whole new branch of psychology hasn't sprung up dealing with OS rage. By the amount of flamebait being spewed by all camps (except the Amiga crew ... they're still blissfully happy listening to their Flock of Seagulls and A-Ha albums while doing pixel art ... lucky bastards) I'm surprised that none of the developers have really taken the hint. But when you have that much of a market share who do you really have to answer to other than shareholders? Hmmm ... if only i could figure out how to code clay tablets and start the whole industry over ... Cunieform v1.5 - Code Name: Babylon ... although at release 5.0 I think I might run into some legal troubles with Mr. J. Michael Straczynski.
The tech support calls for this will trump all: Tech Answer 1: Data loss? Ma'am, it says clearly in the instructions that this device is not to be used near any singularity of any kind. It's been known to warp and bend results. Tech Anser 2: Sir, the machine is acting slowly? Are you by chance going 299,792,458 m/s? That drops performance to 286 levels. What's that? you're running BSD? So why are you complaining? Plenty of horsepower for that.
Yeah, but will it play Quake?
More preachy than Muppet Babies? Pshaw. That leftist swill warped my fragile little mind. To this day I'm terrified of obscenely tall nannies in green and white socks with their tales of inclusion and imagination. Bastards all of them. Although, Rolf was still da man ... err, dog ... err, whatever. Look! A chicken! (slips out the side door)
I was wondering why all of my hairbrushes started floating this morning and why John Lithgow was wearing that stupid hat. (I keep trying to tell myself that that movie never happened but alas ...)
I don't know about you but I certainly don't want the guy next to me in the fox-hole rolling for initiative before deciding to fire. Besides, the pointy wizard's hats stick out of the top of most fox-holes.
Bring on the 16 bit pr0n that you used to be able to order out of the back of gaming mags back in the day.
There has been some progress in studies dealing with a language's base components. Research is leaning towards the idea that most if not all languages have a common base at the syllable level (or below ... read the study a couple years ago and it isn't my field) and from there the mixing and matching of syllables fleshes out the entire language. To him it could represent just another long equation or number string with seemingly infinite combinations and permutations (if you throw in pronunciation, cadence, etc ...).
Wow, you're a bright ray of sunshine :) This is just one of the small steps necessary to reaching your destinations listed. Because of the structure of our economy, industry, legal and governmental entities throughout the world these small steps need to be taken. The age of true exploration is over until the world suddenly discovers the concept of altruism. This is the most movement we've seen since the 60's, so instead of bashing it let's embrace it and nurture it as much as possible. One day we'll get there but not without taking the little steps we currently are. Keep the faith. All it takes is one dreamer and amazingly enough we have several willing to stick their necks out at the same time.
This maybe just my opinion but I think the second AI became self-aware we would have to drop the "Artificial" from Artificial Intelligence.
Based on the number of people hanging out in Times Square for TRL listening to Ashley Simpson I think we all know the answer to that. :)
"it's not the process that determines intelligence but the results" - so by that logic the brute force hacking of a code is just as intelligent as number theory and cryptography? or if a cop knows a crime was committed in an area and he just arrests every other person and happens to nab the right guy that makes him a genius? That argument smacks of "the end justifies the means". AI is the idea of making leaps of logic based on limited information and some experience and being able to apply that knowledge to unforseen problems on the fly without more coding. Just answering static questions about text is a matter of looking up a known answer, something computers excel at already.
or - it stores everything it read in a db and does a massive search pairing up strings in the text vrs those in the question and narrows down based on any number of text recognition algorithms. That is not congitive reasoning, that is still regurgitation. Schools do also teach memorization skills ... bit of a narrow arguement you made there with the school analogy.
Teaching a machine to read a text book and answer questions doesn't necessarily mean cognitive reasoning. It's just a new form of input/output. Ask it to write an essay with a definative argument and solid conclusion based on the material read would impress me, not regurgitating facts and figures found in a book.
Mortars are raining down. The stacatto of gunfire plays a constant ballad that would make even Robert Townshend say "Damn, that's loud". All of a sudden there is one of those deafening silences as everyone waits and reloads. One shout pierces the silence: "Hey Sarge? What's my password again?" ... And that son, is how the US Army's systems were compromised. Good night.
I'm hoping that this guide is not for the average grunt. You'd probably lose them at the title page :).
PS - This scenario also applies in loud bars when you lean over to your buddy to comment one of the female carbon units you find decent mating material.
Is this really a surprise? None of us could ever possilby imagine what pressures the man is under. Love him or hate him he has alot more on his mind then most, you know, what with controlling the free world through an information hegemony. The idea of him not being a "natural leader" or the inability to focus his mind are character traits of most nerd-like beings. When those brief moments of clarity do visit us we're able to focus with laser like precision and accomplish some amazing things. It could also be a case of him suffering what mathematicians have long endured, your window of genius and relevance closes faster the older you get. The idea that mere "doodles" defines one's being is about as reliable as "rumpology" (look up sly stallone's mom for an explanation) or frenology (sp?). I am by no means a Gates apologist but to use this as justification for a "Gates-Bash-A-Thon"(tm) when there are so many other great examples (bad OS, bad prices, bad hair) would be rather juevenile ... sorry, forgot where I was :) I would love to see a comparative analysis of Jobs, the Woz, Linus and just for shits and giggles Joh Stewart. Any psych folks out there that can shed light on the reliability of these types of analysese?
moving to the UK. Anyone know where I can go to make fun of the Queen and scream "Beckham sucks!" at the top of my lungs? Oh, wait, that's Ireland. My, err, bad. Umm ... yeah ... LOOK A CHICKEN!
Kitt: Michael. What are you doing? Stop ... Stop ... Daisy daisy. Tell me your answ ......
Having played both WoW and FFXI I am indeed gripping that these zoom-tards will destroy the WoW economy the way they did FFXI. It is because of them that casual players (you know, the ones who saw the word "game" on the box or on the shelf) feel like they HAVE to farm to save up a Donald Trump like sum just to afford equipment that makes you "adequate" in a party of peers. That's not a game ... It's a work out for you mouse finger and as we all know, nerds fear muscles that aren't encased in skulls (myself included). Is there a solution? I just don't know, other than recommend that casual players stick with the underpopulated servers. The bot-masters won't see enough of a business opportunity to frequent servers with a limited number of people on it. Here's hoping the wizened council of elders that runs Blizzard can figure out this quagmire of shite.