Carmack was a true believer, and his (late) heresy is a sign that MS alternatives in some fields are just... quixotic.
Claiming that alternatives to MS in the game world are quixotic is simply delusional. There is exactly one segment that MS dominates in the game world and that is Windows gaming, the importance of which is steadily declining.
So, this week PC gaming is declining? IIRC last week we argued that PC gaming was increasing and has becamed better than console gaming due to the aging consoles specs.
hehe, just yesterday I was telling my wife about those programs (in times of dial-up) which promised megabytes and megabytes of porn if you downloaded their program. A program that would make a dialup call to some far away place (in the USA... back then I lived in Mexico) and charge you a leg to download some mpegs. Fortunately I never fell:P
Unless you want to use a computer that does not have 4GB of RAM and need a platform 100% compatible with Microsoft OS. (e.g. quickbooks, vegas, etc).
I installed Win 7 in my 2GB Netbook and its performance was awful. As soon as I reinstalled XP SP3 it became a charm. (I Installed Ubuntu but it sucked battery like crazy).
It's a little like that. Right now most of the fighting is between Javascript and rendering speed. Javascript performance is definitely no longer a bottleneck
It depends in what you want to achieve. I still perceive difference between running Google docs in Chrome vs running it in Firefox 4 b13pre (it is noticeably slower in the later). And currently none of the spreadsheet web programs have complex equations, references, macros, etc.
Not that I am in favour forcing software to run in a scripted environment (I prefer native apps) but hey, there is always a market for everything.
Deffinitely, the 0.1 or 0.2% of people who are professional photographers like you do not have a need for this camera. Nevertheless, the potential clients are the millions of people who just want to take portrait pictures with a point and shoot; such people are the ones who will gladly buy this product.
This reminds me of that software created by an team from India which "beautified" faces of several persons based on some standard definition of "beautiful"... funny that there are no commercial versions of such a program.
Oh crap, I came late to comment in this story, and after reading all the +3 comments I got so sad. It looks like slashdot has been invaded by a bunch of old techno-farts. Every comment is mainly a rant. It deffinitely shows how the Slashdot community has grown up and now it is only old people (who use email).
No wonder why a lot of people has moved on to other greener sites:(
I was working on an algorithm of supply chain routing (with these guys) about 7 years ago! the idea was to use a combination of Q-routing and ant-routing algorithm with other things. Granted, I was only the guy doing the java implementation (with a nice interface using Netlogo)... but it was quite interesting.
In the world of Multi-Agent Systems, "A-life" and "Individual Based Modelling" the features of ant behaviour have been known for quite some time:)
Definitely,I may not like the guy's vision on technology (DRM, closedness, overprice, etc) but I am really sad he is having health issues.
Poor Steve, in fact, poor anyone who has to fight a daily fight just to feel OK. I myself do something similar, except (fortunately) it is on a minor scale (not cancer!).
I hope he gets very well soon and can continue to enjoy doing what he most likes.
You know what made it worth it for me? that even if Wason was 10% slower and he needed some extra time to OCR/speech-rec, Watson could stay a whole week 24/7 constantly answering questions and its performance won't decrease. I think *this* is a very important difference, and what makes Watson very valuable.
The other day I saw a documentary about Deep Blue vs Kasparov. One of the comments was that at the time of the chess match, IBM was seen as this "office furniture provider" whereas Microsoft, Apple, (SUN?) and others where seen as the technology innovators.
Thus, they decide to make this challenge as a press stunt. Of course, they have to ensure that their machine wins so that they get all the "glory". In the documentary I saw, they comment about all the issues that surrounded the game.
I was kind of disappointed by the second and third options (the ones not selected). Because they show that Watson answers are purely based on syntactic properties and not semantic. For example in the question: "Name the Decade - DISNEYLAND OPENS & THE PEACE SYMBOL IS CREATED" Watson second and third answers were "Kingdom" and "It's a small world" which are completely irrelevant to the *meaning* of the subject at hand.
This means that, when Watson is wrong, it is usually *very* wrong. It also means that its reasoning mechanism does not allow it to give an approximation.
Take for example, if you asked him... what color is the bottom of the sea? Watson would most likely tell you "Red Sea Fan???" or maybe "black dragonfish???" because such answers are syntactically related to "color" "bottom/deep/end" "sea/water/ocean". Whereas a person not knowing the real answer would tell you "Blue???", or "Black???".
My thought was, why not create some kind of "dress" bubble that could be attached to Women's tights/stomach while pregnant. This could be composed of *very strong* anti radiation materials. And, given that gravity would be very low in the space, its weight would not matter.
Now that Microsoft is going to assimilate Nokia, I am sure QT is in great danger. I pray that someone would get it and continue making it great as it is.
Funny, just today in the morning I was reading the article you linked. I went to read the irc log from the chat between HBgary owner and Anonymous (around line 522). From my understanding, HBGary owns 15% of HBGary Federal... The lady was imploring Anonymous not to go against the company.
Even though I play the real guitar, I enjoyed playing RockBand with my brother and her girlfriend. In general I think it is quite entertaining, and is something anyone can do.
For me, the secret was in that you could enjoy a song while "doing something". And in some cases, it was nice to have a well varied set of songs to choose. That way all the players get to listen a song they like (e.g., I get to listen to Judas Priest, my mom gets to listen to the Beatles, my wife gets to listen to The Killers, etc...).
I think the main revenue stream should be focused on making songs available. This, instead of trying to sell a new piece of plastic (instrument) every year... which gets more and more complex to use.
Nah... it would be better to remove all MPAA (Disney, Sony Pictures, Paramount Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Universal Studios, Warner Bros.) related sites from their suggestions and automatic search (just as they have already done with other search terms).
Technically, Google Wave was the Social/Networking/Web-Interaction killer app. But Google just did not know how to sell it to anyone. So yep, that kind of reinforces your point with another Google product:)
THIS! Just some months ago I "rediscovered" shoutcast (I use to listen to several audio and video [ESS.tv] stations long ago). The web interface is quite good for inmediate listenting and the "Screamer Radio" client is great for listening and recording shoutcast audio.
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Carmack was a true believer, and his (late) heresy is a sign that MS alternatives in some fields are just ... quixotic.
Claiming that alternatives to MS in the game world are quixotic is simply delusional. There is exactly one segment that MS dominates in the game world and that is Windows gaming, the importance of which is steadily declining.
So, this week PC gaming is declining?
IIRC last week we argued that PC gaming was increasing and has becamed better than console gaming due to the aging consoles specs.
And you know... PC gaming == Windows gaming
hehe, just yesterday I was telling my wife about those programs (in times of dial-up) which promised megabytes and megabytes of porn if you downloaded their program. A program that would make a dialup call to some far away place (in the USA... back then I lived in Mexico) and charge you a leg to download some mpegs. Fortunately I never fell :P
Unless you want to use a computer that does not have 4GB of RAM and need a platform 100% compatible with Microsoft OS. (e.g. quickbooks, vegas, etc).
I installed Win 7 in my 2GB Netbook and its performance was awful. As soon as I reinstalled XP SP3 it became a charm. (I Installed Ubuntu but it sucked battery like crazy).
It's a little like that. Right now most of the fighting is between Javascript and rendering speed. Javascript performance is definitely no longer a bottleneck
It depends in what you want to achieve. I still perceive difference between running Google docs in Chrome vs running it in Firefox 4 b13pre (it is noticeably slower in the later). And currently none of the spreadsheet web programs have complex equations, references, macros, etc.
Not that I am in favour forcing software to run in a scripted environment (I prefer native apps) but hey, there is always a market for everything.
Deffinitely, the 0.1 or 0.2% of people who are professional photographers like you do not have a need for this camera. Nevertheless, the potential clients are the millions of people who just want to take portrait pictures with a point and shoot; such people are the ones who will gladly buy this product.
This reminds me of that software created by an team from India which "beautified" faces of several persons based on some standard definition of "beautiful"... funny that there are no commercial versions of such a program.
Oh crap, I came late to comment in this story, and after reading all the +3 comments I got so sad. It looks like slashdot has been invaded by a bunch of old techno-farts. Every comment is mainly a rant. It deffinitely shows how the Slashdot community has grown up and now it is only old people (who use email).
No wonder why a lot of people has moved on to other greener sites :(
Q: How many Apple fans does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A: One, but the lightbulb costs $350--and the old one cost $295 and still works perfectly well.
There, fixed that for you.
This means that in Firefox 5, the developers will *get* the great idea of removing the content window.
Teeheehee.
First round of donations is closed
Arrrgggg!!!
I came late to the donation party :( I'll have to wait until the second round...
For now, we will have to wait and watch... Round 1 *FIGHT*!
I was working on an algorithm of supply chain routing (with these guys) about 7 years ago! the idea was to use a combination of Q-routing and ant-routing algorithm with other things. Granted, I was only the guy doing the java implementation (with a nice interface using Netlogo)... but it was quite interesting.
In the world of Multi-Agent Systems, "A-life" and "Individual Based Modelling" the features of ant behaviour have been known for quite some time :)
Definitely ,I may not like the guy's vision on technology (DRM, closedness, overprice, etc) but I am really sad he is having health issues.
Poor Steve, in fact, poor anyone who has to fight a daily fight just to feel OK. I myself do something similar, except (fortunately) it is on a minor scale (not cancer!).
I hope he gets very well soon and can continue to enjoy doing what he most likes.
You know what made it worth it for me? that even if Wason was 10% slower and he needed some extra time to OCR /speech-rec, Watson could stay a whole week 24/7 constantly answering questions and its performance won't decrease. I think *this* is a very important difference, and what makes Watson very valuable.
The other day I saw a documentary about Deep Blue vs Kasparov. One of the comments was that at the time of the chess match, IBM was seen as this "office furniture provider" whereas Microsoft, Apple, (SUN?) and others where seen as the technology innovators.
Thus, they decide to make this challenge as a press stunt. Of course, they have to ensure that their machine wins so that they get all the "glory". In the documentary I saw, they comment about all the issues that surrounded the game.
I was kind of disappointed by the second and third options (the ones not selected). Because they show that Watson answers are purely based on syntactic properties and not semantic. For example in the question:
"Name the Decade - DISNEYLAND OPENS & THE PEACE SYMBOL IS CREATED" Watson second and third answers were "Kingdom" and "It's a small world" which are completely irrelevant to the *meaning* of the subject at hand.
This means that, when Watson is wrong, it is usually *very* wrong. It also means that its reasoning mechanism does not allow it to give an approximation.
Take for example, if you asked him... what color is the bottom of the sea? Watson would most likely tell you "Red Sea Fan???" or maybe "black dragonfish???" because such answers are syntactically related to "color" "bottom/deep/end" "sea/water/ocean". Whereas a person not knowing the real answer would tell you "Blue???", or "Black???".
My thought was, why not create some kind of "dress" bubble that could be attached to Women's tights/stomach while pregnant. This could be composed of *very strong* anti radiation materials. And, given that gravity would be very low in the space, its weight would not matter.
I second this. Coopernic search is a really good program. I use it in all my desktops.
Msoft is desperate to not totally fail.
There, fixed that for you.
Now that Microsoft is going to assimilate Nokia, I am sure QT is in great danger. I pray that someone would get it and continue making it great as it is.
Funny, just today in the morning I was reading the article you linked. I went to read the irc log from the chat between HBgary owner and Anonymous (around line 522). From my understanding, HBGary owns 15% of HBGary Federal... The lady was imploring Anonymous not to go against the company.
Even though I play the real guitar, I enjoyed playing RockBand with my brother and her girlfriend. In general I think it is quite entertaining, and is something anyone can do.
For me, the secret was in that you could enjoy a song while "doing something". And in some cases, it was nice to have a well varied set of songs to choose. That way all the players get to listen a song they like (e.g., I get to listen to Judas Priest, my mom gets to listen to the Beatles, my wife gets to listen to The Killers, etc...).
I think the main revenue stream should be focused on making songs available. This, instead of trying to sell a new piece of plastic (instrument) every year... which gets more and more complex to use.
Nah... it would be better to remove all MPAA (Disney, Sony Pictures, Paramount Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Universal Studios, Warner Bros.) related sites from their suggestions and automatic search (just as they have already done with other search terms).
That would be sweet.
OR worse yet... what about the annoying message of You need to format the disk in drive X: before you can use it. It is so annoying that everytime I want to plug a HDD with half ext3 half ntfs partitions I have to see that annoying message.
Technically, Google Wave was the Social/Networking/Web-Interaction killer app. But Google just did not know how to sell it to anyone. So yep, that kind of reinforces your point with another Google product :)
Don't know. I think Megaupload and Rapidshare have already been there and won their respective lawsuits.
THIS! Just some months ago I "rediscovered" shoutcast (I use to listen to several audio and video [ESS.tv] stations long ago). The web interface is quite good for inmediate listenting and the "Screamer Radio" client is great for listening and recording shoutcast audio.