I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain! One always finds one's burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night filled mountain, in itself forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
They want to destroy that established software market
They are THE biggest player in the desktop arena. Sure Apple did make some inroads, but still nothing compares to the MS juggernaut. As much as/. community loathes it, there is nothing that can challenge them here. Their backwards compatibility support is top notch!
Why would the biggest fish want to poison the pond?
Would of been nice if they had Windows 8 Tablet Edition and Windows 8 Desktop Edition. Everyone would be happy (Except people that plug a monitor into their tablet, but nothing is perfect).
Sure, two sets of code, but happiness of customers should come first. Barring that, how about detection of the screen type:
if (Display supports touch functionality)
Show tablet mode else
Show desktop mode
In my very honest opinion if there would be a pre-emptive strike on Japan from China, US will not do anything, treaties and guarantees be damned.
A launch from US will result in China emptying all the ICBMs they got pointing at the US cities. Despite international obligations, I do not believe the government got the guts to sacrifice hundreds of thousand American civilian lives for an ally.
Hardly. Chinese manufacturing will develop the exact level of quality one is willing to pay for. Just because all of your experience is with the cheapest example of Chinese products does not mean that all of their output is the same.
You are referring to something which is called "Strong AI". This article talks about "Weak AI". The difference is that the weak AI is focused on mastering a small, specialized set of problems (Playing Go, chatter-bots, etc) while strong AI takes on the big consciousness part of the problem. This distinction was created by John Searle who came up with a thought experiment that counters Turing Test: Chinese Room
Weak AI has had much more research focus and success. One big part of the reason is that it is so much easier to test: Just keep the AI playing against players and keep score. Secondly it gives a clearly defined scope to the problem: Go AI does not need to be able to carry out a deep, meaningful conversation while playing. Logic here is that AI that masters a subset of general problems in a believable way is still useful and worthwhile. Medical expert system is still helpful to the users despite not being able to play chess.
With Strong AI where do you even start? This rapidly runs into the philosophy of the mind questions. How do you test whether something is conscious? How do you express such concepts as code in hardware? Trouble is that we can't even exactly model how the brain functions!
IMO, the only practical solution at the moment is to dodge answering the question and just create an artificial simulation of the human brain down to the base level and see what happens. Unfortunately even now we don't have the hardware powerful enough for such a simulation.
This is the part that I don't get: How is this algorithm supposed to "Protect" the ship. Sounds like only thing it can do is predict that one will be forming.
If so, how can a ship possibly survive such a gigantic wave even if it knows it is coming? Would this algorithm even predict what direction it is coming from? I recall that I heard somewhere that a best way to cross a wave is to go at it on a 45 degree angle. Not sure where I read that...
Surely we have slashdoters that have great knowledge of seafaring. What would be the best course that a ship can take to survive such a sudden mountain of water?
I was never a particularly big fan of Hilary, but after seeing the not so coded racism in her ads.... I would even hold my nose and vote Trump over her.
At least Hilary's racism is coded. Trump's expressions of hatred are open and frequent. It is surprising that you would take one for the other.
Why don't you want to cast your vote for some other candidate other than these two?
Have no fear, we are still valued for our different approach to problem solving and directness. My friend resigned from an all-female office job after she got sick of all the gossiping and backstabbing going on. In her next job she specifically asked in the interview if there were men on the team.
You are correct sir. We don't support Windows 10 either, but this is just a matter of time before we will have to. May as well get familiar with it as soon as practical.
To be fair, Linux also took several major UI steps backward with Gnome 3, Unity, etc. That caused even more fragmentation (Trinity, Cinnamon, MATE). Guess current UX trends are contagious. I blame the tablet hype.
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The expected benefit was not blowing off the golden gate bridge.
According to the linked article, it is not the case:
Why does BART use wider, non-standard guage rails?
This here is pure-quality flamebait.
It is magnificent!
:-)
Level up
Start at the bottom
Humanity can work on more than one problem at the same time.
Besides, what is the point of the everyday existence if one cannot act on wonder or curiosity in such grand scales!
From The Myth of Sysiphus by Albert Camus:
Camus in 10 Minutes
They want to destroy that established software market
They are THE biggest player in the desktop arena. Sure Apple did make some inroads, but still nothing compares to the MS juggernaut. As much as /. community loathes it, there is nothing that can challenge them here. Their backwards compatibility support is top notch!
Why would the biggest fish want to poison the pond?
Would of been nice if they had Windows 8 Tablet Edition and Windows 8 Desktop Edition. Everyone would be happy (Except people that plug a monitor into their tablet, but nothing is perfect).
Sure, two sets of code, but happiness of customers should come first. Barring that, how about detection of the screen type:
In my very honest opinion if there would be a pre-emptive strike on Japan from China, US will not do anything, treaties and guarantees be damned.
A launch from US will result in China emptying all the ICBMs they got pointing at the US cities. Despite international obligations, I do not believe the government got the guts to sacrifice hundreds of thousand American civilian lives for an ally.
Hardly. Chinese manufacturing will develop the exact level of quality one is willing to pay for. Just because all of your experience is with the cheapest example of Chinese products does not mean that all of their output is the same.
You are referring to something which is called "Strong AI". This article talks about "Weak AI". The difference is that the weak AI is focused on mastering a small, specialized set of problems (Playing Go, chatter-bots, etc) while strong AI takes on the big consciousness part of the problem. This distinction was created by John Searle who came up with a thought experiment that counters Turing Test: Chinese Room
Weak AI has had much more research focus and success. One big part of the reason is that it is so much easier to test: Just keep the AI playing against players and keep score. Secondly it gives a clearly defined scope to the problem: Go AI does not need to be able to carry out a deep, meaningful conversation while playing. Logic here is that AI that masters a subset of general problems in a believable way is still useful and worthwhile. Medical expert system is still helpful to the users despite not being able to play chess.
With Strong AI where do you even start? This rapidly runs into the philosophy of the mind questions. How do you test whether something is conscious? How do you express such concepts as code in hardware? Trouble is that we can't even exactly model how the brain functions!
IMO, the only practical solution at the moment is to dodge answering the question and just create an artificial simulation of the human brain down to the base level and see what happens. Unfortunately even now we don't have the hardware powerful enough for such a simulation.
While it is true that AMD is trailing behind Intel, their offer is good enough to be considered top end.
Your cane toad invasion has been a massive success. What are your demands to recall your native-specie-destroying army?
This is the part that I don't get: How is this algorithm supposed to "Protect" the ship. Sounds like only thing it can do is predict that one will be forming.
If so, how can a ship possibly survive such a gigantic wave even if it knows it is coming? Would this algorithm even predict what direction it is coming from? I recall that I heard somewhere that a best way to cross a wave is to go at it on a 45 degree angle. Not sure where I read that...
Surely we have slashdoters that have great knowledge of seafaring. What would be the best course that a ship can take to survive such a sudden mountain of water?
I was never a particularly big fan of Hilary, but after seeing the not so coded racism in her ads .... I would even hold my nose and vote Trump over her.
At least Hilary's racism is coded. Trump's expressions of hatred are open and frequent. It is surprising that you would take one for the other.
Why don't you want to cast your vote for some other candidate other than these two?
Have no fear, we are still valued for our different approach to problem solving and directness. My friend resigned from an all-female office job after she got sick of all the gossiping and backstabbing going on. In her next job she specifically asked in the interview if there were men on the team.
Thank you for pointing it out. I will be more careful in the future.
Everyone will have their favourites. Debian-testing would be my recommendation. Mint for the gaming machine.
With Steam and GOG supporting Linux, Wine, and PlayOnLinux it is a golden age for gamers on Linux.
Which games do you currently run that keep you on Windows?
I am still trying to get rid of OneDrive and XBox entries from the "All Applications" list in the Start menu...
Don't be ridiculous. That is far too advanced for current UX designers! Next thing you will be asking for multiple, overlapping windows on the screen!
Did you get the Home or Pro edition?
There might be some leeway if this is only in the Home edition. But if the Pro has adds by default enabled as well, that will be low.
You are correct sir. We don't support Windows 10 either, but this is just a matter of time before we will have to. May as well get familiar with it as soon as practical.
I'd be buying Microsoft stock right now.
Please don't encourage them. This is bad turn for our industry.
To be fair, Linux also took several major UI steps backward with Gnome 3, Unity, etc. That caused even more fragmentation (Trinity, Cinnamon, MATE). Guess current UX trends are contagious. I blame the tablet hype.
Even if APK's solution would be appropriate and on-topic, he has lost any goodwill from this community by his incessant spamming.