Only the singer is synthetic. The band itself looks pretty real to me. Basically, it's like Miley Cyrus, just that it's a bit more honest about autotuning the vocals.
So... Miley Cyrus is a hologram. I guess that explains how she can pull off that 17-going-on-34 look.
Yes, I was talking about Deep Blue, and every other rigged Chip vs. Human outing.
I have no problems if we are talking about a one-on-one match: Human sits at board, Chip "sits" at board, they go at it, and a couple of days later, again, etc.
That means Chip does not get worked over, tweaked, re-coded, etc. over the days off between games. If Chip can't handle the play on his own, then Chip isn't good enough.
Ugh. What's with perpetuating this nonsense? A computer did not beat the top ranked Western chess player. Rather, a group of people _reprogrammed the computer after each match_ to beat the top ranked Western chess player.
TFA, it is annoyingly vague on an important point: What is the rank of the Japanese player that lost?
And as others have pointed out, let see a computer take down a top ranked (10th Dan) player at Go. The best a machine has done (I think) is winning against a 5th Dan.
The Baroque Cycle could have easily been two books, instead of three. Personally, Neal's... expositional style can be quite engaging. In the case of the BC, the story, and everything else good about it was offset by a bunch of intellectual wanking.
If you are interested in the time period, and the subject matter, check out a _much_ shorter read that published before the BC: A Conspiracy of Paper, by David Liss. I would also recommend his Whiskey Rebels, which is a continuation (of sorts) with regards to the treatment of money.
AT&T is going on about things that impact the fundamental principles of the Internet. OK, the fundamental principle of the Internet (I'm going by those Department of Defense guys that invented it), is to have a robust electronic communication system that can function after a major nuclear attack. I say we nuke AT&T, then see if it still works.
I'll probably catch a Troll Rating for this, but, so be it: An intervention is needed. I have been a very big fan of Neal's work. I use the past tense because his last four books have been a disappointment (I gave up on Anathem after 100 pages), where they all suffer from the same thing: The apparent lack of an editor willing to stand up to the author, and take him out to the woodshed as needed.
Now that Neal is going to push the publishing envelope by going into the realm of something cutting edge (HyperText is going to be _huge_), he can sidestep the pesky editor link in the publishing chain all together.
Hopefully, I'm not duplicating someone's post... Being able to cut a tighter line is one thing. Being able to do it on a "making license plates" scale is something else. As you move increase the density of what is being packed on the chip, you have to be able to increasingly control for smaller and smaller particles. Each jump in Clean Room Technology is neither easy, nor inexpensive. For details, and a whole lot more related material:
Er, given both the subject and the subject matter, can we be sure he sent the email? I thought England had been using hologrammes for PMs since Maggie?
There have been plenty of studies done to establish some link between downloading un-licensed music and decreased sales of legit releases.
The methodology of those studies suck. None of them properly isolate for external variables, like: Just about everything else Johnny Download can spend money on for entertainment. And his motivations for shifts in spending habits.
As an aside, most people pushing the idea refuse to acknowlede that Johnny Download's disposible income does not ramp up infinitely, and that Johnny has (at most) 24 hours in a day to play consumer.
I remember when the same sorts of studies were done in the 70s and 80s, along with the stupid tag to sum it all up: Home Taping is killing music. The opposite was found: Blank cassette sales skyrocketed, along with the sale of legit releases, bootlegs, and incense.
Mod the parent up. I was skimming through responses, and was surprised not to see Squeak mentioned. Speaking as an ex-comm professor, squeak is a great place to start: Plenty easy, plenty powerful, plenty immediate. Good Call.
Yeah, the most important paragraphs were the two that you refer to (26 & 27), and 36 (second to the last):
"Alexander said about 20 technicians, who were scheduled to deliver and set up electronic poll books by 6 a.m., quit yesterday morning, resulting in long lines and frustrated voters at numerous polling places."
WTF? There's a story in there.
About an audit trail not working, I disagree.
For the audit trail to work properly, there would have to be standardization of electronic voting hardware and software nation-wide.
A proper audit trail would include the ability to verify the following: When a voter showed up at their precinct, when the voter was cleared (authorized) to vote at their precinct, the "state" their ballot was in when the voter receives it, the "state" the ballot was in when the voter cast it, when the voter cast it, and, when the voter left.
And the voter would be leaving with a hardcopy.
Besides making it harder for someone to monkey with the output, people on both sides of the ballot box would start taking the process of voting a bit more seriously. I'm sure this all sounds touchy feely, but I think it would be the beginning of an attitude shift. It's an attitude shift that is (in part) responsible for the election mess the country is in.
Troll? Is there some other thing at work in the story? I must have it wrong. That would mean the continued mis-management of electronically based elections has nothing to do with trying to change vote results.
An audit trail, a useful one that is, doesn't start with people casting their vote. Rather, it starts with people showing up.
It looks like we are going to get a headstart on Shame '08. The midterms are going to be a mess.
What is it going to take for these chimps to realize that a voting process WITH AN AUDIT TRAIL is the only way to hold an election? People boycotting their polling sta-- oh. Wait, I think I get it now. Why pull a trigger when you can simply get away with stoking apathy...
I don't know about Citrix running. We definitely were not running a document management system. Since it sounds like you know more about this than I do, why was there so much swapping going on between server and client? Network load would get unreal, at times, because of all the Office traffic. It sure wasn't because of the Office users being that "speedy."
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When Verizon, et al run their computers on 640K of RAM each.
...now we can grow livers like grapes.
I don't know about adorable, but at least he doesn't have an annoying type impediment.
Only the singer is synthetic. The band itself looks pretty real to me. Basically, it's like Miley Cyrus, just that it's a bit more honest about autotuning the vocals.
So... Miley Cyrus is a hologram. I guess that explains how she can pull off that 17-going-on-34 look.
I Technology.
Possibly. A.C. Clarke apparently did.
Yes, I was talking about Deep Blue, and every other rigged Chip vs. Human outing.
I have no problems if we are talking about a one-on-one match: Human sits at board, Chip "sits" at board, they go at it, and a couple of days later, again, etc.
That means Chip does not get worked over, tweaked, re-coded, etc. over the days off between games. If Chip can't handle the play on his own, then Chip isn't good enough.
Ugh. What's with perpetuating this nonsense? A computer did not beat the top ranked Western chess player. Rather, a group of people _reprogrammed the computer after each match_ to beat the top ranked Western chess player.
TFA, it is annoyingly vague on an important point: What is the rank of the Japanese player that lost?
And as others have pointed out, let see a computer take down a top ranked (10th Dan) player at Go. The best a machine has done (I think) is winning against a 5th Dan.
The Facebook environment really doesn't do much to encourage extended dialog or discussion, so LCD wins.
And quitters never win.
Are they trained to make vehicle stops using the Banana In The Tail Pipe Trick?
1) Air Gap
2) Sneaker Net
3) f28R^VD(*
4) Profit!
The Baroque Cycle could have easily been two books, instead of three. Personally, Neal's... expositional style can be quite engaging. In the case of the BC, the story, and everything else good about it was offset by a bunch of intellectual wanking.
If you are interested in the time period, and the subject matter, check out a _much_ shorter read that published before the BC: A Conspiracy of Paper, by David Liss. I would also recommend his Whiskey Rebels, which is a continuation (of sorts) with regards to the treatment of money.
AT&T is going on about things that impact the fundamental principles of the Internet. OK, the fundamental principle of the Internet (I'm going by those Department of Defense guys that invented it), is to have a robust electronic communication system that can function after a major nuclear attack. I say we nuke AT&T, then see if it still works.
I'll probably catch a Troll Rating for this, but, so be it: An intervention is needed. I have been a very big fan of Neal's work. I use the past tense because his last four books have been a disappointment (I gave up on Anathem after 100 pages), where they all suffer from the same thing: The apparent lack of an editor willing to stand up to the author, and take him out to the woodshed as needed.
Now that Neal is going to push the publishing envelope by going into the realm of something cutting edge (HyperText is going to be _huge_), he can sidestep the pesky editor link in the publishing chain all together.
Ugh. And Double-Ugh.
What do I get this time? Clippy with bolts in his neck?
Hopefully, I'm not duplicating someone's post... Being able to cut a tighter line is one thing. Being able to do it on a "making license plates" scale is something else. As you move increase the density of what is being packed on the chip, you have to be able to increasingly control for smaller and smaller particles. Each jump in Clean Room Technology is neither easy, nor inexpensive. For details, and a whole lot more related material:
http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2009/06/embodied-energy-of-digital-technology.html
Mod the parent up. When the system no longer works, it is time for the mobbe/hoi polli/proletariat to get things back on track.
Er, given both the subject and the subject matter, can we be sure he sent the email? I thought England had been using hologrammes for PMs since Maggie?
There have been plenty of studies done to establish some link between downloading un-licensed music and decreased sales of legit releases.
The methodology of those studies suck. None of them properly isolate for external variables, like: Just about everything else Johnny Download can spend money on for entertainment. And his motivations for shifts in spending habits.
As an aside, most people pushing the idea refuse to acknowlede that Johnny Download's disposible income does not ramp up infinitely, and that Johnny has (at most) 24 hours in a day to play consumer.
I remember when the same sorts of studies were done in the 70s and 80s, along with the stupid tag to sum it all up: Home Taping is killing music. The opposite was found: Blank cassette sales skyrocketed, along with the sale of legit releases, bootlegs, and incense.
Nothing to see here people. Move along.
Mod the parent up. I was skimming through responses, and was surprised not to see Squeak mentioned. Speaking as an ex-comm professor, squeak is a great place to start: Plenty easy, plenty powerful, plenty immediate. Good Call.
Yeah, the most important paragraphs were the two that you refer to (26 & 27), and 36 (second to the last):
"Alexander said about 20 technicians, who were scheduled to deliver and set up electronic poll books by 6 a.m., quit yesterday morning, resulting in long lines and frustrated voters at numerous polling places."
WTF? There's a story in there.
About an audit trail not working, I disagree.
For the audit trail to work properly, there would have to be standardization of electronic voting hardware and software nation-wide.
A proper audit trail would include the ability to verify the following: When a voter showed up at their precinct, when the voter was cleared (authorized) to vote at their precinct, the "state" their ballot was in when the voter receives it, the "state" the ballot was in when the voter cast it, when the voter cast it, and, when the voter left.
And the voter would be leaving with a hardcopy.
Besides making it harder for someone to monkey with the output, people on both sides of the ballot box would start taking the process of voting a bit more seriously. I'm sure this all sounds touchy feely, but I think it would be the beginning of an attitude shift. It's an attitude shift that is (in part) responsible for the election mess the country is in.
Troll? Is there some other thing at work in the story? I must have it wrong. That would mean the continued mis-management of electronically based elections has nothing to do with trying to change vote results.
An audit trail, a useful one that is, doesn't start with people casting their vote. Rather, it starts with people showing up.
It looks like we are going to get a headstart on Shame '08. The midterms are going to be a mess.
What is it going to take for these chimps to realize that a voting process WITH AN AUDIT TRAIL is the only way to hold an election? People boycotting their polling sta-- oh. Wait, I think I get it now. Why pull a trigger when you can simply get away with stoking apathy...
But is it faster than Superman?
Spear's music is complex. The problem is that Spears isn't.
I don't know about Citrix running. We definitely were not running a document management system. Since it sounds like you know more about this than I do, why was there so much swapping going on between server and client? Network load would get unreal, at times, because of all the Office traffic. It sure wasn't because of the Office users being that "speedy."