So THAT'S why it's running so darn slowly this morning! Amazing.
I know someone who worked on this, actually. They're using the brute force approach; they built a massive database of musical analysis for each track by musically-trained folks. My friend was a music (and political science) major.
Something closer to Amazon's buyer suggestion database (which is what Last.FM sounds like) might work better.. but this seems like a truer association of musical content
"We are no longer content to stimulated only by flashing internet and TV ads," said Mark Vinciento, president of the World Association of Epileptics. "With this new technology, we step into a brave new world where merely walking past a news stand can induce fantastic, life-threatening seizures."
The flurry of flash photography following Vinciento's statements caused him to collapse twitching from his podium, to the enthusiastic applause from the onlooking crowd.
"He likes it," said Jane Fitzgerol, association secretary, "why do you think he took the job?"
I'm curious on your "living" it up statement: would you prefer the old age of Brave New World? One day, you're feeling as fit and wild as you have since your twenties, the next your body goes into some kind of cascade failure, and a few days later you die before even coming to grips with the fact that you're on the way out. I don't know if dying is better with preparation or without. (I'd prefer not to try it either way, really.)
You make a valid point on the generational issue, and we haven't even started on the overpopulation problems such a future would face.
On the other hand... can someone who lives 300+ years afford to ignore global warming? Would someone who will live to see the effects of running out of easily obtainable fossil fuels ignore renewable resources? How long can someone live in denial?
(This is just *begging* for a string of witty retorts.)
What happened to the new mice? Are they now clones of the original, with cells completely replaced by the more vigorous MLR-strain cells?
Are the regenerated limbs those of the injured mice or composed entirely of MLR-strain tissue?
How would injecting one organism with cells of another (of the same species) grant it new abilities? Do our cells learn from each other? If I get spiderman's blood, do I get his abilities?
Single fire for someone playing at home seems pretty easily achieveable, since they're just clicking a mouse. Therein lies DICE's decision: if the purpose of the weapon (and, thereby, class) in the game is suppressing fire and the wholesale slaughter of people in groups (i.e. not requiring sniper-like accuracy), and the addition of such accuracy would allow users to easily apply the weapon (and class) to the purpose of other classes (thus edging out those classes for the same role), then they should limit the default accuracy of the machinegun a bit. Since the purpose of this weapon in real life apparently mirrors its purpose in the game, I think they made the right call.
That being said, I think they should add the "experienced gunner" effect you mentioned to the accuracy as an unlockable bonus (instead of a different weapon, just up the accuracy of the SAW to its real-world level, as you described it). Then people who've put in a hell of a lot of time as a gunner can be more effective at other tasks with it.
Thanks again for your amazingly detailed responses. Seriously. I'm still curious as to the effects of fatigue from prolongued humping of all this gear on accuracy.
There has to be something to discourage everyone from carrying a SAW if it's approximately as accurate as the other weapons but has a ridiculously larger clip/ammo capacity.
In real life, it's fatigue from carrying the damn thing and its ammo, right? I submit that DICE doesn't really simulate that. You've got your stamina bar and a slight slowing of character movement, but does that capture running around all day with the significantly heavier weapon and copious ammo? Does your aim steadily get worse the longer you're alive and using it? (As you grow more tired?)
Maybe the kit difference b/n the machinegunner and default infantry is enough to distinguish them, but I'm guessing DICE thought the change balanced the classes better.
Note that the issue is balance within the game, and not adherence to real life.
I still agree with just about everything you've said, and congrats on serving and surviving.
Speaking as a jew, I'd say it has something to do with the production or consumption of food.
Just look at all our holidays, weddings, bar/bat mitzvahs, and indeed, any jewish event.
My guess is, come Judgement Day (the one without the Governator), we cook the world's last meal..
..then we eat it.
"Sorry sir; you're gonna need a complete rebuild."
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Terrible words to hear from a mechanic, these days.
For small items, no, clearly not.
For larger things; yes, I think it's possible. given the time, energy, and materials probably required to create an entire new vehicle vs. creating and installing a part, I think repair would often be preferable to complete reconstruction. That's assuming, of course, that the thing has been built with the possibility of repair in mind (which is, admittedly, a pretty big assumption).
I agree that this manufacturing model would make recycling even more of a necessity than it is now.
The end of Standardization = good?
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Ok, so perhaps not EVERYONE will redesign their car, bed, desk, house, etc. but the implications for repairs and regulation seem pretty clear.
It'd be great to see everyone driving/flying their own personal reinventions of the wheel, but I pity the repairman who has to try to fix them by the road, even if he can fabricate the necessary parts and tools on the spot. How the hell does he know if he's done it right? Nearly everything he works on is unique, subtly or flamboyantly.
I pity the regulator who has to tell a million proud inventors why their particular new craft is not just inefficient and unsuited to current traffic conventions, but intrinsically lethal to themselves and others. Hot-rodding isn't really a good example, because the non-superficial rebuilds take enough equipment and time to guarantee a fair amount of knowledge/seriousness. Plus, the parts are standard, even if their use may not be.
It's like hacking with real-world objects. Some will be talented and great at it; the majority will be uninspired, petty, and just plain irresponsible with it.
That being said, I can't wait to download BMW's latest and greatest from Limewire.
We're simulating, not copying. We can abstract the miniature marbles into to equations/algorithms. (Which is, in fact, precisely what we're doing.)
It doesn't have to run in a machine though. We could carry out this simulation by hand. It would take a long time, lots of people, and lots of paper/pencils, but we could do it.
Would the resulting system be conscious?
Does something mystical happen when we speed it up and do it with a computer rather than by hand?
If the system is conscious, where does said consciousness reside? In the silicon of the processor? In the algorithm? In the chunks of data shuffled in memory?
More to the point, I get the sense that the reactions the researchers want to examine virtually aren't the activity involved in lengthy musings on a complete lack of sensory stimulus. They're looking for more immediate, action-response activity.
Besides, if they duplicate the precise setup of an existing human brain as the starting point for each simulation, won't that simulation carry with it the last sensory impression of the real brain (assuming the impression has an effect on that setup)? So it should have a static sensory impression rather than a lack of senses.
(Incidentally, I think that'd be more frightening for me than blackness.)
You mean if the techs running the simulation decide to make a test run as though a brain had recieved input approximating "how are you"?
Would you be disturbed if the simulation returned results meaning that a brain under those conditions and with that input would have reactions approximating "I'm scared, alone, and lonely"?
My question is, does it disturb us when our calculators run a quick routine based on the input 2+2 and return 4?
That sounds like a fun project- create a "cartridge" for the SP that is actually a programmable music holder with built-in playback. Instead of a game, it's a music repository with software interface through the SP.
It doesn't necessarily STOP the software from running; it forces the software to play nice with the other children and submit to removal if the user wishes.
If you want various background processes tracking your purchases and webuse to supply you with "tailored results" then you should be welcome to them.
If you DON'T, however, you should be able to remove the damn things with a minimum of fuss. It's never been good marketing for a company, in my opinion. Would you, in your right mind, buy something from a man who'd replaced the wallpaper in your home with advertisements for his products? I don't think so.
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-and you guys certainly have as many votes to count as are in the US. Oh yes.
Completely comparable populations.
Shouldn't the general public be "in" wars? I mean, they're being fought for, and to some extent, by the general public.
If the general public isn't good and convinced of the need for a war, should we be fighting it?
Sounds one step closer to EPIC http://www.robinsloan.com/epic/
So THAT'S why it's running so darn slowly this morning! Amazing.
I know someone who worked on this, actually. They're using the brute force approach; they built a massive database of musical analysis for each track by musically-trained folks. My friend was a music (and political science) major.
Something closer to Amazon's buyer suggestion database (which is what Last.FM sounds like) might work better.. but this seems like a truer association of musical content
Nah, not if their Heisenberg Compensators are online.
"We are no longer content to stimulated only by flashing internet and TV ads," said Mark Vinciento, president of the World Association of Epileptics. "With this new technology, we step into a brave new world where merely walking past a news stand can induce fantastic, life-threatening seizures."
The flurry of flash photography following Vinciento's statements caused him to collapse twitching from his podium, to the enthusiastic applause from the onlooking crowd.
"He likes it," said Jane Fitzgerol, association secretary, "why do you think he took the job?"
I'm curious on your "living" it up statement: would you prefer the old age of Brave New World? One day, you're feeling as fit and wild as you have since your twenties, the next your body goes into some kind of cascade failure, and a few days later you die before even coming to grips with the fact that you're on the way out. I don't know if dying is better with preparation or without. (I'd prefer not to try it either way, really.)
You make a valid point on the generational issue, and we haven't even started on the overpopulation problems such a future would face.
On the other hand... can someone who lives 300+ years afford to ignore global warming? Would someone who will live to see the effects of running out of easily obtainable fossil fuels ignore renewable resources? How long can someone live in denial?
(This is just *begging* for a string of witty retorts.)
What happened to the new mice? Are they now clones of the original, with cells completely replaced by the more vigorous MLR-strain cells?
Are the regenerated limbs those of the injured mice or composed entirely of MLR-strain tissue?
How would injecting one organism with cells of another (of the same species) grant it new abilities? Do our cells learn from each other? If I get spiderman's blood, do I get his abilities?
Science has yet to create a substance harder than my abs. (Yeah, I don't know where that came from either.. do I even *have* "abs"?)
50lb vs. 15lb? Brutal.
Single fire for someone playing at home seems pretty easily achieveable, since they're just clicking a mouse. Therein lies DICE's decision: if the purpose of the weapon (and, thereby, class) in the game is suppressing fire and the wholesale slaughter of people in groups (i.e. not requiring sniper-like accuracy), and the addition of such accuracy would allow users to easily apply the weapon (and class) to the purpose of other classes (thus edging out those classes for the same role), then they should limit the default accuracy of the machinegun a bit. Since the purpose of this weapon in real life apparently mirrors its purpose in the game, I think they made the right call.
That being said, I think they should add the "experienced gunner" effect you mentioned to the accuracy as an unlockable bonus (instead of a different weapon, just up the accuracy of the SAW to its real-world level, as you described it). Then people who've put in a hell of a lot of time as a gunner can be more effective at other tasks with it.
Thanks again for your amazingly detailed responses. Seriously. I'm still curious as to the effects of fatigue from prolongued humping of all this gear on accuracy.
There has to be something to discourage everyone from carrying a SAW if it's approximately as accurate as the other weapons but has a ridiculously larger clip/ammo capacity.
In real life, it's fatigue from carrying the damn thing and its ammo, right? I submit that DICE doesn't really simulate that. You've got your stamina bar and a slight slowing of character movement, but does that capture running around all day with the significantly heavier weapon and copious ammo? Does your aim steadily get worse the longer you're alive and using it? (As you grow more tired?)
Maybe the kit difference b/n the machinegunner and default infantry is enough to distinguish them, but I'm guessing DICE thought the change balanced the classes better.
Note that the issue is balance within the game, and not adherence to real life.
I still agree with just about everything you've said, and congrats on serving and surviving.
Any word on the refresh rate and number of stable changes?
For instance, there's been no mention of using this for a video display.
Does it start to fail after 200,000 or so changes?
I'll bet everyone's paying extra attention to their posts, heh.
Possible cause: widespread incorporation of spellcheckers in email/text software? Constant auto-correction doesn't really promote instinctive writing skills.
Speaking as a jew, I'd say it has something to do with the production or consumption of food. Just look at all our holidays, weddings, bar/bat mitzvahs, and indeed, any jewish event.
..then we eat it.
My guess is, come Judgement Day (the one without the Governator), we cook the world's last meal..
Terrible words to hear from a mechanic, these days.
For small items, no, clearly not.
For larger things; yes, I think it's possible. given the time, energy, and materials probably required to create an entire new vehicle vs. creating and installing a part, I think repair would often be preferable to complete reconstruction. That's assuming, of course, that the thing has been built with the possibility of repair in mind (which is, admittedly, a pretty big assumption).
I agree that this manufacturing model would make recycling even more of a necessity than it is now.
Ok, so perhaps not EVERYONE will redesign their car, bed, desk, house, etc. but the implications for repairs and regulation seem pretty clear.
It'd be great to see everyone driving/flying their own personal reinventions of the wheel, but I pity the repairman who has to try to fix them by the road, even if he can fabricate the necessary parts and tools on the spot. How the hell does he know if he's done it right? Nearly everything he works on is unique, subtly or flamboyantly.
I pity the regulator who has to tell a million proud inventors why their particular new craft is not just inefficient and unsuited to current traffic conventions, but intrinsically lethal to themselves and others. Hot-rodding isn't really a good example, because the non-superficial rebuilds take enough equipment and time to guarantee a fair amount of knowledge/seriousness. Plus, the parts are standard, even if their use may not be.
It's like hacking with real-world objects. Some will be talented and great at it; the majority will be uninspired, petty, and just plain irresponsible with it.
That being said, I can't wait to download BMW's latest and greatest from Limewire.
We're simulating, not copying. We can abstract the miniature marbles into to equations/algorithms. (Which is, in fact, precisely what we're doing.)
It doesn't have to run in a machine though. We could carry out this simulation by hand. It would take a long time, lots of people, and lots of paper/pencils, but we could do it.
Would the resulting system be conscious?
Does something mystical happen when we speed it up and do it with a computer rather than by hand?
If the system is conscious, where does said consciousness reside? In the silicon of the processor? In the algorithm? In the chunks of data shuffled in memory?
More to the point, I get the sense that the reactions the researchers want to examine virtually aren't the activity involved in lengthy musings on a complete lack of sensory stimulus. They're looking for more immediate, action-response activity.
Besides, if they duplicate the precise setup of an existing human brain as the starting point for each simulation, won't that simulation carry with it the last sensory impression of the real brain (assuming the impression has an effect on that setup)? So it should have a static sensory impression rather than a lack of senses.
(Incidentally, I think that'd be more frightening for me than blackness.)
You mean if the techs running the simulation decide to make a test run as though a brain had recieved input approximating "how are you"? Would you be disturbed if the simulation returned results meaning that a brain under those conditions and with that input would have reactions approximating "I'm scared, alone, and lonely"? My question is, does it disturb us when our calculators run a quick routine based on the input 2+2 and return 4?
That sounds like a fun project- create a "cartridge" for the SP that is actually a programmable music holder with built-in playback.
Instead of a game, it's a music repository with software interface through the SP.
Get to it!
It doesn't necessarily STOP the software from running; it forces the software to play nice with the other children and submit to removal if the user wishes.
If you want various background processes tracking your purchases and webuse to supply you with "tailored results" then you should be welcome to them.
If you DON'T, however, you should be able to remove the damn things with a minimum of fuss. It's never been good marketing for a company, in my opinion. Would you, in your right mind, buy something from a man who'd replaced the wallpaper in your home with advertisements for his products? I don't think so.
Right; now they can just take a powerful sonic scrambler, point it at your head, and set it to "frappe".
*Cue Music*
"You've got to admit, it's getting bet-ter, it's getting better all the time!"
Sounds like the first step towards Peter F. Hamilton's "Neural Nanonics". http://www.twbookmark.com/books/48/0446610275/chap ter_excerpt14614.html