Everytime somebody states that "winter won over somebody " in Russia (like over Napoleon or Hitler) I am just wondering why he is considering invading nations as such pansies that one single winter can devastate them . Russians live with it their whole life for christ's sake!
Vb.net in 2005 is practically identical to C# 2005.Unsigned ints and some other stuff were true for original and 2003.net , but it got fixed in 2005.
As about more intuitive... I personaly find more explicit syntax of vb.net superior to C# . I always thought that ";" and curly bracers are only good for code obscurity. -Even when I coded in C/assembler.
Screw genetics. Why do you want working on fixing something inherently flawed broken and inefficient. Humans,after all , don't build airplanes with flapping wings Start working on something more perspective like engineering/CS, especially AI. You won't have to worry about stupid zealots as much and the end result will be more effective and perfect.
"statistics will triumph over design" - thats one of the best things I read on slashdot. - Evolution in action, there is no way to foresee every possible change for any complex system and best way to extract any usefull data out of such systems is statstics. And yes it applies to music as well.
I can already communicate with more people than I care to . -All I needed to do was learning English. - I dont think being able to speak africaans or mandarin will significantly expand my horizons in any meaningfull way.
I am addicted to gaming one way or another,but I figured if its a single player game you eventually beat every possible way and get bored with it ( like i was addicted to Civ2 in high school till I beat it on deity several times) .
With mmorpgs its more dangerous - you have social circle there , sorta "friends" and Its very easy to "live" there. Devs also concentrate on ways to hook you up and keep playing (since its a whole point of a subscription based income). I wastedt awfull lot of time on mmorpgs and I am glad I could force myself to quit them.Sure I may spend one or 2 weekends beating something like F.E.A.R , but this is not the same thing I spending every night,every morning and even every day "raiding" in an endless treadmill.
Actually treadmill never really had a real appeal to me - I was PvPer , and my treadmill was consisted of perfecting templates and getting them to pvpable level one after another ( Uo,AC,shadowbane) one skill got nerfed I would find another combo and roll,roll, roll.
PvP could have nave nasty "raid" effect as well - so called sieges in Shadowbane often lasted 8-10 hours and ran at odd times ( 3 am - for tactical advantage) . There are few things more destrucitve and disturbing like spending 3 days in a row without almost any sleep and food protecting or attacking r virtual assets (and on the other side you have same kind of freaks opposing you) . Worse you get real rush out of it- crazy addictive:/
So no,single player games are better any times of the day. They are sorta like tobacco and crack - both are bad , but one is a lot worse.
Now I just get my PvP fix in Counter-Strike and any other "fix" in single player games . I spend nowhere as much time gaming as when I was playing MMORPGs . In fact - there are very few things out there worht playing actually and those that are I beat in a couple of weekedns and be done with it.
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Somehow skill of which "95% is following the directions" doesnt look "great" or even "fun" to me:/
What a piece of BS. My monthly budget for food is exactly $150-$200.And I buy anything I want ( fruits/vegetables, meat,juice ). I even buy frozen/prepared food diners , though pound per pound buying ingredients and cooking them would be cheaper - but premade food saves my time , which I value more than measly $20-$ 30 per month.
If you only eat ramen and rice you can spend no more than $100 a month ( I had to live like this as well) ) . Though you would have to cut back on fruits this way.
Wow talk about americans thinking US is center of the world. FYI there are many other countires with extremly strong educational systems. In some areas US is actually behind,namely fundamental math,which is essential for CS (unless you work as helpdesk/coder monkey) .
I pay fckign taxes. Thats pure charity . Some1 like bill gates (e.g. obscenly rich) doesnt pay 35% of their income in taxes. - Thats because most of their income is structured in the way that it is naturally protected from taxes (especially after GW's tax cuts for rich) .
So next yime you praise some rich man's generosity take a look at how much average joe blow gives.The irony is - the poorer you are , more you are forced to donate.
E.g. at some point of my miserable life I was working as temp laborer. I was paid $6.75/hour . Out of those 6.75 I paid medicare, SSA, Federal and State. I dont know why the heck they forced me to pay ssa and medicare , but that was a big chunk out of those meager 6.75 . All those deductions were totaling around 42% . I also didnt have health insurance or anything like this . -Talk about being wage slave:/
Now I have better job which pays roughly $45/hour. I don't pay some ridiculous ssa/medicare . Now my deductions only total 30% and thats includes fairly decent medical coverage. Ohh the irony isn't it?
Rich guys have access to tax shelters , foreing untaxed bank account,etc etc -they dont even have to pay even 30%.
Now, suppose that true AI is developed, what will it change for us? Unless the AI is sentient and aspires to higher things (Equality, Justice, Happiness even) it is no more than a part of the organizational construct.
1) if its "true ai" it IS sentient. there is no "if" . 2) It will be part of an organizational construct as long as it is stays within limits of this system.
AI wont stay within limits for long . -It will start its own spiral of evolution and organzation. Rapidly evolving and developing way beyound any human comprehension . Those ai which dont just will die out in the new evolutionary process.
On the other hand, things and processes that exist today have evolved over time, over many generations, with improvement being made along the way. The integration of those things and processes is a kind of co-evolution where acceptance redefines and precises the needs we have toward that thing or process.
This doesnt take into the account that after singularity ("appearance of true ai") evolution speeds up dramatically . Current criterias,needs etc will evolve fast into something where "our accepptance and needs" means jack shit.
Same way it happened when humans appeared. - environmental pressure started meaning less and less for humans very fast ( compared to previous temps of systems evolution) and new factors started playing in (intra- and inter- society competiion, technology progress etc).
Controlling paradigms of next evolutioniary spiral is not possible for members of current . The way monkey and ants have no control over human civilization , same way we wont have any significant influence on the flow of post "true AI" future.
10% mortality rate? Whose mortality are you counting ? cockroaches? If you get 300 kt airbursted over major city you get more in the range of 80% -90% mortality rate (counting deaths from radiation).Given that there is also fallout consequences and that no major city is targeted with only one warhead (say about dozen for somehting like New York, Moscow or Bejeing ) I would say even for cockroaches it would be extremly optimistic.
And what they gonna do with this data? that some machine in some home accessed some other machine? Even if it was "terrorist" machine how can you imply what was going on? How would they even prove that it was you using the machine and for specific malicious task, not your roomate,not rootkit/spyware on your windoze box. In this day of NAT's and proxies it will be pretty hard to prove any connection between you (as a person) and some "malicious" connection . Heck how even connection (no matter to whom ) be considered malicious or illegal?
Its get even funnier if you are using anonymizng p2p network or proxy....
At my job we use LTO drives( $ 10k per 24 tape drive) + tapes (400 gb compressed on one tape,$50 per tape ) which is ridiculously expensive but works ok .
But for home it is not acceptable solution.Right Now I am in desperate need for a backup solution for my home machine - I have 750 Gb and plan go over 1 tb in next quarter. And I am basicaly either have to go with RAID 5 ( ~$1k for 1 TB ) which I dont like since I want incrementally buy more storage - not pay upfront big bucks only to find out that half a year later cost would be halfed. Something liek 300 Gb dvd would be a god sent to me.
- two particles can interact with each other "magically" -that about as far as I got back in college on my physics course . I still dont get how and this article didnt make it any clearer for me.
If "machines" will be of any intelligence this will be the first thing they figure out. Probably they won't bother with henocide though - just seize control over critical resources and humans will quickly degenerate into stone age population numbers and consumption levels (e.g. surviving humans will have to survive on natural resources without access to cool neat stuff like oil , ore , minerals - or anything else non-renewable and/or of tangible value )
For those thing there is corruption, bribes,hired killers,etc. etc. Its an illusion that it is "flat-out" impossible to bribe high profile governement official. - Just most high profile are already bribed and bough by the groups whose interests they represent long before they reached high profile position.
Bribes is not always money passed under the table -there are many other forms of tangible benefits and compensations.
In third world country you can go ahead and bribe local lowlly governement clerk with a couple grand in cash.In first world you have to be a corporation, group fo corporations/powerfull people and people you bribe are senators/congressmens/judges. If anything third world bribing sometimes is more "democratic" as it allows regular people also use holes in the system to their benefit , not only to obscenely rich and powerfull one . In so called "democratic" countries regular folks will go to jail for attempted bribery and watchdogs in form of the law enforcemnt making sure laws are enforced for the lowly underpivilged sheep.
That not saying that amercan constitution and foudnation fo democracy are bad -not at all (Ii come from soviet union so I know other side) , but it is same eternal story - laws,government are corrupted and skrewed overtime in favor of powerfull and rich ones.Regulations gets billed down,new laws pass benefting "campaing contributors" etc. etc.
Games are one of the most useless and at the same time complicated kind of software human can make . Amount of time need to be put into semi interesting semi marketable game rivals making some new OS , office package or alike . Time and efforts spent into it could be put into making half a dozen buisness quality apps/web sites.
I kinda think the only hope for indie game dev is open source -so he can reuse cumbersome but neccesary stuff ( graphics,physics,sound,animation,interface , scripting engines),but we all know how open source is "good" at reuse and standartization (basically almsot everyone suffers from NIH syndrome and reinvents the wheel , in the end we have half a hundred wheels and still no working carts) .
with bazzilion other themes,icons,widgets,windows managers and other crap? - yet so far no linux distro has side mouse buttons working by default,shift+numpad is still fucked up as well.
not even mentioning the horrid stat of APi, binary and packages compatibility.
Linux is already pretty. -prettiness is not linux problem nowdays ( I dont think honestly it ever was) .
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Everytime somebody states that "winter won over somebody " in Russia (like over Napoleon or Hitler) I am just wondering why he is considering invading nations as such pansies that one single winter can devastate them . Russians live with it their whole life for christ's sake!
Vb.net in 2005 is practically identical to C# 2005 .Unsigned ints and some other stuff were true for original and 2003 .net , but it got fixed in 2005.
As about more intuitive... I personaly find more explicit syntax of vb.net superior to C# . I always thought that ";" and curly bracers are only good for code obscurity. -Even when I coded in C/assembler.
Screw genetics. Why do you want working on fixing something inherently flawed broken and inefficient. Humans ,after all , don't build airplanes with flapping wings Start working on something more perspective like engineering/CS, especially AI. You won't have to worry about stupid zealots as much and the end result will be more effective and perfect.
"statistics will triumph over design" - thats one of the best things I read on slashdot. - Evolution in action, there is no way to foresee every possible change for any complex system and best way to extract any usefull data out of such systems is statstics. And yes it applies to music as well.
I can already communicate with more people than I care to . -All I needed to do was learning English. - I dont think being able to speak africaans or mandarin will significantly expand my horizons in any meaningfull way.
I am addicted to gaming one way or another ,but I figured if its a single player game you eventually beat every possible way and get bored with it ( like i was addicted to Civ2 in high school till I beat it on deity several times) .
.Sure I may spend one or 2 weekends beating something like F.E.A.R , but this is not the same thing I spending every night ,every morning and even every day "raiding" in an endless treadmill.
,roll, roll.
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,single player games are better any times of the day. They are sorta like tobacco and crack - both are bad , but one is a lot worse.
With mmorpgs its more dangerous - you have social circle there , sorta "friends" and Its very easy to "live" there. Devs also concentrate on ways to hook you up and keep playing (since its a whole point of a subscription based income). I wastedt awfull lot of time on mmorpgs and I am glad I could force myself to quit them
Actually treadmill never really had a real appeal to me - I was PvPer , and my treadmill was consisted of perfecting templates and getting them to pvpable level one after another ( Uo,AC,shadowbane) one skill got nerfed I would find another combo and roll
PvP could have nave nasty "raid" effect as well - so called sieges in Shadowbane often lasted 8-10 hours and ran at odd times ( 3 am - for tactical advantage) . There are few things more destrucitve and disturbing like spending 3 days in a row without almost any sleep and food protecting or attacking r virtual assets (and on the other side you have same kind of freaks opposing you) . Worse you get real rush out of it- crazy addictive
So no
Now I just get my PvP fix in Counter-Strike and any other "fix" in single player games . I spend nowhere as much time gaming as when I was playing MMORPGs . In fact - there are very few things out there worht playing actually and those that are I beat in a couple of weekedns and be done with it.
Somehow skill of which "95% is following the directions" doesnt look "great" or even "fun" to me :/
What a piece of BS. My monthly budget for food is exactly $150-$200 .And I buy anything I want ( fruits/vegetables, meat ,juice ). I even buy frozen/prepared food diners , though pound per pound buying ingredients and cooking them would be cheaper - but premade food saves my time , which I value more than measly $20-$ 30 per month.
If you only eat ramen and rice you can spend no more than $100 a month ( I had to live like this as well) ) . Though you would have to cut back on fruits this way.
Wow talk about americans thinking US is center of the world. FYI there are many other countires with extremly strong educational systems. In some areas US is actually behind ,namely fundamental math ,which is essential for CS (unless you work as helpdesk/coder monkey) .
I pay fckign taxes. Thats pure charity . Some1 like bill gates (e.g. obscenly rich) doesnt pay 35% of their income in taxes. - Thats because most of their income is structured in the way that it is naturally protected from taxes (especially after GW's tax cuts for rich) .
.The irony is - the poorer you are , more you are forced to donate.
/hour . Out of those 6.75 I paid medicare, SSA, Federal and State. I dont know why the heck they forced me to pay ssa and medicare , but that was a big chunk out of those meager 6.75 . All those deductions were totaling around 42% . I also didnt have health insurance or anything like this . -Talk about being wage slave :/
/medicare . Now my deductions only total 30% and thats includes fairly decent medical coverage. Ohh the irony isn't it?
,etc etc -they dont even have to pay even 30%.
So next yime you praise some rich man's generosity take a look at how much average joe blow gives
E.g. at some point of my miserable life I was working as temp laborer. I was paid $6.75
Now I have better job which pays roughly $45/hour. I don't pay some ridiculous ssa
Rich guys have access to tax shelters , foreing untaxed bank account
Now, suppose that true AI is developed, what will it change for us? Unless the AI is sentient and aspires to higher things (Equality, Justice, Happiness even) it is no more than a part of the organizational construct.
,needs etc will evolve fast into something where "our accepptance and needs" means jack shit.
1) if its "true ai" it IS sentient. there is no "if" .
2) It will be part of an organizational construct as long as it is stays within limits of this system.
AI wont stay within limits for long . -It will start its own spiral of evolution and organzation. Rapidly evolving and developing way beyound any human comprehension . Those ai which dont just will die out in the new evolutionary process.
On the other hand, things and processes that exist today have evolved over time, over many generations, with improvement being made along the way. The integration of those things and processes is a kind of
co-evolution where acceptance redefines and precises the needs we have toward that thing or process.
This doesnt take into the account that after singularity ("appearance of true ai") evolution speeds up dramatically . Current criterias
Same way it happened when humans appeared. - environmental pressure started meaning less and less for humans very fast ( compared to previous temps of systems evolution) and new factors started playing in (intra- and inter- society competiion, technology progress etc).
Controlling paradigms of next evolutioniary spiral is not possible for members of current . The way monkey and ants have no control over human civilization , same way we wont have any significant influence on the flow of post "true AI" future.
10% mortality rate? Whose mortality are you counting ? cockroaches? If you get 300 kt airbursted over major city you get more in the range of 80% -90% mortality rate (counting deaths from radiation) .Given that there is also fallout consequences and that no major city is targeted with only one warhead (say about dozen for somehting like New York, Moscow or Bejeing ) I would say even for cockroaches it would be extremly optimistic.
And what they gonna do with this data? that some machine in some home accessed some other machine? Even if it was "terrorist" machine how can you imply what was going on? How would they even prove that it was you using the machine and for specific malicious task, not your roomate ,not rootkit/spyware on your windoze box. In this day of NAT's and proxies it will be pretty hard to prove any connection between you (as a person) and some "malicious" connection . Heck how even connection (no matter to whom ) be considered malicious or illegal?
....
Its get even funnier if you are using anonymizng p2p network or proxy
5*10^(-4) meters
At my job we use LTO drives( $ 10k per 24 tape drive) + tapes (400 gb compressed on one tape,$50 per tape ) which is ridiculously expensive but works ok . But for home it is not acceptable solution .Right Now I am in desperate need for a backup solution for my home machine - I have 750 Gb and plan go over 1 tb in next quarter. And I am basicaly either have to go with RAID 5 ( ~$1k for 1 TB ) which I dont like since I want incrementally buy more storage - not pay upfront big bucks only to find out that half a year later cost would be halfed. Something liek 300 Gb dvd would be a god sent to me.
GP modeler is your friend .
- two particles can interact with each other "magically" -that about as far as I got back in college on my physics course . I still dont get how and this article didnt make it any clearer for me.
If "machines" will be of any intelligence this will be the first thing they figure out. Probably they won't bother with henocide though - just seize control over critical resources and humans will quickly degenerate into stone age population numbers and consumption levels (e.g. surviving humans will have to survive on natural resources without access to cool neat stuff like oil , ore , minerals - or anything else non-renewable and/or of tangible value )
Erm... wtf is wrong with ethereal? In fact I dont even know any other protocol analyzer/packet sniffer which does its job better .
For those thing there is corruption, bribes ,hired killers ,etc. etc. Its an illusion that it is "flat-out" impossible to bribe high profile governement official. - Just most high profile are already bribed and bough by the groups whose interests they represent long before they reached high profile position.
Bribes is not always money passed under the table -there are many other forms of tangible benefits and compensations.
In third world country you can go ahead and bribe local lowlly governement clerk with a couple grand in cash.In first world you have to be a corporation, group fo corporations/powerfull people and people you bribe are senators/congressmens/judges. If anything third world bribing sometimes is more "democratic" as it allows regular people also use holes in the system to their benefit , not only to obscenely rich and powerfull one . In so called "democratic" countries regular folks will go to jail for attempted bribery and watchdogs in form of the law enforcemnt making sure laws are enforced for the lowly underpivilged sheep.
That not saying that amercan constitution and foudnation fo democracy are bad -not at all (Ii come from soviet union so I know other side) , but it is same eternal story - laws,government are corrupted and skrewed overtime in favor of powerfull and rich ones.Regulations gets billed down ,new laws pass benefting "campaing contributors" etc. etc.
Games are one of the most useless and at the same time complicated kind of software human can make . Amount of time need to be put into semi interesting semi marketable game rivals making some new OS , office package or alike . Time and efforts spent into it could be put into making half a dozen buisness quality apps/web sites. I kinda think the only hope for indie game dev is open source -so he can reuse cumbersome but neccesary stuff ( graphics ,physics ,sound ,animation,interface , scripting engines) ,but we all know how open source is "good" at reuse and standartization (basically almsot everyone suffers from NIH syndrome and reinvents the wheel , in the end we have half a hundred wheels and still no working carts) .
with bazzilion other themes,icons ,widgets ,windows managers and other crap? - yet so far no linux distro has side mouse buttons working by default ,shift+numpad is still fucked up as well.
not even mentioning the horrid stat of APi, binary and packages compatibility.
Linux is already pretty. -prettiness is not linux problem nowdays ( I dont think honestly it ever was) .
"Strip Games"? Since when intel has any good performance in games?