that was one of my biggest problems going from Mac to PC years ago. AOL Instant Messenger. On my Mac (OS 9 days) AIM would just flash the Apple symbl with it's icon and i could attend to the window at my leisure. When i went to Windows, the message window would pop up in front of my browser or whatever and continue to pop up every time my buddy would say something. Add 5 or 6 talkative people online at once, and i couldn't do ANYTHING for more than a few seconds without interruption. Thank god they changed that eventually.
can anyone confirm if that artwork is actually real or not? i don't know where the ytmnd creator got the image (i do remember the rap as one of the cartoon themesongs though)
essentially you called them up and said "hey, the new decentralized individual based news media (you know, those things called "blogs"?) is providing great up to the minute coverage of the disaster while you traditionalists parade out a bunch of talking heads!"
of course they got pissed at you >:)
The other week on Fox news, they were talking about blogs and wiki-news, and one of their brain-dead pundits exclaimed "but how can we trust the WORDS?!" My wife had a good laugh at that one. Yes FOX NEWS, indeeed, how can we trust their words, thank you for that FAIR AND BALANCED commentary.
btw, i get my news from blogs, wikinews, google-news aggregation (for the major media stories) and every night i filter it with a good helping of the Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
Scott Tipton has done an excellent write up of it in his Comics 101 article series at Movie Poop Shoot. Its a bit spoiler laden though, so read with caution if you're planning on reading the graphic novel for yourself.
i remember this from euro-history class. i always thought it was a rather sloppy rhyme though, the syllables don't match up. maybe it sounded better 400 years ago
no need to be jerk about it, i had one little bit of AI back in computational theory when i was a freshman (a 100 level gateway course for the CS program) i just didn't choose an AI track of study
the depreciation on PC's is ridiculous, he wouldn't get much from the desktop. laptops otoh hold their value much better
but sometimes you need to keep things in perspective. sure money might be tight for him now, but his computers are obviously important to him. you can be poor with a few cherished possessions that make you happy, or you can be slightly-less-poor but have nothing at all.
he can always look at his computer and say "at least i have this, this is my thing. this is my hobby, this is what keeps me sane, this is how i make my living"
unless you hit that point yourself, you can never truly appreciate his situation
Here's the real deal. FedEx doesn't want to be providing thousands to millions of boxes to people who won't be paying to use them to ship items via FedEx.
why not? free advertising man! every time someone comes over to this dude's place, they'll be bombarded with the the logo, so when it comes time for them to ship something, their subconcious will just be drawn to FedEx before all others.
what if you have a pseudorandom sequence generator with the range of 0-20 (random number generator) attached to the AI
after making any intelligent weighted decision, the random number is chosen, if the number is 10 (or some arbitrary number in that range) the AI will then disregard the intelligent choice and choose some other descision with a higher weight (this could be random as well) and introduce a bit more unpredictability into the AI, and make them a bit more human, just as humans do random idiotic things sometimes in stressfull situations, sometimes resulting in good results (see: "pulling a Homer")
Madden moves between a few mindless quips and stating the obvious.
my obsolute favorite Maddenism, while watching a slow-mo replay of a reciever evading tackle:
"he's a smart player see, look how he PLANTS that left foot *circles it*, PLANTS that right foot *circles it*" yeah... its called "running" John (something you might want to try a little of), oh and thanks for circling his feet, i might have gotten confused
furthermore, he wasn't "planting" his feet at all, it was in SLOW MOTION, it just looked like that, but he was actually running at full speed!
did he point them out with his magic yellow crayon- circling the bits of food? show that "they're smart ya see, look how they flap that wing, then flap it again! that's the sign of a smart seagull!"
i once watched the man outline a beekeeper removing a beehive from the field, labeling his tanks and equipment, but not having a @#$&'ing clue what any of it was, it was pretty funny "yeah, ya see he's got this thing here, some kind of stick i guess..."
1) its been repeadetly shown that giving children a test with a CULTURAL BIAS affects their score. most IQ tests are written from a middle-class, white, suburban perspective. African American or Latino children do better on comparable tests written from their cultural perspective. Give those same tests to suburban white kids and you get lower scores.
2) IQ is extremely overused. it was designed as a test of the mental capacity of mentally disabled children. (mental age/physical age) it was never to be used as a guage against normally intelligent people to begin with, let alone adults.
its not a "troll-trap", i'm not a troll i was being serious, it was the post that I was responding to that was the true flamebait, (i know its Tuesday, but c'mon mods, read a little harder please)
yes, its a delicate, complicated issue, but that doesn't change the fact that there are those people out there who want to make abortion illegal across the board with no exceptions. all i did was point out that fact, how that makes me a troll or flamebait, is beyond me
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that was one of my biggest problems going from Mac to PC years ago. AOL Instant Messenger. On my Mac (OS 9 days) AIM would just flash the Apple symbl with it's icon and i could attend to the window at my leisure. When i went to Windows, the message window would pop up in front of my browser or whatever and continue to pop up every time my buddy would say something. Add 5 or 6 talkative people online at once, and i couldn't do ANYTHING for more than a few seconds without interruption. Thank god they changed that eventually.
like this?
http://marioindahizzouse.ytmnd.com/
can anyone confirm if that artwork is actually real or not? i don't know where the ytmnd creator got the image
(i do remember the rap as one of the cartoon themesongs though)
essentially you called them up and said
"hey, the new decentralized individual based news media (you know, those things called "blogs"?) is providing great up to the minute coverage of the disaster while you traditionalists parade out a bunch of talking heads!"
of course they got pissed at you >:)
The other week on Fox news, they were talking about blogs and wiki-news, and one of their brain-dead pundits exclaimed "but how can we trust the WORDS?!"
My wife had a good laugh at that one. Yes FOX NEWS, indeeed, how can we trust their words, thank you for that FAIR AND BALANCED commentary.
btw, i get my news from blogs, wikinews, google-news aggregation (for the major media stories) and every night i filter it with a good helping of the Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
i'm not saying there's not inovative games, Katamari Damacy comes to mind
its just that its very hard for them to get into development, especially if its not a licensed product
"We have to continue to put creativity first, otherwise we will turn into a formulaic industry"
A !!!
A ....
BWAAAAAAAAAAAH-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-H
*whew* ahem, sorry about that... let me regain my composure
yes... the worst thing to happen to the video games industry is to become to formu-*snicker* too formulaic..... pffft
BWAAAAAAAAAAAH-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HAHAHAHAHAHAH
oh man, i almost had it there.... whewwwwwwww... hehe
Phil Plait, the 'Bad' Astronomer puts the smackdown on that whole radiation thing:
Debunking the Hoax Believers: Radiation
actually, start at the top and read the whole thing, he goes through every single argument of the HB's and explains why they're wrong.
Phil Plait is one of the best science bloggers out there (if not THE best).
bah, if i want latency that bad, i'll just play WoW on a PvP server for much cheaper!
a comic:
Buzz Aldrin's Conspiracy Knockdown!
i've seen unskippable previews that can still be fast forwarded, maybe it was one of those
could this be the beginning of the ad-hoc movement that Cory Doctorow predicted in "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom"?
dude that would rock so hard, but we know its a pipe dream, never gonna happen. everyone would freak out due to a severe lack of Master Chief.
:)
i could see Seth Green playing Jersey though
OMGWTFBBQ A KLOO!!!!1
;)
teh master chef si in a moooovie!!!!!!11one
hehehe, sorry man, i had too, i just had too
good call on the 7 though... those people do like seven-y things.
Scott Tipton has done an excellent write up of it in his Comics 101 article series at Movie Poop Shoot. Its a bit spoiler laden though, so read with caution if you're planning on reading the graphic novel for yourself.
Movie Poop Shoot- Comics 101: V for Vendetta
i remember this from euro-history class. i always thought it was a rather sloppy rhyme though, the syllables don't match up. maybe it sounded better 400 years ago
no need to be jerk about it, i had one little bit of AI back in computational theory when i was a freshman (a 100 level gateway course for the CS program)
i just didn't choose an AI track of study
yeah, cuz used computers are worth sooooo much
the depreciation on PC's is ridiculous, he wouldn't get much from the desktop. laptops otoh hold their value much better
but sometimes you need to keep things in perspective. sure money might be tight for him now, but his computers are obviously important to him. you can be poor with a few cherished possessions that make you happy, or you can be slightly-less-poor but have nothing at all.
he can always look at his computer and say "at least i have this, this is my thing. this is my hobby, this is what keeps me sane, this is how i make my living"
unless you hit that point yourself, you can never truly appreciate his situation
Here's the real deal. FedEx doesn't want to be providing thousands to millions of boxes to people who won't be paying to use them to ship items via FedEx.
why not? free advertising man! every time someone comes over to this dude's place, they'll be bombarded with the the logo, so when it comes time for them to ship something, their subconcious will just be drawn to FedEx before all others.
its not on the wrong article, he's making fun of that article
MY GOD MAN!!!
are you insane!?!?
an AI like this could conquer the Earth!!!!!
what if you have a pseudorandom sequence generator with the range of 0-20 (random number generator) attached to the AI
after making any intelligent weighted decision, the random number is chosen, if the number is 10 (or some arbitrary number in that range) the AI will then disregard the intelligent choice and choose some other descision with a higher weight (this could be random as well) and introduce a bit more unpredictability into the AI, and make them a bit more human, just as humans do random idiotic things sometimes in stressfull situations, sometimes resulting in good results (see: "pulling a Homer")
I remember him specifically talking about how EA was not an "art house"
ummm, then why is your company called Electronic ARTS?
is that why you hardly ever hear them called "Electronic Arts" anymore? just simply EA, or EA Games?
perhaps they should change their name then, perhaps "Electronic Weasly Motherfuckers" would be more fitting
Madden moves between a few mindless quips and stating the obvious.
my obsolute favorite Maddenism, while watching a slow-mo replay of a reciever evading tackle:
"he's a smart player see, look how he PLANTS that left foot *circles it*, PLANTS that right foot *circles it*"
yeah... its called "running" John (something you might want to try a little of), oh and thanks for circling his feet, i might have gotten confused
furthermore, he wasn't "planting" his feet at all, it was in SLOW MOTION, it just looked like that, but he was actually running at full speed!
did he point them out with his magic yellow crayon- circling the bits of food? show that "they're smart ya see, look how they flap that wing, then flap it again! that's the sign of a smart seagull!"
i once watched the man outline a beekeeper removing a beehive from the field, labeling his tanks and equipment, but not having a @#$&'ing clue what any of it was, it was pretty funny "yeah, ya see he's got this thing here, some kind of stick i guess..."
stupid racist troll
1) its been repeadetly shown that giving children a test with a CULTURAL BIAS affects their score. most IQ tests are written from a middle-class, white, suburban perspective. African American or Latino children do better on comparable tests written from their cultural perspective. Give those same tests to suburban white kids and you get lower scores.
2) IQ is extremely overused. it was designed as a test of the mental capacity of mentally disabled children. (mental age/physical age) it was never to be used as a guage against normally intelligent people to begin with, let alone adults.
now stfu troll, before i taunt you a second time!
its not a "troll-trap", i'm not a troll
i was being serious, it was the post that I was responding to that was the true flamebait, (i know its Tuesday, but c'mon mods, read a little harder please)
yes, its a delicate, complicated issue, but that doesn't change the fact that there are those people out there who want to make abortion illegal across the board with no exceptions. all i did was point out that fact, how that makes me a troll or flamebait, is beyond me