I never had a problem with my toilet backing up when I was in the halls of residence/student toilets there:P I wish I'd had a net connection direct to my room tho:(
Well, it still does its original job, but there are a lot of f*ckwits who want to try and make money off of messing up the system. It's the same in many areas other than search, with spam, mafia, criminals in general.. not really google's fault, and I find my search results are still relevant (whenever I do search, which I guess is less necessary with sites like amazon, wikipedia and urban dictionary providing for my shopping needs, handy information on random topics, and obscure internet/local dialect word meanings:P ).
Seriously, if Apple were dominant today then I wouldn't mind. I did start disliking them once they got more popular, but that was because they were popular for music players (music players that were less powerful and more about flashy gimmicks than their competitors, though these days I guess you could make the argument that their computers do the same! I still have one tho;) ) and not their computers or OS, which I've liked since I first used them in about 1988.
That's funny, they were a search engine when I started using them (don't even think there were ads), and Google started as a research project at Uni...
Well I mostly still think of google as just my search engine, I'm not even talking about any of the beta products (which are free anyway, the worst thing about Microsoft is the insane prices that they charge for their software, I wouldn't be able to think of them in such bad light if Office cost £30-£50 and Windows cost about £80-100). It is a bit lame to start buying in other companies rather than do everything in house, but to be fair, I think a lot of companies are actually aiming to do that kind of thing these days (make something cool and then get bought by a bigger company).
Yep, I don't get the 'googleisthenewmicrosoft' tag in this article. People hate Microsoft because they make shoddy products, and still dominate the market. If they made decent products, people really wouldn't care so much. I wouldn't anyway. A good product deserves to dominate. Poor products dominating purely through marketing and underhanded tactics is what is disgusting, but google's products are actually pretty useful, stable and have decent interfaces.
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Poopyhead has no relevance or humour in this situation, unless perchance, someone had a bird shit on their head.. in which case it would be a little funny. Especially if their real surname was Poppyhead or something like that. So there. >_>
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That isn't very logical. Everyone knows that Windows is a poor OS, and the term Windoze has been around for well over a decade, for historical reasons (Windows is sloooow) that everyone can still identify with (when Windows runs sloooow even on decent hardware, while other modern OSes work fine):(
Okay, after I'd read your post again I did notice the distinction, but in the mainstream people think of it as more relevant than it really is.. and depending on the mechanics of chess (which I do play occasionally, though I can't beat computers when they're set to any decent settings), I suppose it could be possible that certain human players will always be able to wrangle a draw even if the computer knows every single possible permutation of moves that can be played even 5000 moves ahead or something insane like that..
Yeah, it could be a false stereotype.. when I joined Uni I ended up doing a lot less coding than before, and a lot more spending time with real people =p
Silicon valley is meant to have one of the highest rates for autistic children being born though.. saw it.. in an article.. uh.. online somewhere:P
Oh fine, be like that:p What are you doing on/. ?:P In fact I do enjoy talking to some people, and there are times when I would prefer to be talking than coding (most likely times involving friends of the female persuasion).
That's because people who tend to enjoy coding don't tend to be the type of people who want to talk to people (generalisation, but I think a good one). I enjoy coding btw:P
"Vista is not making it into general use because companies have spent years getting all their systems converted to XP and now want to get some mileage out of it before they switch."
I thought that it wasn't making it to general use because it sucks balls, and is a bit of a pointless upgrade. Of course I don't see much difference between 2000 and XP, but at least XP wasn't hyped up quite so much, and it doesn't take 30 minutes to delete a file..
"For me, this is highly unfair and the proof, that a machine plays better chess than man, is not yet given."
It's only a matter of time though. It's nothing to be ashamed of. Chess involves no random chance, and given enough time (and memory) and a brute force search, a computer can always figure out the perfect move to play. The time that this takes is getting shorter and shorter as we get faster and more parallel processors. You seem to be taking the whole thing as an affront to humanity, but really it's nothing to be worried about. Playing chess is totally different from playing poker, riding a bike, cleaning your living room, talking, etc. Computers have a long way to go before they're 'better' than us..
"Both the man and the computer presumably do massive amounts of "brute force" computation on their very different architectures"
The guy has no idea what he is talking about.. I started thinking maybe he did when he used the words 'heuristics', but brute force means going through every possible move. Humans will never be able to do that as quickly as computers can. He also said that Deep Blue uses heuristics, which means it's not just brute forcing its way, but it doesn't seem like he knows what brute force means in terms of AI.. at least he said 'presumably', showing that he really is only talking out of his ass.
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isn't that 'iAnal' nerds? :P
But 4 pieces of toast should be enough for anybody! Oh wait, some of you guys are from america huh :P
You'd probably want to fist them in the face though, rather than from the toilet bowl..
I never had a problem with my toilet backing up when I was in the halls of residence/student toilets there :P I wish I'd had a net connection direct to my room tho :(
Well, it still does its original job, but there are a lot of f*ckwits who want to try and make money off of messing up the system. It's the same in many areas other than search, with spam, mafia, criminals in general.. not really google's fault, and I find my search results are still relevant (whenever I do search, which I guess is less necessary with sites like amazon, wikipedia and urban dictionary providing for my shopping needs, handy information on random topics, and obscure internet/local dialect word meanings :P ).
Seriously, if Apple were dominant today then I wouldn't mind. I did start disliking them once they got more popular, but that was because they were popular for music players (music players that were less powerful and more about flashy gimmicks than their competitors, though these days I guess you could make the argument that their computers do the same! I still have one tho ;) ) and not their computers or OS, which I've liked since I first used them in about 1988.
At least there's less spam going through these tubes to start with.
Oh, and I hear that Microsoft doesn't decompose very well, you're better using Andrux or Loobuntu if you want to be ecologically friendly.
That's funny, they were a search engine when I started using them (don't even think there were ads), and Google started as a research project at Uni...
Yep. The only question is - do you want the network to function like The Matrix, or be more along the lines of Ghost in the Shell?
Well I mostly still think of google as just my search engine, I'm not even talking about any of the beta products (which are free anyway, the worst thing about Microsoft is the insane prices that they charge for their software, I wouldn't be able to think of them in such bad light if Office cost £30-£50 and Windows cost about £80-100). It is a bit lame to start buying in other companies rather than do everything in house, but to be fair, I think a lot of companies are actually aiming to do that kind of thing these days (make something cool and then get bought by a bigger company).
Surely throwing in some bacon would help? Not too crispy.
Yep, I don't get the 'googleisthenewmicrosoft' tag in this article. People hate Microsoft because they make shoddy products, and still dominate the market. If they made decent products, people really wouldn't care so much. I wouldn't anyway. A good product deserves to dominate. Poor products dominating purely through marketing and underhanded tactics is what is disgusting, but google's products are actually pretty useful, stable and have decent interfaces.
Hmm.. so light beer is really made up of visible EM radiation.. I've always wondered why it's meant to taste bad.
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go read a physics book..
Poopyhead has no relevance or humour in this situation, unless perchance, someone had a bird shit on their head.. in which case it would be a little funny. Especially if their real surname was Poppyhead or something like that. So there. >_>
That isn't very logical. Everyone knows that Windows is a poor OS, and the term Windoze has been around for well over a decade, for historical reasons (Windows is sloooow) that everyone can still identify with (when Windows runs sloooow even on decent hardware, while other modern OSes work fine) :(
As some other users have posted:
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Yes, that's from UK law, but 'apparently' there is a similar US law
Of course I'm not a machine. How are you? Isn't ARRRR exciting?
Okay, after I'd read your post again I did notice the distinction, but in the mainstream people think of it as more relevant than it really is.. and depending on the mechanics of chess (which I do play occasionally, though I can't beat computers when they're set to any decent settings), I suppose it could be possible that certain human players will always be able to wrangle a draw even if the computer knows every single possible permutation of moves that can be played even 5000 moves ahead or something insane like that..
Yeah, it could be a false stereotype.. when I joined Uni I ended up doing a lot less coding than before, and a lot more spending time with real people =p
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Silicon valley is meant to have one of the highest rates for autistic children being born though.. saw it.. in an article.. uh.. online somewhere
Oh fine, be like that :p What are you doing on /. ? :P In fact I do enjoy talking to some people, and there are times when I would prefer to be talking than coding (most likely times involving friends of the female persuasion).
That's because people who tend to enjoy coding don't tend to be the type of people who want to talk to people (generalisation, but I think a good one). I enjoy coding btw :P
"Vista is not making it into general use because companies have spent years getting all their systems converted to XP and now want to get some mileage out of it before they switch."
I thought that it wasn't making it to general use because it sucks balls, and is a bit of a pointless upgrade. Of course I don't see much difference between 2000 and XP, but at least XP wasn't hyped up quite so much, and it doesn't take 30 minutes to delete a file..
"For me, this is highly unfair and the proof, that a machine plays better chess than man, is not yet given."
It's only a matter of time though. It's nothing to be ashamed of. Chess involves no random chance, and given enough time (and memory) and a brute force search, a computer can always figure out the perfect move to play. The time that this takes is getting shorter and shorter as we get faster and more parallel processors. You seem to be taking the whole thing as an affront to humanity, but really it's nothing to be worried about. Playing chess is totally different from playing poker, riding a bike, cleaning your living room, talking, etc. Computers have a long way to go before they're 'better' than us..
And after reading the article:
"Both the man and the computer presumably do massive amounts of "brute force" computation on their very different architectures"
The guy has no idea what he is talking about.. I started thinking maybe he did when he used the words 'heuristics', but brute force means going through every possible move. Humans will never be able to do that as quickly as computers can. He also said that Deep Blue uses heuristics, which means it's not just brute forcing its way, but it doesn't seem like he knows what brute force means in terms of AI.. at least he said 'presumably', showing that he really is only talking out of his ass.