haha yeah, makes me wonder, although it's a bit off topic, why do you see Mac OS in movies, but never ever ever ever Windows? Everytime you see a computer screen on TV, two possibilities : it's running Mac OS (example, Independance Day, Blade III, Sex & The City) or it's some fake dark-blueish GUI that wouldn't even work and that makes blip-blip's. And there's some many of these fake GUI's, I wonder how big is the GUI-making industry in Hollywood.
"they're trying to build the machine that will pass the Turing test"
First of all, the Turing Test is way overrated, since it's based on judgement (subjectivity), some of the chat bots we got today could already pass the Turing Test with a very few people. And then, that test is supposed to tell whether a machine as reached genuine intelligence or not, as theorically a machine doesn't have to be intelligent to succeed the test, also, it can fail to detect true intelligence where it is, I mean animals or babies can't pass it for obvious reasons.
Oh well, if they only want a machine to pass the Turing test but not to be genuinely intelligent, why not..
Right before the sentence I quoted is this "Google is already working on a massive and global computing grid.". Maybe I am wrongeously associating both sentences, but it reminds me of the popular belief that if you can get a computing grid powerful enough to compare to the human brain (and don't ask me how you could possibly compare both) then will emerge from that huge power a genuine intelligence equivalent to human's. Just to say that you could have a computing grid 10^10^10 more powerfull than all the computers of the world put together, it could only be good at playing Wolfenstein 3D very fast. I mean intelligence is all about the algorithm, and as far as I know, we're very far from having any algorithm that can produce a genuine intelligence (as for the algorithm to pass the Turing test, we already have it, it's all about having every response possible in a 30-minute chat), and I doubt we will ever get to it.
Actually, I'm ready to bet $100 with anyone that we will never ever see a genuinely intelligent machine, and $1,000 that we will never ever see "Teh Singularity". that shits just ain't never gonna happen, just some geeky hippie crap.
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Personally, I can't get rid of some text-only banners of Flash ones. Flash ones is the main problem actually
"The pattern recognition capabilities of the human eye are absolutely phenomenal."
As a matter of a detail, it's not the capabilities of the human eye that are phenomenal, but the human's brain, in other words, the humans intelligence. Correlation and such techniques are limited to, in this case, locating, something quite precise. Such things as dusts or craters are too changing, and can look too different to detect them without any intelligence. However i really wonder what these dusts must look like so they can't be detected by signal processing techniques
Yeah, of course. Even someone at Apple when they announced the switch said nothing would prevent you from dual booting Windows. As for Linux, well, it already was able of running Linux PPC (YellowDog for example), so they'll necessarly be able of running Linux x86. Makes me think distros like YellowDog are gonna become legacy like the m68k distro.
There was a site dedicated to dual booting Windows on x86 macs, http://www.twinmac.com/, but now it's down. As soon as new macs will start shipping you'll se a whole lot of dual booting tutorials everywhere. Maybe even on Slashdot
Good news. I just noticed something tho. Would have the iMac been such a revolution in 1998 if it had had such an ugly design as it has today? I really don't think so. The name MacBook is weird, but I guess they could call it PowerBook anymore since they have no more PowerPC.
Can't wait to leech Mac OS X 10.4.4 off BitTorrent! 10.4.1 runned like a piece of shit on VMware, now it's still gonna need acceleration for nVidia graphic cards tho.
No, I checked, in Google Earth, Area 51 and all it's surrounding atomic bombs craters appear perfectly sharply, as in Google Maps it looks very blurry. Last time I check too, the White House was covered on Google maps, and on google Earth it's not. Mysterious...
They don't care you to see Area 51, but they won't say so. If they really didn't want you to see, you wouldn't have those high resolution shots on Google Earth, which don't show anything "interesting", looks just like any other AFB.
Btw, why are such areas as that so low-res on Google Map while so good on Google Earth? Also, why are some governmental building edited out in Google Maps, while apparently (didn't check all) not in Google Earth??
OK, those are interesting news, but that's the third time since I read regularly Slashdot that Hubble-related news have IMHO a taste of you-see-Hubble-can-make-discoveries-save-it-please "propaganda".
Maybe I'm just seeing what I want to see, but such statements as "With the best instruments like Hubble, we can push farther into space and study more of them up close." I really have the feeling that these news are here to justify the usefullness of Hubble, so that we don't abandon it. Maybe it's just me tho...
Wait, they said they tried with water at first. OK, it wasn't really suitable, but it means you can put your hardware into water and then use it normally, right? I don't know about you, but I find it quite extraordinary. I mean, you can give your PC a shower, even a bath, right? Or, which parts should not be put into water?
Also, if water doesn't harm computer hardware, why does it kill cell phones??
My vision hasn't got worse since I spend time staring at CRT's, back then, with refresh rates as low as 67 Hz, and even at night in a room with no other source of light than the CRT itself. Both with glasses and contacts. Nothing changed for me, so I could as well have spent all this time playing soccer or whatever else, there is no way I could harm my eyes with computers.
Funny. I saw a documentary about it (the tsar and the rise of lenin) yesterday. And well, if the revolution happened, that's mainly because the last Tsar was a dumbass who didn't give a shit about the population starving, that slaughtered peaceful demonstrators and who taught he had been chosen by god to lead russia and go to war against japan.
In the end, he had what he deserved I guess. And if the revolution happened, I think we can say it's because his governement was way too oppresive, no matter what he could have done to prevent the revolution, it would have failed
oh I remember some awesome feature of Norton AV. Everytime I was shuting down eMule, it would virus-check every of it's temporary files (understand, tens of GB's). When I would play a game, it would virus-check every file the game would load. I guess there was something to disable this scanning feature, but damn I looked and didn't find. That shit is more annoying than a virus, and you pay for it (well I never did tho). PC-Cillin ain't much better tho. And those two are the leaders in AV's (or are they still?)
I agree, both Norton AV and PC-Cillin will get fucked up for some reason and it'll be hell to uninstall them and make the work again. I went through so much trouble to try to make them work again, now I use F-Prot AV and it has never fucked up, and if it did i'd just have to uninstall it and reinstall it like any normal other software.
"The fact of the matter remains that most people in U.S. are racist - period"
I don't think the whole american public is to blame. The US is surely full of racist people, but probably not more than any other country. From my personal experience, I can tell that it took me barely a few days to see the racism in effect in the US, but that in my home country, it took me about 17 years to realize how racism is widespread, just as much as in the US. The reason for that is that racism expresses itself in different ways, i think americans are just more frank about their racism than europeeans.
"If the country you lived in enslaved the Africans this overreaction would make sense"
I live in a country that enslaved the Africans (i'm french). The blacks in the west indies were slave, now they just french. But we have a very different climate out here. I think the reason for this difference is not due to slavery, but rather to much more recent stuff. You see, in the US, not so long ago, blacks didn't even theorically have the same rights as the whites. Like, blacks had to get up in buses for the whites to seat, blacks couldn't go to college, that kind of stuff. That, and also racial segregation, which is still on actually. In France, to cite an example I know of good, we have racism, we've had slavery, but theorically, blacks have the same rights as whites, and even if you find blacks living in ghettos, it's not due to racial segregation, but social segregation, and all that makes the climate much more different and makes people less nervous about that kind of story. No-one in France ever wanted to create a Republic of New Africa, surely because the need for it was felt by nobody
"Heck black soldiers fighing over in France during the World War were ridiculed by people asking could they see their {monkey} tails"
man where you got that from? I ain't saying that didn't happen, but for it to have happened in the first place the french would have had to speak english, or the blacks to speak french, and then it just doesn't sound very credible. As far as I know the french were being very nice with the americans during the war, even the black ones. Some 80-year old I know told me that many black americans stayed in France when war was over because they were being treated better than in the US, I don't know how true is that tho.
"Is the military police force in France used for more than just policing members of the French military?"
Well, it's called "military police" because they are police, different than the national police, and they are military, whereas the national police is not military. They do not police members of the French military, they are pretty much another police, and they operate mostly in rural areas whereas the national police operates mostly in cities.
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yeah I heard that a couple of times before, but um... I think someone proved that wrong.. not sure, maybe not.
haha yeah, makes me wonder, although it's a bit off topic, why do you see Mac OS in movies, but never ever ever ever Windows? Everytime you see a computer screen on TV, two possibilities : it's running Mac OS (example, Independance Day, Blade III, Sex & The City) or it's some fake dark-blueish GUI that wouldn't even work and that makes blip-blip's. And there's some many of these fake GUI's, I wonder how big is the GUI-making industry in Hollywood.
Maybe I could get a job in it?
First of all, the Turing Test is way overrated, since it's based on judgement (subjectivity), some of the chat bots we got today could already pass the Turing Test with a very few people. And then, that test is supposed to tell whether a machine as reached genuine intelligence or not, as theorically a machine doesn't have to be intelligent to succeed the test, also, it can fail to detect true intelligence where it is, I mean animals or babies can't pass it for obvious reasons.
Oh well, if they only want a machine to pass the Turing test but not to be genuinely intelligent, why not..
Right before the sentence I quoted is this "Google is already working on a massive and global computing grid.". Maybe I am wrongeously associating both sentences, but it reminds me of the popular belief that if you can get a computing grid powerful enough to compare to the human brain (and don't ask me how you could possibly compare both) then will emerge from that huge power a genuine intelligence equivalent to human's. Just to say that you could have a computing grid 10^10^10 more powerfull than all the computers of the world put together, it could only be good at playing Wolfenstein 3D very fast. I mean intelligence is all about the algorithm, and as far as I know, we're very far from having any algorithm that can produce a genuine intelligence (as for the algorithm to pass the Turing test, we already have it, it's all about having every response possible in a 30-minute chat), and I doubt we will ever get to it.
Actually, I'm ready to bet $100 with anyone that we will never ever see a genuinely intelligent machine, and $1,000 that we will never ever see "Teh Singularity". that shits just ain't never gonna happen, just some geeky hippie crap.
Personally, I can't get rid of some text-only banners of Flash ones. Flash ones is the main problem actually
"The pattern recognition capabilities of the human eye are absolutely phenomenal." As a matter of a detail, it's not the capabilities of the human eye that are phenomenal, but the human's brain, in other words, the humans intelligence. Correlation and such techniques are limited to, in this case, locating, something quite precise. Such things as dusts or craters are too changing, and can look too different to detect them without any intelligence. However i really wonder what these dusts must look like so they can't be detected by signal processing techniques
I agree, most people out here have time on their hands, just for reading and commetning in Slashdot for example.
Also, i'm in both A and B categories, willing to do this and unemployed. Whether I do that, whether I watch porn, basically..
There was a site dedicated to dual booting Windows on x86 macs, http://www.twinmac.com/, but now it's down. As soon as new macs will start shipping you'll se a whole lot of dual booting tutorials everywhere. Maybe even on Slashdot
Can't wait to leech Mac OS X 10.4.4 off BitTorrent! 10.4.1 runned like a piece of shit on VMware, now it's still gonna need acceleration for nVidia graphic cards tho.
No, I checked, in Google Earth, Area 51 and all it's surrounding atomic bombs craters appear perfectly sharply, as in Google Maps it looks very blurry. Last time I check too, the White House was covered on Google maps, and on google Earth it's not. Mysterious...
Btw, why are such areas as that so low-res on Google Map while so good on Google Earth? Also, why are some governmental building edited out in Google Maps, while apparently (didn't check all) not in Google Earth??
Piquepaille, Roland Piquepaille. It's simple.
Maybe I'm just seeing what I want to see, but such statements as "With the best instruments like Hubble, we can push farther into space and study more of them up close." I really have the feeling that these news are here to justify the usefullness of Hubble, so that we don't abandon it. Maybe it's just me tho...
Also, if water doesn't harm computer hardware, why does it kill cell phones??
My vision hasn't got worse since I spend time staring at CRT's, back then, with refresh rates as low as 67 Hz, and even at night in a room with no other source of light than the CRT itself. Both with glasses and contacts. Nothing changed for me, so I could as well have spent all this time playing soccer or whatever else, there is no way I could harm my eyes with computers.
In the end, he had what he deserved I guess. And if the revolution happened, I think we can say it's because his governement was way too oppresive, no matter what he could have done to prevent the revolution, it would have failed
IBM is not to be feared no more, Microsoft is not to be feared no more, who are we gonna hate and fear now? Google??
oh I remember some awesome feature of Norton AV. Everytime I was shuting down eMule, it would virus-check every of it's temporary files (understand, tens of GB's). When I would play a game, it would virus-check every file the game would load. I guess there was something to disable this scanning feature, but damn I looked and didn't find. That shit is more annoying than a virus, and you pay for it (well I never did tho). PC-Cillin ain't much better tho. And those two are the leaders in AV's (or are they still?)
I agree, both Norton AV and PC-Cillin will get fucked up for some reason and it'll be hell to uninstall them and make the work again. I went through so much trouble to try to make them work again, now I use F-Prot AV and it has never fucked up, and if it did i'd just have to uninstall it and reinstall it like any normal other software.
I don't think the whole american public is to blame. The US is surely full of racist people, but probably not more than any other country. From my personal experience, I can tell that it took me barely a few days to see the racism in effect in the US, but that in my home country, it took me about 17 years to realize how racism is widespread, just as much as in the US. The reason for that is that racism expresses itself in different ways, i think americans are just more frank about their racism than europeeans.
I live in a country that enslaved the Africans (i'm french). The blacks in the west indies were slave, now they just french. But we have a very different climate out here. I think the reason for this difference is not due to slavery, but rather to much more recent stuff. You see, in the US, not so long ago, blacks didn't even theorically have the same rights as the whites. Like, blacks had to get up in buses for the whites to seat, blacks couldn't go to college, that kind of stuff. That, and also racial segregation, which is still on actually. In France, to cite an example I know of good, we have racism, we've had slavery, but theorically, blacks have the same rights as whites, and even if you find blacks living in ghettos, it's not due to racial segregation, but social segregation, and all that makes the climate much more different and makes people less nervous about that kind of story. No-one in France ever wanted to create a Republic of New Africa, surely because the need for it was felt by nobody
man where you got that from? I ain't saying that didn't happen, but for it to have happened in the first place the french would have had to speak english, or the blacks to speak french, and then it just doesn't sound very credible. As far as I know the french were being very nice with the americans during the war, even the black ones. Some 80-year old I know told me that many black americans stayed in France when war was over because they were being treated better than in the US, I don't know how true is that tho.
I only hope Google ads on TV won't be billed by cost per click
Well, it's called "military police" because they are police, different than the national police, and they are military, whereas the national police is not military. They do not police members of the French military, they are pretty much another police, and they operate mostly in rural areas whereas the national police operates mostly in cities.
Problem is they use 3D I think, since they use Maya
It kicks ass!