... and they really did an amazing job, however this is sponsored by the military.
So what is it going to be used for? Suicide bomber cars? I wish more competitions (like F1 racing for ex.) were government sponsored but for discovering certain new advantages that are directly appliable in the public sector.
Sort of like community service, offering prizes to those who prove their technology and donate it as "public patent" for everyone to use.
See this guy's site. It's a site that looks freshly imported from 1995. I suppose Jakob follows his own guidelines and we can see the result..
So I say: I know it's hard to find subjects to talk about Jakob, but it'll be better if you acknolwdged innovation for what it is from time to time and not hold us back in stone age because of vague usability issues.
If people hate video blogs, they'll just not pick up. No study can beat the natural process of separating the winners from the losers here.
This is an old project. I've heard before about the virtual personas in computers NASA invents throughout the years.
Thing is they approach AI upside-down. I.e. instead of creating a system that's good on pattern recognition and logical operations, they instead cobble up together lots of simulation technologies, like speech recognition, vast dictionary and a ton of if..else code.
I.e. they build AI based on the output of its interface (behaviour, speech, vision) and not based on how intelligence trully works.
Back in the old DOS days, the Sound Blaster sound card shipped with a similar gadget, I think it was called Dr. Sound Blaster or something like that. You ask it questions, and it speaks out pseudo-intelligent replies, based purely on few programming tricks of resynthesizing your question.
I wonder what's the progress since those times.
Oh, and you can't build fast neural network in a linear CPU design. You need massively paralel processing, so I suppose as our chips become increasingly parallel and cores multiply in the thousands (well maybe in 20 years?), we'll see smarter AI simulation as time passes.
In the search of faux reason to excuse ourselves from our stupid behaviour I'll testify that I watched crappy TV show yesterday, with violence and all.
It prompted me to perform 5 murders, 4 rapes, 3 stolen lollipops from babies and finally tied myselfs in bombs and fired the fuse in protest.
You know, it's funny you said this. Our formed national telcom (in Bulgaria) tried this few years back (I think around 1997-8?).
They were selling some basic type of digital dial phone that was way overpriced. They attempted to tell us the new digital network they are building (predominantly analog prior this) requires approved phone equipment or we might get in trouble.
Thing is the government didn't get far enough to support them so only the gullible went for it and bought their phones. The rest were like "fu".
But given this can happen now in one form or another within a (well, so-so) democracy, doesn't leave me optimisitc about this new idea the ISP-s are pushing.
I seriously doubt someone had unclear conscience while trying to copy his own CD-s to his own mp3 player. Again brainwashing in action to make what's moral and what's legal the same thing.
If they outlaw living should I have bad conscience for being alive?
Did you know? Using absurd arguments against every single action by Microsoft is getting pretty damn old. The #1 target for malware is the #1 OS, if you write malware for Windows you cover 90% of the personal computers out there. If Linux was the #1 OS, and I was malware writer, I'd target Linux.
Microsoft is taking position against ISP limiting since it's pure nonsense and likely to cause more work for them, for the users and noone wins at the end.
The very thought my ISP will monitor me and decide what I use is sick. What's next? Phone companies deciding for me what I can say and what not over the phone?
... I'd sweep the whole P4 line under the carpet and forbid anyone to mention it anymore.
I'm saying this as a P4 owner and avid fan of Intel CPU's. But honestly nothing will impress me from Intel until they release their dual-core Pentium M chips for desktop (i.e. what Yonah is, except not for laptops:) ).
They just FEEL that whatever they end up with for AACS it'll be hacked and dismantled the week it's out, and are frantically trying to prevent it.
It's of course funny to see how the minuses of DRM pile on top of each other (now delaying manifacturing and entering the market), while the benefits are yet to be seen (if ever).
Really all a review needs is separate the brands in price/target market groups and review the quality/features, price and speed of each one in a sentence or two.
I for one can't care less if it's.19 or.16 micron.
"which required adult websites to verify age before displaying any "pornographic" content"
And this is working just marvelously! Honestly. Two flawless ways to check age:
1. Please enter your birthdate for us to check (it works every time cuz porn users are extremely honest and can never dial wrong birthdate. We have a case of a porn user who commited suicide after realizing he dialed wrong month for his birthdate on such a site).
2. Please enter your full credit card details for us to check (since minor can't have CC, then if you enter CC details you're not minor, again since porn users are terribly honest and won't enter their mom/pop CC. The porn site operators are also incredibly honest on their own merits, and will never ever ever charge you for anything before they trully make sure you want that).
The basis of all human culture and advancement is sharing porn and Britney Spears music over a digital network.
Woa.
One problem exists for sure: digital is very easy to alter and mold into whatever you want it to be. So everyone tries to do it (consumers to get free content, and industry to enslave us).
My my, I thought RIAA are the only one to believe this will go anywhere. FYI this leads to the "will never happen to me" syndome, which is occuring of something terrible happens to a random few in a huge population.
Other such events are car crashes (almost anyone who crashes and survived will tell you he thought "it'll never happen to him").
What would be more effective, would be suing a large majority for small sums (like, dunno, few hundred to one thousand bucks) with a quick streamlined procedure. They can't though, so they ruin the lives of few selected folks and hope it "works".
"We are not the only animals to use medication - many others know which plants to eat or what to do to help cure illnesses."
Do you actually know what plants to eat, or instead rely on extremely complex and fragile infrastructure or medical help and drug production.
Thing is, all those advancements are easy to break, fine natural or not, but if it keeps going like this it'll be the equivalent of not being able to breath unless you're hooked to the Internet... You wouldn't want the router to go down, would you.
"Nature, if I can personify it here for a second, doesn't care if we're wracked with diseases or living in squalor. As long as we keep having the requisite 2 or more children before biting the dust, we're doing exactly what we're supposed to, just like every other species on the planet."
Correct, nature doesn't care, but you do, because it's pretty different being busy all day making enough money so you can buy yourself medicines and medical procedures to survive, versus just being healthy.
We're all talking about NATURAL selection these days, (vs ID). Well guess what we're doing with the miracles of modern medicine?
Breaking the natural selection. All kinds of diseases have gone up and we all attribute this to the worse conditions we live in. Noone seems to notice that due to modern medicine, more sick people survive, have children and contribute to the problem.
Now of course it's a huge moral dilemma. If something happens with a human I care about, would I let him/her go if it helps some abstract concept of natural selection? Nope.
But the mass effect anyway, is that it's a vicious cycle: the more the medicine gets better, the more we'll need it to survive.
Either this, or expect some GATAKA-like distopia in the short to medium term future:)
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... and they really did an amazing job, however this is sponsored by the military.
So what is it going to be used for? Suicide bomber cars?
I wish more competitions (like F1 racing for ex.) were government sponsored but for discovering certain new advantages that are directly appliable in the public sector.
Sort of like community service, offering prizes to those who prove their technology and donate it as "public patent" for everyone to use.
See this guy's site. It's a site that looks freshly imported from 1995. I suppose Jakob follows his own guidelines and we can see the result..
So I say: I know it's hard to find subjects to talk about Jakob, but it'll be better if you acknolwdged innovation for what it is from time to time and not hold us back in stone age because of vague usability issues.
If people hate video blogs, they'll just not pick up. No study can beat the natural process of separating the winners from the losers here.
FYI "digital" fonts have kerning built in for ages now and papers use exactly digital fonts for preparing their print releases.
Or you think they carve them with tools into the matrix?
This is an old project. I've heard before about the virtual personas in computers NASA invents throughout the years.
Thing is they approach AI upside-down. I.e. instead of creating a system that's good on pattern recognition and logical operations, they instead cobble up together lots of simulation technologies, like speech recognition, vast dictionary and a ton of if..else code.
I.e. they build AI based on the output of its interface (behaviour, speech, vision) and not based on how intelligence trully works.
Back in the old DOS days, the Sound Blaster sound card shipped with a similar gadget, I think it was called Dr. Sound Blaster or something like that. You ask it questions, and it speaks out pseudo-intelligent replies, based purely on few programming tricks of resynthesizing your question.
I wonder what's the progress since those times.
Oh, and you can't build fast neural network in a linear CPU design. You need massively paralel processing, so I suppose as our chips become increasingly parallel and cores multiply in the thousands (well maybe in 20 years?), we'll see smarter AI simulation as time passes.
In the search of faux reason to excuse ourselves from our stupid behaviour I'll testify that I watched crappy TV show yesterday, with violence and all.
It prompted me to perform 5 murders, 4 rapes, 3 stolen lollipops from babies and finally tied myselfs in bombs and fired the fuse in protest.
People, it's the TV!
Honestly? If you have links please share, it should be an amuzing read :)
I wonder what you get if you die illegally. Corpse jail time?
You know, it's funny you said this. Our formed national telcom (in Bulgaria) tried this few years back (I think around 1997-8?).
They were selling some basic type of digital dial phone that was way overpriced. They attempted to tell us the new digital network they are building (predominantly analog prior this) requires approved phone equipment or we might get in trouble.
Thing is the government didn't get far enough to support them so only the gullible went for it and bought their phones. The rest were like "fu".
But given this can happen now in one form or another within a (well, so-so) democracy, doesn't leave me optimisitc about this new idea the ISP-s are pushing.
I seriously doubt someone had unclear conscience while trying to copy his own CD-s to his own mp3 player.
Again brainwashing in action to make what's moral and what's legal the same thing.
If they outlaw living should I have bad conscience for being alive?
Totally agreed. Thing is I just don't know if they'll offer them outside OEM laptop deals. And will there be mobo's for regular case that can host it.
Also mobile parts are historically more expensive, so this is one reason Intel might want to keep the mobile/desktop parts as separate franchises.
"#1 target for malware writers"
Did you know? Using absurd arguments against every single action by Microsoft is getting pretty damn old.
The #1 target for malware is the #1 OS, if you write malware for Windows you cover 90% of the personal computers out there. If Linux was the #1 OS, and I was malware writer, I'd target Linux.
Microsoft is taking position against ISP limiting since it's pure nonsense and likely to cause more work for them, for the users and noone wins at the end.
The very thought my ISP will monitor me and decide what I use is sick. What's next? Phone companies deciding for me what I can say and what not over the phone?
Something I missed: now both formats seem ready to begin manifacturing but both are waiting for AACS.
HD DVD was supposed to benefit from earlier launch, but since both wait for the same thing, it seems whatever benefit there was is going as days pass.
So this means they will largely start manifacturing and release at the same time, expect the Format War to continue for longer than predicted.
Dunno for Sony, but Toshiba should be definitely pissed off.
... I'd sweep the whole P4 line under the carpet and forbid anyone to mention it anymore.
:) ).
I'm saying this as a P4 owner and avid fan of Intel CPU's. But honestly nothing will impress me from Intel until they release their dual-core Pentium M chips for desktop (i.e. what Yonah is, except not for laptops
You seem to forget abc's Lost.
Why I admire the realism and detail that went into Battlestar Gallactica (I enjoy the show), I feel it totally biased to leave Lost out.
It's a lot of stress for them.
They just FEEL that whatever they end up with for AACS it'll be hacked and dismantled the week it's out, and are frantically trying to prevent it.
It's of course funny to see how the minuses of DRM pile on top of each other (now delaying manifacturing and entering the market), while the benefits are yet to be seen (if ever).
"You click the Start button to START the Shutdown process."
Ok so I guess then "Shut Down" shuts down the shut down process.
Therefore you can't stop your computer..
A table of specs, so very exciting :)
.19 or .16 micron.
Really all a review needs is separate the brands in price/target market groups and review the quality/features, price and speed of each one in a sentence or two.
I for one can't care less if it's
.. for spelling Super Nova as Super Novae.
:)
With Santa ClausE, it's kinda becoming like a trademark for Slashdot
"which required adult websites to verify age before displaying any "pornographic" content"
And this is working just marvelously! Honestly. Two flawless ways to check age:
1. Please enter your birthdate for us to check (it works every time cuz porn users are extremely honest and can never dial wrong birthdate. We have a case of a porn user who commited suicide after realizing he dialed wrong month for his birthdate on such a site).
2. Please enter your full credit card details for us to check (since minor can't have CC, then if you enter CC details you're not minor, again since porn users are terribly honest and won't enter their mom/pop CC. The porn site operators are also incredibly honest on their own merits, and will never ever ever charge you for anything before they trully make sure you want that).
The basis of all human culture and advancement is sharing porn and Britney Spears music over a digital network.
Woa.
One problem exists for sure: digital is very easy to alter and mold into whatever you want it to be. So everyone tries to do it (consumers to get free content, and industry to enslave us).
"Intelligent strategy. "
My my, I thought RIAA are the only one to believe this will go anywhere. FYI this leads to the "will never happen to me" syndome, which is occuring of something terrible happens to a random few in a huge population.
Other such events are car crashes (almost anyone who crashes and survived will tell you he thought "it'll never happen to him").
What would be more effective, would be suing a large majority for small sums (like, dunno, few hundred to one thousand bucks) with a quick streamlined procedure. They can't though, so they ruin the lives of few selected folks and hope it "works".
Well it won't work.
"We are not the only animals to use medication - many others know which plants to eat or what to do to help cure illnesses."
Do you actually know what plants to eat, or instead rely on extremely complex and fragile infrastructure or medical help and drug production.
Thing is, all those advancements are easy to break, fine natural or not, but if it keeps going like this it'll be the equivalent of not being able to breath unless you're hooked to the Internet... You wouldn't want the router to go down, would you.
"Nature, if I can personify it here for a second, doesn't care if we're wracked with diseases or living in squalor. As long as we keep having the requisite 2 or more children before biting the dust, we're doing exactly what we're supposed to, just like every other species on the planet."
Correct, nature doesn't care, but you do, because it's pretty different being busy all day making enough money so you can buy yourself medicines and medical procedures to survive, versus just being healthy.
Pack heat in magical giant heat bags and then release in space with every space mission, when it occurs.
Sounds good enough for a patent. One day, I'll be a rich guy.
We're all talking about NATURAL selection these days, (vs ID). Well guess what we're doing with the miracles of modern medicine?
:)
Breaking the natural selection. All kinds of diseases have gone up and we all attribute this to the worse conditions we live in. Noone seems to notice that due to modern medicine, more sick people survive, have children and contribute to the problem.
Now of course it's a huge moral dilemma. If something happens with a human I care about, would I let him/her go if it helps some abstract concept of natural selection? Nope.
But the mass effect anyway, is that it's a vicious cycle: the more the medicine gets better, the more we'll need it to survive.
Either this, or expect some GATAKA-like distopia in the short to medium term future
.. for legally owning commercial software and digital content just keep coming don't they?
Intrusive buddy DRM, unstable and annoying activations and copy protections and now, you have to pay taxes on it.
So in this light, expect big commercial software companies (i.e. Microsoft for example) to lobby heavily against this.
If even because taxing an abstract idea ('license') is nuts.