Facebook didn't even have a positive cash flow until 2009. That's an awfully long time to wait around for your financial model to really kick in if you had lofty financial goals in the beginning.
YouTube ran for years like that. Google eventually bought them for an obscene amount of money. That's the game. Facebook eventually sold a big chunk to Microsoft.
Who knows exactly what Zuckerberg thought initially, but it became obvious very fast that the site had money making potential. There's no way they could have survived the scaling issues without investment.
Anyways, the guy is no angel. His first site at Harvard consisted of putting up a bunch of hacked images of students in a hot-or-not vote. He then agreed to build a social networking site for some guys and ended up doing his own. Pretty sleazy.
Anonymous is a mishmash collection of personalities ranging from teens to crusty old people.
You're willfully ignoring demographics. Most of these people are going to be under 30. Just look at the images for who turned up at the Scientology protests.
Stop kidding yourself. You're living in an extremely sinful country (according to Muslim beliefs) and enjoying its benefits. You don't want to move because of the adverse consequences to yourself. You said as much by saying, "it's not a very easy decision the last half of your life".
Of course, he chose one of the _worst_ possible examples since the FBI clearly understood correctly that the dude wanted to attack an army base.
It highlights where he is coming from. I think this particular Muslim is living in the United States and he wants attacks against our military bases to succeed. I'm all for the FBI tapping this guy's phone calls and putting a GPS on his car. I still think they should have to get a warrant though.
This game is the new challenge for IA, easy for a child, difficult for a computer.
I looked at Arimaa a long time ago and keep tabs on it's progress occasionally. It's still very much a niche game after all these years. The two biggest problems with it:
I don't find it much fun. I can't be in the minority considering the number of people who try out Arimaa and don't stick with it.
There was never a need for a new, artificial challenge. Go was already the next challenge, recognized by the AI community for decades. It's a mainstream game that's already hard for computers.
A average human player wins against best programs.
Actually, the top programs these days are already at expert level, but still far behind the master level players.
I haven't seen that opinion much. What was so much better about it? The appeal of the first game, for me, was the clever setting (love the takeoff on Atlas Shrugged), the artwork (throwback art deco), and the characters (Lilly Poppies!). The gameplay was decent. I avoided the sequel, because like the poster you replied to, even if they ramped up the gameplay the novelty of the original setting wouldn't be there.
If a game like shogi or chess was extended to 19x19 it would be vastly harder for a computer.
The difference is that nobody would want to play a chess game on a board that size. Go grew to 19x19 by player preference, not as some artificial limit to make it hard to beat the computer.
What makes Go hard isn't anything particularly neat about the game.
Concepts and patterns are more important in Go. There isn't a simple piece count that dominates the evaluation.
No, they are not republicans. People like Glen Beck and Limbaugh are entertainers who would never back up thier rants with actually holding an office.
You don't know what the fuck you're talking about. Beck and Limbaugh hold a huge sway over a large number Republican voters. The Republicans were practically begging Limbaugh to get behind McCain during the last election.
The tea party folks are a combination of conspiracy nuts and xenophobes. Even the GOP doesn't mesh with them and the GOP sold part of its soul to the religious fundies decades ago.
The Teap Party is a popular movement. They do have a bunch of fringe elements, but their common bond is rejecting big government and high taxes. That's why they're trying to reform the Republican party and not the Democratic one.
The key to free speech in this country is to speak about things the government/econimic elite doesn't really care about.
The key to free speech in this country is to exercise it.
If you think that would cause "little trouble in the US" then I think you're extraordinarly naive. The Economy of the World of built on trust, if the US were to say "screw you, we won't honor our oblications wrt US treasury bonds"... let's just say the ramifications would be extraordinarily bad for the US and the world. But mostly for the US.
Maybe it just means that the system has become so opaque that observers wouldn't be able to spot fraud. These researchers demonstrated they could hack the system without detection. How do you know the Brazilian system was secure?
I'm rather surprised at how intelligent the spambots are becoming.
I'm guessing those are paid spammers from places like India or even the United States. Amazon's Mechanical Turk are full of shady jobs like this, and I'm sure they're not the only operation around. Pay somebody 10 cents to put a post on a forum, multiply by a thousand times, and you've got a really good search engine optimization for $100.
"if you had to choose, would you rather be smart or happy?" After having given that some thought, I'm convinced smarts has a negative impact on happiness.:-(
Slashdot Mirror
Facebook didn't even have a positive cash flow until 2009. That's an awfully long time to wait around for your financial model to really kick in if you had lofty financial goals in the beginning.
YouTube ran for years like that. Google eventually bought them for an obscene amount of money. That's the game. Facebook eventually sold a big chunk to Microsoft.
Who knows exactly what Zuckerberg thought initially, but it became obvious very fast that the site had money making potential. There's no way they could have survived the scaling issues without investment.
Anyways, the guy is no angel. His first site at Harvard consisted of putting up a bunch of hacked images of students in a hot-or-not vote. He then agreed to build a social networking site for some guys and ended up doing his own. Pretty sleazy.
Anonymous is a mishmash collection of personalities ranging from teens to crusty old people.
You're willfully ignoring demographics. Most of these people are going to be under 30. Just look at the images for who turned up at the Scientology protests.
My family members who don't use computers got to read what I wrote and they enjoyed it.
Did you tell your aunt that you hated the ugly sweater she got you for Christmas?
But the essence of faith (in general) is that you'r supposed to subjegate your own ego/reason and trust another.
And if you really believe in Santa Claus, and act like a good little boy, he'll bring you presents.
Stop kidding yourself. You're living in an extremely sinful country (according to Muslim beliefs) and enjoying its benefits. You don't want to move because of the adverse consequences to yourself. You said as much by saying, "it's not a very easy decision the last half of your life".
it's not a very easy decision at the last half of your life.
You started out this thread saying:
"It's part of the religion to care less about possible adversities as a result of your good action."
and
"if you stand for something right, do not be afraid of adversary consequences."
Yet you're too afraid to pick up and move to some Allah-faring country.
Why don't you move to a country where Islam is the law of the land?
Of course, he chose one of the _worst_ possible examples since the FBI clearly understood correctly that the dude wanted to attack an army base.
It highlights where he is coming from. I think this particular Muslim is living in the United States and he wants attacks against our military bases to succeed. I'm all for the FBI tapping this guy's phone calls and putting a GPS on his car. I still think they should have to get a warrant though.
This game is the new challenge for IA, easy for a child, difficult for a computer.
I looked at Arimaa a long time ago and keep tabs on it's progress occasionally. It's still very much a niche game after all these years. The two biggest problems with it:
A average human player wins against best programs.
Actually, the top programs these days are already at expert level, but still far behind the master level players.
Bioshock 2 is far superior to the original.
I haven't seen that opinion much. What was so much better about it? The appeal of the first game, for me, was the clever setting (love the takeoff on Atlas Shrugged), the artwork (throwback art deco), and the characters (Lilly Poppies!). The gameplay was decent. I avoided the sequel, because like the poster you replied to, even if they ramped up the gameplay the novelty of the original setting wouldn't be there.
If a game like shogi or chess was extended to 19x19 it would be vastly harder for a computer.
The difference is that nobody would want to play a chess game on a board that size. Go grew to 19x19 by player preference, not as some artificial limit to make it hard to beat the computer.
What makes Go hard isn't anything particularly neat about the game.
Concepts and patterns are more important in Go. There isn't a simple piece count that dominates the evaluation.
No, they are not republicans. People like Glen Beck and Limbaugh are entertainers who would never back up thier rants with actually holding an office.
You don't know what the fuck you're talking about. Beck and Limbaugh hold a huge sway over a large number Republican voters. The Republicans were practically begging Limbaugh to get behind McCain during the last election.
The tea party folks are a combination of conspiracy nuts and xenophobes. Even the GOP doesn't mesh with them and the GOP sold part of its soul to the religious fundies decades ago.
The Teap Party is a popular movement. They do have a bunch of fringe elements, but their common bond is rejecting big government and high taxes. That's why they're trying to reform the Republican party and not the Democratic one.
The key to free speech in this country is to speak about things the government/econimic elite doesn't really care about.
The key to free speech in this country is to exercise it.
If you think that would cause "little trouble in the US" then I think you're extraordinarly naive. The Economy of the World of built on trust, if the US were to say "screw you, we won't honor our oblications wrt US treasury bonds"... let's just say the ramifications would be extraordinarily bad for the US and the world. But mostly for the US.
Nixon Shock
If that's not a "screw you" on US obligations, I don't know what is.
People who do not watch TV tend to read and think. Those that do, tend not to. There are exceptions of course, but that is the long and short of it.
What a ridiculous generalization. I say this as somebody who doesn't watch TV.
But the overall efficiency of a fountain pen is also pretty hard to beat.
You've got to be kidding me. Any good typist can beat the pants off somebody writing in longhand.
Ok, that was the one answer I was not expecting.
We citizens would be royally fracked.
The word is fucked. But since you mention fracking, here's an example of effective government regulation that's sorely in need.
Maybe it just means that the system has become so opaque that observers wouldn't be able to spot fraud. These researchers demonstrated they could hack the system without detection. How do you know the Brazilian system was secure?
I know I'll get modded down for saying this, but parent is right.
I'm rather surprised at how intelligent the spambots are becoming.
I'm guessing those are paid spammers from places like India or even the United States. Amazon's Mechanical Turk are full of shady jobs like this, and I'm sure they're not the only operation around. Pay somebody 10 cents to put a post on a forum, multiply by a thousand times, and you've got a really good search engine optimization for $100.
Sounds like manufacturing let them down.
You can't blame the manufacturers for charging a credit card without shipping the product.
"if you had to choose, would you rather be smart or happy?" After having given that some thought, I'm convinced smarts has a negative impact on happiness. :-(
Lisa Simpson on Happiness vs Intelligence
I bought a PC for my parents long time ago. It's a P4 running Windows 98. It has been doing the job for them.
Windows 98!? It's been out of support now for 4 years. I hope they don't do their online banking on it.
Power supplies are not a full system failure, do tend to crap out, and are also easily replaced.
Could you elaborate?