Excuse me.. who are you? You're saying RAY KURZWEIL hasn't been paying attention to AI developments? And you're modded insightful?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_kurzweil
"Everybody promises that AI will hit super-human intelligence at 20XX and it hasn't happened yet! It never will!"... well guess what? It'll be the last invention anybody ever has to make. Great organizations like the Singularity Institute http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularity_Institute really shouldn't be scraping along on such poor budgets, seriously if this ever worked, even a 0.001% chance of a friendly technological singularity occuring, isn't it worth investigating?
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XML is not necessarily for human eyes. With the strict rules on non-overlapping closing of tags, its parsing and expansion is very easily stored and visualized as a tree. So parsing in general is actually quite easy. Also when you consider people like this http://www.acmqueue.org/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=247&page=4 (ACM! So take it seriously!) who want to convert all Turing complete programming languages into XML abstractions, and call it the future, well... I'm honestly not sure why as you're right, we could have certainly done all this before. It's just sort of a generalization that everybody can agree on. Then again, maybe it's a response to, "Hey! _Anything_ is better than LISP!"
I hope the fat baby in your sig turns out to be left handed. Oh snap!
As the comments from the article pointed out, why isn't Will Wright on this list? With Spore topping over 1000 Wikipedia edits, this game is clearly hot! If you've watched any of the talks Wright gives, it's really impressive how his goal is to teach the player through failure. We all love what we build. Geeze I can't wait for Spore. It's probably going to be like my wait for Black and White... totally worth it! Your creature needs to poo! Notice Peter Molyneux isn't on that list for a reason:-)
I mean come on, the Portal guys? I have to turn off head bobbing and I really doubt this would look great from a 1st person perspective. I'd get so dizzy... http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/10/12
Hello there. I think you've forgotten that when you can go from A->B and from B->C it's almost like you can go from A->C! Transitivity... that's a funny word, it sounds like you're going somewhere. I really liked Enterprise because the tractor beam was a grappling hook. It's just so dirty! I love it. Too bad there were nipples in that first episode. Nipples ruin everything.
More on topic, from all the work that's being done and with the scanning technology required, I think it would be easier to just upload a person's consciousness into machines and transmit them that way. Once we have live biological transportation, do we even need all the meat anyway?
My milkshake brings all the flees to the yard, and they're like, it's grittier than yours. Damn right, it's grittier than yours, I could antifreeze you but I'd have to charge.
Just because you get a bad ASUS/ABIT/nVidia/etc. motherboard doesn't mean that all motherboards of that brand are defective. It just means you got a bad motherboard. Sometimes things arrive DOA. Oh, hey, that might apply to light bulbs too!
I thought they give instructions on how to receive a replacement disc for like the cost of shipping and maybe $5? It's in the back of the manual of every game you buy. I've done this with multiple computer games, even 5+ year old titles like Descent 3.
Why not two submissions, one the actual sail boat and two a point-runnin'-cannon-toatin'-sail-boatin' destroyer? Or have a friend submit the second boat. But this poses an interesting philosophical question: must every automated competition inevitably result in a Battle Robots Junk Yard Wars showdown? Truckasaurus!!
I glanced over the interview after you made your post, and I have mixed feelings about how to respond. In summary it's worst on page 4 but he's literally telling a story about his family trip, it's hardly a prepared statement.
The following is my criteria for measuring word counts:
totally - any use, although it includes good (i.e. meaning "completely") and bad (i.e. saying "totally awesome") uses.
like (good) - means the same as any of the following: such that, such as, for example, as if, around, in the neighborhood of, etc..
like (bad) - the use indicates a pause in speech "..uhm.."
Some examples/excerpts from the interview:
"I think it was more like, they said "oh God, white barbarians have invaded!" - page 4
"We're like the NFL Commissioner or something." -- example of "good" use of the word like; they aren't literally the NFL Commisioner.
"I will totally tell you, it's really awesome." -- page 5
Lameness filter is giving me a hard time with formatting and I suck at this. Here's my attempt:
He didn't. Worst case distance, to get to Mars at 1G constant acceleration takes 3.5 days. What is there to confuse? The calculations are all throughout people's comments. RTF Cs?
Uhh, try Simpsons on DAL.net, that's like 1994. And BBSes filled with GIF of the Budweiser girls accessed from 1400 baud. This has been around since, oh, before you were born.
"VNC was originally developed at AT&T. The original VNC source code and many modern derivatives are open source under the GNU General Public License." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VNC
I have tried Red Hat, Debian, and Ubuntu a few times each over the past 2 years. I consider it a total failure if I boot into a console after doing all the installation crap, because there's no way in hell I'm going to figure out how to properly configure the VHzMinMax and HHz and goodness knows what else that is NOT on the back of my monitor. I have an ATI Radeon 9800, how is this weird hardware?
And yeah, this sort of thing has been in Windows forever. The only way to fix x.conf or whatever it is has conventionally been emacs or VI, talk about user friendly. My mom can't find the play button on the damn VCR, kthnx, good luck expecting her to know VI shortcuts.
First things first, when has Blizzard made a bleeding edge game that required the fastest latest hardware? Uhh, never. Starcraft was so popular (and still is) because it runs on crap hardware. Even World of Warcraft will run on 256 megs of ram, it'll just be crap (the general consensus is you need at least a gig, raids bump memory requirements for the game alone to over 700MB). But it is an MMO, remember..
OpenGL replaces Direct3D, but what about DirectSound (OpenAL, which my undergrad friend couldn't figure out), DirectPlay (??), and DirectInput(??) ? DX is convenient, that's why so many gaming companies use it. Until Linux offers an all-in-one like MS has, it'll never be competitive in the gaming market.
Give me a big bloated package that's easy and works in Windows AND Linux and you got a deal! Oh and it can't be Java because... I said so!
A Serpent guard, a Horus guard and a Setesh guard meet on a neutral planet. It is a tense moment. The Serpent guard's eyes glow. The Horus guard's beak glistens. The Sethesh guard's nose drips.
Spoken from someone who obviously doesn't have a collection of returned, meticulously torn photos where the ex very carefully excised herself from each photo. Now I have excellent reminders of the loss, kthnx.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_kurzweil
"Everybody promises that AI will hit super-human intelligence at 20XX and it hasn't happened yet! It never will!" ... well guess what? It'll be the last invention anybody ever has to make. Great organizations like the Singularity Institute http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularity_Institute really shouldn't be scraping along on such poor budgets, seriously if this ever worked, even a 0.001% chance of a friendly technological singularity occuring, isn't it worth investigating?
There really is a NAMBLA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nambla outside of South Park, its history is quite sick, and it isn't at all funny.
XML is not necessarily for human eyes. With the strict rules on non-overlapping closing of tags, its parsing and expansion is very easily stored and visualized as a tree. So parsing in general is actually quite easy. Also when you consider people like this http://www.acmqueue.org/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=247&page=4 (ACM! So take it seriously!) who want to convert all Turing complete programming languages into XML abstractions, and call it the future, well... I'm honestly not sure why as you're right, we could have certainly done all this before. It's just sort of a generalization that everybody can agree on. Then again, maybe it's a response to, "Hey! _Anything_ is better than LISP!"
I hope the fat baby in your sig turns out to be left handed. Oh snap!
As the comments from the article pointed out, why isn't Will Wright on this list? With Spore topping over 1000 Wikipedia edits, this game is clearly hot! If you've watched any of the talks Wright gives, it's really impressive how his goal is to teach the player through failure. We all love what we build. Geeze I can't wait for Spore. It's probably going to be like my wait for Black and White... totally worth it! Your creature needs to poo! Notice Peter Molyneux isn't on that list for a reason :-)
I mean come on, the Portal guys? I have to turn off head bobbing and I really doubt this would look great from a 1st person perspective. I'd get so dizzy... http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/10/12
More on topic, from all the work that's being done and with the scanning technology required, I think it would be easier to just upload a person's consciousness into machines and transmit them that way. Once we have live biological transportation, do we even need all the meat anyway?
Wouldn't it be 999A? Or are we jumping from the year 39321 (0x9999) to the year 40960 (0xA000)? God why am I so anal...
My milkshake brings all the flees to the yard, and they're like, it's grittier than yours. Damn right, it's grittier than yours, I could antifreeze you but I'd have to charge.
Warning people of stupid links in response to the story is offtopic? Merry Christmas you fucking worthless mods
Wtf is with these fake links? Do you get money or something for that stupid city?
Just because you get a bad ASUS/ABIT/nVidia/etc. motherboard doesn't mean that all motherboards of that brand are defective. It just means you got a bad motherboard. Sometimes things arrive DOA. Oh, hey, that might apply to light bulbs too!
I thought they give instructions on how to receive a replacement disc for like the cost of shipping and maybe $5? It's in the back of the manual of every game you buy. I've done this with multiple computer games, even 5+ year old titles like Descent 3.
Why not two submissions, one the actual sail boat and two a point-runnin'-cannon-toatin'-sail-boatin' destroyer? Or have a friend submit the second boat. But this poses an interesting philosophical question: must every automated competition inevitably result in a Battle Robots Junk Yard Wars showdown? Truckasaurus!!
It's called Pidgin now, you r-tard.
The following is my criteria for measuring word counts:
totally - any use, although it includes good (i.e. meaning "completely") and bad (i.e. saying "totally awesome") uses.
like (good) - means the same as any of the following: such that, such as, for example, as if, around, in the neighborhood of, etc..
like (bad) - the use indicates a pause in speech "..uhm.."
Some examples/excerpts from the interview:
- "I think it was more like, they said "oh God, white barbarians have invaded!" - page 4
- "We're like the NFL Commissioner or something." -- example of "good" use of the word like; they aren't literally the NFL Commisioner.
- "I will totally tell you, it's really awesome." -- page 5
Lameness filter is giving me a hard time with formatting and I suck at this. Here's my attempt: So I think you totally overblew the "totally" issue, but like you said the use of "like" is likely to be bad in these personal interviews.He didn't. Worst case distance, to get to Mars at 1G constant acceleration takes 3.5 days. What is there to confuse? The calculations are all throughout people's comments. RTF Cs?
Did somebody say hyperbolic space time chamber?
"The gravity here is ten times that of Earth!"
"Maybe if it was 500 times gravity you MIGHT have a chance, but ten times? I don't even feel it."
Uhh, try Simpsons on DAL.net, that's like 1994. And BBSes filled with GIF of the Budweiser girls accessed from 1400 baud. This has been around since, oh, before you were born.
Yes, VNC is GPL. Hence the whole issue.
"VNC was originally developed at AT&T. The original VNC source code and many modern derivatives are open source under the GNU General Public License." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VNC
Looks like three uses ever. https://sourceforge.net/project/stats/detail.php?g roup_id=165628&ugn=showmypcssh&type=cvs&mode=year If they don't reveal their source, should SourceForge be hosting them?
I have tried Red Hat, Debian, and Ubuntu a few times each over the past 2 years. I consider it a total failure if I boot into a console after doing all the installation crap, because there's no way in hell I'm going to figure out how to properly configure the VHzMinMax and HHz and goodness knows what else that is NOT on the back of my monitor. I have an ATI Radeon 9800, how is this weird hardware?
And yeah, this sort of thing has been in Windows forever. The only way to fix x.conf or whatever it is has conventionally been emacs or VI, talk about user friendly. My mom can't find the play button on the damn VCR, kthnx, good luck expecting her to know VI shortcuts.
Where are my mod points when I need them? I asked a serious question, and I got a serious reply. Please mod parent up!
First things first, when has Blizzard made a bleeding edge game that required the fastest latest hardware? Uhh, never. Starcraft was so popular (and still is) because it runs on crap hardware. Even World of Warcraft will run on 256 megs of ram, it'll just be crap (the general consensus is you need at least a gig, raids bump memory requirements for the game alone to over 700MB). But it is an MMO, remember..
OpenGL replaces Direct3D, but what about DirectSound (OpenAL, which my undergrad friend couldn't figure out), DirectPlay (??), and DirectInput(??) ? DX is convenient, that's why so many gaming companies use it. Until Linux offers an all-in-one like MS has, it'll never be competitive in the gaming market.
Give me a big bloated package that's easy and works in Windows AND Linux and you got a deal! Oh and it can't be Java because... I said so!
A Serpent guard, a Horus guard and a Setesh guard meet on a neutral planet. It is a tense moment. The Serpent guard's eyes glow. The Horus guard's beak glistens. The Sethesh guard's nose drips.
Spoken from someone who obviously doesn't have a collection of returned, meticulously torn photos where the ex very carefully excised herself from each photo. Now I have excellent reminders of the loss, kthnx.