EDIT: The competition's also been slashdotted, where it's being discussed by various people who don't know too much:
Perhaps a game not so dominated by rushing tactics would be a better choice of base game? It definitely seems an interesting idea, but there must be games better suited to an AI contest like this...
We knew it was coming. After chrome's incognito mode, everyone knew that people like to watch pr0n without worrying about the sites showing up in the awesome/whatever-the-fuck-is-the-name-bar! I have a shortcut (chrome -incognito) just for that reason but now it seems like I can do all that right from Firefox!
It's good but, IMHO, not perfect though. The private browsing mode saves+hides your current tabs and starts a new session in the new mode, and when you switch it off, it loads all those tabs all over again! It's perfect for casual users but for freaks like me who have close to 100 tabs open on an average, it's not the right way to go. I would have preferred it to be done the way chrome handles it - open the private mode in a completely new window and run both the sessions simultaneously depending upon which window the user is browsing on. I hope they tweak it soon or someone makes an extension to run it that way.
I don't think you should generalize it that way. I don't consider myself a power user (maybe on the boundary of it) but I inevitably end up having ~100 tabs open for reasons very similar to what GP pointed out. Keeping the tabs open and letting the browser run for days on end is not as rare as you may believe. Add to that the tendency of opening forum threads in different tabs, throw in some online publication/books/manga sites, documentation for whatever project you may be working on, links for interesting stuff you came across and left for reading up later, and you get to a similar scenario.
That freaked me out a bit. While sitting on my bed waiting for my nerves to calm down, a fly or something flew right into my ear. That was too much for me. Too many bugs. I went and slept in another room.
Hehe that part cracked me up. I have had some moderately bad experience with spiders but nothing as bad as two of them crawling on my face.:)
I'd love a copy of XP that installed as easily as hitting the "install" button.
Well, if you have nothing against using pirated releases, you can search for one of the unattended XP SP3 install discs on newsgroup/piratebay/your-source-of-choice. It comes with everything pre-configured, along with the Serial Number.
That being said, installing Ubuntu was a breeze for me. I am not a *nix newbie but I have been away from it for long enough to start considering myself as one (first 2 years in college entirely *nix and then lost touch after graduation because of gaming/work).
I went for a dual boot setup on the office system with Hardy Heron and it installed without a hitch. It even prompted and helped me install the proper drivers for my graphics card with just a click. The network driver worked flawlessly so I am a bit puzzled when I hear so many people mention that they had trouble with the network driver.
You are absolutely right. I muddled up the analogy of a physical "horizon" with the way its used when talking about observable universe. I realized my mistake when I read through some of the other posts but/. doesn't have an "edit" function so..:)
Interesting comment. Can you imagine the scale of the machinery this battery is supposed to be powering? The type of sentience which can devise and use such humongous structures must be beyond anything which a puny little human mind can comprehend.
Ok, I should stop reading science fiction for some time I guess.. but I love how such discoveries act as a um kind of aphrodisiac for human imagination.
Although I get what you ware saying, I think you misunderstood the point. Your example would be accurate if you were observing the reactions of someone who is "watching" something you can not see. The same way we are "watching" something acting in a particular way and are theorizing that the reason behind the supposedly bizarre behaviour is the influence of something which lies outside our "visual" range.
Nice pics. Some of them look a bit bland but I am impressed with the overall quality, specially the screeshots of wooded areas and some other tastefully done ones. I might give it a shot once I get a connection upgrade.
It's only hypocritical if you consider all governments to be equally responsible and trustworthy on the international stage.
Which is nonsense, not all countries are created equal. Iran's government was created by a violent theocratic revolution and continues to be that to this day. North Korea was created in a violent Stalinist revolution and continues to be that to this day.
Well, in that case whats the problem in allowing India and not Iran/North Korea ?
Hm I was actually thinking about the basic physics lab sessions I had during school to teach us simple sutff like reflection, refraction and other similar stuff like the experiments involing pendulums etc. Those things kept the interest up and let us see for ourselves that we do have the chance of testing things out if we so desire. Same for some of the very basic sessions in chemistry labs.
The nuclear reactor part was just used as an example of something which may not be possible to show the students in a school lab, I don't know why you took it as a straw man. It could very well have been a prism related experiment which may be out of reach for a school too poor to invest in anything at all like labs.
In all my years of school, the vast majority of the time spent learning "science" has revolved around reading a book full of assertions, with nothing presented to the reader for the purposes of backing those assertions up.
You obviously went to a messed up school then or maybe you just missed some particular classes all the time.. you know.. the ones called LABS? Ofcourse no school would give you an opportunity to actually experience how some complicated phenomenon works, like say a nuclear fission reaction, in a puny little lab room unless ofcourse you go on a field trip to a nuclear reactor nearby, but thats what the higher studies are for.
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From yet another schmuck who has been through almost his entire youth with /. at his side, thanks for all those years CmdrTaco, and bon voyage.
I am both sad and happy that I have no idea wtf you are talking about.
Clitoris, I choose you!
We knew it was coming. After chrome's incognito mode, everyone knew that people like to watch pr0n without worrying about the sites showing up in the awesome/whatever-the-fuck-is-the-name-bar! I have a shortcut (chrome -incognito) just for that reason but now it seems like I can do all that right from Firefox!
It's good but, IMHO, not perfect though. The private browsing mode saves+hides your current tabs and starts a new session in the new mode, and when you switch it off, it loads all those tabs all over again! It's perfect for casual users but for freaks like me who have close to 100 tabs open on an average, it's not the right way to go. I would have preferred it to be done the way chrome handles it - open the private mode in a completely new window and run both the sessions simultaneously depending upon which window the user is browsing on. I hope they tweak it soon or someone makes an extension to run it that way.
I don't think you should generalize it that way. I don't consider myself a power user (maybe on the boundary of it) but I inevitably end up having ~100 tabs open for reasons very similar to what GP pointed out. Keeping the tabs open and letting the browser run for days on end is not as rare as you may believe. Add to that the tendency of opening forum threads in different tabs, throw in some online publication/books/manga sites, documentation for whatever project you may be working on, links for interesting stuff you came across and left for reading up later, and you get to a similar scenario.
chorus
We are all individuals!
Hehe that part cracked me up. I have had some moderately bad experience with spiders but nothing as bad as two of them crawling on my face. :)
Stop.
I'd love a copy of XP that installed as easily as hitting the "install" button.
Well, if you have nothing against using pirated releases, you can search for one of the unattended XP SP3 install discs on newsgroup/piratebay/your-source-of-choice. It comes with everything pre-configured, along with the Serial Number.
That being said, installing Ubuntu was a breeze for me. I am not a *nix newbie but I have been away from it for long enough to start considering myself as one (first 2 years in college entirely *nix and then lost touch after graduation because of gaming/work). I went for a dual boot setup on the office system with Hardy Heron and it installed without a hitch. It even prompted and helped me install the proper drivers for my graphics card with just a click. The network driver worked flawlessly so I am a bit puzzled when I hear so many people mention that they had trouble with the network driver.
Fuckin' LOL!
You never know. It might be the start of something beautiful if he answers "No" and smiles at you the right way
pkr? Although I agree that it would be ridiculous to actually render the other side of the card when it is kept face down in a poker game.
You are absolutely right. I muddled up the analogy of a physical "horizon" with the way its used when talking about observable universe. I realized my mistake when I read through some of the other posts but /. doesn't have an "edit" function so.. :)
That was great! Thanks for the link :)
Interesting comment. Can you imagine the scale of the machinery this battery is supposed to be powering? The type of sentience which can devise and use such humongous structures must be beyond anything which a puny little human mind can comprehend. Ok, I should stop reading science fiction for some time I guess.. but I love how such discoveries act as a um kind of aphrodisiac for human imagination.
Although I get what you ware saying, I think you misunderstood the point. Your example would be accurate if you were observing the reactions of someone who is "watching" something you can not see. The same way we are "watching" something acting in a particular way and are theorizing that the reason behind the supposedly bizarre behaviour is the influence of something which lies outside our "visual" range.
/me looks at .me
There is a bash joke in there somewhere..
f'ing rofl! Good one ye scurvy dog. Yarrrrr..
Nice pics. Some of them look a bit bland but I am impressed with the overall quality, specially the screeshots of wooded areas and some other tastefully done ones. I might give it a shot once I get a connection upgrade.
Ok I don't like you anymore.
It's only hypocritical if you consider all governments to be equally responsible and trustworthy on the international stage.
Which is nonsense, not all countries are created equal. Iran's government was created by a violent theocratic revolution and continues to be that to this day. North Korea was created in a violent Stalinist revolution and continues to be that to this day.
Well, in that case whats the problem in allowing India and not Iran/North Korea ?
Hm I was actually thinking about the basic physics lab sessions I had during school to teach us simple sutff like reflection, refraction and other similar stuff like the experiments involing pendulums etc. Those things kept the interest up and let us see for ourselves that we do have the chance of testing things out if we so desire. Same for some of the very basic sessions in chemistry labs.
The nuclear reactor part was just used as an example of something which may not be possible to show the students in a school lab, I don't know why you took it as a straw man. It could very well have been a prism related experiment which may be out of reach for a school too poor to invest in anything at all like labs.
In all my years of school, the vast majority of the time spent learning "science" has revolved around reading a book full of assertions, with nothing presented to the reader for the purposes of backing those assertions up.
You obviously went to a messed up school then or maybe you just missed some particular classes all the time.. you know.. the ones called LABS? Ofcourse no school would give you an opportunity to actually experience how some complicated phenomenon works, like say a nuclear fission reaction, in a puny little lab room unless ofcourse you go on a field trip to a nuclear reactor nearby, but thats what the higher studies are for.
F'ing LOL.. That made my day.