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I argued with myself and lost! I was arguing with myself whether or not there should be a speed limit and if it was a victimless crime. I was taking the side that it was a victimless crime because that's what I thought. I lost. I realized speed limits and the enforcement of them are probably needed and there would be general highway chaos if some kind of speed limit was not imposed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victimless_crime_%28political_philosophy%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian_Party_(United_States)
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1) Yes, I love porn.
2) Best kind is lesbians and hentai
3) Newsgroups
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Picard would pull out his pornography script and make Kirk beg for mercy!
http://picardpervert.ytmnd.com/
There was a youtube video but it was removed! =(
Also, Picard has an awesome youtube video/song.
On the other hand, Kirk did hold his own against Spock!
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It helps you learn! I personally take Omega-3 tablets because it gets rid of the headache from learning too much at once =) I don't know if anyone else has that .. where you just feel burnt out after a long day of programming or cramming for school .. Omega-3 is my rejuvenator. I specifically take Flax Seed, which contains high amounts of Omega-3. There are just tons of (supposedly) great side effects such as Cardiovascular health improvement and stuff like that. The health side effects are currently disputed - but it is definitely great for learning =)
Alternatively, if you want to get Omega-3 out of your fish, you must buy Ocean/Wild fish. The fish that are raised in a farm do not have nearly as much Omega-3 as those caught in the wild.
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Star Trek Voyager Season 6, 7 ---- 7 of 9 is hot
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I understood .* of that joke.
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I work at Toys-r-us. My conversations are like this:
Customer: "Hi do you work here?"
Me: "I probably do but you should read MAN TOYS-R-US if in doubt"
Customer: "Oh okay, well can you help me find something?"
Me: "Try MAN LOCATE or MAN FIND, but LOCATE is faster"
Customer: "Wow you are awesome at finding stuff!"
Me: "NP"
Customer: "By the way, can you help me fix this problem I am having with my AI program?
ME: "K Let's get started"
Sometimes, on the irregular day, they will ask me for help with Regular Expressions and I'll save the day.
Being a sales floor associate sure is satisfying.
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I'm so awesome I did a double post.
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Working on Artificial Intelligence in Google's Cellar with others geeks
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Computer Science .. specializing in Data Mining/Artificial Intelligence
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neato ^^
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I did some research on the prison population being mostly Christians. Supposedly, those statistics are from 1925 and are now irrelevant.
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AI certainly is popular around here ^^
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Maybe I can help sum it up to a sentence: An action is moral if the action benefits you or a community more than the consequence of not performing that action [in the mind of the person committing the action].
Based on my definition, I would say anyone can have whatever morals they want because morals are based completely on your point of view.
Moral: Peace
Some people only want revenge
Moral: Kindness
Some people like to hurt others - such as "bullies"
Moral: Not Stealing
Phishing emails, ebay scams, script kiddies
Moral: Honesty
Way of life for the Best Buy employees
Moral: Not killing
Plenty of people kill for one reason or another
Moral: Care for young
Plenty of people kill their babies
Overall, I would say that no moral is universal and every moral is only a perspective from a person's point of view.
Feel free to refute this idea. It would probably be good to leave "crazy people" out of it, since they may not have any morals at all, depending on the severity of their mental state.
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It's a woman on the interweb! Quick, grab your stalking tools!
Very nice tutorial though! =)
I also watched your short tutorial on $_GET, $_POST, and $_REQUEST and that was good too! As a funny story, when I first learned PHP I learned from a tutorial that didn't go into that. I applied for a pretty simple PHP job and I didn't get it, simply because I didn't use GET/POST. I did declare all my variables so there could be no code injection and it would have been trivial to add a POST onto the front of the code but they thought I was too young, I guess. The lesson here is that most free guides on the Internet suck and you learn incorrect information. In my mind, a book is always worth its weight in platinum (if you read it).
Today I was reading on Slashdot about how Perl is losing popularity to Python because the Perl functions are available separately as sed/awk/grep and Python has better text manipulation. In researching sed I found a neat tutorial.
http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Sed.html
I can type into my [linux] command line and use this for piping information through it! I'll show you =)
cappy@cappychan:~$ echo "Cappy is awesome" | sed -e 's/awesome/awesome and he talks too much sometimes/' -e 's/sometimes/sometimes but that is what makes him adorable/'
Cappy is awesome and he talks too much sometimes but that is what makes him adorable
(Obviously, it would be easier just to append the strings together but it just shows the idea)
Using Regular Expressions on the command line is just fantastic. Using RegEx it is trivial to do tasks such as mass file renaming, file moving, file searching, really any kind of "data mining". I would put it down as one of the most powerful programming concepts that you can use =)
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Short List of Pros: Compiling
Short List of Cons: Compiling
Pros: Programs run faster (in some cases MUCH MUCH faster on old systems), I think the emerge database has more programs than ubuntu's apt-get
Cons: Some things take a really long time to compile (hours), the first update takes an extremely time to compile (overnight - days depending on how much you upgrade), community not newbie friendly as Ubuntu
Personal Con: I was trying to install ATI video card drivers and it wouldn't let me install them until I upgraded my system. I upgraded my system and it broke a bunch of package dependencies so I still couldn't install video card drivers. I searched everywhere on google and asked for help in IRC but nothing helped my situation (moved from one error to the another). I eventually gave up and went back to Ubuntu.
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sidenote: horribly boring Online RPG games = any RPG/MMO from Korea.
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I'll propagate with you. It's my moral duty.
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@Jared
Hitler was Jewish. He genocided the Jewish to benefit his nation which would benefit the world (in his messed up mind). He wanted to create his "perfect race". As such, he would have killed off the Nazis if his idea of the "perfect race" changed and they weren't apart of it. In his eyes, he was benefiting the world ... and somehow he inspired Germany to believe that too.
And the candy bar thing .. in some countries they will chop your hand off, even if you ARE starving. Not everyone thinks it is moral, just the person who must take the risk and steal. As such, I readmit my conclusion from the post above that morals are relative.
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They take quotes out of books and poems and put them in the bottom of the spam so that it makes it through spam filters (in response to the original topic).
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I used to play Cosmic Rift a ton but then it went P2P (yeah that was a long time ago!). Also .. their server were (are?) horrible and I would get 300+ ping and lag out all the time. I quit playing since I would just lag out every few minutes. The sony station games were unplayable for me.
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Heathen!
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It's another woman! Quick, get the net!
My favorite one of those is definitely the second. I wish there was a much larger 1280x1024 image for it so I could put it on my desktop.
The third one, however, contains the image of god (with the eye of a sheep, no doubt) comforting a pig baby. It was in the prophesy!
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It is immoral to ME because that person becomes impaired for the rest of their life.
It might be moral to others because they are discouraging more thieves by having dire consequences.
My argument was that morals are based solely on the observer and that you can't simple say if an action is or is not "universally" moral. The question is rooted far deeper than just "is it right or wrong" - the questions deals with intangible and indeterminable aspects of human beings.
(Feel free to refute)
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I'm not much into hack and slash MMOs either. I recently started playing a new game called Vendetta Online and it's compatible with Windows/Linux/MacOS! You have a spaceship but you don't use button pressing or anything like you do in other MMOs. It plays like a FPS MMO. It's hard to explain so I'll just paste a description from the website.
Vendetta Online is a massively multiplayer game, which permits thousands of players to interact as the pilots of spaceships in a vast universe. Users may build their characters in any direction they desire, becoming rich captains of industry, military heroes, or outlaws. A fast-paced, realtime "twitch" style combat model gives intense action, coupled with the backdrop of RPG gameplay in a massive online galaxy. Three major player factions form a delicate balance of power, with several NPC sub-factions creating situations of economic struggle, political intrigue and conflict. The completely persistent universe and detailed storyline add to the depth of immersion, resulting in a unique online experience.
http://www.vendetta-online.com/
I'm personally REALLY into it. I'm buying a month to play it more.
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I plan on creating strong AI that will dominate the earth and perhaps annihilate the planet with nano-tech.
But on the thought of changing the world .. it's very easy to change the world. The problem is .. making that change a positive one. A positive change can't be made alone. To make a positive change you must rally your colleagues for your cause.
On a non-world scale, it is possible to create a small, but important, change by creating something new like Shuzak or Digg. That being said, I don't think working at a retail store is changing anything. It's just considered "living" in my book. I come to that decision because I ask myself "Do I care who works at store XXX" and the answer is actually "no". Retail is a thankless job. Sometimes you get to steer people in the right direction and keep them from buying a piece of crap or help them find something new that may inspire them, but I wouldn't say it is life-changing for anyone.
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@p0ss -
I tend to talk one-sided sometimes but you're right. Generally, the world is what we make of it and how much effort we spend. Infact that's what those "Guide to becoming successful" tutorials/ebooks/audiobooks/videos are. Basically it just tells you that you can be successful. That's what the buyer wants to hear, right? Once you believe you can be successful you begin spending your time differently and instead of wasting it you begin to use it to become "successful". Then, you spend your time becoming successful and learning through failures/successes until you actually are successful. Most of us are capable of anything, but we choose to sit at home and watch TV instead because we enjoy it.
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Is caprus pagnanius a new fruit drink?
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Scott .. have you ever thought about becoming a politician? I would so vote 4 u.
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I would say this independant student/singer.
http://mistersun.org/songs/flash/
I don't know who else likes her but I'm entitled to my opinion!
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Shuzak presents Neopets!
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I've known PHP for a while but I didn't learn Regular Expression until I learned Perl recently.
I used these two sites to help me:
http://en.kerouac3001.com/regex-tutorial-8.htm
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/perl/regexp.html
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o_O you deleted my post! Weird? I posted http://www.wowwear.net
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whos er whaters?
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You get to pet Tipsy, the cat!
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I think the economy would break down without religion. Most people just wouldn't care if they couldn't get eternal life. Geeks and good natured people can live with the "golden rule" kind of philosophy but normal people just don't care.
Even most athiests hope for eternal life, even if they don't follow a religion (agnostics). Some athiests (mainly geeks?) also choose to study religions such as Buddhism but don't actually "follow them". I don't think religion is going anywhere as long as there are children being born and we have limited lifespans.
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We don't need it yet. The admin can ban when it's needed.
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Because I've stolen Hiro's ability and have seen the future, I'll bet one grand that her father can fly. Taking all bets now.
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Google has 0 responsibility for anyone who hosts their ads. Millions of people have ads on their site. The real story is that they helped OPTIMIZE the ads for their site. They probably just had a noob help place the ads somewhere better or something.
Google is better morally than yahoo OR microsoft. They didn't hand over search records and they are huge open source advocates. I believe Google has no responsibility to pull ads from that site. I think the whole issue is just about finding a "moral problem" in the one popular search engine that actually HAS morals. Google will probably pull the ads now just because they actually care about public opinion.
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http://planetelderscrolls.gamespy.com/View.php?view=oblivionmods.Detail&id=393
I think that mod is awesome. It lets you carry around your stuff on your horse.
I've used a mod that combined that mod with a horse summoning mod. Basically, you get a spell where you can summon your horse to you and then you can use the saddlebags to store your stuff =) It might be discontinued now.
Here's a link to a feather ring you're talking about: http://planetelderscrolls.gamespy.com/View.php?view=OblivionMods.Detail&id=27
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I was wondering the same thing! Claire's parents are a pair of losers it seems =P They didn't show enough of Hiro this episode either! I want him to get the sword so he can finally do something. I'm guessing he's going to touch the sword and his time abilities will go crazy or something and he'll have to fight the dinosaur.
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Women don't use the interweb
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Women because if you don't sex your boss's boss you don't get a promotion.
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Non-techies on the internet make us look cool and generate the $$$ to keep internet companies (games, services, shops) running. Non-techies deserve to be on the internet as much as techies do, and the technology developed benfits everyone. Except Myspace. Myspace is a breeding ground of people I wouldn't touch with a 10 foot floppy.
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fireopera (firefox + opera) will win.
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The most important part of the program will probably be "tracking". Keeping track of who is talking to who and why they are talking will be the most important part. Otherwise the conversation will just be a big jumble of words the AI couldn't use. You could also have it learn from IRC logs the same way.
I'm not a fan of AIML but it could work. I personally would like to see a good bot to hang out in places like Ubuntu @ freenode that could learn new responses to problems people ask. That would be sweet =P
Looking for inspiration there is a lot of talk from 7 years ago on slashdot. http://slashdot.org/developers/00/02/02/0735242.shtml
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If they are talking Skype-to-Skype I don't see that it is possible unless they connected to someone else somehow. The connection is encrypted via UDP and it is Peer to Peer. I would assume someone just clicked something wrong. I just don't see anyway this would work unless skype P2Ped to someone else, either by user or server interaction.
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I don't care about actors. This is leading upto .. I hate the movie. Everyone died and I hated everything about the movie. I only care about a movie's plot and it just .. completely linear.
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https://tubes.adessonow.com/index.html
I found this website today. I don't know if it's any good but it lets you share files and collaborate on projects (and stuff). It's not a replacement for Shuzak, it's just a thing to help you get stuff done and stay organized (I guess).
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lol?
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I would be deaf! I would probably go crazy at not being able to hear anythig EVER but at least I could still use the computer like normal. Being blind would make FPS games .. not so much fun.
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It looks dumb so I'm going to forget The Game. I win! .. Right?
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I like to kill every guard in town and then terrorize everyone.
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The way I think of it, programming is to get stuff done - not just learn how to program. In that kind of thinking, I learned a Windows only language (VB) so that I could make neat "scripts". VB6 is REALLY outdated now. It's not that it doesn't work, but that there are other newer languages out there like VB.net that can actually help you get a job.
I needed something to use on the webserver so I learned PHP.
Then I realized VB was horrible because I hit the limitations of the language (bulky, slow) so I learned C++.
Java .. I'm being forced to learn for my Computer Science class. It's decent. I like it more than C++ or VB but I don't like that you have to have Java installed to run it. It just kind of ruins my mood.
And now .. I'm learning Perl to do routines, file sorting, sockets for anything on the web, basically everything I used to use other languages for except it's much better at it. PHP is good for a lot of stuff but the PHP sockets aren't that great (It's also no longer an included package with php!).
But basically, like I said before (kinda/sorta): Just learn whatever language appeals more and you'll be on the right track.
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Java is quicker at some things, but it has a longer startup time. I wouldn't worry too much about it.
I personally would learn Java because it would be easier to get some neat results out of it sooner. Ultimately, it just depends on what you want to do. If you want to learn coding closer to machine language then learn C++. If you want to learn to do some neat tasks first, Java is easier.
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Morrowind was much too easy, the spells were too powerful, and the dungeons were boring. Levitation/Jump was the big cheapo spell there.
Oblivion is the BEST single player game I've ever played. I play a pure mage. I am a member of the mage's guild and to maximize damage I mix spells of all elements together into a touch + area effect. A couple of blasts of that and everything in the area always dies.
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Automatix in ubuntu will install ati/nvidia drivers.
Anyway, I gave up on Sabayon. I couldn't get "emerge" (package system) to work right. I must have fixed 20 dependency problems and I was no closer to having an updated system =( The problem was, I had to update my system to get my video acceleration to work. I then needed to boot back to windows to get some work done but for SOME reason, grub decided to be a pain and not let me boot to Windows. It wouldn't work with grub's command line either. I ended up reinstalling Ubuntu. Sabayon is extremely nice, but I can't solve my own problems. It goes something like I Upgraded this and I get this error --> now I get this error --> now I get this error --> now I get this error =(
apt-get has broken on me before but I was always able to fix it relatively easy to what I went through with the gentoo package management =(
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uhhh .. okay
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Actually your paragraph reminds me of an interesting (fictional) story I read a while back: http://www.fullmoon.nu/articles/art.php?id=tal. Thanks for the link, I'll read it tonight.
I've seen Christian hell as what it is for years now (imo, of course). It's a self propagating law that causes the religion to spread because you worry about people's soul, then those you preach to will start worrying about their own soul. Infact, while I was a christian I couldn't believe in hell. It doesn't make sense that god would damn anyone who is a good person but doesn't believe in Jesus. Some christians I've talked to opened their self up to me and told me that they do nice things (charity events, food pantry, etc.) so that they can enjoy eternal life. All of those things are great but what a poor excuse. I wouldn't want to goto heaven with those people.
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I tried explaining to someone why MySpace was horrible today. I told them that every page has black backgrounds with black text. He told me "Well there is a trick to it, if you highlight the part of it you want to read, it changes color and you can read it". Yeah .. Anyway ..
p0ss:
I like to equate the universe to being a large computer. In my profile it says: All things in the universe are predetermined - the universe is just a fat beige box [computer]. Every particle is a calculation in our universe (kinda/sorta/not-really like a piece of circuit in a CPU, bad analagy but I can't think of anything better) and since matter cannot be created or destroyed .. the universe is a self contained "computer" with a single possible outcome for any future or past point in time.
I used to believe that the universe was "conscious" but I gave up my religion this week. I realized I am a scientific person trying to mix it with my religion. Later I realized my religion couldn't be right because it just doesn't make sense in many situations. I'm not saying the universe isn't conscious, it is indeed possible, it's just that my own conclusion was reached by combining science with religion.
That is my own personal, life changing, experience this week. If anyone feels they can mix science and religion, I'm not against it, I am just explaining my own (and even possibly incorrect) feelings on the matter.
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I found out that by default (unless you click advanced) the bootloader doesn't overwrite the MBR so it was still using the grub installed with ubuntu, which was overwritten when I installed Sabayon. The Live-DVD Sabayon installer has an option to fix the mbr though =)
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I fixed the grub CLI problem. Sabayon didn't overwrite my ubuntu grub on the MBR but I rebooted to the live-dvd and it fixed it =)
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This article contains a lot of the criticisms that I have: Why I am Not a Christian
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Usually they post in the NFO or in the title it is passworded. In most cases they send the password out in an NFO about 60 days after it is posted. Alternatively, you can crack RAR passwords pretty fast with a brute force attack, if they used a poor password.
I would recommend www.newzbin.com if you're using newsgroups. I think the normal price is 50 cents a week, but you can search through newsgroups and download NZBs (it means you don't have to do group updates anymore).
There might be some free NZB sites still available but I use newzbin so I don't need/want them.
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DragonLance. I've read a ton of the books so even if the movie is horrible I will still go see it. I'm expecting the worst.
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Holy Frack! Sabayon is fantastic! I got my mic to work on Ubuntu but then I couldn't get it to work on Skype. I did something someone suggested on the forums and then I couldn't record at all. I undid it and I still couldn't use my mic. I posted on the forums and no one helped me.
So .. I downloaded Sabayon. It works PERFECTLY. O M G. 0 setup and I had skype + video + Beryl running ON THE FRACKING LIVE DVD. WITH ALSA.
On a side note, it pissed me off a little because after I installed it on my hard drive it sent me to a GRUB CLI. a CLI. I had to look up t he commands for booting .. granted I learned something in that 5 minutes but I didn't wanna learn =P
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I posted this on the Ubuntu Linux community, but it is relevant to this discussion so I'll post it here too.
Holy Frack! Sabayon is fantastic! I got my mic to work on Ubuntu but then I couldn't get it to work on Skype. I did something someone suggested on the forums and then I couldn't record at all. I undid it and I still couldn't use my mic. I posted on the forums and no one helped me. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=2104373
So .. I downloaded Sabayon. It works PERFECTLY. O M G. 0 setup and I had skype + video + Beryl running ON THE FRACKING LIVE DVD. WITH ALSA.
On a side note, it pissed me off a little because after I installed it on my hard drive it sent me to a GRUB CLI. a CLI. I had to look up t he commands for booting .. granted I learned something in that 5 minutes but I didn't wanna learn =P I'll change it to GUI next chance I get.
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I definitely think the Singularity will occur sometime in the next 100 years.
It kind of scares me though. A huge amount of the population will hate AI like our culture today hates homosexuals. Some people don't like new things. Religion doesn't like new things. It's a recipe for disaster. I imagine every religion will proclaim AI doesn't have a soul and degrade it even while it surpases the whole human race in intelligence. If there is ever a conflict, I really hope AI will learn from our movies and other entertainment that it would be a lose-lose situation if we ever fought it out. To be completely honest, AI would win hands down but I hope to noodle that the AI would be willing to relocate to a nearby location, such as the moon.
Yes .. someday it will be the ignorant masses vs AI. Just like it has always been. Whites vs Blacks. Homosexuals vs Heterosexuals. The list goes on and on.
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I installed Ultimate Ubuntu myself. First of all, you have to use Automatix to install your video card drivers. Beryl still didn't work after that for me. I assume it has to be installed manually.
I gave up on Ubuntu though because I couldn't get my mic to work with Skype =( I tried everything I could find on the web/forums and nothing worked so I give up.
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I would pay for usenet if I had to. I would probably use giganews for the 90 day retention. I just love being able to find a show to watch, come back 5 minutes later, and watch it with food. It's basically my way of life now =P
Most ISPs provide some form of usenet for free.
http://docs.newzbin.com/Usenet:ISP_Providers
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If I was trying to hide information about a secret society I would host TrueCrypt files on a private FTP that could only be accessed with a SSH + public key, but that's just me. The only good way I can think of to use Steganography (for practical purposes) is if someone was monitoring your internet for some kind of activity and you need to get data by any kind of monitor. But that's what encryption is for.
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Yah! Thank you! The rendering is a little slow, but I'm happy! Have some karma for your good work!
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Well for personal preferences, a "ignore" list could be constructed.
For community purposes, what is needed is a system where the top users of the community don't necessarily have the most pull. If they want to inspire action, they should have to ask the community - not be able to control on a whim.
As such, the "topic" poster being able to remove a post is a great idea.
The slashdot system would also work well, but it should be noted that the slashdot system doesn't let you moderate on a topic you have commented on. This is to prevent you from modding down those who do not share your point of view. It's a good idea for slashdot, but unless there is a similar system here it wouldn't work well.
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I was wondering about that myself. The number of people I've seen comment is under 100. Fortunately, new people seem to be participating every day.
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How did you get your facial hair so thick on your chin?
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I actually re-installed Ubuntu last night. It works PERFECTLY for me now. I had multiple problems, mainly with sound mixing, that I couldn't resolve on my own or with help. But this time, the sound settings were on autodetect (I assume it uses ALSA) and as soon as I switched it to my Audigy 4 it works perfectly. It detects the Audigy 4 as a Mono-only sound card .. which is really weird .. but I don't care since I only use a headset anyway. Everything is working perfectly and I'm very happy atm. =)
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I think this is a great idea too
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Only thing I really need Windows for is gaming and XP does that better than Vista atm. I honestly don't think I'll ever upgrade to Vista. If I was FORCED to switch OSes, I could play my games on Ubuntu with better FPS than Vista.
Vista needs a couple of service packs before it's even nearly ready for my PC. On the other hand .. I remember XP being somewhat of a loser when it came out too.
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I use Opera and here is a list of my plugins:
everything.integrated.on.install
Yeah, I'm trolling
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Death Note is pretty good! I've been watching it ever since the first episode. I also have the live action movie [Part 1]. It's pretty good .. but if I were Kira .. I wouldn't be such a dumbass. FIRST of all, I would have killed everyone in prison with a deadly food poisoning. I would save the heart attacks for people I didn't want to know were murdered. Kira wanted to let people know he was killing off murders but he didn't have to expose a trump card so soon! Secondly, Kira is a dumb ass for using the TV in the first place.
And L .. he 'figures out' everything about Kira out of mid air. I think L is secretly omnipotent because he pulls all of his answers out of his ass and they are always right.
I guess if Kira was actually smart it would make the series too quick.
Whatever.
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Lock picking is a very interesting sport/activity to learn. Unlike programming or other individual tasks, lockpicking is learned from experience and trial-and-error (not a manual). It's kind of jump-in-and-go with it. Infact, lockpicking is a pretty taboo sport so there's hardly any resources on it anyway.
I find it to be about par with programming as exciting and fun goes. It's a lot of fun (IMO) to learn to open a lock with security features designed to keep you out.
If anyone is actually interested, here is a fantastic comic that describes how lockpicking works and how you can start in the sport.
Beginner's Lockpicking Comic
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Usenet only for me. I use www.newzbin.com for my nzb. My ISP is Cox and they have a freaking sweet 70 day retention now.
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That must mean "Stink bug" in English
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Well most of the community isn't active enough, and most women aren't early adopters. All the geeky women are playing WoW, I guess.
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Paul, actually Opera 9 has the user agent masking now.
Opera has a BugMeNot Widget, but I find it useless and annoying so I just goto bugmenot.com - I'm not sure how the firefox one works. Opera widgets just aren't very useful - I'm not sure why they added the feature.
The Tor on Firefox is just awesome though =)
Firefox is a fantastic browser. Infact, ever since the popularity of Firefox, more sites have been compatible with Opera too. Firefox and Opera should get married
On a side note, I think the biggest drawback to Opera is the lack of useful community based plugins such as Del.icio.us and Dugged. Firefox community
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As a side note, I think most of the women avatars are priests and druids. I'm not sure if it is because men find women more natural in those roles or if women enjoy those roles more though.
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From: http://www.nickyee.com/daedalus/archives/001369.php
23% of male players (N = 939) listed a character of the opposite gender as their most enjoyable character compared with 3% of female players (N = 184). In WoW, men are about 7-8 times as likely to gender-bend than women.
Given a hypothetical pool of 1000 players:
840 would be male players
160 would be female players
Of the 840 male players:
193 would be playing a female character
647 would be playing a male character
Of the 160 female players:
5 would be playing a male character
155 would be playing a female character
Thus, altogether there are 348 female characters of which 193 (55%) would be played by a male player.
And there are 652 male characters of which 5 (< 1%) would be played by a female player.
In other words:
about 1 out of every 2 female characters is played by a man
about 1 out of every 100 male characters is played by a woman
The RL gender distribution is 84% male vs. 16% female.
The in-game gender distribution is 65% male vs. 35% female.
Men over the age of 18 are more likely to gender-bend (25%) than men under the age of 18 (10%). Players who gender-bend score significantly higher on the Customization and Mechanics motivations than players who do not gender-bend. In other words, the two primary reasons why players gender-bend are to be able to be more stylish and to optimize their character (via gifts?).
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I don't believe in god (anymore) but if there was a god he did everything through Science.
Anyway, I watched a few of Kent Hovind sermons. Hillarious stuff. My favorite quote is "Evolution is a religion" in trying to let people know they could disreguard it so that it wouldn't conflict with their creationist faith. I absolutely love when he says something completely wrong and everyone is agreeing with him in the audience. Freedom of religion is a beautiful thing but I can't stand when they are feeding complete lies.
By the way, from wikipedia:
Hovind was sentenced on January 19, 2007 to ten years in prison and ordered to pay the federal government restitution of $640,000. After his prison term finishes, he will have to serve another three years of probation. A tearful Hovind had hoped to avoid prison, telling the court, "If it's just money the IRS wants, there are thousands of people out there who will help pay the money they want so I can go back out there and preach."[2] Hovind continued, "I forgot to dot some 'i's and cross some 't's." (Mark O'Brien, "Earth to 'Dr. Dino': Please pay your taxes and start facing reality," Pensacola News Journal, January 21 2007).
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My favorite element is HEART because I think that's the most important part of Captain Planet.
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I love EuroDance! Actually I don't really listen to much else. Lots of people think EuroDance == Trance but EuroDance has its own name. Sometimes I just call it DDR-music.
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Actually I know a project very close to what you are suggesting Ati.
http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/vision/cogvis/
This is a neat project that uses visual information to build a Rule Based set. For instance, it can learn to play a card game by just watching and observing how each player wins and loses. The biggest thing I worry about with Machine Learning is that it might actually learn who is winning based on hand position or any other factor and not pay attention to the actual cards being put down.
Sepoy: If an AI was able to modify its programming to make itself smarter it would be a Seed AI. Seed AI is a form of Strong AI (AI that can reason and think). Here is a link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seed_AI
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_AI
You may just be saying that the AI should be able to change its Rule System (like its database or whatever), like what CogVis does. That wouldn't be Seed AI.
Trying to use mutations to guide the progress of AI is very tricky in the first place. When you actually test the mutations to determine which mutation is the most useful, the mutations will eventually only conform to the TEST, probably not the outcome you want. I'm finding it hard to explain so I'll give a basic example: You want an AI to mutate to learn to add 2+2. Eventually the AI will mutate to output 4. It won't actually be adding the 2+2, just "passing the test". Obviously you can make the test more complicated but it is always the same - it is only "passing the test". Kind of like in Hitchhiker's Guide To The Universe, they had to build a machine to ask the ultimate question because without it there could be no ultimate answer.
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It's completely useless to hide files in images. It's very obvious to find and anyone who knows what to look for could find it with ease. I do highly recommend a program called TrueCrypt though.
http://www.truecrypt.org/
You can hide data on a partition (if you have a blank one somehow), you can hide data in a file, and best of all - there is absolutely no way to tell if there is actually anything encrypted inside the file. It just looks like a file of random data if someone was examing your hard drive. It even supports hidden (and further encrypted) volumes inside the initial encrypted file/partition/whatever (aka steganography). Truecrypt is probably the best encryption program available (and free!).
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Out of all of the animes I've seen, here are my favorites:
Hunter X Hunter (IMO Best series ever made)
Tsukihime
Kiddy Grade (worth watching once)
One Piece (I don't know why, but I can't stop watching the damn thing - almost upto episode 300 ... it's one of those addictive type of shows)
Video Girl AI (worth watching once)
Samurai Champloo (worth watching once)
Samurai 7 (worth watching once)
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Ah, that's all pretty neat. Do you believe in Strong AI or Seed AI? I actually believe that both will exist in our lifetime.
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Actually, I believe the same thing (about synthesis). I think all AI Algorithms have a good idea. For instance, let's say we were trying to invent the first seed AI. One of the most important rules of trying to create a seed AI is to give it the ability to interact. Someone said (Rodney Brooks?) that is impossible to have AI without it having a link to the real world, such as a mechanical hand, tool, etc. I don't necessarily believe that though, since it would probably be easier to let it interact in a virual 3D world. There have been a lot of attempts at seed AI but most of those simply lack any kind of true ability to interact. For instance, a chatbot seed AI has no interaction and it just repeats whatever it has "heard". The interaction (of chatting) is EXTREMELY slow by computer/brain standards. A chatbot Seed AI is like a Helen Keller without hands.
Anyway, I went too far into detail in one AI aspect, but it applies for other aspects as well. I think genetics and neural networks will all play VERY important roles in future AI, but probably adapted specifically for their roles, so they won't be the exact same they are today.
Another thing is that programming our own instinct is a pretty scary thing. Our high-level processing capability is actually a small part of our brain. Building a strong AI will take a long time =( Some AI researchers don't even believe in strong AI, which just seems odd to me.
Artificial Intelligence - Posted By Cappy - Karma received: 2 |
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It's VERY neat. I was just saying it is useless from a security point-of-view.
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Several problems.
The AI would not be able to adapt to anything that was not pre-programmed in ahead of time. I understand that the rule system mutates but I don't see the mutation helping. It would probably hurt more than help. If you design the mutations to try to only help then the mutations are limited to what you've already designed (my original sentence).
Everything the AI needs to do would be pre-programmed in.
Basically, this would be like an AI Expert System with a "Mutating" Rule Based System but it's not close to strong AI.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expert_system
http://ai-depot.com/Tutorial/RuleBased.html
Artificial Intelligence - Posted By Cappy - Karma received: 3 |
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http://www.rosettacode.org/wiki/Main_Page
That's a new site that was on slashdot (and other geek sites) this week. It's a work in-progress but it certainly is adding a lot of new content every day. Basically, it has snippets of code of most programming languages in it.
So, let's say you want to learn Perl. You've already learned C++ or some other language. You need to know how to read a file!
http://www.rosettacode.org/wiki/File_I/O#Perl
The layout of the site could be a LOT better but I hope that will improve soon.
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I'm going to college right now and I plan to go into AI. I hope to transfer from my current college to Georgia Tech this year, where they have very active programs. I've read mainly about theoretical AI but I've never touched any AI code such as expert systems, neural networks, genetic algorithms, etc. I've seen some code of 3 layered AI (input, processing, output) but I've never actually coded or used one.
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