Comment Re:Science terrible? (Score 1) 881
say hello to your new friend SimEarth (I played the win16 and snes variants)
Submission + - Will you one day marry a robot?
Roland Piquepaille writes: "David Levy, a British artificial intelligence researcher and international chess master, defended on Thursday his Ph.D. thesis at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands. The name of his thesis is "Intimate Relationships with Artificial Partners" and the University announced it in a very short news release under the name "Love and Sex with Robots." Levy says that trends in robotics and artificial intelligence will, 'within a few decades, result in robots that are so humanlike in their appearance and functionality, in their personality, and in their expression of emotions, that many people will be falling in love with them, having sex with them, and even marrying them.' Will it really happen? Are you ready for this? Read more for additional details and a picture of the cover of Levy's book to come, also named 'Love and Sex with Robots.'"
Submission + - Linked List Sorting,10 times Faster than MergeSort
virusfree writes: "Sorting has always been important in computer science.
An article has been published about BitFast,
a new algorithm (belongs to Hash algorithms family) that can
sort a linked list up to 10 times faster than MergeSort
Source codes are available to download and test it
yourself"
Submission + - Lightscape Makes First Release of TeleKast 1.0.0
Greg Marine writes: "TeleKast has made its first release. It is a pre-alpha release of version 1.0.0. It has a functioning teleprompter and Web document editor. Feel free to give it a try and let Lightscape Software know what you think! The next release will include a Kiosk editor/display of the script items. So, look for it to come out soon."
Submission + - Microsoft to pay more Royalties for MP3 use
peripatetic_bum writes: "Just in, Microsoft has lost a ruling in which it could face up to 1.52 billion dollar charge (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/23/technology/23pa tent.html?ref=technology) for its use of the MP3 format.
What I find really interesting is that this ruling could be applied to APPLE. What I find even more interesting is that this might finally push OGG vorbis format (http://www.vorbis.com/) into the mainstream, especially if Microsoft and Apple don't have to pay for it?
Is this another way for Open Source to make sense to Business?
Thanks
g"
What I find really interesting is that this ruling could be applied to APPLE. What I find even more interesting is that this might finally push OGG vorbis format (http://www.vorbis.com/) into the mainstream, especially if Microsoft and Apple don't have to pay for it?
Is this another way for Open Source to make sense to Business?
Thanks
g"
Journal Journal: Dell to Pre-install Linux on the Desktop (again)? 340
In response to Dell's Idea Storm, Dell is looking at options to install Linux on desktop systems. From the article:
Submission + - Taking over the world
twofish writes: "UK newspaper The Observer has an interesting opinion piece in today about what it believes are Google's plans for World Domination via YouTube. An on-line version is
available here."
Submission + - Xbox Live Marketplace Digital Rights MISManagement
Divalent writes: "For over fourteen months, Microsoft has been aware of a problem that is presented to a user if they attempt to play an XBL arcade game or a game with premium paid downloadable content on any other machine than the one it was originally downloaded on. (See forum thread begun on 12/18/05)
MS has not come forward and publicly acknowledged the problem. Their representatives on the forums have even gone so far as to say, despite it's frank illegality, that those that had consoles stolen or replaced, in or out of warranty, from retailers will not have the workaround solution applied to their accounts unless they have explicit proof of said replacement. This means if your box breaks out of warranty, you cannot simply trash it and head to a store and buy a new one. You must somehow show continuity and PROVE to Microsoft that your old box is broken and has been replaced by the one you say it has been replaced by. Whatever happened to content being tied to your Gamertag, an ID that is uncopy-able and can only be logged onto one console at any one time? Where was the mention prior to launch of tying content to Gamertag AND the first console used to download the content before launch? That little detail wasn't even brought up until the Fall Update in October '06.
Currently there is a group of users who have had enough of this mismanagement of the growing segment of users with this problem. It is felt that Microsoft has its choice of a myriad of solutions such as Apples (de)authorizing protocol for iTunes. You can get a synopsis of the problem at Parallax Abstraction's blog on the matter here along with his recommendations of what to do. Included in the suggestions, whether you've personally been effected by the problem or not, is the urging to sign a petition that asks Microsoft to change the Digital Rights (Mis)Managment scheme currently in place."
MS has not come forward and publicly acknowledged the problem. Their representatives on the forums have even gone so far as to say, despite it's frank illegality, that those that had consoles stolen or replaced, in or out of warranty, from retailers will not have the workaround solution applied to their accounts unless they have explicit proof of said replacement. This means if your box breaks out of warranty, you cannot simply trash it and head to a store and buy a new one. You must somehow show continuity and PROVE to Microsoft that your old box is broken and has been replaced by the one you say it has been replaced by. Whatever happened to content being tied to your Gamertag, an ID that is uncopy-able and can only be logged onto one console at any one time? Where was the mention prior to launch of tying content to Gamertag AND the first console used to download the content before launch? That little detail wasn't even brought up until the Fall Update in October '06.
Currently there is a group of users who have had enough of this mismanagement of the growing segment of users with this problem. It is felt that Microsoft has its choice of a myriad of solutions such as Apples (de)authorizing protocol for iTunes. You can get a synopsis of the problem at Parallax Abstraction's blog on the matter here along with his recommendations of what to do. Included in the suggestions, whether you've personally been effected by the problem or not, is the urging to sign a petition that asks Microsoft to change the Digital Rights (Mis)Managment scheme currently in place."
Submission + - The Best P2P Network Nowadays?
rigamarole writes: "Well, I've been using Limewire for most of my mp3 downloads for the past while. At first I was very satisfied with it after switching from Ares, because my download times were significantly faster. Recently though, I've been getting a lot of results like, "Stephen Spielberg gets a hilarious prank call!" and other such nonsense. Note that I get a lot of search results like this on both audio and video-specific searches. I'm sick of Limewire now, and I'm wondering what people in the know are using for their downloads nowadays. I should note that I've had some satisfactory results from using isoHunt for movie downloads, but I have no idea how good of a music source it is...and I prefer the classic KaZaA/Ares/Limewire layout anyhow. Thoughts?"
Submission + - Watch Big Brother, Watch you
jedimaud writes: This is the most have for our tin foil wearing friends out there. An expensive but pretty cool device that allow you to "tap" into the wireless signal of those cameras around the city. I wonder what else you can do with it?
http://www.brickhousesecurity.com/dd9000.html
Submission + - Media Players, Linux and Ogg Vorbis
One Salient Oversigh writes: "I have been able to use Ogg Vorbis files on my iRiver Digital Music Player and easily access it via my Linux o/s (Kubuntu 6.10). iRiver is one of the few companies that have produced players capable of playing Ogg Vorbis sound files, and all that is needed to make the player Linux-friendly is a change of firmware. If anyone is interested in how I was able to do this, check out my story on my blog. Are there others out there who thought they were disenfranchised by the Window-centricity of MP3 players?"
