Tuesday, April 24, 2007

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EA Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars - Community

The command and conquer 3 world builder is finally out and this is the page where you can download it. It is still not the easiest program to master but it is better than the last one for generals which was build in debug mode. This release means that we may start to see some custom maps, now all we need is the mod SDK. Until the time the SDK comes out lets get to makin maps.

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Tuesday, April 17, 2007

A free phone

OpenMoko - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This phone that looks much like Apples iPhone is open source and while the iPhone gets the award for the best looking of the bunch this phone called the Neo1973 get the award for the most promising phone among hackers at least. The neo runs Linux under the hood and uses the X.Org server Matchbox for its GUI. Personally I would but this phone before the iPhone but that does not mean that I do not want the iPhone and I still think that the iphone is really cool. That is all.

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Friday, April 06, 2007

aaaaaa it's the matrix

United States Patent: 7197459

Yes I did say the matrix. It appears that amazon has filed a patent for a hybrid machine/human computing arrangement, not in plain English this means a system of problem solving where humans and computers would work together to solve a problem the humans doing what they are good at and the computers doing what they are good at. I think that this is a great idea that has millions of amazing uses but that it also seems a little scary, after all how hard is it to relate this to movies like iRobot to the Matrix. Because of all the similarities to movies I think that the general public may have a hard time seeing how wonderful this technology is.

    Your next question may be, why do we need this hybrid stuff. My first answer is because the word hybrid sounds cool. My second, and more legitimate answer is because computers are really good at some things and humans are extremely good at others. For example when was the last time that you searched a list of trillions of things and came out with just the thing that you were looking for in less that 15 seconds, I will answer that for you, never. But then again when was the last time your computer wrote a 3 page paper for you again the answer is never.

    Now amazon has started a service called the mechanical turk that actually uses the ideas that they first patented, the site is here. What you do is you go onto the site and get a HIT which is something that is really hard for computers but really easy for us humans. When you have completed the task successfully you will that get paid a bit of money. So it seems that this could bring a new era of artificial artificial intelligence.

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Sunday, April 01, 2007

A patch a day takes troubles away

At least that is the case with EA LA and command and conquer, according to my calculations it has been 4 days since the arrived in stores and guess what number patch we have, 1.04!! Now it for some reason my calculations are off that feel free to tell me that I can not count.

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