Posts by WASDted

Hewlett Packard certainly continues to innovate and produce great products. Look for the product review HP 2711x 27-inch LED monitor coming soon.

welcome aboard. enjoy this amazing community.

Taken care of people, thanks! it is a bit late to book anything now.
however, anyone interested in writing for us, contributing to the editorial section may PM me directly. There are always opportunities and cool things going on.

On a very basic level, if you think about it, anti-virus software constantly scans your files and activity in order to prevent infections. So even having one anti-virus installed slows you down a little bit. Now multiply that by two or more and there's no wonder why having more then one installed noticeably "degrades" your computer's performance.

@whipaway, I did notice that but they never went into how he actually rings in. The clue are sent to Watson via a text file at the same time they are revealed to the human contestants. A computer can certainly read text much faster than we can. Add to that the humans have to process what they hear or read then their brain has to send a command to the muscles in their fingers and hand to press the button. It seems like Watson just sends an instant pulse to an electronic switch... much faster. But again, the idea wasn't to prove if machines can think and react faster than we can, we already know they can. The idea was to see if it can play a game or respond in a situation where natural human language is used to communicate and it did an impressive job. Even the whole bit about the confidence level and buzz level, Watson knowing what he knows and what he doesn't know (ie when not to ring in) was very impressive to me. Isn't that a level of 'self awareness'?

A big part of what makes us human is the way we communicate with each other. We speak words, big deal, machines can do that. But what sets us apart as humans are the flaws, nuances, slang, shorthand and ambiguity we often use when we speak. The famous game show Jeopardy asks questions that are not designed for a computer to answer. They are spoken in natural English language, a form of communication that is not what computers were designed to understand… until now. In 1997 IBM’s Deep Blue defeated the world’s number one chess player. Fast forward 14 years, in a joint effort with the game show Jeopardy, IBM has created a supercomputer that is a cloud comprised of roughly 100 IBM POWER7 servers . This 10-rack mini data center was represented by a friendly avatar known as Watson who competes against human contestants on Jeopardy.

Until now, in order extract an answer to a complex problem from a computer one needed to be very well versed in a language that computers understand. You needed super-human-geek-brain-power to understand complex algorithms and formulas, machine codes and the binary state of being in order to ask the mech. Watson has changed all that. Now anybody can simply speak (or type) a question, in natural, human language and Watson will answer you in natural-sounding, simple to understand speech. Now doctor House can fire all his staff, work with Watson …

Yes, this is a great mouse, very adjustable. I played with it at CES. Thumbs up from me.

@ntrncx nice one

A bit early for me to recall from memory but according to records the Sinclair ZX-80 came to market around 1980, that means Woz's Apple came first. See here: http://oldcomputers.net/zx80.html

@frogboy77 - wow, nice.

welcome aboard. we look forward to seeing you on the boards!

A netbook is not a PC, it's a speed bump (or sleeping policeman in your neck of the woods, Davey) with some tech inside.

too late my friends. but there were quite a bit of both of those there ;)

i agree with BenzZz, nothing beats PC gaming (for most genres) especially FPS.

really -> fiction

So I have a Windows 7 PC running Media Center (home theater situation). I have one of those LG super-everything drives that can play Blu-ray as well as HD DVDs. Most of my movies are Blu-ray but a still have a few goodies on HD DVD and I've been itching to watch one of them. Trouble is I cannot get it to play at all, not even outside of the media center interface.

Any suggestions?

That looks like a sweet rig Odie :)

just goes to show you and infinite scale can be

PS3 is nice, very nice. It would be my second choice though. Although PS3 doubles as a blu-ray player still I find the games and especially the community, not to mention Kinect on Xbox make it a better console. For me, there is also the tremedous added value and functionality I get from the Xbox Media Center extender. I run a Windows 7 Media Center PC, plus I have a Windows Home Server. I have two xboxes and I use them both more as a Media Center extender than I do for gaming. Nothing comes close.

Climber Ty, stay safe.

Nice review. I agree with Davey whereas I would keep such a limited product off my own iPad, though if any of my kids were old enough to have their own ipad i would certainly install this product for the time being (better than nothing) and eagerly await their updates.

I also want to thank John from Blue Coat for posting and getting involved with the community. I am certain the feedback is valuable both ways.

iamthwee: Thanks for your feedback (thank all of you). As far as criteria, basically I am looking for programmers and developers who might like to write some editorial about the language they use, or any specific suites, tools, products, etc. that would appeal to their peers and fellow DW forum members. We are always looking to add value to the community by providing a mix of editorial on the side. Perhaps a few of our members would like to step forward to contribute some tutorials, articles, reviews or whatever they think might be interesting editorial content.

I would love to expand this into something that we can be very proud of, that users all over the world can look to for quality editorial content, expand it even further to arrange cool events, send members to industry events (as press) and compensate them for their contributions. This really is something to get excited about, I think so anyway.

happygeek: yes please! let's discuss.

Nate please email the address above in the post and send info about yourself and your past work, links, etc.

:P

okay now... I want to create threads inviting our members (or anyone interested) who are programmers and web developers to write for us. where do you folks suggest would be the best place to post those?

Good point, thank you.

FYI, you would be attending GDC as credentialed press and allowed to cover the event, write about and talk to pretty much anyone. DaniWeb would cover your travel and hotel expenses, your registration and press credentials plus you would receive compensation for each article you produce.

Can anyone offer their thoughts or opinion on how I can get more people to take this thread seriously? I posted an opportunity for DaniWeb members (specifically game developers) to attend GDC and write for us officially. I would have thought that many would be excited, or at least reply and inquire for more info. I even made it stick to the top, but no responses yet, and barely any views :(

yes like this...

Dani, I agree the text is a bit small/easy to ignore. My $0.02

If anyone is interested in attending/covering GDC on behalf of DaniWeb please contact our editor-in-chief, Eyal Akler at [email]eyal@daniwebmail.com[/email]

You must have plenty of experience in Game Development and good reporting / interviewing skills.

http://www.gdconf.com/

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i'm holding my breath!

digging -> gold

i have an powered woofer and when i turn off my Pioneer SC-25 AV receiver the woofer hums. is this normal?

despaminator FTW!

Are there specific files or registry entires that you are concerned with?

lol

happy new year friends!!!

2560x1600

elegance -> class

grimoire -> magic

DisplayLink is a combination hardware/software technology that enables users to connect almost any kind of monitor to a PC via USB. It is designed to make adding additional monitors very easy as well. You can add up to 6 displays without installing another video card. Simply install the DisplayLink software, plug the new display into your USB port or hub and you are set. The technology is also designed to act as a docking station, adding more USB, audio and network ports. Currently DisplayLink technology can be found in number of USB docking stations (like this one from HP), UBS monitors, projectors and stand-alone adapters that allow you to connect any monitor with a VGA (15-pin) or DVI connector.

We took a DisplayLink DL-195 Graphics Adapter and an HP USB Docking Station (with DL-165 DisplayLink technology) for a testdrive…

How does it work?

Through the DisplayLink software it uses available CPU and GPU resources to process information from the DisplayLink hardware located in the USB connected display (or display adapter). It then figures out what part of the image on the screen needs to be updated. That’s right, the entire image is not refreshed. Only that part of the image that need to be changed or re-drawn get compressed and communicated to the screen. The video signal does not actually come from the host computer. The only exchange of information is between the software that resides on the …

vacation -> abroad

even better than being born??? ;)

birthday -> suit

@Jason Biggs, LOL you went from engaged right to divorced...

pair -> twosome

The term Net Neutrality has been the subject of heavy discussion for the past several years. The freedom to go where and when we want to on the internet is about to slip away. Big telecoms and internet giants like AT&T, Comcast, Verizon, Time Warner and even Google have met with the government and came up with a set of rules that will allow them to regulate and prioritize what we see on the internet (to say the least).

Yesterday Steve Wozniak, the engineer that co-founded Apple Computer, Inc. wrote an open letter the FCC imploring them to keep the internet free. In his letter to the FCC he wrote "Please, I beg you, open your senses to the will of the people to keep the Internet as free as possible." - and then he goes on to explain how "every time and in every way that the telecommunications carriers have had power or control, we the people wind up getting screwed."

Please read Woz's entire letter to the FCC published via The Atlantic here .

This is one of the most important moments of action in the history of the Internet and it is far bigger and more important than the FCC. President Barrack Obama ran on the promise to preserve Net Neutrality. Unfortunately Obama's appointee, FCC chairman Julius Genachowski seemed to have forgotten the president's promise as he conducted closed-door discussions with giant phone and cable companies.

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