I used to watch tons of anime, so i started using WMP, it was ok, but then switched VLC, and also was fine but i found that sometimes it just froze, never knew why. But the best i have found yet is the GOM player, plays a lot of video formats, is light weight and if you ever get a file for which you dont have the codecs to play it(it is not common to occur this) will show a message to a page where you can download the required codec.

Nothing like a good cup of coffee to awaken the coding beast within. Slacker007 "Writing code is a transcendental process of transformation of infinite chaos into finite reality with coherence, of course". dmitryEB - http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/51670/How-to-Become-a-Rumorous-C-Developer 'Potentially' members of CP have heard all the jokes of the world. 'Realistically', they are just killjoy's. Sentenryu

Wow that is just plain evil...

OK i think i understand what you are saying, and yes maybe the term free will is not correct, but to me it seems the best way to call it. Im not an expert in Neural networks, but i have used them several times at college and yes they can learn, but unless you are talking about a new type i dont know or heard about, the structure of a neural network is static, what changes with the training is the weight of the path the impulse runs through between 2 neurons, and yes after they are trained they can be trained again to "learn" something diferent. But as far as i know what they cannot do is to change the input, i mean if you create a huge neural network that works with an input of lets say 25 parameters, it will always take into consideration 25 parameters, it cant grow bigger than that, in the example the NN takes 2 parameters into consideration, if it was designed that way, doesnt matter how many layers it has it wont take into account any other parameter, for that being posible you would need a new NN. So what im trying to say is that what i dont see posible in AI as it is right now is the adaptability our human intelligence has to get new parameters into account(at least talking about NN, im sure there are plenty of other models/theories in AI that i havent heard about). Well then all this was on my assumption that there is no NN that has the ability to mutate/evolve(with this i mean that the same NN, can change to be able to receive a new input it wasnt designed for) without being redesigned, if exists a model or something i dont know please just tell me the name of that model or theory so i can read about it and agree completely with you.

OK, dont know if you are trying to confuse me, playing dumb or it is a genuine question, i will suppose the last one. Lets stay with the example you gave of current AI, the social networks algorithms. It is based on a set of rules, lets say(for the sake of simplicity) if the user if from north america and is male, the algorithm will "decide" to show a beer adverticing. Now of course the algorithm may take tons of rules i used only 2 because i want to keep this simple. Now if the one who had to decide what adverticing must show to the users was a human being, he may decide to show other adverticing although he was only instructed to only take into account the location and gender, he may also take into account new paramters withouth being told to do so, like age, politic, religion, etc. So with this simple example(maybe not the best) just what im trying to say is that a part of our intelligence is the capability to break the rules, which i called free will(maybe not the best translation because english is not my native language). I hope i had made my point at least little bit more clear.

I agree to some extent with both of you Vasily and Collin. I think(well is more like i hope or wish) humanity will be able to create intelligence as good as normal human being at least, posibly something beyond that, but im sure that it wont happen in our lifetime.

Collin Jasnoch wrote:

Vasily Tserekh wrote:

My friend real inteligence cant have a mathematicall model so it cant be
programmed.

Collin Jasnoch wrote:

How are you so certain?
 
Show me inteligence that can not be "mapped" as you say, and I will show you how maybe you just are not inteligent enough to map it.

That one is easy, free will cant be mapped/modeled, an algorithm is based on a set of rules. You can say that you can create a/"set of" rule to create new rules, but then again is just another rule that cant be broken. free will is the part of intelligence that make us able to break any rule to adapt or get better.

Doom == "Tower Defense"?... probably you misread the post...

Im not sure about that... it seems like they have a way to reproduce themselves.

oops... my bad didnt realize it was a joke :sigh:

Wjousts wrote:

just some crappy open source image editor!

Rly?... im not a designer and i havent used photoshop, but i have used lots of times gimp for image edition, and its a very complete tool... Im wondering if photoshop or the image editor you use is that good or you were only trolling...

Im from mexico, but i also lose some time trough college, began to work at 25. But you shouldnt hurry to get to wrok and enjoy college(if posible), for me college was really fun (hanging with my friends, getting drunk everytime posible, having girlfriend), you should try to enjoy it. Since i began to work i have to little time for myself, let alone for fun, i have stuck several personal projects for quite some time... so my point (and advice) is try to have fun, if you are really enjoy developing and are good at it its a sure thing youll get a first work easily, at least here in mexico is quite simply to get a job for a developer, easier for a good one ;) . One last advice most likely your first work youll be working for peanuts, but then youll get some experience(just to put in your resume, doesnt mean anything else, at least as i see it), and then you can ask for a raise or change of job pretty easily. good luck.

Is not so white and black thing, but i think you are mostly right, trust only people worth of it, sad thing is hard to find any :(

I feel really sorry for the guy, liked a girl, trusted her and then... The article is quite exagerated, says is a "detailed" and "creepy" spreadsheet... you gotta be kidding so detailed and crepy means he has a photo, username, thoughts of the date, number of times they messaged and the contact info. Sorry but that doesnt look to me crepy nor detailed, and yes if i had to look for dates on internet i think i would create a spreadsheet.

Good job, i dont know why anyone would downvote your post, but i think is nice to see the comparative. And surprisingly(at least to me) the most simply answers were the best.(i thought the sorted list would be the best)