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Sorting the piracy mess

// November 30th, 2006 // 1 Comment » // Apple, Blog, Music, Noteworthy

I though I would take a break and post something else that really gets me.

We all know that piracy has ended up as a monumental PR mess for the record industry, and it is a undisputed fact that the industry in general were far too late and couldn't adopt the same model they do in the shops so invented DRM (lets not go any further into this)

I love music as much as the next man, but when a consumer thinks their being ripped of they will always find a new way, the internet provides such a way. So when Napster and Kazaa came along the consumers went there instead of going to the local music store, by the time the industry realised just how big this was they had only one option left to sue everything and everybody related to this P2P software. As a resulting pissing off there next generation customers and the ones they already had, and along the way giving themselves and P2P developers bad press.

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What exactly is AI?

// November 26th, 2006 // No Comments » // Blog, Noteworthy

I have been doing plenty of writing about AI and Artilects but have yet to explain what AI really is/what I thing AI really is.

Artificial intelligence (also known as machine intelligence and often abbreviated as AI) is intelligence exhibited by any manufactured (i.e. ) system. The term is often applied to general purpose computers and also in the field of scientific investigation into the theory and practical application of AI. Wiki

While this definition is valid I think it is far too compliated, AI is quite simply a program that learns nothing more nothing less. So what is learning exactly.
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Snap Preview Anywhere

// November 20th, 2006 // No Comments » // Blog

I thought I would give Snap Preview Anywhere a go on the blog, now when you however over any link you will see a preview of the page on the other-side.

Provided You have javascript switched on.

The Future 2056

// November 18th, 2006 // 16 Comments » // Blog, Ideas, Noteworthy

This is a continuation of "The Rise of the Artilects"

Artilect: Artificial intelligence (also known as machine intelligence and often abbreviated as AI) is intelligence exhibited by any manufactured (i.e. ) system. The term is often applied to general purpose computers and also in the field of scientific investigation into the theory and practical application of AI. Wikipedia

An Article that dropped into my feed reader at the beginning of the week, describes a system devised by Hitatchi which monitors the person haemoglobin levels in the Brain (Optical Typography) The use of this is very limited now but could have a large impact on the way we intereface with technology but also for people who are paralysed, a clear example of converging technologies.
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site theme update

// November 17th, 2006 // No Comments » // One More Thing

Tweaks have been made to the site, there are now links to allow you to easily subscribe with Bloglines, or Google Reader or just the plain old feed at the bottom of each post, and the have been some minor cosmetic tweaks to the sidebar.