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The Whole World is Now a Computer, Says Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella (zdnet.com)
Thanks to cloud computing, the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence, we should start to think of the planet as one giant computer, according to Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella. From a report: "Digital technology, pervasively, is getting embedded in every place: every thing, every person, every walk of life is being fundamentally shaped by digital technology -- it is happening in our homes, our work, our places of entertainment," said Nadella speaking in London. "It's amazing to think of a world as a computer. I think that's the right metaphor for us as we go forward."
[...] AI is core to Microsoft's strategy, Nadella said: "AI is the run time which is going to shape all of what we do going forward in terms of applications as well as the platform." Microsoft is rethinking its core products by using AI to connect them together, he said, giving an example of a meeting using translation, transcription, Microsoft's HoloLens and other devices to improve decision-making. "The idea that you can now use all of the computing power that is around you -- this notion of the world as a computer -- completely changes how you conduct a meeting and fundamentally what presence means for a meeting," he said.
[...] AI is core to Microsoft's strategy, Nadella said: "AI is the run time which is going to shape all of what we do going forward in terms of applications as well as the platform." Microsoft is rethinking its core products by using AI to connect them together, he said, giving an example of a meeting using translation, transcription, Microsoft's HoloLens and other devices to improve decision-making. "The idea that you can now use all of the computing power that is around you -- this notion of the world as a computer -- completely changes how you conduct a meeting and fundamentally what presence means for a meeting," he said.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is a fucking idiot.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
and so is Satya Nadella
And here I thought the network is the computer
Time to offend someone
The world is a network of computers connected by the internet. Profound!
love is just extroverted narcissism
The network is the computer.
- John Burdette Gage (1996)
Sdelat' Ameriku velikoy Snova!
... when you think that computer belongs to you.
There is no XUL, only WebExtensions...
"All the better to see what you are doing, m'dear" said the Wolf...
No mention of how or even if your information will be separated from theirs...
..and Miscreant-o-soft wants unhindered control over ALL OF IT. Time to break up Microsoft, they're getting too big for their pants.
The percentage of my frustration: 42.
The world may have a massive collection of computers. Huge sums of those machines are in cloud computing. But they are all separate. When all of them are connected and act as one, having access to everything all at once, then we will have a world computer. That moment is not now.
- We dream of the stars. Now let us return to them.
Is this the beginning of the real life Borg, right here at home? I, for one, welcome our new Collective overlords who, being a collective, cannot possibly be as evil as the dictatorial monopolies and tribes we have now.
So Microsoft is copying again (Douglas Adams this time).
Imagine a worldwide BSOD.
In a world of the blind, the one-eyed man is king--and the two-eyed man is a heretic.
Finally figured out THE question!
Q: Which is the version of Windows that crashes the entire world?
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I've frequently suggested regulating economies and creating public services to use the market as a computer.
In healthcare, for example, the US can provide a public option that guarantees everyone healthcare at all times. When they can get affordable care, we can put a payroll tax on their employer (and an additional income tax on their paycheck) for either the affordable rate or (if less) the amount they usually pay, thus ensuring neither gets a monetary benefit by selecting the public option over the employer's plan (selection of healthcare is 100% based on perceived quality of service).
Medicare tries to calculate a local market rate for a service. That results in many things, such as providers who can provide the service at lower cost billing in-line with other providers in the area, thus making wide profit margins from the government.
Our regulators have petabyte databases of remittance rates negotiated between every insurer and provider for every service. They're hooked up to powerful mainframes that can process the whole of this data in short hours. It's ridiculous.
So at each individual (service,provider) tuple, we can compute the normal distribution of remittance rates, and then select two standard deviations down. That's our negotiation cap. The Federal Public Option--Medicare Part E--negotiates rates at individual providers already; instead of using the market rate, Medicare would use the low-end remittance rate.
Somewhere, an insurer has negotiated a pretty good rate. The others might be getting robbed, but that doesn't matter. We are, at all times, for all services, nearly the ideal insurer.
This obviously requires some consideration. Sometimes, the insurer paying less also gets less service--sorting that out takes a lot of time; or we just make that practice illegal. We'll have to tweak the regulations to fit around the obvious outcome of providers creating slightly-different, substantially-similar packages for each insurer, and further when we see what the providers actually do about all this when we tell them they're not allowed to screw around like that.
Still. Wetware computer. No sinking tons of taxpayer resources into trying to win an information arms race against the market of suppliers, providers, and hospitals.
There are other things we need. An investigation into why our healthcare costs so much (I've looked at every explanation given and we might be able to squeeze it down to maybe 15% of GDP while still getting less service than Germany at 11% GDP--something is broken, and e don't know what). Publish local market standards of fairness so the private insurers getting the worst deals can argue their rates down. Make all insurers and hospitals operate as not-for-profit.
Universal healthcare is easy. Going from "universal healthcare" to "low-cost, high-performance universal healthcare" is going to take some work and the integrity to stick with it when it gets hard.
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And when you're someone who sells software, the whole world is a computer.
Surprisingly this is only about 50 years old.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_the_instrument
There is a common tendency among experts of every domain to absolutize their field : particle physicists tend to make every physical effect into a particle. Evolutionary biologists try to explain every behaviour as a result of natural selection. Clinical psychologists make everything a result of their chosen theory of mental health. Economists make economics the ultimate cause and solution of every human problem. When you spend your entire life digging deeply into one topic, you start to see the world through the lens of your expertise. Sometimes this can lead to great discoveries. But it often leads to harmful overgeneralizations, or making a fool of yourself in public. This is one of those latter cases.
...and still can't manage to get it in the loo
Sounds like he is behind the times.
...everything looks like a hard reset?
I knew the mice must be in on it...
Guess I'll just go back to my pan galactic gargleblaster.
...si hoc legere nimium eruditionis habes...
Maybe Microsoft could try to use AI technologies to improve their product naming, positioning, channel strategy and tactics, and customer service. Yes, buying Microsoft services is sometimes like talking to a deceitful, money and bonus hungry Bender bot which only delivers confusion and unnecessary functionalities to the buyer.
Seriously, why is he saying this?
GPDR this fool.
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What could possible go wrong?
You gotta love their naivity and simplicity in thinking. Almost child-like.
we should start to think of the planet as one giant computer
Does it run Linux?
Wow, metaphors are neat, aren't they? Here's one: Satya Nadella is a vacuum.
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I confess, I fear an Orange Screen of Death.
My garden is not a computer. My tennis racket is not a computer. My guitar is not a computer. My beer is not a computer. My new grill does have the ability to send temperature readings to my phone though, but I have not enabled that.
...of death
It's so unrelated to the concept he is trying to describe - that (primarily the citizens of advanced nations) encounter or operate some sort of microcontroller or computer so many times in their daily life that they can be considered ubiquitous and having a great impact on our life - that it's not a useful metaphor nor phrase.
Pick any other technology that's done the same. Like, I dunno, cars.
"It's amazing to think of a world as a car. I think that's the right metaphor for us as we go forward."
Look how stupid that sounds. Same with just about every other transformational technology; radio, tv, cell phones, airplanes, etc. It's not a useful abstraction or insightful discussion point. It's pure pablum.
"The idea that you can now use all of the computing power that is around you -- this notion of the world as a computer -- completely changes how you conduct a meeting and fundamentally what presence means for a meeting,"
mIRC 365, anyone?
Sig Follows: "Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself." -- Mark Twain
This is the same stupid cunt who is responsible for windows 10.
Join the dots.
The Metaphor is now a reality.
- AC
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Human Computer Formation
"The whole world is a computer."
Does this include parts of the world that aren't computers, like toasted whole wheat bread and orangutans?
I sure fucking hope it's OS isn't Windows.
Or anything BUT open source based for that matter.
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
Does this mean the whole world is forced to stop for 30 minutes to an hour whenever âoeWindows has found some updatesâ?
I just hope that nobody decides to reboot. That would mean 4.5 billion years down the drain.
As an aside, can somebody improve my memory retrieval function? It has been having some issues lately.
When all you have is a hammer...
Laws are rules for the court, but merely a bottom bar to hit for life. Think beyond laws in your actions always.
I wonder how many people got your post. That was SUN's slogan. The Network is the computer. They were still using that up until they ceased.
I wonder if Nutella knows that?
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
That is all.
...I'll take this statement a little more seriously.
The vast majority of Earths inhabitants have absolutely no use for computers, and aren't even aware of their existence.
Again with the AI bandwagon.
Satya, if you can come up with an AI that simply solves all Windows Update problems, no matter how fucked up a state a given Windows machine is, I'll be impressed.
Start with that. Then move on from there.
"The Whole World is Now a Computer, Says Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella."
Computers are trying to sell the idea that they will rule the world. Satya Nadella is one of those computers. Think that's wrong? Think Nadella is probably human? I have proof! A human would never treat other humans so badly as forcing them to see advertisements on Windows 10 desktop computers.
Someone! Make the world a better place! Find Satya Nadella's off switch. Leave him off until major updates are available. (I hope the updates are of better quality than those for Windows 10.)
Okay, that's a joke, with strong truthful elements.
Yeesh. One of the fleets of FOSS fanatics. Nadella makes an architectural observation about the world and you immediately lapse into a screed about the merits of this or that product or development philosophy.
this world-wide computer only needs 640K of RAM.
42.
Large corporations have AI and the servers central to that world wide computer.
Think of it as the old mainframe and all our little computers are dumb peripherals feeding in information.
that the CEO of one of the world's largest and most important tech companies can spout so much blatant, blithering nonsense? This missive sounds like one those pseudo-profound 'revelations' that rock the worlds of people who are very stoned on really good weed. Most of these people, when they come down from the high, recognize the sophomoric and pedestrian nature of their 'insights'. Maybe Satya is still stoned - or maybe he simply has that combination of narcissism and stupidity that that is the hallmark of those who habitually have their heads up their own asses.
'The Economy' is a giant Ponzi scheme whose most pitiable suckers are the youngest among us and the yet-unborn.
Deterministic, quantifiable, brute forced, and boring. Not my idea of the real world. But looks like we're hurtling toward a nihilistic identity crisis regardless.
World is a computer, and its Blue Screen Of Death is made of resource exhaustion, climate change, and loss of biodiversity.
The whole world is a farm, Tardchris. That means that even though you'll retire on the streets we can still feed you, you land-based cetacean.
For someone who has a book overdue for six months, you sure have a lot of time to shitpost!
Say, how are your security certs coming along? Those a massive failure as well?
How's the weight? Pushing 450 these days?
"actually he has a large retirement fund stashed away that he just chooses not to discuss."
Lol, now you know his retirement fund? (I preserved your bizarre sentence, Tardchris.)
Microsoft needs to do a LOT more work on all of their APIs for CosmosDB before they can say something like that.
Behold the Beast, and cryptocurrency, it's Mark.
You should sell all your silver to pay off your credit card debt right now!
Finish your security certs so that you can get a job that doesn't leave you budgeting to the penny!
Hurry it's not too late!
Now I'm confused.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of that!
Wait, what?
What's a Beowulf cluster?
"Now", Tardchris? Your entire life is a confused mess.
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That doesnâ(TM)t really seem relevant....
I think TCDR is under the impression that if Funco is successful then videos about funco dolls will also generate tons of cash. Except according to his own article the reason funco is so successful is because the margin on simple plastic dolls is extremely high and they're buying up tons of cheap licenses like the golden girls and other properties that don't have a lot of merchandise. Actually read the article TCDR.
So maybe you should buy some stock and sell it next year. But before you do that you need to pay off your credit cards by selling all your silver!!!! Hurry TCDR!!! Every day you wait is another dollar in the shitter! Another weird night listening to other dudes jack it in the homeless shelter.
You should remove all entertainment from your commute, no videos on your phone, no novels on your ereader or in your bag. Carry nothing except for your certification books and study!!! Hurry TCDR every day you wait is another day of pissing right in the face of your future self!!!
Leave all your video equipment at work it's a distraction, remove all temporary fleeting happiness from your life for a mere 6 months so you can focus!!! 6 months now could be the difference between retiring to a lifestyle that you're used to in the midwest or spending your twilight years homeless waiting on subsidized retirement housing to open up.
Then you can look forward to being neighbors with old hookers and tweekers. You can see them on the streets of SF today, Sitting outside their buildings on their mobility scooters in the way of pedestrian traffic selling off their prescriptions. But hey it's a retirement plan!
Funco pops are like beanie babies. Anyhow if you went and read that fortune article and followed through with your investments you'd know they're nearly worth a billion right now and you'd have nearly doubled your investment. I think it looks like a promising place to put some money for a year but investing in actual funco pops? As an investment?
All except a select few beanie babies, collectable cards, or furbies sold today would have kept up with DJA if you'd bought them regular price in 1995. Of course many of the most such valuable items reached a high or ever higher market value in the 90s so even if you had a somewhat valuable beanie baby today you could have still lost a considerable amount of money. This will be no different or is it "this time it's different, trust me"?
I ask you also to consider the cost of storing and moving such items, I tell you packing and moving an entire collection of 10 year old plastic crap into your subsidized retirement efficiency will incur a hefty hidden cost.
Tardchris has this knack for latching on to one hare-brained scheme after another. He's so in love with hearing himself he can't stop talking about his schemes, until he tires of them and moves on to the next nonsensical idea.
Remember his "haiku" ebook "Unemployable"? Available January 1st 2018? Oops, he lost interest. Remember his security certs? Yeah, neither does he!
Undiagnosed personality disorders, probably medical brain problems, rough childhood, bad metabolism; he's doing the best he can, I guess.
I wondered why the world is full of so many bugs. :-)
And in just a month and a half, if you're lucky, earn $50! Way better than getting a job that pays twice as much!
Doesn't change a thing. Right now the most profitable things you can do
1. Pay off your gosh darned credit cards with your silver.
2. Follow through on learning something that's hot on the job market right now.
Your options here: Pirated and free study materials optionally getting a cert at the end; EdX and optionally paying 50 dollars for an EdX cert; Joining a nerd club in your area where you build robots or launch a startup; Attending a community college, attending a bootcamp.
3. Get a raise or a new job.
This will only help you in your pursuit of your more pie in the sky goals of running your own business, making novelty investments, and writing books. The time lost to your long term goals will be quickly made up with a little extra cash in your pockets.
Why?
You will have more free time and a larger steady source of income to put into your projects which will enhance their ability to make money. The fact that having money makes it easier to make money is indisputable. Well, unless you're some sort of Republican or something.
Don't forget the benefits of being a direct hire employee at a major corporation. Working remotely, top of the line insurances, 401k matching, stock purchase plans, catered meals, free bus passes, p-cards, business travel, discounts, phone, laptop, quilted northern toilet paper in the bathrooms, co-workers who all know what Slashdot is.
All over the world there are helpdesk drones, factory network guys, and cable repairmen stuck in their jobs with no choices. Who would kill to have access to the job market and career options that you do. Yet here you are. Working the sort of jobs that might actually be available where they live.
Hurry! You could complete step 1 by Tuesday and have Steps 2 and 3 done by the end of the year!!!
It's not too late!!
And in just a month and a half, if you're lucky, earn $50! Way better than getting a job that pays twice as much!
You want creimer to trade in passive income for earned income (i.e., another job)?
"You want creimer to trade in passive income"
50$
"for earned income"
100000$.
What do you think, Tardchris?
In addition to that $50 is nothing compared to a decent salary, it isnâ(TM)t really passive if you have to make a video and then actively spam it. You canâ(TM)t just sit back and keep making $50 for the next twenty years.
Yes. People with lots of earned income have better opportunities to earn passive income.
You're already going into work every single day until you retire, and a better job will help you earn passive income in so many ways.
That guy who wrote the long tail book you wank over still had a number of normal high income jobs.... and he's still working.
Speaking of which.
How many of your current projects are truly long tail? Funco pops are a fad, nobody's 1990s beanie baby "homepage" is making money off their doubleclick ads these days. Every year your videos will have a new set of comic con videos to compete with. Plus just recently you were recently stung by a change in youtube policy, a situation you were warned of. It could happen again.
If you made 100k you could dump 105 - 15k a year into your 401k and health savings plan to dodge taxes, pay off your credit cards and keep all that interest you're paying now and dump another 30k to 40k into your projects and you'd pay around the same amount of taxes you're paying now up until the point your projects generate enough income to push you into a new tax bracket and then you can dodge that tax by investing all of excess the income into business expenses. Really.
If you put 30k into your vlog you could claim all that shit as business expenses, get 5% back towards airline miles with the right credit card, and have your pick of monitization options, all of which pay much better than youtube. Hell you could save yourself a ton of money and still host them all on youtube, still get your youtube cash, and get outside clicks off your blog to "game the youtube algorithm" and also collect money off the ads on your web page. Which won't look like a generic wordpress.
Almost free money since you have to go to work anyhow. The cost is 6 months of your time during which your projects will still be making passive income. If they fail with after 6 month of absence are they really passive long tail income.
Plus if your paid off your credit card you could get a card that pays you a bunch of airline miles so you can fly around for free once you retire. Of course that's a waste of time unless you're paying off your balance every single month.
Hurry! Sell your silver this instant and pay off your credit card!! It's not too late!
Birdy num num
It's not free I've made or saved thousands of dollars following the advice that I've given you over the past year. As I said earlier internet laughingstocks have exaggerated version of everyone's normal every day problems.
Hurry! Sell your silver now and unlock hundreds of dollars a month in income you'd have to blow paying your credit cards plus all of the benefits and cash back you could be earning. Please! Start studying right now! Why are you arguing with me when you could be studying for your Microsoft cert?
It's not too late but every day is today's dollar in the toilet and some undetermined number of future dollars.
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Where the fuck do you think you are creimer if not on Slashdot?
MODDOWN! ; creimer bullshit sock puppet post!
Creimy Dumpty sat on the wall,
Creimy Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king's horses
And all the king's men
Couldn't put Creimy Dumpty
Together again.
Creimy-Dumpty official video by CVS (435M views, 12M subscribers):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Chris: here is an IQ test for you: please tell us what is the difference between the first half and the second half of the video?
P.S. That video is really funny anyway, it's like watching you stumbling over and over again. Of course, with 435,000,000+ views and 12,000,000+ subscribers, it is in a different ball park than the one you are used to be into.
STFU you fat retarded pachyderm!
creimer is a dumb fuck failing over and over again! creimer channel is losing subscribers and now gets 10 views a day with a total with 50 published videos! That's 0.2 view a day by video! Wow creimer! what a passive income retirement strategy!
Now, talk about butthurt creimer! :)
Creimy Dumpty sat on the wall,
Creimy Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king's horses
And all the king's men
Couldn't put Creimy Dumpty
Together again.
Creimy-Dumpty official video by CVS (435M views, 12M subscribers):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Chris: here is an IQ test for you: please tell us what is the difference between the first half and the second half of the video?
P.S. That video is really funny anyway, it's like watching you stumbling over and over again. Of course, with 435,000,000+ views and 12,000,000+ subscribers, it is in a different ball park than the one you are used to be into.
Less smelly than you, you borderline homeless idiot!
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