I caught a friend of mine Jonesing for football so bad one day he sat down and watched the game play itself... at least that's what I thought. I caught him again, and he finally admitted he liked watching the defensive plays and picked up only when it was his turn to be on offense.
These conceptual patents give me the creeps - there's no huge innovation here at all.
Uh, this will likely lead to as comprehensive public transportation as you can get. There have been a number of writeups about this, not the least of which was mentioned on/. in this article.
This routing information being handed to drivers who manually take action is the first step into complete and total automation. With automation, transportation costs will plummet and it's not entirely impossible to envision adequate transportation being listed as a "human right" along side adequate shelter and food (meaning not everyone will have it, but society will go to great lengths to provide it). This is a fantastic development, and I'm very hopeful about the future of automated driving - this takes us one step closer. And anyone who is skeptical should read the writeup Brad Templeton has done on his website, this is not just a sci-fi thing. This will bring real societal progress and is entirely obtainable.
Agreed. I talk to IT folks that work at small companies, and I just don't understand why anybody would work in a small company. (Though I've got to say, I'm glad they do, otherwise I'd have a lot more competition)
I have a good, stable job with the occasional overtime, plenty of opportunity to grow, great benefits and good pay. I talk to those that work in small companies, and it's exactly the opposite.
Eh, I don't know if I agree with that. Do you believe that there would be no market for a natural language query search engine? I believe there would be a tremendous market for that. How about a hands free GPS you could speak to (even in a very limited way)? I think there's a large market for that too.
I don't know if human level intelligence is necessary to have a natural language search engine, for example. But even if getting to natural language is a ways off, and it involves high level AI functioning - Kurzweil was still far off on most of his predictions, and things seem to generally lag behind his timeline, already.
Um, rich folks make judgments based on economics of a given situation, irrespective of how the economy is doing. That's how they get rich. The recession has nothing to do with it.
I consider advanced AGI to be the ultimate end-game of humanity, and I would love to see this happen in my lifetime. I also subscribe to Kurzweil's theories (though I'm growing more skeptical after this 2009 article).
But looking at the article and evidence, and objectively evaluating the facts... they miss the mark. Of course, the guy is predicting the future here , but even correcting for that, he's off. Worse still, not only do they miss the mark, they miss the mark in the core area of AI development, which is the cornerstone of his whole theory. Many predictions were centered around a growing ability on the part of AI to understand, process, and interpret the meaning of speech. We're still not there - not imminently close to a solution either.
I really, really hope I'm wrong about my analysis, but just looking at what is, and what he thought would be - it doesn't bode well for a 2040's singularity.
Oprah is very rational in her business decisions, I've studied them a bit. Many times, in these cases, it doesn't make economic sense to hire defense lawyers - cheaper to settle... so I wouldn't count a settlement out. However, if this gains enough publicity (and I think it may have), she'll be forced to fight it, so as not to invite other frivolous lawsuits from those looking for a quick buck.
Mark Everett Hall really looks at things from a biased IT perspective. Yes, in his analysis, this will hurt US as IT professionals, but we do not constitute the entire economy. In fact, when businesses get leaner the economy gets better on a macro scale. Yeah, we could be hurting, but that doesn't mean the economy will be.
And that, of course, is assuming you buy the thesis that people will move into this and fire their IT staff all in 2009 - here's a clue: they won't.
And IF they did, what do you think us highly skilled laborers would be working on? My guess is cloud computing - those things don't code, administer or test themselves. Truly, looking on the bright side, one can visualize all IT effort being concerted into one specific area, hastening the arrival of new innovations - but I'm of the opinion that that analysis goes too far the other way.
My bet, the pendulum will continue on its slow course back to dumber clients and smarter servers, but it's not going to change anything in major way overnight, or over 2009.
If those people did not "pay" anything, the service could not have sustained itself for a second and would have collapsed.
Oh really? So when someone starts a company with an initial investment of one million dollars and plans for expenses and hopes the business plan works out, there is no cash burn? You're saying every viable business is immediately profitable - and of course, you are dead wrong.
Because journals are not tagged 'story', and/. seems to be moving to a different comment/story management system. Maybe they'll move to comment tagging in the future, or tag other things in addition to stories?
(Perhaps a) Better question... How do these tags work in the first place?
Why can there be a tag I've never seen before and is likely to have a very low probability of having more than one person think of - especially when that tag is not referenced in any comment below TFS?
I agree 100%. The concept itself isn't bad - it was the implementation. I still remember reading Snow Crash and wishing I had a personal assistant like the butler to fetch information for me, and help me analyze it.
Going forward, the helpers will only get more and more ubiquitous - but hopefully they'll be a little more helpful.
I happen to like Star Wars, but in my mind it was never about the tech, at all, nor was it even about space. Star Wars is almost completely story driven, IMHO.
You are exactly right. I didn't add it to the post above, but years after my girlfriend's car was stolen, I moved to a much, much nicer city - my friend's car was stolen, and her purse was stolen out of the car.
Not only did the cops take fingerprints on the car that time, they found her freggin' purse! The thieves had taken her cash and thrown the rest out on the side of the road. The irony, of course, is that there is probably zero crime in the luxury city we moved to, and plenty of crime in the shithole I used to live in.
So, maybe this was just a nice area of Finland, but (based on nothing but my prejudices of EU vs US law enforcement) I would guess not.
The #1 best thing to do with content that you don't like on Slashdot? Ignore it.
I'd argue that's probably the #2 best thing to do. IMHO the first would be to try and draw attention to the fact that putting idle stuff under different categories is not going to be popular with most viewers (and if I'm wrong, I'm sure the downmods won't be shy).
I'd say if I didn't say anything, ultimately got frustrated with the changes and left without saying anything, I'd not only be doing myself a disservice, but/. as well.
With all that being said, I don't disagree with your comment and ultimately that's what may happen. But I think it's worth at least giving whatever faction in/. the ammunition to point out to the suits that antagonizing viewers may be a bad thing.
Must've been trying to do something in my local dir there:)
This article is posted under the IT: section. There are different/. sections and stories are prefixed with [sectionName:]storyName. This is under the IT section. So, when I go to an IT section, I'd hope it would be related (at least obliquely) to IT, but this story is clearly an idle: section.
My gripe is that they are miscategorizing these stories on purpose to subvert the settings of those who have choosen to ignore the idle section in their user preferences. So my question directed at/. is basically.. WTF?
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I caught a friend of mine Jonesing for football so bad one day he sat down and watched the game play itself... at least that's what I thought. I caught him again, and he finally admitted he liked watching the defensive plays and picked up only when it was his turn to be on offense.
These conceptual patents give me the creeps - there's no huge innovation here at all.
Uh, this will likely lead to as comprehensive public transportation as you can get. There have been a number of writeups about this, not the least of which was mentioned on /. in this article.
This routing information being handed to drivers who manually take action is the first step into complete and total automation. With automation, transportation costs will plummet and it's not entirely impossible to envision adequate transportation being listed as a "human right" along side adequate shelter and food (meaning not everyone will have it, but society will go to great lengths to provide it). This is a fantastic development, and I'm very hopeful about the future of automated driving - this takes us one step closer. And anyone who is skeptical should read the writeup Brad Templeton has done on his website, this is not just a sci-fi thing. This will bring real societal progress and is entirely obtainable.
Patience padawan.
Agreed. I talk to IT folks that work at small companies, and I just don't understand why anybody would work in a small company. (Though I've got to say, I'm glad they do, otherwise I'd have a lot more competition)
I have a good, stable job with the occasional overtime, plenty of opportunity to grow, great benefits and good pay. I talk to those that work in small companies, and it's exactly the opposite.
Eh, I don't know if I agree with that. Do you believe that there would be no market for a natural language query search engine? I believe there would be a tremendous market for that. How about a hands free GPS you could speak to (even in a very limited way)? I think there's a large market for that too.
I don't know if human level intelligence is necessary to have a natural language search engine, for example. But even if getting to natural language is a ways off, and it involves high level AI functioning - Kurzweil was still far off on most of his predictions, and things seem to generally lag behind his timeline, already.
But, that's just my opinion.
Um, rich folks make judgments based on economics of a given situation, irrespective of how the economy is doing. That's how they get rich. The recession has nothing to do with it.
I (unfortunately) agree with you:
I consider advanced AGI to be the ultimate end-game of humanity, and I would love to see this happen in my lifetime. I also subscribe to Kurzweil's theories (though I'm growing more skeptical after this 2009 article).
But looking at the article and evidence, and objectively evaluating the facts... they miss the mark. Of course, the guy is predicting the future here , but even correcting for that, he's off. Worse still, not only do they miss the mark, they miss the mark in the core area of AI development, which is the cornerstone of his whole theory. Many predictions were centered around a growing ability on the part of AI to understand, process, and interpret the meaning of speech. We're still not there - not imminently close to a solution either.
I really, really hope I'm wrong about my analysis, but just looking at what is, and what he thought would be - it doesn't bode well for a 2040's singularity.
Oprah is very rational in her business decisions, I've studied them a bit. Many times, in these cases, it doesn't make economic sense to hire defense lawyers - cheaper to settle... so I wouldn't count a settlement out. However, if this gains enough publicity (and I think it may have), she'll be forced to fight it, so as not to invite other frivolous lawsuits from those looking for a quick buck.
Mark Everett Hall really looks at things from a biased IT perspective. Yes, in his analysis, this will hurt US as IT professionals, but we do not constitute the entire economy. In fact, when businesses get leaner the economy gets better on a macro scale. Yeah, we could be hurting, but that doesn't mean the economy will be.
And that, of course, is assuming you buy the thesis that people will move into this and fire their IT staff all in 2009 - here's a clue: they won't.
And IF they did, what do you think us highly skilled laborers would be working on? My guess is cloud computing - those things don't code, administer or test themselves. Truly, looking on the bright side, one can visualize all IT effort being concerted into one specific area, hastening the arrival of new innovations - but I'm of the opinion that that analysis goes too far the other way.
My bet, the pendulum will continue on its slow course back to dumber clients and smarter servers, but it's not going to change anything in major way overnight, or over 2009.
If those people did not "pay" anything, the service could not have sustained itself for a second and would have collapsed.
Oh really? So when someone starts a company with an initial investment of one million dollars and plans for expenses and hopes the business plan works out, there is no cash burn? You're saying every viable business is immediately profitable - and of course, you are dead wrong.
Because journals are not tagged 'story', and /. seems to be moving to a different comment/story management system. Maybe they'll move to comment tagging in the future, or tag other things in addition to stories?
(Perhaps a) Better question... How do these tags work in the first place?
Why can there be a tag I've never seen before and is likely to have a very low probability of having more than one person think of - especially when that tag is not referenced in any comment below TFS?
I agree 100%. The concept itself isn't bad - it was the implementation. I still remember reading Snow Crash and wishing I had a personal assistant like the butler to fetch information for me, and help me analyze it.
Going forward, the helpers will only get more and more ubiquitous - but hopefully they'll be a little more helpful.
Probably a bluetooth headset with a 7 - 9" phone in the person's pocket, I'd imagine.
Um... 2/3 of an LoC?
hypothermic babies and cats
mmmmmm, frozen tacos - yum
/Homer
Yep, one of the few things the federal government has actual jurisdiction over, as laid out by the US constitution.
This idea would certainly be headed for a lengthy court battle and probable failure.
Or is HP working with us to install virus infected ROM chips inside Iranian government offices?
Our government can't be that competent, right?
The stock market will lose 20% of its value and the government will give an extra bagillion dollars in bailout money.
/sarcasm
Let's be done with '08 already - let's add that extra second to a good year
Sorry it's too complex and doesn't have enough flair for you... maybe I'll toss you a shiny button for you to gaze at instead.
Barney cam... FTW!
I don't know if it was worth the 10 minutes of my life I just spent watching it, but it was cute.
I happen to like Star Wars, but in my mind it was never about the tech, at all, nor was it even about space. Star Wars is almost completely story driven, IMHO.
/me runs away
Trek has the tech focus.
You are exactly right. I didn't add it to the post above, but years after my girlfriend's car was stolen, I moved to a much, much nicer city - my friend's car was stolen, and her purse was stolen out of the car.
Not only did the cops take fingerprints on the car that time, they found her freggin' purse! The thieves had taken her cash and thrown the rest out on the side of the road. The irony, of course, is that there is probably zero crime in the luxury city we moved to, and plenty of crime in the shithole I used to live in.
So, maybe this was just a nice area of Finland, but (based on nothing but my prejudices of EU vs US law enforcement) I would guess not.
You're not an "American" (assume you mean US citizen) and you believe in exercising your second amendment rights?
I don't disagree with you, I just don't know what other country has a second amendment which allows the right to bear arms.
The #1 best thing to do with content that you don't like on Slashdot? Ignore it.
I'd argue that's probably the #2 best thing to do. IMHO the first would be to try and draw attention to the fact that putting idle stuff under different categories is not going to be popular with most viewers (and if I'm wrong, I'm sure the downmods won't be shy).
/. as well.
/. the ammunition to point out to the suits that antagonizing viewers may be a bad thing.
I'd say if I didn't say anything, ultimately got frustrated with the changes and left without saying anything, I'd not only be doing myself a disservice, but
With all that being said, I don't disagree with your comment and ultimately that's what may happen. But I think it's worth at least giving whatever faction in
But... that's just my two cents.
heh, didn't even realize I posted ./
:)
/. sections and stories are prefixed with [sectionName:]storyName. This is under the IT section. So, when I go to an IT section, I'd hope it would be related (at least obliquely) to IT, but this story is clearly an idle: section.
/. is basically.. WTF?
Must've been trying to do something in my local dir there
This article is posted under the IT: section. There are different
My gripe is that they are miscategorizing these stories on purpose to subvert the settings of those who have choosen to ignore the idle section in their user preferences. So my question directed at
Seriously. She's my wife now. I was very young when I met her... This is our first date
(DISCLAIMER: I don't actually know this site, but pulling up the jpg seemed safe enough for me)