It's you losers who have to contend with justifying the so-called life of a sick perpetrator of South Park. My observation is that a suicide of someone like this is simply a case of the chickens coming home to roost.
South Park is a sewer of nihilistic cynicism. The fact that one of the perpetrators chose to end their obviously miserable lives does not surprise me one bit. In fact, today, the world is a litle better place due to her absence.
Linux fanatics should take no comfort in the possible break-up of the Microsoft Corporation. Separating the development of the operating system from the applications that run on it will result in a huge burst of creativity and productivity by both the application division(s) that will now bw autonomous and by third party developers.
Moving the OS to a distinct company will mean even and open access for everyone to the API's and specifications of the operating systems behavior. No longer will developers feel that they are being denied information about new features and un-documented system calls that Microsoft corporate developers are privy to. It would be in the best interests of the OS company to be as supportive of ALL customers and third-party developers as possible.
Linux beware! A break-up could usher in a new renaissance of Windows development.
First of all what makes you think that the best engineering minds are NOT working on hybrid diesel-electric cars? What ever gave you the impression that software engineers with their SLOPPY, LAZY, bug-ridden systems (let's think of the average implementation of the TCP/IP stack as a typical example) can do a better job on world level problems than other people, let alone hardware engineers?
As far as Silicon Valley businessmen go: I don't think the poor benighted folks in Washington D.C. can hold a candle to the likes of Larry Ellison in terms of dishonest and sleazy practices. Remember Oracle booking sales they hadn't really made? Obviously not or you wouldn't have held them up as an example of how we should get to the moon. Permanent lunar colonies with the Apple business model? Get a grip.
BTW, the best minds have worked on substinence agriculture. Ever hear of the Green Revolution? If India wants to solve its poverty problem its going to have to do it itself. As you might notice there is no dearth of intelligence on the sub-continent if the number of Indian Nobel prize winners is any indication. The problems they have run deeper than that. In fact, the internet seems to be a vehicle FOR increasing wealth in the Third World *NOT* something they should be running away from.
Scott McNealy for president? Give me a break... The half-baked libertarianism of Silicon Valley types is nothing new. Especially when they trim their free-market sails and call for import restrictions against foriegn competition, or selective application of anti-trust and restraint of trade laws against their competitors. They show their true greedy colors when the insist on unrestricted immigration so they can drive-down U.S. labor rates. I would have thought you'd be against this fundamental Silicon Valley belief in order to keep all those Asian engineers at home to work on substinence farming projects.
Your "dream" is really more of a nightmare. Happy Halloween.
This argument has been around in one form or another for years. And its going to take slightly more than one AI "invention" to satisfy your requirement. BTW, why not add *free beer* to the list?
First of all what makes you think that the best engineering minds are NOT working on hybrid diesel-electric cars? What ever gave you the impression that software engineers with their SLOPPY, LAZY, bug-ridden systems (let's think of the average implementation of the TCP/IP stack as a typical example) can do a better job on world level problems than other people, let alone hardware engineers?
As far as Silicon Valley businessmen go: I don't think the poor benighted folks in Washington D.C. can hold a candle to the likes of Larry Ellison in terms of dishonest and sleazy practices. Remember Oracle booking sales they hadn't really made? Obviously not or you wouldn't have held them up as an example of how we should get to the moon. Permanent lunar colonies with the Apple business model? Get a grip.
BTW, the best minds have worked on substinence agriculture. Ever hear of the Green Revolution? If India wants to solve its poverty problem its going to have to do it itself. As you might notice there is no dearth of intelligence on the sub-continent if the number of Indian Nobel prize winners is any indication. The problems they have run deeper than that. In fact, the internet seems to be a vehicle FOR increasing wealth in the Third World *NOT* something they should be running away from.
Scott McNealy for president? Give me a break... The half-baked libertarianism of Silicon Valley types is nothing new. Especially when they trim their free-market sails and call for import restrictions against foriegn competition, or selective application of anti-trust and restraint of trade laws against their competitors. They show their true greedy colors when the insist on unrestricted immigration so they can drive-down U.S. labor rates. I would have thought you'd be against this fundamental Silicon Valley belief in order to keep all those Asian engineers at home to work on substinence farming projects.
Your "dream" is really more of a nightmare. Happy Halloween.
No, this stuff really *IS* gibberish. What I find frightening is all the adulatory comments to this dreck in/. I think this reveals a need for a stiff injection of some required DWM classical philosophy courses into the average CS and EE curriculum.
If you are "going to use the word "hacker" as it was originally used, i.e. NOT as the picture of a greasy haired little dope smoker trying to break into Spacely's Sprockets web server." then you have a serious mis-understanding of the term.
In fact, many hackers *ARE* greasy little dope smokers.
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and have been reading this discussion with much amusement.
It's you losers who have to contend with justifying the so-called life of a sick perpetrator of South Park. My observation is that a suicide of someone like this is simply a case of the chickens coming home to roost.
feel sorry for all the poor deluded fools ie. most posters to this topic, who actually think the sick humor of South Park is actually funny.
South Park is a sewer of nihilistic cynicism. The fact that one of the perpetrators chose to end their obviously miserable lives does not surprise me one bit. In fact, today, the world is a litle better place due to her absence.
Or Volkswagens for that matter. M$ is inferior to the Third Reich.
or AMD K8?
:-)
I like it.
... of the collective meme.
but not for the widespread adoption of Linux on the desktop. But let's face it, that's not going to happen anyway because X *sucks*.
Linux fanatics should take no comfort in the possible break-up of the Microsoft Corporation. Separating the development of the operating system from the applications that run on it will result in a huge burst of creativity and productivity by both the application division(s) that will now bw autonomous and by third party developers.
Moving the OS to a distinct company will mean even and open access for everyone to the API's and specifications of the operating systems behavior. No longer will developers feel that they are being denied information about new features and un-documented system calls that Microsoft corporate developers are privy to. It would be in the best interests of the OS company to be as supportive of ALL customers and third-party developers as possible.
Linux beware! A break-up could usher in a new renaissance of Windows development.
First of all what makes you think that the best engineering minds are NOT working on hybrid diesel-electric cars? What ever gave you the impression that software engineers with their SLOPPY, LAZY, bug-ridden systems (let's think of the average implementation of the TCP/IP stack as a typical example) can do a better job on world level problems than other people, let alone hardware engineers?
As far as Silicon Valley businessmen go: I don't think the poor benighted folks in Washington D.C. can hold a candle to the likes of Larry Ellison in terms of dishonest and sleazy practices. Remember Oracle booking sales they hadn't really made? Obviously not or you wouldn't have held them up as an example of how we should get to the moon. Permanent lunar colonies with the Apple business model? Get a grip.
BTW, the best minds have worked on substinence agriculture. Ever hear of the Green Revolution? If India wants to solve its poverty problem its going to have to do it itself. As you might notice there is no dearth of intelligence on the sub-continent if the number of Indian Nobel prize winners is any indication. The problems they have run deeper than that. In fact, the internet seems to be a vehicle FOR increasing wealth in the Third World *NOT* something they should be running away from.
Scott McNealy for president? Give me a break... The half-baked libertarianism of Silicon Valley types is nothing new. Especially when they trim their free-market sails and call for import restrictions against foriegn competition, or selective application of anti-trust and restraint of trade laws against their competitors. They show their true greedy colors when the insist on unrestricted immigration so they can drive-down U.S. labor rates. I would have thought you'd be against this fundamental Silicon Valley belief in order to keep all those Asian engineers at home to work on substinence farming projects.
Your "dream" is really more of a nightmare. Happy Halloween.
This argument has been around in one form or another for years. And its going to take slightly more than one AI "invention" to satisfy your requirement. BTW, why not add *free beer* to the list?
and only matches your ignorance.
First of all what makes you think that the best engineering minds are NOT working on hybrid diesel-electric cars? What ever gave you the impression that software engineers with their SLOPPY, LAZY, bug-ridden systems (let's think of the average implementation of the TCP/IP stack as a typical example) can do a better job on world level problems than other people, let alone hardware engineers?
As far as Silicon Valley businessmen go: I don't think the poor benighted folks in Washington D.C. can hold a candle to the likes of Larry Ellison in terms of dishonest and sleazy practices. Remember Oracle booking sales they hadn't really made? Obviously not or you wouldn't have held them up as an example of how we should get to the moon. Permanent lunar colonies with the Apple business model? Get a grip.
BTW, the best minds have worked on substinence agriculture. Ever hear of the Green Revolution? If India wants to solve its poverty problem its going to have to do it itself. As you might notice there is no dearth of intelligence on the sub-continent if the number of Indian Nobel prize winners is any indication. The problems they have run deeper than that. In fact, the internet seems to be a vehicle FOR increasing wealth in the Third World *NOT* something they should be running away from.
Scott McNealy for president? Give me a break... The half-baked libertarianism of Silicon Valley types is nothing new. Especially when they trim their free-market sails and call for import restrictions against foriegn competition, or selective application of anti-trust and restraint of trade laws against their competitors. They show their true greedy colors when the insist on unrestricted immigration so they can drive-down U.S. labor rates. I would have thought you'd be against this fundamental Silicon Valley belief in order to keep all those Asian engineers at home to work on substinence farming projects.
Your "dream" is really more of a nightmare. Happy Halloween.
"FreeBSD confuses demagoguery with leadership and undocumented conspiracism with serious research"
;-)
Surely, you mean "conspiritorialism"?
No, this stuff really *IS* gibberish. What I find frightening is all the adulatory comments to this dreck in /. I think this reveals a need for a stiff injection of some required DWM classical philosophy courses into the average CS and EE curriculum.
If you are "going to use the word "hacker" as it was originally used, i.e. NOT as the picture of a greasy haired little dope smoker trying to break into Spacely's Sprockets web server." then you have a serious mis-understanding of the term.
In fact, many hackers *ARE* greasy little dope smokers.
Interesting sound effects. Now all you need is some subject matter.