I was wondering that and have decided that it is likely because the default viewing mode adds a +1 to anyone with good karma so your +4 post looks like a +5.
If that's the case I'm sensing a serious design flaw. Sortalike having your speedometer showing 10 miles an hour quicker than it is and wondering why you never seem to add to your collection of speeding tickets. Err wait . . .
errr I wasn't suggesting posting on slashdot was a reliable backup strategy! More that even casual posting is hard to erase nowadays so actualy having a proper backup regime should be even better . . .
well I've heard of asparagus, I know what purpose it is supposed to have but I don't use it on a regular basis. Err that was meant to be a car analogy but I don't have a car where as I do eat veg so I thought I better play it safe. Long and short of it is that knowing about something and using it are two different things - I bet more than 15 per cent of people in the Netherlands have heard of Firefox and know its a web broswer/IE alternative.
It is unlikely at best that anything written on a computer will be readable in that time frame.
I think you need to talk to the dude responsible for your backup. Given that simply posting on slashdot is enough to gaurantee digital longevity I think your concerns are misplaced!
anyone suggesting it [BASIC] be taught to a newcomer should be shot.
I'm guessing you were thinking this was a distro war and not a languages war . . . in languages wars we only allow severe physical injury not resulting in death, because after all our opinion's will definitely change the world but only if we line up the infidels first!
I guess I learnt English first and then migrated to other languages. Incidentally where is Delphi spoken nowadays? And since when did we let kids choose what language to learn? When I was a youngster we just learnt the default in the country of our birth . . . and after that VB.
I suppose the real worry is that if the noise from content industry execs gets so loud then legistlators decide to win their war for them, either by making ISP levy a tax on it's users which is distributed amongst various interested parties or by attempting some kind of ban on free content. And this is the crux of the matter, a lot of web content is self-generated, either blogs, tweets, youtube video's, vanity sites, even professional authors/musicians/film makers giving away their art for free. There is no way that the content industry's can stop this on their own and if they do start charging for content then they will just lose large swathes of their audience as people shift to non-industry produced free content.
They need political backing to win their war hence the all the noise they make and the column inches that noise generates with the help of other vested interest.
because the person receiving the allowance was instead spending the money on alcohol, tobacco and luxury goods.
O dear looks like you have been reading a bit too much Daily Mail . . . Be warned the link contains offensive material and on top of that has the longest front page known to man (well at least outside blogspot!).
I get how the stock market is beneficial, generally allocating resources according to the merit of the business ventures involved.
I realise I am likely to be charged with trolling [again!] but the stock market now seems to reflect the quality and quantity of ype not products and services. The market capitalisation of dot com companies in particular (AOL is wonderful example) is ridiculous when stacked against their profitability. Nuts and Bolts companies are dull, don't generate headlines and thus don't post great dividends for their shareholders as no-one even cares if they are making a regular profit. Stock markets seem now to be so detached from the reality of the profitability/financial viability of a company that watching the rise of shares to ascertain corporate health is foolish at best.
I wonder if theses 'algos' have some built in A.I. which parses the days headlines to see if sufficient vacuous hype has been generated to make an investment worthwhile . . .
Brings a whole new meaning to the expression 'Eat your own dog food!'. I guess after they have finished consuming their local businesses and the employment rate plummets then maybe the local legislators will think again about supporting this kind of bullshit.
In 2000 37.2% of Africa's inhabitants were urban and it is expected to rise to 45.3% in 2015. From the wikipedia articale on African Urbanisation.
Thats still well down on much of the rest of the world and still means 2 in 3 people are presently making a living "from the primary occupations of farming, hunting & gathering, cattle nomadism, and fishing." So GP is probably right enough in his comment about the villages . . .
There must be something wrong with the under sea cable industry (or at least theor press department) because whenever I read about them I have visions of outages and sabotage - is this cable gonna be a magnet for undersea pirates!?
Researchers find a topic that interests them and follow through on some hunch. When they have found out something potentially publishable (the meat and potatoes of a researchers career) they big it up. This abstract reads exactly like that - "we did some work and this is why it's the most important work in the world" - the fact that the spiel coincides with the RIAA party line is probably coincidence.
O the joys of blindness!!! We're all irreplaceable until that time when someone devises a machine/process/alternative whcih does our job better than us or makes our job obsolete - so play hard and fast while you can sunshine because your confidence is misplaced!
Well I don't know about you but this got me thinking about small elephants, but how farmers are gonna use them to aid remote irrigation is beyond me . . . those Indian folk are packed full of ingenuity though!
First, this is what you get when the lawyers hold sway over the techies and visionaries.
Second, why o why don't modern companies just stfu with their legal hollering and get on with making products? If they make good products customers will come flocking and that in and of itself secures brand loyalty.
If it doesn't [work], try to figure out why, tweak, and try again.
I love your confidence. I can imagine a scenario where a computer can mimic resposes given certain stimuli and that this process becomes more sophisticated over time. However the guy quoted in the article mentions the usefulness of the model in diagnosing and treating mental illness, wtf!? So he's gonna build a functional model of a brain, program in society driven angst and a genetic propensity for outlier behaviour and then treat the artifical responses as source for diagnosis and treatment - well "hello Dr. Frankenstein!".
He's also the head of the Blue Brain Project and as a Software Engineer who works in research I know when scientists get the opportunity to big up their project they don't hold back - competition for grants is strong . . . I'mn guessing his colleagues are slapping him on the back saying "10 years!? Nice one, well our projections suggest we'll have removed the fluff from the mouse by then . .."
I'm guessing consciousness is gonna be a tougher nut to crack than these guys suggest and without it any artificial brain is just a sophisticated lookup . . .
there will be always a copy of our brain somewhere ready to be loaded into a VM by some system admin.
So you think this isn't happening now? Ahhh that's nice I wanna live in your world, mine sucks with all these wires and this slimey bath I'm in . . . Hey! Who opened the shoot!?
Slashdot Mirror
I was wondering that and have decided that it is likely because the default viewing mode adds a +1 to anyone with good karma so your +4 post looks like a +5.
If that's the case I'm sensing a serious design flaw. Sortalike having your speedometer showing 10 miles an hour quicker than it is and wondering why you never seem to add to your collection of speeding tickets. Err wait . . .
Flamebait? Flamebait? It was a fucking joke you pricks. Now get off you Internet fucking Explorer no brain web horses and get a clue.
Err just joking . . .
Slashdot might not be around in 70 years.
errr I wasn't suggesting posting on slashdot was a reliable backup strategy! More that even casual posting is hard to erase nowadays so actualy having a proper backup regime should be even better . . .
well I've heard of asparagus, I know what purpose it is supposed to have but I don't use it on a regular basis. Err that was meant to be a car analogy but I don't have a car where as I do eat veg so I thought I better play it safe. Long and short of it is that knowing about something and using it are two different things - I bet more than 15 per cent of people in the Netherlands have heard of Firefox and know its a web broswer/IE alternative.
or . . .
step 1: download virtualbox
step 2: download an iso of your favourite [debian based] distro
step 3: install iso retreived through step 2
step 4: launch distro
step 5: launch commandline
step 6: apt-get install opera
step 7: realise step 1 requires IE
step 8: slap self on forehead
step 9: reap multiple +1 funnies
step 10: wonder why they mysteriously always finish at +4
From these names, the only one that people would read and link with the internet/web would be Internet Explorer.
especially if they have been living on the moon for the last five years.
It is unlikely at best that anything written on a computer will be readable in that time frame.
I think you need to talk to the dude responsible for your backup. Given that simply posting on slashdot is enough to gaurantee digital longevity I think your concerns are misplaced!
Abort [ ] Retry [ ] Fail [X] - click, whirr, click, whirr, click, whirr
Abort [ ] Retry [X] Fail [ ] - click, whirr, click, whirr, click, whirr
Abort [X] Retry [ ] Fail [ ] - click, whirr, click, whirr, click, whirr
What [ ] The [ ] Fuck [X]?
Those were the days - bring back floppies! Maybe there'e a Memory Lane section in the Microsoft Store . . .
anyone suggesting it [BASIC] be taught to a newcomer should be shot.
I'm guessing you were thinking this was a distro war and not a languages war . . . in languages wars we only allow severe physical injury not resulting in death, because after all our opinion's will definitely change the world but only if we line up the infidels first!
I guess I learnt English first and then migrated to other languages. Incidentally where is Delphi spoken nowadays? And since when did we let kids choose what language to learn? When I was a youngster we just learnt the default in the country of our birth . . . and after that VB.
I suppose the real worry is that if the noise from content industry execs gets so loud then legistlators decide to win their war for them, either by making ISP levy a tax on it's users which is distributed amongst various interested parties or by attempting some kind of ban on free content. And this is the crux of the matter, a lot of web content is self-generated, either blogs, tweets, youtube video's, vanity sites, even professional authors/musicians/film makers giving away their art for free. There is no way that the content industry's can stop this on their own and if they do start charging for content then they will just lose large swathes of their audience as people shift to non-industry produced free content.
They need political backing to win their war hence the all the noise they make and the column inches that noise generates with the help of other vested interest.
because the person receiving the allowance was instead spending the money on alcohol, tobacco and luxury goods.
O dear looks like you have been reading a bit too much Daily Mail . . . Be warned the link contains offensive material and on top of that has the longest front page known to man (well at least outside blogspot!).
I get how the stock market is beneficial, generally allocating resources according to the merit of the business ventures involved.
I realise I am likely to be charged with trolling [again!] but the stock market now seems to reflect the quality and quantity of ype not products and services. The market capitalisation of dot com companies in particular (AOL is wonderful example) is ridiculous when stacked against their profitability. Nuts and Bolts companies are dull, don't generate headlines and thus don't post great dividends for their shareholders as no-one even cares if they are making a regular profit. Stock markets seem now to be so detached from the reality of the profitability/financial viability of a company that watching the rise of shares to ascertain corporate health is foolish at best.
I wonder if theses 'algos' have some built in A.I. which parses the days headlines to see if sufficient vacuous hype has been generated to make an investment worthwhile . . .
Brings a whole new meaning to the expression 'Eat your own dog food!'. I guess after they have finished consuming their local businesses and the employment rate plummets then maybe the local legislators will think again about supporting this kind of bullshit.
Undersea pirates? Are you telling me they have developed gills now?
Well according to the RIAA Pirates are about to take over the world so I suspect gills are the least of their powers!
In 2000 37.2% of Africa's inhabitants were urban and it is expected to rise to 45.3% in 2015. From the wikipedia articale on African Urbanisation.
Thats still well down on much of the rest of the world and still means 2 in 3 people are presently making a living "from the primary occupations of farming, hunting & gathering, cattle nomadism, and fishing." So GP is probably right enough in his comment about the villages . . .
There must be something wrong with the under sea cable industry (or at least theor press department) because whenever I read about them I have visions of outages and sabotage - is this cable gonna be a magnet for undersea pirates!?
Researchers find a topic that interests them and follow through on some hunch. When they have found out something potentially publishable (the meat and potatoes of a researchers career) they big it up. This abstract reads exactly like that - "we did some work and this is why it's the most important work in the world" - the fact that the spiel coincides with the RIAA party line is probably coincidence.
O the joys of blindness!!! We're all irreplaceable until that time when someone devises a machine/process/alternative whcih does our job better than us or makes our job obsolete - so play hard and fast while you can sunshine because your confidence is misplaced!
The technology, called Nano Ganesh . . .
Well I don't know about you but this got me thinking about small elephants, but how farmers are gonna use them to aid remote irrigation is beyond me . . . those Indian folk are packed full of ingenuity though!
Two things:
First, this is what you get when the lawyers hold sway over the techies and visionaries.
Second, why o why don't modern companies just stfu with their legal hollering and get on with making products? If they make good products customers will come flocking and that in and of itself secures brand loyalty.
Talk about your Blue Screen of Death
Agreed, but I was wondering when the quantity of "could's" in a summary turns it from a "report" into a "work of fiction"?
If it doesn't [work], try to figure out why, tweak, and try again.
I love your confidence. I can imagine a scenario where a computer can mimic resposes given certain stimuli and that this process becomes more sophisticated over time. However the guy quoted in the article mentions the usefulness of the model in diagnosing and treating mental illness, wtf!? So he's gonna build a functional model of a brain, program in society driven angst and a genetic propensity for outlier behaviour and then treat the artifical responses as source for diagnosis and treatment - well "hello Dr. Frankenstein!".
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He's also the head of the Blue Brain Project and as a Software Engineer who works in research I know when scientists get the opportunity to big up their project they don't hold back - competition for grants is strong . . . I'mn guessing his colleagues are slapping him on the back saying "10 years!? Nice one, well our projections suggest we'll have removed the fluff from the mouse by then . .
I'm guessing consciousness is gonna be a tougher nut to crack than these guys suggest and without it any artificial brain is just a sophisticated lookup . . .
there will be always a copy of our brain somewhere ready to be loaded into a VM by some system admin.
So you think this isn't happening now? Ahhh that's nice I wanna live in your world, mine sucks with all these wires and this slimey bath I'm in . . . Hey! Who opened the shoot!?
always ripping off Apple.
You mean Apple are forced to buy this shit as well!?