Even for the intelligent, gaining any kind of skill at all requires effort sustained over a lot of time. Being an introvert and obsessive helps to do it for its own sake.
If you don't have those qualities, you need to have a really good reason to learn, a strong motivator with a clear goal. Without that, you're wasting your time.
The goal is energy, not employment. We don't build factories and plants to keep people busy...
Well this does seem to be the "rugged individual" ethic. We get to a point where we don't really need to work as much as we used to, so much so that some or even many people starve or just about starve because their work isn't needed.
You get some so-called conservatives who are rabidly opposed to any other way to distribute wealth, "I'll be damned if that person over there gets anything without working!". Not that I approve of make-work - it's inefficient - but that's really the only way many people are going to get fed soon if that attitude prevails.
Fortunately, the goal is to create a human with a pig's brain. That way we can harvest its delicious blood and organs while only be technically be killing a pig (which we do *quite* a lot of anyway).
That's already happened.
The big surprise to the scientific community was that they can vote.
Sure lots of people don't want to wear them, but I don't think that's really the issue - I think it's that the quality of the viewing experience is, well... crap. It's nothing like seeing things in real life.
We have a long way to go before 3D is good enough where people will actually prefer it, glasses or not.
That tech will probably be lightfeild, which will only incidentally not require glasses.
Squirrels and birds are also never going to be launching coordinated events designed to overwhelm the utilities' abilities to bypass and repair damage.
As young help desk technician eight years ago, Flash was almost as worst as the intranet sites that required IE6 to work. Every month a new version of Flash comes out to break the intranet sites for users because the program auto updates on its own and the intranet team was always two weeks behind on updating Flash on the web servers. Every month I got tickets to remote into systems to rollback to the previous version of Flash to get the intranet sites working again.
As a computer security technician today, Silverlight is becoming the new Flash with problematic installs that refuse to update properly. Every month the Nessus scan spits out a list of systems that I remote into to run a Microsoft Fix-It program to uninstall the older version and reinstall the baseline version.
That's what you get for using the web for applications that should have been thick clients.
In a perfect world, no one would HAVE to work if there was a minimum support for everyone. There's absolutely nothing wrong with machines doing more and more mundane work. The problem is that the increased profit goes to the wrong people.
The problem runs far deeper than wealth inequality - we need to start asking basic questions again, like what is money, what is value.
We have a debt-based monetary system with fractional reserve banking.
Could there be anything else? Maybe there are other systems that would work better with our modern oversupply of both goods and labor. What would they look like?
I can't believe what gigantic babies they are. What, did they expect that for the rest of their natural lives, that they would win every single election, ever? Apparently so.
And now, that their side lost, instead of moving forward, they are bawling like infants and want to quit. We saw this with Brexit as well. Highly educated people, professionals, and they just pitched a shit-fit because they lost. I couldn't believe the rage that Ph.D's were capable of. But they sure can lecture everyone else about how we have to accept it when things go their way.
Democracy is awesome.
You have a strange view of other people.
It's not who's team won or lost - why don't you take a step back and look at who just got elected.
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Even for the intelligent, gaining any kind of skill at all requires effort sustained over a lot of time. Being an introvert and obsessive helps to do it for its own sake.
If you don't have those qualities, you need to have a really good reason to learn, a strong motivator with a clear goal. Without that, you're wasting your time.
That being said... here is the tool I universally recommend to beginners and experts alike, to learn a new programming language.
Pick your poison, start at problem 1, and work your way up.
Oh and for god's sake, don't use C.
Get a PC computer.
Jesus effing Christ.
what Disney thinks about education?
Guns nothing, put swords on it.
That was the first thing I thought of. Wicked mantis-like slicers, and a zerg carapace.
The goal is energy, not employment. We don't build factories and plants to keep people busy...
Well this does seem to be the "rugged individual" ethic. We get to a point where we don't really need to work as much as we used to, so much so that some or even many people starve or just about starve because their work isn't needed.
You get some so-called conservatives who are rabidly opposed to any other way to distribute wealth, "I'll be damned if that person over there gets anything without working!". Not that I approve of make-work - it's inefficient - but that's really the only way many people are going to get fed soon if that attitude prevails.
and no reference to Blinx.
You know, I really liked that game.
and my underwear on the outside, and not get dragged off by security?
you don't get to talk to me about security.
than you shouldn't be using C.
Fortunately, the goal is to create a human with a pig's brain. That way we can harvest its delicious blood and organs while only be technically be killing a pig (which we do *quite* a lot of anyway).
That's already happened.
The big surprise to the scientific community was that they can vote.
Sure lots of people don't want to wear them, but I don't think that's really the issue - I think it's that the quality of the viewing experience is, well... crap. It's nothing like seeing things in real life.
We have a long way to go before 3D is good enough where people will actually prefer it, glasses or not.
That tech will probably be lightfeild, which will only incidentally not require glasses.
I wouldn't allow any hours or money to be spent on anything but the huge backlog of bugs and security problems.
I'd also fire everyone in marketing. You gain market share by making a great browser and pleasing users, not by wasting money on this crap.
Squirrels and birds are also never going to be launching coordinated events designed to overwhelm the utilities' abilities to bypass and repair damage.
That's just what they want you to think.
Just a stab in the dark, here, but do these scientists have a financial stake in this opinion?
Secretive organization? Well, looks like we can't check.
The UI development platform is called "modern UI", which is an implicit a dig at everything else that was done before.
If it's not ugly as hell and designed for a phone, it's not "modern".
you could get frostbite in less than 30 minutes.
That's like 10F with storm-force winds, or around -15F in calm weather.
Frostbite isn't even possible over 28F, what kind of weirdo calls 30F "bitterly cold"?
was Microsoft struck a deal with Uber.
As young help desk technician eight years ago, Flash was almost as worst as the intranet sites that required IE6 to work. Every month a new version of Flash comes out to break the intranet sites for users because the program auto updates on its own and the intranet team was always two weeks behind on updating Flash on the web servers. Every month I got tickets to remote into systems to rollback to the previous version of Flash to get the intranet sites working again.
As a computer security technician today, Silverlight is becoming the new Flash with problematic installs that refuse to update properly. Every month the Nessus scan spits out a list of systems that I remote into to run a Microsoft Fix-It program to uninstall the older version and reinstall the baseline version.
That's what you get for using the web for applications that should have been thick clients.
Not being able to live, is.
In a perfect world, no one would HAVE to work if there was a minimum support for everyone. There's absolutely nothing wrong with machines doing more and more mundane work. The problem is that the increased profit goes to the wrong people.
The problem runs far deeper than wealth inequality - we need to start asking basic questions again, like what is money, what is value.
We have a debt-based monetary system with fractional reserve banking.
Could there be anything else? Maybe there are other systems that would work better with our modern oversupply of both goods and labor. What would they look like?
Almost nobody is asking these questions.
b) programming can be automated too
No, it can't. Programmers self-automate all the time, it's called abstraction.
Done right, it makes them more productive. Done wrong, well... it "creates jobs".
The only thing that will automate away programmers will be Strong AI - strong with a capital 'S'.
They didn't have any control to compare the results against, so I call bullshit.
To the left, "fake news" is a smear given to anything that doesn't fit their narrative.
How did this get modded +4 Insightful?
Slashdot's been flawed for years, but this up-modding of obvious trolls seems to be new.
And this whole left versus right bullshit is getting quite old.
yeah we pick our hotel
I can't believe what gigantic babies they are. What, did they expect that for the rest of their natural lives, that they would win every single election, ever? Apparently so.
And now, that their side lost, instead of moving forward, they are bawling like infants and want to quit. We saw this with Brexit as well. Highly educated people, professionals, and they just pitched a shit-fit because they lost. I couldn't believe the rage that Ph.D's were capable of. But they sure can lecture everyone else about how we have to accept it when things go their way.
Democracy is awesome.
You have a strange view of other people.
It's not who's team won or lost - why don't you take a step back and look at who just got elected.
As much as I despise Donald Trump, seeing these haughty Progressives eat a buffet of crows warms the cockles of my heart.
How can you expect anyone to take your point of view seriously when you apparently don't even know what progressive means?