Eventually some lucky upstart will shoot it down as well, but programmers everywhere will forever remember it as one of the greatest builds ever released.
Actually that record is still being held by Arnold Rimmer in Red Dwarf, when he suggested to form the Comitee for Liberation and Integration of Terrorizing Organisms and their Reintegration Into Society.
Someone with computer savvy will also have more aptitude to look up the internet and find a terrorist cookbook for making bombs as opposed to someone who thinks the entire internet is broken because their internet explorer shortcut got swept up by windows into the unused desktop icons folder.
It's interesting to note that a copy of Encyclopedia Galactica that fell through a wormhole from the future defines the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as "a bunch of mindless jerks who were the first against the wall when the revolution came."
The biggest hurdle to these mood-related responses is that programmers will have to write software that correctly identifies moods and emotions and gives an appropriate response to those. Consider your last call to tech support, are those really the people you want to program your phone to react to your moods?
So I saved a few seconds on opening the browser. Now I can waste twenty by waiting for graphic and java bloated pages to open down a congested line on a badly configured web server!
You're thinking too small. Their lawyers are already drafting Entertainment Industry versus Human Population and are asking for the entire GNP of north america as lost revenue with all the money in the world as punitive damages.
It's time to go data fishing! Get those John Doe IP probable cause subpoenas ready, because they're gonna find "evidence" on any computer they want if they dig deep enough!
The only question is, how long until people who know how to play with Google's search engine page ratings turn their attention to this one, and find a way to dump their crap in there as well?
I personally always believed in the liberals, knowing that whatever accusations the conservatives bombarded them with, they did themselves and worse. Thank you mister Harper for proving me right!
The reason why they're making such a fuss over his porn and gambling is that he had to bypass the Great Firewall of Australia to access them. When it comes to accessing sex and gambling on the internet, that's where Australia draws the line!!!
These electrical skin granting systems are inFamous for their tricky deliveries. Last time the delivery boy opened the package en route, hilarity ensued.
In the end you have a room full of shivering, gibbering, shit producing bio-IVRs who are too afraid that they will get canned for saying anything other than the text they see on the screen.
Yeah, we certainly have a couple of those. They're so utterly terrified of doing something wrong that they lose the ability to do anything right. Self-fulfilling prophecy, indeed.
Having software that thinks for you makes you vulnerable to stop wanting to make the effort to think for yourself. I work tech support, and you'd be amazed the amount of people in that field who lost the simple ability to make the logical deduction that "if a problem can be caused by part A or B, and swapping out a functional part A doesn't solve it, part B must be at fault." Some agents will fight you tooth and nail that part A might still be the problem even after swapping out three fully functional part As, yet are unable to explain you why they believe so when pressed to back up their argument.
Their stupidity could be important for the survival of the species. It looks a lot like civilization could fail in the next 50 years, thanks in part to the things science brought us (oil, pollution, habitat destruction, etc), and if so, we'll need yahoos like these to say "see?! science failed us!!" to rally the remaining survivors behind a religion that's all about suffering and having tons of kids in order to repopulate the species. Catholicism was pretty handy as a bootstrap religion.
Don't forget we'll need their superior upper body strength to destroy what little science remains, ensuring a new dark age of drought, disease and famine. Excuse me while I go back to compiling this chapter of Encyclopedia Galactica.
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"Think of the CHILDREN! Won't somebody PLEAAAAAAASE think of the CHILDREN!!!" -Helen Lovejoy
Eventually some lucky upstart will shoot it down as well, but programmers everywhere will forever remember it as one of the greatest builds ever released.
Actually that record is still being held by Arnold Rimmer in Red Dwarf, when he suggested to form the Comitee for Liberation and Integration of Terrorizing Organisms and their Reintegration Into Society.
Smart money says that SNUPI is a backronym because they wanted the name to be catchy.
Was this study funded by Symantech? Or possibly Mcafee?
Someone with computer savvy will also have more aptitude to look up the internet and find a terrorist cookbook for making bombs as opposed to someone who thinks the entire internet is broken because their internet explorer shortcut got swept up by windows into the unused desktop icons folder.
It's interesting to note that a copy of Encyclopedia Galactica that fell through a wormhole from the future defines the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as "a bunch of mindless jerks who were the first against the wall when the revolution came."
The biggest hurdle to these mood-related responses is that programmers will have to write software that correctly identifies moods and emotions and gives an appropriate response to those. Consider your last call to tech support, are those really the people you want to program your phone to react to your moods?
Just make sure your head scientist on the project is not Otto Octavius. Just sayin'.
... that will subsidize artists who are convinced that there is no link between poor sales and their complete lack of talent.
Because Microsoft has never confused us with a dozen different varieties of the same operating system. http://art.penny-arcade.com/photos/217488538_MN88A-L-2.jpg
"Is it 1984 already?" Daria
So I saved a few seconds on opening the browser. Now I can waste twenty by waiting for graphic and java bloated pages to open down a congested line on a badly configured web server!
You're thinking too small. Their lawyers are already drafting Entertainment Industry versus Human Population and are asking for the entire GNP of north america as lost revenue with all the money in the world as punitive damages.
It's time to go data fishing! Get those John Doe IP probable cause subpoenas ready, because they're gonna find "evidence" on any computer they want if they dig deep enough!
The only question is, how long until people who know how to play with Google's search engine page ratings turn their attention to this one, and find a way to dump their crap in there as well?
I personally always believed in the liberals, knowing that whatever accusations the conservatives bombarded them with, they did themselves and worse. Thank you mister Harper for proving me right!
I just got learned.
*'The More You Know' shooting star crashes into Hindenberg*
It sure works for them!
The reason why they're making such a fuss over his porn and gambling is that he had to bypass the Great Firewall of Australia to access them. When it comes to accessing sex and gambling on the internet, that's where Australia draws the line!!!
These electrical skin granting systems are inFamous for their tricky deliveries. Last time the delivery boy opened the package en route, hilarity ensued.
In the end you have a room full of shivering, gibbering, shit producing bio-IVRs who are too afraid that they will get canned for saying anything other than the text they see on the screen.
Yeah, we certainly have a couple of those. They're so utterly terrified of doing something wrong that they lose the ability to do anything right. Self-fulfilling prophecy, indeed.
Having software that thinks for you makes you vulnerable to stop wanting to make the effort to think for yourself. I work tech support, and you'd be amazed the amount of people in that field who lost the simple ability to make the logical deduction that "if a problem can be caused by part A or B, and swapping out a functional part A doesn't solve it, part B must be at fault." Some agents will fight you tooth and nail that part A might still be the problem even after swapping out three fully functional part As, yet are unable to explain you why they believe so when pressed to back up their argument.
I, for one, welcome our steel-enhanced cyborg overlords!
Their stupidity could be important for the survival of the species. It looks a lot like civilization could fail in the next 50 years, thanks in part to the things science brought us (oil, pollution, habitat destruction, etc), and if so, we'll need yahoos like these to say "see?! science failed us!!" to rally the remaining survivors behind a religion that's all about suffering and having tons of kids in order to repopulate the species. Catholicism was pretty handy as a bootstrap religion.
Don't forget we'll need their superior upper body strength to destroy what little science remains, ensuring a new dark age of drought, disease and famine. Excuse me while I go back to compiling this chapter of Encyclopedia Galactica.