Leaving no child behind was more important than elevating those with the drive to push schools limits. Has it become difficult to distinguish disinterested / underperforming brainiacs from disinterested / less-capable students? Society needs all types, each to excell in their field, or excel in mediocrity. Its all good, just give a chance to those that will.
There are many things a robot might do for an elderly person - dispense meds, billing records, food prep, Monitoring (is anyone lying on the floor), Music, Blood Glucose tests, Putting on socks, shoes, initialing connections via skype or H.264 to family members, technology assist... where does it stop?
Great analogy... Once the human experience gets rational and predictable, then.... we can hope to have a comprehensive GUI tool for programming. We all suffer the vagaries of human input (is that really an email address??) and things like spaces in file names that confuse parsing, and the incessant need to confirm that ever step in a program -actually- worked.... Many of us have given up on the GUI and have learned to cope with our pals grep awk sed cut read while for case until (and the list goes on.... Waiting for that day when human experience is ultimately predictable.
We have regex. Its a tough nut in its entirety. Can we rewrite this for humans, clean up the syntax for operations, and couple it with a re-thought portable authentication mechanism and.... now we are talking about simplified productivity!!
The altruistic bits are one thing... but there are plenty of other things that are just sexy bullshit that he should have shut up about. Pointing out transgressions is one thing, but spilling all our secrets was for publicity, and puts our government at risk. Well.. if there is one thing, its time for us to come up with some new tricks.
Learning to be an inventive, adaptive and creative society can take decades. It takes an open society, one might say. Having a challenge and a focus drove us together. USA brought men to the moon and back in the sixties with technology that was infantile by comparison, and with live press coverage. With what we learned in the process, we brought many things to market, good and bad. We also learned the value of natural resources, and being in some level of harmony with nature. Our environmental controls kept junk out of waters, the air and land. When will we adopt international pollution standards? Lets not look to space as a plan-b in case this planet is turned into a waste pool.
I just hope that this Moon/Mars thing isn't plan B in case their environmental policies destroy this planet. Hard to imagine being a human... and flourishing in the confines of space. Kirk had a nack for finding places with breathable atmospheres, and hot space nymphs, but thats Hollywood. Flexing might and muscle without concern for anyone else is not recipe FTW.
One new thing is Mozilla pushing updates at me while I am using their product. As It is Saturday night, and I work in IT, i found my self working. Ok. Happens. While I am working feverishly on browser-access-to-console stuff, my browser locks up. Oh.. I was suppposed to know it was time for an update?
Another is Java. Was take a remote/virtual training when the Java powered screen scraper (which worked great!! thanks NX for the Fedora compatible version!) decided that the JVM was not current (1.7_45 vs 1.7_51) and quit. SO I lost 20 minutes of class while I scrambled for a fix.
Any cloud/Interweb based service could change how it works at any second,. Is this acceptible to businesses that think the sugary sweet cloud is so dreamy, but in reality its so far from a secure and predictable platform.
Now this blatant demonstration of how the unwiting user is riding a rollercoaster in the dark, and fed chuff by and advertising machine that feels obligated to clamp ones eyes open like that scene from Clockwork Orange.
The latest is now Verizon's Anti-Neutrality powers - http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/Saving-Money/2014/0116/Net-neutrality-ruling-How-Verizon-decision-affects-consumers
Used to be that the Internet was a path to good information, it seems as comfortable/predictable/business-ready as a funhouse..... thats not too fun.
Can we start a new internet?
When you hold a Gin-n-Tonic in your hand, the adult beverage stays at 32 Degrees (or thereabouts, based on many factors) until... that is.... all the ice melts. Then the whole glass warms up. Shouldn't we consider the ice pack at the poles in aggregate as our insurance policy - and not just the air temp around us? Once that ice is gone, what will a winter be? Its a bounded control volume. Consider the thickness of the air layer on the surface and the energy it contains, compared to the amount of energy it absorbs from the Sun, and compare it to what we are pumping into it, directly as thermal energy, as well what accumulates as we reconstitute the atmosphere with greenhouse gasses. We wont be affecting the core of the earth, but we could make the outer layers uninhabitable. adding 2 degrees a decade just makes it a matter of time. Business likes certainty. This seems to introduce uncertainty.
How about watching an episode of Mentalist, or NCIS or some other show with comparable content?
How about watching an episode of Simpsons or Family guy?
How about Aqua Teen Hunger Force?
Is there a deep seated conflict of interest though? Do good comments affect job security? It would seem that to get a promotion, you need others to follow up on the work you have completed. But this all goes away when you are let go or outsourced. There... I said it!
Oracles (in)ability to ensure interoperability within its own software stacks should be evidence enough that they can be trusted for large scale integraion.
As long as they stick with DB performance, OK...
Redhat has more experience managing an ecosystem of technology,,, these are the guys and gals we need to have behind it.
Apparently, there are two problems with the deployment process (not the health care logic behind it)...
First was that the code didn't scale, second is that it was not tested in a meaningful way to show it.
Let me guess, it was built by the cheapest contractor and we assumed their leadership and subject matter expertise would guarantee success?
Sounds like the contract clause that says payment is based on performance should be exercised. There is one right?
WHy should we pay CGI for their work? Time for them to shoulder the pain.
As we age, the myriad systems that regulate blood and tissue function seem to be slowly degrading in a...well... death spiral. Metabolic syndrome is such a process. Blood sugar levels pitch up/down like the deck on s ship in a storm, dragging the body along for a unsettling ride towards diabetes, hypertension and overall degradation. This would be a great collection of symptoms to start with. Telomeres seem like another good place to start looking as cells can lose ability to self repair their DNA.... Nothing good can come from these!
So...we are warming the deeper waters, so they will tend to rise more? Ok...so there may be some local benefit. Say we put 20 of these in place in 100 square miles. Would this aggregate affect the larger currents that have developed over millions of years? We are not back to Pangea, but these currents have been there for a long time. Interrupting/short-circuiting them seems like tapping your blood pressure to make energy... at some point....it would change the balance. Are you saying there would be no change, or no change if we keep the scale in check?
Does Airplay and iCloud make the user dependant on outside services, or a protocol being ubiquitous?
Taking something that already exists and making it seem new is sad. Sorta like when compressed music files became iTunes and
sending them over an interweb connection became a podcast... decommoditizing -> Monetization - the new genius.
Seems Aapl users are guided into a dependant role whereas connectors (predictable ones like HDMI and USB) guide a user into a more adaptable usage.
Did they really need to change the base connector? How did that make everyone feel?
Sure the predictability of the iOS experience is tightly controlled, and perhaps is more stable, but, co-opetition is better for an evolving ecosystem.
Having replaced the earphone jack on iPhone 4s, I've not been impressed by the Design-for-manufacture. Modularity could be much better.
Might Android be buggier? Shame on Googles development process. Is seems like another Cathedral vs. Bazaar story...
Lets not forget hiding in the shadows to avoid taxes too! Lets be sure to look at the loopholes. I am all for industry that provides some service or societal benefit, but not just siphoning off anothers cash stream.
I took an iphone 4s apart the other day.. It was a study in how difficult it can be made to assemble. the entire phone had to come apart o replace the phone jack.
With a circuit board shaped like an "l", why would connectors/cables have to be run on top and under and around and over... Some one needs to get some DFM going on.
Yes... I did get it back together. Yes, it did work!
Has Aapple forgotten they just changed this port, and again we all have to buy -another- set of device-lets to leverage the wonderfull ness of what is really a commodity device? Surely there are better places to show off their innovation skills.
While I am not a tin-foil hat afficitionado, I can see both sides of this one. I don't want to pay for this data to be observed, evaluated, stored and... of course backed up and so on... I am not too concerned about others knowing what I am doing or thinking... in fact, I'd be proud if someone cared about what i though!
Just like I don't want to pay for the health insurance for someone who doesn't wear a helmet, I don't care to pay for someone to monitor every utterence of everybody....
Given a list of suspicious people... it seems to be within (existing) legal boundaries to monitor what that small subset says.. Lets stick with that. Oh.. and keep the costs down, OK?
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Leaving no child behind was more important than elevating those with the drive to push schools limits. Has it become difficult to distinguish disinterested / underperforming brainiacs from disinterested / less-capable students? Society needs all types, each to excell in their field, or excel in mediocrity. Its all good, just give a chance to those that will.
Due to the ubiquity of digital clocks, many dont know clockwise from counter-clockwise! Righty-Tighty, lefty-loosey - might be asking alot!
There are many things a robot might do for an elderly person - dispense meds, billing records, food prep, Monitoring (is anyone lying on the floor), Music, Blood Glucose tests, Putting on socks, shoes, initialing connections via skype or H.264 to family members, technology assist... where does it stop?
Great analogy... Once the human experience gets rational and predictable, then.... we can hope to have a comprehensive GUI tool for programming. We all suffer the vagaries of human input (is that really an email address??) and things like spaces in file names that confuse parsing, and the incessant need to confirm that ever step in a program -actually- worked.... Many of us have given up on the GUI and have learned to cope with our pals grep awk sed cut read while for case until (and the list goes on.... Waiting for that day when human experience is ultimately predictable.
We have regex. Its a tough nut in its entirety. Can we rewrite this for humans, clean up the syntax for operations, and couple it with a re-thought portable authentication mechanism and .... now we are talking about simplified productivity!!
The altruistic bits are one thing... but there are plenty of other things that are just sexy bullshit that he should have shut up about. Pointing out transgressions is one thing, but spilling all our secrets was for publicity, and puts our government at risk. Well.. if there is one thing, its time for us to come up with some new tricks.
Learning to be an inventive, adaptive and creative society can take decades. It takes an open society, one might say. Having a challenge and a focus drove us together. USA brought men to the moon and back in the sixties with technology that was infantile by comparison, and with live press coverage. With what we learned in the process, we brought many things to market, good and bad. We also learned the value of natural resources, and being in some level of harmony with nature. Our environmental controls kept junk out of waters, the air and land. When will we adopt international pollution standards? Lets not look to space as a plan-b in case this planet is turned into a waste pool.
Capitalism - sell something for as much as someone is willing to pay. Good for consumerism, bad for healthcare.
I just hope that this Moon/Mars thing isn't plan B in case their environmental policies destroy this planet. Hard to imagine being a human ... and flourishing in the confines of space. Kirk had a nack for finding places with breathable atmospheres, and hot space nymphs, but thats Hollywood. Flexing might and muscle without concern for anyone else is not recipe FTW.
One new thing is Mozilla pushing updates at me while I am using their product. As It is Saturday night, and I work in IT, i found my self working. Ok. Happens. While I am working feverishly on browser-access-to-console stuff, my browser locks up. Oh.. I was suppposed to know it was time for an update? Another is Java. Was take a remote/virtual training when the Java powered screen scraper (which worked great!! thanks NX for the Fedora compatible version!) decided that the JVM was not current (1.7_45 vs 1.7_51) and quit. SO I lost 20 minutes of class while I scrambled for a fix. Any cloud/Interweb based service could change how it works at any second,. Is this acceptible to businesses that think the sugary sweet cloud is so dreamy, but in reality its so far from a secure and predictable platform. Now this blatant demonstration of how the unwiting user is riding a rollercoaster in the dark, and fed chuff by and advertising machine that feels obligated to clamp ones eyes open like that scene from Clockwork Orange. The latest is now Verizon's Anti-Neutrality powers - http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/Saving-Money/2014/0116/Net-neutrality-ruling-How-Verizon-decision-affects-consumers Used to be that the Internet was a path to good information, it seems as comfortable/predictable/business-ready as a funhouse..... thats not too fun. Can we start a new internet?
When you hold a Gin-n-Tonic in your hand, the adult beverage stays at 32 Degrees (or thereabouts, based on many factors) until... that is .... all the ice melts. Then the whole glass warms up. Shouldn't we consider the ice pack at the poles in aggregate as our insurance policy - and not just the air temp around us? Once that ice is gone, what will a winter be? Its a bounded control volume. Consider the thickness of the air layer on the surface and the energy it contains, compared to the amount of energy it absorbs from the Sun, and compare it to what we are pumping into it, directly as thermal energy, as well what accumulates as we reconstitute the atmosphere with greenhouse gasses. We wont be affecting the core of the earth, but we could make the outer layers uninhabitable. adding 2 degrees a decade just makes it a matter of time. Business likes certainty. This seems to introduce uncertainty.
How about watching an episode of Mentalist, or NCIS or some other show with comparable content? How about watching an episode of Simpsons or Family guy? How about Aqua Teen Hunger Force?
Is there a deep seated conflict of interest though? Do good comments affect job security? It would seem that to get a promotion, you need others to follow up on the work you have completed. But this all goes away when you are let go or outsourced. There ... I said it!
This will save money, and improve healthcare outcomes. No upside to waiting 3 days for test results. Next stop - subdermal monitors!
Oracles (in)ability to ensure interoperability within its own software stacks should be evidence enough that they can be trusted for large scale integraion. As long as they stick with DB performance, OK... Redhat has more experience managing an ecosystem of technology,,, these are the guys and gals we need to have behind it.
Apparently, there are two problems with the deployment process (not the health care logic behind it)... First was that the code didn't scale, second is that it was not tested in a meaningful way to show it. Let me guess, it was built by the cheapest contractor and we assumed their leadership and subject matter expertise would guarantee success? Sounds like the contract clause that says payment is based on performance should be exercised. There is one right? WHy should we pay CGI for their work? Time for them to shoulder the pain.
As we age, the myriad systems that regulate blood and tissue function seem to be slowly degrading in a ...well... death spiral. Metabolic syndrome is such a process. Blood sugar levels pitch up/down like the deck on s ship in a storm, dragging the body along for a unsettling ride towards diabetes, hypertension and overall degradation. This would be a great collection of symptoms to start with. Telomeres seem like another good place to start looking as cells can lose ability to self repair their DNA.... Nothing good can come from these!
So...we are warming the deeper waters, so they will tend to rise more? Ok...so there may be some local benefit. Say we put 20 of these in place in 100 square miles. Would this aggregate affect the larger currents that have developed over millions of years? We are not back to Pangea, but these currents have been there for a long time. Interrupting /short-circuiting them seems like tapping your blood pressure to make energy... at some point....it would change the balance. Are you saying there would be no change, or no change if we keep the scale in check?
Does Airplay and iCloud make the user dependant on outside services, or a protocol being ubiquitous? Taking something that already exists and making it seem new is sad. Sorta like when compressed music files became iTunes and sending them over an interweb connection became a podcast... decommoditizing -> Monetization - the new genius. Seems Aapl users are guided into a dependant role whereas connectors (predictable ones like HDMI and USB) guide a user into a more adaptable usage. Did they really need to change the base connector? How did that make everyone feel? Sure the predictability of the iOS experience is tightly controlled, and perhaps is more stable, but, co-opetition is better for an evolving ecosystem. Having replaced the earphone jack on iPhone 4s, I've not been impressed by the Design-for-manufacture. Modularity could be much better. Might Android be buggier? Shame on Googles development process. Is seems like another Cathedral vs. Bazaar story...
Lets not forget hiding in the shadows to avoid taxes too! Lets be sure to look at the loopholes. I am all for industry that provides some service or societal benefit, but not just siphoning off anothers cash stream.
Might be easier to just load Linux flavor du jour and be done with it. Or is that now illegal?
I took an iphone 4s apart the other day.. It was a study in how difficult it can be made to assemble. the entire phone had to come apart o replace the phone jack. With a circuit board shaped like an "l", why would connectors/cables have to be run on top and under and around and over ... Some one needs to get some DFM going on.
Yes... I did get it back together. Yes, it did work!
Thats so the parts can break off deeper inside the phone.. Anyone out there ever replace a phone jack on a 4s?
Has Aapple forgotten they just changed this port, and again we all have to buy -another- set of device-lets to leverage the wonderfull ness of what is really a commodity device? Surely there are better places to show off their innovation skills.
While I am not a tin-foil hat afficitionado, I can see both sides of this one. I don't want to pay for this data to be observed, evaluated, stored and ... of course backed up and so on... I am not too concerned about others knowing what I am doing or thinking... in fact, I'd be proud if someone cared about what i though!
Just like I don't want to pay for the health insurance for someone who doesn't wear a helmet, I don't care to pay for someone to monitor every utterence of everybody....
Given a list of suspicious people... it seems to be within (existing) legal boundaries to monitor what that small subset says.. Lets stick with that. Oh.. and keep the costs down, OK?