I'd like to see a machine that was programmed with the personality of Turing. "Hey, like, wow, I'm talking to Turing himself!" Of course, if the machine could fool Turing, himself, into thinking that the machine was himself, that would be even better. "I'm going crazy! I'm talking to myself!" Or, since Turing is dead, how about two machines, that can convince each other, that they are both Turing?
If we can do that, we could solve a lot of our political problems. The current crop of candidates in the world are all sorrowfully lame. How about we build a machine with the personality of Gandhi, Jesus H. Christ, Dr. House or "Colossus: The Forbin Project" to rule us . . . ?
That's what the business/financial folks read. It will give you a feel for the terrain that you will be trekking through. It's good to be able to converse in the language of the natives. Just like IT has its specific issue areas, business/financial has them as well.
Persians now live outside of Persia, because Persia is ruled by Iranians, who kicked them out of Iran for political and religious reasons. Although politics and religion are the same in Iran. I don't know how it was in Persia; ask a Persian (but not an Iranian). Persians and Iranians are not particularly fond of each other, and they can easily identify each other, because they both speak Farsi. So if an Iranian customer tried to buy an American iPad (made in China), from a Persian salesperson, and said, in Farsi, that it was bound for Iran (and not Persia), which the salesperson remembers as Persia, trouble was bound to happen.
Does that clear it up for you?
Oh, and Martha Stewart recommends NOT inviting Persians and Iranians to the same dinner party.
Now, you can run into similar problems when asking an Arab about the Persian Gulf, or an Iranian (or a Persian) about the Arabian Gulf . . .
That whole area of the world is God's Monkey House, if you ask me.
. . . do you need to dispatch a rattler as long as a European soccer penalty kick in your own back yard. Folks shootin' varmints on their own land tend to have a vested interest in no fires gettin' started. If your neighbors are as well armed as you are, you won't start no fires that would endanger their houses neither.
"Of course it's a sad fact that experienced shooters generally don't drink and shoot, so for safety's sake, I recommend shooting with experienced drinkers." - Places To Shoot, Things To Shoot, The Gun Fag Manifesto
That doesn't matter. If we just keep firing in every direction, we're bound to hit something, sooner or later.
Maybe this will lead to our first contact with Aliens? Think of it as a kinda sorta proactive SETI. We will eventually hit aliens, and they will show up and holler:
"Hey! Y'all been shootin' 'round lasers every which way? That shit ain't funny!"
. LIDAR gear, like we all have one, and go take mapping data for my neighbourhood...
From Wikipedia,
LIDAR (Light Detection And Ranging, also LADAR) is an optical remote sensing technology that can measure the distance to, or other properties of a target by illuminating the target with light, often using pulses from a laser.
The next time you are driving, look at the car behind you in the rear view mirror. If a shark is driving the car, the chances are, that he has a LIDAR on the roof!
Running the Internet is easy. All the work is done on remote routers during the early morning hours on weekends by a race of Nibelung living their moms' basements. Or so the ancient Saga claims.
Inventing the Internet must have been a bitch and a half. We all probably owe someone gazillions in Intellectual Poopery fees for doing that.
They get paid billable hours for litigating. They get paid less for "getting along" with opposing legal teams. Going to war is more profitable for the legal teams of both sides. At least an army general may be reluctant to go to war, because he cares about the loss of life and morale of his soldiers. Lawyers don't suffer when they lose a case. They get paid more billable hours for an appeal.
"Contrary to the public interest" is not even a concern here. How do we change this? Well, maybe we need Congress to reform some laws . . . ?
. . . Oh, but what are their occupations, outside of Congress . . . they are all lawyers . . . ?
. . . Ok, I think I understand how the system works now . . .
Yes, they did ask. But the women got all in a big huff, and snapped back, "You SHOULD know that already, and SHOULDN'T need to ask. You're simply don't CARE about us, or pay us any attention."
If it was computer geeks taking the survey, they probably wouldn't get any answers from females anyway, so they might as well try to create some abstract association.
Oh, that ought to go down really well, like a loud fart during the silent prayer in church, with school boards that want to ban the teaching of evolution and advance Intelligent Creationism Design.
Philosophy and dogma don't mix well. And philosophy tends to be blasphemous to boot.
Didn't the Spanish Inquisition get rid of all those meddlesome philosopher kids?
No, the First Rider of the Apocalypse is an ex-Microsoft executive moving in as the new CEO. The Second is his retinue of more ex-Microsoft executives, who conquer important operating executive posts. The Third is the announcement of the new Windows Phone strategy.
I'd rather have a big fraction of our workforce be highly competent in mathematics
You can build a more powerful supercomputer, but you can't educate your workforce beyond their intelligence. Especially, when they have no desire to be educated.
You can overclock a processor. I haven't seen this successfully tested on humans yet. The results of own experiments with my Tesla Tower and the neighborhood kids were rather unpleasant.
Slashdot Mirror
And yet the story keeps coming back.
Yes, it comes back every time the research project funding comes up for renewal.
It should say software developers "are paid." Whether they actually "earn" it . . . is an entirely different matter.
I'd like to see a machine that was programmed with the personality of Turing. "Hey, like, wow, I'm talking to Turing himself!" Of course, if the machine could fool Turing, himself, into thinking that the machine was himself, that would be even better. "I'm going crazy! I'm talking to myself!" Or, since Turing is dead, how about two machines, that can convince each other, that they are both Turing?
If we can do that, we could solve a lot of our political problems. The current crop of candidates in the world are all sorrowfully lame. How about we build a machine with the personality of Gandhi, Jesus H. Christ, Dr. House or "Colossus: The Forbin Project" to rule us . . . ?
DARPA is working on that version. A fire-breathing drone, to scare the bejesus out of the natives.
That's what the business/financial folks read. It will give you a feel for the terrain that you will be trekking through. It's good to be able to converse in the language of the natives. Just like IT has its specific issue areas, business/financial has them as well.
And it's fun to read and informative, as well.
Persians now live outside of Persia, because Persia is ruled by Iranians, who kicked them out of Iran for political and religious reasons. Although politics and religion are the same in Iran. I don't know how it was in Persia; ask a Persian (but not an Iranian). Persians and Iranians are not particularly fond of each other, and they can easily identify each other, because they both speak Farsi. So if an Iranian customer tried to buy an American iPad (made in China), from a Persian salesperson, and said, in Farsi, that it was bound for Iran (and not Persia), which the salesperson remembers as Persia, trouble was bound to happen.
Does that clear it up for you?
Oh, and Martha Stewart recommends NOT inviting Persians and Iranians to the same dinner party.
Now, you can run into similar problems when asking an Arab about the Persian Gulf, or an Iranian (or a Persian) about the Arabian Gulf . . .
That whole area of the world is God's Monkey House, if you ask me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem
And a lot of folks won't give a rat's ass anyway, if an overheated LA burned down, fell over, and sank into the swamp.
Call it Urban Improvement.
the peasants with guns everywhere
The US was founded by peasants with guns.
the lack of sensible laws...
Back then, that law was called the Tea Act, a tax passed by the British Parliament, on the colonists. We all know how that ended.
Moral of the story? Don't try to tax peasants with guns too much.
. . . do you need to dispatch a rattler as long as a European soccer penalty kick in your own back yard. Folks shootin' varmints on their own land tend to have a vested interest in no fires gettin' started. If your neighbors are as well armed as you are, you won't start no fires that would endanger their houses neither.
"Of course it's a sad fact that experienced shooters generally don't drink and shoot, so for safety's sake, I recommend shooting with experienced drinkers." - Places To Shoot, Things To Shoot, The Gun Fag Manifesto
SAP = Scheiss auf Privatleben
"Shit on your private life."
No, like Playboy, we're just looking at the pictures, despite what we may tell others.
This sounds like a setup for a mediocre one liner:
"There is nothing seriously wrong with me, that a good _______ won't take care of"
Any suggestions . . . ? Google itself offered me this:
"there is nothing wrong with me that a little chocolate won't fix"
I am confident that Slashdotters are puerile enough to come up with something better.
That doesn't matter. If we just keep firing in every direction, we're bound to hit something, sooner or later.
Maybe this will lead to our first contact with Aliens? Think of it as a kinda sorta proactive SETI. We will eventually hit aliens, and they will show up and holler:
"Hey! Y'all been shootin' 'round lasers every which way? That shit ain't funny!"
. . . $50,000 is probably chump change for you anyway.
A neat toy to park next to your DeLorean.
. LIDAR gear, like we all have one, and go take mapping data for my neighbourhood...
From Wikipedia,
LIDAR (Light Detection And Ranging, also LADAR) is an optical remote sensing technology that can measure the distance to, or other properties of a target by illuminating the target with light, often using pulses from a laser.
The next time you are driving, look at the car behind you in the rear view mirror. If a shark is driving the car, the chances are, that he has a LIDAR on the roof!
Running the Internet is easy. All the work is done on remote routers during the early morning hours on weekends by a race of Nibelung living their moms' basements. Or so the ancient Saga claims.
Inventing the Internet must have been a bitch and a half. We all probably owe someone gazillions in Intellectual Poopery fees for doing that.
"They", whoever "they" are, are trying to mess with the systems used to enrich uranium for bombs; centrifuges and the like.
And "they" cannot resist the opportunity to stick a weed up Iran's ass, whatever the consequences.
They get paid billable hours for litigating. They get paid less for "getting along" with opposing legal teams. Going to war is more profitable for the legal teams of both sides. At least an army general may be reluctant to go to war, because he cares about the loss of life and morale of his soldiers. Lawyers don't suffer when they lose a case. They get paid more billable hours for an appeal.
"Contrary to the public interest" is not even a concern here. How do we change this? Well, maybe we need Congress to reform some laws . . . ?
. . . Oh, but what are their occupations, outside of Congress . . . they are all lawyers . . . ?
. . . Ok, I think I understand how the system works now . . .
And great entertainment for astronomers: http://io9.com/5358622/astronaut-urine-creates-a-surprisingly-attractive-light-show
Has anyone bothered to ask women directly
Yes, they did ask. But the women got all in a big huff, and snapped back, "You SHOULD know that already, and SHOULDN'T need to ask. You're simply don't CARE about us, or pay us any attention."
If it was computer geeks taking the survey, they probably wouldn't get any answers from females anyway, so they might as well try to create some abstract association.
Oh, that ought to go down really well, like a loud fart during the silent prayer in church, with school boards that want to ban the teaching of evolution and advance Intelligent Creationism Design.
Philosophy and dogma don't mix well. And philosophy tends to be blasphemous to boot.
Didn't the Spanish Inquisition get rid of all those meddlesome philosopher kids?
Yeah, I think the last time we dealt with the products of angry German scientists, it didn't go well.
Well, their products got us to the moon and back. Maybe if we turn up the water temperature, they will produce some again?
Does anyone know how hot the Chinese keep their scientists? It must be pretty high, considering China's recent achievements in space.
"Yo! Turn on the supercomputer, and hose down the scientists! We're all going into outer space!"
No, the First Rider of the Apocalypse is an ex-Microsoft executive moving in as the new CEO. The Second is his retinue of more ex-Microsoft executives, who conquer important operating executive posts. The Third is the announcement of the new Windows Phone strategy.
The Fourth, is reading the obituary on Slashdot.
I'd rather have a big fraction of our workforce be highly competent in mathematics
You can build a more powerful supercomputer, but you can't educate your workforce beyond their intelligence. Especially, when they have no desire to be educated.
You can overclock a processor. I haven't seen this successfully tested on humans yet. The results of own experiments with my Tesla Tower and the neighborhood kids were rather unpleasant.
Pack and bring your own in a paper bag or a lunch box.