Neither party cares about the people or even knows what NN is.
What annoys me, is that both parties have transformed the NN issue into their own political football, which they both kick around, trying to score points for their party, while making them look better, and the other party look worse.
The NN football and the people are the ones that always lose in this match.
Another is exacerbated by the communication problem, when faced with the depressing reality that you can't do things fast enough, businesses think more people == faster. In pursuit of this ideal, work is forcibly divided into uselessly small chunks, requiring insane amounts of coordination and utterly destroying individual competency across the product.
Companies will not even talk to an individual inventor. Most of their inventions are either crap,
In today's IT world . . . never underestimate the value of crap.
something close to what is already being done,
Lots of big companies "incentivize" employees to produce a quota number of "potentially patentable" ideas from their normal project work.
It's kinda sorta like getting latrine duty in the army:
Project Manager:"OK, we're through with all the business for this meeting . . . but we still need our patent submission for this year . . . anyone willing to volunteer . . . or do I need to punish someone?"
or something the company may come up with on their own.
Oh, it's even worse than that . . . my employer has first dibs rights on any patent idea that I have . . . even if it has absolutely nothing to do with their business area.
In other words, if I am sitting on the toilet, and think about an idea for Toilet Paper Next Generation . . . I need to present it to my company's patent lawyers first. Then they can reject it, and let me pursue it on my own.
Unfortunately, that's the current state of the patent system . . . and probably not for what it was originally intended.
It was THE worst mail interface and groupware suit I have ever had the misfortune to use.
Now I wonder if any folks around here are old enough to have used the old IBM mainframe email system called PROFS. The thing was later rebranded as OfficeVision . . . and then they tried to port it to PCs as OfficeVision/2 . . . oh, which ran . . . or didn't . . . on OS/2.
Yeah, I'm sounding like the Monty Python "When I was a lad we lived in a cardboard box by the side of the road" guy.
I found it amusing that when IBM bought Lotus, they added the "lightning bolt" icon . . . that was normal on SNA 3270 "snorkel" terminals.
More interesting on this story, is that IBM appears to be bailing out on the "Social/Collaborative" market.
I have always had an issue with the name "Human Resources" Turning people into a product to be mined, used up, then discarded, just like a strip mine. Resources.
Yep, I'm thinking that the word exploited is what you are looking for . . . what the HR folks think . . . but would never dare to say.
I'm rather curious what would have been used as the next form of tie-breaking if rapid chess proved no better at establishing a victor. Even more rapid chess?
. . . I'm thinking chainsaw chess. Every time a player loses a piece, the opponent gets to whack the other player with a chainsaw.
Let the player feel the pain of losing a pawn!
The player who is no longer able to hold the chainsaw loses.
Just a wild thought . . . but maybe some English speaking folks could learn a lot by exchanging ideas with Chinese speakers. And then we could quit with China bashing.
But Chinese seems very impenetrable to Anglophile folks like me, although I did manage to learn to speak German fluently. Maybe the government of China could come up with a BASIC-like version of Chinese . . . or, like a version of Python, called "Chithon". And then get other folks in the world talking Chinese.
Post a link for me . . . I'll sign up for a link for "Learning Chinese for folks who can't get their heads or elbows out of their asses and don't know the difference".
“What doesn't kill you makes y'all stronger” -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Getting fresh blood and ideas in a project . . . or being the fresh blood . . . enables everyone to share, um, err, steal . . . ideas that work.
Hey, programmers are the poster children of evolution . . . we'll gladly adopt and accept anything that makes our lives easier.
Think of it like plantation slaves in the Old South of the USA . . . the slaves were only given the most awful tasting remains of any meat . . . but learned to make them tasty with innovative cooking techniques and spices.
In a programming project . . . you are sometimes dished up with some God-awful technology . . . having someone new come in, with a new set of spices in their pockets, makes life more palatable for all.
Can someone tell me why I only hear this kind of "E. Coli scare" only in developed countries?
Maybe the local folks in under developed countries have more of an acquired or natural immunity to nasty critters in the water that would make a lot of developed country folks get the backdoor trots?
This is why some of the critters that Europeans schlepped into the New World wreaked havoc among the natives.
Jarod Diamond covered diseases as being one of the things that a civilization needs to conquer another in a book titled, "Guns, Germans and Steel".
Fossil fuels were put in the ground by Satan to confuse innocent God-fearing creationists. Emissions such as sulfur dioxide are harmful to humans because they originate from Hell. Global warming is actually a plot by Satan to terraform Earth to more resemble his domain./s
For me, the most annoying thing about flying is . . . some of the other passengers.
Folks fighting with each other while trying to skimp on check-in fees by trying to stuff all their entire worldly belongings into the overhead bins.
Small children who obviously need their own seat, and are too young to travel anyway . . . but the parents MUST take them now, because next year, they will have . . . *gasp* . . . PAY for their ticket!
Folks who can't fit in one seat . . . but refuse to reserve two seats, and blubber over the arm rest.
. . . and with that . . . the airlines achieve what they really want . . . folks like me are now more willing to buy a business or first class ticket.
Make movies that don't suck *or* halve the admission price -- problem solved.
I've never understood why good movies cost the same as bad movies.
The movie industry financial folks have calculated that the demand curve is extremely inelastic. Even if they lower the price . . . more people won't go to see bad movies. Those folks will probably have a complex linear programming model to support this, but, in general, people tend to suspect that anything steeply discounted isn't top quality.
Try these two propositions on your mate:
"Let's have a fine bottle of wine with dinner, and then go see a good movie.
"Let's have a box of Walmart wine with dinner, and then go see a cheap movie.
With wine, a lot of folks will rather pass as opposed to drinking Walmart box wine. Is it really worth all the effort to go out to see that cheap, bad movie . . . ? Just the fact that the movie folks offer it cheaper indicates that even they know that it is bad.
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People Are Harassing Waymo's Self-Driving Vehicles
Self-Driving Vehicles Are Harassing Waymo's People . . . would be more interesting.
Self-Driving Vehicles Are Harassing Waymo's Self-Driving Vehicles . . . would be the pinnacle.
Neither party cares about the people or even knows what NN is.
What annoys me, is that both parties have transformed the NN issue into their own political football, which they both kick around, trying to score points for their party, while making them look better, and the other party look worse.
The NN football and the people are the ones that always lose in this match.
Another is exacerbated by the communication problem, when faced with the depressing reality that you can't do things fast enough, businesses think more people == faster. In pursuit of this ideal, work is forcibly divided into uselessly small chunks, requiring insane amounts of coordination and utterly destroying individual competency across the product.
That sounds like Brooke's Law to me:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Now, in a month, I will let you know if my team of nine women have been able to produce a baby . . .
I was thinking more like . . .
"Food Stamp Recipients Urge US To Continue Support For Food Stamp Program"
Companies will not even talk to an individual inventor. Most of their inventions are either crap,
In today's IT world . . . never underestimate the value of crap.
something close to what is already being done,
Lots of big companies "incentivize" employees to produce a quota number of "potentially patentable" ideas from their normal project work.
It's kinda sorta like getting latrine duty in the army:
Project Manager: "OK, we're through with all the business for this meeting . . . but we still need our patent submission for this year . . . anyone willing to volunteer . . . or do I need to punish someone?"
or something the company may come up with on their own.
Oh, it's even worse than that . . . my employer has first dibs rights on any patent idea that I have . . . even if it has absolutely nothing to do with their business area.
In other words, if I am sitting on the toilet, and think about an idea for Toilet Paper Next Generation . . . I need to present it to my company's patent lawyers first. Then they can reject it, and let me pursue it on my own.
Unfortunately, that's the current state of the patent system . . . and probably not for what it was originally intended.
The solution is to fix the patent system, not to shame individual companies into being less greedy.
. . . so what are your thoughts on how to fix the patent system . . . ?
My fear is that, whatever better patent system we come up with, the Big Patent industry will find ways to abuse and exploit that, as well.
Can't we send a 3D printer to the Asteroid Belt or the center of the Earth to make solar panels and send them to us?
Can't we just make solar panels out of coal . . . ?
We seem to have enough of that now, that nobody wants.
And think of the brilliant irony, of former coal miners now producing solar panels.
Those responsible for the lies . . . have been sacked:
https://news.slashdot.org/stor...
Those responsible for the sacking . . . will also be sacked:
https://news.slashdot.org/stor...
It was THE worst mail interface and groupware suit I have ever had the misfortune to use.
Now I wonder if any folks around here are old enough to have used the old IBM mainframe email system called PROFS. The thing was later rebranded as OfficeVision . . . and then they tried to port it to PCs as OfficeVision/2 . . . oh, which ran . . . or didn't . . . on OS/2.
Yeah, I'm sounding like the Monty Python "When I was a lad we lived in a cardboard box by the side of the road" guy.
I found it amusing that when IBM bought Lotus, they added the "lightning bolt" icon . . . that was normal on SNA 3270 "snorkel" terminals.
More interesting on this story, is that IBM appears to be bailing out on the "Social/Collaborative" market.
I have always had an issue with the name "Human Resources" Turning people into a product to be mined, used up, then discarded, just like a strip mine. Resources.
Yep, I'm thinking that the word exploited is what you are looking for . . . what the HR folks think . . . but would never dare to say.
... unemployed and has been fired too many times.
. . . now if Watson HR decided to fire itself . . . that would be amusing . . .
I'm rather curious what would have been used as the next form of tie-breaking if rapid chess proved no better at establishing a victor. Even more rapid chess?
. . . I'm thinking chainsaw chess. Every time a player loses a piece, the opponent gets to whack the other player with a chainsaw.
Let the player feel the pain of losing a pawn!
The player who is no longer able to hold the chainsaw loses.
We could learn from the Chinese.
We could learn Chinese.
Just a wild thought . . . but maybe some English speaking folks could learn a lot by exchanging ideas with Chinese speakers. And then we could quit with China bashing.
But Chinese seems very impenetrable to Anglophile folks like me, although I did manage to learn to speak German fluently. Maybe the government of China could come up with a BASIC-like version of Chinese . . . or, like a version of Python, called "Chithon". And then get other folks in the world talking Chinese.
Post a link for me . . . I'll sign up for a link for "Learning Chinese for folks who can't get their heads or elbows out of their asses and don't know the difference".
"Lawmakers Introduce Bill To Stop Bots"
"Bots Introduce Bill To Stop Lawmakers"
We'll have that soon . . . or maybe we have it already . . .
The fact that we survived for thousands of years without them means civilization / society can certainly exist without them.
. . . I dunno . . . maybe we have misinterpreted prehistoric cave paintings.
Maybe, they were, in fact, just prehistoric ads . . . . ?
"Use Ugg's spearheads to kill tasty mammoths like those pictured on this wall!"
Some folks claim that prostitution is the oldest human profession . . . I think that the advertising folks were not too far behind.
Does Switching Jobs Make You a Worse Programmer?
No . . . it makes y'all better programmers!
Your title: Struggle is growth . . . alt title:
“What doesn't kill you makes y'all stronger” -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Getting fresh blood and ideas in a project . . . or being the fresh blood . . . enables everyone to share, um, err, steal . . . ideas that work.
Hey, programmers are the poster children of evolution . . . we'll gladly adopt and accept anything that makes our lives easier.
Think of it like plantation slaves in the Old South of the USA . . . the slaves were only given the most awful tasting remains of any meat . . . but learned to make them tasty with innovative cooking techniques and spices.
In a programming project . . . you are sometimes dished up with some God-awful technology . . . having someone new come in, with a new set of spices in their pockets, makes life more palatable for all.
Can someone tell me why I only hear this kind of "E. Coli scare" only in developed countries?
Maybe the local folks in under developed countries have more of an acquired or natural immunity to nasty critters in the water that would make a lot of developed country folks get the backdoor trots?
This is why some of the critters that Europeans schlepped into the New World wreaked havoc among the natives.
Jarod Diamond covered diseases as being one of the things that a civilization needs to conquer another in a book titled, "Guns, Germans and Steel" .
My guess is that you've got more than 20 applications already.
My guess, it that the 20 "winners" are politically well connected and were planning on moving to Tulsa anyway.
And will have been selected, before the "program" was even announced.
20 folks are a gimmick . . . 2000 would be a program.
Fossil fuels were put in the ground by Satan to confuse innocent God-fearing creationists. Emissions such as sulfur dioxide are harmful to humans because they originate from Hell. Global warming is actually a plot by Satan to terraform Earth to more resemble his domain. /s
Albert Einstein: "God does not play dice!"
Niels Bohr: "Stop telling Satan what to do!"
...that they didn't complain about ticket prices.
"This airline food tastes terrible!"
"Yeah, and the portions are too small!"
For me, the most annoying thing about flying is . . . some of the other passengers.
Folks fighting with each other while trying to skimp on check-in fees by trying to stuff all their entire worldly belongings into the overhead bins.
Small children who obviously need their own seat, and are too young to travel anyway . . . but the parents MUST take them now, because next year, they will have . . . *gasp* . . . PAY for their ticket!
Folks who can't fit in one seat . . . but refuse to reserve two seats, and blubber over the arm rest.
. . . and with that . . . the airlines achieve what they really want . . . folks like me are now more willing to buy a business or first class ticket.
If it deployed a light sail upon leaving the solar system, the sail would be reflecting sunlight back at us now.
The advanced alien sail technology is constructed of dark matter and powered by dark energy.
A sail big enough to accelerate an object of that size would be visible.
You need to apply the definitions of real and virtual here:
If it's there, and you can see it . . . it's real.
If it's not there, but you can see it . . . it's virtual.
If it's not there, and you can't see it . . . it's gone.
I'm sure everyone who wants one already owns one.
I'm sure some folks who already own one have discovered that they don't really want one.
Make movies that don't suck *or* halve the admission price -- problem solved.
I've never understood why good movies cost the same as bad movies.
The movie industry financial folks have calculated that the demand curve is extremely inelastic. Even if they lower the price . . . more people won't go to see bad movies. Those folks will probably have a complex linear programming model to support this, but, in general, people tend to suspect that anything steeply discounted isn't top quality.
Try these two propositions on your mate:
"Let's have a fine bottle of wine with dinner, and then go see a good movie.
"Let's have a box of Walmart wine with dinner, and then go see a cheap movie.
With wine, a lot of folks will rather pass as opposed to drinking Walmart box wine. Is it really worth all the effort to go out to see that cheap, bad movie . . . ? Just the fact that the movie folks offer it cheaper indicates that even they know that it is bad.
Just about everything tastes better when you add sugar and fat.
Just about everything tastes better when you add ketchup and bacon.
I haven't seen it anywhere with coffee, though.
I'll leave it as an exercise for the readers to try it with their coffee.
Instead of trying to make a movie to make a generic consumer happy, make a quality movie that people who like quality cinema can recognize.
They don't want to make quality movies. They want to make movies that make money.
A quality movie might come out as a waste product.
But then, it depends on how you define quality. Run Run Shaw was once asked, "What type of movies do you like best?"
He answered, "Those that make money."