You forget that you are not the customer. You are the product. Google's customers are its advertisers and the Web sites that host its advertisements, and those people do indeed get jerked around by Google.
If you are advertising your business, and you're not advertising on Google, I don't know you exist. Neither do most other of your potential customers. If you want to succeed as a business, you want to actually reach your potential customers, and the leaves you only one real choice.
Your ability to switch to Bing doesn't matter, because you aren't the customer, you are the product. Even on Bing, as soon as you click a link, you'll be viewing ads sold by...Google.
I can believe that intersections might be more efficient if controlled by computers. But 100 times? That sounds like a cherry-picked scenario. I live in Houston, where there is congestion everywhere. I highly doubt that computer control could achieve 100 times the efficiency.
The article didn't say how many cars per minute / hour were simulated in the test, but I'd bet it was small enough that most cars could get through without stopping. Those kinds of intersections are already not a problem. When you start introducing REAL congestion, every algorithm will eventually break down.
- Apple - don't use it at all - Amazon - I use it, but don't depend on it - Facebook - only check once in a while when I get a notification that one of my family members posted something. If Facebook disappeared, there are other services that work just as well. - Microsoft - I use Windows a lot, but these days, there are alternatives that work about as well. Who really cares about the OS, when all you do is browse the Web and check your email! - Google - Nobody can duplicate what Google does with Search. Not even close. I remember life before Google.com. It was a lot harder to find out things I wanted to know. Google is almost magic. Bing and Yahoo don't even come close. MapQuest and Garmin don't come close to Google Maps and Navigation. Without Google, I'd be lost, figuratively and sometimes literally! There is no adequate replacement for what Google does.
Hmm, well i have universal healthcare and i sure as shit appreciate it.
I think you didn't catch the nuance of "appreciate" here. If you are an artist, you can appreciate art in a way that others can't. If you worked hard to build something, you appreciate it in a way that others can't. Those who don't work for something tend to take it for granted. You get your free healthcare, and you expect it, and you may even be grateful for it. But you don't appreciate it in the same way as someone who understands the costs.
If I'm part of the 10%, I'm not going to work my butt off so the rest of you 90% can sit around and enjoy the fruits of my labor! You 90% can go find your own free healthcare! I'll bet most of the rest of the 10% will feel the same way. (I know it's not 90/10, I'm just using your numbers.)
What you are describing was once called communism. It doesn't work, as evidenced by all communist regimes either descending into dictatorships like Russia, North Korea, Cuba, and Venezuela, or straying from their communist ideals like China. Even Europe, with all it's lofty ideals, is having trouble keeping the boat from sinking. It's not going to get any better.
Work for pay is the only system yet developed that accounts for human nature, and therefore keeps us alive.
If we stop having to work for money, society will collapse. Then we won't have an automation problem any longer.
People only appreciate the things they have to work for. It's easy to see this in anyone's children who never had to work for anything. They are called "spoiled" for a reason.
Work is a critical need for humans to thrive. It's hard to transition from one kind of work to another, but it can be done. We've done it many times since the start of the industrial revolution. We will do it again.
Yet somehow, with all that automation, we are at less than 4% unemployment, lower than the number considered by economists to be "full" employment. I'm not ready to run for cover from the falling sky just yet.
I don't see the relationship between COBOL and C#. COBOL was very focused on data entry and reporting. C# has no such focus. Sure, it can do those things, but it is also really good at handling media and yes, even heavy math. If raw power is what's needed, C++ is probably a better option.
Apple does most of its own manufacturing in Asia. If they really want to create manufacturing jobs in the US, how about just bringing some of their own manufacturing back to the US!
If you look at the actual report, you can see that men actually report leaving jobs due to unfairness more often than women. There are a lot of patterns shown in the report that aren't reflected accurately in the summary.
It seems to me that we haven't really gotten past the moon yet. How about establishing a base or two there, build some stable science, refueling, and manufacturing capabilities there, and THEN start worrying about the trip to Mars.
If they can find Cobol programmers, more power to them! If they can't, let the survival of the fittest weed out the banks that won't do what it takes to survive.
No, but they do come with a "cone of uncertainty" that gets larger the farther into the future you predict.
Software development predictions also come with a cone of uncertainty. You can predict pretty accurately how much you can get done in the next week or two, but those predictions get less accurate the farther into the future you look.
Perhaps Jack Ma has such low self-esteem that he could be replaced by a robot. Or maybe he thinks that what CEOs do is nothing more than following a set of heuristics. Either explanation might explain why he thinks robots could do the job.
I've been using Outlook at work for years. The experience is hardly a selling point to lure me away from GMail! I so wish my company would switch to GMail for Business, it's so much easier and more intuitive to use. Not to mention, Outlook stinks at search.
For all those who think Edge is the best browser, you should probably sign up for this new Microsoft GMail service. For the rest of us, not so much.
You obviously don't live in a coastal area, where the humidity is so high that clothes don't dry in the sun, and it rains so often that your clothes are likely to come in wetter than they went out.
You have to 1) reduce your cost of living, or 2) increase your income, or both.
There are no other options!
There is no such thing as "the" cost of living. There is only "your" cost of living, which you can largely control.
No, you don't have to have that cable TV and high speed Internet and iPhone with Verizon and a new(ish) car and eat meals from restaurants (or fast food) and live in a 3+ bedroom house. If your income really is that low, you can do what I did, and more recently, what my son did, and find roommates to help pay the rent.
The problem is, we Americans have come to expect a certain standard of living, and choose to live at that level, even if our incomes don't support it. The math just doesn't work out. But then, I know they don't teach that so much in schools these days.
23andMe was banned from producing health analysis reports by the FDA in 2013, and recently was finally approved to release certain health reports after a lengthy, expensive process.
Yes, a device such as a medical tricorder would certainly have to be certified by the FDA in the US.
SQL injection is a simple, crude form of hacking that is easily prevented. Every Web developer worth his salt creates Web forms that block SQL injection. If your site gets hacked via SQL injection, it's your fault as much as it is the "hacker's" fault.
This trigger phrase hack is equally crude and equally easy to prevent. Google and Amazon and Apple weren't thinking too far ahead on this one.
When you buy something using your phone or computer, you have to provide a password. Why oh why would we want to remove that kind of restriction from voice-activated devices? At the very least, they should train themselves to obey only their owners' commands.
No, not true. If you work in AI, you know that it's possible to understand how to train an AI, and how to diagnose issues. No, it's not the same as the procedural algorithms we're used to using, but it's not "unknown"!
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You forget that you are not the customer. You are the product. Google's customers are its advertisers and the Web sites that host its advertisements, and those people do indeed get jerked around by Google.
No, as an advertiser, you can't so easily switch.
If you are advertising your business, and you're not advertising on Google, I don't know you exist. Neither do most other of your potential customers. If you want to succeed as a business, you want to actually reach your potential customers, and the leaves you only one real choice.
Your ability to switch to Bing doesn't matter, because you aren't the customer, you are the product. Even on Bing, as soon as you click a link, you'll be viewing ads sold by...Google.
I can believe that intersections might be more efficient if controlled by computers. But 100 times? That sounds like a cherry-picked scenario. I live in Houston, where there is congestion everywhere. I highly doubt that computer control could achieve 100 times the efficiency.
The article didn't say how many cars per minute / hour were simulated in the test, but I'd bet it was small enough that most cars could get through without stopping. Those kinds of intersections are already not a problem. When you start introducing REAL congestion, every algorithm will eventually break down.
They added WhatsApp, Telegram, and Messenger? Sold!
No, not really. Are those REALLY what people want in 2017???
- Apple - don't use it at all
- Amazon - I use it, but don't depend on it
- Facebook - only check once in a while when I get a notification that one of my family members posted something. If Facebook disappeared, there are other services that work just as well.
- Microsoft - I use Windows a lot, but these days, there are alternatives that work about as well. Who really cares about the OS, when all you do is browse the Web and check your email!
- Google - Nobody can duplicate what Google does with Search. Not even close. I remember life before Google.com. It was a lot harder to find out things I wanted to know. Google is almost magic. Bing and Yahoo don't even come close. MapQuest and Garmin don't come close to Google Maps and Navigation. Without Google, I'd be lost, figuratively and sometimes literally! There is no adequate replacement for what Google does.
Hmm, well i have universal healthcare and i sure as shit appreciate it.
I think you didn't catch the nuance of "appreciate" here. If you are an artist, you can appreciate art in a way that others can't. If you worked hard to build something, you appreciate it in a way that others can't. Those who don't work for something tend to take it for granted. You get your free healthcare, and you expect it, and you may even be grateful for it. But you don't appreciate it in the same way as someone who understands the costs.
If I'm part of the 10%, I'm not going to work my butt off so the rest of you 90% can sit around and enjoy the fruits of my labor! You 90% can go find your own free healthcare! I'll bet most of the rest of the 10% will feel the same way. (I know it's not 90/10, I'm just using your numbers.)
What you are describing was once called communism. It doesn't work, as evidenced by all communist regimes either descending into dictatorships like Russia, North Korea, Cuba, and Venezuela, or straying from their communist ideals like China. Even Europe, with all it's lofty ideals, is having trouble keeping the boat from sinking. It's not going to get any better.
Work for pay is the only system yet developed that accounts for human nature, and therefore keeps us alive.
If we stop having to work for money, society will collapse. Then we won't have an automation problem any longer.
People only appreciate the things they have to work for. It's easy to see this in anyone's children who never had to work for anything. They are called "spoiled" for a reason.
Work is a critical need for humans to thrive. It's hard to transition from one kind of work to another, but it can be done. We've done it many times since the start of the industrial revolution. We will do it again.
Yet somehow, with all that automation, we are at less than 4% unemployment, lower than the number considered by economists to be "full" employment. I'm not ready to run for cover from the falling sky just yet.
When you build your company based on income mainly from one giant customer, you are eventually going to lose.
I don't see the relationship between COBOL and C#. COBOL was very focused on data entry and reporting. C# has no such focus. Sure, it can do those things, but it is also really good at handling media and yes, even heavy math. If raw power is what's needed, C++ is probably a better option.
This reminds me of the days when Microsoft charged Dell a fee for every computer it shipped, even the ones that had Linux installed on them.
Apple does most of its own manufacturing in Asia. If they really want to create manufacturing jobs in the US, how about just bringing some of their own manufacturing back to the US!
If you look at the actual report, you can see that men actually report leaving jobs due to unfairness more often than women. There are a lot of patterns shown in the report that aren't reflected accurately in the summary.
It seems to me that we haven't really gotten past the moon yet. How about establishing a base or two there, build some stable science, refueling, and manufacturing capabilities there, and THEN start worrying about the trip to Mars.
If they can find Cobol programmers, more power to them! If they can't, let the survival of the fittest weed out the banks that won't do what it takes to survive.
No, but they do come with a "cone of uncertainty" that gets larger the farther into the future you predict.
Software development predictions also come with a cone of uncertainty. You can predict pretty accurately how much you can get done in the next week or two, but those predictions get less accurate the farther into the future you look.
Perhaps Jack Ma has such low self-esteem that he could be replaced by a robot. Or maybe he thinks that what CEOs do is nothing more than following a set of heuristics. Either explanation might explain why he thinks robots could do the job.
I've been using Outlook at work for years. The experience is hardly a selling point to lure me away from GMail! I so wish my company would switch to GMail for Business, it's so much easier and more intuitive to use. Not to mention, Outlook stinks at search.
For all those who think Edge is the best browser, you should probably sign up for this new Microsoft GMail service. For the rest of us, not so much.
We just have a bunch of hoarders.
Never mind time suck, I spend my entire day, every day, sitting in front of a computer! Please, take it away, so I can get something done!
Wait, I'm a programmer, that might not work so well.
You obviously don't live in a coastal area, where the humidity is so high that clothes don't dry in the sun, and it rains so often that your clothes are likely to come in wetter than they went out.
That's an easy one.
You have to 1) reduce your cost of living, or 2) increase your income, or both.
There are no other options!
There is no such thing as "the" cost of living. There is only "your" cost of living, which you can largely control.
No, you don't have to have that cable TV and high speed Internet and iPhone with Verizon and a new(ish) car and eat meals from restaurants (or fast food) and live in a 3+ bedroom house. If your income really is that low, you can do what I did, and more recently, what my son did, and find roommates to help pay the rent.
The problem is, we Americans have come to expect a certain standard of living, and choose to live at that level, even if our incomes don't support it. The math just doesn't work out. But then, I know they don't teach that so much in schools these days.
23andMe was banned from producing health analysis reports by the FDA in 2013, and recently was finally approved to release certain health reports after a lengthy, expensive process.
Yes, a device such as a medical tricorder would certainly have to be certified by the FDA in the US.
SQL injection is a simple, crude form of hacking that is easily prevented. Every Web developer worth his salt creates Web forms that block SQL injection. If your site gets hacked via SQL injection, it's your fault as much as it is the "hacker's" fault.
This trigger phrase hack is equally crude and equally easy to prevent. Google and Amazon and Apple weren't thinking too far ahead on this one.
When you buy something using your phone or computer, you have to provide a password. Why oh why would we want to remove that kind of restriction from voice-activated devices? At the very least, they should train themselves to obey only their owners' commands.
No, not true. If you work in AI, you know that it's possible to understand how to train an AI, and how to diagnose issues. No, it's not the same as the procedural algorithms we're used to using, but it's not "unknown"!