That's kind of a funny insight -- certain legislators being cranked that public information has unexpectedly gotten into a readable, useful format. Implying that newspapers have degenerated to the status of "officially public information" but "assuming no one actually reads them".
Well technically, you do have control over who tags you in what (or even if tagging you is allowed at all). What you don't have control over is people uploading pictures with you in them, or general comments to that effect.
Personally, as both a game player, and a former video game designer and programmer, I think that attitude is the kiss of death. I've had co-workers at video game shops say, "You know what would be fun to program? Databases! Or anything, really." I totally couldn't wrap my head around this. And the resulting "games" were pretty stale crap. Just fulfilling a contract, really.
Historically, I feel like that's the attitude that killed the tabletop RPG industry's heyday in the 1980's. You need some love for the art-form you're creating or the whole endeavor is grasping bullshit. Top movie directors will go on about the movies they love and that inspired them, they don't express contempt for the art-form.
But if it's not right, and someone dies because of it, then frankly I don't care about the ~300 extra lines per hour. Especially when dealing with critical/technical symptom input as in the demo of TFA.
FTA: "To make the interactions Jeopardy!-style, speech solutions developer Nuance is currently working with IBM to provide Watson speech recognition software customized with medical jargon. Doctors could query Watson’s database on the go by speaking into a handheld device."
Fuck speech solutions. Why do we keep getting this crap pushed on us? Have the doctor text-message the frigging thing and not risk any speech-ambuiguity errors.
Judging from how well speech-menu phone systems work for me, I would run in panic before trusting anything from a speech-activated automatic doctor's assistant.
Here's my idea -- "A new tool that helps to bypass swamped email accounts, by immediately presenting the message to the recipient in a pop-up box. The service does require you to install a small local client which provides instant access to messages. Helps cut down on clogged email boxes; if you don't have time for the message, close the popup and it goes away forever."
The call for "voice activation" goes out semi-regularly from certain high-profile people. Fred Brooks said the same thing in 1995 (Mythical Man-Month After 20 Years: "I expect the WIMP interface to be a historical relic in a generation... speech is surely the right way to express the verbs").
My best guess is that these high-profile people spend their working in days in home offices, private cars, etc., where there's no one else to contribute noise pollution or get annoyed by voice-commands. For the rest of us in cube farms, shared offices, buses and trains, etc., it would be something of a dystopia.
It's intended to be selectively enforceable. Not to end the practice, but to smack down anyone who comes to attention.
FTA: "Bill Ramsey, a Nashville lawyer who practices both entertainment law and criminal defense, said that he doubts the law would be used to ban people in the same household from sharing subscriptions, and that small-scale violations involving a few people would, in any case, be difficult to detect. But "when you start going north of 10 people, a prosecutor might look and say, `Hey, you knew it was stealing,'" Ramsey said."
It's intended to be selectively enforceable. Something they can stick anyone with if they come to attention.
FTA: "Bill Ramsey, a Nashville lawyer who practices both entertainment law and criminal defense, said that he doubts the law would be used to ban people in the same household from sharing subscriptions, and that small-scale violations involving a few people would, in any case, be difficult to detect. But "when you start going north of 10 people, a prosecutor might look and say, `Hey, you knew it was stealing,'" Ramsey said."
It's explicit in TFA: "The bill, which has been signed by the governor, was pushed by recording industry officials to try to stop the loss of billions of dollars to illegal music sharing... Republican Gov. Bill Haslam told reporters earlier this week that he wasn't familiar with the details of the legislation, but given the large recording industry presence in Nashville, he favors "anything we can do to cut back" on music piracy."
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Now I see where Sarah Palin gets her sneering, snarky attitude from.
That's kind of a funny insight -- certain legislators being cranked that public information has unexpectedly gotten into a readable, useful format. Implying that newspapers have degenerated to the status of "officially public information" but "assuming no one actually reads them".
"Erm. IANAL, but isn't liberty an important part of the American cultural and political identity?"
Allegedly, it was at one point. In the imperial era, nicht soviel.
Blame the victim. That's bullshit.
... from foaming-at-the-mouth, pro-nuclear Slashdotters.
Well technically, you do have control over who tags you in what (or even if tagging you is allowed at all). What you don't have control over is people uploading pictures with you in them, or general comments to that effect.
"Thus, the powers of Christ is in the public domain."
Also, they compel you.
Flying Spaghetti Monster blesses your restaurant-centered loyalty.
Personally, as both a game player, and a former video game designer and programmer, I think that attitude is the kiss of death. I've had co-workers at video game shops say, "You know what would be fun to program? Databases! Or anything, really." I totally couldn't wrap my head around this. And the resulting "games" were pretty stale crap. Just fulfilling a contract, really.
Historically, I feel like that's the attitude that killed the tabletop RPG industry's heyday in the 1980's. You need some love for the art-form you're creating or the whole endeavor is grasping bullshit. Top movie directors will go on about the movies they love and that inspired them, they don't express contempt for the art-form.
But if it's not right, and someone dies because of it, then frankly I don't care about the ~300 extra lines per hour. Especially when dealing with critical/technical symptom input as in the demo of TFA.
FTA: "To make the interactions Jeopardy!-style, speech solutions developer Nuance is currently working with IBM to provide Watson speech recognition software customized with medical jargon. Doctors could query Watson’s database on the go by speaking into a handheld device."
Fuck speech solutions. Why do we keep getting this crap pushed on us? Have the doctor text-message the frigging thing and not risk any speech-ambuiguity errors.
Judging from how well speech-menu phone systems work for me, I would run in panic before trusting anything from a speech-activated automatic doctor's assistant.
Here's my idea -- "A new tool that helps to bypass swamped email accounts, by immediately presenting the message to the recipient in a pop-up box. The service does require you to install a small local client which provides instant access to messages. Helps cut down on clogged email boxes; if you don't have time for the message, close the popup and it goes away forever."
Sounds great!
"A good sales person wouldn't risk loosing credibility by withholding critical information or lying. This is not what sales people do."
Holy fucking shit is that not true.
"How much the client trusts the salesman is the #1 contributor to a sale."
I highly fucking doubt that. I would think that at least "meets an operating requirement" would be higher on the list.
ID chip on any scanning device?
The call for "voice activation" goes out semi-regularly from certain high-profile people. Fred Brooks said the same thing in 1995 (Mythical Man-Month After 20 Years: "I expect the WIMP interface to be a historical relic in a generation... speech is surely the right way to express the verbs").
My best guess is that these high-profile people spend their working in days in home offices, private cars, etc., where there's no one else to contribute noise pollution or get annoyed by voice-commands. For the rest of us in cube farms, shared offices, buses and trains, etc., it would be something of a dystopia.
It's intended to be selectively enforceable. Not to end the practice, but to smack down anyone who comes to attention.
FTA: "Bill Ramsey, a Nashville lawyer who practices both entertainment law and criminal defense, said that he doubts the law would be used to ban people in the same household from sharing subscriptions, and that small-scale violations involving a few people would, in any case, be difficult to detect. But "when you start going north of 10 people, a prosecutor might look and say, `Hey, you knew it was stealing,'" Ramsey said."
It's intended to be selectively enforceable. Something they can stick anyone with if they come to attention.
FTA: "Bill Ramsey, a Nashville lawyer who practices both entertainment law and criminal defense, said that he doubts the law would be used to ban people in the same household from sharing subscriptions, and that small-scale violations involving a few people would, in any case, be difficult to detect. But "when you start going north of 10 people, a prosecutor might look and say, `Hey, you knew it was stealing,'" Ramsey said."
The whole thing is just a direct quote from the linked AP article. 1st & 2nd paragraphs.
It's explicit in TFA: "The bill, which has been signed by the governor, was pushed by recording industry officials to try to stop the loss of billions of dollars to illegal music sharing... Republican Gov. Bill Haslam told reporters earlier this week that he wasn't familiar with the details of the legislation, but given the large recording industry presence in Nashville, he favors "anything we can do to cut back" on music piracy."
Superintendents are administrators, not teachers. Their behavior is the same as you'd expect from any PHB.
On a ratio basis, administrator hiring and expenses have been outstripping teacher hiring for about 20 years. It's a blind spot for a lot of people. http://bctf.ca/publications/BCTF-research.aspx?id=18410
"How many times now have we found life in extreme conditions where we were convinced life couldn't exist?"
Approximately once per research facility on the cusp of closure.
Assuming your 42 starts at 0. My 42 is even better, it starts at 1, so its 11 is 52.
One of the featured guests is Julie Taymor, participating in "Beautiful Minds", on the exploration of "What exactly is genius?"
Hint: NOT JULIE TAYMOR.
http://worldsciencefestival.com/participants/julie_taymor
"As a guy who endured a poor GPA all through college because of his morals..."
WTF does that mean? It makes you sound like a self-deluded idiot. Seriously.