Once again you have your finger on the pulse of what we want and need!
I still cant figure out why you let my two favorite Microsoft features go, Bob and Clippy, please bring them back!
The year they take office
all government position will be non-paid, volunteer only positions
lobbying will be obsolete, elections will be held entirely online
actually, better yet, government will be run by the 'Logic 3000' super computer, which will calculate all possible outcomes/scenarios/decisions and make the "best choices" for humankind,
drugs will be legalized, firearms will become illegal,
self driving flying cars will be legal and replacing most land vehicles.
Do you play the silver ball?
From Soho down to Brighton?
Have you played them all?
Have you played them all, in any amusement hall?
I have played them all, I do play them all
I like to play and play I must, in any amusement hall.
And earlier. "The steam engine and the other associated technologies of the Industrial Revolution changed the world and influenced human history so much that in the words of the historian Ian Morris, they made mockery out of all that had come before. " TED Radio Hour on NRP just did a cool interview on this
Algorithm's can do what you create them to do:
They can measure specific data points, such as would constitute "technical merit".
They can not measure 'human undefinable's', things such as human co-interaction, gut instinct, charisma.
(I would think once we have enough data points to define how, for example, 'gut instinct' is actually determined by out brain, we could put that in an algorithm as well) I think society would really be shocked if things were actually merit based.
I disagree.
Since you have stated you have time and want to learn, now is the perfect time. I think you should install the smallest possible linux GUI-less and just run in terminal mode for a while. Learn to do everything without a GUI.
Set up an email client (Mutt), use a web browser, (Lynx or links), set up an IM client, etc, there are GUI-less apps in linux for everything. (also, set up Apache, MySQL, etc)
Yes, it will suck for a while but you will really learn this way, then you can run any distro you want and you'll probably have decent sys admin chops once your done. (I'd go for debian, I think you can still get a single CD ISO base system. (then, right off the bat this will teach you to use apt.
I don't think they lost much. They caught those involved (before the high roller even left the building) and are "in a good position to recover a significant portion of the amount involved in the scam."
Last year they reported profits of $181m, so I don't think they are making $33m from anyone 'every single day'.
If you have a cool product, interesting things to do and hire interested people, you will have good employees.
Many technical people work in the field because they enjoy it, how many people work on FOSS in their spare time anyway?
Working on new, interesting, challenging things is fun! Maintaining 'legacy' stuff, not as fun. No disrespect to Yahoo but Flicker, Yahoo Mail, YUI, OMG! (please), for me it would be hard to be excited about maintaining these.
Additionally, working in a smaller company where one person can really help shape things is huge, being just another worker bee in a huge corporate environment can be depressing. (especially one with a declining public image)
I'm not saying that religion and science are inherently incompatible, but I am saying that her equating an RFID badge to the "mark of the beast" makes me think her devotion to her religion will place a shadow over her science education.
Yeah, that's exactly what I was thinking too.
I mean look at people like Larry Wall, a smart technical guy who created and offered Perl for free basically because, "god want us to do good things,..." (something to that effect, I forget the exact quote). His action is sincere and genuine and does not diminish any technical credibility, I'm fairly sure I won't find quotes of him spewing something about the number of the beast,..
Funny, my initial reaction was, "great, a young engineering student standing up for her 1st and 4th amendment rights.", then I saw her primary reason,...
For many Christian families, including the Hernandez’, the mandatory policy is eerily close to the predictions of Revelations 13: 16-18, which warns of the Mark of the Beast:
16 He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads,
17 and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or[a] the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666. (New King James Version)
Slashdot Mirror
In related news, Apple applies for a patent on the term iShirt
Seems like a great idea but would this actually hold up in court?
Yes! Please (Hey, mod partent up)
Why would they target the Onion!? Do they not 'get it'?
I don't have the time to list how many cloud storage providers offer (at least) 10GB free
Once again you have your finger on the pulse of what we want and need!
I still cant figure out why you let my two favorite Microsoft features go, Bob and Clippy, please bring them back!
I'm waiting for the time of the sensible people
The year they take office
all government position will be non-paid, volunteer only positions
lobbying will be obsolete, elections will be held entirely online
actually, better yet, government will be run by the 'Logic 3000' super computer, which will calculate all possible outcomes/scenarios/decisions and make the "best choices" for humankind,
drugs will be legalized, firearms will become illegal,
self driving flying cars will be legal and replacing most land vehicles.
Those masks would make anyone look ugly. You'd expect something better from so-called artists...
Are you expecting something more in the Slipknot, Mudvayne or KISS camp?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bh7bYNAHXxw
Do you play the silver ball?
From Soho down to Brighton?
Have you played them all?
Have you played them all, in any amusement hall?
I have played them all, I do play them all
I like to play and play I must, in any amusement hall.
cough, cough, Luddite, cough,...
And earlier.
"The steam engine and the other associated technologies of the Industrial Revolution changed the world and influenced human history so much that in the words of the historian Ian Morris, they made mockery out of all that had come before. "
TED Radio Hour on NRP just did a cool interview on this
Algorithm's can do what you create them to do:
They can measure specific data points, such as would constitute "technical merit".
They can not measure 'human undefinable's', things such as human co-interaction, gut instinct, charisma.
(I would think once we have enough data points to define how, for example, 'gut instinct' is actually determined by out brain, we could put that in an algorithm as well)
I think society would really be shocked if things were actually merit based.
unless your Mr. Bean
I can set them up with a wordpress site for free!
(I would think they know how to 'secure it', hardy har har)
In related news, social network machine learning fraud bots get algorithm update based on current fraud detection algorithms.
I disagree.
Since you have stated you have time and want to learn, now is the perfect time. I think you should install the smallest possible linux GUI-less and just run in terminal mode for a while. Learn to do everything without a GUI.
Set up an email client (Mutt), use a web browser, (Lynx or links), set up an IM client, etc, there are GUI-less apps in linux for everything. (also, set up Apache, MySQL, etc)
Yes, it will suck for a while but you will really learn this way, then you can run any distro you want and you'll probably have decent sys admin chops once your done. (I'd go for debian, I think you can still get a single CD ISO base system. (then, right off the bat this will teach you to use apt.
Good luck and enjoy!
I don't think they lost much. They caught those involved (before the high roller even left the building) and are "in a good position to recover a significant portion of the amount involved in the scam."
Last year they reported profits of $181m, so I don't think they are making $33m from anyone 'every single day'.
If you have a cool product, interesting things to do and hire interested people, you will have good employees.
Many technical people work in the field because they enjoy it, how many people work on FOSS in their spare time anyway?
Working on new, interesting, challenging things is fun! Maintaining 'legacy' stuff, not as fun. No disrespect to Yahoo but Flicker, Yahoo Mail, YUI, OMG! (please), for me it would be hard to be excited about maintaining these.
Additionally, working in a smaller company where one person can really help shape things is huge, being just another worker bee in a huge corporate environment can be depressing. (especially one with a declining public image)
Obviously, just my opinion.
if you happen to work on a company that uses the Python programming language
Yeah and get google involved and you wont need much more help
'analyze all sides of scientific information'
we are talking about Texas, it means that they want to include the holy bible which they view as a factual account of history as we know it
This is great and long overdue!
Please, can't some tech giant just buy the RIAA and come up with a better model?
here, please make sure it's secured around my wrist,...
I'm not saying that religion and science are inherently incompatible, but I am saying that her equating an RFID badge to the "mark of the beast" makes me think her devotion to her religion will place a shadow over her science education.
Yeah, that's exactly what I was thinking too.
I mean look at people like Larry Wall, a smart technical guy who created and offered Perl for free basically because, "god want us to do good things,..." (something to that effect, I forget the exact quote). His action is sincere and genuine and does not diminish any technical credibility, I'm fairly sure I won't find quotes of him spewing something about the number of the beast,..
For many Christian families, including the Hernandez’, the mandatory policy is eerily close to the predictions of Revelations 13: 16-18, which warns of the Mark of the Beast:
16 He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads,
17 and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or[a] the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666. (New King James Version)