I still see no problem. Users who are dumb enough to keep buying from Apple once that happens do deserve to be tracked. Tracked and shephered.
I'm a Mac user. I write software for a living and I like to fiddle with audio engineering in my spare time. OSX makes both quite enjoyable. But I'd give this all up in a heartbeat if I felt Apple was screwing me.
Your bullshit will only make sense the day you have a Facebook profile, with all the bells and whistles their regular dumbass users have. You know, face tagging and stuff, the works. I'll be on your side the day the first average Joe makes his first buck on data mined from YOUR profile.
Back in the day (no earlier than 10ish years ago) it was far more challenging to obtain information. I'll pick a particular example: I was trying to learn how to play guitar. The only ways of doing it were either going to an instructor or buying a book (or both). Both of these represent data, not information. Data is just a bunch of stuff, information is a conclusion you draw after a careful examination of the said stuff. Further more, in smalls town like mine there were only a handful of instructors and almost no books. Therefore all all data was carefully filtered and sorted before assimilation and turning into information. Nowadays there's a plethora of ways of learning how to play the guitar, but it comes as information - "here's how you play Sweet Home Alabama, put your fingers here and here and then there and there", for instance. As kids these days are simply being given conclusions, not prerequisites, they seem to have totally lost the appetite for putting thoughts together and learning something from that. I've observed quite a few of them (I've two young cousins and my mom is a high school teacher and shares insights about her pupils), they've all exhibited the same symptoms.
Only talk about software development, gadgets, trends, Facebook, iPad, whatever is currently hip. Don't do *anything* besides writing code, even in your spare time. Never do anything out of the ordinary - don't have hobbies, or friends. Don't travel much. If you follow these rules, you should fit in just fine.
That's simply because kids spend more time in school than in church, so odds of being abused increase accordingly. I, for one, would rather have my kid in school than in church, against all odds.
It's not people developing Internet and gadget addiction, but sociophobes finally reaching out. They've been here all along, but lacked both the skills and the means to socialize. Now they have the means. The skills will hopefully develop. It's only surprising to see how many of them there are.
Humans only remember ethics when dealing with humans. That's never stopped them from destroying other lifeforms. I'm not a PETA fanboy, but I'm pretty sure this can work the same in the aliens vs humans case. Let's just hope that, if they ever find us, they'll be advanced enough for us not to represent a target. If they're just a little more advanced than we are, we're prolly screwed.
My past few years' experience was something like this:
1.Middle management is asked to give a time frame estimation, which they make as small as possible, to please upper management.
2.About 80% of the guys in the office work for 12-16hrs a day, even though their contract is for 8hrs, to please upper management.
3.Regardless of the quality of your code, they always get better appreciation than you do, because you go home to your family while they don't, since they don't have one, or hobbies, or whatever
I've drawn a few conclusions:
1.Size does matter. The guy working the most hours always wins, even if only for the fact that he is more available than you are.
2.This isn't a job I want for the rest of my life.
3.If you really like doing something, don't turn it into a job. Sooner or later you'll hate it.
I actually meant what this guy meant: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1618630&cid=31847638 - that there are probably cheaper and more efficient ways to help manoeuvre inside and outside gear than having a supposedly multi-purpose humanoid robot. Designing specialised robotic arms strikes me as somewhat cheaper, safer and easier to implement.
Is there any incentive, except for the obvious publicity stunt, to send an android out there only to handle the gear that could probably easily handle itself? I'm thinking that the chances of something going titsup increase if you add mechanical hazard to the equation.
Mind you, I have yet to see a clueful, intelligent and articulated HR person. This is something I'd very much like to be wrong on, but it's never happened to me or to anyone I know. It's like they only require typing skills for these positions. Most of them are there only to cross reference acronyms given by their customers to the ones in your CV. If you have at least 5 matches, they call you. If you don't, tough luck. I used to have a CV poor in proper nouns and acronyms, since I preferred giving details on what and how I did at my previous jobs. Since I've packed it with all sorts of things like "PostgreSQL", "BGP", "C++" I've started getting far more calls. It's really sad, the HR sieve really seems built upon randomness and utter incompetence.
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Because Hollywood screenplay writers deserve a non-fictional reference!
Most women with masters degrees don't look like super models.
On your continent they don't. Come to Europe, I'll introduce you to several. BTW, they also cook ;)
I still see no problem. Users who are dumb enough to keep buying from Apple once that happens do deserve to be tracked. Tracked and shephered. I'm a Mac user. I write software for a living and I like to fiddle with audio engineering in my spare time. OSX makes both quite enjoyable. But I'd give this all up in a heartbeat if I felt Apple was screwing me.
It's as easy as clicking "I disagree" or whatever. Just don't update iTunes and you're safe. Your current version is good enough, innit?
If breakfast is such a hot topic for you, then your friends should find some more interesting friends as well.
... from the creators of Sailor Moon.
He was lacking a chihuahua, so TPTB created David Kirkpatrick.
bid farewell to our old news overlords.
... You have 0 Friends.
Your bullshit will only make sense the day you have a Facebook profile, with all the bells and whistles their regular dumbass users have. You know, face tagging and stuff, the works. I'll be on your side the day the first average Joe makes his first buck on data mined from YOUR profile.
Back in the day (no earlier than 10ish years ago) it was far more challenging to obtain information. I'll pick a particular example: I was trying to learn how to play guitar. The only ways of doing it were either going to an instructor or buying a book (or both). Both of these represent data, not information. Data is just a bunch of stuff, information is a conclusion you draw after a careful examination of the said stuff. Further more, in smalls town like mine there were only a handful of instructors and almost no books. Therefore all all data was carefully filtered and sorted before assimilation and turning into information. Nowadays there's a plethora of ways of learning how to play the guitar, but it comes as information - "here's how you play Sweet Home Alabama, put your fingers here and here and then there and there", for instance. As kids these days are simply being given conclusions, not prerequisites, they seem to have totally lost the appetite for putting thoughts together and learning something from that. I've observed quite a few of them (I've two young cousins and my mom is a high school teacher and shares insights about her pupils), they've all exhibited the same symptoms.
Only talk about software development, gadgets, trends, Facebook, iPad, whatever is currently hip. Don't do *anything* besides writing code, even in your spare time. Never do anything out of the ordinary - don't have hobbies, or friends. Don't travel much. If you follow these rules, you should fit in just fine.
...when a perpetuum mobile is finally invented, it will run on an iPhone.
That's simply because kids spend more time in school than in church, so odds of being abused increase accordingly. I, for one, would rather have my kid in school than in church, against all odds.
... it's all Science-Fiction, right?
It's not people developing Internet and gadget addiction, but sociophobes finally reaching out. They've been here all along, but lacked both the skills and the means to socialize. Now they have the means. The skills will hopefully develop. It's only surprising to see how many of them there are.
Humans only remember ethics when dealing with humans. That's never stopped them from destroying other lifeforms. I'm not a PETA fanboy, but I'm pretty sure this can work the same in the aliens vs humans case. Let's just hope that, if they ever find us, they'll be advanced enough for us not to represent a target. If they're just a little more advanced than we are, we're prolly screwed.
That ought to shut them up, bloody whiners!
3 grams heavier
That's it, I'm not buying it. My manpurse is already getting heavy.
Nah, he's the performer.
Oh so it'll take a while before we see these in Starbucks all across Europe! I salute that!
My past few years' experience was something like this:
1.Middle management is asked to give a time frame estimation, which they make as small as possible, to please upper management.
2.About 80% of the guys in the office work for 12-16hrs a day, even though their contract is for 8hrs, to please upper management.
3.Regardless of the quality of your code, they always get better appreciation than you do, because you go home to your family while they don't, since they don't have one, or hobbies, or whatever
I've drawn a few conclusions:
1.Size does matter. The guy working the most hours always wins, even if only for the fact that he is more available than you are.
2.This isn't a job I want for the rest of my life.
3.If you really like doing something, don't turn it into a job. Sooner or later you'll hate it.
I actually meant what this guy meant: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1618630&cid=31847638 - that there are probably cheaper and more efficient ways to help manoeuvre inside and outside gear than having a supposedly multi-purpose humanoid robot. Designing specialised robotic arms strikes me as somewhat cheaper, safer and easier to implement.
Is there any incentive, except for the obvious publicity stunt, to send an android out there only to handle the gear that could probably easily handle itself? I'm thinking that the chances of something going titsup increase if you add mechanical hazard to the equation.
Mind you, I have yet to see a clueful, intelligent and articulated HR person. This is something I'd very much like to be wrong on, but it's never happened to me or to anyone I know. It's like they only require typing skills for these positions. Most of them are there only to cross reference acronyms given by their customers to the ones in your CV. If you have at least 5 matches, they call you. If you don't, tough luck. I used to have a CV poor in proper nouns and acronyms, since I preferred giving details on what and how I did at my previous jobs. Since I've packed it with all sorts of things like "PostgreSQL", "BGP", "C++" I've started getting far more calls. It's really sad, the HR sieve really seems built upon randomness and utter incompetence.