I quickly learned that any company I'd interview with that would ask "But do you have your A+ certification?" after being filled in on my formal college education and vast work experience wasn't worth working for.
"A+ = short bus". It's the Dane Cook of certifications.
He's scum. But compared to Gawker, he's cream. What I want to know is whether he has a donation site where I can donate to the good cause of getting rid of the site that makes 4chan look good and reddit outright saintly.
Who is he? What is his goal? Where is he doing this stuff? Why is he so pissed-off? When did he learn of the offense? How is he intending to achieve his goals?
What you mention sounds like the AI stuff I'm learning. Computers read faster than people do and can apply fact-finding and logic far more quickly (think tin-foil-hat and pseudoscience).
What would be interesting is having multiple Watson systems with different sets of "leanings". Such systems will eventually fit in a backpack, if not a wristwatch. The output of a group of such systems could then be used as input for a smaller number of more-specialized systems.
As I'm in the USA, each state having their own cluster of such AI machines with faster and faster connections to the vast volumes of knowledge available on the Internet (we now have 10gbps service for USD$300/month in my "city" of 18,000 people), countering the bias of the sometimes-backward-but-mostly-just-overly-specialized old men (Senator Orrin Hatch, for one example) in public office.
If these state Watson clusters could then communicate with a national cluster and even a world-scale cluster, we would have fewer of the costly "didn't know that" problems and would be able to react more quickly to what problems we did have.
Growing up in high school in the late 90s/early 2000s I was one of "those guys" (if you're reading this, likely you were too) with several used PCs living in their bedroom running various hobbyist tasks, sometimes tinkering with linux etc.
I have a picture somewhere that my mom took of me crashed out on my bed in 1997 while Windows 95 was installing on one of my 486 machines. At the time, I had something like five machines in my room. The main one handled almost everything. The secondary one was almost exclusively for Autodesk Animator Pro. One was a Windows NT 4.0 machine. Another was a Novell Netware server I was messing with. The fifth machine was mostly just for data recovery because of the time required. I didn't mess with Linux until 1998 when I bought a RedHat 5.1 package (yes, bought; all I had was dial-up at 28.8k).
I've been put under on that stuff a handful of times. Each time it was the same time travel experience. The first time I woke up from having a tendon fixed and I asked the nurse who suddenly appeared at my side as I was being wheeled down to recovery "What the heck was that? Am I ready for surgery?" "You're done." I lift up my arm and marvel at that half-cast on my wrist.
That stuff is amazing. I was allowed to push the plunger on the syringe once during a surgery a few years later. The staff said I got one halfway into the first line of The Star Spangled Banner before going silent.
"There is porn of it." Your carefully-composed track will end up in furry-granny-midget-lesbian-scat-hentai ("The Aristocrats!"). Because "That's just business."
There's inherent risk in everything. Investing means you are banking your money on making money off the back of someone else. Can't bitch too hard when it goes wrong since "that's just business". I still don't condone it, though.
With the advent of Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, etc, they were still able to hand-wring about being an ISP.
Yeah... about that: Locally, they tried to block the UTOPIA initiative and lost. It's a fiber-to-the-premises service that gets you 250mbps symmetrical for $65 a month. Gigabit can be had for a bit more. Comcast has been pussyaching about it ever since, attempting to make the proverbial door hit the asses of former customers on their way out.
Electronics Repair as a career: It won't just be stopped by lack of parts and schematics; things just won't break as much. We already have some phones that can take a swim and be fine. The day screens become more durable and batteries don't have a shelf life, that's really most of the problem.
TV repair: (see above) It's really only the panels that break unless there's a power surge. Most remaining TV repair services will be working hand-in-hand with salvage services like what I did on the side for a few years until the screens just got too damn big to handle. Only bigger operations will be able to make it economical. And, with lighter weight and fewer nasty chemicals to deal with since the switch to LED lighting, it'll actually be okay.
Enthusiast-targeted boutique computer stores/hardware makers: With Moore's Law slowing down and Nintendo with the Switch and plenty of phone/tablet makers having proven it already, games are getting easier to run on smaller and smaller equipment. You'll still be able to "roll-your-own", but it will be easier to just tick a few boxes on an order to get that fire-breathing GPU (which will be based on a card built for Deep Learning and other intense math stuff, as today), just don't expect twenty different brands with ten different models each, let alone a flashy heatsink, since there won't be any way to see it: big computers will be unnecessary. SSDs are small and optical is all-but-dead. Big computers will go the way of the "more fans, the better" and the big CRTs of the dot-com era.
The local hotspots like clubs and bars: Or at least they'll need an overhaul. Dating already pretty much changed forever with the advent of Tinder and the more streamlined online dating services that could be accessed from a phone app. Going to a club or bar to meet random people, looking for that spark is pretty much history in ten years. I know there are already clubs and bars that are less about bumping music or doing shots and more about being able to just sit and chat in a relaxed atmosphere. There will get to be more of those since going to an expensive restaurant just to be away from the screaming toddlers and annoying waitstaff of Applebees et al just isn't a thing in most places.
Silicon Valley: After seeing so many tech companies show up and thrive in the last place I ever expected (Salt Lake City area), I knew there had to be plenty of such development elsewhere, too. Yep. If you're data-heavy, all you need is that fast pipe.
YouTube "stars": I'm not talking about bigclive, EEVBlog, AvE, AVGN, Louis Rossmann, Simon and Martina, GottLove, moviebob, or any other example who actually contributes usable content, I'm talking about the ones who thrive on the same flash in the pan trash tabloids, gossip shows, and such do: creating drama or shock. Like that numbnuts who destroys expensive shit just because his ad revenue more than makes up for it. Or that subset of douchebags who just try to create content from conflicts between other "stars" and sometimes try to drag actual content creators into their mess.
Anything marketed directly at fat people: If your target demographic isn't worth the advertising budget, you put those dollars elsewhere. And, like it or not, people are moving around a lot more. You don't have to be at home to get on the Internet. You don't have to sit at home and wait for TV. You can be doing things. And good food is going to become easier to get access to. We are going to slim down. It's already happening.
SAE measurements in construction: The US is going Metric. I believe in a decade we will see construction materials dual-labeled, at the very least, like Canada does with road signs. Once construction goes Metric, it's a go for the rest of the transition to be made.
MP3 as a format: It will be left in the dust completely, as data rates and storage volumes increase. Technology is getting better. Earphones and even bluetooth speakers (if they have that aptX technology) sound good enough that FLAC or another lossless audio compressio
Slashdot Mirror
Looks like "Real Men of Genius" might have a comeback.
I quickly learned that any company I'd interview with that would ask "But do you have your A+ certification?" after being filled in on my formal college education and vast work experience wasn't worth working for.
"A+ = short bus". It's the Dane Cook of certifications.
He's scum. But compared to Gawker, he's cream.
What I want to know is whether he has a donation site where I can donate to the good cause of getting rid of the site that makes 4chan look good and reddit outright saintly.
Worse than 4chan? How is that even possible?
Who is he? What is his goal? Where is he doing this stuff? Why is he so pissed-off? When did he learn of the offense? How is he intending to achieve his goals?
What you mention sounds like the AI stuff I'm learning. Computers read faster than people do and can apply fact-finding and logic far more quickly (think tin-foil-hat and pseudoscience).
What would be interesting is having multiple Watson systems with different sets of "leanings". Such systems will eventually fit in a backpack, if not a wristwatch. The output of a group of such systems could then be used as input for a smaller number of more-specialized systems.
As I'm in the USA, each state having their own cluster of such AI machines with faster and faster connections to the vast volumes of knowledge available on the Internet (we now have 10gbps service for USD$300/month in my "city" of 18,000 people), countering the bias of the sometimes-backward-but-mostly-just-overly-specialized old men (Senator Orrin Hatch, for one example) in public office.
If these state Watson clusters could then communicate with a national cluster and even a world-scale cluster, we would have fewer of the costly "didn't know that" problems and would be able to react more quickly to what problems we did have.
Watson For President
Growing up in high school in the late 90s/early 2000s I was one of "those guys" (if you're reading this, likely you were too) with several used PCs living in their bedroom running various hobbyist tasks, sometimes tinkering with linux etc.
I have a picture somewhere that my mom took of me crashed out on my bed in 1997 while Windows 95 was installing on one of my 486 machines. At the time, I had something like five machines in my room. The main one handled almost everything. The secondary one was almost exclusively for Autodesk Animator Pro. One was a Windows NT 4.0 machine. Another was a Novell Netware server I was messing with. The fifth machine was mostly just for data recovery because of the time required. I didn't mess with Linux until 1998 when I bought a RedHat 5.1 package (yes, bought; all I had was dial-up at 28.8k).
PCs have mostly hit the 'good enough' point, there is no value in replacing them as frequently as in the past.
It's true. At the moment, I'm using my ThinkPad W500 from 2009 and all I did to it was upgrade to 8GB RAM and a 480GB SSD.
My desktop machine has the same Core i7-940 CPU as it had in 2009. Granted, I overclocked the RAM by 50% and overclocked the CPU by 30%.
All I've done to it since is upgrade the 2009 Radeon HD 5870 GPU to a GTX 1080 Founder's Edition and add a pair of 960GB SSDs in RAID0.
I won't need a new one until it croaks. And that won't be anytime soon because liquid cooling.
I've been put under on that stuff a handful of times. Each time it was the same time travel experience. The first time I woke up from having a tendon fixed and I asked the nurse who suddenly appeared at my side as I was being wheeled down to recovery "What the heck was that? Am I ready for surgery?" "You're done." I lift up my arm and marvel at that half-cast on my wrist.
That stuff is amazing. I was allowed to push the plunger on the syringe once during a surgery a few years later. The staff said I got one halfway into the first line of The Star Spangled Banner before going silent.
Win some, lose some.
It was "A-Minor", by the way. xO231O on a 6-string with standard tuning.
Being able to see myself snap a G string while fingering A-minor was helpful.
Seriously, though, that camera had uses. I didn't have to deal with the Netflix "are you still there?" interruption while binge-watching shows.
It's nice to close another chapter on Internet Training-Wheels.
Walled Garden Reloaded. Working in one of their callcenters 15 years ago still gives me the willies.
Someone has to spill beer on the server, after all.
"There is porn of it." Your carefully-composed track will end up in furry-granny-midget-lesbian-scat-hentai ("The Aristocrats!"). Because "That's just business."
#facepalm
There's inherent risk in everything. Investing means you are banking your money on making money off the back of someone else. Can't bitch too hard when it goes wrong since "that's just business". I still don't condone it, though.
That's a stacker. I believe earlier stuff like the BeagleBoard was as well.
"Question Everything." -- Elon Musk
With the advent of Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, etc, they were still able to hand-wring about being an ISP.
Yeah... about that: Locally, they tried to block the UTOPIA initiative and lost. It's a fiber-to-the-premises service that gets you 250mbps symmetrical for $65 a month. Gigabit can be had for a bit more. Comcast has been pussyaching about it ever since, attempting to make the proverbial door hit the asses of former customers on their way out.
AC, naturally.
I am Jack's complete lack of surprise. It's only natural to thrash about when you're suffocating from the modified-atmosphere of your own Rectum.
Pretty bad when your AV software is worse than the shit it's supposed to stop.
GM guy got his panties wet over yet another V6, front-wheel-drive, 4-door sedan. So original.
Electronics Repair as a career: It won't just be stopped by lack of parts and schematics; things just won't break as much. We already have some phones that can take a swim and be fine. The day screens become more durable and batteries don't have a shelf life, that's really most of the problem.
TV repair: (see above) It's really only the panels that break unless there's a power surge. Most remaining TV repair services will be working hand-in-hand with salvage services like what I did on the side for a few years until the screens just got too damn big to handle. Only bigger operations will be able to make it economical. And, with lighter weight and fewer nasty chemicals to deal with since the switch to LED lighting, it'll actually be okay.
Enthusiast-targeted boutique computer stores/hardware makers: With Moore's Law slowing down and Nintendo with the Switch and plenty of phone/tablet makers having proven it already, games are getting easier to run on smaller and smaller equipment. You'll still be able to "roll-your-own", but it will be easier to just tick a few boxes on an order to get that fire-breathing GPU (which will be based on a card built for Deep Learning and other intense math stuff, as today), just don't expect twenty different brands with ten different models each, let alone a flashy heatsink, since there won't be any way to see it: big computers will be unnecessary. SSDs are small and optical is all-but-dead. Big computers will go the way of the "more fans, the better" and the big CRTs of the dot-com era.
The local hotspots like clubs and bars: Or at least they'll need an overhaul. Dating already pretty much changed forever with the advent of Tinder and the more streamlined online dating services that could be accessed from a phone app. Going to a club or bar to meet random people, looking for that spark is pretty much history in ten years. I know there are already clubs and bars that are less about bumping music or doing shots and more about being able to just sit and chat in a relaxed atmosphere. There will get to be more of those since going to an expensive restaurant just to be away from the screaming toddlers and annoying waitstaff of Applebees et al just isn't a thing in most places.
Silicon Valley: After seeing so many tech companies show up and thrive in the last place I ever expected (Salt Lake City area), I knew there had to be plenty of such development elsewhere, too. Yep. If you're data-heavy, all you need is that fast pipe.
YouTube "stars": I'm not talking about bigclive, EEVBlog, AvE, AVGN, Louis Rossmann, Simon and Martina, GottLove, moviebob, or any other example who actually contributes usable content, I'm talking about the ones who thrive on the same flash in the pan trash tabloids, gossip shows, and such do: creating drama or shock. Like that numbnuts who destroys expensive shit just because his ad revenue more than makes up for it. Or that subset of douchebags who just try to create content from conflicts between other "stars" and sometimes try to drag actual content creators into their mess.
Anything marketed directly at fat people: If your target demographic isn't worth the advertising budget, you put those dollars elsewhere. And, like it or not, people are moving around a lot more. You don't have to be at home to get on the Internet. You don't have to sit at home and wait for TV. You can be doing things. And good food is going to become easier to get access to. We are going to slim down. It's already happening.
SAE measurements in construction: The US is going Metric. I believe in a decade we will see construction materials dual-labeled, at the very least, like Canada does with road signs. Once construction goes Metric, it's a go for the rest of the transition to be made.
MP3 as a format: It will be left in the dust completely, as data rates and storage volumes increase. Technology is getting better. Earphones and even bluetooth speakers (if they have that aptX technology) sound good enough that FLAC or another lossless audio compressio
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