America sounds like the women in this to me. As she has bought far too much on credit, and think she can hook up with a guy and get them to help pay the bills, all the while getting him to build stuff for her.;) Sorry ladies.
I don't play the lottery, but you can win. Trick is to pick all the unlucky numbers (you don't predict the result but you can predict the human side of the equation) this way you don't have to split any winnings, because nobody else uses those numbers. A guy proved it works using past lottery results, and pretending to buy the unlucky numbers in bulk, after 15 years of past results he came out on top by around $100 000 i think.
When i started high school i saved all my money for a year and bought one of the first pocket pcs, about 15 years ago now. The pocket pc lacked a LOT of polish, but it did the majority of the wondrous things that my current smart phone does, and since then i've been witnessing minor improvement after minor improvement. Sure the smartphone is wondrous compared to a slide rule but, a slide rule is wondrous compared to an abacus, and imagine what your great grandfather would of thought of TV. I'm glad you like your smartphone, but i think it's a small leap for mankind.
Google glass is possibly the worst version of a heads up display i have seen. I love the idea of a hud but i wouldn't buy glass if it was $50. Give me a proper set of glasses that fold, with 2 screens for 3d, display in the middle of each eye for better augmented reality/comfort and clear and see through (we have this technology), oh and if you can squeeze it in, some kind of 'leap motion' like control input, so you can touch/gesture control the virtual image.
The computers are already pretty good (google's car has driven well over a million miles now, and has only had one accident, which was the other car's fault any way). Now even if it's not better than the best human driver (which shouldn't be impossible, there are already lots of driving that a computer can do better like launch assist, abs breaks, Parallel parking, gear shifting as vw is down to 0.2 of a second or something now), it'll be better than the average driver that occasionally talks on their cell phone and changes lanes without indicating. I won't be paying my hard earned money on it till it can pick me up from the pub, and take my drunk ass home. However if you do get a driver assist (licensed driver still needed behind the wheel) car model, and the accident is the fault of the car, i think you can expect the car manufacture to pay up as quickly as possible to keep it quiet; we all saw what happened with Toyota and the accelerator with a mind of it's own debacle.
As much as i think google glass is just an old concept re-done (poorly in my opinion) by a new company with a lot of fans. I don't think the article is commenting about what is socially popular (that would be smartphones and tablets), more about what are cool gadgets to the tech elite and the future. Personally I agree, as i don't give a flying fuck that your smartphone has a slightly larger screen, and a 10% cpu power increase so all of your apps can load a bit quicker; Robots that can drive any where in the world, on their own, are much cooler (as with most robots/AI, heads up displays that aren't complete crap, wearable flexible tech, brain wave monitoring, solar powered drones that can loiter at 50 000 feet for 7 years, the list goes on).
I'm all for robo-communism. I'm just not sure all the big businesses that seem to be in charge, will like the idea of paying everybody to do nothing. Some countries might treat the people well, but others will put them in low cost housing (if they are lucky) and pay them in food stamps.
True if some one was willing to work for less than the price of electricity, at the same speed (or slower for less) then you will still have a market for the labor. We are approaching the point where we will be able to build robots that work cheaper than it costs to feed a human, and if a human can't even feed himself on a wage then why work for it?
There isn't anything to replace these jobs with. before cars were built in assembly factories, not many people had cars, and after that we had huge amounts of infrastructure to build. What extra infrastructure are we going to need in a digital revolution? just more computers which can be built by robots (and maybe a bit of fiber). We are talking about taking the current job and work of 10 tech people and doing it by 1 and a computer, not a new industry the current ones, if you can think of a new industry for the other 9 out of 10, I'm all ears, but i haven't heard one yet. Then throw in robots replacing menial labor (not replacing a work process or an animal, replacing the actual human) and it looks really bleak.
Exactly, people like this AC should not be cops. People who get so upset, so quickly, shouldn't be put in that position of responsibility and power; otherwise that's how mentally ill people get shot for shouting at a garden gnome. We need jedis not sith lords in the police department. Also, not that the AC will ever hear my reply but i believe in placating the police as much as possible (if you do get a skull craker, arguing, or going silent isn't going to help) but be damn cautions (I'm more scared of the cops than anybody else in my country, they have a fair bit more power than in the US). Don't be too nice though, i got told off for asking a cop if he was having a good day, "I ASK THE QUESTIONS ROUND HERE" he said; i hadn't even done anything wrong, it was just a roadside breath test.
Yes. Not all of them of course, it's a 99% give the other 1% a bad name type of situation; I jest. I know the majority probably joined to make the place better, but there are plenty that joined to crack skulls, and you cant weed them out because no one wants to be a rat.
Who says robots have to go all the way through D to A one by one. Advancement is going to be quick, robots like this http://www.gizmag.com/hamburger-machine/25159/ can already make at least c grade food, and a hell of a lot quicker and in less space than any human.
Also the developer isn't safe either, a smarter enough AI will be able to write just as good code as the majority of humans and it can be bug free. Tell the computer what you want the program to do in your natural language and it goes and knocks up a few versions for you; sure that will take longer than replacing the cooks, but it's on its way (it's the pinnacle of a programing language).
Any job that fits 1, 2 or 3 can be easily done by robot. Sure you might be able to find more work for any doctors or lawyers that get put out of the job, and those people are also in a position to start their own business; but what do you do with all the taxi drivers, miners, street sweepers, garbage men, cashiers, waitresses, cooks, and the list goes on for a long time. What the story doesn't seem to get (ignorance is bliss i guess) is that we are not talking about replacing the ox like in the agricultural revolution, we are talking about replacing the human in this revolution.
"Maybe if they had some ridiculously easy parts upgrade system/method. Easier than installing toner/ink cartridges in a printer in other words (power off, open panel, pop out old, pop in new, close panel/power on). Anything short of that and it's too hard..." have you tried upgrading a pc it's really not much harder (especially for something like a graphics card) and a damn fair bit easier than some god awful toner/printer designs.
"Secondly, with PS4 being so close in architecture/OS to PC (it runs modified BSD on x86), Linux game ports WILL appear." that is what i originaly said, that is what i want, and that is what i think steam needs in order for this to be a success. The streaming function is nice but i don't see it selling on it's own.
I don't know how many tvs you have, in how many living rooms, on which one of your super yachts, but the job your talking about could be done with a couple of Ethernet cables and some hdmi to Ethernet adapters, instead of multiple steam boxes. It's not like you could you could use your heavy lifter to run more than one steam box at the same time any way. If that is all it's doing, It's a neat party trick, but it would want to be mighty cheap, and all the games will stay on windows so we have very little reason to cheer, just another pc gaming peripheral. Maybe your right, but i hope your wrong, and instead we start seeing new releases coming out with ports for linux.
If people have to own a windows pc capable of gaming, as well as the steam box, you're going to get a lot less customers than offering a stand alone system. It's not doing anything big screen mode on windows steam wont do.
Controllers seriously suck compared to mouse and keyboard, at least for FPS (except maybe some 3rd person versions) and RTS. They tried a FPS competition with PC vs XBOX and PS3 (call of duty i believe) and PC mopped the floor with the consoles, it's damn hard to beat the precision and speed of the mouse. I'm very intrigued to see the steam controller because they reckon it's comparable to k/m, but I'm skeptical.
This is it in a nutshell. You can be as open source as you want, but without the games having a native linux port your not going to get the users you need. It's a terrible chicken and the egg problem (you need users to get developers, and you need developers to get users) valve has a head start because they have a good image, but it'll take more than that. For valve to succeed it will all be about making it as easy as possible to develop for the platform (if you take the cost of development down, you need less users to justify it). Which has hopefully all been made easier with AMD and Nvidia being more open, and the latest consoles being x86.
It depends. When it's truly driver-less then insurance costs can be built into the cost of the vehicle and the car company would pay out (and if they can be as safe as they reckon, that shouldn't be much at all) or it could be a special plan with your insurance provider. Before proper driver-less cars your going to see advances on cruise control, stuff like lane centering, then highway driver, and car park parker; the driver will still be responsible in these cases but if the features don't work like advertised, expect car companies to pay up fast so it's kept quiet.
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America sounds like the women in this to me. As she has bought far too much on credit, and think she can hook up with a guy and get them to help pay the bills, all the while getting him to build stuff for her. ;) Sorry ladies.
"Yeah that's cool sweetheart" says china "you two look good together, but first can you give those trillions of dollars i loaned you back."
I don't play the lottery, but you can win. Trick is to pick all the unlucky numbers (you don't predict the result but you can predict the human side of the equation) this way you don't have to split any winnings, because nobody else uses those numbers. A guy proved it works using past lottery results, and pretending to buy the unlucky numbers in bulk, after 15 years of past results he came out on top by around $100 000 i think.
small step* for mankind. damn it.
When i started high school i saved all my money for a year and bought one of the first pocket pcs, about 15 years ago now. The pocket pc lacked a LOT of polish, but it did the majority of the wondrous things that my current smart phone does, and since then i've been witnessing minor improvement after minor improvement. Sure the smartphone is wondrous compared to a slide rule but, a slide rule is wondrous compared to an abacus, and imagine what your great grandfather would of thought of TV. I'm glad you like your smartphone, but i think it's a small leap for mankind.
Google glass is possibly the worst version of a heads up display i have seen. I love the idea of a hud but i wouldn't buy glass if it was $50. Give me a proper set of glasses that fold, with 2 screens for 3d, display in the middle of each eye for better augmented reality/comfort and clear and see through (we have this technology), oh and if you can squeeze it in, some kind of 'leap motion' like control input, so you can touch/gesture control the virtual image.
The computers are already pretty good (google's car has driven well over a million miles now, and has only had one accident, which was the other car's fault any way). Now even if it's not better than the best human driver (which shouldn't be impossible, there are already lots of driving that a computer can do better like launch assist, abs breaks, Parallel parking, gear shifting as vw is down to 0.2 of a second or something now), it'll be better than the average driver that occasionally talks on their cell phone and changes lanes without indicating. I won't be paying my hard earned money on it till it can pick me up from the pub, and take my drunk ass home. However if you do get a driver assist (licensed driver still needed behind the wheel) car model, and the accident is the fault of the car, i think you can expect the car manufacture to pay up as quickly as possible to keep it quiet; we all saw what happened with Toyota and the accelerator with a mind of it's own debacle.
As much as i think google glass is just an old concept re-done (poorly in my opinion) by a new company with a lot of fans. I don't think the article is commenting about what is socially popular (that would be smartphones and tablets), more about what are cool gadgets to the tech elite and the future. Personally I agree, as i don't give a flying fuck that your smartphone has a slightly larger screen, and a 10% cpu power increase so all of your apps can load a bit quicker; Robots that can drive any where in the world, on their own, are much cooler (as with most robots/AI, heads up displays that aren't complete crap, wearable flexible tech, brain wave monitoring, solar powered drones that can loiter at 50 000 feet for 7 years, the list goes on).
I'm all for robo-communism. I'm just not sure all the big businesses that seem to be in charge, will like the idea of paying everybody to do nothing. Some countries might treat the people well, but others will put them in low cost housing (if they are lucky) and pay them in food stamps.
True if some one was willing to work for less than the price of electricity, at the same speed (or slower for less) then you will still have a market for the labor. We are approaching the point where we will be able to build robots that work cheaper than it costs to feed a human, and if a human can't even feed himself on a wage then why work for it?
There isn't anything to replace these jobs with. before cars were built in assembly factories, not many people had cars, and after that we had huge amounts of infrastructure to build. What extra infrastructure are we going to need in a digital revolution? just more computers which can be built by robots (and maybe a bit of fiber). We are talking about taking the current job and work of 10 tech people and doing it by 1 and a computer, not a new industry the current ones, if you can think of a new industry for the other 9 out of 10, I'm all ears, but i haven't heard one yet. Then throw in robots replacing menial labor (not replacing a work process or an animal, replacing the actual human) and it looks really bleak.
Exactly, people like this AC should not be cops. People who get so upset, so quickly, shouldn't be put in that position of responsibility and power; otherwise that's how mentally ill people get shot for shouting at a garden gnome. We need jedis not sith lords in the police department. Also, not that the AC will ever hear my reply but i believe in placating the police as much as possible (if you do get a skull craker, arguing, or going silent isn't going to help) but be damn cautions (I'm more scared of the cops than anybody else in my country, they have a fair bit more power than in the US). Don't be too nice though, i got told off for asking a cop if he was having a good day, "I ASK THE QUESTIONS ROUND HERE" he said; i hadn't even done anything wrong, it was just a roadside breath test.
Yes. Not all of them of course, it's a 99% give the other 1% a bad name type of situation; I jest. I know the majority probably joined to make the place better, but there are plenty that joined to crack skulls, and you cant weed them out because no one wants to be a rat.
Who says robots have to go all the way through D to A one by one. Advancement is going to be quick, robots like this http://www.gizmag.com/hamburger-machine/25159/ can already make at least c grade food, and a hell of a lot quicker and in less space than any human.
Also the developer isn't safe either, a smarter enough AI will be able to write just as good code as the majority of humans and it can be bug free. Tell the computer what you want the program to do in your natural language and it goes and knocks up a few versions for you; sure that will take longer than replacing the cooks, but it's on its way (it's the pinnacle of a programing language).
Any job that fits 1, 2 or 3 can be easily done by robot. Sure you might be able to find more work for any doctors or lawyers that get put out of the job, and those people are also in a position to start their own business; but what do you do with all the taxi drivers, miners, street sweepers, garbage men, cashiers, waitresses, cooks, and the list goes on for a long time. What the story doesn't seem to get (ignorance is bliss i guess) is that we are not talking about replacing the ox like in the agricultural revolution, we are talking about replacing the human in this revolution.
"Maybe if they had some ridiculously easy parts upgrade system/method. Easier than installing toner/ink cartridges in a printer in other words (power off, open panel, pop out old, pop in new, close panel/power on). Anything short of that and it's too hard..." have you tried upgrading a pc it's really not much harder (especially for something like a graphics card) and a damn fair bit easier than some god awful toner/printer designs.
Have you heard of a site called google (www.google.com), it's called a search engine, type in pc gamers vs console competition and you get pages full of results like http://www.gamesradar.com/pc-gamers-destroyed-console-gamers-in-tests-says-voodoo-pc-founder/ and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59DcDvKrsBc . Also if you really want the cititation and arnt able of finding it your self, sign in so you can see some one has replied.
"Secondly, with PS4 being so close in architecture/OS to PC (it runs modified BSD on x86), Linux game ports WILL appear." that is what i originaly said, that is what i want, and that is what i think steam needs in order for this to be a success. The streaming function is nice but i don't see it selling on it's own.
I don't know how many tvs you have, in how many living rooms, on which one of your super yachts, but the job your talking about could be done with a couple of Ethernet cables and some hdmi to Ethernet adapters, instead of multiple steam boxes. It's not like you could you could use your heavy lifter to run more than one steam box at the same time any way. If that is all it's doing, It's a neat party trick, but it would want to be mighty cheap, and all the games will stay on windows so we have very little reason to cheer, just another pc gaming peripheral. Maybe your right, but i hope your wrong, and instead we start seeing new releases coming out with ports for linux.
If people have to own a windows pc capable of gaming, as well as the steam box, you're going to get a lot less customers than offering a stand alone system. It's not doing anything big screen mode on windows steam wont do.
Controllers seriously suck compared to mouse and keyboard, at least for FPS (except maybe some 3rd person versions) and RTS. They tried a FPS competition with PC vs XBOX and PS3 (call of duty i believe) and PC mopped the floor with the consoles, it's damn hard to beat the precision and speed of the mouse. I'm very intrigued to see the steam controller because they reckon it's comparable to k/m, but I'm skeptical.
This is it in a nutshell. You can be as open source as you want, but without the games having a native linux port your not going to get the users you need. It's a terrible chicken and the egg problem (you need users to get developers, and you need developers to get users) valve has a head start because they have a good image, but it'll take more than that. For valve to succeed it will all be about making it as easy as possible to develop for the platform (if you take the cost of development down, you need less users to justify it). Which has hopefully all been made easier with AMD and Nvidia being more open, and the latest consoles being x86.
since i bought them*
Talk for your self my shares have quadroupled in price since in bought them.
It depends. When it's truly driver-less then insurance costs can be built into the cost of the vehicle and the car company would pay out (and if they can be as safe as they reckon, that shouldn't be much at all) or it could be a special plan with your insurance provider. Before proper driver-less cars your going to see advances on cruise control, stuff like lane centering, then highway driver, and car park parker; the driver will still be responsible in these cases but if the features don't work like advertised, expect car companies to pay up fast so it's kept quiet.