Slashing taxes doesn't work either: The Kansas Conservative experiment is a complete bust. https://www.washingtonpost.com...
In case you didn't read about it, the State of Kansas went way GOP with Governor, house and senate. The idea was to create a conservative utopia with all tax slashing GOP promises will create prosperity. They slashed regulations and eliminated corporate taxes, reduced income taxes, and said NO to the Medicaid expansion to attract new business and spur growth. The result is an economic disaster. The State had to raid the road fund to pay for basic services resulting in crumbling infrastructure. Some of the largest health care providers closed the doors because no money. Education got slashed correspondingly so did performance on testing. All the money is gone, education & health care suck, the profiteers who made money ran with it. Most of the GOP who created this disaster lost or are losing their seats and the remaining GOP are revolting against the Governor. For all it's rhetoric, a plan with just 1 side fails.
We've already been here - and the networks without writers gave birth to the abomination known as "reality TV".
But really, I don't watch much TV. Seasons are down to like 6 episodes, you can't even get drawn into characters or plots in that little time. Then it takes so long for the next "season", I just forget about it and watch something else on Netflix.
"prohibit individual ownership"... really? First, what dystonian Czar run system do the think the US is? It's based on rights and personal liberties. The notion of telling citizens that "can't" own something is UnAmerican
Second,since this country is actually run by the multi-national corporations that pump billions into the electorate system for the purpose of their owned pawns enacting policy to maximize profit - Auto companies, unions, insurance companies, and a plethora of civil libertarian groups will ensure people can buy them when available.
I guess that's one way to get around a system that no longer is able to teach kids effective grammar. They can just send a video and talk about themselves.
" self-driving electric vehicles operating in shared service fleets in cities", that's a description for electric, autonomous taxi's.
Taxi's are here now and under used. Electric vehicles are here now, but the range sucks and they're not practical for 1/2 the country. Try using a battery vehicle in Minneapolis in January - nope.
Once self driving cars are widely available and "safe", which could be (c) 2030, traffic will double. All these prognosticators ignore American / human nature. We like to drive alone. If you have a vehicle that drives you to work, why pay the high cost of city parking when you can send it home, have it go pick up the kids after school, have it get groceries (Walmart is already planning for this eventuality), release it into a revenue earning driving system (send it to work for you in Uber while you're at work), have it go run any number of errands for you- but it still has to come back to get you after work. Now instead of 2 runs (1 to work, 1 home) there are 4 runs + errands all of which will effectively double+ traffic in cities. Sounds like more of a problem than a solution.
Absolutely correct, single task algorithms are NOT AI.
The ability to apply what you've learned from one task to come up with a novel solution to a non-related task is Intelligence - the "I" part of AI. Which is decades away. It doesn’t mean computers aren’t really good at single tasks, it just “single tasks”
Secondly, something bad eventually will happen, but something bad ALWAYS happens when people do it. There’s always accidents, there’s always Doctors making bad calls, there’s always human error. Computers don’t have to be perfect, just better than people to be useful.
No, it's greed over people pure and simple. cancer treatments that cost $100k per treatment in the US vs $3k in Canada for the same drug by the same maker.
Arsewipes like martin shkreli and Elizabeth Holmes are not poster children, but the norm.
The US FDA went on a war against imported Canadian drugs a few years ago to increase profit to the US pharma cartel and their paid for elected pawns to ensure profit continues to roll in.
UW, the University of Washington is developing a cure, a real cure, for leukemia. In order to raise money for research, the rights were sold to a VC (vulture capitalist firm) who giggle with glee believing they can charge $500K per dose. Here’s the piece most people don’t realize – most health care policies contain lifetime maximums; usually $1m, $2M for the better, more expensive ones. These greedy jerks are going to consume ½ of someone’s life time’s healthcare in a single injection. Think about those implications. This is not about making health care better, more affordable, or improving the lives of people, this is purely about extorting life and death so a very, very few can have bigger houses and private jets. Welcome to ‘Merica 2.0.
Given that profit for business owners in a capitalism based economy is derived from workers spending money on those goods and services.
At what point does automation ROI inverse as displacing human workers reduces potential consumer/customer pools leading to not enough people being able consume?
Going far enough down this road, capitalism stops working. Socialism doesn't work either at that point because the few left with resources (aka money) are really good at hiding it and not paying taxes.
What's left? And how far are we from those tipping points?
True to a point - but we are seeing semi-skilled manual jobs increase in pay. HVAC tech's and electricians for example are making quite good wages in most areas of the country. These are "hands on" gigs that can't be automated and don't require a 6 figure student loan. Law enforcement and firefighters make $100k on the West cost and come with retirement in your 50's with a pension. That's not bad.
Like every single industry since 1987 - all the revenue generated from efficiency is going strait to the top; this includes years since the recession:
Adjusted average income for the 1 percent without capital gains rose from $871,100 to $968,000 since the recession.
Yet everyone else fights for table scraps...
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/0...
.
I've built thousands and continue to build and support hundreds of systems across dozens of OS for quite a long time. If you want to say I don't know what I'm doing, or done - you're welcome to have any opinion you wish. My education and certs would beg to differ, but then again, people still believe the earth is flat, so carry on. If you would, however, indulge me and point out just 1 inaccuracy or contradiction in my prior post.
Linux as a desktop environment is a failed ecosystem.
I do still have some Linux servers
But for the desktop, the real answer is how dirty do you want to get? If you just want to use something that works, Linux is not your solution.
Linux is fine, and a great learning tool if you want to tweak, debug, figure out why things don't work, spend hours researching weird issues, and enjoy scripting / programming. Linux is (c) 30 years old, I was messing with in the '90's. Updates shouldn't break systems. I'm not talking minor updates, just patches. A bit over a year ago, I tried Mint on a laptop - any update past the initial install resulted in a failure to boot. Come on, really... Other annoyances, needing to install second processor support manually, no support for Netflix (supposedly this has been recently addressed - but how long has Netflix been around?), flaky WiFi driver behavior... These are all things that were "fun" to try and trouble shoot 10 years ago, now, not so much. As a 25+ year tech veteran, honestly, i'm tired of it. It's the pain I had over a decade ago and it's only improved visually, not logistically. I realize I'm coming across as a gumbly old guy, but at this point in an OS's life cycle, stability and compatibility should be expected - Unfortunately, that's not the case.
Think this through - the terrorist sent a message "as he was driving". Being able to access the message after the fact does NOT stop the terrorism. The next step, and the ONLY way this will work is constant - real time - monitoring of all communication systems for all platforms everywhere. When a potential "hit" it comes across, the GPS in the device is located and tracked. Again, it may not have been soon enough, but demanding a back by law enforcement demonstrates the desire for a complete dystopian world.
Of course then terrorists just switch to encrypted radios. Which will imply it will be illegal for non-military to own such devices.
Is this the world we want?
The problem with ".less than average snow" is that you have less snowpack. Snow is needed to melt in the summer to resupply water for drinking and fire fighting. With less snow, you're going to have really nasty problems this summer.
This country is running trade deficits because manufacturing jobs have been shoved overseas - to areas of sub-livable wages, no intellectual property laws, no environmental laws, no labor laws and corrupt governments. Foxconn, the Chinese company that builds all the icrap for Apple has (c) 1 million employees. Children are chained to desks, nets have been installed to catch suicide jumpers, the air is no longer breathable on some days and many buildings have their own environmental systems, ground waters are heavily polluted. Now, if that's the world you want here in the US, then those are all those "pesky job killing regulations" Emperor Trump wants to do away with. Go down this road and we'll return to the era of very few having everything and almost everyone lives in squaller or slums. This means you and your kids digging through garbage to find something to eat.
Profit for a company in the form of reduced benefits is off the backs of the workers
C-Levels continually get raises, golden parachutes, and lucrative stock options paid for the by the workers of the company who are only rewarded with less vacation, more expensive health care, lower bonus, and decreasing or no annual raises - and you want to call it "other peoples money".... I say their fair share was stolen.
I'm not a member of a union, and used to be anti-union, but the destruction of unions paves the way to total employee exploitation. Notice that pay has been flat for years, but for Corporate AT&T in 2016:
*Consolidated revenues of $40.5 billion, up more than 22%
*Operating income up 13.6%
*Net income up 10.6%
*Cash from operations of $10.3 billion, up 12.5%
*Free cash flow of $4.8 billion, up 8.4%
*Diluted EPS of $0.55 as reported and $0.72 diluted adjusted EPS compared to $0.59 and $0.70 in the year-ago quarter.
All the while the workers get no increases. Every single worker in the US (outside of a few high pay tech positions) is suffering due to corporate greed. A few people at the top have received all the increases for all the productivity gains since the 1980s. If you care about what this country will look like for your kids, you really should care about this. The reality is, you are likely not someone at the top.
Because the cable cartels have ensured via their pwnd representatives consumers have no choices. Cord cutting requires internet access of some type. It's the same company that offer phone/cable/internet. I tried to switch off the horrible comcast - I live in Seattle and my only other choice is a Frontier DLS with 3mb bandwidth.... really? someone in the US actually sells 3MB bandwidth? GAH!
Meanwhile in Australia, they're rolling out 1GB over LTE! Really! http://www.itwire.com/mobility...
The Country invented both the Internet and the Cell Phone doesn't even rank in the top 10 of global internet speeds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
This is just a colossal testimonial of how free market, greed, and the oligarchy no longer permit innovation.
The concept of Uber is to extract corporate profit off the backs of drivers. No long term business model succeeds by exploiting those who provide the actual goods and services that is the foundation of the company. Their exit plan was automated vehicles and remove the driver from the equation- If it is proven in court that Uber stole the code from Google for self driving cars: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0...
Uber no longer has a business model at all.
Tuition costs have been rising faster than inflation as State budgets look to shore up unbalanced budgets and slash education funding. This moves the cost of education from the State to the student. In the '80's (ad before) States covered 80% of tuition costs leaving 20% on students. Those ratios have flipped today and students now shoulder 80% of the cost of education increasing the cost to the student. The OVERALL cost to educate a student has decreased due to efficiency, automation and technology. This trend will likely continue as the current conservative thinking is counter any subsidy.
Now, to extrapolate this trend over the next 18 years and say that a 4 year degree will cost 1/2 million fails to understand the process. There is a limit to cost increases. Once the State's contribution to education hits ZERO, costs will only rise slightly, and may stagnate. We're over 80% there already, so costs can't possibly hit that number.
Slashdot Mirror
Slashing taxes doesn't work either: The Kansas Conservative experiment is a complete bust.
https://www.washingtonpost.com... In case you didn't read about it, the State of Kansas went way GOP with Governor, house and senate. The idea was to create a conservative utopia with all tax slashing GOP promises will create prosperity. They slashed regulations and eliminated corporate taxes, reduced income taxes, and said NO to the Medicaid expansion to attract new business and spur growth. The result is an economic disaster. The State had to raid the road fund to pay for basic services resulting in crumbling infrastructure. Some of the largest health care providers closed the doors because no money. Education got slashed correspondingly so did performance on testing. All the money is gone, education & health care suck, the profiteers who made money ran with it. Most of the GOP who created this disaster lost or are losing their seats and the remaining GOP are revolting against the Governor. For all it's rhetoric, a plan with just 1 side fails.
We've already been here - and the networks without writers gave birth to the abomination known as "reality TV".
But really, I don't watch much TV. Seasons are down to like 6 episodes, you can't even get drawn into characters or plots in that little time. Then it takes so long for the next "season", I just forget about it and watch something else on Netflix.
"prohibit individual ownership"... really? First, what dystonian Czar run system do the think the US is? It's based on rights and personal liberties. The notion of telling citizens that "can't" own something is UnAmerican
Second,since this country is actually run by the multi-national corporations that pump billions into the electorate system for the purpose of their owned pawns enacting policy to maximize profit - Auto companies, unions, insurance companies, and a plethora of civil libertarian groups will ensure people can buy them when available.
I guess that's one way to get around a system that no longer is able to teach kids effective grammar. They can just send a video and talk about themselves.
" self-driving electric vehicles operating in shared service fleets in cities", that's a description for electric, autonomous taxi's.
Taxi's are here now and under used. Electric vehicles are here now, but the range sucks and they're not practical for 1/2 the country. Try using a battery vehicle in Minneapolis in January - nope.
Once self driving cars are widely available and "safe", which could be (c) 2030, traffic will double. All these prognosticators ignore American / human nature. We like to drive alone. If you have a vehicle that drives you to work, why pay the high cost of city parking when you can send it home, have it go pick up the kids after school, have it get groceries (Walmart is already planning for this eventuality), release it into a revenue earning driving system (send it to work for you in Uber while you're at work), have it go run any number of errands for you- but it still has to come back to get you after work. Now instead of 2 runs (1 to work, 1 home) there are 4 runs + errands all of which will effectively double+ traffic in cities. Sounds like more of a problem than a solution.
Absolutely correct, single task algorithms are NOT AI.
The ability to apply what you've learned from one task to come up with a novel solution to a non-related task is Intelligence - the "I" part of AI. Which is decades away. It doesn’t mean computers aren’t really good at single tasks, it just “single tasks”
Secondly, something bad eventually will happen, but something bad ALWAYS happens when people do it. There’s always accidents, there’s always Doctors making bad calls, there’s always human error. Computers don’t have to be perfect, just better than people to be useful.
No, it's greed over people pure and simple. cancer treatments that cost $100k per treatment in the US vs $3k in Canada for the same drug by the same maker.
Arsewipes like martin shkreli and Elizabeth Holmes are not poster children, but the norm.
The US FDA went on a war against imported Canadian drugs a few years ago to increase profit to the US pharma cartel and their paid for elected pawns to ensure profit continues to roll in.
UW, the University of Washington is developing a cure, a real cure, for leukemia. In order to raise money for research, the rights were sold to a VC (vulture capitalist firm) who giggle with glee believing they can charge $500K per dose. Here’s the piece most people don’t realize – most health care policies contain lifetime maximums; usually $1m, $2M for the better, more expensive ones. These greedy jerks are going to consume ½ of someone’s life time’s healthcare in a single injection. Think about those implications. This is not about making health care better, more affordable, or improving the lives of people, this is purely about extorting life and death so a very, very few can have bigger houses and private jets. Welcome to ‘Merica 2.0.
Given that profit for business owners in a capitalism based economy is derived from workers spending money on those goods and services.
At what point does automation ROI inverse as displacing human workers reduces potential consumer/customer pools leading to not enough people being able consume?
Going far enough down this road, capitalism stops working. Socialism doesn't work either at that point because the few left with resources (aka money) are really good at hiding it and not paying taxes.
What's left? And how far are we from those tipping points?
True to a point - but we are seeing semi-skilled manual jobs increase in pay. HVAC tech's and electricians for example are making quite good wages in most areas of the country. These are "hands on" gigs that can't be automated and don't require a 6 figure student loan. Law enforcement and firefighters make $100k on the West cost and come with retirement in your 50's with a pension. That's not bad.
Because ID Badges with the same RFID's are sooooo inconvenient, lets resort to permanent tagging.
The corporate overlords are smiling.
Clearly the success of google+ over facebook is an indicator this study couldn't possibly be wrong or bias....
Like every single industry since 1987 - all the revenue generated from efficiency is going strait to the top; this includes years since the recession:
Adjusted average income for the 1 percent without capital gains rose from $871,100 to $968,000 since the recession.
Yet everyone else fights for table scraps... https://www.nytimes.com/2015/0...
.
That would appear to be in violation of Georga's Open Records Act.
http://legal.gatech.edu/sites/...
I've built thousands and continue to build and support hundreds of systems across dozens of OS for quite a long time. If you want to say I don't know what I'm doing, or done - you're welcome to have any opinion you wish. My education and certs would beg to differ, but then again, people still believe the earth is flat, so carry on. If you would, however, indulge me and point out just 1 inaccuracy or contradiction in my prior post.
Linux as a desktop environment is a failed ecosystem.
I do still have some Linux servers
But for the desktop, the real answer is how dirty do you want to get? If you just want to use something that works, Linux is not your solution.
Linux is fine, and a great learning tool if you want to tweak, debug, figure out why things don't work, spend hours researching weird issues, and enjoy scripting / programming. Linux is (c) 30 years old, I was messing with in the '90's. Updates shouldn't break systems. I'm not talking minor updates, just patches. A bit over a year ago, I tried Mint on a laptop - any update past the initial install resulted in a failure to boot. Come on, really... Other annoyances, needing to install second processor support manually, no support for Netflix (supposedly this has been recently addressed - but how long has Netflix been around?), flaky WiFi driver behavior... These are all things that were "fun" to try and trouble shoot 10 years ago, now, not so much. As a 25+ year tech veteran, honestly, i'm tired of it. It's the pain I had over a decade ago and it's only improved visually, not logistically. I realize I'm coming across as a gumbly old guy, but at this point in an OS's life cycle, stability and compatibility should be expected - Unfortunately, that's not the case.
Think this through - the terrorist sent a message "as he was driving". Being able to access the message after the fact does NOT stop the terrorism. The next step, and the ONLY way this will work is constant - real time - monitoring of all communication systems for all platforms everywhere. When a potential "hit" it comes across, the GPS in the device is located and tracked. Again, it may not have been soon enough, but demanding a back by law enforcement demonstrates the desire for a complete dystopian world.
Of course then terrorists just switch to encrypted radios. Which will imply it will be illegal for non-military to own such devices.
Is this the world we want?
you sir, are brilliant.
The problem with ".less than average snow" is that you have less snowpack. Snow is needed to melt in the summer to resupply water for drinking and fire fighting. With less snow, you're going to have really nasty problems this summer.
The murder rate in Mexico is 15 / 100,000 people. The murder rate in the US is 5 / 100,000 : sorry to poop on your little theory.
This country is running trade deficits because manufacturing jobs have been shoved overseas - to areas of sub-livable wages, no intellectual property laws, no environmental laws, no labor laws and corrupt governments. Foxconn, the Chinese company that builds all the icrap for Apple has (c) 1 million employees. Children are chained to desks, nets have been installed to catch suicide jumpers, the air is no longer breathable on some days and many buildings have their own environmental systems, ground waters are heavily polluted. Now, if that's the world you want here in the US, then those are all those "pesky job killing regulations" Emperor Trump wants to do away with. Go down this road and we'll return to the era of very few having everything and almost everyone lives in squaller or slums. This means you and your kids digging through garbage to find something to eat.
Profit for a company in the form of reduced benefits is off the backs of the workers
C-Levels continually get raises, golden parachutes, and lucrative stock options paid for the by the workers of the company who are only rewarded with less vacation, more expensive health care, lower bonus, and decreasing or no annual raises - and you want to call it "other peoples money".... I say their fair share was stolen.
I'm not a member of a union, and used to be anti-union, but the destruction of unions paves the way to total employee exploitation. Notice that pay has been flat for years, but for Corporate AT&T in 2016:
*Consolidated revenues of $40.5 billion, up more than 22%
*Operating income up 13.6%
*Net income up 10.6%
*Cash from operations of $10.3 billion, up 12.5%
*Free cash flow of $4.8 billion, up 8.4%
*Diluted EPS of $0.55 as reported and $0.72 diluted adjusted EPS compared to $0.59 and $0.70 in the year-ago quarter.
All the while the workers get no increases. Every single worker in the US (outside of a few high pay tech positions) is suffering due to corporate greed. A few people at the top have received all the increases for all the productivity gains since the 1980s. If you care about what this country will look like for your kids, you really should care about this. The reality is, you are likely not someone at the top.
Because the cable cartels have ensured via their pwnd representatives consumers have no choices. Cord cutting requires internet access of some type. It's the same company that offer phone/cable/internet. I tried to switch off the horrible comcast - I live in Seattle and my only other choice is a Frontier DLS with 3mb bandwidth.... really? someone in the US actually sells 3MB bandwidth? GAH!
Meanwhile in Australia, they're rolling out 1GB over LTE! Really! http://www.itwire.com/mobility...
The Country invented both the Internet and the Cell Phone doesn't even rank in the top 10 of global internet speeds:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
This is just a colossal testimonial of how free market, greed, and the oligarchy no longer permit innovation.
The concept of Uber is to extract corporate profit off the backs of drivers. No long term business model succeeds by exploiting those who provide the actual goods and services that is the foundation of the company. Their exit plan was automated vehicles and remove the driver from the equation- If it is proven in court that Uber stole the code from Google for self driving cars: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0...
Uber no longer has a business model at all.
Tuition costs have been rising faster than inflation as State budgets look to shore up unbalanced budgets and slash education funding. This moves the cost of education from the State to the student. In the '80's (ad before) States covered 80% of tuition costs leaving 20% on students. Those ratios have flipped today and students now shoulder 80% of the cost of education increasing the cost to the student. The OVERALL cost to educate a student has decreased due to efficiency, automation and technology. This trend will likely continue as the current conservative thinking is counter any subsidy.
Now, to extrapolate this trend over the next 18 years and say that a 4 year degree will cost 1/2 million fails to understand the process. There is a limit to cost increases. Once the State's contribution to education hits ZERO, costs will only rise slightly, and may stagnate. We're over 80% there already, so costs can't possibly hit that number.