And yet again someone jumps up that has no fucking clue what the hell they are talking about.
A robot that does exactly what it is programmed to do has absolutely nothing to do with artificial intelligence. Nothing you've stated has anything to do with artificial intelligence.
Unless you are of the opinion that we can change the meaning of artificial intelligence to something completely different than what it actually means just so you can support an ignorant comment on slashdot. Why not? We do everything else ass-backwards around here too.
No, it hasn't happened. We are all still convinced that we can somehow make something that sees the world in ones and zeros understand and "think" just like something as complex as even a simple animals brain is. Until we get past that, and get over our fascination with "digital" computers, we are not going to see "artificial" intelligence.
But, if your dumb enough to think collecting a million goatsex links is going to help create artificial intelligence, well I guess you would believe the shift has already occured.
This is pretty much the most moronic thing I've ever heard.
If you are dumb enough to think that Robots and artificial intelligence are going to develop any faster this century than they did last century you need to have your balls placed in a vice for a few hours to straighten you out. Seriously. Until people get past the idealism that throwing more power at the problem is going to make Artificial Intelligence click, and realize it is going to take one massive paradigm shift before it's worth it's weight in shit, we are not going to see artificial intelligence develop at all.
Now, develop a computer that lets me download my memory into and operate a robotic space exploration craft, now that I could understand. Hehehe, god, I can't even be bothered to believe my own drivel today. You fucking wanker.
Should have stayed retired you useless bitch. I went to your retirement sucks tour and was totally pissed off that I wasted my money on your useless and scared carcass. You sure as hell couldn't put on a rock show even if Slayer, Pantera, and Disturbed crawled up your ass and made you sing like you meant it, you worthless pile of old bones.
You ruled about four hundred years ago. Now you're a crusty old man that needs to put on a fucking shirt to hide your scaly chest, sit the fuck down, and shut the fuck up. I paid to see you in concert a few years back and was SEVERELY dissappointed by your obvious lack of enthusiasm. You know, as much as you don't like to admit it, retirement is something that should have claimed you long, long ago.
What? Couldn't you find something about computers to bitch about today?
Seriously, how is this reducing your freedom? You still have the freedom to buy an older car, or even modify your newer car to use the older engines and transmissions. The bottom line is that a lot of the modern computerized gimmicks in cars are there to increase performance, and mileage. Some minor things are done to increase security. But I really don't see how requiring the proper code to be administered (in this case with the key in the automatic starter) is restricting your freedom. And how is the little addon that requires a key in it "that much more work"? You make it sound as if that one extra little thing is a world ending situation, while the entire project would have been a yawn without that.
Yes, cars are becoming less hackable. But, in case you haven't noticed, so is damn near everything else around us nowadays. Things get more and more complex, with more and more specialized parts, and eventually it becomes less "hackable" by the common man. When the internal combustion engine was invented it was a fairly simple device. But progress has lead to changes that are vast improvements over the original. One of those improvements is a computer that controls all sorts of aspects of the engines performance. Is that really a bad thing?
Seriously, not everything is out to get you. Just calm down and take a rational look at it. That, or go back to bitching about Microsoft. (Oh, never mind. I see you managed to fit that into an article on cars anyway. Hey, wait a minute! Since when was Slashdot a site for car jockeys?)
My guess would be they actually mean clean room rewriting. As in, pretend the existing docs don't exist at all, preferably by finding some simpleton that hasn't read them yet, and then write new docs from scratch.
This is the reason that so many open source style projects get so bungled up. I have a great appreciation for Debian. It was my introduction to Linux, and I'll always keep one or two Debian systems around me. But they are always so far behind. And things like this "rewrite" are one of the primary reasons why.
Why go an re-invent the wheel everytime someone puts a different type of nut on it from what you like? Work with the people to get it the way you want it. Don't go throwing a temper tantrum, tossing away a perfectly good bit of software/documentation/whatever and screaming, "You no good, me do better!" Not only is it childish, it's also extremely narrow minded and wasteful of resources.
As other posters are pointing out, it's not like this couldn't have been dealt with sooner than two days before the code freeze. This is something that should have been dealt with a long time ago if it needed to be dealt with. Instead it comes across like a last minute bid for attention. "HEY EVERYONE! I'M GOING TO THROW A USELESS FIT ABOUT SOMETHING STUPID! Oh, and by the way, we've got this code freeze coming up..."
You're just making up some crap. I could do that too, but it would be pointless. The fact is, as far as we know, time won't "cease to exist", but it might. And, who's to say that when the Big Crunch goes down (if it does) it doesn't just "reset" time from the beginning and start the whole thing over again?
I actually have a huge story I have been writing that kind of focuses on this Big Band/Big Crunch cycle as a central theme. I don't have the actual answers, but I'm not trying to pretend that I do either. Saying something the way you did, as a fact, in this sort of matter is simply ridiculous. Unless you are someone/thing that somehow witnesses/witnessed the entire process already, you can't know that time will cease to exist. And somehow I doubt anyone that's been around that long would be interested in posting drivel to slashdot.
So, I sit here in this room. The glow of computer monitors lights up my face as I stare blankly at the same screen I've been staring at for the past year and a half. Nothing. That's exactly what comes to mind. Nothing at all. My mind is a total blank. I feel less than depression, yet more than boredom.
I find myself contemplating how, exactly, I came to this time and place. A happy thing? Not exactly. Oh, it started out well enough. We were starting a new company. And things would be different this time. We would do things the way they should be done right from the start! We would get it right this time.
Bullshit. I knew it deep down right at the time. But I was so desperate to believe in something I jumped at the chance. Sure enough, within a couple of months we were cutting corners to "save time" when we would actually save months, possibly years, if we just went ahead and did it right. The boss, an obvious moron, and someone that truly doesn't understand the inner workings of any layer of the company, once again began his stranglehold style of management. And soon enough I was being asked to cobble bits and pieces onto a computer system that was once an elegant and practical solution to the ever burning question, "how can we solve this problem?" Now, the system sits there, band-aided and patched in ways that make my organizational thoughts shudder with fear and trepidation. My one hope is that I get out before they ask me to undo all the damage they wanted done in the first place. It happened before. And that's why the previous company failed and floundered like a beached wail. Everyone wants what they want and they want it now. There will be no exceptions made.
So, I sit here, day after day, staring at the computer screen. I surf the net. I allow my mind to wander. I do not work. What would be the point. Everything that I do would just be one more thing to undo somewhere down the line. I'm not happy here. And I know that more and more the people around me are not happy that I'm here either. It is far past time to move on. But of course, I pick the worst possible time to realize that I need to go job hunting again. Oh god, what a mess.
All of this should have been a K5 diary. But, seeing as how they are down, I figured I should post it here. After all, what's the point of writing a diary if you don't get a whole bunch of people screaming at you and telling you what a worthless, selfish, arrogant bastard ass piece of shit you are. That's half the fucking point.
God, I hope K5 comes back soon. I don't know how much more of this I can take.
Actually, if you were a real trekkie you would know that according to Star Trek chronology we should be well on the way to blowing the fuck out of ourselves by now. Looks like we are right on track.
You know, there are a lot of ways you could interpret the above comment. Funny is not, or at least should not be, one of them. Intelligent? Yes. Insightful? Yes. Informative? Yes. Flamebait? Possibly.
But we all know how much mods like to think they "get it" when someone slams them.
I remember the article on apple a while back where a guy just went through apple's web site and posted links to a whole shitload of apple products. He had +5 Informative so fast it made your head spin. Fucking moderators.
Tell me something, do you get paid to somehow tie every comment on every article to terrorist/terrorism?
Not that I would deny you your right to spout forth shit that you obviously don't even believe yourself. I'm sure there are plenty of moderators just lining up waiting for you to suck their cocks. Hope you enjoy your cum-bath.
Well, considering the attention span of the typical Trekky, they probably forgot that the first 2/3 of the film existed by the time they were watching the last 1/3. You always remember your last impression the most anyway.
I always figured that "die alone" thing was about dying without a love interest, but I'm only a half-time Trekkie, so what would I know.
But, one thing I am quite sure of, anyone that has ever actually met Shatner say that he is the most arrogant asshole you could ever care to meet. I suppose becoming the "most important sci-fi captain" of your generation at the young age he started as Captain Kirk could do that to you. But, my guess would be that he just listened a little too closely to scripts and books that called Captain Kirk a legend, and forgot that William Shatner was the real person, a bad actor with a truly shitty talking voice.
K5 has a lot of ex-slashdotters and a few others that hang out there. It's actually a very cool alternative to Slashdot. It's also amazingly funny to watch slashtrolls turn into semi-respectable netizens when they start an account there thinking they can "troll K5". It never seems to work out that way. K5 has a way of either beating a troll about the head and shoulders until they submit, or just flat out making them feel so welcome that the trolling doesn't pay off.
Anyway, it should be back next week. Come check it out sometime. Most people that do end up really liking it.
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And yet again someone jumps up that has no fucking clue what the hell they are talking about.
A robot that does exactly what it is programmed to do has absolutely nothing to do with artificial intelligence. Nothing you've stated has anything to do with artificial intelligence.
Unless you are of the opinion that we can change the meaning of artificial intelligence to something completely different than what it actually means just so you can support an ignorant comment on slashdot. Why not? We do everything else ass-backwards around here too.
Yes, actually. It is.
Fuck off now, OK.
Score: 5, Troll? What the fuck?
No, it hasn't happened. We are all still convinced that we can somehow make something that sees the world in ones and zeros understand and "think" just like something as complex as even a simple animals brain is. Until we get past that, and get over our fascination with "digital" computers, we are not going to see "artificial" intelligence.
But, if your dumb enough to think collecting a million goatsex links is going to help create artificial intelligence, well I guess you would believe the shift has already occured.
Wow. I've read the Hyperion/Endymion books several times and I didn't notice that until you pointed it out. Thank you AC moronicator.
If you are dumb enough to think that Robots and artificial intelligence are going to develop any faster this century than they did last century you need to have your balls placed in a vice for a few hours to straighten you out. Seriously. Until people get past the idealism that throwing more power at the problem is going to make Artificial Intelligence click, and realize it is going to take one massive paradigm shift before it's worth it's weight in shit, we are not going to see artificial intelligence develop at all.
Now, develop a computer that lets me download my memory into and operate a robotic space exploration craft, now that I could understand. Hehehe, god, I can't even be bothered to believe my own drivel today. You fucking wanker.
Should have stayed retired you useless bitch. I went to your retirement sucks tour and was totally pissed off that I wasted my money on your useless and scared carcass. You sure as hell couldn't put on a rock show even if Slayer, Pantera, and Disturbed crawled up your ass and made you sing like you meant it, you worthless pile of old bones.
You ruled about four hundred years ago. Now you're a crusty old man that needs to put on a fucking shirt to hide your scaly chest, sit the fuck down, and shut the fuck up. I paid to see you in concert a few years back and was SEVERELY dissappointed by your obvious lack of enthusiasm. You know, as much as you don't like to admit it, retirement is something that should have claimed you long, long ago.
But, for your general message: AMEN MY BROTHER! AMEN!
Or better yet have your engine turned off mid-flight and get stuck with a dead guy in the passenger seat.
What? Couldn't you find something about computers to bitch about today?
Seriously, how is this reducing your freedom? You still have the freedom to buy an older car, or even modify your newer car to use the older engines and transmissions. The bottom line is that a lot of the modern computerized gimmicks in cars are there to increase performance, and mileage. Some minor things are done to increase security. But I really don't see how requiring the proper code to be administered (in this case with the key in the automatic starter) is restricting your freedom. And how is the little addon that requires a key in it "that much more work"? You make it sound as if that one extra little thing is a world ending situation, while the entire project would have been a yawn without that.
Yes, cars are becoming less hackable. But, in case you haven't noticed, so is damn near everything else around us nowadays. Things get more and more complex, with more and more specialized parts, and eventually it becomes less "hackable" by the common man. When the internal combustion engine was invented it was a fairly simple device. But progress has lead to changes that are vast improvements over the original. One of those improvements is a computer that controls all sorts of aspects of the engines performance. Is that really a bad thing?
Seriously, not everything is out to get you. Just calm down and take a rational look at it. That, or go back to bitching about Microsoft. (Oh, never mind. I see you managed to fit that into an article on cars anyway. Hey, wait a minute! Since when was Slashdot a site for car jockeys?)
This is the reason that so many open source style projects get so bungled up. I have a great appreciation for Debian. It was my introduction to Linux, and I'll always keep one or two Debian systems around me. But they are always so far behind. And things like this "rewrite" are one of the primary reasons why.
Why go an re-invent the wheel everytime someone puts a different type of nut on it from what you like? Work with the people to get it the way you want it. Don't go throwing a temper tantrum, tossing away a perfectly good bit of software/documentation/whatever and screaming, "You no good, me do better!" Not only is it childish, it's also extremely narrow minded and wasteful of resources.
As other posters are pointing out, it's not like this couldn't have been dealt with sooner than two days before the code freeze. This is something that should have been dealt with a long time ago if it needed to be dealt with. Instead it comes across like a last minute bid for attention. "HEY EVERYONE! I'M GOING TO THROW A USELESS FIT ABOUT SOMETHING STUPID! Oh, and by the way, we've got this code freeze coming up..."
Sorry, this just seems a little ridiculous to me.
You're just making up some crap. I could do that too, but it would be pointless. The fact is, as far as we know, time won't "cease to exist", but it might. And, who's to say that when the Big Crunch goes down (if it does) it doesn't just "reset" time from the beginning and start the whole thing over again?
I actually have a huge story I have been writing that kind of focuses on this Big Band/Big Crunch cycle as a central theme. I don't have the actual answers, but I'm not trying to pretend that I do either. Saying something the way you did, as a fact, in this sort of matter is simply ridiculous. Unless you are someone/thing that somehow witnesses/witnessed the entire process already, you can't know that time will cease to exist. And somehow I doubt anyone that's been around that long would be interested in posting drivel to slashdot.
Heya Bob, from your old pal FDR. (Yeah, I'm still around, just in a different name.)
Banned! I can't fucking believe how easy it is to get banned from this shithole.
I find myself contemplating how, exactly, I came to this time and place. A happy thing? Not exactly. Oh, it started out well enough. We were starting a new company. And things would be different this time. We would do things the way they should be done right from the start! We would get it right this time.
Bullshit. I knew it deep down right at the time. But I was so desperate to believe in something I jumped at the chance. Sure enough, within a couple of months we were cutting corners to "save time" when we would actually save months, possibly years, if we just went ahead and did it right. The boss, an obvious moron, and someone that truly doesn't understand the inner workings of any layer of the company, once again began his stranglehold style of management. And soon enough I was being asked to cobble bits and pieces onto a computer system that was once an elegant and practical solution to the ever burning question, "how can we solve this problem?" Now, the system sits there, band-aided and patched in ways that make my organizational thoughts shudder with fear and trepidation. My one hope is that I get out before they ask me to undo all the damage they wanted done in the first place. It happened before. And that's why the previous company failed and floundered like a beached wail. Everyone wants what they want and they want it now. There will be no exceptions made.
So, I sit here, day after day, staring at the computer screen. I surf the net. I allow my mind to wander. I do not work. What would be the point. Everything that I do would just be one more thing to undo somewhere down the line. I'm not happy here. And I know that more and more the people around me are not happy that I'm here either. It is far past time to move on. But of course, I pick the worst possible time to realize that I need to go job hunting again. Oh god, what a mess.
All of this should have been a K5 diary. But, seeing as how they are down, I figured I should post it here. After all, what's the point of writing a diary if you don't get a whole bunch of people screaming at you and telling you what a worthless, selfish, arrogant bastard ass piece of shit you are. That's half the fucking point.
God, I hope K5 comes back soon. I don't know how much more of this I can take.
Actually, if you were a real trekkie you would know that according to Star Trek chronology we should be well on the way to blowing the fuck out of ourselves by now. Looks like we are right on track.
But we all know how much mods like to think they "get it" when someone slams them.
I remember the article on apple a while back where a guy just went through apple's web site and posted links to a whole shitload of apple products. He had +5 Informative so fast it made your head spin. Fucking moderators.
Tell me something, do you get paid to somehow tie every comment on every article to terrorist/terrorism?
Not that I would deny you your right to spout forth shit that you obviously don't even believe yourself. I'm sure there are plenty of moderators just lining up waiting for you to suck their cocks. Hope you enjoy your cum-bath.
Hehehehehehe, he said huguhuhehehuheh, "hardcore". Damn, that's funny.
Well, considering the attention span of the typical Trekky, they probably forgot that the first 2/3 of the film existed by the time they were watching the last 1/3. You always remember your last impression the most anyway.
But, one thing I am quite sure of, anyone that has ever actually met Shatner say that he is the most arrogant asshole you could ever care to meet. I suppose becoming the "most important sci-fi captain" of your generation at the young age he started as Captain Kirk could do that to you. But, my guess would be that he just listened a little too closely to scripts and books that called Captain Kirk a legend, and forgot that William Shatner was the real person, a bad actor with a truly shitty talking voice.
"Bones...(pause), I...(pause) cantseemtofind...(pause) my...(pause)..."
OH FINISH THE GODDAMNED SENTENCE ALREADY WILL YOU!
Just think how cool Captain Kirk could have been had they gotten a real actor to play him.
True, but bashing Katz is always insightful. The true test of one's intelligence is in whether or not they agree with Katz.
K5 has a lot of ex-slashdotters and a few others that hang out there. It's actually a very cool alternative to Slashdot. It's also amazingly funny to watch slashtrolls turn into semi-respectable netizens when they start an account there thinking they can "troll K5". It never seems to work out that way. K5 has a way of either beating a troll about the head and shoulders until they submit, or just flat out making them feel so welcome that the trolling doesn't pay off.
Anyway, it should be back next week. Come check it out sometime. Most people that do end up really liking it.