"Not only am I an experienced developer, but I have experience with Quality Assurance. I have a good idea of the other side of the fence. I think it helps me ensure good coding and interface."
Well, I try to do the same thing I do with any downtime. I try to create or improve something. Usually I'll end up configuring vim or writing some shell script to automate a task. It's not directly business related, but it makes me a better potential hire, thus a better (already hired) employee.
It's ridiculous to be expected to concentrate on one project for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. So I don't hold myself to that expectation. I work in spurts, and so far my employers have been very happy with me. That includes working on personal projects and the like.
In balance, I often think about work outside of work. I've thought up many designs outside office hours, and would have implemented them, if I wasn't hourly.
No. Who just "know"s how to use a V-Chip. No one. I'm a techie, and I couldn't tell you. Of course I could figure it out, and that's exactly what I'm suggesting parents do.
If they're that worried that their children are seeing some nipples or peepees, then yes, spend 15 minutes to figure it out. It's stupid to put this into anyone else's hands but the parent. The tools are there, use them.
"Toback, self-described as "not the most computer-literate guy," said he learned of the filter three days ago. He said he didn't know if the computers in his home have commercial filtering software that blocks pornography and other material unsuitable for children.
Toback said a lawsuit was his only alternative because Google, based in Mountain View, Calif., is beyond the legislature's control. Toback, a father of three children, ages 15, 13 and 9, filed the lawsuit as a private citizen with no county funds."
He didn't even investigate if there was a filter in google already. He didn't investigate his own computer even *having* filtering software. He didn't investigate using filtering software. He didn't think that he might, i don't know, watch where his kids go on the web.
No. Some people who believe in prayer believe that. And some people who believe science is infalliable believe that to. Not all people. Wild generalizations do not make an argument.
So lock the page, mark it appropriately and wait for the wanker to move on with his life. There are protections against this sort of thing. Wikipedia doesn't claim to be perfect, in fact, it claims to be imperfect but flexible.
The strength of wikipedia is that if there is an error you can fix it. The study is inaccurate because one an error is discovered on wikipedia, the error should be fixed on wikipedia. An error in Britannica would need a lot more time to be reviewed and changed and published.
Wikipedia works on the idea that there will always be errors, but they should always be easily fixable.
So to update the study: Britannica: 142 errors, Wikipedia: 0.
It's really not how pornography affects society, it's how society affects pornography. It's not as if we are being bombarded with porn from above, pornography is created because society demands it.
No one sits there and watches them, but we're going to have to listen to them and ignore them. One of the main tenents of advertising is that it works even if people aren't paying attention. Not even mentioning the employees who will have to do deal with this.
It was hard to create a convincing jungle prior to today's ultrapowerful computers and graphic cards. Look at the levels in Goldeneye for the n64 and rainbow six (1), they aren't environments that are too impressive.
"I fail to see how fooling humans into thinking that they are having a conversation with another human, when it is really a chatbot, will do anything to produce artificial intelligence."
Slashdot Mirror
Redhat.
"Not only am I an experienced developer, but I have experience with Quality Assurance. I have a good idea of the other side of the fence. I think it helps me ensure good coding and interface."
Well, depends.
I don't drive or ride in cars as part of my daily routine, looks like I'm sitting pretty.
i'm gonna go up my minutes.
"As a programmer, I'm most excited by the possibility of a new platform and the programming jobs that will be created by it."
Yes! This certainly isn't more far reaching or profound then a new job market and it's opportunities!
Well, I try to do the same thing I do with any downtime. I try to create or improve something. Usually I'll end up configuring vim or writing some shell script to automate a task. It's not directly business related, but it makes me a better potential hire, thus a better (already hired) employee.
It's ridiculous to be expected to concentrate on one project for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. So I don't hold myself to that expectation. I work in spurts, and so far my employers have been very happy with me. That includes working on personal projects and the like.
In balance, I often think about work outside of work. I've thought up many designs outside office hours, and would have implemented them, if I wasn't hourly.
But apparently right now I'm reading slashdot.
"And if some alien race comes down to do the experiment on us, I hope they attach stilts to my legs rather than creating stumps out of them. :)"
I bet those were the ant's wishes too, too bad they're just ants.
Man, and take TVs. aren't they weird!?
And how about cars with their automatic this and automatic that, WEIRD!
How about this hotdog. Oh man, totally weird!
He wrote this tripping out on something, I'd wager.
You know you really should change the default on those types of things.
No. Who just "know"s how to use a V-Chip. No one. I'm a techie, and I couldn't tell you. Of course I could figure it out, and that's exactly what I'm suggesting parents do.
If they're that worried that their children are seeing some nipples or peepees, then yes, spend 15 minutes to figure it out. It's stupid to put this into anyone else's hands but the parent. The tools are there, use them.
"Toback, self-described as "not the most computer-literate guy," said he learned of the filter three days ago. He said he didn't know if the computers in his home have commercial filtering software that blocks pornography and other material unsuitable for children.
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Toback said a lawsuit was his only alternative because Google, based in Mountain View, Calif., is beyond the legislature's control. Toback, a father of three children, ages 15, 13 and 9, filed the lawsuit as a private citizen with no county funds."
He didn't even investigate if there was a filter in google already.
He didn't investigate his own computer even *having* filtering software.
He didn't investigate using filtering software.
He didn't think that he might, i don't know, watch where his kids go on the web.
Go go gadget out sourced parenting.
(From: http://www.newsday.com/business/ny-bzgoog0505,0,2
Well if you can storing ROMs, why couldn't you store emulators as easily?
If only we never invented video games, teenagers would have never gotten interested in rebelling.
No. Some people who believe in prayer believe that. And some people who believe science is infalliable believe that to. Not all people. Wild generalizations do not make an argument.
To think that you are completely right, ignoring the possibility that you could be wrong, that is the only real ignorance.
Wooo it must be joyous to have everything figured out!
So lock the page, mark it appropriately and wait for the wanker to move on with his life. There are protections against this sort of thing. Wikipedia doesn't claim to be perfect, in fact, it claims to be imperfect but flexible.
The strength of wikipedia is that if there is an error you can fix it. The study is inaccurate because one an error is discovered on wikipedia, the error should be fixed on wikipedia. An error in Britannica would need a lot more time to be reviewed and changed and published.
Wikipedia works on the idea that there will always be errors, but they should always be easily fixable.
So to update the study: Britannica: 142 errors, Wikipedia: 0.
It's really not how pornography affects society, it's how society affects pornography. It's not as if we are being bombarded with porn from above, pornography is created because society demands it.
No one sits there and watches them, but we're going to have to listen to them and ignore them. One of the main tenents of advertising is that it works even if people aren't paying attention. Not even mentioning the employees who will have to do deal with this.
1. Find which edge of earth artwiz fell off.
2. Make him do it.
"has an article by Simson Garfinkel that compares the huge distributed systems run by Google and Akamai"
I'm not sure why he's even doing it, but Art Garfunkel should pick a better alias.
I thought it was jesus
Why!? Why?! Why was I programmed to feel shame?
It was hard to create a convincing jungle prior to today's ultrapowerful computers and graphic cards. Look at the levels in Goldeneye for the n64 and rainbow six (1), they aren't environments that are too impressive.
"I fail to see how fooling humans into thinking that they are having a conversation with another human, when it is really a chatbot, will do anything to produce artificial intelligence."
So don't do it.
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