by Roger Penrose will shed some light, and I don't feel like regurgitating all the arguments. But imagining that humans are binary systems (just think about Godel's incompleteness theorem for more than a minute)is grossly naive and reductive. By all means, let's make interesting machines, but these assertions of "strong AI" are complete malarky.
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Is what happens when you code your OS in C++. Sorry all you C++ dudes, but you know it's true.
The vast majority of americans can't find Rwanda on a map, let alone discourse knowledgeably about the factors that cause ethinic striff an genocide. Their understanding of politics and economics at any age is farcical. So why would being a geek automatically exempt one from these blindnesses?
Once again, Mr Katz brings up an interesting issue. But once again addresses it without rigor. Mr Katz, being an alternative to big media sound-bites is not merely a matter of bringing up issues that they ignore, it is a matter of METHODOLOGY.
I submit to you some suggestions to experiment with:
1)Go through your writing and do a simple old propositional analysis (p or not p).
2)When you are comfortable with step 1, try using Hegalian dialectic.
3)When you are all ready to go, come back with a post-structuralist chainsaw and some deconstructionist C4 and give us the articles we have been waiting for.
-Peace and love are for rich people only.
Which is not actually samba, but another filesharing project. That's the only novell integration/open source project I've seen.
PS- It works ok, for some stuff, but I wouldn't want to run all my users off of MARS.
This is all about lock-in. It is getting harder and harder for MIS departments to fight M$, but we keep getting more reasons to do so. They continually leverage their desktop monopoly to force businesses to use (buy) other software of theirs. Its nothing new, but it has gotten SOOOO much worse this year.
I work in Portland,OR and love it here. A firm in Salt lake would have to offer me considerably more than triple my current salary to even be considered. (Whereas a local Portland firm would not have to offer anywhere near as much).
It seems pretty dumb to look assume this is an either/or proposition. I use remote administration all the time while I'm on the phone with the user. It goes like "watch this, ok? Now I'm...". The users who want to learn do, and any experienced support person will tell you that you can't make the users who don't want to learn learn anything, and if you try they'll hate you.
Sum total, your post is intellectually sound, but it ain't like that in the real world.
It occurs to me how similar P2P networking is to the way routers work. I can't help but wonder if routing protocols might be a good place to look for ideas for p2p (Split Horizon jumps to mind).
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You may have fallen for a troll. I suspect that those statements were simply meant to be inflammatory.
This Leadbeater guy is described perfectly. Look-under the madman/guru section. Walking sterotype. And all he is doing is lamenting the fact that idiots can't make gobs and gobs of cash off the internet without having a clue anymore. Then he proposes to fix this situation by getting rid of the people who know what they are doing (we must be pretty embarassing to a guy who couldn't tell a router config command from a shell script).
The fact that these pundits get published and read is as bad for our industry as Rush Limbaugh is for truthfull, intellegent political discourse.
Sorry- i'm on my first cup of coffee. I'll work up to a good rage/flame later.
I've seen managers ignore the sage advice of geeks of all ages. There is a bias that an MBA is a inherently smarter and cooler than those of us who work endless hours to make sure we know what we are talking about. I think this is based on 1) insecurity - otherwise why would we techies need managers anyway, it's not like I can't use a spreadsheet and make up a budget. 2)Marketing/Media hype (buy this Microsoft/IBM/Cold Fusion/ whatever and vault to the cutting edge of the business world).
You have some interesting stuff to say, but its clear for all you know about.NET that you don't know squat about java. Examples:
2. -There are compilers which will compile Java to native.
3.Java already supports half a dozen platforms and has for years.
4. Security? Java has had code verification since the beginning.
7. Xcopy will work fine to install Java apps too. But Java has something better called Jump-Start which will auto-update your users apps from the server. And they still have the option to work off-line.
Sounds to me like M$ is playing catch-up ball here, not leading the way.
I don't object to junk mail (except for ecological reasons) because they are doing it on with thier money and resources, as opposed to SPAM which is doing it on mine. SPAM is theft, junk mail is merely a mild annoyance.
To me this distinction is important - pick your battles wisely.
Yes but what about RHCE? I've been studing that lately and (OHH MY GOD) actually found information that was usefull at my job (I'm building an intranet/extranet kind of a thing with practically no budget).
What I can't wait for is DMing as an on-line service. Companies would hire professional dungeon masters (storytellers, etc) and you would pay an hourly fee to play on-line in their game. In other words, everything good about table-top with everything good about computer games. Note: this would take care of 1) cheating 2) provide free range with plots 3) you wouldn't have to search all your friends and acquantainces to get enough people for a game.
I think that is common on TV. It seems to happen on almost all major networks. I recall that Phillips made a TV that reacts to that and automatically turns the commercials down.
One of many reasons I don't watch tv.
I agree with the basic thrust of what you are saying. But claiming NTs memory allocation is better than ANY version of *nix is just as preposterous as Petreley's article. Ask anyone who has to support a lot of windows products. Can you say reboot reboot reboot reboot reboot reboot reboot.
Sorry, I just couldn't let that one go.
I work for a bunch of architects, engineers, and designers who could probably use a good image compression scheme. But I'm not going to tell them about this. Why? Because the proliferation of formats can become a huge pain for little sysadmins like me, and enough is enough.I am so tired of troubleshooting "but I can't convert myfile.bozoimage into myfile.gonzoimage". I realize standardization is a pipe dream, but I will not encourage this kind of thing. (Same for document formats - Screw Corel, Microsoft, and everybody who has to make a proprietary document format)
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No you are not an idiot. The hell with school and just hack like a mofo. Seriously, in the end, all professionals are self-trained. Best of luck.
by Roger Penrose will shed some light, and I don't feel like regurgitating all the arguments. But imagining that humans are binary systems (just think about Godel's incompleteness theorem for more than a minute)is grossly naive and reductive. By all means, let's make interesting machines, but these assertions of "strong AI" are complete malarky.
Is what happens when you code your OS in C++. Sorry all you C++ dudes, but you know it's true.
The vast majority of americans can't find Rwanda on a map, let alone discourse knowledgeably about the factors that cause ethinic striff an genocide. Their understanding of politics and economics at any age is farcical. So why would being a geek automatically exempt one from these blindnesses?
Once again, Mr Katz brings up an interesting issue. But once again addresses it without rigor. Mr Katz, being an alternative to big media sound-bites is not merely a matter of bringing up issues that they ignore, it is a matter of METHODOLOGY.
I submit to you some suggestions to experiment with:
1)Go through your writing and do a simple old propositional analysis (p or not p).
2)When you are comfortable with step 1, try using Hegalian dialectic.
3)When you are all ready to go, come back with a post-structuralist chainsaw and some deconstructionist C4 and give us the articles we have been waiting for.
-Peace and love are for rich people only.
What's the difference? :-)
(Incidentally, I have mod points and I didn't mod you down, just in case your sense of humour is broken)
Possibly Ghandi, but I admit the prior art is pretty sparse.
Which is not actually samba, but another filesharing project. That's the only novell integration/open source project I've seen. PS- It works ok, for some stuff, but I wouldn't want to run all my users off of MARS.
This is all about lock-in. It is getting harder and harder for MIS departments to fight M$, but we keep getting more reasons to do so. They continually leverage their desktop monopoly to force businesses to use (buy) other software of theirs. Its nothing new, but it has gotten SOOOO much worse this year.
I work in Portland,OR and love it here. A firm in Salt lake would have to offer me considerably more than triple my current salary to even be considered. (Whereas a local Portland firm would not have to offer anywhere near as much).
It seems pretty dumb to look assume this is an either/or proposition. I use remote administration all the time while I'm on the phone with the user. It goes like "watch this, ok? Now I'm...". The users who want to learn do, and any experienced support person will tell you that you can't make the users who don't want to learn learn anything, and if you try they'll hate you. Sum total, your post is intellectually sound, but it ain't like that in the real world.
It occurs to me how similar P2P networking is to the way routers work. I can't help but wonder if routing protocols might be a good place to look for ideas for p2p (Split Horizon jumps to mind).
You may have fallen for a troll. I suspect that those statements were simply meant to be inflammatory.
This Leadbeater guy is described perfectly. Look-under the madman/guru section. Walking sterotype. And all he is doing is lamenting the fact that idiots can't make gobs and gobs of cash off the internet without having a clue anymore. Then he proposes to fix this situation by getting rid of the people who know what they are doing (we must be pretty embarassing to a guy who couldn't tell a router config command from a shell script). The fact that these pundits get published and read is as bad for our industry as Rush Limbaugh is for truthfull, intellegent political discourse. Sorry- i'm on my first cup of coffee. I'll work up to a good rage/flame later.
Yeah - but you forgot to mention the users and the damn printers. Did I mention the damn printers? Damn printers.
I've seen managers ignore the sage advice of geeks of all ages. There is a bias that an MBA is a inherently smarter and cooler than those of us who work endless hours to make sure we know what we are talking about. I think this is based on 1) insecurity - otherwise why would we techies need managers anyway, it's not like I can't use a spreadsheet and make up a budget. 2)Marketing/Media hype (buy this Microsoft/IBM/Cold Fusion/ whatever and vault to the cutting edge of the business world).
What you want is Neal Stephenson's 'A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer'. Unfortunately, current game design is not that good yet.
You have some interesting stuff to say, but its clear for all you know about .NET that you don't know squat about java. Examples:
2. -There are compilers which will compile Java to native.
3.Java already supports half a dozen platforms and has for years.
4. Security? Java has had code verification since the beginning.
7. Xcopy will work fine to install Java apps too. But Java has something better called Jump-Start which will auto-update your users apps from the server. And they still have the option to work off-line.
Sounds to me like M$ is playing catch-up ball here, not leading the way.
I have applied for a patent on ranting and must ask you to cease and desist.
I don't object to junk mail (except for ecological reasons) because they are doing it on with thier money and resources, as opposed to SPAM which is doing it on mine. SPAM is theft, junk mail is merely a mild annoyance. To me this distinction is important - pick your battles wisely.
However, Warren Birch disputes this claim.
Yes but what about RHCE? I've been studing that lately and (OHH MY GOD) actually found information that was usefull at my job (I'm building an intranet/extranet kind of a thing with practically no budget).
What I can't wait for is DMing as an on-line service. Companies would hire professional dungeon masters (storytellers, etc) and you would pay an hourly fee to play on-line in their game. In other words, everything good about table-top with everything good about computer games. Note: this would take care of 1) cheating 2) provide free range with plots 3) you wouldn't have to search all your friends and acquantainces to get enough people for a game.
I think that is common on TV. It seems to happen on almost all major networks. I recall that Phillips made a TV that reacts to that and automatically turns the commercials down. One of many reasons I don't watch tv.
I agree with the basic thrust of what you are saying. But claiming NTs memory allocation is better than ANY version of *nix is just as preposterous as Petreley's article. Ask anyone who has to support a lot of windows products. Can you say reboot reboot reboot reboot reboot reboot reboot. Sorry, I just couldn't let that one go.
I work for a bunch of architects, engineers, and designers who could probably use a good image compression scheme. But I'm not going to tell them about this. Why? Because the proliferation of formats can become a huge pain for little sysadmins like me, and enough is enough.I am so tired of troubleshooting "but I can't convert myfile.bozoimage into myfile.gonzoimage". I realize standardization is a pipe dream, but I will not encourage this kind of thing. (Same for document formats - Screw Corel, Microsoft, and everybody who has to make a proprietary document format)