I'm an extrovert and I'll agree with you. My last full time employment had me at a public-facing job where I pretty much yakked at customers for 8 hours and then called it a day while trying to manage an office.
At lunch I didn't ever want to see a soul. I'd leave the office and go to the basement of the building and have lunch and read the paper. Some coworkers found it creepy that I wanted an hour of solitude. I find it healthy.
Sorry, gotta bite on the troll too. I must admit, my Linux HTPC crashes MUCH more often than my Win7 laptop. Of course, the laptop never has to play 1080p video, but when it crashes, it's usually from overheating, not a Windows bug. That goddamned HTPC crashes so often because X freezes and the only way to fix it is to ssh in or reboot - that's a crash. Bleh.
Ubuntu 10.10 on a Zotac ION ITX mobo combo, running XBMC 10.1 stable rendering with VDPAU, broadcast video handled by MythTV and a Hauppauge HVR-1950, if anyone cares. All the hardware's on the "thumbs up for the penguin" lists, but it's about to get a windows media center treatment, damnit.
You don't think you could ever dedicate 100 hours a week for a few weeks to save the guy that puts food on the table for ya 24/7/365?
You never WANTED to work those 100 hours to make the next few months/years/whatever go better for yourself or more importantly, your clients and coworkers?
That's not what's going to happen here: AT&T is expecting people to just accept whatever usage they decide to bill for, with no recourse whatsoever if it turns out that they're wrong. And this will happen, with monotonous regularity, and most people will just pay because they have no idea what a gigabyte is, and how it relates to what they actually do with their computer online, and because Internet access is becoming less and less of a disposable luxury for millions of people.
I must disagree with you dear sir. AT&T, at least the cellular part of the abyss, is quite OK with correcting perceived billing errors. I do not find it acceptable to blame AT&T when someone cannot understand why or what for they were billed. However, when a customer DOES understand the bill and finds an error, I've found them quite willing to adjust the bill, for over 10 years.
Works pretty good. In fact, when some jerk tries to make something work outside the SSO system (It's kerberos for normal logons, not sure what the extensions are for the RSA SecureIDs - I'm a humanities major for fuck's sake), it usually leads to a CS student hacking them.
We had to change our passwords yearly. Not sure how often the RSA IDs got changed out. But I never heard of a single student getting away with a grade change, and PSU had upwards of 60k students including all branches, 13+ branches, and god knows how many profs and admin staff with RSA keys. The most "hacking" I saw in all of 5 years there was one kid getting access to send mail on the all-students list.
God, I can imagine the flak from faculty. I had 4 numeric digits after my ID, ID's were issued by initials followed by a sequential number (I believe). I was rjl5020. I had profs with not a single number after their ID. How hard do you think it was back in the 90's to get them to agree to a username in the first place?
Why wouldn't something like requiring an extra form of ID for more secure applications not solve this problem?
For instance, I went to Penn State, and one can log on to the faculty system portal with the same simple logon/password that students have, or email, HR, or just about anything else. However, the value from an RSA token is required to, for instance, change grades. Wouldn't that solve the problem?
"In fact, attacks over Bluetooth, the cellular network [...]"
Shit, I can barely get my headphones to work properly with my phone in my pocket when I'm out jogging. How the hell do I get it to go 25km to the base station?
Well damn close, you got two. The Senate and House of Representatives form the Legislative branch, tasked with making policy and laws. The courts form the Judicial branch. You missed one: The Executive branch.
But props, that's more than my average countryman would know. Oh, and the grandparent didn't RTFA: They ARE going to be teaching the difference, just as I was back in the 90's in PA!
Dude, NTSC is older than my mother. The color NTSC standard was released in 1953. Don't hold your breath waiting for the powers that be to toss out the ATSC standard, and along with it MPEG2! MPEG4 will not be on broadcast and probably not on cable systems for a long time.
Addiction to a substance or behavior is something you engage in full time or not at all.
No. A better (but still not perfect). A behavior becomes addictive when it begins to interfere with day-to-day life. I'm a smoker. I do not smoke all the time (I'd be arrested if I lit one up in class or at work). However, it DOES affect my day-to-day life. I gotta stop and buy smokes, I gotta walk out of my way to get to a smoking zone, etc etc.
I don't think any cars sold as of yet have fully drive-by-wire steering or brakes. I'm pretty sure by law in the States the brakes must be mechanically connected between pedal and caliper, but that wouldn't preclude electronic control. Hell, I don't think I'd get IN a car that didn't have a mechanical connection between steering and road wheels. And I don't think any exist, really.
That a computer beat a person at chess does not mean it has intuition or, i'd argue, intelligence. Same with Watson, as mind blowing as that thing was at Jeopardy!.
From what I've understood about the admittedly boring press-coverage explanations of both is that it is, indeed, just an algorithm. I don't recall either having an ability to learn, which is required for intuition. I'd say that it really isn't required for one to be intelligent. Just for clarity's sake, let's define intelligence as the ability to analyze/discern a given set of facts. Intuition would be the ability to make a choice based on said intelligence, plus knowledge gained from the past.
Given that, I've been told that Deep Blue was just so fucking fast that it could, given the board in front of it, analyze all the possible moves on the board to choose its next move, but not only that, a couple iterations the game too, so that the consequences for every possible "next move" were known as well. That's nifty. But it's not intuition, because the damn thing doesn't know anything about the past, about it's human opponents moves, etc. Note that, for the purposes of this, I'm not considering emotion and all that jazz - we all know that computers aren't there yet. Deep Blue simply knew what was statistically the next best move. Intelligent? Sure. The totality of what a human would call an intelligent way of playing chess? No.
Watson was fucking amazing. And I'd posit a damned intelligent way to parse language, and probably pretty close to what a human uses. They said that they kept feeding the thing data and questions, and if it balked on one, wrote another algorithm for the thing that could parse that type of question/data. That IS how we learn - baby steps, people - but as far as I know, Watson had to be programmed. It couldn't come up with a new algorithm or "schema" on its own.
And I've got a jailbroken iPhone 4 running XBMC that happily streams HD video and mythtv streams over wireless. Not sure what the backend is (ffmpeg as usual or something from apple), and it needs a bug-shaking too. And, in a quick googling to see about VLC, it's actually available on UNjailbroken devices, in the app store.
Penn State also was pretty good about having the steam pipes follow walking pathways/sidewalks. Every once in a while, there'd be a grate in the sidewalk pouring out heat. Pretty cool when you're too broke to buy proper winter clothes...
I'd tend to agree, but Ford and Microsoft are both rather good examples of companies that saw their pervasive quality issues and made effective changes to mitigate that problem.
Us dumb Americans are very afraid to use that damn horn. It works - even on the freeway! Most of the messages you want could be conveyed with a little courteous blip of the horn. Of course, it usually gets you a finger, but it works. For the tailgater? I'm an asshole. They get one of two things: I drive a stick, so I can dramatically slow down the car without ever lighting up the brake lights. Or, they get two blinks of the brake lights and then I make sure that the brakes are indeed, operational.
Well, WinMo 6.5 usually still has the executable, just not on the programs menu. iPhones, on the other hand, have no way to tether when not jailbroken unless ATT says its OK.
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I'm an extrovert and I'll agree with you. My last full time employment had me at a public-facing job where I pretty much yakked at customers for 8 hours and then called it a day while trying to manage an office.
At lunch I didn't ever want to see a soul. I'd leave the office and go to the basement of the building and have lunch and read the paper. Some coworkers found it creepy that I wanted an hour of solitude. I find it healthy.
Sorry, gotta bite on the troll too. I must admit, my Linux HTPC crashes MUCH more often than my Win7 laptop. Of course, the laptop never has to play 1080p video, but when it crashes, it's usually from overheating, not a Windows bug. That goddamned HTPC crashes so often because X freezes and the only way to fix it is to ssh in or reboot - that's a crash. Bleh.
Ubuntu 10.10 on a Zotac ION ITX mobo combo, running XBMC 10.1 stable rendering with VDPAU, broadcast video handled by MythTV and a Hauppauge HVR-1950, if anyone cares. All the hardware's on the "thumbs up for the penguin" lists, but it's about to get a windows media center treatment, damnit.
hydroelectric damn
Is that the kind of expletive you use when an electric eel gets ya?
What if they used the cell phone data to prove you were at the scene of a crime and did not help the victim, thus violating a Good Samaritan law?
Considering their product is user's eyeballs, and I still have my facebook account, let's please not try and liquidate the company.
What?
You don't think you could ever dedicate 100 hours a week for a few weeks to save the guy that puts food on the table for ya 24/7/365?
You never WANTED to work those 100 hours to make the next few months/years/whatever go better for yourself or more importantly, your clients and coworkers?
Selfish prick.
That's not what's going to happen here: AT&T is expecting people to just accept whatever usage they decide to bill for, with no recourse whatsoever if it turns out that they're wrong. And this will happen, with monotonous regularity, and most people will just pay because they have no idea what a gigabyte is, and how it relates to what they actually do with their computer online, and because Internet access is becoming less and less of a disposable luxury for millions of people.
I must disagree with you dear sir. AT&T, at least the cellular part of the abyss, is quite OK with correcting perceived billing errors. I do not find it acceptable to blame AT&T when someone cannot understand why or what for they were billed. However, when a customer DOES understand the bill and finds an error, I've found them quite willing to adjust the bill, for over 10 years.
Works pretty good. In fact, when some jerk tries to make something work outside the SSO system (It's kerberos for normal logons, not sure what the extensions are for the RSA SecureIDs - I'm a humanities major for fuck's sake), it usually leads to a CS student hacking them.
We had to change our passwords yearly. Not sure how often the RSA IDs got changed out. But I never heard of a single student getting away with a grade change, and PSU had upwards of 60k students including all branches, 13+ branches, and god knows how many profs and admin staff with RSA keys. The most "hacking" I saw in all of 5 years there was one kid getting access to send mail on the all-students list.
God, I can imagine the flak from faculty. I had 4 numeric digits after my ID, ID's were issued by initials followed by a sequential number (I believe). I was rjl5020. I had profs with not a single number after their ID. How hard do you think it was back in the 90's to get them to agree to a username in the first place?
Why wouldn't something like requiring an extra form of ID for more secure applications not solve this problem?
For instance, I went to Penn State, and one can log on to the faculty system portal with the same simple logon/password that students have, or email, HR, or just about anything else. However, the value from an RSA token is required to, for instance, change grades. Wouldn't that solve the problem?
The welfare of humans is obviously more important than that of potential humans.
Says who?
And I won't be trusting a word of it.
"In fact, attacks over Bluetooth, the cellular network [...]"
Shit, I can barely get my headphones to work properly with my phone in my pocket when I'm out jogging. How the hell do I get it to go 25km to the base station?
Well damn close, you got two. The Senate and House of Representatives form the Legislative branch, tasked with making policy and laws. The courts form the Judicial branch. You missed one: The Executive branch.
But props, that's more than my average countryman would know. Oh, and the grandparent didn't RTFA: They ARE going to be teaching the difference, just as I was back in the 90's in PA!
except a lot of SSDs come in USB key form and Winderz deletes files off those immediately.
You don't get laid too often being a dick either.
(Or by tryin to get laid for undeleting a file)
Dude, NTSC is older than my mother. The color NTSC standard was released in 1953. Don't hold your breath waiting for the powers that be to toss out the ATSC standard, and along with it MPEG2! MPEG4 will not be on broadcast and probably not on cable systems for a long time.
This thread deserves a /. Grammy for best historical trolling! Where are my mod points, sir!
No. A better (but still not perfect). A behavior becomes addictive when it begins to interfere with day-to-day life. I'm a smoker. I do not smoke all the time (I'd be arrested if I lit one up in class or at work). However, it DOES affect my day-to-day life. I gotta stop and buy smokes, I gotta walk out of my way to get to a smoking zone, etc etc.
I don't think any cars sold as of yet have fully drive-by-wire steering or brakes. I'm pretty sure by law in the States the brakes must be mechanically connected between pedal and caliper, but that wouldn't preclude electronic control. Hell, I don't think I'd get IN a car that didn't have a mechanical connection between steering and road wheels. And I don't think any exist, really.
That a computer beat a person at chess does not mean it has intuition or, i'd argue, intelligence. Same with Watson, as mind blowing as that thing was at Jeopardy!.
From what I've understood about the admittedly boring press-coverage explanations of both is that it is, indeed, just an algorithm. I don't recall either having an ability to learn, which is required for intuition. I'd say that it really isn't required for one to be intelligent. Just for clarity's sake, let's define intelligence as the ability to analyze/discern a given set of facts. Intuition would be the ability to make a choice based on said intelligence, plus knowledge gained from the past.
Given that, I've been told that Deep Blue was just so fucking fast that it could, given the board in front of it, analyze all the possible moves on the board to choose its next move, but not only that, a couple iterations the game too, so that the consequences for every possible "next move" were known as well. That's nifty. But it's not intuition, because the damn thing doesn't know anything about the past, about it's human opponents moves, etc. Note that, for the purposes of this, I'm not considering emotion and all that jazz - we all know that computers aren't there yet. Deep Blue simply knew what was statistically the next best move. Intelligent? Sure. The totality of what a human would call an intelligent way of playing chess? No.
Watson was fucking amazing. And I'd posit a damned intelligent way to parse language, and probably pretty close to what a human uses. They said that they kept feeding the thing data and questions, and if it balked on one, wrote another algorithm for the thing that could parse that type of question/data. That IS how we learn - baby steps, people - but as far as I know, Watson had to be programmed. It couldn't come up with a new algorithm or "schema" on its own.
Nah. I was born in '86, and it's one of my favorite movies!
And I've got a jailbroken iPhone 4 running XBMC that happily streams HD video and mythtv streams over wireless. Not sure what the backend is (ffmpeg as usual or something from apple), and it needs a bug-shaking too. And, in a quick googling to see about VLC, it's actually available on UNjailbroken devices, in the app store.
So, grandparent, tie?
Penn State also was pretty good about having the steam pipes follow walking pathways/sidewalks. Every once in a while, there'd be a grate in the sidewalk pouring out heat. Pretty cool when you're too broke to buy proper winter clothes...
I'd tend to agree, but Ford and Microsoft are both rather good examples of companies that saw their pervasive quality issues and made effective changes to mitigate that problem.
Seriously, seen a new Ford lately?
You American?
Us dumb Americans are very afraid to use that damn horn. It works - even on the freeway! Most of the messages you want could be conveyed with a little courteous blip of the horn. Of course, it usually gets you a finger, but it works. For the tailgater? I'm an asshole. They get one of two things: I drive a stick, so I can dramatically slow down the car without ever lighting up the brake lights. Or, they get two blinks of the brake lights and then I make sure that the brakes are indeed, operational.
Well, WinMo 6.5 usually still has the executable, just not on the programs menu. iPhones, on the other hand, have no way to tether when not jailbroken unless ATT says its OK.