The article isn't too detailed. If the employee decided to do this on his own, I don't think IBM should be responsible for damages.
Then again, how would you feel if someone had painted a IBM-blue Nike Swoosh?
Do Community Service!
I don't want to sound insensative, but no one is to 'blame' for this.
The suspension was irrelevant. Without some therapy/psychiatry it was an unnavoidable situation.
Think this will be low-income housing?
I know they indicated that the tower would include business but I don't think that could sibsidize the enormous costs of construction.
Do you really think you can find 100,000 wealthy people to move into a huge tower? This strikes me as a project with a huge chance of catastrophic failure and a small chance of becoming a succesful novelty.
The current battlebots format is flawed if you want AI controlled bots - how in the world is the bot supposed to acquire a target when you have kill-saws, ramrods, hellraisers, and pulverizers to deal with?
How would the bot understand a comprimised defensive system or disabled weaponrey?
What might be cool is if you put a radio beacon (or even better two so you could calculate heading)
>>"You were the star athlete in school, eh? Then you just got harassed once in a while. Nothing like the constant, continuous, every-single-minute-of-the-day tearing down of your soul murderous assault that some of these kids go through.
>>"You're just worried because you'd have been the first target if you were still in school. And you probably would have deserved your death, jock.
So who's doing the bullying now? Nothing says I love you like a death threat, eh?
I suppose we are both right in a sense: A bully will pick on anyone, but only continue to pick on a coward.
Enjoy your day.
Typical popular american myopia. In a country with 280 million people you would think that there would be enough smart people to exert some sort of political influence - instead we have George W as a president.
For decades black kids have been killing each other in the inner-city public schools, without too much notice. Now, after a "rash" of school shootings involving white children in all-white suburban schools is the issue reaching the front pages.
The reason now isn't because the kids are violent, out of control, or lacking in morals, but because THEY WERE BULLIED and TEASED.
boo-fucking hoo. Everyone gets bullied. I was the star athlete in high school and thus "popular" but that didn't spare me from getting bullied. Being popular or cool never spared anyone from being bullied.
For those that don't have the mental capacity to deal with that, it may be unfortunate but it does absolutely ZERO to absolve your guilt if you decide to take a gun to your classmates.
What stops you from plugging the audio line out from your "normal" bookshelf stereo and encoding that directly to a.wav, which can then easily turned into an mp3?
Worse comes to worse you can always record (shudder) to a tape and then back to your machine. Quality will suffer but if you use a new tape there won't be much noticeable different (for the tone-def like me) from a 128kbps track.
- z
I think there are a few problems with the idea of a cyberspace "nation" existing.
existing nation-states currently provide things like water, power, schooling, JOB PROTECTION and MINUMUM WAGE, a police force. The end all of everything is that RESOURCES are what makes the world go round, and controlling those resources is an important thing. That can only be accomplished by a geographical government which needs an army to protect its boundaries. At this point, what is the difference?
let me get this right...
eventually all our universes black holes will eat all the matter in the universe, eventually eating each other until there is only ultra massive black hole -
at that point, all the matter in the universe will be compressed into just one singularity.
Sound familiar?
what happens to a black hole once there is nothing left to consume? also, wouldn't a black hole have zero effiencity once it has consumed all the matter in the universe, assuming efficiency is expressed as amount of matter consumed/mass?
Alot people seem to worry about access times on a "drive" this large... if you combine this with quantum processors discussed a few weeks ago here on/. then your problems are solved! the quantum processor works as both the CPU and the RAM, and the fact that quantum cpu performs all it's operations simulataneously it could easily work on the contents of multi X sized storage device.
The prospect of sending AI machines into outer space to possibly discover an alien species (and vice-versa) seems to eliminate the thrill of discovery. I think the human curiosity doesn't really want to _know_ if intelligent life exists outside of earth; but want's to meet and interact with the theoretical species. Sending an AI probe to do this accomplishes nothing: Many people will not accept the validity of a machines discovery; just like they believe that the moon landing was a hoax. I believe the real technological goal should be sending people (that is; humans _our race_) to search for; report; interact; etc. with an extra-terrestial being.
IBM just created a quantum machine (we all know this) which used 5 molecules to operate as both the processor and the "memory".
It seems that the concept of seperate hard drives and ram is soon to be outmoded; since basically every bit of data will be permanently loaded "into memory".
anyone already using Linux will know better than to switch from Linux to Windows just for the purpose of "office" apps. In fact; if that's what you are already doing; switching to windows is just fine with me.
I would wager that the "real" reasons for porting would be:
1) show the DoJ that they have OS competition and they are willing to work with other OS's.
2) the demographics are clear that PC's (and esp. PC accessories) is dominated by the Average White Male. This is even moreso in Linux (the kiddies aren't running Linux; and neither is your mom). A linux software marketing campaign won't worry about appealing to the family market; or the educational market; "new" computer users; or alot of different groups that you have to reach traditionally.
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The article isn't too detailed. If the employee decided to do this on his own, I don't think IBM should be responsible for damages. Then again, how would you feel if someone had painted a IBM-blue Nike Swoosh? Do Community Service!
I don't want to sound insensative, but no one is to 'blame' for this. The suspension was irrelevant. Without some therapy/psychiatry it was an unnavoidable situation.
Think this will be low-income housing? I know they indicated that the tower would include business but I don't think that could sibsidize the enormous costs of construction. Do you really think you can find 100,000 wealthy people to move into a huge tower? This strikes me as a project with a huge chance of catastrophic failure and a small chance of becoming a succesful novelty.
The current battlebots format is flawed if you want AI controlled bots - how in the world is the bot supposed to acquire a target when you have kill-saws, ramrods, hellraisers, and pulverizers to deal with? How would the bot understand a comprimised defensive system or disabled weaponrey? What might be cool is if you put a radio beacon (or even better two so you could calculate heading)
>>"You were the star athlete in school, eh? Then you just got harassed once in a while. Nothing like the constant, continuous, every-single-minute-of-the-day tearing down of your soul murderous assault that some of these kids go through. >>"You're just worried because you'd have been the first target if you were still in school. And you probably would have deserved your death, jock. So who's doing the bullying now? Nothing says I love you like a death threat, eh? I suppose we are both right in a sense: A bully will pick on anyone, but only continue to pick on a coward. Enjoy your day.
Typical popular american myopia. In a country with 280 million people you would think that there would be enough smart people to exert some sort of political influence - instead we have George W as a president. For decades black kids have been killing each other in the inner-city public schools, without too much notice. Now, after a "rash" of school shootings involving white children in all-white suburban schools is the issue reaching the front pages. The reason now isn't because the kids are violent, out of control, or lacking in morals, but because THEY WERE BULLIED and TEASED. boo-fucking hoo. Everyone gets bullied. I was the star athlete in high school and thus "popular" but that didn't spare me from getting bullied. Being popular or cool never spared anyone from being bullied. For those that don't have the mental capacity to deal with that, it may be unfortunate but it does absolutely ZERO to absolve your guilt if you decide to take a gun to your classmates.
What stops you from plugging the audio line out from your "normal" bookshelf stereo and encoding that directly to a .wav, which can then easily turned into an mp3?
Worse comes to worse you can always record (shudder) to a tape and then back to your machine. Quality will suffer but if you use a new tape there won't be much noticeable different (for the tone-def like me) from a 128kbps track.
- z
I think there are a few problems with the idea of a cyberspace "nation" existing. existing nation-states currently provide things like water, power, schooling, JOB PROTECTION and MINUMUM WAGE, a police force. The end all of everything is that RESOURCES are what makes the world go round, and controlling those resources is an important thing. That can only be accomplished by a geographical government which needs an army to protect its boundaries. At this point, what is the difference?
let me get this right... eventually all our universes black holes will eat all the matter in the universe, eventually eating each other until there is only ultra massive black hole - at that point, all the matter in the universe will be compressed into just one singularity. Sound familiar? what happens to a black hole once there is nothing left to consume? also, wouldn't a black hole have zero effiencity once it has consumed all the matter in the universe, assuming efficiency is expressed as amount of matter consumed/mass?
Alot people seem to worry about access times on a "drive" this large... if you combine this with quantum processors discussed a few weeks ago here on /. then your problems are solved! the quantum processor works as both the CPU and the RAM, and the fact that quantum cpu performs all it's operations simulataneously it could easily work on the contents of multi X sized storage device.
The prospect of sending AI machines into outer space to possibly discover an alien species (and vice-versa) seems to eliminate the thrill of discovery. I think the human curiosity doesn't really want to _know_ if intelligent life exists outside of earth; but want's to meet and interact with the theoretical species. Sending an AI probe to do this accomplishes nothing: Many people will not accept the validity of a machines discovery; just like they believe that the moon landing was a hoax. I believe the real technological goal should be sending people (that is; humans _our race_) to search for; report; interact; etc. with an extra-terrestial being.
IBM just created a quantum machine (we all know this) which used 5 molecules to operate as both the processor and the "memory". It seems that the concept of seperate hard drives and ram is soon to be outmoded; since basically every bit of data will be permanently loaded "into memory".
anyone already using Linux will know better than to switch from Linux to Windows just for the purpose of "office" apps. In fact; if that's what you are already doing; switching to windows is just fine with me. I would wager that the "real" reasons for porting would be: 1) show the DoJ that they have OS competition and they are willing to work with other OS's. 2) the demographics are clear that PC's (and esp. PC accessories) is dominated by the Average White Male. This is even moreso in Linux (the kiddies aren't running Linux; and neither is your mom). A linux software marketing campaign won't worry about appealing to the family market; or the educational market; "new" computer users; or alot of different groups that you have to reach traditionally.
Of course; you won't need Cat anything; with quantum teleportation you won't need cords at all. Maybe this means I can play all my CD's at once?