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  1. In January, Yammer's data model will be moved over to the Office Graph, the same data model that runs Teams. So you will be able to use Yammer or Teams on the same data set. Yammer and teams will just be different views into the same model.

  2. Re:what is this garbage. on Microsoft Teams Launches To Take on Slack in the Workplace (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I will say this much. There is a reason a lot of corporations are going Cloud. It's because there are a lot of folks in the basement in IT who agree with you, and there are a lot of folks in the rest of the business who disagree and the rest of the business is starting to win out as the Cloud providers are starting to be able to pass audits more often than the on-premise data centers.

  3. Re:I don't know about your org.. on Are Enterprise Architects the "Miltons" of Their Organizations? · · Score: 1

    Not every part of a companies processes are related to their competitive advantage. So you identify the processes that are not a competitive advantage and use an out of the box process to standardize it.

  4. Re:No such thing in real gambling on Researchers "Solve" Texas Hold'Em, Create Perfect Robotic Player · · Score: 4, Informative

    From the article: "So, is online poker now dead? Destined to be crushed by robots? Not quite: No limit Texas Hold'Em—in which any amount of bet in any dollar amount can be made—is by far the most popular, and while robots can play that game quite well, we're no where close to solving it. Limit poker has roughly 3 x 10^14 permutations; no limit poker has 3 x 10^48, which is many orders of magnitude harder to solve."

  5. Re:Mo-tiv-a-tion on Elon Musk Warns Against Unleashing Artificial Intelligence "Demon" · · Score: 1

    I recommend you give the following a read:

    http://www.amazon.com/Superint...

  6. Re:The Bible? on Text Analyzer Reveals Emotional 'Temperature' of Novels and Fairy Tales · · Score: 1

    Thanks you got my meaning and made it clear than I could myself.

  7. Re:The Bible? on Text Analyzer Reveals Emotional 'Temperature' of Novels and Fairy Tales · · Score: 2

    The best answer that I have heard is that the existential nihilism that is covered by the book is an important aspect of Jewish / Christian traditions and that all wise people must confront it and think about it. The idea is so central that it even suggests the idea that God himself wrestles with this question and more specifically in the Christian Tradition this is what the Christ wrestled with on the cross when he cried out "Why have you forsaken me?" The saints, holy people, and mad men through out history have all struggled with this and were all changed by the questions asked by this book.

  8. Here is the PowerPoint for the paper on Text Analyzer Reveals Emotional 'Temperature' of Novels and Fairy Tales · · Score: 4, Informative

    Here is the a good summary of the work in a PDF of a PPT.

    http://www.saifmohammad.com/WebDocs/LaTeCH-emotions-in-books.pdf

    Ted

  9. Re:First question I asked it muffed on Mitsuku Chatbot Wins Loebner Prize 2013 · · Score: 1

    You say: I have a dog
    I ask: What color is your dog?
    You say: That would depend, as a dog can have many colours.

    At this point would think you are not trying to communicate or you are a computer.

  10. Re:What if... on Death Valley Dethrones Impostor As Hottest Place On Earth · · Score: 1

    I'm not saying this makes sense to -me- I was saying this is what you have to overcome. People created the imperial system after things they could visualize. Over time the system became a part of the culture. At that point its almost impossible to change, in order to hack culture, you have to overload and redefine the symbols and the rituals of that culture. This has been the chief problem with the Metric system, its hard for the common man to know if 1 Kg of a substance for $10 is a better deal that 1 Lbs of the same substance for $10.

    Now in order for the metric system to catch on we are going to need to come up with good ways to get people to think in meter, liter, or gram units.

    In the United States the Liter is the soda bottle. This is good. The gram... drug use is popular enough among certain groups and but in the states where the legalization process is underway most of the substances is not sold by the gram. As for the meter, we are already making an impact on the health nuts with the 5K/10K runs, but there needs to be something people can get their minds around. 5,000 or 10,000 doesn't work.

  11. Re:What if... on Death Valley Dethrones Impostor As Hottest Place On Earth · · Score: 1

    The funny thing about the United States is that HR 596 was passed by the 39th congress in 1866 which authorized its use.

    http://lamar.colostate.edu/~hillger/laws/metric-act-bill.html

  12. Re:What if... on Death Valley Dethrones Impostor As Hottest Place On Earth · · Score: 1

    Opps

    1 mile = 8 furlongs

  13. Re:What if... on Death Valley Dethrones Impostor As Hottest Place On Earth · · Score: 2

    The reason that the old system still holds is that it makes more sense to the people who are not scientists.

    100 degrees F = HOT!
    0 degrees F = COLD!
    1 inch = thumb
    1 foot = foot
    1 yard = 1 persons stride
    1 Rod = 1 oxe in length
    1 furlong = distance a oxe could plow without resting
    1 acre = amount of land an oxe can plow in one day
    1 mile = 8
    1 cup = 1 glass of liquid
    1 pint = beer
    1 quart = 2 beers
    1 gallon = drunk
    1 lbs = 1 Rock
    1 grain = 1 grain of sand

    I could go on, but basically the reason that its hard to do away with the Imperial systems.

    Plus the Metric system was a part of revolutionary France, and some of it has still to catch on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_time

  14. Re:Old tech... on Ask Slashdot: The Search For the Ultimate Engineer's Pen · · Score: 1
  15. Re:There is - far less on Developer Drops Game Price To $0 Citing Android Piracy · · Score: 1

    Part of the skill of piracy is the ability to find a pirate copy of said game. My guess is that finding those apps is also something that most people don't have.

  16. Re:There is - far less on Developer Drops Game Price To $0 Citing Android Piracy · · Score: 1

    My guess is that piracy is orders of magnitude lower on the iOS because iOS is targeted at the stereotypical American mom who has no piracy skills, while Android is targeted at the stereotypical Slashdot user who probably has several orders of magnitude of pirating skills more than the stereotypical American mom.

  17. Classic 2D is best on The Hobbit's Higher Frame Rate To Cost Theater Operators · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think a classic book like the Hobbit should be available in classic 2D.

    Then again, I can't see most 3D theater experiences.

  18. Whose equiptment is it? on Ask Slashdot: What's Your Take On HTTPS Snooping? · · Score: 1

    Are you using their equipment, their network, their bandwidth, their physical space?

    Even if the computer is yours, its still their network, bandwidth, and physical space. This means they are bending over backwards to even let you go to personal websites like your bank.

  19. Re:Serious Question on Inside the 2012 Loebner Prize · · Score: 1

    Well, I definitely failed that test, I guess I'm a bot. What do you do now that you wake up and know that you are an AI?

  20. Serious Question on Inside the 2012 Loebner Prize · · Score: 2

    Can someone please explain to me how to read the chat logs? I am confused as to the actual exchange that is going on. Which transcript is the Bot, which is the human and how am I to sync the two parts of the conversation up?

  21. Lets call a spade a spade... on EA Defends Itself Against Thousands of Anti-Gay Letters · · Score: 2

    Lets be honest, many times the relationships are not homosexual, they are xenosexual.

     

  22. Re:You can't eliminate them on Obama Pushes For Cheaper Pennies · · Score: 1

    This will break down into an argument over the "weighted formula that takes into account population, economic activity, or both."

  23. Re:I'm actually suprised it's that many on The 147 Corporations Controlling Most of the Global Economy · · Score: 1
  24. Re:meanwhile... on DARPA Hypersonic Vehicle Splash Down Confirmed · · Score: 1

    You are right, fire sucks!

  25. Science and Research on DARPA Hypersonic Vehicle Splash Down Confirmed · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is how science moves forward. You make a mistake, you think about it, you engineer a solution and then see how badly it blows up. Granted that is over simplified, but without mistakes, missteps, and anomalies we don't move technology forward. Many of the problems we face as a society will not be solved by buying a solution from the local supermarket, they will be solved by a crazy person who believes that the future can be better and has the resources to "waste" working the bugs out of his crazy vision. Its been that way from the dawn of time, and it will be that way 10,000 years from now.