Oh, I had it set up just fine. I just managed to somehow destroy the kernel..I booted up one day and **ouch** nothing would work and I was getting weird messages. I've only used Linux for maybe a year? if you count the time I haven't had it installed since the suicidal kernel..and, quite frankly, I barely know enough commands to do much of anything, let alone try and fix an integral part of the system that's not working. *shrugs* I just wish I'd used Unix when I was a three-year-old instead of good old DOS..I think it would have been mucho more beneficial now..
Maybe when I was little I didn't care about formatting over my OS or destroying data or whatever, but for right now? I think I'll try fixing MS manure before I go back and set up Linux again. If only I could get WinMe to consistently recognize my PCI bus for longer than two weeks at a time..*grin*
Maybe those many assembly-line people that lost their jobs will want to watch over the robots..
*thinking aloud* If less people have jobs because robots are doing them instead, then how can there be any sort of consumer market? You're right (referring to something a little further up the thread) -- the whole system would have to change. Money can't be worth much because the cycle would sort of..stop. Way worse than it did with Reaganomics even..
In the ZDNet article, Somerson writes that "Moravec gives us 40 or 50 years until robots outsmart us." Supposing that robots do indeed outsmart humans at any point, they could potentially learn to program themselves. Robots could then put nearly everyone out of a job--why use people when you can use robots? Is there a need for people at all? Not really, as once the first batch of robots are finished, those robots can produce other robots on the assembly line. Who needs managers if robots are smart enough to manage themselves? There would be just one guy up at the top--owner of a company--that is raking in money. But if robots are smarter than humans, won't they be smart enough to realize what's going on and rebel?
Oh well. Hopefully the robots will remain less intelligent for a couple of decades further than Moravec predicts. That way I'll have time to retire and maybe even die before the robots take over the entire universe.. *grin*
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now all anyone has to do is figure out the significance of 10, 17, and 23 (the last one is hard because it should really be a number higher than 60..)
Oh, I had it set up just fine. I just managed to somehow destroy the kernel..I booted up one day and **ouch** nothing would work and I was getting weird messages. I've only used Linux for maybe a year? if you count the time I haven't had it installed since the suicidal kernel..and, quite frankly, I barely know enough commands to do much of anything, let alone try and fix an integral part of the system that's not working. *shrugs* I just wish I'd used Unix when I was a three-year-old instead of good old DOS..I think it would have been mucho more beneficial now..
Maybe when I was little I didn't care about formatting over my OS or destroying data or whatever, but for right now? I think I'll try fixing MS manure before I go back and set up Linux again. If only I could get WinMe to consistently recognize my PCI bus for longer than two weeks at a time..*grin*
*confused* Can you eat gold? A house built out of gold might be sort of cool, although it probably wouldn't make the best house..
I think I'd vote for respect. Maybe kindness as well. And generousity.
Maybe those many assembly-line people that lost their jobs will want to watch over the robots..
*thinking aloud* If less people have jobs because robots are doing them instead, then how can there be any sort of consumer market? You're right (referring to something a little further up the thread) -- the whole system would have to change. Money can't be worth much because the cycle would sort of..stop. Way worse than it did with Reaganomics even..
Okay, that made no sense, my apologies =)
..and hello programming robots?
In the ZDNet article, Somerson writes that "Moravec gives us 40 or 50 years until robots outsmart us." Supposing that robots do indeed outsmart humans at any point, they could potentially learn to program themselves. Robots could then put nearly everyone out of a job--why use people when you can use robots? Is there a need for people at all? Not really, as once the first batch of robots are finished, those robots can produce other robots on the assembly line. Who needs managers if robots are smart enough to manage themselves? There would be just one guy up at the top--owner of a company--that is raking in money. But if robots are smarter than humans, won't they be smart enough to realize what's going on and rebel?
Oh well. Hopefully the robots will remain less intelligent for a couple of decades further than Moravec predicts. That way I'll have time to retire and maybe even die before the robots take over the entire universe.. *grin*