>Instead of messing with what your boss wants for 40 hours a week then going home and messing with what you want for another 40,
This is how it works for me, but then my employer isn't looking to exploit and burn-out their workers, and benefits from the things I learn in my self-directed time. there are still 35 and 40 hr a week jobs that pay very well.
>So the whole tech industry business model is flawed ? Anybody in the SV sticking to 40h/week is pretty likely to get laid off, if not fired, pretty quick.
If that's not flawed, it's exploitative at the very least. It's not something to be emulated in a race to the bottom.
Is Windows 10 Technical Preview stable enough for a gaming PC?
Yes, if you only use it as a gaming PC; No, if you want a full-featured stable PC. Steam and games were working fine for me. I only ditched the Win 10 preview because of issues with File Explorer.
>Our 'clockwork universe', on the other hand, contains no 'meaning' outside of that which 'life' independently brings into this universe.
>Life does not 'arise' from the clockwork universe- that is obviously impossible as per the concepts of Gödel and Turing.
You seem fantasy-prone. Of course life arises out of our clockwork or not universe. We didn't get poofed into existence by a sky fairy like backward people believe.
>Every alpha scientist accepts Human life is fundamentally outside the 'rules' of science.
That's utter rubbish! You must have a VERY warped view of top scientists. Btw, "alpha scientist" isn't a real thing. It's part of your delusions.
At some point in the next 20-40 years, we're going to have to marginalize the ignorant conservatives, and move to a more socialist system if we don't want everyone but the elites to starve to death. Our current system no longer works if there's no need for low-skilled labor. Unfortunately many people who are not elite get tricked into voting Republican, because the Republicans appeal to their archaic, totally toxic beliefs.
That's a weird "what if." We already know that spirits and souls are imaginary. The smarter part of the population has understood that the supernatural is imaginary for many years now. Most people are simply extremely fantasy-prone, and get caught up in all sorts of childish religious nonsense.
Do you not realize that you're a physical object, or do you not consider a most-likely deterministic system like you to be intelligent?
I can't think of any reason that silicon and steel machine couldn't be intelligent in the same way we meat machines are.
The universe isn't magic, and souls are obviously imaginary now that we understand the brain as well as we do. Our understanding of the brain is still in its infancy, so we can't build real AI today, but we can rule out dualism because brain injuries and drugs alter personality.
a program could determine that an overpopulated Earth is anathema to its own self-interest, and act accordingly.
You are missing the point. Computer programs don't care about their own self-interest. That is why cruise missiles are more reliable than kamikaze pilots.
Even if an AI was programmed to not have its own interest, and to instead look out for the best interest of humanity, it could easily decide to exterminate a large chunk of the population to preserve resources and deal with pollution and CO2 buildup as a benefit to mankind. A lot of us wouldn't see this as a benefit of course, but an unsentimental, unemotional AI might.
Or you could view it as a small clip art library being replaced with a much larger one. PCs aren't islands anymore, and it would be dumb to keep mostly unused clip art on your local machine. Is there any reason to be concerned about Microsoft knowing what legal clip art you use, or is that just the paranoia that has so many/. users so lost and confused these days?
> you're better off googling for it (not binging).
Why, other than anti-Microsoft bias? If Google doesn't also have this creative commons filter, Bing has become the superior product for clip art searches.
It doesn't need to work in your condo. You should be on WiFi when at home. With TMobile, you don't even need a signal at all at home because calls go over WiFi to your landline Internet connection. The cell connection only needs to work on the road.
Not just modern. This isn't anything new. Prosecutors don't want justice, they're evaluated based on % of convictions, not the % of accused people receiving fair treatment.
You appear to have internalized far-right extremism. The extreme left wing is not fond of center-right Democrats like Clinton, and her name is only toxic to wingnuts because hate-radio, fake news, and the wingnut-o-sphere hate her. I'm opposed to political dynasties, but since I do have some critical thinking skills, I'm going to have to call bullshit on your far-right-wing worldview.
The GOP has been broken for decades now. Their last good President was Eisenhower. They just keep drifting into more extreme white christianist views, and have doubled-down on religion at a time when smart people understand that the supernatural is imaginary.
>The democrats are only slightly worse than the GOP as a whole these days
What? The Democrats are pretty bad, but much better than the degenerate remains of the Republican party, which is nothing but wingnuts now that they've driven all the smart people out of the party with their superstition, reality-denial, and bigotry.
I can't tell if you're joking, or you're as stupid as any random right-wing loon, like the folks that drove all the smart people out of the Republican party.
A greedy moron who realized that he could become wealthy as a parasite, but somehow claims to not realize that eventually his wealth would not protect him from prosecution for his crimes. And yes, these were real crimes. This Isn't a guy who copied a couple of video tapes for personal use. He engaged in massive copyright infringement to enrich himself by stealing other people's work.
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They don't suck, they're just old, and not up to today's graphical standards.
>Use that wristband as cat's collar. In fact cat and sedentary people are almost indistinguishable, from computer's point of view.
Sounds like you've met my cat. I just threw away a cat tree because she was too lazy to use it.
>Instead of messing with what your boss wants for 40 hours a week then going home and messing with what you want for another 40,
This is how it works for me, but then my employer isn't looking to exploit and burn-out their workers, and benefits from the things I learn in my self-directed time. there are still 35 and 40 hr a week jobs that pay very well.
>So the whole tech industry business model is flawed ? Anybody in the SV sticking to 40h/week is pretty likely to get laid off, if not fired, pretty quick.
If that's not flawed, it's exploitative at the very least. It's not something to be emulated in a race to the bottom.
If I had mod points, I'd waste one on a +1, funny for you.
Is Windows 10 Technical Preview stable enough for a gaming PC?
Yes, if you only use it as a gaming PC; No, if you want a full-featured stable PC. Steam and games were working fine for me. I only ditched the Win 10 preview because of issues with File Explorer.
And I'm out.
Probably not. He's really an ignorant conservative. Check his bonkers posting history, and the dumb wingnut meme in his sig.
>Our 'clockwork universe', on the other hand, contains no 'meaning' outside of that which 'life' independently brings into this universe.
>Life does not 'arise' from the clockwork universe- that is obviously impossible as per the concepts of Gödel and Turing.
You seem fantasy-prone. Of course life arises out of our clockwork or not universe. We didn't get poofed into existence by a sky fairy like backward people believe.
>Every alpha scientist accepts Human life is fundamentally outside the 'rules' of science.
That's utter rubbish! You must have a VERY warped view of top scientists. Btw, "alpha scientist" isn't a real thing. It's part of your delusions.
At some point in the next 20-40 years, we're going to have to marginalize the ignorant conservatives, and move to a more socialist system if we don't want everyone but the elites to starve to death. Our current system no longer works if there's no need for low-skilled labor. Unfortunately many people who are not elite get tricked into voting Republican, because the Republicans appeal to their archaic, totally toxic beliefs.
>What if spirit and souls do exist
That's a weird "what if." We already know that spirits and souls are imaginary. The smarter part of the population has understood that the supernatural is imaginary for many years now. Most people are simply extremely fantasy-prone, and get caught up in all sorts of childish religious nonsense.
Do you not realize that you're a physical object, or do you not consider a most-likely deterministic system like you to be intelligent?
I can't think of any reason that silicon and steel machine couldn't be intelligent in the same way we meat machines are.
The universe isn't magic, and souls are obviously imaginary now that we understand the brain as well as we do. Our understanding of the brain is still in its infancy, so we can't build real AI today, but we can rule out dualism because brain injuries and drugs alter personality.
a program could determine that an overpopulated Earth is anathema to its own self-interest, and act accordingly.
You are missing the point. Computer programs don't care about their own self-interest. That is why cruise missiles are more reliable than kamikaze pilots.
Even if an AI was programmed to not have its own interest, and to instead look out for the best interest of humanity, it could easily decide to exterminate a large chunk of the population to preserve resources and deal with pollution and CO2 buildup as a benefit to mankind. A lot of us wouldn't see this as a benefit of course, but an unsentimental, unemotional AI might.
Without human creativity and emotion, the machines would simply stagnate. They need us.
LOL, yeah right. That's a popular human fantasy. There's nothing magic about humans that makes them more creative than an actual AI would be.
Or you could view it as a small clip art library being replaced with a much larger one. PCs aren't islands anymore, and it would be dumb to keep mostly unused clip art on your local machine. Is there any reason to be concerned about Microsoft knowing what legal clip art you use, or is that just the paranoia that has so many /. users so lost and confused these days?
> you're better off googling for it (not binging).
Why, other than anti-Microsoft bias? If Google doesn't also have this creative commons filter, Bing has become the superior product for clip art searches.
Or you could use Bluetooth, and you wouldn't need a different design for each phone.
Quick, patent the idea of shaming on the Internet. This is clearly a new invention.
It doesn't need to work in your condo. You should be on WiFi when at home. With TMobile, you don't even need a signal at all at home because calls go over WiFi to your landline Internet connection. The cell connection only needs to work on the road.
Not just modern. This isn't anything new. Prosecutors don't want justice, they're evaluated based on % of convictions, not the % of accused people receiving fair treatment.
You appear to have internalized far-right extremism. The extreme left wing is not fond of center-right Democrats like Clinton, and her name is only toxic to wingnuts because hate-radio, fake news, and the wingnut-o-sphere hate her. I'm opposed to political dynasties, but since I do have some critical thinking skills, I'm going to have to call bullshit on your far-right-wing worldview.
The GOP has been broken for decades now. Their last good President was Eisenhower. They just keep drifting into more extreme white christianist views, and have doubled-down on religion at a time when smart people understand that the supernatural is imaginary.
>The democrats are only slightly worse than the GOP as a whole these days
What? The Democrats are pretty bad, but much better than the degenerate remains of the Republican party, which is nothing but wingnuts now that they've driven all the smart people out of the party with their superstition, reality-denial, and bigotry.
I can't tell if you're joking, or you're as stupid as any random right-wing loon, like the folks that drove all the smart people out of the Republican party.
A greedy moron who realized that he could become wealthy as a parasite, but somehow claims to not realize that eventually his wealth would not protect him from prosecution for his crimes. And yes, these were real crimes. This Isn't a guy who copied a couple of video tapes for personal use. He engaged in massive copyright infringement to enrich himself by stealing other people's work.