Imagine it, man. It would be like so many little nets inside of bigger nets going on forever (deep inhale, coughing exhale). Wow, uh, it would be like TRON, only way better. I need a salty snack.
When is the last time that any acquiring company came out and said: "We are just buying them for asset X and we'll throw the rest on the slag heap once we've got it"? Never? Blustery talk about investment, growth, etc... prevents a mass exodus so the new owners can decide who to fire. Its more fun for them that way. Read the glossary at the end of the PDF; it pretty much disowns everything stated earlier.
| Actually there was a time when Microsoft was hailed as the white knight in the shiny armor freeing us from the evil IBM empire.
I've heard this said, but somehow I managed to miss it. I started work in the industry in 87, and had first encountered microsoft probably in 84. Outside of ziff-davis style vanity press, everything about MS was about what crap they were technically and ethically. The white knights were DEC, BSD, Borland, Commodore,...
The obvious going mainstream seems to be the stimulus for it ceasing to be true. Extrapolating from the popularity of sensor equipped devices, like the wii & iphone, it seems likely that computers that monitor and respond to your gestures, voice and attention will be arriving soon.
Maybe Life had to make compromises for low gravity planets, like earth, and finds it much easier to organize in high gravity planets with a lesser amount of elements (whatever the hell that means). Humility is a virtue.
The article didn't contain much info, but there could be much more to it than that. One avenue is analogous to the "imprecise results" that were fashionable in realtime papers in the early 90s. The idea is that some classes of tasks could operate in a degraded mode, typically less accurate or of lower quality than desired. If the system load was high, and the value of the accuracy of a given task was low, it could be told to lower its quality to reduce system load. In the power variant, the application might bid for a given power budget, and reduce its quality of service to match what it is allocated. Note that this is very much different from nice - the task itself has to know that it is in degraded mode, thus produce more timely and less accurate results. Your calculator might decide that sqrt(10) = 3.1 is good enough.
Seasoned programmers may scratch their heads at this - how can I be expected to know my programs power requirements; I'm not even sure it works. The OS, however, could model various applications by accurately monitoring the battery over time while varying quality provisions. The OS couldn't go it alone, it would like to know that the movie is been paused, for example.
You really should seek help. Its not just that the ideas rattling off your keyboard are disturbing; Burroughs was much more disturbing, but in exchange he had something to offer. You are already too many steps into a dangerous place, and there are professionals that can help dig you out.
in fighting the prevailing wind. Credibility will end up tattered, but when your alternative is wage parity with taxi drivers, not such a bad choice. Rail on you rebel you.
If you ever reach sentience, you might find your opinion changes. Until then, identifying your self with an abstraction probably makes life easier. Beware the "watchtower" though.
I quite enjoy watching the AI community rack up an impressive tally of failure. Its good to give GPS-equipped chimp chasing animal behaviouralists something to sneer at.
| The place I would look for the next hi-tech paradise is southern Ontario. It has all the characteristics Florida found that attract geeks and hi-tech companies. I doubt Hooters and old people driving with their signal lights on will do it.
seems like? What exactly do they have to do it to get you to drop the 'seems like'? I'm pretty sure they can't think of anything else to do to it. Maybe behave like perl(n) where n is current stardate div larrywalls_birthday mod 6?
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Imagine it, man. It would be like so many little nets inside of bigger nets going on forever (deep inhale, coughing exhale). Wow, uh, it would be like TRON, only way better. I need a salty snack.
When is the last time that any acquiring company came out and said: "We are just buying them for asset X and we'll throw the rest on the slag heap once we've got it"? Never?
Blustery talk about investment, growth, etc... prevents a mass exodus so the new owners can decide who to fire. Its more fun for them that way. Read the glossary at the end of the PDF; it pretty much disowns everything stated earlier.
Oblig,
In Soviet Russia, the drive wipes you...
Hello, this is a yahoo and I'm a twit...
Is that a swine flu reference?
| Actually there was a time when Microsoft was hailed as the white knight in the shiny armor freeing us from the evil IBM empire.
I've heard this said, but somehow I managed to miss it. I started work in the industry in 87, and had first encountered microsoft probably in 84. Outside of ziff-davis style vanity press, everything about MS was about what crap they were technically and ethically. The white knights were DEC, BSD, Borland, Commodore, ...
I was hoping to see Balmer yelling "Gilligan!" and hitting him with the little plaque.
If I adopt a line, can I charge other lines rent for using it?
The obvious going mainstream seems to be the stimulus for it ceasing to be true. Extrapolating from the popularity of sensor equipped devices, like the wii & iphone, it seems likely that computers that monitor and respond to your gestures, voice and attention will be arriving soon.
Maybe Life had to make compromises for low gravity planets, like earth, and finds it much easier to organize in high gravity planets with a lesser amount of elements (whatever the hell that means). Humility is a virtue.
Last time I saw a talking dog speaking in Times New Roman, I was pretty sure it was a flashback....
The article didn't contain much info, but there could be much more to it than that. One avenue is analogous to the "imprecise results" that were fashionable in realtime papers in the early 90s. The idea is that some classes of tasks could operate in a degraded mode, typically less accurate or of lower quality than desired. If the system load was high, and the value of the accuracy of a given task was low, it could be told to lower its quality to reduce system load. In the power variant, the application might bid for a given power budget, and reduce its quality of service to match what it is allocated. Note that this is very much different from nice - the task itself has to know that it is in degraded mode, thus produce more timely and less accurate results. Your calculator might decide that sqrt(10) = 3.1 is good enough.
Seasoned programmers may scratch their heads at this - how can I be expected to know my programs power requirements; I'm not even sure it works. The OS, however, could model various applications by accurately monitoring the battery over time while varying quality provisions. The OS couldn't go it alone, it would like to know that the movie is been paused, for example.
You really should seek help. Its not just that the ideas rattling off your keyboard are disturbing; Burroughs was much more disturbing, but in exchange he had something to offer. You are already too many steps into a dangerous place, and there are professionals that can help dig you out.
in fighting the prevailing wind. Credibility will end up tattered, but when your alternative is wage parity with taxi drivers, not such a bad choice. Rail on you rebel you.
If you ever reach sentience, you might find your opinion changes. Until then, identifying your self with an abstraction probably makes life easier. Beware the "watchtower" though.
Way to raise the bar. How do we compare with raccoons?
MOD(+1): PYSCHO - we really need more colourful categories
Look at how mired in poorly functioning, slow, useless software the entire IT world is. These guys could bring about the end of crime....
| VMS by Digital
| (Since its designer/architect (D. Cutler) was from DEC... )
'V' + 1 = 'W'
'M' + 1 = 'N'
'S' + 1 = 'T'
albeit nowhere near as clever as the "fork queue", hard to imagine he missed this one.
I quite enjoy watching the AI community rack up an impressive tally of failure. Its good to give GPS-equipped chimp chasing animal behaviouralists something to sneer at.
| The place I would look for the next hi-tech paradise is southern Ontario. It has all the characteristics Florida found that attract geeks and hi-tech companies.
I doubt Hooters and old people driving with their signal lights on will do it.
seems like? What exactly do they have to do it to get you to drop the 'seems like'? I'm pretty sure they can't think of anything else to do to it. Maybe behave like perl(n) where n is current stardate div larrywalls_birthday mod 6?
Nice Story; kinda like penthouse-forum for geeks.
| The only effective source of personal security is (surprise) individual persons.
If history is any guide, it is "other individual persons", the more, the better.
| I wonder if evil hackers use credit...
I think they just take the money from your bank account.