You know, I disagree vehemently with those who proclaim OO an abject failure.
I don't think OO is an abject failure, I think it's more like driving your aircraft carrier down to the mini-market for a candy bar.
98% of the OO projects I've seen use OO only because someone told someone told someone that they should use OO...and usually for a variety of nebulous reasons that either never made sense in the first place or or because they were just enamored with OO and wanted to strut their OO shit for all to see.
Nearly all of those projects would have been better off using traditional linear or procedural programming techniques.
"Robots are likely to replace 50 percent of all jobs in the next decade, according to Kai-Fu Lee"
Bullshit. It's unlikely in the extreme that half of all jobs will be taken by robots in 10 years. It'll take at least 12 or 15years before that happens.
if I want to go through page of a tech book, I can have a few colored page marker and go very quickly from 1 page to the next, it is far more slower with ebook. And the feeling of paper in hand is.... I dunno , psychologically better ? OTOH I am now by 900 books at home and it starts to cover literally whole walls.... But one things I remarked : more and more people go to my local bookshop than it was 4 years ago...
Bingo. Real books are nice. I have a couple of thousand lining the walls downstairs in the rec room, and that's after losing ~1000 to floods and damage and theft and whatnot over the years. Everything from technical references to sci fi to weird offbeat stuff, how-to books, eclectic stuff, etc etc.
EBooks are okay, but they're not my preferred media.
"The article includes an even more interesting statistic: that one-third of adults tried a "digital detox" in 2016, limiting their personal use of electronics. Are any Slashdot readers trying to limit their own screen time -- or reading fewer ebooks?"
No, I've always been able to manage my horrific, debilitating "digital addiction" without it spinning out of control. There's thing thing, it's called the "OFF" button...you should try it sometime.
"I can quit any time I want, I just don't want any of those times." - attributed to W.C. Fields
"You don't think to yourself 'Well, I feel better about today. You're thinking 'Is it going to come off and guillotine me as it comes flying past?'
You're right, Elon, I don't think that. It's just not one of my current fears.
Elon Musk is apparently channeling a Luddite, which is both hilarious and embarrassing. This is the same guy who wants to transplant our brains into robot vehicles to roam the surface of Europa mining valuable minerals, and he's pissing his panties because he might accidentally get his head chopped off by a flying car?
There are LOTS better reasons to fear flying cars, especially if they're being piloted by disembodied brains that are pissed off because they didn't get to go on vacation to Europa.
If there's one painful lesson I've learned, it's underestimating the progress that will be made in any given area, including something esoteric like AI.
Of course, we have to define "AI" before we can decide if it's been achieved, but I suspect that it'll appear a lot sooner than 100 years from now. A couple of key breakthroughs or fortuitous discoveries and suddenly it'll be in the realm of possibility.
Maybe it'll just be an expert system so advanced and resourceful that it appears sentient, but at some point the line between "it's really AI" and "it's so close to AI that we can't tell the difference" will blur. And again, we really have to define "AI" before we can discuss whether or not it's been accomplished.
But yeah, I think AI will eventually be a thing, and a lot sooner than May 2117.
Nothing will protect these things from determined vandals or a 7.62mm round. Or a lasso and a pickup truck. Yee haw, it's round-up time!
(And by the way, I don't think you can "bully" a robot, technically speaking. That's a living-being to living-being interaction. If I slam the door on my microwave repeatedly while cursing at it, am I "bullying" it? Err, no.)
"Advertisers Are Still Boycotting YouTube Over Offensive Videos"
As is their right to do.
Youtube has the right to advertise, and people have the right to boycott products and services that they don't like or that support things they don't like. What's the problem?
"Microsoft's Surface Revenue Drops By $285M (26%)"
Of course, because it's a craptastic piece of shite that costs too much and barely makes a good cutting board. Nobody I've ever known has owned one and I've never seen one used in a business setting in the wild. Not once, even during all the different contracts I spent pretending to work for Microsoft.
Oh, I'm sure they're out there, just like are probably people still clinging to their Zunes, "squirting" songs at each other and clapping like goobers when the transfer actually succeeds.
I can. SPOILER ALERT: We all die and the Sun cooks the Earth into a giant dirty marble.
Unless this quack has access to serious amounts of unpublished tech, there's no way he will succeed within the next 10 years, much less the next 3 to 5.
It may be that his attempts (failures) lead to other doctors learning from his mistakes and trying the same thing with better results. For example, the first heart operations were horrific, but they in turn led to all sorts of advances.
Like stents, for example. They used to have to crack your chest and gut you like a fish to put a stent in. The open-heart surgery itself used to kill more than a few patients, but it improved and was supplanted by less traumatic procedures. Now they implant a stent through a tiny incision in your arm or thigh and *boom* you're out of the hospital 12 hours later, right as rain, instead of spending a month or two recovering. Ask me how I know.
The fact is that almost all medical technology is pretty horrible at first, but then it inevitably improves. That's just how it works.
You're correct, I mistakenly took your comment as a general example instead of a specific reference.
And you're probably right, the first X number of these will probably go badly, but the same has been true for almost any advanced medical procedure or transplant operation. But in the end, I think they'll have some success.
Well if they're profiting from doing business in Italy but failing to pay their taxes, then YES, I'd say Italy would be better off without this parasitic company who is taking, but not giving back. Why the hell should Amazon get a free ride to use their infrastructure to make money but not pay something back??
No, not really. What I got from your comment was that it may be possible, but that it won't work in the end ("live in a body they cannot control and possibly even be unable to sense anything"), whereas what I'm saying is that I suspect it will eventually be possible, and have better results. Probably not 100% full functioning or control of the body, but enough to function well enough to take care of themselves and have a meaningful existence.
I think the technology will eventually be able to integrate the majority of nerves, including the spine, ala some sort of interface software/hardware that would learn the signals coming from the brain and translate them into the correct signals needed for the arms, legs, bladder, etc.
Slashdot Mirror
Why do you people always show up?
Because people like you are assholes, that's why.
Fuck off with Red Herring bullshit.
Fuck off yourself, goober.
"I built an HTML preprocessor that adds inheritance, polymorphism, and public methods to this venerable language"
HTML isn't a programing language. It's markup language, and it doesn't need you polluting it with bullshit like this.
OO isn't a failure. But it isn't often the best tool for the job.
I'd say "rarely", but that's just me.
You know, I disagree vehemently with those who proclaim OO an abject failure.
I don't think OO is an abject failure, I think it's more like driving your aircraft carrier down to the mini-market for a candy bar.
98% of the OO projects I've seen use OO only because someone told someone told someone that they should use OO...and usually for a variety of nebulous reasons that either never made sense in the first place or or because they were just enamored with OO and wanted to strut their OO shit for all to see.
Nearly all of those projects would have been better off using traditional linear or procedural programming techniques.
before I heartily endorse this, and all other, predictions about $TECHNOLOGY in the future.
I keep my jetpack in my flying car so it's always close at hand.
"Robots are likely to replace 50 percent of all jobs in the next decade, according to Kai-Fu Lee"
Bullshit. It's unlikely in the extreme that half of all jobs will be taken by robots in 10 years. It'll take at least 12 or 15years before that happens.
You lost books to theft? That seems surprising...
Shitty room mates will steal anything that's not nailed down, and if it's nailed down they'll pry it up.
I am sorry for your humor-impaired state, and wish you a speedy recovery as your robot body searches for valuable minerals on the plains of Europa.
Whatever, I need a smoothy cleanse.
Pro Tip: I usually crush up a couple of Xanax to blend into mine.
if I want to go through page of a tech book, I can have a few colored page marker and go very quickly from 1 page to the next, it is far more slower with ebook. And the feeling of paper in hand is.... I dunno , psychologically better ? OTOH I am now by 900 books at home and it starts to cover literally whole walls.... But one things I remarked : more and more people go to my local bookshop than it was 4 years ago...
Bingo. Real books are nice. I have a couple of thousand lining the walls downstairs in the rec room, and that's after losing ~1000 to floods and damage and theft and whatnot over the years. Everything from technical references to sci fi to weird offbeat stuff, how-to books, eclectic stuff, etc etc.
EBooks are okay, but they're not my preferred media.
"The article includes an even more interesting statistic: that one-third of adults tried a "digital detox" in 2016, limiting their personal use of electronics. Are any Slashdot readers trying to limit their own screen time -- or reading fewer ebooks?"
No, I've always been able to manage my horrific, debilitating "digital addiction" without it spinning out of control. There's thing thing, it's called the "OFF" button...you should try it sometime.
"I can quit any time I want, I just don't want any of those times." - attributed to W.C. Fields
Next month's headline:
"As EBooks Surge, Paper Book Sales Plunge Nearly 20%"
It's almost as if things went in cycles or had ebbs and flows....
"You don't think to yourself 'Well, I feel better about today. You're thinking 'Is it going to come off and guillotine me as it comes flying past?'
You're right, Elon, I don't think that. It's just not one of my current fears.
Elon Musk is apparently channeling a Luddite, which is both hilarious and embarrassing. This is the same guy who wants to transplant our brains into robot vehicles to roam the surface of Europa mining valuable minerals, and he's pissing his panties because he might accidentally get his head chopped off by a flying car?
There are LOTS better reasons to fear flying cars, especially if they're being piloted by disembodied brains that are pissed off because they didn't get to go on vacation to Europa.
We are a century away from hard AI, if ever.
If there's one painful lesson I've learned, it's underestimating the progress that will be made in any given area, including something esoteric like AI.
Of course, we have to define "AI" before we can decide if it's been achieved, but I suspect that it'll appear a lot sooner than 100 years from now. A couple of key breakthroughs or fortuitous discoveries and suddenly it'll be in the realm of possibility.
Maybe it'll just be an expert system so advanced and resourceful that it appears sentient, but at some point the line between "it's really AI" and "it's so close to AI that we can't tell the difference" will blur. And again, we really have to define "AI" before we can discuss whether or not it's been accomplished.
But yeah, I think AI will eventually be a thing, and a lot sooner than May 2117.
Nothing will protect these things from determined vandals or a 7.62mm round. Or a lasso and a pickup truck. Yee haw, it's round-up time!
(And by the way, I don't think you can "bully" a robot, technically speaking. That's a living-being to living-being interaction. If I slam the door on my microwave repeatedly while cursing at it, am I "bullying" it? Err, no.)
"Advertisers Are Still Boycotting YouTube Over Offensive Videos"
As is their right to do.
Youtube has the right to advertise, and people have the right to boycott products and services that they don't like or that support things they don't like. What's the problem?
Anyway at least now you have met someone who has one (Surface Pro 3).
Or at least I've met someone who claims to have one. :)
Just kidding, I'm happy you like your Surface Pro. I'm underwhelmed by them when I look at them in the store, but if it works for you that's good.
2007 called and wants it's edgy Zune comment back. If you don't have anything useful to add, feel free to just shut the fuck up.
I'll be quiet when I feel like it, until then you'll just have to deal with it, you whiny little weenie. :)
"Russian-Controlled Telecom Hijacks Traffic For Mastercard, Visa, And 22 Other Services."
Well that's just fucking splendid.
"Microsoft's Surface Revenue Drops By $285M (26%)"
Of course, because it's a craptastic piece of shite that costs too much and barely makes a good cutting board. Nobody I've ever known has owned one and I've never seen one used in a business setting in the wild. Not once, even during all the different contracts I spent pretending to work for Microsoft.
Oh, I'm sure they're out there, just like are probably people still clinging to their Zunes, "squirting" songs at each other and clapping like goobers when the transfer actually succeeds.
Agreed, we cannot know the distant future.
I can. SPOILER ALERT: We all die and the Sun cooks the Earth into a giant dirty marble.
Unless this quack has access to serious amounts of unpublished tech, there's no way he will succeed within the next 10 years, much less the next 3 to 5.
It may be that his attempts (failures) lead to other doctors learning from his mistakes and trying the same thing with better results. For example, the first heart operations were horrific, but they in turn led to all sorts of advances.
Like stents, for example. They used to have to crack your chest and gut you like a fish to put a stent in. The open-heart surgery itself used to kill more than a few patients, but it improved and was supplanted by less traumatic procedures. Now they implant a stent through a tiny incision in your arm or thigh and *boom* you're out of the hospital 12 hours later, right as rain, instead of spending a month or two recovering. Ask me how I know.
The fact is that almost all medical technology is pretty horrible at first, but then it inevitably improves. That's just how it works.
You're correct, I mistakenly took your comment as a general example instead of a specific reference.
And you're probably right, the first X number of these will probably go badly, but the same has been true for almost any advanced medical procedure or transplant operation. But in the end, I think they'll have some success.
I see you've though it through.
Yes, I'd say she did. Unlike you.
Yup, Italy would be better off without them.
Well if they're profiting from doing business in Italy but failing to pay their taxes, then YES, I'd say Italy would be better off without this parasitic company who is taking, but not giving back. Why the hell should Amazon get a free ride to use their infrastructure to make money but not pay something back??
Umm... that makes two of us?
No, not really. What I got from your comment was that it may be possible, but that it won't work in the end ("live in a body they cannot control and possibly even be unable to sense anything"), whereas what I'm saying is that I suspect it will eventually be possible, and have better results. Probably not 100% full functioning or control of the body, but enough to function well enough to take care of themselves and have a meaningful existence.
I think the technology will eventually be able to integrate the majority of nerves, including the spine, ala some sort of interface software/hardware that would learn the signals coming from the brain and translate them into the correct signals needed for the arms, legs, bladder, etc.