I was surprised how much Atari contributed to the early days of computer graphics and how much video games drove the early computer industry in terms of hardware. Those were some heady days, even more so than the early web.
Wouldn't that encourage everyone to complain? I'm pretty end goal minded and if I got in a car that was filthy, unless it had poop on the sat, I probably wouldn't notice anything wrong as long as it got me to where I was going. But the person after that could be my girlfriend who would complain about a seat belt not being fully retracted when she got into it.
Are they going to define what an AI is? Everything involving a computer now is considered AI by many (not saying I do) - a CNC or an autonomous car (and yes, CNC machines use feedback). I did autonomous car research in college and a little while after and at the time it was control systems which uses a lot of math for pole placement for smooth steering or doing things like backing up a 3 trailer truck and acceleration for lateral (control) positioning.
When IBM was on terminal life support in the early 90's, their board was looking for a new CEO. I followed them very closely throughout my college years.
I remember they went to a lot of people, including Bill Gates who declined but provided them with his vision of things he thought they needed to do...it was like 25 years ago and don't remember any of it. Anyway, most people had written IBM off as dead. They eventually hired Lou Gerstner to the horror of the tech community because he came from American Express, was a manager and famously said "the last thing IBM needs right now is a vision".
Anyway, he's often credited with saving IBM. Vision is not always vision of the future, but vision of what is already there - seeing the forest for the trees.
How far do you think NASA would have made it to the moon without a command structure? The main reason the allies won WWII against the superiority if the German technology was because of their organizational skills.
Do you honestly think that NASA could have made it to the moon without people in charge?
Give 400,000 people the bank account number to $40Bilion. Good Luck! ?
This instance(advertisement) was probably paid for by the advertising department, but this level is where most innovation occurs and where people make a lot of money, not in developing high end super parallel processing servers. Imagine life before wheels on suitcases. Then wonder why it took them so long to get them.
But is there anything new in terms of the technology other than smaller and consequently faster and less expensive?. Just because it's new to consumers doesn't necessarily mean it's new to the world of computers. Some of us professionals have spent more time with MIT and other R&D organization than we have in the consumer marketing speak space.
Why do we need to be sentient. Couldn't I be the only sentient being in the entire universe and "everyone else" for whatever meaning that would hold, just be Philosophical Zombies?
Do subsequent iPhones? Serious question, I am not that familiar with them, but I am with the hardware that goes into them and most, if not all, hardware that I've seen is some variation on a schematic provided by the supplier.
The idea of plate tectonics was an innovation in geology and didn't come from a series of very small steps. It was ridiculed by the most observant people in the field.
It takes 5 years and a million man hours to get to something to the state of being marketable, but not so much to demonstrate it's viability. Linux didn't go anywhere for years because 'it lacked the polish of windows' but was still perfectly functional and used in mission critical environments.
Sadly I've noticed, at least in computers, that the first design is often the best. Until too many people want to jump in and change something for change's sake. Or maybe the first design that gets popularized after the main bugs have been worked out.
Examples of this in the car world is a tiller for steering (replaced by wheel) and electric push button transmission. Or candlestick phones.
A failure in one IGBT or even a PCB trace from the driver, to the motors would be substantially worse than the failure of a control surface.. Hopefully these will be equipped with a BRS.
Warren Buffet once said that one of his hardest jobs was motivating billionaires into diving into work every day and that many of his best employees were billionaires.
Half the engineering companies that I've worked had CEO's who were former engineers. Unfortunately for some, being a good engineer does not automatically make you a good manager. And most engineers that I've worked with don't want to be managers because it's not what they really enjoy doing.
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I was surprised how much Atari contributed to the early days of computer graphics and how much video games drove the early computer industry in terms of hardware. Those were some heady days, even more so than the early web.
Wouldn't that encourage everyone to complain? I'm pretty end goal minded and if I got in a car that was filthy, unless it had poop on the sat, I probably wouldn't notice anything wrong as long as it got me to where I was going. But the person after that could be my girlfriend who would complain about a seat belt not being fully retracted when she got into it.
Are they going to define what an AI is? Everything involving a computer now is considered AI by many (not saying I do) - a CNC or an autonomous car (and yes, CNC machines use feedback). I did autonomous car research in college and a little while after and at the time it was control systems which uses a lot of math for pole placement for smooth steering or doing things like backing up a 3 trailer truck and acceleration for lateral (control) positioning.
I remember they went to a lot of people, including Bill Gates who declined but provided them with his vision of things he thought they needed to do...it was like 25 years ago and don't remember any of it. Anyway, most people had written IBM off as dead. They eventually hired Lou Gerstner to the horror of the tech community because he came from American Express, was a manager and famously said "the last thing IBM needs right now is a vision".
Anyway, he's often credited with saving IBM. Vision is not always vision of the future, but vision of what is already there - seeing the forest for the trees.
How far do you think NASA would have made it to the moon without a command structure? The main reason the allies won WWII against the superiority if the German technology was because of their organizational skills.
Do you honestly think that NASA could have made it to the moon without people in charge?
Give 400,000 people the bank account number to $40Bilion. Good Luck! ?
Maybe because artificial uteruses don't exist yet?
Remember fuckedcomany.com? I was never unemployed, but used to read it every night.
This instance(advertisement) was probably paid for by the advertising department, but this level is where most innovation occurs and where people make a lot of money, not in developing high end super parallel processing servers. Imagine life before wheels on suitcases. Then wonder why it took them so long to get them.
But is there anything new in terms of the technology other than smaller and consequently faster and less expensive?. Just because it's new to consumers doesn't necessarily mean it's new to the world of computers. Some of us professionals have spent more time with MIT and other R&D organization than we have in the consumer marketing speak space.
Why do we need to be sentient. Couldn't I be the only sentient being in the entire universe and "everyone else" for whatever meaning that would hold, just be Philosophical Zombies?
Why did so few civilizations have the wheel and why did it take so long to get invented?
The first iPhone
Do subsequent iPhones? Serious question, I am not that familiar with them, but I am with the hardware that goes into them and most, if not all, hardware that I've seen is some variation on a schematic provided by the supplier.
The idea of plate tectonics was an innovation in geology and didn't come from a series of very small steps. It was ridiculed by the most observant people in the field.
Why aren't more people owners then? It's not difficult or uncommon.
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The key word being now?
It takes 5 years and a million man hours to get to something to the state of being marketable, but not so much to demonstrate it's viability. Linux didn't go anywhere for years because 'it lacked the polish of windows' but was still perfectly functional and used in mission critical environments.
There has not been nothing new in operating systems since 1955.
That was twenty years ago.I don't know what has changed since then, but I haven't seen any
Sadly I've noticed, at least in computers, that the first design is often the best. Until too many people want to jump in and change something for change's sake. Or maybe the first design that gets popularized after the main bugs have been worked out.
Examples of this in the car world is a tiller for steering (replaced by wheel) and electric push button transmission. Or candlestick phones.
A failure in one IGBT or even a PCB trace from the driver, to the motors would be substantially worse than the failure of a control surface.. Hopefully these will be equipped with a BRS.
Warren Buffet once said that one of his hardest jobs was motivating billionaires into diving into work every day and that many of his best employees were billionaires.
Everyone sucks at managing.
Half the engineering companies that I've worked had CEO's who were former engineers. Unfortunately for some, being a good engineer does not automatically make you a good manager. And most engineers that I've worked with don't want to be managers because it's not what they really enjoy doing.
In my experience, companies aren't interested in better ideas on products.