Why "Famous Robot from 1956 Movie Auctioned For $5.3 Million"?
Why not "Robby the Robot from Forbidden Planet Auctioned For $5.3 Million"?
I was born in 1982, and I've never seen Forbidden Planet, but I still know who the fuck Robby the Robot is.
Do you think the slashdot audience are so stupid that they don't know who Robby the Robot is? Or is just that slashdot editors are so stupid that they don't know who Robby the Robot is?
No, the headline was consciously used to filter out obnoxious twits. It was a good attempt, but failed, obviously.
Very insightful. In other words, it's the latest jobs program. The company gets to depreciate the "robots", and the unemplorables that can't mine coal are able to "work" the lines. It makes sense: we haven't had a really *good* jobs program since the TSA was created.
I've had managers want to import PDF's into excel. Down that path lies madness.
Simple, long-solved problem. 1. Print the PDF. 2. Lay it on a table. 3. Take a picture of it. 4. Fax it to an OCR reader. 5. The rest is left as an exercise for the reader. ProTip: xml.
It's simple, easy to do, easy to train, requires no authorization, no meetings. Is there a big issue with having to go back into these old spreadsheets? If yes, spin up a project to throw some money at it. If not, it's a win-win. Having said that, of course there are examples out there of excel being shoe-horned into something it can't do well. There's lot's of examples of custom software that can't do the job it was designed to do, too.
I'll finish with that famous quote from I forget, "If all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a head".
I know a lot of Finance people that use it as a final filter for the specific data that they need. Nothing fancy, just give me a list, let me modify it for my purposes, and tally the columns. ^P, done.
I'll bet if they were using "cat mydata | sort | uniq", tools, all the complainers would be happy. Those are proper filters!
Interestingly enough, back in the Cold War I remember reading that the Soviets did not really trust the information that they found in our public domain. They couldn't believe that we would purposely be so open.
So, this is really just the first step in the brillant plan to release *all* of our data, to foil our adversaries.
What you missed is that there's no comparison on the engineering rigor. ULA is,contractually bound to a full space rating for all launches, and manned flight rating for designing everything that MIT touch space launch. SpaceX, on the other hand, got their space rating pencil whipped by the Air Force at congresses direction. The level of engineering rigor is just not comparable. Sure, SpaceX is winning, but the game is rigged.
So, ULA failed at the game of Regulatory Capture? Interesting. And they have so much experience at it.
But that's what we did do...when those devices came out. Now they are "appliances". When the smart phone is just another appliance, things will level out. The marketing concepts of "Smart" phones are what, 10 years old?
I guess another 5-10 years or so until smart phones level out, then another generation will come along and all the new cool kids will start implanting chips into themselves.
Good question. I think the Chinese will want to keep those answers under wraps, because their probably using a lot of them for military work. Regarding the pissing contest, everyone "games" benchmarks like these. They call it "tuning" for the workload. The exclusive workload in these cases are--waitforit--the benchmarks themselves. So, they're certainly an indication of what one might expect IRL, but, like auto MPG ratings, not the final word.
Well, there's a bell curve of people. The more the people, the more the chance of encountering someone way on the negative end of the curve. Still, I might even agree that most people are sneaky and bossy. So, "normal".
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Is effective troll! You should get promotion.
Outstanding reply, Ivan! Kudos.
No contest. Robby, claws down.
Agreed. I have to admit, Robby was my first. Others came later--there are so many to love, but you never forget your first.
Good, well-considered /. type of question. Kudos.
Point of fact: The name of the robot in LIS is "Robot".
Why "Famous Robot from 1956 Movie Auctioned For $5.3 Million"?
Why not "Robby the Robot from Forbidden Planet Auctioned For $5.3 Million"?
I was born in 1982, and I've never seen Forbidden Planet, but I still know who the fuck Robby the Robot is.
Do you think the slashdot audience are so stupid that they don't know who Robby the Robot is?
Or is just that slashdot editors are so stupid that they don't know who Robby the Robot is?
No, the headline was consciously used to filter out obnoxious twits. It was a good attempt, but failed, obviously.
Yeah.
Very insightful. In other words, it's the latest jobs program. The company gets to depreciate the "robots", and the unemplorables that can't mine coal are able to "work" the lines. It makes sense: we haven't had a really *good* jobs program since the TSA was created.
I've had managers want to import PDF's into excel. Down that path lies madness.
Simple, long-solved problem.
1. Print the PDF.
2. Lay it on a table.
3. Take a picture of it.
4. Fax it to an OCR reader.
5. The rest is left as an exercise for the reader. ProTip: xml.
It's simple, easy to do, easy to train, requires no authorization, no meetings. Is there a big issue with having to go back into these old spreadsheets? If yes, spin up a project to throw some money at it. If not, it's a win-win. Having said that, of course there are examples out there of excel being shoe-horned into something it can't do well. There's lot's of examples of custom software that can't do the job it was designed to do, too.
I'll finish with that famous quote from I forget, "If all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a head".
I know a lot of Finance people that use it as a final filter for the specific data that they need. Nothing fancy, just give me a list, let me modify it for my purposes, and tally the columns. ^P, done.
I'll bet if they were using "cat mydata | sort | uniq", tools, all the complainers would be happy. Those are proper filters!
Interestingly enough, back in the Cold War I remember reading that the Soviets did not really trust the information that they found in our public domain. They couldn't believe that we would purposely be so open.
So, this is really just the first step in the brillant plan to release *all* of our data, to foil our adversaries.
^^^ Ditto. Van Douche was probably represented by Dewey, Cheatam, and Howe LLP.
Very interesting comment, but Poe'ly written.
Steve, is that you? How's it going down there?
What you missed is that there's no comparison on the engineering rigor. ULA is,contractually bound to a full space rating for all launches, and manned flight rating for designing everything that MIT touch space launch. SpaceX, on the other hand, got their space rating pencil whipped by the Air Force at congresses direction. The level of engineering rigor is just not comparable. Sure, SpaceX is winning, but the game is rigged.
So, ULA failed at the game of Regulatory Capture? Interesting. And they have so much experience at it.
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Not sure what the ultimate downsides to a truly commercial SpaceX would be - but there are sure to be some.
Ads in space.
But that's what we did do...when those devices came out. Now they are "appliances". When the smart phone is just another appliance, things will level out. The marketing concepts of "Smart" phones are what, 10 years old?
I guess another 5-10 years or so until smart phones level out, then another generation will come along and all the new cool kids will start implanting chips into themselves.
Good question. I think the Chinese will want to keep those answers under wraps, because their probably using a lot of them for military work. Regarding the pissing contest, everyone "games" benchmarks like these. They call it "tuning" for the workload. The exclusive workload in these cases are--waitforit--the benchmarks themselves. So, they're certainly an indication of what one might expect IRL, but, like auto MPG ratings, not the final word.
I'm with you except for the poet part. Have you read German poetry?
The Vogons would like a word with you...
After a lot of tutoring, my son recently graduated to moron. We still don't let him play with the neighborhood children because those kids are idiots.
Ha! "...from inside a repair facility". You kiiill me.
Old programmers never die, they get redirected to /dev/null.
Fourteen schools per parsec, baby!
Thanks. I wondered about how he "smelt space". He did mention outgassing in TFA, but not from what. It brings another human sense into play.
I wonder what space tastes like?
Y'all are have some real fun there. Yippee eye ow kiyay
Well, there's a bell curve of people. The more the people, the more the chance of encountering someone way on the negative end of the curve. Still, I might even agree that most people are sneaky and bossy. So, "normal".