I would say he's not researching AI, he's researching human-like chatbots, which are not actually intelligent. Unless Artificial Intelligence now actually means Artificial Stupidity...
Even if we do have souls, they probably don't affect us at all.
That's logically possible, I'll admit - but I missed the bit where he offered a meaningful reason to believe this is the case.
On a similar note, I do NOT want to hire staff who can put a list of obscure C++ operators in order of precedence, I want to hire those who say "well, I'd look it up if need be, but to make sure the next guy reading my code doesn't get confused I'd simplify the expressions with braces"... bingo - instant pass !
Yes! Absolutely. Code should not rely on seldom-used operator precedence rules - that just hinders readability for those who aren't familiar with those rules.
Just a few common ones will do: ! > &&, / > -, etc.
Ah. Well I'm not making this up. I'm not using gcc 3.1.1, so I think my problem was either caused by a bug in a slightly earlier version of gcc, or it was caused by compiling in the preemptible kernel patch with gcc 3.1.
Or maybe we have different processors (I have a PIII) and the bug in question only shows up on certain processors. It's theoretically possible though unlikely.
Yes, in at least one respect. If you use gcc 3.x and vmware, you must compile your kernel and vmware with a recent gcc 2.9x, otherwise it won't work. Hopefully a later release of vmware will fix this issue.
vmware works fine for me under a (mostly) redhat rawhide system, which uses gcc 3.1 - but with a custom kernel I compiled myself with compat-gcc-2.96.
The fraud that was committed allowed the top execs to make out like bandits at the expense of shareholders - not the company.
That's not correct. If you commit major fraud or are even suspected of it, you become a perceived credit risk, thus it's harder / more expensive to raise the credit you need to keep going.
Yeah, pinfo is the best. Console-based, easier to use than info (which has non-standard keys for navigation), colour-coding, and it drops back to man pages just fine if it can't find an info page.
Well since the government has been collecting a waste disposal fee from the plants for years, it's hardly unreasonable for the nuclear industry to expect the government to spend the money on the disposal they have already charged for.
Do these waste disposal fees come anywhere near to covering the projected costs of disposing of all the waste, and decommissioning said power plants?
Everyone with the resources files for patents not only in the US, but also Japan, Europe, etc... I bet that if you look it up you'll find that the MSFT DRM patent is in process in every major economic market in the world.
The EU doesn't allow software patents, as a rule. There are some exceptions, but in general...
Yes. A printer driver is a particularly bad example. In Linux, for example, you'd typically have a userspace printer driver talking to a generic piece of kernel code dealing with LPT or ETH0 - so a printer driver should not be able crash the kernel, only itself.
Can printer drivers crash anything but themselves in WinXP? If so, that's a really bad design.
So your political points are on topic for/. but his are not?? How do you arrive at that arbitrary cut-off point?
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Well, UNIXodbc is just for connecting to ODBC databases, I think, and there are some others that are unnecessary. Dependencies don't always mean "You absolutely must have it", they might mean "there is one obscure tool/feature you will never use in this package that depends on this lib". If you know you're never going to need to do that, you can just ignore it - resolve the dependencies you do need to resolve first, and then enable the --nodeps commandline option.
If it breaks, you know you do need to install the missing package(s) after all - that's my approach:)
Security updates don't instantly appear. Moreover, IE4 is no longer supported and IE5 is going the way of the dodo already. If you want to be secure, and you're still on IE4 or less, you must therefore upgrade. If you are on an unreliable modem connection, you may be out of luck with IE because of MS's brain-dead installer that cannot handle unreliable connections of the type I have experienced - and worse, for no good reason effectively prohibits any other method of downloading IE. Unreliable network connections are a fact of life, however much one might wish them away; MS should deal with them correctly by continuing broken downloads, or at least offer the user the option to use their own downloading software if theirs doesn't work.
So it is misleading to say that IE is always "just there" whereas Mozilla always has to be downloaded or borrowed from a friend. Also, I'd hope to see this situation changing in the near future as OEMs are freed from MS' illegal monopoly agreements.
There's one rather obvious problem with that approach, which is that they could cheat by getting a friend to do it. Unlikely, but possible.
Perhaps a 1-day programming challenge in a controlled environment (company office, no network connection, no telephone) would be preferable - of course, that won't always be feasible.:-)
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Says who?
I would say he's not researching AI, he's researching human-like chatbots, which are not actually intelligent. Unless Artificial Intelligence now actually means Artificial Stupidity...
Even if we do have souls, they probably don't affect us at all.
That's logically possible, I'll admit - but I missed the bit where he offered a meaningful reason to believe this is the case.
Yes! Absolutely. Code should not rely on seldom-used operator precedence rules - that just hinders readability for those who aren't familiar with those rules.
Just a few common ones will do: ! > &&, / > -, etc.
Or maybe we have different processors (I have a PIII) and the bug in question only shows up on certain processors. It's theoretically possible though unlikely.
So - do you know something that "Microsoft officials" don't? Or are you just guessing?
What genius thought that one up?
The non-obviousness of patents will continue to amaze me.
vmware works fine for me under a (mostly) redhat rawhide system, which uses gcc 3.1 - but with a custom kernel I compiled myself with compat-gcc-2.96.
You, sir, are a liar.
That's not correct. If you commit major fraud or are even suspected of it, you become a perceived credit risk, thus it's harder / more expensive to raise the credit you need to keep going.
Do these waste disposal fees come anywhere near to covering the projected costs of disposing of all the waste, and decommissioning said power plants?
OK, since k5 has been slashdotted, here's a high-bandwidth mirror
The EU doesn't allow software patents, as a rule. There are some exceptions, but in general...
Unless you're very rich, I suppose.
Can printer drivers crash anything but themselves in WinXP? If so, that's a really bad design.
So, do you you think all product liability laws should be scrapped? If not, why not?
If it breaks, you know you do need to install the missing package(s) after all - that's my approach :)
So it is misleading to say that IE is always "just there" whereas Mozilla always has to be downloaded or borrowed from a friend. Also, I'd hope to see this situation changing in the near future as OEMs are freed from MS' illegal monopoly agreements.
Perhaps a 1-day programming challenge in a controlled environment (company office, no network connection, no telephone) would be preferable - of course, that won't always be feasible. :-)
Go ahead, call me paranoid. :-)
MS Word is useful, but that doesn't prove it's intelligent.
So I assume you know exactly what would constitute real intelligence
Sure, I can answer that. Merely pass the Turing Test.