Yeah thats because absolutely no-one gave a crap about the wedding. I think people are still in the watching Dr Who to see if it gets better phase - i can take the bad acting and in-your-face effects now, but im still waiting for some better story lines - maybe some darleks, maybe some billie piper getting piped.
So basically what they're saying, is that they asked their customers what they wanted and now they will give them what they wanted... This is exactly the sort of non-sense non-news press release thats designed to get free advertising by pretending to be informative. All Dell are saying is that they might start selling a product if the demand is there, D'UH thats exactly what 1000's of businesses around the world do every day. It would be news if Dell came out and said "actually you know what? we've been using Intel for years and we don't actually have any sort of market research team checking for better products or customer opinion because infact we don't give a shit and we're going to just keep selling whatever crap we feel like even if no-one buys it because thats the sort of chaps we are".
In other news, IBM have announced that they will continue to sell high-performance e-business slutions at competative prices and are currently developing new products based on the current industry trends!
Eventually machines and robots could do absolutely every menial task known to man, some might still need people to watch and make sure nothing goes wrong but that's still going to be low number of people which will eventually decrease to none. all that will be left will be creative jobs, and then, if the answers to AI are ever found, those too will go. so if we become a race of people who don't actually need to do anything, we can just live like kings and be fanned all day and fed grapes by our robot slaves.
In new york they tried this back in the RNC protests, people were held for over 24 hours without lawyers, some were kept cuffed with plastic braces for several hours after they were taken off police buses and put in cages in a warehouse. The entire operation was based on the idea of arresting 1000's of protectors on mass as a terrorism tactic to stop them doing it a again, they weren't even given a chance to clear the street the police simply surrounded them with construction netting. Eventually some fuss was made and the police were threatened with legal action by a group of lawyers(?) unless they started releasing people. Everyone appeared in court, some accepted stupid deals to not do anything wrong in the next few months, others fought and the charges were dropped, numerous people videoed the whole thing the police acted like fucking SS nazi pigs.
I just assumed it was like that in the US too, I can totally understand handcuffing someone if your on your own or arresting someone whos obviously a danger but most people are honest citizens and would be quite happy to come without making a fuss and clear everything up, when you handcuff someone unnecessarily and treat them like shit, you turn a decent person into a raving psycho, when you then keep them handcuffed at the police station while they're being cooperative that borders on human rights abuse and torture. Some police are scum.
Jesus Christ whats wrong with you? don't you have any sense of patriotism? in this day and age we have to give up a few freedoms like the use of $2 bills if that means America land of the free(tm) stays safe from terror.
It seems like the police and other institutions in America love to use their 'free' 24 hour arrest period as a kind of on the spot punishment for anyone they don't like. they can be either held on something specific like suspicion of fraud or just for that old catch-all 'disorderly conduct'. I would imagine stores like best buy also like to use this for annoying customers - just call up and claim something arrestable is going on and who are the cops going to believe, some guy, or a reputable store? Was it even fucking necessary to handcuff this guy? i thought cuffs were only for uncooperative people and maybe transporting? There can't be much in the way of compensation if you get locked up for absolutely nothing, and in some cases people get more than 24 hours without lawyers! So just remember, if you come accross a bad cop, they can have you for a day for so much as walking funny or, and lets face it this is the real reason, paying a bill with to many small notes - don't give me that "we didn't know $2 bills wer legal and the ink looked dodgy", they were just pissed off because he was playing with them - the $2 and running ink was just a ticket for them to call the cops.
Well seeing as he's not exactly a violent gang member with an itchy trigger finger, would it not be so bad to tag him and put him on probation (which maybe will happen)? If he does 'spam again' its hardly going to land someone in hospital. While spam is bloody annoying, and at times a real denial of service, it can be tackled in other ways and its DoS capabilities usually come from many many different spammers hitting the same box at once, not a co-ordinated attack.
Are sentences like this really necessary in a civilised, non-barbaric society? i mean locking someone up for 9 years for this sort of offence? Its very easy to say "oh hes a bastard throw away the key" or "don't do the crime if you cant do the time" but in reality this mans life is about to be ruined. Maybe im a weak person, but i certainly couldnt take 9 years in jail, i'd want to hang myself, even forgetting the behind bars aspect, hes probably going to be in the same place as some real bastards and some raping and beating is probably on the books too, isn't that essentially the same as corporal punishment? are we really that sick as a society?
Arghh! Why does no-one understand what im trying to say? If i was making decisions for a company of course i would outsource - hell, i'd probably conclude that India was far too expensive and find some cheap 12 year old Cambodians for $10 a year. However, from my current perspective, and i assume many slashdotters are in similar shoes, i don't want my job going anywhere and neither does anyone else, lazy or not.
I'm not to bothered what the US does, in Europe that information is publicly available pretty easily, however its obvious that the law is being broken here - the number of times ive been called up 'randomly' by an indian telemarketer asking if i want to upgrade my phone is insane, they don't seem to understand the fact that im amish and we don't even have a cell tower or land-line for 100 miles! Its unlikely congress will pass a law that requires 100's of companies to spend millions vetting out-sourced workers or giving customers the right to see their own personal information on record and where its being sent.
You misunderstood, Im not saying they're any different from non-outsourced workers, im just saying i HOPE that people in charge get a knee-jerk reaction to stop outsourcing so that jobs can go back home, in fact in many cases, outsourced people work harder and are more loyal! - thats the whole problem!! who wants to compete with hard-working, loyal and cheap employees? we want our jobs to stay at home.
I only hope this news flashes through the industry and gets in the heads of CEOs and PHBs everywhere who then start aborting outsourcing attempts.
If you're in Europe, fear not, the data protection act bars your personal information from leaving the EU (i think?).. unless its going to the CIA so they can have you extradited without trial.. Either way, if you're worried, call up your bank and demand to know where they send your data, its public information by law.
What a load of BS, Try any recent kde or gnome based distro on anything slightly old and it you'll see its unusable, while linux itself runs fine i've yet to see a decent GUI, they're all obsessed with letting you configure your windows to look absolutely any way you want, when all anyone really wants is fast response time and a few reasonable config options. Boot windows 2000 (the only decent creation out of redmond) on the same PC and you'll see some what i mean. CPU speed and memory aren't so important if you've been running a simple word/web system for for the last few years, but when it comes to games, 3d-animation, video editing, image editing, audio composing/mixing, or even just compiling, then the difference is high. Also people often forget their hard-drive witch can be slow as shit.
Agreed, but technically any question can have a edge of controvasy if you dig deep enough - "population of israel" is an obvious one. Not so obvious would be "how tall is the empire state building" - should the answer be in meters or feet??
The problem is, if people start driving smaller cars, then they will be at more risk in an accident because they are more likely to be hit by a larger car. No, the only solution is to build even bigger cars to stop the real and growing issue of people being hit by trucks. You see, fuel usage is all relative - SUVs are actually very very fuel efficient.. compared to hummers, tractors and juggernauts, so if SUVs get bigger, trucks for example will also have to get bigger, which means SUVs will stay fuel efficient.. relatively.
Well i guess we can assume that if nano bots are advanced enough to give us immortality then they can probably also turn waste into food, eat pollution, build cheap housing and terraform other planets, they could probably even 'evolve' people on-the-fly, patching the human body against diseases and improving its efficiency, this all sounds like a utopia until you compare it to the current computing arena - by that you can imagine nano bots being buggy, getting hacked or misused and generally fucking up big time, its all a question of how much damage they could theoretically do and how easy it would be to implement a nano bot to do that - then you just sit back and wait for someone somewhere in the world to start it all off.
The real issue is the question of the possibility that nano bots could be built that replicated infinitely consuming a wide range of materials as they went. It would only take a single nano bot in the entire world to do this, so regulation isn't going to help, unless it can be guaranteed 100% effective, not 99.999999999999%, this theoretical nano bot would of course have to be programmed not to eat other similar nano bots and they would also need to get into a good formation (a sphere?) or they would face food shortages as they tried to fan out. If they could travel that would also help - maybe through wind or water or by being purposefully spread around the world. They would also need to be either fast or left unattended until they got a good population, otherwise they could just be collected up in a suitable container and ejected into space (preferably towards the sun) before they ate through it. But this whole thing could be translated to any sized robot - insect or animal sized bots could start eating things to reproduce continuously too, its just that nano bots sound scarier because you won't see them until your body is disintegrating.
Games are already pretty addictive, i'd say i've definitely wasted more time on stupid computer games than on drugs and alcohol, although the games were probably cheaper, thats still 1000's of hours i will _never_ get back.
Computers often break down, catch a virus, get full up or messy, thats the view most people accept. Just like your pipes sometimes get blocked, your car sometimes gets broken into or your appliances sometimes blow a fuse. Of course on slashdot we know that this doesn't have to be the case, but the general population doesn't really care. Microsoft is responsible for an entire industry of tech support people cleaning computers on a monthly basis and earning money and we should be thankful for it! Other professions such as plumbers and electricians are in the same position - when your lights go out and you cant take a shit you get desperate, you just want to call someone up and say "it doesn't work, fix it, i give you money", same thing happens to people when they need to write an essay but their computer won't start or takes half an hour to do anything. Lets not dumb down the jargon, people dont care what it means as long as someone is there to make it work for them.
thats right, these people seem to be a bit too obsessed, but the fact is if they really cared enough they would be lining up to suck the producer off so they could see the preview, male or female, gay or straight.
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Yeah thats because absolutely no-one gave a crap about the wedding. I think people are still in the watching Dr Who to see if it gets better phase - i can take the bad acting and in-your-face effects now, but im still waiting for some better story lines - maybe some darleks, maybe some billie piper getting piped.
So basically what they're saying, is that they asked their customers what they wanted and now they will give them what they wanted... This is exactly the sort of non-sense non-news press release thats designed to get free advertising by pretending to be informative. All Dell are saying is that they might start selling a product if the demand is there, D'UH thats exactly what 1000's of businesses around the world do every day. It would be news if Dell came out and said "actually you know what? we've been using Intel for years and we don't actually have any sort of market research team checking for better products or customer opinion because infact we don't give a shit and we're going to just keep selling whatever crap we feel like even if no-one buys it because thats the sort of chaps we are".
In other news, IBM have announced that they will continue to sell high-performance e-business slutions at competative prices and are currently developing new products based on the current industry trends!
Eventually machines and robots could do absolutely every menial task known to man, some might still need people to watch and make sure nothing goes wrong but that's still going to be low number of people which will eventually decrease to none. all that will be left will be creative jobs, and then, if the answers to AI are ever found, those too will go. so if we become a race of people who don't actually need to do anything, we can just live like kings and be fanned all day and fed grapes by our robot slaves.
I can see how that works "your under arrest!" - "what did i do? whats going on? ahh!" - "yes thats right, your under arrest for resisting arrest".
This sort of crap has to stop, what country was that? I think the US is going towards it.
...Water sports?
In new york they tried this back in the RNC protests, people were held for over 24 hours without lawyers, some were kept cuffed with plastic braces for several hours after they were taken off police buses and put in cages in a warehouse. The entire operation was based on the idea of arresting 1000's of protectors on mass as a terrorism tactic to stop them doing it a again, they weren't even given a chance to clear the street the police simply surrounded them with construction netting. Eventually some fuss was made and the police were threatened with legal action by a group of lawyers(?) unless they started releasing people. Everyone appeared in court, some accepted stupid deals to not do anything wrong in the next few months, others fought and the charges were dropped, numerous people videoed the whole thing the police acted like fucking SS nazi pigs.
I just assumed it was like that in the US too, I can totally understand handcuffing someone if your on your own or arresting someone whos obviously a danger but most people are honest citizens and would be quite happy to come without making a fuss and clear everything up, when you handcuff someone unnecessarily and treat them like shit, you turn a decent person into a raving psycho, when you then keep them handcuffed at the police station while they're being cooperative that borders on human rights abuse and torture. Some police are scum.
Jesus Christ whats wrong with you? don't you have any sense of patriotism? in this day and age we have to give up a few freedoms like the use of $2 bills if that means America land of the free(tm) stays safe from terror.
It seems like the police and other institutions in America love to use their 'free' 24 hour arrest period as a kind of on the spot punishment for anyone they don't like. they can be either held on something specific like suspicion of fraud or just for that old catch-all 'disorderly conduct'. I would imagine stores like best buy also like to use this for annoying customers - just call up and claim something arrestable is going on and who are the cops going to believe, some guy, or a reputable store? Was it even fucking necessary to handcuff this guy? i thought cuffs were only for uncooperative people and maybe transporting? There can't be much in the way of compensation if you get locked up for absolutely nothing, and in some cases people get more than 24 hours without lawyers! So just remember, if you come accross a bad cop, they can have you for a day for so much as walking funny or, and lets face it this is the real reason, paying a bill with to many small notes - don't give me that "we didn't know $2 bills wer legal and the ink looked dodgy", they were just pissed off because he was playing with them - the $2 and running ink was just a ticket for them to call the cops.
Well seeing as he's not exactly a violent gang member with an itchy trigger finger, would it not be so bad to tag him and put him on probation (which maybe will happen)? If he does 'spam again' its hardly going to land someone in hospital. While spam is bloody annoying, and at times a real denial of service, it can be tackled in other ways and its DoS capabilities usually come from many many different spammers hitting the same box at once, not a co-ordinated attack.
tell me about it, that bloody witch daemon is whats stopping people from switching to linux on the desktop.
Are sentences like this really necessary in a civilised, non-barbaric society? i mean locking someone up for 9 years for this sort of offence? Its very easy to say "oh hes a bastard throw away the key" or "don't do the crime if you cant do the time" but in reality this mans life is about to be ruined. Maybe im a weak person, but i certainly couldnt take 9 years in jail, i'd want to hang myself, even forgetting the behind bars aspect, hes probably going to be in the same place as some real bastards and some raping and beating is probably on the books too, isn't that essentially the same as corporal punishment? are we really that sick as a society?
Arghh! Why does no-one understand what im trying to say? If i was making decisions for a company of course i would outsource - hell, i'd probably conclude that India was far too expensive and find some cheap 12 year old Cambodians for $10 a year. However, from my current perspective, and i assume many slashdotters are in similar shoes, i don't want my job going anywhere and neither does anyone else, lazy or not.
I'm not to bothered what the US does, in Europe that information is publicly available pretty easily, however its obvious that the law is being broken here - the number of times ive been called up 'randomly' by an indian telemarketer asking if i want to upgrade my phone is insane, they don't seem to understand the fact that im amish and we don't even have a cell tower or land-line for 100 miles! Its unlikely congress will pass a law that requires 100's of companies to spend millions vetting out-sourced workers or giving customers the right to see their own personal information on record and where its being sent.
You misunderstood, Im not saying they're any different from non-outsourced workers, im just saying i HOPE that people in charge get a knee-jerk reaction to stop outsourcing so that jobs can go back home, in fact in many cases, outsourced people work harder and are more loyal! - thats the whole problem!! who wants to compete with hard-working, loyal and cheap employees? we want our jobs to stay at home.
I only hope this news flashes through the industry and gets in the heads of CEOs and PHBs everywhere who then start aborting outsourcing attempts.
If you're in Europe, fear not, the data protection act bars your personal information from leaving the EU (i think?).. unless its going to the CIA so they can have you extradited without trial.. Either way, if you're worried, call up your bank and demand to know where they send your data, its public information by law.
What a load of BS, Try any recent kde or gnome based distro on anything slightly old and it you'll see its unusable, while linux itself runs fine i've yet to see a decent GUI, they're all obsessed with letting you configure your windows to look absolutely any way you want, when all anyone really wants is fast response time and a few reasonable config options. Boot windows 2000 (the only decent creation out of redmond) on the same PC and you'll see some what i mean. CPU speed and memory aren't so important if you've been running a simple word/web system for for the last few years, but when it comes to games, 3d-animation, video editing, image editing, audio composing/mixing, or even just compiling, then the difference is high. Also people often forget their hard-drive witch can be slow as shit.
Agreed, but technically any question can have a edge of controvasy if you dig deep enough - "population of israel" is an obvious one. Not so obvious would be "how tall is the empire state building" - should the answer be in meters or feet??
The problem is, if people start driving smaller cars, then they will be at more risk in an accident because they are more likely to be hit by a larger car. No, the only solution is to build even bigger cars to stop the real and growing issue of people being hit by trucks. You see, fuel usage is all relative - SUVs are actually very very fuel efficient.. compared to hummers, tractors and juggernauts, so if SUVs get bigger, trucks for example will also have to get bigger, which means SUVs will stay fuel efficient.. relatively.
Well i guess we can assume that if nano bots are advanced enough to give us immortality then they can probably also turn waste into food, eat pollution, build cheap housing and terraform other planets, they could probably even 'evolve' people on-the-fly, patching the human body against diseases and improving its efficiency, this all sounds like a utopia until you compare it to the current computing arena - by that you can imagine nano bots being buggy, getting hacked or misused and generally fucking up big time, its all a question of how much damage they could theoretically do and how easy it would be to implement a nano bot to do that - then you just sit back and wait for someone somewhere in the world to start it all off.
The real issue is the question of the possibility that nano bots could be built that replicated infinitely consuming a wide range of materials as they went. It would only take a single nano bot in the entire world to do this, so regulation isn't going to help, unless it can be guaranteed 100% effective, not 99.999999999999%, this theoretical nano bot would of course have to be programmed not to eat other similar nano bots and they would also need to get into a good formation (a sphere?) or they would face food shortages as they tried to fan out. If they could travel that would also help - maybe through wind or water or by being purposefully spread around the world. They would also need to be either fast or left unattended until they got a good population, otherwise they could just be collected up in a suitable container and ejected into space (preferably towards the sun) before they ate through it. But this whole thing could be translated to any sized robot - insect or animal sized bots could start eating things to reproduce continuously too, its just that nano bots sound scarier because you won't see them until your body is disintegrating.
...including the potential benefits, such as immortality...
Immortality is NOT a benefit, not to yourself, and not to the world population.
Games are already pretty addictive, i'd say i've definitely wasted more time on stupid computer games than on drugs and alcohol, although the games were probably cheaper, thats still 1000's of hours i will _never_ get back.
Computers often break down, catch a virus, get full up or messy, thats the view most people accept. Just like your pipes sometimes get blocked, your car sometimes gets broken into or your appliances sometimes blow a fuse. Of course on slashdot we know that this doesn't have to be the case, but the general population doesn't really care. Microsoft is responsible for an entire industry of tech support people cleaning computers on a monthly basis and earning money and we should be thankful for it! Other professions such as plumbers and electricians are in the same position - when your lights go out and you cant take a shit you get desperate, you just want to call someone up and say "it doesn't work, fix it, i give you money", same thing happens to people when they need to write an essay but their computer won't start or takes half an hour to do anything. Lets not dumb down the jargon, people dont care what it means as long as someone is there to make it work for them.
thats right, these people seem to be a bit too obsessed, but the fact is if they really cared enough they would be lining up to suck the producer off so they could see the preview, male or female, gay or straight.