Good point. I think the only way to fix the quality issues you describe would be by opening the code. When will MS figure that out? Often, companies like MS have too much on their plate and if you let your clients participate in fixing problems, you make them feel they belong. MS is still trying to do that but their approach is hamstrings them.
I was originally going to go with a bit about how Skype's management held a meeting to figure out how to let MS know they were ready to join MS's products and felt they needed to do something to illustrate that but the setup on that joke was too long, as you can tell.
No human could make sense of so much chatter, but an AI that understood everything about slang could. Because when I think of armies, I think of... artistry.
Sure, I run desktop Linux as my main O/S, it's so much better than Windows or OSX!
But there has been a problem with Linux in a lot of businesses because of the Microsoft patent-posturing (among others) so this will add the legitimacy that pointy-haired bosses usually need to sanctify things.
Thanks for fascinating insight, RD. I know I saw a documentary about it some years ago, it might have been on The Nature of Things with David Suzuki, I'm not sure... Anyhow, interesting study. Thanks for the info!
There was a study where they put a subject in an underground mine (they built him and underground house in there, or lair if you prefer) and only let him have contact through a video link to an operator's booth above. The operators would be relieved and assigned shifts in a random way so that the subject could not infer how long each operator was present nor how long their shifts were. After a few weeks/months of this, the subject began having 33-hour days and 11-hour nights. So the sun really DOES influence human wake/sleep periods. What the 33/11 ratio means is anyone's guess though...
I had two friends over Saturday night to play rock band. Neither of them are serious guitar players. One of them had never played before. Both of them played the instrument in the game on 'easy' and were able to pass songs. Tell me, when's the last time you passed a guitar to a non guitar playing friend and had them start playing?
Never, but technically you didn't either; your friends were NOT playing a guitar.
I watched 2001 again recently and noticed something new (for me). In the first scene which shows the space pod in the room at the end you see an internal display which alternates between "LIF" and something like "NONEXIST". We think we see this from Bowman's POV, but it seems the pod doesn't think Bowman is alive at all.
I remember (from reading the book) that Bowman literally had eons in that room to think. A great deal of the time he thought about mortality, the nature of reality, existence... I seem to remember him surmising form is illusion and (paradoxically) this leading to the evolution of the starchild.
Mark my words, in the future, we will discover that there are far many more planets than stars and that means our galaxy contains many hundreds of billions of planets.
Right now our equipment simply cannot detect the majority of them.
Yup, I think the problem is with the clearly-inexperienced chef he was assigned. You can see the guy is new at it. What do you expect though, newly-opened restaurant and all. The chefs at that place should watch the video referenced by the article of a super-chef at work, it would show them what to aim for.
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There's an extra 'is' there, sorry
Good point.
I think the only way to fix the quality issues you describe would be by opening the code.
When will MS figure that out?
Often, companies like MS have too much on their plate and if you let your clients participate in fixing problems, you make them feel they belong. MS is still trying to do that but their approach is hamstrings them.
I was originally going to go with a bit about how Skype's management held a meeting to figure out how to let MS know they were ready to join MS's products and felt they needed to do something to illustrate that but the setup on that joke was too long, as you can tell.
So Skype is already adopting MS's reliability
No human could make sense of so much chatter, but an AI that understood everything about slang could. ... artistry.
Because when I think of armies, I think of
That to avoid litigation around mono, one should NOT develop anything in .NET
Agreed - phrases like
"it is highly unlikely that xyz"
without any real facts is just hogwash
That is all
Sure, I run desktop Linux as my main O/S, it's so much better than Windows or OSX!
But there has been a problem with Linux in a lot of businesses because of the Microsoft patent-posturing (among others) so this will add the legitimacy that pointy-haired bosses usually need to sanctify things.
When so many cronies get behind linux, all the cronies in your office won't mind using it.
Only known ONE .NET programmer, and he was damned fine, thing is, he was a damned-fine C++ programmer too, so ...
and let god sort 'em out
Thanks for fascinating insight, RD.
I know I saw a documentary about it some years ago, it might have been on The Nature of Things with David Suzuki, I'm not sure...
Anyhow, interesting study. Thanks for the info!
There was a study where they put a subject in an underground mine (they built him and underground house in there, or lair if you prefer) and only let him have contact through a video link to an operator's booth above.
The operators would be relieved and assigned shifts in a random way so that the subject could not infer how long each operator was present nor how long their shifts were.
After a few weeks/months of this, the subject began having 33-hour days and 11-hour nights.
So the sun really DOES influence human wake/sleep periods. What the 33/11 ratio means is anyone's guess though...
Probably because Titan is less oxygen-rich than the Earth and fire requires oxygen?
It IS in French.
I agree it grates the ear in English though...
Never, but technically you didn't either; your friends were NOT playing a guitar.
Please tell me that the people who make Robot Chicken managed to get one before it was made unavailable!
Hmmm... Mercury. Shiny, liquid metal...
I see what you did there
I remember (from reading the book) that Bowman literally had eons in that room to think.
A great deal of the time he thought about mortality, the nature of reality, existence...
I seem to remember him surmising form is illusion and (paradoxically) this leading to the evolution of the starchild.
Mark my words, in the future, we will discover that there are far many more planets than stars and that means our galaxy contains many hundreds of billions of planets.
Right now our equipment simply cannot detect the majority of them.
irony bonus?
OK, I'll bite - Scleroderma is seemingly genetic, so ... ?
Yup, I think the problem is with the clearly-inexperienced chef he was assigned. You can see the guy is new at it.
What do you expect though, newly-opened restaurant and all.
The chefs at that place should watch the video referenced by the article of a super-chef at work, it would show them what to aim for.
Why not simply give people immunity to a virus directly?
Why the complicated chain through insects? A longer chain like that is harder to control.