"For years radios had been operated by means of pressing buttons and turning dials; then as the technology became more sophisticated the controls were made touch-sensitive - you merely had to brush the panels with your fingers; now all you had to do was wave your hand in the general direction of the components and hope. It saved a lot of muscular expenditure of course, but meant that you had to sit infuriatingly still if you wanted to keep listening to the same programme."
s/radios/linux/g ; s/listening to/running/
Nearly there. Time to start spinning in your grave, Mr. Adams.
At some point, I believe it was XP but maybe already in Win2K, M$ included zip/unzip capabilities in the "OS". It was incredibly slooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow.
For me, it meant that, exactly as before, Winzip or some such product remained on the list of software to load immediately onto a freshly installed box.
Same thing with the included firewall - I for one don't trust it one bit, I'd never rely on it for decent protection. At most, I see it as something that will con the pc-illiterate user into thinking s/he's protected without having to pay anything on top of the M$-tax, and I suspect that is the only reason they keep coming up with these bits that dupe stuff that's already out there.
If their anti-virus effort will be anything like these, I suspect nothing much will change...
To me the feasibility of predicting errors doesn't seem that unnatural, BUT...
Say that a device is created which starts beeping, or (more in keeping with western political evolution the last few years) gives you an electro-shock which is recorded by the camera pointed at you for later perusal by management who will be laughing there asses off.
Won't this essentially be a self-defeating learning device ?
AFAIK, the better you know your job, the more all operations will be moved into the more subconscious regions of your brain, and the less concentration this requires.
However, at the point where you have internalized the operations so much that they are nearly totally at the subconscious level, you will no longer need the concentration levels as required before, so you may start triggering the device.
If the device cannot be adjusted to lower the concentration threshold at that point, you will be forced into a state of higher concentration all the time, which may start messing with the learning process, since I'm guessing that the brain wiring does kind of expect the negative stimulation to stop at some optimal point of internalization...
So you end up in a feedback loop whereby the learning process may well be sabotaged.
So a device which detect errors may well be feasible, but if there is any feedback to the wearer (or container, if the device is inserted in uncomfortable areas of the body) it may not be very effective in the long run...
Sounds like Intel is going to become the IBM of CPUs - business-only providers, and AMD will conquer the desktop market if they do it right.
And in a coupla years AMD will be the CPU-Microsoft then...
Or am I seeing too many patterns again ?
Anybody remember the ad for, what was it, Nighthawk ? The Spectrum computer game based on some TV series about a fancy motorbike (Airwolf style). The ad ran for years, if memory serves me correctly. The game never came out, as far as I know.
Quenya (nice and topical; must learn it for the marriage of friends of mine) ?
Java (Marry Once Love Anywhere) ?
C++ (and a template for other geeks) ?
Perl (Messy but loadza fun, outsiders will always wonder) ?
Python (don't visualize that ! urgh, too late) ?
All the very best !
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I'm really sorry, but the right verb is not "to appease", it is "to fund". Several independent sources that I've been reading are pointing out that the CIA *funded* Osama Bin Laden, years ago, when he was anti-Communist. Only, after the Gulf War he turned against the US, in what is apparently called in CIA terms, a "blowback".
I *do* hope the US learns from this the right way... Stop funding pro-US terrorists would be a good start.
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"For years radios had been operated by means of pressing buttons and turning dials; then as the technology became more sophisticated the controls were made touch-sensitive - you merely had to brush the panels with your fingers; now all you had to do was wave your hand in the general direction of the components and hope. It saved a lot of muscular expenditure of course, but meant that you had to sit infuriatingly still if you wanted to keep listening to the same programme."
s/radios/linux/g ; s/listening to/running/
Nearly there. Time to start spinning in your grave, Mr. Adams.
Philip
At some point, I believe it was XP but maybe already in Win2K, M$ included zip/unzip capabilities in the "OS". It was incredibly slooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow.
For me, it meant that, exactly as before, Winzip or some such product remained on the list of software to load immediately onto a freshly installed box.
Same thing with the included firewall - I for one don't trust it one bit, I'd never rely on it for decent protection. At most, I see it as something that will con the pc-illiterate user into thinking s/he's protected without having to pay anything on top of the M$-tax, and I suspect that is the only reason they keep coming up with these bits that dupe stuff that's already out there.
If their anti-virus effort will be anything like these, I suspect nothing much will change...
Xeers,
Philip
To me the feasibility of predicting errors doesn't seem that unnatural, BUT...
Say that a device is created which starts beeping, or (more in keeping with western political evolution the last few years) gives you an electro-shock which is recorded by the camera pointed at you for later perusal by management who will be laughing there asses off.
Won't this essentially be a self-defeating learning device ?
AFAIK, the better you know your job, the more all operations will be moved into the more subconscious regions of your brain, and the less concentration this requires.
However, at the point where you have internalized the operations so much that they are nearly totally at the subconscious level, you will no longer need the concentration levels as required before, so you may start triggering the device.
If the device cannot be adjusted to lower the concentration threshold at that point, you will be forced into a state of higher concentration all the time, which may start messing with the learning process, since I'm guessing that the brain wiring does kind of expect the negative stimulation to stop at some optimal point of internalization...
So you end up in a feedback loop whereby the learning process may well be sabotaged.
So a device which detect errors may well be feasible, but if there is any feedback to the wearer (or container, if the device is inserted in uncomfortable areas of the body) it may not be very effective in the long run...
Xeers !
Philip
And we speak Flemish, not Dutch :^)
Next time we'll go for a hat trick. Heute Slashdot, Morgen das Sonnensystem...
Sounds like Intel is going to become the IBM of CPUs - business-only providers, and AMD will conquer the desktop market if they do it right. And in a coupla years AMD will be the CPU-Microsoft then... Or am I seeing too many patterns again ?
So it's not just the reviewers...
Quenya (nice and topical; must learn it for the marriage of friends of mine) ?
Java (Marry Once Love Anywhere) ?
C++ (and a template for other geeks) ?
Perl (Messy but loadza fun, outsiders will always wonder) ?
Python (don't visualize that ! urgh, too late) ?
All the very best !
I'm really sorry, but the right verb is not "to appease", it is "to fund". Several independent sources that I've been reading are pointing out that the CIA *funded* Osama Bin Laden, years ago, when he was anti-Communist. Only, after the Gulf War he turned against the US, in what is apparently called in CIA terms, a "blowback". I *do* hope the US learns from this the right way... Stop funding pro-US terrorists would be a good start.
Apparently United airlines confirmed one plane was a boeing 737...