Kang: Your superior intellect is no match for our puny weapons Kodos: Kneel before my slingshot puny Earthling Kodos: He's got a board with a nail in it! Kang: That board with a nail in it may have defeated us but the humans wont stop there. They'll make bigger boards and bigger nails. Soon they will make a board with a nail so big it will destroy them all!
Loan Officer : We are gonna have to take your house if you don't pay your mortgage.
Homer : I'll take the numbers off my house.
Loan Officer : We'll look for the house with no numbers.
Homer : I'll take the numbers off my neighbor's house.
Loan Officer : We'll look for the house next to the one with no numbers.
Homer : D'oh!
I can't help but feel that all this "fighting" among the big companies (e.g. Sun, IBM, HP, etc) is not going to end up well. It seems to me that there is a lot more interest on Linux right now, than there should be. Is there really enough market for all these big companies to make money? It would be a pity if they got all cranked up, found out that there isn't enough money for all of them, and gave up altogether on Linux and Open Source.
The whole thing seems eerily familiar like the dot.com boom and subsequent crash.
Both Linux and Windows (simplifying names) are pretty easy to install and the "masses" do not care about this. They care about the apps and familiarity.
They don't check if you have money in your bank account now...what happens if you lose a book now? They simply send you a bill and If you can't pay they will block your library card (I would assume since I've never lost a book).
There will always be a need for live interactions as I doubt that computers could emulate humans to that degree. We all know that AI is far from being indistinguishable from humans. If CGI does get to the point of being good enough and cheap enough to replace actors, you'll still need actors to do the acting (thus the ractors).
As for the "costume makers, construction, caterers, cameramen, model makers, casting companies, etc.," well they could get a new education and shift jobs. It happens all the time when major technological/industrial shifts occur. Someone will need to do the programming, modeling, building of new equipment.
The only problem I see is that the CGI might not be as good as the real stuff, but it might be cheaper so that the big corps will switch anyway and we'll get shafted.
Instead of checking out the actual book they could check out the amount the book costs (plus some extra as a deterrent). This way if you lose the book, you pay for the amount and the book comes up as missing (not who lost it though). The same thing could apply to other materials (they would just cost more or less). The time when is due as well as overdue fees would remain the same. The problem is the software not the feasability.
You're right an idiotic article deserves an idiotic comment...I'm currently working on my Bachelor Degree in Stating the Obvious, we'll see if I'll be able to muster a Master.
The worst part is that I don't think it is being done on purpose (at least not the aggregate effect). It's just that corporations survive only through making money, and those that are alive today are the ones making the most profit for their shareholders, CEO's, etc. In the future, they will try and get even more profits. It's not that they are not looking at the eventual demise or that they are not looking out for the masses, it's that they looking out for themselves.
It's the same thing with the polittians...it's not that all politians want to screw the people and help corporations, it's that only those that have enough money get elected. Who has the more money to give? Corporations...they have to give in order to receive x-fold.
Corporations are also taking over the airways and press. They have money and they can drive out the independents, indoctrinate the masses, and as a result get more money.
It's a self-propagating, vicious cycle, it gets deeper and deeper, but it does it gradually so that people do not take notice, do not feel cheated to the point of doing something about it.
You do see side-effects though...all those shootings, kidnappings, raping, etc. It's the aggregate build-up of stress (as in pressure) showing its head.
What are you going to do though? It's not easy fixing it, or it would not have gotten to this point. It's almost like an organism that evolves so that it is stronger. You could educate the people and make them vote for independents, greens, whatever, but that is a lot of work for those who do see the problems, and we are too lazy, too impatient to do anything about it.
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I've already pre-ordered ???? units
Can Grubb boot Congress? *ducks behind the couch*
They should have called it 11.0 (or OS XI ...) that way people wouldn't think it was only a bugfix upgrade. It works for AOL and MS apparently...
Kang: Your superior intellect is no match for our puny weapons
Kodos: Kneel before my slingshot puny Earthling
Kodos: He's got a board with a nail in it!
Kang: That board with a nail in it may have defeated us but the humans wont stop there. They'll make bigger boards and bigger nails. Soon they will make a board with a nail so big it will destroy them all!
How much more cynical can you get? I hope that was intentional...
hehe...maybe they're funded by Comedy Central
Loan Officer : We are gonna have to take your house if you don't pay your mortgage. Homer : I'll take the numbers off my house. Loan Officer : We'll look for the house with no numbers. Homer : I'll take the numbers off my neighbor's house. Loan Officer : We'll look for the house next to the one with no numbers. Homer : D'oh!
If I give them a mental picture of The Finger, will it show up?
Anybody know if there is a streaming/downloadable video of the TechTV report? I don't get TechTV in my area.
I can't help but feel that all this "fighting" among the big companies (e.g. Sun, IBM, HP, etc) is not going to end up well. It seems to me that there is a lot more interest on Linux right now, than there should be. Is there really enough market for all these big companies to make money? It would be a pity if they got all cranked up, found out that there isn't enough money for all of them, and gave up altogether on Linux and Open Source.
The whole thing seems eerily familiar like the dot.com boom and subsequent crash.
Man I miss that guy and Monstervision was the best "show" TNT has ever had...wish they'd bring it back
Slashdot getting ready to stomp davezilla.com
I hate flash so I can't view their demo.
Both Linux and Windows (simplifying names) are pretty easy to install and the "masses" do not care about this. They care about the apps and familiarity.
Does Gobe have a spellchecker? If so they should have used it over at OSnews.
They don't check if you have money in your bank account now...what happens if you lose a book now? They simply send you a bill and If you can't pay they will block your library card (I would assume since I've never lost a book).
There will always be a need for live interactions as I doubt that computers could emulate humans to that degree. We all know that AI is far from being indistinguishable from humans. If CGI does get to the point of being good enough and cheap enough to replace actors, you'll still need actors to do the acting (thus the ractors).
As for the "costume makers, construction, caterers, cameramen, model makers, casting companies, etc.," well they could get a new education and shift jobs. It happens all the time when major technological/industrial shifts occur. Someone will need to do the programming, modeling, building of new equipment.
The only problem I see is that the CGI might not be as good as the real stuff, but it might be cheaper so that the big corps will switch anyway and we'll get shafted.
Instead of checking out the actual book they could check out the amount the book costs (plus some extra as a deterrent). This way if you lose the book, you pay for the amount and the book comes up as missing (not who lost it though). The same thing could apply to other materials (they would just cost more or less). The time when is due as well as overdue fees would remain the same. The problem is the software not the feasability.
You're right an idiotic article deserves an idiotic comment...I'm currently working on my Bachelor Degree in Stating the Obvious, we'll see if I'll be able to muster a Master.
That's not a Tesla coil, he just living inside one of those Van De Graaff generator-globes
The worst part is that I don't think it is being done on purpose (at least not the aggregate effect). It's just that corporations survive only through making money, and those that are alive today are the ones making the most profit for their shareholders, CEO's, etc. In the future, they will try and get even more profits. It's not that they are not looking at the eventual demise or that they are not looking out for the masses, it's that they looking out for themselves.
It's the same thing with the polittians...it's not that all politians want to screw the people and help corporations, it's that only those that have enough money get elected. Who has the more money to give? Corporations...they have to give in order to receive x-fold.
Corporations are also taking over the airways and press. They have money and they can drive out the independents, indoctrinate the masses, and as a result get more money.
It's a self-propagating, vicious cycle, it gets deeper and deeper, but it does it gradually so that people do not take notice, do not feel cheated to the point of doing something about it.
You do see side-effects though...all those shootings, kidnappings, raping, etc. It's the aggregate build-up of stress (as in pressure) showing its head.
What are you going to do though? It's not easy fixing it, or it would not have gotten to this point. It's almost like an organism that evolves so that it is stronger. You could educate the people and make them vote for independents, greens, whatever, but that is a lot of work for those who do see the problems, and we are too lazy, too impatient to do anything about it.
in my user.js file that's why I'm thinking that they're catching on.
Mozilla is really good about killing pop-ups, but I have seen one from time to time on the NYT site.