Mod me down if you will, I know how the Americans regard the EU as a panacea of suppression, however in the UK you cannot infringe a copyright/patent unless you SELL your good.
You don't need a supercomputer to perform a simple LEFT JOIN query that even mySQL could handle since v1.0.
If the PK of each Govt Department's Table is indexed (standard DB practice) then the lookup will involve a simple QUERY_INDEX on all Government Tables, a very simple operation, not even a table scan is needed.
You're absolutely right. I've found that by not installing or running any software, I can dramatically improve the performance and stability of Windows
What a coincidence! I improved the reliability of my Win XP by removing the PSU. Now my machine behaves in a predictable manner, and I can't see any SPAMs any more.
but more often managers that barely can manage people in an office are surely not going to manage people remoetly effectivly
From my experience, it's because most managers are incompetent and surplus. The workers, if given appropriate performance-related pay will perform their work much more efficiently via self-management. Most managers simply oppress their workers and minimise their productivity by creating resentment. This is because managers have exceeded their bounds. The most efficient system is that the workers make demands, and the managers act as administrators and fill in forms, plus keep employees positively motivated. Personally I work hard for my customers, but my manager just makes me feel like I want to quit. I've told him time and again that being 15 minutes late into work is nothing compared to lost productivity if I rush, it's not a factory, but his incompetence means that I have to rush to work, get fatigued, have bad sleep and get a headache so I just stare at the screen for half the day instead of coding, which he just sees on his Gantt chart as "unreliable performance metric". Hello! I'm a human being!
When the servers crash, I try to fix them, but then my manager comes along and says, "You have to fill in this form before you reboot the server". I tell him that there are customers waiting for the production server to come back up, but he doesn't care. It's long been a dream of mine to form a fist, say "Do you have a violence request form?" and then I punch him in the stomach.
If someone is in the office, you know EXACTLY what time they come in, what time they leave and what they do, when they are away from their desk and you can monitor their internet habbits easier, (filters on fierwall and logging) as well as require them to come to those useless meetings
Webcam and screen-capture once every 120 seconds solves all this, of course it should have a warning light and 5 second delay because you don't want to be caught picking your nose or with your hand up your ass.
I am working on a project now and 3 of the members work at home. One guy in the office created an object. At the same time one guy who was telecommuting created a similar object. Both do essentially the same thing. Had they both been in the office they probably would have talked about this and only one would have implemented it
Why does everybody blame telecommuting? I work in a cubicle farm, and the guy in the opposite cubicle was implementing software in VisualC++ for a customer operating solely on Micro$oft Windows, he had 3000 lines of code, had been working for 6 days, and expected completion in 6 Months. I overheard it and on my own initiative did something in VB and finished in 3 hours. The customer was pleased, the manager was pleased but the other guy was pissed that I had stolen his project.
Telecommuting frees the citizen to be wherever he pleases and be productive. It can also assist Globalisation, if I can telecommute from the Bay Area and have to pay $2000/month just for rent, why not telecommute from Ethiopea and allow trickle-down into the Ethiopean economy, relieving world hunger. Everybody will become a charity worker overnight.
After a couple of years unemployment, I was looking around for a charity that would take $2000 of my money and make poor people self-sufficient (not just give them grain). Then I realised:
Give a man a fish, you can feed him for a day Give a man a net and he can catch his own fish everyday Give a man a computer, education and Internet connection, and he will take away your job.
As an act of charity I am free here in the socialistish UK to give away my job in this manner if I choose to do so. In the United States you are NOT free to become unemployed despite what it says in your constitution, because you'll be giving up the right to good health. So for the people in the United States, telecommuting can be the gift of IT to the starving people of the World, I am proud to be in IT, even if it costs me my job.
It's been US culture to move around for jobs, such as move from the Bay Area to other areas when jobs become scarce. Why not move to India? It's American culture to move to where the jobs are instead of sitting in Bay Area and moaning about rent.
What about managing companies responsibly, not in an Enronesque way?
You ask for the one thing they cannot give at this time.
To become a Manager you must become a confident liar. This is because a Manager acts as a corporate middleman, he sells a product to the customer, and pays employees to create this product, the difference between the two (after costs) he can keep. This is similar to some people on/. that only code VB having to lie about being rabid linux and GPL supporters to look l33t and get m0dd3d up
I was asked to consider the emptynes and serinity of many months of unemployment. It motivated me to look for another job. My attachment to food, shelter and cloathing is still too great for me to reach enlightenment, I'm afraid
This is why a Socialist Welfare State is closer to God than the United States' system.
Human life and effort are the basis of all economic worth. Things that are easy to make are cheap. Things that require much effort are expensive. Robots can be mass produced. They will be as cheap as PCs and motor scooters are today. The friends and relatives of those three operators will find no replacements for the operators who die. The operators who live will find no replacements for their limbs and lungs
And how about the billions of operators that won't be born because potential parents will become lazy after mass robotisation of tasks? The human population will collapse. Just look at how the population implodes in all First World countries. It's safe to assume that potential parents must be accustomed to a certain amount of work so that the extra work and impact of having/raising children is minimal. If a new parent suddenly has to perform massive work that robots are unable to perform then he will discourage other potential parents, collapsing the population
The reason technology does not create unemployment is that there is a vast reservoir of need, both real and artificial. As technology has expanded production people's living standards have increased to match
More like vast reservoir of stupidity. Employees are closely monitored at work and give up their constitutional rights whilst at work. Home automation in all countries in the world would simply allow citizens to work longer hours (what else would there be to do?) The Ethiopeans can come to the US and flip burgers or clean houses if there's a shortage of house cleaners!!!! This shortage of house cleaners is maintained artificially by xenophobic Government H-1B policies. The level of global unemployment is huge, and robots will only help the wealthy; why do you think the Aibo was released in Japan first?
Actual human labor will become very expensive, and we will only need to work a few hours a week to earn enough to reap the rewards of all the automation. Of course, there will be those who will still work 80 hours a week, if they want, and they'll probably become richer than most.
I guess there are alterate distopian possibilities, such as a massive imbalance of wealth concentrated in fewer and fewer people, which they article seems to be predicting. We should be wary to try to take steps, whatever they might be, to help prevent that from happening. Without draconian government measures that trample on freedom.
More likely this will be a test of the fundamental ethics of humanity. In the event that people work in order to do stuff in their spare time, robots will give us spare time. However with SUV sales and the behavior of managers and Walmart/McDonalds managers, there's a significant portion of the populous that simply works to control others or be better than others. Automation would give these people extraordinary powers to oppress. If you think Saddam Hussein is bad, just look at "time theft" by employees at your Walmart store or at McDonalds. Managers almost outnumber employees, if the employees are replaced by robots, the managers may have a tacit agreement to raise prices and they will earn lots of money off of the citizens. The citizens will become too lazy to overthrow the managers.
Even now with CEOs of Enron and managers being very succesful wealth-wise, the workers aren't keeping the managers in check by physically attacking them, that's why they pay us workers less and take most of the company's money and perks for themselves. We (seriously) need more employees to walk into work with machine-guns and shoot their managers for taking the food and Parents' time away from their children. I warn you all that with automation we are advancing ourselves into slavery.
Who knows, in a 100 years, if robots can do it all, our economies may focus around land (where we can live with all our robot servants), art, and knowledge and other things that are uniquely human
Or transition to a love-based economy of communal living, all our needs supported by robots. Property would be irrelevant as the robots could produce any property within seconds for a minimal amount of human work. We'd become lazy, and then a plague/asteroid will wipe us out.
First of all, I don't think a fast food resteraunt could be completely automated. Machines are good at things like accounting, but when it comes to human interaction there is a lot of room for improvement.
People can use ATM machines, a Big Mac is a standard product, just put your money in and a Big Mac/whatever comes out instead of $20 notes.
In the eyes of Managers, us humans and robots are completely interchangeable. Poeple need a salary covering everything from medical insurance to automobiles and job certainty. Machines need a Capital investment and maintenance, have depreciation and a fixed time to obsolescence. The Ford production line system makes it much easier to robotise the majority of jobs.
But does the populace want jobs, or just lots of incredibly cheap stuff made by machines? Would half the population be happy on welfare?
It's all about calories. It's simple: If you take in more than you burn per day, no matter what the source, you gain weight
Trash. Uranium has lots of calories, and yet if you eat it you won't become fat. Fat similarly is processed minimally if protein is present.
This is how I remember it - Carbs is like 110Volts AC, and Fat is like 110Volts DC; Carbs get transformed by the transformer, and Fat passes straight through like a short circuit.
And it'd be pretty sweet to observe a quark star, aside from just proving that they exist. I'm sure they've got some interesting stuff going on in them.
Yes, the spontaneous appearance of regional wormholes would also be nice to observe near huge superstring black holes that I've been thinking about. I should go kick Feynman's ass.
Ah...well drivers are small, I would have found a way to get online and get the driver on a floppy. I've been in the same situation countless times and there's always some way whether it's at a friend's house, a school lab, or the library
This is my only computer. If my car breaks down I don't have an identical car next to it to salvage parts from, most people don't. I work for a living, I can't use office Internet for my own work (they check). When I get back home late in the evening all my friends are tired and they live in the next State, I see them once every six months. I don't have any friends at work because they feel their jobs are threatened by my Masters in Computing. My library removes all floppy drives from their machines because they present a virus hazard. Not many schools are open at 9pm when I get back home from work.
Should you end up in this situation again, I strongly recommend a relook through all the CD's that they sent you along with the laptop.
Because I reinstalled, I installed all drivers on all CDs. It wasn't there. After finding the Ethernet drivers on my hard disk, I searched for it on the CDs, the driver wasn't there! This was just after XP was released so I'd guess they were scrambling for the drivers and they forgot to make the CD.
Hey one second, I remember you, please explain a post you made before about electron resistance pushing back when I attempt to squeeze a metal. I'm aware that electrons have free travel within metal, but I thought that the integrity of the metal was maintained via a lattice structure. I wonder what a quark star would look like.
They originate the signal from their secret base on the dark side of the moon, route it through ECHELON, then through the chip in your cerebellum, off the relay in the piece of fried chicken you're eating, through your computer just on general principles, then to your cell phone where it summarily cracks the encryption and displays the letters "BB." Then it kills you
Slight mode error there, McDonalds sets up bases all over the world, adds doses of heroin into Big Macs to make you feel hungey (feeling hungry is a symptom of this conspiracy). Marketing information is encrypted using military-PGP and beamed into McDonalds corporate HQ in the basement of the Pentagon together with Coke's "Ingredient X". Then a cheeseburger powered supercomputer (office workers operating in unison) process this data into new recipees, forming a feedback loop along which if data poisoning occurs such as "add cyanide to Big Macs" nobody will question the order (The Cube), it will be done and everybody will die.
Problem is, computer expertise is not a matter of intelligence, but rather a matter of practice
Very true, my friend. So who here on/. can install a linux distro? Yeah, now who here can safely demolish and reconstruct an artec ceiling, and knows the correct treatment for brickwork so that it won't crumble? If I sold you a tin of varnish that would make your house last twice as long, and your house collapsed because what I sold you was actually sulphuric acid, would you sue me? Do you perform a titration on your Big Mac with a pippette and burette to see how acidic it is every time you buy one? Or due you *assume* and *trust* that your Big Mac ain't got cyanide in it. Why doesn't McDonalds say, "Ha ha! Loser, you don't even do basic chemical tests that any dumb 6 grader can do on your food before you eat it, you deserve what you get dumbass!"
On/. we take the piss out of normal people that get duped by fake UI's, but when the guy at McDonalds wipes the Big Mac beef patty on his ass and serves it to us, we get pissed off. Why? We see a Big Mac and we assume it's edible, the marketing and packaging dictate that it is, and we BUY it for the marketing and packaging. That makes marketing and packaging directly liable. A professional conoisseur can easily spot/smell whether a beef patty has been wiped on someone's ass, but does that mean he can take the piss out of us C++ hAxOrS because we can't smell/taste it?
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Mod me down if you will, I know how the Americans regard the EU as a panacea of suppression, however in the UK you cannot infringe a copyright/patent unless you SELL your good.
If the PK of each Govt Department's Table is indexed (standard DB practice) then the lookup will involve a simple QUERY_INDEX on all Government Tables, a very simple operation, not even a table scan is needed.
When the servers crash, I try to fix them, but then my manager comes along and says, "You have to fill in this form before you reboot the server". I tell him that there are customers waiting for the production server to come back up, but he doesn't care. It's long been a dream of mine to form a fist, say "Do you have a violence request form?" and then I punch him in the stomach.
Webcam and screen-capture once every 120 seconds solves all this, of course it should have a warning light and 5 second delay because you don't want to be caught picking your nose or with your hand up your ass.After a couple of years unemployment, I was looking around for a charity that would take $2000 of my money and make poor people self-sufficient (not just give them grain). Then I realised:
Give a man a fish, you can feed him for a day
Give a man a net and he can catch his own fish everyday
Give a man a computer, education and Internet connection, and he will take away your job.
As an act of charity I am free here in the socialistish UK to give away my job in this manner if I choose to do so. In the United States you are NOT free to become unemployed despite what it says in your constitution, because you'll be giving up the right to good health. So for the people in the United States, telecommuting can be the gift of IT to the starving people of the World, I am proud to be in IT, even if it costs me my job.
It's been US culture to move around for jobs, such as move from the Bay Area to other areas when jobs become scarce. Why not move to India? It's American culture to move to where the jobs are instead of sitting in Bay Area and moaning about rent.
To become a Manager you must become a confident liar. This is because a Manager acts as a corporate middleman, he sells a product to the customer, and pays employees to create this product, the difference between the two (after costs) he can keep. This is similar to some people on /. that only code VB having to lie about being rabid linux and GPL supporters to look l33t and get m0dd3d up
Even now with CEOs of Enron and managers being very succesful wealth-wise, the workers aren't keeping the managers in check by physically attacking them, that's why they pay us workers less and take most of the company's money and perks for themselves. We (seriously) need more employees to walk into work with machine-guns and shoot their managers for taking the food and Parents' time away from their children. I warn you all that with automation we are advancing ourselves into slavery.
But does the populace want jobs, or just lots of incredibly cheap stuff made by machines? Would half the population be happy on welfare?
This is how I remember it - Carbs is like 110Volts AC, and Fat is like 110Volts DC; Carbs get transformed by the transformer, and Fat passes straight through like a short circuit.
Hey one second, I remember you, please explain a post you made before about electron resistance pushing back when I attempt to squeeze a metal. I'm aware that electrons have free travel within metal, but I thought that the integrity of the metal was maintained via a lattice structure. I wonder what a quark star would look like.
On /. we take the piss out of normal people that get duped by fake UI's, but when the guy at McDonalds wipes the Big Mac beef patty on his ass and serves it to us, we get pissed off. Why? We see a Big Mac and we assume it's edible, the marketing and packaging dictate that it is, and we BUY it for the marketing and packaging. That makes marketing and packaging directly liable. A professional conoisseur can easily spot/smell whether a beef patty has been wiped on someone's ass, but does that mean he can take the piss out of us C++ hAxOrS because we can't smell/taste it?