Computers already do get tired - look at the animated sandtimer.;o) No, but seriously - AI doesn't work like that. You could program on/off cycles - that's about it.... Predictable routines to a computer are not boring....
Programmed emotions aren't the same thing. They're more black & white than the grey areas emotions are in real life. The characters came across as emotionally one-dimensional....
About 3 percent of the visitors to my website on Monday were from the.au domain (Australia). These were the ton ten ISPs (in order of popularity - percentages are total of Australian traffic):-
optusnet.com.au - 19.4%
comindico.com.au - 15.6%
iprimus.net.au - 12.1%
tmns.net.au - 5.5%
bigpond.net.au - 9.0%
schools.net.au - 5.2%
tgpi.com.au - 3.81%
netspace.net.au - 2.77%
on.net.au - 2.07%
ihug.com.au - 1.73%
And yes, I do realise that one of them is not an ISP and it's kids at school.
Geeks are usually not in my experience ambidextrous. Anyway - when you're holding a book or pieces of paper of code and typing with one hand - it can lead to RSI. That and being a professional musician can lead to a whole host of trouble in the hand department. Thankfull you can answer e-mail through voice recognition these days (or just record an audio message as an attachment).
It's hard to pursue an addiction though - unless you're getting paid to do so. However you're right - workaholics are looked up to or envied - whereas sex addicts are called nymphomaniacs and considered dangerous.
Yes, as in all those letters you'd get home from school (when I was at a co-educational school) which mentioned the phrase son/daughter about five times in the letter. That was the 80s though - I'm sure these days you could link it to the gender field of a student database and print out the correct one. It'd be a bit more complicated than a mail merge though.
Yep - they already have the UK government - although there's an almost underground movement to switch to open source. However the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has also donated computers (with Windows) to at least one local library. Microsoft/ the B&MG Foundation's "donations" to schools, libraries, universities etc etc etc serve to maintain their monopoly for decades to come. Although they would say they are doing it for truly altruistic means - the two people who set up the foundation both have Microsoft stock.
We have a similar problem here with a company called BT (British Telecommunications). Originally it was a government monopoly through the Post Office but was privatised in '84 (AFAIK). Companies always want to grow though. Yes - Microsoft was found guilty - but their punishment has been watered down (a lot). There is still consumer choice out there over software however many US (and other) politicians Microsoft chose to give money to (with obviously no strings attached;o) ). You can say all you like - that's freedom of speech for you. Microsoft is like the Borg though - it's best to keep your company so small it doesn't feature on their radar.;o)
One virus scanner isn't enough though you need more than one. The same applies to browsers, chat applications etc etc etc.
People mainly use Microsoft for the convenience factor or because they don't know of any other - not because it's better software or that they want to. Yes, it does hamper IT competition - but there's plenty of competition in this field already. Microsoft have always made acquisitions - this is just part of their ongoing strategy to grow.
It's not usually a case of which one matters (which is subjective) but the case of which one is most popular. As with Windows - if something becomes popular it can have a runaway success.... people trust computers too much at the moment anyway - most don't understand gigo and assume that information on a computer is infallible.:/
The dot com crash wasn't as bad here in the UK. As a result of 9/11 etc - there are a lot of computer security and computer support jobs for people who are British Citizens (especially those with a security clearance). There are also plenty at universities - although tech support is classed as the lowest rung of the ladder.
I thought kids bought their own games. Mind you - when I was a kid in the 80s - tapes of C64 games were only about the equivalent of between $1.50 and $7.50 (+ 20 years of inflation). These days games are more commercial and expensive (outside of the weekly pocket money allowance). Kids just play games for fun. There's the whole "edutainment" section too - computer aided learning etc etc etc. Schools started buying computer software to teach maths, foreign language vocabulary, english etc - before there really was a "gaming scene".
The autistic, the Aspie, the nerd & the geek kids aren't that social. We spend most of our time on the computer or in the library - parents hardly call reading a book sociable.;o)
To be fair though - using a mailto link (and the original e-mail address on the page) makes it easier for people to get in touch. You can include a subject line in the mail to tag which if kept by the user is an effective spam filter. Spam is easy to spot - when all the spam hasn't got the correct subject line.;o)
The alternative - things like formail.pl and php e-mail scripts have zero-day exploits that can be abused by spammers too. You'll know when that happens when you get about a hundred e-mails back saying that the e-mail address was not found - or angry people after you for scamming.
What's really dispicable is when someone (unwittingly) has an e-mail virus and you're in their address book. The virus then puts your address - spoofs your address in the from field. Anyway - like cold calling, junk mail - spam is just another one of life's little daily annoyances....
"Again, What exactly does this have to do with me mocking somebody with a stereo capable of stalling his car?" - a rather obscure one
"do you just lack a sense of humor, or what?" - some of the time.
Look up Asperger's Syndrome in a medical dictionary to see where I'm coming from - or in layman's terms "little professor".
I do have a sense of humour - just a very unique, different, strange sense of humour that only I and a few other people find funny. Then again - there are cultural differences between us too. It's my fault though for reading too quickly and not understand the subtelties of your mocking. On the day in question - I was tired - annoyed - just not in the mood for jokes.
"Why is this a concern at all?" - because Google is the most popular search engine among visitors to/.:)
It's an issue because the popular (and on/. theregister is popular) has picked up the story. Like you I just file it under "filler". Stories with not much in them IMHO (maybe not in yours) that get padded out to fill out a publication on a slow news day.
I wrote a long comment to this reply - but slashdot didn't post it. It can be summarised thus:-
a) It's a shame you have asthma - but what about public transport (around here you'd get free travel if your driving was affected by a health condition).
b) Well salbutamol is really only for emergencies. You should take preventative medication - eg Intal - it depends on the type & severity of asthma though.
c) " Just my way of getting back at the environment for not allowing me to save it." - it's not the natural environment accerbating your asthma. Try spending a fortnight in a rural location and see the improvement in your breathing.
d) I used to ride with a balaclava, a cycle helmet, inner gloves, outer leather gloves, overtrousers (in case it rained) and a thick coat - I used to get quite hot (even when it was cold). We don't get that much snow here - not since global warming started making it warmer. It snowed more in the 80s. Moose are not a problem here. Unfortunately a lot of the forrested areas were chopped down - cultivation - housing etc - and moose aren't a native species anyway. There used to be wolves though in medieval times. You see squirrels, rabbits, pheasant - the odd stray sheep/ cow - that's about it. They're easy to avoid on a pedal bike.
e) Doesn't your insurance cover damage by a third party (eg a moose)? Did you have to pay the $9k from your own pocket?
f) Yes.I used to use them a lot as a C64 BASIC programmer. Lines like x=int((rnd(20))+1):)
Oil is refined into petrol (and diesel and other things). America consumes more oil than it produces so it has to import. If there was the mpg restriction on SUVs you wouldn't need to drill for oil in Alaska. Cars produce greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, water vapour, nitrous oxides etc) that lead to slightly more acidic rain - which leads to deforestation etc.:P
The connection is the humble motorcar. You affect the environment every time you use it. Even its construction uses up a large amount of water etc (just to construct the steel). Cars aren't really recycled properly either... anyway - enough... I've probably bored you already.
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Yes the transformers lose a lot of energy too...
I'll point out at this stage that room temperature superconductors would make electricity almost free. As to the rest - well *shrugs*
lol - you obviously don't live in England. lol
Computers already do get tired - look at the animated sandtimer. ;o) No, but seriously - AI doesn't work like that. You could program on/off cycles - that's about it.... Predictable routines to a computer are not boring....
Programmed emotions aren't the same thing. They're more black & white than the grey areas emotions are in real life. The characters came across as emotionally one-dimensional....
About 3 percent of the visitors to my website on Monday were from the .au domain (Australia). These were the ton ten ISPs (in order of popularity - percentages are total of Australian traffic):-
optusnet.com.au - 19.4%
comindico.com.au - 15.6%
iprimus.net.au - 12.1%
tmns.net.au - 5.5%
bigpond.net.au - 9.0%
schools.net.au - 5.2%
tgpi.com.au - 3.81%
netspace.net.au - 2.77%
on.net.au - 2.07%
ihug.com.au - 1.73%
And yes, I do realise that one of them is not an ISP and it's kids at school.
You're ascribing human emotions to machines. Tired is not something that machines get.
Geeks are usually not in my experience ambidextrous. Anyway - when you're holding a book or pieces of paper of code and typing with one hand - it can lead to RSI. That and being a professional musician can lead to a whole host of trouble in the hand department. Thankfull you can answer e-mail through voice recognition these days (or just record an audio message as an attachment).
It's hard to pursue an addiction though - unless you're getting paid to do so. However you're right - workaholics are looked up to or envied - whereas sex addicts are called nymphomaniacs and considered dangerous.
Yes, as in all those letters you'd get home from school (when I was at a co-educational school) which mentioned the phrase son/daughter about five times in the letter. That was the 80s though - I'm sure these days you could link it to the gender field of a student database and print out the correct one. It'd be a bit more complicated than a mail merge though.
This is sounding like a cartoon. Makes me think of Elmer Fudd or Foghorn Leghorn - which cartoon is this all referring to?
Yep - they already have the UK government - although there's an almost underground movement to switch to open source. However the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has also donated computers (with Windows) to at least one local library. Microsoft/ the B&MG Foundation's "donations" to schools, libraries, universities etc etc etc serve to maintain their monopoly for decades to come. Although they would say they are doing it for truly altruistic means - the two people who set up the foundation both have Microsoft stock.
We have a similar problem here with a company called BT (British Telecommunications). Originally it was a government monopoly through the Post Office but was privatised in '84 (AFAIK). Companies always want to grow though. Yes - Microsoft was found guilty - but their punishment has been watered down (a lot). There is still consumer choice out there over software however many US (and other) politicians Microsoft chose to give money to (with obviously no strings attached ;o) ). You can say all you like - that's freedom of speech for you. Microsoft is like the Borg though - it's best to keep your company so small it doesn't feature on their radar. ;o)
One virus scanner isn't enough though you need more than one. The same applies to browsers, chat applications etc etc etc.
People mainly use Microsoft for the convenience factor or because they don't know of any other - not because it's better software or that they want to. Yes, it does hamper IT competition - but there's plenty of competition in this field already. Microsoft have always made acquisitions - this is just part of their ongoing strategy to grow.
It's not usually a case of which one matters (which is subjective) but the case of which one is most popular. As with Windows - if something becomes popular it can have a runaway success.... people trust computers too much at the moment anyway - most don't understand gigo and assume that information on a computer is infallible. :/
Surely you mean spinning disk? Somebody correct me if it's not just a typo...
The dot com crash wasn't as bad here in the UK. As a result of 9/11 etc - there are a lot of computer security and computer support jobs for people who are British Citizens (especially those with a security clearance). There are also plenty at universities - although tech support is classed as the lowest rung of the ladder.
I thought kids bought their own games. Mind you - when I was a kid in the 80s - tapes of C64 games were only about the equivalent of between $1.50 and $7.50 (+ 20 years of inflation). These days games are more commercial and expensive (outside of the weekly pocket money allowance). Kids just play games for fun. There's the whole "edutainment" section too - computer aided learning etc etc etc. Schools started buying computer software to teach maths, foreign language vocabulary, english etc - before there really was a "gaming scene".
"Children are amazing, inquisitive, and social"
;o)
The autistic, the Aspie, the nerd & the geek kids aren't that social. We spend most of our time on the computer or in the library - parents hardly call reading a book sociable.
To be fair though - using a mailto link (and the original e-mail address on the page) makes it easier for people to get in touch. You can include a subject line in the mail to tag which if kept by the user is an effective spam filter. Spam is easy to spot - when all the spam hasn't got the correct subject line. ;o)
The alternative - things like formail.pl and php e-mail scripts have zero-day exploits that can be abused by spammers too. You'll know when that happens when you get about a hundred e-mails back saying that the e-mail address was not found - or angry people after you for scamming.
What's really dispicable is when someone (unwittingly) has an e-mail virus and you're in their address book. The virus then puts your address - spoofs your address in the from field. Anyway - like cold calling, junk mail - spam is just another one of life's little daily annoyances....
I'm too tactful/ diplomatic to write such an inflammatory statement.
"Again, What exactly does this have to do with me mocking somebody with a stereo capable of stalling his car?" - a rather obscure one
"do you just lack a sense of humor, or what?" - some of the time.
Look up Asperger's Syndrome in a medical dictionary to see where I'm coming from - or in layman's terms "little professor".
I do have a sense of humour - just a very unique, different, strange sense of humour that only I and a few other people find funny. Then again - there are cultural differences between us too. It's my fault though for reading too quickly and not understand the subtelties of your mocking. On the day in question - I was tired - annoyed - just not in the mood for jokes.
"Why is this a concern at all?" - because Google is the most popular search engine among visitors to /. :)
/. theregister is popular) has picked up the story. Like you I just file it under "filler". Stories with not much in them IMHO (maybe not in yours) that get padded out to fill out a publication on a slow news day.
It's an issue because the popular (and on
I wrote a long comment to this reply - but slashdot didn't post it. It can be summarised thus:-
:)
a) It's a shame you have asthma - but what about public transport (around here you'd get free travel if your driving was affected by a health condition).
b) Well salbutamol is really only for emergencies. You should take preventative medication - eg Intal - it depends on the type & severity of asthma though.
c) " Just my way of getting back at the environment for not allowing me to save it." - it's not the natural environment accerbating your asthma. Try spending a fortnight in a rural location and see the improvement in your breathing.
d) I used to ride with a balaclava, a cycle helmet, inner gloves, outer leather gloves, overtrousers (in case it rained) and a thick coat - I used to get quite hot (even when it was cold). We don't get that much snow here - not since global warming started making it warmer. It snowed more in the 80s. Moose are not a problem here. Unfortunately a lot of the forrested areas were chopped down - cultivation - housing etc - and moose aren't a native species anyway. There used to be wolves though in medieval times. You see squirrels, rabbits, pheasant - the odd stray sheep/ cow - that's about it. They're easy to avoid on a pedal bike.
e) Doesn't your insurance cover damage by a third party (eg a moose)? Did you have to pay the $9k from your own pocket?
f) Yes.I used to use them a lot as a C64 BASIC programmer. Lines like x=int((rnd(20))+1)
Oil is refined into petrol (and diesel and other things). America consumes more oil than it produces so it has to import. If there was the mpg restriction on SUVs you wouldn't need to drill for oil in Alaska. Cars produce greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, water vapour, nitrous oxides etc) that lead to slightly more acidic rain - which leads to deforestation etc. :P
The connection is the humble motorcar. You affect the environment every time you use it. Even its construction uses up a large amount of water etc (just to construct the steel). Cars aren't really recycled properly either... anyway - enough... I've probably bored you already.