Yeah, seriously. There's a sort of mentality that we, IT professionals, are going to run out of things to do. It's not like one day some programmer is going to do one last compile and then sit there saying, "I've done it. We don't ever need another line of code again." That's about as likely as a politician saying, "Ok, I'm going to shut up now because it's all been said before."
I've always tried to keep the opinion that my job was to automate myself out of a job. If I ever managed to do that, I'd consider my job well done and find another place that needed me. I get a lot of satisfaction from that because 1) The work I do tends to be more creative, 2) I get a lot of satisfaction out of solving a problem once and for all, 3) I end up seeing a lot of different problems.
Now, I've never actually done that. I'm not sure if that's because the subset of potential problems to solve just keeps expanding or that I'm not very good at my job. Performance reviews seem to indicate the former. The latter worries me.
As I've pointed out a while back, high tech societies tend to have a declining birth rate. Even in the US, most of our population increase is mostly from immigration. Without that, we'd have a declining population.
The prevailing theory is linked to your post. Children have become an expense instead of a boon in the industrial age. It used to be you had 10 kids so that you'd have 10 hands helping you at harvest time. Now, if you have 10 kids you have to feed them all out of your one or two income(s). Overall, I don't know if this is a bad thing. We have a nearly over-populated planet. And I suspect, rather unscientifically, that things will change enough in the future that the population will not decline to the point where we as a species are in trouble.
"You do less with less."
I'm too lazy to look up the previous slashdot article on this, but that seems to be false in some cases. Technology allows a person to get more done at the same time than somebody who is lacking in tech. Happy workers are more productive. Healthy workers are more productive. Keep those variables the same and he's, of course, correct.
My theory on automation is that no matter how much you automate, there will always be some work that humans will need to do. Even if automation meets all our physical needs, we as humans will find something to do to amuse, govern, and busy ourselves. The question is, what work will that be?
I think that Congress getting involved is the right action. But considering the other investigations they've done and the punitive actions that have come out of them, I'm not going to hold my breath. Congress has a lot of bark, it just doesn't have the bite it should.
Well some of us can adapt. Some of us are just dumb.
Go down you local street corner and see how many people can solve the simplest of equations. I'm guessing you wouldn't get a high percentage of people who could. And we've been teaching algebra in schools for a long time. It's a requirement in my state to pass Algebra to graduate high school.
Yeah, the 60's are probably a big flaw in my theory. Lots of good stuff in there that I probably shouldn't have discounted in my original post. That right, somebody on slashdot admitting a mistake. Call the press!
Although with Hip Hop and Rap, I'd have to disagree with you. Rap has rhythm and is an aesthetic audio production. I would classify that as music. While I'm not a fan of that particular genre myself, there are offshoots that have developed into heavy followings these days. There can be little doubt that early sprouts of it in the 90's were influential or even the cream of it's crop.
As for Alternative, the beginning roots were ground breaking. Bands like Nirvana, Soundgarden, Mother Love Bone, Alice in Chains and early Pearl Jam paved the way for modern rock. Not that many of the modern rock artists have done much with those efforts. But, I place that blame on modern artist and the RIAA and not on the founding artists.
I have a theory that only when there is an odd number in the 10's place of the year is there a good music era.
50's... new stuff. the birth of rock and roll.
60's... let's rehash the 50's.
70's... again new stuff. Many pioneers emerge and experiment. Prominence of the electric Guitar. It all ends in disco unfortunately.
80's... WTF?! Seriously, what the hell happened? Birth of Metal despite it all.
90's... again new stuff. Birth of Alternative. Hip Hop and Rap mature into main stream.
00's... Let's just forget all that stuff from last decade and all sound the same mmmkay?
Governing bodies make dozens of votes on bills a day. Do they expect people to read, understand, and vote intelligently on, dozens of bills dozens of pages long a week? There's reasons we have people that work do this crap (nearly) full-time.
If you don't think that many people could read this legislature, what makes you think that one guy working full time can? Most elected officials don't read the bills they are voting on.
I agree that the judgement-by-proxy voting will certainly be an issue, but, I disagree on the Senator analyst point.
Most Senators, at least in the US, don't read the very bills they are voting on. They know the information on there based on conversations around the proverbial water cooler with other politicians. However accurate those conversations are with the reality of the bill is another issue. Having a couple of thousand voters looking over a bill directly would be very handy. Now, the question is, does that information become available to the voters? And do the voters get to discuss the finer points of it before voting? Can voters change their votes if they learn more?
3. What's to stop a non-Australian from signing up?
Another thought that occurs to me: Will there be any attempt at discussion or education regarding bills in relation to this website? I took a quick look but failed to see anything like that. They encourage the masses to give their opinion, but do they arm them with any information on the issue at hand? Even an aggregation of other news sites and a slashdot style forum would be sufficient, IMHO.
I could see this party being a worthwhile one in the sense that voters will likely get involved more in day to day legislature. Though I expect this party will be greatly effected by fads and political issues of the week. That is, if they even make it into office.
Parent is stating the opinion that a church spending it's resources trying to grow is in contrast of it's professed goal of helping the community.
I understand the opinion of the now GP, but I don't get how the the desire to grow contrasts with the professed desire to help the community. Contrary to that opinion, I would worry about a group that didn't profess a desire to grow after attempting to help a community.
Having been involved with non-profits and the like, the problems they face are way, way bigger than any of the organizations that get involved. The next logical step in my mind is for those agencies to get more organized and to get more infrastructure to better combat the issues they are trying to work against. Any organization that doesn't attempt to do that is, in my mind, just toying around with helping the community for feel good reasons as opposed to actually trying to make a difference.
Well, there's a lot of mistakes other than simple aero dyanamic ones. Take the Laser weapons on the wings. Each gun is located on the farthest extremity of the ship. That's going to make aiming them a bit difficult if, and from observation this seems to be the case, you're method of aiming is to align the X-wing up with it's target and not through some turret system on the laser.
And the Tie fighter... Who's big idea was it to stick those really large vision blockers on both sides of the ship? Not that it matters, because the cockpit is only designed to look straight forward. At least the X-wing gets that right. Oh, and they're bullseyes. If you're going to stick a bullseye that big on the side of ship, at least let the ship have some sort of reduced functionality without them. Instead of say, spinning wildly out of control and exploding unnecessarily. I know tie fighters are supposed to be cheap vehicles, but a slight bit of change could make them last just a while longer.
I'll add to this. The kids you described, those are the "good" kids. Those are the ones that have a bit of support from their families. Those are the ones that live in a stable home and have two parental figures around that make enough to keep food on the table and clothing on their backs without working 2 jobs each.
In the public school system, you're not guaranteed that. In some areas, kids that have the above are in a small minority. The school system can't handle every need that a child has, and these other needs really cause a problem. It becomes really difficult to teach a child that doesn't want to be there and nobody is holding them accountable. It's really difficult to teach a child that's distracted because (s)he hasn't eaten since the day before. Or how about teaching a child who lives in a group home with active gang members.
Let me know if anybody comes up with a good solution to those problems.
(Yes, all my music has been acquired legally. Why do you ask?)
I didn't, I wouldn't and I probably won't. Why? Because the black and white issue that it was before is becoming more of a light gray on gray issue. I couldn't criticize anybody for choosing to go either way; Buying or Sharing. Mostly for the reasons you just outlined.
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Yeah, seriously. There's a sort of mentality that we, IT professionals, are going to run out of things to do. It's not like one day some programmer is going to do one last compile and then sit there saying, "I've done it. We don't ever need another line of code again." That's about as likely as a politician saying, "Ok, I'm going to shut up now because it's all been said before."
fuck bingo, I have the whole damn board!
I've always tried to keep the opinion that my job was to automate myself out of a job. If I ever managed to do that, I'd consider my job well done and find another place that needed me. I get a lot of satisfaction from that because 1) The work I do tends to be more creative, 2) I get a lot of satisfaction out of solving a problem once and for all, 3) I end up seeing a lot of different problems.
Now, I've never actually done that. I'm not sure if that's because the subset of potential problems to solve just keeps expanding or that I'm not very good at my job. Performance reviews seem to indicate the former. The latter worries me.
The prevailing theory is linked to your post. Children have become an expense instead of a boon in the industrial age. It used to be you had 10 kids so that you'd have 10 hands helping you at harvest time. Now, if you have 10 kids you have to feed them all out of your one or two income(s). Overall, I don't know if this is a bad thing. We have a nearly over-populated planet. And I suspect, rather unscientifically, that things will change enough in the future that the population will not decline to the point where we as a species are in trouble.
I'm too lazy to look up the previous slashdot article on this, but that seems to be false in some cases. Technology allows a person to get more done at the same time than somebody who is lacking in tech. Happy workers are more productive. Healthy workers are more productive. Keep those variables the same and he's, of course, correct.
My theory on automation is that no matter how much you automate, there will always be some work that humans will need to do. Even if automation meets all our physical needs, we as humans will find something to do to amuse, govern, and busy ourselves. The question is, what work will that be?
I think that Congress getting involved is the right action. But considering the other investigations they've done and the punitive actions that have come out of them, I'm not going to hold my breath. Congress has a lot of bark, it just doesn't have the bite it should.
Well some of us can adapt. Some of us are just dumb.
Go down you local street corner and see how many people can solve the simplest of equations. I'm guessing you wouldn't get a high percentage of people who could. And we've been teaching algebra in schools for a long time. It's a requirement in my state to pass Algebra to graduate high school.
Yeah, the 60's are probably a big flaw in my theory. Lots of good stuff in there that I probably shouldn't have discounted in my original post. That right, somebody on slashdot admitting a mistake. Call the press!
Although with Hip Hop and Rap, I'd have to disagree with you. Rap has rhythm and is an aesthetic audio production. I would classify that as music. While I'm not a fan of that particular genre myself, there are offshoots that have developed into heavy followings these days. There can be little doubt that early sprouts of it in the 90's were influential or even the cream of it's crop.
As for Alternative, the beginning roots were ground breaking. Bands like Nirvana, Soundgarden, Mother Love Bone, Alice in Chains and early Pearl Jam paved the way for modern rock. Not that many of the modern rock artists have done much with those efforts. But, I place that blame on modern artist and the RIAA and not on the founding artists.
Do I get to use the Theroem of opposite attraction? Or am I stuck with Substitution and Associative properties?
I have a theory that only when there is an odd number in the 10's place of the year is there a good music era.
50's... new stuff. the birth of rock and roll.
60's... let's rehash the 50's.
70's... again new stuff. Many pioneers emerge and experiment. Prominence of the electric Guitar. It all ends in disco unfortunately.
80's... WTF?! Seriously, what the hell happened? Birth of Metal despite it all.
90's... again new stuff. Birth of Alternative. Hip Hop and Rap mature into main stream.
00's... Let's just forget all that stuff from last decade and all sound the same mmmkay?
Granted this is all MHO.
password:
Yeah, I didn't think so. Access denied. Make it yourself bitch.
Should you make one at all?
Do you have your zombie plan?
That's just the power cord. You'll get used to it.
I agree that the judgement-by-proxy voting will certainly be an issue, but, I disagree on the Senator analyst point.
Most Senators, at least in the US, don't read the very bills they are voting on. They know the information on there based on conversations around the proverbial water cooler with other politicians. However accurate those conversations are with the reality of the bill is another issue. Having a couple of thousand voters looking over a bill directly would be very handy. Now, the question is, does that information become available to the voters? And do the voters get to discuss the finer points of it before voting? Can voters change their votes if they learn more?
Chair: All those in favor.
27 Hands Raise
Chair: All those against.
72 Hands Raise
Chair: All those Cowboy Neal.
1 Hand Raised
3. What's to stop a non-Australian from signing up?
Another thought that occurs to me: Will there be any attempt at discussion or education regarding bills in relation to this website? I took a quick look but failed to see anything like that. They encourage the masses to give their opinion, but do they arm them with any information on the issue at hand? Even an aggregation of other news sites and a slashdot style forum would be sufficient, IMHO.
I could see this party being a worthwhile one in the sense that voters will likely get involved more in day to day legislature. Though I expect this party will be greatly effected by fads and political issues of the week. That is, if they even make it into office.
No, they didn't. They just slapped a name over the number. It's still there. It still goes to 50, it just says "Excellent" when it does.
Having been involved with non-profits and the like, the problems they face are way, way bigger than any of the organizations that get involved. The next logical step in my mind is for those agencies to get more organized and to get more infrastructure to better combat the issues they are trying to work against. Any organization that doesn't attempt to do that is, in my mind, just toying around with helping the community for feel good reasons as opposed to actually trying to make a difference.
Knowing my luck, I'd be in the control group.
Well, there's a lot of mistakes other than simple aero dyanamic ones. Take the Laser weapons on the wings. Each gun is located on the farthest extremity of the ship. That's going to make aiming them a bit difficult if, and from observation this seems to be the case, you're method of aiming is to align the X-wing up with it's target and not through some turret system on the laser.
And the Tie fighter... Who's big idea was it to stick those really large vision blockers on both sides of the ship? Not that it matters, because the cockpit is only designed to look straight forward. At least the X-wing gets that right. Oh, and they're bullseyes. If you're going to stick a bullseye that big on the side of ship, at least let the ship have some sort of reduced functionality without them. Instead of say, spinning wildly out of control and exploding unnecessarily. I know tie fighters are supposed to be cheap vehicles, but a slight bit of change could make them last just a while longer.
I'll add to this. The kids you described, those are the "good" kids. Those are the ones that have a bit of support from their families. Those are the ones that live in a stable home and have two parental figures around that make enough to keep food on the table and clothing on their backs without working 2 jobs each.
In the public school system, you're not guaranteed that. In some areas, kids that have the above are in a small minority. The school system can't handle every need that a child has, and these other needs really cause a problem. It becomes really difficult to teach a child that doesn't want to be there and nobody is holding them accountable. It's really difficult to teach a child that's distracted because (s)he hasn't eaten since the day before. Or how about teaching a child who lives in a group home with active gang members.
Let me know if anybody comes up with a good solution to those problems.
However, Do worry about the packet loss when that metric ton of tapes land.
For the last time, Redneck is not a nationality!