Horrible! The web admin has too much time on their hands. Stick with the current design, it's more simple, faster and doesn't overload the screen with graphics.
H-1B visas need to be restricted even more. Companies are seriously abusing them. They are hiring people out of the US, importing them on those visas, training them here then sending them back overseas to do the work. Companies are using this to skirt the ITAR restrictions. If engineers did the work in the US some of that work would be ITAR restricted but if it's done overseas then it's not as restricted. Companies are employing farms of engineers overseas now.
Their claim of not enough qualified people in the US is bogus. Companies are just using this as an excuse to suck more money and jobs out of the US.If they can't find qualified people in the US then they should search for people who have potential then sponsor their education thru student loans that are repaid by the company if the person works for them. This would give the employee an incentive to stay with the company at least until the student loan is paid off. The reason why companies don't do this is they don't like to think that far down the road as to what their needs will be. They like instant gratification.
I miss how the Amiga keyboard was mapped. Left Amiga key + key was global system functions, Right Amiga key + key was in application functions. You could control the mouse with the keyboard if needed. I miss the Amiga clip board which actually worked as opposed to Windows 7 clipboard which works when it wants to. It's so spotty on my machine at work that I have to double ctrl c everything to make sure it's copied what I need.
I really don't have a problem with Windows ctrl alt del, as others have pointed out it's obscure enough of a combination that you won't accidentally hit it.
I really don't think a phaser would be practical working as a heat beam. You also never see the vaporized matter precipitating back out of the air. Plus the energy release would be like a bomb going off.
To disrupt someone the way it's shown on the show the phaser would have to destabilize their subatomic structure at the quantum level. Maybe disrupting their waveform causing the matter to be canceled out and they just cease to exist.
Another possible way is for the phaser to create a subspace displacement sending the target into subspace. Stun could be just a low level field effect of these two, not enough to disrupt but enough to shock their nervous system.
They are leapfrogging wired because every time they lay down wires it gets stolen and sold on the black market. The news was talking about that years ago. It's forcing them to use wireless.
What he needs to do is counter sue the dumb ass parents that gave the things to their children for loss of $ related to their failure to heed warnings on the package and the government for failing to educate parents to read warnings on the label. After all it's the government that runs the public schools...
The only way our economy works is by companies hiring people. People are the engine of the economy; They made stuff, they get paid, they buy stuff so other people can make stuff. If you take people out the whole thing falls apart like it's doing now.
My question is how many jobs get automated out of existence before the economy either collapses or has to be completely reworked from the ground up? Eventually it's going to either be a few rich people living in protected enclaves with everyone else poor living a subsistence existence in a trashed world or a Star Trek style socialist society where the basics are so cheap they are basically free.
I don't think brain uploading is so insurmountable a challenge as it seems. Much of our brain is taken up with stuff unrelated to our core sense of self. Things such as sense interpretation, how memories are laid down, house keeping, etc are probably fairly generic from person to person. Even specific knowledge could be generic modules added and removed from the consciousness. It's your base personality which is probably largely genetic w/some development environmental factors plus modifications to it over your life and memories that would really need to be extracted, stored then simulated in a computer or overlaid back on a clone's brain.
I have a mixed opinion on Bradley Manning. Yes there have been war crimes done under the direction of the US leaders but honestly when your waging war against an enemy that doesn't care about things like human rights you do have to step over a few lines.
You also can't go into the military without knowing that you are going to see and do some horrible things after all the military's business is waging war when it has to. If you not sure you can handle it do not go in the military, it's that simple.
I think he made another bad move when he blamed the choices he made on his gender identity disorder. That is doing a MAJOR disservice to other people with GID who have served and continue to serve in the military. Many people with GID have served with distinction. In many case people who are male outside/female inside express themselves as the perfect super-soldier because they over do the male bravado and care little for their own safety.
I don't think he should serve time much longer than he already has because even if he is released he will likely never get a job where trust is a factor. His job prospects will be extremely limited.
It's a threat. They are doing this to make ending Saturday delivers more acceptable. They know that this will never get enacted and the termination of Saturday deliveries will happen instead.
I'm referring to setups for small home and offices not Enterprise. I know you can setup a Radius but that is way more involved than most people are willing to go. It should be something more basic that doesn't require extra servers and hours of setup. Something in the SOHO router. Even separate keys for each MAC address would work. The MAC would basically become the username at that point.
I know this article is more about Google but I really wish the wifi standard had provisions for separate usernames and keys/passwords for each user. One becomes compromised and you change it. As it is now you change the key and you have to change it on sometimes dozens of devices to which you run the risk of it becoming compromised again.
I would imagine the worse fear of a programmer is going from programming an app to supporting it then your position gets combined with help desk and before you realize it your on the general company help desk not doing any programming at all. Eventually your "help desk" position gets pushed off to an outsource company which you become an employee of and your taking calls from multiple companies because your company uses the "leveraging" model. At that point you apply for jobs as a programmer and the HR person says "I see you have help desk experience!".
I would! I deal with lots of text at work. Extra spaces bug me because a work app has a 1000 character limit. Ctrl A and they show up like a sore thumb. Beside a simple app could strip trailing and repeated spaces plus a simple grammar check would highlight obvious stuff.
Yea, with how crappy humanity is to each other and other species on this planet; the beacon needs to send this quote from The Doctor "Run and hide, because the monsters are coming - the human race."
People obsess on how many neurons/connections there are in the human brain. While that is important, many of those have little if anything to do with human consciousness and identity specific memories. When you eliminate those needed for maintaining autonomic functions, processing sensory input, etc the number of them will be much smaller. I would imagine that a large amount is needed for sensory processing and storing memories needed to interpret input. When building an AI or even moving a human mind into a computer system; many of those functions could be made generic from one AI/person to the next. We all know the shape of a ball, a road, the smell of fire, etc. A neural network cross referencing system to a conventional computer database would likely be adequate to provide those.
You could likely reduce personality down to a series of base parameters to various core personality elements. Each one would include the base & range starting point of the personality element and learned modification from the base point. A good example of this is gender identity in humans. Imagine a number line with zero in the center, masculine going one direction, feminine going another. A person’s default would be somewhere on that line, they would have a range of likely expression they are born with, life experience would modify that base point and change the likely range of response. You could boil human personality down to a large number of items such as this. Things like response to humor, anger, stress, etc. I really think that the key to AI is building a personality/emotion system not unlike a complex color chart. You make different colors by mixing primaries; you would make different emotional responses by mixing primary emotions. Figuring out which emotions and personality types are primary is the key.
I don’t think a true artificial consciousness is possible without emotions.
Interesting timing on this question. I just spent the last couple of weekends building a stand up desk. I've been using a large corner desk I bought from Walmart about 10 years ago. The particle board underside of it was falling apart but the horizontal surfaces are fine so I mounted my monitors on the wall. I took a 30 inch long board, mounted it across the corner with medium fence hinges hidden on the back side. The hinges adjust at any angle and provide a lot of strength. I mounted the center monitor to the board so it would sit in the center of my view. I bought a couple of wire microwave carts from Walmart to put the desk surface on. The rest of the horizontal surfaces are mounted to the wall as shelves. The desk is now 35 inches high. I can stand at it. I need to raise my desk chair up a bit. I eventually want to get or make a standing chair. Something like the standing chairs from the bridge of the Liberator on the Blake's 7 series.
I swear I saw Jay and Silent Bob look a likes hanging outside the Trinity Mills site. I know more than a few came back from lunch stoned. You can't work any call center in the DFW area without running into a few ex-Stream folks.
Most of the help desks in the US are manned by people without degrees. There are plenty of people working help desk jobs while working towards a degree also. It’s kind of the new fast food job. The biggest difference between help desk workers with a degree and those without is the ones without don't owe huge student loans. I've seen plenty of people get a degree and stay in the help desk job. One of the biggest problems is if you have a degree and have a help desk job on your resume; employers will say "I see you have help desk experience!"
I'd like to see the original Red Faction open sourced. Many things could be done with it as an open source game. Besides porting, the geo mod engine could be improved to keep the player from hitting the damage limit wall. Best way to do that is to apply the damage back over a copy of the original map. It could also be the basis for a creation engine to all the player/user to add elements while in the map. Given how well it worked on limited resource machines of the time, updating it to make use of newer resource models while keeping how efficient it was at handling resources would make for some fantastic game play. I'd like to see Stargate / Guild Wars style portals added to jump from map to map in shared worlds.
I definitely do my share of Apple and Facebook bashing. I refuse to buy an i device because of the forced usage of iTunes to load content.
I only use Facebook to distribute links and other minor data to friends plus keep up with a few people I wouldn't otherwise have any contact with. I find Facebook to be very cumbersome and erratic on privacy settings. Disabling apps got mysteriously re-enabled on it's on.
My biggest problems with Microsoft lately is the same with most big companies; the patent trolling and they seem to want to take Windows in ways that annoy both users and people supporting those users. They are like supermarkets that insist on changing the whole store around to make the store "fresh" yet just confuses the hell out of customers. Plus they seem to want to reinvent the wheel with every version of the OS rather than building on stable code/features. It's no surprise that they aren't doing as well as they used to because it cost lots of $ to reinvent things over and over and over...
I admit I haven't bashed Google as much as they deserve, give me time.;)
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This would be easy to combat. Setup an approval system in place before updates go live for a current events, products or companies.
Horrible! The web admin has too much time on their hands. Stick with the current design, it's more simple, faster and doesn't overload the screen with graphics.
H-1B visas need to be restricted even more. Companies are seriously abusing them. They are hiring people out of the US, importing them on those visas, training them here then sending them back overseas to do the work. Companies are using this to skirt the ITAR restrictions. If engineers did the work in the US some of that work would be ITAR restricted but if it's done overseas then it's not as restricted. Companies are employing farms of engineers overseas now.
Their claim of not enough qualified people in the US is bogus. Companies are just using this as an excuse to suck more money and jobs out of the US.If they can't find qualified people in the US then they should search for people who have potential then sponsor their education thru student loans that are repaid by the company if the person works for them. This would give the employee an incentive to stay with the company at least until the student loan is paid off. The reason why companies don't do this is they don't like to think that far down the road as to what their needs will be. They like instant gratification.
What he needs to apologize for is the use of \ instead of using the standard / on every other system.
This is more like holodeck matter from Star Trek or hard light holograms from Red Dwarf rather than a lightsaber.
I miss how the Amiga keyboard was mapped. Left Amiga key + key was global system functions, Right Amiga key + key was in application functions. You could control the mouse with the keyboard if needed. I miss the Amiga clip board which actually worked as opposed to Windows 7 clipboard which works when it wants to. It's so spotty on my machine at work that I have to double ctrl c everything to make sure it's copied what I need.
I really don't have a problem with Windows ctrl alt del, as others have pointed out it's obscure enough of a combination that you won't accidentally hit it.
I really don't think a phaser would be practical working as a heat beam. You also never see the vaporized matter precipitating back out of the air. Plus the energy release would be like a bomb going off.
To disrupt someone the way it's shown on the show the phaser would have to destabilize their subatomic structure at the quantum level. Maybe disrupting their waveform causing the matter to be canceled out and they just cease to exist.
Another possible way is for the phaser to create a subspace displacement sending the target into subspace. Stun could be just a low level field effect of these two, not enough to disrupt but enough to shock their nervous system.
They are leapfrogging wired because every time they lay down wires it gets stolen and sold on the black market. The news was talking about that years ago. It's forcing them to use wireless.
What he needs to do is counter sue the dumb ass parents that gave the things to their children for loss of $ related to their failure to heed warnings on the package and the government for failing to educate parents to read warnings on the label. After all it's the government that runs the public schools...
The only way our economy works is by companies hiring people. People are the engine of the economy; They made stuff, they get paid, they buy stuff so other people can make stuff. If you take people out the whole thing falls apart like it's doing now.
My question is how many jobs get automated out of existence before the economy either collapses or has to be completely reworked from the ground up? Eventually it's going to either be a few rich people living in protected enclaves with everyone else poor living a subsistence existence in a trashed world or a Star Trek style socialist society where the basics are so cheap they are basically free.
I'd go for living forever in a virtual space.
I don't think brain uploading is so insurmountable a challenge as it seems. Much of our brain is taken up with stuff unrelated to our core sense of self. Things such as sense interpretation, how memories are laid down, house keeping, etc are probably fairly generic from person to person. Even specific knowledge could be generic modules added and removed from the consciousness. It's your base personality which is probably largely genetic w/some development environmental factors plus modifications to it over your life and memories that would really need to be extracted, stored then simulated in a computer or overlaid back on a clone's brain.
Aliens are fattening us up for the slaughter...
I have a mixed opinion on Bradley Manning. Yes there have been war crimes done under the direction of the US leaders but honestly when your waging war against an enemy that doesn't care about things like human rights you do have to step over a few lines.
You also can't go into the military without knowing that you are going to see and do some horrible things after all the military's business is waging war when it has to. If you not sure you can handle it do not go in the military, it's that simple.
I think he made another bad move when he blamed the choices he made on his gender identity disorder. That is doing a MAJOR disservice to other people with GID who have served and continue to serve in the military. Many people with GID have served with distinction. In many case people who are male outside/female inside express themselves as the perfect super-soldier because they over do the male bravado and care little for their own safety.
I don't think he should serve time much longer than he already has because even if he is released he will likely never get a job where trust is a factor. His job prospects will be extremely limited.
It's a threat. They are doing this to make ending Saturday delivers more acceptable. They know that this will never get enacted and the termination of Saturday deliveries will happen instead.
I'm referring to setups for small home and offices not Enterprise. I know you can setup a Radius but that is way more involved than most people are willing to go. It should be something more basic that doesn't require extra servers and hours of setup. Something in the SOHO router. Even separate keys for each MAC address would work. The MAC would basically become the username at that point.
I know this article is more about Google but I really wish the wifi standard had provisions for separate usernames and keys/passwords for each user. One becomes compromised and you change it. As it is now you change the key and you have to change it on sometimes dozens of devices to which you run the risk of it becoming compromised again.
I would imagine the worse fear of a programmer is going from programming an app to supporting it then your position gets combined with help desk and before you realize it your on the general company help desk not doing any programming at all. Eventually your "help desk" position gets pushed off to an outsource company which you become an employee of and your taking calls from multiple companies because your company uses the "leveraging" model. At that point you apply for jobs as a programmer and the HR person says "I see you have help desk experience!".
I would! I deal with lots of text at work. Extra spaces bug me because a work app has a 1000 character limit. Ctrl A and they show up like a sore thumb. Beside a simple app could strip trailing and repeated spaces plus a simple grammar check would highlight obvious stuff.
Yea, with how crappy humanity is to each other and other species on this planet; the beacon needs to send this quote from The Doctor "Run and hide, because the monsters are coming - the human race."
People obsess on how many neurons/connections there are in the human brain. While that is important, many of those have little if anything to do with human consciousness and identity specific memories. When you eliminate those needed for maintaining autonomic functions, processing sensory input, etc the number of them will be much smaller. I would imagine that a large amount is needed for sensory processing and storing memories needed to interpret input. When building an AI or even moving a human mind into a computer system; many of those functions could be made generic from one AI/person to the next. We all know the shape of a ball, a road, the smell of fire, etc. A neural network cross referencing system to a conventional computer database would likely be adequate to provide those.
You could likely reduce personality down to a series of base parameters to various core personality elements. Each one would include the base & range starting point of the personality element and learned modification from the base point. A good example of this is gender identity in humans. Imagine a number line with zero in the center, masculine going one direction, feminine going another. A person’s default would be somewhere on that line, they would have a range of likely expression they are born with, life experience would modify that base point and change the likely range of response. You could boil human personality down to a large number of items such as this. Things like response to humor, anger, stress, etc. I really think that the key to AI is building a personality/emotion system not unlike a complex color chart. You make different colors by mixing primaries; you would make different emotional responses by mixing primary emotions. Figuring out which emotions and personality types are primary is the key.
I don’t think a true artificial consciousness is possible without emotions.
Interesting timing on this question. I just spent the last couple of weekends building a stand up desk. I've been using a large corner desk I bought from Walmart about 10 years ago. The particle board underside of it was falling apart but the horizontal surfaces are fine so I mounted my monitors on the wall. I took a 30 inch long board, mounted it across the corner with medium fence hinges hidden on the back side. The hinges adjust at any angle and provide a lot of strength. I mounted the center monitor to the board so it would sit in the center of my view. I bought a couple of wire microwave carts from Walmart to put the desk surface on. The rest of the horizontal surfaces are mounted to the wall as shelves. The desk is now 35 inches high. I can stand at it. I need to raise my desk chair up a bit. I eventually want to get or make a standing chair. Something like the standing chairs from the bridge of the Liberator on the Blake's 7 series.
I swear I saw Jay and Silent Bob look a likes hanging outside the Trinity Mills site. I know more than a few came back from lunch stoned. You can't work any call center in the DFW area without running into a few ex-Stream folks.
Most of the help desks in the US are manned by people without degrees. There are plenty of people working help desk jobs while working towards a degree also. It’s kind of the new fast food job. The biggest difference between help desk workers with a degree and those without is the ones without don't owe huge student loans. I've seen plenty of people get a degree and stay in the help desk job. One of the biggest problems is if you have a degree and have a help desk job on your resume; employers will say "I see you have help desk experience!"
I'd like to see the original Red Faction open sourced. Many things could be done with it as an open source game. Besides porting, the geo mod engine could be improved to keep the player from hitting the damage limit wall. Best way to do that is to apply the damage back over a copy of the original map. It could also be the basis for a creation engine to all the player/user to add elements while in the map. Given how well it worked on limited resource machines of the time, updating it to make use of newer resource models while keeping how efficient it was at handling resources would make for some fantastic game play. I'd like to see Stargate / Guild Wars style portals added to jump from map to map in shared worlds.
I definitely do my share of Apple and Facebook bashing. I refuse to buy an i device because of the forced usage of iTunes to load content.
;)
I only use Facebook to distribute links and other minor data to friends plus keep up with a few people I wouldn't otherwise have any contact with. I find Facebook to be very cumbersome and erratic on privacy settings. Disabling apps got mysteriously re-enabled on it's on.
My biggest problems with Microsoft lately is the same with most big companies; the patent trolling and they seem to want to take Windows in ways that annoy both users and people supporting those users. They are like supermarkets that insist on changing the whole store around to make the store "fresh" yet just confuses the hell out of customers. Plus they seem to want to reinvent the wheel with every version of the OS rather than building on stable code/features. It's no surprise that they aren't doing as well as they used to because it cost lots of $ to reinvent things over and over and over...
I admit I haven't bashed Google as much as they deserve, give me time.