As far as I'm concerned Knox is either guilty or she knows a lot more than she's saying...... HOWEVER , any legal system that can convict someone , then drop the conviction after an appeal and release them THEN reinstate the conviction after a couple of judges get together over a capucino and decide to bow to public opinion, frankly doesn't deserve much respect for its ability to carry out fair trials.
"Not sure the UK would have extradited him to the US, and if they agreed to do so it would have been _years_ of court battles before it happened "
If he'd really thought that he wouldn't have run off to hide in an embassy - he'd have waited for any indictment then played it out in court THEN gone to an embassy if things looked bad. The fact that he found a bolt hole almost immediately doesn't exactly convince me of his innocence OR that he has much moral fibre. As with a lot of political noise makers like him , its a case of do as I say, not as I do. He might play the raised fist freedom fighter doing his bit for the oppressed of the world, but in reality he's just another wannabe politician in a bad suit. Put in him in a position of power and he'll bad as venal, grasping and useless as the rest of them.
At least no people got hurt, unlike that poor guy who had a sinkhole open up under his bedroom and died.
But you'd have thought if the original builders knew about sinkholes they've have either build a very thick concrete base slab and/or plenty of deep piles. Looking at that mess they did neither.
"There is a lot of cancer to be cured, and cured painlessly"
Which part of "non health related" didn't you understand?
"A piece of robot kit able to navigate a typical human dwelling would be a fantastic achievement upon which a lot could be built, not just vacuum cleaners"
Like what? Something to care for the elderly? Newflash - we already have them - they're called nurses.
The point of machines is to do things we *can't* do , such as run at 70 mph or fly at 30K feet or add up a million numbers in a nanosecond. But what is the point in a machine that simply replaces something a humans already do almost perfectly?
" Dyson also came up with a better hand-dryer and he's even topped it with one with the hand-dryer AT the faucet"
Ah , of course! *Obviously* anyone who comes up with a new dryer and connects it to the plumbing is the #1 go-to man to develop bleeding edge AI! Watch out all those teams at MIT and Harvard and elsewhere who've been working on this problem for decades - our Jim will have it sorted as soon as he's come up with his wall mounted potato peeler.
It technology didn't try and solve problems that don't really exist then most of us would be out of a job:o)
Seriously - in a western society where everyone is well fed and healthy and has access to 24/7 entertainment there is nothing vital that (non health related) technology or science can add to our existence - its all toys, gadgets and gizmos that are a brief amusement until they get tossed in landfill and then we all go out and buy the next piece of crap.
Welcome to the consumerism - the 21st century solution to the phony requirement of constant economic "growth".
He had one big hit with a bagless vacuum cleaner and he's been dining out on that every since. I'm not convinced he's really the man to usher in the next generation of AI.
Aside from that, from what I've read in interviews he really has next to know knowledge of how normal people think or act since he seems to be of the opinion that everyone will be blissfully happy being put out of work by a robot.
Yes , I know , luddites etc , but you can't always generate new jobs to replace old ones that have succummed to tech - at some point you're going to put a lot of people out of a job and then what? And don't someone come up with the BS about everyone will sit around in blissful nirvana writing poetry or music or coding or go kayaking all day. It ain't going to happen.
I've never worked for a single company that gave a rats backside about linked-in (or facebook) profiles. Sure , on occasion when I've interviewed I've done a google on the candidate but thats about it. We always went by the CV. End.
"quite a few job postings require LinkedIn as the only method of application"
I would suggest you avoid those sort of idiotic companies then. Though I'm not convinced they actually exist outside of your mind.
Its down to the monumental institutionalised corruption in Russia where everyone from the highest level apparatchik down to the brick layer is on the take.
Seems to me its a simply case of some web devs justifying their jobs. It doesn't matter if its better or worse - its different and that means they can show some pointy haired managers just how much work they've done and get a pat on the back and potentially prevent their jobs being outsourced to a body shop in Bombangalore for another year or 2.
"Company finds new online betting infrastructure cash cow"
Yup , just set up some cloud bitcoin mining facilities and charge some mugs a load of money of which 99% of them don't have a hope in hell of recovering via any bitcoins they recover.
I wonder if you can pay for the service in bitcoins? Now wouldn't that be ironic.
No one "asks" a corporate chairman to quit and become a "tech advisor" instead. They either choose to do it or they're told to do it - and no one is going to tell Bill Gates what to do in the company he founded and is still biggest shareholder in.
Yeah , except the Chairman & board appoints the CEO - not the other way around. Aside from that he's the largest individual shareholder in MS so no one inside the company - outside investors sure - is going to tell him what to do.
Chairman is a mostly ceremonial role so the only reason I can see for him stepping down is that he can see the cliff coming and wants to get off before the company goes over. Either that or he thinks his image has been so poisoned by Ballmer that he suspects he needs to go to make the company's image bounce back.
Neither does developing small programs or algorithms or 101 other intellectually stimulating tasks. The difference being they don't involve breaking into someone else's computer. Just because someone wants to practice their lockpicking skills, it doesn't give them the right to try to break into my house while doing it regardless of whether they steal anything.
What you have to remember about crackers whether black or white hat is that while they're usually highly intelligent, they're also still mentally rather juvenile. Being called a "researcher" gives these immature basement dwelling mushrooms the gravitas they'd otherwise never achieve.
Yeah , great idea - sell one of the units making a profit!
Typical short term hedgefund approach to companies - earn us some money now by selling off collateral then we'll dump your shares before they tank. Fucking parasites.
The low level coders on the ie team did a good job with graphics performance in IE9. Don't tar them with the same brush as the idiot management/marketing layer who think fancy features and bloat are more important than building a secure product from the ground up to start with (and I'm talking about the browser and OS)
" There were two answers common to all of us: project management and English writing. We are all in management now, not practical engineering, and need words more than we need numbers and formulae"
Seriously? If you're a graduate who couldn't write properly then shame on you. As for a project management section - what a waste of time. For a start not everyone wants to go into management - I didn't out of choice as even the thought of it depresses me - and secondly engineering course should be about engineering.
If you need to learn how to fill out powerpoint charts and schedules there are plenty of evening classes that'll teach you if 25 years isn't long enough for you to figure it out on your own, but for gods sake don't waste undergraduates time with that trivial rubbish.
"because everyone knows that Pokemon alone outright sells consoles."
Does it? To whom? No one over the age of 15 is going to buy a game like that for themselves , its just the kids market and in 2014 thats quite small for consoles. The adults game market is far larger.
Its not just the lack of games , its the TYPE of games. As the GP pointed out , its not 1992. Video games are played by more adults than kids and teenagers now and adults don't want games consisting of silly anthropamorphised animals in go karts.
"first one is completely not the same as the others."
Clearly this is all a bit complicated for you to understand but I'll try and make it simple for the hard of thinking such as yourself - they have the same personality type. Got it? A junkie doesn't start out as a junkie , the drugs change them, whereas base jumping - unless you die - generally doesn't change someones mental health.
"Or may be you're just lucky, and it's all good, but don't proselytise about things you only know because you've read about them on a forum."
My father was an alcoholic so get off your fucking cross.
Now run along sonny, I think your school bell is ringing.
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As far as I'm concerned Knox is either guilty or she knows a lot more than she's saying ... ... HOWEVER , any legal system that can convict someone , then drop the conviction after an appeal and release them THEN reinstate the conviction after a couple of judges get together over a capucino and decide to bow to public opinion, frankly doesn't deserve much respect for its ability to carry out fair trials.
"Not sure the UK would have extradited him to the US, and if they agreed to do so it would have been _years_ of court battles before it happened "
If he'd really thought that he wouldn't have run off to hide in an embassy - he'd have waited for any indictment then played it out in court THEN gone to an embassy if things looked bad. The fact that he found a bolt hole almost immediately doesn't exactly convince me of his innocence OR that he has much moral fibre. As with a lot of political noise makers like him , its a case of do as I say, not as I do. He might play the raised fist freedom fighter doing his bit for the oppressed of the world, but in reality he's just another wannabe politician in a bad suit. Put in him in a position of power and he'll bad as venal, grasping and useless as the rest of them.
At least no people got hurt, unlike that poor guy who had a sinkhole open up under his bedroom and died.
But you'd have thought if the original builders knew about sinkholes they've have either build a very thick concrete base slab and/or plenty of deep piles. Looking at that mess they did neither.
"There is a lot of cancer to be cured, and cured painlessly"
Which part of "non health related" didn't you understand?
"A piece of robot kit able to navigate a typical human dwelling would be a fantastic achievement upon which a lot could be built, not just vacuum cleaners"
Like what? Something to care for the elderly? Newflash - we already have them - they're called nurses.
The point of machines is to do things we *can't* do , such as run at 70 mph or fly at 30K feet or add up a million numbers in a nanosecond. But what is the point in a machine that simply replaces something a humans already do almost perfectly?
" Dyson also came up with a better hand-dryer and he's even topped it with one with the hand-dryer AT the faucet"
Ah , of course! *Obviously* anyone who comes up with a new dryer and connects it to the plumbing is the #1 go-to man to develop bleeding edge AI! Watch out all those teams at MIT and Harvard and elsewhere who've been working on this problem for decades - our Jim will have it sorted as soon as he's come up with his wall mounted potato peeler.
It technology didn't try and solve problems that don't really exist then most of us would be out of a job :o)
Seriously - in a western society where everyone is well fed and healthy and has access to 24/7 entertainment there is nothing vital that (non health related) technology or science can add to our existence - its all toys, gadgets and gizmos that are a brief amusement until they get tossed in landfill and then we all go out and buy the next piece of crap.
Welcome to the consumerism - the 21st century solution to the phony requirement of constant economic "growth".
He had one big hit with a bagless vacuum cleaner and he's been dining out on that every since. I'm not convinced he's really the man to usher in the next generation of AI.
Aside from that, from what I've read in interviews he really has next to know knowledge of how normal people think or act since he seems to be of the opinion that everyone will be blissfully happy being put out of work by a robot.
Yes , I know , luddites etc , but you can't always generate new jobs to replace old ones that have succummed to tech - at some point you're going to put a lot of people out of a job and then what?
And don't someone come up with the BS about everyone will sit around in blissful nirvana writing poetry or music or coding or go kayaking all day. It ain't going to happen.
I've never worked for a single company that gave a rats backside about linked-in (or facebook) profiles. Sure , on occasion when I've interviewed I've done a google on the candidate but thats about it. We always went by the CV. End.
"quite a few job postings require LinkedIn as the only method of application"
I would suggest you avoid those sort of idiotic companies then. Though I'm not convinced they actually exist outside of your mind.
You have heard of job search websites, right?
Its down to the monumental institutionalised corruption in Russia where everyone from the highest level apparatchik down to the brick layer is on the take.
Seems to me its a simply case of some web devs justifying their jobs. It doesn't matter if its better or worse - its different and that means they can show some pointy haired managers just how much work they've done and get a pat on the back and potentially prevent their jobs being outsourced to a body shop in Bombangalore for another year or 2.
"Company finds new online betting infrastructure cash cow"
Yup , just set up some cloud bitcoin mining facilities and charge some mugs a load of money of which 99% of them don't have a hope in hell of recovering via any bitcoins they recover.
I wonder if you can pay for the service in bitcoins? Now wouldn't that be ironic.
No one "asks" a corporate chairman to quit and become a "tech advisor" instead. They either choose to do it or they're told to do it - and no one is going to tell Bill Gates what to do in the company he founded and is still biggest shareholder in.
Yeah , except the Chairman & board appoints the CEO - not the other way around. Aside from that he's the largest individual shareholder in MS so no one inside the company - outside investors sure - is going to tell him what to do.
Chairman is a mostly ceremonial role so the only reason I can see for him stepping down is that he can see the cliff coming and wants to get off before the company goes over. Either that or he thinks his image has been so poisoned by Ballmer that he suspects he needs to go to make the company's image bounce back.
Very strange.
"Yeah, except small programs or algorithms for their own sake are boring"
Oh right, and finding exploits for their own sake arn't?
"Think before you open your dick holster"
I doubt you'd even know how to use one.
Neither does developing small programs or algorithms or 101 other intellectually stimulating tasks. The difference being they don't involve breaking into someone else's computer. Just because someone wants to practice their lockpicking skills, it doesn't give them the right to try to break into my house while doing it regardless of whether they steal anything.
What you have to remember about crackers whether black or white hat is that while they're usually highly intelligent, they're also still mentally rather juvenile. Being called a "researcher" gives these immature basement dwelling mushrooms the gravitas they'd otherwise never achieve.
Yeah , great idea - sell one of the units making a profit!
Typical short term hedgefund approach to companies - earn us some money now by selling off collateral then we'll dump your shares before they tank. Fucking parasites.
The low level coders on the ie team did a good job with graphics performance in IE9. Don't tar them with the same brush as the idiot management/marketing layer who think fancy features and bloat are more important than building a secure product from the ground up to start with (and I'm talking about the browser and OS)
" There were two answers common to all of us: project management and English writing. We are all in management now, not practical engineering, and need words more than we need numbers and formulae"
Seriously? If you're a graduate who couldn't write properly then shame on you. As for a project management section - what a waste of time. For a start not everyone wants to go into management - I didn't out of choice as even the thought of it depresses me - and secondly engineering course should be about engineering.
If you need to learn how to fill out powerpoint charts and schedules there are plenty of evening classes that'll teach you if 25 years isn't long enough for you to figure it out on your own, but for gods sake don't waste undergraduates time with that trivial rubbish.
That doesn't disprove my point - you only bought it because you have a 5 year old. I doubt you'd have done so otherwise.
"because everyone knows that Pokemon alone outright sells consoles."
Does it? To whom? No one over the age of 15 is going to buy a game like that for themselves , its just the kids market and in 2014 thats quite small for consoles. The adults game market is far larger.
Its not just the lack of games , its the TYPE of games. As the GP pointed out , its not 1992. Video games are played by more adults than kids and teenagers now and adults don't want games consisting of silly anthropamorphised animals in go karts.
"first one is completely not the same as the others."
Clearly this is all a bit complicated for you to understand but I'll try and make it simple for the hard of thinking such as yourself - they have the same personality type. Got it? A junkie doesn't start out as a junkie , the drugs change them, whereas base jumping - unless you die - generally doesn't change someones mental health.
"Or may be you're just lucky, and it's all good, but don't proselytise about things you only know because you've read about them on a forum."
My father was an alcoholic so get off your fucking cross.
Now run along sonny, I think your school bell is ringing.
If the tumor is O2 deprived wouldn't that slow down cell division which would make it slow growing? I don't get it.