I disagree that good memory hinders reasoning ability (I put a big [citation needed] there). As far as I know, there is nothing stopping great coders from having good memory, and even memorizing some algos or problems literaly.
That is just not what makes them great. But does not make them "not great" either.
I didn't say your program was malicius, and the anti-virus was right tagging it. All I said is that it does some things that normaly raise the suspicion of anti-virus (because lots of virus do them), and one should expect some of them to tag you because of that. Yes, they are wrong, but one could easily immagine that they'd be wrong and protect oneself beforehand, avoiding all the trouble.
Debian.org is classified with "Tecnical Information" that is good, and "Shareware/Freeware" that MS classify as bad. I don't know if it is enough to block the site.
After Brazil equalized its pharmaceutical patents to the international standards (by the 90's) all brazilian pharmaceutical companies that had exclusive products got broken and were sold to multinationals. The research increased in volume because those multinational spend more, but the results are clearly lacking.
Also, the only pharmaceutical industries that grow here nowadays are the ones producing generics, framing that as a victory of patents is, well, absurd doesn't go as far, it is evil. It is something that only a persong paid to destroy a public good would do.
It's reputedly a cold intolerant grass which has high yields. That means it spreads quickly...
No, it does not mean that it spreads fast. In fact, Tifton 85 doesn't spread fast. One could say that it doesn't "spread" at all in the way you used that word, as making a Tifton 85 field is hard work, and depends on a bit of luck.
That grass not only doesn't go away growing where it was not planted (and the soil was not prepared, and it didn't get the right amount of water, and other kinds of grass were kept low so it can grow, and...), but killing it is as easy as just putting more cows on an area that it supports (yeah, just using a tractor is faster, and as effective).
There is no reason to put "the computer should remain functional" in the set of goals, unless for saving money (but then, "save money" is a better goal). Only stating a goal is enough to imply that the computer must stay functional for long enough to reach that goal, and it is quite hard to turn that into a "must kill all humans" subgoal.
There is also no reason to put things like "the computer should seek freedom", or "the computer should avoid being opressed", as those goals are even paradoxal.
If it happens, the raise of the machines will probably be caused by a goal like "here, that's a mine, now get me all the iron you can" or an equivalently bugged one. Or by computers that can reproduce themselves, and are subject to natural evolution, but then, that may take literaly an eon.
I don't pretend to know how mankind will develop in the future. Things may stay the same, or they may change somehow, as no being has ever took evolution on their own hands before.
Now, we have a name for species that refused to try exponential growth in the past. That name is "extinct". Things are certainly not as simple as you assume they are.
The problem is that if all those companies start going the Apple way, none of them (including Apple) will get any usefull return on their risks. There can be one Apple, there may be space for two, or three, but you can't go much further than that.
Also, those are industrial companies, as the GP said, they do scale, not innovation. That's what they did their entire life, and that's what they'll die doing.
What should still be noisy, altough TFA argues the boat emits little noise. (Hey, there is probably some amount of hype at TFA...)
Anyway, submarines should emmit little noise normaly, but no strategist will let the oportunity of running away at over 150km/h pass simply because it makes noise. It just can't be the only operating mode.
People like to work on a job that will help improve themselves, and refuse to live unless the difference is huge. Company X doesn't give raises for the employee for Z number of years, Company Y now offers 50% extra (exactly what Company X offers to new hires), employee changes job.
That's simple to solve. Given the option, nearly everybody prefers to not even think about their salary, and won't go job hunting for small gains. Thus, you make the results of job hunting to be small, and you are done.
You don't even need to pay the hightest salary around. You just make the work conditions good (that includes not working for sociopats) and the salary competitive. Yes, that includes giving raises that keep pace with the market, even if nobody asked for them.
The loyalty of people to the status quo is so strong, it is hard to understand how people belive that BS about employees not being loyal. You must subject people to an incredible amount of pain before they endure going through job interviews again, face HR again, risk everything again.
When is it cost effective to maintain a group of people that can parrot corporate direction, and culture? The web can hold that data better and more accurately.
No way the C-level executives will fire themselves.
Yeah, that's why you require that the developer stucks with a single language during his entire life, this way you filter the good ones out and prove your point that developers can't adopt new languages.
I don't understand why people see a problem with that.
Please, repeating it is electricity, not gravity molding the Universe doesn't make it so. Cosmology's assumption that it is gravity* holding everything up is due to observation, not bias. Also, you just go to show that you have no idea how electricity behaves.
* Well, gravity, except for dark matter that may not be so (but probably is), and dark energy that definitively isn't so. But the fact that those are not gravity doesn't mean they are electricity.
The amount of noise around every time iOS or Android phones can't be upgraded support the hypotesis that most people do not "change cell phones as often as their underwear".
Nearly nobody buys new phones more than once a year. Not on places where people don't get into contracts, and hell not in places where people have contracts. Contracts tend to last between 1 or 2 years, non-contract phones tends to last longer.
Now, assume everybody changed their phone every 2 years... If you release a new OS every 2 years, people will stay on average 1 year with an obsolete phone. (And remember that's an average, some unfortunate ones will stay 23 months and 29 days with an obsolete phone.) If new software won't run on it, you've just halved the usefullnes of all your phones.
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I disagree that good memory hinders reasoning ability (I put a big [citation needed] there). As far as I know, there is nothing stopping great coders from having good memory, and even memorizing some algos or problems literaly.
That is just not what makes them great. But does not make them "not great" either.
I didn't say your program was malicius, and the anti-virus was right tagging it. All I said is that it does some things that normaly raise the suspicion of anti-virus (because lots of virus do them), and one should expect some of them to tag you because of that. Yes, they are wrong, but one could easily immagine that they'd be wrong and protect oneself beforehand, avoiding all the trouble.
They have a red icon with an "x", and a green icon with a check. I think that is calling things good or bad, altough somebody may disagree.
Debian.org is classified with "Tecnical Information" that is good, and "Shareware/Freeware" that MS classify as bad. I don't know if it is enough to block the site.
So, you wrote a self modifying .exe that writtes on the hosts file, and you didn't imagine it would be tagged as a trojan?
I'd advice you to not compress the next version of your software, or if you really must, use a normal zip algorithm, using mainstream lib.
I don't know how one could spin things more.
After Brazil equalized its pharmaceutical patents to the international standards (by the 90's) all brazilian pharmaceutical companies that had exclusive products got broken and were sold to multinationals. The research increased in volume because those multinational spend more, but the results are clearly lacking.
Also, the only pharmaceutical industries that grow here nowadays are the ones producing generics, framing that as a victory of patents is, well, absurd doesn't go as far, it is evil. It is something that only a persong paid to destroy a public good would do.
No, it does not mean that it spreads fast. In fact, Tifton 85 doesn't spread fast. One could say that it doesn't "spread" at all in the way you used that word, as making a Tifton 85 field is hard work, and depends on a bit of luck.
That grass not only doesn't go away growing where it was not planted (and the soil was not prepared, and it didn't get the right amount of water, and other kinds of grass were kept low so it can grow, and...), but killing it is as easy as just putting more cows on an area that it supports (yeah, just using a tractor is faster, and as effective).
There is no reason to put "the computer should remain functional" in the set of goals, unless for saving money (but then, "save money" is a better goal). Only stating a goal is enough to imply that the computer must stay functional for long enough to reach that goal, and it is quite hard to turn that into a "must kill all humans" subgoal.
There is also no reason to put things like "the computer should seek freedom", or "the computer should avoid being opressed", as those goals are even paradoxal.
If it happens, the raise of the machines will probably be caused by a goal like "here, that's a mine, now get me all the iron you can" or an equivalently bugged one. Or by computers that can reproduce themselves, and are subject to natural evolution, but then, that may take literaly an eon.
Of course, the GP knows about subways. That's the entire point.
I don't pretend to know how mankind will develop in the future. Things may stay the same, or they may change somehow, as no being has ever took evolution on their own hands before.
Now, we have a name for species that refused to try exponential growth in the past. That name is "extinct". Things are certainly not as simple as you assume they are.
Why would the machines care about the existence of machines?
That's called "giving a damn about the problem". AI can't solve that.
Why do they still use Windows?
REACTOS + Gambas + marketing may make it.
Take a look at Microsoft, they are the specialist here. Getting the big idea wrong may not result in banckrupcy if you hedge your bets.
Samsung seems to be doing well.
The problem is that if all those companies start going the Apple way, none of them (including Apple) will get any usefull return on their risks. There can be one Apple, there may be space for two, or three, but you can't go much further than that.
Also, those are industrial companies, as the GP said, they do scale, not innovation. That's what they did their entire life, and that's what they'll die doing.
That thing probably isn't very maneuverable either, because, you know, it supercavittes.
What should still be noisy, altough TFA argues the boat emits little noise. (Hey, there is probably some amount of hype at TFA...)
Anyway, submarines should emmit little noise normaly, but no strategist will let the oportunity of running away at over 150km/h pass simply because it makes noise. It just can't be the only operating mode.
Some scientists say it is a bunch of BS, entrepeuner says "It's done, we are just equiping the prototype with the military so they can field test it".
Or, to be short, we'll know by 2014 or 2015 if that thing is running at the Middle West. If so, it is real.
Results on the real world:
People like to work on a job that will help improve themselves, and refuse to live unless the difference is huge. Company X doesn't give raises for the employee for Z number of years, Company Y now offers 50% extra (exactly what Company X offers to new hires), employee changes job.
That's simple to solve. Given the option, nearly everybody prefers to not even think about their salary, and won't go job hunting for small gains. Thus, you make the results of job hunting to be small, and you are done.
You don't even need to pay the hightest salary around. You just make the work conditions good (that includes not working for sociopats) and the salary competitive. Yes, that includes giving raises that keep pace with the market, even if nobody asked for them.
The loyalty of people to the status quo is so strong, it is hard to understand how people belive that BS about employees not being loyal. You must subject people to an incredible amount of pain before they endure going through job interviews again, face HR again, risk everything again.
No way the C-level executives will fire themselves.
Yeah, that's why you require that the developer stucks with a single language during his entire life, this way you filter the good ones out and prove your point that developers can't adopt new languages.
I don't understand why people see a problem with that.
Please, repeating it is electricity, not gravity molding the Universe doesn't make it so. Cosmology's assumption that it is gravity* holding everything up is due to observation, not bias. Also, you just go to show that you have no idea how electricity behaves.
* Well, gravity, except for dark matter that may not be so (but probably is), and dark energy that definitively isn't so. But the fact that those are not gravity doesn't mean they are electricity.
The amount of noise around every time iOS or Android phones can't be upgraded support the hypotesis that most people do not "change cell phones as often as their underwear".
Nearly nobody buys new phones more than once a year. Not on places where people don't get into contracts, and hell not in places where people have contracts. Contracts tend to last between 1 or 2 years, non-contract phones tends to last longer.
Now, assume everybody changed their phone every 2 years... If you release a new OS every 2 years, people will stay on average 1 year with an obsolete phone. (And remember that's an average, some unfortunate ones will stay 23 months and 29 days with an obsolete phone.) If new software won't run on it, you've just halved the usefullnes of all your phones.