When I was a kid, I lived in Jakarta, and my parents bought me a civet as a pet. BAD idea. It was a captured wild civet. We only had it about 3 months before it having bitten and scratched me so much, we ended up taking it out to the jungle where there were a bunch of wild civets and releasing it. I hope it did ok, and never blamed it for being wild and attacking me occasionally. I think it's terrible to "farm" animals in this fashion for something that we don't actually need really. It's one thing to milk cows, quite another to force feed civets coffee.
I am of the strong opinion that AI will not develop as a result of concerted human effort. Instead, I believe that it will emerge, on it's own, from the vast Internet. If you think about the human brain, and how it has trillions of neurons, each interconnected in many ways to other neurons, you might see where I am going with it. As our computers and networks grow more interconnected and connected at higher speeds along with self-learning software (network defense, AJAX and google based software) that has no actual intention of becoming self learning, there arises the possibility that some critical thing will happen to trigger the spread of an actual consciousness in the Internet itself. I've thought about this for a number of years and have more recently seen others interested in this idea as well through books I have read.
After all, our brains are not well-ordered, they're a mass of neurons connected in specific ways and guided to grow in certain general ways, but they are not all specifically intentioned for one particular task but have developed in regions that do certain tasks.
I don't really know whether it will actually happen or not, but I continue to look for possible signs that the Internet is waking up.
Actually, we're a small company ($30m revenue), and I've put together a couple of different web services for our outside partners to use. I'm also going to be working on a much bigger web services implemenation for a large data synchronization with one of our marketing vendors. That one will be a little crazy, but it will all be driven by web services (i.e. SOAP).
I find them highly useful, and building functional web services with VS.NET 2003 is a snap for me, considering that I built previous ones by hand with ASP and javascript (side note: I HATE VBS).
About 8 years ago, there was one branch of Wells Fargo locally that had an ATM with issues. That ATM would essentially, every night at 12:28AM, be taken off the network for some kind of maintenance. For 10 minutes, that ATM wasn't connected in any way, and because of some sort of bug, if you withdrew cash, it would never report it to the bank.
This went on for a year before they fixed it. Anytime I was really low on cash I'd go make a free withdrawal in the middle of the night.
I still don't know how it would accept my card and pin, but not withdraw it.
It's: a) The kids who graduated from the elementary school held on the ship. b) The stiff upper lip kept by Picard and crew in the face of extreme danger. c) The next class after Galaxy. d) The schooling you get by the geek army if you think Picard could kick Kirk's arse.
sheesh - I thought there were actual nerds on/. - guess I was wrong...
All we use are cell phones, and have never received a telemarketing or survey call at all from anyone. Sure, we'll sometimes get calls from a service provider we are actually using, because we specifically gave them our number, but it's in regard to whatever service they are providing to us.
It's such a simple solution. Now if only I could get DSL without a damned hard line...
Has anyone actually read the Red Book? WTF is GL, or Open GL, or an API? What the hell does any of that have to do with the adventures of Frodo, or Bilbo.
I know - bad joke, but I just HAD to say it. The little elves in my head whisper evil things.
Dood, this should have been written in pearl, don't you look at the address thingie at the top of the internet, it clearly says comments.pl , and all of us gooder programmers know for a fact that it means pearl.
By the way, does anyone know if there is an oyster related to pearl? I heard that there was a mod to pearl called oyster.
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I just literally spit my coffee out reading your comment. Bravo!
That, my friend, is the reason I never joined Mensa. They're a bag of dicks.
When I was a kid, I lived in Jakarta, and my parents bought me a civet as a pet. BAD idea. It was a captured wild civet. We only had it about 3 months before it having bitten and scratched me so much, we ended up taking it out to the jungle where there were a bunch of wild civets and releasing it. I hope it did ok, and never blamed it for being wild and attacking me occasionally. I think it's terrible to "farm" animals in this fashion for something that we don't actually need really. It's one thing to milk cows, quite another to force feed civets coffee.
OMG - rewind/replay. That would make my day. Then I could record the output to that and make a scratch mix of code going backwards and forwards.
NAH - I wouldn't fire him. I'd have to call him into my office and laugh it up with him. Then the CEO would fire him. :)
*hi James*
Chiana, is that you?
I am of the strong opinion that AI will not develop as a result of concerted human effort. Instead, I believe that it will emerge, on it's own, from the vast Internet. If you think about the human brain, and how it has trillions of neurons, each interconnected in many ways to other neurons, you might see where I am going with it. As our computers and networks grow more interconnected and connected at higher speeds along with self-learning software (network defense, AJAX and google based software) that has no actual intention of becoming self learning, there arises the possibility that some critical thing will happen to trigger the spread of an actual consciousness in the Internet itself. I've thought about this for a number of years and have more recently seen others interested in this idea as well through books I have read.
After all, our brains are not well-ordered, they're a mass of neurons connected in specific ways and guided to grow in certain general ways, but they are not all specifically intentioned for one particular task but have developed in regions that do certain tasks.
I don't really know whether it will actually happen or not, but I continue to look for possible signs that the Internet is waking up.
It certainly explains teh Intarweb. Your teh GAY!!@>>>??!!!
Computers cause gayness, that must be it!
You totally made me laugh out loud... someone please mod this one up...
Actually, we're a small company ($30m revenue), and I've put together a couple of different web services for our outside partners to use. I'm also going to be working on a much bigger web services implemenation for a large data synchronization with one of our marketing vendors. That one will be a little crazy, but it will all be driven by web services (i.e. SOAP).
.NET 2003 is a snap for me, considering that I built previous ones by hand with ASP and javascript (side note: I HATE VBS).
I find them highly useful, and building functional web services with VS
About 8 years ago, there was one branch of Wells Fargo locally that had an ATM with issues. That ATM would essentially, every night at 12:28AM, be taken off the network for some kind of maintenance. For 10 minutes, that ATM wasn't connected in any way, and because of some sort of bug, if you withdrew cash, it would never report it to the bank.
This went on for a year before they fixed it. Anytime I was really low on cash I'd go make a free withdrawal in the middle of the night.
I still don't know how it would accept my card and pin, but not withdraw it.
The parent post is a hoax! Don't read it!
JK - I love your site btw, brilliant job on the christmas lights.
What is their take on POTS encryption? What if you are using an encrypted phone on both ends - is that illegal?
Does anyone know off the top of their heads?
It's:
/. - guess I was wrong...
a) The kids who graduated from the elementary school held on the ship.
b) The stiff upper lip kept by Picard and crew in the face of extreme danger.
c) The next class after Galaxy.
d) The schooling you get by the geek army if you think Picard could kick Kirk's arse.
sheesh - I thought there were actual nerds on
I love not having a home telephone.
All we use are cell phones, and have never received a telemarketing or survey call at all from anyone. Sure, we'll sometimes get calls from a service provider we are actually using, because we specifically gave them our number, but it's in regard to whatever service they are providing to us.
It's such a simple solution. Now if only I could get DSL without a damned hard line...
I am SO lucky I didn't have a mouthful of coffee when I read your post.
Thanks for the laugh, that was a good one.
I still chuckle at the people at my work when they say "how the hell did you do that?? How can I do that?"
It saves me SO MUCH TIME I can't imagine doing anything else. Of course at home I also use Gnome and love the panels there too.
Sure you could do that. Hell, it would even be FUN if I got to smack idiots all day.
Of course, I do like my job, and the money.... so I guess I won't do that.
Oh dear sweet Jesus.
My mind automatically replaced "a woman" with "Bill Gates" in that last sentence...
Please excuse me while I attempt to remove my brain with my fingernails.
Has anyone actually read the Red Book? WTF is GL, or Open GL, or an API? What the hell does any of that have to do with the adventures of Frodo, or Bilbo.
I know - bad joke, but I just HAD to say it. The little elves in my head whisper evil things.
LOL - WOW did you miss the point of my post. :)
It's called sarcasm. Look it up.
Dood, this should have been written in pearl, don't you look at the address thingie at the top of the internet, it clearly says comments.pl , and all of us gooder programmers know for a fact that it means pearl.
By the way, does anyone know if there is an oyster related to pearl? I heard that there was a mod to pearl called oyster.
Alright - someone has got to mod this one up. I don't really know if you were serious or not, but I found this absolutely hilarious.
I just tried to explain to my wife why I was laughing so hard, and I just got a confused stare... geek I am most certainly.
You forgot the obligatory link:
Khaaan
Dude,
Your nerd is showing... might want to pop that back in a little.