Also from the article "The researchers also discussed possible threats to human jobs, like self-driving cars, software-based personal assistants and service robots in the home. Just last month, a service robot developed by Willow Garage in Silicon Valley proved it could navigate the real world."
An interesting thing to note is this: When a computer exists that is as intelligent as a stupid human, almost every job at and close to minimum wage vanishes. Robots can and will get cheaper than a human worker, no one will need taxi cab drivers, grocery store baggers, first tier phone customer service reps, construction workers, janitors, garbage men, delivery men, mail men, traffic cops, book keepers, data entry people, secretaries, fast food chefs, etc.
At this point we will have two choices as a society. 1) Let them (the stupid people) starve, 2) give them welfare for no other reason than they're economically useless.
How about we educate and see what human potential really is. (Of course, if your name is Palin or Craig or Ensign we already know how much potential YOU have.)
I signed up for my SSN 2000 miles from where I was born, in the 1960s, where the facility that issued me the card (I still have) had the man pull the card off of a stack - I just picked a day and time to apply and was handed that card as a 14 year-old. I suspect I'm damn random.
100% correct. Law Firms are hell holes to work for - and I'm an attorney! You only see the tip of the political iceberg in those operations.
I've represented over a dozen IT professionals out of the banking industry and age discrimination / outsourcing are so common that you might as well learn to speak Hindi.
Find a medium-sized 3'rd party tech support operation - go to school too - but contemplate broadening your skill set beyond pure IT - take a year to go to the Vancouver Film School and earn one of their computer-based degrees (animation, sound recording/transformation) and lateral into the production industry.
you have no business going to any school in Michigan. Git the south. One hears of the MITs and CALTECHs and even UM Rollas - all far, far better (and, warmer) schools than that lame-a** Central rust belt state school. Ye gods, man - what were you drinking when you applied?
Let them know the price of their poor networks (and save yourself the price of a poor education) by LEAVING!
Both hitting TW with a letter in the effected markets and keeping a low profile in non-effected markets makes sense.
I routinely transfer iTunes TV & Movies to my spouse's computer (one of the 5 allowed by Apple) - using Apple's own iChat to transfer files. Subscriptions to shows that we watch routinely run a few gig a week.
I'd also expect that a directional antenna with a directional RF signal squirt could pick people out of crowds - and if mounted on a sniper rifle......
Imagine how easily US Citizens can be found in a crowd. I wonder if the RFID "lighthouse" in my passport will put me at a higher risk than other nation's citizens?
Yet the Harvard grad is following the standard Wall Street pattern of layoffs to bolster stock price. If the Wall Street methods aren't discredited by the crash - apparently Balmer missed it.
The Zune will never be a solid competitor - and innovation has been stifled by the idiots in charge.
Worms and trojans and botnets are the legacy of that kludge Windoze.
tax them out of existence. This is the company that set the record for "permatemps" who were really full-time W-2 employees. Off-shoring codeing - skipping over qualified US workers...
And, creating the most insecure OS in history...
Time for MS to end the charade and fold up shop - their stock is BS and the Unix/Linux world can pick up and correct the decades of MSFT errors.
Off them with extreme prejudice. No more bloated MS OS - this is a good thing!
You seem to have no concept of the cost of the Gramm, Leach Bliley Act http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gramm-Leach-Bliley_Act Passed in a lame duck session in 1999 the regulations implementing the act were written in 2001 and went into effect Jan 1, 2002. http://www.ftc.gov/privacy/glbact/glbsub1.htm The unregulated Credit Derivative market ran up "investments" to the tune of $200 Trillion or about 4x the World's GNP.
The BUSHIES were entirely behind robbing the US and the rest of the planet blind. They have left a shell of a nation - the USA, deeply in debt to the oil states and China and those notes come due in 20 years.
If we had (1) Never gone into Iraq - 100% of the US Infrastructure needs could have been met; and, (2) If we hadn't cut taxes during wartime (unprecedented in any nation); and, (3) If we had kept the SEC and other regulatory agencies awake - we wouldn't have these "money" problems.
Where the US GNP is $13.6 Trillion and Wall Street creates, and trades/sells credit derivatives worth $200 Trillion - money just isn't money any more. My sources are the Financial Times, my education (I'm a lawyer), my investments and a slew of other sources than/.
New Orleans was a pure example of gross - if not criminal - negligence. Don't tell me about money - tons went in after but there was a 3 day warning as Katrina formed in the Atlantic, crossed over Florida and then hit the Gulf Coast. All at a time when the Bushies had "restructured" government to increase "homeland security" - years after a single terrorist incident the President was telling the head of FEMA (no longer a Cabinet Agency), "Heckofa job Brownie" to Michael DeWayne Brown - a moron of an attorney with no emergency management skills - he did NOTHING to limit the damage BEFORE Katrina hit. Hell, he had to find out about what was going on from CNN while ensconced in Baton Rouge.
Go ahead and delude yourself - but the US has a $10.5 Trillion Dollar hangover as of TODAY thanks to BUSHCO - and the price will just go up and up and up as the bills come due.
The New York Times - my original home-town broadsheet - has changed from the days when it engaged in reportage and today when it kisses the ring of the VP and his minions. They sat on the Wiretapping story through the 2004 election season and they also gave that worthless minx Judith Miller carte blanch to feed disinformation about the Iraq war as proffered by Scooter Libby & Dick Cheney.
I dropped a 30+ year subscription to the NYT because of such garbage - and I hope that they lose the new building that they have hocked - it is the price one pays for doing the king's dirty work and forgetting what the 5th estate is about.
As for growing up - well, I'll leave that to you - and your child-like short memory.
I-35 is an INTERSTATE HIGHWAY created by an act of Congress and signed by President Eisenhower. The Feds have the duty to maintain the INTERSTATE HIGHWAY SYSTEM.
90 day profit margins have run the USA for the past 8 years - so the Minneapolis I-35 bridge collapses, New Orleans and the Gulf Coast are totaled and now we are looking at primary communications breaking down.
For more than 50 years telephone carried its own power. If your power line went down odds were that you still could call for an ambulance/fire over your telephone.
Today - we still have the weasels who claim that they are making the "homeland" safe against terrorists - but not storms!
We need infrastructure - maintenance and new far, far more now than we ever have in the past. We don't have local radio now - all programming is run by conglomerates. If that rail car in Fargo derails and leaks methylisocyanate - there is no way to warn the locals.....
Your climbing opportunities in North Carolina are excellent. Watch the current Last of the Mohicans for some excellent views of Chimney Rock State Park.
Check out the Wikipedia entry on that apostrophe....
I've met him. He makes Reinhold Meissner seem humble. He also has been there for death on mountains (albeit, not his brother) and makes money from tragedy.
I've climbed most 14'ers in the US (BTW The Devils Thumb has no apostrophe). I've also done the Mooses Tooth. That's not a trivial Alaskan climb.
My name is in the summit registers - Krakauer's isn't. Why not? Go back and read Summit or Off Belay! (long out of print) and you will find many others who question Krakauer.
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Also from the article "The researchers also discussed possible threats to human jobs, like self-driving cars, software-based personal assistants and service robots in the home. Just last month, a service robot developed by Willow Garage in Silicon Valley proved it could navigate the real world."
An interesting thing to note is this: When a computer exists that is as intelligent as a stupid human, almost every job at and close to minimum wage vanishes. Robots can and will get cheaper than a human worker, no one will need taxi cab drivers, grocery store baggers, first tier phone customer service reps, construction workers, janitors, garbage men, delivery men, mail men, traffic cops, book keepers, data entry people, secretaries, fast food chefs, etc.
At this point we will have two choices as a society. 1) Let them (the stupid people) starve, 2) give them welfare for no other reason than they're economically useless.
How about we educate and see what human potential really is. (Of course, if your name is Palin or Craig or Ensign we already know how much potential YOU have.)
I signed up for my SSN 2000 miles from where I was born, in the 1960s, where the facility that issued me the card (I still have) had the man pull the card off of a stack - I just picked a day and time to apply and was handed that card as a 14 year-old. I suspect I'm damn random.
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Written English skills would be an adjunct to your success.
And, your sig is offensive, ignorant and just plain selfish, too. Die young - I don't want to pay for your single-payer health plan.
M$ has finally admitted that the Mac Platform runs Windows best?
100% correct. Law Firms are hell holes to work for - and I'm an attorney! You only see the tip of the political iceberg in those operations.
I've represented over a dozen IT professionals out of the banking industry and age discrimination / outsourcing are so common that you might as well learn to speak Hindi.
Find a medium-sized 3'rd party tech support operation - go to school too - but contemplate broadening your skill set beyond pure IT - take a year to go to the Vancouver Film School and earn one of their computer-based degrees (animation, sound recording/transformation) and lateral into the production industry.
you have no business going to any school in Michigan. Git the south. One hears of the MITs and CALTECHs and even UM Rollas - all far, far better (and, warmer) schools than that lame-a** Central rust belt state school. Ye gods, man - what were you drinking when you applied?
Let them know the price of their poor networks (and save yourself the price of a poor education) by LEAVING!
CircuitCity is presently the top of my list of organizations to boycott. Sam Rami has a good idea - drag them to hell.
Not exactly, but recording a deposition while listening to a few tunes (second chairing) and sending text to the office about the depo.
Both hitting TW with a letter in the effected markets and keeping a low profile in non-effected markets makes sense.
I routinely transfer iTunes TV & Movies to my spouse's computer (one of the 5 allowed by Apple) - using Apple's own iChat to transfer files. Subscriptions to shows that we watch routinely run a few gig a week.
Parse the data stream for "american."
I'd also expect that a directional antenna with a directional RF signal squirt could pick people out of crowds - and if mounted on a sniper rifle......
Imagine how easily US Citizens can be found in a crowd. I wonder if the RFID "lighthouse" in my passport will put me at a higher risk than other nation's citizens?
Yet the Harvard grad is following the standard Wall Street pattern of layoffs to bolster stock price. If the Wall Street methods aren't discredited by the crash - apparently Balmer missed it.
The Zune will never be a solid competitor - and innovation has been stifled by the idiots in charge.
Worms and trojans and botnets are the legacy of that kludge Windoze.
Microsoft supplied those standards.
tax them out of existence. This is the company that set the record for "permatemps" who were really full-time W-2 employees. Off-shoring codeing - skipping over qualified US workers...
And, creating the most insecure OS in history...
Time for MS to end the charade and fold up shop - their stock is BS and the Unix/Linux world can pick up and correct the decades of MSFT errors.
Off them with extreme prejudice. No more bloated MS OS - this is a good thing!
You seem to have no concept of the cost of the Gramm, Leach Bliley Act http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gramm-Leach-Bliley_Act
Passed in a lame duck session in 1999 the regulations implementing the act were written in 2001 and went into effect Jan 1, 2002. http://www.ftc.gov/privacy/glbact/glbsub1.htm
The unregulated Credit Derivative market ran up "investments" to the tune of $200 Trillion or about 4x the World's GNP.
The BUSHIES were entirely behind robbing the US and the rest of the planet blind. They have left a shell of a nation - the USA, deeply in debt to the oil states and China and those notes come due in 20 years.
If we had (1) Never gone into Iraq - 100% of the US Infrastructure needs could have been met; and, (2) If we hadn't cut taxes during wartime (unprecedented in any nation); and, (3) If we had kept the SEC and other regulatory agencies awake - we wouldn't have these "money" problems.
Where the US GNP is $13.6 Trillion and Wall Street creates, and trades/sells credit derivatives worth $200 Trillion - money just isn't money any more. My sources are the Financial Times, my education (I'm a lawyer), my investments and a slew of other sources than /.
New Orleans was a pure example of gross - if not criminal - negligence. Don't tell me about money - tons went in after but there was a 3 day warning as Katrina formed in the Atlantic, crossed over Florida and then hit the Gulf Coast. All at a time when the Bushies had "restructured" government to increase "homeland security" - years after a single terrorist incident the President was telling the head of FEMA (no longer a Cabinet Agency), "Heckofa job Brownie" to Michael DeWayne Brown - a moron of an attorney with no emergency management skills - he did NOTHING to limit the damage BEFORE Katrina hit. Hell, he had to find out about what was going on from CNN while ensconced in Baton Rouge.
Go ahead and delude yourself - but the US has a $10.5 Trillion Dollar hangover as of TODAY thanks to BUSHCO - and the price will just go up and up and up as the bills come due.
You mean the EAS that DOESN'T WORK on massive nets? http://www.slate.com/id/2157395/sidebar/2157437/
The New York Times - my original home-town broadsheet - has changed from the days when it engaged in reportage and today when it kisses the ring of the VP and his minions. They sat on the Wiretapping story through the 2004 election season and they also gave that worthless minx Judith Miller carte blanch to feed disinformation about the Iraq war as proffered by Scooter Libby & Dick Cheney.
I dropped a 30+ year subscription to the NYT because of such garbage - and I hope that they lose the new building that they have hocked - it is the price one pays for doing the king's dirty work and forgetting what the 5th estate is about.
As for growing up - well, I'll leave that to you - and your child-like short memory.
I-35 is an INTERSTATE HIGHWAY created by an act of Congress and signed by President Eisenhower. The Feds have the duty to maintain the INTERSTATE HIGHWAY SYSTEM.
90 day profit margins have run the USA for the past 8 years - so the Minneapolis I-35 bridge collapses, New Orleans and the Gulf Coast are totaled and now we are looking at primary communications breaking down.
For more than 50 years telephone carried its own power. If your power line went down odds were that you still could call for an ambulance/fire over your telephone.
Today - we still have the weasels who claim that they are making the "homeland" safe against terrorists - but not storms!
We need infrastructure - maintenance and new far, far more now than we ever have in the past. We don't have local radio now - all programming is run by conglomerates. If that rail car in Fargo derails and leaks methylisocyanate - there is no way to warn the locals.....
Bophal comes to the US. Thanks a lot, BUSHCO!
Your climbing opportunities in North Carolina are excellent. Watch the current Last of the Mohicans for some excellent views of Chimney Rock State Park.
Check out the Wikipedia entry on that apostrophe....
I've met him. He makes Reinhold Meissner seem humble. He also has been there for death on mountains (albeit, not his brother) and makes money from tragedy.
I've climbed most 14'ers in the US (BTW The Devils Thumb has no apostrophe). I've also done the Mooses Tooth. That's not a trivial Alaskan climb.
My name is in the summit registers - Krakauer's isn't. Why not?
Go back and read Summit or Off Belay! (long out of print) and you will find many others who question Krakauer.
That's the problem with solos - nobody to back up your story.
I have been to one - just one AAC event with Krakauer - and he isn't much more than a book-seller.
The American Alpine Club, the British and Canadian Mountaineering associations all have more than 100 years of data.
Have at it.
AAC=American Alpine Club.
Your Wikipedia link refers to professional football.
See, http://www.livescience.com/health/060614_sport_injuries.html
for injury stats.