... But if we have a dearth of people picking up trash, or digging ditches, or milling machine parts, the proper adaptation is to fill the existing demand - anything else is just going to create another artificial imbalance.
Half a century ago the idea was to build robots to overcome both problems.
If the talk had been done instead in Apple Keynote, OpenOffice, or any other program, it still would have been possible to make massive, mind-numbing, information-lacking, slides.
Wikipedia, history of "PowerPoint": "The original version of this program was created by Dennis Austin and Thomas Rudkin. Originally designed for the Macintosh computer, the initial release was called "Presenter". In 1987, it was renamed to "PowerPoint" due to problems with trademarks, the idea for the name coming from Robert Gaskins. In August of the same year, Forethought was bought by Microsoft for $14 million USD ($26.8 million in present-day terms), and became Microsoft's Graphics Business Unit, which continued to further develop the software."
The company was set up to make a fantastic Linux distribution... That was the focus....... That's now changing at Canonical as the emphasis is now shifting to generating revenues.
My theory is that if the focus is generating revenues, not the customer (or the product), failure is to be expected in this case.
"A classified review of the United States Secret Service's computer technology found that the agency's computers were fully operational only 60 percent of the time because of outdated systems and a reliance on a computer mainframe that dates to the 1980s, according to Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn. "
(loc. cit.)
I can just imagine a waxed cardboard toy pad with a motor driven lifter for the erase... LOL
Strangely reminds me of the first time I encountered a motor driven (!!, OMG) pepper mill which (of course) was a present imported from the land of Alices Restaurant, then just beginning to loose its appeal as a Wonderland over here.
TFS: "They've already given out $5,000 for top methods, and there's $15,000 still up for grabs."
Imagine, $20.000 that will help the poor Pharma-Industry to avoid being sued.
Alternatively:
Imagine, $20.000 that will save the health of numerous people.
TFS: "On Thursday in Washington, DC, Clinton unveiled US initiatives to help people living under repressive governments access the Internet for purposes such as reporting corruption. "
Quote: "Corruption costs Afghans $2.5 billion a year, a United Nations agency said on Tuesday, with the scale of bribery matching Afghanistan's opium trade."
Probably my poor logic, since Afghans do not suffer from a repressive government.
"The narrator inhabits a paranoid dystopia where nothing is as it seems, chaos seems to rule all events, and everyone is deeply suspicious of every one else. In danger of losing his mind, our protagonist starts keeping a diary, and it is this diary which details only a few days in his life that is ultimately found by a future society and given the title Notes from the Neogene. Memoirs Found in a Bathtub is this distant voice from the past, this Notes from the Neogene."
... may be a site resembling http://www.20q.net/ , which started as a never ending story (neural net) as well.
Quote: "The 20Q was created in 1988 as an experiment in artificial intelligence (AI) The principle is that the player thinks of something and the 20Q artificial intelligence asks a series of questions before guessing what the player is thinking. This artificial intelligence learns on its own with the information relayed back to the players who interact with it, and is not programmed. The player can answer these questions with: Yes, No, Unknown, or Sometimes. The experiment is based on the classic word game of Twenty Questions, and on the computer game "Animals," popular in the early 1970s, which used a somewhat simpler method to guess an animal."
Deadly Image
(The Uncertain Midnight)
(1958)
A novel by
Edmund Cooper
Quote: "He was an anachronism... He was a twentieth century man who, by a freak of chance, survived to see an age in which working had become a social disgrace; an age in which culture and the arts reigned supreme; an age of mannered ladies and gentlemen, perfectly waited on and cared for by androids - the man-like creations of their own genius. The higher grade androids were doctors, engineers, politicians and personal "companions" to each and every human being. And in whatever they did, they were perfect. No one had to worry about them. For the first time in history, man had completely freed himself from the problems of living: EXCEPT... When perfect machines, with perfect performance, are made to perfectly resemble man - who needs man?"
Once we diagnose 51 percent of them with something, doesn't that just make it "normal"?
Good point, if the distribution is proper, even 30% will do (like 'normal' intelligence).
On a side note, the administered MMPI was already characterised 'crap' when I was a student (~1970++), though I well understand comparability issues in a longitudinal study.
Oh, yes, I was thinking along the line of what is a 'comic' to me. If I think of 'fantasy', I rather imagine 'Lord of the Rings' or 'Conan'. Might be a language issue.
Slashdot Mirror
... But if we have a dearth of people picking up trash, or digging ditches, or milling machine parts, the proper adaptation is to fill the existing demand - anything else is just going to create another artificial imbalance.
Half a century ago the idea was to build robots to overcome both problems.
CC.
Saying something didn't happen just because there are no pics (or videos) is retarded.
No — it is mainstream.
CC.
Acer Plans a Million Chrome OS Netbooks, New E-Reader
Read More http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/01/acer-plans-a-million-chrome-os-netbooks-new-e-reader/#ixzz0nvf3Zfpt
from January 25, 2010
CC.
If the talk had been done instead in Apple Keynote, OpenOffice, or any other program, it still would have been possible to make massive, mind-numbing, information-lacking, slides.
Wikipedia, history of "PowerPoint": "The original version of this program was created by Dennis Austin and Thomas Rudkin. Originally designed for the Macintosh computer, the initial release was called "Presenter". In 1987, it was renamed to "PowerPoint" due to problems with trademarks, the idea for the name coming from Robert Gaskins. In August of the same year, Forethought was bought by Microsoft for $14 million USD ($26.8 million in present-day terms), and became Microsoft's Graphics Business Unit, which continued to further develop the software."
Who would have thought? I did not know before.
CC.
The company was set up to make a fantastic Linux distribution ... That was the focus. ... ... That's now changing at Canonical as the emphasis is now shifting to generating revenues.
My theory is that if the focus is generating revenues, not the customer (or the product), failure is to be expected in this case.
CC.
TFS: "... because games could be used in the future as a type of textbook..."
...
In ancient times: "Life is the best teacher"
Technological progress enables mankind to virtualize life into a perfect game.
CC.
"A classified review of the United States Secret Service's computer technology found that the agency's computers were fully operational only 60 percent of the time because of outdated systems and a reliance on a computer mainframe that dates to the 1980s, according to Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn. "
(loc. cit.)
CC.
I can just imagine a waxed cardboard toy pad with a motor driven lifter for the erase ... LOL
Strangely reminds me of the first time I encountered a motor driven (!!, OMG) pepper mill which (of course) was a present imported from the land of Alices Restaurant, then just beginning to loose its appeal as a Wonderland over here.
CC.
TFS: "They've already given out $5,000 for top methods, and there's $15,000 still up for grabs."
Imagine, $20.000 that will help the poor Pharma-Industry to avoid being sued.
Alternatively:
Imagine, $20.000 that will save the health of numerous people.
Now, that is a big deal indeed.
CC.
TFS: "On Thursday in Washington, DC, Clinton unveiled US initiatives to help people living under repressive governments access the Internet for purposes such as reporting corruption. "
Quote: "Corruption costs Afghans $2.5 billion a year, a United Nations agency said on Tuesday, with the scale of bribery matching Afghanistan's opium trade."
Probably my poor logic, since Afghans do not suffer from a repressive government.
CC.
Imagine turning your computer off and suddenly having your entire desk empty.
I'd rather leave it on and let 'the software' hide the crap.
CC.
Ant tips the week-old news that sitting down too much is not good for you, even if you are otherwise fit.
Well, firstly, I thought that anyone who (was) is sitting at a desk for hours each day would intuitively know that. So much for the news.
Secondly, if you are sitting for hours at a desk each day, you are not fit.
But I am sure that the vast majority indeed needs expert advice to realize the obvious.
CC.
How about: lifetime of spouse or until the youngest child is 25 years, whichever is greater.
Pff, they will ensure that offspring is created from a sperm bank each quarter of a century.
CC.
"The narrator inhabits a paranoid dystopia where nothing is as it seems, chaos seems to rule all events, and everyone is deeply suspicious of every one else. In danger of losing his mind, our protagonist starts keeping a diary, and it is this diary which details only a few days in his life that is ultimately found by a future society and given the title Notes from the Neogene. Memoirs Found in a Bathtub is this distant voice from the past, this Notes from the Neogene."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memoirs_Found_in_a_Bathtub
Also probably anything by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, who were originally targetting the Soviet Union. Well, US is SU looking backwards.
CC.
They would be better off patenting application of science to everyday problems (beware not to forget) by use of a computing device.
On a side note, I am sure that these 'see thru' scanner pictures will be part of the game, as I anticipated.
CC.
TFS: "When companies start to imitate one another ..."
This was once called "mee too"—marketing and should be taken as a sign of incompetent marketing (an)droids at work.
CC.
Here in Denmark the truck driver would definitely have been found at fault in that kind of accident.
Things seem to be different in Canada.
From the (second) linked article: "Police say it is unlikely that charges will be laid against the truck driver."
CC.
... may be a site resembling http://www.20q.net/ , which started as a never ending story (neural net) as well.
Quote: "The 20Q was created in 1988 as an experiment in artificial intelligence (AI) The principle is that the player thinks of something and the 20Q artificial intelligence asks a series of questions before guessing what the player is thinking. This artificial intelligence learns on its own with the information relayed back to the players who interact with it, and is not programmed. The player can answer these questions with: Yes, No, Unknown, or Sometimes. The experiment is based on the classic word game of Twenty Questions, and on the computer game "Animals," popular in the early 1970s, which used a somewhat simpler method to guess an animal."
CC.
Deadly Image (The Uncertain Midnight) (1958)
A novel by Edmund Cooper
Quote: "He was an anachronism... He was a twentieth century man who, by a freak of chance, survived to see an age in which working had become a social disgrace; an age in which culture and the arts reigned supreme; an age of mannered ladies and gentlemen, perfectly waited on and cared for by androids - the man-like creations of their own genius. The higher grade androids were doctors, engineers, politicians and personal "companions" to each and every human being. And in whatever they did, they were perfect. No one had to worry about them. For the first time in history, man had completely freed himself from the problems of living: EXCEPT... When perfect machines, with perfect performance, are made to perfectly resemble man - who needs man?"
TFS: "but I guess it might be deployed elsewhere anyways"
The 'news' here (Germany) yesterday said that the same system is used at several other German airports.
CC.
All they have to do is find out which one of these companies actually released the virus in the wilds of Mexico.
Thank you, exactly what I always thought, however this is the first instance (I come across) that someone else utters this suspicion.
CC.
Once we diagnose 51 percent of them with something, doesn't that just make it "normal"?
Good point, if the distribution is proper, even 30% will do (like 'normal' intelligence).
On a side note, the administered MMPI was already characterised 'crap' when I was a student (~1970++), though I well understand comparability issues in a longitudinal study.
CC.
Oh, yes, I was thinking along the line of what is a 'comic' to me. If I think of 'fantasy', I rather imagine 'Lord of the Rings' or 'Conan'. Might be a language issue.
CC.
I'm not aware of a Niven-in-film series/work that needs re-booting.
Hmm, if a project is frozen, one might reboot it?
CC.
TFS: "If you consider Spider-Man as 'proper sci-fi,'"
IMHO, it is hard to imagine this as 'Fantasy', but 'Sci-Fi"? Perhaps it is the best they scrap #4 altogether.
CC.