Human transcription performed on industrial scale by non-native speakers is nothing new. For example, medical imaging texts are typed up by Cheap Foreign Labour from voice messages recorded by doctors. So remember this next time you read the analysis of your expensive MRI test.;)
I agree that teachers disconnected from reality are bad, but the alternative is even worse. Look at what too much bitching got us: they teach JAVA as the primary programming language in universities nowadays! How sadistically cruel is that?
CAD are tools for engineers. As such they have some requirements that might be hard to understand to people that think in terms of pure 3D design:
1. Precision - the drawing must be geometrically precise. And I mean REALLY precise 2. The design must conform to certain manufacturing principles. For example, the ways that materials can be machined are limited and as such, not every single form is attaineable in the manufacturing process. 3. the software must, without violating the first two principles, allow for maximum freedom of design.
Unfortunately, fancy interfaces of like this g-speak have NOTHING to do with these three principles. Such interfaces are nice for fancy presentation - essentially showing off.
In short, CAD is a highly specialized tool for highly trained professionals, not a trinket for presentations and customer bullshitting.
LOL, what you just wrote only reinforces what I said earlier. The interface shown in the film represents the ideal g-speak is seeking to attain - and this ideal is not impressive.
Why would anybody take seriously an interface put forth by a stupid movie like Minority Report? The people that designed that "cool" interface for the film couldn't even grasp the notion of data sharing between terminals 2 meters away: the data is copied between them using a PHYSICAL STORAGE DEVICE.
A couple of years ago I had a brush with this little company. They manufacture an Electronic Flight Bag product, which is, essentially, a specialized computer used to store all sorts of documentation that pilots need to use on daily basis: various tech manuals, forms, notes and even maps. The hardware is actually very nicely executed, but the software is Windows XP Professional (not even Embedded). Because of that, the resulting product is slow, suffers from numerours interface glitches and is not very stable.
LOL, you people totally misunderstand what I said.
I'm NOT saying that computers will program themselves and programmers will not be needed. What I'm saying is that programming will become a skill secondary to the main profession. Look at the situation we have right now: hordes of programmers extremely narrow fielded that frequently can't even put their software in the scope of the system it's running under. This is a travesty and can't continue forever.
Relax with the bullet proofing already, would you? How hard is it to finally understand that hummers, tanks, APCs and people are not some limitlessly powerful platforms on which you can keep slapping more and more armor. At certain point you max out it's capacity and the vehicle becomes unusable. Hummers are MAXED OUT. So stop yapping about it.
As an Israeli citizen I can assure you that the threat of chemical attack on Israeli civilian population is very real. All enemies of Israel posess chemical weapons and have repeatedly stated their willingness to use them against civilians.
It's amazing! This one single post demonstrates the basic difference between a *nix admin and a Windows admin.
Basically Windows admins consider tasks that don't have a GUI interface "who cares" tasks and "dubious". A perfect example of people from a known *nix sysadmin proverb: "Shut up, or I'll replace you with a 10 line script":)
Relax, it's not happening: fingerprint recognition is a very subjective science and is not very accurate when done in software. Not too mention that it's also fundamentally flawed. The only reason it got adopted in criminology is because there wasn't anything better at the time. It may very well change soon.
I will not be talking about weather OOo can stand it's own against MS Office - I have a different fish to fry.
Why the hell is THUNDERBIRD peddled as The Best Mail Client Out There?
I say, you want to make an Outlook killer, take something that can really kill. Like Claws Mail, for example. It's SUPER fast, very modular, easily portable to [insert your platform here] and has functionality that other mail clients are only dreaming about.
"Your shoes, clothes and car are already made automatically, but your house is built by hand and it doesn't make sense."
Reeeeeaaaally? Doesn't he know that shoes, for example, have to go through about 300 or so pair of hands while they are being made?
Of course, the kind of work we are talking about quickly turns a human being into a robot, so, I guess, the difference is negligible. Especially considering that the people in question are Chinese or Some-Other-God-Forsaken-Place-ese.
The inventor of this crap thinks the accidents are bad enough today. Wait and see what kind of accidents will happen with his invention!
Modern firearm safety is not a technical challange - it's a human challange. It is too easy to get a firearm in the states nowadays and because of that firearms are bought by people that have no use for it. The soultion is to institue a system of training/certification prior to buying a firearm. This will both eliminate casual buyers and improve firearm safety among users.
When I say "safety" I mean safety in all of it's aspects, including storage and rules of engagement.
Yeah, putting peoples' lives in danger is a real problem.
Of course it is. Contrary to what's shown in James Bond movies, intelligence gathering is a pragmatic, dull work. And vast majority of spies are in it not for thrill or glorious martyrdom, but for money and (to lesser extent) for the satisfaction of getitng back at the boss. Obviously, getting arrested for treason is not a good thing for them. Hence, intelligence agencies need to show the people they recruit that they will go to great lengths to protect them.
The day CIA starts to carelessly endanger their agents will be the last day they could find anybody willing to work for them.
That Red Cross has a such a problem with misuse of it's emblem in video games while completely disregarding the use of it's equipment (labelled with cross too) as transportation for terrorists.
To quote Zapp Brannigan: "How very neutral of you!"
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Human transcription performed on industrial scale by non-native speakers is nothing new. For example, medical imaging texts are typed up by Cheap Foreign Labour from voice messages recorded by doctors. ;)
So remember this next time you read the analysis of your expensive MRI test.
I agree that teachers disconnected from reality are bad, but the alternative is even worse. Look at what too much bitching got us: they teach JAVA as the primary programming language in universities nowadays! How sadistically cruel is that?
AKA "Acting unit 2013", "Fespomat" and "Calculon"
OK, let's talk about CAD.
CAD are tools for engineers. As such they have some requirements that might be hard to understand to people that think in terms of pure 3D design:
1. Precision - the drawing must be geometrically precise. And I mean REALLY precise
2. The design must conform to certain manufacturing principles. For example, the ways that materials can be machined are limited and as such, not every single form is attaineable in the manufacturing process.
3. the software must, without violating the first two principles, allow for maximum freedom of design.
Unfortunately, fancy interfaces of like this g-speak have NOTHING to do with these three principles. Such interfaces are nice for fancy presentation - essentially showing off.
In short, CAD is a highly specialized tool for highly trained professionals, not a trinket for presentations and customer bullshitting.
LOL, what you just wrote only reinforces what I said earlier. The interface shown in the film represents the ideal g-speak is seeking to attain - and this ideal is not impressive.
Why would anybody take seriously an interface put forth by a stupid movie like Minority Report? The people that designed that "cool" interface for the film couldn't even grasp the notion of data sharing between terminals 2 meters away: the data is copied between them using a PHYSICAL STORAGE DEVICE.
In short: unimaginative pretentious crap.
Let's also not forget the beautiful rivers of muck on Ferenginar, the homeworld of the Ferengi Alliance
A couple of years ago I had a brush with this little company. They manufacture an Electronic Flight Bag product, which is, essentially, a specialized computer used to store all sorts of documentation that pilots need to use on daily basis: various tech manuals, forms, notes and even maps. The hardware is actually very nicely executed, but the software is Windows XP Professional (not even Embedded). Because of that, the resulting product is slow, suffers from numerours interface glitches and is not very stable.
LOL, you people totally misunderstand what I said.
I'm NOT saying that computers will program themselves and programmers will not be needed. What I'm saying is that programming will become a skill secondary to the main profession. Look at the situation we have right now: hordes of programmers extremely narrow fielded that frequently can't even put their software in the scope of the system it's running under. This is a travesty and can't continue forever.
The truth is, that "programmer" as a profession is going to become extinct in the future.
Relax with the bullet proofing already, would you? How hard is it to finally understand that hummers, tanks, APCs and people are not some limitlessly powerful platforms on which you can keep slapping more and more armor. At certain point you max out it's capacity and the vehicle becomes unusable. Hummers are MAXED OUT. So stop yapping about it.
Perhaps Ubuntu is to hard to use?
:)
Of course. After all, Ubuntu doesn't work well when computer is in "OFFicial mode"
As an Israeli citizen I can assure you that the threat of chemical attack on Israeli civilian population is very real. All enemies of Israel posess chemical weapons and have repeatedly stated their willingness to use them against civilians.
Scripting has its place, no doubt. It shouldn't be the default way to administer most functions though.
:)
Spoken like a true Windows admin.
It's amazing! This one single post demonstrates the basic difference between a *nix admin and a Windows admin.
:)
Basically Windows admins consider tasks that don't have a GUI interface "who cares" tasks and "dubious". A perfect example of people from a known *nix sysadmin proverb: "Shut up, or I'll replace you with a 10 line script"
Relax, it's not happening: fingerprint recognition is a very subjective science and is not very accurate when done in software. Not too mention that it's also fundamentally flawed. The only reason it got adopted in criminology is because there wasn't anything better at the time. It may very well change soon.
I will not be talking about weather OOo can stand it's own against MS Office - I have a different fish to fry.
Why the hell is THUNDERBIRD peddled as The Best Mail Client Out There?
I say, you want to make an Outlook killer, take something that can really kill. Like Claws Mail, for example. It's SUPER fast, very modular, easily portable to [insert your platform here] and has functionality that other mail clients are only dreaming about.
I'm not familiar with Australian political system, but wouldn't this mean that some poeple would get double representation? That doesn't seem legal.
From the article:
"Your shoes, clothes and car are already made automatically, but your house is built by hand and it doesn't make sense." Reeeeeaaaally? Doesn't he know that shoes, for example, have to go through about 300 or so pair of hands while they are being made?
Of course, the kind of work we are talking about quickly turns a human being into a robot, so, I guess, the difference is negligible. Especially considering that the people in question are Chinese or Some-Other-God-Forsaken-Place-ese.
The inventor of this crap thinks the accidents are bad enough today. Wait and see what kind of accidents will happen with his invention!
Modern firearm safety is not a technical challange - it's a human challange. It is too easy to get a firearm in the states nowadays and because of that firearms are bought by people that have no use for it. The soultion is to institue a system of training/certification prior to buying a firearm. This will both eliminate casual buyers and improve firearm safety among users.
When I say "safety" I mean safety in all of it's aspects, including storage and rules of engagement.
Oooooh, the cooks are at it again! They push the good ol' "1984" in our faces.
Seriously, now, aren't you tired of using this stupid creation by a bitter dying man as an excuse for your idiological drivel?
Grow up, and throw out The Book!
Yeah, putting peoples' lives in danger is a real problem.
Of course it is. Contrary to what's shown in James Bond movies, intelligence gathering is a pragmatic, dull work. And vast majority of spies are in it not for thrill or glorious martyrdom, but for money and (to lesser extent) for the satisfaction of getitng back at the boss. Obviously, getting arrested for treason is not a good thing for them. Hence, intelligence agencies need to show the people they recruit that they will go to great lengths to protect them.
The day CIA starts to carelessly endanger their agents will be the last day they could find anybody willing to work for them.
That Red Cross has a such a problem with misuse of it's emblem in video games while completely disregarding the use of it's equipment (labelled with cross too) as transportation for terrorists.
To quote Zapp Brannigan: "How very neutral of you!"
Damn!
... legally drunk ...
If it's legal, then what is the f$%king problem?