If you can learn to place an intrinsic value on the people in your workplace and your relationships with them, instead of seeing them as a means to an end, both you and they will benefit.
If Corporate America is is pained by the floorspace taken up by IT staff, then why will they STILL not let me telecommute? They could reduce office space, reduce my carbon footprint and get government incentives to boot. I think they just like torturing us.
I am all for freedom of speech and Net Neutrality. Having said that, I see real practical problems here. Freedom of Speech is an inalienable right. If we tie that to an infrastructure that costs billions of dollars to create and maintain, who will pay for it all? Should we all be taxed to provide the access (implying that it belongs to Government)? Do for-profit corporations just have to "suck it up" as a price of doing business?
During the late 70's to mid-80's it was a common practice during U.S.N. flight simulator sessions for the flight instructor to pause a simulation in mid-flight, then give feedback and instruction to the student. Then they began having pilots "freeze" under similar conditions during actual flight-time. Policy was ammended to ban the interruption of any simulation training scenario and debriefs were performed at the end of the session. The incidents of "freezing pilot" began to decline. You most likely WILL fight the way you train.
I respect and comply with copyright laws, and I believe that the artist and the industries that distribute their works deserve to receive their wages. That said, the draconian measures that the RIAA camp have resorted to in recent days may well put them out of business.
I have begun to feel of late that continuing to purchase ANY media that MIGHT be duplicated or retained too long may expose me to undue risk of litigation, even if I have done no wrong. I do not NEED to be entertained, I simply enjoy it and I can live just fine without their products if that risk becomes too excessive.
I wonder what led us to believe that transmitting information over ANY infrastructure that is owned and operated by either publicly traded mega-corporations or our government could EVER be private?
In the case of large corporations and govenment collusion, Dwight Eisenhour warned us in the 50's about the power of the military-industrial complex. And DARPA started the Internet.
Big Money operates and maintains the infrastructure of the Internet. It is not and never has been an altruistic benefactor of the public good. It currently exists to further the profit motive.
If we believe that we can truly rely upon the Internet to connect freedom loving people so that they can exchange ideas and information, we will be sorely surprised the first time our government decides that these activities have become threatening to the status-quo.
What if we could pump the CO2 into vats of genetically engineered algae that would consume the C02, produce oxygen, and when exhausted be processed by TDP into biodiesel?
Thanks handy_vandal. It is admittedly a rather long-term view on our plight. The majority of responses to this issue seem to indicate that most folks feel there is acutally some kind of significance to the outcome one way or another. Must be that illusion of Self at work there....
To me, this seems like evolution doing what it does best: weeding out experiments that have proven to be unfit. We have evolved intelligence as an adaptive trait, with it has come our ability to shape our environment, and now even our genetic future. Along with that has come the power to annihilate ourselves. We will either learn to choose correctly, or our choices will correct the problem, and evolution will try something different, as it should be.
Hopefully, before they come into wide-spread use, their "swarming" behavior can be designed to recognize that End of Life is near, and gracefully dive into the atmosphere. Or else we will need to periodically launch swarms of "janitors" to find defunct nanosats, and haul them down....
Yup. That's the very posting I was thinking of. Wouldn't be surprised to find out that the folks involved in that research suddenly drop out of academia to work full-time on DARPA projects. All they really need now is a directional, long range antenna sensitive enough to pick up the same signals from a distance.... I feel a SciFi plot coming on...
If you think that they aren't (or couldn't if they wanted to) you have another think coming.
The ONLY thoughts that can't be monitored are the ones that have yet to leave your head, and I wouldn't count on THOSE remaining inviolate for much longer in light of recent breakthroughs posted right here on Slashdot...
Sounds alot like Borg technology to me. All you're lacking at that point is the code to add to our DNA sequences that will produce the "tubules" injectors so we can infect and assimilate our friends and family. I know I can't wait.
I wonder if this hardware computing model could provide the first real base for Neural Network computing? As far as I know, any neural network is currently emulated on linear processing machines.
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If you can learn to place an intrinsic value on the people in your workplace and your relationships with them, instead of seeing them as a means to an end, both you and they will benefit.
If Corporate America is is pained by the floorspace taken up by IT staff, then why will they STILL not let me telecommute? They could reduce office space, reduce my carbon footprint and get government incentives to boot. I think they just like torturing us.
I am all for freedom of speech and Net Neutrality. Having said that, I see real practical problems here. Freedom of Speech is an inalienable right. If we tie that to an infrastructure that costs billions of dollars to create and maintain, who will pay for it all? Should we all be taxed to provide the access (implying that it belongs to Government)? Do for-profit corporations just have to "suck it up" as a price of doing business?
During the late 70's to mid-80's it was a common practice during U.S.N. flight simulator sessions for the flight instructor to pause a simulation in mid-flight, then give feedback and instruction to the student. Then they began having pilots "freeze" under similar conditions during actual flight-time. Policy was ammended to ban the interruption of any simulation training scenario and debriefs were performed at the end of the session. The incidents of "freezing pilot" began to decline. You most likely WILL fight the way you train.
I respect and comply with copyright laws, and I believe that the artist and the industries that distribute their works deserve to receive their wages. That said, the draconian measures that the RIAA camp have resorted to in recent days may well put them out of business. I have begun to feel of late that continuing to purchase ANY media that MIGHT be duplicated or retained too long may expose me to undue risk of litigation, even if I have done no wrong. I do not NEED to be entertained, I simply enjoy it and I can live just fine without their products if that risk becomes too excessive.
What if melody turns out to be the key to real communication with aquatic life? Let the Uplifts Begin!
I wonder what led us to believe that transmitting information over ANY infrastructure that is owned and operated by either publicly traded mega-corporations or our government could EVER be private? In the case of large corporations and govenment collusion, Dwight Eisenhour warned us in the 50's about the power of the military-industrial complex. And DARPA started the Internet. Big Money operates and maintains the infrastructure of the Internet. It is not and never has been an altruistic benefactor of the public good. It currently exists to further the profit motive. If we believe that we can truly rely upon the Internet to connect freedom loving people so that they can exchange ideas and information, we will be sorely surprised the first time our government decides that these activities have become threatening to the status-quo.
If you have never read it, "Fahrenheit 451" is now trying to fullfill itself. If you haven't read it, now might be a good time.
What if we could pump the CO2 into vats of genetically engineered algae that would consume the C02, produce oxygen, and when exhausted be processed by TDP into biodiesel?
This concept has been in play for years as a commercial product for Disaster Recovery, Veritas Volume Replicator (VVR).
Thanks handy_vandal. It is admittedly a rather long-term view on our plight. The majority of responses to this issue seem to indicate that most folks feel there is acutally some kind of significance to the outcome one way or another. Must be that illusion of Self at work there....
To me, this seems like evolution doing what it does best: weeding out experiments that have proven to be unfit. We have evolved intelligence as an adaptive trait, with it has come our ability to shape our environment, and now even our genetic future. Along with that has come the power to annihilate ourselves. We will either learn to choose correctly, or our choices will correct the problem, and evolution will try something different, as it should be.
Hopefully, before they come into wide-spread use, their "swarming" behavior can be designed to recognize that End of Life is near, and gracefully dive into the atmosphere. Or else we will need to periodically launch swarms of "janitors" to find defunct nanosats, and haul them down....
Yup. That's the very posting I was thinking of. Wouldn't be surprised to find out that the folks involved in that research suddenly drop out of academia to work full-time on DARPA projects. All they really need now is a directional, long range antenna sensitive enough to pick up the same signals from a distance.... I feel a SciFi plot coming on...
If you think that they aren't (or couldn't if they wanted to) you have another think coming. The ONLY thoughts that can't be monitored are the ones that have yet to leave your head, and I wouldn't count on THOSE remaining inviolate for much longer in light of recent breakthroughs posted right here on Slashdot...
Sounds alot like Borg technology to me. All you're lacking at that point is the code to add to our DNA sequences that will produce the "tubules" injectors so we can infect and assimilate our friends and family. I know I can't wait.
Check out this link. I think these folks may be on to something: http://www.calphysics.org/gravitation.html
Could you point me to public postings for NN hardware implementations? Thanks.
I wonder if this hardware computing model could provide the first real base for Neural Network computing? As far as I know, any neural network is currently emulated on linear processing machines.