When I read about the new MITS Altair 8800 personal computer kit back in 1976 I had to buy it. As a kid I read the book, "Danny Dun And The Homework Machine", and ever since I had the dream of owning my own computer. It was an S-100 bus system, and I had to solder all the circuit boards. The assembly manual, a 3 ring binder, had several sets of errata pages I had to insert before I could begin assembly. When completed, I toggled in my first binary program into the front panel switches and then watched the front panel lights come to life executing the short program. It was magic.
I've fighting this my PC for the last few days. I can see my local network and csn ping IP adresses, but I cannot reliably access any other site on the internet. Windows 10 updates are getting to be real pain. Makes me think of switching all my machines to Linux more and more often
Microsoft is going down the road that the American auto industry did back in the 70s and 80s. Bad styling, superfluous trim, crappy quality and and the new feature is 20 cup holders. hey start fixating on design issues that the customer cares nothing about. Does anyone know if Open Office might start supporting a file manager? Any suggestions for other open source file managers?
Artificial Intelligence is a body of research that has constantly spun off specific solutions for the past 40 or 50 years:
1) Object orient design/programming was originated in LISP programming decades ago and was used in the development of the original GUI interface APIs and is now taken for granted.
2) Robotic arm kinematics programming was spun off from AI research and is now used to build industrial robots, surgical robots, walking bugs, robot dogs, and is now taken for granted
3) Optical Character Recognition was originally AI research and is now commercialized and taken for granted
4) Speech recognition was originally AI research and is now commercialized and an IT industry of it own
5) Machine vision was originally AI research and has been spun off into its own body of knowledge
6) The blackboard architectural design pattern was originally called "production systems" in AI research and is now considered a standard solution tool
7) Bayesian spam filtering is based on Bayesian clustering, a basis of many AI systems like machine vision. It too is now taken for granted in IT.
Artificial Intelligence gets a bad rap because every one of its successes has spawned another software industry. All hail artificial intelligence!
As I recall, the Union of Concerned Scientists are the same group that had the Doomsday Clock back in the eighties. Every time an arms negotiation failed or the U.S. mentioned Star Wars the clock ticked one minute closer to midnight. Problem was that as the clocked ticked passed 11:55PM the scientists were running out of time. They started ticking off fractions of minutes. Funny how the fall of the Berlin wall nor the collapse of the USSR neither caused the clock to tick backwards. Also, we never heard from them during the nineties - funny.
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When I read about the new MITS Altair 8800 personal computer kit back in 1976 I had to buy it. As a kid I read the book, "Danny Dun And The Homework Machine", and ever since I had the dream of owning my own computer. It was an S-100 bus system, and I had to solder all the circuit boards. The assembly manual, a 3 ring binder, had several sets of errata pages I had to insert before I could begin assembly. When completed, I toggled in my first binary program into the front panel switches and then watched the front panel lights come to life executing the short program. It was magic.
I've fighting this my PC for the last few days. I can see my local network and csn ping IP adresses, but I cannot reliably access any other site on the internet. Windows 10 updates are getting to be real pain. Makes me think of switching all my machines to Linux more and more often
Microsoft is going down the road that the American auto industry did back in the 70s and 80s. Bad styling, superfluous trim, crappy quality and and the new feature is 20 cup holders. hey start fixating on design issues that the customer cares nothing about. Does anyone know if Open Office might start supporting a file manager? Any suggestions for other open source file managers?
Artificial Intelligence is a body of research that has constantly spun off specific solutions for the past 40 or 50 years: 1) Object orient design/programming was originated in LISP programming decades ago and was used in the development of the original GUI interface APIs and is now taken for granted. 2) Robotic arm kinematics programming was spun off from AI research and is now used to build industrial robots, surgical robots, walking bugs, robot dogs, and is now taken for granted 3) Optical Character Recognition was originally AI research and is now commercialized and taken for granted 4) Speech recognition was originally AI research and is now commercialized and an IT industry of it own 5) Machine vision was originally AI research and has been spun off into its own body of knowledge 6) The blackboard architectural design pattern was originally called "production systems" in AI research and is now considered a standard solution tool 7) Bayesian spam filtering is based on Bayesian clustering, a basis of many AI systems like machine vision. It too is now taken for granted in IT. Artificial Intelligence gets a bad rap because every one of its successes has spawned another software industry. All hail artificial intelligence!
As I recall, the Union of Concerned Scientists are the same group that had the Doomsday Clock back in the eighties. Every time an arms negotiation failed or the U.S. mentioned Star Wars the clock ticked one minute closer to midnight. Problem was that as the clocked ticked passed 11:55PM the scientists were running out of time. They started ticking off fractions of minutes. Funny how the fall of the Berlin wall nor the collapse of the USSR neither caused the clock to tick backwards. Also, we never heard from them during the nineties - funny.