It is our very destiny to use the wrong stuff to do work. We use spreadsheets as word processors and vice-versa. We have wall-wart servers, we rewrite WRT54gs and make them jump through fire hoops.
If we want to print from a phone or a pad, we'll fucking do it. If we want to use the iPad as a hammer or a tire chock, so be it.
And according to TFA, parallels are drawn between the Sun->MS Java suit and the Oracle/Sun->Google suit.
My take: Sun and Oracle didn't enforce Java patents, let other numerous other forks occur, licenses all of it under protected terms that don't necessarily require full Java implementations, and otherwise permit competing products to blossom wherever they happen.
Oh, and Steve complained to Larry about Eric, and Larry said, 'no worries, I'll take care of it'.
Sounds nice on paper, but what of the big brother implications? Yes, it's comforting that on one hand, my privacy could be protected and company secrets are safe. On the other hand, Hello Mr Smith, you've been terminated, and your little phone, too....
I don't know that vindication is the right word. Kurzweil's approach is one of several that may have merit and add to the body of knowledge about the lifecycle of the physical and experiential states of the mind. We already know that brains come in numerous varieties, depending on hormonal dosing from gestation through adulthood, as well as predispositions that are genetically influenced. Kurzweil's thinking casts a wide net, and there are huge chasms remaining to be explored.
Taking your pic might be novel. Detecting an operating system breach might be novel. Imagine your ISP coming into your machine, determining you have a virus, and wiping you.
Sigh.
Perhaps only Apple could think this one up. It's comforting to know that they're trying to save me from myself. Not.
Modded? No. But tonight, a search engine harvester is coming here. Your link will be cross associated with your other citations. The SE will make a note of that for later correlation.
And when Jesus comes back, the first place he's going to is Google to find out who's gonna get a big smite. That's what Schmidt's saying. Eric will make a little query, and the shit's gonna fly in YOUR direction, heathen.
There must be a way, using the Hall Effect, to read magstripes, too. Wouldn't it be fun to find out where someone bought that mouthwash, the credit card used, and whether the car being driven needs a tune-up and exceeded the posted speed limit? Perhaps there's a way to even read dental work and hidden tattoos. A UAV with more than just WiFi...
I still like the USPS for shipping regular packages, but admit using alternate means.
The Cato Institute hasn't been looking at tax revenues, which are in serious decline. Where I live, sports, music, and other programs are deeply cut. Travel for schools is way down. Grades are up here, but I'm sure that other measures might disagree overall. The unions have even more to worry about, as states haven't been funding their pensions; enormous liabilities exist, some say trillions.
When I came into these United States in the 1950s, there were about 175M people. Now, the number is over 300M. Government has grown without a doubt. Yet programs and their funding are the crux of fights year after year after year to the point where we're tired of listening to the fights.
It was the great Senator from Illinois, Everett Dirksen, that was said to have uttered: a few billion here, a few billion there, and soon you're talking about real money.
The anti-union agenda is onerous. Yes, there are some thugs, and then there are employers whose employment practices are clearly unfair by any measure. Exporting labor to developing countries was shortsighted. In the short term, investors are happy. In the long term, your customers can't afford you because they have no wages.
It's not perfect, at all. It's made of humans that screw up.
Where I come from, a similar incident happened; same sort of background except that the guy was white.
But then I've witnessed cops pulling nearly dead bodies out of wrecked cars and try desperately to save lives of drunken idiots at great personal peril.
An anecdotal citation doesn't tell the bigger picture, they only serve to seemingly bolster a point. Having been to the EU, India, China, Indonesia, much of S America and Africa, I can also tell you that there are few parallels to the liberty and freedom enjoyed by Americans. It's not perfect, and is a work in progress. But some people do nothing, and expect everything on a platter. Instead, if you believe things need fixing, join in and fix them or help those that are.
You apparently haven't driven down the Indiana Toll Road recently. It's a mine field, worse than ever, with increased tolls. The Indiana governor, over the objections of people in the northern part of the state where the ITR passes thru, used the funds to go on a road repair bender, including additional Interstate construction spends (I-69) that are loathed by most of the counties where it's destined to pass thru. What happened was the sale of the future value of the annuity of income from the toll road-- which could have well been a strong contributor to a state that's now down to worrying about casino tax revenue as real income.
Today, I'll get a dozen letters (and hopefully a check) in my mailbox. It's expensive, it's necessary. UPS charges more, and has about the same service level in my experience.
I like Cedar Point. Lots of great rides, just like many amusement parks in the midwest. But I'm getting too old for back-jarring rides. I like quiet outdoors with hiking and biking paths, as few vendors as possible.
To your last point, if you haven't already noticed, nearly every state in the US is facing mind-boggling service cuts. Roads, bridges, and infrastructure in general aren't getting funded very well (save for ObamaBucks and the aforementioned Governor Daniels sell-out). We can't stop problems like carp getting into Lake Michigan, or oil into the Gulf until the messes are huge. We're fighting several wars concurrently, and not very well.
Funding cuts? Look at your local schools, your public safety funding, USDA inspections, and so on. There isn't really a positive slope. It's a rollercoaster, and a bad one, on a good day. On a bad day, it's miserable.
Well, let's start with standards, like the 60hz electricity we use. Don't ask about oil drilling standards for offshore rigs.
Then there are roads. I think Interstate highways are underbuilt to keep road construction companies in business, but overall, they're pretty nice.
And I like public parks, like Yellowstone, Yosemite, and so on. But they're chronically underfunded. I like the US Defense Department, but they're often over-funded. Then there are those great TSA guys that keep me feeling safe at airports, take nice pictures of me, and smoke cigarettes outside the terminals.
Cancelling government services, to return to reality, are simple: you cut off their funding and they wither on the vine. Despite our seeming hatred of government, the US Government is far better than many others. And someone needs to keep the foxes out of the henhouse.
Not the fuel for a budget sucking soiree when we don't have clue one about the possible destinations and their characteristics, only some fuzzy ideas of potential exploratory sites.
Do we send a mothballed space shuttle to land on an asteroid and blow it to bits? Oh, that's another movie. Bruce WIllis had hair then.
Indeed we do know how to kill it; we're doing it very well, thank you. In the same vein, we also know how to save it, but various interests aren't willing to put forth the energy to do so.
Various biospheres have come and gone. The conclusions have been interesting. Part of this is attitude, and stringent controls with positive motivators, and the elimination of poverty.
Once we embark to another space, the dynamics and ecosystems change; there's little chance of finding another earth that doesn't have some form of life like ours.
There are billions of things that can kill us. We've surmounted many starting with penicillin. What's out there is unknown. Better to cure what you know first, then plan for the unknown.
The migrations to the US are a great case in point. Get those (fill in these blanks) away from here, they're apostates, heretics, and they dress funny and have bad breath.
It gives a whole new meaning to Gleason's "To the moon, Alice!"
This presumes that all the people on this planet have something to eat, and an ostensible roof over their heads, and access to medical care, as we all break at one time or another.
Fix that first, then you may have sufficient additional energy to out-colonize. Barring that, and you abandon the human race.
I stand by the statement, your paranoia notwithstanding. I fear my great grandchildren dying not of something falling out of the sky, but by the effects of ecosystems gone bad, the dying ocean then bereft of fish to eat and poisoned by fertilizer and pesticide runoff.
They'll die because some idiot took up the battles of their ancestors, hijacked a nuke, and used it to settle some perceived debt that's hundreds of years old.
The doomsday sayers have been using the excuse to leave, find a new nirvana, only to have the new one turn into dissention, turmoil, and conflict. Outward migration fixes very little. This is a dying planet, but it could be rejuvenated. No one wants to spend the energy to do that, it seems.
Like never before, we can see objects that have impact possibility well in advance.
Unlike Dr Hawking, I believe that we ought to stay here and fix the problems, not migrate off. It's almost like having an excuse not to understand all of the ecosystems we've corrupted, pollution that has overcome many of them, or do the real job of birth control so as to limit resource utilization to something tenable.
Instead, it's don't worry, let's not worry about flushing the loo, we'll be out of here anyway. Fix the problems here, I say, and then we're responsible enough to seek distant new homes-- those places cooperating. If I were they, I'd fight like hell to keep us away.
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It is our very destiny to use the wrong stuff to do work. We use spreadsheets as word processors and vice-versa. We have wall-wart servers, we rewrite WRT54gs and make them jump through fire hoops.
If we want to print from a phone or a pad, we'll fucking do it. If we want to use the iPad as a hammer or a tire chock, so be it.
The real travesty here is not recapturing all the hot air in Wash DC and heating much of the Eastern Seaboard with it.
And according to TFA, parallels are drawn between the Sun->MS Java suit and the Oracle/Sun->Google suit.
My take: Sun and Oracle didn't enforce Java patents, let other numerous other forks occur, licenses all of it under protected terms that don't necessarily require full Java implementations, and otherwise permit competing products to blossom wherever they happen.
Oh, and Steve complained to Larry about Eric, and Larry said, 'no worries, I'll take care of it'.
Never forget.
Remember to forgive, but never forget.
Sounds nice on paper, but what of the big brother implications? Yes, it's comforting that on one hand, my privacy could be protected and company secrets are safe. On the other hand, Hello Mr Smith, you've been terminated, and your little phone, too....
Smacks of a Max Headroom episode...
I don't know that vindication is the right word. Kurzweil's approach is one of several that may have merit and add to the body of knowledge about the lifecycle of the physical and experiential states of the mind. We already know that brains come in numerous varieties, depending on hormonal dosing from gestation through adulthood, as well as predispositions that are genetically influenced. Kurzweil's thinking casts a wide net, and there are huge chasms remaining to be explored.
Taking your pic might be novel. Detecting an operating system breach might be novel. Imagine your ISP coming into your machine, determining you have a virus, and wiping you.
Sigh.
Perhaps only Apple could think this one up. It's comforting to know that they're trying to save me from myself. Not.
"I am gonna beg a little patience from the media, so I can study the details of this program and then make a much more inflamed commentary about it."
There. Fixed that for you.
Modded? No. But tonight, a search engine harvester is coming here. Your link will be cross associated with your other citations. The SE will make a note of that for later correlation.
And when Jesus comes back, the first place he's going to is Google to find out who's gonna get a big smite. That's what Schmidt's saying. Eric will make a little query, and the shit's gonna fly in YOUR direction, heathen.
Oh, wait....
There must be a way, using the Hall Effect, to read magstripes, too. Wouldn't it be fun to find out where someone bought that mouthwash, the credit card used, and whether the car being driven needs a tune-up and exceeded the posted speed limit? Perhaps there's a way to even read dental work and hidden tattoos. A UAV with more than just WiFi...
Oh, wait.
The visual of one of Toronto's finest, shotgun in hand, trying not to kill pigeons, but getting those damn UAVs is hilarioius
I wish they could also stimulate some of those RFID passport tags, and do some broadband sniffing and characterizations, too. Mmmmm. Data.
And no, there are many of us that aren't 'good with that'.
It's part of the desire to remain alone. Fortunately, it doesn't take much to turn it off, with the incumbent risks in doing so.
I still like the USPS for shipping regular packages, but admit using alternate means.
The Cato Institute hasn't been looking at tax revenues, which are in serious decline. Where I live, sports, music, and other programs are deeply cut. Travel for schools is way down. Grades are up here, but I'm sure that other measures might disagree overall. The unions have even more to worry about, as states haven't been funding their pensions; enormous liabilities exist, some say trillions.
When I came into these United States in the 1950s, there were about 175M people. Now, the number is over 300M. Government has grown without a doubt. Yet programs and their funding are the crux of fights year after year after year to the point where we're tired of listening to the fights.
It was the great Senator from Illinois, Everett Dirksen, that was said to have uttered: a few billion here, a few billion there, and soon you're talking about real money.
The anti-union agenda is onerous. Yes, there are some thugs, and then there are employers whose employment practices are clearly unfair by any measure. Exporting labor to developing countries was shortsighted. In the short term, investors are happy. In the long term, your customers can't afford you because they have no wages.
They really need to make up revenue.
It's not perfect, at all. It's made of humans that screw up.
Where I come from, a similar incident happened; same sort of background except that the guy was white.
But then I've witnessed cops pulling nearly dead bodies out of wrecked cars and try desperately to save lives of drunken idiots at great personal peril.
An anecdotal citation doesn't tell the bigger picture, they only serve to seemingly bolster a point. Having been to the EU, India, China, Indonesia, much of S America and Africa, I can also tell you that there are few parallels to the liberty and freedom enjoyed by Americans. It's not perfect, and is a work in progress. But some people do nothing, and expect everything on a platter. Instead, if you believe things need fixing, join in and fix them or help those that are.
You apparently haven't driven down the Indiana Toll Road recently. It's a mine field, worse than ever, with increased tolls. The Indiana governor, over the objections of people in the northern part of the state where the ITR passes thru, used the funds to go on a road repair bender, including additional Interstate construction spends (I-69) that are loathed by most of the counties where it's destined to pass thru. What happened was the sale of the future value of the annuity of income from the toll road-- which could have well been a strong contributor to a state that's now down to worrying about casino tax revenue as real income.
Today, I'll get a dozen letters (and hopefully a check) in my mailbox. It's expensive, it's necessary. UPS charges more, and has about the same service level in my experience.
I like Cedar Point. Lots of great rides, just like many amusement parks in the midwest. But I'm getting too old for back-jarring rides. I like quiet outdoors with hiking and biking paths, as few vendors as possible.
To your last point, if you haven't already noticed, nearly every state in the US is facing mind-boggling service cuts. Roads, bridges, and infrastructure in general aren't getting funded very well (save for ObamaBucks and the aforementioned Governor Daniels sell-out). We can't stop problems like carp getting into Lake Michigan, or oil into the Gulf until the messes are huge. We're fighting several wars concurrently, and not very well.
Funding cuts? Look at your local schools, your public safety funding, USDA inspections, and so on. There isn't really a positive slope. It's a rollercoaster, and a bad one, on a good day. On a bad day, it's miserable.
Well, let's start with standards, like the 60hz electricity we use. Don't ask about oil drilling standards for offshore rigs.
Then there are roads. I think Interstate highways are underbuilt to keep road construction companies in business, but overall, they're pretty nice.
And I like public parks, like Yellowstone, Yosemite, and so on. But they're chronically underfunded. I like the US Defense Department, but they're often over-funded. Then there are those great TSA guys that keep me feeling safe at airports, take nice pictures of me, and smoke cigarettes outside the terminals.
Cancelling government services, to return to reality, are simple: you cut off their funding and they wither on the vine. Despite our seeming hatred of government, the US Government is far better than many others. And someone needs to keep the foxes out of the henhouse.
Not the fuel for a budget sucking soiree when we don't have clue one about the possible destinations and their characteristics, only some fuzzy ideas of potential exploratory sites.
Do we send a mothballed space shuttle to land on an asteroid and blow it to bits? Oh, that's another movie. Bruce WIllis had hair then.
Indeed we do know how to kill it; we're doing it very well, thank you. In the same vein, we also know how to save it, but various interests aren't willing to put forth the energy to do so.
Various biospheres have come and gone. The conclusions have been interesting. Part of this is attitude, and stringent controls with positive motivators, and the elimination of poverty.
Once we embark to another space, the dynamics and ecosystems change; there's little chance of finding another earth that doesn't have some form of life like ours.
There are billions of things that can kill us. We've surmounted many starting with penicillin. What's out there is unknown. Better to cure what you know first, then plan for the unknown.
Part of the problem is that when I arrived on this planet, there were about 3.2 billion, now there are over 6.
The big problems back then are the same problems now. You're not doing very well at mollifying me.
Presumably your enemies.
The migrations to the US are a great case in point. Get those (fill in these blanks) away from here, they're apostates, heretics, and they dress funny and have bad breath.
It gives a whole new meaning to Gleason's "To the moon, Alice!"
This presumes that all the people on this planet have something to eat, and an ostensible roof over their heads, and access to medical care, as we all break at one time or another.
Fix that first, then you may have sufficient additional energy to out-colonize. Barring that, and you abandon the human race.
I stand by the statement, your paranoia notwithstanding. I fear my great grandchildren dying not of something falling out of the sky, but by the effects of ecosystems gone bad, the dying ocean then bereft of fish to eat and poisoned by fertilizer and pesticide runoff.
They'll die because some idiot took up the battles of their ancestors, hijacked a nuke, and used it to settle some perceived debt that's hundreds of years old.
The doomsday sayers have been using the excuse to leave, find a new nirvana, only to have the new one turn into dissention, turmoil, and conflict. Outward migration fixes very little. This is a dying planet, but it could be rejuvenated. No one wants to spend the energy to do that, it seems.
Like never before, we can see objects that have impact possibility well in advance.
Unlike Dr Hawking, I believe that we ought to stay here and fix the problems, not migrate off. It's almost like having an excuse not to understand all of the ecosystems we've corrupted, pollution that has overcome many of them, or do the real job of birth control so as to limit resource utilization to something tenable.
Instead, it's don't worry, let's not worry about flushing the loo, we'll be out of here anyway. Fix the problems here, I say, and then we're responsible enough to seek distant new homes-- those places cooperating. If I were they, I'd fight like hell to keep us away.
New Defcon contest: odometer hacks. Plug into the little interface jack under your dash, and viola! Abatement!