The main reason is that they promise undeliverable things. Management on the technical end back them up (cos we cant lose a x million $ contract) and then the tech staff end up working sgtupid hours hacking together something that pays lip service to whatever feature the sales guy has promised.
I don't understand how this can be modded insightful when you have got strong and weak AI pretty much reversed. Expert systems, spam bots and other symbolic manipulation based systems are strong AI. Weak AI is things like behaviorism, genetic programming, connectionism.
I don't know if you wrote that or just copied it from google somewhere but I really fail to see what is insightful about this gibberish.
1.) Incorrect the *value* of X divided by zero is undefined, this is not the same as it somehow being impossible to understand. The following sentences bear no relationship to your initial premise.
2.) Unsubstantiated, I highly doubt it is as fast as every 4 years although the point that the "halflife" is accelerating is clearly true. The premise about re-engineering ourselves being inevitable clearly doesnt hold, for a start it may be impossible but we don't know it yet, we may destroy ourselves or we may develop a worldwide keep humans human etchical campaign. The final sentence doesnt even make sense.
3.) Unsubstantiated, I dont think the definition of singularity is what you think it is.
4.) Supposition.
5.) Assumptions 1-4 don't hold, conclusion is invalid. Stated more as propaganda anyway.
By all means continue your stargazing, and it is a wonderful vision but to present it as inevitable is a grave falsehood.
You're not so much putting the cart before the horse as the interstellar-faster-than-light-time-travelling-wonder-spacecraft-that-runs-on-good-intentions before the horse.
Actually its my own experience based on working constantly throughtout my life since I was 16.
I worked 3 jobs and went to school so I could afford my own car in 6th form, have worked holiday jobs every uni holiday and even worked 20 hrs a week through my masters degree.
Followed by a year of web-dev as a stop gap and finally into a dev position at a fortune 20 company.
Although I have certainly never been in danger of starving or being in poverty I wouldnt say Im overly privileged either.
The people who end up stuck in "under-employment" as the article puts it may not be as over qualified for the position as they think (assuming they are actively looking for work and getting turned down).
Of course I don't know why Im bothering to reply to an anonymous study posted on channel 4 's automated feed which they expressly deny liability for.....without details of the actual study its not obvious that the reporter drew the right conclusion from the research or that the testing methdology was sound. And of course correlation does not indicate cauality etc etc.
Quite a few hardware failures I've encountered, CPUs, hard drives, video cards, whether my own or friends or work-related, I've been able to blame on temperature one way or another.
If it wasnt for temperature we wouldnt have all that pesky failure inducing entropy. 0K ftw I say!
The competition is quite stiff but there are plenty of good grad positions around. The copmany I work for is actually finding it difficult to hire the level of talent they want (its all going to merchant banks / consulting practices etc in London that pay a lot more).
If you're looking at positions that don't pay more than managing a McDonalds let alone working in one (or claiming benefits) then you are probably the result of the last few recent Labour governments' policy of encouraging everyone and their granny into higher education.
As for claiming benefits there is no excuse for anyone in Slashdot's audience not to be able to find work in the UK other than their own laziness.
To be honest im not sure that's the interfaces fault. By building a cup you should have learned transferable skills that could be used for building...for example..teapots.
adwords allow advertising to a demographic of one. if you sell gloves that are missing the middle finger on one hand (for people who've lost that finger), you could theoretically dial in your adwords to catch that person.
adwords and gmail make it even more powerful. now, instead of catching people who are actively searching the web, you can just filter their email.
i use gmail, and i have actually clicked on a few adwords because i had sent an email to someone asking if they had xyz for sale, and the adwords threw up a link to an online store that did.
adwords are NOT banner ads. they're specific, they're not obnoxiousm, and they work. this is the piece of the pie microsoft wants to in on, and they're trying to acquire yahoo (at least their traffic) to do it.
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Terrorism has been going on in Britain (hint up until the 90s in Britain a terrorist was more likely to be caucasian than arabic) for a very long time so theres been more time for things to filter down into law, the US are johnny come lately's with their twin towers.
The trouble is most user created content isnt very good. UO had some steps in this area allowing houses and stuff but what resulted was a vendor wasteland (huge swathes of land full of houses / stalls of automated traders).
Its cos you cant change the pickups, lower the action or stick a fuzz in front of the chain to boost the top end for solos.
Honeastly though i think its a quality game!
I thought both were weaker than the hyperion cantos tbh. His Songs of Kali isnt sci-fi but was a very good read.
Just after discovering Simmons I got hooked on Alistair Reynolds I thoroughly recomment his booker (read them in order starting with Revelation Space). Im assuming you've already exhausted Ian M Banks of course.
I found Peter F Hamilton pretty weak tbh but only tried one of his books (Mindstar Rising). I would consider it as "hard sci-fi or as space opera" as the other authors mentioned. It reads very much like a tv script.
Did you know that every time a company requests an h1b, another 5 US jobs are created?
I'd agree every outsourced worker on our team causes 5 persons worth of work to rectify their obvious incompetence. Unfortunately we dont get any increased headcount to deal with this work.
Its the time though isnt it? I try and cook from scratch at leas 3 or 4 times a week but with work, the gym and my 2 bands spending an hour and a half cooking takes up what little time i have at home.
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The main reason is that they promise undeliverable things. Management on the technical end back them up (cos we cant lose a x million $ contract) and then the tech staff end up working sgtupid hours hacking together something that pays lip service to whatever feature the sales guy has promised.
I don't understand how this can be modded insightful when you have got strong and weak AI pretty much reversed. Expert systems, spam bots and other symbolic manipulation based systems are strong AI. Weak AI is things like behaviorism, genetic programming, connectionism.
I don't know if you wrote that or just copied it from google somewhere but I really fail to see what is insightful about this gibberish.
1.) Incorrect the *value* of X divided by zero is undefined, this is not the same as it somehow being impossible to understand. The following sentences bear no relationship to your initial premise.
2.) Unsubstantiated, I highly doubt it is as fast as every 4 years although the point that the "halflife" is accelerating is clearly true. The premise about re-engineering ourselves being inevitable clearly doesnt hold, for a start it may be impossible but we don't know it yet, we may destroy ourselves or we may develop a worldwide keep humans human etchical campaign. The final sentence doesnt even make sense.
3.) Unsubstantiated, I dont think the definition of singularity is what you think it is.
4.) Supposition.
5.) Assumptions 1-4 don't hold, conclusion is invalid. Stated more as propaganda anyway.
By all means continue your stargazing, and it is a wonderful vision but to present it as inevitable is a grave falsehood.
You're not so much putting the cart before the horse as the interstellar-faster-than-light-time-travelling-wonder-spacecraft-that-runs-on-good-intentions before the horse.
Surely you mean if they're trying to bring *another* religious war to glasgow.
I wrap my enigma in a factory class
I find you're discussion of web 2.0 interesting and insightful. I have tagged it web2.0 in delicious to help me find it in the future.
Actually its my own experience based on working constantly throughtout my life since I was 16.
I worked 3 jobs and went to school so I could afford my own car in 6th form, have worked holiday jobs every uni holiday and even worked 20 hrs a week through my masters degree.
Followed by a year of web-dev as a stop gap and finally into a dev position at a fortune 20 company.
Although I have certainly never been in danger of starving or being in poverty I wouldnt say Im overly privileged either.
The people who end up stuck in "under-employment" as the article puts it may not be as over qualified for the position as they think (assuming they are actively looking for work and getting turned down).
Of course I don't know why Im bothering to reply to an anonymous study posted on channel 4 's automated feed which they expressly deny liability for.....without details of the actual study its not obvious that the reporter drew the right conclusion from the research or that the testing methdology was sound. And of course correlation does not indicate cauality etc etc.
The competition is quite stiff but there are plenty of good grad positions around. The copmany I work for is actually finding it difficult to hire the level of talent they want (its all going to merchant banks / consulting practices etc in London that pay a lot more). If you're looking at positions that don't pay more than managing a McDonalds let alone working in one (or claiming benefits) then you are probably the result of the last few recent Labour governments' policy of encouraging everyone and their granny into higher education. As for claiming benefits there is no excuse for anyone in Slashdot's audience not to be able to find work in the UK other than their own laziness.
Developing is less boring but harder. And you dont have to remember so many "magic strings" as being an admin.
Wait a minute..I can understand your English perfectly...you never worked in tech support did you?
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To be honest im not sure that's the interfaces fault. By building a cup you should have learned transferable skills that could be used for building...for example..teapots.
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Terrorism has been going on in Britain (hint up until the 90s in Britain a terrorist was more likely to be caucasian than arabic) for a very long time so theres been more time for things to filter down into law, the US are johnny come lately's with their twin towers.
Do you know if wine supports Ulteo Virtual desktop yet?
I have angel processes which restart my loops when they terminate.
The trouble is most user created content isnt very good. UO had some steps in this area allowing houses and stuff but what resulted was a vendor wasteland (huge swathes of land full of houses / stalls of automated traders).
Its cos you cant change the pickups, lower the action or stick a fuzz in front of the chain to boost the top end for solos. Honeastly though i think its a quality game!
I might give him a 2nd shot then, is there a stand-out book that might restore my faith?
I thought both were weaker than the hyperion cantos tbh. His Songs of Kali isnt sci-fi but was a very good read. Just after discovering Simmons I got hooked on Alistair Reynolds I thoroughly recomment his booker (read them in order starting with Revelation Space). Im assuming you've already exhausted Ian M Banks of course. I found Peter F Hamilton pretty weak tbh but only tried one of his books (Mindstar Rising). I would consider it as "hard sci-fi or as space opera" as the other authors mentioned. It reads very much like a tv script.
Its the time though isnt it? I try and cook from scratch at leas 3 or 4 times a week but with work, the gym and my 2 bands spending an hour and a half cooking takes up what little time i have at home.