Not the young ones obviously. But I think the more obvious reference is star wars. I imagine C3PO roaming an Australian cattle station ambushing cows and annoying them into going in for muster.
lots of illegals in Australia, but we only care about those that come by boat, the backpackers and students that over stay visas and work on farms are tolerated, wtf?
Illegals in Australia are small in number because of our oceanic border. Its not that they are tolerated, just that there aren't many of them.
Now, why do these illegals come to America (and canada, EU, UK, and Australia)?
Hardly at all in Australia because our border is pretty much impossible to cross. If there was a land bridge to Indonesia it would be a different story. Though I should point out that I know this guy, a civil engineer, from Malaysia who moved here recently and got a job inspecting tilt up concrete slabs. Workers are paid below the legal minimum and don't seem to get their benefits. Many of them may not have work visas. So there is a grey labor market here but its not not as overt as it is in the US. My one time there I stayed with friends in New York city. Every household in that building seemed to have a Mexican woman doing their laundry and looking after their kids.
I've banned my doctor from storing my records on any computer system located outside their premises
After a recent stay in hospital my cardiology records showed up seamlessly on my doctors workstation. I doubt my doctor knows where that data is stored and if it is stored off site I am sure medical staff have no control over how it is stored.
Brings to mind a scene in Michael Crichton's book Terminal Man where somebody is developing a ping pong playing robot (IIRC called HAPP (Hopelessly Articlated PingPong Player)) and the point is made that the ability to accurately deflect a table tennis ball could have all kinds of defense applications.
I've never understood why RedHat/Fedora was more popular than Mandriva.
Really? You never understood that? Redhat was one of the first ever linux distributions. Mandriva was effectively derived from redhat. So why would Mandriva be more popular?
I think the difference in the packaging systems is that debian had comprehensive online repositories a decade before redhat. So while redhat may have caught up, a lot of their configuration management has historically centred around "you need this RPM file" while in debian it was "you need this package".
I noticed that when my wife navigates to my sisters facebook page, I am already in there as kind of a placeholder on my sisters list of friends. Its not too serious a problem for me because my sister has 432 friends, so I tend to get buried in the clutter but I suppose there is a risk that she will start fleshing out that empty profile.
Get called out for somebody collapsing in the street. Press their sweaty fingers to a reader. System reads back any known medical history for that person, as well as any interesting chemicals detected by the reader.
My wife has the only facebook account in the family. Yesterday she got a page suggesting that she send friend requests to a bunch of people who she had never mentioned on facebook. She thought for a minute that this information must have come from her mail client on her computer but I thought it was more likely that it came happened because people she knows used a facebook feature to import their contacts directly from their mail accounts. So its somewhat good for FB to have these extra connections between existing users but its really bad for them to scare people by acting like a stalker. So if they want to look good they just have to stop scraping data from various sources and focus on keeping their customers feeling safe.
I think Obama and Sarkozy did this on purpose. Its a message to Israeli voters. I realize that it is a translation from French, nit the wording is just to careful to be genuinely spontaneous. Didn't Sarkozy think to use any of those wonderful French swear words?
While complex, distributed systems may be deterministic, its hard to prove that they are. The systems I have seen are on the bleeding edge of maintainability. They sit on that edge because customers and marketing demand certain functions, while the producer of the software demands features which increase market share and product definition. Engineers have very little say in the matter.
90% of my day job is a bunch of engineers standing around scratching our heads trying to brainstorm ways to figure out what the hell is going on with our system. We don't even know what it is doing, let along being able to tell it what to do.
Oh, you work for Microsoft?
No I work in a place where our internal library has a copy of I sing the body electronic and we all laugh about it knowingly.
As a function of their programming computers will always do what they are told to do - to suggest otherwise also suggests that computers have some form of intelligence.
The ocean does not do what it is told, but it is not intelligent.
computers do exactly what they're supposed to do — what they're told.
90% of my day job is a bunch of engineers standing around scratching our heads trying to brainstorm ways to figure out what the hell is going on with our system. We don't even know what it is doing, let along being able to tell it what to do.
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Not the young ones obviously. But I think the more obvious reference is star wars. I imagine C3PO roaming an Australian cattle station ambushing cows and annoying them into going in for muster.
lots of illegals in Australia, but we only care about those that come by boat, the backpackers and students that over stay visas and work on farms are tolerated, wtf?
Illegals in Australia are small in number because of our oceanic border. Its not that they are tolerated, just that there aren't many of them.
Now, why do these illegals come to America (and canada, EU, UK, and Australia)?
Hardly at all in Australia because our border is pretty much impossible to cross. If there was a land bridge to Indonesia it would be a different story. Though I should point out that I know this guy, a civil engineer, from Malaysia who moved here recently and got a job inspecting tilt up concrete slabs. Workers are paid below the legal minimum and don't seem to get their benefits. Many of them may not have work visas. So there is a grey labor market here but its not not as overt as it is in the US. My one time there I stayed with friends in New York city. Every household in that building seemed to have a Mexican woman doing their laundry and looking after their kids.
I was thinking more Neil Young
Will they run on 8086 CPUs?
Yes I suppose the time will come when people who need surgery will just download the appropriate software into their gardener and press start.
The music industry consists of musicians and they won't deal with google unless they want to.
Do you mean "buy the whole music industry"?
I've banned my doctor from storing my records on any computer system located outside their premises
After a recent stay in hospital my cardiology records showed up seamlessly on my doctors workstation. I doubt my doctor knows where that data is stored and if it is stored off site I am sure medical staff have no control over how it is stored.
Brings to mind a scene in Michael Crichton's book Terminal Man where somebody is developing a ping pong playing robot (IIRC called HAPP (Hopelessly Articlated PingPong Player)) and the point is made that the ability to accurately deflect a table tennis ball could have all kinds of defense applications.
Buy the switches and knobs you need and solder them to the terminals of keys on your destroyed keyboard. Thats the cheap way.
Anyone who says otherwise hasn't used Fedora in a long, long time
Sure, because of RPM hell.
I just use sudo bash
I've never understood why RedHat/Fedora was more popular than Mandriva.
Really? You never understood that? Redhat was one of the first ever linux distributions. Mandriva was effectively derived from redhat. So why would Mandriva be more popular?
I think the difference in the packaging systems is that debian had comprehensive online repositories a decade before redhat. So while redhat may have caught up, a lot of their configuration management has historically centred around "you need this RPM file" while in debian it was "you need this package".
I noticed that when my wife navigates to my sisters facebook page, I am already in there as kind of a placeholder on my sisters list of friends. Its not too serious a problem for me because my sister has 432 friends, so I tend to get buried in the clutter but I suppose there is a risk that she will start fleshing out that empty profile.
Get called out for somebody collapsing in the street. Press their sweaty fingers to a reader. System reads back any known medical history for that person, as well as any interesting chemicals detected by the reader.
My wife has the only facebook account in the family. Yesterday she got a page suggesting that she send friend requests to a bunch of people who she had never mentioned on facebook. She thought for a minute that this information must have come from her mail client on her computer but I thought it was more likely that it came happened because people she knows used a facebook feature to import their contacts directly from their mail accounts. So its somewhat good for FB to have these extra connections between existing users but its really bad for them to scare people by acting like a stalker. So if they want to look good they just have to stop scraping data from various sources and focus on keeping their customers feeling safe.
Without my space helmet there is no way I am getting in to my /. account.
I am probably biased because I get my language lessons from French expat engineers.
I think Obama and Sarkozy did this on purpose. Its a message to Israeli voters. I realize that it is a translation from French, nit the wording is just to careful to be genuinely spontaneous. Didn't Sarkozy think to use any of those wonderful French swear words?
While complex, distributed systems may be deterministic, its hard to prove that they are. The systems I have seen are on the bleeding edge of maintainability. They sit on that edge because customers and marketing demand certain functions, while the producer of the software demands features which increase market share and product definition. Engineers have very little say in the matter.
90% of my day job is a bunch of engineers standing around scratching our heads trying to brainstorm ways to figure out what the hell is going on with our system. We don't even know what it is doing, let along being able to tell it what to do.
Oh, you work for Microsoft?
No I work in a place where our internal library has a copy of I sing the body electronic and we all laugh about it knowingly.
As a function of their programming computers will always do what they are told to do - to suggest otherwise also suggests that computers have some form of intelligence.
The ocean does not do what it is told, but it is not intelligent.
computers do exactly what they're supposed to do — what they're told.
90% of my day job is a bunch of engineers standing around scratching our heads trying to brainstorm ways to figure out what the hell is going on with our system. We don't even know what it is doing, let along being able to tell it what to do.