But the "Three Laws of Robotics" is a completely flawed concept - kinda like a whale with a built-in anchor - it would be the first thing (biological feature) to go.
Voice interface to computers will never catch on. Just listen to yourself and your cow-orkers:
Shit!!
No! Wait!
Goddamnit!
Fuck!!
Aaaaaah!!!
Oooooh Nooooooo!!
You pieca shit!!
Hey! It looks like you're writing a leter!
Fuck off!!
Hey! It looks like you're writing a leter!
Fuck off!!
Hey! It looks like..
BLAM!! BLAM!! BLAM!!
No, that's completely wrong. This is about which one is "best" in a two-line "executive summary" for the PHBs. It's about implanting the FUD that maybe Windows is better after all. Few PHBs have the spine to actually find out for themselves, or to stick to their guns if challenged.
This is a certification for a sysadmin, which is a different kettle of fish. Many employers are reluctant to allow sysadmins to learn as they go, they're expected to know what to do when The Bad Thing (TM) happens - fast.
Austrailia is where most of the smart Hong Kong money went when the British gave it up. Intel is essentially buying the top tier of the Asian market for chump change.
It took me a while to get hang of using the calculator (the circled "C" is the shortcut), one of Fly's really cool features. Following Fly's instructions, you draw a calculator box with numbers including "plus" and "minus" symbols on a piece of Fly paper. Then, you tap the numbers you want to calculate with the pen, and the gadget makes additions, subtractions, divisions, and multiplications for you. Here, too, you need good handwriting.
OK, so I need special paper, good handwriting, I draw a picture of a calculator, tap the numbers, and it speaks the answer. What could be simpler?
The UI on this thing sounds horrible, and the features it provides don't sound fun or useful, but other than that, it seems like a great device.
Not really. The roads are full of people who have no clue how to drive a car with a clutch and a manual transmission. If you suddenly told them that they would not only have to do that, but change their own oil and adjust their own valves, their little heads would explode. Not that most of them couldn't do it with the proper training, It's simply not what they're used to.
I'd think that this technology would be more useful as a training tool, to help new soldiers learn what to expect in combat. Also, couldn't this be used as a physological filter, to identify those most likely to come down with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in the first place?
Hey!! Hey!! Hey!!
You must be new here.
Around these parts, we call that "Quality Assurance".
Mess up again, and we're sending you for Vocabulary Training.
Suits are always pinheaded and defensive. That's why they call them PHBs.
I was contracting for a Rockwell division the day the Challenger blew up, and 20 minutes after it went down, we had an office pool going: "How long will it take them to figure out that it was caused by some middle-manager (somewhere in the supply chain) screaming "Whaddaya mean I can't ship on schedule??!!??""
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But the "Three Laws of Robotics" is a completely flawed concept - kinda like a whale with a built-in anchor - it would be the first thing (biological feature) to go.
Voice interface to computers will never catch on. Just listen to yourself and your cow-orkers:
Shit!!
No! Wait!
Goddamnit!
Fuck!!
Aaaaaah!!!
Oooooh Nooooooo!!
You pieca shit!!
Hey! It looks like you're writing a leter!
Fuck off!!
Hey! It looks like you're writing a leter!
Fuck off!!
Hey! It looks like..
BLAM!! BLAM!! BLAM!!
> After all, isn't that where id got their start?
Funny.
My question is: why do God and UFOs both seem to favor Louisiana?
Isn't this the wrong week to be moving to Louisiana?
No, that's completely wrong. This is about which one is "best" in a two-line "executive summary" for the PHBs. It's about implanting the FUD that maybe Windows is better after all. Few PHBs have the spine to actually find out for themselves, or to stick to their guns if challenged.
That's why I call my peaches/ketshup/garlic/broccoli mixture "beef stroganoff".
This is a certification for a sysadmin, which is a different kettle of fish. Many employers are reluctant to allow sysadmins to learn as they go, they're expected to know what to do when The Bad Thing (TM) happens - fast.
This is actually Step 2 in the The Apple Product Cycle
The conclusion is based on computer modeling of the atmosphere and how water would behave
In other words "Nothing for you to see here, move along".
Which, on a laptop, invariably happens at 9.8m/s^2.
Centrinos for everyone!!!
Then you remember seeing the one that broke in half when the nose wheel touched down. I think of that every time I watch the Shuttle land.
I have a loose tooth, but I'm determined not to lose it.
Lose: To *not* win, to misplace (forever).
Loose: Not tight.
It took me a while to get hang of using the calculator (the circled "C" is the shortcut), one of Fly's really cool features. Following Fly's instructions, you draw a calculator box with numbers including "plus" and "minus" symbols on a piece of Fly paper. Then, you tap the numbers you want to calculate with the pen, and the gadget makes additions, subtractions, divisions, and multiplications for you. Here, too, you need good handwriting.
OK, so I need special paper, good handwriting, I draw a picture of a calculator, tap the numbers, and it speaks the answer. What could be simpler?
The UI on this thing sounds horrible, and the features it provides don't sound fun or useful, but other than that, it seems like a great device.
I take it, then, that you're not going for Intelligent Falling?
Not really. The roads are full of people who have no clue how to drive a car with a clutch and a manual transmission. If you suddenly told them that they would not only have to do that, but change their own oil and adjust their own valves, their little heads would explode. Not that most of them couldn't do it with the proper training, It's simply not what they're used to.
I'm going to have to listen to my Walter Carlos version of "Switched on Bach" - on vinyl.
I know Sun thought that Microsoft's adoption of Java was A Big Win, too.
Their: Belonging to them.
There: A place, not here.
They're: A contraction, meaning "They Are".
I'd think that this technology would be more useful as a training tool, to help new soldiers learn what to expect in combat. Also, couldn't this be used as a physological filter, to identify those most likely to come down with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in the first place?
A trademark on a name is not the same as a trademark on the thing it names.
That's just modern journalism.
It used to be Who What When Where and How, now it's May Might Could HelpTo and SomeDay.
Wow! If it cures deceases, sign me up for some of that!
Hey!! Hey!! Hey!!
You must be new here.
Around these parts, we call that "Quality Assurance".
Mess up again, and we're sending you for Vocabulary Training.
I was contracting for a Rockwell division the day the Challenger blew up, and 20 minutes after it went down, we had an office pool going: "How long will it take them to figure out that it was caused by some middle-manager (somewhere in the supply chain) screaming "Whaddaya mean I can't ship on schedule??!!??""