But could you please justify and explain the statement you made: "You did deprive them - of money."
Please cite your references and explain any statistics quoted in your explanation. Please also quantify how much money the **AA have been deprived of by TPB. Please do this so that we can forevermore trust that the **AA member companies declining revenues and train-wreck-about-to-happen business model is doomed because of TPB and others like them.
If you can prove that this is driving the **AA member companies out of business beyond any doubt, I will start downloading music and movies illegally to help ensure a quick end to the **AAs of the world.
If you are the fall guy, presumably you will have had one or more positive reviews? If there are positive reviews and perhaps good references from other workers at said company, having a disagreement with the management about something (especially if your views on that disagreement were/are the industry standard practices) should not be a problem. Just be gentle/discrete when you explain it. Nobody wants to hire someone that talks badly about their employer(s).
The bashing that you refer to is a reference to the theory that our brains are wired to believe in religion in as much as they are wired for morality http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/2 1/1828223. Other people have suggested that beliefs in a diety are possibly simply a function of the human brain.
The real use of a 'spark of free will' in robotics is that it may/probably will be useful in generating something akin to a random number, but doing so algorithmically such that the robot need not be programmed implicitly as to how to get around every possible type of object or implicitly how to deal with every possible combination of sensor readings. What fuzzy logic could or should have been might be better serviced with 'a spark of free will' as it were.
As to your assessment of my of my intelligence, you are of course welcome to hold your own opinions. I do however wish you would have explained what 'prole' means. I can't seem to figure out what you were meaning to say. Thanks mr AC
Not that I'm supporting this sort of thing..... BUT it would be damned funny if Stanford suddenly received 2,000,000 DMCA letters from the RIAA or some friends of the RIAA. Does anyone know the IP address range for Stanford?
(start sarcasm) Yeah, I can see it now, after a fresh install your desktop is full of shortcuts to malware and worm installation scripts so that you can choose how you want to be p0wned (end sarcasm)
that we'll see 32 bit computing for another 20 years? Seriously, it took them how long to bring Vista to the market? Something tells me that its going to take a lot longer for MS to move beyond that to the next version of Windows. There doesn't seem to be a lot of uptake on Vista. It might take 3 more years to get to SP2, never mind beyond Vista.
Without trying to vitriolic, I did say start reading CIO magazine or whatever it takes. Managers read magazines, talk to their peers, or watch the news etc. to find out what is happening in the world, and they are more often motivated by the CIO (due to SarbOx rules) than anything else lately. If you don't EDUCATE yourself in order to communicate on their levels you will never get through to them no matter how elegant or cost efficient your proposal is.
I'm not going to tell you to trust me on this, but I will say that if you don't learn to communicate effectively with the audience that you are trying to appeal to, you will never get anywhere no matter what your message is. This is why we see so much political posturing during elections; they are trying to appeal to the voters - their audience.
At every level of business, you have to be political. The absolutely largest part of politics is relating to your intended audience. If you need to take speaking classes, finance classes, whatever... do something so that you can relate to your audience in a way that is EASY for them to understand.
No, seriously. You need to learn how to communicate to those in charge, those above you, and those below you. If you are unable to communicate to those you need to, it is YOU that has a problem. Start reading CIO magazine, read SEC reports, do what you need to do so that you are able to communicate what is required in a way that your audience understands.
I'm not bashing you, or supporting management that is intolerant of the tech savvy crowd. I'm simply saying that if you have to, try some education to get your point across effectively. In the end, it is YOU who gains, not just the company.
I'm not saying that I'm smarter than 'the average bear' but 20 years ago I didn't know anything compared to what the news has taught me in the last 5 years. I'm not willing to say unequivocally that we won't ever know, or that it is impossible to know how the Universe was created. We simply do not know yet....
My bet? By the time that MS announces this miracle of miniature technology, Apple will have the perfect interface for it, LG will have sold 3 million of their version worldwide, and Motorola will have sold it in 4 special edition colors before MS has their beta product shipped to magazines reviewers.
FTFA "UCLA neurobiologist Mark Frye noted that future work should isolate and understand the brain circuitry and genetic pathways responsible for this spontaneous behavior in flies "and whether or not they are conserved in other animals."
It seems that every week or so (can we get a Moore's law equivalent) we learn something new about brains (ours or some other animal) that we didn't know before. It's looking more and more like we are as programmed as any other lower animal but with higher level behaviors. For instance: your dog doesn't know how the tap water gets to your kitchen sink (maybe you don't either) but we humans do, though we don't know how the Universe was created, some day we might when we learn enough.
This does stand to be interesting to robotics. If you sit down to figure out the algorithm to get a robot out of a tight spot, 'a spark of free will' might be very VERY useful. The simple randomness of such might be what keeps most of us out of trouble most of the time anyway... we just don't realize it, or worse, we blame it on a deity?
I'm just amazed at how much we are learning these days compared to even just 50 years ago.
I agree with you, it is NOT flamebait... just simple commentary on the state of judicial systems around the world with regard to the state of technology.
if they ever were an oracle for the tech industry that is.
As mentioned, they have yet to release any product worth much this century --- say that slowly to yourself!
No matter how hard they try, and they will, MS will not get anything that can be called portable enough to be a 'phone' to also be a person's primary computer, with or without the addition of interfacing to a tv for video output. The claim of running video from it is just a bit absurd at the current level of technology. So what would be the point of saying something like that? Have you ever watched a stage magician at work? Yep, they tell you one thing to keep you distracted while they seemingly work to pull a rabbit out of a hat. We all know that what you get is not what you saw, or think you saw.
First, we have them misquoting reports to make Linux look 'illegal', then pumped up sales figures for Vista, now this? WOW, the MS spin machine will need some new bearings soon. The ones they are using will be worn out soon, if they aren't already about to fail.
The reality of the world is what they are trying to distract us from:
FireFox is gaining ground at the expense of IE ODF is gaining ground at MS' expense OOo is gaining ground at MS' expense Dell is shipping Ubuntu systems at the expense of Vista Dell is shipping XP systems at the expense of Vista MS is being implicated in even more illegal/monopolistic dealings MS' best friends in government are too busy right now to help them out again BillG's foundation is getting bad press Apple is still the tech world's stage hog Zune is all but buried in the back pages of tech history.... and on and on
In fact, nothing MS has touched in recent years has ended up good for them.... and THAT is what they don't want stockholders to realize
I'm betting that some people in Redmond are looking for a new place in the Sun
The resounding reply from all corners has been either 'so?' or 'They have nothing, and won't have or they would have already shown it'. What's more, Linus more or less dismissed the claims as nothing more than FUD. There are claims that this FUD is being used to help bolster MS's Q2 sales of Vista.
Nothing but conjecture abounds as MS is doing a SCO and not saying what they have, nor why they want to even mention it. Yet others claim that the Linux vouchers MS is touting actually makes them a Linux distributor and thus subject to the GPL.
The whole thing should pan out to be a very interesting chapter in tech history.
Someone let me know when there is real news on this topic
The methods that they use to determine the components of other planet's atmospheres is valid, though I don't know how accurate. I believe that it's incredibly cool that we can even hypothesize with any scientific ability as to the make up of other planets at this point. Also, I believe that we have found water ice on Mars already, just need to get a rover there to investigate it further.
One of the reasons for looking for water/ice on other planets (now that we can find them) is that water is believed to be a key ingredient of life supporting environments. Thus explaining the reason to try to find water/ice evidence.
While that seems a valid point, any probably is despite any protestation on my part, it is not quite apples to apples. I'm a single user, but I have 6 running copies of FF and zero copies of Vista. A valid FF users does not require a license. You may have downloaded FF several times for one computer, others have put it on many computers.
The reason that I posed the question in the first place is that the only place I've even seen Vista running on a machine was at an electronics store. None of the bleeding edge type people that I know are even wanting to try Vista. I can't figure out where all those copies are?
FF, on the other hand is everywhere around me, despite its small market share compared to IE. The actual physical world around me, and my experiences in it make me question just who is buying those copies of Vista.
who these licenses are being sold to. If half of them were sold to only two OEMs, its not saying much really. If even half of them were bought off the shelf at Best Buy or other stores, that would say something. So, exactly who is buying these licenses?
Thing is, once hungry third world cooperations without all the costs of first world labour standards at head office, or unions and whatnot start taking over internationally.........snip... I have a feeling that when the Kyoto thingy, and other 'global' issues really hit the fan, those same countries will be burdened with the same responsibilities to the 'global community' that western countries are being held to now. Greenpeace is trying to do their thing as are others. I don't think the pendulum will swing full circle on the outsourcing thing before those 'now cheap' countries find themselves trying desperately to clean up the environmental and labor force messes that they are currently creating.
Look into the labor situation in India and China and other places. Its not the hotbed of 'cheap labor forever' that people think it is, and it is quickly becoming untenable even for companies that want to outsource to them with no worries about their economy.
but this is programming in the same way that updating your blog is creating a web site. Pedantic, I know, but important in view of how people feel about H1-Bs and lack of scientific/engineering graduates in the US. It will be interesting to see how much this acts as a gateway to more people taking up programing as a hobby or vocation.
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But could you please justify and explain the statement you made: "You did deprive them - of money."
Please cite your references and explain any statistics quoted in your explanation. Please also quantify how much money the **AA have been deprived of by TPB. Please do this so that we can forevermore trust that the **AA member companies declining revenues and train-wreck-about-to-happen business model is doomed because of TPB and others like them.
If you can prove that this is driving the **AA member companies out of business beyond any doubt, I will start downloading music and movies illegally to help ensure a quick end to the **AAs of the world.
Thank you
If you are the fall guy, presumably you will have had one or more positive reviews? If there are positive reviews and perhaps good references from other workers at said company, having a disagreement with the management about something (especially if your views on that disagreement were/are the industry standard practices) should not be a problem. Just be gentle/discrete when you explain it. Nobody wants to hire someone that talks badly about their employer(s).
Somebody spike the coolaid in the Redmond cafeteria? :-)
The bashing that you refer to is a reference to the theory that our brains are wired to believe in religion in as much as they are wired for morality http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/2 1/1828223. Other people have suggested that beliefs in a diety are possibly simply a function of the human brain.
The real use of a 'spark of free will' in robotics is that it may/probably will be useful in generating something akin to a random number, but doing so algorithmically such that the robot need not be programmed implicitly as to how to get around every possible type of object or implicitly how to deal with every possible combination of sensor readings. What fuzzy logic could or should have been might be better serviced with 'a spark of free will' as it were.
As to your assessment of my of my intelligence, you are of course welcome to hold your own opinions. I do however wish you would have explained what 'prole' means. I can't seem to figure out what you were meaning to say. Thanks mr AC
Not that I'm supporting this sort of thing..... BUT it would be damned funny if Stanford suddenly received 2,000,000 DMCA letters from the RIAA or some friends of the RIAA. Does anyone know the IP address range for Stanford?
(start sarcasm) Yeah, I can see it now, after a fresh install your desktop is full of shortcuts to malware and worm installation scripts so that you can choose how you want to be p0wned (end sarcasm)
that we'll see 32 bit computing for another 20 years? Seriously, it took them how long to bring Vista to the market? Something tells me that its going to take a lot longer for MS to move beyond that to the next version of Windows. There doesn't seem to be a lot of uptake on Vista. It might take 3 more years to get to SP2, never mind beyond Vista.
Without trying to vitriolic, I did say start reading CIO magazine or whatever it takes. Managers read magazines, talk to their peers, or watch the news etc. to find out what is happening in the world, and they are more often motivated by the CIO (due to SarbOx rules) than anything else lately. If you don't EDUCATE yourself in order to communicate on their levels you will never get through to them no matter how elegant or cost efficient your proposal is.
I'm not going to tell you to trust me on this, but I will say that if you don't learn to communicate effectively with the audience that you are trying to appeal to, you will never get anywhere no matter what your message is. This is why we see so much political posturing during elections; they are trying to appeal to the voters - their audience.
At every level of business, you have to be political. The absolutely largest part of politics is relating to your intended audience. If you need to take speaking classes, finance classes, whatever... do something so that you can relate to your audience in a way that is EASY for them to understand.
Is that a bit more clear?
is to learn to communicate....
No, seriously. You need to learn how to communicate to those in charge, those above you, and those below you. If you are unable to communicate to those you need to, it is YOU that has a problem. Start reading CIO magazine, read SEC reports, do what you need to do so that you are able to communicate what is required in a way that your audience understands.
I'm not bashing you, or supporting management that is intolerant of the tech savvy crowd. I'm simply saying that if you have to, try some education to get your point across effectively. In the end, it is YOU who gains, not just the company.
another battery from Sony
I'm not saying that I'm smarter than 'the average bear' but 20 years ago I didn't know anything compared to what the news has taught me in the last 5 years. I'm not willing to say unequivocally that we won't ever know, or that it is impossible to know how the Universe was created. We simply do not know yet....
My bet?
By the time that MS announces this miracle of miniature technology, Apple will have the perfect interface for it, LG will have sold 3 million of their version worldwide, and Motorola will have sold it in 4 special edition colors before MS has their beta product shipped to magazines reviewers.
FTFA "UCLA neurobiologist Mark Frye noted that future work should isolate and understand the brain circuitry and genetic pathways responsible for this spontaneous behavior in flies "and whether or not they are conserved in other animals."
It seems that every week or so (can we get a Moore's law equivalent) we learn something new about brains (ours or some other animal) that we didn't know before. It's looking more and more like we are as programmed as any other lower animal but with higher level behaviors. For instance: your dog doesn't know how the tap water gets to your kitchen sink (maybe you don't either) but we humans do, though we don't know how the Universe was created, some day we might when we learn enough.
This does stand to be interesting to robotics. If you sit down to figure out the algorithm to get a robot out of a tight spot, 'a spark of free will' might be very VERY useful. The simple randomness of such might be what keeps most of us out of trouble most of the time anyway... we just don't realize it, or worse, we blame it on a deity?
I'm just amazed at how much we are learning these days compared to even just 50 years ago.
I agree with you, it is NOT flamebait... just simple commentary on the state of judicial systems around the world with regard to the state of technology.
if they ever were an oracle for the tech industry that is.
.... and on and on
As mentioned, they have yet to release any product worth much this century --- say that slowly to yourself!
No matter how hard they try, and they will, MS will not get anything that can be called portable enough to be a 'phone' to also be a person's primary computer, with or without the addition of interfacing to a tv for video output. The claim of running video from it is just a bit absurd at the current level of technology. So what would be the point of saying something like that? Have you ever watched a stage magician at work? Yep, they tell you one thing to keep you distracted while they seemingly work to pull a rabbit out of a hat. We all know that what you get is not what you saw, or think you saw.
First, we have them misquoting reports to make Linux look 'illegal', then pumped up sales figures for Vista, now this? WOW, the MS spin machine will need some new bearings soon. The ones they are using will be worn out soon, if they aren't already about to fail.
The reality of the world is what they are trying to distract us from:
FireFox is gaining ground at the expense of IE
ODF is gaining ground at MS' expense
OOo is gaining ground at MS' expense
Dell is shipping Ubuntu systems at the expense of Vista
Dell is shipping XP systems at the expense of Vista
MS is being implicated in even more illegal/monopolistic dealings
MS' best friends in government are too busy right now to help them out again
BillG's foundation is getting bad press
Apple is still the tech world's stage hog
Zune is all but buried in the back pages of tech history
In fact, nothing MS has touched in recent years has ended up good for them.... and THAT is what they don't want stockholders to realize
I'm betting that some people in Redmond are looking for a new place in the Sun
... until that one customer switches to Linux or other appropriate competitor?
The resounding reply from all corners has been either 'so?' or 'They have nothing, and won't have or they would have already shown it'. What's more, Linus more or less dismissed the claims as nothing more than FUD. There are claims that this FUD is being used to help bolster MS's Q2 sales of Vista.
Nothing but conjecture abounds as MS is doing a SCO and not saying what they have, nor why they want to even mention it. Yet others claim that the Linux vouchers MS is touting actually makes them a Linux distributor and thus subject to the GPL.
The whole thing should pan out to be a very interesting chapter in tech history.
Someone let me know when there is real news on this topic
The methods that they use to determine the components of other planet's atmospheres is valid, though I don't know how accurate. I believe that it's incredibly cool that we can even hypothesize with any scientific ability as to the make up of other planets at this point. Also, I believe that we have found water ice on Mars already, just need to get a rover there to investigate it further.
One of the reasons for looking for water/ice on other planets (now that we can find them) is that water is believed to be a key ingredient of life supporting environments. Thus explaining the reason to try to find water/ice evidence.
While that seems a valid point, any probably is despite any protestation on my part, it is not quite apples to apples. I'm a single user, but I have 6 running copies of FF and zero copies of Vista. A valid FF users does not require a license. You may have downloaded FF several times for one computer, others have put it on many computers.
The reason that I posed the question in the first place is that the only place I've even seen Vista running on a machine was at an electronics store. None of the bleeding edge type people that I know are even wanting to try Vista. I can't figure out where all those copies are?
FF, on the other hand is everywhere around me, despite its small market share compared to IE. The actual physical world around me, and my experiences in it make me question just who is buying those copies of Vista.
who these licenses are being sold to. If half of them were sold to only two OEMs, its not saying much really. If even half of them were bought off the shelf at Best Buy or other stores, that would say something. So, exactly who is buying these licenses?
Look into the labor situation in India and China and other places. Its not the hotbed of 'cheap labor forever' that people think it is, and it is quickly becoming untenable even for companies that want to outsource to them with no worries about their economy.
Troll? you have to be kidding me?
Dell will be as bad for Ubuntu and GNU/Linux as mankind's discovery of the wheel was bad for the wheel, or stone axes for that matter
The opinion above is not mine, and I approve of it
but this is programming in the same way that updating your blog is creating a web site. Pedantic, I know, but important in view of how people feel about H1-Bs and lack of scientific/engineering graduates in the US. It will be interesting to see how much this acts as a gateway to more people taking up programing as a hobby or vocation.