Actually, i was _very_ optimistic with 5%. Its more likely to be 0.5% to 1%.
Well, in the rare cases i buy a cd, i do it because of the music, and since at least half of the work is done by the artist, i would like that he would get money after it, not some guy having 6 ferraris sitting in some office signing contracts. Im sure there are lots of people involved in making music, but take into account that always the artist is the closest person involved making the music, works more making that particular music, than with a few exception anyone else. I think its highly unfair to bring an artist to the same level, to value their work on the same level as you would value the guy's work who delivers the cds to the stores. An artist makes a cd every 3 months-year-ten years, while a cover designer does five covers a month, or much more, without even talking about a CD delivery guy with thousands of cd's a day... Talent and education is perfectly the matter of music taste. Its a bit far fetched to call artists uneducated...oh and one more important point, most of the people working on a cd, doesnt work on agreed percentage. They get fixed salary for a job,/hour. If they are underpaid, that's another issue, but shouldn't be confused with the unbalance in the artist's part of the revenues, who actually puts his face and name on the cd, and the recording companies shareholders who probably worked the least making worthwile music...
Well, the numbers may be correct, but the title is misleading a bit, as when you think about robots, you usually imagine a robot like You could have read about in Asimov's books, although this isnt the issue. If someone would ask how much time it will take to meet with AI and human-form robots, i would say, not in my lifetime (or, most likely i would be quite old).
In my opinion those domestic/household machines are not robots. I would rather call robots something with AI or faked AI. A milking machine classifies as a machine for me, not as a robot.
There are various problems with AI-enabled robots appearing in grandma's house, other than mathematics, like technology to manufacture the advanced parts of a robot to be cost efficient and to provide good enough protection for those parts against failures on a long term...
The thing is i couldnt care less. If they "flamebait" comments like this, im actually proud to have "bad" karma. I have no idea where are the moderators are living, but when a heavily centralised goverment with a not rocket scientist leader to say the least thinks he knows better whats good for the world rather than following international "standards", then when someone points it out, shouldn't be considered flamebait.
To stay Ontopic a bit, if you look at the russian music market, from a production perspective, then "illegal music pirates who endanger the world order" are actually competition. Competition with low prices. And how does the industry react? Not wanting to fix the issue, they shout "pirates" and "crime", instead of being competitive (which they could be). Why everyone's "pirating" music in russia? Yes, because its cheaper than buying it in a music store. But if you look at the figures, this is totally irrational. Around 1-5% of the price of the cds goes to the actual artist. Well, if the music industry would be smart enough to realise things, they would go competitive. It would mean lowering prices to their 1/5. Giving around 10%-20% of the price to artists, and having the benefits of mass-production, the recording industry would still stay competitive. The only reason they are not doing this is just out of pure greed and short sightness. They can keep this state up for a while, but not on a long term. Eventually someone will figure out a way to pay artists while getting round the music industry.
Now you can hit the -6, Flamebait, Troll, reason of Apocalypse, etc button to rate my post.
"Throw down a couple extra beers tonight"... and watch how they will stick a huge F on your work.
I'll give you an example. Your prof wants you and 300-400 others to write crappy bash scripts doing some functions. He will never check 400 scripts manually, but he can code good scripts. Guess what, he coded a nice script to check your script if its working correctly to some test input, check the format requirements, and here comes the interesting part, will strip all whitespace, assign variables a global name( so its the same in two scripts), and compare scripts. I can assure you, this works. At my university, 90 out of 400 people were caught cheating... Writing the code yourself is much more fun anyway - i enjoy coding...
...talking about kernel.org, sometimes its slow catching up with the new kernel versions, as of almost 10 hours after the release of 2.6.9, the front page of kernel.org still shows the 2.6.8.1 tree.
Ah well, this has been pointed out @ the linux kernel mailing list aswell, but then anyway if you are a hardcore linux user, you're reading lkml or slashdot anyway to keep up with the latest happenings;)
I would say its pretty safe to consider it stable...there was quite a big gap between 2.6.8.1 and 2.6.9, lots of bugfixes and release candidates...
Linus considers the 2.6 series a stable branch which can take some development, nothing too radical or experimental though. 2.7 will be kept for the more radical ideas. 2.4 is getting slowly outdated, although some vouce for it's stability, but personally i prefer the 2.6 tree because although its actively developed and there are new releases every once a while, i did not encounter any stability problems yet. My system being quite average, it's not too far fetched to say that for the average joe tux, 2.6 is a stable choice.
Although its perfect to fuel the middle-aged corporate reasoning. "Remember kids , no such thing like global warming exists, and who says so is an anti-american fascist traitor and will be burned."
Thanks god we live in a civilized age. I just hope my irony won't cover the sun and cause mass extinction...
Yeah, and people who buy windows pay for that service...(basically pay for to have a secure os) and other OS' doesnt seem to have a problem with virii.
Yeah, sure it needs to be "maintained". But digital bytes never get old or need to be routinely checked by some paid worker. Not the important distinction between a set of 0s and 1s and hardware...
Antivirus ofcourse needs to be updated but its just part of the price(should be), like microsoft update is...
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Actually, i was _very_ optimistic with 5%. Its more likely to be 0.5% to 1%.
/hour. If they are underpaid, that's another issue, but shouldn't be confused with the unbalance in the artist's part of the revenues, who actually puts his face and name on the cd, and the recording companies shareholders who probably worked the least making worthwile music...
Well, in the rare cases i buy a cd, i do it because of the music, and since at least half of the work is done by the artist, i would like that he would get money after it, not some guy having 6 ferraris sitting in some office signing contracts. Im sure there are lots of people involved in making music, but take into account that always the artist is the closest person involved making the music, works more making that particular music, than with a few exception anyone else. I think its highly unfair to bring an artist to the same level, to value their work on the same level as you would value the guy's work who delivers the cds to the stores. An artist makes a cd every 3 months-year-ten years, while a cover designer does five covers a month, or much more, without even talking about a CD delivery guy with thousands of cd's a day... Talent and education is perfectly the matter of music taste. Its a bit far fetched to call artists uneducated...oh and one more important point, most of the people working on a cd, doesnt work on agreed percentage. They get fixed salary for a job,
Well, the numbers may be correct, but the title is misleading a bit, as when you think about robots, you usually imagine a robot like You could have read about in Asimov's books, although this isnt the issue. If someone would ask how much time it will take to meet with AI and human-form robots, i would say, not in my lifetime (or, most likely i would be quite old).
In my opinion those domestic/household machines are not robots. I would rather call robots something with AI or faked AI. A milking machine classifies as a machine for me, not as a robot.
There are various problems with AI-enabled robots appearing in grandma's house, other than mathematics, like technology to manufacture the advanced parts of a robot to be cost efficient and to provide good enough protection for those parts against failures on a long term...
My Karma is "bad" ...
The thing is i couldnt care less. If they "flamebait" comments like this, im actually proud to have "bad" karma. I have no idea where are the moderators are living, but when a heavily centralised goverment with a not rocket scientist leader to say the least thinks he knows better whats good for the world rather than following international "standards", then when someone points it out, shouldn't be considered flamebait.
To stay Ontopic a bit, if you look at the russian music market, from a production perspective, then "illegal music pirates who endanger the world order" are actually competition. Competition with low prices. And how does the industry react? Not wanting to fix the issue, they shout "pirates" and "crime", instead of being competitive (which they could be). Why everyone's "pirating" music in russia? Yes, because its cheaper than buying it in a music store. But if you look at the figures, this is totally irrational. Around 1-5% of the price of the cds goes to the actual artist. Well, if the music industry would be smart enough to realise things, they would go competitive. It would mean lowering prices to their 1/5. Giving around 10%-20% of the price to artists, and having the benefits of mass-production, the recording industry would still stay competitive. The only reason they are not doing this is just out of pure greed and short sightness. They can keep this state up for a while, but not on a long term. Eventually someone will figure out a way to pay artists while getting round the music industry.
Now you can hit the -6, Flamebait, Troll, reason of Apocalypse, etc button to rate my post.
"Throw down a couple extra beers tonight" ... and watch how they will stick a huge F on your work.
I'll give you an example. Your prof wants you and 300-400 others to write crappy bash scripts doing some functions. He will never check 400 scripts manually, but he can code good scripts. Guess what, he coded a nice script to check your script if its working correctly to some test input, check the format requirements, and here comes the interesting part, will strip all whitespace, assign variables a global name( so its the same in two scripts), and compare scripts. I can assure you, this works. At my university, 90 out of 400 people were caught cheating... Writing the code yourself is much more fun anyway - i enjoy coding...
Linux doesnt exists. What doesn't exist is free. Therefore linux is free.
;))
Thanks for the logic SCO, btw
...talking about kernel.org, sometimes its slow catching up with the new kernel versions, as of almost 10 hours after the release of 2.6.9, the front page of kernel.org still shows the 2.6.8.1 tree.
;)
Ah well, this has been pointed out @ the linux kernel mailing list aswell, but then anyway if you are a hardcore linux user, you're reading lkml or slashdot anyway to keep up with the latest happenings
I would say its pretty safe to consider it stable...there was quite a big gap between 2.6.8.1 and 2.6.9, lots of bugfixes and release candidates...
Linus considers the 2.6 series a stable branch which can take some development, nothing too radical or experimental though. 2.7 will be kept for the more radical ideas. 2.4 is getting slowly outdated, although some vouce for it's stability, but personally i prefer the 2.6 tree because although its actively developed and there are new releases every once a while, i did not encounter any stability problems yet. My system being quite average, it's not too far fetched to say that for the average joe tux, 2.6 is a stable choice.
Although its perfect to fuel the middle-aged corporate reasoning. "Remember kids , no such thing like global warming exists, and who says so is an anti-american fascist traitor and will be burned." Thanks god we live in a civilized age. I just hope my irony won't cover the sun and cause mass extinction...
Happy birthday ;))) /...and here comes an OpenBSD song.../
Yeah, and people who buy windows pay for that service...(basically pay for to have a secure os) and other OS' doesnt seem to have a problem with virii.
Yeah, sure it needs to be "maintained". But digital bytes never get old or need to be routinely checked by some paid worker. Not the important distinction between a set of 0s and 1s and hardware... Antivirus ofcourse needs to be updated but its just part of the price(should be), like microsoft update is...
...or otherwise known as the latest anti-terrorist efforts. "ookay kids, watch out for that boeing 747 there, signal NASA that its going to land."
crap...we all love these lovely desinformative pieces, dont we.