This isn't anything new, I don't think. I work for a major online window treatment retailer in the U.S. that has, for years now, paid Google top dollar to be at the top of a number of queries related to our area of business, both in relevance and sponsored searches. I never assume we were the first to do so nor the last, and I'm curious as to why more people didn't know about this in the first place?
I have never really understood the human obsession with building artificial intelligence. Machines and computers were originally built and innovated for the purposes of making work easier, and of lessening the labor load in industrial environments and basically anything involving human effort. I wonder what we expect to gain from eventually developing technology that can "think" for itself? How can we, in our flawed nature, expect to create something so perfectly complex and intuitive that it is capable of high-functioning self sustainment?
All we ever do with new technology is put it to work for us, giving us less reason to be physically involved on a day to day basis with the elements of our own survival. We put machines and computers into every aspect of society to do our thinking for us. I think as artificial intelligence becomes more of a reality, we are only giving ourselves more excuses to devolve as a thinking species, becoming lazy. It's just one man's view, but I see how we are increasingly dependent on computers for maintaining the standards of living we're accustomed to- and the more powerful the intelligence of those machines, then logically one could assume the more dependent we would be on them.
I completely agree here. Part of why I began using Google so much in the past was because of how streamlined and fast it was. I've always liked adsense, and the color-coordinating text-only ads along the perimeters of websites, lying unobtrusively in wait for me to CHOOSE to look at them. Video ads, flash ads, and other types of hey-asshole-look-at-me gimmicks are what regularly drive me away from websites. It is disappointing that Google feels that direction is a good one for them. Why not stick to what has made you so successful, and seek profits in other avenues? I think the majority of net users could do without more animated nonsense cluttering our browsers.
I guess this means the courts can't harass the authors of "Game of Shadows" about their sources anymore, and the irrational juggernaut of Congressional attention focused on Barry Bonds can ease up and take a more general, blanketed approach to cracking the steroids scandal. This instead of wasting precious money and time focusing on nailing a single athlete just because he's the home run king.
I'm looking forward to the new version to possibly sort a couple of bugs plaguing me. I'm a recently converted, long time Windows user, and was very intimidated by other distros and their overwhelming sense of complexity, sometimes needlessly so. Ubuntu was a good fit for me with a combination of control and user-friendliness.
Yeah, I'd like to see that actually bear fruition. Chances are it will either be snubbed by the automotive industry, or will be so damn expensive they won't have a working version in commercial vehicles for 40 years.
The "..and to deny an enemy any similar benefits" sounds very elitist. Since when did we inherit the right to control everything? What if England wants unhindered access to space? Do we tell them no, they have to write a formal request to enter our beloved space? Do we own space now? If any other nation tried to form a similar project, we would shut it down on the spot, or strike them pre-emptively. I want to know who elected us supreme world rulers.
I am personally sick of this crap. Star Wars, this shit, everything. We continue to give ourselves new powers and privileges because we know that no one else is going to stand up to us out of fear. Is this really the image we want to project? How is this supposed to improve international relations, when we have satellites in space prepared to cut off anyone's communications on a whim, or in the name of "national security". It's like a PATRIOT Act for the human race.
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This isn't anything new, I don't think. I work for a major online window treatment retailer in the U.S. that has, for years now, paid Google top dollar to be at the top of a number of queries related to our area of business, both in relevance and sponsored searches. I never assume we were the first to do so nor the last, and I'm curious as to why more people didn't know about this in the first place?
I have never really understood the human obsession with building artificial intelligence. Machines and computers were originally built and innovated for the purposes of making work easier, and of lessening the labor load in industrial environments and basically anything involving human effort. I wonder what we expect to gain from eventually developing technology that can "think" for itself? How can we, in our flawed nature, expect to create something so perfectly complex and intuitive that it is capable of high-functioning self sustainment? All we ever do with new technology is put it to work for us, giving us less reason to be physically involved on a day to day basis with the elements of our own survival. We put machines and computers into every aspect of society to do our thinking for us. I think as artificial intelligence becomes more of a reality, we are only giving ourselves more excuses to devolve as a thinking species, becoming lazy. It's just one man's view, but I see how we are increasingly dependent on computers for maintaining the standards of living we're accustomed to- and the more powerful the intelligence of those machines, then logically one could assume the more dependent we would be on them.
I completely agree here. Part of why I began using Google so much in the past was because of how streamlined and fast it was. I've always liked adsense, and the color-coordinating text-only ads along the perimeters of websites, lying unobtrusively in wait for me to CHOOSE to look at them. Video ads, flash ads, and other types of hey-asshole-look-at-me gimmicks are what regularly drive me away from websites. It is disappointing that Google feels that direction is a good one for them. Why not stick to what has made you so successful, and seek profits in other avenues? I think the majority of net users could do without more animated nonsense cluttering our browsers.
Finally I've got a place to park the Millenium Falcon when I need to run out to Toshii station and pick up power converters.
That is absolutely beautiful. Thirteen light years? What a woman. Jesus, talk about baggage :D
I guess this means the courts can't harass the authors of "Game of Shadows" about their sources anymore, and the irrational juggernaut of Congressional attention focused on Barry Bonds can ease up and take a more general, blanketed approach to cracking the steroids scandal. This instead of wasting precious money and time focusing on nailing a single athlete just because he's the home run king.
I'm looking forward to the new version to possibly sort a couple of bugs plaguing me. I'm a recently converted, long time Windows user, and was very intimidated by other distros and their overwhelming sense of complexity, sometimes needlessly so. Ubuntu was a good fit for me with a combination of control and user-friendliness.
The idea is called Kabbalah. It's nothing new.
Yeah, I'd like to see that actually bear fruition. Chances are it will either be snubbed by the automotive industry, or will be so damn expensive they won't have a working version in commercial vehicles for 40 years.
The "..and to deny an enemy any similar benefits" sounds very elitist. Since when did we inherit the right to control everything? What if England wants unhindered access to space? Do we tell them no, they have to write a formal request to enter our beloved space? Do we own space now? If any other nation tried to form a similar project, we would shut it down on the spot, or strike them pre-emptively. I want to know who elected us supreme world rulers. I am personally sick of this crap. Star Wars, this shit, everything. We continue to give ourselves new powers and privileges because we know that no one else is going to stand up to us out of fear. Is this really the image we want to project? How is this supposed to improve international relations, when we have satellites in space prepared to cut off anyone's communications on a whim, or in the name of "national security". It's like a PATRIOT Act for the human race.