> As robots becomes more advanced, all the jobs you mentioned could be done by robots.
The ones that don't rely on analytical problem solving, sure. Theoretically, even those jobs could be done by a cheaper human with a remote. Or AI will get good enough that robots can analyze and fix their own problems.
Quite frankly, when/if we reach that point, I'm not sure the whole concept of "having a job" and "working for a living" will still exist in a form we recognize.
> These two sentences don't mesh in the way I think you meant them to. The new technologies > may allow companies to bring the OPERATIONS back home, but not the JOBS.
Not as many jobs, granted, but someone's going to be doing maintenance on those robots. Someone needs to drop off raw materials. Someone needs to pick up finished product. Someone needs to be there to pull a tangled mess out of the feed rollers do the entire line doesn't shut down. Heck, someone needs to sweep the floor, mow the lawn, and patch the roof.
We're not talking about as many jobs, nor necessarily as high quality, but it's better than the big nothing you get when not just the factory but the entire supply chain goes to another country.
> On the other hand, when Google does mine, they'd probably wonder why I watch > so much Dora the Explorer on my business account. (It's tied to my business cell > phone, which I use most often to keep my daughter entertained.)
Yes, we were kind of wondering about it. Thanks for clearing that up. It's been added to your file.
All we really needed was "American Ninja Warrior", "Hollywood", and "non-fiction". The other 795 words was just a demonstration of what happens when someone can't find the stairs out of their parents basement.
> Its Big Media (tm) trying to impose this on the world, in this case through > their hired lapdog Canada's PM Steven Harper. Harper will do whatever > it takes to pass legislation he wants passed.
A Liberal majority would have done about the same thing, although I can't imagine them being as hamfisted about it.
I suspect an NDP majority (unlikely as it is) would reject it initially, but give them some time to get comfortable with power and I expect they'll break, too.
Lobbiests don't care whether the people in power are wearing blue, red, or orange ties. The formula for converting them to their cause is about the same, and human nature being what it is the odds are pretty good for them in the long run. Combined with some arm twisting from the US, and the situation isn't pretty.
Don't get caught up thinking about this in a partisan fashion. You have to assume that any politician of any stripe will fuck you over if that's what it takes to hold on to power and push their personal agenda. Or that of their party.
> If they want to claim private property, they should then simply be not allowing > people to access their network, or peering with other ISPs to allow traffic to > flow through their network.
Well, that and they probably shouldn't be building substantial chunks of their infrastructure on other peoples (or the public) property. And those airwaves? I'm pretty sure they have some strings attached.
> But a Manhattan judge ruled that users have no expectation of privacy for their Twitter data."
I realize that most users don't read the fine print, but you'd think the published Privacy Policy might lead someone to believe that there's a clear agreement betwee Twitter and the users that there's at least some stuff considered "private"...
> We played soldiers, cowboys and Indians and any other game. > OK, instead of a 17 button game console controller, we used a stick and > instead of Augmented Reality Glasses we used our imagination
Ah. So you're augmented reality didn't have your opponents calling you a "gay noobz" and killing you with nasty 8-button combos.
Given that the problems weren't fixed by reconfiguring the problem accounts from scratch, I'd say it wasn't a configuration update bug. Unless, of course, the configuration update destroyed any chances of getting it working right short of a/home wipe.
No doubt the refactoring was the greatest thing since sliced bread and an ongoing orgasmic experience for the KDE developers.
> you realise that akonadi is basically just a big cache...
I don't *care* what it is.
What I realize is that as soon as akonadi was no longer optional, my IMAP account no longer worked, nor did half my calendars. Before akonadi, all that stuff worked.
Now, maybe akonadi is just a big cache, or maybe it's a magic beans which create an instantaneous portal to my e-mail... it doesn't really matter. Whatever it is that it's supposed to do, it stopped doing what previous incarnations managed to do perfectly well.
I suppose that I could have put a little more work into getting it to actually function, but quite frankly I'd largely given up in KDE by that point. kontact was the only thing that kept me interested, and some architecture astronaut went and fucked that up, too.
Between KDE 4 and GNOME 3, I think a lot of Linux users have essentially given up on the idea of these big unified Desktop Environments. Just run the window manager and toolbar you want, and cherry pick the applications you prefer.
The move to KDE 4 wasn't so bad from a stability perspective if you weren't dumb enough to install it before the distros did, but the dealbreaker for me was when "they" kept breaking perfectly good applications and not replacing them with equivalent functionality. The final straw was when kdepim made the half-baked akonadi non-optional and effectively broke what I consider the best open source PIM client.
> You assume the FAA and NTSB can investigate the incident objectively?
It's not really a question of whether they can or can't, but whether they can appear to do it objectively. That's a lot tougher; the average person just plain assumes that organizations don't investigate their own people in an unbiased fashion.
> The sad part is nobody seems to remember we have been down this road before....
Yup. I see "cloud" and I immediately think "client-server". Well, "client-virtual server hosted on some random network somewhere in a collection of physical servers", but whatever.
You can shuffle stuff between the client space and server space all you want, but 90% of day-to-day problems will still be found between the keyboard and the chair.
> The problem of being led astray by computerized mapping data is a very old one.
Yep. I don't trust my GPS to tell me how to get somewhere. I can rely on it to tell me where I am, but when I plot a route I normally cross-reference it against paper maps, directions, and other computer mapping services.
Paranoid, perhaps, but the last few major trips I've made have been to Montreal; TomTom just doesn't seem to be able to deal with that clusterfuck known as "Quebec road work".
> TomTom itself will direct you to a point about half a mile away from my house
Yeah, I have this problem... TomTom knows where my house is. It thinks my driveway (which, granted, has only been the main access to this property for maybe 180 years) doesn't exist, and that I should access my house through the neighbouring farm.
Slashdot Mirror
They've tried. No luck.
Lucas' script has Mars completely populated with cutesy aliens who speak broken English with a (for reasons he refuses to explain) Cockney accent.
Michael Bay's script has the Mars lander crashing in a symphony of explosions.
Kevin Smith's script is entirely about the dysfunctional relationships between the crew during the trip out.
> As robots becomes more advanced, all the jobs you mentioned could be done by robots.
The ones that don't rely on analytical problem solving, sure. Theoretically, even those jobs could be done by a cheaper human with a remote. Or AI will get good enough that robots can analyze and fix their own problems.
Quite frankly, when/if we reach that point, I'm not sure the whole concept of "having a job" and "working for a living" will still exist in a form we recognize.
> These two sentences don't mesh in the way I think you meant them to. The new technologies
> may allow companies to bring the OPERATIONS back home, but not the JOBS.
Not as many jobs, granted, but someone's going to be doing maintenance on those robots. Someone needs to drop off raw materials. Someone needs to pick up finished product. Someone needs to be there to pull a tangled mess out of the feed rollers do the entire line doesn't shut down. Heck, someone needs to sweep the floor, mow the lawn, and patch the roof.
We're not talking about as many jobs, nor necessarily as high quality, but it's better than the big nothing you get when not just the factory but the entire supply chain goes to another country.
> On the other hand, when Google does mine, they'd probably wonder why I watch
> so much Dora the Explorer on my business account. (It's tied to my business cell
> phone, which I use most often to keep my daughter entertained.)
Yes, we were kind of wondering about it. Thanks for clearing that up. It's been added to your file.
The Google, Inc. Team
> Facebook and Wal-Mart. That's certainly a marriage made in... well, somewhere
> significant definitely.
Let's just say that the pre-nuptual is signed with a lot of dark red ink.
> Mind if we borrow your Justices? Ours seem to be malfunctioning...
You can have 'em, but only if you take all our lawyers, too.
Amen.
All we really needed was "American Ninja Warrior", "Hollywood", and "non-fiction". The other 795 words was just a demonstration of what happens when someone can't find the stairs out of their parents basement.
> Its Big Media (tm) trying to impose this on the world, in this case through
> their hired lapdog Canada's PM Steven Harper. Harper will do whatever
> it takes to pass legislation he wants passed.
A Liberal majority would have done about the same thing, although I can't imagine them being as hamfisted about it.
I suspect an NDP majority (unlikely as it is) would reject it initially, but give them some time to get comfortable with power and I expect they'll break, too.
Lobbiests don't care whether the people in power are wearing blue, red, or orange ties. The formula for converting them to their cause is about the same, and human nature being what it is the odds are pretty good for them in the long run. Combined with some arm twisting from the US, and the situation isn't pretty.
Don't get caught up thinking about this in a partisan fashion. You have to assume that any politician of any stripe will fuck you over if that's what it takes to hold on to power and push their personal agenda. Or that of their party.
Uh... so, does your family have a spectacularly high rate of childhood alcoholism?
Naw, the Aunt Lena *I* remember never wore underwear...
Hmm... yeah. That kind of went to a weird place.
> my office smelled like my Aunt Lena's underwear drawer.
That's a disturbingly specific choice over the usual "smelled like a whorehouse".
> If they want to claim private property, they should then simply be not allowing
> people to access their network, or peering with other ISPs to allow traffic to
> flow through their network.
Well, that and they probably shouldn't be building substantial chunks of their infrastructure on other peoples (or the public) property. And those airwaves? I'm pretty sure they have some strings attached.
> RIM can still recover, but it needs to stop flailing and actually
> start swimming in a direction.
I'd recommend they swim away from the burning oil platform. There's nothing but "fail" back that way.
> But a Manhattan judge ruled that users have no expectation of privacy for their Twitter data."
I realize that most users don't read the fine print, but you'd think the published Privacy Policy might lead someone to believe that there's a clear agreement betwee Twitter and the users that there's at least some stuff considered "private"...
> Perhaps the court should ban the plaintiffs competing product for 6-12
> months when an allegation is found to be false...
I take these kinds of shenanigans as an admission that they don't have a product that they think can compete.
> What has happened to the real Slashdot?
Yeah, I find the combination of AdBlock Plus, NoScript, and WTF? Rewriter extensions surreal too.
> We played soldiers, cowboys and Indians and any other game.
> OK, instead of a 17 button game console controller, we used a stick and
> instead of Augmented Reality Glasses we used our imagination
Ah. So you're augmented reality didn't have your opponents calling you a "gay noobz" and killing you with nasty 8-button combos.
Lame.
Given that the problems weren't fixed by reconfiguring the problem accounts from scratch, I'd say it wasn't a configuration update bug. Unless, of course, the configuration update destroyed any chances of getting it working right short of a /home wipe.
No doubt the refactoring was the greatest thing since sliced bread and an ongoing orgasmic experience for the KDE developers.
For a lot of KDE users... no so much.
> you realise that akonadi is basically just a big cache...
I don't *care* what it is.
What I realize is that as soon as akonadi was no longer optional, my IMAP account no longer worked, nor did half my calendars. Before akonadi, all that stuff worked.
Now, maybe akonadi is just a big cache, or maybe it's a magic beans which create an instantaneous portal to my e-mail... it doesn't really matter. Whatever it is that it's supposed to do, it stopped doing what previous incarnations managed to do perfectly well.
I suppose that I could have put a little more work into getting it to actually function, but quite frankly I'd largely given up in KDE by that point. kontact was the only thing that kept me interested, and some architecture astronaut went and fucked that up, too.
Between KDE 4 and GNOME 3, I think a lot of Linux users have essentially given up on the idea of these big unified Desktop Environments. Just run the window manager and toolbar you want, and cherry pick the applications you prefer.
The move to KDE 4 wasn't so bad from a stability perspective if you weren't dumb enough to install it before the distros did, but the dealbreaker for me was when "they" kept breaking perfectly good applications and not replacing them with equivalent functionality. The final straw was when kdepim made the half-baked akonadi non-optional and effectively broke what I consider the best open source PIM client.
> In the last 20 years, Microsoft has been busy solving
> problems nobody I know seems to have had.
That's not entirely fair. In the last 10 years, Microsoft has been very busy solving problems they themselves created in the previous 10 years.
That being said, Windows 8 is looking like they're ready to start another 10 year cycle of creating new problems.
> You assume the FAA and NTSB can investigate the incident objectively?
It's not really a question of whether they can or can't, but whether they can appear to do it objectively. That's a lot tougher; the average person just plain assumes that organizations don't investigate their own people in an unbiased fashion.
> The sad part is nobody seems to remember we have been down this road before....
Yup. I see "cloud" and I immediately think "client-server". Well, "client-virtual server hosted on some random network somewhere in a collection of physical servers", but whatever.
You can shuffle stuff between the client space and server space all you want, but 90% of day-to-day problems will still be found between the keyboard and the chair.
> The problem of being led astray by computerized mapping data is a very old one.
Yep. I don't trust my GPS to tell me how to get somewhere. I can rely on it to tell me where I am, but when I plot a route I normally cross-reference it against paper maps, directions, and other computer mapping services.
Paranoid, perhaps, but the last few major trips I've made have been to Montreal; TomTom just doesn't seem to be able to deal with that clusterfuck known as "Quebec road work".
> TomTom itself will direct you to a point about half a mile away from my house
Yeah, I have this problem... TomTom knows where my house is. It thinks my driveway (which, granted, has only been the main access to this property for maybe 180 years) doesn't exist, and that I should access my house through the neighbouring farm.