Take Philadelphia. We have structures that are more than 100 yrs old decaying in our city center! No one is funded to remove them. They will only be taken down when the real estate upon which they sit is worth enough to future developers to justify the cost of removing them.
It's the same with software. No one wants to allocate budget/man hours to this stuff until the cost/benefit ratio makes it worthwhile.
And as with your example...there's usually very little selection pressure to remove the code because the cost to keep the code around is near zero for the developers and not much higher for the users. Every so often there is a serious shift in one's environment which makes it worthwhile to invest the time to clean things up.
It's war. We tell our soldiers they are fighting for the survival of our country, or way of life. Go put a bullet through your enemies, head, the stomach, their back. Empty your clip. If they engage at close range, put a knife through their eye. Disembowel them. Waterboard the if you need information. Throw a grenade between them and blow them to bits. Push their bodies into a ravine so they won't be see along the trail. Piss on them, wait, no, definitely don't do that. This is morally wrong!! Once you kill them, leave them there to rot. This is the right thing to do.
We were Al Qaeda...terrorizing our enemies...until the 90s when they started to turn against us. Who do you think trained them and armed them? How do you think that Bin Laden's family is buddy buddy with the US government?
Why not compensate those who's items are stolen by TSA (i.e. the 2009 example in Miami and many more) with the $400K that's found each yr? Why does extra money automatically get to go to the military/soldiers? Seems ass backwards.
Or maybe make the $400K a bonus to the best performing TSA airport staff each yr? Try that for motivation.
Don't make me think and/or speak to change the volume of my radio or the temp in my car. This stuff is best done with dedicated dials.
Use heads up displays to communicate lane departure warnings, collision warning, driver attention warnings, blind spot warnings, and adaptive cruise control feed back and all other tech that stays out of the way unless it is going to avoid an accident.
Speech recognition and/or touch input should be reserved for navigation sys, txt msg sending, and calls. Not car controls.
"we've noticed a strange pattern, that more than 50% of our missions fail when on the side of the planet not visible from Russia...this ratio clearly leads me to think that the USA is involved somehow."
1) delve into unnecessary technical detail and lose the customer. 2) don't listen to the customer's problems 3) don't understand the customer's problems 4) don't explain how the software will solve the customer's problems/concerns
It's like they never get the big picture to address the customer's needs properly.
It's not that you will need to know how to automate the minutes, it's that people should be able to recognize when things can be automated and what the trade offs will be. Let them leave the actual automating to programmers.
It really depends on how the force is distributed more than the absolute speed.
I crashed a car on the highway going 70 mph but I hit the median at an angle and bounced off of it before coming to a stop. I had no injuries. Just a bit in shock. On the other hand, people die from accidents half that speed under the wrong circumstances. Of course I was wearing my seat belt.:)
It's not just wheel spin. Modern cars have all kinds of inertial sensors for the various safety systems to operate. I imagine that speed should be accurate. Nonetheless, it would be a good idea to drop a $5 video camera into the front bumper and store a 60 second video buffer in the black box to better protect the consumer from software and hardware bugs that might distort the numerical data.
studios should offer FREE add supported movies for everyone. with the option to... Pay $1 for no ads. Pay $1 for HD. Pay $1 for more than 2.1 sound. Pay $1 for cut scenes. Pay $1 for alternate ending. Pay $1 to be able to pause/FF/rev the movie as it plays.
IBM scientists and execs will be the ones who make some of these predictions come true, even if it takes more than five years. As a world class R&D organization, they need to perform these kinds of exercises to decide where they should be spending their billions of dollars of investments to get the most bang for the buck. This is not just a marketing or PR stunt. It's an effort to set a vision to drive spending within the company.
You have the wrong information here, and are missing the larger point.
As of now, many military drones are capable of full or partially autonomy, and this technology is rapidly improving. Most systems currently require a human in the loop for kill orders, but this is a policy decision, not a technical limitation of the hardware/software.
In any case, this is an age old question about the ethics of killing with superior weapons what keep you entirely out of harms way, similar to the ways in which machine guns were used against sword wielding samurai in Japan.
Um...no. I don't think there are very many people in your position. I think pretty much everyone has an HD TV these days or will be getting one in the near future. You can pick one up a new one for as little as $200 these days and no one even sells CRTs any more. BTW...you can also get over the air HD content with your HD TV.
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Vintage 4,000,000,000 BCE (before common era).
Urban decay is a great example.
Take Philadelphia. We have structures that are more than 100 yrs old decaying in our city center! No one is funded to remove them. They will only be taken down when the real estate upon which they sit is worth enough to future developers to justify the cost of removing them.
It's the same with software. No one wants to allocate budget/man hours to this stuff until the cost/benefit ratio makes it worthwhile.
And as with your example...there's usually very little selection pressure to remove the code because the cost to keep the code around is near zero for the developers and not much higher for the users. Every so often there is a serious shift in one's environment which makes it worthwhile to invest the time to clean things up.
It's war. We tell our soldiers they are fighting for the survival of our country, or way of life. Go put a bullet through your enemies, head, the stomach, their back. Empty your clip. If they engage at close range, put a knife through their eye. Disembowel them. Waterboard the if you need information. Throw a grenade between them and blow them to bits. Push their bodies into a ravine so they won't be see along the trail. Piss on them, wait, no, definitely don't do that. This is morally wrong!! Once you kill them, leave them there to rot. This is the right thing to do.
BULLSHIT.
We were Al Qaeda...terrorizing our enemies...until the 90s when they started to turn against us. Who do you think trained them and armed them? How do you think that Bin Laden's family is buddy buddy with the US government?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cyclone
America is going down the tubes due to
1) irrational fear
2) irrational belief in god
3) irrational belief that we need to police the world
Why not compensate those who's items are stolen by TSA (i.e. the 2009 example in Miami and many more) with the $400K that's found each yr? Why does extra money automatically get to go to the military/soldiers? Seems ass backwards.
Or maybe make the $400K a bonus to the best performing TSA airport staff each yr? Try that for motivation.
Don't make me think and/or speak to change the volume of my radio or the temp in my car. This stuff is best done with dedicated dials.
Use heads up displays to communicate lane departure warnings, collision warning, driver attention warnings, blind spot warnings, and adaptive cruise control feed back and all other tech that stays out of the way unless it is going to avoid an accident.
Speech recognition and/or touch input should be reserved for navigation sys, txt msg sending, and calls. Not car controls.
what would MSFT gain by not including a GUI? Doesn't make much sense.
the worst is AOL subscribing BING users. You could sell them anything.
...and the intelligent alient race continued to wonder why no one ever responded to their super powerful galaxy penetrating communication attempts!
join the OCCUPY EARTH movement.
i want a free TV with a 2 yr cable contract. Then I'd replace my TV every 2 yrs. :)
"we've noticed a strange pattern, that more than 50% of our missions fail when on the side of the planet not visible from Russia...this ratio clearly leads me to think that the USA is involved somehow."
the galaxy brings us gently into its outstretched, deadly arms
it will always be a game of cat and mouse....no reason not to keep innovating..
Often engineers..
1) delve into unnecessary technical detail and lose the customer.
2) don't listen to the customer's problems
3) don't understand the customer's problems
4) don't explain how the software will solve the customer's problems/concerns
It's like they never get the big picture to address the customer's needs properly.
It's not that you will need to know how to automate the minutes, it's that people should be able to recognize when things can be automated and what the trade offs will be. Let them leave the actual automating to programmers.
It really depends on how the force is distributed more than the absolute speed.
I crashed a car on the highway going 70 mph but I hit the median at an angle and bounced off of it before coming to a stop. I had no injuries. Just a bit in shock. On the other hand, people die from accidents half that speed under the wrong circumstances. Of course I was wearing my seat belt. :)
It's not just wheel spin. Modern cars have all kinds of inertial sensors for the various safety systems to operate. I imagine that speed should be accurate. Nonetheless, it would be a good idea to drop a $5 video camera into the front bumper and store a 60 second video buffer in the black box to better protect the consumer from software and hardware bugs that might distort the numerical data.
studios should offer FREE add supported movies for everyone.
with the option to...
Pay $1 for no ads.
Pay $1 for HD.
Pay $1 for more than 2.1 sound.
Pay $1 for cut scenes.
Pay $1 for alternate ending.
Pay $1 to be able to pause/FF/rev the movie as it plays.
IBM scientists and execs will be the ones who make some of these predictions come true, even if it takes more than five years. As a world class R&D organization, they need to perform these kinds of exercises to decide where they should be spending their billions of dollars of investments to get the most bang for the buck. This is not just a marketing or PR stunt. It's an effort to set a vision to drive spending within the company.
You have the wrong information here, and are missing the larger point.
As of now, many military drones are capable of full or partially autonomy, and this technology is rapidly improving. Most systems currently require a human in the loop for kill orders, but this is a policy decision, not a technical limitation of the hardware/software.
In any case, this is an age old question about the ethics of killing with superior weapons what keep you entirely out of harms way, similar to the ways in which machine guns were used against sword wielding samurai in Japan.
When Nintendo named the Wii back in 2005...I doubt they imagined that Streaming would become a popular use for the device.
None of us want to go around saying "I stream with my Wii"
We'd all sound like a bunch of 5 yr olds making obvious but inappropriate comments. :)
Um...no. I don't think there are very many people in your position. I think pretty much everyone has an HD TV these days or will be getting one in the near future. You can pick one up a new one for as little as $200 these days and no one even sells CRTs any more. BTW...you can also get over the air HD content with your HD TV.