We should be able to provide everyone the ability to live as well as an 1890s farmer plus some kind of smart phone without them needing to work.
Basic housing, decent food, and entertainment.
But a lot of people are going to get wierd and destructive in that kind of environment as long as "rich" people exist and the things they do are displayed as entertainment.
Already, a lot of entertainment used by rich people is no longer shown or reported on. Areas become private domains for wealthy people and you never hear from or about them again.
Yes but we need to be in a place where the creative person is willing to do that for the joy of creation for that to work. Right now, companies are pricing select entertainment at higher and higher prices. At some point, a majority of the population won't be able to see first run entertainment. And some may never see certain entertainment.
Researchers outside the U.S. in china, russia, etc. will have free access while u.s. citizens (and probably some EU) will have to pay for access. In many cases, they won't be able to access it as their budget's won't allow it.
Not familiar with the works- are they from public universities paid for by tax dollars but published in journals that are claiming copyright or are they private company research, or both?
I would think that too but I hadn't used my other (farmville) facebook accounts for about 3 years when I set up the new non-farmville facebook account.
It's okay.. he posted without a QA team so the errors are intentional since he was extra careful and proofread before posting.
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I *HATE* slashdot's editing system.
In over 20 years of posting here and elsewhere, I've NEVER had anyone seriously edit/change a post folks had responded to (since there were often multiple people quoting the original). But I have repeatedly posted lame posts with the wrong word and misspellings which I can never correct on slashdot. Especially when posting from my small form factor smart phone.
Just let me say, I hate posting from my phone and I hate slashdot's refusal to allow you to edit posts.
In close to (over?) 20 years of posting- exactly no one has evrt edited a post in a serious way on any other forum after I responded to it which is the bugbear they are responding to by refusing to allow people to edit.
I've moved a lot of my posting activities to other forums that let me correct errors like that above.
So sorry for all the typo's above that make me look like a frikkin idiot. I posted from a small form factor android phone.
Last time this happened (about 130 years ago), the government had to step in and break up the monopolies in the U.S. Once monopolies grow enough, it becomes impossible to compete and it's a certain lost to invest money trying to compete.
They are charging $20 for something that costs $3 to make. You start selling it for $12, so they start selling it for $2 until you go out of business. Then they move the price back up to $20.
Titles are really arbitrary and related to company size.
I've known "managers" at small companies with 1 direct report.
Meanwhile, I've also known at large companies someone with 20 direct reports, 10 of them overseas might be a "Team lead". At this companies, manager started at 60-90 people on 3-5 teams.
And if you had said that to management, they would have said "perfect is the enemy of good enough" and they would have been correct.
The main system had over 30 million lines of code. QA didn't enter the picture until the code was 23 years old. They bought a tool and started writing repeatable tests over major functionality. The focus was that major functionality would not be broken from the prior release and that any change in behavior in the tests had to have a known and approved reason.
Their test database was also too small- less than 1% of production. Couldn't afford another 100 million for a full duplicate of production. that's pretty common tho.
For me the fuss is that the time everyone I interact with cuts into my sleeping time when it falls back. I'm retired. I live off the clock. Even more so now with streaming video.
As a manager, my best developers were not my best testers. And my best QA people couldn't have coded their way out of a paper bag.
Our top QA guy and head of the QA department was an ex marine sergeant. Didn't know how to code. But he was a top notch tester who caught anything that didn't match spec's or that changed from one release to the next.
Exactly. Some people are good at writing code. Some people are good at finding errors.
Modern writing has gone to hell compared to even cheap books written when I was young. As long as the word is correctly spelled it gets thru to being published. You read the atrocious error, get jarred out of the book, then resume reading.
In development, the atrocious error is a loss of all data on the screen, or the program hangs, or you can't update an amount if you come at the screen from one particular set of commands.
Heck- the system IBM wrote for us years ago literally dumped an entire order if any error occurred. A half an hour of work lost. Because they treated it the same as ordering one item from amazon instead of ordering 130 items each with different quantities.
QA people think like QA people. Developers think like developers. And developers can't bring a fresh eye to their own code. Heck, most developers can't even develop remotely comprehensive test data.
There is some evidence in the nuclear and aerospace industries that having things checked twice results in people being lazier (because they think the other person will catch it).
But for mainstream business developers, I've never seen them able to test as well as QA does.
And none of them have posted on facebook in over 5 years. I have one account- created after where I saw facebook was headed that has no pictures and I only follow one subject. Yet- it's already suggested real life friends among the people who 'might' be my friends.
Most works become classics because they were really popular at the time. It's much less common for works to become popular later. I know from personal experience with television that there are some real gems out there that were cancelled after 13 episodes (battle creek, the finder) and they are not going to suddenly become popular with the public 20 years from now.
On modern interpretation- couldn't agree more.
For those who are left in 100 years, star wars will be retold differently. And shakespeare will be told differently.
Limited copyright is granted to encourage works to enter the public domain.
But sure.. there are lots of worthless works that I woudn't personally care if they were in copyright for infinity.
Right now copyright is broken. My view is works should become public domain 28 years with an annual tax based on a percentage of profits. If you dont pay the annual taxes, then the work becomes public domain after 14 years.
The current system is stifling works from entering the public domain.
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We should be able to provide everyone the ability to live as well as an 1890s farmer plus some kind of smart phone without them needing to work.
Basic housing, decent food, and entertainment.
But a lot of people are going to get wierd and destructive in that kind of environment as long as "rich" people exist and the things they do are displayed as entertainment.
Already, a lot of entertainment used by rich people is no longer shown or reported on. Areas become private domains for wealthy people and you never hear from or about them again.
Yes but we need to be in a place where the creative person is willing to do that for the joy of creation for that to work. Right now, companies are pricing select entertainment at higher and higher prices. At some point, a majority of the population won't be able to see first run entertainment. And some may never see certain entertainment.
That was the first thing that occurred to me.
Researchers outside the U.S. in china, russia, etc. will have free access while u.s. citizens (and probably some EU) will have to pay for access. In many cases, they won't be able to access it as their budget's won't allow it.
Not familiar with the works- are they from public universities paid for by tax dollars but published in journals that are claiming copyright or are they private company research, or both?
I would think that too but I hadn't used my other (farmville) facebook accounts for about 3 years when I set up the new non-farmville facebook account.
It doesn't even have a proper picture of me.
It's okay.. he posted without a QA team so the errors are intentional since he was extra careful and proofread before posting.
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I *HATE* slashdot's editing system.
In over 20 years of posting here and elsewhere, I've NEVER had anyone seriously edit/change a post folks had responded to (since there were often multiple people quoting the original). But I have repeatedly posted lame posts with the wrong word and misspellings which I can never correct on slashdot. Especially when posting from my small form factor smart phone.
Just let me say, I hate posting from my phone and I hate slashdot's refusal to allow you to edit posts.
In close to (over?) 20 years of posting- exactly no one has evrt edited a post in a serious way on any other forum after I responded to it which is the bugbear they are responding to by refusing to allow people to edit.
I've moved a lot of my posting activities to other forums that let me correct errors like that above.
So sorry for all the typo's above that make me look like a frikkin idiot. I posted from a small form factor android phone.
Last time this happened (about 130 years ago), the government had to step in and break up the monopolies in the U.S. Once monopolies grow enough, it becomes impossible to compete and it's a certain lost to invest money trying to compete.
They are charging $20 for something that costs $3 to make.
You start selling it for $12, so they start selling it for $2 until you go out of business.
Then they move the price back up to $20.
Titles are really arbitrary and related to company size.
I've known "managers" at small companies with 1 direct report.
Meanwhile, I've also known at large companies someone with 20 direct reports, 10 of them overseas might be a "Team lead". At this companies, manager started at 60-90 people on 3-5 teams.
Alpha Go didn't use brute force.
Human go masters learned new plays that hadn't been discovered by any human player in 3000 years of playing Go.
And if you had said that to management, they would have said "perfect is the enemy of good enough" and they would have been correct.
The main system had over 30 million lines of code. QA didn't enter the picture until the code was 23 years old. They bought a tool and started writing repeatable tests over major functionality. The focus was that major functionality would not be broken from the prior release and that any change in behavior in the tests had to have a known and approved reason.
Their test database was also too small- less than 1% of production. Couldn't afford another 100 million for a full duplicate of production. that's pretty common tho.
At that point A.I. will completely own any non A.I. foe in star craft.
Because at that point properly configured A.I. will have been effectively playing for 200 years.
As with Go, it won't use existing strategies- humans will learn new strategies from playing against it.
And it won't cheat by playing 19,000 actions per turn.
really insightful. wish i could mod you up.
now, if only jobs involved the total skill sets required by star craft, we could rest easy.
Well that's a point, but they were really developed by screen-scraping/recording user actions and not by programming.
You put the testing package in recording mode, performed the steps and that was a script.
It also had an associated "ideal" database to compare the test database to after the steps were completed.
Companies with custom software.
For me the fuss is that the time everyone I interact with cuts into my sleeping time when it falls back. I'm retired. I live off the clock. Even more so now with streaming video.
That's probably going to be really hard for a lot of software.
I wouldn't make such a change without at least a 24 month warning to everyone.
I'm for getting rid of DST tho. I hate DST.
Another trick is to put it away 6 weeks and then approach it fresh. I don't think that works as well for coding as it does for writing.
As a manager, my best developers were not my best testers. And my best QA people couldn't have coded their way out of a paper bag.
Our top QA guy and head of the QA department was an ex marine sergeant. Didn't know how to code. But he was a top notch tester who caught anything that didn't match spec's or that changed from one release to the next.
Exactly. Some people are good at writing code. Some people are good at finding errors.
Modern writing has gone to hell compared to even cheap books written when I was young. As long as the word is correctly spelled it gets thru to being published. You read the atrocious error, get jarred out of the book, then resume reading.
In development, the atrocious error is a loss of all data on the screen, or the program hangs, or you can't update an amount if you come at the screen from one particular set of commands.
Heck- the system IBM wrote for us years ago literally dumped an entire order if any error occurred. A half an hour of work lost. Because they treated it the same as ordering one item from amazon instead of ordering 130 items each with different quantities.
This is dumb.
QA people think like QA people. Developers think like developers. And developers can't bring a fresh eye to their own code.
Heck, most developers can't even develop remotely comprehensive test data.
There is some evidence in the nuclear and aerospace industries that having things checked twice results in people being lazier (because they think the other person will catch it).
But for mainstream business developers, I've never seen them able to test as well as QA does.
Nope. Used a fresh email address. I'm assuming it's the interest I follow combined with geographic area.
And none of them have posted on facebook in over 5 years.
I have one account- created after where I saw facebook was headed that has no pictures and I only follow one subject. Yet- it's already suggested real life friends among the people who 'might' be my friends.
It's fucking creepy.
And if you screw up, get scammed, or get unlucky, then you can commit suicide as a lot of people do after 40.
Most works become classics because they were really popular at the time. It's much less common for works to become popular later. I know from personal experience with television that there are some real gems out there that were cancelled after 13 episodes (battle creek, the finder) and they are not going to suddenly become popular with the public 20 years from now.
On modern interpretation- couldn't agree more.
For those who are left in 100 years, star wars will be retold differently. And shakespeare will be told differently.
Limited copyright is granted to encourage works to enter the public domain.
But sure.. there are lots of worthless works that I woudn't personally care if they were in copyright for infinity.
Right now copyright is broken. My view is works should become public domain 28 years with an annual tax based on a percentage of profits. If you dont pay the annual taxes, then the work becomes public domain after 14 years.
The current system is stifling works from entering the public domain.