And nobody does both parts better than Kurzweil. Clueless, full of himself and with the grandest predictions.
The reality is, if machines get to the intelligence level of a dog by that time, the actual experts will be ecstatic because that is very unlikely to happen. Human-level intelligence is not even on the table, i.e. there is not indication at all that it is possible. In fact, even said dog is a stretch and may turn out to be infeasible in this universe. (If you are a physicalist and argue that humans are purely physical and hence machines must be able to reach that level of intelligence, then you are a moron on the level of Kurzweil, because that is not an argument based on facts. The scientific facts about the nature of humans as sentient beings are that it is unknown how they do intelligence and consciousness and hence it is unknown whether it is a physical mechanism or not. That is why people that claim physicalism must be the truth are no better than any other religious or quasi-religious fundamentalists. They claim truth where they just have belief.)
You have apparently no clue what you are talking about. First, TLS can be used with SMTP. Second, snooping on Internet backbones is actually pretty hard to do. Third, the target ISP is harvesting _their_ messages without ever getting _their_ consent, and that happens to be illegal.
Oh, it is not AMD (or Intel) screwing up here, it is MS, but both AMD and Intel going along with it. No Win7 support (and the latest MS Win7 rollup-patch actively refuses to install on the new CPUs) means I will cancel the about $1500 I was planning to spend on a new Ryzen system and take a vacation for the money instead. There is no way I am going to switch to the Win10 Malware in its current state. Ads, spying and impossibility to block updates are each an absolute no-go.
Makes sense. About as much as the "Hour of Coding". For a real improvement, I would like an "Hour of Brain-Surgery" though, will all those in favor of this stupidity as test-subjects....
It tells us that it is a "scum swims to the top"-system. These fail long-term and make a lot of people miserable short-term without any real need or gain. It also tells us that the human race has still not figured out how to build societies well, except for small communities (which have their own issues).
And that does not matter for the discussion at hand at all, because there are not a lot of these jobs in the first place. Statistically, they are irrelevant.
There are also those people called "technology consultants". From small companies they are often quite good and well worth the rate they ask. And you can get them part time and often also effort-based.
Hehehe, there is a SF series "Epic Failure", by Joe Zieja, where the author takes great pleasure in describing things like that. For example, he made the cooks into engineers and the engineers into cooks. I guess Zieja is an industry veteran that has seen this kind of stupidity...
I fully agree. And if you do not have enough IT work for full-time jobs, get tech-consultants as part-time experts. Do not get them from any of the large consultancies, they will just rip you off. Get them form a small high-quality shop and pay what they ask.
Nobody hires anybody for a position "just because he is a man". There are plenty of men. Anybody that gets hired has some qualities the hirer looked for and "being a man" usually plays little or no role. Now, whether somebody was hired for the right qualities is a different question. But gender is most assuredly a wrong quality to make this decision on and should not be promoted as a valid decision criteria in any form.
This piece of fake news is not about those women. Those women compete on merit and do not need anything given to them for free because they happen to be female. I know quite a few women engineers and scientists in the same class. No, this news is about a type of woman that wants a high salary and a leadership positions solely because she happens to be a women.
Women earn about the same for the same work. Deviations are below 5% and it is unclear whom the favor, as this is below the margin of error of such studies. Women are generally not "higher qualified" than men, even if they have more degrees in absolute terms. There are degrees that are easy to get and those that are a lot harder to get. Women have more of the former than men. This whole thing is just a specific type of women trying to make it easy for themselves and get things for free.
That said, these claims just show one thing: It is easy to lie with numbers if you just leave the right bits out. And it shows that people with an agenda like this one are not above lying.
Your argument is entirely faulty and broken. It does not matter what the historical perspective is. My take is that current conditions are not good enough. Whether they were worse or better previously does not matter at all. Or are you one of those persons that think if you have been served poison before, that suddenly makes the rotten food you get now acceptable or even good?
Fascinating. People that can take such a manifestation of concentrated stupid seriously are truly fucked up. It seems the people behind this aimed for maximum complexity to obscure the fact that they have no substance. Kind of some religions, really.
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Both. And as long as there are enough morons that eat up his quasi-religious "predictions", also successful.
I like the comparison. Or those that claim "what humans can encrypt, humans can decrypt" and other bullshit.
Apparently. There are a lot of idiots around on this planet.
And nobody does both parts better than Kurzweil. Clueless, full of himself and with the grandest predictions.
The reality is, if machines get to the intelligence level of a dog by that time, the actual experts will be ecstatic because that is very unlikely to happen. Human-level intelligence is not even on the table, i.e. there is not indication at all that it is possible. In fact, even said dog is a stretch and may turn out to be infeasible in this universe. (If you are a physicalist and argue that humans are purely physical and hence machines must be able to reach that level of intelligence, then you are a moron on the level of Kurzweil, because that is not an argument based on facts. The scientific facts about the nature of humans as sentient beings are that it is unknown how they do intelligence and consciousness and hence it is unknown whether it is a physical mechanism or not. That is why people that claim physicalism must be the truth are no better than any other religious or quasi-religious fundamentalists. They claim truth where they just have belief.)
You have apparently no clue what you are talking about. First, TLS can be used with SMTP. Second, snooping on Internet backbones is actually pretty hard to do. Third, the target ISP is harvesting _their_ messages without ever getting _their_ consent, and that happens to be illegal.
You forgot that this is about people sending email to Gmail users, not about the Gmail users. The latter accepted this in the TOU. The former did not.
Security patches. MS has just started to make it impossible to install them on Win7 systems with the new CPUs.
Oh, it is not AMD (or Intel) screwing up here, it is MS, but both AMD and Intel going along with it. No Win7 support (and the latest MS Win7 rollup-patch actively refuses to install on the new CPUs) means I will cancel the about $1500 I was planning to spend on a new Ryzen system and take a vacation for the money instead. There is no way I am going to switch to the Win10 Malware in its current state. Ads, spying and impossibility to block updates are each an absolute no-go.
Makes sense. About as much as the "Hour of Coding". For a real improvement, I would like an "Hour of Brain-Surgery" though, will all those in favor of this stupidity as test-subjects....
It tells us that it is a "scum swims to the top"-system. These fail long-term and make a lot of people miserable short-term without any real need or gain. It also tells us that the human race has still not figured out how to build societies well, except for small communities (which have their own issues).
And that does not matter for the discussion at hand at all, because there are not a lot of these jobs in the first place. Statistically, they are irrelevant.
While that is a nice story, it does not match up with reality. Sure, there will be instances of that happening, but in general it is just not true.
There are also those people called "technology consultants". From small companies they are often quite good and well worth the rate they ask. And you can get them part time and often also effort-based.
Hehehe, there is a SF series "Epic Failure", by Joe Zieja, where the author takes great pleasure in describing things like that. For example, he made the cooks into engineers and the engineers into cooks. I guess Zieja is an industry veteran that has seen this kind of stupidity...
I fully agree. And if you do not have enough IT work for full-time jobs, get tech-consultants as part-time experts. Do not get them from any of the large consultancies, they will just rip you off. Get them form a small high-quality shop and pay what they ask.
Urgh. That will go well...
There really is no other good way. With things they already have credits from, they should at least be a year faster as well.
Nobody hires anybody for a position "just because he is a man". There are plenty of men. Anybody that gets hired has some qualities the hirer looked for and "being a man" usually plays little or no role. Now, whether somebody was hired for the right qualities is a different question. But gender is most assuredly a wrong quality to make this decision on and should not be promoted as a valid decision criteria in any form.
You seem to be stupid, because I very explicitly just did _not_ claim that.
And people with stupid sayings are just stupid. Your point?
This piece of fake news is not about those women. Those women compete on merit and do not need anything given to them for free because they happen to be female. I know quite a few women engineers and scientists in the same class. No, this news is about a type of woman that wants a high salary and a leadership positions solely because she happens to be a women.
Women earn about the same for the same work. Deviations are below 5% and it is unclear whom the favor, as this is below the margin of error of such studies. Women are generally not "higher qualified" than men, even if they have more degrees in absolute terms. There are degrees that are easy to get and those that are a lot harder to get. Women have more of the former than men. This whole thing is just a specific type of women trying to make it easy for themselves and get things for free.
That said, these claims just show one thing: It is easy to lie with numbers if you just leave the right bits out. And it shows that people with an agenda like this one are not above lying.
Your argument is entirely faulty and broken. It does not matter what the historical perspective is. My take is that current conditions are not good enough. Whether they were worse or better previously does not matter at all. Or are you one of those persons that think if you have been served poison before, that suddenly makes the rotten food you get now acceptable or even good?
Fascinating. People that can take such a manifestation of concentrated stupid seriously are truly fucked up. It seems the people behind this aimed for maximum complexity to obscure the fact that they have no substance. Kind of some religions, really.
Indeed.