Some Random Companies come to my mind
1) Digital
2) CRAY
3) Siliconn Graphis
4) Borland
5) Xerox
6) Old HP
7) Compaq
8) Sun
9) Sinclair
10) Atari
11) Comodore
12) Microsoft (no visionaire left)
13) Netscape
14) Control Data
and the list goes on. Maybe some companies die
with their creators
"as bringing up the standard of living in those nations to that of the West is impossible given the Earth's finite resources"
I am curious to see the study that supports scientifically this hypothesis.
eg like the folowing simplified example
X = square killometers of good land to grow food =( Y land for potatoes + Z land for tomatos +W land for animal farming)
then (Y * tons of potatos/square kilometer + Z * tons of potatos/square kilometer + w * tons of meat/square kilometeters ) / P population of planet earth / 365 days a year = a daily meat potato tomato meal < decent, healthy meal for a human being (that will not get you unhealthy fat)
Do you have any idea how
much food, goods etc is thrown into garbage every day in the western world?
well, good bye and thanks for all the fish! i wish i had mod points. so +insightfull. But the real question is not really about software. Has the time arrived for an other kind of ECONOMY?.
from http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArt icle.jhtml?articleID=191901844
"I've always been amazed at the Apollo spacecraft guidance system, built by the MIT Instrumentation Lab. In 1969, this software got Apollo 11 to the moon, detached the lunar module, landed it on the moon's surface, and brought three astronauts home. It had to function on the tiny amount of memory available in the onboard Raytheon computer--it carried 8 Kbytes, not enough for a printer driver these days. And there wouldn't be time to reboot in case of system failure when the craft made re-entry. It's just as well Windows wasn't available for the job. The Apollo guidance system probably seems like routine software to technology sophisticates. Far more complex navigational systems are in operation today. The system's essentials were a few well-known algorithms based on proven logic. But to me, it's still rocket science. Great software dazzles us by virtue of what it does correctly in the face of everything that could go wrong."
Whow, can you do that without 80 cores?
If i am a doctor, then the patients i have cured are a measure of how good i am at my work.
If i predict future and i am good at my work why am i not predicting the stock market?
3 Years ago with a friend we investigated the potential of writing our own voice recognition engine. Till then we were working on signal analysis on data aquired from the Ulysses spacecraft, so we had a good experience on signals analysis techniques. For 2 years this friend worked and finally created a voice recognition engine with a vocabulary of about 100 words. The engine had to be trained because it needed to be speaker independant , and of course it could recognise one word at a time (The engine had a succes of 95-98% ).Natural speach was out of our league and i believe that it is out of anyone's reach (if we are talking about a software that will not fail in any given presentation:-) see MS). After all, even a human needs a lot of training (years actually starting from being a baby where only listens untill the moment that says 'mom':-)) and even then, the phrase "can you repeat that ?" comes up all the time. From what i have seen in the voice recognition discipline the moto is : "we are ten years from natural speech recognition" and they said that in 85 , 95, and 2005. And thats because unless we find something radically different we will always be 10 years from that goal. So for the time being, the only usefull applications for voice recognition (meaning software that actually works), given the technology status, is for menu driven applications for eg handicaped people (applications in elevators eg "Please select a floor").
PS1 My english are bad
PS2 We need to be more realistic about Voice Recognition as for AI in general
Well i couldn't agree more. My brain works billion% more when i am not sitting on a chair. My most creative thinking comes usually when i walk. I am a programmer , so someone could ask when do i write code? Well shooting keys on the keyboard is the trivial task, and i could sit in front of a screen writting code for 3 days straight without sleeping. But i do not consider that creative work. I consider it the "dictation/translation to code/visualization" of ideas born after a long walk.
or in other words' You are going nowhere fast if you dont know where you are going
You missed the point of the article. With a little help from me, my 4 year old son who cannot read or write, managed to install successfully fedora core 5 with the help of this 'picture book'.
Now i am trying to find another 'picture book' for him because he is bored with FC5 after installing it 5 times a day for a week. I think he needs a new game. For the moment we are waiting for the release of FC6 picture book and the new Harry Potter Comic book.
Usually i am not writing but just reading the posts here at slashdot. But this is sometheing i feel a have to write something about. Mr Balmer is talking about IP. That makes me laugh a little. So what the f**k is IP? If i was god maybe then i would have the right to talk about intelectual property, because world would have been entirely my creation and then all there is and all that would be,should be considered derivatives of my work (and that should be ok because i would have not copied a thing from anyone, nonexistense is cool). Fortunately this is not the case since i am not god, so i cannot file complaints against anyone.
I am not living in a fictitious world, but the way things are going, the time where someone patents the way we lift a glass to drink water in not far away.Its crazy, i know but whereis the limit? I believe that alphabet, one of mans greatest inventions, sould have been patented for eternity.
1) for checking about stolen vehicles
2) to send tickets to everyone exciding the speed limit of 130 Km/h, 3) checking for untaxed and uninsured vehicles.
And generally for road safety reasons:
1) Those who dont wear their safety belt going below 50 km/h shouldn't get a ticket
2) for those that dont wear their safety belts ang speeding at 50-100km/h should not be punished too hard
3) For people speeding above 100km/h not wearing their safety belts their car should be hold by the police for only two days, and not more.
4) Finally the above should be known to public via advertisement in television.
5) this is only for their safety belts,
and thats because TV is the only medium that everybody watches and the message can get to the public.
6) if someone wants to go over 250Km/h they can do so if they wear their safety belts
All of the above should be enforced to everyone , even policemen and politicians
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Some Random Companies come to my mind 1) Digital 2) CRAY 3) Siliconn Graphis 4) Borland 5) Xerox 6) Old HP 7) Compaq 8) Sun 9) Sinclair 10) Atari 11) Comodore 12) Microsoft (no visionaire left) 13) Netscape 14) Control Data and the list goes on. Maybe some companies die with their creators
"as bringing up the standard of living in those nations to that of the West is impossible given the Earth's finite resources"
I am curious to see the study that supports scientifically this hypothesis.
eg like the folowing simplified example
X = square killometers of good land to grow food =( Y land for potatoes + Z land for tomatos +W land for animal farming) then (Y * tons of potatos/square kilometer + Z * tons of potatos/square kilometer + w * tons of meat/square kilometeters ) / P population of planet earth / 365 days a year = a daily meat potato tomato meal < decent, healthy meal for a human being (that will not get you unhealthy fat)
Do you have any idea how much food, goods etc is thrown into garbage every day in the western world?
well, good bye and thanks for all the fish! i wish i had mod points. so +insightfull. But the real question is not really about software. Has the time arrived for an other kind of ECONOMY?.
you could have a look at
d itorials/dumb/index.html
http://www.ranum.com/security/computer_security/e
from http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArt icle.jhtml?articleID=191901844
"I've always been amazed at the Apollo spacecraft guidance system, built by the MIT Instrumentation Lab. In 1969, this software got Apollo 11 to the moon, detached the lunar module, landed it on the moon's surface, and brought three astronauts home. It had to function on the tiny amount of memory available in the onboard Raytheon computer--it carried 8 Kbytes, not enough for a printer driver these days. And there wouldn't be time to reboot in case of system failure when the craft made re-entry. It's just as well Windows wasn't available for the job. The Apollo guidance system probably seems like routine software to technology sophisticates. Far more complex navigational systems are in operation today. The system's essentials were a few well-known algorithms based on proven logic. But to me, it's still rocket science. Great software dazzles us by virtue of what it does correctly in the face of everything that could go wrong."
Whow, can you do that without 80 cores?
If i am a doctor, then the patients i have cured are a measure of how good i am at my work. If i predict future and i am good at my work why am i not predicting the stock market?
3 Years ago with a friend we investigated the potential of writing our own voice recognition engine. Till then we were working on signal analysis on data aquired from the Ulysses spacecraft, so we had a good experience on signals analysis techniques. For 2 years this friend worked and finally created a voice recognition engine with a vocabulary of about 100 words. The engine had to be trained because it needed to be speaker independant , and of course it could recognise one word at a time (The engine had a succes of 95-98% ).Natural speach was out of our league and i believe that it is out of anyone's reach (if we are talking about a software that will not fail in any given presentation :-) see MS). After all, even a human needs a lot of training (years actually starting from being a baby where only listens untill the moment that says 'mom' :-)) and even then, the phrase "can you repeat that ?" comes up all the time. From what i have seen in the voice recognition discipline the moto is : "we are ten years from natural speech recognition" and they said that in 85 , 95, and 2005. And thats because unless we find something radically different we will always be 10 years from that goal. So for the time being, the only usefull applications for voice recognition (meaning software that actually works), given the technology status, is for menu driven applications for eg handicaped people (applications in elevators eg "Please select a floor").
PS1 My english are bad
PS2 We need to be more realistic about Voice Recognition as for AI in general
Well i couldn't agree more. My brain works billion% more when i am not sitting on a chair. My most creative thinking comes usually when i walk. I am a programmer , so someone could ask when do i write code? Well shooting keys on the keyboard is the trivial task, and i could sit in front of a screen writting code for 3 days straight without sleeping. But i do not consider that creative work. I consider it the "dictation/translation to code/visualization" of ideas born after a long walk.
or in other words' You are going nowhere fast if you dont know where you are going
Ok it's like saying it's harder to add the foundations of a building AFTER you have built it.Whow!!!
opinions are like a*les, everybody has got one
You missed the point of the article. With a little help from me, my 4 year old son who cannot read or write, managed to install successfully fedora core 5 with the help of this 'picture book'.
Now i am trying to find another 'picture book' for him because he is bored with FC5 after installing it 5 times a day for a week. I think he needs a new game. For the moment we are waiting for the release of FC6 picture book and the new Harry Potter Comic book.
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i gave my last 2 cents for CentOS
Usually i am not writing but just reading the posts here at slashdot. But this is sometheing i feel a have to write something about. Mr Balmer is talking about IP. That makes me laugh a little. So what the f**k is IP? If i was god maybe then i would have the right to talk about intelectual property, because world would have been entirely my creation and then all there is and all that would be,should be considered derivatives of my work (and that should be ok because i would have not copied a thing from anyone, nonexistense is cool). Fortunately this is not the case since i am not god, so i cannot file complaints against anyone. I am not living in a fictitious world, but the way things are going, the time where someone patents the way we lift a glass to drink water in not far away.Its crazy, i know but whereis the limit? I believe that alphabet, one of mans greatest inventions, sould have been patented for eternity.
i believe that this system will be usefull
1) for checking about stolen vehicles
2) to send tickets to everyone exciding the speed limit of 130 Km/h,
3) checking for untaxed and uninsured vehicles.
And generally for road safety reasons:
1) Those who dont wear their safety belt going below 50 km/h shouldn't get a ticket
2) for those that dont wear their safety belts ang speeding at 50-100km/h should not be punished too hard
3) For people speeding above 100km/h not wearing their safety belts their car should be hold by the police for only two days, and not more.
4) Finally the above should be known to public via advertisement in television.
5) this is only for their safety belts, and thats because TV is the only medium that everybody watches and the message can get to the public.
6) if someone wants to go over 250Km/h they can do so if they wear their safety belts
All of the above should be enforced to everyone , even policemen and politicians
IN AN INSANE WORLD, THE ANSWERS ARE INSANE