Well that was just the most obvious example. I understand that such a vehicle would be an excellent commuter but I rarely drive our family car to work (yes I use the bus/train/bike solution depending on whether and how I feel that day) still I see plenty of uses for a family car at least as long as the kids live with us. As I am not going to buy a second car (I see no need) that is pretty much it for me. I am sure there are potential customers for such product and we need it for making the technologies used cheaper and more acceptable. Till this happens I still use my little frog.
As for buying remotely I understand people that promote such things, I see such services limited in many ways however: to centers of big cities, in choice and quality - I cook myself and after years of painful experiences I would not buy a single bean in this way.
The way I see it we have a long way till all this will get widely used.
so when some big group of people agree on something that is already a group-think and any possibility that they got to this point by actually using their brains for thinking is excluded?
I have this feeling that you may have had something to do with 'faultless software' policy that was introduced in my corporation a while ago. Projects now last in general longer and cost more per kLines of uncommented code than ever before so I guess implementation of this brave principle was very successful and I am sure that the only place where software development process is able to deliver better quality is Kingdom of Zamunda with Somalian developers directly following.
you mean the morlocs being the geeks staying in the cellar all day long watching pr0n and eloi being the beautiful that gets to plays in the movies that morlocs watch?
No amount of evolutionary changes will remove the basic trait of human being - stupidity. From that perspective it does not matter whether evolution actually stopped, accelerated or reversed - we will continue to be stupid, gullible species and it is enough to look in the news any particular day in a year to see that it is so. Gosh, maybe it is actually better for survival of the species if they are stupid and gullible. Now if mr Scientist clarified that - I would be impressed.
TFA is just confirmation that humans are stupid and this including mr scientist - fact that we reach maturity earlier does not mean we procreate earlier too in fact the opposite seems to be true. He mentioned Glasgow in his article which well says a lot...
Who says it has anything to do with intelligence? The fact is however that provided the resources are granted, as was the case for chess, writing program playing chess well was not as hard as we thought. It still was not a piece of cake and it actually simulated some processes that take (or can take) place in human brains while playing chess. Pattern searching and such it is interesting however how this works for other board games with full information. Go/Weiqi/Baduk does not seem to be that easy however. Interestingly 'new' approach based on montecarlo method is not only easily scalable - program plays better if you add few thousands cores - but starts approaching best human players. That is something simple DB approach (as for chess has for opening) does not work here. In one thing you are right however - judging intelligence takes a bit more caution. Still nobody sane would claim that such software posses any intelligence. Speaking of each - to recognize intelligence is not easy - majority of human beings do not have abilities commonly understood under the term thus there is no simple model that could be used as a reference. Definitions vary and I can imagine an intelligent person failing any of the tests that so called computer scientists developed to determine intelligence.
well actually it may be. I am sure he did not know about this but (I think it was british military 'discovering' that) success in such operations comes usually either when you hit them so hard that they forget who the enemy is or if you work with population.
First option I am afraid is not really viable in times when TV shows what it actually means on the ground. Population needs to remember what life looks like when no bombing takes place and that is not possible in Afghanistan for instance.
The other requires money, patience, intelligence (in both senses) and subtlety in dealing with population. I think current master chief boss knew only about money and did not have the guts to bomb them properly. Either way the military did not have a plan as for what to do after Saddam was removed and the imploding state is never a good option (see Somalia).
Generally I have to agree. Even in Germany where law makers put special attention to punish you for being independent it is still better that way. At least you can save something on tax and your investments (if you still have any after all this nonsense with credit crunch) can be better placed than in government pension system. The approach of companies to consultants and external contractors is also more rewarding - of course you will not get a new 'key person' title developed by your company to keep employees happy but at least you get all your hours accounted for.
That said there are other problems associated with being independent: like late payments or tax office harassment being two examples.
high level of accuracy for what exactly? I can understand that it is nice to see progress (or regress) but for me a simple clock does the trick too. I used to have a bike with speed meter and all sorts of other nice features but I noticed that this does not bring me anywhere as I was watching the bloody thing instead of enjoying the ride.
you can follow the following procedure: 1. check breath with the apparatus 2a. if result is positive i.e. alco in blood confirm with blood test. 2b. if result is negative but officers administering the test think that this is incorrect one can order additional blood test.
In any case double check if test results are doubtful as it seems to be the case here. There are civilized countries around where this is common practice - after positive test you are brought to a hospital where a blood test is done.
Mank is a town in Austria. Ind is International Nurses Day. This still leaves us in the dark as what International Nurses Day has to do with small austrian town?
reliability - you are not seriously proposing that ie8 is reliable? Chrome is too new to have a coherent opinion so this falls out of equation too. besides if you are so happy with ie8&chrome than go use them not whine about how badly ff needs this feature.
I do not know about you but to me they do not look sad at all. To me they look like successful invaders from outer space. The experiment just proves their capability.
I would never say that all upper quantile or media, politics, managment etc people are psychopaths and all bottom quantile people are intelligent, nice individuals who stay there because they love and respect other people so much. The fact is however that psychopaths are overrepresented in upper layers of society - see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy. It could be that in this particular case some politician(s) purchased goods from that company and manipulated the system appropriately as their penises did not grow bigger.
this way, i.e. only as well as it is needed, of doing things is common in any other part of economy.
Problem here was with people ashamed of coming out (of their cellars?) and complain due feared impression of small-dickness - that made the fraud much more difficult to prosecute because there were hardly any witnesses.
judging on the fact that QA is not a major issue or is one definitely less important than getting an outsourcing (or any such) bonus I would be rather skeptical about software's ability to calculate anything correctly. OTOH some hard coded values could help here: if issue is not found in answers DB give '42' as an answer.
I am not advocating fully blown production system and project management, however chaos and lack of documentation 'because this is one off tool we will not be using anywhere else' is likely to be costly if things go wrong, author is sick or left company and deadline is pressing.
Then again this all depends on the size and importance of particular software. You need not document every software fart people write to get some one-off calculation/result fast. For drivers and such I would keep a copy and care for documentation. This does not cost too much and any brain owner would do it for bigger pieces of software anyway. If you need more you can then easily expand your system. You can expand chaos too of course. Choice is yours.
This whole language X is better than language Y and Z is crap anyway thing makes me sick. Any discussion touching such subject tends to evolve into a flame.
Language is just a tool. Maybe one is better for some purposes than others but my experience of a contractor coder and QA engineer is that you can create mess in any language. If you build big applications than the mess may grow correspondingly big too. That is good so for people like me that test and verify this nice fresh mess.
There is nothing preventing anybody from bad habits in coding and putting nails into own foot. Whether you use hammer or nailgun it makes your foot ache all the same.
Every time I hear news about automation of warfare I cannot avoid impression that I heard or read it somewhere before, long long time ago. I guess that is because I got pleasure to read some works of great SF(?) writer Stanislaw Lem. I wonder only when washing machines will take the shape envisioned by him in 'Washing Machine Tragedy'.
Once they hear about said girls they either ask for ip address where this exciting streaming video is coming from or run away screaming - this leaves with point 3 not providing for point 4 - no profit.
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Well that was just the most obvious example. I understand that such a vehicle would be an excellent commuter but I rarely drive our family car to work (yes I use the bus/train/bike solution depending on whether and how I feel that day) still I see plenty of uses for a family car at least as long as the kids live with us. As I am not going to buy a second car (I see no need) that is pretty much it for me. I am sure there are potential customers for such product and we need it for making the technologies used cheaper and more acceptable. Till this happens I still use my little frog.
As for buying remotely I understand people that promote such things, I see such services limited in many ways however: to centers of big cities, in choice and quality - I cook myself and after years of painful experiences I would not buy a single bean in this way.
The way I see it we have a long way till all this will get widely used.
so when some big group of people agree on something that is already a group-think and any possibility that they got to this point by actually using their brains for thinking is excluded?
Can you use it to transport a family (2+2) to/from shopping?
Other than that it is a nice development.
I have this feeling that you may have had something to do with 'faultless software' policy that was introduced in my corporation a while ago. Projects now last in general longer and cost more per kLines of uncommented code than ever before so I guess implementation of this brave principle was very successful and I am sure that the only place where software development process is able to deliver better quality is Kingdom of Zamunda with Somalian developers directly following.
ooops I misclicked and you got overrated, I wanted give it funny - mea culpa now I have to write to get it removed
you mean the morlocs being the geeks staying in the cellar all day long watching pr0n and eloi being the beautiful that gets to plays in the movies that morlocs watch?
No amount of evolutionary changes will remove the basic trait of human being - stupidity. From that perspective it does not matter whether evolution actually stopped, accelerated or reversed - we will continue to be stupid, gullible species and it is enough to look in the news any particular day in a year to see that it is so.
Gosh, maybe it is actually better for survival of the species if they are stupid and gullible. Now if mr Scientist clarified that - I would be impressed.
TFA is just confirmation that humans are stupid and this including mr scientist - fact that we reach maturity earlier does not mean we procreate earlier too in fact the opposite seems to be true. He mentioned Glasgow in his article which well says a lot...
why short selling? maybe he was intelligent enough to know that shares rebound, bought some when they were low and sold when they were high again.
Who says it has anything to do with intelligence? The fact is however that provided the resources are granted, as was the case for chess, writing program playing chess well was not as hard as we thought. It still was not a piece of cake and it actually simulated some processes that take (or can take) place in human brains while playing chess. Pattern searching and such it is interesting however how this works for other board games with full information. Go/Weiqi/Baduk does not seem to be that easy however. Interestingly 'new' approach based on montecarlo method is not only easily scalable - program plays better if you add few thousands cores - but starts approaching best human players. That is something simple DB approach (as for chess has for opening) does not work here.
In one thing you are right however - judging intelligence takes a bit more caution. Still nobody sane would claim that such software posses any intelligence. Speaking of each - to recognize intelligence is not easy - majority of human beings do not have abilities commonly understood under the term thus there is no simple model that could be used as a reference. Definitions vary and I can imagine an intelligent person failing any of the tests that so called computer scientists developed to determine intelligence.
well actually it may be. I am sure he did not know about this but (I think it was british military 'discovering' that) success in such operations comes usually either when you hit them so hard that they forget who the enemy is or if you work with population.
First option I am afraid is not really viable in times when TV shows what it actually means on the ground. Population needs to remember what life looks like when no bombing takes place and that is not possible in Afghanistan for instance.
The other requires money, patience, intelligence (in both senses) and subtlety in dealing with population. I think current master chief boss knew only about money and did not have the guts to bomb them properly. Either way the military did not have a plan as for what to do after Saddam was removed and the imploding state is never a good option (see Somalia).
Generally I have to agree. Even in Germany where law makers put special attention to punish you for being independent it is still better that way. At least you can save something on tax and your investments (if you still have any after all this nonsense with credit crunch) can be better placed than in government pension system. The approach of companies to consultants and external contractors is also more rewarding - of course you will not get a new 'key person' title developed by your company to keep employees happy but at least you get all your hours accounted for.
That said there are other problems associated with being independent: like late payments or tax office harassment being two examples.
high level of accuracy for what exactly? I can understand that it is nice to see progress (or regress) but for me a simple clock does the trick too. I used to have a bike with speed meter and all sorts of other nice features but I noticed that this does not bring me anywhere as I was watching the bloody thing instead of enjoying the ride.
you can follow the following procedure:
1. check breath with the apparatus
2a. if result is positive i.e. alco in blood confirm with blood test.
2b. if result is negative but officers administering the test think that this is incorrect one can order additional blood test.
In any case double check if test results are doubtful as it seems to be the case here.
There are civilized countries around where this is common practice - after positive test you are brought to a hospital where a blood test is done.
Mank is a town in Austria. Ind is International Nurses Day. This still leaves us in the dark as what International Nurses Day has to do with small austrian town?
reliability - you are not seriously proposing that ie8 is reliable? Chrome is too new to have a coherent opinion so this falls out of equation too.
besides if you are so happy with ie8&chrome than go use them not whine about how badly ff needs this feature.
I do not know about you but to me they do not look sad at all. To me they look like successful invaders from outer space. The experiment just proves their capability.
What if they survive but be stronger than ever?
What will you do than?
I would never say that all upper quantile or media, politics, managment etc people are psychopaths and all bottom quantile people are intelligent, nice individuals who stay there because they love and respect other people so much. The fact is however that psychopaths are overrepresented in upper layers of society - see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy. It could be that in this particular case some politician(s) purchased goods from that company and manipulated the system appropriately as their penises did not grow bigger.
this way, i.e. only as well as it is needed, of doing things is common in any other part of economy.
Problem here was with people ashamed of coming out (of their cellars?) and complain due feared impression of small-dickness - that made the fraud much more difficult to prosecute because there were hardly any witnesses.
judging on the fact that QA is not a major issue or is one definitely less important than getting an outsourcing (or any such) bonus I would be rather skeptical about software's ability to calculate anything correctly. OTOH some hard coded values could help here: if issue is not found in answers DB give '42' as an answer.
I am not advocating fully blown production system and project management, however chaos and lack of documentation 'because this is one off tool we will not be using anywhere else' is likely to be costly if things go wrong, author is sick or left company and deadline is pressing.
Then again this all depends on the size and importance of particular software. You need not document every software fart people write to get some one-off calculation/result fast.
For drivers and such I would keep a copy and care for documentation. This does not cost too much and any brain owner would do it for bigger pieces of software anyway. If you need more you can then easily expand your system. You can expand chaos too of course. Choice is yours.
This whole language X is better than language Y and Z is crap anyway thing makes me sick. Any discussion touching such subject tends to evolve into a flame.
Language is just a tool. Maybe one is better for some purposes than others but my experience of a contractor coder and QA engineer is that you can create mess in any language. If you build big applications than the mess may grow correspondingly big too. That is good so for people like me that test and verify this nice fresh mess.
There is nothing preventing anybody from bad habits in coding and putting nails into own foot. Whether you use hammer or nailgun it makes your foot ache all the same.
Every time I hear news about automation of warfare I cannot avoid impression that I heard or read it somewhere before, long long time ago. I guess that is because I got pleasure to read some works of great SF(?) writer Stanislaw Lem. I wonder only when washing machines will take the shape envisioned by him in 'Washing Machine Tragedy'.
Once they hear about said girls they either ask for ip address where this exciting streaming video is coming from or run away screaming - this leaves with point 3 not providing for point 4 - no profit.