The defining characteristic of "cloud" is "on someone else's stuff that you get a monthly bill for", sold to management as a way to be rid of those pesky IT types who insist on actually taking more than a minute and a half to do something complicated.
Well, we've removed a cost center for the company and only increased our risk by an unknowable percent. It's working so well that we're planning on outsourcing our middle management to cloud intelligent systems from the same company. Since our whole company relies on the success of this cloud provider, maybe we'll by it to reduce our risk then do the same thing with their IT cost center. We'll double the savings!
the Andy Griffith type cop is becoming a minority in this day and age.
The Andy Griffith type cop never existed, and was unique even within the context of the show (remarked on by outsiders visiting Mayberry constantly). At best, you might get Adam-12 or Dragnet type cops.
This could be nausea inducing if they don't know exactly where someone is looking from. What if the driver turns his head but is looking in the rear view mirror? Can the rear posts figure out that they need to project an image to the mirror and back the the driver's eyes? Do these displays look bewildering to passengers who might incorrectly warn the driver? "Look out!" It might be better to figure out how to design hollowed posts with honeycomb designs that sacrifice safety for err.. safety.
Christianity started out violent but eventually mellowed out for the most part. Islam is just several ticks behind the times.
Excuse me? Do you really mean that? Seriously?!? Christianity started out with a jewish rabbi who got nailed to a cross. Are you suggesting that he started a violent movement that needed "mellowing"? That strikes me as crossing well over the line of victim blaming.
There was that one time that Peter cut the High Priest's slave's ear off, and Jesus was all like "Peter, chill bro!" Although Christianity didn't start until after that.
Not true. The second amendment to the Australian Constitution in 1910 amended Section 105 so that it read
The Parliament may take over from the States their public debts, or a proportion thereof according to the respective numbers of their people as shown by the latest statistics of the Commonwealth, and may convert, renew, or consolidate such debts, or any part thereof; and the States shall indemnify the Commonwealth in respect of the debts taken over, and thereafter the interest payable in respect of the debts shall be deducted and retained from the portions of the surplus revenue of the Commonwealth payable to the several States, or if such surplus is insufficient, or if there is no surplus, then the deficiency or the whole amount shall be paid by the several States.
Where previously it had read
The Parliament may take over from the States their public debts as existing at the establishment of the Commonwealth, or a proportion thereof according to the respective numbers of their people as shown by the latest statistics of the Commonwealth, and may convert, renew, or consolidate such debts, or any part thereof; and the States shall indemnify the Commonwealth in respect of the debts taken over, and thereafter the interest payable in respect of the debts shall be deducted and retained from the portions of the surplus revenue of the Commonwealth payable to the several States, or if such surplus is insufficient, or if there is no surplus, then the deficiency or the whole amount shall be paid by the several States.
Any artist knows that art is part creation and part interpretation. Ridley Scott could make a movie with 60,000 frames of a solid color that he calls blue. But if everyone who watches the movie (pity them) says the 60,000 frames are all solid orange, then Scott most concede. The viewer gets the final say since they perform the interpretation. If the artist intended for a different interpretation, they should make their piece more communicative. Directors/Writers: Please do not use this as an excuse to boringly explain everything in your movies.
Unix philosophy. Do one thing and do it right. Same reason I have an old school e-Reader instead of an Amazon Fire. I also own a stand alone calculator and digital camera. Trying to put everything into one Tricorder type device is not the future yet. Unless your future is one device that does 10 things sub-par.
I agree with you on the camera, but the e-Reader? I use old-school paper-Readers. My copy of Flatland does one thing, and does it right. I own a stand-alone calculator, but I have no idea where it is. The graphing and scientific capabilities of my laptop and my phone outpace my calculator by miles. And the convenience of the smartphone-as-calculator shouldn't be overlooked. It's like a suped-up version of the late 1980's calculator wrist-watch, but not a fashion faux-pas.
They could kill IT in that 10-ppl company and might well get away with it. They probably would recreate an "online-app-maintenance" guy with much lesser influence and be done with internal IT with in-house developpers.
And in 2-3 years, they'll have removed all redundancy thinking it's bloat. They'll even have switched the one server from your RAID 10 setup that you started them with to be a RAID 0 with four drives because that's how the "online-app-maintenance" guy runs his home gaming rig. After 4 years, the company will lose everything.
While marketing will put forth a hundred short-lived ideas I do strive for stability, for things to be scalable and durable.
You're not a fuddy-duddy. You know what these ideas are that marketing is putting forth, and you know that they'd be good for a short time, but your job is to think long-term. You're protecting the company from baring its rear.
I'd add a couple features to your list: a functional ecosystem and a morale system. If there is a rat and a cat on a level, why are they both intent on attacking a big paladin riding a horse instead of running away from him (or eating the rat or running away from the cat). Add some mushrooms that spontaneously grow in corners or grow from corpses, and you'll have something for the prey animals to feed on beyond lichen (or greatly increase the chances of lichen).
If they hired better teachers, what would the teachers' unions do with the worthless teachers?
In this case I'd like to know what the FBI is investigating. Graft? Or are they investigating the students' "cybercrime" of unlocking the iPads?
So you are saying that every child is dumber than his parents?
No, I am saying that the intelligence of the parents didn't create (design) the intelligence of the child, and even if that were so, your definition wouldn't classify them as intelligent unless the child were more (not equally) intelligent.
And I didn't define "intelligence" or "natural intelligence" but "artificial intelligence". Like physical beings, AI must be able to replicate, or it isn't "alive" enough to meet my requirements.
Defining intelligence is the important part, and applying artificiality to it (by saying it's a program rather than a creature) is the step that makes for a definition of AI. And who mentioned "alive"? AI is artificial. it need not replicate at all to be intelligent and artificial.
Seems what your complaint is that the combination "artificial intelligence" doesn't use "intelligence" as defined in the dictionary. Oddly enough, my cup-board doesn't hold any cups. Nor does my dash-board have any dash on it (nor is it a board, unlike my cupboard, which is a physical board). Seems there are many definitions where the combinations of words makes a unique meaning unrelated to the component words.
But artificial FOO is a very distinct pattern in English. Many people are setting up artificial trees and wreaths this time of year. Artificial lighting is well understood (real light, artificial source). Artificial sweeteners, turf, etc. It stands to reason that Artificial Intelligence would be like Artificial lighting (real intelligence, artificial source), or at least like artificial sweeteners where it *tastes* like standard intelligence, but has an artificial source.
Your ignorance of linguistics isn't a compelling argument against my definition of AI.
You were making good conversation up until this. It's rude to assume ignorance on my part with naught but infrequent slashdot posts (or just one).
I define AI as any program that can create a version of itself that's smarter than itself.
That seems to be a disingenuous definition since it would imply that non-artificial intelligence would be any naturally occurring organism that can design a version of itself that's smarter than itself. Which would imply that nothing yet is intelligent. What you're defining is "Artificial Super-Genius".
Damn, look at all those sleeper accounts. At least one even has excellent karma.
Yes. Blech. I enjoy reading at score:-1 so that I can see the occasional undeserved down-mod, but I'd really like a feature that takes posts that are 99.999% the same and only displays the diffs or maybe an account feature where certain phrases (edited per user) trigger an entire post to be blanked out in that user's view. This page is currently very hard to read with all the pointless MyCleanPC spam.
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The defining characteristic of "cloud" is "on someone else's stuff that you get a monthly bill for", sold to management as a way to be rid of those pesky IT types who insist on actually taking more than a minute and a half to do something complicated.
Well, we've removed a cost center for the company and only increased our risk by an unknowable percent. It's working so well that we're planning on outsourcing our middle management to cloud intelligent systems from the same company. Since our whole company relies on the success of this cloud provider, maybe we'll by it to reduce our risk then do the same thing with their IT cost center. We'll double the savings!
the Andy Griffith type cop is becoming a minority in this day and age.
The Andy Griffith type cop never existed, and was unique even within the context of the show (remarked on by outsiders visiting Mayberry constantly). At best, you might get Adam-12 or Dragnet type cops.
This could be nausea inducing if they don't know exactly where someone is looking from. What if the driver turns his head but is looking in the rear view mirror? Can the rear posts figure out that they need to project an image to the mirror and back the the driver's eyes? Do these displays look bewildering to passengers who might incorrectly warn the driver? "Look out!" It might be better to figure out how to design hollowed posts with honeycomb designs that sacrifice safety for err.. safety.
Christianity started out violent but eventually mellowed out for the most part. Islam is just several ticks behind the times.
Excuse me? Do you really mean that? Seriously?!? Christianity started out with a jewish rabbi who got nailed to a cross. Are you suggesting that he started a violent movement that needed "mellowing"? That strikes me as crossing well over the line of victim blaming.
There was that one time that Peter cut the High Priest's slave's ear off, and Jesus was all like "Peter, chill bro!" Although Christianity didn't start until after that.
Australia doesn't have the 2nd Amendment.
Not true. The second amendment to the Australian Constitution in 1910 amended Section 105 so that it read
The Parliament may take over from the States their public debts, or a proportion thereof according to the respective numbers of their people as shown by the latest statistics of the Commonwealth, and may convert, renew, or consolidate such debts, or any part thereof; and the States shall indemnify the Commonwealth in respect of the debts taken over, and thereafter the interest payable in respect of the debts shall be deducted and retained from the portions of the surplus revenue of the Commonwealth payable to the several States, or if such surplus is insufficient, or if there is no surplus, then the deficiency or the whole amount shall be paid by the several States.
Where previously it had read
The Parliament may take over from the States their public debts as existing at the establishment of the Commonwealth , or a proportion thereof according to the respective numbers of their people as shown by the latest statistics of the Commonwealth, and may convert, renew, or consolidate such debts, or any part thereof; and the States shall indemnify the Commonwealth in respect of the debts taken over, and thereafter the interest payable in respect of the debts shall be deducted and retained from the portions of the surplus revenue of the Commonwealth payable to the several States, or if such surplus is insufficient, or if there is no surplus, then the deficiency or the whole amount shall be paid by the several States.
Your question wasn't posed to me.
Ridley Scott said so. It's his movie
Any artist knows that art is part creation and part interpretation. Ridley Scott could make a movie with 60,000 frames of a solid color that he calls blue. But if everyone who watches the movie (pity them) says the 60,000 frames are all solid orange, then Scott most concede. The viewer gets the final say since they perform the interpretation. If the artist intended for a different interpretation, they should make their piece more communicative. Directors/Writers: Please do not use this as an excuse to boringly explain everything in your movies.
Quit nouning adjectives. It's as annoying as verbing nouns.
Unix philosophy. Do one thing and do it right. Same reason I have an old school e-Reader instead of an Amazon Fire. I also own a stand alone calculator and digital camera. Trying to put everything into one Tricorder type device is not the future yet. Unless your future is one device that does 10 things sub-par.
I agree with you on the camera, but the e-Reader? I use old-school paper-Readers. My copy of Flatland does one thing, and does it right. I own a stand-alone calculator, but I have no idea where it is. The graphing and scientific capabilities of my laptop and my phone outpace my calculator by miles. And the convenience of the smartphone-as-calculator shouldn't be overlooked. It's like a suped-up version of the late 1980's calculator wrist-watch, but not a fashion faux-pas.
They could kill IT in that 10-ppl company and might well get away with it. They probably would recreate an "online-app-maintenance" guy with much lesser influence and be done with internal IT with in-house developpers.
And in 2-3 years, they'll have removed all redundancy thinking it's bloat. They'll even have switched the one server from your RAID 10 setup that you started them with to be a RAID 0 with four drives because that's how the "online-app-maintenance" guy runs his home gaming rig. After 4 years, the company will lose everything.
While marketing will put forth a hundred short-lived ideas I do strive for stability, for things to be scalable and durable.
You're not a fuddy-duddy. You know what these ideas are that marketing is putting forth, and you know that they'd be good for a short time, but your job is to think long-term. You're protecting the company from baring its rear.
Probably because washing your car every week is a luxury.
The appearance controls in Xfce, for example, can switch to vertical subpixels
Excellent. I use Xfce with four 4x3 monitors. I know what I'll be trying when I get some spare time.
Subpixels orient horizontally.
Rather than using Simpsons names, they chose a fake name "Travis Tea" that sounds like the word "travesty".
Why not both? http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki...
Sheesh. What kind of journal accepts a paper written by a baby?
To be fair, Maggie was 6months-1year in 1987, so she's a 28yo baby.
I'd add a couple features to your list: a functional ecosystem and a morale system. If there is a rat and a cat on a level, why are they both intent on attacking a big paladin riding a horse instead of running away from him (or eating the rat or running away from the cat). Add some mushrooms that spontaneously grow in corners or grow from corpses, and you'll have something for the prey animals to feed on beyond lichen (or greatly increase the chances of lichen).
the folks who would pay $1000 for a flashlight must not be too bright...
If they were bright, they wouldn't really need a flashlight.
You know, that FF/Black Panther villain who makes solid sound objects? He's really solid sound himself, somehow he uses Vibranium to exist.
http://news.slashdot.org/story...
If they hired better teachers, what would the teachers' unions do with the worthless teachers?
In this case I'd like to know what the FBI is investigating. Graft? Or are they investigating the students' "cybercrime" of unlocking the iPads?
So you are saying that every child is dumber than his parents?
No, I am saying that the intelligence of the parents didn't create (design) the intelligence of the child, and even if that were so, your definition wouldn't classify them as intelligent unless the child were more (not equally) intelligent.
And I didn't define "intelligence" or "natural intelligence" but "artificial intelligence". Like physical beings, AI must be able to replicate, or it isn't "alive" enough to meet my requirements.
Defining intelligence is the important part, and applying artificiality to it (by saying it's a program rather than a creature) is the step that makes for a definition of AI. And who mentioned "alive"? AI is artificial. it need not replicate at all to be intelligent and artificial.
Seems what your complaint is that the combination "artificial intelligence" doesn't use "intelligence" as defined in the dictionary. Oddly enough, my cup-board doesn't hold any cups. Nor does my dash-board have any dash on it (nor is it a board, unlike my cupboard, which is a physical board). Seems there are many definitions where the combinations of words makes a unique meaning unrelated to the component words.
But artificial FOO is a very distinct pattern in English. Many people are setting up artificial trees and wreaths this time of year. Artificial lighting is well understood (real light, artificial source). Artificial sweeteners, turf, etc. It stands to reason that Artificial Intelligence would be like Artificial lighting (real intelligence, artificial source), or at least like artificial sweeteners where it *tastes* like standard intelligence, but has an artificial source.
Your ignorance of linguistics isn't a compelling argument against my definition of AI.
You were making good conversation up until this. It's rude to assume ignorance on my part with naught but infrequent slashdot posts (or just one).
I define AI as any program that can create a version of itself that's smarter than itself.
That seems to be a disingenuous definition since it would imply that non-artificial intelligence would be any naturally occurring organism that can design a version of itself that's smarter than itself. Which would imply that nothing yet is intelligent. What you're defining is "Artificial Super-Genius".
... nougat.
"It's what makes your planet so delicious" - Galactus
Damn, look at all those sleeper accounts. At least one even has excellent karma.
Yes. Blech. I enjoy reading at score:-1 so that I can see the occasional undeserved down-mod, but I'd really like a feature that takes posts that are 99.999% the same and only displays the diffs or maybe an account feature where certain phrases (edited per user) trigger an entire post to be blanked out in that user's view. This page is currently very hard to read with all the pointless MyCleanPC spam.
If speech can incite violence (it doesn't ), then provocative clothing can incite rape (it doesn't), and we have to cover our women head to toe..
Covering women head to toe incites Ferengis to imagine undressing them. Do you really want that?