If I where in charge there, it's what I would have done. Ask every form of media in the nation (print, paper, radio, tv, etc) to show the MOST controversial cartoons Charlie Hebdo printed for a 24-hour period in honor of those that died.
Fuck this 1 min of silence bullshit.
Make it clear to all that VIOLENCE will NEVER WORK TO SILENCE PEOPLE USING FEAR.
Totally agree (with everything except your typo/spelling mistake). A 'one minute's silence' doesn't do anything concrete. Everyone kick in a dollar to a bank and let's do something constructive in their memory is a better idea. Or clean up a beach. Or plant a tree. Or feed a homeless guy.
BTW, I think France (and Holland?) showed the Danish paper's 'Mohammed' cartoons after that country took the flak last time this sort of thing went down. Here in NZ the papers are standing 'solid' with 'Charlie' - but not showing any Mohammed sketches. I guess there's solid and there's solid...
Well, the problem happens when some technology evangelist or manager who doesn't know a damned thing about the existing system claims it's easy to migrate it to modern tools......
Sorry, disagree. Disclaimer: I work on legacy systems, and they've provided me with $$$ for many a year. But for 'legacy' I prefer 'industrial-strength, production' that happens to run on a mainframe (or Enterprise Server - whatever).
But I digress... these old systems are massively tailored (I'm on one now...) and have been doing the job for decades. But saying that they're not easy to convert or replace is obvious (if you mean it's difficult) or wrong (if you mean it will never happen). Modern IT tools and techniques (pick your favourite ones and insert in these brackets) can solve complex business problems. Might take a while to work out why the original did that thing it does on March 14th if it's a Tuesday... but that's tailoring.
If it's a problem that can be solved by IT, then IT can solve it.
Now another question... should the existing system be migrated or totally replaced? I've got four or five old clunkers here that make me weep, and I'm leaning towards replacing the functionality with nice, modern easy-to-understand stuff. Keep the business process, replace the code.
They were actually mobile kitchens, and, given the rather poor nutritional status of the Iraqi military, it is not unreasonable to assume they represented WMDs.
Somebody has to say it.. depends on what they were cooking. A badly-made pilaf with some off-colour meat, and that's a division out of circulation while they run to the latrines.
It's good that it's mapping translations rather than language speakers - but it's not mapping content. Say 50% of the tweets in English are concerning Kim Kardashian's latest outfit, or Lady Gaga's pop video. An article in Finnish (why not?) is telling everyone how to talk to dogs. Which is more important to humankind?
Of course, how you automatically judge merit is another matter....
I've got two records of Elgar himself conducting Elgar's two symphonies. Elgar, for heaven's sake. I was offered 10 cents each for them. I still have them.
You find me someone who will actually pay the $$$ that the journalists say vinyl is worth, and I'll flick on my 100 or so records. In the meantime, they're in boxes waiting for my daughter to sort out when I end up six foot under.
What a shame that your glorious robots would never get to taste, touch, see, hear, or actually experience anything.
Qualia....coming to the rescue yet again.
Good one - I'm here for you. Susan Blackmore's book on consciousness quotes the appreciation of qualia as a mark of consciousness. I can't see any machine ever enjoying a ham sandwich, or a beer. They can be programmed to respond as if they did, though.
We are completely and totally fucked as a species if we do not figure out how to live independently of Earth. That means manned spaceflights. That means colonization of the Moon, Mars, and possibly elsewhere. The sooner we begin this work the better chance our species has for survival. The trouble is getting our current anti-science government to believe it.
Totally agree. I can't comment on whether the government is anti-science - it's not my government - but I would also like to subscribe to your newsletter.
And, of course, good luck to the ground crew with Orion. May you be rewarded with success!
A catastrophic health problem can change your plans overnight, at any age. Throw in that the older you get, the more likely it is to happen... and employers can do the math too.
Faulty logic there. You might as well say "Youngsters are well known to do high-risk sports and hobbies, such as base-jumping, or swimming with sharks: employers can do the maths and will hire older staff that have survived these self-destructive years".
you're right, that is a crazy dream because the ebola outbreak tracker shows that the number of new cases has been relatively stable (albeit noisy) for the last couple weeks. contrary to the summary, however, the tracker shows that ebola cases are doubling every 46 days, not 2-3 weeks.
Source is 'Wikipedia'. Hmmm. Be more inclined to take it seriously if it was sourced from WHO, or MSF, etc...
Too often these things just look like dick measuring contests. A childish waste of time. I don't really care if the chinese have the fastest machine so long as our systems are able to keep up with our needs.
Damn right, Who cares? You USans are good at some things, top in some, bad in others, crap at a few. Much like the rest of the world.
I've said it before and I'll say it again - the world owes you a debt for getting humans on the moon.
(On the other side of the coin... never understood why you folks have so many guns...)
Anything that has a number in title will be garbage (or otherwise redundant). LinkedIn is full of "The six ways that you can succeed at your next interview", "The Top Ten techs of the 2010s". "The Seven Programming Techniques you must know"
Put a comment on your website mentioning that someone out there is using your company's name and number for callbacks, and tell your customers to be aware of this issue. You can't be liable for their gullibility, any more than you can for the actual actions of the Nigerian scammers (or whoever they are).
An Ancient Greek said "If people speak ill of thee, act so that no-one will believe them". I'd say that's still valid.
Will be interesting to see if HBO does better than the BBC;>
Yes! You beat me to it. I taped these off my old valve radio when they were broadcast, back when I was 14. I lovingly cared for the cassette tapes over the decades since, hearing them once every blue moon... and then found out I could get flawless copies off this website.
I remember hanging the mike next to the speaker... portable cassette player. Back in those days, the big thing was recording birdsong.
Spent 3 years or so working as an operator. Fine, good grounding for the support work I'm doing now some thirty years later. And I got 20% shift bonus for doing it.
One thing that lasts - I now have no time for people who say that certain things should be open at certain times of day. Example; don't serve beer/wine until noon. Back when I worked shift, most people's morning was my evening. If I fancy a beer with my dinner at 8 am, so what? I remember hanging around with fellow shift workers 'til 11am, waiting for the pubs to open on the last night...
Maybe this is just the malware they expected people to find. Think of how many people now have a greater false sense of security because this group was "taken down".
You're right... the real problem malware is of course the stuff that I can't detect on my pc! Quick, pass my tinfoil hat and gloves.
It's almost like they don't want a pure meritocracy?
The feminist movement is not about being treated as equals; it's about identifying a majority (seriously!) of the human population as "victims" in order to gain wealth and political power 'advocating' on their behalf.
So obesity in America is a snowball effect and cannot be stopped.
Look at photographs from the sixties and seventies of Americans or even earlier. Normal people.
From the eighties onward they've become walking Bibendums. It's tragic if you think about it. An entire people incapable of eating healthy food. Children are obese, parents are obese. It's clear something went wrong between the seventies and the eighties. What ?
Marketing. I watched a show "The man who made us fat". Someone in a fast food chain (ok, I didn't pay a lot of attention...) worked out that if you gave out bigger portions and charged more, people still ate it all rather than leave it half-finished and 'waste it'.
Makes sense, if you think of it. When's the last time you just said "that's it, I've had enough" and didn't finish a meal that you'd paid for? (Especially a dessert...)
Not snarky - but I've noticed that some Hollywood movies explicitly (or implicitly) state that if you want to do anything really, really well, you just have to practice, practice, practive. This sounds like a restatement of the 10,000 hour rule. Oh, and you have to really want it.
I suspect everyone always knew this was nonsense. But is this (Gladwell) where it came from?
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If I where in charge there, it's what I would have done. Ask every form of media in the nation (print, paper, radio, tv, etc) to show the MOST controversial cartoons Charlie Hebdo printed for a 24-hour period in honor of those that died.
Fuck this 1 min of silence bullshit.
Make it clear to all that VIOLENCE will NEVER WORK TO SILENCE PEOPLE USING FEAR.
Totally agree (with everything except your typo/spelling mistake). A 'one minute's silence' doesn't do anything concrete. Everyone kick in a dollar to a bank and let's do something constructive in their memory is a better idea. Or clean up a beach. Or plant a tree. Or feed a homeless guy.
BTW, I think France (and Holland?) showed the Danish paper's 'Mohammed' cartoons after that country took the flak last time this sort of thing went down. Here in NZ the papers are standing 'solid' with 'Charlie' - but not showing any Mohammed sketches. I guess there's solid and there's solid...
Well, the problem happens when some technology evangelist or manager who doesn't know a damned thing about the existing system claims it's easy to migrate it to modern tools. .....
Sorry, disagree. Disclaimer: I work on legacy systems, and they've provided me with $$$ for many a year. But for 'legacy' I prefer 'industrial-strength, production' that happens to run on a mainframe (or Enterprise Server - whatever).
... should the existing system be migrated or totally replaced? I've got four or five old clunkers here that make me weep, and I'm leaning towards replacing the functionality with nice, modern easy-to-understand stuff. Keep the business process, replace the code.
But I digress... these old systems are massively tailored (I'm on one now...) and have been doing the job for decades. But saying that they're not easy to convert or replace is obvious (if you mean it's difficult) or wrong (if you mean it will never happen). Modern IT tools and techniques (pick your favourite ones and insert in these brackets) can solve complex business problems. Might take a while to work out why the original did that thing it does on March 14th if it's a Tuesday... but that's tailoring.
If it's a problem that can be solved by IT, then IT can solve it.
Now another question
BTW, where do I apply for this GBP135,000 job?
I noticed that once I cut off the video stream, the meaning of what I was saying changed completely.
(Con apologie per nostri amici Italiani)
They were actually mobile kitchens, and, given the rather poor nutritional status of the Iraqi military, it is not unreasonable to assume they represented WMDs.
Somebody has to say it .. depends on what they were cooking. A badly-made pilaf with some off-colour meat, and that's a division out of circulation while they run to the latrines.
It's good that it's mapping translations rather than language speakers - but it's not mapping content. Say 50% of the tweets in English are concerning Kim Kardashian's latest outfit, or Lady Gaga's pop video. An article in Finnish (why not?) is telling everyone how to talk to dogs. Which is more important to humankind?
Of course, how you automatically judge merit is another matter....
I've got two records of Elgar himself conducting Elgar's two symphonies. Elgar, for heaven's sake. I was offered 10 cents each for them. I still have them.
You find me someone who will actually pay the $$$ that the journalists say vinyl is worth, and I'll flick on my 100 or so records. In the meantime, they're in boxes waiting for my daughter to sort out when I end up six foot under.
Whenever something sounds too good to be true, it usually isn't. I'll put some cash on this being in the Ig-Nobles in a year or two.
Back to 'Eat less and exercise', everyone. That's probably safer, anyhow.
What a shame that your glorious robots would never get to taste, touch, see, hear, or actually experience anything. Qualia. ...coming to the rescue yet again.
Good one - I'm here for you. Susan Blackmore's book on consciousness quotes the appreciation of qualia as a mark of consciousness. I can't see any machine ever enjoying a ham sandwich, or a beer. They can be programmed to respond as if they did, though.
We are completely and totally fucked as a species if we do not figure out how to live independently of Earth. That means manned spaceflights. That means colonization of the Moon, Mars, and possibly elsewhere. The sooner we begin this work the better chance our species has for survival. The trouble is getting our current anti-science government to believe it.
Totally agree. I can't comment on whether the government is anti-science - it's not my government - but I would also like to subscribe to your newsletter.
And, of course, good luck to the ground crew with Orion. May you be rewarded with success!
A catastrophic health problem can change your plans overnight, at any age. Throw in that the older you get, the more likely it is to happen ... and employers can do the math too.
Faulty logic there. You might as well say "Youngsters are well known to do high-risk sports and hobbies, such as base-jumping, or swimming with sharks: employers can do the maths and will hire older staff that have survived these self-destructive years".
you're right, that is a crazy dream because the ebola outbreak tracker shows that the number of new cases has been relatively stable (albeit noisy) for the last couple weeks. contrary to the summary, however, the tracker shows that ebola cases are doubling every 46 days, not 2-3 weeks.
Source is 'Wikipedia'. Hmmm. Be more inclined to take it seriously if it was sourced from WHO, or MSF, etc...
Too often these things just look like dick measuring contests. A childish waste of time. I don't really care if the chinese have the fastest machine so long as our systems are able to keep up with our needs.
Damn right, Who cares? You USans are good at some things, top in some, bad in others, crap at a few. Much like the rest of the world.
I've said it before and I'll say it again - the world owes you a debt for getting humans on the moon.
(On the other side of the coin... never understood why you folks have so many guns...)
This is 2014. The majority of nerds have more than one computer.
Heck, that's a prerequisite of membership.
...
But look on the bright side - nerddom also requires more than one operating system
Anything that has a number in title will be garbage (or otherwise redundant). LinkedIn is full of "The six ways that you can succeed at your next interview", "The Top Ten techs of the 2010s". "The Seven Programming Techniques you must know"
Kittenman's law is fine. Pat pending.
Put a comment on your website mentioning that someone out there is using your company's name and number for callbacks, and tell your customers to be aware of this issue.
You can't be liable for their gullibility, any more than you can for the actual actions of the Nigerian scammers (or whoever they are).
An Ancient Greek said "If people speak ill of thee, act so that no-one will believe them". I'd say that's still valid.
For those who care: https://archive.org/details/Is...
Will be interesting to see if HBO does better than the BBC ;>
Yes! You beat me to it. I taped these off my old valve radio when they were broadcast, back when I was 14. I lovingly cared for the cassette tapes over the decades since, hearing them once every blue moon... and then found out I could get flawless copies off this website.
I remember hanging the mike next to the speaker... portable cassette player. Back in those days, the big thing was recording birdsong.
Spent 3 years or so working as an operator. Fine, good grounding for the support work I'm doing now some thirty years later. And I got 20% shift bonus for doing it.
One thing that lasts - I now have no time for people who say that certain things should be open at certain times of day. Example; don't serve beer/wine until noon. Back when I worked shift, most people's morning was my evening. If I fancy a beer with my dinner at 8 am, so what? I remember hanging around with fellow shift workers 'til 11am, waiting for the pubs to open on the last night...
Maybe this is just the malware they expected people to find. Think of how many people now have a greater false sense of security because this group was "taken down".
You're right... the real problem malware is of course the stuff that I can't detect on my pc! Quick, pass my tinfoil hat and gloves.
>> the liberating power of the Internet is based on its freedom and statelessness
"In 1995!" says Triumph the Insult Comic Dog.
(Seriously, where do you begin. Server logs, cookies, magic URLs, IP lookups, etc.)
You beat me to it - but my concise reply was going to be...
" the liberating power of the Internet "
Citation needed.
It's almost like they don't want a pure meritocracy?
The feminist movement is not about being treated as equals; it's about identifying a majority (seriously!) of the human population as "victims" in order to gain wealth and political power 'advocating' on their behalf.
Chromosome-gate?
Not just the common-or-garden Isaac Asimov, but THE Isaac Asimov !!!
How much of a vested interest does Gartner have in this technology?
Your conspiracy theory is backwards. If they had a vested interest in more automation, they would want to keep it low profile.
Unless Gartner themselves are robots! Quick, spread the word before it's too late!
So obesity in America is a snowball effect and cannot be stopped.
Look at photographs from the sixties and seventies of Americans or even earlier. Normal people. From the eighties onward they've become walking Bibendums. It's tragic if you think about it. An entire people incapable of eating healthy food. Children are obese, parents are obese. It's clear something went wrong between the seventies and the eighties. What ?
Marketing. I watched a show "The man who made us fat". Someone in a fast food chain (ok, I didn't pay a lot of attention...) worked out that if you gave out bigger portions and charged more, people still ate it all rather than leave it half-finished and 'waste it'.
Makes sense, if you think of it. When's the last time you just said "that's it, I've had enough" and didn't finish a meal that you'd paid for? (Especially a dessert...)
" He realized that people's reactions will be heavily influenced by their religious beliefs," Really?
The religious will do this because they can't distinguish between their god and an alien?
Even as an atheist, I'm insulted for the believers among us....
And yes, is this a slow news day, I guess.
Not snarky - but I've noticed that some Hollywood movies explicitly (or implicitly) state that if you want to do anything really, really well, you just have to practice, practice, practive. This sounds like a restatement of the 10,000 hour rule. Oh, and you have to really want it.
I suspect everyone always knew this was nonsense. But is this (Gladwell) where it came from?