We're starting to close in on the Division by Zero.
Why are you paying them six figures to own your 140 page thesis?
Just make up a distracting thesis that has "academic" merit, swear by its defense to get your degree, then unleash your real degree in the real world when you graduate.
I just use a special email account for all businesses that I expect TurboMails from.
In a way it's so simple it's easy - it's easy to remember when you're on the spot signing up for stuff, and you know there's nothing "important" there. So you just let them all fight it out.
"You have 1422 new mails!"
So what? They're all corralled in the email-box resembling Montana. Radio Shack, Groupon and more.
If you can spin mirrors of chaos at 170 words per second you collect groupies. Simple as that. Then people see that the groupies are "on to something" so the second level crowds join.
"Windows Starter, Windows Home Basic, Windows Home Premium, Windows Small Business, Windows Enterprise, Windows Azure with Synch, Windows Media Edition"? (Or some such)
Actually, if we had the guts as a nation we could fix our deficit within five years if we uh... "embraced" the Adult Industry. But our Puritan heritage will take us to the grave instead.
All you can assume is that garden grade programmers are the only ones working on chat bots, and that it hasn't yet been deemed Worthy of Big Money.
It it had been, some very scary abilities including the ability to spout racist garbage would have been added.
Once the New Hotness becomes Chatterbots, we'll see some scary good ones within four years.
What the twisted article says, is that the Turing Test can be passed if you handicap your pool of humans down from Apartment Dwelling armchair CS types to random tech attendees in India.
I'm inclined to to try it as an amusing experiment - (it doesn't say you HAVE to be a student right?)
As a former enfant terrible myself, you don't just change two words, a talented paper-slicker can smash up the whole paper while mostly keeping the same ideas. It's like a form of translation.
There's lots of things about this entire story that bothers me. For example, why are we talking about "plagarism" and not "copyright infringement"? Isn't "changing a work so that it avoids copyright infringement" a Good Thing?
The amount of money R. spent is peanuts compared to the fun they had! Instilling fear in the public is worth lots of subsidiary money. It is creating our Guilty Until Proven Innocent culture that can then be applied elsewhere.
I'll take the cynical view that it absolutely will get recreated.
Copyright lawsuits are the new hotness! Plus the poster above nailed it - they absolutely do profit because they take their salaries out of the shell company, then declare bankruptcy before paying anyone anything. Then next week "Intellectual Promotions Group" forms, and starts all over. It's one of the deadliest business hacks ever.
The **AA reality distortion field is apparently even stronger than Apple's.
Hollywood can't bear to have someone copy Revenge of the Nerds 3. So they get as far as "We got this IP Address down to one household - but we don't know who in the household did it."
The solution is of course - "confiscate all equipment in the household!"
Or, we can hope, sanity will prevail...
The Unholy Trinity of Prophetic Manuals is becoming 1984, Animal Farm, and Brave New World. Bonus Reading Fahrenheit 451.
Far from it - Borders did everything they could to avoid stocking sellable coffee shop items. Some friend of a High-Up pulled a deal to put a third rate food supply there. If I recall you couldn't even buy a coke or pepsi - it was all strange off-brands of expensive yuppy drinks.
Note to Self - go see what Barnes & Noble does for refreshments.
The new Hotness is developing closed layers on Open Source shells.
Companies save 7 years on core concept development, but then they slam you for anything that looks like a rectangle with a home button in patent court.
Google is doing the same thing - Android is "sorta open" but seriously no company has the cash to fight them for the 5 years it takes to begin to get noticed.
The future of computing is interchangeable Mobile and Desktop, with only superficial factors. a Mobile Device needs to be able to power a (low end) desktop experience by hooking up to hardware. I'm fine if that's Zoom +2 years.
"You're believing marketing!" Marketing always mixes as many confusions as it can get away with before it breaks the law. "You actually believed that marketing statement had any correlation to policy?"
What companies are seeing is if they can pick off the "low end use case" with low end tablets, it forces bottom pressure on the market leader.
For example, Apple seems to have done a great job of keeping this out of the news, but "generic" mp3 players now hold 4 gigs - PLENTY for a random music collection. So for a guy like me who only loads his music once a month, who needs all that iTunes synch crap?
Same thing with tablets. We all know $600 is absurd. Tablets need to be $99. And soon a second generation of hardware will be there.
What learning tech early does, is teach the kid "it's okay to use tech". Simple, and as scary, as that.
Teachers desperately cling to Grades because they have no other metrics.
In the modern business world, you have tons of older workers who "know stuff" but can't extract a file off an email. It's at least worth a try to let the kid spend some time playing with tech, because tech is the wave of the future.
Put a little facetiously, we don't need to know factoids anymore because you can just Google it now. And if you can't Google it, you can post it to a forum and get it in 12 hours.
So let the kid learn to type, and then the few bright ones will wonder what a computer does...
So it is Brave New World after all. Those sites are the new Soma. They soothe the populace. Yes, some care must be taken down to delete the really dangerous threads, otherwise all is nice and dandy with cat pictures.
There's this Triangular Lawyer, flying around, suing at anyone and anything that uses the Atari name! The small targets are single businesses - the larger ones are small companies and clubs, which, when sued, split up and take the emulators and pass them around!
Slashdot Mirror
It's a lot more / simpler than that.
Mark Z. Likes this.
He can pay for laws to be amended.
We're starting to close in on the Division by Zero.
Why are you paying them six figures to own your 140 page thesis?
Just make up a distracting thesis that has "academic" merit, swear by its defense to get your degree, then unleash your real degree in the real world when you graduate.
Let's bust the EDU bubble.
So it's the Ourobios?
I just use a special email account for all businesses that I expect TurboMails from.
In a way it's so simple it's easy - it's easy to remember when you're on the spot signing up for stuff, and you know there's nothing "important" there. So you just let them all fight it out.
"You have 1422 new mails!"
So what? They're all corralled in the email-box resembling Montana. Radio Shack, Groupon and more.
Or Krakatoa.
(Arthur C. Clarke.)
I'm just an amateur and I attest to this.
If you can spin mirrors of chaos at 170 words per second you collect groupies. Simple as that. Then people see that the groupies are "on to something" so the second level crowds join.
Don't you mean:
"Windows Starter, Windows Home Basic, Windows Home Premium, Windows Small Business, Windows Enterprise, Windows Azure with Synch, Windows Media Edition"? (Or some such)
All THAT times 3 tablets!
So whose stock photos are they though?
Why is this "idle" and not a 400Million (YourCurrencyHere) copyright case?
Actually, if we had the guts as a nation we could fix our deficit within five years if we uh... "embraced" the Adult Industry. But our Puritan heritage will take us to the grave instead.
Nah, I'll Semi-Ignore Win7. IT is putting it on my desktop, they at least waited past Vista.
But really, I'll see y'all in a year when real info comes out. I'm tired of MS's 16 month marketing campaigns. Bye.
No you cannot assume that.
All you can assume is that garden grade programmers are the only ones working on chat bots, and that it hasn't yet been deemed Worthy of Big Money.
It it had been, some very scary abilities including the ability to spout racist garbage would have been added.
Once the New Hotness becomes Chatterbots, we'll see some scary good ones within four years.
What the twisted article says, is that the Turing Test can be passed if you handicap your pool of humans down from Apartment Dwelling armchair CS types to random tech attendees in India.
I'm inclined to to try it as an amusing experiment - (it doesn't say you HAVE to be a student right?)
As a former enfant terrible myself, you don't just change two words, a talented paper-slicker can smash up the whole paper while mostly keeping the same ideas. It's like a form of translation.
There's lots of things about this entire story that bothers me. For example, why are we talking about "plagarism" and not "copyright infringement"? Isn't "changing a work so that it avoids copyright infringement" a Good Thing?
The amount of money R. spent is peanuts compared to the fun they had! Instilling fear in the public is worth lots of subsidiary money. It is creating our Guilty Until Proven Innocent culture that can then be applied elsewhere.
I'll take the cynical view that it absolutely will get recreated.
Copyright lawsuits are the new hotness! Plus the poster above nailed it - they absolutely do profit because they take their salaries out of the shell company, then declare bankruptcy before paying anyone anything. Then next week "Intellectual Promotions Group" forms, and starts all over. It's one of the deadliest business hacks ever.
I got this one!
Let's make a Premium list of everyone who sends "Don't Track Me Please" headers! They are advanced users ages 21-59!
The **AA reality distortion field is apparently even stronger than Apple's.
Hollywood can't bear to have someone copy Revenge of the Nerds 3. So they get as far as "We got this IP Address down to one household - but we don't know who in the household did it."
The solution is of course - "confiscate all equipment in the household!"
Or, we can hope, sanity will prevail...
The Unholy Trinity of Prophetic Manuals is becoming 1984, Animal Farm, and Brave New World. Bonus Reading Fahrenheit 451.
Far from it - Borders did everything they could to avoid stocking sellable coffee shop items. Some friend of a High-Up pulled a deal to put a third rate food supply there. If I recall you couldn't even buy a coke or pepsi - it was all strange off-brands of expensive yuppy drinks.
Note to Self - go see what Barnes & Noble does for refreshments.
The new Hotness is developing closed layers on Open Source shells.
Companies save 7 years on core concept development, but then they slam you for anything that looks like a rectangle with a home button in patent court.
Google is doing the same thing - Android is "sorta open" but seriously no company has the cash to fight them for the 5 years it takes to begin to get noticed.
"No".
The future of computing is interchangeable Mobile and Desktop, with only superficial factors. a Mobile Device needs to be able to power a (low end) desktop experience by hooking up to hardware. I'm fine if that's Zoom +2 years.
Sure! Car Tires that record information on where you drove, presented to Big Brother with HTML!
"You're believing marketing!" Marketing always mixes as many confusions as it can get away with before it breaks the law. "You actually believed that marketing statement had any correlation to policy?"
What companies are seeing is if they can pick off the "low end use case" with low end tablets, it forces bottom pressure on the market leader.
For example, Apple seems to have done a great job of keeping this out of the news, but "generic" mp3 players now hold 4 gigs - PLENTY for a random music collection. So for a guy like me who only loads his music once a month, who needs all that iTunes synch crap?
Same thing with tablets. We all know $600 is absurd. Tablets need to be $99. And soon a second generation of hardware will be there.
Sorry, I must disagree.
What learning tech early does, is teach the kid "it's okay to use tech". Simple, and as scary, as that.
Teachers desperately cling to Grades because they have no other metrics.
In the modern business world, you have tons of older workers who "know stuff" but can't extract a file off an email. It's at least worth a try to let the kid spend some time playing with tech, because tech is the wave of the future.
Put a little facetiously, we don't need to know factoids anymore because you can just Google it now. And if you can't Google it, you can post it to a forum and get it in 12 hours.
So let the kid learn to type, and then the few bright ones will wonder what a computer does...
And THERE is your future workforce.
So it is Brave New World after all. Those sites are the new Soma. They soothe the populace. Yes, some care must be taken down to delete the really dangerous threads, otherwise all is nice and dandy with cat pictures.
I know this one!!
There's this Triangular Lawyer, flying around, suing at anyone and anything that uses the Atari name! The small targets are single businesses - the larger ones are small companies and clubs, which, when sued, split up and take the emulators and pass them around!
You got Whooshed.
Selling products is old and busted. Making money off IP Lawsuits over square pieces of plastic is where it's at.