and your'e hired! Well, it's a kind on intelligence test, I guess - for cheating. You'll filter out all but the best cheaters. Yup, that's the kind of company I/i want to work for
in their heads. They have learned to pay attention to money and ignore "cool" unless "cool" makes money. They may not know a specific technology, but if they know a technology exists, they can usually figure out how to use it even if they don't know the particulars. Yes, you could hire a Ruby expert, but the older programmer or engineer would know whether or not Ruby was the best fit in the first place and might also be inclined to think in cost/benefit ratios (e.g. "Yes, you could spend $50K making the background software crash less often, but until then, can't we wrap it in a recursive batch file that calls itself whenever the program terminates?"). There's a quality of judgment you acquire when you do anything long enough that can't be matched by an inexperienced person no matter what technology they know.
Wow. I'd seriously doubt the management ability of someone who required knowledge of Dijkstra's algorithm, tuples, virtual void functions and similar occasionally useful but rarely employed techniques. The relevant questions are the relevant questions. If I'm hiring an SQL developer, I care nothing about their knowledge of linked lists, but he/she had better have a good grasp of symbolic logic in the database domain (i.e. the difference between inner and outer joins). If I'm hiring a UI developer, I'm far more interested in their knowledge of human neurophysiology and cognition than I am their programming skills.
Banks are terrorist organizations too for that matter. Um, well sorta. The fed too. They all just use dollars instead of bombs to kill people so nobody notices as much.
No. No! Only the ones with enough money will be able to pay for the privilege of being borg. Those implants and enhancements aren't cheap, you know, and the borg queen's bonus just gets bigger every year.
So theories change with new information. Sounds like science behaving correctly to me. Only an idiot thinks you always get perfect and correct information the first time around. All you get are higher and higher probabilities of accuracy. It's just not a boolean universe.
It's just a very generalized process of getting more reliable information than we would otherwise. It works differently than the genetic algorithm method of multiple simultaneous train and error. Both have their good and bad points, but if you're looking for "Truth" with a capital "T" here, you might as well be waiting for Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny. Your odds on seen any of them are about as good as finding "Truth" and for the same reason. All are fantasy - a byproduct of non-self reflective human cognition. None exist in the external world.
I can tell you that many of us have a genetic mutation that forces us to make jokes every 2nd or 3rd sentence. Totally involuntary, I assure you. Famous sufferers of the disease include all the Pythons and virtually every member of the House of Lords. The Queen herself is alleged to carry the gene, but manages to keep silent and simply carry on with her everyday life a sort of extended joke.
>metals, water, air - are already UP there. On the *moon?* None of them are "up there" on the moon in sufficient quantities to matter. Any metals that are there still have to be shoved up a gravity well. We'd do better to capture some of the iron bearing meteors that wander by with a rocket or a magnet, tugboat them in stable positions at the lagrange points (assuming there aren't enough there already), point some mirrors at them until they melt up and spin with magnets until the iron reaches the surface.
>the Lunar surface (and subterranean bases) provides a perfect redoubt for humans hiding from persistent radiation showers. Or the Terran surface, assuming you stay on the side where the sun isn't. And since you need to have water anyway, how about always having the tank face the sun? Any long term environment will also involve farming, with dirt, which can also be aimed sunside.
>subterranean lunar colony for 1000 people would be at least an order of magnitude simpler and more fault-tolerant than building a similarly-scaled space-habitat. You ever watch dirt mining? I fail to see how excavating a cavern on the moon and trying to seal it off (good luck) is simpler than assembing a series of pre-made, hermetically sealed, interlocking tin cans in low earth orbit.
The internet now threatens the world's government-corporations and so of course, attempts will be made to curtail it. This will inevitably result in a "pirate" internet similar to "pirate" radio. Servers will be set up offshore, on satellites, over the borders and in the woods, on thousands of buildings and in the powerlines. Underground transmission, actually a very old technology, will make a comeback (http://www.cellular-news.com/story/18682.php). Pirate internetworks will shift and bob and weave and never, ever, be discussed in the mainstream media any more than pirate radio is now. But the new interwebs will survive, and thrive.
The "funny" (or not so funny) thing is the end result of restriction is lessened national security as sophisticated methods of alternative internet communications are forced to grow and develop due to government-corporate restrictions. Terrorists *will* use the pirate network just as terrorists will eventually manage to send the USA a nuke or two via the drug cartel networks that wouldn't exist but for Nancy Reagan's obsession with "Just say no."
Seriously, the moon and Mars are a waste of time and money. Near earth orbit, in constrast, has a lot of potential for power generation, enhanced telecommunications, earth observation and eventually, permanent, self-sustaining living environments. As "cool" as it would be to get to Mars or the moon (again), there's just no compelling reason to do so that's not served better by near earth orbital stations and satellites.
You need both profitable capitalistic endeavors and government research R&D to exploit space and to get the synergistic effect of both entities working on technologies of different types for different ends.
Where would the internet be without DARPA? Where would it be today without online commerce?
Manned space exploration did produce a lot of technology and can still do so, but if you want a continued presence in space, show the voters and entrepreneurs the money.
I think the amount of money spent on sports by governments AND private enterprise is ridiculous, frankly. By extension, I think the amount of effort, time and money spent on entertainment worldwide is pathetic and absurd, when we're looking at overpopulation and energy depletion converging in a most unpleasant manner by the end of the century.
And you sound like someone so superficial that they couldn't be bothered to think for more than 5 seconds beyond a rather dimwitted emotional response. Allowing for your impairments, I'll try to explain. What artificial intelligence gets us is an expanded domain space of practical, solvable problems. These solutions can be obtained more cheaply and quickly. It also expands the reach of non-human labor and analysis, to the point where we probably will have little need to send actual humans anywhere for space exploration.
None of this is particularly difficult to figure out, assuming you can pay attention to the issue for a few minutes and can think through the possible implications (i.e. use your imagination to make intelligent guesses). Gates' failure with AI is the same as his failures with the internet and Windows. Instead of thinking about what the possible implications of a user-friendly GUI were, or an expanded Darpanet, he focused on this quarter's bottom line. Microsoft didn't move until they were forced to move by others, like Steve Jobs, who despite his many other faults, did have imagination.
Something practical, like provide electricity to earth, or a ubiquitous free satellite internet, or something besides, "It's really cool!" That's not going to go any further than revolutionary fervor did in sustaining communism. In the near to medium term, if you talk space, you'd better talk money. Mars and the moon have no profit possibilities. Near earth orbit, which is affordable, more easily achievable and potentially profitable needs to be our next focus. I'm sure this is what the Chinese will do, and what we in the USA no longer have the common sense to see.
Tell me again why you wouldn't mine this stuff in the asteroid belt where it isn't at the bottom of a gravity well and then use it to manufacture stuff in space?
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have it's own lobbying organization now?
His noodly appendages are clearly drawn incorrectly as a way to mock his starchiness. I demand that /. remove them immediately.
It is legal to do so. Otherwise, both the entertainment and news industry as we know them would be gone.
and your'e hired! Well, it's a kind on intelligence test, I guess - for cheating. You'll filter out all but the best cheaters. Yup, that's the kind of company I/i want to work for
in their heads. They have learned to pay attention to money and ignore "cool" unless "cool" makes money. They may not know a specific technology, but if they know a technology exists, they can usually figure out how to use it even if they don't know the particulars. Yes, you could hire a Ruby expert, but the older programmer or engineer would know whether or not Ruby was the best fit in the first place and might also be inclined to think in cost/benefit ratios (e.g. "Yes, you could spend $50K making the background software crash less often, but until then, can't we wrap it in a recursive batch file that calls itself whenever the program terminates?"). There's a quality of judgment you acquire when you do anything long enough that can't be matched by an inexperienced person no matter what technology they know.
Wow. I'd seriously doubt the management ability of someone who required knowledge of Dijkstra's algorithm, tuples, virtual void functions and similar occasionally useful but rarely employed techniques. The relevant questions are the relevant questions. If I'm hiring an SQL developer, I care nothing about their knowledge of linked lists, but he/she had better have a good grasp of symbolic logic in the database domain (i.e. the difference between inner and outer joins). If I'm hiring a UI developer, I'm far more interested in their knowledge of human neurophysiology and cognition than I am their programming skills.
I mean, does it?
Banks are terrorist organizations too for that matter.
Um, well sorta. The fed too. They all just use dollars instead of bombs to kill people so nobody notices as much.
So we'll just pass a law, compelling the FBI to publish all internal documents on-line. If they have nothing to hide, what's the problem?
No. No! Only the ones with enough money will be able to pay for the privilege of being borg. Those implants and enhancements aren't cheap, you know, and the borg queen's bonus just gets bigger every year.
Closer to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_Slobbovia.
Distraction, not fear, is the mind killer. And remember, these are the guys behind Skype.
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So theories change with new information. Sounds like science behaving correctly to me. Only an idiot thinks you always get perfect and correct information the first time around. All you get are higher and higher probabilities of accuracy. It's just not a boolean universe.
It's just a very generalized process of getting more reliable information than we would otherwise. It works differently than the genetic algorithm method of multiple simultaneous train and error. Both have their good and bad points, but if you're looking for "Truth" with a capital "T" here, you might as well be waiting for Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny. Your odds on seen any of them are about as good as finding "Truth" and for the same reason. All are fantasy - a byproduct of non-self reflective human cognition. None exist in the external world.
It's purchasing. They're not working there because of their excessive virility, y'know.
I can tell you that many of us have a genetic mutation that forces us to make jokes every 2nd or 3rd sentence. Totally involuntary, I assure you. Famous sufferers of the disease include all the Pythons and virtually every member of the House of Lords. The Queen herself is alleged to carry the gene, but manages to keep silent and simply carry on with her everyday life a sort of extended joke.
>metals, water, air - are already UP there.
On the *moon?* None of them are "up there" on the moon in sufficient quantities to matter. Any metals that are there still have to be shoved up a gravity well. We'd do better to capture some of the iron bearing meteors that wander by with a rocket or a magnet, tugboat them in stable positions at the lagrange points (assuming there aren't enough there already), point some mirrors at them until they melt up and spin with magnets until the iron reaches the surface.
>the Lunar surface (and subterranean bases) provides a perfect redoubt for humans hiding from persistent radiation showers.
Or the Terran surface, assuming you stay on the side where the sun isn't. And since you need to have water anyway, how about always having the tank face the sun? Any long term environment will also involve farming, with dirt, which can also be aimed sunside.
>subterranean lunar colony for 1000 people would be at least an order of magnitude simpler and more fault-tolerant than building a similarly-scaled space-habitat.
You ever watch dirt mining? I fail to see how excavating a cavern on the moon and trying to seal it off (good luck) is simpler than assembing a series of pre-made, hermetically sealed, interlocking tin cans in low earth orbit.
The internet now threatens the world's government-corporations and so of course, attempts will be made to curtail it. This will inevitably result in a "pirate" internet similar to "pirate" radio. Servers will be set up offshore, on satellites, over the borders and in the woods, on thousands of buildings and in the powerlines. Underground transmission, actually a very old technology, will make a comeback (http://www.cellular-news.com/story/18682.php). Pirate internetworks will shift and bob and weave and never, ever, be discussed in the mainstream media any more than pirate radio is now. But the new interwebs will survive, and thrive.
The "funny" (or not so funny) thing is the end result of restriction is lessened national security as sophisticated methods of alternative internet communications are forced to grow and develop due to government-corporate restrictions. Terrorists *will* use the pirate network just as terrorists will eventually manage to send the USA a nuke or two via the drug cartel networks that wouldn't exist but for Nancy Reagan's obsession with "Just say no."
Seriously, the moon and Mars are a waste of time and money. Near earth orbit, in constrast, has a lot of potential for power generation, enhanced telecommunications, earth observation and eventually, permanent, self-sustaining living environments. As "cool" as it would be to get to Mars or the moon (again), there's just no compelling reason to do so that's not served better by near earth orbital stations and satellites.
You need both profitable capitalistic endeavors and government research R&D to exploit space and to get the synergistic effect of both entities working on technologies of different types for different ends.
Where would the internet be without DARPA? Where would it be today without online commerce?
Manned space exploration did produce a lot of technology and can still do so, but if you want a continued presence in space, show the voters and entrepreneurs the money.
I think the amount of money spent on sports by governments AND private enterprise is ridiculous, frankly. By extension, I think the amount of effort, time and money spent on entertainment worldwide is pathetic and absurd, when we're looking at overpopulation and energy depletion converging in a most unpleasant manner by the end of the century.
And you sound like someone so superficial that they couldn't be bothered to think for more than 5 seconds beyond a rather dimwitted emotional response. Allowing for your impairments, I'll try to explain. What artificial intelligence gets us is an expanded domain space of practical, solvable problems. These solutions can be obtained more cheaply and quickly. It also expands the reach of non-human labor and analysis, to the point where we probably will have little need to send actual humans anywhere for space exploration.
None of this is particularly difficult to figure out, assuming you can pay attention to the issue for a few minutes and can think through the possible implications (i.e. use your imagination to make intelligent guesses). Gates' failure with AI is the same as his failures with the internet and Windows. Instead of thinking about what the possible implications of a user-friendly GUI were, or an expanded Darpanet, he focused on this quarter's bottom line. Microsoft didn't move until they were forced to move by others, like Steve Jobs, who despite his many other faults, did have imagination.
No. Artificial intelligence is more challenging and almost certainly more beneficial. We get space travel as a side effect of solving AI.
Something practical, like provide electricity to earth, or a ubiquitous free satellite internet, or something besides, "It's really cool!" That's not going to go any further than revolutionary fervor did in sustaining communism. In the near to medium term, if you talk space, you'd better talk money. Mars and the moon have no profit possibilities. Near earth orbit, which is affordable, more easily achievable and potentially profitable needs to be our next focus. I'm sure this is what the Chinese will do, and what we in the USA no longer have the common sense to see.
Tell me again why you wouldn't mine this stuff in the asteroid belt where it isn't at the bottom of a gravity well and then use it to manufacture stuff in space?