You people with your "code" and your "development"! Let me tell you something, we're in the trenches every day dealing with the real Information Technology problems. Practical things, not the abstract theories from your ivory towers. I'm glad your programming is so elegant but Jimmy doesn't care, he chewed his own thumb off explaining how to open up Gmail. He was one of the lucky ones.
Originally posted by Symmetric ChaosI heard the horror stories but I did not believe them to be true.
You people with your "code" and your "development"! Let me tell you something, we're in the trenches every day dealing with the real Information Technology problems. Practical things, not the abstract theories from your ivory towers. I'm glad your programming is so elegant but Jimmy doesn't care, he chewed his own thumb off explaining how to open up Gmail. He was one of the lucky ones.
I shall unleash the nerds of war, let lose the binary bombs(They either explode or they don't 😛) the IT field shall not let poor Jimmy's thumbs have been chewed in vain.
In short, I'm going automate all your jobs so you don't have to worry about it anymore 😄
Originally posted by Omega VisionI interpreted that as, "Looks like this derp is still derping."
Looks like Dolos is still Dolosing, so nothing has changed regardless of his current opinion.
I assure you there is a reason for everything I do. It's difficult to derp when one views every sentient subjectively, including oneself. One who views everyone as mere eyes for a primordial...thing to see out of, including oneself. I am possessed by that thing. I'm what the Hindu"ists" call a Jivanmukta, I'm on the prasannatma (Ecsatcy) platform. "I'm" subject to an ecstatic viewer.
This is all a big theater, and we serve as the main entertainment. The universe has a structure. But how can something have a structure if it can't perceive itself? In the quantum world objects are undetermined until observed. Nothing exists until it's observed, so why do things exist if there's nothing to observe them.
Originally posted by Dolos
In the quantum world objects are undetermined until observed. Nothing exists until it's observed, so why do things exist if there's nothing to observe them.
You're not altering particle properties by having them in your field of vision through some psychic influence like you're implying. Hence why I told you to stay away from the documentaries and get yourself an education.
Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
You people with your "code" and your "development"! Let me tell you something, we're in the trenches every day dealing with the real Information Technology problems. Practical things, not the abstract theories from your ivory towers. I'm glad your programming is so elegant but Jimmy doesn't care, he chewed his own thumb off explaining how to open up Gmail. He was one of the lucky ones.
I laughed at this...
At my place it's all "I can't print!", "I can't get email", "my outlook doesn't work!". I'm trying to work on the image server and people can't press the one or two buttons it takes to fix their issue... at least I have job security.
I often turn my psycho-blabber into entertainment, especially when other people start psycho-blabbing.
This is what happened here.
And Astner, this is America, education costs an arm and a leg if mommy and daddy can't help ya. I'm working on it. It's just not that easy, when you slacked off in high school. Gotta invest time in studying before you can have it.
Re: I know longer believe in Techno-utopia or Accelerating Returns
Originally posted by Dolos
...it has not been steadily exponential, it's been dropping and should plateau in 2020.
Wrong: it has accelerated. Moore's law and an extension of it (the one that says FLOPS is doubling every two years) have done nothing but accelerate meaning it no longer takes 18 months or 2 years.
Additionally, there are emerging technologies that will force a massive jump (memristors hit commercial production from HP, early next year) to the processing power.
Processing power is not everything. In actuality, we have all the processing power we need, right now, to duplicate the brain power of a human. The problem is the software, not the hardware.
It is worth noting how increasing power has done increasingly less over the years. There was a time when computing knowledge went out of date literally within a year because things that were simply impossible before became practical. That's just not true anymore. More polygons on a figure or solving an equation in half the time is nothing like the first hard drive or the first GUI.
A memristor computer hitting the shelves sounds SOOOOO cool, by the way. Where did they announce that?
Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
It is worth noting how increasing power has done increasingly less over the years. There was a time when computing knowledge went out of date literally within a year because things that were simply impossible before became practical. That's just not true anymore. More polygons on a figure or solving an equation in half the time is nothing like the first hard drive or the first GUI.A memristor computer hitting the shelves sounds SOOOOO cool, by the way. Where did they announce that?
Uhhhh, apparantly, they are ahead of schedule according to this article:
"HP said it expects to ship Memristor storage as a denser (higher capacity in the same space) alternative to flash, by the end of this year in commercial applications. This is a faster schedule than has previously been indicated."
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/03/memristor_and_photonics/
That article was written in April of this year.
Originally posted by Astner
Is commercializing readily existing technology really considered technological advancement?
You mean an extremely rare technology that less than 4 organizations have developed enough to make it useful beyond an ultra clean laboratory where successes were literally measured with electron microscopes?
I will be more direct: you have no clue what you're talking about.
Originally posted by dadudemon
You mean an extremely rare technology that less than 4 organizations have developed enough to make it useful beyond an ultra clean laboratory where successes were literally measured with electron microscopes?I will be more direct: you have no clue what you're talking about.
Originally posted by dadudemon
You mean an extremely rare technology that less than 4 organizations have developed enough to make it useful beyond an ultra clean laboratory where successes were literally measured with electron microscopes?
Originally posted by Astner
You don't think that has to do with that those four organizations are the only ones allowed to legally work with the technology due to fact that it's patented?
A memristor can and has been implemented in many different forms. The methods and the results are what is patented, not the idea of a memristor. What you're suggesting is that someone has patented the transistor so now everyone has to pay a royalty fee to the idea/concept of a transistor. Not so: there are many ways the transistor has been made, over the years, and those ways are what is patented: not the concept, itself.
Some most people are not eletrical physicists, I'll put it a different way: you cannot patent the discovery of the gravitational constant or the weak nuclear force. That would be pretty dang silly. However, you can patent a machine that takes advantage of either of those two.