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Makes a great Samhain (Halloween) story: [^].
"Mr McKeown has dubbed the idea ‘Preserved Memories’ and claims that people would be able to construct a reality to avoid ever having to say goodbye to loved ones.
'In the future with Preserved Memories, you will never have to experience the loss of a loved one,” he said. “You will be able to add to your family tree and select new family members, including famous faces and legends, all of whom will already know about you.
Using emotion-sensitive human-computer interaction our artificially intelligent participants continue to acquire ongoing knowledge long after their death - they evolve digitally and do not die.
This life form will be up to date and informed of your daily activities through GPS, Wifi, health and fitness tracking, consumer records and much more. They will know if you have passed your exam, driving test, flown on holiday, bought new shoes, ditched your boyfriend. They will know what you tell it on social media and also by the constant tracking that occurs every day.' "
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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That's just dumb. If I had a digital copy of a loved one I wouldn't want them to know everything I do, just as I don't want those living to know everything. I share information on what I do by calling or meeting people and we exchange experiences.
Or will these ghosts communicate between each other and gossip allowing you to gain access to private information from others?
This sounds just like another way to gather more data or justify the data gathering. Thanks but no, I'll just download a chat bot, install on a terminal, name it after someone and hang their picture over the screen. Tada now that person is immortal...
Bleeh.
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That's creepy
I never finish anyth
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Engineers in Bristol have developed a system that can grab, hold and move small objects without touching them, using "holograms" made of sound waves. OK, back to work on the warp drive, we're almost there.
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And what is the phasers status ?
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Just finalized the cyclotron. A few more MWe and we're almost there
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Just finalized the pico-cyclotron. A few more MWe and we're almost there!
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Nice to hear that.
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Kent Sharkey wrote: made of sound waves.
I think with all the bad Hollywood sci-fi movies, people have forgotten that sound cannot travel through the vacuum of space.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: I think with all the bad Hollywood sci-fi movies, people have forgotten that sound cannot travel through the vacuum of space
Pardon?
I'll get my coat...
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So they used a sonic screwdriver - I like it.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
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There is no shortage of ways to advance your career, or your earnings potential. Racking up a bunch of certifications is one of them. But be careful it doesn’t have the opposite effect. My cert in Windows 3.1 doesn't seem to be a problem
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C'mon, get with the times, Windows for Workgroups is all the rage now!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Would you believe I have that one as well? Dang, but I used to take a lot of those silly tests.
046 Networking with Microsoft Windows™ for Workgroups 3.11 Exam Oct 01, 1994
TTFN - Kent
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Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: Windows for Workgroups
Don't you mean Windows for Warehouses? I hear that version 10 was recently released.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I think I have an Netware 286 certificate.
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VB and Distributed VB MCP, 1999
You know nothing, Jon Snow.
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I used to work with someone many years ago who had loads of Microsoft certifications, including ones he never used in his day job as a programmer. He collected them. His rationale was that they showed motivation and willingness to learn and progress. Up to a point this is true. However, he lacked real world knowledge in many of the areas in which he was qualified. So whilst on paper he may appear qualified, the reality was that he didn't really understand them as his knowledge was entirely based on theory from a book.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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An interesting by-product of the DevOps movement is the blurring and blending of roles across the application lifecycle as a result of these condensed timeframes and pressure to deliver new functionality, particularly in the area of testing and quality. Circular definition is circular
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Kent Sharkey wrote: particularly in the area of testing and quality.
What? Where??? Pass whatever it is you're smoking.
Marc
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Some of the holes the interns found were very dangerous and could allow a clever attacker to gain a control of the apps. Yeah, but how much were the interns charged for access to those bugs?
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Facebook is launching a new initiative called "2G Tuesdays" that will give all employees an opportunity to see what using the app with an incredibly slow connection feels like and help close the "empathy gap" between Silicon Valley and emerging markets. I wish this upon every web (and network) programmer
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I just call those work days where I'm at.
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