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I believe the appropriate expression for these types of projects is covered by the term:
GROUP GROPE
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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"almost every IT pro we talked to is interested in learning more about Windows 10" I'm sure they'll be right. Eventually.
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Of course I'm interested to learn more about Windows 10. I'm interested to learn if it will go in line with Vista and 8 or with XP and 7. The question of deploying it is a direct outcome of this..
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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Wanting to learn more is not the same as deploying.
#SupportHeForShe If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
Only 2 things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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The behavior came to light earlier this week after debugger and reverse engineer Patrick Barker began investigating why Windows Update kept getting disabled – checking for updates but never downloading or installing them – on a misbehaving machine. Barker discovered that Samsung's SW Update was downloading a program called Disable_Windowsupdate.exe which, true to its name, was disabling Windows Update each time the system started. Don't be upset, it was just a workaround.
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Not exactly a bad idea to turn them off.
Except I would loose a good potion on my fixing updates gone bad conditions business that comes in the door. Win8 seems to do this more than I've seen previous ms os's do.
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In 1977, British palaeontologist Simon Conway-Morris discovered the fossil of a truly weird animal, which he named Hallucigenia because of its “bizarre and dream-like quality”. Hopefully the animal figured it out sooner.
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Content industry wants "new tools" to umask site owners to sue for infringement. "Come on tell me who are you"
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The Clear Linux Project for Intel Architecture is a project that is building a Linux OS distribution for various cloud use cases. Number of days without new Linux implementation: 0
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Astronauts will use Microsoft's AR device to communicate with Earth Great. Next they'll have a malfunction, and Moriarty will take over the ship. Again.
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Dang. Now they'll have to send up a Google cardboard or something to save money.
TTFN - Kent
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Acquiring Revolution Analytics gave Microsoft ownership over the open source R language. Let's hope it doesn't go through with its rumored plans for a GPL-free rewrite of R. Did I miss the announcement where they said they were going to do it?
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R is a mess. It's got two separate object models, no good concept of namespaces, and too many old obsolete ways of doing things, a syntax full of cryptic abbreviations and some poor design decisions (e.g. global graphics parameters should be replaced with graphics contexts).
The core of it is great, it's capabilities are great, there is a huge amount of code available for it.
It would be good if there was a reworking of the language to clean it up.
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If a rewrite can vastly improve R's dismal performance, why not?
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Humans will be taken care of like pets should robots take over because AI will want to preserve us as part of nature. Who's a good boy? Are you a good boy? Such a GOOD boy!
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Sounds good to me. First off, there will probably have to be a mass extermination of most humans, but after that, I imagine they'll do a decent job of stopping us from killing each other and the planet. Somebody has to come in and do some "pest" management, after all.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: First off, there will probably have to be a mass extermination of most humans
By most, of course, you don't mean me. You, perhaps, but not me. 
Marc Clifton wrote: I imagine they'll do a decent job of stopping us from killing each other and the planet.
Doesn't all this depend upon how we program them? All of this apocalyptic robots taking over world depends on them not having any fail-safes that stop them from exterminating us, otherwise we might as well just call them Daleks.
BTW, what would be wrong with the 3 laws? it was only the introduction of the zeroeth law that caused the problems, as I recall.
Exterminate, exterminate!
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What are they going to be programmed in JavaScript? Wait, I already get treated like a pet. No, a lab rat!
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Why would robots want to preserve us as a part of nature?
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Today, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella emailed the troops as the company comes to the end of the fiscal year, revealing that "Our mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more" is the new official mission statement, and going on to lay out a worldview, strategies and ambitions, and culture for the company moving forward. "Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try."
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Wow, it's amazing what passes for journalism nowadays.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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It is shotty journalism but awesome click-bait.
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