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Monday, December 12, 2005
Death .... No Problem!
Words of wisdom from Ian Pearson:
"Realistically, by 2050 we would expect to be able to download your mind into a machine -- so when you die, it's not a major career problem."
Ooooooh kaaaaaaaay.
"Realistically, by 2050 we would expect to be able to download your mind into a machine -- so when you die, it's not a major career problem."
Ooooooh kaaaaaaaay.
Do Companies MAKE Anything Anymore?
From Matt Asay, http://infoworld.com/3597:
"Seriously, Google piggybacks on content owners. Red Hat piggybacks on Linux kernel hackers (though it is now actively leading that development). ESPN(Mobile) piggybacks on Sprint's cellular network. I could go on. Doesn't anyone actually build things anymore? What will happen if we all turn into marketing machines? Will this leave us in a world devoid of substance or, in the case of open source, of software?"
"Seriously, Google piggybacks on content owners. Red Hat piggybacks on Linux kernel hackers (though it is now actively leading that development). ESPN(Mobile) piggybacks on Sprint's cellular network. I could go on. Doesn't anyone actually build things anymore? What will happen if we all turn into marketing machines? Will this leave us in a world devoid of substance or, in the case of open source, of software?"
Xmas Cash?!?!
Amazon.com has launched a service called "The Mechanical Turk" ... a reference to an old chess-playing "robot" that was actually a hidden person (from Turkey, presumably). Anyway, there are some tasks that are easier for humans to do than computers such as pattern recognition in images -- e.g. reading a word on a billboard in a photo, or the name of a band on an image of an album cover. See http://mturk.com or http://amazon.com/mturk/
They'll pay you around $0.03 for each album cover image you view and identify. I'm not sure of the details, but one article I saw suggested you could make maybe $3.60 an hour. That's not even minimum wage, but if you have a job like a receptionist (with lots of down-time), that could get some you Xmas cash!!
They'll pay you around $0.03 for each album cover image you view and identify. I'm not sure of the details, but one article I saw suggested you could make maybe $3.60 an hour. That's not even minimum wage, but if you have a job like a receptionist (with lots of down-time), that could get some you Xmas cash!!
