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Can 'friendly' AI save humans from irrelevance or extinction?: Can 'friendly' AI save humans from irrelevance or extinction?Message has been deleted.IMHO this is distant futureI doubt I'll see this type of intelligence in my lifetime. We're still a long ways off from understanding our own intelligence, much less designing a machine that surpasses it.Sure, we may have machines that...; Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Robots, irrelevance, computer, extinction, mankind; Discussion threads 2007-08-24

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ISO calls for end to Open XML 'personal attacks': ISO calls for end to Open XML 'personal attacks'Or else ... ?[i]All members of the SC 34 committee will have to be given access to the final text of the OOXML standard by May 1 at the latest, the meeting also resolved.[/i]Considering that ISO directives require that that final text...; Tags: ISO standards, Process improvement, ISO, OOXML, attack, personal attack; Discussion threads 2008-04-15
It's good news, bad news: Microsoft gets its Internet act together: From a variety of sources, I'm hearing the same thing that Robert Scoble is, and that is that Microsoft under Ray Ozzie is making major strides in giving Web developers what they want, opening the client-side stuff well with IE 8, putting core productivity apps as services online, and assembling...; Tags: Web, Internet, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., News, Channel Management, Marketing, Dana Gardner; Blog posts 2008-03-06
LG BH200: When LG introduced the first HD DVD/Blu-ray combo player at CES 2007, it was a groundbreaking moment in consumer electronics. Nobody expected a combo player to be released so soon, and at the time it seemed that maybe it was a way to avoid a long, protracted format war. Fast-forward...; Tags: HD DVD, DVD, Consumer electronics, setup menu, LG Electronics Inc., clicker, LG BH200, HD-DVD; Product reviews 2008-02-13
Paper: Yahoo seeks to restart merger talks with AOL: Paper: Yahoo seeks to restart merger talks with AOLYou're missing the point...This is a means of defense against Microsoft's pressure. Who in the world would want to merge with AOL?Isn't AOL hemmoraging customers at a fatal rate?Why would Yahoo want to open a vein?Heck, MS could make a bid...; Tags: INTERNET, Mergers & Acquisitions, Spyware, adware & malware, Spyware, merger, America Online Inc., Yahoo! Inc.; Discussion threads 2008-02-11

Brief: 4: This is the fourth excerpt from the first book in the Defen series: The Board Member's IT Brief. From chapter 2 "Evaluating IT Proposals 2.1 Processes and ground rules Three kinds of IT proposals come to the board for...; Tags: Project, Information Technology, Board, Benefit, Bottom Line, Decision, Proposal, Corporate Governance, Strategy, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Management, Paul Murphy; Blog posts 2008-02-01
Can you believe it? Net2Phone sues Skype over 2000 Patent!: Net2Phone, the pioneering Internet phone company that was destined to become a subsidiary of IDT despite objectons from some shareholders, seemingly has figured out a way to strike back against their enduring irrelevance. Now, they're taking Skype to court for patent infringement. ...; Tags: Patent, IP, Skype Technologies S.A., Unit, IP Address, Net2Phone Inc., Internet, Network Technology, Networking, Russell Shaw; Blog posts 2008-01-30
Resistance is futile...I want to buy a Mac: Since I first started writing this blog, I've had very few nice things to say about Macs in education. I've never been the typical Windows or Linux fanboy, merely claiming that Apples suck. On the contrary, I've owned 2 Macs (an 8100 that I got instead of a...; Tags: Apple Macintosh, Resistance, Desktops, Hardware, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2007-12-16
Microsoft matters less every 6 months: Microsoft matters less every 6 monthsThanks!Always fun to read your blogs, Chris! Well argumented and clear.Tip: Ubuntu itself the main version can also be installed without a LiveCD-session in the RAM of your PC. Namely, when you use the Alternate CD. Handy for PC's with little RAM.How to get the...; Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Mozilla Firefox, Ubuntu, Microsoft Corp.; Discussion threads 2007-10-22
Coming Soon: Microsoft 2.0 the book: Coming Soon: Microsoft 2.0 the bookCan we ban the "2.0" buzzword already?This 2.0, That 2.0, everything 2.0. It should be on that list of banned words/phrases that that one university comes out with every year.Microsoft is 32 years old so 2.0 doesn't seem quite appropriate -- maybe 2.0 was...; Tags: Web 2.0, Desktops, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft 2.0; Discussion threads 2007-09-26
Everything you've read about Vista DRM is wrong (Part 3): This is the final installment in my series debunkingÂ Peter Gutmann'sÂ widely read and undeservedly cited paper on Vista content protection. (If you missed Part 1 and Part 2, go read them before you dive into this conclusion.) Today, I want to deal head-on with one of the most...; Tags: Paper, HDMI, PC, Digital-rights Management, Output, NVidia Corp., Codec, Microsoft Windows Vista, Video, Microsoft Corp., Hardware, 1080p, Peter Gutmann, HD, Laptop Magazine, DVI, D-CINEMA, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott; Blog posts 2007-09-20
Can 'friendly' AI save humans from irrelevance or extinction?: The fate of the human species depends on AI Artificial Intelligence entities far smarter than us and who aren't prone to wipe out or enslave us. That is one of the topics to be discussed by luminaries in the AI world at the Singularity Summit 2007 held at the Palace...; Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Intelligence, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2007-09-08
Barney Pell: Pathways to artificial intelligence: Barney Pell has a passion for artificial intelligence AI and natural language processing NLP. His latest foray into those related fields is Powerset, a search engine that he hopes will challenge Google. He will be speaking, along with other experts in the AI field, at the Singularity Summit 2007, held...; Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Barney Pell, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2007-09-08
Steve Omohundro: Building self-aware AI systems: Steve Omohundro is president of Self-Aware Systems, which has a goal of developing an AI systems that understand their own behavior and work to improve themselves. He will be speaking at the Singularity Summit 2007 at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco on September 8-9. ...; Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Steve Omohundro, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2007-09-08
Bias and Kantor's Intel CSI analysis: Bias and Kantor's Intel CSI analysisAttitude tainting conclusions.Some interesting assertions, but to get to them I had to work through some biased statements.Some examples:In particular, the author claims that CSI will erase Intel’s performance deficit relative to AMD - but assumes throughout the article that AMD offers a stationary target...; Tags: 64-bit, Network technology, Processors, analysis, Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., 32-bit, Microsoft Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc.; Discussion threads 2007-09-05
Silverlight 1.0 debuts and supports Linux to boot: Silverlight 1.0 debuts and supports Linux to bootMicrosoft shift on the Linux frontI think that the most interesting part of this article is that Microsoft is including Linux support within its product. This support may be limited, but it is clear that it represents a realisation that Linux on the...; Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Microsoft Windows, OPEN SOURCE, .NET, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Silverlight, Linux, supports linux; Discussion threads 2007-09-05
Coming up: Office 2.0, Singularity, Dreamforce, TechCrunch 40, Demo: This week we get back into the tech conference season after the August hiatus, starting with the Office 2.0 Conference in San Francisco on Thursday and Friday. I will be moderating a panel on enterprise collaboration, which includes Scott Dietzen, president and CTO, Zimbra; Etay Gafni, director of the Technology...; Tags: TechCrunch, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., Agenda, Conference, Office 2.0, Director, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2007-09-04
News to know: Multimedia storage; WGA recovering; Yahoo Mail; Solar Wi-Fi: Notable headlines:George Ou: Best storage strategies for the multimedia PC.Robin Harris: Why aren't small drives cheaper?Top 10 reviews of the week left.'Second Life': The promise and paradoxMary Jo Foley: Microsoft WGA servers are fixed, but no word on what went wrong. Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage system down for the count?...; Tags: Security, Multimedia, Yahoo! Inc., Yahoo! Mail, Storage, Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage, Wi-Fi, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2007-08-27
Are Linus Torvalds, IBM, AMD, others at odds over pushing hardware drivers out of Linux?: Are Linus Torvalds, IBM, AMD, others at odds over pushing hardware drivers out of Linux?You have to remember that Linus is NOT afraid to tell somebody they arestupid. Did you see his video when he was at Google describing git?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8But, I would tend to agree with Linus that full visualization...; Tags: Operating systems, IBM Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., operating system, hardware, Linus, Linux, Linus Torvalds; Discussion threads 2007-08-04
Are Linus Torvalds, IBM, AMD, others at odds over pushing hardware drivers out of Linux?: I can't possibly profess to know what the pros and cons are of pushing hardware device drivers into the hypervisors that support virtualization technologies like those from XEN and VMware. But it's clear from a recent thread over at the Linux Foundation that there's some disagreement amongst experts (including Linus...; Blog posts 2007-08-03