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National "Take Your Computer To Work" Day 40

An anonymous reader writes "Today marks the inaugural 'Take Your Computer to Work Day'. First conceived by security researchers Michael Gough and Ian Robertson (the Thoughtful Hackers), this day has exploded in popularity and has now become a world-wide phenomenon. Says Mr. Robertson of its introduction, 'We always hear stories of how much productivity people gain by using their own mobile phones and tablets at work – by some studies, as much as 110%. We thought, wow, that is so smart and has absolutely no downsides. The next logical extension of that is to offer all our workers to bring in any of their computers, so we did.' 'The results were absolutely astonishing', said Mr. Gough. 'We were seeing user productivity up at least 0.5 times with Commodore 64's alone. Our database searches got faster with home-built white-box servers, and our janitorial staff was able to clean the restrooms twice as fast thanks to their TRS-80's.'"

Comment I can't have it! (Score 1) 287

So no one can!

I really don't understand this mentality. Because a small minority of the population can't use someone, we should restrict it from everyone. I'm not saying that people shouldn't make the effort, but sometimes it's just not required, or its too much extra effort. If I had to make a free app blind-friendly, that could be a lot of extra work, so it might end up not being created.

Screw it, we shouldn't even be allowed sight! Everyone should wear blindfolds, else its just unfair!

Comment xbox kinect (Score 1) 110

couldn't the kinect do this?

I couldn't see a price, but this looks like it would fall under the "expensive gimmicky gadget" price range. At least with a kinect when you get bored of using it with a mouse, you can do something cool with it. I'm sure this would be either close to, or even more expensive than, the kinect.

Comment Re:First Invent AI (Score 1) 467

That wouldn't be too difficult. Depending on the granularity of the data available. If you use a competitors brand, send them a free sample, if they use your product, try and push a higher priced one? The real question is, would it be worth it? A complex AI isn't needed, or even needed. You would need to look at each person individually. Get a computer to number crunch for you, and you're away! Contrary to what most people believe, with computers/AI, it doesn't have to be all or nothing. You are allowed to use them as a tool.

Comment Re:Obvious issue in a no-privacy world (Score 1) 467

Not necessarily. You /could/ see what they looked like. If they weren't appealing to you, there is no reason to look it up. Of course, should you look up someone using that system, that person could find out you looked at them (ad infinitum) There is a lot of information out there, that, just because it is available, doesn't mean I want or even care to find out about it.

Comment Re:Do you want a university or a trade school? (Score 1) 583

Yeah. The phrase "trade school" shouldn't be seen as a bad thing. At the end of the day it comes down to egos. People want to be seen as smart. If someone went to a trade school, and another to university, people will think the university kid is smarter.

Though I do think that knowing theory and applying it is easier than knowing the applied use, having to generalise frmo that, and then reapplying that to something else. (So I'm for the maths in a CS degree).

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