[FRIAM] Larry, Curly, and Moe

2013-01-14 Thread Douglas Roberts
Sheesh, it just keeps getting better! I think Google is qualified to run LANL. http://things-linux.blogspot.com/2013/01/it-was-known-issue.html -- *Doug Roberts drobe...@rti.org d...@parrot-farm.net* *http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins*http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins *

Re: [FRIAM] Larry, Curly, and Moe

2013-01-14 Thread Douglas Roberts
Beautiful! On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 11:36 AM, Joshua Thorp jth...@redfish.com wrote: ... I wonder if being incompetent violates Google's official corporate policy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_be_evil? Hah, good one. Made me laugh. Tough having people handle the job of a python

Re: [FRIAM] Larry, Curly, and Moe

2013-01-14 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
Joshua Thorp We would never say the python script was incompetent. Would you say IBM Watson/Deep Blue is incompetent at Jeopardy/Chess after it wipes the floor with the best human players in the world? Marcus FRIAM Applied

Re: [FRIAM] Larry, Curly, and Moe

2013-01-14 Thread Joshua Thorp
No you are right, I was mostly trying to take a dig at Google in the pile on. But an automated boat wouldn't be completely 'empty' and its failure to navigate would be grounds for anger (at those damned engineers). So my whole line of thought turns out to be not that deep. Guess I was the

Re: [FRIAM] Larry, Curly, and Moe

2013-01-14 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
On 1/14/13 1:16 PM, Joshua Thorp wrote: But an automated boat wouldn't be completely 'empty' and its failure to navigate would be grounds for anger (at those damned engineers). On 60 minutes last night was (another) piece on robotics. One point was that the U.S. could be competitive in

Re: [FRIAM] Larry, Curly, and Moe

2013-01-14 Thread Douglas Roberts
This country needs more automation, and less, er, breeding. --Doug On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 1:33 PM, Marcus G. Daniels mar...@snoutfarm.comwrote: On 1/14/13 1:16 PM, Joshua Thorp wrote: But an automated boat wouldn't be completely 'empty' and its failure to navigate would be grounds for