Lil' Bobby Tables-
fugitive on the run.
210 publicly visible posts • joined 8 Mar 2007
Adds Wonko Experience to Fyre Festival and Dash Con grift pile.
I don't get all the work that was done on each of these grifts to just quarter-ass something to the public at the end.
I mean, computers are supposed to make it easier to grift.
/my AI kingdom for a ball pit
Working tech support at a small private collage (with private beach), I had a student tower brought in at end of year; wouldn't start. Machine was from the stoner dorm. Opening the case, everything was coated at least half an inch of ash and resin.
So glad that job did not entail drug testing.
In late '90s, working for a Mom-n-Pop Apple/HP repair shop, we had a standing order to beg/grab/snorfle any Macintosh IIcx systems we came across in our daily on-site repairs (mostly schools and school related offices).
We had a manufacturing client running hyperspecific CAD/CAM cards that supposedly only ran in IIcx. I have no idea how much the boss made from each machine but profit had to be nice as most schools/offices were glad for us to clean up old kit from their stash closets.
Still using my HP 1000 from 2001 (free from school tech dump after prof offices updated). Toner is $50 a cartridge and that usually lasts 2-3 years.
Mostly use it for printing transparencies for screen printing and the occasional form requiring a signature. Fully expect this wee beast to outlast me.
Fark new printer!
Waiting for them to find Velveeta, the beloved star of quick and easy dinner time and processed cheese-like products.
“In the eastern sky, Velveeta, beloved morning star of the elves and handmaid of the dawn, rose and greeted Noxzema, bringer of the flannel tongue, and clanging on her golden garbage pail, bade him make ready the winged rickshaw of Novocaine, herald of the day. Thence came rosy-eyeballed Ovaltine, she of the fluffy mouth, and lightly kissed the land east of the Seas. In other words, it was morning.”
Start training an AI with cgi capture data (just like they do with image and text data) and sure, clever systems are spitting out belivable animation.
Problem happens when AI produced cgi is fed back into the AI and you get iterative decline. They're already seeing it happen with text and image 'sources'.
Birthright should bring an automatic personal copyright to likeness/image/voice/gait/etc. and if some AI hoovering sucks up your image, they need to pay to use it in training/production/display.
Heh, reminds me of the ear'y '90s and getting into 3D rendering and animation. New kit (Quadra 650 with AT&T coprocessor card) was taking a week to render 30 seconds of 640x480 ugly starships. But then I learned about distributed computing and shortly thereafter, was banned from using art school's new computer lab.
Tools and apps are pretty rough now but in 5-10 years children will be creating their own Star Wars films filled with Power Ranger characters (use whatever 'cool' films and tv shows kids will be into soon).
[looks at print of Rembrandt's Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp pinned on wall above drawing desk, overlaid with grid to aid in copying painting]
From ten years ago when I was taking another swipe at learning to paint. Only got about half of it penciled onto canvas, never opened a tube of paint.
[small private US college in the '90s]
Had a late Friday page after a cleaner plugged their hoover into an orange "Do Not Use" labeled outlet outside the server room. [silence decends]
A new admin also plugged the old IBM chain printer (producer of much loved green and light green fanfold print outs) into an orange outlet and shut down the server room at 8:00 AM one day.
Reading signs is for chumps.
Our college server room (1990s, a few racks of Sun Sparc 5s and 10s, Novell file server) had bright orange plugs for UPS, beige plugs for mains.
New guy decided to rearrange server room for some unknown reason and plugged the chain printer (pale green and white fanfold printer) into the UPS.
Save us from the eager clueless.
Early '90s, worked as GIS tech in St. Petersburg (sunny place with beaches and pubs). There were 4 or 5 GIS shops in the area and when one got a large contract (i.e. map all utilities of St. Louis), they'd hire a bunch of folks for contract duration and then let us go. Could quickly find a job at another shop. Or course, with large pool of trained cart/digi-techs, wages stayed low.
Still, gave me my first exposure to SunOS and then Solaris so moved on after a couple years. Still have my rapidograph pens!