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Your other concerns - that Glass will be used to spy on the user, by tracking everything you purchase and consume - have you any idea how much bandwidth that would require?

Those are just simple technical issues, they can be overcame even today. I have a video recorder in the car; it records 1920 x 1080P, 30fps HD video for 8 hours on a single, replaceable 32 GB SD card. The actual silicon in that SD card is small enough to be placed into Glass. If you do that, you have 8 hours of continuous recording between hotspots; and once you are at any WiFi hotspot, the Glass will dump the buffered video. If not, you are probably on a hike somewhere in wilderness, and Google has no interest in all these grizzly bears around you.

The problem of "petabytes" is just as severe as a concern that a banker may hurt himself carrying all those gold bars into his vault. It's a process with a positive feedback; a tiny percentage of profits from this information will buy you a lot of computers - and this is a perfectly parallelizable work. Mark my word, "they" will even make you pay for the storage and processing. In part that would be done with government money (that is your taxes,) and in other part it will be done with business income that ultimately comes from you and other consumers of goods and services. Once Google makes you want Glass, they can demand payment from you, in one way or another.

The guy who wrote this was taught my compilers course at college..

http://www.amazon.com/Compiler-Engineering-Pascal-Macmillan-Computer/dp/0333471555

get one of these

Install this for free

Or get the pro version for $5.

does almost the same things for more than $50 less.

The rest is just common sense and marketing hype.

Then again, there are a lot of folks out there who need to spend money and have a "cool" app.....

http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Constellation-Encrypting-Internal-ST4000NM0043/dp/B00A45JEZ8

Note that there's no company called "Amazon". The one that's behind http://amazon.com/ is actually registered as Amazon.com, Inc.

Important: If you have a relationship (other than as an ordinary reader) to the author or publisher of a book you're reviewing, disclose that relationship. This means not only cases like "My brother, the author, has given me a million dollars to type this review, and is holding me at gunpoint, while dictating to me from the Amazon review he himself wrote," but also "I used to work at this book's publisher, and was a technical reviewer for this book's three chapters on networking," or "The author is a good friend of mine." Better to disclose more than you think necessary (it can always be edited out if sensible; we'll let you know if we think there's an inappropriate conflict of interest) than less than actually necessary. If in doubt, please speak up.

Yet the author of the review is a "Senior Editor at Slashdot," Nick Kolakowski (Twitter, Literary Gun For Hire), who writes articles for Slashdot (and other places) and apparently submits them under the guise of a "user" named Nerval's Lobster. Nerval's Lobster's submissions are "accepted" by the editors nearly every day, and always link to Slashdot's "Business Intelligence" or "Cloud" content... effectively passing off paid content as normal, user-submitted content.

Two of the three links in the review are to Kolakowski's own "Business Intelligence" articles. The link to the book itself goes to Amazon and contains Slashdot's "Associates ID" (slashdot0c-20) to ensure Slashdot gets a cut of any sales this review drives.

Piece it together:
1. A Slashdot employee writes a favorable (7/10) review of a book
2. The same employee submits it under the guise of a normal reader (see the summary which ends with "Slashdot welcomes readers' book reviews -- to see your own review here...")
3. The editors post the review (because nearly everything "Nerval's Lobster" submits gets accepted by the editors, and it all links back to Slashdot paid content)
4. Readers believe the review was submitted by a regular reader, and the huge wave of traffic invariably-driven by any Slashdot story results in a fair number of click throughs and purchases
5. Slashdot gets a referral fee from Amazon for getting people to buy the book from them

I have no problem with Slashdot staff writing a book review, as long as the relationship is disclosed, per Slashdot's own guidelines. I have no problem with a regular user writing a review and Slashdot making a few bucks by pointing readers to Amazon to buy that book. But he way they did it today makes it look like Kolakowski only wrote the review and the editors only accepted it because their employer is getting a kickback from Amazon. Making money is OK, but disguising paid content as user-submitted content is not. That's not what people come to Slashdot to find--it's a sleight of hand.

Before you mod me down as a troll, consider that Kolakowski's review points out that one should take the business motivations of the book's authors into account when weighing what they have to say:

Of course, Schmidt and Cohen extolling the virtues of the cloud is like two corporate board-members of McDonald's insisting that burgers are delicious and everyone in the world should eat them three times a day.

Slashdot readers should be able to do the same with the authorship of stories and book reviews.

Kindle Cloud Reader works with any recent version of Chrome or Firefox.

why not a kindle with a hdmi port?

They already have those: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008GGCAVM/

They're more expensive than a Roku: http://www.amazon.com/Roku-4200R-3-Streaming-Player/dp/B00BGGDVOO/

Presumably this will be price competitive with a Roku. Although I hope they aren't expecting me to buy one. I already have a TiVo and a Nintendo. Why would I need another box to attach to my television? This may be a solution searching for a problem. I can't see that this will be better than a Roku, so it will need to be cheaper. Particularly if there is vendor lock in.

why not a kindle with a hdmi port?

They already have those: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008GGCAVM/

They're more expensive than a Roku: http://www.amazon.com/Roku-4200R-3-Streaming-Player/dp/B00BGGDVOO/

Presumably this will be price competitive with a Roku. Although I hope they aren't expecting me to buy one. I already have a TiVo and a Nintendo. Why would I need another box to attach to my television? This may be a solution searching for a problem. I can't see that this will be better than a Roku, so it will need to be cheaper. Particularly if there is vendor lock in.

Most of them have a way to attach to the back of the set.

Apple TV
ROKU

Most of them have a way to attach to the back of the set.

Apple TV
ROKU

Steve McConnell's Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art is the last, best word on this topic.

Faraday Wallet. It's like a tinfoil hat in your pants! http://www.amazon.com/Travelon-Blocking-Travel-Wallets-Black/dp/B001HZBA2E/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&qid=1366832426&sr=8-12&keywords=rfid+wallet

This is a an example of what Adam Carolla refers to as the pussyfication of America in his book titled In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks, just s/America/Whole World/.

Seriously, if assembling IKEA furniture is a "real life problem", then we got much bigger problems. On a side note, wouldn't having to buy a robot defeat the purpose of buying cheap semi-diy semi-permanent furniture?

I just finished reading that book to my girlfriend last night. It's my favorite book from Sleator and I enjoyed reading it when I was a teenager very much.

I think that "Strange Attractors" is a better pick, though, in order to be sciencey.

It does a very good job of exploring Chaos Theory in a way that is far more respectable than any treatment I've ever seen in a television show or Hollywood movie. It's well written, exciting, and mind-bending, to say the least.

If there is a pinch in the economy and they're forced to sell services below cost, they're going to sell the most desirable services they can

That's exactly what the US Postal Service tried to do, run itself like a business by shutting down underused post offices and stopping Saturday delivery. Same with Amtrak, which wanted to cut unprofitable routes and focus on just the high-use, profitable Eastern Seaboard routes. In both cases, politicians wouldn't let them do it because someone's pork barrel was at risk.

The unfortunate moral of the story is that government agencies can't run themselves like businesses because their bosses - the elected politicians - will sabotage those efforts any time it is in their political interests to do so. You can't run an organization like a for-profit corporation and a non-profit public service at the same time. The two missions are fundamentally at odds.

(In an interesting bit of irony, this was the DoJ's rationale in pursuing the breakup of Ma Bell back in the day - you shouldn't have regulated interests like like local phone service [i.e. an entitlement] being subsidized by unregulated services like long distance [i.e. a profit venture]. Read The Deal of the Century for the full story, it's fascinating.)

Unless the government is willing to declare certain parts of itself off-limits to Congressional mandates and able to operate themselves like a for-profit corporation, it should abandon any ideas about judging them that way. Government at its heart is about providing services that need to be collectively funded because they simply can't be profitable, but are in the common good. I hate to sound like a Republican here but it makes sense that the parts that need to operate like a business should be cut loose to make a profit, and the rest should just be declared entitlements and treated as such.

The cities would produce nothing without hinterland, because they would have nothing to trade. Read Cronon's Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West for a very thorough exploration of this topic beginning with the thoughts of Johann Heinrich von Thünen, who described the way that cities were organized. Cities exist to take advantage of the productivity of their hinterlands. Larger hinterlands make larger, and more productive, cities. And despite the early predominance of Philadelphia in American history, it was New York that rose to the top. Why? Because the Erie Canal (and, later, the railroads that paralleled it) gave New York access to the enormous and enormously productive American Great Lakes. In the context of this view, Chicago is the center of Midwestern trade, but because of old, established trade networks, its productivity flows through New York en route to the world (even though today it could use the St. Lawrence Seaway).

After all, West Virginia and eastern Kentucky are the stereotypical Takers, but without the cheap coal they pump out, how would the Northeast power itself? Saying that cities are the engine of the economy is a very apt analogy: they are fueled by raw materials and exhaust products, but they have to have those raw materials in order to produce anything.

As for the West Coast's Senate representation, it's your own damned fault. Read How the State Got Their Shapes (yes, it was a book first) for an explanation of how the early Californians wanted as much territory as possible to capture all the gold that might be on the eastern slope of the Sierras.

Don't you coastal blue types ever read?

The cities would produce nothing without hinterland, because they would have nothing to trade. Read Cronon's Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West for a very thorough exploration of this topic beginning with the thoughts of Johann Heinrich von Thünen, who described the way that cities were organized. Cities exist to take advantage of the productivity of their hinterlands. Larger hinterlands make larger, and more productive, cities. And despite the early predominance of Philadelphia in American history, it was New York that rose to the top. Why? Because the Erie Canal (and, later, the railroads that paralleled it) gave New York access to the enormous and enormously productive American Great Lakes. In the context of this view, Chicago is the center of Midwestern trade, but because of old, established trade networks, its productivity flows through New York en route to the world (even though today it could use the St. Lawrence Seaway).

After all, West Virginia and eastern Kentucky are the stereotypical Takers, but without the cheap coal they pump out, how would the Northeast power itself? Saying that cities are the engine of the economy is a very apt analogy: they are fueled by raw materials and exhaust products, but they have to have those raw materials in order to produce anything.

As for the West Coast's Senate representation, it's your own damned fault. Read How the State Got Their Shapes (yes, it was a book first) for an explanation of how the early Californians wanted as much territory as possible to capture all the gold that might be on the eastern slope of the Sierras.

Don't you coastal blue types ever read?

I read it some 20 years ago but it's readable, presentable, hard science, well-written. I don't know if it's still in print (be amazed if not) .. yes is is http://www.amazon.com/The-Red-Limit-Search-Universe/dp/068801836X or how much is still valid. 20 years is a long time in cosmology.

Supanatural is hilarious. It's like a Venture Brothers take on the show Supernatural (and the like), but with female leads. It's a little rough around the edges, but I would absolutely tune in to that every week.

FWIW, it's produced by comedian Kristen Schaal, of 30 Rock, The Daily Show, Bob's Burgers. If you like any of those shows, you should give it a shot.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CBNPHDO

It's crystal skull o'clock.

Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams. Great book written with his humor, but a serious subject. It's a spinoff from the BBC radio show he did. A good way of inspiring associated conversation. http://www.amazon.com/Last-Chance-See-Douglas-Adams/dp/0345371984/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1366747519&sr=1-1&keywords=last+chance+to+see+douglas+adams

Prometheans in the Lab: Chemistry and the Making of the Modern World. Slightly harder read but absolutely fascinating stories from teenage up http://www.amazon.com/Prometheans-Lab-Chemistry-Making-Modern/dp/0071350071

Betrayers of the Truth: Fraud and Deceit in the Halls of Science. Not difficult to read, but a great piece of work on how people like Ptolemy, Mendelev, Newton 'cheated' science. http://www.amazon.com/Betrayers-Truth-Fraud-Deceit-Science/dp/0712602437/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1366747953&sr=1-1&keywords=betrayers+of+the+truth+fraud+and+deceit+in+the+halls+of+science

Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams. Great book written with his humor, but a serious subject. It's a spinoff from the BBC radio show he did. A good way of inspiring associated conversation. http://www.amazon.com/Last-Chance-See-Douglas-Adams/dp/0345371984/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1366747519&sr=1-1&keywords=last+chance+to+see+douglas+adams

Prometheans in the Lab: Chemistry and the Making of the Modern World. Slightly harder read but absolutely fascinating stories from teenage up http://www.amazon.com/Prometheans-Lab-Chemistry-Making-Modern/dp/0071350071

Betrayers of the Truth: Fraud and Deceit in the Halls of Science. Not difficult to read, but a great piece of work on how people like Ptolemy, Mendelev, Newton 'cheated' science. http://www.amazon.com/Betrayers-Truth-Fraud-Deceit-Science/dp/0712602437/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1366747953&sr=1-1&keywords=betrayers+of+the+truth+fraud+and+deceit+in+the+halls+of+science

Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams. Great book written with his humor, but a serious subject. It's a spinoff from the BBC radio show he did. A good way of inspiring associated conversation. http://www.amazon.com/Last-Chance-See-Douglas-Adams/dp/0345371984/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1366747519&sr=1-1&keywords=last+chance+to+see+douglas+adams

Prometheans in the Lab: Chemistry and the Making of the Modern World. Slightly harder read but absolutely fascinating stories from teenage up http://www.amazon.com/Prometheans-Lab-Chemistry-Making-Modern/dp/0071350071

Betrayers of the Truth: Fraud and Deceit in the Halls of Science. Not difficult to read, but a great piece of work on how people like Ptolemy, Mendelev, Newton 'cheated' science. http://www.amazon.com/Betrayers-Truth-Fraud-Deceit-Science/dp/0712602437/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1366747953&sr=1-1&keywords=betrayers+of+the+truth+fraud+and+deceit+in+the+halls+of+science

Another along these lines is Asimov's The History of Physics. It may be difficult to get 11-14 year old kids to read a book with such a mundane (to them) title, but it does a great job of filling in the blanks of how new ideas in science grow from prior concepts and doesn't require the reader to have math proficiency above basic arithmetic.

I was gonna call the guy who wrote this a complete moron, except for this...

http://forums.androidcentral.com/tablet-apps/239022-amazon-prime-video-app.html

http://betanews.com/2013/04/22/why-is-there-no-android-app-for-amazon-instant-video/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed+-+bn+-+Betanews+Full+Content+Feed+-+BN

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000645111

We're missing something here namely something like this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.netflix.mediaclient&hl=en

Yep, there doesn't appear to be an Android app for amazon prime. So either Amazon is telling android users to f off, or they're unaware of the issue they'd cause with DRM.

Annoyed yet? It's available for iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/amazon-instant-video/id545519333?mt=8

How I Killed Pluto And Why it Had It Coming The story of pluto's deplanetification from the guy who did it... It's non-fiction, but still a very entertaining read. Includes history of planet discoveries and similar demotions that have happened in the past. http://www.amazon.com/How-Killed-Pluto-Why-Coming/dp/0385531109

Any of Asimov's robot books (most asimov really) make for excellent sci-fi intro books.

These books, and other sci-fi books, would be fine for extra credit in a literature class, but they are inappropriate for extra credit in a science class. Science is about facts, not fiction. But Asimov is appropriate. When I was a teenager I read dozens of his non-fiction books. I remember sitting in the back of my 10th grade biology class reading Asimov's The Wellsprings of Life. That was the moment that biology "clicked" and I understood the genetic code, how "codons" worked, and it all made sense. I looked up at the teacher droning on, and wondered why they didn't just have everyone read this book.

Too true. There's almost nothing but Sci-Fi being recommended. I highly recommend posters engage in some reading of their own before recommending stuff.

Some good, thoughtful reading, which may not be easy to find in US book shops are the Science of Discworld Series, which bridge Terry Pratchett's fictional world magic with Round World science. It's good stuff.

Alices-World-No-Time-Heroes - Sam Lundwall
This book is CLASIC
http://www.amazon.com/Alices-World-No-Time-Heroes/dp/B001RE6JYY/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1366737120&sr=1-1&keywords=sam+lundwall+alice

OK, so they're picture books. But the content is there, and is probably at a slightly higher level than middle school, but made clear and accessible.

David Macaulay "The Way Things Work" and such
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=David%20Macaulay

Larry Gonick "Cartoon Guide to ..."
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Larry+Gonick&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3ALarry+Gonick

Stephen Hawking has less pictures, but is surprisingly accessible
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Stephen+Hawking&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3AStephen+Hawking

OK, so they're picture books. But the content is there, and is probably at a slightly higher level than middle school, but made clear and accessible.

David Macaulay "The Way Things Work" and such
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=David%20Macaulay

Larry Gonick "Cartoon Guide to ..."
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Larry+Gonick&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3ALarry+Gonick

Stephen Hawking has less pictures, but is surprisingly accessible
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Stephen+Hawking&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3AStephen+Hawking

OK, so they're picture books. But the content is there, and is probably at a slightly higher level than middle school, but made clear and accessible.

David Macaulay "The Way Things Work" and such
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=David%20Macaulay

Larry Gonick "Cartoon Guide to ..."
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Larry+Gonick&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3ALarry+Gonick

Stephen Hawking has less pictures, but is surprisingly accessible
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Stephen+Hawking&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3AStephen+Hawking

I highly recommend The Martian, by Andy Weir. As an initial warning, there is some... "gritty" language in there, but I think that's keeping with the realism of someone who has been accidentally abandoned on Mars. A gripping read, science that is absolutely spot-on, and some genuinely funny moments as well. All available for the low, low price of less than a buck. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009IEXKXI

Any of Asimov's robot books (most asimov really) make for excellent sci-fi intro books.

These books, and other sci-fi books, would be fine for extra credit in a literature class, but they are inappropriate for extra credit in a science class. Science is about facts, not fiction. But Asimov is appropriate. When I was a teenager I read dozens of his non-fiction books. I remember sitting in the back of my 10th grade biology class reading Asimov's The Wellsprings of Life. That was the moment that biology "clicked" and I understood the genetic code, how "codons" worked, and it all made sense. I looked up at the teacher droning on, and wondered why they didn't just have everyone read this book.

When I was around that age, I really enjoyed "The Boy Who Reversed Himself" by William Sleator. Pretty entertaining, and a nice introduction to the concept of higher-dimensional spaces.

Obligatory Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/Boy-Who-Reversed-Himself/dp/0140389652

The reading level is closer to elementary school, but some of the math is fascinating to high school and above. It certainly could be used for an interesting math extra project. A great gift for kids:

The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure [Paperback]
Hans Magnus Enzensberger (Author), Rotraut Susanne Berner (Illustrator), Michael Henry Heim (Translator)

ISBN: 0805062998

various Amazon links:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0805062998/jbenterprises/
http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0805062998/johannsbookst-20/
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0805062998/johansbooksparto/

But if we don't ask "what if", how is there any advancement? Yes, we'd most likely be wrong--it's only through error do we find the truth. What I fail to understand is how science advances without speculation?

The problem - eloquently expressed here The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, The Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next - arises when theoretical physics comes up with hypotheses that are untested (and even potentially untestable) but people start treating them as grounded theories. This is essentially no different from the intelligent design argument; a position that relies on unprovable speculation that you just have to take on faith.

For what it's worth, AWS's Beanstalk offering now supports deployments to node.js. It's dead easy.

I've never tried Azure, so I can't compare, but anyway, I thought I'd point it out.

For those interested, I recommend Governing Lethal Behavior in Autonomous Robots, by Ronald Arkin.

Wilson states that to do good science and to be a good scientist you don't need to be a math wiz. Iddo states to be employable in the tech and science field the more math the better. Am I the only one who has noticed these aren't the same point? Iddo is worrying that if your C.V. doesn't show enough math you won't get the position to do the science at all. Wilson says you can find a place for yourself that uses the math you already know. Wilson is optimistic, Iddo is realistic/pessimistic. Wilson succeeded and is a giant. Iddo has watched his students struggle and have to wait tables to get by.

In the end Wilson is following closer to J. Bronowski in Science and Human values and Iddo is closer to my grandmother. Bronowski cared about humanity, grandma cares about me.

Yup, hence the words "Amazon Original Pilots" on the show's Amazon page.

As a huge fan of both The Onion and Jeffrey Tambor, I hope they pick this one up.

The idea that a chaotic system can give rise to complex life is in the not even wrong category. I am not saying that the probabilities are small. I am saying that the probability is exactly zero.

You should read some Stuart Kauffman - you might gain a different perspective on how it's plausible, even if we don't know how it actually happened.

BTW: The evidence is strong enough to conclude that it actually happened. The question is how. Science is filled with stories of "we couldn't see how it was possible, until (x) was observed." The probability of something that has already happened is always 1.

A treasury of wacky baseball rules situations, now out of print (watch out for more recent titles with the same name, chances are it's a completely different book).

I remember getting approx. 0 percent right.

Is Amazon jumping in as a competitor of Netflix

Amazon has been positioning themselves as a competitor to Netflix for a long time. For example

It wouldn't surprise me if Netfilx started selling books soon just to get revenge.

" both of whom have had immeasurable impact on issues surrounding technology over recent years.""

Eric Schmidt is just some guy the VC suits FORCED on Larry and Sergei when Google was trying to get funding. Larry and Sergei DRAGGED THEIR FEET and delayed capitulating to this "adult supervision" requirement as long as they could. Since Eric Schmidt is basically just a stand issue schmuck without insight, without vision, they figured they'd be able to "get along" with him - read: roll over him on all important decisions, and they were right.

Schmidt spent his time cheating on his wife ( who is well compensated and probably a little relieved) and chasing after 10s of the sort that had ignored him in high school, but now needed help with their coke addictions, taking them to Burning Man, playing the role of Dr. Strangelove then paying for their rehab

No, seriously.

http://gawker.com/5475332/

http://gawker.kinja.com/5499121/photos-google-ceo-eric-schmidt-at-burning-man-with-his-ex+mistress

Schmidt is the guy with a knack for the anti-quote - things Google would wish he'd never said, oh like

"With your permission you give us more information about you, about your friends, and we can improve the quality of our searches [...] We don't need you to type at all. We know where you are. We know where you've been. We can more or less know what you're thinking about."

and

""If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."

and

" "most people don't want Google to answer their questions. . . . They want Google to tell them what they should be doing next."

and

"One day we had a conversation where we figured we could just try to predict the stock market. And then we decided it was illegal. So we stopped doing that."

Even the curated collection of things which appear on quotes pages like this one and presumably are intended to show him in his best light merely range from the pedestrian:

" Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it. "

and

"We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power. "

to the weird:

"A mind set in its ways is wasted. Don't do it. "

"If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear. "

to the creepy:

"In a world where everything is remembered and everything is kept forever, you need to live for the future and things you really care about."

This guy and the pile of money that's been shoved under him is the ultimate expression of the American elites' fear of everything which is not mediocre, not "regular" , not tame and predictable. They couldn't have the brains of Google also presume to be the captains of Google because who knows what kind of idealistic fantasies they might become obsessed with and worse, actually realize.

You can read all about how Eric "Lucky" Schmidt washed up on the shore of Tropical Paradise Google and all the other details in Ken Auletta's book . It's just as I described.

http://www.amazon.com/Googled-End-World-As-Know/dp/0143118048

" both of whom have had immeasurable impact on issues surrounding technology over recent years."" Eric Schmidt is just some guy the VC suits FORCED on Larry and Sergei when Google was trying to get funding. Larry and Sergei DRAGGED THEIR FEET and delayed capitulating to this "adult supervision" requirement as long as they could. Since Eric Schmidt is basically just a stand issue schmuck without insight, without vision, they figured they'd be able to "get along" with him - read: roll over him on all important decisions, and they were right. Schmidt spent his time cheating on his wife ( who is well compensated and probably a little relieved) and chasing after 10s of the sort that had ignored him in high school, but now needed help with their coke addictions, taking them to Burning Man, playing the role of Dr. Strangelove then paying for their rehab No, seriously. http://gawker.com/5475332/ http://gawker.kinja.com/5499121/photos-google-ceo-eric-schmidt-at-burning-man-with-his-ex+mistress Schmidt is the guy with a knack for the anti-quote - things Google would wish he'd never said, oh like "With your permission you give us more information about you, about your friends, and we can improve the quality of our searches [...] We don't need you to type at all. We know where you are. We know where you've been. We can more or less know what you're thinking about." and ""If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place." and " "most people don't want Google to answer their questions. . . . They want Google to tell them what they should be doing next." and "One day we had a conversation where we figured we could just try to predict the stock market. And then we decided it was illegal. So we stopped doing that." Even the curated collection of things which appear on quotes pages like this one and presumably are intended to show him in his best light merely range from the pedestrian: " Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it. " and "We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power. " to the weird: "A mind set in its ways is wasted. Don't do it. " "If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear. " to the creepy: "In a world where everything is remembered and everything is kept forever, you need to live for the future and things you really care about." This guy and the pile of money that's been shoved under him is the ultimate expression of the American elites' fear of everything which is not mediocre, not "regular" , not tame and predictable. They couldn't have the brains of Google also presume to be the captains of Google because who knows what kind of idealistic fantasies they might become obsessed with and worse, actually realize. You can read all about how Eric "Lucky" Schmidt washed up on the shore of Tropical Paradise Google and all the other details in Ken Auletta's book . It's just as I described. http://www.amazon.com/Googled-End-World-As-Know/dp/0143118048

With a proper docking station, you can externalize the GPU:
http://www.amazon.com/AOC-E1649FWU-USB-Powered-Portable-Monitor/dp/B005SEZR0G

http://www.amazon.com/Warp-Speed-1/dp/1416520635

I started looking at other retailers when I saw how much Amazon was overcharging on the Nexus 7 (and still is):

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=nexus%207&sprefix=nexus+7%2Caps&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Anexus%207
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Order=BESTMATCH&N=-1&isNodeId=1&Description=nexus+7&x=-881&y=-112

I don't know about you but I like these reviews:
http://www.amazon.com/Denon-AKDL1-Dedicated-Link-Cable/product-reviews/B000I1X6PM
http://www.amazon.com/Diamond-Digital-Ethernet-Connection-meters/product-reviews/B003CT2A6I?pageNumber=2
http://www.amazon.com/AudioQuest-K2-Terminated-Speaker-Cable/dp/B000J36XR2

I don't know about you but I like these reviews:
http://www.amazon.com/Denon-AKDL1-Dedicated-Link-Cable/product-reviews/B000I1X6PM
http://www.amazon.com/Diamond-Digital-Ethernet-Connection-meters/product-reviews/B003CT2A6I?pageNumber=2
http://www.amazon.com/AudioQuest-K2-Terminated-Speaker-Cable/dp/B000J36XR2