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Larry Page's Vision of the Future
adamjh writes "Yesterday, Google co-founder Larry Page gave an amazing talk to the 2005 graduating class of the University of Michigan College of Engineering. In true geek form, I made sure to record Larry's entire speech on my mobile phone in order to share with the Slashdot community a rare glimpse into Larry's thoughts on the past, present, and future -- on topics ranging from dropping out of Stanford to start Google to "Thinking Big" and the abundance of venture capital to traveling to Mars, curing world hunger, and well, much much more."
Don't forget Dell, Jobs, Ballmer... also drop-outs
It seems that Mr. Paige has gone on a philonthropic course lately (not that that's a bad thing). At the FIRST robotics competition in Atlanta, he made a 15 minute long speech with some great messages (although I thought his delivery was sub-par). Among them, he pledged money from www.google.org to FIRST. He is very inspiring. Larry, from FIRST to you, thanks. -Daniel
MP3 direct dowload here
No. You can't. If you look in your user prefs, you'll notice that that option has miraculously disappeared. you can now only block by section.
By summer it was all gone...now shesmovedon. --
He dropped out of GRADUATE school. There's a difference. Bill Gates never finished undergrad.
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From the google website:
(http://www.google.com/intl/en/corporat
"Page became an honors graduate from the University of Michigan, where he earned a bachelor of science degree in engineering, with a concentration on computer engineering."
"While in the PhD program in computer science at Stanford University, Page met Sergey Brin and together they developed and ran Google, which began operating in 1998. Page went on leave from Stanford after earning his master's degree."
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Please don't link to the file directly. Gracias.
What is humor if not pain tempered by time?
mp3 and wav files moved to University webspace -- should be able to withstand the /.ing.
cheers.
The IEA has recently shifted its peak forecast date from 2035, to a vague 2015-2024. This is particularly significant, as the IEA's forecasts have traditionally been rather optimistic. There are a number of geologists that are suggesting we have hit global peak production now, or that we will in the very near future i.e. 2005-2007. If that is the case, we do not have enough time to replace our existing energy infrastructure. We also currently do not have a source of liquid fuel with the ERoEI of petroleum. Rather than being complacent in the hopes that future technologies will replace oil, we should be doing everything possible to reduce our consumption.
We will not be regressing to medieval civilisation, but life as we all know it will change irrevocably.
Get ready for some interesting times.
Torrent set up here: http://notespace.org/Larry_Page-Graduation_Speech. mp3.torrent
What are the odds that some idiot will name his mutex ether-rot-mutex!
They hired a big time CEO because their venture capitalists basically forced it on them. The CEO is obviously worth something, but even he says he had to let them do their thing. They seem like stubborn principled people. Sometimes, that's good.
In times like these, it is helpful to remember that there have always been times like these. - Paul Harvey
I dunno if anyone of you guys may of read this but there was a blog entry doing the rounds the last few months how to think like a MBA grad by reading about 30-40 books. The link is here.
From the site:
Seth says that you can get most of the value of an MBA education without forking over the big bucks by reading 30-40 books. I agree.
An MBA may be valuable from a networking standpoint, as Bren points out. The classroom environment and case method can also be a plus, as Diego acknowledges. Points well made, gentlemen.
Both Diego and Seth bring up another point: the MBA is a still a stamp of approval for some careers, like consulting and investment banking. I think that's a damn shame, but I don't run those HR departments. Maybe it's my personality, but I have a hard time working my butt off simply for a "stamp of approval." I think that the primary purpose of pursuing an education is learning something valuable, not adding a line to my resume. (For what that's worth.)
In the context of learning useful knowledge that will make you a more productive and valuable employee, I maintain that you can educate yourself effectively for less than a quarter of the time and money spent in most current MBA programs.
Yeah pretty much, otherwise it's just PR. Being rich doesn't make you a better person, just a richer person. I'm not a religious person, but I remember this story in the bible of this rich man donating money to a church, and pouring a load of money into the pot, although it was a mere fraction of his wealth. Then this poor woman came and put in a single coin, but it was the only coin she had, so apparently it was more charitable.
Actually, about 8GB was transferred in about 18 minutes, before pair.com's web server crashed and couldn't handle the load, and I received an email telling me that my files were being "locked".
Quoted from an email I received from pair.com technical support:
Because of the requests for these files, no other site hosted on the entire server was able to accept request due to the saturation to and from your server.
And lastly, your account transferred about 8 GB of data in 18 minutes.
So, 3 thoughts come to mind:
1. What bill? pair.com drops the day with the most-used bandwidth when calculating billing!
2. The files were quickly moved to University web servers which handled the load fine.
3. It's interesting that a pair.com support rep posted my account statistics in a public forum.. hmmm.
Rough text transcript of Larry Page's speach. '??' means I couldn't hear it.
;-)
I typed this out, but don't blame me for stuff thats wrong, reply to it to correct it. Or Google anything you want to know from it
I have no idea about copyrights, but it's Larrys speach, and I would bet deaf people have the right to see it.
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Well thank you, it's a pleasure and honor to be here, and I don't know I think we're in trouble with details ?? the most authoritative source.
It's really kind of amazing to be here 10 years after I graduated, in 1995, from the electrical engineering and computer science department. [cheers] I have so much I want to say to you in a really short time, and we're going to go though it pretty quickly. Before I do that there is something I wish I was able to do at my graduation. You have tons and tons and tons of people here to supporting you. I'd like you all to get up and wave to your support, family, friends, and everybody.
I am deeply indebted to Michigan. Let try to give you a little of my history. One thing we didn't mention is my parents actually met here cleaning a car. So I really thought we should give them some thanks for that. ?? My dad actually said to me when I was deciding what school to go to "Well Ill pay for any school you want to go to as long as its Michigan" I have to admit this had a significant impact on where I ended up going. I'm also indebted to Michigan which was amazingly advanced in computation and this had been going on for a really long time. I remember using Zaptor? Which you guys probably don't know about, but in 1993 we had instant messaging, in the computer labs. Somebody would arrive, you'd know when they left, where they were. and you could instant message them, just like you do now on the internet, but that was in 1993, not today. In fact the main ?? speaker John ?? Brown, graduated in 1970, computer and communication sciences, which wasn't the normal kind of degree to have in 1970. In fact my dad graduated with his PhD in '65 also from that department having one of the first degrees like that to be awarded. I also learned from my father his electrical engineering assignments he would bring home he's 9 years older than me, and he went here as well, and I had learned how to do them all 9 years early. Its pretty helpful, made the classes a lot easier. I got great leadership training in ?? selling doughnuts apparently, that aparently still goes on here. One relaxing summer and I built an inkjet printer out of legos witch I recommend to everyone. If you have some extra time on your hands.
I also got a deep and relevant engineering education, just like all of you, and that's been very valuable in the time since I left Michigan. With good and lasting values, which I know a lot of you probably don't understand because your here, but its not true about everywhere people are nice and will talk to you and generally do the right things. Many of Goggles early employees came from Michigan too and I've really tried to give back to the university in anyway I can. I have been on the advisory board here and I'm sure I'll do other things in the future.
Now, I need to know a little more about you guys before I continue, so how many of you? I'll ask the graduates and the audience here, 'How many of you work, or will work, in Michigan?'
That's a pretty good number.
Alright, How about, 'Work or will work for a really big company?'
Uh huh, even more.
How about 'Work or will work for a start-up?'
Oh, that's a pretty good number.
Uh, 'Will go to grad school ?? ?'
Did I miss anybody else? Raise your hands.
OK well I thought that would cover most people.
How about, 'How many of you are Women?'
Yeah.
Alright, alright. How about 'Work or will work for Google?'
We got a couple in the audience too.
Help me out a bit. 'How many of you would consider working for ?? the ?? engineering ?? ?'
OK I think that's wha