When Obama mentioned Snowden's name, you could see a bit of disgust and a sneer streak across his face for a brief moment. He then felt the need to point out that he was ahead of Snowden, planning to confront the system anyway.
You're very sparing with the details here. What do you do that is technical? If you're a sole technical person in a non-technical office, I assume this means you're IT. Why exactly are you interviewing someone to be your supervisor? How did this happen? Are you being forced to have a supervisor because management wants to reign you in? So many unknowns. Why wouldn't management make you the supervisor and get you to hire underlings if they feel they need more bodies? This reeks badly of a top-heavy organization.
Is there really a significant difference if NASA blew this out of proportion or if the media did? The end result is the same. They look bad when they have to backpedal and release underwhelming findings.
"Grotzinger says they recently put a soil sample in SAM, and the analysis shows something Earth-shaking. 'This data is gonna be one for the history books. It's looking really good,' he says.""
My facts were mostly straight. Yes, it wasn't an official statement, but the chief scientist dude had to have known how his comments would have whipped people into a frenzy. I mean, c'mon.
NASA can't keep up being the "boy who cried wolf." People will just stop listening if every little thing is "breakthrough" and something "earth-shattering!" My goodness.
Well, yes, at least these are CREDIT cards, not bank cards. This is exactly why I don't have a bank card and only use a credit card - at least it provides a buffer to my money. If I see charges on a bill that are suspect, I don't HAVE to write the credit card company a check. But if a criminal got a hold of someone's bank card...
Maybe I'm wrong - does anyone use a bank card and feel safe?
And what recourse do card holders have? How do we know if our number was stolen, passed around, and now someone is just holding onto it indefinitely and might leap to use it after this whole thing blows over? A bit frightening.
When Lost was about to end, the various forums were abuzz with lots of ending ideas that all were about a hundred times better than the actual ending. Kinda wish they'd listened to fans in that case.
At first glance, the whole idea of personal analytics seems kind of worthless. But imagine comparing analytics among populations and drawing correlations between habits, lifestyle choices, and diseases. That could be a helpful step toward the kind of preventative health care we need as a people. Lifestyle choices matter a lot more than the strictly-retroactive fix-me-up-after-my-heart-clogs-up-with-french-fry-grease healthcare that much of the US and I'm sure other countries seem to encourage.
The real question is how successful M$'s next app store/phone offering can possible become. Google and Apple are quite extensively entrenched in the market - Microsoft has its work cut out for it. They are VERY late to the game. I think the only place their phones likely will excel is in corporate settings, becoming kind of the new Blackberries. iPhones aren't corporate enough, Android phones aren't supported enough for corporate cronies to like them, so they COULD possibly fill that particular niche.
You can run unsigned code on Android. There's an option you can enable in the settings. Then you can just drop a.apk onto the device via USB, wifi, whatever, and install it manually.
So maybe this is the chance for Japan to lead the way in serious and applicable alternative energy sources, particularly since they have no native access to fossil fuels.
I'm curious about how the public would really react to robots like this doing dangerous jobs - be it rescue robots, firefighting robots, or even the recently hotly-discussed automated (self-driving) cars.
The first time one of these robots slips up and someone dies (or is left to die), public outcry will be swift and harsh.
Always get nervous when reading stuff like this - I'm sure they'll use it an excuse to regulate the Internet for everyone, not just so-called terrorists. Remember: freedom isn't free.
Also: war is peace, ignorance is strength, etc.
From the article: "In their experiments, the researchers reduced the LED’s input power to just 30 picowatts and measured an output of 69 picowatts of light - an efficiency of 230%."
It only would violate the conservation of energy if it converted the electricity to more electricity than came in. It's just converting the electricity into light very efficiently with a great ratio.
Unfortunately it's just not the reality that you can always keep using old interfaces. As a programmer, my interface can generally stay the same because I basically only need a text editor and a command line. But it's really not a big deal for the OS's interface to change - and it's expected. It's been going on for DECADES and for some reason people freak out every time it happens again.
Yeah, well, I tend to agree. The menu style selector is good enough for Muggles though. Personally, I like to launch applications from a command line or run dialog regardless of what OS I'm running.
People get set in their ways, no question about it. Plenty of OSs don't have a start menu and they're quite usable. While I don't think the start menu is inherently bad OR good, I think people get way too hung up on the way a proprietary OS used to be - up to the point that they mod the hell out of the interface. I use MacOS and Windows 7 and Windows XP and Linux all quite regularly. People need to give more and be a little bit more mobile.
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When Obama mentioned Snowden's name, you could see a bit of disgust and a sneer streak across his face for a brief moment. He then felt the need to point out that he was ahead of Snowden, planning to confront the system anyway.
You're very sparing with the details here. What do you do that is technical? If you're a sole technical person in a non-technical office, I assume this means you're IT. Why exactly are you interviewing someone to be your supervisor? How did this happen? Are you being forced to have a supervisor because management wants to reign you in? So many unknowns. Why wouldn't management make you the supervisor and get you to hire underlings if they feel they need more bodies? This reeks badly of a top-heavy organization.
Is there really a significant difference if NASA blew this out of proportion or if the media did? The end result is the same. They look bad when they have to backpedal and release underwhelming findings.
"Grotzinger says they recently put a soil sample in SAM, and the analysis shows something Earth-shaking. 'This data is gonna be one for the history books. It's looking really good,' he says.""
Well, you know what I mean, right? Semantics.
My facts were mostly straight. Yes, it wasn't an official statement, but the chief scientist dude had to have known how his comments would have whipped people into a frenzy. I mean, c'mon.
Yes. Here. "Earth-shaking". http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/11/20/1511232/what-earth-shaking-discovery-has-curiosity-made-on-mars
NASA can't keep up being the "boy who cried wolf." People will just stop listening if every little thing is "breakthrough" and something "earth-shattering!" My goodness.
And how about the hormonal problems from eating all that hormone-laced meat?
That's reassuring to hear. I still do like having a buffer, though...
Well, yes, at least these are CREDIT cards, not bank cards. This is exactly why I don't have a bank card and only use a credit card - at least it provides a buffer to my money. If I see charges on a bill that are suspect, I don't HAVE to write the credit card company a check. But if a criminal got a hold of someone's bank card... Maybe I'm wrong - does anyone use a bank card and feel safe?
And what recourse do card holders have? How do we know if our number was stolen, passed around, and now someone is just holding onto it indefinitely and might leap to use it after this whole thing blows over? A bit frightening.
When Lost was about to end, the various forums were abuzz with lots of ending ideas that all were about a hundred times better than the actual ending. Kinda wish they'd listened to fans in that case.
At first glance, the whole idea of personal analytics seems kind of worthless. But imagine comparing analytics among populations and drawing correlations between habits, lifestyle choices, and diseases. That could be a helpful step toward the kind of preventative health care we need as a people. Lifestyle choices matter a lot more than the strictly-retroactive fix-me-up-after-my-heart-clogs-up-with-french-fry-grease healthcare that much of the US and I'm sure other countries seem to encourage.
The real question is how successful M$'s next app store/phone offering can possible become. Google and Apple are quite extensively entrenched in the market - Microsoft has its work cut out for it. They are VERY late to the game. I think the only place their phones likely will excel is in corporate settings, becoming kind of the new Blackberries. iPhones aren't corporate enough, Android phones aren't supported enough for corporate cronies to like them, so they COULD possibly fill that particular niche.
You can run unsigned code on Android. There's an option you can enable in the settings. Then you can just drop a .apk onto the device via USB, wifi, whatever, and install it manually.
So maybe this is the chance for Japan to lead the way in serious and applicable alternative energy sources, particularly since they have no native access to fossil fuels.
They should have put Wi-Fi onboard. Park the car in your garage or driveway, hope on your home network, voila.
I'm curious about how the public would really react to robots like this doing dangerous jobs - be it rescue robots, firefighting robots, or even the recently hotly-discussed automated (self-driving) cars. The first time one of these robots slips up and someone dies (or is left to die), public outcry will be swift and harsh.
Always get nervous when reading stuff like this - I'm sure they'll use it an excuse to regulate the Internet for everyone, not just so-called terrorists. Remember: freedom isn't free. Also: war is peace, ignorance is strength, etc.
From the article: "In their experiments, the researchers reduced the LED’s input power to just 30 picowatts and measured an output of 69 picowatts of light - an efficiency of 230%." It only would violate the conservation of energy if it converted the electricity to more electricity than came in. It's just converting the electricity into light very efficiently with a great ratio.
Exactly. Who would pay $18 or more for a book on iTunes that you can't even LOAN to a friend?
Unfortunately it's just not the reality that you can always keep using old interfaces. As a programmer, my interface can generally stay the same because I basically only need a text editor and a command line. But it's really not a big deal for the OS's interface to change - and it's expected. It's been going on for DECADES and for some reason people freak out every time it happens again.
Yeah, well, I tend to agree. The menu style selector is good enough for Muggles though. Personally, I like to launch applications from a command line or run dialog regardless of what OS I'm running.
People get set in their ways, no question about it. Plenty of OSs don't have a start menu and they're quite usable. While I don't think the start menu is inherently bad OR good, I think people get way too hung up on the way a proprietary OS used to be - up to the point that they mod the hell out of the interface. I use MacOS and Windows 7 and Windows XP and Linux all quite regularly. People need to give more and be a little bit more mobile.