We know. But the mouseball-on-keyboard is still a very nice idea. Compaq used to make a server keyboard with a mouseball. It lacked a keypad, for compactness. It was very functional, we who worked in the lab all loved that KB.
Look, I am always worried when arriving at security control, even though I am 100% legit. I feel intimidated, I worry that they'll keep me too long and I might miss boarding - I had to open my bag twice, because the cheese I was carrying looked suspicious on X-ray. So I'd trigger the sniffing machine.
On the other hand, a terrorist might be quite relaxed, because it's his/her nature. Or he/she might be a psychopath, and they feel no fear.
So that the battery won't be indefinitely re-chargeable, but rather only longer-lasting-than-competition. If it lasted an infinite amount of recharge cycles, customers would stop buying new batteries quicker than new customers would be found (this is what I am guessing their logic should have been).
I'm going to break Slashdot etiquette by replying to my own reply, but this is the kind of thing I'm talking about.
If you were president, and you had the choice to, say, send a manned mission to Mars to collect some dirt and maybe begin the steps it would take to, if we're lucky and very, very good, colonize the planet a century or two from now, or roll out a national energy infrastructure that will get us off of fossil fuels today, thus keeping our own planet from boiling away (and most likely discovering a lot of very useful stuff that would make such a manned Mars mission much cheaper, safer, and more practical when we DO do it), which would you choose?
Some people are still under the misguided notion that we don't have to make such choices, that we can just do both. That's one of our problems with science initiatives today. We're trying to do everything, and we end up half-assing it all and nothing gets done.
Personally, I'd rather just not have a space program (well, nothing much more than putting satellites in orbit now and then) than spending billions on the white elephant of one that we have today.
I really don't see why you had to answer your own post - you could have just included this stuff in your original post, where it belonged.
That said... just pouring money into Obama's energy initiatives (which, by the way, don't impress me all that much - nothing really courageous, groundbreaking... really quite bland) won't necessarily create the best results. What you're forgetting is the human element. What is going to transform money into results? People. Motivated people. Creative, thinking and dedicated people. And money by itself won't be enough for that. You have to give people something more than just the cold and utilitarian gold: you have to give them a vision they can believe in. That's the spice, the fertilizer that will then enable the monies to achieve results.
Change you can believe and stuff? What better than a daring scientific project of national proportions to catalyze the United States, to unite the minds and the hearts of all the people, to inspire them, to give them hope and a vision?
During the Apollo missions America had a dream larger than life, a vision that propelled her forward for decades to come. The creativity, genius and overpowering enthusiasm that this country showed was what, I think, eventually broke the USSR - the Star Wars "threat" was so much more frightening to the Soviets, because they (the old gard, anyway) still had in mind the Apollo missions and thought that these crazy yankees might just pull this off!
America is now just a shell of its former self - a gigantic trade and budget deficit, a country wholly subservient to foreign (mostly arab) oil, and almost bought out by the Chinese government.
You want a stimulus, one that will really stimulate all the people, all their endevours, all their emotions? Give NASA more, much more money, and tell them to dream big!
manic depression, schizophrenia, psychopathology, etc., are all aspect of every human being alive. its just that in most people, its below a certain threshold. above that theshold, and you begin to show qualities which put you in a category of illness
but everyone, to some degree, exhibits an ability to dampen their human empathy. if you showed parents the body of their dead child, and one retched on the spot, and the other calmly and grimly left, which is the "normal" person? is the parent who exhibited no physical revulsion a psychopath? we all process these things differently, and you have no objective, only subjective measurement for temporary or permanent empathy deficits
just look at stanley milgram's experiments where he took normal everyday people and got them to shock people to death (in simulation)
That experiment is a perfect illustration of how wrong you are: only some of the people went through to the "end" of the experiment, pseudo-electrocuting an actor.
Furthermore, temporarily damping one's empathy is not even close to mean one is a psychopath! A psychopath is a psychopath 100% of the time. In addition to that, there are many more traits that make psychopaths what they are - like, being able to without blinking, while looking you straight in the eyes. Being able to manipulate you, become the person you would trust the most like the perfect chameleon... and so on and so forth. People who, for whatever reason, are dampening their empathy, will at the same time NOT be able to like like a psychopath does - because they are not psychopaths.
with the few exceptions of people like Warren Buffet, corporations are run by highly functional psychopaths. As long as we're naming names of good guys, don't forget Aaron Feuerstein [wikipedia.org], The Mensch Of Malden Mills [cbsnews.com]
Holy shit, he truly is the mensch! What character, this guy now tops my list of good CEOs. Thank you very much for bringing this to my attention.
Whether you're comfortable with a scientifically proven, many many times confirmed fact, is, you will certainly agree, irrelevant. In fact, all of your points are irrelevant, because it just happens that there are people who are born with this, seemingly neurological defect.
As for you saying that
we're all psychopathic to some degree or another
, I imagine that you seem to be, marginally at least, and tend to see everyone in that light. That is definitely your problem. You need to cope with it otherwise, than painting everyone with your brush.
Did you know that by adding carbon nanotubes to the graphite electrode of Li+, you can drastically increase the number of recharge cycles? Adding 20% wt of CNTs will in fact enable them to be recharged an infinite amount of times. The company that has the patent and makes these batteries, is not interested in adding 20% wt of CNTs however - they add only 10%, so the number of cycles is larger than with the ordinary Li+, but still not unlimited.
Not everyone lives in USA. Different places have different laws. Where I am, that EULA as no validity. You can't impose a contract to use your product after I bought it. You have to make me accept that contract before I buy it. So it looks like eveybody in Quebec can go buy OS X and run it on anything they seem fit, even a toaster if they can make it work.
Which brings me to contemplate an interesting situation: if I install Mac OS X on my Asus Eee PC and come to the US for a (for instance) conference, will I be thrown in jail?
Psychopaths have the desire to reach leadership positions because that way, they can gain the most profit for themselves (not just monetary profit), and they also have the best tools to reach leadership positions, by manipulating others - something psychopaths excel at.
Psychopathic executives will not blink to destroy their own company, a whole industry, or cause food poisoning, water and air pollution, lower the standard of living of hundreds of millions - as long as they have profit out of it. Wake up, guys, with the few exceptions of people like Warren Buffet, corporations are run by highly functional psychopaths.
..and the point of open source is a number of people offering their source code to everyone. These people are the source of "open source", and the names on that list don't resonate with that crowd, hence they are not influential. The list should include notable (and leading) contributors to such project as Firefox, Linux, Net/Open/FreeBSD, OpenOffice, SAMBA, Wine, OpenSolaris, etc. (I am sure I missed a lot of important OS projects, please do forgive me in advance).
It's just another case of epitomizing the managers over the engineers - yes, it's a cliche, but it fits. Managers just can't seem to be satisfied with raking in the most dough - they need the kick of fame, too, even though in the OS world they are the least relevant - remember, cathedral vs. bazaar.
Thanks a lot for your answer. (also, thanks to all the others who replied to my post - interesting read, all).
I get how the EELV model changes "the way business is done" - I just don't see why any of the other alternatives couldn't be done in the same way (DoD model).
This is one of the most positive slashdot posts I have ever read. Congrats to your family and you. And your daughter is adorable! I have a son on the way, and my wife is Thai - I am really curious to see how he turns out. BTW, your wife reminds me a lot of mine, actually.
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Grandparent meant the bottom of the keyboard.
We know.
But the mouseball-on-keyboard is still a very nice idea. Compaq used to make a server keyboard with a mouseball. It lacked a keypad, for compactness. It was very functional, we who worked in the lab all loved that KB.
Look, I am always worried when arriving at security control, even though I am 100% legit. I feel intimidated, I worry that they'll keep me too long and I might miss boarding - I had to open my bag twice, because the cheese I was carrying looked suspicious on X-ray. So I'd trigger the sniffing machine.
On the other hand, a terrorist might be quite relaxed, because it's his/her nature. Or he/she might be a psychopath, and they feel no fear.
Yes, Mac OS X is licensed in such a way that you don't have the legal right to run it on anything but an Apple-made Mac.
Actually, I can. I can install Mac OS X on anything I damn want, and Apple can suck it.
(I live in europe)
So that the battery won't be indefinitely re-chargeable, but rather only longer-lasting-than-competition. If it lasted an infinite amount of recharge cycles, customers would stop buying new batteries quicker than new customers would be found (this is what I am guessing their logic should have been).
I'm going to break Slashdot etiquette by replying to my own reply, but this is the kind of thing I'm talking about.
If you were president, and you had the choice to, say, send a manned mission to Mars to collect some dirt and maybe begin the steps it would take to, if we're lucky and very, very good, colonize the planet a century or two from now, or roll out a national energy infrastructure that will get us off of fossil fuels today, thus keeping our own planet from boiling away (and most likely discovering a lot of very useful stuff that would make such a manned Mars mission much cheaper, safer, and more practical when we DO do it), which would you choose?
Some people are still under the misguided notion that we don't have to make such choices, that we can just do both. That's one of our problems with science initiatives today. We're trying to do everything, and we end up half-assing it all and nothing gets done.
Personally, I'd rather just not have a space program (well, nothing much more than putting satellites in orbit now and then) than spending billions on the white elephant of one that we have today.
I really don't see why you had to answer your own post - you could have just included this stuff in your original post, where it belonged.
That said... just pouring money into Obama's energy initiatives (which, by the way, don't impress me all that much - nothing really courageous, groundbreaking... really quite bland) won't necessarily create the best results. What you're forgetting is the human element. What is going to transform money into results? People. Motivated people. Creative, thinking and dedicated people. And money by itself won't be enough for that. You have to give people something more than just the cold and utilitarian gold: you have to give them a vision they can believe in. That's the spice, the fertilizer that will then enable the monies to achieve results.
Change you can believe and stuff? What better than a daring scientific project of national proportions to catalyze the United States, to unite the minds and the hearts of all the people, to inspire them, to give them hope and a vision?
During the Apollo missions America had a dream larger than life, a vision that propelled her forward for decades to come. The creativity, genius and overpowering enthusiasm that this country showed was what, I think, eventually broke the USSR - the Star Wars "threat" was so much more frightening to the Soviets, because they (the old gard, anyway) still had in mind the Apollo missions and thought that these crazy yankees might just pull this off!
America is now just a shell of its former self - a gigantic trade and budget deficit, a country wholly subservient to foreign (mostly arab) oil, and almost bought out by the Chinese government.
You want a stimulus, one that will really stimulate all the people, all their endevours, all their emotions? Give NASA more, much more money, and tell them to dream big!
Why pay $700.00USD when you can get a netbook with significantly better specs for half that price...
Sorry for the FTFY. Had to be done.
Actually, the screen isn't really tiny - 12.1". Problem is, it's a bit heavy for an ultraportable, especially considering the lack of storage.
That said, laptops with small screens DO have their place in the marketplace, just as 15"-ones.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mattelaquarius.jpg
The design, IMHO, is nice.
But an underpowered CPU combined with only 2 GB of SSD storage and a single USB port make this a slightly unattractive proposition.
Finding a consensus on the purpose of imprisonment is pretty much impossible.
True but utterly insignificant. Finding a consensus on anything at all is just as impossible.
I signed.
Next we'll be seeing the revelation that Linux has overtaken Windows 98.
Well, has it? I know Win98 users are few and far between, but the Linux _desktop_ marketshare is tiny, too.
Are you saying that Karmic Koala is the Vista of the Linux world?
manic depression, schizophrenia, psychopathology, etc., are all aspect of every human being alive. its just that in most people, its below a certain threshold. above that theshold, and you begin to show qualities which put you in a category of illness
but everyone, to some degree, exhibits an ability to dampen their human empathy. if you showed parents the body of their dead child, and one retched on the spot, and the other calmly and grimly left, which is the "normal" person? is the parent who exhibited no physical revulsion a psychopath? we all process these things differently, and you have no objective, only subjective measurement for temporary or permanent empathy deficits
just look at stanley milgram's experiments where he took normal everyday people and got them to shock people to death (in simulation)
That experiment is a perfect illustration of how wrong you are: only some of the people went through to the "end" of the experiment, pseudo-electrocuting an actor.
Furthermore, temporarily damping one's empathy is not even close to mean one is a psychopath! A psychopath is a psychopath 100% of the time. In addition to that, there are many more traits that make psychopaths what they are - like, being able to without blinking, while looking you straight in the eyes. Being able to manipulate you, become the person you would trust the most like the perfect chameleon ... and so on and so forth. People who, for whatever reason, are dampening their empathy, will at the same time NOT be able to like like a psychopath does - because they are not psychopaths.
with the few exceptions of people like Warren Buffet, corporations are run by highly functional psychopaths.
As long as we're naming names of good guys, don't forget Aaron Feuerstein [wikipedia.org],
The Mensch Of Malden Mills [cbsnews.com]
Holy shit, he truly is the mensch! What character, this guy now tops my list of good CEOs. Thank you very much for bringing this to my attention.
Whether you're comfortable with a scientifically proven, many many times confirmed fact, is, you will certainly agree, irrelevant. In fact, all of your points are irrelevant, because it just happens that there are people who are born with this, seemingly neurological defect.
As for you saying that
we're all psychopathic to some degree or another
, I imagine that you seem to be, marginally at least, and tend to see everyone in that light. That is definitely your problem. You need to cope with it otherwise, than painting everyone with your brush.
Did you know that by adding carbon nanotubes to the graphite electrode of Li+, you can drastically increase the number of recharge cycles? Adding 20% wt of CNTs will in fact enable them to be recharged an infinite amount of times. The company that has the patent and makes these batteries, is not interested in adding 20% wt of CNTs however - they add only 10%, so the number of cycles is larger than with the ordinary Li+, but still not unlimited.
Not everyone lives in USA. Different places have different laws. Where I am, that EULA as no validity. You can't impose a contract to use your product after I bought it. You have to make me accept that contract before I buy it. So it looks like eveybody in Quebec can go buy OS X and run it on anything they seem fit, even a toaster if they can make it work.
Which brings me to contemplate an interesting situation: if I install Mac OS X on my Asus Eee PC and come to the US for a (for instance) conference, will I be thrown in jail?
Psychopaths have the desire to reach leadership positions because that way, they can gain the most profit for themselves (not just monetary profit), and they also have the best tools to reach leadership positions, by manipulating others - something psychopaths excel at.
Psychopathic executives will not blink to destroy their own company, a whole industry, or cause food poisoning, water and air pollution, lower the standard of living of hundreds of millions - as long as they have profit out of it. Wake up, guys, with the few exceptions of people like Warren Buffet, corporations are run by highly functional psychopaths.
You can sell that BS to closed-source companies, but in the OS world projects live and die by the developer community.
..and the point of open source is a number of people offering their source code to everyone. These people are the source of "open source", and the names on that list don't resonate with that crowd, hence they are not influential. The list should include notable (and leading) contributors to such project as Firefox, Linux, Net/Open/FreeBSD, OpenOffice, SAMBA, Wine, OpenSolaris, etc. (I am sure I missed a lot of important OS projects, please do forgive me in advance).
It's just another case of epitomizing the managers over the engineers - yes, it's a cliche, but it fits. Managers just can't seem to be satisfied with raking in the most dough - they need the kick of fame, too, even though in the OS world they are the least relevant - remember, cathedral vs. bazaar.
I had to do a couple of years in college to redirect my skillset for my new life as a nanoscientist.
It's the best thing I've ever done in my life.
Thanks a lot for your answer. (also, thanks to all the others who replied to my post - interesting read, all).
I get how the EELV model changes "the way business is done" - I just don't see why any of the other alternatives couldn't be done in the same way (DoD model).
What is going to happen with the Ares V? I heard rumors about it being scrapped. I hope they were wrong?
This is one of the most positive slashdot posts I have ever read. Congrats to your family and you. And your daughter is adorable! I have a son on the way, and my wife is Thai - I am really curious to see how he turns out. BTW, your wife reminds me a lot of mine, actually.