Rick Sherlund estimates. He doesn't know. Nobody knows except very senior management at Microsoft and Google.
The report also contains the following: "Sherlund believes Microsoft needs to spin out Xbox. He sees it as an orphan group at Microsoft that doesn't really fit with anything it's doing."
"... pick up the phone and call the House Intelligence Committee, the Senate Intelligence Committee, and say I have some information,' Feinstein told CBS' Face The Nation."
You mean the House and Senate Intelligence Committees didn't know about this already? Aren't they in charge? Don't they make the rules? Didn't they say, and aren't they still saying, that it's all legal? In what alternate universe would Snowden think telling the intelligence committees would change anything.
And autopilots are better pilots than airplane drivers.
The problem is not the ability of a robot car to work, it is the ability of a robot car to operate in the highway infrastructure that is in place today. There will be a difficult time while we evolve from all human drivers through increasingly fewer human drivers to (almost) all robotic drivers. And no one has yet published the plan, the schedule or the expected cost.
... noting he's only broken his collarbone twice and hip once in four decades of long-distance cycling.
In four decades of long distance motorcycling, long distance automobile driving and long distance running, I've broken neither my collarbone nor my hip even once. I have broken wind a few times, however.
Have you ever typed a mistake similar to the following? I will see you their. In Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word, you can select the Use contextual spelling check box to get help with finding and fixing this type of mistake.
So then what was this? A butterfly graph, the calling card of chaos theory mathematics, purporting to show the tipping point upon which individuals and groups âoeflourishâ or âoelanguish.â Not a metaphor, no poetic allusion, but an exact ratio: 2.9013 positive to 1 negative emotions. Cultivate a âoepositivity ratioâ of greater than 2.9-to-1 and sail smoothly through life; fall below it, and sink like a stone.
[... ] But Brown smelled bullshit. A universal constant predicting success and fulfillment, failure and discontent? "In what world could this be true?" he wondered.
One step closer to the tipping point where tipping points will become... not so tipsy.
From the article... For now, All Power Labs is making only 10 kW and 20 kW versions, though the U.S. Department of Energy and the University of Minnesota recently gave the company a grant to build a 100 kW version. If this thing is the greatest invention since sliced bread, why does the company (selling $5 million worth of machines per year) need a university grant for product development. Something doesn't pencil out here.
"The first Solar Decathlon was held in 2002; the competition has since occurred biennially in 2005, 2007, 2009, and 2011." http://www.solardecathlon.gov/about.html
The number of solar powered houses throughout the developed world has soared since this program was started eleven years ago. And it is only because of effective programs such as this that these money saving and environment sparing technologies have entered main stream home building.
The lesson â" other than that criminal justice often has little to do with actual justice â" is this: for God's sake shut up. Law enforcement agents seeking to interview you are not your friends. You cannot count on "just clearing this one thing up." Demand to talk to a lawyer before talking to the cops. Every time.
... it's gonna be bad. Real bad. And because its gonna be bad, we're gonna charge you an arm and two legs for coverage.
Saying that catastrophic climate change is coming is like... is like... is like an umbrella salesman telling you it is going to rain. All upside and no downside.
And who's going to support the people who are being introduced to an entirely new operating system and applications installed on an ancient computer? Assuming they can get it installed.
The American Football League (AFL) was a major American Professional Football league that operated from 1960 until 1969, when it merged with the National Football League (NFL).
The upstart AFL operated in direct competition with the more established NFL throughout its existence.
While many AFL players and observers believed their league was the equal of the NFL, their first two Super Bowl performances did nothing to prove it. However, on November 17, 1968, when NBC cut away from a game between the Jets and Raiders to air the children's movie Heidi, the ensuing uproar helped disprove the notion that fans still considered the AFL an inferior product. The perception of AFL inferiority forever changed on January 12, 1969, when the AFL Champion New York Jets shocked the heavily favored NFL Champion Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III. The Colts, who entered the contest favored by as many as 18 points, had completed the 1968 NFL season with a 13â"1 record, and won the NFL title with a convincing 34-0 win over the Cleveland Browns.
The Jets won, 16-7, in what is considered one of the greatest upsets in American sports history.
With the win, the AFL finally achieved parity with the NFL and legitimized the merger of the two leagues.
... but some analysts state this move may have come too late, much of the target market being taken by IBM and HP already.
And before Google, much of the target market had been taken by Alta Vista. And the NFL had a lock on pro football. And Sony had a lock on portable entertainment devices. And Microsoft on operating systems. HP on printers. Ford/GM/Chrysler.
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Rick Sherlund estimates. He doesn't know. Nobody knows except very senior management at Microsoft and Google.
The report also contains the following: "Sherlund believes Microsoft needs to spin out Xbox. He sees it as an orphan group at Microsoft that doesn't really fit with anything it's doing."
I guess he hasn't heard of the "Three Screens."
Those that know aren't talking. And those that are talking don't know.
Sources. Ha!
" ... pick up the phone and call the House Intelligence Committee, the Senate Intelligence Committee, and say I have some information,' Feinstein told CBS' Face The Nation."
You mean the House and Senate Intelligence Committees didn't know about this already? Aren't they in charge? Don't they make the rules? Didn't they say, and aren't they still saying, that it's all legal? In what alternate universe would Snowden think telling the intelligence committees would change anything.
Feinstein thinks we're all ignorant idiots.
If you had read TFA ...
I did. I also read:
Proceed with Caution toward the Self-Driving Car
Completely autonomous vehicles will remain a fantasy for years. Until they're here, we need technology that enhances human drivers' abilities rather than making those abilities increasingly obsolete
http://www.technologyreview.com/review/513531/proceed-with-caution-toward-the-self-driving-car/
and
Driverless Cars Are Further Away Than You Think
http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/520431/driverless-cars-are-further-away-than-you-think/
And autopilots are better pilots than airplane drivers.
The problem is not the ability of a robot car to work, it is the ability of a robot car to operate in the highway infrastructure that is in place today. There will be a difficult time while we evolve from all human drivers through increasingly fewer human drivers to (almost) all robotic drivers. And no one has yet published the plan, the schedule or the expected cost.
In four decades of long distance motorcycling, long distance automobile driving and long distance running, I've broken neither my collarbone nor my hip even once. I have broken wind a few times, however.
Have you ever typed a mistake similar to the following? I will see you their. In Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word, you can select the Use contextual spelling check box to get help with finding and fixing this type of mistake.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-help/choose-how-spell-check-and-grammar-check-work-HP010354280.aspx
Like spell checking.
So then what was this? A butterfly graph, the calling card of chaos theory mathematics, purporting to show the tipping point upon which individuals and groups âoeflourishâ or âoelanguish.â Not a metaphor, no poetic allusion, but an exact ratio: 2.9013 positive to 1 negative emotions. Cultivate a âoepositivity ratioâ of greater than 2.9-to-1 and sail smoothly through life; fall below it, and sink like a stone. ... ]
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But Brown smelled bullshit. A universal constant predicting success and fulfillment, failure and discontent? "In what world could this be true?" he wondered.
One step closer to the tipping point where tipping points will become ... not so tipsy.
From the article ...
For now, All Power Labs is making only 10 kW and 20 kW versions, though the U.S. Department of Energy and the University of Minnesota recently gave the company a grant to build a 100 kW version.
If this thing is the greatest invention since sliced bread, why does the company (selling $5 million worth of machines per year) need a university grant for product development. Something doesn't pencil out here.
Nerval's Lobster has a firm grasp of the obvious.
A successful project requires ...
1. A detailed and unchanging specification.
2. Experienced and qualified managers.
3. Incremental releases.
4. Test.
He forgot ...
5. Realistic schedule.
"The first Solar Decathlon was held in 2002; the competition has since occurred biennially in 2005, 2007, 2009, and 2011."
http://www.solardecathlon.gov/about.html
The number of solar powered houses throughout the developed world has soared since this program was started eleven years ago. And it is only because of effective programs such as this that these money saving and environment sparing technologies have entered main stream home building.
Jim Sensenbrenner spoke at the Cato Institute on October 9, 2013. Video and podcast here ...
http://www.cato.org/events/nsa-surveillance-what-we-know-what-do-about-it
iPad -- It's mine. I paid for it. If it breaks it's gone or I have to pony up for a new one.
Amplify Tablet -- Somebody gave it to me. If it breaks, it's their problem and money, not mine.
Middle School students -- the most careful, cautious and responsible segment of public school students.
The lesson â" other than that criminal justice often has little to do with actual justice â" is this: for God's sake shut up. Law enforcement agents seeking to interview you are not your friends. You cannot count on "just clearing this one thing up." Demand to talk to a lawyer before talking to the cops. Every time.
SHUT UP.
http://www.popehat.com/?s=shutup
"Load testing is your friend."
In this case, any testing at all would have been friends to both developers and customers.
Saying that catastrophic climate change is coming is like ... is like ... is like an umbrella salesman telling you it is going to rain. All upside and no downside.
Healthy polar bear count confounds doomsayers
The debate about climate change and its impact on polar bears has intensified with the release of a survey that shows the bear population in a key part of northern Canada is far larger than many scientists thought, and might be growing.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/healthy-polar-bear-count-confounds-doomsayers/article4099460/
The greatest threat to polar bears is hunters.
And who's going to support the people who are being introduced to an entirely new operating system and applications installed on an ancient computer? Assuming they can get it installed.
The American Football League (AFL) was a major American Professional Football league that operated from 1960 until 1969, when it merged with the National Football League (NFL).
The upstart AFL operated in direct competition with the more established NFL throughout its existence.
While many AFL players and observers believed their league was the equal of the NFL, their first two Super Bowl performances did nothing to prove it. However, on November 17, 1968, when NBC cut away from a game between the Jets and Raiders to air the children's movie Heidi, the ensuing uproar helped disprove the notion that fans still considered the AFL an inferior product. The perception of AFL inferiority forever changed on January 12, 1969, when the AFL Champion New York Jets shocked the heavily favored NFL Champion Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III. The Colts, who entered the contest favored by as many as 18 points, had completed the 1968 NFL season with a 13â"1 record, and won the NFL title with a convincing 34-0 win over the Cleveland Browns.
The Jets won, 16-7, in what is considered one of the greatest upsets in American sports history.
With the win, the AFL finally achieved parity with the NFL and legitimized the merger of the two leagues.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Football_League
And before Google, much of the target market had been taken by Alta Vista. And the NFL had a lock on pro football. And Sony had a lock on portable entertainment devices. And Microsoft on operating systems. HP on printers. Ford/GM/Chrysler.
From the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report:
Climate Change 2007
Sea level is projected to rise between the present (1980 - 1999) and the end of this century (2090 - 2099) by 0.35 m (0.23 to 0.47 m) for the A1B scenario ...
http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/ch11s11-9-4.html
Costly too.