Super Mario Brothers in AR. Now who wouldn't want to play that?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Nearly every game on the App store is a slight variation of a previous game before it. We need more developers with vision, not corporate committees making safe funding decisions through groupthink.
Android took a while to catch up to Apple's market share because of a smaller apps store, but they managed to do so because they already achieved a critical mass of apps.
Blackberry failed because they never had enough apps to attract customers. Barnes and Noble tried to sell Nook tablets with their own tiny app store, and had to give up because customers were rooting the devices to access Google Play.
Microsoft will never catch up to Apple or Android without a massive infusion of cash and labor. Developers have a hard enough time building apps for two platforms, let alone three.
I can live with the knowledge that my passwords are inherently unsafe. They can be changed as needed. If a hacker gets access to my full finger print scan, then its game over, permanently. We do not have the ability to reset fingerprints without radical surgery.
I for one will never use my fingerprints for e-commerce.
In May, Panda Labs (not Express) published a study suggesting that 55% of computers in China are infected by malware.
http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/half-chinas-computers-infected-malware-study-finds-1B8290982
I had the pleasure of cleaning up malware on friends' computers while living in China, back when XP was the dominant OS. Though my sample size was small, I believe the Panda Labs number comes much closer to reality than what is captured by the afterthought that is Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool. Popular programs like QQ are laden with security holes that essentially invite any hacker to take control of a PC.
The end of XP updates may cause extra few million computers to be infected, but it will be a drop in the bucket compared to the true problem.
My advice is- don't trust personal computers in China or email servers in China.
This simply reaffirms why I cancelled my Twitter account years ago. Still struggling to turn off Facebook, but it's more of a news service/photo album than anything else these days.
The Nobel Prize is a large trust left by the inventor of dynamite to perpetuate his legacy. The prizes are awarded each year by six Swedish scientists in secretive deliberations with no input from the scientific, academic, or political community at large. I have long abandoned the belief that the prize is in any way an accurate indication of the recipient's accomplishments.
I used to have one of those SETI @Home programs running day and night on my computer. After a few months, I read up on the methodology and realized that the program purposely ignored some of the most significant types of structured signal spikes. No reason was given in the literature.
I uninstalled the program and haven't paid them any attention until today. If SETI ever hopes to survive, they need to show us they know what they are doing for a change.
If you are truly fearful for your job, apply to other companies. The job market is not at zero right now. I changed careers twice this year without breaking a sweat.
If you can't switch laterally, ask yourself, are my skill sets unique or easily duplicated? If you are just a sheep, start diversifying your responsibilities, get additional training, or even go to school part time. Develop skill sets that no one else can replicate, and you will always be in demand.
Thank you for being open minded. It's a rare quality these days. The market is not efficient, never has been, never will be. As long as we can agree upon that point, there is hope for this country yet.
I studied under Laura Tyson and professors who administered the S&L bailout in the 80s. Unlike you, I did do my research.
You failed to mention if you would like to go back to the robber barons days with no regulation. I'm sure you think your clean drinking water, 8 hour work days, safe work places, blue skies, Social Security and Medicare, and civil rights just magically appeared out of thin air?
The reason there are so many problems with government programs is because of rent seeking, people who seek unjustified profits through controlling government contracts and programs. You tea baggers and efficient market theorists do nothing but stand in the way of making reasonable fixes to our problems. When will you learn that government is a necessary evil? The sooner you stop frothing at the mouth and start being part of the solution, the sooner we can get this country back on track.
I do agree with you, the government is stacking the chips against us. Friedman's school of thought has turned two generations of capitalists against healthy and necessary regulation that is needed for their own protection.
So you would rather live in the world of the robber barons, child labor, 14 hour work days, and unrestrained pollution? Or better yet, to 1929, when the goverment also ceded complete control of the economy to the private sector. You need to brush up on your Econ 101, missy.
Unrestrained capitalism is a force that favors monopoly as an outcome. No one wins except for the monopolist. Efficiency is the result of goverment actively regulating the economy to allow competition to flourish.
We've grown fat and lazy off TV and potato chips, and have stopped fighting for our democracy. The monopolists are close to complete control of our government, and I only pray it's not too late to fight back.
I do agree with you, the government is
I have no doubt that the market is hopelessly corrupt. I used to be a trader and a stock broker and have seen the good, the bad, and the truly ugly.
The entire financial system is built on convincing average people to give money to mutual funds with no questions asked. In 30 to 40 years, the money you were promised may or may not be there, but those who sold you the investments are long retired to their private islands. All the meanwhile, traders such as myself are siphoning money off every trade these mutal funds make.
The only way we can fight the Wall Street's growing power is to vote with our pocketbooks. Invest in retirement yourself instead of giving it to money managers. If you don't understand the market, buy hard assets like art and real estate. If you don't understand that, then sock it in a CD.
You'd have better luck predicting a coin toss based on starting velocity, wind speed, ambient humidity, etc., than you would predicting a stock's day-to-day movement based on all available data.
How does efficient market theory explain all the millionaire and billionaire stock traders Manhattan and London? People who claim it's impossible to make money trading simply don't know how to trade.
With the exception of Communism, Milton Friedman's BS theories on efficient unrestrained capitalism have done more to destroy the world economy than any other intellectual movement in modern history.
Yes, they do admit that the models are imprecise in the paper, but by allowing the reporter to present it as fact is dishonest and dangerous. There are multi-billion dollar public policy decisions decisions being made in California right now based on their findings. If they cannot guarantee a basic level of accuracy, they should not seek to be on the front page of the LA Times.
Herein lies the problem. There is a need to update your definition of science. Science is hypothesis formulation, testing, publication of results, and peer duplication of said conclusions. What UCLA essentially produced is a survey 25 climate models. The models used in this exercise have not been proven accurate or inaccurate. If the study had actually the ran the simulations backwards 40 years and forward 40 years and produced 95% confidence for each scenario, then I'll STFU. Until then, stop attempting to define this as a battle between scientist and ignorant common folk.
I recall there were predictions for global cooling and a mini ice age too. Those didn't pan out so well, did they? When predictions fall all over the map, you can't just cherry pick the one that randomly turns out to be right to prove your point.
CAD design of a piece of machinery several meters wide is orders of magnitude more precise than climate models attempting to predict planet wide behavior. The claim here is 95% confidence based on 25 models whose accuracy is yet unproven. When they allow journalists to present their predictions as science, it is hubris.
once you get past the 5 or 10 biggest factors the rest are just vernier adjustments...we know something about how solar activity affects the planet and are learning more all the time
The claim that we can possibly reduce global climate models to 10 major factors and produce precision results is ludicrous. You admit yourself that we only know 'something' about cloud reflection but don't have concrete data in any form. If they climatologists have 95% confidence in their predictions, why don't they publish predictions for the next 10 years? It's because they would lose all their research grants before they retire. Science with no accountability and cannot be reproduced should not be used as a basis for making public policy decisions.
It's really sad that these climate theorists consider computer models the equivalent of science. Hypothesis testing and peer replication of results is science, running 25 scenarios through a supercomputer is conjecture and speculation.
How many trillions of variables affect the earth's atmosphere? We don't know how much heat is reflected from clouds. We don't know how sunspots and flares affect out atmosphere. We don't know how much carbon dioxide is trapped by the ocean. We don't even know what the average temperature was for any years before 1880. To pretend that we KNOW at a 95% certainty that man is causing global warming is the height of hubris and deception.
I fail to see how scrambling your DNA in a centrifuge and recording the resulting base pairs would have any value to medical science. It's sounds cool in theory, but if you read between the lines, it's the equivalent of putting each letter of a novel into a scrambler and then charging you a thousand dollars for the results. We are at least 30 years away from true gnome mapping. For any of this to be of value, you would have to map an entire gene with all the dna base pairs sequences intact, along with their location approximate to each other in three dimensional space. Don't settle for a Model T from these snake oil salespeople. Wait until the science is actually viable.
When I said the Acer site, I was mistaken. You add in an after market SSD (I like Crucial), save $500 on the markup, and buy a skin for the laptop. This would give you top of the line specs with just a couple of hours of work.
I take it your sister is not a designer or media publisher of any sort because then she would be foolish to even ask about PC options.
If you sister wants her laptop to seamlessly transition with any of the programs she uses at work and if she wants her children to grow up with a real understanding of computing environment in the corporate world, get a Windows laptop. Seriously consider the fact that Macs are under 10% of the market share in the US. Don't fall for the dual boot nonsense from Apple fanboys (and no doubt stockholders). Why would you get a Mac just run Windows software? It's a hassle when all you need is a PC.
I spent $500 on my Acer 17" with mesh finish. It's as quiet as my girlfriend's Macbook Pro, is nearly a pound lighter the Macbook of similar size, and people always give it a second look when I pull it out at airports. You can customize on their site with girly colors, a 256 GB SSD, awesome CPU, and still be well under your $1500 budget. If you choose to go big with a 512 SSD, then you'll likely brush up against the $2000 budget. You will not be afford a SSD with your budget on a Mac. You can always spend a hundred dollars on a secondary insurance site if you're worried about durability.
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Super Mario Brothers in AR. Now who wouldn't want to play that? https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Nearly every game on the App store is a slight variation of a previous game before it. We need more developers with vision, not corporate committees making safe funding decisions through groupthink.
Android took a while to catch up to Apple's market share because of a smaller apps store, but they managed to do so because they already achieved a critical mass of apps. Blackberry failed because they never had enough apps to attract customers. Barnes and Noble tried to sell Nook tablets with their own tiny app store, and had to give up because customers were rooting the devices to access Google Play. Microsoft will never catch up to Apple or Android without a massive infusion of cash and labor. Developers have a hard enough time building apps for two platforms, let alone three.
I can live with the knowledge that my passwords are inherently unsafe. They can be changed as needed. If a hacker gets access to my full finger print scan, then its game over, permanently. We do not have the ability to reset fingerprints without radical surgery. I for one will never use my fingerprints for e-commerce.
In May, Panda Labs (not Express) published a study suggesting that 55% of computers in China are infected by malware. http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/half-chinas-computers-infected-malware-study-finds-1B8290982 I had the pleasure of cleaning up malware on friends' computers while living in China, back when XP was the dominant OS. Though my sample size was small, I believe the Panda Labs number comes much closer to reality than what is captured by the afterthought that is Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool. Popular programs like QQ are laden with security holes that essentially invite any hacker to take control of a PC. The end of XP updates may cause extra few million computers to be infected, but it will be a drop in the bucket compared to the true problem. My advice is- don't trust personal computers in China or email servers in China.
This simply reaffirms why I cancelled my Twitter account years ago. Still struggling to turn off Facebook, but it's more of a news service/photo album than anything else these days.
It's interesting that the petition served failed just as this thread was gaining steam. Big Brother is watching, and he's getting pissed.
The Nobel Prize is a large trust left by the inventor of dynamite to perpetuate his legacy. The prizes are awarded each year by six Swedish scientists in secretive deliberations with no input from the scientific, academic, or political community at large. I have long abandoned the belief that the prize is in any way an accurate indication of the recipient's accomplishments.
I used to have one of those SETI @Home programs running day and night on my computer. After a few months, I read up on the methodology and realized that the program purposely ignored some of the most significant types of structured signal spikes. No reason was given in the literature. I uninstalled the program and haven't paid them any attention until today. If SETI ever hopes to survive, they need to show us they know what they are doing for a change.
If you are truly fearful for your job, apply to other companies. The job market is not at zero right now. I changed careers twice this year without breaking a sweat. If you can't switch laterally, ask yourself, are my skill sets unique or easily duplicated? If you are just a sheep, start diversifying your responsibilities, get additional training, or even go to school part time. Develop skill sets that no one else can replicate, and you will always be in demand.
I expect Obama to do no less than help us live long and prosper. Though his pacifism probably means we'll all get it in the ass from our alien overlords. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/10/opinion/10dowd.html
Thank you for being open minded. It's a rare quality these days. The market is not efficient, never has been, never will be. As long as we can agree upon that point, there is hope for this country yet.
I studied under Laura Tyson and professors who administered the S&L bailout in the 80s. Unlike you, I did do my research.
You failed to mention if you would like to go back to the robber barons days with no regulation. I'm sure you think your clean drinking water, 8 hour work days, safe work places, blue skies, Social Security and Medicare, and civil rights just magically appeared out of thin air?
The reason there are so many problems with government programs is because of rent seeking, people who seek unjustified profits through controlling government contracts and programs. You tea baggers and efficient market theorists do nothing but stand in the way of making reasonable fixes to our problems. When will you learn that government is a necessary evil? The sooner you stop frothing at the mouth and start being part of the solution, the sooner we can get this country back on track.
I do agree with you, the government is stacking the chips against us. Friedman's school of thought has turned two generations of capitalists against healthy and necessary regulation that is needed for their own protection.
Jane, I forgot to answer you question.
So you would rather live in the world of the robber barons, child labor, 14 hour work days, and unrestrained pollution? Or better yet, to 1929, when the goverment also ceded complete control of the economy to the private sector. You need to brush up on your Econ 101, missy.
Unrestrained capitalism is a force that favors monopoly as an outcome. No one wins except for the monopolist. Efficiency is the result of goverment actively regulating the economy to allow competition to flourish.
We've grown fat and lazy off TV and potato chips, and have stopped fighting for our democracy. The monopolists are close to complete control of our government, and I only pray it's not too late to fight back. I do agree with you, the government is
I have no doubt that the market is hopelessly corrupt. I used to be a trader and a stock broker and have seen the good, the bad, and the truly ugly. The entire financial system is built on convincing average people to give money to mutual funds with no questions asked. In 30 to 40 years, the money you were promised may or may not be there, but those who sold you the investments are long retired to their private islands. All the meanwhile, traders such as myself are siphoning money off every trade these mutal funds make. The only way we can fight the Wall Street's growing power is to vote with our pocketbooks. Invest in retirement yourself instead of giving it to money managers. If you don't understand the market, buy hard assets like art and real estate. If you don't understand that, then sock it in a CD.
You'd have better luck predicting a coin toss based on starting velocity, wind speed, ambient humidity, etc., than you would predicting a stock's day-to-day movement based on all available data.
How does efficient market theory explain all the millionaire and billionaire stock traders Manhattan and London? People who claim it's impossible to make money trading simply don't know how to trade. With the exception of Communism, Milton Friedman's BS theories on efficient unrestrained capitalism have done more to destroy the world economy than any other intellectual movement in modern history.
Yes, they do admit that the models are imprecise in the paper, but by allowing the reporter to present it as fact is dishonest and dangerous. There are multi-billion dollar public policy decisions decisions being made in California right now based on their findings. If they cannot guarantee a basic level of accuracy, they should not seek to be on the front page of the LA Times.
Herein lies the problem. There is a need to update your definition of science. Science is hypothesis formulation, testing, publication of results, and peer duplication of said conclusions. What UCLA essentially produced is a survey 25 climate models. The models used in this exercise have not been proven accurate or inaccurate. If the study had actually the ran the simulations backwards 40 years and forward 40 years and produced 95% confidence for each scenario, then I'll STFU. Until then, stop attempting to define this as a battle between scientist and ignorant common folk.
I recall there were predictions for global cooling and a mini ice age too. Those didn't pan out so well, did they? When predictions fall all over the map, you can't just cherry pick the one that randomly turns out to be right to prove your point.
CAD design of a piece of machinery several meters wide is orders of magnitude more precise than climate models attempting to predict planet wide behavior. The claim here is 95% confidence based on 25 models whose accuracy is yet unproven. When they allow journalists to present their predictions as science, it is hubris.
once you get past the 5 or 10 biggest factors the rest are just vernier adjustments...we know something about how solar activity affects the planet and are learning more all the time
The claim that we can possibly reduce global climate models to 10 major factors and produce precision results is ludicrous. You admit yourself that we only know 'something' about cloud reflection but don't have concrete data in any form. If they climatologists have 95% confidence in their predictions, why don't they publish predictions for the next 10 years? It's because they would lose all their research grants before they retire. Science with no accountability and cannot be reproduced should not be used as a basis for making public policy decisions.
It's really sad that these climate theorists consider computer models the equivalent of science. Hypothesis testing and peer replication of results is science, running 25 scenarios through a supercomputer is conjecture and speculation. How many trillions of variables affect the earth's atmosphere? We don't know how much heat is reflected from clouds. We don't know how sunspots and flares affect out atmosphere. We don't know how much carbon dioxide is trapped by the ocean. We don't even know what the average temperature was for any years before 1880. To pretend that we KNOW at a 95% certainty that man is causing global warming is the height of hubris and deception.
I fail to see how scrambling your DNA in a centrifuge and recording the resulting base pairs would have any value to medical science. It's sounds cool in theory, but if you read between the lines, it's the equivalent of putting each letter of a novel into a scrambler and then charging you a thousand dollars for the results. We are at least 30 years away from true gnome mapping. For any of this to be of value, you would have to map an entire gene with all the dna base pairs sequences intact, along with their location approximate to each other in three dimensional space. Don't settle for a Model T from these snake oil salespeople. Wait until the science is actually viable.
When I said the Acer site, I was mistaken. You add in an after market SSD (I like Crucial), save $500 on the markup, and buy a skin for the laptop. This would give you top of the line specs with just a couple of hours of work.
I take it your sister is not a designer or media publisher of any sort because then she would be foolish to even ask about PC options. If you sister wants her laptop to seamlessly transition with any of the programs she uses at work and if she wants her children to grow up with a real understanding of computing environment in the corporate world, get a Windows laptop. Seriously consider the fact that Macs are under 10% of the market share in the US. Don't fall for the dual boot nonsense from Apple fanboys (and no doubt stockholders). Why would you get a Mac just run Windows software? It's a hassle when all you need is a PC. I spent $500 on my Acer 17" with mesh finish. It's as quiet as my girlfriend's Macbook Pro, is nearly a pound lighter the Macbook of similar size, and people always give it a second look when I pull it out at airports. You can customize on their site with girly colors, a 256 GB SSD, awesome CPU, and still be well under your $1500 budget. If you choose to go big with a 512 SSD, then you'll likely brush up against the $2000 budget. You will not be afford a SSD with your budget on a Mac. You can always spend a hundred dollars on a secondary insurance site if you're worried about durability.