Eric Schmidt is really busy on showing just how progressive Google is right now. I just got out of a talk at University of Washington by him in which he addressed many interesting Google policy questions ranging from responsibilities, censorship, and corporate structure. They're really trying to establish that they aren't just another fad and are trying to find a way to meet the demands of an exponentially increasing task of information aggregation and retrieval.
Interestingly, in our Computer Science department at UW, there is definitely an aura about Google. Everyone wants to work for them. They seem to defy all of the standard business models that we have grown to hate (ie: Office Space) and use a 70%, 20%, 10% rule that allows you to work on Google-related work, Personal-project-google-related work, and just personal work. I won't drag on about their structure, but I'm wondering if their business model and ideas will now spread into the mainstream corporate world.
So I have been looking at getting a 15" powerbook in the last few days and it's probably good I didn't do that. I noticed a few retailers started selling their models with price cuts a couple days ago -- now I know why. Anyhow, the base price of the new line is cheaper than the old line, which I find to be interesting.
It's interesting to me that now that all of Earth now is claimed by some group or another that we would begin moving to other planets. I find it hard to believe that we would form any type of terraforming operation without some political agenda. I'd imagine that being the country to pioneer such an operation (ie: USA) would be the biggest stick policy of them all.
As I continue to inflict masochistic physics damage against myself in my conquest of knowledge, I can't help but pull myself away from my studies and wonder: If this is this difficult for me to even comprehend/grasp (and I'm certain that I'm probably only learning it at a base level), how the hell does one create and come up with this stuff? I'm truly amazed by men like Einstein, and I have such a humbled respect for physicists, who though I can't understand why they do it to themselves, live and think in a different plane than so many people even realize exists.
I was ordering something from Amazon this morning and at the bottom of my invoice it said "projected tax price" and added $1.50 or so. I was quite puzzled at seeing this, but I just assumed that it was for some special reason, and being that it was only $1.50 I let it slide. This does however strangely coincide with this bill.
Does anyone one know if it went into effect as soon as this morning? Are purchases already affected?
Could they have jam-packed ONE more area of technology into this box? It seems that the only thing they forgot to include was a detachable PDA or perhaps an integrated Gameboy.
Don't get me wrong. I want one. Now. Any plans to come to the US soon?
I currently am enrolled at the University of Washington. Having been here a few years, I've noticed a few things about college grading systems.
1) Hard science courses are definitely more strictly graded than more subjective courses, such as English, Psychology, Philosophy, Sociology (insert next humanity here). This is mostly due to the fact that if you take an objective test in Math, Physics, or Mechanical Engineering you have little room for subjective interpretation. If you got it right, it's right, if not, it's wrong. In English, though, teachers can be afraid of giving out a C, and can consequently say "While that paper is probably C work, I can justifiably give a B with no one noticing"
2) Schools that grade on the A,B,C,D,F scale seem more prone to grade inflation than the system that the University of Washington and a few other schools have. In our system, your grade is exactly mirrored based on a numerical system of distribution. For example, if I got a low A in my Chemisty course, I will get a 3.5 on my transcript, not an A. This prevents everything from being categorized to four or five letter grades. This reflects everything inbetween. There are many times that I wish I had the letter grading system, because my low A's or B's would not be a 2.6 and 3.5, but instead an B and a A, which would be equivalent to a 3.0 and a 4.0 respectively.
If anyone has seen the White Stripes video where the entire thing is done in lego-like animation, that is what this reminded me of. The filters to create this animation are quite unique.
I feel that they should have honestly stopped after the making of the movie. Trying to milk the success of the movie with a sub-par space drama/action really hasn't been of too much artistic merit, in my opinion. The dialogue is weak and the plots are generically cheesy. I'm surprised it is still hanging on to this possible 7th season.
Don't consider this a flame... I'm definitely open to suggestions as to why this show is worth the time to watch...
The nice thing about this site is that it isn't nearly as busy as other news sites. Try CNN or USA TODAY or something like that, and you can see how truly busy the site can appear. CNN's new layout makes it look like a million things are going on everywhere. It's a giant page of links. I've noticed that Google's new news site seems to encapsulate everything without being very messy and with separation. Additionally, there aren't thousands of links to go in every direction. The comprehensive aspect is probably one of the greatest features too.
Wow... I sound like a Google Executive pushing the excellence of the new product -- sorry;)
It is interesting to trace NASAs priorities in terms of space travel. Can anyone explain the benefit of the ISS and how it fits into the 'master scheme' of space exploration?
I would go to the administration and talk about it. They will probably want to ban it entirely, for most of that type have an intrinsic instinct to censor things of this nature. However, my suggestion is probably going to back them. Though I graduated high school within the last few years and would have completely disagreed at the time, I don't think it is wrong for you to disallow use of these programs whatsoever. The small benefit of freedom is far shied by the potential impact that this can have on the network (virii, bandwidth, etc). It is NOT wrong for you to deny users use of this at an educational institution. There really is no necessity for any software of that nature to perpetuate education.
I would have shot myself for saying something even rhyming with "censorship" back in the old times, but I realize the necessity under this situation. I'm not sure how you'll approach it, but I'll bet a lot of these chaps have some good things to say. Keep reading on!
the questioner could have VERY well asked "Does Linux need another compiler?" and would have had to make NO mention to his product.
What makes it better is the fact that the product name AND the company is mentioned at least 4 times in the article, with 3 links to the website. What could be more productive than having the Slash Community buy into the masked marketing ploy?
I found it quite interesting that the entire movie of Pearl Harbor was incredibly one-sided. Though yes it managed to focus on both sides of the attack (Japanese and American), it included a terribly blatent patriotism attempt. If you look throughout the entire movie, it is quite humorous, actually. When the Japanese are bombing the Americans, old ladies, young females, children, and even PUPPIES (yes, that is right) are being shot at by heavy artillery. Wow. Can you see ANYTHING else that would be so incredibly obvious at demonizing the attacker? It gets even better when the Americans go to bomb Tokyo and not ONE single child, old lady, mother, or puppy is shown to be shot at. In fact, not one single person is shown dying when we bomb them in the Doolittle raid.
Now, I usually don't complain about patriotism and corporate America. But this time it seems that the movie industry has slept with Uncle Sam one too many times, and they blatently tried to demonize the enemy and turn us into heroes. I hate to break it to all of you "sheltered" Americans, but YES, we DO kill innocent people, and YES, it isn't as sugar coated as this. I was ashamed of this, but hey, I might just be whining.
Someone should put up something similar to amihotornot.com, for human pricings....when I find out that I am worth about 10 cents, then I could *really* have my ego shot down....
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Eric Schmidt is really busy on showing just how progressive Google is right now. I just got out of a talk at University of Washington by him in which he addressed many interesting Google policy questions ranging from responsibilities, censorship, and corporate structure. They're really trying to establish that they aren't just another fad and are trying to find a way to meet the demands of an exponentially increasing task of information aggregation and retrieval.
Interestingly, in our Computer Science department at UW, there is definitely an aura about Google. Everyone wants to work for them. They seem to defy all of the standard business models that we have grown to hate (ie: Office Space) and use a 70%, 20%, 10% rule that allows you to work on Google-related work, Personal-project-google-related work, and just personal work. I won't drag on about their structure, but I'm wondering if their business model and ideas will now spread into the mainstream corporate world.
So I have been looking at getting a 15" powerbook in the last few days and it's probably good I didn't do that. I noticed a few retailers started selling their models with price cuts a couple days ago -- now I know why. Anyhow, the base price of the new line is cheaper than the old line, which I find to be interesting.
It's interesting to me that now that all of Earth now is claimed by some group or another that we would begin moving to other planets. I find it hard to believe that we would form any type of terraforming operation without some political agenda. I'd imagine that being the country to pioneer such an operation (ie: USA) would be the biggest stick policy of them all.
As I continue to inflict masochistic physics damage against myself in my conquest of knowledge, I can't help but pull myself away from my studies and wonder: If this is this difficult for me to even comprehend/grasp (and I'm certain that I'm probably only learning it at a base level), how the hell does one create and come up with this stuff? I'm truly amazed by men like Einstein, and I have such a humbled respect for physicists, who though I can't understand why they do it to themselves, live and think in a different plane than so many people even realize exists.
I was ordering something from Amazon this morning and at the bottom of my invoice it said "projected tax price" and added $1.50 or so. I was quite puzzled at seeing this, but I just assumed that it was for some special reason, and being that it was only $1.50 I let it slide. This does however strangely coincide with this bill.
Does anyone one know if it went into effect as soon as this morning? Are purchases already affected?
Could they have jam-packed ONE more area of technology into this box? It seems that the only thing they forgot to include was a detachable PDA or perhaps an integrated Gameboy.
Don't get me wrong. I want one. Now.
Any plans to come to the US soon?
I currently am enrolled at the University of Washington. Having been here a few years, I've noticed a few things about college grading systems.
1) Hard science courses are definitely more strictly graded than more subjective courses, such as English, Psychology, Philosophy, Sociology (insert next humanity here). This is mostly due to the fact that if you take an objective test in Math, Physics, or Mechanical Engineering you have little room for subjective interpretation. If you got it right, it's right, if not, it's wrong. In English, though, teachers can be afraid of giving out a C, and can consequently say "While that paper is probably C work, I can justifiably give a B with no one noticing"
2) Schools that grade on the A,B,C,D,F scale seem more prone to grade inflation than the system that the University of Washington and a few other schools have. In our system, your grade is exactly mirrored based on a numerical system of distribution. For example, if I got a low A in my Chemisty course, I will get a 3.5 on my transcript, not an A. This prevents everything from being categorized to four or five letter grades. This reflects everything inbetween. There are many times that I wish I had the letter grading system, because my low A's or B's would not be a 2.6 and 3.5, but instead an B and a A, which would be equivalent to a 3.0 and a 4.0 respectively.
Anyhow, those are my two bits.
That they offer play to the multiplayer version of Barbie Fashion designer.
If anyone has seen the White Stripes video where the entire thing is done in lego-like animation, that is what this reminded me of. The filters to create this animation are quite unique.
I feel that they should have honestly stopped after the making of the movie. Trying to milk the success of the movie with a sub-par space drama/action really hasn't been of too much artistic merit, in my opinion. The dialogue is weak and the plots are generically cheesy. I'm surprised it is still hanging on to this possible 7th season.
Don't consider this a flame... I'm definitely open to suggestions as to why this show is worth the time to watch...
The nice thing about this site is that it isn't nearly as busy as other news sites. Try CNN or USA TODAY or something like that, and you can see how truly busy the site can appear. CNN's new layout makes it look like a million things are going on everywhere. It's a giant page of links. I've noticed that Google's new news site seems to encapsulate everything without being very messy and with separation. Additionally, there aren't thousands of links to go in every direction. The comprehensive aspect is probably one of the greatest features too.
;)
Wow... I sound like a Google Executive pushing the excellence of the new product -- sorry
Is a giant safetybelt taking 2nd place to this idea? :)
Does anyone have insight or possible explanations as to Adrian's website? I'm interested in other people's opinions and interpretations.
So what happens when we record Barry Manilow's brainwaves and introduce this as music -- head explosion?
It is interesting to trace NASAs priorities in terms of space travel. Can anyone explain the benefit of the ISS and how it fits into the 'master scheme' of space exploration?
I would go to the administration and talk about it. They will probably want to ban it entirely, for most of that type have an intrinsic instinct to censor things of this nature. However, my suggestion is probably going to back them. Though I graduated high school within the last few years and would have completely disagreed at the time, I don't think it is wrong for you to disallow use of these programs whatsoever. The small benefit of freedom is far shied by the potential impact that this can have on the network (virii, bandwidth, etc). It is NOT wrong for you to deny users use of this at an educational institution. There really is no necessity for any software of that nature to perpetuate education.
I would have shot myself for saying something even rhyming with "censorship" back in the old times, but I realize the necessity under this situation. I'm not sure how you'll approach it, but I'll bet a lot of these chaps have some good things to say. Keep reading on!
If N'sync is mentioned ANYWHERE in the "future of music" I will shoot myself.
What precise effect will this play on the online pr0n industry?
Can anyone speculate what this may actually do to perpetuate Mars interest? Any ideas what it will do for the community?
I find it hard to comprehend a machine that was developed with pita bread, pseudolamb "meat", cucumber sauce and Greek flair.
I said the previous statement because of this:
the questioner could have VERY well asked "Does Linux need another compiler?" and would have had to make NO mention to his product.
What makes it better is the fact that the product name AND the company is mentioned at least 4 times in the article, with 3 links to the website. What could be more productive than having the Slash Community buy into the masked marketing ploy?
This is the most clever advertisement for a product/company that I have ever seen. Give your marketing directors a hug for me.
I found it quite interesting that the entire movie of Pearl Harbor was incredibly one-sided. Though yes it managed to focus on both sides of the attack (Japanese and American), it included a terribly blatent patriotism attempt. If you look throughout the entire movie, it is quite humorous, actually. When the Japanese are bombing the Americans, old ladies, young females, children, and even PUPPIES (yes, that is right) are being shot at by heavy artillery. Wow. Can you see ANYTHING else that would be so incredibly obvious at demonizing the attacker? It gets even better when the Americans go to bomb Tokyo and not ONE single child, old lady, mother, or puppy is shown to be shot at. In fact, not one single person is shown dying when we bomb them in the Doolittle raid.
Now, I usually don't complain about patriotism and corporate America. But this time it seems that the movie industry has slept with Uncle Sam one too many times, and they blatently tried to demonize the enemy and turn us into heroes. I hate to break it to all of you "sheltered" Americans, but YES, we DO kill innocent people, and YES, it isn't as sugar coated as this. I was ashamed of this, but hey, I might just be whining.
Someone should put up something similar to amihotornot.com, for human pricings....when I find out that I am worth about 10 cents, then I could *really* have my ego shot down....
maybe i should read other's posts before I do ;)
i'm too late all of the time, and i tend to repeat someone else's idea =)