"... and is experimenting with robots that would teach English."
How is a robot going to teach English to children, when google voice is lucky to get half the words correct in a message from a native English speaker?
I had been playing a Need For Speed open-world type game for hours, which IIRC had full stop signs and lights and stuff that you'd generally ignore.
Then I had to make a real life trip to the grocery store. I ran a stop sign without even thinking about it and even after seeing it clearly, something I never ever do.
Not making any judgments here, just throwing out a personal experience.
"but the day it was reported that it finally had the pinch-to-zoom thing enabled, I decided to take the plunge. I've wanted to have a GPS unit for my car anyway, and I thought that google navigation might finally make a phone useful."
i'm the polar opposite of a mac fanboy, but come on. describing something the iphone had 2.5 years ago as some kind of must-have feature that's a big deal for a linux phone just comes off as embarrassing.
Linux fanatic is an elitist. More at 11.
TFA sounds like Torvalds has basically no experience with mobile phones. If he wanted multi-touch so bad, why didn't he try an iPhone or any other manner of non-GPL phone?
I was using MediaPortal for about 2 years, and I agree 100% with the Windows 7 media center suggestion. MediaPortal is good when it works, but you'll probably never get every last thing configured just the way you want. For a first-time user, it could take weeks before you have it to a wife-acceptable usability level.
Windows 7 media center works flawless out of the box, got all listings and all channels mapped correctly on my hybrid PVR with zero input from me. Getting this to work on MediaCenter required incredible amounts of manual setup time. I curse myself for the endless hours I spent working with MediaCenter.
Linux users have relied on security through obscurity for way too long, and frankly I'm tired of hearing about the evil insecurities of Windows by Linux zealots lucky enough to in an extreme minority of users.
It was intended as an experimental research project / technology demo. To not have new technologies on it would defeat the whole purpose of its existence. Point stands.
At the moment, young employees are learning on the job. That's inefficient and dangerous -- it means they make their mistakes on the job. If they came in with a game degree, it means they will have made their mistakes in school, not on the job. That is what schools are FOR: to train people before they get to the job.
I completely disagree. It's the job of a university to educate. It's industry's job to train.
This is actually a problem infesting nearly all of modern teaching where "student involvement" is increased by making it fun at the expense of helping kids develop a work ethic*. Being able to work even while bored and disinterested with the task is a much higher predictor of future success than getting good grades because the topic was interesting.
I'm sorry I'm out of mod points. I see these same things all the time in a different academic field.
Their airfoils are *barely* cambered, and the camber only exists to aid in subsonic flight. Try learning about aerodynamics outside of wikipedia.
Point stands.
The reason for symmetrical wings on aerobatic aircraft is that they impede the flow even more and allow much greater control, at the expense of fuel efficiency.
Wanted to clarify this. The reason for symmetric airfoils on fighter aircraft is that camber provides no additional lift (compared to a flat plate) in a supersonic flow. Lift coefficient is still linearly proportional to angle of attack at supersonic speeds. However, drag coefficients rise quadratically with increasing camber/thickness. Thus, supersonic fighters have very thin, very symmetric airfoils.
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oh i know, i'm just an aerodynamicist that felt like doing a bit of trolling ;)
Can you explain what "mach 3" means in a place with almost no air to propagate sound waves through?
The 21st century? We had a transcontinental railroad in the 19th century, buddy.
sorry, obligatory.
"... and is experimenting with robots that would teach English." How is a robot going to teach English to children, when google voice is lucky to get half the words correct in a message from a native English speaker?
This isn't really surprising.
Verizon has always seen their customers purely as a source of profit,
I hate to break it to you, but that's what customers are for.
I had been playing a Need For Speed open-world type game for hours, which IIRC had full stop signs and lights and stuff that you'd generally ignore. Then I had to make a real life trip to the grocery store. I ran a stop sign without even thinking about it and even after seeing it clearly, something I never ever do. Not making any judgments here, just throwing out a personal experience.
i'm the polar opposite of a mac fanboy, but come on. describing something the iphone had 2.5 years ago as some kind of must-have feature that's a big deal for a linux phone just comes off as embarrassing.
Maybe if the article was titled "Nexus One First *Linux* Phone Linus Torvalds "Doesn't Hate"" it'd be excusable.
Linux fanatic is an elitist. More at 11. TFA sounds like Torvalds has basically no experience with mobile phones. If he wanted multi-touch so bad, why didn't he try an iPhone or any other manner of non-GPL phone?
IT is a high competition job for half the pay deserved. Chances are you will be replaced by a scripted process or outsourcing.
If your job can be replaced by a script, you are not being underpaid.
Oh I don't think so. Everyone would want this.
That's actually a pretty brilliant analysis...
I was using MediaPortal for about 2 years, and I agree 100% with the Windows 7 media center suggestion. MediaPortal is good when it works, but you'll probably never get every last thing configured just the way you want. For a first-time user, it could take weeks before you have it to a wife-acceptable usability level. Windows 7 media center works flawless out of the box, got all listings and all channels mapped correctly on my hybrid PVR with zero input from me. Getting this to work on MediaCenter required incredible amounts of manual setup time. I curse myself for the endless hours I spent working with MediaCenter.
Wow, someone flunked the hell out of elementary statistics.
KILL IT WITH FIRE
Linux users have relied on security through obscurity for way too long, and frankly I'm tired of hearing about the evil insecurities of Windows by Linux zealots lucky enough to in an extreme minority of users.
It was intended as an experimental research project / technology demo. To not have new technologies on it would defeat the whole purpose of its existence. Point stands.
Um, the X-33 project was canceled. Your whole post has no relevance.
Thank you for the concise description of why I hate IT guys.
Exactly. They did it to Bush.
At the moment, young employees are learning on the job. That's inefficient and dangerous -- it means they make their mistakes on the job. If they came in with a game degree, it means they will have made their mistakes in school, not on the job. That is what schools are FOR: to train people before they get to the job.
I completely disagree. It's the job of a university to educate. It's industry's job to train.
This is actually a problem infesting nearly all of modern teaching where "student involvement" is increased by making it fun at the expense of helping kids develop a work ethic*. Being able to work even while bored and disinterested with the task is a much higher predictor of future success than getting good grades because the topic was interesting.
I'm sorry I'm out of mod points. I see these same things all the time in a different academic field.
Their airfoils are *barely* cambered, and the camber only exists to aid in subsonic flight. Try learning about aerodynamics outside of wikipedia. Point stands.
The reason for symmetrical wings on aerobatic aircraft is that they impede the flow even more and allow much greater control, at the expense of fuel efficiency.
Wanted to clarify this. The reason for symmetric airfoils on fighter aircraft is that camber provides no additional lift (compared to a flat plate) in a supersonic flow. Lift coefficient is still linearly proportional to angle of attack at supersonic speeds. However, drag coefficients rise quadratically with increasing camber/thickness. Thus, supersonic fighters have very thin, very symmetric airfoils. http://books.google.com/books?id=woeqa4-a5EgC&printsec=frontcover&dq=anderson+compressible#v=onepage&q=&f=false