----Corning experimented with chemically strengthened glass in 1960, as part of an initiative called "Project Muscle". Within a few years it had developed what it named "Chemcor" glass. Corning could find no practical use for the glass at the time and the predecessor of "Gorilla Glass" was never put into mass production, excepting its use in approximately one hundred 1968 Dodge Dart and Plymouth Barracuda race cars, where the reduced weight was key.[5]
In 2006, while developing the first iPhone, Apple discovered that keys placed in a pocket with the prototype could scratch its hard plastic surface – and resolved to find a glass sufficiently scratch-resistant to eliminate the problem.[6][7] When Steve Jobs subsequently contacted Wendell Weeks, the CEO of Corning told him of the material the company had developed in the 1960s and subsequently mothballed. Despite the CEO's initial concern over whether the company could manufacture sufficient quantities for the product debut, Jobs convinced Weeks to produce the glass, and Corning's factory in Harrodsburg, Kentucky supplied the screens for the product's release in June 2007.[5] Corning further developed the material for a variety of smartphones and other consumer electronics devices for a range of companies.[8][3][9]
Right, because 1 person is better than a 1000 at problem solving and arriving at the correct solution. Are you that 1 person by any chance?
----At a 1906 country fair in Plymouth, eight hundred people participated in a contest to estimate the weight of a slaughtered and dressed ox. Statistician Francis Galton observed that the mean of all eight hundred guesses, at 1197 pounds, was closer than any of the individual guesses to the true weight of 1198 pounds.[4] This has contributed to the insight in cognitive science that a crowd's individual judgments can be modeled as a probability distribution of responses with the mean centered near the true mean of the quantity to be estimated.[3]
----"Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" was a simple show in terms of structure....she could poll the studio audience, which would immediately cast its votes by computer. Those random crowds of people with nothing better to do on a weekday afternoon than sit in a TV studio picked the right answer 91 percent of the time.
----The sociologist Kate H. Gordon asked two hundred students to rank items by weight, and found that the group's "estimate" was 94 percent accurate, which was better than all but five of the individual guesses. In another experiment students were asked to look at ten piles of buckshot—each a slightly different size than the rest—that had been glued to a piece of white cardboard, and rank them by size. This time, the group's guess was 94.5 percent accurate. A classic demonstration of group intelligence is the jelly-beans-in-the-jar experiment, in which invariably the group's estimate is superior to the vast majority of the individual guesses. When finance professor Jack Treynor ran the experiment in his class with a jar that held 850 beans, the group estimate was 871. Only one of the fifty-six people in the class made a better guess.
Good luck with your " phones with microphones in them" patent. The examiner at the patent office who will (not) grant your patent most likely holds an engineering degree. So your patent will never be granted. Even if your patent makes it out of the patent office, the minute you try to go after Apple with it, their legal department will just submit a ton of prior art to the patent office and ask for an reexamination and your patent will be cancelled by the patent office because it was obvious based on the prior art. And you will not be allowed to present your patent in court.
"with R&D comes economic development which will help out their social problems."
Yes, if we only we could find a couple microbes on Mars, imagine the kinds of breakthroughs society can make and benefit from. So diverting billions of dollars from companies which make power stations, microprocessors, software, medical devices, and medicines to send another Mars mission and retrieve more HD Mars pictures make absolute economic sense.
Please explain how "lawmakers are more informed". And are they elected because they are specially trained, have genius IQ's, or have superpowers? Or are they elected and bought by the highest campaign donor?
If you trust your lawmaker so much and believe that he can make better decisions than you, then don't cry, make a fuss, or boycott when they propose SOPA, PIPA, ACTA or anything else. Like Henry Ford said..... why should they listen to what you want?????
Can you give one example where regulations or the SEC have stopped fraud in its tracks? And before it was obvious to everyone on the planet?
While on the subject of piles of shit:
"I was astonished. They never even looked at my stock records. If investigators had checked with the Depository Trust Company, a central securities depository, it would've been easy for them to see. If you're looking at a Ponzi scheme, it's the first thing you do." Madoff said in the June 17, 2009, interview that SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro was a "dear friend," and SEC Commissioner Elisse Walter was a "terrific lady" whom he knew "pretty well." Since Madoff's arrest, the SEC has been criticized for its lack of financial expertise and lack of due diligence, despite having received complaints from Harry Markopolos and others for almost a decade. The SEC's Inspector General, H. David Kotz, found that since 1992, there were six botched investigations of Madoff by the SEC, either through incompetent staff work or neglecting allegations of financial experts and whistle-blowers.
Concerns about Madoff's business surfaced as early as 1999, when financial analyst Harry Markopolos informed the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that he believed it was legally and mathematically impossible to achieve the gains Madoff claimed to deliver. According to Markopolos, he knew within five minutes that Madoff's numbers didn't add up, and it took four hours of failed attempts to replicate them to conclude Madoff was a fraud. He was ignored by the Boston SEC in 2000 and 2001, as well as by Meaghan Cheung at the New York SEC in 2005 and 2007 when he presented further evidence. He has since published a book, No One Would Listen, about the frustrating efforts he and his team made over a ten-year period to alert the government, the industry, and the press about the Madoff fraud.
How does regulation or the SEC protect you? How did it protect Madoff investors, or Enron Or Worldcom or Solyndra or WaMu or Lehman investors for that matter? All regulations do is make the barrier to entry so high that only the big companies get funded, while everyone else doesn't. If I want to invest in a garage tech company, how will regulations protect me? It won't. Regulation will only make compliance so expensive that garage tech companies will never get funding, only large companies will.
If a company is irresponsible and is loosing money and committing fraud, the government will be the last to know about it. Meanwhile, no one will do due diligence since everyone thinks the government is doing their job. We don't need a government nanny who don't understand the businesses they are nannying.
You don't understand, there is this thing called the multiplier effect, for every $1 the government spends, it creates $1.5 of economic growth, Krugman says so, don't trust a Nobel winning economist? ( http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/13/bang-for-the-buck-wonkish/ ) So, all we have to do is have the government spend $15 trillion dollars and it will create $22 trillion in GDP. And the next year, the government can spend $22 trillion and create $33 trillion in GDP!!!!!!! Financial crisis solved, perpetual GDP growth guaranteed!!!! Eat your heart out Bernie Madoff.
I love how a post that declares people are stupid gets modded up. Let's see, people are stupid, but they will somehow elect a "representative" that is smarter than they are. And this "representative" will make decisions for all of us, because we are stupid. And this representative is chosen by a majority, but we can't be trusted with a full democracy because the majority is stupid.
I used to be a fan of the HP convertible tablets, but they managed to even screw that up with a horrendous design of the Tm2t. Now they are out of the consumer convertible tablet biz and only the 2760p convertible product line remains, which is overpriced but decent. Fujitsu Q550 looks nice, Samsung Series 7 breaks the bank.
Please look up free-market. The free-market would not give out loans to degrees that are not marketable. Thus reducing the supply of worthless degrees, and increasing the supply of in demand degrees. Since obviously the students are not able to figure out which degrees are valuable in the job market on their own, which you can thank the government run public high school system for.
"a government increasingly directed by the whims of the majority"
Which majority would that be? There was never a public vote to introduce the bill. This is the work of 1 representative, the opposite of a democracy. (The legislation was introduced to the New Mexico House of Representatives on Feb. 1 by Republican Rep. Thomas A. Anderson.)
Please learn the difference between a democracy and a representative republic.
* Public four-year colleges charge, on average, $7,020 per year in tuition and fees for students who live in their state. The average surcharge for full-time out-of-state students at these institutions is $11,528. * Private four-year colleges charge, on average, $26,273 per year in tuition and fees. * Public two-year colleges charge, on average, $2,544 per year in tuition and fees.
+room & board, transportation, pound-me-in-the-ass-book prices, 6+ months of looking for a job, etc.
The Google tests in no way measured IQ. Here's some sample Google interview question
"How many golf balls can fit in a school bus?" "How much should you charge to wash all the windows in Seattle?" "How many piano tuners are there in the entire world?"
Those are not IQ questions. Please get your facts straight.
I don't understand why the USPTO is looking for employees? Heck, the USPTO can just post the patent applications on/. By the current comment count, we have 76 patent examiners ready to go. And we got full access to Wikipedia, etc, etc. Let's do this.
The primary function of a tablet is web right? Pray tell what kind of touch interface/ease-of-use the iPad Safari browser provides that you can't do in a Windows Firefox or even IE?
iPad gives you touch apps? How long would it take a high school student to write a CNN/NY Times/generic-web-parser iPad app in C#?
"If Apple allowed flash onto the iPhone right tomorrow"
Spoken like a true Apple fanboy. Because Apple should 'allow' me to choose the software I want to run on their devices. The rest of your post is irrelevant.
And no, this is not a flamebait or troll comment, Unless you believe Apple should dictate how you can use the products you buy and own. Maybe the original post should have been marked flamebait, this is/. right?
Bloody hell, who elected Apple the leader of the technology world? You have a company that dictates what it's customers can and can't use on their systems for it's own ends. And I have no idea why a sane and knowledgeable person would put up with this BS, let alone praise it. Let me decide what I can and can't use.
This is the same concept as the Microsoft browser ballot. Apple is locking the platform to rival development platforms, same as Microsoft trying to lock the Windows platform to rival browsers. This would be like Microsoft banning Java, Javascript, Flash, Quicktime, and everything else not Microsoft. Adobe can win easily in places like the European Union. This is a big screw up for Apple and Jobs.
IBM: No, I am your father. Apple: NO, No, that's not true, that's impossible. IBM: Search your feelings, you know it be true. Apple: NOOOO, NOOOOO IBM: Join me and together we can rule the galaxy as father and son. Apple: Yes father.
Slashdot Mirror
See Gorilla Glass
----Corning experimented with chemically strengthened glass in 1960, as part of an initiative called "Project Muscle". Within a few years it had developed what it named "Chemcor" glass. Corning could find no practical use for the glass at the time and the predecessor of "Gorilla Glass" was never put into mass production, excepting its use in approximately one hundred 1968 Dodge Dart and Plymouth Barracuda race cars, where the reduced weight was key.[5]
In 2006, while developing the first iPhone, Apple discovered that keys placed in a pocket with the prototype could scratch its hard plastic surface – and resolved to find a glass sufficiently scratch-resistant to eliminate the problem.[6][7] When Steve Jobs subsequently contacted Wendell Weeks, the CEO of Corning told him of the material the company had developed in the 1960s and subsequently mothballed. Despite the CEO's initial concern over whether the company could manufacture sufficient quantities for the product debut, Jobs convinced Weeks to produce the glass, and Corning's factory in Harrodsburg, Kentucky supplied the screens for the product's release in June 2007.[5] Corning further developed the material for a variety of smartphones and other consumer electronics devices for a range of companies.[8][3][9]
Right, because 1 person is better than a 1000 at problem solving and arriving at the correct solution. Are you that 1 person by any chance?
----At a 1906 country fair in Plymouth, eight hundred people participated in a contest to estimate the weight of a slaughtered and dressed ox. Statistician Francis Galton observed that the mean of all eight hundred guesses, at 1197 pounds, was closer than any of the individual guesses to the true weight of 1198 pounds.[4] This has contributed to the insight in cognitive science that a crowd's individual judgments can be modeled as a probability distribution of responses with the mean centered near the true mean of the quantity to be estimated.[3]
----"Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" was a simple show in terms of structure....she could poll the studio audience, which would immediately cast its votes by computer. Those random crowds of people with nothing better to do on a weekday afternoon than sit in a TV studio picked the right answer 91 percent of the time.
----The sociologist Kate H. Gordon asked two hundred students to rank items by weight, and found that the group's "estimate" was 94 percent accurate, which was better than all but five of the individual guesses. In another experiment students were asked to look at ten piles of buckshot—each a slightly different size than the rest—that had been glued to a piece of white cardboard, and rank them by size. This time, the group's guess was 94.5 percent accurate. A classic demonstration of group intelligence is the jelly-beans-in-the-jar experiment, in which invariably the group's estimate is superior to the vast majority of the individual guesses. When finance professor Jack Treynor ran the experiment in his class with a jar that held 850 beans, the group estimate was 871. Only one of the fifty-six people in the class made a better guess.
Good luck with your " phones with microphones in them" patent. The examiner at the patent office who will (not) grant your patent most likely holds an engineering degree. So your patent will never be granted. Even if your patent makes it out of the patent office, the minute you try to go after Apple with it, their legal department will just submit a ton of prior art to the patent office and ask for an reexamination and your patent will be cancelled by the patent office because it was obvious based on the prior art. And you will not be allowed to present your patent in court.
"Additionally, R&D and exploration are related to economic development."
By R&D and exploration, do you mean sending 40+ probes, rovers, satellites to Mars and all we have to show for it are HD images?
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/programmissions/missions/log/
"with R&D comes economic development which will help out their social problems."
Yes, if we only we could find a couple microbes on Mars, imagine the kinds of breakthroughs society can make and benefit from. So diverting billions of dollars from companies which make power stations, microprocessors, software, medical devices, and medicines to send another Mars mission and retrieve more HD Mars pictures make absolute economic sense.
Please explain how "lawmakers are more informed". And are they elected because they are specially trained, have genius IQ's, or have superpowers? Or are they elected and bought by the highest campaign donor?
If you trust your lawmaker so much and believe that he can make better decisions than you, then don't cry, make a fuss, or boycott when they propose SOPA, PIPA, ACTA or anything else. Like Henry Ford said..... why should they listen to what you want?????
Can you give one example where regulations or the SEC have stopped fraud in its tracks? And before it was obvious to everyone on the planet?
While on the subject of piles of shit:
"I was astonished. They never even looked at my stock records. If investigators had checked with the Depository Trust Company, a central securities depository, it would've been easy for them to see. If you're looking at a Ponzi scheme, it's the first thing you do." Madoff said in the June 17, 2009, interview that SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro was a "dear friend," and SEC Commissioner Elisse Walter was a "terrific lady" whom he knew "pretty well." Since Madoff's arrest, the SEC has been criticized for its lack of financial expertise and lack of due diligence, despite having received complaints from Harry Markopolos and others for almost a decade. The SEC's Inspector General, H. David Kotz, found that since 1992, there were six botched investigations of Madoff by the SEC, either through incompetent staff work or neglecting allegations of financial experts and whistle-blowers.
Concerns about Madoff's business surfaced as early as 1999, when financial analyst Harry Markopolos informed the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that he believed it was legally and mathematically impossible to achieve the gains Madoff claimed to deliver. According to Markopolos, he knew within five minutes that Madoff's numbers didn't add up, and it took four hours of failed attempts to replicate them to conclude Madoff was a fraud. He was ignored by the Boston SEC in 2000 and 2001, as well as by Meaghan Cheung at the New York SEC in 2005 and 2007 when he presented further evidence. He has since published a book, No One Would Listen, about the frustrating efforts he and his team made over a ten-year period to alert the government, the industry, and the press about the Madoff fraud.
How does regulation or the SEC protect you? How did it protect Madoff investors, or Enron Or Worldcom or Solyndra or WaMu or Lehman investors for that matter? All regulations do is make the barrier to entry so high that only the big companies get funded, while everyone else doesn't. If I want to invest in a garage tech company, how will regulations protect me? It won't. Regulation will only make compliance so expensive that garage tech companies will never get funding, only large companies will.
If a company is irresponsible and is loosing money and committing fraud, the government will be the last to know about it. Meanwhile, no one will do due diligence since everyone thinks the government is doing their job. We don't need a government nanny who don't understand the businesses they are nannying.
You don't understand, there is this thing called the multiplier effect, for every $1 the government spends, it creates $1.5 of economic growth, Krugman says so, don't trust a Nobel winning economist? ( http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/13/bang-for-the-buck-wonkish/ ) So, all we have to do is have the government spend $15 trillion dollars and it will create $22 trillion in GDP. And the next year, the government can spend $22 trillion and create $33 trillion in GDP!!!!!!! Financial crisis solved, perpetual GDP growth guaranteed!!!! Eat your heart out Bernie Madoff.
I love how a post that declares people are stupid gets modded up. Let's see, people are stupid, but they will somehow elect a "representative" that is smarter than they are. And this "representative" will make decisions for all of us, because we are stupid. And this representative is chosen by a majority, but we can't be trusted with a full democracy because the majority is stupid.
I used to be a fan of the HP convertible tablets, but they managed to even screw that up with a horrendous design of the Tm2t. Now they are out of the consumer convertible tablet biz and only the 2760p convertible product line remains, which is overpriced but decent. Fujitsu Q550 looks nice, Samsung Series 7 breaks the bank.
May I introduce you to the placebo thermostat.
http://news.thomasnet.com/IMT/archives/2003/04/dummy_thermosta.html
Please look up free-market. The free-market would not give out loans to degrees that are not marketable. Thus reducing the supply of worthless degrees, and increasing the supply of in demand degrees. Since obviously the students are not able to figure out which degrees are valuable in the job market on their own, which you can thank the government run public high school system for.
Here's what the goverment 50% spending is getting us
http://orangepunch.ocregister.com/2011/05/10/lifeguarding-in-oc-is-totally-lucrative-some-make-over-200k/44783/
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2008/01/02/military_spending
"a government increasingly directed by the whims of the majority"
Which majority would that be? There was never a public vote to introduce the bill. This is the work of 1 representative, the opposite of a democracy. (The legislation was introduced to the New Mexico House of Representatives on Feb. 1 by Republican Rep. Thomas A. Anderson.)
Please learn the difference between a democracy and a representative republic.
Not a single Caprica reference?
* Public four-year colleges charge, on average, $7,020 per year in tuition and fees for students who live in their state. The average surcharge for full-time out-of-state students at these institutions is $11,528.
* Private four-year colleges charge, on average, $26,273 per year in tuition and fees.
* Public two-year colleges charge, on average, $2,544 per year in tuition and fees.
+room & board, transportation, pound-me-in-the-ass-book prices, 6+ months of looking for a job, etc.
http://www.collegeboard.com/student/pay/add-it-up/4494.html
The Google tests in no way measured IQ. Here's some sample Google interview question
"How many golf balls can fit in a school bus?"
"How much should you charge to wash all the windows in Seattle?"
"How many piano tuners are there in the entire world?"
Those are not IQ questions. Please get your facts straight.
I don't understand why the USPTO is looking for employees? Heck, the USPTO can just post the patent applications on /. By the current comment count, we have 76 patent examiners ready to go. And we got full access to Wikipedia, etc, etc. Let's do this.
The primary function of a tablet is web right? Pray tell what kind of touch interface/ease-of-use the iPad Safari browser provides that you can't do in a Windows Firefox or even IE?
iPad gives you touch apps? How long would it take a high school student to write a CNN/NY Times/generic-web-parser iPad app in C#?
"If Apple allowed flash onto the iPhone right tomorrow"
Spoken like a true Apple fanboy. Because Apple should 'allow' me to choose the software I want to run on their devices. The rest of your post is irrelevant.
And no, this is not a flamebait or troll comment, Unless you believe Apple should dictate how you can use the products you buy and own. Maybe the original post should have been marked flamebait, this is /. right?
And it accomplished all this with it's huge 5% market share?
Bloody hell, who elected Apple the leader of the technology world? You have a company that dictates what it's customers can and can't use on their systems for it's own ends. And I have no idea why a sane and knowledgeable person would put up with this BS, let alone praise it. Let me decide what I can and can't use.
"new blue security ribbon will give a 3-D effect to the micro-images "
Blue 3D images eh? So basically Avatar Bills.
This is the same concept as the Microsoft browser ballot. Apple is locking the platform to rival development platforms, same as Microsoft trying to lock the Windows platform to rival browsers. This would be like Microsoft banning Java, Javascript, Flash, Quicktime, and everything else not Microsoft. Adobe can win easily in places like the European Union. This is a big screw up for Apple and Jobs.
IBM: No, I am your father.
Apple: NO, No, that's not true, that's impossible.
IBM: Search your feelings, you know it be true.
Apple: NOOOO, NOOOOO
IBM: Join me and together we can rule the galaxy as father and son.
Apple: Yes father.