...well, you know. Hey, I'm a big fan of print newspapers. In fact, when I subscribed to the Wall Street Journal Online, they included a handy print copy for me 6 days of the week. Now, of course the print copy is always a day behind what I've already read online. However, just the other day I sold a few items on eBay, and without my print copy handy, I likely would have had to dole out some serious cheddar on bubble-wrap. True story.
This is exactly right. The bill is masquerading as an attempt to protect the user, but in reality is trying to remove any form of plausible deniability so that P2P users are easier to prosecute. Did we really think the government cares about P2P users? Of course not. P2P has a dirty reputation on Capitol Hill. I bet that most legislators would sooner presume guilt of a P2P user than a Guantanamo detainee.
Along those lines, does natural selection still apply if universal coverage passes? If everyone has access to good medical care, how can we possibly expect the poor multi-taskers to die off and make way for the good multi-taskers? Maybe even that's presumptuous. Perhaps natural selection will actually favor non-multitaskers altogether. Maybe Windows 8 will be DOS.
It's a sad, sad commentary when you compare new Google software to the aged and infirm air traffic control system, and the air traffic control system comes out on top. However, I have no doubt your assessment is spot-on.
Bullshit. There have been maybe 10 people that have ever run for congress that have anything resembling common sense. Doesn't matter who you vote for, they're going to be idiots. It's just a question of what kind of idiocy you prefer.
...and it's too bad none of the 10 were ever elected.
I have to give credit to Canon. I've had a few of their printers now. One experience though galvanized my loyalty. I bought a fairly nice MFP from them a few years back. After a few months, the unit failed to power on (likely due to problematic power surges that I've since mitigated with strong ups/power conditioners, btw.) Anyhow, I called their support, and here's what happened:
The first person I spoke with was able to handle my call from start to finish.
The call took less than ten minutes total.
They determined quickly that the printer should be replaced.
I was never asked to 'prove' anything, everything was on trust - no receipt, warranty registration, etc.
Canon shipped me a brand new printer that arrived in two days. I used that box plus their own pre-paid, pre-printed shipping label to return the old printer.
Long story short, I've never had such a positive customer service experience with a consumer level product. It was the most hassle-free RMA I've ever experienced, consumer or otherwise. I'll continue to buy as long as the support is there. And by the way, their photo printing is quite impressive at the mid and high end.
Good question. I think that we're heading towards a world of ad-supported portable porn. Maybe just like with audio the file sizes are actually going to go down. (no pun)
Just like YouTube didn't replace email, MMS will never replace SMS. People can send an SMS message in 10 seconds. Most people don't want to add 2 minutes to check their hair and pick the spinach out of their teeth. MMS seems like a great idea for the occasional postcard from vacation, but doesn't have the efficiency of SMS. Comparing MMS to voicemail rather than SMS probably makes more sense.
There's a lot of cynicism these days about just about everything connected with business and money, and quite frankly not all of it is justified. The people who work in a start-up typically are heavily invested themselves, work incredibly long hours, and accept less than average pay for several reasons. One of which is the potential for a huge financial upside if they succeed. But I'd argue the second reason is the one that gets them out of bed every morning - and that is to build something great. Whatever happened to the spirit in this country when we heeded JFK's call to put a man on the moon? Do we no longer think that we need to pursue lofty ambitions? Much of the effort that has driven innovation in the past 40 years hasn't been constrained by short-term ROI thinking. Sure, it'll take more than a small automotive start-up to change our energy use. But then again, our production and consumption of energy is a far more complex problem than putting a man on the moon. I say let the GAO provide the cynicism, and for the rest of us - if you're not happy about something, go start up a company and make a change. Otherwise, I feel that people who are making actual, substantial efforts to do something about it deserve some benefit of the doubt.
I'd like to see the trailing digit distribution for three or more other polling firms for the same period and with a comparable amount of data points. At first glance, non-random distribution looks pretty bad. I'm curious to see if other firms demonstrate random distribution as expected.
It seems to me that business tends to behave like business, and wants to protect their customer experiences, revenue streams, market share, etc. It's very difficult when you have a bottom line that you're accountable for, to let go of control of your product and user experience, and potentially have modified versions of your own works interrupt your revenues.
I know this is an unpopular view, but IMO: Google !> Apple ! Microsoft
I'm fine with business being business and customers voting with dollars. In the meantime, it would be nice for all companies, and Google in this particular instance, to realize who their friends in the opensource community are. Google certainly seems like they're guilty of friendly fire here.
I love the duct tape analogy here. I can't help but recall that duct tape itself has a history loaded with irony. Duct tape is one of the most successful products in history, with thousands of uses and strong sales, decade over decade. However, duct tape is particularly bad at one thing - as tape for duct work. Yes, duct tape doesn't tolerate the temperature changes common to duct systems, and therefore is particularly bad at the one purpose it was designed for in the first place. Hopefully, duct tape programmers are good at writing portable code.
Good comments. The advanced techniques you speak of have great longer-term implications. I suppose the word 'close' as I used it was a little vague, and you're right in your interpretation. In my thoughts, I'm looking at the total lifespan of hard drive technology, and in those terms, if we're talking about 3-5 years until the inflection point, and perhaps 7-10 years before they are clearly no longer the storage medium of choice, then maybe we aren't all that far off. Since SSD is past the vapor point, I think it has the first-mover potential to become the next new medium of choice - granted that capacity and costs need to come into line. Like all things technical, I fully expect bigger, cheaper, faster, and sooner in the SSD world like just about everything else.
USB serves well as a general purpose interface for a multitude of peripherals. The new transfer rates of USB 3.0 are a nice upgrade overall, and will likely result in some very nice new product capabilities over time. However, in consumer storage USB will likely remain a distant second to SATA-based interfaces, even with the speed boost. USB is nice for portable devices and external, removable drives. I'm hopeful this type of use case is somewhat on the decline. The barrier IMO is lack of options for networked storage in the home that is both cost effective and performs well. I can't imagine USB drives replacing internal storage anytime soon. And, as linked-to in this article, SATA isn't sitting still either and the SATA 3.0 specification is faster still than USB 3.0. In all cases, it seems there is a continuing need for the drives themselves to keep pace with the interfaces. I can't help but think we're close to the end of the line for rotating, magnetic media.
What we're really talking about is when vendors sell high instead of low. If your company has a $10 million dollar or more IT wallet, it's a sure bet that technology vendors aren't trying to make their quotas by taking the sysadmins out to lunch every once in a while. Big companies know that it's much more effective to build relationships as high up the ladder as possible.
Where most sysadmins make their mistake is not realizing that everyone is in sales. Everyone. Sales is simply a war of ideas, and if a sysadmin wants to advance a technology agenda, then he or she must sell it up the chain, to peers, and to end users/customers. Sysadmins may feel slighted that the CIO didn't come down from on high to bother to ask in the first place. But those are sysadmins who aren't doing their job to the fullest. Technical skills alone might get you a job debugging someone else's code. Anyone who wants a stake in the technical agenda needs to develop interpersonal skills, and particularly communication and persuasion skills. The day of the stereotypical IT nerd having any modicum of respect or power has come and gone. Technical skills are a commodity. The ability to drive an idea from conception through implementation is a rare asset. I'd argue that while the author of the article didn't really know Nissan's needs, that the sysadmin at Nissan may be equally ignorant of Nissan's needs. At the end of the day, a businesses needs aren't necessarily expresses in technical terms.
What I'm looking for is a laptop screen that is brighter than what I have today, delivers a sharper and more vibrant picture under normal conditions, and uses less battery power. The article you point to is great information, but doesn't directly relate to how I would use a laptop. The locations I have a bit of trouble with are somewhat less than full, direct sunlight. A good example is sitting in a parking lot in a car trying to put the finishing touches on something before heading in to wherever it is that I'm going, and having to jockey around with the visors and such to make the screen readable. Is there a transflective screen option for laptops that looks as good as OLED under normal lighting conditions?
I think the burden is being overstated here. Five years ago I bought a plasma TV. I replaced it with an LCD TV this past month that's 15% bigger, has a picture that's considerably better in quality, consumes about 40% less power, and cost less than half of what the old TV costs. Families aren't burdened with the cost of buying new TV's on a regular schedule. If you can't afford or don't need a new one this year, just wait around a while. Prices will continue to drop and the technology will continue to improve.
There's no doubt that cars on the road today everywhere produce somewhere between 10-20% less emissions due to the impact of decades of higher California vehicle emissions standards. Saving a few watts here or there isn't a big deal. But at scale you're really talking about saving megawatts of power in California alone. If we can assume that TV manufacturers will follow the auto industry example and produce all their products to meet these new standards, then the global impact could be substantial.
The positive impact of these guidelines are easy to substantiate. So far, IMO no one has made a defensible case about the cost. Is merely stating that this will be expensive and have a negative economic impact a sufficient argument not to do it?
Agreed. Eroding public trust isn't a crime and it doesn't warrant seeking out those who make the statements that do so. Eroding public trust when the public's interests are not being met in a manner satisfactory to the populace is not only a constitutional right, it's a patriotic obligation.
All a police department has to do is take care of its own house, and operate with principles and morals that are so far above and beyond reproach that words can do no harm.
If in fact there are people impersonating police officers online, then that is a different story. That should be handled as a separate issue altogether. The question of law is complex however. Is there an aggressive approach to the interpretation of 'impersonation' where a more dispassionate view might find that a reasonable person would be skeptical enough to doubt and/or consider the potential for parody in the context of the statements made. There is a world of difference from posting an inflammatory opinion online and falsely backing it up by assuming an unwarranted position of authority, versus knocking on someone's door with a uniform and badge and saying you're the police. If the distinction isn't clear enough through the application of common sense, then I suggest we all avoid dressing up our children as police officers this Halloween, lest they be thrown into jail in Austin.
...in three years time AMD and Nvidia will both have video cards that perform the same number of calculations and hold just as much memory. And still the much anticipated sequel to Crysis will run at less than 19 FPS when there are more than four bad guys onscreen.
In addition to the run on IP addresses, the new smart grid will force most utilities to increase their data storage footprint by nearly a hundredfold. One energy company CIO in Texas recently estimated that their few dozen TB of data collected today might easily grow to 40+ PB over the next few years based on the massive amount of data created by the smart grid that they would ultimately have to store for some intermediate period of time. I hope that all the power that the smart grid saves offsets the row after row of storage cabinets that are required to prop it up. If you work in sales for a major storage player, I'd recommend you start lobbying to be assigned to the energy vertical now. Christmas will come early.
Agreed, and yet the line between willful ignorance and stupidity is not so clear. For instance, an organic farmer should recognize that the yield of organic farming is so poor that if the entire world's farming system converted overnight to organic, we could at maximum produce enough food to feed around 4 billion people. Organic farmers should know that their products don't in fact taste any better than non-organic products, and certainly don't have any perceptible health benefits.
Therefore they should stop their deceptive, hippie advertising that sucks in suburban housewives who have nothing better to do than chit-chat about yesterday's Oprah while standing in line at Draeger's with their tiny little linen satchels before heading out to their supercharged Range Rover that they parked far to close to the store manager's lilly-white Prius.
And oh yes, we've had organic farming before. Those days were called the dark ages for a reason. The benefit of organic food is substantiated by little to no scientific fact.
The irony is that this farmer believes that his own vocational aptitude for distributing animal excrement on the dirt somehow qualifies him to discuss radiation in a meaningful way. You are correct that ignorance and stupid are different things. In this case, the farmer is too stupid to be aware of his ignorance of the scientific facts and principles with regard to radiation.
I sat at my keyboard and made electrons move around a little bit today. The organic farmer deceived the public and put lives and health at risk. I may be snarky from time to time, but who's the bigger jackass?
There was exactly one reason for this deal. IBM made an offer for Sun, and Oracle didn't want Java to fall in the hands of IBM.
Terminating the hardware relationship with HP is merely housekeeping. On the other hand, I don't expect Oracle to stay in the server or storage business for very long. It's not what they're good at, and Sun has been bleeding badly in both of those businesses for quite some time so it's not like they're picking up a big player in either of those markets. Expect a server+storage spinoff within 24 months of this deal closing. I just can't imagine who the buyer would be.
While this is interesting, I think that most people who are aficionados of FPS gaming already have an acutely tuned sense of direction. It is also my understanding that on average men somehow have a far better sense of NSEW than women. Hopefully, that isn't taken as a sexist comment. I really like women. They're pretty.
The new sense I would find more useful is a hormone detector that would warn me about the imminent onset of PMS. Even better would be if this was accompanied by a temporary disability in my jaw muscles that would temporarily prevent me from speaking for up to 72 hours. That would be far more useful. Directions I can get from a GPS. Life saving silence is something I still haven't figured out on my own
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...well, you know. Hey, I'm a big fan of print newspapers. In fact, when I subscribed to the Wall Street Journal Online, they included a handy print copy for me 6 days of the week. Now, of course the print copy is always a day behind what I've already read online. However, just the other day I sold a few items on eBay, and without my print copy handy, I likely would have had to dole out some serious cheddar on bubble-wrap. True story.
This is exactly right. The bill is masquerading as an attempt to protect the user, but in reality is trying to remove any form of plausible deniability so that P2P users are easier to prosecute. Did we really think the government cares about P2P users? Of course not. P2P has a dirty reputation on Capitol Hill. I bet that most legislators would sooner presume guilt of a P2P user than a Guantanamo detainee.
Along those lines, does natural selection still apply if universal coverage passes? If everyone has access to good medical care, how can we possibly expect the poor multi-taskers to die off and make way for the good multi-taskers? Maybe even that's presumptuous. Perhaps natural selection will actually favor non-multitaskers altogether. Maybe Windows 8 will be DOS.
It's a sad, sad commentary when you compare new Google software to the aged and infirm air traffic control system, and the air traffic control system comes out on top. However, I have no doubt your assessment is spot-on.
Bullshit. There have been maybe 10 people that have ever run for congress that have anything resembling common sense. Doesn't matter who you vote for, they're going to be idiots. It's just a question of what kind of idiocy you prefer.
...and it's too bad none of the 10 were ever elected.
I have to give credit to Canon. I've had a few of their printers now. One experience though galvanized my loyalty. I bought a fairly nice MFP from them a few years back. After a few months, the unit failed to power on (likely due to problematic power surges that I've since mitigated with strong ups/power conditioners, btw.) Anyhow, I called their support, and here's what happened:
The first person I spoke with was able to handle my call from start to finish.
The call took less than ten minutes total.
They determined quickly that the printer should be replaced.
I was never asked to 'prove' anything, everything was on trust - no receipt, warranty registration, etc.
Canon shipped me a brand new printer that arrived in two days. I used that box plus their own pre-paid, pre-printed shipping label to return the old printer.
Long story short, I've never had such a positive customer service experience with a consumer level product. It was the most hassle-free RMA I've ever experienced, consumer or otherwise. I'll continue to buy as long as the support is there. And by the way, their photo printing is quite impressive at the mid and high end.
Good question. I think that we're heading towards a world of ad-supported portable porn. Maybe just like with audio the file sizes are actually going to go down. (no pun)
That's a perfect use case for MMS.
Just like YouTube didn't replace email, MMS will never replace SMS. People can send an SMS message in 10 seconds. Most people don't want to add 2 minutes to check their hair and pick the spinach out of their teeth. MMS seems like a great idea for the occasional postcard from vacation, but doesn't have the efficiency of SMS. Comparing MMS to voicemail rather than SMS probably makes more sense.
There's a lot of cynicism these days about just about everything connected with business and money, and quite frankly not all of it is justified. The people who work in a start-up typically are heavily invested themselves, work incredibly long hours, and accept less than average pay for several reasons. One of which is the potential for a huge financial upside if they succeed. But I'd argue the second reason is the one that gets them out of bed every morning - and that is to build something great. Whatever happened to the spirit in this country when we heeded JFK's call to put a man on the moon? Do we no longer think that we need to pursue lofty ambitions? Much of the effort that has driven innovation in the past 40 years hasn't been constrained by short-term ROI thinking. Sure, it'll take more than a small automotive start-up to change our energy use. But then again, our production and consumption of energy is a far more complex problem than putting a man on the moon. I say let the GAO provide the cynicism, and for the rest of us - if you're not happy about something, go start up a company and make a change. Otherwise, I feel that people who are making actual, substantial efforts to do something about it deserve some benefit of the doubt.
I'd like to see the trailing digit distribution for three or more other polling firms for the same period and with a comparable amount of data points. At first glance, non-random distribution looks pretty bad. I'm curious to see if other firms demonstrate random distribution as expected.
It seems to me that business tends to behave like business, and wants to protect their customer experiences, revenue streams, market share, etc. It's very difficult when you have a bottom line that you're accountable for, to let go of control of your product and user experience, and potentially have modified versions of your own works interrupt your revenues.
I know this is an unpopular view, but IMO: Google !> Apple ! Microsoft
I'm fine with business being business and customers voting with dollars. In the meantime, it would be nice for all companies, and Google in this particular instance, to realize who their friends in the opensource community are. Google certainly seems like they're guilty of friendly fire here.
I love the duct tape analogy here. I can't help but recall that duct tape itself has a history loaded with irony. Duct tape is one of the most successful products in history, with thousands of uses and strong sales, decade over decade. However, duct tape is particularly bad at one thing - as tape for duct work. Yes, duct tape doesn't tolerate the temperature changes common to duct systems, and therefore is particularly bad at the one purpose it was designed for in the first place. Hopefully, duct tape programmers are good at writing portable code.
Good comments. The advanced techniques you speak of have great longer-term implications. I suppose the word 'close' as I used it was a little vague, and you're right in your interpretation. In my thoughts, I'm looking at the total lifespan of hard drive technology, and in those terms, if we're talking about 3-5 years until the inflection point, and perhaps 7-10 years before they are clearly no longer the storage medium of choice, then maybe we aren't all that far off. Since SSD is past the vapor point, I think it has the first-mover potential to become the next new medium of choice - granted that capacity and costs need to come into line. Like all things technical, I fully expect bigger, cheaper, faster, and sooner in the SSD world like just about everything else.
USB serves well as a general purpose interface for a multitude of peripherals. The new transfer rates of USB 3.0 are a nice upgrade overall, and will likely result in some very nice new product capabilities over time. However, in consumer storage USB will likely remain a distant second to SATA-based interfaces, even with the speed boost. USB is nice for portable devices and external, removable drives. I'm hopeful this type of use case is somewhat on the decline. The barrier IMO is lack of options for networked storage in the home that is both cost effective and performs well. I can't imagine USB drives replacing internal storage anytime soon. And, as linked-to in this article, SATA isn't sitting still either and the SATA 3.0 specification is faster still than USB 3.0. In all cases, it seems there is a continuing need for the drives themselves to keep pace with the interfaces. I can't help but think we're close to the end of the line for rotating, magnetic media.
What we're really talking about is when vendors sell high instead of low. If your company has a $10 million dollar or more IT wallet, it's a sure bet that technology vendors aren't trying to make their quotas by taking the sysadmins out to lunch every once in a while. Big companies know that it's much more effective to build relationships as high up the ladder as possible.
Where most sysadmins make their mistake is not realizing that everyone is in sales. Everyone. Sales is simply a war of ideas, and if a sysadmin wants to advance a technology agenda, then he or she must sell it up the chain, to peers, and to end users/customers. Sysadmins may feel slighted that the CIO didn't come down from on high to bother to ask in the first place. But those are sysadmins who aren't doing their job to the fullest. Technical skills alone might get you a job debugging someone else's code. Anyone who wants a stake in the technical agenda needs to develop interpersonal skills, and particularly communication and persuasion skills. The day of the stereotypical IT nerd having any modicum of respect or power has come and gone. Technical skills are a commodity. The ability to drive an idea from conception through implementation is a rare asset. I'd argue that while the author of the article didn't really know Nissan's needs, that the sysadmin at Nissan may be equally ignorant of Nissan's needs. At the end of the day, a businesses needs aren't necessarily expresses in technical terms.
What I'm looking for is a laptop screen that is brighter than what I have today, delivers a sharper and more vibrant picture under normal conditions, and uses less battery power. The article you point to is great information, but doesn't directly relate to how I would use a laptop. The locations I have a bit of trouble with are somewhat less than full, direct sunlight. A good example is sitting in a parking lot in a car trying to put the finishing touches on something before heading in to wherever it is that I'm going, and having to jockey around with the visors and such to make the screen readable. Is there a transflective screen option for laptops that looks as good as OLED under normal lighting conditions?
I think the burden is being overstated here. Five years ago I bought a plasma TV. I replaced it with an LCD TV this past month that's 15% bigger, has a picture that's considerably better in quality, consumes about 40% less power, and cost less than half of what the old TV costs. Families aren't burdened with the cost of buying new TV's on a regular schedule. If you can't afford or don't need a new one this year, just wait around a while. Prices will continue to drop and the technology will continue to improve.
There's no doubt that cars on the road today everywhere produce somewhere between 10-20% less emissions due to the impact of decades of higher California vehicle emissions standards. Saving a few watts here or there isn't a big deal. But at scale you're really talking about saving megawatts of power in California alone. If we can assume that TV manufacturers will follow the auto industry example and produce all their products to meet these new standards, then the global impact could be substantial.
The positive impact of these guidelines are easy to substantiate. So far, IMO no one has made a defensible case about the cost. Is merely stating that this will be expensive and have a negative economic impact a sufficient argument not to do it?
...or does this sound like the intro to a very unoriginal survival-horror video game? "Resident Evil IX: Bubonic Destiny"
Agreed. Eroding public trust isn't a crime and it doesn't warrant seeking out those who make the statements that do so. Eroding public trust when the public's interests are not being met in a manner satisfactory to the populace is not only a constitutional right, it's a patriotic obligation.
All a police department has to do is take care of its own house, and operate with principles and morals that are so far above and beyond reproach that words can do no harm.
If in fact there are people impersonating police officers online, then that is a different story. That should be handled as a separate issue altogether. The question of law is complex however. Is there an aggressive approach to the interpretation of 'impersonation' where a more dispassionate view might find that a reasonable person would be skeptical enough to doubt and/or consider the potential for parody in the context of the statements made. There is a world of difference from posting an inflammatory opinion online and falsely backing it up by assuming an unwarranted position of authority, versus knocking on someone's door with a uniform and badge and saying you're the police. If the distinction isn't clear enough through the application of common sense, then I suggest we all avoid dressing up our children as police officers this Halloween, lest they be thrown into jail in Austin.
...in three years time AMD and Nvidia will both have video cards that perform the same number of calculations and hold just as much memory. And still the much anticipated sequel to Crysis will run at less than 19 FPS when there are more than four bad guys onscreen.
In addition to the run on IP addresses, the new smart grid will force most utilities to increase their data storage footprint by nearly a hundredfold. One energy company CIO in Texas recently estimated that their few dozen TB of data collected today might easily grow to 40+ PB over the next few years based on the massive amount of data created by the smart grid that they would ultimately have to store for some intermediate period of time. I hope that all the power that the smart grid saves offsets the row after row of storage cabinets that are required to prop it up. If you work in sales for a major storage player, I'd recommend you start lobbying to be assigned to the energy vertical now. Christmas will come early.
Agreed, and yet the line between willful ignorance and stupidity is not so clear. For instance, an organic farmer should recognize that the yield of organic farming is so poor that if the entire world's farming system converted overnight to organic, we could at maximum produce enough food to feed around 4 billion people. Organic farmers should know that their products don't in fact taste any better than non-organic products, and certainly don't have any perceptible health benefits.
Therefore they should stop their deceptive, hippie advertising that sucks in suburban housewives who have nothing better to do than chit-chat about yesterday's Oprah while standing in line at Draeger's with their tiny little linen satchels before heading out to their supercharged Range Rover that they parked far to close to the store manager's lilly-white Prius.
And oh yes, we've had organic farming before. Those days were called the dark ages for a reason. The benefit of organic food is substantiated by little to no scientific fact.
The irony is that this farmer believes that his own vocational aptitude for distributing animal excrement on the dirt somehow qualifies him to discuss radiation in a meaningful way. You are correct that ignorance and stupid are different things. In this case, the farmer is too stupid to be aware of his ignorance of the scientific facts and principles with regard to radiation.
I sat at my keyboard and made electrons move around a little bit today. The organic farmer deceived the public and put lives and health at risk. I may be snarky from time to time, but who's the bigger jackass?
There was exactly one reason for this deal. IBM made an offer for Sun, and Oracle didn't want Java to fall in the hands of IBM.
Terminating the hardware relationship with HP is merely housekeeping. On the other hand, I don't expect Oracle to stay in the server or storage business for very long. It's not what they're good at, and Sun has been bleeding badly in both of those businesses for quite some time so it's not like they're picking up a big player in either of those markets. Expect a server+storage spinoff within 24 months of this deal closing. I just can't imagine who the buyer would be.
While this is interesting, I think that most people who are aficionados of FPS gaming already have an acutely tuned sense of direction. It is also my understanding that on average men somehow have a far better sense of NSEW than women. Hopefully, that isn't taken as a sexist comment. I really like women. They're pretty.
The new sense I would find more useful is a hormone detector that would warn me about the imminent onset of PMS. Even better would be if this was accompanied by a temporary disability in my jaw muscles that would temporarily prevent me from speaking for up to 72 hours. That would be far more useful. Directions I can get from a GPS. Life saving silence is something I still haven't figured out on my own