It's not just Ford. Every major US and most foreign car and car part manufacuters (such as (specifically, those I have dealt with and know for a fact) Delphi, Robert Bosch, Mazda, Honda, Hyundai, Chrysler, Ford, Chevy, etc) work very hard to destroy all hints at innovation that present themselves to them. In addition to fighting innovation, they all have sent me the exact same response, word for word, as if they had all agreed to treat all incoming innovations with the exact same response.
They basically make up an excuse about worrying that it might be similar to something they are working on so they don't accept outside invention. But in reality there are very simple ways to circumvent such issues, such as Mutual Non-Disclosure agreements. Many other industries, those who like innovation, willingly put forth MNDA agreements and eagerly look at anything. But the car industry fights innovation as if it were to be the end of their industry, instead of the lifeblood of it.
But that is dealing with outside inventors. All of their employees are inventors and engineers that are given between 29k and 75k a year for their work, even when their work is directly worth millions of dollars. But if you don't work for them, you don't work, at least in many fields. Meaning either you find an angel investor, the 1 in a million shot at doing anything, or you work your life away paying off loans while a few people make millions off of your work, and off of the work of your coworkers. That is well known fact to anyone who has dealt with the industry.
I would post the letters here, but they would likely just sue me for plagerism.
That Ford and its competitors have stolen significantly more information than that from independent inventors, small firms, employees, etc. Call it stealing or not, but making millions-billions on others work is immoral and stealing in my book, even if you make them sign something to let you.
How about we make a balance. I say a roughly logrithmic curve of processors/power of each processor ratio. Take 1 very, very powerful core, then 2 cores half the power of that, then 4 cores half the power of those, then 8, then 16, then 32, then 64, then 128, then 256, then 512. At that point, you have over 1000 cores, and have the ability to do anything you want with ridiculous speed and power, be it rendering thousands of simple tasks, or burning through a single mammoth thread, and everything in between.
I'll probably start using mine again when I figure out what I did with the power coord, and get a C compiler installed on it. So I can practice programing in my down time on the go. Their OS is very open and friendly, somewhat like I imagine Android would be if I was rich enough to afford a new device (stupid college).
Apple still has the ability to get onto the device and applications still have to pass through them at some point. There is no privacy, no protection of information. Android OS will make much better tablets, even win7 would.
The apple is really just a gloriphied iPhone that doesn't call people and is slightly larger though, it doesn't do anything that would make it useful in the proprietary tablet market (anything in any industry I hinted at above), as long as apple has their penis connected to the device, and prohibits 3rd party software from being installed without going through the appstore and such bullshit makes it so useless.
Sure there are games and a few useful applications, but the essence of a useful tablet is not the desktop tools, but the ability to have a quick interface for doing things on the go related to stuff in those areas where you don't want to sit down to use a laptop or computer. Like in car garages, warehouses, hospitals, they provide infinite usability with no standard word processing or anything. But not with an apple hookup. The stupid iPad doesn't even have USB drives!
My point is the iPad is trying to be a laptop and a PDA and not a tablet. The old tablets were expensive because the parts were a lot and I really don't see what the point in them at all is. But considering what the iPad is, it is overpriced. It has a proprietary OS that only lets you use things from their app store, and no app or series of apps is going to be worth 500 bucks.
Really, all they need is as much power as an old PDA (like my Palm T/X) with a bigger screen, and some easy to use APIs, for cheap. My Palm TX cost 300 dollars, is over 6 years old, and I wrote dozens of programs for it to do all kinds of useful things, including a graphing calculator and much more. We should be able to put the same power into something with a screen twice as big for the same price by now at least.
Thats because windows tablets have been full computers aimed at different markets that don't make sense. The iPad is a glorified phone with no meaningful features that doesn't call people, but still costs 500 bucks. Thats twice as much as a netbook with half the power. The average windows tablets I have seen have the power of a computer.
Either way, until Apple lets proprietary developers make programs and NEVER run them through apple, and have no connection to apple at all, Apple is being too restrictive for them to be of any use where they would be most handy.
for quite some time. There are 2 problems with the tablet industry:
1. Too expensive (Apple)
2. Apple.
First of all, tablets are ridiculously useful and don't need a lot of processing power, all they have to do is run basic browsers, and have the freedom to run millions of proprietary apps. If tablets scaled down power for price, you would see them everywhere. Imagine how useful they would be for viewing details of things everywhere, from car garages reading the cars info and stock room info, to hospitals replacing clipboards with tablets, to anything you can imagine. For 100, or even 200 bucks and equipped with an easy to use API and extensive customization abilities, USB drive, SD card slot and integrated wi-fi, they are all of a sudden useful in millions of business situations. But as long as Apple essentially has the ability to spy on tablets, and restrict your actions on them, they won't be worth jack shit. If we followed this formula instead, tablets could make the future happen today.
I mean, I hate to say it, but searching for something sepecific, like the result to a math problem or a certain physical constant, or where a companies stock is at used to be a pain in the ass. First you have to search for it, then click a few links and search it again before you got a result.
Call me evil or some other bullshit, but I enjoy the ease of typing in what I need and getting the result without playing follow the links.
Oh, American corporations are a lot sicker than that. They will turn down a deal that will make them 100 million dollars if they have to pay somebody 20 bucks. They just aren't happy unless everyone is fucked, and boy do I have plenty of experience with the bastards.
Yea, because our healthcare system doesn't fix diseases, it maintains them to profit from torture. That is what happens when healthcare is a privatized good.
And they will pay for it with loans from countries that want us dead and by cutting social programs within our country. I think it would be a good process, but at the same time, I doubt republicans will be able to do anything positive, functional, or forward thinking at all with their integration of the tea party.
Actually, you only need to have energy storage 60% as dense as liquid hydrocarbon. There are maximum efficiencies of heat engines, which don't apply to electric motors. A bigger issue is the assholishness of companies in this field. I invented a new kind of part that when inserted into a engine system allows for a massive increase in efficiency, that allows engines to get much closer to their maximum efficiency, and produce less pollution and more powerful explosions in the engine. However, these companies are full of assholes that won't deal with you unless you happen to be an incorporated LLC with a patent on the invention, where they just buy you out. Try selling to them any other way, and I could be bringing 4 wives to church how sick they act. I offered them all kinds of agreements to totally eliminate all risk of dealing with me, which there isn't as I don't exactly have a lot of money. It is a total pain in the ass.
When these companies open up to innovation, Engines will start making progress again.
Wow, there is not what I was talking about. I mean actual teaching of actual math and how to do it. I just mean that instead of being told to memorize the quadratic forumla, and spending weeks teaching it, simply derive it, put it on a reference sheet and move on. After all, if you don't know how to apply it you are screwed no matter what, but there are tons of kids that know the formula and have no clue what to do with it. However, it would become second nature as you move to higher math and get experience using it in.
The backing off from facts entirely to look at theory goes too far towards not understanding how they work in a practical setting. I am simply saying that if we rework mathematical education so that everything is learned in context, and concepts are taught as needed and by concept with reference sheets, then once they reach the highest math they take just practicing a lot of problems until all of it is really cemented in and the reference sheets are no longer needed.
Really, calculus is just a tool, I think math education would work much better if students were introduced to the concept of a differential unit, a sumation, the integral and derivative with the rest of math. It really changes things from this math is totally useless to I can do anything with this math.
Not only do we need a class on managing personal finances, but we need a class on basic logic and reasoning skills. I see far to many people graduate high school with factual knowledge that are totally incapable of thinking anything beyond the most rudimentary and straightforward emotions. And then we got the tea party.
I think it would have quite the impact, I know right now I routinely deal with a lot of total idiots that think correlation doesn't just imply causation, but is the very definition of it. People who are barely intelligent enough to think of as fellow people. I think the powers of math education could help make people more logically intelligent. Maybe if some of the people I frequently debate knew how to actually construct a proof of some kind I wouldn't be in endless, pointless debates, you know?
Quote " I find it offensive because although I know how to wear shoes, I absolutely never do, and there is nothing wrong with that."
It was not a long comment, That was a good 1/3 of what I said. He makes it sound like not wearing shoes makes somebody stupid. And I am not really offended, I am just frustrated with the extreme "lets all be like everybody else and hate those who don't dress like us" that is so ubiquitous in America these days, especially in regards to footwear.
Actually, it is widely human to have small memories. The typical person can hold 7 numbers in their short term memory at a time. A phone number. However, I know I can take at least 10 hours of advanced college lecturing before my brain starts to hurt. I have no doubt the average person could take at least 2 or 3 hours of solid lecture a day if it was done well.
The only time I have seen people struggle with complex concepts is when certain important steps are left out. Nationalization of education and utilization of things like Khan Academy could really help this along.
Those who only rely on memorization have to put in a good 10 hours of studying a day on top of school to get through a regular high school program. You can do it, but it is a lot more work. I know sitting along side fellows in high school, I owned them in terms of understanding for only a small fraction of the effort. It just depends on how well those concepts were presented.
Was there supposed to be a point in there, or was it just spouting trivia? From what I understand there is at least one country that has a math system that teaches up through calculus in secondary school.
I see the big problem with math education is how it is taught. To be honest, there is no reason whatsoever we can't have taught kids basic differential equations by the time they hit 8th grade. The problem is we force students to memorize a bunch of obscure math that although we will use later in specialties, is totally pointless, out of context, and relatively useless at that point. And it is by rote and not by concept. In case you haven't noticed, memorizing vast amounts of crap is hard, but learning lots of new concepts is easy. If math was taught in order, in a contextually relevant way, first conceptual and then practical, there is no reason at all that we couldn't have 8th graders beating out the average college graduate. It doesn't have to be expensive, it doesn't have to be so terrible, it is just that it is done in such a terrible manner that it appears wasteful as it is currently done.
Plus, to be honest, a knowledge of extremely advanced math could come in handy to virtually everyone. I get really tired of watching our system be a kind of stagnation in most fields. If everyone had an advanced education out of high school, everyone would be able to advance their field. Plumbers, welders, residential contractors, auto repairmen, any profession at all could be improved by a knowledgeable worker in that field, even if just new and interesting ways to fix things. We could easily be living in a world where everyone advances society, not just about 10% of us.
I find that offensive! I know math all the way up through differential equations, and I understand it fully. I love having the additional mental tools to work with, with calculus and differential equations, it is a whole new worlds. I find it offensive because although I know how to wear shoes, I absolutely never do, and there is nothing wrong with that.
Exactly, just think about it. Every time somebody buys a piece of shit oppressive ass iProduct, they are giving money to the bastards that make it so restricted and evil. Competitors have products with quality just as high in terms of hardware, their products aren't so glossy that using them outside will blind you, and you are FREE to use them however you want without having to risk jailbreaking and voiding warranties and license agreements.
right, i was thinking silicon oxide, which is about 60 percent. But yea, either way, if we run out we will have bigger problems than running out of silicon.
Silicon is like 70% of earths crust. If we have run out of it, we have run out of earths crust. Beaches would be mined for their sand, dirt would all be gone. I mean literally, you don't know how ridiculous that notion sounds.
Being tall, they would squish my knees and cause a good amount of pain over the course of an hour. And with modern teaching styles relying a lot on handouts and having multiple papers on your desk at once, it was quite difficult to do anything.
But I do agree that money should go towards curriculum first.
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It's not just Ford. Every major US and most foreign car and car part manufacuters (such as (specifically, those I have dealt with and know for a fact) Delphi, Robert Bosch, Mazda, Honda, Hyundai, Chrysler, Ford, Chevy, etc) work very hard to destroy all hints at innovation that present themselves to them. In addition to fighting innovation, they all have sent me the exact same response, word for word, as if they had all agreed to treat all incoming innovations with the exact same response.
They basically make up an excuse about worrying that it might be similar to something they are working on so they don't accept outside invention. But in reality there are very simple ways to circumvent such issues, such as Mutual Non-Disclosure agreements. Many other industries, those who like innovation, willingly put forth MNDA agreements and eagerly look at anything. But the car industry fights innovation as if it were to be the end of their industry, instead of the lifeblood of it.
But that is dealing with outside inventors. All of their employees are inventors and engineers that are given between 29k and 75k a year for their work, even when their work is directly worth millions of dollars. But if you don't work for them, you don't work, at least in many fields. Meaning either you find an angel investor, the 1 in a million shot at doing anything, or you work your life away paying off loans while a few people make millions off of your work, and off of the work of your coworkers. That is well known fact to anyone who has dealt with the industry.
I would post the letters here, but they would likely just sue me for plagerism.
That Ford and its competitors have stolen significantly more information than that from independent inventors, small firms, employees, etc. Call it stealing or not, but making millions-billions on others work is immoral and stealing in my book, even if you make them sign something to let you.
How about we make a balance. I say a roughly logrithmic curve of processors/power of each processor ratio. Take 1 very, very powerful core, then 2 cores half the power of that, then 4 cores half the power of those, then 8, then 16, then 32, then 64, then 128, then 256, then 512. At that point, you have over 1000 cores, and have the ability to do anything you want with ridiculous speed and power, be it rendering thousands of simple tasks, or burning through a single mammoth thread, and everything in between.
I'll probably start using mine again when I figure out what I did with the power coord, and get a C compiler installed on it. So I can practice programing in my down time on the go. Their OS is very open and friendly, somewhat like I imagine Android would be if I was rich enough to afford a new device (stupid college).
Apple still has the ability to get onto the device and applications still have to pass through them at some point. There is no privacy, no protection of information. Android OS will make much better tablets, even win7 would.
The apple is really just a gloriphied iPhone that doesn't call people and is slightly larger though, it doesn't do anything that would make it useful in the proprietary tablet market (anything in any industry I hinted at above), as long as apple has their penis connected to the device, and prohibits 3rd party software from being installed without going through the appstore and such bullshit makes it so useless.
Sure there are games and a few useful applications, but the essence of a useful tablet is not the desktop tools, but the ability to have a quick interface for doing things on the go related to stuff in those areas where you don't want to sit down to use a laptop or computer. Like in car garages, warehouses, hospitals, they provide infinite usability with no standard word processing or anything. But not with an apple hookup. The stupid iPad doesn't even have USB drives!
My point is the iPad is trying to be a laptop and a PDA and not a tablet. The old tablets were expensive because the parts were a lot and I really don't see what the point in them at all is. But considering what the iPad is, it is overpriced. It has a proprietary OS that only lets you use things from their app store, and no app or series of apps is going to be worth 500 bucks.
Really, all they need is as much power as an old PDA (like my Palm T/X) with a bigger screen, and some easy to use APIs, for cheap. My Palm TX cost 300 dollars, is over 6 years old, and I wrote dozens of programs for it to do all kinds of useful things, including a graphing calculator and much more. We should be able to put the same power into something with a screen twice as big for the same price by now at least.
Thats because windows tablets have been full computers aimed at different markets that don't make sense. The iPad is a glorified phone with no meaningful features that doesn't call people, but still costs 500 bucks. Thats twice as much as a netbook with half the power. The average windows tablets I have seen have the power of a computer.
Either way, until Apple lets proprietary developers make programs and NEVER run them through apple, and have no connection to apple at all, Apple is being too restrictive for them to be of any use where they would be most handy.
for quite some time. There are 2 problems with the tablet industry:
1. Too expensive (Apple)
2. Apple.
First of all, tablets are ridiculously useful and don't need a lot of processing power, all they have to do is run basic browsers, and have the freedom to run millions of proprietary apps. If tablets scaled down power for price, you would see them everywhere. Imagine how useful they would be for viewing details of things everywhere, from car garages reading the cars info and stock room info, to hospitals replacing clipboards with tablets, to anything you can imagine. For 100, or even 200 bucks and equipped with an easy to use API and extensive customization abilities, USB drive, SD card slot and integrated wi-fi, they are all of a sudden useful in millions of business situations. But as long as Apple essentially has the ability to spy on tablets, and restrict your actions on them, they won't be worth jack shit. If we followed this formula instead, tablets could make the future happen today.
I mean, I hate to say it, but searching for something sepecific, like the result to a math problem or a certain physical constant, or where a companies stock is at used to be a pain in the ass. First you have to search for it, then click a few links and search it again before you got a result.
Call me evil or some other bullshit, but I enjoy the ease of typing in what I need and getting the result without playing follow the links.
Pullman company town. Hell can happen again, and if google ever takes a dive, you can expect a lot of hell.
Oh, American corporations are a lot sicker than that. They will turn down a deal that will make them 100 million dollars if they have to pay somebody 20 bucks. They just aren't happy unless everyone is fucked, and boy do I have plenty of experience with the bastards.
Yea, because our healthcare system doesn't fix diseases, it maintains them to profit from torture. That is what happens when healthcare is a privatized good.
And they will pay for it with loans from countries that want us dead and by cutting social programs within our country. I think it would be a good process, but at the same time, I doubt republicans will be able to do anything positive, functional, or forward thinking at all with their integration of the tea party.
Actually, you only need to have energy storage 60% as dense as liquid hydrocarbon. There are maximum efficiencies of heat engines, which don't apply to electric motors. A bigger issue is the assholishness of companies in this field. I invented a new kind of part that when inserted into a engine system allows for a massive increase in efficiency, that allows engines to get much closer to their maximum efficiency, and produce less pollution and more powerful explosions in the engine. However, these companies are full of assholes that won't deal with you unless you happen to be an incorporated LLC with a patent on the invention, where they just buy you out. Try selling to them any other way, and I could be bringing 4 wives to church how sick they act. I offered them all kinds of agreements to totally eliminate all risk of dealing with me, which there isn't as I don't exactly have a lot of money. It is a total pain in the ass.
When these companies open up to innovation, Engines will start making progress again.
Wow, there is not what I was talking about. I mean actual teaching of actual math and how to do it. I just mean that instead of being told to memorize the quadratic forumla, and spending weeks teaching it, simply derive it, put it on a reference sheet and move on. After all, if you don't know how to apply it you are screwed no matter what, but there are tons of kids that know the formula and have no clue what to do with it. However, it would become second nature as you move to higher math and get experience using it in.
The backing off from facts entirely to look at theory goes too far towards not understanding how they work in a practical setting. I am simply saying that if we rework mathematical education so that everything is learned in context, and concepts are taught as needed and by concept with reference sheets, then once they reach the highest math they take just practicing a lot of problems until all of it is really cemented in and the reference sheets are no longer needed.
Really, calculus is just a tool, I think math education would work much better if students were introduced to the concept of a differential unit, a sumation, the integral and derivative with the rest of math. It really changes things from this math is totally useless to I can do anything with this math.
Not only do we need a class on managing personal finances, but we need a class on basic logic and reasoning skills. I see far to many people graduate high school with factual knowledge that are totally incapable of thinking anything beyond the most rudimentary and straightforward emotions. And then we got the tea party.
I think it would have quite the impact, I know right now I routinely deal with a lot of total idiots that think correlation doesn't just imply causation, but is the very definition of it. People who are barely intelligent enough to think of as fellow people. I think the powers of math education could help make people more logically intelligent. Maybe if some of the people I frequently debate knew how to actually construct a proof of some kind I wouldn't be in endless, pointless debates, you know?
Quote " I find it offensive because although I know how to wear shoes, I absolutely never do, and there is nothing wrong with that."
It was not a long comment, That was a good 1/3 of what I said. He makes it sound like not wearing shoes makes somebody stupid. And I am not really offended, I am just frustrated with the extreme "lets all be like everybody else and hate those who don't dress like us" that is so ubiquitous in America these days, especially in regards to footwear.
Actually, it is widely human to have small memories. The typical person can hold 7 numbers in their short term memory at a time. A phone number. However, I know I can take at least 10 hours of advanced college lecturing before my brain starts to hurt. I have no doubt the average person could take at least 2 or 3 hours of solid lecture a day if it was done well.
The only time I have seen people struggle with complex concepts is when certain important steps are left out. Nationalization of education and utilization of things like Khan Academy could really help this along.
Those who only rely on memorization have to put in a good 10 hours of studying a day on top of school to get through a regular high school program. You can do it, but it is a lot more work. I know sitting along side fellows in high school, I owned them in terms of understanding for only a small fraction of the effort. It just depends on how well those concepts were presented.
Was there supposed to be a point in there, or was it just spouting trivia? From what I understand there is at least one country that has a math system that teaches up through calculus in secondary school.
I see the big problem with math education is how it is taught. To be honest, there is no reason whatsoever we can't have taught kids basic differential equations by the time they hit 8th grade. The problem is we force students to memorize a bunch of obscure math that although we will use later in specialties, is totally pointless, out of context, and relatively useless at that point. And it is by rote and not by concept. In case you haven't noticed, memorizing vast amounts of crap is hard, but learning lots of new concepts is easy. If math was taught in order, in a contextually relevant way, first conceptual and then practical, there is no reason at all that we couldn't have 8th graders beating out the average college graduate. It doesn't have to be expensive, it doesn't have to be so terrible, it is just that it is done in such a terrible manner that it appears wasteful as it is currently done.
Plus, to be honest, a knowledge of extremely advanced math could come in handy to virtually everyone. I get really tired of watching our system be a kind of stagnation in most fields. If everyone had an advanced education out of high school, everyone would be able to advance their field. Plumbers, welders, residential contractors, auto repairmen, any profession at all could be improved by a knowledgeable worker in that field, even if just new and interesting ways to fix things. We could easily be living in a world where everyone advances society, not just about 10% of us.
I find that offensive! I know math all the way up through differential equations, and I understand it fully. I love having the additional mental tools to work with, with calculus and differential equations, it is a whole new worlds. I find it offensive because although I know how to wear shoes, I absolutely never do, and there is nothing wrong with that.
Exactly, just think about it. Every time somebody buys a piece of shit oppressive ass iProduct, they are giving money to the bastards that make it so restricted and evil. Competitors have products with quality just as high in terms of hardware, their products aren't so glossy that using them outside will blind you, and you are FREE to use them however you want without having to risk jailbreaking and voiding warranties and license agreements.
right, i was thinking silicon oxide, which is about 60 percent. But yea, either way, if we run out we will have bigger problems than running out of silicon.
Silicon is like 70% of earths crust. If we have run out of it, we have run out of earths crust. Beaches would be mined for their sand, dirt would all be gone. I mean literally, you don't know how ridiculous that notion sounds.
Being tall, they would squish my knees and cause a good amount of pain over the course of an hour. And with modern teaching styles relying a lot on handouts and having multiple papers on your desk at once, it was quite difficult to do anything.
But I do agree that money should go towards curriculum first.