The first is if it becomes a TRUE replacement for the things that I put into my pockets... ALL of them: loyalty cards, credit cards, keys, etc. The second is if it replaces about, oh, 80% of what I use my cellphone for: scanning the titles of emails (and quick deletes thereof), texts, GPS/locationing, and, oh, telling the time. =)
Give me those two things with a decent interface, and I'm in.
And the other SIX hard drives that mysteriously failed when their contents were subpoenaed? The IRS destroying backups when congressional committees were specifically asking for those emails? A congressman asked IN 2011 for that information and then, whoops!, let's throw away the backups RATHER THAN RESTORE THOSE EMAILS? What do you think backups are FOR?!
No, anyone who even remotely believes this crap is delusional. And if you don't believe it and are still shoveling, that makes you liar. It's obvious there is a concerted effort to keep emails from being made public from at LEAST seven different people in the IRS. Now, how many people does it take to make a conspiracy?
Ummm, what's slimy about actually putting the screws to the wrongdoers. The chances are incalculably small that "by bad luck" the only data lost was the emails that showed their guilt. And the chances are exactly zero that they didn't know to preserve the backup tapes. The IRS did in fact admit to targeting groups they didn't like: conservative groups. The bad actors we know of go all the way up to the director. Now at this point you have to decide whether she -- out of the blackness of her own heart -- decided to screw with the rights of Americans to help Obama or whether someone from the White House hinted that it would be helpful in a tough re-election year to help out the D-team.
Either way, everyone involved with this needs LONG jail sentences unless they give up some bigger fish. I truly believe public office and those who work in government have a sacred trust to be of BETTER than average honesty... and suffer much harsher punishments if they prove otherwise.
Didn't we see this scenario in Blade Runner? Will we need specialists tasked with taking out rogue hardware that has gone past its incept date? Where will the madness end?!
Exactly! What the blurb fails to mention is that in states that have enacted 'colorblind' policies the GRADUATION rate for minorities has gone up. Yes, you see fewer freshman minority students at the Ivy League colleges but you see more minorities with diplomas... and isn't that the goal?
I don't agree. If the people who get the peanut butter weren't going to buy through Costco anyway (either the institutional or charity organizations), it'd have little to do impact their bottom line so you undercut your own argument in your last sentence. In fact, I'd rather think that the prison system, for one, would consider strongly their next food purchase contract if they had good feelings toward Costco.
No, it all comes down to lawyers, greed and money. It's been a tragedy for the past 40+ years that businesses would rather throw away rather than give away because of lawsuits. That's why the bulldozers are out there, so no one can pick it out of the garbage and start a class-action lawsuit.
The biggest difference in male/female pay is that women, as a group, value things like family life and health more than money. I think that's a perfectly rational choice and it's really demeaning to women when people are spouting claims that they are being paid so much less. Women know their worth as much as men and they get it! But what they are getting is a healthier, happier lifestyle. =)
The anti-nuke crowd (which is overwhelmingly pro-renewables) has been attacking nuclear power for generations. Once they give up that aggression, you might see some amity forming and true solutions coming around.
This isn't exactly 'spec stuffing' when all of these things can be found in your typical cellphone (other than temperature) and even that it can be argued is a USEFUL feature. For anything worn against the temple, I'd also like it to measure heartrate would be a nice addition as well. Sensors are cheap, why not load up on them?
My wife teaches at a charter school but has also taught at both good and bad non-charter schools. Our kids go to the same charter school and we wouldn't have it any other way. The truth is that the teachers unions (and non-unions such as the NCAE) are political entities. Period. They don't care about students and they barely care about teachers, frankly. Here's another hard truth for charter school haters: Charter schools ARE public schools in that they take public funds. But they are universally CHEAPER per student and outperform non-charters on average.
As others have pointed out, this ain't rocket science. I was a tester (and programmer) for years and the number of programmers I encountered that a) refused to do range checking properly or b) failed to use well-tested libraries were legion. I really thought that hooking electrical 'reminders' to them every time they did something like this would have improved their code dramatically.
I'm glad y'all weren't advising President Kennedy when he planned to put a man on the moon. Unlike the pie-in-the 'investments' of the current administration (that were payoffs for campaign kickbacks), the space program has a proven record of spinoffs that have been good for the country and of all humanity. The computers you are reading this on, the satellites that move countless terabytes of information, even the fuel cells that might power the next generation of MacBooks all had their genesis from NASA research.
Not to mention that the BEST place to get experience with a serious Mars trip is our own moon... at least convenient to Earth. If you want it to pay for itself, read The Man Who Sold the Moon. How many of those dreaded 1% would shell out big bucks for a piece of the ACTUAL FRIGGIN MOON. Plus, you could probably pay for it with the rounding error from the pork barrel programs we should cut anyway, heh.
I don't dispute his claim that Edison was 'green' but this comment was beyond stupid: How can inventor-entrepreneurs like Edison make a profit if every time they try to make a technological advance some nut in Congress pulls the rug out from under the them and their breakthroughs?
Basically, what he's saying is that inventor-entrepreneurs can ONLY succeed if someone bans their competitors. WTF? If you have the better mousetrap and assuming no one gets government help of any sort, you'll win. If you aren't winning, then go back to the lab and make it even better.
This is something Thomas Edison understood well but his Professor-of-English great-grandson obviously doesn't get. Hey, Prof, leave economic theory to people who understand it and stick to poetry or whatever it is you do.
Subsidies distort the market and are, let's be honest, just a way for corrupt politicians to use our money to pay off their big supporters. Funny how so many of those companies going bankrupt were big Obama supporters... and got juicy loan guarantees.
I'll be straight with y'all: no political party or politician is smart enough to properly apply a subsidy even if they do it from the noblest of motives. We need to remove the ability of our government to do it in any fashion and we'll all be better off.
All the technology COULD work better, but not the way it's being used now. You can't throw one of the coolest toys around at kids and say, "Okay, now only use this for schoolwork."
My wife's a teacher and I'm a tech guy and we are both passionate about this subject (pros and cons). Here's how an effective model could work:
1) Lock out almost ALL functionality during school hours. Specific functionality (perhaps to research a paper online) could be enabled on a 'as needed' basis. 2) Make teacher monitoring of usage integral to the 'in school' experience. 3) Offload rote activities (on the devices) to homework and have automatic tracking and reporting of usage for (perhaps) automated evaluation/grading. 4) Only use technology in-class for things that are enhanced by the technology (quizzes/test with automatic grading...heck yes!).
You notice that turns pads on the school grounds into basically glorified e-books+pencil+paper. This is the RIGHT answer... for now. Sure, some novel apps will be invented that could enhance certain topics but the vast majority of those could be used as easily off-campus. School time should be about talking with the teacher and getting specific 1-on-1 help as necessary. And I can easily envision some fun stuff that could be done in a teacher-directed environment, but those programs haven't been invented yet.
During my travels, I came upon a culture with an interesting custom: Each time a doctor's patient died, they were required to hang a plaque with the patient's name on it. As it happens, I took ill and went in search of a physician. I passed up a doctor's office that had 35 plaques out front, and another with 40 until I spotted one with only 10.
The waiting room was crowded with fellow foreigners but eventually the physician was able to see me. When I asked him how business was, the harried man said, "Great! I've only been open two days and I can barely keep up!"
The Motto: Don't be the first patient of a 'doctor' that has spent most of their training using computers.
In the full article you'll see that it's only a 90-day exclusivity contract. A good book has more staying power than a mere three months so the author gets a bit more money, possibly some good exposure, and then they are free agents again.
If this works as planned, Nevadans will be kicking themselves for the next century over their protests over Yucca Mountain. They were almost in the position of having tons of FREE nuclear fuel sitting in nice caves, ready to be hauled up for cheap power. Whoops!
I thought Red Cross had a deal where UNICEF would have the REALLY stupid opinions. Will there be a stupidity escalation now? Today CoD, tomorrow Super Mario Bros!
The local unions are always behind Kay which is why she keeps getting re-elected. Tech workers (especially ones in other states) don't have a union that contributes to her campaigns, so it's okay to **** them over. Here's hoping we can get her out of there next time!
If she were smarter (and more conniving), I'd suspect that this was a way into backdoor socialism. The front door would explicitly limit the work week to 40 hours (or less) as has been failing in other countries. And thus companies would be forced to hire more people. This way, a bunch of programmers might shrug and say, "Eh, 40 hours is good enough." But I don't think she's that clever.
We sense that the public is losing faith with global warming alarmism and we need a crisis to keep the money spigots flowing. The 'consensus' is that five years is about right: short enough to cause some panic, long enough to get funding for awhile longer.
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The first is if it becomes a TRUE replacement for the things that I put into my pockets... ALL of them: loyalty cards, credit cards, keys, etc.
The second is if it replaces about, oh, 80% of what I use my cellphone for: scanning the titles of emails (and quick deletes thereof), texts, GPS/locationing, and, oh, telling the time. =)
Give me those two things with a decent interface, and I'm in.
And the other SIX hard drives that mysteriously failed when their contents were subpoenaed? The IRS destroying backups when congressional committees were specifically asking for those emails? A congressman asked IN 2011 for that information and then, whoops!, let's throw away the backups RATHER THAN RESTORE THOSE EMAILS? What do you think backups are FOR?!
No, anyone who even remotely believes this crap is delusional. And if you don't believe it and are still shoveling, that makes you liar. It's obvious there is a concerted effort to keep emails from being made public from at LEAST seven different people in the IRS. Now, how many people does it take to make a conspiracy?
Ummm, what's slimy about actually putting the screws to the wrongdoers. The chances are incalculably small that "by bad luck" the only data lost was the emails that showed their guilt. And the chances are exactly zero that they didn't know to preserve the backup tapes. The IRS did in fact admit to targeting groups they didn't like: conservative groups. The bad actors we know of go all the way up to the director. Now at this point you have to decide whether she -- out of the blackness of her own heart -- decided to screw with the rights of Americans to help Obama or whether someone from the White House hinted that it would be helpful in a tough re-election year to help out the D-team.
Either way, everyone involved with this needs LONG jail sentences unless they give up some bigger fish. I truly believe public office and those who work in government have a sacred trust to be of BETTER than average honesty... and suffer much harsher punishments if they prove otherwise.
Drugs not working? Lead and electron injections have a long history of success. No needles required!
Didn't we see this scenario in Blade Runner? Will we need specialists tasked with taking out rogue hardware that has gone past its incept date? Where will the madness end?!
Exactly! What the blurb fails to mention is that in states that have enacted 'colorblind' policies the GRADUATION rate for minorities has gone up. Yes, you see fewer freshman minority students at the Ivy League colleges but you see more minorities with diplomas... and isn't that the goal?
I don't agree. If the people who get the peanut butter weren't going to buy through Costco anyway (either the institutional or charity organizations), it'd have little to do impact their bottom line so you undercut your own argument in your last sentence. In fact, I'd rather think that the prison system, for one, would consider strongly their next food purchase contract if they had good feelings toward Costco.
No, it all comes down to lawyers, greed and money. It's been a tragedy for the past 40+ years that businesses would rather throw away rather than give away because of lawsuits. That's why the bulldozers are out there, so no one can pick it out of the garbage and start a class-action lawsuit.
It'd be the first time in a long time it was actually used for its REAL purpose!
The biggest difference in male/female pay is that women, as a group, value things like family life and health more than money. I think that's a perfectly rational choice and it's really demeaning to women when people are spouting claims that they are being paid so much less. Women know their worth as much as men and they get it! But what they are getting is a healthier, happier lifestyle. =)
The anti-nuke crowd (which is overwhelmingly pro-renewables) has been attacking nuclear power for generations. Once they give up that aggression, you might see some amity forming and true solutions coming around.
I suspect that the phrase "After all, if Obama got this prize, why wouldn't get it?" will be in common usage very soon.
Speaking of which, Obama might have gotten his prize like this: "After all, if Al Gore got this prize, why wouldn't Obama get it?"
This isn't exactly 'spec stuffing' when all of these things can be found in your typical cellphone (other than temperature) and even that it can be argued is a USEFUL feature. For anything worn against the temple, I'd also like it to measure heartrate would be a nice addition as well. Sensors are cheap, why not load up on them?
My wife teaches at a charter school but has also taught at both good and bad non-charter schools. Our kids go to the same charter school and we wouldn't have it any other way. The truth is that the teachers unions (and non-unions such as the NCAE) are political entities. Period. They don't care about students and they barely care about teachers, frankly. Here's another hard truth for charter school haters: Charter schools ARE public schools in that they take public funds. But they are universally CHEAPER per student and outperform non-charters on average.
As others have pointed out, this ain't rocket science. I was a tester (and programmer) for years and the number of programmers I encountered that a) refused to do range checking properly or b) failed to use well-tested libraries were legion. I really thought that hooking electrical 'reminders' to them every time they did something like this would have improved their code dramatically.
I'm glad y'all weren't advising President Kennedy when he planned to put a man on the moon. Unlike the pie-in-the 'investments' of the current administration (that were payoffs for campaign kickbacks), the space program has a proven record of spinoffs that have been good for the country and of all humanity. The computers you are reading this on, the satellites that move countless terabytes of information, even the fuel cells that might power the next generation of MacBooks all had their genesis from NASA research.
Not to mention that the BEST place to get experience with a serious Mars trip is our own moon... at least convenient to Earth. If you want it to pay for itself, read The Man Who Sold the Moon. How many of those dreaded 1% would shell out big bucks for a piece of the ACTUAL FRIGGIN MOON. Plus, you could probably pay for it with the rounding error from the pork barrel programs we should cut anyway, heh.
I don't dispute his claim that Edison was 'green' but this comment was beyond stupid:
How can inventor-entrepreneurs like Edison make a profit if every time they try to make a technological advance some nut in Congress pulls the rug out from under the them and their breakthroughs?
Basically, what he's saying is that inventor-entrepreneurs can ONLY succeed if someone bans their competitors. WTF? If you have the better mousetrap and assuming no one gets government help of any sort, you'll win. If you aren't winning, then go back to the lab and make it even better.
This is something Thomas Edison understood well but his Professor-of-English great-grandson obviously doesn't get. Hey, Prof, leave economic theory to people who understand it and stick to poetry or whatever it is you do.
I was hoping they replaced the articles with million-monkey random gibberish... at least then there would be the chance of some accuracy slipping in!
Subsidies distort the market and are, let's be honest, just a way for corrupt politicians to use our money to pay off their big supporters. Funny how so many of those companies going bankrupt were big Obama supporters... and got juicy loan guarantees.
I'll be straight with y'all: no political party or politician is smart enough to properly apply a subsidy even if they do it from the noblest of motives. We need to remove the ability of our government to do it in any fashion and we'll all be better off.
All the technology COULD work better, but not the way it's being used now. You can't throw one of the coolest toys around at kids and say, "Okay, now only use this for schoolwork."
My wife's a teacher and I'm a tech guy and we are both passionate about this subject (pros and cons). Here's how an effective model could work:
1) Lock out almost ALL functionality during school hours. Specific functionality (perhaps to research a paper online) could be enabled on a 'as needed' basis.
2) Make teacher monitoring of usage integral to the 'in school' experience.
3) Offload rote activities (on the devices) to homework and have automatic tracking and reporting of usage for (perhaps) automated evaluation/grading.
4) Only use technology in-class for things that are enhanced by the technology (quizzes/test with automatic grading...heck yes!).
You notice that turns pads on the school grounds into basically glorified e-books+pencil+paper. This is the RIGHT answer... for now. Sure, some novel apps will be invented that could enhance certain topics but the vast majority of those could be used as easily off-campus. School time should be about talking with the teacher and getting specific 1-on-1 help as necessary. And I can easily envision some fun stuff that could be done in a teacher-directed environment, but those programs haven't been invented yet.
During my travels, I came upon a culture with an interesting custom: Each time a doctor's patient died, they were required to hang a plaque with the patient's name on it. As it happens, I took ill and went in search of a physician. I passed up a doctor's office that had 35 plaques out front, and another with 40 until I spotted one with only 10.
The waiting room was crowded with fellow foreigners but eventually the physician was able to see me. When I asked him how business was, the harried man said, "Great! I've only been open two days and I can barely keep up!"
The Motto: Don't be the first patient of a 'doctor' that has spent most of their training using computers.
In the full article you'll see that it's only a 90-day exclusivity contract. A good book has more staying power than a mere three months so the author gets a bit more money, possibly some good exposure, and then they are free agents again.
If this works as planned, Nevadans will be kicking themselves for the next century over their protests over Yucca Mountain. They were almost in the position of having tons of FREE nuclear fuel sitting in nice caves, ready to be hauled up for cheap power. Whoops!
I thought Red Cross had a deal where UNICEF would have the REALLY stupid opinions. Will there be a stupidity escalation now? Today CoD, tomorrow Super Mario Bros!
The local unions are always behind Kay which is why she keeps getting re-elected. Tech workers (especially ones in other states) don't have a union that contributes to her campaigns, so it's okay to **** them over. Here's hoping we can get her out of there next time!
If she were smarter (and more conniving), I'd suspect that this was a way into backdoor socialism. The front door would explicitly limit the work week to 40 hours (or less) as has been failing in other countries. And thus companies would be forced to hire more people. This way, a bunch of programmers might shrug and say, "Eh, 40 hours is good enough." But I don't think she's that clever.
We sense that the public is losing faith with global warming alarmism and we need a crisis to keep the money spigots flowing. The 'consensus' is that five years is about right: short enough to cause some panic, long enough to get funding for awhile longer.