Heres to that. Their CAM review department would even find shorted traces for me back in grad school when I used to skip the design rule check. The best part is the free popcorn you get with every order.
Its not about the money! I saw an interview with the W's and they said its about justice and doing whats right! This is truly a sad day for the American dream (which is of course suing in any way possible to weasel money out of anything imaginable).
They work for defense because the government is the only US customer for technology. Everyone else is too busy worrying about next quarter's balance sheet. I hope that someday google labs expands beyond browser widgets because I haven't heard anything from Bell labs or Xerox PARC since they thought up the GUI.
What are your monitor, mouse, and keyboard plugged into right now? Can't you do your homework on that? If you really need to look at it in the park or on the bus (i.e. finish it at the last minute), just upload it.
I don't want to buy a "product" that I can't tinker with.
Then feel fulfilled buying an android tablet. Didn't you do a lot of internet searching to roll your own linux? Roll your own ROM if you must. Most of the major android devices have been rooted so I don't see where your complaint is coming from. Even if it really really must absolutely be linux, just put linux on it. http://liliputing.com/2010/11/ubuntu-linux-shoehorned-onto-the-samsung-galaxy-tab.html
If you trust the article, they aren't just saying they're going to try something. They are actually going to try something. There is a significant difference.
...to me anyway is that a publicly owned company is spending R&D money on something that doesn't include the word "social". I don't know how they beat a couple bucks out of their investors for something that's worthless next quarter but may be huge in 10-20 years but I'm sure glad they did. Our only other hope is that the government (the only real customer of technology as far I can see...prove me wrong!) doesn't decide to cut off all funding for science next election cycle.
I don't understand why he can't just release the show now, and then fix it in syndication when future technology lets him tell the story the way he always wanted to.
But why would you want to? If you have to spend all your time doing easy stupid projects instead of what you really spent 10 years getting your PhD for then whats the point?
Agreed. I could also say I screwed up by not picking the winning lottery numbers. This story reminds me of some quote from Microsoft a few years ago about how they fell asleep on the "search" market and now they're going to jump in and dominate etc. And we all know how that went. But who really cares except the shareholders? And don't shareholders realize companies can't really grow when they already have over 90% of the market? Who put them in charge? (Their money obviously) Whats so bad about just being good at doing what you're doing? You owe it to the customers that gave you that market dominance. Don't go half assing a bunch of other crap. Do one thing well and enjoy your $billions
Astounding no matter how the links take you to the video. Has anyone physically been there? Aside from the time lapse, how much of this is editing and how much would you see if you just camped out there for a few nights? If its anything close it would be worth a trip.
Man, $25k/ year when I was in college would have had me living like a millionaire! Granted (no pun intended) I had a scholarship, my monthly budget was about $350 ($300 rent, $45 beer, $5 food...sorta). I got a $50 speeding ticket back then and it wrecked my budget for a whole semester. But back on topic, my point was that $100k is a HUGE loan for a kid to take out for a business. Its fine and all if you want to give some smartass a chunk of money that they won't have to pay back if they fail, but I don't see how this will cause any kind of shift in the status quo. Hence, no burning down the university system and no revolution.
It is if you're a 20 year old trying to get a generic business loan from a bank for the next hottest social networking fad instead of $5-$20k of student loans at a state/community college. Hello bankruptcy. But I guess the idea behind this experiment is you'd get the money from a VC. And if a VC wants to give you huge amounts of money for a likely lesson in failure, I see no problem with letting them take the risk. You can always re-enroll after 2 years.
There is legislation rolling around that would require all new cars sold in the US to have back-up cameras to prevent kids getting run over. Cost: $150-$250 per vehicle. Cost per life saved: $20 million. So you're in the ball park. At least its been put on the shelf due to an avalanche of complaints. (http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2011/02/nhtsa-postpones-back-up-camera-requirement-rule/)
Why does this article have an android image? The article has nothing to do with it. Arduino is popular enough with the hobbyist community to stand on its own. Not that the android integration package from google isnt awesome but maybe its time arduino got its own image?
No you're not the only one. In fact, I would be shocked if anyone could claim being the only one that does any conceivable activity that's humanly possible. Not including current world record holders but then again, they probably weren't the first with that record and they won't be the last. So the bad news is you're not that special. But the good news is you can find a friend...on Facebook!
Great, no one is stopping you from running your shell scripts. But 100 million android phone users might not want to set up a PC's serial port to flip some relay hacked into their circuit breaker or buy a bunch of X10 equipment and spend the time getting it up and running. Now they can just buy the Android light switch, download the app, and be done with it. Home automation might be easy for those technically inclined with time to kill but android@home looks like it can bring it to the mass market. I think this is a big deal.
I would also remind Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) that we fought World War II with Stalin, although that was of course a multilateral program.
Things change. We also fought wars against Britain, Spain, put Saddam in power etc... If the Chinese truly wish to advance science we should clearly be working with them scientifically. If they want to steal secrets now to screw us in 10 years then we shouldn't be working with them. And if this policy is truly a disaster put in place by "teh TeaBaggerz" then we'll get it sorted out during the vote on the debt ceiling...or the next presidential race...or whenever.
Right. A few months ago when GE made that deal with china to basically hand over all of their latest jet engine technology, the overall response was "they're giving copycat china 20 years worth of technology for a.5% share bump in Q2! Wall street only bleeds us dry and China only steals technology!" What happened in the past few months? Is everything different because this has to do with research and not profit?
The best will go to SpaceX or Boeing. Are you suggesting that Joe Engineer who has worked 20 years at JPL is going to pack up his family and leave the sun beaches and smog of Southern California for the smog and human rights oppression of Beijing?
For starters, Monster cable is horrendously overpriced. However, at bandwidth higher than what we have data for and distances longer than consumers need, the quality of the cable will make a difference. Cheaper materials and inferior quality control will lead to reflections and interference that will destroy the signal. So in a few years when we all get tricked by manufacturers into buying 1800p tv's, all of our amazon hdmi cables won't be able to pass the signal.
http://gizmodo.com/#!268788/the-truth-about-monster-cable-part-2-verdict-cheap-cables-keep-upusually (yeah its gizmodo but the test seems legit)
App Inventor seems like labview for android. That means that programmers should hate it and hardware engineers should like it. That being said, I'm a hardware engineer and I'm writing apps in java. I guess I was expecting app inventor to be more intuitive but there is somewhat of a learning curve. I figured if I'm going to have to learn something I might as well learn the fundamentals (java) so I can apply it in other places. So I decided to focus on the whole eclipse android sdk package.
Thats not to say app inventor doesn't have its place. I'm thinking its good for an intro to programming or programming for non programmers in highschool or something. Just to get kids thinking logically. Or interested in something constructive. But serious programming it ain't.
You are correct. I did not include US citizens as part of "the rest of the world" in holding FOREIGN debt. To your credit I forgot to put the word foreign in front of debt in that second to last sentence leaving myself open to semantic attack. Curse you slashdot! You win again. (I just hope I didn't misspell anything...)
I'd say the amount china owns is substantial. I'm against sensationalism as much as the next guy but a trillion dollars held by a foreign country is a shitload no matter how you slice it. Sure Japan has over 75% as much as china but there is a HUGE drop off after that. If we're going to say Japan owns almost as much as China to downplay foreign debt, we should also say Japan and China hold almost as much US debt as the rest of the world combined. You can't totally brush that off to a fox news ratings grab.
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Heres to that. Their CAM review department would even find shorted traces for me back in grad school when I used to skip the design rule check. The best part is the free popcorn you get with every order.
Its not about the money! I saw an interview with the W's and they said its about justice and doing whats right! This is truly a sad day for the American dream (which is of course suing in any way possible to weasel money out of anything imaginable).
They work for defense because the government is the only US customer for technology. Everyone else is too busy worrying about next quarter's balance sheet. I hope that someday google labs expands beyond browser widgets because I haven't heard anything from Bell labs or Xerox PARC since they thought up the GUI.
I don't want to buy a "product" that I can't tinker with.
Then feel fulfilled buying an android tablet. Didn't you do a lot of internet searching to roll your own linux? Roll your own ROM if you must. Most of the major android devices have been rooted so I don't see where your complaint is coming from. Even if it really really must absolutely be linux, just put linux on it. http://liliputing.com/2010/11/ubuntu-linux-shoehorned-onto-the-samsung-galaxy-tab.html
If you trust the article, they aren't just saying they're going to try something. They are actually going to try something. There is a significant difference.
...to me anyway is that a publicly owned company is spending R&D money on something that doesn't include the word "social". I don't know how they beat a couple bucks out of their investors for something that's worthless next quarter but may be huge in 10-20 years but I'm sure glad they did. Our only other hope is that the government (the only real customer of technology as far I can see...prove me wrong!) doesn't decide to cut off all funding for science next election cycle.
I don't understand why he can't just release the show now, and then fix it in syndication when future technology lets him tell the story the way he always wanted to.
But why would you want to? If you have to spend all your time doing easy stupid projects instead of what you really spent 10 years getting your PhD for then whats the point?
Agreed. I could also say I screwed up by not picking the winning lottery numbers. This story reminds me of some quote from Microsoft a few years ago about how they fell asleep on the "search" market and now they're going to jump in and dominate etc. And we all know how that went. But who really cares except the shareholders? And don't shareholders realize companies can't really grow when they already have over 90% of the market? Who put them in charge? (Their money obviously) Whats so bad about just being good at doing what you're doing? You owe it to the customers that gave you that market dominance. Don't go half assing a bunch of other crap. Do one thing well and enjoy your $billions
Astounding no matter how the links take you to the video. Has anyone physically been there? Aside from the time lapse, how much of this is editing and how much would you see if you just camped out there for a few nights? If its anything close it would be worth a trip.
Man, $25k/ year when I was in college would have had me living like a millionaire! Granted (no pun intended) I had a scholarship, my monthly budget was about $350 ($300 rent, $45 beer, $5 food...sorta). I got a $50 speeding ticket back then and it wrecked my budget for a whole semester. But back on topic, my point was that $100k is a HUGE loan for a kid to take out for a business. Its fine and all if you want to give some smartass a chunk of money that they won't have to pay back if they fail, but I don't see how this will cause any kind of shift in the status quo. Hence, no burning down the university system and no revolution.
It is if you're a 20 year old trying to get a generic business loan from a bank for the next hottest social networking fad instead of $5-$20k of student loans at a state/community college. Hello bankruptcy. But I guess the idea behind this experiment is you'd get the money from a VC. And if a VC wants to give you huge amounts of money for a likely lesson in failure, I see no problem with letting them take the risk. You can always re-enroll after 2 years.
True its none of our business. But since its out, if they were concerned enough to buy carbon offsets couldn't they have also "flight pooled"?
There is legislation rolling around that would require all new cars sold in the US to have back-up cameras to prevent kids getting run over. Cost: $150-$250 per vehicle. Cost per life saved: $20 million. So you're in the ball park. At least its been put on the shelf due to an avalanche of complaints. (http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2011/02/nhtsa-postpones-back-up-camera-requirement-rule/)
But...its about JOBS!
Why does this article have an android image? The article has nothing to do with it. Arduino is popular enough with the hobbyist community to stand on its own. Not that the android integration package from google isnt awesome but maybe its time arduino got its own image?
No you're not the only one. In fact, I would be shocked if anyone could claim being the only one that does any conceivable activity that's humanly possible. Not including current world record holders but then again, they probably weren't the first with that record and they won't be the last. So the bad news is you're not that special. But the good news is you can find a friend...on Facebook!
Great, no one is stopping you from running your shell scripts. But 100 million android phone users might not want to set up a PC's serial port to flip some relay hacked into their circuit breaker or buy a bunch of X10 equipment and spend the time getting it up and running. Now they can just buy the Android light switch, download the app, and be done with it. Home automation might be easy for those technically inclined with time to kill but android@home looks like it can bring it to the mass market. I think this is a big deal.
I would also remind Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) that we fought World War II with Stalin, although that was of course a multilateral program.
Things change. We also fought wars against Britain, Spain, put Saddam in power etc... If the Chinese truly wish to advance science we should clearly be working with them scientifically. If they want to steal secrets now to screw us in 10 years then we shouldn't be working with them. And if this policy is truly a disaster put in place by "teh TeaBaggerz" then we'll get it sorted out during the vote on the debt ceiling...or the next presidential race...or whenever.
Right. A few months ago when GE made that deal with china to basically hand over all of their latest jet engine technology, the overall response was "they're giving copycat china 20 years worth of technology for a .5% share bump in Q2! Wall street only bleeds us dry and China only steals technology!" What happened in the past few months? Is everything different because this has to do with research and not profit?
The best will go to SpaceX or Boeing. Are you suggesting that Joe Engineer who has worked 20 years at JPL is going to pack up his family and leave the sun beaches and smog of Southern California for the smog and human rights oppression of Beijing?
For starters, Monster cable is horrendously overpriced. However, at bandwidth higher than what we have data for and distances longer than consumers need, the quality of the cable will make a difference. Cheaper materials and inferior quality control will lead to reflections and interference that will destroy the signal. So in a few years when we all get tricked by manufacturers into buying 1800p tv's, all of our amazon hdmi cables won't be able to pass the signal.
http://gizmodo.com/#!268788/the-truth-about-monster-cable-part-2-verdict-cheap-cables-keep-upusually (yeah its gizmodo but the test seems legit)
App Inventor seems like labview for android. That means that programmers should hate it and hardware engineers should like it. That being said, I'm a hardware engineer and I'm writing apps in java. I guess I was expecting app inventor to be more intuitive but there is somewhat of a learning curve. I figured if I'm going to have to learn something I might as well learn the fundamentals (java) so I can apply it in other places. So I decided to focus on the whole eclipse android sdk package.
Thats not to say app inventor doesn't have its place. I'm thinking its good for an intro to programming or programming for non programmers in highschool or something. Just to get kids thinking logically. Or interested in something constructive. But serious programming it ain't.
You are correct. I did not include US citizens as part of "the rest of the world" in holding FOREIGN debt. To your credit I forgot to put the word foreign in front of debt in that second to last sentence leaving myself open to semantic attack. Curse you slashdot! You win again. (I just hope I didn't misspell anything...)
http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/tic/Documents/mfh.txt
I'd say the amount china owns is substantial. I'm against sensationalism as much as the next guy but a trillion dollars held by a foreign country is a shitload no matter how you slice it. Sure Japan has over 75% as much as china but there is a HUGE drop off after that. If we're going to say Japan owns almost as much as China to downplay foreign debt, we should also say Japan and China hold almost as much US debt as the rest of the world combined. You can't totally brush that off to a fox news ratings grab.