Plus, most people seeking a "new world" were either highly dissatisfied with the one they were currently in or others were highly dissatisfied with them. "Voluntary" is a pretty strong word.
Based on my purely history based estimate, I anticipate the final budget number for a round trip to Mars would be roughly $2T.
I'd be surprised if you could get a human to mars alive for less than $500B.
My problem is that if we figured out how to send someone to mars for just a few tens of billions of dollars, somebody on the trip is going to beg to come back after they've already left. All the whiners on earth will then demand that we go "rescue" them,and then we'll have to dump the rest of that $2T, plus time and a half for overtime, to get the idiot back.
That's really why you are getting a tablet - to do things, right?
So, are you going to be telneting around, or developing,t aking it wardriving, or trying to create art? Are you going to be using it to read email and surf the web from your couch, plus stream or watch movies on it? Do you want it to impress your friends?
See, that will answer your question. If you're going to be just hacking to hack, get a mid-level Android box (sorry, too many for me to keep up with). If you're going to be surfing and looking at email, get an iPad - unless you want flash, in which case get the top of the line Android tablet today. Want to impress your friends - well, the last recommendation covers it - Android if your friends are hard core linux geeks, iPad if your friends are anything else. Don't forget to ask yourself how big a screen you need. The 7" and smaller models do NOT work well for any sort of book use, save novels, unless you like squinting.
Based on your description of what you want (i.e. - you really don't know for certain) - put that bonus somewhere that you can't touch it for 6 months, and then decide next summer what you want after Honeycomb is out.
Well said, sir. As a practicing structural engineer, I see all sorts of very impractical designs coming from architects offices. It is somewhat amazing how elaborate artists can be when attempting to solve a problem. There's usualy some fantastically complicated, but elegant looking, solution which seems exceptionally cool, until you realize that for each problem solved, several more can be created.
I don't know to whom this is attributed, but it certainly applies to many of these types of ideas: Creativity is the ability to allow yourself to make mistakes; Art (or in this case, Architecture) is knowing which ones to keep.
If you don't like it, make your own cloud. Hell, look at all the usenet providers - they're independent from Amazon and seem to host far scarier things than wikileaks. Or so I've heard.
Hell, if you want to guarantee the life of wikileaks, just post it to usenet.
Well, the Apple II+ compatable - the Ace1000 (Which I had) was $1200, or thereabouts, and they were cheaper than the Apple.
As for the Atari, are you sure that wasn't the 400 that was $299? I seem to remember the 400 being theoretically attainable on my 12 year old budget, but the 800 - with (OMG!) real keys - was somewhere around double the price.
*The Ace was such an expensive purchase, at the time, that my parents made a copy of the check my grandfather sent. I learned to hand code in assembler and machine code on the 6502 with it.
Sorry, I missed something. Have you actually looked at the schedules? They're already conference games and patsies, with the occasional "money" game thrown in. Nobody plays a tough schedule BECAUSE there isn't a playoff system. One loss, esp near end of the season - to ANYONE - and you're out.
Schedules would mean more, as teams would want a higher seed, but a single loss wouldn't be devastating since it wouldn't keep you out of the title hunt.
Was there a team better than the 11-5 Patriots in the playoffs? Did they beat the Patriots? the answer to both of those questions is yes. Did the 9-7 team go on to the superbowl? No. Your argument is a strawman.
Currently there are 119 teams in the NCAA Div I. There are 7 weeks between the traditional "last game" in regular season (the weekend after thanksgiving) and the second weekend in January, when the title game is usually played. You could let EVERY SINGLE TEAM into the playoff system and still have the same end date. You could even let the Big 12, ACC, and SEC, have their championship games and throw in the Div II and Div III champs and STILL make it. And don't give me shit about finals, the conference championship games are the weekend before, and the very-low-tier bowls are the weekend following finals. They're already playing at times when they should be studying.
Of course, it would probably be better to take the top 32 - it's hard to argue that anyone outside of the top 32 would win the championship - and leave the rest of the bowls as an NIT equivalent. Nobody would watch them, but that's kind of the case already.
I happen to be an alumnus of Virginia Tech, easily one of the top schools for loyal (rabid) football fans. We haven't even been (legitimately) excluded from a title game based on year-long stats, but I would welcome the chance to be in a playoff format rather than at the mercy of computers and sports writers to choose the best. Lord knows they suck at choosing the best football players (how many Heisman winners have gone on to stellar careers in the NFL?). And to be honest, VT now gets preferential treatment in the BCS because of our program, but it hasn't been very long since we were a nobody, and no matter how good we were we'd never rank well (thanks, sport writers).
Quite frankly, a playoff is the only way to choose a champion.
Well, I'll stand corrected on that. Squeezing 18MP into even a DX size is dicey (which I presumed they did). Leica made very nice, if exceptionally price, film cameras.
Still, a premium like that for a camera with a limited shelf life (sensor tech and electronics tech) is pretty foolish. I still say titanium is not a very useful metal. Better to clad Mg for the weight) or go all the way to a high-nickel stainless, imho. Or, as I said, use Beryllium Aluminum. It's not that much more expensive, but it has the strength of a good aluminum (35+ksi) and the stiffness of steel (30x10^6psi). It's a real oddity.
Are you nuts? Those speakers probably sound just awful. May as well just slap a Bose badge on them.
Cool stuff, I suppose, though it's a fool that buys something electronic which has value added to it. A digital Leica with a (probably small) 18MP sensor will probably look no better than a panasonic P&S. Why would you spend so much money on a case when the internals are going to be out of date in 3 years. And titanium? Really? Can we just get over that fairly commonplace metal? Call me back when you make one from Be-Al alloy.
The entire trust is managed by IPValue, a firm with nothing but lawyers who look for ways to extract money from others based on their patent portfolio.
I quote: "IPVALUE’s operations are powered by a best-in-class team of experts in IP licensing and negotiations, IP law, business, and technology. Throughout their professional careers, our team members have generated more than $3 billion from IP transactions"
They don't make anything. You send them your unused or unenforced IP, and they go get you money through licensing or litigation.
Well, yes...and no. Math - in efficient representation (i.e. as numbers and operation symbols) is fairly abstract. Math also is not as ingrained as an entertainment. Complex storytelling likely goes back hundreds of millenia, and forms the basis for survival of early human tribes. Complex mathematics - hell, even some high school math - only goes back a couple hundred years. Math is not as ingrained in our beings as language.
The second - and perhaps more pertinent - is that the vast majority of teachers are women. And not just women - women who chose a career which values personal interaction with children. While there are people who excel at many fields, very few actually excel in more than one or two areas of knowledge. Imagine how well the average college-level mathematician would deal with teaching 8 year olds all day long. They would find ways to work math into the curriculum, and the language arts, or history, or some other "soft" subject would probably get a smaller and smaller portion of the day.
Now put someone who isn't naturally inclined to math in that spot. She (and I'm using the female as that is the bulk of teachers) will play to her strengths - usually language arts. Math was "hard" for her as a concept when she was a student, so she's not going to be a solid a teacher.
My wife is an accountant, but she struggles trying to help my 8yo daughter with math. She knows the stuff easily enough, but she doesn't think about math every day. She deals with rules, organization, and basic arithmetic in a linear fashion. As an engineer, I speak and read simple math every day. I understand some higher math (I struggle with tensor notation, some matrix theory, stochastic processes and functions, and other higher math - but I don't use that in my job). More importantly, I can see both the way the math worksheet wants the child to come to the answer, and the path my daughter is taking to solve the problem. Unlike my wife, I can guide her along her path to understand the concept. It makes homework "easy".
Sometimes she understands the way the worksheet wants her to do it - often after working it in a very round-about way, and me walking her back from the answer to the problem statement. She doesn't want to spend any more time than is necessary, but until she understands how circumspect her process is compared to the foreign one being taught, she'll be stubborn about it. It's simple human nature.
Many, if not most, teachers don't have the background to help students the way I help my daughter. Even those that do, don't have the time to spend with every student. I know how much time it takes for mine to really get it, and by most measures she's in the top 10% of students in math. They've tried lots of ways to teach math over the years. Just because we find it fun, or useful, or easy, doesn't mean that using another method is going to make it easy for "the rest."
It can't be both. Anything configurable and hacker friendly enough to make geeks happy will (a) be he opposite of what major content creators and distributors want and (b) likely to get accidentally screwed up by a clueless user.
One of the reasons Apple products fare well is because there are almost no settings to change. Without that expectation, if it doesn't do something automatically, people assume it won't do it at all and will live with it as is. There's a lot of CS dollars saved with that model. Supporting something that has a complex user interface available to the enduser is just asking for a support nightmare.
What most college graduates fail to understand is that you still have to work hard, network, and always continue learning.
You did that anyway, and were successful. You started at a pay range no college grad would consider, but you used it as a stepping stone. Very successfully.
You also got lucky. Without your contacts, if you were to lose your job, you'd be up a creek without a paddle. That's the danger of not having a degree - HR won't even shake your hand.
The flip side is that most college grads feel that they "deserve" a high salary to start, and that they should get all the perks of a comfy lifestyle. They're "done" learning and it's time to sit back and have The Man carry them through. This attitude sinks a lot of careers, and can find you on the cut list when the economy goes south. The easiest way to find a new job is to have one already; once you've been laid off, those of us who hire know that you're probably in the bottom half of the work force - and those aren't the people we want.
PS - If you're offended by my last statement, consider this. Are you good enough to start your own business and bring in (and complete) enough work to make a living? Regardless of your field or whether you want to run a business, if your answer to the above is no, then you're not in the top 5%.
Definitions when used for the purpose of law are not always the same as definitions in general speech.
It sounds more like this comes down to jurors using external references to assist in making decisions. I would expect that jurors are instructed not to bring in external references of any type, and she did.
About 20 years ago, I created a quasi-random string of 200 characters. I saved it several times in digital form (floppy, computer HD, now it's on my phone, Evernote, etc.), and I had a printed version at one point. That's back when I had to change my password every 6 months, no more than 3 repeated letters, one cap, one lower case, and one number as a minimum, and 9 characters long.
I'd select a starting point, either forwards or backwards, type in the 8 characters off the sheet, and add a special character (!,#,or * usually). That way I only had to remember where in the string I started, which direction I went (aka the second character), and what the special was.
I still use passwords off that sheet. Three of them to be exact. Plus a very simple, non-dictionary word and an index number for sites like Gawker.
I thought the same thing. There are lots of places with enough smart people and low costs of doing business. Blacskurg, VA (well, Christiansburg - right next door - actually) is a great place. If there hadn't been a small sinkhole on the proposed site we would have gotten a $500M datacenter.
Fat internet pipes, cheap land and taxes, and a big university (VT) to pull cheap college grad (and undergrad) labor from.
Huh? Did you post something? Sorry, I almost missed it.
Seriously though, this is why you and I will never become rich. We don't identify with the mass of humanity that finds such things useful or interesting.
I always sucked at trying to guess answers when I watched Family Feud. The answers had nothing to do with what was right, but what was popular. *shrug* Lucky thing I have a profession where people need that answers to be right, and are willing to pay for it.
Here's what you do - build a house on your own dime, then rent it to people. You can get income for the rest of your life, for doing nothing!
Now, here's the rub: When you do something like that, you usually have to pay a tax to the government on an annual basis based on the total value of the property - just a couple percent. Maybe that's what we need for copyright?
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The let John Glenn go - you just have to be properly connected.
Plus, most people seeking a "new world" were either highly dissatisfied with the one they were currently in or others were highly dissatisfied with them. "Voluntary" is a pretty strong word.
Based on my purely history based estimate, I anticipate the final budget number for a round trip to Mars would be roughly $2T.
I'd be surprised if you could get a human to mars alive for less than $500B.
My problem is that if we figured out how to send someone to mars for just a few tens of billions of dollars, somebody on the trip is going to beg to come back after they've already left. All the whiners on earth will then demand that we go "rescue" them,and then we'll have to dump the rest of that $2T, plus time and a half for overtime, to get the idiot back.
That's really why you are getting a tablet - to do things, right?
So, are you going to be telneting around, or developing,t aking it wardriving, or trying to create art? Are you going to be using it to read email and surf the web from your couch, plus stream or watch movies on it? Do you want it to impress your friends?
See, that will answer your question. If you're going to be just hacking to hack, get a mid-level Android box (sorry, too many for me to keep up with). If you're going to be surfing and looking at email, get an iPad - unless you want flash, in which case get the top of the line Android tablet today. Want to impress your friends - well, the last recommendation covers it - Android if your friends are hard core linux geeks, iPad if your friends are anything else. Don't forget to ask yourself how big a screen you need. The 7" and smaller models do NOT work well for any sort of book use, save novels, unless you like squinting.
Based on your description of what you want (i.e. - you really don't know for certain) - put that bonus somewhere that you can't touch it for 6 months, and then decide next summer what you want after Honeycomb is out.
I don't know...just a bunch of squiggly lines?
Just think how much easier white flight would have been with movable buildings!
Well said, sir. As a practicing structural engineer, I see all sorts of very impractical designs coming from architects offices. It is somewhat amazing how elaborate artists can be when attempting to solve a problem. There's usualy some fantastically complicated, but elegant looking, solution which seems exceptionally cool, until you realize that for each problem solved, several more can be created.
I don't know to whom this is attributed, but it certainly applies to many of these types of ideas: Creativity is the ability to allow yourself to make mistakes; Art (or in this case, Architecture) is knowing which ones to keep.
If you don't like it, make your own cloud. Hell, look at all the usenet providers - they're independent from Amazon and seem to host far scarier things than wikileaks. Or so I've heard.
Hell, if you want to guarantee the life of wikileaks, just post it to usenet.
Well, the Apple II+ compatable - the Ace1000 (Which I had) was $1200, or thereabouts, and they were cheaper than the Apple.
As for the Atari, are you sure that wasn't the 400 that was $299? I seem to remember the 400 being theoretically attainable on my 12 year old budget, but the 800 - with (OMG!) real keys - was somewhere around double the price.
*The Ace was such an expensive purchase, at the time, that my parents made a copy of the check my grandfather sent. I learned to hand code in assembler and machine code on the 6502 with it.
Would you like to play a game?
Sorry, I missed something. Have you actually looked at the schedules? They're already conference games and patsies, with the occasional "money" game thrown in. Nobody plays a tough schedule BECAUSE there isn't a playoff system. One loss, esp near end of the season - to ANYONE - and you're out.
Schedules would mean more, as teams would want a higher seed, but a single loss wouldn't be devastating since it wouldn't keep you out of the title hunt.
Was there a team better than the 11-5 Patriots in the playoffs? Did they beat the Patriots? the answer to both of those questions is yes. Did the 9-7 team go on to the superbowl? No. Your argument is a strawman.
Currently there are 119 teams in the NCAA Div I. There are 7 weeks between the traditional "last game" in regular season (the weekend after thanksgiving) and the second weekend in January, when the title game is usually played. You could let EVERY SINGLE TEAM into the playoff system and still have the same end date. You could even let the Big 12, ACC, and SEC, have their championship games and throw in the Div II and Div III champs and STILL make it. And don't give me shit about finals, the conference championship games are the weekend before, and the very-low-tier bowls are the weekend following finals. They're already playing at times when they should be studying.
Of course, it would probably be better to take the top 32 - it's hard to argue that anyone outside of the top 32 would win the championship - and leave the rest of the bowls as an NIT equivalent. Nobody would watch them, but that's kind of the case already.
I happen to be an alumnus of Virginia Tech, easily one of the top schools for loyal (rabid) football fans. We haven't even been (legitimately) excluded from a title game based on year-long stats, but I would welcome the chance to be in a playoff format rather than at the mercy of computers and sports writers to choose the best. Lord knows they suck at choosing the best football players (how many Heisman winners have gone on to stellar careers in the NFL?). And to be honest, VT now gets preferential treatment in the BCS because of our program, but it hasn't been very long since we were a nobody, and no matter how good we were we'd never rank well (thanks, sport writers).
Quite frankly, a playoff is the only way to choose a champion.
My kingdom for a mod point.
Well, I'll stand corrected on that. Squeezing 18MP into even a DX size is dicey (which I presumed they did). Leica made very nice, if exceptionally price, film cameras.
Still, a premium like that for a camera with a limited shelf life (sensor tech and electronics tech) is pretty foolish. I still say titanium is not a very useful metal. Better to clad Mg for the weight) or go all the way to a high-nickel stainless, imho. Or, as I said, use Beryllium Aluminum. It's not that much more expensive, but it has the strength of a good aluminum (35+ksi) and the stiffness of steel (30x10^6psi). It's a real oddity.
Are you nuts? Those speakers probably sound just awful. May as well just slap a Bose badge on them.
Cool stuff, I suppose, though it's a fool that buys something electronic which has value added to it. A digital Leica with a (probably small) 18MP sensor will probably look no better than a panasonic P&S. Why would you spend so much money on a case when the internals are going to be out of date in 3 years. And titanium? Really? Can we just get over that fairly commonplace metal? Call me back when you make one from Be-Al alloy.
The entire trust is managed by IPValue, a firm with nothing but lawyers who look for ways to extract money from others based on their patent portfolio.
I quote:
"IPVALUE’s operations are powered by a best-in-class team of experts in IP licensing and negotiations, IP law, business, and technology. Throughout their professional careers, our team members have generated more than $3 billion from IP transactions"
They don't make anything. You send them your unused or unenforced IP, and they go get you money through licensing or litigation.
So, yes, I blame the lawyers.
Well, yes...and no. Math - in efficient representation (i.e. as numbers and operation symbols) is fairly abstract. Math also is not as ingrained as an entertainment. Complex storytelling likely goes back hundreds of millenia, and forms the basis for survival of early human tribes. Complex mathematics - hell, even some high school math - only goes back a couple hundred years. Math is not as ingrained in our beings as language.
The second - and perhaps more pertinent - is that the vast majority of teachers are women. And not just women - women who chose a career which values personal interaction with children. While there are people who excel at many fields, very few actually excel in more than one or two areas of knowledge. Imagine how well the average college-level mathematician would deal with teaching 8 year olds all day long. They would find ways to work math into the curriculum, and the language arts, or history, or some other "soft" subject would probably get a smaller and smaller portion of the day.
Now put someone who isn't naturally inclined to math in that spot. She (and I'm using the female as that is the bulk of teachers) will play to her strengths - usually language arts. Math was "hard" for her as a concept when she was a student, so she's not going to be a solid a teacher.
My wife is an accountant, but she struggles trying to help my 8yo daughter with math. She knows the stuff easily enough, but she doesn't think about math every day. She deals with rules, organization, and basic arithmetic in a linear fashion. As an engineer, I speak and read simple math every day. I understand some higher math (I struggle with tensor notation, some matrix theory, stochastic processes and functions, and other higher math - but I don't use that in my job). More importantly, I can see both the way the math worksheet wants the child to come to the answer, and the path my daughter is taking to solve the problem. Unlike my wife, I can guide her along her path to understand the concept. It makes homework "easy".
Sometimes she understands the way the worksheet wants her to do it - often after working it in a very round-about way, and me walking her back from the answer to the problem statement. She doesn't want to spend any more time than is necessary, but until she understands how circumspect her process is compared to the foreign one being taught, she'll be stubborn about it. It's simple human nature.
Many, if not most, teachers don't have the background to help students the way I help my daughter. Even those that do, don't have the time to spend with every student. I know how much time it takes for mine to really get it, and by most measures she's in the top 10% of students in math. They've tried lots of ways to teach math over the years. Just because we find it fun, or useful, or easy, doesn't mean that using another method is going to make it easy for "the rest."
It can't be both. Anything configurable and hacker friendly enough to make geeks happy will (a) be he opposite of what major content creators and distributors want and (b) likely to get accidentally screwed up by a clueless user.
One of the reasons Apple products fare well is because there are almost no settings to change. Without that expectation, if it doesn't do something automatically, people assume it won't do it at all and will live with it as is. There's a lot of CS dollars saved with that model. Supporting something that has a complex user interface available to the enduser is just asking for a support nightmare.
What most college graduates fail to understand is that you still have to work hard, network, and always continue learning.
You did that anyway, and were successful. You started at a pay range no college grad would consider, but you used it as a stepping stone. Very successfully.
You also got lucky. Without your contacts, if you were to lose your job, you'd be up a creek without a paddle. That's the danger of not having a degree - HR won't even shake your hand.
The flip side is that most college grads feel that they "deserve" a high salary to start, and that they should get all the perks of a comfy lifestyle. They're "done" learning and it's time to sit back and have The Man carry them through. This attitude sinks a lot of careers, and can find you on the cut list when the economy goes south. The easiest way to find a new job is to have one already; once you've been laid off, those of us who hire know that you're probably in the bottom half of the work force - and those aren't the people we want.
PS - If you're offended by my last statement, consider this. Are you good enough to start your own business and bring in (and complete) enough work to make a living? Regardless of your field or whether you want to run a business, if your answer to the above is no, then you're not in the top 5%.
Definitions when used for the purpose of law are not always the same as definitions in general speech.
It sounds more like this comes down to jurors using external references to assist in making decisions. I would expect that jurors are instructed not to bring in external references of any type, and she did.
It appears you've been looking for love in all the wrong places.
About 20 years ago, I created a quasi-random string of 200 characters. I saved it several times in digital form (floppy, computer HD, now it's on my phone, Evernote, etc.), and I had a printed version at one point. That's back when I had to change my password every 6 months, no more than 3 repeated letters, one cap, one lower case, and one number as a minimum, and 9 characters long.
I'd select a starting point, either forwards or backwards, type in the 8 characters off the sheet, and add a special character (!,#,or * usually). That way I only had to remember where in the string I started, which direction I went (aka the second character), and what the special was.
I still use passwords off that sheet. Three of them to be exact. Plus a very simple, non-dictionary word and an index number for sites like Gawker.
I thought the same thing. There are lots of places with enough smart people and low costs of doing business. Blacskurg, VA (well, Christiansburg - right next door - actually) is a great place. If there hadn't been a small sinkhole on the proposed site we would have gotten a $500M datacenter.
Fat internet pipes, cheap land and taxes, and a big university (VT) to pull cheap college grad (and undergrad) labor from.
Huh? Did you post something? Sorry, I almost missed it.
Seriously though, this is why you and I will never become rich. We don't identify with the mass of humanity that finds such things useful or interesting.
I always sucked at trying to guess answers when I watched Family Feud. The answers had nothing to do with what was right, but what was popular. *shrug* Lucky thing I have a profession where people need that answers to be right, and are willing to pay for it.
You can!
Here's what you do - build a house on your own dime, then rent it to people. You can get income for the rest of your life, for doing nothing!
Now, here's the rub: When you do something like that, you usually have to pay a tax to the government on an annual basis based on the total value of the property - just a couple percent. Maybe that's what we need for copyright?