"The City Car, a design project under way at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is envisioned as a two-seater electric vehicle powered by lithium-ion batteries. It would weigh between 1,000 and 1,200 pounds and could collapse, then stack like a shopping cart with six to eight fitting into a typical parking space. It isn't just a car, but is designed as a system of shared cars with kiosks at locations around a city or small community."
So every 18 months they'll come out with a newer model, which folds into half the space and cost less. At the end of 12 years it will be a skateboard. Got news for them, Santa Cruz is already there.
Actually, Intel doesn't have to deal with artificial rights activists protesting outside their labs to free the poor microchips they're experimenting on, nor do they have to jump through HUGE FDA hoops when they're ready to scale up to live environment testing of their advances. The folks at Intel have the luxury of playing a lot faster and looser than medical researchers, because a failed attempt at increasing clock speed by 5% usually doesn't kill a living being.
No. I'm saying that Intel wasn't even bothering to come up with any breakthroughs until another company started to give them some real competition.
Yet here we have dozens of pharma companies, plus universities, all slaving away over a cage full of infected monkies, hugely profitable all the same, because there's so many different ailments of the human race, where a processor is pretty much a processor.
What? Like his Itanium is a flop, after years of investment, development and stealing from DEC's Alpha, so draw attention away from it by pointing at someone else who hasn't been so hot lately? Such school-yard tactics... how sad.
Interesting all your examples are of females.
Trying to get ahead eh?
I wasn't the hiring manager of either department, though it seemed there was 1:30 ratio of men to women in clerical roles. Where I work now, it's still about the same.
So, uh, where did you work? I think I might shoot a resume their way.
My job was outsourced. Even I wouldn't work there now. The problem wasn't the security in the OS and software, which was quite good (done by the vendor) the weak link was the records clerk leaving her desk while still logged in. Lazy users don't like to log out. Bad users just log-in anyone with their account if anyone can't, for some reason, login themselves.
Hmm as for the article... I don't know if anyone wants to argue with you about whether changing grades is bad because it hurts others. That much is a given since school/uni/scholarships are competitive. Most folks are just keen to discuss the [uncalled-for] severity of the maximum possible punishment, and perhaps the politics behind that punishment in the first place. I don't know, though. I got 2 hours of sleep today so I'm mostly interested in the 'Funny' posts myself.
Alas, that someone would actually have to pay to get an argument, when all they had to do was get their ideas posted on Slashdot, or at least attract people to their journal entries. (Please have a look at mine if you get a chance;-)
I, too, suffer from sleep deprivation from a wild, undisciplined Saturday night of astronomical observation. With my Meade LXD-75 10 inch SNT and a Pentax XL 5.2mm ep I was able to discern the brightest 6 stars in Trapezium. I had to obtain verification, lest the astronomy police throw on of Sir Patrick Moore's books at me for fraud and deception.
I submitted a story on MySpace getting false positives on sex-offender screening of their users. I linked to the blog where I'd found out about it when I submitted it (The Internet Patrol). When ScuttleMonkey posted the story to the front page, I still got credit for the submission, but some other blog was linked.... Or it might be that ScuttleMonkey changed the link for more nefarious reasons.
Sure, there's Java and.NET and cool interpreted languages like Python and...
Hold on that thought right there, a moment. I've been doing.net for the past 4 years. It's one thing to have complete mastery of the language, but you now have to know so many other things. Unless there's others in your shop to look after such things, there are Security, Interface design, connection management, installation, revision control, etc. Writing in c was a snap as most of the time I didn't even do interfaces and security was simply making certain you validated parameters/input by way of common sense programming (no drop through logic, don't simply accept the string is correct, etc.) You could probably do a passable job of mastering enough, until the next rev comes out in two years and you're screwed.
The old laws simply need updated to reflect todays technology. Unfortunately the govt is too busy worrying about how many ounces of breast milk you can carry on plane to investigate this matter. At this point the accused party might as well have beat up some cops and then raped their wives to get 20 years.
Take me to Havana or I'll give you the worst manicure, ever!
Seriously, this is same old crime, which fits into the "spirit of the laws" meant to deter such behaviour. "Wirefraud" probably originated with someone sending a bogus missive over telegraph, but in spirit, you're doing the same thing with a fraudulent missive sent via your wi-fi connection.
Where I once worked we had a couple of student workers change their own grades, one caught after
she had been accepted at University of Michigan,
for which she was undoubtably given a right boot in the arse from them after we notified them she had
changed her grade. She may well have displaced the next student in line, who was now elsewhere or changed majors as a result of not being accepted. Certain schools only take so many into a
programme each year.
The consequences of changing grades can be dire. How about someone receiveing an engineering degree who doesn't really have
the solid math background required, but had a friend who worked in the college records office.
We also sacked a student who changed her grades so she could continue to receive financial aid. Hurts nobody, right? Wrong. How about
the student who deserved it but all the money in the scholarship fund was given to others, including the one who falsified records.
I, too, doubt the judge would make an example of them. It will probably be a fine and some community service, along with the stain on their records for being convicted
of a crime, which would doubtfully make a positive impression upon prospective employers, unless Enron and Arthur Anderson were still in business.
As to this article, Seems a bit of a "slow news day" post. Why not something about how Martial Law in Pakistan has resulted in severed internet connections and how people might be
coping.
If they'd just work with the modders, I think the original Xbox would have come pretty close.....I'm actually considering modding an old one for this purpose.
What Ken was refering to was these computers which would run every aspect of the home, popular in sci-fi in the 40s and 50s. I think there was a Ma and Pa Kettle film to show how luddites would have conflict with the Home of Tomorrow.
Honestly, to run most of what you need in your house, you could probably get by with an old Sun Sparcstation running Linux.
It's hit some people in Silicon Valley hard, the ones who don't keep up. Anyone who's been to the Hacker's Conference in the last decade will recognize this.
Stay in tech for 20 years, or more, and see how you keep up. It's changing all the time. With one of those old mainframe computers you could be an expert on everything. With the great variety of things now, you have to specialise. You have to specialise very carefully. If you only do Microsoft.net security you could do very well for a salary for a spell -- that is, until something else comes along and replaces it and you have to study like a fiend to be up on it, too.
I've been in programming for about 27 years, it's not easy keeping up anymore. To damn much to keep track of, and like I said, changing all the time.
Not for the immediate futher, but don't rule them out yet... Sony has lost this kind of match before, back in the Beta vs VHS battle. Seems they forgot the lesson learned then.
Will lower prices speed the adoption of HD-DVD in the upcoming holiday shopping season?"
It means the lower cost and wider availability of a player, either player, will determine the outcome. Sony charged high prices and licenced their Betamax technology in the 70's, thus we had VHS as the eventual winner. Not learning from their prior mistake? No deja fubar?*
Does the fact that this will be an open-source application compensate for the fact that this introduces yet another method of surveillance into society?
First single nanotube radios, now this. We're gonna need more than one tin-foil hat.
Be glad they are colour CCDs, the B/W CCDs are about 4 times more sensitive and will pick up more detail in lower light. Should you see a cellphone which looks like someone has operated on it and sports a thermoelectric cooling unit, you should be afraid, very afraid.
"lowlight sensitive and low noise, now just imagine a beowulf cluster of them!"
"i can't, i'm thinking how in soviet russia cell phones will be calling out to report YOU!"
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So every 18 months they'll come out with a newer model, which folds into half the space and cost less. At the end of 12 years it will be a skateboard. Got news for them, Santa Cruz is already there.
I agree with you 100.000000000137468%
Yet here we have dozens of pharma companies, plus universities, all slaving away over a cage full of infected monkies, hugely profitable all the same, because there's so many different ailments of the human race, where a processor is pretty much a processor.
What? Like his Itanium is a flop, after years of investment, development and stealing from DEC's Alpha, so draw attention away from it by pointing at someone else who hasn't been so hot lately? Such school-yard tactics ... how sad.
1. Pharma companies need to make a profit. If they are making a profit doing what they are, they have met that goal.
2. Human body isn't made of silicon.
Interesting all your examples are of females.
Trying to get ahead eh?
I wasn't the hiring manager of either department, though it seemed there was 1:30 ratio of men to women in clerical roles. Where I work now, it's still about the same.
My job was outsourced. Even I wouldn't work there now. The problem wasn't the security in the OS and software, which was quite good (done by the vendor) the weak link was the records clerk leaving her desk while still logged in. Lazy users don't like to log out. Bad users just log-in anyone with their account if anyone can't, for some reason, login themselves.
Alas, that someone would actually have to pay to get an argument, when all they had to do was get their ideas posted on Slashdot, or at least attract people to their journal entries. (Please have a look at mine if you get a chance ;-)
I, too, suffer from sleep deprivation from a wild, undisciplined Saturday night of astronomical observation. With my Meade LXD-75 10 inch SNT and a Pentax XL 5.2mm ep I was able to discern the brightest 6 stars in Trapezium. I had to obtain verification, lest the astronomy police throw on of Sir Patrick Moore's books at me for fraud and deception.
Hmm. That certainly does smell fishy.
Hold on that thought right there, a moment. I've been doing .net for the past 4 years. It's one thing to have complete mastery of the language, but you now have to know so many other things. Unless there's others in your shop to look after such things, there are Security, Interface design, connection management, installation, revision control, etc. Writing in c was a snap as most of the time I didn't even do interfaces and security was simply making certain you validated parameters/input by way of common sense programming (no drop through logic, don't simply accept the string is correct, etc.) You could probably do a passable job of mastering enough, until the next rev comes out in two years and you're screwed.
Take me to Havana or I'll give you the worst manicure, ever!
Seriously, this is same old crime, which fits into the "spirit of the laws" meant to deter such behaviour. "Wirefraud" probably originated with someone sending a bogus missive over telegraph, but in spirit, you're doing the same thing with a fraudulent missive sent via your wi-fi connection.
It's what you get for trying to cheat at blackjack.
Here's the article at InforWorld.
Where I once worked we had a couple of student workers change their own grades, one caught after she had been accepted at University of Michigan, for which she was undoubtably given a right boot in the arse from them after we notified them she had changed her grade. She may well have displaced the next student in line, who was now elsewhere or changed majors as a result of not being accepted. Certain schools only take so many into a programme each year.
The consequences of changing grades can be dire. How about someone receiveing an engineering degree who doesn't really have the solid math background required, but had a friend who worked in the college records office.
We also sacked a student who changed her grades so she could continue to receive financial aid. Hurts nobody, right? Wrong. How about the student who deserved it but all the money in the scholarship fund was given to others, including the one who falsified records.
I, too, doubt the judge would make an example of them. It will probably be a fine and some community service, along with the stain on their records for being convicted of a crime, which would doubtfully make a positive impression upon prospective employers, unless Enron and Arthur Anderson were still in business.
As to this article, Seems a bit of a "slow news day" post. Why not something about how Martial Law in Pakistan has resulted in severed internet connections and how people might be coping.
What Ken was refering to was these computers which would run every aspect of the home, popular in sci-fi in the 40s and 50s. I think there was a Ma and Pa Kettle film to show how luddites would have conflict with the Home of Tomorrow.
Honestly, to run most of what you need in your house, you could probably get by with an old Sun Sparcstation running Linux.
Stay in tech for 20 years, or more, and see how you keep up. It's changing all the time. With one of those old mainframe computers you could be an expert on everything. With the great variety of things now, you have to specialise. You have to specialise very carefully. If you only do Microsoft .net security you could do very well for a salary for a spell -- that is, until something else comes along and replaces it and you have to study like a fiend to be up on it, too.
I've been in programming for about 27 years, it's not easy keeping up anymore. To damn much to keep track of, and like I said, changing all the time.
Explaining how we would never need a massive life controlling server in our own home, which Microsoft still thinks they can sell us all via the XBox.
The best thing about arguing in a bar is you can get drunk while doing it.
(An upgrade to Hamlet's rhetorical question)
We're gonna need a bigger roll of Cello Tape.
Watch your cheese!
Cue the quote: .. and he's beating up on our cheese!"
"That's one ugly mouse
We're gonna need a bigger trap.
Not for the immediate futher, but don't rule them out yet... Sony has lost this kind of match before, back in the Beta vs VHS battle. Seems they forgot the lesson learned then.
Will lower prices speed the adoption of HD-DVD in the upcoming holiday shopping season?"It means the lower cost and wider availability of a player, either player, will determine the outcome. Sony charged high prices and licenced their Betamax technology in the 70's, thus we had VHS as the eventual winner. Not learning from their prior mistake? No deja fubar?*
*fubar spelt that way for you anal types.
Full body one, I'm thinking.
Or do as this bloke does
I Go Pogo in '08
First single nanotube radios, now this. We're gonna need more than one tin-foil hat.
Be glad they are colour CCDs, the B/W CCDs are about 4 times more sensitive and will pick up more detail in lower light. Should you see a cellphone which looks like someone has operated on it and sports a thermoelectric cooling unit, you should be afraid, very afraid.
"lowlight sensitive and low noise, now just imagine a beowulf cluster of them!"
"i can't, i'm thinking how in soviet russia cell phones will be calling out to report YOU!"
We're gonna need a bigger tin-foil hat.