Being selected as a VP candidate gives that politician instant name recognition in presidential politics. Sometimes this is enough to make them an early contender for a presidential nomination in the next election (Edmund Muskie, Walter Mondale, Sarah Palin) or gives them a building block for later campaigns (FDR, Bob Dole). This is somewhat of a modern phenomenon. The age and performance of the candidate and the strength of the field are certainly factors.
My wife has narcolepsy, which means even when medicated her 15 minute commute is a risk that she could fall asleep behind the wheel. She probably won't be allowed to drive when she has to go off of the medicine for pregnancy. This emergency autopilot would be a necessity for us if it were available.
A computer backup should be able to make it to market quite a bit faster than a computer-first human-backup driving system. The Google approach is more luxury than necessity. We should push the computer backup system first, but the nature of our economy now is that the luxury of the wealthy will likely be pushed ahead of the needs of a middle class family like mine simply because they can finance it and I can't.
...to go out and get experience in another field that interested me. Relatively few jobs in software development are purely about computers. Most involve programming in knowledge of another field where the computer system will be applied.
You've had a summer of coding in the workforce already, and that puts you ahead of most incoming freshmen. Go out and learn about something else because you'll need it later. It'll help you to know what you actually want to do with your degree when you get out. You have the next several years to focus on the computer side.
My company is a Motorola Solutions partner, and I'm currently developing on the ET1. Let's just say it's a clunkier version of the Xoom, 2 years later and stuck on Android 2.3.x for a price an order of magnitude higher than a consumer Android tablet. If they don't do better with the ET2, they'll be in serious trouble. We've also developed enterprise apps on the consumer Android tablets and iPads, and we're doing better business with the consumer devices.
I'm beginning to wonder if cancellation of the shuttle is turning out to be a good thing. How many bright minds came from NASA and are now involved in these ambitious projects? How many of them would still be at NASA for the job security if NASA still had a major orbital program?
...if you can't trust the hardware that it's running on. I know not every device coming from overseas is bad, but there's a lot of cheap low quality or even deliberately subverted hardware out there that we should be leery of. Keeping some electronics manufacturing in the US helps keep others honest.
As someone who rooted for the adoption of JPEG2000, I wonder, have we reached the point where the existing major image formats are 'good enough' and so established that new standards are unlikely to unseat them?
I would have my operatives embed remotely controlled overrides and off switches in the people's hardware during the design phase, so that the people can't use the devices against my wishes. I'd call it my Digital Rights Management.
My development team came to a VMWare solution from the opposite direction. We do software customization for multiple customers who are using different and incompatible sets of middleware. Our development machines were struggling to handle the multiple databases, app servers, and IDEs as our customer base grew. Now we have a VMWare cluster with massive processing, memory, and storage where we can carve out many virtual machines for each project and recycle them back into the pool after a development cycle. One developer can setup a development environment for a customer, and then the other developers clone it, saving repeated setup time that we used to need. Security is enhanced as developers generally don't need code on their laptops.
We have worked this way for about 15 months. There have been major growing pains and lessons learned as we needed more resources and had to learn to use the system efficiently, but used properly it can be a very useful tool.
This ignores how hard it is to start a new business and grow it to a footprint that can compete with a giant like Walmart, and how long most of us would be stuck with no serious alternative while we wait for that to happen. Besides, at the rate our businesses and government are going, Walmart would be granted a legal monopoly after they wipe everyone else out.
The leak can get to multiple journalists and NGOs. If the story is a human rights abuse in the US and the New York Times refuses to publish it, the story will still get told if it's revealed to Der Spiegel, the Guardian, the Red Cross, and the UN Human Rights Committee.
Of those willing to look at leaks, journalists are more likely to have the connections to properly redact sensitive documents.
Journalists are typically the ones that sift through large accounts such as the 250,000 cables in CableGate to disseminate the interesting information. Historians and political scientists tend to be the others, but they lack the ability to publish as widely as journalists.
Journalists in most countries already have legal protections.
...and if the capsule breaks, where do we get the air from? Sure, the capsule can have a gas mask, but where is it going to get the air from? For how long?
Even if the capsule doesn't break, how long can its air supply last?
I'm generally not claustrophobic or anything, but the idea of being stuck in a 2 meter capsule that's surrounded by a vacuum doesn't appeal to me at all.
What is the difference between a sale and a license? I think applying a license to most cases where the seller has little or no ability to revoke usage results in absurdities. The seller must at minimum be reasonably able to detect most abuses to be able to take it to the courts. If the seller has no control, it has forfeited ownership.
I work on a Java development team, and our environment consists of XP machines (IT mandated) running various VMs. The VMs come in handy for us because we support multiple OS (mostly XP and Linux) and middleware stacks for our customers. Another advantage that would be even more notable at the school is that a damaged VM is easily blown away and replaced with little harm.
Of course the desktop monitor is the wrong place to use a touchscreen. The tablet PC would be far more appropriate, and I hope Win7 gets touch, pen, and handwriting support right. As a software developer diagnosed with carpal tunnel a few years ago, I've been waiting for a convertible tablet that makes full use of the interface's potential.
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Being selected as a VP candidate gives that politician instant name recognition in presidential politics. Sometimes this is enough to make them an early contender for a presidential nomination in the next election (Edmund Muskie, Walter Mondale, Sarah Palin) or gives them a building block for later campaigns (FDR, Bob Dole). This is somewhat of a modern phenomenon. The age and performance of the candidate and the strength of the field are certainly factors.
My wife has narcolepsy, which means even when medicated her 15 minute commute is a risk that she could fall asleep behind the wheel. She probably won't be allowed to drive when she has to go off of the medicine for pregnancy. This emergency autopilot would be a necessity for us if it were available.
A computer backup should be able to make it to market quite a bit faster than a computer-first human-backup driving system. The Google approach is more luxury than necessity. We should push the computer backup system first, but the nature of our economy now is that the luxury of the wealthy will likely be pushed ahead of the needs of a middle class family like mine simply because they can finance it and I can't.
...to go out and get experience in another field that interested me. Relatively few jobs in software development are purely about computers. Most involve programming in knowledge of another field where the computer system will be applied.
You've had a summer of coding in the workforce already, and that puts you ahead of most incoming freshmen. Go out and learn about something else because you'll need it later. It'll help you to know what you actually want to do with your degree when you get out. You have the next several years to focus on the computer side.
My company is a Motorola Solutions partner, and I'm currently developing on the ET1. Let's just say it's a clunkier version of the Xoom, 2 years later and stuck on Android 2.3.x for a price an order of magnitude higher than a consumer Android tablet. If they don't do better with the ET2, they'll be in serious trouble. We've also developed enterprise apps on the consumer Android tablets and iPads, and we're doing better business with the consumer devices.
I'm beginning to wonder if cancellation of the shuttle is turning out to be a good thing. How many bright minds came from NASA and are now involved in these ambitious projects? How many of them would still be at NASA for the job security if NASA still had a major orbital program?
...if you can't trust the hardware that it's running on. I know not every device coming from overseas is bad, but there's a lot of cheap low quality or even deliberately subverted hardware out there that we should be leery of. Keeping some electronics manufacturing in the US helps keep others honest.
As someone who rooted for the adoption of JPEG2000, I wonder, have we reached the point where the existing major image formats are 'good enough' and so established that new standards are unlikely to unseat them?
The end? Nah, next is bombs triggered by brainwaves. Let us control your mind, or don't fly! If you're not guilty, why should you mind?
I would have my operatives embed remotely controlled overrides and off switches in the people's hardware during the design phase, so that the people can't use the devices against my wishes. I'd call it my Digital Rights Management.
It's a joke referencing transistor types: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-n-p_transistor
This was vSphere.
My development team came to a VMWare solution from the opposite direction. We do software customization for multiple customers who are using different and incompatible sets of middleware. Our development machines were struggling to handle the multiple databases, app servers, and IDEs as our customer base grew. Now we have a VMWare cluster with massive processing, memory, and storage where we can carve out many virtual machines for each project and recycle them back into the pool after a development cycle. One developer can setup a development environment for a customer, and then the other developers clone it, saving repeated setup time that we used to need. Security is enhanced as developers generally don't need code on their laptops.
We have worked this way for about 15 months. There have been major growing pains and lessons learned as we needed more resources and had to learn to use the system efficiently, but used properly it can be a very useful tool.
This ignores how hard it is to start a new business and grow it to a footprint that can compete with a giant like Walmart, and how long most of us would be stuck with no serious alternative while we wait for that to happen. Besides, at the rate our businesses and government are going, Walmart would be granted a legal monopoly after they wipe everyone else out.
The leak can get to multiple journalists and NGOs. If the story is a human rights abuse in the US and the New York Times refuses to publish it, the story will still get told if it's revealed to Der Spiegel, the Guardian, the Red Cross, and the UN Human Rights Committee.
Of those willing to look at leaks, journalists are more likely to have the connections to properly redact sensitive documents.
Journalists are typically the ones that sift through large accounts such as the 250,000 cables in CableGate to disseminate the interesting information. Historians and political scientists tend to be the others, but they lack the ability to publish as widely as journalists.
Journalists in most countries already have legal protections.
My vote is Tom Stoppard's "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead" using actors from Laurence Olivier's version of "Hamlet".
...and if the capsule breaks, where do we get the air from? Sure, the capsule can have a gas mask, but where is it going to get the air from? For how long?
Even if the capsule doesn't break, how long can its air supply last?
I'm generally not claustrophobic or anything, but the idea of being stuck in a 2 meter capsule that's surrounded by a vacuum doesn't appeal to me at all.
No, they fought for what they thought was a better life and were misled and betrayed by their leaders.
What is the difference between a sale and a license? I think applying a license to most cases where the seller has little or no ability to revoke usage results in absurdities. The seller must at minimum be reasonably able to detect most abuses to be able to take it to the courts. If the seller has no control, it has forfeited ownership.
"Let the dead bury the dead."
...to complain about the Blank Act of Blank and what a bunch of blankety-blank-blank it is.
I work on a Java development team, and our environment consists of XP machines (IT mandated) running various VMs. The VMs come in handy for us because we support multiple OS (mostly XP and Linux) and middleware stacks for our customers. Another advantage that would be even more notable at the school is that a damaged VM is easily blown away and replaced with little harm.
Of course the desktop monitor is the wrong place to use a touchscreen. The tablet PC would be far more appropriate, and I hope Win7 gets touch, pen, and handwriting support right. As a software developer diagnosed with carpal tunnel a few years ago, I've been waiting for a convertible tablet that makes full use of the interface's potential.
We'll be reduced to batteries for our robot overlords.
the Spanish Inquisition!
...gives you the courtesy of a reach-around.