Maybe they should convert into an institution of higher learning --- a technical college. Nerds can still sit on their butts creating cool things, and they will spend some of their time teaching other nerds too. There may be some significant value in the name PARC for technical education marketing purposes.
Higher learning and tech training is very big busines$ in the US.
Okay, new money may not go to traditional computer hardware (ie Desktops). My household, like most in the US, already has one. I don't need to replace it every year, only every few years. (I don't personally know anyone that replaces their car every year either.)
However, this in no way means computer sales growth will level out very soon! I, like most US adults, do not have a PIM yet. It would be interesting to know how many US households do not have a cell phone yet. Watch what the convergence of cell phone + PIM does for computer sales growth. (Yes, I consider a PIM, e.g., Palm, a computer. And yes, I consider a combination PIM + cell phone still a computer.)
High detail 3d virtual worlds may not elevate the gaming experience in an exponential way, but thats not really what it is about anymore.
Realism is becoming the standard these days. Dot matrix printers offer a good analogy. About 15 years ago a good dot-matrix printout was good enough for most anything. Today, the standard is much higher but we are still printing the same words!
A company can incorporate in any of several ways in the US. Each has its own merits and tax advantages/disadvantages. Some pay no taxes. However in all cases, the owners are taxed on *most* of the money they take.
Specifically, S-CORP and LLC/LLP are "flow-through entities" --- income/loss is attributed to the owners and the entities themselves can show no profit/loss for tax purposes. Other entities, such as C-CORPs can have profit/loss and are taxed (but at a fixed rate -- I think 30%). The company owners choose the structure that fits their needs best. (e.g., If you are in the 49% tax bracket, the corp pays less on the dollar.)
Does anyone know if corporate structures are similar in other parts of the industrialized world?
Why doesn't hotmail or yahoo (or the other big browser email folks) use HTTPS. Doesn't that effectively scramble the browser based emails from prying employers?
I've wondered about this before and can see this being an attractive marketing tool for the privacy consious.
...and you will discover new problems. I doubt anyone can devise a legal framework that makes intellectual monopoly rights fair and reasonable.
For example, remove the fees ($200 and $5000 seems outragous) and you will discover frivolous obstructionists coming out of the woodwork. Add any fee, and the mildly interested that have a contribution to make, will not.
For those that never experienced the heyday of disk compression utilities (e.g., M$'s doubledisk and the other tool that it ripped off) and had it crash I say: watch out.
Somehow restraining an athlete from describing his or her own experience to a broad audience is perverse. Yet if you choose intellectual property as a tangible product, you have to buy the Olympic Committee's right to control it.
This is just another example of the absurd corners giving merit to the psuedo-concept of "intellectual property" paints us into.
The impact of the woman's head on the window is from the acceleration of that window toward her head. (Just another way of phrasing your point about her linear inertia.)
After her body came to rest against the window and the door, she was experiencing centripital acceleration in the literal sense. (Although the car is not a string, and she is not a yo-yo (I dont know her), the factors are the same. The car is keeping her on the arc of a circle.)
Very cool; but who are these http://www.goldenshower.gs people? The site seems to be in something like Spanish. Does anyone know what country ".gs" stands for?
1) On page4.html he writes that the Commodore64 used the 6502 processor. I am pretty sure this is wrong. The C64 used a special variant of the 6502 known as the 6510. It was able to address about 128k by switching RAM/ROM banks 16k at a time.
2) On page5.html he writes "lone gone" when I think he meant "long gone."
I love this project! It is the absurd waste of time kind-of-thing that I wish I had the time and talent to do.
PS - Page6.html mentions "the Computerized Router that I used to make the case." What the hell is that and where can I get one?
Neat idea. Someone should apply this idea to an MP3 based jukebox so that the most expensive and tempermental part of the setup (the robot arm) can be avoided.
Betcha a cheap webcam and some neat software can be spliced together for under $90 to do it. Your choice of music is only limited by the size of your harddrive, or the size of your internet connection.
The author writes "any deletions or mutations in the hybridized DNA act as a barrier that prevents electron flow."
I can imagine how additions would break conductivity (adding links to the dna chain that are not bound to a metal). But how would removing links in the dna strand break conductivity? Presumably, the links left in the strand still have their metal.
Forget the unfair aspect. Lets talk about reasonablness. How is it reasonable to import more H1B visa holders while we are sending those already here back home? Arent the ones here already trained? (Or is it more about keeping wages down than about having talent on hand?)
I was a hiring manager at a large firm and I can say part of it is about keeping wages down.
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Maybe they should convert into an institution of higher learning --- a technical college. Nerds can still sit on their butts creating cool things, and they will spend some of their time teaching other nerds too. There may be some significant value in the name PARC for technical education marketing purposes.
Higher learning and tech training is very big busines$ in the US.
Okay, new money may not go to traditional computer hardware (ie Desktops). My household, like most in the US, already has one. I don't need to replace it every year, only every few years. (I don't personally know anyone that replaces their car every year either.)
However, this in no way means computer sales growth will level out very soon! I, like most US adults, do not have a PIM yet. It would be interesting to know how many US households do not have a cell phone yet. Watch what the convergence of cell phone + PIM does for computer sales growth. (Yes, I consider a PIM, e.g., Palm, a computer. And yes, I consider a combination PIM + cell phone still a computer.)
Human blood has no DNA.
High detail 3d virtual worlds may not elevate the gaming experience in an exponential way, but thats not really what it is about anymore.
Realism is becoming the standard these days. Dot matrix printers offer a good analogy. About 15 years ago a good dot-matrix printout was good enough for most anything. Today, the standard is much higher but we are still printing the same words!
Poo-Chi? Do they have a web page? Never heard of it.
A company can incorporate in any of several ways in the US. Each has its own merits and tax advantages/disadvantages. Some pay no taxes. However in all cases, the owners are taxed on *most* of the money they take.
Specifically, S-CORP and LLC/LLP are "flow-through entities" --- income/loss is attributed to the owners and the entities themselves can show no profit/loss for tax purposes. Other entities, such as C-CORPs can have profit/loss and are taxed (but at a fixed rate -- I think 30%). The company owners choose the structure that fits their needs best. (e.g., If you are in the 49% tax bracket, the corp pays less on the dollar.)
Does anyone know if corporate structures are similar in other parts of the industrialized world?
Why doesn't hotmail or yahoo (or the other big browser email folks) use HTTPS. Doesn't that effectively scramble the browser based emails from prying employers?
I've wondered about this before and can see this being an attractive marketing tool for the privacy consious.
...not the mind. Many animal species learn behaviors from their parents. Behaviors are lost forever.
...and you will discover new problems. I doubt anyone can devise a legal framework that makes intellectual monopoly rights fair and reasonable.
For example, remove the fees ($200 and $5000 seems outragous) and you will discover frivolous obstructionists coming out of the woodwork. Add any fee, and the mildly interested that have a contribution to make, will not.
not needed. the underemployed in this country cant do the jobs?
...and I will show you someone that has not done enough research.
How many times will the BT patent and the 60's video be news on Slashdot? I think this is the third time in September.
Cool; there is so much detail in these pictures you can calculate where the satelite was relative to the subject by the angle of the structures.
For those that never experienced the heyday of disk compression utilities (e.g., M$'s doubledisk and the other tool that it ripped off) and had it crash I say: watch out.
Now I can keep the "wifey" videos on the harddrive!
I prefer to burn my presidents in effigy. (I'm just a little old fashion that way.)
Somehow restraining an athlete from describing his or her own experience to a broad audience is perverse. Yet if you choose intellectual property as a tangible product, you have to buy the Olympic Committee's right to control it.
This is just another example of the absurd corners giving merit to the psuedo-concept of "intellectual property" paints us into.
I made the move from pure technical (software developer) to management about 5 years ago and discovered about a year ago that I hated my work life.
For me the fix was leaving my position as a technical project manager and becoming a programming grunt at an internet startup.
What surprised me the most was that I could make more money in today's market as a software developer than as a project manager. Go figure.
The impact of the woman's head on the window is from the acceleration of that window toward her head. (Just another way of phrasing your point about her linear inertia.)
After her body came to rest against the window and the door, she was experiencing centripital acceleration in the literal sense. (Although the car is not a string, and she is not a yo-yo (I dont know her), the factors are the same. The car is keeping her on the arc of a circle.)
In CA I believe the welfare administration is resticted by law from checking citizenship.
Very cool; but who are these http://www.goldenshower.gs people? The site seems to be in something like Spanish. Does anyone know what country ".gs" stands for?
First some nitpicking:
1) On page4.html he writes that the Commodore64 used the 6502 processor. I am pretty sure this is wrong. The C64 used a special variant of the 6502 known as the 6510. It was able to address about 128k by switching RAM/ROM banks 16k at a time.
2) On page5.html he writes "lone gone" when I think he meant "long gone."
I love this project! It is the absurd waste of time kind-of-thing that I wish I had the time and talent to do.
PS - Page6.html mentions "the Computerized Router that I used to make the case." What the hell is that and where can I get one?
Neat idea. Someone should apply this idea to an MP3 based jukebox so that the most expensive and tempermental part of the setup (the robot arm) can be avoided.
Betcha a cheap webcam and some neat software can be spliced together for under $90 to do it. Your choice of music is only limited by the size of your harddrive, or the size of your internet connection.
The author writes "any deletions or mutations in the hybridized DNA act as a barrier that prevents electron flow."
I can imagine how additions would break conductivity (adding links to the dna chain that are not bound to a metal). But how would removing links in the dna strand break conductivity? Presumably, the links left in the strand still have their metal.
Forget the unfair aspect. Lets talk about reasonablness. How is it reasonable to import more H1B visa holders while we are sending those already here back home? Arent the ones here already trained? (Or is it more about keeping wages down than about having talent on hand?)
I was a hiring manager at a large firm and I can say part of it is about keeping wages down.