The idea stands to reason: Asteroids being large bodies of rock, asteroids can be mined for their mineralogical contents. I expect that there could be a viable process for that made with a fully automated, robotic mining production line (with at least one manned repair station, perhaps in orbit around the earth.) I think it may be not so much a question of whether it's possible, then, but rather, a question of how it would be achieved (with economic viability, moreover).
...if the student is having problems with a question - unless the student happens to be candid enough to admit when the student is having problems with a question. Then, when the teacher would be equipped to assist the student in learning how to solve the math problem... well, I thought that's how education works. Maybe there are some dissenting opinions about it, however.
I recall having heard that a majority of flight testing for vehicles such as the B-2 and F-117 was conducted in digital windtunnels, before any physical vehicles were constructed for actual flight tests. Considering that, I wonder if the HTV project is not using similar testing? or if the existing areodynamic modeling techniques might not apply, at hypersonic speeds? (Or maybe it's something completely different...)
Speaking from the perspective of someone with a diehard entrepreneurial attitude, it's really a treat to read John Larson's candid and experienced advice. It serves to lend at least a few grains of salt to all the novel naivete that some efforts may start out with - that is, before anyone begins discussing the execution of the idea (if ever, really).
That it takes more than a bright idea to really make an entrepreneurial opportunity happen - that's a point of view I think we could hear more of, honestly. Consdering some of the get-rich-quick and instant-gratification attitudes that might become attached, commonly, to some aspects of technology, I think it would also be good if there was more discourse about the signifcance of the execution phase in software projects (whether one uses an agile model, a monolithic model, or otherwise).
Candor is good, especially in what may be commonly approached with a sense of naivete (viz a viz, enterpreneurial startups).
Considering the content of that article,I am now significantly impressed with/. I guess it's not just for spectatorship, after all;) Cheers.
It seems that the key issue is of the publisher being granted rights to limit resale.
Frankly, I don't know how they can be allowed to sue anyone for competing against the publisher's own distribution channels. It is a free market economy, is not? Do we have to seek an extension of antitrust legislation onto distribution channels, as well, now?
Uncertainty is a natural part of life...and so is science.
Though I'm not a parent, myself, I can understand that parents who care enough to not be complacent about their kids' well being may be concerned at such sense of uncertainty as I would expect one would encounter in being a parent - even without such manufactured uncertainty as and advertisers would typically try to inspire, so in order to sell their products.
I think that a reasonable sense of uncertainty would be natural, however - and it's not as if any parent was in it alone. There is the thing called commuinty. Whether or not in community, we also have this lovely thing called knowledge - It might even be more lovely than speculation.
That we can use science in developing knowledge, then, I think that's important.
To comment to the issues raised in the article: Not to sound like an alarmist, but seriously, I think it raises it a concern for whether we may be approaching a condition of "criticial mass" in inadequate education, in some regions. If the people designing the tests are not even qualified enough to be able to produce valid tests, then what can we expect as results, from the schools? and what can we expect, later, when the students taught in those schools endeavor to set the rules for the next generation of schooling?
I think that the concept of educational reform should be recognized as a concept of national concern. I only hope there are enough people around who are not so touchy about it, though, to be unable to address it.
...or, alternately, they could try to hire some managers who could actually connect with their staff, earn their respect and trust, and garner honest points of view from the staff. If their staff are really communicating, they shouldn't need to use third party systems for analyzing the language in their communication.
I simply hope that the executives at those companies may consider whether the novelty of such systems makes it worth their cost, in comparison to more traditional means for getting to know the staff's actual point of view.
...even two very well fiscally endowed dot coms. I guess I don't undestand Brin's criticism of Apple and Facebook. On the open market, don't they have a right to control their respective platforms? Facebook, with their web service platform, and Apple with their mobile, desktop, and server platforms? These aren't community-owend coops - I fail to see the principles of the concern.
IANAL, but I'm not completely unfamiliar with concepts involved in litigation. "900 motions and filings" makes it sound, to me, like rather a complex case. Reading the first article linked, then, it looks like the case will boil down to some analyses of patent claims, on one hand, and secondly, the question of whether a programming language can be a copywritten work. I would wager that the court's decision in the second matter of those, that it may ultimately have the widest affect on the industry, overall, in any eventual repurcussions of the case. (At the least, it's the matter I find myself most intersted about, so maybe that's just my bias speaking.)
As far as trying to guess out Oracle's strategy, I don't know if we really can, this far along in the process. My own guess is that they just want some money out of Google, plain and simple - but certainly, there must be more details to their strategy.
Before one would procede to discuss such vague terms, one might hope that the discussion would include a definition of those terms, in the context of the discussion. Failing that, one might dismiss it as a lot of interpretive imgaination.
In my dissenting argument, I cite the work, NewSpace Nation, by Jeff Krukin (Kindle editiion). Krukin cites a significant number of companies becoming involved in the emergent phenomenon of NewSpace development - two more notable names of which include Virgin Galactic and Space Exploration Technologies Corp (SPACEX), both of which were involved in the relatively recent competition for the Ansari X Prize. Certainly, those companies are interested in continuing space exploration. It's a part of their corproate bottom lines, after all - not even to comment to the scientific and more philosophically interpretive qualities of the work.
There's business in space, occurring already. (It's not just about epic moonshots any more)
I respect Mr. Rennie's effort in encouraging further efforts in deep space exploration, but I think his argument may go a little away from principle. The Voyager probes were not designed to be deep space probes. As I recall having learned, the Voyager probes were designed to photograph the planets and record relevant non-visual data, during the recent "grand conjunction" phase in the solar system.
I'm afraid I must apologize for my evident lack of citations, here. As my own specator knowledge of it holds, and anyone may wish to correct me: It's been a pleasant suprrise that the Voyager probes have continued functioningm, for so many years since after they completed their assigned missions.
Personally, I think it also may serve in making a constructive comment towards the niceties of reliable manufacturing practice in the construction of space exploration systems. "But maybe that's just me";}
I'm not sure if I'm prepared to differentiate between the political and, respectively, climatological connotations of discussions in regards to climate change. My own position about the topic could be said to be interpretive, at best.
...and it would seem to be a rather persistent thing, at that.
Personally, I think it's great to hear some simple news about a non-trivial thing relating to a driver that also affects the overall performance of my own computer. That it's an article not written in marketspeak covered with a 20 gallon drum full of marketsauce, then, I guess that may also serve to comment to the technological integrity of the open source developer domain.
What a patently moronic policy - carte blanche. It doesn't assist anyone, it only draws a tax on internet use, such that will ultimately have a desultory effect on the market.
Capitalism simply does not deliver good education. There is no profit in a swathe of well-educated people, only the minimum needed to keep remaining consumers in line.
I don't mean to make it a political issue, but I recall President Obama's emphasis - at least, in public speaking, while the Congress remains embroiled otherwise - his emphasis on technology and innovation in the economy. Of course, those are goals that must be supported with sound technical education, with mathematics as at least one essential basis of the same. I don't know whether any regional school boards have quite caught a clue, at that, however.
Hypothetically, there is a motivation for - when being supported in developing a really solid education, as some regional (cough red state cough cough) school boards honestly might not give so much of a damn about - hypothetically, one can find a sense of motivation in pursuing education, like so: To be well enough educated to develop really useful innovations, ultimately for the purpose of their being useful innovations - to not get the cart in front of the horse, at that -... whichmay therefore be of use in entrepreneurial development. That short line of reasoning put even shorter, as it were, there's motivation for innovation - motivation to develop a really solid education... insofar as one regionally may, at least during public school, and there's always post secondary education, of course...
I mean, we could set out to get our public school systems to perform really up to par - or else, we could let the rest of the world outdistance us (further) in terms of common skilled labor. If we should take option number two, there, I'm sure that could go really well for us, in only a couple of generations's time - not.
I can respect that there's a distinction between the Nazi Party as a political movement and the German Military as a governmentally operated military body. Speculatively, though - and this could only be in speculation, I suppose, so, speaking only hypothetically - I wonder how easy it may be for a nation's military to not become wholly engrossed with an authoritarian agenda of the nation the military serves?..speaking only hypothetically, as it were;} I mean, cough nothing about Neocon ideology cough cough...
Does the federal government not regulate local PD's measures in crowd control?
I'm afraid we're about to turn some bad corners in development of such measures, nationally, and I don't know if we'll be able to turn back from those.
The assaults on the Occupy protesters in Oakland - to speak only of one recent incident in Police abuse - it sets a bad precedent. The development of even more aggressive crowd control measures, if it would not be regulated, may lead to even further abuses - not a thing we should allow, as a democratic people, though I'm certainly not one to propose any rash responses to which.
From the article: “Hey, let’s do a digital version of our college facebook” is a digital immigrant’s idea, just like “Hey, let’s make something like a classifieds section of a newspaper, only this one will be online”. Or “Hey, let’s make an online auction hall”. “Hey, let’s make a place for online video rentals”.
I guess that's supposed to identify what the author wishes to refer to as the identity of the "digital native." In what may be some simpler terms, it looks the author is referring to what would be, rather, a matter of adopting existing forms, for expression in the technologies available of the online medium. It's a matter of adoption of technology, that - not anything in regards to duration of exposure.
I'm sure that the phrase, "Digital native" must carry a certain romantic, imaginative tone to it - perhaps, rather hearkening back to some old cyberpunk novels. (I haven't read those, though I've heard of some. Personally, I've thought that the technology, itself, is neat enough, without having to render it into a fictional context.) I don't think it's good for anything more than poetry, though.
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The idea stands to reason: Asteroids being large bodies of rock, asteroids can be mined for their mineralogical contents. I expect that there could be a viable process for that made with a fully automated, robotic mining production line (with at least one manned repair station, perhaps in orbit around the earth.) I think it may be not so much a question of whether it's possible, then, but rather, a question of how it would be achieved (with economic viability, moreover).
...if the student is having problems with a question - unless the student happens to be candid enough to admit when the student is having problems with a question. Then, when the teacher would be equipped to assist the student in learning how to solve the math problem ... well, I thought that's how education works. Maybe there are some dissenting opinions about it, however.
I recall having heard that a majority of flight testing for vehicles such as the B-2 and F-117 was conducted in digital windtunnels, before any physical vehicles were constructed for actual flight tests. Considering that, I wonder if the HTV project is not using similar testing? or if the existing areodynamic modeling techniques might not apply, at hypersonic speeds? (Or maybe it's something completely different...)
Speaking from the perspective of someone with a diehard entrepreneurial attitude, it's really a treat to read John Larson's candid and experienced advice. It serves to lend at least a few grains of salt to all the novel naivete that some efforts may start out with - that is, before anyone begins discussing the execution of the idea (if ever, really).
That it takes more than a bright idea to really make an entrepreneurial opportunity happen - that's a point of view I think we could hear more of, honestly. Consdering some of the get-rich-quick and instant-gratification attitudes that might become attached, commonly, to some aspects of technology, I think it would also be good if there was more discourse about the signifcance of the execution phase in software projects (whether one uses an agile model, a monolithic model, or otherwise).
Candor is good, especially in what may be commonly approached with a sense of naivete (viz a viz, enterpreneurial startups).
Considering the content of that article,I am now significantly impressed with /. I guess it's not just for spectatorship, after all ;) Cheers.
It seems that the key issue is of the publisher being granted rights to limit resale.
Frankly, I don't know how they can be allowed to sue anyone for competing against the publisher's own distribution channels. It is a free market economy, is not? Do we have to seek an extension of antitrust legislation onto distribution channels, as well, now?
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Uncertainty is a natural part of life ...and so is science.
Though I'm not a parent, myself, I can understand that parents who care enough to not be complacent about their kids' well being may be concerned at such sense of uncertainty as I would expect one would encounter in being a parent - even without such manufactured uncertainty as and advertisers would typically try to inspire, so in order to sell their products.
I think that a reasonable sense of uncertainty would be natural, however - and it's not as if any parent was in it alone. There is the thing called commuinty. Whether or not in community, we also have this lovely thing called knowledge - It might even be more lovely than speculation.
That we can use science in developing knowledge, then, I think that's important.
To comment to the issues raised in the article: Not to sound like an alarmist, but seriously, I think it raises it a concern for whether we may be approaching a condition of "criticial mass" in inadequate education, in some regions. If the people designing the tests are not even qualified enough to be able to produce valid tests, then what can we expect as results, from the schools? and what can we expect, later, when the students taught in those schools endeavor to set the rules for the next generation of schooling?
I think that the concept of educational reform should be recognized as a concept of national concern. I only hope there are enough people around who are not so touchy about it, though, to be unable to address it.
...or, alternately, they could try to hire some managers who could actually connect with their staff, earn their respect and trust, and garner honest points of view from the staff. If their staff are really communicating, they shouldn't need to use third party systems for analyzing the language in their communication.
I simply hope that the executives at those companies may consider whether the novelty of such systems makes it worth their cost, in comparison to more traditional means for getting to know the staff's actual point of view.
...even two very well fiscally endowed dot coms. I guess I don't undestand Brin's criticism of Apple and Facebook. On the open market, don't they have a right to control their respective platforms? Facebook, with their web service platform, and Apple with their mobile, desktop, and server platforms? These aren't community-owend coops - I fail to see the principles of the concern.
IANAL, but I'm not completely unfamiliar with concepts involved in litigation. "900 motions and filings" makes it sound, to me, like rather a complex case. Reading the first article linked, then, it looks like the case will boil down to some analyses of patent claims, on one hand, and secondly, the question of whether a programming language can be a copywritten work. I would wager that the court's decision in the second matter of those, that it may ultimately have the widest affect on the industry, overall, in any eventual repurcussions of the case. (At the least, it's the matter I find myself most intersted about, so maybe that's just my bias speaking.)
As far as trying to guess out Oracle's strategy, I don't know if we really can, this far along in the process. My own guess is that they just want some money out of Google, plain and simple - but certainly, there must be more details to their strategy.
Before one would procede to discuss such vague terms, one might hope that the discussion would include a definition of those terms, in the context of the discussion. Failing that, one might dismiss it as a lot of interpretive imgaination.
In my dissenting argument, I cite the work, NewSpace Nation, by Jeff Krukin (Kindle editiion). Krukin cites a significant number of companies becoming involved in the emergent phenomenon of NewSpace development - two more notable names of which include Virgin Galactic and Space Exploration Technologies Corp (SPACEX), both of which were involved in the relatively recent competition for the Ansari X Prize. Certainly, those companies are interested in continuing space exploration. It's a part of their corproate bottom lines, after all - not even to comment to the scientific and more philosophically interpretive qualities of the work.
There's business in space, occurring already. (It's not just about epic moonshots any more)
My 2 cents on the turnip....
I respect Mr. Rennie's effort in encouraging further efforts in deep space exploration, but I think his argument may go a little away from principle. The Voyager probes were not designed to be deep space probes. As I recall having learned, the Voyager probes were designed to photograph the planets and record relevant non-visual data, during the recent "grand conjunction" phase in the solar system.
I'm afraid I must apologize for my evident lack of citations, here. As my own specator knowledge of it holds, and anyone may wish to correct me: It's been a pleasant suprrise that the Voyager probes have continued functioningm, for so many years since after they completed their assigned missions.
Personally, I think it also may serve in making a constructive comment towards the niceties of reliable manufacturing practice in the construction of space exploration systems. "But maybe that's just me" ;}
I'm not sure if I'm prepared to differentiate between the political and, respectively, climatological connotations of discussions in regards to climate change. My own position about the topic could be said to be interpretive, at best.
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Well, I guess we'll just have to go and check that out ourselves ><
I'm just sayin' ;}
...out of their precision legal machinery, so they sue.
Science and the useful arts? of intimidation, is it? Well, it's up to the courts, in the end, at that.
...and it would seem to be a rather persistent thing, at that.
Personally, I think it's great to hear some simple news about a non-trivial thing relating to a driver that also affects the overall performance of my own computer. That it's an article not written in marketspeak covered with a 20 gallon drum full of marketsauce, then, I guess that may also serve to comment to the technological integrity of the open source developer domain.
But sure sure, we can troll, we can. Cheers.
What a patently moronic policy - carte blanche. It doesn't assist anyone, it only draws a tax on internet use, such that will ultimately have a desultory effect on the market.
Liliput. Have a nice day, and thank you for that aggressive question.
Capitalism simply does not deliver good education. There is no profit in a swathe of well-educated people, only the minimum needed to keep remaining consumers in line.
I don't mean to make it a political issue, but I recall President Obama's emphasis - at least, in public speaking, while the Congress remains embroiled otherwise - his emphasis on technology and innovation in the economy. Of course, those are goals that must be supported with sound technical education, with mathematics as at least one essential basis of the same. I don't know whether any regional school boards have quite caught a clue, at that, however.
Hypothetically, there is a motivation for - when being supported in developing a really solid education, as some regional (cough red state cough cough) school boards honestly might not give so much of a damn about - hypothetically, one can find a sense of motivation in pursuing education, like so: To be well enough educated to develop really useful innovations, ultimately for the purpose of their being useful innovations - to not get the cart in front of the horse, at that - ... whichmay therefore be of use in entrepreneurial development. That short line of reasoning put even shorter, as it were, there's motivation for innovation - motivation to develop a really solid education ... insofar as one regionally may, at least during public school, and there's always post secondary education, of course...
I mean, we could set out to get our public school systems to perform really up to par - or else, we could let the rest of the world outdistance us (further) in terms of common skilled labor. If we should take option number two, there, I'm sure that could go really well for us, in only a couple of generations's time - not.
I can respect that there's a distinction between the Nazi Party as a political movement and the German Military as a governmentally operated military body. Speculatively, though - and this could only be in speculation, I suppose, so, speaking only hypothetically - I wonder how easy it may be for a nation's military to not become wholly engrossed with an authoritarian agenda of the nation the military serves? ..speaking only hypothetically, as it were ;} I mean, cough nothing about Neocon ideology cough cough...
Does the federal government not regulate local PD's measures in crowd control?
I'm afraid we're about to turn some bad corners in development of such measures, nationally, and I don't know if we'll be able to turn back from those.
The assaults on the Occupy protesters in Oakland - to speak only of one recent incident in Police abuse - it sets a bad precedent. The development of even more aggressive crowd control measures, if it would not be regulated, may lead to even further abuses - not a thing we should allow, as a democratic people, though I'm certainly not one to propose any rash responses to which.
From the article: “Hey, let’s do a digital version of our college facebook” is a digital immigrant’s idea, just like “Hey, let’s make something like a classifieds section of a newspaper, only this one will be online”. Or “Hey, let’s make an online auction hall”. “Hey, let’s make a place for online video rentals”.
I guess that's supposed to identify what the author wishes to refer to as the identity of the "digital native." In what may be some simpler terms, it looks the author is referring to what would be, rather, a matter of adopting existing forms, for expression in the technologies available of the online medium. It's a matter of adoption of technology, that - not anything in regards to duration of exposure.
I'm sure that the phrase, "Digital native" must carry a certain romantic, imaginative tone to it - perhaps, rather hearkening back to some old cyberpunk novels. (I haven't read those, though I've heard of some. Personally, I've thought that the technology, itself, is neat enough, without having to render it into a fictional context.) I don't think it's good for anything more than poetry, though.