Compared to updating a desktop Windows box while some clueless biddy is clicking away on your installer at random ("Yes! I definitely want the Cryptolocker browser toolbar" "It hasn't done anything for five minutes! Should I unplug it and call great-grandson Justin on his text thingie?" "Yes, let's have Windows Live control my Hotmail").
With Javascript on Glass, can malware be far behind? Would affected users be stumbling around blinded? Would IT-conscious Glassholes get tired of having to say "OK, Glass: Yes to the umpteenth fucking Java update dialog today!"
Are Chinese authorities going full FDA on these people out of concern about spam, or about the manufacturing of unofficial telecom equipment? Their worst nightmare would be having the Internet make a great leap forward over their prized national firewall, letting the outside world flood in.
If you want to make anything and crime go hand in hand, make that thing illegal. This has worked more times than there are rivets on the underside of your bridge.
Yes, it's time we stopped treating intellectual property like real estate. Instead, let's make IT an inalienable right, like free speech, of the actual creator of work. No more selling off IP to faceless "rights holders" - if you want to exploit a patent, you have to maintain a contractual relationship with the creator.
Of course people with specific ties to an industry are going to find arguments for government subsidies to that industry. The rest of us just wish that all the subsidies would go away, so we could make decisions about purchases based on economic merit, rather than figuring some arbitrary fraction of the advertised price that gives us an advantage on some IRS form. Why, indeed, should the oil business get a "depletion allowance" that no one else enjoys? And why should farmers have their crop prices subsidized to match that one halcyon year during WW I when they got what they consider a 'fair' price?
Aaand... any progress we are going to make on cleaning up pollution, creating carbon-free energy, and not having to import our cars' vital body fluids from desert tribes which hate us, will have to be done over the metaphorical dead bodies of "environmentalists." They automatically come out against every single energy project that actually gets built: (example: http://www.solarindustrymag.co... and even infrastructure that links projects like this into the grid: http://www.biologicaldiversity...
They believe in using the court system to enforce their pet opinions on science, rather than using that oh-so-dull scientific method: (http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/02/12/mann_vs_steyn_the_trial_of_the_century__121528.html)
But hey, at least they stand responsible for a lot of new coal mining jobs in Germany.
Too many of the general public confuse 'conservatives' with 'Republicans.' The Republicrat Party is a matched pair of umbrella organizations set up to protect given sets of special interests, which involve significant overlap, from real-world economics and public accountability. The left-hand half of this party just got through putting together a tax-supported national healthcare system that carefully avoids interfering with the legal armor that allows the pharma business and the hospital business to screw us blind. Rank-and-file leftists never got the healthcare cost controls they craved. Meanwhile, the right-hand segment of the party spouts capitalist rhetoric while being careful not to bring up the idea of subjecting the same set of big donors to the free-market competition that its own base has always wished for.
We of the dark side have been generally suspicious of electric cars because of the perception that most purchases are made with cushy tax subsidies, rather than inherent merit, in mind. There is also a cultural bias factor ("University hippies buy these, so they must be bad...") which works both ways. I recently had a relative profess shock that, despite my politics, I recycle. I had to explain to her that hating environmental activists doesn't have to mean hating the environment itself. We feel batter about Tesla than about the Leaf and its ilk because it's the first electric vehicle that is being successfully marketed to people who take economics seriously (still early-adopter pricing, but with decent range and performance), and that it comes from Silicon Valley rather than being an afterthought product, withdrawn at the first hint of technical difficulties, marketed to guilt-ridden academics. Tesla intends to make this product a success, and is putting in the infrastructure it will take to make it so.
If selling your search terms to advertisers were not in the business model, how much would you be willing to pay for Google? $50 a month? $100? Would you go back to 'looking things up' at libraries, as our ancestors did, or just stumbling around being wrong about basic facts most of the time?
The Segway is another perfect example: if it had been initially marketed as an aid for those people who can stand but not walk, it would have been a "hero" technology, like a wheelchair that can climb stairs, rather than a punchline.
And he rules the most advanced part of the Middle East. Besides tour groups carefully shepherded around the Valley of Kings by Egyptian soldiers Turkey is the one part of the area that tourists actually want to go to. Great job destroying your one decent source of revenue. Erdogan seems intent on undoing the work of Kemal Ataturk and bringing back the seventh century.
Better still: deploy the Glass beta to specialized professionals first, such as surgeons or lawyers, talking Glass up as a source of supplementary information during operations and trials. As soon as the tech gets featured on a few episodes of "Scrubs" or "Suits," the coolness factor is established and everybody will be wanting it.
So logically this new one would be Zeppelin XP. I predict it will be a more successful, after which we will see Zeppelin Vista, which will use the lighter and more easily available hydrogen. They promise improved security and safety this time.
So...on those treasured occasions when Fox presents both sides of an issue, that's Bad? This must be coming from the same set of squirrel-reasoning critics who are responsible for the recent amazing reversal of leftist support for company commuter buses.
Bedouins used to make ice by leaving shallow pans of water open to the desert night air, with a blanket under the pan to keep the heat of the ground from soaking into the water. This idea is essentially using a thermocouple in place of the blanket and exploiting the temperature differential to generate electricity.
Can we dream of suburban rooftops that harvest photoelectric power by day plus whatever small amount of back-seepage of heat into the air can be reclaimed at night?
As soon as the climate issue transitioned from being a scientific issue to a political cause, it has been fought according to the rules of politics, not science. It's why people line up for and against on the basis of ideology. It's why the collegial peer skepticism that is the norm all through regular science has been replaced by angry political terminology in this one instance.
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Compared to updating a desktop Windows box while some clueless biddy is clicking away on your installer at random ("Yes! I definitely want the Cryptolocker browser toolbar" "It hasn't done anything for five minutes! Should I unplug it and call great-grandson Justin on his text thingie?" "Yes, let's have Windows Live control my Hotmail").
With Javascript on Glass, can malware be far behind? Would affected users be stumbling around blinded? Would IT-conscious Glassholes get tired of having to say "OK, Glass: Yes to the umpteenth fucking Java update dialog today!"
Are Chinese authorities going full FDA on these people out of concern about spam, or about the manufacturing of unofficial telecom equipment? Their worst nightmare would be having the Internet make a great leap forward over their prized national firewall, letting the outside world flood in.
If you want to make anything and crime go hand in hand, make that thing illegal. This has worked more times than there are rivets on the underside of your bridge.
Yes, it's time we stopped treating intellectual property like real estate. Instead, let's make IT an inalienable right, like free speech, of the actual creator of work. No more selling off IP to faceless "rights holders" - if you want to exploit a patent, you have to maintain a contractual relationship with the creator.
Of course people with specific ties to an industry are going to find arguments for government subsidies to that industry. The rest of us just wish that all the subsidies would go away, so we could make decisions about purchases based on economic merit, rather than figuring some arbitrary fraction of the advertised price that gives us an advantage on some IRS form. Why, indeed, should the oil business get a "depletion allowance" that no one else enjoys? And why should farmers have their crop prices subsidized to match that one halcyon year during WW I when they got what they consider a 'fair' price?
Aaand... any progress we are going to make on cleaning up pollution, creating carbon-free energy, and not having to import our cars' vital body fluids from desert tribes which hate us, will have to be done over the metaphorical dead bodies of "environmentalists." They automatically come out against every single energy project that actually gets built:
(example: http://www.solarindustrymag.co...
and even infrastructure that links projects like this into the grid:
http://www.biologicaldiversity...
They believe in using the court system to enforce their pet opinions on science, rather than using that oh-so-dull scientific method:
(http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/02/12/mann_vs_steyn_the_trial_of_the_century__121528.html)
But hey, at least they stand responsible for a lot of new coal mining jobs in Germany.
Does a ring system tell us that this asteroid has volatile compounds on it? Developers may not have to go to the Oort Cloud for water after all.
Too many of the general public confuse 'conservatives' with 'Republicans.' The Republicrat Party is a matched pair of umbrella organizations set up to protect given sets of special interests, which involve significant overlap, from real-world economics and public accountability. The left-hand half of this party just got through putting together a tax-supported national healthcare system that carefully avoids interfering with the legal armor that allows the pharma business and the hospital business to screw us blind. Rank-and-file leftists never got the healthcare cost controls they craved. Meanwhile, the right-hand segment of the party spouts capitalist rhetoric while being careful not to bring up the idea of subjecting the same set of big donors to the free-market competition that its own base has always wished for.
We of the dark side have been generally suspicious of electric cars because of the perception that most purchases are made with cushy tax subsidies, rather than inherent merit, in mind. There is also a cultural bias factor ("University hippies buy these, so they must be bad...") which works both ways. I recently had a relative profess shock that, despite my politics, I recycle. I had to explain to her that hating environmental activists doesn't have to mean hating the environment itself. We feel batter about Tesla than about the Leaf and its ilk because it's the first electric vehicle that is being successfully marketed to people who take economics seriously (still early-adopter pricing, but with decent range and performance), and that it comes from Silicon Valley rather than being an afterthought product, withdrawn at the first hint of technical difficulties, marketed to guilt-ridden academics. Tesla intends to make this product a success, and is putting in the infrastructure it will take to make it so.
Ooooh, just wait until "Oculoids" start showing up in bars, heads completely shrouded behind a Rift. Glassholes are going to be beating them up.
Anecdote, n.: An observation that supports the other guy's hypothesis.
If selling your search terms to advertisers were not in the business model, how much would you be willing to pay for Google? $50 a month? $100? Would you go back to 'looking things up' at libraries, as our ancestors did, or just stumbling around being wrong about basic facts most of the time?
I would award this guy a Nobel if he could at least come up with furniture that identifies and kills bedbugs.
The Segway is another perfect example: if it had been initially marketed as an aid for those people who can stand but not walk, it would have been a "hero" technology, like a wheelchair that can climb stairs, rather than a punchline.
"You don't get to dictate what a service provided by a company located in another country does or does not offer. "
This privilege is reserved for the French, who with much better technology have been equally unable to make Net censorship work.
And he rules the most advanced part of the Middle East. Besides tour groups carefully shepherded around the Valley of Kings by Egyptian soldiers Turkey is the one part of the area that tourists actually want to go to. Great job destroying your one decent source of revenue. Erdogan seems intent on undoing the work of Kemal Ataturk and bringing back the seventh century.
Good advice, but save this one for when you turn forty and are deemed too old for the field. It can be as simple as opening a Subchapter S.
Bypassing HR by connecting directly with a project manager is ancient advice, but still valid today. I first used this ploy in 1970.
Whoosh!
Smearing and blurring a myth does not do any good. You want to disarm or defuse it.
Ich bin nicht ein Grammarnazi.
Better still: deploy the Glass beta to specialized professionals first, such as surgeons or lawyers, talking Glass up as a source of supplementary information during operations and trials. As soon as the tech gets featured on a few episodes of "Scrubs" or "Suits," the coolness factor is established and everybody will be wanting it.
So logically this new one would be Zeppelin XP. I predict it will be a more successful, after which we will see Zeppelin Vista, which will use the lighter and more easily available hydrogen. They promise improved security and safety this time.
So...on those treasured occasions when Fox presents both sides of an issue, that's Bad? This must be coming from the same set of squirrel-reasoning critics who are responsible for the recent amazing reversal of leftist support for company commuter buses.
Bedouins used to make ice by leaving shallow pans of water open to the desert night air, with a blanket under the pan to keep the heat of the ground from soaking into the water. This idea is essentially using a thermocouple in place of the blanket and exploiting the temperature differential to generate electricity.
Can we dream of suburban rooftops that harvest photoelectric power by day plus whatever small amount of back-seepage of heat into the air can be reclaimed at night?
As soon as the climate issue transitioned from being a scientific issue to a political cause, it has been fought according to the rules of politics, not science. It's why people line up for and against on the basis of ideology. It's why the collegial peer skepticism that is the norm all through regular science has been replaced by angry political terminology in this one instance.
No, he went the other way. I understand that Richard Nixon has already named Phelps as Shadow Secretary of State.