I'll argue that it counts for personal fulfillment, but not much in the job market. I spent six figures for a fancy undergraduate education over a decade ago. The diploma has served me well, but day-to-day I use the math, communication, and analytic skills I learned in high-school, and not much from college.
>> Anyone who can't be bothered or can't remember to plug their cellphone into a charger at night doesn't deserve to own one.
Jeeze, what a hard-ass. Don't you know anybody with a 4 sigma IQ, who wouldn't remember to wear pants in the morning if their wife didn't remind them?
>> This fuel cell isn't built into the cellphone. It's an extra device you have to carry around. Might as well carry a charger.
Agreed. But the guys working of FCs for mobile apps are all looking to eventually replace the battery not the charger. Just because the first mobile phones were the size and weight of a cinder-block, doesn't mean that creating them wasn't a useful exercise.
I neither need, use, or want a cell phone, but most of the people I know who do have them could use more talk time and less size/weight. The "absent minded professor" type is pretty forgettful about getting the phone on the charger at night, and thus is prone to running out of power mid-conversation. Additionally, if you travel for business, a FC powered phone would also mean that you wouldn't have to carry a charger with you on trips. Lastly, FC's don't have moving parts (but I certainly agree that initially they would be more complicated than current technology).
"By this time next year, it could equal the notebook market," Mark Allen, Transmeta's CEO, said of the company's prospects in the market for embedded chips.
$280mm of cash and near cash
burn rate of $70mm per quarter
capital markets dried up entirely
macro environment going down the toilet
Transmetta will not be around in its current form a "this time next year".
In addition, the nominal speed has historically been very different than the actual speed, mostly because conditions in the real world are so much different than in the laboratory. I'd be very surpised if they actually got 20% of the 384k number.
>> This isn't the first time that there have been people trying to sell fuel cells to the public.
Other names:
Plug Power (mostly sold via GE)
FuelCell Energy (industrial size)
H Power
GM (supposedly)
Manhattan Scientifics (micro size)
Energy Converion Devices (new program, OEM supplier)
Medis (for cell phones)
Motorola (defunct program?)
and a bunch I can't remember...
Also a boat-load of guys are OEM suppliers:
Dais
Analytic Power
Siemens
Thermoelectric
etc, etc, etc...
Washington, Sept. 27 (Slashdot) -- Today an anonymous editor at the Washington Post apologized for an error that appeared in the paper earlier last week. "The story about Phil Zimmermann's reaction to WTC911 was incorrect, and it was incorrect becasue of my selfish interest in selling more papers." The anonymous editor went on to say that she was "overwhelmed with guilt" and was considering resignation of her post and/or suicide. When asked for comment, Mr. Zimmermann would only say "I feel just terrible about this. It's all my fault."
The two waiters and one waitress that I know all prefer cash tips over credit card tips because of the taxation issue. All of them tip in cash when they dine out, even if they are paying by plastic.
>> who think the government is out to tag 'n bag all of us
Governments throughout history have taged 'n bagged their citizens. Anyone who thinks the American government is any better is seriously deluding themselves.
Yeah, we grew purple fleshed potatoes on the farm when I was a kid. They tasted like regular potatoes, but didn't keep as well and were perhaps slightly drier inside. I sure wish I could remember the varietal name, but they were obviously not G.M. back in those days. I don't know if they were blight resistant, but they certainly were not resistant to the omnipresent potato-beetle.
2 hours * each way * 250 workdays = 1000 hours/year
So in effect, you are pissing away 11.4% of your life for nothing. Factor in 7 hours of sleep every night and we get 16.1% of your waking hours devoted to something that has almost zero productivity. If they don't let you telecommute, you should definitely find another job.
>> after many emails and phone calls I have determined that Linksys tech support is virtually non existent
Ditto. I have a slightly odd network topography and am not a expert computer user. Linksys (Amazon) sent me a bad unit to begin with, was not able to configure the second unit, and the techs were rushed and rude throught their attempt. On the flip side, the product eventually worked correctly, and Amazon was great about handling the defective unit.
>> Technological tools are wasted on popular culture and ignorant masses.
>> So many resources are wasted, so much time is wasted, so many lives are wasted.
You are so right. Let's put Joshua in charge of the allocation of resources. Screw Darwin and all that selection of the fittest crap 'cause it hasn't worked for Mother Nature and it won't work for us. Just let Joshua choose what's best for us. All Hail King Joshua!!!! Joshua pro bono publico!!!!
"6. Payloads -- Except for insects, my model rocket will never carry live animals or a payload that is intended to be flamable, explosive, or harmful."
If you want to really cheese off your brother-in-law, buy your nieces and nephews Legos with a) lots of 1x1's in the set, and b) a good color match to their rug.
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>> But does it count ?
I'll argue that it counts for personal fulfillment, but not much in the job market. I spent six figures for a fancy undergraduate education over a decade ago. The diploma has served me well, but day-to-day I use the math, communication, and analytic skills I learned in high-school, and not much from college.
Has anybody used an Erector Set in an engineering course in the last 10 years?
Yeah, and the website says, and I quote, "See the (possibly long) log...".
Those guys at MIT have to over-engineer everything, even their poops!
>> Anyone who can't be bothered or can't remember to plug their cellphone into a charger at night doesn't deserve to own one.
Jeeze, what a hard-ass. Don't you know anybody with a 4 sigma IQ, who wouldn't remember to wear pants in the morning if their wife didn't remind them?
>> This fuel cell isn't built into the cellphone. It's an extra device you have to carry around. Might as well carry a charger.
Agreed. But the guys working of FCs for mobile apps are all looking to eventually replace the battery not the charger. Just because the first mobile phones were the size and weight of a cinder-block, doesn't mean that creating them wasn't a useful exercise.
I neither need, use, or want a cell phone, but most of the people I know who do have them could use more talk time and less size/weight. The "absent minded professor" type is pretty forgettful about getting the phone on the charger at night, and thus is prone to running out of power mid-conversation. Additionally, if you travel for business, a FC powered phone would also mean that you wouldn't have to carry a charger with you on trips. Lastly, FC's don't have moving parts (but I certainly agree that initially they would be more complicated than current technology).
"By this time next year, it could equal the notebook market," Mark Allen, Transmeta's CEO, said of the company's prospects in the market for embedded chips.
$280mm of cash and near cash
burn rate of $70mm per quarter
capital markets dried up entirely
macro environment going down the toilet
Transmetta will not be around in its current form a "this time next year".
>> any form of clumsiness will keep you out of your encrypted files
Yeah, and what are you going to do when your machine locks up; give it the finger?
In addition, the nominal speed has historically been very different than the actual speed, mostly because conditions in the real world are so much different than in the laboratory. I'd be very surpised if they actually got 20% of the 384k number.
>> This isn't the first time that there have been people trying to sell fuel cells to the public.
Other names:
Plug Power (mostly sold via GE)
FuelCell Energy (industrial size)
H Power
GM (supposedly)
Manhattan Scientifics (micro size)
Energy Converion Devices (new program, OEM supplier)
Medis (for cell phones)
Motorola (defunct program?)
and a bunch I can't remember...
Also a boat-load of guys are OEM suppliers:
Dais
Analytic Power
Siemens
Thermoelectric
etc, etc, etc...
Washington, Sept. 27 (Slashdot) -- Today an anonymous editor at the Washington Post apologized for an error that appeared in the paper earlier last week. "The story about Phil Zimmermann's reaction to WTC911 was incorrect, and it was incorrect becasue of my selfish interest in selling more papers." The anonymous editor went on to say that she was "overwhelmed with guilt" and was considering resignation of her post and/or suicide. When asked for comment, Mr. Zimmermann would only say "I feel just terrible about this. It's all my fault."
Censorship = no
Invasion of privacy = yes
If these kids want to waste their time and money surfing during class, that's their problem. Why do they need to be mollycoddled by the school?
The two waiters and one waitress that I know all prefer cash tips over credit card tips because of the taxation issue. All of them tip in cash when they dine out, even if they are paying by plastic.
So what should we do when the government passes a law banning the use of full cryptography/PGP *inside* the US?
>> who think the government is out to tag 'n bag all of us
Governments throughout history have taged 'n bagged their citizens. Anyone who thinks the American government is any better is seriously deluding themselves.
Yeah, we grew purple fleshed potatoes on the farm when I was a kid. They tasted like regular potatoes, but didn't keep as well and were perhaps slightly drier inside. I sure wish I could remember the varietal name, but they were obviously not G.M. back in those days. I don't know if they were blight resistant, but they certainly were not resistant to the omnipresent potato-beetle.
Mod parent to Troll. Duh!
2 hours * each way * 250 workdays = 1000 hours/year
So in effect, you are pissing away 11.4% of your life for nothing. Factor in 7 hours of sleep every night and we get 16.1% of your waking hours devoted to something that has almost zero productivity. If they don't let you telecommute, you should definitely find another job.
>> after many emails and phone calls I have determined that Linksys tech support is virtually non existent
Ditto. I have a slightly odd network topography and am not a expert computer user. Linksys (Amazon) sent me a bad unit to begin with, was not able to configure the second unit, and the techs were rushed and rude throught their attempt. On the flip side, the product eventually worked correctly, and Amazon was great about handling the defective unit.
>> Technological tools are wasted on popular culture and ignorant masses.
>> So many resources are wasted, so much time is wasted, so many lives are wasted.
You are so right. Let's put Joshua in charge of the allocation of resources. Screw Darwin and all that selection of the fittest crap 'cause it hasn't worked for Mother Nature and it won't work for us. Just let Joshua choose what's best for us. All Hail King Joshua!!!! Joshua pro bono publico!!!!
Those X-10 bastards would have a field day with this.
To meet chicks.
From the Model Rocketry Safety Code:
"6. Payloads -- Except for insects, my model rocket will never carry live animals or a payload that is intended to be flamable, explosive, or harmful."
Write your own punchline...
This guy has a lot of good points. Someone please mod him up.
>> Son - Daughter - Niece - Nephew - Friend's kids, anyone
If you want to really cheese off your brother-in-law, buy your nieces and nephews Legos with a) lots of 1x1's in the set, and b) a good color match to their rug.
>> $100 billion
Judging by the price of Legos on Amazon, that's about what it would cost.