They already have some sort of plan like that, involving dumping them on the educational market. Someone in this country still believes the children are our (/their) future, I suppose.
I live in Redmond, and I see more Tesla Ses driving around than people holding a Windows Phone 8... even with MS giving WP8 to all its employees for free. Do see a fair number of their tablet thing, though.
The (too few) WP8 product demos I've seen did look pretty good, though. Things could have been different had it come out a few years ago back when WebOS / Maemo were contenders.
Oh yay, all of the audiophiles will be squirming out of the woodwork on this one:D
I really like my triport headphones, and despite having a bunch of other gear, the little Companion II speakers keep migrating around the house after my wife's laptop or one of the tablets. Now I didn't pay actual money for them, I got them both from trading in rewards points on credit cards or from work or crap like that back before I figured out how to redeem them for gift cards or something more liquid. But they are noticeably better than most of the other junk headphones / earbuds / speakers I have. I can pick out more details in my music, and bass seldom hits the weary resonant monotone drone that comes out of most other speakers I've played with.
The headphones are comfortable since they cup your skull around your earlobes. The speakers are relatively compact for the sound that comes out of them and have 2 sets of RCA inputs. They start to sound a bit muddy when you turn them all the way up, but we never really need to.
Yes, Bose crap is probably overpriced, but it certainly seems as if some science and engineering and testing went into them, compared to other crap. Yeah, I'm not an audiophile. And I don't really want to become one either.
Up through Engineering math isn't that bad, as long as you don't fall behind the rest of the class.
Good math classes are self-paced (more so than most other subjects, since there are so many dependencies), so everyone can rise to their level of ability.
"Agile" is something of a misnomer... it's about committing to the work items you've estimated into your current sprint -- and no more. If someone wants to add a feature or request, it goes straight into the backlog for consideration during the next sprint planning session.
"Agile" is more about setting up a consistent delivery schedule... the build train leaves the same time each week, carrying whatever passed QA testing... and no more. The build train is never delayed, only derailed by an Act of God. That's right, if some exec really thinks that something is so important that it needs to be done *right now*, you completely stop all work, scrap the current sprint and start a new sprint planning session with all of the overhead that entails.
Anyone who practices differently is not practicing Agile according to the way it was intended. There are no "sprint schedule extensions" in Agile, since it's a measurement and estimation tool... the same way you don't measure with a longer "yardstick" when something is too big to fit in a 1-yard container.
Well, in an attempt to get things back on topic... I recall one of the big differences in the US and Russian space programs was that the US would build their rockets upright and roll them out to the launch pad that way, while the Russians would build their rockets sideways, and then hoist them upright at the launchpad.
So really it's not an issue of them not knowing up from down, but left from right.
OK, now go back into reading that politically what you will.
Yep. Obamacare == guaranteed money for insurance companies, particularly since the "Public Option" was dropped.
Read up on the history of Medicare / Medicaid. It was spearheaded by insurance companies. Because they kept losing money on old people visiting hospitals. Easy answer = get the government to cover all of the old people for them!
Also notice that every bump on social security for "Cost of Living Adjustments" corresponds to an equal bump in the medicare / medicaid premium that comes out of it. Insurance companies have fine guaranteed revenue growth under their control right there.
Neither the liberals nor the conservatives are in charge of policy. Just follow the money.
I think the strongest correlation was made between birthrate and the educational level of women.
Outside of that, I think "making things work out" tends to align with bacterial cultures... exponential growth until resources are depleted. If we're not in a growth phase, we're probably going to overpopulate until our living conditions are miserable. Unless, maybe, we build more academies for women. Hmmm....
Heh, I sort of posed a similar question to my kids...
Say you've collected a group of N=10 people out of a population of P=100, and you know X=1 of them is a serial killer. How many of those people should you execute (or otherwise remove from society) to keep the rest of the population safe? Or should you let them all go to protect the innocent ones, knowing that the serial killer will go on unpunished to cause 10x more murders? How many can you execute before you're worse than the serial killer?
Now just substitute "kill" for "steal" or "spy" or "otherwise impede the real or imagined rights of", and grab some popcorn.
There's no order like social order. But it's a fun exercise when you realize there are different answers when you play with the ratios of X to N and P, and varying the severity of the crime/injustice.
Well... you could try to solder a little USBLinux distro with a phone home mechanism to an internal USB header inside the laptop. That would be like a note, except a bit more high-tech. Couple it with a BIOS password that forces you to boot through that device.
Would at least make it inconvenient for thieves to go through and reset / disconnect all that, at least.
You're not thinking like a lawyer. Manufacturers have pretty deep pockets. Just think about what would happen if people could sue them for bad decisions made by the software.
Hence, human operators. So the manufacturers have someone to blame. They still get sued every once in a while, sure. But they get to limit their liability and have a chance to offer some corrective actions.
Never played it, but enjoyed reading about it in the magazines back when I was a kid.
I'd like to see more Iron Tank / Great Tank (JP).... that was one of my favorites back in the day. Probably couldn't compete with World of Tanks nowadays, but it's not like they have a console port yet (though sounds like they're in Beta for Xbox now).
There are a lot of even older games that I'm somewhat nostalgic for and haven't found modern equivalents... Radar Rat Race? Moon Patrol? Clowns?
Also, electric cars and hybrids can use regenerative braking. So you can theoretically get back a substantial portion of the energy you put into accelerating, so it's down to a fight against just friction and air resistance. In a gas powered car, 100% of the kinetic energy you manage to build up goes up in waste heat from your brake pads.
Well, depends on which jobs. Maybe you're using the wrong search terms.
In today's "DevOps" environment, sysadmins are now called "Systems Engineers". And most of the ones in my large company don't have any degrees (unlike the younger developers that we spend most of our time shepherding).
Also tech headhunters are always prowling for experienced "Systems Engineers", so team up with some of them and they'll tell you how to look your best to their clients so you can both get paid.
Yes. Security clearances are basically job security programs for nerds to keep them on the straight-and-narrow. Pass the drug test, don't have a criminal record, don't buck the trend, don't be openly critical against the US Government (you can be critical, just don't join a protest group and proclaim "down with the US Government!"), and you're in! It's really just a big government bureaucracy to provide minimal personality record checks (and occasional re-checks) so they can CYA when someone flips out despite warning signs that would have been obvious had anyone bothered to do a simple background check.
The main thing that they worry about that sort of makes sense is blackmail material... they don't want you to have any secrets of your own that espionage agencies could use to blackmail secrets out of you. So things you can lose your clearance for if found out: * cheating on your wife (after all if you go back on your marriage contract, you might as well go back on your security clearance contract) * being secretly gay (now allowing gays in the military should increase national security, since gays won't be blackmailed into losing everything for it) * erratic behavior (one pretty awesome guy I know lost his clearance for having a particularly harsh midlife crisis in which he divorced his wife and married a Russian bride. * abusing drugs / alcohol (mostly verify this through checking your references - friends, landlords, acquaintances) * being buried under debt, from gambling or just being bad with money despite having a phat security clearance bonus.
Looks awesome, but what I really want to know is if there's a good Android alternative to Progect for Palm/Linux/Win32 yet. http://sourceforge.net/projects/progect/
I've played with Organizer, but it's pretty clunky... I think I'd rather try to run emacs org-mode.
Anyway, I've found nothing that was as simple and intuitive and useful as Progect. Makes me want to drop money on a PalmOS emulator so I can have that and HandyShopper back.
How do you get started in that field? Do most of them have a financial background with some computer science, or the reverse?
Well, the Russian twins who were co-valedictorians at our STEM magnet school went to Harvard and Yale and were sucked into Wall Street during its heyday. So that's one way.
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They already have some sort of plan like that, involving dumping them on the educational market. Someone in this country still believes the children are our (/their) future, I suppose.
So no cheap tablet for you!
Ha ha, that's awesome.
I live in Redmond, and I see more Tesla Ses driving around than people holding a Windows Phone 8... even with MS giving WP8 to all its employees for free. Do see a fair number of their tablet thing, though.
The (too few) WP8 product demos I've seen did look pretty good, though. Things could have been different had it come out a few years ago back when WebOS / Maemo were contenders.
This was a pretty good one, and pre-dated 1984 by a good few decades.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_(book)
Oh well, goes along with the theme:
http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/geekandpoke/2011/01/nosql.html
Oh yay, all of the audiophiles will be squirming out of the woodwork on this one :D
I really like my triport headphones, and despite having a bunch of other gear, the little Companion II speakers keep migrating around the house after my wife's laptop or one of the tablets. Now I didn't pay actual money for them, I got them both from trading in rewards points on credit cards or from work or crap like that back before I figured out how to redeem them for gift cards or something more liquid. But they are noticeably better than most of the other junk headphones / earbuds / speakers I have. I can pick out more details in my music, and bass seldom hits the weary resonant monotone drone that comes out of most other speakers I've played with.
The headphones are comfortable since they cup your skull around your earlobes. The speakers are relatively compact for the sound that comes out of them and have 2 sets of RCA inputs. They start to sound a bit muddy when you turn them all the way up, but we never really need to.
Yes, Bose crap is probably overpriced, but it certainly seems as if some science and engineering and testing went into them, compared to other crap.
Yeah, I'm not an audiophile. And I don't really want to become one either.
http://xkcd.com/435/
Up through Engineering math isn't that bad, as long as you don't fall behind the rest of the class.
Good math classes are self-paced (more so than most other subjects, since there are so many dependencies), so everyone can rise to their level of ability.
Ha ha, yeah, thanks for the correction! I only took a Scrum class, not an Agile class :P
But no, you and drawfour may not use the yardstick analogy unless you convert it to metric first ;-P
OK, J/K
"Agile" is something of a misnomer... it's about committing to the work items you've estimated into your current sprint -- and no more. If someone wants to add a feature or request, it goes straight into the backlog for consideration during the next sprint planning session.
"Agile" is more about setting up a consistent delivery schedule... the build train leaves the same time each week, carrying whatever passed QA testing... and no more. The build train is never delayed, only derailed by an Act of God. That's right, if some exec really thinks that something is so important that it needs to be done *right now*, you completely stop all work, scrap the current sprint and start a new sprint planning session with all of the overhead that entails.
Anyone who practices differently is not practicing Agile according to the way it was intended. There are no "sprint schedule extensions" in Agile, since it's a measurement and estimation tool... the same way you don't measure with a longer "yardstick" when something is too big to fit in a 1-yard container.
... but E = 1/2 mv^2
You don't hit someone with force, you hit them with kinetic energy.
Came here for a companion cube analogy, leaving disappointed :(
Well, in an attempt to get things back on topic... I recall one of the big differences in the US and Russian space programs was that the US would build their rockets upright and roll them out to the launch pad that way, while the Russians would build their rockets sideways, and then hoist them upright at the launchpad.
So really it's not an issue of them not knowing up from down, but left from right.
OK, now go back into reading that politically what you will.
They're 8 an 10, and their replies were something along the lines of... "WTF Dad, geez you're morbid"
So I fail as a nerd dad, I guess. Need to show them more reruns of ST:TNG so they have some framework for tackling these kinds of things.
Yep. Obamacare == guaranteed money for insurance companies, particularly since the "Public Option" was dropped.
Read up on the history of Medicare / Medicaid. It was spearheaded by insurance companies. Because they kept losing money on old people visiting hospitals. Easy answer = get the government to cover all of the old people for them!
Also notice that every bump on social security for "Cost of Living Adjustments" corresponds to an equal bump in the medicare / medicaid premium that comes out of it. Insurance companies have fine guaranteed revenue growth under their control right there.
Neither the liberals nor the conservatives are in charge of policy. Just follow the money.
I think the strongest correlation was made between birthrate and the educational level of women.
Outside of that, I think "making things work out" tends to align with bacterial cultures... exponential growth until resources are depleted. If we're not in a growth phase, we're probably going to overpopulate until our living conditions are miserable. Unless, maybe, we build more academies for women. Hmmm....
Heh, I sort of posed a similar question to my kids...
Say you've collected a group of N=10 people out of a population of P=100, and you know X=1 of them is a serial killer. How many of those people should you execute (or otherwise remove from society) to keep the rest of the population safe? Or should you let them all go to protect the innocent ones, knowing that the serial killer will go on unpunished to cause 10x more murders? How many can you execute before you're worse than the serial killer?
Now just substitute "kill" for "steal" or "spy" or "otherwise impede the real or imagined rights of", and grab some popcorn.
There's no order like social order. But it's a fun exercise when you realize there are different answers when you play with the ratios of X to N and P, and varying the severity of the crime/injustice.
Well... you could try to solder a little USBLinux distro with a phone home mechanism to an internal USB header inside the laptop. That would be like a note, except a bit more high-tech. Couple it with a BIOS password that forces you to boot through that device.
Would at least make it inconvenient for thieves to go through and reset / disconnect all that, at least.
You're not thinking like a lawyer. Manufacturers have pretty deep pockets. Just think about what would happen if people could sue them for bad decisions made by the software.
Hence, human operators. So the manufacturers have someone to blame. They still get sued every once in a while, sure. But they get to limit their liability and have a chance to offer some corrective actions.
Never played it, but enjoyed reading about it in the magazines back when I was a kid.
I'd like to see more Iron Tank / Great Tank (JP) .... that was one of my favorites back in the day. Probably couldn't compete with World of Tanks nowadays, but it's not like they have a console port yet (though sounds like they're in Beta for Xbox now).
There are a lot of even older games that I'm somewhat nostalgic for and haven't found modern equivalents ... Radar Rat Race? Moon Patrol? Clowns?
Also, electric cars and hybrids can use regenerative braking. So you can theoretically get back a substantial portion of the energy you put into accelerating, so it's down to a fight against just friction and air resistance. In a gas powered car, 100% of the kinetic energy you manage to build up goes up in waste heat from your brake pads.
Well, depends on which jobs. Maybe you're using the wrong search terms.
In today's "DevOps" environment, sysadmins are now called "Systems Engineers". And most of the ones in my large company don't have any degrees (unlike the younger developers that we spend most of our time shepherding).
Also tech headhunters are always prowling for experienced "Systems Engineers", so team up with some of them and they'll tell you how to look your best to their clients so you can both get paid.
Yes. Security clearances are basically job security programs for nerds to keep them on the straight-and-narrow. Pass the drug test, don't have a criminal record, don't buck the trend, don't be openly critical against the US Government (you can be critical, just don't join a protest group and proclaim "down with the US Government!"), and you're in! It's really just a big government bureaucracy to provide minimal personality record checks (and occasional re-checks) so they can CYA when someone flips out despite warning signs that would have been obvious had anyone bothered to do a simple background check.
The main thing that they worry about that sort of makes sense is blackmail material... they don't want you to have any secrets of your own that espionage agencies could use to blackmail secrets out of you. So things you can lose your clearance for if found out:
* cheating on your wife (after all if you go back on your marriage contract, you might as well go back on your security clearance contract)
* being secretly gay (now allowing gays in the military should increase national security, since gays won't be blackmailed into losing everything for it)
* erratic behavior (one pretty awesome guy I know lost his clearance for having a particularly harsh midlife crisis in which he divorced his wife and married a Russian bride.
* abusing drugs / alcohol (mostly verify this through checking your references - friends, landlords, acquaintances)
* being buried under debt, from gambling or just being bad with money despite having a phat security clearance bonus.
Apple going to take over the gaming industry?
I think Bender says it best and most succinctly... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n5E7feJHw0
http://internethealthreport.com/
Packet loss over a 24-hour period seems to support the claims, but barely.
Looks awesome, but what I really want to know is if there's a good Android alternative to Progect for Palm/Linux/Win32 yet.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/progect/
I've played with Organizer, but it's pretty clunky... I think I'd rather try to run emacs org-mode.
Anyway, I've found nothing that was as simple and intuitive and useful as Progect. Makes me want to drop money on a PalmOS emulator so I can have that and HandyShopper back.
How do you get started in that field? Do most of them have a financial background with some computer science, or the reverse?
Well, the Russian twins who were co-valedictorians at our STEM magnet school went to Harvard and Yale and were sucked into Wall Street during its heyday. So that's one way.