The patent application appears to cover this scenario, as well as other disasters. From the filing: "[0127] Random, but similar, events could also trigger a determination of a projected change in bandwidth demand. For example, a disaster event such as a fire could happen at any time at any location. Based on publicly accessible information (e.g., from news sources, social media, the Internet), an inference could be made about a projected change in bandwidth demand due to the specific fire location and specific fire size. For instance, a controller of the balloon network could monitor news reports for the location of a disaster event (which may suggest the number of individuals affected by the disaster due to, for instance, local population density) and the extent of the disaster (e.g., earthquake magnitude on the Richter scale, number of fire stations responding to a fire, etc.). Based on the information, an inference could be made regarding a possible bandwidth demand near the location of the disaster event. The controller may form an inference based on various information. For instance, the controller could have a historical record of bandwidth needs regarding similar disasters affecting similar number of individuals. Based on the historical record of bandwidth needs, the controller could make inferences regarding a projected change of bandwidth demand that could correspond to historical bandwidth needs from similar disaster events in the past. "
Filing a Non-Publication Request: "Not very long ago, patent applications were maintained in secrecy until they issued as patents. Today, however, an application is published 18 months after its effective filing date, meaning that anyone can see your invention after you file it. By filing a non-publication request, though, you can keep your application secret during prosecution."
Medicare Bills Rise As Records Turn Electronic: The goal was not only to improve efficiency and patient safety, but also to reduce health care costs. But, in reality, the move to electronic health records may be contributing to billions of dollars in higher costs for Medicare, private insurers and patients by making it easier for hospitals and physicians to bill more for their services, whether or not they provide additional care. Hospitals received $1 billion more in Medicare reimbursements in 2010 than they did five years earlier, at least in part by changing the billing codes they assign to patients in emergency rooms, according to a NY Times analysis.
She does explain that the problem is there's no guarantee that any of this information will be useful ("Topics in Language Disorders, for example, has a $122 subscription for four issues. But there's no guarantee that the articles I'll get in the four issues next year will be useful for me-and that's just one journal!"), and goes on to suggest she'd consider shelling out thousands for unfettered access, but that's not an option ("Even if I had to pay an acceptable yearly fee-if for $300 a month I could access everything-that would be better than how it is today).
JSTOR an Entitlement For US DoJ's Ortiz & Holder: "If Aaron Swartz downloaded JSTOR documents without paying for them, it would presumably be considered a crime by the USDOJ. But if U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz or U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder did the same? Rather than a crime, it would be considered their entitlement, a perk of an elite education that's paid for by their alma maters."
Driverless Cars Are Further Away Than You Think: "Most daunting, however, are the remaining computer science and artificial-intelligence challenges. Automated driving will at first be limited to relatively simple situations, mainly highway driving, because the technology still can't respond to uncertainties posed by oncoming traffic, rotaries, and pedestrians. And drivers will also almost certainly be expected to assume some sort of supervisory role, requiring them to be ready to retake control as soon as the system gets outside its comfort zone."
As production value becomes more important , will professors eventually be replaced by actors who may not have a command of the material, but can use a well-written script to deliver course material in a more engaging fashion?
True, but the early videos were monologues. With the introduction of interactivity and exercises, things seem to have moved into the realm of software engineers.
INBLOOM OFF THE ROSE?: "Another state has pulled out of using the Gates Foundation's $100 million technology service project, inBloom. The withdrawal further shrinks the project after other states pulled out in part because of concern about protecting studentsâ(TM) privacy. Guilford County, N.C. told POLITICO on Wednesday that the state decided to stop using the service, which is designed to hold information about students including names, socioeconomic status, test scores, disabilities, discipline records and more in one place, and ideally, help in customizing students' education."
Sesame Street Widens Its Focus: On Sept. 24, the material - as well as new videos, online and mobile games, and parent and teacher resources - will find a new home online when Sesame Workshop unveils a hub on the Sesame Street Web site called Little Discoverers: Big Fun With Science, Math and More. In one game, little fingers manipulate a virtual spring to launch pieces of trash into Oscar the Grouch's trash can, a Sesame Street version of Angry Birds.
Bill Gates: " If they [my children] had to go to a general inner-city school, I would do anything I could to avoid that being the case, because as a parent, I particularly see the potential in my kids that that wouldn't unleash," Gates said.
President Obama: President Obama reopened Monday what is often a sore subject in Washington, saying that his daughters could not obtain from D.C. public schools the academic experience they receive at the private Sidwell Friends School.
Matt Damon: Damon told the Guardian there were no longer public schools progressive enough for his family so private was the only choice in their new home of Los Angeles.
According to the Venturebeat article, the domain was sold in Apr/May. The nyuk-nyuk content appears to have been added afterwards. Not to be a buzzkill, but if i was launching a serious website about using the web to improve the lot of the world's poor, i wouldn't want the domain used days earlier to goof that slave labor was used to create the internet for the whims of the wealthy. Just sayin'.
What this shows, i think, is that obamacare without a subsidy is not affordable. While its nice that gov employees won't be asked to feel this pain, what will happen in the private sector remains to be seen.
Slashdot Mirror
The patent application appears to cover this scenario, as well as other disasters. From the filing: "[0127] Random, but similar, events could also trigger a determination of a projected change in bandwidth demand. For example, a disaster event such as a fire could happen at any time at any location. Based on publicly accessible information (e.g., from news sources, social media, the Internet), an inference could be made about a projected change in bandwidth demand due to the specific fire location and specific fire size. For instance, a controller of the balloon network could monitor news reports for the location of a disaster event (which may suggest the number of individuals affected by the disaster due to, for instance, local population density) and the extent of the disaster (e.g., earthquake magnitude on the Richter scale, number of fire stations responding to a fire, etc.). Based on the information, an inference could be made regarding a possible bandwidth demand near the location of the disaster event. The controller may form an inference based on various information. For instance, the controller could have a historical record of bandwidth needs regarding similar disasters affecting similar number of individuals. Based on the historical record of bandwidth needs, the controller could make inferences regarding a projected change of bandwidth demand that could correspond to historical bandwidth needs from similar disaster events in the past. "
Filing a Non-Publication Request: "Not very long ago, patent applications were maintained in secrecy until they issued as patents. Today, however, an application is published 18 months after its effective filing date, meaning that anyone can see your invention after you file it. By filing a non-publication request, though, you can keep your application secret during prosecution."
10 million, but your point is well-taken - you'd refer to the ten millionth kid as 9,999,999!
Sesame Street: Feist sings 1,2,3,4. Not 0,1,2,3. :-)
Medicare Bills Rise As Records Turn Electronic: The goal was not only to improve efficiency and patient safety, but also to reduce health care costs. But, in reality, the move to electronic health records may be contributing to billions of dollars in higher costs for Medicare, private insurers and patients by making it easier for hospitals and physicians to bill more for their services, whether or not they provide additional care. Hospitals received $1 billion more in Medicare reimbursements in 2010 than they did five years earlier, at least in part by changing the billing codes they assign to patients in emergency rooms, according to a NY Times analysis.
She does explain that the problem is there's no guarantee that any of this information will be useful ("Topics in Language Disorders, for example, has a $122 subscription for four issues. But there's no guarantee that the articles I'll get in the four issues next year will be useful for me-and that's just one journal!"), and goes on to suggest she'd consider shelling out thousands for unfettered access, but that's not an option ("Even if I had to pay an acceptable yearly fee-if for $300 a month I could access everything-that would be better than how it is today).
JSTOR an Entitlement For US DoJ's Ortiz & Holder: "If Aaron Swartz downloaded JSTOR documents without paying for them, it would presumably be considered a crime by the USDOJ. But if U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz or U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder did the same? Rather than a crime, it would be considered their entitlement, a perk of an elite education that's paid for by their alma maters."
Driverless Cars Are Further Away Than You Think: "Most daunting, however, are the remaining computer science and artificial-intelligence challenges. Automated driving will at first be limited to relatively simple situations, mainly highway driving, because the technology still can't respond to uncertainties posed by oncoming traffic, rotaries, and pedestrians. And drivers will also almost certainly be expected to assume some sort of supervisory role, requiring them to be ready to retake control as soon as the system gets outside its comfort zone."
There, that had to be said. Now, just redirect those healthcare.gov links to the insurance companies, as should have been done in the first place:-)
With apologies to Joyce Kilmer:
"Patent Trees" (2013)
I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a patent tree.
A patent tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;
A patent tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A patent tree that may in summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only the Bezos Center for Innovation can make a patent tree.
Overhead Shot: $5B Planned Apple HQ and Old-School Magnetic Tape Reel. Less tape would increase the resemblance!
Comparison: $5B Planned Apple HQ and Old-School Magnetic Tape Reel. Would look even more similar with a white write ring! :-)
The Untouchables
As production value becomes more important , will professors eventually be replaced by actors who may not have a command of the material, but can use a well-written script to deliver course material in a more engaging fashion?
True, but the early videos were monologues. With the introduction of interactivity and exercises, things seem to have moved into the realm of software engineers.
It seems one needs a PhD in CS to create an online course - shouldn't teachers really be able to create content on their own?
INBLOOM OFF THE ROSE?: "Another state has pulled out of using the Gates Foundation's $100 million technology service project, inBloom. The withdrawal further shrinks the project after other states pulled out in part because of concern about protecting studentsâ(TM) privacy. Guilford County, N.C. told POLITICO on Wednesday that the state decided to stop using the service, which is designed to hold information about students including names, socioeconomic status, test scores, disabilities, discipline records and more in one place, and ideally, help in customizing students' education."
Oops...make that 'briefly shuttered.'
Sesame Street Widens Its Focus: On Sept. 24, the material - as well as new videos, online and mobile games, and parent and teacher resources - will find a new home online when Sesame Workshop unveils a hub on the Sesame Street Web site called Little Discoverers: Big Fun With Science, Math and More. In one game, little fingers manipulate a virtual spring to launch pieces of trash into Oscar the Grouch's trash can, a Sesame Street version of Angry Birds.
Bill Gates: " If they [my children] had to go to a general inner-city school, I would do anything I could to avoid that being the case, because as a parent, I particularly see the potential in my kids that that wouldn't unleash," Gates said.
President Obama: President Obama reopened Monday what is often a sore subject in Washington, saying that his daughters could not obtain from D.C. public schools the academic experience they receive at the private Sidwell Friends School.
Matt Damon: Damon told the Guardian there were no longer public schools progressive enough for his family so private was the only choice in their new home of Los Angeles.
According to the Venturebeat article, the domain was sold in Apr/May. The nyuk-nyuk content appears to have been added afterwards. Not to be a buzzkill, but if i was launching a serious website about using the web to improve the lot of the world's poor, i wouldn't want the domain used days earlier to goof that slave labor was used to create the internet for the whims of the wealthy. Just sayin'.
How a Mission to Mars Could Kill You
So, would Mountain View be better off with the balloon-powered Internet of Project Loon, which offers 3G speed or better?
Google Groups: Complaint to the City of Mountain View about Google WiFi Service. And, from January: Amid complaints, Google promises WiFi upgrades.
What this shows, i think, is that obamacare without a subsidy is not affordable. While its nice that gov employees won't be asked to feel this pain, what will happen in the private sector remains to be seen.