There might be all sorts of interesting bio-feedback applications. I was involved with a similar project about ten years ago, and one of our more interesting sessions involved connecting a number of sensors (primarily muscle tension sensors tracking electrical differentials across the skin) to the face of a trombone player who had some nerve damage on one side of his face. He couldn't really feel the "bad" side of his face, but kept adjusting until the readings looked the same as the "good" side, enabling him to play his instrument with somewhat closer to the technique he'd had before his injury/illness.
It bothers me to see generalized objections like this thrown up in front of a promising technology & line of pursuit, because it may throw up an artificial objection if enough people latch on. I think it's wrong to assume that the people working on this are idiots and won't apply disciplined engineering, testing, etc., as is done other critical systems.
Sure, there is the potential for bad things to happen, but there is also the potential for very, very good things to happen (e.g. respiroctyes), which I think can easily outweigh the bad (e.g. nano-based viruses) even if they do come to be.
To de-troll my first comment: software engineering isn't perfect. But it's benefits have far outweighed the drawbacks in today's world, and the consequences of failures are not less catastrophic than when put inside the body. Systems software on an airliner comes to mind. Current medical technologies already being put into human bodies also comes to mind.
Right, because software engineering today has made our world much worse off than it would have been without... enough FUD - somebody moderate this overrated please!
I'll stand by my generalization. Less than $3M = less possible revenue for the same multiplier. In their minds, why bother when they could spend the same amount of effort to do a $10M deal?
I'm sure there are exceptions, but this is the rule in today's VC market.
Yes, in principal. But that's not pragmatic - this sounds way too small to interest VCs these days. Speaking from experience, they aren't going to give you the time of day unless you're asking for at least $3M, and ideally more like $5-10M.
I'd suggest local angels (individuals, not angel groups which often think they are VCs and act similarly) if you want, say, $100K-$1M, and friends-and-family or revenue (can be from random consulting while the product ramps up) for less than that.
I don't know if there's anything specific to China, but NYPD has been doing some international "outreach". For example, as per the article below, I think Mumbai is outside of their jurisdiction...
Which is how any real developer on the job worth his salt would code! I don't want any of my developers wasting their time writing code that they could find that easily on the web. Their job is to integrate and polish that code (same thing they did for the interview) and to write only code that is really unique and proprietary.
(Obviously in practice there are a lot of cases where its just faster to write something that to find the exact right code scavenging the web, but I think the theory stands)
Sorry, I don't buy it. In my experience, the greatest impediment to effective policing isn't the tools they have available, it's laziness, stupidity and territoriality. I'll be the first to tell you there's incredibly good cops...I know several. But a lot of police would rather see a law enacted that utterly destroyed one of your rights than spend 15 minutes getting exactly the same results "the hard way". Agreed that these are impediments to progress. Policemen are people too. And territoriality is a HUGE impediment to progress. But there are things that just cannot be thoroughly done via a couple old-fashioned phone calls. The world is just too big.
And as for "having my cake and eating it too, you've really, really got it wrong if you think I value safety above freedom. I'm not ascribing any values to you personally (I don't know you). But I am responding to the part of your original post which complained that those "dipshits" can't locate illegal aliens and heard about the Berlin wall on the news. If you're choosing to cut their abilities to do these things in exchange for more freedom (and that is a fine choice that I actually agree with) then don't bitch about them having limited abilities and call them dipshits.
The police already have everything they need to catch Joe with the machete. No, they don't! Police A != Police B. The only way they already have everything they need is if they DO share across jurisdictional borders.
If you think breaking down barriers that were specifically erected to protect the civil rights of law-abiding civilians will help with that situation, you're dreaming. Lack of cross-jurisdictional data sharing was not specifically erected by anybody! It just grew out of a growth in data (corresponding to a growth in population among other things) and a general expectation that as the rest of the world (including the "bad guys") evolve with technology, so must the public safety agencies.
Finally! Somebody mod parent up please. I know this is/. but the nerd-FUD is getting out of hand on this one!
Interesting that all the FUD comments come at 3am after this article was posted, and all the "voices of reason" come during daylight hours. Just saying...
These dipshits can't locate 10 million illegal aliens, and they found out the Berlin Wall was coming down on the evening news. But you trust them to notice you're not the same guy as the one with a similar name and SIN who likes to rob banks half way across the country?
You can't have your cake and eat it too! If you want them to be able to work effectively to protect you, you have to allow them to do their jobs efficiently with modern tools. Despite some of the Coplink marketing in TFA, the nDex system is about police departments coordinating the same data they've always stored. Stuff like "this guy Joe used to rob 7-11 stores in town A with a machete. If someone robs a 7-11 in neighboring town B with a machete, it might be worth asking Joe a few questions." That's not Orwell, that's basic police work.
NCIC doesn't track much more than a national list of stolen vehicles and outstanding warrants. It's a service the FBI runs and makes available to local police departments.
Actually, I don't know that a master's is really that useful either. When I hire (software) engineers for my company, 2 years of real-world engineering experience far outweighs 2 years of academic experience in terms of performance and ability. But I'm not a recruiter. A recruiter can use the Master's degree as a nice checklist item to screen for. More degrees = better engineer, right?
I don't think debt is a viable reason not to go to grad school. Sure, there's opportunity cost from not working, but that exists for an undergraduate education as well. Most student loans that I'm aware of don't require payments if you're a full-time student, and almost nobody pays for a graduate degree out of pocket in the tech fields (RA/TAship = tuition + stipend).
Better than that! Even slow walking burns something like 300 calories per hour.
Your 100 calorie number could be just general metabolism from lying on the couch. Hmm, lying on the couch for 40 hours is like running a marathon... I've run a couple marathons this week already!:-)
Once sales drop AND p2p downloads ALSO drop, the labels will get the idea that the product they push is crap and need to change in order to make it worthwhile.
Problem is, most people disagree with your assertion that it's crap. Whether through critical thinking about the music/video or just because they've been indundated with commercial pop culture & ads, this stuff is top shelf by virtue of being what everyone wants.
Your solution means people have to dig up their own (indie) music; they can't just buy the catchy song they heard on the radio, and they can't grab a copy of that movie that had such an exciting preview. And truth be told, most people aren't really equipped to select the good music from the bad, except with the simple gut reaction that they already have to hearing a song on the radio and deciding to buy this mainstream album instead of that one.
I guess my point is that mainstream music is mainstream for a reason, and saying "just don't buy it" is not realistic. It's like asking millions of Bud Light drinkers to start selecting small-batch German microbrews instead. Good luck.
Could be. The figure I remember being a rule of thumb during the.com days was always 8 seconds - but that was a much easier target to hit unless you were doing something stupid (or had to do some really heavy lifting) on the backend.
Concerns of voter fraud have been heard from around the nation as well.
WTF was this little gem thrown into the summary? Not only does the article not mention fraud at all (if it did, I blinked...), but according to CNN, Number of civil rights voting complaints 'low'.
With a summary like that, seems like the editor is angling for a new job at Fox News...
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The difficulty in truly understanding the genome is that it's both program and data.
Ah, so we're written in Lisp!
Wish I had mod points - I agree that a gun and a dog are tough to beat for home security!
I checked out the site this guy is hawking, and their projects page lists just about every open-source project ever conceived!
Not every project... there's a curious lack of Java projects. But if you want to hack Python, boy are you in luck!
There might be all sorts of interesting bio-feedback applications. I was involved with a similar project about ten years ago, and one of our more interesting sessions involved connecting a number of sensors (primarily muscle tension sensors tracking electrical differentials across the skin) to the face of a trombone player who had some nerve damage on one side of his face. He couldn't really feel the "bad" side of his face, but kept adjusting until the readings looked the same as the "good" side, enabling him to play his instrument with somewhat closer to the technique he'd had before his injury/illness.
Anyone that claims Visual Studio is a useful IDE hasn't used Emacs SLIME :)
Props to that!
First, sorry - I did come across as a troll.
It bothers me to see generalized objections like this thrown up in front of a promising technology & line of pursuit, because it may throw up an artificial objection if enough people latch on. I think it's wrong to assume that the people working on this are idiots and won't apply disciplined engineering, testing, etc., as is done other critical systems.
Sure, there is the potential for bad things to happen, but there is also the potential for very, very good things to happen (e.g. respiroctyes), which I think can easily outweigh the bad (e.g. nano-based viruses) even if they do come to be.
To de-troll my first comment: software engineering isn't perfect. But it's benefits have far outweighed the drawbacks in today's world, and the consequences of failures are not less catastrophic than when put inside the body. Systems software on an airliner comes to mind. Current medical technologies already being put into human bodies also comes to mind.
Right, because software engineering today has made our world much worse off than it would have been without... enough FUD - somebody moderate this overrated please!
I'll stand by my generalization. Less than $3M = less possible revenue for the same multiplier. In their minds, why bother when they could spend the same amount of effort to do a $10M deal?
I'm sure there are exceptions, but this is the rule in today's VC market.
Yes, in principal. But that's not pragmatic - this sounds way too small to interest VCs these days. Speaking from experience, they aren't going to give you the time of day unless you're asking for at least $3M, and ideally more like $5-10M.
I'd suggest local angels (individuals, not angel groups which often think they are VCs and act similarly) if you want, say, $100K-$1M, and friends-and-family or revenue (can be from random consulting while the product ramps up) for less than that.
I don't know if there's anything specific to China, but NYPD has been doing some international "outreach". For example, as per the article below, I think Mumbai is outside of their jurisdiction...
http://www.newsweek.com/id/182526
Which is how any real developer on the job worth his salt would code! I don't want any of my developers wasting their time writing code that they could find that easily on the web. Their job is to integrate and polish that code (same thing they did for the interview) and to write only code that is really unique and proprietary.
(Obviously in practice there are a lot of cases where its just faster to write something that to find the exact right code scavenging the web, but I think the theory stands)
Yeah, but human nature's a bitch... why stop at just covering their budget? Jimmy needs a new pair of shoes...
Finally! Somebody mod parent up please. I know this is /. but the nerd-FUD is getting out of hand on this one!
Interesting that all the FUD comments come at 3am after this article was posted, and all the "voices of reason" come during daylight hours. Just saying...
These dipshits can't locate 10 million illegal aliens, and they found out the Berlin Wall was coming down on the evening news. But you trust them to notice you're not the same guy as the one with a similar name and SIN who likes to rob banks half way across the country?
You can't have your cake and eat it too! If you want them to be able to work effectively to protect you, you have to allow them to do their jobs efficiently with modern tools. Despite some of the Coplink marketing in TFA, the nDex system is about police departments coordinating the same data they've always stored. Stuff like "this guy Joe used to rob 7-11 stores in town A with a machete. If someone robs a 7-11 in neighboring town B with a machete, it might be worth asking Joe a few questions." That's not Orwell, that's basic police work.
NCIC doesn't track much more than a national list of stolen vehicles and outstanding warrants. It's a service the FBI runs and makes available to local police departments.
Debt is a reason not to go to grad school if you ever plan to have a life
/. readers. :-)
A moot point for
Actually, I don't know that a master's is really that useful either. When I hire (software) engineers for my company, 2 years of real-world engineering experience far outweighs 2 years of academic experience in terms of performance and ability. But I'm not a recruiter. A recruiter can use the Master's degree as a nice checklist item to screen for. More degrees = better engineer, right?
I don't think debt is a viable reason not to go to grad school. Sure, there's opportunity cost from not working, but that exists for an undergraduate education as well. Most student loans that I'm aware of don't require payments if you're a full-time student, and almost nobody pays for a graduate degree out of pocket in the tech fields (RA/TAship = tuition + stipend).
Better than that! Even slow walking burns something like 300 calories per hour.
:-)
Your 100 calorie number could be just general metabolism from lying on the couch. Hmm, lying on the couch for 40 hours is like running a marathon... I've run a couple marathons this week already!
Once sales drop AND p2p downloads ALSO drop, the labels will get the idea that the product they push is crap and need to change in order to make it worthwhile.
Problem is, most people disagree with your assertion that it's crap. Whether through critical thinking about the music/video or just because they've been indundated with commercial pop culture & ads, this stuff is top shelf by virtue of being what everyone wants.
Your solution means people have to dig up their own (indie) music; they can't just buy the catchy song they heard on the radio, and they can't grab a copy of that movie that had such an exciting preview. And truth be told, most people aren't really equipped to select the good music from the bad, except with the simple gut reaction that they already have to hearing a song on the radio and deciding to buy this mainstream album instead of that one.
I guess my point is that mainstream music is mainstream for a reason, and saying "just don't buy it" is not realistic. It's like asking millions of Bud Light drinkers to start selecting small-batch German microbrews instead. Good luck.
This one feels appropriate:
Everything that can be invented has been invented.
Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. patent office, 1899 (attributed)
(And yes I know that he probably didn't actually say that. But I saw it on the Internet so it must be true.)
I guess we're spoiled by broadband now! :-)
Could be. The figure I remember being a rule of thumb during the .com days was always 8 seconds - but that was a much easier target to hit unless you were doing something stupid (or had to do some really heavy lifting) on the backend.
Concerns of voter fraud have been heard from around the nation as well.
WTF was this little gem thrown into the summary? Not only does the article not mention fraud at all (if it did, I blinked...), but according to CNN, Number of civil rights voting complaints 'low'.
With a summary like that, seems like the editor is angling for a new job at Fox News...