They've been working up to this for awhile. The technology is very impressive, and they've been tested over the last year or two. Tracking preferences and usage, as well as supply delivery, etc is very much part of their model.
On behalf of myself, and I am guessing, many others here, a heartfelt thank you. I am an Electrical Engineer and am enjoying a great career that has opened many opportunities and let me see the world - largely because of a green, hand-printed, "Getting Started in Electronics" book I noticed in a Radio Shack a very long time ago.
I still reference your books from time to time, and I look forward to sharing them with my kids someday.
Capitalism is great. It has made me very confortable.
Governments should own the infrastructure. Fiber has enough bandwidth currently there is no technical reason you can't switch internet providers, cable, phone service - at will. The barriers being put in place are there to protect existing monopolies. Monopolys are what all capitalists aspire and dream to create and own. Didn't you take economics?
The problem is monopolies are not efficient means of distribution, and we're seeing those effects now. Extended further, there's no reason why customers can't directly fund the creation of content - and they are, now, through crowd sourcing.
Governments hold a monopoly on violence. They set the rules, and often times, they are the best of a bunch of bad choices - infrastructure deployment and management being one of them.
There's billions at stake, created out of virtually nothing (replicating a digital signal). This supports thousands and thousands of rent-seeking monopolists. The holy grail of capitalism.
The RIAA/MPAA fights are just kindergarden name calling compared to the fight that's getting ready to be fought.
From society's perspective, we should be well into the fiber optic cabling of the entire planet. These people will fight that, because it obsoletes their model. Once you have fiber to your door - and I do, in small down Canada - it's over. It's just a matter of time and everyone knows it.
Google's fiber projects are just a small piece of what's to come. The dirty little secret is rolling these networks out isn't hard. It's all legislation and poltics stopping. The tech is ready.
Get some popcorn. It'll be fun. I haven't had a TV subscription in 7 or 8 years now.. saving me $100/mo or so. That's a lot of money, especially when it starts paying dividends.. but I sure don't own any broadcasters.:)
The environmentalists don't appear to have anyone on their team who understand the amount (or even the magnitude) of the energy consumed globally to make it all work. That, or their desire for renewables is biased by an anti-capitalist desire to collapse the economy. I don't know.
Brass tacks: We need -massive- amounts of energy, we will need even more, and there are two options - hydrocarbons and nuclear.
The governments of the world should all have Manhattan-style projects to solve nuclear fusion, alternative fission reactors, and solve the battery storage problem - be it super-cap technology or something else.
Instead we waste time dicking about with windmill foolishness. Sigh.
I expect the innovators will move on to more friendly climates. My dad taught me to never count the US out - you guys have the best of everything and the worst of everything. Nowhere else produces more nobel prize winners.. or more criminals.
I wonder if that time is coming to an end.
Nuclear energy is too important. Renewables are a joke. It's low quality, low density power from a thermodynamic standpoint. We're either going to burn every bit of carbon and then go nuclear, or go nuclear. Either way, we have to master this technology, and we (humans) will. The only question is what happens between now and then.
Myself, I'm going to encourage my kids to learn Chinese. Sigh.
Just need to link the science (published) and the genotype. It's all open.
Next up is banning people from sequencing their own genomes without a MD.
The real story here is who's the loser - it's not you; your DNA is your DNA, and the sequences are there or they aren't. The insurance industry are the ones who are actually worried about these tests - all of a sudden you have data they don't, and they can't apply their actuarial models anymore. Hilarity ensures.
The writing is on the wall, and creative endeavors that humans enjoy will dominate more of society. Isn't that what we all want? To do what we want?
The concept is from the right, it's been around for a long time, and it's a fairly straightforward implementation. If a society is rich enough that the production costs approach zero, then..
Of course, it smells a lot like the dreaded socialism monster. Or worse.. red pink communism!
There's no rocket science here. It will happen eventually, as the poor people get to vote. Either with ballots, or otherwise.
#1. Absolute freedom of (written) speech, at least for the most part, to a degree that I am not aware of existing anywhere in the civilized world.
#2. Private citizens can own handguns and assault rifles for their own protection and uses.
Fight for those rights with all you have, because once they're gone, I doubt the world will ever see them again. Particularly #1.
If an idea is so repulsive, the place to discredit it is in the open, not to push it underground into the recesses of the underworld, lending credence and appeal to the idea through it's illicit nature. The written word is not a place for the state, any more than the legislature is a place for preachers.
Nobody should be put in jail for their words. Not even vile ones.
Use brightly colored cables, get metal cable tray and rattle can spray paint it a contrasting color. I've seen it done very well, and it does add a near technical feel to a space.
Any interior designer could help you; if you're going for image, then that's probably not a bad idea anyway.
If grad school has at best a questionable return, how could a postdoc - indentured servitude, slavery - be any better an idea?
The exceptional at anything will do fine, including academics. By definition, odds are you're not exceptional in a given talent pool, even one that's two or three deviations out.
Have a concrete plan to feed yourself. Or save the schooling for retirement, after you've saved up enough to live on. Digging yourself a hundred thousand dollar hole isn't a great idea right out of the gate.
Academics used to be the playground of the elite (and the exceptional, with a patron). That's been forgotten..
I'm more interested in knowing that in the time between when a launch is detected and confirmed on the west coast of North America, their fate as a nation will be sealed forever and all time, thus ensuring MAD is upheld.
We need an updated, modern, and effective nuclear arsenal.
If you don't defend your way of life, bad men will come and take it from you. Sometimes they are the bad men, and sometimes you are. History is funny that way.
I don't have any problem with nuclear weapons - they're a fact of life now. I just want ours to be the best.. and if anyone launches, it needs to be understood, completely, your entire right to exist as a nation. There can be no other peace.
Maybe they always were. Functional, but they're jewlery. I have a nice Citizen Ecodrive I'm fond of. It's functional, it's lightweight, it never needs batteries, and it looks nice. It's titanium, with a sapphire face.
It allows me to casually check time in meetings without being rude; it looks professional; that's important for what I do, less important for others.
Smartwatches are horrible to look at. They are gaudy and tacky. I am not sure what they say about the wearer, but I am not sure they are part of the image I would want to project. Yes, that type of thing matters to some people. Particularly, I suspect, those who still wear watches.
What I want is a nice watch like that that maybe has a silent notification capabilty, and perhaps, can pick up some biometric data (pulse, whatever). I would find real value in that - something that my phone can't do, an an alert to get me to check my phone for something interesting or pressing.
I can see myself getting Google Glasses before a smartwatch.
That $10k differential, if invested, could pay a return that would cover most of your gas.
Fuel, or cars in general, need to get much more expensive for this to make sense. Better to start the transition now, and hey - props to everyone buying a Tesla.
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Didn't everyone speak Chinese? :)
http://www.coca-colafreestyle.com/
They've been working up to this for awhile. The technology is very impressive, and they've been tested over the last year or two. Tracking preferences and usage, as well as supply delivery, etc is very much part of their model.
Old news, though, I thought?
It amazes me the utility and run I've gotten out of learning C and C++.. decades go.
On behalf of myself, and I am guessing, many others here, a heartfelt thank you. I am an Electrical Engineer and am enjoying a great career that has opened many opportunities and let me see the world - largely because of a green, hand-printed, "Getting Started in Electronics" book I noticed in a Radio Shack a very long time ago.
I still reference your books from time to time, and I look forward to sharing them with my kids someday.
Thank you.
73 de VE1SFM.
Capitalism is great. It has made me very confortable.
Governments should own the infrastructure. Fiber has enough bandwidth currently there is no technical reason you can't switch internet providers, cable, phone service - at will. The barriers being put in place are there to protect existing monopolies. Monopolys are what all capitalists aspire and dream to create and own. Didn't you take economics?
The problem is monopolies are not efficient means of distribution, and we're seeing those effects now. Extended further, there's no reason why customers can't directly fund the creation of content - and they are, now, through crowd sourcing.
Governments hold a monopoly on violence. They set the rules, and often times, they are the best of a bunch of bad choices - infrastructure deployment and management being one of them.
Interesting times.
There's billions at stake, created out of virtually nothing (replicating a digital signal). This supports thousands and thousands of rent-seeking monopolists. The holy grail of capitalism.
The RIAA/MPAA fights are just kindergarden name calling compared to the fight that's getting ready to be fought.
From society's perspective, we should be well into the fiber optic cabling of the entire planet. These people will fight that, because it obsoletes their model. Once you have fiber to your door - and I do, in small down Canada - it's over. It's just a matter of time and everyone knows it.
Google's fiber projects are just a small piece of what's to come. The dirty little secret is rolling these networks out isn't hard. It's all legislation and poltics stopping. The tech is ready.
Get some popcorn. It'll be fun. I haven't had a TV subscription in 7 or 8 years now.. saving me $100/mo or so. That's a lot of money, especially when it starts paying dividends.. but I sure don't own any broadcasters. :)
Cables are dangerous.
http://www.dailytech.com/Apple+Takes+a+Page+From+Monsters+Book+Offers+50+Thunderbolt+Cable/article22041.htm
That nice looking molded CAT6 cable could have any number of surprises inside...
..without a single ounce of extra CO2 added.
People are not rational about nuclear power, and politicians are spineless, so invest in natural gas and oil companies. Burn, baby, burn..
It's crazy.
The environmentalists don't appear to have anyone on their team who understand the amount (or even the magnitude) of the energy consumed globally to make it all work. That, or their desire for renewables is biased by an anti-capitalist desire to collapse the economy. I don't know.
Brass tacks: We need -massive- amounts of energy, we will need even more, and there are two options - hydrocarbons and nuclear.
The governments of the world should all have Manhattan-style projects to solve nuclear fusion, alternative fission reactors, and solve the battery storage problem - be it super-cap technology or something else.
Instead we waste time dicking about with windmill foolishness. Sigh.
Keep it up. Go team.
I expect the innovators will move on to more friendly climates. My dad taught me to never count the US out - you guys have the best of everything and the worst of everything. Nowhere else produces more nobel prize winners.. or more criminals.
I wonder if that time is coming to an end.
Nuclear energy is too important. Renewables are a joke. It's low quality, low density power from a thermodynamic standpoint. We're either going to burn every bit of carbon and then go nuclear, or go nuclear. Either way, we have to master this technology, and we (humans) will. The only question is what happens between now and then.
Myself, I'm going to encourage my kids to learn Chinese. Sigh.
Just need to link the science (published) and the genotype. It's all open.
Next up is banning people from sequencing their own genomes without a MD.
The real story here is who's the loser - it's not you; your DNA is your DNA, and the sequences are there or they aren't. The insurance industry are the ones who are actually worried about these tests - all of a sudden you have data they don't, and they can't apply their actuarial models anymore. Hilarity ensures.
May we all live in interesting times.
Your plan fails when there are no jobs. This is a distinct possibility in the coming decades.
It's called a guaranteed minimum income.
The writing is on the wall, and creative endeavors that humans enjoy will dominate more of society. Isn't that what we all want? To do what we want?
The concept is from the right, it's been around for a long time, and it's a fairly straightforward implementation. If a society is rich enough that the production costs approach zero, then ..
Of course, it smells a lot like the dreaded socialism monster. Or worse.. red pink communism!
There's no rocket science here. It will happen eventually, as the poor people get to vote. Either with ballots, or otherwise.
There's two unique things about the US:
#1. Absolute freedom of (written) speech, at least for the most part, to a degree that I am not aware of existing anywhere in the civilized world.
#2. Private citizens can own handguns and assault rifles for their own protection and uses.
Fight for those rights with all you have, because once they're gone, I doubt the world will ever see them again. Particularly #1.
If an idea is so repulsive, the place to discredit it is in the open, not to push it underground into the recesses of the underworld, lending credence and appeal to the idea through it's illicit nature. The written word is not a place for the state, any more than the legislature is a place for preachers.
Nobody should be put in jail for their words. Not even vile ones.
Use brightly colored cables, get metal cable tray and rattle can spray paint it a contrasting color. I've seen it done very well, and it does add a near technical feel to a space.
Any interior designer could help you; if you're going for image, then that's probably not a bad idea anyway.
If you're not going for image.. drop tile. :)
Stilts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stilts :)
If grad school has at best a questionable return, how could a postdoc - indentured servitude, slavery - be any better an idea?
The exceptional at anything will do fine, including academics. By definition, odds are you're not exceptional in a given talent pool, even one that's two or three deviations out.
Have a concrete plan to feed yourself. Or save the schooling for retirement, after you've saved up enough to live on. Digging yourself a hundred thousand dollar hole isn't a great idea right out of the gate.
Academics used to be the playground of the elite (and the exceptional, with a patron). That's been forgotten..
I'm more interested in knowing that in the time between when a launch is detected and confirmed on the west coast of North America, their fate as a nation will be sealed forever and all time, thus ensuring MAD is upheld.
I expect anyone who launches a nuclear war will have to come out of the bunkers, sooner or later.
We need an updated, modern, and effective nuclear arsenal.
If you don't defend your way of life, bad men will come and take it from you. Sometimes they are the bad men, and sometimes you are. History is funny that way.
I don't have any problem with nuclear weapons - they're a fact of life now. I just want ours to be the best.. and if anyone launches, it needs to be understood, completely, your entire right to exist as a nation. There can be no other peace.
Reality, sometimes, is grim stuff.
Seriously, C is that awesome.
If C doesn't work, import python.
What's new is old.. and old new..
http://youtu.be/up863eQKGUI
Remember kids, don't copy that floppy!
Maybe they always were. Functional, but they're jewlery. I have a nice Citizen Ecodrive I'm fond of. It's functional, it's lightweight, it never needs batteries, and it looks nice. It's titanium, with a sapphire face.
It allows me to casually check time in meetings without being rude; it looks professional; that's important for what I do, less important for others.
Smartwatches are horrible to look at. They are gaudy and tacky. I am not sure what they say about the wearer, but I am not sure they are part of the image I would want to project. Yes, that type of thing matters to some people. Particularly, I suspect, those who still wear watches.
What I want is a nice watch like that that maybe has a silent notification capabilty, and perhaps, can pick up some biometric data (pulse, whatever). I would find real value in that - something that my phone can't do, an an alert to get me to check my phone for something interesting or pressing.
I can see myself getting Google Glasses before a smartwatch.
Get off my lawn.
That $10k differential, if invested, could pay a return that would cover most of your gas.
Fuel, or cars in general, need to get much more expensive for this to make sense. Better to start the transition now, and hey - props to everyone buying a Tesla.
On the upside, banner ads will be pretty easy to target to make never appear with plugins.