Although I came in the tech field quite late (in the 1970's) I've still been around the block a few times, so here's my take...
IBM IBM was a sales company with strong tech foundation. Was. Now IBM has turned into a service company
Cisco Cisco's strength was derived from teams of cracked engineers churning out amazing communication hardware. Was. Now that the cracked teams of engineers have mostly left Cisco has turned more and more like an Indian company
Microsoft Microsoft used to be THE company that sells software that corporations need (from OS to their office suites). Used to. Now Microsoft is a company clinging onto new versions of legacy software
Apple Apple used to be a very brave company that dare to come up with strange products that people crave for. Used to. Now Apple, much like Microsoft, is a company clingong onto new versions of legacy hardware
If you started with Chinese as your native tongue, then romance languages are very difficult too
I am a Chinese. Mandarin is my mother tongue
I do not know what you mean by "Romance Language" but the western languages, starting from the Latin to its derivatives (Spanish, Italians, Portugese, and French, and in some way in English also) at least, to me, are not difficult to learn
I would agree that any language would be difficult to master (For example: I haven't yet master my own mother tongue, the Mandarin Language, as it is a language with thousands of years of history and the ancient texts were written in a more condensed form) but it shouldn't be difficult to learn any language to the point that one can read, speak and write in that language
I am from China. Assange is from Australia. Those of us who are not from the United States of America tend to have an advantage over those who were born and raised inside America because we were not indoctrinated with the Pledge of Allegiance throughout our childhood (into the teen years) but the Americans do
That is why when Assange said
For a man of systematic intelligence, Schmidtâ(TM)s politicsâ"such as I could hear from our discussionâ"were surprisingly conventional, even banal
I have to agree
Schmidt, no matter how smart he is, chooses to remain inside the box, and as one who stays inside the box can't see how bad the system that governs America has turned into
America used to be the one who fight for liberty. That was why I left China and went to America decades ago. Now? America is as bad as China in term of the suppression of liberty
The _actual_ infectivity rate of ebola strongly suggests that it isn't airborne at all, and even droplet spread is not a very significant factor
While you are correct that the airborne vector isn't significant need I remind you that Ebola is not a disease whereby the person infected with it gets a mild fever and minor headache and the cure is two aspirin tablets?
The droplet spread may not be significant but when we consider the outcome --- in the case of Ebola, even something that is NOT supposed to be significant must be accounted for - or people die
TFA is right. Ebola requires not an "Ebola Czar" but a team of people who are well trained with comprehensive strategy to tackle / combat / defeat Ebola
Right now, as it is, the fight against Ebola has been a sham --- this disease was not a new phenomenon, Ebola has been known since the 1970's, but because it had always been confined in the African continent, the continent in which the "low class people lives" (to the uninitiated that ain't my opinion but it has been the opinion of the colonial elites) nobody takes Ebola seriously other than very few cases of vaccine experimentation sponsored by military of various countries
The fact that WHO has to resort to collect the blood of those who survived Ebola to make a "serum" trying to cure Ebola tells us how unprepared the world is against this disease
Until now the establishment still insists that Ebola is not airborne but at least one experiment in Canada has indicated that Ebola could spread through air ( see these links --- http://www.bbc.com/news/scienc...
No matter how many "bah..." you utter ain't gonna change the matter for the better if you don't pick yourself up from your fat ass and DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT !
What I am saying may sound harsh, but the thing that you are expressing is exactly the one thing that is retarding the cities / communities from progressing forward --- When everybody is waiting for someone else to do it there ain't gonna be anything done
When are things like this going to start being used for good and bad ways? i.e. Your honor, my client is susceptible to gambling, so this should/should not be taking into account during sentencing. That is, if he is susceptible, he shouldn't be anywhere near a gambling table etc. This is the problem I see with comprehensive data. Correlations happen by coincidence all the time and humans are downright lousy at statistics, intuition and perception
As one who runs several businesses while investing in many others I can tell you that the "gambling mentality" can very much be applied to business as well
Many of the Silicon Valley upstarts do not even deserve one single penny of investments for their founders' strategy are so wrong, so narrow, and so stupid, but yet, they regularly got million-dollar injection because someone take a chance
You may think that many of the "angel investors" are seasoned investors, that whenever they "take a chance" they knew what they were doing. The reality however, is that many of those investments are based on nothing more than what TFA has pointed out, a "response to pleasure-triggering behavior"
Yes, I have had my own moments and I have invested my good money into rotten useless duds
I have read the comments and most of them are the typical of "capitalism is to be blamed" kind of argument
The one inherent inequality that truly exists in the system is INITIATIVE --- in which, persons who are more prone to take proactive actions are more prone to become successful and/or to have higher possibilities in surviving any given crisis
Those who argue that capitalism is the one thing that has caused the discrepancies of wealth distribution never care about the reality - that is, if one is lazy and never takes any initiative, how can that person become wealthy in the first place?
I have been in the tech scene for decades, and having have my "tech baptism" we always have that "community" feel to what we do
That was decades ago
Now, everything changed. Tech companies today are like warring fiefdoms. Instead of focus on innovation they wasted all their resources on making their competitors suffer
Take this SIRI/Nuance -- Apple/Samsung saga for example ---
Instead of innovate - Innovate - INNOVATE what we have here are "strategizing - scheming - blocking"
Instead of innovation the tech companies are more interested in dog fights, and the one thing that I need to know is this ---
Why are they doing all these?
Is it because they no longer have the urge to innovate?
Or is it because the corporate culture (the ROI mentality) that has taken over (in almost all the big tech companies that I know) and it is killing the tech field as we know it?
This is a very unhealthy trend, very very unhealthy, and if we let them corporate guys taking over our tech industry sooner or later we will be facing the sad cold reality that one day, somebody else, maybe India or China or Russia, will become much more technologically advance than the West
Please pay a visit to India or Russia or China, if you have the chance. Over there they still have a lot of people devoting their lives on innovation, because to them, it is the right thing to do
While there's no doubt that technology does play a part in the success of that school, MHO is that it is wrong to attribute all the success on technology alone
The fact is that school got so much attention from so many people, so much so that the inventor of the 3D printed limb, Richard van As was present at that school
Or, in other words, it was Hawthorne Effect ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H... ) that has contributed to the dramatic improvement on the performances of the students of that school
So are these foreign thai places actually "bland" or is "real" thai food simply overly spiced?
While I do not know how you would define that "overly" in the "overly spiced" description of yours, real Thai food (and yes, I have been to Thailand many times on business trips) are certainly much more tasty than what you get from those "Thai Restaurants" on your main street in Europe or America
I have great doubt that the robot could do a decent job identifying a real tasty Thai food from a bad one
Sure, the bot can judge the level of spiciness / sourness / sweetness by measuring the level of glucose / acid / capsaicinoids, but that still doesn't mean it can ascertain how tasty the food is
I find discussion in this thread a little bit wanting as not everyone is the same
Some had an "early start" while others may be "late starter" because not everyone had their insights straight from the start
Those who had early insights can hone their mastery very early because they already had a "road path" drawn up for them (as long as they do not give up, that is), and all they need to do is to gain enough knowledge to put their insights into words, or in scientific terminology
Others may be late starters because their "insights" took quite some time to "gel"
I happened to know people from both camps. Neither camp can claim to be more smart than the other
Indeed it is an all around too bad for the millions of _screen lookers_ everywhere --- by focusing on that little lighted panel all the time they never know how much they have been missing out
I actually received one of those as a Christmas present back in 1966! It actually was a good learning experience and fun for a nerdy kid
You guys were sure lucky !
I was from China, and back in the mid 1960's China was in really fucked up social turmoil, we could never ever imagine having _anything_ even approaching to what you guys got to enjoy !
The first time I encountered a computer (and I mean electronic one) I was already in my late teen, and I had to learn everything, from bit to byte, flip from flop, register, all the computer languages, everything, from scratch
That makes me wonder, though... while you guys in the West have so many years of wonderfully crafted learning aids ahead of people like me, how come today the level of computer/technological comprehension in the West isn't that much difference from those in the other parts of the world?
You guys ought to have outpaced the rest of the world by leaps and bounds, man, given that you guys were/are blessed with so many wonderful stuffs, for so many years!
Buy stocks that are being bought, and sell stocks that are being sold>
Forget the fundamentals - TUNE OUT THE NOISE
Get out of the hive mindset and bet against the crowd
And I might like to add that the techniques that the guy applied in his stock trading can be used in other fields as well --- such as, finding a niche, or starting your business, or getting yourself promoted
When the hive goes West and you are one of those going the same direction, you ain't gonna get much out of it
Many thinks erroneously that after they installed a Whole House Surge Protector everything else would be fine
That Whole House Surge Protector might be able to clamp a sudden surge from the outside, but the respond time often isn't fast enough to save the delicate electronic devices connected to the wall sockets
What you really need is a layered approach --- getting a Whole House Surge Protector to clamp a _lengthy_ surge from the outside, while still attach your delicate electronic devices to surge protectors with fast response (something like in the nano-second range) that plug into the wall sockets
Slashdot Mirror
Right or Wrong, he's a traitor
Edward Snowden is indeed a _traitor_ to those who want to turn the United States of America into the United POLICE States of America
Although I came in the tech field quite late (in the 1970's) I've still been around the block a few times, so here's my take ...
IBM
IBM was a sales company with strong tech foundation. Was. Now IBM has turned into a service company
Cisco
Cisco's strength was derived from teams of cracked engineers churning out amazing communication hardware. Was. Now that the cracked teams of engineers have mostly left Cisco has turned more and more like an Indian company
Microsoft
Microsoft used to be THE company that sells software that corporations need (from OS to their office suites). Used to. Now Microsoft is a company clinging onto new versions of legacy software
Apple
Apple used to be a very brave company that dare to come up with strange products that people crave for. Used to. Now Apple, much like Microsoft, is a company clingong onto new versions of legacy hardware
If you started with Chinese as your native tongue, then romance languages are very difficult too
I am a Chinese. Mandarin is my mother tongue
I do not know what you mean by "Romance Language" but the western languages, starting from the Latin to its derivatives (Spanish, Italians, Portugese, and French, and in some way in English also) at least, to me, are not difficult to learn
I would agree that any language would be difficult to master (For example: I haven't yet master my own mother tongue, the Mandarin Language, as it is a language with thousands of years of history and the ancient texts were written in a more condensed form) but it shouldn't be difficult to learn any language to the point that one can read, speak and write in that language
If the Chinese language is really such a notoriously difficult language to learn (and to speak) there ought to be no one using it anymore, right?
I dunno about you, but I do think /. has gone way too hyperbole !!
I am from China. Assange is from Australia. Those of us who are not from the United States of America tend to have an advantage over those who were born and raised inside America because we were not indoctrinated with the Pledge of Allegiance throughout our childhood (into the teen years) but the Americans do
That is why when Assange said
For a man of systematic intelligence, Schmidtâ(TM)s politicsâ"such as I could hear from our discussionâ"were surprisingly conventional, even banal
I have to agree
Schmidt, no matter how smart he is, chooses to remain inside the box, and as one who stays inside the box can't see how bad the system that governs America has turned into
America used to be the one who fight for liberty. That was why I left China and went to America decades ago. Now? America is as bad as China in term of the suppression of liberty
People living in South Korea and Japan get to enjoy gigabit bandwidth - and they are relatively cheap too!
Why can't the USAians get the enjoy the same?
If there is a digital divide, it would put USA in the bottom pile
What is Creativity?
Is it like that haiku comment
"To be creative - you must resist common sense .... "
at the TFA at the TR page ?
The dude who invented the round wheel didn't invent the wheel by "resist common sense", or did he?
Does one really have to resist common sense in order to "get out of the box"?
The _actual_ infectivity rate of ebola strongly suggests that it isn't airborne at all, and even droplet spread is not a very significant factor
While you are correct that the airborne vector isn't significant need I remind you that Ebola is not a disease whereby the person infected with it gets a mild fever and minor headache and the cure is two aspirin tablets?
The droplet spread may not be significant but when we consider the outcome --- in the case of Ebola, even something that is NOT supposed to be significant must be accounted for - or people die
TFA is right. Ebola requires not an "Ebola Czar" but a team of people who are well trained with comprehensive strategy to tackle / combat / defeat Ebola
Right now, as it is, the fight against Ebola has been a sham --- this disease was not a new phenomenon, Ebola has been known since the 1970's, but because it had always been confined in the African continent, the continent in which the "low class people lives" (to the uninitiated that ain't my opinion but it has been the opinion of the colonial elites) nobody takes Ebola seriously other than very few cases of vaccine experimentation sponsored by military of various countries
The fact that WHO has to resort to collect the blood of those who survived Ebola to make a "serum" trying to cure Ebola tells us how unprepared the world is against this disease
Until now the establishment still insists that Ebola is not airborne but at least one experiment in Canada has indicated that Ebola could spread through air ( see these links --- http://www.bbc.com/news/scienc...
http://healthmap.org/site/dise... )
If the establishment until now still does not want to tell us the truth, who can we trust ?
Bah, none in my areas. :(
No matter how many "bah..." you utter ain't gonna change the matter for the better if you don't pick yourself up from your fat ass and DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT !
What I am saying may sound harsh, but the thing that you are expressing is exactly the one thing that is retarding the cities / communities from progressing forward --- When everybody is waiting for someone else to do it there ain't gonna be anything done
If you are 29 years or older you may remember what Coca Cola did back in 1985, with its "New Coke" campaign
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N...
Well ... systemd is the "New Coke" equivalent in the FOSS community
It is touted to be a better than ever but unfortunately, like "New Coke" of yore, it gonna flopped
When are things like this going to start being used for good and bad ways? i.e. Your honor, my client is susceptible to gambling, so this should/should not be taking into account during sentencing. That is, if he is susceptible, he shouldn't be anywhere near a gambling table etc. This is the problem I see with comprehensive data. Correlations happen by coincidence all the time and humans are downright lousy at statistics, intuition and perception
As one who runs several businesses while investing in many others I can tell you that the "gambling mentality" can very much be applied to business as well
Many of the Silicon Valley upstarts do not even deserve one single penny of investments for their founders' strategy are so wrong, so narrow, and so stupid, but yet, they regularly got million-dollar injection because someone take a chance
You may think that many of the "angel investors" are seasoned investors, that whenever they "take a chance" they knew what they were doing. The reality however, is that many of those investments are based on nothing more than what TFA has pointed out, a "response to pleasure-triggering behavior"
Yes, I have had my own moments and I have invested my good money into rotten useless duds
Come and see the violence inherent in the system!
I have read the comments and most of them are the typical of "capitalism is to be blamed" kind of argument
The one inherent inequality that truly exists in the system is INITIATIVE --- in which, persons who are more prone to take proactive actions are more prone to become successful and/or to have higher possibilities in surviving any given crisis
Those who argue that capitalism is the one thing that has caused the discrepancies of wealth distribution never care about the reality - that is, if one is lazy and never takes any initiative, how can that person become wealthy in the first place?
I have been in the tech scene for decades, and having have my "tech baptism" we always have that "community" feel to what we do
That was decades ago
Now, everything changed. Tech companies today are like warring fiefdoms. Instead of focus on innovation they wasted all their resources on making their competitors suffer
Take this SIRI/Nuance -- Apple/Samsung saga for example ---
Instead of innovate - Innovate - INNOVATE what we have here are "strategizing - scheming - blocking"
Instead of innovation the tech companies are more interested in dog fights, and the one thing that I need to know is this ---
Why are they doing all these?
Is it because they no longer have the urge to innovate?
Or is it because the corporate culture (the ROI mentality) that has taken over (in almost all the big tech companies that I know) and it is killing the tech field as we know it?
This is a very unhealthy trend, very very unhealthy, and if we let them corporate guys taking over our tech industry sooner or later we will be facing the sad cold reality that one day, somebody else, maybe India or China or Russia, will become much more technologically advance than the West
Please pay a visit to India or Russia or China, if you have the chance. Over there they still have a lot of people devoting their lives on innovation, because to them, it is the right thing to do
While there's no doubt that technology does play a part in the success of that school, MHO is that it is wrong to attribute all the success on technology alone
The fact is that school got so much attention from so many people, so much so that the inventor of the 3D printed limb, Richard van As was present at that school
Or, in other words, it was Hawthorne Effect ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H... ) that has contributed to the dramatic improvement on the performances of the students of that school
So are these foreign thai places actually "bland" or is "real" thai food simply overly spiced?
While I do not know how you would define that "overly" in the "overly spiced" description of yours, real Thai food (and yes, I have been to Thailand many times on business trips) are certainly much more tasty than what you get from those "Thai Restaurants" on your main street in Europe or America
I have great doubt that the robot could do a decent job identifying a real tasty Thai food from a bad one
Sure, the bot can judge the level of spiciness / sourness / sweetness by measuring the level of glucose / acid / capsaicinoids, but that still doesn't mean it can ascertain how tasty the food is
Actually, BOTH !!
... when it becomes the reality
I find discussion in this thread a little bit wanting as not everyone is the same
Some had an "early start" while others may be "late starter" because not everyone had their insights straight from the start
Those who had early insights can hone their mastery very early because they already had a "road path" drawn up for them (as long as they do not give up, that is), and all they need to do is to gain enough knowledge to put their insights into words, or in scientific terminology
Others may be late starters because their "insights" took quite some time to "gel"
I happened to know people from both camps. Neither camp can claim to be more smart than the other
Indeed it is an all around too bad for the millions of _screen lookers_ everywhere --- by focusing on that little lighted panel all the time they never know how much they have been missing out
Computers Shmomputers, when I was a kid this is what we used to learn programming http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...
I actually received one of those as a Christmas present back in 1966! It actually was a good learning experience and fun for a nerdy kid
You guys were sure lucky !
I was from China, and back in the mid 1960's China was in really fucked up social turmoil, we could never ever imagine having _anything_ even approaching to what you guys got to enjoy !
The first time I encountered a computer (and I mean electronic one) I was already in my late teen, and I had to learn everything, from bit to byte, flip from flop, register, all the computer languages, everything, from scratch
That makes me wonder, though ... while you guys in the West have so many years of wonderfully crafted learning aids ahead of people like me, how come today the level of computer/technological comprehension in the West isn't that much difference from those in the other parts of the world?
You guys ought to have outpaced the rest of the world by leaps and bounds , man, given that you guys were/are blessed with so many wonderful stuffs, for so many years!
Propylene Glycol is an organic chemical product that can also be derived from Palm Oil
Of course that guy is much more than that
Here are the quotes which I copied from TFA:
Buy stocks that are being bought, and sell stocks that are being sold>
Forget the fundamentals - TUNE OUT THE NOISE
Get out of the hive mindset and bet against the crowd
And I might like to add that the techniques that the guy applied in his stock trading can be used in other fields as well --- such as, finding a niche, or starting your business, or getting yourself promoted
When the hive goes West and you are one of those going the same direction, you ain't gonna get much out of it
http://hardware.slashdot.org/s...
http://www.cepro.com/article/t...
Many thinks erroneously that after they installed a Whole House Surge Protector everything else would be fine
That Whole House Surge Protector might be able to clamp a sudden surge from the outside, but the respond time often isn't fast enough to save the delicate electronic devices connected to the wall sockets
What you really need is a layered approach --- getting a Whole House Surge Protector to clamp a _lengthy_ surge from the outside, while still attach your delicate electronic devices to surge protectors with fast response (something like in the nano-second range) that plug into the wall sockets
Three links that might be able to assist you:
http://techomebuilder.com/inde...
http://www.electronichouse.com...
http://www.us-tech.com/RelId/1...