Underwater expert / Director experience - Check
Has the money to fund it himself, if necessary - Check
would "do it right", showing it the respect it deserves - Check
I work at Vassar as an Administrator (computer programmer). Exposing students to a broad variety of ideas and concepts, and teaching them how to think is what Liberal Arts is all about.
Although Vassar is an elite college, you might be surprised that over 50% of our students are on financial aid of some kind. I wonder if it's because it costs over 50k a year to attend?;)
I say! *accidentally drops monocle into top hat*
This is a day that I wish I had mod points--you two gents gave me the biggest belly laugh in a long time.
There are at least a couple of Freemasonry orders where you as part of the rites of ascending in rank have to sacrifice a live animal. The chances that many of the BP execs are Freemasons is pretty high, and the chance that they belong to one of those orders isn't negligible.
Wait, what? Citation needed.
I'm a Mason, and I can tell you that there's no sacrificing of animals going on at lodge. *rolls eyes*
Also, this might create a sort of anti-Pygmalion effect with the "sorted" kids. Instead of them rising to increased expectations, they allow themselves to drift (or worse) because less is expected. Talk about setting someone up for failure...
Piracy is a clear indication that the market is broken. And by "market is broken" I mean that game publishers are charging an amount that their "potential" customers refuse to pay. It's corporate greed that is causing people to pirate the games. The response is DRM, which exacerbates the problem.
Also, the US Department of Energy recently released a study (forgive me, I couldn't find the link) that states that 96% of the cars on the road could be transitioned to plug-in hybrids or battery electric...as long as they are charged off-peak.
Does anyone else remember this, and/or provide the link?
When the infrastructure gets rolled out, Better Place will have battery swapping stations that will change your electric car's battery in 2 minutes. If you need to go farther than the average 40 mile commute each day, you'll never use it. If you need the range extension, get you battery swapped. There's your less than 10 minutes.
Carl Jung wrote a book on Flying Saucers based on possible psychological aspects of UFO sightings. Although he was skeptical of UFOs existing at all (this writer is not), I'm sure he was on to something.
2. Failing to understand that cutting both Intel and Microsoft out was going to make it all but impossible to sell to corrupt third world governments. It doesn't mean you can't do it but you damned well better have a real plan for dealing with that reality. If OLPC had any such plan it was to wave the Penguin banner to force Microsoft to give cut rate pricing. But it isn't even clear they were even thinking that much.
This is really insightful. Negroponte and his partners should have taken more (any?) time to study the environment in which they sought to distribute these devices. Never assume that you can just bypass entrenched US Corporate interests abroad--they will jealously protect their revenue stream(s).
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Sorry to say...but the "they" who are taking your jobs are computers and robots.
Underwater expert / Director experience - Check
Has the money to fund it himself, if necessary - Check
would "do it right", showing it the respect it deserves - Check
Actually, I think Errol backfiring was referencing the Trolls in Terry Pratchett's Discworld...
If so, kudos, sir.
I work at Vassar as an Administrator (computer programmer). Exposing students to a broad variety of ideas and concepts, and teaching them how to think is what Liberal Arts is all about.
;)
Although Vassar is an elite college, you might be surprised that over 50% of our students are on financial aid of some kind. I wonder if it's because it costs over 50k a year to attend?
a certain few Content Cartels - Cox(sucker) Cable, Comcrap, TW, AOHell, etc
Dude, I laughed so hard at this I almost got thrown out of my office. I'm writing this with tears streaming down my cheeks. Thank you for that!
Not to mention allowing us to create, sell and tax the tens-of-thousands of products that can be made out of Industrial Hemp.
I say! *accidentally drops monocle into top hat* This is a day that I wish I had mod points--you two gents gave me the biggest belly laugh in a long time.
There are at least a couple of Freemasonry orders where you as part of the rites of ascending in rank have to sacrifice a live animal. The chances that many of the BP execs are Freemasons is pretty high, and the chance that they belong to one of those orders isn't negligible.
Wait, what? Citation needed. I'm a Mason, and I can tell you that there's no sacrificing of animals going on at lodge. *rolls eyes*
This is great information. Thank you for sharing!
This one? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUNfynI8bdA
Like Netflix.
Also, this might create a sort of anti-Pygmalion effect with the "sorted" kids. Instead of them rising to increased expectations, they allow themselves to drift (or worse) because less is expected. Talk about setting someone up for failure...
If you're a geek, the iPad is probably not for you. Meditate on that.
Piracy is a clear indication that the market is broken. And by "market is broken" I mean that game publishers are charging an amount that their "potential" customers refuse to pay. It's corporate greed that is causing people to pirate the games. The response is DRM, which exacerbates the problem.
Get a new baby. Not that big of a deal.
Also, the US Department of Energy recently released a study (forgive me, I couldn't find the link) that states that 96% of the cars on the road could be transitioned to plug-in hybrids or battery electric...as long as they are charged off-peak. Does anyone else remember this, and/or provide the link?
When the infrastructure gets rolled out, Better Place will have battery swapping stations that will change your electric car's battery in 2 minutes. If you need to go farther than the average 40 mile commute each day, you'll never use it. If you need the range extension, get you battery swapped. There's your less than 10 minutes.
*wipes a tear from his eye* They should have sent a poet.
A-one, a-two, a-three...*crunch*! A-three!
You...you said it all, man. I wish more developers understood our plight.
Carl Jung wrote a book on Flying Saucers based on possible psychological aspects of UFO sightings. Although he was skeptical of UFOs existing at all (this writer is not), I'm sure he was on to something.
it placed Tranquility Base somewhere in Africa.
Ah ha! So that's where they "really" filmed the landing! I knew the truth would come out sooner or later!
2. Failing to understand that cutting both Intel and Microsoft out was going to make it all but impossible to sell to corrupt third world governments. It doesn't mean you can't do it but you damned well better have a real plan for dealing with that reality. If OLPC had any such plan it was to wave the Penguin banner to force Microsoft to give cut rate pricing. But it isn't even clear they were even thinking that much.
This is really insightful. Negroponte and his partners should have taken more (any?) time to study the environment in which they sought to distribute these devices. Never assume that you can just bypass entrenched US Corporate interests abroad--they will jealously protect their revenue stream(s).
something about genetically modified bacteria designed to produce fuel, in the ocean gives me the creeps.
Perhaps this is the result. (or something like it) *shiver*
Right. That's bad. Okay. All right. Important safety tip.