How many US citizens speak or read Mandarin? I'm thinking that foreign media is not such a hot seller here because we can't appreciate it... not won't, can't. OTOH content that doesn't need to be in english to be enjoyed (1980s Kungfu Movies, Software Code) sell fairly well here...
Actually I suspect that the whole Coanda effect thing is the main difference, well that and the fact that it's inverted bowl shape helps it stay aloft on the cushion of air it has generated... like a parachute with it's own updraft generator. The bowl shape looks to actually curve up under itself... so the air that is following the curve is being redirected up under it - not simply down, so in the end you've reduced the air density above the device and increased it below the device, pretty nifty.
It won't cost more than your house for long. My house cost.569 Million : 1200 sq ft. 2B/2B in SoCal... it will be worth 1 Million in 6 years given a 10% year over year increase in value... which recent history (last 20 years) has at closer to 20%
Point is that people can afford it. The cost of a Mercedes is the same (roughly) where I live as where a house equivalent to mine that costs 150k is.... and yet if I follow the rule of 1/3 my income on housing i should have a lot more available currency than that other person. Which happens to be why I choose to live in an expensive region... salaries go up due to housing expenses, while general cost of living is proportionally less, which means I have more actual money available to me for all things I can purchase at national market prices.
Point is that I can afford a 1k/mo payment for a car if I want to save less or invest less while someone elsewhere whose home is only worth 150k can only put out $370/mo
The car company doesn't care why you can afford more or less absolute cash... so I get to have it and mr. x doesn't
I look forward to owning a 6 figure car ( that's only 250,000 BTW which in my neighborhood is average... I see Ferraris, Bentleys, Porsches, Lambos, NSX, Lotus and that's on my daily 20 minute commute... weekends there are some serious rides rolling around; me I've got a cute little red convertible Miata for my wife and a Mitsu Montero for me... they do the job and have great ratings all around and cost me less than 30k for both, both used with great mileage/perfect condition and under 6% loan rate)
If you ever wanted to use your own set of tiles for a map... this is the software for you. FYI IANADeveloper on it but if you're good with RICO or Prototype you should be. We all need an alternative mapping system that is mature and ready for general use out there for applications that may differ from the norm (like a map of something other than the earth... a building for instance).
With Macs you bring the old one in (or it's boot drive) when you're buying a new one... hand it over to the genius bar and they'll normalize your settings/prefs/apps/user dir to the new machine regardless of whether it's a new OS version or not.
Usually takes a few hours to copy everything over but YOU don't have to babysit it and it's a free service when you buy the new Mac.
This is a good summary of how score based grades are a system to be gamed.
A Term Paper however isn't about the grade, it's about demonstrating knowledge. You are supposed to get a grade based on how well you demonstrate said knowledge and the grade is relative to your peers (on a curve), thereby placing you in convenient context with the intellect around you. If you grade poorly or average compared to those around you, you should be asking them to help you out. If you are graded highest in your class you should look around you and see if it's a class worth being a leader in.
What's missing in the current school system is competition between schools and classes. There is no team effort to work towards. It's now competition between students for highest scores in the class, rather than for the class to have the highest scores in the school or the school to have the highest scores in the district.
He'd lose that bet if I'd been one of his students.
I get to do Usability Assessments and User Interface Recommendations for big complicated Intranet/Extranet Applications for companies that do things like Medical Document Processing and Financial Aid Processing. Each of my deliverables for these projects is like a Term Paper. They are 30 to 40 pages long with additional appendices of examples, conceptual illustrations, technology prototypes and have a reference section with links to online sources and full attribution.
I sure as hell pull from what people are doing out there with web application interfaces but because each case is unique in some form or another (business logic is different, user profiles are different, etc) I can't simply copy them except at the earliest stage of the document. I have to comprehend both the clients needs and the potential solutions available and then demonstrate how each potential solution to a UI problem or process will work most effectively in the system architecture being proposed.
I study a topic.. Insurance Processing for example... filter it through my discipline, UI design in this case, and then write a paper about it with a specific conclusion in mind using examples and reference support material to back up my findings.
We called it Porn-Sourcing... we would have a system for distributing manual data entry tasks to people and provide access to Porn as payment. 10 tax returns == 100MB downloads, etc.
It was a great idea until P2P killed to Porn problem... now everyone has unlimited access to Porn, why would they do work for it anymore... even if they did, they'd post in on a network and we'd lose half our workforce for the day until we got some new content they wanted.
Oh well, good luck Amazon... hope your business model is a little more fool-proof.
When a person writes about a topic in isolation from reference material there is absolutely no way that their writing will correlate with that of some other person. OTOH when you write about a topic with your references open-book style in front of you, then you are guaranteed to replicate them if not in word choice then in organization of thoughts and order of presentation.
That being said it's not the students who are making mistakes... it's the teachers and school curriculum boards. I'm certain that the amount of attention paid to Creative writing, ie: original writing, is significantly less than that paid to criteria based editorializing of facts in a standardized format. No wonder the kids don't know how to write without copying someone, they don't know how to write at all. How many of them understand proper grammar, syntax, punctuation, writing style?
There was a real reason that the classics of literature were taught at one point. They were dissected for more than ideas and concepts, they were examples of good writing that could communicate those ideas and concepts, not simply present them in a standardized format.
To return to my first paragraph, there is another problem. The students don't truly understand the material anyways and can't write about the topic without the crutch of reference material or plagiarism of others. If they understood it they wouldn't want to plagiarize. They would want to be very clear that the thoughts and opinions and conclusion they are presenting are theirs and theirs alone. They would go out of their way to pick an approach to the topic that could only be from their own perspective. They would write about what they know and tie in the facts and reference material as needed to support their argument after having laid out a unique narrative, rather than outlining their paper based on the references they've found and attempting to write a narrative into the between spaces.
I would put Cowboy BeeBop (series + feature) up against Serenity/Firefly (series + feature) as equals on many levels. I wouldn't be surprised to hear that Firefly was inspired by Cowboy.....
The kids are right about peripherals, at least the ones that matter to them. All printers work (zeroconf is in all major printers by default now and they just show up in the Rendezvous browser... no drivers needed, no ip address, etc), all major cameras open up iPhoto when plugged in to a USB port, iPods duh, and USB sticks are well you see them on your desktop as a drive (no need to navigate to My Computer). Are there any other peripherals? Not for 98% of people out there.
Oh it was nothing really, just some Marklar greetings and how ya do's.. (actually I was asking how he'd gotten Marklarian crabs and what was he thinking dating that Marklar around the Marklar girl anyways, just didn't want every Marklar to start marklaring him with it;-p)
Sounds to me like they may use their vortex tech to help with sweeping.. ie pulling things up first then sweeping it in (needs less powerful vacuum for that) but more importantly the mention of creating it's own map means that they plan to have their robot remember where it's been and generate a floorplan. This would be unique and very useful within a confined space such as a house. I imagine they'll have to be started from the same location each time to provide orientation this go around (without some external reference info) or you'll need to plug digital markers into your outlets (which is a cool idea - I'll patent that one in a few minutes here).
The USPTO should be using an expert system to file patents instead of free-form write it out in obscure terms system that exists today.
This would allow for much easier searching, simplify the patent application process and make auditing a breeze. Do it like a branching survey. Pick your category and go from there. Sure allow some free-form explanation of why your patent doesn't quite fit into one of the available categories, after you have supplied a new category name that then becomes available to everyone else as an option. Some parts will still be unstructured but will be categorized first with a couple of good data points.
So USPTO rep? I know you're reading this (you're obviously not reviewing patent applications)... why not?
Satellite has obvious problems... relatively long delays and saturated bandwidth. If these things are cheap to produce then every company can have a couple UAVs with them to deploy when doing recon which will allow them to stay in touch with their camp and get that Satellite info or comms from a place that can put up a dish.
Besides... I hear Satellites suck for playing the latest Rainbow Six... horrible ping rates, get you killed every time.
I've evolved an entire beer from full to empty in less time... wow to think it would take humans that many years to do the same feat... amazing, beer is really amazing.
This isn't evolution. It's trial and error revision. Machines don't have genes and they don't reproduce sexually or asexually, so it's not evolution as in Darwin's (I suppose you could say they are using the more generic term that everyone uses when they talk about trial and error changes over a relatively long period of time - "dude I don't know how I made this bong so cool, it just sort of evolved - like it was destiny"
There's talent out there... Labels just aren't looking very hard for it. They want the next american idol to sign with them or if not they want a group with a built in audience that has worked hard already to become popular.
Your idea could work. Have the parent company, Sony - whoever, do the distribution.... get really good AR people to build a pool of genre specific talent and form a label around them. They could share ideas, work with each other, etc. and the artists would love it. Hell make it a university and teach people how to do it all with a mandatory 4 yr contract making music in one way or another at a fixed rate (as a singer, backup artist, musician, engineer, whatever). The stars will shine as they get famous for 4 years, then they can re-negotiate their contract for real money, the rest will get a good job in an industry they love and everyone will get paid because the quality of music will rise and the consumers will have good music to listen to again AND take advantage of your concept.
Maybe their new "suit" is actually a suite? Kind of like how a regular suit has multiple pieces suitable for outdoors and indoors? you know a jacket, shirt, vest and maybe an overcoat for those in cold climates.
NASA could easily have in mind a suit that is component oriented for multiple environments.
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Hmmm I seem to recall that Haliburton Inc. is still a US company... they just moved their main office closer to the action is all.
How many US citizens speak or read Mandarin? I'm thinking that foreign media is not such a hot seller here because we can't appreciate it... not won't, can't. OTOH content that doesn't need to be in english to be enjoyed (1980s Kungfu Movies, Software Code) sell fairly well here...
This way he can patent it?
IANAAE
Actually I suspect that the whole Coanda effect thing is the main difference, well that and the fact that it's inverted bowl shape helps it stay aloft on the cushion of air it has generated... like a parachute with it's own updraft generator. The bowl shape looks to actually curve up under itself... so the air that is following the curve is being redirected up under it - not simply down, so in the end you've reduced the air density above the device and increased it below the device, pretty nifty.
It won't cost more than your house for long. My house cost .569 Million : 1200 sq ft. 2B/2B in SoCal... it will be worth 1 Million in 6 years given a 10% year over year increase in value... which recent history (last 20 years) has at closer to 20%
Point is that people can afford it. The cost of a Mercedes is the same (roughly) where I live as where a house equivalent to mine that costs 150k is.... and yet if I follow the rule of 1/3 my income on housing i should have a lot more available currency than that other person. Which happens to be why I choose to live in an expensive region... salaries go up due to housing expenses, while general cost of living is proportionally less, which means I have more actual money available to me for all things I can purchase at national market prices.
Point is that I can afford a 1k/mo payment for a car if I want to save less or invest less while someone elsewhere whose home is only worth 150k can only put out $370/mo
The car company doesn't care why you can afford more or less absolute cash... so I get to have it and mr. x doesn't
I look forward to owning a 6 figure car ( that's only 250,000 BTW which in my neighborhood is average... I see Ferraris, Bentleys, Porsches, Lambos, NSX, Lotus and that's on my daily 20 minute commute... weekends there are some serious rides rolling around; me I've got a cute little red convertible Miata for my wife and a Mitsu Montero for me... they do the job and have great ratings all around and cost me less than 30k for both, both used with great mileage/perfect condition and under 6% loan rate)
OpenLayers, an open source (BSD License) javascript library for generating your own maps., also supports the GeoRSS standard.
If you ever wanted to use your own set of tiles for a map... this is the software for you. FYI IANADeveloper on it but if you're good with RICO or Prototype you should be. We all need an alternative mapping system that is mature and ready for general use out there for applications that may differ from the norm (like a map of something other than the earth... a building for instance).
With Macs you bring the old one in (or it's boot drive) when you're buying a new one... hand it over to the genius bar and they'll normalize your settings/prefs/apps/user dir to the new machine regardless of whether it's a new OS version or not.
Usually takes a few hours to copy everything over but YOU don't have to babysit it and it's a free service when you buy the new Mac.
As long as it's Jenna circa 1990... she's getting a little old yo...
This is a good summary of how score based grades are a system to be gamed.
A Term Paper however isn't about the grade, it's about demonstrating knowledge. You are supposed to get a grade based on how well you demonstrate said knowledge and the grade is relative to your peers (on a curve), thereby placing you in convenient context with the intellect around you. If you grade poorly or average compared to those around you, you should be asking them to help you out. If you are graded highest in your class you should look around you and see if it's a class worth being a leader in.
What's missing in the current school system is competition between schools and classes. There is no team effort to work towards. It's now competition between students for highest scores in the class, rather than for the class to have the highest scores in the school or the school to have the highest scores in the district.
He'd lose that bet if I'd been one of his students.
I get to do Usability Assessments and User Interface Recommendations for big complicated Intranet/Extranet Applications for companies that do things like Medical Document Processing and Financial Aid Processing. Each of my deliverables for these projects is like a Term Paper. They are 30 to 40 pages long with additional appendices of examples, conceptual illustrations, technology prototypes and have a reference section with links to online sources and full attribution.
I sure as hell pull from what people are doing out there with web application interfaces but because each case is unique in some form or another (business logic is different, user profiles are different, etc) I can't simply copy them except at the earliest stage of the document. I have to comprehend both the clients needs and the potential solutions available and then demonstrate how each potential solution to a UI problem or process will work most effectively in the system architecture being proposed.
I study a topic.. Insurance Processing for example... filter it through my discipline, UI design in this case, and then write a paper about it with a specific conclusion in mind using examples and reference support material to back up my findings.
We called it Porn-Sourcing... we would have a system for distributing manual data entry tasks to people and provide access to Porn as payment. 10 tax returns == 100MB downloads, etc.
It was a great idea until P2P killed to Porn problem... now everyone has unlimited access to Porn, why would they do work for it anymore... even if they did, they'd post in on a network and we'd lose half our workforce for the day until we got some new content they wanted.
Oh well, good luck Amazon... hope your business model is a little more fool-proof.
When a person writes about a topic in isolation from reference material there is absolutely no way that their writing will correlate with that of some other person. OTOH when you write about a topic with your references open-book style in front of you, then you are guaranteed to replicate them if not in word choice then in organization of thoughts and order of presentation.
That being said it's not the students who are making mistakes... it's the teachers and school curriculum boards. I'm certain that the amount of attention paid to Creative writing, ie: original writing, is significantly less than that paid to criteria based editorializing of facts in a standardized format. No wonder the kids don't know how to write without copying someone, they don't know how to write at all. How many of them understand proper grammar, syntax, punctuation, writing style?
There was a real reason that the classics of literature were taught at one point. They were dissected for more than ideas and concepts, they were examples of good writing that could communicate those ideas and concepts, not simply present them in a standardized format.
To return to my first paragraph, there is another problem. The students don't truly understand the material anyways and can't write about the topic without the crutch of reference material or plagiarism of others. If they understood it they wouldn't want to plagiarize. They would want to be very clear that the thoughts and opinions and conclusion they are presenting are theirs and theirs alone. They would go out of their way to pick an approach to the topic that could only be from their own perspective. They would write about what they know and tie in the facts and reference material as needed to support their argument after having laid out a unique narrative, rather than outlining their paper based on the references they've found and attempting to write a narrative into the between spaces.
I would put Cowboy BeeBop (series + feature) up against Serenity/Firefly (series + feature) as equals on many levels. I wouldn't be surprised to hear that Firefly was inspired by Cowboy.....
The kids are right about peripherals, at least the ones that matter to them. All printers work (zeroconf is in all major printers by default now and they just show up in the Rendezvous browser... no drivers needed, no ip address, etc), all major cameras open up iPhoto when plugged in to a USB port, iPods duh, and USB sticks are well you see them on your desktop as a drive (no need to navigate to My Computer). Are there any other peripherals? Not for 98% of people out there.
Oh it was nothing really, just some Marklar greetings and how ya do's.. (actually I was asking how he'd gotten Marklarian crabs and what was he thinking dating that Marklar around the Marklar girl anyways, just didn't want every Marklar to start marklaring him with it ;-p)
'nuff Marklar'd
Sorry not convincing enough... you get a C+
Sounds to me like they may use their vortex tech to help with sweeping.. ie pulling things up first then sweeping it in (needs less powerful vacuum for that) but more importantly the mention of creating it's own map means that they plan to have their robot remember where it's been and generate a floorplan. This would be unique and very useful within a confined space such as a house. I imagine they'll have to be started from the same location each time to provide orientation this go around (without some external reference info) or you'll need to plug digital markers into your outlets (which is a cool idea - I'll patent that one in a few minutes here).
The USPTO should be using an expert system to file patents instead of free-form write it out in obscure terms system that exists today.
This would allow for much easier searching, simplify the patent application process and make auditing a breeze. Do it like a branching survey. Pick your category and go from there. Sure allow some free-form explanation of why your patent doesn't quite fit into one of the available categories, after you have supplied a new category name that then becomes available to everyone else as an option. Some parts will still be unstructured but will be categorized first with a couple of good data points.
So USPTO rep? I know you're reading this (you're obviously not reviewing patent applications)... why not?
Satellite has obvious problems... relatively long delays and saturated bandwidth. If these things are cheap to produce then every company can have a couple UAVs with them to deploy when doing recon which will allow them to stay in touch with their camp and get that Satellite info or comms from a place that can put up a dish.
Besides... I hear Satellites suck for playing the latest Rainbow Six... horrible ping rates, get you killed every time.
Marklar is that you? Maarrrrkllllaaarrrr!!!!! Marklarr mmarkklar marrkllar marklar Marklar. MMMMarrklarr maaarklarr marklar marklar.
;-p-klar
Good to see you up and about again Marklar
Best marklars,
Marrklar
I've evolved an entire beer from full to empty in less time... wow to think it would take humans that many years to do the same feat... amazing, beer is really amazing.
This isn't evolution. It's trial and error revision. Machines don't have genes and they don't reproduce sexually or asexually, so it's not evolution as in Darwin's (I suppose you could say they are using the more generic term that everyone uses when they talk about trial and error changes over a relatively long period of time - "dude I don't know how I made this bong so cool, it just sort of evolved - like it was destiny"
Music playing too loud and the windows open... my headset has noise cancellation but the phone mic doesn't...
Seriously, how would we drive at 90 MPH and dial at the same time?
There's talent out there... Labels just aren't looking very hard for it. They want the next american idol to sign with them or if not they want a group with a built in audience that has worked hard already to become popular.
Your idea could work. Have the parent company, Sony - whoever, do the distribution.... get really good AR people to build a pool of genre specific talent and form a label around them. They could share ideas, work with each other, etc. and the artists would love it. Hell make it a university and teach people how to do it all with a mandatory 4 yr contract making music in one way or another at a fixed rate (as a singer, backup artist, musician, engineer, whatever). The stars will shine as they get famous for 4 years, then they can re-negotiate their contract for real money, the rest will get a good job in an industry they love and everyone will get paid because the quality of music will rise and the consumers will have good music to listen to again AND take advantage of your concept.
Maybe their new "suit" is actually a suite? Kind of like how a regular suit has multiple pieces suitable for outdoors and indoors? you know a jacket, shirt, vest and maybe an overcoat for those in cold climates.
NASA could easily have in mind a suit that is component oriented for multiple environments.
It's gonna be really funny, in a sad sort of way, when some young politician pops up in 10 years or so and headlines read:
"Senatorial hopeful accused of Piracy."
His response:
"I did not upload!"