Building a climate controlled, pressurized, artificially lighted building large enough to produce any food would be a huge challenge. But even that wouldn't do enough photosynthesis to convert a significant amount of CO2 to Oxygen. This isn't science fiction, where you can ignore reality.
Read the articles, both Yahoo and IBM cuts sound like downsizing rather than automation.
I hope the "automation" they're talking about in other parts of the article doesn't really mean "Do-It-Yourself". For example, grocery store self-checkout lines are essentially using my labor (at my labor rate) as an inefficient checkout clerk. I don't want to be a checkout clerk, and would gladly pay for a few minutes of a clerk's time if it gets me through the line a couple of minutes faster.
I will go as far as saying that the write-up is one-sided
The story is from the Consumerist so you know it's one-sided. But yes, the guy must have said/done something really out of line. I also suspect it wasn't the first time the employer has had issues with the guy.
I agree with everything you said. Unfortunately, desktop apps have all the same security and incompatibility issues. Plus it's a problem (not unsolvable, but an extra expense) keeping them deployed and up to date.
What needs to be banned is any browser version more that one release back from current; but that's not going to happen either because so many legacy apps (like yours) won't work. A classic Catch 22, customers can't update their browser because it will break all their apps, but vendors can't write modern apps because nobody has a browser that can run them.
I don't understand why the press keep referring to this as a "GPS". We all know that we build a mental map of our surroundings; the science they did was figuring out how different parts of the brain work together to build, store, and use that map. But I suppose GPS sounds better than a Dead Reckoning system, which is what it really is.
People had been crossing over from Asia for thousands of years when Marco Polo was in China. It shouldn't be a surprise that some knowledge of the other continent was circulating.
His alternative is an "Assessment Center"; it sounds like a screening interview. I suppose if you can make it to an SAT testing center for a few hours you could go through a personal screening as well. Not a bad idea really.
The US economy was in the tank when Nixon was elected due to LBJ's Vietnam War and "Great Society" spending. Nixon had to cut wherever he could.
To build NASA’s post-Apollo program around the space shuttle without establishing a specific goal or long-term strategy the shuttle would support
Not true. The shuttle was designed to lift and recover spy satellites. It actually did put several in orbit (and the Hubble, same size as a spy satellite) but in the end it was more cost effective to use one-time rockets.
The deregulation came about because Clinton put a quota on banks giving mortgages to people who didn't qualify. His “The National Homeownership Strategy" was what caused the housing bubble and burst.
financial transactions will eventually “be digital, universal and almost free.”
Not so much an endorsement of cryptocurrency as an opinion that physical currency is obsolete. Until security gets a whole lot better I'll continue to carry small amounts of cash when I go out. Of course Gates probably hasn't used any cash in decades.
You are assuming a lot based on very little information. All we know is that Google expressed some interest in buying them and CyanogenMod declined. Mostly it sounds like CyanogenMod has a much higher opinion of themselves than Google does.
How does... amount to being a member of the "high tech community"?
That's a big part of the problem. These people were trying to do two things: 1) Start a business, and 2) Transform a run down part of Las Vegas into a "high tech community".
Either one of those is very difficult, combine them and your chance of success is miniscule. Plus in that situation, when your business fails you have failed not just your investors and employees but also your colleagues who depended on you to make the community work.
Even more than interest I assume they really tested attention. When you are focused and paying attention you remember things, when your mind is wandering the memory was never formed.
The Executive Director also stressed that the two reports do not represent a forecast.
The linked article also misstates what the U.S. Department of Energy report contains (no, it doesn't say solar will go from.2 to 10%). People post this kind of nonsense and then wonder why they have a credibility problem.
Silk Road said they blocked requests. But their attempt to do so was incorrect, it allows any php request through. Think about how secure that server was...
The US Dept of Energy does not agree with you. Look at the "Total Levelized System Cost", Solar is the highest cost by far, although Wind does pretty well in good locations.
As I read the MIT statement the researchers claim is that their technique collects energy as heat from all available wavelengths. Then a conventional solar cell is used to generate electricity from the photons emitted from the heated collector. I didn't see anything about how much more efficient this is than generating electricity directly, but presumably it's better since the solar cell responds best to a specific wavelength which can be controlled by using the heated collector. Obviously to make it work need a concentrator.
His opinion is accurate. Your graph shows Revenue per Share. But look at what happened to the number of shares: Dec/04 1701, Dec/13 1103. They bought back shares to prop up their stock price and make Revenue per Share look better. During that ten year period Total Revenue went from $96B to $98B, essentially no growth in ten years.
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Building a climate controlled, pressurized, artificially lighted building large enough to produce any food would be a huge challenge. But even that wouldn't do enough photosynthesis to convert a significant amount of CO2 to Oxygen. This isn't science fiction, where you can ignore reality.
Read the articles, both Yahoo and IBM cuts sound like downsizing rather than automation.
I hope the "automation" they're talking about in other parts of the article doesn't really mean "Do-It-Yourself". For example, grocery store self-checkout lines are essentially using my labor (at my labor rate) as an inefficient checkout clerk. I don't want to be a checkout clerk, and would gladly pay for a few minutes of a clerk's time if it gets me through the line a couple of minutes faster.
Mars atmosphere is not air
I will go as far as saying that the write-up is one-sided
The story is from the Consumerist so you know it's one-sided. But yes, the guy must have said/done something really out of line. I also suspect it wasn't the first time the employer has had issues with the guy.
I agree with everything you said. Unfortunately, desktop apps have all the same security and incompatibility issues. Plus it's a problem (not unsolvable, but an extra expense) keeping them deployed and up to date.
What needs to be banned is any browser version more that one release back from current; but that's not going to happen either because so many legacy apps (like yours) won't work. A classic Catch 22, customers can't update their browser because it will break all their apps, but vendors can't write modern apps because nobody has a browser that can run them.
I find a good rule of thumb to measure security of a clinical environment: count the number of Windows XP boxes.
Plus, we can't write decent web apps because about 80% of the PCs in a typical hospital are still on IE8.
I don't understand why the press keep referring to this as a "GPS". We all know that we build a mental map of our surroundings; the science they did was figuring out how different parts of the brain work together to build, store, and use that map. But I suppose GPS sounds better than a Dead Reckoning system, which is what it really is.
People had been crossing over from Asia for thousands of years when Marco Polo was in China. It shouldn't be a surprise that some knowledge of the other continent was circulating.
His alternative is an "Assessment Center"; it sounds like a screening interview. I suppose if you can make it to an SAT testing center for a few hours you could go through a personal screening as well. Not a bad idea really.
Filing a protest after someone else gets the contract is pretty much automatic.
To build NASA’s post-Apollo program around the space shuttle without establishing a specific goal or long-term strategy the shuttle would support
Not true. The shuttle was designed to lift and recover spy satellites. It actually did put several in orbit (and the Hubble, same size as a spy satellite) but in the end it was more cost effective to use one-time rockets.
The deregulation came about because Clinton put a quota on banks giving mortgages to people who didn't qualify. His “The National Homeownership Strategy" was what caused the housing bubble and burst.
financial transactions will eventually “be digital, universal and almost free.”
Not so much an endorsement of cryptocurrency as an opinion that physical currency is obsolete. Until security gets a whole lot better I'll continue to carry small amounts of cash when I go out. Of course Gates probably hasn't used any cash in decades.
You are assuming a lot based on very little information. All we know is that Google expressed some interest in buying them and CyanogenMod declined. Mostly it sounds like CyanogenMod has a much higher opinion of themselves than Google does.
How does ... amount to being a member of the "high tech community"?
That's a big part of the problem. These people were trying to do two things: 1) Start a business, and 2) Transform a run down part of Las Vegas into a "high tech community".
Either one of those is very difficult, combine them and your chance of success is miniscule. Plus in that situation, when your business fails you have failed not just your investors and employees but also your colleagues who depended on you to make the community work.
Don't forget about:
1) Summers off
2) 5 hour work day
3) Layoffs and other terminations almost unheard of
4) 30 and out retirement with full pension and benefits
5) And (if you don't get caught) group sex with the students
Even more than interest I assume they really tested attention. When you are focused and paying attention you remember things, when your mind is wandering the memory was never formed.
I'll wait until I see a jump from Windows 1999 to Windows 2001 to be sure about this.
The Executive Director also stressed that the two reports do not represent a forecast.
The linked article also misstates what the U.S. Department of Energy report contains (no, it doesn't say solar will go from .2 to 10%). People post this kind of nonsense and then wonder why they have a credibility problem.
Silk Road said they blocked requests. But their attempt to do so was incorrect, it allows any php request through. Think about how secure that server was...
Kind of like getting political advice on /.
This has nothing to do with HIPAA; you can reveal your own medical records to anyone.
solar and wind already have won that race
The US Dept of Energy does not agree with you. Look at the "Total Levelized System Cost", Solar is the highest cost by far, although Wind does pretty well in good locations.
As I read the MIT statement the researchers claim is that their technique collects energy as heat from all available wavelengths. Then a conventional solar cell is used to generate electricity from the photons emitted from the heated collector. I didn't see anything about how much more efficient this is than generating electricity directly, but presumably it's better since the solar cell responds best to a specific wavelength which can be controlled by using the heated collector. Obviously to make it work need a concentrator.
His opinion is accurate. Your graph shows Revenue per Share. But look at what happened to the number of shares: Dec/04 1701, Dec/13 1103. They bought back shares to prop up their stock price and make Revenue per Share look better. During that ten year period Total Revenue went from $96B to $98B, essentially no growth in ten years.