I'm tired of these articles from clueless reporters, do they not know what a circuit board is? It's simply copper connections between circuits. If you can put liquid copper or any highly conductive metal in a ink cartridge then you can create almost any electrical device with a inkjet printer.
Probably, but "Berkeley professor wrong" doesn't make as nearly as interesting a title as "E-readers get heavier with each book". Even if he's right the title is so horribly misleading that it's wrong. Next up, butterfly causes hurricane
No. DTI (debt to income ratio) only applies when qualifying for new loans to determine if you have tha ability to pay back the new loan based on current debt compared to current income. DTI is never used when determining how much you should pay on your existing debt, probably because you could always add more debt and never have to pay it if DTI was the determining factor in repayment. If DTI was used for student loans you could easily not pay your loans by just buying new cars or spending more on your credit card, raising your debt to income.
An MBA might as well be put in the same category as an English major, or maybe below it. I have a relative that earned a MBA three years ago. She still couldn't get a job, everyone wanted experience. She ended up hiding her MBA and finally got a job as a cashier making minimum wage. When an assistant manager position opened up this summer she came forward with the MBA and got the job. However even English majors don't need experience, employers don't say "I see you're a recent grad majoring in English, where have you taught english before?". MBA seems to be one of those degrees that are only useful if you are already in the corporate world and trying to move up.
Yes because turning our higher education system into job training is really going to be a boon to society.
Won't it? Don't most people go to college so they can get a good job? if someone wants to spend $80,000 on an education that will get them a job making $30,000 a year that's up to them, who am I to tell them "that's not how you should spend your money", but don't come back later and say "I wasted the money I was given, can I just not pay it back?" Every choice in life has consequences, and the consequences of choosing a career that does not pay well is having a difficult time paying back the loan used to get that degree and career. That makes sense.
And please understand I'm not bashing the idea of R/C helicopter drones for police use, I believe anything to get rid of police helicopters is a great idea because helicopters are horribly expensive. An inexpensive police helicopter costs 700k+ (pdf) and can easily reach millions and costs about $2,500 an hour to operate. So you can see how a drone could pay for itself in no time.
I understand that the helicopter from Vanguard has a remote camera and screen which I'm sure increases the price but $298,000 for a remote camera seems high.
Windows 2000 was XP minus the play school look and feel (more or less like the classic look and feel on XP) and I think it was the last pure Windows OS that I liked without substantial customization.
And Windows 2000 didn't play games
Windows 2000 was for businesses. Windows ME played games and was for home users, the default OS on PCs from computer stores back then. Windows XP brought it all together with the stability of Windows 2000 but was compatible with more games than 2000 was.
wow, that's not something anyone wants to see, a bug in their hard drive. CPU I can replace, ram I can replace... pretty much everything I can swap out, but my hard drive is where everything is stored, I can't risk losing data because of a bug.
Intel just had problems too that cause loss of data: "JULY 13TH, 2011 : Intel has recently acknowledged issues with the new SSD 320 series, where by repetitively power cycling the drives, some may become unresponive or report an 8MB drive capacity."
I was waiting on an SSD until they worked out the bugs and there were no articles about problems for awhile but with stories like these I'll keep waiting, it's just not worth the risk.
I'd try traveling to a neighboring state where the requirement is 16 and getting an address there (just have your mail forwarded). State I'm in is 16 and I know several people who have brought their kids from neighboring states to get their GED.
With almost any decent job these days requiring a 4-year college degree, what the hell do you expect?
That is why high school is worthless now days. You might as well drop out with a GED and go to community college. High school and GED gets you the same job now days, there's no need to waste those 4 years when you could go to college and at least get an associates and move on to bachelors at a real school.
Of course this only applies to the 99%, the 1% go to Ivy League high schools and Ivy League colleges so they don't need to worry about community college.
Agreed, actually this is what I was typing before I previewed the post and saw you posted something similar:
It's very difficult to feel sorry for some of them when I see them going for degrees that I know there are no jobs for and they don't go on a job hunt BEFORE choosing that major to see if there are any jobs available.
Choosing a major before making sure there's jobs available is like going treasure hunting after finding a buried map, if you have the cash available that's great, but don't go borrowing $100,000 to rent a boat and dig up some island only to find nothing is there.
Also I'm sick of this excuse "but the recruiter said I could find a job!" So? Why didn't you search yourself to see if there were jobs in that field? Is it that hard to go on craigslist and type "programmer" or "RN" or "CPA" and look at the salaries be offered and see if it's worth 4 years of college loans to make that much?
Child exploitation, of all sorts, is very serious. However, this kind of outright idiocy on the part of policy makers is starting to make me physically ill. There are so many reason why this is an awful, awful idea, and I know I don't need to spell them out.
Why can't we have politicians who can think rationally?
I think the ironic thing is the age of consent in Italy is 14. In most parts of the world that's considered a child and a man having sex with a 14 year old would be considered a pedo and sent to jail for a long time, but in Italy you can have sex with children legally, yet they want to put a black box on your computer to "protect children from pedophiles"?
How can you protect children from pedophiles when your laws already allow pedophiles to have sex with children?
You make no distinction between the 19 year old who went out and had sex with a 17 year old girl, and the rapist who likes to grab little boys and anally rape them?
"The age of consent in Italy is 14 years, with a close-in-age exception that allows those aged 13 to engage in sexual activity with partners who are less than 3 years older. The age of consent rises to 16 if one of the participants has some kind of influence on the other (e.g. teacher, tutor, adoptive parent)."
Teachers can legally have sex with their 16 year old students. Wow, in the US you'd get 20 years for that.
Citation needed! Where do you see that anybody with a press pass stole anything at all from Apple? We know that Chen bought the phone from someone that said he found it in a bar and then contacted Apple to return it to them.
and you're putting far too much trust in Jason Chen. If he really wanted to return the property he could have called the police himself, but he waited until the police showed up at his front door to get it. If you find something that you know does not belong to you you should try and return it and if you can not then you call the police and let them handle it. What was he going to do, just keep the phone indefinitely? The fact that the police had to come searching for it makes his whole story sound unbelievable.
Illegal according to the San Mateo DA's office. It would seem that the EFF and the DA's office are in agreement on that one.
EFF is interpreting the law incorrectly, I'm pretty sure having a press pass doesn't mean I get to steal your stuff and laugh at the police when they come looking for it.
Citation needed! Where do you see that anybody with a press pass stole anything at all from Apple? We know that Chen bought the phone from someone that said he found it in a bar and then contacted Apple to return it to them.
If some guy showed up at my house with a prototype 2014 Mustang test mule and said "I'll sell it to you for $$$$$$" I can't buy it and tell the police to shove off just because I have a press pass, it's still stolen property.
eff.org are trolls, you need to pick your sources better
I don't think its theft, if you call the company, and try to return it, multiple times.... (they were trying to get apple to confirm it was one of their phones)
That's what they claim, but if they were really trying to return the phone why did the police have to get a search warrant? They could have just called the police and said they found a phone they would like to turn in.
That's what I was thinking, a large SUV to test cellphones? But you have to consider:
--they're trying to buy American
--they're buying fleet vehicles since they need 100 of them
BR>
That limits the number of vehicles to purchase significantly. Can't get a Prius because it's foreign, and they probably do want something large enough for 4 people, and they probably don't want the cellphones to be blocking a rear window so sedans are out. Minivans and SUVs are all that's left, and I don't know of any minivans that are fleet vehicles, so the Tahoe or Explorer are the only fleet vehicles with side windows for cellphones to attach to that would allow seating for 4 people.
"The company has set up a temporary hut within spitting distance of the Apple store. "
And you couldn't get one photo showing how close the "hut" is to the Apple store? All I see in your photo is a white cargo box in a parking lot. That photo could have been taken anywhere on the planet. If your entire story is going to be able how incredibly close a Microsoft store/hut is to a Apple store *at least* have photos to back up your claim.
And the photos you do have are beautiful. One photo shows the Microsoft Store (that's the name on the outside of the hut) with two dark figures inside. The other photo is inside the store but it's practically a thumbnail with a resolution of 225x171. Seriously? 1998 called, it wants it's crappy photos back.
So not only did you not take a photo proving the Microsoft "Store" is within spitting distance of the Apple store, you couldn't take one decent photo of what *was* there. All kinds of fail is going on here.
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I'm tired of these articles from clueless reporters, do they not know what a circuit board is? It's simply copper connections between circuits. If you can put liquid copper or any highly conductive metal in a ink cartridge then you can create almost any electrical device with a inkjet printer.
He's Probably wrong
Probably, but "Berkeley professor wrong" doesn't make as nearly as interesting a title as "E-readers get heavier with each book". Even if he's right the title is so horribly misleading that it's wrong. Next up, butterfly causes hurricane
"billionth of a billionth of a gram" That is painful to read. How about scientific notation? 1*10^-18 grams Or the use of a prefix? 1 atto gram
I don't understand, how many library of congresses is this?
No. DTI (debt to income ratio) only applies when qualifying for new loans to determine if you have tha ability to pay back the new loan based on current debt compared to current income. DTI is never used when determining how much you should pay on your existing debt, probably because you could always add more debt and never have to pay it if DTI was the determining factor in repayment. If DTI was used for student loans you could easily not pay your loans by just buying new cars or spending more on your credit card, raising your debt to income.
An MBA might as well be put in the same category as an English major, or maybe below it. I have a relative that earned a MBA three years ago. She still couldn't get a job, everyone wanted experience. She ended up hiding her MBA and finally got a job as a cashier making minimum wage. When an assistant manager position opened up this summer she came forward with the MBA and got the job. However even English majors don't need experience, employers don't say "I see you're a recent grad majoring in English, where have you taught english before?". MBA seems to be one of those degrees that are only useful if you are already in the corporate world and trying to move up.
Yes because turning our higher education system into job training is really going to be a boon to society.
Won't it? Don't most people go to college so they can get a good job? if someone wants to spend $80,000 on an education that will get them a job making $30,000 a year that's up to them, who am I to tell them "that's not how you should spend your money", but don't come back later and say "I wasted the money I was given, can I just not pay it back?" Every choice in life has consequences, and the consequences of choosing a career that does not pay well is having a difficult time paying back the loan used to get that degree and career. That makes sense.
And please understand I'm not bashing the idea of R/C helicopter drones for police use, I believe anything to get rid of police helicopters is a great idea because helicopters are horribly expensive. An inexpensive police helicopter costs 700k+ (pdf) and can easily reach millions and costs about $2,500 an hour to operate. So you can see how a drone could pay for itself in no time.
To justify spending $300,000, which puts $290,000+ in his pocket
Wish I was joking about the price. This ebay powerseller sells large (man-sized) R/C helicopters for $1,500-$2,000 with motor, batteries, radio, etc
http://www.ebay.com/itm/200660268060
http://www.ebay.com/itm/200657942941
I understand that the helicopter from Vanguard has a remote camera and screen which I'm sure increases the price but $298,000 for a remote camera seems high.
The story isn't the drone. The story should be that the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office in Conroe, TX just paid $300,000 for a R/C helicopter from a company that just happens to be in Conroe, TX, with a business website has only been in operating for a year.
Police giving $300,000 to new local company for a toy? Why do I feel like this was a scam, that someone in the police force just made $250,000+?
Windows 2000 was XP minus the play school look and feel (more or less like the classic look and feel on XP) and I think it was the last pure Windows OS that I liked without substantial customization.
And Windows 2000 didn't play games
Windows 2000 was for businesses. Windows ME played games and was for home users, the default OS on PCs from computer stores back then. Windows XP brought it all together with the stability of Windows 2000 but was compatible with more games than 2000 was.
10/17/2011 : After months of end user complaints, SandForce has finally duplicated, verified and provided a fix for the infamous BSOD/disconnect issue that affected SF-2200 based SSDs.
wow, that's not something anyone wants to see, a bug in their hard drive. CPU I can replace, ram I can replace... pretty much everything I can swap out, but my hard drive is where everything is stored, I can't risk losing data because of a bug.
Intel just had problems too that cause loss of data:
"JULY 13TH, 2011 : Intel has recently acknowledged issues with the new SSD 320 series, where by repetitively power cycling the drives, some may become unresponive or report an 8MB drive capacity."
I was waiting on an SSD until they worked out the bugs and there were no articles about problems for awhile but with stories like these I'll keep waiting, it's just not worth the risk.
Unfortunately, in Colorado at lest, you can't take the GED exam until you are 17.
This is a scam run by schools to keep kids in school so the schools can keep getting state funding. Some crazy states don't let you get your GED until 19 years old unless you have superintendent permission.
I'd try traveling to a neighboring state where the requirement is 16 and getting an address there (just have your mail forwarded). State I'm in is 16 and I know several people who have brought their kids from neighboring states to get their GED.
With almost any decent job these days requiring a 4-year college degree, what the hell do you expect?
That is why high school is worthless now days. You might as well drop out with a GED and go to community college. High school and GED gets you the same job now days, there's no need to waste those 4 years when you could go to college and at least get an associates and move on to bachelors at a real school.
Of course this only applies to the 99%, the 1% go to Ivy League high schools and Ivy League colleges so they don't need to worry about community college.
Agreed, actually this is what I was typing before I previewed the post and saw you posted something similar:
It's very difficult to feel sorry for some of them when I see them going for degrees that I know there are no jobs for and they don't go on a job hunt BEFORE choosing that major to see if there are any jobs available.
Choosing a major before making sure there's jobs available is like going treasure hunting after finding a buried map, if you have the cash available that's great, but don't go borrowing $100,000 to rent a boat and dig up some island only to find nothing is there.
Also I'm sick of this excuse "but the recruiter said I could find a job!" So? Why didn't you search yourself to see if there were jobs in that field? Is it that hard to go on craigslist and type "programmer" or "RN" or "CPA" and look at the salaries be offered and see if it's worth 4 years of college loans to make that much?
but it is stealing. If you wrote code for a program and sold that program, and then someone looked at your code, wrote it down word-for-word, and then started selling it themselves, that's stealing:
"FTS became aware that West Yorkshire Police was developing its own software called CLIVE in the summer of that year. The claim alleges that CLIVE replicated errors found in the lists used for Hex in a “tell-tale sign of copying.”"
It would have been better if they pirated the software, at least then they wouldn't have been reselling it and stealing profit from FTS
Child exploitation, of all sorts, is very serious. However, this kind of outright idiocy on the part of policy makers is starting to make me physically ill. There are so many reason why this is an awful, awful idea, and I know I don't need to spell them out. Why can't we have politicians who can think rationally?
I think the ironic thing is the age of consent in Italy is 14. In most parts of the world that's considered a child and a man having sex with a 14 year old would be considered a pedo and sent to jail for a long time, but in Italy you can have sex with children legally, yet they want to put a black box on your computer to "protect children from pedophiles"?
How can you protect children from pedophiles when your laws already allow pedophiles to have sex with children?
Maybe he should clean up his own house before getting started on everyone else's... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvio_Berlusconi_underage_prostitution_charges
That's crazy, because he could have legally slept with a 14 yr old as long as he didn't pay her. So to sell yourself you must be 18 but you can sex with 14 yr olds as long as you don't pay. Oh and if you don't pay prostitutes you're guilty of rape.
You make no distinction between the 19 year old who went out and had sex with a 17 year old girl, and the rapist who likes to grab little boys and anally rape them?
17? The age of consent where they're considering this black box, Italy, is 14
"The age of consent in Italy is 14 years, with a close-in-age exception that allows those aged 13 to engage in sexual activity with partners who are less than 3 years older. The age of consent rises to 16 if one of the participants has some kind of influence on the other (e.g. teacher, tutor, adoptive parent)."
Teachers can legally have sex with their 16 year old students. Wow, in the US you'd get 20 years for that.
Citation needed! Where do you see that anybody with a press pass stole anything at all from Apple? We know that Chen bought the phone from someone that said he found it in a bar and then contacted Apple to return it to them.
and you're putting far too much trust in Jason Chen. If he really wanted to return the property he could have called the police himself, but he waited until the police showed up at his front door to get it. If you find something that you know does not belong to you you should try and return it and if you can not then you call the police and let them handle it. What was he going to do, just keep the phone indefinitely? The fact that the police had to come searching for it makes his whole story sound unbelievable.
Illegal according to the San Mateo DA's office. It would seem that the EFF and the DA's office are in agreement on that one.
EFF is interpreting the law incorrectly, I'm pretty sure having a press pass doesn't mean I get to steal your stuff and laugh at the police when they come looking for it.
Citation needed! Where do you see that anybody with a press pass stole anything at all from Apple? We know that Chen bought the phone from someone that said he found it in a bar and then contacted Apple to return it to them.
No where does it say the search was illegal, all it says is the search warrant was withdrawn and the items returned. "withdrawn" does not mean "illegal", and the only reason it was withdrawn is because Chen agreed to cooperate with investigators
If some guy showed up at my house with a prototype 2014 Mustang test mule and said "I'll sell it to you for $$$$$$" I can't buy it and tell the police to shove off just because I have a press pass, it's still stolen property.
eff.org are trolls, you need to pick your sources better
I don't think its theft, if you call the company, and try to return it, multiple times.... (they were trying to get apple to confirm it was one of their phones)
That's what they claim, but if they were really trying to return the phone why did the police have to get a search warrant? They could have just called the police and said they found a phone they would like to turn in.
I want to know if it will help me lose weight while powering my iPhone or laptop
That's what I was thinking, a large SUV to test cellphones? But you have to consider:
--they're trying to buy American
--they're buying fleet vehicles since they need 100 of them
BR> That limits the number of vehicles to purchase significantly. Can't get a Prius because it's foreign, and they probably do want something large enough for 4 people, and they probably don't want the cellphones to be blocking a rear window so sedans are out. Minivans and SUVs are all that's left, and I don't know of any minivans that are fleet vehicles, so the Tahoe or Explorer are the only fleet vehicles with side windows for cellphones to attach to that would allow seating for 4 people.
"The company has set up a temporary hut within spitting distance of the Apple store. "
And you couldn't get one photo showing how close the "hut" is to the Apple store? All I see in your photo is a white cargo box in a parking lot. That photo could have been taken anywhere on the planet. If your entire story is going to be able how incredibly close a Microsoft store/hut is to a Apple store *at least* have photos to back up your claim.
And the photos you do have are beautiful. One photo shows the Microsoft Store (that's the name on the outside of the hut) with two dark figures inside. The other photo is inside the store but it's practically a thumbnail with a resolution of 225x171. Seriously? 1998 called, it wants it's crappy photos back.
So not only did you not take a photo proving the Microsoft "Store" is within spitting distance of the Apple store, you couldn't take one decent photo of what *was* there. All kinds of fail is going on here.
On October 20th, Microsoft will open its 14th store in Seattle's popular University Village shopping center...
Why do they need 14 stores in one shopping center?
Because the author is wrong. According to the list of stores on University Village website there is only one Microsoft store which will open October 20th.