Can you imagine that? One day you're just another developer of an email app on the iPhone and you get a call from Google saying "HI we're GOOGLE and we like your app. We'd like to hire you as the Product Manager of the GMAIL Team and buy your app from you. How does that sound?"
Couldn't hurt, and they're pretty rare, heard they only made 9000 of them, although besides looking cool on/. they probably don't do much which is a shame those guys should get discounts or have meetings or sumthin
You are completely right. I'm also afraid parents will see this and push brighter-than-average billy or susie to college way too early.
I mean let's be honest, most of/. probably could have taken these tests and gone on to college early. I'm sure most of us were in the top 10% of ACT and SAT scores. Now think back, would you have wanted to skip your last years of high school and gone to college? I, for one, don't think I was ready and think I would have been miserable in college had I gone at 16.
Instead of pushing them out of high school earlier, I think they should be encouraging them to take additional evening or afternoon (half days at high school) classes at the local community colleges, or taking some college classes online so they're better prepared for college when they arrive with some credits already under their belt.
Sending 16 yr old brighter-than-average Susie half way across the continent to be knocked up by a 23 yr old super senior stoner isn't the right approach.
Also I don't like the idea of kids in the workforce. At my last job some 20 yr old managed to squeeze a BS 4 yr internet college into 2 yrs so he was given a manager position. He we whoafully unprepared, I mean after all how many jobs can you have before you're 20 to prepare you to be a manager? Ending was disastrous, and can you imagine 18 yr olds being given manager positions?
We're pushing our kids to hard to fast, just because they sit on twitter and facebook all day and think they rule the world as teenagers doesn't mean they really do.
Whaaa?! You haven't heard of the famous "He was suppose to be out of town!" defense? It's awesome, you should try it: break into any home when the homeowner is there, and if they hurt you in any way just tell the judge you read or heard he was out of town and sue for damages. You'll get millions, makes perfect sense.
"but if I'm paying you to insure my stuff I expect something resembling real customer service, thanks.
Or they can bitch about you to/., that's my favorite customer service! "Most iPhone owners with our insurance are LIARS!" Gee supercoverinsurance.com, let me get my iPhone insured through you so you can call me a liar too.
Before I had an iPhone (which At&t does not offer insurance for), I had insurance on each smartphone I bought. It was ~$5 a month and a $50 deductible, and they only replaced it with new or refurbished model of the exact phone I broke, so if I broke a phone after a year that means I paid $60 + $50 deductible = $110 for a refurbished smartphone. They were coming out way ahead, so I don't understand all the crying by insurance companies
'Then if I was the insurance company, i'd be supplying like-for-like, and not an upgraded model"
Most insurance companies do offer that. If you smash your 1995 Lexus they don't buy you a 2010 Lexus. Is this insurance company dumb enough to be giving these people brand new models? If so, do they offer car insurance?
FTA: "Korina said that one device was even dropped on the pavement and then run over by a car."
Wow a phone that was dropped and run over?? Geez that's very suspicious! It's physically impossible to run over a phone with a vehicle...
"That all said, the H1B "problem" seems to be wildly blown out of proportion. The current law allows for 65,000 visas to be issued each year. In a country of 300 million people, 65,000 is really just a drop in the bucket (0.02% of the population, 0.04% of the labor force). "
cool figures, but they don't mean squat because you left off how many of those visas go to tech and how many new tech jobs are created yearly. My guess? Most are tech visas and most the new tech jobs are being filled by those visas, so all those American college grads aren't getting the jobs.
Well, let's be clear: "we're going to hire the smartest people, even if they're "Indian" and male" is *not* racist, but will probably get them in trouble anyway.
fixed that for you. Does that change anyone's opinion on the matter?
"Except one company (Apple) has a history of delivering what they promise, and another (Microsoft) does not."
I would not call the ipad "delivering what was promised". We were lead to believe for five years we would see a touchscreen tablet from apple, hopefully running some form of OS X. What we got was a giant iPod touch.
if I recall, microsoft was a bit late to the console game, and although they've been losing money on consoles for nearly ten years now they're still at it and they're a major contender to the point that some would call them the leader. Apple has a significant lead, but microsoft has proven they can lose millions on a product for years and not care so I wouldn't count them out of the phone arena just yet.
and just so you know I'm not biased I sent this from my iPhone.
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I agree, in fact I'm surprised at how many people on/. think it's a bad thing these kids get to spend a few otherwise unproductive hours surfing. After all, how many of you are commenting/. when you could be accomplishing something else? How many of you played gameboy or Game & Watch systems on the bus as a kid, and how is this much different?
Yes, this is a new generation where it's ok to copy someone's work and sell it as your own and not credit the creator or give them any of the proceeds. How is this not fair? I think someone should receive my paycheck too and take credit for the work I did.
/sarcasm
obviously she's a child who has never worked before. scary part is she believes her entire generation thinks this is acceptable. No doubt she believes pirating is fine. Wonder if she'd mind if we all stole her book?
Only if you're use to the Duke Nukem Forever release schedule.
At least I know every $200 netbook should be able to run to run Starcraft II since the game was developed 2005-2006. Seriously though, 12 years is too long, especially on a game that's this amazing.
So what you're saying is he built the exact same thing that has existed for many years, but his needs a dual core 1.6ghz processor? I still fail to see what this does that wasn't done before. If I strap a quad core to my coffee maker to run the little digital clock have I made a "better" coffee maker? I would think the "old" design is more impressive because it's more efficient, it can do so much with so little processing power.
if you RTFA Intel marketing is interested because they can use it to show that their atom processors are good for something other than netbooks, they could care less about the legs and how it processes data.
The legs look different, but the student does say on that youtube description "This is a demonstration of the new leg design which is much more solid than the previous design."
That link didn't show what stiquito could do. Here's a video.
"2010 is a little late to be doing a six-legged crawler. They're fun to build, but you don't issue a press release."
I think parent is right, seems six-legged robots have been around forever. An electrical engineer senior shouldn't have a problem building one of these without a kit, although it looks like he might have used this kit. Sure the legs look a bit different, but the placement of servos, etc look the exact same, and before someone says "how many different ways can you build a hexapod robot?" there's many different designs
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"They hired the developer"
Can you imagine that? One day you're just another developer of an email app on the iPhone and you get a call from Google saying "HI we're GOOGLE and we like your app. We'd like to hire you as the Product Manager of the GMAIL Team and buy your app from you. How does that sound?"
Think I'd have a permanent smile for a few weeks
Couldn't hurt, and they're pretty rare, heard they only made 9000 of them, although besides looking cool on /. they probably don't do much which is a shame those guys should get discounts or have meetings or sumthin
Score:5, Funny
"There is simply no need for anyone, authorized or not, to see anything here."
;)
I think i speak for all of us: thank you
You are completely right. I'm also afraid parents will see this and push brighter-than-average billy or susie to college way too early.
/. probably could have taken these tests and gone on to college early. I'm sure most of us were in the top 10% of ACT and SAT scores. Now think back, would you have wanted to skip your last years of high school and gone to college? I, for one, don't think I was ready and think I would have been miserable in college had I gone at 16.
I mean let's be honest, most of
Instead of pushing them out of high school earlier, I think they should be encouraging them to take additional evening or afternoon (half days at high school) classes at the local community colleges, or taking some college classes online so they're better prepared for college when they arrive with some credits already under their belt.
Sending 16 yr old brighter-than-average Susie half way across the continent to be knocked up by a 23 yr old super senior stoner isn't the right approach.
Also I don't like the idea of kids in the workforce. At my last job some 20 yr old managed to squeeze a BS 4 yr internet college into 2 yrs so he was given a manager position. He we whoafully unprepared, I mean after all how many jobs can you have before you're 20 to prepare you to be a manager? Ending was disastrous, and can you imagine 18 yr olds being given manager positions?
We're pushing our kids to hard to fast, just because they sit on twitter and facebook all day and think they rule the world as teenagers doesn't mean they really do.
That doesn't sound.... oh I thought you said beer traps, my bad
Only if you post the URL to /. so we can watch
Whaaa?! You haven't heard of the famous "He was suppose to be out of town!" defense? It's awesome, you should try it: break into any home when the homeowner is there, and if they hurt you in any way just tell the judge you read or heard he was out of town and sue for damages. You'll get millions, makes perfect sense.
"There, now /. has another comment everyone can read and think, "Who cares?""
/hug
aww, why the bitter attitude lemon drop? we care....
"but if I'm paying you to insure my stuff I expect something resembling real customer service, thanks.
/., that's my favorite customer service! "Most iPhone owners with our insurance are LIARS!" Gee supercoverinsurance.com, let me get my iPhone insured through you so you can call me a liar too.
Or they can bitch about you to
Before I had an iPhone (which At&t does not offer insurance for), I had insurance on each smartphone I bought. It was ~$5 a month and a $50 deductible, and they only replaced it with new or refurbished model of the exact phone I broke, so if I broke a phone after a year that means I paid $60 + $50 deductible = $110 for a refurbished smartphone. They were coming out way ahead, so I don't understand all the crying by insurance companies
'Then if I was the insurance company, i'd be supplying like-for-like, and not an upgraded model"
Most insurance companies do offer that. If you smash your 1995 Lexus they don't buy you a 2010 Lexus. Is this insurance company dumb enough to be giving these people brand new models? If so, do they offer car insurance?
FTA:
"Korina said that one device was even dropped on the pavement and then run over by a car."
Wow a phone that was dropped and run over?? Geez that's very suspicious! It's physically impossible to run over a phone with a vehicle...
"That all said, the H1B "problem" seems to be wildly blown out of proportion. The current law allows for 65,000 visas to be issued each year. In a country of 300 million people, 65,000 is really just a drop in the bucket (0.02% of the population, 0.04% of the labor force). "
cool figures, but they don't mean squat because you left off how many of those visas go to tech and how many new tech jobs are created yearly. My guess? Most are tech visas and most the new tech jobs are being filled by those visas, so all those American college grads aren't getting the jobs.
Insightful
Well, let's be clear: "we're going to hire the smartest people, even if they're "Indian" and male" is *not* racist, but will probably get them in trouble anyway.
fixed that for you. Does that change anyone's opinion on the matter?
"First time,Facebook was proved useful...."
Wrong
But just like that story, if they have access to facebook why not just call the police?
I would not call the ipad "delivering what was promised". We were lead to believe for five years we would see a touchscreen tablet from apple, hopefully running some form of OS X. What we got was a giant iPod touch.
if I recall, microsoft was a bit late to the console game, and although they've been losing money on consoles for nearly ten years now they're still at it and they're a major contender to the point that some would call them the leader. Apple has a significant lead, but microsoft has proven they can lose millions on a product for years and not care so I wouldn't count them out of the phone arena just yet.
and just so you know I'm not biased I sent this from my iPhone.
" Fatties are now using it to vent rage over how cruel the world is for discriminating against them for being fat. "
Fat celebrities, not your regular jo' smuck. Besides Kevin's not that fat, at least not compared to my notion of "too fat to fly" (see photo).
I'm glad Kevin's getting the word out because apparently Southwest has a habit of kicking off big guys, and it's ironic Kevin twitted the "too fat to fly" diet because a UK couple, weighing 530 lbs combine, really did lose weight after being "too fat to fly"
I agree, in fact I'm surprised at how many people on /. think it's a bad thing these kids get to spend a few otherwise unproductive hours surfing. After all, how many of you are commenting /. when you could be accomplishing something else? How many of you played gameboy or Game & Watch systems on the bus as a kid, and how is this much different?
Yes, this is a new generation where it's ok to copy someone's work and sell it as your own and not credit the creator or give them any of the proceeds. How is this not fair? I think someone should receive my paycheck too and take credit for the work I did.
/sarcasm
obviously she's a child who has never worked before. scary part is she believes her entire generation thinks this is acceptable. No doubt she believes pirating is fine. Wonder if she'd mind if we all stole her book?
"This is actually a good thing."
Only if you're use to the Duke Nukem Forever release schedule.
At least I know every $200 netbook should be able to run to run Starcraft II since the game was developed 2005-2006. Seriously though, 12 years is too long, especially on a game that's this amazing.
So what you're saying is he built the exact same thing that has existed for many years, but his needs a dual core 1.6ghz processor? I still fail to see what this does that wasn't done before. If I strap a quad core to my coffee maker to run the little digital clock have I made a "better" coffee maker? I would think the "old" design is more impressive because it's more efficient, it can do so much with so little processing power.
if you RTFA Intel marketing is interested because they can use it to show that their atom processors are good for something other than netbooks, they could care less about the legs and how it processes data.
Isn't this the MSR-H01 Hexapod?
here's the student's video
Here's video of the MSR-H01 Hexapod:
video 1
video 2, at 1:35 it does similar "body wave" movements
The legs look different, but the student does say on that youtube description "This is a demonstration of the new leg design which is much more solid than the previous design."
"Stumbling around on six legs isn't very hard. "
That link didn't show what stiquito could do. Here's a video.
"2010 is a little late to be doing a six-legged crawler. They're fun to build, but you don't issue a press release."
I think parent is right, seems six-legged robots have been around forever. An electrical engineer senior shouldn't have a problem building one of these without a kit, although it looks like he might have used this kit. Sure the legs look a bit different, but the placement of servos, etc look the exact same, and before someone says "how many different ways can you build a hexapod robot?" there's many different designs