Great. This from the guy who just spent several million dollars buying Cher's house in Hawaii. The guy has a private jet. How the hell does a web hosting company pull that off?
This is just typical of a government-run "authority". Another way to look at it is the Peter Principle: People rise to their own level of incompetence. This bloated money-pit agency doesn't employ real engineers yet they have the authority to screw Toyota over. It's no different that some brain-dead congressman telling an automotive engineer that they should "repeal the laws of thermodynamics". And people are willing to trust this same government with their healthcare decisions? F*ck that and the horse they rode in on.
Apple courting IT people is a losing battle for a couple of reasons. First, a large number of IT people drink daily at the Kool-Aid fountains of Microsoft so to them, anything else is an "also ran". Second, the IT support requirements of Windows environments are far more than that of Apple environments but the heads of IT departments don't care about saving money as much as they do about increasing their headcount. Running a larger department gives the department head more clout in the company. This has been my experience working for a Fortune 500 company.
Wasn't this on an episode of Josie & the Pussycats in Space? A bunch of giant aliens captured the ship so they could fly it into their sun to extinguish it. But then those darn kids foiled their plan but suggested they try sunglasses instead.
GQ? GQ?!?! G-effing-Q?!?!?!? Are you kidding me? Beyond that, what the hell does "independently funded" mean? The money had to come from somewhere and if it's not industry it could very well be from luddite sources. That's no different than discounting an oil-industry-funded anti-global warming study in favor of an independent one who as it turns out fudges the data eight ways to Sunday.
This is a monumentally stupid idea and an even more stupid law. No gun control legislation is ever about keeping people safe. There are some 20,000 gun control laws on the books and none of them prevented Ft. Hood, or Columbine, or post-Katrina New Orleans. Gun control law are always (ALWAYS) about giving some politician the ability to say "I did something. Re-elect me." Gun control is always about shifting power from those who have it to those who crave it.
My point is that the huge sums of money spent on musicians and athletes does little to keep the wheels of progress rolling. The second point I'm trying to make is that decidedly anti-capitalist government policies also put us further behind the power curve. At the moment, popular sentiment is to place blame for the recession on greedy capitalist bankers/Wall Street investors and/or Bush. The real estate meltdown wasn't initiated by either. If you want to talk about loose regulatory policies then you must talk about the fact that in 1997, former Clinton appointees turned Fannie & Freddie operatives chose to artificially alter the market purely for ideological reasons. Then, ideological interests literally protested those so-called greedy bankers saying they were racist for not opening their wallets and giving loans. Unfortunately, they chose not to stick to their principles which does make them culpable. Thus began a financial game of hot potato and when the music stopped, the taxpayers were left holding the bag. (is that two metaphors or three). But up until that time, nobody cared because everyone was making money and the politicians were getting reelected including conservatives. Now, those same politicians are desperately trying to hang on to their jobs. They don't have to create anything nor are they capable of creating anything save undue complexity to life. They simply need to bullsh*t their constituents into voting for them and up until a few months ago, blaming capitalism was effective. But the fact is that even the smallest business owner sees that any increase in their tax burden means they are less able to move forward be it hiring people, investing in capital equipment, or R&D. Furthermore, any threat to increase taxes results in business owners standing pat until they see what's going to happen. Imagine if the Chinese government said every year "We may increase business taxes this year" but never said if or by how much.
The reason the U.S. is falling so far behind is the fact that we glorify, even deify, athletes and musicians and throw unhealthy even obscene gobs of money at those two professions yet the return on the investment is nearly zero. Does the fact that some multi-millionare baseball player have a certain batting average do anything to improve the country? Does the fact that musicians get millions for writing one decent song and eleven crappy ones enable others to achieve anything? And then there's the current trend of anti-capitalism. China's government may be communist but its society is clearly capitalist.
Herein lies the root problem of quantum-leap advances in technology. Read enough science-fiction works and you start to realize that all that kick-ass technology only works if you have the power source to drive it. Even Ayn Rand talked about it in Atlas Shrugged but may not have realized the significance of the concept. The free-energy generator that powers Galt's Gulch is really the only way that society could function. By the same token, have you ever seen Asimo's power supply? Has the thing ever run for days without being plugged in? Even the first Gulf War was heavily influenced by the supply chain for tank fuel. So I don't see military robots being terribly useful unless you invent the uber power supply. And it's quite possible that if the world has the uber power supply, there may be less war in general.
I can see this being useful in addition to a mouse/trackpad. Quite often I'll be working with a lot of windows or clickable content on the screen and I can look at the widget I want to click on faster than I can get my cursor over to it. I'd want to be able to turn it off quickly though.
That's so effing stupid. Airlines would be much better off installing HEPA filters on all the air blowers and handing out masks to people who want them. That could cut down on the spread of cold and flu virus. Come to think of it, if someone has a peanut-dust allergy, give them a mask. No reason the rest of the plane should suffer because one person is thumbing his/her nose at Darwin.
Okay, so I don't really get why anyone could get their rocks off looking at one of those body scan images. Then again, I don't get why people get off on kiddie porn either. But, IMHO, this might be solvable. Lots of cameras now have face-detection software in them. Why not modify it to detect boobs and other naughty bits and then just put a blue circle over the top?
Here's hoping that the NIMBY-enviro-Nazi lobby in Arizona isn't nearly as asinine as it is in California who with the backing of a U.S. senator is attempting to kill off a game-changing solar project in favor of desert tortoises. Plus, if it winds up in Arizona there will be the added benefit of getting money from California which is a fair trade for all the water they're stealing.
I read that after Titanic, Cameron said he had his "f*ck you" money. Now it looks like he's got his "f*ck you and the horse you rode in on" money. So, what's next? Piranha 3 - Sushi from Hell?
Uneducated people see or hear the word "nuclear" and think "OH MY EFFING GAWD! WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!" or think China Syndrome which is typical Hollywood bunk or think CHERNOBYL! EVERYBODY PANIC! Or just as bad, some do-gooder senator decides that a few desert tortoises are more valuable than a solar farm in a fairly remote area that would go a long way to solving California's electricity needs, or as bad as the NIMBYs who kill off a wind farm in another remote desert area because the power lines would have to cross the desert. You can't have it both ways, people. *facepalm*
At a Fortune 500 company where I worked a few years back, the user-to-IT ratio for Windows users was about 4 to 1. On the Macintosh side it was about 100 to 1 although a 50 to 1 ratio is probably better.
The article boasts a hardware feature list. Very little of that is innovative. Sure, it may be the first device to incorporate ALL of that stuff but who gives a rip if the software driving it is total sh*t.
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Great. This from the guy who just spent several million dollars buying Cher's house in Hawaii. The guy has a private jet. How the hell does a web hosting company pull that off?
This is just typical of a government-run "authority". Another way to look at it is the Peter Principle: People rise to their own level of incompetence. This bloated money-pit agency doesn't employ real engineers yet they have the authority to screw Toyota over. It's no different that some brain-dead congressman telling an automotive engineer that they should "repeal the laws of thermodynamics". And people are willing to trust this same government with their healthcare decisions? F*ck that and the horse they rode in on.
I'll be impressed when a 36-foot motorhome gets 50 MPG.
Apple courting IT people is a losing battle for a couple of reasons. First, a large number of IT people drink daily at the Kool-Aid fountains of Microsoft so to them, anything else is an "also ran". Second, the IT support requirements of Windows environments are far more than that of Apple environments but the heads of IT departments don't care about saving money as much as they do about increasing their headcount. Running a larger department gives the department head more clout in the company. This has been my experience working for a Fortune 500 company.
Wasn't this on an episode of Josie & the Pussycats in Space? A bunch of giant aliens captured the ship so they could fly it into their sun to extinguish it. But then those darn kids foiled their plan but suggested they try sunglasses instead.
See, in many places where there is a bark beetle problem, the population is pretty conservative so listening to Rush is a pleasure; win-win.
Must be the "punch" they promised. Oooo...I quiver with FEAR!!! Good one, morons.
I'm actually impressed with how many guys on Slashdot actually have wives or girlfriends. There is hope. Now if I could just get her to change...
How much RAM does the thing have? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
GQ? GQ?!?! G-effing-Q?!?!?!? Are you kidding me? Beyond that, what the hell does "independently funded" mean? The money had to come from somewhere and if it's not industry it could very well be from luddite sources. That's no different than discounting an oil-industry-funded anti-global warming study in favor of an independent one who as it turns out fudges the data eight ways to Sunday.
Well said. I also like "I carry a gun because a cop is too heavy."
This is a monumentally stupid idea and an even more stupid law. No gun control legislation is ever about keeping people safe. There are some 20,000 gun control laws on the books and none of them prevented Ft. Hood, or Columbine, or post-Katrina New Orleans. Gun control law are always (ALWAYS) about giving some politician the ability to say "I did something. Re-elect me." Gun control is always about shifting power from those who have it to those who crave it.
My point is that the huge sums of money spent on musicians and athletes does little to keep the wheels of progress rolling. The second point I'm trying to make is that decidedly anti-capitalist government policies also put us further behind the power curve. At the moment, popular sentiment is to place blame for the recession on greedy capitalist bankers/Wall Street investors and/or Bush. The real estate meltdown wasn't initiated by either. If you want to talk about loose regulatory policies then you must talk about the fact that in 1997, former Clinton appointees turned Fannie & Freddie operatives chose to artificially alter the market purely for ideological reasons. Then, ideological interests literally protested those so-called greedy bankers saying they were racist for not opening their wallets and giving loans. Unfortunately, they chose not to stick to their principles which does make them culpable. Thus began a financial game of hot potato and when the music stopped, the taxpayers were left holding the bag. (is that two metaphors or three). But up until that time, nobody cared because everyone was making money and the politicians were getting reelected including conservatives. Now, those same politicians are desperately trying to hang on to their jobs. They don't have to create anything nor are they capable of creating anything save undue complexity to life. They simply need to bullsh*t their constituents into voting for them and up until a few months ago, blaming capitalism was effective. But the fact is that even the smallest business owner sees that any increase in their tax burden means they are less able to move forward be it hiring people, investing in capital equipment, or R&D. Furthermore, any threat to increase taxes results in business owners standing pat until they see what's going to happen. Imagine if the Chinese government said every year "We may increase business taxes this year" but never said if or by how much.
The reason the U.S. is falling so far behind is the fact that we glorify, even deify, athletes and musicians and throw unhealthy even obscene gobs of money at those two professions yet the return on the investment is nearly zero. Does the fact that some multi-millionare baseball player have a certain batting average do anything to improve the country? Does the fact that musicians get millions for writing one decent song and eleven crappy ones enable others to achieve anything? And then there's the current trend of anti-capitalism. China's government may be communist but its society is clearly capitalist.
Herein lies the root problem of quantum-leap advances in technology. Read enough science-fiction works and you start to realize that all that kick-ass technology only works if you have the power source to drive it. Even Ayn Rand talked about it in Atlas Shrugged but may not have realized the significance of the concept. The free-energy generator that powers Galt's Gulch is really the only way that society could function. By the same token, have you ever seen Asimo's power supply? Has the thing ever run for days without being plugged in? Even the first Gulf War was heavily influenced by the supply chain for tank fuel. So I don't see military robots being terribly useful unless you invent the uber power supply. And it's quite possible that if the world has the uber power supply, there may be less war in general.
I can see this being useful in addition to a mouse/trackpad. Quite often I'll be working with a lot of windows or clickable content on the screen and I can look at the widget I want to click on faster than I can get my cursor over to it. I'd want to be able to turn it off quickly though.
That's so effing stupid. Airlines would be much better off installing HEPA filters on all the air blowers and handing out masks to people who want them. That could cut down on the spread of cold and flu virus. Come to think of it, if someone has a peanut-dust allergy, give them a mask. No reason the rest of the plane should suffer because one person is thumbing his/her nose at Darwin.
Okay, so I don't really get why anyone could get their rocks off looking at one of those body scan images. Then again, I don't get why people get off on kiddie porn either. But, IMHO, this might be solvable. Lots of cameras now have face-detection software in them. Why not modify it to detect boobs and other naughty bits and then just put a blue circle over the top?
Here's hoping that the NIMBY-enviro-Nazi lobby in Arizona isn't nearly as asinine as it is in California who with the backing of a U.S. senator is attempting to kill off a game-changing solar project in favor of desert tortoises. Plus, if it winds up in Arizona there will be the added benefit of getting money from California which is a fair trade for all the water they're stealing.
Is zero. You can stop now.
I read that after Titanic, Cameron said he had his "f*ck you" money. Now it looks like he's got his "f*ck you and the horse you rode in on" money. So, what's next? Piranha 3 - Sushi from Hell?
Uneducated people see or hear the word "nuclear" and think "OH MY EFFING GAWD! WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!" or think China Syndrome which is typical Hollywood bunk or think CHERNOBYL! EVERYBODY PANIC! Or just as bad, some do-gooder senator decides that a few desert tortoises are more valuable than a solar farm in a fairly remote area that would go a long way to solving California's electricity needs, or as bad as the NIMBYs who kill off a wind farm in another remote desert area because the power lines would have to cross the desert. You can't have it both ways, people. *facepalm*
At a Fortune 500 company where I worked a few years back, the user-to-IT ratio for Windows users was about 4 to 1. On the Macintosh side it was about 100 to 1 although a 50 to 1 ratio is probably better.
The article boasts a hardware feature list. Very little of that is innovative. Sure, it may be the first device to incorporate ALL of that stuff but who gives a rip if the software driving it is total sh*t.
So it has a hardware feature list. Whoopee-effing-do. It's all about the software, children. If the software blows, the hardware is irrelevant.