Sorry that's the far right and the very far right. There is no "left" in American politics. Just the New GOP (aka Democrats) and the Old GOP (aka parody of itself).
What's funny is that the Old GOP is mostly Old Democrats formerly known as Dixiecrats who are now known as the Tea Party. Nixon invited them into the GOP after they left the democrats over civil rights and Reagan cultivated them for their money and their votes. This is why the party that fought and won the civil war over federal control and slavery is now a bunch of small government Southerners who are upset that there is a black man in office.
When the iPhone was released, RIM should've *immediately* began creating a new operating system for their phones, and *paying* developers to make apps for it.
Their problem, as the article alludes to, is that they got so used to people paying for the Blackberry *service*, that they couldn't imagine simply making money on the devices and taking a cut of the app market. I'm sure it seemed risky, and it would've been.
But they had no choice, really. And now they're fucked. They deserved it, frankly. They had ALL the cards, and they blew it entirely. It's Netscape all over again, really.
The lesson to be learned from the last decade or two is if you don't undercut and cannibalize your own business first, somebody else will come along and do it for you.
Fairly easy, the difference between alcohol and marijuana is that anybody can grow the plant without having middle man or paying taxes, and that cant be allowed.
Trust me, anybody can brew a batch of alcohol without a middle man or paying taxes also. They even do it in prisons.
Until you are caught, you typically have only your perspective on what you're doing. There's no one else out there telling you that you've made a mistake. A lot of people change their minds about their activities once they realize that other people don't approve.
Most people learn that lesson by time they're five or six.
Really? Excel is one of your top three selling points to consumers?
For a document viewer, which is what most slate tablets are, being able to display Excel (and other Office) files reliably is a big bullet point, especially in business. If nothing else, it keeps people from working more and more in PDF and other non-MS file formats that other tablets can display and edit.
It's evidently not for makers; makers need electricity and tools, unless they're whittling wood.
If you don't have any tools to bring and can't figure out how to generate your own electricity or use another source such as peddle or wind, you really shouldn't call yourself a "maker". That goes double if those tasks sound like unneeded hardship rather than a challenge.
No, the way to do Burning Man is to fly in. Burning Man has its own temporary airport, and six charter operators are authorized to use it. If you come in on a charter flight, fly in, or charter your own aircraft, you avoid the traffic jam. Not only that, the airport has its own VIP entrance gate with no line. Send your people on ahead with a truck, so your camp is all set up and operating when you get there. That's the way to do it.
You may have been modded funny, but it's not too far from the truth. There is an airport and if you fly in, I think there is s separate gate procedure to getting into the event since the airport is outside. Neither of which has any significant wait compared to driving in. We have a pilot friend that comes down in his airplane every year. We drive down a truck so he has us take down his water and bike. In return, we get plane rides which are well worth it. Plus, all the pilots have their fun too being able to view the event from the air, as well as going to such things as mountaintop playas in the area that are only accessible by air.
It is a taxi service. They're calling it something else so it doesn't get strangled by the cartel-based rigid regulation of taxis.
Nope. They are using a different set of rules to run their business because of the cartel-based rigid regulation of taxis. This is made possible by the use of these little wireless pocket computers people carry in their pockets that allow everybody to get online no matter where they are anymore. Other vehicles such as towncars, limos, airport shuttles, and rideshares have been around for quite some time and are not taxis and operate under a different set of rules. These new services are operating under those rules, not those for taxis. Those rules require a prior contract to be agreed upon. This used to take time and at least a telephone call. When the internet came about, these things could be arranged over the internet also, even in a very short amount of time. With the advent of always online smartphones, communications have allowed such contracts to be completed online between the customer, the owner of the vehicle, and a third party company in some cases in a matter of seconds.
A similar equivalent would be Amazon and brick and mortar stores. Amazon is just Sears catalog but using modern technology so that ordering something from an online catalog is now about as quick and easy if not more so than going to a brick and mortar store. Still, although they preform the same function, they are not a brick and mortar store. Likewise, Amazon is also running into lots of resistance because new communication technology have made them competitive with less consumer friendly business models even though what they are doing has been done for at least a hundred years already with its own set of rules and regulations. That taxis are just not providing the same service for the same rates is just adding to their own problems because they have no learned that if you don't cannibalize your own products and services, somebody else will.
The media cartels are all scared shitless. They can't see the forest for the trees because the upper management is still wondering "How do we get people to go to cinemas again?". Why? Because they're all frightened, ageing, greedy, foolish, incontenent, semi-literate control freaks.
They just haven't learned the lesson of "You can't be afraid to cannibalize your own products and services, because if you don't, somebody else will."
Yeah, It certainly is absurd. I can't even imagine it if you factor in the hardware to run it on. Assuming you spent half of it on hardware, you'd have $8 billion worth of hardware (which is just plain ridiculous). You now have $8 billion left over to pay people, assuming each person working on the project makes $100,000 a year, for $8b, you can get 80,000 person years. The project was launched in 2002, so even counting 12 years, that means they could have hired 6666.667 (nice how that works out) people to work on the project.
I can imagine it. FIrst off, you are counting salaries, but not benefits, offices, personal computers, and other things it actually take to run a business. That'll cut your estimated number of employees in half right there. They're also not dealing with one location working on one program. They are developing a system that has to integrate and be deployed at every hospital in the nation. Each of those hospitals (and other health care locations) will have to treated individually with most running unique combinations of home grown and vendor software systems and keeping track of different data in different manners. Even with something like HL7 interfaces and ICD9 coding standards, each hospital will still essentially have unique databases that have to connect to this one system and make sense.
Still, they probably developed their own standards and expect the hospitals do make it fit on their side of things. From there they picked a few hospitals and then brought them into the picture one things were up and running enough to do so. For each hospital they add in, it's going to require and entire team to do so. Since these are not just businesses but also 24/7 businesses who view system downtime as risking lives, support also has to go 24/7, and for beta sites is going to mean for everybody from held desk, to coders, to all the way up. So now, all those people you theoretically have are spread all over the country taking care of their own separate issues which are unique to their location.
It's easy to sit back and think you could do better, but having seen the difficulties that come from just getting two hospitals working on the same system for one department, I can see if blowing up to that fairly quickly when talking about servicing and entire country. My department (not the hospital, just the department) can easily spend 5-10 million a year on such an upgrade and that doesn't even include salaries and is with a developed turn key system. Have a brand new system and multiply it times every hospital in the nations and costs can blow up quite quickly. I seriously just don't think people who sit back and say such prices are absurd have any experience in the enterprise field, let alone considering it across all sites of a country.
Adjuncts are also handy for keeping your payroll costs down. Economist Richard Wolff mentions this often in his lectures. It's the same trend toward part-time work that shows up in a lot of industries lately.
My suspicious side notes that this study in TFA is rather convenient for academic administrators who might want to "enhance the institution's bottom line" by reducing the number of tenured faculty. But I'm sure there's no connection, and it would never be used like that.;-)
Knowing some of those adjuncts working at a local college, I can say that if they are working harder, it could quite possibly be because those tenure tracked professorships are being dangled in front of them like carrots. Sometimes with many desiring the same spot while waiting for a person to retire. Then it really sucks when the person does retire and instead of the adjunct who has been teaching all the classes, written all the course work, and otherwise worked their ass off for that position for years, doesn't get it so the dean can give it to a political ally from outside the college with no experience in the field.
The situation is very similar to the tech industry working people to death with overtime with promises of permanent employment, bonuses, or other perks, but just working them till they burn out and replacing them instead.
The only thing a tablet is good for is media consumption, and what programs does Microsoft have for that that isn't already out there, usually for free and s
I can't imagine how anyone could do anything useful with a 17" tablet which wouldn't be better with a 17" laptop.
Get on a train, plane or just otherwise carry around hundreds of magazines in digital form or PDFs and be able to read them without having to squint, zoom in constantly, or jump to some other UI interface to preform simple functions like bookmark a page. If all that is needed is to read and reference documents that were originally printed at letter, A4, or magazine sizes, a clamshell laptop is cumbersome and much too heavy (especially when trying to read portrait layout documents, which are almost all of them). Smaller slate tablets do not present the material in an easy to read manner. For leisure, hobbies, and business, I need to reference such documents on my tablet and have often found myself thinking that a screen large enough to display such so they can easily be read and enough room for a UI palette left over would be something worth looking at.
Do you really believe that? Let's think about this. If there were black people rich enough to buy big expensive cars... living in a run-down slum apartment... why was it a slum? If these blacks were making lots of money there should have been a gentrification effect just like what's happening today with white people moving into poor areas of some cities and actually pricing out the established "slum" residents.
I mean no offense but your story sounds like a romanticization of what might have really happened.
Playing devil's advocate (and because what he said matches other things I've read). They own a car, they don't own the apartment. Which one would you expect people to take care of. Unless there is rent control and it is an expensive area (probably not any slum) people don't usually fix up their rentals, they just move. Also, we are speaking in the 50's and 60's when black neighborhoods had their own economies and social stratifications. Before desegregation, there were separate but equal jewelry stores, grocery stores, car lots, etc. Black neighborhoods had their own rich who were unable to move out of the neighborhood, which is what the original post was about. They were literal ghettos and there was nothing to say that those rich blacks could actually own the land they lived in. These days, the trends continue, but the cars probably aren't new.
Chicago might be an option for the OP but then people usually are taking into account things like weather. The winters of Chicago versus the year round t-shirt weather of SF. Even Settle goes from chilly to warm with no real extremes unless one drives out into the mountains or deserts.
Cincinnati is probably exactly the type of place people who move to SF and Seattle are trying to flee from. Not familiar with the city personally, but that I've never had it come up in conversation and it's pretty small doesn't bode well. The one city in the region I am familiar with, Indianapolis, is a pit out of hell that I've seen multiple people move back to OK as they went there thinking no place could be worse but quickly moved back admitting that there are place far, far worse. It would depend on how the public transit, local music scene, arts, recreation, and relevant hobbies are like in Cincinnati, not to mention the availability of jobs.
To bad you can't telecommute from the Mid-West and get a salary that would afford you $2800/month housing cost, since where I live $1200/month would be common for a house with 4 bedrooms, 2 baths {maybe a jacuzzi}, separate dining room and kitchen {maybe a bar}. 1 car garage, big deck or patio, and a large fenced in yard.
This doesn't work they pay you good money for the area you live in, but not what they pay the California locals.
Perhaps you didn't really read his post. He moved out of San Jose, not for a bigger house, but to avoid "slit-your-wrists boredom", poor social solutions, and nasty cops. If he was moving from San Jose to SF for that reason, then he would certainly move the fuck out of the Mid-West for the same reason even quicker. Sure, the cost of living is a lot less in the Mid-West, but there's a reason for that which is lowered quality of life for many people, some people enjoy that sort of environment. The cities are full of people who grew up in the Mid-West and many in the tech industry have turned down "live like kings" salaries in the Mid-West for much more moderate salaries in the coastal cities because they know what it's like back home.
I'm one of those. I have many friends who did the same and have turned down those jobs. In fact, I moved to the city I'm in (Seattle) because I literally knew over a hundred people already here that had moved from my college town already. We visit the Mid-West again every Christmas and hate it and encourage our friends to flee also.
I lived with a Frenchman for a while and I was making French toast for breakfast once and I asked him what they call it in France. He told me he'd never heard or seen this food before. I asked him why it was called French toast then, and with dead seriousness he replied, "Probably to make it sound better."
This is a French recipe as I've been told by a French friend, used to reclaim old bread. However, typically, when American cuisine has "French" in the title (such as "french fires") it is because it is cooked in the "French style" which is to say fried in fat. At least, that is what I found out after a session of doing web searches as to wondering why "French fires" are called that instead of "Belgian Fries" as I see in Europe.
Looks like it's time to build a foundry in space so we can begin the construction of satellites, space stations and long range spacecraft with materials readily available in space, so we don't have to keep carting it up there. Between that and robots and assembly machines, we should be able to build out stuff in the next couple decades.
Time to start testing what a zero-g foundry should look and act like more likely. While we've done some fabrication and welding in space, I doubt we've tried the equivilent of anything like a foundry. Zero g and no atmosphere will make our usual methods unworkable. Hell, learning how to mine will be a huge undertaking with no gravity to hold bits down and collect them or for use as traction for vehicles or machinery. With the readily available solar power and energy, I suspect smaller rocks could be melted either with electrical arcs or simply by concentrated sunlight. If done slowly enough, various impurities would outgas like a comet leaving a liquid metal blob that would be held together through surface tension. The components might separate out somewhat due to chemical properties and from there the blob could be skimmed into differing elemental components or alloys and the resulting bits extruded and allowed to cool into billets. The billets then either run through a more managable seperation process or used for manufacturing.
Anyway, given our current rate of space R&D, I think that decades is probably really ambitious for an industrial revolution in space given the work that needs to be done.
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Sorry that's the far right and the very far right. There is no "left" in American politics. Just the New GOP (aka Democrats) and the Old GOP (aka parody of itself).
What's funny is that the Old GOP is mostly Old Democrats formerly known as Dixiecrats who are now known as the Tea Party. Nixon invited them into the GOP after they left the democrats over civil rights and Reagan cultivated them for their money and their votes. This is why the party that fought and won the civil war over federal control and slavery is now a bunch of small government Southerners who are upset that there is a black man in office.
When the iPhone was released, RIM should've *immediately* began creating a new operating system for their phones, and *paying* developers to make apps for it.
Their problem, as the article alludes to, is that they got so used to people paying for the Blackberry *service*, that they couldn't imagine simply making money on the devices and taking a cut of the app market. I'm sure it seemed risky, and it would've been.
But they had no choice, really. And now they're fucked. They deserved it, frankly. They had ALL the cards, and they blew it entirely. It's Netscape all over again, really.
The lesson to be learned from the last decade or two is if you don't undercut and cannibalize your own business first, somebody else will come along and do it for you.
Fairly easy, the difference between alcohol and marijuana is that anybody can grow the plant without having middle man or paying taxes, and that cant be allowed.
Trust me, anybody can brew a batch of alcohol without a middle man or paying taxes also. They even do it in prisons.
Until you are caught, you typically have only your perspective on what you're doing. There's no one else out there telling you that you've made a mistake. A lot of people change their minds about their activities once they realize that other people don't approve.
Most people learn that lesson by time they're five or six.
So Amazon just connects you with a dealer? How is this any different than a phone book?
Nobody has a phonebook anymore.
The real question is how many boots of water will it contain.
Boots of water are no good. You'd have to drink it all before you could sit the container down.
Really? Excel is one of your top three selling points to consumers?
For a document viewer, which is what most slate tablets are, being able to display Excel (and other Office) files reliably is a big bullet point, especially in business. If nothing else, it keeps people from working more and more in PDF and other non-MS file formats that other tablets can display and edit.
What about non-Caucasians with no accent?
Probably goes on the assumption that if they don't have an accent, they must be Caucasian.
It's evidently not for makers; makers need electricity and tools, unless they're whittling wood.
If you don't have any tools to bring and can't figure out how to generate your own electricity or use another source such as peddle or wind, you really shouldn't call yourself a "maker". That goes double if those tasks sound like unneeded hardship rather than a challenge.
No, the way to do Burning Man is to fly in. Burning Man has its own temporary airport, and six charter operators are authorized to use it. If you come in on a charter flight, fly in, or charter your own aircraft, you avoid the traffic jam. Not only that, the airport has its own VIP entrance gate with no line. Send your people on ahead with a truck, so your camp is all set up and operating when you get there. That's the way to do it.
You may have been modded funny, but it's not too far from the truth. There is an airport and if you fly in, I think there is s separate gate procedure to getting into the event since the airport is outside. Neither of which has any significant wait compared to driving in. We have a pilot friend that comes down in his airplane every year. We drive down a truck so he has us take down his water and bike. In return, we get plane rides which are well worth it. Plus, all the pilots have their fun too being able to view the event from the air, as well as going to such things as mountaintop playas in the area that are only accessible by air.
Don't go to "Burning Man".
"Burning Man" is for pretentious douchebags.
Which camp are you with when you go?
It is a taxi service. They're calling it something else so it doesn't get strangled by the cartel-based rigid regulation of taxis.
Nope. They are using a different set of rules to run their business because of the cartel-based rigid regulation of taxis. This is made possible by the use of these little wireless pocket computers people carry in their pockets that allow everybody to get online no matter where they are anymore. Other vehicles such as towncars, limos, airport shuttles, and rideshares have been around for quite some time and are not taxis and operate under a different set of rules. These new services are operating under those rules, not those for taxis. Those rules require a prior contract to be agreed upon. This used to take time and at least a telephone call. When the internet came about, these things could be arranged over the internet also, even in a very short amount of time. With the advent of always online smartphones, communications have allowed such contracts to be completed online between the customer, the owner of the vehicle, and a third party company in some cases in a matter of seconds.
A similar equivalent would be Amazon and brick and mortar stores. Amazon is just Sears catalog but using modern technology so that ordering something from an online catalog is now about as quick and easy if not more so than going to a brick and mortar store. Still, although they preform the same function, they are not a brick and mortar store. Likewise, Amazon is also running into lots of resistance because new communication technology have made them competitive with less consumer friendly business models even though what they are doing has been done for at least a hundred years already with its own set of rules and regulations. That taxis are just not providing the same service for the same rates is just adding to their own problems because they have no learned that if you don't cannibalize your own products and services, somebody else will.
The media cartels are all scared shitless. They can't see the forest for the trees because the upper management is still wondering "How do we get people to go to cinemas again?". Why? Because they're all frightened, ageing, greedy, foolish, incontenent, semi-literate control freaks.
They just haven't learned the lesson of "You can't be afraid to cannibalize your own products and services, because if you don't, somebody else will."
Yeah, It certainly is absurd. I can't even imagine it if you factor in the hardware to run it on. Assuming you spent half of it on hardware, you'd have $8 billion worth of hardware (which is just plain ridiculous). You now have $8 billion left over to pay people, assuming each person working on the project makes $100,000 a year, for $8b, you can get 80,000 person years. The project was launched in 2002, so even counting 12 years, that means they could have hired 6666.667 (nice how that works out) people to work on the project.
I can imagine it. FIrst off, you are counting salaries, but not benefits, offices, personal computers, and other things it actually take to run a business. That'll cut your estimated number of employees in half right there. They're also not dealing with one location working on one program. They are developing a system that has to integrate and be deployed at every hospital in the nation. Each of those hospitals (and other health care locations) will have to treated individually with most running unique combinations of home grown and vendor software systems and keeping track of different data in different manners. Even with something like HL7 interfaces and ICD9 coding standards, each hospital will still essentially have unique databases that have to connect to this one system and make sense.
Still, they probably developed their own standards and expect the hospitals do make it fit on their side of things. From there they picked a few hospitals and then brought them into the picture one things were up and running enough to do so. For each hospital they add in, it's going to require and entire team to do so. Since these are not just businesses but also 24/7 businesses who view system downtime as risking lives, support also has to go 24/7, and for beta sites is going to mean for everybody from held desk, to coders, to all the way up. So now, all those people you theoretically have are spread all over the country taking care of their own separate issues which are unique to their location.
It's easy to sit back and think you could do better, but having seen the difficulties that come from just getting two hospitals working on the same system for one department, I can see if blowing up to that fairly quickly when talking about servicing and entire country. My department (not the hospital, just the department) can easily spend 5-10 million a year on such an upgrade and that doesn't even include salaries and is with a developed turn key system. Have a brand new system and multiply it times every hospital in the nations and costs can blow up quite quickly. I seriously just don't think people who sit back and say such prices are absurd have any experience in the enterprise field, let alone considering it across all sites of a country.
Adjuncts are also handy for keeping your payroll costs down. Economist Richard Wolff mentions this often in his lectures. It's the same trend toward part-time work that shows up in a lot of industries lately.
My suspicious side notes that this study in TFA is rather convenient for academic administrators who might want to "enhance the institution's bottom line" by reducing the number of tenured faculty. But I'm sure there's no connection, and it would never be used like that. ;-)
Knowing some of those adjuncts working at a local college, I can say that if they are working harder, it could quite possibly be because those tenure tracked professorships are being dangled in front of them like carrots. Sometimes with many desiring the same spot while waiting for a person to retire. Then it really sucks when the person does retire and instead of the adjunct who has been teaching all the classes, written all the course work, and otherwise worked their ass off for that position for years, doesn't get it so the dean can give it to a political ally from outside the college with no experience in the field.
The situation is very similar to the tech industry working people to death with overtime with promises of permanent employment, bonuses, or other perks, but just working them till they burn out and replacing them instead.
The only thing a tablet is good for is media consumption, and what programs does Microsoft have for that that isn't already out there, usually for free and s
I can't imagine how anyone could do anything useful with a 17" tablet which wouldn't be better with a 17" laptop.
Get on a train, plane or just otherwise carry around hundreds of magazines in digital form or PDFs and be able to read them without having to squint, zoom in constantly, or jump to some other UI interface to preform simple functions like bookmark a page. If all that is needed is to read and reference documents that were originally printed at letter, A4, or magazine sizes, a clamshell laptop is cumbersome and much too heavy (especially when trying to read portrait layout documents, which are almost all of them). Smaller slate tablets do not present the material in an easy to read manner. For leisure, hobbies, and business, I need to reference such documents on my tablet and have often found myself thinking that a screen large enough to display such so they can easily be read and enough room for a UI palette left over would be something worth looking at.
Do you really believe that? Let's think about this. If there were black people rich enough to buy big expensive cars... living in a run-down slum apartment... why was it a slum? If these blacks were making lots of money there should have been a gentrification effect just like what's happening today with white people moving into poor areas of some cities and actually pricing out the established "slum" residents.
I mean no offense but your story sounds like a romanticization of what might have really happened.
Playing devil's advocate (and because what he said matches other things I've read). They own a car, they don't own the apartment. Which one would you expect people to take care of. Unless there is rent control and it is an expensive area (probably not any slum) people don't usually fix up their rentals, they just move. Also, we are speaking in the 50's and 60's when black neighborhoods had their own economies and social stratifications. Before desegregation, there were separate but equal jewelry stores, grocery stores, car lots, etc. Black neighborhoods had their own rich who were unable to move out of the neighborhood, which is what the original post was about. They were literal ghettos and there was nothing to say that those rich blacks could actually own the land they lived in. These days, the trends continue, but the cars probably aren't new.
Same thing as iOS and as Android...
Yes, but the trick to having a walled garden is having something people want get into and be in, not something they want to get out of.
I would prefer if the car market were turned into an on demand limo or taxi service.
Uber or Lyft with no human drivers in other words.
Oh, and food. What's the sushi and seafood like in Cincinnati?
Chicago might be an option for the OP but then people usually are taking into account things like weather. The winters of Chicago versus the year round t-shirt weather of SF. Even Settle goes from chilly to warm with no real extremes unless one drives out into the mountains or deserts.
Cincinnati is probably exactly the type of place people who move to SF and Seattle are trying to flee from. Not familiar with the city personally, but that I've never had it come up in conversation and it's pretty small doesn't bode well. The one city in the region I am familiar with, Indianapolis, is a pit out of hell that I've seen multiple people move back to OK as they went there thinking no place could be worse but quickly moved back admitting that there are place far, far worse. It would depend on how the public transit, local music scene, arts, recreation, and relevant hobbies are like in Cincinnati, not to mention the availability of jobs.
To bad you can't telecommute from the Mid-West and get a salary that would afford you $2800/month housing cost, since where I live $1200/month would be common for a house with 4 bedrooms, 2 baths {maybe a jacuzzi}, separate dining room and kitchen {maybe a bar}. 1 car garage, big deck or patio, and a large fenced in yard.
This doesn't work they pay you good money for the area you live in, but not what they pay the California locals.
Perhaps you didn't really read his post. He moved out of San Jose, not for a bigger house, but to avoid "slit-your-wrists boredom", poor social solutions, and nasty cops. If he was moving from San Jose to SF for that reason, then he would certainly move the fuck out of the Mid-West for the same reason even quicker. Sure, the cost of living is a lot less in the Mid-West, but there's a reason for that which is lowered quality of life for many people, some people enjoy that sort of environment. The cities are full of people who grew up in the Mid-West and many in the tech industry have turned down "live like kings" salaries in the Mid-West for much more moderate salaries in the coastal cities because they know what it's like back home.
I'm one of those. I have many friends who did the same and have turned down those jobs. In fact, I moved to the city I'm in (Seattle) because I literally knew over a hundred people already here that had moved from my college town already. We visit the Mid-West again every Christmas and hate it and encourage our friends to flee also.
I lived with a Frenchman for a while and I was making French toast for breakfast once and I asked him what they call it in France. He told me he'd never heard or seen this food before. I asked him why it was called French toast then, and with dead seriousness he replied, "Probably to make it sound better."
This is a French recipe as I've been told by a French friend, used to reclaim old bread. However, typically, when American cuisine has "French" in the title (such as "french fires") it is because it is cooked in the "French style" which is to say fried in fat. At least, that is what I found out after a session of doing web searches as to wondering why "French fires" are called that instead of "Belgian Fries" as I see in Europe.
Looks like it's time to build a foundry in space so we can begin the construction of satellites, space stations and long range spacecraft with materials readily available in space, so we don't have to keep carting it up there. Between that and robots and assembly machines, we should be able to build out stuff in the next couple decades.
Time to start testing what a zero-g foundry should look and act like more likely. While we've done some fabrication and welding in space, I doubt we've tried the equivilent of anything like a foundry. Zero g and no atmosphere will make our usual methods unworkable. Hell, learning how to mine will be a huge undertaking with no gravity to hold bits down and collect them or for use as traction for vehicles or machinery. With the readily available solar power and energy, I suspect smaller rocks could be melted either with electrical arcs or simply by concentrated sunlight. If done slowly enough, various impurities would outgas like a comet leaving a liquid metal blob that would be held together through surface tension. The components might separate out somewhat due to chemical properties and from there the blob could be skimmed into differing elemental components or alloys and the resulting bits extruded and allowed to cool into billets. The billets then either run through a more managable seperation process or used for manufacturing.
Anyway, given our current rate of space R&D, I think that decades is probably really ambitious for an industrial revolution in space given the work that needs to be done.