I predict the next big thing for the Internet will need to wait until Google rolls out its version of a communications security infrastructure, issuing people certificates (why not? they know enough about you already) and helping them with public-key cryptography, ultimately leading to an email system free of spam.
I had a credit card which could do that once (a Wachovia card administered through some "FIA Card Services"). Then Wachovia decided to end that and administer it themselves (which was mostly just annoying). What other card providers provide this capability?
Parents have plenty of rights, but the right to destroy their kid's future by teaching them anti-science and borderline racist interpretations of history ought not be one.
Well, aren't we Mr. Tolerance and Understanding Incarnate! Not an ounce of prejudice here, eh? Only among those nasty stupid old home-schooling types.
In a 'couple of hundred years' we won't have the material resources left for mass migration
Which one are we going to run out of? And, if there's such a bounty out there in space, won't we be able to send some not-so-massive spaceships over to mine a little from the nearest asteroid belt or moon of Jupiter and ship it back?
Space is the future, but the future is not "now".
Face it, space travel right now with modern technologies is a joke. We can brute force it and throw a few tin cans with people in them around the place, but we've got a few hundred years (if not a few thousands) before we can "go out there" and expect to stay for very long. All sorts of new materials-science efforts between now and then will make it easier. Stronger, lighter materials.... more efficient lighting (OLEDs! yay)... bio-engineered plants for food and air/water purification systems... robots which can effectively set up bases in hostile airless environment before people arrive... more effective batteries.... heck, fusion power sources and superconductors if you wait long enough...
We can wait another couple hundred years, we'll be developing towards most of these technologies on our own anyway - quite frankly, I suspect that trying to divert a massive portion of our output towards colonizing space right now will only slow us down in the long term.
Great Britain, I'd like to introduce you to this American invention we call the "cowboy hat". It's related to some older technology (the sombrero) and serves to protect the face (and neck) from sunburn and observation by aerial surveillance drones.
Undergraduate internships with IBM. Undergraduate work for the local university's student newspaper website team.
Undergraduate messing-around-with-open-source-in-spare-time.
I did all of the above, and I ended up with $74k right out of school (class of 2007, admittedly; class of 2009 would have been tougher, but that's true of every field) and last year I easily broke six figures (thanks in no small part to the massive crash and subsequent rebound of the stock market affecting the pricing of my options, RSUs, and the employee stock purchase plan). Hi.
Yeah, agreed - don't make it a "rub your nose in it" kind of deal or make it a big production under any circumstances. Be friendly, respectful, and slightly deferential... just push back a little when they're putting you into an awkward position. Ask what your real priorities are, explain what that means to them, explain the inconsistencies you're facing, offer to do whatever you need, offer to leave it in an inconsistent state... just so long as they can make it clear, in that case, what exactly is going on meets with their approval.
Heck, do it up as an exemption form. "X has been determined to have a business need to bypass this security, signed, X."
Yeah, but it's a lot more likely you can make something like that happen by suggestion and entreaty than to radically change their computing habits. (Executives are somewhat used to signing things, after all.)
I'd ask anyone who routinely overrides your authority in the data-protection sphere to sign a form indicating something to the effect that they've been informed of these policies and the potential risks and if it all comes crashing down because they don't listen to you, it's not your fault.
Yes! Embed video interviews that are 10 times as big as the mp3 itself, because that's exactly what I want to squeeze onto my music player's limited space.
What's the point of ideals if you ignore the constraints of reality so much that you never actually get to implement them? Balance, sir!
Perhaps there are steps which they can take to work around these problems that they have not considered and ought to. The effective way to introduce them is something more like politely saying "SourceForge should consider [moving their servers to Uzbekistan]" and not at all like calling them a bunch of fat twinkie-obsessed lard-asses because they haven't relocated there yet. If they're so lazy and the OP and his ideas are so awesome, perhaps he can coordinate a new SourceForge-y site.
The "weight gain" is due to an abuse of the equations:
The equation Einstein came up with more than a century ago can be considered a degenerate form of the mass-energy-momentum relation for vanishing momentum. Einstein was very well aware of this, and in later papers repetitively stressed that his mass-energy equation is strictly limited to observers co-moving with the object under study. However, very, very few people seem to have paid attention to Einstein's warnings, nor to any of the more recent warnings. Even worse, the vast majority of authors of popular science books take great liberty in applying E=mc^2 to objects moving at speeds close to the speed of light, and then declare mass to increase with velocity in an attempt to recover consistency in what has become an incoherent mix of relativistic and Newtonian dynamics. Theoretical physicist Lev Okun refers to this practice as a "pedagogical virus"...... What I consider truly amazing, is how few people are aware of the mass-energy-momentum relation.
The fancy new Prius models with the solar-panel roofs actually use said roof for climate control while the car is off. That helps with the summers, at least (though cold winter nights are another matter).
Also: If your car regularly gets up to 150F in the summer... leave the windows open a crack.
You know what the Catholic Church needs with a LAMP server (or similar)? It some unified website, administered by regional authorities or the Vatican itself, which will provide a good way to find parish locations and mass times for each and every parish in a first-world country where Internet access is common. Then, when I'm on a trip to White Plains and three hours jet-lagged, I can get some idea of when and where I can attend church on a Sunday. Or when I'm back in Silicon Valley and it's a random Holy Day of Obligation in the middle of the week, I can know where to go after work (or possibly before work or over a lunch break). Right now, it's a crapshoot as to whether the church even has a website.
Calendering. Please. Inter-parish calendaring, ideally; I'd love to know everything going on in the Diocese of San Jose at a glance. Bulletins would be nice too, even if they're just.pdfs. Maybe they could coordinate those with what'stheirface, LPI? those liturgical-publishers who seem to put out a lot of those.
If you're looking for gravy, throw in a quick podcast (and computerized transcription) of the homilies. If they can standardize on something, it would be pretty easy to plug into most existing parish sound systems, and reasonably cheap.
Next step out: Get the church behind some sort of free-content/Creative Commons angle with its liturgical music -- not necessarily to the exclusion of all else, mind you, but choir directors shouldn't have to jump through copyright hoops to legally express praise and worship. That, of all things, should be Free.
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We'd go on a vegan diet, but the delivery time from Vega is too long.
It's what's for dinner. Tonight.
Cardboard with OLED.
Blah blah don't attack the encryption; attack how it's used! blah.
You think that's bad? Wait until you hear about Van Eck phreaking.
Some decade.
This only works if the underlying technology is half decent. For instance: compare 'Wii' vs 'Zune'.
I had a credit card which could do that once (a Wachovia card administered through some "FIA Card Services"). Then Wachovia decided to end that and administer it themselves (which was mostly just annoying). What other card providers provide this capability?
On a related note: online bank security. WTF?
Well, aren't we Mr. Tolerance and Understanding Incarnate! Not an ounce of prejudice here, eh? Only among those nasty stupid old home-schooling types.
Or just regular?
Which one are we going to run out of? And, if there's such a bounty out there in space, won't we be able to send some not-so-massive spaceships over to mine a little from the nearest asteroid belt or moon of Jupiter and ship it back?
The National Air and Space Administration does plenty of work a) without humans and b) at or below Low Earth Orbit.
We can wait another couple hundred years, we'll be developing towards most of these technologies on our own anyway - quite frankly, I suspect that trying to divert a massive portion of our output towards colonizing space right now will only slow us down in the long term.
Great Britain, I'd like to introduce you to this American invention we call the "cowboy hat". It's related to some older technology (the sombrero) and serves to protect the face (and neck) from sunburn and observation by aerial surveillance drones.
The new hot theoretical speculations hold that gravity is a thermodynamic effect too, not a regular force. This dude explains.
Still highly speculative, mind you, but definitely hot stuff.
I did all of the above, and I ended up with $74k right out of school (class of 2007, admittedly; class of 2009 would have been tougher, but that's true of every field) and last year I easily broke six figures (thanks in no small part to the massive crash and subsequent rebound of the stock market affecting the pricing of my options, RSUs, and the employee stock purchase plan). Hi.
Yeah, agreed - don't make it a "rub your nose in it" kind of deal or make it a big production under any circumstances. Be friendly, respectful, and slightly deferential... just push back a little when they're putting you into an awkward position. Ask what your real priorities are, explain what that means to them, explain the inconsistencies you're facing, offer to do whatever you need, offer to leave it in an inconsistent state... just so long as they can make it clear, in that case, what exactly is going on meets with their approval.
Heck, do it up as an exemption form. "X has been determined to have a business need to bypass this security, signed, X."
Yeah, but it's a lot more likely you can make something like that happen by suggestion and entreaty than to radically change their computing habits. (Executives are somewhat used to signing things, after all.)
I'd ask anyone who routinely overrides your authority in the data-protection sphere to sign a form indicating something to the effect that they've been informed of these policies and the potential risks and if it all comes crashing down because they don't listen to you, it's not your fault.
Yes! Embed video interviews that are 10 times as big as the mp3 itself, because that's exactly what I want to squeeze onto my music player's limited space.
Maybe they can borrow some EFF help and try to make a First Amendment case out of it.
What's the point of ideals if you ignore the constraints of reality so much that you never actually get to implement them? Balance, sir!
Perhaps there are steps which they can take to work around these problems that they have not considered and ought to. The effective way to introduce them is something more like politely saying "SourceForge should consider [moving their servers to Uzbekistan]" and not at all like calling them a bunch of fat twinkie-obsessed lard-asses because they haven't relocated there yet. If they're so lazy and the OP and his ideas are so awesome, perhaps he can coordinate a new SourceForge-y site.
-- What's Wrong with E=mc^2, The Hammock Physicist.
Our blogger then proceeds to draw a right triangle with sides E*v, E*c, and m*c^3. For velocities (v) of 0, E*c=m*c^3, or E=mc^2. Yay vectors.
Also: If your car regularly gets up to 150F in the summer... leave the windows open a crack.
You know what the Catholic Church needs with a LAMP server (or similar)? It some unified website, administered by regional authorities or the Vatican itself, which will provide a good way to find parish locations and mass times for each and every parish in a first-world country where Internet access is common. Then, when I'm on a trip to White Plains and three hours jet-lagged, I can get some idea of when and where I can attend church on a Sunday. Or when I'm back in Silicon Valley and it's a random Holy Day of Obligation in the middle of the week, I can know where to go after work (or possibly before work or over a lunch break). Right now, it's a crapshoot as to whether the church even has a website.
Calendering. Please. Inter-parish calendaring, ideally; I'd love to know everything going on in the Diocese of San Jose at a glance. Bulletins would be nice too, even if they're just .pdfs. Maybe they could coordinate those with what'stheirface, LPI? those liturgical-publishers who seem to put out a lot of those.
If you're looking for gravy, throw in a quick podcast (and computerized transcription) of the homilies. If they can standardize on something, it would be pretty easy to plug into most existing parish sound systems, and reasonably cheap.
Next step out: Get the church behind some sort of free-content/Creative Commons angle with its liturgical music -- not necessarily to the exclusion of all else, mind you, but choir directors shouldn't have to jump through copyright hoops to legally express praise and worship. That, of all things, should be Free.