I have no idea in what industry you work in or kind of employment you have, but I can tell you that in professional industries (IT, software development, hardware, engineering, consulting, medical, science, business), it is HIGHLY TABOO to disclose your salary to other employees, let alone ask them what their salary was. The only exception to this is a union-type environment where everyone knows everyone else's salary de-facto. But if you aren't in a union, the #1 rule in fight club is that you do not talk about fight club.
As much as I hate to say it - both because I'm a Canadian and I actually know several people who work at RIM - RIM is doomed. They are going to lose "third place" to Windows Phone this year, and will never gain it back.
The stupid thing though is that Kinect voice controls have NOTHING AT ALL to do with the Kinect hardware. All that analysis is done on the Xbox itself. Sure it is using Kinect code, but the code runs on the CONSOLE, it is not run on the Kinect hardware like the 3D processing.
Which means that all of these games that have voice control could EASILY have had this enabled using the headset, if Microsoft wanted to allow that. But they'd much rather push more stupid Kinect sales.
For one, technology is now a lot better than when the OP had it done. With advanced wavefront LASIK, you have basically zero night vision problems.
For two, LASIK will actually SAVE you money over the long term, because the whole procedure is tax deductible and you will never again have to purchases glasses or contacts - which adds up... do the math for 20 years of optometrist visits and glasses / contacts. When you get LASIK, your optometrist visits are now covered for life through the company.
I got my LASIK done back in March and I now have no night vision problems whatsoever - best investment I ever made.
I am sure this has absolutely nothing to do with the move or Northrop Grumman's corporate HQ to Virgina in 2010, but only after a bunch of "meetings" with McDonnel.
Nope, not a thing.
In fact, I am sure Grumman is not going to win any of these contracts.
Except for the fact that we aren't adapting. Like the GP posted, modern medicine has all but stopped human evolution, because we have no selection pressures. If anything, we're de-evolving, because people with genes who would not be procreating in centurys past, actually do nowadays. Who knows how many genetic disorders would have died off by now if not for modern medicine.
Sequencing a gene is not like some kind of one-time exam. Your genes don't change. Once they are sequenced, that's it - you can use the results forever.
If it was only $1000 or even $5000 to sequence your genes, it is more than a worthwhile investment, as you can then compare your sequence against new things constantly being discovered as the state of gene science improves.
Like others have pointed out, at this kind of price point a lot of parents would simply opt to have their child sequenced at birth, to hope to prepare them for a safer future.
Dust is not going to be a large problem on the moon for the same reasons you stated - the moon has no atmosphere. There is no dust in the air, and this robot is not going to be dancing around like astronauts do, throwing it up all over the place.
Google is intentionally abusing their position to promote their own products and hide competitors. Yes, this thing matters.
LMFTFY:
Google is intentionally abusing their position to improve the overall user experience. Yes, this thing matters.
There, that's better.
When I do a search from JFK to LAX, guess what - it is NICE that Google immediately knows that I am interested in a flight and shows me prices. It is NICE that they will show me a map and photos of my destination. It reduces the number of clicks and get gets me what I want faster. The same can be said for all of Google's optimized in-line services. Furthermore, I have never in my life ever heard of evidence showing that Google actually hides the result of a competitor... do you have any evidence to back that up (that is not already refuted)?
Google is very upfront about everything they do, and there are ample other search engines you can use as a user, and that people can advertise on as well.
The solution for this is not banning, it is monitoring the use of the site so you can find the problem children and deal with them one on one. This is easily done just by looking at IP connections, you don't even need to snoop on the data.
Seems like we shoud resume the "Tell Vic Everything" campaign. If Vic is really that interested in spying on everyone, then make it easier for him.
- Add @ToewsVic to every tweet you send. - Start posting your breakfast details on his Facebook page. - CC him on every email you send using all his addresses (note they made him new ones after the last campaign - vic.toews@parl.gc.ca / toewsv1@parl.gc.ca / Toews.V@parl.gc.ca )
Fearmongering or not, if it might mean less dollars for useless crap like the TSA and more dollars for cyber-security research (and everything related) and security-focused public awareness campaigns, that is nothing but a good thing IMO.
Actually, having NASA embark to "building the actual Enterprise" might be just what the US needs to get funding back into space. You have to get the public on board. In the 60's rockets were cool and new, now they are old hat. "Why do we need to do that, we did it before".
If you RTFA, there is no goal to reach the next star. The Gen 1 would be an explorer for our solar system alone. The quoted specs say it could reach the moon in 3 days, mars in 90, and be able to visit other planets in reasonable times as well.
I wish articles like this would clarify what they are talking about, to avoid sensationalist headlines like this. This article, and all recent articles bashing Java, are all talking about java APPLETS and web-browser based Java - which is the INCREDIBLE MINORITY of what the language is used for.
Java is a perfectly fine platform for developing secure, stable, enterprise-grade applications. And really it is one of the only such platforms that is both cross-platform and production ready (no I do not consider.Net + mono to be production ready)
I was also in university when P2P became popular and I also never buy music now. But it has nothing to do with P2P.. it has a lot more to do with the fact that LEGAL music is available for free everywhere now. It is not like it was when we were young and if you wanted to listen to music in your room you had to have a truckload of CDs or tapes - nowadays kids just fire up YouTube or one of the 100 digital music channels people get for free with their TV service.
A similar study to try to discover what cat's think, was foiled when the cats refused to participate fully in the study. Before they left, initial results showed the following thought: "Get out! The're onto us!"
Microsoft actively battled, and still does, open standards. Google pushes open standards and puts a lot of weight behind them.
Microsoft has always (and was convicted of) using it's monopoly power to force other products and services on users. Even though it has a venerable monopoly on search and online video, Google does NO SUCH THING, in fact they actively open all of their APIs on both platforms and allow ample third party integration.
Microsoft does little more than pay lip service to the open source movement, and has even gone on record to say it's a cancer. Google actively peruses open source, they publish a huge amount of their work under open source licenses, and they put a lot of money into sponsor ships through programs such as the Summer of Code.
People like to give Google a lot of flack for knowing everything about you - HOWEVER Google actually goes out of their way to allow users to have total control over their data. You can log into your Google profile at any time and export all of your data and then delete the profile, leaving no trace. You can opt into having all your data anonymized, and you can opt out of all tracking on their properties, if you choose. Can you do this with Microsoft's products? I mean it is 2012 and you can't even access your hotmail via an open protocol, let alone export your data.
Microsoft and Google have always been polar opposites. All of this recent hatred toward Google is really unjustified.. it's basically perpetuated by people who simply like to vote for the underdog.. previously Google was the underdog, now it is other companies... Google is no longer "cool" and "hip", it is "corporate" and therefore evil... well, evil is relative. Compared to Microsoft, Google is a relative saint.
This is complete bollocks. An aggressively growing company should have as close to $0 in profit as possible, so as to grow the business and share value.
It is only once a company is old and mature (and slow growing) that one expects higher dividends and less expansion.
No sane investor expects an agile rapidly growing company to stop growing and realize large profits, that is sheer stupidity.
If Google does not require that license to your content, then how in gods name will they do simple things like display thumbnail previews of documents, which by NECESSITY is a derrivitive work?
If anything, the fact that Microsoft and Dropbox *does not* have this in their agreement basically means they are violating their agreement constantly, just no one is calling them on it.
Google Drive is just a re-brand of Google Docs, and thus there are a plethora of Linux clients. A quick (Google) search brought up 5 in my first page of results. SFFS looks the best from my quick perusal, offering full sync of any folder you choose, either constantly or on a schedule. Saying there are "no Linux clients" is simply false.
Airline search is actually a very complicated problem. You have a variety of complex things working in tandem
- The fact that between any two hubs you have a very large number of possible routes when you include non-direct flights. This by itself is already a non-trivial shortest-path problem.
- The fact that flight prices change multiple times daily and thus your engine and its indicies have to be fully dynamic, thus making them harder to optimize for real time queries.
- The fact that you must weigh flights on the same carrier higher than flights that are cross-carrier in your algorithms, and for cross-carrier flights allow for a longer lagtime between flights.
- The fact that certain airports need you to allow for longer lagtimes than others due to gate travel time than others, and maintain this database based on statistics
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I have no idea in what industry you work in or kind of employment you have, but I can tell you that in professional industries (IT, software development, hardware, engineering, consulting, medical, science, business), it is HIGHLY TABOO to disclose your salary to other employees, let alone ask them what their salary was. The only exception to this is a union-type environment where everyone knows everyone else's salary de-facto. But if you aren't in a union, the #1 rule in fight club is that you do not talk about fight club.
I'll take that bet.
As much as I hate to say it - both because I'm a Canadian and I actually know several people who work at RIM - RIM is doomed. They are going to lose "third place" to Windows Phone this year, and will never gain it back.
The stupid thing though is that Kinect voice controls have NOTHING AT ALL to do with the Kinect hardware. All that analysis is done on the Xbox itself. Sure it is using Kinect code, but the code runs on the CONSOLE, it is not run on the Kinect hardware like the 3D processing.
Which means that all of these games that have voice control could EASILY have had this enabled using the headset, if Microsoft wanted to allow that. But they'd much rather push more stupid Kinect sales.
For one, technology is now a lot better than when the OP had it done. With advanced wavefront LASIK, you have basically zero night vision problems.
For two, LASIK will actually SAVE you money over the long term, because the whole procedure is tax deductible and you will never again have to purchases glasses or contacts - which adds up... do the math for 20 years of optometrist visits and glasses / contacts. When you get LASIK, your optometrist visits are now covered for life through the company.
I got my LASIK done back in March and I now have no night vision problems whatsoever - best investment I ever made.
I am sure this has absolutely nothing to do with the move or Northrop Grumman's corporate HQ to Virgina in 2010, but only after a bunch of "meetings" with McDonnel.
Nope, not a thing.
In fact, I am sure Grumman is not going to win any of these contracts.
http://www2.timesdispatch.com/news/2010/apr/26/grumgat26_20100426-184201-ar-156839/
Except for the fact that we aren't adapting. Like the GP posted, modern medicine has all but stopped human evolution, because we have no selection pressures. If anything, we're de-evolving, because people with genes who would not be procreating in centurys past, actually do nowadays. Who knows how many genetic disorders would have died off by now if not for modern medicine.
Sequencing a gene is not like some kind of one-time exam. Your genes don't change. Once they are sequenced, that's it - you can use the results forever.
If it was only $1000 or even $5000 to sequence your genes, it is more than a worthwhile investment, as you can then compare your sequence against new things constantly being discovered as the state of gene science improves.
Like others have pointed out, at this kind of price point a lot of parents would simply opt to have their child sequenced at birth, to hope to prepare them for a safer future.
Dust is not going to be a large problem on the moon for the same reasons you stated - the moon has no atmosphere. There is no dust in the air, and this robot is not going to be dancing around like astronauts do, throwing it up all over the place.
Google is intentionally abusing their position to promote their own products and hide competitors. Yes, this thing matters.
LMFTFY:
Google is intentionally abusing their position to improve the overall user experience. Yes, this thing matters.
There, that's better.
When I do a search from JFK to LAX, guess what - it is NICE that Google immediately knows that I am interested in a flight and shows me prices. It is NICE that they will show me a map and photos of my destination. It reduces the number of clicks and get gets me what I want faster. The same can be said for all of Google's optimized in-line services. Furthermore, I have never in my life ever heard of evidence showing that Google actually hides the result of a competitor... do you have any evidence to back that up (that is not already refuted)?
Google is very upfront about everything they do, and there are ample other search engines you can use as a user, and that people can advertise on as well.
The solution for this is not banning, it is monitoring the use of the site so you can find the problem children and deal with them one on one. This is easily done just by looking at IP connections, you don't even need to snoop on the data.
Seems like we shoud resume the "Tell Vic Everything" campaign. If Vic is really that interested in spying on everyone, then make it easier for him.
- Add @ToewsVic to every tweet you send.
- Start posting your breakfast details on his Facebook page.
- CC him on every email you send using all his addresses (note they made him new ones after the last campaign - vic.toews@parl.gc.ca / toewsv1@parl.gc.ca / Toews.V@parl.gc.ca )
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/02/16/pol-twitter-tell-vic-everything.html
ICS has FDE built in, and it is very slick and simple to use.
Fearmongering or not, if it might mean less dollars for useless crap like the TSA and more dollars for cyber-security research (and everything related) and security-focused public awareness campaigns, that is nothing but a good thing IMO.
Actually, having NASA embark to "building the actual Enterprise" might be just what the US needs to get funding back into space. You have to get the public on board. In the 60's rockets were cool and new, now they are old hat. "Why do we need to do that, we did it before".
If you RTFA, there is no goal to reach the next star. The Gen 1 would be an explorer for our solar system alone. The quoted specs say it could reach the moon in 3 days, mars in 90, and be able to visit other planets in reasonable times as well.
I wish articles like this would clarify what they are talking about, to avoid sensationalist headlines like this. This article, and all recent articles bashing Java, are all talking about java APPLETS and web-browser based Java - which is the INCREDIBLE MINORITY of what the language is used for.
Java is a perfectly fine platform for developing secure, stable, enterprise-grade applications. And really it is one of the only such platforms that is both cross-platform and production ready (no I do not consider .Net + mono to be production ready)
I was also in university when P2P became popular and I also never buy music now. But it has nothing to do with P2P.. it has a lot more to do with the fact that LEGAL music is available for free everywhere now. It is not like it was when we were young and if you wanted to listen to music in your room you had to have a truckload of CDs or tapes - nowadays kids just fire up YouTube or one of the 100 digital music channels people get for free with their TV service.
A similar study to try to discover what cat's think, was foiled when the cats refused to participate fully in the study. Before they left, initial results showed the following thought: "Get out! The're onto us!"
Microsoft actively battled, and still does, open standards. Google pushes open standards and puts a lot of weight behind them.
Microsoft has always (and was convicted of) using it's monopoly power to force other products and services on users. Even though it has a venerable monopoly on search and online video, Google does NO SUCH THING, in fact they actively open all of their APIs on both platforms and allow ample third party integration.
Microsoft does little more than pay lip service to the open source movement, and has even gone on record to say it's a cancer. Google actively peruses open source, they publish a huge amount of their work under open source licenses, and they put a lot of money into sponsor ships through programs such as the Summer of Code.
People like to give Google a lot of flack for knowing everything about you - HOWEVER Google actually goes out of their way to allow users to have total control over their data. You can log into your Google profile at any time and export all of your data and then delete the profile, leaving no trace. You can opt into having all your data anonymized, and you can opt out of all tracking on their properties, if you choose. Can you do this with Microsoft's products? I mean it is 2012 and you can't even access your hotmail via an open protocol, let alone export your data.
Microsoft and Google have always been polar opposites. All of this recent hatred toward Google is really unjustified.. it's basically perpetuated by people who simply like to vote for the underdog.. previously Google was the underdog, now it is other companies... Google is no longer "cool" and "hip", it is "corporate" and therefore evil... well, evil is relative. Compared to Microsoft, Google is a relative saint.
This is complete bollocks. An aggressively growing company should have as close to $0 in profit as possible, so as to grow the business and share value.
It is only once a company is old and mature (and slow growing) that one expects higher dividends and less expansion.
No sane investor expects an agile rapidly growing company to stop growing and realize large profits, that is sheer stupidity.
If Google does not require that license to your content, then how in gods name will they do simple things like display thumbnail previews of documents, which by NECESSITY is a derrivitive work?
If anything, the fact that Microsoft and Dropbox *does not* have this in their agreement basically means they are violating their agreement constantly, just no one is calling them on it.
Anyone who would even propose such a thing has obviously never tried to use Siri for anything important.
So you have infected and have full control over their PC... and decide to use this power to take over... their Blu-Ray player?
Google Drive is just a re-brand of Google Docs, and thus there are a plethora of Linux clients. A quick (Google) search brought up 5 in my first page of results. SFFS looks the best from my quick perusal, offering full sync of any folder you choose, either constantly or on a schedule. Saying there are "no Linux clients" is simply false.
Airline search is actually a very complicated problem. You have a variety of complex things working in tandem
- The fact that between any two hubs you have a very large number of possible routes when you include non-direct flights. This by itself is already a non-trivial shortest-path problem.
- The fact that flight prices change multiple times daily and thus your engine and its indicies have to be fully dynamic, thus making them harder to optimize for real time queries.
- The fact that you must weigh flights on the same carrier higher than flights that are cross-carrier in your algorithms, and for cross-carrier flights allow for a longer lagtime between flights.
- The fact that certain airports need you to allow for longer lagtimes than others due to gate travel time than others, and maintain this database based on statistics
- The sheer volume of data and queries