Try a YA (Young Adult) novel like Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi. I'd also recommend Ringworld by Larry Niven.
If he ever gets into hard-core science fiction then try Alastair Reynolds and the Revelation Space series.
The level of detail in the article is really striking, and suggests that the author talked to people who were closely involved in the decision-making process.
On the other hand, "The Lord of the Rings" also has a lot of detail...
All Obama did was continue with Bush's program, but it sounds like he's trying to take a lot of the credit,... but then turn around and take credit for a program that he [Bush] started and put into action.
It depends on how successful the program was before and after. Certainly most Missions were far from Accomplished even by the end of the Bush administration and *may* be/have been even more effective/productive during the Obama administration. Some of this may be due to things outside either President's control. For example, drone attacks are more abundant and effective now, but that's due to the increased maturity of the technology as well as the increased use and experience of the operators.
Walmart used to be a decent company. Now, it is nothing more than a machine that forces crappier and crappier products and services upon the unsuspecting and uncaring people.
Dude, I'm pretty sure that's specifically Walmart's business model - cheap for cheap.
I am pretty sure that the majority of people on Slashdot agree that being able to better understand how the various bills being considered by Congress interact would be good for this country.
Good for us and the country, bad for Congress critters.
...the Internet will sense UN control as damage and route around it. Besides, try as they may, it's not as if China, Russia, Iran, and Saudi Arabia can completely control access to the Internet now. Seriously, even "The World" can't seem to keep people from getting to The Pirate Bay.
I plan to buy a house in cash eventually, I will rent a tiny place until then. I might just continue to rent the tiny place though, probably cheaper than the taxes on a house anyway.
The quality of that idea depends heavily on the amount of the rents vs. mortgages in your area, adjusted for apartment/house size, etc... The rent includes part of the landlord's property taxes, but nothing is tax-deductible by you. With a mortgage on your own property, the mortgage interest and property taxes are tax-deductible by you and you actually own something in the end.
Renting make a lot of sense if you cannot be tied to a location, don't have any savings or may need that savings for something else, but there are reasons justifying a mortgage vs. waiting to buy with cash. Sure the money you're saving is making a *small* amount of interest, but it's not really that significant and is probably losing value WRT inflation, etc...
My suggestion, and what I did, is buy a house and pay extra on your mortgage every month from the start. You'd be very surprised by how much difference $200 extra a month can make on the principle. I paid off my 30-year mortgage in 18 years.
to 'provide the highest security for the millions of customers conducting banking and insurance activities online.'
And by "customers" they mean the banks and insurance companies.
While that may not be a "bad thing", I'm sure there will be instances when the best interest of the banks/insurers are in direct conflict with their customers - you know "us", the internet users - and I'm dubious as to how impartial the American Bankers Association and the Financial Services Roundtable will be.
for any calculations on a scale less than 10 miles
Of course, many, many uses for extremely accurate ballistic equations are on a scale exceeding 10 miles... For example, the 16 inch guns on WWII battleships had a range of 26 miles.
He decides to go out in one of the extra-vehicular pods to make a closer inspection of the monolith. Programmed for just such an occurrence, the monolith reveals its true purpose as a star gate when it opens and pulls in Bowman's pod. Before he vanishes, Mission control hears him proclaim: "The thing's hollow—it goes on forever—and—oh my God—it's full of annoying commercials!"
The team from Microsoft Research has already been working with the Bing team to help Bing accelerate its search results, and there are plans to use it in other Microsoft technologies.
So Bing is going to scrape their search results from Google *and* other search engines?:-)
Note that there are numerous objections to this opinion piece (probably by other Wall Street psychopaths - ha!) for using under-representative source data and an incorrect interpretation of that data - even after a correction to the article - and those objections may all be accurate, but the article somehow seems at least plausible anyway, if you ask me.
Only if their prints are on file. If everyone is chipped at birth, their chip ID will certainly be on file from birth.
Yes, yes. It's not like we could finger (or foot) print everyone at birth... Must use electronic chip or tattoo a bar-code - surely neither of those could ever be altered by the individual or faked by someone else. As for military personnel, I'm sure they've been finger-printed - at least anyone with a security clearance has.
I used to work with a team of developers, but for reasons outside the scope of this question, my boss and I are the only ones left. My boss says that our new strategy is to use outsourced developers to do the 'monkey work' for us.
I image that your boss's description of the work previously done by other members of your development team as "monkey work" reflects his feelings not only for the importance of that work but the (former) employees as well and explains why it's now just the two of you. I recommend finding another job before he decides you're a monkey too.
Killing an individual would be better for society than letting an individual kill bunches of individuals.
It depends entirely on the individuals involved. This may be unpopular, but all (human) life is not equal. I'm a software engineer and my wife was an - excellent, awarded - English/Gifted teacher. She died in 2006 of a brain tumor and her death is a far, far greater loss to this world than mine will ever be.
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Perhaps it's just me, but when I'm not at work, or traveling for work, it's none of my company's fucking business where I am.
I'm not a big fan of fantasy, but he might like The Golden Compass.
...wearing that through a TSA checkpoint and onto a plane.
Could it be used on board an electric vehicle to provide power in lieu of a battery?
The level of detail in the article is really striking, and suggests that the author talked to people who were closely involved in the decision-making process.
On the other hand, "The Lord of the Rings" also has a lot of detail...
All Obama did was continue with Bush's program, but it sounds like he's trying to take a lot of the credit, ... but then turn around and take credit for a program that he [Bush] started and put into action.
It depends on how successful the program was before and after. Certainly most Missions were far from Accomplished even by the end of the Bush administration and *may* be/have been even more effective/productive during the Obama administration. Some of this may be due to things outside either President's control. For example, drone attacks are more abundant and effective now, but that's due to the increased maturity of the technology as well as the increased use and experience of the operators.
Walmart used to be a decent company. Now, it is nothing more than a machine that forces crappier and crappier products and services upon the unsuspecting and uncaring people.
Dude, I'm pretty sure that's specifically Walmart's business model - cheap for cheap.
I am pretty sure that the majority of people on Slashdot agree that being able to better understand how the various bills being considered by Congress interact would be good for this country.
Good for us and the country, bad for Congress critters.
...the Internet will sense UN control as damage and route around it. Besides, try as they may, it's not as if China, Russia, Iran, and Saudi Arabia can completely control access to the Internet now. Seriously, even "The World" can't seem to keep people from getting to The Pirate Bay.
I plan to buy a house in cash eventually, I will rent a tiny place until then. I might just continue to rent the tiny place though, probably cheaper than the taxes on a house anyway.
The quality of that idea depends heavily on the amount of the rents vs. mortgages in your area, adjusted for apartment/house size, etc... The rent includes part of the landlord's property taxes, but nothing is tax-deductible by you. With a mortgage on your own property, the mortgage interest and property taxes are tax-deductible by you and you actually own something in the end.
Renting make a lot of sense if you cannot be tied to a location, don't have any savings or may need that savings for something else, but there are reasons justifying a mortgage vs. waiting to buy with cash. Sure the money you're saving is making a *small* amount of interest, but it's not really that significant and is probably losing value WRT inflation, etc...
My suggestion, and what I did, is buy a house and pay extra on your mortgage every month from the start. You'd be very surprised by how much difference $200 extra a month can make on the principle. I paid off my 30-year mortgage in 18 years.
to 'provide the highest security for the millions of customers conducting banking and insurance activities online.'
And by "customers" they mean the banks and insurance companies.
While that may not be a "bad thing", I'm sure there will be instances when the best interest of the banks/insurers are in direct conflict with their customers - you know "us", the internet users - and I'm dubious as to how impartial the American Bankers Association and the Financial Services Roundtable will be.
Interestingly, many images of William of Ockham depict him as clean shaven, whereas the contrary would have been simpler...
for any calculations on a scale less than 10 miles
Of course, many, many uses for extremely accurate ballistic equations are on a scale exceeding 10 miles... For example, the 16 inch guns on WWII battleships had a range of 26 miles.
It's full of annoying commercials?
"2001 A Space Odyssey" - the re-write:
He decides to go out in one of the extra-vehicular pods to make a closer inspection of the monolith. Programmed for just such an occurrence, the monolith reveals its true purpose as a star gate when it opens and pulls in Bowman's pod. Before he vanishes, Mission control hears him proclaim: "The thing's hollow—it goes on forever—and—oh my God—it's full of annoying commercials!"
Free markets and black swans are a bitch, aren't they?
The "rich and powerful" are all for free markets, as long as they don't interfere with their own profits or (usually outdated) business models.
...being able to skip it altogether and not be able to see a damn thing...
MythTV does commercial skipping exactly that - for well behaved shows anyway - otherwise it's close to that.
The project is called iFab.
Cue Apple trademark lawsuit in 3... 2... 1... :-)
The team from Microsoft Research has already been working with the Bing team to help Bing accelerate its search results, and there are plans to use it in other Microsoft technologies.
So Bing is going to scrape their search results from Google *and* other search engines? :-)
Sadly, both groups may work on Wall Street: Capitalists and Other Psychopaths.
Note that there are numerous objections to this opinion piece (probably by other Wall Street psychopaths - ha!) for using under-representative source data and an incorrect interpretation of that data - even after a correction to the article - and those objections may all be accurate, but the article somehow seems at least plausible anyway, if you ask me.
Only if their prints are on file. If everyone is chipped at birth, their chip ID will certainly be on file from birth.
Yes, yes. It's not like we could finger (or foot) print everyone at birth... Must use electronic chip or tattoo a bar-code - surely neither of those could ever be altered by the individual or faked by someone else. As for military personnel, I'm sure they've been finger-printed - at least anyone with a security clearance has.
Some of the best ideas I've come up with happened in the shower, usually after a long day of working on a project.
Stop "working on your project" in the shower, you'll go blind.
Not to be bitchy, but people using the word "meme" - as well as the phrase "the cloud" - should be dragged out back and beaten. Stop it.
Zuck has ... made it very clear he still doesn't give a crap about making money (and probably never will).
For himself or others? Because it's pretty clear that he is making/will make a boatload of money.
I used to work with a team of developers, but for reasons outside the scope of this question, my boss and I are the only ones left. My boss says that our new strategy is to use outsourced developers to do the 'monkey work' for us.
I image that your boss's description of the work previously done by other members of your development team as "monkey work" reflects his feelings not only for the importance of that work but the (former) employees as well and explains why it's now just the two of you. I recommend finding another job before he decides you're a monkey too.
Killing an individual would be better for society than letting an individual kill bunches of individuals.
It depends entirely on the individuals involved. This may be unpopular, but all (human) life is not equal. I'm a software engineer and my wife was an - excellent, awarded - English/Gifted teacher. She died in 2006 of a brain tumor and her death is a far, far greater loss to this world than mine will ever be.
General Motors spends around $40 million per year on maintaining a Facebook profile and around a quarter of that goes into paid advertising.
So $10 million for paid adverts and $30 million to maintain a Facebook profile for a year - seriously? WTF