With a closed product, the employees have some incentive to come up with the best possible product because bonuses could hinge on good sales and because any team member could get rewarded even more if they came up with a brilliant innovation which set the product apart from the field.
Adderall's honorary degree comes in the wake of OxyContin's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame earlier this year, and Valium's recent Academy Award for its performance in Robert Downey, Jr.
That is actually a very good frame of mind for those that actually make cars.
That's not even remotely true. Car makers' primary goal is to make money selling cars, and they'll best do that by pandering to, rather than dictating, their customers' opinions about 'what cars should be about'.
I think power technology is gonna be the easy part here. Big thick (think fancy home-audio ribbon cables) copper ring around the outer perimeter of the device, with 50 or 100 turns of spiral around the outside. Suddenly every movement through the device's Z-axis generates magnetic flux. Mobile devices might self-charge if they consume little enough and the EM environment is noisy enough. The recharging 'docking station' could just be a little induction coil that you leave the device on top of or near.
As for actual on-device power storage, I think that embedding capacitors onto a layered, laminar surface is gonna be trivial. Most capacitors just are layered laminar surfaces. For higher-capacity chemical power storage, though, you're gonna have to go "off-sheet."
Though I agree with the comment further up about how this whole thing is ill-advised and how a gamer is not the same as a proto-coder, I also want to second this.
Unreal coding is an excellent way to get your feet wet, in an environment where you can achieve cool, rewarding effects pretty early in the learning process(A simple 'gravity mod' is about four lines of code!). Not to mention Uscript's strong resemblance to Java makes the skills pretty instantly translatable to other applications.
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This was an incredible recovery. Mods, reward this plz.
New rule, everyone. Remarking that there's an obvious joke to be made, counts as making that joke.
In other news, the health minister is no longer invited to any parties hosted by Costa Rica's total joke neighbours.
That's what we're thinking about Zuckerberg.
oh no i've said too much
Okay, fuck it the second time around. You're goin' down, buddy.
I'm definitely not arguing against this comment's moderation status. -1 troll it is, and -1 troll it should stay.
But it's also kinda insightful.
that can exist in an environment very much unlike that of the majority of this planet
(here, 'constantly' means 'in sporadic bursts spaced ~5million years apart')
With a closed product, the employees have some incentive to come up with the best possible product because bonuses could hinge on good sales and because any team member could get rewarded even more if they came up with a brilliant innovation which set the product apart from the field.
Dan Pink says it doesn't work that way:
http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation.html
I have a really novel Idea, you guys.
What if they implemented this as a feature you can turn on?
And if it ever ceases to be factory condition, that just means it's time to buy the next model up?
Where are the equivalent virii in 2010?
Storm.
Come to think of it, maybe Yale backed out of the Gmail deal because Google staff were running Windows.
Adderall's honorary degree comes in the wake of OxyContin's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame earlier this year, and Valium's recent Academy Award for its performance in Robert Downey, Jr.
As long as you're sure the entire market will share your enlightened, common-sense point of view!
Remember, in this metaphor you're not dictating an individual car-buying decision, but the decision about what sorts of cars ought to be manufactured.
That is actually a very good frame of mind for those that actually make cars.
That's not even remotely true. Car makers' primary goal is to make money selling cars, and they'll best do that by pandering to, rather than dictating, their customers' opinions about 'what cars should be about'.
I don't believe so, but you can definitely get third-party breadboarding addons for Lego. I'm not sure whether they're licensed merch or not.
Pseudocode.
(where "automatically" = "delegated to PFY intern.")
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We all would. That is why Earth is doomed.
I got three words for you: inverse square law.
If it takes putting a phone into the hive, then we're not really testing the effects of cellphones(as they are used IRL) on bees anymore.
Yes, all of that is true.
But when have we ever let things like that trump small technological conveniences?
Now there's a "layered laminar surface". Eugh.
I think power technology is gonna be the easy part here. Big thick (think fancy home-audio ribbon cables) copper ring around the outer perimeter of the device, with 50 or 100 turns of spiral around the outside. Suddenly every movement through the device's Z-axis generates magnetic flux. Mobile devices might self-charge if they consume little enough and the EM environment is noisy enough. The recharging 'docking station' could just be a little induction coil that you leave the device on top of or near.
As for actual on-device power storage, I think that embedding capacitors onto a layered, laminar surface is gonna be trivial. Most capacitors just are layered laminar surfaces. For higher-capacity chemical power storage, though, you're gonna have to go "off-sheet."
Though I agree with the comment further up about how this whole thing is ill-advised and how a gamer is not the same as a proto-coder, I also want to second this.
Unreal coding is an excellent way to get your feet wet, in an environment where you can achieve cool, rewarding effects pretty early in the learning process(A simple 'gravity mod' is about four lines of code!). Not to mention Uscript's strong resemblance to Java makes the skills pretty instantly translatable to other applications.