Huawei is heavily recruiting software developers in the Silicon Valley right now. They contacted me. I did not seriously consider it. In this picture, I identify more with the man in front of the tank than I do with the guys driving the tanks. To spend my life working for Huawei would figuratively put me behind the controls of the tanks.
I'm a supporter of efforts like the development of these windows. The biggest difference in this world between the haves and the have nots is access to affordable energy. If you get that, you get clean water, refrigeration, air conditioning, transportation, etc.
This is why I am in favor of technology developments that focus on energy generation. I'm against using state power to artificially drive conservation because most of the time that really means making access to energy more expensive. The end result of that sort of conservation means that only rich people will have access to energy and the gaps between rich and poor will get wider. No thanks.
No, sorry. Your analogy is bogus. Nuclear accidents have global impacts. They have detected Fukushima radiation in British Columbia. Chernobyl impacted all of Northern Europe. One blonde chick.... stands alone.
In order to safely operate today's generation of nuclear fission reactors, you need the operators and regulators to be transparent and competent. The folks running this Fukushima travesty are neither transparent nor competent.
Therefore I am forced to conclude that the human race in 2012 does not have the moral credibility to be trusted to operate nuclear fission reactors.
This sounds like an interesting energy storage system. Storage is exactly what is needed to make solar energy generation practical for use when the sun is not shining at night. That idea gets me excited.
Generating the energy to fill the storage with compressed air by burning Natural Gas (NG) seems stupid to me. It is more efficient to just leave the energy stored as NG. Converting that to compressed air and then again to electricity adds a middle step that adds inefficiency.
My neighbor has a big antenna for his hamm obsession. Is that thing emitting a strong signal than my smart meter? Should I fear and then smote his antenna?
Hey folks, most of the world does not care about 3 year old operating systems. Innovation marches on at an exponential pace. It is not fair to demand that Microsoft jump off that fast track to support the vanishing legacy. If they do, then you can bet their competitors will not.
Should I also upgrade your wall mounted rotary phone to an IPhone 5? Should I upgrade your Model-T to a Tesla Roadster? Geez!
> I don't really think the west has the moral highgrounds to be preaching to anybody right now.
Well, I'm not a metaphor for the west. I'm a citizen of earth. If I see injustice, I call it out. I'm not going to look the other way about Chinese corruption just because it also exists in Canada.
Building and maintaining nuclear power plants for safe operations requires a transparent and incorruptible regulatory system. China's ongoing official dishonesty and systemic corruption leaves them without the moral authority to run a safe nukes program.
If a guy walks into a bar with an IPad, there is a good chance he'll walk out with a hot chick on his arm. That won't happen if he walks in with a Surface. This is why this is an uphill battle for Microsoft.
We need nuclear power generator technology that can be safely run by corrupt liars. Most government and regulatory agencies are run by corrupt liars, as we saw in the handling of the Fukushima crisis.
Every discussion of Chinese censorship inevitably leads to posts about how the USA should get off it's high horse because it is just as bad. It is true that the USA has committed atrocities. Kent State, Jim Crow killings, Dresden, etc. The difference however, is that the USA reflects on its past in a much more transparent way than China does today. Come on China, it has been 23 years. Let's discuss this in an open way. You won't be able to hide it forever, especially because most Americans saw a lot of Tiananmen on TV.
You worked your ass off in school and in your career to land the job you have today at SAP. All of that hard work, just so you can work for this guy. If I worked at SAP, I'd want a full accounting so I could decide if the management team that promoted this guy was rotten to to core. If so, there are plenty of other places that need your skills.
Let's face it, economic social justice requires us to enable the billion+ people around the world today who do not have access to personal transportation (like we do) to gain that access. Anything else is unjust. Breakthroughs like this one are a step in that direction.
Your new job is to manage outsourced developers doing 'monkey work'. They will do it badly and you will have to pick up the pieces. There is a huge shortage of strong developer talent out there. Therefore you should have little trouble finding a new job that is a better alignment with your passions. If it were me, I'd be looking to leave the company you are at now.
Pfft. A well-set-up Linux machine is the friendliest thing that the non-geek ever laid trheir hands on. If my sweet parents were still around, I'd be happy to set them up with a Mint machine that i had set up for them (and eliminating all of the setup choices in the process).
Could they use that to rip their old audio CD collection and sync it to their iPod? That's what mine are doing.
I'm the tech support person for my parents. They are smart people but I know a lot about Linux and I sure as hell am not going to be leaving a desktop Linux machine under their Christmas tree when I consider the support calls that would be coming my way. They love their Mac and supporting them on the Mac is easy. Most computer users are like my parents. They are not passionate geeks like me. Linux is for servers and passionate geeks.
Personally, I hope that we find our way to a world of common abundance and tolerance among all societies. Then we can stop treating weapons that have the ability to wipe out mankind as like they are some kind of gee whiz project from Popular Mechanics. I'd rather we all spent our time making love and going to our kids little league baseball games.
Our current energy policy subsidizes pumping crude oil from the ground. The subsidy consists of a massive influx of American military forces into the Middle East. Imagine life without that. Before you say it is too expensive, make sure you are comparing the cost of this promising new technology to the current costs of war.
Distributors come and go, but mankind's demand for the art of the story is enduring. This is one more iteration of the chain of distributors that started with cave painters.
Is $4B really that hard to come up with for this project? That sounds a lot cheaper than the constant state of war we find ourselves in today in the Middle East to keep the oil supply flowing.
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Huawei is heavily recruiting software developers in the Silicon Valley right now. They contacted me. I did not seriously consider it. In this picture, I identify more with the man in front of the tank than I do with the guys driving the tanks. To spend my life working for Huawei would figuratively put me behind the controls of the tanks.
Hire adults and let them self manage how much time they need off. They won't abuse it, they'll love you, and you can avoid this complex project.
I'm a supporter of efforts like the development of these windows. The biggest difference in this world between the haves and the have nots is access to affordable energy. If you get that, you get clean water, refrigeration, air conditioning, transportation, etc.
This is why I am in favor of technology developments that focus on energy generation. I'm against using state power to artificially drive conservation because most of the time that really means making access to energy more expensive. The end result of that sort of conservation means that only rich people will have access to energy and the gaps between rich and poor will get wider. No thanks.
No, sorry. Your analogy is bogus. Nuclear accidents have global impacts. They have detected Fukushima radiation in British Columbia. Chernobyl impacted all of Northern Europe. One blonde chick.... stands alone.
In order to safely operate today's generation of nuclear fission reactors, you need the operators and regulators to be transparent and competent. The folks running this Fukushima travesty are neither transparent nor competent.
Therefore I am forced to conclude that the human race in 2012 does not have the moral credibility to be trusted to operate nuclear fission reactors.
This sounds like an interesting energy storage system. Storage is exactly what is needed to make solar energy generation practical for use when the sun is not shining at night. That idea gets me excited.
Generating the energy to fill the storage with compressed air by burning Natural Gas (NG) seems stupid to me. It is more efficient to just leave the energy stored as NG. Converting that to compressed air and then again to electricity adds a middle step that adds inefficiency.
My neighbor has a big antenna for his hamm obsession. Is that thing emitting a strong signal than my smart meter? Should I fear and then smote his antenna?
How does this filter work on bacteria and viruses? The standard of living in the 3rd world would go up dramatically with free access to clean water.
Hey folks, most of the world does not care about 3 year old operating systems. Innovation marches on at an exponential pace. It is not fair to demand that Microsoft jump off that fast track to support the vanishing legacy. If they do, then you can bet their competitors will not.
Should I also upgrade your wall mounted rotary phone to an IPhone 5? Should I upgrade your Model-T to a Tesla Roadster? Geez!
> I don't really think the west has the moral highgrounds to be preaching to anybody right now.
Well, I'm not a metaphor for the west. I'm a citizen of earth. If I see injustice, I call it out. I'm not going to look the other way about Chinese corruption just because it also exists in Canada.
Building and maintaining nuclear power plants for safe operations requires a transparent and incorruptible regulatory system. China's ongoing official dishonesty and systemic corruption leaves them without the moral authority to run a safe nukes program.
The modern high tech world is global and borderless. Today's version of national governments cannot reverse that trend for you.
If a guy walks into a bar with an IPad, there is a good chance he'll walk out with a hot chick on his arm. That won't happen if he walks in with a Surface. This is why this is an uphill battle for Microsoft.
We need nuclear power generator technology that can be safely run by corrupt liars. Most government and regulatory agencies are run by corrupt liars, as we saw in the handling of the Fukushima crisis.
Every discussion of Chinese censorship inevitably leads to posts about how the USA should get off it's high horse because it is just as bad. It is true that the USA has committed atrocities. Kent State, Jim Crow killings, Dresden, etc. The difference however, is that the USA reflects on its past in a much more transparent way than China does today. Come on China, it has been 23 years. Let's discuss this in an open way. You won't be able to hide it forever, especially because most Americans saw a lot of Tiananmen on TV.
You worked your ass off in school and in your career to land the job you have today at SAP. All of that hard work, just so you can work for this guy. If I worked at SAP, I'd want a full accounting so I could decide if the management team that promoted this guy was rotten to to core. If so, there are plenty of other places that need your skills.
He's an executive at SAP and now he's going to prison for stealing $30K from Target? There must be more to this story.
Let's face it, economic social justice requires us to enable the billion+ people around the world today who do not have access to personal transportation (like we do) to gain that access. Anything else is unjust. Breakthroughs like this one are a step in that direction.
Your new job is to manage outsourced developers doing 'monkey work'. They will do it badly and you will have to pick up the pieces. There is a huge shortage of strong developer talent out there. Therefore you should have little trouble finding a new job that is a better alignment with your passions. If it were me, I'd be looking to leave the company you are at now.
Pfft. A well-set-up Linux machine is the friendliest thing that the non-geek ever laid trheir hands on. If my sweet parents were still around, I'd be happy to set them up with a Mint machine that i had set up for them (and eliminating all of the setup choices in the process).
Could they use that to rip their old audio CD collection and sync it to their iPod? That's what mine are doing.
I'm the tech support person for my parents. They are smart people but I know a lot about Linux and I sure as hell am not going to be leaving a desktop Linux machine under their Christmas tree when I consider the support calls that would be coming my way. They love their Mac and supporting them on the Mac is easy. Most computer users are like my parents. They are not passionate geeks like me. Linux is for servers and passionate geeks.
Sure, it's a great plane. Yadda, yadda.
Personally, I hope that we find our way to a world of common abundance and tolerance among all societies. Then we can stop treating weapons that have the ability to wipe out mankind as like they are some kind of gee whiz project from Popular Mechanics. I'd rather we all spent our time making love and going to our kids little league baseball games.
Our current energy policy subsidizes pumping crude oil from the ground. The subsidy consists of a massive influx of American military forces into the Middle East. Imagine life without that. Before you say it is too expensive, make sure you are comparing the cost of this promising new technology to the current costs of war.
Distributors come and go, but mankind's demand for the art of the story is enduring. This is one more iteration of the chain of distributors that started with cave painters.
Nurture the artists. They are life.
Is $4B really that hard to come up with for this project? That sounds a lot cheaper than the constant state of war we find ourselves in today in the Middle East to keep the oil supply flowing.