This story refers to the Second Generation of the Raytheon Exoskeleton released at the time of the Iron Man 2 DVD back in September.
We've seen footage of the guy tossing ammo boxes and shadow boxing, but those were all the first generation suit, unless you saw this story already on Engadget, Scientific American, etc.
"Only the heir to the throne of the Kingdom of Idiots would fight a war on twelve fronts."
So lets count them
Google vs. Microsoft (in search) - I'm going to f***ing bury Google Google vs. Apple (smartphones) Google vs. Facebook (social networking/open-ness) Google vs. MPAA (YouTube) Google vs. ATT/Verizon (FCC Spectrum Auction) Google vs. Oracle (Java) Google vs. Patent Office (Patent Reform) Google vs. Author's Guild (copyright on orphan works)
The shame of it all is most if not all of those fights are worth fighting and very few others are stepping up to the plate.
I'll see your broad generalization, and raise you one anecdote.
At the point my wife met me she was sick and tired of jerks. Her whole opinion of my gamer friends is that most of them are standup guys and she'd rather me be out with them gaming, than out at club somewhere or drinking, carousing, etc.
One of my games has recently converted to Skype and Gametable, so I'm still home if she needs me. Gametable + Ventrillo saved us a couple of game nights back during the bad snow we had this winter.
The Japanese guy's research was over a year old in 2002 when I first heard about it.
Adam and Jaime's Crimes and Mythdemeanors episodes were years after it.
The primary difference I saw was that the Japanese researcher made entire fingers, and injected them with microwaved saline solution to fool the body temp portion of the test.
Adam's impressions were so thin that the users own body heat and pulse were used to beat the sensor.
On Mythbusters Jaime replaced the Photoshop step with a copier, blew up the image and enchanced the lines with a marker then shrunk them back down on the copier. Adam replaced the Gummi Bears with Ballistics Gel.
I would say Knowledge workers, not necessarily managers.
And I've made the objection quite clear for years, unless you make widgets, more hours doesn't always mean more work. So yeah there is fundamental difference in production and management.
There is a subtext in Allen's book that he works a lot with self employed folks and higher productivity usually means more time to consult, more sales, etc for them. They are the product, so they can't easily farm out the work, and so maximizing time is the best strategy available to them.
What you're saying may in fact be true in your experience.
But if you're managing your time, getting stuff in from whomever you need to get it from, working on other stuff when you've got dependencies not being met, and kicking off output on a regular basis, you're doing everything you can.
Go home at a reasonable hour if you're overloaded, there is always tomorrow. If you're working late nights and weekends something is wrong.
If you do 99 things for the boss everyday and people keep finding 150 more for you to do, you need to have an honest discussion with your manager. If the quality of your work is not an issue a smart manager will get you help. If he's not smart, he will need at least 2 people to replace you when you leave.
One of my best bosses I ever had asked for a status every week, he asked for what we did (duh) but also what our dependencies were, any real obstacles in our way, and what we had on our schedule which was really just your to do list. These were so he could try to manage the workload, and get bodies in to help IF that was what was needed. Some tasks he understood could be farmed out, others would take longer to explain than just to do them.
The Allen book really is worth reading, a lot of folks say it works for them.
When I left my last full time hands on IT job, after 5 years as the Sysadmin the shop ran so smoothly that the MBA IT manager could handle new accounts and feeding the tape changer. They hired an IT firm to do migrations and stuff over his head, he called me when the year was almost up he had 1000 hours left on the contract and wanted to know what he should do with it. When he left they just kept the IT firm on retainer for the really big stuff, a buddy of mine still does the care and feeding stuff in his spare time when he's not programming or running jobs.
So whatever is not stable in your environment, whatever requirements are eating your lunch, you need to push those off and stabilize your environment first, figure out what is eating all your time and attack it. Lay out a plan with all the issues in your environment and whatever shiny objects management wants and how to get there. If you give them regular milestones and show regular progress most management types are happy to accept your schedule because you've done the hard work. If you succeed they look good, if you fail, you can be replaced.
And yes in my 20s I did the long hours for no reward, like 3 days with little to no sleep when AD vaporized and took Exchange with it. It got me no extra money, but did get me the 10 tape changer and full Veritas suite I asked for and a "Herculean effort" on my annual review. The review came from the Dept manager who was a Psych major and understood very little of what I did, but he knew I kept the lights on.
The best thing my IT Manager did for me while I was there was literally stand in the server room doorway and keep people from asking me when email was going to be back up.
Every time I took on an IT improvement project things got better, and people noticed. Lotus Notes/Domino to Exchange, ISDN to DSL, NTBackup to Veritas, IBM servers over whiteboxes, SCO to RedHat, DSL modem to PIX then VPN and Virtual Server, 30 minute Netmeetings with clients improved sales and support after 9/11, a Macro written in VBA that did two weeks worth of hand tuning to create 30+ XY scatterplot slides in PowerPoint in 2 minutes.
email me sometime infosec@plainenglishsecurity.com
Some people suffer analysis paralysis, other suffer from the 'where do I start' problem and give up.
David Allen talks about this in Getting Things Done, and what most people have on their plates are lots of amorphous blobs of stuff, not actionable items. So the first step is to break up big blobs into little actions, then take the first action.
Another thing Allen says when most people say they don't have enough time, its not really time its how they use/don't use it that matters.
If you're willing to accept the above as true and act on that information, things will get better.
He's also got some ideas about meetings that are similar to what Randy Pausch said not in the last lecture, but his lecture on time management. Pausch didn't go to meetings if there wasn't an agenda prepared. Allen always asks for next steps 15 minutes before the meeting is over because if no one is taking action to fix the problem you'll have the same meeting over and over until someone does.
You must not realize what the Japanese Self Defense force IS. They have an Army, Navy and Air Force, it is thoroughly modern and has one of the largest military budgets in the world.
About the only thing the US hasn't sold them yet is the F-22 Raptor.
What you might be thinking of is revoking Article 9 of their constitution which says they can't use force to resolve disputes.
Also note how their forces are hamstrung by the lack of large ammo caches and aerial refueling, things US as allies could likely provide in a pinch against a common threat.
Toyota paid $50 million of a piece of Tesla pre-IPO, Toyota paid them $60 million for the Rav4 deal.
But if Toyota wanted some of the DOE money (the Tesla $465 million LOAN) they would have asked and more than likely got something more like the $5.9 Billion Ford got from the same program.
Wonks are always going about how the Cloud is going to kill the PC, and how Smartphones and Netbooks are replacing the traditional PC market.
If they are even close, which I doubt (were' just at the mainframe of the mainframe / PC cycle) then people who want more than a Smartphone or Netbook will need something.
Catering to the market of tinkerers left over after everyone else has moved to the "it just works" appliance crowd, they are exactly the kind of people who will want machines they control 100%.
Since Green Acres was a television show, I naturally assumed they were referring to the Big Bang Theory a CBS comedy about some science geeks living in California with a neighbor from Nebraska.
They make Star Trek jokes, comic book jokes, they've had Wil Weaton on the show twice.
The core of the show is stereotypical shutin intellectuals in akward social situations.
The writers say they consult with real scientists on the math/science stuff they do in the show. Its funny, I've been watching it since it began, some times its patronizing, but if we can't laugh at ourselves or stereotypes of ourselves then we have worse problems.
One of the actors just was nominated for an Emmy for his role on the show.
It also got the highest residual deals for its syndicated reruns of any TV show ever.
What does this have to do with TFA? Well I guess they are saying you wouldn't be as bad off in the boonies as these guys on the show are in Southern California.
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This story refers to the Second Generation of the Raytheon Exoskeleton released at the time of the Iron Man 2 DVD back in September.
We've seen footage of the guy tossing ammo boxes and shadow boxing, but those were all the first generation suit, unless you saw this story already on Engadget, Scientific American, etc.
The First Step is having enough ZPMs, everything else comes after that.
"Only the heir to the throne of the Kingdom of Idiots would fight a war on twelve fronts."
So lets count them
Google vs. Microsoft (in search) - I'm going to f***ing bury Google
Google vs. Apple (smartphones)
Google vs. Facebook (social networking/open-ness)
Google vs. MPAA (YouTube)
Google vs. ATT/Verizon (FCC Spectrum Auction)
Google vs. Oracle (Java)
Google vs. Patent Office (Patent Reform)
Google vs. Author's Guild (copyright on orphan works)
The shame of it all is most if not all of those fights are worth fighting and very few others are stepping up to the plate.
I wish them luck on the power armor.
Some states only require one party to be aware that the conversation is being recorded.
A simple sticker at the entrances to the house might fix anything else, this house monitored etc, audio and video will be provided to law enforcement.
The real question I have is how well the webcams do in low light, and or could you combine this with X10 controls to switch on the lights?
I almost never go for the open door button for the same reason, because I thought I had a 50% chance of seeming like a total dick.
Now that my odds are 50% helpful and 50% no effect, I might decide to button mash more often.
I'll see your broad generalization, and raise you one anecdote.
At the point my wife met me she was sick and tired of jerks. Her whole opinion of my gamer friends is that most of them are standup guys and she'd rather me be out with them gaming, than out at club somewhere or drinking, carousing, etc.
One of my games has recently converted to Skype and Gametable, so I'm still home if she needs me. Gametable + Ventrillo saved us a couple of game nights back during the bad snow we had this winter.
Anyways she's never asked me to change.
The Japanese guy's research was over a year old in 2002 when I first heard about it.
Adam and Jaime's Crimes and Mythdemeanors episodes were years after it.
The primary difference I saw was that the Japanese researcher made entire fingers, and injected them with microwaved saline solution to fool the body temp portion of the test.
Adam's impressions were so thin that the users own body heat and pulse were used to beat the sensor.
On Mythbusters Jaime replaced the Photoshop step with a copier, blew up the image and enchanced the lines with a marker then shrunk them back down on the copier. Adam replaced the Gummi Bears with Ballistics Gel.
I would say Knowledge workers, not necessarily managers.
And I've made the objection quite clear for years, unless you make widgets, more hours doesn't always mean more work. So yeah there is fundamental difference in production and management.
There is a subtext in Allen's book that he works a lot with self employed folks and higher productivity usually means more time to consult, more sales, etc for them. They are the product, so they can't easily farm out the work, and so maximizing time is the best strategy available to them.
What you're saying may in fact be true in your experience.
But if you're managing your time, getting stuff in from whomever you need to get it from, working on other stuff when you've got dependencies not being met, and kicking off output on a regular basis, you're doing everything you can.
Go home at a reasonable hour if you're overloaded, there is always tomorrow. If you're working late nights and weekends something is wrong.
If you do 99 things for the boss everyday and people keep finding 150 more for you to do, you need to have an honest discussion with your manager. If the quality of your work is not an issue a smart manager will get you help. If he's not smart, he will need at least 2 people to replace you when you leave.
One of my best bosses I ever had asked for a status every week, he asked for what we did (duh) but also what our dependencies were, any real obstacles in our way, and what we had on our schedule which was really just your to do list. These were so he could try to manage the workload, and get bodies in to help IF that was what was needed. Some tasks he understood could be farmed out, others would take longer to explain than just to do them.
Sorry about your boss issues.
The Allen book really is worth reading, a lot of folks say it works for them.
When I left my last full time hands on IT job, after 5 years as the Sysadmin the shop ran so smoothly that the MBA IT manager could handle new accounts and feeding the tape changer. They hired an IT firm to do migrations and stuff over his head, he called me when the year was almost up he had 1000 hours left on the contract and wanted to know what he should do with it. When he left they just kept the IT firm on retainer for the really big stuff, a buddy of mine still does the care and feeding stuff in his spare time when he's not programming or running jobs.
So whatever is not stable in your environment, whatever requirements are eating your lunch, you need to push those off and stabilize your environment first, figure out what is eating all your time and attack it. Lay out a plan with all the issues in your environment and whatever shiny objects management wants and how to get there. If you give them regular milestones and show regular progress most management types are happy to accept your schedule because you've done the hard work. If you succeed they look good, if you fail, you can be replaced.
And yes in my 20s I did the long hours for no reward, like 3 days with little to no sleep when AD vaporized and took Exchange with it. It got me no extra money, but did get me the 10 tape changer and full Veritas suite I asked for and a "Herculean effort" on my annual review. The review came from the Dept manager who was a Psych major and understood very little of what I did, but he knew I kept the lights on.
The best thing my IT Manager did for me while I was there was literally stand in the server room doorway and keep people from asking me when email was going to be back up.
Every time I took on an IT improvement project things got better, and people noticed. Lotus Notes/Domino to Exchange, ISDN to DSL, NTBackup to Veritas, IBM servers over whiteboxes, SCO to RedHat, DSL modem to PIX then VPN and Virtual Server, 30 minute Netmeetings with clients improved sales and support after 9/11, a Macro written in VBA that did two weeks worth of hand tuning to create 30+ XY scatterplot slides in PowerPoint in 2 minutes.
email me sometime infosec@plainenglishsecurity.com
Some people suffer analysis paralysis, other suffer from the 'where do I start' problem and give up.
David Allen talks about this in Getting Things Done, and what most people have on their plates are lots of amorphous blobs of stuff, not actionable items. So the first step is to break up big blobs into little actions, then take the first action.
Another thing Allen says when most people say they don't have enough time, its not really time its how they use/don't use it that matters.
If you're willing to accept the above as true and act on that information, things will get better.
He's also got some ideas about meetings that are similar to what Randy Pausch said not in the last lecture, but his lecture on time management. Pausch didn't go to meetings if there wasn't an agenda prepared. Allen always asks for next steps 15 minutes before the meeting is over because if no one is taking action to fix the problem you'll have the same meeting over and over until someone does.
Or do what the leader of Seal Team Six did.
Supposedly he named the team 6 to create the false impression there were 6 seal teams when the number was less.
So couldn't you just inflate the numbers of your World Dominating machines... heck the first 6 digits could be a model number or something.
Do you remember the Google Quantum Powered Image Search
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18272-google-demonstrates-quantum-computer-image-search.html
Some folks have questions about D-Waves technology, but there are people at Google who have been writing applications for Quantium computers.
Maybe its a good thing people shoot mainly digital today.
Would a real film photographer need a lead lined box for his film now?
You must not realize what the Japanese Self Defense force IS. They have an Army, Navy and Air Force, it is thoroughly modern and has one of the largest military budgets in the world.
About the only thing the US hasn't sold them yet is the F-22 Raptor.
What you might be thinking of is revoking Article 9 of their constitution which says they can't use force to resolve disputes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Self-Defense_Forces
Also note how their forces are hamstrung by the lack of large ammo caches and aerial refueling, things US as allies could likely provide in a pinch against a common threat.
Not really.
Toyota paid $50 million of a piece of Tesla pre-IPO, Toyota paid them $60 million for the Rav4 deal.
But if Toyota wanted some of the DOE money (the Tesla $465 million LOAN) they would have asked and more than likely got something more like the $5.9 Billion Ford got from the same program.
http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/index.cfm/go/news.display/id/18900
Well if you ever read the interview with Tesla's CTO on why they had to re-engineer everything from AC Propulsion and stop using their parts it was.
AC Propulsion's parts were ruinously expensive and no two of the same part were exactly the same.
http://www.technologyreview.com/tr35/Profile.aspx?trid=742
Who knows if you'll come back to read this, but.
Tesla bought the plant for $42 million, and another $15 million in equipment and parts.
http://www.egmcartech.com/2010/08/25/tesla-motors-to-pay-15-million-for-nummi-equipment-and-parts/
I'm just wondering if there are any traditional control freak agencies that would welcome such an endorsement?
The theory being they could access all the specs giving them more faith in the system itself.
Maybe the FSF needs to find a congresscritter who is scared of pre-hacked computers/servers/routers/switches with components made in China.
Wonks are always going about how the Cloud is going to kill the PC, and how Smartphones and Netbooks are replacing the traditional PC market.
If they are even close, which I doubt (were' just at the mainframe of the mainframe / PC cycle) then people who want more than a Smartphone or Netbook will need something.
Catering to the market of tinkerers left over after everyone else has moved to the "it just works" appliance crowd, they are exactly the kind of people who will want machines they control 100%.
Since Green Acres was a television show, I naturally assumed they were referring to the Big Bang Theory a CBS comedy about some science geeks living in California with a neighbor from Nebraska.
They make Star Trek jokes, comic book jokes, they've had Wil Weaton on the show twice.
The core of the show is stereotypical shutin intellectuals in akward social situations.
The writers say they consult with real scientists on the math/science stuff they do in the show. Its funny, I've been watching it since it began, some times its patronizing, but if we can't laugh at ourselves or stereotypes of ourselves then we have worse problems.
One of the actors just was nominated for an Emmy for his role on the show.
http://www.cbs.com/primetime/big_bang_theory/
It also got the highest residual deals for its syndicated reruns of any TV show ever.
What does this have to do with TFA? Well I guess they are saying you wouldn't be as bad off in the boonies as these guys on the show are in Southern California.
At first they just mashed the bees, then used mortars and pestles, but they found the best bee puree for testing came from a coffee grinder.
If we had Embryonic stem cells say from Cord blood or some other conflict free source.
Would the biological signals work the same on them to become muscle, nerve or organ replacement tissue?