Wait, if you became a programmer after learning the history.. then you don't have evidence that teaching history doesn't work.
Maybe you know some people who became great programmers without knowing the history of computing? That would be some evidence (though not proof) that it's unnecessary.
1. Send one of your own executives to be target companies CEO 2. Target company's new CEO implements total dependency on your companies product 3. Target company's share price collapses as they lose market share 4. Acquire target company for cheap 5. Profit! (though possibly in this case.. loss!)
If a vast majority was like how you say the highest rated shows would be educational and news. Yet it seems the highest rated shows are entertainment based.
Hmm, it seems that humans everywhere are the same.. who'd have thought?
This is exactly the type of laws that protectionists and tea party activists want. They hate foreigners, and want to force people not to interact or trade with them.
They can use radar to determine the speed of the cars around you and warn you if there is an imminent collision. Warn as in set off alarms. In the future maybe cars.. with the assistance of a camera.. will be able to warn you if you or even someone else is headed to run a red light or a stop sign.. using image recognition and AI that incorporates data from a variety of sensors and radar. At minimum it can prepare the passengers and car for an imminent collision.
I don't understand why people think they want manufacturing jobs.. for fucks sake it's redundant and repetitious.. yet you people grow up wanting to be a mindless drone for 8+ hours of the day? Seriously. Heck, if I was king.. manufacturing jobs would likely be banned in accordance with being against human rights or something.. robots would have to do it all. People can own shares in companies instead.
If you hate working retail, you'll REALLY hate working in manufacturing.
Maybe it's for a gaming device controller? They may have built on Nintendo's Wii U idea and combined it with Kinect's voice control.
It would be amazing to control TV with a multi-touch enabled remote control.. Actually even with an iPad would be cool. And of course the Piece de Resistance would be decent natural language voice control.
"TV, record tomorrow's yankees game" "TV, record HBO in the background" "TV, remind me to change stations when Modern Marvels start" "TV, flip back to the game when the commercials end" "TV, discovery channel"... etc. etc. the possiblilities are endless.
The problem with your theory about unemployment being good is that people aren't willing to pay others to sit home & monitor the Kardashians on TV.
I agree with the utopia you describe, but civilization is not at that point yet. When we have nearly free energy, cured most diseases, and figured out regenerative medicine. Then I may agree. But today, unemployment is a bad thing.. a VERY bad thing. It's detrimental to society, most unemployed people aren't retraining.. and who can blame them.. what are they to retrain for? Entry level jobs in the USA have been wiped out thanks to unions and the minimum wage. Even the minimum wage retail jobs want experienced people.. and unions are forcing extraordinarily high wages for the select few that have jobs.
I am in favor of unions, but not when they use their power to hold companies hostage especially after they've agreed to a certain wage already.
Instead of being able to hire 3 assembly line workers for $25K, a company is forced to hire one person for $80K. These means that the factory can only produce 1/3rd the amount of cars.. and THAT in turn means the car costs 3 times higher.
Now you will say "but how can a person live on merely 25K?..that's not a living wage!".. Here's the problem 25K is not a living wage because companies are forced to higher expensive workers!.. If workers were cheaper across the board.. the cost of production would reduce across the board -- and the price of energy will be the limiting factor.
The high minimum wage and unions, as currently operating, are destroying the country. The minimum wage needs to be reduced, and unions need to adjust their attitude. Second, the price of energy needs to be reduced drastically.. by a factor of 10. America will then see a 3% unemployment rate like South Korea. Or even 2% like Singapore. Furthermore, actual quality of life will be improved.
Hmm actually corporations should do it too more.. as in a corporation can "hire" students and give them loans.. and as payback the student works for the company upon graduation for a few years..if the student doesn't wish to work for the corp they will have to pay back the loan with interest (presumably it means they got a much better competing offer).. a win a win. During the time at college they get to do corp work too.. even if it's just meeting up to discuss strategic stuff.
Why can't more banks be incentivized to give loans to people for their education? Student loans are given out in anticipation of the fact that these students will graduate and pay back the loan (directly or indirectly). Both banks and students have an interest in ensuring that students major in something that's in demand.. instead of losing 13 cents on every dollar given out as student loans. I doubt any private student loan institution is losing money on the student loans they've given out.
I bet there are loads of top athletes without this gene. I wonder if Usain Bolt has this gene.
Screening for athleticism, and "intelligence" based on today's limited knowledge of genetics and biology of athleticism is dumb, and will probably remain dumb for at least 50 to 100 years.
No, don't use knobs.. what's wrong with using a 2nd display.. with a touch based UI (put them on a second screen.. you can buy cheap QVGA touchscreens and drive it with a $25 raspberry pi computer)..use the color of the knob or slider to depict its value too (red for low, green for high, with shades in between).. don't make it an ugly 2D bitmap.. just use a nice 3D-looking button. The advantage is that you can easily make the knobs that are unneeded disappear when you are not using them. They are also easy to customize. If you need tactile feedback.. use vibration.. if the user is moving the setting beyond that recommended vibrate the screen and/or show a popup (maybe temporarily depending on what they are doing.. have the popup disappear on its own if they revert or its unnecesary etc.).
If you have a bunch of physical knobs, it's hard to tell by glancing what all the knobs are set too.. whereas if you have a second display unit that shows in colorized sliders/knobs.. it's easier.
It will open up lawsuits by people claiming that publishing in some website doesn't count as "publication". People will still get to steal inventions if they can show that stating stuff on some website isn't the same as "publication" since they can say hardly anyone would have seen it etc.
Meaning if you post an idea on a website, somebody can file a patent on it. It happened to me.
The future of TV user interfaces MUST include great voice control.. also the non voice UIs really suck.. I mean it's really difficult to do things that ought to be extremely simple.
nVidia is commited to releasing a new Tegra chip every year. The Tegra 3, which is already out is 5x faster than Tegra 2 (which beats the Mali 400 which is at 1/10th the speed of the GPU ARM announced). So basically, by the time this ARM CPU is released.. Tegra 5 will be out.. and going by the roadmap of how fast Tegra 5 will be.. it will run at least 5x times faster than ARM's chip.
I hope ARM prices this cheap dirt cheap.. so that sub $200 (off contract) phones can have it.
You're the liar, Obama never said Netanyahu was a liar. He didn't agree with the statement. If he had outright disagreed, it would spoil the relationship with France. I think Obama handled it well.
When someone invents a flying car somebody else (or maybe him) will again steal the bus manufacturer's idea and append the words flying car.
They'll probably do it with GPS too "system and method of navigation assistance... in a flying car".. then nobody can put a GPS in a flying car without paying royalty.
The future of hardware oriented garage startups is robotics. You know how Apple and Michael Dell etc. started out building computers.. well that's past. But it's still possible to build a physical product in your garage (besides software).. and that's a robotic device.
The other lie that everyone believes is that patent protection is only 20 years from filing date. This is a major lie. Since the patent office itself takes years to approve an invention the inventor can petition that the time taken to approve the patent be added on.. not only that the inventor himself can delay the actual approval of the patent and thus get even more time added on while "blaming" it on the patent office.
An example of this is the fact that there were some patents on HDTV technology that was recently granted though the filing date was 1990something.. the lawyers managed to tack on 10 years to the 20 years from filing patent expiration date.
Normally companies like Apple get about 3 to 6 years added on thanks to manipulating the patent system with their lawyers.
The best example of overbroad patenting is the fact that Apple got a patent for Mag-safe (the breakaway connector on their laptops). Magnetic breakaways had been invented in the 90s and were used on deep fryers. They took the existing work and added the words "computer or electronic device". And guess what now they have a 20year monopoly on magnetic connectors for laptops.
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Wait, if you became a programmer after learning the history .. then you don't have evidence that teaching history doesn't work.
Maybe you know some people who became great programmers without knowing the history of computing? That would be some evidence (though not proof) that it's unnecessary.
Or notebooks on which you can write the password and keep at home .. next to the power adaptor.
How to acquire a company:
1. Send one of your own executives to be target companies CEO .. loss!)
2. Target company's new CEO implements total dependency on your companies product
3. Target company's share price collapses as they lose market share
4. Acquire target company for cheap
5. Profit! (though possibly in this case
If a vast majority was like how you say the highest rated shows would be educational and news. Yet it seems the highest rated shows are entertainment based.
Hmm, it seems that humans everywhere are the same .. who'd have thought?
This is exactly the type of laws that protectionists and tea party activists want. They hate foreigners, and want to force people not to interact or trade with them.
They can use radar to determine the speed of the cars around you and warn you if there is an imminent collision. Warn as in set off alarms. In the future maybe cars .. with the assistance of a camera .. will be able to warn you if you or even someone else is headed to run a red light or a stop sign .. using image recognition and AI that incorporates data from a variety of sensors and radar. At minimum it can prepare the passengers and car for an imminent collision.
I don't understand why people think they want manufacturing jobs .. for fucks sake it's redundant and repetitious .. yet you people grow up wanting to be a mindless drone for 8+ hours of the day? Seriously. Heck, if I was king .. manufacturing jobs would likely be banned in accordance with being against human rights or something .. robots would have to do it all. People can own shares in companies instead.
If you hate working retail, you'll REALLY hate working in manufacturing.
Not just in online gaming, but in other things too.
Look, I have disagreements with Tea Party supporters too .. but to outright ban them from labs? That doesn't seem right to me.
Maybe it's for a gaming device controller? They may have built on Nintendo's Wii U idea and combined it with Kinect's voice control.
It would be amazing to control TV with a multi-touch enabled remote control .. Actually even with an iPad would be cool. And of course the Piece de Resistance would be decent natural language voice control.
"TV, record tomorrow's yankees game" "TV, record HBO in the background" "TV, remind me to change stations when Modern Marvels start" "TV, flip back to the game when the commercials end" "TV, discovery channel" ... etc. etc. the possiblilities are endless.
The problem with your theory about unemployment being good is that people aren't willing to pay others to sit home & monitor the Kardashians on TV.
I agree with the utopia you describe, but civilization is not at that point yet. When we have nearly free energy, cured most diseases, and figured out regenerative medicine. Then I may agree. But today, unemployment is a bad thing .. a VERY bad thing. It's detrimental to society, most unemployed people aren't retraining .. and who can blame them .. what are they to retrain for? Entry level jobs in the USA have been wiped out thanks to unions and the minimum wage. Even the minimum wage retail jobs want experienced people .. and unions are forcing extraordinarily high wages for the select few that have jobs.
I am in favor of unions, but not when they use their power to hold companies hostage especially after they've agreed to a certain wage already.
Instead of being able to hire 3 assembly line workers for $25K, a company is forced to hire one person for $80K. These means that the factory can only produce 1/3rd the amount of cars .. and THAT in turn means the car costs 3 times higher.
Now you will say "but how can a person live on merely 25K? ..that's not a living wage!" .. Here's the problem 25K is not a living wage because companies are forced to higher expensive workers! .. If workers were cheaper across the board.. the cost of production would reduce across the board -- and the price of energy will be the limiting factor.
The high minimum wage and unions, as currently operating, are destroying the country. The minimum wage needs to be reduced, and unions need to adjust their attitude. Second, the price of energy needs to be reduced drastically .. by a factor of 10. America will then see a 3% unemployment rate like South Korea. Or even 2% like Singapore. Furthermore, actual quality of life will be improved.
Hmm actually corporations should do it too more .. as in a corporation can "hire" students and give them loans .. and as payback the student works for the company upon graduation for a few years ..if the student doesn't wish to work for the corp they will have to pay back the loan with interest (presumably it means they got a much better competing offer) .. a win a win. During the time at college they get to do corp work too .. even if it's just meeting up to discuss strategic stuff.
Why can't more banks be incentivized to give loans to people for their education? Student loans are given out in anticipation of the fact that these students will graduate and pay back the loan (directly or indirectly). Both banks and students have an interest in ensuring that students major in something that's in demand .. instead of losing 13 cents on every dollar given out as student loans. I doubt any private student loan institution is losing money on the student loans they've given out.
Give banks a tax credit for student loans.
I bet there are loads of top athletes without this gene. I wonder if Usain Bolt has this gene.
Screening for athleticism, and "intelligence" based on today's limited knowledge of genetics and biology of athleticism is dumb, and will probably remain dumb for at least 50 to 100 years.
No, don't use knobs .. what's wrong with using a 2nd display .. with a touch based UI (put them on a second screen .. you can buy cheap QVGA touchscreens and drive it with a $25 raspberry pi computer) ..use the color of the knob or slider to depict its value too (red for low, green for high, with shades in between).. don't make it an ugly 2D bitmap .. just use a nice 3D-looking button. The advantage is that you can easily make the knobs that are unneeded disappear when you are not using them. They are also easy to customize. If you need tactile feedback .. use vibration .. if the user is moving the setting beyond that recommended vibrate the screen and/or show a popup (maybe temporarily depending on what they are doing .. have the popup disappear on its own if they revert or its unnecesary etc.).
If you have a bunch of physical knobs, it's hard to tell by glancing what all the knobs are set too .. whereas if you have a second display unit that shows in colorized sliders/knobs .. it's easier.
It will open up lawsuits by people claiming that publishing in some website doesn't count as "publication". People will still get to steal inventions if they can show that stating stuff on some website isn't the same as "publication" since they can say hardly anyone would have seen it etc.
Meaning if you post an idea on a website, somebody can file a patent on it. It happened to me.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2448376&cid=37525784
The future of TV user interfaces MUST include great voice control .. also the non voice UIs really suck .. I mean it's really difficult to do things that ought to be extremely simple.
nVidia is commited to releasing a new Tegra chip every year. The Tegra 3, which is already out is 5x faster than Tegra 2 (which beats the Mali 400 which is at 1/10th the speed of the GPU ARM announced). So basically, by the time this ARM CPU is released .. Tegra 5 will be out .. and going by the roadmap of how fast Tegra 5 will be .. it will run at least 5x times faster than ARM's chip.
I hope ARM prices this cheap dirt cheap .. so that sub $200 (off contract) phones can have it.
I wasn't an accident, this could cost Obama his re-election and maybe even some congressmen their seats.
You're the liar, Obama never said Netanyahu was a liar. He didn't agree with the statement. If he had outright disagreed, it would spoil the relationship with France. I think Obama handled it well.
I hope the money is going to charity. This Cringely guy is of bad character, I never liked him ... I really hope the money is going to some charity.
When someone invents a flying car somebody else (or maybe him) will again steal the bus manufacturer's idea and append the words flying car.
They'll probably do it with GPS too "system and method of navigation assistance ... in a flying car" .. then nobody can put a GPS in a flying car without paying royalty.
The future of hardware oriented garage startups is robotics. You know how Apple and Michael Dell etc. started out building computers .. well that's past. But it's still possible to build a physical product in your garage (besides software) .. and that's a robotic device.
The other lie that everyone believes is that patent protection is only 20 years from filing date. This is a major lie. Since the patent office itself takes years to approve an invention the inventor can petition that the time taken to approve the patent be added on.. not only that the inventor himself can delay the actual approval of the patent and thus get even more time added on while "blaming" it on the patent office.
An example of this is the fact that there were some patents on HDTV technology that was recently granted though the filing date was 1990something .. the lawyers managed to tack on 10 years to the 20 years from filing patent expiration date.
Normally companies like Apple get about 3 to 6 years added on thanks to manipulating the patent system with their lawyers.
The best example of overbroad patenting is the fact that Apple got a patent for Mag-safe (the breakaway connector on their laptops). Magnetic breakaways had been invented in the 90s and were used on deep fryers. They took the existing work and added the words "computer or electronic device". And guess what now they have a 20year monopoly on magnetic connectors for laptops.