No one here has attended a wedding or bar mitzvah? That silly dance is far from dead, which is not all that important depending on your social set but does give some doubt on the analysis.
That may be partially accurate, the large park in the center (Boston Common) was originally a public grazing area. But Boston was originally a small round island at the end of a long isthmus and many streets are spokes or perimeter arcs around the waterfront or older obstructions. Incredible amounts of landfill in the 1800s changed the borders of the city but by then core roads had been long established.
I clicked through looking for an auo-micro-composting mechanism. And auto-harvesting. Did you have ideas about handling blights, molds and other diseases?
Animators have used motion control rigs for decades, they had the same range of motion but were optimized for extremely slow but the incredibly accurate registration required for repeated animation shots. The lightness of contemporary cameras also is a significant advantage.
Does a broker of services have an explicit legal responsibility to monitor tax issues of the clients? Wouldn't that put an absurd onus onto services like craigslist?
If you had been around that generation of systems and toggled in a 30 byte program in hex or octal that loaded a paper tape or card deck that then loaded the actual OS, bootstrap seemed a reasonable term.
Best entertainment value ever: When one of the big jackpots was making the news I bought one as much to head off the conversation of why not than anything, but it triggered these incredible technocolor daydreams! I was not bored on the subway for days. Diminishing returns though, since then the occasional ticket never had the same internal result.
That is for what is essentially a 2D chip surface. Certainly layering chips has not been a viable option so far but look at the various "nano" machines that have been in science news, today a micron-sized modle truck, perhaps the next/next gen chips will have fractal surfaces that extend/configure/grow dynamically.
I wonder if anyone is looking at a hydrogen balloon/drone hybrid. Small so it's not a Hindenburg bomb, lots of failsafe, but the power/lift ratios might give it a significant mission duration.
The sailors that cross oceans single-handed use some variant of this. The reports I've read is that the first two days are quite hard to handle but once in the quite issolated routine it works for certain folks.
For coding and even designing systems minimal college is probably sufficient. Now in your spare time review some of that serious math, not just basic calc but real differential equations or the subtler bits of stats. Doing math is really tough after college.
The blogger clearly has a grasp of English composition, but how's his history or other broad academic topics that should be more pervasive in society? Wouldn't it be wonderful if Leno announce that they stopped doing the JayWalk segment because they couldn't stump anyone.
I think you'd find out most significant software has some kind of testing, but if you inherit a quarter mil lines of code, need to make one focused change, making the case to spend six months to write full coverage just does not get funded.
The guy that can negotiate a huge robot sales contract and use that to do a leveraged buyout that puts him in the CEO chair is at the top of the chain. (what a lovely reddit style chain of comments ; -)
I heard a recent song writers music playing at the grocery the other day, how much per play do you think the artist gets for that? It would make a more accurate metric than trying to compare CD sales.
From the outside it appears that Netflix is reacting late to market forces and business partners. Netflix had seemed to be growing in size and more importantly 'clout'. The 'media biz' is run on relationships, trading huge favors and controlling vertical markets. If Netflix has little influence or trading tokens then it will eventually be marginalized. Blockbuster seemed to be just just what it's title implies for a while, now it seems more like a blip.
From the small cheese manufactures I've seen it requires a long term love of the process and a resource, something like a family farm without a significant mortgage. The markup on artisan cheese seems pretty incredible.
From the comments from folks here who were hellbaned that then subsequently modified their behavior, the banning options in the software should have some easily review periodic samples of the banned users posts so they can be unbanned if the issue was a short term anomaly.
7) Just can't start that diet. I know it's a good idea, I certainly do it informally to some degree, but it's not part of the culture, building up the infrastructure is a bother, but basically just the inertia of day to day stuff holds me back. (sigh, maybe a new years resolution?)