Ronkdar

Linking to this will probably kill this guy's server, but there's an interesting flow chart of semiconductor company inheritance in the article: http://steveblank.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/fairchild-sili...

Fair enough. In that case, stipulate that "Heated banter should be expected. If you can't handle that blah blah." Basically, there's better solutions than the shotgun approach.

How exactly does one get into a launch party? Because if they're letting in 15 year-olds, sure there's going to be spiteful words. I always pictured these sorts of things having more mature crowds, but maybe I'm wrong.

My strategy, instead of excluding women, would be to make it a 21+ event (or maybe 18+), as well as kicking out anybody who doesn't abide by decency standards.

Causation or correlation, hmm. I never thought of it like that, but the idea has merit

Does a wiki article really merit posting?

Cloud cover permitting, all launches were visible from the Embry-Riddle Aero. Univ. campus in Daytona, as well as other rocket launches. If the winds blew in the right direction you still heard a decent roar, as well.

Google Wave and Buzz were published with minimal fanfare, and used a paradigm unfamiliar to Facebook users. Google+ is so familiar, and became so quickly wrapped up with everything else in your Google account, that transitioning and participating were easy.

There's a lot of major things here.

1) Tattoo is invisible. No stigma attached. 2) No blood drawn for testing for various materials 3) If processing and power get consolidated onto the phone, this will be massively portable and accessible to the masses, assuming they manufacture large quantities of the case.

Currently, the iPhone is basically just a camera chassis. You could achieve the same effect by building a case for your cheap little Canon Powershot, which has the benefit of including a removeable SD card.

I'm jealous. For the last three years, living in Daytona, I've vowed I would drop everything to see the very last launch. And then they extended the program, and the launch was in the summer while I was out of state.

Those booster rockets on the shuttle were ridiculous. The Saturns were before my time, but I've seen some Delta launches, and an Ares launch, and the shuttle put them TO SHAME.

One thing I will remember most about going to college near KSC will be watching shuttle launches. I don't think there is anything on this world that is more impressive than putting our people into space on a pillar of fire.

> just look back at the discovery of North America and foundation of the greatest, vastest, richest, and most powerful nation the world has ever seen.

As an American, I find this sentence somewhat embarrassing.

> There would’ve been no Cold War, no Hollywood, and no tea bags.

And nothing of value would be lost.

It bothers me how he thinks that education funding would have to suffer for science. Why not just defense?

Absolutely agreed with everything here. Additionally, push-ups help keep you awake. Nodding off? Drop and do 5. Gets the heart pumping again.

Einstein has advanced many ideas. Most have been demonstrated/observed, but not all. There is still considerable debate about gravity waves.

Considering I got Google+ phishing attempts 3 days after creating an account, I'd bet the same.

I find it hard to believe they would enter a house with 20 armed agents to arrest someone who did not commit an act of violence.

Am I the only one bothered by the fact that the New York Times just said "lulz" (as in LulzSec) with a straight face?

Yes, SSDs have a read/write limit, but the average time it takes to hit it is longer than the mean time to failure of HDDs.

That is... relatively scary. I feel that one of the essential features of the internet is its anonymity. Take that away and it loses some of its value.

Tiny is good. This thing is minuscule by comparison.

It's an interesting idea, but I see some major problems.

1) It's currently impossible to tie a person down to a single online entity. There's quite a lot of inertia/sentiment preventing this sort of situation. If you can't insure that each person only gets one voice, then the system breaks.

2) What happens when the Goon Swarm arrives? No, I'm serious. It's hard to troll the government as it stands today. The internet sees a lot of groups out there whose only goals are to inconvenience others. This system could actually give Anonymous etc. real world power.

This seems very difficult to drive straight, but I'm highly impressed by the speed and small size.

Open and closed both have their pros and cons. A healthy market will see a mix of both.

Word is fine. If you want to get fancy, LaTeX. Just don't distribute a .docx file. Save it as .pdf.

Calibri font (or some other simple, standard sans-serif). Black text with a single dark color for headings that will look OK when printed in grey scale.

I opt for a simple outline format. I've seen a lot of fancy designs, but I think if someone is looking for specifics, an outline is easiest. As an engineering student, I have the headings of Education, Employment, Projects, and Skills.

Keep it at one page.

Presentations are a fantastic way to make sure students know what's what. Shame is a great motivator. Put a student in front of his classmates and he'll put a lot more effort into actually mastering the subject matter.

In-class discussion is also powerful. You can see who understands the material and who doesn't. Having an active class also promotes questions during student presentations, which again helps motivate the presenter.

My problem is that I can't write on my reader. All my textbooks are filled with highlighted sentences, penned in notes, and black marker through every distracting fluff sentence. I will continue to buy paper books until I can achieve this functionality easily in digital form.

I would like for this to be a valid argument, but in at least 3/4 of the textbooks I own, the indices are such trash that they're not even worth looking at. The Table of Contents is often faster.