There is a great article on how you shouldn't get a degree in the 'hot' career field because most likely by the time you graduate it'll have been devalued. I disagree since generally that takes more than 5 years. But the point is dead on.

The reason tech pays well is because a bunch of geeks got lucky. Tech pays well *because* of the social status was 0 for programmers. Social status was so low for programmers that almost nobody pursued it. So when suddenly there was demand for tens of millions of skilled workers in a field that was ostracized the handful of people who accidentally happened to have the skillset in spite of the lack of social status made a shit ton of money and gained a lot of social status.

By the time we get the gender balance equal there'll no longer be any money to go along with it because it'll no longer be a lack of labor.

I think everyone should have strong skill with technology, technology isn't going away--it is a new form of literacy. But if someone is in highschool today or even worse as the OP is talking about, play toys for toddlers--don't expect a high paying job for knowing how to program just like knowing how to read and write is no longer a shortcut to a better paying job out of highschool.

Notice how nobody complained about the lack of women being pushed into computer programming 20 years ago. Why? Because it was a low paying job with no social status. Now in retrospect that it happened to explode it's something that should have been important 20 years ago. No shit. Hindsight is 20/20. But it's a bit like saying that it's unfair that a bunch of comic book nerds have 1st edition Superman comics and it's unfair that they're making all this money. Yeah... I wish I had a 1st edition million dollar comic book--but they deserve every penny for being uber nerds with no promise of reward for half a century. It's ultimately a lottery.

Trying to predict though the winner is ultimately a losing strategy because even if you could pick as soon as you made the magic winning formula public then you would have to share the pot with 10 million other people. It's like stock picking, you can't successfully pick stocks and if it was possible then everyone else would also pick that stock and you still wouldn't get rich. A nerdy low-status activity won a bunch of geeks a lot of money. But as soon as everyone starts doing it (and they will) the money and the status will disappear.

Yeah I got into a debate with my Fiancee who is a professional dancer about Homeopathy because she insisted that she took a homeopathic medicine regularly for joint pain that worked great and I insisted it was just snake oil. She showed me the bottle and I read the ingredients list and it had Arnica Montana in a 50% concentration and was like "Oh, this isn't homeopathy, this is straight up mainstream medicine."

I'm not sure if it's a case of Manufacturers trying to cash in on the Homeopathy hype, or homeopathy manufacturers cynically trying to toss in some working examples to sell more snake oil.

It supports ALL titles, but the publisher has to authorize it. They said during the Xbox Event that you can put the disc in and it'll install the game. So it's not a special version they are running a PowerPC emulator under the hood.

Oh man I remember that AltaVista bar. I really really liked that one. That was the one and only useful search bar. It was useful not only because back in the day AltaVista was the best search engine but also because of the translate button which is the only reason I still use AltaVista from time to time and a pretty damn good ad blocker.

While we are on the subject, "8k" broadcast isn't 8k it's 7.5k. 7680/1024=7.5.

I would disagree though to say that stitched plates aren't actually 8k. Panoramas are actually higher resolution, a pain to do, but are no less "real".

If my language preference for the OS is "English" only english books should show up. If I change my language preference to "French" I would only expect French books to show up by default. When you go to Amazon you aren't going to see a bunch of books outside of your native language unless you specifically start searching and teach the site that you speak say Italian.

Not only do mot people not care but his criticism is empirically wrong:

No where else in the world do people expect "Free" things to also mean that they then own the copyright. If I write "Free" on a sign by my couch by the street I'm not implying that the couch design is free of all copyright encumbrance I'm saying the it costs no money. Open Source redefined "Free" to add the additional degree of freedom to software, but nobody can claim that it's a "more accurate" definition when the existing definition is the broadly known and accepted definition.

The OEM also has to put it on devices with smaller than 13" screens and I think the total MSRP has to be below $250.

3 more similar levels of improvement would reach break-even. A 130' range aircraft isn't very useful. But you learn a lot by flying 130 feet. And once you invent something like the airplane you only have to do it once. You don't have to re-invent it. Once someone made a working semi-conductor the field exploded. Or it could be a dead-end. Who knows.

You have to be careful though because I've seen a lot of companies over the years say "Giant Corporation X is testing our product." And what that means is that someone at Giant Corporation X said "yes I'll take a sample and evaluate it." That doesn't mean they are investing any serious resources in integrating it into their roadmap. I've even seen it used when all they had was an informal meeting over drinks only to have a press release pop up "Company Y working with us!"

What earlier attempts you ask? Let's go to wikipedia:

So it was first really invented thanks to government research, it has only seen government interest for the last 60 years and this breakthrough has contributions by government scientists and institutes.

Not to mention if the robot has the dexterity necessary you could deploy them now and the picking algorithm is a software upgrade pushed out in the future. It's not like the hardware probably will need much of an upgrade.

No, just goes to show how greedy and self destructive the 10gbe patent holders are. My understand is that the only the holding back 10gb is the licensing expense.

And you still need a switch. Those are still the current bottleneck on 10gbe. I can get a decent Intel branded 10gbe card for $150. But then when you go to buy a 12 port switch there is only one viable option today that doesn't cost $20,000 and it's not viewed very well.

Of course they get something in return. They get everybody on the WinRT APIs so that they get 30% of all software sales for Windows. That's worth way more than a windows license.

They also get OneDrive subscriptions to increase your storage and Microsoft Office subscriptions and they get you searching Bing and they get you buying Skype minutes and they get you buying Surface Tablets and they get you buying movies and music and they get you buying Music Subscriptions and they get you subscribing to Xbox Live and they convince developers to develop for WinRT/Store since there are tons of customers now and that boosts Windows 10 on phones and that attacks the ipad and....

Microsoft profits handsomely by giving you Windows 10 for free. The sooner people get off of Win7 the sooner the App Store cash cow starts getting milked.