We also sell food which can keep our enemy armies fed.
We provide entertainment that shows how wrong we are as a society, to enrage our enemies.

If we don't sell food, starving areas become violent quickly.
If we don't share entertainment our culture will be judge only by rumors, and exaggerated showing us in the worse possible life.
If we don't sell weapons, to our allies. Then it seems like we are not part of the alliance, and are hoarding our weapons for a future transgression.

Yea the world is a horribly complicated place isn't it. Right and Wrong doesn't seem to fit into a nice book of ideals. It is a world where your worst enemy in one area, can be your strongest ally in an another. You know what most people who we flag as the bad guys, do not wake up in the morning and go what evil things shal I do today! They are just doing what we try to do, is live our lives the best we can, that means we may do something, that in the long run isn't the best solution.

I want 2020 to be year of the *n?x Workstation.
We don't need a Desktop OS. We need a good Workstation OS.
The PC role is changing from the Personal computer and towards a more professional tool. Something not everyone will need.

I would like to see UI advancements going towards Workstation productivity, not towards Desktop user friendly, or worse Desktop/Tablet hybrid.

UI designed for Big high resolution screens, where users can manage and maintain multiple apps easily without hunting for windows. When resizing a Window or frame, we should be able to either shrink the content, or realign. Improved hot key integration. It will combine a lot of new methodologies and dig up some of the old ones we haven't used in a while.

You cannot win the game unless you are willing to take risks.

A lot of people went broke trying to invent the product and services that we take for granted today. They took a risk, many loss, some won, some won big.

Woz and Jobs put out the idea that people should have personal computers. HP Though that computers were only for business. What if HP was right. We wouldn't have Personal Computers, and never really heard of Woz or Jobs, or Gates and Ballmer....

Many of the technologies that are having a hard time getting funding, isn't about not finding people who will pay for such a technology. But for people to pay for YOUR technology. Your solution may not be ready for prime time yet. But the idea of your type of technology may be ready.

Most of politics are just talking heads. The Free Market will make jobs.

The key issue with Technology is that it is taking up those low level jobs, where the strapping young fellow can get their feet wet in the business world, and work their way up the corporation for bigger and better things.

Technology replaces these jobs in particular areas, which makes working up the company difficult.

There isn't much demand for the starting paper pushing type of job, computers are good at moving data from one spot to another. So the new college grad, no longer gets a job, where he is interacting with all the people in the organization and getting a good handle on the bigger picture on how the place works. So in order to work at the organization you need to have a particular speciality in place. Thus being placed in a particular department with little chance of moving out. So your career growth now becomes moving companies as there is limited growth at just any one company.

By personal liberty. Means a system that does things like tell you what job you should be doing. If you want to make a living writing bad poetry you should be allowed too, however free market sates that you probably will not get a lot money out of it, as there is such a low demand for bad poetry. Systems where say by the time you are a teenager places you in a career path, based on whatever tests that are popular at the time, and forces people to do what they are told. That is personal liberty. Not Religious liberty, preserving liberty is much grander scope than just allowing people to belong to a religion.

It isn't sad. People don't have to be mad Linux zealots. Linux makes a good server OS.
OS X is a good desktop OS.

Well please find an economic system that deals with the issue of sacristy, and insures its contributers exceed its detractors. At the same time insuring personal liberity.
We go to war over economic systems because the other will affect the haves vs the have nots, or drasticly change the liberties you are accustomed to.

If it is there site, then they should be able to moderate it as they see fit. While we as individuals are entitled to free speech. Such rules do not apply to the distributors. It is probably easier to delete then to correct.
   

So how can someone without the condition measure it? The dog whistle, we know it is high frequency, so we can measure, and generate frequencies higher than normal perception. But we cannot seem to measure such an instance, nor we are unable to broadcast such message into a persons head (say someone who is already schizophrenic, and be able to send him other messages).

Right now this idea is outside of what we can observe, the easier path is to state that it is an anomaly in the brain. In science the easiest solution that fits the model, is the one taken to be the one to use.

So the 100 people are selected to be diametric opposites. A combination of Religious zealots with anti-thesis, the prim and proper conservative with a liberal hippies, Workaholics with slackers...
Normally I would be all for sending them on a one way trip.... However only 100 of them isn't enough.

The first challenge, see how long they can brave the mars atmosphere, figures if it does this enough time he will evolve to a point where he can take the, the other thinks God will just keep them alive.

The general idea behind good engineering. Sit down do all the work and build your product. With Web Development or any software development with a lot of end user interactions. The engineering methodology towards development is doomed to failure, unless you happen to have a large marketing engine behind you to push your product.

The first mistake: Collecting your requirements. In development this is an iterative task. As the end users really do not know what they wan't have of them aren't even sure what advantage your product will have to bring.

The second mistake: Prototype. The idea of a prototype is a functional equipment made before mass production. In software Mass Production is not the issue. So you are actually just making an equivalent of a Clay model. for your prototype. This will at least start to spark their imagination so you can actually collect real requirements, however you get stuck in a lot of complaining, how the colors are off, or you are using the wrong logo, or the fact the data is not saving. You get a bunch of non-requirements from it. As a side note. I once released a prototype software back in the 1990's we just recently got a CD Burner, and a CD Labels that we can print too. So when we distributed the prototype, I printed a label with some fancy graphics, and put it in a jewel case. Some bonehead got his hand on the prototype system, impressed by the graphics on the CD and Jewel case. and Installed it over his version of the software and wrote a nasty level on how horrible the new version of the software was, how half of the screens didn't work, and how he deleted all his existing data. Needless the CEO of the company blasted him back and told him how much of an idiot he was, for installing a software labeled in big writing "PROTOTYPE" and expecting it to work like production software, and also for Installing software he wasn't suppose to install on his system anyways.

The third mistake: Requirements and spec signoff. The requirements and specs are not done until the product is done. Any assumption made early on may be a major issue later. You decided to use HTML Tables and you found out they were slow for large data sets so you needed to switch to divs. Or you were suppose to use divs but getting the CSS just right on the required browsers is near impossible, so you need to switch to tables. The original data format took hours to process, while a different format takes seconds.

In general with modern software development engineering principles don't work too well, as the IDE and coding is the design process, and the steps of making a formal design with a bunch of flow charts etc... Is for a large part just redundant.

This is for software that is intended to end user interaction (Web development). These engineering skills are much more useful for back end type of work. Where there is a fixed process and you just need to have the computer do the work and you really don't care about making it look nice to the end user.

If it is done from a company or a none government organization it considered moderation. If it is because of laws or government it is censoring.
When a TV show bleeps out Sware words it is censoring because of the FCC regulations. Valve is trying to maintain a particular image on its message boards so it can and should moderate its boards to prevent it from going bad.

Wi-fi key advantage is the fact that it goes threw walls and a single router can give strong coverage in you home, as well most small offices.
This is a point of sight technology. So for home or office it will need to be Non obstructive.
You are still better off with wired if you need such speed, the wire will just be more convenant and dependable

Well the prohibition thing during the 1920s kinda shown that a ban on a high demand product will cause a lot of problems.

That is just putting in your belief that Open Source is just better at security then closed source...
I am not disagreeing with the general assertion.
However if you use the embedded encryption on the product, then you are more sure that the person who gets the file can unencrypt it.
Will it prevent NSA from looking at it... Probably not, but for most people and companies it is good enough. Just to prevent it from being peeked at during transmission. Say a packet sniffer set to flag SSN or something.