Yeah, you're quite right that I overstated it by saying they are orthogonal. They are coupled (diamond is not particularly flexible) but not 100% correlated. Different manifestations of the underlying structure.
They simply foolishly don't fear our feline overlords. While Americans practice, training themselves to recognize the enemy.
Seriously, having lived in both France and the USA: most people in France will ignore the critics but yes, books and culture are seen as more important to people then they are in the USA. Being a public intellectual is considered a reasonable and high profile job.
Note I said "seen as more important" -- don't forget we're talking about the country that invented celebrity culture and "celeb journos", and in which the most popular restaurant is McDonalds. Nevertheless, the French are anti- a lot of things, but being intellectual isn't one of them.
Please tell us how they achieved this feat or materials engineering.
Oh you silly slashdotter. Sure, you may have studied materials science and engineering, but do you have the real world experience? In the modern corporation it's all about teamwork. Well-managed teams can do more than any one person possibly could. In this case, the engineers make the glass hard. Then marketing adds the flexibility. See? Teamwork. Oh yeah, and management makes it all happen and does extra janatorial tasks like mopping up the excess bucks.
(Actually, cynicism aside, it's simply that hardness and flexibility are orthogonal axes in materials science).
Seems the same as a product released by apple in 1994 -- 20 years ago.
The way to end this is not to say, "Would be nice to hear something similar from Verizon" like it's some sort of game.
TFA (and the summary) are silent on the real question is which is, "What right do they have to fuck with my traffic?"
It's like they are asking to be reclassified as a Title II common carrier.
This is a sensible comment. Although I disagree with your conclusion (since they are so rare, almost any precuationary defense is a waste of effort - and I say this as a parent), your reasoning is good.
From TFA:
Suzanne Kennan, a resident who lives across from the school...supported the investment anyway.
‘‘Unfortunately we’re at a point where we have to do something like this,’’
Yes, we're at a point where the level of violent crime is at its lowest in 40 years but apparently a crazy response is needed regardless.
Needless to say, there's no discussion in this article. Simply a visit to the school for the demonstration, a quick chat with the cops, and a thoughtless quote from the neighbor.
I have a kid in school and frankly I think all this pseudo "security" is more dangerous for shaping future civic involvement than the anhistorical gibberish in the history books.
These are the same analysts who said that apple needed to make a netbook or they would die (or who each quarter predicted a netbook was coming).
Apple has placed an alternative bet: that the devices can overlap capabilites and responsibilites (e.g. via handoff, or less intensely as with iwork) but have fundamentally different jobs to do, and try to make each do its job well. I don't commute to work in a tank, but some people find tanks useful. The surface, and W8, are neiher tank nor motorbike, and really do neither job well.
Apple changes their mind (and never admits it, as with phablets!) and they also make brain damaged decisions, but there is some method to their madness. Analysts generate quotable sound bites; that is the method behind their madness.
If you want evidence that current journalism is worse than previous generations, just look at the number of absurd hoaxes that get reported as fact. Back when it took a little effort to gather information, people took it more seriously.
There have always been hoaxes, small and large. I'm just saying I haven't seen any study (though I would hope such a study exists) showing if the quality has gone up or down or is unchanged. My comment (and yours) are simply anecdote.
A sense of declinism (things were better "in the old days") has been a recurring theme for millennia.
...because they're busy doing what?
At first I read this comment as throwaway snark about listicles and the like, but then it raised for me a pretty interesting question:what evidence do we have that current reporting is less rigourous than it was in the past?.
I recently looked up the newspaper from the day after I was born and found it full of trivial stuff (except my birth announcement of course!) and articles that looked like they uncritically repeated what one source had told them. I am not sure the quality of reporting, in reality, was ever any better than now.
So Mr Fyfe, ban what you like within the Square Mile. That should make you popular with the banks!
A non-tenured adjunct lecturer became President of the USA, so there's that, too.
True but I have friends who make more consulting in engineering than that guy does. I suspect they have more fun too.
Some startups are still what I consider (and it sounds like you consider) classic startups. Most these days are like TV shows (essentialy the MVP is the “pilot” and then they “get picked up” — run for a little while and then fade out or get bought in an aquihire. In that they are simply a high tech version of starting a corner shop, which is still the most common kind of business around the world.
Climate change is not going to kill us all, or anyone, really.
Nuclear war will do it first.
Nosir, these are Data Hoodies.
No wait, they’re Data Mufflers. That’s right, Data Mufflers.
Not the same thing at all. In fact we offer them free to our customers. They love them! They aren’t canceling the service (and we know they have a choice) — in fact they call and add new services!
Here’s $50,000, half for you and half for ALEC. Now go run off and get re-elected. I’m off to play golf with Obama.
"If I do not want others to quote me, I do not speak." -- Phil Wayne
