I know a lot of women in non profits. Generally "being interested in social change" is code for "shit pay".

I kept buying AMD to save a penny and my experience was iffy drivers (even on Windows) and two dead fans. Now I go NVidia and have had far fewer problems.

I bought Tesla Stock at a marvelous point in time for my portfolio's value. But I realized it's grossly overvalued. But... just because something is grossly overvalued doesn't mean it won't go up.. and it has, over and over and over. If I had sold it off where I thought Tesla was actually valued I would have missed out on enough of a bump that short of the stock going bankrupt and hitting $0 I can take a pretty huge bubble pop and still come out ahead of where "sensible" people would have bailed. But people aren't sensible. And I don't see people getting sensible any time soon.

Let's take a 100kw laser system like being demonstrated. Let's say your mirror is a 90% mirror (very good mirror) free of dirt. That's still 10kw on something maybe 2" across. If you've got a polycarbonate cover for your mirror surface it's now black. If you're using polished chrome it's already been burned off down to the metal underneath which is also probably charred. Also the lasers are often in the near-infrared range not the optical range.

I would say the goal hasn't changed but they found applications short of the goal. The author seems to suggest that this is dishonest--it's not dishonest at all. Missile defense is/was a multi-billion dollar boondoggle but the current anti-mortar systems employed in the middle east are functional and effective. Just because we can't have megawatt class lasers yet doesn't mean that the current demonstrations of useful applications for lightweight lasers are smoke and mirror deception. His premise is completely misguided "Since these aren't megawatt lasers, these are useless." Maybe in the cold war less than megawatt lasers were useless but we aren't fighting the soviet union we're fighting guys in a rubber dingy.

Ummm... I have no idea what you consider equivalent of a "unix workstation" but most VFX facilities are nearly exclusively linux and they just buy commodity workstations from companies like:

Boxx http://www.boxxtech.com/
HP http://www8.hp.com/us/en/campa...
Dell http://www.dell.com/us/busines...

etc..

And I would rather it goes to the actor than the executives at Fox. At least he actually *is* creating the show not just profiting from the creativity and labors of artists.

$14m is nothing compared to what Murdoch is pulling in for owning the Simpsons. It's the same problem in sports, people complain about how much the athletes are making while the owners and league executives get a pass. If it's going to be highly profitable then yeah the players should get rewarded too.

He's 71 years old. I highly doubt he's going to regret a couple million more in the bank and less time to do whatever he wants with the few remaining years he has left.

Being on call doesn't mean you work 24/7. I had a job, best job I've ever had where I was on call 24/7 and that translated into about 3-5 hours a week at $500/week.

If she has flexible hours and is able to work wherever her phone is she could work several jobs (and according to the story she was working two jobs) that overlap and double or triple dip.

Except that in the case of earthquakes we're practically blind. It would be like a dog catching a ball but not being able to look up. So unless there is some sort of relationship between the average number of Buzzfeed posts in a given week to seismic activity in Brunei you can't accurately predict earthquakes from our very limited information. So far this hasn't been demonstrated.

It's not just economics it also strikes at the heart of whether or not the system actually *works*. If I create an algorithm that predicts an earthquake every 30 days in every major earthquake prone region I'll be right every single month because there is a major earthquake in one of the regions every month. It's like putting a bet on every horse in a race. You're guaranteed to win!

Never had CC DRM fail. Don't know anyone who has had a license problem with CC. Do you even have Creative Cloud or are you just listening to the people who heard it from someone who heard it from someone who thinks CS6 is good enough?

What I have seen is that Adobe now releases a RED SDK update on a regular schedule instead of waiting 12 months for them to support the latest R3D features.

Silverlight still runs on Windows Phone. I have "ancient" Windows Phone apps that still run on my phone from Windows Phone 7.

If my address was 1153 U.S. Street that would mean something. Meanwhile in Washington State where I live:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...

For those who don't like images...
Renewables:
Hydroelectric: 76.6%
Nuclear: 8.0%
Wind: 5.6%
Biomass: 1.4%

Fossil Fuels
Natural Gas: 4.7%
Coal: 3.2%
?Other: 0.5%?

Also incredibly important on top of that, lots of people had a personal interest it succeeding:
  - Red Hat, Novell etc on the software front.
  - Also companies like HP needed a *nix and BSD was currently engulfed in FUD.

If you want your product to succeed you're far more likely to be successful when other people can profit as well from your project's success. "What's in it for me?" is the rally cry of any potential investor of time or money. In the case of Linux there was a lot in it for a lot of people.

The people who most profited from BSD (AT&T, IBM etc) were dinosaurs who history has proven have been bad at reacting quickly, at least in the 90s and early 00's. IBM is getting more nimble but the parties who profited from a successful BSD turned out to be the least suitable advocates.