I don't mean any tomfoolery in my wording my response as so, just to take some brief liberty with the lexicon, in being no less genuine than salt and mud: Your comment intrigues and compels. Though I may not be able to produce any immediate answer to such a question, myself, but I can definitely see where there is a place for the question - and I would say that that place is on the very grounds of democracy. I hope that that question will be a recurring one, in these times.

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Yup :}

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Granted, it takes a few CPU cycles to run Jamin - a live multiband equalizer with three separate compressors, which integrates with the Jack audio system - but beside that, it makes for a very deep sound in what Jackd picks up (e.g. media player output). It can be really cinematic sounding. I expect that, together with Steam - except for the CPU cycles - I expect that it could make for a gaming experience that would sound, in a word, hot.

I also expect it may result in more attention towards the Linux platform. Some seasoned Linux community members might regard that as a mixed blessing, but I think it can be a good thing. I'm sure that the Ubuntu community might think to scoop this news, as well.

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I expect that that they'd want to keep the full production process and the market, too, in space, for those volatile materials as much as for the ores and minerals.

Of course, there'd have to be a market in space for those raw materials, in order for it to be a profitable enterprise.

It would seem to introduce many questions and opportunities for new technology and new business development, overall. I suspect that the NewSpace industry - if supported in the endeavor, popularly/culturally as well as economically - may undergo some growth, in response to and in the wake of such proposals as that noted, above, from Planetary Resources.

The idea stands to reason: Asteroids being large bodies of rock, asteroids can be mined for their mineralogical contents. I expect that there could be a viable process for that made with a fully automated, robotic mining production line (with at least one manned repair station, perhaps in orbit around the earth.) I think it may be not so much a question of whether it's possible, then, but rather, a question of how it would be achieved (with economic viability, moreover).

...if the student is having problems with a question - unless the student happens to be candid enough to admit when the student is having problems with a question. Then, when the teacher would be equipped to assist the student in learning how to solve the math problem ... well, I thought that's how education works. Maybe there are some dissenting opinions about it, however.

I recall having heard that a majority of flight testing for vehicles such as the B-2 and F-117 was conducted in digital windtunnels, before any physical vehicles were constructed for actual flight tests. Considering that, I wonder if the HTV project is not using similar testing? or if the existing areodynamic modeling techniques might not apply, at hypersonic speeds? (Or maybe it's something completely different...)

Speaking from the perspective of someone with a diehard entrepreneurial attitude, it's really a treat to read John Larson's candid and experienced advice. It serves to lend at least a few grains of salt to all the novel naivete that some efforts may start out with - that is, before anyone begins discussing the execution of the idea (if ever, really).

That it takes more than a bright idea to really make an entrepreneurial opportunity happen - that's a point of view I think we could hear more of, honestly. Consdering some of the get-rich-quick and instant-gratification attitudes that might become attached, commonly, to some aspects of technology, I think it would also be good if there was more discourse about the signifcance of the execution phase in software projects (whether one uses an agile model, a monolithic model, or otherwise).

Candor is good, especially in what may be commonly approached with a sense of naivete (viz a viz, enterpreneurial startups).

Considering the content of that article,I am now significantly impressed with /. I guess it's not just for spectatorship, after all ;) Cheers.

It seems that the key issue is of the publisher being granted rights to limit resale.

Frankly, I don't know how they can be allowed to sue anyone for competing against the publisher's own distribution channels. It is a free market economy, is not? Do we have to seek an extension of antitrust legislation onto distribution channels, as well, now?

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Uncertainty is a natural part of life ...and so is science.

Though I'm not a parent, myself, I can understand that parents who care enough to not be complacent about their kids' well being may be concerned at such sense of uncertainty as I would expect one would encounter in being a parent - even without such manufactured uncertainty as and advertisers would typically try to inspire, so in order to sell their products.

I think that a reasonable sense of uncertainty would be natural, however - and it's not as if any parent was in it alone. There is the thing called commuinty. Whether or not in community, we also have this lovely thing called knowledge - It might even be more lovely than speculation.

That we can use science in developing knowledge, then, I think that's important.

To comment to the issues raised in the article: Not to sound like an alarmist, but seriously, I think it raises it a concern for whether we may be approaching a condition of "criticial mass" in inadequate education, in some regions. If the people designing the tests are not even qualified enough to be able to produce valid tests, then what can we expect as results, from the schools? and what can we expect, later, when the students taught in those schools endeavor to set the rules for the next generation of schooling?

I think that the concept of educational reform should be recognized as a concept of national concern. I only hope there are enough people around who are not so touchy about it, though, to be unable to address it.

...or, alternately, they could try to hire some managers who could actually connect with their staff, earn their respect and trust, and garner honest points of view from the staff. If their staff are really communicating, they shouldn't need to use third party systems for analyzing the language in their communication.

I simply hope that the executives at those companies may consider whether the novelty of such systems makes it worth their cost, in comparison to more traditional means for getting to know the staff's actual point of view.