Comment Re:I'm a believer. (Score 1) 151
Did you come to this conclusion before or after you saw her face?
Comment Re:Diplomatic implications (Score 3, Insightful) 427
The US has veto power against any resolution the UN might pass against the US. Nothing to worry about...
Comment Re:"...saving students up to 50%..." (Score 1) 192
Haliday and Resnick?
Old school.
I'm waiting for the new publication from Cooper, Hofstadter, Wolowitz, and Koothrappali
Comment Re:A good test (Score 1, Funny) 159
Nah, San Francisco is a bunch of dirty leftist hippies. They're accustomed to being unshowered and when TSHTF they'll just gather around the campfire and sing kumbayah and wait for big government to come save them.
Comment Re:Chekov? How? (Score 1) 401
Obamacare, duh!
New, Canon-Faithful Star Trek Series Is In Pre-Production 401
An anonymous reader writes "Star Trek veterans such as Walter Koenig (Pavel Chekov), Tim Russ (Tuvok), Robert Picardo (the Doctor) and others are busy in pre-production of a professionally produced pilot episode for a suggested new online Star Trek series named Star Trek: Renegades, which will be faithful to the original Star Trek canon. The events of the series are placed a decade after Voyager's return from Delta Quadrant. When the pilot is complete, they'll present it to CBS in the hopes that it'll be picked up. They have also opened an Indiegogo campaign, seeking more funds from Star Trek fans to help make the production even more professional. They've already reached their primary funding goal."
Comment This solves many problems (Score 4, Funny) 192
1) This solves the problem of student access to class materials. See, with the eBook approach, licenses can be made to be enabled on the first day of class and disabled on the last day of class. This prevents students from having early access to class materials, which levels the playing field for those who, for whatever reason, do not care to start learning before the first day of class
2) This solves the problem of killing trees. Now, instead of using renewable, natural resources to print textbooks that last 50 or more years on a shelf and provide information over a person's entire career and even lifetime, we can start using non-renewable rare earth materials to make iPads, which last perhaps a few years and may or may not be able to give access to that same information depending on whether or not someone else wants you to be able to read it.
3) This solves the problem of organic learning. With the smaller form factor and lower density of information, as well as the appeal to a shorter attention span, we can stop all this organic learning stuff and resort instead to rote memorization of bulleted facts, figures, and equations, which can then simply be regurgitated on multiple-choice exams.
Hobbling more competitive students, more destruction to the environment and higher cost, and dumbing down our students. It's a hat-trick of WIN!
Comment Re:Don't fly. (Score 0) 1233
Someone mod this AC up. These have been my thoughts about America in general for the better part of two decades. People don't care enough about the theft of their liberties to do anything about it. As long as they can still catch the Kardashians on MTV, they don't care if they have to submit to daily or hourly anal probes by various three-letter-agencies.
Comment Re:How about a National No Fly Month (Score 1) 1233
Corporations would never go along with simply "not doing business involving travel" for a whole month.
Comment Re:the only way to make college more affordable (Score 2) 302
There is absolutely no shortage of wealthy foreign students who will happily pay full rate for a US education so they can take it back to their own country and make it more competitive than the United States in the global economy.
Obama Seeks New System For Rating Colleges 302
PolygamousRanchKid writes "Targeting the soaring cost of higher education, President Barack Obama on Thursday unveiled a broad new government rating system for colleges that would judge schools on their affordability and perhaps be used to allocate federal financial aid. But the proposed overhaul faced immediate skepticism from college leaders who worry the rankings could cost their institutions millions of dollars, as well as from congressional Republicans wary of deepening the government's role in higher education. The new rating system does not require congressional approval, and the White House is aiming to have it set up before the 2015 school year. But Obama does need support from Congress in order to use the ratings as a basis for parceling out federal financial aid. In addition to tuition, schools will also be rated on average student loan debt, graduation rates and the average earnings of graduates. Under Obama's proposal, students attending highly rated schools could receive larger grants and more affordable loans."
Comment Duh (Score 1) 926
Eating. We're eating too much relative to our energy needs. We eat because we're bored. We eat because we're stressed. We eat to fit in with social situations. Family gatherings revolve around eating.
Our entire culture is basically centered on eating.
Comment I call BS! (Score 1) 570
Did anyone bother to check to see whether Netcraft confirmed this?
Comment I am Locutus of Borg (Score 1) 109
Resistance is futile. Your life as it has been is over. From this time forward you will service us.
Report: By 2035, Nearly 100 Million Self-Driving Cars Will Be Sold Per Year 325
Daniel_Stuckey writes "The rise of autonomous cars might turn out to be more rapid than even the most devout Knight Rider fans were hoping. According to a new report from Navigant Research, in just over two decades, Google Cars and their ilk will account for 75 percent of all light vehicle sales worldwide. In total, Navigant expects 95.4 million autonomous cars to be sold every year by 2035. That's pretty astonishing. For one thing, that's more cars than are built every year right now."
