I've had friends who did graduate work. Utterly awful experiences with mentors/professors. I remember reading about the case of Theodore Streleski, and was just just horrified. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... It should be a warning to anyone pursuing graduate work OR be responsible for the work of graduates.

If this was actually true, most of India and China should be dead by now. A friend flew into Chennai and you could smell the burning garbage in the airplane before the plane even landed.

Whenever the topics of AI and Robotics come up, I always ask: "How much drama do you want in your life?" This type of system does exactly what needs to be done: Get food and drink from the kitchen to the guest. I don't the machine to think or feel, I need it to do stuff like clean the floors (Roomba). Your dishwasher is stationary 'robot' that cleans your dishes. You don't need it to pass judgement on your eating habits. Now, if some bright spark can figure out a system that will do the sorting, washing, drying and folding the laundry that would be amazing. Now there's a challenge for you guys in Silicon Valley!

Amen. Tablets are great for 'consuming' data, but you can't do any real work. I bought a 'all in one' PC with a 22" screen and it's great. Using a laptop is like look through a key hole!

If this thing hits anything bulkier than a shopping cart it's a write-off. That's the problem with composite materials: They don't bend, they break!! Insurance on these will be pretty rich. (but if you have the money for this BMW I guess it's not an issue..). Still, be wary of people who think everything should be made of some super light weight composite. It's a complete mess to work with and will leave you crying even after the slightest accident.

If you have a favorite local college or university, set up a scholarship for one or more students in a department of your choice. Set something up that pays some modest interest or dividends and pay this out as a yearly scholarship to deserving students. Given the student loan situation, you would be doing something really meaningful.

I've never believed the line that Americans got tired of the Space Program. The Vietnam War was in full swing and that drew the attention away from the Space Program. Critics of the Space Program need to be reminded the US spent more in ONE YEAR fighting the Vietnam War than the ENTIRE Apollo project. What did America get out of Vietnam? Nothing be grief. 55,000+ dead, hundreds of thousands wounded and families whose lives were ruined. As well, the country was in terrible social turmoil. Kennedy was shot and his brother was killed a few years later. The Vietnam War aggravated the Civil Rights movement. With all the mess that was going on here on Earth, it must have been really hard at times to get excited about the Space Program. The Apollo program did something great: It made us look up. It inspired us and made us proud like nothing before or since.

Whenever people talk about what a waste of money Apollo was, consider that the Vietnam War was consuming as much money in ONE YEAR than the ENTIRE Apollo program. The final Apollo missions were killed because of budget cuts to fund the Vietnam War, not because of public disinterest. The Vietnam War was front and center in most peoples' lives at that time. On top of that was the Civil Rights campaigns and urban riots. It was like the country was having a nervous breakdown. If the Vietnam War hadn't happened, things would be so much different today.

How much has your administration grown in the last 20 years? I bet there are a whole bunch of newly minted VP's or Deputy Directors that have added to the cost of education. You could easily downsize half of this top heavy nonsense and not effect teaching one iota. All these people seem to do is create busy work that creates artificial workloads for lower level administrators and front line people.

Calgary, a city of a million+ people is only a few kilometers from Okotoks!! I better turn on the TV!

Why should this guy waste time in jail and take up resources. Too bad we don't use caning as a punishment. I bet 5 good whacks on the ass would move his brains back into his head. And if does something like that again, double it. Jail time for this is a waste.

IBM-Oracle Pact. I wonder how long this non-aggression pact will last? This sounds suspiciously like the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. If you look it up, it had a really bad ending.

"Pioneers usually end up with arrows in their backs" I wish you all the best.

As Thomas Watson said: "Nothing happens until a sale is made". Your engineer might have to work late, but the reason he has work is due to the efforts of the sales person. I know a lot of people that hate sales work, they just want to do the technical work. Some people are great with sales work and all that goes into it.(Including some off-colour behavior) They are the people that are bring the work through the door. Sure he got paid a lot of commission, but that commission is a small fraction of the overall value of a project. His $1million dollar commission brought in tens of millions of dollars of work for dozens (maybe hundreds) of people.

Some years back I worked for a government agency and the laptops had to be fully encrypted. There was a bit of a performance lag, but it was quite stable and there were no issues. I've used Safeguard by Utimaco and again, no stability problems.