I work in Foster City so I see the Johnny Cabs and the camera-bedecked SUVs on the road a lot. Multiple times seen the automatons stuck at junctions, sometimes less than half a mile a way from Zoox HQ, where they should know the road. That might partly be due to the SUV "trainers" who seem to be abysmally bad drivers (weaving and cutting lanes). I always give them a wide berth. I would not trust my family in those things.

Was this in San Jose? I was aware of CoffeeNet in San Francisco but it sounds like a very similar setup (and it lasted closer to three years from 1997 - 2000). For CoffeeNet nostalgia you don't have to look further than Rick Moen's archive http://linuxmafia.com/coffeene...

I read the article. The plant still produces a similar, related methylxanthine compound, theobromine. Drinking the tea will still have many of the effects of caffeine.

His whole expertise is devoted to exploiting his users (classic advertising). His personal technical abilities are weak. If you peel away the propaganda he is just another Mad Man (with their same lack of humility).

Pharmacyclics (the developers of ibrutinib/Imbrivica) is actually now owned by Abbvie, which is the pharmaceutical company spun off from Abbott Laboratories. Abbott achieved fame in 2003 when it increased the cost of their HIV medication, Norvir, 5-fold when it found that doctors were combining the smaller pill size version with other drugs. This is just history repeating itself.

There are already very nice versions of the text. I have the Green Lion Press version (less than $20 new). If you want absolutely everything, the Dover Books 3 volume set is near-definitive and cheap (and available as eBook). The text has been around for centuries so adding colour doesn't help that much. The publisher's efforts could be better spent on other worthwhile tasks.

He's the person who invented the kinect system, sent a prototype to Microsoft, who then magically created their own version looking just like it.

https://hackaday.com/2011/07/14/did-microsoft-steal-the-kinect/

Maybe the editor was a Steinbeck fan.

How many others mis-read this as promising a steel pavement, and thus levitating vehicles.

I still have an old supermarket-purchased slide rule from my days at school (I was schooled at the juncture between slide rules/log tables and pocket calculators). After reading Cliff Stoll's article (http://www.uvm.edu/~pdodds/files/papers/others/2006/stoll2006a.pdf) I treated myself to a Faber-Castell 2/83N and I have to agree that it is *beautiful*. On my desk at work I keep its miniature cousin, a 62/83N prominently displayed.

This subject seems to get pushed here ridiculously frequently. Every story is excessively shrill in support of Uber, with no objectivity (on Slashdot, hah!) or balance. Is some of Uber's big budget being spent here on astroturfing?

Gelatinous.

At the NY MOMA exhibit (sadly static) I saw dozens of people explaining to their kids how the boards updated with a clacka-clacka-clacka. I could see the nostlagia in their eyes. For some reason the kids didn't see the connection between this and the airport monitors typically displaying the "Windows has encountered a problem and needs to be restarted" dialogue.

My guess is that e.g. the "BER" is from numBER or novemBER or somesuch. I have no idea if the LINC computer was important enough to be immortalised here. However, no luck looking for quotations with e.g. octoBER LINC LOCK... etc.

Anyone who uses "phenomena" in the singular just can't be trusted.