I don't want any more GUI's, just RESTful API's that have complete functionality, not just a few commands for common tasks. Fancy UI's are fine for demo's so salespeople have something for customers to ooh and ahh over, or for small customers with limited IT staff. Most work these days is going into automation involving multiple tasks.

They may not store the image itself, but I don't see anything stopping them from storing information describing the image.

Usually manufacturing companies are located in rural areas in the South and Midwest. Most of the manufacturing IT guys i've run into live there because they were raised there or they have kids there and don't want to move. There often aren't many other job options nearby. It's also very costly to increase staff, since either it involves taking a junior person and providing a lot of training for them, or luring an experienced candidate to a small town. It can be done, of course but it's not something management is likely to take on unless they are forced to.

With Windows 8 Microsoft grafted a tablet interface onto the PC. If you really like the Windows 8 interface you'll buy a tablet, since that is where it works best. If you don't really like it, you'll stick with your old computer on XP/Win7. This is great for tablet sales, but don't drive people to buy PC's. The problem is that Microsoft faces much more competition on the tablet side, so someone may look for a Windows 8 tablet, but may be swayed to a cheaper Android, or a trendier iPad

I remember reading the book in high school, and it was like a light in the darkness, I felt that someone was finally speaking to me. I promised myself to read it every year so that I wouldn't forget the books message. By about my second year of college when I got half way through the book, I couldn't stand Holden's condescending, entitled attitude, and wondered what I had ever seen in the book.

When my Grandfather died, my dad got a lot of calls from scammers claiming that they were owed money from his estate, so that will probably just land you on on a different list.

Openstack is immature, and the project not very cohesive. He is right that the networking in neutron is way behind where it needs to be. However I don't see a lot of alternatives if you run a large cloud with unique requirements. You can use Amazon, but then you have to ask how much you trust Amazon's cloud. You can spend a lot of money and buy VMWare, but you are locked in with VMWare's enterprise specific focus.

Republicans have been trying to kill public education since the Reagan administration. They want to push science out of the public school curriculum, so their privately educated kids will have a huge advantage for the jobs of the future. Whipping people up into a frenzy about evolution only furthers their cause.

Does anyone know why he says "Prefer conventional discrete-log-based systems over elliptic-curve systems; the latter have constants that the NSA influences when they can". We've been looking at moving to elliptic curve because of the smaller keysize, but I'm concerned people will start to move away from it because of this.

Someone call the Syfy channel, I think we have a Sharknado sequel

There is an interesting article in wired that shows that placebos are actually becoming "more effective" or at least more difficult to make drugs that are significantly more effective than placebo's. It appears that since medicine is so much more trusted now than it was 50 or so year ago, that just believing they are being treated triggers some people's body to fight of the illness. http://www.wired.com/medtech/drugs/magazine/17-09/ff_placebo_effect?currentPage=all

Facebook is valued based on the fact that it has tons of personal information that it can make available to advertisers. Goldman Sachs and others have already bought into it based on this. However, in practice once they do that there will be a huge outcry, people will leave, those that stay will get the government involved, and it will be a huge mess. They can't just tell Goldman Sachs, sorry, we're only worth half of what you paid into, they need to figure out an alternative business model which will get them valued equal to the "sell peoples personal data" business model.

There is overlap in the above, but netbooks are for people who have occasional need to use a native Windows/Linux app or need to use peripherals. Tablets are for people who are okay with the apps specific to Android/iOS, and understand they won't be able to run Excel or plug in a printer. Basically Tablets are for people who want a large smartphone and Netbooks are for people who want a tiny laptop.