Sapere Aude
Month: May 2009
President Obama will push General Motors into bankruptcy protection on Monday, making a risky bet that by temporarily nationalizing the onetime icon of American capitalism, he can save at least a diminished automaker that is competitive.
nice. $50b and counting to keep a few 1000 overpaid schmucks around in up and coming detroit.
too bad they don’t have a feed.
- skim journals and textbooks that you only half understand
- Seldom stop to study a single subject with a student’s intensity
- Accumulate vocabulary, perspective, and context.
- Revisit topics
- Continue until almost everything you encounter in Science and Nature makes sense as a contribution to a field you know something about.
To get our Moon to form, it is best to assume Theia is slightly more massive than Mars. It should start out moving slowly towards the Earth, and it should strike the Earth at a glancing angle. The result is a very bad day.
At a Raytheon facility, engineers create tools to protect the Pentagon’s computers and crack into the networks of countries that could become adversaries. Stacks of cash spur them on, and a gong heralds each major breakthrough.
“You don’t need a TV. You don’t need a radio. You don’t even need a newspaper. But you need the Internet.”
As more ads are bought and sold through exchanges, it could transform the ad marketplace. “It is foreseeable that you can go into the system, select an audience and not know whether you are ultimately buying” a phone ad or a video ad on a website like Hulu. That’s a very, very big change.”
wherein the NYT explains why advertising middlemen are doomed.
I had stumbled onto the world of the homebrew CPU. To create such a computer required a detailed microarchitectural design, custom instruction set design, custom software tools like assemblers and compilers, and of course a custom circuit board. I decided to build a homebrew CPU computer of my own. It was a big mess o’ wires.
An interstellar GPS system that has the ability to determine the position of any point in the galaxy to within 1m.
By simply removing motor vehicles from Broadway around Times and Herald Squares and inviting pedestrians in with seating, street performers, good people-watching — and a naked cowboy — New York City has created 2 great new public spaces for tourists, office workers and, yes, even jaded residents.
car-free times square. hopefully, a seismic shift in the making.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 