On The Future of Apple and Google. When Tim Cook was interviewed by Charlie Rose after Apple’s mega launch event a few weeks ago, he scoffed at any mention of competitors, highlighting only Google as Apple’s arch-rival. Apple and Google are entrenched in a modern version of the PC war, and are the only two players with relevancy at the operating system level. Here are some thoughts on why this is important and what’s next as we enter the golden years for mobile and approach the early beginnings of the post-mobile era: Android is now the operating system of the world.
It dominates any non-Apple, non-PC application. We still think of Android as a smartphone OS. But almost everything truly smart will run Android – new TVs, IoT devices, your home appliances etc. It’s provocative to think about where Apple and Google each go next. All of this innovation is underpinned by software, software that is figuratively eating the world. West Virginia has had the largest jump in youth incarceration since 2001 | The Marshall Project. West Virginia’s geography represents a major hurdle to turning the juvenile incarceration rate around. “If you flatten all the mountains, you’d have one of the biggest states in the country,” says Joey Garcia, deputy counsel to West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin. Programs that offer therapy and substance abuse treatment are scarce and widely dispersed, so judges sentence juveniles to facilities where treatment is available on site. A year in a West Virginia juvenile facility costs more than $80,000 per child, compared with $1,000 to $33,000 per child in community programs that have reduced recidivism by up to 20 percent in other states.
Some of the same rural states that are lacking in treatment options, including South Dakota, Wyoming, and Nebraska, are also taking an aggressive approach to minor infractions like truancy, alcohol consumption, school fights, and violations of probation. Junior is 6’3” with blond hair, green eyes, and a West Virginian twang. Cloud jobs are growing faster than the talent pool. That’s an opportunity for women coders says Intel.
By David Holmes On September 29, 2014 As more and more jobs are created by technology firms, one of the biggest issues facing the sector is how to ensure those opportunities are available to all, not limited just young, white males. And with women only making up 20 percent of American programmers, according to the US Department of Labor, and high profile firms like Twitter, Facebook, and Google employing even lower percentages of females on their technology staffs, the gender gap is real. But while the problem is obvious, the solution is not. Only 18 percent of computer science degrees were awarded to women last year, which is down from 37 percent in 1985.
Intel announced today that it is sponsoring the IC3 IT Cloud Computing Conference in San Francisco on October 27 and 28. The thinking behind this promotion goes beyond paying lip service to diversity advocates. “There’s a huge demand and need for skill users in cloud computing,” says Paul Owen, Executive Director of IC3. A Doctor Unlocks Mysteries Of The Brain By Talking And Watching. Dr. Allan Ropper speaks with residents and fellows as they do rounds at the neuroscience intensive care unit at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.
M. Scott Brauer for NPR hide caption itoggle caption M. Dr. M. The heavyset man with a bandage on his throat is having trouble repeating a phrase. "Can I hear you say no ifs, ands or buts? " Ropper has heard enough. Later, Ropper tells me that the patient's inability to repeat that simple phrase told him precisely where a stroke had damaged the man's brain. This reliance on bedside observation and conversation is what makes neurology such a remarkable specialty, Ropper says. Ropper says a neurologist's job is to find a way to understand the odd landscape of a damaged brain. Ropper says a neurologist's job is to find a way to understand the odd landscape of a damaged brain. Ropper shows me example after example of this as I follow him on rounds. The surgeons thought her double vision might be from a stroke. Downtown Las Vegas Is the Great American Techtopia.
“We could create our own adult version of a college dorm and build our own community. It was an opportunity for us to create our own world. It was perfect.” Tony Hsieh – “Delivering Happiness” In the new downtown Las Vegas, the medical clinic is also a co-working space. The church knows to step in when founders lose funding. A men’s hotel is now offices, a Bikram yoga studio and an artisanal donut bakery. And in the new preschool, which took over a church that had been a senior service center, entrepreneurship training begins at 6 weeks old. How does that work? “It’s mostly about teaching them that it’s okay to fail,” said Connie Yeh, a former derivatives trader at Citibank, and now the founder of the 9th Bridge School in downtown Las Vegas. If all that seems strange — if it comes across as a startup fantasia straight out of science fiction — that’s because it is. In 2012, Hsieh took over City Hall to headquarter Zappos. Building a tech utopia “You don’t go there every day.
Pied Piper. Searching for the Good Life in the Bakken Oil Fields. The Physics of Space Battles. J6vwIhD.png (PNG Image, 511 × 295 pixels) The Fabulous Life Of Bill Gates - Business Insider. Solar power is growing so fast that older energy companies are trying to stop it. If you ask the people who run America's electric utilities what keeps them up at night, a surprising number will say solar power. Specifically, rooftop solar. More Americans are installing rooftop solar and buying less electricity from their utilities That seems bizarre at first. Solar power provides just 0.4 percent of electricity in the United States — a minuscule amount. Why would anyone care? But many utilities don't see it that way. To avoid that fate, many utilities are pushing for policies that could slow the breakneck growth of rooftop solar — by scaling back or modifying those "net metering" laws. The battle over solar is now raging in more than a dozen states — from Arizona to Utah to Wisconsin to Georgia.
How cheap solar could lead to a utility "death spiral" (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Solar panels are still a niche product. If rooftop solar reached 10% of the market, utility earnings could fall by 8% to 41% To electric utilities, this poses a potential problem. The Wire creator David Simon: why American politics no longer works | Media | The Guardian. At the end of a long day scouting locations for his new TV miniseries, David Simon is sitting in his Upper West Side office in New York describing the type of person who needn’t bother tuning in to his new show.
He’s speaking as a TV writer but also as a citizen angered by a political system that he thinks fails many of his fellow countrymen. “People who think we’re being well governed at the moment… well, there’s no reason for them to watch. People who look at the inertia of Washington, at the partisanship, at the divisive and polarised discourse... people who think that’s the way to build a just society, well, don’t watch the show, because I got nothin’ for you.”
Show Me a Hero, which will appear on screens late next year or in spring 2016, is based on a non-fiction book of the same name by former New York Times writer Lisa Belkin. The 1999 book’s subtitle, “a tale of murder, suicide, race and redemption” hints at the drama involved. The effect was to split the city in half. Your Inner Drone: The Politics of the Automated Future. Nicholas Carr | The Glass Cage: Automation and Us | October 2014 | 15 minutes (3,831 words) The following is an excerpt from Nicholas Carr‘s new book, The Glass Cage, out today. Our thanks to Carr for sharing this piece with the Longreads community. Back in the 1990s, just as the dot-com bubble was beginning to inflate, there was much excited talk about “ubiquitous computing.” Soon, pundits assured us, microchips would be everywhere—embedded in factory machinery and warehouse shelving, affixed to the walls of offices and homes, installed in consumer goods and stitched into clothing, even swimming around in our bodies.
Equipped with sensors and transceivers, the tiny computers would measure every variable imaginable, from metal fatigue to soil temperature to blood sugar, and they’d send their readings, via the internet, to data-processing centers, where bigger computers would crunch the numbers and output instructions for keeping everything in spec and in sync.
The Age of Automation. How new brain implants can boost free will – Walter Glannon. About 20 years ago, a student in one of my courses began missing classes. After several weeks, she appeared in my office and said that she had a history of major depression, had experienced a relapse and had been committed to the psychiatric ward of the local hospital. She had lost her motivation to do things, she said, and for several days her depression made even basic actions such as getting out of bed impossible. Verbatim, she said to me: ‘I did not have any free will.’ My student’s comment, and the fact that depression is caused by dysfunctional circuits in the brain, caused me to question the nature of free will itself. For millennia, philosophers have debated whether humans have free will, typically defined as the ability to choose between alternative possibilities.
The main threat to free will was ‘causal determinism’ – the thesis that natural laws and past events entail only one path from present to future. Popular now Elon Musk puts his case for a multi-planet civilisation. The Anatomy of Attention. Every moment, our brains are bombarded with information, from without and within. The eyes alone convey more than a hundred billion signals to the brain every second. The ears receive another avalanche of sounds. Then there are the fragments of thoughts, conscious and unconscious, that race from one neuron to the next.
Much of this data seems random and meaningless. Indeed, for us to function, much of it must be ignored. But clearly not all. For decades, philosophers and scientists have debated the process by which we pay attention to things, based on cognitive models of the mind. “Years ago, we were satisfied to know which areas of the brain light up under various stimuli,” the neuroscientist Robert Desimone told me during a recent visit to his office.
Earlier this year, in an article published in the journal Science, Desimone and his colleague Daniel Baldauf reported on an experiment that shed light on the physical mechanism of paying attention. Will Windows 10 address the operating system's biggest weakness? So the wraps are off, and no one got the name change right. Windows 10 comes with a whole lot of promises, not the least of which is that the company is listening to users and wants their feedback. So something tells me this OS will not be met with the derision of Windows 8. At the grand unveiling, numerous features were discussed, from the interesting (multiple desktops) to the silly (ctrl-v pasting in the DOS prompt). One of the promises made was that Windows 10 would eliminate the need for reinstalls when a new OS version came out.
Microsoft is promising continuous, ever-evolving upgrades to the operating system so people won't have to erase the hard drive and start over, like all current users of Windows 7 and 8 are going to have to do when 10 comes out next year. This might not sit well with IT, because they don't like disruption. So I wonder if Microsoft has found a solution to this. The Internet Of Things Market Growth. Forget Millennials. Gen Xers Are the Future of Work | TIME. UZvk5pZ.gif (GIF Image, 499 × 281 pixels) What Kind of Town Bans Books? - The New Yorker. Last week, during the American Library Association’s Banned Books Week, I found out that a group of parents had recently pressured the public school I attended, in Texas, into “suspending” not just one but seven different books from assigned reading lists. The plain fact of the suspension wasn’t surprising to me.
Highland Park High School, situated in perhaps the best school district in the state, serves a conservative community in two small towns that thrive on football and prayer and whose combined population of thirty-one thousand is ninety-one per cent white. During my time there, we had a chaplain for every sports team, creationists on the teaching staff, and a mandatory daily recitation of the Texas State Pledge. But people who live in places like my home town are not necessarily ignorant. People who ban books do sometimes read them. Anyone who knows the Park Cities will understand that the suspension of these books wasn’t driven so much by provincialism as by conservatism. The Internet Of Things Market Growth - Business Insider.
History, Travel, Arts, Science, People, Places. What's the Best Time to Go to Bed? - WSJ - WSJ. Why is software OS specific? Here asks: I'm trying to determine the technical details of why software produced using programming languages for certain operating systems only work with them. It is my understanding that binaries are specific to certain processors due to the processor specific machine language they understand and the differing instruction sets between different processors.
But where does the operating system specificity come from? I used to assume it was APIs provided by the OS but then I saw this diagram in a book. As you can see, APIs are not indicated as a part of the operating system. If for example I build a simple program in C using the following code: #include main() { printf("Hello World"); } Is the compiler doing anything OS specific when compiling this?
System calls are OS specific Charles E. I think you are reading too much into the diagram. I think the diagram is just trying to emphasize that operating system functions are usually invoked through a different mechanism then a simple library call. My dad fought in the Vietnam War. My mom pulled this out of his head a couple nights ago. It has been in there for 46 years. A Woman Just Got Sent The Most Intense Tinder Message Of All Time. The strangest document on the CIA's FOIA site.
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has released hundreds of declassified documents to its Freedom of Information Act site. But one of them stands out—not for the secrets it contains, but for its raw emotions. The “Beirut Diary” sits among countless newly declassified articles from the CIA’s in-house spycraft journal, “Studies in Intelligence.” The faux-diary entry is an emotionally charged account of the bombing that rocked the U.S Embassy in the Lebanese capital on April 18, 1983, claiming the lives of 64, including eight CIA employees.
With titles including “Bestiary of Intelligence Writing, and “How we are Perceived,” most of the newly declassified articles on the CIA’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) site are snarky, gossipy, entitled, or thick with redactions and legalese—which is precisely why the harrowing personal testimony of “Beirut Dairy” stands out. “This is not, repeat not, a trip report. Read the full 'Beirut Diary' below: Beirut Diary. The most powerful Swede in the world | Icon Magazine. In spring of 2007, 17-year old Felix is sitting in his room at home in Gothenburg. His computer is on. His character in World of Warcraft, an orc warrior, has reached 70, the maximum level. Felix has played World of Warcraft for two years now and he’s very competitive. He devotes all his free time to game strategy and thinking about gaming. Given the choice between gaming and meeting up with friends, he always goes for World of Warcraft.
He has almost finished his second high school year at the Social science & Economy program at Göteborgs Högre Samskola. Now that his character has reached the maximum level, he begins the process of creating a new character, to start it all over again. . – What am I doing? – The gaming had had a negative effect; I had become introverted and passive. Instead, he began focusing on his studies. . – Whenever I get involved in something, I get extremely engaged.
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