You haven't "lost" any money if you don't sell. Hold on to those shares, people. The big investment firms are just trying to shake your confidence so you sell for a loss, then they'll scoop up all those shares...and when the stock price inevitably goes back up...guess who win...
Friday, 25 May 2012
HULC Exoskeleton
Posted on 07:33 by hony
Of course, normally I would do everything possible to not to mention something Lockheed-Martin is doing. Long-time readers know that TAE finds Lockheed-Martin to be probably the most despicable corporation in America, capable of basically any engineering feat possible...but dedicated to producing weapons and gouging tax payers for massive profits while continuously stretching deadlines.Nevertheless, the HULC exoskeleton is pretty cool. What's more, its lack of ambition makes it actually feasible. While the Sarcos-Raytheon super suit seems more...
Wednesday, 23 May 2012
A question
Posted on 09:51 by hony
If the U.S. government is paying SpaceX $400 million for two ISS supply missions, and SpaceX has no other non-government clients...how can we call this the first private space mission? Space travel appears to be about as privatized as mail deliver...
Monday, 21 May 2012
How to be a hypocrite
Posted on 10:32 by hony
Bash Edison for not being the "real" inventor of the light bulb and claim Edison merely made it practical, then get pissed when someone points out Tesla wasn't the "real" inventor of A/C and then defend Tesla for "making A/C practical."Or as Armstrong states it: Aaaand it looks like @Oatmeal is whining that everything he said is true and where it's not he gets a free pass 'cause he's a cartoonist.People need to learn that when they go a little overboard and get called out on it...the worst thing they can do is double dow...
Another great article on Tesla/Edison
Posted on 09:57 by hony
Tastefully named Alex Knapp uses the most tasteful source...
Wednesday, 16 May 2012
Chill, people.
Posted on 18:47 by hony
Textbook fear mongering:On the horizon is the expanding field of brain-digital interface. Devices have already been built that use brain activity to control basic machinery, such as a prosthetic limb.This can be achieved either through implantable devices that directly interface with the brain, or external neuro-modulation, perhaps integrated into a helmet. ... As innovation in this field proceeds, Moreno also wondered whether we risk entering a human arms race, with militaries competing to have the most highly enhanced super soldiers....
Monday, 14 May 2012
This Tesla Love-Fest Has Got To End
Posted on 18:53 by hony
Over at The Oatmeal, a popular online comic, there's a sprawling, gushing graphic about Nikola Tesla. Inside it, Edison is referred to as a "douchebag," a "bloated, misguided ass," and a "f-ing idiot."First, let me disclose: I have read three different biographies on Edison and two on Tesla. I know my shit. The author's depiction of Edison reminds me of FoxNews' depiction of President Obama.But let me start with one minor detail. The author suggests Tesla, not Edison, is the "father of the electric age" and buoys this claim by pointing out that...
Friday, 11 May 2012
Nothing will "never" Happen
Posted on 07:55 by hony
Tastefully named high school acquantance of TAE, now famous Forbes blogger Alex Knapp writes about the lack of likelihood that we'll build an artificial brain equal in power to the gelatin-consistency one we have in our heads:The mind is best understood, not as software, but rather as an emergent property of the physical brain. So building an artificial intelligence with the same level of complexity as that of a human intelligence isn’t a matter of just finding the right algorithms and putting it together. The brain is much more complicated than...
Friday, 4 May 2012
Atlas Shrugged
Posted on 08:18 by hony
"I had a hard time with Ayn Rand becuase I found myself agreeing with the first 90% of every sentence, but getting lost at 'therefore be a huge asshole to everyone.' -Randall Munr...
Thursday, 3 May 2012
Tax the Rich
Posted on 14:05 by hony
First, read this. I'm going to discuss Will Wilkinson's response at length, but please, read King's article in full before you read any more of my post.Here's Wilkinson's response. Meat:Mr King's ultimate objection seems to me to blur together two separate thoughts. First, he seems to think there is a class of problems that belong to the nation as a whole. Then there's the thought that problem-solving efforts financed by gifts from the rich people will prove ineffective, while efforts financed by taxes can work.And potatoes:To Mr King's claim that...
Wednesday, 2 May 2012
Exnovation
Posted on 11:03 by hony
Is there a term for the opposite of innovation? And by "the opposite of innovation" I mean when someone tries to do something innovative and it produces a product that is lower in quality to the previous version. I know of no word, other the devolution, but even that misses the mark.And so I humbly suggest we adopt "exnovating" and "exnovation" as meaning "innovation that produces the opposite of the hoped for improvement."As in "The Weather Channel's new site redesign is a real exnovation." or "Google is really exnovating with this new Blogger...
Does Knowing Tony Stark's Background Get Me Laid?
Posted on 07:05 by hony
Andew O'Hehir: I know, I know. I’m profaning sacred ground here. Once upon a time, and a very long time ago it was, the teenage boys (and occasional girls) who grew into adults and kept on reading superhero comics were viewed as oddballs or outcasts. When Hollywood began to rediscover the pioneering DC and Marvel superheroes of the 20th century, it was refreshing and delightful at first, and for a while: the Christopher Reeve Superman movies, Tim Burton’s “Batman,” Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man trilogy, the X-Men series. All were lots of fun, all descended...
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