alberthartman

He was a person still in the process of evolving himself. He still had many flaws that he was unable to correct before he died. But from what I could tell he was making progress on those aspects right up until his death. Unfortunate. Still, he led a pretty good life everything considered.

Best choice is to follow the wishes of the person who’s in the heat of the battle. Be cognizant that those wishes may change as the illness progresses. Do it as being of maximal service to the loved one.

Have you tried psychedelics? They’ve been reported as being effective at setting the world straight for many people. Probably need to do a good deal of research first, and conventional medical information sources will probably be unhelpful.

Sorry to see this happen. They were nice folks. But the big guns got AR religion and just pulled away with more money, installed base, etc.

So if you make your motor 10 pounds lighter you win? Heck, my backpack is 10 pounds. And a motor can only be 100% efficient, and they're at 97% now. Naw, I'll take my non-slipring motors.

How about dropping the Hyperloop evacuated tube idea and replace it with something more achievable? How about a private roadway that is completely flat and only for specially-equipped electric cars? The cars are completely autonomous and communicate with neighboring cars and a central traffic controller. The cars can tailgate each other in complete safety at 200-250 mph allowing for extremely dense road usage (no 9 car lengths separations). And all the traffic will move at exactly the same super-high speed, carefully servoed.

People can just get in using their own privately-owned certified compliant electric cars. And then take a nap as the autonomous driving takes over for safe high-speed travel. No traffic jam slowdowns, no slowpokes in your lane. Road-embedded power can wirelessly beam energy so there is no need for refueling stations. Traffic control manages vehicles entering and leaving the roadway. Read the news or take a nap. SF-to-LA in 2hrs, and you arrive rested and with your car.

Not the hyperloop, but drastically cheaper and leveraging technology that's coming anyway. The novelty is drastically higher speeds, bumper to bumper driving, continuous fueling.

Steve jobs is dead. It shows.

If some other criminal hijacks their gear is the government responsible for protecting their assets?

Some of this may be misdirection. VR is getting tremendous attention and will be very competitive. Look how he backed away from mobile. Complaining about wires and resolution? They're getting new revs every 12-18 months now. Look for hidef wireless hmds in 20-36 months, not 20 years. No physics? Look again. I think he wants to avoid competitive low margin businesses when better choices are available.

Great as always telling us where we are. Not so great telling us where we're going, where the big financial bets are (she's a VC and should know), what are the significant new technology themes. I was hoping for an opportunity roadmap as seen by KPCB. Just got more ads, more smartphones, more retail. No bitcoin, VR, drones, bioinformatics, energy, or US financials as in years past.

Awesome stuff! Ditto the comments that the biggest challenge will be getting your name out there. Depending on your focus and bandwidth, the DIY approach of Lockitron may work, or you may wish to just go Indiegogo/KS and focus on the promotion side yourself and let someone else handle the payment plumbing. You'll have to promote either way.

The risks of the high wire act, the vertical mountain wall climbing is that you can fall. We need to think up workable nets and ropes for people pushing the edges.

A woman I knew just drowned herself The well was deep and muddy She was just shaking off futility Or punishing somebody My friends were calling up all day yesterday All emotions and abstractions It seems we all live so close to that line And so far from satisfaction

-joni

Jobs also demanded and got the full resignation of all but 2 of the prior BODs after he came back. Dump the past troublemakers. That won't work here since Meg is one of those previous bad HP BODs members.

Damn you math! PV works just fine. Too bad we don't have a high density mobile energy storage method to compare to liquid oil. When that happens, sub power will rule all.

Math, especially algebra, is essential to all technology. Counting and measuring and projecting forward are foundational skills. The thing is that there are two basic aspects to algebra, one is conceptual and the other is mechanical. The conceptual part is interesting and worthwhile to most people. The second thing is what drives people off - the long detailed mechanical aspect of accurately doing long equations, perfect transcriptions, looking for simplifications and cancellations. But it is precisely this laborious mechanical aspect that has been drastically improved with modern symbolic math software like Mathematica and Mathcad, et al. Factor a twenty term formula, do any integral, or differentiate a messy equation in about, oh, half a second? The failure is that we don't teach these software skills right at the start.

How boring would writing be if we didn't let students use word processors with their perfect erasers, spelling checkers, scissors, tape, carbon paper, and endless new blank sheets? Or if we forced all architects and engineers to use rulers, pencils, Leroy lettering guides, and E-size paper on drafting boards every time they wanted to design something for others to build, not allowing them to use Solidworks or Autodesk, or equivalent modern tool to help? Ditto for movie making, or pretty much everything else.

Algebra is great. Teach it along with teaching the modern symbolic math tools that go along with it.