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Awesome. Love the flag.

> and frustratingly, it doesn't seem to actually link to the research that it mentions either, nor even provide enough a citation to find it

Citations don't sell. Sex, violence, and realistic-sounding, baseless, faulty journalism does. Welcome to the 20xx's. :)

I think it is the Nokia Lumia 1020/EOS, which I've heard is more of a sham than marketing would lead you to believe. I have to admit when I've seen the commercials, I wanted one also.

They don't hand out money everyday to the same people.

And it is not stupid theater. It is our government NOT at work. We may temporarily recover some of our debt. In fact, if they keep this going for an extended period of time, it might actually help- a lot. Our country has become much too dependent on our government, and now that the two political parties can't get along, there may actually be room for another socially moderate, somewhat fiscally-conservative, deficit hawk, constitutionalist, semi-libertarian party with common sense to come along and bring the country together. Unfortunately, it hasn't organized yet (and no, it isn't the Libertarian party- not with its current leaders- and even with better leadership, Libertarians are incapable of getting the debt under control because they won't allow raising taxes to cover for past debt).

Surface/2 = fail, Windows phone/mobile = fail, Ballmer left, XBox One = NSA big brother/bad timing fail, now known to have been working with NSA first to help access user data of privately bought/installed systems since at least early-mid 90s = fail, Windows 8 = fail.

Yes, they are making lots of money, but the shark was jumped long ago, and we are in Joanie Loves Chachi-land now (2 Happy Days references for you there). I think it is perfectly reasonable to start armchair quarterbacking to try to influence the new CEO.

> "We believe every person deserves the chance to live a healthy, productive life."

> What if something like this was the purpose and vision for Microsoft?

They need to combine what they are good at while still focusing on what made them.

1. The XBox was a success, prior to big brother concerns about the One. They need to get back to basics: the fastest and best technlogy and the best games.

2. Their OS and enterprise apps were mostly a success, prior to cloudification (or SAAS-ification) and mobile. They failed at mobile and need to cut their losses and go back to focusing on desktop/server systems.

3. .Net and C#/VB.net and their development ecosystem has been a success. They should continue this, enterprise product lines and development support.

4. Office was a success, prior to cloudification. They should go back to software and focus on usability.

5. Things to drop/split off/sell to gain focus: Bing, Windows Mobile, any hardware, software, or services unrelated to the top 4 above.

There is something that I think brings some of these together: home automation. Not cloudified home automation, but developing an OS that supports it that is capable of running without a net connection. People need to believe and understand that it is not big brother watching from the NSA. They could buy up existing home automation companies and maybe a security company or two to get a hold of the market and be able to take advantage of much of the technology they have developed so far. They could utilize Kinect technology and their Windows OS tech to run it. By running the home, they serve the apps and licenses from there as well, completely removed from the net if desired- just a local network.

The vision would be "Microsoft enables products that your family uses so that you can be free, happy, safe and secure."

Thanks for sharing, but if I don't know a language, how is having a tool translate it going to help me learn the language? Are you suggesting this only for those with a moderate knowledge of the language already? And what about those of us that don't have friends to grade us in a language? Without it, the automated translation may be wrong, and I'd be learning incorrect information.

I'd like to learn other languages quickly, but in past experience, conversational/immersion is the only way to go to get anything useful, and I don't have that ability or the time to persue it. Really the only time I have is the 1-1.5 hours in the car everyday- that is not enough and I have no one to converse with, and I'm an introvert anyway, so I don't want to talk to people typically.

> Imagine coming to work to spend hours googling, wiring together unbelievably shitty, amazingly poor documented frameworks and battling Javscript and CSS.

I don't have to imagine it. Happens every fucking day.

Yes, per the post we're discussing: "Including EEGs in basic military first aid kits would also help with both medical diagnostics and clinical care for deployed soldiers"

However, unlike what the parent comment said, brain waves on the field are not going to be used in the short-term to diagnose PTSD. Potential uses of sensors in the helmet would be:

1. Control of other devices (and this better be wired, or the enemy could really screw with wireless).

2. Feedback/stats about the resource in question, e.g. he just got blown up, is his brain still working?, OR these guys just got hit with nerve gas.

> in every case where we let someone go, that person has gone on to work on things that they are more passionate about and where they have excelled and been happier at.

Ok, I believed it until then. B.S. No way he knows that. Plenty of unmotivated developers out there. It is not all roses when you get fired, even for a boss that "understands your pain and wants what's best for you". The fact is- if you fire someone, you want to feel like you are doing them a favor. Well, you aren't. You likely made a hiring mistake, and your mistake as a manager is going on that person's permanent record. It may be 80-90% their fault, but the employer shares in the blame for failure. Admit you fucked up, and try to help the person if you can. Then improve your hiring and early evaluation process.

It's highly doubtful the example mentioned (checked brain waves after an injury) is something EMT's are dying to have available in a portable format. Checking brain waves regularly as part of triage of head injury by an EMT is unlikely, imo. Less technical triage methods work fine.

Other than perhaps some use in doctors without borders, the only really useful brain activity that could be recorded with anything close to $30 worth of tech would be during sleep.

I had a few sleep studies several years ago; the electrodes were really not comfortable because of all of the wires. If that $30 sensor could be hooked to an iPhone and came with 8-10 reusable wireless electrodes (though hopefully it would only take 2-4) that were comfortable to wear while sleeping- and in the morning it could give me the amount of time in each stage of sleep- that might sell.