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jason77700 | 10 years ago | on: Self-Driving and Electric Vehicles Will Kill These Businesses

Glad to contribute!

jason77700 | 10 years ago | on: Self-Driving and Electric Vehicles Will Kill These Businesses

Add local auto repair shops to your list. Why drive local if your car can drive itself to the manufacturer?

jason77700 | 10 years ago

Add local auto repair shops to your list. Why drive local if your car can drive itself to the manufacturer?

jason77700 | 14 years ago | on: Flash Game Simulates Living on $9/hr.

Part of the problem is that students are told how to solve these kinds of problems rather than being taught to reason their way through the problem.

I looked at it and 'reasoned' they will meet when the combined distance of both trains is 300 miles. No math required for that step.

I believe most adults and kids could then figure out 50 MPH + 70 MPH = 120 MPH and 300 Miles/120 MPH = 2.5 Hours or am I giving people to much credit?

jason77700 | 14 years ago | on: Crypt of Civilization

As an alumni of Oglethorpe University, I would bet I'm the only one that reads HN (Anyone Else?).

You pass by the steal doors of the Crypt on the way to the Book Store. It was my observation that students didn't really care about the Crypt itself, but that in order to build it they had to gut the indoor pool.

70+ years later they still don't have a pool nor offer any Computer Science / Computer Engineering classes.

jason77700 | 15 years ago | on: Google's Eric Schmidt: If you care about security, get a Mac, not a PC

Yes, Windows has many more exposed security risks. Mac's have around an 8-9% market reach right now. As Apple's market share raises you'll see more and more viruses targeted at Mac's as we have in the last couple of weeks. Let's see what happens if Apple ever is able to get 25%+ of the market using Mac's.

In 16 years of using Windows with no Anti-Virus software installed, I have never gotten a virus. Maybe Microsoft should do a better job of educating users on what not to click on.

I run a company that does IT Support for businesses. Once a week or so, I'll have a CEO bring in his kids Laptop with a virus and a good number of times it was caused by their kid using some p2p file sharing program and downloading and running cracked versions of software which contained the virus. This is not yet as big of a problem for Apple as the number of software titles in general is much smaller and thus people downloading cracked copies which might contain a virus is going to be smaller.

Two cents.