Those tablets never took off the way Microsoft expected, they are popular in the Medical Field, but not much beyond that. Now for my current Laptop I have a Lenovo x220 Table. That has a multi-touch screen. It is nice, because I can use it as a good laptop or as a tablet. The issue was with the old ones, was you needed a stylus, that was easily lost, and needed a full free hand. Now with cheap multi-touch we can operate the PC much easier. And Windows 8 actually makes running a PC off of a touch screen rather useful.
Question? How many lbs on the average does soda add to the obesity problem? I admit I am overweight but I drink only a little bit of soda. Like once a month. I get the funny feeling that Soda is less of an issue and more to the fact that people are afraid of their neighbors and never leave the house. Poorer people live in more dangerous areas so they will stay inside more, as well they rent so they will not have to preform outside main thence. Also they are not willing to buy gym membership. Parents in order to protect their kids are not allowing them to go out and play so they get use to staying inside.
The Democrats got their Crazy Left Wingers too. Groups of people saying we should give the rich 90% taxes, hippies who want to close down all the arm forces, Atheist groups who just want to illegalize religion.
Well a lot of Apple Cutting Palm off was because Palm wasn't always playing by the rules. We have seem to forgot the iTunes fiasco. Where the Web OS in essence hacked its software to make iTunes think it is an iPod so you had iPod compatibility, without Apples permission. Such a hack is clever and cool for the normal hacker, because this was all fine and good, and the fact this wouldn't be used for profit. But the same hack by Palm, was very dirty playing, first being that is was a hack not a partner ship it cheapen the brand, to make it seem like it was made by a bunch of teen agers, second it meant you had to keep updating the product when ever apple updates there's to stop their competitors from using their system. So in the meantime the customer who did buy the product had to keep updating every week, and loose support for their music off and on. Also the fact that it supported iTunes was basically saying that it was just a cheap rip-off of apples os.
These are not conservative leaning. They are religious zealots. They need to stop making people right of center seem like that they are all crazed idiots.
I think the key issue, is that Americans as a culture are not book learned, but practical learned. Standardized tests are good for people who read books and then can regurgitate what they read, they don't need to have a drive to really understand the information, they just need to know X = Y and they don't really care why X = Y.
Asian Cultures are far more booked learned. I remember in college there was this Chinese kid who kept of killing the Test Curve. However when he had to do project work he just sucked at it. A Senior Computer Science major shouldn't need to ask what Data Type does Decimal Points... As the information is no longer tested it left his brain. He complained how Americans never really read books. However the Top Performers did a lot of time practicing and understanding.
Yea, what was up with that. I mean Riker is suppose to be a really good pilot and all. He should have just taken the helm. Or why not Data to handle both consoles. I mean he is orders of magatudes faster then a human, he could do whatever he does and pilot the ship at the same time.
Well take your pick, either you get the games with DRM, or you don't get your games. You still have that choice now, you don't like the DRM, then dont get Steam For Linux.
Remember these are just Games, Entertainment, They are really not a big deal in the grand scheme of life, heck they probably distract you from having a lot of life's great moments.
Linux had a chance to become a premiere desktop OS last decade with Microsoft Screwup on top of Screwup. However, it seemed that Apple Took the Gold and Linux Lagged
Yes state your argument about a solution by using absolutes. Lets ban all hammers, because hammers don't work well trying to put in screws.
Cloud Solutions, fill a gap, and it is good that it fills the gap, are there solutions that isn't fit for the Cloud, yes you bet, but don't blame the technology, blame the poor implementation.
IQ tests like many forms of test is a way to quantify peoples abilities. People with High measured IQ tend to be more intelligent then people with low IQ. However there are a lot of factors that goes into be an intelligent or a mentally useful person. However the IQ is a form of measurement, and chances are your performance will coincide with the standard distribution level you are in.
The last time I was formally tested for my IQ I was in middle school, they did it not to rate how smart each child is, but to find underachiever in the system were they can get extra help. At the Time my IQ was above average, it wasn't genius, but it was strong. Later because I had problems in school with writing I had a bunch of other tests taken, it showed my Reading Skills was Average, my Writing Skills were near remedial, but my Abstract Reasoning was Genius. While I have worked on my reading and writing skills, which it seems every Grammar Nazi points out, is one of those setbacks that hold me back, however my stronger skills, I have learned to compensate and relay more on them to help push me further. To be honest I have judged my life to be Well above average compared to my peers.
The IQ test seemed to average a persons intelligence. But it doesn't mean that they overall stupid or smart, it is just an average. As people may have stronger skills and weaker skills, and unlike Role Playing games, they are not fare and balanced, You can get The Super Smart Kids, who is good with people, and is a good athlete too, you can also get the Weak Little Kid, who had severe learning problems, and is just a complete jerk.
Science is a process, not the fact. Real Scientist will follow the Scientific method, and based on the method it will either prove or disprove their hypothesis. For continental drift. You are going on the fact the contents would roughly fit together like a puzzle, so perhaps they were at one time put together. That is all fine and good, you now have model to base your hypothesis on. Now other then just a though experiment, you need to go to the next steps and try to prove your theory. If you are unable or unwilling to come up with tests, then you are not doing science, you are just blindly coming up with an idea. The fact your Hypothesis is correct or incorrect doesn't make it good science. Science is the process to strengthen or weaken or outright prove and disprove your argument.
Because Sadam was better then getting a communist supporter in power. Sometimes you need to choose from the lesser of two evils. The USSR with nukes pointing at you, or put a crazy man who will not join the side with all those nukes pointing at you, we will deal with the crazy man later. Just like FDR working with Stallin in WWII the communists were a threat to America, but Germany was a bigger threat. Sometimes in life you get places where you need to take the least bad action.
Yes the Communists and the Nazis were just peace loving agnostic/atheists groups. Saying religion is the problem is oversimplifying the problem. Is religion used in an excuse to make war, yes. Is religion an excuse to make peace, yes. Religion is only one way we consider our identity. So we will support our peers of like minds. Take away religion we will fight for other thing, political ideals, resources, borders, race and ethnicity, moral code, social class status.
However we should follow New York city and find ways to Ban the consumption of sugary sodas.
Druggies who damage their bodies with drugs, and are unable to work and be productive citizens they are OK, let them live their lives as they choose, however if you are a fat person, then you are a bad person and needs reeducation.
Black Market sell products that you cannot legally get or get at the price close to what supply and demand can tolerate. It is a natural part of the economy. In New York the biggest black market item is unpasteurized milk.
The reason why something is illegal, is the combination of two things, 1. It is overall more dangerous then it will help. 2. People want it anyways.
Prohibition didn't work because the Demand was much too high. The other drugs do not have as much of demand and are not part of our culture.
The people who support your ideal are the good guys, the people who don't are the bad guys. The issue I have always had was the double standard that a lot of people in the Open Source Community have. It is OK to pirate Closed Source tool, but if a company breaks a rule in the GPL they should be fully punished. That is the most damaging part, because in order for the GPL to be respected the GPL community needs to respect the other Licenses out there.
SETI is a waste of money and time. We need to make a bunch of assumptions. 1. There are planets out there that support life. 2. Life on this planet had evolved into a complex life form (beyond slim) 3. A member of this complex form of life had evolved enough to be intelligent. 4. This Intelligent life form will think mostly like us. 5. This life form grew up in a culture which has allowed technology to flourish. 6. This culture would have technology based on radio waves, and yet is stilly enough to have their own version of SETI 7. The culture if were to pick up the signals, they would be strong enough to recognize and pinpoint the sender 8. This culture would then be able to understand and decode/recognize it is from an other life. 9. This culture would then be able willing/able to send the message back. 10. We would be able to hear the message after light-years of interference of the signals.
Life on earth has been estimated to be on earth for 3 billion years. Humans for 2 million, modern culture for 10,000 years, Science to send and receive radio, 100 years, SETI level technology 50 years. 50/3000000000 = 0.00000166666667% That is just in the life span of earth.
My thoughts exactly. Voluntary standards like the DNT works when you know a minority of you users will turn it on. Kinda like Ad-block. The reason why there isn't an all out war on Ad-Block is because only a small percentage of people use it, so it is better to allow ad-block and not piss off a minority, who can be vocal and make a big deal out of it, causing a drop beyond just he ad-block users. However if the majority is using Ad-Block then you have sucked the companies revenue and you can just write off as a minority users, thus to keep your revenue up will will need to work around it. If by default DNT is saying yes, the companies that make money off of tracking you will begin to ignore it, thus using your safety. Where before they honor DNT as a minority will want it.
Not really, What would probably be a better use, is storing your MRNs (Medial Record Numbers) for all your healthcare provider systems, and perhaps the URL to access their MRN. Scanning the QR code will will then download a CCD (Community Care Document (XML based schema)) straight from the providers. That way they will have the full Medical Record of the patient for viewing.
The key issue is security, to make sure any guy with a smartphone can't get in. You can probably make money providing secure key authentication across the health care partners.
Yes the Old stuff is much better then the new crap. 3g is a particular generation of broad long range wireless, Wi-Fi is a general term for short range wireless. You are comparing apples to oranges.
There is also a lot of cost added to software due to it being in a media form. Digital downloads are actually a much more affordable easier process, why do you think you can get games for your Andoid/iPhone for only a couple of buck while the console costs a lot more.
You got the cost of making the material and shipping it to the stores (That is relativity cheap maybe a few bucks) Then you have to need to price it to make it worth it for it to be in the stores. Inventory costs are high. If a store is making 20% profit off of a game they are only going to stock games that cost more so it is worth it for them to sit on their property. If you have a cheap game, it will only be worth it if it has volume, say you are restocking the shelves every day. Because the store owner has to pay rent power and employees taxes... Oddly enough if the game maker makes the game too inexpensive then the store owners will not buy the game as it will cost them too much money if they sell slowly.
Now for digital downloads, storage is cheap, and off of one copy of the game you can download it millions of times. If the game doesn't sell as much you are not loosing that much off it just sitting there, so you can sell games for a few bucks or a higher quality one for say $20 vs. where the crap games start at $15 and go up to $100 per title. Plus also you have the convince factor, if you want to buy a cheap game, you can go ahead do it 24/7 as an impulse buy and not wait and go to the store giving you plenty of time to decide not do buy it. Now that is a reason other the DRM why companies prefer Downloads. Why would you prefer downloads over Optical Media. 1. You are getting cheaper games. 2. You don't need to care for the media. (My friend yelled at his son for not putting the XBox disks back and away, because they are expensive to replace) 3. You can always get a new game.
Now the part I am worried about are the Game Retail stores, would be most hit by downloads.
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Those tablets never took off the way Microsoft expected, they are popular in the Medical Field, but not much beyond that. Now for my current Laptop I have a Lenovo x220 Table. That has a multi-touch screen. It is nice, because I can use it as a good laptop or as a tablet.
The issue was with the old ones, was you needed a stylus, that was easily lost, and needed a full free hand. Now with cheap multi-touch we can operate the PC much easier. And Windows 8 actually makes running a PC off of a touch screen rather useful.
How many people really choose to be fat? Or choose to be unhealthy, most people start smoking when they are young and stupid, and can't quit.
Let's just make laws that exclude the poor, in writting, because the reason they are not rich is because the choose to be poor.
Question? How many lbs on the average does soda add to the obesity problem?
I admit I am overweight but I drink only a little bit of soda. Like once a month. I get the funny feeling that Soda is less of an issue and more to the fact that people are afraid of their neighbors and never leave the house.
Poorer people live in more dangerous areas so they will stay inside more, as well they rent so they will not have to preform outside main thence. Also they are not willing to buy gym membership.
Parents in order to protect their kids are not allowing them to go out and play so they get use to staying inside.
The Democrats got their Crazy Left Wingers too. Groups of people saying we should give the rich 90% taxes, hippies who want to close down all the arm forces, Atheist groups who just want to illegalize religion.
Well a lot of Apple Cutting Palm off was because Palm wasn't always playing by the rules.
We have seem to forgot the iTunes fiasco. Where the Web OS in essence hacked its software to make iTunes think it is an iPod so you had iPod compatibility, without Apples permission. Such a hack is clever and cool for the normal hacker, because this was all fine and good, and the fact this wouldn't be used for profit. But the same hack by Palm, was very dirty playing, first being that is was a hack not a partner ship it cheapen the brand, to make it seem like it was made by a bunch of teen agers, second it meant you had to keep updating the product when ever apple updates there's to stop their competitors from using their system. So in the meantime the customer who did buy the product had to keep updating every week, and loose support for their music off and on. Also the fact that it supported iTunes was basically saying that it was just a cheap rip-off of apples os.
These are not conservative leaning. They are religious zealots. They need to stop making people right of center seem like that they are all crazed idiots.
I think the key issue, is that Americans as a culture are not book learned, but practical learned. Standardized tests are good for people who read books and then can regurgitate what they read, they don't need to have a drive to really understand the information, they just need to know X = Y and they don't really care why X = Y.
Asian Cultures are far more booked learned. I remember in college there was this Chinese kid who kept of killing the Test Curve. However when he had to do project work he just sucked at it. A Senior Computer Science major shouldn't need to ask what Data Type does Decimal Points... As the information is no longer tested it left his brain. He complained how Americans never really read books. However the Top Performers did a lot of time practicing and understanding.
I just picture the Barge captain cringing his face and breathing in very loudly threw his teeth, as his heart drops to his bowels.
From the picture... It looks like the shuttle was made out of wood and foam...
Yea, what was up with that.
I mean Riker is suppose to be a really good pilot and all. He should have just taken the helm. Or why not Data to handle both consoles. I mean he is orders of magatudes faster then a human, he could do whatever he does and pilot the ship at the same time.
He hands it to the final spot. "Yea, we can just buff that out."
Well take your pick, either you get the games with DRM, or you don't get your games. You still have that choice now, you don't like the DRM, then dont get Steam For Linux.
Remember these are just Games, Entertainment, They are really not a big deal in the grand scheme of life, heck they probably distract you from having a lot of life's great moments.
No.
Linux is a Server OS. Not a desktop OS.
Linux had a chance to become a premiere desktop OS last decade with Microsoft Screwup on top of Screwup. However, it seemed that Apple Took the Gold and Linux Lagged
Yes state your argument about a solution by using absolutes.
Lets ban all hammers, because hammers don't work well trying to put in screws.
Cloud Solutions, fill a gap, and it is good that it fills the gap, are there solutions that isn't fit for the Cloud, yes you bet, but don't blame the technology, blame the poor implementation.
But which 1%, There are a lot of 1% out there.
The Tea Party is controlled by the Oil Companies 1%.
The Occupy is controlled by the Unions 1%
The Favorite Trend is controlled by the Marketers 1%...
It doesn't seem that you have any decisions to make for yourself, There is always someone else telling you what to think.
IQ tests like many forms of test is a way to quantify peoples abilities. People with High measured IQ tend to be more intelligent then people with low IQ. However there are a lot of factors that goes into be an intelligent or a mentally useful person. However the IQ is a form of measurement, and chances are your performance will coincide with the standard distribution level you are in.
The last time I was formally tested for my IQ I was in middle school, they did it not to rate how smart each child is, but to find underachiever in the system were they can get extra help. At the Time my IQ was above average, it wasn't genius, but it was strong. Later because I had problems in school with writing I had a bunch of other tests taken, it showed my Reading Skills was Average, my Writing Skills were near remedial, but my Abstract Reasoning was Genius. While I have worked on my reading and writing skills, which it seems every Grammar Nazi points out, is one of those setbacks that hold me back, however my stronger skills, I have learned to compensate and relay more on them to help push me further. To be honest I have judged my life to be Well above average compared to my peers.
The IQ test seemed to average a persons intelligence. But it doesn't mean that they overall stupid or smart, it is just an average. As people may have stronger skills and weaker skills, and unlike Role Playing games, they are not fare and balanced, You can get The Super Smart Kids, who is good with people, and is a good athlete too, you can also get the Weak Little Kid, who had severe learning problems, and is just a complete jerk.
Science is a process, not the fact.
Real Scientist will follow the Scientific method, and based on the method it will either prove or disprove their hypothesis. For continental drift. You are going on the fact the contents would roughly fit together like a puzzle, so perhaps they were at one time put together. That is all fine and good, you now have model to base your hypothesis on. Now other then just a though experiment, you need to go to the next steps and try to prove your theory. If you are unable or unwilling to come up with tests, then you are not doing science, you are just blindly coming up with an idea. The fact your Hypothesis is correct or incorrect doesn't make it good science. Science is the process to strengthen or weaken or outright prove and disprove your argument.
Because Sadam was better then getting a communist supporter in power. Sometimes you need to choose from the lesser of two evils. The USSR with nukes pointing at you, or put a crazy man who will not join the side with all those nukes pointing at you, we will deal with the crazy man later. Just like FDR working with Stallin in WWII the communists were a threat to America, but Germany was a bigger threat.
Sometimes in life you get places where you need to take the least bad action.
Yes the Communists and the Nazis were just peace loving agnostic/atheists groups.
Saying religion is the problem is oversimplifying the problem. Is religion used in an excuse to make war, yes. Is religion an excuse to make peace, yes.
Religion is only one way we consider our identity. So we will support our peers of like minds. Take away religion we will fight for other thing, political ideals, resources, borders, race and ethnicity, moral code, social class status.
However we should follow New York city and find ways to Ban the consumption of sugary sodas.
Druggies who damage their bodies with drugs, and are unable to work and be productive citizens they are OK, let them live their lives as they choose, however if you are a fat person, then you are a bad person and needs reeducation.
Black Market sell products that you cannot legally get or get at the price close to what supply and demand can tolerate. It is a natural part of the economy. In New York the biggest black market item is unpasteurized milk.
The reason why something is illegal, is the combination of two things, 1. It is overall more dangerous then it will help. 2. People want it anyways.
Prohibition didn't work because the Demand was much too high. The other drugs do not have as much of demand and are not part of our culture.
The people who support your ideal are the good guys, the people who don't are the bad guys.
The issue I have always had was the double standard that a lot of people in the Open Source Community have. It is OK to pirate Closed Source tool, but if a company breaks a rule in the GPL they should be fully punished. That is the most damaging part, because in order for the GPL to be respected the GPL community needs to respect the other Licenses out there.
SETI is a waste of money and time.
We need to make a bunch of assumptions.
1. There are planets out there that support life.
2. Life on this planet had evolved into a complex life form (beyond slim)
3. A member of this complex form of life had evolved enough to be intelligent.
4. This Intelligent life form will think mostly like us.
5. This life form grew up in a culture which has allowed technology to flourish.
6. This culture would have technology based on radio waves, and yet is stilly enough to have their own version of SETI
7. The culture if were to pick up the signals, they would be strong enough to recognize and pinpoint the sender
8. This culture would then be able to understand and decode/recognize it is from an other life.
9. This culture would then be able willing/able to send the message back.
10. We would be able to hear the message after light-years of interference of the signals.
Life on earth has been estimated to be on earth for 3 billion years. Humans for 2 million, modern culture for 10,000 years, Science to send and receive radio, 100 years, SETI level technology 50 years. 50/3000000000 = 0.00000166666667% That is just in the life span of earth.
My thoughts exactly. Voluntary standards like the DNT works when you know a minority of you users will turn it on. Kinda like Ad-block. The reason why there isn't an all out war on Ad-Block is because only a small percentage of people use it, so it is better to allow ad-block and not piss off a minority, who can be vocal and make a big deal out of it, causing a drop beyond just he ad-block users. However if the majority is using Ad-Block then you have sucked the companies revenue and you can just write off as a minority users, thus to keep your revenue up will will need to work around it. If by default DNT is saying yes, the companies that make money off of tracking you will begin to ignore it, thus using your safety. Where before they honor DNT as a minority will want it.
Not really, What would probably be a better use, is storing your MRNs (Medial Record Numbers) for all your healthcare provider systems, and perhaps the URL to access their MRN. Scanning the QR code will will then download a CCD (Community Care Document (XML based schema)) straight from the providers. That way they will have the full Medical Record of the patient for viewing.
The key issue is security, to make sure any guy with a smartphone can't get in. You can probably make money providing secure key authentication across the health care partners.
Yes the Old stuff is much better then the new crap.
3g is a particular generation of broad long range wireless, Wi-Fi is a general term for short range wireless. You are comparing apples to oranges.
There is also a lot of cost added to software due to it being in a media form. Digital downloads are actually a much more affordable easier process, why do you think you can get games for your Andoid/iPhone for only a couple of buck while the console costs a lot more.
You got the cost of making the material and shipping it to the stores (That is relativity cheap maybe a few bucks) Then you have to need to price it to make it worth it for it to be in the stores. Inventory costs are high. If a store is making 20% profit off of a game they are only going to stock games that cost more so it is worth it for them to sit on their property. If you have a cheap game, it will only be worth it if it has volume, say you are restocking the shelves every day. Because the store owner has to pay rent power and employees taxes... Oddly enough if the game maker makes the game too inexpensive then the store owners will not buy the game as it will cost them too much money if they sell slowly.
Now for digital downloads, storage is cheap, and off of one copy of the game you can download it millions of times. If the game doesn't sell as much you are not loosing that much off it just sitting there, so you can sell games for a few bucks or a higher quality one for say $20 vs. where the crap games start at $15 and go up to $100 per title. Plus also you have the convince factor, if you want to buy a cheap game, you can go ahead do it 24/7 as an impulse buy and not wait and go to the store giving you plenty of time to decide not do buy it.
Now that is a reason other the DRM why companies prefer Downloads.
Why would you prefer downloads over Optical Media.
1. You are getting cheaper games.
2. You don't need to care for the media. (My friend yelled at his son for not putting the XBox disks back and away, because they are expensive to replace)
3. You can always get a new game.
Now the part I am worried about are the Game Retail stores, would be most hit by downloads.