Email Marketing, So I will demand $0.25 per spam mail sent from every spammer for using my Idea. Pyramid Schemes, So when they are caught they will need to pay me royalty for breaking the law. Telemarking, They call me they will need to pay for violating my patent.
Lets just patent all the evil practices so it is just that more expensive to try to lie and cheat.
The only advantage that power point has vs. the old ways is the fact you can Download the Slides for further studying so you are not franticly trying to get all the information as notes. (which for some people) Distract them from actually listening and learning the material, and getting any of the tangents where the real stuff is learned. However even back in my day professors often had pre printed overhead transparencies, which were made by the publisher which made things just as bad as with powerpoint. Or worse the professor who kept the transparencies when he use to care about his class and just put up the hand written notes and put a piece of paper on top of it so you wouldn't get ahead of them.
Any Media can be used for good or for evil.
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The problem with SQL isn't really SQL fault it is the fact that most people don't know how to use it properly. It is amazing how many people "with SQL in their resumes" cannot do joins, cursors, or grouping. I don't consider myself an SQL expert but I am good at it, and I can get the job done. But I know if I make a query and it takes too long to run if I don't need to run it once. Then there is probably some optimization that I will need to do to improve speed. Creating Temporary tables with a reduced dataset, Changing from a single nested sql call to a cursor loop or the other way around depending which will run faster. A lot of times these optimizations are the difference between 40 minutes to run to 30 seconds. Giving the same correct results. A lot of times people who don't know about joins do the basic join of select x.a y.b from x, y where x.c = y.c Not realizing that Most SQL engines will take all the records of x and cross them with y so you will have x.records*y.records Loaded in your system, the it goes and removes the matches. So O(n^2) in performance, Vs. If you do a Select x.a, y.b from x left join y on x.c What this will do is go down the x table O(n) then it will match up the correct record from Y where if you have the correct indexing it will take O(ln(n)) so the overall performance is O(n) meaning it is an order of magnitude faster.
For all those people who made scripts to disable features... I always find funny how Anti-Technology the slashdot community is. Everything was cool and gee-wiz until the late 90's then it is all get off my lawn and if it doesn't run a P2 then it is not worth running, dag nabbit, I was able to get by 10 years ago without fancy JavaScript I should still do so today... I WANT to download the full page every time I click a button. I don't want to use a little less bandwidth at the expense of extra CPU processing, as it would bring my average Server Load up to 5% for about 2 seconds.
Verizon's clame to fame was the fact in the mid-late 90's they offered cellphone service that had no Rooming or Long Distance charges. Making them the obvious choice for cell phone service, as Cingular and Cellular One (all companies that don't exist anyome) had all these crazy fees that make them expensive, just look like horible choices. And really forced them to change their models or die.
Now it looks like Verizon by not raising the bar here. Will allow some other company to come in and offer fairer pricing. The fact that they may have more coverage is their only advantage. Where if people see if they can get cheaper service they may realize well the spots I don't get coverage are places they are normally not there.
I hope to see a functional space elevator in my lifetime. This would help space travel immensely by taking making the issue of getting out of our atmosphere a relatively dull process it allows us to put more focus on ships that can be bigger and designed for long term space travel. Say to mars
In some ways yes. It means there may be motivation to legally hurt intel for the sake helping their own local economy. Lets use food for an example as food sales tends to be hard to have monopolies on.
Lets use Dole and Delmonte as an example they compete with each other and product similar products. Now lets say I live in a good farming area... (I currently don't as I live actually near Albany, NY) And they open a Dole plantation in the area has boosted my local economy. However Delmonte competition who is based in an other State for its plantations, is a hinderance to our success. So we will dig up any dirt that we can find on Delmonte let just say for example that they are doing something illegal or unethical. So We sue them for this activity while we overlook any activities that Dole is doing. If it was a case the if Dole wasn't around we may have left it alone, and didn't care, or even supported such activities it made our food cheaper.
Shhh Quite. The government only has our best interest in mind... Nothing as petty a bringing billions of dollars to an ailing local economy that is right next to the state capital.
Who cares about Personal responsibility. I think our justice system has completely forgotten why we lock people up.
We lock people up because they are a danger to society.
Having a genetic disposition should make sure that they have a longer sentence not a shorter one. Why because the person has a genetic trait that makes him dangerous. Now we cross the line if we start putting people in jail or on extra suspicion if they have that gene. But if the person is committed a crime. Saying I am genetically more prone to bad behavior isn't a good defense for less time in jail. It should actually prove that you are a danger to society and need to spend more time in jail. As you are considered more dangerous.
Now while the person is protected from society in jail. We need to see what we can do to get them to be productive member once he gets out. If they have a gene that makes them more predisposed then they will need to put more time to make sure that he can control the predisposition.
Of course it is obvious to any person all you need to do is that. I love it when windows has a bug everyone is excited saying how unsecured windows is, even if there is a fix the user can do it is not there problem. And will rather get their system infected then run it.
But for Linux if they find the user fix they make it seem like an obvious fix and if it was broken it was user error not Linux.
You mean you no longer can download your copy of Photoshop from wares.
For the most part it is an attempt to curve software piracy globally. And it will basicly keep the internet running as it should just curve some deviant behavior.
Yes unfortunately 30 years ago. We stopped doing it. And after 30 years most of the people who were involved retired. Or are near retiring. IF we kept it up we will probably be so much better at space travel. However the shuttle product made space travel a bad thing for government, to expensive and not far reaching enough. We need to get off the idea of the StarTrek reusable ship. Until we get much better at it.
Even If X is usually slower then other system it doesn't mean it is always slower for all applications... For most applications sadly X11 runs slower then Framebuffer based GUIs. However X11 does do better then the Framebuffer apps for apps that are better made for X. X11 is great at the vector based information, It does get bogged down on bitmapped images. Framebuffer OS GUI like Bitmaps much better then Vector Graphics.
It is not that X11 cant handle Bitmaps nor can Framebuffer handle Vector well. But X11 does Vector better.
Synergy does exist. However most people doesn't know what it means and most people who are talking out of their butts use it too much. Synergy is when a team of people collaborating together product output greater then the sum of each individual alone.
However most People think it is about being excited about your job. Which isn't what the word means.
I don't know about the rest of you but it seems that most anyone (yes you may get the odd actor or MD) who seems to run for political office of any major degree are all Lawyers. When ever someone who wasn't a lawyer then during their campaign they are accused for being under qualified to run for office. This seems to worry me as we tend to think about solving problems differently as we have different backgrounds. I am a computer scientist, I feel most of the problems can fixed if there is some good software that can optimize government. However people from other backgrounds will have different ideas and methods, many of them will work. The problem is that we have lawyers as the majority of the thought process so their problem is to create laws and regulations with very strict lettering. Hence we create the problem were there is so much problems due the complexity of the legal system.
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Email Marketing, So I will demand $0.25 per spam mail sent from every spammer for using my Idea.
Pyramid Schemes, So when they are caught they will need to pay me royalty for breaking the law.
Telemarking, They call me they will need to pay for violating my patent.
Lets just patent all the evil practices so it is just that more expensive to try to lie and cheat.
The only advantage that power point has vs. the old ways is the fact you can Download the Slides for further studying so you are not franticly trying to get all the information as notes. (which for some people) Distract them from actually listening and learning the material, and getting any of the tangents where the real stuff is learned. However even back in my day professors often had pre printed overhead transparencies, which were made by the publisher which made things just as bad as with powerpoint. Or worse the professor who kept the transparencies when he use to care about his class and just put up the hand written notes and put a piece of paper on top of it so you wouldn't get ahead of them.
Any Media can be used for good or for evil.
The problem with SQL isn't really SQL fault it is the fact that most people don't know how to use it properly. It is amazing how many people "with SQL in their resumes" cannot do joins, cursors, or grouping. I don't consider myself an SQL expert but I am good at it, and I can get the job done. But I know if I make a query and it takes too long to run if I don't need to run it once. Then there is probably some optimization that I will need to do to improve speed. Creating Temporary tables with a reduced dataset, Changing from a single nested sql call to a cursor loop or the other way around depending which will run faster. A lot of times these optimizations are the difference between 40 minutes to run to 30 seconds. Giving the same correct results. A lot of times people who don't know about joins do the basic join of select x.a y.b from x, y where x.c = y.c Not realizing that Most SQL engines will take all the records of x and cross them with y so you will have x.records*y.records Loaded in your system, the it goes and removes the matches. So O(n^2) in performance, Vs. If you do a Select x.a, y.b from x left join y on x.c
What this will do is go down the x table O(n) then it will match up the correct record from Y where if you have the correct indexing it will take O(ln(n)) so the overall performance is O(n) meaning it is an order of magnitude faster.
Yes the 5 Anniversary of a version 1 branch of an existing product is so much more newsworthy then the 20th university of the fall of the berlin wall.
For all those people who made scripts to disable features... I always find funny how Anti-Technology the slashdot community is. Everything was cool and gee-wiz until the late 90's then it is all get off my lawn and if it doesn't run a P2 then it is not worth running, dag nabbit, I was able to get by 10 years ago without fancy JavaScript I should still do so today... I WANT to download the full page every time I click a button. I don't want to use a little less bandwidth at the expense of extra CPU processing, as it would bring my average Server Load up to 5% for about 2 seconds.
Verizon's clame to fame was the fact in the mid-late 90's they offered cellphone service that had no Rooming or Long Distance charges. Making them the obvious choice for cell phone service, as Cingular and Cellular One (all companies that don't exist anyome) had all these crazy fees that make them expensive, just look like horible choices. And really forced them to change their models or die.
Now it looks like Verizon by not raising the bar here. Will allow some other company to come in and offer fairer pricing. The fact that they may have more coverage is their only advantage. Where if people see if they can get cheaper service they may realize well the spots I don't get coverage are places they are normally not there.
Lyle Lanley: Well, sir, there's nothing on earth
Like a genuine,
Bona fide,
Electrified,
Six-car
Monorail!
What'd I say?
Ned Flanders: Monorail!
Lyle Lanley: What's it called?
Patty+Selma: Monorail!
Lyle Lanley: That's right! Monorail!
[crowd chants `Monorail' softly and rhythmically]
Miss Hoover: I hear those things are awfully loud...
Lyle Lanley: It glides as softly as a cloud.
Apu: Is there a chance the track could bend?
Lyle Lanley: Not on your life, my Hindu friend.
Barney: What about us brain-dead slobs?
Lyle Lanley: You'll be given cushy jobs.
Abe: Were you sent here by the devil?
Lyle Lanley: No, good sir, I'm on the level.
Wiggum: The ring came off my pudding can.
Lyle Lanley: Take my pen knife, my good man.
I swear it's Springfield's only choice...
Throw up your hands and raise your voice!
All: Monorail!
Lyle Lanley: What's it called?
All: Monorail!
Lyle Lanley: Once again...
All: Monorail!
Marge: But Main Street's still all cracked and broken...
Bart: Sorry, Mom, the mob has spoken!
All: Monorail!
Monorail!
Monorail!
[big finish]
Monorail!
Homer: Mono... D'oh!
Or from a machine that will go off causing you a bunch of problems and missing your important flight. If are afraid of it.
I hope to see a functional space elevator in my lifetime. This would help space travel immensely by taking making the issue of getting out of our atmosphere a relatively dull process it allows us to put more focus on ships that can be bigger and designed for long term space travel. Say to mars
Only with quantum physics can we actually get a secure data transfer. Or not or both.
In some ways yes. It means there may be motivation to legally hurt intel for the sake helping their own local economy. Lets use food for an example as food sales tends to be hard to have monopolies on.
Lets use Dole and Delmonte as an example they compete with each other and product similar products. Now lets say I live in a good farming area... (I currently don't as I live actually near Albany, NY) And they open a Dole plantation in the area has boosted my local economy. However Delmonte competition who is based in an other State for its plantations, is a hinderance to our success. So we will dig up any dirt that we can find on Delmonte let just say for example that they are doing something illegal or unethical. So We sue them for this activity while we overlook any activities that Dole is doing. If it was a case the if Dole wasn't around we may have left it alone, and didn't care, or even supported such activities it made our food cheaper.
Why?
TFA shows that it works on delicate fruit like tomatoes too. In terms of heal and sanitary concerns the laser is probably still better.
1. A sticker when placed will be a nice breading gown for bacteria. Then the sticker is often pealed off after the fruit is washed.
2. Who knows what chemicals are left behind on the sticker.
3. When pealing off the sticker people use their fingernail. Even when they wash their hands the fingernails tend to have the most bacteria on them.
4. Stickers get toss into the garbage. Or worse if you are eating on the run just littered.
5. Pealing off stickers on some fruit can tare off the skin of the fruit.
6. Stickers that fall off fruit could mean be misplaced, wrongly priced at checkout.
I for one welcome or laser etched fruit overlords.
Well because the tides can shift again.
We are not punishing him for the wrong genes. We are punishing him for wrong behavior.
Shhh Quite. The government only has our best interest in mind... Nothing as petty a bringing billions of dollars to an ailing local economy that is right next to the state capital.
Who cares about Personal responsibility. I think our justice system has completely forgotten why we lock people up.
We lock people up because they are a danger to society.
Having a genetic disposition should make sure that they have a longer sentence not a shorter one. Why because the person has a genetic trait that makes him dangerous. Now we cross the line if we start putting people in jail or on extra suspicion if they have that gene. But if the person is committed a crime. Saying I am genetically more prone to bad behavior isn't a good defense for less time in jail. It should actually prove that you are a danger to society and need to spend more time in jail. As you are considered more dangerous.
Now while the person is protected from society in jail. We need to see what we can do to get them to be productive member once he gets out. If they have a gene that makes them more predisposed then they will need to put more time to make sure that he can control the predisposition.
Of course it is obvious to any person all you need to do is that. I love it when windows has a bug everyone is excited saying how unsecured windows is, even if there is a fix the user can do it is not there problem. And will rather get their system infected then run it.
But for Linux if they find the user fix they make it seem like an obvious fix and if it was broken it was user error not Linux.
The internet will never be the same...
You mean you no longer can download your copy of Photoshop from wares.
For the most part it is an attempt to curve software piracy globally. And it will basicly keep the internet running as it should just curve some deviant behavior.
I remember not having Wi-Fi work out of the box on Ubuntu on a new Lenovo Think pad 6 months ago.
Or it works for basic settings but things like WPA2 it just fails.
That is if you can get Wi-Fi working on it of course.
Yes unfortunately 30 years ago. We stopped doing it. And after 30 years most of the people who were involved retired. Or are near retiring. IF we kept it up we will probably be so much better at space travel. However the shuttle product made space travel a bad thing for government, to expensive and not far reaching enough. We need to get off the idea of the StarTrek reusable ship. Until we get much better at it.
So you are saying it is not X11 that is slow but Linux... Oh man you are taking it out of the frying pan and into the fire.
Even If X is usually slower then other system it doesn't mean it is always slower for all applications... For most applications sadly X11 runs slower then Framebuffer based GUIs. However X11 does do better then the Framebuffer apps for apps that are better made for X. X11 is great at the vector based information, It does get bogged down on bitmapped images. Framebuffer OS GUI like Bitmaps much better then Vector Graphics.
It is not that X11 cant handle Bitmaps nor can Framebuffer handle Vector well. But X11 does Vector better.
Synergy does exist. However most people doesn't know what it means and most people who are talking out of their butts use it too much. Synergy is when a team of people collaborating together product output greater then the sum of each individual alone.
However most People think it is about being excited about your job. Which isn't what the word means.
I don't know about the rest of you but it seems that most anyone (yes you may get the odd actor or MD) who seems to run for political office of any major degree are all Lawyers. When ever someone who wasn't a lawyer then during their campaign they are accused for being under qualified to run for office. This seems to worry me as we tend to think about solving problems differently as we have different backgrounds. I am a computer scientist, I feel most of the problems can fixed if there is some good software that can optimize government. However people from other backgrounds will have different ideas and methods, many of them will work. The problem is that we have lawyers as the majority of the thought process so their problem is to create laws and regulations with very strict lettering. Hence we create the problem were there is so much problems due the complexity of the legal system.