You could combine this system with a hot-or-not like rating system for the profile pictures. That way, women could screen for men that scored in the top 20% or something similar and the same for men.
The problem with that is 80% of the population assumes they are in the top 20%. To make it work if searching by looks, you could allow only searches for your score + or - 10%.
However, what women really want is to see a pic of the guy's tax return, not his face.
It's the government requirement of these laser printer codes that's an invasion of privacy.
Privacy isn't the only problem, it affects business and profits too. We were counterfeiting $20 bills and had to switch our whole operation over to engraved plates and old printing presses. Overhead has gone through the roof.
Now with Clinton and Obama talking about mandatory health insurance and unionization, we could be out of business next January.
I wish the government would just leave me alone and quit watching every move I make.
From the article "The possibility of developing piezoelectric, or energy generating fibres or fabrics has been something that the smart fabrics research community has been speculating about for some time," P>
I guess they are too young to remember wearing a polyester leisure suit and walking across carpeting.
Just wondering, am I the only one stupid enough to think it had to be about Volkswagen upon reading the title? I'm worried..:-/
Yes you are stupid (your words), but I am sure that there are others that are just as stupid as you. Probably none more stupid, but surely at least as stupid as you.
I am soooooooo tired of the muslem community pushing their views on everyone else.
Other than arresting a women for going to a Starbucks with men, stoning a woman for meeting with unrelated men, blowing up hotels, blowing up misc. buildings, blowing up schools, and blowing up children, attempting to force sharia law in England, crashing planes into buildings - name one instance where a muslim pushed their views on anyone else.
If Nevada is such a great, efficient state then I see no reason why Microsoft shouldn't move their actual operation there, instead of just maintaining a front for tax evasion purposes.
Why don't we really punish Microsoft? Let's kick them completely out of the USA! If the taxes aren't good enough for Washington, then Microsoft isn't good enough for Washington and therefore the USA. We should make them relocate to India and fire all their American employees! That would show those bastards. Then the next time some evil company wants to hire American workers while reducing their costs of doing business, they'll think twice because we took a stand for more taxes and less profits.
I for one will not stand for good paying jobs in the USA. Any candidate that encourages more tech jobs to move to India has my vote!
Capitalism suffers from the same problem as Communism and Anarchy. In order for it to work, people need to not be jerks.
The problem with solving poverty is that it costs money; investing money in things that will give no return is bad business. Unless we are willing to sacrifice things will never change. Even then it will be hard because there will not be an overnight change. It will take time and energy.
We CAN make poverty history. We just have to be willing to pay the price and suffer for no other reason than it is the right thing to do.
You don't need to suffer to end poverty, what you need to do is remove the corrupt governments that cause poverty.
Ending poverty has a huge return on investment - when people are rich enough that all their basic needs for survival are met, they can buy stuff they don't need (name brand shoes), or they can spend time doing stuff that isn't required for survival (travel), or they can do both. The more wealth they have, the more of both they can do. The more of both they do, the more jobs that will be created serving their wants and on an on.
To make this work, people can still act like people, the governments have to stop acting like jerks. When a government gets out of the way of its people, only enforcing contracts, property rights, and basic laws for civil order, etc., people prosper. The more the government interferes with people and their lives, the poorer the people are.
they aren't really feeding off each other, just more off YOU. Both thieves get a crack at your cc#. Would you rather have rung up $4000 on your card, or $8000?
It really does not matter how much is fraudulantly charged on my credit card. I am not responsible for either amount.
Looking at the larger picture, I want as small amount of fraud as possible because the cost of goods will be cheaper. Somebody has to recoup that $4000 or $8000 in your example, but what happens, everyone pays for fraud, but spread out over every purchase made, it is probably lower than the sales tax you pay on each individual transaction.
For what it's worth, I have found a way to never have my credit card info stolen - I use cash. For you conspiracy minded people out there, my purchases are not trackable. Even better, the amount of debt I have is $0 which comes out to $0 per month in interest with a grand total of $0 per year. You'd also be amazed at the businesses (big box stores and little local stores) that will give you a discount for cash if you ask.
So what remains as fact: Apple have a introduced a bug in an update to a shared library - so what? It's hardly the first time this has happened, on any OS. And maybe not even that - perhaps it's even possible that QuickTime is correct, and the change has just exposed a latent bug in AfterEffects? We just don't have the data to make a judgment, so perhaps everyone could calm down and stop acting like Apple is chained to Hollywood and making the sky fall in.
I agree - so what? What's the big deal with this, it's not like anyone expected something from Apple to just work.
I don't know about your world, but in my world I use what I buy wherever I want, without permission from corporate overlords who insist my device is only for specific purposes.
Of course I didn't RTFA, but I would guess is that they meant it shouldn't replace a crackberry as the standard corporate multifunction tool.
A corporation may not tell you what to use and where (although they can and do), but try taking it into a courtroom or other "sensitive" area and you will quickly find out that you cannot use what you buy anywhere you want.
And supporting Ron Paul is great and idealistic and all, but a complete waste. He has 0% chance of winning anything, especially after those racist newsletters came out with his name on them, regardless if he wrote them.
Actually, voting your principles is never a waste. In the primaries and all elections I vote for a candidate that shares my principles even when he has no chance in hell of winning. At least at the end of the day, I can look myself in the mirror and say I stood for something. It sure beats the hell out of looking in the mirror and seeing someone that sold out, rationalized, made excuses, and wasted potential and opportunity.
I also try to live my principles, but being human, I am not 100% on that.
Disappointment Level Four: Lvls 1-3 act as a free pass to parents. There are so many witches to point at, surely nothing they have done resulted in this. Again, no responsibility is taken.
Well, as the parent of a future obese child, as long as I am not held responsible for poor parenting my child, I'm OK with passing the blame to video games.
It is the people who want to download legally who will now have to put up with restricted choice as well as DRM.
Most laws only affect the law abiding citizen (until the criminal gets caught).
For instance, to drive a car, I got licensed and had to pay a fee and buy insurance, yet there are many criminals driving the roads without a license - they didn't have to pay the fee and don't need insurance, but still have the benefits of driving.
I am not saying laws are not needed, just that the law abiding citizen is the one that has to put up with the day to day inconvenience of the laws. Whereas the criminal only puts up with the inconvenience if he is caught.
Seriously, could the manufacturers try to produce a phone that goes, like, a whole week on a single charge?
They have, it is called a cell phone. It has no camera, it doesn't surf the internet, no MP3 player, no mini-tv screen. It just makes calls. Mine is a Samsung SCH-A310. The call quality isn't bad either.
I guess when all that space is used for making a plain phone instead of the swiss army phone, the designers can concentrate on doing one thing well. In this case that one thing is making calls.
I've had both Comcast and Insight (because comcast bought insight)...if they would offer ultrafast customer service I would have been thrilled with the normal connection speeds.
When I reported outages, it would take days for them to respond. When I called to cancel my service, the customer service guy reviewed my history and asked why it took so long for me to cancel.
This is just a tired old argument, not insightful in the slightest.
It may be a tired old argument, but re-read what I said about a product being intimidating because of the facade the developers/users built around the product. A novice today is going to ask their friends (who were probably novices 5 years ago) about linux, that experienced user may still be afraid of linux based on experiences 5 years ago.
It takes many years to rework an image.
As forthousands of applications available for my mom to click on, that only adds to the confusion/intimidation factor for the novice looking to make the switch. Remember, you are obviously very technical and know much about computers/operating systems and hardware, but not every person has your background. Hell, I am an engineer and have enough headaches keeping afloat with the technical changes in my specialty and don't have the time to keep up with the advances in the home computing environment, so even though I am very technical, I assure you that your knowledge of this topic is light years ahead of mine, and the number of distros/applications is intimidating to me because I don't have the time to do the research
As for installing apps in a good distro, I use ubuntu regularly (based recomendations from reading this site) and it comes with everthing a novice uses, but what is the name recognition of ubuntu to the novice/casual computer user. Pick the wrong distro, you'll have a diehard OSX/MS fan.
Who has a better understanding of the end-user, than the end-user him/herself? How can we let ourselves be trolled so easily? I do not know.
When a developer (or power user) considers himself to be the typical end-user, the project is a failure. The developer assumes a level of knowledge that may not exist in the real world. Even a very technical potential user of a product may be intimidated by the product because of the facade that the developers/users have built around the product.
Even if linux is better than MS or OSX, it will still have a hard time gaining acceptance because when I walk down the aisle at Wal-Mart, there is no linux section in the games. Office Depot does not have a linux section for business. If I don't see the software at the store, it must not exist. Download software you say? I just went to download.com - where's the linux tab on the left (the area that has MS, OSX, Mobile, etc.).
For the average person, linux is not a choice because you can't buy a computer with linux installed (yes, I know you can, but they are hard to find) and there is no software for the linux machine even if you got a computer with pre-installed linux (again, yes I know where to download it, but my mom doesn't).
...are these scientists purchasing carbon credits or are they the other type?
This is a little off topic, but what happens with the carbon credits?
If I buy credits to offset my car, is a company buying those credits so they can pollute more? If that is the case, what's the point, the pollution is still there? Or, is somebody somewhere storing carbon?
Sorry for replying to my own post, I meant to say if I buy credits is there a company that sells credits and pollutes less and if not, then what's the point.
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However, what women really want is to see a pic of the guy's tax return, not his face.
Now with Clinton and Obama talking about mandatory health insurance and unionization, we could be out of business next January.
I wish the government would just leave me alone and quit watching every move I make.
I guess they are too young to remember wearing a polyester leisure suit and walking across carpeting.
No I haven't. I am Muslim and she deserves it.
Now the only thing left is to watch my karma fall from excellent to poop.
I am a believer, where do I bow down and not observe your image?
www.digg.com?
Ever hear of Delaware? Somewhere around 80% of all US corporations are "located" in Delaware because of their corporation friendly laws.
I for one will not stand for good paying jobs in the USA. Any candidate that encourages more tech jobs to move to India has my vote!
Not because we think alike or that you agreed with me, but this is the most insightful and well written post I have seen on slashdot.
Ending poverty has a huge return on investment - when people are rich enough that all their basic needs for survival are met, they can buy stuff they don't need (name brand shoes), or they can spend time doing stuff that isn't required for survival (travel), or they can do both. The more wealth they have, the more of both they can do. The more of both they do, the more jobs that will be created serving their wants and on an on.
To make this work, people can still act like people, the governments have to stop acting like jerks. When a government gets out of the way of its people, only enforcing contracts, property rights, and basic laws for civil order, etc., people prosper. The more the government interferes with people and their lives, the poorer the people are.
Looking at the larger picture, I want as small amount of fraud as possible because the cost of goods will be cheaper. Somebody has to recoup that $4000 or $8000 in your example, but what happens, everyone pays for fraud, but spread out over every purchase made, it is probably lower than the sales tax you pay on each individual transaction.
For what it's worth, I have found a way to never have my credit card info stolen - I use cash. For you conspiracy minded people out there, my purchases are not trackable. Even better, the amount of debt I have is $0 which comes out to $0 per month in interest with a grand total of $0 per year. You'd also be amazed at the businesses (big box stores and little local stores) that will give you a discount for cash if you ask.
A corporation may not tell you what to use and where (although they can and do), but try taking it into a courtroom or other "sensitive" area and you will quickly find out that you cannot use what you buy anywhere you want.
I also try to live my principles, but being human, I am not 100% on that.
For instance, to drive a car, I got licensed and had to pay a fee and buy insurance, yet there are many criminals driving the roads without a license - they didn't have to pay the fee and don't need insurance, but still have the benefits of driving.
I am not saying laws are not needed, just that the law abiding citizen is the one that has to put up with the day to day inconvenience of the laws. Whereas the criminal only puts up with the inconvenience if he is caught.
I guess when all that space is used for making a plain phone instead of the swiss army phone, the designers can concentrate on doing one thing well. In this case that one thing is making calls.
When I reported outages, it would take days for them to respond. When I called to cancel my service, the customer service guy reviewed my history and asked why it took so long for me to cancel.
It takes many years to rework an image.
As forthousands of applications available for my mom to click on, that only adds to the confusion/intimidation factor for the novice looking to make the switch. Remember, you are obviously very technical and know much about computers/operating systems and hardware, but not every person has your background. Hell, I am an engineer and have enough headaches keeping afloat with the technical changes in my specialty and don't have the time to keep up with the advances in the home computing environment, so even though I am very technical, I assure you that your knowledge of this topic is light years ahead of mine, and the number of distros/applications is intimidating to me because I don't have the time to do the research
As for installing apps in a good distro, I use ubuntu regularly (based recomendations from reading this site) and it comes with everthing a novice uses, but what is the name recognition of ubuntu to the novice/casual computer user. Pick the wrong distro, you'll have a diehard OSX/MS fan.
Even if linux is better than MS or OSX, it will still have a hard time gaining acceptance because when I walk down the aisle at Wal-Mart, there is no linux section in the games. Office Depot does not have a linux section for business. If I don't see the software at the store, it must not exist. Download software you say? I just went to download.com - where's the linux tab on the left (the area that has MS, OSX, Mobile, etc.).
For the average person, linux is not a choice because you can't buy a computer with linux installed (yes, I know you can, but they are hard to find) and there is no software for the linux machine even if you got a computer with pre-installed linux (again, yes I know where to download it, but my mom doesn't).