Having worked offshore in the oil industry for the last 3 years, I can tell you who's making the money. Pretty much everyone working for oil makes good money, but most of us don't make great money. The engineers don't make much more than everyone else (DPOs, riggers, ROV mechanics, etc). In fact, the only ones who pull in over 100 a year are the client reps and execs, captains (if they've been doing it for long enough), project managers, and people who put up capital. The one thing all of these guys have in common is that they do very little work. All the workers (this includes engineers, chemists, and geologists) pull in about 60 - 100 a year, depending on tenure. There are of course exceptions, but generally, only about 5% of the people who actually do some kind of work pull in over 100 a year and those people usually have a lot of tenure.
Of course they are allergic. They're allergic to all frequencies in the 2.4 - 5GHz range, 800 - 900 and 1800 - 1900 MHz, and excluding all others (ie, the aren't allergic to satellite radio, UHF TV, or GPS signals. Only cellphones and wi-fi. Also, they are miraculously not affected by the 2.45 GHz given off by their microwaves.
The general rule is 7 +/-2 objects in working memory at a time (not just numbers). Seven is the average. Depending on how you treat the numbers, you can make it easier. For example, if you treat 56 as 1 number instead of 2, that allows more room for other things in your active memory. Having such a small cache is why multitasking makes it harder. Interestingly, I think the right side of your brain is better at storing large numbers than your left - I used "visual aids" and grouping to work with 10-digit numbers without having to write them down or memorize them. Of course, after I quit that job, I slowly lost that ability.
Ritalin has similar effects as speed on a lot of people. But it works the other way on people who have ADD; it helps them focus. A lot of drugs seem to work "backwards" for people with AD(H)D, including caffeine.
See if I download stuff it costs me NOTHING. If government(s) try to police the internet, it will cost them resources. And where do they get those resources? That's right, taxpayers. Even when it was just the RIAA spending resources on bullying people, we still ended up paying for it through jacked up CD prices. Not to mention the imagined loss of revenue they were trying to make up for. If the government gets involved, that's even more money out of our pockets. Either in the form of higher taxes, or less money spent on other government programs, specifically the ones we actually find important.
I think you completely missed the point of the parent post. You have to think much, much bigger. They wouldn't have a home planet. If 100,000 yrs is an instant to them, then 100,000 ly is an insignificant amount of space. We could be like viruses to them. Naturally life lives and dies at a rate proportionate to its physical scale.
Anytime a software vendor releases a "360" version of a previous products, you can be sure that it will be 360x more painful to use. Yahoo 360, Norton 360, xbox 360, do you see the trend here? When Windows 360 comes out, I'm going to shoot myself.
I'm not surprised. Google's data retention policies have always been questionable. And I'm pretty sure "Don't be evil" is only part of their motto. I believe the full motto reads "Don't be evil in the same way as everyone else."
Any company whose stock sells for $600 a share has to have some kind of evil behind it.
I don't know, TFA doesn't seem to mention that. Why don't you accuse them of being illiterate freaks or something while you're at it? You know those are the same 20% who can't find the U.S. on a world map, right? They also can't find The Iraq and Such As, for that matter.
Not so. Not with Vista anyway. That's precisely what I did, yet for some reason, from time to time IE randomly opens up to an ad page. AVG doesn't know why, AdAware, Windows Defender (joke), and other programs couldn't figure it out either. I think it started when I installed itunes and quicktime. The weirdest thing is, it seems to occur when they system *sees* certain files, like when explorer opens the folder they are in. I don't know what kind of files though. It's rare and inconsistent, so I can't trace the cause. But without the IE executable, this wouldn't be a problem. I thought about accessing the HD from another computer and replacing IE with another executable, but that would probably brick windows. Oh, the humanity!
Wow, I'm not sure what plan I'm on, but BitTorrent rarely passes 200KB/s d/l. Usually (for a lot of peers) it runs about 75-150. As I said, in Linux I've hit almost 800 KB/s download (http) so it's got to be a fairly fast connection. They must have been throttling it for a while because it's been like that for the last 6 months.
Actually, a few monopolies do own most of the internet. After all, they're the ones who paid for the hi-speed backbones that everyone uses. Second to them is universities and the government.
Of course that doesn't change the fact that they offer X kbps d/l speed, but only give it to you when they feel like it, which is seldom if ever. I wonder though, what are good bittorrent speeds on a cable connection? How do you know if you're getting throttled?
And one other thing, slightly off topic, but why does firefox on linux download from the same http server 3x as fast as firefox on windows? (750KBps linux, 250KBps windows)
I was sure that the very sight of Linux would induce fear and panic in the typical customs agent, staring at some strange interface that isn't Windows or MacOS. They might think you're an alien!
Aren't they already working on another one, called "Indiana Jones and the Wheel of Fortune" (where he sits around and watches Wheel of Fortune all day)? Whose idea was it to do a sequel to a successful series starring the same actor who is now too old to be the slightest bit believable? Perhaps it was the same person who had the idea to make another Rambo movie. Seriously, the only old people who can believably kick this much ass are old Chinese monks.
I don't think it's considered a weapon, because they have outfitted some vessels working for the oil companies near Africa, where pirates are a common threat. No weapons are allowed on these vessels. At least, that's what the article I read stated. And I know weapons aren't allowed in ships working for the oil companies in the Gulf, so I doubt they'd be allowed there either.
It would be equivalent as some company offering a price for an item and then that item never being available for purchase at the stated price. I see it everywhere, from grocery stores to wireless providers (some of the worst false advertising ever!)
The bad part though is, if you are like most people there are only 2-3 ISPs in your town to chose from, in worst cases there is only one ISP that offers high-speed Internet. Sucks when Comcast and dial-up are the only options (guess it doesn't matter anyay, as Road Runner throttles now too).
The media picks favorites and doesn't give anyone else much of a chance to be heard. The internet partly solves this problem, but most Americans still choose to get their news from television. Also, the most popular sources for online news are often the same as the ones that are on TV. Since money seems to be the key to everything, there is not a lot that can be done about this right now.
Somehow all the candidates manage to Artfully Dodge all relevant questions (partly because the media doesn't give a shit one way or the other), so the voter is left picking the one who (s)he most closely identifies with. Which usually turns out to be the best speaker. However, the U.S. is not the only place where this happens. Unfortunately, in the States, the rest of the majority has fallen into apathy and either doesn't vote or votes based on factors as weak as flipping a coin (it's hard to have faith in the democratic process after someone like Bush gets elected twice). The few remaining citizens who actually have the motivation to find their own sources for information, do vote for the candidate who actually could improve this country, on the rare occasion they are presented with one.
However, as I stated before, most of the American people are quite apathetic at this point (as they don't see any hope with any of the candidates), or they aren't aware of how badly they are misinformed (and actually believe what media like Fox News tells them), but some, unfortunately, do vote for whichever one seems most popular. And that is worse than not voting at all.
Unfortunately the cause for all this is that the country is run by money, not men, and curing that will be the only way to rememdy the situation. Until then, things will only get worse, further fueled by all the damage W. has done.
Whose dumbass idea was it to allow video DVDs to execute code in the first place? And I'm not talking about autoplay, I'm talking about DVDs designed to play in a DVD player. That's just like these mp3 and wma files that launch websites (in wmp anyway). Microsoft had to intentionally design those features into the software. And for what? So we can be annoyed by ads, sent to phishing or trojan hosting websites, have rootkits installed, and get viruses? Seriously, are there any legitimate reasons for these "features"?
I always remembered Big Brother being a "buddy" who wants to keep you "safe" and who stays connected to you via various devices... So, what's the difference?
If I'm going to get spammed, then I'd prefer spam that's not related to anything I might want. That way I won't A) waste time looking at it, or B) end up wasting money on more useless shit that I don't need.
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So THAT's what tinfoil hats are for! I'd been wondering about that for years!
Having worked offshore in the oil industry for the last 3 years, I can tell you who's making the money. Pretty much everyone working for oil makes good money, but most of us don't make great money. The engineers don't make much more than everyone else (DPOs, riggers, ROV mechanics, etc). In fact, the only ones who pull in over 100 a year are the client reps and execs, captains (if they've been doing it for long enough), project managers, and people who put up capital. The one thing all of these guys have in common is that they do very little work. All the workers (this includes engineers, chemists, and geologists) pull in about 60 - 100 a year, depending on tenure. There are of course exceptions, but generally, only about 5% of the people who actually do some kind of work pull in over 100 a year and those people usually have a lot of tenure.
Of course they are allergic. They're allergic to all frequencies in the 2.4 - 5GHz range, 800 - 900 and 1800 - 1900 MHz, and excluding all others (ie, the aren't allergic to satellite radio, UHF TV, or GPS signals. Only cellphones and wi-fi. Also, they are miraculously not affected by the 2.45 GHz given off by their microwaves.
The general rule is 7 +/-2 objects in working memory at a time (not just numbers). Seven is the average. Depending on how you treat the numbers, you can make it easier. For example, if you treat 56 as 1 number instead of 2, that allows more room for other things in your active memory. Having such a small cache is why multitasking makes it harder. Interestingly, I think the right side of your brain is better at storing large numbers than your left - I used "visual aids" and grouping to work with 10-digit numbers without having to write them down or memorize them. Of course, after I quit that job, I slowly lost that ability.
Ritalin has similar effects as speed on a lot of people. But it works the other way on people who have ADD; it helps them focus. A lot of drugs seem to work "backwards" for people with AD(H)D, including caffeine.
everytime he said "naked pico"?
Wow, thank you for that. I didn't get the joke before, but now that you've explained it to me, I find it to be funny!
I think you completely missed the point of the parent post. You have to think much, much bigger. They wouldn't have a home planet. If 100,000 yrs is an instant to them, then 100,000 ly is an insignificant amount of space. We could be like viruses to them. Naturally life lives and dies at a rate proportionate to its physical scale.
Or were you being sarcastic?
Anytime a software vendor releases a "360" version of a previous products, you can be sure that it will be 360x more painful to use. Yahoo 360, Norton 360, xbox 360, do you see the trend here? When Windows 360 comes out, I'm going to shoot myself.
I'm not surprised. Google's data retention policies have always been questionable. And I'm pretty sure "Don't be evil" is only part of their motto. I believe the full motto reads "Don't be evil in the same way as everyone else."
Any company whose stock sells for $600 a share has to have some kind of evil behind it.
...does a story about an engineer shortage in Japan turn into an argument about the definition of censorship in the first post!
Not so. Not with Vista anyway. That's precisely what I did, yet for some reason, from time to time IE randomly opens up to an ad page. AVG doesn't know why, AdAware, Windows Defender (joke), and other programs couldn't figure it out either. I think it started when I installed itunes and quicktime. The weirdest thing is, it seems to occur when they system *sees* certain files, like when explorer opens the folder they are in. I don't know what kind of files though. It's rare and inconsistent, so I can't trace the cause. But without the IE executable, this wouldn't be a problem. I thought about accessing the HD from another computer and replacing IE with another executable, but that would probably brick windows. Oh, the humanity!
Wow, I'm not sure what plan I'm on, but BitTorrent rarely passes 200KB/s d/l. Usually (for a lot of peers) it runs about 75-150. As I said, in Linux I've hit almost 800 KB/s download (http) so it's got to be a fairly fast connection. They must have been throttling it for a while because it's been like that for the last 6 months.
Actually, a few monopolies do own most of the internet. After all, they're the ones who paid for the hi-speed backbones that everyone uses. Second to them is universities and the government.
Of course that doesn't change the fact that they offer X kbps d/l speed, but only give it to you when they feel like it, which is seldom if ever. I wonder though, what are good bittorrent speeds on a cable connection? How do you know if you're getting throttled?
And one other thing, slightly off topic, but why does firefox on linux download from the same http server 3x as fast as firefox on windows? (750KBps linux, 250KBps windows)
I was sure that the very sight of Linux would induce fear and panic in the typical customs agent, staring at some strange interface that isn't Windows or MacOS. They might think you're an alien!
Aren't they already working on another one, called "Indiana Jones and the Wheel of Fortune" (where he sits around and watches Wheel of Fortune all day)? Whose idea was it to do a sequel to a successful series starring the same actor who is now too old to be the slightest bit believable? Perhaps it was the same person who had the idea to make another Rambo movie. Seriously, the only old people who can believably kick this much ass are old Chinese monks.
I don't think it's considered a weapon, because they have outfitted some vessels working for the oil companies near Africa, where pirates are a common threat. No weapons are allowed on these vessels. At least, that's what the article I read stated. And I know weapons aren't allowed in ships working for the oil companies in the Gulf, so I doubt they'd be allowed there either.
The bad part though is, if you are like most people there are only 2-3 ISPs in your town to chose from, in worst cases there is only one ISP that offers high-speed Internet. Sucks when Comcast and dial-up are the only options (guess it doesn't matter anyay, as Road Runner throttles now too).
The media picks favorites and doesn't give anyone else much of a chance to be heard. The internet partly solves this problem, but most Americans still choose to get their news from television. Also, the most popular sources for online news are often the same as the ones that are on TV. Since money seems to be the key to everything, there is not a lot that can be done about this right now.
Somehow all the candidates manage to Artfully Dodge all relevant questions (partly because the media doesn't give a shit one way or the other), so the voter is left picking the one who (s)he most closely identifies with. Which usually turns out to be the best speaker. However, the U.S. is not the only place where this happens. Unfortunately, in the States, the rest of the majority has fallen into apathy and either doesn't vote or votes based on factors as weak as flipping a coin (it's hard to have faith in the democratic process after someone like Bush gets elected twice). The few remaining citizens who actually have the motivation to find their own sources for information, do vote for the candidate who actually could improve this country, on the rare occasion they are presented with one.
However, as I stated before, most of the American people are quite apathetic at this point (as they don't see any hope with any of the candidates), or they aren't aware of how badly they are misinformed (and actually believe what media like Fox News tells them), but some, unfortunately, do vote for whichever one seems most popular. And that is worse than not voting at all.
Unfortunately the cause for all this is that the country is run by money, not men, and curing that will be the only way to rememdy the situation. Until then, things will only get worse, further fueled by all the damage W. has done.
Yes, and by means no one would have ever thought of!
$1500 and they don't even give you a new hard drive. How long can it really take to swap out a set of platters?
Whose dumbass idea was it to allow video DVDs to execute code in the first place? And I'm not talking about autoplay, I'm talking about DVDs designed to play in a DVD player. That's just like these mp3 and wma files that launch websites (in wmp anyway). Microsoft had to intentionally design those features into the software. And for what? So we can be annoyed by ads, sent to phishing or trojan hosting websites, have rootkits installed, and get viruses? Seriously, are there any legitimate reasons for these "features"?
I always remembered Big Brother being a "buddy" who wants to keep you "safe" and who stays connected to you via various devices... So, what's the difference?
If I'm going to get spammed, then I'd prefer spam that's not related to anything I might want. That way I won't A) waste time looking at it, or B) end up wasting money on more useless shit that I don't need.