. . . how about a robot controlling a human with its mind . . . ? Now that would be definitely more interesting, and would foster more vivacious cocktail party talk.
. . . and the Taliban are quite successful at spreading it. If you had a bunch of "Islam Gone Wild" retro medieval fanatics romping around your neighborhood killing innocent folks for fun and excitement . . . you might tend to be a bit on the edgy side yourself. A car engine backfire will incite you to grab your assault rifle and empty the clip in all directions, to defend yourself. In essence, anyone in Afghanistan will believe that the Taliban are capable of committing horrific atrocities. That makes people fear the Taliban, and it gives the Taliban strength.
Now, take a look in your own airports, and see if the population of your country is so scared, that they tolerate crotch groping and all other types of submissive humility . . . all because the fear of terror has devoured their souls.
Yep, terror can inflict colossal mass hysteria damage.
. . . sounds like a perfect description of cubicles to me. Smart parents might want to prepare their children early for cubicle life, to give them a head start before the neighbors' children:
How about cubicle cribs for babies, and cubicle summer camps? They'll be better prepared for life in their cubicle future!
A lot of folks wanted IBM to open source OS/2 after its sunset. One of the stated reasons why they didn't open source it, was because parts were jointly developed with Microsoft and others, who had joint copyrights. There would have been too many legal and copyright hassles necessary to get open sourcing done. Device Drivers were especially a big problem.
This could be true with a lot of other dormant software. Maybe nobody really knows what potential copyright issues are involved, and nobody wants to take on the liability by open sourcing it themselves, because it might cause litigation grief later.
Sure, the physics behind the Large Hadron Collider, a particle accelerator in Switzerland, is a monument to the human mind. But so are the scale and complexity of the organization that build it -- one LHC experiment alone required more that 2,500 scientists, engineers, and technicians in 37 countries to work together, solving problems cooperatively in an ever-changing and complex environment. The ability to form organizations that can create such achievements is as impressive at the achievements themselves.
Most managers who I have worked for try to rotate the low ranking around. No one gets it often enough to come up on the HR radar. They were always happy to have a couple of people who knew that they were low performers, so that they didn't mind getting stuck with it every once in a while. And even the best folks can have a bad year over time. Think of it like pulling latrine duty.
The best managers I know foster an atmosphere where everyone's work counts the most, not a bunch of folks competing against each other. If I landed in a project where every single person had personal ranking as the top goal, I would get out.
. . . if the motion detector registers serious jolts or shaking that could only be the results of an accident, it automatically calls 112. Just remember to turn it off when you engage is any extreme sports. Hell, why not just plug your phone into the car, and let the car use your own phone to do the calling?
I hate it when devices are made mandatory. They always end up being piss-poor quality, designed by bureaucrat committees. If private companies can offer these things instead, with no "must" behind it, they will come up with something cheap that folks will buy on their own. Look at car GPS navigation systems, and think about what they might have looked like, if a government decided how they were to be built. Hurl.
I think the EU Parliament must be located in some sleazy Amsterdam space cake bar. Strong shit you get there . . .
. . . won't that suck up a bunch of water? Can we speed up the process with a couple of nuked canals? Are there any other places on Earth that are just begging to be flooded permanently and forgot about? Now, don't get nervous, Holland, we're just taking a quick look at your dikes . . .
Now is an excellent time to brain brawl some unfeasibly wacky Wile E. Coyote engineering schemes to get rid of water.
How about if everyone drinks 5 instead of 4 liters of water each day . . . ?
Cisco's Vice President and General Manager of Home Networking, Brett Wingo said, "Cisco Connect Cloud was delivered only to consumers who opted into automatic updates. However, we apologize that the opt-out process for Cisco Connect Cloud and automatic updates was not more clear in this product release, and we are developing an updated version that will improve this process."
OK, so if I don't buy a Cisco router, do you consider that opting out . . . ?
. . . 50,000+ delegates? That's just too many to get any real work done. Even G20 has too many wonks. And everyone wants to step up to the podium to get heard; even if they have nothing worth contributing anyway. And that in Rio. What you end up with is a wet & wild, boozy spring break mayhem.
Instead, get a small group (less than 10) of the most important developed and non-developed countries together to agree to a draft first. Hold it in Minsk, in the middle of winter, to keep all the hang around wonks and protesters away. Then try to haggle, horse trade and beat the rest of the world with iron fists to accept it.
However, I can't even believe that the first step will succeed either.
It interrogates the airwaves for the ID and signal strength of local digital TV and radio signals,
So let me drive 3 hours north of Perth, Western Australia and find that this system is as useful as an ashtray on a motorbike.
Now, why would you want to drive 3 hours north of Perth anyway, if there are no digital TV or radio signals there? There is no need for a navigation system to get you to a place no one wants to get to. As to finding your way to towns separated by 500KM of no TV, just follow the road. There is only one between the two. "You can't get lost, from here, to there!"
Of course, Australia already has an excellent built-in Navigation System infrastructure: Aborigines. They have been wandering the continent for 10 thousands of years, and have not gotten lost there yet. So just stop and ask one for directions if you don't know the way.
The problem with public transportation, is that the rich folks think that's how the poor folks ride to work. Rich folks ride to work in a big 'ole SUV, because if they use public transportation, they won't feel rich anymore.
So all you need to do, is to introduce 1st and 2nd class compartments in public transportation. That way, rich folks can still feel rich by traveling 1st class, and the poor folks can feel better about themselves, because they ride in the same transportation as the rich folks.
Obviously, a win-win.
Oh, and maybe free in-transit lap dances in the 1st class would make it even more attractive.
Hey, it's an excellent opportunity to drum up bogus consulting work!
"Are your old C programs able to handle a leap second! Think of how much money your company will lose when that one extra second of interest gets calculated on your bank accounts! You need me to check your code for you!"
"Thanks, see you around, for the next leap second!"
The IT industry definitely needs for leap seconds.
. . . you need to engage your legal department, if you are big enough to have one, to verify that the product won't get bogged down in long, drawn-out, legal battles.
It used to be that the work in the lab was most important. Now work in the legal department is more important than R&D.
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. . . how about a robot controlling a human with its mind . . . ? Now that would be definitely more interesting, and would foster more vivacious cocktail party talk.
. . . and the Taliban are quite successful at spreading it. If you had a bunch of "Islam Gone Wild" retro medieval fanatics romping around your neighborhood killing innocent folks for fun and excitement . . . you might tend to be a bit on the edgy side yourself. A car engine backfire will incite you to grab your assault rifle and empty the clip in all directions, to defend yourself. In essence, anyone in Afghanistan will believe that the Taliban are capable of committing horrific atrocities. That makes people fear the Taliban, and it gives the Taliban strength.
Now, take a look in your own airports, and see if the population of your country is so scared, that they tolerate crotch groping and all other types of submissive humility . . . all because the fear of terror has devoured their souls.
Yep, terror can inflict colossal mass hysteria damage.
. . . sounds like a perfect description of cubicles to me. Smart parents might want to prepare their children early for cubicle life, to give them a head start before the neighbors' children:
How about cubicle cribs for babies, and cubicle summer camps? They'll be better prepared for life in their cubicle future!
A lot of folks wanted IBM to open source OS/2 after its sunset. One of the stated reasons why they didn't open source it, was because parts were jointly developed with Microsoft and others, who had joint copyrights. There would have been too many legal and copyright hassles necessary to get open sourcing done. Device Drivers were especially a big problem.
This could be true with a lot of other dormant software. Maybe nobody really knows what potential copyright issues are involved, and nobody wants to take on the liability by open sourcing it themselves, because it might cause litigation grief later.
. . . from a book by Physicist Leonard Mlodinow:
Sure, the physics behind the Large Hadron Collider, a particle accelerator in Switzerland, is a monument to the human mind. But so are the scale and complexity of the organization that build it -- one LHC experiment alone required more that 2,500 scientists, engineers, and technicians in 37 countries to work together, solving problems cooperatively in an ever-changing and complex environment. The ability to form organizations that can create such achievements is as impressive at the achievements themselves.
-- From his book "Subilminal"
. . . or it was an Imperial Units / Metric System mix up again.
Metric System: meters per second.
Imperial Units: furloughs per fortnight.
I always buy Metric System fireworks . . . that go up to 11.
Most managers who I have worked for try to rotate the low ranking around. No one gets it often enough to come up on the HR radar. They were always happy to have a couple of people who knew that they were low performers, so that they didn't mind getting stuck with it every once in a while. And even the best folks can have a bad year over time. Think of it like pulling latrine duty.
The best managers I know foster an atmosphere where everyone's work counts the most, not a bunch of folks competing against each other. If I landed in a project where every single person had personal ranking as the top goal, I would get out.
Immediately.
. . . if the motion detector registers serious jolts or shaking that could only be the results of an accident, it automatically calls 112. Just remember to turn it off when you engage is any extreme sports. Hell, why not just plug your phone into the car, and let the car use your own phone to do the calling?
I hate it when devices are made mandatory. They always end up being piss-poor quality, designed by bureaucrat committees. If private companies can offer these things instead, with no "must" behind it, they will come up with something cheap that folks will buy on their own. Look at car GPS navigation systems, and think about what they might have looked like, if a government decided how they were to be built. Hurl.
I think the EU Parliament must be located in some sleazy Amsterdam space cake bar. Strong shit you get there . . .
. . . the intelligent life will probably NOT want anything to do with us anyway.
They'll just avoid us, like tourists not stopping in a bad neighborhood.
It sounds like he is stuck on step one on the "12 Steps For Fucked Companies Program." Step one, admitting that your company is fucked.
"Hi, my name is Thorsten, and my company is like totally fucked."
Now, what is step two . . . ?
I bought the company!
Given the way their stock price is headed, all lot of folks will be able to buy the company, like, real soon.
. . . won't that suck up a bunch of water? Can we speed up the process with a couple of nuked canals? Are there any other places on Earth that are just begging to be flooded permanently and forgot about? Now, don't get nervous, Holland, we're just taking a quick look at your dikes . . .
Now is an excellent time to brain brawl some unfeasibly wacky Wile E. Coyote engineering schemes to get rid of water.
How about if everyone drinks 5 instead of 4 liters of water each day . . . ?
Smuggling phones!
It will be like Prohibition, revisited. Rich folks will have the best phones at parties, like they used to have the best booze during Prohibition.
Will Elliot Ness triumph over Al Capone this time . . . ?
Cisco's Vice President and General Manager of Home Networking, Brett Wingo said, "Cisco Connect Cloud was delivered only to consumers who opted into automatic updates. However, we apologize that the opt-out process for Cisco Connect Cloud and automatic updates was not more clear in this product release, and we are developing an updated version that will improve this process."
OK, so if I don't buy a Cisco router, do you consider that opting out . . . ?
. . . 50,000+ delegates? That's just too many to get any real work done. Even G20 has too many wonks. And everyone wants to step up to the podium to get heard; even if they have nothing worth contributing anyway. And that in Rio. What you end up with is a wet & wild, boozy spring break mayhem.
Instead, get a small group (less than 10) of the most important developed and non-developed countries together to agree to a draft first. Hold it in Minsk, in the middle of winter, to keep all the hang around wonks and protesters away. Then try to haggle, horse trade and beat the rest of the world with iron fists to accept it.
However, I can't even believe that the first step will succeed either.
It interrogates the airwaves for the ID and signal strength of local digital TV and radio signals,
So let me drive 3 hours north of Perth, Western Australia and find that this system is as useful as an ashtray on a motorbike.
Now, why would you want to drive 3 hours north of Perth anyway, if there are no digital TV or radio signals there? There is no need for a navigation system to get you to a place no one wants to get to. As to finding your way to towns separated by 500KM of no TV, just follow the road. There is only one between the two. "You can't get lost, from here, to there!"
Of course, Australia already has an excellent built-in Navigation System infrastructure: Aborigines. They have been wandering the continent for 10 thousands of years, and have not gotten lost there yet. So just stop and ask one for directions if you don't know the way.
A quick google turns up this: http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/green_and_sustainability/nextsteps/solution/N500945X17585D04.html
Maybe they can make the planet smarter . . . but the folks driving cars seem to be getting dumber.
The problem with public transportation, is that the rich folks think that's how the poor folks ride to work. Rich folks ride to work in a big 'ole SUV, because if they use public transportation, they won't feel rich anymore.
So all you need to do, is to introduce 1st and 2nd class compartments in public transportation. That way, rich folks can still feel rich by traveling 1st class, and the poor folks can feel better about themselves, because they ride in the same transportation as the rich folks.
Obviously, a win-win.
Oh, and maybe free in-transit lap dances in the 1st class would make it even more attractive.
Hey, it's an excellent opportunity to drum up bogus consulting work!
"Are your old C programs able to handle a leap second! Think of how much money your company will lose when that one extra second of interest gets calculated on your bank accounts! You need me to check your code for you!"
"Thanks, see you around, for the next leap second!"
The IT industry definitely needs for leap seconds.
. . . you need to engage your legal department, if you are big enough to have one, to verify that the product won't get bogged down in long, drawn-out, legal battles.
It used to be that the work in the lab was most important. Now work in the legal department is more important than R&D.
Sad.
HP has a 20-year record of being messed up by other companies, MS and Oracle being two of the top abusers.
HP itself seems to be its own top abuser.
Now I can't even take a piss in the woods without the government keeping track of the stream?
Now I can't even take a piss in the woods without the government taxing the stream?
Debug Everywhere . . .
And most of these "observations" of weird stuff in the night sky were due to the aurorae.
As opposed to today, where they are due to alcohol.