Except it's not a translation of the word of God, but a translation of a bunch of superstitious middle-eastern tribesmen from 2000 odd years ago (or more).
Exactly this. You pay people barely above minimum wage and expect them to give a shit? I remember being in a Walmart once and somebody clearly had something stuffed up their sweater, and I mean clearly, it was a large bumpy item. He was standing right in front of the customer service desk and the drone behind the desk didn't bat an eyelid.
It's a bit misleading to call fNIR a "poor-mans" fMRI. They are very different beasts that address different problems. NIR sits somewhere in-between EEG and fMRI. It's faster than fMRI (but not as fast as EEG) and has better spacial resolution than EEG (but not as good as fMRI). The real weakness of NIR is that it can only measure a few centimeters into the brain. But at least you don't need to sit in a claustrophobic magnet.
Really! I can hardly imagine a worse scenario for a manufacturer of passenger aircraft. Who would buy one now? Who would board one now? It's gonna take an epic feat of PR damage control to save the company (or at least their passenger aircraft division) after that.
Not the same. I want my search separate. I don't mind my search bar keystrokes going to Google or Microsoft, I just don't want my URL keystrokes going anywhere until I hit enter. Switching search engines doesn't really solve the problem. And when it's switching to some crappy small search engine, it's cutting off your nose to spite your face.
I think you are reading that graph back-asswards. Click on invert. On November 22nd, 2011 £1 sterling would buy you €1.15. On May 2nd, 2012 that same £1 will buy you €1.23. That's the opposite of what you are trying to argue.
Or to put it another way, in November a Euro would cost you 86p. Today it'll cost you 81p. That means the Euro is worth less, not the pound.
Don't take away the separate search bar. It's one thing I like about Firefox is that it's not sending all my keystrokes in the URL bar to Google. Looks like they're now gonna take that away (from the screenshot).
2) Set up some junk (is there any other kind) Facebook / Twitter / whatever accounts purely for shilling to each other
3) Use social loot to promote to each other in these junk accounts - just click the links so your buddies can get paid, this could probably be automated
Cost is always an issue. Even if it only adds a fraction of a penny per carton, add that up over millions of cartons and you start talking about real money.
Agree on the need for less, simpler distros. The problem is that one the greatest strengths of Linux, that if you don't like something about it you can just change it, has led to it biggest problem, that there are hundreds of slightly different flavors that the average outsider can't make head nor tail of. I'd say it's ironic, but some grammar nazi will jump all over me and tell me I'm using it wrong (which I probably am).
Well, exactly. Presumably the ideal solution (for people pushing this type of stuff) is an RFID chip on your carton of milk. But that costs money, and what do the milk suppliers get in return for the cost of sticking an RFID on every carton? You're gonna buy milk either way if you run out, so I don't really see the advantage (for the seller). If anything, they probably benefit when you accidentally buy milk because you forgot that you had a full carton in the fridge. Especially since milk goes bad - so there's a good chance that some of the extra milk will end up down the drain.
This strikes me as a solution looking for a problem. It's cool and all, but is it really necessary to have my fridge know what's inside it and when it expires and alert me on my smart phone or some similar nonsense. Is opening the fridge and checking what's in there really that much of a problem that people are willing to drop multiple $k on home automation? All things being equal, sure I'd take the internet connected fridge over the old "dumb" fridge, but am I willing to pay extra for it?
No, I didn't. You do know Google subscribed everybody with a Google profile don't you? And you do know that sharing your contacts was opt-out, not opt-in. But feel free to keep blaming the user for not immediately disabling this thing they never signed up for in the first place and didn't know Google had even introduced. Stupid users.
Didn't effect me because I wasn't stupid enough to have a Google profile in the first place.
Have they ever broadcast your email, or your pictures that you marked as private, or your google docs that you marked private?
Or is this just another example of a full-out google hate without letting the facts get in your way?
Did you miss Google Buzz then? You know, the one that would publish all your e-mail contacts for the whole world to see?
The promoting part gets me too. I don't see that in Dropbox or MS' TOS. I can imagine the situation where your are on Google+ (and probably you're the only one) and an add pops-up with "look what files your friends are storing on Google Drive!".
Enterprise has never been (and I’ll argue, shouldn’t be) a focus of ours. Until we run out of people who don’t have sysadmins and enterprise deployment teams looking out for them, I can’t imagine why we’d focus at all on the kinds of environments you care so much about.
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Unlikely. This thing was huge, like the size of an xbox (in a box) large and stuffed directly up the front of his shirt.
Considering the amount of blood shed, I'd say, yeah.
My thoughts exactly. Does SAP really pay that poorly?
Except it's not a translation of the word of God, but a translation of a bunch of superstitious middle-eastern tribesmen from 2000 odd years ago (or more).
Exactly this. You pay people barely above minimum wage and expect them to give a shit? I remember being in a Walmart once and somebody clearly had something stuffed up their sweater, and I mean clearly, it was a large bumpy item. He was standing right in front of the customer service desk and the drone behind the desk didn't bat an eyelid.
The guy must be an optimist. After Citizens United, most of us concluded that democracy was already dead.
Even the use of "+1" comes off as mathematical and robotic. Grandma doesn't want to "+1 something".
Maybe it's my engineering brain, but I never thought of it like that. I think you are right. +1 insightful!..oops..I mean "like"?
It's a bit misleading to call fNIR a "poor-mans" fMRI. They are very different beasts that address different problems. NIR sits somewhere in-between EEG and fMRI. It's faster than fMRI (but not as fast as EEG) and has better spacial resolution than EEG (but not as good as fMRI). The real weakness of NIR is that it can only measure a few centimeters into the brain. But at least you don't need to sit in a claustrophobic magnet.
Really! I can hardly imagine a worse scenario for a manufacturer of passenger aircraft. Who would buy one now? Who would board one now? It's gonna take an epic feat of PR damage control to save the company (or at least their passenger aircraft division) after that.
Considering that the people they were trying to convince and now smeared across the side of a volcano...I'd agree. Lost sale.
Not the same. I want my search separate. I don't mind my search bar keystrokes going to Google or Microsoft, I just don't want my URL keystrokes going anywhere until I hit enter. Switching search engines doesn't really solve the problem. And when it's switching to some crappy small search engine, it's cutting off your nose to spite your face.
I think you are reading that graph back-asswards. Click on invert. On November 22nd, 2011 £1 sterling would buy you €1.15. On May 2nd, 2012 that same £1 will buy you €1.23. That's the opposite of what you are trying to argue.
Or to put it another way, in November a Euro would cost you 86p. Today it'll cost you 81p. That means the Euro is worth less, not the pound.
Don't take away the separate search bar. It's one thing I like about Firefox is that it's not sending all my keystrokes in the URL bar to Google. Looks like they're now gonna take that away (from the screenshot).
A prime example of Muphry's law!
Thus cost is a non issue.
Cost is always an issue. Even if it only adds a fraction of a penny per carton, add that up over millions of cartons and you start talking about real money.
Agree on the need for less, simpler distros. The problem is that one the greatest strengths of Linux, that if you don't like something about it you can just change it, has led to it biggest problem, that there are hundreds of slightly different flavors that the average outsider can't make head nor tail of. I'd say it's ironic, but some grammar nazi will jump all over me and tell me I'm using it wrong (which I probably am).
It would probably also help if you could get Linux users to stop fighting amongst themselves over every little goddamn thing.
Checks weather report in hell, nope, not gonna happen today.
A far point. RFID chips are chewy and get stuck in your teeth.
Well, exactly. Presumably the ideal solution (for people pushing this type of stuff) is an RFID chip on your carton of milk. But that costs money, and what do the milk suppliers get in return for the cost of sticking an RFID on every carton? You're gonna buy milk either way if you run out, so I don't really see the advantage (for the seller). If anything, they probably benefit when you accidentally buy milk because you forgot that you had a full carton in the fridge. Especially since milk goes bad - so there's a good chance that some of the extra milk will end up down the drain.
This strikes me as a solution looking for a problem. It's cool and all, but is it really necessary to have my fridge know what's inside it and when it expires and alert me on my smart phone or some similar nonsense. Is opening the fridge and checking what's in there really that much of a problem that people are willing to drop multiple $k on home automation? All things being equal, sure I'd take the internet connected fridge over the old "dumb" fridge, but am I willing to pay extra for it?
No, I didn't. You do know Google subscribed everybody with a Google profile don't you? And you do know that sharing your contacts was opt-out, not opt-in. But feel free to keep blaming the user for not immediately disabling this thing they never signed up for in the first place and didn't know Google had even introduced. Stupid users.
Didn't effect me because I wasn't stupid enough to have a Google profile in the first place.
Have they ever broadcast your email, or your pictures that you marked as private, or your google docs that you marked private? Or is this just another example of a full-out google hate without letting the facts get in your way?
Did you miss Google Buzz then? You know, the one that would publish all your e-mail contacts for the whole world to see?
The promoting part gets me too. I don't see that in Dropbox or MS' TOS. I can imagine the situation where your are on Google+ (and probably you're the only one) and an add pops-up with "look what files your friends are storing on Google Drive!".
Really? Lip service isn't the same as actually catering to enterprise customers.
To quote Firefox evangelist Asa Dotzler