You know I hear this often from tablet owners. Tablets have to be the ultimate impulse buy. Very few people actually use them often.
Largely the story with my first generation Tablet - It's OK and has been designated as my travel computer, but is rarely used around the house for anything more than streaming football scores on the BBC while I'm doing other things.
Last I looked the floods were still going strong in Thailand. Nice pictures and a bit of a surprise they didn't wait for CES to unveil it (but that's a crowded place with a lot of chatter to rise above.)
When will there be a candid talke and recognition that Israel is more often the villain and things should be set right?
Calling "Israel", a villain is like calling a black-belt a murder. Time for some history. They were there first, and got the boot. We helped them come back in 1948, and took half of what the Arabs, claimed. Rather than accept the new borders, and live in peace, Palestine went ape-shit. Israel happened to win, and to the victor goes the spoils. Rather than accept defeat, like a civilized country, and negotiate peace beneficial to them both, Palestine cries about how unfair life is, and has several more ragefests till now. As a result, Israel gets some massive level grinding done, and becomes even more powerful. Palestine can't figure out when to give up, and starts blowing stuff up like a 5 year old.
You claim that Israel is the villain, but I don't see Israelites blowing up houses in Gaza. I'm not saying Palestine is evil, because it isn't, but the people of Palestine, as well as radical Islamics, have some serious growing up to do.
Do a Google Earth of Gaza strip some time, population about 600,000 living in scant square miles of slums. Those people once lived where a lot of those nice Israeli kibutzes are now. Many pushed out at the point of a rife, accompanied by the words, "This was our land and now we're here to take it back. Move!"
Watching a few prisoner swaps over the years, it seems the exchange rate on lives is one Israeli is worth a few more than a thousand Palestinians. Betrays some truths about how people on either side view the others. There's answers in there if you can figure out the questions correctly.
When will there be a candid talke and recognition that Israel is more often the villain and things should be set right?
The United States was carved out North America the exact same way. Mass migration and settlement. The only difference between the United States and Israel is that the United States killed most of the Native Americans as they went along.
Despite years of broken treaties and harsh treatment, the natives do have the full right of suffrage, can hunt and fish according to custom and even get loads of money back from stupid gamblers. Were I a chief I'd advise the patient practice of buying back the land with the revenue of the casinos. Beat the invader using his own rules, sorta thing.
Can't say the same for the Palestinians, who once outnumbered the Jews & Christians of the region by about 10:1, but now are outnumbered by the Jews, as Israel grants full rights, citizenship and suffrage to anyone with the right bloodline, no matter where their family has lived for untold generations.
Oh wait its the Israeli guy their complaining about? Oh shit that is news... Never had a -5 before...
Acknowledging Netanyahu is a two-faced, backstabber is the news - but do keep in mind, he's only doing what the people behind him want and that % of the population of Israel has been in the majority and more bent than ever upon just taking the whole of Palestine from the Palestinians - their book says it was their's and after hundered of years they've decided to come back and claim it. Quite unapologetic, too.
In the movie, he was on a panel of some press conference and after he spoke, he forgot to take off his wireless microphone and headed off the mensroom whereby the sounds of his visit were broadcast over the PA system.
And you've never seen (or heard) anyone on a mobile phone in the bathroom? I'm quite stunned every time I hear someone on their phone in there, like in airports or even at work.
It suggests that even politicians loath politicians and find their company insufferable.
When Country B is carved from the heart of Country A, and Country B is admitted to the UN, but Country A cannot because they can't learn to be civil with being deprived of their homes, property and liberty. Further, Country B builds settlements in the remaining occupied lands of Country A, despite it being viewed universally as an illegal act. So after a lot of tit for tat and really never getting anywhere with peace talks, Country A decides to press its case for recognition in the same forum which recognises Country B. Country B and its bigger mate, Country C, both get all excited and claim this would not be a good thing and not in the interests of peace talks (which haven't yielded anything in about 30 years.) Country A gets recognised by UNESCO, overwhelmingly and Country B is apoplectic, while its mate, Country C, claims this was a grave error and withdraws its tuppence of support for UNESCO. Country B strikes back by authorising even more settlements in occupied territories claimed by Country A.
Honestly. Country B and its leader would normally be shunned and subject to many and various sanctions sponsored by Country C, but only if it were any other country in the world, or so it seems. The situation is preposterous and the logic is broken. Sarkozy identified the elephant in the room. Even Obama recognised how problematic it can be. When will there be a candid talke and recognition that Israel is more often the villain and things should be set right?
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When I was a wee lad, the global company down the road had CEOs who were from the Middle Class and their children attended the same public schools I had. Now CEOs and their cabinet appear to be from some space-faring race which silently invaded the world and replaced responsible, forward thinking professionals with babbling cauldrons of buzzwords, who slashed payrolls and feathered their own nests.
Irony isn't dead, it just requires a mind which isn't closed to it.
No, the reason is money. Facebook gives them cash, they do stupid things in exchange. Facebook then hopes to get more information to sell, I mean more users.
Wouldn't be a bad idea of FB put some of that money into improving their crappy interface. I hate using the site. Only post occasionally because my stress level goes up each time I use it.
Of course, the mainframe is a marginalized beast these days.
Hardly marginalized. It's doing what it has always done best, which is push lots of data around with raw processing power. Just because you can't see them doesn't mean they aren't there humming away crunching data. If you use an ATM, charge something to a credit card, or receive your pay I guarantee you there is a mainframe at the end of that transaction.
The need for mainframe services never went away, the world just built a whole new computer segment separate from them for new things.
Everywhere I have worked the mainframes have yielded to blade servers, save one - where they are running some horrible old frankenstein COBOL system in a virtual HP 3000 environment (which could possibly be running on a blade by now, for all I know.)
soaring at over 11 miles a second straight towards Earth
A bit sensationalist no? More accurate would be "not quite straight toward Earth" or "not toward Earth at all but at some point that passes close to Earth".
They could have gone for awe-inspiring, watch the serene little asteroid drift past mighty Earth, to the tune of Blue Danube. That would be pretty neat.
Alas, I've grown weary of US media - it feels some necessity to amp-up everything, particularly the mundane or ordinary (or even tragic) because people wouldn't tune in, unless they did -- really, I find myself tuning out.
LOL!!! Now IBM will be on the endless Microsoft virus/buggy money train. I think I will buy some IBM stock. This could also put thousands of unemployed programers to work. Constant buggy upgrades, crashing systems, crappy code etc... IBM's revenue should jump 10 fold.
Not so much IBM's worry - but that of any customer who goes that route.
Bit like replacing a wheel on your car by welding a truck in place - one facing the other direction.
WTG Discovery with your asinine, needlessly fear-mongering video clip headline:
Discovery News Videos: Space: Doomsday Asteroid
Somebody should be fired...
There was a time I when I really liked Discovery, but they have been becoming the Crap channel with a lot of their junk. Guess thinking isn't encouraged there. Thoughtful, interesting programming is pushed aside for more visceral stuff.
Getting the same feeling about Sirius/XM, which had such a bright beginning, now they're adopting all the idiotic practices I so despise of broadcast radio stations. Must be some disease in the media - brought about from sitting in studios too long and not getting out among the people.
And yet, sufficient people within the Republic have seen their way to electing a leader (2001-2009) who increased spending, decreased revenue, didn't oversee energy trading, was blind to the hurricane, engaged in war on two fronts and overlooked a financial sector run amok. People even venerate this leader and blame the ills of the economy and country on his successor. People aren't stupid, but they are certainly prone to spells of madness.
Pollster: Hey, you! Guy: Huh? P: What do you do? G: I have a Master's degree in puppetry. P: Wow! That's... a thing! G: Thanks! P: So how do you think the Global Economic Steering Committee should plan for the next 5 years? Should they continue to implement the existing computable general equilibrium models or switch over to the new Klein-Mobius models that have arisen from the joint econometric project at MIT and Oxford? G: Um. Wait, what was that about a joint? P: Do you feel the current IS/LM techniques are effectively pushing both the local and global economic realities toward the general equilibrium point, or is the locus of points generated by the algorithms simply not reflecting actual market trends? G: Did you say lotus? I can do the lotus position. P: Is there someone else here we can talk to?
Amusing, but more likely scenario:
Pollster: Hey you!
Guy: Me?
P: Yes, what you you think about cutting spending?
G: It's great, I'm all for it!
P: Where should we cut? Arts, Medicine, Defence, Research, Social Programs or Education?
The main reason being that people in general are stupid.
You could have stopped right there.
Personnally, I have nothing against people and wouldn't call them stupid to their face, but there's a staggering number of people who really, really liked what a certain few former governors had to say, so they were elected. These would prove to be very regretable choices for the electorate as their state governments lost oppotrunity while times were relatively good and set them up for greater difficulty down the road.
Watching the economic events in Greece and Italy, there's evidence, too, that people did not choose wisely and successive governments dug terrible holes which now emerging from is proving painful - and the people are unhappy. Well gosh, I suppose anyone who was gifted generously for years doesn't want to be the one to tighten the belt now times are hard.
People should be striving for the best leadership they can muster, hold it to account on meaningful issues (not those emotional, sucker issues which are always paraded out to sway voters these days) and basking the the glory they richly deserve for doing so. Doesn't happen often, does it?
There wasn't a moratorium on software patents after the introduction of the personal computer, to allow good ideas to surface and everyone to share, before people started glomming onto things. Stand on the shoulders of giants sort of thing, rather than having your legs cut out from under you at every turn.
It's really the best way - discourages lazy exam creation and shows how resourceful the student is in the subject matter.
I'm a conceptual learner, always had difficulty with memorising everything. Once I have the concept down pat, I can go seek the help I need from references. If I do not understand the concept, no number of references is ever going to bail me out.
I've certainly seen some "gifted" students hit the wall, face-on when expected to think through a problem, because they only memorized enough to fill in blanks they knew were coming.
And, I don't mean getting busted by the graders. I mean, if you're not really learning the content, how do you get away with not understanding the fundamentals when you get to higher class levels. Seems like it would eventually catch up with you.
The higher the level, the more you must memorize and find means of cheating, which in iself may prove to be more effort required than necessary to understand the material. I'm certain a lovely play could be made of this just lemme plagiarise some Shakespeare...
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You know I hear this often from tablet owners. Tablets have to be the ultimate impulse buy. Very few people actually use them often.
Largely the story with my first generation Tablet - It's OK and has been designated as my travel computer, but is rarely used around the house for anything more than streaming football scores on the BBC while I'm doing other things.
Last I looked the floods were still going strong in Thailand. Nice pictures and a bit of a surprise they didn't wait for CES to unveil it (but that's a crowded place with a lot of chatter to rise above.)
I mean, really. Seems perfectly reasonable.
In Soviet Russian the Cagey Bee gets YOUR honey!
Sure, but even if you don't get much honey, it'll certainly give a burglar (from outside the window) some pause, at the least.
Lots of window boxes and landscaped flowers in the cities - whether they make for good honey, that's unknown.
Ideally you have a field of flowring clover or some orchards nearby.
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When will there be a candid talke and recognition that Israel is more often the villain and things should be set right?
Calling "Israel", a villain is like calling a black-belt a murder. Time for some history. They were there first, and got the boot. We helped them come back in 1948, and took half of what the Arabs, claimed. Rather than accept the new borders, and live in peace, Palestine went ape-shit. Israel happened to win, and to the victor goes the spoils. Rather than accept defeat, like a civilized country, and negotiate peace beneficial to them both, Palestine cries about how unfair life is, and has several more ragefests till now. As a result, Israel gets some massive level grinding done, and becomes even more powerful. Palestine can't figure out when to give up, and starts blowing stuff up like a 5 year old.
You claim that Israel is the villain, but I don't see Israelites blowing up houses in Gaza. I'm not saying Palestine is evil, because it isn't, but the people of Palestine, as well as radical Islamics, have some serious growing up to do.
Do a Google Earth of Gaza strip some time, population about 600,000 living in scant square miles of slums. Those people once lived where a lot of those nice Israeli kibutzes are now. Many pushed out at the point of a rife, accompanied by the words, "This was our land and now we're here to take it back. Move!"
Watching a few prisoner swaps over the years, it seems the exchange rate on lives is one Israeli is worth a few more than a thousand Palestinians. Betrays some truths about how people on either side view the others. There's answers in there if you can figure out the questions correctly.
When will there be a candid talke and recognition that Israel is more often the villain and things should be set right?
The United States was carved out North America the exact same way. Mass migration and settlement. The only difference between the United States and Israel is that the United States killed most of the Native Americans as they went along.
Despite years of broken treaties and harsh treatment, the natives do have the full right of suffrage, can hunt and fish according to custom and even get loads of money back from stupid gamblers. Were I a chief I'd advise the patient practice of buying back the land with the revenue of the casinos. Beat the invader using his own rules, sorta thing.
Can't say the same for the Palestinians, who once outnumbered the Jews & Christians of the region by about 10:1, but now are outnumbered by the Jews, as Israel grants full rights, citizenship and suffrage to anyone with the right bloodline, no matter where their family has lived for untold generations.
Bit of a difference, really
Oh wait its the Israeli guy their complaining about? Oh shit that is news... Never had a -5 before...
Acknowledging Netanyahu is a two-faced, backstabber is the news - but do keep in mind, he's only doing what the people behind him want and that % of the population of Israel has been in the majority and more bent than ever upon just taking the whole of Palestine from the Palestinians - their book says it was their's and after hundered of years they've decided to come back and claim it. Quite unapologetic, too.
Takes longer to accumulate enough knowledge to leverage it into something new.
In the movie, he was on a panel of some press conference and after he spoke, he forgot to take off his wireless microphone and headed off the mensroom whereby the sounds of his visit were broadcast over the PA system.
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And you've never seen (or heard) anyone on a mobile phone in the bathroom? I'm quite stunned every time I hear someone on their phone in there, like in airports or even at work.
It suggests that even politicians loath politicians and find their company insufferable.
When Country B is carved from the heart of Country A, and Country B is admitted to the UN, but Country A cannot because they can't learn to be civil with being deprived of their homes, property and liberty. Further, Country B builds settlements in the remaining occupied lands of Country A, despite it being viewed universally as an illegal act. So after a lot of tit for tat and really never getting anywhere with peace talks, Country A decides to press its case for recognition in the same forum which recognises Country B. Country B and its bigger mate, Country C, both get all excited and claim this would not be a good thing and not in the interests of peace talks (which haven't yielded anything in about 30 years.) Country A gets recognised by UNESCO, overwhelmingly and Country B is apoplectic, while its mate, Country C, claims this was a grave error and withdraws its tuppence of support for UNESCO. Country B strikes back by authorising even more settlements in occupied territories claimed by Country A.
Honestly. Country B and its leader would normally be shunned and subject to many and various sanctions sponsored by Country C, but only if it were any other country in the world, or so it seems. The situation is preposterous and the logic is broken. Sarkozy identified the elephant in the room. Even Obama recognised how problematic it can be. When will there be a candid talke and recognition that Israel is more often the villain and things should be set right?
When I was a wee lad, the global company down the road had CEOs who were from the Middle Class and their children attended the same public schools I had. Now CEOs and their cabinet appear to be from some space-faring race which silently invaded the world and replaced responsible, forward thinking professionals with babbling cauldrons of buzzwords, who slashed payrolls and feathered their own nests.
Irony isn't dead, it just requires a mind which isn't closed to it.
No, the reason is money. Facebook gives them cash, they do stupid things in exchange. Facebook then hopes to get more information to sell, I mean more users.
Wouldn't be a bad idea of FB put some of that money into improving their crappy interface. I hate using the site. Only post occasionally because my stress level goes up each time I use it.
Of course, the mainframe is a marginalized beast these days.
Hardly marginalized. It's doing what it has always done best, which is push lots of data around with raw processing power. Just because you can't see them doesn't mean they aren't there humming away crunching data. If you use an ATM, charge something to a credit card, or receive your pay I guarantee you there is a mainframe at the end of that transaction.
The need for mainframe services never went away, the world just built a whole new computer segment separate from them for new things.
Everywhere I have worked the mainframes have yielded to blade servers, save one - where they are running some horrible old frankenstein COBOL system in a virtual HP 3000 environment (which could possibly be running on a blade by now, for all I know.)
soaring at over 11 miles a second straight towards Earth
A bit sensationalist no? More accurate would be "not quite straight toward Earth" or "not toward Earth at all but at some point that passes close to Earth".
They could have gone for awe-inspiring, watch the serene little asteroid drift past mighty Earth, to the tune of Blue Danube. That would be pretty neat.
Alas, I've grown weary of US media - it feels some necessity to amp-up everything, particularly the mundane or ordinary (or even tragic) because people wouldn't tune in, unless they did -- really, I find myself tuning out.
LOL!!! Now IBM will be on the endless Microsoft virus/buggy money train. I think I will buy some IBM stock. This could also put thousands of unemployed programers to work. Constant buggy upgrades, crashing systems, crappy code etc... IBM's revenue should jump 10 fold.
Not so much IBM's worry - but that of any customer who goes that route.
Bit like replacing a wheel on your car by welding a truck in place - one facing the other direction.
Why would anyone want to install Windows Desktop on a mainframe?
Of course, the mainframe is a marginalized beast these days. Why would Microsoft want space on there?
WTG Discovery with your asinine, needlessly fear-mongering video clip headline:
Discovery News Videos: Space: Doomsday Asteroid
Somebody should be fired...
There was a time I when I really liked Discovery, but they have been becoming the Crap channel with a lot of their junk. Guess thinking isn't encouraged there. Thoughtful, interesting programming is pushed aside for more visceral stuff.
Getting the same feeling about Sirius/XM, which had such a bright beginning, now they're adopting all the idiotic practices I so despise of broadcast radio stations. Must be some disease in the media - brought about from sitting in studios too long and not getting out among the people.
This is why we have a Republic, not a Democracy.
And yet, sufficient people within the Republic have seen their way to electing a leader (2001-2009) who increased spending, decreased revenue, didn't oversee energy trading, was blind to the hurricane, engaged in war on two fronts and overlooked a financial sector run amok. People even venerate this leader and blame the ills of the economy and country on his successor. People aren't stupid, but they are certainly prone to spells of madness.
Youtube comments. QED.
I wonder how much useful legislation would include LOL, STFU or WTF.
Pollster: Hey, you!
Guy: Huh?
P: What do you do?
G: I have a Master's degree in puppetry.
P: Wow! That's... a thing!
G: Thanks!
P: So how do you think the Global Economic Steering Committee should plan for the next 5 years? Should they continue to implement the existing computable general equilibrium models or switch over to the new Klein-Mobius models that have arisen from the joint econometric project at MIT and Oxford?
G: Um. Wait, what was that about a joint?
P: Do you feel the current IS/LM techniques are effectively pushing both the local and global economic realities toward the general equilibrium point, or is the locus of points generated by the algorithms simply not reflecting actual market trends?
G: Did you say lotus? I can do the lotus position.
P: Is there someone else here we can talk to?
Amusing, but more likely scenario:
Pollster: Hey you!
Guy: Me?
P: Yes, what you you think about cutting spending?
G: It's great, I'm all for it!
P: Where should we cut? Arts, Medicine, Defence, Research, Social Programs or Education?
G: Anything which doesn't directly affect me.
The main reason being that people in general are stupid.
You could have stopped right there.
Personnally, I have nothing against people and wouldn't call them stupid to their face, but there's a staggering number of people who really, really liked what a certain few former governors had to say, so they were elected. These would prove to be very regretable choices for the electorate as their state governments lost oppotrunity while times were relatively good and set them up for greater difficulty down the road.
Watching the economic events in Greece and Italy, there's evidence, too, that people did not choose wisely and successive governments dug terrible holes which now emerging from is proving painful - and the people are unhappy. Well gosh, I suppose anyone who was gifted generously for years doesn't want to be the one to tighten the belt now times are hard.
People should be striving for the best leadership they can muster, hold it to account on meaningful issues (not those emotional, sucker issues which are always paraded out to sway voters these days) and basking the the glory they richly deserve for doing so. Doesn't happen often, does it?
There wasn't a moratorium on software patents after the introduction of the personal computer, to allow good ideas to surface and everyone to share, before people started glomming onto things. Stand on the shoulders of giants sort of thing, rather than having your legs cut out from under you at every turn.
Open Source would be pretty much universal.
I'm so glad that the real world is open book.
It's really the best way - discourages lazy exam creation and shows how resourceful the student is in the subject matter.
I'm a conceptual learner, always had difficulty with memorising everything. Once I have the concept down pat, I can go seek the help I need from references. If I do not understand the concept, no number of references is ever going to bail me out.
I've certainly seen some "gifted" students hit the wall, face-on when expected to think through a problem, because they only memorized enough to fill in blanks they knew were coming.
And, I don't mean getting busted by the graders. I mean, if you're not really learning the content, how do you get away with not understanding the fundamentals when you get to higher class levels. Seems like it would eventually catch up with you.
The higher the level, the more you must memorize and find means of cheating, which in iself may prove to be more effort required than necessary to understand the material. I'm certain a lovely play could be made of this just lemme plagiarise some Shakespeare...