Actually, one of the main reasons for the merger was so Nextel could roll out their next generation PTT which runs on the CDMA network. Merging with Sprint means they don't have to go out and build a completely new infrastructure to support the new features. That's also why Verizion cried foul last year when Nextel was allowed to buy frequency spectrum at a fraction of what is normally charged in return for selling back the lower frequency spectrum they use now (at reduced charge) so it can be used for emergency services. Sprint benefits by geting a much larger piece of the spectrum for its high speed initiatives
It only "scares" those who profess faith in God but do not practice it. I do not need proof God exists. If I did I wouldn't need faith. What saddens me is the adversarial role the vocal minority (on any side of the "discussion") seem to gravitate to. I believe this is due to a misconception many Believers have. That is, If someone rejects God they become the enemy which is completly contrary to what Jesus said & did. The only people he treated that way were the religious leaders claiming to be acting/speaking in God's name but weren't (I think we can all think of someone who fits that description). So, to conclude, I am indeed intelligent & I am also a Believer. I do not require scientific evidence of God and I do not require you to accept that God exists to be friends with you. As to whether ID should be taught in school I don't know enough about it to intelligently comment (I suspect that is true for the majority of people on the list) but I do know that Darwin's theory of evolution doesn't resemble anything close to what people think it does. I like to call it his theory of adaptation since it actually just talks about a species adapting to climactic / elemental changes.
BTW - Wasn't it the Church that created most school systems to begin with?
Eventually, advertising will become so integrated with the content that you can't automatically detect and strip it out.
We're already there....sort of. Anyone watching a feature film in the last 10 or more years has seen this. The last few Bond flicks have been almost full length commercials for Mercedes/BMW/Boliva. There are too many to mention. The funniest one I remember was actually a satire on product placement in films. Anyone remember Wayne's World? They spent 5 minutes saying they would never sell out their music while doing an ad for Pepsi, Nuprin (Little, yellow, different), and Pizza Hut. Hilarious, but sadly true.
I hope my wife doesn't read this story. Otherwise the next time she goes to throw out all my "lucky" (read:Confortable) shirts she will just tell me "I am redploying them"
"Only Americans can innovate" is probably a dangerous stereotype.
You just proved my point. I didn't intend to imply anything of the sort but that's what you saw. Why? You have been exposed to a different set of external influences that led you to see something I never even thought about when I wrote it. So to say it another way, the CIO may have a particular idea how he wants something done and he conveys that to an employee who grew up around the world from him and proceeds to implement what he "interpreted" his boss said to him. The CIO is furious because it wasn't done the way he saw it in his own mind but the spirit of the design was honored by the employee. It could happen either way. The CIO could be from the US or Japan or China or anywhere.
And here is where the problem of solving problems lies! You now have 200PhD's solving the problem from THEIR perspective. You ever noticed several people will look at a problem and each one of them will come up with a different, sometimes conflicting, solution? Have you ever had a conversation with someone who believed something so totally absurd to you but to them it was completely rational? Some of the greatest inventions of the last century were complete accident/mistakes that came about because someone was thinking outside the box and dared to try and achieve something great. They may not have achieved what they were hoping for but their inventions changed the world nonetheless. The majority of these off shored PhD's are wrote scientists. They follow the path already etched out for them and ever so slowly etch a little bit more. There is nothing wrong with this approach but it will rarely achieve the kind of breakthrough wanton reckless abandon to scientific principles will achieve in the same amount of time. Hewlett & Packard were tinkerers who thought big and were also smart enough to start their own company. Carly didn't start the process of spinning off hp's true core business unit (now Agilent Technologies http://www.home.agilent.com/) but she did let it happen. For anything to really last there has to be a balance of PR/R&D/BST (Blood Sweat & Tears). She tried to rob Peter (R&D) to pay Paul (PR) and it caught up with her.
I was in SAM's last week just browsing when something caught my eye. It was a typical looking rectangle plastic DVR but what was interesting was the removable drive bay built into it. It was only ~$250 and had all of the inputs you could ever want except HD. I think that would make a pretty decent jukebox for my home system.
Nintendo pissed off third-party developers by acting like a bully, and limited game size and (developer) profit margins with small and space-limited cartridges.
Actually it was more about the cartidges as I recall. It cost distributors a couple of cents per CD to pump out titles for the new PS whereas with a cartidge based system the cost was much higher even if Nintendo hadn't put a tax on each catridge. So you could charge the same amount for a PS & Nintendo game and make more money on the PS sale. Simple math says develop all your titles for the cheaper alternative and - PROFIT
Cintra is ponying up all the money for this project. The State of Texas will pay nothing. And gets the ability to take over tolls in 50 years
Well I know there was some similar agreement when the Sam Houston Tollway (Beltway 8) was built here in Houston but it was shorter term (8 to 10 years IIRC). In any case, the term came and went and the tolls went up. We were told that once the road was paid for the tolls would end and the road would be free to travel. Not only has that not happened but they are now trying to turn raods that have been free from their construction (Hwy 249 to Tomball). Fortunately public outcry forced a change of heart on that issue.
Are you joking? My business has grown exponentially since the spyware phenomenon began. And now some punk is gonna show my users how to avoid it altogether?! LUNACY!! You long haired monitor huggers don't understand what it's like trying to stay in business these days. Please don't take my last best hope for feeding my family.
/* For the humor impaired please disregard the previous post */
Perhaps the reason scifi is doing this is to keep Browder around while they come up with a script for another movie/season of FarScape? We all know it's about the benjamins and perhaps the free publicity and decent reviews the recent mini-series garnered were enough to kick start another run....I mean they did decide to proceed with the new Battlestar Galactica (which I personally didn't find very good) so how much of a stretch is it to believe Farscape is FAR behind;)
In a shocking and ironic turn of events today, a browser hacker used the millions of geeks on the popular slashdot.org tech news website to iron out a few problems he was having making his exploit work in all browsers. The geeks, often referred to as slashdotter's (/. for short) lept into action and had the exploit working on every known browser within minutes causing the entire internet to implode only minutes later.
IBM rumored to be selling their PC business.... IBM rumored to be "merging" with Apple...... IBM rumored to be ready to deploy Cell processor by 2005....
Hrmmm....I am beginning to think these Cell processors kick some mighty big ass and IBM needs an established consumer avenue to distribute them.
Not if you weren't aware there was more than one usage. How many average Joes do you think know what an "Asynchronous Transfer Mode" is versus an "Automatic Teller Machine"? What makes it even more interesting is that many ATM's use ATM to communicate.
And then you have what I like to call "Hijacked" acronyms. ATM is my favorite because I know of at least three different meanings depending on who you are conversing with.
Actually it does... It's called the Electoral College and it was created specifically because the founding fathers knew people in general couldn't be trusted to always make the right choice.
This isn't totally OT because it is relevant to this discussion. First I will start by saying that I have enjoyed Moore's purely entertainment exploits and find him very funny most of the time. I disagree with his politics and while he may or may not have a valid message in this film I will not see it on principle. What irritates me is when people scream that people's (in this case Moore's) freedom of speach is being encroached if another organization or group tries to squelch whatever is being said. Freedom of speech is the right to say what you want politically and the "government" cannot prevent you from saying it by throwing you in jail or having you executed, which is quite common in Afghanastan and Iraq BTW. If what you are saying is offensive to me I have every right to say "You are in my place of business and I must ask you to leave!" As a side note. The Dixie Chicks had every right to pan GWB the way they did and the Bush administrstation couldn't touch them but if I want to stop buying their music or a radio station wants to get publicity by burning their albums that's free speach as well. I can smell the Karma burning
OK, I haven't seen anyone mention it so I will. Shatner's current role on The Practice (it'll be called Fleet Street next season) is hilarious. He's the head partner at a large law firm but he is suffering from mild case of alzheimers. For those who have not seen it he is fabulous. I laugh for minutes at a time because whenever he starts a meeting and he can't remember what the meeting is about he simply states his name "DENNY CRANE!" with supreme authority. I would hate to see him leave the new series for the current Trek series. Of course if it was to replace Bacula I would be 200% for it.
I find it interesting that no one seems to even be hinting that nutrition plays an INTEGRAL role in most, if not all, medical (including mental) illnesses. Having suffered from chronic depression for several years and receiving NO RELIEF from any Medical/Psychiatric Dr. I finally found true relief when I began taking St. John's Wort and a super green food called Barley Green. My mood improved overnight and I was finally able to get back into the public and rebuild my life. Of course everyone's body is different and requires constant nutritional "tweaking" to stay at an optimal level. I no longer need the St. John's Wort but have added Coral Calcium because of the high acidity of my body. More information on the affects of nutrition on schizophrenia can be found at The Life Extension Foundation an excellent source of nutritional information IMHO. There is a wealth of information that cannot begin to be tapped in this forum. My prayers are with your family in this endeavor.
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Actually, one of the main reasons for the merger was so Nextel could roll out their next generation PTT which runs on the CDMA network. Merging with Sprint means they don't have to go out and build a completely new infrastructure to support the new features. That's also why Verizion cried foul last year when Nextel was allowed to buy frequency spectrum at a fraction of what is normally charged in return for selling back the lower frequency spectrum they use now (at reduced charge) so it can be used for emergency services. Sprint benefits by geting a much larger piece of the spectrum for its high speed initiatives
How quickly they forget.
It only "scares" those who profess faith in God but do not practice it. I do not need proof God exists. If I did I wouldn't need faith. What saddens me is the adversarial role the vocal minority (on any side of the "discussion") seem to gravitate to. I believe this is due to a misconception many Believers have. That is, If someone rejects God they become the enemy which is completly contrary to what Jesus said & did. The only people he treated that way were the religious leaders claiming to be acting /speaking in God's name but weren't (I think we can all think of someone who fits that description). So, to conclude, I am indeed intelligent & I am also a Believer. I do not require scientific evidence of God and I do not require you to accept that God exists to be friends with you. As to whether ID should be taught in school I don't know enough about it to intelligently comment (I suspect that is true for the majority of people on the list) but I do know that Darwin's theory of evolution doesn't resemble anything close to what people think it does. I like to call it his theory of adaptation since it actually just talks about a species adapting to climactic / elemental changes.
BTW - Wasn't it the Church that created most school systems to begin with?
They're not evil, just amoral and greedy.
Aren't those just attributes of evil?
Eventually, advertising will become so integrated with the content that you can't automatically detect and strip it out.
We're already there....sort of. Anyone watching a feature film in the last 10 or more years has seen this. The last few Bond flicks have been almost full length commercials for Mercedes/BMW/Boliva. There are too many to mention. The funniest one I remember was actually a satire on product placement in films. Anyone remember Wayne's World? They spent 5 minutes saying they would never sell out their music while doing an ad for Pepsi, Nuprin (Little, yellow, different), and Pizza Hut. Hilarious, but sadly true.
I hope my wife doesn't read this story. Otherwise the next time she goes to throw out all my "lucky" (read:Confortable) shirts she will just tell me "I am redploying them"
Hrmm....Item located in Round Rock, Texas. Me thinks he might work for a little company owned by a guy named Michael.
The problem will be finding enough Plutonium for the 1.21 Jiggawatts the engine needs to get off the ground.
"Only Americans can innovate" is probably a dangerous stereotype.
You just proved my point. I didn't intend to imply anything of the sort but that's what you saw. Why? You have been exposed to a different set of external influences that led you to see something I never even thought about when I wrote it. So to say it another way, the CIO may have a particular idea how he wants something done and he conveys that to an employee who grew up around the world from him and proceeds to implement what he "interpreted" his boss said to him. The CIO is furious because it wasn't done the way he saw it in his own mind but the spirit of the design was honored by the employee. It could happen either way. The CIO could be from the US or Japan or China or anywhere.
And here is where the problem of solving problems lies! You now have 200PhD's solving the problem from THEIR perspective. You ever noticed several people will look at a problem and each one of them will come up with a different, sometimes conflicting, solution? Have you ever had a conversation with someone who believed something so totally absurd to you but to them it was completely rational? Some of the greatest inventions of the last century were complete accident/mistakes that came about because someone was thinking outside the box and dared to try and achieve something great. They may not have achieved what they were hoping for but their inventions changed the world nonetheless. The majority of these off shored PhD's are wrote scientists. They follow the path already etched out for them and ever so slowly etch a little bit more. There is nothing wrong with this approach but it will rarely achieve the kind of breakthrough wanton reckless abandon to scientific principles will achieve in the same amount of time. Hewlett & Packard were tinkerers who thought big and were also smart enough to start their own company. Carly didn't start the process of spinning off hp's true core business unit (now Agilent Technologies http://www.home.agilent.com/) but she did let it happen. For anything to really last there has to be a balance of PR/R&D/BST (Blood Sweat & Tears). She tried to rob Peter (R&D) to pay Paul (PR) and it caught up with her.
I was in SAM's last week just browsing when something caught my eye. It was a typical looking rectangle plastic DVR but what was interesting was the removable drive bay built into it. It was only ~$250 and had all of the inputs you could ever want except HD. I think that would make a pretty decent jukebox for my home system.
This was obviously written by a native Indian in Hindi and run through the fish.
Nintendo pissed off third-party developers by acting like a bully, and limited game size and (developer) profit margins with small and space-limited cartridges.
Actually it was more about the cartidges as I recall. It cost distributors a couple of cents per CD to pump out titles for the new PS whereas with a cartidge based system the cost was much higher even if Nintendo hadn't put a tax on each catridge. So you could charge the same amount for a PS & Nintendo game and make more money on the PS sale. Simple math says develop all your titles for the cheaper alternative and - PROFIT
Cintra is ponying up all the money for this project. The State of Texas will pay nothing. And gets the ability to take over tolls in 50 years
Well I know there was some similar agreement when the Sam Houston Tollway (Beltway 8) was built here in Houston but it was shorter term (8 to 10 years IIRC). In any case, the term came and went and the tolls went up. We were told that once the road was paid for the tolls would end and the road would be free to travel. Not only has that not happened but they are now trying to turn raods that have been free from their construction (Hwy 249 to Tomball). Fortunately public outcry forced a change of heart on that issue.
Are you joking? My business has grown exponentially since the spyware phenomenon began. And now some punk is gonna show my users how to avoid it altogether?! LUNACY!! You long haired monitor huggers don't understand what it's like trying to stay in business these days. Please don't take my last best hope for feeding my family.
/* For the humor impaired please disregard the previous post */
Perhaps the reason scifi is doing this is to keep Browder around while they come up with a script for another movie/season of FarScape? We all know it's about the benjamins and perhaps the free publicity and decent reviews the recent mini-series garnered were enough to kick start another run....I mean they did decide to proceed with the new Battlestar Galactica (which I personally didn't find very good) so how much of a stretch is it to believe Farscape is FAR behind ;)
In a shocking and ironic turn of events today, a browser hacker used the millions of geeks on the popular slashdot.org tech news website to iron out a few problems he was having making his exploit work in all browsers. The geeks, often referred to as slashdotter's (/. for short) lept into action and had the exploit working on every known browser within minutes causing the entire internet to implode only minutes later.
Yes, The chip is slated to be implanted into just about everything by the end of 05 beginning of 06 according to IBM & Sony. There is no end to press release coverage http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=IBM+Cell+Powe rPC+2005&spell=1
IBM rumored to be selling their PC business....
IBM rumored to be "merging" with Apple......
IBM rumored to be ready to deploy Cell processor by 2005....
Hrmmm....I am beginning to think these Cell processors kick some mighty big ass and IBM needs an established consumer avenue to distribute them.
Not if you weren't aware there was more than one usage. How many average Joes do you think know what an "Asynchronous Transfer Mode" is versus an "Automatic Teller Machine"? What makes it even more interesting is that many ATM's use ATM to communicate.
And then you have what I like to call "Hijacked" acronyms. ATM is my favorite because I know of at least three different meanings depending on who you are conversing with.
I remember drooling over the BoneFone http://pocketcalculatorshow.com/magicalgadget/inde x3.html#bonefone as a teenager (Many Many years ago). They never caught on and I never got to see one save in an ad. :(
Nothing to see here...Move along...Move along...
Actually it does...
It's called the Electoral College and it was created specifically because the founding fathers knew people in general couldn't be trusted to always make the right choice.
This isn't totally OT because it is relevant to this discussion. First I will start by saying that I have enjoyed Moore's purely entertainment exploits and find him very funny most of the time. I disagree with his politics and while he may or may not have a valid message in this film I will not see it on principle. What irritates me is when people scream that people's (in this case Moore's) freedom of speach is being encroached if another organization or group tries to squelch whatever is being said. Freedom of speech is the right to say what you want politically and the "government" cannot prevent you from saying it by throwing you in jail or having you executed, which is quite common in Afghanastan and Iraq BTW. If what you are saying is offensive to me I have every right to say "You are in my place of business and I must ask you to leave!" As a side note. The Dixie Chicks had every right to pan GWB the way they did and the Bush administrstation couldn't touch them but if I want to stop buying their music or a radio station wants to get publicity by burning their albums that's free speach as well.
I can smell the Karma burning
OK, I haven't seen anyone mention it so I will. Shatner's current role on The Practice (it'll be called Fleet Street next season) is hilarious. He's the head partner at a large law firm but he is suffering from mild case of alzheimers. For those who have not seen it he is fabulous. I laugh for minutes at a time because whenever he starts a meeting and he can't remember what the meeting is about he simply states his name "DENNY CRANE!" with supreme authority. I would hate to see him leave the new series for the current Trek series. Of course if it was to replace Bacula I would be 200% for it.
I find it interesting that no one seems to even be hinting that nutrition plays an INTEGRAL role in most, if not all, medical (including mental) illnesses. Having suffered from chronic depression for several years and receiving NO RELIEF from any Medical/Psychiatric Dr. I finally found true relief when I began taking St. John's Wort and a super green food called Barley Green. My mood improved overnight and I was finally able to get back into the public and rebuild my life. Of course everyone's body is different and requires constant nutritional "tweaking" to stay at an optimal level. I no longer need the St. John's Wort but have added Coral Calcium because of the high acidity of my body. More information on the affects of nutrition on schizophrenia can be found at The Life Extension Foundation an excellent source of nutritional information IMHO. There is a wealth of information that cannot begin to be tapped in this forum. My prayers are with your family in this endeavor.