While I won't presume to know more than the author of that book, Why?
Carr has been a speaker at MIT, Harvard, Wharton, the Kennedy School of Government, Moscow State University, NASA, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas as well as at many industry, corporate, and professional events throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia. He holds a B.A. from Dartmouth College and an M.A., in English literature, from Harvard University. Nicholas G. Carr
Obviously getting into Dartmouth and Harvard means your smart, but those credentials don't mean your particularly good at understanding IT or business, just good at communicating with PHB's. There are a lot of people around here with that much or more mental horsepower, better and more applicable credentials as well as more experience in IT and Real World Business.
I think that will change when Ma & Pa Kettle waddle into the Big-Box store to get their new Digital-TV and the Blue-Shirts up-sell them to a 42" LCD, surround sound and Bluray player package so they can watch Raw and Smackdown in all it's glory!
Maybe the fanboys are really saying "Not from any Media Company Format" rather than 'not Sony format'; after all the attacks through the MPAA, RIAA and the Sony rootkit; I'm not sure a bluray is trustworthy! If I'm stuck with one it's definitely going to be air-gapped from any network resources in the house.
Good will does not increase the bottom line of their stock portfolio or give them a fat dividend check. Bullshit that is exactly what branding is about, connecting a brand name to the "good will" associated with that good will irregardless to whether the good will is real or imagined. INTEL has spend Millions on it's "intel inside" campaign, imagine what happens to Intel if "Intel inside" becomes associated with stealing from staving children in 3rd world countries to skim a little more corporate profit? Hell half the Porn out on the internet was generated with Intel Codecs, I think the whacko "OMG think of the children" bunch could easily spin that into major damage.
In Peru, where One Laptop has begun shipping the first 40,000 PCs of a 270,000 system order, Isabelle Lama, an Intel saleswoman, tried to persuade Peru's vice minister of education, Oscar Becerra Tresierra, that the Intel Classmate PC was a better choice for his primary school students.
It might be ungenerous to charge INTEL as a whole for the actions of one loose-cannon sales-droid, might be better to fire the cannon and decimate the sales department in Peru, then the next time Corporate signs a partnership agreement with a nondisparagement clause, all the little piss-ant sales departments all over the world will believe that is what is meant.
Let me give you a hint, non-profit means NO PROFIT correct, non-profit means charitable organization not necessarily.
Non-Profit means no profit and profit is an accounting term that means revenues EXCEED expenses and has nothing to do with their charitableness. Many people who donate to non-profits don't realize how little actually goes to a real charity or charitable activity, sometimes a for-profit corporation donates a higher percentage of their revenue to a charity than a non-profit does; a lot of predators are attracted to non-profits. Think about the fun you could have with fund-raisers filled with hot babes, free booze, vendors lusting for contracts offering kickbacks, yeah baby.
Could an airship fly high enough so the chance of getting hit by ground fire be minimized? It's actually much harder to shoot down any aircraft than it would seem,there is little around a flying object to judge altitude and velocities against, and Aircraft fly erratically due to wind shears and turbulence. Most rifles start to peter-out pretty good after a 1/4 mile and are pretty well spent after a 1/2 mile; so if the airships are flying in a zone of 1000 - 5000 ft with the helicopters, you'd have to be within a 1/4 mile of the flight path on the low side to hopeless on the high side. Hitting one would give you bragging rights even amongst world-class shooters. The Guided Missile I fixed, the MIM-23 hawk was designed to basically detonate above and in front of the aircraft being shot at so that the aircraft would run into the cloud of flechettes; not all guided missile are designed for the more difficult explode on contact mode.
The MS Explorer sank off antarctic without any injuries to passengers or crew and the abandonment of ship was described as orderly. The Greek ship Sea Diamond with 1600 person and 2 were missing.
Gold is only toxic if your a whacko-lunatic nut-job that believes that one "someone told me they had a friend who know a lady who.. " story out-weighs a century of medical research. Actually Gold is used for comparing other alloys to for bio-compatibility, so gold is the gold-standard for non-toxic metals.
I'm not sure that hydrogen is really that dangerous, with proper engineering control you can eliminate accumulations of flammable quantities in the ship and end up with the diesel or jet A used for the propulsion being as likely to explode as the hydrogen.
Ultimately I figure I'm just anti-social and consequently the thrill of accumulating lots of "casual friends" just holds very little appeal to me. I'm also one of those people who never asks strangers, "How are you doing?" because I don't really care how some stranger is doing, and I know it's just a dumb little thing that people say to each other as a greeting and most people don't care how you are doing, either. Sometimes if you just pretend that you like people long enough, you actually will, then you find out that others actually like you as well; if that don't work beat on them with your sword.
I think that Google's joining the project on January 5, 2007, will help in that area.
LSST and Google share many of the same goals: organizing massive quantities of data and making it useful. Over 30 thousand gigabytes (30TB) of images will be generated every night during the decade -long LSST sky survey. The massive amount of data from LSST must be managed efficiently and analyzed in real time. Key areas in the Google-LSST collaboration will be: organizing the massive ingestion of information, processing and analyzing the continuous data streams in a 24/7 fault tolerant manner, enabling the new discoveries coming out of the LSST to be made available to the public and researchers in real time, and working with and managing large parallel data systems. In addition to aiding professional scientists and amateur astronomers, properly organized the LSST data will generate a new and dynamic view of the night sky for the public. LSST data will be valuable to curious minds of all ages, and will provide a powerful teaching tool.
In applying for membership, William Coughran, Google VP of Engineering, said "Google's mission is to take the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. The data from LSST will be an important part of the world's information, and by being involved in the project we hope to make it easier for that data to become accessible and useful."
no $30 M is what Gates and Simonyi donated to the project, which will certainly be used for that purpose, looking for planet-destroying rocks, but that purpose will not be it's only purpose. A $14.2 million National Science Foundation Design and Development Award was recieved by LSST and Google's partnership will be nothing to sneeze at either. Seeing the Planet-destroying rocks is what they are working on now and that's the easy part, recognizing which are planet-destroying rocks and which are really a 9/16th socket some astronaut dropped is the hard part.
I'm sure if the bean counters sharpened their pencils enough they'd find some gubberment moolah used, grant money must have been used to build the mirror lab or NSA funds used in Perl or Perl scripts or some SELinux has got to be in there somewhere. Still maybe now that BillyG is getting some distance from all of the business suits he's starting to reconnect with his inner-nerd and redeveloping his geekitude.
This Slashdot mentality of "This money is mine, and the government is just stealing it!" is just elitist dismissal of democracy, As opposed to your attitude that my life and my production belongs to the collective and that I should be grateful that the rabble allows me to keep some.
Plus, it's crazy to claim that the money is yours alone when, hey, there wouldn't be coinage without the government and they can determine what to do with it. Those metal tokens only have value because they hold the value created by the toil of a strong back or mind.
That's just mind-boogeling amounts of data, I can't even imagine trying to store it on a windows based solution; I'd have though that Windows would have been relegated to display functions with maybe a token Mac or two, while Linux and or Solaris does the heavy lifting in data processing and storage.
It's also about going to the Bahamas for a CE seminar in January and having it be tax deductible because CE is required for professional certification.
Understand in Texas, they can put you in prison for shooting your unfaithful spouse and their lover dead if either manage to fall out of the bed before dying, I wonder what the computer metaphor fort that would be?
Heck, like liquor...why not tax legal pot sales? We either do or did, medically prescribe pot is or was taxed at $10.00/Oz. and non-medical at $100.00/Oz. which was a ton of money back in the 1920's or 30's when I think the tax was enacted. You are correct thinking that originally our drug laws were thinly veiled racism.
The Dentist or Hygienist inject the anesthetic in very close proximity to the desired nerve, so I doubt that there would be much effect; even if there was some, nitrous oxide is very effective.
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Why?
Obviously getting into Dartmouth and Harvard means your smart, but those credentials don't mean your particularly good at understanding IT or business, just good at communicating with PHB's. There are a lot of people around here with that much or more mental horsepower, better and more applicable credentials as well as more experience in IT and Real World Business.
but we like attacking Sony and BluRay and they drew first blood.
I think that will change when Ma & Pa Kettle waddle into the Big-Box store to get their new Digital-TV and the Blue-Shirts up-sell them to a 42" LCD, surround sound and Bluray player package so they can watch Raw and Smackdown in all it's glory!
Maybe the fanboys are really saying "Not from any Media Company Format" rather than 'not Sony format'; after all the attacks through the MPAA, RIAA and the Sony rootkit; I'm not sure a bluray is trustworthy! If I'm stuck with one it's definitely going to be air-gapped from any network resources in the house.
So basically your saying a pogoism, "We have seen the greedy capitalist pig and he is us"
Good will does not increase the bottom line of their stock portfolio or give them a fat dividend check.
Bullshit that is exactly what branding is about, connecting a brand name to the "good will" associated with that good will irregardless to whether the good will is real or imagined. INTEL has spend Millions on it's "intel inside" campaign, imagine what happens to Intel if "Intel inside" becomes associated with stealing from staving children in 3rd world countries to skim a little more corporate profit? Hell half the Porn out on the internet was generated with Intel Codecs, I think the whacko "OMG think of the children" bunch could easily spin that into major damage.
It might be ungenerous to charge INTEL as a whole for the actions of one loose-cannon sales-droid, might be better to fire the cannon and decimate the sales department in Peru, then the next time Corporate signs a partnership agreement with a nondisparagement clause, all the little piss-ant sales departments all over the world will believe that is what is meant.
Let me give you a hint, non-profit means NO PROFIT correct,
non-profit means charitable organization not necessarily.
Non-Profit means no profit and profit is an accounting term that means revenues EXCEED expenses and has nothing to do with their charitableness. Many people who donate to non-profits don't realize how little actually goes to a real charity or charitable activity, sometimes a for-profit corporation donates a higher percentage of their revenue to a charity than a non-profit does; a lot of predators are attracted to non-profits. Think about the fun you could have with fund-raisers filled with hot babes, free booze, vendors lusting for contracts offering kickbacks, yeah baby.
How would I ever decide between your being +1 funny or +1 flamebait?
Could an airship fly high enough so the chance of getting hit by ground fire be minimized?
It's actually much harder to shoot down any aircraft than it would seem,there is little around a flying object to judge altitude and velocities against, and Aircraft fly erratically due to wind shears and turbulence. Most rifles start to peter-out pretty good after a 1/4 mile and are pretty well spent after a 1/2 mile; so if the airships are flying in a zone of 1000 - 5000 ft with the helicopters, you'd have to be within a 1/4 mile of the flight path on the low side to hopeless on the high side. Hitting one would give you bragging rights even amongst world-class shooters. The Guided Missile I fixed, the MIM-23 hawk was designed to basically detonate above and in front of the aircraft being shot at so that the aircraft would run into the cloud of flechettes; not all guided missile are designed for the more difficult explode on contact mode.
The MS Explorer sank off antarctic without any injuries to passengers or crew and the abandonment of ship was described as orderly. The Greek ship Sea Diamond with 1600 person and 2 were missing.
Gold is only toxic if your a whacko-lunatic nut-job that believes that one "someone told me they had a friend who know a lady who.. " story out-weighs a century of medical research. Actually Gold is used for comparing other alloys to for bio-compatibility, so gold is the gold-standard for non-toxic metals.
I'm not sure that hydrogen is really that dangerous, with proper engineering control you can eliminate accumulations of flammable quantities in the ship and end up with the diesel or jet A used for the propulsion being as likely to explode as the hydrogen.
Ultimately I figure I'm just anti-social and consequently the thrill of accumulating lots of "casual friends" just holds very little appeal to me. I'm also one of those people who never asks strangers, "How are you doing?" because I don't really care how some stranger is doing, and I know it's just a dumb little thing that people say to each other as a greeting and most people don't care how you are doing, either.
Sometimes if you just pretend that you like people long enough, you actually will, then you find out that others actually like you as well; if that don't work beat on them with your sword.
If you use your real name wouldn't she know who to sue for child support later on?
no $30 M is what Gates and Simonyi donated to the project, which will certainly be used for that purpose, looking for planet-destroying rocks, but that purpose will not be it's only purpose.
A $14.2 million National Science Foundation Design and Development Award was recieved by LSST and Google's partnership will be nothing to sneeze at either. Seeing the Planet-destroying rocks is what they are working on now and that's the easy part, recognizing which are planet-destroying rocks and which are really a 9/16th socket some astronaut dropped is the hard part.
I'm sure if the bean counters sharpened their pencils enough they'd find some gubberment moolah used, grant money must have been used to build the mirror lab or NSA funds used in Perl or Perl scripts or some SELinux has got to be in there somewhere. Still maybe now that BillyG is getting some distance from all of the business suits he's starting to reconnect with his inner-nerd and redeveloping his geekitude.
This Slashdot mentality of "This money is mine, and the government is just stealing it!" is just elitist dismissal of democracy,
As opposed to your attitude that my life and my production belongs to the collective and that I should be grateful that the rabble allows me to keep some.
Plus, it's crazy to claim that the money is yours alone when, hey, there wouldn't be coinage without the government and they can determine what to do with it.
Those metal tokens only have value because they hold the value created by the toil of a strong back or mind.
That's just mind-boogeling amounts of data, I can't even imagine trying to store it on a windows based solution; I'd have though that Windows would have been relegated to display functions with maybe a token Mac or two, while Linux and or Solaris does the heavy lifting in data processing and storage.
It's also about going to the Bahamas for a CE seminar in January and having it be tax deductible because CE is required for professional certification.
Understand in Texas, they can put you in prison for shooting your unfaithful spouse and their lover dead if either manage to fall out of the bed before dying, I wonder what the computer metaphor fort that would be?
Nah I'm positive that the laws against hemp/canabis predate nylon and probably rayon as well.
Heck, like liquor...why not tax legal pot sales? We either do or did, medically prescribe pot is or was taxed at $10.00/Oz. and non-medical at $100.00/Oz. which was a ton of money back in the 1920's or 30's when I think the tax was enacted. You are correct thinking that originally our drug laws were thinly veiled racism.
The Dentist or Hygienist inject the anesthetic in very close proximity to the desired nerve, so I doubt that there would be much effect; even if there was some, nitrous oxide is very effective.