This is so true....
I have just completed a degree at Oxford and whenever I would put forward an argument contrary to the conventional or what the teacher thought it was dismissed as being 'simplistic' or far fetched....
Examples include:
FDR and the US actually knowing/wanting to provoke Pearl Harbour - Far fetched
One reason for Britain not being pro EU is its different experience of nationalism compared to its European neighbours.
So the answer - lick ass - in the end its only your degree that matters
Thats partly true - I aint writing to anyone about anything.
But if I buy a CD and cant rip it I will send it back and make a general pain of myself....
I cant believe this blatant troll is modded up as insightful.
Chewing gum distracts people and disturbs the class ?
Really?
Does swallowing or breathing likewise "disrupt"??
This is why so many people have so little patience with education - petty rules like no eating which serve no real purpose whatsoever other than boosting the egos of underpaid, undereducated teachers.
Most of your points are true, have been true and always will be.
If one worker stands up against the corporate system - they will be out on their ass.
However if one worker organises other workers collective action can be possible. Everyone cannot be put out on their asses.
This is the key to industrial relations anyway. Thats not to say unions are perfect - but if they arnt they can be bypassed by new organisations.
This is trus in most countries of the world, except the UK where Thatcher's legislation has made free association near impossible and reduced the British worker to the status of a serf.
A better analogy would be if there is a free popsicle vendor - but you never know what you are getting. The popsicle could actually be a rat-on-a-stick or even not a popsicle entirely.
Even if you get a popsicle you want it could be really low quality (96kbps anyone ?) or it could be incomplete or have sand in for no good reason.
People will pay for convenience of easy to download albums. I will and I am the tightest mo-fo out there. I am so sick of having to click 10'000 times and to weed out low quality MP3s for my collection.
Please Mr businessman let me spend my money
Please
Please
I think I know what is going to happen with this one.
Wired music fans will not pay $2 per track - $3-$4 per album makes more sense. But people will pay. Why ?
Let me tell you, it is because P2P networks suck and always will. How many times have you downloaded a track to find it badly recorded like it was underwater or confusingly/inconsistently labeled or cut into little bits or with blitting all over the place.
It also tends to be slow - even with Audiogalaxy you sometimes get tracks cut off and terrible download rates.
The answer is centralised servers and a low, low price. People are prepared to pay SOMETHING for the convenience of well labeled, good quality MP3s.
Revenues and profits can be maintained as people will "own" far more music than they do today. For instance I have 14 days worth of continuous music. If everyone owned that much and paid just a little for it publishers and artists could be very well off indeed.
This would also be good from a social perspective. With so much money sloshing around there could be a renaissance in music with creative, innovative acts finally being made available to a more mainstream audience and the non mainstream audience getting even more wacky!
Of course CDs will always be sold for people who like to feel their music and possibly for early releases but I think the future lies in music downloadable in MP3 on demand.
I am going to stick my limb out and suggest that if everything goes right we could be moving to an leisure based economy where music, literature and art is produced and consumed in vast quantities so much so it becomes the basis for the economies of the industrialised West.
But surely as our (genetic) ancestors had to suvive in arctic wastes that would mean that within us the capability exists to live in those sorts of conditions.
Startrek Generations also had a radically altered ending on the basis of focus groups.
Originally Soren (the bad guy) was going to shoot Kirk in the back and he died a pointless death from a lucky shot.
Focus groups didnt like it so we get the scene where Kirk falls to his death.
I dont know which is best (I havent seen the one where Kirk gets shot). Would be cool to see that version as I am sure there is a copy out there somewhere
This is of course true, cabling is near impossible to repair on the bottom of the ocean - it always is was and will be.
So new cable is not laid.
If it breaks lay new cable - its the cheapest and easiest way.
Look how much it cost to lay the railroads or the initial electrical grids. Costs will fall as the networks grow and when the costs of switching and cabling fall sufficiently bandwidth will drop in price and in many ways will be free in near unlimited quantities.
"Today I pay my bills online in seconds. I manage my budget in minutes. I can plan my week in minutes. I am many times more productive than I would have been without those technologies"
The point is that this isnt actual production in any meaningful sense of the word.
Nothing is created, merely time shifted around - therefore productivity - the amount of output produced by a given input of resources is not increased.
Admittedly the whole information revolution can be used to reallocate resources so that productivity is increased - going to the cheapest supplier for instance. However this is not happening yet.
Innovations such as spreadsheets probably havent reduced the number of people working producing estimates and such. Instead more people they produce even more elaborate models and constructs which bear little relevance to reality. These are really of little use except to ill informed executives who use them to cover their backs. If these models were so good then why are dot coms dropping like flies ?
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Will anyone sell me one of these to the UK - I am curious - we didnt get them over here..
I will pay e-mail me
Cheers
Then who was configuring this ?
They should at least CONSIDER who was going to be using the computer and think about how to make it easy to use...
If I turned on active desktop I would be opening 2 of everything.........
This is so true.... I have just completed a degree at Oxford and whenever I would put forward an argument contrary to the conventional or what the teacher thought it was dismissed as being 'simplistic' or far fetched.... Examples include: FDR and the US actually knowing/wanting to provoke Pearl Harbour - Far fetched One reason for Britain not being pro EU is its different experience of nationalism compared to its European neighbours. So the answer - lick ass - in the end its only your degree that matters
Warp factor 9 is not 9x lightspeed it is 1000x lightspeed
And the scary thing is I would actually watch this - it sounds good....
Thats partly true - I aint writing to anyone about anything. But if I buy a CD and cant rip it I will send it back and make a general pain of myself....
I cant believe this blatant troll is modded up as insightful. Chewing gum distracts people and disturbs the class ? Really? Does swallowing or breathing likewise "disrupt"?? This is why so many people have so little patience with education - petty rules like no eating which serve no real purpose whatsoever other than boosting the egos of underpaid, undereducated teachers.
Most of your points are true, have been true and always will be. If one worker stands up against the corporate system - they will be out on their ass. However if one worker organises other workers collective action can be possible. Everyone cannot be put out on their asses. This is the key to industrial relations anyway. Thats not to say unions are perfect - but if they arnt they can be bypassed by new organisations. This is trus in most countries of the world, except the UK where Thatcher's legislation has made free association near impossible and reduced the British worker to the status of a serf.
How does the HD in this cope with shocks - I would consider one but I would think if you went over one pothole it would be fsked....
Or is there some sort of stabilisation going on?
Anyone know ?
To get round this you cover your camera films in foil or keep them in the little metalic bags they came in (apparently).
I have no idea if this works but it makes alot of sense to say it might
The Popsicle analogy is a lousy one.
A better analogy would be if there is a free popsicle vendor - but you never know what you are getting. The popsicle could actually be a rat-on-a-stick or even not a popsicle entirely.
Even if you get a popsicle you want it could be really low quality (96kbps anyone ?) or it could be incomplete or have sand in for no good reason.
People will pay for convenience of easy to download albums. I will and I am the tightest mo-fo out there. I am so sick of having to click 10'000 times and to weed out low quality MP3s for my collection.
Please Mr businessman let me spend my money
Please
Please
I think I know what is going to happen with this one.
Wired music fans will not pay $2 per track - $3-$4 per album makes more sense. But people will pay. Why ?
Let me tell you, it is because P2P networks suck and always will. How many times have you downloaded a track to find it badly recorded like it was underwater or confusingly/inconsistently labeled or cut into little bits or with blitting all over the place.
It also tends to be slow - even with Audiogalaxy you sometimes get tracks cut off and terrible download rates.
The answer is centralised servers and a low, low price. People are prepared to pay SOMETHING for the convenience of well labeled, good quality MP3s.
Revenues and profits can be maintained as people will "own" far more music than they do today. For instance I have 14 days worth of continuous music. If everyone owned that much and paid just a little for it publishers and artists could be very well off indeed.
This would also be good from a social perspective. With so much money sloshing around there could be a renaissance in music with creative, innovative acts finally being made available to a more mainstream audience and the non mainstream audience getting even more wacky!
Of course CDs will always be sold for people who like to feel their music and possibly for early releases but I think the future lies in music downloadable in MP3 on demand.
I am going to stick my limb out and suggest that if everything goes right we could be moving to an leisure based economy where music, literature and art is produced and consumed in vast quantities so much so it becomes the basis for the economies of the industrialised West.
The difference being that Russia/China/UK/France/US are more stable countries than India and as such better able to use and control their power.
This of course is a very debatable point
So really what this means is India can hit any place on earth there abouts - with a reentry capability.
In effect India has almost got an ICBM
(Inter Continental Ballistic Missile)
Anyone else slightly disturbed
The revolution will be pay per view...
But surely as our (genetic) ancestors had to suvive in arctic wastes that would mean that within us the capability exists to live in those sorts of conditions.
Look at eskimos they do it.
It is it just me or do all these not work. I keep getting 505's not supported any ideas why ?
Startrek Generations also had a radically altered ending on the basis of focus groups.
Originally Soren (the bad guy) was going to shoot Kirk in the back and he died a pointless death from a lucky shot.
Focus groups didnt like it so we get the scene where Kirk falls to his death. I dont know which is best (I havent seen the one where Kirk gets shot). Would be cool to see that version as I am sure there is a copy out there somewhereThis is of course true, cabling is near impossible to repair on the bottom of the ocean - it always is was and will be. So new cable is not laid. If it breaks lay new cable - its the cheapest and easiest way. Look how much it cost to lay the railroads or the initial electrical grids. Costs will fall as the networks grow and when the costs of switching and cabling fall sufficiently bandwidth will drop in price and in many ways will be free in near unlimited quantities.
"Today I pay my bills online in seconds. I manage my budget in minutes. I can plan my week in minutes. I am many times more productive than I would have been without those technologies" The point is that this isnt actual production in any meaningful sense of the word. Nothing is created, merely time shifted around - therefore productivity - the amount of output produced by a given input of resources is not increased. Admittedly the whole information revolution can be used to reallocate resources so that productivity is increased - going to the cheapest supplier for instance. However this is not happening yet. Innovations such as spreadsheets probably havent reduced the number of people working producing estimates and such. Instead more people they produce even more elaborate models and constructs which bear little relevance to reality. These are really of little use except to ill informed executives who use them to cover their backs. If these models were so good then why are dot coms dropping like flies ?