there is a teeny tiny difference between a "business partner" or "the government of a sovereign nation". Except ofcourse when said government is buying or selling something.
What kind of cheap-ass drives do you use? Much to my disappointment, the non-techies in my office have been playing audio CD's on their PCs 8 hours a day, every day, for the last eight years, and never ruined a drive.
You do realize there's a difference between playing a disc(1 speed) or using DAE to rip it(whatever the max speed of the drive is), right?
Until people stop parroting Google's corporate motto like brainless sheep, yes. Until then, it's embarrasing watching a bunch of you with your pants around your ankles and your cheeks spread right in front of Google.
Bleh, I'll happily use whatever search engine/free email provider/insert random google service here is the best for my needs. Making sense does not necessarily mean being a fanboy, making does not necessarily mean being evil.
Now, a small question from me, those glasses that eleminate all shades of grey, where can I get me a pair of those?
like it or not, when you're an international business you have to deal with the local laws of the country you do business in. No matter how much you or me may dislike its practices, the chinese government is the chinese government, and if folks want to get rid of it or change its policies that's going to be up to the chinese people, not to Google.
ye gods. Does this have to come up with each and every time? There *are* companies out there that make a nice profit while still maintaining a high quality of both products and customer service. Making a profit does not not necessarily imply screwing over your customers over. Treating your customers with respect and catering to their wishes to create good word-of-mouth advertising(the best there is) is a perfectly viable business strategy.
You just raise the cost of the water as the use increases. As their water use grows their cost increases geometricly. Suddenly people conserver water not because they have to but because they choose to.
Ah, screwing those among us that are already trying to survive on the bare minimum in the process?
Though I've met PhDs from respectable US college with no clue, infact know one who litterly paid someone else for all the research/data analysis for her thesis and passed.
Hmmm, not a clue, throws money at a problem she can't solve herself? Looks like a great career in politics waiting to happen.
Actually, there's a good idea. Give the jobs to people in the prison system.
Yah, lovely idea. Just the folks i want to try and sell me a car insurance for a car i don't have, a life insurance for...oh screw it.
Anyway, a similar option is floating around here in Holland atm. I know one thing for sure, folks just are gonna love having inmates reach out into their homes this way.
(If you're just interested in useless symbols, take a college English class.)
Lemme take a wild guess...you must be single. Heads of state just walking around tripping in the mud can for some odd reason be a great comfort. Little cut out cardboard hearts can spark a small tear. What is a useless symbol to one is a huge neon sign to another.
If this works, then I can patent a wood and then sue all homebuilders....
Now, patenting wood and suing homebuilders makes sense, but patenting *a* wood sounds completely different, and a lot like something I don't really want to think about...but it would make the porn industry even more profitable;-)
Instead of trying to make a phone compete with a gaming console they should be looking for more innovate things that they can make phones do.
Arggh, no, they should look for something I can make bloody telephone calls with. Alright, granted, its ability to wake me up in the morning is useful.
We will never have auto-driving cars available for consumers.
Gotta love comments like these...how long have cars been around now? A hundred years or so? Look at the development they've undergone since then. It might start as a small pilot somewhere but something like this will happen at some point. Governments change, people die, but scientific progress seems to be unstoppable when looked at in a bigger picture.
I don't know why, but your post rendered a geek version of ER in my head, where George Clooney scrambles out of bed at midnight to go and fix a critical server...
dunno about you, but here there's plenty of places where one can have themselves checked for sexually transmitted diseases anonymously. in fact, when i inquired a while ago at my physician about what would be the best way to have such a test conducted, he explicitly advised me to do so anonymously for exactly the reasons you mentioned. ofc, considering they have your blood, a dna match against a central database is easily made.
So tell me, why would I ever want to own a phone with Bluetooth if they're doing this?
Dunno. Why would you want an internet connection on your pc? Looks like phones are going the way of the average windows box, pretty soon 60% of its processing time will be spent on the firewall, antivirus and anti-spyware. Which leaves about 40% to animate that silly wallpaper. Every form of technology that allows communication will at one point or another be used for advertising. As long as advertising actually works, and it doesn't look like that's about to change anywhere soon, this is just a reality we're going to have to live with.
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there is a teeny tiny difference between a "business partner" or "the government of a sovereign nation". Except ofcourse when said government is buying or selling something.
you keep your filthy hands off of my '74 Ibanez, you hear?
What kind of cheap-ass drives do you use? Much to my disappointment, the non-techies in my office have been playing audio CD's on their PCs 8 hours a day, every day, for the last eight years, and never ruined a drive.
You do realize there's a difference between playing a disc(1 speed) or using DAE to rip it(whatever the max speed of the drive is), right?
Until people stop parroting Google's corporate motto like brainless sheep, yes. Until then, it's embarrasing watching a bunch of you with your pants around your ankles and your cheeks spread right in front of Google.
Bleh, I'll happily use whatever search engine/free email provider/insert random google service here is the best for my needs. Making sense does not necessarily mean being a fanboy, making does not necessarily mean being evil.
Now, a small question from me, those glasses that eleminate all shades of grey, where can I get me a pair of those?
like it or not, when you're an international business you have to deal with the local laws of the country you do business in. No matter how much you or me may dislike its practices, the chinese government is the chinese government, and if folks want to get rid of it or change its policies that's going to be up to the chinese people, not to Google.
ye gods. Does this have to come up with each and every time? There *are* companies out there that make a nice profit while still maintaining a high quality of both products and customer service. Making a profit does not not necessarily imply screwing over your customers over. Treating your customers with respect and catering to their wishes to create good word-of-mouth advertising(the best there is) is a perfectly viable business strategy.
fair enough, but Civ doesn't count ;-)
You just raise the cost of the water as the use increases. As their water use grows their cost increases geometricly. Suddenly people conserver water not because they have to but because they choose to.
Ah, screwing those among us that are already trying to survive on the bare minimum in the process?
If your city is below sea level, you should not live there
So, ehmm, where do YOU live? 16 million Dutchmen would like to know, considering more than half of the bloody country is below sea-level.
Oh wait, you're just a troll. My bad.
Though I've met PhDs from respectable US college with no clue, infact know one who litterly paid someone else for all the research/data analysis for her thesis and passed.
Hmmm, not a clue, throws money at a problem she can't solve herself? Looks like a great career in politics waiting to happen.
Actually, there's a good idea. Give the jobs to people in the prison system.
Yah, lovely idea. Just the folks i want to try and sell me a car insurance for a car i don't have, a life insurance for...oh screw it.
Anyway, a similar option is floating around here in Holland atm. I know one thing for sure, folks just are gonna love having inmates reach out into their homes this way.
Fido (Claude?) was perfect as is.
Well, he did lose the race in SA, but then again he was satisfying Catalina....fully.
(If you're just interested in useless symbols, take a college English class.)
Lemme take a wild guess...you must be single. Heads of state just walking around tripping in the mud can for some odd reason be a great comfort. Little cut out cardboard hearts can spark a small tear. What is a useless symbol to one is a huge neon sign to another.
I don't like the idea of carrying around a whole bundle of potentially compromising emails
Dare I ask what it is you're up to that makes you emails "compromising"?
If this works, then I can patent a wood and then sue all homebuilders....
;-)
Now, patenting wood and suing homebuilders makes sense, but patenting *a* wood sounds completely different, and a lot like something I don't really want to think about...but it would make the porn industry even more profitable
Instead of trying to make a phone compete with a gaming console they should be looking for more innovate things that they can make phones do.
Arggh, no, they should look for something I can make bloody telephone calls with. Alright, granted, its ability to wake me up in the morning is useful.
heh, and those disgusting B.I.G. commercials? The dutch geeks among us will know what I mean.
We will never have auto-driving cars available for consumers.
Gotta love comments like these...how long have cars been around now? A hundred years or so? Look at the development they've undergone since then. It might start as a small pilot somewhere but something like this will happen at some point. Governments change, people die, but scientific progress seems to be unstoppable when looked at in a bigger picture.
I don't know why, but your post rendered a geek version of ER in my head, where George Clooney scrambles out of bed at midnight to go and fix a critical server...
Clear!
God, the horror...
dunno about you, but here there's plenty of places where one can have themselves checked for sexually transmitted diseases anonymously. in fact, when i inquired a while ago at my physician about what would be the best way to have such a test conducted, he explicitly advised me to do so anonymously for exactly the reasons you mentioned. ofc, considering they have your blood, a dna match against a central database is easily made.
oi, watch it, or we'll take 'm all right back to where we found 'm!
Rate shaping is the best. Not being able to access something is one thing, but having it be agonizingly slow is the ultimate.
Because then said employee will waste even more time doing whatever it is he/she/it does on that side?
the ones that kill all your own troops as well? Never did figure out why on earth they'd give the Atreides a similar weapon, just didn't make sense.
Cowboy Neal of course!
So tell me, why would I ever want to own a phone with Bluetooth if they're doing this?
Dunno. Why would you want an internet connection on your pc? Looks like phones are going the way of the average windows box, pretty soon 60% of its processing time will be spent on the firewall, antivirus and anti-spyware. Which leaves about 40% to animate that silly wallpaper. Every form of technology that allows communication will at one point or another be used for advertising. As long as advertising actually works, and it doesn't look like that's about to change anywhere soon, this is just a reality we're going to have to live with.