A statement I heard recently "for the first time in history we actually know the actors and not the writers" Try thinking of a famous actor more than 100 years ago, then think about playwrights, authors,composers etc.
When I think of good movies they tend to have good writers and the director/producer sticks close to the writers vision e.g. Lord of the Rings and Harry potter movies personally I have trouble naming actors in those movies but I know JRR Tolkien (PJ deserves credit for not americanising the story) and J.K. Rowling who wanted the cast to be british in keeping with the book
I've heard about a couple of them now, it increases public awareness of google and their maps in general. I quite like the idea of the maps cataloguing large events as they occur rather than just getting a blank field or empty stadium. However in this day and age of backpack carrying nutters I think I'll avoid those crowded fields next year
Discalaimer I sell School Admin Software on Windows, Mac and Linux.
No it more like Consultants suggested they use one platform, THE dominant platform that was initially cheap to buy (this is back when the price differential was huge and TCO was considered the purchase price) to cut costs and support requirements and computer illiterate administrators listened. Add a little pocket grease and the consultants retire early leaving the mess to other consultants who thrive on continual fees from things that go wrong. (BTW these kind of consultants like problems to perpetuate for perpetual fees) It happens in Australia the same way the diff between US, UK, AUS etc is population AUS and UK they have far fewer depts of education and they as they are small often are easily targetd by one company to buy into and the others follow. The IT managers in many but not all cases also not being very literate (if they were they would get jobs elseewhere with 2-3x time the pay) rely on the consultants to make them look good to their bosses, and so the problem perpetuates but lately these guys are finally getting a clue and say things like "those macs are pretty good" and "tell me about linux"... I'l stop ranting on now....
This from a page that had 8 Ads When I visited (YMMV) with TV there is a marked increase in the number of ads per hour in 1982 a "1 hour" TV show (eg knight rider) ran 48 minutes of show and 12 minutes of ads in the nineties (eg stargate SG1) has 42 minutes of show and 18 minutes of Ads (i.e. 50% more) the same appears to have occurred on the web. I accept that advertising pays for content but too much advertising ruins the experience and actually causes avoidance and evetually failure of advertising. It would for TV execs and those in charge of Advertising to learn LESS IS MORE for them
I don't give a flying F#$% what the box looks like. I don't even care if it's in the same room with me
You obviously do not have a girlfriend, wife, or female partner eg Beige box = basement, 20 inch imac = Living room for her the room matters and I want to be in that room
When I'm able to afford a laptop of my own, it's going to have Linux on it.
I bet when you can afford a laptop on you own you will probably buy a mac as you won't want to waste precious money earning time (or family time) tweaking your linux laptop
People give to much credit to lawyers and doctors for intelligence 2 examples the - first real conman on which the "catch me if you can" character is based said that imitating a lawyer is the easiest impersonation,i.e. just be confident in what you say and be able to do a little research and you can win cases. In my own experience I had to do all the research put the whole case together as the lawyers did SweetFA exept look good on the day open his mouth and pretend he did all the work.
Example 2 While teaching a basic computing course 15 years ago with mature age students comprising of housewives plumbers etc. One particular student after 7 weeks couldn't even turn the computer on his occupation a Doctor
.com is for companies companies should be registered therefore only your company is allowed your.com this is actually the case with.com.au to the point that you can't sell the domain without the company, additionally business names have rules (for instance can't have a business that sounds like someone else's or purports to be something it is not like a corporation)
Why can't.com administrators apply the same rules instead of going for a money grab
Actually a fifth "-1" Law was added by some robots in further novels of the foundations series - A robot may not harm a sentient lifeform ( this then includes aliens ) and explained why there were no aliens in the foundation universe
I think a far more interesting proposition would be to pit ~250lbs of Steve Ballmer with a chair against ~160lbs of Steve Jobs.
Not Fair Steve Jobs command of Reality Distortion Fields will have Steve Balmer hitting himself with the chair.
"use the RDF Jobs, Use the RDF"....Fades or Maybe
"thst is not a chair, It's a stool and you holding upside down" Waves hand "Please Sit Down"
"Imagine your computer case with a dip-stick!"
The dip-stick is there but usually in a chair near the said computer case most noticible when questioning why "windows won't print his letter"
Things such as repairing the machine after the virus is activated by dumb user
productivity lost by user, files lost etc.
severance pay for dumb user hiring fees for the replacement (ad costs etc)
Of couse when the dumb user is also the boss/owner of the company it can cost a whole new computer just for starters (Dual G5 with everything) and a lot of time reshuffling computers to incorporate this one into the company plus new firewalls
Dual 2Ghz G5 RRP = $US3000 (see apple store US) multiply x 1100 = 3.3 million dollars Still cheap even a retail note this included superdrive assume education discount ~%10 + ~%10 big order only 600k saved My guestimate is the macs cost $US2.7 million exact configuration of the machines would be nice but guessing is fun
Slashdot Mirror
Of course, I was secretly testing in other browsers for the hell of it, since I'm your typical thickheaded geek.
Yes he is smart, he used your ego to test on other browsers and didn't have to pay you for it, I see them try this a lot, don't fall for it again
A statement I heard recently "for the first time in history we actually know the actors and not the writers" Try thinking of a famous actor more than 100 years ago, then think about playwrights, authors,composers etc.
When I think of good movies they tend to have good writers and the director/producer sticks close to the writers vision e.g. Lord of the Rings and Harry potter movies personally I have trouble naming actors in those movies but I know JRR Tolkien (PJ deserves credit for not americanising the story) and J.K. Rowling who wanted the cast to be british in keeping with the book
I quite like the idea of the maps cataloguing large events as they occur rather than just getting a blank field or empty stadium. However in this day and age of backpack carrying nutters I think I'll avoid those crowded fields next year
Discalaimer I sell School Admin Software on Windows, Mac and Linux.
No it more like Consultants suggested they use one platform, THE dominant platform that was initially cheap to buy (this is back when the price differential was huge and TCO was considered the purchase price) to cut costs and support requirements and computer illiterate administrators listened. Add a little pocket grease and the consultants retire early leaving the mess to other consultants who thrive on continual fees from things that go wrong. (BTW these kind of consultants like problems to perpetuate for perpetual fees) It happens in Australia the same way the diff between US, UK, AUS etc is population AUS and UK they have far fewer depts of education and they as they are small often are easily targetd by one company to buy into and the others follow. The IT managers in many but not all cases also not being very literate (if they were they would get jobs elseewhere with 2-3x time the pay) rely on the consultants to make them look good to their bosses, and so the problem perpetuates but lately these guys are finally getting a clue and say things like "those macs are pretty good" and "tell me about linux"... I'l stop ranting on now....
This from a page that had 8 Ads When I visited (YMMV) with TV there is a marked increase in the number of ads per hour in 1982 a "1 hour" TV show (eg knight rider) ran 48 minutes of show and 12 minutes of ads in the nineties (eg stargate SG1) has 42 minutes of show and 18 minutes of Ads (i.e. 50% more) the same appears to have occurred on the web. I accept that advertising pays for content but too much advertising ruins the experience and actually causes avoidance and evetually failure of advertising. It would for TV execs and those in charge of Advertising to learn LESS IS MORE for them
I don't give a flying F#$% what the box looks like. I don't even care if it's in the same room with me
You obviously do not have a girlfriend, wife, or female partner eg Beige box = basement, 20 inch imac = Living room for her the room matters and I want to be in that room
When I'm able to afford a laptop of my own, it's going to have Linux on it.
I bet when you can afford a laptop on you own you will probably buy a mac as you won't want to waste precious money earning time (or family time) tweaking your linux laptop
I went to see a human body exhibition (real dead humans plasticized ) some peices could easily be mistaken for pork chops
http://imdb.com/title/tt0078681/ and in its spare time he'll pick up dead satellites and save NASA astronaughts
If was really that obvious there would be a US Patent on it
"Affected operating systems - Windows" wake me if i infects something I use such as OS X or Linux
People give to much credit to lawyers and doctors for intelligence 2 examples the - first real conman on which the "catch me if you can" character is based said that imitating a lawyer is the easiest impersonation,i.e. just be confident in what you say and be able to do a little research and you can win cases. In my own experience I had to do all the research put the whole case together as the lawyers did SweetFA exept look good on the day open his mouth and pretend he did all the work.
Example 2 While teaching a basic computing course 15 years ago with mature age students comprising of housewives plumbers etc. One particular student after 7 weeks couldn't even turn the computer on his occupation a Doctor
.com is for companies companies should be registered therefore only your company is allowed your.com this is actually the case with .com.au to the point that you can't sell the domain without the company, additionally business names have rules (for instance can't have a business that sounds like someone else's or purports to be something it is not like a corporation)
.com administrators apply the same rules instead of going for a money grab
Why can't
Actually a fifth "-1" Law was added by some robots in further novels of the foundations series - A robot may not harm a sentient lifeform ( this then includes aliens ) and explained why there were no aliens in the foundation universe
"use the RDF Jobs, Use the RDF"
"thst is not a chair, It's a stool and you holding upside down" Waves hand "Please Sit Down"
he could meet this girl http://imdb.com/title/tt0343660/
Actually not quite, but some are trying http://systemtek.co.uk/teamrobotics/index.php see here for a set of opensource plans
"but leave a buggy and insecure shell for servers where hackers can have lots of fun messing up "
Job Security!!
to simple without keeping it crushed like a ball while still inflating
"Imagine your computer case with a dip-stick!"
The dip-stick is there but usually in a chair near the said computer case most noticible when questioning why "windows won't print his letter"
Things such as repairing the machine after the virus is activated by dumb user
productivity lost by user, files lost etc.
severance pay for dumb user
hiring fees for the replacement (ad costs etc)
Of couse when the dumb user is also the boss/owner of the company it can cost a whole new computer just for starters (Dual G5 with everything) and a lot of time reshuffling computers to incorporate this one into the company plus new firewalls
Yep those viruses can be costly
First thought I had was "Flexi's" the PDA like devices that is used in the Andromeda series
No he will sell the 1st 64bit laptops that don't fry your reproctive system.... scratch that I'm on slashdot
Dual 2Ghz G5 RRP = $US3000 (see apple store US)
multiply x 1100 = 3.3 million dollars Still cheap even a retail note this included superdrive
assume education discount ~%10 + ~%10 big order only 600k saved My guestimate is the macs cost $US2.7 million exact configuration of the machines would be nice but guessing is fun
For spammers there is one nice solution found here
http://www.metalstorm.com/ they now have grenade launchers
240,000rpm:
Repeatable Access Denial System (RADS) firing 15 x 40mm inert grenade rounds at 240,000 rounds per minute. mmmm dead spammers