A few years ago, a securtity head-honcho at my company gave a presentation about keeping confidential documents off our desks, because "you never know when the janitors can come in and just swipe it out with them. I know they don't speak Englis, but it doesn't take a lot to swipe stuff off a desk..."
I've had my fair share of stuff stolen, and it's never been a janitor.
Interesting... but flawed.. apply that logic to Cheers... a show wich WAS cancelled... in its first season... it was allowed to continue only because NBC lacked a replacement. Or how about Farscape, which many here consider superb? THAT was cancelled to. Maybe it's because sometimes executives are gorram idiots? think THAT might have something to do with it?
By your (flawed) logic, I guess that makes Titanic a SUPER superb movie?
"That seem right to you?" (fand will recognize it)... but, on the good news front, it gives me more time to work on my fan trailer i've been finishing...
it's gonna be a hell of a movie, boys and girls...
Sure, there was a resonse... but it was a generic, scripted response that didn't address the question at hand to list a time they had changed their mind.
We/.'ers are usually a bickering bunch, but we now a good thing when we see it.
And just another thing that popped into my mind... I don't recall if it was Alice or Bill (I think it was Alice) that started making fun of the ZIFs that were all the rage for a time on motherboards... (some of you might now what I'm talking about)
that was one of those times when the reality of Hard Edge slapped the silly little marketing-speak from my innocent, naive mind.
Ah, yes, the arrogance that if it didn't meet your needs, well....
I *didn't* read CS to buy.
I read CS to *shop*
There is a difference.
And, boy, could you shop. As a previous poster mentioned, I would flip its pages over and over, and *dream* about the kind of computer I could afford... if only I wasn't a starving college student living in his car sometimes. It was imformative. It was truly a learning experience.
Oh, and I bought my diskettes at Wal-Mart. At $1/piece.
As a previous poster pointed out, CS disappointed LONG ago. But I have memories of my lean years in college (in more ways than one), where, if I bought ONE magazine, it was CS, and if I bought it for ONE reason, it was to read The Hard Edge. And sometimes for Poor's Computer Cures. But it was the Hard Edge, along with the endless ads, that gave CS its trademark flavor. I have long since stopped even looking at CS -- let alone buying it -- since it stopped being its unique self, and tried to mold itself into a more traditional computer magazine. Don't we have enough of those already?
Just because I know I didn't say it enough (OK, OK, I NEVER said it...):
Thanks, Bill and Alice (or Alice and Bill?), for teaching me about computers by guiding me past the marketing hype.
I already get the Dallas Morning News, USA Today and the NYTimes, electronically, in my inbox every morning. I KNOW what "the journalists" give me as what THEY think is "important in the news."
What about those times when I DON'T want a journalist to decide for me what's "importantn"??
USA Today makes the distinction that it was 595 tech firms that had the 8.9% voluntary turnover rate.
The Business Journal states that it was 950 companies that responded, but even it states that the 8.9% voluntary turnover number was arrived ONLY from Tech Companies (i.e., not from ALL the companies that responded):
From the Journal Article: Voluntary turnover among surveyed tech companies is at 8.9 percent, according to Aon's research.
Let's read a little closer before making assumptions, shall we?
It's early enough. Gmail isn't open to the public yet.
Change the name.
When it's open to the public, ppl will recognize it only by its new name, and the pr*cks who tried to profit from registering it will be out in the cold.
The company that made the original legitimate Mosquito game, Ojom, said it had installed the program itself in earlier versions of the game after concerns over piracy.
It was intended that the program secretly send a SMS message to alert them if an unlicensed copy was being used, according to Mr Hypponen.
Will the computers play more interesting chess than their human counterparts?"
I don't think so (replying to the question posed by the original poster), because I believe a well-programmed algorithm would care only about winning, and not necessarily taking chances or exploring possibilities that a human player would...
Because CDMA (PCS, as you call it) is not just a U.S. Standard. It's widely used in Mexico, Central and South America, Japan, South Korea, India, among many others.
CDMA has many, many, millions of subscribers, a large number of whom are not located in the U.S.
To call CDMA a U.S.-only standard is definitely shortsighted.
I should know. I work for a major *GSM* equipment maker.
I meant, 400 of the same classification, in this case, as you stated, first-year college students who are probably computer savvy leads me to belive that you can't make generalized conclusions for millions of different classifications of people.
In order to investigate these trade-off factors in a real context of use, we have conducted an experiment involving 400 first-year students at our university.
While the size was larger than I initially expected it to be, I don't know if you can definitely "debunk" myths --as the poster definitively states -- using a 400 person focus group to simulate several dozen millions of varied abilities.
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oh, and forgive the missing "h" at the end of "English."
I've been having trouble with the "h" key in my keyboard.
Must be those damn janitors that stole it!
A few years ago, a securtity head-honcho at my company gave a presentation about keeping confidential documents off our desks, because "you never know when the janitors can come in and just swipe it out with them. I know they don't speak Englis, but it doesn't take a lot to swipe stuff off a desk..."
I've had my fair share of stuff stolen, and it's never been a janitor.
Interesting... but flawed..
apply that logic to Cheers... a show wich WAS cancelled... in its first season... it was allowed to continue only because NBC lacked a replacement. Or how about Farscape, which many here consider superb? THAT was cancelled to. Maybe it's because sometimes executives are gorram idiots? think THAT might have something to do with it?
By your (flawed) logic, I guess that makes Titanic a SUPER superb movie?
put that in your pipe and smoke it.
"That seem right to you?" ... but, on the good news front, it gives me more time to work on my fan trailer i've been finishing...
(fand will recognize it)
it's gonna be a hell of a movie, boys and girls...
anyone wanna join me for a premiere in Dallas?
so, you don't allow for changing of opinion?
I would buy it except for the fact that he was appointed... .. By former Presiden Clinton.
just go here
/ in dex.html
http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/10/26/stern.fcc
whoa, whoa, whoa...
Sen. Kerry didn't answer it either.
Sure, there was a resonse... but it was a generic, scripted response that didn't address the question at hand to list a time they had changed their mind.
No problem...
We
And just another thing that popped into my mind... I don't recall if it was Alice or Bill (I think it was Alice) that started making fun of the ZIFs that were all the rage for a time on motherboards... (some of you might now what I'm talking about)
that was one of those times when the reality of Hard Edge slapped the silly little marketing-speak from my innocent, naive mind.
Thanks again.
Ah, yes, the arrogance that if it didn't meet your needs, well....
I *didn't* read CS to buy.
I read CS to *shop*
There is a difference.
And, boy, could you shop. As a previous poster mentioned, I would flip its pages over and over, and *dream* about the kind of computer I could afford... if only I wasn't a starving college student living in his car sometimes. It was imformative. It was truly a learning experience.
Oh, and I bought my diskettes at Wal-Mart. At $1/piece.
As a previous poster pointed out, CS disappointed LONG ago. But I have memories of my lean years in college (in more ways than one), where, if I bought ONE magazine, it was CS, and if I bought it for ONE reason, it was to read The Hard Edge. And sometimes for Poor's Computer Cures. But it was the Hard Edge, along with the endless ads, that gave CS its trademark flavor. I have long since stopped even looking at CS -- let alone buying it -- since it stopped being its unique self, and tried to mold itself into a more traditional computer magazine. Don't we have enough of those already?
Just because I know I didn't say it enough (OK, OK, I NEVER said it...):
Thanks, Bill and Alice (or Alice and Bill?), for teaching me about computers by guiding me past the marketing hype.
Doh!
Spelling is important. Sorry about that.
Skool makes u sooper smart!
I already get the Dallas Morning News, USA Today and the NYTimes, electronically, in my inbox every morning. I KNOW what "the journalists" give me as what THEY think is "important in the news."
What about those times when I DON'T want a journalist to decide for me what's "importantn"??
I think Google provides an excellent service.
Surely, we can't let these BLATANTLY piracy-inducing machines to make criminals of all our poor innocent children!!
Quick, someone call Jack Valenti!
USA Today makes the distinction that it was 595 tech firms that had the 8.9% voluntary turnover rate.
The Business Journal states that it was 950 companies that responded, but even it states that the 8.9% voluntary turnover number was arrived ONLY from Tech Companies (i.e., not from ALL the companies that responded):
From the Journal Article:
Voluntary turnover among surveyed tech companies is at 8.9 percent, according to Aon's research.
Let's read a little closer before making assumptions, shall we?
It's early enough.
Gmail isn't open to the public yet.
Change the name.
When it's open to the public, ppl will recognize it only by its new name, and the pr*cks who tried to profit from registering it will be out in the cold.
From the article:
The company that made the original legitimate Mosquito game, Ojom, said it had installed the program itself in earlier versions of the game after concerns over piracy.
It was intended that the program secretly send a SMS message to alert them if an unlicensed copy was being used, according to Mr Hypponen.
Will the computers play more interesting chess than their human counterparts?"
I don't think so (replying to the question posed by the original poster), because I believe a well-programmed algorithm would care only about winning, and not necessarily taking chances or exploring possibilities that a human player would...
it would definitely make me take a look at it. At least it doesn't seem to have the condescending tone that too many Linux sites/tutorials have.
Because CDMA (PCS, as you call it) is not just a U.S. Standard. It's widely used in Mexico, Central and South America, Japan, South Korea, India, among many others.
CDMA has many, many, millions of subscribers, a large number of whom are not located in the U.S.
To call CDMA a U.S.-only standard is definitely shortsighted.
I should know. I work for a major *GSM* equipment maker.
I guess I should've rephrased my initial post.
I meant, 400 of the same classification, in this case, as you stated, first-year college students who are probably computer savvy leads me to belive that you can't make generalized conclusions for millions of different classifications of people.
Just my $0.02
In order to investigate these trade-off factors in a real context of use, we have conducted an experiment involving 400 first-year students at our university.
While the size was larger than I initially expected it to be, I don't know if you can definitely "debunk" myths --as the poster definitively states -- using a 400 person focus group to simulate several dozen millions of varied abilities.
most of the slant seems to be definitely doomsday, environmental, and decidely anti-government..
agan, this is just from reading the article. I haven't played any of the games mentioned.
so just how will this mascott promote OO?
It just doesn't seem to inspire lots of confidence, but maybe that's just me...
Darn!
Now I'll have to play fairly and by the rules!
That just ain't fair!