Is this a random sample across all demographics and locations? I bet it isn't. It's probably one of those social science experiments where they draw sweeping conclusions about the whole of humanity by interviewing 30 college students.
Religions are (or at least were) born out of people's desires to know why they exist, and to be able to answer other great philisophical questions.
I disagree, I think the reason is cruder. Religions have come about because people are afraid of their own deaths. That's why most religions revolve around some kind of immortality (heaven, reincarnation, whatever). That's why I consider religions to be ulitmately selfish.
I no longer live in the UK but have been sad to see some of the recent chanages especially with regards to education in schools.
You know that schools in the UK are going to start teaching "Intelligent Design" as part of religious education classes? And that, as part of the information technology course, a substatial part of it is about software piracy that looks as if it was written by Microsoft? In many respects the UK is changing for the worst faster than the USA.
Gov: So Mr Climate scientist, what have you come up with?
Climate scientist: Well, my experiments show that the climate is changing, partly due to rising CO2 levels caused by pollution caused by humans.
Gov: What! We pay you to research the climate, not come up with political propoganda!
Climate scientist: Its not political, it's what my studies show.
Gov: It can't be, it doesn't fit our political agenda. We give you money to come to the conclusions we want, not your personal and unrelated suppositions. Research something else!
Climate scientist: I'm a climate scientist... Climate change and the causes of it - that's what I research.
Gov: Well, stop it! Do some research that supports what we already believe!
The one thing that I'm afraid I really can't forgive Gates for is the way they have targeted schools IT budgets in the UK (and I'm sure in the rest of the world). They basically have used every trick in the book to make sure they always get the lions share of schools IT budgets, and the schools haven't actually got very much in return. And Microsoft has never actually shown much concern about actually helping educate the children - it's all just about turning the kids into Microsoft zombies.
So Gates' generosity with his money doesn't impress me, take money that should be going to children's education and you're forever a scumbag in my view.
Is it just me, or is there a complete lack of any kind of buzz around Vista?
A search on Google News (UK) brings up loads of articles with negative titles "Buying Vista? Get a guarantee", "Windows Vista: Where Is The Wow?", "Windows Vista: the best reason to buy a Mac?", "Windows Vista disappoints, so get a Mac". And that's just in the first half of the results.
It really is quite amazing for a product that Microsoft has spend billions and many years to develop.
Of course the sad thing is that, because of its strangle hold on the market, it will still make billions and will be able to declare the launch a success.
The premise of this article is just dumb. "Webmaster" was never a profession - the term is just dumb and that's why it's no longer used. There are a lot of well paid, in-demand web developers, designers and administrators out there, but I expect most of them would object if you called them "webmaster".
If the only thing you have is an idea you're afraid someone might steal, then you don't have anything of value.
I agree. If someone won't tell you their idea because they are afraid you might steal it, they probably don't very often have ideas and that's why they are so protective of it. If they don't often have ideas, they probably aren't very creative and so their idea probably isn't that good anyway.
Uncreative people over-rate the value of ideas. Ideas are easy - creative people have good ideas all the time. The difficult thing is to implement them well. In business, a mediocre idea well implemented is worth a lot more than a good idea badly implemented.
This is dumb. The point of the Economists Big Mac index is that it reflects a range of local costs - labour, retail space, locally produced ingredients. An iPod does not - it is almost certainly not made locally, or from local raw materials, and so it does not make a good measure of local PPP.
Yogurt and cheese that aren't specifically meant for that purpose do not consistently contain large numbers of live bacteria; these drinks should.
Rubbish. If they haven't been sterilized yogurt and cheese are full of bacteria. They are bacterial cultures for chrissakes. If it wasn't for the bacteria, there wouldn't be any cheese or yogurt!
Although perhaps in the USA everything is sterilized? Seems a bit nuts to kill all the bateria (yogurt is essentially a culture of bateria) and then add them back in again.
Isn't the power of tags that you can tag stuff however you want? To me a standard for tagging would be a negative thing.
I don't thing the problem is a standard for tagging, the problem is having a standard for sharing tags between applications. But that's another problem and it doesn't need to be solved to implement tagging itself.
Me too. I thank the Lord that Andersen Consulting rejected me - several years later I met a couple of the guys that did get in and they were both depressed and on the verge of leaving. Some of their friends at the company had even had breakdowns.
Hey, here's a tip for all you foreign governments out there: Don't use Windows! I hope that helps!
Seriously, I can't believe that there isn't greater demand for other alternatives to Windows in foreign governments. I wonder if Mahmoud Ahmadinejad uses windows...
If this goes ahead, before visiting the USA I want to know:
1) What is the chance of a false positive with this system? i.e. what is the chance that it might think I am someone they are looking for? 2) What is the procedure then for someone who is not an American citizen?
I can imagine what hell you might go through if this system identifies you as a wanted terrorist - not a chance I want to take, even if the odds of it happening are very low.
I remember when if you got hit in the head with a swing, you got a concussion.
Only concussion? Luxury...
When I were a lad I broke my arm in two places falling from a slide, and had to spend a week in hospital. Of course, those were the days when hospitals had enough beds*.
If you give someone permission to do something that infringes copyright, that in itself is infringement as if you'd done it yourself. Even if you don't do the infringing act yourself, if you more or less condone someone else doing it, that's an infringing act.
Hey, I like the way this guy thinks! So, if you give someone permission to do something that is illegal, you're actually guilty of that act! Fun! There are so many great ways this could be exploited... Let me think...
That annoying bloke in accounts is soon going to find he's been sending emails to people giving them permisison to commit murder!
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In a country/world full of fears
Just country - here in the rest of the world isn't scared.
I thought the USA was supposed to be the "land of the brave"?
Ha! I was right - just checked the paper, it was with 60 undergraduate students. Apparently the other topics of conversation were:
1) How drunk you got last night.
2) Which lecturer you hate the most.
3) Have you written that stupid paper yet.
4) Are you going to the club tonight.
Is this a random sample across all demographics and locations? I bet it isn't. It's probably one of those social science experiments where they draw sweeping conclusions about the whole of humanity by interviewing 30 college students.
Or am I too cynical?
Religions are (or at least were) born out of people's desires to know why they exist, and to be able to answer other great philisophical questions.
I disagree, I think the reason is cruder. Religions have come about because people are afraid of their own deaths. That's why most religions revolve around some kind of immortality (heaven, reincarnation, whatever). That's why I consider religions to be ulitmately selfish.
I no longer live in the UK but have been sad to see some of the recent chanages especially with regards to education in schools.
You know that schools in the UK are going to start teaching "Intelligent Design" as part of religious education classes? And that, as part of the information technology course, a substatial part of it is about software piracy that looks as if it was written by Microsoft? In many respects the UK is changing for the worst faster than the USA.
I'm a European, I love to travel, and I've recently decided I'm not going to travel to the USA until things improve there. How sad is that?
How quickly things can change...
This doesn't have anything to do with not trusting democracy.
Collecting extensive information about people and a "hand over your papers" style government, are more akin to fascist states and dictatorships.
If a report were issued that global warming was not manmade and a thinktank offered a similar reward, would you also call it a bribe?
Yes, of course. Scientists should never be paid to come to specific conclusions.
It's the scientific process pushed forward by money.
No, it's the scientific process being corrupted by money.
Gov: So Mr Climate scientist, what have you come up with?
Climate scientist: Well, my experiments show that the climate is changing, partly due to rising CO2 levels caused by pollution caused by humans.
Gov: What! We pay you to research the climate, not come up with political propoganda!
Climate scientist: Its not political, it's what my studies show.
Gov: It can't be, it doesn't fit our political agenda. We give you money to come to the conclusions we want, not your personal and unrelated suppositions. Research something else!
Climate scientist: I'm a climate scientist... Climate change and the causes of it - that's what I research.
Gov: Well, stop it! Do some research that supports what we already believe!
The one thing that I'm afraid I really can't forgive Gates for is the way they have targeted schools IT budgets in the UK (and I'm sure in the rest of the world). They basically have used every trick in the book to make sure they always get the lions share of schools IT budgets, and the schools haven't actually got very much in return. And Microsoft has never actually shown much concern about actually helping educate the children - it's all just about turning the kids into Microsoft zombies.
So Gates' generosity with his money doesn't impress me, take money that should be going to children's education and you're forever a scumbag in my view.
Is it just me, or is there a complete lack of any kind of buzz around Vista?
A search on Google News (UK) brings up loads of articles with negative titles "Buying Vista? Get a guarantee", "Windows Vista: Where Is The Wow?", "Windows Vista: the best reason to buy a Mac?", "Windows Vista disappoints, so get a Mac". And that's just in the first half of the results.
It really is quite amazing for a product that Microsoft has spend billions and many years to develop.
Of course the sad thing is that, because of its strangle hold on the market, it will still make billions and will be able to declare the launch a success.
The premise of this article is just dumb. "Webmaster" was never a profession - the term is just dumb and that's why it's no longer used. There are a lot of well paid, in-demand web developers, designers and administrators out there, but I expect most of them would object if you called them "webmaster".
If the only thing you have is an idea you're afraid someone might steal, then you don't have anything of value.
I agree. If someone won't tell you their idea because they are afraid you might steal it, they probably don't very often have ideas and that's why they are so protective of it. If they don't often have ideas, they probably aren't very creative and so their idea probably isn't that good anyway.
Uncreative people over-rate the value of ideas. Ideas are easy - creative people have good ideas all the time. The difficult thing is to implement them well. In business, a mediocre idea well implemented is worth a lot more than a good idea badly implemented.
This is dumb. The point of the Economists Big Mac index is that it reflects a range of local costs - labour, retail space, locally produced ingredients. An iPod does not - it is almost certainly not made locally, or from local raw materials, and so it does not make a good measure of local PPP.
Yogurt and cheese that aren't specifically meant for that purpose do not consistently contain large numbers of live bacteria; these drinks should.
Rubbish. If they haven't been sterilized yogurt and cheese are full of bacteria. They are bacterial cultures for chrissakes. If it wasn't for the bacteria, there wouldn't be any cheese or yogurt!
food that has live bacteria in it
What, like normal yogurt and cheese?
Although perhaps in the USA everything is sterilized? Seems a bit nuts to kill all the bateria (yogurt is essentially a culture of bateria) and then add them back in again.
Isn't the power of tags that you can tag stuff however you want? To me a standard for tagging would be a negative thing.
I don't thing the problem is a standard for tagging, the problem is having a standard for sharing tags between applications. But that's another problem and it doesn't need to be solved to implement tagging itself.
How old are you? I use metric for most things, it was what I was taught at school. And I'm in my mid-thirties.
Me too. I thank the Lord that Andersen Consulting rejected me - several years later I met a couple of the guys that did get in and they were both depressed and on the verge of leaving. Some of their friends at the company had even had breakdowns.
Hey, here's a tip for all you foreign governments out there: Don't use Windows! I hope that helps!
Seriously, I can't believe that there isn't greater demand for other alternatives to Windows in foreign governments. I wonder if Mahmoud Ahmadinejad uses windows...
If this goes ahead, before visiting the USA I want to know:
1) What is the chance of a false positive with this system? i.e. what is the chance that it might think I am someone they are looking for?
2) What is the procedure then for someone who is not an American citizen?
I can imagine what hell you might go through if this system identifies you as a wanted terrorist - not a chance I want to take, even if the odds of it happening are very low.
I want to see video of those chickens... Anyone got a link? I googled but couldn't find it.
Surely there are many things you can do to make the Javascript delivered to the client practically unmodifiable.
why don't you use PHP to deliver the Javascript, and have the PHP obfuscate it?
I remember when if you got hit in the head with a swing, you got a concussion.
Only concussion? Luxury...
When I were a lad I broke my arm in two places falling from a slide, and had to spend a week in hospital. Of course, those were the days when hospitals had enough beds*.
* in the UK
If you give someone permission to do something that infringes copyright, that in itself is infringement as if you'd done it yourself. Even if you don't do the infringing act yourself, if you more or less condone someone else doing it, that's an infringing act.
Hey, I like the way this guy thinks! So, if you give someone permission to do something that is illegal, you're actually guilty of that act! Fun! There are so many great ways this could be exploited... Let me think...
That annoying bloke in accounts is soon going to find he's been sending emails to people giving them permisison to commit murder!