Hmmm. I wonder if a serious baseball numbers-cruncher has ever delved into the influence of audience attendance on a team or player's game performance. How does a player perform when the stadium is 1/3 full? Maybe a normally marginal player performs slightly better...perhaps he is less intimidated by less people? Does the superstar slack off in front of 15,000 people vs. stepping up his game in front of 30,000+? It may only be peripherally related to the overall stats, but it would be interesting to see audience numbers juxtaposed with various critical statistics.
You do realize Phoenix is built on at least as much artifice as NOLA, right? Once those dams start filling up with sediment, it's goodbye cheap water and electricity.
Greenwich is one of the oldest and nicest parts of NE, and seems to have always been pricier to live in, even 100-150 years ago...I think there will always be demand for real estate in the New England area...somehow I doubt there will be a crash...too much "old money" floating around that part of the country
Or watch Hackers!
One of the only "accurate" aspects of that movie...oh that and laptop screens that project light onto the user's face...
Damn fun movie.
" That would be the case, if long-distance and land lines were the monopoly that they once were...
but since AT&T sold off their wireless portion..."
SBC runs a joint venture with BellSouth called Cingular Wireless...which just bought At&T Wireless, which was spun off from AT&T...which was busted up 20 years ago to form SBC, BellSouth, etc. etc. yadda yadda...
-Mark
What is with this obsession I observe in the IT industry where everyone *needs* to be an "expert" to troubleshoot or otherwise deliver input on an issue? I see this a lot both in the workplace and on Usenet forums, etc.
Oh, so you're just an Oracle DBA? What makes you think you can comment on how Solaris handles processes?
or
A mere developer? How dare you think about networking? You couldn't possibly have anything useful to offer.
*Rolls eyes* Let's get over ourselves here, people. A person's job title/function does not indicate all the knowledge they have.
This is where the whole pre-paid wireless phenomenon took off. No home address needed, just walk into the nearest 7-11 and sign up for cell service at $30 a pop or whatever. Who would use this service? Hmmm...migrant farm labor comes to mind. People with bad credit history as well. AWE is grabbing a lot of customers with this.
-Mark
Actually you can email the picture to *any* valid email address. That means anyone with a basic jpg viewer can see the pics you took. While the camera isn't great under dim light conditions, it does take pretty decent pictures in most daylight situatons. I send my wife pictures of our dog, or some scenery, etc. all the time, and they turn out very well on the computer screen.
The percentage that counts. Seriously. They are traveling outside N.A. for either business purposes or tourism, i.e they are spending lots of US dollars. In either case, they probably have the latest gadgetry and will want to be able to use their cell phones in other countries. If they are on GSM they can call the office or home immediately through their carrier's roaming agreement, and it shows up as just another charge on their wireless bill.
-Mark
It also makes a sound argument *against* the l337-speaker's claim that it is "evolution" of our language. If "l337" speak in 2002 AD resembles Old English from 1000 AD, isn't that a *de-evolution* of the English language?
If you've got a PhD, life looks fantastic. If you don't know what PhD stands for, life looks pretty bleak.
Man, you need to go visit the sci.research.careers Usenet group. The world of the PhD is much more nuanced and fraught with peril than most people assume.
However, I agree with your point regarding service jobs such as McDonald's cashier. Most of these types of jobs are used to keep teenagers and shiftless adults busy and off the streets. If I go to a QFC, I'd much rather do the "self-checkout" than wait in a slow-moving line where Soccer Mom is arguing about the price of Doritos 3D. Imagine if you could waltz into Burger King and punch up "Whopper Value Meal" and insert your debit card. Wait 2 minutes, and the meal is delivered via chute or some such thing.
The first "me too" post isn't until two years into the archive. I suppose that says something about the intelligence of the usenet demographic back then.
>>What if your college released code containing viruses?
Hehe, funny you should bring this up. Does anyone remember the "Wazzu" Word macrovirus from 5-6 years ago? It would randomly place the word "wazzu" among your document text.
Some wag created it to mess with University of Washington students, but of course it came back to bite us in the...well...wazzu.
Who is "us", you ask? Why, Washington State University, of course...WSU...Wazzu...
You are right that privacy of those who have entrusted (willingly or otherwise) their personal data was compromised. But does it mean that the *entire* DOI domain needs to be shut down? Does all of DOI run on one Web server? Can the Casades Volcano Observatory get at Indian Trust data? Somehow I doubt it.
Besides, the point I made was directed towards the poster's comment about the "dimwitted" DOI causing harm to others. Yes, it is egregious that this data is so readily avaialble, but I submit that shutting down the entire DOI's network is potentially more harmful. What if Mt. Rainier or St. Helens decides to stir a bit and send some debris flows down the mountain? Kiss all those early-warning systems goodbye.
-Mark
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Hmmm. I wonder if a serious baseball numbers-cruncher has ever delved into the influence of audience attendance on a team or player's game performance. How does a player perform when the stadium is 1/3 full? Maybe a normally marginal player performs slightly better...perhaps he is less intimidated by less people? Does the superstar slack off in front of 15,000 people vs. stepping up his game in front of 30,000+? It may only be peripherally related to the overall stats, but it would be interesting to see audience numbers juxtaposed with various critical statistics.
You do realize Phoenix is built on at least as much artifice as NOLA, right? Once those dams start filling up with sediment, it's goodbye cheap water and electricity.
Oh boy!
Moon Al Swearengen!
Greenwich is one of the oldest and nicest parts of NE, and seems to have always been pricier to live in, even 100-150 years ago...I think there will always be demand for real estate in the New England area...somehow I doubt there will be a crash...too much "old money" floating around that part of the country
Or watch Hackers!
One of the only "accurate" aspects of that movie...oh that and laptop screens that project light onto the user's face...
Damn fun movie.
" That would be the case, if long-distance and land lines were the monopoly that they once were... but since AT&T sold off their wireless portion..." SBC runs a joint venture with BellSouth called Cingular Wireless...which just bought At&T Wireless, which was spun off from AT&T...which was busted up 20 years ago to form SBC, BellSouth, etc. etc. yadda yadda... -Mark
Ha ha ha ho ho ho!
You have got to be joking. There is no way that you seriously think those two aren't tools of the recording industry/MTV empire.
-Mark
Oh, so you're just an Oracle DBA? What makes you think you can comment on how Solaris handles processes?
or
A mere developer? How dare you think about networking? You couldn't possibly have anything useful to offer.
*Rolls eyes* Let's get over ourselves here, people. A person's job title/function does not indicate all the knowledge they have.
-Mark
This is where the whole pre-paid wireless phenomenon took off. No home address needed, just walk into the nearest 7-11 and sign up for cell service at $30 a pop or whatever. Who would use this service? Hmmm...migrant farm labor comes to mind. People with bad credit history as well. AWE is grabbing a lot of customers with this. -Mark
-Mark
The percentage that counts. Seriously. They are traveling outside N.A. for either business purposes or tourism, i.e they are spending lots of US dollars. In either case, they probably have the latest gadgetry and will want to be able to use their cell phones in other countries. If they are on GSM they can call the office or home immediately through their carrier's roaming agreement, and it shows up as just another charge on their wireless bill. -Mark
-Mark
Man, you need to go visit the sci.research.careers Usenet group. The world of the PhD is much more nuanced and fraught with peril than most people assume.
However, I agree with your point regarding service jobs such as McDonald's cashier. Most of these types of jobs are used to keep teenagers and shiftless adults busy and off the streets. If I go to a QFC, I'd much rather do the "self-checkout" than wait in a slow-moving line where Soccer Mom is arguing about the price of Doritos 3D. Imagine if you could waltz into Burger King and punch up "Whopper Value Meal" and insert your debit card. Wait 2 minutes, and the meal is delivered via chute or some such thing.
-Mark
-Mark
I agree.
-Mark
Hehe, funny you should bring this up. Does anyone remember the "Wazzu" Word macrovirus from 5-6 years ago? It would randomly place the word "wazzu" among your document text.
Some wag created it to mess with University of Washington students, but of course it came back to bite us in the...well...wazzu.
Who is "us", you ask? Why, Washington State University, of course...WSU...Wazzu...
-Mark
You are right that privacy of those who have entrusted (willingly or otherwise) their personal data was compromised. But does it mean that the *entire* DOI domain needs to be shut down? Does all of DOI run on one Web server? Can the Casades Volcano Observatory get at Indian Trust data? Somehow I doubt it. Besides, the point I made was directed towards the poster's comment about the "dimwitted" DOI causing harm to others. Yes, it is egregious that this data is so readily avaialble, but I submit that shutting down the entire DOI's network is potentially more harmful. What if Mt. Rainier or St. Helens decides to stir a bit and send some debris flows down the mountain? Kiss all those early-warning systems goodbye. -Mark
Yeah, those lazy, dimwitted USGS geologists and BLM rangeland scientists...the power they wield over us all is unimaginable! -Mark