I';m anb editpr, not a toyipst. (And you misspelled "embarrassed".)
I've left the above sentence as it came off my thick fingers to show what I'm dealing with... But seriously, I don't have a spellcheck in my browser and don't have the patience to cut and paste it into a WP for a forum posting. I also moderate on a site that uses Slashcode, and I know that when publishing a story you are presented with a list of "words that ispell doesn't know". So I really can't comprehend how they can get that wrong so often. But obviously what management there is doesn't care; after a while the attitude filters down that you don't get rewarded for taking care or punished for screwing up, so why bother.
It's the Internet; the volume of information is staggering
The amount of information the editors post comes to about two pages of text a day, all told, including all the categories that don't hit the front page. And that's betweem at least two and up to four editors. There is no excuse for not spellchecking, or duping a story from 24 hours ago. Several years ago they actually researched stories, now they seem to just randomly queue up a bunch of submissions and go off to do something more important.
I used to work on a news website and edited and posted an average of 80 stories a day, by myself, and I would have been embarrassed to publish 1/10th the errors theese guys do.
In case you noticed, the linked article read like a bad translation from Chinese to English.
And why on earth is People's Daily being used as the canonical source of a story entirely based in the US? It's not a leak, it's announced on Microsoft's site for all to see.
What about the ones who aren't idiots? The ones who reinstalled from the disks without calling you?
You can receive a copy from tech support if ask.
The guys in TFA tried that. They spent a few hours on hold, didi it again after a few days when they didn't arrive as promised, finally got an OS disk without the necessary drivers, and were charged $10. Who wants to fuck around like that and not have the use of their computer for a week to save Dell 25c for a CDROM?
Actually, many would argue that Giuliani made more of a difference than Bin Laden did on Sept 11th. I would agree with them, and would many (if not most) others.
Bin Laden changed the entire world by provoking the US to go on the rampage. Which was exactly what he planned. Giuliani did a great job, as mayor of one single (big) city, but how many people in the world even know his name? Half the world knows bin Laden, and their daily lives are affected by his actions and the fear he provoked. This week, for instance: The Lebanese immigrants who were beaten up in Sydney; the NSA spying on Americans Bush is trying to defend. Every day there are more repercussions of that one act.
Apparently Bin Laden was a contender after 9/11 - not because he did anything great, but because he made the news.
According to TFA, the criteria are : "the person or persons who most affected the news and our lives, for good or for ill, and embodied what was important about the year, for better or for worse." No one can seriously claim that bin Laden didn't do that more than anyone else in 2001. But Time chose Giuliani, who was a great mayor, but hardly affected the entire world as much. So Time showed its parochialism in pandering to the American public then.
The point is that they pick people who have made a big difference in the world
Funny how they missed bin Laden in 2001, who turned the world upside down, in favour of Giuliani, who for all his virtues, was just a mayor. Obviously they choked on following through on their own stated criteria when it was too close to home.
I read TFAs, but they are either extremely technical and over my head, or extremely dumbed down and useless ("click to install the patch"). I'd like to know what the service is, and which port(s), that this comes over (I did gather it's not through a browser or email); so if I have a firewall that default blocks probes, am I safe? (I do run Win2k, which I gather is vulnerable in default setup.) I know MS liked (maybe less so now) to activate odd services listening on odd ports to allow administrators (or, in practice, script kiddies) to do stuff automatically without troubling the user by asking his permission. I ask this because it seems most vulnerabilities announced are actual risks only if you are running IE without a firewall.
Note the "formula" depends partly on "the number of theaters the film opens in". Will a studio pick this number at random? Or perhaps they open big with movies they expect to be big? It's like a horse-racing pick that tells you to bet on the favorite; i.e. the one that most people expect to win; not through analysis of the horse (movie) itself.
the main character owned a rule calculator (the mechanical thing) which was so advanced it could do differential equations. In the second version, it was replaced by something which resembles the present day PDA.
Off on a tangent... 30 years since I read those. Anyway, it was either Hari Seldon himself, or maybe the Second Foundation members who had those. The latter also had wall-screen displays to run the psycho-history equations. I haven't read any of the sequels he and others wrote long after when he tried to integrate this with his positronic robot stories, originally a quite different future history. They probably retconned the technology.
It's interesting to read Golden Age SF, when they look out the spaceship portal with a telescope to locate other ships, and you wonder why they don't use radar till you realise it hadn't been invented when it was written; or Heinlein's astrogators who use memorised tables and slide rules to pilot starships through hyperspace (Starman Jones).
Asimov wrote a book about how to use slide rules; I read it at high school, when LED calculators were an expensive novelty.
Some of the basics to survive before giving some kid out in the middle of the kalahari a laptop and saying "go pedal. information is free".
They're not going to the Kalahari. You're talking about the "Fourth World". The laptops are targetted to the "Third World", not so desperately poor, places like Thailand. The Media Lab knows about computers, they can't help with providing fresh water.
After recently visiting my local Goodwill computer store, I saw hundred of old laptops laying around for sale.
Why were they there? They very likely don't work, have dead screens and/or batteries. One important feature of the $100 laptop is the wind-up battery. Even if these Goodwill laptops were working, what a nightmare to support; all with different batteries, weird custom parts, expensive RAM, and many needing special drivers to work at all that probably haven't been updated since the machine was made, thus limiting the software it can run.
a potentially huge market that Windows would be at least temporarily shut out of.
Well, Windows may not come as OEM, but I'm sure you can install it, (there are installers now that give you a minimal Windows for efficiency or lower-powered boxes) it's standard x86 hardware. And as they say there will be commercial versions of the laptops (at a higher cost), they probably will come with the choice of an OEM Windows. It will be interesting to see MS having to actually compete as an after-market product again, rather than being seen as the natural, only choice.
hoaxing a bunch of individuals "close up" over an extended period of time is a very hard and expensive task.
That of course was the basic flaw in The Truman show. Why spend billions to fool one person when you can hire an actor to pretend? Also, how lucky was the producer to pick a child who would grow up to be Jim Carrey.... if he'd chosen, say, me, he'd be cancelled so quick.
24 Usually handles product placement pretty decently,
"The Cisco System is self-defending" made me burst out laughing. I almost expected them to look straight at the camera and give an 800 number after that. I do wonder if Halliburton is sponsoring all the torture scenes, there seems to be rather too many of those than necessary.
I found it rather strange that the article concentrated on how scriptwrtiters for REALITY TV shows were up in arms about product placement. Forgive my naivety, but I thought the point of "reality" TV was that it was unscripted. But they talk abouit redoing "scenes" if the product placement isn't right. So it seems reality TV just means scripted gameshows with non-professional actors. And how much time does Donald Trump spend in make-up before his boardroom scenes?
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I';m anb editpr, not a toyipst. (And you misspelled "embarrassed".)
I've left the above sentence as it came off my thick fingers to show what I'm dealing with... But seriously, I don't have a spellcheck in my browser and don't have the patience to cut and paste it into a WP for a forum posting. I also moderate on a site that uses Slashcode, and I know that when publishing a story you are presented with a list of "words that ispell doesn't know". So I really can't comprehend how they can get that wrong so often. But obviously what management there is doesn't care; after a while the attitude filters down that you don't get rewarded for taking care or punished for screwing up, so why bother.
The amount of information the editors post comes to about two pages of text a day, all told, including all the categories that don't hit the front page. And that's betweem at least two and up to four editors. There is no excuse for not spellchecking, or duping a story from 24 hours ago. Several years ago they actually researched stories, now they seem to just randomly queue up a bunch of submissions and go off to do something more important.
I used to work on a news website and edited and posted an average of 80 stories a day, by myself, and I would have been embarrassed to publish 1/10th the errors theese guys do.
And why on earth is People's Daily being used as the canonical source of a story entirely based in the US? It's not a leak, it's announced on Microsoft's site for all to see.
But this is pretty damn oulandish:
"the radiation was able to eat its way free".
What about the ones who aren't idiots? The ones who reinstalled from the disks without calling you?
You can receive a copy from tech support if ask.
The guys in TFA tried that. They spent a few hours on hold, didi it again after a few days when they didn't arrive as promised, finally got an OS disk without the necessary drivers, and were charged $10. Who wants to fuck around like that and not have the use of their computer for a week to save Dell 25c for a CDROM?
Manye that's why they're running "stories" about how big an actor's penis is. Could be worse, though I can't think how at the moment.
Bin Laden changed the entire world by provoking the US to go on the rampage. Which was exactly what he planned. Giuliani did a great job, as mayor of one single (big) city, but how many people in the world even know his name? Half the world knows bin Laden, and their daily lives are affected by his actions and the fear he provoked. This week, for instance: The Lebanese immigrants who were beaten up in Sydney; the NSA spying on Americans Bush is trying to defend. Every day there are more repercussions of that one act.
According to TFA, the criteria are : "the person or persons who most affected the news and our lives, for good or for ill, and embodied what was important about the year, for better or for worse." No one can seriously claim that bin Laden didn't do that more than anyone else in 2001. But Time chose Giuliani, who was a great mayor, but hardly affected the entire world as much. So Time showed its parochialism in pandering to the American public then.
When he's actually done that he can get credit for it. And "give away" probably means "give to his foundation" where he is still in charge.
Funny how they missed bin Laden in 2001, who turned the world upside down, in favour of Giuliani, who for all his virtues, was just a mayor. Obviously they choked on following through on their own stated criteria when it was too close to home.
I read TFAs, but they are either extremely technical and over my head, or extremely dumbed down and useless ("click to install the patch"). I'd like to know what the service is, and which port(s), that this comes over (I did gather it's not through a browser or email); so if I have a firewall that default blocks probes, am I safe? (I do run Win2k, which I gather is vulnerable in default setup.) I know MS liked (maybe less so now) to activate odd services listening on odd ports to allow administrators (or, in practice, script kiddies) to do stuff automatically without troubling the user by asking his permission. I ask this because it seems most vulnerabilities announced are actual risks only if you are running IE without a firewall.
so as not to be a passive aggressive troll.
Note the "formula" depends partly on "the number of theaters the film opens in". Will a studio pick this number at random? Or perhaps they open big with movies they expect to be big? It's like a horse-racing pick that tells you to bet on the favorite; i.e. the one that most people expect to win; not through analysis of the horse (movie) itself.
As title.
Off on a tangent... 30 years since I read those. Anyway, it was either Hari Seldon himself, or maybe the Second Foundation members who had those. The latter also had wall-screen displays to run the psycho-history equations. I haven't read any of the sequels he and others wrote long after when he tried to integrate this with his positronic robot stories, originally a quite different future history. They probably retconned the technology.
It's interesting to read Golden Age SF, when they look out the spaceship portal with a telescope to locate other ships, and you wonder why they don't use radar till you realise it hadn't been invented when it was written; or Heinlein's astrogators who use memorised tables and slide rules to pilot starships through hyperspace (Starman Jones).
Asimov wrote a book about how to use slide rules; I read it at high school, when LED calculators were an expensive novelty.
Not everybody in Isaan.
The article is about reality, not SF. Asimov described powerful pocket computers in his Foundation series, ca. 1940. He probably wasn't the first.
They're not going to the Kalahari. You're talking about the "Fourth World". The laptops are targetted to the "Third World", not so desperately poor, places like Thailand. The Media Lab knows about computers, they can't help with providing fresh water.
Why were they there? They very likely don't work, have dead screens and/or batteries. One important feature of the $100 laptop is the wind-up battery. Even if these Goodwill laptops were working, what a nightmare to support; all with different batteries, weird custom parts, expensive RAM, and many needing special drivers to work at all that probably haven't been updated since the machine was made, thus limiting the software it can run.
Karma-whoring made easy. Post the same link as in the summary, and get modded "informative".
Well, Windows may not come as OEM, but I'm sure you can install it, (there are installers now that give you a minimal Windows for efficiency or lower-powered boxes) it's standard x86 hardware. And as they say there will be commercial versions of the laptops (at a higher cost), they probably will come with the choice of an OEM Windows. It will be interesting to see MS having to actually compete as an after-market product again, rather than being seen as the natural, only choice.
That of course was the basic flaw in The Truman show. Why spend billions to fool one person when you can hire an actor to pretend? Also, how lucky was the producer to pick a child who would grow up to be Jim Carrey.... if he'd chosen, say, me, he'd be cancelled so quick.
Especially as they are paid £5,000 for each day of the "mission" they complete. Play dumb and collect the cheque.
"The Cisco System is self-defending" made me burst out laughing. I almost expected them to look straight at the camera and give an 800 number after that. I do wonder if Halliburton is sponsoring all the torture scenes, there seems to be rather too many of those than necessary.
I found it rather strange that the article concentrated on how scriptwrtiters for REALITY TV shows were up in arms about product placement. Forgive my naivety, but I thought the point of "reality" TV was that it was unscripted. But they talk abouit redoing "scenes" if the product placement isn't right. So it seems reality TV just means scripted gameshows with non-professional actors. And how much time does Donald Trump spend in make-up before his boardroom scenes?