Even worse for a Sony laptop - no restore CD, filled with enough spyware and trial software from god knows who when you buy a new computer. AOL this and that, Cingular something, something anti-spyware, Sony something - all blinking and popping and constantly annoying and popping up messages about do this or do that.
I suggest getting FoxyProxy and putting doubleclick on a proxy and disable downloading of images in FF itself. I suggest that for Google as well since they are everywhere and mining your browsing habits.
What's better than not giving your data for mining? Poisoning their data!
I still don't understand why browsers won't display the contents of the page unless it processes the ad stuff. Anyone know? Shouldn't they be in separate threads or something?
But, how does the brain grow if it is housed in a skull which does not grow? If you brain actually enlarges and presses against the skull (in case of various things like infection) you get a headache.
I think the mechanisms of the brain are a bit of mystery and it's not a very good idea to fall on one side of the argument.
For example, if you see a mentally retarded person, no matter how much brain stimulation you give him or her, he or she will not get smarter.
On the other hand, there have been twin studies that have showed a considerable genetic influence on intelligence. How smart you are maybe decided n a large percentage at the moment the sperm meets the ovum.
1. He is unskilled musician. The others were highly skilled musicians.
2. They didn't also have the video sample as well - only audio.
3. They didn't post it on YouTube.
For example, Apple doesn't outsource but their wait queue is over half an hour long.
I spent an entire morning listening to hold music when my under warranty iPod broke. I had to call back about 3 times since this or that would happen after they told me a fix and the trouble was deeper than I expected (hardware malfunction) when I thought I just need a software reset or something like that.
Before outsourcing of customer support, all the online retailers would make you wait 15-20 minutes at least on hold. I remember around 1999-2000, the speakerphone would half the time be playing hold music. Now, an Indian guy answers and 75% of the time he'll know the regulation of the company and just state it and be done with it.
I really don't think eBay can be said as a marketplace.
The only people who sell there are individuals or companies looking to dump refurbished, returned or old merchandise.
The fact that ebay+paypal fees are ridiculously high makes it a killer for any business to sell there. They basically host to people who have nowhere else to sell by charging enormous fees.
I know a few people who have tried to make a living or business out of selling on eBay and have always concluded that it's not worth it at all.
Thus, my point is people don't sell on ebay because they like the service model - it's because there is nothing like it that has national search on it. Even more simpler, there is no non-service version of it.
This is almost word for word what the fear mongers where saying about XP. Yes software activation is a pain.
Not. It is not.
Even if you run a non-genuine version of XP, Microsoft cannot turn off your XP. They will deny will some updates in the Microsoft Update but not deny you access to your computer.
Consensus is NOT proof. I don't know how else to say this. When someone tells you that there is a consensus among scientists on a certain issue, they have proved nothing about the issue itself.. I'm not arguing that global warming is not real, or is not the fault of humans. But I'm tired of people trying to strong-arm me into acquiescing to the point using blatantly un-scientific methods.
Gah! That is so full of misconception that it's like a huge squished knot of mis-information and suckage.
There is no proof in experimental science. It's only in mathematics ( which isn't technically a science ).
Scientific method is making guesses at properties of something through an experiment that can be repeated by someone else with their equipment.
There is no such thing as consensus in the scientific community. You have provable experiments and a set of guesses at when they hold.
In fact, some people would argue scientific community is built around questioning anything and everything.
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It is irrefutable that Kyoto would force millions of people into unemployment...
Unfortunately (for you) it is refuted in the movie.
Actually software resale is not allowed anymore I believe. Most sample CDs for music production does not allow you to resell their software. Of course, ebay enforces so they're as good as law in the used market.
I personally hate Word. You can tell an ugly word document a million miles away. I hate Excel since people try to make everything in Excel though the vbscript is kinda nice. Don't even get me started on Powerpoint - it's so braindead!.
There is so much potential in project and frontpage and other stuff. I haven't checked Access for a while now.
There is so much room innovation for Microsoft on Office software but Word hasn't changed since forever (except for the toolbar buttons being in higher colors) and everything else is super-static and nothing exciting happens in Office.
I'm really hoping that OpenOffice becomes huge. I used OpenOffice exclusively and if people send me.doc files I sent them back.odt documents:) After sitting through a 1000s of hours of braindead powerpoint presentations, I've thinking about contributing to Impress with some ideas I have.
Nice dream, but assuming that this theory is true, it probably happened when a group of neanderthals met a group of humans, killed most of them, and then raped the women (or humans doing it to neanderthals). Romeo was not a neanderthal searching for his human Juliet.
Or even more dramatic, a virus got a piece of DNA from a neanderthal and was transmitted to a human which got into the human gene pool.
Sort of as a crude example, does a bigger CPU in terms of size mean anything? It might mean more memory, or more pipelines or maybe just old technology when the fabrication needed to be a little more coarse.
The brain controls all sorts of things in all sorts of region. If one region is bigger, it might be for sensory recpetion in your leg. So, you tickle worse or something.
It's like that picture of Homer with a small brain. If his brain was like that, he wouldn't be able to walk or speak.
Go to college, take neat classes, be well rounded. Learn to read, learn to think, learn to write (English first, then C++/Python/Java, what-have you). All of that, plus enjoying these next few years of life is way way more important than an internship or being some Google-head's code slave for a summer. Plenty of time for work after you've had some fun. And yes, I'm completely serious about this.
I disagree.
You can spend an entire life learning to do this or that and not get anywhere at it. The purpose in life is not to be a learning bot but to find something worth learning, make your contribution, make money and get out of the crazy scene and retire nicely.
Otherwise you'll end up being those 40 year old taking college classes and gawking at young students who just seem to get the subject; or those annoying 40 year old at low tech positions who talk about how cool string theory is and blah blah.
This has been presented before, and debunked before. This study shows that while ice is thinning in some parts of the arctic, it is thickening in others and the temperature change isn't uniform.
OK. The article you linked says,
A new NCPA study by Dr. David Legates, director of the University of Delaware's Center for Climatic Research and state climatologist, examines the claim that global warming threatens to cause polar bear extinction and finds little basis for fear. By and large, the study finds that polar bear populations are in good shape.
However, it gives no reference to the study or how to find it (NCPA stands for National Center for Policy Analysis). It doesn't seem to have been a publication in a major journal that the article you linked to refers to.
I think to even start to debunk something, it has to be a publication in a scientific journal.
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Maybe I'm wrong but didn't INS (DHS) put in a way where you could swap employers with the same H1B visa 3-4 years ago?
XP restore CD is so last year.
Now, it's $10 or so for the restore from Dell.
Even worse for a Sony laptop - no restore CD, filled with enough spyware and trial software from god knows who when you buy a new computer. AOL this and that, Cingular something, something anti-spyware, Sony something - all blinking and popping and constantly annoying and popping up messages about do this or do that.
I suggest getting FoxyProxy and putting doubleclick on a proxy and disable downloading of images in FF itself. I suggest that for Google as well since they are everywhere and mining your browsing habits.
What's better than not giving your data for mining? Poisoning their data!
I still don't understand why browsers won't display the contents of the page unless it processes the ad stuff. Anyone know? Shouldn't they be in separate threads or something?
What about the good ol "Driver Returns on Foot"?
Learning and routine are different things than intelligence.
As a very blunt measure, the IQ does not go up significantly no matter how many IQ questions are practiced.
But, how does the brain grow if it is housed in a skull which does not grow? If you brain actually enlarges and presses against the skull (in case of various things like infection) you get a headache.
I think the mechanisms of the brain are a bit of mystery and it's not a very good idea to fall on one side of the argument.
For example, if you see a mentally retarded person, no matter how much brain stimulation you give him or her, he or she will not get smarter.
On the other hand, there have been twin studies that have showed a considerable genetic influence on intelligence. How smart you are maybe decided n a large percentage at the moment the sperm meets the ovum.
Why do?
After a user buys a copy of Vista, Microsoft receives no more money from the user.
It would probably be economically wise to spend time in developing another product.
And it comes in a cardboard box which is fully functional in enclosing the product.
1. He is unskilled musician. The others were highly skilled musicians.
2. They didn't also have the video sample as well - only audio.
3. They didn't post it on YouTube.
I think there are tradeoffs.
For example, Apple doesn't outsource but their wait queue is over half an hour long.
I spent an entire morning listening to hold music when my under warranty iPod broke. I had to call back about 3 times since this or that would happen after they told me a fix and the trouble was deeper than I expected (hardware malfunction) when I thought I just need a software reset or something like that.
Before outsourcing of customer support, all the online retailers would make you wait 15-20 minutes at least on hold. I remember around 1999-2000, the speakerphone would half the time be playing hold music. Now, an Indian guy answers and 75% of the time he'll know the regulation of the company and just state it and be done with it.
I really don't think eBay can be said as a marketplace.
The only people who sell there are individuals or companies looking to dump refurbished, returned or old merchandise.
The fact that ebay+paypal fees are ridiculously high makes it a killer for any business to sell there. They basically host to people who have nowhere else to sell by charging enormous fees.
I know a few people who have tried to make a living or business out of selling on eBay and have always concluded that it's not worth it at all.
Thus, my point is people don't sell on ebay because they like the service model - it's because there is nothing like it that has national search on it. Even more simpler, there is no non-service version of it.
Here's the bibtex reference.
@article{bryan:569,
author = {Kurt Bryan and Tanya Leise},
collaboration = {},
title = {The $25,000,000,000 Eigenvector: The Linear Algebra behind Google},
publisher = {SIAM},
year = {2006},
journal = {SIAM Review},
volume = {48},
number = {3},
pages = {569-581},
keywords = {linear algebra; PageRank; eigenvector; stochastic matrix},
url = {http://link.aip.org/link/?SIR/48/569/1},
doi = {10.1137/050623280}
}
Doesn't mean they always will be.
I agree. I mean people pay for cable and internet access which is what just some electrons flowing around. Waste of money.
People also pay for services that they can do themselves. Waste of money.
And don't let me even get started on slashdot subscriptions.
Not. It is not.
Even if you run a non-genuine version of XP, Microsoft cannot turn off your XP. They will deny will some updates in the Microsoft Update but not deny you access to your computer.
Gah! That is so full of misconception that it's like a huge squished knot of mis-information and suckage.
There is no proof in experimental science. It's only in mathematics ( which isn't technically a science ).
Scientific method is making guesses at properties of something through an experiment that can be repeated by someone else with their equipment.
There is no such thing as consensus in the scientific community. You have provable experiments and a set of guesses at when they hold.
In fact, some people would argue scientific community is built around questioning anything and everything.
Actually software resale is not allowed anymore I believe. Most sample CDs for music production does not allow you to resell their software. Of course, ebay enforces so they're as good as law in the used market.
I personally hate Word. You can tell an ugly word document a million miles away. I hate Excel since people try to make everything in Excel though the vbscript is kinda nice. Don't even get me started on Powerpoint - it's so braindead!.
There is so much potential in project and frontpage and other stuff. I haven't checked Access for a while now.
There is so much room innovation for Microsoft on Office software but Word hasn't changed since forever (except for the toolbar buttons being in higher colors) and everything else is super-static and nothing exciting happens in Office.
I'm really hoping that OpenOffice becomes huge. I used OpenOffice exclusively and if people send me .doc files I sent them back .odt documents :) After sitting through a 1000s of hours of braindead powerpoint presentations, I've thinking about contributing to Impress with some ideas I have.
In a free market, there are no monopolies!
Or even more dramatic, a virus got a piece of DNA from a neanderthal and was transmitted to a human which got into the human gene pool.
Just like modern genetic engineering.
What does bigger brain really mean anyway?
Sort of as a crude example, does a bigger CPU in terms of size mean anything? It might mean more memory, or more pipelines or maybe just old technology when the fabrication needed to be a little more coarse.
The brain controls all sorts of things in all sorts of region. If one region is bigger, it might be for sensory recpetion in your leg. So, you tickle worse or something.
It's like that picture of Homer with a small brain. If his brain was like that, he wouldn't be able to walk or speak.
So, big FU to MCTFB, you little Hitler.
Maybe it conincides with the opening of the Search Technology Center in China 1 year ago.
Some of the authors of the patent applications are listed as from Beijing, China.
The hole thingy only says if your vote was counted or not as you voted.
So, just a yes or no answer.
You'd ask the webserver to send you a text and you do some computation with your portion of it. Then, your computer tells you yes or no.
I disagree.
You can spend an entire life learning to do this or that and not get anywhere at it. The purpose in life is not to be a learning bot but to find something worth learning, make your contribution, make money and get out of the crazy scene and retire nicely.
Otherwise you'll end up being those 40 year old taking college classes and gawking at young students who just seem to get the subject; or those annoying 40 year old at low tech positions who talk about how cool string theory is and blah blah.
OK. The article you linked says,
However, it gives no reference to the study or how to find it (NCPA stands for National Center for Policy Analysis). It doesn't seem to have been a publication in a major journal that the article you linked to refers to.
I think to even start to debunk something, it has to be a publication in a scientific journal.