Re:Uh...it's still there, you know
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And he seems to be acting like there used to be some deep integration out there that the walled gardens have shut down.
10 years ago "integration" and "APIs" between sites consisted of a adding a hypertext link on your geocities page to somebody else's geocities page. Maybe you made it flash to stand out.
It seems that most creationists are successful in convincing their peers of the faults in the theory of evolution because they are the only source of information on what the theory actually is. They setup a completely outdated or just plain fabricated version of the theory and then argue against that. Which makes them look like they know what they are talking about and makes their arguments convincing to the ignorant.
How do you convince people that what they have been taught is completely wrong without insinuating that they or their respected teacher/pastor etc is a complete idiot?
"In one test, a phone system run by an unnamed Indian bank had dumped customer PINs" Sounds like a SQL injection attack, via voice. Lol. Little Bobby Tables strikes again.
Your understanding of business seems limited. "Market forces maximize profit and the only way to do that is to reduce what you offer and raise the price" is completely false and will lead to failure.
Efficiency is the key to success. You figure out how to offer more with less resources. You figure out how to cut out middle men. You improve processes. You improve communication. You remove internal roadblocks to your people getting things done. You give your employees better technology, better tools, better training, and find better people. You get extremely introspective about your organization and realize that this process is never done. You push bad employees out the door and treat the good ones well so they stay. You (as a company) never lie to yourself about where you really stand, even if the truth hurts. Because if your data is manipulated or sugar coated your decisions based on that data will be crap.
Above all you do your very best to make sure your corporate culture is creating an environment where what is good for individual employees and what is good for the company align as much as possible. If you can do this (and it can be very difficult) everything else will usually fall into place.
Any company (in this case university) making a good faith effort to accomplish these things will crush any competition that seeks to only "reduce what you offer and raise the price".
I am not a capitalism fanboy by any means. In almost all cases the real world requires regulations to reign in the abusive and irresponsible behavior that free markets can sometimes encourage. But by eliminating market forces you will not create some magically dynamic equilibrium. You will instead greatly increase in the inefficiency of those organizations and reduce the drive to innovate. They will become less dynamic, more bloated, and cost society at large more money per unit of education produced (if such a thing is even quantifiable).
How do you overcome knowledge that is hard coded in your DNA? When you go beyond indoctrination, and start implanting knowledge as base instinct it would likely be near impossible for that being to believe anything that was contrary to that implanted knowledge, much of which would be contradictory or turn out to be just plain wrong.
I think your being would be mentally crippled and tragic instead of the glorious super genius you imply they would be.
Probably more of a super-rainman then a fully functional member of society capable of any kind of advances.
Though not nearly as bad. I trialled a small business product designed to make managing your AV/Firewall across multiple computers easy via a central web interface.
It was all great in concept, except the default configuration for the individual install blocked itself from communicating with the central service. And while managing everything on the web interface was slick, attempting to fix the configuration on the installs without the benefit of that centralized web interface was a huge pain in the ass.
Needless to say, that trial didn't convert to a sale.
This is a load of crap. If a book is good I'll read it for hours on end on my iPad without getting distracted. And before I bought my iPad finding good books and acquiring them was a chore so I hardly read more then 1-2 books a year. Now books are as convenient as plopping down in front of the tube, so I read 30+ year. When I finish one it's easy find another excellent book I haven't already read and be reading it in minutes.
Publishers/authors that have been slow to release their content through kindle/ibooks aren't getting any of my money, but those who aren't trying to fight the future are getting plenty of it.
I've gotten in the habit of using google as a spell checker. It didn't correct my search for virii, so I went with it. After searching again and reading the first link that comes up: I agree, I sound like an idiot.
Newsflash: SOMEONE is already doing it on a scale so massive that human beings can't even come close to competing with. That someone is called The Universe, or more specifically in this case the Planet Earth.
Flu virii are replicating and recombining on their own. They do it all day every day in billions of organisms around the planet. By doing a tiny tiny tiny version of the same thing in a controlled manner in a lab, we can learn a whole lot about that natural process that will provide wonderful insights to help combat the really bad stuff that the evolution of these virii WILL produce at some point.
In all likelihood all of the combinations that these scientists come up with already exist somewhere.
There is methane in Mars' atmosphere. Methane breaks down pretty quickly, so it had to come from somewhere recently. "No Plate Tectonics" means there are no continents still moving around, but it doesn't mean the core is cold, or that it isn't still venting interesting chemicals (like methane) to the upper crust and atmosphere.
You could easily have large pools of liquid water deep underground that have methane bubbling through them. That is a fine recipe for life.
Why is he riding so slow in all the videos?
I'll tell you why, because taking your foot position all the way back to that ridiculous angle has that guy riding squarely on his junk. The slightest bump probably feels like huge kick to the nut sack.
Most custom bikes give up comfort for fashion, but that takes thing to a whole new level.
Our industrial output is higher then it's even been. But just like farming it takes a hell of a lot less people to do it these days. And very sophisticated computer controlled production is getting to the point where even smallish production runs in the states can be price competitive with Chinese human labor.
It is actually a good thing that we sort of "lucked out" by offshoring a lot of our manufacturing jobs and shifted to a service economy earlier then everybody else. In the long run, as automated manufacturing continues to displace even the lowest skilled, cheapest human labor out there we will be in a great position while other countries whose economies still depend on those jobs will be totally screwed.
Hogwash. For a couple hundred bucks or less you can get yourself an actual fully legal corporation registered with the state and everything. At least in Ohio, but I doubt the process in other states vary all that much.
Hold one corporate meeting with a quorum of officers in attendance a year, and take notes, and you keep your corporation fully legal in perpetuity.
If that is too much regulation for you to handle, I suggest you stick with your day job.
Until you are making decent money, turbotax online will handle all of you taxes for about a hundred bucks. And until you are making decent money, accounting standards don't matter, because nobody cares how you accounted for that $5 "business lunch" at subway. And once you are making enough money that somebody might care, well then you can afford an accountant.
And as far as health code and environmental regulations, exactly what kind of operation were you envisioning starting in your garage that would be affected? Are you really pissed you can't pack 30 children in there to make t-shirts with noxious chemicals?
Because it isn't about syncing just files. Your data is more then just your MP3s or Word Docs. iCloud is about syncing everything.
Once developers start buying in (and they will in droves), things like your Angry Birds game state will automatically sync between all your devices.
When ALL of your data is syncing between all of your devices, down to the level of individual app preferences, or which file you had open the last time you were using photoshop, without you as the user have to do any setup, click any buttons, or even THINK about it, all of the current "hard drive on the internet" style cloud services will seem antiquated.
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And he seems to be acting like there used to be some deep integration out there that the walled gardens have shut down. 10 years ago "integration" and "APIs" between sites consisted of a adding a hypertext link on your geocities page to somebody else's geocities page. Maybe you made it flash to stand out.
It seems that most creationists are successful in convincing their peers of the faults in the theory of evolution because they are the only source of information on what the theory actually is. They setup a completely outdated or just plain fabricated version of the theory and then argue against that. Which makes them look like they know what they are talking about and makes their arguments convincing to the ignorant. How do you convince people that what they have been taught is completely wrong without insinuating that they or their respected teacher/pastor etc is a complete idiot?
The summary clearly states the the buffer overflow attack was a different attack from the one that dumped the PIN #'s.
"In one test, a phone system run by an unnamed Indian bank had dumped customer PINs" Sounds like a SQL injection attack, via voice. Lol. Little Bobby Tables strikes again.
Your understanding of business seems limited. "Market forces maximize profit and the only way to do that is to reduce what you offer and raise the price" is completely false and will lead to failure.
Efficiency is the key to success. You figure out how to offer more with less resources. You figure out how to cut out middle men. You improve processes. You improve communication. You remove internal roadblocks to your people getting things done. You give your employees better technology, better tools, better training, and find better people. You get extremely introspective about your organization and realize that this process is never done. You push bad employees out the door and treat the good ones well so they stay. You (as a company) never lie to yourself about where you really stand, even if the truth hurts. Because if your data is manipulated or sugar coated your decisions based on that data will be crap.
Above all you do your very best to make sure your corporate culture is creating an environment where what is good for individual employees and what is good for the company align as much as possible. If you can do this (and it can be very difficult) everything else will usually fall into place.
Any company (in this case university) making a good faith effort to accomplish these things will crush any competition that seeks to only "reduce what you offer and raise the price".
I am not a capitalism fanboy by any means. In almost all cases the real world requires regulations to reign in the abusive and irresponsible behavior that free markets can sometimes encourage. But by eliminating market forces you will not create some magically dynamic equilibrium. You will instead greatly increase in the inefficiency of those organizations and reduce the drive to innovate. They will become less dynamic, more bloated, and cost society at large more money per unit of education produced (if such a thing is even quantifiable).
How do you overcome knowledge that is hard coded in your DNA? When you go beyond indoctrination, and start implanting knowledge as base instinct it would likely be near impossible for that being to believe anything that was contrary to that implanted knowledge, much of which would be contradictory or turn out to be just plain wrong. I think your being would be mentally crippled and tragic instead of the glorious super genius you imply they would be. Probably more of a super-rainman then a fully functional member of society capable of any kind of advances.
There was never a time or a place where what you describe existed.
Though not nearly as bad. I trialled a small business product designed to make managing your AV/Firewall across multiple computers easy via a central web interface. It was all great in concept, except the default configuration for the individual install blocked itself from communicating with the central service. And while managing everything on the web interface was slick, attempting to fix the configuration on the installs without the benefit of that centralized web interface was a huge pain in the ass. Needless to say, that trial didn't convert to a sale.
To sum up your post: entropy is a bitch.
But I was going down to the Toshi stations to pick up some power converters!!!
You clearly haven't played any non-lemmings titles by Psygnosis
This is a load of crap. If a book is good I'll read it for hours on end on my iPad without getting distracted. And before I bought my iPad finding good books and acquiring them was a chore so I hardly read more then 1-2 books a year. Now books are as convenient as plopping down in front of the tube, so I read 30+ year. When I finish one it's easy find another excellent book I haven't already read and be reading it in minutes.
Publishers/authors that have been slow to release their content through kindle/ibooks aren't getting any of my money, but those who aren't trying to fight the future are getting plenty of it.
Not just ridiculous amounts of energy, but ridiculous amounts of negative energy. Which as far as I know only exists in theory.
Heroin use does exactly that, diminishes other sorts of pleasure.
I've gotten in the habit of using google as a spell checker. It didn't correct my search for virii, so I went with it. After searching again and reading the first link that comes up: I agree, I sound like an idiot.
Newsflash: SOMEONE is already doing it on a scale so massive that human beings can't even come close to competing with. That someone is called The Universe, or more specifically in this case the Planet Earth.
Flu virii are replicating and recombining on their own. They do it all day every day in billions of organisms around the planet. By doing a tiny tiny tiny version of the same thing in a controlled manner in a lab, we can learn a whole lot about that natural process that will provide wonderful insights to help combat the really bad stuff that the evolution of these virii WILL produce at some point.
In all likelihood all of the combinations that these scientists come up with already exist somewhere.
This is why you subsidize research, not production.
They don't get specific in this article but they do say that the "methane is quickly destroyed in the Martian atmosphere in a variety of ways" http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mars/news/marsmethane.html
There is methane in Mars' atmosphere. Methane breaks down pretty quickly, so it had to come from somewhere recently. "No Plate Tectonics" means there are no continents still moving around, but it doesn't mean the core is cold, or that it isn't still venting interesting chemicals (like methane) to the upper crust and atmosphere. You could easily have large pools of liquid water deep underground that have methane bubbling through them. That is a fine recipe for life.
Why is he riding so slow in all the videos? I'll tell you why, because taking your foot position all the way back to that ridiculous angle has that guy riding squarely on his junk. The slightest bump probably feels like huge kick to the nut sack. Most custom bikes give up comfort for fashion, but that takes thing to a whole new level.
Our industrial output is higher then it's even been. But just like farming it takes a hell of a lot less people to do it these days. And very sophisticated computer controlled production is getting to the point where even smallish production runs in the states can be price competitive with Chinese human labor.
It is actually a good thing that we sort of "lucked out" by offshoring a lot of our manufacturing jobs and shifted to a service economy earlier then everybody else. In the long run, as automated manufacturing continues to displace even the lowest skilled, cheapest human labor out there we will be in a great position while other countries whose economies still depend on those jobs will be totally screwed.
Most of the people in my office would fail your test.
Hogwash. For a couple hundred bucks or less you can get yourself an actual fully legal corporation registered with the state and everything. At least in Ohio, but I doubt the process in other states vary all that much.
Hold one corporate meeting with a quorum of officers in attendance a year, and take notes, and you keep your corporation fully legal in perpetuity.
If that is too much regulation for you to handle, I suggest you stick with your day job.
Until you are making decent money, turbotax online will handle all of you taxes for about a hundred bucks. And until you are making decent money, accounting standards don't matter, because nobody cares how you accounted for that $5 "business lunch" at subway. And once you are making enough money that somebody might care, well then you can afford an accountant.
And as far as health code and environmental regulations, exactly what kind of operation were you envisioning starting in your garage that would be affected? Are you really pissed you can't pack 30 children in there to make t-shirts with noxious chemicals?
In some sort of bizzaro world fashion the movie would probably turn out awesome.
Because it isn't about syncing just files. Your data is more then just your MP3s or Word Docs. iCloud is about syncing everything .
Once developers start buying in (and they will in droves), things like your Angry Birds game state will automatically sync between all your devices.
When ALL of your data is syncing between all of your devices, down to the level of individual app preferences, or which file you had open the last time you were using photoshop, without you as the user have to do any setup, click any buttons, or even THINK about it, all of the current "hard drive on the internet" style cloud services will seem antiquated.