Good design? The shuffle is a stick with a few buttons. Anyone who buys one of these is a fool. Go to China or Europe and you will see that there are hundreds of players with color screens and the same amount of memory, and smaller, for less money. The Shuffle is for fanboys and the clueless. I actually listen to new music and would like to know what "that" song was I just heard.
Actually, I think it's been more fashionable lately to mention that "Google is not necessarily good". This also happened a while back with Microsoft - it became fashionable to say that "Microsoft is not necessarily bad". It's even been fashionable to comment on these second-order posts with a third-order post stating that the second-order poster is not correct, but just backlashing in the opposite direction of the mainstream. And then someone like me will come with some po-mo meta-comment, after which a troll with then bash me for being a pomo fucktard.
Why don't you just go ahead and drop the $5k on a night with a group of hot prostitutes in cheerleading outfits and get the fucking fantasy out of the way!
Before you flip out again, as the other posters have explained, it's not the manufacturerthat is affecting the price, so they aren't discriminating against anyone. Some insurance companies pay more or less for various medical treatments, affecting the price for the end user. If you have a better plan, you may pay less. If you have a terrible plan, you may pay the whole price. It's not the manufacturer...
You also suffer from the falicy that any biomass is intended to be food. With the exception of milk and fruit, everything we eat was a creature or plant that had other ideas.
This sounds like Directed Design. I don't think evolution "had other ideas". Do you think a tree (or the evolutionary process) thought about how fruit would be used by animals?
Is this some sort of reverse propaganda? Have you tried submitting to Slashdot before? It's nearly impossible to get your story posted, let alone a series of stories. And this person clearly does not have a way with words, yet still gets posted, so there is clearly some work behind the scenes with Slashdot. It's very common - I wouldn't be surprised if they take payolla from dozens of different companies to get stories posted. I think you are the naive one, sorry.
I'd agree with your statement, but the fact is that the US corporations receive many benefits from US taxpayers, e.g. military protection, land subsidies, tariffs, trade aggreements, special legal protections, government contracts, etc., etc. The working populace is losing it's rights as the corporations are gaining rights. I am for globalization, but if the average working stiff doesn't get some protection from global competition, then I think corporations should lose the afformentioned benefits as well and become real international corporations. They can't have it both ways.
As your different spelling indicated, google has no meaning. But it's actually googol, not googal. Seconding, "bailing" still means one hundred. The ling is used if there is a 0 in the middle of a number, for instance 105, which is "bai ling wu", so there is no confusion with 150. One hundred zeros would be "bai ge ling", "ge" being a measure-word for numbers. We don't have an equivalent measure-word in English for numbers, but we do sometimes have measure words for other things. For example, "two cups of coffee", "cups" being one of the measure-words for beverages, along with "bottles", etc. But since 100 zeros doesn't start with "1", it's still just 0.
Anyway, there are two ways I have found on the net for saying googol in Chinese:
1. 10 de 100 ci4 fang1 (10 to the 100th power) 2. tian1wen2xue2shang4 de shu4zi4 (astronomical number)
I've never seen a more appropriate sig from a Microsoft employee. For those who don't know, this is a lyric from Nick Drake. The next line together with this is:
You can take a road that takes you to the stars now I can take a road that'll see me through.
run away from your job... NOW!!! If you are able to get a functional system out of domino, you are definitely skilled enough to use a real environment to build web-apps. run now before your resume is subsumed!!!
it allows people to be cut off from using the tap after the system detects that they've had more than their alloted fluid ounces.
Let me know where this robot is NOT in use, so I can avoid it. I don't need party hosts purposely implementing 1984-ish automated law enforcement in their own homes, let alone the government, thank you.
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." -- Albert Einstein
"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change." -- Buddha
"People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars... and they pass by themselves without wondering. " -- Saint Augustine
If you couldn't tell, I agree with the grandparent post...
In fact, almost everything you own that is of "quality", whether it is American or Japanese of design and label, was probably manufactured in China. China DEFINITELY has capacity for quality.
A couple problems with your argument. First, you assume that YOU know what the parameters are for our so-called designer. How do you know what parameters he/she/it is designing for? Perhaps what you consider imperfection is within the acceptable criteria.
Also, even if this designer's criteria matches yours, why must it be perfect? Perhaps this designer is not the final overarching power in the universe, and only a sub-god. Or even if this being IS at the top of the heirarchy, who's to say that the universe is "meant" to be perfect?
Disclaimer: I am in no way advocating intelligent design, but if you decide to argue against it, flawed arguments will only make things worse.
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Good design? The shuffle is a stick with a few buttons. Anyone who buys one of these is a fool. Go to China or Europe and you will see that there are hundreds of players with color screens and the same amount of memory, and smaller, for less money. The Shuffle is for fanboys and the clueless. I actually listen to new music and would like to know what "that" song was I just heard.
Rhymes with Ditty? The first thing that comes to my mind is
Itty Bitty Titty Committee
Actually, I think it's been more fashionable lately to mention that "Google is not necessarily good". This also happened a while back with Microsoft - it became fashionable to say that "Microsoft is not necessarily bad". It's even been fashionable to comment on these second-order posts with a third-order post stating that the second-order poster is not correct, but just backlashing in the opposite direction of the mainstream. And then someone like me will come with some po-mo meta-comment, after which a troll with then bash me for being a pomo fucktard.
Um, I think the audience reaction to Final Fantasy had something to do with the movie sucking...
Why don't you just go ahead and drop the $5k on a night with a group of hot prostitutes in cheerleading outfits and get the fucking fantasy out of the way!
Before you flip out again, as the other posters have explained, it's not the manufacturerthat is affecting the price, so they aren't discriminating against anyone. Some insurance companies pay more or less for various medical treatments, affecting the price for the end user. If you have a better plan, you may pay less. If you have a terrible plan, you may pay the whole price. It's not the manufacturer...
We know buckyballs tear fish brains apart. What does this stuff do? Have biological experiments been run yet?
LS
Perhaps they referring to the end cost to the user, and not the wholesale cost.
LS
You also suffer from the falicy that any biomass is intended to be food. With the exception of milk and fruit, everything we eat was a creature or plant that had other ideas.
This sounds like Directed Design. I don't think evolution "had other ideas". Do you think a tree (or the evolutionary process) thought about how fruit would be used by animals?
LS
Couldn't you use this projection technology to make a REAL (at least looking) light saber??
naive editors
Is this some sort of reverse propaganda? Have you tried submitting to Slashdot before? It's nearly impossible to get your story posted, let alone a series of stories. And this person clearly does not have a way with words, yet still gets posted, so there is clearly some work behind the scenes with Slashdot. It's very common - I wouldn't be surprised if they take payolla from dozens of different companies to get stories posted. I think you are the naive one, sorry.
LS
I'd agree with your statement, but the fact is that the US corporations receive many benefits from US taxpayers, e.g. military protection, land subsidies, tariffs, trade aggreements, special legal protections, government contracts, etc., etc. The working populace is losing it's rights as the corporations are gaining rights. I am for globalization, but if the average working stiff doesn't get some protection from global competition, then I think corporations should lose the afformentioned benefits as well and become real international corporations. They can't have it both ways.
As your different spelling indicated, google has no meaning. But it's actually googol, not googal. Seconding, "bailing" still means one hundred. The ling is used if there is a 0 in the middle of a number, for instance 105, which is "bai ling wu", so there is no confusion with 150. One hundred zeros would be "bai ge ling", "ge" being a measure-word for numbers. We don't have an equivalent measure-word in English for numbers, but we do sometimes have measure words for other things. For example, "two cups of coffee", "cups" being one of the measure-words for beverages, along with "bottles", etc. But since 100 zeros doesn't start with "1", it's still just 0.
Anyway, there are two ways I have found on the net for saying googol in Chinese:
1. 10 de 100 ci4 fang1 (10 to the 100th power)
2. tian1wen2xue2shang4 de shu4zi4 (astronomical number)
LS
I've never seen a more appropriate sig from a Microsoft employee. For those who don't know, this is a lyric from Nick Drake. The next line together with this is:
You can take a road that takes you to the stars now
I can take a road that'll see me through.
eheh
Sorry, sometimes I forget that there are real people at the other end... :)
This book might be good, but if so, this is a classic case of "don't judge a book by it's cover". Good grief is that cover lame!!
run away from your job... NOW!!! If you are able to get a functional system out of domino, you are definitely skilled enough to use a real environment to build web-apps. run now before your resume is subsumed!!!
it allows people to be cut off from using the tap after the system detects that they've had more than their alloted fluid ounces.
Let me know where this robot is NOT in use, so I can avoid it. I don't need party hosts purposely implementing 1984-ish automated law enforcement in their own homes, let alone the government, thank you.
LS
Am I, a regular, human woman, about to become yesterday's biotech?
Haha, I read "biotch".
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
-- Albert Einstein
"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change."
-- Buddha
"People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars... and they pass by themselves without wondering. "
-- Saint Augustine
If you couldn't tell, I agree with the grandparent post...
LS
In fact, almost everything you own that is of "quality", whether it is American or Japanese of design and label, was probably manufactured in China. China DEFINITELY has capacity for quality.
LS
You will get hit on a LOT by gay guys if you wear this shirt.... Is he SUPPOSED to be swallowing a giant sperm???
A couple problems with your argument. First, you assume that YOU know what the parameters are for our so-called designer. How do you know what parameters he/she/it is designing for? Perhaps what you consider imperfection is within the acceptable criteria.
Also, even if this designer's criteria matches yours, why must it be perfect? Perhaps this designer is not the final overarching power in the universe, and only a sub-god. Or even if this being IS at the top of the heirarchy, who's to say that the universe is "meant" to be perfect?
Disclaimer: I am in no way advocating intelligent design, but if you decide to argue against it, flawed arguments will only make things worse.
LS
Come on now, you've been around for the recent US presidential elections and wars. Why would the feds do anything remotely like this?
Your humor is very dry, almost desicated young sir.