If only they could use this new initiative to pump up the number of journals and full-text index the whole thing, plus the physics/math/computer science index over at www.arxiv.org, you'd have a good start towards a single, comprehensive index.
It would be great to extract the metals and save the plastic with tracings, then we can make computer cases, notepad covers, desk veneers, and other office supplies out of it.
It looks disturbingly like a terminator prototype... a few more years of research and this thing will probably have guns for arms, and be blasting away at insurgents for us.
Again, the iPhone isn't for sale yet, right? So this is all still speculation that no one will buy an expensive tech gadget. There is a market for high-end everything else, so why not for high-end phones? The newton was marketed wrong, I think Apple is on fire with their i-devices, and they will definitely sell some iPhones, even for $500.
This isn't a measure of how IT increases productivity, it's a measure of how productive people operate. If someone is a productive person, they will get in touch with whomever is necessary to get the information or services they need. Non-productive people don't talk to others because they aren't trying to get anything done. I don't think the person's "connectedness" is provided by IT, in fact I'd argue that productive people will seek out any channel to get what they need to get done, IT or otherwise. IT may make productive people a bit more efficient, but it won't take a person who's afraid to contact others and empower them to do so.
The reason this matters, from TFA, is that this is a glider, not a submarine. It's cheaper, lighter, and more energy efficient than dropping a big ball to the bottom of the ocean. This thing can drive around and look at stuff very similarly to how a non-crush depth submersible could do.
I have no idea why there would be such a need for more workers, it's almost as if all the employed engineers are busy doing something else at work, like going to some website and posting comments or something... nah, that can't be it!
Just get it to vibrate around like those horrible "you're the 99999th visitor!" pop-ups, and anyone would click whatever to get rid of it. Furthermore, you could change it to one of those "are you stupid?" pop-ups, that the "no" button moves around. There are a zillion ways to get someone to click the button you want.
What's the difference between "pay as you go" and "if you don't pay, something bad may happen"? It sounds a lot like a protection racket to me, with software shutoffs and license revokations instead of firebombs and baseball bats.
Yahoo Answers has long preported to offer rewards for answering questions, but so far the only rewards I've seen are a bumper sticker and a keychain, and both are awarded to any idiot who answers more than a (very low) set number of questions. Basically, they want to generate free traffic and advertising revenue. I wouldn't use the service unless they were paying cash money, but then of course it would just go away, because as Google found out, not that many people are willing to put up cash for an answer.
Ohio State has by far more file traders than Ohio University, the network just hides identities better, etc. Ohio U is dinky compared to OSU, and having graduated from OSU, I can tell you for a fact that no school has the internet traffic of OSU. I heard as an undergrad that the campus connections alone, not including the dorms,etc. but just the campus buildings, were pulling a constant 50-60 megs.
Wouldn't the obvious answer be to have a big cache on Mars, that refreshes itself at night/periodically during day, so that they can have access to stuff fast locally, and with 20-minute delay for "sync with earth"?
My dad tried to get a software patent through a major organization years ago, an organization that today holds countless thousands of software patents. The answer from the patent office was ominous: "there will NEVER be software patents".
And I don't mean the paddle either. When my dad was in school, if you so much as talked out of turn in class the teacher would smack you in the head with a dictionary. Pick a fight? Well, the entire school owned and operated rifles (it was the wild west, my dad's old), so no one even gave it a second thought. Not surprisingly, the kids were well-behaved.
The best defense is self defense, and only used in physical altercations... if you can't fight off a bully using words with words of your own, you probably shouldn't resort to hitting because you're the one instigating the assault in that case.
Can anyone point me to a real example where a bullying victim became the one punished for standing up for themselves where it was legislated? At the school I went to, both parties got equally busted, so if someone picked a fight with you, you may as well practically kill them because you'll be seeing them again after school in detention, and if you dont take them down in the first fight, they'll come back at you after school.
It takes me 3 minutes to figure out if something will take me less than 2 minutes to do, so I get a deadlock. The only real solution is writing post-its on a whiteboard.
Treasure hunt based on alternate-reality RPG (i.e. trading cards with real-world tie-ins to an actual object you had to find to win a large cash prize).
There is a foot of snow outside, topped with an inch-thick layer of ice, and the temperature is 0 degrees Fahrenheit with a wind chill of -20. School is cancelled. Can the kid go out and play? Sure, but once they start getting frostbite/etc from the cold, then they want to come in and move around to get the blood going, and this beats indoor soccer in terms of preservation of assets.
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Then you need just one hack, and you can have all your music be DRM-free everywhere! No more multiple-different-hacks for different DRM's.
www.doaj.org - directory of open access journals
If only they could use this new initiative to pump up the number of journals and full-text index the whole thing, plus the physics/math/computer science index over at www.arxiv.org, you'd have a good start towards a single, comprehensive index.
It would be great to extract the metals and save the plastic with tracings, then we can make computer cases, notepad covers, desk veneers, and other office supplies out of it.
All your base pairs are belong to us!
It looks disturbingly like a terminator prototype... a few more years of research and this thing will probably have guns for arms, and be blasting away at insurgents for us.
"So long as you suckers keep paying full price, we have no reason to offer a discouunt! Muhuhaha!"
"Bender, what are you doing in the bathroom? Are you jacking on in there?"
Again, the iPhone isn't for sale yet, right? So this is all still speculation that no one will buy an expensive tech gadget. There is a market for high-end everything else, so why not for high-end phones? The newton was marketed wrong, I think Apple is on fire with their i-devices, and they will definitely sell some iPhones, even for $500.
This isn't a measure of how IT increases productivity, it's a measure of how productive people operate. If someone is a productive person, they will get in touch with whomever is necessary to get the information or services they need. Non-productive people don't talk to others because they aren't trying to get anything done. I don't think the person's "connectedness" is provided by IT, in fact I'd argue that productive people will seek out any channel to get what they need to get done, IT or otherwise. IT may make productive people a bit more efficient, but it won't take a person who's afraid to contact others and empower them to do so.
The reason this matters, from TFA, is that this is a glider, not a submarine. It's cheaper, lighter, and more energy efficient than dropping a big ball to the bottom of the ocean. This thing can drive around and look at stuff very similarly to how a non-crush depth submersible could do.
I have no idea why there would be such a need for more workers, it's almost as if all the employed engineers are busy doing something else at work, like going to some website and posting comments or something... nah, that can't be it!
Just get it to vibrate around like those horrible "you're the 99999th visitor!" pop-ups, and anyone would click whatever to get rid of it. Furthermore, you could change it to one of those "are you stupid?" pop-ups, that the "no" button moves around. There are a zillion ways to get someone to click the button you want.
What's the difference between "pay as you go" and "if you don't pay, something bad may happen"? It sounds a lot like a protection racket to me, with software shutoffs and license revokations instead of firebombs and baseball bats.
Yahoo Answers has long preported to offer rewards for answering questions, but so far the only rewards I've seen are a bumper sticker and a keychain, and both are awarded to any idiot who answers more than a (very low) set number of questions. Basically, they want to generate free traffic and advertising revenue. I wouldn't use the service unless they were paying cash money, but then of course it would just go away, because as Google found out, not that many people are willing to put up cash for an answer.
Ohio State has by far more file traders than Ohio University, the network just hides identities better, etc. Ohio U is dinky compared to OSU, and having graduated from OSU, I can tell you for a fact that no school has the internet traffic of OSU. I heard as an undergrad that the campus connections alone, not including the dorms,etc. but just the campus buildings, were pulling a constant 50-60 megs.
Wouldn't the obvious answer be to have a big cache on Mars, that refreshes itself at night/periodically during day, so that they can have access to stuff fast locally, and with 20-minute delay for "sync with earth"?
My dad tried to get a software patent through a major organization years ago, an organization that today holds countless thousands of software patents. The answer from the patent office was ominous: "there will NEVER be software patents".
ISR, Microsoft serves malware to ... uh... you serve malware to microsoft!
And I don't mean the paddle either. When my dad was in school, if you so much as talked out of turn in class the teacher would smack you in the head with a dictionary. Pick a fight? Well, the entire school owned and operated rifles (it was the wild west, my dad's old), so no one even gave it a second thought. Not surprisingly, the kids were well-behaved.
Hey Beeb-tube, Give us back Danger Mouse, that show was awesome!
The best defense is self defense, and only used in physical altercations... if you can't fight off a bully using words with words of your own, you probably shouldn't resort to hitting because you're the one instigating the assault in that case.
Can anyone point me to a real example where a bullying victim became the one punished for standing up for themselves where it was legislated? At the school I went to, both parties got equally busted, so if someone picked a fight with you, you may as well practically kill them because you'll be seeing them again after school in detention, and if you dont take them down in the first fight, they'll come back at you after school.
It takes me 3 minutes to figure out if something will take me less than 2 minutes to do, so I get a deadlock. The only real solution is writing post-its on a whiteboard.
We call that "percussive maintenance" (i.e. hit computer to fix).
Treasure hunt based on alternate-reality RPG (i.e. trading cards with real-world tie-ins to an actual object you had to find to win a large cash prize).
There is a foot of snow outside, topped with an inch-thick layer of ice, and the temperature is 0 degrees Fahrenheit with a wind chill of -20. School is cancelled. Can the kid go out and play? Sure, but once they start getting frostbite/etc from the cold, then they want to come in and move around to get the blood going, and this beats indoor soccer in terms of preservation of assets.