they're required by law to be heartless bastards---if the CEO says "oh, well, we'll be good to humanity, even if it costs our shareholders $X a year"... that CEO would be instantly replaced by someone who puts profits ahead of morals---as the law requires him to.
Would you still not skip it when you've see it 37 times?
(or say 2nd or 3rd time in the previous 10 minutes while say browsing a news site, and it plays for 30 seconds before the video you're trying to watch...?)
Well... while we may redicule the notion, perhaps... some of the things they did marginally worked? (e.g. is it 100% bullshit or 99.999% bullshit?, and what exactly could that 0.001% be?)
Bumper to bumper increases road utility quite a bit... as well as fuel efficiency. This could have a HUGE impact on some areas of the country. Imagine existing 2 lane highways capable of carrying 6-10x as many cars, at perhaps 1.5x the current speed. That's quite a bit of savings in road construction and maintenance, etc.
I think you missed the (early) Google business model. Ads shouldn't be annoying. They should be something that actually helps folks find what they're looking for. If ads show folks stuff that they're not looking for, then folks are perfectly morally right in shutting out those ads---screw the advertisers with their large bandwidth bills and starving families. I have no sympathy for corps that are intentionally trying to waste my time.
I've yet to see anyone complain about non-intrusive sometimes helpful ads (e.g. google adwords that show up when you search for something in google.com). Most ads aren't like that.
if no user B ever shoes up to take those dollars from you in exchange of wares,
The issue with deflation is that YOU wouldn't give away dollars in exchange for wares. If you know your dollars will be worth more in the future, there's no reason not to sit on them and do nothing. (e.g. why invest and take risks when your dollars [err...bitcoins] are worth more every day without you doing anything!?).
I'd like to think (perhaps that's not reality) that the nuke shouldn't go off no matter what---unless it was propery activated. E.g. dropping bomb out of an airplane, burning in jet fuel, putting the thing into an incinerator, or have folks go at it with blow torches until they get tired... shouldn't cause anything other than a conventional explosion---not a nuclear one. Perhaps that's too much to wish for, but I'd imagine temper proof circuitry that controls the timings of conventional explosives can enable that sort of behavior for the whole device.
Doesn't mean they won't revise the number 6 months from now. I'll go with the pesimistic ``NONE of the problems have been resolved... so... why the optimism?''
yes, everyone knows that the first folks to get laid off are the best and the brightest that eveyrone else would love to hire:-/
And yes, I completely agree, most corps can lose a good chunk of the workforce and... lose no productivity at all (if not incrase it, due to less folks on the cc-list).
It's strange that everyone except microsoft saw this coming. None of the tech folks I know thought those tablets were gonna go anywhere---why in the world did Microsoft spend so much on such a bad idea? Same with the phones...
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was wondering the same thing... perhaps spiking up for major experiments/phases?
And I was under impression that toyota's KDSS did this too...
they're required by law to be heartless bastards---if the CEO says "oh, well, we'll be good to humanity, even if it costs our shareholders $X a year"... that CEO would be instantly replaced by someone who puts profits ahead of morals---as the law requires him to.
Would you still not skip it when you've see it 37 times?
(or say 2nd or 3rd time in the previous 10 minutes while say browsing a news site, and it plays for 30 seconds before the video you're trying to watch...?)
added. thank you :-)
Isn't decomposition a relatively recent phenomenon in geologic time? Coal deposits wouldn't exist if all those ancient forests just decomposed...
wow, I didn't even realize folks do this... for what purpose?
My list (that's the command I run on all boxes I have). I think it has just about everything an average poweruser/developer would want.
apt-get install vim-gnome ssl-cert apache2 php5 postgresql php5-pgsql default-jdk libclass-dbi-perl libdbd-pg-perl libapache2-mod-perl2 libdate-manip-perl octave nmap irssi uptimed rsync subversion cvs build-essential mysql-server mysql-client php5-mysql virtualbox wine texlive-full openssh-server screen openssh-client ntp jhead imagemagick k3b libk3b6-extracodecs mplayer dict dictd dict-foldoc dict-gcide dict-devil dict-jargon dict-wn htop audacious audacious-plugins cmatrix r-base rKward ecryptfs-utils libimage-exiftool-perl finger ant git eclipse javahelper transcode libav-tools ucspi-tcp-ipv6 chromium-browser maven2 mercurial meld lame gnome-disk-utility ffmpeg sshfs dos2unix opencl-headers handbrake-gtk libapache2-mod-gnutls ia32-libs
No it isn't. http://news.slashdot.org/story...
Well... while we may redicule the notion, perhaps... some of the things they did marginally worked? (e.g. is it 100% bullshit or 99.999% bullshit?, and what exactly could that 0.001% be?)
Bumper to bumper increases road utility quite a bit... as well as fuel efficiency. This could have a HUGE impact on some areas of the country. Imagine existing 2 lane highways capable of carrying 6-10x as many cars, at perhaps 1.5x the current speed. That's quite a bit of savings in road construction and maintenance, etc.
I think you missed the (early) Google business model. Ads shouldn't be annoying. They should be something that actually helps folks find what they're looking for. If ads show folks stuff that they're not looking for, then folks are perfectly morally right in shutting out those ads---screw the advertisers with their large bandwidth bills and starving families. I have no sympathy for corps that are intentionally trying to waste my time.
I've yet to see anyone complain about non-intrusive sometimes helpful ads (e.g. google adwords that show up when you search for something in google.com). Most ads aren't like that.
Hmm... an array of BioLites... & Tesla car... sticks & twigs propulsion!
if no user B ever shoes up to take those dollars from you in exchange of wares,
The issue with deflation is that YOU wouldn't give away dollars in exchange for wares. If you know your dollars will be worth more in the future, there's no reason not to sit on them and do nothing. (e.g. why invest and take risks when your dollars [err...bitcoins] are worth more every day without you doing anything!?).
I'd like to think (perhaps that's not reality) that the nuke shouldn't go off no matter what---unless it was propery activated. E.g. dropping bomb out of an airplane, burning in jet fuel, putting the thing into an incinerator, or have folks go at it with blow torches until they get tired... shouldn't cause anything other than a conventional explosion---not a nuclear one. Perhaps that's too much to wish for, but I'd imagine temper proof circuitry that controls the timings of conventional explosives can enable that sort of behavior for the whole device.
Am I the only one who is sick of those right-shift-key-right-next-to-up-arrow keyboards?
Anyone who can gets themselves elected [to public office] should not be allowed to do the job! ---paraphrasing HHGG.
Probably the reverse. Lawyers don't sleep better at night if everyone else sleeps better at night.
...no, the saddest part is seeing light at the end of the tunnel...and realizing it's NJ!
Holy shit, they actually say that in the video! Germany has more sun than the US... wow!
Hmm... vast middle of the country... you can drive for hours without making a turn.
Doesn't mean they won't revise the number 6 months from now. I'll go with the pesimistic ``NONE of the problems have been resolved... so... why the optimism?''
yes, everyone knows that the first folks to get laid off are the best and the brightest that eveyrone else would love to hire :-/
And yes, I completely agree, most corps can lose a good chunk of the workforce and... lose no productivity at all (if not incrase it, due to less folks on the cc-list).
It's strange that everyone except microsoft saw this coming. None of the tech folks I know thought those tablets were gonna go anywhere---why in the world did Microsoft spend so much on such a bad idea? Same with the phones...
make it relatively idiot-proof.
That sounds like a challenge!