Use a system similar to Slashdot's rating system, where all phone users can mark an incoming call as merely undesirable for themselves or else undesirable for everyone.
People who seem to do this inaccurately would have their "reputation" score decrease, and would have less effect.
People who seem to do this accurately would have their reputation score grow, and would have a large effect.
Individuals could set their own thresholds for what calls they want to go directly to voice mail, and which ones they never wish to receive.
Just think, no more political "polling", "Jenny from Card Services", fund raising, etc.!
My university (U of Hawaii) uses Google's email, but I prefer it to using HotMail, Yahoo Mail, Facebook, or my ISP's email!
I never use my hawaii.edu email account, but instead set it to forward everything to my personal email account.
If you're thinking that the schools could just offer their own email systems, have you figured out how much that will cost?
It sounds like you work as the school's email administrator. Since it sounds like you have a financial interest in the outcome of this, you should just be honest and up front about that.
Google has a remarkably good track record regarding security. They may be the best company (of Apple, Microsoft, Facebook and Yahoo) in their industry, and if they aren't #1, then they aren't far behind.
One of the issues you raise is that you are assuming that students will use Gmail for their personal and private use.
In fact, they are free to use whatever they want for their personal email, and simply configure their Gmail account to forward and delete after forwarding. I've investigated quite a few other email providers, and this is rarely a feature they're willing to offer, so in this respect Gmail is way ahead of the competition.
BTW, do you think the schools should also have to disclose that they're using Microsoft software, that it has a such a long and poor security history?
I have both a BS and MS in CS, and have never taken (or needed) differential equations.
I also completed all of the coursework for my Ph.D in CS, but didn't do the dissertation.
I took three calculus courses, and have never used them, either!
Analysis of Algorithms and the ability to do high school algebra and occasionally trigonometry have stood me well, however.
I don't know why Windows' progress bars have such chaotic behavior, but I've generally had better luck with ones which run on other operating systems or at least aren't written by Microsoft.:-)
Did you realize that Rep. Todd Aken is on the Committee for Science, Space and Technology (according to his Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_akin)
Isn't it amazing that someone this clueless about technology/how the world actually works would be on this committee?
Now do you think that this belongs on Slashdot?
Do you think Aken should resign?
It is far more likely to "solve" the problem and make her happier, which is what you really want.
I use both Macs and PC's.
I bought a Lenovo G560 from NewEgg.com for $399, and it was a terrific deal. The best I could find anywhere, and it is a pretty fast Windows 7 PC.
With all due respect, I used to have an HP ink jet printer, and refilled the cartridges *hundreds* of times over the course of a decade, before the paper feeding mechanism became unreliable, and I stopped using the printer.
I used ordinary fountain pen ink. It worked perfectly!
As another poster pointed out, why does HP need to put proprietary chips in their cartridges to keep people from refilling them?
I think it is telling that I no longer use HP ink jet printers, because I feel their policies are blatantly anti-consumer, short-sighted, and eco-unfriendly, and I vote with my wallet!
The question should be "How can we improve airline travel?", rather than "Can we make air travel safer?".
It isn't possible to make air travel much safer without inconveniencing travelers even more.
Instead, how about making air travel reasonably safe and more enjoyable?
What a concept, eh?
I use SplashID on my iPhone and Mac Mini.
I wish it also worked on Linux and Windows, but having it on two platforms (and especially one which I always have with me) has been very handy.
That's what I did, and it sure helped my love life enormously! Of course, I was almost a virgin at the time, and terribly inexperienced, but it really opened my heart and taught me a lot in a hurry (and very pleasurably, too). They are offered by the Human Awareness Institute in a variety of locations around the world, but near the Bay Area in California is the nexus. Also, note that it is not called the "Sex, Sex, and Sex Workshop". These people do an incredibly good job of walking their talk, and it is Sex, Love and Intimacy.
Try doing fun things in real-life. For example, I got into playing Ultimate Frisbee, rock climbing, sky diving, and other sports I was excited about. Being happy and full of energy, in contrast to being depressed about my rotten love life made a huge difference in my attractiveness to women.
Expand your horizons beyond geekettes. There are relatively few *available* hot, geeky girls.
Try being generous -- offer to take a woman out to dinner and quietly pick up the check.
Be willing to date a woman who is less young or less thin than you thought you were looking for. I've had some amazing, wonderful and long-lasting relationships with women who I wouldn't have thought I'd have fallen in love with.
Dancing is also a good one. I've been taking salsa lessons, and there are several good looking girls for each guy who comes to class!:-)
Actually, you, me, and everyone else on this planet has what are termed Fair Use Rights. Some examples of Fair Use Rights are that you can quote brief sections of a copyrighted work for the purposes of literary review or criticism.
This is probably the reason why she (and many other people and institutions) believe that Google is in the right on this issue, and why the publishers are trying to use allegations issued in the press, rather than the courts to fight against it.
If the publishers had a reasonably strong case in court for this issue, they probably wouldn't be trying their "ham-handed appeals" in their press releases and in the popular press.
Unfortunately, Google is proposing to do something which would be of great benefit to all of mankind, and it might have a negative impact on some publisher's profits, and they are fighting claw, tooth, and nail to avoid that!
I'm both an author and a publisher, but I welcome this change -- I'd love to see my work reach wider audiences and I'm not too worried about losing a few percentage points of profits. In fact, it might be that if more people could easily find my work on Google, more of them would go out of their way to purchase it!
All of the times when I've learned a new programming language, it has been because I was interested in doing a particular something, and that interest drove me to do the necessary reading, writing, debugging, and learning.
A good conversation to have with your mother would be to ask her what she would be interested in writing a program to do.
Once you know the answer to this question, that will guide your choice of programming languages/environments to recommend to her.
We've used Segue's Silk Test at our company (ArtSelect.com) and found it to be expensive and buggy. Not only that, when we get a new release to fix some of the bugs in the old one, there have been serious incompatibility issues (like we have to re-write many of our tests!) and/or new, more pernicious bugs.
We're sorry we got the product -- it has had more bugs and problems than Windows!
I have done approximately 95 skydiving jumps, so I have a little bit of experience in this area.
If a skydiver jumps out of an aircraft at 15,000 feet, he will hit the ground in approximately 80 seconds if he is falling at the slowest rate possible (ie. in a belly-to-earth attitude).
A skydiver can also choose to fall approximately twice as fast by falling either head down or feet down.
A rocket would probably by more similar to this second case.
Since a skydiver can travel the 15,000 feet with 1G of acceleration in less than 60 seconds, a rocket should also be able to do it (climbing instead of falling) with approximately 1G of continuous acceleration.
Since skydivers try to do as many jumps as possible in a day, getting to altitude faster is much better! It takes about 20-25 minutes to climb to 15,000 feet in one of fastest jump planes (like an Otter or SkyVan). So it would be really nice to be able to do it in only one minute, and it wouldn't create any pollution!
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Something about the size and cost of an inexpensive cellphone
It would cause a revolution in medicine if people (and doctors) could more accurately and inexpensively see what is going on inside of our own bodies.
Use a system similar to Slashdot's rating system, where all phone users can mark an incoming call as merely undesirable for themselves or else undesirable for everyone.
People who seem to do this inaccurately would have their "reputation" score decrease, and would have less effect.
People who seem to do this accurately would have their reputation score grow, and would have a large effect.
Individuals could set their own thresholds for what calls they want to go directly to voice mail, and which ones they never wish to receive.
Just think, no more political "polling", "Jenny from Card Services", fund raising, etc.!
This could be an incredibly popular phone app!
My university (U of Hawaii) uses Google's email, but I prefer it to using HotMail, Yahoo Mail, Facebook, or my ISP's email! I never use my hawaii.edu email account, but instead set it to forward everything to my personal email account.
If you're thinking that the schools could just offer their own email systems, have you figured out how much that will cost?
It sounds like you work as the school's email administrator. Since it sounds like you have a financial interest in the outcome of this, you should just be honest and up front about that.
Google has a remarkably good track record regarding security. They may be the best company (of Apple, Microsoft, Facebook and Yahoo) in their industry, and if they aren't #1, then they aren't far behind.
One of the issues you raise is that you are assuming that students will use Gmail for their personal and private use.
In fact, they are free to use whatever they want for their personal email, and simply configure their Gmail account to forward and delete after forwarding. I've investigated quite a few other email providers, and this is rarely a feature they're willing to offer, so in this respect Gmail is way ahead of the competition.
BTW, do you think the schools should also have to disclose that they're using Microsoft software, that it has a such a long and poor security history?
I have both a BS and MS in CS, and have never taken (or needed) differential equations. I also completed all of the coursework for my Ph.D in CS, but didn't do the dissertation. I took three calculus courses, and have never used them, either! Analysis of Algorithms and the ability to do high school algebra and occasionally trigonometry have stood me well, however.
I don't know why Windows' progress bars have such chaotic behavior, but I've generally had better luck with ones which run on other operating systems or at least aren't written by Microsoft. :-)
Did you realize that Rep. Todd Aken is on the Committee for Science, Space and Technology (according to his Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_akin)
Isn't it amazing that someone this clueless about technology/how the world actually works would be on this committee?
Now do you think that this belongs on Slashdot?
Do you think Aken should resign?
That was fast!
Thank you! :-)
It is far more likely to "solve" the problem and make her happier, which is what you really want. I use both Macs and PC's. I bought a Lenovo G560 from NewEgg.com for $399, and it was a terrific deal. The best I could find anywhere, and it is a pretty fast Windows 7 PC.
It doesn't seem to be very popular, in spite of all of the recruiting bonuses!
increase their billable hours.
With all due respect, I used to have an HP ink jet printer, and refilled the cartridges *hundreds* of times over the course of a decade, before the paper feeding mechanism became unreliable, and I stopped using the printer.
I used ordinary fountain pen ink. It worked perfectly!
As another poster pointed out, why does HP need to put proprietary chips in their cartridges to keep people from refilling them?
I think it is telling that I no longer use HP ink jet printers, because I feel their policies are blatantly anti-consumer, short-sighted, and eco-unfriendly, and I vote with my wallet!
The question should be "How can we improve airline travel?", rather than "Can we make air travel safer?". It isn't possible to make air travel much safer without inconveniencing travelers even more. Instead, how about making air travel reasonably safe and more enjoyable? What a concept, eh?
I use SplashID on my iPhone and Mac Mini. I wish it also worked on Linux and Windows, but having it on two platforms (and especially one which I always have with me) has been very handy.
That's what I did, and it sure helped my love life enormously! Of course, I was almost a virgin at the time, and terribly inexperienced, but it really opened my heart and taught me a lot in a hurry (and very pleasurably, too). They are offered by the Human Awareness Institute in a variety of locations around the world, but near the Bay Area in California is the nexus. Also, note that it is not called the "Sex, Sex, and Sex Workshop". These people do an incredibly good job of walking their talk, and it is Sex, Love and Intimacy.
:-)
Try doing fun things in real-life. For example, I got into playing Ultimate Frisbee, rock climbing, sky diving, and other sports I was excited about. Being happy and full of energy, in contrast to being depressed about my rotten love life made a huge difference in my attractiveness to women.
Expand your horizons beyond geekettes. There are relatively few *available* hot, geeky girls.
Try being generous -- offer to take a woman out to dinner and quietly pick up the check.
Be willing to date a woman who is less young or less thin than you thought you were looking for. I've had some amazing, wonderful and long-lasting relationships with women who I wouldn't have thought I'd have fallen in love with.
Dancing is also a good one. I've been taking salsa lessons, and there are several good looking girls for each guy who comes to class!
This is probably the reason why she (and many other people and institutions) believe that Google is in the right on this issue, and why the publishers are trying to use allegations issued in the press, rather than the courts to fight against it.
If the publishers had a reasonably strong case in court for this issue, they probably wouldn't be trying their "ham-handed appeals" in their press releases and in the popular press.
Unfortunately, Google is proposing to do something which would be of great benefit to all of mankind, and it might have a negative impact on some publisher's profits, and they are fighting claw, tooth, and nail to avoid that!
I'm both an author and a publisher, but I welcome this change -- I'd love to see my work reach wider audiences and I'm not too worried about losing a few percentage points of profits. In fact, it might be that if more people could easily find my work on Google, more of them would go out of their way to purchase it!
Actually, these days you are not allowed to carry tools, like screwdrivers or pliers onboard aircraft.
I suppose that they could be used to take something apart, or perhaps even force one's way into the pilot's compartment.
A good conversation to have with your mother would be to ask her what she would be interested in writing a program to do.
Once you know the answer to this question, that will guide your choice of programming languages/environments to recommend to her.
I'm disappointed that such a prominent example of software piracy is not being prosecuted.
Why not?
We've used Segue's Silk Test at our company (ArtSelect.com) and found it to be expensive and buggy. Not only that, when we get a new release to fix some of the bugs in the old one, there have been serious incompatibility issues (like we have to re-write many of our tests!) and/or new, more pernicious bugs. We're sorry we got the product -- it has had more bugs and problems than Windows!
I have done approximately 95 skydiving jumps, so I have a little bit of experience in this area. If a skydiver jumps out of an aircraft at 15,000 feet, he will hit the ground in approximately 80 seconds if he is falling at the slowest rate possible (ie. in a belly-to-earth attitude). A skydiver can also choose to fall approximately twice as fast by falling either head down or feet down. A rocket would probably by more similar to this second case. Since a skydiver can travel the 15,000 feet with 1G of acceleration in less than 60 seconds, a rocket should also be able to do it (climbing instead of falling) with approximately 1G of continuous acceleration. Since skydivers try to do as many jumps as possible in a day, getting to altitude faster is much better! It takes about 20-25 minutes to climb to 15,000 feet in one of fastest jump planes (like an Otter or SkyVan). So it would be really nice to be able to do it in only one minute, and it wouldn't create any pollution!