How much thought and value do people place in FaceBook updates? Little to none. People just spontaneously update to it almost all day long.
Then you need to cull your friends list, and learn how to hide app posts.
Looking the top of my feed, I see:
1. Pat's dad died, he made a joke about him playing poker with John Wayne.
2. Grant is looking for people to help with his deck today (I'm heading over after lunch).
3. The Geek Group is looking for people to help with demolition at their new facility.
4. Doug is really pissed about Dan Harmon and most of the creative staff getting fired from Community.
5. Jessica is auditioning for a harpist position with an orchestra, and excited that her 10-week-old fetus is hearing Gershwin for the first time.
I do have a friend (a housewife) that posts about 80 times a day about what stupid, inane things her children did, but I've just hidden her from my feed, because I'm a bastard and don't care about them that much. It wasn't hard. But everyone else on my friends list is like me - kind of minimalist. We don't treat FB like a 15-year-old girl just discovering Twitter.
WTF is someone who is intelligent enough to graduate from college (MIT no less) doing associating themselves with the Tea Party.
Because they are the only way to break into politics today. The Democrats and mainstream Republicans want nothing to do with you unless you're a fourth-generation party leader.
And don't forget, the whole objective of the Tea Party is responsible government spending. All that birther shit, anti-science shit, "we're a Christian nation" shit has been tacked on by the obnoxiously vocal neocon usurpers, but it wasn't the original goal of the movement (and it was a cross-party movement, not a political party) when the Libertarians and other fiscally-responsible people started it before the '08 election. Maybe he's just trying to re-grass-roots this grass-roots movement.
No, what the data says is that, as a coffee drinker, he is less likely to die than the majority of his peers, not that coffee specifically is good for his health. My guess is that coffee drinkers, overall, have better health because they're drinking coffee as opposed to soda, hence the better diabetic, respiratory, immune, and cardiovascular health (note that there was no difference in cancer rates). Doesn't really explain the difference in accidental death/injury, but maybe the full article reveals that the ratio of caffeinated to decaf coffee drinkers is higher than the ratio of caffeinated soda to non-caffeinated soda drinkers (and milk/juice/water drinkers, but they're such a small subset of the American population), implying that the ratio of stimulant intake is responsible for additional environmental awareness.
Hey, $10 million of that $40 million was spent directly on ads. So it's only $30M they've been paying one guy to post once a day under their login. Totally a legitimate use of taxpayer funds.
I don't know how to say this without sounding mean, so I won't even try - because no one cares about the science coming out of UCLA, unlike Irvine and Davis.
Humans are just like electronics. A 50 year-old man is a lot less likely to break than one twenty years younger, just like NESes are much more reliable than 360s or PS3s.
If said 20-something has ever known anyone who took shop classes they should know what a wrench is (though what a wrench has to do with settings, I don't know),
For the television icon, at least, it's directly related to the rabbit-ears issue - no one uses them anymore, and kids have no idea what that "V" over the television means.
Growing up (born in '80), we had a cable controller box on a cord that reached to the couch, and it was controlled by toggle buttons (I want to say A, B, and C columns, and then you would select one of twenty channels in the appropriate column, for a total of sixty).
So that was my really verbose way of saying that even though I am old, "turn the channel" never entered my vocabulary.
Since the G5 sold for $2K new and now sells for $250, I take umbrage with your definition of "almost as much as you paid for it."
(FYI, you can find dozens of G5s on eBay for ~$150, which seems to be the approximate price that all computers stop depreciating at, regardless of manufacturer)
The general benchmarking consensus seems to be that IB is ~10% faster than the comparable SB chips, without OCing. Throw that "invisible" 10% onto the OCed clock speed, and IB should still be coming out ahead, at a SB-style 5.1 GHz.
(I haven't seen any OC benchmark comparisons yet, to see if this is actually true)
What was irresponsible about it? Neanderthals died out about 25,000 years ago, and no evidence suggests usage of wheels before 12,000 years ago. Presumably, they would be very perplexed.
Well, remember, this is the same police department that shut down a city because of Lite-Brites. Like a neanderthal confronted with a wheel, don't expect too much out of them.
Except that there is always a different game to play. I don't like the cut of Diablo III's jib, but I'm damn excited about Torchlight II, which will function just fine on my laptop at work, where internet access is restricted by MAC address. There are plenty of publishers who are willing to take my money for fully-functional software when I am not sure about purchasing crippled software.
Yeah, my main time spent playing SimCity and Civilization games is when I'm at work on the weekends for OT, and I'm stuck in the QA lab. During OT, typically there is only one of the twelve production lines running, which means I only actually work for about half an hour of the eight-hour shift. I get a lot of single-player gaming done, as the 'net is restricted by MAC address. I normally just put Steam in offline mode and fire up Civ or Torchlight or another timesink game that has insane amounts of replay value, but requiring a connection puts the kibosh on that plan. Sorry, Maxis, I'd love to give you my money, but EA just doesn't want it.
I'm a gamer, and there is flat-out no way this stigma will be removed in my lifetime. When you get right down to it, we're playing pretend. Unless it's couched in layers of indirection, that's just not going to be socially acceptable until the average person has a lot more leisure time.
The only thing PCs are used for at my plant by 100 out of the 105 employees is browser-based training videos, so this actually would work. Of course, the company also just buys $300 crap boxes every five years, so they're still probably coming out ahead versus if they'd bought tablets. We just got upgraded in December to new Lenovo boxes running C2D E8400s, I wouldn't be surprised if Lenovo gave them to us.
Plus, the employees are much more challenged if they want to swipe desktops.
But do any tablets offer network-based administrative control? Because that's what our (and most) IT guys really love, the ability to control updates and patches and software versions.
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How much thought and value do people place in FaceBook updates? Little to none. People just spontaneously update to it almost all day long.
Then you need to cull your friends list, and learn how to hide app posts.
Looking the top of my feed, I see:
1. Pat's dad died, he made a joke about him playing poker with John Wayne.
2. Grant is looking for people to help with his deck today (I'm heading over after lunch).
3. The Geek Group is looking for people to help with demolition at their new facility.
4. Doug is really pissed about Dan Harmon and most of the creative staff getting fired from Community.
5. Jessica is auditioning for a harpist position with an orchestra, and excited that her 10-week-old fetus is hearing Gershwin for the first time.
I do have a friend (a housewife) that posts about 80 times a day about what stupid, inane things her children did, but I've just hidden her from my feed, because I'm a bastard and don't care about them that much. It wasn't hard. But everyone else on my friends list is like me - kind of minimalist. We don't treat FB like a 15-year-old girl just discovering Twitter.
WTF is someone who is intelligent enough to graduate from college (MIT no less) doing associating themselves with the Tea Party.
Because they are the only way to break into politics today. The Democrats and mainstream Republicans want nothing to do with you unless you're a fourth-generation party leader.
And don't forget, the whole objective of the Tea Party is responsible government spending. All that birther shit, anti-science shit, "we're a Christian nation" shit has been tacked on by the obnoxiously vocal neocon usurpers, but it wasn't the original goal of the movement (and it was a cross-party movement, not a political party) when the Libertarians and other fiscally-responsible people started it before the '08 election. Maybe he's just trying to re-grass-roots this grass-roots movement.
No, what the data says is that, as a coffee drinker, he is less likely to die than the majority of his peers, not that coffee specifically is good for his health. My guess is that coffee drinkers, overall, have better health because they're drinking coffee as opposed to soda, hence the better diabetic, respiratory, immune, and cardiovascular health (note that there was no difference in cancer rates). Doesn't really explain the difference in accidental death/injury, but maybe the full article reveals that the ratio of caffeinated to decaf coffee drinkers is higher than the ratio of caffeinated soda to non-caffeinated soda drinkers (and milk/juice/water drinkers, but they're such a small subset of the American population), implying that the ratio of stimulant intake is responsible for additional environmental awareness.
Hey, $10 million of that $40 million was spent directly on ads. So it's only $30M they've been paying one guy to post once a day under their login. Totally a legitimate use of taxpayer funds.
I don't know how to say this without sounding mean, so I won't even try - because no one cares about the science coming out of UCLA, unlike Irvine and Davis.
Humans are just like electronics. A 50 year-old man is a lot less likely to break than one twenty years younger, just like NESes are much more reliable than 360s or PS3s.
If said 20-something has ever known anyone who took shop classes they should know what a wrench is (though what a wrench has to do with settings, I don't know),
Easy. Wrenches are used to break things.
For the television icon, at least, it's directly related to the rabbit-ears issue - no one uses them anymore, and kids have no idea what that "V" over the television means.
Growing up (born in '80), we had a cable controller box on a cord that reached to the couch, and it was controlled by toggle buttons (I want to say A, B, and C columns, and then you would select one of twenty channels in the appropriate column, for a total of sixty).
So that was my really verbose way of saying that even though I am old, "turn the channel" never entered my vocabulary.
The moon in 3 days? So this thing isn't really any faster than 50-year-old Saturn V rockets?
Hey, it's London, bombs go off all the time anyway, or at least they did 20 years ago when I used to travel there.
I take it you're Irish?
Pfft. I've been to 4chan, the only thing those cameras "protect" is trash bins. And not very well.
Doesn't the very act of copying them prove that there is an inherent value in the mind of the person making the copy?
No, I do stupid shit all the time that has no inherent value beyond the entertainment factor, like copying others' posts on the internet.
Since the G5 sold for $2K new and now sells for $250, I take umbrage with your definition of "almost as much as you paid for it."
(FYI, you can find dozens of G5s on eBay for ~$150, which seems to be the approximate price that all computers stop depreciating at, regardless of manufacturer)
Or "Overclock it less, since Sandy Bridge spoiled everyone."
The general benchmarking consensus seems to be that IB is ~10% faster than the comparable SB chips, without OCing. Throw that "invisible" 10% onto the OCed clock speed, and IB should still be coming out ahead, at a SB-style 5.1 GHz.
(I haven't seen any OC benchmark comparisons yet, to see if this is actually true)
And now I'm gonna try to make a cookie on my old Athlon, just to prove that I can.
(10 minutes later)
Mmm, pretty good, even if the bottom does taste like graphite!
Because he set the config file to INIT 6, and the system was stuck in permanent reboot.
Which people? I make twenties shoveling bits each day.
What was irresponsible about it? Neanderthals died out about 25,000 years ago, and no evidence suggests usage of wheels before 12,000 years ago. Presumably, they would be very perplexed.
Well, remember, this is the same police department that shut down a city because of Lite-Brites. Like a neanderthal confronted with a wheel, don't expect too much out of them.
Except that there is always a different game to play. I don't like the cut of Diablo III's jib, but I'm damn excited about Torchlight II, which will function just fine on my laptop at work, where internet access is restricted by MAC address. There are plenty of publishers who are willing to take my money for fully-functional software when I am not sure about purchasing crippled software.
Yeah, my main time spent playing SimCity and Civilization games is when I'm at work on the weekends for OT, and I'm stuck in the QA lab. During OT, typically there is only one of the twelve production lines running, which means I only actually work for about half an hour of the eight-hour shift. I get a lot of single-player gaming done, as the 'net is restricted by MAC address. I normally just put Steam in offline mode and fire up Civ or Torchlight or another timesink game that has insane amounts of replay value, but requiring a connection puts the kibosh on that plan. Sorry, Maxis, I'd love to give you my money, but EA just doesn't want it.
I'm a gamer, and there is flat-out no way this stigma will be removed in my lifetime. When you get right down to it, we're playing pretend. Unless it's couched in layers of indirection, that's just not going to be socially acceptable until the average person has a lot more leisure time.
Fantasy football is playing pretend, too.
The only thing PCs are used for at my plant by 100 out of the 105 employees is browser-based training videos, so this actually would work. Of course, the company also just buys $300 crap boxes every five years, so they're still probably coming out ahead versus if they'd bought tablets. We just got upgraded in December to new Lenovo boxes running C2D E8400s, I wouldn't be surprised if Lenovo gave them to us.
Plus, the employees are much more challenged if they want to swipe desktops.
But do any tablets offer network-based administrative control? Because that's what our (and most) IT guys really love, the ability to control updates and patches and software versions.