This seems to be as useful to a physicist as imaginary number. It may come up in calculations and solutions but any physicist would be laugh out of the conference room if ever equated a measureable quantity to an number with imaginary component. The problem lies in the fact that nullity lacks a physical analog. Call 0/0 anything you want but in the end it useless without knowingwhat a nullity of anything represents. Thank you for participating. NEXT!!!!
Reading the posts, most seem to fall on the demand from job. Maybe we are not seeing the bigger picture as to why burnout is getting so much attention lately. This is certainly not the first article I read on the subject and is certainly not the last. I have always wonder if our society is reaching a critical mass where burnout is a sign that a big crash is imminent. Burnout may be a sympton of the Technological era where jobs now place increasing demand on the human brain for work as oppose to the demands on the body of the Industrial age. We live in a services economy driven by new ideas. However, to produce those new ideas, we need to first incorporated hundreds of years of knowledge through endless study then apply it. Moreover, that knowlegde increased eponentially in the last one hundred years. Another product of this era is the devaluing of the professional cause by the increased enrollment in college. The percentage of workers with college educations is larger than in previous decades where now employers have a larger pool of potential candidites. In addition, many professional jobs don't have the protection of unions as they were not traditionally needed. Yet, these jobs are increasingly being exploited by employers in the form of reduce benefits, wages, and layoffs. Then, the final blow may be consumer economy driven in large part by the media. We are buying more yet selling less thus a creating a society of debtors. As anyone with debt knows, life can get real stressful when you can't make a payment. All this originates from the growth of our society with technology, media, and economy. I think were seeing a trend of increasing burnout whereby our society collapses under its own weight.
The early mp3 player market didn't provide a good alternative for Mac Users thus necessitating Apple to design the iPod. Similarly, the smartphone market ignores the Mac user (oddly, we're not a good group to ignore since we like paying high margin premiums). Thus, Apple needs to yet again do one for us. They will probably do a good job considering they would bring integration with Mac OSX and the iApps, the iPod click wheel, and a good design (the good at that). I like my Razr with its sleek design. But, its click wheel is slow at cycling through menus and it doesn't play mp3 ( at least this early model). Though it syncs with iCal, it doesn't do it throughly enough where I can set the phone alarms for events leaving me to do it manually. In the end, we want a well design device that can be our cell phone, our iPod, and our PDA and be fully compatible with our computers. I am afraid Apple is the only company that can design it.
My guess is that there isn't enough market for it. Even with a market of graphic designers, the device wouldn't have enough screen estate to be useful. Due to low demand, the price for anyone else would be unacceptable Thus, it along with the ultraportable mac are just another prototype that wont see the light of day.
the first judge allow into evidence recordings collected without a warrant. This warrantless wiretapping hasn't been brought up before the courts where I suspect all evidence collected in that manner will be thrown out. No American will be convicted on it. Any worry I do have is supression of dissenting voice using illegal wiretaps.
I could have thought of 200 better ways to off someone discretely just by watching the Sopranos or The Wire. With all the poisons in the world, they pick an exotic and rare poison yet whose symptoms are ubiquitous and unique. What is the cover story? He moonlights as a nuclear technician? I think the spies have watch too many James Bond films. It would have been better to have taken him to an abandon house, clipped him, and then pour lye over him to removed the evidence. Or here is a better thought, stop doing bad things. Russia should try to be more civil and stop offing dissidents and take a more American approach- brand them unpatriotic.
Jobs is basically dictating how you use the computer, and although that does not seem like a good thing, most users actually appreciate the elimination of the extra complexity they don't need.
I would agree but add that Apple has a considerable amount of experience on how humans interact with the computer with specific regard the gui. Aqua is not just arbitrarily laid out and then blessed by Jobs but is a culmination of years of research, listening to customer feedback, and the application of the rule we all learn in programming class- Keep it simple stupid. How many would do that much research on their own to find the most efficient way to use their computer? With career, social life, sleeping, and being active, there are few that would want to spend hours tweaking their gui's till it is just right. I certainly wouldn't and haven't even change the default background in OSX. I am happy with it! The infinite configurations that Linux GUI offers and the features that Vista offers are just wasted effort. Just pay attention to the people using your device and focus on the more popular functions as the development strategy
Sorry guys, but you need to pick a better alternative. You don't want to dual-boot Windows fine, but you might want to consider the cons of using a system with such low developer support. You may not like Apple for some reason or the other but Blizzard does developed its game for Mac OS X. I would rather wait for Linux to be ported to Apple intel-based computers than for game developers to see value in porting games to Linux.
Loser....Loserrr.....Loserrrrr! God, that felt good! Rumsfeld should have gone for such an obstinate insistence on cutting other departments, countries, and the UN out of the post-war reconstruction and yet carried it out with the utmost incompetence by not sending enough troops, giving them with an incomplete set of tools, and then awarding no bid contracts to private contractors to assist in the security which cost more to the American taxpayer.
checks and balances. If Democrats don't win control of the Senate, there will be a significant portion of Republican who jobs go up for election in 2008 and will think twice before following Bush's lead. It looks like the government will work right for the next 2 years.
I am know expert but aren't all the element cook up in stars and then disperse by either solar wind or supernovae. We have a pretty good selection of elements here on earth. So much much so that we were able to identify 92 natural elements. 36 of which can only be formed in the explosion of a supernova. Isn't likely that those elements were formed in nearby stars with a close proximity to our sun given the fact that inverse square relationship to particles dispersion and our solar system has rocky planets. Since we apparently have a good supply uranium, our sun would have be near a supernova early in life. This doesn't seem like news because the lone nebula theory would seem unlikely because it would have accounting for all the heavy element material that made up the planets. All I really wonder is there a black hole nearby in our galactic neighborhood?
MARKETING!!! Microsoft won't beat Apple because of marketing. First, ZUNE? Who came up with that name? What is Microsoft's answer to iTunes Music Store? I don't know and I am not sure why I should care. Second, complexity. Wirelessly share your music but with certain restriction and depending on liscensing with the particular albumn....alright, I already have a headache. In Computer Science 101, I was told to always, "Keep it simple, STUPID!". Third, IMAGERY! The biggest consumers of music and music players is teens and a player should have a the "Cool" factor associated with it. There is nothing cool about Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer. The ZUNE should noy be seen in public with those two!
As looks on the surface, the teens are guilty of libel and identity theft. I am afraid the parents bear some responsibility for their actions. I don't believe so much that parents have to exert absolute authoritarian control of their kids but they are responsible to instill in them a sense of morality and to treat their fellow man with some decency. The administrator is a human being and to be harrassed for doing nothing else but her job is inexcusible.
What nerds aren't suppose to care about their government? I guess we continue our futile debate over whether Linux is better than Windows or did Microsft copy Apple for Vista. This conversation "matters" IMHO.
How much privacy can an ISP provide really? When we involve a third party, did we relinguish our expectation of privacy? Is downloading child porn through an ISP provided connection any different then getting a proxy to buy it off the street for us. Just as Gonzalez doesn't have any ground to request ISP to store, we don't have any ground to request that they don't. I don't recall any clause in the user agreement where the ISP promised not to keep data on your activity. It is a tough question but I am glad Gonzales is making an issue of it because I think we all need clarity on what ISP deal with our Internet activity.
If there was something wrong with the election, the NY Times would have found it. Just read the editorials, There is no love for George Bush. They expose the NSA wiretapping and they would love to expose this. Rolling Stones breaking this has the same value as Playboy or Vanity Fair doing it. I am democrat and I absolutely loathe the current administration. But, the past is the past and I am looking forward to 2006. If Republicans take both Houses, the illegals can have this country because I am moving to China. One of two facts will be apparent- Americans are truly idiotic or someone has a stranglehold on power and it ain't I.
It isn't as pointless as you may think. Not many people upgrade their computer as you probably do and would rather choose a smaller footprint computer (notebook, iMac) with less wire clutter. People throw away computers nowadays because they get infested with malware so replacing an iMac every 3-4 years is not a stretch. I believe that their will be convergence soon of the desktop and notebook component parts.
Zune? Zuuuuune? Who came up with that one? Were they so damn neurotic about branding lawsuits resulting from using some variant of tunes that they had to make up a word that rhymes with "tune". Microsoft Music Player would have 20 fold better than "Zuuuuune". "Hey dude, you enjoying your Zune- you tard!" With the money they got in the bank, my descendents are going put up with that company's lousy products for the next 200 years until they go out of business. God spare us all!
It appears Hollywood is showing signs of burnout. Their best bet to pull out their slump is to rehash old movies and old actors? Where is the creativity to develop new ideas that resonate with the audience? Creativity isn't making Arnold look 20 years younger while allowing him to balance making another movie while doing his day job. I suggest Hollywood go on sabbatical, take a vacation, or lavishly spend their millions. Another thing to do is the exact opposite by taking themselves off the pedestal and go with live with ordinary people (their audience). The audience is usually never in a car chase, an explosion, or being chase down by a fire breathing dragon. Their lives don't seem interesting at first glance but if they pay attention long enough, they might just get that idea to make the next blockbuster.
I think you just answer you own question. Laptop components typically cost more than their desktop counterparts. I don't think are using the core2duo desktop processor. As for the one hardrive. Do you see room for a second HD when basically the webcam, speakers, and computer are crammed into a LCD display. Apple adds a premium for elegantly cramming an entire computer system in a LCD. So, you pose the perfect question (one that answers itself).
If that is true then why is Pluto being demoted. I mean the solar system is 3D and by all observation Pluto has clear dominance of its orbital path. I am sure that if Pluto were ever to get close to Neptune, the latter would make the former its bitch-ass moon or lunch. Does Pluto ever cross the same space that Neptune had previously ocuppied?
Dude, I seriously doubt you pull a person off the street at random and have him name the 9 planets successfully. With 8, there is a least a slightly greater chance the more people will remember it.
be patient grasshoper. it will in time. In a collision between Neptune and Pluto, my money is on Neptune to still be there. Pluto better hope it becomes Neptune 2nd...5th...6th... oh nevermind.../. whateverth moon (I just can't keep up with the Hubble these days).
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This seems to be as useful to a physicist as imaginary number. It may come up in calculations and solutions but any physicist would be laugh out of the conference room if ever equated a measureable quantity to an number with imaginary component. The problem lies in the fact that nullity lacks a physical analog. Call 0/0 anything you want but in the end it useless without knowingwhat a nullity of anything represents. Thank you for participating. NEXT!!!!
Reading the posts, most seem to fall on the demand from job. Maybe we are not seeing the bigger picture as to why burnout is getting so much attention lately. This is certainly not the first article I read on the subject and is certainly not the last. I have always wonder if our society is reaching a critical mass where burnout is a sign that a big crash is imminent. Burnout may be a sympton of the Technological era where jobs now place increasing demand on the human brain for work as oppose to the demands on the body of the Industrial age. We live in a services economy driven by new ideas. However, to produce those new ideas, we need to first incorporated hundreds of years of knowledge through endless study then apply it. Moreover, that knowlegde increased eponentially in the last one hundred years. Another product of this era is the devaluing of the professional cause by the increased enrollment in college. The percentage of workers with college educations is larger than in previous decades where now employers have a larger pool of potential candidites. In addition, many professional jobs don't have the protection of unions as they were not traditionally needed. Yet, these jobs are increasingly being exploited by employers in the form of reduce benefits, wages, and layoffs. Then, the final blow may be consumer economy driven in large part by the media. We are buying more yet selling less thus a creating a society of debtors. As anyone with debt knows, life can get real stressful when you can't make a payment. All this originates from the growth of our society with technology, media, and economy. I think were seeing a trend of increasing burnout whereby our society collapses under its own weight.
The early mp3 player market didn't provide a good alternative for Mac Users thus necessitating Apple to design the iPod. Similarly, the smartphone market ignores the Mac user (oddly, we're not a good group to ignore since we like paying high margin premiums). Thus, Apple needs to yet again do one for us. They will probably do a good job considering they would bring integration with Mac OSX and the iApps, the iPod click wheel, and a good design (the good at that). I like my Razr with its sleek design. But, its click wheel is slow at cycling through menus and it doesn't play mp3 ( at least this early model). Though it syncs with iCal, it doesn't do it throughly enough where I can set the phone alarms for events leaving me to do it manually. In the end, we want a well design device that can be our cell phone, our iPod, and our PDA and be fully compatible with our computers. I am afraid Apple is the only company that can design it.
My guess is that there isn't enough market for it. Even with a market of graphic designers, the device wouldn't have enough screen estate to be useful. Due to low demand, the price for anyone else would be unacceptable Thus, it along with the ultraportable mac are just another prototype that wont see the light of day.
the first judge allow into evidence recordings collected without a warrant. This warrantless wiretapping hasn't been brought up before the courts where I suspect all evidence collected in that manner will be thrown out. No American will be convicted on it. Any worry I do have is supression of dissenting voice using illegal wiretaps.
I could have thought of 200 better ways to off someone discretely just by watching the Sopranos or The Wire. With all the poisons in the world, they pick an exotic and rare poison yet whose symptoms are ubiquitous and unique. What is the cover story? He moonlights as a nuclear technician? I think the spies have watch too many James Bond films. It would have been better to have taken him to an abandon house, clipped him, and then pour lye over him to removed the evidence. Or here is a better thought, stop doing bad things. Russia should try to be more civil and stop offing dissidents and take a more American approach- brand them unpatriotic.
Jobs is basically dictating how you use the computer, and although that does not seem like a good thing, most users actually appreciate the elimination of the extra complexity they don't need.
I would agree but add that Apple has a considerable amount of experience on how humans interact with the computer with specific regard the gui. Aqua is not just arbitrarily laid out and then blessed by Jobs but is a culmination of years of research, listening to customer feedback, and the application of the rule we all learn in programming class- Keep it simple stupid. How many would do that much research on their own to find the most efficient way to use their computer? With career, social life, sleeping, and being active, there are few that would want to spend hours tweaking their gui's till it is just right. I certainly wouldn't and haven't even change the default background in OSX. I am happy with it! The infinite configurations that Linux GUI offers and the features that Vista offers are just wasted effort. Just pay attention to the people using your device and focus on the more popular functions as the development strategy
Sorry guys, but you need to pick a better alternative. You don't want to dual-boot Windows fine, but you might want to consider the cons of using a system with such low developer support. You may not like Apple for some reason or the other but Blizzard does developed its game for Mac OS X. I would rather wait for Linux to be ported to Apple intel-based computers than for game developers to see value in porting games to Linux.
Loser....Loserrr.....Loserrrrr! God, that felt good! Rumsfeld should have gone for such an obstinate insistence on cutting other departments, countries, and the UN out of the post-war reconstruction and yet carried it out with the utmost incompetence by not sending enough troops, giving them with an incomplete set of tools, and then awarding no bid contracts to private contractors to assist in the security which cost more to the American taxpayer.
checks and balances. If Democrats don't win control of the Senate, there will be a significant portion of Republican who jobs go up for election in 2008 and will think twice before following Bush's lead. It looks like the government will work right for the next 2 years.
I am know expert but aren't all the element cook up in stars and then disperse by either solar wind or supernovae. We have a pretty good selection of elements here on earth. So much much so that we were able to identify 92 natural elements. 36 of which can only be formed in the explosion of a supernova. Isn't likely that those elements were formed in nearby stars with a close proximity to our sun given the fact that inverse square relationship to particles dispersion and our solar system has rocky planets. Since we apparently have a good supply uranium, our sun would have be near a supernova early in life. This doesn't seem like news because the lone nebula theory would seem unlikely because it would have accounting for all the heavy element material that made up the planets. All I really wonder is there a black hole nearby in our galactic neighborhood?
MARKETING!!! Microsoft won't beat Apple because of marketing. First, ZUNE? Who came up with that name? What is Microsoft's answer to iTunes Music Store? I don't know and I am not sure why I should care. Second, complexity. Wirelessly share your music but with certain restriction and depending on liscensing with the particular albumn....alright, I already have a headache. In Computer Science 101, I was told to always, "Keep it simple, STUPID!". Third, IMAGERY! The biggest consumers of music and music players is teens and a player should have a the "Cool" factor associated with it. There is nothing cool about Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer. The ZUNE should noy be seen in public with those two!
As looks on the surface, the teens are guilty of libel and identity theft. I am afraid the parents bear some responsibility for their actions. I don't believe so much that parents have to exert absolute authoritarian control of their kids but they are responsible to instill in them a sense of morality and to treat their fellow man with some decency. The administrator is a human being and to be harrassed for doing nothing else but her job is inexcusible.
What nerds aren't suppose to care about their government? I guess we continue our futile debate over whether Linux is better than Windows or did Microsft copy Apple for Vista. This conversation "matters" IMHO.
How much privacy can an ISP provide really? When we involve a third party, did we relinguish our expectation of privacy? Is downloading child porn through an ISP provided connection any different then getting a proxy to buy it off the street for us. Just as Gonzalez doesn't have any ground to request ISP to store, we don't have any ground to request that they don't. I don't recall any clause in the user agreement where the ISP promised not to keep data on your activity. It is a tough question but I am glad Gonzales is making an issue of it because I think we all need clarity on what ISP deal with our Internet activity.
If there was something wrong with the election, the NY Times would have found it. Just read the editorials, There is no love for George Bush. They expose the NSA wiretapping and they would love to expose this. Rolling Stones breaking this has the same value as Playboy or Vanity Fair doing it. I am democrat and I absolutely loathe the current administration. But, the past is the past and I am looking forward to 2006. If Republicans take both Houses, the illegals can have this country because I am moving to China. One of two facts will be apparent- Americans are truly idiotic or someone has a stranglehold on power and it ain't I.
It isn't as pointless as you may think. Not many people upgrade their computer as you probably do and would rather choose a smaller footprint computer (notebook, iMac) with less wire clutter. People throw away computers nowadays because they get infested with malware so replacing an iMac every 3-4 years is not a stretch. I believe that their will be convergence soon of the desktop and notebook component parts.
Zune? Zuuuuune? Who came up with that one? Were they so damn neurotic about branding lawsuits resulting from using some variant of tunes that they had to make up a word that rhymes with "tune". Microsoft Music Player would have 20 fold better than "Zuuuuune". "Hey dude, you enjoying your Zune- you tard!" With the money they got in the bank, my descendents are going put up with that company's lousy products for the next 200 years until they go out of business. God spare us all!
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It appears Hollywood is showing signs of burnout. Their best bet to pull out their slump is to rehash old movies and old actors? Where is the creativity to develop new ideas that resonate with the audience? Creativity isn't making Arnold look 20 years younger while allowing him to balance making another movie while doing his day job. I suggest Hollywood go on sabbatical, take a vacation, or lavishly spend their millions. Another thing to do is the exact opposite by taking themselves off the pedestal and go with live with ordinary people (their audience). The audience is usually never in a car chase, an explosion, or being chase down by a fire breathing dragon. Their lives don't seem interesting at first glance but if they pay attention long enough, they might just get that idea to make the next blockbuster.
I think you just answer you own question. Laptop components typically cost more than their desktop counterparts. I don't think are using the core2duo desktop processor. As for the one hardrive. Do you see room for a second HD when basically the webcam, speakers, and computer are crammed into a LCD display. Apple adds a premium for elegantly cramming an entire computer system in a LCD. So, you pose the perfect question (one that answers itself).
Fantasies for nerds. Stuff that will never happen.
If that is true then why is Pluto being demoted. I mean the solar system is 3D and by all observation Pluto has clear dominance of its orbital path. I am sure that if Pluto were ever to get close to Neptune, the latter would make the former its bitch-ass moon or lunch. Does Pluto ever cross the same space that Neptune had previously ocuppied?
Dude, I seriously doubt you pull a person off the street at random and have him name the 9 planets successfully. With 8, there is a least a slightly greater chance the more people will remember it.
be patient grasshoper. it will in time. In a collision between Neptune and Pluto, my money is on Neptune to still be there. Pluto better hope it becomes Neptune 2nd...5th...6th... oh nevermind.../. whateverth moon (I just can't keep up with the Hubble these days).