If a bunch of engineers and hard scientists got together and decided how to spend NASA's budget most effectively, we'd see only automated missions. The data gathered would be wonderful, it would be efficient, and their budget would be cut in half the next year by Congress.
Manned exploration is the sizzle that sells the steak. You have to keep a manned program going to keep the short-attention-spanned taxpaying pinheads interested in space. If space is just drones and bots flying off to take soil samples and collect space dust, the money will get diverted to a subsidy to study how pet monkeys could be used to deliver nuclear warheads to a target or some other stupid Pentagon project.
The giant paper ballot system used in Cook County two weeks ago worked pretty well. There were problems with counting the vote, but they were with memory packs from the electronic touchscreen voting units. There were a large number of races (thanks to a ridiculous number of judge retention elections), and the two sided enormous ballots were there afte scanning in case of a needed recount.
You DO NOT TALK about Forbes. Second rule, well you can guess.
Forbes is responsible for more wrong-headed ideas about technology in the executive suites than any other publication. Pay them no heed. Ignore them. They do not have a clue.
They may even be right this time, but that wouldn't make up for the multitude of times they've made technologists lives worse.
50 years ago you'd have been lining up to put a nuclear reactor under your house, and 300 years ago you'd have bought Mercury for your kids to play with barehanded.
Being cautious is not Ludditism. Being wreckless is not science.
I'm talking about now. The all-Republican administration over the last five years has cut revenues and raised spending. But you knew that, and are just being deliberately obtuse. The once deficit hawks are now doves. "Oh, deficits don't matter, we'll GROW our way out of it." Yeah, right.
Gingich's plan would have destroyed the economy. As I remember the public understood it was Gingrich overreaching and he blinked. I think that was the beginning of the end of Newt.
And only the Republicans could think you can balance a budget by increasing spending and cutting revenues. Simple damn math.
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Blah blah blah. I see your gums a'flappin but I hear nothing of substance coming out of them.
Very nice charicature of a party that in no way resembles the Democrats.
Over the last fifteen years, which party was responsible for most of the cuts in government and which was responsible for most of the expansion of government? Which party had a surplus and which has record deficits? Which is surveilling you in direct opposition to laws passed to prevent warrantless surveillance and which party is fighting that surveillance?
Time you reconciled your perceptions with the realities.
You'd be looking to move back into Mom's basement in two years when this scheme further angers their users.
Join AOL, and get GUARANTEED spam! Or get a Gmail account and have it all filtered.
Many moons ago, Borland and Ashton-Tate and WordPerfect were all legitimate competitors to Microsoft. They made a progression of dumb decisions and Microsoft made smart ones. History repeats, with Google in the Microsoft spot and AOl as Ashton-Tate.
19 Days up is a stretch on XP? I've had this workstation I'm using right now up for over 45 days at a time, no problem. I've got an XP machine I don't always allow updates to (it's a slow iTunes slave box next to the stereo) that's been up for over 75 days right now. The only time I reboot is after I apply the automatic updates that I din't have to worry about seeking out or downloading or making sure they were compatible.
The KEY to getting Linux on home desktops is to
1.) Get Linux on Corporate Desktops. Why would I want to learn a second word processor, spreadsheet, etc? I'll use what I have at the office since I can't get them to use what I have at home.
2.) Games. There are more than there used to be, but Linux game selection sucks. I'd like to be able to walk into any software store and just lay a hand on a good game that will install by sticking the disk in the drive and clicking "OK".
Until a user never has to use the CLI to work on 99.9% of their stuff, Linux won't have a chance at invading the desktop of the average user. And even when it is as simple to use as Windows, it'll still not make any inroads until it's at least 20% EASIER than Windows.
Not many. Which is why most successful blogs are more like mini-magazines on specific topics. There are tons of food, auto, tech, and other topical blogs that are increasing readership.
The "had a pop quiz today" blogs are still in existence, they're all just moving to MySpace.
Actual numbers of people attending movies in theaters is down. Revenues are up, becaue of higher prices, but the Internet is taking away from more passive forms of entertainment. TV's been bitching about declining overall ratings for years.
When a new media is introduced it hurts the old media, at least initially. Lots and lots of people are spending time in front of screens, but more of those screens have keboards attached and those people aren't watching movies and TV shows. They're more and more likely to be reading, arguing, or hacking at dragons.
You make your product sufficiently inconvenient and/or expensive that I decide not to buy it. Some smart chap (or chapette) from China or India starts importing players and media that do not have these restrictions. I buy them from him/her instead or I forego video pleasures for other entertainments. Your stock price goes down, you lose your house in Aruba, and ice weasels kill and eat your children.
Aaaaaaaand THIS is why geeks should never work in marketing (just as marketers should never make tech decisions.
Are you going to get the public to take a nerd warning about "m71.4445876.EU.1393" or one called "CreditRatingRaper" more seriously?
You should HAVE a more stable designator, but get the companies to agree on a popular name also, maybe by letting them name the biggies round-robin style.
I would classify FOX as the most anti-American channel on the dial. Hate those who think the liberties guaranteed in the Constitution are important and who see a balance between the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches as somethign worth preserving.
If you have a bad boss, yes, it's a pain, but you can manage up as well as manage down.
Suggest in a question what you think needs to be done and in a way that helps the "bad" boss see what the right path is without denigrating him/her. "Hey, I was wondering if you thought using a temp to do this work over here might free up atar performer alpha to do the harder work instead of this grunt work? I'm probably missing something but I don't see the downside. What do you think?"
Nah, better to be a "bad employee" and act like a spoiled teenager. "Well if YOU don't know..."
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If a bunch of engineers and hard scientists got together and decided how to spend NASA's budget most effectively, we'd see only automated missions. The data gathered would be wonderful, it would be efficient, and their budget would be cut in half the next year by Congress.
Manned exploration is the sizzle that sells the steak. You have to keep a manned program going to keep the short-attention-spanned taxpaying pinheads interested in space. If space is just drones and bots flying off to take soil samples and collect space dust, the money will get diverted to a subsidy to study how pet monkeys could be used to deliver nuclear warheads to a target or some other stupid Pentagon project.
The giant paper ballot system used in Cook County two weeks ago worked pretty well. There were problems with counting the vote, but they were with memory packs from the electronic touchscreen voting units. There were a large number of races (thanks to a ridiculous number of judge retention elections), and the two sided enormous ballots were there afte scanning in case of a needed recount.
You DO NOT TALK about Forbes. Second rule, well you can guess.
Forbes is responsible for more wrong-headed ideas about technology in the executive suites than any other publication. Pay them no heed. Ignore them. They do not have a clue.
They may even be right this time, but that wouldn't make up for the multitude of times they've made technologists lives worse.
And yet, when I tried to apply this in my Biology labs, the professors got REAL cranky...
I had heard the astronauts get Cadillacs earlier which, ironically, is also a sign of premature aging.
Check out comments on DailyKos. Very well done AJAX app. It gets out of your way while still enforcing preview, etc...
50 years ago you'd have been lining up to put a nuclear reactor under your house, and 300 years ago you'd have bought Mercury for your kids to play with barehanded.
Being cautious is not Ludditism. Being wreckless is not science.
I'm talking about now. The all-Republican administration over the last five years has cut revenues and raised spending. But you knew that, and are just being deliberately obtuse. The once deficit hawks are now doves. "Oh, deficits don't matter, we'll GROW our way out of it." Yeah, right.
Gingich's plan would have destroyed the economy. As I remember the public understood it was Gingrich overreaching and he blinked. I think that was the beginning of the end of Newt.
And only the Republicans could think you can balance a budget by increasing spending and cutting revenues. Simple damn math.
Blah blah blah. I see your gums a'flappin but I hear nothing of substance coming out of them.
Very nice charicature of a party that in no way resembles the Democrats.
Over the last fifteen years, which party was responsible for most of the cuts in government and which was responsible for most of the expansion of government? Which party had a surplus and which has record deficits? Which is surveilling you in direct opposition to laws passed to prevent warrantless surveillance and which party is fighting that surveillance?
Time you reconciled your perceptions with the realities.
Only a far right wingnut moron would mark that as a troll. Mod parent up!!
You'd be looking to move back into Mom's basement in two years when this scheme further angers their users.
Join AOL, and get GUARANTEED spam! Or get a Gmail account and have it all filtered.
Many moons ago, Borland and Ashton-Tate and WordPerfect were all legitimate competitors to Microsoft. They made a progression of dumb decisions and Microsoft made smart ones. History repeats, with Google in the Microsoft spot and AOl as Ashton-Tate.
Messiah? Yeah, you know - like Keanu Reeves.
Most of those languages are slowly but surely losing the diacritical marks.
See many circumflexes lately? They're being deprecated from French sloly but surely. Other accents will follow
19 Days up is a stretch on XP? I've had this workstation I'm using right now up for over 45 days at a time, no problem. I've got an XP machine I don't always allow updates to (it's a slow iTunes slave box next to the stereo) that's been up for over 75 days right now. The only time I reboot is after I apply the automatic updates that I din't have to worry about seeking out or downloading or making sure they were compatible.
The KEY to getting Linux on home desktops is to
1.) Get Linux on Corporate Desktops. Why would I want to learn a second word processor, spreadsheet, etc? I'll use what I have at the office since I can't get them to use what I have at home.
2.) Games. There are more than there used to be, but Linux game selection sucks. I'd like to be able to walk into any software store and just lay a hand on a good game that will install by sticking the disk in the drive and clicking "OK".
Until a user never has to use the CLI to work on 99.9% of their stuff, Linux won't have a chance at invading the desktop of the average user. And even when it is as simple to use as Windows, it'll still not make any inroads until it's at least 20% EASIER than Windows.
Not many. Which is why most successful blogs are more like mini-magazines on specific topics. There are tons of food, auto, tech, and other topical blogs that are increasing readership.
The "had a pop quiz today" blogs are still in existence, they're all just moving to MySpace.
Actual numbers of people attending movies in theaters is down. Revenues are up, becaue of higher prices, but the Internet is taking away from more passive forms of entertainment. TV's been bitching about declining overall ratings for years.
When a new media is introduced it hurts the old media, at least initially. Lots and lots of people are spending time in front of screens, but more of those screens have keboards attached and those people aren't watching movies and TV shows. They're more and more likely to be reading, arguing, or hacking at dragons.
You make your product sufficiently inconvenient and/or expensive that I decide not to buy it. Some smart chap (or chapette) from China or India starts importing players and media that do not have these restrictions. I buy them from him/her instead or I forego video pleasures for other entertainments. Your stock price goes down, you lose your house in Aruba, and ice weasels kill and eat your children.
You lose, I win.
Would you then have a peta- cemetary for your data?
Do you have digital cable? How do you handle changing channels automagically to record with one of those boxes?
Aaaaaaaand THIS is why geeks should never work in marketing (just as marketers should never make tech decisions.
Are you going to get the public to take a nerd warning about "m71.4445876.EU.1393" or one called "CreditRatingRaper" more seriously?
You should HAVE a more stable designator, but get the companies to agree on a popular name also, maybe by letting them name the biggies round-robin style.
I would classify FOX as the most anti-American channel on the dial. Hate those who think the liberties guaranteed in the Constitution are important and who see a balance between the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches as somethign worth preserving.
If you have a bad boss, yes, it's a pain, but you can manage up as well as manage down.
Suggest in a question what you think needs to be done and in a way that helps the "bad" boss see what the right path is without denigrating him/her. "Hey, I was wondering if you thought using a temp to do this work over here might free up atar performer alpha to do the harder work instead of this grunt work? I'm probably missing something but I don't see the downside. What do you think?"
Nah, better to be a "bad employee" and act like a spoiled teenager. "Well if YOU don't know..."
That joke was in bad taste.
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