I can't wait til they're required by law to give us all the nutritional information of every piece of fruit, down to the calorie count and the chemical breakdown. Perhaps government will put missing persons reports on them, or government mandated reminders of what it means to be a good citizen! So many useful applications!
I'm forty(ish) now, but I distinctly remember a social studies/geography teacher telling me about this when I was in Jr. High School. Who knew going to a California public school would be so leading edge!?;)
A friend of mine works at Bluecoat ( http://www.bluecoat.com/ if you care...) (they do internet security and filtering services). He says they regularly send reports to Google when they find that Google is compromised with malicious code... so its good to know Google's taking part in helping fix a problem they certainly deal with.
Honestly, what good does labeling folks do? If you want to help matters, identify the behaviors that don't work, but name-calling, while perhaps cathartic to some, doesn't engender any sort of helpful solutions to the problems that management has with communication and leadership. Of course that's probably not the intent. The truth is that most problems in management are equally shared by subordinants (at ALL LEVELS of a hierarchy) because no one knows how to effectively communicate problems without fear of how those problems will affect #1... Often because of ranking systems and fears of negative impacts on performance evaluations folks have nothing to say, and so it just gets passed along. And it turns out that management isn't trivial, especially the further removed one gets from the actual products a company delivers, so that's when they need more frank and open communication, but ironically they get less of it.
You said, "WTF are you talking about? Everything important to say about Earth can be summed up in two words."
I'd say you pretty much summed up earth in the first three letters of your response.
They should bring back a moldable CLIPPY!!! The helpful paperclip animation, but this time you could hold it and play with it, like you would a moldable action figure. It would be so useful, just like the other Clippy was! It would suggest things for me that I didn't even KNOW I wanted to do, and when I told it to go away, it just kept popping up, suggesting things!
Finally! Now CmdrTaco and his ilk at Slashdot will be forced to disclose how they pay Bill Gates and the Execs at Microsoft thousands of dollars to interview them... (as if their mockery convinces us that they're not secretly bankrolling them!)
the problem with targetted marketting is the same problem that all marketing has. It only presents the products of the vendor who paid for the ad. There's a difference between you needing a tool, and then presented by ACME's tool-o-matic 5000, and you going online and searching for all possible solutions to your tool's needs.
Targetted Ads give the illusion of being helpful but they don't care about better products, or even if the solution they propose is mistaken or if there's a competitor that has a better product. They only provide help in context of what they have been paid to advertise.
Most publishers will simply contract with professors to write textbooks. (They do this already.) Then they will simply pay them a small kickback in exchange for their cooperation in forcing students to have use that professor's book. A few hundred highly priced books every three to four months is a cashcow that publishers won't roll-over for... Further what's the garantee that if the information is free it is also accessible? IMO, all it will do is bury information that isn't profitable to someone, leaving a void in quality educational materials.
Not that I'm against the concept. I just don't think the consequences create an entirely plausible/workable solution...
I thought of this too. WOuldn't it also imply that as the vaporized rocks made their way around to the cold side of the planet, and then formed into precipitation of snow (pebbles) and rain (lava) that it was slowly creeping away from its sun?
One fatality is too many when it comes to this issue. It simply doesn't NEED to happen. Also this is the sort of distraction that happens to a lot of teens when the car could be otherwise completely empty.
The state of Utah has started a campaign to get the word out too teens. It's called: http://ut.zerofatalities.com/
There's a decent testimonial from one such tragic case. The teen didn't die, but lived, but his life is pretty much over, not because he's still in jail, but because he killed two people. Maybe in this era of videogames that's no big deal, we frag people all the time and driving's just a game, right? But if you knew you'd killed two people, because of something you could've avoided, wouldn't it mess with you? Not to mention the damage to the victims. It makes you think just how serious a thing it is when you get behind the wheel of a motor vehicle. It's serious stuff.
Some laws exist to elevate the awareness of dangerous practices on the rise. Again Texting is one that's entirely avoidable. Unlike drunk driving, one's judgement isn't impaired when they get in the car, so it should not be unreasonable to expect folks to remember it, when the phone buzzes. I hope that the word gets out that this is one of those stupid things you don't do. A tougher penalty may be the sort of thing that raises awareness.
When you drive, reduce the distractions as much as you possibly can. Then concentrate on driving. That'll keep you alive.
The irony is that this system works. Almost all software companies envy the MMO's and would love to charge you a yearly/monthly/hourly/etc subscription rate to use their products. It means that you've a garanteed clientele and enables marketing to focus on content and improvements as the product matures, rather than having it all perfect before it is sold. It is not nearly as unpredictable as the model that requires a certain number of sales to break even, because the server support is scalable. Personally I've avoided MMOs cuz I've always loved the RPG, and no doubt I'd be totally addicted if I joined one. My current (writing and sketching) hobbies cost me much less than a typical MMO would. It's kinda interesting that the subscription based software model hasn't worked as well in other areas of software. Perhaps its due to the fact that there are free and cheaper alternatives.
It's my understanding that pickled beets are commonly made from what are known as table beets, the bright red/purple ones. Sugar beets are big gangly roots, very stringy and laden with sugar which are refined into sugar. Generally you don't actually eat sugar beets. You process them into sugar. Hence the name.
This is a stupid issue to go organic on. I can sympathize with folks who want to keep pesticides and keep their tomato plants organic, or some veggie/fruit you eat whole, but sugar beets are refined into sucrose. I don't know anyone that actually eats sugar beets as a meal. Sucrose just isn't that complicated a molecule... how hard is it to verify there aren't any contaminants or byproducts in the sugar? Even the legal system should be able to clue into this one...
No. I think we all know, thanks to the movies, that the holy grail is guarded by a really bored knight of the round-table even to this day and is a common looking cup that can heal your dad's wounds, and then will cause an earthquake opening a great chasm that will swallow any (especially hot nazi dominatrix-type women) who try to grab it, instead of chosing to live...
Having worked an engineering job for an entertainment company, I can attest that life in the more fluffy parts of such companies are a completely different world with entirely different priorities. There's a continual "glam-factor" you have to deal with that's entirely counterproductive to producing a technically challenging piece of technology. At Disney their HR and Marketting departments were like professional cheerleaders. They always had some party going on--something they were planning. After a while it was a serious distraction, regardless of whether you were invited, and everything was catered. After a while I began to wonder how companies like this could stay in business... turns out only a few could. Oh and who could forget that any nontechnical jobs are stuffed with people who just want to be close to entertainment in the off hopes that while the secretary is performing some lounge-singing jazz number off the balcony (because the acoustics are so great) right next to where your cubicle is... (while you're trying to code a state machine in Verilog) that some movie exec will hear her, and she'll be made a star--hollywood movie fantasy! Ugh... No thanks.
Not only that, but why put what appears to be a boardroom discussion on your blog unless Microsoft's made it clear they won't play ball. Sounds like "It's a Trap!" which now has a big glowing neon sign over the top of it.
And of course who can forget the original "fembot" name was given to the villainous robot dopplegangers that had cybernetically enhanced strength on the 70/80's TV show the Bionic Woman... which was by far the creepiest villain in the whole series... especially cuz their faces were so easily ripped off...
This doesn't dismiss the fact that the studio licensed the rights to a book franchise, made three billion dollars on the movies and then claimed not to make a single buck in profits, a piece of which would go back to the licensee. The "trust" (or licensee) would be foolish not to do something.
Defending the movie studios is just as stupid as anything else. If this were to happen to an author that was actually alive, would you still be so anti-trust?
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Anyone else have a hard time following this reviewer? A little context for the many objections would be helpful.
I can't wait til they're required by law to give us all the nutritional information of every piece of fruit, down to the calorie count and the chemical breakdown. Perhaps government will put missing persons reports on them, or government mandated reminders of what it means to be a good citizen! So many useful applications!
I'm forty(ish) now, but I distinctly remember a social studies/geography teacher telling me about this when I was in Jr. High School. Who knew going to a California public school would be so leading edge!? ;)
A friend of mine works at Bluecoat ( http://www.bluecoat.com/ if you care...) (they do internet security and filtering services). He says they regularly send reports to Google when they find that Google is compromised with malicious code... so its good to know Google's taking part in helping fix a problem they certainly deal with.
Honestly, what good does labeling folks do? If you want to help matters, identify the behaviors that don't work, but name-calling, while perhaps cathartic to some, doesn't engender any sort of helpful solutions to the problems that management has with communication and leadership. Of course that's probably not the intent. The truth is that most problems in management are equally shared by subordinants (at ALL LEVELS of a hierarchy) because no one knows how to effectively communicate problems without fear of how those problems will affect #1... Often because of ranking systems and fears of negative impacts on performance evaluations folks have nothing to say, and so it just gets passed along. And it turns out that management isn't trivial, especially the further removed one gets from the actual products a company delivers, so that's when they need more frank and open communication, but ironically they get less of it.
You said, "WTF are you talking about? Everything important to say about Earth can be summed up in two words." I'd say you pretty much summed up earth in the first three letters of your response.
There's no money in politics, so i can't see why anyone would see games as political!?
They should bring back a moldable CLIPPY!!! The helpful paperclip animation, but this time you could hold it and play with it, like you would a moldable action figure. It would be so useful, just like the other Clippy was! It would suggest things for me that I didn't even KNOW I wanted to do, and when I told it to go away, it just kept popping up, suggesting things!
Finally! Now CmdrTaco and his ilk at Slashdot will be forced to disclose how they pay Bill Gates and the Execs at Microsoft thousands of dollars to interview them... (as if their mockery convinces us that they're not secretly bankrolling them!)
the problem with targetted marketting is the same problem that all marketing has. It only presents the products of the vendor who paid for the ad. There's a difference between you needing a tool, and then presented by ACME's tool-o-matic 5000, and you going online and searching for all possible solutions to your tool's needs. Targetted Ads give the illusion of being helpful but they don't care about better products, or even if the solution they propose is mistaken or if there's a competitor that has a better product. They only provide help in context of what they have been paid to advertise.
Most publishers will simply contract with professors to write textbooks. (They do this already.) Then they will simply pay them a small kickback in exchange for their cooperation in forcing students to have use that professor's book. A few hundred highly priced books every three to four months is a cashcow that publishers won't roll-over for... Further what's the garantee that if the information is free it is also accessible? IMO, all it will do is bury information that isn't profitable to someone, leaving a void in quality educational materials. Not that I'm against the concept. I just don't think the consequences create an entirely plausible/workable solution...
I thought of this too. WOuldn't it also imply that as the vaporized rocks made their way around to the cold side of the planet, and then formed into precipitation of snow (pebbles) and rain (lava) that it was slowly creeping away from its sun?
One fatality is too many when it comes to this issue. It simply doesn't NEED to happen. Also this is the sort of distraction that happens to a lot of teens when the car could be otherwise completely empty. The state of Utah has started a campaign to get the word out too teens. It's called: http://ut.zerofatalities.com/ There's a decent testimonial from one such tragic case. The teen didn't die, but lived, but his life is pretty much over, not because he's still in jail, but because he killed two people. Maybe in this era of videogames that's no big deal, we frag people all the time and driving's just a game, right? But if you knew you'd killed two people, because of something you could've avoided, wouldn't it mess with you? Not to mention the damage to the victims. It makes you think just how serious a thing it is when you get behind the wheel of a motor vehicle. It's serious stuff. Some laws exist to elevate the awareness of dangerous practices on the rise. Again Texting is one that's entirely avoidable. Unlike drunk driving, one's judgement isn't impaired when they get in the car, so it should not be unreasonable to expect folks to remember it, when the phone buzzes. I hope that the word gets out that this is one of those stupid things you don't do. A tougher penalty may be the sort of thing that raises awareness. When you drive, reduce the distractions as much as you possibly can. Then concentrate on driving. That'll keep you alive.
The irony is that this system works. Almost all software companies envy the MMO's and would love to charge you a yearly/monthly/hourly/etc subscription rate to use their products. It means that you've a garanteed clientele and enables marketing to focus on content and improvements as the product matures, rather than having it all perfect before it is sold. It is not nearly as unpredictable as the model that requires a certain number of sales to break even, because the server support is scalable. Personally I've avoided MMOs cuz I've always loved the RPG, and no doubt I'd be totally addicted if I joined one. My current (writing and sketching) hobbies cost me much less than a typical MMO would. It's kinda interesting that the subscription based software model hasn't worked as well in other areas of software. Perhaps its due to the fact that there are free and cheaper alternatives.
It's funny, because it was marked funny. Hee hee hee... that and the fact that it's insanely naive, which is funny too.
It's my understanding that pickled beets are commonly made from what are known as table beets, the bright red/purple ones. Sugar beets are big gangly roots, very stringy and laden with sugar which are refined into sugar. Generally you don't actually eat sugar beets. You process them into sugar. Hence the name.
This is a stupid issue to go organic on. I can sympathize with folks who want to keep pesticides and keep their tomato plants organic, or some veggie/fruit you eat whole, but sugar beets are refined into sucrose. I don't know anyone that actually eats sugar beets as a meal. Sucrose just isn't that complicated a molecule... how hard is it to verify there aren't any contaminants or byproducts in the sugar? Even the legal system should be able to clue into this one...
well... now it's been confirmed again. :)
No. I think we all know, thanks to the movies, that the holy grail is guarded by a really bored knight of the round-table even to this day and is a common looking cup that can heal your dad's wounds, and then will cause an earthquake opening a great chasm that will swallow any (especially hot nazi dominatrix-type women) who try to grab it, instead of chosing to live...
Having worked an engineering job for an entertainment company, I can attest that life in the more fluffy parts of such companies are a completely different world with entirely different priorities. There's a continual "glam-factor" you have to deal with that's entirely counterproductive to producing a technically challenging piece of technology. At Disney their HR and Marketting departments were like professional cheerleaders. They always had some party going on--something they were planning. After a while it was a serious distraction, regardless of whether you were invited, and everything was catered. After a while I began to wonder how companies like this could stay in business... turns out only a few could. Oh and who could forget that any nontechnical jobs are stuffed with people who just want to be close to entertainment in the off hopes that while the secretary is performing some lounge-singing jazz number off the balcony (because the acoustics are so great) right next to where your cubicle is... (while you're trying to code a state machine in Verilog) that some movie exec will hear her, and she'll be made a star--hollywood movie fantasy! Ugh... No thanks.
Not only that, but why put what appears to be a boardroom discussion on your blog unless Microsoft's made it clear they won't play ball. Sounds like "It's a Trap!" which now has a big glowing neon sign over the top of it.
"One of my favorite examples is when the Church banned crossbows. How'd that work out for them?"
Oh, I dunno. Just how many crossbows do you possess? See! It works! ;)
Those names don't sound like Astronauts... they sound suspiciously like... Cosmonauts! ;)
And of course who can forget the original "fembot" name was given to the villainous robot dopplegangers that had cybernetically enhanced strength on the 70/80's TV show the Bionic Woman... which was by far the creepiest villain in the whole series... especially cuz their faces were so easily ripped off...
This doesn't dismiss the fact that the studio licensed the rights to a book franchise, made three billion dollars on the movies and then claimed not to make a single buck in profits, a piece of which would go back to the licensee. The "trust" (or licensee) would be foolish not to do something. Defending the movie studios is just as stupid as anything else. If this were to happen to an author that was actually alive, would you still be so anti-trust?