"A policy for bringing all Americans into the experience of using a computer on the Web can generate economic and social benefits, as well as provide a significant stimulus to the economy. We might even see a rise in general happiness, since surveys show that those on internet are even statistically more likely to be happy than those off the internet."
Why does this seem so bloody pathetic? I guess this is a "the grass is greener on the other side" syndrome.
Yea, they're going to change their name just for the Netherlands? The last thing I'd want to see is some upstart anti-MS company kowtowing to the evil Dutch, which, if I might add, were the FIRST EVIL EMPIRE IN THE WORLD!!!
It's just that people are embarrassed when someone else finds the deep, dark secrets that people generally hold to themselves (or percieve they do). Most people want privacy, to have a private domain that is separated, walled off and protected from the rest of society (public domain). We interact with the public domain with a MASK, which portrays certain information - the stuff we WANT people to see. We don't want them to see the bad stuff. We don't want people to think badly about us (I'm generalizing here).
Once you allow every human on the planet to know every intimate detail about your life...well, that's what makes SURVIVOR so fascinating for so many people (plus our voyeuristic nature), and is exactly what scares the hell out of us when the government does it (because we fear the government anyway, with their absolute power over us [as individuals]).
Providing alternatives to the default applications is one thing; moronic consumers who know nothing about computers and do not bother learning about their alternatives is quite another.
You cannot legislate the stupid out of the masses.
Right at the grand finale, have the back wall, which was shrouded in darkness, erupt in another 100 additional screens, each displaying 9-12 streaming videos simultaneously.
Combined with 100 subwoofers and sound setups, this will knock the socks off of anyone watching.
Of course, you may want to ask for additional money to fund such an endeavor...but it would be worth it!
It appears that they have already contracted for 2 more missions beyond this one, and want to place storage space on the Moon - the ultimate in avoiding various nation's stupid laws??
From what I have heard, there is a very long waiting list of scientists waiting to use Hubble for one scientific project or another. Two telescopes will allow double (or better) the science return; zero telescopes will allow science to come to a screeching halt.
Nothing beats having no atmosphere distort your telescope. While fancy adaptive optics and computers can help, building an even larger space-based telescope is even better (Moon base, anyone?).
Charge for support! That's right, paying for techies or other operators to man the phone lines costs money. We can easily pass those onto the customer who needs them...after all, not everybody needs these services if you can do it yourself. Charging people a modest $2.95 a minute (or $29.95 flat fee!) to speak to somebody will assure an efficient and speedy customer...otherwise they can try the online support.
Secondly, do as Symantec did and make sure those online documents are nowhere in sight! Hide all information in an idiotic search system that returns 500,000 hits no matter what you search for! (including document ID#).
Outsource e-mail tech support to a third world nation in which nobdoy speaks English! Northwestern China (near Mongolia) works well for this.
And, lastly, make sure the second-tier support has a 3-5 day turnaround time (in business days, and don't be open on the weekend) for those nasty calls. And when you do get them, feed 'em cherries and give 'em right back to frontline support with a free ticket number!
Remember, these things are disposable. It doesn't matter if it's a billion dollar telescope or an $800 million rover on Mars, eventually it will run down and that'll be that.
However, we don't currently have a replacement for Hubble, and even if we are ready to launch one, there is no guarantee that it will surivive launch, or actually work once in orbit.
Tank? Silent??? You've got to be kidding!
Squeak! Squeak! Squeak!
Iraq soldier to another: I didn't think there were any overgrown chirping birds in the middle of the desert.
Highly unlikely scenario, imo.
The energy required to create hydrogen gas through electrolysis should be the same amount you get out of a fuel cell - they are just reverse processes.
However, because internal combustion engines are so inefficient, fuel cells are very attractive due to their efficiency. Additionally, in the future we may have invested in wide-scale solar electrolysis plants, making it a cleaner source of fuel than burning fossil fuels to do the separating.
Isn't that why YAHOO gives free email accounts out? When I signed up for yahoo, I gave them my yahoo email account, and all of the rest is bogus information. I'm sorry, but if you are stupid enough to trust these companies in lieu of all the marketing going on in the US today, then don't complain - unlike Microsoft's Hotmail, YAHOO does not covertly change all of your settings to 'on,' but leaves them off if they were already.
In fact, in all the years I've had a YAHOO account, I have never had 1 piece of spam.
We're currently got 112 windows Xp lusers in our queue looking at a 2 hour wait time to talk to us virus removal techs.
"Sorry, no removal instructions, call tomorrow."
hehe
THAT is just an excuse for your own lazy ass. You can be just as messy and disorganized on a computer as you can in real life.
My own computer would be an excellent example. I cannot even find my pr0n anymore. I always become really afraid when someone comes over to "check their email..." gives me the willies!
http://www.forbes.com/finance/lists/54/2001/LIR.jh tml?passListId=54&passYear=2001&passListType=Perso n&uniqueId=1217&datatype=Person
College dropout from WSU, no less! Who'd have thunk he was the 3rd richest in the US??
Of course, the next year, he seems to have gained about 30 pounds and a lot of years:
http://www.forbes.com/richlist2002/LIR1217.html?pa ssListId=54&passYear=2002&passListType=Person&uniq ueId=1217&datatype=Person
Slashdot Mirror
"A policy for bringing all Americans
into the experience of using a computer on the Web can generate
economic and social benefits, as well as provide a significant
stimulus to the economy. We might even see a rise in general
happiness, since surveys show that those on internet are even
statistically more likely to be happy than those off the internet."
Why does this seem so bloody pathetic? I guess this is a "the grass is greener on the other side" syndrome.
Because nobody speaks english. They have their own tech channels that rival ours in Japan.
Yea, they're going to change their name just for the Netherlands? The last thing I'd want to see is some upstart anti-MS company kowtowing to the evil Dutch, which, if I might add, were the FIRST EVIL EMPIRE IN THE WORLD!!!
*curls pinky at side of mouth
They tax you for buying stuff, or something???
lol, that'd be the day! =)
It's just that people are embarrassed when someone else finds the deep, dark secrets that people generally hold to themselves (or percieve they do). Most people want privacy, to have a private domain that is separated, walled off and protected from the rest of society (public domain). We interact with the public domain with a MASK, which portrays certain information - the stuff we WANT people to see. We don't want them to see the bad stuff. We don't want people to think badly about us (I'm generalizing here).
Once you allow every human on the planet to know every intimate detail about your life...well, that's what makes SURVIVOR so fascinating for so many people (plus our voyeuristic nature), and is exactly what scares the hell out of us when the government does it (because we fear the government anyway, with their absolute power over us [as individuals]).
Providing alternatives to the default applications is one thing; moronic consumers who know nothing about computers and do not bother learning about their alternatives is quite another.
You cannot legislate the stupid out of the masses.
Right at the grand finale, have the back wall, which was shrouded in darkness, erupt in another 100 additional screens, each displaying 9-12 streaming videos simultaneously.
Combined with 100 subwoofers and sound setups, this will knock the socks off of anyone watching.
Of course, you may want to ask for additional money to fund such an endeavor...but it would be worth it!
In Sowiet Russia...
Gubernment Manage Ewerything!!
Check this out:
o gy /transorbital_030715.html
http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technol
It appears that they have already contracted for 2 more missions beyond this one, and want to place storage space on the Moon - the ultimate in avoiding various nation's stupid laws??
From what I have heard, there is a very long waiting list of scientists waiting to use Hubble for one scientific project or another. Two telescopes will allow double (or better) the science return; zero telescopes will allow science to come to a screeching halt.
Nothing beats having no atmosphere distort your telescope. While fancy adaptive optics and computers can help, building an even larger space-based telescope is even better (Moon base, anyone?).
Do what Symantec did (still does?):
Charge for support! That's right, paying for techies or other operators to man the phone lines costs money. We can easily pass those onto the customer who needs them...after all, not everybody needs these services if you can do it yourself. Charging people a modest $2.95 a minute (or $29.95 flat fee!) to speak to somebody will assure an efficient and speedy customer...otherwise they can try the online support.
Secondly, do as Symantec did and make sure those online documents are nowhere in sight! Hide all information in an idiotic search system that returns 500,000 hits no matter what you search for! (including document ID#).
Outsource e-mail tech support to a third world nation in which nobdoy speaks English! Northwestern China (near Mongolia) works well for this.
And, lastly, make sure the second-tier support has a 3-5 day turnaround time (in business days, and don't be open on the weekend) for those nasty calls. And when you do get them, feed 'em cherries and give 'em right back to frontline support with a free ticket number!
Dude!
...
1) Invent software interface for wife/gf
2)
3) Profit!
Oh wait...flips to back of local magazine...they beat me to it!
Ooooh...you're right. Let's definitely not save the Hubble then.
Remember, these things are disposable. It doesn't matter if it's a billion dollar telescope or an $800 million rover on Mars, eventually it will run down and that'll be that.
However, we don't currently have a replacement for Hubble, and even if we are ready to launch one, there is no guarantee that it will surivive launch, or actually work once in orbit.
Wait until your eyes go bad from computer screens, you'll be cranking the screen characters up to size 34 just to read slashdot.
Maybe it has something to do with listening to our military war hawks instead of our scientists...
Naa, they just left a floppy in the disk drive just in case. =\
Tank? Silent??? You've got to be kidding! Squeak! Squeak! Squeak! Iraq soldier to another: I didn't think there were any overgrown chirping birds in the middle of the desert. Highly unlikely scenario, imo.
Note: IANA Engineer...but:
The energy required to create hydrogen gas through electrolysis should be the same amount you get out of a fuel cell - they are just reverse processes.
However, because internal combustion engines are so inefficient, fuel cells are very attractive due to their efficiency.
Additionally, in the future we may have invested in wide-scale solar electrolysis plants, making it a cleaner source of fuel than burning fossil fuels to do the separating.
Man you sound exactly like my parents telling me to do my taxes when they're late.
Isn't that why YAHOO gives free email accounts out? When I signed up for yahoo, I gave them my yahoo email account, and all of the rest is bogus information. I'm sorry, but if you are stupid enough to trust these companies in lieu of all the marketing going on in the US today, then don't complain - unlike Microsoft's Hotmail, YAHOO does not covertly change all of your settings to 'on,' but leaves them off if they were already. In fact, in all the years I've had a YAHOO account, I have never had 1 piece of spam.
We're currently got 112 windows Xp lusers in our queue looking at a 2 hour wait time to talk to us virus removal techs. "Sorry, no removal instructions, call tomorrow." hehe
Being able to "socialize" is a "skill." If you don't practice it, your skills will suffer.
People are also very emotional beings. Lack of being around people tends to make people depressed and lonely.
If you isolate yourself, the effects tend to snowball. This shouldn't be very controversial; it should be common sense.
Technology is a TOOL. Not a reason for existence.
THAT is just an excuse for your own lazy ass. You can be just as messy and disorganized on a computer as you can in real life.
My own computer would be an excellent example. I cannot even find my pr0n anymore. I always become really afraid when someone comes over to "check their email..." gives me the willies!
http://www.forbes.com/finance/lists/54/2001/LIR.jh tml?passListId=54&passYear=2001&passListType=Perso n&uniqueId=1217&datatype=Person
College dropout from WSU, no less! Who'd have thunk he was the 3rd richest in the US??
Of course, the next year, he seems to have gained about 30 pounds and a lot of years:
http://www.forbes.com/richlist2002/LIR1217.html?pa ssListId=54&passYear=2002&passListType=Person&uniq ueId=1217&datatype=Person