Things always look rosy at the CIO level who never have to deal with calling the tech support. CDW is #1? Give me a break. They've screwed up our orders so many times. I want to see a survey done from the techies' level who actually have to deal with these people.
SLRs in general are much, much more versatile for tacking pictures than point and shoot. The bit about creative control is definitely true. I loved the N8008 but the film and development cost started to add up. I tend to play around with the various camera settings as a way to learn so I tend to take a lot of pictures of the same scene, etc. The DSLR allows me to do that.
I do disagree with the author on a minor point. Not all DSLRs are built to the same quality. Even within the Nikon family the D80/70/50 and even D100 are somewhat weak when compared to their professional DSLR and even traditional SLRs. Those models lack a metal framework. I suppose for most people that's not an issue but I expect my SLRs, digital or otherwise, to last and really go with me where ever I go. The N8008 did just that. I've used it on my roadtrips, taking pictures at the water falls (pretty water resistant camera). I don't have to baby it and I think I'll get the same from the D200. For the same reason, high quality DSLRs are heavy! The author already mentioned that but let me just point out that I take my point-and-shoot with me on my trips for times when I don't expect to take good pictures or when constantly holding the camera is not an option.
The rule of thumb in regards to Nikon vs Canon, for me at least, is Nikon cameras are more rugged with a strong framework inside and weatherproofing seals. They also tend to be faster with the shutters but Canon, from what I've read, tends to take higher quality pictures. For me, since I run around quite a bit, the choice was obviously Nikon (plus I already had an investment in their lenses that still work with the DSLRs).
The basic complain is that the NPA Personality is not really a widely accepted theory that was promoted on the Wikipedia by the author of the theory himself. Notable or not, the NPA Personality theory was published, thought not accepted. That doesn't make the article vandalism or a hoax. The author is self-promoting on Wikipedia and violates the no primary research rule. It doesn't really say anything about the Wikipedia system. The fact that it was caught and then voted for deletion means the Wikipedia is working. It's not vandalism nor a hoax. It's a long, edited article on an obscured, generally unacceptable theory in psychology promoted by a less than notable author.
What's up with people trying to bash the Wikipedia?
Are you kidding me? This is not a case of an anti-immigration site being labelled racists. This is a case of a racist site pretending that they're only anti-immigration. This is the Virginia Dare society who've published articles that claimed that certain races are smarter than others, especially the one after Hurricane Katrina.
Actually, how can the real world be illogical and incomplete? I'm not trying to provoke a philosophical argument but a lot of us have our own sense of reality and logic/reason and the world doesn't always conform to that. The error is in our model/perspective, not the world. Our theory was incomplete and we were ignorant. If the world is illogical and incomplete, there's nothing we can do. However, if our theory is incomplete and we're ignorant, we can learn and observe some more and come up with a better model until we're satisfied with its approximation to reality.
We often come across behaviors that are in some ways contradictory to what we expect or think it ought to be. Only upon further examination do we understand why that is. The book Freakonomics have some good examples. Taking social psychology has helped me understand some of the "irrational" behaviors of people. As far as I can tell, knowledge and understanding generates happiness.
Are these going to be iPod killers or more along the lines of those henchmen sent to kill James Bond? The iPod's still going strong after years of predictions and they're still making Bond movies.
On a more serious note, why is everyone so obsessed with making an iPod killer? How about just making a damn good MP3/music player? When companies become so obsessed with killing the iPod, they will inevitably try to imitate it and box in their own thinking. Maybe the iPod isn't the thing to focus on at all.
Actually IIRC, the Communist party in China only number in the few millions. The ranks have grown in recent years because of the boom and the advantages party membership gives you in business. Most Chinese are not Communists. In fact, I think most people around the world aren't very ideological and more pragmatic than their leaders. People just want to live and have a good life, whatever the official ideology might be.
What with China's political purges (50 million dead there), harvesting of political prisoners (millions dead there) for body parts, the citizens slaughtering their baby girls (200 million dead there), China is in every POSSIBLE way worse than Nazi Germany.
Got a source to back up those numbers or did you pull that out of your ass?
I'm a Chinese-American. Everyone except for one of my parents' siblings are alive. There're 2 women on my father's side and 1 on my mom's side. The only sibling who died was a boy. On paternal grandmother had eight siblings, boy and girl and they all lived to adulthood. In a population of 1.2 - 1.4 billion 200 million dead is still a lot of people and will easily cripple a nation.
To say that China is worse than the Nazis is just purely offensive considering the Chinese themselves were victims of genocide (estimated 6 million killed by the Japanese). This was an article about outsourcing to China. Stop using it as a soapbox to spread your xenophobic views.
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Your post seems to imply that AMD's stock price went down because of the Conroe and that the market has decided that the Conroe will crush AMD. That's misleading. Intel has recently slashed prices quite dramatically and initiated a new price war with AMD. That's the real cause of the stock price drop as margins in both companies are go down. The effects of new technology on Wall Street's thinking takes a little while to sink in. They're not nearly as quick as Slashdot.
If no one knows what he's being charged with, then it should make it easy to find him. He's sunbathing with all the other uncharged suspects in Guantanamo.
Your scenario completely ignores the development in anti-aircraft weapon in the last 50 years. If taking down an aircraft was nearly as easy as you've claimed, why did we even bother inventing things like Stingers and anti-aircraft weapons? An airplane on landing is still a fast moving target. Good luck hitting that with a.223 from a distance.
That's not true. Recumbents are faster on flat road and more aero-dynamic but try climbing hills with them. With a normal bike you can stand up and push if you really need to. A recumbent doesn't have room for that extra push. A recumbent won't have much of an advantage, if not a disadvantage, in something with mountains like the Tour de France.
At the rate Microsoft is losing executives to Google, you might be wondering how Microsoft is going to fill its ranks in the near future. Have no fear. I represent a client who have decades of managing large scale operations. His track record of coming up with complex plans for achieving great goals and his resiliency after failures speak for themselves. Most importantly, I can guarantee you that he will never, ever join Google because, like Microsoft, he too is inherently evil and hellbent on world domination.
Of course not! The President is above the law. Remember, the Constituion is "just a goddamned piece of paper". Say "national security" and "terrorists" and we'll gladly approve anything.
Yes it does actually. It has ruled in the past about the meaning of a comma in some sentence of our tax code. That's how narrow it can get. In fact, the SCOTUS tend not to overrule previous rulings but rather distinguish a current case from a previous case. One of the goals of our legal system is for it to be predictable. SCOTUS tries to uphold that as much as possible. Part of the reason the Federal circuit was created specifically for patent laws is to prevent forum shopping which has a tendency to make patent cases unpredictable. IANAL.
Don't say "free" software. People associate "free" as in free beer with cheap. Remember the saying, "There's no free lunch"? Especially in a field filled with adwares, "free" can set off alarms. Why would these guys offer free software? There's must be a catch. That's what the viewers will think. Use open or some other word that makes people think "free as in freedom".
As a cyclist, we're keenly aware of AL's lack of a fatigue limit. What that means is that AL doesn't get weaker as stress increases, it just breaks under even a small amount of stress. This is why AL bikes have a reputation as being incredibly stiff, which is good on acceleration but hard on the body. The frame can't be allowed to flex because the aluminium will crack. Different alloys, however, have helped to an extend.
TI on the other hand, is heavier but strong than AL but still lighter than steel. More importantly it has a fatigue limit, which is very high IIRC. So you can actually make a light bicycle that can flex in some ways. That's just one way TI is better than AL. Of course, more and more bikes are going carbon fiber these days. Hopefully this process will give us more options for less.
"And a computer could be set and programmed to accept factors from youth, health, sexual fertility, intelligence, and a cross section of necessary skills."
No where in there does it say anything about attractiveness to females! 10 women for each man and you don't even have to attractive! Where do I sign up?! Nuclear war now!
IANAL but for a contract to be binding there must be considerations, which, as the parent pointed out, requires both parties to give up something of value. The end user in this case really didn't give up anything of value.
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Things always look rosy at the CIO level who never have to deal with calling the tech support. CDW is #1? Give me a break. They've screwed up our orders so many times. I want to see a survey done from the techies' level who actually have to deal with these people.
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My guess is that Microsoft probably backed the recent military coup. j/k
SLRs in general are much, much more versatile for tacking pictures than point and shoot. The bit about creative control is definitely true. I loved the N8008 but the film and development cost started to add up. I tend to play around with the various camera settings as a way to learn so I tend to take a lot of pictures of the same scene, etc. The DSLR allows me to do that.
I do disagree with the author on a minor point. Not all DSLRs are built to the same quality. Even within the Nikon family the D80/70/50 and even D100 are somewhat weak when compared to their professional DSLR and even traditional SLRs. Those models lack a metal framework. I suppose for most people that's not an issue but I expect my SLRs, digital or otherwise, to last and really go with me where ever I go. The N8008 did just that. I've used it on my roadtrips, taking pictures at the water falls (pretty water resistant camera). I don't have to baby it and I think I'll get the same from the D200. For the same reason, high quality DSLRs are heavy! The author already mentioned that but let me just point out that I take my point-and-shoot with me on my trips for times when I don't expect to take good pictures or when constantly holding the camera is not an option.
The rule of thumb in regards to Nikon vs Canon, for me at least, is Nikon cameras are more rugged with a strong framework inside and weatherproofing seals. They also tend to be faster with the shutters but Canon, from what I've read, tends to take higher quality pictures. For me, since I run around quite a bit, the choice was obviously Nikon (plus I already had an investment in their lenses that still work with the DSLRs).
The basic complain is that the NPA Personality is not really a widely accepted theory that was promoted on the Wikipedia by the author of the theory himself. Notable or not, the NPA Personality theory was published, thought not accepted. That doesn't make the article vandalism or a hoax. The author is self-promoting on Wikipedia and violates the no primary research rule. It doesn't really say anything about the Wikipedia system. The fact that it was caught and then voted for deletion means the Wikipedia is working. It's not vandalism nor a hoax. It's a long, edited article on an obscured, generally unacceptable theory in psychology promoted by a less than notable author. What's up with people trying to bash the Wikipedia?
Are you kidding me? This is not a case of an anti-immigration site being labelled racists. This is a case of a racist site pretending that they're only anti-immigration. This is the Virginia Dare society who've published articles that claimed that certain races are smarter than others, especially the one after Hurricane Katrina.
Actually, how can the real world be illogical and incomplete? I'm not trying to provoke a philosophical argument but a lot of us have our own sense of reality and logic/reason and the world doesn't always conform to that. The error is in our model/perspective, not the world. Our theory was incomplete and we were ignorant. If the world is illogical and incomplete, there's nothing we can do. However, if our theory is incomplete and we're ignorant, we can learn and observe some more and come up with a better model until we're satisfied with its approximation to reality.
We often come across behaviors that are in some ways contradictory to what we expect or think it ought to be. Only upon further examination do we understand why that is. The book Freakonomics have some good examples. Taking social psychology has helped me understand some of the "irrational" behaviors of people. As far as I can tell, knowledge and understanding generates happiness.
Are these going to be iPod killers or more along the lines of those henchmen sent to kill James Bond? The iPod's still going strong after years of predictions and they're still making Bond movies. On a more serious note, why is everyone so obsessed with making an iPod killer? How about just making a damn good MP3/music player? When companies become so obsessed with killing the iPod, they will inevitably try to imitate it and box in their own thinking. Maybe the iPod isn't the thing to focus on at all.
Actually IIRC, the Communist party in China only number in the few millions. The ranks have grown in recent years because of the boom and the advantages party membership gives you in business. Most Chinese are not Communists. In fact, I think most people around the world aren't very ideological and more pragmatic than their leaders. People just want to live and have a good life, whatever the official ideology might be.
What with China's political purges (50 million dead there), harvesting of political prisoners (millions dead there) for body parts, the citizens slaughtering their baby girls (200 million dead there), China is in every POSSIBLE way worse than Nazi Germany. Got a source to back up those numbers or did you pull that out of your ass? I'm a Chinese-American. Everyone except for one of my parents' siblings are alive. There're 2 women on my father's side and 1 on my mom's side. The only sibling who died was a boy. On paternal grandmother had eight siblings, boy and girl and they all lived to adulthood. In a population of 1.2 - 1.4 billion 200 million dead is still a lot of people and will easily cripple a nation. To say that China is worse than the Nazis is just purely offensive considering the Chinese themselves were victims of genocide (estimated 6 million killed by the Japanese). This was an article about outsourcing to China. Stop using it as a soapbox to spread your xenophobic views.
Your post seems to imply that AMD's stock price went down because of the Conroe and that the market has decided that the Conroe will crush AMD. That's misleading. Intel has recently slashed prices quite dramatically and initiated a new price war with AMD. That's the real cause of the stock price drop as margins in both companies are go down. The effects of new technology on Wall Street's thinking takes a little while to sink in. They're not nearly as quick as Slashdot.
If no one knows what he's being charged with, then it should make it easy to find him. He's sunbathing with all the other uncharged suspects in Guantanamo.
Your scenario completely ignores the development in anti-aircraft weapon in the last 50 years. If taking down an aircraft was nearly as easy as you've claimed, why did we even bother inventing things like Stingers and anti-aircraft weapons? An airplane on landing is still a fast moving target. Good luck hitting that with a .223 from a distance.
I didn't realized that pedophiles and their victims make up such a significant portion of the Internet population. I kid, I kid.
That's not true. Recumbents are faster on flat road and more aero-dynamic but try climbing hills with them. With a normal bike you can stand up and push if you really need to. A recumbent doesn't have room for that extra push. A recumbent won't have much of an advantage, if not a disadvantage, in something with mountains like the Tour de France.
Evil though he may be, MSFT also wants competence. Darl and the SCO crew would be disqualified based on that alone.
Dear Steve Ballmer,
At the rate Microsoft is losing executives to Google, you might be wondering how Microsoft is going to fill its ranks in the near future. Have no fear. I represent a client who have decades of managing large scale operations. His track record of coming up with complex plans for achieving great goals and his resiliency after failures speak for themselves. Most importantly, I can guarantee you that he will never, ever join Google because, like Microsoft, he too is inherently evil and hellbent on world domination.
I give you, Dr. Evil.
Best wishes,
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Of course not! The President is above the law. Remember, the Constituion is "just a goddamned piece of paper". Say "national security" and "terrorists" and we'll gladly approve anything.
Yes it does actually. It has ruled in the past about the meaning of a comma in some sentence of our tax code. That's how narrow it can get. In fact, the SCOTUS tend not to overrule previous rulings but rather distinguish a current case from a previous case. One of the goals of our legal system is for it to be predictable. SCOTUS tries to uphold that as much as possible. Part of the reason the Federal circuit was created specifically for patent laws is to prevent forum shopping which has a tendency to make patent cases unpredictable. IANAL.
Don't say "free" software. People associate "free" as in free beer with cheap. Remember the saying, "There's no free lunch"? Especially in a field filled with adwares, "free" can set off alarms. Why would these guys offer free software? There's must be a catch. That's what the viewers will think. Use open or some other word that makes people think "free as in freedom".
Following the naming convention of the "Peking Man", is this one going to be "Peking Duck"?
As a cyclist, we're keenly aware of AL's lack of a fatigue limit. What that means is that AL doesn't get weaker as stress increases, it just breaks under even a small amount of stress. This is why AL bikes have a reputation as being incredibly stiff, which is good on acceleration but hard on the body. The frame can't be allowed to flex because the aluminium will crack. Different alloys, however, have helped to an extend.
TI on the other hand, is heavier but strong than AL but still lighter than steel. More importantly it has a fatigue limit, which is very high IIRC. So you can actually make a light bicycle that can flex in some ways. That's just one way TI is better than AL. Of course, more and more bikes are going carbon fiber these days. Hopefully this process will give us more options for less.
No where in there does it say anything about attractiveness to females! 10 women for each man and you don't even have to attractive! Where do I sign up?! Nuclear war now!
IANAL but for a contract to be binding there must be considerations, which, as the parent pointed out, requires both parties to give up something of value. The end user in this case really didn't give up anything of value.