The electoral college assures that each candidate will visit every state, not just the ones needed to win. If we did it by popular vote, a Democrat would win nearly every time because CA, NY, and a couple of other states have the most population.
Huh? Is it just me or is this the complete opposite of reality?
Beats the hell out of me. Why anybody can't see that if Bush had two heads he'd be twice as stupid is beyond me. The man in the White House needs to be able to read about and understand the issues rather than just declaring that they're a lot more simple than they really are.
Because the remains are relatively recent and not fossilised, scientists are even hopeful they might yield DNA, which could provide an entirely new perspective on the evolution of the human lineage.
I can see it now, cloned hobbits / leprachauns in an isolated island park!
I seem to remember Mpaquest offering this sort of service for free a few years back. Anybody know what became of it? I remember getting an arial view of my apartment in Sunnyvale as well as a map to it.
Allerca in the news The interest in ALLERCA'S first lifestyle pet, the hypoallergenic cat, has been tremendous.
Featured in many newspapers, magazines, radio, television and top web sites, read what the
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Er, I've seen this word used all the time and I never saw anyone else crying about it. And posting as an AC is usually a sure sign that you're trolling.
Terrorism has also created a switch in what consumers deem to be necessary equipment as they drive. It is the ability to communicate, not to be entertained, that seems to matter most to Americans, some industry officials have concluded.
You know what? Please don't mod me troll, but do I wish USAians would get over this terror thing. Countries like the UK and Spain have had to put up with terrorism and the the threat of terrorism for decades, but they haven't developed a culture of fear, and it has not stopped them from getting on with their lives as normal. This 'but what would the terrorists think?' automatic reaction to just about everything is starting to get a bit old.
And another thing, I could have sworn that it was illegal in the UK to have a TV playing within view of the driver.
I've never seen anyone be fanatic about proprietary software.
I'm a member of a Macromedia User Group and some of the people in it are pretty keen on their stuff. I think it's because of the cool stuff you can do with Macromedia software like video and dynamic data handling in Flash. Apple users are pretty keen too.
I dislike the term 'zealot' though. I would say 'enthusiast.' The term 'zealot' is just a blatent piece of invective designed to denounce someone, like a recent Fox News article that refered to groups opposed to sprawl as the 'anti sprawl mob.'
Personally I would be a fan of any well-written software that lets you do cool stuff be it open source or proprietary.
They have a very attractive website but this is the first I have ever heard of them, and try as I might I hunted high and low for a short, snappy answer to the questions of who are these people and what do they do? A link saying "about us" or a short paragraph explaining what they do would be a help. If I spent a bit more time there and trawled through the many articles I may have eventually figured it out, but my frustration threshold had already been passed and I had moved along.
Somehow I don't think that his spaceships will have to navigate through a clapped-out, congested, and bottleneck-ridden network before getting into space. I wish the Virgin-bashers would pin the blame where it belongs for the state of the network. If trains are late it's hardly the fault of Virgin, Network Rail is responsible for making it possible for the damn things to run on time.
In response to Mr. Gates' comments, General Motors issued the following press release (by Mr. Welch himself, the GM CEO).
If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics:
1. Every time they repainted the lines on the road, you'd have to buy a new car.
2. Occasionally your car would just die on the motorway for no reason, and you'd have to restart it. For some strange reason, you'd just accept this, restart and drive on.
3. Occasionally, executing a manoeuvre would cause your car to stop and fail to restart and you'd have to re-install the engine. For some strange reason, you'd just accept this too.
4. You could only have one person in the car at a time, unless you bought a "Car 95" or a "Car NT". But then you'd have to buy more seats.
5. Amiga would make a car that was powered by the sun, was twice as reliable, five times as fast, twice as easy to drive - but it would only run on five percent of the roads.
6. Macintosh car owners would get expensive Microsoft upgrades to their cars which would make their cars go much slower.
7. The oil, engine, gas and alternator warning lights would be replaced with a single "General Car Fault" warning light.
8. People would get excited about the "new" features in Microsoft cars, forgetting completely that they had been available in other cars for many years.
9. We'd all have to switch to Microsoft gas and all auto fluids but the packaging would be superb.
10. New seats would force everyone to have the same size butt.
11. The airbag system would say "Are you sure?" before going off.
12. If you were involved in a crash, you would have no idea what happened.
13. They wouldn't build their own engines, but form a cartel with their engine suppliers. The latest engine would have 16 cylinders, multi-point fuel injection and 4 turbos, but it would be a side-valve design so you could use Model-T Ford parts on it.
14. There would be an "Engium Pro" with bigger turbos, but it would be slower on most existing roads.
15. Microsoft cars would have a special radio/cassette player which would only be able to listen to Microsoft FM, and play Microsoft Cassettes. Unless of course, you buy the upgrade to use existing stuff.
16. Microsoft would do so well, because even though they don't own any roads, all of the road manufacturers would give away Microsoft cars free, including IBM!
17. If you still ran old versions of car (ie. CarDOS 6.22/CarWIN 3.11), then you would be called old fashioned, but you would be able to drive much faster, and on more roads!
18. If you couldn't afford to buy a new car, then you could just borrow your friends, and then copy it.
19. Whenever you bought a car, you would have to reorganise the ignition for a few days before it worked.
20. You would need to buy an upgrade to run cars on a motorway next to each other.
Instead of going to the video store or getting your Netflix in the mail, it's going to show up in your TiVo. It's a natural. It doesn't matter if it takes a day to get there, because Netflix takes a day anyway. People will get used to having a pipeline where content drips through. The transition to electronic distribution will be complete and we won't be dealing with physical media.
I've been hearing about the impending explosion of video on demand for about five years now. Video seems extraordinarily stubbornly stuck to physical media.
Suppose you download a video from the future TiVo/Netflix service and it takes the best part of a day. What if your local copy has been corrupted along the way? They'd better make sure and get their technology right and make it possible to download the screwed-up part alone -- I'd be a bit pissed if I had to retry a whole download from scratch if it took that long.
Capitalism only works if the buyer searches for products they actually want/need at the best quality and lowest price.
So how do you explain those two big companies making a fortune selling overpriced sugared water to the masses? How do you explain European car manufacturers selling arguably lower quality cars than the Japanese but charging higher prices and getting away with it because of their pre-established image and prestige? (Note: Lexus may be a big status symbol in the US but in Europe it's still Mercedes and BMW that command the most prestige.)
The marketing of products and services on their perceived value has been a feature of capitalism for a long time. Did you know that the majority of the cost of perfume is in the marketing and packaging? If someone were to sell it by the gallon in a tin can, people wouldn't buy it. When microwave ovens came along with digital controls, manufacturers still charged more for the digital controls even though they were cheaper and easier to produce than the old mechanical ones because that's what the public thought they should cost.
Look at the Volkswagen-Audi group. They're masters of badge engineering. They can charge a small fortune for a Golf but sell virtually the same car for a lot less with the SEAT or Skoda badges on the front.
That article in the Indy, which focusses on the soda market, overlooked the effects of addiction. I used to have a major problem with cravings for sugar, particularly sodas. Four months ago I read a friend's online diary where she said that she had gone cold turkey and stopped drinking soda four years ago. I was inspired to go cold turkey as well. In the first few weeks, the sight of a coke sign or a carboard cut-out of a sparkling glass of Pepsi at KFC was enough to give me cravings (which I thankfully resisted) but nowadays I find this kind of advertising having less of an effect on me. I still get the occasional little craving, but since soda has been well and truly purged from my system, it's no longer the overpowering urge that once propelled me out of the office and to the nearest vending machine.
Okay, now will someone please tell me what 'yakking' is? These are serious questions here, I wish I hadn't been modded 'funny' because I would really like to know what the author was talking about.
I'd say they are innovative in terms of business practices, but as you say you could just say they are improvements. Semantics.
As for easyjet, they're only in the short-haul business - very different from long haul where you've gotta make your passengers comfortable and where the no food no frills approach would not cut it.
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I seem to remember Mpaquest offering this sort of service for free a few years back. Anybody know what became of it? I remember getting an arial view of my apartment in Sunnyvale as well as a map to it.
Er, I've seen this word used all the time and I never saw anyone else crying about it. And posting as an AC is usually a sure sign that you're trolling.
I wish the yanks would get over this terror thing.
There. Happy now?
And another thing, I could have sworn that it was illegal in the UK to have a TV playing within view of the driver.
I dislike the term 'zealot' though. I would say 'enthusiast.' The term 'zealot' is just a blatent piece of invective designed to denounce someone, like a recent Fox News article that refered to groups opposed to sprawl as the 'anti sprawl mob.'
Personally I would be a fan of any well-written software that lets you do cool stuff be it open source or proprietary.
They have a very attractive website but this is the first I have ever heard of them, and try as I might I hunted high and low for a short, snappy answer to the questions of who are these people and what do they do? A link saying "about us" or a short paragraph explaining what they do would be a help. If I spent a bit more time there and trawled through the many articles I may have eventually figured it out, but my frustration threshold had already been passed and I had moved along.
A good lesson there for potential Bush voters.
Somehow I don't think that his spaceships will have to navigate through a clapped-out, congested, and bottleneck-ridden network before getting into space. I wish the Virgin-bashers would pin the blame where it belongs for the state of the network. If trains are late it's hardly the fault of Virgin, Network Rail is responsible for making it possible for the damn things to run on time.
Suppose you download a video from the future TiVo/Netflix service and it takes the best part of a day. What if your local copy has been corrupted along the way? They'd better make sure and get their technology right and make it possible to download the screwed-up part alone -- I'd be a bit pissed if I had to retry a whole download from scratch if it took that long.
The marketing of products and services on their perceived value has been a feature of capitalism for a long time. Did you know that the majority of the cost of perfume is in the marketing and packaging? If someone were to sell it by the gallon in a tin can, people wouldn't buy it. When microwave ovens came along with digital controls, manufacturers still charged more for the digital controls even though they were cheaper and easier to produce than the old mechanical ones because that's what the public thought they should cost.
Look at the Volkswagen-Audi group. They're masters of badge engineering. They can charge a small fortune for a Golf but sell virtually the same car for a lot less with the SEAT or Skoda badges on the front.
It's all about perception.
That article in the Indy, which focusses on the soda market, overlooked the effects of addiction. I used to have a major problem with cravings for sugar, particularly sodas. Four months ago I read a friend's online diary where she said that she had gone cold turkey and stopped drinking soda four years ago. I was inspired to go cold turkey as well. In the first few weeks, the sight of a coke sign or a carboard cut-out of a sparkling glass of Pepsi at KFC was enough to give me cravings (which I thankfully resisted) but nowadays I find this kind of advertising having less of an effect on me. I still get the occasional little craving, but since soda has been well and truly purged from my system, it's no longer the overpowering urge that once propelled me out of the office and to the nearest vending machine.
My thoughts exactly. Are black voters a 'swing state?' Are latino voters a 'swing state?'
I think a lot of resentment the guy meets here comes from the French-sounding name. I, for one, found it an interesting submission.
As for easyjet, they're only in the short-haul business - very different from long haul where you've gotta make your passengers comfortable and where the no food no frills approach would not cut it.