That's only six years away. Call me skeptical, but I bet it's more like 2018 at this point. With all the testing that is required and work remaining, I'd be really surprised if it's done in six years.
In a large area (entire housing development) where you have multiple sprinkle and drip systems, it is much easier to remotely administer the irrigation system instead of having to show up on site. So for instance, now that it is summer time here in AZ, you have to water differently than you did during the year. So part of your job as the landscaping crew is to adjust all of the irrigation systems. Now, there could be multiple units in the area that need to be adjusted. Instead of having to drive around to each zone and change the settings, you could call all of them up remotely and make your adjustments.
That's actually a pretty good idea. If you just stored out every keyword/tag from every video and then looked at the frequency of those keywords among videos you've watched, that could generally point you towards similar videos.
Well...as disturbing as that is (midget porn), you've got a good point about recommendations. I know this is "evil", but why not keep a cookie on the user's computer that contains all that information. The site could call it up when you login. If a person doesn't store it, or deletes their cookies, that data is lost. Oh well, but it would release google having to give out information that could be used against it.
Why would a company keep all of that information, especially when they know there is a high degree of certainty that they will be involved in some legal troubles later. Keeping this information is just asking for trouble. There probably are a few ways they use it, but it could easily be done without needing to keep a history. View counts, for instance, could just be incremented, and immediately the information about who viewed it could be thrown out. What about all of the related videos? Just create those links and throw out the information about the individuals that clicked between videos? It just doesn't make sense that when you will be offering a service that could come back to bit you in the rear, why would you keep information that could potentially show that you are doing something in a gray-area?
Just as a comment, yes, oil production costs have increased. When oil is @ $40 / barrel, it's economical to only go after certain supplies. That may mean that you can't drill through 5 miles of rock to get at oil, because it's not profitable. But, when oil is $100 / barrel, it now may make sense to go get that oil that is harder to extract, because you won't lose any money on it.
OK, what should appropriate profit margins be then? Would you rather discuss actual profit instead of a margin? Whom, and by what authority, should decide this, and with what criteria?
I guess I must be stupid then, because even when I've got Outlook running, I still use the time/date settings to check a date. Old habits die hard I guess.
Well first they could say:" Yes, they are spy satellites. Of course we have spy satellites. They cost roughly $153 million each, and there are 170 to 190 of them. We would like to keep their capabilities secret." At least then they aren't lieing like little children with stolen chocolate bar. Also then there can be some semblance of accountability. As it stands there is zero accountability. Zero accountability + huge military budget = dictatorship. Dictatorship!!??!! no no no, that's ridiculous: you say. Given the publics disapproval other "secret" government actions, like extraordinary rendition and wiretapping, I would say that most secret programs don't reflect the will of the people at all. Given that if there are in fact 180+ different spy satellites in the sky, then there have been more spy satellite launches than manned NASA missions.
I think it's better to say that it doesn't exist. How do you know it's one of ours and not one of theirs? Why would you want the government to acknowledge it, so your enemies know exactly which satellites are where, at what time, with which capabilities? That doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. Yeah, I'd love transparency, but we've still got enemies out there, and we can't let them know everything that is in our hand. I have nothing against what these guys have done, but the government has no need to comment on it.
I don't think that is an appropriate way to spend my tax dollars, but I gave no way to challenge that spending, even if my Congressional representative wanted to help me, because no one will even admit that these satellites exist. That makes every tax dollar spent on a "secret" project fall into the category of Taxation without Representation.
Sorry, but you failed. You are taxed. You have a vote. You therefore have representation. If you want a say in where the money goes, vote for individuals who agree with your viewpoint. If no one exists, run for office yourself so you have a say. I don't see what's so difficult about that. You most certainly are not taxed without representation.
It's a true knowledge of self that separates us from animals. It's knowledge of what you are, and that you are unique. A computer could fake it currently, but it doesn't know it.
Now, I know Google is supposed to be an absolute delight to work for, but there is also a certain "coolness" to working at Apple. Think about it, you get to work at the company that makes some of the coolest electronics and computers out there, wouldn't it be awesome to work there? That will go quite a ways towards bridging the salary gap. In addition, if Apple really started noticing its employees leaving en masse and couldn't find competent people at the salaries they offer, then they would definitely raise salaries to attract top talent. I don't think they are having much of a problem doing that with their current situation. And, if you don't have to arbitrarily raise salaries, why would you as a company do something that would cost you more if it wasn't required?
And nowhere was it implied that the stickers "caused" the person driving the car with said stickers to rage uncontrollably. As another commenter noted:
"Thanks for confirming that a sticker on your bumper does not reach psychic tentacles around the car, through your window, and into your amygdala to trigger bouts of psychosis. Because of your insight, we now understand that the study says something about the personality of people who affix the stickers, and not the insidious, mind-altering affects of the stickers themselves."
Ok, you must've failed reading comprehension. No where does it say that bumper stickers encourage road rage. It says the territoriality encourages road rage. This territoriality, which in the animal world is seen in such ways as peeing on a tree to mark your spot, is exhibited through such behaviors as putting bumper stickers on your car (marking your territory) and exhibiting road rage. Therefore, there is a correlation between bumper stickers on a car, and road rage incidents because the person driving that vehicle has a sense of territoriality, which is exhibited through putting stickers on their car and partaking in road rage. In other words, if you see someone driving around with stickers on their car, watch out, because it tells you a lot about the driver of that vehicle and what they are about.
I don't know if I would classify it as rage, so much as I would classify it as "entitlement" where those individuals feel they are entitled to drive the speed limit in whichever lane they so choose....bastards;-)
Well.....other drivers and their actions elicit the rage in others. You don't have road rage if you are the one doing 45 in a 55, but this action can cause others to rage. Frankly, that's not the problem of the person doing the dumb thing, it's the problem of the person who is letting their anger get the best of them. You saying "inconsiderate behavior" is a better predictor is not "Insightful". Of course, if someone acted inconsiderately, the other person is going to get angry. People aren't going to get angry for no reason. Bumper stickers are just a way that you can say on the road, "wow, those 18 bumper stickers about not eating meat might mean I should maybe give this person some room on the road."
OK....you know, I see this "correlation != causation" any time something comes up. These researchers did not say it was caused by it. They said it was linked. They said there was a correlation, not causation. What's the cause of road rage? Idiots who think they own the road. Guess what, these are the same people that tend to festoon their car with this crap, thus a correlation between crap on cars and road rage incidents. Insightful my ass....
You're right. Aerospace has been doing it, starting with the military, for 30-40 years now, but I just don't trust the auto manufacturers/ You'll have 30 different companies making 30 different types of systems....frightening. Drive by wire gas is fine. Drive by wire brakes is not.
I would like to see someone carry 40 board feet of wood (I also wood work) in a car, or put 2 giant dogs in a car, even in a station wagon, my great dane would have to duck the entire ride, not be able to stretch out at any point.... So do I. I put the seats down in my camry and I've been able to stow quite a few boards through the pass through. Also, I often have the guys cut it down to length for free at the lumberyard so I'm not trying to manuever 8-12ft long boards of hardwood.
The iPhone 3G is NOT slimmer - not if you look at the depth.
In fact it is a couple of mm's thicker than the predecessor No....that's not a fact, sorry.
It's actually only 0.7mm thicker, not "a couple of mm's".
Fine.... you create a set of randomized passwords. in order to use the service, you use the username of "starbucks" and one of the random passwords that is only good for one hour. You can tell your blackberry, phone, pda to use a certain login for the network, and that should do it. Same idea really.
How about just calling them "Third Person Action Games"...which would allow you to fit in DMC and GoW (God, not Gears....I'm actually talking about GOOD games here).
Oh, they have, and there are versions of the remote at a bunch of price points, but what the real problem is, is that Logitech doesn't advertise/market it really. See, their low-end ($99) stuff is on the same shelves next to the RCA and GE universal remotes, except those only cost $20, and all three come in the clamshell packaging. A customer in the store wouldn't understand why they should shell out for this "expensive" remote. So, they know there's a market, but they don't market it properly. Which, makes me think that Logitech's heart isn't really in it. They look at themselves as just a peripheral manufacturer. When was the last time you saw an ad for a Logitech product in anything other than a computer/game magazine? So I guess, I agree with pretty much everything you've said except for the stripped down cheap version.
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That's only six years away. Call me skeptical, but I bet it's more like 2018 at this point. With all the testing that is required and work remaining, I'd be really surprised if it's done in six years.
In a large area (entire housing development) where you have multiple sprinkle and drip systems, it is much easier to remotely administer the irrigation system instead of having to show up on site. So for instance, now that it is summer time here in AZ, you have to water differently than you did during the year. So part of your job as the landscaping crew is to adjust all of the irrigation systems. Now, there could be multiple units in the area that need to be adjusted. Instead of having to drive around to each zone and change the settings, you could call all of them up remotely and make your adjustments.
That's actually a pretty good idea. If you just stored out every keyword/tag from every video and then looked at the frequency of those keywords among videos you've watched, that could generally point you towards similar videos.
Well...as disturbing as that is (midget porn), you've got a good point about recommendations. I know this is "evil", but why not keep a cookie on the user's computer that contains all that information. The site could call it up when you login. If a person doesn't store it, or deletes their cookies, that data is lost. Oh well, but it would release google having to give out information that could be used against it.
Why would a company keep all of that information, especially when they know there is a high degree of certainty that they will be involved in some legal troubles later. Keeping this information is just asking for trouble. There probably are a few ways they use it, but it could easily be done without needing to keep a history. View counts, for instance, could just be incremented, and immediately the information about who viewed it could be thrown out. What about all of the related videos? Just create those links and throw out the information about the individuals that clicked between videos? It just doesn't make sense that when you will be offering a service that could come back to bit you in the rear, why would you keep information that could potentially show that you are doing something in a gray-area?
Just as a comment, yes, oil production costs have increased. When oil is @ $40 / barrel, it's economical to only go after certain supplies. That may mean that you can't drill through 5 miles of rock to get at oil, because it's not profitable. But, when oil is $100 / barrel, it now may make sense to go get that oil that is harder to extract, because you won't lose any money on it.
OK, what should appropriate profit margins be then? Would you rather discuss actual profit instead of a margin? Whom, and by what authority, should decide this, and with what criteria?
I guess I must be stupid then, because even when I've got Outlook running, I still use the time/date settings to check a date. Old habits die hard I guess.
I think it's better to say that it doesn't exist. How do you know it's one of ours and not one of theirs? Why would you want the government to acknowledge it, so your enemies know exactly which satellites are where, at what time, with which capabilities? That doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. Yeah, I'd love transparency, but we've still got enemies out there, and we can't let them know everything that is in our hand. I have nothing against what these guys have done, but the government has no need to comment on it.
I don't think that is an appropriate way to spend my tax dollars, but I gave no way to challenge that spending, even if my Congressional representative wanted to help me, because no one will even admit that these satellites exist. That makes every tax dollar spent on a "secret" project fall into the category of Taxation without Representation.Sorry, but you failed. You are taxed. You have a vote. You therefore have representation. If you want a say in where the money goes, vote for individuals who agree with your viewpoint. If no one exists, run for office yourself so you have a say. I don't see what's so difficult about that. You most certainly are not taxed without representation.
It's a true knowledge of self that separates us from animals. It's knowledge of what you are, and that you are unique. A computer could fake it currently, but it doesn't know it.
They've got an awful lot of talented people, so something is tilting the favor that direction, and it's obviously not the money....
Now, I know Google is supposed to be an absolute delight to work for, but there is also a certain "coolness" to working at Apple. Think about it, you get to work at the company that makes some of the coolest electronics and computers out there, wouldn't it be awesome to work there? That will go quite a ways towards bridging the salary gap. In addition, if Apple really started noticing its employees leaving en masse and couldn't find competent people at the salaries they offer, then they would definitely raise salaries to attract top talent. I don't think they are having much of a problem doing that with their current situation. And, if you don't have to arbitrarily raise salaries, why would you as a company do something that would cost you more if it wasn't required?
And nowhere was it implied that the stickers "caused" the person driving the car with said stickers to rage uncontrollably. As another commenter noted: "Thanks for confirming that a sticker on your bumper does not reach psychic tentacles around the car, through your window, and into your amygdala to trigger bouts of psychosis. Because of your insight, we now understand that the study says something about the personality of people who affix the stickers, and not the insidious, mind-altering affects of the stickers themselves."
And for a second I thought it might've been the glue ;-)
Ok, you must've failed reading comprehension. No where does it say that bumper stickers encourage road rage. It says the territoriality encourages road rage. This territoriality, which in the animal world is seen in such ways as peeing on a tree to mark your spot, is exhibited through such behaviors as putting bumper stickers on your car (marking your territory) and exhibiting road rage. Therefore, there is a correlation between bumper stickers on a car, and road rage incidents because the person driving that vehicle has a sense of territoriality, which is exhibited through putting stickers on their car and partaking in road rage. In other words, if you see someone driving around with stickers on their car, watch out, because it tells you a lot about the driver of that vehicle and what they are about.
I don't know if I would classify it as rage, so much as I would classify it as "entitlement" where those individuals feel they are entitled to drive the speed limit in whichever lane they so choose....bastards ;-)
Well.....other drivers and their actions elicit the rage in others. You don't have road rage if you are the one doing 45 in a 55, but this action can cause others to rage. Frankly, that's not the problem of the person doing the dumb thing, it's the problem of the person who is letting their anger get the best of them. You saying "inconsiderate behavior" is a better predictor is not "Insightful". Of course, if someone acted inconsiderately, the other person is going to get angry. People aren't going to get angry for no reason. Bumper stickers are just a way that you can say on the road, "wow, those 18 bumper stickers about not eating meat might mean I should maybe give this person some room on the road."
OK....you know, I see this "correlation != causation" any time something comes up. These researchers did not say it was caused by it. They said it was linked. They said there was a correlation, not causation. What's the cause of road rage? Idiots who think they own the road. Guess what, these are the same people that tend to festoon their car with this crap, thus a correlation between crap on cars and road rage incidents. Insightful my ass....
You're right. Aerospace has been doing it, starting with the military, for 30-40 years now, but I just don't trust the auto manufacturers/ You'll have 30 different companies making 30 different types of systems....frightening. Drive by wire gas is fine. Drive by wire brakes is not.
It's actually only 0.7mm thicker, not "a couple of mm's".
Fine.... you create a set of randomized passwords. in order to use the service, you use the username of "starbucks" and one of the random passwords that is only good for one hour. You can tell your blackberry, phone, pda to use a certain login for the network, and that should do it. Same idea really.
How about just calling them "Third Person Action Games"...which would allow you to fit in DMC and GoW (God, not Gears....I'm actually talking about GOOD games here).
I remember playing it on a mac....but macs were fairly popular at that time.
Oh, they have, and there are versions of the remote at a bunch of price points, but what the real problem is, is that Logitech doesn't advertise/market it really. See, their low-end ($99) stuff is on the same shelves next to the RCA and GE universal remotes, except those only cost $20, and all three come in the clamshell packaging. A customer in the store wouldn't understand why they should shell out for this "expensive" remote. So, they know there's a market, but they don't market it properly. Which, makes me think that Logitech's heart isn't really in it. They look at themselves as just a peripheral manufacturer. When was the last time you saw an ad for a Logitech product in anything other than a computer/game magazine? So I guess, I agree with pretty much everything you've said except for the stripped down cheap version.