Humans also get distracted fairly easily, and can't always predict when. "Just stepping away from the computer for 15 seconds" can easily become "get dragged into something and come back half an hour later".
Which is why humans have little place in any sort of efficient workspace and should be replaced...
If he had decided instead to pump out two or three trilogies filling in the years between The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, I wouldn't defend him at all.
Yeah, but what if he was actually a really good writer and those turned out to be well written trilogies that meshed with The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings almost perfectly?
20 books? Can you buy a new non-used non-fiction hardcover textbook for less than $7?
Sure, in lots of places there's cheaper editions of many of the same books we have... They're printed on cheaper paper, cheaper ink, cheaper binding, and have lots of pages of ads for other books by the same publisher in the back, but they cost a lot less... They're usually printed with stuff like "for sale in Indian subcontinent and Africa only".
When I left my last job in September, at a big European software and IT services company's office in Pune, India, I had to get the IT department's signature on my "leaving papers". I went to their office, got a signature and my network account was disabled before I even got back to my desk...
My teammates kept offering me their computers to surf the web to pass the time, but I declined. I told them if my account was disabled, I didn't want any suspicions on me for using one of their computers in case anything went wrong. Better that I just stick to the rules and sit at a locked computer chit-chatting with my team until it was time to go. And then the computer was physically removed from the desk before I was...
On the other hand, at the computer I worked at before then and left in 2007, as far as I know some of the developers are still using my computer and account for the work they picked up from me... I thought I modified the program and wrote good enough directions they could've done it from their own systems, but they liked the reliability. Whatever...
The MSN article's headline is a lot more dramatic, "Earth in 'crosshairs' of solar explosion". Makes it sound like a disaster waiting to happen... Fortunately the article isn't as bad.
Boy, I could use that... I only recently moved to Brooklyn, NY (previous places I lived: Waldport Oregon, Portland Oregon, Pune India...) and I don't know where the borders of some of the neighborhoods are. I work in Crown Heights and I know that's a bad one (two murders in December on the very block where my office is located!) but where does it end and Bed-Stuy begin? That'd be worse...
At least Manhattan is pretty safe for almost all of it except the far north...
But also, a paper map isn't going to talk to you in an authoritative voice that sounds like it knows where you're going. While the GPS isn't going to stop and say "hmm... Looks like a bad road, we'd better go back and try another".
At least with a paper map, we're more likely to look at more than just the destination and make some sort of plan.
I do find it somewhat humorous the one thing the radio-host could not stop talking about was how "...No one makes carbon paper any more..." which is completely false and so easily disproved it isn't funny.
Carbon Paper?
Wow, I haven't seen carbon paper since... Hmm... I guess not since last night when I took my laundry to the dry cleaner around the corner and he used carbon paper to write on the ticket, giving me the carbon copy to bring back later this week...
I've been having the same problem, every time I offload a weekend's photos (just moved to New York City, spending my free time exploring) my hard drive gets near full. I've been deleting things, moving things to an 750 GB external drive and all that. It's getting to be a pain in the neck.
I've decided to drop down to 6 megapixel photos as well just so they're not so big.
Really, what works best for the photos is to get a box of crayons. Study each picture on the screen and using your hands and the crayons, copy it onto a sheet of paper, then store those in the closet.
I agree that albums can yield a greater experience but how is buying a single different than listening to a single on the radio?
Well, when I ran a pirate radio station out of my dorm room in college, I never played single Pink Floyd tracks, I always played the whole album (and with a CD changer, several whole albums in a row...).
I would think one possible defense on the final day's poisoning search is they were looking for a cure... It happened, "by accident" and they wanted to figure out how to save her...
Hopefully the police have more evidence than merely circumstantial stuff from the internet searches...
In addition to the random access and ease or fun of flipping through, most magazines are bigger than the iPad.
Sure with some you can zoom in with the pinch, but it's not the same as simply having a bigger magazine.
I haven't tried any of the magazine apps, but if I compare with the comic book ones, it's a lot easier reading a comic book or graphic novel on paper than dealing with the app.
Slashdot Mirror
What if he just sends them an email instead of visiting?
Or really is "rogue." Adds a pirate-like eye patch and hat... That would be more fun, anyway...
In 140 characters? "The difference between me and madmen is I am a madman"?
Humans also get distracted fairly easily, and can't always predict when. "Just stepping away from the computer for 15 seconds" can easily become "get dragged into something and come back half an hour later".
Which is why humans have little place in any sort of efficient workspace and should be replaced...
If he had decided instead to pump out two or three trilogies filling in the years between The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, I wouldn't defend him at all.
Yeah, but what if he was actually a really good writer and those turned out to be well written trilogies that meshed with The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings almost perfectly?
20 books? Can you buy a new non-used non-fiction hardcover textbook for less than $7?
Sure, in lots of places there's cheaper editions of many of the same books we have... They're printed on cheaper paper, cheaper ink, cheaper binding, and have lots of pages of ads for other books by the same publisher in the back, but they cost a lot less... They're usually printed with stuff like "for sale in Indian subcontinent and Africa only".
When I left my last job in September, at a big European software and IT services company's office in Pune, India, I had to get the IT department's signature on my "leaving papers". I went to their office, got a signature and my network account was disabled before I even got back to my desk...
My teammates kept offering me their computers to surf the web to pass the time, but I declined. I told them if my account was disabled, I didn't want any suspicions on me for using one of their computers in case anything went wrong. Better that I just stick to the rules and sit at a locked computer chit-chatting with my team until it was time to go. And then the computer was physically removed from the desk before I was...
On the other hand, at the computer I worked at before then and left in 2007, as far as I know some of the developers are still using my computer and account for the work they picked up from me... I thought I modified the program and wrote good enough directions they could've done it from their own systems, but they liked the reliability. Whatever...
The MSN article's headline is a lot more dramatic, "Earth in 'crosshairs' of solar explosion". Makes it sound like a disaster waiting to happen... Fortunately the article isn't as bad.
I used to vote for him. But now I've moved to New York...
Are there any maps showing the bad neighborhoods?
Boy, I could use that... I only recently moved to Brooklyn, NY (previous places I lived: Waldport Oregon, Portland Oregon, Pune India...) and I don't know where the borders of some of the neighborhoods are. I work in Crown Heights and I know that's a bad one (two murders in December on the very block where my office is located!) but where does it end and Bed-Stuy begin? That'd be worse...
At least Manhattan is pretty safe for almost all of it except the far north...
But also, a paper map isn't going to talk to you in an authoritative voice that sounds like it knows where you're going. While the GPS isn't going to stop and say "hmm... Looks like a bad road, we'd better go back and try another".
At least with a paper map, we're more likely to look at more than just the destination and make some sort of plan.
I do find it somewhat humorous the one thing the radio-host could not stop talking about was how "...No one makes carbon paper any more..." which is completely false and so easily disproved it isn't funny.
Carbon Paper?
Wow, I haven't seen carbon paper since... Hmm... I guess not since last night when I took my laundry to the dry cleaner around the corner and he used carbon paper to write on the ticket, giving me the carbon copy to bring back later this week...
Not to mention Central Park in New York City...
I'll bet many of his victims sang the song while dying... "Look on the bright side of life" about the good they were doing to the environment...
This move will utterly kill the platform.
Well, that's one way to cut down on piracy.
I've been having the same problem, every time I offload a weekend's photos (just moved to New York City, spending my free time exploring) my hard drive gets near full. I've been deleting things, moving things to an 750 GB external drive and all that. It's getting to be a pain in the neck.
I've decided to drop down to 6 megapixel photos as well just so they're not so big.
Really, what works best for the photos is to get a box of crayons. Study each picture on the screen and using your hands and the crayons, copy it onto a sheet of paper, then store those in the closet.
They can make digital downloads of music.
Well, I guess that would be 18M per CD per Month, whatever that means...
At least no one was hurt. White collar crimes only hurt insurance companies right?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124165229009493675.html
Maybe there should be a new category, in addition to "white collar" there could be "black stethescope" crimes.
Scotty: "how quaint"
I think it sounds corny and silly enough to actually be amusing.
I agree that albums can yield a greater experience but how is buying a single different than listening to a single on the radio?
Well, when I ran a pirate radio station out of my dorm room in college, I never played single Pink Floyd tracks, I always played the whole album (and with a CD changer, several whole albums in a row...).
I would think one possible defense on the final day's poisoning search is they were looking for a cure... It happened, "by accident" and they wanted to figure out how to save her...
Hopefully the police have more evidence than merely circumstantial stuff from the internet searches...
In addition to the random access and ease or fun of flipping through, most magazines are bigger than the iPad.
Sure with some you can zoom in with the pinch, but it's not the same as simply having a bigger magazine.
I haven't tried any of the magazine apps, but if I compare with the comic book ones, it's a lot easier reading a comic book or graphic novel on paper than dealing with the app.
Mine bloody well went off, and I didn't want it to! I wanted to sleep in.