It took me less than 3 seconds on my 20 Meg connection
20 MB/s unfortunately is prohibitively expensive for an individual - and probably most businesses, considering that 85% of all businesses have a gross revenue of less than £100,000 per annum - in most of the world.
Tell Me again why I should care about a company whose message has been made unavailable to me through the needless use of bandwidth.
Or perhaps that's what their business is really doing - in my day they called that churn and it's already been shown to be a failed business model !
Damn, I hate it when the left chevron (AKA "less than") doesn't appear on comments
Didn't hit the preview button, eh ?
Besides, we prefer underscore as a word seperator
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Yes, this is the worst car analogy ever made, did you like it?
No, because your misspelling of the trivial word brake, confusingly spelled correctly on the first usage, then never spelled correctly again, made me wonder what the hell you were getting at !
... a bill was introduced in Missouri (I think) which would have set the *official* value of pi to 3. It seems somebody decided it would be easier for children to learn how to use it. Well, that's Missouri for you !
That's it, you have all the proof you need. Microsoft is admitting they can't make any money from their monopoly position in the OS arena, or from any of their amazingly over-priced, yet still incredibly crappy software, so they have to turn to advertising revenue. And, of course, they are playing catch-up yet again, having missed not only 'the whole internet thing', and then losing the search engine wars.
I'm not wringing my hands with glee, but I will say, I'm not at all sad to see this development.
Your job clearly doesn't contribute much at all to the real economy if you can do it sitting at home in front of a computer. Try actually *making* something via telecommuting.
Evolution tries to control the effect of random gene mutation through natural selection. Basically evolution sees randomness as a bad thing unless it produces a being (plant, animal insect, whatever) which solves an existing problem better. Thinking anything else is just wrong.
Surely this is all moot with the advent of.NET and dynamic compilation at our fingertips. Now, nobody needs to worry what your code does, because all it does is run
Sorry, how is this any different than any other encyclopedia. Guaranteed, within the Brittanica organization, the same structure exists (obviously not exactly the same), similarly within Comptons (do they still publish?), or any other encyclopedia publisher. This is the human condition. The great thing about Wikipedia is that so many people have eyes on it. Like the man said, "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow"
Becoming more and more correct as each day passes. I find it astonishing that advertising can generate so much revenue. I also find it saddening, that a 'technology company' can have advertising as their 'product'
My last remark in that comment was based on my immediate perception of the USA from Europe, sorry.
Hmmm... Let's list the first nation with an emission test for vehicles. (California 1966, USA 1968)
How about the first legislation on auto manufacturers for fuel efficiency (USA 1975)
Now, just to be sure, let's list the top five carbon emitting nations - per capita.
Qatar, Kuwait, UAE, Luxembourg, Trinidad and Tobago (weird)
I hope this helps to change your perception. Granted, some of our policies are misguided, or downright stupid, but that's a lot different than intentionally negligent.
except NASCAR is pointless, trivial, and intellectually vapid. I might consider NASCAR worthy of something other than scorn if the course was something other than an oval, the automobiles were technologically sophisticated (who wants to drive a Monte Carlo?), and the drivers didn't all talk like Cletus Spuckler.
Brandine: "Dang, Cletus! Why'd you have to park so close to my parents?"
Cletus: "Now honey, they's mah parents too!"
And a good thing too. It is always wise to treat any individuals perception of the truth with skepticism. No scientist worth his salt will disagree that a healthy skepticism is a key ingredient to any scientific discovery or analysis. The fact is there is simply too much that is not known about the impact of humans on the environment to treat 'An Inconvenient Truth' as gospel.
The Russians have typically taken an empirical, "what me worry?" approach. They have taken a band-aid approach to problems, and their management has mostly about burying and denying issues.
Sorry, I have to call bollocks on that.
The Russian solution has historically been based on the KISS principle. This usually resulted in use of much less 'sophisticated' technology, but also allowed them to deliver cheaper, and more quickly than their NASA counterparts. Implicitly, this also meant that the number of possible failure modes were reduced.
Meanwhile NASA has historically chosen innovative, 'high tech' solutions, which have a correspondingly high risk.
For sure any management problems the Russians have pale in comparison to what goes on in NASA. Eastern Europeans (including Russians) have a pretty low tolerance for the type of intellectual bullshit that seems to thrive in the technology sector in the US, and NASA is not immune - in fact it has been shown they contribute disproportionaly - to that.
America's actions in the post-war era were as much enlightened self-interest as altruism
Name me a nation/group/individual that does anything for strictly altruistic motives.
Such a motivation has never been the source of action in the history of humanity.
We may only judge on how well balanced the actions are.
In this context, there can be little doubt about how America measures up.
Sorry to go on about this, but viewing the American society from abroad, as objectively as I possibly can, makes me realize how grateful I am that they are always there when the world needs them.
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.... barely over 5 minutes per year ?
I spend that much time every day with my finger up my nose
It took me less than 3 seconds on my 20 Meg connection
20 MB/s unfortunately is prohibitively expensive for an individual - and probably most businesses, considering that 85% of all businesses have a gross revenue of less than £100,000 per annum - in most of the world.
Tell Me again why I should care about a company whose message has been made unavailable to me through the needless use of bandwidth.
Or perhaps that's what their business is really doing - in my day they called that churn and it's already been shown to be a failed business model !
I had never heard of this $800 million company, so I immediately visited their website http://www.tellme.com/.
Actually, that's a lie, after watching Flash load their site for about 30 seconds (on a 4 Meg broadband connection) I gave up.
Can someone please tell me what this Tellme thing is please.
Damn, I hate it when the left chevron (AKA "less than") doesn't appear on comments
Didn't hit the preview button, eh ?
Besides, we prefer underscore as a word seperator
while (cost_of_legal_staff < 1,337,000,000) {
stall();
cost_of_legal_staff += yearly_legal_cost;
}
Yes, this is the worst car analogy ever made, did you like it?
No, because your misspelling of the trivial word brake, confusingly spelled correctly on the first usage, then never spelled correctly again, made me wonder what the hell you were getting at !
... a bill was introduced in Missouri (I think) which would have set the *official* value of pi to 3. It seems somebody decided it would be easier for children to learn how to use it. Well, that's Missouri for you !
Try getting Sage (Accounting software) to run - if you can do that, I'll never need Windows again.
OK, you're a skeptic. Index of refraction is everything.
That's it, you have all the proof you need. Microsoft is admitting they can't make any money from their monopoly position in the OS arena, or from any of their amazingly over-priced, yet still incredibly crappy software, so they have to turn to advertising revenue. And, of course, they are playing catch-up yet again, having missed not only 'the whole internet thing', and then losing the search engine wars.
I'm not wringing my hands with glee, but I will say, I'm not at all sad to see this development.
Your job clearly doesn't contribute much at all to the real economy if you can do it sitting at home in front of a computer. Try actually *making* something via telecommuting.
Evolution tries to control the effect of random gene mutation through natural selection. Basically evolution sees randomness as a bad thing unless it produces a being (plant, animal insect, whatever) which solves an existing problem better.
Thinking anything else is just wrong.
Surely this is all moot with the advent of .NET and dynamic compilation at our fingertips. Now, nobody needs to worry what your code does, because all it does is run
while(true)
{
string compile_me = get_input();
execution_unit exec = compile(compile_me);
exec.execute(get_args());
}
Sorry, how is this any different than any other encyclopedia. Guaranteed, within the Brittanica organization, the same structure exists (obviously not exactly the same), similarly within Comptons (do they still publish?), or any other encyclopedia publisher. This is the human condition. The great thing about Wikipedia is that so many people have eyes on it. Like the man said, "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow"
the value of hours minutes and seconds, so that we don't have to have the leaps in the first place. Solve the problem: a day is not 24 hours.
Becoming more and more correct as each day passes. I find it astonishing that advertising can generate so much revenue. I also find it saddening, that a 'technology company' can have advertising as their 'product'
That's not as bad as London's £1 billion tent http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Dome !
My last remark in that comment was based on my immediate perception of the USA from Europe, sorry.
Hmmm... Let's list the first nation with an emission test for vehicles. (California 1966, USA 1968)
How about the first legislation on auto manufacturers for fuel efficiency (USA 1975)
Now, just to be sure, let's list the top five carbon emitting nations - per capita.
Qatar, Kuwait, UAE, Luxembourg, Trinidad and Tobago (weird)
I hope this helps to change your perception. Granted, some of our policies are misguided, or downright stupid, but that's a lot different than intentionally negligent.
except NASCAR is pointless, trivial, and intellectually vapid. I might consider NASCAR worthy of something other than scorn if the course was something other than an oval, the automobiles were technologically sophisticated (who wants to drive a Monte Carlo?), and the drivers didn't all talk like Cletus Spuckler.
Brandine: "Dang, Cletus! Why'd you have to park so close to my parents?"
Cletus: "Now honey, they's mah parents too!"
And a good thing too. It is always wise to treat any individuals perception of the truth with skepticism. No scientist worth his salt will disagree that a healthy skepticism is a key ingredient to any scientific discovery or analysis. The fact is there is simply too much that is not known about the impact of humans on the environment to treat 'An Inconvenient Truth' as gospel.
... the winning proposal didn't specify the ability to remove names. It's only ever going to get bigger.
Jaiku - because YAWN (Yet Another Wiki Network) was already taken.
The Russians have typically taken an empirical, "what me worry?" approach. They have taken a band-aid approach to problems, and their management has mostly about burying and denying issues.
Sorry, I have to call bollocks on that.
The Russian solution has historically been based on the KISS principle. This usually resulted in use of much less 'sophisticated' technology, but also allowed them to deliver cheaper, and more quickly than their NASA counterparts. Implicitly, this also meant that the number of possible failure modes were reduced.
Meanwhile NASA has historically chosen innovative, 'high tech' solutions, which have a correspondingly high risk.
For sure any management problems the Russians have pale in comparison to what goes on in NASA. Eastern Europeans (including Russians) have a pretty low tolerance for the type of intellectual bullshit that seems to thrive in the technology sector in the US, and NASA is not immune - in fact it has been shown they contribute disproportionaly - to that.
....Rectal Cranial Inversion. Sadly, most people already suffer from the latter without knowing.
America's actions in the post-war era were as much enlightened self-interest as altruism
Name me a nation/group/individual that does anything for strictly altruistic motives.
Such a motivation has never been the source of action in the history of humanity.
We may only judge on how well balanced the actions are.
In this context, there can be little doubt about how America measures up.
Sorry to go on about this, but viewing the American society from abroad, as objectively as I possibly can, makes me realize how grateful I am that they are always there when the world needs them.
Of course not, ID is too easy a target. Can you come up with anything more asinine than ID ?