I was really excited to vote in this election (as I missed bing born early enough for the the last one by a few weeks), but both the canidates seem like incompetent panderers. I cast my vote hoping that my canidate will return to how he was before the primaries, and not pander to his party so much.
You're missing the power of the brand. I've got a TV tuner in my PC, and when I record things, the best way to explain it to people is "like a TiVo, but on my computer". It's not terribly simple, especially on a college campus where the TV lineup isn't as straight forward as entering your cable company and zip code.
If TiVo makes the TV tuner work really well, I imagine they could capture a good bit of the market. I imagine people could care less who makes their graphics card, but if they see "TiVo, but for my PC", it might make them think about getting one.
I'd have to say that NY Times article is more interesting than their website, which seems to be failing under the load of the New York Time and Slashdot. I don't see how the site, from the description in the article is any different than any other web startup, trying to change how an established industry works.
I do hope they make colleges and those college guidebooks rethink how they do business. Unfortunately, business interests have taken over higher education, and many schools are more concerned about portraying a good image, rather than actually fixing problems.
Syn (Windows) and Smultron (Mac) are nice open source general text editors that are pretty similar to each other. I don't use them much for Python, since they don't support code completion. They support tabs and "projects" of related files, which is nice, so I use them a lot of website related stuff.
I've always used PythonWin and Idle since they support code completion, which is good when you just can't remember the name of that function you need, and they both do a pretty good job of knowing what to expect and finding syntax and variable type errors in Python before you run the code. They also both support a interactive mode shell for Python, which is great for testing out code before you really get to work on it.
I just recently installed Eric, which is a Qt based Python IDE, but it's just too big and cluttered for me.
When you mate them with North American cows, do they point east or west?
I'm inclined to say there are a million other reasons for cows to point north, the sun being just one of them.
I don't know if you meant to make this mistake, but Duplo is a lego brand. It's their line of bricks for younger children. Really a gateway brick toy to some of their other products, such as the Town line of kits, or the most addicting of all, Lego Mindstorms.
Interesting book by Bjorn Lomborg, a Danish statistics professor. It has a lot of ancidotes about environmental policies and looking at the real impact of them. I don't agree with everything the author has to say, but it I thought it did a good job teaching critical thinking and encouraging people not to accept statistics at face value.
Or worse, you might get one of those user access control things that Vista has.
"Sorry, I cannot perform that life-saving operation, as I need permission to access your internals first."
I was there about a year ago, it's just outside of DC, near my university. Lots of neat stuff, the older stuff is better labeled, but the newer stuff (1980's) is neat to look at, but the NSA doesn't really want to tell you what it does or what it's used for, it's just kind of sitting there because someone doesn't want to throw it out. They've got a giant 2 story data tape library that's set up to randomly swap tapes around, it's pretty cool to look at. I might have to take another trip up there some time. Also, don't forget to get the kid's NSA coloring book they hand out.
Go hire some professionals to design a sign / stand for you.
If you're too cheap to do that, here is what I liked.
A good clear sign that says what your company is. Don't make it hard to read. Leave the small stuff / hard to remember stuff for brochures. I want to be able to easily identify your stand, who you are, and what kind of business you are. I was looking for civil engineering firms, so my first reaction was go to looking for the big yellow signs stands that said "XYZ's Construction Firm" or had pictures of bulldozers and the like.
As far as freebies go, they are cool and all, but it doesn't make a huge impact on which stands I go to or who I follow up with, they're just cumbersome.
Oh and have contact information, like business cards for yourself or for the HR department that have an email address, phone number, or a current URL. I don't want to go looking through your website just to find the careers page which hasn't been updated in 2 years.
I'd consider my friends to be the slightly more intelligent type, but for the most part we all switched to Facebook after we got to college. The lack of customization on Facebook makes it easier to read other people's profiles and it has (had) better privacy controls than Myspace. I deleted my Myspace account a few weeks ago because I had not used it in several months.
That's probably one of the best reasons I have heard for keeping it. It took me nearly two years of working on and off to be able to pass the 5wpm test. I have yet to make a contact using it. I stick with PSK31 and SSB for most of my contacts, but I appreciated it is there and it is amazing to see some of the people who are very proficient with it. It is still the ultimate weak signal communication mode, and combined with Q-codes and other ham lingo, it makes for a nearly universal language to communicate with other hams.d
Phones already have a very basic GPS chip designed for use with e911. I wanted to make a program that would point you towards another phone if both of them were running the program.
But thanks to my family, I've been stuck with a Verizon phone, and thus unable to do anything as far as programming it, and my friends with Java friendly providers won't let me touch their phones:(
That's why I've stopped using the free version of McAfee that my university provides me with in favor of AVGFree. It used to take my fairly modern system an extra minute between booting and being usable because of McAfee. Security is a great thing as long as it isn't an inconvenience.
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No, only winning move is not to play....
I was really excited to vote in this election (as I missed bing born early enough for the the last one by a few weeks), but both the canidates seem like incompetent panderers. I cast my vote hoping that my canidate will return to how he was before the primaries, and not pander to his party so much.
You're missing the power of the brand. I've got a TV tuner in my PC, and when I record things, the best way to explain it to people is "like a TiVo, but on my computer". It's not terribly simple, especially on a college campus where the TV lineup isn't as straight forward as entering your cable company and zip code.
If TiVo makes the TV tuner work really well, I imagine they could capture a good bit of the market. I imagine people could care less who makes their graphics card, but if they see "TiVo, but for my PC", it might make them think about getting one.
I'd have to say that NY Times article is more interesting than their website, which seems to be failing under the load of the New York Time and Slashdot. I don't see how the site, from the description in the article is any different than any other web startup, trying to change how an established industry works. I do hope they make colleges and those college guidebooks rethink how they do business. Unfortunately, business interests have taken over higher education, and many schools are more concerned about portraying a good image, rather than actually fixing problems.
No, not in this case. Slashdot ruined a very good name.
Syn (Windows) and Smultron (Mac) are nice open source general text editors that are pretty similar to each other. I don't use them much for Python, since they don't support code completion. They support tabs and "projects" of related files, which is nice, so I use them a lot of website related stuff. I've always used PythonWin and Idle since they support code completion, which is good when you just can't remember the name of that function you need, and they both do a pretty good job of knowing what to expect and finding syntax and variable type errors in Python before you run the code. They also both support a interactive mode shell for Python, which is great for testing out code before you really get to work on it. I just recently installed Eric, which is a Qt based Python IDE, but it's just too big and cluttered for me.
When you mate them with North American cows, do they point east or west? I'm inclined to say there are a million other reasons for cows to point north, the sun being just one of them.
I don't know if you meant to make this mistake, but Duplo is a lego brand. It's their line of bricks for younger children. Really a gateway brick toy to some of their other products, such as the Town line of kits, or the most addicting of all, Lego Mindstorms.
There you go: Get a lot of phone lines and dial-up connections. Or just use regular telephone instead of VoIP if it's that important.
How do they express IP addresses?
Interesting book by Bjorn Lomborg, a Danish statistics professor. It has a lot of ancidotes about environmental policies and looking at the real impact of them. I don't agree with everything the author has to say, but it I thought it did a good job teaching critical thinking and encouraging people not to accept statistics at face value.
CowboyNeal, get out of my head.
...and sail killed slave rowers... Did it impale them or something?Or worse, you might get one of those user access control things that Vista has. "Sorry, I cannot perform that life-saving operation, as I need permission to access your internals first."
If my first thoughts were: "I never thought to use drinking bird... That would save me so much time", what does that mean?
I was there about a year ago, it's just outside of DC, near my university. Lots of neat stuff, the older stuff is better labeled, but the newer stuff (1980's) is neat to look at, but the NSA doesn't really want to tell you what it does or what it's used for, it's just kind of sitting there because someone doesn't want to throw it out. They've got a giant 2 story data tape library that's set up to randomly swap tapes around, it's pretty cool to look at. I might have to take another trip up there some time. Also, don't forget to get the kid's NSA coloring book they hand out.
...is a old school brick cell phone.
Go hire some professionals to design a sign / stand for you. If you're too cheap to do that, here is what I liked. A good clear sign that says what your company is. Don't make it hard to read. Leave the small stuff / hard to remember stuff for brochures. I want to be able to easily identify your stand, who you are, and what kind of business you are. I was looking for civil engineering firms, so my first reaction was go to looking for the big yellow signs stands that said "XYZ's Construction Firm" or had pictures of bulldozers and the like. As far as freebies go, they are cool and all, but it doesn't make a huge impact on which stands I go to or who I follow up with, they're just cumbersome. Oh and have contact information, like business cards for yourself or for the HR department that have an email address, phone number, or a current URL. I don't want to go looking through your website just to find the careers page which hasn't been updated in 2 years.
The definition problem could be very problematic.
If they say any sites with interactive, user created content, that leads to a lot of problems.
If they're very specific. Sites might find ways around it.
In the first case, what happens to all the small sites like PhpBB forums and the like when they have to deal with implementing this?
Not if it's Hillary.
I'd consider my friends to be the slightly more intelligent type, but for the most part we all switched to Facebook after we got to college. The lack of customization on Facebook makes it easier to read other people's profiles and it has (had) better privacy controls than Myspace. I deleted my Myspace account a few weeks ago because I had not used it in several months.
What if Apple throttled down their servers to make news about this...
That's probably one of the best reasons I have heard for keeping it. It took me nearly two years of working on and off to be able to pass the 5wpm test. I have yet to make a contact using it. I stick with PSK31 and SSB for most of my contacts, but I appreciated it is there and it is amazing to see some of the people who are very proficient with it. It is still the ultimate weak signal communication mode, and combined with Q-codes and other ham lingo, it makes for a nearly universal language to communicate with other hams.d
I think being struck by a meteorite any day is more likely than the first one.
Phones already have a very basic GPS chip designed for use with e911. I wanted to make a program that would point you towards another phone if both of them were running the program. But thanks to my family, I've been stuck with a Verizon phone, and thus unable to do anything as far as programming it, and my friends with Java friendly providers won't let me touch their phones :(
That's why I've stopped using the free version of McAfee that my university provides me with in favor of AVGFree. It used to take my fairly modern system an extra minute between booting and being usable because of McAfee. Security is a great thing as long as it isn't an inconvenience.