I doubt there are many upper level CTO's (this is a CTO decision) who are not knowledgable enough to realize that this service is only useful if you are not planning to create your own system because you do not need such a long-term device.
We are not talking mom-n-pop shop here...we are talking higher end. So a university who decides to use this is probably doing so becuase it is just one or two short-term projects...but if that university plans on doing many future computing projects (not unlikely) they will probably build their own system (using the college grad students as cheap/free labor)... People on the upper end of the decision making process are not that dumb (though exceptions abound).
Valve/Steam just host the pointers to the servers - so the barely-reliable is based on whose system you are accessing. It is similar to blizzard - companies pay blizzard to license the software and give them a pointer.
As for the grandparent post - you can host your UT3 tourney - just charge each player $3/hour:)
Peripheral vision is not enough to pay attention to subtle body language. And then you are still paying attention to the person next to you and not the road.
I don't need interpersonal skills, i 60tz me |00k5
Ok so the person on the phone is chirping away - the driver ignores the person, slams on the breaks, and when the situation is over - the driver says "repeat that".
Most cell phone accidents I have heard about happen when the person is dialing on the phone. Unfortunately there are blanket laws....unfortunately people cannot accept responsibility and say "it is because i suck at driving" but they say "it was because of the cell phone."
If you are paying attention to the body language of the person next to you, then you are watchingthe person and not the road. When you are talking on your cell phone, you are watching the road, not the empty seat next to you (well hopefully).
It takes me no more effort to talk on the phone then to talk to the person to my right. Actually I hate talking on the phone - so usually i am trying to get them off the line.
Now if you want skill, try talking on the cell phone, steering your car, and driving stick shift all at once...:D
I can understand typing in the phone number, looking for a contact, etc is distracting (imho no more distracting then changing the channel on the radio).
But how is talking on the phone anymore distracting then say - talking to the person in the passanger seat? Or turning around and beating your 8 year old brat for being annoying?
I think a large problem is the cell phone users who do not know how to use their phone and are typing away at the numbers concentrating on that instead of driving. Again, not all cell phone users fall in this category (i can use my cellphone blind)...
Another thing, since nobody likes to accept blame - those who were on cell-phones said "it was because of the phone" ---in reality, it is because you are an idiot and do not know how to type at a keyboard without looking at it.
not that unfair if you really want a gmail and have a hard time finding someone willing to give you one. But yes the person jumping through the hoopsis doing much more work. Hell I think i can give like 20 gmail accounts if i had people to give them to:)
I think he moded it insightful because (last I checked) the funny mod didn't actually increase your karma....so people tend to mod things insightful as a way to reward the person who said something funny.:D
There is a big difference between screwing wireless speakers to the wall and installing wired speakers while hiding them in the back.
At the rate we increase our data usage, who knows - maybe he will need to use more then one gigabit. 1 gigabit is not that much - 10 hardware devices running at 100 mbit per second will tear that apart. When you want to transfer many files at once - especially large files - you want to do it quickly and efficiently.
Again, my thought process is that we know fibre is the fastest right now - so it just might be more common in the next 5-10 years (especially with companies like Verizon doing live tests of fibre to people's doorsteps).
Speakers use more energy then calculators....Look up the specs for a wireless speaker and there is your answer. I am sure they are "optimized" but i think it will take more then the light produced in a room (which also means your electricity bill is going to be much higher as you need to have your lights on a good portion of the day).
Think of the person who is not a "do-it-yourself" kind of guy. They are going to get someone to come in, rip holes in the walls, and properly (within code) wire the place....then seal and paint. To do it right will be expensive (the new paint will need to match the aged paint so we are talking repainting the rooms entirely).
As for planning in 10-20 years...thats not me saying "i am not going to buy this computer because it will be obsolete in two years." We know fibre is the fastest right now - and thusly will be pretty darn fast in the near future and potentially farther future (10-20 years). Much better then cat5e
Assuming you could get enough juice out of the panels this would be an interesting option - but would require wiring. Most speakers are located close to the ceiling, as such not a lot of light is shinning down on them. So if you are wiring the panels to the outside of the house (to get the sun light) you will need to send those wires to the speakers...you might as well just plug it to an electrical outlet behind the wall...
Except this pereson is building his house now - so ripping up the walls later will make the cost a LOT more then just buying the fibre now. Who wants to rip the walls to the house they might have built just 5 years ago?
My mom's fiancee was recomended to get wireless speakers for his living room. I told him to forget it. While it is easier now - you will constantly have to replace the battaries. Now a cool option would be wireless speakers that connected to your wall outlet for electricity. But just do the wiring. I did in my condo...I bought a fish stick and wired my BOSE speakers in the living room. The wires run behind the wall and under it. God forbid if something happens to the wiress (cringe) though.
If I may add to your great suggestion. If you are building a new house (already spending a ton of cash) go fibre man! Plan for the future. Imagine in 20 years if you want to sell your house "yes we are fibre ready"....imagine when verizon finally runs fibre to your doorstep.... imagine the transfer rates of all that music/movie/game files over your network.... Fibre man - spend the little extra cash now and be happier later.
lol....well musical talent is a matter of opinion - a lot of people think Brittney is a good singer (including little girls, who i am sure have no sexual interest in her).
Interesting enough - every artist you listed - I have never even vaguely heard of. I do not claim to be a musical expert, and I know I am terrible with names, but the artists you listed are definitly unknown to me (at least by name).:D
I personally think Brittney is a good looking woman. A damn good looking woman. I know many men who would agree. I also think she is a good singer; though I have seen better acting from that monkey who is holding a skull and dressed like he is Hamlet (forget the commercial).
They have psych profiles (public and private) on famous people (i.e. Blair and gates). They compare the writing to these psyche profiles and get the answers. They applied the wrong profile to the writing - so the data is erroneous.
Handwriting analysis can also be used without knowing the subject - but obviously that is more limited as you are omitting a lot of information.
You do not have to take my word for it- if it's real or not - it is accepted in the psych community as real and they are far more knowledgeble then you me and everyone on/. (when it comes to this field).
There are compelling case studies - they are buried in my notes from college and honestly I am not going to unbury it to satisy someone I do not know (no offense meant at all).
I think it would be kind of neat to go back to the "sail" days. Sort of like that one star trek movie - where there was the big sail device that would suck up the energy of the planet - except this one is used for something beneficial:D
My old Pent III 800 mghtz, with a hercules 4500 video card, and 512 MB pc 133 ram runs fine. I can even play (smoothly) neverwinter nights. The only reason I am upgrading is because I want to run games like half life 2 on it.
So windows XP sp 2 has been working great for me on that 6 year old box.
I've never seen my mom naked before. In fact, other then the bulge she has on her chest (and on the occasion as a child i saw her in a bra) and the long hair (not necessarily a female trait) there is no concrete evidence she is a woman. She is pretty (she used to be a model) - but I have seen drag queens that look JUST like women.
So maybe, since I haven't seen my mom's genital area she is a guy. Just like your assumption about Brittney.
Unless I read it wrong - they associated the handwriting (initially) to Blair. So the analysis did not fit the person. Then they realized the handwriting was Bills. They are still doing an analysis.
As for your belief that handwriting analysis does not work - many PhD's seem to disagree with you.
People with PhD's seem to think you can predict a person's psyche (at least in some part) via their handwriting. As for predicting the future - I don't think anyone (except palm readers) are claiming that.
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I doubt there are many upper level CTO's (this is a CTO decision) who are not knowledgable enough to realize that this service is only useful if you are not planning to create your own system because you do not need such a long-term device.
We are not talking mom-n-pop shop here...we are talking higher end. So a university who decides to use this is probably doing so becuase it is just one or two short-term projects...but if that university plans on doing many future computing projects (not unlikely) they will probably build their own system (using the college grad students as cheap/free labor)... People on the upper end of the decision making process are not that dumb (though exceptions abound).
Valve/Steam just host the pointers to the servers - so the barely-reliable is based on whose system you are accessing. It is similar to blizzard - companies pay blizzard to license the software and give them a pointer.
:)
As for the grandparent post - you can host your UT3 tourney - just charge each player $3/hour
I liked your second paragraph either on the phone or to another person in the car
Let's ban people from talking in the car. And we also need to ban the radios (they can be fairly complex these days).
Or people should just realize their limitations and use some common sense.
Peripheral vision is not enough to pay attention to subtle body language. And then you are still paying attention to the person next to you and not the road.
I don't need interpersonal skills, i 60tz me |00k5
Ok so the person on the phone is chirping away - the driver ignores the person, slams on the breaks, and when the situation is over - the driver says "repeat that".
Most cell phone accidents I have heard about happen when the person is dialing on the phone. Unfortunately there are blanket laws....unfortunately people cannot accept responsibility and say "it is because i suck at driving" but they say "it was because of the cell phone."
If you are paying attention to the body language of the person next to you, then you are watchingthe person and not the road. When you are talking on your cell phone, you are watching the road, not the empty seat next to you (well hopefully).
:D
It takes me no more effort to talk on the phone then to talk to the person to my right. Actually I hate talking on the phone - so usually i am trying to get them off the line.
Now if you want skill, try talking on the cell phone, steering your car, and driving stick shift all at once...
I can understand typing in the phone number, looking for a contact, etc is distracting (imho no more distracting then changing the channel on the radio).
But how is talking on the phone anymore distracting then say - talking to the person in the passanger seat? Or turning around and beating your 8 year old brat for being annoying?
I think a large problem is the cell phone users who do not know how to use their phone and are typing away at the numbers concentrating on that instead of driving. Again, not all cell phone users fall in this category (i can use my cellphone blind)...
Another thing, since nobody likes to accept blame - those who were on cell-phones said "it was because of the phone" ---in reality, it is because you are an idiot and do not know how to type at a keyboard without looking at it.
not that unfair if you really want a gmail and have a hard time finding someone willing to give you one. But yes the person jumping through the hoopsis doing much more work. Hell I think i can give like 20 gmail accounts if i had people to give them to :)
with the exception of the moron comment. I do agree with the above poster...185 times faster is a lot faster.
Also, with exponential growth hard drives will more then double every 3 years. (what were they 3 years ago, what are they now).
I think he moded it insightful because (last I checked) the funny mod didn't actually increase your karma....so people tend to mod things insightful as a way to reward the person who said something funny. :D
There is a big difference between screwing wireless speakers to the wall and installing wired speakers while hiding them in the back.
At the rate we increase our data usage, who knows - maybe he will need to use more then one gigabit. 1 gigabit is not that much - 10 hardware devices running at 100 mbit per second will tear that apart. When you want to transfer many files at once - especially large files - you want to do it quickly and efficiently.
Again, my thought process is that we know fibre is the fastest right now - so it just might be more common in the next 5-10 years (especially with companies like Verizon doing live tests of fibre to people's doorsteps).
Speakers use more energy then calculators....Look up the specs for a wireless speaker and there is your answer. I am sure they are "optimized" but i think it will take more then the light produced in a room (which also means your electricity bill is going to be much higher as you need to have your lights on a good portion of the day).
Think of the person who is not a "do-it-yourself" kind of guy. They are going to get someone to come in, rip holes in the walls, and properly (within code) wire the place....then seal and paint. To do it right will be expensive (the new paint will need to match the aged paint so we are talking repainting the rooms entirely).
As for planning in 10-20 years...thats not me saying "i am not going to buy this computer because it will be obsolete in two years." We know fibre is the fastest right now - and thusly will be pretty darn fast in the near future and potentially farther future (10-20 years). Much better then cat5e
Assuming you could get enough juice out of the panels this would be an interesting option - but would require wiring. Most speakers are located close to the ceiling, as such not a lot of light is shinning down on them. So if you are wiring the panels to the outside of the house (to get the sun light) you will need to send those wires to the speakers...you might as well just plug it to an electrical outlet behind the wall...
Except this pereson is building his house now - so ripping up the walls later will make the cost a LOT more then just buying the fibre now. Who wants to rip the walls to the house they might have built just 5 years ago?
My mom's fiancee was recomended to get wireless speakers for his living room. I told him to forget it. While it is easier now - you will constantly have to replace the battaries. Now a cool option would be wireless speakers that connected to your wall outlet for electricity. But just do the wiring. I did in my condo...I bought a fish stick and wired my BOSE speakers in the living room. The wires run behind the wall and under it. God forbid if something happens to the wiress (cringe) though.
If I may add to your great suggestion. If you are building a new house (already spending a ton of cash) go fibre man! Plan for the future. Imagine in 20 years if you want to sell your house "yes we are fibre ready"....imagine when verizon finally runs fibre to your doorstep.... imagine the transfer rates of all that music/movie/game files over your network.... Fibre man - spend the little extra cash now and be happier later.
lol....well musical talent is a matter of opinion - a lot of people think Brittney is a good singer (including little girls, who i am sure have no sexual interest in her).
:D
Interesting enough - every artist you listed - I have never even vaguely heard of. I do not claim to be a musical expert, and I know I am terrible with names, but the artists you listed are definitly unknown to me (at least by name).
I personally think Brittney is a good looking woman. A damn good looking woman. I know many men who would agree. I also think she is a good singer; though I have seen better acting from that monkey who is holding a skull and dressed like he is Hamlet (forget the commercial).
They have psych profiles (public and private) on famous people (i.e. Blair and gates). They compare the writing to these psyche profiles and get the answers. They applied the wrong profile to the writing - so the data is erroneous.
/. (when it comes to this field).
Handwriting analysis can also be used without knowing the subject - but obviously that is more limited as you are omitting a lot of information.
You do not have to take my word for it- if it's real or not - it is accepted in the psych community as real and they are far more knowledgeble then you me and everyone on
There are compelling case studies - they are buried in my notes from college and honestly I am not going to unbury it to satisy someone I do not know (no offense meant at all).
I think it would be kind of neat to go back to the "sail" days. Sort of like that one star trek movie - where there was the big sail device that would suck up the energy of the planet - except this one is used for something beneficial :D
My old Pent III 800 mghtz, with a hercules 4500 video card, and 512 MB pc 133 ram runs fine. I can even play (smoothly) neverwinter nights. The only reason I am upgrading is because I want to run games like half life 2 on it.
So windows XP sp 2 has been working great for me on that 6 year old box.
I've never seen my mom naked before. In fact, other then the bulge she has on her chest (and on the occasion as a child i saw her in a bra) and the long hair (not necessarily a female trait) there is no concrete evidence she is a woman. She is pretty (she used to be a model) - but I have seen drag queens that look JUST like women.
So maybe, since I haven't seen my mom's genital area she is a guy. Just like your assumption about Brittney.
Unless I read it wrong - they associated the handwriting (initially) to Blair. So the analysis did not fit the person. Then they realized the handwriting was Bills. They are still doing an analysis.
As for your belief that handwriting analysis does not work - many PhD's seem to disagree with you.
People with PhD's seem to think you can predict a person's psyche (at least in some part) via their handwriting. As for predicting the future - I don't think anyone (except palm readers) are claiming that.
It sounds, from your example, that the person was setup.
That couldn't be it though...I think you guys are right - the psychology field is wrong.