Meh. Cross-realm chat is not much of a must-have for me (if I have any friends/family who play on different servers, I can always chat them up via AIM or GTalk). Cross-realm play would be awesome and game-changing. I would love to go into LFG/LFM and have hundreds or thousands of potential players with whom to group up for an instance. It gets really old waiting for hours in LFG to run even recent instances because nobody is on my server at that moment. And high->low pop realm transfers are a poor fix which merely mask a more fundamental problem. Why can't MMO publishers ditch the whole shard/realm/server paradigm (q.v. this article)?
The quality of American education needs to be increased as opposed to its quantity. Two pounds of shit may weigh more than one pound of shit, but it's still shit.
Well, it just might help prevent millions of cases of diabetes, heart disease, and cancer -- thereby easing the burden on our pricey healthcare system.
What will movies turn into? Will there be a resurgence of live performances?
Good point, and the answer is yes. Once CGI gets to the point where the studios can create bespoke virtual 'actors' and no longer have to pay tens of millions per movie to the meatspace variety, we will see a renaissance of live acting. Thespians who can really act as opposed to looking good up on a big screen will flourish. Those who got by purely on looks will have to go back to sweeping floors.
BTW, to see where CGI and the use of virtual actors are headed, just watch The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Hint: the old dude is mostly ones and zeroes.
Mod up. I second your suggestion. For basic circuit design, these kits are more than sufficient, and I disagree with the child comment about them not being able to survive the ravages of teenagers. They're meant for pre-teens -- why wouldn't they survive the hands of more mature individuals? As far as cost, I'm sure your school district can work out some deal with Radio Shack for a huge educational discount, or even a donation by RS in exchange for a tax write-off.
And, on a chilling (for me) twist, if they took stem cells from a woman, they could generate some sperm for her, thereby allowing her to impregnate herself.
Nature's already got parthenogenesis, which has more-or-less the same outcome.
As soon as I read the article and found out Accenture was responsible, my immediate reaction was, 'Well of course the implementation was a disaster!' The 'consultants' at Accenture couldn't implement their way out of a clown costume.
The reason many are looking to Uncle Sam is not so much for control/management, but more for a single regulatory regime rather than hundreds of different and inconsistent statutes and ordinances. Something like the UCC (Uniform Commercial Code), but for electronics recycling, would benefit the industry and consumers alike.
And for those pedants out there, I'm aware that the UCC was a joint effort of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws and the American Law Institute rather than being strictly federal in origin, but you get my point.
I'm stealing a page from Bill McDonough's wonderful book Cradle To Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things. Rather than selling us mere devices, manufacturers should be selling us services following the car leasing model: computer services, television viewing services, &c. That way, at the end of an item's amortised useful life (3-5 years), the consumer trades it back in for an updated model. Therefore, the manufacturer has an economic incentive to make recycling as easy as possible. Some people may say, 'But I want to own my widget!' My response: do you really want to own a depreciating asset? For rapidly-changing classes of asset, ownership makes little sense.
On a related note, Congress needs to ratify the Basel Convention like, erm, yesterday.
I'm thinking critically because Amazon, EMC, VMWare, etc bill The Cloud as a mystical place where you throw your shit and then it's universally available 100%. Nothing bad happens in The Cloud.
No, they don't. You're either being disingenuous, or idiotic.
His irony went entirely over your head. Look at the word I rendered in bold. Get the irony now? Duh.
How about harnessing the power of something like WikiBooks -- but rather than using online access, school districts could print relatively inexpensive paper copies using a contract printing service. Those who don't have the money to afford Internet-enabled devices can use what's tried and true, and the various districts wouldn't be saddled with supporting more infrastructure when they can barely handle what they have already.
Note: I only used WikiBooks as a for-instance; currently, most subject areas seem a bit half-baked to be used in schools.
With a worldwide depression, copper costs have plummeted, so any scrap value the copper has is far outweighed by the time and labour of ripping it all out. In the immortal words of Lennon/McCartney, 'let it be.'
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Meh. Cross-realm chat is not much of a must-have for me (if I have any friends/family who play on different servers, I can always chat them up via AIM or GTalk). Cross-realm play would be awesome and game-changing. I would love to go into LFG/LFM and have hundreds or thousands of potential players with whom to group up for an instance. It gets really old waiting for hours in LFG to run even recent instances because nobody is on my server at that moment. And high->low pop realm transfers are a poor fix which merely mask a more fundamental problem. Why can't MMO publishers ditch the whole shard/realm/server paradigm (q.v. this article)?
The quality of American education needs to be increased as opposed to its quantity. Two pounds of shit may weigh more than one pound of shit, but it's still shit.
Well, it just might help prevent millions of cases of diabetes, heart disease, and cancer -- thereby easing the burden on our pricey healthcare system.
...we may be smellier than 'cool' people, but we'll live longer!
I wonder if it's a coincidence that the near-last digits are FKU....
I propose TwERP -- an Enterprise Resource Planning app coded in a tweet.
The only catch is remembering if she's a keeper or not the next day.
That's why you make sure that she's drunk and you're not.
What will movies turn into? Will there be a resurgence of live performances?
Good point, and the answer is yes. Once CGI gets to the point where the studios can create bespoke virtual 'actors' and no longer have to pay tens of millions per movie to the meatspace variety, we will see a renaissance of live acting. Thespians who can really act as opposed to looking good up on a big screen will flourish. Those who got by purely on looks will have to go back to sweeping floors.
BTW, to see where CGI and the use of virtual actors are headed, just watch The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Hint: the old dude is mostly ones and zeroes.
Some of us really do need longer, firmer erections, you insensitive clod!
I should clarify that by the 'your school district' bit I was addressing the original author, not JSBiff. :)
Mod up. I second your suggestion. For basic circuit design, these kits are more than sufficient, and I disagree with the child comment about them not being able to survive the ravages of teenagers. They're meant for pre-teens -- why wouldn't they survive the hands of more mature individuals? As far as cost, I'm sure your school district can work out some deal with Radio Shack for a huge educational discount, or even a donation by RS in exchange for a tax write-off.
You don't buy politicians, you subscribe to them.
PaaS = Politicians as a Service.
Yeah, so Tweedledumb and Tweedledumber. ;)
And, on a chilling (for me) twist, if they took stem cells from a woman, they could generate some sperm for her, thereby allowing her to impregnate herself.
Nature's already got parthenogenesis, which has more-or-less the same outcome.
Alright, I knew my tinkle was good for something!
As soon as I read the article and found out Accenture was responsible, my immediate reaction was, 'Well of course the implementation was a disaster!' The 'consultants' at Accenture couldn't implement their way out of a clown costume.
The reason many are looking to Uncle Sam is not so much for control/management, but more for a single regulatory regime rather than hundreds of different and inconsistent statutes and ordinances. Something like the UCC (Uniform Commercial Code), but for electronics recycling, would benefit the industry and consumers alike.
And for those pedants out there, I'm aware that the UCC was a joint effort of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws and the American Law Institute rather than being strictly federal in origin, but you get my point.
Solution: Congress needs to pull its collective thumb from its arse and ratify the Basel Convention.
I'm stealing a page from Bill McDonough's wonderful book Cradle To Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things. Rather than selling us mere devices, manufacturers should be selling us services following the car leasing model: computer services, television viewing services, &c. That way, at the end of an item's amortised useful life (3-5 years), the consumer trades it back in for an updated model. Therefore, the manufacturer has an economic incentive to make recycling as easy as possible. Some people may say, 'But I want to own my widget!' My response: do you really want to own a depreciating asset? For rapidly-changing classes of asset, ownership makes little sense.
On a related note, Congress needs to ratify the Basel Convention like, erm, yesterday.
I'm thinking critically because Amazon, EMC, VMWare, etc bill The Cloud as a mystical place where you throw your shit and then it's universally available 100%. Nothing bad happens in The Cloud. No, they don't. You're either being disingenuous, or idiotic.
His irony went entirely over your head. Look at the word I rendered in bold. Get the irony now? Duh.
How about harnessing the power of something like WikiBooks -- but rather than using online access, school districts could print relatively inexpensive paper copies using a contract printing service. Those who don't have the money to afford Internet-enabled devices can use what's tried and true, and the various districts wouldn't be saddled with supporting more infrastructure when they can barely handle what they have already.
Note: I only used WikiBooks as a for-instance; currently, most subject areas seem a bit half-baked to be used in schools.
'Closing tax loopholes will stifle job creation.'
(translated)
'I'd rather keep my billions and spend it on coke and whores than remit it to Uncle Sam.'
With a worldwide depression, copper costs have plummeted, so any scrap value the copper has is far outweighed by the time and labour of ripping it all out. In the immortal words of Lennon/McCartney, 'let it be.'
I bet it was a bunch of pesky cephalopods that did it again!
I start doing something heavy (...)
You just answered your own question.