and all the other tech companies that you mentioned. All those tech companies were big names in the IT field. Average Joe didn't know jack about them. Google on the other hand is a brand name that even Average Joe knows about. THAT is what I think might help here. I'm not saying it's gonna be a success because of the Google touch, just saying there is a lot more value to this brand than the other brands you mentioned.
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Wow! Didn't expect people to read my post with such negative thoughts. I was giving myself as an example so that if someone obese does read it, they know that people did go through the same troubles before things start getting better. Try to understand the intention of others before blindly critisizing them. Ask them if you are not sure what people say/meant to say.
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As for the knees crumbling, it's not that people get obese overnight! So they or their parents should have encouraged exercise at a younger age. If people are born obese at birth, then I'm sure a doctor would be able to help choose the proper diet for the baby. Babies aren't as picky about the food as kids/adults -- yes they would cry and make a fuss, but it's the parent's responsibility if they want their kids to have a healthy life.
I was a bag of bones till the age of 15 and was short too. I kinda grew over night (during the summer vacation) and started putting on weight since then. Recently I was 30 pounds over weight according to the BMI index and I decided to take control. Now I'm 5 pounds overweight and getting better. I have a controlled diet, and exercise 2 - 3 times a week. I did have knee pain when I started running, so I did a gradual increase and my knees don't hurt anymore. Btw, I hardly play any sports.
So I conclude it's a matter of personal responsibility.
evolution will take care of this too. Survival of the fittest. The human body will over time learn that it doesn't need to store as much energy for the future. May be we homo sapiens would branch into two different species, the well to do (as in not starving) and the poor (who struggle for a good meal a day).
What makes you think that you need artificial intelligence to do the healing? Does your brain ask the blood to go clot at the wound site? No!! It's the biochemical stuff that goes on at the wound site that causes it to heal. So no, saying "heals itself" doesn't imply artificial intelligence.
It's a rerun. Common, when NBC, CBS, etc can have reruns, why can't Slashdot? I we don't have these reruns, then we would have to buy Wivos (Web Tivo). Hail the reruns!
I doubt the Average Joe would access the camera's as drives. He/She probably uses the program that comes with the camera to download and organize the photos. For such people it doesn't matter if the camera uses EXT2 or FAT. I guess that should solve most of the problem. As for us techies, we can always use the EXT2 driver for Win.
Do you think the content provider in this case would price the content lower than the Apple price? If that's the case I would gladly support variable pricing. But my guess is, that WONT be the case. I guess it's become a matter of "lesser of the evils".
Surprised no one is complaining about the variable pricing. Now the greedy music/movie industry can rip us off with variable pricing and they now have a competitor to threaten Apple with. Hope things don't go that way!
Ah yes! That would take care of all the energy crisis! More power from a smaller nuclear reactor! Oops! Forgot about nuclear bombs... the world will be destroyed in the next nuclear test, because the scientist forgot to use the new speed of light in the calculation! We are doomed!
If there is one thing that the opensource community is bad at, it's the UI design. I doubt the company is going to gain anything here. Now don't nit pick by pointing out OpenSource programs with good UI. I can only talk with the general case in mind.
Google FS is not a real file system. It's just a bunch of API's that the program calls. The GoogleFS is not integrated into the Linux VFS. So you can't mount a GoogleFS. All programs need to be modified to use the GoogleFS API.
Also, the GoogleFS has very narrow requirements/goals. It works best for programs that only append to the files.
Anyway, the basic message he was trying to get across, in my opinion, was that no matter what you do these days, technology is going to play a role, so it would be advantageous to embrace it. Technology is becoming ubiquitous in the home. Most sciences rely on some sort of software for simulation or analysis. Traditional blue collar jobs are disappearing because they are being automated. Therefore, if you want a job in the future, you're going to need a better education than you could get away with in the past.
If that's what he really said, then he is missing one biiiig point - Learning computer science alone is not going to help you. You need to use computers as a tool to enhance your work on whatever feild you got your degree on. Just because we have computers and it can do simulations doesn't mean we don't need mechanics or doctors.
I would assume that when people say "We hate Americans" they actually mean the government. No one is going to see an American citizen and hate him for no reason. And no one would say "We hate the 53% of the Americans who voted for Bush" -- it would be a waste of energy (and a disctaction) to put forth such a highly directed comment when their main point is that the are affected in a bad way by the American government.
The only people who would hate an individual American may be the terrorists and fundamentalists who support them, who think their way of fighting a government is by hurting the people who voted for the government. I'm not saying the terrorists are right, just acknowledging that my assumption might be wrong for a particular case.
1. As everyone pointed out your last line describing fundies is a perfect example of stupidness. 2. Saying we have "x" people more smart than country "y" is not an argument. Ignorance is NOT bliss here. "Smart" people not voting (or voting for GWB) is the smart people accepting GWB's foreign policy or accepting they don't care about the world. Both of this is not acceptable to be world because it's the world that's getting affected not the US.
It's pretty clear that there are a lot of holes in your argument. I'm not interested in micro-analyzing it.
Will be Skype or other VoIP Apps. With service providers bringing in high speed internet, they wouldn't want their customer using Skype to get cheaper/free voice calls instead of using up the day time minutes. I can see where this is going and I don't like it:(.
My point, exactly. These races are fun, provide good marketing, but don't solve the real challenge to commercialization.
I had the same thoughts when I attended the qualifiers of NASC 2005. Personally, I think the management should add rules like:
1. The driver should have a comfortable seat. With specs as to what is considered comfortable.
2. Should be able to take along x pounds of additional "load" and should have at least x cc of volume for the "load" area. Akin to the trunk of a car.
The solar cars would start to suck big time on the first race they meet these rules, but will motivate innovation towards commercialization. Well if no innovation is possible, we would at least be tryig towards it instead of copying designs.
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and all the other tech companies that you mentioned. All those tech companies were big names in the IT field. Average Joe didn't know jack about them. Google on the other hand is a brand name that even Average Joe knows about. THAT is what I think might help here. I'm not saying it's gonna be a success because of the Google touch, just saying there is a lot more value to this brand than the other brands you mentioned.
Wow! Didn't expect people to read my post with such negative thoughts. I was giving myself as an example so that if someone obese does read it, they know that people did go through the same troubles before things start getting better. Try to understand the intention of others before blindly critisizing them. Ask them if you are not sure what people say/meant to say.
As for the knees crumbling, it's not that people get obese overnight! So they or their parents should have encouraged exercise at a younger age. If people are born obese at birth, then I'm sure a doctor would be able to help choose the proper diet for the baby. Babies aren't as picky about the food as kids/adults -- yes they would cry and make a fuss, but it's the parent's responsibility if they want their kids to have a healthy life.
I was a bag of bones till the age of 15 and was short too. I kinda grew over night (during the summer vacation) and started putting on weight since then. Recently I was 30 pounds over weight according to the BMI index and I decided to take control. Now I'm 5 pounds overweight and getting better. I have a controlled diet, and exercise 2 - 3 times a week. I did have knee pain when I started running, so I did a gradual increase and my knees don't hurt anymore. Btw, I hardly play any sports.
So I conclude it's a matter of personal responsibility.
evolution will take care of this too. Survival of the fittest. The human body will over time learn that it doesn't need to store as much energy for the future. May be we homo sapiens would branch into two different species, the well to do (as in not starving) and the poor (who struggle for a good meal a day).
I know I sound crazy... but this is a Monday!
Hey!! This is Slashdot! Even if there were women among the colonists /.ers wouldn't get to have kids.
What makes you think that you need artificial intelligence to do the healing? Does your brain ask the blood to go clot at the wound site? No!! It's the biochemical stuff that goes on at the wound site that causes it to heal. So no, saying "heals itself" doesn't imply artificial intelligence.
It's a rerun. Common, when NBC, CBS, etc can have reruns, why can't Slashdot? I we don't have these reruns, then we would have to buy Wivos (Web Tivo). Hail the reruns!
I doubt the Average Joe would access the camera's as drives. He/She probably uses the program that comes with the camera to download and organize the photos. For such people it doesn't matter if the camera uses EXT2 or FAT. I guess that should solve most of the problem. As for us techies, we can always use the EXT2 driver for Win.
Do you think the content provider in this case would price the content lower than the Apple price? If that's the case I would gladly support variable pricing. But my guess is, that WONT be the case. I guess it's become a matter of "lesser of the evils".
Surprised no one is complaining about the variable pricing. Now the greedy music/movie industry can rip us off with variable pricing and they now have a competitor to threaten Apple with. Hope things don't go that way!
I too love that game! Awesome game play. I don't remember when the spiders come though! Ohhh... The last level right?
The irony here. An article that makes fun of MS in MSNBC!! Lol!
Ah yes! That would take care of all the energy crisis! More power from a smaller nuclear reactor! Oops! Forgot about nuclear bombs... the world will be destroyed in the next nuclear test, because the scientist forgot to use the new speed of light in the calculation! We are doomed!
If there is one thing that the opensource community is bad at, it's the UI design. I doubt the company is going to gain anything here. Now don't nit pick by pointing out OpenSource programs with good UI. I can only talk with the general case in mind.
Google FS is not a real file system. It's just a bunch of API's that the program calls. The GoogleFS is not integrated into the Linux VFS. So you can't mount a GoogleFS. All programs need to be modified to use the GoogleFS API.
Also, the GoogleFS has very narrow requirements/goals. It works best for programs that only append to the files.
Just one big hole in your log pollution theory. There is something called timestamp in logs!
If that's what he really said, then he is missing one biiiig point - Learning computer science alone is not going to help you. You need to use computers as a tool to enhance your work on whatever feild you got your degree on. Just because we have computers and it can do simulations doesn't mean we don't need mechanics or doctors.
I would assume that when people say "We hate Americans" they actually mean the government. No one is going to see an American citizen and hate him for no reason. And no one would say "We hate the 53% of the Americans who voted for Bush" -- it would be a waste of energy (and a disctaction) to put forth such a highly directed comment when their main point is that the are affected in a bad way by the American government.
The only people who would hate an individual American may be the terrorists and fundamentalists who support them, who think their way of fighting a government is by hurting the people who voted for the government. I'm not saying the terrorists are right, just acknowledging that my assumption might be wrong for a particular case.
You seem to forget several points here:
1. As everyone pointed out your last line describing fundies is a perfect example of stupidness.
2. Saying we have "x" people more smart than country "y" is not an argument. Ignorance is NOT bliss here. "Smart" people not voting (or voting for GWB) is the smart people accepting GWB's foreign policy or accepting they don't care about the world. Both of this is not acceptable to be world because it's the world that's getting affected not the US.
It's pretty clear that there are a lot of holes in your argument. I'm not interested in micro-analyzing it.
I hate it when people use the word stack when the actually mean a module or a library!! Palm OS will probably run as a module+library combo.
Will be Skype or other VoIP Apps. With service providers bringing in high speed internet, they wouldn't want their customer using Skype to get cheaper/free voice calls instead of using up the day time minutes. I can see where this is going and I don't like it :(.
I for one welcome the Killer Dolphin overlords!
Pzzaaappt!! What was that sting like feelin.... Thud!
My point, exactly. These races are fun, provide good marketing, but don't solve the real challenge to commercialization.
I had the same thoughts when I attended the qualifiers of NASC 2005. Personally, I think the management should add rules like:
1. The driver should have a comfortable seat. With specs as to what is considered comfortable.
2. Should be able to take along x pounds of additional "load" and should have at least x cc of volume for the "load" area. Akin to the trunk of a car.
The solar cars would start to suck big time on the first race they meet these rules, but will motivate innovation towards commercialization. Well if no innovation is possible, we would at least be tryig towards it instead of copying designs.
My 2 cents.
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