They all want the job, which should be enough in itself to disqualify them. Which illustrates one of the interesting differences between politics and business. In business, if someone wants a job and is willing to do whatever it takes to get it, we reward that kind of thinking. Obviously everyone who is running for president wants to be president. Well, except for Fred Thompson, and we've seen how that works.
I don't know what all this crazy talk about the studios and CSS is about, I just want to be able to use CSS to center things vertically without positioning hacks!
In the scope of all things, is it of any real importance that Apple has yet again changed the buttons on the iPod? I own several Macs and an iPod 3G and I couldn't care less.
In the scope of all things, which you refer to, not much that we care about is of any real importance. With perspective like that, it's hard to get anything done. If you don't particularly care about things, you can just ignore them. If you don't care about college football, don't visit ESPN.com in the fall. And if you don't care that Apple has changed the position of the buttons on the iPod, there are plenty of articles on the front page.
On the other hand, if what you really care about is other people getting too excited about new-and-improved button placement on an MP3 player, then maybe a little perspective check is in order.
I just got done with my first tank in a new diesel VW Jetta. The EPA sticker says 38 city / 46 highway. I filled up the tank 12.4 gallons and got about 520 miles on that tank, so the numbers check out pretty well for me so far--that's about 42 miles/gallon.
USA Today did a test drive of this car and a hybrid (I believe it was Toyota's, but it may have been Honda's) and found the diesel Jetta got from Michigan to Washington, D.C. on a single tank while the hybrid needed a fill-up. The hybrid and the Jetta have equal-sized gas tanks, and the hybrid's EPA numbers are higher. The result of the (admitedly unscientific) test was that the diesel numbers were more true-to-life.
As most of us know, Google's Ad Sense displays ads based on the content of the page. I think this page has some of the best ironic Google ads I've seen to date. When I loaded the page, there were ads for "Easy Flying Kites" and "Performance Kites."
Listen, Google, if there's anything we learned from the KiteCam Disaster Fund page, it's that nerds are better off without kites.
Man, things have changed. I can't believe RAM back then had an access speed of 200ms. You might as well remember the damn information yourself with speeds like that.
As a current college student, I have one thing to say about electronic reading: it's crap. My university has made a move to putting various readings, handouts, course syllabuses, and so forth exclusively online. While convenient, it's really just a cost saver for the school because you really need those kinds of materials on paper. How else can you read it away from a computer? What ends up happening is the cost of printing is just shifted to the student. How much is it going to cost these students if they want to print parts of their textbooks? At $.06 a page, it's going to get expensive fast.
Even if students in the latest generation get used to reading materials on a computer screen, there are futher problems beyond that. For example, the level of reader/text interaction that reading onscreen allows. Granted, grade school students aren't at the level yet of underlining key passages and making margin notes, but current eBook technology doesn't allow readers to be as engaged with the text. Programs let you "highlight" passages and annotate them, but it's really not the same (I don't mean "the same" in the literal sense--obviously it's not the same as having a highlighter in your hand--but it's much more tedious that outlining with an actual pencil/highlighter and paper).
Let's hope we don't destroy our children's eyes because they are staring at cheap laptop screens all day.
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I hope this works out and we'll soon see chat room wedding ceremonies. Weddings these days are so expensive. It would be much easier if we just decorated an electronic chapel, got cheap eDesigner Dresses, and gave Amazon.com gift certificates. Instead of hiring a band and violinist, I'll just pop over to the iTunes stores and pick up some tunes.
I guess the only downside is that people would probably expect the ceremony to be consumated by cybersex.
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I don't know what all this crazy talk about the studios and CSS is about, I just want to be able to use CSS to center things vertically without positioning hacks!
...Apple starts running Microsoft's OS on its hardware? I read this thing in the WSJ...
I've actually seen a pretty nice inductive proof for immortality.
In the scope of all things, which you refer to, not much that we care about is of any real importance. With perspective like that, it's hard to get anything done. If you don't particularly care about things, you can just ignore them. If you don't care about college football, don't visit ESPN.com in the fall. And if you don't care that Apple has changed the position of the buttons on the iPod, there are plenty of articles on the front page.
On the other hand, if what you really care about is other people getting too excited about new-and-improved button placement on an MP3 player, then maybe a little perspective check is in order.
USA Today did a test drive of this car and a hybrid (I believe it was Toyota's, but it may have been Honda's) and found the diesel Jetta got from Michigan to Washington, D.C. on a single tank while the hybrid needed a fill-up. The hybrid and the Jetta have equal-sized gas tanks, and the hybrid's EPA numbers are higher. The result of the (admitedly unscientific) test was that the diesel numbers were more true-to-life.
Listen, Google, if there's anything we learned from the KiteCam Disaster Fund page, it's that nerds are better off without kites.
I got it... 1...01...1...
Even if students in the latest generation get used to reading materials on a computer screen, there are futher problems beyond that. For example, the level of reader/text interaction that reading onscreen allows. Granted, grade school students aren't at the level yet of underlining key passages and making margin notes, but current eBook technology doesn't allow readers to be as engaged with the text. Programs let you "highlight" passages and annotate them, but it's really not the same (I don't mean "the same" in the literal sense--obviously it's not the same as having a highlighter in your hand--but it's much more tedious that outlining with an actual pencil/highlighter and paper).
Let's hope we don't destroy our children's eyes because they are staring at cheap laptop screens all day.
I guess the only downside is that people would probably expect the ceremony to be consumated by cybersex.