There's some irony there.
What's interesting is back in 1985 Commodore seemed bloody unstoppable. They sold more PCs than anyone before or after.
But then Jack Trameil left and they got lazy. After his departure investors saw this big money making machine and milked it dry with little foresight. Their arrogance really was Commodore's epic downfall.
Right.. apples and oranges in a way, but lately Apple seems to be opening the doors to the same kind of arrogant path.
Commodore did somewhat the same thing to a much more aggressive degree when they bought MOS technology. It was part of a cost cutting, vertical integration strategy that served them well. They went on to sell eleventy-billion Commodore 64's at bargain basement prices. They got their chips so cheap they used 6502's in the floppy drives and printers, to huge profit margins and the largest market share by quite a bit during their hay-day. The Commodore 64 came to market at ~$600 about the same time an Apple II cost ~$1200.
For people that actually socialize it provides benefits.
I've reconnected with old friends, made dates, organized parties, laughed (at someones silly pictures) and learned (from someones interesting post) countless times on facebook. I've found a few people that meant a lot to me, and have restarted some kind of relationship with them. I've joined groups that share like interests and attended events that I would have otherwise missed. It has value. I don't know of any other thing that does this stuff quite as well. In short, it's a useful way to communicate with most everyone you know.
I can't speak for twitter, but millions of other people find use in it.
The whole "I'm to cool for the popular social networking sites" crowd gets on my nerves.
Because here we sit, sharing opines with like minded individuals on a public website.
Does that make us elite?
Pot-kettle-black as they say.
featuring tech 'tips' that recommended calorie counting, finding recipes, and watching cooking videos as ways for women to get the most from a laptop.
Here's what my 25-35 year old female friends do with their laptops:
Music (iTunes, iPods, iPhones), Social Networking, Pictures of their Kids, Casual Games, buy nice bags for them, watch funny videos. One friend is
especially into fashion, so maybe she'll look at dresses online and such.
None of that non-sense quoted above is cool or fun. And, it's available on anything with Internet so how is it special? I'm guessing the larger laptop purchasing female demographic is, you know, more young and more trendy then recipes and watching cooking videos.
Really Dell? It's 2009. Fire your marketing director.
Those people.... I feel your pain.
I've had the pleasure of "turning off" the spam filtering for a few customers that had to be sure they were getting everything.
We don't offer this as any kind of service, since I have to put rules in about 7 postfix servers, but I did it because these people were adamant.
One lasted about 10 hours, the other a day. Say uncle.
That was satisfying.
You know, I obsessively played a game called Starflight when I was 11 or 12. That game was a springboard for a lifelong interest in space and astronomy. It also inspired a few years of bedroom programing in an attempt to recreate it. It was pretty unique in that it was fairly hard-sci-fi with lots of accurate terms and ideas.
Don't underestimate what capturing the imagination of a child can do for their adult life. We need better science education in this country.
Don't read it. Or, read it and lean and absorb what you need or think is conscionable.
It's one of those books you must divine the higher meaning of. It has specific examples that are somewhat evil and tells a narrative that is sometimes unsavory. That does not mean there are no lessons to be learned for the betterment of your manhood.
It's a bit of a cautionary tale as well.
I believe most of your good human qualities are quantified by what you do with the people you meet, not how you meet them.
For better or worse, it will help you in striking up conversations with attractive women. I'm sorry, that's mostly harmless.
I'd recommend that anyone that's tired of this "shit" read The Game by Neil Strauss.
Now, you might have to slightly disregard some of your morals, but the methods in this book work.
Also, try to find a well groomed friend (preferably female) to give you fashion advice. Women enjoy making over geeks. You *have* to go shopping sure, but nothing is ever easy.
This is a great idea. It effectively doubles the real-estate usable for interface. You won't get smudges on the screen now.
It's more comfortable like they said.
With bigger screen people could even sit opposite you and you could watch what they do.
A face to face game of transparent screen checkers would be sweet.
If you're a NIN fan, Beside You in Time is worth more then they sell it for.
Awesome performance, editing and sound that is well, like you are right there.
I have it on HD-DVD and watch it weekly, and I'm not even a big fan. Put it on during the right kind of party, and you'll be moshing in your living room. Highly recommended.
Quick, who wants to get laid?
My standards have dropped considerably, given the circumstances.
NASA continues to be undervalued.
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I just think it's been a self destructive downward spiral.
Cut funding for NASA, NASA stops doing amazing things, people stop caring about NASA, the peoples representative stop caring about NASA, cut more funding from NASA, rinse, repeat.
I wonder if we subtracted a great percentage of things like weather forecasting, satellite communications, planetary geology, solar technology, aerospace and commercial aviation advancements, awesome pictures of our Universe and other worlds, a growth in understanding of the Universe.... if people would start to care.
NASA was a catalyst behind so much stuff that everyone now takes for granted. They are the root of a giant science and technology tree.
The flaws and bureaucracy were always there. If NASA had funding and direction the flaws wouldn't be the biggest thing we notice.
An entire virtual person. We call him Chuck. He's our Asset Manager. Chuck's mailbox fills up pretty quickly, but I have a crontab for that. Sometimes I read his messages for kicks. Weeping tails like "Boy you are hard to get a hold of, I hope this reaches you well" "Let me introduce myself, I'm from blah blah networks, we are the leading provider of used sun,cisco blah blah equipment..."
His voice mail also gets deleted at midnight every day.
Yes, Chuck still works here, sure, he's familiar with all our old Cisco inventory.. I don't know if he's at his desk, hold on let me transfer you.
The best book I ever read on this subject is here.
This book gives you a deep fundamental understanding of science and the scientific method. The chapters focus on debunking a variety of outrageous pseudoscience. Ideas from UFOs to conspiracy theories to the Lost City of Atlantis are swept away by convincing arguments. Once you read enough of this, the higher meaning presents itself. Don't let the nonsense comfort you falsely. Be skeptical and trust in science. It is the most reliable methodology for getting to the truth.
Few books really changed my outlook in life. This is one of them. Read the reviews at Amazon. You will see I'm not alone. For me, in this crazy world, science really has become a candle in the dark.
Planetary geology, atmospheric science, agriculture (thanks for the weather satellites and accurate maps of the Earth guys) gee I could go on.. all these things are directly beneficial to humanity and the quest of sustaining our existence on this planet.
I just can't fathom how anyone thinks planetary science and exploring space is pointless intellectual drivel. Wow.
That's better than smoke. Plus, there's no pillows of cooling tower steam.
They're huge and blight the landscape...
I would not say that. They are kind of beautiful.
For the record, I support fission power as well.
But that's betting against the future.
Besides killing migratory birds, there's no permanent harm done with wind power. With nuclear, we have Yucca Mountain.
I totally support wind energy and think the turbines have done good for the community.
They make noise. Even at 1/2 mile away, low whooshing sounds are clearly audible, especially at 4AM.
They are HUGE. Pictures don't do it justice. By the time your next to one, it's an awesome site.
The community here gets jobs and money from them.
The government pays 1.8 cents per kilowatt hour for wind energy, netting the community here $150,000 a year. Also Florida Power and Electric pays about 12 employees here to service them. I've known a few that have worked on the turbines, they have some amazing pictures of being on top.
They significantly interfere with off-air television. I work for the cable company, and we had to build a giant antenna in another site because our first giant antenna was to close to the windmills. Local houses have trouble getting off-air signals, digital HD included.
They are a tourist attraction. The first few years they existed here, many people tried to sneak onto the private land to snap pictures etc..
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Perfect. All you'll need is one of those phones with a built in projector.
"Please state the nature of the medical emergency."
There's some irony there. What's interesting is back in 1985 Commodore seemed bloody unstoppable. They sold more PCs than anyone before or after. But then Jack Trameil left and they got lazy. After his departure investors saw this big money making machine and milked it dry with little foresight. Their arrogance really was Commodore's epic downfall. Right.. apples and oranges in a way, but lately Apple seems to be opening the doors to the same kind of arrogant path.
Commodore did somewhat the same thing to a much more aggressive degree when they bought MOS technology. It was part of a cost cutting, vertical integration strategy that served them well. They went on to sell eleventy-billion Commodore 64's at bargain basement prices. They got their chips so cheap they used 6502's in the floppy drives and printers, to huge profit margins and the largest market share by quite a bit during their hay-day. The Commodore 64 came to market at ~$600 about the same time an Apple II cost ~$1200.
For people that actually socialize it provides benefits. I've reconnected with old friends, made dates, organized parties, laughed (at someones silly pictures) and learned (from someones interesting post) countless times on facebook. I've found a few people that meant a lot to me, and have restarted some kind of relationship with them. I've joined groups that share like interests and attended events that I would have otherwise missed. It has value. I don't know of any other thing that does this stuff quite as well. In short, it's a useful way to communicate with most everyone you know.
I can't speak for twitter, but millions of other people find use in it.
The whole "I'm to cool for the popular social networking sites" crowd gets on my nerves.
Because here we sit, sharing opines with like minded individuals on a public website.
Does that make us elite?
Pot-kettle-black as they say.
I was wondering why it was less popular.
Here's what my 25-35 year old female friends do with their laptops:
Music (iTunes, iPods, iPhones), Social Networking, Pictures of their Kids, Casual Games, buy nice bags for them, watch funny videos. One friend is especially into fashion, so maybe she'll look at dresses online and such.
None of that non-sense quoted above is cool or fun. And, it's available on anything with Internet so how is it special? I'm guessing the larger laptop purchasing female demographic is, you know, more young and more trendy then recipes and watching cooking videos.
Really Dell? It's 2009. Fire your marketing director.
Which, in fact, encourages creativity and free expression.
Bots and spammers typically wait for the holiday weekends; like playing your starters against their backups.
Those people.... I feel your pain. I've had the pleasure of "turning off" the spam filtering for a few customers that had to be sure they were getting everything. We don't offer this as any kind of service, since I have to put rules in about 7 postfix servers, but I did it because these people were adamant.
One lasted about 10 hours, the other a day. Say uncle. That was satisfying.
You know, I obsessively played a game called Starflight when I was 11 or 12. That game was a springboard for a lifelong interest in space and astronomy. It also inspired a few years of bedroom programing in an attempt to recreate it. It was pretty unique in that it was fairly hard-sci-fi with lots of accurate terms and ideas.
Don't underestimate what capturing the imagination of a child can do for their adult life. We need better science education in this country.
The court document is authored by Jessica A. Nye Science Gal.
:-)
Perhaps that was your joke?
Don't read it. Or, read it and lean and absorb what you need or think is conscionable.
It's one of those books you must divine the higher meaning of. It has specific examples that are somewhat evil and tells a narrative that is sometimes unsavory. That does not mean there are no lessons to be learned for the betterment of your manhood.
It's a bit of a cautionary tale as well.
I believe most of your good human qualities are quantified by what you do with the people you meet, not how you meet them.
For better or worse, it will help you in striking up conversations with attractive women. I'm sorry, that's mostly harmless.
I'd recommend that anyone that's tired of this "shit" read The Game by Neil Strauss.
Now, you might have to slightly disregard some of your morals, but the methods in this book work.
Also, try to find a well groomed friend (preferably female) to give you fashion advice. Women enjoy making over geeks. You *have* to go shopping sure, but nothing is ever easy.
This is a great idea. It effectively doubles the real-estate usable for interface. You won't get smudges on the screen now. It's more comfortable like they said.
With bigger screen people could even sit opposite you and you could watch what they do.
A face to face game of transparent screen checkers would be sweet.
I think it's meant for comedic inflection. Really big things are often funny.
If you're a NIN fan, Beside You in Time is worth more then they sell it for.
Awesome performance, editing and sound that is well, like you are right there.
I have it on HD-DVD and watch it weekly, and I'm not even a big fan. Put it on during the right kind of party, and you'll be moshing in your living room. Highly recommended.
Quick, who wants to get laid? My standards have dropped considerably, given the circumstances.
I just think it's been a self destructive downward spiral.
Cut funding for NASA, NASA stops doing amazing things, people stop caring about NASA, the peoples representative stop caring about NASA, cut more funding from NASA, rinse, repeat.
I wonder if we subtracted a great percentage of things like weather forecasting, satellite communications, planetary geology, solar technology, aerospace and commercial aviation advancements, awesome pictures of our Universe and other worlds, a growth in understanding of the Universe.... if people would start to care.
NASA was a catalyst behind so much stuff that everyone now takes for granted. They are the root of a giant science and technology tree.
The flaws and bureaucracy were always there. If NASA had funding and direction the flaws wouldn't be the biggest thing we notice.
To bad.
Thanks. You nailed it.
Personally, I like the fake person.
An entire virtual person. We call him Chuck. He's our Asset Manager. Chuck's mailbox fills up pretty quickly, but I have a crontab for that. Sometimes I read his messages for kicks. Weeping tails like "Boy you are hard to get a hold of, I hope this reaches you well" "Let me introduce myself, I'm from blah blah networks, we are the leading provider of used sun,cisco blah blah equipment..."
His voice mail also gets deleted at midnight every day. Yes, Chuck still works here, sure, he's familiar with all our old Cisco inventory.. I don't know if he's at his desk, hold on let me transfer you.
The best book I ever read on this subject is here.
This book gives you a deep fundamental understanding of science and the scientific method. The chapters focus on debunking a variety of outrageous pseudoscience. Ideas from UFOs to conspiracy theories to the Lost City of Atlantis are swept away by convincing arguments. Once you read enough of this, the higher meaning presents itself. Don't let the nonsense comfort you falsely. Be skeptical and trust in science. It is the most reliable methodology for getting to the truth.
Few books really changed my outlook in life. This is one of them. Read the reviews at Amazon. You will see I'm not alone. For me, in this crazy world, science really has become a candle in the dark.
NASA is the catalyst behind much of the research and development in areas that might help solve this problem you are so worried about.
Fuel Cells, Solar Technology, and a better understanding of the Sun and it's fission come to mind.
Planetary geology, atmospheric science, agriculture (thanks for the weather satellites and accurate maps of the Earth guys) gee I could go on.. all these things are directly beneficial to humanity and the quest of sustaining our existence on this planet.
I just can't fathom how anyone thinks planetary science and exploring space is pointless intellectual drivel. Wow.
Within minutes of the first downlink, pictures were available on the net.
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That's fantastic.
For the record, I support fission power as well. But that's betting against the future. Besides killing migratory birds, there's no permanent harm done with wind power. With nuclear, we have Yucca Mountain.
I live close to the Waymart Wind Farm. Just a few notes:
I totally support wind energy and think the turbines have done good for the community.
They make noise. Even at 1/2 mile away, low whooshing sounds are clearly audible, especially at 4AM.
They are HUGE. Pictures don't do it justice. By the time your next to one, it's an awesome site.
The community here gets jobs and money from them. The government pays 1.8 cents per kilowatt hour for wind energy, netting the community here $150,000 a year. Also Florida Power and Electric pays about 12 employees here to service them. I've known a few that have worked on the turbines, they have some amazing pictures of being on top.
They significantly interfere with off-air television. I work for the cable company, and we had to build a giant antenna in another site because our first giant antenna was to close to the windmills. Local houses have trouble getting off-air signals, digital HD included.
They are a tourist attraction. The first few years they existed here, many people tried to sneak onto the private land to snap pictures etc..