If we know our children are getting smarter quicker because of the constant blasting of technology around them, they know how to program the pvr at 5...etc...of course once they get to 70, they will be smarter then last generations 70 year olds. It is the same with technology, our curve will adapt to match that of technology, we have no choice, because technology is designed by us for us, and mass produced for the population we have, they say in another 10 years everyone will have their own cell phone....if that is true, then no one will left not knowing that you can add speed dial, or contacts to your phone, or sync it with your outlook, or thunderbird etc....step by step we match the technology curve, so of course as time progresses are dying older people are dying smarter then they were generations before.
I don't know, I understand wanting to push the boundaries, but even if I knew my newly configured arms could steer a vehicle, I think I would not want to take the chance, and just learn to use them around the house or at work, seeing as it is still a new technology, you can find someone that will drive you, being this stubborn is just asking for trouble.
Everyone needs to be a bit more like him. Doctors, engineers, lawyers and race car driving as well as many more particular careers give you an edge, certain awareness, almost above average, to the point that making split decisions become second nature, and the confidence that comes that is inspiring. We all need to travel more, abroad, soak in different cultures, and learn more languages, we all need multiple career choices of which one should give you access to better mental stimulation of the nervous system, to fully understand the way the mind works under stress, and also be able to master quickness and accuracy in certain conditions. I think if we did that, there would be more stories of people like this guy, that used his knowledge to make quick decision and saving a life, possibly more...
Knowing all your escape exists, and where each fire extinguisher is each time you enter a new building seems extreme, but many navy seals, and black ops agents need to do a 1000 more things like this in the same amount of time to be able to have a situation under control. I am not saying become a navy seal, but merely showing that if the mind can be trained to that level, surely learning where your exists are in every building you enter does not sound that bad in comparison.
I remember firstly digitizing my whole collection, as 4gb dvds in digital format, then I heard about the avi format, and thought I will buy a dvd player that will play avi format and change my whole library to avi. That having been done, and many downloads later as some had not been able to convert easily (missing codec for sound etc...), I cleared up much space, but to my dismay, I also ended up downloading more content too....browsing the sites does that...i'll take this, and this one too, and oh yeah, this one would be nice.
Now at 4tb, plus 4tb backups of first 4tb. means I have 8tb. Some are 1tb drives, others are 500gb....now if I can get my hands on one of these 3tb drives, my life will be less cramped, and unless I find someone to buy my older drives, then I will start finding more stuff to download....the irony of it all.
You can see it too, when you look at how crappy some of the cartoons being pushed out for tvshows on Teletoon, and such....quicker garbage spewed out, is still garbage...it just means you pay less for it as a tv station. I can not see any real difference in the kids attention span from the old shows from hanna barbara, you still capture the kids imagination, so how come we need to push so hard for an industry that is really never changing.
The bucks saved by the big cos never really end up seeing the employees reap the benefits, like higher pay grade... so do not develop these tools, and let those cartoonists pump out more hours on their paychecks and feed their families.
I sometimes hate hearing about what's coming because it gets my hopes up NOW, instead of later, I know it is a catch 22, as we need more interest for things to advance, and you can't have interest by the masses without informing them in advance of what is coming, but MY GOD, how long before we get the cheap solar panels everyone keeps taking about.
Will this be another one of those stories that only 15 years later will we see our ISPs upgrade to this type of fiber???
You are telling me that we know what is on the moon, by smashing something into it, and then analyzing the dust cloud it leaves behind, I thought there was no such thing as dust clouds in space because of the lack of gravity...? I call BS on this story.....just more misdirection...are there some elections coming soon or something?
Does this mean later, cell phone co can actually use this technology, and lower their prices, or will they just use this, and still charge us an arm and a leg.......as we ARE the world's most highly charged for cell phone calls in the world.
Me too...I think all companies should just pay a straight across the board fee, which is 20% and all the extra profits would make it less demanding on people so they could bring them down to 20% across the board for everyone as well, instead of their higher tax rates. Could you imagine if there was deviating from the straight 20%, it was the exactly the same for everyone.....I guess accountants would be without a job , well most anyways.
If I could, I would lobby for this in all governments, 20% of nothing is nothing, where as 20% of 10 million is 2 million, so Tom Cruise who has more money then god, would be now helping the ones that are starving by actually PAYING his taxes, instead of giving it to some cult, where as the poor who have no money to eat, would still owe nothing, and be left to figure out how to pay for their food, instead of uncle sam.
I tried replacing the "the rug and furniture are my towel method" with the "insert into the microwave method" and did not turn out too well, I was wanting to save money on towels and now instead I am saving money on dog food.
SO true, so true, the only thing is even if they had the money to sink into a server that also had sat com, then they would have a completely defenseless target sitting out there, ready for the taking, and if someone came and just took the server for themselves, there is no real governing body in space, so who would you contact, which court would you go to to try your case...really great idea to circumvent their obstacles, but bad timing, we do not have a space police in place yet.
This guy pretty much showed how useless our recycling is, especially when he bought a plane for 1/3 the price of a house, and has so much materials left over, that he can build other units, like a pool storage facility, and etc...
I am such a great big fan of Google, they could do no wrong, well almost,...I guess I got to throw in the towel with this one.... maybe they did this to set a precedent for the future????
If they really just wanted to WIFI sniff to see available hotspots, that is one thing, but for them to collect personal data by breaching someone's router, that is totally another....and illegal.
>Do you have any p0rn to declare sir? >Yes...I have a donkey show on my camera, with clowns >Next!
>Do you have any p0rn to declare sir? >Yes...I have migets, with kittens being juggled, and a boa constrictor... >Next!
>Do you have any p0rn to declare sir? >Yes I have my mother and sister naked on my bed.. >Next!
>Do you have any p0rn to declare sir? >I have a picture of Barry Manilow semi nude in Las Vegas....???? >Hands up against the wall, maggot, you think this is funny.....oh boy, you are going away for a long time pal!!!
I want to know if they will be able to bypass the limitations of windowsxp, if you use it for external purposes only, as the usb plugged in, may not worry about 2 or 3 or 4 tb,...just wondering...anyone?
The end of sensibility is what is going to be "the end of the world" as we know it. When China becomes the major power (and it will happen by sheer mass and volume) they will start their decimation of other nations, and we will all be equal under one government... hopefully I am dead before this happens.
I guess we can say it is payback for when the brits took over china's capital.
Well the fact that M$ had every opportunity to show him different, and instead just proved the point even more, speaks volumes, M$ does not care about its customers, M$ does not care about sending out finished, good and solid working products into the masses, the only M$ worries about is $....which is why they have such lame commercials....
>I am a PC and I can't come up with anything ingenious as we do not allow for that in our budget, so I will just repeating I am a PC and hope it catches on...
This story does bring promise and makes me lose hope as well.....since when does a professor that knows how valuable his work is, not have backups of his work ? Yes the thieves were amazing and I would hope that if ever that happened to me I would be that lucky, but I would not need it, I have my backups!Everyone should have backups...hell a 1tb drive at bestbuy is only 100$....come on!
Well, if you were an artist, you would know that sales of albums usually only gets you 1$ per album for the band after xx sales (usually 1 million copies for the big ones), which is why Nsync and Backstreet boys took their managers (the same guy to boot) to court because he said they were bankrupt and owed the company money even after selling a gazillion records.
However, the revenue generated by concerts , tshirts, and dolls (Kiss)...usually has a percentage attached on the bottom line dollar for the artist...so in Gene's case, this means he gets more money selling the memorabilia, then he does selling albums....to fill his contract obligations, he just puts out another greatest hit(they have 13 greatest hits albums overall including the alive ones...pretty pathetic and smart at the same time.).
So being a shrewd business man, and getting around the obstacles laid in his path by the big record co. he goes out and promotes himself even more by getting a tv show....now the sensation is back, and doll sales are again going up for him. Smart man!
Better Apple then M$, and better Google then Apple, so hopefully, the Google people will see what Apple is trying and beat them to it, else good for them, they deserve it more then M$
Wow, I had never thought of that, but you make it very clear. It is as if we used slavery back in the day to become wealthy, and now with human rights, get all bent out of shape when another nation uses slavery for the same purpose we were.....they should be allowed to, because we were...or wait, no,...maybe i guess i am missing the message here....let me think about it some...
I think this is still ok, as I mentioned M$ are never front runners when it comes to really creating stuff, they just copy , even add-ons for their own software, usually you will end up seeing it in the next gen., such as visual studio and the like. I remember way back when you had very few members to gmail coming out, and I happened to know a guy whom worked with google on their servers, and I mentioned to him that gmail could also be a offer a little more room if they had a filesystem scan incorporated into their systems that looked for an exact duplicate of a file (which when you send out those stupid joke emails, everyone gets) and use pointers instead of a whole new copy of the same file...so low and behold, this was used later not only in the gmail system, but also the hotmail system. I can see why M$ would want to do this, as now with cloud computing offering online content even when offline, and also using free space amongst all pcs to help with file raid parity, it was only a matter of time before we would see them moving this technology fully to the web. Makes so much sense, why should your business worry about backups and domains and what not, when your whole enterprise can be on their servers, and at their finger tips....
Big Brother watch out, you got Big Daddy moving in!
Wow, does this ever show that M$ missed the boat when OpenOffice came out with web based document management system, and they are now stumbling to try and bring out a quick recap of what that one does already! No more licenses needed for office when they see everyone moved to openoffice, so now they figure to get back all the lost users by offering office2007 but web based???
Better then none, and that is also by machine, put 10 machines side by side on the ocean floor all lined up with the same tubing, you can fill those tubes up enough that it spills into a container and keeps the water there for the people, sort of like a water tower....
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If we know our children are getting smarter quicker because of the constant blasting of technology around them, they know how to program the pvr at 5...etc...of course once they get to 70, they will be smarter then last generations 70 year olds.
It is the same with technology, our curve will adapt to match that of technology, we have no choice, because technology is designed by us for us, and mass produced for the population we have, they say in another 10 years everyone will have their own cell phone....if that is true, then no one will left not knowing that you can add speed dial, or contacts to your phone, or sync it with your outlook, or thunderbird etc....step by step we match the technology curve, so of course as time progresses are dying older people are dying smarter then they were generations before.
I don't know, I understand wanting to push the boundaries, but even if I knew my newly configured arms could steer a vehicle, I think I would not want to take the chance, and just learn to use them around the house or at work, seeing as it is still a new technology, you can find someone that will drive you, being this stubborn is just asking for trouble.
Everyone needs to be a bit more like him. Doctors, engineers, lawyers and race car driving as well as many more particular careers give you an edge, certain awareness, almost above average, to the point that making split decisions become second nature, and the confidence that comes that is inspiring. We all need to travel more, abroad, soak in different cultures, and learn more languages, we all need multiple career choices of which one should give you access to better mental stimulation of the nervous system, to fully understand the way the mind works under stress, and also be able to master quickness and accuracy in certain conditions. I think if we did that, there would be more stories of people like this guy, that used his knowledge to make quick decision and saving a life, possibly more...
Knowing all your escape exists, and where each fire extinguisher is each time you enter a new building seems extreme, but many navy seals, and black ops agents need to do a 1000 more things like this in the same amount of time to be able to have a situation under control. I am not saying become a navy seal, but merely showing that if the mind can be trained to that level, surely learning where your exists are in every building you enter does not sound that bad in comparison.
I remember firstly digitizing my whole collection, as 4gb dvds in digital format, then I heard about the avi format, and thought I will buy a dvd player that will play avi format and change my whole library to avi. ...i'll take this, and this one too, and oh yeah, this one would be nice.
That having been done, and many downloads later as some had not been able to convert easily (missing codec for sound etc...), I cleared up much space, but to my dismay, I also ended up downloading more content too....browsing the sites does that
Now at 4tb, plus 4tb backups of first 4tb. means I have 8tb.
Some are 1tb drives, others are 500gb....now if I can get my hands on one of these 3tb drives, my life will be less cramped, and unless I find someone to buy my older drives, then I will start finding more stuff to download....the irony of it all.
You can see it too, when you look at how crappy some of the cartoons being pushed out for tvshows on Teletoon, and such....quicker garbage spewed out, is still garbage. ..it just means you pay less for it as a tv station.
I can not see any real difference in the kids attention span from the old shows from hanna barbara,
you still capture the kids imagination, so how come we need to push so hard for an industry that is really never changing.
The bucks saved by the big cos never really end up seeing the employees reap the benefits, like higher pay grade...
so do not develop these tools, and let those cartoonists pump out more hours on their paychecks and feed their families.
I sometimes hate hearing about what's coming because it gets my hopes up NOW, instead of later, I know it is a catch 22, as we need more interest for things to advance, and you can't have interest by the masses without informing them in advance of what is coming, but MY GOD, how long before we get the cheap solar panels everyone keeps taking about.
Will this be another one of those stories that only 15 years later will we see our ISPs upgrade to this type of fiber???
You are telling me that we know what is on the moon, by smashing something into it, and then analyzing the dust cloud it leaves behind, I thought there was no such thing as dust clouds in space because of the lack of gravity...?
I call BS on this story.....just more misdirection...are there some elections coming soon or something?
Does this mean later, cell phone co can actually use this technology, and lower their prices, or will they just use this, and still charge us an arm and a leg.......as we ARE the world's most highly charged for cell phone calls in the world.
Me too...I think all companies should just pay a straight across the board fee, which is 20%
and all the extra profits would make it less demanding on people so they could bring them down to 20% across the board for everyone as well, instead of their higher tax rates. Could you imagine if there was deviating from the straight 20%, it was the exactly the same for everyone.....I guess accountants would be without a job , well most anyways.
If I could, I would lobby for this in all governments, 20% of nothing is nothing, where as 20% of 10 million is 2 million, so Tom Cruise who has more money then god, would be now helping the ones that are starving by actually PAYING his taxes, instead of giving it to some cult, where as the poor who have no money to eat, would still owe nothing, and be left to figure out how to pay for their food, instead of uncle sam.
I tried replacing the "the rug and furniture are my towel method" with the "insert into the microwave method"
and did not turn out too well, I was wanting to save money on towels and now instead I am saving money on dog food.
SO true, so true, the only thing is even if they had the money to sink into a server that also had sat com, then they would have a completely defenseless target sitting out there, ready for the taking, and if someone came and just took the server for themselves, there is no real governing body in space, so who would you contact, which court would you go to to try your case...really great idea to circumvent their obstacles, but bad timing, we do not have a space police in place yet.
This guy pretty much showed how useless our recycling is, especially when he bought a plane for 1/3 the price of a house, and has so much materials left over, that he can build other units, like a pool storage facility, and etc...
Smart, smart , smart!
I am such a great big fan of Google, they could do no wrong, well almost, ...I guess I got to throw in the towel with this one....
maybe they did this to set a precedent for the future????
If they really just wanted to WIFI sniff to see available hotspots, that is one thing, but for them to collect personal data by breaching someone's router, that is totally another....and illegal.
Proof if I ever heard of it that a) we have cellular memory, and b) allergies are propagate within the muscle tissue
>Do you have any p0rn to declare sir?
>Yes...I have a donkey show on my camera, with clowns
>Next!
>Do you have any p0rn to declare sir?
>Yes...I have migets, with kittens being juggled, and a boa constrictor...
>Next!
>Do you have any p0rn to declare sir?
>Yes I have my mother and sister naked on my bed..
>Next!
>Do you have any p0rn to declare sir?
>I have a picture of Barry Manilow semi nude in Las Vegas....????
>Hands up against the wall, maggot, you think this is funny.....oh boy, you are going away for a long time pal!!!
I want to know if they will be able to bypass the limitations of windowsxp, if you use it for external purposes only, ...just wondering...anyone?
as the usb plugged in, may not worry about 2 or 3 or 4 tb,
The end of sensibility is what is going to be "the end of the world" as we know it.
When China becomes the major power (and it will happen by sheer mass and volume)
they will start their decimation of other nations, and we will all be equal under one government...
hopefully I am dead before this happens.
I guess we can say it is payback for when the brits took over china's capital.
Well the fact that M$ had every opportunity to show him different, and instead just proved the point even more, speaks volumes, M$ does not care about its customers, M$ does not care about sending out finished, good and solid working products into the masses, the only M$ worries about is $....which is why they have such lame commercials....
>I am a PC and I can't come up with anything ingenious as we do not allow for that in our budget,
so I will just repeating I am a PC and hope it catches on...
This story does bring promise and makes me lose hope as well.....since when does a professor that knows how valuable his work is, not have backups of his work ? Yes the thieves were amazing and I would hope that if ever that happened to me I would be that lucky, but I would not need it, I have my backups!Everyone should have backups...hell a 1tb drive at bestbuy is only 100$....come on!
Well, if you were an artist, you would know that sales of albums usually only gets you 1$ per album for the band after xx sales (usually 1 million copies for the big ones), which is why Nsync and Backstreet boys took their managers (the same guy to boot) to court because he said they were bankrupt and owed the company money even after selling a gazillion records.
However, the revenue generated by concerts , tshirts, and dolls (Kiss)...usually has a percentage attached on the bottom line dollar for the artist...so in Gene's case, this means he gets more money selling the memorabilia, then he does selling albums....to fill his contract obligations, he just puts out another greatest hit(they have 13 greatest hits albums overall including the alive ones...pretty pathetic and smart at the same time.).
So being a shrewd business man, and getting around the obstacles laid in his path by the big record co. he goes out and promotes himself even more by getting a tv show....now the sensation is back, and doll sales are again going up for him. Smart man!
Better Apple then M$, and better Google then Apple, so hopefully, the Google people will see what Apple is trying and beat them to it, else good for them, they deserve it more then M$
Wow, I had never thought of that, but you make it very clear. It is as if we used slavery back in the day to become wealthy, and now with human rights, get all bent out of shape when another nation uses slavery for the same purpose we were.....they should be allowed to, because we were...or wait, no, ...maybe i guess i am missing the message here....let me think about it some...
I think this is still ok, as I mentioned M$ are never front runners when it comes to really creating stuff, they just copy , even add-ons for their own software, usually you will end up seeing it in the next gen., such as visual studio and the like. I remember way back when you had very few members to gmail coming out, and I happened to know a guy whom worked with google on their servers, and I mentioned to him that gmail could also be a offer a little more room if they had a filesystem scan incorporated into their systems that looked for an exact duplicate of a file (which when you send out those stupid joke emails, everyone gets) and use pointers instead of a whole new copy of the same file...so low and behold, this was used later not only in the gmail system, but also the hotmail system. I can see why M$ would want to do this, as now with cloud computing offering online content even when offline, and also using free space amongst all pcs to help with file raid parity, it was only a matter of time before we would see them moving this technology fully to the web. Makes so much sense, why should your business worry about backups and domains and what not, when your whole enterprise can be on their servers, and at their finger tips....
Big Brother watch out, you got Big Daddy moving in!
Wow, does this ever show that M$ missed the boat when OpenOffice came out with web based document management system, and they are now stumbling to try and bring out a quick recap of what that one does already! No more licenses needed for office when they see everyone moved to openoffice, so now they figure to get back all the lost users by offering office2007 but web based???
Better then none, and that is also by machine, put 10 machines side by side on the ocean floor all lined up with the same tubing, you can fill those tubes up enough that it spills into a container and keeps the water there for the people, sort of like a water tower....