Oh, come on. This is the closest thing to a 'desk' from Enders Game I have ever seen. It might not be earth shanking, but it is still kinda cool, even if it dose come from Microsoft.
I can top that. I had my dads high school desk. He carved the answers to every test he took in that class into the suffice so I never had to study for a test ever! But my friend Laslo memorized every answer ever, that was more helpful.
Well, any company is only as good as the share holders. Most people are evil therefore most people who buy stock are evil, therefore major corporations that are publicly traded are evil. Or to quote Douglas Adams "People are the problem,"
I'm thinking wind power for refrigeration, not solar. Higher wattage, and the days that we have power outages in California tend to be windy. But I like your idea of using lots of insulation as well.
I like the idea of a separate circuit for a swamp cooler/AC hybrid and a refrigerator. That way when they cut power due because so many people are using AC I can still keep my house cool. Also, during an earthquake induced extended outage I could still have a refrigerator working.
I could not see Microsoft staff having the same kind of issue that the OSS community has with dogma and development. Simply because if this is your job you won't care as much as if it was your personal pet project. That, and you have the option to find another job if things get bad at work (aka you could fork your carrier away from your current company)
Also, if you are a boss with an employee that is demanding and dogmatic you could (a) let him have his way, (b) fire him, or (c) give him money to shut up. In the OSS community if you have a developer that wants to do his own thing with your project he just takes the code he wants and dose his thing.
Are you kidding me! We have finally found the perfect iPod killer! This is something Microsoft has been after for a long time (not to mention Sony, Creative, Samsung, and many others). The iPod it self will create it's own demise. Some one should call Microsoft and tell them to start selling iPods so that they can kill it faster.
If this occurs in the retina a pole shift might not have any major effect on bird behavior. Eyes process what the landscape looks like, the possession of the sun, landmarks, and so on. Because the ability to sense 'north' occurs in the eyes, logically, the bird would take into account all information it's eyes gathered. This would provide redundancy and increased accuracy, along with making a pole shift an issue of recalibration, and not relearning entire thought processes.
Now I can be just like Lieutenant Commander Data and listen to six different classical compositions at once loud enough to rattle a star ships windows! Now I just need to make a pun about rattling a star ships windows while running Linux.
You know, I never thought of that before. This guy and I arn't exactly friends, and I could never figure out why. In retrospect I do that kind of thing to him a lot. He is a salesmen type personality, always bragging about how great something he has is and how he is on the cutting edge. I think I'm half Vulcan, so end up saying obvious and logical about the lameness of the bleeding edge. It's kind of a bad mix.
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That reminds me of when DVDs were the big new thing. Some one I know got me to set up his new DVD player, and later was bragging about how crisp his new DVD picture was and how great digital was. Half way through the movie I told him the sad truth. His DVD player didn't work so we were watching a VHS copy of the movie. He got sullen and cranky after that.
This is only logical. A criminal will work for the quick buck. BnE is great when lots of people are leaving their windows open and you are the only burglar, but once every one is on the BnE bandwagonit's time to switch to mugging or extortion.
I hate to shout "Amen!" but...AMEN! I work in accounting and dabble in computers at work, and it is so much easier and cheaper to have everything above-board come audit time than need to pay fees or back taxes. It is also dramatically less stress on the origination as a whole when the accounting and IT department are saying they are not worried about any impending audits. Every one has a moral boost because they know things aren't going to explode because of illegal practices. It also boosts the over all ethics of the staff. Knowing your bosses spend a good deal of money to obey the law makes employees far less likely to lie them selves.
That sounds great. I suppose I'm a bit bias because I have friends who are Deaf (as in use ASL, went to Deaf schools exc.) and I know ASL, so I have heard all the story's about people who got brain-fry from electric razors, lightning storms, and microwaves (oh, the only undocumented story was the last one.) The part that bugs me most is how many people who got cochlears as children because their parents were convened it would help them, and then it didn't work, or failed with in a few years. Because a cochlear implant destroys any natural hearing left these kids went from being 50% to 75% deaf to 100% deaf. Like i said, wait until SP2, I don't want to be given a beta impalnt.
But that's my point, it is a 'simple' device and yet is very prone to failure, outside interference, and general household EM. How much more dangerous would it be to jack something into my brain. If I was in an iron lung and could not speak i might accept the surgery, but other than that please stay out of my cranium.
This sounds great, but considering how well cochlear implants work this scares me a bit. I know some one who has a a defective cochlear and it is causing her a lot of problems. Worse than the fact that her restored hearing sounds like a computer and the implant is failing is the prospect of another operation to fix it. How ever much this technology could be of benefit I would much rather avoid the implants all together.
You jest, but when I was in high school I would leave the home PC running Sim City 2000 when I was away to generate cash. But I would often return to find my dads city running and not mine. His logic? "I bought the computer and pay for the electricity, so I get to leave my city running," although he only shut down my game once I generated a sizable amount of cash and he always saved, so I can't complane much. The problem went away when I bought my computer. Then we just argued about civic planing.
The MiB don't work for the government. Also, they don't care about terrorism. Now, hold still and look at the light on the end of this shiny mettle probe.
I would think it's about Ego. "I own ALL COMPUTERS!" as the chairs fly, so logically they can't stop until the empire includes even the computer in my microwave oven.
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I can top that. I had my dads high school desk. He carved the answers to every test he took in that class into the suffice so I never had to study for a test ever! But my friend Laslo memorized every answer ever, that was more helpful.
with my tinfoil hat turned against me what shall I do?
Well, any company is only as good as the share holders. Most people are evil therefore most people who buy stock are evil, therefore major corporations that are publicly traded are evil. Or to quote Douglas Adams "People are the problem,"
I'm thinking wind power for refrigeration, not solar. Higher wattage, and the days that we have power outages in California tend to be windy. But I like your idea of using lots of insulation as well.
I like the idea of a separate circuit for a swamp cooler/AC hybrid and a refrigerator. That way when they cut power due because so many people are using AC I can still keep my house cool. Also, during an earthquake induced extended outage I could still have a refrigerator working.
Also, if you are a boss with an employee that is demanding and dogmatic you could (a) let him have his way, (b) fire him, or (c) give him money to shut up. In the OSS community if you have a developer that wants to do his own thing with your project he just takes the code he wants and dose his thing.
Are you kidding me! We have finally found the perfect iPod killer! This is something Microsoft has been after for a long time (not to mention Sony, Creative, Samsung, and many others). The iPod it self will create it's own demise. Some one should call Microsoft and tell them to start selling iPods so that they can kill it faster.
If this occurs in the retina a pole shift might not have any major effect on bird behavior. Eyes process what the landscape looks like, the possession of the sun, landmarks, and so on. Because the ability to sense 'north' occurs in the eyes, logically, the bird would take into account all information it's eyes gathered. This would provide redundancy and increased accuracy, along with making a pole shift an issue of recalibration, and not relearning entire thought processes.
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Now I can be just like Lieutenant Commander Data and listen to six different classical compositions at once loud enough to rattle a star ships windows! Now I just need to make a pun about rattling a star ships windows while running Linux.
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You know, I never thought of that before. This guy and I arn't exactly friends, and I could never figure out why. In retrospect I do that kind of thing to him a lot. He is a salesmen type personality, always bragging about how great something he has is and how he is on the cutting edge. I think I'm half Vulcan, so end up saying obvious and logical about the lameness of the bleeding edge. It's kind of a bad mix.
That reminds me of when DVDs were the big new thing. Some one I know got me to set up his new DVD player, and later was bragging about how crisp his new DVD picture was and how great digital was. Half way through the movie I told him the sad truth. His DVD player didn't work so we were watching a VHS copy of the movie. He got sullen and cranky after that.
This is only logical. A criminal will work for the quick buck. BnE is great when lots of people are leaving their windows open and you are the only burglar, but once every one is on the BnE bandwagonit's time to switch to mugging or extortion.
Just wondering, but did a blue box show up on the IIS?
I hate to shout "Amen!" but...AMEN! I work in accounting and dabble in computers at work, and it is so much easier and cheaper to have everything above-board come audit time than need to pay fees or back taxes. It is also dramatically less stress on the origination as a whole when the accounting and IT department are saying they are not worried about any impending audits. Every one has a moral boost because they know things aren't going to explode because of illegal practices. It also boosts the over all ethics of the staff. Knowing your bosses spend a good deal of money to obey the law makes employees far less likely to lie them selves.
That sounds great. I suppose I'm a bit bias because I have friends who are Deaf (as in use ASL, went to Deaf schools exc.) and I know ASL, so I have heard all the story's about people who got brain-fry from electric razors, lightning storms, and microwaves (oh, the only undocumented story was the last one.) The part that bugs me most is how many people who got cochlears as children because their parents were convened it would help them, and then it didn't work, or failed with in a few years. Because a cochlear implant destroys any natural hearing left these kids went from being 50% to 75% deaf to 100% deaf. Like i said, wait until SP2, I don't want to be given a beta impalnt.
But that's my point, it is a 'simple' device and yet is very prone to failure, outside interference, and general household EM. How much more dangerous would it be to jack something into my brain. If I was in an iron lung and could not speak i might accept the surgery, but other than that please stay out of my cranium.
This sounds great, but considering how well cochlear implants work this scares me a bit. I know some one who has a a defective cochlear and it is causing her a lot of problems. Worse than the fact that her restored hearing sounds like a computer and the implant is failing is the prospect of another operation to fix it. How ever much this technology could be of benefit I would much rather avoid the implants all together.
You jest, but when I was in high school I would leave the home PC running Sim City 2000 when I was away to generate cash. But I would often return to find my dads city running and not mine. His logic? "I bought the computer and pay for the electricity, so I get to leave my city running," although he only shut down my game once I generated a sizable amount of cash and he always saved, so I can't complane much. The problem went away when I bought my computer. Then we just argued about civic planing.
The MiB don't work for the government. Also, they don't care about terrorism. Now, hold still and look at the light on the end of this shiny mettle probe.
I would think it's about Ego. "I own ALL COMPUTERS!" as the chairs fly, so logically they can't stop until the empire includes even the computer in my microwave oven.
Hum...your reader must not be calibrated properly. Normally they prevent you from preserving them.
Sounds to me like the nasty coffee that comes out of that single cup machine we have at work. JavaTar. Bleach.