You are completely wrong. It is in fact not much harder to rearrange words, sentences, even whole chapters when using a typewriter. The trick is to write each word on a seperate page. Then to rearrange, delete, or even insert a whole new sentence at the beginning is quite an easy task. And there are no drawbacks!!
Can you provide an instance of somebody who made a mistake watching CCTV footage has ever gotten into any kind of trouble? My point is that the computers don't make a decision, and then start firing lasers. Obviously they will inform a human, who will make a judgement about what needs to be done. Is that reasonable enough for you?
Feel free to take your own advice about "whinging".
If users sit idly by and let vendors walk all over them it will lead to exactly the situation users currently have with Microsoft, a "benevolent" dictatorship that puts out products and services that don't do the majority of users any good but feed Wall Streets urges for "innovation".
Perhaps you can explain to me how google in releasing this somehow means they are walking over you? Or is everybody out to get you.
Personally, I am sick of you people, who seem to be looking for something to complain about. You aren't adding anything to the conversation except noise.
Don't know why it's different from "links", but I'm not a blogger.
So even after reading the definition you can't see a difference. The difference is that a blogroll is a collection of links to other blogs, an important distinction, since links to blogs are not as worthy as links to say newspapers, or scientific journals.
Yes, you are right. It is not perfect. How dare they release something that is not perfect, who knows what this will lead to?
Stop your whingeing, don't use it if it upsets you. You don't have to use it. Meanwhile, lots of people will find many uses for this, sure not as many people who enjoy google earth or google maps, but still many people will.
You make a decent point. But the way something like Big Brother comes in, is as in most changes to society, it creeps in.
No matter how you look at it, this is a loss of privacy. 20 years ago, you could expect to walk in a public place, and there would be no record of you ever being there. Now, in places like the UK, you are captured all the time, and these recrods can be kept for a long time. So we have lost privacy going out in a public place. The next step is some form of recognition software that can track individuals, everywhere they go.
So where do you draw the line? When do YOU start to get upset. Or are you one of these people who are happy for the government and private industry to know where you are at all times? If that doesn't bother you (whether you never do anything wrong or not), then you have a problem. If that doesn't bother most people in this world (and I think it won't), then we all have a problem.
...the article actually means 75c on the dollar, or 3/4 the price that they were originally selling for. Wow, what a bargain, you can get a 2 or 3 years old player for 75% of the original price.
Do you really think that Microsoft hires over a million people? And that they all have ipods? And that they all want to throw them away for the Zune? What are you, stupid, or an accountant?
Yeah, it is like the time I went to a car dealer, to buy a car. I wanted to test drive this machine, but because I can't drive, they wouldn't even help me get it started. You would think the least they could do was provide someone to drive me around. If they can't even provide that low level of help, then please don't waste your time buying a car. It appears they want you to be a Formule one race driver, before they will help you.
What do you think the engine is for? And there are demos (depending on how long ago you made the request, but demos have been around for many years).
Your first two arguments are great, but the last doesn't really hold any water - I am not sure if it is easy to store data in such a way that is much harder to read on a Mac than anything else. Even if they encrypt it, they still need to write code on all OS to work with the data.
The tricky bit was finding the correct picture with the code for a particular agent. This is where the agents Mothers came in handy. The name of the DVDs, swing low sweet chariots!
You are wrong. How do you find a particular image with google image search? Sure, if you look for a particular file name, or it is linked to perfect 10 you can do a search for that. But it is not like they can submit an image, and google will find all same or similar images? So how does one go about finding sites that are posting their images? There is no real way.
Did you happen to recently move into a new place, in a nicer area? I find it hard to believe that you have stayed in the same place and the rent has gone up that much? If you are referring to some stats, do you mind pointing to them?
If you don't EDUCATE yourself in order to communicate on their levels you will never get through to them no matter how elegant or cost efficient your proposal is.
I'm not going to tell you to trust me on this, but I will say that if you don't learn to communicate effectively with the audience that you are trying to appeal to, you will never get anywhere no matter what your message is. This is why we see so much political posturing during elections; they are trying to appeal to the voters - their audience.
At every level of business, you have to be political. The absolutely largest part of politics is relating to your intended audience. If you need to take speaking classes, finance classes, whatever... do something so that you can relate to your audience in a way that is EASY for them to understand.
Why do you feel the need to keep repeating this. Nobody is disagreeing with this, the guy is asking for help in doing exactly this. It is like if I took my car to the mechanic, and ask him to get it repaired, and he spends a hour telling me why I should get it repaired.
I think your advice is off, as well. Doesn't any of your family or friends who aren't techs ask you what you do? In this case, you need to explain to them what you do, in a simple not-tech terms. Use the same techniques when talking to your managers. Remember, you don't want to simplify it for simplicities sake, you need to think about what they need to know, what they are interested in. They don't care that you have reduced the database size to now fit on one disk rather than 3, they want to know about savings, freeing up hardware that could be used elsewhere. SPend some time to think about things from their point of view.
The problem is that it is not just some pictures (whatever that means). It is, once agian, someone ripping of someone else. Somone big ripping of the work os someone small, and making a fortune. Maybe you haven't been ripped of before, but it makes you feel angry, very angry. When you hear about someone else being ripped of, those feelings re-emerge, and you want the wrong to be righted.
Ha, Microsoft wont fall for this. They pulled this when they used the code for the first version of Internet Explorer, agreed on a licensing deal on a certain percentage of the sale price, then gave it away with Windows.
Yeah, that is why it hasn't caught on. Nothing to do with the fact it is still being developer, or it costs a huge pile of cash. The fact that it can't handle a little rain, that is the only thing stopping people spending $1000s on something of limited use. You know, i bet the reason that personal jet packs hasn't caught on yet is because nobody has painted them the right colour. And space travel is really going to pick up as soon as they offer good meals on the rockets - that is the thing holding it back.
Shouldn't you be wearing a straight jacket or something?
Or display news headlines - talk about thinking outside the box. You could even have one on the wall displaying the current song playing on your computer - thinking outside the box on that one. Or maybe the weather - wow, I should be paid for these brilliant ideas.
This, my friends, is why they shouldn't have computer with net access in primary schools.
Yeah, because NO is one of the more complicated words in the English language, you will have to have lived here for about 3 years before you can even dream about saying that word.
I understand this premise for something like myspace, or youtube, but surely myspace could have just started offering an easy interfact to upload pictures, and they would have taken over from photobucket? Or is photobucket used in so many other places? (I see imageshack everywhere, not photobucket)
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You are completely wrong. It is in fact not much harder to rearrange words, sentences, even whole chapters when using a typewriter. The trick is to write each word on a seperate page. Then to rearrange, delete, or even insert a whole new sentence at the beginning is quite an easy task. And there are no drawbacks!!
Can you provide an instance of somebody who made a mistake watching CCTV footage has ever gotten into any kind of trouble? My point is that the computers don't make a decision, and then start firing lasers. Obviously they will inform a human, who will make a judgement about what needs to be done. Is that reasonable enough for you?
Feel free to take your own advice about "whinging".
If users sit idly by and let vendors walk all over them it will lead to exactly the situation users currently have with Microsoft, a "benevolent" dictatorship that puts out products and services that don't do the majority of users any good but feed Wall Streets urges for "innovation".
Perhaps you can explain to me how google in releasing this somehow means they are walking over you? Or is everybody out to get you.
Personally, I am sick of you people, who seem to be looking for something to complain about. You aren't adding anything to the conversation except noise.
Since the computer is hooked up to a laser, this isn't so much of a problem.
In reality, have you ever heard of cctv cameras? Do their manufactures get punished? How is this any different?
Don't know why it's different from "links", but I'm not a blogger.
So even after reading the definition you can't see a difference. The difference is that a blogroll is a collection of links to other blogs, an important distinction, since links to blogs are not as worthy as links to say newspapers, or scientific journals.
Yes, you are right. It is not perfect. How dare they release something that is not perfect, who knows what this will lead to?
Stop your whingeing, don't use it if it upsets you. You don't have to use it. Meanwhile, lots of people will find many uses for this, sure not as many people who enjoy google earth or google maps, but still many people will.
You make a decent point. But the way something like Big Brother comes in, is as in most changes to society, it creeps in.
No matter how you look at it, this is a loss of privacy. 20 years ago, you could expect to walk in a public place, and there would be no record of you ever being there. Now, in places like the UK, you are captured all the time, and these recrods can be kept for a long time. So we have lost privacy going out in a public place. The next step is some form of recognition software that can track individuals, everywhere they go.
So where do you draw the line? When do YOU start to get upset. Or are you one of these people who are happy for the government and private industry to know where you are at all times? If that doesn't bother you (whether you never do anything wrong or not), then you have a problem. If that doesn't bother most people in this world (and I think it won't), then we all have a problem.
...the article actually means 75c on the dollar, or 3/4 the price that they were originally selling for. Wow, what a bargain, you can get a 2 or 3 years old player for 75% of the original price.
I must say, I am not very excited.
Do you really think that Microsoft hires over a million people? And that they all have ipods? And that they all want to throw them away for the Zune? What are you, stupid, or an accountant?
Yeah, it is like the time I went to a car dealer, to buy a car. I wanted to test drive this machine, but because I can't drive, they wouldn't even help me get it started. You would think the least they could do was provide someone to drive me around. If they can't even provide that low level of help, then please don't waste your time buying a car. It appears they want you to be a Formule one race driver, before they will help you.
What do you think the engine is for? And there are demos (depending on how long ago you made the request, but demos have been around for many years).
And please provide a link!
Your first two arguments are great, but the last doesn't really hold any water - I am not sure if it is easy to store data in such a way that is much harder to read on a Mac than anything else. Even if they encrypt it, they still need to write code on all OS to work with the data.
The tricky bit was finding the correct picture with the code for a particular agent. This is where the agents Mothers came in handy. The name of the DVDs, swing low sweet chariots!
You are wrong. How do you find a particular image with google image search? Sure, if you look for a particular file name, or it is linked to perfect 10 you can do a search for that. But it is not like they can submit an image, and google will find all same or similar images? So how does one go about finding sites that are posting their images? There is no real way.
Did you happen to recently move into a new place, in a nicer area? I find it hard to believe that you have stayed in the same place and the rent has gone up that much? If you are referring to some stats, do you mind pointing to them?
If you don't EDUCATE yourself in order to communicate on their levels you will never get through to them no matter how elegant or cost efficient your proposal is.
I'm not going to tell you to trust me on this, but I will say that if you don't learn to communicate effectively with the audience that you are trying to appeal to, you will never get anywhere no matter what your message is. This is why we see so much political posturing during elections; they are trying to appeal to the voters - their audience.
At every level of business, you have to be political. The absolutely largest part of politics is relating to your intended audience. If you need to take speaking classes, finance classes, whatever... do something so that you can relate to your audience in a way that is EASY for them to understand.
Why do you feel the need to keep repeating this. Nobody is disagreeing with this, the guy is asking for help in doing exactly this. It is like if I took my car to the mechanic, and ask him to get it repaired, and he spends a hour telling me why I should get it repaired.
I think your advice is off, as well. Doesn't any of your family or friends who aren't techs ask you what you do? In this case, you need to explain to them what you do, in a simple not-tech terms. Use the same techniques when talking to your managers. Remember, you don't want to simplify it for simplicities sake, you need to think about what they need to know, what they are interested in. They don't care that you have reduced the database size to now fit on one disk rather than 3, they want to know about savings, freeing up hardware that could be used elsewhere. SPend some time to think about things from their point of view.
The problem is that it is not just some pictures (whatever that means). It is, once agian, someone ripping of someone else. Somone big ripping of the work os someone small, and making a fortune. Maybe you haven't been ripped of before, but it makes you feel angry, very angry. When you hear about someone else being ripped of, those feelings re-emerge, and you want the wrong to be righted.
Ha, Microsoft wont fall for this. They pulled this when they used the code for the first version of Internet Explorer, agreed on a licensing deal on a certain percentage of the sale price, then gave it away with Windows.
Yeah, that is why it hasn't caught on. Nothing to do with the fact it is still being developer, or it costs a huge pile of cash. The fact that it can't handle a little rain, that is the only thing stopping people spending $1000s on something of limited use. You know, i bet the reason that personal jet packs hasn't caught on yet is because nobody has painted them the right colour. And space travel is really going to pick up as soon as they offer good meals on the rockets - that is the thing holding it back.
Shouldn't you be wearing a straight jacket or something?
Or display news headlines - talk about thinking outside the box. You could even have one on the wall displaying the current song playing on your computer - thinking outside the box on that one. Or maybe the weather - wow, I should be paid for these brilliant ideas.
This, my friends, is why they shouldn't have computer with net access in primary schools.
I think we have found the next Steve Jobs - I don't think any of us can see anything wrong with that.
Why not have 3 display, one with a regular CRT, that is even more brilliant than your idea.
Shouldn't recess be over by now?
In some ways it is better, and in some ways it is worse.
Well, how about the obvious reason?
Is this really confusing to you, or are you deliberatly trying to be obtuse?
Yeah, because NO is one of the more complicated words in the English language, you will have to have lived here for about 3 years before you can even dream about saying that word.
I understand this premise for something like myspace, or youtube, but surely myspace could have just started offering an easy interfact to upload pictures, and they would have taken over from photobucket? Or is photobucket used in so many other places? (I see imageshack everywhere, not photobucket)