We are the Borg. Lower your proteins and surrender your nucleotides. We will add our biological and technological distinctiveness to your own. Your food-culture will mutate into random and exciting directions. Resistance is futile.
They will charge for the 'feature' of alerting you to nearby events, concerts, or sales. and advise where you can buy the tickets for those concerts or text you with why you should walk into the Wal-Mart instead of Target that you happen to be down the street from, approaching at 50 mph in a 35 zone and btw, your traffic ticket's in the mail.
Nevermind the fact that they will more than likely be selling this 'service' to said companies thereby double dipping the cash cow.
I would have my tin hat on if this weren't really going to happen.
Just buy a pair of tickets on a normal commercial flight and say as the jet is beginning it's take off roll, "Oh by the way, I hear this flight hits Mach 6." And watch her expression...
I was working for a major national radio network when we were all pulled into a conference room one afternoon after letting Roder Fredinburg go. The most profound thing I heard the director say:
News is the Entertainment Industry. We aren't here to inform, we aren't here to tell some cosmic truth. We are here for ratings. The higher the ratings, the more we can charge for advertising which goes to your pay.
Tow the line if you want a paycheck
To his credit Roger is a great guy, and was genuinely concerned about the truth. Not a healthy attitude in any Media.
We do the same thing, even though ours has several gigabytes worth of storage, including incoming faxes. Most of the clueless will rave over this feature until the first time the machine is serviced and the tech blindly wipes everything out. Can't kill em, can't fire em, screaming does no good...
All those novels / movies based on the premise that technology advances to the stage where we no longer know how to create or fix things starts with forgetting about C.
Read that article for a very brief and informative lecture on why C is critical to the progress of technology.
I have always felt people that feel the need to elevate their laptops and use ergonomic keyboards to be prima-donnas.
If you find you're injuring yourself with your keyboard then perhaps we need to re-evaluate our method of typing? How is it we could go so many decades with mechanical type-writers and not 'injure' ourselves? You would think *something* would have come up during WWII at least...
Not everyone is going to slow down, and many don't. This creates a situation where vehicles are moving at widely different speeds in a driving environment thats often been narrowed.
Just yesterday I was alongside a Semi that was trying to race to the merge and about creamed my family.
It's great that the workers have a lower speed limit to make them feel warm and fuzzy, but the reality is they are likely to be creamed by the car moving at 75~85 that has just bounced off the car doing 45.
If you want High quality you're not going to get it with wireless.
Switch to Firewire or traditional capture cards and zoneminder ( www.zoneminder.com ) bluecherry.net sells capture cards that are compatable with zoneminder and the alternatives, and even have their own distribution of Linux for zoneminder.
You will be glad you did, and wonder what you did without for so long.
If I had had mod points I would have modded this flamebait.
Cost center ? How the hell do you figure? Mystic of open source failing? Chocolate? Reality check on Isle 5 please!
The fact that you see us as redundant means we are doing our job. Servers don't maintain or install themselves. New data projects don't complete themselves.
If you think your going to get any real work completed with an iphone you probably have a very easy job, the kind robots will be doing soon.
One fix to this trend would be to rip the cellphone and psp's from children and put their butt in front of a PC. Get them a taste of what Computing really is!
Off topic I know, but to address your stereo-type.
You're way off, on an old stereo type that doesn't exist anymore. They are White, and get their income through child support, by having babies by as many people as they can to ostensibly, spread the load. Now they just use the system to juice the unlucky victims and have medicaid.
We don't give out money unless they are working or trying to find work.
I know this, because I am one of those victims.
- Dan.
However with facebook all of family and friends can be updated at once.
I hate repeating myself, and unless I rent a conference room at a hotel for daily family reunions facebook is the tool of choice.
There's nothing on facebook that couldn't be done with a variety of public information lookups anyways.
- Think about it -
- Dan.
Thats not anti-competition, Thats failing to compete, and it's not Googles fault.
Anti-Competition is when one side makes deals with hardware vendors to prevent competitors products from being offered or penalizes consumers for choosing the competitors offerings.
Your description would penalize a winning team for defeating their opponent.
As Abraham Lincoln said: You cannot give strength to the weak, by weakening the strong.
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I wonder what the infamous Lord Xenu might think of this new device...
- Dan.
You're just pissy cause you lost. Hard. - Dan.
We are the Borg. Lower your proteins and surrender your nucleotides. We will add our biological and technological distinctiveness to your own. Your food-culture will mutate into random and exciting directions. Resistance is futile.
- Dan.
Actually more expensive.
They will charge for the 'feature' of alerting you to nearby events, concerts, or sales. and advise where you can buy the tickets for those concerts or text you with why you should walk into the Wal-Mart instead of Target that you happen to be down the street from, approaching at 50 mph in a 35 zone and btw, your traffic ticket's in the mail.
Nevermind the fact that they will more than likely be selling this 'service' to said companies thereby double dipping the cash cow.
I would have my tin hat on if this weren't really going to happen.
- Dan.
Just buy a pair of tickets on a normal commercial flight and say as the jet is beginning it's take off roll, "Oh by the way, I hear this flight hits Mach 6." And watch her expression...
- Dan.
I was working for a major national radio network when we were all pulled into a conference room one afternoon after letting Roder Fredinburg go. The most profound thing I heard the director say:
News is the Entertainment Industry. We aren't here to inform, we aren't here to tell some cosmic truth. We are here for ratings. The higher the ratings, the more we can charge for advertising which goes to your pay.
Tow the line if you want a paycheck
To his credit Roger is a great guy, and was genuinely concerned about the truth. Not a healthy attitude in any Media.
- Dan.
Link: Rogers Website
/signed.
We do the same thing, even though ours has several gigabytes worth of storage, including incoming faxes. Most of the clueless will rave over this feature until the first time the machine is serviced and the tech blindly wipes everything out. Can't kill em, can't fire em, screaming does no good...
- Dan.
Serious,
All those novels / movies based on the premise that technology advances to the stage where we no longer know how to create or fix things starts with forgetting about C.
Read that article for a very brief and informative lecture on why C is critical to the progress of technology.
- Dan.
I have always felt people that feel the need to elevate their laptops and use ergonomic keyboards to be prima-donnas.
If you find you're injuring yourself with your keyboard then perhaps we need to re-evaluate our method of typing? How is it we could go so many decades with mechanical type-writers and not 'injure' ourselves? You would think *something* would have come up during WWII at least...
- Dan.
Dunno, facebook did a pretty good number on myspace.
Then again, myspace kind of did that to itself with the barrage of ads apparently geared to the nickelodeon crowd...
- Dan.
Or even change the default passwords... - Dan.
Someone above made the same conclusion.
Not everyone is going to slow down, and many don't. This creates a situation where vehicles are moving at widely different speeds in a driving environment thats often been narrowed.
Just yesterday I was alongside a Semi that was trying to race to the merge and about creamed my family.
It's great that the workers have a lower speed limit to make them feel warm and fuzzy, but the reality is they are likely to be creamed by the car moving at 75~85 that has just bounced off the car doing 45.
- Dan.
"As Directed"...
If you want High quality you're not going to get it with wireless.
Switch to Firewire or traditional capture cards and zoneminder ( www.zoneminder.com ) bluecherry.net sells capture cards that are compatable with zoneminder and the alternatives, and even have their own distribution of Linux for zoneminder.
You will be glad you did, and wonder what you did without for so long.
- Dan.
Well if the world starts running on Solar energy, who is going to fuel demand for Saudi oil? ( Pardon the pun. )
However, the Sauds may choose to BUY that tech, bury it somewhere and go on about their business.
- Dan .
Braincells are jumping to their deaths from my ears...
Dood, Dood! Doooood. dood! DOOD!! Dewd...
If I had had mod points I would have modded this flamebait.
Cost center ? How the hell do you figure? Mystic of open source failing? Chocolate? Reality check on Isle 5 please!
The fact that you see us as redundant means we are doing our job. Servers don't maintain or install themselves. New data projects don't complete themselves.
If you think your going to get any real work completed with an iphone you probably have a very easy job, the kind robots will be doing soon.
- Dan.
I agree.
One fix to this trend would be to rip the cellphone and psp's from children and put their butt in front of a PC. Get them a taste of what Computing really is!
- Dan.
Dewd,
Cut and paste much? You posted in the poke-solar thread too.
- Dan.
Off topic I know, but to address your stereo-type.
You're way off, on an old stereo type that doesn't exist anymore. They are White, and get their income through child support, by having babies by as many people as they can to ostensibly, spread the load. Now they just use the system to juice the unlucky victims and have medicaid.
We don't give out money unless they are working or trying to find work.
I know this, because I am one of those victims.
- Dan.
Looking for Funding?
DUSA == Down Under Space Administration And Launched a Doozey...
- Dan.
This is research I would like to see more of!
- Dan.
However with facebook all of family and friends can be updated at once.
I hate repeating myself, and unless I rent a conference room at a hotel for daily family reunions facebook is the tool of choice.
There's nothing on facebook that couldn't be done with a variety of public information lookups anyways.
- Think about it -
- Dan.
Thats not anti-competition, Thats failing to compete, and it's not Googles fault.
Anti-Competition is when one side makes deals with hardware vendors to prevent competitors products from being offered or penalizes consumers for choosing the competitors offerings.
Your description would penalize a winning team for defeating their opponent.
As Abraham Lincoln said: You cannot give strength to the weak, by weakening the strong.
- Dan.