I get the equivilent of five weeks off a year with minimal overtime. I make somewhat over the average household income in the United States. I turned down a 50% raise going to another company where I wouldn't get half of the time off and more overtime. Most of my friends think I am nuts to turn down that kind of money.
You see, very often it is about choices. For some reason, we are after the almighty buck. Me? Family first. So when you see these stats, remember, it is largely about people's choices, bot the "big bad companies" forcing it on us. If more people walked away from money in exchange for life balance, less companies would be able to pull the crap they do.
Errrm. This kind of post deserves a -1 I'm an Idiot mod. The CS monitor is one of the most respected sources of news out there. In fact, in most of the articles that have touched on the current "debate", CS has come down on the side of science not the religous beliefs of the young-earth creationists.
My suspicion is that you just don't like the "Christian" in the name. Since your comments are not grounded in reality, this makes you a bigot.
I would. However, if they were inside my body, they would likely cook the sperm. Evolution tends to take all of the constraints into consideration when coming up with the "design". Thick padding might be nice, but might make procreation all the more difficult.
seem to be finding more things today are engineered to be profitable, that is, to the minimum tolerances and material cost to do the job.
The human body is an example of this. Evolution forces us to not overengineer. It might sound good to make a part on a car that will last for 25 years. But if the average car is scrapped in 10, what is the point? Excess cost for no reason.
Now to be honest, I think a lot of stuff is underengineered. Designed to make it past the waranty period, and that is it. But if something is designed to "just" make the specs, and the specs are designed well, then I have no probelm with that.
Can you cite a source for this? Versions effected? I am on Outlook 2003. It doesn't seem to search strictly by date. It seemed to start with month old stuff, work forward to today and then go backward in time. Bizzare, actually. I know Groupwise has a search engine that pulls stuff up that you did not searh for (and leaves off exact hits for some strange reason). But I don't recall ever having a problem with Outlook.
hy is it so hard for people to believe life exists beyond earth? The probabilities and facts dictate the earth is not the center of the universe.
Your belief system is interesting. However, without proof, it is just that.... a belief system. Science is not to be based upon your faith, or mine. I, for one, doubt life is very common across the universe, and sincerely doubt intelligent life has more than an infintessimal chance of existing on any given planet. I believe we are damn lucky.
Nonetheless, I support the search for extra terristrial life. My opinion is no more valid than yours. If, however, after a century of hard search, we still have no evidence of otherworldly life, then the balance shifts to my way of thinking.
Am I the only one that thinks this is a novel Slashvertizement?
How many of you thought "hmmmm. I could use this to really annoy xxx"?
And note that the link goes to a specifc supplier of such items. Not a generic link.... say a wiki. I mean, who really believes that some guy cannot get a cop under 40. Cannot figure out that he should talk to the police and explain more, or maybe go to see a lawyer... or maybe sneak into his neighbor's year with a baseball bat and a ski mask?
Ummm. This does not work. Headphones that use this technology effectively cancel outside noicse. However, the "anti-noise" has to be in synch with the emitting, outside noise. Imagine two waves... One by a 200 pound man jumping in the water, another by an identical 200 lb man. The waves will at certain points cancel each other. At others, they will actually add to each other. It depends on where you are in the water relative to the two men.
Your solution would cause a doubling of the noise for certain areas, partial addition or cancellation for most, and an exact negation for a small area.
Me: "Which candidate is this?" Them: Candidate A Me: Who is his opponent? Them: Candidate B Me: Okay. I'll vote for Candidate B. Thanks for interrupting my day.
Most folks want a nice computer that lets them word process, surf the web and/or look at digital pictures. You may be a geek. Many folks here may be geeks. But most people don't care about the computer itself, only a few applications.
If ad-sense is its major source of money, and it keeps the underlying numbers pretty well buried, could we be looking at another Enron? Imagine it comes out that 90% of all clicks are fraudulent. How many advertizers leave? How badlu does the stock drop? This is one of the things that makes me nervous about Google as an investment. Remember, Enron was loved by Wall Street too. Enron did not produce anything physical either. Enron reported great numbers. Underlying numbers were hidden away.
You don't think like an architect. You are assuming that the police car "sees" a plate, sends it to a centralized server, server processes and stores in a db. Me? I'd design it so that each police car periodically gets updates on "items of interest". It would not be a problem to download the "top 1000" license plates, even with a slow connection.
When an item of interest is deiscovered on the road, it could then go to a centralized database (either real time, or wait till end of shift to download depending on level of interest).
No need to bother a centralized database for non-interesting plates.
And, if you are really interested in total information awareness, the police car could hold the data for all plates found till end of shift. Ten or twenty thousand plates would not take long to d/l.
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I get the equivilent of five weeks off a year with minimal overtime. I make somewhat over the average household income in the United States. I turned down a 50% raise going to another company where I wouldn't get half of the time off and more overtime. Most of my friends think I am nuts to turn down that kind of money.
You see, very often it is about choices. For some reason, we are after the almighty buck. Me? Family first. So when you see these stats, remember, it is largely about people's choices, bot the "big bad companies" forcing it on us. If more people walked away from money in exchange for life balance, less companies would be able to pull the crap they do.
Only 0.8? Roland will have to post an additional 25% more "stories" to get his blog rank up.
Here is one example of them saving us from the evolution devil
I challenge others to come up with other ways to creatively promote the stuff they love. Try and beat this! muahahaha. :)
I'm boring. I bought the browser I prefer...
Errrm. This kind of post deserves a -1 I'm an Idiot mod. The CS monitor is one of the most respected sources of news out there. In fact, in most of the articles that have touched on the current "debate", CS has come down on the side of science not the religous beliefs of the young-earth creationists.
My suspicion is that you just don't like the "Christian" in the name. Since your comments are not grounded in reality, this makes you a bigot.
Slashdot! It is my only source for science news.
(when you stop laughing, please mod someone else down)
I would. However, if they were inside my body, they would likely cook the sperm. Evolution tends to take all of the constraints into consideration when coming up with the "design". Thick padding might be nice, but might make procreation all the more difficult.
seem to be finding more things today are engineered to be profitable, that is, to the minimum tolerances and material cost to do the job.
The human body is an example of this. Evolution forces us to not overengineer. It might sound good to make a part on a car that will last for 25 years. But if the average car is scrapped in 10, what is the point? Excess cost for no reason.
Now to be honest, I think a lot of stuff is underengineered. Designed to make it past the waranty period, and that is it. But if something is designed to "just" make the specs, and the specs are designed well, then I have no probelm with that.
Those who actually RTFA ...
All three of us thank you for pointing this out.
Yup. My Pocket PC hangs at least twice a year.
Summer of Code != Code Jam.
With instruction reading skills like that, I don't think you should enter...
Can you cite a source for this? Versions effected? I am on Outlook 2003. It doesn't seem to search strictly by date. It seemed to start with month old stuff, work forward to today and then go backward in time. Bizzare, actually. I know Groupwise has a search engine that pulls stuff up that you did not searh for (and leaves off exact hits for some strange reason). But I don't recall ever having a problem with Outlook.
"Gaah! What is this thing? It's all sticky and heavy as hell!" "Oh, that's just Roseanne Arnold in a thong singing the Star Spangled Banner..."
You should never, ever be allowed to post on the internet again. Damn me for researching the posts I am metamoderating.
Meds run out again?
hy is it so hard for people to believe life exists beyond earth? The probabilities and facts dictate the earth is not the center of the universe.
Your belief system is interesting. However, without proof, it is just that.... a belief system. Science is not to be based upon your faith, or mine. I, for one, doubt life is very common across the universe, and sincerely doubt intelligent life has more than an infintessimal chance of existing on any given planet. I believe we are damn lucky.
Nonetheless, I support the search for extra terristrial life. My opinion is no more valid than yours. If, however, after a century of hard search, we still have no evidence of otherworldly life, then the balance shifts to my way of thinking.
This post is not a troll. You may not like his post, but that is irrelevant.
Metamoderators: do your thing.
Am I the only one that thinks this is a novel Slashvertizement?
How many of you thought "hmmmm. I could use this to really annoy xxx"?
And note that the link goes to a specifc supplier of such items. Not a generic link.... say a wiki. I mean, who really believes that some guy cannot get a cop under 40. Cannot figure out that he should talk to the police and explain more, or maybe go to see a lawyer... or maybe sneak into his neighbor's year with a baseball bat and a ski mask?
Ummm. This does not work. Headphones that use this technology effectively cancel outside noicse. However, the "anti-noise" has to be in synch with the emitting, outside noise. Imagine two waves... One by a 200 pound man jumping in the water, another by an identical 200 lb man. The waves will at certain points cancel each other. At others, they will actually add to each other. It depends on where you are in the water relative to the two men.
Your solution would cause a doubling of the noise for certain areas, partial addition or cancellation for most, and an exact negation for a small area.
Me: "Which candidate is this?"
Them: Candidate A
Me: Who is his opponent?
Them: Candidate B
Me: Okay. I'll vote for Candidate B. Thanks for interrupting my day.
Enough peopl do this, people won't call.
Try here
Most folks want a nice computer that lets them word process, surf the web and/or look at digital pictures. You may be a geek. Many folks here may be geeks. But most people don't care about the computer itself, only a few applications.
If ad-sense is its major source of money, and it keeps the underlying numbers pretty well buried, could we be looking at another Enron? Imagine it comes out that 90% of all clicks are fraudulent. How many advertizers leave? How badlu does the stock drop? This is one of the things that makes me nervous about Google as an investment. Remember, Enron was loved by Wall Street too. Enron did not produce anything physical either. Enron reported great numbers. Underlying numbers were hidden away.
How is Google diferent that the big "E"?
That's why I am glad we have you low uiders around. Technical expertise that the rest of lack. Thanks for your contribution to this discussion ;)
You don't think like an architect. You are assuming that the police car "sees" a plate, sends it to a centralized server, server processes and stores in a db. Me? I'd design it so that each police car periodically gets updates on "items of interest". It would not be a problem to download the "top 1000" license plates, even with a slow connection.
When an item of interest is deiscovered on the road, it could then go to a centralized database (either real time, or wait till end of shift to download depending on level of interest).
No need to bother a centralized database for non-interesting plates.
And, if you are really interested in total information awareness, the police car could hold the data for all plates found till end of shift. Ten or twenty thousand plates would not take long to d/l.
I love big brother.
It's called octane. Has nothing to do with quality.
Wow. The only time I had data loss with a Pocket PC is when I forgot it on vacation, and the batteries ran dead.