I saw a show on the Discovery Channel a few years back that sort of discussed the same sort of thing- handwriting analysis, art critiquing, phychics, etc.
They showed art critics discussing the art they were looking at and describing, in detail, the emotions and message that the artist was trying to convey.
The show's host didn't believe any of that so he showed some "respected" art critics a piece of art, which looked like scribble to me- it was just random strokes of the brush in different colors. The critics all agreed with each other and explained what exactly the artist was thinking, and the raw emotion that went into the painting.
Very impressive, I thought- and maybe I would have believed them had the artist not been AN ELEPHANT.
Yes, an elephant painted the picture with its trunk. The "respected" art critics were really just good at winning popularity contests- in reality they had no clue what they were talking about. It's the same thing between a "good" phychic and a "bad" psychic- neither one knows what they're talking about, but one just seems "more believable" than the other.
And you want me to believe that, it is just by chance that in 300 years or so, you did not find a single better person for the job who looks different.
I was not alive 300 years ago. How could that have been my responsibility? I've been a legal voter for the last 3 elections.
Perhaps two to three hundred years ago, before colonialism got going, India might well have been the richest country in the world. The civilisation the built the Taj Mahal was hardly backward and poor.
The Indian civilization during that time was pretty backwards and poor.
I think it escapes a lot of people that the civilization that built the Taj Mahal was not Indian. It was built by the Mughals, an Islamic civilization that had conquered India. The Taj Mahal is not Indian, it is Islamic.
It isn't in the US's best interest to make India rich. As soon as the common US worker (voter) gets pissed off about what's going on, we're going to change the policies.
We are the ones holding the purse strings so the decision is ours to make. India can cry foul, but all they can do is cry.
It is time you all woke up to and figured out that USA is as bad as any other country.
Of course it is. Every country works in its best interest.
We may have more illiterates than any other country in the world, but you forget that India also has the largest number of engineers. More Indians can speak English than there are people in the entire USA. Think about that.
That's not a very big feat when you consider that India breeds out of control and has the 2nd largest population on Earth. It is nobody else's responsibility to feed your children when you keep reproducing beyond your means.
We are not poor due to our stupidity. We are poor by design. Just a 100 years ago, we were the richest nation on earth.
No you weren't.
Then we were split up into two countries and made to go at each other's throat. The Indo-Pak cold war has cost us an entire civilization
Yeah, the US has never had to deal with that... cough, Civil War, cough. That destroyed us, but we got back on our feet and were a major player in less than 30 years.
Our political system is bankrupt. Most politicians are plain goons. But we also have the vision to elect a woman to rule us.
So is ours. But in a democracy, you need to elect someone that can do the job. Just because you elected a woman doesn't mean that she's not a goon. Maybe you just elected a female goon.
Every second President of India is from the minorities. How many black presidents, how many women presidents has USA had? How about a Jew for the Prez?
That's nice, but electing a minority doesn't really address the problem that you have. You should concentrate instead on electing the best person, namely someone who isn't a goon. You guys are just voting for majority goons, minority goons, male goons, and female goons. It's not helping you.
I'd vote for the best person for the job, regardless of what they look like. I'm not going to simply vote for a minority just because they're a minority, the "underdog".
It's pretty hard not to. You'd have to live in some type of alternative universe far away from Earth in order to pretend that Apple's fanbase isn't predominately liberal.
Of course once I say this, any liberal Mac user is going to reply and say they're a Bush loving Republican (which is worse than being liberal, IMO)
My agenda is "keeping it real", which means that I don't get along well with far left socialist liberals and far right Bible-thumping republicans. How can all the people in the middle get along when you have both sides trying to take over the world? They're troublemakers.
It's funny how on the Internet, some morons will step out of the woodwork to say they're offended no matter what you say.
This is just selective reading on your part. They said nothing wrong. The animal was male, it paid to look at pictures of females, and it was a monkey. They didn't say that it was only "normal" for a monkey to be male.
If the researchers said "give a monkey some money and she'll pay to see pictures of male monkeys", there wouldn't be anything wrong with that either, but I'm sure you'd get some limp wristed guy to come out of the woodwork and say that he was offended by it.
Grow a thicker skin and stop crying like a pansy. Everyone's got their weird agendas... sheesh.
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And people wonder where the acceptance of mediocrity comes from. It's a way of life. In work. In dress. In attitude. Sorry, not my scene.
Yeah, your capabilities are directly related to the way that you're dressed at that moment. If they wore business suits they would code so much better. Have you ever seen Superman do anything special when he's dressed like Clark Kent? Me neither. It's that suit that gives him all the power.
Heh.. You seem to be forgetting that sony owns more of the world than Microsoft can ever hope to. Sony is not just Sony Computer Entertainment; it's Sony Online, Sony Pictures, Sony Televisions... you get the idea.
Microsoft is the much larger company.
As far as market cap goes, all of Sony is worth $34 billion, while Microsoft is worth $285 billion. It's not even close.
As far as profit goes, Microsoft brought in almost 10x the net profit last year.
I am sure the seek time on flash memory is superior to that of harddrives because it doesn't have to turn the platter. Since, seek time would be more imporant for accessing numerous yet relatively small files than transfer rate, I think flash is the better choice.
We're talking about a camcorder. Seek time wouldn't be nearly as important as sustained throughput.
I mean, doesn't it make it easier for law enforcement to go get the bad guys when someone points them out?
If merely pointing out where to get warez is illegal, then you must not tell anybody.
I'm sure the cops will want you to tell them, but what if the "cop" isn't really a cop? Then you've broke the law by telling someone where to get warez.
Therefore you must not tell anyone, just to be safe.
NTSC quality is much higher than the recording of either VHS or Beta. Both formats only record ~half of the information that originally made it into the VCR.
That's why when you watch a VHS or Beta tape, the picture looks blurry compared to the original broadcast.
I have both Beta and VHS VCR's (and a Laserdisc player).
In otherwords, the entire nation of Canada would have to work for the Chinese government to make sure people aren't talking about overthrowing the nation...
I KNEW the Canadians were behind this!!
"And I would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for you meddling Canadians!"
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I've never crashed a search engine before!
Shut up.
I saw a show on the Discovery Channel a few years back that sort of discussed the same sort of thing- handwriting analysis, art critiquing, phychics, etc.
They showed art critics discussing the art they were looking at and describing, in detail, the emotions and message that the artist was trying to convey.
The show's host didn't believe any of that so he showed some "respected" art critics a piece of art, which looked like scribble to me- it was just random strokes of the brush in different colors. The critics all agreed with each other and explained what exactly the artist was thinking, and the raw emotion that went into the painting.
Very impressive, I thought- and maybe I would have believed them had the artist not been AN ELEPHANT.
Yes, an elephant painted the picture with its trunk. The "respected" art critics were really just good at winning popularity contests- in reality they had no clue what they were talking about. It's the same thing between a "good" phychic and a "bad" psychic- neither one knows what they're talking about, but one just seems "more believable" than the other.
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Dude, besides getting your facts right, you also need to get a brain. It helps, sometimes.
And nothing showcases your vast intelligence like an ad hominem attack.
Well done.
They are a niche player. In the USA, they accounted for 3% of the systems sold in the PC market. Worldwide, they accounted for 1.8%.
Microsoft, on the other hand, has about 95% of the market.
Don't flame me, I'm just putting things in perspective.
And you want me to believe that, it is just by chance that in 300 years or so, you did not find a single better person for the job who looks different.
I was not alive 300 years ago. How could that have been my responsibility? I've been a legal voter for the last 3 elections.
Exactly where do you draw the line when it comes to the cost of saving a handful of high-profile people? (Astronauts.)
Are 7 so-so scientists really worth the tens of millions of dollars needed to launch a rescue mission?
Boy am I glad that you're not in charge of people's lives.
The idea was that the satellite could come to you.
What do you think this is, Soviet Russia?
You need to get your facts straight.
I do have my facts straight. As I stated in my post, the Taj Mahal was built by the Mughals.
India was conquered, much from within, by the Mughals, who were descendents of Mongol, Turkic, Persian, and Afghan warriors.
Like whom?...like George (no brains) W. Bush and his sycophants? Good job :-)
I just got done saying that I'd vote for the best person for the job. That means that I did not vote for Bush.
Perhaps two to three hundred years ago, before colonialism got going, India might well have been the richest country in the world. The civilisation the built the Taj Mahal was hardly backward and poor.
The Indian civilization during that time was pretty backwards and poor.
I think it escapes a lot of people that the civilization that built the Taj Mahal was not Indian. It was built by the Mughals, an Islamic civilization that had conquered India. The Taj Mahal is not Indian, it is Islamic.
It isn't in the US's best interest to make India rich. As soon as the common US worker (voter) gets pissed off about what's going on, we're going to change the policies.
We are the ones holding the purse strings so the decision is ours to make. India can cry foul, but all they can do is cry.
It is time you all woke up to and figured out that USA is as bad as any other country.
Of course it is. Every country works in its best interest.
We may have more illiterates than any other country in the world, but you forget that India also has the largest number of engineers. More Indians can speak English than there are people in the entire USA. Think about that.
That's not a very big feat when you consider that India breeds out of control and has the 2nd largest population on Earth. It is nobody else's responsibility to feed your children when you keep reproducing beyond your means.
We are not poor due to our stupidity. We are poor by design. Just a 100 years ago, we were the richest nation on earth.
No you weren't.
Then we were split up into two countries and made to go at each other's throat. The Indo-Pak cold war has cost us an entire civilization
Yeah, the US has never had to deal with that... cough, Civil War, cough. That destroyed us, but we got back on our feet and were a major player in less than 30 years.
Our political system is bankrupt. Most politicians are plain goons. But we also have the vision to elect a woman to rule us.
So is ours. But in a democracy, you need to elect someone that can do the job. Just because you elected a woman doesn't mean that she's not a goon. Maybe you just elected a female goon.
Every second President of India is from the minorities. How many black presidents, how many women presidents has USA had? How about a Jew for the Prez?
That's nice, but electing a minority doesn't really address the problem that you have. You should concentrate instead on electing the best person, namely someone who isn't a goon. You guys are just voting for majority goons, minority goons, male goons, and female goons. It's not helping you.
I'd vote for the best person for the job, regardless of what they look like. I'm not going to simply vote for a minority just because they're a minority, the "underdog".
Please don't stereotype people. .
LOL
It's pretty hard not to. You'd have to live in some type of alternative universe far away from Earth in order to pretend that Apple's fanbase isn't predominately liberal.
Of course once I say this, any liberal Mac user is going to reply and say they're a Bush loving Republican (which is worse than being liberal, IMO)
Because they consistently "get it,"
If by "it", you mean a minute fraction of market share, you're right.
I've used Macs and I do not find their interface, marketing, or company very appealing. Also, the crowd is way too liberal for me.
My agenda is "keeping it real", which means that I don't get along well with far left socialist liberals and far right Bible-thumping republicans. How can all the people in the middle get along when you have both sides trying to take over the world? They're troublemakers.
Well there is at least one, as you got modded down to -1 Troll
There seems to be more men on this board that think they're women than women who know they're women.
The women are normal, those men are just confused.
It's funny how on the Internet, some morons will step out of the woodwork to say they're offended no matter what you say.
This is just selective reading on your part. They said nothing wrong. The animal was male, it paid to look at pictures of females, and it was a monkey. They didn't say that it was only "normal" for a monkey to be male.
If the researchers said "give a monkey some money and she'll pay to see pictures of male monkeys", there wouldn't be anything wrong with that either, but I'm sure you'd get some limp wristed guy to come out of the woodwork and say that he was offended by it.
Grow a thicker skin and stop crying like a pansy. Everyone's got their weird agendas... sheesh.
*member of the Ferret Liberation Front (militant division)
And people wonder where the acceptance of mediocrity comes from. It's a way of life. In work. In dress. In attitude. Sorry, not my scene.
Yeah, your capabilities are directly related to the way that you're dressed at that moment. If they wore business suits they would code so much better. Have you ever seen Superman do anything special when he's dressed like Clark Kent? Me neither. It's that suit that gives him all the power.
So good post.
Heh.. You seem to be forgetting that sony owns more of the world than Microsoft can ever hope to. Sony is not just Sony Computer Entertainment; it's Sony Online, Sony Pictures, Sony Televisions... you get the idea.
Microsoft is the much larger company.
As far as market cap goes, all of Sony is worth $34 billion, while Microsoft is worth $285 billion. It's not even close.
As far as profit goes, Microsoft brought in almost 10x the net profit last year.
I am sure the seek time on flash memory is superior to that of harddrives because it doesn't have to turn the platter. Since, seek time would be more imporant for accessing numerous yet relatively small files than transfer rate, I think flash is the better choice.
We're talking about a camcorder. Seek time wouldn't be nearly as important as sustained throughput.
I mean, doesn't it make it easier for law enforcement to go get the bad guys when someone points them out?
If merely pointing out where to get warez is illegal, then you must not tell anybody.
I'm sure the cops will want you to tell them, but what if the "cop" isn't really a cop? Then you've broke the law by telling someone where to get warez.
Therefore you must not tell anyone, just to be safe.
Both Beta and VHS were limited by NTSC quality.
False.
NTSC quality is much higher than the recording of either VHS or Beta. Both formats only record ~half of the information that originally made it into the VCR.
That's why when you watch a VHS or Beta tape, the picture looks blurry compared to the original broadcast.
I have both Beta and VHS VCR's (and a Laserdisc player).
In otherwords, the entire nation of Canada would have to work for the Chinese government to make sure people aren't talking about overthrowing the nation...
I KNEW the Canadians were behind this!!
"And I would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for you meddling Canadians!"