Furthermore, faxes are relatively secure because it is a one-on-one communication. In contrast, e-mails can be intercepted or become widely disseminated. The risks of using e-mail in a business setting (for signatures and the like) have not been tested too thoroughly, either.
Did you know many larger companies have fax servers integrated into their email systems in which their employees can receive and send faxes via their email client.
Also, I'm pretty sure there are 3rd party online fax services any consumer can use for personal use so one could simply purchase said service and never have to own a fax machine to send or receive faxes.
The issue I think that is the problem is that email is just as secure as sending faxes so why don't we accept jpg's of our signatures instead of wasting the time to go down to kinko's to fax a document.
Most videogame characters are so one-dimensional it's not funny
Eh. I think the best argument against this is Portal. You the player... Are mute, uknown, and have no backstory.
In fact the only identifiable character throughout the entire game is GladOS (which I suppose counts as a character), the gun droids, and the unseen other player leaving clues about the situation. Oh and the companion cube could count as a character...
But anyways... Portal's story wasn't about the character. You hardly really knew much about what was going on which was one of the major points of the plot line and made the story interesting as it gave you subtle clues to what really was going on.
I wrote "See License" on the back of my credit card. I'm still amazed by the number of vendors who don't look, so I make sure to thank the ones that do, and chide the ones that don't.
Actually, Zug.com has an interesting tale of the author trying to see how much he could get away with when he signed credit card purchases. He even did musical notation once. Very funny.
Back in the early 90's there was a particular mail order company that required a copy your drivers license for proof of purchase people of 18 or older *coughs*
It wasn't that hard to xerox 2 copies your drivers license and then cut out the numbers with scissors on one and then tape them on the other and then xerox a 3rd copy and you really couldn't tell the difference. *coughs* Not that I knew anything about it.
So back then even with fax machines, its simply not that hard to to find a document of someone signature, cut it out and then tape it and then xerox it and then fax the xerox and no one would be wiser.
These days its simply a cut and paste in photoshop and then printing to a fax printer if you happen to have one.
How long until the government mandates that these must have HRM on them (Human Rights Management) which would make it impossible to do certain "illegal" things.
Thats why you buy your cyberware on the Northern Territories black markets. Of course you can't just take a full on cyborg body and rob a bank without drawing the attention of Section 9.
But more seriously, HRM as you describe it would require some sort of Strong AI which if we had... It might cause the current governmental system to be a moot point.
Democracy is the worst form of government... except all the others that have been tried.
I dunno. Under the feudal system peasants got more time off than we do today for various holidays and always had job security no matter what (albeit a viking raid).
Also, prostitution and gambling was legal (albeit frowned upon the church) in many western European nations during middle ages and although church attendance was mandatory in most places, you didn't really have to participate and since the sermons were in Latin (a language most peasants didn't understand) you could talk among your fellow peasants or even conduct business if you were a burger.
Sure the disease, garbage in the streets, and viking and bandit raids kind of sucked but history has shown us that democracy is viewed the best because we have a modern view of things. Though during the age of absolute monarchs towards the 1500's sort of the time when govenrment got too powerful and started dictating more invasive things into the common persons life which of course resulted in the revolutions and social changes through the 1700's and 1800's.
Of course one will never know if the same thing would happen if we tried feudalism again.
The reason why they are not supposed to take up references until after an offer is because you might not have told your boss you are looking until after you have a job to go to. It might ruin your job prospects of your boss finds out you are job hunting.
IANAL In the US, there have been cases where employees have sued employers for bad references if they said something malicious, slanderous, or they gave out private information.
Your former employer can say "Joe didn't perform as well as his coworkers" and be OK as long as it was true but if they "Joe was an evil bastard who sucked compared to his coworkers... Oh and I'm sure he stole office supplies even though we never caught him... And he's a diabetic so your insurance costs will be through the roof!" would not be OK and have some merit in a lawsuit.
Of course Canadian and UK law is probaly different from the land of litigation. I get the feeling in top corporate companies in the US, they will only go so far to tell other employers only the fact that the employee in question worked at that company and if they left on good terms due to fear of intentionally being accused of being malicious
In a sense they are right. If society on a whole is doing better than it did before than the environment the Corporations have to work in will improve and their profits will increase.
Through better education a society will gain individuals who will generally be able to earn more money and therefore consume more products and allow for a diversity in competing genres of products.
As in, it takes a bit of education for certain hobbies and if the population on a whole is more rounded it opens more niches and markets for new revenue streams.
Secondly, a corporation serves the interest of its shareholders in the end even if it fails to make a profit they can still choose to keep the current CEO and board if they don't vote them out (that is rare though) and the self interest of shareholders often include their own well being so if you own shares in a factory and they produced chemicals that caused the shareholder or someone they know cancer, they might take it up with the board of directors even though change in company policy might cause a loss in profit.
Having money does you no good if you are dead and dying right?
why would anybody want to understand this mount of data?
Because data can be used to predict the future or get the future to do what you want.
They use Quants nearing super genius levels in the financial field and some tend to be autistic persons who are really good at math hired by the largest financial firms in the world to attempt to predict market trends.
Imagine if you would a intelligent machine who could simply process the information given to it and provide something useful to as a prediction as something like a stock price. You could make millions gaming the market even if its simply a computer that can read headlines as they break and read public forum posts to understand where the market is headed.
Now some people could argue that the stock market is too chaotic to predict, but you don't need to guess the entire market to make money. Most of the financial companies that do oil speculation have their employees hang out in chat rooms and monitor forums as it attempts to get a feel of where a very emotional and irrational market is going.
Who is TJX and how can I avoid doing business with them, but then I realized they were TJ Maxx and Marshall's and I don't do business with them anyways.
I think religious people might metaphysically have a hard time with this because this goes against the whole "Garden Of Eden" model of health which is Humans were made perfectly and they fell from perfection when they got curious and ate the special apple hoping for some sort of benefit.
Eh. Its not really just modern day Christians.
Most civilizations throughout history believed illness was a sign that God or the Gods didn't like you and you were being punished for your sins.
During the Black Death of the 1340's most Europeans blamed the plague on everything from gambling, prostitution, tolerance of Muslims and Jews, witches, and of course lack of faith in the Christian community where in reality it was really because of lack of hygiene by the average contemporary European.
Of course taking bathes and not throwing garbage and sewage into the streets being the reason for the disease never occurred to most people except the most observant fellows.
If YouTube cannot or will not edit the videos to remove segments of the speeches where specific threats are made then they probably should remove the videos as the Senator suggested.
But that is the general point of the said videos. When they say "Death to America!" they mean it and say it throughout the whole video which would make it pointless to remove sections of it since it would be the majority of it. Its their message!
My consideration is that if you fear their message so much that you must censor it then they have already won. Secondly, it is ever US Citizens rights to know that people elsewhere are threatening them with death. Now I believe the terrorist threat is exaggerated at this point, but if you pull the wool over the public eyes it only hurts the victim and possibly helps the terrorists.
9/11 was able to happen because those airline passengers didn't know who Al Queda was or the geopolitical situation in the middle east. If the public had situational awareness that something like this was possible then their might have been a different outcome on that day.
Well because some of us have extreme nostalgia for Populous, Powermonger, and of course the holy grail called 'Syndicate'.
Way back in the early 90s, back when I first got Syndicate to run on my 486 with 4mb of ram with the right boot disk configuration I was floored and once I figured out how to get it to play with sound I was really into the whole game for several hundred (if not thousand) hours of my life.
Sadly, I never played Dungeon Master for some odd reason (maybe I was too much into Quake at the time) by the mid to late 90's.
Anyways... Flash forward 10 or 15 years and those games are forgotten and Black and White elicited yawns from many people. I personally played it for a few hours and then sort of just threw my people against the mountain side or into the ocean with my creature and moved on to other games.
I personally never played Fable and some people call it the greatest game they have ever played and others just shrugged at it saying it was an ok game but nothing revolutionary.
To be fair, the best comparison of Molyneux is George Lucas who as we all know made 3 amazing movies and then made some mediocre sequels. Really... I think it all went down hill once Bullfrog got axed or whatever happened to that company.
So maybe... Just maybe he'll pull off another Populous or Syndicate and thats what most people are hoping for, but I'm not holding my breathe. I'm still bitter about Episode I and Syndicate 2.
Before it would take me a good couple days to increase just one level, which got increasingly frustrating and became the main reason why I canceled my subscription last year.
Personally I find grinding the least favorite part of MMO's. Leveling in itself is fun for the first few times but after playing MMO's and plenty of other single player games that are based almost solely around leveling (hell even pokemon is based on leveling your pets), the process has gotten old for most people and the need to come up with some other gameplay is needed.
One thing most people are rumbling about in WAR (Warhammer Online) is that there will be horizontal progression rather than vertical progression with a hard cap at 40 for levels and the end game is the Realm versus Realm (like DAoC).
Most people agree that increasing level caps will alienate casual players who will be at a disadvantage to hardcore players because it is PvP in a sense and even if they separate higher levels from lower, increasing the Cap simply for the sake of keeping the players playing the game will only cause the player base to be separated even further.
The idea of horizontal progression is that once you reach level 40, new content will be added for a second tier of leveling which means any expansions that add new spells, gear, and content will be equal to that already added by on a second scale completely separate from the levels gained from 1 through 40. They will be balanced so that these new features don't actually make the old ones obsolete. They WAR devs haven't really gone into exactly how this will work especially since they haven't released the very first part of the game, but the idea of horizontal progression at a certain point actually makes more sense to me, because you don't have to grind to experience new content but to use some other scale (I think there is something called realm pride etc) to which the end game can be progressed without simply raising the level cap.
The idea is interesting to me because I could care less about leveling another character ever again and would rather focus on another way of advancing a character through a game. I think Ultima Online had it right, but no one seems to want to copy them;)
I'm no engineer, but wouldn't the use of new self-healing polymers be inferior to a mechanical failsafe or backups... Wounds don't heal when aggravated, and bones have been known to heal badly (which could translate to a greater problem)...
I don't think they intended this to be a long term solution to aircraft damage, but rather keep the airplane in the air until it can land safely and then the ground crew can make long term repairs.
Why do I need to use a computer, and what is the big difference it's going to make in my life?
Funny that you mentioned construction labor because I got my current contractor referred to me over the net and we actually send communications and contracts via email.
The point is that computer lack of computer technology is only OK up until a certain point until it is impossible to compete with the rest of society in a capitalistic system.
Currently Joe works construction, but do to immigration and advances in technology his jobs are getting harder and harder to find (also especially due to the failing housing market).
When a site manager needs to pick up some hired hands and depending on the skill will take first come first serve with the employment and he needs those workers ASAP. Sure he'll put in a ad in the local newspaper, but he also posts on Craigslist or a Union forum or emailing list (if you happen to live in such an area) that he needs workers for his latest project.
Joe shows up a day after the ad in the newspaper went out and the site manager says "Sorry bud, we got everyone we need last night with mostly these 18 to 20 year olds who responded to the online posts and emails."
Now such a scenario isn't 100% likley... I mean he might have a friend with a computer or knows the cousin of the site manager who gave him a ring the night before, but thats no guarantee as time progresses.
We have limited resources and employment to go around and having a computer will give you an edge information wise and if you sit this out then you'll find yourself sitting at home unemployed more and more because people who got the information before you get it the old fashion way.
So in about 10 to 20 years if you don't have a computer... We'll then lets just say lets hope your kids do so they can take care of you.
You know that ATT commercial about "the moment"? There is a reason most major corporations are forcing their employees to always carry a blackberry and thats because in a purely competitive world, those who know first will get there first to be served first.
Its just how the world works at this point though I personally don't like the idea of having to be on call all the time...
while I agree the video is frightning, there is something specific with unmanned vehicules (or aircrafts): who is bearing the legal responsability?
Well its kind of like strapping timed bomb to a dog and then dropping him off at the shopping mall. Obviously they aren't going to say "The terrorist dog blew himself up along with the bystanders... Case closed!"
Same thing with a UAV, someone had to build it and someone had to tell it either via programming or remote control to go blow someone up.
Really, its just a high tech solution for problem that is more likley to not involve such high tech things. I mean do you think a terrorist organization is going to spend thousands of dollars recruiting engineers and robot hobbyists or just recruit some jilted follower to blow himself up for a fraction of the cost.
They always claim that something is being hidden, and how can you possibly prove that some file is not being hidden somewhere?
Regardless, the biggest reason there are all these conspiracy theories that the Governments aren't forthcoming with their secrets. Personally, I believe this is the worst thing possible in a democratic society in a peace time environment.
Why is there a need to have secrets such as the Nevada bases? Why can't the military be forthcoming about projects 40 years ago? Maybe its not aliens... Maybe they are torturing people or building weapons of mass destruction without us knowing... That and a big fat blank check from congress with no liability.
when public gets used to the idea of 'possibility' of extraterrestrials, more will be coming. so op is right in that they didnt release solid evidence yet.
Thats a lame excuse... I think the general public wouldn't care unless it turns out that the aliens use humans for food or reality TV.
That is just _so_ cool. I'm absolutely dying to help my customers by creating cross-platform applications in VBA.
*coughs* I've heard someone tell me once to never buy stock in a company that uses shared Excel files and VBA for their main accounting due to the fact it tends to often grow gross inaccuracies over time due to sloppy user work and lack of auditing actually cooks their books without anyone really knowing about it.
Of course he was the person maintaining the VBA code so he might have been biased...
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Furthermore, faxes are relatively secure because it is a one-on-one communication. In contrast, e-mails can be intercepted or become widely disseminated. The risks of using e-mail in a business setting (for signatures and the like) have not been tested too thoroughly, either.
Did you know many larger companies have fax servers integrated into their email systems in which their employees can receive and send faxes via their email client.
Also, I'm pretty sure there are 3rd party online fax services any consumer can use for personal use so one could simply purchase said service and never have to own a fax machine to send or receive faxes.
The issue I think that is the problem is that email is just as secure as sending faxes so why don't we accept jpg's of our signatures instead of wasting the time to go down to kinko's to fax a document.
Most videogame characters are so one-dimensional it's not funny
Eh. I think the best argument against this is Portal. You the player... Are mute, uknown, and have no backstory.
In fact the only identifiable character throughout the entire game is GladOS (which I suppose counts as a character), the gun droids, and the unseen other player leaving clues about the situation. Oh and the companion cube could count as a character...
But anyways... Portal's story wasn't about the character. You hardly really knew much about what was going on which was one of the major points of the plot line and made the story interesting as it gave you subtle clues to what really was going on.
I wrote "See License" on the back of my credit card. I'm still amazed by the number of vendors who don't look, so I make sure to thank the ones that do, and chide the ones that don't.
Actually, Zug.com has an interesting tale of the author trying to see how much he could get away with when he signed credit card purchases. He even did musical notation once. Very funny.
http://www.zug.com/pranks/credit/
http://www.zug.com/pranks/credit_card/
Back in the early 90's there was a particular mail order company that required a copy your drivers license for proof of purchase people of 18 or older *coughs*
It wasn't that hard to xerox 2 copies your drivers license and then cut out the numbers with scissors on one and then tape them on the other and then xerox a 3rd copy and you really couldn't tell the difference. *coughs* Not that I knew anything about it.
So back then even with fax machines, its simply not that hard to to find a document of someone signature, cut it out and then tape it and then xerox it and then fax the xerox and no one would be wiser.
These days its simply a cut and paste in photoshop and then printing to a fax printer if you happen to have one.
How long until the government mandates that these must have HRM on them (Human Rights Management) which would make it impossible to do certain "illegal" things.
Thats why you buy your cyberware on the Northern Territories black markets. Of course you can't just take a full on cyborg body and rob a bank without drawing the attention of Section 9.
But more seriously, HRM as you describe it would require some sort of Strong AI which if we had... It might cause the current governmental system to be a moot point.
Democracy is the worst form of government ... except all the others that have been tried.
I dunno. Under the feudal system peasants got more time off than we do today for various holidays and always had job security no matter what (albeit a viking raid).
Also, prostitution and gambling was legal (albeit frowned upon the church) in many western European nations during middle ages and although church attendance was mandatory in most places, you didn't really have to participate and since the sermons were in Latin (a language most peasants didn't understand) you could talk among your fellow peasants or even conduct business if you were a burger.
Sure the disease, garbage in the streets, and viking and bandit raids kind of sucked but history has shown us that democracy is viewed the best because we have a modern view of things. Though during the age of absolute monarchs towards the 1500's sort of the time when govenrment got too powerful and started dictating more invasive things into the common persons life which of course resulted in the revolutions and social changes through the 1700's and 1800's.
Of course one will never know if the same thing would happen if we tried feudalism again.
The reason why they are not supposed to take up references until after an offer is because you might not have told your boss you are looking until after you have a job to go to. It might ruin your job prospects of your boss finds out you are job hunting.
IANAL In the US, there have been cases where employees have sued employers for bad references if they said something malicious, slanderous, or they gave out private information.
Your former employer can say "Joe didn't perform as well as his coworkers" and be OK as long as it was true but if they "Joe was an evil bastard who sucked compared to his coworkers... Oh and I'm sure he stole office supplies even though we never caught him... And he's a diabetic so your insurance costs will be through the roof!" would not be OK and have some merit in a lawsuit.
Of course Canadian and UK law is probaly different from the land of litigation. I get the feeling in top corporate companies in the US, they will only go so far to tell other employers only the fact that the employee in question worked at that company and if they left on good terms due to fear of intentionally being accused of being malicious
I'm pretty sure the Soviet Union tried that experiment already with unsatisfactory results.
Though China seems to have got it right with theirs. I'm just saying...
In a sense they are right. If society on a whole is doing better than it did before than the environment the Corporations have to work in will improve and their profits will increase.
Through better education a society will gain individuals who will generally be able to earn more money and therefore consume more products and allow for a diversity in competing genres of products.
As in, it takes a bit of education for certain hobbies and if the population on a whole is more rounded it opens more niches and markets for new revenue streams.
Secondly, a corporation serves the interest of its shareholders in the end even if it fails to make a profit they can still choose to keep the current CEO and board if they don't vote them out (that is rare though) and the self interest of shareholders often include their own well being so if you own shares in a factory and they produced chemicals that caused the shareholder or someone they know cancer, they might take it up with the board of directors even though change in company policy might cause a loss in profit.
Having money does you no good if you are dead and dying right?
why would anybody want to understand this mount of data?
Because data can be used to predict the future or get the future to do what you want.
They use Quants nearing super genius levels in the financial field and some tend to be autistic persons who are really good at math hired by the largest financial firms in the world to attempt to predict market trends.
Imagine if you would a intelligent machine who could simply process the information given to it and provide something useful to as a prediction as something like a stock price. You could make millions gaming the market even if its simply a computer that can read headlines as they break and read public forum posts to understand where the market is headed.
Now some people could argue that the stock market is too chaotic to predict, but you don't need to guess the entire market to make money. Most of the financial companies that do oil speculation have their employees hang out in chat rooms and monitor forums as it attempts to get a feel of where a very emotional and irrational market is going.
Who is TJX and how can I avoid doing business with them, but then I realized they were TJ Maxx and Marshall's and I don't do business with them anyways.
Does that mean we will have a Nintendo-land theme park in Florida anytime soon?
but why do religious institutions have frequencies allocated to them ?
Something to do with the words politics, campaign, and donations. Not in any particular order.
I've got some classic early 90's boxes like Powermonger and Syndicate, but my oldest has to be Thexder.
I think the disk has long gone bad, but the box and stuff is still there.
Wonder if its worth anything on ebay?
I think religious people might metaphysically have a hard time with this because this goes against the whole "Garden Of Eden" model of health which is Humans were made perfectly and they fell from perfection when they got curious and ate the special apple hoping for some sort of benefit.
Eh. Its not really just modern day Christians.
Most civilizations throughout history believed illness was a sign that God or the Gods didn't like you and you were being punished for your sins.
During the Black Death of the 1340's most Europeans blamed the plague on everything from gambling, prostitution, tolerance of Muslims and Jews, witches, and of course lack of faith in the Christian community where in reality it was really because of lack of hygiene by the average contemporary European.
Of course taking bathes and not throwing garbage and sewage into the streets being the reason for the disease never occurred to most people except the most observant fellows.
If YouTube cannot or will not edit the videos to remove segments of the speeches where specific threats are made then they probably should remove the videos as the Senator suggested.
But that is the general point of the said videos. When they say "Death to America!" they mean it and say it throughout the whole video which would make it pointless to remove sections of it since it would be the majority of it. Its their message!
My consideration is that if you fear their message so much that you must censor it then they have already won. Secondly, it is ever US Citizens rights to know that people elsewhere are threatening them with death. Now I believe the terrorist threat is exaggerated at this point, but if you pull the wool over the public eyes it only hurts the victim and possibly helps the terrorists.
9/11 was able to happen because those airline passengers didn't know who Al Queda was or the geopolitical situation in the middle east. If the public had situational awareness that something like this was possible then their might have been a different outcome on that day.
Why does anyone bother to report Molyneux's hype?
Well because some of us have extreme nostalgia for Populous, Powermonger, and of course the holy grail called 'Syndicate'.
Way back in the early 90s, back when I first got Syndicate to run on my 486 with 4mb of ram with the right boot disk configuration I was floored and once I figured out how to get it to play with sound I was really into the whole game for several hundred (if not thousand) hours of my life.
Sadly, I never played Dungeon Master for some odd reason (maybe I was too much into Quake at the time) by the mid to late 90's.
Anyways... Flash forward 10 or 15 years and those games are forgotten and Black and White elicited yawns from many people. I personally played it for a few hours and then sort of just threw my people against the mountain side or into the ocean with my creature and moved on to other games.
I personally never played Fable and some people call it the greatest game they have ever played and others just shrugged at it saying it was an ok game but nothing revolutionary.
To be fair, the best comparison of Molyneux is George Lucas who as we all know made 3 amazing movies and then made some mediocre sequels. Really... I think it all went down hill once Bullfrog got axed or whatever happened to that company.
So maybe... Just maybe he'll pull off another Populous or Syndicate and thats what most people are hoping for, but I'm not holding my breathe. I'm still bitter about Episode I and Syndicate 2.
Before it would take me a good couple days to increase just one level, which got increasingly frustrating and became the main reason why I canceled my subscription last year.
;)
Personally I find grinding the least favorite part of MMO's. Leveling in itself is fun for the first few times but after playing MMO's and plenty of other single player games that are based almost solely around leveling (hell even pokemon is based on leveling your pets), the process has gotten old for most people and the need to come up with some other gameplay is needed.
One thing most people are rumbling about in WAR (Warhammer Online) is that there will be horizontal progression rather than vertical progression with a hard cap at 40 for levels and the end game is the Realm versus Realm (like DAoC).
Most people agree that increasing level caps will alienate casual players who will be at a disadvantage to hardcore players because it is PvP in a sense and even if they separate higher levels from lower, increasing the Cap simply for the sake of keeping the players playing the game will only cause the player base to be separated even further.
The idea of horizontal progression is that once you reach level 40, new content will be added for a second tier of leveling which means any expansions that add new spells, gear, and content will be equal to that already added by on a second scale completely separate from the levels gained from 1 through 40. They will be balanced so that these new features don't actually make the old ones obsolete. They WAR devs haven't really gone into exactly how this will work especially since they haven't released the very first part of the game, but the idea of horizontal progression at a certain point actually makes more sense to me, because you don't have to grind to experience new content but to use some other scale (I think there is something called realm pride etc) to which the end game can be progressed without simply raising the level cap.
The idea is interesting to me because I could care less about leveling another character ever again and would rather focus on another way of advancing a character through a game. I think Ultima Online had it right, but no one seems to want to copy them
I'm no engineer, but wouldn't the use of new self-healing polymers be inferior to a mechanical failsafe or backups... Wounds don't heal when aggravated, and bones have been known to heal badly (which could translate to a greater problem)...
I don't think they intended this to be a long term solution to aircraft damage, but rather keep the airplane in the air until it can land safely and then the ground crew can make long term repairs.
Why do I need to use a computer, and what is the big difference it's going to make in my life?
Funny that you mentioned construction labor because I got my current contractor referred to me over the net and we actually send communications and contracts via email.
The point is that computer lack of computer technology is only OK up until a certain point until it is impossible to compete with the rest of society in a capitalistic system.
Currently Joe works construction, but do to immigration and advances in technology his jobs are getting harder and harder to find (also especially due to the failing housing market).
When a site manager needs to pick up some hired hands and depending on the skill will take first come first serve with the employment and he needs those workers ASAP. Sure he'll put in a ad in the local newspaper, but he also posts on Craigslist or a Union forum or emailing list (if you happen to live in such an area) that he needs workers for his latest project.
Joe shows up a day after the ad in the newspaper went out and the site manager says "Sorry bud, we got everyone we need last night with mostly these 18 to 20 year olds who responded to the online posts and emails."
Now such a scenario isn't 100% likley... I mean he might have a friend with a computer or knows the cousin of the site manager who gave him a ring the night before, but thats no guarantee as time progresses.
We have limited resources and employment to go around and having a computer will give you an edge information wise and if you sit this out then you'll find yourself sitting at home unemployed more and more because people who got the information before you get it the old fashion way.
So in about 10 to 20 years if you don't have a computer... We'll then lets just say lets hope your kids do so they can take care of you.
You know that ATT commercial about "the moment"? There is a reason most major corporations are forcing their employees to always carry a blackberry and thats because in a purely competitive world, those who know first will get there first to be served first.
Its just how the world works at this point though I personally don't like the idea of having to be on call all the time...
while I agree the video is frightning, there is something specific with unmanned vehicules (or aircrafts): who is bearing the legal responsability?
Well its kind of like strapping timed bomb to a dog and then dropping him off at the shopping mall. Obviously they aren't going to say "The terrorist dog blew himself up along with the bystanders... Case closed!"
Same thing with a UAV, someone had to build it and someone had to tell it either via programming or remote control to go blow someone up.
Really, its just a high tech solution for problem that is more likley to not involve such high tech things. I mean do you think a terrorist organization is going to spend thousands of dollars recruiting engineers and robot hobbyists or just recruit some jilted follower to blow himself up for a fraction of the cost.
I was going to give it a try, but it requires registration and I really just can't be bothered to register.
Maybe they could make a game about registering then?
They always claim that something is being hidden, and how can you possibly prove that some file is not being hidden somewhere?
Regardless, the biggest reason there are all these conspiracy theories that the Governments aren't forthcoming with their secrets. Personally, I believe this is the worst thing possible in a democratic society in a peace time environment.
Why is there a need to have secrets such as the Nevada bases? Why can't the military be forthcoming about projects 40 years ago? Maybe its not aliens... Maybe they are torturing people or building weapons of mass destruction without us knowing... That and a big fat blank check from congress with no liability.
when public gets used to the idea of 'possibility' of extraterrestrials, more will be coming. so op is right in that they didnt release solid evidence yet.
Thats a lame excuse... I think the general public wouldn't care unless it turns out that the aliens use humans for food or reality TV.
That is just _so_ cool. I'm absolutely dying to help my customers by creating cross-platform applications in VBA.
*coughs* I've heard someone tell me once to never buy stock in a company that uses shared Excel files and VBA for their main accounting due to the fact it tends to often grow gross inaccuracies over time due to sloppy user work and lack of auditing actually cooks their books without anyone really knowing about it.
Of course he was the person maintaining the VBA code so he might have been biased...