You still need to bag the groceries. The scanning part is only a tiny bit of the time if you have to grab each item individually to bag it anyway. This seems like a long way to go to solve a non-existent problem. Seems like the brain power expended here could be better used elsewhere.
Decentralizing the economic might of the country (reducing the number of company HQs in NYC and relocating financial networks to outlying areas) would reduce the magnitude of any event.
The extreme centralization is an artifact of the pre-Internet days. It will eventually pass. Offshoring of support and SW tasks is just the first wave.
How the hell can anyone claim to be a "Microsoft enthusiast"?!
My grandmother claimed to be a lemur before exiting this mortal coil. You can *claim* anything.
It's hardly a hobby.
Only to the extent that heroin addiction is a hobby.
Bob: Hello. My name is Bob.
MS Anonymous members: Hi, Bob.
Bob: I'm a 41 year old IT manager at a fortune 500 company... and I'm a Microsoft-aholic...
Joe's pal Ned who runs the hardware store: We're here for you, Bob.
NASDAQ: Let the name of SCO be stricken from every book and tablet. Stricken from every pylon and obelisk of Manhatten. Let the name of McBride be unheard and unspoken, erased from the memory of man, for all time.
A dazzling epic for our times!
Electronic Arts Employee: The evil that men should turn their brothers into beasts of burden, to be stripped of spirit, and hope, and strength... If there is a god, he did not mean this to be so.
Treachery! Passion! Begetting!
Igor: Will you lose a profit because Linus builds an OS? McBride: The OS that he builds shall bear my name, the woman that he loves shall bear my child. So let it be written, so let it be done.
Action! Historical revisionism! Fresh fruit!
McBride: You make no outcry, Linus, but you will; you will cry for the mercy of death.
Linus: One day you will listen to the cry of the open source community.
McBride: This is not that day, Joshua.
Product placements! Cut rate CGI! Semprini!
Flunky: What have you found?
McBride: The answer to my prayers!
Flunky: You prayed for a erection?
McBride: No, I prayed for a lawsuit idea.
Coming soon, right freaking direct to DVD so fast it'll glow red from the friction.
Playing Sly Cooper 1 & 2 drove me to become an international thief knocking over museums and the secret laboratores of mad supervillans. Now I'm wanted by Interpol and constantly harassed by a bizarre anthropomorhpic fox woman... not that the latter is so bad.
Playing Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal's challenge level made me come to work with a Quack-O-Ray and turn my boss into a duck! And then I went down to the DMV to get them to acknowledge my change of address! I unleashed everything I had from the Annihilator, the Plasma Coil and Mini-Turrets, and NOTHING! Weapons not fit for this world cannot defeat the DMV! ARRRGGGHHHHH!
Hey, Napster fired the first shot with $2.3 million dollar ads during the Superbowl. Jobs probably got as much effect with a two cent email. If I were a stockholder, I'd be pleased.:)
Microsoft wants to make vital and basic information about the company hard to find on its website. It, too, succeeds.
Damn, is that ever true. I became interested in embedded Windows a couple years ago (I got better), and went the MS web site to get ramped up on it. Four hours later I gave up, none the wiser, with a folder full of PDFs brimming over with marketing gobbledygook.
And this is from a guy who taught himself FPGA design in two days strictly from the Xilinx web site. I'm good at digging out info and learning new things.
I wish my company would do something like this. They have so obfuscated the process of putting a page on our Intranet, that no one ever bothers to update pages, rendering it useless. I've been doing web sites since the first copies of Tim Berners-Lee's HTML 1.0 document were passing around the Net, and I can't make heads or tails of the process here.
You need to create a file in a murky proprietary format, submit that file to some sort of parser and review process, and that gets transmogrified to tag-soup, table-laden HTML illuminated with all manner of popup menus and navigational horrors. Saying "CSS" around here gets blank looks. It's like designing web pages from a command line.
And lose my access to daily updates on how my very existence is threatened by the Bush Global Cabal, alien greys, HAARP, chemtrails, the planet sized spaceship spotted by SOHO and covered up by the legion of dental hygenists, the Clinton Global Cabal, the Bilateral Commission, the Trilateral Study Group, the Quadrilateral Loose Gathering Of Folks, mind control bases in the secret submarine cavers beneath Southern California and, everybody's favorite, Mutant Nazis On The Moon.
Only when you pry my newsserver access from my cold, dead fingers, pedro!
Why? I think abuse of anonymity is probably the single largest killer.
Bingo. It was Usenet that started me on the path to being a misanthrope.:) The anonymity allows people to post what they really have in their heads, without the threat of the beating they so richly deserve.
It's the same thing here at work. I overhear people being talked about behind their backs. The slightest flaws or oversights are blown up into mortal sins punishable by eternal bile, although never to the person's face. I can't imagine what people say about me, but I make more than most of them, so I don't care all that much.
It was also Usenet that taught me that strongly held political beliefs are most likely a type of mental degeneration or illness.
Me: We need to know more about any sort of Social Security plan before we can judge it.
KMarxIsGod: BUSH IS A NAZI AND HIS FAMILY IS RAPING IRAQ TO KILL THE WORLD'S FLUFFY KITTENS!
Me: Is there someone else here to talk to?
I mean, that just isn't sanity in operation there. Some might be trolls, but some of these guys will type for HOURS to make some obscure point about how Dick Cheney's second cousin once ran a red light in 1972 without getting a ticket, and therefore the USA is a police state to end all police states.
So I got a Tivo and Netflix account, and just use Usenet to find new music via MP3 groups.
You're probably satcomming though equipment I designed.:)
Maybe Vonage or one of the others can be sweet talked into offering free service as a PR move? Casually mention the highest rated Superbowl commercial was Budweiser's tribute to the troops.
It was a trial balloon floated last year, and it was hit by about seven million rounds of heavy ordinance from a unusually bipartisan array of sources. Rights groups stated flat out that they would have it tied up in court for the next five centuries. It ain't gonna happen.
This is old news to those of us here in Paradise. The idea is cmpletely unworkable, and will never see the light of day.
One thing you non-Paradise people should know: this state has the dumbest legislators in the history of civilization. I mean, yeah, we all pick on politicians, but these people are STUPID beyond comprehension. One of them wanted to have government buildings laid out according to the "sepcification" of Fung Shui. They come out with statements that make you wonder if they shouldn't be in an institution chatting with Nurse Mildred Ratched. It's the reason I don't pick on Bush's intellect much. Bush is Richard Feynman and Stephan Hawking combined next to some of the California state politicos.
Anyway, Their claims are complete BS. I see more and more SUVs and I've seen maybe three hybrids in the past year of daily commuting. They're just upset because Arnold is forcing them into a fiscal weight loss plan.
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Flamebait? It was an honest question asked in mild jest. Geez.
Unless he's the guy who made up Klingon. :D
Radiation.
You still need to bag the groceries. The scanning part is only a tiny bit of the time if you have to grab each item individually to bag it anyway. This seems like a long way to go to solve a non-existent problem. Seems like the brain power expended here could be better used elsewhere.
Well, then, I shall seek a government grant to explore it! :)
The extreme centralization is an artifact of the pre-Internet days. It will eventually pass. Offshoring of support and SW tasks is just the first wave.
He's an asshole?
My grandmother claimed to be a lemur before exiting this mortal coil. You can *claim* anything.
It's hardly a hobby.
Only to the extent that heroin addiction is a hobby.
Bob: Hello. My name is Bob.
MS Anonymous members: Hi, Bob.
Bob: I'm a 41 year old IT manager at a fortune 500 company... and I'm a Microsoft-aholic...
Joe's pal Ned who runs the hardware store: We're here for you, Bob.
NASDAQ: Let the name of SCO be stricken from every book and tablet. Stricken from every pylon and obelisk of Manhatten. Let the name of McBride be unheard and unspoken, erased from the memory of man, for all time.
A dazzling epic for our times!
Electronic Arts Employee: The evil that men should turn their brothers into beasts of burden, to be stripped of spirit, and hope, and strength... If there is a god, he did not mean this to be so.
Treachery! Passion! Begetting!
Igor: Will you lose a profit because Linus builds an OS?
McBride: The OS that he builds shall bear my name, the woman that he loves shall bear my child. So let it be written, so let it be done.
Action! Historical revisionism! Fresh fruit!
McBride: You make no outcry, Linus, but you will; you will cry for the mercy of death.
Linus: One day you will listen to the cry of the open source community. McBride: This is not that day, Joshua.
Product placements! Cut rate CGI! Semprini!
Flunky: What have you found?
McBride: The answer to my prayers!
Flunky: You prayed for a erection?
McBride: No, I prayed for a lawsuit idea.
Coming soon, right freaking direct to DVD so fast it'll glow red from the friction.
Sorry. Urban legend. Check snopes.com
Yes. The darkest truth is out...
Video games have made me a furry.
Related link: http://tinyurl.com/7xsz8
Mmmm... maybe not completely ethical, but it was *funny*. And that's good. :)
Hey, Napster fired the first shot with $2.3 million dollar ads during the Superbowl. Jobs probably got as much effect with a two cent email. If I were a stockholder, I'd be pleased. :)
Oh, I use BBEdit on Mac OS X for my own stuff. I tried GoLive and some other thing. Bleah...
Damn, is that ever true. I became interested in embedded Windows a couple years ago (I got better), and went the MS web site to get ramped up on it. Four hours later I gave up, none the wiser, with a folder full of PDFs brimming over with marketing gobbledygook.
And this is from a guy who taught himself FPGA design in two days strictly from the Xilinx web site. I'm good at digging out info and learning new things.
You need to create a file in a murky proprietary format, submit that file to some sort of parser and review process, and that gets transmogrified to tag-soup, table-laden HTML illuminated with all manner of popup menus and navigational horrors. Saying "CSS" around here gets blank looks. It's like designing web pages from a command line.
The Sirens Of Titan
Only when you pry my newsserver access from my cold, dead fingers, pedro!
Bingo. It was Usenet that started me on the path to being a misanthrope. :) The anonymity allows people to post what they really have in their heads, without the threat of the beating they so richly deserve.
It's the same thing here at work. I overhear people being talked about behind their backs. The slightest flaws or oversights are blown up into mortal sins punishable by eternal bile, although never to the person's face. I can't imagine what people say about me, but I make more than most of them, so I don't care all that much.
It was also Usenet that taught me that strongly held political beliefs are most likely a type of mental degeneration or illness.
Me: We need to know more about any sort of Social Security plan before we can judge it.
KMarxIsGod: BUSH IS A NAZI AND HIS FAMILY IS RAPING IRAQ TO KILL THE WORLD'S FLUFFY KITTENS!
Me: Is there someone else here to talk to?
I mean, that just isn't sanity in operation there. Some might be trolls, but some of these guys will type for HOURS to make some obscure point about how Dick Cheney's second cousin once ran a red light in 1972 without getting a ticket, and therefore the USA is a police state to end all police states.
So I got a Tivo and Netflix account, and just use Usenet to find new music via MP3 groups.
You're probably satcomming though equipment I designed. :)
Maybe Vonage or one of the others can be sweet talked into offering free service as a PR move? Casually mention the highest rated Superbowl commercial was Budweiser's tribute to the troops.
Stay safe.
I have my minions post for me. You should get some minions. They're great!
Actually, a tax on stupidity isn't such a stupid idea. ;-) Dang, I wouldn't pay *ANY* taxes, what with me being the most evolved being on the Earth! :D
It was a trial balloon floated last year, and it was hit by about seven million rounds of heavy ordinance from a unusually bipartisan array of sources. Rights groups stated flat out that they would have it tied up in court for the next five centuries. It ain't gonna happen.
One thing you non-Paradise people should know: this state has the dumbest legislators in the history of civilization. I mean, yeah, we all pick on politicians, but these people are STUPID beyond comprehension. One of them wanted to have government buildings laid out according to the "sepcification" of Fung Shui. They come out with statements that make you wonder if they shouldn't be in an institution chatting with Nurse Mildred Ratched. It's the reason I don't pick on Bush's intellect much. Bush is Richard Feynman and Stephan Hawking combined next to some of the California state politicos.
Anyway, Their claims are complete BS. I see more and more SUVs and I've seen maybe three hybrids in the past year of daily commuting. They're just upset because Arnold is forcing them into a fiscal weight loss plan.