It's more likely that the winning team was sacrificed. Human sacrifice was a way to appease the gods with the best of our own world - thus many in the Aztec culture viewed it as an honor to be sacrificed. So the winners (most fit warriors) were likely to be offered to the gods.
How about the experience we now have in getting stuff into space and keeping it there! This is not easy!!! Just think of how many mistakes and subsequent successes had to take place to get the ISS up there and running. Now think that all these mistakes and successes will be directly used when we go forward in exploring beyond our orbit with bigger stations and spacecraft carrying humans towards Mars and beyond. The ISS is anything but useful. You must first crawl before you run? And so on.
It's easy to do that. And while I'm sure lots of people post pictures of themselves doing stupid things, I would be more worried about my friends, enemies, girlfriends, ex's, bystanders, even family posting pictures or writing blog posts about me without my knowledge or consent. If a university finds a blog post that mentions my name and how kinky I am in bed especially after drinking and smoking and getting a tattoo written by my ex who wants to get back at me..what do you do?
I'm not sure if this is what you are looking for but if you actually go to Contacts in Gmail, you can create a group of multiple people. Then when composing a message, start typing the name of the group and it will show up as a group.
For your second question, I don't think it's possible but I've gotten quite good at Gmail's autofill thing, so I just type the name of the person, hit enter, type the name of the next person, enter again and so on.
Office 2007? iPhone? Social Networks - and then Facebook as its own entry? Leopard?
All of those could be cut and I'm just listing what I remember from the article. Why did PC World choose 15 when clearly more than half of those are not tech dissapointments at all, or are so vague and general that they should have never been included in the first place?
Sigh...this is a non-story. Vista is not very good, but it's better than this list.
..It's doing it so that when a newbie torrent user downloads Casino Royale for two hours and gets a black screen video or whatever else is in the fake torrent, he will say "Screw torrents, this is a waste of time" and then go out and buy the DVD or go to the movie.
If you flood the internet with fake torrents, people will have a harder time finding what they want, and a decent percentage will simply give up and pay money for things. That's what happened to Kazaa...it was flooded with so many fake files that a lot of people simply stopped using it.
We are talking about thrid world countries here. Our "grandparents" built the Hoover Dam by getting a degree in engineering, studying from textbooks widely availble to everybody in the states. They talked with professors who were the best engineers of the time. They looked at pictures of other dams, etc etc.
We cannot provide all of this to the kids in Africa. But, we can come close with this laptop. It can replace or partially imitate all of the things I described above and more.
Benchmark results are very similar with the Athlon winning most of the game benchmarks by a bit. Is that bit worth $130.00? Hell no.
I really wanted the 3800+ but it's price has remained the same for a very long time now. Meanwhile, Intel has been slashing prices daily. At the end I caved in and could not be happier. Until AMD starts price matching Intel processors, I'll stick with my Pentium D.
I went to Brooklyn Technical High School in New York and it was PLAGUED with scandals. Sexual abuse, underage sex, corrupt principal, teachers stalking kids, etc. You can read about our principal here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn_Technical_Hi gh_School. Just scroll to the bottom for "Lee McCaskill controversy".
Now I'm all for schools trying to keep drugs and weapons out of schools. But when the school administration itself is playing dirty, who can you trust? What if a pervert of a teacher accuses a girl of selling drugs and looks at her cell phone?
If a school wants cell phone access for safety, then students (or at least the PTA) should have the same rights. I want to know that my principal is not spending school money to build a house. I want to know that my math teacher is not buying underage kid porn somewhere. I want to know that my dean is not in anger management classes. And so on. Seems extreme and strange for us to have this information right? Well that's the same way students feel when you take their cell phones and look through them.
I'm just throwing out ideas here, but could a pirate with decent art skills redraw every frame of the movie on paper? A few thousand pieces of computer paper would be all that's needed. Staple it all together and BAM, sell on the subway corner for 2 bucks a pop.
Piracy will never end!
So, the ISP's put this system in place, the GOV hires a bunch of spammers (all under the table of course) to email low grade kiddy porn to everbody who looks like the next terrorist and VOILA instant access to all your information: digital and physical. A kiddy porn investigation gets the judges to write out all kinds of warrants for the FBI and you are powerless to stop it.
Some asshat senator mad at your company for opposing one of his bills? Send some kiddy porn to you, and start an investigation. Even if they don't find anything, you'll most likely lose half of your cusotmers and most of your respect.
I'm scared.
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It's called "Finish-my-next-CS-project" summer of code camp. Kids, help out a poor college student =/
In all seriousness, these code camps are great for everybody involved. Experience for the programmers; good, "hearty" code for the company. Even if you don't win IMHO the experience is well worth it especially for somebody who has never programmed outside of a class before.
I think this is a pretty horrible idea for two reasons.
#1: Try getting a kid to read a textbook. Now try getting that same kid to read a "wall of text" on a computer. Most teenagers (and even most adults) react to walls of text on the net as something to skip over and avoid. Kids will be less willing to read when faced with a computer with no pages, just 100's of black words on a white background. Sprinkling pictures here and there won't help.
#2: Have you tried reading books on laptops? It's hard on your eyes, on your back, on your arms, on your mental health, everything.
IMHO, bad idea. Stick with textbooks. Or, give everyone a Sony Librie.
But Mom, the only reason I'm getting one is so it can connect to a shared computer thing and help cure cancer while creating a simulation of the big bang so our scientists can advance civilization to new heights!
I don't know too much about Google outside of search, maps and Gmail but from what I see Google has never done anything that requires mass customer support (dealing with average joe's like us, not the marketing companies that put up ads on google).
While I'd love to see Google compete with PayPal and Ebay, I think that at least in the beginning the really crazy Google fanboys (the millions of them) will be dissapointed because Google probably is not used to dealing with millions of customers (some stupid, some arrogant, some smart asses, and so on) at the same time.
Thus, at least for a couple of months, I would not sign up for this service for that reason alone. Once they got the customer support thing down (and I'm sure they will, there's a whole bunch of smart people over there) I'll join.
We shouldn't fear. Yes, there is a chance that Bin Laden can concoct an atomic weapon in a cave using a band-aid, some rocks, and a vial of something that is either Uranium or puke.
There is however a much bigger chance that he will steal/buy such a weapon from a country that's actually capable of building them.
We should be focusing on that. I bet if you asked these scientists if it's theoretically possible for Bin Laden to make the moon fall on America, they would say again that it's hard, but not impossible. Is that ever going to happen though? No.
I have no problem with the tax on cigs, and no problem with the fact that states are now looking to actually collect on cigs purchased online.
However, sending a bill for 2,500 to a man out of the blue is wrong. While a lot of us "know" that states are supposed to collect taxes on cigs bought online, we've very rarely seen it in effect.
What Michigan did was wrong and too fast. They should make the public aware that at a certain point in the future, these things will actually be taken seriously. An ad campaign simply saying *As of m/d/y, we will track all cig purchases online and make you pay taxes on them* would be much better than the possiblity of massive hear attack deaths because people are getting 2500 dollar bills in the mail.
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It's more likely that the winning team was sacrificed. Human sacrifice was a way to appease the gods with the best of our own world - thus many in the Aztec culture viewed it as an honor to be sacrificed. So the winners (most fit warriors) were likely to be offered to the gods.
How about the experience we now have in getting stuff into space and keeping it there! This is not easy!!! Just think of how many mistakes and subsequent successes had to take place to get the ISS up there and running. Now think that all these mistakes and successes will be directly used when we go forward in exploring beyond our orbit with bigger stations and spacecraft carrying humans towards Mars and beyond. The ISS is anything but useful. You must first crawl before you run? And so on.
It's easy to do that. And while I'm sure lots of people post pictures of themselves doing stupid things, I would be more worried about my friends, enemies, girlfriends, ex's, bystanders, even family posting pictures or writing blog posts about me without my knowledge or consent. If a university finds a blog post that mentions my name and how kinky I am in bed especially after drinking and smoking and getting a tattoo written by my ex who wants to get back at me..what do you do?
I'm not sure if this is what you are looking for but if you actually go to Contacts in Gmail, you can create a group of multiple people. Then when composing a message, start typing the name of the group and it will show up as a group. For your second question, I don't think it's possible but I've gotten quite good at Gmail's autofill thing, so I just type the name of the person, hit enter, type the name of the next person, enter again and so on.
Office 2007? iPhone? Social Networks - and then Facebook as its own entry? Leopard?
All of those could be cut and I'm just listing what I remember from the article. Why did PC World choose 15 when clearly more than half of those are not tech dissapointments at all, or are so vague and general that they should have never been included in the first place?
Sigh...this is a non-story. Vista is not very good, but it's better than this list.
..It's doing it so that when a newbie torrent user downloads Casino Royale for two hours and gets a black screen video or whatever else is in the fake torrent, he will say "Screw torrents, this is a waste of time" and then go out and buy the DVD or go to the movie. If you flood the internet with fake torrents, people will have a harder time finding what they want, and a decent percentage will simply give up and pay money for things. That's what happened to Kazaa...it was flooded with so many fake files that a lot of people simply stopped using it.
We are talking about thrid world countries here. Our "grandparents" built the Hoover Dam by getting a degree in engineering, studying from textbooks widely availble to everybody in the states. They talked with professors who were the best engineers of the time. They looked at pictures of other dams, etc etc. We cannot provide all of this to the kids in Africa. But, we can come close with this laptop. It can replace or partially imitate all of the things I described above and more.
From Newegg:
Athlon XP2 3800+ : $297.00 Pentium D 930: $170.00
Benchmark results are very similar with the Athlon winning most of the game benchmarks by a bit. Is that bit worth $130.00? Hell no.
I really wanted the 3800+ but it's price has remained the same for a very long time now. Meanwhile, Intel has been slashing prices daily. At the end I caved in and could not be happier. Until AMD starts price matching Intel processors, I'll stick with my Pentium D.
I went to Brooklyn Technical High School in New York and it was PLAGUED with scandals. Sexual abuse, underage sex, corrupt principal, teachers stalking kids, etc. You can read about our principal here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn_Technical_Hi gh_School. Just scroll to the bottom for "Lee McCaskill controversy".
Now I'm all for schools trying to keep drugs and weapons out of schools. But when the school administration itself is playing dirty, who can you trust? What if a pervert of a teacher accuses a girl of selling drugs and looks at her cell phone?
If a school wants cell phone access for safety, then students (or at least the PTA) should have the same rights. I want to know that my principal is not spending school money to build a house. I want to know that my math teacher is not buying underage kid porn somewhere. I want to know that my dean is not in anger management classes. And so on. Seems extreme and strange for us to have this information right? Well that's the same way students feel when you take their cell phones and look through them.
I'm just throwing out ideas here, but could a pirate with decent art skills redraw every frame of the movie on paper? A few thousand pieces of computer paper would be all that's needed. Staple it all together and BAM, sell on the subway corner for 2 bucks a pop. Piracy will never end!
Double barreled shotgun - the new fly/mosquito swatter.
So, the ISP's put this system in place, the GOV hires a bunch of spammers (all under the table of course) to email low grade kiddy porn to everbody who looks like the next terrorist and VOILA instant access to all your information: digital and physical. A kiddy porn investigation gets the judges to write out all kinds of warrants for the FBI and you are powerless to stop it.
Some asshat senator mad at your company for opposing one of his bills? Send some kiddy porn to you, and start an investigation. Even if they don't find anything, you'll most likely lose half of your cusotmers and most of your respect.
I'm scared.It's called "Finish-my-next-CS-project" summer of code camp. Kids, help out a poor college student =/
In all seriousness, these code camps are great for everybody involved. Experience for the programmers; good, "hearty" code for the company. Even if you don't win IMHO the experience is well worth it especially for somebody who has never programmed outside of a class before.
I think this is a pretty horrible idea for two reasons.
#1: Try getting a kid to read a textbook. Now try getting that same kid to read a "wall of text" on a computer. Most teenagers (and even most adults) react to walls of text on the net as something to skip over and avoid. Kids will be less willing to read when faced with a computer with no pages, just 100's of black words on a white background. Sprinkling pictures here and there won't help.
#2: Have you tried reading books on laptops? It's hard on your eyes, on your back, on your arms, on your mental health, everything.
IMHO, bad idea. Stick with textbooks. Or, give everyone a Sony Librie.
But Mom, the only reason I'm getting one is so it can connect to a shared computer thing and help cure cancer while creating a simulation of the big bang so our scientists can advance civilization to new heights!
I don't know too much about Google outside of search, maps and Gmail but from what I see Google has never done anything that requires mass customer support (dealing with average joe's like us, not the marketing companies that put up ads on google).
While I'd love to see Google compete with PayPal and Ebay, I think that at least in the beginning the really crazy Google fanboys (the millions of them) will be dissapointed because Google probably is not used to dealing with millions of customers (some stupid, some arrogant, some smart asses, and so on) at the same time.
Thus, at least for a couple of months, I would not sign up for this service for that reason alone. Once they got the customer support thing down (and I'm sure they will, there's a whole bunch of smart people over there) I'll join.
Good luck Google.We shouldn't fear. Yes, there is a chance that Bin Laden can concoct an atomic weapon in a cave using a band-aid, some rocks, and a vial of something that is either Uranium or puke.
There is however a much bigger chance that he will steal/buy such a weapon from a country that's actually capable of building them.
We should be focusing on that. I bet if you asked these scientists if it's theoretically possible for Bin Laden to make the moon fall on America, they would say again that it's hard, but not impossible. Is that ever going to happen though? No.
I have no problem with the tax on cigs, and no problem with the fact that states are now looking to actually collect on cigs purchased online.
However, sending a bill for 2,500 to a man out of the blue is wrong. While a lot of us "know" that states are supposed to collect taxes on cigs bought online, we've very rarely seen it in effect.
What Michigan did was wrong and too fast. They should make the public aware that at a certain point in the future, these things will actually be taken seriously. An ad campaign simply saying *As of m/d/y, we will track all cig purchases online and make you pay taxes on them* would be much better than the possiblity of massive hear attack deaths because people are getting 2500 dollar bills in the mail.