Whatever happened to survival of the fittest? Is all this technology assisting with breeding a race of second rate homo sapiens?
Survival of the "fittest" doesn't necessarily mean survival of the strongest, it's more survival of who best fits the environment, Creatures who can blend in with their environment better can stay away from predators hence living longer and being able to pass your genes on to the next generation.
The intention of the research is not to breed a race of second rate homo sapiens, but to assist in having the current race of homo sapiens live longer. If this research can lead to growing a healthy heart for a man with heart disease, then he gets to live longer. However, this process is only a means to solve a problem, not to prevent a problem. If an organ is replaced then problem solved, however it doesn't mean that a person's genetic makeup changes as well. He may have been saved, but his children would still be at risk because they still have the same genes that are prone to heart disease.
Just make sure you don't stash everyone else's porn in the default directory. It would suck to get that trojan and lose everyone's backup... Then again, you can just do them the favor of re-downloading all of their porn for them as some sort of guarantee.
Why not do what other Europeans do. Take a small weekend vacation over here to buy the products you're interested in. As cheap as fares are, you'll probably still end up winning. Go to Delaware, they have no sales tax. You get a vacation and a laptop in the same price. You guys gotta learn how to shop around;)
I have a friend who used to work for Circuit City. And sometimes when they'd have a jerk customer, he'd have fun with talking fast and letting words slip on purpose for shits and giggles. A great example.
This receiver has component input to support HD on your digital cable, progressive scanning on your dvd player, you finger your ass a lot, and good for gaming systems w/ HD
The customer all puzzled asks wondering if my friend just said that he fingers his ass, and is like, "Excuse Me!???"
My Friend responds, "Oh, You figure we ask a lot about your gaming systems, but we don't..." and continues on from there.
B&M = Brick and Mortar. As in an actual building, not a kiosk. Most of the time it relates to a company's retail division or where the company has offices specifically for business with its customers.
This is useless: no human being can explain how this marketing BS translates to real-world usage to a newbie in a 30 minute sales session, and no non-newbie is going to ask these questions.
I used to work for a Gateway store in Paramus, NJ. It was one of the most profitable stores for the company. All of the guys there were very knowledgeable about technology, and if one of us didn't know the answer, then we knew someone in the store that did.
As far as translating stuff to non-techies, you need to use real life explanations. For example: When I compare the different models of computers, I relate them to general car parts that most people can understand...
The processor is like your car engine, the faster the processor generally means more horse power. The difference between this celeron and a pentium 4 is like the difference between a 4 cylinder and a V8...
People often confuse Memory with Hard drive. Your hard drive is actually where all your files get stored. Think of it like your cargo room in your vehicle. The larger the hard drive, the more you can store.
Your Memory, also called Ram, is more like the gas in your car. The more Ram you have, the more you can run.
Some programs demand more power and resources than other. For your basic stuff, like a local commute to work, or basic office and internet use, a 4 cylinder, or a celeron with about 256 mb of memory may cut it. If you're concerned about speed, or are doing things that are more demanding, such as photo editing, MP3s, or even video editing, A celeron may do it, but it'll take forever to get to the finish line. The Pentium 4 would do it better. etc. etc.
It takes only a couple of minutes to help people understand why they're buying certain upgrades if the sales person does a decent needs analysis to gear a customer into the right direction. One huge confound w/ regards to research is demographic differences on technological knowledge and interest by the public. One researcher who came to interview some salespeople at my store said that after going cross country, she realized that the people in NY Metro are more up beat and knowledgeable about what technology can do for them than people in the midwest who are lost or show little interest in things like digital photography.
In the 1970's, Brazil's government set up an energy plan to reduce the dependence on petroleum. They kept the price of gas high to subsidize the research and implementation of new technology to combat global warming. They now have cars that run on ethanol and passed legislation to ensure that every new buliding constructed is built with solar panels for water heating. If Brazil can do it, why can't we? It took them 30 years after the government took serious action to tackle the problem.
This most likely won't have support on Mac OS X. I actually have a hotmail account and use Mac Mail w/ the help of a plugin called httpmail to retrieve my hotmail w/o having to pay for "premium" services
Well, scientifically, the term HIV was made up by the US government at the time AIDS started developing. They constructed a list of symptoms that would say whether or not you have "HIV" or "AIDS." What it really comes down to in the end, you have AIDS all together. It's just that the symptoms you exhibit aren't all on someone's list that says it's serious enough to be AIDS, so they'll just call it HIV, with the idea of giving people some sort of hope or optimism hoping they can stop some sort of virus. HIV doesn't mean that you're getting AIDS. It means that you have a milder form of AIDS.
I take it that you're not using OS X. There is no option for head/footer setup under page setup that allows you to disable printing a header. Even if I go into page setup, and set the header to 0 inches, it will still print out the url. Just at the very top instead of.25 inches down. I want to disable it from printing out the url of the page period. Somone on a mac must know what I'm talking about.
This is so annoying. Anyone know what the hell I can do to keep the URL from printing out on the header section? This only seems to happen on my mac, not on my windows computer. I played around with random settings on about:config and I was not successful.
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Or if you're running with the Bulls.
Whatever happened to survival of the fittest? Is all this technology assisting with breeding a race of second rate homo sapiens?
Survival of the "fittest" doesn't necessarily mean survival of the strongest, it's more survival of who best fits the environment, Creatures who can blend in with their environment better can stay away from predators hence living longer and being able to pass your genes on to the next generation.
The intention of the research is not to breed a race of second rate homo sapiens, but to assist in having the current race of homo sapiens live longer. If this research can lead to growing a healthy heart for a man with heart disease, then he gets to live longer. However, this process is only a means to solve a problem, not to prevent a problem. If an organ is replaced then problem solved, however it doesn't mean that a person's genetic makeup changes as well. He may have been saved, but his children would still be at risk because they still have the same genes that are prone to heart disease.
Just make sure you don't stash everyone else's porn in the default directory. It would suck to get that trojan and lose everyone's backup... Then again, you can just do them the favor of re-downloading all of their porn for them as some sort of guarantee.
Why not do what other Europeans do. Take a small weekend vacation over here to buy the products you're interested in. As cheap as fares are, you'll probably still end up winning. Go to Delaware, they have no sales tax. You get a vacation and a laptop in the same price. You guys gotta learn how to shop around ;)
I have a friend who used to work for Circuit City. And sometimes when they'd have a jerk customer, he'd have fun with talking fast and letting words slip on purpose for shits and giggles. A great example.
This receiver has component input to support HD on your digital cable, progressive scanning on your dvd player, you finger your ass a lot, and good for gaming systems w/ HD
The customer all puzzled asks wondering if my friend just said that he fingers his ass, and is like, "Excuse Me!???"
My Friend responds, "Oh, You figure we ask a lot about your gaming systems, but we don't..." and continues on from there.
B&M = Brick and Mortar. As in an actual building, not a kiosk. Most of the time it relates to a company's retail division or where the company has offices specifically for business with its customers.
In the 1970's, Brazil's government set up an energy plan to reduce the dependence on petroleum. They kept the price of gas high to subsidize the research and implementation of new technology to combat global warming. They now have cars that run on ethanol and passed legislation to ensure that every new buliding constructed is built with solar panels for water heating. If Brazil can do it, why can't we? It took them 30 years after the government took serious action to tackle the problem.
This most likely won't have support on Mac OS X. I actually have a hotmail account and use Mac Mail w/ the help of a plugin called httpmail to retrieve my hotmail w/o having to pay for "premium" services
Well, scientifically, the term HIV was made up by the US government at the time AIDS started developing. They constructed a list of symptoms that would say whether or not you have "HIV" or "AIDS." What it really comes down to in the end, you have AIDS all together. It's just that the symptoms you exhibit aren't all on someone's list that says it's serious enough to be AIDS, so they'll just call it HIV, with the idea of giving people some sort of hope or optimism hoping they can stop some sort of virus. HIV doesn't mean that you're getting AIDS. It means that you have a milder form of AIDS.
I take it that you're not using OS X. There is no option for head/footer setup under page setup that allows you to disable printing a header. Even if I go into page setup, and set the header to 0 inches, it will still print out the url. Just at the very top instead of .25 inches down. I want to disable it from printing out the url of the page period. Somone on a mac must know what I'm talking about.
This is so annoying. Anyone know what the hell I can do to keep the URL from printing out on the header section? This only seems to happen on my mac, not on my windows computer. I played around with random settings on about:config and I was not successful.