Imagine a quake-type game where there are, say, 4 teams of 40 people each broken up into squads of 5. This would be very similar to watching an actual war, it would require tactics, leadership and lots of skill.
That is an absurd statement. Did you mean that it may be similar to watching a war movie? I am guessing you were never in the service.... War is often 23 hours and 45 minutes of doing nothing exciting, and 15 minutes, if that, of fighting...
"Reality TV" has shown you can clip/edit pieces of people's regular lives and others will be fascinated by it.
If you filmed me for a whole week, you may be able to get 24 interesting minutes of footage. Then again, it might take a month to get 24 minutes onteresting footage...
Watching people play video games on TV?
It is bad enough watching people in real life while waiting for your turn...
The three most boring activities:
Listening to someone describing their dreams
Listening to someone describe their workout routine
Watching someone else play video games.
Seriously- I think that much like building models or programming, playing games is fun if you are doing it, but who wants to watch someone else do it?
Than again people watch poker and golf on TV....
I can put this in my coffee table book about coffee tables that actually turns into a coffee table.
Or my coffee table website, that is actually displayed on a coffee table....
I agree with your point wholeheartedly, and consider myself more results driven. The only reason that EI is so interesting to me is that it seeks to explain why geniuses may not be uber successes. How the guy who maybe has a smaller skill set, but is better socially, gets promoted faster than a guy with more skills and less social ability. (And I am refering to occupations where social skills are not a foundation, i.e. not sales etc)
And I went to Weatherhead, so that explains why I had EI drilled into me. (Could have gone to Harvard, but not because of my GMAT or undergrad GPA, because my dad went there for undergrad and MBA and is still very active there. But I didn't want to go somewhere that maybe I couldn't get in on my own... Of course now I sort of wish I had gone there...)
In the workplace, there is no limit to what can hold you back.
Someone who is brilliant, but socially awkward is not going to climb the corporate ladder.... (If interested, read up on Emotional Intelligence- It is one of the big things they pounded into us at Business School)
The truth is, tiny things can snowball on the executive/prof. tracj- For example, if you look bad in your suit (rubber soled shoes in the office instead of leather soles etc) then maybe you rub someone the wrong way and you get passed over for an early promotion and your whole career pathe ends up being different...
But seriously, if that guy from your highschool or college that was always the guy to beat, ie the smartest guy, is now stuck in some crappy job, he likely has low emotional intelligence....
Not to be cynical- but keeping Atlantis for spare parts doesn't put money in anyone's pockets. Buying new parts for soon to be retired shuttles from big time political donors seems to be the government way....
Call me cynical.... But I think that the Bricks and mortar casinos give enough money to politicos that there is not a snowballs chance in hell that online gambling will be legal.
Also, Online, offshore gambling is tough to tax. If the government can't tax it, they will outlaw it...
I know its funny, but it also is serious. For example, someone in my department has a myspace that says they are looking for a career change... Who would be dumb enough to let that hang out in public?
On a less dangerous, but still serious note-
Myspace needs a discalimer that says "this site may be hazardous to your career"
There is a rash of mid twenties people on there, and they post risque pics and comments. And guess what, someone in your office, has checked out myspace looking for people from work. And although you may act professional and dress conservatively at work, those pics from myspace with you in your short skirt and hitting a bong will get passed around the office. And right or wrong, it will change people's perceptions of you....
All these sites could be dangerous. I have looked through MySpace to see if I could get any funny dirt on anyone (Yes, I found funny pics of a coworker in a skimpy outfit hitting a bong, but that's beside the point) With just a first name, approx. age and city, it is so easy to find out someone's address. But what gets even crazier, is that a lot of the profiles have where people work. So when someone says they work at XXXXXX Restaurant on weekends or whatever, it would be very easy to bump into them.
My friend was on eharmony, and I showed her how easy it was to get people's info. I showed her how you could punch a first name, approx age and city into a site like intellius or zabasearch, and get a last name and an address. It freaked her out enough to where she dropped her subscription...
I have always thought it would be fun to call a news station during sweeps month and offer to show a reporter how easy it is to get full names and addys from eharmony or yahoo personals etc... for free. You can get a whole lot more info if you are willing to use a paid background check service.
Dont put anything on the internet you dont want others seeing....
Yes, I agree, the OSX GUI is awesome, and why would you be excited that someone booted Linus onto a MAC and got a b/w screen!?!?!
I can answer that- Because this is an important step into something we have all been interested in, i.e. whether or not we can boot something other than an apple os onto an intel mac...
A thousand mile journey begins with a single step, and all that jazz...
and can alternatively be used hard wired to any other audio source with an 1/8" stereo jack output."
I think sometimes we get so into high tech that we forget low tech. With the use of adapters, it doesn't matter if it has a 1/8" stereo jack- as long as you have an adapter for whatever item you have that will convert to 1/8"....
Something like 60% of the new cars sold in 2006 will have an option for iPod integration. I have pioneer head unit that I plug my iPod right into with the dock connector and I can control the iPod with my head unit.
Who will want another kind of MP3 player when an iPod plugs right into your car????
Um- call it flamebait if you will, but is this like how A9 is slaying Google right now?
Keep in mind that Wal Mart, the world's largest, most powerful retailer can't compete with iTunes with their music service. How many people even know Wal Mart has a music download service...
Amazon is a great brand in many ways, but that doesn't mean they can roll right into a new business.
Uh call me master of the obvious, but I thought that most people, when they bought a CD these days (I only buy CDs on the rare occasion that the music isnt available on iTunes), that the CD IS the back up. The only reason I even keep the CD after buying it is in case my computer gets fried and I need to reload my music...
Look- the RIAA encouraged Napster through their Asshol-ishness. Now that people are actually using paid online services, the RIAA wants to piss on its customers again... WTF???
From TFA: "In the next 100 years we will have some organisms that are half human and half machine."
Half defined how? By mass? By function? There are hybrid man machines now- mechanical hearts, knees, and implanted erection pumps.
For the hubub about attacking science, is there really that much innovation being stifled? The loudest people get the media coverage. That is why, despite the fact that everyone knows they are nuts, PETA is always on the news. And why when anti-science groups go after science, they are on the news.
Although i consider myself a law abiding citizen, keep in mind that at one point, slavery was legal. Legal does not always = right.
For a black man to sit at a lunch counter in Alabama was illegal not to long ago. illegal does not always = wrong.
I could invoke Godwin's law and go into what was legal and illegal at certain times in the 30s and 40s.
The problem is, in my mind, whether with road money or education money, the Fed makes us pay the money, and then makes us jusmp through hoops to get it back. And then the Fed acts like they are giving us a big gift when they give the money we pay (at the threat of jail), back to our states and institutions...
Schools could always be like Hillsdale....http://www.hillsdale.edu/
In 1979, this continuing battle with the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) began to intensify. The College filed a petition for judicial review in the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati, asking the court to overturn a previous decision by the Reviewing Authority, Office of Civil Rights of HEW. This decision would have required Hillsdale to submit Assurance of Compliance forms mandated by Title IX as a condition of the continued receipt of federal financial assistance by two hundred Hillsdale students.
Hillsdale's petition was based in part upon tradition - the pioneering College had a tradition of graduating women, blacks, and other minorities since before the Civil War. In December 1982, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals vindicated Hillsdale's refusal to sign the compliance forms, but it also ruled that government aid to individual students could be terminated without a finding that a college actually discriminated. Hillsdale subsequently announced that it was carrying this battle for educational freedom to the highest American court.
In February 1984 in a related case, Grove City College v. T.H. Bell, Secretary U.S. Department of Education, the U. S. Supreme Court made a decision regarding arguments first made by Hillsdale College. It required every college or university to fulfill federal requirements because its students received federal aid.
Because Hillsdale under the Grove City College decision would have had to sign compliance forms to protect students formerly on government aid, the College instead successfully generated an additional $1,000,000 annually from private sources. Today, the college turns down federal taxpayer money to the tune of $5 million per year, which it replaces entirely with private contributions.
Due in no small part to its courageous stand, the College raised enough extra revenue to pay the equivalent of the federal loans that it would now refuse. The Detroit Free Press on January 25, 1981 stated, "Hillsdale after all, is famous as the little college that fights for rightness and independence. From the unlikely location of south central Michigan, it gained its national recognition by drawing its sword against the federal government. No trespassing, it told HEW; we'll hire, promote, subsidize, educate and influence with no interference from you."
I completely understand not wanting to mess around with a new $400 camera- However, most of us have old cameras lying around, that although expensive at the time, are now obselete. Why not use one of your old cameras for this? Or buy one of the super cheap digital cameras, with low resolution, to practice with? Sort of like, I wouldn't practice motor work on a new Corvette, but a $500 V8 Cutlass Supreme would be a great learning/test bed...
You will know this deal is over when the fat lady sings....
(Rimshot, because it requires a couple connections, and some knowledge of Opera as a cultural event and certain sereotypes about female Opera singers, to be funny)
Huh? you make assumptions my friend. I agree with you, cells should be turned off at least, but better not brought into sanctuaries. I was referring to the fact that I have heard many a cell vibrating against pews. I was not refering to my cell in church. I leave my cell in my car when I go to church.
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I used to hate the hip holster cell look too, but now I sport it. Because men (In America) don't carry purses, we have to have a place to put our phones. When wearing a jecket, the pocket is a good solution. But when wearing a shirt and slacks, the hip is the best place for a phone- (can't go in pants pockets because it is too bulky- unless you wear baggy pants to work, which would be a career killer in an office job.) Can't hook the phone on the back of the pants, because it would interfere with sitting. Cant wear in in the front, above your zipper, because it would interfere with sitting also, as it would dig into your pelvis/stomach when sitting. Hence the hip, above the pocket, within easy reach is the best option.
Me too- I have also waited so long for this next installment of this awesome story!!! Seriously, you should gather them all together into book form, and then sell them! I mean, then you would have so much more time to hang out on slashdot, and maybe even get a few first posts!
How do you come up with these stories! They are RAD!!! I mean, I wish I had time to write stories like this, heck, I wish I had the talent too! Wow! Do you ever read these stories to the ladies?!?!? I bet that would get you some serious vaginal play!!!
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Imagine a quake-type game where there are, say, 4 teams of 40 people each broken up into squads of 5. This would be very similar to watching an actual war, it would require tactics, leadership and lots of skill.
That is an absurd statement. Did you mean that it may be similar to watching a war movie? I am guessing you were never in the service.... War is often 23 hours and 45 minutes of doing nothing exciting, and 15 minutes, if that, of fighting...
"Reality TV" has shown you can clip/edit pieces of people's regular lives and others will be fascinated by it.
If you filmed me for a whole week, you may be able to get 24 interesting minutes of footage. Then again, it might take a month to get 24 minutes onteresting footage...
Watching people play video games on TV?
It is bad enough watching people in real life while waiting for your turn...
The three most boring activities:
Listening to someone describing their dreams
Listening to someone describe their workout routine
Watching someone else play video games.
Seriously- I think that much like building models or programming, playing games is fun if you are doing it, but who wants to watch someone else do it?
Than again people watch poker and golf on TV....
I can put this in my coffee table book about coffee tables that actually turns into a coffee table.
Or my coffee table website, that is actually displayed on a coffee table....
I agree with your point wholeheartedly, and consider myself more results driven.
The only reason that EI is so interesting to me is that it seeks to explain why geniuses may not be uber successes. How the guy who maybe has a smaller skill set, but is better socially, gets promoted faster than a guy with more skills and less social ability. (And I am refering to occupations where social skills are not a foundation, i.e. not sales etc)
And I went to Weatherhead, so that explains why I had EI drilled into me. (Could have gone to Harvard, but not because of my GMAT or undergrad GPA, because my dad went there for undergrad and MBA and is still very active there. But I didn't want to go somewhere that maybe I couldn't get in on my own... Of course now I sort of wish I had gone there...)
In the workplace, there is no limit to what can hold you back.
Someone who is brilliant, but socially awkward is not going to climb the corporate ladder.... (If interested, read up on Emotional Intelligence- It is one of the big things they pounded into us at Business School)
The truth is, tiny things can snowball on the executive/prof. tracj- For example, if you look bad in your suit (rubber soled shoes in the office instead of leather soles etc) then maybe you rub someone the wrong way and you get passed over for an early promotion and your whole career pathe ends up being different...
But seriously, if that guy from your highschool or college that was always the guy to beat, ie the smartest guy, is now stuck in some crappy job, he likely has low emotional intelligence....
Seriously- How can Godwin's Law be invoked in a post about online job boards?
Not to be cynical- but keeping Atlantis for spare parts doesn't put money in anyone's pockets. Buying new parts for soon to be retired shuttles from big time political donors seems to be the government way....
Call me cynical.... But I think that the Bricks and mortar casinos give enough money to politicos that there is not a snowballs chance in hell that online gambling will be legal.
Also, Online, offshore gambling is tough to tax. If the government can't tax it, they will outlaw it...
I know its funny, but it also is serious. For example, someone in my department has a myspace that says they are looking for a career change... Who would be dumb enough to let that hang out in public?
On a less dangerous, but still serious note-
Myspace needs a discalimer that says "this site may be hazardous to your career"
There is a rash of mid twenties people on there, and they post risque pics and comments. And guess what, someone in your office, has checked out myspace looking for people from work. And although you may act professional and dress conservatively at work, those pics from myspace with you in your short skirt and hitting a bong will get passed around the office. And right or wrong, it will change people's perceptions of you....
All these sites could be dangerous. I have looked through MySpace to see if I could get any funny dirt on anyone (Yes, I found funny pics of a coworker in a skimpy outfit hitting a bong, but that's beside the point) With just a first name, approx. age and city, it is so easy to find out someone's address. But what gets even crazier, is that a lot of the profiles have where people work. So when someone says they work at XXXXXX Restaurant on weekends or whatever, it would be very easy to bump into them.
My friend was on eharmony, and I showed her how easy it was to get people's info. I showed her how you could punch a first name, approx age and city into a site like intellius or zabasearch, and get a last name and an address. It freaked her out enough to where she dropped her subscription...
I have always thought it would be fun to call a news station during sweeps month and offer to show a reporter how easy it is to get full names and addys from eharmony or yahoo personals etc... for free. You can get a whole lot more info if you are willing to use a paid background check service.
Dont put anything on the internet you dont want others seeing....
Yes, I agree, the OSX GUI is awesome, and why would you be excited that someone booted Linus onto a MAC and got a b/w screen!?!?!
I can answer that- Because this is an important step into something we have all been interested in, i.e. whether or not we can boot something other than an apple os onto an intel mac...
A thousand mile journey begins with a single step, and all that jazz...
and can alternatively be used hard wired to any other audio source with an 1/8" stereo jack output."
I think sometimes we get so into high tech that we forget low tech. With the use of adapters, it doesn't matter if it has a 1/8" stereo jack- as long as you have an adapter for whatever item you have that will convert to 1/8"....
Something like 60% of the new cars sold in 2006 will have an option for iPod integration. I have pioneer head unit that I plug my iPod right into with the dock connector and I can control the iPod with my head unit.
Who will want another kind of MP3 player when an iPod plugs right into your car????
Um- call it flamebait if you will, but is this like how A9 is slaying Google right now?
Keep in mind that Wal Mart, the world's largest, most powerful retailer can't compete with iTunes with their music service. How many people even know Wal Mart has a music download service...
Amazon is a great brand in many ways, but that doesn't mean they can roll right into a new business.
Uh call me master of the obvious, but I thought that most people, when they bought a CD these days (I only buy CDs on the rare occasion that the music isnt available on iTunes), that the CD IS the back up. The only reason I even keep the CD after buying it is in case my computer gets fried and I need to reload my music...
Look- the RIAA encouraged Napster through their Asshol-ishness. Now that people are actually using paid online services, the RIAA wants to piss on its customers again... WTF???
From TFA: "In the next 100 years we will have some organisms that are half human and half machine."
Half defined how? By mass? By function? There are hybrid man machines now- mechanical hearts, knees, and implanted erection pumps.
For the hubub about attacking science, is there really that much innovation being stifled? The loudest people get the media coverage. That is why, despite the fact that everyone knows they are nuts, PETA is always on the news. And why when anti-science groups go after science, they are on the news.
Although i consider myself a law abiding citizen, keep in mind that at one point, slavery was legal. Legal does not always = right.
For a black man to sit at a lunch counter in Alabama was illegal not to long ago. illegal does not always = wrong.
I could invoke Godwin's law and go into what was legal and illegal at certain times in the 30s and 40s.
The problem is, in my mind, whether with road money or education money, the Fed makes us pay the money, and then makes us jusmp through hoops to get it back. And then the Fed acts like they are giving us a big gift when they give the money we pay (at the threat of jail), back to our states and institutions...
Schools could always be like Hillsdale....http://www.hillsdale.edu/
In 1979, this continuing battle with the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) began to intensify. The College filed a petition for judicial review in the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati, asking the court to overturn a previous decision by the Reviewing Authority, Office of Civil Rights of HEW. This decision would have required Hillsdale to submit Assurance of Compliance forms mandated by Title IX as a condition of the continued receipt of federal financial assistance by two hundred Hillsdale students.
Hillsdale's petition was based in part upon tradition - the pioneering College had a tradition of graduating women, blacks, and other minorities since before the Civil War. In December 1982, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals vindicated Hillsdale's refusal to sign the compliance forms, but it also ruled that government aid to individual students could be terminated without a finding that a college actually discriminated. Hillsdale subsequently announced that it was carrying this battle for educational freedom to the highest American court. In February 1984 in a related case, Grove City College v. T.H. Bell, Secretary U.S. Department of Education, the U. S. Supreme Court made a decision regarding arguments first made by Hillsdale College. It required every college or university to fulfill federal requirements because its students received federal aid. Because Hillsdale under the Grove City College decision would have had to sign compliance forms to protect students formerly on government aid, the College instead successfully generated an additional $1,000,000 annually from private sources. Today, the college turns down federal taxpayer money to the tune of $5 million per year, which it replaces entirely with private contributions. Due in no small part to its courageous stand, the College raised enough extra revenue to pay the equivalent of the federal loans that it would now refuse. The Detroit Free Press on January 25, 1981 stated, "Hillsdale after all, is famous as the little college that fights for rightness and independence. From the unlikely location of south central Michigan, it gained its national recognition by drawing its sword against the federal government. No trespassing, it told HEW; we'll hire, promote, subsidize, educate and influence with no interference from you."
I completely understand not wanting to mess around with a new $400 camera- However, most of us have old cameras lying around, that although expensive at the time, are now obselete. Why not use one of your old cameras for this? Or buy one of the super cheap digital cameras, with low resolution, to practice with? Sort of like, I wouldn't practice motor work on a new Corvette, but a $500 V8 Cutlass Supreme would be a great learning/test bed...
You will know this deal is over when the fat lady sings....
(Rimshot, because it requires a couple connections, and some knowledge of Opera as a cultural event and certain sereotypes about female Opera singers, to be funny)
Huh? you make assumptions my friend. I agree with you, cells should be turned off at least, but better not brought into sanctuaries. I was referring to the fact that I have heard many a cell vibrating against pews. I was not refering to my cell in church. I leave my cell in my car when I go to church.
I used to hate the hip holster cell look too, but now I sport it. Because men (In America) don't carry purses, we have to have a place to put our phones. When wearing a jecket, the pocket is a good solution. But when wearing a shirt and slacks, the hip is the best place for a phone- (can't go in pants pockets because it is too bulky- unless you wear baggy pants to work, which would be a career killer in an office job.) Can't hook the phone on the back of the pants, because it would interfere with sitting. Cant wear in in the front, above your zipper, because it would interfere with sitting also, as it would dig into your pelvis/stomach when sitting. Hence the hip, above the pocket, within easy reach is the best option.
Me too- I have also waited so long for this next installment of this awesome story!!! Seriously, you should gather them all together into book form, and then sell them! I mean, then you would have so much more time to hang out on slashdot, and maybe even get a few first posts!
How do you come up with these stories! They are RAD!!! I mean, I wish I had time to write stories like this, heck, I wish I had the talent too! Wow! Do you ever read these stories to the ladies?!?!? I bet that would get you some serious vaginal play!!!