My point was more about the narrow-minded thinking of staying where we are--all exploration and leaving of your comfort zone is dangerous with great potential for rewards. I was not attempting to say that the New World is just like Mars.
Thanks for your "idiot" comment though, classy opening salvo for a friendly discussion.
"No, Columbus, let's just stay here in Europe instead with the plague and the overcrowding, the racial tensions and all the other problems plaguing us. Because that will be good for the world."
This is all new, I post it only because I just read about it the other day in the local paper.
The emphasis with this stuff is on inexpensive, but it's from a guy with a good track record at other local tech companies.
http://www.winnipegfreepress.c...
Here's a snippet:
Smart homes from smart guy
High prices inspired entrepreneur's firm
By: Martin Cash
One of Winnipeg's newest startups can thank sticker shock for its existence.
Salman Qureshi was building a home three years ago in St. Norbert and asked about adding some smart-home features to the project. The answer startled him. And then inspired him.
"I wasn't thinking about anything fancy, just some networking so I wouldn't have to worry about wireless issues," said Qureshi, 44, the former head of product development and manufacturing at Monteris Medical.
"I got a quote for a few thousand dollars. It was unbelievable (how expensive it was)."
It was at that point the seed of the idea was planted in the back of his mind for an all-in-one smart-home device.
The other thing is Microsoft's last announcement of something like this (the tablet PC, wasn't it?), turned out to be something you couldn't buy. It was a reference platform and a set of specifications that others could build to.
So I'm not holding my breath that we'll be able to buy one of these.
"And figures just released this week show that rear-end collisions at traffic lights skyrocketed in California in 2010. Authorities are baffled as to the causes."
At one extremely busy intersection near me (Fermor & Lagimodiere in Winnipeg, right near the Royal Canadian Mint), the mint has got a huge video screen playing ALL THE TIME visible to southbound and westbound traffic. It's VERY distracting, and I've seen several people drift over a lane (only to violently correct themselves) while heading through the intersection and staring at the billboard.
This in a city where the roads are frequently snow- and ice-covered as well. Nice one, Canadian government.
Why can't some of my cow-orkers off themselves? Kill two birds with one stone--rid the workplace of annoying, mopey, emo-types *and* score me a sweet raise.
You see, Killbots have a preset kill limit. Knowing their weakness, I sent wave after wave of my own men at them, until they reached their limit and shut down.
> News flash buddy, all of your genes are monkey genes.
And if you ever watched Pete Sampras play tennis in his glory days, you know this to be true : )
My world was a spinning jumble of images, burned into the core of my mind. Valkyr was bad news, sending you sky-high for a psychedelic ride on flying saucers.
Aesir was the darling of the stock market, but I knew the saucer stink would stick to those at the top. I'd pay them a visit, and bring their flying saucer crashing back to earth.
This smacks of the same tactics Microsoft used to force IE on everyone. When they were ordered to un-bundle IE from the OS, they responded by doing so, but then making IE a requirement for everything... want to use Platform Builder? You need IE. Want to use Visual Studio? You need IE. Want to play Al Unser Jr Racing, and read the Help? You need IE.
This sounds like the establishment wanting the FBI to have fingerprints on everybody (you're all potential criminals, after all), but knowing it will never fly. So instead... you want to lend somebody money? That's a fingerprintin'. Next, it will be "Want to borrow money from a fingerprinted lender? Well you need to be fingerprinted too, or there's a security gap."
Next it will be buying a gun, car, getting a US passport (even if you're native-born). Then it will be your health insurers before giving you coverage.... before you know it, bingo, everybody's on file.
And then it will be, well, everybody's on file, so when your new baby is born, we'd better get them fingerprinted, chipped, tagged, whatever, or else there'll be in danger of being kidnapped, sold to the Far East, ground up for medicine, etc. You don't your child to be the only one not being tracked do you? That will make him a target!
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My point was more about the narrow-minded thinking of staying where we are--all exploration and leaving of your comfort zone is dangerous with great potential for rewards. I was not attempting to say that the New World is just like Mars. Thanks for your "idiot" comment though, classy opening salvo for a friendly discussion.
"No, Columbus, let's just stay here in Europe instead with the plague and the overcrowding, the racial tensions and all the other problems plaguing us. Because that will be good for the world."
This is all new, I post it only because I just read about it the other day in the local paper. The emphasis with this stuff is on inexpensive, but it's from a guy with a good track record at other local tech companies.
http://www.winnipegfreepress.c...
Here's a snippet:
Smart homes from smart guy
High prices inspired entrepreneur's firm
By: Martin Cash
One of Winnipeg's newest startups can thank sticker shock for its existence.
Salman Qureshi was building a home three years ago in St. Norbert and asked about adding some smart-home features to the project. The answer startled him. And then inspired him.
"I wasn't thinking about anything fancy, just some networking so I wouldn't have to worry about wireless issues," said Qureshi, 44, the former head of product development and manufacturing at Monteris Medical.
"I got a quote for a few thousand dollars. It was unbelievable (how expensive it was)."
It was at that point the seed of the idea was planted in the back of his mind for an all-in-one smart-home device.
All we need to do is add atomic power, and bingo, nuclear bessels!
... is it because I have dirty thoughts?
... but he's taking things too far giving himself a self-inflicted perforated ulcer.
... and a laptop, so I will henceforth be using it on my lap at all times.
So if they hold true to what Bill Gates said (http://www.esato.com/archive/t.php/t-54833,1.html) back when they were just a software company, this device should cost us nothing.
The other thing is Microsoft's last announcement of something like this (the tablet PC, wasn't it?), turned out to be something you couldn't buy. It was a reference platform and a set of specifications that others could build to.
So I'm not holding my breath that we'll be able to buy one of these.
This news just in... reading too many studies in the "American Journal of Epidemiology" will give you stress and kill you.
I intend to fully endorse and support this research, just so I can say "monkeynomics" a lot.
"And figures just released this week show that rear-end collisions at traffic lights skyrocketed in California in 2010. Authorities are baffled as to the causes."
At one extremely busy intersection near me (Fermor & Lagimodiere in Winnipeg, right near the Royal Canadian Mint), the mint has got a huge video screen playing ALL THE TIME visible to southbound and westbound traffic. It's VERY distracting, and I've seen several people drift over a lane (only to violently correct themselves) while heading through the intersection and staring at the billboard.
This in a city where the roads are frequently snow- and ice-covered as well. Nice one, Canadian government.
I'll post links to a bunch of semi-buried things on my blog and then sue Twitter for deep-linking.
Why can't some of my cow-orkers off themselves? Kill two birds with one stone--rid the workplace of annoying, mopey, emo-types *and* score me a sweet raise.
This would finally have enabled Douglas Adams to use the awesome power of his nose for the forces of good.
He had a famously large hooter.
See this link for Douglas's own views on his nose.
Try it with the desktop sitting on the floor too.
Plugging anything into the front USB ports at work involves a major yogic excursion.
Verbing words weirds language.
You see, Killbots have a preset kill limit. Knowing their weakness, I sent wave after wave of my own men at them, until they reached their limit and shut down.
... Salon no longer has a paywall?
: )
> News flash buddy, all of your genes are monkey genes. And if you ever watched Pete Sampras play tennis in his glory days, you know this to be true : )
So how long till we're all having hot monkey sex with each other? Count me out of turning on any monkey genes in *my* DNA, thank you.
I've seen this episode of ST:TNG, so I *know* how this is all going to end.
> I did not however, remember a weirdly appropriate quote from the game. Well done sir.
Sorry to disappoint, but that was not a remembered quote, but one I invented for the circumstances.
My world was a spinning jumble of images, burned into the core of my mind. Valkyr was bad news, sending you sky-high for a psychedelic ride on flying saucers.
Aesir was the darling of the stock market, but I knew the saucer stink would stick to those at the top. I'd pay them a visit, and bring their flying saucer crashing back to earth.
In news unrelated to their shortage of plutonium, NASA is also looking for a buyer for a shiny bomb casing full of used pinball machine parts...
Is there a chance the track could bend?
This smacks of the same tactics Microsoft used to force IE on everyone. When they were ordered to un-bundle IE from the OS, they responded by doing so, but then making IE a requirement for everything... want to use Platform Builder? You need IE. Want to use Visual Studio? You need IE. Want to play Al Unser Jr Racing, and read the Help? You need IE.
This sounds like the establishment wanting the FBI to have fingerprints on everybody (you're all potential criminals, after all), but knowing it will never fly. So instead... you want to lend somebody money? That's a fingerprintin'. Next, it will be "Want to borrow money from a fingerprinted lender? Well you need to be fingerprinted too, or there's a security gap."
Next it will be buying a gun, car, getting a US passport (even if you're native-born). Then it will be your health insurers before giving you coverage.... before you know it, bingo, everybody's on file.
And then it will be, well, everybody's on file, so when your new baby is born, we'd better get them fingerprinted, chipped, tagged, whatever, or else there'll be in danger of being kidnapped, sold to the Far East, ground up for medicine, etc. You don't your child to be the only one not being tracked do you? That will make him a target!