Agreed - it's always been my personal #1. I could see yet another Heart of Darkness adaptation done in an updated setting, say through the experience of an American in the modern-day hell that is Iraq.
Check out their website for the latest commercial, which will certainly bring you up to date. It basically involves Paris Hilton, a sports car, and a lot of suds...
Attractive women getting paid to stand around and draw attention to thier clients' booths? Appalling!
Next thing you know, they'll start paying strong, athletic people just to play sports, or they'll pay introverted, academic types to research new technologies! Oh, the humanity!
To be fair, the Yahoo financial boards are rife with spam, garbage, and deliberate misinformation. And the site in your post merely notes a few hits from Caldera sites - that could very easily be a worker checking the message boards for clues about what's going on with SCO, not neccessarily any monitoring by SCO management.
The real question in the Michigan case is whether such technology would ever make it into a road - I remember about 15 years ago there was a similar proposal to use materials that would have made for more durable roads. The union that represented the road workers successfully fought that off on the argument that it would cost them jobs...
In today's world of budgets that are stretched to the limit, hopefully a cost-concious attitude would prevail.
Good science fiction is an exploration of ideas. Star trek is more a vision of utopia. A glass-half full template for the future.
I wouldn't say it was a vision of utopia, but a vision of a future that was further along that road, but still facing many of the same challenges that we face today. Nothing wrong in that.
Overall, I thought Card's article rather unfair. To say that Firefly is a far superior 1930's-style serial than Star Trek is to basically just give credit to the advances made in television drama over the decades. Let's face it, just about every show on TV has more developed characters, dynamic storylines, etc. than predecessors from the 60's and 70's.
It's like comparing CSI to Quincy and ruling that Quincy sucked eggs. But hey, give Jack Klugman a background with casinos, a cavalcade of sexual deviants and a sexually-overcharged female coworker, and Quincy would've ruled the roost.
How is this anything other than an improved version of sunglasses? It's not like these lenses link into a laser-calibrated swing mechanism that helps the guy hit better. Personally, I think this is a great step forward.
Thinking back to when I played, I wonder if it helps outfielders pick up fly balls better - even with sunglasses, sometimes the glare of the sun can make a ball uncatchable.
If you read the report, you'll see that a key recommendation is to establish additional non-lethal barriers (like stop-sticks) to help avoid future incidents like this.
It appears that this all boils down to a blame game - the US wants to defend its soldiers and assign blame to the Italians for not sharing information, whereas the Italians want the American soldiers held responsible for what is, essentially, a tragic circumstance in a war zone.
The Italians in the car weren't expecting a roadblock at that location, and the Americans didn't know about the rescue operation that was in progress...
You should see the process maps that some people in my company make with Excel. Yup, colored boxes and arrows with associated text all cobbled together in a spreadsheet!
I would agree that "misuse" is a better word, but misuse of spreadsheets themselves can wreak havoc within an organization. Here's just one recent example from my experience.
We're loading tens of thousands of items into an ERP from spreadsheets put together by users. Many items have leading zeroes which are to be preserved, and spaces which are not. For example, part number 0032330 189 5 should be loaded into the ERP as 00323301895. When using Excel's Find/Replace function (replacing " " with ""), the leading zeroes were lopped off of some records. If a string had letter contained in it, the leading zeroes were left alone - if it was all numbers, the leading zeroes were lopped even though the cells were formatted for text. This led to wrong information getting loaded in and subsequent rework to correct the errors.
Spreadsheets can be a powerful tool in the hands of a strong analytical user, but their sloppy data handling leaves a gap compared to more structured business systems.
Unfortunately, this isn't that bizarre anymore. I can't recall which one, but there is an online dating site that tries to differentiate themselves by performing some basic criminal background checks on registered members. That company then has gone around to various state governments, asking them to regulate online dating sites and force those that don't do background checks to put a large disclaimer over each member's profile (basically scaring away users).
This guy is trying to craft the law into steering the market his way, on the absurd argument that most people just assume that online dating sites do background checks, when in fact any of their members could be axe murderers! The horror!
The supply chain that supports Dell's business is insanely demanding, and there's a lot more to it than merely producing enough CPU's. It's having the right number of each variety in place at a particular point in time - not too early, certainly not late. Integrating a new CPU supplier into that chain would be a HUGE risk for Dell, so the benefit would have to be overwhelming for them to pursue it...
But what about translations, particularly when they involve more than simple transcription, a la Seamus Heaney's Beowulf? I'll have to check my bookshelf upstairs, but I would think he'd have a legitimate copyright to that.
I'd question whether coins are actually more expensive to make - consider that they last much longer than paper currency, so in the long run might be cheaper from a purely production sense. Anybody got hard data???
At least as of a few years ago, Ann Arbor's signature hamburger stand, Blimpy Burger, loaded up with $2 bills and 50-cent pieces to use in giving change. Just another feature that makes it a unique and memorable spot.
"All your favorite movies in stock"... you ever tried to call them out on this one?
Actually, I have called them on this - if they are out of a title guaranteed to be in, then you get a coupon for a free rental (no strings attached). What more could one expect?
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Agreed - it's always been my personal #1. I could see yet another Heart of Darkness adaptation done in an updated setting, say through the experience of an American in the modern-day hell that is Iraq.
Check out their website for the latest commercial, which will certainly bring you up to date. It basically involves Paris Hilton, a sports car, and a lot of suds...
Attractive women have lots to do with marketing, whether for video games, domain registrars (GoDaddy), or hamburgers (Hardee's).
Attractive women getting paid to stand around and draw attention to thier clients' booths? Appalling!
Next thing you know, they'll start paying strong, athletic people just to play sports, or they'll pay introverted, academic types to research new technologies! Oh, the humanity!
To be fair, the Yahoo financial boards are rife with spam, garbage, and deliberate misinformation. And the site in your post merely notes a few hits from Caldera sites - that could very easily be a worker checking the message boards for clues about what's going on with SCO, not neccessarily any monitoring by SCO management.
Nothing at all - in fact, it's common practice for multinational corporations to open local companies in key markets.
She does look pretty hot in that diaper.
You've gotta get out of that retirement community more often...
The real question in the Michigan case is whether such technology would ever make it into a road - I remember about 15 years ago there was a similar proposal to use materials that would have made for more durable roads. The union that represented the road workers successfully fought that off on the argument that it would cost them jobs...
In today's world of budgets that are stretched to the limit, hopefully a cost-concious attitude would prevail.
Good science fiction is an exploration of ideas. Star trek is more a vision of utopia. A glass-half full template for the future.
I wouldn't say it was a vision of utopia, but a vision of a future that was further along that road, but still facing many of the same challenges that we face today. Nothing wrong in that.
Overall, I thought Card's article rather unfair. To say that Firefly is a far superior 1930's-style serial than Star Trek is to basically just give credit to the advances made in television drama over the decades. Let's face it, just about every show on TV has more developed characters, dynamic storylines, etc. than predecessors from the 60's and 70's.
It's like comparing CSI to Quincy and ruling that Quincy sucked eggs. But hey, give Jack Klugman a background with casinos, a cavalcade of sexual deviants and a sexually-overcharged female coworker, and Quincy would've ruled the roost.
How is this anything other than an improved version of sunglasses? It's not like these lenses link into a laser-calibrated swing mechanism that helps the guy hit better. Personally, I think this is a great step forward.
Thinking back to when I played, I wonder if it helps outfielders pick up fly balls better - even with sunglasses, sometimes the glare of the sun can make a ball uncatchable.
Just imagine the commercial possibilites, should they succeed...
If you read the report, you'll see that a key recommendation is to establish additional non-lethal barriers (like stop-sticks) to help avoid future incidents like this.
It appears that this all boils down to a blame game - the US wants to defend its soldiers and assign blame to the Italians for not sharing information, whereas the Italians want the American soldiers held responsible for what is, essentially, a tragic circumstance in a war zone.
The Italians in the car weren't expecting a roadblock at that location, and the Americans didn't know about the rescue operation that was in progress...
Do we really need to see phrases like "jerk the controller" in a story about 3D video projection? I don't think so...
You should see the process maps that some people in my company make with Excel. Yup, colored boxes and arrows with associated text all cobbled together in a spreadsheet!
I would agree that "misuse" is a better word, but misuse of spreadsheets themselves can wreak havoc within an organization. Here's just one recent example from my experience.
We're loading tens of thousands of items into an ERP from spreadsheets put together by users. Many items have leading zeroes which are to be preserved, and spaces which are not. For example, part number 0032330 189 5 should be loaded into the ERP as 00323301895. When using Excel's Find/Replace function (replacing " " with ""), the leading zeroes were lopped off of some records. If a string had letter contained in it, the leading zeroes were left alone - if it was all numbers, the leading zeroes were lopped even though the cells were formatted for text. This led to wrong information getting loaded in and subsequent rework to correct the errors.
Spreadsheets can be a powerful tool in the hands of a strong analytical user, but their sloppy data handling leaves a gap compared to more structured business systems.
Unfortunately, this isn't that bizarre anymore. I can't recall which one, but there is an online dating site that tries to differentiate themselves by performing some basic criminal background checks on registered members. That company then has gone around to various state governments, asking them to regulate online dating sites and force those that don't do background checks to put a large disclaimer over each member's profile (basically scaring away users).
This guy is trying to craft the law into steering the market his way, on the absurd argument that most people just assume that online dating sites do background checks, when in fact any of their members could be axe murderers! The horror!
The supply chain that supports Dell's business is insanely demanding, and there's a lot more to it than merely producing enough CPU's. It's having the right number of each variety in place at a particular point in time - not too early, certainly not late. Integrating a new CPU supplier into that chain would be a HUGE risk for Dell, so the benefit would have to be overwhelming for them to pursue it...
But what about translations, particularly when they involve more than simple transcription, a la Seamus Heaney's Beowulf? I'll have to check my bookshelf upstairs, but I would think he'd have a legitimate copyright to that.
I'd question whether coins are actually more expensive to make - consider that they last much longer than paper currency, so in the long run might be cheaper from a purely production sense. Anybody got hard data???
At least as of a few years ago, Ann Arbor's signature hamburger stand, Blimpy Burger, loaded up with $2 bills and 50-cent pieces to use in giving change. Just another feature that makes it a unique and memorable spot.
Actually, wasn't he headed for LAX airport, not the Space Needle?
Don't they get to drive by the big tire, though? Can't remember if that's on the way from the airport to Novi, but it's something...
Maybe it's for those who prefer watching their TV "hands free". I'm thinking channel 593 on DirecTV...
"All your favorite movies in stock"... you ever tried to call them out on this one?
Actually, I have called them on this - if they are out of a title guaranteed to be in, then you get a coupon for a free rental (no strings attached). What more could one expect?