I think movie theaters are already using cell-blocking technology. I saw a movie at the discount theater the other day and noticed that my cell reception went completely dead inside the movie but was at full strength in the theater lobby.
In the discount theater! You know the technology has to be cheap and pervasive if the $1.50 theaters are using it...
Pre-9/11... the economy was already in the toilet. GWB could have easily and decisively argued the case that the economy was in decline in 1999, the documentation was there. Clinton obfuscated the numbers to make it seem like the pre-election economy was chugging along, but it wasn't.
Bush, acting like a true president, was reluctant to smear a former president. Clinton, being the Arkansas redneck, has simply used the opportunity to attack Bush unilaterally.
What the hell are you talking about, pissing on roses? You piss on my roses, I call the cops and have your ass thrown in jail, end of story. You try to retaliate, I call the cops again and have your ass busted YET AGAIN. Over time, you'll either learn that 1) I have far more strength on my side than you do and you'll back down, or 2) you'll end up spending a whole lotta time in jail, much to my satisfaction. Either way I win.
Look at what's happening in Spain right now. The terrorists saw that they could influence the Spanish government to their favor with an act of terrorism; after the train bombing in Madrid, a much more liberal politician was swept into office on a wave of public anxiety. Are the terrorists backing down now? No, just the opposite. They are ramping up their efforts, and are now demanding that Spain COMPLETELY WITHDRAW from Iraq or face the consequences.
Do you honestly think it's a good thing to be in a country where the terrorists are setting the foreign policy? Not me... in fact, if I were a Spaniard, I'd be staying away from public places and high traffic areas for the time being.
that would be an incredibly useful military weapon. Remeber when Bill Clinton "wagged the dog" during Lewinskigate and tried to kill Osama by lobbing a few missles at him? The time it took for the missles to travel to their destination gave Bin Laden ample time to escape.
If we had had a low-orbital beam weapon like this, there would not have been a 9/11.
Talking about insanely short-sighted...
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The reason we developed the first nuke was that we believed that Germany was well on their way to developing their own nuke during WWII. Who were the nuclear physicists who made this possible? German jews fleeing the Nazi regime.
The concept was out there, we had to develop it and have it ready before anyone else. Who would you have preferred to develop the first nuke? Russia? Germany? China?
It was going to happen, with or without us. Sure, we could have stalled for another 50 years (maybe), but would that really have put the world in a better position for the long term? Not really.
Rather than lease a big retail space, I see Dell popping up all over the malls in those little kiosks. Minimal overhead, a physical local retail presence, and the kiosks are right in the middle of the walking traffic so everyone sees all the cool stuff going on.
He's planning on using the trip to 'help inspire today's youth to dream big' and conduct a few experiments, including testing out some of his company's equipment.
Business trip, be sure to keep the receipts. Oh, and he'll be entertaining a client for dinner when he gets to the space station, so his meal will be a write-off, too.
Hmmm... how many cents per mile is it for a space commute?
If Apple wants to succeed in the market, it has to provide the products its customers want.
Wrong.
If Apple wants to succeed in this market, they have to provide a reasonable compromise between the consumers and the content providers.
What do I want as a consumer? Free music downloads, no DRM, unlimited duplication and unrestricted usage rights.
What do content providers want? $15 for 10 songs on a CD, most of which are filler, with limited use and no duplication rights.
iTMS is groundbreaking because it was the first service to broker an acceptible compromise between consumers and content providers. Yes, there will always be the Coreys of the world whose needs are the exception rather than the rule. The only way to adress that is to offer an unrestricted agreement, which does not benefit the content providers at all.
Somebody needs to tell Corey that the three authorizations aren't so that he can give one or two away. If he wanted his mom to have an iTunes account, he should have set her up on a separate account.
MSNBC is totally inaccessible with Safari in Mac OS X, and has been for a few months. It wasn't my home page, but I did check it at least once a day, and I used to love to view the "Week in Pictures" feature, but that one has been inaccessible to Safari users for even longer.
IE for Mac will load MSNBC, but it takes a long, long time and it refreshes the page many times before it's done.
When it first came out, I had no problems whatsoever viewing MSNBC with Safari.
Nope - stunningly unimpressed. A computer GUI is an abstraction of the real world, not the real world itself. Applying the same clutter you find in the real world would make the interface worse, not better.
True, the next generation GUI will not try to mimick the real world more; rather, it will take elements of the existing GUI paradyme that have become part of the common consciousness, and it will streamline them.
Trying to make the GUI more like the real world is a step backwards to before consumers became acclimated to technology. That's not necessary, nor is it terribly useful.
If it's something that you have to explain to your parents how it works, then it's just not a mainstream solution. Besides, you're still talking about text, and if the answer can be found on a Google search, then a script can figure it out, too.
I like the challenge-response system, but instead of text I think they should use pictures. "Type in the name of the object in the picture, the first letter has been provided for you." Provide the first letter because some people will see a tiger and think "Lion" and the first letter will get them back on track. Show all of the images as grayscale so that image scanning software can't tell the difference between the yellow of a sunflower and the gray of a building.
I would agree with that. Remember, employers aren't just looking at your skill set, they're also wondering how you're going to fit in/contribute to the overall corporate culture. If your hunger for pornography is strong and your morals so low that you'd go to work for a pornographer, what is your behavior going to be like in the office? Are you going to regularly surf for porn at your desk? Are you going to sexually harass women in the office? Whether or not such suspicions are justified, this is the kind of stuff that people will think about you.
NPR had an interesting profile a long time ago of a CEO who was wanting to change industries. He oversaw several thousand employees in a highly successful organization. He managed numerous facilities in various countries, and was an expert in managing international financial issues. Why couldn't he find work? He was a drug kingpin.
Skills are only a part of the story. Unless your future boss is an unfeeling android, then the context of how you acquired those skills will also very important.
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I think movie theaters are already using cell-blocking technology. I saw a movie at the discount theater the other day and noticed that my cell reception went completely dead inside the movie but was at full strength in the theater lobby.
In the discount theater! You know the technology has to be cheap and pervasive if the $1.50 theaters are using it...
Has she compiled the kernel yet?
This is my favorite sniffing tool.
There's an upgrade that also has some powerful recording and playback features, too.
Pre-9/11... the economy was already in the toilet. GWB could have easily and decisively argued the case that the economy was in decline in 1999, the documentation was there. Clinton obfuscated the numbers to make it seem like the pre-election economy was chugging along, but it wasn't.
Bush, acting like a true president, was reluctant to smear a former president. Clinton, being the Arkansas redneck, has simply used the opportunity to attack Bush unilaterally.
Because "Yeah, well, he started it!!!" is a great, schoolyard-level rebuttal that I could see coming from GWB.
Actually, GWB has been far more protective of Clinton's reputation than he needed to be, much to the chagrin of many conservatives.
Clinton, OTOH, has no problem with trashing GWB at every opportunity.
What the hell are you talking about, pissing on roses? You piss on my roses, I call the cops and have your ass thrown in jail, end of story. You try to retaliate, I call the cops again and have your ass busted YET AGAIN. Over time, you'll either learn that 1) I have far more strength on my side than you do and you'll back down, or 2) you'll end up spending a whole lotta time in jail, much to my satisfaction. Either way I win.
Look at what's happening in Spain right now. The terrorists saw that they could influence the Spanish government to their favor with an act of terrorism; after the train bombing in Madrid, a much more liberal politician was swept into office on a wave of public anxiety. Are the terrorists backing down now? No, just the opposite. They are ramping up their efforts, and are now demanding that Spain COMPLETELY WITHDRAW from Iraq or face the consequences.
Do you honestly think it's a good thing to be in a country where the terrorists are setting the foreign policy? Not me... in fact, if I were a Spaniard, I'd be staying away from public places and high traffic areas for the time being.
that would be an incredibly useful military weapon. Remeber when Bill Clinton "wagged the dog" during Lewinskigate and tried to kill Osama by lobbing a few missles at him? The time it took for the missles to travel to their destination gave Bin Laden ample time to escape.
If we had had a low-orbital beam weapon like this, there would not have been a 9/11.
The reason we developed the first nuke was that we believed that Germany was well on their way to developing their own nuke during WWII. Who were the nuclear physicists who made this possible? German jews fleeing the Nazi regime.
The concept was out there, we had to develop it and have it ready before anyone else. Who would you have preferred to develop the first nuke? Russia? Germany? China?
It was going to happen, with or without us. Sure, we could have stalled for another 50 years (maybe), but would that really have put the world in a better position for the long term? Not really.
"Oh, and here's the first time I got beat up at school for having a dorky camera strapped to my head!"
Oh, no! Look out! The black helicopters are coming for you! Run!
RUN!!!
Rather than lease a big retail space, I see Dell popping up all over the malls in those little kiosks. Minimal overhead, a physical local retail presence, and the kiosks are right in the middle of the walking traffic so everyone sees all the cool stuff going on.
He's planning on using the trip to 'help inspire today's youth to dream big' and conduct a few experiments, including testing out some of his company's equipment.
Business trip, be sure to keep the receipts. Oh, and he'll be entertaining a client for dinner when he gets to the space station, so his meal will be a write-off, too.
Hmmm... how many cents per mile is it for a space commute?
No, but they did have a lot of other really annoying fat kids doing lots of inane stuff.
If Apple wants to succeed in the market, it has to provide the products its customers want.
Wrong.
If Apple wants to succeed in this market, they have to provide a reasonable compromise between the consumers and the content providers.
What do I want as a consumer? Free music downloads, no DRM, unlimited duplication and unrestricted usage rights.
What do content providers want? $15 for 10 songs on a CD, most of which are filler, with limited use and no duplication rights.
iTMS is groundbreaking because it was the first service to broker an acceptible compromise between consumers and content providers. Yes, there will always be the Coreys of the world whose needs are the exception rather than the rule. The only way to adress that is to offer an unrestricted agreement, which does not benefit the content providers at all.
Somebody needs to tell Corey that the three authorizations aren't so that he can give one or two away. If he wanted his mom to have an iTunes account, he should have set her up on a separate account.
MSNBC is totally inaccessible with Safari in Mac OS X, and has been for a few months. It wasn't my home page, but I did check it at least once a day, and I used to love to view the "Week in Pictures" feature, but that one has been inaccessible to Safari users for even longer.
IE for Mac will load MSNBC, but it takes a long, long time and it refreshes the page many times before it's done.
When it first came out, I had no problems whatsoever viewing MSNBC with Safari.
Nope - stunningly unimpressed. A computer GUI is an abstraction of the real world, not the real world itself. Applying the same clutter you find in the real world would make the interface worse, not better.
True, the next generation GUI will not try to mimick the real world more; rather, it will take elements of the existing GUI paradyme that have become part of the common consciousness, and it will streamline them.
Trying to make the GUI more like the real world is a step backwards to before consumers became acclimated to technology. That's not necessary, nor is it terribly useful.
It was called "Independence Day".
"Hi, can I borrow a cup of human waste?"
...and what exactly was Ted Wiatt's relationship with that cow? They never did explain that in the commercials for some reason...
If it's something that you have to explain to your parents how it works, then it's just not a mainstream solution. Besides, you're still talking about text, and if the answer can be found on a Google search, then a script can figure it out, too.
I like the challenge-response system, but instead of text I think they should use pictures. "Type in the name of the object in the picture, the first letter has been provided for you." Provide the first letter because some people will see a tiger and think "Lion" and the first letter will get them back on track. Show all of the images as grayscale so that image scanning software can't tell the difference between the yellow of a sunflower and the gray of a building.
So tell us, what's your major ?
Underwater basket weaving.
I would agree with that. Remember, employers aren't just looking at your skill set, they're also wondering how you're going to fit in/contribute to the overall corporate culture. If your hunger for pornography is strong and your morals so low that you'd go to work for a pornographer, what is your behavior going to be like in the office? Are you going to regularly surf for porn at your desk? Are you going to sexually harass women in the office? Whether or not such suspicions are justified, this is the kind of stuff that people will think about you.
NPR had an interesting profile a long time ago of a CEO who was wanting to change industries. He oversaw several thousand employees in a highly successful organization. He managed numerous facilities in various countries, and was an expert in managing international financial issues. Why couldn't he find work? He was a drug kingpin.
Skills are only a part of the story. Unless your future boss is an unfeeling android, then the context of how you acquired those skills will also very important.
Yes, it can kill, and the penalty is death.
Been there, done that. Anyone remember the Macintosh Portable? 16 lbs of pure love, baby.
Once again, Apple is ahead of their time!!!