You mean people actually think the voting is honest and real? That the TV execs don't advance the contestants that they think will be better for ratings?
Let's see if I've got this right: there is such a shortage of programmers in the U.S. that we have to raise H-1B visa limits in order to supply them, and yet companies have to create hiring contests in order to screen the overwhelming number of applicants?
Look, I am part Italian, and I don't wish to insult my Mediterranean paisani, but, if I ever do own a flying car it will NOT be of Italian manufacture.., sorry.
I do know how it works and all, but still, I find it kind of ironic that the Herschel Space Telescope is bricked for lack of the second most abundant element in the universe.
Whenever I read stories like this it reminds me of a Stephen King short story. I have forgotten the title, but I believe it is what he eventually developed into The Stand. Everyone is dying of a flu-like disease, and one of the characters is thinking that a big monolith should be constructed by the few humans left to inform any future alien visitors as to what happened to our civilization. Carved into the granite, it should simply read, "It was the flu."
Microsoft is no more doomed now than IBM was 20 years ago, but like the IBM of the past, their dominance is fading. I think Microsoft might be around for a long time, but they won't be as ubiquitous as they once were.
At first I thought, "How could you not know?" But then I remembered that in Iceland, patronyms are common, and (so I've been told) there are not as many social stigmas surrounding unwed motherhood. So I suppose, when you meet someone, it really is possible that you could be related and not know it.
I've been wondering about that for a while now. I get LinkedIn invites that seem unlikely. They have all the hallmarks of some automated process unknown to the user.
Things must be worse at Microsoft than I thought. Trying to regain relevancy via the courtroom sounds desperate. That's just what Atari was doing right before they faded into the sunset.
I head a good argument about this on NPR this morning. If you isolate the genes that deal with kidneys, it's the equivalent of removing the kidney from the body. Just because you remove the kidney from a body does not necessarily mean you own a patent on it.
I can see some utility to it, but only if the watch is tethered to your phone. For example: you could label your contacts as "important" or "urgent" or "unimportant", and so on. Then while you were driving if you got a call or text your watch could display a symbol, like an exclamation mark or something, to let you know that the call or text was important. This would be far less distracting than fumbling with your phone, which takes your eyes off the road.
Maybe not the best example in the world, but you get what I mean. It could become part of a system whereby you can give varying values to the information you are receiving so that you can make better decisions about it.
As a replacement for a cell phone, I agree, it's a cockeyed idea.
No, I wasn't the one with a literature degree, my ex-wife was. By the time she had earned her masters in literature she was well on the way to being a horrible person. She didn't get any less horrible by going to law school in order to make herself more marketable. 11 years in school and $140k in student loans produced a truly miserable human in perpetual therapy. What a way to spend a life.
Well, yes, I can't disagree with that. But that humorless attitude is pervasive throughout our society today. I think I recall an elementary student somewhere recently getting suspended from school merely for pointing his finger like a gun.
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You mean people actually think the voting is honest and real? That the TV execs don't advance the contestants that they think will be better for ratings?
Let's see if I've got this right: there is such a shortage of programmers in the U.S. that we have to raise H-1B visa limits in order to supply them, and yet companies have to create hiring contests in order to screen the overwhelming number of applicants?
Look, I am part Italian, and I don't wish to insult my Mediterranean paisani, but, if I ever do own a flying car it will NOT be of Italian manufacture.., sorry.
Because you might not want everyone in the room to hear the message you're sending.
Smartwatches? Keyboards? Time to resurrect the Timex/Sinclair brand!
I do know how it works and all, but still, I find it kind of ironic that the Herschel Space Telescope is bricked for lack of the second most abundant element in the universe.
I mean People Magazine crowned her "World's Most Beautiful Woman", so she is far hotter than many people thought.
Investers: "Oooh! Pretty girl! Shut up and take my money!"
Sheesh. How could people this dumb have so much disposable income?
Whenever I read stories like this it reminds me of a Stephen King short story. I have forgotten the title, but I believe it is what he eventually developed into The Stand. Everyone is dying of a flu-like disease, and one of the characters is thinking that a big monolith should be constructed by the few humans left to inform any future alien visitors as to what happened to our civilization. Carved into the granite, it should simply read, "It was the flu."
Microsoft is no more doomed now than IBM was 20 years ago, but like the IBM of the past, their dominance is fading. I think Microsoft might be around for a long time, but they won't be as ubiquitous as they once were.
At first I thought, "How could you not know?" But then I remembered that in Iceland, patronyms are common, and (so I've been told) there are not as many social stigmas surrounding unwed motherhood. So I suppose, when you meet someone, it really is possible that you could be related and not know it.
I've been wondering about that for a while now. I get LinkedIn invites that seem unlikely. They have all the hallmarks of some automated process unknown to the user.
Things must be worse at Microsoft than I thought. Trying to regain relevancy via the courtroom sounds desperate. That's just what Atari was doing right before they faded into the sunset.
Didn't Slashdot do the exact same thing yesterday?
On the other hand, not saying anything seems callous, so you're damned no matter what you do.
Now the Mormons won't have to wait for everyone to go to Ancestry.com to find out everything about them.
I head a good argument about this on NPR this morning. If you isolate the genes that deal with kidneys, it's the equivalent of removing the kidney from the body. Just because you remove the kidney from a body does not necessarily mean you own a patent on it.
I can see some utility to it, but only if the watch is tethered to your phone. For example: you could label your contacts as "important" or "urgent" or "unimportant", and so on. Then while you were driving if you got a call or text your watch could display a symbol, like an exclamation mark or something, to let you know that the call or text was important. This would be far less distracting than fumbling with your phone, which takes your eyes off the road.
Maybe not the best example in the world, but you get what I mean. It could become part of a system whereby you can give varying values to the information you are receiving so that you can make better decisions about it.
As a replacement for a cell phone, I agree, it's a cockeyed idea.
There goes Microsoft, duplicating... er... I mean "innovating" again.
Very good point.
'And I have to pay taxes to support free meals for those Google employees.'
Oh bull****! I disagree that meals should be taxed as benefits, for anyone. What's next, tax homeless people for their soup at the shelter?
Android is based on Linux.
Interesting. What Linux couldn't accomplish on the desktop, it's accomplishing everywhere else.
No, I wasn't the one with a literature degree, my ex-wife was. By the time she had earned her masters in literature she was well on the way to being a horrible person. She didn't get any less horrible by going to law school in order to make herself more marketable. 11 years in school and $140k in student loans produced a truly miserable human in perpetual therapy. What a way to spend a life.
Virtual machine.
Well, yes, I can't disagree with that. But that humorless attitude is pervasive throughout our society today. I think I recall an elementary student somewhere recently getting suspended from school merely for pointing his finger like a gun.