I'm trying to grasp what could possibly be the "nearest future"? A picosecond from now? But of course, you could have half a picosecond, and half that, and half that, etc.
3. Most print newspapers have journalist with a very liberal slant, and people don't want that anymore, witness the success of Fox News and online bloggers.
I think the conclusion which is being drawn here is incorrect. Yes, Fox News and online bloggers, etc, are successful, but not because they are conservative. They have become popular because they don't really so much report the news, as try to manipulate it in some way so as to cause people to get emotionally involved with the story. It was only coincidental that conservative outlets were the first to do this.
However, I am seeing this kind of news "reporting" going on with news organizations of all flavors (conservative, liberal, whatever) and at all levels. If you carefully watch any news outlet now, especially TV, you will see them report a news story, then they get a few talking heads to "expound" on the story, and it is done in such a way as to get viewers emotionally charged with the story one way or another. Then, more often or not, they invite the viewer to write in, call in, or otherwise "sound off" about the issue -- which of course the viewers do.
Who is the bloody stupid PHB who came up with this? If you want people to accept non-paper bills, you don't charge them $1.50 to continue to receive paper bills. What you do is give them a $1.50 discount (or some other incentive) to get the electronic bill instead.
Be sure to print "-$1.50 Green Discount" on the bill too. The fools will love you for it. In fact, they may not even notice when you raise their fees $3.00 six months later.
It's not just science that is unpopular. Pretty much all higher learning is unpopular. Even basic literacy isn't considered important to a large section of the population.
From TFA: The card punch portion of the Hollerith Census Machine. For the 1990 census, there were slots to record what farm equipment was present, what lighting was used in the home, and the usual number of people in the household, among other piece of data.
I once managed a junior programmer who would insist that the compiler had a bug in it when she couldn't get her program to work.
We eventually fired her.
Why do I mention this? Because, as a programmer, when I get results I don't expect, I tend to assume that I have made a mistake somewhere. I don't assume that the underlying theory of how computers work is in error.
Are they even sure that they're looking at a planet? My first assumption would be that they are not seeing what they think they were seeing, rather than there is a flaw in the theory of orbital dynamics.
I have long suspected this. I think people who believe they are good at multitasking give themselves the illusion that they are doing a good job simply because they are so busy. It has been my observation that many women, in particular, pride themselves on their multitasking ability, and are confident that they are excellent at each and every task, when in fact they are just doing a mediocre job.
Pity the poor man who should ever suggest this, however.
Actually telemarketers is the main reason I have kept my land line. I am afraid that if I started using my cell phone for all my calls, that I will soon be inundated with calls I don't want.
I realize there is a do not call registry, but they increasingly get around that, plus it doesn't do a thing to prevent charities and political organizations from calling.
Look, it's really simple: If they give you the creeps, don't hire them. Go with someone who is not insistent on administering your network remotely, or who you are otherwise comfortable working with.
Not all social networks are based on sexual relationships. Even SlashDot could be considered a social network. I don't understand this logic. If sex offenders can't be allowed to freely interact with other people why aren't their prison sentences for life? We don't do this to other criminals. If some guy does a few years for holding up a convenience store, do we tell him he is not allowed to step foot in a retail establishment again?
I am a computer geek, my wife was a literary geek. We were married for 20 years. Here are the things that I would recommend that you may want to look out for:
1.She will always, deep down, believe that she is smarter than you, and that your pursuits are pseudo-intellectual.
2.In time she will become convinced that she is being repressed, as all women are repressed by all men.
3.She will resent the fact that your technical expertise will mean that you will always make more money than she will.
5.She will come to hate the fact that she has to come to you for help with technical problems (see #1 above).
6. Over time, the above problems will fester until she becomes bitter, verbally abusive, and impossible to live with.
7. When you do finally decide that you cannot live with her any longer (and you will -- yes, you will) she will become angrier and more paranoid than you can imagine. She will become firmly convinced that she is a victim, that you lied to her and repressed her throughout the marriage, and that she is now entitled to her pound of flesh. This will be costly. Very costly.
My advice is to steer her towards the idea that marriage is an anachronism that has outlived its usefulness.
Oh, and read my sig...
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Since when does any work of fiction have to have the "facts" straight? A good story is a good story and what the "facts" are is entirely irrelevant. You might as well say, "Jules Verne's From The Earth To The Moon would be more interesting if he got his facts straight." Sheesh! go buy an imagination.
If more attractive parents have more daughters and if physical attractiveness is heritable, it logically follows that women over many generations gradually become more physically attractive on average than men.
Except that the standard for "beauty" changes over time. I'm not sure I'm buying this.
"A judge rules that IP addresses are not 'personally identifiable information' (PII) because they identify computers, not people. That's absurd..."
Absurd? Sorry, call me absurd too then. I have to agree with the judge, sort of. An IP address identifies a node on a network, not necessarily a computer, but I believe the judge is correct in pointing out that they do not identify people.
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I'm trying to grasp what could possibly be the "nearest future"? A picosecond from now? But of course, you could have half a picosecond, and half that, and half that, etc.
Ah. I was only thinking in terms of Mars' orbital track.
I understand "behind and below". WTF is "in front and ahead"?
Sure, I could see Sybian at the top.
What?
Ohhh, Symbian... Uh... Sorry...
3. Most print newspapers have journalist with a very liberal slant, and people don't want that anymore, witness the success of Fox News and online bloggers.
I think the conclusion which is being drawn here is incorrect. Yes, Fox News and online bloggers, etc, are successful, but not because they are conservative. They have become popular because they don't really so much report the news, as try to manipulate it in some way so as to cause people to get emotionally involved with the story. It was only coincidental that conservative outlets were the first to do this.
However, I am seeing this kind of news "reporting" going on with news organizations of all flavors (conservative, liberal, whatever) and at all levels. If you carefully watch any news outlet now, especially TV, you will see them report a news story, then they get a few talking heads to "expound" on the story, and it is done in such a way as to get viewers emotionally charged with the story one way or another. Then, more often or not, they invite the viewer to write in, call in, or otherwise "sound off" about the issue -- which of course the viewers do.
So, basically, It's like living in Oklahoma...
Who is the bloody stupid PHB who came up with this? If you want people to accept non-paper bills, you don't charge them $1.50 to continue to receive paper bills. What you do is give them a $1.50 discount (or some other incentive) to get the electronic bill instead.
Be sure to print "-$1.50 Green Discount" on the bill too. The fools will love you for it. In fact, they may not even notice when you raise their fees $3.00 six months later.
The problem with throwing away your cellphone that's been to China: thirty minutes later you feel like throwing away your cellphone again.
It's not just science that is unpopular. Pretty much all higher learning is unpopular. Even basic literacy isn't considered important to a large section of the population.
the process will take a bit 1220 minutes. That second extreme is not a typo:
Actually, I think that is a typo. Either the phrase a bit shouldn't be there, or it should read something like a bit longer --.
There is also the possibility that a domain name might have a combination of letters that could spell "bank". Something like turbankiosk.se.
I wonder if someone swapped the fake rock for the real one back when it was presented.
From TFA: The card punch portion of the Hollerith Census Machine. For the 1990 census, there were slots to record what farm equipment was present, what lighting was used in the home, and the usual number of people in the household, among other piece of data.
I think they mean 1890 not 1990.
I once managed a junior programmer who would insist that the compiler had a bug in it when she couldn't get her program to work.
We eventually fired her.
Why do I mention this? Because, as a programmer, when I get results I don't expect, I tend to assume that I have made a mistake somewhere. I don't assume that the underlying theory of how computers work is in error.
Are they even sure that they're looking at a planet? My first assumption would be that they are not seeing what they think they were seeing, rather than there is a flaw in the theory of orbital dynamics.
I'm not being accusatory here, just skeptical.
I have long suspected this. I think people who believe they are good at multitasking give themselves the illusion that they are doing a good job simply because they are so busy. It has been my observation that many women, in particular, pride themselves on their multitasking ability, and are confident that they are excellent at each and every task, when in fact they are just doing a mediocre job.
Pity the poor man who should ever suggest this, however.
Actually telemarketers is the main reason I have kept my land line. I am afraid that if I started using my cell phone for all my calls, that I will soon be inundated with calls I don't want.
I realize there is a do not call registry, but they increasingly get around that, plus it doesn't do a thing to prevent charities and political organizations from calling.
Another possible reason the BSA is not vilified is that they do not sue 12 year olds.
Look, it's really simple: If they give you the creeps, don't hire them. Go with someone who is not insistent on administering your network remotely, or who you are otherwise comfortable working with.
Not all social networks are based on sexual relationships. Even SlashDot could be considered a social network. I don't understand this logic. If sex offenders can't be allowed to freely interact with other people why aren't their prison sentences for life? We don't do this to other criminals. If some guy does a few years for holding up a convenience store, do we tell him he is not allowed to step foot in a retail establishment again?
I am a computer geek, my wife was a literary geek. We were married for 20 years. Here are the things that I would recommend that you may want to look out for:
1.She will always, deep down, believe that she is smarter than you, and that your pursuits are pseudo-intellectual.
2.In time she will become convinced that she is being repressed, as all women are repressed by all men.
3.She will resent the fact that your technical expertise will mean that you will always make more money than she will.
5.She will come to hate the fact that she has to come to you for help with technical problems (see #1 above).
6. Over time, the above problems will fester until she becomes bitter, verbally abusive, and impossible to live with.
7. When you do finally decide that you cannot live with her any longer (and you will -- yes, you will) she will become angrier and more paranoid than you can imagine. She will become firmly convinced that she is a victim, that you lied to her and repressed her throughout the marriage, and that she is now entitled to her pound of flesh. This will be costly. Very costly.
My advice is to steer her towards the idea that marriage is an anachronism that has outlived its usefulness.
Oh, and read my sig...
Since when does any work of fiction have to have the "facts" straight? A good story is a good story and what the "facts" are is entirely irrelevant. You might as well say, "Jules Verne's From The Earth To The Moon would be more interesting if he got his facts straight." Sheesh! go buy an imagination.
Sorry, but this is not the famed Northwest Passage. If anything it is a NorthEAST passage.
If more attractive parents have more daughters and if physical attractiveness is heritable, it logically follows that women over many generations gradually become more physically attractive on average than men.
Except that the standard for "beauty" changes over time. I'm not sure I'm buying this.
"A judge rules that IP addresses are not 'personally identifiable information' (PII) because they identify computers, not people. That's absurd..."
Absurd? Sorry, call me absurd too then. I have to agree with the judge, sort of. An IP address identifies a node on a network, not necessarily a computer, but I believe the judge is correct in pointing out that they do not identify people.
"Main Toilet On ISS Wolowitzed"...
There, fixed that for ya.