Does an individual vote really change the outcome of an election? Not most of the the time, but that doesn't mean that people shouldn't bother to vote. It's about supporting the process.
Unplug all the users PCs...Given the way most companies calculate their IT cost/benefits it's almost impossible to get an IT budget down to the point that accounting says it's great without just removing IT entirely.
Most major companies only track ticket closure and uptime as a metric of IT, while other departments get the credit for "innovation". (Sales cut its overhead by 20% instituting a new electronic help desk for customers! In other news, IT is over budget again as trouble tickets have increased 40%)
I have a device in my pocket that will give me the answers to most questions, show me moving pictures with sound, let me talk to people on the other side of the planet and take pictures.
We have machines that can scan the inside of our bodies without cutting us open. Satellites that help the device above tell me where I am at all times. And of course cable with 9999 possible channels.
Look at an old episode of star trek, then look at the new movie...compare the bridges....How much stuff was "updated", because it would look old fashion and junky today?
It's precisely the sort of elevated creepy that comes from the uncanny valley effect....I think this is *worse* then the final fantasy movie people are complaining about above.
It's almost Lovecraftian in it's "wrongness". I couldn't put my finger on it and say "yah, that moment there, it's not right" but the whole presentation was just unsettling.
*clicks on tape recorder* Note to self, use this technology to make a new Call of Cthuhlu movie.
Is this any different then the stats of the dead tree style of spam that appears in my mailbox every day?
And we have seen the huge (cough) progress made in removing that snail mail spam from the system.
Honestly, there seems to have been more progress in weeding out the digital spam then the paper sort.
Even vague sort of laws and protections and such.
I'm not sure it's genetically tied together...but I certainly agree on the positive vs negative feedback loop. A good looking person enters a situation, and gets a positive reaction, they won't be hesitant to repeat that operation. Someone who has to work at the situation, or gets a negative response might hesitate.
If you didn't get burned, you wouldn't be afraid to touch the stove.
I'm sure that has a great deal to do with it as well. An ugly guy can override his physical "handicap" with confidence.
That being said, having a great body certainly gives you an edge in these early (teen aged) interactions, as it lets you cut to the head of the line without opening your mouth.
So we're really looking at a double strike for our young nerds.
By in large, kids that get stellar grades get them by sacrificing other elements of their lives. AKA, they study inside of watching/playing/living football.
So generally, they aren't as physically developed as their less "nerdy" peers. Young women, who are just as much a jumble of hormones as young men, don't make the connection between intelligence as a reproductive quality, so they just aren't as attracted to the nerds.
It's a primal wiring issue, good looking bodies used to mean better provider. It's older women who appreciate the stability the great mind brings (aka the dollars.)
But toss Bill Gates and Colin Farrel in a room without name tags, and see who the woman swarm towards.
I half joke....As I've known about the rocky start that was the first Starcraft, and the dance blizzard had with GW in the beginning.
It's only a half joke, in that the Starcraft universe (despite all in game jokes) is a deadly serious place with a well crafted story of it's own. To make a movie a silly 40K riff, and slap Starcraft on it would be a disservice to both.
That being said, taking a 40K movie...and tweaking a few plot points....and making it a Starcraft movie....now your cooking with gas;D
When ever a company adds "refined" to a product it tends to get more expensive not less....
Playstation 3, it's for more refined tastes...not like some cheap Wii.
Hey this sort of thing works for bottled water companies! What could possibly go wrong?
I think you could expand upon Tactical Priority with being able to quickly id hostiles vs non-hostiles. Many modern FPS have you working in teams or they throw civilians in front of you. Building in that bit of mental code that pauses their trigger finger long enough to process if the target is Friend or Foe, is probably pretty valuable to have in advance of training.
This was an article on finding a way to work with convention show style touch screens.
My fingers, for whatever reason, don't seem to always register as a touch on touch screens. I'm not sure if my skin is too thin, or not conductive enough (or too much?). A few of my coworkers have the same problem.
Does anyone else have this problem, and have they found some sort of device to counter it? Pen tops, and Stylus' don't react with this particular sort of screen, unfortunately.
What if I want MY page to just be a sea of ads? I setup the code, I did the work, why can't I show what I want? It's not my fault that Google misreads my page or gives someone else a higher ranking because of it.
I'm sure there are whole boatload of sites that could be deemed "junk", but out here in the digital wild west, I'm free to do what I want on my 10MB of free space....Aren't I?
...that pc gamers around the world will ban together and tell Microsoft that no, we will not pay for what we used to get for free. But I have huge doubts this will happen, as a high enough precentage of MS's audience isn't even spending their own money, but spending their parent's money...Even if they only have 25% of the market pick up the service, then it will have paid for itself and set a business model for others. *sigh*
I have to agree...I don't see a registered murderer list or registered carjacker or registered accounting fraud, and on a purely selfish level I'm much more concerned about living next to/working with/hiring all of the above.
But I suppose I'm thinking like a criminal here. Pop the harddrive, and if they give you grief about that..you give them the blank loaded one.
I'm not so much concerned about them searching my laptop, outside of kiddie porn there is little they can prove right there on the spot is illegal. (Oh, my mp3 collection is based on my CD collection at home, as is my DVD collection and my certificate of proof of license is right there under it). I'm more concerned about my work laptop walking away with my latest 1 gig project report on it never to be seen again.
Shame this sort of thing never happens to people important enough to affect change....
Yes I did...And I thought "Wow...if any has a chance of making a phantom real it's torchwood."
And then the phantoms would run rampant over the earth.
the end.
Is this a situation of selling fridges to eskimos?
I don't know anyone, (except sony folk) that are rubbing their hands and saying "oh boy, blu-ray."
And if is the "bargin" price of Blu-ray...then how do they really expect it (blu-ray as a tech) to take off??
Go sell crazy somewhere else, we're all full up here.
Designing a killing machine over eons, and knowing it will be unleashed on other, weaker (shall we say "Sissy") creatures doesn't sound fun to you? The carnage!! Or take the other side, designing a critter that can defend itself from the warp perversions of life that the twisted minds of the web can throw at you? Come on, that sounds a little fun doesn't it?
It's like Robot Rumble, except with fake-organics;)
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Does an individual vote really change the outcome of an election? Not most of the the time, but that doesn't mean that people shouldn't bother to vote. It's about supporting the process.
Unplug all the users PCs...Given the way most companies calculate their IT cost/benefits it's almost impossible to get an IT budget down to the point that accounting says it's great without just removing IT entirely.
Most major companies only track ticket closure and uptime as a metric of IT, while other departments get the credit for "innovation". (Sales cut its overhead by 20% instituting a new electronic help desk for customers! In other news, IT is over budget again as trouble tickets have increased 40%)
Sadly, I still can't spell.
I have a device in my pocket that will give me the answers to most questions, show me moving pictures with sound, let me talk to people on the other side of the planet and take pictures. We have machines that can scan the inside of our bodies without cutting us open. Satellites that help the device above tell me where I am at all times. And of course cable with 9999 possible channels. Look at an old episode of star trek, then look at the new movie...compare the bridges....How much stuff was "updated", because it would look old fashion and junky today?
It's precisely the sort of elevated creepy that comes from the uncanny valley effect....I think this is *worse* then the final fantasy movie people are complaining about above. It's almost Lovecraftian in it's "wrongness". I couldn't put my finger on it and say "yah, that moment there, it's not right" but the whole presentation was just unsettling. *clicks on tape recorder* Note to self, use this technology to make a new Call of Cthuhlu movie.
Server in the Sky....or perhaps a "Sky-Net"? Hmmmmm???
Is this any different then the stats of the dead tree style of spam that appears in my mailbox every day?
And we have seen the huge (cough) progress made in removing that snail mail spam from the system.
Honestly, there seems to have been more progress in weeding out the digital spam then the paper sort.
Even vague sort of laws and protections and such.
So...if I play this game, I have to stare at a male butt for the next 120 hours of my life...
Yah, not so interested.
That's the main reason I've chosen to play a female characters in the past. It's purely an aesthetic choice.
I'm not sure it's genetically tied together...but I certainly agree on the positive vs negative feedback loop. A good looking person enters a situation, and gets a positive reaction, they won't be hesitant to repeat that operation. Someone who has to work at the situation, or gets a negative response might hesitate.
If you didn't get burned, you wouldn't be afraid to touch the stove.
I'm sure that has a great deal to do with it as well. An ugly guy can override his physical "handicap" with confidence.
That being said, having a great body certainly gives you an edge in these early (teen aged) interactions, as it lets you cut to the head of the line without opening your mouth.
So we're really looking at a double strike for our young nerds.
By in large, kids that get stellar grades get them by sacrificing other elements of their lives. AKA, they study inside of watching/playing/living football.
So generally, they aren't as physically developed as their less "nerdy" peers. Young women, who are just as much a jumble of hormones as young men, don't make the connection between intelligence as a reproductive quality, so they just aren't as attracted to the nerds.
It's a primal wiring issue, good looking bodies used to mean better provider. It's older women who appreciate the stability the great mind brings (aka the dollars.)
But toss Bill Gates and Colin Farrel in a room without name tags, and see who the woman swarm towards.
I half joke....As I've known about the rocky start that was the first Starcraft, and the dance blizzard had with GW in the beginning.
;D
It's only a half joke, in that the Starcraft universe (despite all in game jokes) is a deadly serious place with a well crafted story of it's own. To make a movie a silly 40K riff, and slap Starcraft on it would be a disservice to both.
That being said, taking a 40K movie...and tweaking a few plot points....and making it a Starcraft movie....now your cooking with gas
So you're suggesting they call it Starcraft the movie? ;D
When ever a company adds "refined" to a product it tends to get more expensive not less.... Playstation 3, it's for more refined tastes...not like some cheap Wii. Hey this sort of thing works for bottled water companies! What could possibly go wrong?
I think you could expand upon Tactical Priority with being able to quickly id hostiles vs non-hostiles. Many modern FPS have you working in teams or they throw civilians in front of you. Building in that bit of mental code that pauses their trigger finger long enough to process if the target is Friend or Foe, is probably pretty valuable to have in advance of training.
This was an article on finding a way to work with convention show style touch screens. My fingers, for whatever reason, don't seem to always register as a touch on touch screens. I'm not sure if my skin is too thin, or not conductive enough (or too much?). A few of my coworkers have the same problem. Does anyone else have this problem, and have they found some sort of device to counter it? Pen tops, and Stylus' don't react with this particular sort of screen, unfortunately.
What if I want MY page to just be a sea of ads? I setup the code, I did the work, why can't I show what I want? It's not my fault that Google misreads my page or gives someone else a higher ranking because of it. I'm sure there are whole boatload of sites that could be deemed "junk", but out here in the digital wild west, I'm free to do what I want on my 10MB of free space....Aren't I?
...that pc gamers around the world will ban together and tell Microsoft that no, we will not pay for what we used to get for free. But I have huge doubts this will happen, as a high enough precentage of MS's audience isn't even spending their own money, but spending their parent's money...Even if they only have 25% of the market pick up the service, then it will have paid for itself and set a business model for others. *sigh*
I have to agree...I don't see a registered murderer list or registered carjacker or registered accounting fraud, and on a purely selfish level I'm much more concerned about living next to/working with/hiring all of the above.
I'm Jack T and no one has heard from me recently! I'm lonely and there are wolves...
But I suppose I'm thinking like a criminal here. Pop the harddrive, and if they give you grief about that..you give them the blank loaded one. I'm not so much concerned about them searching my laptop, outside of kiddie porn there is little they can prove right there on the spot is illegal. (Oh, my mp3 collection is based on my CD collection at home, as is my DVD collection and my certificate of proof of license is right there under it). I'm more concerned about my work laptop walking away with my latest 1 gig project report on it never to be seen again. Shame this sort of thing never happens to people important enough to affect change....
Yes I did...And I thought "Wow...if any has a chance of making a phantom real it's torchwood." And then the phantoms would run rampant over the earth. the end.
Is this a situation of selling fridges to eskimos? I don't know anyone, (except sony folk) that are rubbing their hands and saying "oh boy, blu-ray." And if is the "bargin" price of Blu-ray...then how do they really expect it (blu-ray as a tech) to take off?? Go sell crazy somewhere else, we're all full up here.
or was this more a "It's coming right at us" moment on the Jimbo and Ned hunting hour?
Designing a killing machine over eons, and knowing it will be unleashed on other, weaker (shall we say "Sissy") creatures doesn't sound fun to you? The carnage!! Or take the other side, designing a critter that can defend itself from the warp perversions of life that the twisted minds of the web can throw at you? Come on, that sounds a little fun doesn't it? It's like Robot Rumble, except with fake-organics ;)