Ponder that, and your argument about the billionaires will become even bigger. Financial success in space would be the biggest game changer since the Spanish conquests of Mexico and Peru ruined the silver market in the 1500s.
Because their core philosophy is incentives and disincentives, and suddenly they're stuck in the middle of the aforementioned broken window fallacy.
I'm surprised that the same guys who figured out why NFL coaches rarely make risky calls (the coaches make choice that defer blame, mostly to players), can't really figure out what gives with the whole space flight thing.
NASA has been the subject of too much blame. It's that simple.
Since the Challenger accident, NASA has been on a losing streak. Except for Pathfinder and Surveyor, NASA hasn't had a real public relations success since the Apollo program ended.
You need to incorporate the Bitch Slap Theory of American Politics into this. Americans like strength. They like projecting strength. And they slink away pretty fucking quickly when America cannot project strength.
The consequence is that we treat NASA with shame. Not we as in geeks and Slashdotters. I mean we as in the same people who think America can win a set piece war (as if there even has been such a thing since WWI) in six weeks, and that we can win wars against abstract concepts (Terror, Poverty, Drugs).
NASA has been bitch slapped repeatedly, and American slink away from that. Americans see NASA as a loser.
NASA needs to get on its public relations horse. Seize this return to the rocket program as an opportunity to not just do a great job, but to project itself as a force in American politics, the way it did under Kennedy and Johnson.
Prop the HD up with a tooth pick. Put a piece of cheese right next to the toothpick. If you use one of the really old heavy as fuck HDs, you'll be having mouse pizza for breakfast.
Because fuck you if you think I'm your code monkey. I remember working for a small web design business where only two guys (me and one other) knew how to code, yet we got paid less. The boss was of the opinion that sales people were the ones that deserved cash.
The other issued his notice and went into hermitage (he's one of those coders) and I promptly left and started my own business.
I remember the cocksuckers laughing at me and saying that it would be funny as fuck to see me pitching to real businessmen in their business-y suits.
They went under, and I'm still here. Turns out, when you run a business with nothing but coders, the whole business runs pretty fucking cheap. Plus, I found clients actually love having a coder pitch to them, because they get instant answers about feasibility, time and cost. Who fucking knew?
I'm not your code monkey and I don't have to kiss your ass.
Well, he's dead, so I can't. I'm 29 and thanks to massive innovations in living in the middle of nowhere in the mid 1990s, I got pretty roundly treated like shit by a bunch of fuckers who did not care about anyone's self esteem.
Our principal was a real work of art. I remember he made a point my senior year of having me come into his office and informing me I wouldn't amount to shit and no college would want me. What did I do to deserve this? I got up and left a talk session about graduation in the cafeteria when the bell rang, and he was already done talking.
The football team got worse treatment after a winless season.
Yup. Being treated like shit by mean-spirited people was fucking great.
Because each time the major companies bring a P2P system to an end, it produces an even better version that is more popular. Napster led to Kazaa which led to BitTorrent (yes, I realize that's a very abbreviated history of P2P). Now, with a decent blacklisting system, BT is pretty damned sweet. So, some genius at AT&T wants us to have something even better than BT?! Hooray!
I suspect that even in an efficient market the home underdog phenomenon would persist. Also, I'll offer the stock market is far from an efficient market for information... although I know there's a 9/11 conspiracy theory that says otherwise.
The basic problem is that the markets don't process information at all. They process attitudes and assumptions, which are often very different from information.
Look at stuff like the political markets for the Democrats. All the information about Obama and Clinton was known friggin years ago. We all know people hate Clinton and find her to be frigid as a public speaker. We all know she's experienced. We all know her record.
The only piece of information the market actually processed about Clinton was her high name recognition.
And obviously that was a really useful piece of information in predicting Iowa. Or, for that matter, what will come of the race from here forward.
Look at the political markets which didn't price Mike Huckabee in until a month ago, never minding the best bet is always the governor of a southern state (and there is only one this election cycle!!!).
Look at football gambling. Every week some group of people actually bets the road favorites heavily even though it is a fact that a home team underdog stands a consistently better chance. In football, homefield advantage is overwhelming, so much so that if you consistently bet on the home team underdogs throughout the season you will turn a profit.
That piece of information never makes it into the numbers.
That's when cable companies will no longer be required to transmit an analog signal. And when all those folks who get analog cable without a box get shutoff, and people findout how piss poor the CableCard implementation has been done, that's going to be funny.
This is very true. Not too many people actually drink real sugar anymore.
I quit drinking pop ages ago. I might drink two cans a year if somebody offers it. Mostly cook for myself (lifelong habit). Might eat some Doritos once a month or so.
I can't say I've seen impressive physical results, but I wasn't really shooting for that. I just wanted to get off the junk before I got to an age where health isn't as easily reversible.
Diet's a lot less of an issue if your work burns stuff off. I used to do roofing and remodeling between HS and college, and I could get away anything I wanted. The idea of scheduling exercise and watching my diet didn't make much sense at the time. Actually took me a couple years after settling into an office environment before I realized I had to do something.
Sorry, but how fucking amateurish are all these various proclamations of "We'll write video games" (bet ya won't) and "We'll take over the internets and fuck TV!"
First off, if the internet were a desirable business model for the traditional 22-48 minutes TV program, someone would already have monetized it.
Second, if the writers could pull their shit together and own their own studios and then sell the product to the major networks, all of this would be moot.
Third, the networks are owned by serious people with serious attorneys. They're not going to bow to some moronic argument made up by some dipshit who decides he's gonna take his football and go home.
When the strike ends it will end because of the same thing that ends all strikes -- pain. Either the networks' advertisers will cry uncle, and the nets pay up or else the writers will run out of ramen noodles and need food.
I'm just looking at it as a business proposition. No one in their right mind whose goal is to make money would buy a newspaper today. You won't be spreading your evil conglomerate message for very long if you're forced to finance debt in this environment!
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Jesus Christ, can people just leave things alone?
Unfortunately, the rate at which fools part their money to other fools is astonishing.
1) Every president needs a unique, historic program.
2) It lays down the marker that nothing is out-of-bounds. If we can bomb England, we bomb any fucking body on the planet. Seems fair.
3) Brown people could quit complaining that we pick on them. No longer true.
4) All films have taught us the real villains have British accents. It is reasonable assume they're the real threat.
5) Liberation of Scotland can only lead to hilarious results.
Ponder that, and your argument about the billionaires will become even bigger. Financial success in space would be the biggest game changer since the Spanish conquests of Mexico and Peru ruined the silver market in the 1500s.
Because their core philosophy is incentives and disincentives, and suddenly they're stuck in the middle of the aforementioned broken window fallacy.
I'm surprised that the same guys who figured out why NFL coaches rarely make risky calls (the coaches make choice that defer blame, mostly to players), can't really figure out what gives with the whole space flight thing.
NASA has been the subject of too much blame. It's that simple.
Since the Challenger accident, NASA has been on a losing streak. Except for Pathfinder and Surveyor, NASA hasn't had a real public relations success since the Apollo program ended.
You need to incorporate the Bitch Slap Theory of American Politics into this. Americans like strength. They like projecting strength. And they slink away pretty fucking quickly when America cannot project strength.
The consequence is that we treat NASA with shame. Not we as in geeks and Slashdotters. I mean we as in the same people who think America can win a set piece war (as if there even has been such a thing since WWI) in six weeks, and that we can win wars against abstract concepts (Terror, Poverty, Drugs).
NASA has been bitch slapped repeatedly, and American slink away from that. Americans see NASA as a loser.
NASA needs to get on its public relations horse. Seize this return to the rocket program as an opportunity to not just do a great job, but to project itself as a force in American politics, the way it did under Kennedy and Johnson.
Prop the HD up with a tooth pick. Put a piece of cheese right next to the toothpick. If you use one of the really old heavy as fuck HDs, you'll be having mouse pizza for breakfast.
Because fuck you if you think I'm your code monkey. I remember working for a small web design business where only two guys (me and one other) knew how to code, yet we got paid less. The boss was of the opinion that sales people were the ones that deserved cash.
The other issued his notice and went into hermitage (he's one of those coders) and I promptly left and started my own business.
I remember the cocksuckers laughing at me and saying that it would be funny as fuck to see me pitching to real businessmen in their business-y suits.
They went under, and I'm still here. Turns out, when you run a business with nothing but coders, the whole business runs pretty fucking cheap. Plus, I found clients actually love having a coder pitch to them, because they get instant answers about feasibility, time and cost. Who fucking knew?
I'm not your code monkey and I don't have to kiss your ass.
Well, he's dead, so I can't. I'm 29 and thanks to massive innovations in living in the middle of nowhere in the mid 1990s, I got pretty roundly treated like shit by a bunch of fuckers who did not care about anyone's self esteem.
Our principal was a real work of art. I remember he made a point my senior year of having me come into his office and informing me I wouldn't amount to shit and no college would want me. What did I do to deserve this? I got up and left a talk session about graduation in the cafeteria when the bell rang, and he was already done talking.
The football team got worse treatment after a winless season.
Yup. Being treated like shit by mean-spirited people was fucking great.
No one even begins to discuss the dog's right to be paid for the use of his image!
Because each time the major companies bring a P2P system to an end, it produces an even better version that is more popular. Napster led to Kazaa which led to BitTorrent (yes, I realize that's a very abbreviated history of P2P). Now, with a decent blacklisting system, BT is pretty damned sweet. So, some genius at AT&T wants us to have something even better than BT?! Hooray!
I suspect that even in an efficient market the home underdog phenomenon would persist. Also, I'll offer the stock market is far from an efficient market for information... although I know there's a 9/11 conspiracy theory that says otherwise.
The basic problem is that the markets don't process information at all. They process attitudes and assumptions, which are often very different from information.
Look at stuff like the political markets for the Democrats. All the information about Obama and Clinton was known friggin years ago. We all know people hate Clinton and find her to be frigid as a public speaker. We all know she's experienced. We all know her record.
The only piece of information the market actually processed about Clinton was her high name recognition.
And obviously that was a really useful piece of information in predicting Iowa. Or, for that matter, what will come of the race from here forward.
Look at the political markets which didn't price Mike Huckabee in until a month ago, never minding the best bet is always the governor of a southern state (and there is only one this election cycle!!!).
Look at football gambling. Every week some group of people actually bets the road favorites heavily even though it is a fact that a home team underdog stands a consistently better chance. In football, homefield advantage is overwhelming, so much so that if you consistently bet on the home team underdogs throughout the season you will turn a profit.
That piece of information never makes it into the numbers.
Fuck! We're not even part of the simulation! We're just the end of a fucking comment!?!?!
You're right... the final revision passed in December for the cable analog shutdown is for 2012.
As for cable companies, I have to ask the obvious question: who's your cable company?
That's when cable companies will no longer be required to transmit an analog signal. And when all those folks who get analog cable without a box get shutoff, and people findout how piss poor the CableCard implementation has been done, that's going to be funny.
This is very true. Not too many people actually drink real sugar anymore.
I quit drinking pop ages ago. I might drink two cans a year if somebody offers it. Mostly cook for myself (lifelong habit). Might eat some Doritos once a month or so.
I can't say I've seen impressive physical results, but I wasn't really shooting for that. I just wanted to get off the junk before I got to an age where health isn't as easily reversible.
Diet's a lot less of an issue if your work burns stuff off. I used to do roofing and remodeling between HS and college, and I could get away anything I wanted. The idea of scheduling exercise and watching my diet didn't make much sense at the time. Actually took me a couple years after settling into an office environment before I realized I had to do something.
Just trying to be honest. I've almost completely cut sugar out of my diet, and I feel better to show for it.
Sorry, but how fucking amateurish are all these various proclamations of "We'll write video games" (bet ya won't) and "We'll take over the internets and fuck TV!"
First off, if the internet were a desirable business model for the traditional 22-48 minutes TV program, someone would already have monetized it.
Second, if the writers could pull their shit together and own their own studios and then sell the product to the major networks, all of this would be moot.
Third, the networks are owned by serious people with serious attorneys. They're not going to bow to some moronic argument made up by some dipshit who decides he's gonna take his football and go home.
When the strike ends it will end because of the same thing that ends all strikes -- pain. Either the networks' advertisers will cry uncle, and the nets pay up or else the writers will run out of ramen noodles and need food.
Isn't there supposed to be a point where these people disappear from the conversation after their actions prove they're not relevant?
Depends on GFX card and tuner. Keep in mind with the right cards installed a HTPC barely even needs the processor at all.
Building fail-safes would make sense and might work.
http://www.huhk.com/intro_background.html Hmmm... Truly viral marketing.
A lot of people still listen to radio. Doesn't change the fact that buying a radio station is a bad proposition.
I'm just looking at it as a business proposition. No one in their right mind whose goal is to make money would buy a newspaper today. You won't be spreading your evil conglomerate message for very long if you're forced to finance debt in this environment!