Comment Re:Let me be the first to say... (Score 1) 140
You mean "EMBRACE, EXTEND, and then EXTERMINATE"
That would be the Cybermen, although they tend to do those three simultaneously.
See also our Microsoft Borg icon.
You mean "EMBRACE, EXTEND, and then EXTERMINATE"
That would be the Cybermen, although they tend to do those three simultaneously.
See also our Microsoft Borg icon.
You have only to look at the jungle compared to that arctic to realize that...
Unless you also compare the jungle to, say, the Sahara.
Incidentally, the arctic is classified as a desert. There's very little precipitation, just like with any other desert.
I've been burned before, although as a kid and in a less developed country. You also need to protect your internet line.
I bet I know what these robots will be dressed up like for Halloween! They're already the right shape.
Cut 'em some slack; it's not as though they're attending an Ivy League law school where they'd learn fancy schmancy legal concepts like standing.
Exactly. When you're sued by your own students, you're quite screwed. Turns out not only are Harvard's students incompetent, but they also hate Harvard enough to sue. Why would anyone want to go there?
Do you know anything about running a business? In a service industry, people costs are often a huge portion of a company's overall costs. Minor changes in that structure can have major impact on the bottom line.
Even in traditional manufacturing jobs, where a large percent of the costs are tied up in capital and materials, a modest change in employee costs filters through. Just ask GM and Chrysler.
I'd like to be able to set that as a toggle in my search results for apps.
First post!
^ Proof that Americans still care about being first in some things.
I understand we also like being the "biggest fish in the pond", although I question the methods we use to achieve that status.
First in what? What's the prize?
If the prize is just throwing money down a hole on hardware that will be obsolete the moment it's deployed, then let the other guys win.
If the prize is getting accurate weather forecasts at the lowest cost, then maybe we'd be better off contracting from those countries, using spare cycles from other government agencies that are wasteful and counterproductive (cough, NSA, cough), or writing better software to run on the other guy's hardware and licensing it to them.
The second approach won't allow us to thump our chest and say, "computer that required 10 new hydro-electric dams! BOOYAH! fastest in the WORLD!!!" but it'll accomplish a meaningful goal.
"Go fuck yourself."
Better idea. Enter the competition, use already well-developed commercial software (or write a program to average the results of several commercial programs), and easily win the competition. It's not like anyone is going to create software worth millions and give it away for a tiny prize.
I'm offended that boys are being stereotyped as too stupid to realize that Barbie is just using them! Wait, I bet I was supposed to be offended that Barbie using her natural talents and as a result achieving her objectives, was using the wrong talent. Cause she'd be smarter to do it all 100% by herself, so the book portrays her as stupid, right?
Oh no! An anorexic harlot from nazi Germany has failed us as a role model. Again.
"Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberrys!" -- Monty Python and the Holy Grail