Comment For the rest of his life... (Score 0) 169
This boy will be looking for buried treasure to get him through the other half of his life.
This boy will be looking for buried treasure to get him through the other half of his life.
I felt pretty much the same way. Unfortunately by the time they finished picking Jurors I was already out. As a Computer Science graduate and a current programmer/tech support/QA I'm actually pretty decent at handling people. I would have gotten a second degree/minor in geology/philosophy/psychology but at the time it wasn't financially feasible to even pick up one for a minor.
Unfortunately now my job is so fast paced (cause its a TINY company), I would most likely get fired cause of all the project deadlines I'd miss even if jury duty was 2 weeks.
I'd love for there to be a full time profession as juror as I think it would be alot more mentally stimulating with the range of stuff and it would be beneficial to society.
Most of my professor's had "Dates and times may change without advance notice." on the syllabus. and usually that was for the benefit of the students eg delaying a deadline
Isnt the Kinect requiring game + Kinect indicitive of the Xbox360 Kinect using market?
Its not like people are going to buy GAMES without an Xbox to play them... The only way you would have a problem is when people purchase their initial Kinect without games from one location then buy games in another.
Anyhow, as far as I can see, MS basically used reverse psychology to get a bunch of smart people to do their work for them.
a) the Kinect makes money for every sale. It ISNT being sold at a loss. (Non Xbox users = larger market = more market share in a possibly new niche in the movement controlled interface)
b) Theres no such thing as bad publicity. Especially if its just playing into the existing MS image of we get to do what we want in terms of locking down our hardware. If it really becomes problematic, they have been enforcing it previously. If it isnt problematic, people are talking about it, experimenting with it. That can only help sales not hurt them. I mean the XBox had the red ring of death issue so widespread but how many people have you heard of giving up on Xbox as a platform? Certainly not enough to make a dent in MS' profit margin or the Kinect would have been abandoned or just kept as a proof of concept like the MS surface
c) hardware hackers will probably come up with stuff MS hasnt thought of. aka new uses for the Kinect.
Does ANYONE seriously think its China? The US is how many TRILLIONS into debt? Who are we borrowing from? China could practically cripple the US if they wanted to at this point. Most of the money that we spent on the war that we DONT have was borrowed from China. China also manufactures a good proportion of US goods. China also exports a good amount of US goods. http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balace/c5700.html#2010
and if you look there, our trade deficit started small in
1) LASERS. kidding. they do have these infrared sensor things installed on these things they call automatic faucets.. they detect your hand underneath it and turn on the tap for you and turn off when it leaves. also stops kids from flooding the place by stuffing it with toilet paper but thats a whole different issue.
1b) They also have the same technology for hand driers! they blow wind at you so you arent push/pulling on levers for paper towels!
2) Doors without handles. I know. its amazing the designs they come up with. You can actually remove handles on one or both sides of the door if you allow people to just push the door and it opens. Or if you really like your handles, you can let them pull open the door on the way in and push their way out. I personally think it would be cool if we could get revolving doors but I don't really see that happening
Basically the tech is there.. people just need to buy and install it. If they don't, they are willingly letting people spread these viruses! think of the children!
QFT. If kids are avoiding school, the problem isnt that they are skipping classes, its the fact they want to skip in the first place. Attendance is nothing but time and money wasted on solving a symptom of the bigger problem. If these kid's dont understand the importance of school, force them to be home schooled. Since the parents obviously haven't instilled the value of education into their kids, they need to be the ones that correct it. And if they choose not to, well... their kid will never get a job better than flipping burgers. Even if they as kids dont understand the ramifications, the parents surely should.
You mean like XP mode on windows 7 machines? doesnt that exist already?
uhh us CODERS? a touchscreen offers nothing to a coder. The same way a 7 inch tablet or even 11 inch netbook tablet is insufficient space to develop on. Some of us actually do work requiring larger screens. WIDE Screens rotated vertically to maximize the amount of code you can see etc.
I'm one of the few people that refuse to even upgrade to a smartphone. I require my phone to make phone calls and text nothing more. Would it be convenient to have "apps" on it? maybe. But considering how much I use the apps on my current phone, chances are I would be like most people. Install apps and use them once or twice then forget about them for months until I have some use for it.
Am I watching the market and development of apps for the new smartphone platforms carefully? Yes indeed. But we are still a long way off from the time where your phone can double as your computer if you need to actually get work DONE.
Have you tried turning off and on again?
I wonder what they are gonna name release 26. 'z'______? I cant think of anything sweet that begins with z.
The bigger problem with PC games: the majority are crap I wouldnt pirate even if they had no DRM. I'd pay for good games but not the stuff they are putting out these days. They release the same games with better graphics... and thats it.
Same with alot of the pop trash music that gets played 50 times a day on top 40 music radio stations. I have no idea what would possess people to download that stuff. But the main factor is they actually enjoy it (or at least thats why I listen to music) Personally I find it annoying enough it gets played 50 times a day already, you would have to pay me to put the some of those song on anything I own.
While you are at it, ask Obama if we can do it.
Obama: Yes we can! but unfortunately we won't cause the NASA budget is gone!
What we need is a perpetual motion machine.
Umm, movie theaters here in SoCal cost $12 for standard tickets. And yes. that comes with the commercials and trailers.
Look out behind you! a three headed snake!
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it." - Bert Lantz
