When it comes to discretionary spending I believe the 80:20 rule applies very often.
I wanted a smartphone so I got the cheapest Android.
I'm sure I'm missing something the most expensive phones have but not much.
My car is 12 years old it pretty much does everything a new car does, it doesn't look pretty but I don't have to worry about it being stolen either.
It's helpful to look at things from the other end. Companies produce a baseline product for a certain price, they then try to add value which essentially means getting people to pay a whole heap more for not very much extra. Sometimes even the extra is illusory (eg a celebrity endorsement).
You can have almost as good the lifestyle of someone with many times your income if you can see past marketing.
"Collecting videos around the net and put it in one page is useless idea."
I wouldn't say it's a useless idea but I am surprised that the site is getting such a lot of attention considering there is nothing there at all yet.
We use truecrypt to secure business data on dropbox. It works OK but is not ideal. Problems occur if say I leave the container file mounted on my computer and someone else then mounts it on another. While a file is mounted no syncing can occur. The mere act of mounting and then dismounting a truecrypt file means that as far as dropbox is concerned the file has changed and requires syncing. So if user A mounts, then user B mounts before A dismounts then a copy of the truecrypt file ends up being added to the dropbox folder on each computer.
Whatever the solution is, I think that this security failure demands that user controlled encryption has to be part of it.
A couple of points ;
1: He said he attempted to comply but was unsuccessful. So he already seems to have conceded the principle of a right to not decrypt. It's now analagous to a judge telling him to produce something, him agreeing, then claiming he lost it and the judge not believing him.
2: Someone in his position may have made the rational choice that it's better to spend some time in jail for contempt rather than a lengthy sentence for a criminal conviction. However here's a case where someone was held for 14 years for contempt!
Breaking it down in to mini goals taken to its ultimate is David Allen's "What's the next action" question. This one is worth the other 19 put together in my view
Memorize the keyword/phrase in each sentence you want to say so that you will remember to make every point.
Don't memorize the entire sentences or unless you're very good you will-sound-like-someone-reading-a-script
I was watching a documentary about the wright brothers recently and right up until they actually did it many bright people doubted it would ever be possible to have powered human flight.
Like it always has, something will come along that will change everything.
I got this message when I followed the link to his vbaclasses
Your computer or another computer on your network is compromised with a virus. This allows online criminals to use it as part of a botnet to send spam and attack websites.
So it's like we humans have made up time and it's acting as a mental block to truly understanding what's really going on.
Time as a man-made metaphor gives a meaning to our world in a way analogous to religion?
The above thoughts are purely my real-time ramblings, I am clueless but interested :)
If I am understanding what's written correctly why can't it just say that there are only 3 dimensions, ie the ones you learned in primary school when you were doing volume.
I may give out about something in my country and say how it's so much better in that other country but if someone from there is here and does the same I feel like saying it's a wonder they didn't stay there so if it's so bloody good.
The only issue that requires proof is identity.
Once established then is it really necessary that this man go through an expensive trial and subsequent imprisonment?
I think he should be publicly executed in Srebrenica. Wouldn't that send out a better message to others tempted to follow a similar path than the courtof justice does?
Today, coincidentally, is the anniversary of the last public execution in England
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Barrett_%28Fenian%29
I followed your link and it said the reason the picture of Lenna (from a 1972 edition of Playboy) became significant was for its first use in 1973 in an academic conference paper on image processing.
Yet it also states that Woody Allen also used the image in the film Sleepers in the same year.
Woody Allen hardly got the idea from reading academic conference literature.
Makes me think that the image must have made an enormous impact on its release in 1972. Makes you wonder what was cropped, although her face is very nice
I wanted a smartphone so I got the cheapest Android. I'm sure I'm missing something the most expensive phones have but not much.
My car is 12 years old it pretty much does everything a new car does, it doesn't look pretty but I don't have to worry about it being stolen either.
It's helpful to look at things from the other end. Companies produce a baseline product for a certain price, they then try to add value which essentially means getting people to pay a whole heap more for not very much extra. Sometimes even the extra is illusory (eg a celebrity endorsement).
You can have almost as good the lifestyle of someone with many times your income if you can see past marketing.