vishaldpatel

Thanks =). It was meant as a trailing joke. Can you imagine actually getting that every time you press a button? =)

I think it comes down to motive and the degree of selfishness behind actions.

For example, when someone buys green, or votes Obama (or Ron Paul or George Bush), whether they do it for themselves or for others. If they feel that they've made some sacrifice in taking the action - then they're likely to feel that something is owed to them. This could be social recognition, the license to get away with something questionable .. whatever it is.

If on the other hand they do it for themselves - "I vote Obama cuz I want healthcare" or "I bought this green bag cuz it serves me better / lets me dump it anywhere knowing that it'll just disintegrate after a few weeks... " whatever it may be - then they're less likely want something more to make up for the "sacrifice".

If I'm right, then we should try to make our customers feel as if they've won whenever they buy / interact with us ;-). "You clicked on THAT button! AWESOM!!!!E!" =)

I wonder if this can then be bundled up into a security :P (pretty evil, I know..)

Very cool. What is it? =)

Problem: Status updates and notifications from my bank, facebook, meetup, server crashing etc.. aren't really e-amils but are being sent to to my inbox because there isn't a better place to send just the updates. Also, if I want to say, temporarily turn off status updates from facebook going to my inbox, this involves going into my facebook profile and turning notifications off there and then going back in there in the future and turning it back on.

My membership and communication information for many websites is also burried deep inside my inbox somewhere when that isn't really email either.

A Real Time Strategy video game style interface for managing and coordinating aid.

As far as I know, academic institutions have a pretty large budget for subscribing to journals. If a member (prof, staffer or student) wants access to a certain journal that isn't available, the librarian can arrange for it.

So in terms of accessibility to each other's scholarly articles, scientists in academia or larger industries don't suffer from a lack of collaboration. Since this covers most practicing academics, there is little incentive for the scholarly publishing community to change.

That said, there are many Open Access Journals out there - I guess you're not alone in your sentiments that science should be collaborative.

Grocery chains / big box stores could add it as part of their rewards points programs. -> Attach email to safeway card. -> Scan safeway card. -> Receive receipts via email.

But this also means replacing hardware, which is a more expensive proposition.

Do a search on what the Gujarat government has been upto in terms of both fighting corruption and streamlining government services.

Stone age technology is still good technology if it does the job well. In the USA / Canada, people seem to get angered / offended when someone honks at them, and similarly people often honk out of anger.

Having phone numbers on license plates comes to mind... so you can call people and tell them to get out of the way =)

Things work slightly differently in India: most of the time you tap lightly to tell people that you're bigger, faster, and approaching from behind, and that it is safer for them to change lanes and let you pass =)

Let me know when you want those locks changed and the keys thrown away :P

Perhaps the cameras are a teaching tool. You learn in school how to do mischief despite the cameras so you can get away with it in real life! :P

Hmm. Upon reading your post I'd say that you need to further tweak your grammar and choice of words.

- The placement of your commas is often incorrect.

- "I didn't reach" should be "I haven't reached".

- "The hard point is.." should probably be "The hard part is" etc...

So three things to work on:

- Grammer, especially the placement of commas - when to pause in a statement.

- Use of correct choice of words - this will come from more practice.

And finally: - Try listening to more rock / alternative music. For the first few years, it will mostly sound like gibberish. This is partially an exercise to train your ear =)

Has anyone here read Surfing and Health by Dorian Paskowitz? Great book that. Everyone seems to eventually arrive to his conclusions (including that TED talk about living past 100).

So there were 7 15 year olds at a factory in China. Most of the employees were adults here, but a few weren't. Perhaps this isn't an example of forced child labour, but rather some 15 year old being the primary bread winner for their family?

Social safety nets aren't the same everywhere.

I thought the ad campaign was pretty good. What I didn't get was why it was taking forever to get the developer network going ... the iPhone with its developer program and the iTunes apps store was already out there. Palm should've had that in the bag before launch.

No, I'm actually quite outraged that they did this at all.

I think the above title (I haven't read the article) applies to North America and Britain much more than Europe, South America or India.

I'd add a date to the timezone converter. For example - if it is 10pm in Toronto on the 1st, then it is 8am somewhere in India on the 2nd.

Back when I was in university doing my undergrad (only 4 years ago), in the two years that I spent in that particular university - out of all the people that I talked to, only one of them was actively looking to start a company or do something. It was a Russian foreign exchange student in his 1st year. He had already started and succeeded in business back in Mother Russia and was using his hard earned cash to now get an undergrad as an international student.

The Russians are intelligent, smart, and resourceful - they have all the qualities needed for entrepreneurship and it will take very little effort on the part of the Russian government to create an environment to attract them.

I upvoted because I thought this was funny, rather than serious :-/

Suggestion for the archive feature: -> Archive results for all. -> Only make the latest results available for the free customers. When they pay for a year's subscription, make the rest of the archive available.

I think flickr does this.

Yes, sugar indeed != fat. When you do eat sugar - it is your body's first choice for energy. This means that any fat you eat gets stored for later consumption... which will be never cuz most of us eat way too much sugar anyway.

I suppose the question then becomes, is the study of female parters abusing their male counterparts getting even 20% of the total number of relationship abuse stories?

Sugar = fat.

A lot of food says 0% fat, when the ultimate result of all that sugar is essentially fat.

Okay I try to bite:

Say I'm a "novice" user who starts up the web browser. If everything else works, then here's what I'll see:

A screen with a textbox that says "Search: [ ]". This textbox is at my eye level - I'm likely to see this before the "address" bar on top - which in a lot of computers isn't even labeled anymore.

So delightfully enough I search for something like "facebook login". If the first result isn't something I'm looking for, then I might get angry.... in some cases, at the person who authored the first result .. "hey jackass, I came here looking for the facebook login - whats going on? stop advertising as something you're not!".

What can I say, I'm just a spoilt baby boomer, and you want my money.

I'll second that. It is good to know that Celery is being used in production... but give us a story. What were you doing? What was the problem? How did creating and deploying Celery help you solve it? Perhaps an example or two of other potential uses would be cool too.

Thanks =)

Yeah great "risk" she was taking.

I can think of a few things that will =)

No way man. The iPad is the next gold mine!