Just me, myself, and Irene!
From this story over at Gizmodo, looks like the US Army will be releasing their Android SDK in soon and Soldiers will be taking Android devices to the field in 2013.
Nice, just what you want. A dude who can write code to fight you. I can see it now, some years into the future. Two soldiers are out on the field trying to write code to out smart each other.
If I had an iPhone, I would be mad as hell and would probably try to get rid of it soon. I am an Android user and it is not as smooth now, as the iPhone. But man do I love it openness.
Saw this on Slashdot:
So Earth day is coming up and Robert Krulwich over at Krulwich Wonders have this mini-series of video on the good old Carbon atom.  Trust me, these isn’t any there about the pros vs cons of Global Warming.  Just some short entertaining and educational videos about the Carbon atom.  Highly recommended, go check it out.  I think it will eventually about four(4) videos, as of today, there are there (3).
Lift your spirit even higher, check out this short video our sky: Time-lapse Video of the Milky Way. With such beauty, it is hard to image some of the horrors that occur here.
I saw this on “No Reservations” a while back and I thought it was crazy then, and I still think it is crazy.
Watch as the train come rolling though the market: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_BN7gm4SLA&feature=player_embedded
My wife’s father used to tell them, “good thing isn’t cheap, and cheap thing isn’t good”.
My buddy sent an email about a new Airline (RedJet: http://www.flyredjet.com) with flight within the Caribbean for as little as $9.99USD. Now don’t get me wrong, I love flying and was never afraid to fly. But if someone will put me on a flight for more than 10 minutes, and charge me only $10US. I am gonna think very hard about dat.
I have decided, ah think I aint gonna fly.
That is why I don’t eat cheap fast food like McDonald. The economics just doesn’t make sense. $.99 for a burger, which includes; bun, meat, lettuce, tomatoes, human labor to server it, transportation cost, raising and slaughtering the cow, and profits.  All this, I am getting for $.99 or even $2.99. I just figured that I am eating crap for that price.
So I checked it out and some flights were $39.99 between Jamaica and Trinidad. I still think that’s too cheap. With a full flight, of about 130 seats, that is only $5,000.00UD for aircraft, crew, booking agents, fuel, etc. Seems to be cutting the bone just too close.
Why do people feel the need to haggle with you over price when the price is already a good deal?
May be it is because I am not the type to take advantage of a person when they are trying to sell something, regardless of how desperate they are to sell. I just hate when people try to do it to me. Especially, when they try doing so for something that is already marked down or is a fair price.
I guess I just really hate haggling over the price for goods or service. If I want something, and the person selling says it is X, I have three ways of dealing with it. If I think X is a fair price, I don’t argue and I take it if I can afford it. If I can’t, then I let them know and they get to decide how low they will go. Finally, if I think it is too expensive, I let them know that and ask if they can do better on the price. I don’t purposely try to get the loses price if someone is desperate.
That sounds counter intuitive and not the smartest way to do things. But I don’t like taking advantage of people in that way. They feel unhappy after the deal, you might feel good, but is it worth it? I don’t think so.
I posted something for sale recently for X dollars. The guys saw the price, came to see the product, likes it, and then tell me that he only walked with far less than what I was asking. I mean, is that really necessary? What, he figured I was desperate to sell that I would just give it to him just because he had cash? He knew that product was already 10% off the true value.  Yet, he wanted to shaft me another 10%.
Of course I said now way and he kept raising it offer. I told him the price was the price and that’s it. He can take it or leave it. Of course he took it at that point.
I said it, but I didn’t mean it. It is not often that you might find yourself
saying something you really don’t mean. I frankly can’t remember the last time
I said something I really really didn’t mean before this one incidence quite
recently.
Have someone ever said something like, thanks for doing me some big favor? And
you are really thinking, I wasn’t trying to do you a favor? That was me
recently. So, instead of saying “You are welcome” in return for their “Thank
you” to me. I came up with something else. I am not going to say what I said,
it is a small world after all.
Unfortunately, I really didn’t think they were welcome, I really didn’t want to
do them any kind of favor. So, I wrestle with it for a bit, before I said
like things worked out. Even that seems like it was stretching it a
bit. I guess I was okay with it working out, but not really glad or happy about
it.
Checkout this youtube video: Jumping Cow. This young girl in Germany taught her cow to jump like a horse while she rides it.
Funny stuff.
Google likes to say that they can operate without being evil. True, it is there in the first sentence of their policy. Check it out Don’t Be Evil.  But that whole don’t be evil thing, might be lost on the Google Chrome browser developer.
So the FTC has endorse a security system that allows a user to say to advertisers, “don’t track me”. This feature was first added to Mozilla, followed by Microsoft Internet Explorer, and now Apple’s Safari.  But guess what? Not by Google Chrome.
You might be wondering why won’t Google follow the rest. Well, considering that Google’s business is based on being able to amass as much information about users, it is not surprising. Too bad they put tracking ahead of your own code of conduct.
May be I am too harsh in thinking that Google’s desire to track users is a bit evil.  But I certainly don’t see it as being good for the users.
I found this story on Slashdot: