It's part of the new generation. Who were brought up by coddling mothers who never, EVER let them be exposed to the dirt in the vacant lot next door. When you're raised in a hygienic environment, you don't build up any antibodies.
The allergy 'victims' are really child abuse victims.
But we live in a society where syndrome this-n-that is a big revenue stream for doctors, and where there are doctors, lawyers congregate. Rinse, repeat.
You never made a rational argument in your comments above. You say 'they work only 30 hours a week and are very good' but never demonstrate that by any measurable method.
Just peppering your thoughts with Dilbertisms doesn't mean much in the workplace.
You clearly don't understand well water. I'm supposed to have some duff 'keep my well water treated and chemically balanced'? With a service contract?
When the jet pump failed due to cellar flooding a few years ago, I spent $175 on a new pump and installed it myself. We've lived here 8 years now and have paid $100 once for someone to come pump solids out of the septic tank.
Service contract? Is this the checkout lane at BestBuy??
We're resigned to that. It will resurface in Slashdot threads at least once a year forever.
I can only imagine what the 2020 threads will look like. Gramps N waving his cane in fury at Old Man Jones who switched to Windows 95 in 1997. Old Harvey maintaining that Amiga is STILL viable because the embedded controller in his prosthetic leg runs it under emulation.
The Amiga's 'technical advantage' was simply being a cluster of custom gate arrays named after girls that supplemented the main CPU. That's a failed design methodology. Every chip in the cluster needs to be updated with each generation. That's a scaling nightmare, and a design teams nightmare. (it would be design team plural because you'd need separate teams to continually update each 'girl' in the cluster.)
The Amiga was a clever kludge for it's time. That's it. The custom silicon wasn't worth continuing with.
So were you the dude with the phillips screwdriver who knew how to install the 8 bit hard drive controllers and the Seagate 20 meg hard drives? We're impressed. You probably still know the right flipper keys to go boldface in WordPerfect. Again we're impressed.
WordPerfect was secretaries turdware. Nothing more. It's also dead.
If you were a little older you'd know more about something like WordStar on CP/M.
I was 'working in the industry' and I remember WordPerfect as being the darling of the small sect of people who had memorized all the arcane hidden keystrokes to use it. There was an actual growth industry of keyboard overlays to allow regular people to actually use it productively.
Yes, it made that secretary in the typing pool who actually had all the keystrokes memorized VERY POWERFUL among her peers. She was a Computer GURU!!!
The rest of us kinda found it to be a tedious and turgid piece of work.
If I go into a large crowd somewhere in the US and start shouting that you guys deserved 9/11 for your arrogance, not only am I likely to start a riot - I'm also likely to get beaten to death or shot.
You can think that, if you like. But your comic-book caricature version of the U.S. is just that.
It's very difficult to regulate and control the production of THC-producing plants (cannabis).
This is why the government is so strongly opposed to it. It can't be taxed and controlled easily. Any dumb pot-head can grow a years supply of it in a few pickle buckets, anywhere on the planet.
It isn't difficult to grow like tobacco, and massive-scale growing operations are not needed, as with opium or cocaine.
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It's time to sue the hand sanitizer producers. And those Lysol people have to go.
It's part of the new generation. Who were brought up by coddling mothers who never, EVER let them be exposed to the dirt in the vacant lot next door. When you're raised in a hygienic environment, you don't build up any antibodies.
The allergy 'victims' are really child abuse victims.
But we live in a society where syndrome this-n-that is a big revenue stream for doctors, and where there are doctors, lawyers congregate. Rinse, repeat.
Guess I'll bring my own peanuts. Unless they will be considered a prohibited substance.
Don't worry, they will. There are schools all across America where the kids get in trouble for bringing anything with peanuts with them for lunch.
It doesn't have to be a genetic solution. As long as all the whiners go away, it doesn't matter if a few recur each generation.
Computer programs are about the most complex things we create as humans.
It isn't the 1970's any more. Cut it with the 'wizardry' stuff.
You never made a rational argument in your comments above. You say 'they work only 30 hours a week and are very good' but never demonstrate that by any measurable method.
Just peppering your thoughts with Dilbertisms doesn't mean much in the workplace.
It would surprise me, because every time when I've had that job title, it was at a company whose primary business was to produce medical devices.
That said, 'IT' people are the janitors of business. The data janitors. Basically high-tech file clerks.
Really.
Often, nobody really cares what's going on at Apple.
"What?", irate resondents to this comment will say. "Everybody cares about what is happening at Apple!"
Yes, there is a lot of simulated hype. Bushels and bushels of it. That's the primary product at Apple.
Yes, I am posting this at Apple.slashdot.org so I expect a little flaming.
Which gives one pause to ask: "why don't they just get the heck out of Tokyo?"
I would suspect there are far lower cost places to live.
Former cocaine dealer as principal hypemeister. It's gonna sell millions!
You clearly don't understand well water. I'm supposed to have some duff 'keep my well water treated and chemically balanced'? With a service contract?
When the jet pump failed due to cellar flooding a few years ago, I spent $175 on a new pump and installed it myself. We've lived here 8 years now and have paid $100 once for someone to come pump solids out of the septic tank.
Service contract? Is this the checkout lane at BestBuy??
However, the games on a Playstation I are better than either.
Translation: it took you that long to get out of the rut.
Further elaboration: they were no longer 'boring junk' by 1999. But it took you awhile to notice.
Shall we all sing a chorus or two of 'OS/2 Forever' now?
If you buy crap you get stuck in a market that will only sell you crap.
I assume you're talking about a niche market, correct? Meaning, one with a single hardware vendor??
As that you, Guy Kawasaki? Has your yoga instructor finally taught you auto-fellatio?
Amiga will always still be here.
We're resigned to that. It will resurface in Slashdot threads at least once a year forever.
I can only imagine what the 2020 threads will look like. Gramps N waving his cane in fury at Old Man Jones who switched to Windows 95 in 1997. Old Harvey maintaining that Amiga is STILL viable because the embedded controller in his prosthetic leg runs it under emulation.
Rinse. Repeat. Forever.
The Amiga's 'technical advantage' was simply being a cluster of custom gate arrays named after girls that supplemented the main CPU. That's a failed design methodology. Every chip in the cluster needs to be updated with each generation. That's a scaling nightmare, and a design teams nightmare. (it would be design team plural because you'd need separate teams to continually update each 'girl' in the cluster.)
The Amiga was a clever kludge for it's time. That's it. The custom silicon wasn't worth continuing with.
So were you the dude with the phillips screwdriver who knew how to install the 8 bit hard drive controllers and the Seagate 20 meg hard drives? We're impressed. You probably still know the right flipper keys to go boldface in WordPerfect. Again we're impressed.
WordPerfect was secretaries turdware. Nothing more. It's also dead.
If you were a little older you'd know more about something like WordStar on CP/M.
I was 'working in the industry' and I remember WordPerfect as being the darling of the small sect of people who had memorized all the arcane hidden keystrokes to use it. There was an actual growth industry of keyboard overlays to allow regular people to actually use it productively.
Yes, it made that secretary in the typing pool who actually had all the keystrokes memorized VERY POWERFUL among her peers. She was a Computer GURU!!!
The rest of us kinda found it to be a tedious and turgid piece of work.
Yes, but they'll just be working you over for being such a dork. I mean, really.
I suppose you're going to assert that trolling a bunch of bikers over a brand of motorcycle is political speech next...
If I go into a large crowd somewhere in the US and start shouting that you guys deserved 9/11 for your arrogance, not only am I likely to start a riot - I'm also likely to get beaten to death or shot.
You can think that, if you like. But your comic-book caricature version of the U.S. is just that.
Unused processor cycles.
Citizen! Your screen saver is anti-social. It is being removed. Please install the new Obama screen saver. Enjoy!
Who is this 'we' you refer to? Do you have a mouse in your pocket?
It's very difficult to regulate and control the production of THC-producing plants (cannabis).
This is why the government is so strongly opposed to it. It can't be taxed and controlled easily. Any dumb pot-head can grow a years supply of it in a few pickle buckets, anywhere on the planet.
It isn't difficult to grow like tobacco, and massive-scale growing operations are not needed, as with opium or cocaine.
Your 'big oil monopoly' theories are very, very 1970's. Can't you move on?