Well, I doubt that the correlation is due to "higher-than-average economic success." With the exception of entertainers, the wealthy generally like to protect their profitability, and that means voting the business-friendly Republican line. If I had my own business and stockpiles of cash, I would probably switch to the right myself.
It's more elemental than that. When I was a cashier, I just didn't think it was worth the risk of infuriating a customer and making a fool out of myself if I turned out to be wrong.
The problem is that tech magazines are in the advertising business, not the tech business. I write content for the Web site of a tech radio show, and it's just a bunch of us in cubicles looking stuff up on Google. No tech people involved.
On XP, Office 2007 breaks the spell check in Outlook Express, which is ridiculously popular with Joe Average. Looks like Joe will have to go get Vista.
Were things really much more private before the Internet as we know it today? You had to approach actual experts like doctors for any questions you had. That leaves a trail. And if you had checked out library books as research, I'm sure the government could trace those records as well, even before computerized systems. Technology simply makes the process shorter.
Right. I read Tufte's rants on PowerPoint when I was in college, and that was quite a few years back. I agree with his disappointment with PowerPoint. Of course people can make worthwhile presentations with it. The problem is that PowerPoint sort of encourages people to focus on everything but the actual information.
This may be true, but think about most of your bosses making the good money. They're not messy. The inner ranks of business are about image, not necessarily results. Think Carly Fiorina, or any other executive.
True enough. I recently switched back to Yahoo! search after about five years of nothing but Google. I don't know if the results are any better, but it sure is a good change of pace.
Exactly. The average Joe barely knows which cellular provider he's using. Most people simply shop for phones, not for good rates or good providers. Getting people to switch providers for the iPhone is a non-issue.
Web-based desktop apps will reshape the enterprise soon.
This is one of the few articles that doesn't make it sound like we'll all be using computers with nothing but a browser, as if browsers run without an OS. Still shameless for dragging on the Web 2.0 mantra though. Will the addition of animated load screens really improve productivity?
Exactly. The first thing I did on my router was change the password. A few months later, my forgotten password now locks me out. Does anyone have a safety pin?
Surveys are one of the least reliable ways to get statistics. Why? Even with anonymity, people try to cast themselves in a good light on surveys. If music executives don't like DRM, then where is DRM coming from?
Ugh, I wish there was someone, anyone, in Congress who was younger than 40. Reviewing all content is just not feasible. How would you show all content of a non-linear game such as Zelda? Could any human sit through hours of random, meaningless footage of the game world?
The alternative is to have reviewers play the games, and that's just not going to happen. That requires too much skill. Worthless skill, but skill nonetheless. The only problem I might see with the current system is that the review footage is edited by the developers.
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Well, I doubt that the correlation is due to "higher-than-average economic success." With the exception of entertainers, the wealthy generally like to protect their profitability, and that means voting the business-friendly Republican line. If I had my own business and stockpiles of cash, I would probably switch to the right myself.
It's more elemental than that. When I was a cashier, I just didn't think it was worth the risk of infuriating a customer and making a fool out of myself if I turned out to be wrong.
You're right though. I wasn't aware that there was a need for males anyway.
Really, it pretty much means no more evolution for those sharks. Every generation will be the same.
The problem is that tech magazines are in the advertising business, not the tech business. I write content for the Web site of a tech radio show, and it's just a bunch of us in cubicles looking stuff up on Google. No tech people involved.
All I had to do was pay about 50,000 of my closest friends. This post will be number one in a few short hours.
On XP, Office 2007 breaks the spell check in Outlook Express, which is ridiculously popular with Joe Average. Looks like Joe will have to go get Vista.
Ah, now this is how it's supposed to work. No bull like, "We're releasing improvements as MSN-SQL," or any other nonsense. Yay Google.
Were things really much more private before the Internet as we know it today? You had to approach actual experts like doctors for any questions you had. That leaves a trail. And if you had checked out library books as research, I'm sure the government could trace those records as well, even before computerized systems. Technology simply makes the process shorter.
Right. I read Tufte's rants on PowerPoint when I was in college, and that was quite a few years back. I agree with his disappointment with PowerPoint. Of course people can make worthwhile presentations with it. The problem is that PowerPoint sort of encourages people to focus on everything but the actual information.
Yeah, I'll bet that all those shipped Blu-ray discs are sitting at hundreds of Best Buy stores, right next to the towers of Playstation 3 systems.
Networking in Vista is easier than ever. Now, you'll always have access to the latest and greatest new viruses.
This may be true, but think about most of your bosses making the good money. They're not messy. The inner ranks of business are about image, not necessarily results. Think Carly Fiorina, or any other executive.
Sweet, now I don't have to learn AJAX. I can't wait for AJAX#.
True enough. I recently switched back to Yahoo! search after about five years of nothing but Google. I don't know if the results are any better, but it sure is a good change of pace.
It's a bit laughable that the president has any ethics councils. If anyone is writing a sequel to Demolition Man, now is the time to gather material.
So this means I can no longer use the Internet to shop for ether, rope, and shovels?
Exactly. The average Joe barely knows which cellular provider he's using. Most people simply shop for phones, not for good rates or good providers. Getting people to switch providers for the iPhone is a non-issue.
Maybe they just need a little more time to start The Wow. I'm still waiting, and I'm using Vista.
Just switch to Firefox. I'm using it right now on Windows XP, and I haven't noticed any problems with memory le*$@!!- NO CARRIER
This is one of the few articles that doesn't make it sound like we'll all be using computers with nothing but a browser, as if browsers run without an OS. Still shameless for dragging on the Web 2.0 mantra though. Will the addition of animated load screens really improve productivity?
Even more remarkable: 13 percent of the patches were submitted by Al Gore.
Ba-doom boom
Exactly. The first thing I did on my router was change the password. A few months later, my forgotten password now locks me out. Does anyone have a safety pin?
Surveys are one of the least reliable ways to get statistics. Why? Even with anonymity, people try to cast themselves in a good light on surveys. If music executives don't like DRM, then where is DRM coming from?
Ugh, I wish there was someone, anyone, in Congress who was younger than 40. Reviewing all content is just not feasible. How would you show all content of a non-linear game such as Zelda? Could any human sit through hours of random, meaningless footage of the game world?
The alternative is to have reviewers play the games, and that's just not going to happen. That requires too much skill. Worthless skill, but skill nonetheless. The only problem I might see with the current system is that the review footage is edited by the developers.