You just made me recall that annoyingly Michael Jackson song, "Beat It". It's like mental super glue. Almost as persistent as that "Benny Hill" theme --- Oh No, Benny Hill is "Now Playing"! I just did it to myself --- Grrrr!
approach to project development. "If we hire twice as many programmers, we'll finish it in half the time!"
I ran into this career driven mid-level manager problem-solving approach regularly in the 90's before many of them vaporized (remember DEC?) Time has not changed human nature or incompetent managers.
The PM's of these projects tended to be big on contrived dog-and-pony shows too as I recall.
"Michelle Carlile-Alkhouri, the reporter for the story of the amazing Japanese car that runs on only water and tea, was heard soon after asking if she could get BlondeStar online road service to deliver her favorite herbal tea if she were stuck out in the desert with nothing but a six-pack of T@B on ice..."
(Sigh) Kudos. I have a refrigerator magnet of a FAX machine that has that quote on it with "FAX" for "FACTS". I used to watch that show regularly and contrary to what SNOPES says, I could SWEAR Friday or Gannon said it on at least one occasion --- Maybe without the "ma'am" part...
"Elephant Butte"? That's only one letter away from a massive onslaught of crude dick and fart jokes. I'll wager those signs going into town are defaced regularly.
I remember back in the 60s that even Jim Kirk was impressed with "Ion Power".
It followed one of those cosmic dramatic pauses after Spock gives Jim the technical skinny on the "alien vessel" and Kirk speaks out in one of his classic redundant clarifications for the home viewer and says:
"Ion Power" in a hushed, almost reverent tone. (can't remember the name of the episode, Maybe it was the one with the Gorn ---that frog head alien with asthma that Kirk nailed with the diamond/gunpowder cannon)
I mean really, he can mix matter and anti-matter at will, modulate photons into gigawatt phaser banks and he starts going all wistful over --- "Ion Power"?
Star Trek scripts, gotta love 'em!
Like Kirk's glaring scientific faux pas where he says the " --- the magnitude is amplified ONE to the 28th power"...
It's the first walk-in coffee machine in effect, and customers sit there and watch as their coffee beans rush past in pneumatic tubes, as they move from storage bins to staging, roasting station, grinding and a brewing machine where they are dispensed with the repeatable accuracy of a purpose-built machine.
(Big Yawn)
When I can watch my coffee being GROWN via a live 24/7 satellite feed and Juan Valdez personally inspecting my every bean --- THEN I'll truly be impressed...
Whenever we go hiking, I'm always the only one the mosquitoes target for a blood meal. Also, since it's the females that bite, that just reinforces my paranoia that all female are out to get me.
I'm also still paranoid about my inevitable alien abduction and anal probing (Ouch! Maybe they work for the IRS...)
According to your definition, the world is run by the "Peoples Skills" set, which, in fact, it is. This is evidenced (expecially in politics) by the tepid, vacillating, "bend with the breeze" politicians. Maybe we need leaders who have a set of balls and believe in their convictions rather than "Playing to the poll numbers". I think engineers would make great politicians. So they're a tad stubborn in their convictions, but that is what's lacking with crowd pleaser sycophants in office today.
Say --- Maybe the crackerjacks funding the "sleep mode power study" are ready to take on the next quantum leap and fund a study to determine the energy savings in the "OFF mode".
"Boldly going where no idiot has gone before --- "
They'll undoubtedly be working closely with SC Johnson for product placement for Johnson's GLADE air freshener line. A pocket sized can conspicuously placed in a zero-G utility belt will bring megabuck rain on SC Johnson, like TANG did for General Foods with the "Drink of the Astronauts".
If they use 120VAC for shipboard power, they can feature the GLADE Plug-Ins for solving "Real tough Kimchi odor problems".
I'll bet the makers of those little pine trees hanging off car reaview mirrors could also join in to "Clearing the air in space".
June Cleaver: "Ward, I caught Beaver and Wally using a blackberry behind the garage --- What should We do about it?" Ward Cleaver: "I'll talk to him about it"
Later that day
Ward: "Beaver, your mother said she say you and Wally behind the garage using a blackberry. What do you have to say about yourself?" Beav: "Gee dad, Wally and I were just seeing what it was like. All the kids at school have tried blackberries --- Some even use it at school!" Ward: "I don't care what the other boys at school are doing. If all the other kids were smoking giant ganja bud spleefs while wearing bellbottoms and tea-shades, would you follow them?" Beve: "Nah, I guess not dad. I'm sorry. I'll go ask wally to flush that blackberry down the toilet before we get into more trouble with it. I learned my lesson. Thanks dad." Ward:'OK son. Now get Wally over here so I can ask him what he and Eddie Haskell were doing with that gallon of Mazola and 15 boxes of golf balls in the basement..."
Maybe we might begin to develop a generation of students who haven't been mesmerized by the MICROSOFT logo. Tweaking around with the OS for fun will sprout a new generation of "garage" hackers. I'll never forget my first erector set. Now it will be virtual. Go kiddies GO !
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;Eat it.
Now you've gone and done it!
You just made me recall that annoyingly Michael Jackson song, "Beat It". It's like mental super glue. Almost as persistent as that "Benny Hill" theme --- Oh No, Benny Hill is "Now Playing"!
I just did it to myself --- Grrrr!
;Eat it.
Now you've gone and done it!
You just made me remember that annoyingly catchy Michael Jackson melody from "Beat It", that took years for me to forget.
Grrrrr!
There's an orange that roller under my workbench in the basement a couple of months ago. It is now the 10th biggest science project.
Have the critics finally become fed up with the words "for Dummies" being appended to everything?
They really got fed up after ----
"Criticism for Dummies"
approach to project development. "If we hire twice as many programmers, we'll finish it in half the time!"
I ran into this career driven mid-level manager problem-solving approach regularly in the 90's before many of them vaporized (remember DEC?) Time has not changed human nature or incompetent managers.
The PM's of these projects tended to be big on contrived dog-and-pony shows too as I recall.
"Michelle Carlile-Alkhouri, the reporter for the story of the amazing Japanese car that runs on only water and tea, was heard soon after asking if she could get BlondeStar online road service to deliver her favorite herbal tea if she were stuck out in the desert with nothing but a six-pack of T@B on ice..."
And who'll be footing the bill?
Maybe they could just affix giant magnifier lenses to the screens like they did in "Brazil". ;^)
It was probably just a Microsoft Windows Update, I don't see how that could cause any problems....
(Sigh) Kudos.
I have a refrigerator magnet of a FAX machine that has that quote on it with "FAX" for "FACTS". I used to watch that show regularly and contrary to what SNOPES says, I could SWEAR Friday or Gannon said it on at least one occasion --- Maybe without the "ma'am" part...
But, "Don't taze me bro!"
"He's dead, Jim".
SPIDERS and
INSECTS and
SNAKES...
Oh My!
"Elephant Butte"?
That's only one letter away from a massive onslaught of crude dick and fart jokes. I'll wager those signs going into town are defaced regularly.
I remember back in the 60s that even Jim Kirk was impressed with "Ion Power".
It followed one of those cosmic dramatic pauses after Spock gives Jim the technical skinny on the "alien vessel" and Kirk speaks out in one of his classic redundant clarifications for the home viewer and says:
"Ion Power" in a hushed, almost reverent tone. (can't remember the name of the episode, Maybe it was the one with the Gorn ---that frog head alien with asthma that Kirk nailed with the diamond/gunpowder cannon)
I mean really, he can mix matter and anti-matter at will, modulate photons into gigawatt phaser banks and he starts going all wistful over ---
"Ion Power"?
Star Trek scripts, gotta love 'em!
Like Kirk's glaring scientific faux pas where he says the " --- the magnitude is amplified ONE to the 28th power"...
It's the first walk-in coffee machine in effect, and customers sit there and watch as their coffee beans rush past in pneumatic tubes, as they move from storage bins to staging, roasting station, grinding and a brewing machine where they are dispensed with the repeatable accuracy of a purpose-built machine.
(Big Yawn)
When I can watch my coffee being GROWN via a live 24/7 satellite feed and Juan Valdez personally inspecting my every bean --- THEN I'll truly be impressed...
Hey! --- I need a quick pick-me-up, pass the SOYLENT GREEN, will ya?
I know what you mean about nature out to get you.
Whenever we go hiking, I'm always the only one the mosquitoes target for a blood meal. Also, since it's the females that bite, that just reinforces my paranoia that all female are out to get me.
I'm also still paranoid about my inevitable alien abduction and anal probing (Ouch! Maybe they work for the IRS...)
But if matter is the medium and the "medium is the message", then then isn't matter the message? Does the message really matter?
;^)
Also, if the solar tsunami happened and no one heard it, did it make a sound?
Enquiring minds want to know!
According to your definition, the world is run by the "Peoples Skills" set, which, in fact, it is. This is evidenced (expecially in politics) by the tepid, vacillating, "bend with the breeze" politicians. Maybe we need leaders who have a set of balls and believe in their convictions rather than "Playing to the poll numbers". I think engineers would make great politicians. So they're a tad stubborn in their convictions, but that is what's lacking with crowd pleaser sycophants in office today.
Aracho-capitalist view (a bit ranty but succinct):
http://www.strike-the-root.com/4/wasdin/wasdin10.html/
In depth comparison/analysis:
http://www.spectacle.org/496/dream.html/
Since we all seem to be concerned about Pi today, I wonder if it's getting therapy?
It is an irrational number after all...
Say ---
Maybe the crackerjacks funding the "sleep mode power study" are ready to take on the next quantum leap and fund a study to determine the energy savings in the "OFF mode".
"Boldly going where no idiot has gone before --- "
They'll undoubtedly be working closely with SC Johnson for product placement for Johnson's GLADE air freshener line. A pocket sized can conspicuously placed in a zero-G utility belt will bring megabuck rain on SC Johnson, like TANG did for General Foods with the "Drink of the Astronauts".
If they use 120VAC for shipboard power, they can feature the GLADE Plug-Ins for solving "Real tough Kimchi odor problems".
I'll bet the makers of those little pine trees hanging off car reaview mirrors could also join in to "Clearing the air in space".
June Cleaver: "Ward, I caught Beaver and Wally using a blackberry behind the garage --- What should We do about it?"
..."
Ward Cleaver: "I'll talk to him about it"
Later that day
Ward: "Beaver, your mother said she say you and Wally behind the garage using a blackberry. What do you have to say about yourself?"
Beav: "Gee dad, Wally and I were just seeing what it was like. All the kids at school have tried blackberries --- Some even use it at school!"
Ward: "I don't care what the other boys at school are doing. If all the other kids were smoking giant ganja bud spleefs while wearing bellbottoms and tea-shades, would you follow them?"
Beve: "Nah, I guess not dad. I'm sorry. I'll go ask wally to flush that blackberry down the toilet before we get into more trouble with it. I learned my lesson. Thanks dad."
Ward:'OK son. Now get Wally over here so I can ask him what he and Eddie Haskell were doing with that gallon of Mazola and 15 boxes of golf balls in the basement
Hurray for OLPC team!
Maybe we might begin to develop a generation of students who haven't been mesmerized by the MICROSOFT logo. Tweaking around with the OS for fun will sprout a new generation of "garage" hackers. I'll never forget my first erector set. Now it will be virtual. Go kiddies GO !
"Way to go, Montag", says Fire Captain Beatty.