Because saving money and paying off credit is basically the same thing: making sure you have left over money at the end of the month to achieve what you want/need to achieve I'm from europe, and i can't even imagine what i hear about the american system. I got a very good deal on my mortgage even without having ever had any line of credit. Here they want to know you've got a steady job. Why would making debt give you a good credit rating? Not needing it and having saved up money, isn't that like the best financial situation you can be in?? Why would they be good in paying off credit? because they can manage their money and have years of managing it very well without ever needing debt, so why would they start not paying now??
I think the truth is more likely closer to what others mention here: why would banks give credit to people who hardly need it, and will never ever be late in paying or transfer balances to the next month? that's where all their money comes from, sounds like a terrible customer to do business with!
I've recently seen articles in newspapers about this (and not only about kids, also adults), and the point is that it's against our natural cycle, so going to bed earlier doesn't really fix it. Additional issue is probably that it's also a personal thing, some people will have a different natural cycle than others, so one size fits all will never be optimal
Luckily this still doesn't discredit the social aspect of the story, but it sucks that he didn't make it himself:(. I was also wondering how he made it when i saw the picture. I've recently started playing with electronics, and making a clock was a project i did. What i saw was completely not what i expected >_. i saw this wide ribbon wire going to the display, a pcb that seemed professionally made. Didn't look any further into it, but i'm not surprised reading this now...
I'm always wondering if that's actually a problem or not.... There are ofcourse some downsides to it, but if people had more of a say, wouldn't we just amplify the prisoners dilemma to an epic scale? everybody would just vote what's best for them, not the community, taking everything down with them.
Maybe it's because i also speak french (but neither english nor french are my native language), but connoisseur.... wtf. When i first heard it used in Futurama, i actually thought it was a small joke of an english speaker completely mispronouncing a french (connaisseur) word, trying to sound smarter than he was, but it's an actual english word 0_0. I cringe every time i hear or read it.
This is literally the article with the most redundancy I've ever read. nearly every facts is repeated twice or thrice in various ways. I also love the explanation of Mach, this is much needed on sites like this:).
Also, the amount of redundancy in this article is ridiculous!
Just wondering, what dus 50k systems mean in this context. Is it like downloading 50k mp3's (sounds impressive but isn't, you can automate most of it), or is it he put serious work and did serious damage to each of those systems (would be quite a full time job with lots of overtime though). Just write 1 good worm and you'll have "hacked 50k systems"... It just sounds like some stupid number that's supposed to sound impressive, but has hardly any meaning.
Then how would you handle hostile environments for such minorities in the fields? I just heard about something similar in a far less controversial situation: a woman who likes birdwatching who started a group for female birdwatchers to enjoy doing it together. She was sick of the male birdwatching culture that can be very belittling to others, certainly women, and it's things like that that keep women from then joining such activities, making the male domination & problem even worse. It's just a vicious circle, a majority starts with a behaviour that drives away the minority, and the inequality rises.
If you see a better way to handle such issues, i'm curious:). For now i'm thinking "well done for making your own bird watching club for women so interested women won't be immediately chased away by the men".
Ooh, it took quite long for a troll to come at me for not remembering the acronym. Can't say i read that much about such courses to remember the acronym (although after looking it up it did sound familiar). If you feel that's enough to have a go at me, good for you, you must feel really special and good right now:) *enough feeding trolls*
"Something strong enough to make him regret he did it and be exceptionally careful about it in future" Sounds like an idea, but your suggestion of "forfeited his 6 months pay and made him apologize to producer on the show" is just ridiculous. He did the second, and would hardly notice the first. He just ruined his own show, i guess he'll now regret he did it and be exceptionally careful about it in the future.
What planet do you come from, and how do i get there? On this planet greed is one of the main things people are more than willing to shove their ethics aside for. Most companies if they can choose between the ethical thing (throwing JC out), or keep profiting from him since he's one of the main stars, will choose the latter. Greed and ethics often conflict, and it's nice to see a big company go for the ethical option.
I love it how when a big company for once doesn't choose for the money but actually takes a stance against a star misbehaving, and then everybody is like "sucks being them, they'll lose a lot of money over this".
Do we want them to be ethical, or just chasing money no matter the consequences? Either of both appear to be the wrong thing to do it seems.
Odd, i was thinking the opposite way. Have some selfdriving cars be modified a bit extra by the police (with some proper calibration of everything, and some extra sensors), and you've got near permanent police presence on every big road. And it's no longer just people driving to fast past a speed trap that get caught, but all other antisocial behaviors too. It'll make the roads hell for human drivers who are used to being jerks on the road:).
There are ways to go about it, but this isn't it...
I'm curious, which ways are that? I find it hard to say what to think about such people. They're on the far end of the scale, but they do have a point. We all react more strongly to some things than to others, and they focus on that. What i'm wondering most, you start off by calling them crazy, but are they? Seriously, prove them wrong (or rather, they're being proved right a bit more every day). It's just not the immediate end of the world as they may view it, but is being more sensitive to such things being crazy?
design and fashion is always such a cycle. I don't know why you feel these are " 256 color, flat, windows 3 style icons". They look far better than the old windows 3 icons do. To me they just look like the next evolution. And seeing people freak out over icons that pretty much look as expected seeing current gui practices... yes, it makes me feel people are just opposing change. To me they look like a nice new set of icons, and if you prefer another set, put that on your windows:).
They're more in line with current gui design. They want to appear a bit more modern i guess. Every windows does some changes to the icons, is it a surprise this one does too?
If this means nothing can ever get changed... no. Why can't they change the look of things a bit from time to time? i think it's a nice look, and if you don't... you'll still get used to it:p.
I just had to think about a little "customer riot" here in belgium. A big chain wanted to change the name of their cheap beer. It was apparantly a huge riot because people wanted the name to remain the same, and not just be renamed to the cheap brandname they use for all their cheap products. I was reading it and really wondering "wtf is wrong with the people complaining about this"...
And i've got a similar feeling about this. It's a fresher design, you may or may not like what the current gui design standards are. But is it really worth all this effort? i honestly think the screenshot in that article looks great. Probably better than the win7 icons i'm currently looking at. But change must always be shot down it seems. And then afterwards we can all complain that nothing ever changes (or changes far too slowly).
Lol XD But i'm wondering the same. I looked at those icons, and don't see the issue. Yes they're different, a bit more like a lot of modern things are styled. You'll get used to it...
And to answer your question: everybody wants the world to change, but nobody wants to change themselves:p. That's the nice paradox our society is stuck in:).
And i'm probably going to kill any chances of getting modded up by saying this: I had the same feeling with windows 8. I heard all these terrible things about it, how the UI sucks. Did install it, and gave it a try. It's certainly different, but i don't see the issue. I looked up how to configure the new screen, grouped my icons on the metro screen nicely in a way i find convenient.
Now we've said our thing, the microsoft bashing may continue:).
did i anywhere imply it's the current staff that needs to add this to their huge list of tasks? Dedicated people trained to handle this who bridge the gap between the science part and the person would probably be a far better idea.
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Because saving money and paying off credit is basically the same thing: making sure you have left over money at the end of the month to achieve what you want/need to achieve
I'm from europe, and i can't even imagine what i hear about the american system. I got a very good deal on my mortgage even without having ever had any line of credit. Here they want to know you've got a steady job.
Why would making debt give you a good credit rating? Not needing it and having saved up money, isn't that like the best financial situation you can be in?? Why would they be good in paying off credit? because they can manage their money and have years of managing it very well without ever needing debt, so why would they start not paying now??
I think the truth is more likely closer to what others mention here: why would banks give credit to people who hardly need it, and will never ever be late in paying or transfer balances to the next month? that's where all their money comes from, sounds like a terrible customer to do business with!
All of them naturally, as they're already doing :).
Why would you run if you don't have anything to hide?
I've recently seen articles in newspapers about this (and not only about kids, also adults), and the point is that it's against our natural cycle, so going to bed earlier doesn't really fix it. Additional issue is probably that it's also a personal thing, some people will have a different natural cycle than others, so one size fits all will never be optimal
Luckily this still doesn't discredit the social aspect of the story, but it sucks that he didn't make it himself :(.
I was also wondering how he made it when i saw the picture. I've recently started playing with electronics, and making a clock was a project i did. What i saw was completely not what i expected >_. i saw this wide ribbon wire going to the display, a pcb that seemed professionally made. Didn't look any further into it, but i'm not surprised reading this now...
I'm always wondering if that's actually a problem or not.... There are ofcourse some downsides to it, but if people had more of a say, wouldn't we just amplify the prisoners dilemma to an epic scale? everybody would just vote what's best for them, not the community, taking everything down with them.
Maybe it's because i also speak french (but neither english nor french are my native language), but connoisseur.... wtf. When i first heard it used in Futurama, i actually thought it was a small joke of an english speaker completely mispronouncing a french (connaisseur) word, trying to sound smarter than he was, but it's an actual english word 0_0. I cringe every time i hear or read it.
This is literally the article with the most redundancy I've ever read. nearly every facts is repeated twice or thrice in various ways. :).
I also love the explanation of Mach, this is much needed on sites like this
Also, the amount of redundancy in this article is ridiculous!
Does that mean the program responds in negative time? even before you click the button it's already done what you wanted? Sounds impractical...
Just wondering, what dus 50k systems mean in this context. Is it like downloading 50k mp3's (sounds impressive but isn't, you can automate most of it), or is it he put serious work and did serious damage to each of those systems (would be quite a full time job with lots of overtime though).
Just write 1 good worm and you'll have "hacked 50k systems"... It just sounds like some stupid number that's supposed to sound impressive, but has hardly any meaning.
Isn't the problem that the choice between "self value" and "providing for your family" isn't even a choice, and employers are well aware of that?
Then how would you handle hostile environments for such minorities in the fields?
I just heard about something similar in a far less controversial situation: a woman who likes birdwatching who started a group for female birdwatchers to enjoy doing it together. She was sick of the male birdwatching culture that can be very belittling to others, certainly women, and it's things like that that keep women from then joining such activities, making the male domination & problem even worse.
It's just a vicious circle, a majority starts with a behaviour that drives away the minority, and the inequality rises.
If you see a better way to handle such issues, i'm curious :). For now i'm thinking "well done for making your own bird watching club for women so interested women won't be immediately chased away by the men".
Ooh, it took quite long for a troll to come at me for not remembering the acronym. :)
Can't say i read that much about such courses to remember the acronym (although after looking it up it did sound familiar). If you feel that's enough to have a go at me, good for you, you must feel really special and good right now
*enough feeding trolls*
Since the summary didn't bother mentioning that tiny detail.
"Something strong enough to make him regret he did it and be exceptionally careful about it in future"
Sounds like an idea, but your suggestion of "forfeited his 6 months pay and made him apologize to producer on the show" is just ridiculous. He did the second, and would hardly notice the first.
He just ruined his own show, i guess he'll now regret he did it and be exceptionally careful about it in the future.
What planet do you come from, and how do i get there?
On this planet greed is one of the main things people are more than willing to shove their ethics aside for. Most companies if they can choose between the ethical thing (throwing JC out), or keep profiting from him since he's one of the main stars, will choose the latter. Greed and ethics often conflict, and it's nice to see a big company go for the ethical option.
I love it how when a big company for once doesn't choose for the money but actually takes a stance against a star misbehaving, and then everybody is like "sucks being them, they'll lose a lot of money over this".
Do we want them to be ethical, or just chasing money no matter the consequences? Either of both appear to be the wrong thing to do it seems.
Odd, i was thinking the opposite way. Have some selfdriving cars be modified a bit extra by the police (with some proper calibration of everything, and some extra sensors), and you've got near permanent police presence on every big road. And it's no longer just people driving to fast past a speed trap that get caught, but all other antisocial behaviors too. It'll make the roads hell for human drivers who are used to being jerks on the road :).
There are ways to go about it, but this isn't it...
I'm curious, which ways are that?
I find it hard to say what to think about such people. They're on the far end of the scale, but they do have a point. We all react more strongly to some things than to others, and they focus on that. What i'm wondering most, you start off by calling them crazy, but are they? Seriously, prove them wrong (or rather, they're being proved right a bit more every day). It's just not the immediate end of the world as they may view it, but is being more sensitive to such things being crazy?
they still have a comfy life and tons of money and are free to roam the world?
design and fashion is always such a cycle. I don't know why you feel these are " 256 color, flat, windows 3 style icons". They look far better than the old windows 3 icons do. To me they just look like the next evolution. :).
And seeing people freak out over icons that pretty much look as expected seeing current gui practices... yes, it makes me feel people are just opposing change. To me they look like a nice new set of icons, and if you prefer another set, put that on your windows
They're more in line with current gui design. They want to appear a bit more modern i guess. Every windows does some changes to the icons, is it a surprise this one does too?
I was thinking the same. But change must always be met with a lot of opposition it seems.
If this means nothing can ever get changed... no. :p.
Why can't they change the look of things a bit from time to time? i think it's a nice look, and if you don't... you'll still get used to it
I just had to think about a little "customer riot" here in belgium. A big chain wanted to change the name of their cheap beer. It was apparantly a huge riot because people wanted the name to remain the same, and not just be renamed to the cheap brandname they use for all their cheap products. I was reading it and really wondering "wtf is wrong with the people complaining about this"...
And i've got a similar feeling about this. It's a fresher design, you may or may not like what the current gui design standards are. But is it really worth all this effort? i honestly think the screenshot in that article looks great. Probably better than the win7 icons i'm currently looking at.
But change must always be shot down it seems. And then afterwards we can all complain that nothing ever changes (or changes far too slowly).
Lol XD
But i'm wondering the same. I looked at those icons, and don't see the issue. Yes they're different, a bit more like a lot of modern things are styled. You'll get used to it...
And to answer your question: everybody wants the world to change, but nobody wants to change themselves :p. That's the nice paradox our society is stuck in :).
And i'm probably going to kill any chances of getting modded up by saying this: I had the same feeling with windows 8. I heard all these terrible things about it, how the UI sucks. Did install it, and gave it a try. It's certainly different, but i don't see the issue. I looked up how to configure the new screen, grouped my icons on the metro screen nicely in a way i find convenient.
Now we've said our thing, the microsoft bashing may continue :).
did i anywhere imply it's the current staff that needs to add this to their huge list of tasks?
Dedicated people trained to handle this who bridge the gap between the science part and the person would probably be a far better idea.