My netbook functions as an extension of my desktop. I can RDP in and do stuff on my home computer that may be processor intense, but in the mean time I have a machine that has a massive battery life (I go 6-7 hours with brightness turned down and only the essentials running).
I'm sitting here right now after eating lunch, and there's a half dozen other people around me using laptops. Each and every one of them has it plugged into a wall. Yet my battery is still at 36.2/56.8 Wh remaining.
Here as well. It's an awesome convenience to be able to buzz people into your building with a cell phone. It also makes life a lot easier for the rental property agent when people come in to look at new apartments, since potential tenants can go around to different buildings alone and at their own pace and get buzzed in by the agent remotely.
I see your point, and it's pretty much true; however, if the owner is indispensable and gets hit by a bus, there are now employees who are very likely screwed and will be looking for work.
If you're an owner, and you employ people, you have to leave your ego at the door and make sure there is a plan if something should ever happen to you. Owners should not be indispensable, especially at a company with at least a half dozen employees.
Yes, you're entirely right, and it's not even about "learning" how to use a piece of software, it amounts to someone not being explicitly told to click on something, so they don't.
I've watched my dad use a web browser. It's absolutely agonizing. He never updates anything (he still uses Quark 4) and just gets confused by the simplest of differences between one version and the next.
Why doesn't he explore? Because, "that's not how I used to do it". He doesn't even read menus or anything, it's all just muscle memory where he clicks.
It's took me months to condition him to using a web browser other than IE6. I tell him, just type your search in the bar at the top and hit enter. He still doesn't get it. He actually opens up IE, goes to google, selects the address bar contents, goes up to Edit, then Copy, then he'll go back to Chrome or FF or whatever and get confused because there's no Edit menu for him to choose Paste.
Couldn't that also be interpreted as "necessarily simple"?
Older generations don't get it not because of its complexity, but its simplicity. They might understand better if everything had a label and step-by-step info, but for the rest of us that do understand, this just adds complexity when it might not be needed.
I was assuming that even though the units "sold" outnumber the paper books, the numbers are skewed because people who download eBooks are probably downloading more than they actually read. I guess it matters little to Amazon, however; a sale is still a sale.
That said, I'm honestly surprised that audio books haven't become a dominant force in this market.
When it comes to reading, I read plenty, it's just that it's very rarely for entertainment. If the time comes where I'd like to "read a book", I much prefer audio books so I can give my eyes a rest, listen when reading is not possible, and enjoy the extra dimension brought when a talented voice actor reads the book.
A friend recently re-applied to school to end his teaching career and do something new. He needed his 2010 tax return info to apply for student loans.
The tax stuff he needed was locked inside an MSN email account that was hacked or something. Without access to this email account, TurboTax, FAFSA, or MSN couldn't effectively verify his identity.
So he did many things wrong. He clicked on some porn on his Vista laptop. He kept his previous years' tax returns inside his email inbox (for safekeeping, of course). He left the problem alone for months without trying to fix it.
So now he's screwed and can't apply to school because he can't access a single email account. When he came to me to ask for help, there wasn't really anything I could do. He's screwed and it's all his fault and I told him this.
He whines and bitches about MSN and TurboTax being at fault, but it's his own ignorance and thus his own fault. Sorry, bro, nothing I can do for you.
Along with CompuServe, I don't think I've ever met anyone in real life that also remembers Sierra OnLine (or whatever their online game world was called).
Red Baron duels, trivia chat rooms, and paintball wars. That's when I met the online world. It was such an innocent time, long before computers became easy enough for pedophiles and lawyers to use.
I don't know, it's the same reason I used to go to a noisy bar and have a pint while I would write papers. The atmosphere is monotonous, not the labor.
While I generally just have music playing, background distractions do help me focus, as strange as it sounds. It's almost like I need noise just so I have something to tune out.
It's no wonder all of my teachers in high school didn't like me.
While I currently do not use a second monitor on my desktop, I do tend to keep my netbook nearby with API references open or whatever other documentation I'm looking at.
Hell, sometimes it's nice to have a movie or hulu or something running on another screen just to break the monotony.
I was away from Pokerstars for a few years, and earlier this year I used it to make a little extra cash. I cashed out some money, and a few days later wham!
When people ask me why I am a Libertarian, I tell them that all I want to do is play poker online and maybe not wear my seatbelt at certain times if I don't want to. Seriously, is that too much to ask?
Useless, as Granny (and Mommy, and Auntie, and all the other women of FB) will still share all kinds of photos and details about the young children in their lives anyway.
In the above linked TED talk, he talks about the prototypical savanna landscape, and how different cultures around the globe find that landscape beautiful... even those cultures who have never been exposed to such a landscape.
Or, for example, the writing of Shakespeare. It has been translated to every major language.
I would guess that variations exist as a byproduct of natural mutation, back to Darwin and random mutations.
In fact, the video supports my beliefs, so thanks for that.
He goes on about how beauty evolved so that we would simply look at things and leave them be. For example, what is the point of finding a baby beautiful? So that we don't eat it. Why is a natural landscape beautiful? So that we leave it alone.
Granted, that's just one of the purposes of beauty he talked about, but the others have more to do with procreation and such, which is not necessarily within the scope of what I'm talking about.
And what about things that are beautiful that could have never been observed during our early evolution years? A fantastic nebula is certainly beautiful in many aspects, but when did our ancestors ever see a nebula?
Aside from that, this is all speaking of beauty in a very literal sense. Figurative beauty is not approached in his lecture. He comes close when he talks about skilled human actions being beautiful, but things like mathematics, the period table, etc are not skilled HUMAN actions. It may be a similar mechanism why they might be beautiful, however, and maybe we appreciate them for the fact that they are skilled actions by some intelligence we just don't comprehend.
I used to be an atheist, but the problem I always had was that things in Nature are too orderly yet complex to exists simply because. There are too many things in the Universe that have components which appear to be engineered in some manner as if there was intent.
Since the "proof" I believe in is completely arbitrary, yet still allows room for ID, I've adapted my beliefs to the Agnostic Theist section of the religious spectrum. I'm not trying to convince anyone of anything, simply sharing my own thoughts.
why society is under-utilizing their capabilities to such an extent that boredom is possible.
From my own experience, public schools simply do not have the resources available to foster academic growth for these kids. A disproportionate amount of money, personnel, and time are spent dealing with the opposite type of student.
No, actually. It's an actual real legit job I got because of my ability to convince them to hire me.
Just sayin'... I know most people like to go around dressed up all nice and portraying themselves as something they aren't. I'd prefer to portray myself as myself, rather than some fictionalized version of myself. Professionalism isn't in how you dress, it's in your performance.
But the point is why do certain things evoke such emotion in us? Why did we evolve to have this appreciation for something as seemingly useless as a beautiful sunrise?
Though, I don't necessarily mean beauty in the strict sense. I consider the Periodic Table to be beautiful. It's something that wasn't necessarily created by Man, but was simply interpreted. The order and logic already existed long before amino acids or dinosaurs or Man.
It just seems sensible to me that the order and logic that is inherent in nature alludes to some type of intelligence directing things. It's almost as if science IS the religion, while at the same time leaving open the possibility of ID.
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Autism is a very well defined diagnosis and you can't be just a little autistic.
Sure you can. That's why it's called the Autism Spectrum and systems like CARS (Childhood Autism Rating Scale) exist.
The diagnosis for Autism might be boolean, but there are many other diagnoses that might not be Autism but remain on the Autism Spectrum.
My netbook functions as an extension of my desktop. I can RDP in and do stuff on my home computer that may be processor intense, but in the mean time I have a machine that has a massive battery life (I go 6-7 hours with brightness turned down and only the essentials running).
I'm sitting here right now after eating lunch, and there's a half dozen other people around me using laptops. Each and every one of them has it plugged into a wall. Yet my battery is still at 36.2/56.8 Wh remaining.
Here as well. It's an awesome convenience to be able to buzz people into your building with a cell phone. It also makes life a lot easier for the rental property agent when people come in to look at new apartments, since potential tenants can go around to different buildings alone and at their own pace and get buzzed in by the agent remotely.
No one except the owner is indispensable.
I see your point, and it's pretty much true; however, if the owner is indispensable and gets hit by a bus, there are now employees who are very likely screwed and will be looking for work.
If you're an owner, and you employ people, you have to leave your ego at the door and make sure there is a plan if something should ever happen to you. Owners should not be indispensable, especially at a company with at least a half dozen employees.
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Yes, you're entirely right, and it's not even about "learning" how to use a piece of software, it amounts to someone not being explicitly told to click on something, so they don't.
I've watched my dad use a web browser. It's absolutely agonizing. He never updates anything (he still uses Quark 4) and just gets confused by the simplest of differences between one version and the next.
Why doesn't he explore? Because, "that's not how I used to do it". He doesn't even read menus or anything, it's all just muscle memory where he clicks.
It's took me months to condition him to using a web browser other than IE6. I tell him, just type your search in the bar at the top and hit enter. He still doesn't get it. He actually opens up IE, goes to google, selects the address bar contents, goes up to Edit, then Copy, then he'll go back to Chrome or FF or whatever and get confused because there's no Edit menu for him to choose Paste.
I sometimes wonder who the mailman was.
Couldn't that also be interpreted as "necessarily simple"?
Older generations don't get it not because of its complexity, but its simplicity. They might understand better if everything had a label and step-by-step info, but for the rest of us that do understand, this just adds complexity when it might not be needed.
I will never let my mother live down the time when I asked her to float me a couple grand to buy domain names when I was in school in the mid 90's.
Oh well, I guess the lesson is to make sure you always have plenty of extra cash laying around if you plan on making plenty of extra cash.
I was assuming that even though the units "sold" outnumber the paper books, the numbers are skewed because people who download eBooks are probably downloading more than they actually read. I guess it matters little to Amazon, however; a sale is still a sale.
That said, I'm honestly surprised that audio books haven't become a dominant force in this market.
When it comes to reading, I read plenty, it's just that it's very rarely for entertainment. If the time comes where I'd like to "read a book", I much prefer audio books so I can give my eyes a rest, listen when reading is not possible, and enjoy the extra dimension brought when a talented voice actor reads the book.
So do what I did.
A friend recently re-applied to school to end his teaching career and do something new. He needed his 2010 tax return info to apply for student loans.
The tax stuff he needed was locked inside an MSN email account that was hacked or something. Without access to this email account, TurboTax, FAFSA, or MSN couldn't effectively verify his identity.
So he did many things wrong. He clicked on some porn on his Vista laptop. He kept his previous years' tax returns inside his email inbox (for safekeeping, of course). He left the problem alone for months without trying to fix it.
So now he's screwed and can't apply to school because he can't access a single email account. When he came to me to ask for help, there wasn't really anything I could do. He's screwed and it's all his fault and I told him this.
He whines and bitches about MSN and TurboTax being at fault, but it's his own ignorance and thus his own fault. Sorry, bro, nothing I can do for you.
Along with CompuServe, I don't think I've ever met anyone in real life that also remembers Sierra OnLine (or whatever their online game world was called).
Red Baron duels, trivia chat rooms, and paintball wars. That's when I met the online world. It was such an innocent time, long before computers became easy enough for pedophiles and lawyers to use.
How anyone can surf the web without NoScript
I tried using script blocking tools before. I found it more of a hassle to constantly white-list web sites where I want javascript running.
I would have chosen "Poorly Unorganized".
So what you're saying is that a private school education teaches you how to be full of shit, ride the coat tails of others, and develop a huge ego?
No wonder the education system needs a massive wild fire.
I don't know, it's the same reason I used to go to a noisy bar and have a pint while I would write papers. The atmosphere is monotonous, not the labor.
While I generally just have music playing, background distractions do help me focus, as strange as it sounds. It's almost like I need noise just so I have something to tune out.
It's no wonder all of my teachers in high school didn't like me.
Seriously, if the point of the TFA is to promote more fear about eating crappy food, they should just keep the findings to themselves.
Reading this made me hungry for shitty food.
Totally agree.
While I currently do not use a second monitor on my desktop, I do tend to keep my netbook nearby with API references open or whatever other documentation I'm looking at.
Hell, sometimes it's nice to have a movie or hulu or something running on another screen just to break the monotony.
I feel so guilty
I was away from Pokerstars for a few years, and earlier this year I used it to make a little extra cash. I cashed out some money, and a few days later wham!
When people ask me why I am a Libertarian, I tell them that all I want to do is play poker online and maybe not wear my seatbelt at certain times if I don't want to. Seriously, is that too much to ask?
Useless, as Granny (and Mommy, and Auntie, and all the other women of FB) will still share all kinds of photos and details about the young children in their lives anyway.
And according to /. popular opinion, they are.
We do find many of the same things beautiful.
In the above linked TED talk, he talks about the prototypical savanna landscape, and how different cultures around the globe find that landscape beautiful... even those cultures who have never been exposed to such a landscape.
Or, for example, the writing of Shakespeare. It has been translated to every major language.
I would guess that variations exist as a byproduct of natural mutation, back to Darwin and random mutations.
I did watch it, I was being rhetorical.
In fact, the video supports my beliefs, so thanks for that.
He goes on about how beauty evolved so that we would simply look at things and leave them be. For example, what is the point of finding a baby beautiful? So that we don't eat it. Why is a natural landscape beautiful? So that we leave it alone.
Granted, that's just one of the purposes of beauty he talked about, but the others have more to do with procreation and such, which is not necessarily within the scope of what I'm talking about.
And what about things that are beautiful that could have never been observed during our early evolution years? A fantastic nebula is certainly beautiful in many aspects, but when did our ancestors ever see a nebula?
Aside from that, this is all speaking of beauty in a very literal sense. Figurative beauty is not approached in his lecture. He comes close when he talks about skilled human actions being beautiful, but things like mathematics, the period table, etc are not skilled HUMAN actions. It may be a similar mechanism why they might be beautiful, however, and maybe we appreciate them for the fact that they are skilled actions by some intelligence we just don't comprehend.
I used to be an atheist, but the problem I always had was that things in Nature are too orderly yet complex to exists simply because. There are too many things in the Universe that have components which appear to be engineered in some manner as if there was intent.
Since the "proof" I believe in is completely arbitrary, yet still allows room for ID, I've adapted my beliefs to the Agnostic Theist section of the religious spectrum. I'm not trying to convince anyone of anything, simply sharing my own thoughts.
why society is under-utilizing their capabilities to such an extent that boredom is possible.
From my own experience, public schools simply do not have the resources available to foster academic growth for these kids. A disproportionate amount of money, personnel, and time are spent dealing with the opposite type of student.
Basically, less SPED, more GATE.
No, actually. It's an actual real legit job I got because of my ability to convince them to hire me.
Just sayin'... I know most people like to go around dressed up all nice and portraying themselves as something they aren't. I'd prefer to portray myself as myself, rather than some fictionalized version of myself. Professionalism isn't in how you dress, it's in your performance.
But the point is why do certain things evoke such emotion in us? Why did we evolve to have this appreciation for something as seemingly useless as a beautiful sunrise?
Though, I don't necessarily mean beauty in the strict sense. I consider the Periodic Table to be beautiful. It's something that wasn't necessarily created by Man, but was simply interpreted. The order and logic already existed long before amino acids or dinosaurs or Man.
It just seems sensible to me that the order and logic that is inherent in nature alludes to some type of intelligence directing things. It's almost as if science IS the religion, while at the same time leaving open the possibility of ID.
For the record, I'm an Agnostic Theist.