The biggest deterrent to getting ideas is to ignore advice. If you want to encourage employees to come up with new ideas make them feel like they are seriously listened too.
Glue traps are probably less humane than rat poison. How would you rather die? From poison or with from dehydration, starvation....slowly, while you are stuck unable to move?
I've heard a lot about BeOS, but never got to use it. I've been looking for an excuse to being learning more about dealing with computer hardware. Installing a new hard drive for Haiku looks like a good excuse.
"With Windows 7 set for release in Dec. 09, Microsoft is getting ready with their free upgrade program, which allows Vista users to switch to Windows 7 when it arrives"
Seems about fair. Microsoft sold Vista Users a product they knew was unfinished. So, it seems only fair they would get a copy of the finished version free of charge.
Your reply was both interesting and informative. Thanks for taking YOUR time to type it in. You've changed my view about HD and digital televisions.
I don't any television by choice. I watch DVDs on my computer. Most content from broadcast or cable ( most - that is why I get *some* shows on DVD ) I find to be so poor that it isn't worth it to me to buy a television though I have the cash. It would be spending a lot of money to watch some lame reality show, just with a crisp picture.
Thanks for the informative and non-snarky reply, both are rare on slashdot
Your other points are good, BUT IT DOES MATTER SIGNIFICANTLY which software comes bundled with the operating system as most users will only use that software and not download anything else.
This is about the television electronics industry being jealous of computer hardware manufactures. People were holding onto their TV sets so they decided to lobby for a forced upgrade.
Yes, the image is slightly better with digital TV. It isn't a night and day improvement. If you have found the broadcast TV lacking, you still will.
However, I don't think there should be a delay in the conversion nor do I think the government should pay for converters. Anything that gets people spending money right now is good for the economy.
For me, this isn't about IE in general. IE 6 is a large and costly inconvenience for both web application and web site developers. IE 6 doesn't work in exactly the same way as IE7 & IE8. A person doing web development not only has to make sure that an application or site works in the Mozilla based browsers and IE, but that it works in multiple versions of IE. IE 6 is typically the browser that breaks when new code is developed when that code works in all of the other browsers. Even other versions of IE. Organizations and people are hanging onto IE 6. It is past time for those with muscle to begin nudging people away from IE 6
I saw similar things when I used to read the Linux Advocacy newsgroups years ago. People whose only intention was to trash Linux would find the group and post. Over the years a few of them were caught/found out to be people paid to "shill" by software companies that competed with Linux.
In any event, the irony was that these "shills" actually HELPED Linux. Every time they pointed out some imaginary or exaggerated flaw a number of enthusiasts who knew what they were talking about would post back giving educated rejoinders showing how cool Linux was in that aspect and others. I ( & others ) never would have learned about all of those cool things Linux had if not for the shill stimulating the enthusiasts into talking about those things. In other words the shills provided a segway for free advertising for Linux without the enthusiasts looking like they were bragging.
The "shills" were really "useful idiots"
Use this jerk to advertise how good your application is.
Now we just need to start building a bunch of nuclear power plants so they'll be ready in time for when the plug-in hybrids and pure-electric vehicles hit critical mass.
Or
- right now we could change a law and make the US coal fired powered plants put scrubbers on their smoke stacks.
- build and develop more wind mills
- develop more algae based bio fuels
- put some decent money into solar
- put some decent money into efficiency and conservation
Why would more people using Linux make geeks upset?
My *guess* would be that some geeks get a sense of pride( hubris? ) from using software other people are (wrongfully) intimidated into avoiding.
I've been a programmer for 9 years. I have seen this way to much. Some IT person on some unconscious level considers himself a genius and puffs out his chest because he figured out something created by another human being ( he didn't crack the secret of the atom!) or he did a simple task in a visually intimidating way. It is called "symbol phobia". It is most commonly seen in math classes. Intelligent people intimidate themselves out of doing simple tasks because they get scared of unfamiliar symbols that express simple ideas. The thing is, at least with programmers, they buy into this too. So, if they do a no-brainer, but with scary looking commands versus a GUI they get more proud of themselves then they have a right to be.
So, my theory, my *opinion*, is that these linux using housewives are robbing the geeks of their aforementioned free ego boosts.
I was poor in my 20s. I became frugal. Most of my computer use at home was just reading email and reading the web. Dial-up was mostly fine for that.
I switched after having gotten pissed off with the 3rd local phone company I tried. Apparently in the 21st century nobody has the technology to accurately bill people.
I figured out that if I dumped my phone company, dumped my dialup service, got a cable connection for the internet, and used VOIP I would only be paying about $5 - $10 more a month with the new combination of services.
I remember when Java was a hot new language. Even then people had epithets for it. Microsoft and the open source community have always been the biggest Java haters. I think both groups hate it because Java wasn't theirs.
Off shoring of jobs is always just "a sign of the times" while it is the other guy's job and not yours. I can remember reading articles years ago with that attitude coming from American IT workers as older blue collar workers found their jobs vanishing. Kind of ironic know that the blue collar sector may be getting some of their jobs back while more American IT and white collar jobs are being off shored.
I've noticed that gas prices tend to go up sharply, then come down lower to rest above what they used to be. I guess the potential conspiracy theory is that is the way to make people happier with the higher price.
Anyway, I hope it lasts, that oil prices or whatever replaces oil stays more expensive then labor to make this trend last.
The whole point of demanding environmental treaties and laws is to PREVENT damage from being done. Yes, someday fossil fuel supplies will dwindle low enough to make their cost prohibitive, BUT it would be nice if the world ISN'T poisoned further before we reach that point.
Your thought is like saying that over eating will eventually fix itself because someone will eventually get diabetes, a stroke, a heart attack, then die, then be forced to lose excess weight. The whole point is to lose weight as a way of avoiding pain and enjoying the results.
The PRC has looked the other way on intellectual property issues and while large number of their country freely pirate software. Now....they want an antitrust case?
China being the 'developing nation' that it is -- he doubts that his country has the sophistication to hack foreign systems
-- but their sarcasm is the most advanced in Asia.
Fuck them. They are our largest trading partners after the EU and Canada. The poison our pets and put lead paint in our children's toys. Now they are spying on us and flippng us the bird as if they were the ones insulted.
This is a bit like closing the barn door after the animals have left.
This corrupt, selfish, and incompetent administration has done its damage. If democrats other than Kuccinich gave a dam about anything else other than their jobs and themselves, they would have fought the Bush administration numerous times over numerous egregious acts over the past 7.5 years. Instead they rolled over with their legs in the air and did nothing. The Bush administration only has about 7 months left. I say it is time to move on. Vote for Obama. Nobody can reform the country, but he is the closest thing to a breath of fresh air we will get.
Or impeaching (deserved) Bush would set off an endless partisan tit-for-tat war where every president is put up for impeachment when the opposing party has the power to do so. There were more than a few comments from prominent republicans that Clinton was payback for Nixon. I'm guessing this is one reason why Bush was not impeached so far.
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This is how economics is supposed to work, not via regulation or per-category taxes that artificially manipulate, but by consumers adjusting their buying habits as costs change. That thought has been echoing in my mind too, but it doesn't make complete economic sense.
"Gas Money" is money that leaves our country. A gas tax would also accomplish the same benefits as "naturally" rising prices, but some of that money would stay in the country.
Yes, I agree, a tax to raise the price of gas, on purpose is impractical in the US because it would be political suicide.
I'm work in the Washington D.C. Metropolitan area. I still see plenty of SUVs and minivans on the surrounding highways. I'm guessing it is because
1. There are a lot of rich people in this area 2. A lot of status conscious people in this area 3. A lot of people willing to live beyond their means 4. Simply that high gas prices haven't been high enough, long enough for people to get around
to dumping their SUVs and minivans.
Hopefully gas prices will stay higher long enough to completely give these dead end vehicles a complete death.
Almost everybody alive, at least most of the SUV drivers, have known for a long time that gas is running out and that fossil fuel use is polluting their children's future, not to mention putting money into the pocket of our political enemies. Then there is the issue of the safety of SUVs both for the drivers and for other vehicles on the road. This news is simply about the free market getting people to do what they should have done long ago if they had any concept of a future.
Personally, if I had the money to spend on a status symbol I wouldn't buy a big blocky vehicle that looks like a mobile garden shed. I would get a nice sleek curvy sports car.
There are some people who need trucks or defacto trucks. Almost everyone else can get by with a car or a station wagon.
I'm sorry for their temporary inconvenience at owning these vehicles, but they knew it was coming, they knew it was a bad habit, and they are going to live.
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The biggest deterrent to getting ideas is to ignore advice. If you want to encourage employees to come up with new ideas make them feel like they are seriously listened too.
Glue traps are probably less humane than rat poison. How would you rather die? From poison or with from dehydration, starvation....slowly, while you are stuck unable to move?
I've heard a lot about BeOS, but never got to use it. I've been looking for an excuse to being learning more about dealing with computer hardware. Installing a new hard drive for Haiku looks like a good excuse.
"With Windows 7 set for release in Dec. 09, Microsoft is getting ready with their free upgrade program, which allows Vista users to switch to Windows 7 when it arrives"
Seems about fair. Microsoft sold Vista Users a product they knew was unfinished. So, it seems only fair they would get a copy of the finished version free of charge.
smcris;
Your reply was both interesting and informative. Thanks for taking YOUR time to type it in. You've changed my view about HD and digital televisions.
I don't any television by choice. I watch DVDs on my computer. Most content from broadcast or cable ( most - that is why I get *some* shows on DVD ) I find to be so poor that it isn't worth it to me to buy a television though I have the cash. It would be spending a lot of money to watch some lame reality show, just with a crisp picture.
Thanks for the informative and non-snarky reply, both are rare on slashdot
Your other points are good, BUT IT DOES MATTER SIGNIFICANTLY which software comes bundled with the operating system as most users will only use that software and not download anything else.
This is about the television electronics industry being jealous of computer hardware manufactures. People were holding onto their TV sets so they decided to lobby for a forced upgrade.
Yes, the image is slightly better with digital TV. It isn't a night and day improvement. If you have found the broadcast TV lacking, you still will.
However, I don't think there should be a delay in the conversion nor do I think the government should pay for converters. Anything that gets people spending money right now is good for the economy.
For me, this isn't about IE in general. IE 6 is a large and costly inconvenience for both web application and web site developers. IE 6 doesn't work in exactly the same way as IE7 & IE8. A person doing web development not only has to make sure that an application or site works in the Mozilla based browsers and IE, but that it works in multiple versions of IE. IE 6 is typically the browser that breaks when new code is developed when that code works in all of the other browsers. Even other versions of IE. Organizations and people are hanging onto IE 6. It is past time for those with muscle to begin nudging people away from IE 6
I saw similar things when I used to read the Linux Advocacy newsgroups years ago. People whose only intention was to trash Linux would find the group and post. Over the years a few of them were caught/found out to be people paid to "shill" by software companies that competed with Linux.
In any event, the irony was that these "shills" actually HELPED Linux. Every time they pointed out some imaginary or exaggerated flaw a number of enthusiasts who knew what they were talking about would post back giving educated rejoinders showing how cool Linux was in that aspect and others. I ( & others ) never would have learned about all of those cool things Linux had if not for the shill stimulating the enthusiasts into talking about those things. In other words the shills provided a segway for free advertising for Linux without the enthusiasts looking like they were bragging.
The "shills" were really "useful idiots"
Use this jerk to advertise how good your application is.
Or
- right now we could change a law and make the US coal fired powered plants put scrubbers on their smoke stacks.
- build and develop more wind mills
- develop more algae based bio fuels
- put some decent money into solar
- put some decent money into efficiency and conservation
Why would more people using Linux make geeks upset?
My *guess* would be that some geeks get a sense of pride( hubris? ) from using software other people are (wrongfully) intimidated into avoiding.
I've been a programmer for 9 years. I have seen this way to much. Some IT person on some unconscious level considers himself a genius and puffs out his chest because he figured out something created by another human being ( he didn't crack the secret of the atom!) or he did a simple task in a visually intimidating way. It is called "symbol phobia". It is most commonly seen in math classes. Intelligent people intimidate themselves out of doing simple tasks because they get scared of unfamiliar symbols that express simple ideas. The thing is, at least with programmers, they buy into this too. So, if they do a no-brainer, but with scary looking commands versus a GUI they get more proud of themselves then they have a right to be.
So, my theory, my *opinion*, is that these linux using housewives are robbing the geeks of their aforementioned free ego boosts.
Not impressed
I was poor in my 20s. I became frugal. Most of my computer use at home was just reading email and reading the web. Dial-up was mostly fine for that.
I switched after having gotten pissed off with the 3rd local phone company I tried. Apparently in the 21st century nobody has the technology to accurately bill people.
I figured out that if I dumped my phone company, dumped my dialup service, got a cable connection for the internet, and used VOIP I would only be paying about $5 - $10 more a month with the new combination of services.
I remember when Java was a hot new language. Even then people had epithets for it. Microsoft and the open source community have always been the biggest Java haters. I think both groups hate it because Java wasn't theirs.
Off shoring of jobs is always just "a sign of the times" while it is the other guy's job and not yours. I can remember reading articles years ago with that attitude coming from American IT workers as older blue collar workers found their jobs vanishing. Kind of ironic know that the blue collar sector may be getting some of their jobs back while more American IT and white collar jobs are being off shored.
Hopefully this will last.
I've noticed that gas prices tend to go up sharply, then come down lower to rest above what they used to be. I guess the potential conspiracy theory is that is the way to make people happier with the higher price.
Anyway, I hope it lasts, that oil prices or whatever replaces oil stays more expensive then labor to make this trend last.
The whole point of demanding environmental treaties and laws is to PREVENT damage from being done. Yes, someday fossil fuel supplies will dwindle low enough to make their cost prohibitive, BUT it would be nice if the world ISN'T poisoned further before we reach that point.
Your thought is like saying that over eating will eventually fix itself because someone will eventually get diabetes, a stroke, a heart attack, then die, then be forced to lose excess weight. The whole point is to lose weight as a way of avoiding pain and enjoying the results.
Wow, I can't believe I'm on Microsofts side.
The PRC has looked the other way on intellectual property issues and while large number of their country freely pirate software. Now....they want an antitrust case?
How would we, chinese people with leetle leetle penises have the courage to do something like that against big americans with big penises?
How long have you had an interest in men's penises?
China being the 'developing nation' that it is -- he doubts that his country has the sophistication to hack foreign systems
-- but their sarcasm is the most advanced in Asia.
Fuck them. They are our largest trading partners after the EU and Canada. The poison our pets and put lead paint in our children's toys. Now they are spying on us and flippng us the bird as if they were the ones insulted.
This is a bit like closing the barn door after the animals have left.
This corrupt, selfish, and incompetent administration has done its damage. If democrats other than Kuccinich gave a dam about anything else other than their jobs and themselves, they would have fought the Bush administration numerous times over numerous egregious acts over the past 7.5 years. Instead they rolled over with their legs in the air and did nothing. The Bush administration only has about 7 months left. I say it is time to move on. Vote for Obama. Nobody can reform the country, but he is the closest thing to a breath of fresh air we will get.
Or impeaching (deserved) Bush would set off an endless partisan tit-for-tat war where every president is put up for impeachment when the opposing party has the power to do so. There were more than a few comments from prominent republicans that Clinton was payback for Nixon. I'm guessing this is one reason why Bush was not impeached so far.
"Gas Money" is money that leaves our country. A gas tax would also accomplish the same benefits as "naturally" rising prices, but some of that money would stay in the country.
Yes, I agree, a tax to raise the price of gas, on purpose is impractical in the US because it would be political suicide.
I'm work in the Washington D.C. Metropolitan area. I still see plenty of SUVs and minivans on the surrounding highways. I'm guessing it is because
1. There are a lot of rich people in this area
2. A lot of status conscious people in this area
3. A lot of people willing to live beyond their means
4. Simply that high gas prices haven't been high enough, long enough for people to get around
to dumping their SUVs and minivans.
Hopefully gas prices will stay higher long enough to completely give these dead end vehicles a complete death.
The current generation of SUVs will inevitable end up in the hands of young drivers.
If older, more wealthy drivers can't afford the gas, how will younger drivers with less money?
Used SUV sales are going to be poor. I have already seen articles to this effect. Preowned SUVs will just end up being scrapped.
This is long overdue.
Almost everybody alive, at least most of the SUV drivers, have known for a long time that gas is running out and that fossil fuel use is polluting their children's future, not to mention putting money into the pocket of our political enemies. Then there is the issue of the safety of SUVs both for the drivers and for other vehicles on the road. This news is simply about the free market getting people to do what they should have done long ago if they had any concept of a future.
Personally, if I had the money to spend on a status symbol I wouldn't buy a big blocky vehicle that looks like a mobile garden shed. I would get a nice sleek curvy sports car.
There are some people who need trucks or defacto trucks. Almost everyone else can get by with a car or a station wagon.
I'm sorry for their temporary inconvenience at owning these vehicles, but they knew it was coming, they knew it was a bad habit, and they are going to live.