The saying makes sense if you get the axes right (it's not "time" over "stuff learned").
X is "things you're able to do" and Y is "what you need to learn". In other words, a tool with a steep learning curve requires a lot of learning in order to do basic things.
so could making Tax Day October 15 (directly before an election), instead of April 15 (about as far away from one as it can be),...but that's another topic
that's a loud force trying to affect the market. the market is still affected only by people believing the shiny billboards and TV adverts. madison avenue isn't the one writing the check for the new Dell machine.
actually, you and him and I do control the end user market. that is, the end user "market" is simply the combination of thousands if not millions of others, just like you. We can debate all day about the clueless/fulness of the "average" user, or demographics of the market, but it all boils down to people making decisions.
The parent's right: if nobody buys it, it'll tank. And you're right: if it meets consumers' needs, they'll buy it.
However, for the most part, there isn't a more powerful force in the "end market" than the many different and varied buying decisions of potential customers.
i have the same thing. when i look print or think of them in my head, every number and letter has a color, the same way the letter "s" has the ssssssss sound. in my head, it's just an intrinsic property.
2s and 6s have the same color in my head, and i once went to the wrong classroom because of it. Unfortunately it the same course, different section/intructor. I was adament that i should be among the registered students/ felt foolish later when i realized i should have been in 502 instead of 506.
maybe i'm just ignorant of "how", but if something like fastmail.fm is only $20/yr, wouldn't that be waaay cheaper than having a domain?
I mean, i love the idea of having the control of your own domain, but you have the cost of registration plus at least $10-20/month or so to host the thing. Is there a cheaper way to host your own domain (if only for email purposes)?
normally i wouldn't reply to a sig, but "every human life has the same worth" just isn't accurate. You think the life of the thug who just broke in an raped and killed your mother has the same value as yours? We're all born with the same rights, but our actions determine our value.
no, i hate macs (probably out of unfamiliarity; i'm sure they're fine if you know them.) Is there some hot key for cycling amount windows within a program?
if the University is going to consider everything in terms of cost, be true to that analysis and consider the wide-scope cost of everything, including and especially maintenance. Who will fix it if something goes wrong? What about all the students who grew up on Windows and aren't used to alternatives?
Point out that that it's not just the operating system that will need to be changed. You'll also have to buy EVERY SOFTWARE TITLE in the non-windows version (assuming it exists); imagine the total bill.
Also, I imagine many departments use Office (Word almost ubiquitously, along with Excel, Outlook, Access, Powerpoint... all very common in an office setting), you'll have to find non-MS software to do all of this, AND train everyone who's used to doing it on Outlook how to do it on Eudora (for my experience working with NYU faculty members, most are terrified of changing fonts. Don't even begin with new software). What about all the data stored in Word, Excel, and Access files? Not only are you going to have to find a replacement software package, but you'll need one that can seemlessly import and manipulate these filetypes, or prepare for tech support costs like you don't know what.
Also, if "non-microsoft" is the only stipulation (which seems a little misguided, but it's not my money), go with Mac, simply for ease-of use. Although many students are comfortable with computers, MANY students and faculty are not.
Assuming they currently use MS products for any significant amount of work, it sounds like a nightmare.
yes, i've noticed this and it's very annoying. The metaphor for windows is that each item on the taskbar is a window. MS Word got it right: each new doc is a window on the task bar, and the X in the corner closes only that document. This way i can alt-tab between docs, which i can't do in Excel. Makes navigating among spreadsheets annoying, and "closing the window == closing all open docs" is counterintuitive
actually, it is phonetic. the "eye" sound is made of two parts: "ah" and "ee" (say them together fast, or say "eye" slow, and it's clear).
if you give the vowels their traditional romance sounds (as they do in so many other languages) of "ah", "ee", and "oh", respectively, "VAIO" is pronounced exactly like it sounds.
when i was younger (before high school), I watched TNG and loved it. I bought the technical manuals and read them, and loved the whole universe. I thought First Contact was the bee's knees. Then, sometime before Insurrection (which was the nail in the coffin for me), it lost it's luster, and it started to seem simplistic and uninteresting.
Maybe i just grew up, and my tasted evolved, but to say that insults adult Trek fans everywhere.
For my money, it just doesn't hold my interest. I'll rent Nemisis to out of curiousity, but relatively little about it piqued my interest from the previews.
I don't know about anyone else, but my favorite TNG episodes were built around some sort of mystery, where something really odd was happening and the crew slowly unraveled it. It had the element of surprise, and kept me engaged. To me, a traditional "the earth is threatened and we have to stop the bad guy" movie is neither interesting nor very Trek.
regardless of their intentions, isn't this a beneficial result? We get free, clean media players, they get a bigger market share. Sure it's for their benefit, but ours too. "Not being altruistic" isn't necessarily a reason to be against this. I'd be far more suspicious of a move that had nothing in it for the mover.
silly man, we were only suggesting that because we assumed it would be too hard to actually do. Now that we can't get music for free, this seems like a really terrible idea.
for kicks, we (and by "we", I mean somebody else) need to have an EULA that contains and absurd clause (firstborn child upon installation), then try to collect. It'd be like challenging the concept of EULAs, but from the other side. Try real hard to get sued.
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The saying makes sense if you get the axes right (it's not "time" over "stuff learned").
X is "things you're able to do" and Y is "what you need to learn". In other words, a tool with a steep learning curve requires a lot of learning in order to do basic things.
That's funny.
honda accords and toyota camrys are the most stolen because they're the most common. careful with those statistics.
so could making Tax Day October 15 (directly before an election), instead of April 15 (about as far away from one as it can be), ...but that's another topic
i'm from stillwater (graduated SHS in 2000). did you grow up there?
that's a loud force trying to affect the market. the market is still affected only by people believing the shiny billboards and TV adverts. madison avenue isn't the one writing the check for the new Dell machine.
actually, you and him and I do control the end user market. that is, the end user "market" is simply the combination of thousands if not millions of others, just like you. We can debate all day about the clueless/fulness of the "average" user, or demographics of the market, but it all boils down to people making decisions.
The parent's right: if nobody buys it, it'll tank. And you're right: if it meets consumers' needs, they'll buy it.
However, for the most part, there isn't a more powerful force in the "end market" than the many different and varied buying decisions of potential customers.
i have the same thing. when i look print or think of them in my head, every number and letter has a color, the same way the letter "s" has the ssssssss sound. in my head, it's just an intrinsic property.
2s and 6s have the same color in my head, and i once went to the wrong classroom because of it. Unfortunately it the same course, different section/intructor. I was adament that i should be among the registered students/ felt foolish later when i realized i should have been in 502 instead of 506.
how dare you restrain that jerking knee, and demand that claims have context?!
i swear, with people like you we wouldn't be able to demonize any new technology.
(mod parent up)
maybe i'm just ignorant of "how", but if something like fastmail.fm is only $20/yr, wouldn't that be waaay cheaper than having a domain?
I mean, i love the idea of having the control of your own domain, but you have the cost of registration plus at least $10-20/month or so to host the thing. Is there a cheaper way to host your own domain (if only for email purposes)?
(OT, i know)
normally i wouldn't reply to a sig, but "every human life has the same worth" just isn't accurate. You think the life of the thug who just broke in an raped and killed your mother has the same value as yours? We're all born with the same rights, but our actions determine our value.
no, i hate macs (probably out of unfamiliarity; i'm sure they're fine if you know them.) Is there some hot key for cycling amount windows within a program?
Point out that that it's not just the operating system that will need to be changed. You'll also have to buy EVERY SOFTWARE TITLE in the non-windows version (assuming it exists); imagine the total bill.
Also, I imagine many departments use Office (Word almost ubiquitously, along with Excel, Outlook, Access, Powerpoint... all very common in an office setting), you'll have to find non-MS software to do all of this, AND train everyone who's used to doing it on Outlook how to do it on Eudora (for my experience working with NYU faculty members, most are terrified of changing fonts. Don't even begin with new software). What about all the data stored in Word, Excel, and Access files? Not only are you going to have to find a replacement software package, but you'll need one that can seemlessly import and manipulate these filetypes, or prepare for tech support costs like you don't know what.
Also, if "non-microsoft" is the only stipulation (which seems a little misguided, but it's not my money), go with Mac, simply for ease-of use. Although many students are comfortable with computers, MANY students and faculty are not.
Assuming they currently use MS products for any significant amount of work, it sounds like a nightmare.
yes, i've noticed this and it's very annoying. The metaphor for windows is that each item on the taskbar is a window. MS Word got it right: each new doc is a window on the task bar, and the X in the corner closes only that document. This way i can alt-tab between docs, which i can't do in Excel. Makes navigating among spreadsheets annoying, and "closing the window == closing all open docs" is counterintuitive
Personally, i like the office interface, but perhaps that's just because i'm so familiar with it.
actually, it is phonetic. the "eye" sound is made of two parts: "ah" and "ee" (say them together fast, or say "eye" slow, and it's clear).
if you give the vowels their traditional romance sounds (as they do in so many other languages) of "ah", "ee", and "oh", respectively, "VAIO" is pronounced exactly like it sounds.
when i was younger (before high school), I watched TNG and loved it. I bought the technical manuals and read them, and loved the whole universe. I thought First Contact was the bee's knees. Then, sometime before Insurrection (which was the nail in the coffin for me), it lost it's luster, and it started to seem simplistic and uninteresting.
Maybe i just grew up, and my tasted evolved, but to say that insults adult Trek fans everywhere.
For my money, it just doesn't hold my interest. I'll rent Nemisis to out of curiousity, but relatively little about it piqued my interest from the previews.
I don't know about anyone else, but my favorite TNG episodes were built around some sort of mystery, where something really odd was happening and the crew slowly unraveled it. It had the element of surprise, and kept me engaged. To me, a traditional "the earth is threatened and we have to stop the bad guy" movie is neither interesting nor very Trek.
if only i had whored more karma, i'd have mod points. parent's funnier than merely "2".
stupid younger brothers....
regardless of their intentions, isn't this a beneficial result? We get free, clean media players, they get a bigger market share. Sure it's for their benefit, but ours too. "Not being altruistic" isn't necessarily a reason to be against this. I'd be far more suspicious of a move that had nothing in it for the mover.
silly man, we were only suggesting that because we assumed it would be too hard to actually do. Now that we can't get music for free, this seems like a really terrible idea.
for kicks, we (and by "we", I mean somebody else) need to have an EULA that contains and absurd clause (firstborn child upon installation), then try to collect. It'd be like challenging the concept of EULAs, but from the other side. Try real hard to get sued.
JOHN
(angrily)
How could you?
there are thousands of ways to say the line.
otherwise you're stupid!!
everyone is tired of these trolls; quit it. sending ["extra" item] to [impoverished country/continent] won't solve any actual problems.
am i the only one who hoped that she would rise from the smoldering crater with super-powers, don a colorful costume, and fight crime?