Tell me, do you insist on knowing the ending of books, as well? Do you read dissertations on paintings and skip experiencing them yourself if they're available for viewing? I, personally, enjoy storytelling in whatever form and want to experience it as it's told.
From my post above: When I do know the ending from hearing it from others, it has no affect on my enjoyment of the movie. Great film making is great film making. Everyone knew the ending of "Titanic" but it is the biggest blockbuster ever.
So, I agree with you. And yes, I don't mind knowing the end of a book. It's real hoot seeing how an author gets from point A to point B in a plot.
Let's be real, the moon is never going to be like Florida,
Oh God! That's all we need.
Rockets flying really slow with one of their blinkers on all the way. Those big fuel guzzling RV rockets with the little shuttles on the back. Old guys pontificating how in their day, they held their breath on the Moon - and loved it, none of this space suit crap that makes today's youth so soft! How he could have bought the Sea of Tranquility for $5.00 and look how rich he could be - especially with the malls going up, golf course and everything.
Oh please, I hope the Moon doesn't become like FL!
âoeFor six years, these employees (for two years, I was among them) have sat in front of lonely computers,.....
There wasn't an adding machine to talk to? What about the phones? Were the phones to snobby to talk to them?
But, maybe it was the computers fault. IT does has a reputation of not having social skills. Maybe the computers just annoyed the others.
I'll send my business card to the BIA offering to teach their computers social skills and maybe some assertive training to say "NO" to unauthorized access.
From the Amazon Support Engineer link Sysadmin work is the new "tech ghetto," we hear.
Here's my take from back when I was in IT.
Developing software can be really interesting, cool, challenging, stimulating, etc... but when the project it done, they really don't need you anymore - unless you work for a software firm. Even if it's a large company with a shitload of projects, eventually they'll be done. With the current trend of buying canned software and integrating (usually done by the canned software co.) there's less opportunity for he hard core developer.
Support, DBA, and other admin type of jobs.
Ghetto indeed! There' always something to be done and some of the scripts I've seen from you admins can rival much software I've seen. And if I could do it all over again, I would be going for an admin job/career. Why? Because there's a bigger demand for them and you're more likely to have a job. I learned the hard way that it's more important to have a steady job than to be chasing after the highest rate and the coolest project. Well, maybe in the beginning I would do that, but definitely later on, I'd switch to the steady stuff. And, invest my money a bit beter - save, save, save!
Actually I think that Microsoft SHOULD be banned from the Virus/Malware protection market.
It is their DUTY to release that kind of thing FREE as they all deal with fixing their own products flaws.
Duty aside, it will also eliminate any conflicts of interest. If they're selling anit-virus software, what's to prevent them from making security a very low priority. No, I honestly do not think they would write viruses or purposely cripple their OS: just make security a low priority.
I don't know about you guys, but when I see the ending of this movie, I guarantee that I won't be surprised. Hollywood has become too predictable. The only time I've ever been surprised by a movie ending was "The Sixth Sense". Even "Crying Game" didn't surprise me because I recognized the actor from "Stargate".
When I do know the ending from hearing it from others, it has no affect on my enjoyment of the movie. Great film making is great film making. Everyone knew the ending of "Titanic" but it is the biggest blockbuster ever.
I want to know everything about the movie before I go a spend $10 on a ticket to see it. Nothing pisses me off more than going out with the wife and spending $20 on shit.
Every Cardiologist that I now, runs distance. They're so paranoid about their hearts that they eat, exercise, and sleep for their hearts.
My joke with my wife is that I need to drop 10 lbs myself and I tell her that I want to look like a Cardiologist or gay. I mean let's face it. If you're middle aged man and in great shape, you're most likely gay.
Ah! I was sooo pissed off at the freaking thing that I wanted it off and so did my brother in law. He's not technical, but he knew somehow that it was the problem.
I hate reading on a computer monitor. Somewhere it has been researched that reading slows down by 25% when it's read from a monitor. Now, when looking for cites, ("slower reading on computer monitor ") on Google, all I get is garbage. So, take my opinion for what it's worth.
Gimme a book, baby! A printed, dead tree book! And when you geniuses figure out how to make a monitor that reads like a book, then I'll switch - cost is not a factor.
Many programs have these resident services (Windows) that sit there and just take up memory and CPU for no reason.
For example: Quickbooks. Why does it have to have (IIRC) three services running EVEN IF QUICKBOOKS ITSELF IS NOT RUNNING!? One of them is for updates. The other two I have no idea, but all three sure bogged my system down. I uninstalled Quickbooks and it took Registry Mechanic to get rid of everything. I tell you with this and other problems I've had with Intuit, if I see that company's name on something , I refuse to buy it.
Back in my day, when we had to program in the snow, uphill both ways, we would check for updates upon startup AND allow the user to turn it off.
Folks, just because there is a feature for programs or cool way of doing something, does not mean it's a good design.
Now about Windows registry and the fact that it only grows.....Never mind. I need a drink.
My brother in law "all of a sudden" lost his internet connection on his computer. After testing the connection, I ran some diagnostics. Guess what? Norton AV was blocking port 80.
But wait! it gets better. You cannot uninstall it through the remove programs. You have to go into safe mode and uninstall there. Otherwise, you'll just get error messages - regardless if you use Norton's uninstall or Windows.
but what is really needed is a photovoltaic that will release two electrons for every photon. If any of you material guys out there do that, you'll be a gazillionaire! That will really make photovoltaics productive enough to really complete with other alternative energy source - assuming fossils fuels don't go up much higher than they are now. Photovoltaics need to get down below $0.15 kwh on the roof (the heat from a typical roof reduces photovoltaic's efficiency by at least 10%).
Yeah, I don't see the merit of this with the exception of letting joe six pack make sure he can play whatever he buys.
I meant dumbed down to the point that backward crap technology is part of the standard. Joe Sixpack can run a billion dollar very complex machine with a push of a button if the UI is designed right. Just look at military hardware.
And wouldn't these standards have to be constantly changing to adapt to the hardware market?
No. Standards are lobbied like any group decision process and you are going to have the inept slackards who will chime in with "the standards don't work with our stuff". So you shitty APIs, bloated software and just really shitty design. I've seen this attempted with many things that IBM and others have tried years ago and you ended up with bloated shit that doesn't exist anymore. Remember: Taligent? SOM?
The article does make a good point that if it is implemented it should be done by a third party, and not someone tied to the hardware and software.
Oh, God no!
I say everyone fights for market share, the poor technology or unmarketable (e.g. Betamax) dies out for whatever reason, and let God sort'em out.
FTFA: The goal for AMD with the new GAME! initiative is pretty simple: make it easier for PC gamers to buy a system or components that will competently play most modern titles at reasonable quality levels and frame rates.
Dumb everything down so that everyone with the infrastructure to make crap can enter the marketplace regardless of the quality and merits of their product. Those that make the cheapest shit that just barely conforms to the standard will capture the market.
Hey, it worked great for the PC market; didn't it?!?
An IT & FOSS guy got his ego dented?!? Say it isn't so! That never happens!
FOSS people are the most altruistic and saintly people EVAAR! Why, they give their software away! They give their source away! They work for free much of the time! How dare you criticize these saints! They give us an option against Microsoft the EVIL that will run on Intell/PC products! They give us a way to save old and outdated computers that will go into a landfill!
Workers in these countries do tend to have a better work ethic than Western programmers. Questions remain as to why -- my opinion is that there's a higher focus on education and a greater motivation to make money.
It has to do with expectations.
We Americans, and most Westerners for that matter, think that we're entitled to a job, a decent standard of living (house, two cars, big TV, ALL the food we can eat and then some, etc...).
These folks from those off-shoring destinations are grateful that they even have a way to make a living and to buy enough food and maybe a luxury like a car or even a TV.
Now, don't think that I believe their way of life is better. It's just a illustration of my opinion of why their work ethic is the way it is. And when they get more developed, their work ethic will become like ours.
I would also like to note that in those countries the disparity between rich and poor is obscene. Which looks like the US is heading in that direction - why is it that when regular folks get canned, we're living on credit cards after we blow through the last of our saving; whereas, the CEO gets tens of millions of dollars for getting canned?!? Or look at the economy now: sales of luxury goods for the really rich (yachts, private jets, etc..) shoe no signs of decreasing, while sales for poor folks stuff is declining - except for beer.
Its that sort of arrogant crap that makes people vow to never use a computer. Some people have no need for a particular tech.
So fucking sue me.
This infantile attitude of "I use tech X and thus so should you" just shows the immaturity of the poster, not that they are in any sense 'better' than those not using that technology.
And what folks have missed is that there are a few folks who don't want what they in writing - even email - unless necessary. I am currently working in a place that will not send emails for that reason - we only call.
And please, nobody respond with a contradictory statement unless you're a member of the BAR somewhere. i.e. Your comment starts with "IAAL".
Let me get this straight. WikiLeaks is reporting that Wikinews suppressed an article on Wikipeida about WikiPorn? Now, the WikiInvestigators are....I've gone cross eyed...
Odds may be high that they accounted for the differences. However, this is NASA we are talking about. Odds are also high that they used Kg. for one, and lbs. for the other.
If they think he has an unfair advantage, why don't they get their legs amputated, too?
If this guy takes home a gold and considering how competitive some folks are, it wouldn't surprise me if elite athletes start getting into "accidents" and having these put on them.
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From my post above: When I do know the ending from hearing it from others, it has no affect on my enjoyment of the movie. Great film making is great film making. Everyone knew the ending of "Titanic" but it is the biggest blockbuster ever.
So, I agree with you. And yes, I don't mind knowing the end of a book. It's real hoot seeing how an author gets from point A to point B in a plot.
Oh God! That's all we need.
Rockets flying really slow with one of their blinkers on all the way. Those big fuel guzzling RV rockets with the little shuttles on the back. Old guys pontificating how in their day, they held their breath on the Moon - and loved it, none of this space suit crap that makes today's youth so soft! How he could have bought the Sea of Tranquility for $5.00 and look how rich he could be - especially with the malls going up, golf course and everything.
Oh please, I hope the Moon doesn't become like FL!
There wasn't an adding machine to talk to? What about the phones? Were the phones to snobby to talk to them?
But, maybe it was the computers fault. IT does has a reputation of not having social skills. Maybe the computers just annoyed the others.
I'll send my business card to the BIA offering to teach their computers social skills and maybe some assertive training to say "NO" to unauthorized access.
Here's my take from back when I was in IT.
Developing software can be really interesting, cool, challenging, stimulating, etc... but when the project it done, they really don't need you anymore - unless you work for a software firm. Even if it's a large company with a shitload of projects, eventually they'll be done. With the current trend of buying canned software and integrating (usually done by the canned software co.) there's less opportunity for he hard core developer.
Support, DBA, and other admin type of jobs.
Ghetto indeed! There' always something to be done and some of the scripts I've seen from you admins can rival much software I've seen. And if I could do it all over again, I would be going for an admin job/career. Why? Because there's a bigger demand for them and you're more likely to have a job. I learned the hard way that it's more important to have a steady job than to be chasing after the highest rate and the coolest project. Well, maybe in the beginning I would do that, but definitely later on, I'd switch to the steady stuff. And, invest my money a bit beter - save, save, save!
Just this old fart's $0.5.
Duty aside, it will also eliminate any conflicts of interest. If they're selling anit-virus software, what's to prevent them from making security a very low priority. No, I honestly do not think they would write viruses or purposely cripple their OS: just make security a low priority.
No, it just may mean I'm not the sharpest tack in the bunch here.
When I do know the ending from hearing it from others, it has no affect on my enjoyment of the movie. Great film making is great film making. Everyone knew the ending of "Titanic" but it is the biggest blockbuster ever.
I want to know everything about the movie before I go a spend $10 on a ticket to see it. Nothing pisses me off more than going out with the wife and spending $20 on shit.
Every Cardiologist that I now, runs distance. They're so paranoid about their hearts that they eat, exercise, and sleep for their hearts.
My joke with my wife is that I need to drop 10 lbs myself and I tell her that I want to look like a Cardiologist or gay. I mean let's face it. If you're middle aged man and in great shape, you're most likely gay.
Ah! I was sooo pissed off at the freaking thing that I wanted it off and so did my brother in law. He's not technical, but he knew somehow that it was the problem.
Gimme a book, baby! A printed, dead tree book! And when you geniuses figure out how to make a monitor that reads like a book, then I'll switch - cost is not a factor.
For example: Quickbooks. Why does it have to have (IIRC) three services running EVEN IF QUICKBOOKS ITSELF IS NOT RUNNING!? One of them is for updates. The other two I have no idea, but all three sure bogged my system down. I uninstalled Quickbooks and it took Registry Mechanic to get rid of everything. I tell you with this and other problems I've had with Intuit, if I see that company's name on something , I refuse to buy it.
Back in my day, when we had to program in the snow, uphill both ways, we would check for updates upon startup AND allow the user to turn it off.
Folks, just because there is a feature for programs or cool way of doing something, does not mean it's a good design.
Now about Windows registry and the fact that it only grows.....Never mind. I need a drink.
But wait! it gets better. You cannot uninstall it through the remove programs. You have to go into safe mode and uninstall there. Otherwise, you'll just get error messages - regardless if you use Norton's uninstall or Windows.
What a kick in the balls!
all we would have to do is see who's buying a lot of dry cleaning fluid?
but what is really needed is a photovoltaic that will release two electrons for every photon. If any of you material guys out there do that, you'll be a gazillionaire! That will really make photovoltaics productive enough to really complete with other alternative energy source - assuming fossils fuels don't go up much higher than they are now. Photovoltaics need to get down below $0.15 kwh on the roof (the heat from a typical roof reduces photovoltaic's efficiency by at least 10%).
I meant dumbed down to the point that backward crap technology is part of the standard. Joe Sixpack can run a billion dollar very complex machine with a push of a button if the UI is designed right. Just look at military hardware.
And wouldn't these standards have to be constantly changing to adapt to the hardware market?
No. Standards are lobbied like any group decision process and you are going to have the inept slackards who will chime in with "the standards don't work with our stuff". So you shitty APIs, bloated software and just really shitty design. I've seen this attempted with many things that IBM and others have tried years ago and you ended up with bloated shit that doesn't exist anymore. Remember: Taligent? SOM?
The article does make a good point that if it is implemented it should be done by a third party, and not someone tied to the hardware and software.
Oh, God no!
I say everyone fights for market share, the poor technology or unmarketable (e.g. Betamax) dies out for whatever reason, and let God sort'em out.
Dumb everything down so that everyone with the infrastructure to make crap can enter the marketplace regardless of the quality and merits of their product. Those that make the cheapest shit that just barely conforms to the standard will capture the market.
Hey, it worked great for the PC market; didn't it?!?
An IT & FOSS guy got his ego dented?!? Say it isn't so! That never happens!
FOSS people are the most altruistic and saintly people EVAAR! Why, they give their software away! They give their source away! They work for free much of the time! How dare you criticize these saints! They give us an option against Microsoft the EVIL that will run on Intell/PC products! They give us a way to save old and outdated computers that will go into a landfill!
How dare you insult those people!!
There are undergraduate courses in management at every college that offers a business degree.
So, again, what's you point?
It has to do with expectations.
We Americans, and most Westerners for that matter, think that we're entitled to a job, a decent standard of living (house, two cars, big TV, ALL the food we can eat and then some, etc...).
These folks from those off-shoring destinations are grateful that they even have a way to make a living and to buy enough food and maybe a luxury like a car or even a TV.
Now, don't think that I believe their way of life is better. It's just a illustration of my opinion of why their work ethic is the way it is. And when they get more developed, their work ethic will become like ours.
I would also like to note that in those countries the disparity between rich and poor is obscene. Which looks like the US is heading in that direction - why is it that when regular folks get canned, we're living on credit cards after we blow through the last of our saving; whereas, the CEO gets tens of millions of dollars for getting canned?!? Or look at the economy now: sales of luxury goods for the really rich (yachts, private jets, etc..) shoe no signs of decreasing, while sales for poor folks stuff is declining - except for beer.
Every college that has a business program has a course offered call "Management" or "Management of Organizations" or something to that effect.
And what folks have missed is that there are a few folks who don't want what they in writing - even email - unless necessary. I am currently working in a place that will not send emails for that reason - we only call.
And please, nobody respond with a contradictory statement unless you're a member of the BAR somewhere. i.e. Your comment starts with "IAAL".
Let me get this straight. WikiLeaks is reporting that Wikinews suppressed an article on Wikipeida about WikiPorn? Now, the WikiInvestigators are ....I've gone cross eyed...
Or an intern confused mass with weight.
If you're a chick - who needs men!
If you're a dude: I guess you could have any woman you want.
If this guy takes home a gold and considering how competitive some folks are, it wouldn't surprise me if elite athletes start getting into "accidents" and having these put on them.