... If only I hadn't been raised on a steady diet of moral platitudes and stories of good triumphing over evil, I could be more at peace with this reality.
It's called evolution. No morality involved.
The reason we as a species are so smart is because the best way to develop intelligence is to have an intelligent opponent--each other.
Competition never ends.
The only things that end are the entities that don't compete in the current environment very well.
Dude, the US Government was able to get malware planted in Iranian centrifuge controllers that were supposed to be air-gapped. I wouldn't be surprised in Windows 8 is pre-programmed to cut itself off the internet when the spooks say so.
The Blue Screen of Dominance.
My windows is able to shut itself off from the internet at random.
The Internet Kill switch is located on the twentieth sub-floor of the White House, in a small room right beside the cot Dick Cheney hid under in 2001 for three weeks. The switch is enclosed in a nondescript beige controller box with a large round red button that blinks with the pulse of the internet. A sign above reads, only switch off in case of emergency, or alien invasion.
Then where is the button they use to shut down the internet for the monthly maintenance?
Everybody has been complaining about the high cost of American government without really talking about what you get with it.
Makes it seem as if we should cut the price of government since we don't need it.
But what actually happens when the govt shuts down? Business loses money.
If business is running the government, or rich people are running the government, then it will cost them money if they shut down the internet.
Economics is a pain in the butt. You actually _can_ dominate everyone else in your area for a while (or longer if some other country supports you the way China props up North Korea) but you can't actually be better off than other countries. Being rich in North Korea means being able to get a ripe banana.
The rulez of economics apply whether you are rich or poor. Cutting off the internet means shutting down profits.
That isn't going to happen for every long.
There is always a lowest 1% or 10%. But that's irrelevant.
If one of your employees didn't work out, deal with it personally and realize it is a one-off event.
If 1% (or 5% or 15%) of the people you hire aren't working out, perhaps that's normal or perhaps you aren't hiring well or managing well or matching employee talents to business needs.
Don't try to let math do your thinking for you (like MS used to and Yahoo is apparently going to start doing).
I never had any math professors grade on a curve. They said we could all get As or all fail but the sample size wasn't large enough to justify any sort of curve.
Of course, most managers probably didn't take enough math classes to learn to think logically.
New leadership or just a new face at the top of the monkey tree?
He'll probably reorganize since that's the only thing a manager/CEO _can_ do.
Reorg means a brand-new circus with the same old clowns.
Actually, I think making an e-book that presents the material in an understandable way _is_ difficult.
I like being able to look back and forth at a chart while reading the text that describes it.I think it aids in my understanding.
I had a lot of text books that were pure print, like novels. Those are fine as e-books.
I also had a lot of science books full of charts that I'd refer to often.
Those don't work out so well as e-books.
A wall map conveys an entirely different view of information than looking at the map in pieces thru a magnifying glass in the style of an app on a smartphone.
Same with the way we present a lot of material.
" I don't have to hold my tongue when someone is wrong or worry about formalities"
You may not be correct.
That's not quite exactly the same as saying, "You are wrong."
You may not think you have to hold your tongue, but it certainly helps if you hold it in the best position to let other people feel as self-important as you yourself like to feel. It's called empathy. Try to fake it until you make it.
Kind of reminds me of Calvin and Hobbs Opposite Day.
One of the things that has always bothered me is that citizens and politicians say our nation values peace but the only sorts of major awards we give out are to soldiers and we have several days honoring soldiers.
No awards and no days for war protesters, apparently because we value peace so much.
Identity theft _is_ different from standard credit card theft which is why I specifically mentioned it instead of just inferring it is all one big steaming pile of electronic theft--the way most citizens/voters and therefore congresscritters 'think.'
Apparently, that's not obvious enough here on/.
Article:... they probably looked good on paper, didn't quite work out. Specifically, Elop decided to abandon Nokia's popular homegrown operating systems, including Symbian, in favor of Microsoft's Windows Phone.
Depends on what you mean by "didn't work out."
That decision didn't work out for Nokia but apparently worked out real well for Elop himself.
In other words, people will give up something they have (free time or autonomy) for pay.
My God. This crucial insight could completely revitalize the study of economics.
the e-mail is on its way.
dang, it got returned. I'll just forward it to everybody in my address book and hopefully, someone can forward it on to your correct email address.
Thanks for helping.
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I've got better machines to run Linux on
Really? for $400? kewl.
headline: Buggy Whip 2.0 released.
Like with entropy, the savings just get moved.
Now you've got to spend days trying to find a disk drive.
The researchers plan to add networking capability within the next 13 years, once they decide it's not just a temporary fad.
Then why does it use the engineer's 'j' for complex numbers instead of maths' and physics' 'i'?
because i is for index I imagine.
agreed. It sounds like we need a programming language where you don't have to think logically. Then those duds could really get something done.
imo, problem definition comes before problem solution.
I LIKE that Mark. If I were on the fBook, I would click a button 4u.
The Joy of Revolutionary Sex.
uhhh, you have to remember that in 1776, sex was not supposed to be joyful.
... If only I hadn't been raised on a steady diet of moral platitudes and stories of good triumphing over evil, I could be more at peace with this reality.
It's called evolution. No morality involved.
The reason we as a species are so smart is because the best way to develop intelligence is to have an intelligent opponent--each other.
Competition never ends.
The only things that end are the entities that don't compete in the current environment very well.
Dude, the US Government was able to get malware planted in Iranian centrifuge controllers that were supposed to be air-gapped. I wouldn't be surprised in Windows 8 is pre-programmed to cut itself off the internet when the spooks say so.
The Blue Screen of Dominance.
My windows is able to shut itself off from the internet at random.
The Internet Kill switch is located on the twentieth sub-floor of the White House, in a small room right beside the cot Dick Cheney hid under in 2001 for three weeks. The switch is enclosed in a nondescript beige controller box with a large round red button that blinks with the pulse of the internet. A sign above reads, only switch off in case of emergency, or alien invasion.
Then where is the button they use to shut down the internet for the monthly maintenance?
Everybody has been complaining about the high cost of American government without really talking about what you get with it.
Makes it seem as if we should cut the price of government since we don't need it.
But what actually happens when the govt shuts down? Business loses money.
If business is running the government, or rich people are running the government, then it will cost them money if they shut down the internet.
Economics is a pain in the butt. You actually _can_ dominate everyone else in your area for a while (or longer if some other country supports you the way China props up North Korea) but you can't actually be better off than other countries. Being rich in North Korea means being able to get a ripe banana.
The rulez of economics apply whether you are rich or poor. Cutting off the internet means shutting down profits.
That isn't going to happen for every long.
There is always a lowest 1% or 10%. But that's irrelevant.
If one of your employees didn't work out, deal with it personally and realize it is a one-off event.
If 1% (or 5% or 15%) of the people you hire aren't working out, perhaps that's normal or perhaps you aren't hiring well or managing well or matching employee talents to business needs.
Don't try to let math do your thinking for you (like MS used to and Yahoo is apparently going to start doing).
I never had any math professors grade on a curve. They said we could all get As or all fail but the sample size wasn't large enough to justify any sort of curve.
Of course, most managers probably didn't take enough math classes to learn to think logically.
Hopefully they won't be moving to a "everybody is a winner" scheme.
Failure is not an option. That means failure must be mandatory.
As long as we're all pulling for the same goal, that's what counts.
But if you make it part of the company culture, you're going to end up with a company of paranoid back-stabbers.
And what is the problem with that?" asks Larry Ellison.
New leadership or just a new face at the top of the monkey tree?
He'll probably reorganize since that's the only thing a manager/CEO _can_ do.
Reorg means a brand-new circus with the same old clowns.
Maybe Microsoft will be able to re-invent a better version of itself.
probably just changes on the Surface tho ;-)
Actually, I think making an e-book that presents the material in an understandable way _is_ difficult.
I like being able to look back and forth at a chart while reading the text that describes it.I think it aids in my understanding.
I had a lot of text books that were pure print, like novels. Those are fine as e-books.
I also had a lot of science books full of charts that I'd refer to often.
Those don't work out so well as e-books.
A wall map conveys an entirely different view of information than looking at the map in pieces thru a magnifying glass in the style of an app on a smartphone.
Same with the way we present a lot of material.
" I don't have to hold my tongue when someone is wrong or worry about formalities"
You may not be correct.
That's not quite exactly the same as saying, "You are wrong."
You may not think you have to hold your tongue, but it certainly helps if you hold it in the best position to let other people feel as self-important as you yourself like to feel. It's called empathy. Try to fake it until you make it.
Kind of reminds me of Calvin and Hobbs Opposite Day.
One of the things that has always bothered me is that citizens and politicians say our nation values peace but the only sorts of major awards we give out are to soldiers and we have several days honoring soldiers.
No awards and no days for war protesters, apparently because we value peace so much.
Identity theft _is_ different from standard credit card theft which is why I specifically mentioned it instead of just inferring it is all one big steaming pile of electronic theft--the way most citizens/voters and therefore congresscritters 'think.' /.
Apparently, that's not obvious enough here on
Article: ... they probably looked good on paper, didn't quite work out. Specifically, Elop decided to abandon Nokia's popular homegrown operating systems, including Symbian, in favor of Microsoft's Windows Phone.
Depends on what you mean by "didn't work out."
That decision didn't work out for Nokia but apparently worked out real well for Elop himself.
In other words, people will give up something they have (free time or autonomy) for pay.
My God. This crucial insight could completely revitalize the study of economics.
It seems like a giant project that was hurried, kind of like a Windows Vista.
That is a lot like Vista.
Isn't it getting gradually fixed?
You mean like Vista?
the e-mail is on its way.
dang, it got returned. I'll just forward it to everybody in my address book and hopefully, someone can forward it on to your correct email address.
Thanks for helping.