For fuck's sake... where in TFS or TFA was causation mentioned? Having a correlation between two data sets opens the door for more research on that matter. Nobody said "THIS is because of THAT", but rather "THIS and THAT scale similarly, hmm..." which is a totally different thing.
So this finding might be further correlated with the following:
- given the same amount of time spent on the Internet (say 1h/day as base value), the amount of information retrieved from the Internet scales with broadband speed. correlated with - saving said information for later review (e.g. e-books, audiobooks, video files) increases the amount of information available offline which initially came from online sources. correlated with - the average wait time before someone gets bored and closes a potentially helpful webpage which for some reason doesn't load quickly enough.
Et caetera.
I agree that this simple correlation is not causation, but a web of such positive correlations might as well lay the foundation for an undeniable causation.
One more thing: for the love of _$deity_, don't look at historical datasets! Comparing the 80s data with current data is comparing apples and oranges.
"If at first you don't succeed..." But the fact that 7200 games failed to hit their goal doesn't mean anything by itself. Maybe they were horrible at "selling" their idea, or had unrealistic financial goals, or kickstarted too soon, etc.
Very strong companies with good market positions have reached that spot EXACTLY by screwing their workers until they went boom. Intel, Microsoft, Oracle, Dell, IBM, you name it.
Sometimes even the rich are skinny, because of poor food availability for decades. One of the reasons Russia and Eastern Europe produce beautiful ladies like there's no tomorrow. In all fairness, they wouldn't have been considered "beautiful" 60 years ago, but tastes change.
Thank you. Apparently the guy before has reading comprehension issues. The general point is to make otherwise complex tasks as easy as possible for regular users. At least in my company, this has been a success. Every new laptop comes with a fully automated installation method, where you only have to enter your corporate credentials and some data (e.g. desired machine name) and the setup package does everything else, including installation of drivers, printers, generic software, configuring your corporate e-mail, your corporate IM solution, shortcuts to most used web applications, support tools, etc.
Linux distributions sure as hell could do that also, but I think it's a matter of mentality, one of the factors being the idea of forcing users to learn themselves ("teach a man how to fish..."), but that doesn't really work.
That's because "IT" there is incompetent. Setting printers up where I work, under Windows, is a breeze. You go to a web page, click on your location in the world, drill down to your country, city, building, click on the printer you which to have, click install, watch it install, print away. Point'n'grunt.
Adblock IS essential to me and I don't care if it's integral to the browser or comes in as a 3rd party extension. All I care is whether browser X can block ads, one way or another. Chrome has this nice feature which installs all plugins automatically after you log in to your Google account.
With that being said, I use IE at work but strictly for internal company web apps.
The examples suck, indeed, but that doesn't mean engineers don't make business decisions. I am a tech. Not an engineer by definition but doing engineer stuff. And I am invited to a lot of business meetings because there's nobody else who wants or is smart enough to attend them in my group. At first, I was appalled by the horrendous business decisions business people made and tried to speak up, nobody was willing to listen to me. I mean they did keep quiet while I was talking and then ignored what I said. So I decided to make friends with a guy who could throw his weight around and was listened to. During the meetings I took notes, put my idea in a nice e-mail and sent it to him so that he could send it further as being his. Guess what happened. Suffice to say the guy got promoted twice and everyone looks up to him to untangle whatever issue is at hand. He simply says "I'll have to analyze and get back to you" and awaits my e-mail.
Why do I still do this? For the company, I guess. For the bettering of things.
It's not about understanding the tech dude, it's about preconception about who or rather what the tech dude is. "Oh he's a tech dude, he doesn't know any better". Rather sad but such is the way.
Which one is appropriate depends on the point of view they're expressing.
It does NOT depend on the point of view. It depends on how the point of view is conveyed, true, but NO point of view warrants extreme behavior, period. I thought both of us are using English here.
Your examples above are not opinions, they're actions (the former) or enforcements of beliefs (the latter).
opinion pinyn noun a view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge.
If I come to you and say "You're my slave" you would (hopefully) not shoot me but laugh and say "no, I'm not". If I then pull out some cuffs and try to tie you up, then yeah, you can answer by blowing my head off with a big fucking gun.
If I come and say "you're an infidel" and our religions are different, I am merely stating a fact (which is actually true), it doesn't warrant a bullet to the head. If I then violently force you to convert under death threat, you're entitled to answer in the same manner, or worse.
To reiterate: no point of view warrants use of lethal force to convey it.
Hiding is one thing, regulating extremes is another. There are many ways of expressing a point of view, and I personally value civil methods of doing so. One could express disagreement by saying "No" or by shooting someone else in the face with a shotgun.
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For fuck's sake... where in TFS or TFA was causation mentioned?
Having a correlation between two data sets opens the door for more research on that matter. Nobody said "THIS is because of THAT", but rather "THIS and THAT scale similarly, hmm..." which is a totally different thing.
So this finding might be further correlated with the following:
- given the same amount of time spent on the Internet (say 1h/day as base value), the amount of information retrieved from the Internet scales with broadband speed.
correlated with
- saving said information for later review (e.g. e-books, audiobooks, video files) increases the amount of information available offline which initially came from online sources.
correlated with
- the average wait time before someone gets bored and closes a potentially helpful webpage which for some reason doesn't load quickly enough.
Et caetera.
I agree that this simple correlation is not causation, but a web of such positive correlations might as well lay the foundation for an undeniable causation.
One more thing: for the love of _$deity_, don't look at historical datasets! Comparing the 80s data with current data is comparing apples and oranges.
How can one properly determine the difference between a novel, a novelette and a novella?
"If at first you don't succeed..."
But the fact that 7200 games failed to hit their goal doesn't mean anything by itself. Maybe they were horrible at "selling" their idea, or had unrealistic financial goals, or kickstarted too soon, etc.
Very strong companies with good market positions have reached that spot EXACTLY by screwing their workers until they went boom.
Intel, Microsoft, Oracle, Dell, IBM, you name it.
Sometimes even the rich are skinny, because of poor food availability for decades.
One of the reasons Russia and Eastern Europe produce beautiful ladies like there's no tomorrow. In all fairness, they wouldn't have been considered "beautiful" 60 years ago, but tastes change.
gah, "dot" = "don't"
Unions dot work. They suck blood from both ends, that's what they do.
I don't think "exasperated" means what you think it means.
...and you could still walk and be alive after holding your breath for so many minutes?
PROOF THAT ALIENS ARE AMONG US!
...and survive the very high temperatures caused by air friction on the way up?
...or you could just go to Control Panel\Hardware and Sound\Devices and Printers, Add a Printer, Network Printer and click next, follow instructions.
Thank you. Apparently the guy before has reading comprehension issues.
The general point is to make otherwise complex tasks as easy as possible for regular users. At least in my company, this has been a success.
Every new laptop comes with a fully automated installation method, where you only have to enter your corporate credentials and some data (e.g. desired machine name) and the setup package does everything else, including installation of drivers, printers, generic software, configuring your corporate e-mail, your corporate IM solution, shortcuts to most used web applications, support tools, etc.
Linux distributions sure as hell could do that also, but I think it's a matter of mentality, one of the factors being the idea of forcing users to learn themselves ("teach a man how to fish..."), but that doesn't really work.
Romanian.
+1 insightful because I already commented on this thread, but here's a freebie for you.
That's because "IT" there is incompetent.
Setting printers up where I work, under Windows, is a breeze. You go to a web page, click on your location in the world, drill down to your country, city, building, click on the printer you which to have, click install, watch it install, print away. Point'n'grunt.
After 10 years of using it? I guess it's a pretty lentghy time to get accustomed to it.
I didn't say it was an EXACT MATCH, douchebag.
In my language, "Mui" = "Blowjobs".
Ahem...
Adblock IS essential to me and I don't care if it's integral to the browser or comes in as a 3rd party extension. All I care is whether browser X can block ads, one way or another.
Chrome has this nice feature which installs all plugins automatically after you log in to your Google account.
With that being said, I use IE at work but strictly for internal company web apps.
The examples suck, indeed, but that doesn't mean engineers don't make business decisions.
I am a tech. Not an engineer by definition but doing engineer stuff. And I am invited to a lot of business meetings because there's nobody else who wants or is smart enough to attend them in my group. At first, I was appalled by the horrendous business decisions business people made and tried to speak up, nobody was willing to listen to me. I mean they did keep quiet while I was talking and then ignored what I said.
So I decided to make friends with a guy who could throw his weight around and was listened to. During the meetings I took notes, put my idea in a nice e-mail and sent it to him so that he could send it further as being his. Guess what happened. Suffice to say the guy got promoted twice and everyone looks up to him to untangle whatever issue is at hand. He simply says "I'll have to analyze and get back to you" and awaits my e-mail.
Why do I still do this? For the company, I guess. For the bettering of things.
It's not about understanding the tech dude, it's about preconception about who or rather what the tech dude is. "Oh he's a tech dude, he doesn't know any better".
Rather sad but such is the way.
So... who gives a shit?
Dude you said it yourself:
Which one is appropriate depends on the point of view they're expressing.
It does NOT depend on the point of view. It depends on how the point of view is conveyed, true, but NO point of view warrants extreme behavior, period.
I thought both of us are using English here.
Your examples above are not opinions, they're actions (the former) or enforcements of beliefs (the latter).
opinion
pinyn
noun
a view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge.
If I come to you and say "You're my slave" you would (hopefully) not shoot me but laugh and say "no, I'm not". If I then pull out some cuffs and try to tie you up, then yeah, you can answer by blowing my head off with a big fucking gun.
If I come and say "you're an infidel" and our religions are different, I am merely stating a fact (which is actually true), it doesn't warrant a bullet to the head. If I then violently force you to convert under death threat, you're entitled to answer in the same manner, or worse.
To reiterate: no point of view warrants use of lethal force to convey it.
The latter is never appropriate.
Hiding is one thing, regulating extremes is another.
There are many ways of expressing a point of view, and I personally value civil methods of doing so.
One could express disagreement by saying "No" or by shooting someone else in the face with a shotgun.