You're right. There's jokes for every instrument. The common element, however, is that just about every instrument is easy to pick up (for the reasonably competent) and play. Mastering said instrument, however, is what is more complicated. I know tons of people who can play instruments, but there are few that I'd trust to play a gig with me.
oh yeah? read the original post and then get out your calculator. Ready? Punch in 30, then the multiplication sign (the little 'X' thingy), and then type in 150 and then hit the '%' key. Hit '=' and you get 1350. I guess my calculator failed basic math too, huh?
Just so you know I was just joking around, the original poster obviously meant to say that either you take an estimate and multiply it by 1.5 or you take an estimate and add 150% of its value to the original estimate. Either works...
Let's not jump to such an extreme situation. First, let's say that you had two applicants for the job of, say, dishwasher, and you had planned on paying the increduluous amount of $10/hour for said position. In your interviewing process, you determined that both of the applicants could equally fill the job however, upon asking them what their desired wages were, one of them said $10/hour and the other said $7/hour. Which one would you choose? More importantly, if you chose the latter, would you still offer them what you had originally planned on paying for the position? Most business people that I know would take the person who desired a lower wage and pay them that. Why?
Because one of the downfalls of capitalism is that it treats people - chiefly employees - like commodities to be bought, sold, and found bargains on, instead of humans with hopes, cares, concerns, families, etc. Wal*Mart, anyone? Call bullshit on me? I've seen it over and over again, working for many different companies of all different types, everything from Fortune 500 financial firms, to Mom and Pop development shops. It nearly always comes down to the bottom line and very rarely do things like compassion, respect, and goodwill enter the picture. Idealists learn this the hard way...I know, because I did.
I'm not saying that there's necessarily a better system out there...everything seems to suck. I just can't stand people who rest on capitalism as the end-all-be-all social system (not saying that you necessarily do, I'm just setting up a defence against the would-be flamers).
This is what my current boss does. He presents a problem to me and asks how long it will take to create a solution for it. I tell him a month and he says, "Ok, two months then?" The problem is that the next day he forgets how it's supposed to work and instead of multiplying by two, he divides by two. That can make things very frustrating...especially when he calls the client and tells them that the project will be ready in two weeks. Erghhh...
A man arrives in heaven and is amazed by everything that he sees. God comes over and talks to the man.
Man: I just can't get over it all! Your streets are paved with gold!
God: Yes, yes, it's true. You have to get used to the fact that, being God, I have a much different perspective on things than you do. To me, a billion dollars is like one penny. A million years is like one minute.
Man: Wow, I never thought of it that way. Hey God, can I have a penny?
Didn't work for me, either. In fact, I got a security warning at the top of my IE screen stating that it detected potentially harmful controls in the page. I should add, however, that I was viewing the page with the IE7 beta. This could be a sign that Microsoft is moving in the right direction...
Somehow, I think that this would constitute some sort of violation of privacy. At the very least, it would be a misuse of IP...oh yeah..I went there..:)
Well, I'm not going to read the mentioned book, but I call nonsense on you. You say that we know not to stand out in front of a train, but we aren't scared of it. Well, for one, it's not really standing in front of a train that we are scared of. I assume that we're talking about a moving train? We are scared of the threat, not just the result. Otherwise, activities like base jumping, skydiving, or, when you really want to get down to the base element, many other basic things that humans do for fun.
Some people do stand in front of trains. Ever seen the movie Stand by Me? There's a whole scene where these kids stare down a train and get out of the way at the last second. Why would they do that? Deep down, an adrenaline rush builds up when your fear centre starts recognizing a potential threat. It has everything to do with fear at that point and very little to do with "being able to understand what is dangerous and not."
Honestly, mutiny on a cruise ship? I can just see it now...
"We've had enough of this torture! If I have one more crepe forced down my throat, I'm going to kill someone!"
"Oh my god, yes! That bastard captain has to have his fancy formal dinner every night! I won't eat that Baked Alaska, I just won't!"
"Too true! Too true! It's time to mutiny! We start by taking out the cruise directory. I'm so tired of his prancing about, trying to get everyone to join those tortuous and cheesy game shows!"
"It's settled then! It's time to mutiny...[cough] Right after I finish this eclair and nap for a few hours on the Lanai Deck."
Hear, hear...however, more on track with the topic, the idea of a comic series for "The Dark Tower" books leaves me feeling rather torn. I read all of the books and enjoyed the first five of them...then he started indulging in narcissistic fantasies...I don't know, maybe I just missed something...he implores you at the end of the final book to not read beyond a certain point...so I didn't...by that time, it became apparent to me that the whole point of this series was to push the reader off of a cliff...I have heard what happens at the end, and this seems congruent with my thoughts...what a waste of time...
Of course..if someone who found a deeper meaning from the series would like to correct me, I'd be more than willing to listen.
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I'm not sure about the specifics of pre-caching, but there is some truth in your comment. However, your comment is still what I would consider a troll or a nag. At the very least, it's a good example of blind ignorance from a Linux apologist. If using a prefetch causes my documents to load faster, then that would seem to me to be good design. Your argument is analogous to the folowing:
Your car is faster than my bicycle, but only because it uses a complicated internal combustion engine. If you didn't use your car for a couple of years, it wouldn't start up very fast, would it? I'd be halfway down the block before you even got your car in gear...
I bought a 2005 Ford Focus last January. Since then, I have had to bring it into the shop for scheduled maintenance 4 times. It currently has 17000 miles on it. Why, you might ask, would I do this? Well, much to my ignorance, upon purchasing the $2500 100k mile/5 year warranty, I agreed that if I didn't follow the maintenance plan (at my local certified "Blue Oval" dealer) that my warranty would be void. What kind of crap is that, anyhow?
and while you're at it...why is the guy/gal posting anonymously?
anyhow, it's a bunch of rubbish...even if the person DID work at OnStar, why would we feel inclined to believe what they said? propaganda..that's what it is...
Amen to that. I bought a 2005 Ford Focus last January. It's been a great car aside from one tiny little detail - there was a bad soldering job in the grounding circuit. At ~7000 miles, as I was driving home from work one night, in very heavy traffic, the car just died. I lost ALL electrical power...brakes, steering, a little thing called "fuel injection"...yeah...and since I was headed UPHILL in the fast lane, it was all that I could do to dive off into the median. Of course, it got fixed and the car's been great ever since then. The point is that, with modern cars and the electronic wizardry that goes into them, everything has to be near perfect or else your car could become completely crippled.
Please don't be a know-it-all and tell me all the things that I should have done instead of going into the median...that's not the point of this post. Besides, as a previous poster said, despite all the training and knowledge one has, you just sometimes instinctually react to a situation.
has made my computing experience easier, faster and more fun
It is where I want to go today
It just works
I'm prepared to fly
Now I can do more with less
if you were not intentionally trying to spout off mindless corporate drivel as a joke, then i'd seriously recommend seeing a psychologist. talk about fan-boi nonsense..
Even though one might laugh that one should access "Shut down" via "Start" in Windows, this is only an issue the first couple of times. People know how to shut down their computer by now. 10 years of shutdown placed at the same location has clarified that. This is only an concern the first time. The only people who claim they can't find "Shut down" are people who would like to make a point about intuitive UIs.
I totally agree with you, but on the other hand, I don't think that it's all the unintuitive. When you go to turn off the engine on your car, what do you grab? Aside from the "key", you're accessing the ignition...gosh...I guess that's pretty unintuitive as well.
I live in Pismo Beach (San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara counties, very high cost of living) and make about $40,000 doing web development. This would be ample just about anywhere else in the country but here my wife and I are barely scraping by. I have about 5 years of experience doing this and a college degree.
While I can't answer for the rest of the world, or really anyone else but myself, I can make observations of those around me...and the answer would SEEM to be "Yes", they would pass up on a great deal just because they can't be bothered to learn how to shift gears. Not only so, but that seems to be the CalifAmerica way.
You must have trouble relating to normal people. People like choices (or perceived choices) when it comes to a situation like buying a car because the car manufacturers have spent significant time and money making the process understandable. You have choices over easy, intuitive things like:
1. Leather seats or no leather seats? 2. Black, red, green, or blue? 3. Stick or automatic? 4. V6 or V8?
They don't have to know if what kind of stitching is used in the leather seats and what the consequences of that might be. They don't have to know about torque convertors. And they don't have to know about compression ratios in the V6 versus the V8.
So show them Gnome and KDE and let them choose. Why is choice considered such a bad thing?
The last time that I attempted to install Linux (about 3 months ago), I was given a choice between KDE and Gnome. Hmmm...these are terms that I've heard of but I really don't know what the differences between them are and why I might choose one over the other. The documentation is poor. The support structure is poor. Ask a question on a Linux message board and you get ridiculed. So I went back to WinXP which has worked fine for me since my initial install 4 years ago.
My point is that it's just not intuitive...there are too many choices with no explanation of them. What's the point? It seems like, from a majority of the posts, Linux advocates have been saying that, to paraphrase, it all comes down to personal preference and that they don't care if some people find it intuitive. Yet these same zealots proudly boast of Linux's superiority to Windows/Mac as a Desktop OS and how it will take over the world. What an obtuse example of two-faced bigotry.
You know, I really wish that I could agree with you on this, mainly because I do try to take the initiative in promptly addressing nuisances. Unfortunately, my experiences are a mixed bag of results, mostly weighing towards the negative side. Upon once asking a kid to please be quiet, he pelted me in the forehead with a skittle and then ran around the theatre screaming. Fortunately, he was apprehended. That was probably the worst case, but most of the time, the kids just ignore you...and there's not a whole lot that you can do other than talk to the manager, which, I've found, to be a mixed bag in itself.
yeah...that's either really funny or really sick...i have never had such an urge to become a misanthrope/hermit than after living in Manhattan for a few months. Thank you, NYC, for teaching me how to hate the big city environment.
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You're right. There's jokes for every instrument. The common element, however, is that just about every instrument is easy to pick up (for the reasonably competent) and play. Mastering said instrument, however, is what is more complicated. I know tons of people who can play instruments, but there are few that I'd trust to play a gig with me.
oh yeah? read the original post and then get out your calculator. Ready? Punch in 30, then the multiplication sign (the little 'X' thingy), and then type in 150 and then hit the '%' key. Hit '=' and you get 1350. I guess my calculator failed basic math too, huh?
Just so you know I was just joking around, the original poster obviously meant to say that either you take an estimate and multiply it by 1.5 or you take an estimate and add 150% of its value to the original estimate. Either works...
Wait, wait, wait...
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Multiply your estimated time by 150%...
So, if I estimate that it's going to take 30 days, then I multiply 30 days times (30 * 1.5)? 1350 days??? Yikes, can I come to work in your shop?
Let's not jump to such an extreme situation. First, let's say that you had two applicants for the job of, say, dishwasher, and you had planned on paying the increduluous amount of $10/hour for said position. In your interviewing process, you determined that both of the applicants could equally fill the job however, upon asking them what their desired wages were, one of them said $10/hour and the other said $7/hour. Which one would you choose? More importantly, if you chose the latter, would you still offer them what you had originally planned on paying for the position? Most business people that I know would take the person who desired a lower wage and pay them that. Why?
Because one of the downfalls of capitalism is that it treats people - chiefly employees - like commodities to be bought, sold, and found bargains on, instead of humans with hopes, cares, concerns, families, etc. Wal*Mart, anyone? Call bullshit on me? I've seen it over and over again, working for many different companies of all different types, everything from Fortune 500 financial firms, to Mom and Pop development shops. It nearly always comes down to the bottom line and very rarely do things like compassion, respect, and goodwill enter the picture. Idealists learn this the hard way...I know, because I did.
I'm not saying that there's necessarily a better system out there...everything seems to suck. I just can't stand people who rest on capitalism as the end-all-be-all social system (not saying that you necessarily do, I'm just setting up a defence against the would-be flamers).
This is what my current boss does. He presents a problem to me and asks how long it will take to create a solution for it. I tell him a month and he says, "Ok, two months then?" The problem is that the next day he forgets how it's supposed to work and instead of multiplying by two, he divides by two. That can make things very frustrating...especially when he calls the client and tells them that the project will be ready in two weeks. Erghhh...
A man arrives in heaven and is amazed by everything that he sees. God comes over and talks to the man.
Man: I just can't get over it all! Your streets are paved with gold!
God: Yes, yes, it's true. You have to get used to the fact that, being God, I have a much different perspective on things than you do. To me, a billion dollars is like one penny. A million years is like one minute.
Man: Wow, I never thought of it that way. Hey God, can I have a penny?
God: Sure, wait a minute...
Didn't work for me, either. In fact, I got a security warning at the top of my IE screen stating that it detected potentially harmful controls in the page. I should add, however, that I was viewing the page with the IE7 beta. This could be a sign that Microsoft is moving in the right direction...
Somehow, I think that this would constitute some sort of violation of privacy. At the very least, it would be a misuse of IP...oh yeah..I went there.. :)
Well, I'm not going to read the mentioned book, but I call nonsense on you. You say that we know not to stand out in front of a train, but we aren't scared of it. Well, for one, it's not really standing in front of a train that we are scared of. I assume that we're talking about a moving train? We are scared of the threat, not just the result. Otherwise, activities like base jumping, skydiving, or, when you really want to get down to the base element, many other basic things that humans do for fun.
Some people do stand in front of trains. Ever seen the movie Stand by Me? There's a whole scene where these kids stare down a train and get out of the way at the last second. Why would they do that? Deep down, an adrenaline rush builds up when your fear centre starts recognizing a potential threat. It has everything to do with fear at that point and very little to do with "being able to understand what is dangerous and not."
Honestly, mutiny on a cruise ship? I can just see it now...
"We've had enough of this torture! If I have one more crepe forced down my throat, I'm going to kill someone!"
"Oh my god, yes! That bastard captain has to have his fancy formal dinner every night! I won't eat that Baked Alaska, I just won't!"
"Too true! Too true! It's time to mutiny! We start by taking out the cruise directory. I'm so tired of his prancing about, trying to get everyone to join those tortuous and cheesy game shows!"
"It's settled then! It's time to mutiny...[cough] Right after I finish this eclair and nap for a few hours on the Lanai Deck."
Hear, hear...however, more on track with the topic, the idea of a comic series for "The Dark Tower" books leaves me feeling rather torn. I read all of the books and enjoyed the first five of them...then he started indulging in narcissistic fantasies...I don't know, maybe I just missed something...he implores you at the end of the final book to not read beyond a certain point...so I didn't...by that time, it became apparent to me that the whole point of this series was to push the reader off of a cliff...I have heard what happens at the end, and this seems congruent with my thoughts...what a waste of time...
Of course..if someone who found a deeper meaning from the series would like to correct me, I'd be more than willing to listen.
I'm not sure about the specifics of pre-caching, but there is some truth in your comment. However, your comment is still what I would consider a troll or a nag. At the very least, it's a good example of blind ignorance from a Linux apologist. If using a prefetch causes my documents to load faster, then that would seem to me to be good design. Your argument is analogous to the folowing:
Your car is faster than my bicycle, but only because it uses a complicated internal combustion engine. If you didn't use your car for a couple of years, it wouldn't start up very fast, would it? I'd be halfway down the block before you even got your car in gear...
pak homeworld? Is that anywhere near the "Zoq Fot Pik" homeworld? no wonder i like frungy so much...it's the sport of kings, you know...
worst movie ever? obviously, someone has not seen this! worst...movie...ever!
There's someone named Allchin? I wonder if there's any weird relation to Jay Leno.
I bought a 2005 Ford Focus last January. Since then, I have had to bring it into the shop for scheduled maintenance 4 times. It currently has 17000 miles on it. Why, you might ask, would I do this? Well, much to my ignorance, upon purchasing the $2500 100k mile/5 year warranty, I agreed that if I didn't follow the maintenance plan (at my local certified "Blue Oval" dealer) that my warranty would be void. What kind of crap is that, anyhow?
and while you're at it...why is the guy/gal posting anonymously?
anyhow, it's a bunch of rubbish...even if the person DID work at OnStar, why would we feel inclined to believe what they said? propaganda..that's what it is...
Amen to that. I bought a 2005 Ford Focus last January. It's been a great car aside from one tiny little detail - there was a bad soldering job in the grounding circuit. At ~7000 miles, as I was driving home from work one night, in very heavy traffic, the car just died. I lost ALL electrical power...brakes, steering, a little thing called "fuel injection"...yeah...and since I was headed UPHILL in the fast lane, it was all that I could do to dive off into the median. Of course, it got fixed and the car's been great ever since then. The point is that, with modern cars and the electronic wizardry that goes into them, everything has to be near perfect or else your car could become completely crippled.
Please don't be a know-it-all and tell me all the things that I should have done instead of going into the median...that's not the point of this post. Besides, as a previous poster said, despite all the training and knowledge one has, you just sometimes instinctually react to a situation.
worked "out of the box"
installing new software is a breeze
has made my computing experience easier, faster and more fun
It is where I want to go today
It just works
I'm prepared to fly
Now I can do more with less
if you were not intentionally trying to spout off mindless corporate drivel as a joke, then i'd seriously recommend seeing a psychologist. talk about fan-boi nonsense..
Even though one might laugh that one should access "Shut down" via "Start" in Windows, this is only an issue the first couple of times. People know how to shut down their computer by now. 10 years of shutdown placed at the same location has clarified that. This is only an concern the first time. The only people who claim they can't find "Shut down" are people who would like to make a point about intuitive UIs.
I totally agree with you, but on the other hand, I don't think that it's all the unintuitive. When you go to turn off the engine on your car, what do you grab? Aside from the "key", you're accessing the ignition...gosh...I guess that's pretty unintuitive as well.
I live in Pismo Beach (San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara counties, very high cost of living) and make about $40,000 doing web development. This would be ample just about anywhere else in the country but here my wife and I are barely scraping by. I have about 5 years of experience doing this and a college degree.
While I can't answer for the rest of the world, or really anyone else but myself, I can make observations of those around me...and the answer would SEEM to be "Yes", they would pass up on a great deal just because they can't be bothered to learn how to shift gears. Not only so, but that seems to be the CalifAmerica way.
You must have trouble relating to normal people. People like choices (or perceived choices) when it comes to a situation like buying a car because the car manufacturers have spent significant time and money making the process understandable. You have choices over easy, intuitive things like:
1. Leather seats or no leather seats?
2. Black, red, green, or blue?
3. Stick or automatic?
4. V6 or V8?
They don't have to know if what kind of stitching is used in the leather seats and what the consequences of that might be. They don't have to know about torque convertors. And they don't have to know about compression ratios in the V6 versus the V8.
So show them Gnome and KDE and let them choose. Why is choice considered such a bad thing?
The last time that I attempted to install Linux (about 3 months ago), I was given a choice between KDE and Gnome. Hmmm...these are terms that I've heard of but I really don't know what the differences between them are and why I might choose one over the other. The documentation is poor. The support structure is poor. Ask a question on a Linux message board and you get ridiculed. So I went back to WinXP which has worked fine for me since my initial install 4 years ago.
My point is that it's just not intuitive...there are too many choices with no explanation of them. What's the point? It seems like, from a majority of the posts, Linux advocates have been saying that, to paraphrase, it all comes down to personal preference and that they don't care if some people find it intuitive. Yet these same zealots proudly boast of Linux's superiority to Windows/Mac as a Desktop OS and how it will take over the world. What an obtuse example of two-faced bigotry.
You know, I really wish that I could agree with you on this, mainly because I do try to take the initiative in promptly addressing nuisances. Unfortunately, my experiences are a mixed bag of results, mostly weighing towards the negative side. Upon once asking a kid to please be quiet, he pelted me in the forehead with a skittle and then ran around the theatre screaming. Fortunately, he was apprehended. That was probably the worst case, but most of the time, the kids just ignore you...and there's not a whole lot that you can do other than talk to the manager, which, I've found, to be a mixed bag in itself.
yeah...that's either really funny or really sick...i have never had such an urge to become a misanthrope/hermit than after living in Manhattan for a few months. Thank you, NYC, for teaching me how to hate the big city environment.