this is the product of modern capitalism..do whatever it takes to get customers..dont give a rat's ass about good customers unless they start to complain, and in that case - do whatever they want!
Not that I know anything, but this applies to everything: experience is vital. Go out and do consulting work to get your hands wet. If you know absolutely nothing start off in tech support somewhere - you will learn very quickly. I don't know about what employers are looking for, but I believe that experience would be way more valuable than a bunch of theory that you may have learned from some junior college prof.
totally..my dad is like this. He is a small business owner and he refuses to learn anything about a computer. I helped him buy a computer for his office (he used to just have his secretary do everything for him, until he realized that he could do crossword puzzles online!!) and this was a huge mistake. Immediately he started calling for 'help'. It was not even like he wanted help, he just wanted me to do it for him. Simple things, like sending email with MSN. He would call me over to his office in a big panic and tell me that he couldn't figure out how to send email. When I'd show him how to do it he wouldn't pay attention..in fact, at one point, he left the room and started dictating the letter to me! It's people like this who piss me off the most..just a complete unwillingness to learn..
People BUY complexity. They could buy a Mac, but they buy the PC because it has 'more software'. They could buy a simple phone, but they buy the one with all the gee-wizz features. They could pay $10 for shareware, but they want Photoshop and Word.
to make this an anti-PC and anti-Microsoft spot.. you do have one good point, though, about buying complexity. I use Word because it is as easy as I want and also as difficult as I want. It's very scalable. Only in the *Nix and shareware/half-ass-ware world would I find a word processor that I could save to a document format that said processor could not, in turn, open.
When its design has been re-applied in Chernobyl, they made more shortcuts on safity, thinking that it's safe anyway. Not only design shortcuts, but also in the technological process of the construction as well as n in organization of its support (like shift and like that). We all know the result.
so, in your opinion, this wouldn't constitute as a lack of understanding?
When I was 16 I got hired by this African immigrant who was sending used clothes over to the homeland. I thought that it sounded like a good cause and I figured that minimum wage would be fine for that. Basically my job consisted of driving a u-haul truck around to the dumpsters behind thrift stores and emptying the dirty, smelly, nasty clothes (these are the ones that even the thrift stores don't want) into the truck's cargo area. When I had a full truck load (the big trucks, mind you) I would take it back to the warehouse where I would then unload it. I would then reload the clothes into a baling machine. I was the only one working and I would create about 8 bales a day that weighed well over 1000 lbs. each.
And then it started getting bad...on my first payday the boss decided to buy lunch for me. I thought, "Hey! Cool!" Well, as it turns out, he did that only because he didn't have money to pay me. Again, I thought hey, it's not that big of a deal - it's for charity, right? Well, on the next payday the guy actually had a check for me! However, when I went to cash it, the teller said that she couldn't do it because there weren't sufficient funds. and then came the shoes..
The guy's next project for me was to organize second-hand shoes. He takes me to this warehouse that was literally jammed full of shoes, from floor to ceiling. I had to sort the shoes manually, all by myself.
Finally, I discovered that this was not so charitable of a foundation as I had originally thought. Apparently this guy was charging a LOT of money (even by modern clothing price standards) to these poor countries. I soon quit..
the bottom line is that the guy was seriously lacking in common sense. it's not like he did it unintentionally...
Mike Rowe Soft?? he was obviously either going for something that sounded the same as the legitimate company or he was coming up with a title for a porn character
Anyone really interested in promoting Capitalism would acknowledge that Mike Rowe owns the domain name, and is not under any obligation to sell it, or name a price, or even justify why such a named price is warranted.
I consider myself an idealist but this is taking a principal just a few shades too deep, I believe. What if, instead of a business site, Mike Rowe created a clone site of Microsoft's content and was damaging their business? Copyright laws exist because sometimes the average consumer will not know the difference between two companies. I will admit that I think that Microsoft is taking things too far in this case, but I do think that you are incorrect in making such a bold claim about a principal of capitalism.
These fish have already existed for several years and were developed to help fight pollution. By breeding these existing fish, we will allow people to have their own fluorescent fish while promoting the beneficial scientific goals behind their development. In fact, a portion of the proceeds from sales will go directly to the lab where these fish were created in order to further their research--research we hope will help to protect the environment and save lives.
I know that, to some people, this might go without saying, but what about the lessons that you, yourself teach your children? What you write seems to imply that the bulk of how kids learn to be social comes from either the television or from hanging out with their racist friends. I'm not entirely against TV but if you have little social interaction outside of it, you're going to make your own prejudices against people; not necessarily about race, but definitely about other things.
For example, why don't the boys/girls at school look nearly as attractive as the ones on "Friends"? And while we're on the subject of "Friends", how about lifestyle discrimination (I'm not referring to homosexuality, but general lifestyle decisions)?
Kids need a fair balance when it comes to learning behavior, but I believe that the majority of it should come from the parents. I plan on taking my kids to social events with me so that they can see real life examples of social behavior. I'm not just going to leave it up to their friends and I ESPECIALLY will not leave it up to Barney.
no, even then, the g-forces ARE associated with the "plane's" movement. the only truly simluated portion is the illusion that it is an actual plane flying through the air..
you obviously have no idea what you are talking about..i'd suggest to take a physics class but this is more of a principal of critical thinking than knowledge..
don't even go there..lest i bring up my experience with saving a term paper (typed up on a linux based word processor) to a format that said processor could not re-open. that's absurd! microsoft is king cheese for apps.
that's just silly..the two situations are not analagous, and that's the bottom line. i despise cliches, but, in this case, you're comparing apples to oranges here. seriously, a faulty car can lead to loss of life whereas an operating system that crashes occasionally can lead to a loss of temper, at best. please, dispense with any jokes pertaining to losing your mmorpg life:)
by the way, i've been running windows xp for a long while and i love it. even when programs crash, xp stays afloat.
this is all well and good..but a question or two. first of all, isn't it generally agreed that time is the forth dimension? please correct me if i'm wrong, here. therefore, the whole thing about watching the sections transform over the fourth dimension like it's some super fancy function is preposterous! how hard is it to see something change over time? my bottom line is this: it's as easily explained from the second to third dimension as it is from the third to fourth or even seventh to eighth. the author is just relating one dimension to the next dimension up the order. no matter what dimension you stand in, there is going to be one more that you are incapable of seeing higher up. if you treat the fourth dimension like it's something that we have as much control over as the first, second, or third then you will find, eventually, that you are mistaken. finally, your analogy to a 2-d being observing a 3-d object brings up an interesting point. we, as humans, have long realized that while we have control over three dimensions we exist, actually, in many (at least 5, i believe), but are held directly captive by the fourth (which would, in turn, be held captive by the 5th, etc). you say that our brains are hardwired to think in 3 dimensions. is it possible to imagine a purely 2-d existence?
let's also not forget that even a small amount of research proves that most of the darwin awards are complete fakes and urban legends: even down to the redneck frog hunter who shot his testicle off using a bullet for a fuse. just part of some guys need to feel superior by making other people feel stupid. i say, "kudos!" to rocket guy -- i hope you make it.
this might be ok for a business who has restrictive policies about not adding anything to the computer, but what about home users? what about someone who wants to download new device drivers or some of that 'cool' linux freeware? you wanna tell me that grandma jones is going to have the wherewithall to jump to the command line and compile the binaries or even just unzip a package? that's a laugh..
this is a troll, but what the heck..i can put together a very nice pc for about $1000, maybe $1300 with a nice 17 or 19 inch monitor. a mac? equivalent system would cost me over twice that - at LEAST - and that's with a 15 inch monitor. hard choice..by the way, i use xp professional and the only time that i've had an interruption in the OS is when my city got hit with a temporary blackout.
yeah, i agree with this..it was very easy for me to realize that linux was not a great operating system for home users. after typing up my term paper in abiword and saving it in rtf format (i errantly thought that because it was in rtf, my windows-using professor would be able to read it), i learned that abiword only SAVES to rtf, it cannot open rtf files. what kind of crap is that? i had to retype my entire term paper.
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this is the product of modern capitalism..do whatever it takes to get customers..dont give a rat's ass about good customers unless they start to complain, and in that case - do whatever they want!
wait...do I know you? did you attack me in my sleep while i was with the barmaid??
Legend of the Red Dragon on someone's telnet BBS. Oh wait..he said FPS! oops!
Not that I know anything, but this applies to everything: experience is vital. Go out and do consulting work to get your hands wet. If you know absolutely nothing start off in tech support somewhere - you will learn very quickly. I don't know about what employers are looking for, but I believe that experience would be way more valuable than a bunch of theory that you may have learned from some junior college prof.
totally..my dad is like this. He is a small business owner and he refuses to learn anything about a computer. I helped him buy a computer for his office (he used to just have his secretary do everything for him, until he realized that he could do crossword puzzles online!!) and this was a huge mistake. Immediately he started calling for 'help'. It was not even like he wanted help, he just wanted me to do it for him. Simple things, like sending email with MSN. He would call me over to his office in a big panic and tell me that he couldn't figure out how to send email. When I'd show him how to do it he wouldn't pay attention..in fact, at one point, he left the room and started dictating the letter to me! It's people like this who piss me off the most..just a complete unwillingness to learn..
People BUY complexity. They could buy a Mac, but they buy the PC because it has 'more software'. They could buy a simple phone, but they buy the one with all the gee-wizz features. They could pay $10 for shareware, but they want Photoshop and Word.
to make this an anti-PC and anti-Microsoft spot..
you do have one good point, though, about buying complexity. I use Word because it is as easy as I want and also as difficult as I want. It's very scalable. Only in the *Nix and shareware/half-ass-ware world would I find a word processor that I could save to a document format that said processor could not, in turn, open.
When its design has been re-applied in Chernobyl, they made more shortcuts on safity, thinking that it's safe anyway. Not only design shortcuts, but also in the technological process of the construction as well as n in organization of its support (like shift and like that). We all know the result.
so, in your opinion, this wouldn't constitute as a lack of understanding?
When I was 16 I got hired by this African immigrant who was sending used clothes over to the homeland. I thought that it sounded like a good cause and I figured that minimum wage would be fine for that. Basically my job consisted of driving a u-haul truck around to the dumpsters behind thrift stores and emptying the dirty, smelly, nasty clothes (these are the ones that even the thrift stores don't want) into the truck's cargo area. When I had a full truck load (the big trucks, mind you) I would take it back to the warehouse where I would then unload it. I would then reload the clothes into a baling machine. I was the only one working and I would create about 8 bales a day that weighed well over 1000 lbs. each.
And then it started getting bad...on my first payday the boss decided to buy lunch for me. I thought, "Hey! Cool!" Well, as it turns out, he did that only because he didn't have money to pay me. Again, I thought hey, it's not that big of a deal - it's for charity, right? Well, on the next payday the guy actually had a check for me! However, when I went to cash it, the teller said that she couldn't do it because there weren't sufficient funds. and then came the shoes..
The guy's next project for me was to organize second-hand shoes. He takes me to this warehouse that was literally jammed full of shoes, from floor to ceiling. I had to sort the shoes manually, all by myself.
Finally, I discovered that this was not so charitable of a foundation as I had originally thought. Apparently this guy was charging a LOT of money (even by modern clothing price standards) to these poor countries. I soon quit..
the bottom line is that the guy was seriously lacking in common sense. it's not like he did it unintentionally...
Mike Rowe Soft?? he was obviously either going for something that sounded the same as the legitimate company or he was coming up with a title for a porn character
Anyone really interested in promoting Capitalism would acknowledge that Mike Rowe owns the domain name, and is not under any obligation to sell it, or name a price, or even justify why such a named price is warranted.
I consider myself an idealist but this is taking a principal just a few shades too deep, I believe. What if, instead of a business site, Mike Rowe created a clone site of Microsoft's content and was damaging their business? Copyright laws exist because sometimes the average consumer will not know the difference between two companies. I will admit that I think that Microsoft is taking things too far in this case, but I do think that you are incorrect in making such a bold claim about a principal of capitalism.
did anyone read this?
These fish have already existed for several years and were developed to help fight pollution. By breeding these existing fish, we will allow people to have their own fluorescent fish while promoting the beneficial scientific goals behind their development. In fact, a portion of the proceeds from sales will go directly to the lab where these fish were created in order to further their research--research we hope will help to protect the environment and save lives.
I know that, to some people, this might go without saying, but what about the lessons that you, yourself teach your children? What you write seems to imply that the bulk of how kids learn to be social comes from either the television or from hanging out with their racist friends. I'm not entirely against TV but if you have little social interaction outside of it, you're going to make your own prejudices against people; not necessarily about race, but definitely about other things.
For example, why don't the boys/girls at school look nearly as attractive as the ones on "Friends"? And while we're on the subject of "Friends", how about lifestyle discrimination (I'm not referring to homosexuality, but general lifestyle decisions)?
Kids need a fair balance when it comes to learning behavior, but I believe that the majority of it should come from the parents. I plan on taking my kids to social events with me so that they can see real life examples of social behavior. I'm not just going to leave it up to their friends and I ESPECIALLY will not leave it up to Barney.
you have got to be kidding me.. you think that a company trying to save money from being stolen from them is going to "screw you"?
that is not an f-16..no chance
no, even then, the g-forces ARE associated with the "plane's" movement. the only truly simluated portion is the illusion that it is an actual plane flying through the air..
you obviously have no idea what you are talking about..i'd suggest to take a physics class but this is more of a principal of critical thinking than knowledge..
The best portable music device is the metal plate in my head! Too bad I only get the Fiesta music station... :(
don't even go there..lest i bring up my experience with saving a term paper (typed up on a linux based word processor) to a format that said processor could not re-open. that's absurd! microsoft is king cheese for apps.
that's just silly..the two situations are not analagous, and that's the bottom line. i despise cliches, but, in this case, you're comparing apples to oranges here. seriously, a faulty car can lead to loss of life whereas an operating system that crashes occasionally can lead to a loss of temper, at best. please, dispense with any jokes pertaining to losing your mmorpg life :)
by the way, i've been running windows xp for a long while and i love it. even when programs crash, xp stays afloat.
this is all well and good..but a question or two. first of all, isn't it generally agreed that time is the forth dimension? please correct me if i'm wrong, here. therefore, the whole thing about watching the sections transform over the fourth dimension like it's some super fancy function is preposterous! how hard is it to see something change over time? my bottom line is this: it's as easily explained from the second to third dimension as it is from the third to fourth or even seventh to eighth. the author is just relating one dimension to the next dimension up the order. no matter what dimension you stand in, there is going to be one more that you are incapable of seeing higher up. if you treat the fourth dimension like it's something that we have as much control over as the first, second, or third then you will find, eventually, that you are mistaken. finally, your analogy to a 2-d being observing a 3-d object brings up an interesting point. we, as humans, have long realized that while we have control over three dimensions we exist, actually, in many (at least 5, i believe), but are held directly captive by the fourth (which would, in turn, be held captive by the 5th, etc). you say that our brains are hardwired to think in 3 dimensions. is it possible to imagine a purely 2-d existence?
yeah, not to mention how bad it would hurt if you hit a bird..or bird poop..or water vapor..or air...
let's also not forget that even a small amount of research proves that most of the darwin awards are complete fakes and urban legends: even down to the redneck frog hunter who shot his testicle off using a bullet for a fuse. just part of some guys need to feel superior by making other people feel stupid. i say, "kudos!" to rocket guy -- i hope you make it.
this might be ok for a business who has restrictive policies about not adding anything to the computer, but what about home users? what about someone who wants to download new device drivers or some of that 'cool' linux freeware? you wanna tell me that grandma jones is going to have the wherewithall to jump to the command line and compile the binaries or even just unzip a package? that's a laugh..
this is a troll, but what the heck..i can put together a very nice pc for about $1000, maybe $1300 with a nice 17 or 19 inch monitor. a mac? equivalent system would cost me over twice that - at LEAST - and that's with a 15 inch monitor. hard choice..by the way, i use xp professional and the only time that i've had an interruption in the OS is when my city got hit with a temporary blackout.
yeah, i agree with this..it was very easy for me to realize that linux was not a great operating system for home users. after typing up my term paper in abiword and saving it in rtf format (i errantly thought that because it was in rtf, my windows-using professor would be able to read it), i learned that abiword only SAVES to rtf, it cannot open rtf files. what kind of crap is that? i had to retype my entire term paper.