Do you mean dumber as in spelling "always" as "allways", or do you mean in in another sense?
Seriously though, kids are not getting any dumber. Adults just have a hard time remembering what it was like being a kid. That whole "the kids today are worse now than when I was a kid" has been thrown around for centuries, and I still don't believe it.
How many people over 40 can tear down a PC and rebuild it from scratch, including the operating system? How many adults realize the internet is more than just the web? Kids today are not learning fewer things, they are just learning different things.
If a manufacturer printed "Average number of matches: 50" on the side of its matchboxes and consistently delivered boxes with 10 matches (and now and then send out a big box with 2000 matches to make the "average") it would go to jail real fast. There is no excuse for using unreal or confusing specs as a selling point. The continuing use of such data to sell printers is just bad faith.
Actually, it's worse than that example. The printer doesn't print 3ppm and then randomly spew out 30ppm. It's closer to advertising "up to" 50 matches per box, then delivering around 20 every time.
Well, the monitor people are getting better. A couple years ago you couldn't find "viewable size" anywhere on the box. And LCDs are "true" size -- not that inch-behind-the-bezel size.
If memory serves me, this was due to a law passing and not due to the kindness in the hearts of CRT manufacturers. I could be wrong, but I seem to remember the "viewable size" being a big enough issue a few years back that a law was passed requiring the actual display size to be printed on the outside of the box.
People who use cell-phones always argue that they are 1-percenters, those in the one percent who might actually not be so stupid when using a cell phone.
Reminds me of my favorite statistic I saw a few years back. 76% of all Americans think they are smarter than the average American.
Just put the controls on the steering wheel. A friend of mine's car has the ability to skip through the pre-programmed stations with buttons on the wheel right next to the cruise control. I believe it has volume controls there too, but I won't swear to that one.
if you like, can put things like "don't use me" in the ALT attribute of the image to avoid curious people that browse in text/disable graphics mode.
Better yet, use the alt text "CLICK HERE!" and everyone will assume it's some sort of ad and they will refuse to touch it with a ten foot pole. "CLICK HERE!" is like the web version of the radioactive symbol.
Because of where I work, in cases such as mine, if you do not claim it on our timesheet you actually have more reason to claim what is yours as yours. We do a lot of government work and as such we are required to claim every single hour we work on something, and put that hour under a specific charge code.
If something is not under a charge code, that means that you did not do it for the company (and by extension did not do it under the contract). That increases the chances that you "own" the program you created.
In my case, however, I am hourly. If they truly wanted something I created as a hobby, they can have it, however the rules of our time tracking system requires that they pay me for the time I worked on the project. If that time comes over 40 hours (which it always will), that means they must pay me time and a half for every hour I worked on my hobby.
Here comes the fun part. You not only get to charge them for the time that you actually coded your side project, but you get to charge them for time you thought about it, time you talked about it, time you planned it, time you coded it, time you tested it, and time you took to distribute it. At 1.5x your hourly wage, that can add up to a lot of money real fast.
My company tends to agree to a duel ownership. They pay me X dollars to say that they can use the project as they see fit. But, I get to keep the project and use it as I see fit. This way I can GPL my side projects, and if they help my company they can pay me and use the code in their own "secret" stuff.
Not true. Word of mouth is the best (or worst) advertisement that companies can get. I believe it's called the 1-10 rule, or something like that. It goes like this... If you make one customer happy he/she will go and tell one friend about how great of a company you are. If you make one customer upset, he/she will go and complain about you to ten friends.
In both cases, the friends are likely to pass the information on, so you can quickly see which tree builds faster. In short, if you screw over a customer who already bought from you, you likely just lost 10 more who might have.
The US post office should offer an email box. The email box will charge, say, $0.10 for each message delivered to it. Ideally, you would be able to pick people who can deliver to your email box for free. This way, legit companies can reach you through targetted advertising that you may be interested in, and your friends can still communicate with you for free.
If someone not on your free list tries to send a message to you, the post office will check their account to see if the funds are available. If not, the message bounces back to the person. Companies, and spammers in particular, would think twice about sending a million messages if doing so cost them $100,000.
Yes but software has no moving parts to wear out. So if the application is perfect, who would buy version 2?
With a fridge, microwave, or toaster oven eventually the parts do wear out and you buy a new one because the old one no longer functions. Software companies must keep adding new features (and thus, adding new bugs) because if they didn't the software company who tried to perfect one application would sell zero copies of the next version and would have no future income.
If I remember correctly, the mold was one of the big issues that people brough up when the Mir was being brought down. They were afraid that the mold will have mutated in such a way that it would rule on Earth in much the same way foreign animals often rule in new habitats. It may still be too soon to tell for sure, but my money's on the mold having burned up on re-entry.
Posts like this one are why I still read slashdot. The good news is that since it can hold Oxygen gas, it can also hold an ozone. So, given enough time, people can not only breathe, but they can go outside in the daylight.
Will you soon be clamoring for the right to marry a pig or cow? a rock? yourself? It is biologically obvious on why there are two sexes, and just how sex is supposed to happen.
I fully support the right for a person to marry another person. Why should two couples be treated differently in they eyes of the law simple because they are of the same sex?
On a side note, this is something else I don't understand. Guys should be fully supportive of the rights for gay men to marry. More women for us!:)
...rather than drive up the electric bill (damned prices last year for electricity...) with two seperate Watt-Guzzelers, as I call them. So, I saved some money there, right?
Probably not. Stand alone CD players (especially portable ones) use very low power. In fact if you were only using your computer as a CD player, then the amount you'd save by turning off your PC and running a stand alone player would pay for the player eventually. Depends on how often you'd use only the CD player, and how much power costs where you are.
In fact, a portable CD player may even use less power to play a CD than the additional power your computer would use to play the CD. The portable player is designed to use low power, whereas CD-ROMs are not, unless you have a laptop.
Wouldn't it be a riot if someone called Sony for tech support on their Vaio because this (Sony-made) CD pooched their drive?
It'd be even more perfect if the Sony CD also caused the sound card on the Sony Vaio to output square waves that destroyed the Sony speakers on the attached Sony stereo. I'd love to hear them try to pass the buck on that one. "Uhhh, Windows did it."
They were hoping to turn their millions into billions, and were blinded from the facts by overwhelming greed. A large part of me is glad they had their money taken!
Unfortunately though, when things like this happen it makes the investors more reserved in the future. Some guy who really does have a good invention will now have a harder time getting the funding he needs to bring it to us.
Actually, I get HB0(1-3) and Cinemax(1-2) for $10/mo total. That's 5 channels at $10, or $2 each. I really wouldn't mind paying $2/month per channel I watch provided the channel is ad-free.
Heck, doing so would drop my monthly bill from $40/mo to around $20/mo. I really spend almost all my time between Fox, SciFi, Discovery, TLC, Animal Planet, HBO(1-3), and Cinemax(1-2).
I'd be hard pressed to name five more channels that I really watch so even at a base rate of $10/mo + $2/channel I would come out ahead.
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Do you really want to work for a place that uses an OCR on a document to scan for buzzwords? I know I wouldn't.
Do you mean dumber as in spelling "always" as "allways", or do you mean in in another sense?
Seriously though, kids are not getting any dumber. Adults just have a hard time remembering what it was like being a kid. That whole "the kids today are worse now than when I was a kid" has been thrown around for centuries, and I still don't believe it.
How many people over 40 can tear down a PC and rebuild it from scratch, including the operating system? How many adults realize the internet is more than just the web? Kids today are not learning fewer things, they are just learning different things.
If a manufacturer printed "Average number of matches: 50" on the side of its matchboxes and consistently delivered boxes with 10 matches (and now and then send out a big box with 2000 matches to make the "average") it would go to jail real fast. There is no excuse for using unreal or confusing specs as a selling point. The continuing use of such data to sell printers is just bad faith.
Actually, it's worse than that example. The printer doesn't print 3ppm and then randomly spew out 30ppm. It's closer to advertising "up to" 50 matches per box, then delivering around 20 every time.
Well, the monitor people are getting better. A couple years ago you couldn't find "viewable size" anywhere on the box. And LCDs are "true" size -- not that inch-behind-the-bezel size.
If memory serves me, this was due to a law passing and not due to the kindness in the hearts of CRT manufacturers. I could be wrong, but I seem to remember the "viewable size" being a big enough issue a few years back that a law was passed requiring the actual display size to be printed on the outside of the box.
People who use cell-phones always argue that they are 1-percenters, those in the one percent who might actually not be so stupid when using a cell phone.
Reminds me of my favorite statistic I saw a few years back. 76% of all Americans think they are smarter than the average American.
Just put the controls on the steering wheel. A friend of mine's car has the ability to skip through the pre-programmed stations with buttons on the wheel right next to the cruise control. I believe it has volume controls there too, but I won't swear to that one.
if you like, can put things like "don't use me" in the ALT attribute of the image to avoid curious people that browse in text/disable graphics mode.
Better yet, use the alt text "CLICK HERE!" and everyone will assume it's some sort of ad and they will refuse to touch it with a ten foot pole. "CLICK HERE!" is like the web version of the radioactive symbol.
Because of where I work, in cases such as mine, if you do not claim it on our timesheet you actually have more reason to claim what is yours as yours. We do a lot of government work and as such we are required to claim every single hour we work on something, and put that hour under a specific charge code.
If something is not under a charge code, that means that you did not do it for the company (and by extension did not do it under the contract). That increases the chances that you "own" the program you created.
In my case, however, I am hourly. If they truly wanted something I created as a hobby, they can have it, however the rules of our time tracking system requires that they pay me for the time I worked on the project. If that time comes over 40 hours (which it always will), that means they must pay me time and a half for every hour I worked on my hobby.
Here comes the fun part. You not only get to charge them for the time that you actually coded your side project, but you get to charge them for time you thought about it, time you talked about it, time you planned it, time you coded it, time you tested it, and time you took to distribute it. At 1.5x your hourly wage, that can add up to a lot of money real fast.
My company tends to agree to a duel ownership. They pay me X dollars to say that they can use the project as they see fit. But, I get to keep the project and use it as I see fit. This way I can GPL my side projects, and if they help my company they can pay me and use the code in their own "secret" stuff.
Don't pick what I do either. I was one of the early adopters who already got burned, damn DVD-RAM.
Not true. Word of mouth is the best (or worst) advertisement that companies can get. I believe it's called the 1-10 rule, or something like that. It goes like this... If you make one customer happy he/she will go and tell one friend about how great of a company you are. If you make one customer upset, he/she will go and complain about you to ten friends.
In both cases, the friends are likely to pass the information on, so you can quickly see which tree builds faster. In short, if you screw over a customer who already bought from you, you likely just lost 10 more who might have.
Looks like Dark Helmet was right, light speed is too slow. :)
I fully agree with you. There is a chance that HP really could make some good out of what happened here.
What really gets me is how selling my private data can fall under the heading "free speech", but reporting on and linking to DeCSS cannot.
The US post office should offer an email box. The email box will charge, say, $0.10 for each message delivered to it. Ideally, you would be able to pick people who can deliver to your email box for free. This way, legit companies can reach you through targetted advertising that you may be interested in, and your friends can still communicate with you for free.
If someone not on your free list tries to send a message to you, the post office will check their account to see if the funds are available. If not, the message bounces back to the person. Companies, and spammers in particular, would think twice about sending a million messages if doing so cost them $100,000.
Pray tell what was the amendment that made a general promotion of belief over unbelief unconstitutional?
It's one of those little known ammendments, sometimes known as the 1st.
Yes but software has no moving parts to wear out. So if the application is perfect, who would buy version 2?
With a fridge, microwave, or toaster oven eventually the parts do wear out and you buy a new one because the old one no longer functions. Software companies must keep adding new features (and thus, adding new bugs) because if they didn't the software company who tried to perfect one application would sell zero copies of the next version and would have no future income.
I suddenly pictured an image of Mr. Hankey from that comment.
If I remember correctly, the mold was one of the big issues that people brough up when the Mir was being brought down. They were afraid that the mold will have mutated in such a way that it would rule on Earth in much the same way foreign animals often rule in new habitats. It may still be too soon to tell for sure, but my money's on the mold having burned up on re-entry.
Posts like this one are why I still read slashdot. The good news is that since it can hold Oxygen gas, it can also hold an ozone. So, given enough time, people can not only breathe, but they can go outside in the daylight.
Worked for Australia.
Will you soon be clamoring for the right to marry a pig or cow? a rock? yourself? It is biologically obvious on why there are two sexes, and just how sex is supposed to happen.
:)
I fully support the right for a person to marry another person. Why should two couples be treated differently in they eyes of the law simple because they are of the same sex?
On a side note, this is something else I don't understand. Guys should be fully supportive of the rights for gay men to marry. More women for us!
...rather than drive up the electric bill (damned prices last year for electricity...) with two seperate Watt-Guzzelers, as I call them. So, I saved some money there, right?
Probably not. Stand alone CD players (especially portable ones) use very low power. In fact if you were only using your computer as a CD player, then the amount you'd save by turning off your PC and running a stand alone player would pay for the player eventually. Depends on how often you'd use only the CD player, and how much power costs where you are.
In fact, a portable CD player may even use less power to play a CD than the additional power your computer would use to play the CD. The portable player is designed to use low power, whereas CD-ROMs are not, unless you have a laptop.
Wouldn't it be a riot if someone called Sony for tech support on their Vaio because this (Sony-made) CD pooched their drive?
It'd be even more perfect if the Sony CD also caused the sound card on the Sony Vaio to output square waves that destroyed the Sony speakers on the attached Sony stereo. I'd love to hear them try to pass the buck on that one. "Uhhh, Windows did it."
They were hoping to turn their millions into billions, and were blinded from the facts by overwhelming greed. A large part of me is glad they had their money taken!
Unfortunately though, when things like this happen it makes the investors more reserved in the future. Some guy who really does have a good invention will now have a harder time getting the funding he needs to bring it to us.
Actually, I get HB0(1-3) and Cinemax(1-2) for $10/mo total. That's 5 channels at $10, or $2 each. I really wouldn't mind paying $2/month per channel I watch provided the channel is ad-free.
Heck, doing so would drop my monthly bill from $40/mo to around $20/mo. I really spend almost all my time between Fox, SciFi, Discovery, TLC, Animal Planet, HBO(1-3), and Cinemax(1-2).
I'd be hard pressed to name five more channels that I really watch so even at a base rate of $10/mo + $2/channel I would come out ahead.