I figured out many years after highschool that the reason why so few people understand how to write:
Highschools teach writing in English class.
English teachers teach English class
To qualify as an English teacher, you have to pass English courses
English courses teach creativity, literature, classics, poetry etc.
Essays, documentation, memos and reports have nothing to do with creativity, literature, classics, poetry, etc.
I think it is quite possible that most of the English teachers in North America know less about technical writing or writing essays in the social sciences than the average engineering undergrad. Infact, English teachers are the least qualified people to teach you how to write.
PhysEd teachers have a better chance of teaching you how to write!
(The most annoying part of communicating with my coworkers is translating English written with Chineese grammar into English with English grammar.)
If you don't make it to a refuge station, you're dead anyway.
Mine refuge stations are fed with high-pressure air lines. If those lines get damaged, you probably won't survive long enough for anyone to sink down new lines.
I can't imagine this kind of communication helping much. People don't wander mines aimlessly. After a cave-in, they're either at the job site, the refuge station, or somewhere in between. If they're on the surface, then their tag wouldn't be on the tag-board.
Maybe at best, a device in a refuge station to signal that yes, there are some survivors. But if you're rescuing and you don't get a signal, what do you assume?
..and even that only makes sense if they have something to crack, like a password hash or an encrypted file.
Otherwise, slowing down the system to human time scales and locking out passwords with a reasable reset system (so as to reduce impact of denial of service) would prevent any guessing.
And they got so much "free" publicity out of it that people are still talking about it today.
They wanted the units to be a "sell-out" it sounds impressive, it makes it sound "hot" and the "latest thing"
Dropping the price later would create a different effect, their next product launch wouldn't sell as well becuase peopel would anticipate a drastic price drop.
I won't be buying or recommending any more ATI products unless they show a marked improvement in the quality of their drivers. Both for Windows and Linux.
Open sourcing the drivers might make me consider going back to their products.
Linux is protected by the patent portfolios of all companies which are using it in business. The GPL also ensures that you can't get any money out of such a lawsuit, you can just force removal of the infringing code.
There are plenty of people who take up interests specifically to fit into social groups. Golf is a prime example. The same fits for pro-sport-franchises and music. Some people get in there just so that they'll be able to hold a conversation with people they find boring.
If you're not in sales, there's probably no reason to subject yourself to the horror.
What's with categorizing people into syndromes anyway? NT?
It's my experience that being part of one of these subcultures identifies you as a creative type. The cultural references and accepted norms of behaviour are very different.
Just imagine the office watercooler:
Suit#1: "My wife is going to take the SUV to pick up the children from their swimming lessons."
Suit#2: "Ah, your new CRV?"
Suit#1: "Yes, it's quite nice, we decided not to get anything too expensive, it's nice not to worry about what other people's children might do to it, although some jerk dented it in the parking lot the other day"
Suit#2: "Hey, were't you putting in a swimming pool?"
Suit#1: "Yes, the contractor is trouble though. There are delays."
Suit#2: "Bob, you said your children take swimming lessons too?"
Creative type (Bob): "Oh, my partner is homeschooling them. She takes the bus to the community centre."
Suit#1: "Isn't it difficult without a car?"
Creative type: "My wife and I think it important that our children be exposde to different cultures and have friends from the local community."
Suit#2: "Where did you hear about that?"
Creative type: "umm., personal experience? intuition?"
Suit#1: "So she doesn't work?"
Creative type: "She homeschools, that's plenty of work, she takes shifts with our neighbour."
If Bob had long hair and sandals, these awkward conversations would be avoided.
The issues appear when you use more than one major app on the machine on a regular basis. They're not too bad now, but they were horrible several years back, and it's not just becuase machines have more RAM.
I recently had a conversation with a friend of mine who had a mother who was ill.
She had plenty of money, and had to get her mother into either the Canadian or U.S. healthcare system. He primary concern was expediency. Her mother was not eligable for healthcare in Canada without paying out-of-pocket.
She asked my advice as to what to do.
I told her that if money was really not an issue, engage both systems simultaneously.
The Canadian system admitted her faster...
...just offering a positive anecdote to refute your negative anecdote. Results vary dramatically depending on circumstances of course.
Despite privatization, there's a problem in the U.S. system regarding pricing and expediency. The private system seems to have fueled a lawsuit-based alternative funding system, and the insurance companies seem to have too much influence in the system. I don't understand it, so I can't comment further.
It actually makes no sense given that there's no single entity responding to the mob. They act as individuals on individual pages.
Mob rule might be the case if they're deciding on a single issue. But if you can't get a mob to even decide what issue they're deciding upon, then it's just a whole lot of people doing things.
...my father got me that job and he handled it all...
...You just have to use your time and energy more wisely....
I think you're totally unqualified to talk about opportunities for underage professionals without connections. Connections are more valuable than experience, education or even skill.
People get bitter when they hear stories like yours because they're the guys and girls with the CS degree who wind up working in tech support while some bigwig's kid causes them grief with buggy software. When they were that age, they were lucky to get a job at Burger King... and it's not because they didn't use their time more wisely.
Take all the advantages your parents give you, and never be ashamed of that, but never look down on people because they didn't succeed at jobs you didn't even get on your own.
If the doctor didn't point to your caffiene intake first, switch doctors. Some are very reluctant to prescribe medication, others do it too easily. A happy medium is nice, but hard to find.
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I'm not so sure that SPAM will be unprofitable.
I'm not so sure that SPAM is profitable today.
Now, selling methods to SPAM people... that's certainly profitable. Even if SPAM doesn't work.
I figured out many years after highschool that the reason why so few people understand how to write:
I think it is quite possible that most of the English teachers in North America know less about technical writing or writing essays in the social sciences than the average engineering undergrad. Infact, English teachers are the least qualified people to teach you how to write.
PhysEd teachers have a better chance of teaching you how to write!
(The most annoying part of communicating with my coworkers is translating English written with Chineese grammar into English with English grammar.)
If you don't make it to a refuge station, you're dead anyway.
Mine refuge stations are fed with high-pressure air lines. If those lines get damaged, you probably won't survive long enough for anyone to sink down new lines.
I can't imagine this kind of communication helping much. People don't wander mines aimlessly. After a cave-in, they're either at the job site, the refuge station, or somewhere in between. If they're on the surface, then their tag wouldn't be on the tag-board.
Maybe at best, a device in a refuge station to signal that yes, there are some survivors. But if you're rescuing and you don't get a signal, what do you assume?
What I find interesting is that these kids have grown up in a world where free music could always be downloaded from the Internet.
I'd rather the blank answer than the written one. It's less dangerous.
You must be the last person actually watching it on television.
..and even that only makes sense if they have something to crack, like a password hash or an encrypted file.
Otherwise, slowing down the system to human time scales and locking out passwords with a reasable reset system (so as to reduce impact of denial of service) would prevent any guessing.
And they got so much "free" publicity out of it that people are still talking about it today.
They wanted the units to be a "sell-out" it sounds impressive, it makes it sound "hot" and the "latest thing"
Dropping the price later would create a different effect, their next product launch wouldn't sell as well becuase peopel would anticipate a drastic price drop.
I won't be buying or recommending any more ATI products unless they show a marked improvement in the quality of their drivers. Both for Windows and Linux.
Open sourcing the drivers might make me consider going back to their products.
Naw, not rotten. Novell is a good company. Stable, boring.
It's more of a pinecone. Nobody is sure what to do with it.
Linux is protected by the patent portfolios of all companies which are using it in business. The GPL also ensures that you can't get any money out of such a lawsuit, you can just force removal of the infringing code.
Dr. Evil, blah2glorb
The case is a trade secret though. If they reveal it, then people will know they have no case, destroying the company.
As long as your little sister is 18 or older, it's perfectly legal.
I'm offended by the term "Socially Challenged", I'm "Socially Inept"
Thank you.
There are plenty of people who take up interests specifically to fit into social groups. Golf is a prime example. The same fits for pro-sport-franchises and music. Some people get in there just so that they'll be able to hold a conversation with people they find boring.
If you're not in sales, there's probably no reason to subject yourself to the horror.
What's with categorizing people into syndromes anyway? NT?
It's my experience that being part of one of these subcultures identifies you as a creative type. The cultural references and accepted norms of behaviour are very different.
Just imagine the office watercooler:
If Bob had long hair and sandals, these awkward conversations would be avoided.
The issues appear when you use more than one major app on the machine on a regular basis. They're not too bad now, but they were horrible several years back, and it's not just becuase machines have more RAM.
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I recently had a conversation with a friend of mine who had a mother who was ill.
She had plenty of money, and had to get her mother into either the Canadian or U.S. healthcare system. He primary concern was expediency. Her mother was not eligable for healthcare in Canada without paying out-of-pocket.
She asked my advice as to what to do.
I told her that if money was really not an issue, engage both systems simultaneously.
The Canadian system admitted her faster...
...just offering a positive anecdote to refute your negative anecdote. Results vary dramatically depending on circumstances of course.
Despite privatization, there's a problem in the U.S. system regarding pricing and expediency. The private system seems to have fueled a lawsuit-based alternative funding system, and the insurance companies seem to have too much influence in the system. I don't understand it, so I can't comment further.
They were isolinear chips.
Does fragmentation matter when there are no heads to move?
I can't visit Yahoo finance anymore. The ads give me seisures.
This is exactly how Google killed them years ago.
It actually makes no sense given that there's no single entity responding to the mob. They act as individuals on individual pages.
Mob rule might be the case if they're deciding on a single issue. But if you can't get a mob to even decide what issue they're deciding upon, then it's just a whole lot of people doing things.
I think you're totally unqualified to talk about opportunities for underage professionals without connections. Connections are more valuable than experience, education or even skill.
People get bitter when they hear stories like yours because they're the guys and girls with the CS degree who wind up working in tech support while some bigwig's kid causes them grief with buggy software. When they were that age, they were lucky to get a job at Burger King... and it's not because they didn't use their time more wisely.
Take all the advantages your parents give you, and never be ashamed of that, but never look down on people because they didn't succeed at jobs you didn't even get on your own.
If the doctor didn't point to your caffiene intake first, switch doctors. Some are very reluctant to prescribe medication, others do it too easily. A happy medium is nice, but hard to find.