-a little test of my own ability to delay gratification? I think I'd have waited forever to eat that marshmallow as a little kid- but spoiled by broadband as a grown-up, I'm annoyed that a 7-minute video is taking too long...
Weren't there DAs (Desk Accessories) prior to OS 7.5? I believe I recall using them on my first little SE back in 1990; MMMV (My Memory May Vary)- but it was within a year or two, tops...
Oh dear, the punning center of my brain just got activated... I could continue in this humourous vein for a bloody long time, unless... must.. take.. hands... away from.. keyboard...
So we would wind up being a huge heat sink as well? There are other animals that run "cool" blood by "warmer" blood to transfer heat to and from tissues... Since all my Macs feel quite warm to the touch, I would think they are running warmer than we are, even taking into account the fact that skin temperature is cooler than internal temperature...
Of course, if one were running a fever, or having a menopausal power surge, you could wind up heating your computer even *more*..
I hear you- tossing dimes into the till isn't messy or brutal, but a real PITA when someone needs to catch that last bus to get home, or has someone watching their children waiting for them, so they can go to work, etc.
Watching how people treat retail staff and places, it makes me wonder about making people work well-monitored menial-pay gigs in their youth (not unlike mandatory national service) so they would (hopefully) learn about empathy, respect, having to live on low wages-something along those lines. So often, people act like those working manual or retail work are less than human somehow, and fair game for rudeness and contempt.
It may sound naive, but I was raised to believe that a person should not be judged because of the work they do, if it is honest work done well. If a person abuses others by their power and position (Enron management, anyone?)- they deserve contempt- not the guy who collects the trash. At the hospital where I currently work, the director of my service is highly-credentialed - also dissembling, judgmental, biased, and driven primarily by his image. OTOH,a custodian I know on the evening shift is one of the the most pleasant and hard-working people I've known. I know the access he has- he could do amazing damage or theft is he chose to do so. And I'd rather spend an hour with him than five minutes with the director, any day.
OMG... What a waste of time and energy... though I don't understand why someone would set out to do things like that (tossing dimes), unless that staff had really screwed with him somehow.
I had to work a lot of retail jobs through all my degrees, and they are not a party to start with, without having to contend with behavior like that... =P
On a more humorous note, one gig I had was waitressing in a small Middle Eastern restaurant in New Haven, and Mohammed would ding your paycheck for the amount of any error made on a customer's bill- regardless of whether it was in his favor or not. Only had that happen once or twice before my mental math skills became quite sharp, even at 2 AM!;)
Hey, for the record, there are a lot of females over the age of 35 (myself included) who are quite capable of taking screen shots, printing to PDF and posting to the web!
Jeez, I was probably using FidoNet when some of you guys were thinking solid food was a neat idea...
Just because some of us are old enough to be a parent of many of you doesn't mean we're by definition tech-ignorant; people do pick this up later in life, too - my mother didn't get her first (PowerMac) computer until she was 60!
I've also done enough tech support to see there are just as many ignorant males as females-of all ages- out there...
Anyway, I don't mean to be strident; I just ask that y'all be a little more open-minded, please! = )
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-a little test of my own ability to delay gratification?
I think I'd have waited forever to eat that marshmallow as a little kid- but spoiled by broadband as a grown-up, I'm annoyed that a 7-minute video is taking too long...
Weren't there DAs (Desk Accessories) prior to OS 7.5? I believe I recall using them on my first little SE back in 1990; MMMV (My Memory May Vary)- but it was within a year or two, tops...
Would that be Blade IV, or Blade I.V.?
Oh dear, the punning center of my brain just got activated... I could continue in this humourous vein for a bloody long time, unless... must.. take.. hands... away from.. keyboard...
So we would wind up being a huge heat sink as well? There are other animals that run "cool" blood by "warmer" blood to transfer heat to and from tissues... Since all my Macs feel quite warm to the touch, I would think they are running warmer than we are, even taking into account the fact that skin temperature is cooler than internal temperature...
Of course, if one were running a fever, or having a menopausal power surge, you could wind up heating your computer even *more*..
I hear you- tossing dimes into the till isn't messy or brutal, but a real PITA when someone needs to catch that last bus to get home, or has someone watching their children waiting for them, so they can go to work, etc.
Watching how people treat retail staff and places, it makes me wonder about making people work well-monitored menial-pay gigs in their youth (not unlike mandatory national service) so they would (hopefully) learn about empathy, respect, having to live on low wages-something along those lines. So often, people act like those working manual or retail work are less than human somehow, and fair game for rudeness and contempt.
It may sound naive, but I was raised to believe that a person should not be judged because of the work they do, if it is honest work done well. If a person abuses others by their power and position (Enron management, anyone?)- they deserve contempt- not the guy who collects the trash. At the hospital where I currently work, the director of my service is highly-credentialed - also dissembling, judgmental, biased, and driven primarily by his image. OTOH,a custodian I know on the evening shift is one of the the most pleasant and hard-working people I've known. I know the access he has- he could do amazing damage or theft is he chose to do so. And I'd rather spend an hour with him than five minutes with the director, any day.
I like that! I used to put bills on the little shelf between the keys and the till when it was feasible, but the plate/magnet arrangement is great...
OMG...
;)
What a waste of time and energy... though I don't understand why someone would set out to do things like that (tossing dimes), unless that staff had really screwed with him somehow.
I had to work a lot of retail jobs through all my degrees, and they are not a party to start with, without having to contend with behavior like that... =P
On a more humorous note, one gig I had was waitressing in a small Middle Eastern restaurant in New Haven, and Mohammed would ding your paycheck for the amount of any error made on a customer's bill- regardless of whether it was in his favor or not. Only had that happen once or twice before my mental math skills became quite sharp, even at 2 AM!
As cited earlier, that would be too cruel-hell, that should scare the bejesus out of Gates, too! (who I certainly would tell!)
Well, the surgery would have to go a bit anteriad to involve the- oh, Ballmer-
neeever mind...
Hey, for the record, there are a lot of females over the age of 35 (myself included) who are quite capable of taking screen shots, printing to PDF and posting to the web!
Jeez, I was probably using FidoNet when some of you guys were thinking solid food was a neat idea...
Just because some of us are old enough to be a parent of many of you doesn't mean we're by definition tech-ignorant; people do pick this up later in life, too - my mother didn't get her first (PowerMac) computer until she was 60!
I've also done enough tech support to see there are just as many ignorant males as females-of all ages- out there...
Anyway, I don't mean to be strident; I just ask that y'all be a little more open-minded, please!
= )