Shit - looks like I pushed your 'special button' huh!
Life!=Work for everyone. In fact for most (i.e. the masses). I stand by my original comment - turning up for a 37.5 hour week for a decent salary then trotting off to shag your girlfriend, play your gamecube, drink your guinness and talk about football has its attractions when compared to sitting at a keyboard 24/7 bitching about how you're so creative.
"Creative and intellectual people would probably be happier doing something creative like programming or starting *their own* business"
Been there done that - hardly anyone else ever follows. Starting up is hard work, long hours, poor pay for a long time until you start to get the balance right. The masses dont have an entrepreneurial spirit - and will have a better 'life' with a decent salary and a shit job than with no salary and a challenging startup to run (or fail to run).
In my experience most people who call themselves creative intellectuals are neither. Those who are both are in enough demand that unemployment isn't an issue.
With apologies to the greatest cartoon to ever appear in Viz:
Overqualified creative intellectual battling a system stacked against you? Lazy more like!
Correct! I don't care about infomercial comparisons.
I've often thought it would be cool, particularly in breakfast shows, to have an ad ticker - like a stock ticker - running commercials at the bottom of the screen instead of ad breaks. That way the clock would stay on screen telling me how late I am.
The market may be totally different in the US, but here in the UK my advice to the IT grads in unemployment hell is to apply for a fasttrack management position with a retailer.
These guys are desperate for talent which can feed through to more senior management, and even for 'talent' that won't forget to order the bread and wine for the weekend rush. They'll start you on a decent salary and put you in a position of relative power, pensions and healthcare should all be in there too if its a big company.
When the market in IT picks up you can hop over and answer the 'Last position' question with something a hell of a lot better than 'Pizza delivery boy for 3 years'. 'I took a fasttrack management position in retail to get some people management under my belt - within 18 months I was running my own store with responsibility for 3 satellite stores - as the IT sector is picking up I've refused a more senior management position in retail to come back to where I think I can truly kick some ass - I want a board position within 5 years'.
You differ from my view only in your insecurity about what's Good. I define Good as something that I think to be Good, or something someone else thinks to be Good. Some bands are just Shit, like the band I was in for 3 days when I was 14. We were Shit. No one liked us. Not even us. David Bowie is Good. Beyonce is Good. To expect some learned Prof to tell us what makes Good or Shit music is like expecting an equally learned Prof to tell us who has better Boobs - Beyonce or Halle Berry. Trivial! That my Good and your Good differ is only right and proper. My opinion is just as valid, even if I haven't listened to everything covered in NME this week.
Am I the only one that saw the first LOTR movies before reading the book?
No. Although I have no intention of reading the books so maybe I don't count. Actually I didn't even want to see the movies and were it not for their Xmas release dates I probably never would have (family gathering, pissing each other off, lets go to the cinema).
I reckon I saved myself a lot of wasted hours reading by shortcutting the plot in a couple of movies. Wizards! Pah!
That's why the books at the top of the bestseller lists are usually not at the top of anyone's "Good Books" list.
Many croaky films make it to the top of peoples lists - Matrix, Blade, Bond... all of them mass market fodder and all of them loved by many people. Musically millions of people list Mike and the Mechanics or Elton John as favourites - again, mass market pap served up to the mass market - but people think they love it.
My sisters friends were always into crap like NKOTB I managed to corrupt a couple of them with John Lee Hooker and the Smiths. Good music. Blues retentives will list you a dozen artists who they think beat the 'mainstream' John Lee Hooker. Who gives a rats ass!
Beyonce is hot - but her music kinda sucks. Missy Elliot is... less hot - but her music... sucks less. Both are 'good' to the people who buy them. Just because I think thr Pogues or REM have more to say, and say it better, doesn't mean they are Good to Beyonces Bad.
Entertainment is good - its not a dirty word. Sometimes you just feel like putting on Slade!!
The point of the segway is more that it seems light - I think - and that the steering is very intuitive - i.e. leaning.
Replicating that with a tail may be possible - but its not as simple as ripping a castor off a shopping cart and sticking it on the back.
It also wouldnt stop you from leaning too far forward - so you'd need one on the front aswell. This is all starting to look pretty ugly huh!
When the gyro technology gets replicated without patent violation we'll see Segways on the market for sub $1000 pretty quickly. My guess is that they will align prices with laptops, or mountain bikes, or something else where people have an intuition of quality / cost. Some will cost more, some less, Segway will remain the Mercedes of the scooter world.
Dyson have about 4.2 Billion patents for their cyclonic vacuum cleaners. This slowed development of competing products - but it couldn't stop them because, quite simply, you can't patent physics.
All it takes is for a research lab to exploit the same physical effect in a slightly different form, unless the patent is rediculously generalised - i.e. "The use of cyclonic sucky effect in cleaning products" - which of course they aren't (on the whole).
Electrolux, Hoover, etc... all just went out and bought a hundred Dysons, tore them apart, and put them back together swapping as many components as they could without breaking the vaccuum. Easy! Oops - no - sorry - they carried out parallel novel research!! Silly me!
I was tickled by that too - but you beat me to it with documenting the observation!! you bastard!!! I haven't earned Karma in months because of fast fingered feckers like you!!!
Never make an untested assertion that can be proven wrong! That's my motto!
Well - actually its not - my motto is really "sleep first - then quake/sim city/monopoly/drinking guinness [delete as applicable to time of year / mood]"
Stick a CD into my laptop, fire up Windows Media Player, hit Record CD, pick MP3 from the options, allow it to grab the track info etc...
I'm willing to bet that that will be being repeated tens of thousands of times for any one track - especially mainstream pop-crap like the lovelyiciouis Beyonce. Surely an identical MD5 comes out at least x% of the time!
Yeah - your right - this IS a fucking advertisement!!! If I wanted advertisements I'd read all about rackspace and Macromedia MX 2004 at the top of the page!!!!
Is nothing sacred!!! Articles are for uninteresting old news with a slight geek interest factor - not adverts for useful services!!!
It takes as long as it takes - as I always tell my customers.
MBAs are pretty strange creatures - you dont tend to sit a set of exams on a rigid timetable - more you attend lectures, read material, submit views and papers - a whole stack of submersive learning. Kind of like a midpoint between a taught and research degree. When your school is happy with you - you pass - if they pass you too early you lower the overall standard of graduates cheapening their reputation. (and they lose another months fees!!)
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The whole point of these things is less to make your workplace more efficient, more to make any guy/gal you invite over to your place want to have repeated sexual intercourse with you.
Its about aesthetics and attention to detail. See a mac on this desk and you automatically assume the owner has a nice clean shower cube with none of that orange goo on the tiles, a well services toilet, plenty of paper, and bed sheets that get changed more than once a month.
You also assume the owner makes full use of the shower cube on a daily basis - probably twice!
Oh - and you assume they have a bucket of cash because it looks expensive. They don't call these things 'fucking expensive' for nothing!
It's sad to think that for $15,000 (give or take),
If its gonna be that good can I suggest CREDIT CARDS!!!!!! As my dad always says : Entrepreneurship starts with 5 credit card applications, and ends with bankrupcy or marble floors. Give it a go! You know you want to!
yawn... if you dont see Ford as a government of motoring and AOL as a government of IT then your a bit in the dark my friend. It doesnt take a leap of doublethink to tie these together.
Governments no longer make laws, they ACCEPT and RATIFY laws presented to them by lobbyists. And who lobbies most about motoring? The car companies.
My grasp of biology is piss poor - so can someone educate me a bit ( I know - I know -/. isnt the place!!!)
Given that a big bastard great dane and a little mini poodle can 'get it on' whats to stop 'cross pollination' of the great apes? Donkeys and horses do it, why not chimps and gorrillas?
You wooose! I cycled everywhere for about 12 years until I got fat and lazy and hardly ever jumped onto the pavement. Stay on the road, ride nice and fat, keep your pace up, and reserve use of that middle finger only for the REAL spastic drivers and your perfectly safe!
better than killing a child on the pavement! - how could you sleep!
99% of people have the sense not to give out their CC # over a payphone in a crowded bus terminal
Are you sure? I've been sitting on a train as a guy opposite sat with his card on the table shouting the numbers into his mobile phone (he was ordering flowers for his wife - anniversary - £100 bunch - no ribbon - she hates ribbon - thinks its a waste - and nothing with those really thick stems - she always complains about those too - and just put 'hey' on the card - yes - just 'hey') gave his address for delivery, his postcode, his home and mobile numbers and his wifes name (Ruth - kind of old fashioned a name I thought) and a few other bits. Practically enough to get a passport with!
Maybe he was the 1%. So far as I could tell I was the only one logging all this info into a palm at the time tho - so no harm done!
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Shit - looks like I pushed your 'special button' huh!
Life!=Work for everyone. In fact for most (i.e. the masses). I stand by my original comment - turning up for a 37.5 hour week for a decent salary then trotting off to shag your girlfriend, play your gamecube, drink your guinness and talk about football has its attractions when compared to sitting at a keyboard 24/7 bitching about how you're so creative.
"Creative and intellectual people would probably be happier doing something creative like programming or starting *their own* business"
Been there done that - hardly anyone else ever follows. Starting up is hard work, long hours, poor pay for a long time until you start to get the balance right. The masses dont have an entrepreneurial spirit - and will have a better 'life' with a decent salary and a shit job than with no salary and a challenging startup to run (or fail to run).
In my experience most people who call themselves creative intellectuals are neither. Those who are both are in enough demand that unemployment isn't an issue.
With apologies to the greatest cartoon to ever appear in Viz:
Overqualified creative intellectual battling a system stacked against you?
Lazy more like!
Correct! I don't care about infomercial comparisons.
I've often thought it would be cool, particularly in breakfast shows, to have an ad ticker - like a stock ticker - running commercials at the bottom of the screen instead of ad breaks. That way the clock would stay on screen telling me how late I am.
The market may be totally different in the US, but here in the UK my advice to the IT grads in unemployment hell is to apply for a fasttrack management position with a retailer.
These guys are desperate for talent which can feed through to more senior management, and even for 'talent' that won't forget to order the bread and wine for the weekend rush. They'll start you on a decent salary and put you in a position of relative power, pensions and healthcare should all be in there too if its a big company.
When the market in IT picks up you can hop over and answer the 'Last position' question with something a hell of a lot better than 'Pizza delivery boy for 3 years'. 'I took a fasttrack management position in retail to get some people management under my belt - within 18 months I was running my own store with responsibility for 3 satellite stores - as the IT sector is picking up I've refused a more senior management position in retail to come back to where I think I can truly kick some ass - I want a board position within 5 years'.
Try it kids - it might just work!!
Thank you! There's WAY too little Thatcher bashing on /.
You differ from my view only in your insecurity about what's Good. I define Good as something that I think to be Good, or something someone else thinks to be Good. Some bands are just Shit, like the band I was in for 3 days when I was 14. We were Shit. No one liked us. Not even us. David Bowie is Good. Beyonce is Good. To expect some learned Prof to tell us what makes Good or Shit music is like expecting an equally learned Prof to tell us who has better Boobs - Beyonce or Halle Berry. Trivial! That my Good and your Good differ is only right and proper. My opinion is just as valid, even if I haven't listened to everything covered in NME this week.
Am I the only one that saw the first LOTR movies before reading the book?
No. Although I have no intention of reading the books so maybe I don't count. Actually I didn't even want to see the movies and were it not for their Xmas release dates I probably never would have (family gathering, pissing each other off, lets go to the cinema).
I reckon I saved myself a lot of wasted hours reading by shortcutting the plot in a couple of movies. Wizards! Pah!
That's why the books at the top of the bestseller lists are usually not at the top of anyone's "Good Books" list.
... less hot - but her music ... sucks less. Both are 'good' to the people who buy them. Just because I think thr Pogues or REM have more to say, and say it better, doesn't mean they are Good to Beyonces Bad.
Many croaky films make it to the top of peoples lists - Matrix, Blade, Bond... all of them mass market fodder and all of them loved by many people. Musically millions of people list Mike and the Mechanics or Elton John as favourites - again, mass market pap served up to the mass market - but people think they love it.
My sisters friends were always into crap like NKOTB I managed to corrupt a couple of them with John Lee Hooker and the Smiths. Good music. Blues retentives will list you a dozen artists who they think beat the 'mainstream' John Lee Hooker. Who gives a rats ass!
Beyonce is hot - but her music kinda sucks. Missy Elliot is
Entertainment is good - its not a dirty word. Sometimes you just feel like putting on Slade!!
The point of the segway is more that it seems light - I think - and that the steering is very intuitive - i.e. leaning.
Replicating that with a tail may be possible - but its not as simple as ripping a castor off a shopping cart and sticking it on the back.
It also wouldnt stop you from leaning too far forward - so you'd need one on the front aswell. This is all starting to look pretty ugly huh!
When the gyro technology gets replicated without patent violation we'll see Segways on the market for sub $1000 pretty quickly. My guess is that they will align prices with laptops, or mountain bikes, or something else where people have an intuition of quality / cost. Some will cost more, some less, Segway will remain the Mercedes of the scooter world.
Dyson have about 4.2 Billion patents for their cyclonic vacuum cleaners. This slowed development of competing products - but it couldn't stop them because, quite simply, you can't patent physics.
All it takes is for a research lab to exploit the same physical effect in a slightly different form, unless the patent is rediculously generalised - i.e. "The use of cyclonic sucky effect in cleaning products" - which of course they aren't (on the whole).
Electrolux, Hoover, etc... all just went out and bought a hundred Dysons, tore them apart, and put them back together swapping as many components as they could without breaking the vaccuum. Easy! Oops - no - sorry - they carried out parallel novel research!! Silly me!
... as long as there are a stack of short term, overpaid, worthless stock laden jobs up for grabs who's complaining!!
Let the good times roll (briefly) (again) (maybe)
Bugger! - so all my kick ass funny posts which get 80% Funny 20% Overrated are actually BURNING Karma :O
If only I had something informative to say!
I was tickled by that too - but you beat me to it with documenting the observation!! you bastard!!! I haven't earned Karma in months because of fast fingered feckers like you!!!
Mine too!
Never make an untested assertion that can be proven wrong! That's my motto!
Well - actually its not - my motto is really "sleep first - then quake/sim city/monopoly/drinking guinness [delete as applicable to time of year / mood]"
Stick a CD into my laptop, fire up Windows Media Player, hit Record CD, pick MP3 from the options, allow it to grab the track info etc...
I'm willing to bet that that will be being repeated tens of thousands of times for any one track - especially mainstream pop-crap like the lovelyiciouis Beyonce. Surely an identical MD5 comes out at least x% of the time!
Yeah - your right - this IS a fucking advertisement!!! If I wanted advertisements I'd read all about rackspace and Macromedia MX 2004 at the top of the page!!!!
Is nothing sacred!!! Articles are for uninteresting old news with a slight geek interest factor - not adverts for useful services!!!
It takes as long as it takes - as I always tell my customers.
MBAs are pretty strange creatures - you dont tend to sit a set of exams on a rigid timetable - more you attend lectures, read material, submit views and papers - a whole stack of submersive learning. Kind of like a midpoint between a taught and research degree. When your school is happy with you - you pass - if they pass you too early you lower the overall standard of graduates cheapening their reputation. (and they lose another months fees!!)
The whole point of these things is less to make your workplace more efficient, more to make any guy/gal you invite over to your place want to have repeated sexual intercourse with you.
Its about aesthetics and attention to detail. See a mac on this desk and you automatically assume the owner has a nice clean shower cube with none of that orange goo on the tiles, a well services toilet, plenty of paper, and bed sheets that get changed more than once a month.
You also assume the owner makes full use of the shower cube on a daily basis - probably twice!
Oh - and you assume they have a bucket of cash because it looks expensive. They don't call these things 'fucking expensive' for nothing!
It's sad to think that for $15,000 (give or take),
If its gonna be that good can I suggest CREDIT CARDS!!!!!! As my dad always says : Entrepreneurship starts with 5 credit card applications, and ends with bankrupcy or marble floors. Give it a go! You know you want to!
yawn... if you dont see Ford as a government of motoring and AOL as a government of IT then your a bit in the dark my friend. It doesnt take a leap of doublethink to tie these together.
Governments no longer make laws, they ACCEPT and RATIFY laws presented to them by lobbyists. And who lobbies most about motoring? The car companies.
Have YOU read 1984?
Its taken a while but here we go : THE BOOK.
Becoming more like the truth every single day! Welcome to the future!
My grasp of biology is piss poor - so can someone educate me a bit ( I know - I know - /. isnt the place!!!)
Given that a big bastard great dane and a little mini poodle can 'get it on' whats to stop 'cross pollination' of the great apes? Donkeys and horses do it, why not chimps and gorrillas?
and it's far too dangerous on the road
You wooose! I cycled everywhere for about 12 years until I got fat and lazy and hardly ever jumped onto the pavement. Stay on the road, ride nice and fat, keep your pace up, and reserve use of that middle finger only for the REAL spastic drivers and your perfectly safe!
better than killing a child on the pavement! - how could you sleep!
99% of people have the sense not to give out their CC # over a payphone in a crowded bus terminal
Are you sure? I've been sitting on a train as a guy opposite sat with his card on the table shouting the numbers into his mobile phone (he was ordering flowers for his wife - anniversary - £100 bunch - no ribbon - she hates ribbon - thinks its a waste - and nothing with those really thick stems - she always complains about those too - and just put 'hey' on the card - yes - just 'hey') gave his address for delivery, his postcode, his home and mobile numbers and his wifes name (Ruth - kind of old fashioned a name I thought) and a few other bits. Practically enough to get a passport with!
Maybe he was the 1%. So far as I could tell I was the only one logging all this info into a palm at the time tho - so no harm done!