I think myths tell us more about ourselves than about the physical world around us.
Reading about how myths can be inspired by reality made me think of sirens & mermaids and reading that some sailors mistook manatees for mermaids. If that is true, I'd say that myth did tell us about ourselves. It tolds us that those old sailors had some great booze!
As a desendent of white Europeans, the concept doesn't bother me. My ethnic group weren't cannibals recently (barring unusual situations), but I'm sure if you go far enough back, they were.
I'm not even married, but I know that when my GF asks if she looks fat in those jeans, the correct answer is "Of course not, dear". The jeans have nothing to do with it. (I'm sure glad she doesn't read/.)
Back when I used tape drives, they were very expensive. When mine died, I couldn't afford a replacement and ended up going without a decent backup for years. Luckily, nothing happened to my computer at that time.
If my email server goes down for an hour, I probably won't even notice. But if the adservers are down, causing the whole internet to run slower than Vista on 512MB, I not only notice but get very annoyed.
The flip side is, if it's local and important to me, I'll make fixing it a priority. If it's important to me and I DON'T have control, I just have to hope that it's reasonably important to whoever can fix it, or I'm screwed.
No. The customer is right unless them being right interferes with another, bigger customer being right. Or it interferes with a number of other customers being right. That's the way it really works.
A smart business should be careful with that logic. Customer Y might be bigger than customer X, but if Y buys 2 $100 items, and X buys 10 $25 items in the same period, they'd better think twice about pissing off X.
And I think the smell from the tenant's fridge was even worse than the smell from their multiple pets! Luckily, I was close enough to the sink to puke down the drain, but as filthy as the kitchen was anyway, it wouldn't have mattered if I'd done it on the floor.
Brings back memories. I had mixed feelings when we upgraded to NT. I was more productive, but I really missed all those coffee breaks while the system was rebooting.
Well, assuming the jury had 12 intelligent, rational people on it, which is even less likely than two non-cthulhic lawyers
Actually, it shouldn't need 12 rational people. It should only take one to block a criminal conviction. Admittedly, if the other 11 are fools, the holdout would also need to be stubborn enough to resist peer pressure.
Similarly, when money is tight and a company needs to decide what to cut, they get rid of what they deem to be the least important to their survival. From upper management's point of view, they see what the impact of laying off staff in their core business will be, and will be less likely to view management as just support. However, it is harder for them to see why they can't just halve their IT staff or janitorial staff. Maybe the floors will get vacuumed less often or it will take slightly longer to deploy Windows 7, but the company will still do what it does roughly as well as it currently does, right? (That is not to say that IT isn't crucial to a company's success, just that it is much harder for upper management to appreciate the relative worth of IT staff).
I understand that POV, but companies still need to be careful what they cut. They can get along without floor sweepers, but if they fire too many plumbers, they could be in deep shit.
What's really scary is, even my non-computer savy mom has heard of twitter. I commented on noisy birds to her the other day, and she asked me about twitter.
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Reading about how myths can be inspired by reality made me think of sirens & mermaids and reading that some sailors mistook manatees for mermaids. If that is true, I'd say that myth did tell us about ourselves. It tolds us that those old sailors had some great booze!
As a desendent of white Europeans, the concept doesn't bother me. My ethnic group weren't cannibals recently (barring unusual situations), but I'm sure if you go far enough back, they were.
Of course, then the GF will be mad that you didn't notice her weight loss. Speaking from experience.
I'm not even married, but I know that when my GF asks if she looks fat in those jeans, the correct answer is "Of course not, dear". The jeans have nothing to do with it. (I'm sure glad she doesn't read /.)
Back when I used tape drives, they were very expensive. When mine died, I couldn't afford a replacement and ended up going without a decent backup for years. Luckily, nothing happened to my computer at that time.
I'm afraid my backup strategy isn't good enough. Since I haven't gotten around to intersteller backups, I'm just one supernova away from disaster.
I found that out the hard way, when a Zip Disk got zapped. I got lucky that none of the unrecoverable files were that important, but it was JUST luck.
If my email server goes down for an hour, I probably won't even notice. But if the adservers are down, causing the whole internet to run slower than Vista on 512MB, I not only notice but get very annoyed.
The flip side is, if it's local and important to me, I'll make fixing it a priority. If it's important to me and I DON'T have control, I just have to hope that it's reasonably important to whoever can fix it, or I'm screwed.
I find it a bit ironic that many pirates ARE more trustworthy than Sony or Amazon.
A smart business should be careful with that logic. Customer Y might be bigger than customer X, but if Y buys 2 $100 items, and X buys 10 $25 items in the same period, they'd better think twice about pissing off X.
Can't one of those Blind Advocacy groups sue them for discrimination?
When I first joined FB, it claimed that 2 of my friends had taken that quiz. Problem is, at the time I didn't yet HAVE any FB friends!
And I think the smell from the tenant's fridge was even worse than the smell from their multiple pets! Luckily, I was close enough to the sink to puke down the drain, but as filthy as the kitchen was anyway, it wouldn't have mattered if I'd done it on the floor.
Or we should quit using an identifier as a password.
Brings back memories. I had mixed feelings when we upgraded to NT. I was more productive, but I really missed all those coffee breaks while the system was rebooting.
Not really. IME, most commercial software also sux.
Actually, it shouldn't need 12 rational people. It should only take one to block a criminal conviction. Admittedly, if the other 11 are fools, the holdout would also need to be stubborn enough to resist peer pressure.
IMO, it's stupid to browse pr0n from work because you're almost guaranteed to get fired. THAT is a well-known consequence of that activity.
I do agree that criminal charges for it is totally insane, and that law should be struck down regardless of the stupidity of the pr0n guy.
Doesn't the latest version of swine flu also have bird flu DNA? Obviously it's a serious problem for those who tweet.
Those of us who spell without the extra "u" have similar opinions. These days, both are questionable.
I understand that POV, but companies still need to be careful what they cut. They can get along without floor sweepers, but if they fire too many plumbers, they could be in deep shit.
What's really scary is, even my non-computer savy mom has heard of twitter. I commented on noisy birds to her the other day, and she asked me about twitter.
that I don't have to feel guilty for tweeting in church?
Ah, nostalgia. I had the same experience with Win95.