Don't you see? Now "Because God made it that way" becomes a viable answer on tests and examinations! School marks rise, America becomes a nation of high-grade students again. The problem of dropping grades has been solved with religious fascism!
My mac frind now use winXP 99% of the time on his mac intel.
Hunh, that's funny, I know 3 mac guys who use OSX 100% of the time on their mac intels. That's 300% more people than your sample! Based upon your rigorous and scientifically valid statistical sampling and analysis of Mac users, and based upon my rigorous and scientifically valid statistical sampling and analysis of Mac users, I would have to disagree with you, and say that Mac OSX will be around for more than a year.
Is anyone else annoyed at the amount of ads you have to see not just once, but _every_ time you have to view the "next" part of the webpage? This is the internet fer god's sake! Put all the content on one page or you're not getting my possible viewing revenue!
If news about a surge in PS2 sales comes as a surprise to anyone, the human gene pool is in need of a bit more chlorine.
That's a bit harsh, isn't it? I mean, so what if someone can't predict the software/hardware gaming - it's not like they need to be taken from the gene pool. How useful is a trait like predicting hardware or software sales - I doubt it's enough that if one doesn't have it they should be removed from the gene pool...
I'm certain it was posted here before for some other article, but I fail to see posts for this article that link to this?
Multi-touch interface is where it's at - personally, I wouldn't want to talk to my computer to get it to do something. The processing power can be put to much better use calculating a cure to cancer. Plus, it's an annoyance to everyone around, sure, it's cool in that Star Trek kind of way, but for constant use? No way man. It would suck having to tell your computer what to do - really. Think about it, late at night, you want the computer to do something: "Find me porn" "Honey? What are you doing?", uh, yeah, that's not gonna fly. Playing games: "shoot that creature there! Damnit! This is much too slow!". Or programming: "int main bracket argh.. no. Delete. No. Delete del- ah screw it." Or word processing: "Dear mom, fix aunt, delete that, delete that, delete that, select all, I think it's picking, I think it's picking up a bit of echo here, delete- select all" yeah, no. I think I'll stick with my multi-touch interface.
Multi-touch is completely natural and virtually no learning curve. We all have fingers or limbs, or feet, or noses or whatever else with which you use to interact with things - multi-touch interface takes that into account. Plus, information has traditionally been shown on a screen. How often do you hear the story of the newb trying to use the screen as a touch interface?
This guy spent £495 to annoy the shit out of you? Either you deserved this, or the guy is a complete prick, in the latter case, fight fire with fire. Get some _very_ large subwoofers, a good amp, and play a song like Hootchie Mama by 2 live crew, or if that's not your style, maybe something like "Superpredators" by Massive Attack.
Or, even if you don't like that, just find something with real spleen shattering bass and just blast it.
If you thought 8 was young, that's the just the average age of a child when they first get a mobile phone. That means that there are kids out there younger than 8 getting cell phones. How rediculous is that?
When one speaks such as this, one can't help but sound a little bit on the hoidy-toidy side. One does hope one doesn't speak like one did in one's review. One would be terribly bored with one speaking such as one did.;P
Seriously though, who writes like that anymore? I think I would have been a bit more interested in this review if there weren't so much "one this" and "one that". IANAEM (english major) but I don't think it's entirely appropriate to use "one" in a case such as this.
Terrorists can download.torrent files. And if terrorists can download.torrent files, then terrorists can obtain unlimited copies of material by Britney Spears, Kelly Clarkson, etc.
This will (obviously) lead to a greater hatred of America, and western culture in general.
I agree. We should gut this problem at it's source. Eliminate Pop Culture for the greater good of america! It's teaching terrorists how to be terrorists!
Automate the response -- it may sound like a bit more work, but I've tried it myself and in the long run it seems to work out well...
For instance, for a while I had to look up certain results in a DB for a user and it was happening so often I just created a web interface for them to look it up themselves -- granted, that's an easy fix and I probably should have had that in place in the beginning, but it cut down the amount of time spent trying to figure out why certain things were hooped by about 95%. Now, whenever my coworker contacts me, it's for issues that are most likely bugs and not for DB row queries.
I understand that your situation is not exactly the same as mine, and my condolences for any hardships you are enduring - But perhaps there might be a way to automate this tech support for this user?
Another thing would be to talk to your superviser above you and if he or she is a good supervisor, they'll recognize the issues and try to find a solution that works for you.
Finally, if all else fails, just feign ignorance and the user will probably find another poor sys admin to hassle... =P
I try to read as much documentation as I can. I also try to help out other newbies by giving them answers (if I know the answer), and also where you can find the answer (in the documentation).
I think this helps them out by giving them a good answer but then also showing them how to find other answers on their own.
No matter how often I've coded with people with differing levels of experience (sometimes I've been more experienced, sometimes the other way around) I find that being humble, while not entirely pleasing, gives a good experience for both parties involved no matter how l33t you are...
However, you cannot deny that "brainwash" is an unfortunate word to use in this circumstance. Maybe someone should get him some media training on what and how to say a lot of what he does want to say - I'm sure it would do his image a lot of good. Heck, get the guy that made Gates seem like a nice person - seems like a miracle worker!
I'm not a statistician, but from what I can recall from University, you only need a sufficiently representative group of people in order to have some valid statistics - this could mean that, if you had this group, you could probably poll less people and have a more representative statistic than with a larger group of people.
Granted, the more people you get the more representative it would probably get, but after a certain number of people, the error margin for the statistics become rediculously similar for larger increments of the polling group.
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Well what else are you going to do in canada?!
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It's cold, and it's warmer beside another body - you make the connection
No one on Slashdot is female. Anyone claiming to be female is lying.
I'm a lying female.
Don't you see? Now "Because God made it that way" becomes a viable answer on tests and examinations! School marks rise, America becomes a nation of high-grade students again. The problem of dropping grades has been solved with religious fascism!
Wow, interesting comment in that thread:i d=2467504
http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=22940&c
Choice quote:
"I don't see many sales in the future of iPod."
Completely wrong.
My mac frind now use winXP 99% of the time on his mac intel.
Hunh, that's funny, I know 3 mac guys who use OSX 100% of the time on their mac intels. That's 300% more people than your sample! Based upon your rigorous and scientifically valid statistical sampling and analysis of Mac users, and based upon my rigorous and scientifically valid statistical sampling and analysis of Mac users, I would have to disagree with you, and say that Mac OSX will be around for more than a year.
ldjaofp9 bpm ]ak e]-07 ... Why is it telling me to kill my neighbour's dog...? -_-;
That's Random???
Is anyone else annoyed at the amount of ads you have to see not just once, but _every_ time you have to view the "next" part of the webpage? This is the internet fer god's sake! Put all the content on one page or you're not getting my possible viewing revenue!
If news about a surge in PS2 sales comes as a surprise to anyone, the human gene pool is in need of a bit more chlorine.
That's a bit harsh, isn't it? I mean, so what if someone can't predict the software/hardware gaming - it's not like they need to be taken from the gene pool. How useful is a trait like predicting hardware or software sales - I doubt it's enough that if one doesn't have it they should be removed from the gene pool...
I'm certain it was posted here before for some other article, but I fail to see posts for this article that link to this?
Multi-touch interface is where it's at - personally, I wouldn't want to talk to my computer to get it to do something. The processing power can be put to much better use calculating a cure to cancer. Plus, it's an annoyance to everyone around, sure, it's cool in that Star Trek kind of way, but for constant use? No way man. It would suck having to tell your computer what to do - really.
Think about it, late at night, you want the computer to do something: "Find me porn" "Honey? What are you doing?", uh, yeah, that's not gonna fly.
Playing games: "shoot that creature there! Damnit! This is much too slow!".
Or programming: "int main bracket argh.. no. Delete. No. Delete del- ah screw it."
Or word processing: "Dear mom, fix aunt, delete that, delete that, delete that, select all, I think it's picking, I think it's picking up a bit of echo here, delete- select all" yeah, no. I think I'll stick with my multi-touch interface.
Multi-touch is completely natural and virtually no learning curve. We all have fingers or limbs, or feet, or noses or whatever else with which you use to interact with things - multi-touch interface takes that into account. Plus, information has traditionally been shown on a screen. How often do you hear the story of the newb trying to use the screen as a touch interface?
This guy spent £495 to annoy the shit out of you? Either you deserved this, or the guy is a complete prick, in the latter case, fight fire with fire. Get some _very_ large subwoofers, a good amp, and play a song like Hootchie Mama by 2 live crew, or if that's not your style, maybe something like "Superpredators" by Massive Attack.
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Or, even if you don't like that, just find something with real spleen shattering bass and just blast it.
Also, for those interested, I found a link to the mosquito sound here from an article at the Beeb here, also, another interesting turn-around:
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/05/24/kids_turn_te
Quite fascinating...
...accessories that range from a leather thong case (it's not what you think)...
What the hell?? It was exactly what I thought it was...? What was I supposed to think it was?
Am I perverted or is the writer of the article perverted?
If you thought 8 was young, that's the just the average age of a child when they first get a mobile phone. That means that there are kids out there younger than 8 getting cell phones. How rediculous is that?
When one speaks such as this, one can't help but sound a little bit on the hoidy-toidy side. One does hope one doesn't speak like one did in one's review. One would be terribly bored with one speaking such as one did. ;P
Seriously though, who writes like that anymore? I think I would have been a bit more interested in this review if there weren't so much "one this" and "one that". IANAEM (english major) but I don't think it's entirely appropriate to use "one" in a case such as this.
This means that in Europe, this guys would be really 1337 hax0rs :)
Or, maybe in, say Canada, where we use metric and where UBC happens to be.
6. Kuh-thool-hu-
AaaaaaAAAaaAAGHGKKKGK!
Terrorists can download .torrent files. And if terrorists can download .torrent files, then terrorists can obtain unlimited copies of material by Britney Spears, Kelly Clarkson, etc.
This will (obviously) lead to a greater hatred of America, and western culture in general.
I agree. We should gut this problem at it's source. Eliminate Pop Culture for the greater good of america! It's teaching terrorists how to be terrorists!
Make of that what you will.
From TFA: ...believes the robotic tentacles could perhaps one day be used to create a robotic octopus or even a backpack with extra limbs....
Is anybody even reading this? Where are the Doc Ock references? Entertain me dammit!
Automate the response -- it may sound like a bit more work, but I've tried it myself and in the long run it seems to work out well...
For instance, for a while I had to look up certain results in a DB for a user and it was happening so often I just created a web interface for them to look it up themselves -- granted, that's an easy fix and I probably should have had that in place in the beginning, but it cut down the amount of time spent trying to figure out why certain things were hooped by about 95%. Now, whenever my coworker contacts me, it's for issues that are most likely bugs and not for DB row queries.
I understand that your situation is not exactly the same as mine, and my condolences for any hardships you are enduring - But perhaps there might be a way to automate this tech support for this user?
Another thing would be to talk to your superviser above you and if he or she is a good supervisor, they'll recognize the issues and try to find a solution that works for you.
Finally, if all else fails, just feign ignorance and the user will probably find another poor sys admin to hassle... =P
Don't you mean Simon CowboyNeal?
I try to read as much documentation as I can. I also try to help out other newbies by giving them answers (if I know the answer), and also where you can find the answer (in the documentation).
I think this helps them out by giving them a good answer but then also showing them how to find other answers on their own.
After all, knowledge is meant to be shared.
I found this neato LED interface the other day from hackaday
Some more links to projects like this can be found on the story on hackaday.
No matter how often I've coded with people with differing levels of experience (sometimes I've been more experienced, sometimes the other way around) I find that being humble, while not entirely pleasing, gives a good experience for both parties involved no matter how l33t you are...
...becuase you'll always forget a semicolon.
However, you cannot deny that "brainwash" is an unfortunate word to use in this circumstance. Maybe someone should get him some media training on what and how to say a lot of what he does want to say - I'm sure it would do his image a lot of good. Heck, get the guy that made Gates seem like a nice person - seems like a miracle worker!
I'm not a statistician, but from what I can recall from University, you only need a sufficiently representative group of people in order to have some valid statistics - this could mean that, if you had this group, you could probably poll less people and have a more representative statistic than with a larger group of people.
Granted, the more people you get the more representative it would probably get, but after a certain number of people, the error margin for the statistics become rediculously similar for larger increments of the polling group.
Anyone care to correct me on this?
Maybe it's because they have more disposable income to spend on the iTunes music store?