"Name one communist system that was based on free dissemination of knowledge."
You are confusing communism with Stalinism and Maoism. They are totalitarianist regimes, not communism.
And the previous post didn't say "free dissemination of knowledge", he said "the make it free to everyone approach" which applies to all resources, not just knowledge. This is the cornerstone of true communist thought. But there are no true communist countries in the world.
"20 years after death, and then any kids will be adults..."
My first thought at reading this was,"But what if my wife has another of my kids 10 years after I die?" Meant as a sarcastic joke, of course.
But then I thought about artificial insemination. A lot of guys who get vasectomies have their sperm saved first, just in case. Guys who have testicular cancer do it too. Save the seed in case they want to use it in the future. So what if an author had some sperm frozen, but then died soon, and his wife decided 15 years later to use the sperm to have another child? (Say she was only 20 years old when he died.) This kid only gets 4 or 5 years of the copyright protection from his father's works.
Very implausible situation, I know, but I am giving it to show why it is not a good idea to tie any time limit to specific interests, other that the author's own.
Bart: Dad, remember those self-hypnosis courses we took to help us ignore Grampa?
Homer: Do I ever! It's five years later and I _still_ think I'm a chicken. I'm a chicken, Marge!
Marge: I know, I know.
Bart: Maybe we should be listening to him now.
(Since the other replies seem to have missed the obvious allusion to the Simpsons)
Doesn't matter who was driving, or that they were stopped. She spilled very hot liquid in her lap, because she was a moron who tried to open a cup of that very hot liquid while holding it in/over her lap.
And I know several people who still use coffee pots to make coffee. Not those coffee-makers that warm up the water as it pours it over the grounds, and not the microwave to make warm water to spoon instant coffee into. Real percolating coffee pots. Guess what makes it percolate. Boiling water inside the coffee pot, which releases oxygen, which is captured by an inverted funnel to be sent up a vertical pipe to the top of the coffee pot, pushing the boiling-hot water above it up that same pipe, said water to be splashed over the coffee grounds. The important detail here is if the water is not boiling, this doesn't work. So that water is well over 200 degree Fahrenheit, possibly over 212 degrees, since it has coffee matter dissolved in it, and this can raise the boiling point by several degrees.
And people take this boiling pot off the heat, pour the coffee into their cup, and drink it. They usually manage to do this without sueing anyone.
So 700 people burned by McDonald's coffee in a decade is not worth worrying about, considering how many millions of cups of coffee they served that didn't cause burns.
Now if there are people burned because the lid wasn't on tight, and the coffee spilled out, or the cup collapsed when the person held it, that would be worthy of sueing. But not because this lady thought removing the lid from very hot coffee was a good idea.
The 30 Secrets of Atari mentions one of the game designers, Warren Robinett, secretly signing a game, because the company policy was to have "no author credit for game designers." The statement finishes, "The popularity of Robinett's "easter egg" prompted Atari to release future games with similar surprises deliberately inserted."
Is this the first recorded easter egg in software? Or were there prior ones?
Sorry to point it out to you, but your post had a minor inaccuracy.
The quote actually was:
"I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky."
I remember the commentary about it on some news or talk show. Clinton defines 'sexual relations' to mean sexual intercourse, his penis inside her vagina. But they never admitted to having sexual intercourse, only foreplay type stuff, blowjob, handjob, using a cigar as a sex toy, and of course, leaving the evidence on her blue dress. But those things aren't 'sexual relations' in his mind, so he didn't lie about it in that quote.
Now, whether he was informing Ms. Lewinsky about a third party or not is up to you.:^)
Sorry, I just recieved my patent for the procedure: How to alleviate the feeling of worthiness in persons who have managed to control their spending, by the application of social engineering upon their gullibility quotient.
But if you want, I can license it to you for 25% of your net income from such an endeavor.
Or if you turn in your ballot for Al Gore, it's rejected and the note says:
"Sorry, but a majority of the Supreme Court can actually read the Constitution, and all the ambulance-chasing lawyers in the world can't change that fact."
Yes, you're right. The neediest people don't have computers, so why have these web sites that are aimed at helping those who have computers and spare money to invest? Of course the neediest don't have cars either, so let's rip up all the highways since they don't benefit everyone, just the select few who have their own mode of transportation.
Face it, the government helps people avoid stupid choices. How much money has been spent on anti-smoking ads? I would much rather have $500,000 spent on these websites, which help prevent uninformed people from giving their life savings to a con artist, instead of spending even just $100,000 spent on helping prevent INFORMED people from spending $10 a week of their money on a legitimate product, made by a legitimate company, which by the way employs thousands, and pays millions in tax dollars.
(Note: I am not involved in the tobacco industry, or its legal teams, and I do not smoke, and never have. Tobacco smoke aggrevates my asthma, and makes it hard for me to breath. Yet, they make a legal product, which people can use if they choose to, knowing full well that it is not healthy. And if you want a smoke-free restaurant, go to one. Let the restaurant owners decide if their customer can smoke inside or not. When my wife and I go out to dinner, we can choose to go to a non-smoking restaurant, or one with a smoking area. The one we normally go to has a smoking area, and better food.)
No, the stock market is of concern to many people who dropped out of their business major course in college to pursue the dotcom bubble, and who now have little money, but are still investing for their future.
Design a website with "telltale signs of online investment fraud" and watch how many idiots still try to invest thru it. Then have a warning about how they could have been scammed, but they are lucky Big Brother was looking out for them, and it's not real. Then use the info they gave you to drain their bank accounts, and send an email to them, From: SEC, saying so long, and thanks for all the fish.
If they even comprehend what happened, they will blame the government, since we all know it's full of crooks anyway.
Yeah, first let's boikot KFC until they tell us the 11 secret spices that make their chicken taste to good. How dare they keep that a corporate secret? I want to be able to impress my friends with my ability to hack fried chicken at home, but I just can't figure out what ingredients they use. They better make the recipe open source soon.
Sorry for previous post's attitude. It's just you took the post way to seriously, since it was just a joke. And I honestly have no idea how long it takes to render a scene using CG. I was looking at the concept more from a consumer point of view. "Well my DVD player renders the scene as the movie plays, so that's a 1 for 1 time ratio." My only knowledge of rendering that stuff is from watching "The Maing Of..." type shows. And they don't get into much detail.
First, you must have missed the fact that I was making a joke.
Second, I never said anything about computer generated scenes.
Third if a Pentium 4 can't render a 1-second long cg scene within 5 seconds, that would make for a very long movie. "The second frame of the film was beautiful, but I missed the third frame because I had to use the bathroom, because of that large soft drink I had during the rendering of the first frame." I guess I'm reading it wrong, because it seems you should be able to render a 5 second scene in 5 seconds. But that's not my point.
Fourth, my point was to make a joke.
Fifth, the joke was, that the solution was simply to replace a verrrrrry slow system with a much faster new system. Obviously, no one would post the question that shawarma did, on Slashdot, if they were using a 286 PC as a server. But if someone is using a 286 PC as a server, and a process takes several weeks to complete, and they upgraded to a Pentium 4 class system, the same process would be done very soon.
(God, does that sound like something from "My Cousin Vinny"?)
That's right. I would never hire anyone who doesn't walk into my office with a professionally designed and printed résumé, with a proper cover letter, in a hand-engraved envelope addressed to myself. And all the papers better be the exact right color, none of that generic white stock. I don't care if he lives in Kansas and is applying to my office in New York, he had better hand deliver that résumé personally, or I won't even think to look at it. If they are too lazy to travel 1000 miles, why would I want to hire them?
Do you realize how pompous your post sounded? While a nicely done paper résumé is impressive, there are so many variations on how they are supposed to be done, that it's ridiculous. Am I supposed to be terse, with bulleted one-liners, or am I supposed to state job functions and explain my duties, responsibilities, and achievements? What about the cover letter? How can I possibly say something unique that pertains to this exchange, when everyone and their cousin is also sending the exact same thing? And again, is it supposed to be short and to the point, or more verbose and explanatory?
Take a look at the job-search sites, or books. They all say to tailor résumés and cover letters to the company, but how are we supposed to know the company wants it to be done? That is why I say your post is pompous, when you say people have to be "willing to go to all the trouble of actually doing it right." Define 'right', and I will waste another $50 on the 'right' paper, 'right' cover letter wording, 'right' résumé, 'right' everything else that goes along with it. Next time. Thankfully I do have a job now.
If someone sends a resume in email to a company, especially a company that produces or services computer products, it should carry as much weight as any paper resume. Imagine if a computer software company decided it wouldn't hire anyone who was too uneducated to send a proper email resume. After all if they are too stupid to know how to use a computer and the Internet, then that company surely doesn't want them as employees.
Personally, I think the whole process is a bunch of crap. Someone applying for a job, at anything smaller than a worldwide company with a million employees, should contact someone at a company any way possible. And that someone shouldn't be the HR manager, unless the person is looking for work in the HR department. A computer tech should contact a manager in the IT department. Then if there is a job opening that matches the person's skills and preferences, there can be further dialog. If not, the person can be told so directly. No more of this canned response, "We have received your application, and will file it...."
There are only two arguments against this. One is that it's not appropriate. See my first paragraph on what some people see as appropriate. The second argument is that it would waste so much of someone's time, answering 100 job requests each day. But those job requests are coming to someone at those companies right now anyway. There is just a department dedicated to fielding them. Imagine if you could cut your HR department out entirely, and just add a few more personnel to the other sections to handle the increase in correspondense they would get. These few more personnel would of course be working in those sections when they weren't answering job requests, so they would be more productive than the HR department staff would be when they aren't answering job requests. I know this will never be implemented, and it's only half thought out, but it sounds better than the crap people have to go through nowadays, just to find work to put food on their table and pay rent.
Nevermind, we found a better solution.
We upgraded our 80286 server with 1MB of RAM to a Pentium 4 with 1GB of RAM.
We ran the computation again again, and it finished in about 5 seconds.
Thanks. Like I said, not an expert. But your explanation helps a little. The other posts above mine seemed a little light on the technical detail aspect.
I remembered that V=IR, so I was wondering how their "experiments" would change the values of Amps and Ohms, and if it was even possible. Like limejuice asked, "How exactly does one "stick 200W" through a light bulb? "
Of course, I never could get the instructor to explain why we multiply current by resistance to get voltage, then multiply voltage by current to get power. Basically we square the Amps and multiply by the Ohms to get Watts. Seems easier to me to understand that way. He just looked a little puzzled when I asked, then kept reading to us out of the textbook. But that's another story.
I was wondering about that myself. I'm no electrical engineer, but I have had training in electrical circuits, AC and DC.
Watts are simply the amount of power when you multiply the Voltage by the Amperage. So a 60 Watt light bulb, when in a 120 Volt socket, will have only a 0.5 Amp current running thru it. Or that is what is sounds like it should be. What would happen with a lightbulb if you had it in a 120 Volt socket, and pushed 1.0 Amps at it? (Don't ask me how, I'm just supposing here.)
Maybe using the correct ratio of Volts to Amps would let you have a 100Watt bulb using 1500 Watts of power. Like a 1500 Volt potential, at 1 Amp, or vice versa. But I think it would burn out, if not immediately, then within a few minutes.
"free enterprize is the leaders because they are accountable to real economics."
Then why is Dilbert so popular?
Many companies plod on for years with bad management and low-grade products. It doesn't always mean they will fail. Many dot-com companies had great ideas for products, but failed anyway. Some where spectacular, but were sucked down just from being around all the others that were failing. Several people here on/. used to work for those places, and know more about it than I do.
While I do agree that the government does not have the same business sense as a Fortune500 company, it has a much better business plan and business footing than the failed dot-coms. They essentially either had neither, or only one of the two. So when the bubble burst in early 2000, and investors started looking closer, they pulled out of many of them, and many disappeared.
Retraining Class Day 1-
OK people, here is an example of your computer running Windows98. To use it, you turn it on by pressing this button.... Now, type your name and password.... Now double click on the icon for Word/Excel/CustomBuiltProgram.
Now here is an example of your computer running Linux. To use it, you turn it on by pressing this button.... Now, type your name and password.... Now double click on the icon for Word/Excel/CustomBuiltProgram.
Why do people think it is so much harder to use Linux than Windows? Granted, they would have a hard time loading Slackware 2 from twenty diskettes, ("Shit, I forgot which is the boot disk, and whick is the root disk.") but get real. Professional computer experts will load and configure the computer, install programs, network everything, and leave it ready for the user. The user just has to point and click.
And ever see a user try to load Windows on a computer. Most of them are lost immediately. Which is to be expected, because it is not what they are familiar with. Give me a map and compass, drop me into the Amazon Rainforest, and I will be lost immediately too. But that Crocodile Hunter guy on TV would figure out where he is, and start walking. Might take him a week, but he would find his way out, while I would still be trying to reboot the compass.
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"Name one communist system that was based on free dissemination of knowledge."
You are confusing communism with Stalinism and Maoism. They are totalitarianist regimes, not communism.
And the previous post didn't say "free dissemination of knowledge", he said "the make it free to everyone approach" which applies to all resources, not just knowledge. This is the cornerstone of true communist thought. But there are no true communist countries in the world.
"20 years after death, and then any kids will be adults..."
My first thought at reading this was,"But what if my wife has another of my kids 10 years after I die?" Meant as a sarcastic joke, of course.
But then I thought about artificial insemination. A lot of guys who get vasectomies have their sperm saved first, just in case. Guys who have testicular cancer do it too. Save the seed in case they want to use it in the future. So what if an author had some sperm frozen, but then died soon, and his wife decided 15 years later to use the sperm to have another child? (Say she was only 20 years old when he died.) This kid only gets 4 or 5 years of the copyright protection from his father's works.
Very implausible situation, I know, but I am giving it to show why it is not a good idea to tie any time limit to specific interests, other that the author's own.
Bart: Dad, remember those self-hypnosis courses we took to help us ignore Grampa?
Homer: Do I ever! It's five years later and I _still_ think I'm a chicken. I'm a chicken, Marge!
Marge: I know, I know.
Bart: Maybe we should be listening to him now.
(Since the other replies seem to have missed the obvious allusion to the Simpsons)
Hey, I didn't know that Attorney General John "Rocco" Ashcroft was from Sicily. And he doesn't look that tall on TV either.
"I can finally have a PC to perform even the humblest of tasks anytime, anywhere, "
;^)
Wait, that's why I got a wife.
"Now, was she really a moron?"
Yes.
Doesn't matter who was driving, or that they were stopped. She spilled very hot liquid in her lap, because she was a moron who tried to open a cup of that very hot liquid while holding it in/over her lap.
And I know several people who still use coffee pots to make coffee. Not those coffee-makers that warm up the water as it pours it over the grounds, and not the microwave to make warm water to spoon instant coffee into. Real percolating coffee pots. Guess what makes it percolate. Boiling water inside the coffee pot, which releases oxygen, which is captured by an inverted funnel to be sent up a vertical pipe to the top of the coffee pot, pushing the boiling-hot water above it up that same pipe, said water to be splashed over the coffee grounds. The important detail here is if the water is not boiling, this doesn't work. So that water is well over 200 degree Fahrenheit, possibly over 212 degrees, since it has coffee matter dissolved in it, and this can raise the boiling point by several degrees.
And people take this boiling pot off the heat, pour the coffee into their cup, and drink it. They usually manage to do this without sueing anyone.
So 700 people burned by McDonald's coffee in a decade is not worth worrying about, considering how many millions of cups of coffee they served that didn't cause burns.
Now if there are people burned because the lid wasn't on tight, and the coffee spilled out, or the cup collapsed when the person held it, that would be worthy of sueing. But not because this lady thought removing the lid from very hot coffee was a good idea.
The 30 Secrets of Atari mentions one of the game designers, Warren Robinett, secretly signing a game, because the company policy was to have "no author credit for game designers." The statement finishes, "The popularity of Robinett's "easter egg" prompted Atari to release future games with similar surprises deliberately inserted."
Is this the first recorded easter egg in software? Or were there prior ones?
Sorry to point it out to you, but your post had a minor inaccuracy.
:^)
The quote actually was:
"I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky."
I remember the commentary about it on some news or talk show. Clinton defines 'sexual relations' to mean sexual intercourse, his penis inside her vagina. But they never admitted to having sexual intercourse, only foreplay type stuff, blowjob, handjob, using a cigar as a sex toy, and of course, leaving the evidence on her blue dress. But those things aren't 'sexual relations' in his mind, so he didn't lie about it in that quote.
Now, whether he was informing Ms. Lewinsky about a third party or not is up to you.
Sorry, I just recieved my patent for the procedure: How to alleviate the feeling of worthiness in persons who have managed to control their spending, by the application of social engineering upon their gullibility quotient.
But if you want, I can license it to you for 25% of your net income from such an endeavor.
Or if you turn in your ballot for Al Gore, it's rejected and the note says:
"Sorry, but a majority of the Supreme Court can actually read the Constitution, and all the ambulance-chasing lawyers in the world can't change that fact."
By the way, I wonder how his restaurant is doing.
Yes, you're right. The neediest people don't have computers, so why have these web sites that are aimed at helping those who have computers and spare money to invest? Of course the neediest don't have cars either, so let's rip up all the highways since they don't benefit everyone, just the select few who have their own mode of transportation.
Face it, the government helps people avoid stupid choices. How much money has been spent on anti-smoking ads? I would much rather have $500,000 spent on these websites, which help prevent uninformed people from giving their life savings to a con artist, instead of spending even just $100,000 spent on helping prevent INFORMED people from spending $10 a week of their money on a legitimate product, made by a legitimate company, which by the way employs thousands, and pays millions in tax dollars.
(Note: I am not involved in the tobacco industry, or its legal teams, and I do not smoke, and never have. Tobacco smoke aggrevates my asthma, and makes it hard for me to breath. Yet, they make a legal product, which people can use if they choose to, knowing full well that it is not healthy. And if you want a smoke-free restaurant, go to one. Let the restaurant owners decide if their customer can smoke inside or not. When my wife and I go out to dinner, we can choose to go to a non-smoking restaurant, or one with a smoking area. The one we normally go to has a smoking area, and better food.)
Well, it's the thought that counts. Thanks.
I just wonder how many people have read it and thought I was serious.
No, the stock market is of concern to many people who dropped out of their business major course in college to pursue the dotcom bubble, and who now have little money, but are still investing for their future.
Design a website with "telltale signs of online investment fraud" and watch how many idiots still try to invest thru it. Then have a warning about how they could have been scammed, but they are lucky Big Brother was looking out for them, and it's not real. Then use the info they gave you to drain their bank accounts, and send an email to them, From: SEC, saying so long, and thanks for all the fish.
If they even comprehend what happened, they will blame the government, since we all know it's full of crooks anyway.
Yeah, first let's boikot KFC until they tell us the 11 secret spices that make their chicken taste to good. How dare they keep that a corporate secret? I want to be able to impress my friends with my ability to hack fried chicken at home, but I just can't figure out what ingredients they use. They better make the recipe open source soon.
And then there's Coke and Mountain Dew....
Sorry for previous post's attitude. It's just you took the post way to seriously, since it was just a joke. And I honestly have no idea how long it takes to render a scene using CG. I was looking at the concept more from a consumer point of view. "Well my DVD player renders the scene as the movie plays, so that's a 1 for 1 time ratio." My only knowledge of rendering that stuff is from watching "The Maing Of..." type shows. And they don't get into much detail.
First, you must have missed the fact that I was making a joke.
Second, I never said anything about computer generated scenes.
Third if a Pentium 4 can't render a 1-second long cg scene within 5 seconds, that would make for a very long movie. "The second frame of the film was beautiful, but I missed the third frame because I had to use the bathroom, because of that large soft drink I had during the rendering of the first frame." I guess I'm reading it wrong, because it seems you should be able to render a 5 second scene in 5 seconds. But that's not my point.
Fourth, my point was to make a joke.
Fifth, the joke was, that the solution was simply to replace a verrrrrry slow system with a much faster new system. Obviously, no one would post the question that shawarma did, on Slashdot, if they were using a 286 PC as a server. But if someone is using a 286 PC as a server, and a process takes several weeks to complete, and they upgraded to a Pentium 4 class system, the same process would be done very soon.
(God, does that sound like something from "My Cousin Vinny"?)
That's right. I would never hire anyone who doesn't walk into my office with a professionally designed and printed résumé, with a proper cover letter, in a hand-engraved envelope addressed to myself. And all the papers better be the exact right color, none of that generic white stock. I don't care if he lives in Kansas and is applying to my office in New York, he had better hand deliver that résumé personally, or I won't even think to look at it. If they are too lazy to travel 1000 miles, why would I want to hire them?
Do you realize how pompous your post sounded? While a nicely done paper résumé is impressive, there are so many variations on how they are supposed to be done, that it's ridiculous. Am I supposed to be terse, with bulleted one-liners, or am I supposed to state job functions and explain my duties, responsibilities, and achievements? What about the cover letter? How can I possibly say something unique that pertains to this exchange, when everyone and their cousin is also sending the exact same thing? And again, is it supposed to be short and to the point, or more verbose and explanatory?
Take a look at the job-search sites, or books. They all say to tailor résumés and cover letters to the company, but how are we supposed to know the company wants it to be done? That is why I say your post is pompous, when you say people have to be "willing to go to all the trouble of actually doing it right." Define 'right', and I will waste another $50 on the 'right' paper, 'right' cover letter wording, 'right' résumé, 'right' everything else that goes along with it. Next time. Thankfully I do have a job now.
If someone sends a resume in email to a company, especially a company that produces or services computer products, it should carry as much weight as any paper resume. Imagine if a computer software company decided it wouldn't hire anyone who was too uneducated to send a proper email resume. After all if they are too stupid to know how to use a computer and the Internet, then that company surely doesn't want them as employees.
Personally, I think the whole process is a bunch of crap. Someone applying for a job, at anything smaller than a worldwide company with a million employees, should contact someone at a company any way possible. And that someone shouldn't be the HR manager, unless the person is looking for work in the HR department. A computer tech should contact a manager in the IT department. Then if there is a job opening that matches the person's skills and preferences, there can be further dialog. If not, the person can be told so directly. No more of this canned response, "We have received your application, and will file it...."
There are only two arguments against this. One is that it's not appropriate. See my first paragraph on what some people see as appropriate. The second argument is that it would waste so much of someone's time, answering 100 job requests each day. But those job requests are coming to someone at those companies right now anyway. There is just a department dedicated to fielding them. Imagine if you could cut your HR department out entirely, and just add a few more personnel to the other sections to handle the increase in correspondense they would get. These few more personnel would of course be working in those sections when they weren't answering job requests, so they would be more productive than the HR department staff would be when they aren't answering job requests. I know this will never be implemented, and it's only half thought out, but it sounds better than the crap people have to go through nowadays, just to find work to put food on their table and pay rent.
Nevermind, we found a better solution.
We upgraded our 80286 server with 1MB of RAM to a Pentium 4 with 1GB of RAM.
We ran the computation again again, and it finished in about 5 seconds.
Thanks. Like I said, not an expert. But your explanation helps a little. The other posts above mine seemed a little light on the technical detail aspect.
I remembered that V=IR, so I was wondering how their "experiments" would change the values of Amps and Ohms, and if it was even possible. Like limejuice asked, "How exactly does one "stick 200W" through a light bulb? "
Of course, I never could get the instructor to explain why we multiply current by resistance to get voltage, then multiply voltage by current to get power. Basically we square the Amps and multiply by the Ohms to get Watts. Seems easier to me to understand that way. He just looked a little puzzled when I asked, then kept reading to us out of the textbook. But that's another story.
I was wondering about that myself. I'm no electrical engineer, but I have had training in electrical circuits, AC and DC.
Watts are simply the amount of power when you multiply the Voltage by the Amperage. So a 60 Watt light bulb, when in a 120 Volt socket, will have only a 0.5 Amp current running thru it. Or that is what is sounds like it should be. What would happen with a lightbulb if you had it in a 120 Volt socket, and pushed 1.0 Amps at it? (Don't ask me how, I'm just supposing here.)
Maybe using the correct ratio of Volts to Amps would let you have a 100Watt bulb using 1500 Watts of power. Like a 1500 Volt potential, at 1 Amp, or vice versa. But I think it would burn out, if not immediately, then within a few minutes.
You're going to burn in Hell for spelling God's nickname wrong.
And her husband, Uncle Joe, thinks the kernel is the guy who makes all that fried chicken.
"free enterprize is the leaders because they are accountable to real economics."
/. used to work for those places, and know more about it than I do.
Then why is Dilbert so popular?
Many companies plod on for years with bad management and low-grade products. It doesn't always mean they will fail. Many dot-com companies had great ideas for products, but failed anyway. Some where spectacular, but were sucked down just from being around all the others that were failing. Several people here on
While I do agree that the government does not have the same business sense as a Fortune500 company, it has a much better business plan and business footing than the failed dot-coms. They essentially either had neither, or only one of the two. So when the bubble burst in early 2000, and investors started looking closer, they pulled out of many of them, and many disappeared.
Retraining Class Day 1- ... Now, type your name and password. ... Now double click on the icon for Word/Excel/CustomBuiltProgram.
... Now, type your name and password. ... Now double click on the icon for Word/Excel/CustomBuiltProgram.
OK people, here is an example of your computer running Windows98. To use it, you turn it on by pressing this button.
Now here is an example of your computer running Linux. To use it, you turn it on by pressing this button.
Why do people think it is so much harder to use Linux than Windows? Granted, they would have a hard time loading Slackware 2 from twenty diskettes, ("Shit, I forgot which is the boot disk, and whick is the root disk.") but get real. Professional computer experts will load and configure the computer, install programs, network everything, and leave it ready for the user. The user just has to point and click.
And ever see a user try to load Windows on a computer. Most of them are lost immediately. Which is to be expected, because it is not what they are familiar with. Give me a map and compass, drop me into the Amazon Rainforest, and I will be lost immediately too. But that Crocodile Hunter guy on TV would figure out where he is, and start walking. Might take him a week, but he would find his way out, while I would still be trying to reboot the compass.