I grew up with the understanding that Geeks are people who simply love knowledge. That knowledge can come in the form of literature, arts, computers, tech, anime, movies, physics, math, biology, etc. A geek is someone who fully immerses him/herself in the information of a topic.
When you see someone on the internet suggesting that college is a waste of time, there should be no assumption that the person is a geek at all-- just a person with computer literacy sufficient to post a comment.
Wow... severely overrated post! School definitely promotes the growth and treasuring of intellect and if you've experienced otherwise recently, then you've had a very bad school experience. (Note: "School" is the institution and educators, not the kids.)
Anyone who loves learning does it EVERYWHERE HUMANLY POSSIBLE. That means in school and out.
I almost agree. If there were a wage increase, Apple (and most other companies) would do their best to find another reliable and exploitable people. If that can't be found, only then would they seek skilled labor to oversee automated operations... but even then, it would be cheaper to run such plants overseas due to taxes, cost of land, cost of skilled labor, etc.
Well, or they could reduce their own profit margins so the product could still be "affordable" to local consumers and be made in the USA. But, really, what company would do that?
Oddly enough, this is historically correct. I'd mod you up if I had points.
It doesn't make it right or good, but regions (not nations) have been shown to go through industrial and economic changes in roughly the same pattern:
1) Dominance/Slavery/Colonialism 2) Once dominance becomes too unsavory or colonialism becomes too dangerous, enter "Exploitative Industrialism" (China is here.) 3) Once wealth has been spread sufficiently to empower the majority, reliable Workers' Rights comes in. 4) After Workers' Rights prevents the exploitation of local labor, companies find international sources of labor to exploit. (The "1st World" is here.) 5) ??? We're all hoping this will be "Automation becomes main labor source and the profits are shared with those that would otherwise be working in the form of social welfare and education..." but it will likely be "Automation makes things ever more profitable, people laid off, economy slides because no one has income, company fails."
And there you have your outliers that got famous because they did amazing work while young... now name all the people who did great things after the age of 30.
Ya, you'll see that the "after-30" crowd blows away the "young" crowd. Young people doing great things surprises people because it's not expected of them.
Maybe because it's a genuine rarity. Older, more knowledge professionals make more scientific progress than young people. When young people, who are otherwise assumed to be worthless or even detrimental to society do something to progress academia or society, it's a notable event.
There *are* professionals in the food industry. They cook and eat foods *critically* all the time. There are professional restaurant reviews, too.
Again, there is nothing regarding superiority in either of my posts. You read superiority where I write "misrepresentation".
You also contradict your own reasoning by both saying that you have never (nor will ever) look at Yelp and that there is no Yelp review that is detrimental to businesses. How can you make such a judgment with no experience?
The recourse with an editor publishing a letter is that the business can write the editor as a response-- that response is traditionally printed in the next issue. If someone's posting flyers about your business, then you can sue for libel. However a *review* is handled differently.
If someone complained about the food at your restaurant to your face, that's a non-issue (as you describe). But if they base the entirety of their review and rating off a single experience which may have been generally good, but not exactly to their preferences even *you* would consider that an irrational review... but those reviews are given the same weight as fully rational ones.
You say you would "FIX THE PROBLEM", but what if there's no measurable problem aside from hyperbolic reviewers?
"judge their betters" "should mindlessly consume" "worthless, inferior opinions"
Were these statements invoked by my post? If so, I think you misread it.
I simply don't like that people can speak with such professional confidence without professional experience (or in situations that don't require professional critique) to the permanent visible detriment of a business. It's even worse when there is no allowable recourse from the business.
If you owned a small business (a diner, let's say), and some Yelp poster made a massive diatribe about how the scrambled eggs they received the one time they visited your establishment were "OMG WAY TO RUNNY" and gave you a 0/5 star rating, how would you feel?
Would you be angry that a one-time visitor's review will carry the exact same weight as a 3-year regular visitor? If you were to be angry, would you then automatically be considering that one-time visitor "uppity" and would you consider yourself his/her superior?
The bike shop is one of two under the same flag. They can't change the name just to attempt to get a fresh reputation.
And "for realz?" to the soggy lettuce comment. Are you allergic to soggy lettuce or something? I mean, that's REALLY picky. The people around me like to live in the facade of luxury, but I'm yet to see people go that far.
Yes -- They're just crippled PCs. And before you go off on the "everything is a crippled PC anymore" slant, streaming media players are much closer.
A slim, budget PC with a compact wireless keyboard/trackpad does everything a Roku can do and more. The main fallback is the over-building of PC which produces too much heat and requires active cooling. But PCs are slimming down further and further which will enable them to fully replace uni-tasking computers so long as the *perceived* learning gap can be defeated.
Clarification: As I said, it was under new *management*, not ownership. The owner has 2 shops, this being one. A new manager was hired. This business name could not change, but the small outfit/branch still has to live with the prior management's ratings.
Indeed. People love railing against "The Man", but their lack of perspective as it pertains to the genuine victims (the users) is disgusting and despicable. Sony will come out unharmed (minus a couple million dollars), but there is going to a massive rash of identity theft which will empty private citizens bank accounts, destroy credit, and likely ruin lives.
But these jerks keep on like they're cheering on Robin Hood or something. The rich are well-insulated. The norms of the world will be bearing the real weight of these crimes.
While I don't agree with such contracts, I really can understand why doctors would want to use them.
Back in the day (5-10 years ago), most doctor reviews were tempered by face-to-face interaction. "Hey Bill, how's your dentist?" -- "He's alright. Just ask to get gassed and all dentists are good, am I right?"
But come the internet with pseudonymity (or at least obscurity), people have deemed themselves connoisseurs of consumption-- veritable professional critics of the utterly mundane.
Yelp houses an asinine number of these people who will judge an entire business (small, large, chain, etc.) on single experiences. Their words will be filled with praise or disdain. Hate or Love. They photograph EVERYTHING, photograph and compare perfect omelets, critique the crispness of lettuce in salads, comfort of chairs in waiting rooms, and even banter of workers.
They scrutinize everything mundane because the quality of service and products are so similar, there's NOTHING TO TALK ABOUT otherwise. They polarize their opinions with "Avoid this place!!!" and "YOU MUST TRY THIS PLACE OUT!" and given the following on sites like Yelp, it actually affects business.
And it's not as though histories of reviews can be wiped. I know of one small bike shop that was, understandably, railed for its elitist attitudes towards budget bikes. When new management came in (bike hippy instead of Lycra-rider), the Bike Shop itself changed, but it still had to fight 3 years of bad reviews on Yelp.
I really don't blame doctors for attempting this route. There are better ways to go about it, though.
This information is great for overwhelming business owners with unsolicited consultant proposals!
A advertising/marketing/efficiency/etc. consultant can use all those useless measurements, make assertions about their implications, write a fancy lingo-ridden cold-call proposal (synergize your cost potentials!), and get a contract. It's great for (their) business.
I went from 1280x1024 native to 1920x1080 native on a Black Friday two years ago. I got the two new matte monitors for ~$90 each. Given that there was no 1920x1200 of comparable value, I went with the 1080s.
Of course "matte" will win in a survey of people who read a PC magazine or frequent PC sites. They know what they want and why they want it. Survey people running around Best Buy looking for a new email machine and they'll want shiny because shiny = new and new = representative of affluence (but not class). Just look at the stylings of kitchen and bathroom fixtures, appliances, and wares.
Note that these less-knowledgeable shiny-mongers also think that their monitors are no longer good when their "computers slow down" (thus requiring them to buy new ones) and don't reuse those monitors for newer builds. They toss it out or give it away only to buy another.
They should have also asked of the audience, "How frequently do you purchase new monitors?" and "Where do you buy them?"
The PATRIOT act doesn't allow, enable, or enact legislation that allows for ruling or governance with unlimited power. It is not a form of "tyranny". Suggesting so oversimplifies the problem and immediately polarizes what should be a well-thought-out discussion. Good and Evil, Tyranny and Freedom -- these are not the vocabulary of civil servants and legislation. They are the words of politics.
The USA PATRIOT Act is a major encroachment onto the guaranteed rights of all people in America (citizens and visitors) and such encroachments, if not severely limited in their durations, become permanent erosions.
Chicano is a specific, self-labeling of national/cultural/political identity for Mexican-Americans. It grew in use during the Civil Rights and Black Power movements. When Black/African-American people started adopting those terms instead of "negro", south western people of latin/o decent stated using "Chicano" for self-identity.
"Chicano Pride", "Chicano Power" -- these were calls of identity amongst the Mexican-Americans of the time and the word continue to have significance today.
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I grew up with the understanding that Geeks are people who simply love knowledge. That knowledge can come in the form of literature, arts, computers, tech, anime, movies, physics, math, biology, etc. A geek is someone who fully immerses him/herself in the information of a topic.
When you see someone on the internet suggesting that college is a waste of time, there should be no assumption that the person is a geek at all-- just a person with computer literacy sufficient to post a comment.
Wow... severely overrated post! School definitely promotes the growth and treasuring of intellect and if you've experienced otherwise recently, then you've had a very bad school experience. (Note: "School" is the institution and educators, not the kids.)
Anyone who loves learning does it EVERYWHERE HUMANLY POSSIBLE. That means in school and out.
I almost agree. If there were a wage increase, Apple (and most other companies) would do their best to find another reliable and exploitable people. If that can't be found, only then would they seek skilled labor to oversee automated operations... but even then, it would be cheaper to run such plants overseas due to taxes, cost of land, cost of skilled labor, etc.
Well, or they could reduce their own profit margins so the product could still be "affordable" to local consumers and be made in the USA. But, really, what company would do that?
Oddly enough, this is historically correct. I'd mod you up if I had points.
It doesn't make it right or good, but regions (not nations) have been shown to go through industrial and economic changes in roughly the same pattern:
1) Dominance/Slavery/Colonialism
2) Once dominance becomes too unsavory or colonialism becomes too dangerous, enter "Exploitative Industrialism" (China is here.)
3) Once wealth has been spread sufficiently to empower the majority, reliable Workers' Rights comes in.
4) After Workers' Rights prevents the exploitation of local labor, companies find international sources of labor to exploit. (The "1st World" is here.)
5) ??? We're all hoping this will be "Automation becomes main labor source and the profits are shared with those that would otherwise be working in the form of social welfare and education..." but it will likely be "Automation makes things ever more profitable, people laid off, economy slides because no one has income, company fails."
Not exactly, but Sci Fi shows are rarely cut for costs. It's always ratings. And those ratings depend on day/time slots.
And there you have your outliers that got famous because they did amazing work while young... now name all the people who did great things after the age of 30.
Ya, you'll see that the "after-30" crowd blows away the "young" crowd. Young people doing great things surprises people because it's not expected of them.
Like Linux users need their egos stroked any more... ;)
Maybe because it's a genuine rarity. Older, more knowledge professionals make more scientific progress than young people. When young people, who are otherwise assumed to be worthless or even detrimental to society do something to progress academia or society, it's a notable event.
There *are* professionals in the food industry. They cook and eat foods *critically* all the time. There are professional restaurant reviews, too.
Again, there is nothing regarding superiority in either of my posts. You read superiority where I write "misrepresentation".
You also contradict your own reasoning by both saying that you have never (nor will ever) look at Yelp and that there is no Yelp review that is detrimental to businesses. How can you make such a judgment with no experience?
If you simply search online, you'll find plenty of business hating Yelp because of the impunity of reviewers there (here's one of many articles: http://www.dailydealmedia.com/905restaurant-owners-say-sites-like-groupon-and-yelp-are-bad-for-business/). You just may not understand how well-followed the site is and what kind of influence it has on potential business patrons.
The recourse with an editor publishing a letter is that the business can write the editor as a response-- that response is traditionally printed in the next issue. If someone's posting flyers about your business, then you can sue for libel. However a *review* is handled differently.
If someone complained about the food at your restaurant to your face, that's a non-issue (as you describe). But if they base the entirety of their review and rating off a single experience which may have been generally good, but not exactly to their preferences even *you* would consider that an irrational review... but those reviews are given the same weight as fully rational ones.
You say you would "FIX THE PROBLEM", but what if there's no measurable problem aside from hyperbolic reviewers?
"judge their betters"
"should mindlessly consume"
"worthless, inferior opinions"
Were these statements invoked by my post? If so, I think you misread it.
I simply don't like that people can speak with such professional confidence without professional experience (or in situations that don't require professional critique) to the permanent visible detriment of a business. It's even worse when there is no allowable recourse from the business.
If you owned a small business (a diner, let's say), and some Yelp poster made a massive diatribe about how the scrambled eggs they received the one time they visited your establishment were "OMG WAY TO RUNNY" and gave you a 0/5 star rating, how would you feel?
Would you be angry that a one-time visitor's review will carry the exact same weight as a 3-year regular visitor? If you were to be angry, would you then automatically be considering that one-time visitor "uppity" and would you consider yourself his/her superior?
The bike shop is one of two under the same flag. They can't change the name just to attempt to get a fresh reputation.
And "for realz?" to the soggy lettuce comment. Are you allergic to soggy lettuce or something? I mean, that's REALLY picky. The people around me like to live in the facade of luxury, but I'm yet to see people go that far.
Yes -- They're just crippled PCs. And before you go off on the "everything is a crippled PC anymore" slant, streaming media players are much closer.
A slim, budget PC with a compact wireless keyboard/trackpad does everything a Roku can do and more. The main fallback is the over-building of PC which produces too much heat and requires active cooling. But PCs are slimming down further and further which will enable them to fully replace uni-tasking computers so long as the *perceived* learning gap can be defeated.
Clarification: As I said, it was under new *management*, not ownership. The owner has 2 shops, this being one. A new manager was hired. This business name could not change, but the small outfit/branch still has to live with the prior management's ratings.
Indeed. People love railing against "The Man", but their lack of perspective as it pertains to the genuine victims (the users) is disgusting and despicable. Sony will come out unharmed (minus a couple million dollars), but there is going to a massive rash of identity theft which will empty private citizens bank accounts, destroy credit, and likely ruin lives.
But these jerks keep on like they're cheering on Robin Hood or something. The rich are well-insulated. The norms of the world will be bearing the real weight of these crimes.
While I don't agree with such contracts, I really can understand why doctors would want to use them.
Back in the day (5-10 years ago), most doctor reviews were tempered by face-to-face interaction. "Hey Bill, how's your dentist?" -- "He's alright. Just ask to get gassed and all dentists are good, am I right?"
But come the internet with pseudonymity (or at least obscurity), people have deemed themselves connoisseurs of consumption-- veritable professional critics of the utterly mundane.
Yelp houses an asinine number of these people who will judge an entire business (small, large, chain, etc.) on single experiences. Their words will be filled with praise or disdain. Hate or Love. They photograph EVERYTHING, photograph and compare perfect omelets, critique the crispness of lettuce in salads, comfort of chairs in waiting rooms, and even banter of workers.
They scrutinize everything mundane because the quality of service and products are so similar, there's NOTHING TO TALK ABOUT otherwise. They polarize their opinions with "Avoid this place!!!" and "YOU MUST TRY THIS PLACE OUT!" and given the following on sites like Yelp, it actually affects business.
And it's not as though histories of reviews can be wiped. I know of one small bike shop that was, understandably, railed for its elitist attitudes towards budget bikes. When new management came in (bike hippy instead of Lycra-rider), the Bike Shop itself changed, but it still had to fight 3 years of bad reviews on Yelp.
I really don't blame doctors for attempting this route. There are better ways to go about it, though.
Normally, I'd vomit at the sight of so many weasel words, but I saw what you were doing there and appreciate it. ;)
This information is great for overwhelming business owners with unsolicited consultant proposals!
A advertising/marketing/efficiency/etc. consultant can use all those useless measurements, make assertions about their implications, write a fancy lingo-ridden cold-call proposal (synergize your cost potentials!), and get a contract. It's great for (their) business.
I went from 1280x1024 native to 1920x1080 native on a Black Friday two years ago. I got the two new matte monitors for ~$90 each. Given that there was no 1920x1200 of comparable value, I went with the 1080s.
For the more expensive stuff, yes. The cheaper stuff, which is intended to appeal to the masses, is plastic and shiny.
Of course "matte" will win in a survey of people who read a PC magazine or frequent PC sites. They know what they want and why they want it. Survey people running around Best Buy looking for a new email machine and they'll want shiny because shiny = new and new = representative of affluence (but not class). Just look at the stylings of kitchen and bathroom fixtures, appliances, and wares.
Note that these less-knowledgeable shiny-mongers also think that their monitors are no longer good when their "computers slow down" (thus requiring them to buy new ones) and don't reuse those monitors for newer builds. They toss it out or give it away only to buy another.
They should have also asked of the audience, "How frequently do you purchase new monitors?" and "Where do you buy them?"
It's not investment. It's speculation.
The only investors are ignorant of the lack of genuine value of LinkedIn. (Which is much less than their original price.)
The majority of the people are looking to get rich off of the hype and dump the stock ASAP.
The PATRIOT act doesn't allow, enable, or enact legislation that allows for ruling or governance with unlimited power. It is not a form of "tyranny". Suggesting so oversimplifies the problem and immediately polarizes what should be a well-thought-out discussion. Good and Evil, Tyranny and Freedom -- these are not the vocabulary of civil servants and legislation. They are the words of politics.
The USA PATRIOT Act is a major encroachment onto the guaranteed rights of all people in America (citizens and visitors) and such encroachments, if not severely limited in their durations, become permanent erosions.
Focus on that.
"The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. "
"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it."
Chicano is a specific, self-labeling of national/cultural/political identity for Mexican-Americans. It grew in use during the Civil Rights and Black Power movements. When Black/African-American people started adopting those terms instead of "negro", south western people of latin/o decent stated using "Chicano" for self-identity.
"Chicano Pride", "Chicano Power" -- these were calls of identity amongst the Mexican-Americans of the time and the word continue to have significance today.