Limiting your candidate pool to people who would do the job at any price is not really a good idea.
I think you at the very least risk hiring those absent-minded professor types who instinctively reply, "Would you like fries with that?" whenever a student asks for anything.
You know, or, "Hold the pickles, hold the lettuce. Special Orders don't upset us!"
and other such comments, stop being statement of fact. If you RTFA, you would notice that these law students post pictures about women without their consent, pose contests, call women as a whole "bitches," berate the women for asking their photos to be removed from the contests, call the ONE woman that offered a better photo insecure and the like, talked about how exactly they would fuck these women, etc.
And dude, they want to be lawyers. They are going to cost about $5/minute to talk to. They are under scrutiny of the Bar association. Etc, etc, etc. They should conduct themselves with a shred of dignity, and I don't care if this Jill girl is a bitch, back the fuck off somebody if they request to be left alone.
IANAL, but I would totally [censored] that [oh my!], though.
I'm computery enough to just put office 2007 on there. I've used Office 97, 2000, XP, 2003, and I think I'll be able to figure out the freaking interface. Because, as Microsoft points out, it's so goddamn intuitive.
But I suppose the computeriness doesn't apply to the population as a whole. But I wouldn't really hire someone who couldn't figure out a freaking office application immediately, anyway. Not that they have to have full proficiency right off the bat, but once you know how to use a spreadsheet, you're unlikely to have to relearn the whole deal when you switch from one office suite to another. Formulas are formulas. Math is math. Logic is logic. Signal flow is signal flow. Must I continue?
And word processing? I mean, come on. Align left, align center, align right, add a header, add a footer, landscape the page, change font size and color, bold stuff. What else is there to know? Oh, word art. I think a practical education in reading what the screen says is far more important.
Mail merge would probably set me back a good 15 minutes, but that's because I've never done it. And what does Office 2007 proficiency mean? Does it mean proficiency in creating relational databases in Access? Probably not. Either one of these more advanced examples is very likely to be mentioned and searched for specifically by people looking for workers.
Plus, if you use OpenOffice, then are forced to interoperate with Office 2007 and use it in class, you're way way way ahead of the game as far as competency goes.
Words such as 'words,' 'such,' 'as,' and 'and' to enter public domain shortly.
I mean, really, I thought it was OK for people to do ANYTHING in advertising. Why can't you piggy-back on the success of a giant, if you can deceive small children in toy advertisements? Even if it wasn't such a common word as 'Winter.'
It just struck me, though. What are people supposed to say? 'This snowy season?'
OK, I will definitely do that if it doesn't fall off in the next couple of days as it "should" according the freezy thing. I really really appreciate it.:-)
I just had the displeasure of working with a Vista PC today, and Firefox, Spywareblaster, Spybot S&D, Office 2000 (Which I somehow doubted), and many other apps work with it. It was a setup for an old lady who refuses to give up Compuserve (which doesn't work on Vista, I should've done research, but oh well), has a dial up connection, and didn't want me to take it home to install XP on it. That was a freaking nightmare.
And this is off-topic, but I have had this fucking plantar wart on my big toe for 9 months, as long as I've been fighting with my [expletive deleted in case i ever end up in court] landlord, and then I had to use Vista. You know what? That's not off-topic after all. Now it is.:-)
But yeah, Vista asks you what kind of network your connecting to EVERY TIME YOU DIAL UP. Thank you. You can, however turn off the are-you-sure-you-want-to-do-that dialogs. Oh, the point is, that list is probably just what a)was supported out of b)what they thought was commercially viable to advertise as supported.
I'm going to drink some beer, and think about my fucking wart. Which I have been freezing with ether from a wart freezing kit. I hate my life.
I just realized that if I were OJ, and I did it, I'd stand around a camera with a DST bug, and then go kill that bitch. And get off scot-free, m-fers! Scot-free!
When they see me pedaling down Elston Ave on two wheels, singing my head off and my only fuel the fried egg sandwich and coffee I had for breakfast, I become their sworn enemy. True.
Reckon somebody at the factory didn't understand that the live wire should be on the INSIDE of a motor stator or transformer whenever there is sensitive electronic equipment nearby
That's the problem with products manufactured in 3rd-world sweatshops: You should never trust a boy to do a man's job.
music is directly emotional in a way that movies aren't. it's also highly interpretive, so WHY someone likes something is as important as what they like. it reveals how deeply they think about that certain part of themselves that is ecstatic and interpretive.
there are very valuable emotions communicated by very shoddy musicianship. there are very bland emotions communicated by overproduced garbage. the conglomeration of what people like is telling at least of what they're going through at the moment.
it tells you if they're into ecstatic fun stuff, if they're into sad stuff, angry stuff. music is cathartic and healing, and it shows you what the person needs. it can be revealing if they view it as entertainment, or just background noise.
the kiss of death for me is, "I like all music," um... like what? "Oh, I listen to everything," and what are some bands you like... "[billboard top 5]" if people like music I don't like, but like it for a reason, and are interested in it, then I'm fine with that. but then, I'm a musician. when people ask me about painters, I say the same thing.:-)
I didn't back up what I had said because other people already did. Lenovo Thinkpads retail cheaper than Macbooks, and they're not the cheapest. I don't undervalue quality of construction, but Apple laptops don't have the best track record as far as sturdiness is concerned, which is almost the only matter worth considering.
You're not uneducated, you're just an asshole, apparently. Yes, I am relatively uneducated. I refrained from using the word ignorant, because most people don't possess the verbal skills necessary to properly interpret the word ignorant. 'Uneducated' in context was in reference to the topic at hand, not your overall worldly knowledge.
Kudos goes to you for taking a microcosmic conversation and relating it to the personal world. Thank you for criticizing my life path. Thank you for explaining to me I should be ashamed of who I am. I hope your children don't have to bear the brunt of your personality, and turn out better than you.
Find me a small form factor dual core PC for less than $420. you claim that Apple stuff is 30% overpriced, so a dual core mac Mini is $600, so if it was overpriced by 30% then I should be able to find a machine out there that is similar to the mac mini for $420.
Read what I say really hard:
But their crap tends to cost 30% more over what other stuff costs.
And try it again, now with emphasis added:
But their crap tends to cost 30% more over what other stuff costs.
I'm just sick and tired of Mac fundamentalists spouting off falsities fed them by the great Steve. Not that Mac isn't a better OS than windows. Not that I don't like the computers. The hardware is priced over resale at specs. Just stop being such an unreasonable, uneducated fanboi who can't read a whole 4 line post before replying.
Thank you.
PS: I get modded -2 Troll, and he's modded +4 "Interesting?" Why does it qualify as interesting to ignore the Parent post and say something I don't even particularly disagree with? Who's the fucking Troll?
You do realize that you need actual evidence to claim something is overpriced, correct?
You do realize you need evidence to claim you need evidence to claim something is overpriced, correct? Apple's hardware costs more than comparable hardware. It's a freaking fact. When they were selling PowerPC architecture, you could pretend this wasn't the case, but not anymore. And you can argue that the operating system is great, the Status Symbol White-colored cases are beautiful, etc. Not untrue. But their crap tends to cost 30% more over what other stuff costs.
Does that include Jesus? Maybe I should ask myself, "what would happen if a million people did this, but Jesus didn't?" Or "what would happen if a million people didn't do this, but Jesus did do it?" Now, I might be able to figure out the results of what a million people might do because that's easy, but dude, I just can't lay odds on the Son of God.
I don't know what you're modded insightful. You missed the point of the comment. Maybe I just missed the point of yours. Anyway, Jesus would DEFINITELY power his home theater system with solar power.
Is there a reasonable explanation why CD burning programs always end up broken?
It's because if the hackers gain control over the laser, they can hold your computer ransom. Or at least your Puff^h^h^h^hP Diddy CD. You wouldn't know it, but the Iraq war is entirely because Osama Bin Laden is holding Dick Cheney's autographed Toni Braxton CD for ransom.
Or maybe that's just what they want you to think....
I think the point is that if you scritinize them at certain levels, but they way they LOOK is not the way they ARE
What I "meant" was: I think the point is that if you scrutinize them at certain levels things look alike, but they way they LOOK is not the way they ARE
I almost didn't close a tag there and screwed the whole thing up again. Thank you, thank you.
...if you define "alike" as "looks the same from 3 feet away," and include people in the "embryo" phase, or the simplest form of human before it fully develops.
I mean, really, leave it to eggheads to suck the soul out of a beautiful saying with accurate symbolism. I think the point is that if you scritinize them at certain levels, but they way they LOOK is not the way they ARE. This whole 'announcement' is announcing that if you change the criteria by which you judge something, the description of the thing changes. Which is why people think that George W Bush is "evil," and still others believe he is "the decider." Or a better yet, why some people believe there "is" a God, while others maintain there "isn't" a God.
God existing or not existing doesn't actually make a difference, because whether or not he exists, the universe is how it is. Or not. Anyway, I'm off-topic. I'll shut up now. The point is I hate this article.
Both the big iPod and the Zune have a 320x240 screen.
Yeah, but the pixels have higher bandwidth! And you have to ask Microsoft if you can use them every time you turn the device off, which prevents Zune piracy. Which in turn prevents people selling you a Zune with AIDS on it. Just another example of Microsoft's cunning ingenuity!
The Aussies still have the same ruling party whose PM has publicly said in 2003 that he's going to invade Iraq and doesn't care what that the majority of people are agains it. Then, there was that Hanson affair, which was blatantly illegal, they jailed her, in effect removing her from the politics and actually got away with it.
I stand somewhat corrected. I meant specifically that it's a voting system without additional peril. But listen to the Jello spoken word album. It gives a much better run-down of what is going on in the USA than I could give you, and it's a much, much, much longer list than what you presented. Not to say Australia doesn't have its problems, but at least it's not melting people with phosphorous bombs, boiling foreigners and citizens, torturing foreigners and citizens, putting together concentration camps, insider trading (both financially and in politics), blah blah fucking blah.
I think that comes with being Empire, though. It would be nice for once to have some goddamn conscious people running the show rather than some fucking monkeys. It makes me sad.
I wish I could of articulated my position as well as you did. Unfortunately I'm not as good as you are here with your works.
Thank you. And I just noticed that the "Everybody is stupid but me thing" didn't read as obviously facetious as I had intended. I didn't mean to put people down, I just was making fun of the arguing and my opinion. I noticed I came off as a little bit of an asshole, and I apologize.
I am sorry, but with the exception of your third party support, you have an awful voting policy.
Thank you. I aim to please. Suggestions?
I try to remain as informed as possible. However, if I'm uninformed I then vote for the least likely to win. I think change is commonly a good thing, and getting minorities in office is important to me. I understand the problem of the buckshot voting approach, but I think voting for non-republican minorities is good. And non-republican only because I find the republican minorities a little creepy usually.
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Alternately you can just use one hand and do the metal "devil horns" sign (thumb on cmd-opt, index on R, pinky on P).
Don't let any evangelicals latch on to that one, or Apple's doomed. I always knew Mac users were a little odd...
Limiting your candidate pool to people who would do the job at any price is not really a good idea.
I think you at the very least risk hiring those absent-minded professor types who instinctively reply, "Would you like fries with that?" whenever a student asks for anything.
You know, or, "Hold the pickles, hold the lettuce. Special Orders don't upset us!"
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You of course meant "world-class support" is worth much more. Of course.
and other such comments, stop being statement of fact. If you RTFA, you would notice that these law students post pictures about women without their consent, pose contests, call women as a whole "bitches," berate the women for asking their photos to be removed from the contests, call the ONE woman that offered a better photo insecure and the like, talked about how exactly they would fuck these women, etc.
And dude, they want to be lawyers. They are going to cost about $5/minute to talk to. They are under scrutiny of the Bar association. Etc, etc, etc. They should conduct themselves with a shred of dignity, and I don't care if this Jill girl is a bitch, back the fuck off somebody if they request to be left alone.
IANAL, but I would totally [censored] that [oh my!], though.
I'm computery enough to just put office 2007 on there. I've used Office 97, 2000, XP, 2003, and I think I'll be able to figure out the freaking interface. Because, as Microsoft points out, it's so goddamn intuitive.
But I suppose the computeriness doesn't apply to the population as a whole. But I wouldn't really hire someone who couldn't figure out a freaking office application immediately, anyway. Not that they have to have full proficiency right off the bat, but once you know how to use a spreadsheet, you're unlikely to have to relearn the whole deal when you switch from one office suite to another. Formulas are formulas. Math is math. Logic is logic. Signal flow is signal flow. Must I continue?
And word processing? I mean, come on. Align left, align center, align right, add a header, add a footer, landscape the page, change font size and color, bold stuff. What else is there to know? Oh, word art. I think a practical education in reading what the screen says is far more important.
Mail merge would probably set me back a good 15 minutes, but that's because I've never done it. And what does Office 2007 proficiency mean? Does it mean proficiency in creating relational databases in Access? Probably not. Either one of these more advanced examples is very likely to be mentioned and searched for specifically by people looking for workers.
Plus, if you use OpenOffice, then are forced to interoperate with Office 2007 and use it in class, you're way way way ahead of the game as far as competency goes.
Words such as 'words,' 'such,' 'as,' and 'and' to enter public domain shortly.
I mean, really, I thought it was OK for people to do ANYTHING in advertising. Why can't you piggy-back on the success of a giant, if you can deceive small children in toy advertisements? Even if it wasn't such a common word as 'Winter.'
It just struck me, though. What are people supposed to say? 'This snowy season?'
OK, I will definitely do that if it doesn't fall off in the next couple of days as it "should" according the freezy thing. I really really appreciate it. :-)
I just had the displeasure of working with a Vista PC today, and Firefox, Spywareblaster, Spybot S&D, Office 2000 (Which I somehow doubted), and many other apps work with it. It was a setup for an old lady who refuses to give up Compuserve (which doesn't work on Vista, I should've done research, but oh well), has a dial up connection, and didn't want me to take it home to install XP on it. That was a freaking nightmare.
:-)
And this is off-topic, but I have had this fucking plantar wart on my big toe for 9 months, as long as I've been fighting with my [expletive deleted in case i ever end up in court] landlord, and then I had to use Vista. You know what? That's not off-topic after all. Now it is.
But yeah, Vista asks you what kind of network your connecting to EVERY TIME YOU DIAL UP. Thank you. You can, however turn off the are-you-sure-you-want-to-do-that dialogs. Oh, the point is, that list is probably just what a)was supported out of b)what they thought was commercially viable to advertise as supported.
I'm going to drink some beer, and think about my fucking wart. Which I have been freezing with ether from a wart freezing kit. I hate my life.
I just realized that if I were OJ, and I did it, I'd stand around a camera with a DST bug, and then go kill that bitch. And get off scot-free, m-fers! Scot-free!
When they see me pedaling down Elston Ave on two wheels, singing my head off and my only fuel the fried egg sandwich and coffee I had for breakfast, I become their sworn enemy. True.
TRU DAT! TRUE, Homes! Werd.
Reckon somebody at the factory didn't understand that the live wire should be on the INSIDE of a motor stator or transformer whenever there is sensitive electronic equipment nearby
That's the problem with products manufactured in 3rd-world sweatshops: You should never trust a boy to do a man's job.
*ducks*
You could've killed my brother.
*BANG!*
music is directly emotional in a way that movies aren't. it's also highly interpretive, so WHY someone likes something is as important as what they like. it reveals how deeply they think about that certain part of themselves that is ecstatic and interpretive.
:-)
there are very valuable emotions communicated by very shoddy musicianship. there are very bland emotions communicated by overproduced garbage. the conglomeration of what people like is telling at least of what they're going through at the moment.
it tells you if they're into ecstatic fun stuff, if they're into sad stuff, angry stuff. music is cathartic and healing, and it shows you what the person needs. it can be revealing if they view it as entertainment, or just background noise.
the kiss of death for me is, "I like all music," um... like what? "Oh, I listen to everything," and what are some bands you like... "[billboard top 5]" if people like music I don't like, but like it for a reason, and are interested in it, then I'm fine with that. but then, I'm a musician. when people ask me about painters, I say the same thing.
that's my opinion anyway.
I didn't back up what I had said because other people already did. Lenovo Thinkpads retail cheaper than Macbooks, and they're not the cheapest. I don't undervalue quality of construction, but Apple laptops don't have the best track record as far as sturdiness is concerned, which is almost the only matter worth considering.
You're not uneducated, you're just an asshole, apparently. Yes, I am relatively uneducated. I refrained from using the word ignorant, because most people don't possess the verbal skills necessary to properly interpret the word ignorant. 'Uneducated' in context was in reference to the topic at hand, not your overall worldly knowledge.
Kudos goes to you for taking a microcosmic conversation and relating it to the personal world. Thank you for criticizing my life path. Thank you for explaining to me I should be ashamed of who I am. I hope your children don't have to bear the brunt of your personality, and turn out better than you.
Cheers.
Find me a small form factor dual core PC for less than $420. you claim that Apple stuff is 30% overpriced, so a dual core mac Mini is $600, so if it was overpriced by 30% then I should be able to find a machine out there that is similar to the mac mini for $420.
Read what I say really hard:
But their crap tends to cost 30% more over what other stuff costs.
And try it again, now with emphasis added:
But their crap tends to cost 30% more over what other stuff costs.
I'm just sick and tired of Mac fundamentalists spouting off falsities fed them by the great Steve. Not that Mac isn't a better OS than windows. Not that I don't like the computers. The hardware is priced over resale at specs. Just stop being such an unreasonable, uneducated fanboi who can't read a whole 4 line post before replying.
Thank you.
PS: I get modded -2 Troll, and he's modded +4 "Interesting?" Why does it qualify as interesting to ignore the Parent post and say something I don't even particularly disagree with? Who's the fucking Troll?
They should rip the tongues out of anyone who makes baseless accusations.
They should clip the fingers off of anyone who rips out someone's tongue.
You do realize that you need actual evidence to claim something is overpriced, correct?
You do realize you need evidence to claim you need evidence to claim something is overpriced, correct? Apple's hardware costs more than comparable hardware. It's a freaking fact. When they were selling PowerPC architecture, you could pretend this wasn't the case, but not anymore. And you can argue that the operating system is great, the Status Symbol White-colored cases are beautiful, etc. Not untrue. But their crap tends to cost 30% more over what other stuff costs.
Does that include Jesus? Maybe I should ask myself, "what would happen if a million people did this, but Jesus didn't?"
Or "what would happen if a million people didn't do this, but Jesus did do it?"
Now, I might be able to figure out the results of what a million people might do because that's easy, but dude, I just can't lay odds on the Son of God.
I don't know what you're modded insightful. You missed the point of the comment. Maybe I just missed the point of yours. Anyway, Jesus would DEFINITELY power his home theater system with solar power.
Sun POWER! Sun POWER! Sun POWER! Sun POWER!
Is there a reasonable explanation why CD burning programs always end up broken?
It's because if the hackers gain control over the laser, they can hold your computer ransom. Or at least your Puff^h^h^h^hP Diddy CD. You wouldn't know it, but the Iraq war is entirely because Osama Bin Laden is holding Dick Cheney's autographed Toni Braxton CD for ransom.
Or maybe that's just what they want you to think....
I think the point is that if you scritinize them at certain levels, but they way they LOOK is not the way they ARE
What I "meant" was:
I think the point is that if you scrutinize them at certain levels things look alike, but they way they LOOK is not the way they ARE
I almost didn't close a tag there and screwed the whole thing up again. Thank you, thank you.
...if you define "alike" as "looks the same from 3 feet away," and include people in the "embryo" phase, or the simplest form of human before it fully develops.
I mean, really, leave it to eggheads to suck the soul out of a beautiful saying with accurate symbolism. I think the point is that if you scritinize them at certain levels, but they way they LOOK is not the way they ARE. This whole 'announcement' is announcing that if you change the criteria by which you judge something, the description of the thing changes. Which is why people think that George W Bush is "evil," and still others believe he is "the decider." Or a better yet, why some people believe there "is" a God, while others maintain there "isn't" a God.
God existing or not existing doesn't actually make a difference, because whether or not he exists, the universe is how it is. Or not. Anyway, I'm off-topic. I'll shut up now. The point is I hate this article.
Both the big iPod and the Zune have a 320x240 screen.
Yeah, but the pixels have higher bandwidth! And you have to ask Microsoft if you can use them every time you turn the device off, which prevents Zune piracy. Which in turn prevents people selling you a Zune with AIDS on it. Just another example of Microsoft's cunning ingenuity!
The Aussies still have the same ruling party whose PM has publicly said in 2003 that he's going to invade Iraq and doesn't care what that the majority of people are agains it. Then, there was that Hanson affair, which was blatantly illegal, they jailed her, in effect removing her from the politics and actually got away with it.
I stand somewhat corrected. I meant specifically that it's a voting system without additional peril. But listen to the Jello spoken word album. It gives a much better run-down of what is going on in the USA than I could give you, and it's a much, much, much longer list than what you presented. Not to say Australia doesn't have its problems, but at least it's not melting people with phosphorous bombs, boiling foreigners and citizens, torturing foreigners and citizens, putting together concentration camps, insider trading (both financially and in politics), blah blah fucking blah.
I think that comes with being Empire, though. It would be nice for once to have some goddamn conscious people running the show rather than some fucking monkeys. It makes me sad.
I wish I could of articulated my position as well as you did. Unfortunately I'm not as good as you are here with your works.
:-)
Thank you. And I just noticed that the "Everybody is stupid but me thing" didn't read as obviously facetious as I had intended. I didn't mean to put people down, I just was making fun of the arguing and my opinion. I noticed I came off as a little bit of an asshole, and I apologize.
Cheers.
Nathan
I am sorry, but with the exception of your third party support, you have an awful voting policy.
Thank you. I aim to please. Suggestions?
I try to remain as informed as possible. However, if I'm uninformed I then vote for the least likely to win. I think change is commonly a good thing, and getting minorities in office is important to me. I understand the problem of the buckshot voting approach, but I think voting for non-republican minorities is good. And non-republican only because I find the republican minorities a little creepy usually.
Again, suggestions?