And this is especially true during hyped shopping time. I am sure that salespeople during this period are too busy/preoccupied to explain products (assuming their knowledge actually goes beyond pushing products). It is basically a shopping frenzy and the sharks have all the minnows pretty well scoped out.
If you shop without researching between November and January, you are being set up.
I think that today (and I admit that I've done exactly zero double-blind, sociological studies using proper sampling), the creation of words or terms are more related to the trademarkability (i.e., "marketing value) of those words and how well it plays with the target market.
When I saw Fonzie say, "cool", or watched WKRP and got exposed to the "phone police", it was pretty much honest. Now the cool is programmed, created by industry, and that is what is inherently dishonest. Kids are pretty perceptive.
I'm no supporter of "intelligent design" (unless it refers to steps taken by humans in engineering), but aren't a lot of the skeletons of dinosaurs actually castings of (parts of) the real thing but presented to kids as "the real whole thing"?
If it is not explained to them that Velociraptors were not 7 feet tall, actually had feathers, never existed in Chicago and the example they see is a replica...well, it's all Santa Claus again isn't it.
Just for reference and apocryphal, facilities built near the Alberta Tar Sands take into consideration that a certain tilt for a large installation may happen as voiding occurs underground.
I've had a look at the civil drawings for one of these projects and there are deep piles everywhere. Mind you, this installation was the largest installation of its type ever (2 huge air compressors), so every precaution is taken.
The last few years have seen several television programs dedicated to the examination and "debunking" of urban legends and similar types of stories. One entry in this genre was a show entitled Mostly True Stories: Urban Legends Revealed, which aired on cable station The Learning Channel (TLC) in the U.S.
One of the features of this program was its use of quizzes as bridges across commercial breaks -- just before each commercial break it presented the audience with an urban legend-related tidbit and challenged viewers to guess whether it was true or not; after the commercial break the (supposedly) correct answer was revealed. We noted with some amusement that most of these quizzes dealt with fairly obscure items covered on our web site; we were even more amused when the 18 March 2003 episode posed the question of whether the nursery rhyme "Sing a Song of Sixpence" was used as a coded message for recruiting pirates. Of course, that was nothing compared to the hilarity which ensued in our house when "Mostly True Stories" revealed this item to be TRUE: "The notorious pirate Blackbeard used this code to recruit hands, whom he paid sixpence a day," they disclosed.
What's so funny? The notion that the nursery rhyme "Sing a Song of Sixpence" was used as a recuiting song for pirates was invented by us as an example of a story so incredibly silly that no one could possibly believe it to be true.
That money would produce a safer city with more jobs if it was left to the citizens.
And you don't wanna be messin with thousands of armed Cajuns - they got pushed out of their homes a couple hundred hears ago, and they ain't movin. Let them take care of stuff.
All white, uncoordinated males can be seen doing this while they dance (they usually alternate with air guitar). I actually tried to post this twice while listening to my favourite Heart tunes on the headphones, but I knocked things over trying to be Neal Peart in my mind and had to reset.
BZZT. The strong and fast took the tools and knowledge from cavemen nerds who were slow, careful and studious, but left enough of them around to breed with nerd females.
That is why the human race is now full of 7 foot tall blond-haired muscular specimens capable of defeating a grizzly bear.
Look at it this way: he's either dead but spiritually alive or hasn't even showed up yet. As I get older (and the fatter my belly becomes), I'm starting to believe more in buddhism.
Little kids and puppies like to touch my belly and that's pretty neat.
I was amused so much a few days ago while scanning headlines that I actually clicked one.
According to one "news outlet", people were lining up before 5 AM at a store to get great bargains.
That's just pathetic, and the only thing I can think of right now is what Homer said once he saw that the tree and the presents were gone: "Lisa, where did Christmas go?".
Many introverts ruin their own lives with shyness. I'd hardly call that a "smart" way to live. Likewise, many extroverts find themselves shunned as they are socially uncomfortable to be around. Either way, it's a costly mal-adjustment of behavior, and such people could probably gain from a little therapy or religion or whatever it takes to rattle their cages and see their own dysfunction for what it is.
I am confused. Are you saying that both introverts and extroverts have dysfunctions?
Perhaps becoming the hypothetical "well-rounded person" (as typified by HR department evaluations and other similar organizations) is the best solution for those who feel like they don't quite fit in.
An engineering firm I worked at recently upgraded their dozens of PCs to AMD 64s and XP. The BSOD problem is largely dead. They won't be needing to update machines for probably 5 years.
The last blue screen problem I had with XP was due to a fan failure. More annoying is when Firefox freezes (due to memory issues?) but session saver fixes that most times.
Surely a superior intergalactic race would have MUCH larger penises (possibly even using them to pull cars) than us and would laugh, Kang and Kodos-like at our puny demonstrations of testosterone.
Psst: start building up the board-with-a-nail-in-it arsenal.
An outspoken man even while in office, Hellyer writes and lectures about his economic ideas. His knowledge of UFOs comes mostly second-hand, from books like The Day After Roswell - although, impressively, he had the cachet to look up the military men listed in the book to get the straight goods. He admits such matters didn't cross his mind when he was in office. "I was too busy trying to streamline the armed forces, improve morale and save taxpayers' money."
Aside from dedicating a UFO landing pad in St. Paul, Alberta, during the 67 Centennial, Hellyer's involvement was nil. He did, however, seem genuinely impressed by the testimony of pilots and colonels, and the implications of UFO secrecy. "The time has come to lift the veil of secrecy and let the truth emerge, so that there can be a real and informed debate about the most important problem facing our planet today." This got him a standing ovation.
The day ends with a press conference right after, in room 23. Hellyer doesn't have much more to say about ETs, but his views on the inside workings of government tell a lot about why a veteran politican would buy the notion of an ET cover-up. He recalls Harper's editor Lewis Lapham's theory of two governments, the permanent and the provisional, with the work of those elected always being undone by permanent appointees.
"In effect, permanent government runs things," he says. "We say we live in a democracy, but why do we call it democracy when, in effect, the people who are running it are not elected?"
Is there an appropriate term for what's now happening?
This is just an extension of woo-hoo! morons (many of them likely paid rent-a-crowd types) lining up to be seen, well, lining up. But on TV. Maybe. If they woo-hoo! loud enough.
In a couple of weeks there'll probably be stories of single, defenceless women fending off attackers by swinging an XBox 360 and cute babies found in flooded basements clutching an empty XBox container.
QED="quite easily done" but it wouldn't surprise me if it eventually meant something different in the name-hungry geek world.
"Interactive Media" brings to mind many things and most of them are marketing-speak and closed-platform. DHTML and (apparently) AJAX are different. In my opinion.
Remember that with free or open source software there is no monolithic company to blame things on when bad stuff happens. This is probably the single biggest issue holding back open source.
Managers typically don't know anything about how software or computers function. When it breaks, they call Microsoft and if that doesn't fix the problem, well, it's out of their hands. There's always someone else to blame when you have Microsoft.
It works for the low-level employees as well; "my computer crashed, I can't get any work done".
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And this is especially true during hyped shopping time. I am sure that salespeople during this period are too busy/preoccupied to explain products (assuming their knowledge actually goes beyond pushing products). It is basically a shopping frenzy and the sharks have all the minnows pretty well scoped out.
If you shop without researching between November and January, you are being set up.
I think that today (and I admit that I've done exactly zero double-blind, sociological studies using proper sampling), the creation of words or terms are more related to the trademarkability (i.e., "marketing value) of those words and how well it plays with the target market.
When I saw Fonzie say, "cool", or watched WKRP and got exposed to the "phone police", it was pretty much honest. Now the cool is programmed, created by industry, and that is what is inherently dishonest. Kids are pretty perceptive.
I'm no supporter of "intelligent design" (unless it refers to steps taken by humans in engineering), but aren't a lot of the skeletons of dinosaurs actually castings of (parts of) the real thing but presented to kids as "the real whole thing"?
If it is not explained to them that Velociraptors were not 7 feet tall, actually had feathers, never existed in Chicago and the example they see is a replica...well, it's all Santa Claus again isn't it.
Just for reference and apocryphal, facilities built near the Alberta Tar Sands take into consideration that a certain tilt for a large installation may happen as voiding occurs underground.
I've had a look at the civil drawings for one of these projects and there are deep piles everywhere. Mind you, this installation was the largest installation of its type ever (2 huge air compressors), so every precaution is taken.
Is Tuvalu underwater yet?
Have the Slashdot editors been replaced with ESL monkeys?
A million monkeys typing at a million keyboards...but that theory was only for English!
Main stream media outlets have been taking content off the web and calling it their own for some time.
From http://www.snopes.com/humor/mediagoofs/sixpence.a
The last few years have seen several television programs dedicated to the examination and "debunking" of urban legends and similar types of stories. One entry in this genre was a show entitled Mostly True Stories: Urban Legends Revealed, which aired on cable station The Learning Channel (TLC) in the U.S.
One of the features of this program was its use of quizzes as bridges across commercial breaks -- just before each commercial break it presented the audience with an urban legend-related tidbit and challenged viewers to guess whether it was true or not; after the commercial break the (supposedly) correct answer was revealed. We noted with some amusement that most of these quizzes dealt with fairly obscure items covered on our web site; we were even more amused when the 18 March 2003 episode posed the question of whether the nursery rhyme "Sing a Song of Sixpence" was used as a coded message for recruiting pirates. Of course, that was nothing compared to the hilarity which ensued in our house when "Mostly True Stories" revealed this item to be TRUE: "The notorious pirate Blackbeard used this code to recruit hands, whom he paid sixpence a day," they disclosed.
What's so funny? The notion that the nursery rhyme "Sing a Song of Sixpence" was used as a recuiting song for pirates was invented by us as an example of a story so incredibly silly that no one could possibly believe it to be true.
That money would produce a safer city with more jobs if it was left to the citizens.
And you don't wanna be messin with thousands of armed Cajuns - they got pushed out of their homes a couple hundred hears ago, and they ain't movin. Let them take care of stuff.
Confession: I'm half Acadian.
The "Hollywood applause machine" is a big reason why we are where we are now regarding entertainment.
One of the funniest lines I heard on the Simpsons was a reference to viewers actually focussing their eyeballs.
Someone needs to write a lengthy Salon article or a book on the evils of manufactured approval.
All white, uncoordinated males can be seen doing this while they dance (they usually alternate with air guitar). I actually tried to post this twice while listening to my favourite Heart tunes on the headphones, but I knocked things over trying to be Neal Peart in my mind and had to reset.
Maybe I'm Spinal Tap's next drummer!
Isn't that what laugh tracks are for?
Or maybe it's a media event fuelled by the "if I don't get it now..." Pavlov situation.
Do you think the "thousands" of people worldwide that lined-up to get the first Xbox 360s were trading time for money?
Firefox with the session saver extension sort of fixes this (compare to IE).
But yeah, FF does seem to be a memory hog.
If your system is crashing every hour that's probably not caused by Firefox though.
BZZT. The strong and fast took the tools and knowledge from cavemen nerds who were slow, careful and studious, but left enough of them around to breed with nerd females.
That is why the human race is now full of 7 foot tall blond-haired muscular specimens capable of defeating a grizzly bear.
Look at it this way: he's either dead but spiritually alive or hasn't even showed up yet. As I get older (and the fatter my belly becomes), I'm starting to believe more in buddhism.
Little kids and puppies like to touch my belly and that's pretty neat.
I was amused so much a few days ago while scanning headlines that I actually clicked one.
According to one "news outlet", people were lining up before 5 AM at a store to get great bargains.
That's just pathetic, and the only thing I can think of right now is what Homer said once he saw that the tree and the presents were gone: "Lisa, where did Christmas go?".
Many introverts ruin their own lives with shyness. I'd hardly call that a "smart" way to live. Likewise, many extroverts find themselves shunned as they are socially uncomfortable to be around. Either way, it's a costly mal-adjustment of behavior, and such people could probably gain from a little therapy or religion or whatever it takes to rattle their cages and see their own dysfunction for what it is.
I am confused. Are you saying that both introverts and extroverts have dysfunctions?
Perhaps becoming the hypothetical "well-rounded person" (as typified by HR department evaluations and other similar organizations) is the best solution for those who feel like they don't quite fit in.
An engineering firm I worked at recently upgraded their dozens of PCs to AMD 64s and XP. The BSOD problem is largely dead. They won't be needing to update machines for probably 5 years.
The last blue screen problem I had with XP was due to a fan failure. More annoying is when Firefox freezes (due to memory issues?) but session saver fixes that most times.
OK, what do we do now?
Sign up and adhere to Kyoto? Will China be interested in throttling down their energy use?
Let's see some ideas.
Surely a superior intergalactic race would have MUCH larger penises (possibly even using them to pull cars) than us and would laugh, Kang and Kodos-like at our puny demonstrations of testosterone.
Psst: start building up the board-with-a-nail-in-it arsenal.
They just don't fing like they used to, eh?
From: http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2005-10-06/news_
An outspoken man even while in office, Hellyer writes and lectures about his economic ideas. His knowledge of UFOs comes mostly second-hand, from books like The Day After Roswell - although, impressively, he had the cachet to look up the military men listed in the book to get the straight goods. He admits such matters didn't cross his mind when he was in office. "I was too busy trying to streamline the armed forces, improve morale and save taxpayers' money."
Aside from dedicating a UFO landing pad in St. Paul, Alberta, during the 67 Centennial, Hellyer's involvement was nil. He did, however, seem genuinely impressed by the testimony of pilots and colonels, and the implications of UFO secrecy. "The time has come to lift the veil of secrecy and let the truth emerge, so that there can be a real and informed debate about the most important problem facing our planet today." This got him a standing ovation.
The day ends with a press conference right after, in room 23. Hellyer doesn't have much more to say about ETs, but his views on the inside workings of government tell a lot about why a veteran politican would buy the notion of an ET cover-up. He recalls Harper's editor Lewis Lapham's theory of two governments, the permanent and the provisional, with the work of those elected always being undone by permanent appointees.
"In effect, permanent government runs things," he says. "We say we live in a democracy, but why do we call it democracy when, in effect, the people who are running it are not elected?"
I want the 5 Google stories per day back.
Is there an appropriate term for what's now happening?
This is just an extension of woo-hoo! morons (many of them likely paid rent-a-crowd types) lining up to be seen, well, lining up. But on TV. Maybe. If they woo-hoo! loud enough.
In a couple of weeks there'll probably be stories of single, defenceless women fending off attackers by swinging an XBox 360 and cute babies found in flooded basements clutching an empty XBox container.
QED="quite easily done" but it wouldn't surprise me if it eventually meant something different in the name-hungry geek world.
"Interactive Media" brings to mind many things and most of them are marketing-speak and closed-platform. DHTML and (apparently) AJAX are different. In my opinion.
Remember that with free or open source software there is no monolithic company to blame things on when bad stuff happens. This is probably the single biggest issue holding back open source.
Managers typically don't know anything about how software or computers function. When it breaks, they call Microsoft and if that doesn't fix the problem, well, it's out of their hands. There's always someone else to blame when you have Microsoft.
It works for the low-level employees as well; "my computer crashed, I can't get any work done".