Parent is modded funny, but this might actually happen within the next 5 years if only for the moderation system. Even with all the faults, Slashcode is pretty good considering that there are thousands of posters every day.
It took me 5 minutes to mentally insert the paragraph breaks into your message and this is a possible example of computer-based confusion.
If one cannot focus thought into typed words but is a Unix wizard, where does that leave us?
I work in a field where misunderstanding can easily result in damages, injuries and death. Somehow we managed to mitigate risk without computers in the past.
At some point, ever faster and better computers will outpace the average user's perceived need for upgrading. Sure, dual Opterons running on 5 GB RAM in a 2 TB server case is incredibly sexy, but Joe Average doesn't really care about that.
Remember that the popularization of computers and the internet was created by this "Joe Average" market and they typically don't do complicated fluid mechanics calculations or weather prediction programs.
Aside from 3D gaming there's no real reason to spend more money/upgrade machines for most people.
Fry:...the important thing is we're all together for Xmas. And even though I'm surrounded by robots[1] and monsters and old people, I've never felt more at home.
[1] This is disturbing to me somehow while contributing to Slashdot.
In the current age of fractured families due to divorce, December 25 is really only a commercial date that everyone can gather around and family events tend to be more complicated than in the past.
So essentially, yes, I'm alone on Christmas Eve. Please send hookers - but not those ugly ones again.
What I have seen in my particular non-computer industry is the idea (perhaps a meme?) that managers often think that competent people can be replaced by software in order to reduce costs.
At some point, the cost of computerization exceeds the benefits, but it's always useful for the PHBs to have total control and monitoring of the plebes.
The assholes that release viruses, worms and other malware on the computing world are also well aware that the average Linux user is much more difficult to hoodwink than the average Windows user (your grandma, for example).
The past ~10 years of the popular web has exposed the best (altruism, open source efforts, education, anti-bullshit) and the worst (scammers, spammers, hate groups, SCO) of global society.
As soon as I was old enough to know what "whore", "culture" and "horticulture" meant (around 13 years old - that was a more innocent time), I put it all together and came up with Dorothy Parker's quote all by myself. Or so I thought.
From over-unity speakers (200W watts output from a 10W wall-wart), to "better-sounding" fiber optic cable, no claim seems too outrageous or fraudulent for a great many consumer audio manufacturers.
I like Dans Data's various takes on Monster Cable myself. I have to admit that my ex-wife worked for one of their distributors many years ago and we got it really cheap. Those thick cables seemed to make the imported German Quadral speakers sound better.
The reason people are turning to Gameboys and Riddlin as babysitters is because they're exhausted after slogging for corperate masters all day so they don't lose their job to offshoring.
My opinion is that America is "losing" (if it truly is) because money has become all-important. The generation that built companies is dead and their offspring has chosen the stock market for their future security, thus placing wealth in the hands of umm, people less concerned with long-term results.
This is kind of expected, as the goal of many companies is to go public so that there is less and less responsibility (or at least a better spreading of same) for individuals.
I'd love to see such a program with that title, if only to see the resulting freak-out after the possible connotation became known. Probably only CBC or BBC could get away with it. Maybe TVO. Of course, it would have to be about TEL and how it can be manipulated to the speaker's advantage.
Maybe driving licenses are overrated as ID. I'm sure there are millions of non-licensed, safe drivers that are never caught by authorities because they don't commit traffic violations.
OTOH, I'm pretty sure that 95% of vehicular homicides, accidents and chaos-causing road behaviour is caused by "licensed" individuals.
I always wonder at people who delete their messages - why are they working so hard to be clueless later? Is that why they're usually so dumb in the physical world, because they exert effort to "unlearn" what they've learned, among other bad habits?
That's an interesting statement. Perhaps for others it is a way to deny that they ever said something. I know that my posting history here and elsewhere (usenet included) is not always an example of the shining beacon of knowledge and insight that I truly am, but trying to deny them is futile.
Maybe it all comes down to admitting that we all have flaws and are not always in top form. The ACs here often demonstrate this I guess.
Back when this knob was rich he bought one of the first JVC S-VHS recorders. It came with a really nifty 5"x5" black remote control that had a flip-up panel and some kind of display thingamajig. It also had more buttons than I had pencils. In other words, a lot more than 50.
I'm still confused by remote controls and have about 7 of them. Let's see now...TV, VCR, DVD, Cable, Walkman, soundcard and RealDoll. Yup, 7.
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Parent is modded funny, but this might actually happen within the next 5 years if only for the moderation system. Even with all the faults, Slashcode is pretty good considering that there are thousands of posters every day.
"Retired Unemployed and Bitter Microsoft Bob Shoots Cute Fuzzy XP Search Puppy"
All these "its" in one post made my reptilian brain visually add a "t" in front of the words.
(I'm off to sublime directory again for research purposes)
That was a great post, fermion. As usual, I'm without points when I really want to mod something up.
Crap! All this time I thought computers ran on blue smoke (that stuff you're supposed to not let out).
By the way Michael, was the original article title based somehow on paid sex with hot triplets?
It took me 5 minutes to mentally insert the paragraph breaks into your message and this is a possible example of computer-based confusion.
If one cannot focus thought into typed words but is a Unix wizard, where does that leave us?
I work in a field where misunderstanding can easily result in damages, injuries and death. Somehow we managed to mitigate risk without computers in the past.
At some point, ever faster and better computers will outpace the average user's perceived need for upgrading. Sure, dual Opterons running on 5 GB RAM in a 2 TB server case is incredibly sexy, but Joe Average doesn't really care about that.
Remember that the popularization of computers and the internet was created by this "Joe Average" market and they typically don't do complicated fluid mechanics calculations or weather prediction programs.
Aside from 3D gaming there's no real reason to spend more money/upgrade machines for most people.
Fry:
[1] This is disturbing to me somehow while contributing to Slashdot.
Some of us don't celebrate Christmas.
In the current age of fractured families due to divorce, December 25 is really only a commercial date that everyone can gather around and family events tend to be more complicated than in the past.
So essentially, yes, I'm alone on Christmas Eve. Please send hookers - but not those ugly ones again.
What I have seen in my particular non-computer industry is the idea (perhaps a meme?) that managers often think that competent people can be replaced by software in order to reduce costs.
At some point, the cost of computerization exceeds the benefits, but it's always useful for the PHBs to have total control and monitoring of the plebes.
The assholes that release viruses, worms and other malware on the computing world are also well aware that the average Linux user is much more difficult to hoodwink than the average Windows user (your grandma, for example).
The past ~10 years of the popular web has exposed the best (altruism, open source efforts, education, anti-bullshit) and the worst (scammers, spammers, hate groups, SCO) of global society.
Have a great 2005 everyone.
Big deal. I myself often act (angrily) in front of blue screens.
Yup. I'm another luser Windows guy.
I have to wonder if blind users of technology have a subtle sense of interpretation that is above or beyond what we eyeballers have.
Most people (including me) think that they have better powers of perception that do not rely on visual interpretation (which is what we all do here).
OMG, I just visualized the goat guy computouch device, eww!
Thanks, I guess it's a word thing.
As soon as I was old enough to know what "whore", "culture" and "horticulture" meant (around 13 years old - that was a more innocent time), I put it all together and came up with Dorothy Parker's quote all by myself. Or so I thought.
Are these sold in North America? The site only lists prices in yen.
OK, AC, how do we lowly innovators protect ourselves?
Why should I, as an American, give a shit about all that hypertuned tiny engine stuff when we all know that bigger is better?
There's just no substitution for cubic inches, as the Chrysler hemis are now proving.
/troll
Fluid dynamics problems have been finally solved by a bunch of overpaid mechanics that work on F1 cars with high technology monitoring equipment.
I'm sure that this research relates directly to the mileage of my Hemi.
From over-unity speakers (200W watts output from a 10W wall-wart), to "better-sounding" fiber optic cable, no claim seems too outrageous or fraudulent for a great many consumer audio manufacturers.
I like Dans Data's various takes on Monster Cable myself. I have to admit that my ex-wife worked for one of their distributors many years ago and we got it really cheap. Those thick cables seemed to make the imported German Quadral speakers sound better.
The reason people are turning to Gameboys and Riddlin as babysitters is because they're exhausted after slogging for corperate masters all day so they don't lose their job to offshoring.
My opinion is that America is "losing" (if it truly is) because money has become all-important. The generation that built companies is dead and their offspring has chosen the stock market for their future security, thus placing wealth in the hands of umm, people less concerned with long-term results.
This is kind of expected, as the goal of many companies is to go public so that there is less and less responsibility (or at least a better spreading of same) for individuals.
I'd love to see such a program with that title, if only to see the resulting freak-out after the possible connotation became known. Probably only CBC or BBC could get away with it. Maybe TVO. Of course, it would have to be about TEL and how it can be manipulated to the speaker's advantage.
Maybe driving licenses are overrated as ID. I'm sure there are millions of non-licensed, safe drivers that are never caught by authorities because they don't commit traffic violations.
OTOH, I'm pretty sure that 95% of vehicular homicides, accidents and chaos-causing road behaviour is caused by "licensed" individuals.
I always wonder at people who delete their messages - why are they working so hard to be clueless later? Is that why they're usually so dumb in the physical world, because they exert effort to "unlearn" what they've learned, among other bad habits?
That's an interesting statement. Perhaps for others it is a way to deny that they ever said something. I know that my posting history here and elsewhere (usenet included) is not always an example of the shining beacon of knowledge and insight that I truly am, but trying to deny them is futile.
Maybe it all comes down to admitting that we all have flaws and are not always in top form. The ACs here often demonstrate this I guess.
It's a naturally evolved human characteristic to grow and expand and eventually consume every resource that is available to us...
Does that include beer? Cause if so, that would explain a lot.
Back when this knob was rich he bought one of the first JVC S-VHS recorders. It came with a really nifty 5"x5" black remote control that had a flip-up panel and some kind of display thingamajig. It also had more buttons than I had pencils. In other words, a lot more than 50.
I'm still confused by remote controls and have about 7 of them. Let's see now...TV, VCR, DVD, Cable, Walkman, soundcard and RealDoll. Yup, 7.