Did it have thoughtful design features, like turning the pen over to erase (obvious) and not allowing someone to delete the whole screen accidentally (not as obvious)?
We (now obsolete) draftsmen used to actually have electric erasers and I doubt that real illustrators ever bothered to use the other end of a pencil for erasing. The choice of grades for graphite and eraser compounds (not to mention personal style) were too great to just rely on one type of erasure. I could blather on about this, but it would bore everyone.
"Deleting a whole screen" was when a badly-maintained print machine (sometimes mis-called a blueprinter - blueprints, AKA white lines on blue background - died many years ago) ate the original. We always did have recovery techniques, though, and when the large format photocopy machines came along we were able to re-use a lot of previously-drawn details without using CAD. There were erasable vellums with printing on either side of the sheet, copy-and-paste techniques, photo-drafting and other innovative tricks.
Now, of course, such creative thinking at the document creation level is no longer required because computers have made these things so much easier to do. So much easier in fact that many managers now think that designing a refinery can be done by sophisticated software and all that is needed is a bunch of CAD jockeys.
This is why engineering (not referring to software design) should not become a commodity. With greater sophistication in programs and more powerful hardware comes easier and easier creation of stuff.
...it's a huge engineering challenge. Argonne Nat'l Labs has reactor designs like this, but the US population is scared of nuclear power plants (plus, the cost overruns at plants made them economically unfeasible).
I guess I should have written "moronic live studio audience". Emeril's truly Troll-like in appearance, he should probably get together with Rachel Ray.
From Bill Cosby's "200MPH", after his Shelby Cobra is delivered:
"Them 18"... 21" diameter dual PIPES!!! Coming out from under the hood and fenders and wrapping around the car to form,.. a... rrrooooll bar. Look at them PIPES!!!"
I was surprised to find that a transcript of that bit is apparently not available on the web. It has to be heard to really appreciate it.
Doesn't the latest XP service pack disable popups in IE by default? From what I've read, popups are the most profitable methods of advertising as well as being the most annoying. In order to block other advertisements with FF the user has to act independently with extension installs and most people probably won't bother
If it's a full page colour ad at 300 lpi (or dpi, I forget the correct term for printing) it could be a *huge* file. But as a subsequent poster says, surely there's someone in the community that could provide the horsepower required.
You are so out of touch with reality it's not even funny. There are many purposes to business, but being a guaranteed source of employment is not one of them.
I agree, but what happens to the great unwashed once automation bumps up the unemployment rate to 10 or 20 percent or higher? The usual, not-very-well-thought-out response is something like, "well, they'll just maintain and build the software and cool robots".
What is odd about the "new economy" (if that is what it can be called) is that each progressive iteration serves to put more and more people out of work in favour of automation and more sophisticated software.
It looks to me like talented programmers and developers are gradually putting themselves out of work.
It seems like there are two separate possible problems here: people are coming into a company without the writing skills they need, and/or employees are not treating email communication with the same professionalism as other company documents.
I have to wonder if intentional ambiguity in writing offers a possible defence in courts of law. Marketing language certainly uses alot of it since it is designed to obfuscate.
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Get off your butt and change the settings by twirling that clicky, rotating knob on the front of the moving picture device.
Sheesh. You kids today don't even remember when TVs didn't have remote controls - no wonder you're all so fat.
Did it have thoughtful design features, like turning the pen over to erase (obvious) and not allowing someone to delete the whole screen accidentally (not as obvious)?
We (now obsolete) draftsmen used to actually have electric erasers and I doubt that real illustrators ever bothered to use the other end of a pencil for erasing. The choice of grades for graphite and eraser compounds (not to mention personal style) were too great to just rely on one type of erasure. I could blather on about this, but it would bore everyone.
"Deleting a whole screen" was when a badly-maintained print machine (sometimes mis-called a blueprinter - blueprints, AKA white lines on blue background - died many years ago) ate the original. We always did have recovery techniques, though, and when the large format photocopy machines came along we were able to re-use a lot of previously-drawn details without using CAD. There were erasable vellums with printing on either side of the sheet, copy-and-paste techniques, photo-drafting and other innovative tricks.
Now, of course, such creative thinking at the document creation level is no longer required because computers have made these things so much easier to do. So much easier in fact that many managers now think that designing a refinery can be done by sophisticated software and all that is needed is a bunch of CAD jockeys.
This is why engineering (not referring to software design) should not become a commodity. With greater sophistication in programs and more powerful hardware comes easier and easier creation of stuff.
And it would have been had the anti-nuclear nutters who stopped the whole thing in its tracks.
Maybe, just maybe anti-nuke people are the ultimate utilization of FUD techniques.
I'm eagerly awaiting someone with an even lower UID to settle the matter.
I wonder if I could get government funding to generate engineering ideas that no one wants to implement...
You can lead a horticulture but you can't make her think.
Where did you get this quote? Just curious.
Perhaps better project engineering is required.
Can a site visitor bookmark individual pages within a Flash-built site? I don't see a way to do it here:
http://www.opticanada.com/optiFlash.php
To me, this is just a way to force visitors to go through an entry page; not very user friendly.
Nor cunning.
Correction: "in korea only old people..." is a new, unoriginal, non-innovative, stereotypical slashdot joke.
I guess I should have written "moronic live studio audience". Emeril's truly Troll-like in appearance, he should probably get together with Rachel Ray.
Within a year or so, it was comfortably serving more requests and seeing more traffic every day.
Nah, I think we have spammers to thank for bandwidth increases. [/joke]
Kick it up a notch, now Emeril has his Smellivision. Has there ever been a more annoying TV personality or moronic zombie audience?
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"Voobah,voobah, voobah, ping!" to Bill Cosby
From Bill Cosby's "200MPH", after his Shelby Cobra is delivered:
"Them 18"... 21" diameter dual PIPES!!! Coming out from under the hood and fenders and wrapping around the car to form,.. a... rrrooooll bar. Look at them PIPES!!!"
I was surprised to find that a transcript of that bit is apparently not available on the web. It has to be heard to really appreciate it.
Doesn't the latest XP service pack disable popups in IE by default? From what I've read, popups are the most profitable methods of advertising as well as being the most annoying. In order to block other advertisements with FF the user has to act independently with extension installs and most people probably won't bother
If it's a full page colour ad at 300 lpi (or dpi, I forget the correct term for printing) it could be a *huge* file. But as a subsequent poster says, surely there's someone in the community that could provide the horsepower required.
Very insightful.
Why would it purchase a company whose stock has risen a huge amount based entirely on the profits of a personal music player?
I would *love* to see an IBM-Apple alliance.
Go for it.
You are so out of touch with reality it's not even funny. There are many purposes to business, but being a guaranteed source of employment is not one of them.
I agree, but what happens to the great unwashed once automation bumps up the unemployment rate to 10 or 20 percent or higher? The usual, not-very-well-thought-out response is something like, "well, they'll just maintain and build the software and cool robots".
Maybe Robotic Nation wasn't so far off.
What is odd about the "new economy" (if that is what it can be called) is that each progressive iteration serves to put more and more people out of work in favour of automation and more sophisticated software.
It looks to me like talented programmers and developers are gradually putting themselves out of work.
It seems like there are two separate possible problems here: people are coming into a company without the writing skills they need, and/or employees are not treating email communication with the same professionalism as other company documents.
I have to wonder if intentional ambiguity in writing offers a possible defence in courts of law. Marketing language certainly uses alot of it since it is designed to obfuscate.
It was necessary for me to read your message two or three times in order to determine your meaning.
But you did read it for times, right?
See, marketing tricks and subconscious manipulation do work!