Someone other than me originally wrote this. My apologies to non-native English-speakers, as this is bound to do some brane damage to those that do their best to try to comprehend:
I have a spelling checker.
It came with my PC.
It plane lee marks four my revue
Miss steaks aye can knot sea.
Eye ran this poem threw it,
Your sure reel glad two no.
Its vary polished in it's weigh,
My checker tolled me sew.
A checker is a bless sing,
It freeze yew lodes of thyme.
It helps me right awl stiles two reed,
And aides me when aye rime.
Each frays come posed up on my screen
Eye trussed to bee a joule.
The checker poured ore every word
To cheque sum spelling rule.
Be fore a vailing checkers
Hour spelling mite decline,
And if were lacks o'er have a laps,
We wood bee maid to wine.
Butt now bee cause my spelling
Is checked with such grate flare,
Their are know faults with in my cite,
Of nun aye am a wear.
Now spelling does knot phase me,
It does knot bring a tier.
My pay purrs awl due glad den
With wrapped words fare as hear.
To rite with care is quite a feet
Of witch won should be proud.
And wee mussed dew the best wee can,
Sew flaws are knot aloud.
Sow ewe can sea why aye dew prays
Such soft ware for pea seas,
And why I brake in two averse
When righting what aye pleas.
I'm trying to remember that axiom that states something like, "dumb people only hire people that are dumber than themselves" (in order to preserve mediocre status and authority), but I can't recall what it is.
Plumbers don't typically do that type of work though, piping designers and engineers do. Plumbers need to have good, site-specific troubleshooting skills and a lot of manual skills/knowledge. I wouldn't group them with burger-flippers.
The high cost of real estate likely fuels the "I am not making enough money" syndrome for everyone. Most other expenses don't seem to be increasing at such an alarming pace. Even with extremely low interest rates, what's the average cost of an entry-level house/townhouse/condo in an area where there are many jobs?
The difference is that our Coke machines have those temperature-dependent pricing processors. Since it never gets above 65 degrees American here, the machine charges the lowest possible price.
Also consider the metric shitload of "reality programming" (which I am convinced attracts the stupidest people, therefore creating a self-selecting demographic that is easy to sell junk to) and the availability of speciality networks.
Could you live off of $30,000/year? Do you think that would make you "rich?"
Lots of people do, but they're likely not in your class of preferred individuals. I'm going to infer that you earn much more than $30K (after taxes) per year.
$30K is a nice amount to be earning for essentially doing nothing while the original investment builds into a nice inheritance for the offspring.
If you would have trouble living on $575 clear per week in this hypothetical scenario I'd suggest that you move somewhere more affordable and not insist on driving late model BMWs.
Then again, maybe your mortgage/rent is $2500/month and not keeping up with your peers would severely dent your ego because as we all know, toys and economic status define the individual, right?
I'm thinking that my "neverending investment income" statement is valid unless you dip into the capital for spending binges. Or if the whole economic system melts down.
Computers were not popularized by Microsoft. They were quite popular before before windows, and DRDOS was just as good (or better) right up until Windows 95.
Unless I'm mistaken, the reason that so many homes and businesses now have and use computers is because Windows was (relatively) inexpensive and "easy to use". Without a computer in the home or business, the internet is irrelevant.
Then again, the real reason I spent $4000 on a PC (anyone know what a similar Mac would have cost at the same time?) was to run Doom and AutoCAD.
Then I discovered Compuserve...
Sounds similar to my browser use progression. After various Netscape upgrades in the early/mid nineties, I switched to IE because it seemed to be faster on a 14.4 modem.
Standard IE > Crazybrowser > Avantbrowser > Firefox. I had tested with Mozilla and early Firefox variants.
Firefox still has to be able to remember what sites were previously open when restarting. Dragging and dropping of tabs would also be nice.
I really can't believe I'm so anal as to not only notice the error, but point it out to this extent
Have you considered proo freading as a career?
Sloppy posts at slashdot are irritating to me too. I don't think that pointing out errors is all that bad, as there are a lot of non-native spellers and kids posting here who might benefit from correction.
Then again, there are those who intentionally make mistakes just to annoy.
It seems odd to me that people who need to be exact when typing (to make a program work) would be so careless when communicating. Maybe those that make the most mistakes are cut and pasters.
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Anything as badly written as those examples would be deleted from my inbox before I got to the end of the first sentence.
Maybe SpamAssassin should have this as an option - more than x% mispelled words of total content of message triggers auto tagging as spam.
Someone other than me originally wrote this. My apologies to non-native English-speakers, as this is bound to do some brane damage to those that do their best to try to comprehend:
I have a spelling checker.
It came with my PC.
It plane lee marks four my revue
Miss steaks aye can knot sea.
Eye ran this poem threw it,
Your sure reel glad two no.
Its vary polished in it's weigh,
My checker tolled me sew.
A checker is a bless sing,
It freeze yew lodes of thyme.
It helps me right awl stiles two reed,
And aides me when aye rime.
Each frays come posed up on my screen
Eye trussed to bee a joule.
The checker poured ore every word
To cheque sum spelling rule.
Be fore a vailing checkers
Hour spelling mite decline,
And if were lacks o'er have a laps,
We wood bee maid to wine.
Butt now bee cause my spelling
Is checked with such grate flare,
Their are know faults with in my cite,
Of nun aye am a wear.
Now spelling does knot phase me,
It does knot bring a tier.
My pay purrs awl due glad den
With wrapped words fare as hear.
To rite with care is quite a feet
Of witch won should be proud.
And wee mussed dew the best wee can,
Sew flaws are knot aloud.
Sow ewe can sea why aye dew prays
Such soft ware for pea seas,
And why I brake in two averse
When righting what aye pleas.
I'm trying to remember that axiom that states something like, "dumb people only hire people that are dumber than themselves" (in order to preserve mediocre status and authority), but I can't recall what it is.
Want to know how much you're getting ripped of when you carry a balance on your credit card?
It appears that the vast majority are completely ignorant of this (or don't care because, "hey, if I go down, so does the whole system").
Plumbers don't typically do that type of work though, piping designers and engineers do. Plumbers need to have good, site-specific troubleshooting skills and a lot of manual skills/knowledge. I wouldn't group them with burger-flippers.
Please forgive me for plugging my own site below.
Boring crap
Administration costs?
The high cost of real estate likely fuels the "I am not making enough money" syndrome for everyone. Most other expenses don't seem to be increasing at such an alarming pace. Even with extremely low interest rates, what's the average cost of an entry-level house/townhouse/condo in an area where there are many jobs?
Mrs Krabappel: Now who's calculator can tell me what seven times eight is?
Milhouse: Oh oh oh, low battery!
Mrs Krabappel: Whatever
[Milhouse smiles in satisfaction]
The difference is that our Coke machines have those temperature-dependent pricing processors. Since it never gets above 65 degrees American here, the machine charges the lowest possible price.
The more prisons offer to the inmates, the more inclined people are to WANT to go there
Just look at Australia for example.
Sorry.
One year-olds are vertically-challenged. Put the computer on a high shelf.
Also consider the metric shitload of "reality programming" (which I am convinced attracts the stupidest people, therefore creating a self-selecting demographic that is easy to sell junk to) and the availability of speciality networks.
Examples: Santa Claus, Easter Bunny, Tooth Fairy.
Unless you're archiving video or 10,000 of your favourite tunes, this is way overkill. Most people with 40GB hard drives never fill them.
Let the replies referring to Bill Gates' statement about "enough for everyone" and slashdot's SIG comment restrictions begin.
Could you live off of $30,000/year? Do you think that would make you "rich?"
Lots of people do, but they're likely not in your class of preferred individuals. I'm going to infer that you earn much more than $30K (after taxes) per year.
$30K is a nice amount to be earning for essentially doing nothing while the original investment builds into a nice inheritance for the offspring.
If you would have trouble living on $575 clear per week in this hypothetical scenario I'd suggest that you move somewhere more affordable and not insist on driving late model BMWs. Then again, maybe your mortgage/rent is $2500/month and not keeping up with your peers would severely dent your ego because as we all know, toys and economic status define the individual, right?
I'm thinking that my "neverending investment income" statement is valid unless you dip into the capital for spending binges. Or if the whole economic system melts down.
Yeah, the live TV coverage seen worldwide of that crisis was riveting.
"I'd like to thank everyone that waved with all five fingers."
- from GWB's recent press conference in Ottawa
Ken, is that you?
Could be that he threw the game after winning enough - this is a possible model for intelligent people/investors.
500,000 for toys and "immediate" satisfaction and 2MM for neverending investment income.
No. The Bush administration is now "powering down".
What happened after "nine eleven" is now being reconsidered.
"9/11" was the worst thing that had ever happened to Americans.
He probably wants to be left alone at this point.
Is there some kind of odd American hero worship (or worse, mass-marketing slimeification) wanted here?
Ken bobble-heads, anyone?
It's about time that we old farts not trust anyone under 30 again.
Computers were not popularized by Microsoft. They were quite popular before before windows, and DRDOS was just as good (or better) right up until Windows 95.
Unless I'm mistaken, the reason that so many homes and businesses now have and use computers is because Windows was (relatively) inexpensive and "easy to use". Without a computer in the home or business, the internet is irrelevant.
Then again, the real reason I spent $4000 on a PC (anyone know what a similar Mac would have cost at the same time?) was to run Doom and AutoCAD. Then I discovered Compuserve...
Sounds similar to my browser use progression. After various Netscape upgrades in the early/mid nineties, I switched to IE because it seemed to be faster on a 14.4 modem.
Standard IE > Crazybrowser > Avantbrowser > Firefox. I had tested with Mozilla and early Firefox variants.
Firefox still has to be able to remember what sites were previously open when restarting. Dragging and dropping of tabs would also be nice.
I really can't believe I'm so anal as to not only notice the error, but point it out to this extent
Have you considered proo freading as a career?
Sloppy posts at slashdot are irritating to me too. I don't think that pointing out errors is all that bad, as there are a lot of non-native spellers and kids posting here who might benefit from correction.
Then again, there are those who intentionally make mistakes just to annoy.
It seems odd to me that people who need to be exact when typing (to make a program work) would be so careless when communicating. Maybe those that make the most mistakes are cut and pasters.