If $20/hour works for you, then more power to you. If it ever gets out of hand, like it has for the guy who submitted the story, raise your rates. You might even consider raising the rate anyway, but then giving a discount: "I normally charge $40/hour to most people, but I'm only charging you $20." Let people know your time is valuable.
When in colledge, i tried to run it as a business... that was terrible. It's more work than the money is worth it.
(/spelling nazi)Maybe when you were in "colledge" you should have focused more on spelling and grammar. =)
The funny thing is, the people i hate to help the most are my parents. I dunno if it's a mental block of soem sort, but i seem to get most irritated when they do stuff to their computers.
It's not that uncommon. We tend to have more emotional baggage with parents than with anyone else, even spouses and children. When I help out my dad on the computer, I just pretend he's retarded, even to the point of talking really slowly. (Basically as far as computers go, he is retarded. I can't tell him to click on an application, I have to tell him to click on the picture of the compass or the postage stamp with the eagle on it.) Oh, I also bought him an eMac, which was one of the better investments I've ever made. Thank god for one button mice!
Which of course brings us to the whole central purpose of the Mars initiative -- to have some vague goal that is practicaly unreachable, as to ensure that the billions keep flowing into contractors' coffers, without them actually having to do much work at all.
I'd be extremely surprised if Halliburton doesn't either already have a Space Exploration division, or is planning one. This one reads as pure pork all the way down the line.
It's pretty pathetic how many are falling for this "shiny object" ploy. Even people whose opinions I normally respect seem to be buying the bullshit because it jibes with their science fiction fantasies.
Now what about those of us who have to hold a map upside-down over our head to make sense of the orientation? Frigging monitors are HEAVY.
And what if your destination is further away than your longest extension cord?
But seriously, this is an improvement over the other services I've tried. It's locating my house wrong, but a lot closer to the correct location than mapquest locates it. I'd say Google is only off by 20 meters, whereas mapquest and others are about 500 meters off.
SBC is one of the original Baby Bells, and used to be named Southwestern Bell Company. They changed it to SBC Communications Inc. and had an ad campaign about it not too long ago.
I must have been absent the day you were made representative of 99% of the population. Were you elected, or were you appointed by someone? Was there a party? Cinnabuns in the conference room to celebrate? Dammit, I'm always absent when they have free Cinnabuns.
Believers are ignorant of Cell Creation and will be destroyed by their own word.
All Creation occurs between Opposites. On Earth between opposite hemispheres, and for humans, opposites sexes. The 2 opposite sexes equate to 2 separate Cells, as if dice of femininity and masculinity - equating Human Life to a Crap-Shoot chance of exciting lifetime possibilities.
I have demonstrated absolute proof of "Cellular Creation", through its attributes of 4 simultaneous 24 hour days within a single rotation of Earth.
I have $10,000.00 that I will wager that Cellism transcends and disproves Theism Creation.
Oh, great. Future comparisons of computing capability will be based on SPUs. "Hey, I got the new 12-SPU chip in my computer. How much SPU is in your computer?"
My computer has so many SPUs that I need to wear goggles and a raincoat just to run a spreadsheet.
Maybe you're ultimately right, that this is eye-candy without a purpose. But I think this is one of those things were the uses are only suggested by the demo. To see if it were really useful, one would need to play around with it for a while, just like I had to play around with OS X to get a feel for it. The demos I had seen of OS X before I had actually tried it were kind of a tease.
What I find interesting in concept (although I obviously haven't been able to try it) is the idea of a 3D UI, which Looking Glass approaches. (It's not quite there, imho. It's closer to the 2.5D you can build in After Effects, if that example means anything to you.)
The proof is in the pudding, of course, and the Looking Glass pudding hasn't been served yet. But the ideas intrigue me.
So, this might or might not be uselful. But my original point was that people are doing interesting things in UI design that go beyond what we have now, but I wish there was more of it. Many developers seem to be in a mental cage of MS's devising.
Have you ever checked out Sun's Project Looking Glass? It's pretty cool stuff, although some of its "advanced technology" we've already begun to seen come to market. Also, check out the demo by Jonathon Schwartz. (Warning: huge.mov file)
I don't know how far along this project is. I think the demo was old when I saw it a few years ago. The point is that there are useful creative ways to approach the desktop other than the Apple approach. However, I will readily admit that Apple has done the best job so far with OS X. Not that you need to twist my arm to sing Apple's praises. =)
what pisses me off is the whitewash, where they hang a few enlisted grunts out to dry, and the officers and senior NCO's, who IMNSGDHO had to not only know what was going on, but in fact explicitly encourage it, get off without even a black mark in the personnel files
What must be particularly galling is that the man ultimately responsible was re-elected. Further, he picked the guy who wrote the legal justification for torture as our new Attorney General. It's important to remember that while Bush didn't give a direct order to torture, he gave his tacit approval. He even insisted that Rummy stay on, after Rumsfeld twice tried to resign over the scandal. Rumsfeld, in public on the other hand, justified Abu Ghraib by saying that the actions of the terrorists were worse.
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If $20/hour works for you, then more power to you. If it ever gets out of hand, like it has for the guy who submitted the story, raise your rates. You might even consider raising the rate anyway, but then giving a discount: "I normally charge $40/hour to most people, but I'm only charging you $20." Let people know your time is valuable.
Dude, most slashdotters sit on their hand until it gets numb and then masturbate, so they can pretend they're getting a hand job from a stranger.
When in colledge, i tried to run it as a business... that was terrible. It's more work than the money is worth it.
(/spelling nazi)Maybe when you were in "colledge" you should have focused more on spelling and grammar. =)
The funny thing is, the people i hate to help the most are my parents. I dunno if it's a mental block of soem sort, but i seem to get most irritated when they do stuff to their computers.
It's not that uncommon. We tend to have more emotional baggage with parents than with anyone else, even spouses and children. When I help out my dad on the computer, I just pretend he's retarded, even to the point of talking really slowly. (Basically as far as computers go, he is retarded. I can't tell him to click on an application, I have to tell him to click on the picture of the compass or the postage stamp with the eagle on it.) Oh, I also bought him an eMac, which was one of the better investments I've ever made. Thank god for one button mice!
Well, the mud is one thing, but you know how clumsy primitive people are. They're like children, really.
It doesn't fit your description, but this switch is definitely less clunky, and will work with DVI monitors.
Which of course brings us to the whole central purpose of the Mars initiative -- to have some vague goal that is practicaly unreachable, as to ensure that the billions keep flowing into contractors' coffers, without them actually having to do much work at all.
I'd be extremely surprised if Halliburton doesn't either already have a Space Exploration division, or is planning one. This one reads as pure pork all the way down the line.
It's pretty pathetic how many are falling for this "shiny object" ploy. Even people whose opinions I normally respect seem to be buying the bullshit because it jibes with their science fiction fantasies.
Are you sure? The US is still there.
Now what about those of us who have to hold a map upside-down over our head to make sense of the orientation? Frigging monitors are HEAVY.
And what if your destination is further away than your longest extension cord?
But seriously, this is an improvement over the other services I've tried. It's locating my house wrong, but a lot closer to the correct location than mapquest locates it. I'd say Google is only off by 20 meters, whereas mapquest and others are about 500 meters off.
SBC is one of the original Baby Bells, and used to be named Southwestern Bell Company. They changed it to SBC Communications Inc. and had an ad campaign about it not too long ago.
For what value of "massive" are you referring?
Maybe for the value of stinky.
Don't anthropomorphize Mother Earth. She hates that.
They've always been pro-evolution and anti-Jesus*.
*If you're not for Jesus, then you must be against him. Not using the Bible as the foundation for science counts as being against Jesus.
"Asymmetric architectures confuse and frighten me."
-- Intel's Caveman Spokesman
I must have been absent the day you were made representative of 99% of the population. Were you elected, or were you appointed by someone? Was there a party? Cinnabuns in the conference room to celebrate? Dammit, I'm always absent when they have free Cinnabuns.
Nature's HarmonicSIMULTANEOUS 4-Day Time Cell
Believers are ignorant of Cell Creation
and will be destroyed by their own word.
All Creation occurs between Opposites.
On Earth between opposite hemispheres,
and for humans, opposites sexes. The 2
opposite sexes equate to 2 separate Cells,
as if dice of femininity and masculinity -
equating Human Life to a Crap-Shoot
chance of exciting lifetime possibilities.
I have demonstrated absolute proof
of "Cellular Creation", through its
attributes of 4 simultaneous 24 hour
days within a single rotation of Earth.
I have $10,000.00 that I will
wager that Cellism transcends
and disproves Theism Creation.
You ignorant dumbass.
Oh, great. Future comparisons of computing capability will be based on SPUs. "Hey, I got the new 12-SPU chip in my computer. How much SPU is in your computer?"
My computer has so many SPUs that I need to wear goggles and a raincoat just to run a spreadsheet.
In Soviet Russia, your computer SPUs on YOU!!
Faster electricity. =)
Think vector units, like the Altivec, and you'll be going in the right direction.
How someone could moderate that rubbish as insightsful is a mystery!
I deduce that we must be on Slashdot, my dear Watson.
-- Sherlock Holmes
I don't know why you stay with him, if he doesn't have the common decency to give you a reach around.
Maybe you're ultimately right, that this is eye-candy without a purpose. But I think this is one of those things were the uses are only suggested by the demo. To see if it were really useful, one would need to play around with it for a while, just like I had to play around with OS X to get a feel for it. The demos I had seen of OS X before I had actually tried it were kind of a tease.
What I find interesting in concept (although I obviously haven't been able to try it) is the idea of a 3D UI, which Looking Glass approaches. (It's not quite there, imho. It's closer to the 2.5D you can build in After Effects, if that example means anything to you.)
The proof is in the pudding, of course, and the Looking Glass pudding hasn't been served yet. But the ideas intrigue me.
So, this might or might not be uselful. But my original point was that people are doing interesting things in UI design that go beyond what we have now, but I wish there was more of it. Many developers seem to be in a mental cage of MS's devising.
Have you ever checked out Sun's Project Looking Glass? It's pretty cool stuff, although some of its "advanced technology" we've already begun to seen come to market. Also, check out the demo by Jonathon Schwartz. (Warning: huge .mov file)
I don't know how far along this project is. I think the demo was old when I saw it a few years ago. The point is that there are useful creative ways to approach the desktop other than the Apple approach. However, I will readily admit that Apple has done the best job so far with OS X. Not that you need to twist my arm to sing Apple's praises. =)
what pisses me off is the whitewash, where they hang a few enlisted grunts out to dry, and the officers and senior NCO's, who IMNSGDHO had to not only know what was going on, but in fact explicitly encourage it, get off without even a black mark in the personnel files
What must be particularly galling is that the man ultimately responsible was re-elected. Further, he picked the guy who wrote the legal justification for torture as our new Attorney General. It's important to remember that while Bush didn't give a direct order to torture, he gave his tacit approval. He even insisted that Rummy stay on, after Rumsfeld twice tried to resign over the scandal. Rumsfeld, in public on the other hand, justified Abu Ghraib by saying that the actions of the terrorists were worse.
You're off by an order of magnitude on the cost of adapters. See my reply to drinky poo's post above.