Well, if I was a PHB, I probably would want one box that does everything. However, if I was a network admin, it might be nice to not put all my eggs in one basket. Having multiple boxes means that if one thing breaks, at least other stuff still works. Also, if one thing breaks, that one thing costs less than the box that does everything, and is cheaper to get everything back to working order.
I've worked in small companies too where this happens. It's kind of hard to find people at all sometimes, so mediocre or terrible workers get kept on, just because they are doing something, even if a lot of the time their work causes more harm than good. I think it is more prevelent in large organizations, but it does happen is small ones too. There's always that thought that the guy who doesn't know what he's doing will eventually figure stuff out and do something right, or that it's not right to throw away what he has learned about the specific project he's working on and start training somebody all over again. Who knows, the replacement could be just as bad, or worse.
Oh so true. I've worked with people who definitely caused more work than they produced. Example. A task that should have taken 2 hours to complete, actually took them 6 hours (working hours) to complete, and in the process, they did such a bad job, that it took 4 hours of other people looking into the problems caused, to go back and do it again the right way.
I think what you say is very true. People pay for a lot of things things that they didn't pay for 50 years. My 2 cell phones (wife and I), internet, and cable bills comes to almost $200 a month. We still pay it because we like having those things, but 50 years ago, those costs didn't even exist. Think about all the stuff that most people have that didn't even exist 50 years ago. Granted 50 years ago, they probably spent the money on other things, but there was probably quite a lower percentage just tied to monthly bills, and therefore more they could save. 50 years ago, many people were happy eating simple foods. Now everything has to be gourmet, organic, brand name food.
I find that people expect a little too much for being a tech working. When you can make $60,000 right out of school, things are pretty good. Also it's nice to be in a career where you don't that $0.10 - $0.25 per hour pay increase every year, and get something a little more substantial.
They want to put a tax, because with iPlayer, you could not have a TV, and not pay the TV tax, and still watch almost everything on the BBC. Which is what the TV tax goes towards. I think a much better solution would be, either, pay the TV tax, or if you don't already pay the TV tax, and you want to use iPlayer, then you should have to pay the TV tax. No need to charge everyone with an internet connection. Just charge everyone who wants to use iPlayer.
Let me rephrase that then. Do you think they ever conceived that people would be able to buy everything they needed, easily, from any other state? Also, even considering buying from the next state over was quite a challenge in the horse and buggy days. It would have probably taken you a whole day to travel to the next town over, just to buy your goods. Now you can place your order in 5 minutes, and it's delivered to your house in a day or two.
The nice thing about analog, was that you could get 1/2 a station. Analog degrade gracefully. Sometimes you lose a bit of the picture, or the sound is a little garbled, but you can at least get something. It's kind of like watching Youtube. The quality is terrible, but at least you can make out what's going on. Anybody with satellite can probably tell you that when you get a bad signal, the whole thing drops out and becomes completely unwatchable. I know many people with satellite, and often when there's just bad weather, the whole thing just doesn't work. I hope the same won't be true for digital broadcasts.
I really don't understand this idea in the US of every state doing everything individually in their own little way. I think it would be much more efficient to have one organization at the top managing all the taxes, then having to repeat everything 50 times over. Some things should be governed at the state level, but there are federal taxes for a reason. Federal taxes go to pay for federal programs. Why not just break the US into 50 little countries with no federal control.
Have you ever considered that perhaps, the constitution is a little out of date? Do you think they ever conceived that people would be able to buy everything they needed, easily from another state? Couldn't you just find a state without sales tax (i'm sure one must exist) and buy everything from that state. Sure it wouldn't be feasible for some items, but for many big ticket items, which would incur a lot of tax, like cars, electronics, and furniture, it would probably be beneficial to the consumer. Maybe if taxing sales becomes too difficult, they will just have to do everything through income tax, and let sales go tax free.
Well, they could provide an option so that the process continues to have root privileges. Other processes would continue to run with regular privileges, but the process you already gave permission to wouldn't ask again.
I remember many CD recording programs requiring root access of some kind or another to work correctly. I think that things have changed in the last few years, and you no longer require root access to burn a CD, but I specifically remember having to launch xcdroast as root in order to burn CDs.
Just like they don't give you an option to stretch the wallpaper image without screwing up the aspect ratio. A feature that would take 20 minutes to program, but it's left out, simply to annoy the users.
Well, that also explains "Documents and settings". Anyway, I think that MS's standard folder names are a bit like a kid with a new toy. The finally had long file names, and they went crazy creating the longest most impossible to type file names they could come up with.
It's very hard, because if you run the same app on XP, you don't experience any of the annoying popups. So therefore, it has nothing to do with the app, and everything to do with Vista.
The problem is that even MS hasn't gotten around to removing all the annoying UAC popups based on stuff in their own interface. If you want to rename something in your start menu, you get 3 prompts from UAC. Same goes for moving or deleting something. I get tons of UACs, and most of them are from Windows itself, not other apps.
Exactly. I'm not saying that he doesn't deserve his own show, or that he isn't a smart guy. However, what he does has very little to do with psychology, and a lot more to do with, first, that he tells people what to hear. And second, as you mentioned, he tells them in a way that gets them to listen. So, a lot to do with people skills, very little actual psychology.
It's pretty easy to predict that there will be nothing good on TV. Because there is never anything good on TV. The trick, is to always have 2 or 3 movies waiting to be watched. That way, when you're in the mood to watch a movie, it's always sitting there, just waiting for you to watch it.
Makes me think of probably the most famous psychologist, Dr. Phil. He got hugely popular pretty much just telling people what they needed to hear. Nothing he says is profound or thought provoking. He basically just tells you the way it is. Most people aren't really to do that, so I applaud him for doing that. However, I don't think that he's really doing that much that anybody else couldn't do.
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Why would you need a switch if everything is housed in a single box?
Well, if I was a PHB, I probably would want one box that does everything. However, if I was a network admin, it might be nice to not put all my eggs in one basket. Having multiple boxes means that if one thing breaks, at least other stuff still works. Also, if one thing breaks, that one thing costs less than the box that does everything, and is cheaper to get everything back to working order.
I've worked in small companies too where this happens. It's kind of hard to find people at all sometimes, so mediocre or terrible workers get kept on, just because they are doing something, even if a lot of the time their work causes more harm than good. I think it is more prevelent in large organizations, but it does happen is small ones too. There's always that thought that the guy who doesn't know what he's doing will eventually figure stuff out and do something right, or that it's not right to throw away what he has learned about the specific project he's working on and start training somebody all over again. Who knows, the replacement could be just as bad, or worse.
Oh so true. I've worked with people who definitely caused more work than they produced. Example. A task that should have taken 2 hours to complete, actually took them 6 hours (working hours) to complete, and in the process, they did such a bad job, that it took 4 hours of other people looking into the problems caused, to go back and do it again the right way.
I think what you say is very true. People pay for a lot of things things that they didn't pay for 50 years. My 2 cell phones (wife and I), internet, and cable bills comes to almost $200 a month. We still pay it because we like having those things, but 50 years ago, those costs didn't even exist. Think about all the stuff that most people have that didn't even exist 50 years ago. Granted 50 years ago, they probably spent the money on other things, but there was probably quite a lower percentage just tied to monthly bills, and therefore more they could save. 50 years ago, many people were happy eating simple foods. Now everything has to be gourmet, organic, brand name food.
I find that people expect a little too much for being a tech working. When you can make $60,000 right out of school, things are pretty good. Also it's nice to be in a career where you don't that $0.10 - $0.25 per hour pay increase every year, and get something a little more substantial.
Well, once you've got the car thief, you've filled your quota for a while. So you can go after piddly little DVD thieves.
The difference is, that it's easier for the cops to track down a stolen car, then track down a stolen DVD.
Sounds like he could get a nice book deal.
They want to put a tax, because with iPlayer, you could not have a TV, and not pay the TV tax, and still watch almost everything on the BBC. Which is what the TV tax goes towards. I think a much better solution would be, either, pay the TV tax, or if you don't already pay the TV tax, and you want to use iPlayer, then you should have to pay the TV tax. No need to charge everyone with an internet connection. Just charge everyone who wants to use iPlayer.
Let me rephrase that then. Do you think they ever conceived that people would be able to buy everything they needed, easily, from any other state? Also, even considering buying from the next state over was quite a challenge in the horse and buggy days. It would have probably taken you a whole day to travel to the next town over, just to buy your goods. Now you can place your order in 5 minutes, and it's delivered to your house in a day or two.
The nice thing about analog, was that you could get 1/2 a station. Analog degrade gracefully. Sometimes you lose a bit of the picture, or the sound is a little garbled, but you can at least get something. It's kind of like watching Youtube. The quality is terrible, but at least you can make out what's going on. Anybody with satellite can probably tell you that when you get a bad signal, the whole thing drops out and becomes completely unwatchable. I know many people with satellite, and often when there's just bad weather, the whole thing just doesn't work. I hope the same won't be true for digital broadcasts.
I really don't understand this idea in the US of every state doing everything individually in their own little way. I think it would be much more efficient to have one organization at the top managing all the taxes, then having to repeat everything 50 times over. Some things should be governed at the state level, but there are federal taxes for a reason. Federal taxes go to pay for federal programs. Why not just break the US into 50 little countries with no federal control.
Have you ever considered that perhaps, the constitution is a little out of date? Do you think they ever conceived that people would be able to buy everything they needed, easily from another state? Couldn't you just find a state without sales tax (i'm sure one must exist) and buy everything from that state. Sure it wouldn't be feasible for some items, but for many big ticket items, which would incur a lot of tax, like cars, electronics, and furniture, it would probably be beneficial to the consumer. Maybe if taxing sales becomes too difficult, they will just have to do everything through income tax, and let sales go tax free.
Doesn't matter, I should only get 1 prompt, not 3.
Well, they could provide an option so that the process continues to have root privileges. Other processes would continue to run with regular privileges, but the process you already gave permission to wouldn't ask again.
I remember many CD recording programs requiring root access of some kind or another to work correctly. I think that things have changed in the last few years, and you no longer require root access to burn a CD, but I specifically remember having to launch xcdroast as root in order to burn CDs.
Worked when I installed Mandriva on my laptop. It's quite a bit faster than Vista.
Just like they don't give you an option to stretch the wallpaper image without screwing up the aspect ratio. A feature that would take 20 minutes to program, but it's left out, simply to annoy the users.
Well, that also explains "Documents and settings". Anyway, I think that MS's standard folder names are a bit like a kid with a new toy. The finally had long file names, and they went crazy creating the longest most impossible to type file names they could come up with.
It's very hard, because if you run the same app on XP, you don't experience any of the annoying popups. So therefore, it has nothing to do with the app, and everything to do with Vista.
The problem is that even MS hasn't gotten around to removing all the annoying UAC popups based on stuff in their own interface. If you want to rename something in your start menu, you get 3 prompts from UAC. Same goes for moving or deleting something. I get tons of UACs, and most of them are from Windows itself, not other apps.
Exactly. I'm not saying that he doesn't deserve his own show, or that he isn't a smart guy. However, what he does has very little to do with psychology, and a lot more to do with, first, that he tells people what to hear. And second, as you mentioned, he tells them in a way that gets them to listen. So, a lot to do with people skills, very little actual psychology.
It's pretty easy to predict that there will be nothing good on TV. Because there is never anything good on TV. The trick, is to always have 2 or 3 movies waiting to be watched. That way, when you're in the mood to watch a movie, it's always sitting there, just waiting for you to watch it.
Makes me think of probably the most famous psychologist, Dr. Phil. He got hugely popular pretty much just telling people what they needed to hear. Nothing he says is profound or thought provoking. He basically just tells you the way it is. Most people aren't really to do that, so I applaud him for doing that. However, I don't think that he's really doing that much that anybody else couldn't do.