The main reason people decide on the introvert approach is because people don't actually care. If people actually cared then introverts would have a reason to be more outgoing. Think of it that way.
You assuming that people "choose" a particular approach.
The attitude that there's something wrong with introverted people is widely shared in society, where fast talk and snap decisions are often valued over listening, deliberation and careful planning.
What does fast talk and span decisions have to do with introverts? I talk relatively fast and I certainly make snap decisions and I am introvert.
The article doesn't seem to ever define just what it means by "introvert". According to Wikipedea: The terms refer to "attitudes" and show how a person orients and receives their energy
This has squat to do with speed of decision making (although I can understand the fast talking thing to some extent).
Have you been living under a rock for the last five years? Dell, HP, and thousands of independant system builders are happy to sell you a PC without Windows. Even Fry's and Wal-Mart have PCs without Windows.
Really? And the Dell desktops that come without windows are more expensive.
Maybe it's because "less scratch-prone" is a nonsensical argument. I've got more than 300 audio CDs, and none of them have any visible scratches (as far as I know, anyway) - scratches on the CD just aren't something you're concerned about when you buy music.
And I have about 100 CDs, of which 3 are scratched. The plural of anecdote is not data.
I'm a CSI trying solve a crime and we need to get past level 1 to do that. I keep getting killed by the guy with the rocket launcher just after you have stolen the tank. Any tips on getting past this? It's kinda urgent.
Yet in my research, farmers do pretty well (we have 5 independent farmers within a 15 minute d ive who net over $1M/year and they're not megacorps but family run)
This is in the US right? Nothing like a good subsidy...
Maybe I'm just bitter because my country does not subsidise our farmers to the same extent and I have two uncle's who own farms.
In the last 5 years or so Intel has either been following AMD, or making big mistakes. Let me list them:
- K7 vs P3, Athlon pwns - Itanium (backwards compatability is good mkay) - Lengthening the pipeline for the P4 to push MHz - agreement with Rambus, limiting people to lower performing (in general), more expensive RAM - Prescott (lengthen the pipeline, compounding the errors of the P4) - x86-64 - dual core - performance, performance, performance. All the way down the line from the Athlon, AMD has provided more bang for your buck.
The only things intel has got right are: - HT (and this is arguable, I'm putting in to be charitable ) - Pentium M - Better manufacturing capabilities
I have to say I find it funny that in the IT industry that we are looking at a 25 year period. That seems awfully long.
my uncle has a celeron
would XP run on it, do you think?
about as well as a dog runs with no legs or torso
and with bricks tied to its head
at the bottom of a solid concrete pool
filled with dead corpses and rocks
so, about the same as it runs on my P4 then
more or less
Couldn't care less about the government? Not gonna get your marriage license , then? I guess you don't care about the tax credits either, do you?
Of course I'll get a marriage license, I just don't think it is important. And yes I pay my taxes, as appropriate to my situation whether married or not. I actually don't know what changes this will bring to my taxes. Also given that I don't live in the US, I think the arrangements might a little different.
Marriage has been, since the dawn of the idea, a political, governmental, and social thing with little to nothing to do with God.
At this point our views diverge sharply. See when I read Genesis 2, I see it as something that has been laid down by God since the dawn of time.
But for Adam no suitable helper was found. 21 So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man's ribs [i] and closed up the place with flesh. 22 Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.
23 The man said,
"This is now bone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called 'woman,'
for she was taken out of man."
24 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
As far as I am concerned, the government is just formalising something that already exists.
What you are suggesting is not a good idea. I want to marry my fiance as a public statement that we are going to spend the rest of our lives together. I publicly announce this in a way that is appropriate in this society. If I say to anyone that she is my wife, there is an immediate understanding of what that means.
Me, personally, I'm all about the tax credits and workplace promotions as a result of being married.
I'm not sure how the promotions work. Are you suggesting that I get promoted because my wife is my boss or something? Given that she is training to be a primary school teacher and I am a programmer, I'm not sure how that works. Or are you suggesting that people who are married are more likely to get promoted? I don't think it works that way in this country.
I just think IT people have a slightly different attitude. Clothes are one way of expressing that.
An example of this: I recently had a chat with a someone we recently hired (kinda tech support role, but new to the role). She came along to a customer site and remarked that she liked the inspiritational posters they had up on the walls. This was rather funny as I have been considering getting work to buy some demotivational posters from despair. The reason I wanted to buy them was to increase morale.
Anyway I turn up work most days in jeans and a T-Shirt. I'll suit up if I am meeting a client.
As someone who is about to get married, wife for me has the connotation that the union is permanent and public, before God, friends and family. I couldn't care less about the government. But I guess Christians are funny like that.
There is no problem with the theory. The theory applies in this case like this: If the record companies lowered the price of CD's to the $5 you propose, sales would increase. But they wouldn't increase enough to offset the loss of profit from the lower price.
I'll bite. I don't buy CDs largely because I consider them over priced. Let me give a real example with DVDs. All prices in AUD.
I don't normally buy DVDs either. I'd love to have an extensive collection of high quality DVDs, but they are generally too expensive ($30-40) for me to consider it worth it. I haven't bought a DVD for myself for about a year. In fact I think I have only bought one DVD and that was for someone else. However this week I bought 6 DVDs and my fiance bought 2 more for me. 3 of those DVDs I bought were for other people. The reason I bought all those DVDs was that they were high quality DVDs that were all $15 each. (FWIW the DVDs were 3 Kings, Collateral, Saving Private Ryan, Heat and one more whose name escapes me). Incidentally the one DVD I bought for someone else was also $15 (Citizen Kane) and I wouldn't have bought it unless the price was $15 either. Now I count that as 10 DVDs that would not have been sold if the price had been higher.
All this means is that you are running an unpatched box.
That is fine if you want to. I don't. I admin around 5 windows servers (although server may be a bit of a misnomer for some of them).
IIRC Microsoft has released patches that require a reboot for every month this year except October. Certainly the updates for November and September required reboots. This is for Windows 2000 pro, windows 2000 server, Windows XP, and Windows 2003 standard.
I work for a small startup. We recently decided to move the emil in house so needed a mail server.
Windows solution: ~$1000 for SBS ~$2000 for the box
Linux solution: $300 for two second hand P3 800s with new 80G HDs $0 for software.
(all proces in AUD)
Apart from the clear price difference I also get a redundant box. The mail server can burn to the ground for all I care, all I lose is any emails since the last backup and some downtime (probably around an hour or so).
The box has been in place for about a month or so now and handling the load well. I don't have any issues with licensing to worry about and the box just runs. Incidentally the licensing issue is a big one: A place where a friend works recently had an issue where their exchange server hit the 16Gb limit for Exchange Standard.
First, as you undoubtly know, english is not spoken by everyone. Actually, Chinese and Hindi would be a better target language.
This is incorrect. English is the best language to use becuase it is the most spoken language worldwide. It isn't necessarily the most common first language, but more people can speak English than any other language in the world. According to "English as a Global Language", David Chrystal in the late 1990s statistics suggest that between 1.2 and 1.5 billion people are either fluent or competant in English, and this figure is growing. Chinese comes in at 1.1 billion, and what more Chinese has many dialects (although unified by a common written language).
Hindi is also a poor choice. While at uni I was chatting to an indian student who told me that the offical language of india is English because there are so many different language within India. According to this (first result returned by google), a mere 480 million people speak hindi (180 as mother tongue, 300 as second language).
The message of Christ: being respectful, faithful, honorable, truthful, modest and humble make living a lot easier, even if you don't belive in the Messanger.
I don't think that this is entirely true. I think this is the message of Christ that people find easier to believe and accept.
16"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,[f] that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son. Link
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Is there anything out there equivalent to windows update? Windows wins this one
No it doesn't.
I have a shell script that runs daily on my servers that does:
apt-get -y -qq update
apt-get -y -qq upgrade
This updates all applications installed on that box. Windows update just updates windows.
Windows loses this one.
The main reason people decide on the introvert approach is because people don't actually care. If people actually cared then introverts would have a reason to be more outgoing. Think of it that way.
You assuming that people "choose" a particular approach.
The attitude that there's something wrong with introverted people is widely shared in society, where fast talk and snap decisions are often valued over listening, deliberation and careful planning.
What does fast talk and span decisions have to do with introverts? I talk relatively fast and I certainly make snap decisions and I am introvert.
The article doesn't seem to ever define just what it means by "introvert". According to Wikipedea:
The terms refer to "attitudes" and show how a person orients and receives their energy
This has squat to do with speed of decision making (although I can understand the fast talking thing to some extent).
Have you been living under a rock for the last five years? Dell, HP, and thousands of independant system builders are happy to sell you a PC without Windows. Even Fry's and Wal-Mart have PCs without Windows.
Really? And the Dell desktops that come without windows are more expensive.
I can't buy a thinkpad without windows (I tried).
My mistake. I checked, but forgot to check for American usage.
And I wouldn't normally bother, but there have been so many errors in summaries lately that I felt the need to comment.
What about inkjet printers?
Editors (and submitter), enrol has one l.
Maybe it's because "less scratch-prone" is a nonsensical argument. I've got more than 300 audio CDs, and none of them have any visible scratches (as far as I know, anyway) - scratches on the CD just aren't something you're concerned about when you buy music.
And I have about 100 CDs, of which 3 are scratched. The plural of anecdote is not data.
Just make sure that you don't hold it your lap.
Yet in my research, farmers do pretty well (we have 5 independent farmers within a 15 minute d ive who net over $1M/year and they're not megacorps but family run)
This is in the US right? Nothing like a good subsidy...
Maybe I'm just bitter because my country does not subsidise our farmers to the same extent and I have two uncle's who own farms.
In the last 5 years or so Intel has either been following AMD, or making big mistakes. Let me list them:
- K7 vs P3, Athlon pwns
- Itanium (backwards compatability is good mkay)
- Lengthening the pipeline for the P4 to push MHz
- agreement with Rambus, limiting people to lower performing (in general), more expensive RAM
- Prescott (lengthen the pipeline, compounding the errors of the P4)
- x86-64
- dual core
- performance, performance, performance. All the way down the line from the Athlon, AMD has provided more bang for your buck.
The only things intel has got right are:
- HT (and this is arguable, I'm putting in to be charitable )
- Pentium M
- Better manufacturing capabilities
I have to say I find it funny that in the IT industry that we are looking at a 25 year period. That seems awfully long.
In other news:
Microsoft releases office for Linux
SCO admits they have no case
Pigs seen flying in rural areas
my uncle has a celeron
would XP run on it, do you think?
about as well as a dog runs with no legs or torso
and with bricks tied to its head
at the bottom of a solid concrete pool
filled with dead corpses and rocks
so, about the same as it runs on my P4 then
more or less
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Interesting. The question does this demonstrate causality or correlation? And do marriages actually make people more stable or dependable?
Of course I'll get a marriage license, I just don't think it is important. And yes I pay my taxes, as appropriate to my situation whether married or not. I actually don't know what changes this will bring to my taxes. Also given that I don't live in the US, I think the arrangements might a little different.
Marriage has been, since the dawn of the idea, a political, governmental, and social thing with little to nothing to do with God.
At this point our views diverge sharply. See when I read Genesis 2, I see it as something that has been laid down by God since the dawn of time.
As far as I am concerned, the government is just formalising something that already exists.
What you are suggesting is not a good idea. I want to marry my fiance as a public statement that we are going to spend the rest of our lives together. I publicly announce this in a way that is appropriate in this society. If I say to anyone that she is my wife, there is an immediate understanding of what that means.
Me, personally, I'm all about the tax credits and workplace promotions as a result of being married.
I'm not sure how the promotions work. Are you suggesting that I get promoted because my wife is my boss or something? Given that she is training to be a primary school teacher and I am a programmer, I'm not sure how that works. Or are you suggesting that people who are married are more likely to get promoted? I don't think it works that way in this country.
That is absolutely apalling. There is no other way to describe that. And on the current topic, it makes a mockery of marriage.
I just think IT people have a slightly different attitude. Clothes are one way of expressing that.
An example of this: I recently had a chat with a someone we recently hired (kinda tech support role, but new to the role). She came along to a customer site and remarked that she liked the inspiritational posters they had up on the walls. This was rather funny as I have been considering getting work to buy some demotivational posters from despair. The reason I wanted to buy them was to increase morale.
Anyway I turn up work most days in jeans and a T-Shirt. I'll suit up if I am meeting a client.
Interesting.
As someone who is about to get married, wife for me has the connotation that the union is permanent and public, before God, friends and family. I couldn't care less about the government. But I guess Christians are funny like that.
There is no problem with the theory. The theory applies in this case like this: If the record companies lowered the price of CD's to the $5 you propose, sales would increase. But they wouldn't increase enough to offset the loss of profit from the lower price.
I'll bite. I don't buy CDs largely because I consider them over priced. Let me give a real example with DVDs. All prices in AUD.
I don't normally buy DVDs either. I'd love to have an extensive collection of high quality DVDs, but they are generally too expensive ($30-40) for me to consider it worth it. I haven't bought a DVD for myself for about a year. In fact I think I have only bought one DVD and that was for someone else. However this week I bought 6 DVDs and my fiance bought 2 more for me. 3 of those DVDs I bought were for other people. The reason I bought all those DVDs was that they were high quality DVDs that were all $15 each. (FWIW the DVDs were 3 Kings, Collateral, Saving Private Ryan, Heat and one more whose name escapes me). Incidentally the one DVD I bought for someone else was also $15 (Citizen Kane) and I wouldn't have bought it unless the price was $15 either. Now I count that as 10 DVDs that would not have been sold if the price had been higher.
All this means is that you are running an unpatched box.
That is fine if you want to. I don't. I admin around 5 windows servers (although server may be a bit of a misnomer for some of them).
IIRC Microsoft has released patches that require a reboot for every month this year except October. Certainly the updates for November and September required reboots. This is for Windows 2000 pro, windows 2000 server, Windows XP, and Windows 2003 standard.
This is like my solution at work.
I work for a small startup. We recently decided to move the emil in house so needed a mail server.
Windows solution:
~$1000 for SBS
~$2000 for the box
Linux solution:
$300 for two second hand P3 800s with new 80G HDs
$0 for software.
(all proces in AUD)
Apart from the clear price difference I also get a redundant box. The mail server can burn to the ground for all I care, all I lose is any emails since the last backup and some downtime (probably around an hour or so).
The box has been in place for about a month or so now and handling the load well. I don't have any issues with licensing to worry about and the box just runs. Incidentally the licensing issue is a big one: A place where a friend works recently had an issue where their exchange server hit the 16Gb limit for Exchange Standard.
This is an issue with NTFS. Basically performance drops off significantly when you put more than 10K files in one directory.
First, as you undoubtly know, english is not spoken by everyone. Actually, Chinese and Hindi would be a better target language.
This is incorrect. English is the best language to use becuase it is the most spoken language worldwide. It isn't necessarily the most common first language, but more people can speak English than any other language in the world. According to "English as a Global Language", David Chrystal in the late 1990s statistics suggest that between 1.2 and 1.5 billion people are either fluent or competant in English, and this figure is growing. Chinese comes in at 1.1 billion, and what more Chinese has many dialects (although unified by a common written language).
Hindi is also a poor choice. While at uni I was chatting to an indian student who told me that the offical language of india is English because there are so many different language within India. According to this (first result returned by google), a mere 480 million people speak hindi (180 as mother tongue, 300 as second language).
The message of Christ: being respectful, faithful, honorable, truthful, modest and humble make living a lot easier, even if you don't belive in the Messanger.
I don't think that this is entirely true. I think this is the message of Christ that people find easier to believe and accept.
16"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,[f] that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.
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