That you spend 90% of your time playing online games and you totally p0wn on them. Then, when they are really getting into the game you are showing them on your laptop, ask one of them to close the screen of the laptop. Then tell all the kids they are now the "users" and that they should all yell out in mindless repeatedly and run around the classroom like little mad superballs and bounce into each other. Then open the laptop back up and again, and say, "oh, look everyone, a user did something very stupid and broke things but I fixed it." Then go back to playing and they can all calm down.
You have just given them an accurate description and you never have to worry about being invited back to that teacher's classroom again.
Don't thank me, just send money.
Sometimes it works the otherway around, as well.
My company started using an opensource application, a coworker who was skilled in the language it was written in began helping out in development and customization of the app. Now he is paid in props/travel/little side cash by the initiator of the project and has increased his standing at the company because we use it so much. He knew nothing about it before we started using it.
I agree with what others have said, there is no such thing as useless knowledge. No, it might not guarantee you a job, if you are looking for guarantees in life, then you are wearing shoes of sadness on failure feet.
Me either. I buy a CD only if it is directly sold from the artist or their website(which is mainly indie stuff, of course). I have no problem supporting artists by going to see them live, as the portion of the money that actually goes to them is much greater (though the recording industry has their hands in this as well). They need to start concentrating on selling what you cannot digitally reproduce as yet, the complete experience of a live performance, rather than attempting to make money off of an artificially created monopoly on information in a time when that is no longer possible. The wonder is that we ever allowed the idiots to talk us into the idea that information content, not just a physical product holding it, a paperback for instance, should be protected by law. Maybe they weren't the only idiots.
While talking about the digestive system doesn't explain world hunger, it explains the possibility of world hunger, i.e. no digestive system, no hunger. The fact is, as someone else below has pointed out, addictions initially happen because the addictive behavior is pleasurable. This is why you don't see too many people getting addicted to having root canals or cleaning out port-a-potties. This would explain my Mountain Dew, Funyuns and Skittles thingie.
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"I live in a small southern European country where natural light abounds." Wtf, you have a better sun than the rest of us?
That you spend 90% of your time playing online games and you totally p0wn on them. Then, when they are really getting into the game you are showing them on your laptop, ask one of them to close the screen of the laptop. Then tell all the kids they are now the "users" and that they should all yell out in mindless repeatedly and run around the classroom like little mad superballs and bounce into each other. Then open the laptop back up and again, and say, "oh, look everyone, a user did something very stupid and broke things but I fixed it." Then go back to playing and they can all calm down. You have just given them an accurate description and you never have to worry about being invited back to that teacher's classroom again. Don't thank me, just send money.
Call me old fashioned but I still use butterflies to alter wind patterns allowing cosmic rays to flip bits on the hard drive. http://xkcd.com/378/
I don't use butterflies, but on my system I found a moth stuck in a relay and taped it in a book yesterday.
Just remember, this is the universe we are talking about, where 1 in 1,000,000 times 60 sextillion visible stars still = a crapload.
Sometimes it works the otherway around, as well. My company started using an opensource application, a coworker who was skilled in the language it was written in began helping out in development and customization of the app. Now he is paid in props/travel/little side cash by the initiator of the project and has increased his standing at the company because we use it so much. He knew nothing about it before we started using it. I agree with what others have said, there is no such thing as useless knowledge. No, it might not guarantee you a job, if you are looking for guarantees in life, then you are wearing shoes of sadness on failure feet.
Me either. I buy a CD only if it is directly sold from the artist or their website(which is mainly indie stuff, of course). I have no problem supporting artists by going to see them live, as the portion of the money that actually goes to them is much greater (though the recording industry has their hands in this as well). They need to start concentrating on selling what you cannot digitally reproduce as yet, the complete experience of a live performance, rather than attempting to make money off of an artificially created monopoly on information in a time when that is no longer possible. The wonder is that we ever allowed the idiots to talk us into the idea that information content, not just a physical product holding it, a paperback for instance, should be protected by law. Maybe they weren't the only idiots.
While talking about the digestive system doesn't explain world hunger, it explains the possibility of world hunger, i.e. no digestive system, no hunger. The fact is, as someone else below has pointed out, addictions initially happen because the addictive behavior is pleasurable. This is why you don't see too many people getting addicted to having root canals or cleaning out port-a-potties. This would explain my Mountain Dew, Funyuns and Skittles thingie.