anyone over the age of 18 that is still making minimum wage has made a conscious decision to just sit on their asses
I don't think laziness is a conscious decision. It takes no thought to do nothing. It's doing things that takes conscious decisions.
It's very easy (lazy even) to blame the high number of people on minimum wage on laziness, but it's really not that simple. A person who has to work two minimum wage jobs to barely scrape by is not lazy; stupid, uneducated, or underprivileged but not lazy. Often it's not just an issue of trying to do better it's knowing how to do better or realizing that it even possible for them to be able to do better.
Given a middle income neighborhood, a decent school, decent home life and an average brain capacity. If they are still working a minimum wage job after the age of 18 then yes I think that's a good indicator that they are just plain lazy, but how many of the 30 million people will meet those 4 criteria? I think you won't find many.
I definitely agree with you on companies misusing the tip to skimp on required resources.
Maybe a better tip would be Aesop's fable about the filbert boy:
A BOY put his hand into a pitcher full of filberts. He grasped as many as he could possibly hold, but when he tried to pull out his hand, he was prevented from doing so by the neck of the pitcher. Unwilling to lose his filberts, and yet unable to withdraw his hand, he burst into tears and bitterly lamented his disappointment. A bystander said to him, "Be satisfied with half the quantity, and you will readily draw out your hand."
Your story is kind of interesting because I was watching a program last night on money managing tips.
One of the tips was "make the most of what you have". I think many companies fail in that regard, especially publically traded ones.
The interesting thing is that if you replace "outsourcing" with "automation" in your argument the message is still the same, though the realities are quite different.
I agree that outsourcing is not a positive thing. History has shown (though some may dispute this) that automation is in general a positive thing. Automation allows a company to save money while improving quality and efficiency while for the most part outsourcing only saves money.
I had never heard of Truecrypt before, so I decided to check out the documentation.
"Traveller mode" is how you use a Truecrypt thumbdrive on a machine that doesn't have Truecrypt installed.
According to the documentation under "Traveller Mode":
Note that this feature only works for removable storage devices such as CD/DVD (Windows XP SP2 is required for this feature to work on USB memory sticks) and only when it is enabled in the operating system
The reason why Truecrypt pops up to mount your volume is because it's something you had already installed - kind of like iTunes opening up when I plug in my iPod.
Actually, you can make it autorun off of a thumb drive...windows just loves the autorun.ini [sic] file. You set them to hidden on there and the employees don't see it, but windows will run it.
Actually, you can't make it autorun off of a thumbdrive with an autorun.inf file even though that may work with a cd, because thumbdrives are considered removable storage like a hd or floppy, rather than removable media, like a cd. I know it because the company I work for had to replicate a ton of thumbdrives and we wanted to make them autorun like our cds, but there's no way to do it without changing the user's registry settings for autorunning.
A more likely scenario would be to name a file, "cute.jpg.exe" and giving it an image icon. Windows hides extensions by default, so all the user would see is a file that looks like an image with a tempting title to click on.
Maybe Silicon Valley could be Silicon Desert or Silicon Swamp
In New York City, the area I'm working in (Flatiron District) is considered a part of Silicon Alley and the company I'm working for would be considered a dot-com.
Do the leaders at google, yahoo, and cisco really understand the consequences of their choices other then[sic] beyond the next quarterly report?
I'm sure the leaders at google, yahoo and cisco understand the consequences. It's how they act given that they know and understand the consequences that is an issue.
It don't blame google for the way they acted. If you read the article, google chose not to provide services which would require personal information and content to be stored in china and they don't reroute traffic in china from google.com to google.cn. It's china that blocks google.com. I don't have anything nice to say about yahoo and cisco though. I don't have anything nice to say about narus either.
The difference between nude and naked is context. My figure drawing instructor used to say that the difference between nude and naked was 15 feet and the door to the classroom. When there are 20 people drawing a nude person in the middle of the room and everybody is expected to concentrate and get the anatomy right, there is no time to really look at the model as anything more than just lines and shadow.
I can only imagine the horror of internet forums if we actually had to deal with bad teenage handwriting in addition to the atrocious spelling and grammer... on the other hand... I could make a lot of money with that too...
'Don't look at what the industry is doing,' Erchak says. 'Look at what they're not doing and focus on that. That's where the real disruptive technology comes from.'
1. The industry is not making a...
2. ????
3. Profit!
The thing with the $100 laptop is that it's only $100 because they are planning on offering it in wealthier nations for around $200. That higher cost will subsidize the $100 cost for the poor countries.
I'm not going to go to your site and check out your game, just like you aren't going to RTFA, but I'm still going to ask you why you think your game is innovative. The fact that you can already describe what established genre it fits in already means it's *not that* innovative as opposed to *very* innovative.
You see, you have this mat, with different CTHULUSIONS written on it that you could JUMP TO. You know every time you want to come up with another Cthulu based marketing idea you can use it.
I had a C64 as a child, and I too remember games loading from tape with flashing screens/screen borders.
I had good memories of the C64 too =)
I was curious about those colorful borders and what purpose they served if any.
I guess it was just for eye candy after all.
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Seriously: agenda-pushing "stories", hyperbolic summaries, rhetorical questions? What is this, BoingBoing?
Can't be BoingBoing without unnecessary sexual references.
anyone over the age of 18 that is still making minimum wage has made a conscious decision to just sit on their asses
I don't think laziness is a conscious decision. It takes no thought to do nothing. It's doing things that takes conscious decisions.
It's very easy (lazy even) to blame the high number of people on minimum wage on laziness, but it's really not that simple. A person who has to work two minimum wage jobs to barely scrape by is not lazy; stupid, uneducated, or underprivileged but not lazy. Often it's not just an issue of trying to do better it's knowing how to do better or realizing that it even possible for them to be able to do better.
Given a middle income neighborhood, a decent school, decent home life and an average brain capacity. If they are still working a minimum wage job after the age of 18 then yes I think that's a good indicator that they are just plain lazy, but how many of the 30 million people will meet those 4 criteria? I think you won't find many.
I definitely agree with you on companies misusing the tip to skimp on required resources.
Maybe a better tip would be Aesop's fable about the filbert boy:
A BOY put his hand into a pitcher full of filberts. He grasped as many as he could possibly hold, but when he tried to pull out his hand, he was prevented from doing so by the neck of the pitcher. Unwilling to lose his filberts, and yet unable to withdraw his hand, he burst into tears and bitterly lamented his disappointment. A bystander said to him, "Be satisfied with half the quantity, and you will readily draw out your hand."
Do not attempt too much at once.
Your story is kind of interesting because I was watching a program last night on money managing tips.
One of the tips was "make the most of what you have". I think many companies fail in that regard, especially publically traded ones.
The interesting thing is that if you replace "outsourcing" with "automation" in your argument the message is still the same, though the realities are quite different.
I agree that outsourcing is not a positive thing. History has shown (though some may dispute this) that automation is in general a positive thing. Automation allows a company to save money while improving quality and efficiency while for the most part outsourcing only saves money.
I had never heard of Truecrypt before, so I decided to check out the documentation.
"Traveller mode" is how you use a Truecrypt thumbdrive on a machine that doesn't have Truecrypt installed.
According to the documentation under "Traveller Mode":
Note that this feature only works for removable storage devices such as CD/DVD (Windows XP SP2 is required for this feature to work on USB memory sticks) and only when it is enabled in the operating system
The reason why Truecrypt pops up to mount your volume is because it's something you had already installed - kind of like iTunes opening up when I plug in my iPod.
Actually, you can make it autorun off of a thumb drive...windows just loves the autorun.ini [sic] file. You set them to hidden on there and the employees don't see it, but windows will run it.
Actually, you can't make it autorun off of a thumbdrive with an autorun.inf file even though that may work with a cd, because thumbdrives are considered removable storage like a hd or floppy, rather than removable media, like a cd. I know it because the company I work for had to replicate a ton of thumbdrives and we wanted to make them autorun like our cds, but there's no way to do it without changing the user's registry settings for autorunning.
A more likely scenario would be to name a file, "cute.jpg.exe" and giving it an image icon. Windows hides extensions by default, so all the user would see is a file that looks like an image with a tempting title to click on.
Maybe Silicon Valley could be Silicon Desert or Silicon Swamp
In New York City, the area I'm working in (Flatiron District) is considered a part of Silicon Alley and the company I'm working for would be considered a dot-com.
Do the leaders at google, yahoo, and cisco really understand the consequences of their choices other then[sic] beyond the next quarterly report?
I'm sure the leaders at google, yahoo and cisco understand the consequences. It's how they act given that they know and understand the consequences that is an issue.
It don't blame google for the way they acted. If you read the article, google chose not to provide services which would require personal information and content to be stored in china and they don't reroute traffic in china from google.com to google.cn. It's china that blocks google.com. I don't have anything nice to say about yahoo and cisco though. I don't have anything nice to say about narus either.
The difference between nude and naked is context. My figure drawing instructor used to say that the difference between nude and naked was 15 feet and the door to the classroom. When there are 20 people drawing a nude person in the middle of the room and everybody is expected to concentrate and get the anatomy right, there is no time to really look at the model as anything more than just lines and shadow.
(I was an art major too)
I can only imagine the horror of internet forums if we actually had to deal with bad teenage handwriting in addition to the atrocious spelling and grammer... on the other hand... I could make a lot of money with that too...
You must be the new gay here.
Sad to see them going lowend
;)
You mean lwned.
'Don't look at what the industry is doing,' Erchak says. 'Look at what they're not doing and focus on that. That's where the real disruptive technology comes from.'
...
1. The industry is not making a
2. ????
3. Profit!
The thing with the $100 laptop is that it's only $100 because they are planning on offering it in wealthier nations for around $200. That higher cost will subsidize the $100 cost for the poor countries.
The Wall Street Journal has a more extensive article
I'm not going to go to your site and check out your game, just like you aren't going to RTFA, but I'm still going to ask you why you think your game is innovative. The fact that you can already describe what established genre it fits in already means it's *not that* innovative as opposed to *very* innovative.
How about a "Jump to Cthulusions mat"?
You see, you have this mat, with different CTHULUSIONS written on it that you could JUMP TO. You know every time you want to come up with another Cthulu based marketing idea you can use it.
I had a C64 as a child, and I too remember games loading from tape with flashing screens/screen borders.
I had good memories of the C64 too =)
I was curious about those colorful borders and what purpose they served if any.
I guess it was just for eye candy after all.
I bought the DS for Animal Crossing.
Mario Kart was just an added bonus.
Multi-headed laser-slash-semen shooting penis-slash-tenticles raping young girls so they can bear the prophesied
Q: And what is the title of this anime?
A: The Aristocrats
Woooosh!
Man... you really hate people from Utah. Don't you?
The Pokemon Mini (smallest console before GB-micro came out) uses a ball type sensor to detect shaking.
I just copied the one from google cache back into the wiki - we'll see how long it takes before that asshole takes it down again.
This is not the greatest game in the world. This is just a review.