Where I went to school, we had home economics in middle school for all three years you were there. You were taught how to prep food, cook, and clean. Then with the other half of the course, you were taught how to sew.
It was one of those one semester only deals, but it was quite helpful. Making pizza from scratch in a 45 minute period is tough, but very rewarding, especially when it doesn't come out burned like everyone elses.
This is specifically why I did not like taking physics in any of my schooling. Most of it was not hands on. I'm the type of person where if you teach me how to do it, and then let me do it a few times myself, I'll remember it forever and then some. If I can't learn that way, I lose interest very quick.
When I attended ITT (go ahead, laugh all you want), the instructors would talk about which jobs used to be the bottom barrel jobs in their day. In their day is was the guys who repaired copier machines. Then they mentioned these days it's not like that anymore. You need to have an in depth mechanical and electrical understanding of how it works. Copying machines are a highly specialized computer with a lot of mechanical parts.
The average person buys their computer in a store, already built for them, everything installed. All they have to do is some very minor configuration when they first boot it up.
Those computers came with IE. If they knew about FF, Chrome, Opera, whatever, it was because someone told them about it. They used IE to go and grab those other browsers.
They may not know how to use another computer for this purpose, where they download the install file, pop it on a thumb drive and take it to their PC.
And before you begin some bullshit rant about the people I mentioned earlier who may be more technologically inclined, I'll put this to rest too.
Those people could be spreading the gossip from what they heard elsewhere. They could be a few hundred miles away.
The fact is, a lot of people are going to be stuck if they get a PC without a browser installed.
As much as we would like for people to be marginally PC literate, it just is not going to happen.
Ah, I hate CSS. But I took a hard nose dive into it and sort of got the hang of it. I understood it well enough to be somewhat dangerous with it. Still, I think tables are much easier to design with. Maintaining them? Not so much.
One thing that always bothered me is the line "tables are for tabular data". It's sort of a confusing statement at first glance. How exactly do you define data that doesn't belong in a table? If people just simply had left it as, "tables are not meant to be used in formatting", a lot less people would be confused.
If anyone is still confused about the tabular data thing, just think of what you'd put into a spreadsheet. If the data you're typing wouldn't go in a spreadsheet, why would you put it into a table?
There are some professors out there who teach Sociology who will tell you that only whites can be racist. If I had only heard this once, I'd write it off. However I've heard this from many different people who have went to different schools across the U.S.
Apparently the underlying argument for this ridiculous notion is that whites weren't enslaved (I assume they mean in recent history in large notoriety), and therefore can not know the hardships of being discriminated against.
Now when you evaluate that, it sounds like a lot of bullshit. Mainly because it is.
For whatever reason, there are people out there teaching this stuff. And unfortunately, there are people who actually believe this bullshit and repeat it.
Uuuhhh....you DO realize you read my post EXACTLY ass backwards, right?
Nope, just merely pointing out that you aren't up to date on what's what.
Getting NVidia brand new is fine, if you want to replace your card in two years, which a lot of people do not want to do. Look at the failure rates now on the 8 series and 9 series. If they're using a certain chip, they have a high failure rate. I see people on gaming forums complaining about it all the time, running going, "this game killed my graphics card!"
And to go one step back, in Vista's early life time, NVidia drivers took up a large portion of the pie when it came to BSOD's. Talk about "quality" driver support there, huh?
These are things you're clearly neglecting.
I would also say that if you're getting a BSOD on a matured OS like XP while installing drivers, you're probably doing something wrong. No one ever wants to admit they're doing something wrong, but you usually are. There's a note telling you to shut off all programs for a reason. There's also the chance that someone forgot to make sure the previous driver was completely uninstalled.
If you're that worried about your reputation, fine, stay in the dark ages. You will lose relevance.
I would say that your customers need to go elsewhere since you aren't staying up to date (and it appears that's what you should be doing for your line of business!). What you're describing is no longer true. Not only is NVidia having a hard time with their drivers, their cards that are a generation or two behind are dying left and right. If you had bothered to take notice, which you clearly haven't, ATI's drivers have greatly improved since AMD became their new overlords.
The only thing you have correct is that if you go AMD, you'll get the "bang for your buck".
You won't run into them too often outside giant bureaucratic systems where some boss thought using PDFs for forms was a great idea.
I ran into something similar at work once. I had the guys in QA load up my thumb drive with all of the procedures that go for the product line I had inherited from one of the other leads there that... well, no need to digress... The documentation was just so fucking sloppy that most of it had to be completely rewritten from scratch. I couldn't make heads or tails of anything when I went to do any testing.
I sat down with the technician that I was now in charge of for this stuff. As I was trying to have him teach me everything, he just placed the documentation to the side and stated that it would be easier to teach me without it. It took me about an hour, but I finally started understanding everything he was teaching me. The documentation started to make sense, but it was still so horribly inaccurate that the fact that any person actually spent time writing anything down was a waste of resources.
With understanding in tow, I take my thumb drive home and open it up..pdf's everywhere, sizes as large as 2MB.
As far as I had known, the only person who had a writer to edit these had left the company years ago. Making updates to these specifically was not going to happen. No matter, I was rewriting them all anyway. I load up word knowing that was the standard program in use at work and start pounding at my keyboard.
Document sizes were smaller (not that that was too important), documents could be edited by them if they needed to (very important), and any moron could actually follow the documentation step by step with full understanding what was going on.
When I had asked the QA team why there even.pdf's anyway, they pretty much summed it up to bureaucratic nonsense. Apparently the president thought it was a great way to keep everything under "lock and key".
I don't know why you were modded insightful. There's nothing insightful about your post. For those that have money to buy the latest and greatest, it's often about just seeing how far you can push the boundaries. What can you do with the hardware? What more can you do? Insert some car analogy of the similar effect if you like. It doesn't matter what the hobby is.
And for those that do upgrades every now and then, maybe they'd rather not wait for the prices to drop.
Keep in mind that a lot of developers these days tend to do something to their games with patches that cost you more FPS in some capacity. If you have a beefier card, this will not be as noticeable.
And then there are those that just feel more comfortable with 60 FPS or more on higher settings. While pretty pictures aren't everything, they do certainly help with the immersion of some games, and with those games, I'd want as few hiccups as possible so that I'm not disjarred from whatever has captivated my attention.
Less games like Crysis? The majority of PC games aren't like Crysis in their demands at the high end anyway. So what are you trying to say exactly? Crysis has always been the exception, not the rule.
Last I checked, video games weren't real life. And last I checked, in the fantasy and sci-fi realm, the bad guys always seemed to have an opportunity to get a lot of work.
You're missing the point. Google cache's the information too. the TPB doesn't. They just give you one big link that points to a lot of other people who have it.
You'd think that, but then there are people who won't stop using IE6 in favor of other web browsers, even their older versions, which are far more secure.
But in the eyes of the copyright cartel, they want everyone to believe they're the same thing. However, even if you play nice, there's no guarantee that the cartel will be nice to you for cooperating with them anyway.
I would almost think that with the economy as it is, Mozilla would want to keep Firefox as popular as possible by keeping it running on all these older computers out there that will NOT be replaced any time in the near future.
Think harder. With the way the economy is, it may not be the wisest choice to invest resources into an OS that has a been long gone and done. It's not as if other versions of their browser can't be run on those legacy OS's.
They get extra resources, which are man hours, which equates into money, with which they can invest into other projects, or on the same project in different ways to improve it for the platforms they do want to support.
The "constant" changing problem is almost null. These things are done at "live" events with hardware that isn't theirs. The only cheats they can do are exploits, and only if those exploits are clearly not mentioned in the rules.
It's just not a matter of you sitting at home stroking your cock while you load up aimbot.exe and wallhack.exe for these things.
You shouldn't have to calibrate per use. My phone is a touch screen device and I use it all day. Since I've bought it over a year ago it never lost its calibration. I've never seen other touch-screen devices lose their calibration so quickly in other areas. Whether it be the software or hardware, something is faulty with these machines. How much do tax payers shell out for these pieces of shit? With that kind of cash floating around, and for something as important as voting, there shouldn't be stupid issues like this. Suggesting a calibrate per use is ignoring the root the problem.
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Where I went to school, we had home economics in middle school for all three years you were there. You were taught how to prep food, cook, and clean. Then with the other half of the course, you were taught how to sew.
It was one of those one semester only deals, but it was quite helpful. Making pizza from scratch in a 45 minute period is tough, but very rewarding, especially when it doesn't come out burned like everyone elses.
This is specifically why I did not like taking physics in any of my schooling. Most of it was not hands on. I'm the type of person where if you teach me how to do it, and then let me do it a few times myself, I'll remember it forever and then some. If I can't learn that way, I lose interest very quick.
Speaking of copy repair people:
When I attended ITT (go ahead, laugh all you want), the instructors would talk about which jobs used to be the bottom barrel jobs in their day. In their day is was the guys who repaired copier machines. Then they mentioned these days it's not like that anymore. You need to have an in depth mechanical and electrical understanding of how it works. Copying machines are a highly specialized computer with a lot of mechanical parts.
Circular, but thanks for trying.
The average person buys their computer in a store, already built for them, everything installed. All they have to do is some very minor configuration when they first boot it up.
Those computers came with IE. If they knew about FF, Chrome, Opera, whatever, it was because someone told them about it. They used IE to go and grab those other browsers.
They may not know how to use another computer for this purpose, where they download the install file, pop it on a thumb drive and take it to their PC.
And before you begin some bullshit rant about the people I mentioned earlier who may be more technologically inclined, I'll put this to rest too.
Those people could be spreading the gossip from what they heard elsewhere. They could be a few hundred miles away.
The fact is, a lot of people are going to be stuck if they get a PC without a browser installed.
As much as we would like for people to be marginally PC literate, it just is not going to happen.
Ah, I hate CSS. But I took a hard nose dive into it and sort of got the hang of it. I understood it well enough to be somewhat dangerous with it. Still, I think tables are much easier to design with. Maintaining them? Not so much.
One thing that always bothered me is the line "tables are for tabular data". It's sort of a confusing statement at first glance. How exactly do you define data that doesn't belong in a table? If people just simply had left it as, "tables are not meant to be used in formatting", a lot less people would be confused.
If anyone is still confused about the tabular data thing, just think of what you'd put into a spreadsheet. If the data you're typing wouldn't go in a spreadsheet, why would you put it into a table?
There are some professors out there who teach Sociology who will tell you that only whites can be racist. If I had only heard this once, I'd write it off. However I've heard this from many different people who have went to different schools across the U.S.
Apparently the underlying argument for this ridiculous notion is that whites weren't enslaved (I assume they mean in recent history in large notoriety), and therefore can not know the hardships of being discriminated against.
Now when you evaluate that, it sounds like a lot of bullshit. Mainly because it is.
For whatever reason, there are people out there teaching this stuff. And unfortunately, there are people who actually believe this bullshit and repeat it.
If they keep going the route they're going, it will be more like ASSRAPE.
Uuuhhh....you DO realize you read my post EXACTLY ass backwards, right?
Nope, just merely pointing out that you aren't up to date on what's what.
Getting NVidia brand new is fine, if you want to replace your card in two years, which a lot of people do not want to do. Look at the failure rates now on the 8 series and 9 series. If they're using a certain chip, they have a high failure rate. I see people on gaming forums complaining about it all the time, running going, "this game killed my graphics card!"
And to go one step back, in Vista's early life time, NVidia drivers took up a large portion of the pie when it came to BSOD's. Talk about "quality" driver support there, huh?
These are things you're clearly neglecting.
I would also say that if you're getting a BSOD on a matured OS like XP while installing drivers, you're probably doing something wrong. No one ever wants to admit they're doing something wrong, but you usually are. There's a note telling you to shut off all programs for a reason. There's also the chance that someone forgot to make sure the previous driver was completely uninstalled.
If you're that worried about your reputation, fine, stay in the dark ages. You will lose relevance.
I would say that your customers need to go elsewhere since you aren't staying up to date (and it appears that's what you should be doing for your line of business!). What you're describing is no longer true. Not only is NVidia having a hard time with their drivers, their cards that are a generation or two behind are dying left and right. If you had bothered to take notice, which you clearly haven't, ATI's drivers have greatly improved since AMD became their new overlords.
The only thing you have correct is that if you go AMD, you'll get the "bang for your buck".
You won't run into them too often outside giant bureaucratic systems where some boss thought using PDFs for forms was a great idea.
I ran into something similar at work once. I had the guys in QA load up my thumb drive with all of the procedures that go for the product line I had inherited from one of the other leads there that... well, no need to digress... The documentation was just so fucking sloppy that most of it had to be completely rewritten from scratch. I couldn't make heads or tails of anything when I went to do any testing.
I sat down with the technician that I was now in charge of for this stuff. As I was trying to have him teach me everything, he just placed the documentation to the side and stated that it would be easier to teach me without it. It took me about an hour, but I finally started understanding everything he was teaching me. The documentation started to make sense, but it was still so horribly inaccurate that the fact that any person actually spent time writing anything down was a waste of resources.
With understanding in tow, I take my thumb drive home and open it up. .pdf's everywhere, sizes as large as 2MB.
As far as I had known, the only person who had a writer to edit these had left the company years ago. Making updates to these specifically was not going to happen. No matter, I was rewriting them all anyway. I load up word knowing that was the standard program in use at work and start pounding at my keyboard.
Document sizes were smaller (not that that was too important), documents could be edited by them if they needed to (very important), and any moron could actually follow the documentation step by step with full understanding what was going on.
When I had asked the QA team why there even .pdf's anyway, they pretty much summed it up to bureaucratic nonsense. Apparently the president thought it was a great way to keep everything under "lock and key".
I don't know why you were modded insightful. There's nothing insightful about your post. For those that have money to buy the latest and greatest, it's often about just seeing how far you can push the boundaries. What can you do with the hardware? What more can you do? Insert some car analogy of the similar effect if you like. It doesn't matter what the hobby is.
And for those that do upgrades every now and then, maybe they'd rather not wait for the prices to drop.
Keep in mind that a lot of developers these days tend to do something to their games with patches that cost you more FPS in some capacity. If you have a beefier card, this will not be as noticeable.
And then there are those that just feel more comfortable with 60 FPS or more on higher settings. While pretty pictures aren't everything, they do certainly help with the immersion of some games, and with those games, I'd want as few hiccups as possible so that I'm not disjarred from whatever has captivated my attention.
Perhaps under Linux, but under Windows I haven't had any issues.
Less games like Crysis? The majority of PC games aren't like Crysis in their demands at the high end anyway. So what are you trying to say exactly? Crysis has always been the exception, not the rule.
There's very few good 3rd party games on the Wii as is. There's a considerably higher ratio of shovel ware to good games than the other consoles.
Except that now newer versions of the PS3 aren't compatible with PS2 games. You can't really use that as a selling point anymore.
Well, if you want more Oblivion with guns... Wait, what are you trying to say again?
Last I checked, video games weren't real life. And last I checked, in the fantasy and sci-fi realm, the bad guys always seemed to have an opportunity to get a lot of work.
You're missing the point. Google cache's the information too. the TPB doesn't. They just give you one big link that points to a lot of other people who have it.
You'd think that, but then there are people who won't stop using IE6 in favor of other web browsers, even their older versions, which are far more secure.
But in the eyes of the copyright cartel, they want everyone to believe they're the same thing. However, even if you play nice, there's no guarantee that the cartel will be nice to you for cooperating with them anyway.
why am I explaining the obvious?
It's Slashdot, the land of knee-jerk reactions to things they don't want to really think about.
I would almost think that with the economy as it is, Mozilla would want to keep Firefox as popular as possible by keeping it running on all these older computers out there that will NOT be replaced any time in the near future.
Think harder. With the way the economy is, it may not be the wisest choice to invest resources into an OS that has a been long gone and done. It's not as if other versions of their browser can't be run on those legacy OS's.
The advantage? That's simple.
They get extra resources, which are man hours, which equates into money, with which they can invest into other projects, or on the same project in different ways to improve it for the platforms they do want to support.
The "constant" changing problem is almost null. These things are done at "live" events with hardware that isn't theirs. The only cheats they can do are exploits, and only if those exploits are clearly not mentioned in the rules.
It's just not a matter of you sitting at home stroking your cock while you load up aimbot.exe and wallhack.exe for these things.
You shouldn't have to calibrate per use. My phone is a touch screen device and I use it all day. Since I've bought it over a year ago it never lost its calibration. I've never seen other touch-screen devices lose their calibration so quickly in other areas. Whether it be the software or hardware, something is faulty with these machines. How much do tax payers shell out for these pieces of shit? With that kind of cash floating around, and for something as important as voting, there shouldn't be stupid issues like this. Suggesting a calibrate per use is ignoring the root the problem.