Most people forget that what a person wants is very different from what they buy. A person buying a drill didn't want a drill, they need to make a hole. Even the hole was only necessary because the person actually just needed to mount a shelf. The Democrats kept saying "Look at our great drill and all the features it has. You have to get it because it is the best drill." Trump said "I'll hang your shelf."
I stared at this paragraph and reread it for a full 15 minutes whilst the construct around me collapsed and a new framework of thinking was supplanted. Thanks for this insight, friend.
Wow. I have no idea what you just said, but it reminded me of the Hit Song Science program which is the music industry software that predicts whether a tune is going to be a "hit" or a "miss"
Appropriately enough for this thread, this article has a quote from Polyphonic HMI's chief executive Mike McCready "There are a limited number of mathematical formulas for hit songs. We don't know why."
Once they open-source those mathematical formulas that they've derived, then we can start using all the music development software to get rich.
Problem: People are using old computers to experiment with Linux, and aren't paying us enough money.
Solution: Provide a seemingly philanthropic way for these people to donate their computers, and make them feel bad for selfishly hoarding computers that could otherwise be used for kids. Then, when this plan works, sell more addon licenses for products such as Office. When these refurbished Win98 and Win2000 machines propagate, scare the schools into buying new computers with WinXP by inundating them with stories of hackers and crackers.
Couldn't find any articles about cyberterrorism towards the U.S. However, the U.S. government bestowed the right on the U.S. military to conduct cyber-attacks that would otherwise constitute cyberterrorism if perpetrated on the U.S. Neat thing power is, huh?
Snippet from article linked below:
"It has been widely reported that President Bush signed a directive last summer, ordering the government to develop a cyber-warfare guidance plan. The strategic doctrine would detail when the U.S. would use cyber attacks, who would authorize it, what constitutes legitimate targets, and what kinds of attacks -- Denial of Service, hacking, worms -- could be used. Bush signed the order, the National Security Presidential Directive 16, last July.
Can you do a little reconnaissance into this Used Kids Annex linked from your link for me? If it's anything like a Used CD Shop, I have some kids that I don't listen to anymore and would gladly trade them in for some cold hard cash!
Why don't you read all 3 of those books and summarize it for the newbie user? What's the matter, can't stomach 1258 pages? Here's what your suggested books prescribe:
394 pages
408 pages
456 pages
I tell you what, I was going to suggest you read all 3 of those books, then summarize them into an easy to read FAQ, but judging by your idiocy, I wouldn't want to deal with users who had to listen to your advice.
Well, thank you for responding in a non-abrasive manner, but....(everyone has a but!) those books are HUGE, which means SCARY. Respectively to your post:
456 pages
408 pages
380 pages
So, newbies have the choice of reading all 3 of those books, or reading War and Peace. There's a simple elegance to documentation/user guides, and I'm sure they exist out there on the web, but for some reason, no one wants to offer them forward. I'd be willing to join a project that strives to do this.
Seriously, being self-deprecating puts people at ease in social settings and lets them know that you don't take yourself too seriously.
A coworker of mine was an introverted ugly duckling until the latter years of high school, and had no choice but to make fun of the earlier version of himself. He fit in quite well afterwards. Now he's big, so people who are on a friendly wavelength will jokingly threaten to kick his arse, indirectly insulting themselves, which is hilarious because he could fend you off with his thumb.
The whole process of figuring out how to make fun of yourself in a way that's more humorous than embarassing not only promotes social interaction, but stimulates creativity.
Well, rather than bash the 'idiot user' and forever shoehorn him/her into a status that is not as 'elite' as yours, why don't we all agree to disseminate 'the idiot's guide to computers and the internet'
I haven't seen that published yet, and yes, I was a tech support rep for 2.5 yrs, so I know how frustrating it is to deal with the typical 'idiot user' yet I was the only solution to the problem, despite the fact that I had only 10 minutes to explain everything due to the company's call time expectations.
The oddest thing about the contradictory articles is the contradictary quotes from the Maryland Election Supervisor.
How could she say they had problems in the morning, then in the afternoon say they haven't had any problems at all?
The Yahoo(AP) article (posted 11:14 AM ET/8:14 AM PST) says:
One Maryland polling place had to switch to paper ballots Tuesday because its new electronic voting machines didn't work. State elections supervisor Linda Lamone said technicians expected to have the problem fixed quickly.
The CNET article (last updated 5:05 PM PST) says:
"We had no equipment failures at all," Linda Lamone, Maryland's elections administrator, said in an interview Tuesday afternoon.
Confirmed by Wind River as an Out-of-Memory problem. Although, in this case it seems like a lack of human garbage collection.
Interestingly, Wind River had the best solution for PPPoE DSL connectivity software (WinPoET) before RASPPPoE and Windows XP came along.
I just thought of something.
The other day, the construction company working on my deck managed to plug enough equipment in to trip the breaker that happened to be on the same circuit as my computers. If I 'accidentally' had a 'faulty' breaker, thus frying my hard drive beyond repair, would that rule all the RIAA's log files as circumstantial evidence? If so, I could just run this hard drive through an industrial strength electromagnet, followed by several jolts of 1.21 gigawatts until the platters were melted and be as free as a bird.
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Most people forget that what a person wants is very different from what they buy. A person buying a drill didn't want a drill, they need to make a hole. Even the hole was only necessary because the person actually just needed to mount a shelf. The Democrats kept saying "Look at our great drill and all the features it has. You have to get it because it is the best drill." Trump said "I'll hang your shelf."
I stared at this paragraph and reread it for a full 15 minutes whilst the construct around me collapsed and a new framework of thinking was supplanted. Thanks for this insight, friend.
Wow. I have no idea what you just said, but it reminded me of the Hit Song Science program which is the music industry software that predicts whether a tune is going to be a "hit" or a "miss"
Appropriately enough for this thread, this article has a quote from Polyphonic HMI's chief executive Mike McCready "There are a limited number of mathematical formulas for hit songs. We don't know why."
Once they open-source those mathematical formulas that they've derived, then we can start using all the music development software to get rich.
Wow, I wish I had their skills.
Problem: People are using old computers to experiment with Linux, and aren't paying us enough money.
Solution: Provide a seemingly philanthropic way for these people to donate their computers, and make them feel bad for selfishly hoarding computers that could otherwise be used for kids. Then, when this plan works, sell more addon licenses for products such as Office. When these refurbished Win98 and Win2000 machines propagate, scare the schools into buying new computers with WinXP by inundating them with stories of hackers and crackers.
Couldn't find any articles about cyberterrorism towards the U.S. However, the U.S. government bestowed the right on the U.S. military to conduct cyber-attacks that would otherwise constitute cyberterrorism if perpetrated on the U.S. Neat thing power is, huh?
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Snippet from article linked below:
"It has been widely reported that President Bush signed a directive last summer, ordering the government to develop a cyber-warfare guidance plan. The strategic doctrine would detail when the U.S. would use cyber attacks, who would authorize it, what constitutes legitimate targets, and what kinds of attacks -- Denial of Service, hacking, worms -- could be used. Bush signed the order, the National Security Presidential Directive 16, last July.
http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/secu/article.php
Can you do a little reconnaissance into this Used Kids Annex linked from your link for me? If it's anything like a Used CD Shop, I have some kids that I don't listen to anymore and would gladly trade them in for some cold hard cash!
Why don't you read all 3 of those books and summarize it for the newbie user? What's the matter, can't stomach 1258 pages? Here's what your suggested books prescribe:
394 pages
408 pages
456 pages
I tell you what, I was going to suggest you read all 3 of those books, then summarize them into an easy to read FAQ, but judging by your idiocy, I wouldn't want to deal with users who had to listen to your advice.
Well, thank you for responding in a non-abrasive manner, but....(everyone has a but!) those books are HUGE, which means SCARY. Respectively to your post:
456 pages
408 pages
380 pages
So, newbies have the choice of reading all 3 of those books, or reading War and Peace. There's a simple elegance to documentation/user guides, and I'm sure they exist out there on the web, but for some reason, no one wants to offer them forward. I'd be willing to join a project that strives to do this.
Seriously, being self-deprecating puts people at ease in social settings and lets them know that you don't take yourself too seriously.
A coworker of mine was an introverted ugly duckling until the latter years of high school, and had no choice but to make fun of the earlier version of himself. He fit in quite well afterwards. Now he's big, so people who are on a friendly wavelength will jokingly threaten to kick his arse, indirectly insulting themselves, which is hilarious because he could fend you off with his thumb.
The whole process of figuring out how to make fun of yourself in a way that's more humorous than embarassing not only promotes social interaction, but stimulates creativity.
Well, rather than bash the 'idiot user' and forever shoehorn him/her into a status that is not as 'elite' as yours, why don't we all agree to disseminate 'the idiot's guide to computers and the internet' I haven't seen that published yet, and yes, I was a tech support rep for 2.5 yrs, so I know how frustrating it is to deal with the typical 'idiot user' yet I was the only solution to the problem, despite the fact that I had only 10 minutes to explain everything due to the company's call time expectations.
The oddest thing about the contradictory articles is the contradictary quotes from the Maryland Election Supervisor.
How could she say they had problems in the morning, then in the afternoon say they haven't had any problems at all?
The Yahoo(AP) article (posted 11:14 AM ET/8:14 AM PST) says:
One Maryland polling place had to switch to paper ballots Tuesday because its new electronic voting machines didn't work. State elections supervisor Linda Lamone said technicians expected to have the problem fixed quickly.
The CNET article (last updated 5:05 PM PST) says:
"We had no equipment failures at all," Linda Lamone, Maryland's elections administrator, said in an interview Tuesday afternoon.
Confirmed by Wind River as an Out-of-Memory problem. Although, in this case it seems like a lack of human garbage collection. Interestingly, Wind River had the best solution for PPPoE DSL connectivity software (WinPoET) before RASPPPoE and Windows XP came along.
Real (efficient) men type "slashdot [CTRL] + [ENTER]" in their phancy supar-intelligent IE6 address bar. (without the quotes, brackets, etc, dur)
I just thought of something. The other day, the construction company working on my deck managed to plug enough equipment in to trip the breaker that happened to be on the same circuit as my computers. If I 'accidentally' had a 'faulty' breaker, thus frying my hard drive beyond repair, would that rule all the RIAA's log files as circumstantial evidence? If so, I could just run this hard drive through an industrial strength electromagnet, followed by several jolts of 1.21 gigawatts until the platters were melted and be as free as a bird.
Ok this is way too eerily reminiscent of Job/Jobe(sp?) in Lawnmower Man who eventually processed whole CDs of encylopedias in seconds.
The obvious response is for some one to reply with the following message in morse code "And Theeeeeeeen!?!?"
Start a spinoff of Apple and name the company 'i'. That way the iMac, iTunes, iSpeakers, iBrator, etc are exempt from this legally binding agreement.