"Ok, I'm a geek and I love to have the Internet wherever I am but why in the kitchen?"
From someone who just aquired the parentals old computer when they upgraded, and planned on rearranging my kitchen for it, I'll tell you exactly why I'd like a computer in my kitchen. I now have access to all my recipes (which I store digitally, since it's way to hard to search through them when they are on recipe cards), and having a computer that stays in my kitchen means I don't have to set up a tv tray table for my laptop, which I in turn have to walk around. And I can now watch movies while washing the dishes.:)
I'd say it's more the covering of the ass type cover-up.
SETI@home finds an "unusual" signal, knows it's probably just an as yet undiscovered scientific thing, but the media blows it all out of proportion with aliens and "ET calling back", and so now SETI is trying to call it all back so that when it does end up being a new scientific discovery, people don't completely flame them for it not being aliens.
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"1. People who won't read the documentation thoroughly. "How do you use dd?" "Well, it's documented in the man pages." "I know, but I thought I'd ask you." I hate people who want to be spoon-fed the answers. Even worse are the ones who will ask you the same question a week later. DON'T TELL THEM! Make them look it up - they'll learn so much more in the process."
I can understand your annoyance with this, but I have a problem with your assumption that "they'll learn so much more in the process." That would only be true if they are a visual learner. Learning styles vary from person to person, and some happen to be audio learners, meaning they can read something as many times as they want, and not be able to retain anything from it, but will be able to remember it perfectly well if someone reads it to them.
"Even worse are the ones who will ask you the same question a week later." Is this after the first time they asked you told them the answer or is it after you told them to read the documentation? If you told them what it said and they still asked a week later, then yes that is rather annoying that the person cannot retain knowledge at all, but if the first time you just told them to read the documentation and they asked you again a week later, then you may have run into an audio learner like I mentioned above.
"3. People who give up too easily. Something doesn't work exactly as it seems it should, so they try a few variations - maybe - and then they run for help. "This doesn't work like the book says it should!" "OK, did you try ____. Or ____? Or _____, or even _____?" No? then why are you bothering me? THINK about what you're doing, then try to figure it out for yourself before crying for help. Perseverance is a quality all good programmers have."
I just find it amusing that the populace is getting so bad on this point that it's not even assumed they have tried simply restarting the computer. Whenever I have tech problems that I can't solve myself, I finally ask tech support, and I list all the things I've tried so they don't have to tell me to try them, but I keep forgetting to add that I've restarted and/or turned the computer off, waited, then turned it back on, so the replies always start out with "try a power cycle."
Am I the only one who actually has multiple accounts for different uses so I'm not sending spam to some poor unsuspecting person? I have my @yahoo account for things I know will not only send me spam, but will sell my address to others to send me spam as well, I have my @hotmail for public use that may or may not be harvested, and then I have one that I give just to friends.
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"Ok, I'm a geek and I love to have the Internet wherever I am but why in the kitchen?"
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From someone who just aquired the parentals old computer when they upgraded, and planned on rearranging my kitchen for it, I'll tell you exactly why I'd like a computer in my kitchen. I now have access to all my recipes (which I store digitally, since it's way to hard to search through them when they are on recipe cards), and having a computer that stays in my kitchen means I don't have to set up a tv tray table for my laptop, which I in turn have to walk around. And I can now watch movies while washing the dishes.
I'd say it's more the covering of the ass type cover-up.
SETI@home finds an "unusual" signal, knows it's probably just an as yet undiscovered scientific thing, but the media blows it all out of proportion with aliens and "ET calling back", and so now SETI is trying to call it all back so that when it does end up being a new scientific discovery, people don't completely flame them for it not being aliens.
"1. People who won't read the documentation thoroughly. "How do you use dd?" "Well, it's documented in the man pages." "I know, but I thought I'd ask you." I hate people who want to be spoon-fed the answers. Even worse are the ones who will ask you the same question a week later. DON'T TELL THEM! Make them look it up - they'll learn so much more in the process."
I can understand your annoyance with this, but I have a problem with your assumption that "they'll learn so much more in the process." That would only be true if they are a visual learner. Learning styles vary from person to person, and some happen to be audio learners, meaning they can read something as many times as they want, and not be able to retain anything from it, but will be able to remember it perfectly well if someone reads it to them.
"Even worse are the ones who will ask you the same question a week later." Is this after the first time they asked you told them the answer or is it after you told them to read the documentation? If you told them what it said and they still asked a week later, then yes that is rather annoying that the person cannot retain knowledge at all, but if the first time you just told them to read the documentation and they asked you again a week later, then you may have run into an audio learner like I mentioned above.
"3. People who give up too easily. Something doesn't work exactly as it seems it should, so they try a few variations - maybe - and then they run for help. "This doesn't work like the book says it should!" "OK, did you try ____. Or ____? Or _____, or even _____?" No? then why are you bothering me? THINK about what you're doing, then try to figure it out for yourself before crying for help. Perseverance is a quality all good programmers have."
I just find it amusing that the populace is getting so bad on this point that it's not even assumed they have tried simply restarting the computer. Whenever I have tech problems that I can't solve myself, I finally ask tech support, and I list all the things I've tried so they don't have to tell me to try them, but I keep forgetting to add that I've restarted and/or turned the computer off, waited, then turned it back on, so the replies always start out with "try a power cycle."
Run. Run very, very fast.
Am I the only one who actually has multiple accounts for different uses so I'm not sending spam to some poor unsuspecting person? I have my @yahoo account for things I know will not only send me spam, but will sell my address to others to send me spam as well, I have my @hotmail for public use that may or may not be harvested, and then I have one that I give just to friends.