I can't speak for the rest of the USA, but during 9/11 when they first broadcast over the radio that Al Quaeda might be responsible, my reaction was "Huh? Who the hell are they?"
And sure, I'm not the most informed person on Earth. But I started asking around that day, and not one person could tell me who bin Laden was, where his organization was from, or why he was so pissed at the US. So yes, I would say that qualifies as "completely unexpected".
I'm not trying to say that this makes the terrorism in Britian or Spain any less sad. Abrupt death sucks no matter where you're from, and I think its important for everyone to remember that.
I think the degrees would look more like: Move up, hey stop moving that way, just hold still for a second, move down... and then the left/right/click that someone else mentioned
When I was taking a C++ course several years ago, my professor would entertain us with tales of his wife's job. She's a programmer for Safeway (a grocery store chain) and according to him all their software is written in COBOL.
I do sympathize with your plight. I ended up taking a typing job out of sheer desperation but I think it's going to end up okay. I'm starting to get a good reputation as someone who knows what she's talking about.
I would advise all unemployed geeks to please look into doing technical writing. Sure its miserable and boring, but you'll have a chance to show your knowledge to the programmers at your company and you'll be doing all of us a public service by generating manuals that can be understood by our grandparents or our Marketing divisions.
Perhaps Microsoft is bailing on all hardware items. I remember reading an article in Wired a few months back about guys growing diamonds which could be used to replace silicon in hardware, leading to a much higher heat threshold...maybe someone at the top thinks that hardware is going to go through such a revolution that it's not worth doing any more research on silicon-based products.
Or maybe Bill Gates' kids needed a school economics project and he let them run with a product line for a year.
I thought that this is how subliminal messages worked. But by definition, a sumliminal message is one you don't consciously interpret or remember. So what good is having a great subliminal dream that you don't even know you had?
(My total knowledge of subliminal messages comes from reading Brave New World. I have no real facts to back this post up.)
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I can't speak for the rest of the USA, but during 9/11 when they first broadcast over the radio that Al Quaeda might be responsible, my reaction was "Huh? Who the hell are they?" And sure, I'm not the most informed person on Earth. But I started asking around that day, and not one person could tell me who bin Laden was, where his organization was from, or why he was so pissed at the US. So yes, I would say that qualifies as "completely unexpected". I'm not trying to say that this makes the terrorism in Britian or Spain any less sad. Abrupt death sucks no matter where you're from, and I think its important for everyone to remember that.
I think the degrees would look more like: Move up, hey stop moving that way, just hold still for a second, move down...
and then the left/right/click that someone else mentioned
When I was taking a C++ course several years ago, my professor would entertain us with tales of his wife's job. She's a programmer for Safeway (a grocery store chain) and according to him all their software is written in COBOL. I do sympathize with your plight. I ended up taking a typing job out of sheer desperation but I think it's going to end up okay. I'm starting to get a good reputation as someone who knows what she's talking about. I would advise all unemployed geeks to please look into doing technical writing. Sure its miserable and boring, but you'll have a chance to show your knowledge to the programmers at your company and you'll be doing all of us a public service by generating manuals that can be understood by our grandparents or our Marketing divisions.
Perhaps Microsoft is bailing on all hardware items. I remember reading an article in Wired a few months back about guys growing diamonds which could be used to replace silicon in hardware, leading to a much higher heat threshold...maybe someone at the top thinks that hardware is going to go through such a revolution that it's not worth doing any more research on silicon-based products. Or maybe Bill Gates' kids needed a school economics project and he let them run with a product line for a year.
I thought that this is how subliminal messages worked. But by definition, a sumliminal message is one you don't consciously interpret or remember. So what good is having a great subliminal dream that you don't even know you had? (My total knowledge of subliminal messages comes from reading Brave New World. I have no real facts to back this post up.)