Do you honestly think they walk in and pay for this informed?
Well, no, but that's not relevant. My original point, which I really didn't make very well, was that I object to the colloquial use of the word idiot to describe someone who only lacks either the skill or desire to perform basic computer maintenance tasks.
Words have meaning, and it matters that they do. An idiot acts like an idiot no matter what the field of endeavor is. A person of otherwise normal intelligence who acts like an idiot only in specific areas is not an idiot.
Likewise, a person who refuses to learn or do for themselves is not (necessarily) an idiot. A lot of other labels may apply, but not that one.
I really have to stress how many people come in requesting a service like this. I tried to convince people many times just to go home, plug in their device and simply head to the 'download updates' section, but I would constantly get responses like "I don't have internet", "Its just too confusing" and "I don't want to do it myself". Its idiots like this that create a market for a simple service downloading updates, and Best Buy would be even dumber to turn away potential revenue from customers that are willing to pay for something this simple.
You were doing great right up to this point. What exactly justifies calling people who make an informed decision to purchase a service they aren't comfortable with doing themselves idiots ?
There are a lot of smart people in the world who are computer illiterates. I have one customer who just paid me 2 hours labour to do an initial setup on his new laptop. The usual - take it out of the box, connect to wifi, decrapify, and run updates. He's not comfortable doing it himself, he wants to know that it was done right, and he wants me to be familiar with the system so he can call me if he has problems. He's also a heart surgeon - hardly someone I'd consider an idiot.
Just got the word that the desktop team is pushing out Window 7. Unfortunately, there are "a couple" of printers that they couldn't get working 64b drivers for. So they are pushing the 32b version out to everyone...
Blows my mind... It would cost at most a $5000 to replace those printers, compared to the cost of 600+ copies of Windows 7.
If you've got 600+ seats, I would assume you also have an MSCA or MSEA agreement, in which case the incremental cost of the Windows upgrade licenses is zero.
my point was that anyone thats serious about performance wouldn't chose an inline configuration for an engine. They'd chose a boxer or v configuration over inline any day.
So, BMW used an inline 4 instead of the boxer for their new S1000RR Superbike because why?
It's worse than that. The actual question is "Male donors: Have you had sex with a man, even one time since 1977?"
So, interpreted in the strictly non-Clintonian way, getting a blowjob once from a guy 30 years ago in a bit of college experimentation should disqualify someone from giving blood? What if it was a 2 guy 1 girl threesome? (No guy-guy contact, just sharing a girl.) Is that still "sex with a man"?
Someday, just for fun, I'm going to ask the screener to clarify that question.:)
The problem is that that question is asked by a person, you don't just check the box. The purpose being that if the screener thinks you're lying, they take your blood anyway but then flag it as suspect and it never gets used. I'm sure a lot of perfectly good blood gets wasted from people who's embarrassment at being asked that question get misinterpreted as being untruthful.
Novell's QuickFinder (http://www.novell.com/products/openenterpriseserver/quickfinder.html) works well in a Netware or OES2 environment. It even respects file permissions when displaying results.
I'd love to see actual research that backs up this claim. The claim may be correct, and I may be unique, but I don't feel any less distracted dealing with ATC when flying then I do when I'm talking on bluetooth while driving. Having seen no research one way or the other, it's difficult to say who's right here.
I'm not aware of any studies comparing general cell phone usage with task specific radio usage. In that respect, I'm just an asshole with an opinion. There has been a fair bit of research into the distraction effect of handsfree cell phone use though. Here's one http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/01/030129080944.htm to start with.
One thing to think about - if you *felt* distracted, it wouldn't be (as) dangerous, because you would tend to compensate for the risk in some way.
I think it's similar to the self-perception distortion associated with drunk driving. I know I personally have to give away my keys before the third drink, because somewhat tipsy me doesn't recognize that he's a danger behind the wheel the same way sober me would. Interestingly though, completely slaughtered me wouldn't try to drive even if he did have the keys.
screw amazon. They've ignored us Canucks too long for us to care about them anymore. I wouldn't buy a Kindle even if I could.
Seconded. I recently decided I wanted an ebook reader, looked at what was available in Canada, and bought one. If the Kindle had been available, it *might* have been what I bought, but since it wasn't, it's just a lost sale for Amazon. Every month they delay entering the Canadian market is just that much smaller their potential market becomes.
This is similar to the situation for law enforcement, emergency responders, taxi drivers, etc.
Your radio conversation is directly related to the activity at hand, and therefore does not impair your situational awareness. In other words, you are still only doing one thing at a time - flying - while using the radio as a tool to perform that task.
Car drivers on cell phones who are generally talking about something completely unrelated to driving, such as where to meet their mistresses for lunch, are trying to do two unrelated tasks at once. This splits their attention and results in impaired situational awareness, just as the GP states.
There has been a law passed in my area that charges a few cents for plastic shopping bags. The assumption was that the charge would somehow go to bettering the environment.
Can we find the algorithm of this calculator anywhere and Streisand Effect it?
The calculator (as designed) relies on the cellcos to provide and maintain current pricing data. It will only work with the weight of government regulation behind it to force them to do so.
Correct, because a good driver doesn't lock up their brakes when steering around an obstacle. So please explain how ABS would increase stopping distance in this case then.
Your assertion was both overly broad and disingenuous - ABS increases stopping distance only under certain specific driving conditions, and increasingly fewer of those as the technology continues to improve. (Have you looked at the stuff Honda's been doing with the CBR600RR?)
It also ignores the fact that ABS is intended to preserve vehicle control under panic braking conditions, not to reduce stopping distance.
My Sansa clip will play uncompressed.wav files. (Won't hold many of them, mind you.) So will my iPod. They both also play MP3s. Therefore, they can both legitimately be called MP3 players, without resorting to the generic usage of "MP3 player" to mean "digital music player", even though they are playing.wav files in this specific use case.
If I rip 40gb of.wav files from my 60 CDs, and play them from my iPod, then my math does so work.:)
Let's assume, exceptionally high quality bitrate files... So an average of 10MB each. And let's assume that each song is short at that size as well, so around 3 minutes in length on average...
He never said the 40 gb was compressed.:) At 650MB per CD, he'd listen to ~ 60 CDs per week. Call it nine hours a day of continuous listening - that'd be doable.
ABS extends stopping distance. Want proof? Go out in a parking lot and "lock 'em up"
Now pull your ABS fuse and do it again. It's quite a difference.
Credentials:
Electrical Engineer, Muscle/Tuner/EV Builder/Racer and Professional driver.
A Money Order should suffice as long as you retain your copy.
I'm not the OP, but what a PITA that would be.
To write a cheque, I reach into my desk drawer, scribble on the paper, and hand it over. To get a money order, I need to physically go to a bank (or the post office), hand over cash to get the money order, AND pay a fee for the privilege. No thanks.
You didn't state where you are, but in Canada, Paypal now allows fee free person to person transfers when funded by a bank account. Takes a few days to clear though.
Or you could also use Interac direct money transfers if you both use one of the participating banks. If the recipient doesn't use a participating bank, I think Interac actually mails them a cheque.
Someone want to calculate the minimum safe stopping distance of a wide-load truck laden with a 50-meter section of tower traveling at, let's say 45MPH without jackknifing or breaking the load restraints?
It's the same thing. And it avoids stupid "what the hell is a SIN?" posts if you translate into the language of the majority. Of course, you leave yourself open to pedantic "I'm pretty sure it's a SIN" posts.
Dude, this is slashdot. You think leaving yourself open to pedantic complaints is the lesser evil?
I wonder if the wives of Dell executives are upset, or maybe they're too busy doing the dishes and cooking dinner to even know what's going on...
Interesting that you assume all the executives are straight males. Who's not being PC here again?
"the wives of Dell executives" only (grammatically) assumes that some Dell executives have wives, it does not assume that they all do, nor does it assume that a Dell executive with a wife is a straight male.
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Do you honestly think they walk in and pay for this informed?
Well, no, but that's not relevant. My original point, which I really didn't make very well, was that I object to the colloquial use of the word idiot to describe someone who only lacks either the skill or desire to perform basic computer maintenance tasks.
Words have meaning, and it matters that they do. An idiot acts like an idiot no matter what the field of endeavor is. A person of otherwise normal intelligence who acts like an idiot only in specific areas is not an idiot.
Likewise, a person who refuses to learn or do for themselves is not (necessarily) an idiot. A lot of other labels may apply, but not that one.
I really have to stress how many people come in requesting a service like this. I tried to convince people many times just to go home, plug in their device and simply head to the 'download updates' section, but I would constantly get responses like "I don't have internet", "Its just too confusing" and "I don't want to do it myself". Its idiots like this that create a market for a simple service downloading updates, and Best Buy would be even dumber to turn away potential revenue from customers that are willing to pay for something this simple.
You were doing great right up to this point. What exactly justifies calling people who make an informed decision to purchase a service they aren't comfortable with doing themselves idiots ?
There are a lot of smart people in the world who are computer illiterates. I have one customer who just paid me 2 hours labour to do an initial setup on his new laptop. The usual - take it out of the box, connect to wifi, decrapify, and run updates. He's not comfortable doing it himself, he wants to know that it was done right, and he wants me to be familiar with the system so he can call me if he has problems. He's also a heart surgeon - hardly someone I'd consider an idiot.
Just got the word that the desktop team is pushing out Window 7. Unfortunately, there are "a couple" of printers that they couldn't get working 64b drivers for. So they are pushing the 32b version out to everyone...
Blows my mind... It would cost at most a $5000 to replace those printers, compared to the cost of 600+ copies of Windows 7.
If you've got 600+ seats, I would assume you also have an MSCA or MSEA agreement, in which case the incremental cost of the Windows upgrade licenses is zero.
When I was a kid, we'd take a trip every summer down the Mississippi to visit my auntie in her antebellum house
Me too, 'cept it was my Granny and her antebellum world that I would visit. Then I would run barefooted all day long, climbing trees, free as a song.
Wait - Hugh, is that you? It's me, Ray!
my point was that anyone thats serious about performance wouldn't chose an inline configuration for an engine. They'd chose a boxer or v configuration over inline any day.
So, BMW used an inline 4 instead of the boxer for their new S1000RR Superbike because why?
It's worse than that. The actual question is "Male donors: Have you had sex with a man, even one time since 1977?"
So, interpreted in the strictly non-Clintonian way, getting a blowjob once from a guy 30 years ago in a bit of college experimentation should disqualify someone from giving blood? What if it was a 2 guy 1 girl threesome? (No guy-guy contact, just sharing a girl.) Is that still "sex with a man"?
Someday, just for fun, I'm going to ask the screener to clarify that question. :)
The problem is that that question is asked by a person, you don't just check the box. The purpose being that if the screener thinks you're lying, they take your blood anyway but then flag it as suspect and it never gets used. I'm sure a lot of perfectly good blood gets wasted from people who's embarrassment at being asked that question get misinterpreted as being untruthful.
Novell's QuickFinder (http://www.novell.com/products/openenterpriseserver/quickfinder.html) works well in a Netware or OES2 environment. It even respects file permissions when displaying results.
I'd love to see actual research that backs up this claim. The claim may be correct, and I may be unique, but I don't feel any less distracted dealing with ATC when flying then I do when I'm talking on bluetooth while driving. Having seen no research one way or the other, it's difficult to say who's right here.
I'm not aware of any studies comparing general cell phone usage with task specific radio usage. In that respect, I'm just an asshole with an opinion. There has been a fair bit of research into the distraction effect of handsfree cell phone use though. Here's one http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/01/030129080944.htm to start with.
One thing to think about - if you *felt* distracted, it wouldn't be (as) dangerous, because you would tend to compensate for the risk in some way.
I think it's similar to the self-perception distortion associated with drunk driving. I know I personally have to give away my keys before the third drink, because somewhat tipsy me doesn't recognize that he's a danger behind the wheel the same way sober me would. Interestingly though, completely slaughtered me wouldn't try to drive even if he did have the keys.
screw amazon. They've ignored us Canucks too long for us to care about them anymore. I wouldn't buy a Kindle even if I could.
Seconded. I recently decided I wanted an ebook reader, looked at what was available in Canada, and bought one. If the Kindle had been available, it *might* have been what I bought, but since it wasn't, it's just a lost sale for Amazon. Every month they delay entering the Canadian market is just that much smaller their potential market becomes.
This is similar to the situation for law enforcement, emergency responders, taxi drivers, etc.
Your radio conversation is directly related to the activity at hand, and therefore does not impair your situational awareness. In other words, you are still only doing one thing at a time - flying - while using the radio as a tool to perform that task.
Car drivers on cell phones who are generally talking about something completely unrelated to driving, such as where to meet their mistresses for lunch, are trying to do two unrelated tasks at once. This splits their attention and results in impaired situational awareness, just as the GP states.
There has been a law passed in my area that charges a few cents for plastic shopping bags. The assumption was that the charge would somehow go to bettering the environment.
It does. It causes people to use less bags.
Glad I use bins.
I'm glad you use bins too. Thank you for caring.
Can we find the algorithm of this calculator anywhere and Streisand Effect it?
The calculator (as designed) relies on the cellcos to provide and maintain current pricing data. It will only work with the weight of government regulation behind it to force them to do so.
Correct, because a good driver doesn't lock up their brakes when steering around an obstacle. So please explain how ABS would increase stopping distance in this case then.
Your assertion was both overly broad and disingenuous - ABS increases stopping distance only under certain specific driving conditions, and increasingly fewer of those as the technology continues to improve. (Have you looked at the stuff Honda's been doing with the CBR600RR?)
It also ignores the fact that ABS is intended to preserve vehicle control under panic braking conditions, not to reduce stopping distance.
My Sansa clip will play uncompressed .wav files. (Won't hold many of them, mind you.) So will my iPod. They both also play MP3s. Therefore, they can both legitimately be called MP3 players, without resorting to the generic usage of "MP3 player" to mean "digital music player", even though they are playing .wav files in this specific use case.
If I rip 40gb of .wav files from my 60 CDs, and play them from my iPod, then my math does so work. :)
Let's assume, exceptionally high quality bitrate files... So an average of 10MB each. And let's assume that each song is short at that size as well, so around 3 minutes in length on average...
He never said the 40 gb was compressed. :) At 650MB per CD, he'd listen to ~ 60 CDs per week. Call it nine hours a day of continuous listening - that'd be doable.
ABS extends stopping distance. Want proof? Go out in a parking lot and "lock 'em up" Now pull your ABS fuse and do it again. It's quite a difference. Credentials: Electrical Engineer, Muscle/Tuner/EV Builder/Racer and Professional driver.
Now do it while steering around an obstacle.
Cool. What country and grocery store is that, if you don't mind me asking?
You should be able to set up Interac payments for that, or at the very least, ask your bank to stop putting holds on your corporate cheques.
A Money Order should suffice as long as you retain your copy.
I'm not the OP, but what a PITA that would be.
To write a cheque, I reach into my desk drawer, scribble on the paper, and hand it over. To get a money order, I need to physically go to a bank (or the post office), hand over cash to get the money order, AND pay a fee for the privilege. No thanks.
Or you could also use Interac direct money transfers if you both use one of the participating banks. If the recipient doesn't use a participating bank, I think Interac actually mails them a cheque.
Someone want to calculate the minimum safe stopping distance of a wide-load truck laden with a 50-meter section of tower traveling at, let's say 45MPH without jackknifing or breaking the load restraints?
African or European?
It's the same thing. And it avoids stupid "what the hell is a SIN?" posts if you translate into the language of the majority. Of course, you leave yourself open to pedantic "I'm pretty sure it's a SIN" posts.
Dude, this is slashdot. You think leaving yourself open to pedantic complaints is the lesser evil?
I wonder if the wives of Dell executives are upset, or maybe they're too busy doing the dishes and cooking dinner to even know what's going on...
Interesting that you assume all the executives are straight males. Who's not being PC here again?
"the wives of Dell executives" only (grammatically) assumes that some Dell executives have wives, it does not assume that they all do, nor does it assume that a Dell executive with a wife is a straight male.
Who's assuming what here?
Or to be blown... http://www.the-joke-shop.com/showjoke.asp?joke=1891
Same in the US.. But if he's running his own company, it's impossible for him to get fired. So why should he have to pay unemployment insurance?
In Canada, he wouldn't have to pay, and the company wouldn't have to pay the employer's portion either.