What the others suggested - your friend should make it her business to set up CMS's, is a good suggestion since most CMS's do take a lot of time and knowledge to configure for each business's needs. There's the other stuff too, like the theme/graphics, that are a skill in itself. While CMS's are easy to operate once set up, they also have to be updated, like with a new release of PHP or MySQL. Then there's security certificates, database maint, etc. if they site uses any kinds of commerce. I think there's a lot of upkeep and service duties a freelancer could do after it is set up.
It always baffles me that those hundreds of people do not know how to use the automated check-in on airports or the automated ticket sales machines at movie theaters.
It baffles me too, especially considering how readily they use their ATM and check cards for purchasing. I mean we pretty much have become expert swipers. So why would they prefer to stand at the box office and wait in line, something I thought people hated more than anything? They even make those ticket machines shaped like ATM machines. I wonder if placement has anything to do with it. At the theater I goto, the machines are very close to the video arcade. Maybe people assume they are video games.
I think his priorities are exactly right. Some of the greatest inventions have come from a solution seeking a problem - those are usually inventions known as "ahead of their time".
I was thinking the same thing. Throughout the comments to this post I've seen a few that mention the word "ego" -- it seems it is looked down on to do anything for your own personal enjoyment or edification. Also it seems people think if something is not imminently "useful" it has no value. My opinion is that this way of thinking is a barrier to discovery and invention.
Kids really aren't this bad. The opening paragraph of that article made me think those kinds of kids have lax parents. It doesn't really have anything to do with electronics at all - it's self absorbed, materialistic, workaholic keeping up with joneses mommy and daddy.
The whole "imperfectly formed moral codes" the article begins with especially made me wrinkle my brow. The writer is so critical of children and speaks very little about the modern family structure.
As for lack of imagination, that isn't the video games fault. Again it's mom & dad leading by example, as corporate drones - don't buck the system, junior. Imagination is bad because it leads to sometimes opposing thought, and independence. It's sick how people have become so cowed and conforming.
Thank you for the clarification. I didn't know you had to report all winnings, I suppose it's good to know that if I ever go gambling again. I wonder how many people actually report it though, out of curiosity.
They've got TV shows about poker and blackjack now you can watch any time of day. Great drama surrounds it, with slick presentation. Television is making it ok, trendy, and accepted. Celebreties gamble for charity. Celebreties go to new, ultra hip nightclubs in Vegas and are photographed by paparazi and distributed across grocery stores check out stands for middle america to consume and fantasize about. All this nice dressing is put on gambling, but partcicularly card games, which are more appealing I suppose than watching an addicted Marge Simpson, complete with smoke filled beehive and wild eyes, hitting the one arm bandit. Plus, there's the illusion of skill rather than randomness, which is delluding.
rant! And how come Pete Rose can never be in the Hall of Fame, because of his gambling problem (which now should be ok, since gambling has seemed to have lost its stigma they should do a review of that), but baseball players who use steriods can be in the Hall of Fame?
The reason this guy got arrested probably is because if you win a big amount of money gambling (in the US I think the amount is $1500), you're supposed to pay taxes on it. I think by allowing US citizens gamble on his UK website, perhaps they are avoiding paying taxes on their winnings. It certainly isn't for moral reasons because we don't seem to have much in the way of that... well, unless it involves sex, and then you become "sinful." (but shooting guns, gambling, and playing sports and cheating are ok)
I just wonder when the goal of going to school changed from academics, to job or skills training. It seems universities are getting more and more like that, too. That's great people will know how to do things, but I wonder how inventive, innovative, and creative they will be. I suppose they will be good little worker bees.
I wonder who would gain from a property dispute? the Black Plague in the 14th century devestated the English population and as a result a lot of peasants became landowners themselves. They were able to negotiate these land deals because basically there weren't many laborers left to work the land and the lords were desperate, so they gave the peasants land in exchange for labor. In fact things were really rearranged quite a bit at that time (14th C) regarding property. I am unsure how anyone could prove a valid claim -they would have to do some serious researching into the following centuries proving the land wasn't legitimately sold or transferred.
As a kid in the 70's-80's I would visit my dad in his HAM shack late at night while he talked with people all over the world. He had old 1940's Collins vacuum tube radios that he kept in pristine condition up until 2004 when my parents lost their house to Hurricane Ivan.
I have many fond memories of those times. We moved around quite a bit as my parents worked for the Navy. Every time we moved we knew we were settled in to "home" when dad would put up his tower (I suppose it was a 30' tower you could climb). The HAM shack smelled of metal, dust, and ozone - much like the pilot's shack we shared when taking flying lessons. There's a distinct smell of things that are painted Government Issue gray.
The things I appreciated about HAM radio are probably different than other people. I appreciated there was a formality an etiquette you do not find in Internet communications. There really wasn't anything like "flaming" on the radio; everyone was courteous and so excited to make a contact. I learned about phonetic alphabet just from listening in and use it still this day when I am on the phone and have to read off letters to someone. Mostly, and these are memories of a kid, I loved the wall filled with QSL cards.
I think if I did HAM radio today I would do it just to collect QSL cards. They are beautiful and a tangible "proof" of a contact. There are some things like that on the Internet (like Postsecret I suppose) but there's something cool about getting a acknowledgement that we spoke together and made contact. They would have exotic stamps from other countries and interesting art on the front with the sender's handwriting, often in highly stylized scrawl, on the back.
All my dad's QSL cards are washed away in the lagoon or bay somewhere and I'm saddened by that. As an artist, these are the things I learned from HAM radio.
"The bubble generation is much more attuned to the fact that things can get really out of hand," says Bill Burnham, a former partner at Mobius Venture Capital. "There's a level of caution that has been ingrained."
As I look out into the parking lot at the sea of import luxury cars and eat my free bagel on Free Bagel Friday, I say to myself,
Is Community becomming more of a priority in business?
I think with business that use Community as an accessory to their business will never achieve the success they hope for. Many large corporations have started adding executive blogs and these are useful but do not really engage the reader to comment, ask questions, and feel like they "matter." These kinds of attempts at community feel wrong to me - like the Leader is giving a speech or address rather than soliciting interaction. Also, it tends to feel like marketing as they only talk about their product and not other open source software and development (except to offer a competitive comparison), so it feels as you would expect, very biased.
I think if business wants to be successful in Community they need to go beyond their own corporate turf and interact with other communities outside of their.com domain, with their identity cleary visible. They should say "I work for [Company Name] and this is what I think about [This Issue]." Corporations are so wary of saying something that would make them look bad and they feel they need to control all outbound communication that this is a major road block to them ever being really accepted into the Community -- they take very little risk. Why should I -- Josephine Public -- respect what they have to say when I always have to go to their turf on their terms?
I'm tired of all this double dipping! They should be trying to recover any potential lost revenue from the cable companies, or the companies that make recording devices, not the consumers. Well of course it would get passed onto us in some fashion but they could call it something like a "Fast Forward Tax."
How would they handle the increased product placement that is going on in TV shows? Would the Pepsi cans be blurred out? Would they negotiate some special agreements with the 100+ networks that run ads, each and every one of them, and then give them a cut of that subscriber revenue each month? How could they possibly legally negotiate that and afford it?
I don't see this happening unless they got some kind of exclusive - like you could only watch Lost or Desperate Housewives on their TV. HAh, not happening.
Cell phones have also started to include games that may be considered casual.
I think the comments about women wanting to spend less time with a game should be thought out more. I see a lot of women playing online RPG's (especially in the fandom world with play by email and posting boards) and while this is a different category than video games it does seem that women are willing to invest time in "gaming" it is just different types of games.
When I saw the picture at first I thought is was a rip off of Goldie from the Sin City movie. As a woman my first reaction to this wasn't that it was sexist or promoting rape/violence against women. It's really just a dark image and mysterious.
I saw a tv commercial for ask jeeves the other night and thought I would check out this binocular feature. It's actually kind of neat. I think it would help more for doing searches that you know are image intensive, like cheetah rather than plain text, but still, I like their thinking.
The professor is a prima donna and should learn to live in the real world. I'd like to see her tell the judge that the court reporter has to memorize everything or she'll stop arguing her case. The earlier poster has it right--the student is paying for the teaching, not vice versa. However, I'd expect a law student to come up with something more innovative than a petition. Something like using a laptop as a reasonable accomodation under the ADA . . ..
I agree with you. So many times the professors have their groupies up in the front monopolizing discussion anyhow. It bugs them when the student in back is typing notes because they have basically left out of the ahem, "discussion." But then I'm not a fan of being force fed "team player" interactivity.
how funny the cryptic word for me to post this is "oppress."
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What the others suggested - your friend should make it her business to set up CMS's, is a good suggestion since most CMS's do take a lot of time and knowledge to configure for each business's needs. There's the other stuff too, like the theme/graphics, that are a skill in itself. While CMS's are easy to operate once set up, they also have to be updated, like with a new release of PHP or MySQL. Then there's security certificates, database maint, etc. if they site uses any kinds of commerce. I think there's a lot of upkeep and service duties a freelancer could do after it is set up.
It always baffles me that those hundreds of people do not know how to use the automated check-in on airports or the automated ticket sales machines at movie theaters. It baffles me too, especially considering how readily they use their ATM and check cards for purchasing. I mean we pretty much have become expert swipers. So why would they prefer to stand at the box office and wait in line, something I thought people hated more than anything? They even make those ticket machines shaped like ATM machines. I wonder if placement has anything to do with it. At the theater I goto, the machines are very close to the video arcade. Maybe people assume they are video games.
I might be pulling an all nighter anyhow. that would be quite a treat to see a meteor shower when delirious from lack of sleep.
I cheered when I read it because I thought to myself for once they are ranking content above spam, I mean, commerce.
I think his priorities are exactly right. Some of the greatest inventions have come from a solution seeking a problem - those are usually inventions known as "ahead of their time".
I was thinking the same thing.
Throughout the comments to this post I've seen a few that mention the word "ego" -- it seems it is looked down on to do anything for your own personal enjoyment or edification. Also it seems people think if something is not imminently "useful" it has no value. My opinion is that this way of thinking is a barrier to discovery and invention.
right on.
That's like product placement, where the governmental cultural accoutrements are the products... ugh. I like the idea of artsy games, though.
Kids really aren't this bad. The opening paragraph of that article made me think those kinds of kids have lax parents. It doesn't really have anything to do with electronics at all - it's self absorbed, materialistic, workaholic keeping up with joneses mommy and daddy.
The whole "imperfectly formed moral codes" the article begins with especially made me wrinkle my brow. The writer is so critical of children and speaks very little about the modern family structure.
As for lack of imagination, that isn't the video games fault. Again it's mom & dad leading by example, as corporate drones - don't buck the system, junior. Imagination is bad because it leads to sometimes opposing thought, and independence. It's sick how people have become so cowed and conforming.
"SO MUCH HATE" and when i am feeling especially cranky i will attept to yell/whine like chewbacca
Thank you for the clarification. I didn't know you had to report all winnings, I suppose it's good to know that if I ever go gambling again. I wonder how many people actually report it though, out of curiosity.
They've got TV shows about poker and blackjack now you can watch any time of day. Great drama surrounds it, with slick presentation. Television is making it ok, trendy, and accepted. Celebreties gamble for charity. Celebreties go to new, ultra hip nightclubs in Vegas and are photographed by paparazi and distributed across grocery stores check out stands for middle america to consume and fantasize about. All this nice dressing is put on gambling, but partcicularly card games, which are more appealing I suppose than watching an addicted Marge Simpson, complete with smoke filled beehive and wild eyes, hitting the one arm bandit. Plus, there's the illusion of skill rather than randomness, which is delluding.
rant! And how come Pete Rose can never be in the Hall of Fame, because of his gambling problem (which now should be ok, since gambling has seemed to have lost its stigma they should do a review of that), but baseball players who use steriods can be in the Hall of Fame?
The reason this guy got arrested probably is because if you win a big amount of money gambling (in the US I think the amount is $1500), you're supposed to pay taxes on it. I think by allowing US citizens gamble on his UK website, perhaps they are avoiding paying taxes on their winnings. It certainly isn't for moral reasons because we don't seem to have much in the way of that... well, unless it involves sex, and then you become "sinful." (but shooting guns, gambling, and playing sports and cheating are ok)
I just wonder when the goal of going to school changed from academics, to job or skills training. It seems universities are getting more and more like that, too. That's great people will know how to do things, but I wonder how inventive, innovative, and creative they will be. I suppose they will be good little worker bees.
I wonder who would gain from a property dispute? the Black Plague in the 14th century devestated the English population and as a result a lot of peasants became landowners themselves. They were able to negotiate these land deals because basically there weren't many laborers left to work the land and the lords were desperate, so they gave the peasants land in exchange for labor. In fact things were really rearranged quite a bit at that time (14th C) regarding property. I am unsure how anyone could prove a valid claim -they would have to do some serious researching into the following centuries proving the land wasn't legitimately sold or transferred.
I have many fond memories of those times. We moved around quite a bit as my parents worked for the Navy. Every time we moved we knew we were settled in to "home" when dad would put up his tower (I suppose it was a 30' tower you could climb). The HAM shack smelled of metal, dust, and ozone - much like the pilot's shack we shared when taking flying lessons. There's a distinct smell of things that are painted Government Issue gray.
The things I appreciated about HAM radio are probably different than other people. I appreciated there was a formality an etiquette you do not find in Internet communications. There really wasn't anything like "flaming" on the radio; everyone was courteous and so excited to make a contact. I learned about phonetic alphabet just from listening in and use it still this day when I am on the phone and have to read off letters to someone. Mostly, and these are memories of a kid, I loved the wall filled with QSL cards.
I think if I did HAM radio today I would do it just to collect QSL cards. They are beautiful and a tangible "proof" of a contact. There are some things like that on the Internet (like Postsecret I suppose) but there's something cool about getting a acknowledgement that we spoke together and made contact. They would have exotic stamps from other countries and interesting art on the front with the sender's handwriting, often in highly stylized scrawl, on the back.
All my dad's QSL cards are washed away in the lagoon or bay somewhere and I'm saddened by that. As an artist, these are the things I learned from HAM radio.
"The bubble generation is much more attuned to the fact that things can get really out of hand," says Bill Burnham, a former partner at Mobius Venture Capital. "There's a level of caution that has been ingrained."
As I look out into the parking lot at the sea of import luxury cars and eat my free bagel on Free Bagel Friday, I say to myself,
I sure hope so dude. I sure hope so.
I think with business that use Community as an accessory to their business will never achieve the success they hope for. Many large corporations have started adding executive blogs and these are useful but do not really engage the reader to comment, ask questions, and feel like they "matter." These kinds of attempts at community feel wrong to me - like the Leader is giving a speech or address rather than soliciting interaction. Also, it tends to feel like marketing as they only talk about their product and not other open source software and development (except to offer a competitive comparison), so it feels as you would expect, very biased.
I think if business wants to be successful in Community they need to go beyond their own corporate turf and interact with other communities outside of their .com domain, with their identity cleary visible. They should say "I work for [Company Name] and this is what I think about [This Issue]." Corporations are so wary of saying something that would make them look bad and they feel they need to control all outbound communication that this is a major road block to them ever being really accepted into the Community -- they take very little risk. Why should I -- Josephine Public -- respect what they have to say when I always have to go to their turf on their terms?
Because he's from Texas, duh! No way he is going to tax his buddies.
Adult Swim has a pretty interesting lineup. New [adult swim] Shows Revealed
Assy McGee looks especially humorous!
I'm tired of all this double dipping! They should be trying to recover any potential lost revenue from the cable companies, or the companies that make recording devices, not the consumers. Well of course it would get passed onto us in some fashion but they could call it something like a "Fast Forward Tax."
How would they handle the increased product placement that is going on in TV shows? Would the Pepsi cans be blurred out? Would they negotiate some special agreements with the 100+ networks that run ads, each and every one of them, and then give them a cut of that subscriber revenue each month? How could they possibly legally negotiate that and afford it?
I don't see this happening unless they got some kind of exclusive - like you could only watch Lost or Desperate Housewives on their TV. HAh, not happening.
Cell phones have also started to include games that may be considered casual.
I think the comments about women wanting to spend less time with a game should be thought out more. I see a lot of women playing online RPG's (especially in the fandom world with play by email and posting boards) and while this is a different category than video games it does seem that women are willing to invest time in "gaming" it is just different types of games.
When I saw the picture at first I thought is was a rip off of Goldie from the Sin City movie. As a woman my first reaction to this wasn't that it was sexist or promoting rape/violence against women. It's really just a dark image and mysterious.
I saw a tv commercial for ask jeeves the other night and thought I would check out this binocular feature. It's actually kind of neat. I think it would help more for doing searches that you know are image intensive, like cheetah rather than plain text, but still, I like their thinking.
Now you have raised the bar. I better see rainbows on the Apple section.
signed - the 1.7
I agree with you. So many times the professors have their groupies up in the front monopolizing discussion anyhow. It bugs them when the student in back is typing notes because they have basically left out of the ahem, "discussion." But then I'm not a fan of being force fed "team player" interactivity.
how funny the cryptic word for me to post this is "oppress."
Reminds me of people pronouncing Moog as Mewg, rather than as in Vouge.