Oops! Thanks to you, my earlier post about it being Microsoft that has love for the little people was wrong. Now I know it is the open source folks allowing deprived third world people income from phishing scams. Thank you sir/madam/pooch for showing me the error of my ways.
That is a good idea. provide-more-documentation-in-the-users-face
It should give Dell the opportunity to bring back the days of pre-installed software shooting popups at the clients on first boot. I'm not trying to be snide. One of the reasons Dell became such a success is because Microsoft and a slew of other companies discounted everything down to nill for them because they shipped machines with so much crap on them it was like wading through malware to get the machine booted. I know they still do some of it but not nearly as bad as the PI PII days. If companies get wind they can pack a bunch of crap onto the first boot of someone's Linux machine they'd line up outside the door.
I don't want to argue about who at apple was responsible for the user interface but I think your crediting the wrong person. Regardless, I think you are saying Steve Jobs was dictating what he wanted until he got it. That I completely agree with. When his dictator, more of a "I'm the last final word", way of leading annoyed enough people they kicked him out. Apple wandered without strong leadership until they realized how bad they needed it. IMHO, That leader didn't have to be Steve Jobs. Not that he hasn't done a great job. Still. Anyone with goals, a clue on where technology is going, and persistence could easily take over for him.
I have a little data that suggests there is a relationship between being required to "list your extra contributions" and your company working you to death for 80 hours then giving you shit if you don't work fridays too. If your boss isn't looking over you shoulder or asking you to justify your existence at the company you have a good change of relaxing long enough to do another 80 hour stretch.
On a more serious note. If you get paid weekly, won't you miss going to the clubs every friday night?
I remember having some professors that actively tried to get students to drop out. Something to do with "if you cant handle it your waisting the seat". I agree with you 100% about them facilitating the education. In small classes professors teach. In large classes professors lecture. Like you say, a lecture leaves no room for clarification or interactivity. If the student spent their lecture time in a lab asking the professors aids questions they would get a better grade and an actual education.
I was all psyched on the nVidia glasses until I pictured my fat ass sitting in the middle of the living room, dawning them and headphones playing video games. I think this TV would be the better way to go.
[The operating system] needs to be more than a bundle of apps bolted on top of a phone. We all live complex lives and keep our information all over the place.
I can't be the only on tired of writers telling the public that an Operating System and the Applications running on it are associated.
pssst Tim. The reason you had to put bracketed words in "Jon Rubinstein, executive chairman of Palm"'s quotes is because. The OS and the applications ARE a separate thing. And guess what else? No really! Guess. Applications are kept all over the place these days too! Welcome to 2009 sir.
The first thing that came to my mind when I looked at the pic of their test system was, "can I have some motherboard to go with my heat sink please?" How much longer before people are trying to squeeze components into some kind of massive rectangular radiator instead of a case?
Anyway. I'm glad AMD was able to get to.45 I knew that was the reason they weren't performing on par with the Intel Duo chips.
I'm sure there is a very large % of people doing exactly what you say, 360/ps3+Wii. Add the physical relationship the Wii has created between games and gamers and possible future games makes a hardcore gamer like me want it even more. I'd be pretty stout if my FPS gaming required me to run and jump.
Nice ones. The screen shot wrapped in a doc pushes me over the edge every time. I'd add:
6) Ask if the subnet mask is the 255.255.255 one when they are supposed to be a network admin. When asked, "please give me the machines ip address, gateway ip address, subnet mask, and dns server ip address" a network administrator asked me, "is that the 255.255.255 one?"
7) Google your Answer to see if you are correct. I told a client, "You need to open specific ports on your firewall to allow access to the specific services your wanting to provide your customers with". His response was, "Bullshit! I'm googling that. If I don't find it I will take your device out of line and it will work." My response was, "Call me back and let me know how that works out".
8) Send you an email in the middle of the night to call first thing in the morning but take the next day off. This has happened to everyone I'm betting.
9) Disconnect the firewall to "avoid conflicts with the new ips" and cuss the living shit out of you for the "internet" being down. I had a client installing a new IPS in line with the one they already had. In order to "avoid any conflicts" they removed the firewall (not the other ids, the firewall). They called me and asked/told/cussed, "the internet is down what did you guys do?".
10) Insist that the "purple cable can not be a crossover cable because crossover cables are red". The clients "network assistant fixed the problem" by telling his boss to go check to see if he could get on the internet and plugged the purple cable in as soon as he was out of the room.
Another solution would be to not allow anonymous contributors, and have content subject to academic scrutiny. ie. Place significant control in the hands of an academic based board. The site would be eligible for grants from the library of congress, other education oriented grants, and direct contributions from academia. Getting the "contributing community" that surrounds Wikipedia to give up that much freedom would probably be very difficult. But, balancing security and freedom can be a measure of ego.
Put the flywheel in a permanently-sealed vacuum chamber
NASA vacuum seals theirs. Though I don't think permanently. Also, one could leverage torque by using the inner area of the wheel as the motor and the outer wheel area for acceleration.
Slashdot Mirror
There is heat in the core, methane, water, and public interest. Can we PLEASE start colonization now?
I can hear it now.
worm developers!
worm developers!
worm developers!
Oops! Thanks to you, my earlier post about it being Microsoft that has love for the little people was wrong. Now I know it is the open source folks allowing deprived third world people income from phishing scams. Thank you sir/madam/pooch for showing me the error of my ways.
Not to mention all of the people in third world countries that depend on the income from phishing scams.
See! Microsoft has love and respect for the little people!
Hard drugs.
Hard liquor.
Smoking.
Jumping off tall buildings.
Stepping out in front of a bus.
That is a good idea.
provide-more-documentation-in-the-users-face
It should give Dell the opportunity to bring back the days of pre-installed software shooting popups at the clients on first boot. I'm not trying to be snide. One of the reasons Dell became such a success is because Microsoft and a slew of other companies discounted everything down to nill for them because they shipped machines with so much crap on them it was like wading through malware to get the machine booted. I know they still do some of it but not nearly as bad as the PI PII days. If companies get wind they can pack a bunch of crap onto the first boot of someone's Linux machine they'd line up outside the door.
Which memo had the password in it? I wanted to post a response.
I don't want to argue about who at apple was responsible for the user interface but I think your crediting the wrong person. Regardless, I think you are saying Steve Jobs was dictating what he wanted until he got it. That I completely agree with. When his dictator, more of a "I'm the last final word", way of leading annoyed enough people they kicked him out. Apple wandered without strong leadership until they realized how bad they needed it. IMHO, That leader didn't have to be Steve Jobs. Not that he hasn't done a great job. Still. Anyone with goals, a clue on where technology is going, and persistence could easily take over for him.
It is a logo submission for oroborus you insensitive clod!
I have a little data that suggests there is a relationship between being required to "list your extra contributions" and your company working you to death for 80 hours then giving you shit if you don't work fridays too. If your boss isn't looking over you shoulder or asking you to justify your existence at the company you have a good change of relaxing long enough to do another 80 hour stretch.
On a more serious note. If you get paid weekly, won't you miss going to the clubs every friday night?
Whew! Not Texas for a change. I guess that piece of shit George Bush was enough.
I for one welcome our unmanned overlords.
All of my grammar classes were lectures.
I remember having some professors that actively tried to get students to drop out. Something to do with "if you cant handle it your waisting the seat". I agree with you 100% about them facilitating the education. In small classes professors teach. In large classes professors lecture. Like you say, a lecture leaves no room for clarification or interactivity. If the student spent their lecture time in a lab asking the professors aids questions they would get a better grade and an actual education.
No sitting in the back of the room for you!
I was all psyched on the nVidia glasses until I pictured my fat ass sitting in the middle of the living room, dawning them and headphones playing video games. I think this TV would be the better way to go.
I try to browse all my pr0n before confession. I guess I could start going to midnight mass.
How do I encrypt my pr0n and social so nobody steals my identity?
[The operating system] needs to be more than a bundle of apps bolted on top of a phone. We all live complex lives and keep our information all over the place.
I can't be the only on tired of writers telling the public that an Operating System and the Applications running on it are associated.
pssst Tim. The reason you had to put bracketed words in "Jon Rubinstein, executive chairman of Palm"'s quotes is because. The OS and the applications ARE a separate thing. And guess what else? No really! Guess. Applications are kept all over the place these days too! Welcome to 2009 sir.
The first thing that came to my mind when I looked at the pic of their test system was, "can I have some motherboard to go with my heat sink please?" How much longer before people are trying to squeeze components into some kind of massive rectangular radiator instead of a case?
Anyway. I'm glad AMD was able to get to .45 I knew that was the reason they weren't performing on par with the Intel Duo chips.
I'm sure there is a very large % of people doing exactly what you say, 360/ps3+Wii. Add the physical relationship the Wii has created between games and gamers and possible future games makes a hardcore gamer like me want it even more. I'd be pretty stout if my FPS gaming required me to run and jump.
I hate it when someone posts, verbatim, what I was thinking :p
Nice ones. The screen shot wrapped in a doc pushes me over the edge every time. I'd add:
6) Ask if the subnet mask is the 255.255.255 one when they are supposed to be a network admin.
When asked, "please give me the machines ip address, gateway ip address, subnet mask, and dns server ip address" a network administrator asked me, "is that the 255.255.255 one?"
7) Google your Answer to see if you are correct.
I told a client, "You need to open specific ports on your firewall to allow access to the specific services your wanting to provide your customers with". His response was, "Bullshit! I'm googling that. If I don't find it I will take your device out of line and it will work." My response was, "Call me back and let me know how that works out".
8) Send you an email in the middle of the night to call first thing in the morning but take the next day off.
This has happened to everyone I'm betting.
9) Disconnect the firewall to "avoid conflicts with the new ips" and cuss the living shit out of you for the "internet" being down.
I had a client installing a new IPS in line with the one they already had. In order to "avoid any conflicts" they removed the firewall (not the other ids, the firewall). They called me and asked/told/cussed, "the internet is down what did you guys do?".
10) Insist that the "purple cable can not be a crossover cable because crossover cables are red".
The clients "network assistant fixed the problem" by telling his boss to go check to see if he could get on the internet and plugged the purple cable in as soon as he was out of the room.
Another solution would be to not allow anonymous contributors, and have content subject to academic scrutiny. ie. Place significant control in the hands of an academic based board. The site would be eligible for grants from the library of congress, other education oriented grants, and direct contributions from academia. Getting the "contributing community" that surrounds Wikipedia to give up that much freedom would probably be very difficult. But, balancing security and freedom can be a measure of ego.
Put the flywheel in a permanently-sealed vacuum chamber
NASA vacuum seals theirs. Though I don't think permanently. Also, one could leverage torque by using the inner area of the wheel as the motor and the outer wheel area for acceleration.