I sure as hell would - I'm sick of gadgets, lousy interfaces, pointless features and shitty batteries.
I want a cell phone and not much else.
Oh, and I'm reasonably sure though I do not want it in white.
Getting shamed with a permanent marker for passing out
"Hooking up"
Cartoons and Gin
Dope and Hostess goodies
The walk of shame (or pride for some)
Campus Cops
Stealing / painting / moving some worthless university icon (your schools or another's)
Sorority girls - heh
Any prank involving livestock, freshmen, or electricity (or all three)
Frat parties with Sorority girls
That guy on campus with one name like Boon, or Marsh, or Bowles
Stealing _______________ to "beautify" your dorm room
Waking up in a strange place with a strange partner
Waiting in the hall for your roommate to "finish" (ok I don't miss that)
Trips into (nearest) town with little or no $$, expecting a good time (and finding it)
And my personal favorite - getting high for that exam that you "couldn't possibly fail"
Some people view the computer as a tool and nothing more. My wife is one of them, she has an old clamshell mac running os9 (I think the closest macos equivalent to win98) It's hard for me to fathom using a computer this way, but when she needs it, takes it from its drawer, turns it on, completes her work, then she shuts it down and puts it back into the drawer. She has no need to upgrade, and never will - until some piece of hardware dies.
So the point being is that it appears that most technology nerds on slashdot (including me) aren't really up on technology trends as much as we should. Maybe we don't care... Or maybe we cling to are old ancient technologies and refuse to give up the ghost.
For what it's worth, I tend to think it's a social issue instead of a technology issue. It's the same technology slashdoters use ( and develop ) everyday. It's just packaged in a way that's not useful to us or not appealing to us.
I switch between my mac and my pc constantly all day long. I'm a freak when it comes to alt-tab program switching, and those two useless keys just get in the way. Since the windows key was made standard on keyboards (what 9 years ago?) I have just popped them off the keyboard. Life is easier without those two keys.
Depends on the amount, and just how much energy you have, and how responsible you are.
If you have enough, I'd seriously suggest real estate, more specifically multi-family housing. I went to school in Boston, and had 2 friends who scraped together enough $$ to each buy a 3 family house. (One in Oak Square and one in Davis square). They each bought them at a time when those areas were still sketchy (late 80's) and scraped cash to make ends meet while living there. Each had it set up so that they paid little or no mortgage because the tenants covered nearly 100% of the payment. I'll admit they struggled for a few years - and it wasn't pleasant seeing go through things like broken pipes at 3am or reckless tenants. But the outcome was incredible.
They both followed similar rules
1. Rent only to grad students
2. If no grad students were available, then women over men (less nasty)
3. Whatever unit they lived in was constantly under improvement, and when a tenant moved out - they'd rent the unit they just finished fixing for more $$
When they finished school and had jobs that paid well enough to save, they stopped altogether renting an apartment when someone left (if they had the cash) and added that floor to their own, eventually making the 3 family house into a 1 family house. Last time I saw my bud in Davis Square, his house was in fantastic shape, and now in a great neighborhood. The neighborhood even petitioned to have the street made into a dead end. My friend in Oak Square reverted the unit back to apartments when he was divorced, and leveraged it to buy 3 other units (he's now a slumlord - but a rich slumlord)
Or then you could be like me - spend it all on booze, and travel - I think I did ok.
Recumbents are fast, however they lack the ability to climb, especially on the steeper hills. There is incredible mechanical advantage to standing and grinding uphill on a conventional bike, there is so much more working than just legs.
I'm sure quite Zune after buying the thing you will have a few revelations.
Zune you will wish you bought an ipod.
Zune, I will crash hard and not recover.
Zune, you will tire of my endless feature set and pawn me off on your nephew.
I really need to get out more often, perhaps Zune I will. (To go buy an ipod)
Like many on here I have a domain name that is my last name, and a dedicated machine to serve it. (leased machine from a reputable data center)
I thought it would be nice to offer all my family members email addresses that read exactly like their names. For the most part this has worked well and my family members and relatives are quite happy to have the addresses and know how to use them.
However my father has on at least 3 THREE occasions called me to tell me my server is down, here's the conversation.
Dad: "Hi, your server is down!"
Me: "OK, I'll have a look, gimme a second" (My heart skips a beat and I logon and have a look at the dashboard). "Nope, it's running fine."
Dad: "No really it's down, I can't send email. In fact I haven't gotten email for over 10 days."
Me: "Just a sec, I'm going to send myself an email as you." (it takes me a few seconds, and of course nearly instantly it's in my inbox on my local machine) "OK, I just got that - looks good to me."
Dad: "Huh, I wonder why."
Me: "Me too. (I think about the first rule of support / QA - are the wires connected ) Are you connected to the internet?"
Dad: "No, of course not. Do you want me to dial in now?"
He called me at least 2 more times that I can remember with the same opening line, "Hi, your server is down".
What Google is doing IMO is brilliant, by allowing employees to have pet projects and explore and push the boundaries using their expertise, Google is tapping directly into the "garage developer/inventor" projects of employees that might otherwise be developed outside of Google.
It's cost effective in many ways, employees may tend to stay on target for their standard job and/or projects (that might otherwise be a bit dull) because they CAN flex their muscles and try new things. Google gets R&D on a budget from the people on their front lines, and then take what ever might come out of that, throw it up and see if it sticks. What a great and less expensive way to find the next killer app, while possibly defining the direction of the Internet & search, and keeping employees satisfied and 'on the team'.
Great.
I wonder if I can transfer the real world desk clutter to my bumptop e.g. all my virtual foam stress animals and of course my Sigmund Freud "action figure" (with cigar).
May 10, National Abacus Day in Japan. "Today is National Abacus Day in Japan. By manipulating beads, the user of an abacus can perform simple addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division."
Learn to write what will help you get (and keep) the largest returns from your efforts as an engineer:
- Business and/or grant proposals
- Job descriptions and performance reviews
- Budgets
- Grant applications
- Patents
- Love letters
Article only states The study, based on government statistics...
If this data is based on sick-days reported by employers to the government, your assessment of paid time off might have a-lot to do with the actual numbers, considering most everyone I know "sticks it to the man" with sick days, to get extra time off to compensate for the extended hours, overtime and general BS.
Ive been curious about this subject as well for some time.
The first person that Ive stumbled across addressing these problems
and offering insight is Dan
Pink
His current book 'A
WHOLE NEW MIND' leads me to believe he he really understands the issues
at hand here and (unlike most others) is willing to go out on a limb and offer
what I think to be some pretty interesting solutions.
Here an excerpt that explains the basics of his idea.
The last few decades have belonged to a certain kind of person with
a certain kind of mind computer programmers who could crank code, lawyers
who could craft contracts, MBAs who could crunch numbers. But the keys to the
kingdom are changing hands. The future belongs to a very different kind of person
with a very different kind of mind creators and empathizers, pattern
recognizers and meaning makers. These people artists, inventors, designers,
storytellers, caregivers, consolers, big picture thinkers will now reap
societys richest rewards and share its greatest joys.
If nothing else this book has gotten me thinking in some directions that i would
have otherwise missed - oh yeah and it's available in paperback.
They may do the coursework, bit I think the outcome will be a little different.
Because isn't the real part of college / university the stuff that happens outside of the classroom (and I don't mean the partying). Just being in a place where there are gobs of others like you, and resources available to carry out the stuff you dream up - like stealing a canon.
Slashdot Mirror
I sure as hell would - I'm sick of gadgets, lousy interfaces, pointless features and shitty batteries. I want a cell phone and not much else. Oh, and I'm reasonably sure though I do not want it in white.
Why do we continue to bash this dead subject?
Like many others I refuse to run XP, and it will be a cold day in hell before I run Vista, But who fucking cares.
I only hope that I'll never have to support it.
Sounds a little more like a fungus than a virus.
I am sick to death of Microsoft's disregard for CSS compatibility.
'tis true what you say, but what about the eight or so hours that most of us spend in one place every day.
What about streaming content.
I'd love to have my ipod receive Internet radio.
Seem to me some extreme measures just to avoid
Getting shamed with a permanent marker for passing out
"Hooking up"
Cartoons and Gin
Dope and Hostess goodies
The walk of shame (or pride for some)
Campus Cops
Stealing / painting / moving some worthless university icon (your schools or another's)
Sorority girls - heh
Any prank involving livestock, freshmen, or electricity (or all three)
Frat parties with Sorority girls
That guy on campus with one name like Boon, or Marsh, or Bowles
Stealing _______________ to "beautify" your dorm room
Waking up in a strange place with a strange partner
Waiting in the hall for your roommate to "finish" (ok I don't miss that)
Trips into (nearest) town with little or no $$, expecting a good time (and finding it)
And my personal favorite - getting high for that exam that you "couldn't possibly fail"
Some people view the computer as a tool and nothing more. My wife is one of them, she has an old clamshell mac running os9 (I think the closest macos equivalent to win98) It's hard for me to fathom using a computer this way, but when she needs it, takes it from its drawer, turns it on, completes her work, then she shuts it down and puts it back into the drawer. She has no need to upgrade, and never will - until some piece of hardware dies.
I also have this theory that she's Vulcan.
Holy Patch Batman!
Bet you've never heard that before either.
So the point being is that it appears that most technology nerds on slashdot (including me) aren't really up on technology trends as much as we should. Maybe we don't care... Or maybe we cling to are old ancient technologies and refuse to give up the ghost.
For what it's worth, I tend to think it's a social issue instead of a technology issue. It's the same technology slashdoters use ( and develop ) everyday. It's just packaged in a way that's not useful to us or not appealing to us.
I switch between my mac and my pc constantly all day long. I'm a freak when it comes to alt-tab program switching, and those two useless keys just get in the way. Since the windows key was made standard on keyboards (what 9 years ago?) I have just popped them off the keyboard. Life is easier without those two keys.
Depends on the amount, and just how much energy you have, and how responsible you are.
If you have enough, I'd seriously suggest real estate, more specifically multi-family housing. I went to school in Boston, and had 2 friends who scraped together enough $$ to each buy a 3 family house. (One in Oak Square and one in Davis square). They each bought them at a time when those areas were still sketchy (late 80's) and scraped cash to make ends meet while living there. Each had it set up so that they paid little or no mortgage because the tenants covered nearly 100% of the payment. I'll admit they struggled for a few years - and it wasn't pleasant seeing go through things like broken pipes at 3am or reckless tenants. But the outcome was incredible.
They both followed similar rules
1. Rent only to grad students
2. If no grad students were available, then women over men (less nasty)
3. Whatever unit they lived in was constantly under improvement, and when a tenant moved out - they'd rent the unit they just finished fixing for more $$
When they finished school and had jobs that paid well enough to save, they stopped altogether renting an apartment when someone left (if they had the cash) and added that floor to their own, eventually making the 3 family house into a 1 family house. Last time I saw my bud in Davis Square, his house was in fantastic shape, and now in a great neighborhood. The neighborhood even petitioned to have the street made into a dead end. My friend in Oak Square reverted the unit back to apartments when he was divorced, and leveraged it to buy 3 other units (he's now a slumlord - but a rich slumlord)
Or then you could be like me - spend it all on booze, and travel - I think I did ok.
More power yes, more aerodynamic yes, hills no.
Recumbents are fast, however they lack the ability to climb, especially on the steeper hills. There is incredible mechanical advantage to standing and grinding uphill on a conventional bike, there is so much more working than just legs.
What a great name, let's use it in a sentence
I'm sure quite Zune after buying the thing you will have a few revelations.
Zune you will wish you bought an ipod.
Zune, I will crash hard and not recover.
Zune, you will tire of my endless feature set and pawn me off on your nephew.
I really need to get out more often, perhaps Zune I will. (To go buy an ipod)
Doubt that, since we talk often, and the subject matter is quite different.
Like many on here I have a domain name that is my last name, and a dedicated machine to serve it. (leased machine from a reputable data center)
I thought it would be nice to offer all my family members email addresses that read exactly like their names. For the most part this has worked well and my family members and relatives are quite happy to have the addresses and know how to use them.
However my father has on at least 3 THREE occasions called me to tell me my server is down, here's the conversation.
Dad: "Hi, your server is down!"
Me: "OK, I'll have a look, gimme a second" (My heart skips a beat and I logon and have a look at the dashboard). "Nope, it's running fine."
Dad: "No really it's down, I can't send email. In fact I haven't gotten email for over 10 days."
Me: "Just a sec, I'm going to send myself an email as you." (it takes me a few seconds, and of course nearly instantly it's in my inbox on my local machine) "OK, I just got that - looks good to me."
Dad: "Huh, I wonder why."
Me: "Me too. (I think about the first rule of support / QA - are the wires connected ) Are you connected to the internet?"
Dad: "No, of course not. Do you want me to dial in now?"
He called me at least 2 more times that I can remember with the same opening line, "Hi, your server is down".
What Google is doing IMO is brilliant, by allowing employees to have pet projects and explore and push the boundaries using their expertise, Google is tapping directly into the "garage developer/inventor" projects of employees that might otherwise be developed outside of Google.
It's cost effective in many ways, employees may tend to stay on target for their standard job and/or projects (that might otherwise be a bit dull) because they CAN flex their muscles and try new things. Google gets R&D on a budget from the people on their front lines, and then take what ever might come out of that, throw it up and see if it sticks. What a great and less expensive way to find the next killer app, while possibly defining the direction of the Internet & search, and keeping employees satisfied and 'on the team'.
Great. I wonder if I can transfer the real world desk clutter to my bumptop e.g. all my virtual foam stress animals and of course my Sigmund Freud "action figure" (with cigar).
May 10,
National Abacus Day in Japan.
"Today is National Abacus Day in Japan. By manipulating beads, the user of an abacus can perform simple addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division."
Learn to write what will help you get (and keep) the largest returns from your efforts as an engineer:
- Business and/or grant proposals
- Job descriptions and performance reviews
- Budgets
- Grant applications
- Patents
- Love letters
Article only states The study, based on government statistics...
If this data is based on sick-days reported by employers to the government, your assessment of paid time off might have a-lot to do with the actual numbers, considering most everyone I know "sticks it to the man" with sick days, to get extra time off to compensate for the extended hours, overtime and general BS.
- just a thought
The first person that Ive stumbled across addressing these problems and offering insight is Dan Pink
His current book 'A WHOLE NEW MIND' leads me to believe he he really understands the issues at hand here and (unlike most others) is willing to go out on a limb and offer what I think to be some pretty interesting solutions .
Here an excerpt that explains the basics of his idea.
If nothing else this book has gotten me thinking in some directions that i would have otherwise missed - oh yeah and it's available in paperback."students thousands of miles from Shanghai or Beijing will be able to access online course materials from M.I.T."
... Shanghai is a long way to go to retrieve the Caltech Cannon.
Will they also get other "ideas" from that coursework
They may do the coursework, bit I think the outcome will be a little different. Because isn't the real part of college / university the stuff that happens outside of the classroom (and I don't mean the partying). Just being in a place where there are gobs of others like you, and resources available to carry out the stuff you dream up - like stealing a canon.
But, I'd only consider buying it if it came with a '64 baby-blue impala SS ragtop lo-rider w/ spinners. Now THAT'D BE HOT.