The problems of addiction is always with the addict rather than with the substance. Addictive personalities can obsess with the wierdest things. It's what happens in their brains which makes them want to repeat behaviours to their own detriment. Yeah, because the web is otherwise immediate and gratifying you will have addicted personalities become addicted to it to a point where it becomes a problem.
If you are merely using it to stay on top of your job or your interests and know when to put it aside, then you probably are not addicted to it and shouldn't have to worry. If you are an addictive personality (and you know who you are) see your doctor or a psych counselor about it; there are drugs that maybe can dampen the obsessive urges.
...in the boots of the telcos and cable companies. If broadband over the power grid were technically and economically doable, it eliminates the need for telcos if you have voip and for cable with a big enough pipe.
What they are saying is that regardless of its preferred mode, either rational or emotional, your subconscious mind can weigh more factors into the descision than you conscious mind can.
So even if you are a normally rational descision maker, it's better to sleep on a big descision than not to.
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First for the "Off-topic" question. It's amazing how many people get caught up in the comparison of time spent doing one thing versus another thing. First of all you can't spend ALL of your time doing what you get paid most for. It just is not humanly possible. So some of the things that you do are a welcome change from the bore that would be your 9-5 or 8 - 7 or whatever. Next, in the area of learning a new skill, it's not fair to judge it only by the time it takes. You should also be factoring in the worth of the knowledge you gain as well as the value of being a more rounded individual.
Still, what you ask for is intriguing and first thing that came to mind is that you might want to check out www.flickr.com (popular photo sharing site). You can set up a limited account for free and can then create a special interest group and invite others to join. The idea is that the group would be for people who wished to compete by photoshopping the photos submitted to the group. Could be someone will bite.
Posts like this worry me (wory me about the poster); it signals a deep lack of appreciation for how important information is to changing lives and conditions. Have you never had a physical symptom which you looked up on the internet to figure out how worried you should be. Maybe even information like, hmmm diahrea and general wasting away. Might be cholera, BOIL THE WATER you drink. How about when you needed help or information? Ever found it through a well placed email? There is nothing to say that medical services AND laptops cannot be provided to the same people. In fact it is MORE likely that appropriate medical services will find its way there if the people who need it have access to communication devices more advanced than bongo drums.
The sound quality of Skype seems to vary with the equipment you use. When I use skype from my home built desktop that uses all the cheapest parts, I find that quality is bad with a terrible echo even if using a good headset. On a kind of cheap Toshiba it's acceptable with a good headphone. With my Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop which has a built in microphone and good sound system, the quality is fantastic using NO headset. No echo, no tinny "speakerphone" sound on the other end. And Skype is cheap, cheap, cheap. I can't wait for the day of city wide WiFi, I'll ditch ALL phone companies, landline and cell.
Some people talk in person one way out of a reactive impulse. Email allows you to think about your message for its optimum effectiveness to its audience. I kind of liked what Torvalds wrote and how he worded his email. Sometimes ticking people off is more effective than always placating. If Torvalds realizes that he is TOO placating in person he might at second thought write his email in a tougher way. Nothing wrong with it. It shows a complex mind at work.
That can only increase the move to outsourcing software. If the companies who put out shoddy software because refuse to implement any kind of internal controls aren't held accountable and US programmers become even more expensive, guess who gets the work and then who ya gonna sue? Somebody in china who makes $37 a day? right...
Put the burden of liability on the real reason buggy software gets shipped. Hint, it's not the developers 9 times out of 10.
...each other he would not have made it possible.
Therefore the fact that some people in this game of "real life" are more powerful than another then it is god's fault for allowing this to happen?
Therefore people who mug should be banned from this life...
Wait this all is not sounding so good.
Lately I've been getting more calls from a recording that makes me listen to the whole spiel before I can get to a live person to ask them to remove me from their call list. I signed up on the Do Not Call list but then I moved and had to change my number.
Too bad I'm not asked automatically if I want my new number to appear on the Do Not Call list.
Bullshit! It been known to happen, yes. But probably a lot less than in wider society. "Generally" means the average Amish (and mennonite) woman you talk to will have been beaten and/or raped. This is just not true.
I would say it's probably average, at least in my experience. I went to an Amish Mennonite elementary and middle school and we took the state educational evaluation tests every year. EVERYBODY in my grade placed above state average, even the *dumb* ones.
Amish and Mennonite intelligence is applied differently maybe. And in some sense even the ones that try to assimulate into the larger culture are always on the outside looking in. Its not a bad thing. It gives great perspective.
Looks like some of it's on the mark but maybe a little over the top. The last bit about the kids being excited about the outside world but going back because their personal of development is dependent on that structure misses the mark, at least among the young of these religious groups.
It's more like they've had the fear installed in them that if they are to die 'out there' enjoying the pleasures of the world that they will pretty much go to hell. So it comes down to a matter of spiritual safety. It's the discomfort of living on the edge of danger that causes them to go back.
If an individual finds a way to logically think themselves past that fear then the situation flips. There is a distate to going back in under that kind of mental control.
Kids don't really get acquainted with books anymore and because they are mostly raised by parents who were also raised on TV, there is no pressure to learn good writing (or reading) skills.
Couple that with the propensity of techies and geeks to act as if the Vulcan mind meld was a reality, there seems to be very little desire to communicate anything effectively outside of our clique. Much of what spews out of the mouth of the technogentsia is derision for those who don't immerse themselves in the tech world.
Then there are the brain "features" that make techies so good at logic and math sometimes leave the language centers lacking.
So there you have it -- don't expect milk from a tomato.
So sad, you may have a good appreciation for the inner workings of technology but you have no appreciation for the workings of evolutionary theory.
Survival of the fittest...but there's a part you left off. It's survival of the fittest of an organism to their environment. That means you can't take an organism that is fit in one environment and automatically declare it fit in all others.
So the 'sheeple' are so numerous because that's what their environment encourages; they would not fit well into your environment.
But environments evolve too and apparently your environment is not a good fit its wider environment which BTW includes all the sheeple. Sounds tautological I know but it's the way things work.
If you don't like the numerous organisms in an environment, you have to change their environment which makes them not so fit any more.
if ad blocking becomes standard in popular browsers, that will be the end of free content on the web.
Not necessarily. The way it works is that companies whose BM depends on ad revenue will not be able to provide free content using that BM. Companies who use a perhaps different BM (CraigsList and many many free content servers that use non-obtrusive/non-annoying ads) will not be affected, will still provide free content and will still make it non-viable to charge for content except in very specialized markets.
The price of free content should not have to be annoying your customers. The sooner these freaky-deeks realize that, the better for both them and us.
Let me lay it out for you nice and simple. If you choose to use tools that work best with a keyboard then the keyboard will be most efficient. If your tool works better with mouse input then a mouse will be more effiecient.
Try using a keyboard exclusively with Photoshop. Oops!
No, first post is correct. Flying cars have been techincally possible for years and years. But the real reason you won't be able to buy a flying car is that the US government can't have us flying all over the place willy nilly going over borders, flying over the whitehouse, the pentagon, or area 56.
It is way too uncontrolled for the people who like to control things.
Why is everybody so shocked? The market changes and "oops" we forgot to think of these new requirements. So the solution is to ossify the mistargeted solution by creating a government office for it? Sounds like crybabies crying to me.
When you create a UI that people have to ditz with you are stealing time away from them. Too many developers think their applications are so f'ing great that users will want to moon over it for the rest of their lives. Well wrong. They just want the crap to work and provide value instead of sucking their lives away.
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The problems of addiction is always with the addict rather than with the substance. Addictive personalities can obsess with the wierdest things. It's what happens in their brains which makes them want to repeat behaviours to their own detriment. Yeah, because the web is otherwise immediate and gratifying you will have addicted personalities become addicted to it to a point where it becomes a problem.
If you are merely using it to stay on top of your job or your interests and know when to put it aside, then you probably are not addicted to it and shouldn't have to worry. If you are an addictive personality (and you know who you are) see your doctor or a psych counselor about it; there are drugs that maybe can dampen the obsessive urges.
...in the boots of the telcos and cable companies. If broadband over the power grid were technically and economically doable, it eliminates the need for telcos if you have voip and for cable with a big enough pipe.
What they are saying is that regardless of its preferred mode, either rational or emotional, your subconscious mind can weigh more factors into the descision than you conscious mind can.
So even if you are a normally rational descision maker, it's better to sleep on a big descision than not to.
First for the "Off-topic" question. It's amazing how many people get caught up in the comparison of time spent doing one thing versus another thing. First of all you can't spend ALL of your time doing what you get paid most for. It just is not humanly possible. So some of the things that you do are a welcome change from the bore that would be your 9-5 or 8 - 7 or whatever. Next, in the area of learning a new skill, it's not fair to judge it only by the time it takes. You should also be factoring in the worth of the knowledge you gain as well as the value of being a more rounded individual.
Still, what you ask for is intriguing and first thing that came to mind is that you might want to check out www.flickr.com (popular photo sharing site). You can set up a limited account for free and can then create a special interest group and invite others to join. The idea is that the group would be for people who wished to compete by photoshopping the photos submitted to the group. Could be someone will bite.
Posts like this worry me (wory me about the poster); it signals a deep lack of appreciation for how important information is to changing lives and conditions. Have you never had a physical symptom which you looked up on the internet to figure out how worried you should be. Maybe even information like, hmmm diahrea and general wasting away. Might be cholera, BOIL THE WATER you drink. How about when you needed help or information? Ever found it through a well placed email? There is nothing to say that medical services AND laptops cannot be provided to the same people. In fact it is MORE likely that appropriate medical services will find its way there if the people who need it have access to communication devices more advanced than bongo drums.
True. Time shift works only when in bug fix mode.
The sound quality of Skype seems to vary with the equipment you use. When I use skype from my home built desktop that uses all the cheapest parts, I find that quality is bad with a terrible echo even if using a good headset. On a kind of cheap Toshiba it's acceptable with a good headphone. With my Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop which has a built in microphone and good sound system, the quality is fantastic using NO headset. No echo, no tinny "speakerphone" sound on the other end. And Skype is cheap, cheap, cheap. I can't wait for the day of city wide WiFi, I'll ditch ALL phone companies, landline and cell.
Some people talk in person one way out of a reactive impulse. Email allows you to think about your message for its optimum effectiveness to its audience. I kind of liked what Torvalds wrote and how he worded his email. Sometimes ticking people off is more effective than always placating. If Torvalds realizes that he is TOO placating in person he might at second thought write his email in a tougher way. Nothing wrong with it. It shows a complex mind at work.
That can only increase the move to outsourcing software. If the companies who put out shoddy software because refuse to implement any kind of internal controls aren't held accountable and US programmers become even more expensive, guess who gets the work and then who ya gonna sue? Somebody in china who makes $37 a day? right...
Put the burden of liability on the real reason buggy software gets shipped. Hint, it's not the developers 9 times out of 10.
...each other he would not have made it possible. Therefore the fact that some people in this game of "real life" are more powerful than another then it is god's fault for allowing this to happen? Therefore people who mug should be banned from this life... Wait this all is not sounding so good.
Lately I've been getting more calls from a recording that makes me listen to the whole spiel before I can get to a live person to ask them to remove me from their call list. I signed up on the Do Not Call list but then I moved and had to change my number.
Too bad I'm not asked automatically if I want my new number to appear on the Do Not Call list.
Bullshit! It been known to happen, yes. But probably a lot less than in wider society. "Generally" means the average Amish (and mennonite) woman you talk to will have been beaten and/or raped. This is just not true.
I would say it's probably average, at least in my experience. I went to an Amish Mennonite elementary and middle school and we took the state educational evaluation tests every year. EVERYBODY in my grade placed above state average, even the *dumb* ones.
Amish and Mennonite intelligence is applied differently maybe. And in some sense even the ones that try to assimulate into the larger culture are always on the outside looking in. Its not a bad thing. It gives great perspective.
Looks like some of it's on the mark but maybe a little over the top. The last bit about the kids being excited about the outside world but going back because their personal of development is dependent on that structure misses the mark, at least among the young of these religious groups.
It's more like they've had the fear installed in them that if they are to die 'out there' enjoying the pleasures of the world that they will pretty much go to hell. So it comes down to a matter of spiritual safety. It's the discomfort of living on the edge of danger that causes them to go back.
If an individual finds a way to logically think themselves past that fear then the situation flips. There is a distate to going back in under that kind of mental control.
The Amish say AH-MISH. Mish BTW in Pennsylvania Dutch means a pile of crap. As in "Ich hapt schteppa in a pile uf mish."
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Remember this is an article targeted to top brass; they can only handle so much information at one time.
Please do not overload the Chief Information Officer with too much information.
Kids don't really get acquainted with books anymore and because they are mostly raised by parents who were also raised on TV, there is no pressure to learn good writing (or reading) skills.
Couple that with the propensity of techies and geeks to act as if the Vulcan mind meld was a reality, there seems to be very little desire to communicate anything effectively outside of our clique. Much of what spews out of the mouth of the technogentsia is derision for those who don't immerse themselves in the tech world.
Then there are the brain "features" that make techies so good at logic and math sometimes leave the language centers lacking.
So there you have it -- don't expect milk from a tomato.
So sad, you may have a good appreciation for the inner workings of technology but you have no appreciation for the workings of evolutionary theory.
Survival of the fittest...but there's a part you left off. It's survival of the fittest of an organism to their environment. That means you can't take an organism that is fit in one environment and automatically declare it fit in all others.
So the 'sheeple' are so numerous because that's what their environment encourages; they would not fit well into your environment.
But environments evolve too and apparently your environment is not a good fit its wider environment which BTW includes all the sheeple. Sounds tautological I know but it's the way things work.
If you don't like the numerous organisms in an environment, you have to change their environment which makes them not so fit any more.
Throwing around pebbles is not likely to work.
if ad blocking becomes standard in popular browsers, that will be the end of free content on the web.
Not necessarily. The way it works is that companies whose BM depends on ad revenue will not be able to provide free content using that BM. Companies who use a perhaps different BM (CraigsList and many many free content servers that use non-obtrusive/non-annoying ads) will not be affected, will still provide free content and will still make it non-viable to charge for content except in very specialized markets.
The price of free content should not have to be annoying your customers. The sooner these freaky-deeks realize that, the better for both them and us.
Let me lay it out for you nice and simple. If you choose to use tools that work best with a keyboard then the keyboard will be most efficient. If your tool works better with mouse input then a mouse will be more effiecient.
Try using a keyboard exclusively with Photoshop. Oops!
The tool you use dictates the hand action.
No, first post is correct. Flying cars have been techincally possible for years and years. But the real reason you won't be able to buy a flying car is that the US government can't have us flying all over the place willy nilly going over borders, flying over the whitehouse, the pentagon, or area 56. It is way too uncontrolled for the people who like to control things.
Why is everybody so shocked? The market changes and "oops" we forgot to think of these new requirements. So the solution is to ossify the mistargeted solution by creating a government office for it? Sounds like crybabies crying to me.
When you create a UI that people have to ditz with you are stealing time away from them. Too many developers think their applications are so f'ing great that users will want to moon over it for the rest of their lives. Well wrong. They just want the crap to work and provide value instead of sucking their lives away. Get it?
Hey, don't you have to go manage somebody about now?
IMHO does not exist dude.