"ANY GENERIC RETAIL SALESFORCE IS CLUELESS! This holds for kitchen appliances (Target), or power tools (Home Depot), bicycles, televisions, etc. I re-realized this when I was shopping for a table saw: The Home Depot doesn't know shit
I have noticed this years ago. It seems in the "good old days" when you went to a store, the salespeople actually knew something about the stuff they were selling.
Today, if I go to a high volume store, I simply grab what I need according to research I did earlier and don't bother even talking to the people working there. They aren't bad people, just useless to me:)
But consumers aren't stupid, they do some reasearch. So what appliance makers do, is they agree on a certain set of figures that they can throw around to indicate "which appliance is the best". For instance, vacuum cleaners are sold according to how powerful they are, marked in hundreds or thousands of watts. This of course has nothing to do with how good the vacuum cleaner really is, but a consumer can go to the store, and compare how many watts he can get for what amount of money, and try to go with the highest number of watts (or is that "wats"?).
The same applies, of course to computers and many other appliences.
I agree, the studies are flawed. However, no-one has been able to show that moderate alcohol use is HARMFUL either. And as the effect of alcohol is decidedly beneficial, in that it causes a person to relax, open up, I would say that makes moderate alcohol use a very good thing.
And I ask again, how is being permissive towards the use of alcohol, sex or even drug use a problem? Alcohol can be used in moderation, sex can be safe when using condoms and some drugs can be perfectly safe when used in moderation, so safe, that many are prescribed by doctors!
This research is like saying "reading books about food will make people hungry" or "reading a wine tasting magazine will make people more permissive towards alcohol use". Geez!
Well, how about starting by simply having a choice of male and female characters for games? It seems almost every game features the adventures of "generic caucasian guy".
Especially in online games (BF2, CS Source etc) a female character would NOT be hard to do at all.
RFID chip implants don't have to be mandatory. All you have to do is make it a rule that you can't fly, or cross the border, or get a drivers license without one.
Then they will be de-facto mandatory and those who don't get them are society's rejects or should be investigated for being possible terror suspects.
I didn't say she was a good or bad actress, and I don't think she is especially bad. I said she has a jinx that causes every movie she is in to suck. It isn't her fault really.
ALMOST every movie Angelina Jolie has made has been mostly crap. I used to think she had a jinx to her, until she made Mr and Ms Smith (which was crap too, but less than her other movies, that were complete and utter crap, including Sky Captain and the Penis of Tomorrow, dispite a rating to the contrare in rotten tomatoes).
Here, check out her resume and decide for your self wether or not it is indeed Jolie that is causing all these movies to suck:
Yes, this is what most people don't get about China, simply because they have not visited. The US is very centrally controlled. What is set as policy becomes real.
In China, the government may set policy, or some government organs may set policy, but what is implimented, how it is implemented or wehter it is implimented at all is decided on a lower level or levels.
This can be good or bad depending on the situation, but it does not a horrible autocratic dictatorship make.
No, but it tells me what is out there, what distros are based on what and the special purpose info is very useful.
This is like the difference between sitting in a random pile of books or having a library index to look through. The index won't tell me what is in the books, but it tells me what choice I have and categorises them to some extent.
I can tell you what happens. My girlfriend works at company where they have several different passwords for several different purpose made programs that they use daily.
The passwords can't be all the same, they have to contain numbers and enough letter, and they have to be changed periodically. And the changes have to be more than just one or two (or even three, I think) digits.
You would think this would make the system incredibly safe. Unfortunately, because of the number of passwords, nobody can remember any of them and everyone is totally confused!
So they just end up writing the passwords on paper and hiding the note under the blotter.
So there, whover has designed their "incredibly secure" system has just made it incredibly insecure simply by making it too complicated.
This actually very useful. My previous experimentations with Linux usually had the problem of what distro to use. Since so many were out there, and it was impossible to take in all the basic on all of them, I was totally swamped and ended up installing Suse, which was ok, but not suitable to my needs.
Maybe I should try again. However, I am not so enthusiastic about spending days upon end recompiling kernels trying to get it to work properly on my laptop:(
2. "Advertising" as an industry will basically keel over and die, because products will eventually reach a point at which they will stand or fall on their own merits. The internet means that the exchange of information is certainly possible; all that remains is for people to realize that 99% of advertisement has nothing to do with the product and everything to do with making as much noise to get as much attention (negative OR positive) as possible.
This I think is an interesting point, as there is a Spanish clothing retailer called Zara that is a huge success story and is continuing to grow and make tons of money. The interesting part? Zara has never run an ad-campaign!
So is advertising dead? Perhaps not completely, we still need people to design and manage brands, those brands probably won't lean on traditional advertising as much tho. Last bit was just my uninformed opinion.
I guess you could say that is a big bummer, but drilling down there would still be interesting. I'm sure they would find all kinds of interesting life there.
Umm, so what I don't get is, how is this a bad thing? None of these things mentioned, alcohol use, marihuana or sex without a condom are a problem when used in an informed, smart way.
I don't get it.
That is like saying, reading href="http://www.intowine.com/">In to Wine causes people to want to use alcohol.
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"ANY GENERIC RETAIL SALESFORCE IS CLUELESS! This holds for kitchen appliances (Target), or power tools (Home Depot), bicycles, televisions, etc. I re-realized this when I was shopping for a table saw: The Home Depot doesn't know shit
:)
I have noticed this years ago. It seems in the "good old days" when you went to a store, the salespeople actually knew something about the stuff they were selling.
Today, if I go to a high volume store, I simply grab what I need according to research I did earlier and don't bother even talking to the people working there. They aren't bad people, just useless to me
But consumers aren't stupid, they do some reasearch. So what appliance makers do, is they agree on a certain set of figures that they can throw around to indicate "which appliance is the best". For instance, vacuum cleaners are sold according to how powerful they are, marked in hundreds or thousands of watts. This of course has nothing to do with how good the vacuum cleaner really is, but a consumer can go to the store, and compare how many watts he can get for what amount of money, and try to go with the highest number of watts (or is that "wats"?).
The same applies, of course to computers and many other appliences.
I agree, the studies are flawed. However, no-one has been able to show that moderate alcohol use is HARMFUL either. And as the effect of alcohol is decidedly beneficial, in that it causes a person to relax, open up, I would say that makes moderate alcohol use a very good thing.
And I ask again, how is being permissive towards the use of alcohol, sex or even drug use a problem? Alcohol can be used in moderation, sex can be safe when using condoms and some drugs can be perfectly safe when used in moderation, so safe, that many are prescribed by doctors!
This research is like saying "reading books about food will make people hungry" or "reading a wine tasting magazine will make people more permissive towards alcohol use". Geez!
Simple.
Well, how about starting by simply having a choice of male and female characters for games? It seems almost every game features the adventures of "generic caucasian guy".
Especially in online games (BF2, CS Source etc) a female character would NOT be hard to do at all.
Not a solution, but a start.
Oh, and forgot about Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri who has been held as an enemy combatant for over two years.
Unlike Padilla, al-Marri is not a U.S. citizen, but he was arrested in the U.S.
Jose Padilla was arrested in Chicago, though as of late has finally been indicted.
Nevertheless, habeus corpus was suspended for four years. Perhaps this means anyone can be arrested without charge for atleast four years?
That, and the fact that they are nazis.
I call straw man!
RFID chip implants don't have to be mandatory. All you have to do is make it a rule that you can't fly, or cross the border, or get a drivers license without one.
Then they will be de-facto mandatory and those who don't get them are society's rejects or should be investigated for being possible terror suspects.
I laughed!
His sig just hits the spot too!
I didn't say she was a good or bad actress, and I don't think she is especially bad. I said she has a jinx that causes every movie she is in to suck. It isn't her fault really.
ALMOST every movie Angelina Jolie has made has been mostly crap. I used to think she had a jinx to her, until she made Mr and Ms Smith (which was crap too, but less than her other movies, that were complete and utter crap, including Sky Captain and the Penis of Tomorrow, dispite a rating to the contrare in rotten tomatoes).
Here, check out her resume and decide for your self wether or not it is indeed Jolie that is causing all these movies to suck:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/p/angelina_jolie/
Yes, this is what most people don't get about China, simply because they have not visited. The US is very centrally controlled. What is set as policy becomes real.
In China, the government may set policy, or some government organs may set policy, but what is implimented, how it is implemented or wehter it is implimented at all is decided on a lower level or levels.
This can be good or bad depending on the situation, but it does not a horrible autocratic dictatorship make.
No, but it tells me what is out there, what distros are based on what and the special purpose info is very useful.
This is like the difference between sitting in a random pile of books or having a library index to look through. The index won't tell me what is in the books, but it tells me what choice I have and categorises them to some extent.
I can tell you what happens. My girlfriend works at company where they have several different passwords for several different purpose made programs that they use daily.
The passwords can't be all the same, they have to contain numbers and enough letter, and they have to be changed periodically. And the changes have to be more than just one or two (or even three, I think) digits.
You would think this would make the system incredibly safe. Unfortunately, because of the number of passwords, nobody can remember any of them and everyone is totally confused!
So they just end up writing the passwords on paper and hiding the note under the blotter.
So there, whover has designed their "incredibly secure" system has just made it incredibly insecure simply by making it too complicated.
And thus the Slashdot bash-China-first-crowd assembles for yet another self invigorating hate-fest.
Don't you guys just feel so good hating China so much?
This actually very useful. My previous experimentations with Linux usually had the problem of what distro to use. Since so many were out there, and it was impossible to take in all the basic on all of them, I was totally swamped and ended up installing Suse, which was ok, but not suitable to my needs.
:(
Maybe I should try again. However, I am not so enthusiastic about spending days upon end recompiling kernels trying to get it to work properly on my laptop
I would usually just cheat and read all the choices and pick the one I liked better.
"tell those 10 people to go to Hell and build some damn power plants!"
I agree, they should definetly send those 10 people to build power plants in hell.
I think it was just a typo I made. Thanks anyway, should use "preview" more often.
So I take it, it was so primitive, that it didn't even have arms or legs?
I would have laughed at your comment, but it was blocked by my ad-blocker.
2. "Advertising" as an industry will basically keel over and die, because products will eventually reach a point at which they will stand or fall on their own merits. The internet means that the exchange of information is certainly possible; all that remains is for people to realize that 99% of advertisement has nothing to do with the product and everything to do with making as much noise to get as much attention (negative OR positive) as possible.
This I think is an interesting point, as there is a Spanish clothing retailer called Zara that is a huge success story and is continuing to grow and make tons of money. The interesting part? Zara has never run an ad-campaign!
So is advertising dead? Perhaps not completely, we still need people to design and manage brands, those brands probably won't lean on traditional advertising as much tho. Last bit was just my uninformed opinion.
I guess you could say that is a big bummer, but drilling down there would still be interesting. I'm sure they would find all kinds of interesting life there.
Umm, so what I don't get is, how is this a bad thing? None of these things mentioned, alcohol use, marihuana or sex without a condom are a problem when used in an informed, smart way.
I don't get it.
That is like saying, reading href="http://www.intowine.com/">In to Wine causes people to want to use alcohol.
I mean come on!