"Can't blame me for making the same mistake repeatedly! It's genetic!" Yeah, but you still make the same mistake repeatedly, so, I'm going to judge you because of it. "But I can't help it!" Isn't that more of a reason to hold it against you, not less of one?
"Can't blame me for being ugly, it's genetic!" you're still ugly "Can't blame me for being a jerk, it's genetic!" you're still a jerk "Can't blame me for being smart, it's genetic!" you're still smart
If you want to use the "it's genetic" argument, doesn't it imply an acceptance of our deep-rooted need to judge people and find either favor is disfavor about them because of their genetics? You may have redeeming qualities; but, if you repeatedly make the same mistake, not repeatedly making the same mistake isn't one of them. It's still a character flaw. Being a character flaw that is encoded into the most basic parts of every atomic unit of you that can still be considered "you" doesn't make it any less of a flaw.
So I'm still going to complain about tacking "funny" little misleading quips to the end of article summaries, no matter how many times you do it, no matter why you do it. And I'll do so repeatedly.
Of course not! I'm saying that labor ought to be priced entirely by an agreement between what business owners see fit to pay and what potential employees see fit to be paid. If someone else is willing to do your job for 1/250th of the price, I don't think a business owner is at fault for looking into it. If you want to keep your job, I don't think you're at fault for trying to price yourself even lower. Business owners and employees are both selling things. Business owners are selling speaker cables, while employees are selling "the ability to manufacture speaker cables". Businesses are no less a consumer than you are, they're just consuming different things.
If X-Mart offers a speaker cable for 1/250th of the price of Z-Mart, you'll shop at X-Mart. Z-Mart is expected to catch on that they're selling for way too much, and try to out-do X-Mart by selling for even less. Z-Mart may of course offer other incentives for keeping their price a little higher than X-Mart, but 2500% would be quite a hard sell. I suppose they could spend that extra on advertising, but how much of/your/ paycheck do you spend on advertising yourself? I'm guessing it's less than 0.01%
From what I understand, Heroes and The Office are among NBCs top shows. They have been available from this service for quite some time. I also don't know where the "IE Only" comes from. Maybe this is along the research lines of "I tried it in firefox, and it didn't work. And firefox is so good they must be blocking everything that isn't IE there is no other explanation MS SUX!!"
Anyone care to clue me in on why the parent was modded "troll"? IBM is bragging about having developed a cleaner way to do a wholely unneccessary process. Is that not fact?
They seem to have developed not a new way to help the environment, but a new way to protect their "intellectual property". Are we all supposed to praise them because they've stopped polluting quite as much in an obscene unnecessary procedure they go through before recycling their waste?
"They'll learn to use something other than Windows! It's competitition!" I think the goal of OLPC is "Teaching Children", not "Teaching Children to use computers". While I'm sure some children exposed to computers through this program might wind up taking up the craft, the majority probably won't. The real question is: Can Microsoft, once done porting, use the full force of its might to create a superior system for Children, the way it has for Businesses? (people who think OOo isn't a peice of shit need not reply)
U.S. Schools are turning out more business majors
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I don't remember ever being told that [Engineering/IT/Business Management/Finance] education is only good in the [Engineering/IT/Business Management/Finance] field. Has this changed?
OLPC laptops are meant to set up an ad-hoc network when two or more are on (iirc, they can also act as repeaters in a low-power mode when not being used). The idea is that there will be internet access in some places, and other places will be able to get at it through the mesh. The primary use of the laptops will likely be as a Textbook. If you have 4 $50 textbooks used by a class of 30, it is cheaper for each to have a $100 laptop and 4 e-books than for each to have $200 of textbooks. Of course, none of these numbers line up with reality anymore, but that was a goal.
In short: It will probably be a good and inexpensive thing eventually, but right now there's a lot of "reality" in the way.
I'm 23. I have used computers my entire life. I have at no point in my life seen computer graphics capabilities which were not at least what I would consider "twice as good" (in terms of complexity, framerate, resolution) as consumer consoles. (arcade cabinets are another, though short-lived, story)
What a great new way to curtail piracy! Charge five times as much as you could reasonably be expected to otherwise, then include three free copies of a game to be given to friends who might otherwise pirate it! Sure, you might piss off those [Majority of the population] who only have friends who: a) have already played their five-year-old games or b) didn't play those games in the previous five years because they weren't interested in them
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Why don't they just make them really big?
Dude! We have the SAME SHOES! No WAI!!!
Velcro looks Silly, Laces look silly. Why have either?
Why are you still wearing shoes with laces? Technology has progressed beyond the need for such archaic devices.
HAHAHaHHAHAH "Penetration"!! Hehehehehehe omg rotflmao
and when we have external memory technologies?
"Can't blame me for making the same mistake repeatedly! It's genetic!"
Yeah, but you still make the same mistake repeatedly, so, I'm going to judge you because of it.
"But I can't help it!"
Isn't that more of a reason to hold it against you, not less of one?
"Can't blame me for being ugly, it's genetic!" you're still ugly
"Can't blame me for being a jerk, it's genetic!" you're still a jerk
"Can't blame me for being smart, it's genetic!" you're still smart
If you want to use the "it's genetic" argument, doesn't it imply an acceptance of our deep-rooted need to judge people and find either favor is disfavor about them because of their genetics? You may have redeeming qualities; but, if you repeatedly make the same mistake, not repeatedly making the same mistake isn't one of them. It's still a character flaw. Being a character flaw that is encoded into the most basic parts of every atomic unit of you that can still be considered "you" doesn't make it any less of a flaw.
So I'm still going to complain about tacking "funny" little misleading quips to the end of article summaries, no matter how many times you do it, no matter why you do it.
And I'll do so repeatedly.
Of course not! I'm saying that labor ought to be priced entirely by an agreement between what business owners see fit to pay and what potential employees see fit to be paid. If someone else is willing to do your job for 1/250th of the price, I don't think a business owner is at fault for looking into it. If you want to keep your job, I don't think you're at fault for trying to price yourself even lower.
/your/ paycheck do you spend on advertising yourself? I'm guessing it's less than 0.01%
Business owners and employees are both selling things. Business owners are selling speaker cables, while employees are selling "the ability to manufacture speaker cables". Businesses are no less a consumer than you are, they're just consuming different things.
If X-Mart offers a speaker cable for 1/250th of the price of Z-Mart, you'll shop at X-Mart.
Z-Mart is expected to catch on that they're selling for way too much, and try to out-do X-Mart by selling for even less.
Z-Mart may of course offer other incentives for keeping their price a little higher than X-Mart, but 2500% would be quite a hard sell. I suppose they could spend that extra on advertising, but how much of
Sounds like you're charging 251x what you should be for your labor. Who says your skills are valuable or difficult?
From what I understand, Heroes and The Office are among NBCs top shows. They have been available from this service for quite some time. I also don't know where the "IE Only" comes from. Maybe this is along the research lines of "I tried it in firefox, and it didn't work. And firefox is so good they must be blocking everything that isn't IE there is no other explanation MS SUX!!"
Anyone care to clue me in on why the parent was modded "troll"?
IBM is bragging about having developed a cleaner way to do a wholely unneccessary process. Is that not fact?
They seem to have developed not a new way to help the environment, but a new way to protect their "intellectual property". Are we all supposed to praise them because they've stopped polluting quite as much in an obscene unnecessary procedure they go through before recycling their waste?
"They'll learn to use something other than Windows! It's competitition!"
I think the goal of OLPC is "Teaching Children", not "Teaching Children to use computers". While I'm sure some children exposed to computers through this program might wind up taking up the craft, the majority probably won't. The real question is: Can Microsoft, once done porting, use the full force of its might to create a superior system for Children, the way it has for Businesses? (people who think OOo isn't a peice of shit need not reply)
I can play soccer on a football field
I don't remember ever being told that [Engineering/IT/Business Management/Finance] education is only good in the [Engineering/IT/Business Management/Finance] field. Has this changed?
OLPC laptops are meant to set up an ad-hoc network when two or more are on (iirc, they can also act as repeaters in a low-power mode when not being used). The idea is that there will be internet access in some places, and other places will be able to get at it through the mesh.
The primary use of the laptops will likely be as a Textbook.
If you have 4 $50 textbooks used by a class of 30, it is cheaper for each to have a $100 laptop and 4 e-books than for each to have $200 of textbooks. Of course, none of these numbers line up with reality anymore, but that was a goal.
In short: It will probably be a good and inexpensive thing eventually, but right now there's a lot of "reality" in the way.
Check out the OLPC website.
I'm moving to the U.K. in a few months.. will my steam account die? :/
Infinite tape that's twice as long is logically impossible. Clearly to double the memory you need to make it twice as wide
Because everyone has a friend who: Hasn't played Half Life 2 by now (unlikely), despite being interested in doing so (absurd)
So, you liked the movie "Cube", did you?
I'm 23. I have used computers my entire life. I have at no point in my life seen computer graphics capabilities which were not at least what I would consider "twice as good" (in terms of complexity, framerate, resolution) as consumer consoles. (arcade cabinets are another, though short-lived, story)
What a great new way to curtail piracy! Charge five times as much as you could reasonably be expected to otherwise, then include three free copies of a game to be given to friends who might otherwise pirate it!
Sure, you might piss off those [Majority of the population] who only have friends who: a) have already played their five-year-old games or b) didn't play those games in the previous five years because they weren't interested in them
Bearden. He's been at http://www.cheniere.org/ since forever.
Can you name any that can recognize fair use?
Every one of those planes crashed!