Turning things off is perhaps the single most important activity people can do, today, especially when children are around. Turn the TV off, turn the radio off, close the web browser, and realize that silence is quite enjoyable at times. Toddlers' heads aren't spinning off trying to "multi task" at TV and toys, and parents' heads aren't crunching trying to watch a show while pretending to give their children attention. The same goes for co-workers in the office. People are offended when they can't get undivided attention. I can't stand it when I'm trying to talk to someone, the phone rings, and I might as well leave. Nothing important gets done.
I wonder how productivity is measured, because it doesn't seem to be increasing. At least, people are being stretched until productivity simply cannot increase, without some sort of bionic implants.
It doesn't matter. Now that the tests are on-line, Alex will soon be saying "And, now, here's our returning champion, Google AI, who has shattered all records by winning $19,424,647,422,153! Can it break $19,424,647,500,000 today? Our new contestants are a smart bunch...oh forget it, I'd quit if Google AI didn't rig my bank and 401K!"
"Why would GoDaddy site security as their reason to change vendors?"
Perhaps Microsoft gave them a deal they couldn't pass up? For example, say GoDaddy's executives like to have chairs thrown at them. Now, can anyone name a better company than Microsoft for chair-throwing prowress? It's like peanut butter and jelly, fish and water--it's just meant to be.
However, scientists in the 60s have shown conclusively that the proper intermix ratio in the warp core will reverse aging by at least three days. I think this will be sufficient to counter any radiation concerns.
Consumer Reports agrees with you. The very expensive trendy brands of appliances are typically the least reliable, the loudest, the least convenient, etc. But they look good and are very expensive for people who think that is important. The same is true for many luxury cars, too.
Are people really that far in debt? My income is below-median, and the only time I carried a balance was after my son was born...hopefully something that doesn't happen several times a year!
Yes, these are the people using the Slashdot Dial-Up Service (Beta), where the modem connects directly to slashdot.org servers. That's why "NO CARRIER" can be displayed directly in the comment, while other dial-up services would put that into a log file or terminal message.
Especially for big ticket items like cars. I knew someone who rushed out and got a first-year car, and, while it was a decent car, it just had several little things that obviously would be re-designed for the next year. A floor vent didn't blow quite right, some electrical stuff, etc. While complex technological items like cars and software do get quite a bit of testing, there are just things that 100,000 users will find that a few dozen engineers won't. Oh, errata in books is especially annoying--one book I bought had all the figures mis-numbered (AARRGH!).
How is TracFone overpriced? For an emergency phone, it can easily average out to less than $10/month with the 1-year cards. Pre-pay is the way to go for infrequently-used phones.
Companies are so fearful about employees using illicit drugs it makes them do wierd things. In some workplaces there is subtle discrimination against groups who fits certain "profiles". It isn't really racial or gender based, but typically economically based. The janitors or maintenance crew get "random" tests all the time, while managers and other white-collar workers don't. If there is any connection between a person and drug use, whether it is fictional or not or on-line or not, companies will drop that application like a hot potato.
I have a patent on all thoughts about patenting. I will collect royalties from big companies making patent extensions and give all the proceeds to...myself.
Google can be a tricky beast for businesses. However, most of the important things about Google are very widely known, which means the company in the article didn't know much about running a website! In a couple of websites I've set up over the years, many of the common SEO techniques do tend to work, but it is really easy to run into things like "link spamming" penalties (in my opinion). To be completely honest, Google themselves give the best SEO advice on their website (content, content, content, some links, etc.).
Perhaps the website in the article had no content? I haven't the courage to really visit them.
VMs aren't perfect, but Java, for example, is more secure by design. No pointer arithmetic, automatic garbage collection, inherent protections of its process space, etc. all make Java much better. I'm not a C# programmer, but, supposedly, it has some of these qualities, too?
Vista hasn't really been around long enough to determine the "junkiness" of it, yet. Given the recent article about how little of Vista is sandboxed in a VM (.NET), odds are there are plenty of C or C++ gotchas in there. Also, the anti-spyware companies can still sell to the enormous installed base of Windows XP. I do hope the anti-spyware companies were smart enough to stay privately owned, however, given this shift in business model.
You should update your information architecture to send client DNS resolution requests via your postal service. Employ a small number of columnar mapping table lookup experts to enscribe the proper domain names onto the request sheets and transfer them back to the clients, again via post mail. You should realize the desired sea change in support staff utilization within weeks.
After seeing a couple recent Tim Allen movies, I'm thinking that Galaxy Quest is probably his best movie by far. And by far, I mean like a parsec...or four.
I think a lot of their productivity had to do with a complete on-line debugging environment at all times. The instant a bug appeared, they would start crawling through the in-memory data right away. No core files, no post-mortem analysis, no edit-compile-test cycles. Not a bad deal, but there is so little incentive in workplaces to pursue Lisp that I never really picked it up. Also, there's that whole deal of using Emacs;)
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Would a shiny puppy be a weapon of mass distraction?
Both! Then, we can finally have a tag-team match between King Kong, Godzilla, Stay-Puft, and...
Turning things off is perhaps the single most important activity people can do, today, especially when children are around. Turn the TV off, turn the radio off, close the web browser, and realize that silence is quite enjoyable at times. Toddlers' heads aren't spinning off trying to "multi task" at TV and toys, and parents' heads aren't crunching trying to watch a show while pretending to give their children attention. The same goes for co-workers in the office. People are offended when they can't get undivided attention. I can't stand it when I'm trying to talk to someone, the phone rings, and I might as well leave. Nothing important gets done.
I wonder how productivity is measured, because it doesn't seem to be increasing. At least, people are being stretched until productivity simply cannot increase, without some sort of bionic implants.
It doesn't matter. Now that the tests are on-line, Alex will soon be saying "And, now, here's our returning champion, Google AI, who has shattered all records by winning $19,424,647,422,153! Can it break $19,424,647,500,000 today? Our new contestants are a smart bunch...oh forget it, I'd quit if Google AI didn't rig my bank and 401K!"
prowress --> prowess
"Why would GoDaddy site security as their reason to change vendors?"
Perhaps Microsoft gave them a deal they couldn't pass up? For example, say GoDaddy's executives like to have chairs thrown at them. Now, can anyone name a better company than Microsoft for chair-throwing prowress? It's like peanut butter and jelly, fish and water--it's just meant to be.
However, scientists in the 60s have shown conclusively that the proper intermix ratio in the warp core will reverse aging by at least three days. I think this will be sufficient to counter any radiation concerns.
Shelf 1: Romance Novels
Shelf 2: Thermodynamics Textbooks
With all that steam, you can also use that room as a sauna!
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Nanoscale Woodworking
What about an AJAX page that loads a Java applet that implements Flash?
Consumer Reports agrees with you. The very expensive trendy brands of appliances are typically the least reliable, the loudest, the least convenient, etc. But they look good and are very expensive for people who think that is important. The same is true for many luxury cars, too.
Are people really that far in debt? My income is below-median, and the only time I carried a balance was after my son was born...hopefully something that doesn't happen several times a year!
Yes, these are the people using the Slashdot Dial-Up Service (Beta), where the modem connects directly to slashdot.org servers. That's why "NO CARRIER" can be displayed directly in the comment, while other dial-up services would put that into a log file or terminal message.
Especially for big ticket items like cars. I knew someone who rushed out and got a first-year car, and, while it was a decent car, it just had several little things that obviously would be re-designed for the next year. A floor vent didn't blow quite right, some electrical stuff, etc. While complex technological items like cars and software do get quite a bit of testing, there are just things that 100,000 users will find that a few dozen engineers won't. Oh, errata in books is especially annoying--one book I bought had all the figures mis-numbered (AARRGH!).
How is TracFone overpriced? For an emergency phone, it can easily average out to less than $10/month with the 1-year cards. Pre-pay is the way to go for infrequently-used phones.
Companies are so fearful about employees using illicit drugs it makes them do wierd things. In some workplaces there is subtle discrimination against groups who fits certain "profiles". It isn't really racial or gender based, but typically economically based. The janitors or maintenance crew get "random" tests all the time, while managers and other white-collar workers don't. If there is any connection between a person and drug use, whether it is fictional or not or on-line or not, companies will drop that application like a hot potato.
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God is a C programmer.
I have a patent on all thoughts about patenting. I will collect royalties from big companies making patent extensions and give all the proceeds to...myself.
Google can be a tricky beast for businesses. However, most of the important things about Google are very widely known, which means the company in the article didn't know much about running a website! In a couple of websites I've set up over the years, many of the common SEO techniques do tend to work, but it is really easy to run into things like "link spamming" penalties (in my opinion). To be completely honest, Google themselves give the best SEO advice on their website (content, content, content, some links, etc.).
Perhaps the website in the article had no content? I haven't the courage to really visit them.
VMs aren't perfect, but Java, for example, is more secure by design. No pointer arithmetic, automatic garbage collection, inherent protections of its process space, etc. all make Java much better. I'm not a C# programmer, but, supposedly, it has some of these qualities, too?
Vista hasn't really been around long enough to determine the "junkiness" of it, yet. Given the recent article about how little of Vista is sandboxed in a VM (.NET), odds are there are plenty of C or C++ gotchas in there. Also, the anti-spyware companies can still sell to the enormous installed base of Windows XP.
I do hope the anti-spyware companies were smart enough to stay privately owned, however, given this shift in business model.
You should update your information architecture to send client DNS resolution requests via your postal service. Employ a small number of columnar mapping table lookup experts to enscribe the proper domain names onto the request sheets and transfer them back to the clients, again via post mail. You should realize the desired sea change in support staff utilization within weeks.
After seeing a couple recent Tim Allen movies, I'm thinking that Galaxy Quest is probably his best movie by far. And by far, I mean like a parsec...or four.
I'd probably put it in my IRA and take the income tax saver's credit for an instant guaranteed 20% "return" on that investment, but that's just me.
I think a lot of their productivity had to do with a complete on-line debugging environment at all times. The instant a bug appeared, they would start crawling through the in-memory data right away. No core files, no post-mortem analysis, no edit-compile-test cycles. Not a bad deal, but there is so little incentive in workplaces to pursue Lisp that I never really picked it up. Also, there's that whole deal of using Emacs
That is at least half the reason
Sorry, but .NET is not a RAD language. Lisp is a RAD language.
I used to work with a couple of Lisp developers, and their productivity was probably 10 times mine.