Then you can't go out with me either, since I'm too goddamned serious as well.
Then again, maybe your comment is a red herring, since by not specifically putting a gender exclusion into the Communicative Zone, you actually form liberal choices about whom you date. What they say about magnetism: like (gender) usually repels like.
Has anyone achieved a total grand slam of confusing all the mods like +5 Troll or -5 Insightful? Here's try'in.
This gets into a wild question of ethics and meta-communication.
There are varying opinions about the role of HR vs. "being aggressive" with job searches, etc.
Since employers often do look, it rewards smarter people to shield their wilder pages away from simple searches, and/or post "employer-friendly" profiles in plain sight.
Then it gets into: "If you lied on your profile, should we trust you?" "Why were you looking at all?"
You may agree that the specific subject is a subject of "low importance". However, what they are engaging in is building the conext of communication, which is a signal "I am here for you, sharing my time with a Null topic, and I am available if you have something more difficult to discuss."
Men often use the heuristic that such material "worsens the noise-signal ratio". At the extremes, you get taciturn men whose entire speech for the day is "Your wall's burning."
I agree their simple result is not completely applicable. However, one way to look at things is that your mind has worked with the previous information to *partially* prepare the context and decision point, anticipating the last piece of information.
Serious subjective feelings get involved if you know they carry the large range, and that it's not just This Month's Selections.
I decided to spend a couple thousand on books I know I'll *eventually* want to read, but can't stand the Out Of Print process kicking in because they're headed right for the Long Tail.
Stocking Laterally is a huge part of this. If I go on a rampage, I'll tend to buy multiple titles from an author's spread right then, and no other time. Next Month is too late.
If a store carries all 16 titles of a saga, that's way better for sales than if they randomly found #'s 3,7,12 in their warehouse and stuck them out.
I'll leave it to my betters to unearth an official article, but the "hits" concept goes after the broadest common baseline, which means that taking artistic risks gets discouraged.
However, "Society" *does* need a content stock to be able to study from and produce Grace C First Attempts without fear of owing more than the national budget of a small country.
Your attitude is remniscent of the Monty Hall problem that tons of people got wrong, and were vehement about it. Knowingly wasting a vote on a loser converges on the same effect as not voting at all.
Bush-Gore was different. Gore *almost* won, as the slightly weaker of two candidates. A little smarter organization and a little more electoral honesty might have been enough.
We're living in a skewed era whereupon the exiting Pres. is so unthinkably horrible it's throwing off our sense of comparison, because his successor will have tons of damage to repair.
If Obama is smart he'll toss a couple of bones to the Old Boy network to prolong his grace period, and then throw the nation a couple of beneficial surprise policies that at least partially unravel the gordian knot we're in.
I can get past the first couple interruptions, but after a series of them the backlash sets in, with the subconscious mood "why bother to concentrate at all today?"
Yet in the information age, our entire economy is built around needing people who have mastered segments of information that are not "Google-able". To get that level of comprehension they had to spend real effort processing it in their learning time.
Multi-Tasking is fun for office designers, but someone forging new paths needs that same time to think so that they too can answer spot questions later.
I do this daily, for my whole life. I have to create tangible markers to thought fragments because otherwise I get led into byways that *do* need addressing, and lose all hope of finishing the first task. This is compounded because I am a technical admin for my company, so I am expected to shield the line managers from some distractions.
Sharing content, across the internet, using varied protocols, on a 'bone network. Sharing files, spreading film & verse, the future's going forward, though the **AA wants reverse.
Politicians Holler: "There's Pirates on the Starboard Bow, Starboard Bow, Starboard Bow; There's Pirates on the Starboard Bow, Starboard Bow Jim!"
Finance Analysis: "It's Business, Jim, but not as you know it, not as you know it, not as you know it. It's Business, Jim, but not as you know it, not as you know it, Captain."
Legal Opinion: "It's worse than that it's Civil Jim, it's Civil Jim, it's Civil Jim. It's worse than that it's Civil Jim - Civil, Jim, Civil!"
**AA: "We Fight for Artists, Bill to Kill, Bill to Kill, Bill to Kill, we fight for Artists, Bill to Kill, Oh look the price fee went up!"
ISP's: "We oversold our network bandwidth, network bandwidth, network bandwidth, network bandwidth, we oversold our network bandwidth, and the Pirates use it up!"
(Everyone) "We wilna' add more bandwidth, Jim." "It's worse tham that they venue shopped." "Counsel, Increase the Fee if they fight." ""But if we do that, the last loyalists will desert!"
(Explosion of Economic Models Crashing)
Sharing content, across the internet, using varied protocols, on a 'bone network. Sharing files, spreading film & verse, the future's going forward, though the **AA wants reverse.
"The interview mentioned a Japanese business term that has no translation in English; I forget the word, but it meant something like "the faith that building products that people need and selling them for a fair price, long-term, will be profitable, long-term."
The translation is "Fast Bucks vs. Slow Dimes". America likes This Quarter's Sales. Japan does likes Next Decade's sales.
We rage against the management decisions of MS, but I'm positive the ranks are filled with decent guys just trying to pay for dinner & rent.
"We haven't a clue what this does but it's vital..." Seems to me that if the source were opened, within 5 years we'd at least know what all the hacks did, even if they were still necessary.
Slashdot Mirror
Phuck.
Then you can't go out with me either, since I'm too goddamned serious as well.
Then again, maybe your comment is a red herring, since by not specifically putting a gender exclusion into the Communicative Zone, you actually form liberal choices about whom you date. What they say about magnetism: like (gender) usually repels like.
Has anyone achieved a total grand slam of confusing all the mods like +5 Troll or -5 Insightful? Here's try'in.
Yes indeed.
Stunts at an epic party in Ye Olde Days were the stuff of lore with friends, but the phone-cam pics weren't captured for the next 20 years.
This gets into a wild question of ethics and meta-communication.
There are varying opinions about the role of HR vs. "being aggressive" with job searches, etc.
Since employers often do look, it rewards smarter people to shield their wilder pages away from simple searches, and/or post "employer-friendly" profiles in plain sight.
Then it gets into:
"If you lied on your profile, should we trust you?"
"Why were you looking at all?"
Communication operates at many levels.
You may agree that the specific subject is a subject of "low importance". However, what they are engaging in is building the conext of communication, which is a signal "I am here for you, sharing my time with a Null topic, and I am available if you have something more difficult to discuss."
Men often use the heuristic that such material "worsens the noise-signal ratio". At the extremes, you get taciturn men whose entire speech for the day is "Your wall's burning."
I agree their simple result is not completely applicable. However, one way to look at things is that your mind has worked with the previous information to *partially* prepare the context and decision point, anticipating the last piece of information.
"Buy One Get One Purple Spikey Beanie Babies"
Sounds like a 90's sales pitch tag.
Definitely count me in this category.
Serious subjective feelings get involved if you know they carry the large range, and that it's not just This Month's Selections.
I decided to spend a couple thousand on books I know I'll *eventually* want to read, but can't stand the Out Of Print process kicking in because they're headed right for the Long Tail.
Stocking Laterally is a huge part of this. If I go on a rampage, I'll tend to buy multiple titles from an author's spread right then, and no other time. Next Month is too late.
If a store carries all 16 titles of a saga, that's way better for sales than if they randomly found #'s 3,7,12 in their warehouse and stuck them out.
I'll leave it to my betters to unearth an official article, but the "hits" concept goes after the broadest common baseline, which means that taking artistic risks gets discouraged.
However, "Society" *does* need a content stock to be able to study from and produce Grace C First Attempts without fear of owing more than the national budget of a small country.
Two copies of Windows Me side by side form a meme for the Me Me Generation.
Your attitude is remniscent of the Monty Hall problem that tons of people got wrong, and were vehement about it. Knowingly wasting a vote on a loser converges on the same effect as not voting at all.
Bush-Gore was different. Gore *almost* won, as the slightly weaker of two candidates. A little smarter organization and a little more electoral honesty might have been enough.
We're living in a skewed era whereupon the exiting Pres. is so unthinkably horrible it's throwing off our sense of comparison, because his successor will have tons of damage to repair.
If Obama is smart he'll toss a couple of bones to the Old Boy network to prolong his grace period, and then throw the nation a couple of beneficial surprise policies that at least partially unravel the gordian knot we're in.
Considering the concept of Syntax, IT and programming must have THE worst spelling requirements in the world!
wtf.FTW!
Sorry.
That's not the correct Carlin List of Seven.
It might be cumulative.
I can get past the first couple interruptions, but after a series of them the backlash sets in, with the subconscious mood "why bother to concentrate at all today?"
Yet in the information age, our entire economy is built around needing people who have mastered segments of information that are not "Google-able". To get that level of comprehension they had to spend real effort processing it in their learning time.
Multi-Tasking is fun for office designers, but someone forging new paths needs that same time to think so that they too can answer spot questions later.
Who dat say True Dat?
(Nod to an old WWII joke.)
I do this daily, for my whole life. I have to create tangible markers to thought fragments because otherwise I get led into byways that *do* need addressing, and lose all hope of finishing the first task. This is compounded because I am a technical admin for my company, so I am expected to shield the line managers from some distractions.
Nah. Classic Microsoft.
They set DefaultLogo OnCake to "Blue-E".
Sharing content, across the internet, using varied protocols, on a 'bone network. Sharing files, spreading film & verse, the future's going forward, though the **AA wants reverse.
Politicians Holler: "There's Pirates on the Starboard Bow, Starboard Bow, Starboard Bow; There's Pirates on the Starboard Bow, Starboard Bow Jim!"
Finance Analysis: "It's Business, Jim, but not as you know it, not as you know it, not as you know it. It's Business, Jim, but not as you know it, not as you know it, Captain."
Legal Opinion: "It's worse than that it's Civil Jim, it's Civil Jim, it's Civil Jim. It's worse than that it's Civil Jim - Civil, Jim, Civil!"
**AA: "We Fight for Artists, Bill to Kill, Bill to Kill, Bill to Kill, we fight for Artists, Bill to Kill, Oh look the price fee went up!"
ISP's: "We oversold our network bandwidth, network bandwidth, network bandwidth, network bandwidth, we oversold our network bandwidth, and the Pirates use it up!"
(Everyone)
"We wilna' add more bandwidth, Jim."
"It's worse tham that they venue shopped."
"Counsel, Increase the Fee if they fight."
""But if we do that, the last loyalists will desert!"
(Explosion of Economic Models Crashing)
Sharing content, across the internet, using varied protocols, on a 'bone network. Sharing files, spreading film & verse, the future's going forward, though the **AA wants reverse.
"The interview mentioned a Japanese business term that has no translation in English; I forget the word, but it meant something like "the faith that building products that people need and selling them for a fair price, long-term, will be profitable, long-term."
The translation is "Fast Bucks vs. Slow Dimes". America likes This Quarter's Sales. Japan does likes Next Decade's sales.
How about a timestamp encoding that forgets that 2008 is a leap year?
Is that an idea?
Make a routine that appears to copy the values (for retrieval by your own code) but accidentally/nastily hides information in the process of copying?
This cheers me up just a little.
We rage against the management decisions of MS, but I'm positive the ranks are filled with decent guys just trying to pay for dinner & rent.
"We haven't a clue what this does but it's vital..."
Seems to me that if the source were opened, within 5 years we'd at least know what all the hacks did, even if they were still necessary.
L. Ron Hubbard wrote a 1000 page book about aliens joking in Base 11.
"Don't Encourage Ballmer!"
"A mechanism for dispensing bio-supportive gases in controlled amounts according to managed criteria".