If you spend all your time in the ethereal-level, then you risk frolicking in castles in the sky. The parody-manager likes to go to meetings to talk about New Initiatives, but has no clue that the is embroiled in eleven mathematical impossibilities within the first five minutes.
"f you go back to the 19th century, the exact same things were being said about the pencil and eraser. After all, if you can remove what you've written, then people will be less likely to do it right the first time. Right?"
My Old School 5th grade teacher believed this. (She wasn't smart enough to be running a Double-Level Meta trick pretending to believe it.)
I set my filter to reward length. Mixed in with some of the funnier trolls, the long posts are often the rewarding ones because someone put the effort into it.
"Many years ago there was a book that criticized television, not for it's content but for the physical medium itself, saying that staring at a TV screen for so many hours each day, was in itself harmful."
Endagered Minds by Jane Healy is one such book on this topic. TV is worse than computer work because of the crushing nature of the flashy directorial cutting mixed with even flashier ads placed exactly to break your concentration.
"I've never been able to concentrate on something I read online with the focus of something that I read on paper. That may just be my age. But I have a very hard time believing that is true."
It is not just your age. Different types of studies have shown aspects of this, from the distracting nature of "click-scroll" to the effect on your blink rate, etc.
My own reason is that I'm an Underliner, which is somewhat harder to do online.
You actually still have to memorize stuff, because the new Short Attention Span Theater effect means they don't even wait for you to look it up! My compromise has been to memorize the "first answer" and once someone proves they really are interested, to look up the other two answers.
Actually, you refreshed a devastating point about Google I haven't seen thus far:
That it increases data permanency, and in the current climate, the recorded mistakes are more dangerous now. It went from "I got a warning when I was partying in the southwest" to "You were held for two days in Illinois for Disturbing the Peas, aka Damage to Crops."
Just with the attitude to computers, computer-guys are at least uneasily respected from afar now, instead of being utterly ostracized as satirized in Revenge of the Nerds.
Someone above me mentioned "learn, child!"
Well, "Google Classic" might be a bit forbidding, but the portal sites are completely stuffed full of clicky things.
"3 ways you can get a disease from the sand in your shoes!" I never would have thought of looking THAT up. But since it's a clicky, down the blue-linked road I go.
You can already "sort of" do it, but it's still pricey. I'd give it another 7 years before someone streamlines it enough for it to hit the public consciousness.
Gutenberg saved us from the 2nd wave of the Dark Ages.
Cheap intellectual fodder to play with leads to innovations afterward. That's why the **AA Daleks who annihilate you if "Oops, You Copied Again" are so dangerous.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of..." Lesser Deals. (Subset of Happiness.)
It dates from the second paragraph of our existence.
Isn't most news text plus static pics? Not counting Must-See footage, all the news accounts for 10% of the usage and the super-interactive ads account for the other 90% ads.
Therefore, under usage pricing, allowing only "low-usage" ads keeps hard-earned dollars in our pockets.
Is this AT&T Exec smart enough to be operating at a meta level, enough to encourage less obtrusive ads?
But it's all shipped from multi-national warehouses, deployed across the country and the only connection with Redmond is that the recipe formula is "approved by Redmond".
Hmm. Maybe that belongs in the "Defunct.com" story.
The "Successor to Nupedia" has more: On January 14, 2004, the domain goatse.cx was suspended by Christmas Island Internet Administration for AUP[1] violations in response to a complaint, but many mirrors of the site are still available,[2] and the image is displayed on many websites.
That confession, while honest, makes me sad for your former exployers.
Here is this colossal internet business, and someone in a Level Four management meeting reports, "Gee, we're getting all these weird medical questions..." The correct answer is, "Hire a staff vet."
Talk about value added. Then you can get a sale of pet vitamins and a bandage for Joey the Cat's foot.
At state levels, the discussion is... at the state level. But from what I've seen, the consequences whip around far faster at the state level, leading to some nervy budget decisions. I've seen stories where "only" $10-million shortfalls completly sink programs the whole state favors.
And in fact, this is exactly what some articles are now saying. She knows she lost the lead of the ticket. She's now lurking around the 2nd-tier options.
Slashdot Mirror
Uhh.. yeah.
Concept was right. Skipped sanity checking for the loss.
I'll go mope over there for a while.
Just shows how fierce Snark threads can be.
Dilbert pointed out the flaw here.
If you spend all your time in the ethereal-level, then you risk frolicking in castles in the sky. The parody-manager likes to go to meetings to talk about New Initiatives, but has no clue that the is embroiled in eleven mathematical impossibilities within the first five minutes.
"f you go back to the 19th century, the exact same things were being said about the pencil and eraser. After all, if you can remove what you've written, then people will be less likely to do it right the first time. Right?"
My Old School 5th grade teacher believed this. (She wasn't smart enough to be running a Double-Level Meta trick pretending to believe it.)
I for one, welcome my 2500+ year Elder Overlord.
I set my filter to reward length. Mixed in with some of the funnier trolls, the long posts are often the rewarding ones because someone put the effort into it.
"Many years ago there was a book that criticized television, not for it's content but for the physical medium itself, saying that staring at a TV screen for so many hours each day, was in itself harmful."
Endagered Minds by Jane Healy is one such book on this topic. TV is worse than computer work because of the crushing nature of the flashy directorial cutting mixed with even flashier ads placed exactly to break your concentration.
"I've never been able to concentrate on something I read online with the focus of something that I read on paper. That may just be my age. But I have a very hard time believing that is true."
It is not just your age. Different types of studies have shown aspects of this, from the distracting nature of "click-scroll" to the effect on your blink rate, etc.
My own reason is that I'm an Underliner, which is somewhat harder to do online.
T's r JIT datums->enable paradigm trans. 3 R's repl. by scanning, twitting, & #tricks. Age of Aquar. meets I-You interface.
Given this discussion, I'm also wondering if you're going for the +2.6 Sneaky mod.
(Copy first line of quote;
(Paste into Search Engine;
(Paste answer back to this post.)
http://www.nlc.edu/~jwicklein/TipWeek13-fac.htm
"Better to say nothing and be thought a fool than to open your mouse and remove all doubt."
---- Mark Twain
Time spent: 30 seconds tops.
'Tis why Cyborgs are the future, and not just the evil Trek kind.
You get a great swirl of "fuzzy" and "sharp".
I don't know if you're SubtleTrolling, or trying for a +2.6 Sneaky mod.
Assuming you understood his sentence, you then
(Did you even look?)
You actually still have to memorize stuff, because the new Short Attention Span Theater effect means they don't even wait for you to look it up! My compromise has been to memorize the "first answer" and once someone proves they really are interested, to look up the other two answers.
Actually, you refreshed a devastating point about Google I haven't seen thus far:
That it increases data permanency, and in the current climate, the recorded mistakes are more dangerous now. It went from "I got a warning when I was partying in the southwest" to "You were held for two days in Illinois for Disturbing the Peas, aka Damage to Crops."
But y'know, the people are changing.
Just with the attitude to computers, computer-guys are at least uneasily respected from afar now, instead of being utterly ostracized as satirized in Revenge of the Nerds.
Someone above me mentioned "learn, child!"
Well, "Google Classic" might be a bit forbidding, but the portal sites are completely stuffed full of clicky things.
"3 ways you can get a disease from the sand in your shoes!"
I never would have thought of looking THAT up. But since it's a clicky, down the blue-linked road I go.
You can already "sort of" do it, but it's still pricey. I'd give it another 7 years before someone streamlines it enough for it to hit the public consciousness.
Nah.
Gutenberg saved us from the 2nd wave of the Dark Ages.
Cheap intellectual fodder to play with leads to innovations afterward. That's why the **AA Daleks who annihilate you if "Oops, You Copied Again" are so dangerous.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of..." Lesser Deals. (Subset of Happiness.)
It dates from the second paragraph of our existence.
Killer point.
Isn't most news text plus static pics? Not counting Must-See footage, all the news accounts for 10% of the usage and the super-interactive ads account for the other 90% ads.
Therefore, under usage pricing, allowing only "low-usage" ads keeps hard-earned dollars in our pockets.
Is this AT&T Exec smart enough to be operating at a meta level, enough to encourage less obtrusive ads?
But it's all shipped from multi-national warehouses, deployed across the country and the only connection with Redmond is that the recipe formula is "approved by Redmond".
Hmm. Maybe that belongs in the "Defunct.com" story.
Sorry sir. You posted a meme, without actually looking.
http://goatse.cx/ is a LinkFarm, without the goats.
The "Successor to Nupedia" has more:
On January 14, 2004, the domain goatse.cx was suspended by Christmas Island Internet Administration for AUP[1] violations in response to a complaint, but many mirrors of the site are still available,[2] and the image is displayed on many websites.
(See more about complex bidding wars, etc.)
See this page for tributes.
http://sam.zoy.org/goatse/
Does this include the feature story site?
Y'Know,
That confession, while honest, makes me sad for your former exployers.
Here is this colossal internet business, and someone in a Level Four management meeting reports, "Gee, we're getting all these weird medical questions..."
The correct answer is, "Hire a staff vet."
Talk about value added. Then you can get a sale of pet vitamins and a bandage for Joey the Cat's foot.
Did they get all the logic right in the story?
Massage therapists will stimulate the fsck out of the economy.
At state levels, the discussion is
And in fact, this is exactly what some articles are now saying. She knows she lost the lead of the ticket. She's now lurking around the 2nd-tier options.
Since you already have rights to the work's initial medium, does this mean than hacks are not violations of DMCA?
They provided technology for the ORIGINAL disk to self-destruct. You are not breaking tech to make copies, you are *preventing breakage*.