Are you trying to imply that they way people communicate is forever fixed in stone and cannot be changed or improved upon? Don't you think that's a little shortsighted?
Sorry, could you rephrase your questions? I didn't understand what you were asking, as I was unable to see your facial expression as you were typing them.
I live in an apartment and a couple of years ago my neighbours bought Guitar Hero or something similar. They played with it for about two days. Then they stopped (and sold the hardware) when the building management gave them an ultimatum over the number of noise complaints they had received.
...laura
This one hits close to home.
As a child in the late 1960s I was inspired to my present technical life and career by two major influences: Project Apollo and Star Trek. I thought Spock had the coolest job in the universe. He played with techie stuff and figured stuff out. I wanted that sort of job too. And I got it.
...laura
So I accept beer, scotch, and redeaded women.
Wow, you are one twisted individual
Maybe in another 20 years they'll re-discover perspective.
That's the thing, isn't it? It seems OS look-and-feel trends are just going around in circles.
Perhaps they should just make a slider that lets you choose which year you want your desktop to look like, and be done with it. (or would adding that feature remove peoples' sole remaining incentive to upgrade every other year?)
I bet we could outsource that work to a 3rd world country and only pay a 1/10 of minimum wage. It is not like the pilots would have to be physically here in the US to run them remotely.
Good idea! We can hire drone pilots for cheap in, say, Pakistan. I can't think of anything that could possibly go wrong with this plan.
"We don't like change" is the rough translation.
Those icons look no uglier than the old ones.
except on exceptionally cold days, i.e. below 60F (or so).
That sound you just heard was all the Canadian readers falling over from laughter
Agents don't care if you are good, only that you make money. There are a lot of mediocre actors that make their agents a lot of money.
Then why did you use it as an example?
If the developer is good? yes.
But to become A list, they needed an agent.
I feel that any developer who calls themselves a "rockstar developer" is probably suffering a severe case of the Dunning-Kruger effect.
All the really competent developers I've ever known have had anything but "rockstar" like qualities. They generally don't boast, they are generally frugal, they are generally the exact opposite of a rockstar.
Sounds more like all ideologies are harmful, religious or otherwise.
It's not that ideologies are always harmful, so much as that acting without thinking can be harmful, and ideology discourages people from thinking things through for themselves.
If people are carefully and honestly thinking through the consequences of their actions, they are less likely to harm themselves or others.
If, OTOH, people are blindly following dogma rather than engaging in rational thought.... well, often that isn't an immediate problem (either because the dogma is reasonably applicable to the situation at hand, or because the consequences of the decisions being made on auto-pilot are not too severe). But it does open the door for serious harm to occur, because people who aren't thinking are not able to quickly or easily detect or amend their mistakes.
The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. -- L. Zadeh
