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by socceroos (#29666169) Attached to: Windows Mobile 6.5 Launched, Panned

In extreme cases, they are so locked in this mindset that they point-blank refuse to try anything else.

Yeah, I've had this kind of thing happen to me. One of the staff where I work thought I was installing hax on his computer (it was OpenOffice) because it was free. They were so adamant they were right that they went out and spent A$400 on a new copy of MS Office. This person uses Word to write two paragraph advertisements for houses - no formatting (Administration does that). Hey, he could have used Notepad for that.

Crap it annoys me. The only solace I get is that I can laugh in their face (behind their back, of course) at their stupidity.
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Submission + - New Explanation for the Industrial Revolution (hughpickens.com)

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Pcol writes: "The New York Times is running a story on Dr. Gregory Clark's book "A Farewell to Alms" with a new explanation for the Industrial Revolution and the affluence it created. Dr. Clark, an economic historian at the University of California Davis, postulates that the surge in economic growth that occurred first in England around 1800 came about because of the strange new behaviors of nonviolence, literacy, long working hours and a willingness to save. Clark's research shows that between 1200 and 1800, the rich had more surviving children than the poor and that this caused constant downward social mobility as the poor failed to reproduce themselves and the progeny of the rich took over their occupations. "The modern population of the English is largely descended from the economic upper classes of the Middle Ages," Clark concludes. Work hours increased, literacy and numeracy rose, and the level of interpersonal violence dropped. Around 1790, a steady upward trend in production efficiency caused a significant acceleration in the rate of productivity growth that at last made possible England's escape from the Malthusian trap. Why did the Industrial Revolution first occur in England instead of the much larger populations of China or Japan. Clark has found data showing that their richer classes, the Samurai in Japan and the Qing dynasty in China, were surprisingly unfertile and failed to generate the downward social mobility that spread production-oriented values."

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