http://www.mizozo.com/tech/06/2010/09/the-future-of-sticky-notes.html
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Reak Sticky notes go digital
Awesome idea of taking a physical sticky note/post-it, and using computer A.I. to make it them work with you not just be static information. Very sweet.
http://www.mizozo.com/tech/06/2010/09/the-future-of-sticky-notes.html
http://www.mizozo.com/tech/06/2010/09/the-future-of-sticky-notes.html
Friday, June 4, 2010
Governmental Ruling Styles Explained
Feudalism
You have two cows. Your lord takes some of the milk.
You have two cows. Your lord takes some of the milk.
Pure Socialism
You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them in a barn with everyone else's cows. You have to take care of all the cows. The government gives you all the milk you need.
You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them in a barn with everyone else's cows. You have to take care of all the cows. The government gives you all the milk you need.
Bureaucratic Socialism
Your cows are cared for by ex-chicken farmers. You have to take care of the chickens the government took from the chicken farmers. The government gives you as much milk and eggs the regulations say you should need.
Your cows are cared for by ex-chicken farmers. You have to take care of the chickens the government took from the chicken farmers. The government gives you as much milk and eggs the regulations say you should need.
Fascism
You have two cows. The government takes both, hires you to take care of them, and sells you the milk.
You have two cows. The government takes both, hires you to take care of them, and sells you the milk.
Pure Communism
You have two cows. Your neighbors help you take care of them, and you all share the milk.
You have two cows. Your neighbors help you take care of them, and you all share the milk.
Real World Communism
You share two cows with your neighbors. You and your neighbors bicker about who has the most "ability" and who has the most "need". Meanwhile, no one works, no one gets any milk, and the cows drop dead of starvation.
You share two cows with your neighbors. You and your neighbors bicker about who has the most "ability" and who has the most "need". Meanwhile, no one works, no one gets any milk, and the cows drop dead of starvation.
Russian Communism
You have two cows. You have to take care of them, but the government takes all the milk. You steal back as much milk as you can and sell it on the black market.
You have two cows. You have to take care of them, but the government takes all the milk. You steal back as much milk as you can and sell it on the black market.
Perestroika
You have two cows. You have to take care of them, but the Mafia takes all the milk. You steal back as much milk as you can and sell it on the "free" market.
You have two cows. You have to take care of them, but the Mafia takes all the milk. You steal back as much milk as you can and sell it on the "free" market.
Cambodian Communism
You have two cows. The government takes both and shoots you.
You have two cows. The government takes both and shoots you.
Militarianism
You have two cows. The government takes both and drafts you.
You have two cows. The government takes both and drafts you.
Totalitarianism
You have two cows. The government takes them and denies they ever existed. Milk is banned.
You have two cows. The government takes them and denies they ever existed. Milk is banned.
Pure Democracy
You have two cows. Your neighbors decide who gets the milk.
You have two cows. Your neighbors decide who gets the milk.
Representative Democracy
You have two cows. Your neighbors pick someone to tell you who gets the milk.
You have two cows. Your neighbors pick someone to tell you who gets the milk.
British Democracy
You have two cows. You feed them sheeps' brains and they go mad. The government doesn't do anything.
You have two cows. You feed them sheeps' brains and they go mad. The government doesn't do anything.
Bureaucracy
You have two cows. At first the government regulates what you can feed them and when you can milk them. Then it pays you not to milk them. Then it takes both, shoots one, milks the other and pours the milk down the drain. Then it requires you to fill out forms accounting for the missing cows.
You have two cows. At first the government regulates what you can feed them and when you can milk them. Then it pays you not to milk them. Then it takes both, shoots one, milks the other and pours the milk down the drain. Then it requires you to fill out forms accounting for the missing cows.
Pure Anarchy
You have two cows. Either you sell the milk at a fair price or your neighbors try to take the cows and kill you.
You have two cows. Either you sell the milk at a fair price or your neighbors try to take the cows and kill you.
Pure Capitalism
You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull.
You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull.
Capitalism
You don't have any cows. The bank will not lend you money to buy cows, because you don't have any cows to put up as collateral.
You don't have any cows. The bank will not lend you money to buy cows, because you don't have any cows to put up as collateral.
Enviromentalism
You have two cows. The government bans you from milking or killing them.
You have two cows. The government bans you from milking or killing them.
Political Correctness
You are associated with (the concept of "ownership" is a symbol of the > phallo centric, war mongering, intolerant past) two differently - aged (but no less valuable to society) bovines of non-specified gender.
You are associated with (the concept of "ownership" is a symbol of the > phallo centric, war mongering, intolerant past) two differently - aged (but no less valuable to society) bovines of non-specified gender.
Surrealism
You have two giraffes. The government requires you to take harmonica lessons.
You have two giraffes. The government requires you to take harmonica lessons.
Counter Culture
Wow, dude, there's like... these two cows, man. You got to have some of this milk.
Wow, dude, there's like... these two cows, man. You got to have some of this milk.
Hong Kong Capitalism
You have two cows. You sell three of them to your publicly-listed company, using letters of credit opened by your brother-in-law at the bank, then execute an debt/equity swap with associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax deduction for keeping five cows. The milk rights of six cows are transferred via a Panamanian intermediary to a Cayman Isands company secretly owned by the majority shareholder, who sells the rights to all seven cows' milk back to the listed company. The annual report says that the company owns eight cows, with an option on one more. Meanwhile, you kill the two cows because the Feng Shui is bad.
You have two cows. You sell three of them to your publicly-listed company, using letters of credit opened by your brother-in-law at the bank, then execute an debt/equity swap with associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax deduction for keeping five cows. The milk rights of six cows are transferred via a Panamanian intermediary to a Cayman Isands company secretly owned by the majority shareholder, who sells the rights to all seven cows' milk back to the listed company. The annual report says that the company owns eight cows, with an option on one more. Meanwhile, you kill the two cows because the Feng Shui is bad.
Singaporean Democracy
You have two cows. The government fines you for keeping two unlicensed farm animals in an apartment.
You have two cows. The government fines you for keeping two unlicensed farm animals in an apartment.
Feminism
You have two cows. They get married and adopt a veal calf.
You have two cows. They get married and adopt a veal calf.
Libertarianism
You have two cows. One has actually read the constitution, believes in it, and has some really good ideas about government. The cow runs for office, and while most people agree that the cow is the best candidate, nobody except the other cow votes for her because they think it would be "throwing their vote away."
You have two cows. One has actually read the constitution, believes in it, and has some really good ideas about government. The cow runs for office, and while most people agree that the cow is the best candidate, nobody except the other cow votes for her because they think it would be "throwing their vote away."
Nazism
The government shoots you, takes the cows and feeds one to the army and the other to the police.
The government shoots you, takes the cows and feeds one to the army and the other to the police.
Conservatism
Milk the cows, enbalm the cows, freeze the milk, nuke the cows to keep from spreading the disease. Phase out over five years the amount of milk you're required to give to the government.
Milk the cows, enbalm the cows, freeze the milk, nuke the cows to keep from spreading the disease. Phase out over five years the amount of milk you're required to give to the government.
Anarchism
Keep the cows. Steal a few more cows.
Keep the cows. Steal a few more cows.
Liberalism
Give the milk back to the cows. Let them escape. Put the cows on the Voter Registration list.
Give the milk back to the cows. Let them escape. Put the cows on the Voter Registration list.
Libertarianism
Milk the cows and keep it for yourself; hope the populace can find milk elsewhere.
Milk the cows and keep it for yourself; hope the populace can find milk elsewhere.
Militiaism
Start shooting if they come for your cows
Start shooting if they come for your cows
Religion explained in laymen terms.
Thought this was interestingness
Think of it like a movie. The Torah is the first one, and the New Testament is the sequel. Then the Qu’ran comes out, and it acts like the last one never happened. There’s still Jesus, but he’s not the main character anymore, and the messiah hasn’t shown up yet.
Think of it like a movie. The Torah is the first one, and the New Testament is the sequel. Then the Qu’ran comes out, and it acts like the last one never happened. There’s still Jesus, but he’s not the main character anymore, and the messiah hasn’t shown up yet.
Jews like the fist movie but ignored the sequels, Christians think you need to watch the first two, but the third movie doesn't count, Moslems think the third one was the best, and Mormons like the second one so much they started writing fanfiction that doesn’t fit with ANY of the series canon.
I did not want this too get lost. I had to post it.
This is where i got it from.
Monday, May 17, 2010
Facebook is now an openbook
So have you talked about personal things on you Facebook status? Well, no biggie right, only your friends can see them. Right?? WRONG. Facebook decided to pretty much open the flood gates and this website, http://youropenbook.org, shows you just how far. Below are some test links try em out. It pretty funny/scary.
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Person runs lottery simulator for 5610 years, no wins.
Here the post from the person. http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/c31bl/i_ran_a_lottery_simulator_for_5610_years_one/
I find this very interesting. Compared to how you could take that money and put it someplace that makes interest, and of course does not effect your taxes.Well I have no clue how to do this but it made me think. How can I make money over time from very little.
I find this very interesting. Compared to how you could take that money and put it someplace that makes interest, and of course does not effect your taxes.Well I have no clue how to do this but it made me think. How can I make money over time from very little.
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Tech Support Pricing Structure
This came from some place and I LOVE IT.
Regular Prices for Technical Support/System Administration:
Calling me with a question $10
Calling me with a stupid question $20
Calling me with a stupid question you can't quite articulate $30
Implying I'm incompetent because I can't interpret your inarticulate problem description $1000+punitive damages
Questions received via phone without first trying help desk $10.00
Calling me back with the same problem *after* I fix it once $100
Insisting that you're not breaking the software, the problem is on my end somehow $200
Asking me to walk over to your building to fix the problem $5/step
Asking me to drive to another town to fix your problem $50/mile+gas
If you interrupt me while I was trying to actually fix somebody else's problem $45/hr
If you try to hang around and get me to fix it now $50/hr
If you expect me to tell you how I fixed it $60/hr
If you've come to ask me why something isn't working that I'm currently working on $70/hr
If you're asking me to fix something I fixed for you yesterday $75/hr
If you're bugging me while there's another admin in the room who could have done it for you $150/hr
Making me trek to your office to fix your problem then leaving immediately after hanging up the phone $1500.00
Calling up with a problem which "everybody" in the office is having and which is "stopping all work." Not being there when I rush over to look at it and nobody else in the office knows anything about it. $1700.00
Explaining a problem for 1/2 hour over the phone BEFORE mentioning it's your personal machine at home $500.00
Self-diagnosing your problem and informing me what to do $150.00
Having me bail you out when you perform your own repairs I told you not to do $300.00
Not telling all of your co-workers about it $850.00
Figuring out you mean floppy drive when you say hard drive $50.00
BEFORE I order your replacement hard drive $250.00
Fixing your "broken" mouse with a mouse pad $25.00
Fixing your "broken" optical mouse by rotating the mouse pad 90 degrees $35.00
Fixing your "broken" printer with an ink/toner cartridge $35.00
Fixing your "broken" ANYTHING with the power button $250.00
Fixing the "crashed" system by turning the external disk back on $200.00
Fixing the "hung" system by plugging the ethernet transceiver back in $375.00
Fixing the crashed nameserver by plugging back in the SCSI cord someone accidentally yanked out on Friday afternoon when the 'real' sysadmin has just left for a two week vacation $400
Fixing the broken PC by plugging the monitor lead back in $50
Explaining that you can't log in to some server because you don't have an account there $10
Explaining that you don't have an account on the machine you used to have an account on because you used it to try to break into the above server $500
Forgetting your password after it was tattooed on your index finger $25
Changing memory partitions without informing me first $50
Installing programs without informing me /getting permission first $100
Spilling coke on keyboard $25 plus cost of keyboard
Spilling coke on monitor $50 plus cost of monitor
Spilling coke on CPU $200 plus cost of motherboard swap plus hourly rate of $150 per hour spent reinstalling the system
Leaving files on desktop $5 per file, $10 per day the file is left unclaimed
Cleaning the mouse with spit and sleeve $50 plus cost of sleeve plus cost of therapy
Bringing in your own copy of the original Norton Utilities v1.0 to fix a brand new machine $200
Spending 30 minutes trying to figure out what your problem is, and another 5 explaining how to verify and fix it, only to hear you say... "So that's what the little box that popped up on my screen was telling me; to do!" $40
Listening to your network troubles, suggesting that you check to see if you are plugged into the network jack, hearing yes, trying five other things, asking you to identify your plug type, listening to you drag furniture, and hearing a sheepish, "Oops. Nevermind." $35
Dealing with tech support requests for obviously pirated software $25
Dealing with "How can I get another copy of [obviously pirated software]? Mine just died." requests $45
Having to use the "We're really not the best people to talk to about that; why don't you try calling the number on the box in which you bought it?" line $55
Actually needing to explain copyright law to you after you failed to get the hint in the previous response $95 (includes instructions for getting freeware replacements from the public file server)
Having to point out anything that's on the wall in a typeface larger than 18 points $15
If I wrote the sign $45
If it's in a 144 point font and taped to the side of the monitor facing the door $75
Reporting slow connection by passenger pigeon packets to MPEG archive in Outer Slovakia as a Mosaic/Netscape/Gopher/FTP client problem $25.00
Reporting it more than once $50.00
Reporting it more than once and implying slothfulness on tech support's inability to solve problem $200.00
Beeper Prices:
Beeping me when I'm out of town and I took pains to insure that help files were left all over and that diagnostics had been run on all machines before I left $100
Beeping me more than once to tell me that the printer's offline and the fix is to press the On Line button $200
Beeping me and not identifying yourself within the first 5 seconds $25
Beeping me and then changing your story / denying you placed the call / hoped I would forget who caused the problem $500
Special Rates:
Dealing with user body odor $75.00/hour
Dealing with user not familiar with the primary language spoken at site $50.00/hour
Dealing with user who is (self-proclaimed) smarter than you are, but still calls every other day for help $100.00/hour
Dealing with computer hobbyists $125.00/hour
Questioning the other prices ........... $50
Regular Prices for Technical Support/System Administration:
Calling me with a question $10
Calling me with a stupid question $20
Calling me with a stupid question you can't quite articulate $30
Implying I'm incompetent because I can't interpret your inarticulate problem description $1000+punitive damages
Questions received via phone without first trying help desk $10.00
Calling me back with the same problem *after* I fix it once $100
Insisting that you're not breaking the software, the problem is on my end somehow $200
Asking me to walk over to your building to fix the problem $5/step
Asking me to drive to another town to fix your problem $50/mile+gas
If you interrupt me while I was trying to actually fix somebody else's problem $45/hr
If you try to hang around and get me to fix it now $50/hr
If you expect me to tell you how I fixed it $60/hr
If you've come to ask me why something isn't working that I'm currently working on $70/hr
If you're asking me to fix something I fixed for you yesterday $75/hr
If you're bugging me while there's another admin in the room who could have done it for you $150/hr
Making me trek to your office to fix your problem then leaving immediately after hanging up the phone $1500.00
Calling up with a problem which "everybody" in the office is having and which is "stopping all work." Not being there when I rush over to look at it and nobody else in the office knows anything about it. $1700.00
Explaining a problem for 1/2 hour over the phone BEFORE mentioning it's your personal machine at home $500.00
Self-diagnosing your problem and informing me what to do $150.00
Having me bail you out when you perform your own repairs I told you not to do $300.00
Not telling all of your co-workers about it $850.00
Figuring out you mean floppy drive when you say hard drive $50.00
BEFORE I order your replacement hard drive $250.00
Fixing your "broken" mouse with a mouse pad $25.00
Fixing your "broken" optical mouse by rotating the mouse pad 90 degrees $35.00
Fixing your "broken" printer with an ink/toner cartridge $35.00
Fixing your "broken" ANYTHING with the power button $250.00
Fixing the "crashed" system by turning the external disk back on $200.00
Fixing the "hung" system by plugging the ethernet transceiver back in $375.00
Fixing the crashed nameserver by plugging back in the SCSI cord someone accidentally yanked out on Friday afternoon when the 'real' sysadmin has just left for a two week vacation $400
Fixing the broken PC by plugging the monitor lead back in $50
Explaining that you can't log in to some server because you don't have an account there $10
Explaining that you don't have an account on the machine you used to have an account on because you used it to try to break into the above server $500
Forgetting your password after it was tattooed on your index finger $25
Changing memory partitions without informing me first $50
Installing programs without informing me /getting permission first $100
Spilling coke on keyboard $25 plus cost of keyboard
Spilling coke on monitor $50 plus cost of monitor
Spilling coke on CPU $200 plus cost of motherboard swap plus hourly rate of $150 per hour spent reinstalling the system
Leaving files on desktop $5 per file, $10 per day the file is left unclaimed
Cleaning the mouse with spit and sleeve $50 plus cost of sleeve plus cost of therapy
Bringing in your own copy of the original Norton Utilities v1.0 to fix a brand new machine $200
Spending 30 minutes trying to figure out what your problem is, and another 5 explaining how to verify and fix it, only to hear you say... "So that's what the little box that popped up on my screen was telling me; to do!" $40
Listening to your network troubles, suggesting that you check to see if you are plugged into the network jack, hearing yes, trying five other things, asking you to identify your plug type, listening to you drag furniture, and hearing a sheepish, "Oops. Nevermind." $35
Dealing with tech support requests for obviously pirated software $25
Dealing with "How can I get another copy of [obviously pirated software]? Mine just died." requests $45
Having to use the "We're really not the best people to talk to about that; why don't you try calling the number on the box in which you bought it?" line $55
Actually needing to explain copyright law to you after you failed to get the hint in the previous response $95 (includes instructions for getting freeware replacements from the public file server)
Having to point out anything that's on the wall in a typeface larger than 18 points $15
If I wrote the sign $45
If it's in a 144 point font and taped to the side of the monitor facing the door $75
Reporting slow connection by passenger pigeon packets to MPEG archive in Outer Slovakia as a Mosaic/Netscape/Gopher/FTP client problem $25.00
Reporting it more than once $50.00
Reporting it more than once and implying slothfulness on tech support's inability to solve problem $200.00
Beeper Prices:
Beeping me when I'm out of town and I took pains to insure that help files were left all over and that diagnostics had been run on all machines before I left $100
Beeping me more than once to tell me that the printer's offline and the fix is to press the On Line button $200
Beeping me and not identifying yourself within the first 5 seconds $25
Beeping me and then changing your story / denying you placed the call / hoped I would forget who caused the problem $500
Special Rates:
Dealing with user body odor $75.00/hour
Dealing with user not familiar with the primary language spoken at site $50.00/hour
Dealing with user who is (self-proclaimed) smarter than you are, but still calls every other day for help $100.00/hour
Dealing with computer hobbyists $125.00/hour
Questioning the other prices ........... $50
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Custom Keyboards
While looking through the daily links at http://reddit.com I was brought to something that is so fantastic that I have drooling over it ever since I saw it.
A keyboard.
Yes you heard me correctly, a keyboard. The wonderful artistic individual at http://www.steampunkworkshop.com has taken the ordinary and mundane object, a keyboard, and turned into a work of art. The wonderful part of it is a useable piece of art. Taking an old IBM keyboard he has gutted it, converted it, improved it, and beautified it. Enough of me rambling on enjoy his result.
Here is a link to the page about this, http://www.steampunkworkshop.com/keyboard.shtml.
Now I could stop there and I could be fine with that. But no, someone else has also been stricken with the beauty of these input devices. He has decided to make them for people. God love him. Also he has taken it one step further and made different models. You can view them, or request one, by going to the below link.
http://www.datamancer.net/keyboards/keyboards.htm
Eh hem, can we say Christmas :D
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