I have often wondered just how difficult it is to make some of those “random” and “impromptu” videos we see on youtube.
Sure, they seem like a case of right place and right time. But some of them also seem just a little too staged.
Personally, I like to believe there is a crack team of highly trained cinematography geniuses, who are extremely adept at making movies that look home-made, who roam the world creating these things.
But maybe I am the only one that thinks that?
The question that can stop you in dead your tracks. And the internet does NOT help to stop it being asked.
In fact, the internet makes the problem worse!
The genders of the people involved are not set in stone and can apply to anyone, but if you have been in this situation, you know that there is no good answer. There is no retreat. There is no surrender.
I normally just pretend I did not hear it and QUICKLY leave the room. Get as far away as possible.
If you have another way to handle this situation, please let me and the rest of the people on the internet, know about it.
You will be doing a service to all of human kind.
I think the greatest electronic achievement that mankind will ever have, will be to create computer error messages that actually make sense to the average person.
Most times, the message you get on screen is just a baffling as the reason why it is there in the first place.
Oh sure, I could go online and look up a list of common computer errors, but that still won’t help usually.
What we really need is an easy to read, detailed message that we can pass onto out tech support people. A message that truly outlines what may be going wrong and how long it might take to fix.
If this occurs, people just might start to understand their computers better and get more comfortable with them.
Of course, that can never happen, lest our tech support “geeks” lose their mystique and perceived value. We need to continue thinking that errors are all dangerous warnings that must be heeded unless we want our laptops to delete their own hard drives.
We must never know that in most cases a simple “turn it off then back on” procedure is what is needed to fix the problem.
No. We must never know.
I think you can guess how I feel about Kickstarter from this comic?
Sure, it allows some really cool, inventive items to receive funding to be created. But is also allows really useless ideas to get money too, just because they get friends or celebrities to spruik it. This then makes it a popularity contest, not a fundraiser.
Often, things will get funding far above their worth and creates a “false economy” for items of a similar type that try to follow those successes (which personally frustrates the heck out of me).