On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 11:28:52 -0500, philo wrote:

Sounds like me. By the time I got to University, I didn't perform if I
didn't like the subject. I still managed a 3.7 GPA though.

I had a 3.7 also but obtained it by ADDING two semesters together.
That was in the late 60's and when the Army saw how great I was doing
highly encouraged me to join their ranks. How could I refuse such an
offer.

When I got out of the Army I took my education a bit more seriously.
I used up my entire GI bill going to school and took all required course
for an EE. The problem was that after I got out of the Army I attended a
different college and when it came down to applying for my degree, a few
of the courses did not transfer.

My GI bill was used up and I needed to get a job ASAP so all I was able
to piece together was a Psychology degree.

I got a job as an electronics tech and through night school and mostly
OJT worked my way up to Senior Service Engineer. I am retired now and
still don't know ****. Oh well, it was fun and I am still young enough
to enjoy.

Most of my relatives (the older ones) went through the army having lived
in the Polish Communist regime. They've all become very disciplined
individuals as a result. I have no such interest and enjoy being
relatively care-free.

I would have absolutely agreed to that. In fact, I'm surprised that the
installation process didn't allow users to simply choose which interface
they'd rather have. Allowing the user to select whether they would
rather have the Classic interface or the New one would have removed a
lot of the complaints people had about the operating system. People
would not have felt forced to acquaint themselves with an incredibly
unintuitive product.

Yep, and the executives at MS are millionaires and I'm not.

OTOH: Harry S. Truman once thought it funny that all the people "who
know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair".

I think they are different situations. Complaining about politicians is
something everyone does. Everyone thinks they can do better but when faced
with the exact same scenario, they're a lot more clueless than whoever
they elected or would do the exact same thing. In the case of deciding how
Windows 8 should operate, had Microsoft opted to have beta-testers and
listened to their advice, there is no way they would have shipped the
operating system the way they did. I think they sold the product for
39,99$ for a time because they KNEW that a lot of people were going to be
upset with the drastic changes. I know I was happy I hadn't paid more than
40$. Beta-testers would have insisted on what I proposed earlier with the
selection of interfaces or at the very least forced the developers to
release something closer to 8.1.

--
Silver Slimer
GNU/Linux is Communism
The average GNU/Linux user:
http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instanc...x/38314453.jpg

"That is incorrect. GNU/Linux is worse then communism because at least in
a communist country you would be paid a wage for your work. In GNU/Linux
your work helps some fat cat on wall street earn bigger dividends in his
stock portfolio because nobody had to pay for your work.

Of course, Linus is a big winner since he earns millions of dollars on the
sucker programmers free labor." - Michael Bachmann