[Sussex] When Dynamic Web Pages go wrong

Steve Dobson SDobson at manh.com
Thu Jul 3 16:17:00 UTC 2003


Hi Nik

On 03 July 2003 at 17:17 nik at wired4life.org wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 03:51:51PM +0100, Geoffrey Teale wrote:
> > Obviously, this makes sense.  You can't blame Amazon for selling small 
> > children at a discount price - they are of course a time-dependant 
> > resource.  The value of a small child drops sharply as they approach 
> > teen age years and so they can be considered a perishable product.  Thus

> > discounting before they reach their best-before date is a perfectly 
> > acceptable busines practice.
> but from experience Teenagers are a invaluable resource as it appears
> that when a Child becomes A teenager they immediately begin to KNOW
> everything

But as soon as you give a Teenager experience they then being to see
how little they do know.  Remember:

   Teenager + (experience * time) = cynic

Steve




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