This is why many companies start a Production Services team. Generally this means the hiring of a Build and Release Engineer or Manager who has an IT background and an understanding of Software Development.
The alignment of the Production team varies. At some companies they report to the development organization (e.g. to the Manager or Director of Software Engineering) and at other companies they report to Quality Assurance.
I searched for: restaurants in ZIPCODE Using the zip code for my hometown.
I was presented with a map of my hometown. There was, however, a push pin on Main St for a restuarant located in an adjacent town (with an entirely different zip code).
For me it's more than just to avoid telemarketers. That's just a bonus. You could do it cheaper with a single line and an additional phone number. The first number rings once and the second rings twice.
It would be nice if there was a answering system that could differentiate between the one and two rings. Or you could sign up for voicemail. There are more than a few options.
I have a feeling that the DNC list isn't going to be 100% effective any more than than say SPAM filtering.
Of the few telemarketing calls that I have answered over the years I remeber one where I mentioned my number was on a DNC list and the response was "Yeah, like I care".
I have not had to deal with annoying telemarketers after I did one thing. I got myself a second phone number and made it unlisted. The only number I ever give out it the published number, except to family and friends. I never answer that number. The machine gets it. Sometimes (say once every month or two) I get a telemarketing call on my second line. Usually I know it is before I even answer. That's because the numbers are one after the other and I just heard the first line pick up. Sure it costs me an extra 25 bucks a month but it sure is worth it.
Thank you for the clarification. I *was* thinking of VB and not VBA. I just did a bit of research to try to find the definition of a scripting language. Apparently so have a lot of other folks, as I came across the following:
1. I will never give out my cell number to a company that wants my phone number in order to provide me with a service or product. I HATE telemarketers.
2. I like the security of having a land line as a backup. They are reliable and cheap. When my mother comes to babysit she knows how to use it.
Sounds like this would make a good feature for manufaturers to add to an answering machine. It would be great if you could just enable this tone by flipping a switch on your machine.
The doctors prescribed adderol (sp?) for my daughter. We were very reluctant to give her the meds. We felt that the doctors involved were just following a rote path in diagnosing and treating her condition. We would have like for them to have a better understanding of what she was facing. We had to do that for ourselves. It was a very exhausting process for both us and her teachers. In the end we never gave her meds. Instead we found ways for her and her teachers to help her manage her condition. We felt very strongly that this would suit her better in life than simply medicating her problems.
In retrospect I think that we were very lucky. Her problems were not that severe. There is certainly a wide spectrum of behavior and issues to deal with when it comes to ADD or ADHD. I think that you must really understand this and determine for yourself how "difficult" the condition is in it's manifestation. In very difficult cases I am certain that meds are probably the only way to get through the day-to-day difficulties that ADHD presents to the child, parents, and teachers. But do not be too quick to accept the meds that doctors seem only too willing to prescribe.
Our daughter (and son) had particular problems with sensory integration issues. The seams in clothing were a particular issue that is vivid in my mind. Or the difficulty in getting my daughter to do her homework because she could not deal with the texture of the paper. School paper is very rough. I ended up printing lines on laser printer paper for her to use.
We brought both my children to an Occupational Therapist who deals with sensory integration issues in children. They had a big "play room" that they would bring the kids into. They would find out what stimuli provided positive reinforcement and which provided negative reinforcement. (Note: this is my terminology and how I viewed it.) All I can say is the OT worked wonders! If we missed a week we would end up paying dearly in the degree of difficulty we had in managing their behavior.
My daughter discovered horseback riding when she was 6. It was and still is amazing to me how an ADHD child who can't stay calm or focused in the classroom is amazingly calm and focused around a horse. Nobody at the barn would beleive that she was an ADHD child. For her this is her therapy. It works so well it is simply amazing.
My son needs physical acticity to calm him down. When I would get called in because of his bahavior I would simply take him out to the playground to run and climb. Rock climbing is particulary effective for him. We have also found Karate to be effective though organized sports are difficult for him because he does not have the patience to wait. This, however, is improving as he gets older.
I think that these activities help them to keep their mind focused. As I understand it and have personally observed it in my children, their minds are racing. As one OT person explained it to me. Imagine that you are trying to take a test but can't focus because the tick of the clock, the hum of the heaters, the simple movements of the people around you, are all as vivid in your mind as the problem you are trying to focus on. Your head is full of all this stimulus and can't seem to filter them out and focus on one thing as most people can. And you can't understand why? People start to think your just not trying.
We have found ways to help our children to cope with this without the use of meds. I think this is a better service to them than simply giving them the drugs. It certainly is much more work. Very exhausting. Sometimes I have wondered how my wife and I have made it though all this. I like to think that by doing this we have "taught our children how to fish" rather than simply "giving them a fish" so to speak. They are learning how to manage their issues rather than having them simply "squashed". This is important because drugs will always squash a lot more than just what you want them to. Of course if you cannot find these things to help your children cope or if they simply are not enough then by all means use meds. Just don't be so quick to feed them to your kids as the medical profession is.
Sounds like a sure way to plunge the economy back into a recession if you ask me. Let's give a little more thought to these ideas in these days of uncertainty.
I've used a PDA for the last 10 years. I have never used a paper based organizer. I despise them. That said I find that I am not that religious about using a palm device. I don't have to be. I find that I tend to store all my contacts there and usually important events such as birthdays and doctors appointments. Ocasionally a non-recurring meeting that was planned well in advance.
I've given up using a seperate PDA in favor of a cellphone with a decent PIM. Most recently a Nokia 7160. I like it because I always have it with me, it let's me carry only one device, and there's no freakin stylus involved. I find that I use it quite frequntly now. Unfortunately there are very few cellphones with good PIM's built in that are also easy to use.
I've had a palm device since the HP 75LX which I got to replace a Casio electronic rolodex. I beleive that it was the first Palm device to hit the market. It was replaced by an HP 100LX, which got replaced by an HP 200LX. Then I started buying Palm's. The last palm device I used was a Palm V. All of them now sit in a box in my basement.
Which one of these things does not belong? OK, I realized that Opera didn't belong in this list after I posted. I'm surprised it took so long for someone to notice and respond.
Heck, I am willing to shell out two bucks to check out the first issue. The main page mentions that the single issue price is $1.99. Try as I might I could not find a way to buy that single issue!
1. The best person to talk to to find out what applications should be installed on an educational machine are the teachers and school administrators.
2. Determining what apps to install should begin with finding out which ones best meet the need of the curriculum.
3. Unfortunately most open source apps are best suited for geeks like you and me than for children. Most apps designed for kids are also designed to run on MS platforms.
I myself just set up a multimedia lab for an elementary school. It consists of 16 IBM NetVista A21's, a SmartBoard (i.e a touch sensitive projection screen that acts as an input device), and a projector with a laptop.
Most of the teachers are familiar with MS Office and kid oriented software that run on an MS OS. I am trying to expose them to Open Source versions of the tools they use (i.e. OpenOffice, Mozilla, Opera, etc.). It's hard enough to get them to embrace these let alone a whole new OS.
My recomendation is to go slow. I have set up these machines as dual boot. Only a few people in the school know this. Introducing the entire school to Linux, GNU, et al. is going to take time.
Basically it's a cable that has two cables spliced together and three connectors. They are generally used to share SCSI devices between machines in a cluster.
I was a MediaOne customer as well. They eroded certain services well before selling to AT&T including the upstream bandwidth which went from 300K to 256K. You can refer to my previous rant on the topic.
This is exactly why I cancled my AT&T Broadband service. The customer service was extremely poor. I've had cable broadband since 1997 when it started in my area as Highway1. I never had a problem until AT&T aquired the business and started providing less service while increasing their prices. I now use Verizon DSL which is advertised as providing "unlimited high-speed internet access".
I waited almost a month for a technician to replace my faulty cable modem. Imagine my surprise when the technician arrived and did not even bring a replacement cable modem. He said he needed to schedule another technician to bring one. That visit kept getting pushed back.
I finally canceled both my TV and Internet services. Another person in my area has been waiting over two months for AT&T Broadband to fix their internet service.
AT&T needs to get their act together if they want to retain their customers. Perhaps they are just biding their time and keeping costs down until they can sell the business to someone else.
When I worked at Bell Labs we had Bit Blit graphics terminals that were all networked to an Amdahl 5880 Mainframe running SVR2. We also had real offices with walls and doors. We could work at our desks or in the labs. It was true mobility without any of the dehuminizing crap. This was back in the late 80's when people were still valued as people.
Today many homeowners use chemicals on their lawns. The use of products such as Scotts "4 step" actually give your lawn a chemical dependency. They don't allow them to function in a natural organic fashion. In addition they contribute to the pollution of water tables and watersheds. You would be amazed at how far away from a lake, river, or stream that a watershed extends. Basically the use of these chemicals is simply the easy no hassle way to have green lawn. It not necessarily a healthy lawn or healthy for the environment but people don't think about that.
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This is why many companies start a Production Services team. Generally this means the hiring of a Build and Release Engineer or Manager who has an IT background and an understanding of Software Development.
The alignment of the Production team varies. At some companies they report to the development organization (e.g. to the Manager or Director of Software Engineering) and at other companies they report to Quality Assurance.
I would suggest that you check out the site: http://cmcrossroads.com/
I searched for: restaurants in ZIPCODE
Using the zip code for my hometown.
I was presented with a map of my hometown. There was, however, a push pin on Main St for a restuarant located in an adjacent town (with an entirely different zip code).
No sense in helping them to look good eh?
For me it's more than just to avoid telemarketers. That's just a bonus. You could do it cheaper with a single line and an additional phone number. The first number rings once and the second rings twice.
It would be nice if there was a answering system that could differentiate between the one and two rings. Or you could sign up for voicemail. There are more than a few options.
I have a feeling that the DNC list isn't going to be 100% effective any more than than say SPAM filtering.
Of the few telemarketing calls that I have answered over the years I remeber one where I mentioned my number was on a DNC list and the response was "Yeah, like I care".
I have not had to deal with annoying telemarketers after I did one thing. I got myself a second phone number and made it unlisted. The only number I ever give out it the published number, except to family and friends. I never answer that number. The machine gets it. Sometimes (say once every month or two) I get a telemarketing call on my second line. Usually I know it is before I even answer. That's because the numbers are one after the other and I just heard the first line pick up. Sure it costs me an extra 25 bucks a month but it sure is worth it.
Hmm, what could be the news group with the most activity? Let's search for groups with the word "pictures" in them and I'll bet we find out.
When FreeBSD 5.0 is officially released you should be able to get it from one of the FTP sites in the official list.
FTP Sites
Thank you for the clarification. I *was* thinking of VB and not VBA.
I just did a bit of research to try to find the definition of a scripting language.
Apparently so have a lot of other folks, as I came across the following:
The Definition os a Scripting Language
Is VBA considered a scripting language?
I thought it was an interprted language that get's compiled into byte code.
For two BIG reasons:
1. I will never give out my cell number to a company that wants my phone number in order to provide me with a service or product. I HATE telemarketers.
2. I like the security of having a land line as a backup. They are reliable and cheap. When my mother comes to babysit she knows how to use it.
Sounds like this would make a good feature for manufaturers to add to an answering machine. It would be great if you could just enable this tone by flipping a switch on your machine.
The doctors prescribed adderol (sp?) for my daughter. We were very reluctant to give her the meds. We felt that the doctors involved were just following a rote path in diagnosing and treating her condition. We would have like for them to have a better understanding of what she was facing. We had to do that for ourselves. It was a very exhausting process for both us and her teachers. In the end we never gave her meds. Instead we found ways for her and her teachers to help her manage her condition. We felt very strongly that this would suit her better in life than simply medicating her problems.
In retrospect I think that we were very lucky. Her problems were not that severe. There is certainly a wide spectrum of behavior and issues to deal with when it comes to ADD or ADHD. I think that you must really understand this and determine for yourself how "difficult" the condition is in it's manifestation. In very difficult cases I am certain that meds are probably the only way to get through the day-to-day difficulties that ADHD presents to the child, parents, and teachers. But do not be too quick to accept the meds that doctors seem only too willing to prescribe.
Our daughter (and son) had particular problems with sensory integration issues. The seams in clothing were a particular issue that is vivid in my mind. Or the difficulty in getting my daughter to do her homework because she could not deal with the texture of the paper. School paper is very rough. I ended up printing lines on laser printer paper for her to use.
We brought both my children to an Occupational Therapist who deals with sensory integration issues in children. They had a big "play room" that they would bring the kids into. They would find out what stimuli provided positive reinforcement and which provided negative reinforcement. (Note: this is my terminology and how I viewed it.) All I can say is the OT worked wonders! If we missed a week we would end up paying dearly in the degree of difficulty we had in managing their behavior.
My daughter discovered horseback riding when she was 6. It was and still is amazing to me how an ADHD child who can't stay calm or focused in the classroom is amazingly calm and focused around a horse. Nobody at the barn would beleive that she was an ADHD child. For her this is her therapy. It works so well it is simply amazing.
My son needs physical acticity to calm him down. When I would get called in because of his bahavior I would simply take him out to the playground to run and climb. Rock climbing is particulary effective for him. We have also found Karate to be effective though organized sports are difficult for him because he does not have the patience to wait. This, however, is improving as he gets older.
I think that these activities help them to keep their mind focused. As I understand it and have personally observed it in my children, their minds are racing. As one OT person explained it to me. Imagine that you are trying to take a test but can't focus because the tick of the clock, the hum of the heaters, the simple movements of the people around you, are all as vivid in your mind as the problem you are trying to focus on. Your head is full of all this stimulus and can't seem to filter them out and focus on one thing as most people can. And you can't understand why? People start to think your just not trying.
We have found ways to help our children to cope with this without the use of meds. I think this is a better service to them than simply giving them the drugs. It certainly is much more work. Very exhausting. Sometimes I have wondered how my wife and I have made it though all this. I like to think that by doing this we have "taught our children how to fish" rather than simply "giving them a fish" so to speak. They are learning how to manage their issues rather than having them simply "squashed". This is important because drugs will always squash a lot more than just what you want them to. Of course if you cannot find these things to help your children cope or if they simply are not enough then by all means use meds. Just don't be so quick to feed them to your kids as the medical profession is.
Sounds like a sure way to plunge the economy back into a recession if you ask me. Let's give a little more thought to these ideas in these days of uncertainty.
I've used a PDA for the last 10 years. I have never used a paper based organizer. I despise them. That said I find that I am not that religious about using a palm device. I don't have to be. I find that I tend to store all my contacts there and usually important events such as birthdays and doctors appointments. Ocasionally a non-recurring meeting that was planned well in advance.
I've given up using a seperate PDA in favor of a cellphone with a decent PIM. Most recently a Nokia 7160. I like it because I always have it with me, it let's me carry only one device, and there's no freakin stylus involved. I find that I use it quite frequntly now. Unfortunately there are very few cellphones with good PIM's built in that are also easy to use.
I've had a palm device since the HP 75LX which I got to replace a Casio electronic rolodex. I beleive that it was the first Palm device to hit the market. It was replaced by an HP 100LX, which got replaced by an HP 200LX. Then I started buying Palm's. The last palm device I used was a Palm V. All of them now sit in a box in my basement.
Thanks. It appears that the notice was added after I sent an inquiry to the subscription dept.
Which one of these things does not belong?
OK, I realized that Opera didn't belong in this list after I posted.
I'm surprised it took so long for someone to
notice and respond.
Heck, I am willing to shell out two bucks to check out the first issue.
The main page mentions that the single issue price is $1.99.
Try as I might I could not find a way to buy that single issue!
1. The best person to talk to to find out what applications should be installed on an educational machine are the teachers and school administrators.
2. Determining what apps to install should begin with finding out which ones best meet the need of the curriculum.
3. Unfortunately most open source apps are best suited for geeks like you and me than for children. Most apps designed for kids are also designed to run on MS platforms.
I myself just set up a multimedia lab for an elementary school. It consists of 16 IBM NetVista A21's, a SmartBoard (i.e a touch sensitive projection screen that acts as an input device), and a projector with a laptop.
Most of the teachers are familiar with MS Office and kid oriented software that run on an MS OS. I am trying to expose them to Open Source versions of the tools they use (i.e. OpenOffice, Mozilla, Opera, etc.). It's hard enough to get them to embrace these let alone a whole new OS.
My recomendation is to go slow. I have set up these machines as dual boot. Only a few people in the school know this. Introducing the entire school to Linux, GNU, et al. is going to take time.
Actually on IBM's site it's called a Y cable. They run about $250.
External SCSI Cables for the RS/6000
Basically it's a cable that has two cables spliced together and three connectors. They are generally used to share SCSI devices between machines in a cluster.
I was a MediaOne customer as well. They eroded certain services well before selling to AT&T including the upstream bandwidth which went from 300K to 256K. You can refer to my previous rant on the topic.
This is exactly why I cancled my AT&T Broadband service. The customer service was extremely poor.
I've had cable broadband since 1997 when it started in my area as Highway1. I never had a problem until AT&T aquired the business and started providing less service while increasing their prices. I now use Verizon DSL which is advertised as providing "unlimited high-speed internet access".
I waited almost a month for a technician to replace my faulty cable modem. Imagine my surprise when the technician arrived and did not even bring a replacement cable modem. He said he needed to schedule another technician to bring one. That visit kept getting pushed back.
I finally canceled both my TV and Internet services. Another person in my area has been waiting over two months for AT&T Broadband to fix their internet service.
AT&T needs to get their act together if they want to retain their customers. Perhaps they are just biding their time and keeping costs down until they can sell the business to someone else.
de-hu-man-ize
Pronunciation: (dE-hyOO'mu-nIz" or, often, -yOO'-), [key]
--v.t., -ized, -izing.
to deprive of human qualities or attributes; divest of individuality: Conformity dehumanized him. Also, esp. Brit.,de-hu'man-ise".
When I worked at Bell Labs we had Bit Blit graphics terminals that were all networked to an Amdahl 5880 Mainframe running SVR2. We also had real offices with walls and doors. We could work at our desks or in the labs. It was true mobility without any of the dehuminizing crap. This was back in the late 80's when people were still valued as people.
Today many homeowners use chemicals on their lawns. The use of products such as Scotts "4 step" actually give your lawn a chemical dependency. They don't allow them to function in a natural organic fashion. In addition they contribute to the pollution of water tables and watersheds. You would be amazed at how far away from a lake, river, or stream that a watershed extends. Basically the use of these chemicals is simply the easy no hassle way to have green lawn. It not necessarily a healthy lawn or healthy for the environment but people don't think about that.