"Personally, I love my XM, and don't ever listen to local radio any more. More choice, less commercials..."
Wait a sec. I thought by purchasing the subscription, that eliminated the commercials. Why would I buy a special receiver and surrender yet another monthly subscription fee, just to listen to compressed audio that sounds worse than the mp3s I rip off my own cds? Even FM sounds better when the signal strength is good. Now HDFM is coming out in between the standard stations. And it's still free. All you need is a new receiver.
Well you see, the San Francisco Bay Area does not refer to the City of SF. It refers to the _area_ surrounding the San Francisco _Bay_, which is the large body of water over which the Golden Gate Bridge spans. So the SF Bay Area (locally known as simply "the Bay Area") includes any city on the shores of the bay. The article can't just say "The Bay Area" though, because there are way too many bays in the US for the author to expect his readers to figure out which fricking bay is being referenced, so he specified which bay area. The San Francisco Bay Area.
In Los Angeles we have an area called the South Bay. It's specific boundaries can be a bit nebulous; it includes the coastal area from about LAX to Long Beach. But to someone from Iowa, you'd have to say the Los Angeles South Bay area, or they might never find it. I bet the San Francisco Bay Area has a South Bay too. Hmmm.
Many marinas and harbors are blanketed by WiFi. Live-aboards just subscribe to the front office for a few duckets a month, get a wifi card and sip from the big pipe just over there on shore. Satellite TV is good to go too. So you have your Net, your Soaps and your boat and it's easy to steam or sail off to ________ (fill in local marine vacation spot) for the weekend or longer. Come back to the still water to go to work. Slip fees are not necessarily cheap and are by-the-foot, but since you own or are buying your boat, and not land, you don't pay property tax. Just slip rental, and utilities. Granted, you need to be "of the type" to enjoy living between bulkheads and have to pump out the holding tank on occasion.
The Chief of Surgery at a hospital better know how to do some surgery. How else can he be a mentor or a teacher to anyone below him? I think more focus on the part of the OP would help. Should a manager in a technical department be a techie? Hell yes, preferably in the field that s/he's managing. In Creative Services? Not so much.
in short I guess I would suggest that any manager should have a detailed grasp of the work at hand. If you're managing workers on an assembly line, you should be able to tap anyone's shoulder and step up to their machinery and continue the work. If you're the Service Manager at a shop, you should be able to at least be able to have a technical discussion with one of your technicians. Tech says, "Hey this flibbity is all jibbity and when I replace it the jinky-jank starts warbling." mgr should eb able to offer insight, not just say, well, call the part manufacturer and see if they know what's wrong. Likewise a Web Services manager should be able to at least read and comprehend a page of markup or ferret out a typo in a style sheet.
Someone who manages a team of specialists should have some working knowledge of what the specialists are doing, right? Otherwise that manager is just a personnel monitor, checking that employees are following the rules.
Well then wouldn't a good connotation of "fighting terrorism" be "preventing terrorism?" To fight an urge is to prevent its influence on your actions. Like wanting to slap a kid having a tantrum. We must fight that urge, as we must fight terrorism.
The difference is: tantrums are easy to detect. Oh, and terrorists *should* be slapped. Hard. Repeatedly. Without mercy. Forever. And ever. Amen.
Anyone ever notice the number of people who cruise around with their seatback cranked straight up, seat slid to the front of the rails, elbows acutely bent, hands grasping the wheel at "10 and 2" with the airbag goading the clueless driver to just bump into something at more than 10 MPH, ready to smash their face into the headrest?
When I drive, I pretty much recline just like the study mentions, just far enough so my neck doean't have to work too hard to keep my head up--no, I don't drive around resting my head on the headrest... Everything is within arm's (or leg's) reach. And my airbag is at a safe distance from my CPU. I can drive for hours with little fatigue.
I think they really ceased being Cellular Phones when analog signalling faded into digital (CDMA/TDMA/GSM). But I suspect that since these digital signals are still passed over radio waves of whatever frequency(cies), I assume there are still cells, right? I don't know. I don't care. Whatever you call it, you still use it to annoy me at work, at the show, in the elevator, at the cafe, in the restaurant, and while doing you makeup while simultaneosly endangering all of us on the freeway. Hands-free does not mean "you are now free to make hand gestures to the person you're talking to." You realize, don't you, that they can't see you? Hey, can I borrow a few bucks? I really need a new ringtone--this one I bought yesterday afternoon seems to be getting me more sideways glances than I was going for...
The issue here (with Blu-ray V. HD-DVD) is that Blu is Sony's sweet baby and HD is the standard ALL OTHER MFRS are working with. Sony will not likely license BR (or Beta, or Memory stick or....) So the industry will arrive at one standard and Sony will have it's own, forcing us to choose. I just don't need two DVD players for two formats. And Sony with all the rootkit shenanigans, well, they're on my shit list. They make some nice hardware, but, well, screw 'em.
This is why they lost out on BetaMax VCRs. For a year or two we'll see Blu-ray marketed along side HD-DVD, but later, we'll find Sony dropping Blu and adopting the standard. Unless the license it to other manufacturers!!! That's the only way to arrive at the best technology, let the two compete in the open market. Ten MFRS making both formats at comparable price points. Movie lovers will decide the match by purely democratic means.
Getting back to the original topic of choice: I feel there is a balance between too many options and too few or none. When it comes to GUIs Skins make things personalizable, and allow the user as much choice as needed. Or I can choose none (default).
For powering off, I just Ctrl-Alt-Del and pick one of the top three buttons. Only three choices, pretty exclusive. The left one I use when I'm just going out to lunch. The middle one is good for overnight, when I know MIS does updating. Friday night, (and 2 minutes from now) I'll use the rightmost option to save power.
Have a nice Thanksgiving all you American folk. MOD TURKEY UP, TASTY!
If the user has filled in the form before (minutes or days) and has auto-fill engaged, I suspect the user could tab through to the submit button in under 10 seconds.
How about asking the user to answer a question. I saw it suggested in an earlier post:
2+2=? [_________] (required field)
The only answer is 4 and is language-independent. Validation will determine if the user is A) human and B) intelligent enough to post. I'm not sure how a bot would know to answer with a very specific answer. If it was pregrammed to enter a random word, what are the odds that would would be "4" not "four" or any other combination of characters?
If a human spammer found it and programmed for it, we could strengthen the defense by scripting the question to be any kind of easy math, also swapping around the number and variables (8-z=3, a-1=5, etc 6/2=x).
I do like the idea of a session cookie, or even just a parsed http_referrer check to verify intent.
Curious, if we take the form submission and then kick back a preview page asking for the user to confirm or correct their data, would that defeat some bots?
If you choose to be employed by an employer who would coerce you to vote along a particular axis, you should be shot.
If you are an employer who would coerce an employee to vote along a particular axis, you too, should be shot.
In the head, BTW, not in the foot.
Seriously, if you are in either of those groups, you really should stay at home, because a voter's civic duty is to vote one's conscience. Coercion is unconscionable, as is taking a bribe for special interests--and that is what you would be doing if you vote the way your boss wants you to vote. You're basically saying, "I'll vote how you like if you'll agree not to fire me." How fricking WEAK is that?
If you vote based on the PSAs we all see, instead of actually reading propsitions and measures, are you really sure you know what you're doing, what you're getting yourself into, what you're helping to get us all into? Are you sure you didn't just vote the way the opposition was hoping you'd vote? You don't really know, do you. If you actually do read about that great provision that will save the planet for free and with no harm done to lab animals, you might find out that it's basically a tax shelter for rich politicians. Or you might find out that it also limits gay rights. Or that next year you'll be taxed at a 20% higher rate. Sounds preposterous doesn't it? Crap gets rolled up into ballot measures all the time. They design some measures to be palatable on the surface, so it garners votes from sheep. Then later we realize we just elected the Cylons to power. If only we had investigated before marking the X or punching the chad or tapping the pretty touchscreen.
If blindly vote for the party you belong to, trusting they they want what you want, you're only reinforcing the herd mentality. What's good for my grandpa and my daddy is good for me... BS. People in power do what they can to stay there. People without power do what they can to transplant those who have it. Can you implicitly trust their motives?
No matter what party you think you belong to, be independent in your thinking and problem solving. Don't take the party line. You don't eat up the line at the bar when someone's hitting on you do you? Think for yourself, and think for your SELF.
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"Personally, I love my XM, and don't ever listen to local radio any more. More choice, less commercials..."
Wait a sec. I thought by purchasing the subscription, that eliminated the commercials. Why would I buy a special receiver and surrender yet another monthly subscription fee, just to listen to compressed audio that sounds worse than the mp3s I rip off my own cds? Even FM sounds better when the signal strength is good. Now HDFM is coming out in between the standard stations. And it's still free. All you need is a new receiver.
Well you see, the San Francisco Bay Area does not refer to the City of SF. It refers to the _area_ surrounding the San Francisco _Bay_, which is the large body of water over which the Golden Gate Bridge spans. So the SF Bay Area (locally known as simply "the Bay Area") includes any city on the shores of the bay. The article can't just say "The Bay Area" though, because there are way too many bays in the US for the author to expect his readers to figure out which fricking bay is being referenced, so he specified which bay area. The San Francisco Bay Area.
In Los Angeles we have an area called the South Bay. It's specific boundaries can be a bit nebulous; it includes the coastal area from about LAX to Long Beach. But to someone from Iowa, you'd have to say the Los Angeles South Bay area, or they might never find it. I bet the San Francisco Bay Area has a South Bay too. Hmmm.
Many marinas and harbors are blanketed by WiFi. Live-aboards just subscribe to the front office for a few duckets a month, get a wifi card and sip from the big pipe just over there on shore. Satellite TV is good to go too. So you have your Net, your Soaps and your boat and it's easy to steam or sail off to ________ (fill in local marine vacation spot) for the weekend or longer. Come back to the still water to go to work. Slip fees are not necessarily cheap and are by-the-foot, but since you own or are buying your boat, and not land, you don't pay property tax. Just slip rental, and utilities. Granted, you need to be "of the type" to enjoy living between bulkheads and have to pump out the holding tank on occasion.
Perspective is crux.
The Chief of Surgery at a hospital better know how to do some surgery. How else can he be a mentor or a teacher to anyone below him? I think more focus on the part of the OP would help. Should a manager in a technical department be a techie? Hell yes, preferably in the field that s/he's managing. In Creative Services? Not so much.
in short I guess I would suggest that any manager should have a detailed grasp of the work at hand. If you're managing workers on an assembly line, you should be able to tap anyone's shoulder and step up to their machinery and continue the work. If you're the Service Manager at a shop, you should be able to at least be able to have a technical discussion with one of your technicians. Tech says, "Hey this flibbity is all jibbity and when I replace it the jinky-jank starts warbling." mgr should eb able to offer insight, not just say, well, call the part manufacturer and see if they know what's wrong. Likewise a Web Services manager should be able to at least read and comprehend a page of markup or ferret out a typo in a style sheet.
Someone who manages a team of specialists should have some working knowledge of what the specialists are doing, right? Otherwise that manager is just a personnel monitor, checking that employees are following the rules.
Be like Milton at Innatech.
Anyone seen "What the Bleep do We Know?" There is much discussion about everything being connected. ...Somehow I don't think this is what it means.
Well then wouldn't a good connotation of "fighting terrorism" be "preventing terrorism?" To fight an urge is to prevent its influence on your actions. Like wanting to slap a kid having a tantrum. We must fight that urge, as we must fight terrorism.
The difference is: tantrums are easy to detect. Oh, and terrorists *should* be slapped. Hard. Repeatedly. Without mercy. Forever. And ever. Amen.
How about driving?
Anyone ever notice the number of people who cruise around with their seatback cranked straight up, seat slid to the front of the rails, elbows acutely bent, hands grasping the wheel at "10 and 2" with the airbag goading the clueless driver to just bump into something at more than 10 MPH, ready to smash their face into the headrest?
When I drive, I pretty much recline just like the study mentions, just far enough so my neck doean't have to work too hard to keep my head up--no, I don't drive around resting my head on the headrest... Everything is within arm's (or leg's) reach. And my airbag is at a safe distance from my CPU. I can drive for hours with little fatigue.
I think they really ceased being Cellular Phones when analog signalling faded into digital (CDMA/TDMA/GSM). But I suspect that since these digital signals are still passed over radio waves of whatever frequency(cies), I assume there are still cells, right? I don't know. I don't care. Whatever you call it, you still use it to annoy me at work, at the show, in the elevator, at the cafe, in the restaurant, and while doing you makeup while simultaneosly endangering all of us on the freeway. Hands-free does not mean "you are now free to make hand gestures to the person you're talking to." You realize, don't you, that they can't see you? Hey, can I borrow a few bucks? I really need a new ringtone--this one I bought yesterday afternoon seems to be getting me more sideways glances than I was going for...
The issue here (with Blu-ray V. HD-DVD) is that Blu is Sony's sweet baby and HD is the standard ALL OTHER MFRS are working with. Sony will not likely license BR (or Beta, or Memory stick or....) So the industry will arrive at one standard and Sony will have it's own, forcing us to choose. I just don't need two DVD players for two formats. And Sony with all the rootkit shenanigans, well, they're on my shit list. They make some nice hardware, but, well, screw 'em.
This is why they lost out on BetaMax VCRs. For a year or two we'll see Blu-ray marketed along side HD-DVD, but later, we'll find Sony dropping Blu and adopting the standard. Unless the license it to other manufacturers!!! That's the only way to arrive at the best technology, let the two compete in the open market. Ten MFRS making both formats at comparable price points. Movie lovers will decide the match by purely democratic means.
Getting back to the original topic of choice: I feel there is a balance between too many options and too few or none. When it comes to GUIs Skins make things personalizable, and allow the user as much choice as needed. Or I can choose none (default).
For powering off, I just Ctrl-Alt-Del and pick one of the top three buttons. Only three choices, pretty exclusive. The left one I use when I'm just going out to lunch. The middle one is good for overnight, when I know MIS does updating. Friday night, (and 2 minutes from now) I'll use the rightmost option to save power.
Have a nice Thanksgiving all you American folk. MOD TURKEY UP, TASTY!
If the user has filled in the form before (minutes or days) and has auto-fill engaged, I suspect the user could tab through to the submit button in under 10 seconds.
How about asking the user to answer a question. I saw it suggested in an earlier post:
2+2=? [_________] (required field)
The only answer is 4 and is language-independent. Validation will determine if the user is A) human and B) intelligent enough to post. I'm not sure how a bot would know to answer with a very specific answer. If it was pregrammed to enter a random word, what are the odds that would would be "4" not "four" or any other combination of characters?
If a human spammer found it and programmed for it, we could strengthen the defense by scripting the question to be any kind of easy math, also swapping around the number and variables (8-z=3, a-1=5, etc 6/2=x).
I do like the idea of a session cookie, or even just a parsed http_referrer check to verify intent.
Curious, if we take the form submission and then kick back a preview page asking for the user to confirm or correct their data, would that defeat some bots?
Hallowed are the children of the Ori.
If you choose to be employed by an employer who would coerce you to vote along a particular axis, you should be shot.
If you are an employer who would coerce an employee to vote along a particular axis, you too, should be shot.
In the head, BTW, not in the foot.
Seriously, if you are in either of those groups, you really should stay at home, because a voter's civic duty is to vote one's conscience. Coercion is unconscionable, as is taking a bribe for special interests--and that is what you would be doing if you vote the way your boss wants you to vote. You're basically saying, "I'll vote how you like if you'll agree not to fire me." How fricking WEAK is that?
If you vote based on the PSAs we all see, instead of actually reading propsitions and measures, are you really sure you know what you're doing, what you're getting yourself into, what you're helping to get us all into? Are you sure you didn't just vote the way the opposition was hoping you'd vote? You don't really know, do you. If you actually do read about that great provision that will save the planet for free and with no harm done to lab animals, you might find out that it's basically a tax shelter for rich politicians. Or you might find out that it also limits gay rights. Or that next year you'll be taxed at a 20% higher rate. Sounds preposterous doesn't it? Crap gets rolled up into ballot measures all the time. They design some measures to be palatable on the surface, so it garners votes from sheep. Then later we realize we just elected the Cylons to power. If only we had investigated before marking the X or punching the chad or tapping the pretty touchscreen.
If blindly vote for the party you belong to, trusting they they want what you want, you're only reinforcing the herd mentality. What's good for my grandpa and my daddy is good for me... BS. People in power do what they can to stay there. People without power do what they can to transplant those who have it. Can you implicitly trust their motives?
No matter what party you think you belong to, be independent in your thinking and problem solving. Don't take the party line. You don't eat up the line at the bar when someone's hitting on you do you? Think for yourself, and think for your SELF.