There is a difference between getting explanations, advice and input from people, thinking about it, and then making an informed decision from forming a committee and not letting anyone leave until there is a unanimous decision.
Learning an industry is something that can be picked up by a competent, intelligent person - when jumping into a new industry, it only makes sense to get other capable people to help teach you about the industry. But after a while, these advisors should go from being essential to a manager being able to do their job to being unnecessary in the context of the manager being able to do his/her job (though they would probably still be helpful to consult in big decisions).
Better? Probably. But my point is just that a good manager would be able to figure out how to manage well in nearly all circumstances. So while it may take some time for somebody used managing building trains to learn how to manage making food, a good manager should be able to make the transition. But there can also be benefit in bringing experiences from other fields/organizations, and sometimes having somebody question "the way its always been done" can be very healthy/productive.
Of course real life is more complicated: sometimes the way its always been done is that way for very good reasons. If the manager has always had a passion for train-building, and only begrudgingly switched, then they probably won't do nearly as well making food, regardless of their managerial skill. Or if the manager just delegates knowing how things actually work to others but never bothers to learn how things work themselves, then they are not a good manager - they are just ok (at least they are acknowledging that they don't understand things, which is still better than thinking they understand something and not). It also depends on the role itself - how much of it is actually dealing with people, and how much of it is business decisions that require a deep understanding of the industry.
But the whole point is to eliminate the US vs THEM boundary. So when you are working on an important project, the IT department is ALSO working on it with you.
I agree. A good manager should also be able to recognize what areas they don't understand and then assemble a group of people to advise & teach her/him on the details of the specific industry or company.
They are not laying a tax only on imports - they are laying a tax on ALL coal-fired emissions (for energy used within the state of MN).
The BoingBoing article is quite bad in that it doesn't clearly distinguish between the effect/intention/politics of the legislation (screw ND coal companies) and what the legislation actually does (tax all coal-fired emissions).
Human population will reach 9 billion this year. If every nation strives to become a developed country and offer things like air conditioning and cars to almost everybody, we will keep running out of energy regardless of what methods we use to find it.
Fortunately, the situation is much less dire than you have been lead to believe. The world's population won't reach 9 billion until 2040, which is about 30 years from now.
Additionally, the more affluent a society becomes, the lower their birthrate gets. This is why developed countries are starting to have problems with having declining populations.
If the prices are what I remember they were back in 2002-2003, though, he's gonna need a lot of lube to absorb the premium he's gonna pay for the hardware.
Actually, the software can be installed on any Mac with an Intel processor, 10GB of free disk space and 2GB of RAM.
I think you are confusing "writing things out by hand" with "using a specific style called cursive". I doubt anybody will argue that handwriting things is important.
However, I, like many other posters, first learned how to hand write using manuscript. At around fourth grade, we were forced to learn the cursive script, and told that a) we would need to use it in the future and b) that it was faster. Neither turned out to be true. I never could write very quickly in cursive without it becoming illegible to me.
My other frustration with cursive is that people who use it as adults have often made up their own letter-shapes or scribble the middles of words so as to make things very difficult to read. I have never had this difficulty with manuscript, even when I am reading things written by young children that are first learning to write. So no, it was not cursive handwriting that allowed us to share knowledge with other people - cursive is in my experience the biggest impediment to other people understanding what you are trying to say.
Your logic makes little sense. Using an analogy, pretend that those booths where you pay for your time at a parking garage were "black boxes" - nobody could not see inside. And we are debating whether there is a person inside or a computer, and that by trial and error, the rates people paid were able to be described by a predictable formula.
Your argument in this post is simply that because people always have to pay the posted amount that there cannot be a person inside. Clearly this is a poor argument - just because a person COULD be arbitrary, doesn't mean they WILL be arbitrary. The same is true for a higher power.
There are religious people who believe that natural laws were laid down by a higher power. ( As for miracles, some religions believe they are just as natural as anything else. As an analogy, think rainbows: beautiful & uncommon, but they happen in accord with natural laws that were unknown for a long time.)
"No discussion of how the 1st gen phones will handle location."...the same way it always has?
According to the keynote, the original and 3G iPhone both have wifi and cell tower location detection, its just that the 3G iPhone also has GPS.
I do. I like the dock - I think it gives quick access to things that you want quick access to: launching frequently used programs, what windows are minimized, and as a bonus, it can bring you to all of the windows open for a specific application!
If you want an application-switcher, then try apple-tab or expose. Also, I find simply hiding applications helps greatly with clutter, and anticipate leopard's spaces will help even more.
Does the term "waving the chicken" ring a bell? no
Did you never do something because "I dunno why, but if I don't do it it won't work"? Yes - such as when my wireless router stops working. I don't know why it stopped working, but I do know that turning it off and then back on will make things work again. Do I care enought about a weekly 5 minute inconvenience to find the actual answer? nope.
Did you never recompile something, hoping that for some odd reason it might suddenly start to work (with unchanged source and libraries)? yes, but mostly because when i get frustrated i forget when i compiled last
Did you never restart Linux, because, well, it works with Windows? Yes, if you count OS X... though rebooting once every few months isn't that bad
Did you never unplug something and replug it in an attempt to fix it? Yes. When I first started working in a computer lab, a bank of new computers wouldn't boot... it turned out the cable had been kicked out of the power outlet. Also, my wireless router.
Did you never replace more than just the damaged part "just in case"? No, but I don't do much with hardware.
Did you never use high performance thermal grease which supposedly made your computer faster or cooler (and maybe even did by a degree for about 10x the cost, i.e. for zero tangible gain)? nope.
Did you never buy a brand name instead of a generic part because "it just is better" (i.e. not some real stability problem with the generic stuff)? Yes. I like having instruction manuals that are not filled with spelling errors and are more likely to work with less of my time spent fiddling with drivers. However, I also like not spending money, so it often comes down to the price difference and the reviews of the products.
Did you never defend some piece of hardware because some arbitrary test claims 10 points more performance (i.e. 10,010 instead of 10,000), or some other undetectable "performance improvement", which is at least 50% more expensive? No. For an arbitrary test with 50% more performance, sure.
Don't try to justify it with some pseudo-technical reasoning, because usually there is no good reason to do ANY of those things. That doesn't make the audiophile bullcrap worth a cent, it just means we're falling for pretty much the same deals. I disagree - there are valid reasons for most of what you are talking about - just because I don't care to learn why unplugging and replugging my wireless router after it stops working makes it work again, I do know that it does. Actually, I know the reason it works again is because the router's software restarted, what I don't know is why it crashes. However, if I cared to know, there is a real reason.
Cheaper? Last time I checked, free products were all the same price;-)
Also, beta = not stable enough for an actual release, so while it is unfortunate that Safari has been quite unstable for some people, it should not be unexpected.
"Japan, China and Korea have expressed interest in the project, with Japanese companies offering to burrow the tunnel under the Bering Strait for $60 million a kilometer, half the price set down in the project, Razbegin said." - TFA
Last I checked "burrow" meant dig underground and not "construct underwater tunnels".
"That's like saying "it's bigger, which is good... but it's also bigger, which is bad." How do you not realise that every (design) decision has both advantages AND disadvantages?
There's plenty of room for you to listen to your little faggoty white iPod while I pack a big manly brown Zune. Hopefully for you, the 'manliness' of the Zune will be able to compensate for the crudeness of your remarks.
Podcasts? WTF do I want those for? Btw, there are some great podcasts on this thing called 'etiquette'.
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There is a difference between getting explanations, advice and input from people, thinking about it, and then making an informed decision from forming a committee and not letting anyone leave until there is a unanimous decision.
Learning an industry is something that can be picked up by a competent, intelligent person - when jumping into a new industry, it only makes sense to get other capable people to help teach you about the industry. But after a while, these advisors should go from being essential to a manager being able to do their job to being unnecessary in the context of the manager being able to do his/her job (though they would probably still be helpful to consult in big decisions).
Better? Probably. But my point is just that a good manager would be able to figure out how to manage well in nearly all circumstances.
So while it may take some time for somebody used managing building trains to learn how to manage making food, a good manager should be able to make the transition. But there can also be benefit in bringing experiences from other fields/organizations, and sometimes having somebody question "the way its always been done" can be very healthy/productive.
Of course real life is more complicated: sometimes the way its always been done is that way for very good reasons. If the manager has always had a passion for train-building, and only begrudgingly switched, then they probably won't do nearly as well making food, regardless of their managerial skill. Or if the manager just delegates knowing how things actually work to others but never bothers to learn how things work themselves, then they are not a good manager - they are just ok (at least they are acknowledging that they don't understand things, which is still better than thinking they understand something and not). It also depends on the role itself - how much of it is actually dealing with people, and how much of it is business decisions that require a deep understanding of the industry.
But the whole point is to eliminate the US vs THEM boundary. So when you are working on an important project, the IT department is ALSO working on it with you.
I agree. A good manager should also be able to recognize what areas they don't understand and then assemble a group of people to advise & teach her/him on the details of the specific industry or company.
they are laying a tax* on imports
They are not laying a tax only on imports - they are laying a tax on ALL coal-fired emissions (for energy used within the state of MN).
The BoingBoing article is quite bad in that it doesn't clearly distinguish between the effect/intention/politics of the legislation (screw ND coal companies) and what the legislation actually does (tax all coal-fired emissions).
Human population will reach 9 billion this year. If every nation strives to become a developed country and offer things like air conditioning and cars to almost everybody, we will keep running out of energy regardless of what methods we use to find it.
Fortunately, the situation is much less dire than you have been lead to believe. The world's population won't reach 9 billion until 2040, which is about 30 years from now.
Additionally, the more affluent a society becomes, the lower their birthrate gets. This is why developed countries are starting to have problems with having declining populations.
If the prices are what I remember they were back in 2002-2003, though, he's gonna need a lot of lube to absorb the premium he's gonna pay for the hardware.
Actually, the software can be installed on any Mac with an Intel processor, 10GB of free disk space and 2GB of RAM.
I think you are confusing "writing things out by hand" with "using a specific style called cursive". I doubt anybody will argue that handwriting things is important.
However, I, like many other posters, first learned how to hand write using manuscript. At around fourth grade, we were forced to learn the cursive script, and told that a) we would need to use it in the future and b) that it was faster. Neither turned out to be true. I never could write very quickly in cursive without it becoming illegible to me.
My other frustration with cursive is that people who use it as adults have often made up their own letter-shapes or scribble the middles of words so as to make things very difficult to read. I have never had this difficulty with manuscript, even when I am reading things written by young children that are first learning to write. So no, it was not cursive handwriting that allowed us to share knowledge with other people - cursive is in my experience the biggest impediment to other people understanding what you are trying to say.
The internet falls under "Interstate Commerce", so no amendment would be required.
However, it would be great if some of these states would legislate net neutrality in such a way that it preserves it for everyone.
Your logic makes little sense. Using an analogy, pretend that those booths where you pay for your time at a parking garage were "black boxes" - nobody could not see inside. And we are debating whether there is a person inside or a computer, and that by trial and error, the rates people paid were able to be described by a predictable formula.
Your argument in this post is simply that because people always have to pay the posted amount that there cannot be a person inside. Clearly this is a poor argument - just because a person COULD be arbitrary, doesn't mean they WILL be arbitrary. The same is true for a higher power.
There are religious people who believe that natural laws were laid down by a higher power. ( As for miracles, some religions believe they are just as natural as anything else. As an analogy, think rainbows: beautiful & uncommon, but they happen in accord with natural laws that were unknown for a long time.)
"No discussion of how the 1st gen phones will handle location." ...the same way it always has?
According to the keynote, the original and 3G iPhone both have wifi and cell tower location detection, its just that the 3G iPhone also has GPS.
I do. I like the dock - I think it gives quick access to things that you want quick access to: launching frequently used programs, what windows are minimized, and as a bonus, it can bring you to all of the windows open for a specific application! If you want an application-switcher, then try apple-tab or expose. Also, I find simply hiding applications helps greatly with clutter, and anticipate leopard's spaces will help even more.
Cheaper? Last time I checked, free products were all the same price ;-)
Also, beta = not stable enough for an actual release, so while it is unfortunate that Safari has been quite unstable for some people, it should not be unexpected.
"Japan, China and Korea have expressed interest in the project, with Japanese companies offering to burrow the tunnel under the Bering Strait for $60 million a kilometer, half the price set down in the project, Razbegin said." - TFA
Last I checked "burrow" meant dig underground and not "construct underwater tunnels".
There are two articles, this one has links to documents: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72236-0.htm l?tw=wn_index_2