Regarding median, yes, you are absolutely correct, half above, half below. Regarding your quibble, however, I guess I need to amplify by saying that over a large enough sample (or given a sufficiently large population), intelligence (or any trait for that matter) will tend to be distributed roughly half above and half below the mean, or top dead center of a standard distribution, or "Bell," Curve. Mmmkay?
The problem is that staffing levels are very often highly subjective. For most concerns, the complaint of being "under staffed" only indicates that the current staff feels overworked, a condition almost universal in all sectors of a healthy, i.e., growing, organization. For the ISO 9000-ish (or ITIL?) crowd, under staffed might mean that some formal document published a desired level at some specific point in time, the best against a workload study, and industry rules of thumb. But, since every such study measures a specific point in time, they become out of date, often obsolete by the time full staffing achieved. So, "fully staffed" is ever elusive, and this applies to every sector. We're all Bozos on this bus. In fact, any staff that's manned to the point that they're not feeling some pain risks being seen as over staffed, and a target for reallocation or cuts. Sorry to put a damper on any delicious feelings of workforce martyrdom. People also get mad at me when I point out that, by definition, nearly half of the population ranks below mean intelligence.
That's the difference between systems engineering to discover user needs and derive functional and performance requirements, or on the other hand, thoughtlessly following political mandates to quickly acquire "green technology" while the gettin's good. Which "green solutions" did your taxes procure? I'd follow the money to your trusty "green" politicians.
Having just endured a non-discretionary "upgrade" to Office 2007, I (and many other users) are infuriated by the "upgraded" interface, changed for no apparent reason other than to force organizations to repurchase the same essential capability set as they had before. If I could only convince our bureaucracy to adopt Oo.org, even as an alternative, I would. An essential prerequisite, however, would be to somehow get an Federal Desktop Core Configuration (FDCC) profile established for Oo.org. Unfortunately, and although never intended as such (as far as I know), the FDCC has essentially become a effective Microsoft lock-in mechanism for U.S. federal agencies, and a key agent for securing the MS monopoly into the future. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Desktop_Core_Configuration
Thirded. If you can't just roll your eyes at the silliness and still allow your self to enjoy the entertainment, then you're missing out on an important spice of life. Willful suspension of disbelief is what keeps society going, and allows democracies to flourish. I know because I sometimes watch CSPAN coverage of Senate debates, which would otherwise cause insanity. Live long and prosper.
TSA tends towards reaction to publicized events that give an impression of stalwart action. Whether or not effective in actually avoiding or mitigating any given threat, even the proximate cause for the reaction in the first place, is utterly beside the point. In the bureaucratic mindset, the overarching threat is to the agency's continued funding stream, which depends in the long haul on avoiding negative public perception that may weaken them in the appropriations process. The most effective emerging countermeasure to air terrorism has become an alert public, manned up, willing and able to protect themselves. This terrifies TSA, because it potentially changes the cost to benefit ratio both to would be terrorists and TSA as an otherwise relatively ineffective funding sump.
-..."liable for a big chunk of the damage caused when hurricane Katrina pushed ashore on August 29, 2005 by ***failing to stop the natural widening of the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet canal***"...!!!!!!!!!
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over. Let me get this straight, taxpayers are now liable for the government's failure to to impede nature? How far do we take that outstanding leap of logic? Does this impose a collective taxpayer duty to protect homeowners who decide to, say, build beach houses on stilts in hurricane prone regions with natural beach erosion? People building houses on mud cliffs prone to landslide when it rains? Building in natural dessert hills and canyons surrounded by an ecology of dry scrub-brush with natural oils designed to burn seasonally to reproduce? Isn't this just a little ridiculous?
All this really says is that GIMP won't be in the default distribution that comes with the update. Lots of stuff isn't. One thing that is, however, is at least three different ways, probably more, of getting GIMP from a repository, including the "Software Center" (as it's now called), right on the main (Applications) window.
So, as a log time Ubuntu user, I have to say that (a) so what; (b) I'll probably go get it; and (c) I'll still rarely use it, but like to have it, irrationally, for whenever I do want to use it, which is hardly ever.
The sky, she does not fall...
Because our trusty brains will tend to fill in the blanks. That's what brains do with sensory input; memory/pattern matching and story completion. Lots of literature on the subject. What we see is never really what we see; and what we hear and feel is never really what we hear and feel. I'm old enough to recall people who had only heard scratchy records actually preferring them over magnetic tape with more fidelity. Tapes didn't sound right with the tunes as they were used to hearing them (especially with 60's "wall of sound" style pop and Motown). Nope, no surprises here. That's how we roll.
Good discussion point and example. I believe in such cases involving questions of constitutionality, it would have to go to the Supreme Court for adjudication.
Again, Congress doesn't need to enact implementing legislation, the Senate only needs to ratify the treaty with 2/3's majority, and the treaty *becomes* the law of the land. See Article VI, second paragraph. That's why treaties are no laughing matter.
...um ratified treaties are laws. See http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_transcript.html, Artivle VI, paragraph 2, "This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding."
"...if a game is loded into RAM..." So, if a computer functions as intended, by loading the applications' machine code into main memory (RAM) from where it's routines can be called for execution, then that is a breach of copyright? OK, so, I guess FOSS is the only software that an ordinary consumer can legally run. That makes it easy! Ubuntu 9.10 (etc., distributions) anyone?
Agreed. You rear-end somebody,regardless of proximate cause, and you take the consequences. No additional ordinances needed, please, on blinking, sneezing, day-dreaming, bleeding from the brain, putting on you lipstick, using your cell, getting distracted by the tits in the car next to you, wanking if you're British, being one if you're French, or divine intervention. Mmm'kay?
I left home at 17 to make my own way in the world. I am now in my mid-50's, older than my parents were when I left home. While I dearly love and respect my mother, and my father, rest his soul, I stopped seeking, and they stopped offering, their parental guidance long ago. It is not that their guidance was in any way flawed; just that I grew up. I became responsible for accountable for the consequences of by actions. If I crash my car, if I eat too much saturated fat, if I drink and drive, if I offend someone's dignity, I may reap the consequences, even if only by my conscience. So, I am especially driven crazy, offended really, by politicians, Nanny-staters, who want to replace the my Mom by giving me ever increasing guidance and advice, with greater and greater specificity, in areas ever expanding in scope and reach into my life (traditionally recognized criminal behavior notwithstanding). I don't want it from the left. I don't want it from the right. Sometime, somehow, politicians, sincere and well intentioned though they be, must be made to realize that moving the fulcrum too far from the center of gravity between freedom with control through regulations, ordinances and statutes attempting to mandate away all adult judgment will result in a crash. People will begin to push back when their sense of freedom is encroached too far. Fair warning Nannies. I sense increasing imbalance which will lead to consequences you won't like. So, back off, bitches!
Wow. Where did this off the wall non sequitur observation come from? Did a professor hurt your feelings somehow? Did they fail you? UMUC is part of the University of Maryland System. It is accredited. You are an idiot.
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Regarding median, yes, you are absolutely correct, half above, half below. Regarding your quibble, however, I guess I need to amplify by saying that over a large enough sample (or given a sufficiently large population), intelligence (or any trait for that matter) will tend to be distributed roughly half above and half below the mean, or top dead center of a standard distribution, or "Bell," Curve. Mmmkay?
The problem is that staffing levels are very often highly subjective. For most concerns, the complaint of being "under staffed" only indicates that the current staff feels overworked, a condition almost universal in all sectors of a healthy, i.e., growing, organization. For the ISO 9000-ish (or ITIL?) crowd, under staffed might mean that some formal document published a desired level at some specific point in time, the best against a workload study, and industry rules of thumb. But, since every such study measures a specific point in time, they become out of date, often obsolete by the time full staffing achieved. So, "fully staffed" is ever elusive, and this applies to every sector. We're all Bozos on this bus. In fact, any staff that's manned to the point that they're not feeling some pain risks being seen as over staffed, and a target for reallocation or cuts. Sorry to put a damper on any delicious feelings of workforce martyrdom. People also get mad at me when I point out that, by definition, nearly half of the population ranks below mean intelligence.
Sounds like blissfully wishful thinking for the anti-US Lefties/Greenies crowd...
That's the difference between systems engineering to discover user needs and derive functional and performance requirements, or on the other hand, thoughtlessly following political mandates to quickly acquire "green technology" while the gettin's good. Which "green solutions" did your taxes procure? I'd follow the money to your trusty "green" politicians.
Having just endured a non-discretionary "upgrade" to Office 2007, I (and many other users) are infuriated by the "upgraded" interface, changed for no apparent reason other than to force organizations to repurchase the same essential capability set as they had before. If I could only convince our bureaucracy to adopt Oo.org, even as an alternative, I would. An essential prerequisite, however, would be to somehow get an Federal Desktop Core Configuration (FDCC) profile established for Oo.org. Unfortunately, and although never intended as such (as far as I know), the FDCC has essentially become a effective Microsoft lock-in mechanism for U.S. federal agencies, and a key agent for securing the MS monopoly into the future. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Desktop_Core_Configuration
Disagree. Ability to laugh at our excesses leads us to moral clarity, and is a lesson in itself.
To each his own in the privacy of their own Mom's basement...
Thirded. If you can't just roll your eyes at the silliness and still allow your self to enjoy the entertainment, then you're missing out on an important spice of life. Willful suspension of disbelief is what keeps society going, and allows democracies to flourish. I know because I sometimes watch CSPAN coverage of Senate debates, which would otherwise cause insanity. Live long and prosper.
TSA tends towards reaction to publicized events that give an impression of stalwart action. Whether or not effective in actually avoiding or mitigating any given threat, even the proximate cause for the reaction in the first place, is utterly beside the point. In the bureaucratic mindset, the overarching threat is to the agency's continued funding stream, which depends in the long haul on avoiding negative public perception that may weaken them in the appropriations process. The most effective emerging countermeasure to air terrorism has become an alert public, manned up, willing and able to protect themselves. This terrifies TSA, because it potentially changes the cost to benefit ratio both to would be terrorists and TSA as an otherwise relatively ineffective funding sump.
I use OMNIPLAN on my MAC. Very good interoperability with MS Project.
Crap. Disregard.Nothing's working today.
Whoops. Though I was logged in. The above was me...
- ..."liable for a big chunk of the damage caused when hurricane Katrina pushed ashore on August 29, 2005 by ***failing to stop the natural widening of the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet canal***"...!!!!!!!!!
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over. Let me get this straight, taxpayers are now liable for the government's failure to to impede nature? How far do we take that outstanding leap of logic? Does this impose a collective taxpayer duty to protect homeowners who decide to, say, build beach houses on stilts in hurricane prone regions with natural beach erosion? People building houses on mud cliffs prone to landslide when it rains? Building in natural dessert hills and canyons surrounded by an ecology of dry scrub-brush with natural oils designed to burn seasonally to reproduce? Isn't this just a little ridiculous?
All this really says is that GIMP won't be in the default distribution that comes with the update. Lots of stuff isn't. One thing that is, however, is at least three different ways, probably more, of getting GIMP from a repository, including the "Software Center" (as it's now called), right on the main (Applications) window. So, as a log time Ubuntu user, I have to say that (a) so what; (b) I'll probably go get it; and (c) I'll still rarely use it, but like to have it, irrationally, for whenever I do want to use it, which is hardly ever. The sky, she does not fall...
Because our trusty brains will tend to fill in the blanks. That's what brains do with sensory input; memory/pattern matching and story completion. Lots of literature on the subject. What we see is never really what we see; and what we hear and feel is never really what we hear and feel. I'm old enough to recall people who had only heard scratchy records actually preferring them over magnetic tape with more fidelity. Tapes didn't sound right with the tunes as they were used to hearing them (especially with 60's "wall of sound" style pop and Motown). Nope, no surprises here. That's how we roll.
Hey, does anybody in the Justice Department read slashdot by any chance? Freebee anyone?
Good discussion point and example. I believe in such cases involving questions of constitutionality, it would have to go to the Supreme Court for adjudication.
Again, Congress doesn't need to enact implementing legislation, the Senate only needs to ratify the treaty with 2/3's majority, and the treaty *becomes* the law of the land. See Article VI, second paragraph. That's why treaties are no laughing matter.
...um ratified treaties are laws. See http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_transcript.html, Artivle VI, paragraph 2, "This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding."
"...if a game is loded into RAM..." So, if a computer functions as intended, by loading the applications' machine code into main memory (RAM) from where it's routines can be called for execution, then that is a breach of copyright? OK, so, I guess FOSS is the only software that an ordinary consumer can legally run. That makes it easy! Ubuntu 9.10 (etc., distributions) anyone?
The Nanny state. The "useful idiots" who voted this crowd in are getting what they deserve.
Agreed. You rear-end somebody,regardless of proximate cause, and you take the consequences. No additional ordinances needed, please, on blinking, sneezing, day-dreaming, bleeding from the brain, putting on you lipstick, using your cell, getting distracted by the tits in the car next to you, wanking if you're British, being one if you're French, or divine intervention. Mmm'kay?
I left home at 17 to make my own way in the world. I am now in my mid-50's, older than my parents were when I left home. While I dearly love and respect my mother, and my father, rest his soul, I stopped seeking, and they stopped offering, their parental guidance long ago. It is not that their guidance was in any way flawed; just that I grew up. I became responsible for accountable for the consequences of by actions. If I crash my car, if I eat too much saturated fat, if I drink and drive, if I offend someone's dignity, I may reap the consequences, even if only by my conscience. So, I am especially driven crazy, offended really, by politicians, Nanny-staters, who want to replace the my Mom by giving me ever increasing guidance and advice, with greater and greater specificity, in areas ever expanding in scope and reach into my life (traditionally recognized criminal behavior notwithstanding). I don't want it from the left. I don't want it from the right. Sometime, somehow, politicians, sincere and well intentioned though they be, must be made to realize that moving the fulcrum too far from the center of gravity between freedom with control through regulations, ordinances and statutes attempting to mandate away all adult judgment will result in a crash. People will begin to push back when their sense of freedom is encroached too far. Fair warning Nannies. I sense increasing imbalance which will lead to consequences you won't like. So, back off, bitches!
Based on your broad, sweeping indictment of an entire institution based evidently on some smidgin of exposure, I hereby declare you a fucking idiot.
Wow. Where did this off the wall non sequitur observation come from? Did a professor hurt your feelings somehow? Did they fail you? UMUC is part of the University of Maryland System. It is accredited. You are an idiot.