The comment should be read within the context of the post on Vista, Expression, etc. There is a move in the graphics industry to greater integration between graphics and page layout. I'm guessing that it will eventually all be one product - and in Adobe's case that will likely be InDesign. Also, its not about right now - its about when Microsoft has a competing product. By that time, InDesign may very well have high-end raster manipulation features built-in. I wasn't in any way saying it was a replacement now.
I'm not an expert on graphics or the industry. Care to tell me why you think I'm wrong?
I couldn't disagree with you more. Just like people, companies need to focus on what they did right. If I'm getting 999 out of 1,000 orders right, I'd be foolish to focus on that 1 order. I need to focus on continuing that level and seeing how I can raise it to 9,999 out of 10,000.
Exceptions simply need to be treated as exceptions - just like you have exception handling in software applications. You simply set-up a special process to handle the 1 out of 1,000. Then, you take a look at how your general process needs to be changed to eliminate the issue. Refine it, monitor the impact, refine again. Rinse repeat until the problem is solved. The focus needs to be on overall performance and your general process - not your exception handling.
Should your friends judge you based on your worst mistakes? Or should they judge you based on your general behavior? As long as you aren't breaking some minimal standards - say, your a nice guy in general but on rare occasions like to shoot people - this is a good general rule of thumb. The only time your approach is appropriate is when your general process is so broken that it doesn't work. Most companies don't have this problem - because those that do quickly go out of business.
The implicit assumption in this paper is that the group having the conversation shares similar views. The difficulty is that the larger the group, the more likely you are to have diverse points of view - with the result that it tends to moderate an individual's predeliberated judgments.
Now, you might argue that Slashdot's technology focus introduces a selection bias that create more uniformity in views than a random population - especially around certain topics such as open source, intellectual property, science and so forth. You might also argue that the Friend/Foe system helps people see the viewpoints of people similar to their own. However, I think that the size of Slashdot works to provide a diversity of views that - in the main - moderate more opinions than make them more extreme. There might be particular viewpoints where this is not true - but I think this is a long way from saying, as you appear to be saying here, that this paper is generally applicable to Slashdot.
...some extensions could be applied to almost all, say, fiction stories since no one's written a truly new story in like five thousand years.
Joyce's Ulysses, Mann's Magic Mountain, Proust's Rememberence of Things Past, Faulkner's As I Lay Dying - these are just off the top of my head. If you think there hasn't been an original fictional story in 5,000 years, you haven't read much.
This is a defeatist mentality. Ultimately, we are the customer - not only for News Corp but News Corp's advertisers. The reason why you can make this claim is that media corporations and major advertisers are more organized around a common goal - selling us stuff. The minute enough of us decide that something sucks, we have become the product and vote with our money to purchase something else - News Corp and their advertisers stand up and take notice. If they don't, they go out of business.
We are the boss. It's time we started thinking like one.
It's not hard to think of other relevant examples - say, if PETA and vegetarianism became the norm. It is also not really a strawman because it is merely an example and not a premise in his argument.
More likely they would get your license plate information and show up at your house on a trumped up charge. I like the idea - you just would need to cover all the angles first.
No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets. - Edward Abbey
Amazing the effect any authority has on small minds. Invariably, it leads to attempt to usurp new power and tyranny. It would have been better if the librarian would have immediately asked the Homeland Security people to go outside and state that such declarations - even from police officers - was illegal and inappropriate.
Interesting that they were merely reassigned, rather than fired for their stupidity.
Here's another solution, create a porn section. Video stores have them. Why not public libraries? Libraries are supposed to be shared collections of material that people want. So, I'll ask the tough question: why not porn? I think there are good reasons why not - but let's have them out on the table rather than assume libraries just shouldn't have it. That's another form of hypocrisy hidden in this little tale.
I don't know. If he is out riding a camel at 3:00am in the morning in Minnesota in January or asking why he can't be, he probably isn't remixing his songs or playing his XBox. It might be the ideal tech support job - no calls. Or even better, you can just tell Prince, "Hey, I don't do camels."
How come your comments don't jive with the Register, an article in the Statesman called "The Making Of The Empire" that was published in
26 February 2001, and other sources that basically say they changed log files monitoring time on the system, were caught and that they were banned from the system? Then, weeks later, a deal was struck where they could get time in exchange for documenting bugs?
Any company that has to file a quarterly report or that would bother spending the rest of forever with accountants doesn't track their finances in file formats subject to virus infections or worms.
I agree with the main point of your post that a virus or worm that is undetected and subtle is more deangerous. A virus like this one that attacks common file formats could also bring an organization to its knees. However, many mission critical applications - such as finances - are kept in seperate systems that are not as open to this kind of attack.
It sounds like you don't know much about Quakers. Let me help with a quote from the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting's Friends Peace Committee in 1940:
The foundations of Quaker pacifism are religious. We fully recognize the value of the intuitive recognition of the evil of coercive violence in the individual and national life. The sense of the contrast between the way of war and the way of love shown us in the life of Jesus Christ has compelling force. It is also enlightening to think of pacifism as a corollary of the fundamental Quaker postulate of the Divine Spark in every human being. This fundamental Quaker postulate lays on us the obligation to consider and cherish every human being. It follows, for those who accept the postulate, that they cannot do to human beings the things that war involves. It may follow that they become aware that other sorts of
human relations are also evil, such as slavery, economic injustice, inferior status for women, and the results of the traffic in narcotics...
Quaker pacifism is an obligation, not a promise. We are not guaranteed that it will be safe. We are sure that it is right. We desire to make our individual decisions in harmony with it, and to help our fellows to do so.
Or consider this quote from James G. Vail in 1953
There is no security except in creating situations in which people do not want to harm you. This is a difficult truth for most people to face, but the difficulty is more emotional than rational or scientific. "If thine enemy hunger, feed him," is not only Christian teaching, but it is profound wisdom, for the best way of getting rid of an enemy is to convert him into a friend.
I was not making the observation as to whether this is correct use of vermin. It can be used in this way. I was making the observation that using vermin and applying it to people - especially stereotypes of people based on class, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation and so forth - may be a sign that we are slipping into bigotry. Differences are opportunities to learn from other people. If we use them instead to demonize others, we sow seeds of conflict and discord.
Nice idea. Problem is that "good" part of "good information". Good information is frequently determined to be good based on the source.
If I were to say here on Slashdot 12 months ago that George Bush was spying on U.S. citizens, you wouldn't have believed it. If George Bush tells you himself, after he was outed, then you have to believe the source. No?
Is it parents? I think you have to expand the problem space a bit. For example, if both parents work and there is no extended family, who is providing the support a child needs to develop -IQ or anything else for that matter? Is this the parents fault? What about the educational system itself? Is it qualitatively better or worse than decades previous? There seems to be many contributing factors that work together to create systemic effects.
I don't follow the logic of your reasoning. There are many alternative explanations why Universities may be instituting these tests - for example, increased accessibility and applicant pool that increases the noise to signal ratio. The reason for the problem seems more likely a weak educational system focused on socializing human beings rather than educating them. Is it "all shall have prizes" or is it "let's keep them uneducated and easier to control?"
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The comment should be read within the context of the post on Vista, Expression, etc. There is a move in the graphics industry to greater integration between graphics and page layout. I'm guessing that it will eventually all be one product - and in Adobe's case that will likely be InDesign. Also, its not about right now - its about when Microsoft has a competing product. By that time, InDesign may very well have high-end raster manipulation features built-in. I wasn't in any way saying it was a replacement now.
I'm not an expert on graphics or the industry. Care to tell me why you think I'm wrong?
By the time Microsoft comes out with a Photoshop killer, InDesign will have already buried it.
I couldn't disagree with you more. Just like people, companies need to focus on what they did right. If I'm getting 999 out of 1,000 orders right, I'd be foolish to focus on that 1 order. I need to focus on continuing that level and seeing how I can raise it to 9,999 out of 10,000.
Exceptions simply need to be treated as exceptions - just like you have exception handling in software applications. You simply set-up a special process to handle the 1 out of 1,000. Then, you take a look at how your general process needs to be changed to eliminate the issue. Refine it, monitor the impact, refine again. Rinse repeat until the problem is solved. The focus needs to be on overall performance and your general process - not your exception handling.
Should your friends judge you based on your worst mistakes? Or should they judge you based on your general behavior? As long as you aren't breaking some minimal standards - say, your a nice guy in general but on rare occasions like to shoot people - this is a good general rule of thumb. The only time your approach is appropriate is when your general process is so broken that it doesn't work. Most companies don't have this problem - because those that do quickly go out of business.
Other than rough symbolism and a framework - they have very little to do with one another.
The implicit assumption in this paper is that the group having the conversation shares similar views. The difficulty is that the larger the group, the more likely you are to have diverse points of view - with the result that it tends to moderate an individual's predeliberated judgments.
Now, you might argue that Slashdot's technology focus introduces a selection bias that create more uniformity in views than a random population - especially around certain topics such as open source, intellectual property, science and so forth. You might also argue that the Friend/Foe system helps people see the viewpoints of people similar to their own. However, I think that the size of Slashdot works to provide a diversity of views that - in the main - moderate more opinions than make them more extreme. There might be particular viewpoints where this is not true - but I think this is a long way from saying, as you appear to be saying here, that this paper is generally applicable to Slashdot.
Joyce's Ulysses, Mann's Magic Mountain, Proust's Rememberence of Things Past, Faulkner's As I Lay Dying - these are just off the top of my head. If you think there hasn't been an original fictional story in 5,000 years, you haven't read much.
This is a defeatist mentality. Ultimately, we are the customer - not only for News Corp but News Corp's advertisers. The reason why you can make this claim is that media corporations and major advertisers are more organized around a common goal - selling us stuff. The minute enough of us decide that something sucks, we have become the product and vote with our money to purchase something else - News Corp and their advertisers stand up and take notice. If they don't, they go out of business.
We are the boss. It's time we started thinking like one.
It's not hard to think of other relevant examples - say, if PETA and vegetarianism became the norm. It is also not really a strawman because it is merely an example and not a premise in his argument.
More likely they would get your license plate information and show up at your house on a trumped up charge. I like the idea - you just would need to cover all the angles first.
No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets. - Edward Abbey
Amazing the effect any authority has on small minds. Invariably, it leads to attempt to usurp new power and tyranny. It would have been better if the librarian would have immediately asked the Homeland Security people to go outside and state that such declarations - even from police officers - was illegal and inappropriate.
Interesting that they were merely reassigned, rather than fired for their stupidity.
Here's another solution, create a porn section. Video stores have them. Why not public libraries? Libraries are supposed to be shared collections of material that people want. So, I'll ask the tough question: why not porn? I think there are good reasons why not - but let's have them out on the table rather than assume libraries just shouldn't have it. That's another form of hypocrisy hidden in this little tale.
If I had over-eager assistants taking care of my problems for me, I'd be pretty easy-going too.
I don't know. If he is out riding a camel at 3:00am in the morning in Minnesota in January or asking why he can't be, he probably isn't remixing his songs or playing his XBox. It might be the ideal tech support job - no calls. Or even better, you can just tell Prince, "Hey, I don't do camels."
How come your comments don't jive with the Register, an article in the Statesman called "The Making Of The Empire" that was published in 26 February 2001, and other sources that basically say they changed log files monitoring time on the system, were caught and that they were banned from the system? Then, weeks later, a deal was struck where they could get time in exchange for documenting bugs?
Any company that has to file a quarterly report or that would bother spending the rest of forever with accountants doesn't track their finances in file formats subject to virus infections or worms.
I agree with the main point of your post that a virus or worm that is undetected and subtle is more deangerous. A virus like this one that attacks common file formats could also bring an organization to its knees. However, many mission critical applications - such as finances - are kept in seperate systems that are not as open to this kind of attack.
It sounds like you don't know much about Quakers. Let me help with a quote from the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting's Friends Peace Committee in 1940:
Or consider this quote from James G. Vail in 1953
Holy leap to conclusions Batman. Another plausible guess: maybe they were a secret weapons lab trying to recreate the Joker? =)
Oh, it's ten days later, let's check in shall we? It turns out I'm completely crazy. Sorry about that.
Here's the summary from the Center for Disease Controls' Department of Health and Human Services: Overweight and Obesity: Contributing Factors
We already know some diseases can help cause obesity. However, it is one factor among many and in many cases, it is not the primary factor.
I was not making the observation as to whether this is correct use of vermin. It can be used in this way. I was making the observation that using vermin and applying it to people - especially stereotypes of people based on class, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation and so forth - may be a sign that we are slipping into bigotry. Differences are opportunities to learn from other people. If we use them instead to demonize others, we sow seeds of conflict and discord.
Nice idea. Problem is that "good" part of "good information". Good information is frequently determined to be good based on the source.
If I were to say here on Slashdot 12 months ago that George Bush was spying on U.S. citizens, you wouldn't have believed it. If George Bush tells you himself, after he was outed, then you have to believe the source. No?
Is it parents? I think you have to expand the problem space a bit. For example, if both parents work and there is no extended family, who is providing the support a child needs to develop -IQ or anything else for that matter? Is this the parents fault? What about the educational system itself? Is it qualitatively better or worse than decades previous? There seems to be many contributing factors that work together to create systemic effects.
I don't follow the logic of your reasoning. There are many alternative explanations why Universities may be instituting these tests - for example, increased accessibility and applicant pool that increases the noise to signal ratio. The reason for the problem seems more likely a weak educational system focused on socializing human beings rather than educating them. Is it "all shall have prizes" or is it "let's keep them uneducated and easier to control?"
The minute you start referring to other people as vermin is the minute you should start looking for the beam in thine own eye my friend.
An alternative explanation would be that blink.com came too early. Frequently the narrow little detail is timing.