Class B people get hired when ( inflationary, like Big Bang )"growth" outpaces
Managed Development.
Read "A New Brand World" ( http://www.amazon.com/New-Brand-World-Principles-Twenty-First/dp/0142001902/ ) by the former brand-manager for Nike & Starbucks:
their super-growth period ( Starbucks ) meant hiring rather a few former macdeath managers, and they didn't "get" cafe-culture,
so they obliterated some of it,
in exchange for supersized coffee cups.
Sometimes one has to have the brains to turn-down an opportunity, in order to keep one's soul,
but that blows the short-term-bottom-line,
you know?
Western Style:
Hire the skill-set, change the person-nature.
Which results in.. firing 'em, because their nature didn't change!
Japanese Style:
Hire the someone, change the skill-set
What about just bringing a solid-state mp3-recorder, like iAudio/Cowon, or something?
You can record more-than-text, you can capture inflexion, you can record others' speaking, you can record ambience, it's teensy, it takes little power, if you get a good one ( M-Audio / Edirol / Tascam / Zoom has scrambled time-chip, though ) with an extra-quality mic, you can do much-better quality recording ( that street-musician on the corner of Nowhere & Here: you can use your OLPC/EEE to make a CD for them later, too, if you've both recorder & basic machine+burner )
The reason I'd prefer being-seen with the recorder is this: it's less a "thug-magnet" than a notebook.
ART is R-Brain-Mind expression: not social-construct/symbol/iconography!
1. I'm slightly autistic ( + other damage ), so I didn't even know R-Mind ( Totality ) mode existed, until the
"You criticize it, but you can't really do it, can you?"
criticism annoyed me enough to force me to push through learning that brain-mode shift, in my mid/late 30's.
( it took years for me to do, though non-brain-damaged ones can do it in days )
2. http://www.drawright.com/
Betty Edwards, Ph.D ( don't know if it was teaching, or brain-mind stuff ) wrote
The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
which can get even us aspergers-types to know the brain-mind shift ( Left-brain-to-Right-brain ) that art is founded on
from symbol/cutting/reductionism/logic
to emotion-depth-pattern-organic-whole-totality.
3. Having so late in life gained the entire-dimension of my own brain/mind that totality is made-of,
it's plain & bloody obvious that Stephen Jay Gould ( & countless others ) didn't know/experience it.
( which is a profound loss, both for them, & for our whole world.
How many die without knowing at-all, one's-own Totality-knowing mind?
Among our distorted world, most, it seems )
Nor, for that matter, did many so-called "artists".
The disconnect between what art-making is,
and what society says art is, is based on social-position/construct crap.
But if anyone wants to experience the totality/wholeness yourself,
honestly DO the work-through of that book,
whose exercises are specific to undoing the damage done to our minds by an L-brain-mode specific "education"
Symbols Don't Make Anything Be ART,
the Externalization of Totality, in a healing/negentropic way, is ART:
What IS, IS, even though what-is isn't obediently distorted by symbol-systems!
My reason was: couldn't build the core of it with package self-tests enabled.
It was core-utils or linux-utils that couldn't compile when checks/tests were enabled,
and if even a single package compiles but is scrambled,
I don't want it near any system I admin.
Why can't they have checks/tests enabled as a final auto-check before marking something as OK?
( and no, I wasn't using the "~" stuff )
I tried http://www.WritersCafe.co.uk/ TRY IT! wow!
on
Goodbye Cruel Word
·
· Score: 1
What an improvement on conventional word-processor for structuring documents.
I've only tried StoryLines, thus-far ( one of the components of the prog ),
but it's worth the entire price of the package, right there.
Gives you several dimensions in which to organize your writing/story:
Story Lines
Order of cards, within a story-line
colour-coding of a card, to indicate what kind of element it is
each card includes sections for Description, Content, Setting, Annotation, Image, & Players
Ah, but if one keeps doing that, just as soon as they release it, so they grab it again,
it insists on being non-available.
Therefore, one can use their anti-competitive practice to force them into conflict with their competitors,
to force the law to be applied.
As an individual damaging corporate establishment,
one would still be prosecuted for "terrorism" by those who hold that corporations are the lord,
but they're deluded, so holding to principle would still be worth it ( for some, in-the-end )
( any hint of bitterness or sarcasm, was imagined by you, the reader, .. or perhaps your browser; )
Then Dig This: Writer's Cafe / Linux ( +win +mac )
on
Goodbye Cruel Word
·
· Score: 1
Fundamentally, writing is wordflow, & if
one is wrestling with formatting while wrestling with wordflow, then
one is sabotaging one's success in writing.
Unfortunately, basic formatting is required to get the wordflow right
( italics, etc. ).
One thing I've learned, with word-processors, is to use hard page-breaks to force the damn things to respect my intent.
But Scrivener only may be becoming available for Linux,
if the contributors who posted on this page are able to make it so. ..
Right Now(tm), however, there's a writing-environment that already
works in Linux & is available as a demo version.
NO writing-book I've ever read gave me as much as that one did.
Think William Zinsser's "On Writing Well", except instead of
the high-school level stuff, the university-level stuff:
techniques for reading for writing,
techniques for torquing words into communication-strength,
even techniques for concisification. ..
Enjoy, eh?
As for the Linux installs easily & doesn't force headaches theory -shudder-
I've been living in Linux since 1996 ( Slackware, back then ) &
consider Ubuntu to be nearly evil:
what it did to Linux-itself is unholy.
That it Microsofts any previously-installed Linux distro's boot capability, too, is comical.
I've fought with more damn config problems & hw problems in Linux than in MS-Windows, but once it's set-up then its stability rocks.
In English, we generally unconsciously associate "holding-back" with the left-side of the page
& "going/doing-it" with the right-side of the page
( check the graphology stuff, used in criminal-cases btw )
If I could have one single wish answered in Linux/KDE it'd be this:
MAKE THE HOLD-BACK OPTION ALWAYS BE ON THE LEFT FOR ENGLISHERS ( & similar L-to-R languages )
and the corollory
MAKE THE "COMMIT/DO-IT" OPTION ALWAYS BE ON THE RIGHT
if that one single thing were implemented,
it'd mean I could react to a decision-box window by instinct,
rather-than being stopped every time to
discover what the hell goddamn variant of "flow" this particular window implements.
( do they use/dev/random for it?
how many millions of us are sabotaged by it every hour? )
All that is going to be done,
if anything is going to be done, is this:
AFTER someone is killed for dialling 911
while hiding from murderous assailants. ..
THEN authoritarian bureaucracy will have the "brainstorm" of putting a warning-sticker on new phones, stating. ..
"Do NOT call 911 with this phone in an emergency, in which you
need remain hidden or non-identified by assailants:
When you can, go elsewhere, and THEN dial 911; or
leave and contact authorities in person"
unfortunately, this isn't types as a joke,
but as a plain identification of what I expect to result.
One of them might just work with the 300x UDMA Lexar CF cards out now. ..
in which case one could get ( kernel RAID5 ) fast, reliable, silent, and cheaper than the specialty devices, all at once.
I'd stick root on one,
and use shm/tmpfs for/tmp,
and disk for/var and/home,
and have the joy of all software with no-seek-time (/usr/opt ),
and it's cost-effective-enough, to boot.
Anyone got one?
or know if they work with the 300x Lexar CFs?
or if/when they're coming-out with a PCIe version?
http://www.saxonpub.com/
they've changed their URL, but it redirects pronto, and the new one isn't rememberable. ..
Diff between these and the normal ones?
One concept, one lesson.
Big concept? broken into several components, and distributed over several lessons.
Syncopated plan: one gets the chance to get a knowing into long-term-memory/function before one hits the next lesson that relies on it.
having tried many, and lost my math in some brain-damage I got in my teens, this is THE required one.
Find the book you need,
by doing a placement-test,
then get the ISB# for that recommended book,
then find a second-hand copy on http://www.abebooks.com/ for cheap.
I may have to wait 3 more months before getting killer photo-editing of my RAW format files.
Also, I just checked, and the Noise Ninja in the current version ( 4.9.8e ) is a cut-down version,
but if one gets a full-version of Noise Ninja ( which IS available for Linux ),
that full-version gets integrated into your Bibble copy.
Doubly-also, the demo-mode works for 14 days.
The only downside, other-than no current support for the ultimate pocket camera for manual-control freaks
( the G9: http://www.powershot.com/ . . . trustworthy camera-joint fer buyin' stuff: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/ ),
is that there isn't any JPEG2000 support.
Tiff ( 16 or 8 bit ), PNG ( 16 or 8 bit ), 8-bit-JPEG, for output. . .
Cheerses ( & yeah, this is offtopic, but this information does inform, and the perceived hole in Linux ability isn't an actual gap!!:)
http://www.bibblelabs.com/ and if you need to fix-up photos, and are fed-up with the process-sabotage ( for this kind of work ) that The GIMP is, then TRY the free demo ( which stops working after a few days, so only install it when you're serious about trying it ).
It is DRASTICALLY quicker than The GIMP for working-with, it includes a cut-down version of Noise Ninja ( at-least the demo I tried a couple of years ago included a cut-down version. . . maybe the full-version is in it now. . . but irregardless, I'm buying the full Pro version in a couple of weeks to get-at my Canon G9 images camera-RAW (.CR2 ) images. . .:)
ECC may be available
( I always build systems with http://www.crucial.com/ ECC RAM,
and no I'm nae affilliated,
but they're the ONLY brand who've never once proven flaky,
in my experience. . . )
but the problem is that almost no motherboards support ECC.
Gigabyte's GC-RAMDISK and GO-RAMDISK ( up-to 4GB ) hardware-ram-drive without ECC *support*,
is typical of this idiocy:
The only way to make the things trustworthy is to run a RAID5 or RAID6 array of 'em,
and that gets bloody expensive
( though the speed. . . kernel-raid5 is quick, eh? )
http://usa.asus.com/ is the only consumer-brand I know-of,
other-than maybe Abit ( it's been awhile for me to've seen one of 'em. . . )
that provides ECC support.
Gigabyte generally don't, and if they don't. . . who does?
Supermicro & Tyan? No SLI/Crossfire/sea-of-ports on them, eh?
The Feiner Points of Leadership ( Michael Feiner )
Presenting to Win 2e ( Jerry Weissman? )
The Definitive Business Plan 2e ( Richard Stutely )
Rapid Development ( Steve McConnell, iirc )
and you will have WAAAAY more than the *normal* manager, in terms of principles-based coaching.
make The 7 Habits of Highly Effective { People || Families } ( Stephen R Covey ) one of 'em, too, and
Organizing from the Inside Out ( Julie Morgenstern ) ( to get/how/ to work with our individual innate organization-patterns ), &
Corps Business: the 30/Management Principles/ of the US Marines ( David H. Freedman ) ( you NEED this one! )
A link to a good Amazon.com "Registry" is this: http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/3M2T4BH48O43D It's a registry that hasn't a delivery-address, because it's just my recommending of the best-of-the-best for all.
Slashdot Mirror
Class B people get hired when ( inflationary, like Big Bang )"growth" outpaces
Managed Development.
Read "A New Brand World" ( http://www.amazon.com/New-Brand-World-Principles-Twenty-First/dp/0142001902/ ) by the former brand-manager for Nike & Starbucks:
their super-growth period ( Starbucks ) meant hiring rather a few former macdeath managers, and they didn't "get" cafe-culture,
so they obliterated some of it,
in exchange for supersized coffee cups.
Sometimes one has to have the brains to turn-down an opportunity, in order to keep one's soul,
===but that blows the short-term-bottom-line,
you know?
PS: Also read:
Al & Laura Ries, The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding
http://www.amazon.com/22-Immutable-Laws-Branding/dp/0060007737/
& Focus - The Future of Your Company Depends On It
http://www.amazon.com/Focus-Company-Depends-HarperBusiness-Essentials/dp/B000GG4G3K/
Both of which counter some of what the first book says, and eloquently
PPS:
Western Style: .. firing 'em, because their nature didn't change!
Hire the skill-set, change the person-nature.
Which results in
Japanese Style:
Hire the someone, change the skill-set
Which is more-valid, seen plainly as that?
http://toolmonger.com/2007/10/25/thermite-fixes-everything/
What about just bringing a solid-state mp3-recorder, like iAudio/Cowon, or something?
You can record more-than-text, you can capture inflexion, you can record others' speaking, you can record ambience, it's teensy, it takes little power, if you get a good one ( M-Audio / Edirol / Tascam / Zoom has scrambled time-chip, though ) with an extra-quality mic, you can do much-better quality recording ( that street-musician on the corner of Nowhere & Here: you can use your OLPC/EEE to make a CD for them later, too, if you've both recorder & basic machine+burner )
The reason I'd prefer being-seen with the recorder is this: it's less a "thug-magnet" than a notebook.
ART is R-Brain-Mind expression: not social-construct/symbol/iconography!
1. I'm slightly autistic ( + other damage ), so I didn't even know R-Mind ( Totality ) mode existed, until the
"You criticize it, but you can't really do it, can you?"
criticism annoyed me enough to force me to push through learning that brain-mode shift, in my mid/late 30's.
( it took years for me to do, though non-brain-damaged ones can do it in days )
2. http://www.drawright.com/
Betty Edwards, Ph.D ( don't know if it was teaching, or brain-mind stuff ) wrote
The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
which can get even us aspergers-types to know the brain-mind shift ( Left-brain-to-Right-brain ) that art is founded on
from symbol/cutting/reductionism/logic
to emotion-depth-pattern-organic-whole-totality.
3. Having so late in life gained the entire-dimension of my own brain/mind that totality is made-of,
it's plain & bloody obvious that Stephen Jay Gould ( & countless others ) didn't know/experience it.
( which is a profound loss, both for them, & for our whole world.
How many die without knowing at-all, one's-own Totality-knowing mind?
Among our distorted world, most, it seems )
Nor, for that matter, did many so-called "artists".
The disconnect between what art-making is,
and what society says art is, is based on social-position/construct crap.
But if anyone wants to experience the totality/wholeness yourself,
honestly DO the work-through of that book,
whose exercises are specific to undoing the damage done to our minds by an L-brain-mode specific "education"
http://www.amazon.com/New-Drawing-Right-Side-Brain/dp/0874774241/
Symbols Don't Make Anything Be ART,
the Externalization of Totality, in a healing/negentropic way, is ART:
What IS, IS, even though what-is isn't obediently distorted by symbol-systems!
My reason was: couldn't build the core of it with package self-tests enabled.
It was core-utils or linux-utils that couldn't compile when checks/tests were enabled,
and if even a single package compiles but is scrambled,
I don't want it near any system I admin.
Why can't they have checks/tests enabled as a final auto-check before marking something as OK?
( and no, I wasn't using the "~" stuff )
What an improvement on conventional word-processor for structuring documents.
I've only tried StoryLines, thus-far ( one of the components of the prog ),
but it's worth the entire price of the package, right there.
Gives you several dimensions in which to organize your writing/story:
Story Lines
Order of cards, within a story-line
colour-coding of a card, to indicate what kind of element it is
each card includes sections for Description, Content, Setting, Annotation, Image, & Players
Ah, but if one keeps doing that, just as soon as they release it, so they grab it again,
it insists on being non-available.
Therefore, one can use their anti-competitive practice to
force them into conflict with their competitors,
to force the law to be applied.
As an individual damaging corporate establishment,
one would still be prosecuted for "terrorism" by those who hold that corporations are the lord,
but they're deluded, so holding to principle would still be worth it ( for some, in-the-end )
( any hint of bitterness or sarcasm, was imagined by you, the reader,
.. or perhaps your browser ; )
Fundamentally, writing is wordflow, & if
one is wrestling with formatting while wrestling with wordflow, then
one is sabotaging one's success in writing.
Unfortunately, basic formatting is required to get the wordflow right
( italics, etc. ).
One thing I've learned, with word-processors, is to use hard page-breaks to
force the damn things to respect my intent.
But Scrivener only may be becoming available for Linux, .
if the contributors who posted on this page are able to make it so. .
Right Now(tm), however, there's a writing-environment that already
http://www.writerscafe.co.uk/works in Linux & is available as a demo version.
I consider writing environment to be crucial for effective & fluid writing, & also
there is one other killer app: Stein On Writing ( Sol Stein )
http://www.amazon.com/Stein-Writing-Successful-Techniques-Strategies/dp/0312254210/
NO writing-book I've ever read gave me as much as that one did. .
Think William Zinsser's "On Writing Well", except instead of
the high-school level stuff, the university-level stuff:
techniques for reading for writing,
techniques for torquing words into communication-strength,
even techniques for concisification. .
Enjoy, eh?
As for the Linux installs easily & doesn't force headaches theory -shudder-
I've been living in Linux since 1996 ( Slackware, back then ) &
consider Ubuntu to be nearly evil:
what it did to Linux-itself is unholy.
That it Microsofts any previously-installed Linux distro's boot capability, too, is comical.
I've fought with more damn config problems & hw problems in Linux than in MS-Windows, but once it's set-up then its stability rocks.
In English, we generally unconsciously associate "holding-back" with the left-side of the page
& "going/doing-it" with the right-side of the page
( check the graphology stuff, used in criminal-cases btw )
If I could have one single wish answered in Linux/KDE it'd be this:
MAKE THE HOLD-BACK OPTION ALWAYS BE ON THE LEFT FOR ENGLISHERS ( & similar L-to-R languages )
and the corollory
MAKE THE "COMMIT/DO-IT" OPTION ALWAYS BE ON THE RIGHT
if that one single thing were implemented, /dev/random for it?
it'd mean I could react to a decision-box window by instinct,
rather-than being stopped every time to
discover what the hell goddamn variant of "flow" this particular window implements.
( do they use
how many millions of us are sabotaged by it every hour? )
The best book to get for UI design? 2, actually:
Don't Make Me Think ( made for web-meisters, but it's still UI stuff ) by Krug
( Advance Book Exchange ( second-hand books search ) http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?sts=t&tn=don't+make+me+think&x=0&y=0
& The Design of Everyday Things
Breaking the RFID's illegal, as reported here months ago, iirc, &
foil-shielding is going to be illegal
"only a TERRORIST would *hide* their identity from Lawful Authority!!"-arg
within a few years, at most.
---
"Authority", or assuming one to be "god"
( the assumption's *apparent*-validity being dependent on obliterating-others )
is predictable.
All that is going to be done,
if anything is going to be done, is this:
AFTER someone is killed for dialling 911 .
while hiding from murderous assailants. .
THEN authoritarian bureaucracy will have the "brainstorm" of putting a warning-sticker on new phones, stating. . .
"Do NOT call 911 with this phone in an emergency, in which you
need remain hidden or non-identified by assailants:
When you can, go elsewhere, and THEN dial 911; or
leave and contact authorities in person"
unfortunately, this isn't types as a joke,
but as a plain identification of what I expect to result.
http://www.addonics.com/products/flash_memory_reader/ad4cfprj.asp
One of them might just work with the 300x UDMA Lexar CF cards out now. . .
in which case one could get ( kernel RAID5 ) fast, reliable, silent, and cheaper than the specialty devices, all at once.
I'd stick root on one, /tmp, /var and /home, /usr /opt ),
and use shm/tmpfs for
and disk for
and have the joy of all software with no-seek-time (
and it's cost-effective-enough, to boot.
Anyone got one?
or know if they work with the 300x Lexar CFs?
or if/when they're coming-out with a PCIe version?
Cheers. . .
http://www.saxonpub.com/ .
they've changed their URL, but it redirects pronto, and the new one isn't rememberable. .
Diff between these and the normal ones?
One concept, one lesson.
Big concept? broken into several components, and distributed over several lessons.
Syncopated plan: one gets the chance to get a knowing into long-term-memory/function before one hits the next lesson that relies on it.
having tried many, and lost my math in some brain-damage I got in my teens, this is THE required one.
Find the book you need,
by doing a placement-test,
then get the ISB# for that recommended book,
then find a second-hand copy on http://www.abebooks.com/ for cheap.
Update:
Bibble Labs does 2.5 or so updates / year, so
I may have to wait 3 more months before getting killer photo-editing of my RAW format files.
Also, I just checked, and the Noise Ninja in the current version ( 4.9.8e ) is a cut-down version,
but if one gets a full-version of Noise Ninja ( which IS available for Linux ),
that full-version gets integrated into your Bibble copy.
Doubly-also, the demo-mode works for 14 days.
The only downside, other-than no current support for the ultimate pocket camera for manual-control freaks
( the G9: http://www.powershot.com/ . . . trustworthy camera-joint fer buyin' stuff: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/ ),
is that there isn't any JPEG2000 support.
Tiff ( 16 or 8 bit ), PNG ( 16 or 8 bit ), 8-bit-JPEG, for output. . .
Cheerses ( & yeah, this is offtopic, but this information does inform, and the perceived hole in Linux ability isn't an actual gap!! :)
http://www.bibblelabs.com/
.CR2 ) images. . . :)
and if you need to fix-up photos,
and are fed-up with the process-sabotage ( for this kind of work ) that The GIMP is,
then TRY the free demo
( which stops working after a few days,
so only install it when you're serious about trying it ).
It is DRASTICALLY quicker than The GIMP for working-with,
it includes a cut-down version of Noise Ninja
( at-least the demo I tried a couple of years ago included a cut-down version. . .
maybe the full-version is in it now. . .
but irregardless, I'm buying the full Pro version in a couple of weeks
to get-at my Canon G9 images camera-RAW (
Bibble rocks.
: )
ECC may be available
( I always build systems with http://www.crucial.com/ ECC RAM,
and no I'm nae affilliated,
but they're the ONLY brand who've never once proven flaky,
in my experience. . . )
but the problem is that almost no motherboards support ECC.
Gigabyte's GC-RAMDISK and GO-RAMDISK ( up-to 4GB ) hardware-ram-drive without ECC *support*,
is typical of this idiocy:
The only way to make the things trustworthy is to run a RAID5 or RAID6 array of 'em,
and that gets bloody expensive
( though the speed. . . kernel-raid5 is quick, eh? )
http://usa.asus.com/ is the only consumer-brand I know-of,
other-than maybe Abit ( it's been awhile for me to've seen one of 'em. . . )
that provides ECC support.
Gigabyte generally don't, and if they don't. . . who does?
Supermicro & Tyan? No SLI/Crossfire/sea-of-ports on them, eh?
Unless it does, of course. . .
/how/ to work with our individual innate organization-patterns ), &
/Management Principles/ of the US Marines ( David H. Freedman )
The Feiner Points of Leadership
( Michael Feiner )
Presenting to Win 2e
( Jerry Weissman? )
The Definitive Business Plan 2e
( Richard Stutely )
Rapid Development
( Steve McConnell, iirc )
and you will have WAAAAY more than the *normal* manager, in terms
of principles-based coaching.
make The 7 Habits of Highly Effective { People || Families }
( Stephen R Covey ) one of 'em, too, and
Organizing from the Inside Out
( Julie Morgenstern )
( to get
Corps Business: the 30
( you NEED this one! )
A link to a good Amazon.com "Registry" is this:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/3M2T4BH48O43D
It's a registry that hasn't a delivery-address, because
it's just my recommending of the best-of-the-best for all.
Cheerses,
-Antryg