It wasn't that much time. A few hours of work for 30 accounts that have been in constant use by dozens of people for almost six months? Worth it. Code smarter, not harder. I'm actually a bit tickled to see them still being used and posting silly status updates about their sheep. (The only reason I quit Farmville was frustration over the lagginess of the app. After your farm hits a certain critical mass, it ceases to load quickly even on fast PC in a fast browser. If Zynga has no motivation to fix their apps, I have no motivation to play them, let alone pay them money.)
I have a series of 30 fake Facebook accounts that I created back in the day for Farmville (before I came to my senses and quit that particular timesink.) They all have legit looking names at first glance, such as Betty Farmer or Charlie Gardener, using the eLouai Candybar Dollmaker to generate unique looking profile pics. They all have working email addresses generated from my personal domain. The login information was shared with about 20 other people for Farmville purposes, and the accounts are still in use by those silly people still playing. (The accounts also now play Mafia Wars and a bunch of other games.) Other than an initial "this email address doesn't appear to be valid" notice and verification check, Facebook has been mum about these highly suspicious looking accounts.
I once got an F on a paper from a TA who wrote in the margins "How dare you try to say what Shakespeare was thinking!" Um, that's what literary analysis IS, to some extent. You try to place someone's written works within the context of their culture and society at large and reconstruct their thought processes and views on the world. But that TA was an asshole and had it out for me, and many of us complained about him bitterly for years afterward. The only person who got an A in that entire section was one cute girl.
As long as the robo-grader also includes a plagiarism check, I'd be okay with it. My husband is a professor and most of his failed papers are a result of TurnItIn.com catching outright plagiarism.
Have you see the video "Traffice Waves' which demonstrates that being a nice driver and letting people into a turn lane can help unblock a traffic jam?
The video is over here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGFqfTCL2fs
One of those untraceable and probably if it was traced, would turn out to be apocryphal, quotes: Every American considers himself to be an above average driver.
I imagine it more as a bell curve, scaled on an accumulation of tickets and accidents over time. Nine out of ten drivers will get at least one speeding ticket in their lifetime, and be involved in 3-5 accidents serious enough to be reported. As I have not had either yet in 15 years of driving, I can safely consider myself an above average driver. You would like me: I go with the flow of traffic and stay in the right lane unless I am trying to get around a truck going 40 mph.
This was years ago. I have no idea what the article was even about; I check Wikipedia daily, sometimes hourly, and there have been times I've surfed twenty articles in because something was interesting and Wikipedia is conducive to horizontal research. I'm also not in the habit of bookmarking places people annoyed me on the Internet, due to space concerns.
I believe you meant "meet" (achieve, join) rather than "meat" (flesh, steaks, etc.) Just pointing that out. (My "area of expertise" is the English language itself, but Wikipedia's admins don't like someone poking around their articles correcting period usage, apparently.)
My changes were immediately reverted and I was harassed by one of their overzealous editors for not citing a source. The change in question was correcting someone's grammar. I'm not surprised one bit that they're losing contributors.
The "results" seemed to fit all our pre-established notions of IE users in general - they don't know any better, because they are stupider than the rest of us. Now I would like to see someone do a legit study using this methodology and see what the actual results are. My confirmation bias says they'll actually be pretty close to the fake results.
LinkedIn is a different animal, since things like parties are not coordinated there. I have quite a few former and current bosses on my LinkedIn account.
Coworkers do not need to know what I am doing on Saturday nights, unless they are friends outside of work. They do not need to know what I think of other coworkers, my office, my bosses, or my clients. (Now, I do LOVE my current job, but if this was not the case it would still be none of their business.) They don't need to know what I think of current political situations, friends, friends of friends, or where I am or what I'm watching or how many blue medals I won in Farmville before I blocked it.
My husband (prof) routinely turns down any students that try to friend him on Facebook. Heck, he's paranoid about having anyone at his school friend him, including his fellow professors. I've also got a similar policy for work - NONE of my current coworkers are on my FB, only ones from previous jobs.
It's sad they felt the need to legislate common sense.
Think of older buildings being retrofitted - if they have solid cement walls, or plaster and lathe or something crazy, running ethernet through them might be difficult. Ceiling access would be much easier in that case.
I can tell the difference between $3 and $6 headphones. The sound distortion on the cheapest ones is horrible and they're not worth using. But I can't tell the difference between the $6 and the $20 headphones. I'd need to jump up to the $100 range to get another radical improvement in quality. Since I don't have that sort of cash lying around, I am content to use the $6 headphones. They work, that's all they need to do.
Even cheap wine can taste "okay" but the difference between a $5 bottle and a $40 one isn't so much a matter of taste as it is complexity. Cheap wines have no personality. They have one note, one flavor, and while that flavor may be a good one, it's the only thing you're going to taste. A good wine, on the other hand, has a very complex taste that changes over the course of ten to twenty seconds, with at least three distinct change in flavors (nose, body, finish), and which may or may not have anything to do with the bouquet (the smell), which can also be quite complicated in its own right.
As for expensive vs cheap vodka, I've learned I can drink expensive vodka neat, whereas cheap vodka tastes like gasoline on the pallatte.
Solar hot water heaters are becoming popular. They are closed, passive systems that can knock a chunk off an electrcity bill without the full array of solar cells on the roof, and will pay for themselves within five years. We installed our system last winter and it works like a charm - free 60F hot water twenty four hours a day.
This is the path I am taking. I dicked around in management and marketing for 10 years, and now I'm going for my master's in web programming while I work as a sysadmin. Win-win - by the time I graduate I'll have three years of real world IT experience under my belt IN ADDITION to the marketing and management experience I got while I was dicking around, and a master's degree to boot. The 1-2-3 combo is going to give me an edge in getting a better job (assuming my current job doesn't want to give me a pay raise or promotion in the meantime.)
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It wasn't that much time. A few hours of work for 30 accounts that have been in constant use by dozens of people for almost six months? Worth it. Code smarter, not harder. I'm actually a bit tickled to see them still being used and posting silly status updates about their sheep. (The only reason I quit Farmville was frustration over the lagginess of the app. After your farm hits a certain critical mass, it ceases to load quickly even on fast PC in a fast browser. If Zynga has no motivation to fix their apps, I have no motivation to play them, let alone pay them money.)
I have a series of 30 fake Facebook accounts that I created back in the day for Farmville (before I came to my senses and quit that particular timesink.) They all have legit looking names at first glance, such as Betty Farmer or Charlie Gardener, using the eLouai Candybar Dollmaker to generate unique looking profile pics. They all have working email addresses generated from my personal domain. The login information was shared with about 20 other people for Farmville purposes, and the accounts are still in use by those silly people still playing. (The accounts also now play Mafia Wars and a bunch of other games.) Other than an initial "this email address doesn't appear to be valid" notice and verification check, Facebook has been mum about these highly suspicious looking accounts.
I once got an F on a paper from a TA who wrote in the margins "How dare you try to say what Shakespeare was thinking!" Um, that's what literary analysis IS, to some extent. You try to place someone's written works within the context of their culture and society at large and reconstruct their thought processes and views on the world. But that TA was an asshole and had it out for me, and many of us complained about him bitterly for years afterward. The only person who got an A in that entire section was one cute girl.
As long as the robo-grader also includes a plagiarism check, I'd be okay with it. My husband is a professor and most of his failed papers are a result of TurnItIn.com catching outright plagiarism.
Have you see the video "Traffice Waves' which demonstrates that being a nice driver and letting people into a turn lane can help unblock a traffic jam? The video is over here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGFqfTCL2fs
One of those untraceable and probably if it was traced, would turn out to be apocryphal, quotes: Every American considers himself to be an above average driver.
I imagine it more as a bell curve, scaled on an accumulation of tickets and accidents over time. Nine out of ten drivers will get at least one speeding ticket in their lifetime, and be involved in 3-5 accidents serious enough to be reported. As I have not had either yet in 15 years of driving, I can safely consider myself an above average driver. You would like me: I go with the flow of traffic and stay in the right lane unless I am trying to get around a truck going 40 mph.
Yes, at least in the Bay Area.
If the English majors don't care, who will?
This was years ago. I have no idea what the article was even about; I check Wikipedia daily, sometimes hourly, and there have been times I've surfed twenty articles in because something was interesting and Wikipedia is conducive to horizontal research. I'm also not in the habit of bookmarking places people annoyed me on the Internet, due to space concerns.
I believe you meant "meet" (achieve, join) rather than "meat" (flesh, steaks, etc.) Just pointing that out. (My "area of expertise" is the English language itself, but Wikipedia's admins don't like someone poking around their articles correcting period usage, apparently.)
My changes were immediately reverted and I was harassed by one of their overzealous editors for not citing a source. The change in question was correcting someone's grammar. I'm not surprised one bit that they're losing contributors.
The "results" seemed to fit all our pre-established notions of IE users in general - they don't know any better, because they are stupider than the rest of us. Now I would like to see someone do a legit study using this methodology and see what the actual results are. My confirmation bias says they'll actually be pretty close to the fake results.
LinkedIn is a different animal, since things like parties are not coordinated there. I have quite a few former and current bosses on my LinkedIn account.
Coworkers do not need to know what I am doing on Saturday nights, unless they are friends outside of work. They do not need to know what I think of other coworkers, my office, my bosses, or my clients. (Now, I do LOVE my current job, but if this was not the case it would still be none of their business.) They don't need to know what I think of current political situations, friends, friends of friends, or where I am or what I'm watching or how many blue medals I won in Farmville before I blocked it.
My husband (prof) routinely turns down any students that try to friend him on Facebook. Heck, he's paranoid about having anyone at his school friend him, including his fellow professors. I've also got a similar policy for work - NONE of my current coworkers are on my FB, only ones from previous jobs. It's sad they felt the need to legislate common sense.
Think of older buildings being retrofitted - if they have solid cement walls, or plaster and lathe or something crazy, running ethernet through them might be difficult. Ceiling access would be much easier in that case.
It was a fun adventure and an excuse to get away from my computer. Also a much nicer car than my ratty old 97 Honda Accord.
2005 xTerra. It was an experience. I also brought in cookies for everyone else in the office to share with me.
I can tell the difference between $3 and $6 headphones. The sound distortion on the cheapest ones is horrible and they're not worth using. But I can't tell the difference between the $6 and the $20 headphones. I'd need to jump up to the $100 range to get another radical improvement in quality. Since I don't have that sort of cash lying around, I am content to use the $6 headphones. They work, that's all they need to do.
Even cheap wine can taste "okay" but the difference between a $5 bottle and a $40 one isn't so much a matter of taste as it is complexity. Cheap wines have no personality. They have one note, one flavor, and while that flavor may be a good one, it's the only thing you're going to taste. A good wine, on the other hand, has a very complex taste that changes over the course of ten to twenty seconds, with at least three distinct change in flavors (nose, body, finish), and which may or may not have anything to do with the bouquet (the smell), which can also be quite complicated in its own right. As for expensive vs cheap vodka, I've learned I can drink expensive vodka neat, whereas cheap vodka tastes like gasoline on the pallatte.
Solar hot water heaters are becoming popular. They are closed, passive systems that can knock a chunk off an electrcity bill without the full array of solar cells on the roof, and will pay for themselves within five years. We installed our system last winter and it works like a charm - free 60F hot water twenty four hours a day.
Even before it got stuck, it went about four and a half years beyond it initial three month lifespan.
The little Mars rovers have something to say about space junk exceeding planned mission timeframes.
The SAT isn't an entrance exam?
This is the path I am taking. I dicked around in management and marketing for 10 years, and now I'm going for my master's in web programming while I work as a sysadmin. Win-win - by the time I graduate I'll have three years of real world IT experience under my belt IN ADDITION to the marketing and management experience I got while I was dicking around, and a master's degree to boot. The 1-2-3 combo is going to give me an edge in getting a better job (assuming my current job doesn't want to give me a pay raise or promotion in the meantime.)
Somebody in 10 years when they're having the 100" wall unit installed.