Problem is that while your manager probably understands that each task, focused on singularly, will be completed sooner (in total hours spent), s/he cannot help but want to appear to be making great strides on two or more tasks simultaneously -- even if the total time expended increases.
Regarding context switches...as a student in 1988 I read research on response time related to productivity that concluded system response times over 1 second caused the user to switch from task mode to "what's wrong with this ^#^%*#@ system mode" (or something perhaps more refined). The research likened the users focus to a stack of steps and any noticeable delay (interruption) would cause the stack to pop prematurely. Then the user would have to spend time and mental energy to rebuild the stack once the performance issue was overcome.
So, togther, this explains why when I'm working on a remote development server that starts dropping packets I switch to Slashdot and, with the new context stack, "forget" to switch back until interrupted by my boss walking in to ask about my progress on the three concurrent hot projects...
[root@yy-yy-yy-y-yy user]# telnet xx.x.xx.xxx 80
Trying xx.x.xx.xxx...
Connected to xxx-xx-x-xx-xxx.co.sprintbbd.net (xx.x.xx.xxx).
Escape character is '^]'.
GET/scripts/root.exe HTTP/1.0
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2001 21:42:59 GMT
Content-Type: application/octet-stream
Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195]
(C) Copyright 1985-2000 Microsoft Corp.
c:\inetpub\scripts>
Suggestions? (Non-destructive, please, the goal is to alert not hurt)
The (SM) tagline for one common (it's not 'popular' but is commonly used) PPPoE client on Windows is "Preserving the Dial-Up Experience" because it force the xDSL user to continue with Dial-Up Networking versus "Always On" seamless Internet. I guess their researchers found that users (AOL'ers, perhaps) were confused with not having to connect before surfing the 'Net/Chat rooms. Or, perhaps, it was an excuse for the problem. I don't know, or care.
To me the (SM) is analogous to some early automobile manufacturer selling autos with reins instead of a steering wheel/gas pedal combination and claiming to be "Preserving the Giddy-Up Experience."
Thanks. But, no thanks.
Nicely, though, PPPoE under Linux is seamless (to the user) once setup and part of the normal boot sequence. This leads me to consider an alternative (SM) for Linux: "Out with the old, in with the Gnu!".
Ok - just got through with a test from I-5/405 split to 91/605 junction. Road was fairly open, had connectivity the whole way, without drops, travelled consistently from 65 to 105 mph. This confirms my thought that speed has nothing to do with service drops.
No, I wasn't typing...I had AIM open and never lost my connection to my office mates.
Too ****ing bad about losing this technology, though.
Pick up speed? How fast do you have to go to lose connection? I've been typing in my car while travelling the I-5 (between 605 and 405 junctions) while travelling 50 to 80 mph. (Yes, while driving...but, I wasn't using a cell phone!)
I'll miss Ricochet, but I'm not tossing my hardware yet...I believe the network will be the low-flying version of Iridium and get picked up for pennies on the dollar. Maybe no downtime? We'll see.
Gee...as I rush to finish a "1.0" release for tomorrow's preview to Major New York Investors (TM) I decide to take a mental break and check out Slashdot.
You don't really seem to care what you profit from though, so I'm not upset that you bought as it plummeted. Almost makes me believe in karma.
When will you understand that buy XYZ's stock is not an attempt to profit from XYZ (unless XYZ distributes dividends, which MSFT does not) but from the public's perception of the value of XYZ's shares. I bought MSFT because I perceived that other investors valued it (I was wrong, obviously). There is no actual connection between MSFT shares and Microsoft Corporation unless you acquire enough shares to exert influence.
Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) is a big detractor of Vice President Dick Cheney based, partly, on his involvement with Halliburton, the energy co that employed him -- claiming outright that his association with Halliburton disqualified him from public office. At the same time she owned hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of Halliburton stock. Is she a hypocrite? I'd love to think so, but the honest answer is she was buying stocks other investors valued, not participating in Halliburton's success or failure.
You don't really seem to care what you profit from though, so I'm not upset that you bought as it plummeted. Almost makes me believe in karma.
...your purchase of their stock, along with many other people, is what drove the price up. People were willing to pay it. Had you not been, and others like you, not been, the price would have been low.
Erm, *my* purchase did *nothing to drive the stock *up*. I bought as the stock was free-falling (on 4/3/2000, actually, see: chart). Rather, one could make the case that my purchase was the kiss-of-death that began the sell-off. "Oh, no! RJamesTaylor just bought MSFT! Sell! Sell! Sell!" Perhaps a shareholders' lawsuit should be filed against me for precipitating the plunge. That would make as much sense as your suggestion that my purchase drove up the price.
And now you're complaining that they may be reprimanded for this and you may not get the full benefit of those criminal actions.
I'm not complaining...I just want the stock to jump above 90 before the next judge, using the undisputed Findings of Facts, imposes a sentence worthy of the crimes.
Why? Because by buying them you're actively supporting a company that's guilty (and proved it, by lying in court) of many crimes.
My owning a stock contributed nothing to a company, unless I buy at the IPO. Regardless, I bought them not because I wanted to support MSFT but because I wanted to support my family. Regardless of my views on the company and their practices, I have to admit they have a controlling share of the market, set the pace for mass technology adoption, and (at the time) are a valuable company. Unfortunately, the market crashed soon after I bought the stocks. Now I hope to unload them: not to punish MSFT, but to make $profit.
Now, I also bought RHAT shares at $16. I did this because of my appreciation for RedHat technology in my business. This was an emotional, ideological stock purchase. And it was financially stupid.
I stand a good chance at recouping my losses in MSFT, but regardless what happens with RHAT I've lost at least %25 of my money forever. Oh well, aty least I don't have to pay license fees on the RHAT software I use. --
Maybe I can sell the stocks I bought at $90 before the next judge rules to fsck them again.
It ain't over, folks. Just delayed. Looks like Jackson blew it (and not the Justice dept).
Oh, those claiming that this is due to GWB are simply dreaming. Now, if Justice decides not to pursue the case in a retrial, then you can say the current administration had some influence.
But, Supreme Court notwithstanding, Bush has no influence over judical decisions. (Just kidding about the Supreme Court thingy). --
I am stunned by the sheer volume of people here who are simply willing to overlook a morally wrong act by hiding behind laws and saying, "Well, it's not illegal so it must be ok!" Come on people! Before there was legislation against data theft, cracking, phone phreaking etc. did that mean it was morally ok until someone decided to pass a law? Of course not!
Rusty and I are happy with our current colocation service (vhosting).
Glad to hear that. This weekend I visit k5 (wonder why) and saw the link to vhosting. I signed up for an account (clicking through your site) and am awaiting a setup confirmation from the company. I hope you get something from that transaction. --
It's a result of MIR and other Russian space-debris laden with super-fungi crashing into the Pacific Ocean. For more information about the Mir space fungus, click here. --
Currently, a PGP plugin interface is being added to Mozilla....
Hopefully, this will bring PGP a little closer to the mainstream.
This begs the question: what will bring Mozilla into the mainstream?
If the mainstream means the majority of on-line society, forget it. It's past time for that. The ones who will adopt Mozilla are likely already comfortable with adding PGP (or GPG) to their email client of preference, or are those who will use the AOL/Gateway/Transmeta internet appliances and liable to publich their credit card information and social security info in their on-line profiles. Both categories are outliers, not mainstream. --
Last November I bought a home using eRealty.com. My first home. I live in LA County, CA (near Long Beach). I tried a traditional real estate agent a few times prior and was always discouraged. After trudging through long inital meetings and fruitless drive-arounds, I gave up. Even at these times I used on-line MLS (multiple listing services) that gave me pretty-good search features and would email the houses I thought I'd like to the AOL accounts of my agents. What a waste of time.
Then I found eRealty through a mention at Consumer Advocate Clark Howard's web site. The attractive thing up front was the 1% rebate at close (I did receive a check for $2,100 -- 1% of the $210,000 sale price -- within days of close). But I also liked the service itself.
eRealty has traditional realtors (working, at the time anyway, on salary, not commission -- a wonderful advantage for me, the buyer) who are Internet-aware (mine was, anyway; Cindy Morgan, BTW) as well as experienced realtors.
They not only provided cool search and alert tools via their web site, but the the person touch provided by my agent and, when things got rocky with the seller's agent (idiot), the regional managers kept the deal alive and made a potential disaster rather pleasant. These guys fought for me. (They even fought for the seller, who was in the process of be forclosed upon for non-payment of mortgage; they arranged a deal with her lender to keep her out of foreclosure until my financing was approved; then, they worked with my lender, DiTech.com, to secure my financing within 2 weeks of application).
I guess this is what I appreciated: eRealty provides traditional service with modern Internet tools.
Answer? Porn, Sports and (mobile phone) Ring-Tones..
Porn, although originally referring to writing about prostitutes, usually means images. I remember ASCII Art nudes in High School (early 80's): zit-stricken geeks hunched around a green-screen blurring their vision every-so-slightly to make out that picture of Victoria Principal. Real cool. I can (thank the Powers) only imagine how images look on Nokia 61xx Dark-Gray/Light-Gray screens.... If you're going to appeal to the Internet masses, you need to display full color motion pictures (well, you can cheat and optimize the display for flesh tones and rocking motions).
Although the marketing people understand the need to push porn (why else is it called W(h)AP and PALM PILOT?) the engineers are just figuring this out (evidently). How discouraging that your product has to appeal to the lowest common motivator to be accepted.
Slashdot Mirror
Regarding context switches...as a student in 1988 I read research on response time related to productivity that concluded system response times over 1 second caused the user to switch from task mode to "what's wrong with this ^#^%*#@ system mode" (or something perhaps more refined). The research likened the users focus to a stack of steps and any noticeable delay (interruption) would cause the stack to pop prematurely. Then the user would have to spend time and mental energy to rebuild the stack once the performance issue was overcome.
So, togther, this explains why when I'm working on a remote development server that starts dropping packets I switch to Slashdot and, with the new context stack, "forget" to switch back until interrupted by my boss walking in to ask about my progress on the three concurrent hot projects...
Same thing here - sample tcpdump on eth0:
tcpdump: listening on eth0
19:14:07.770553 B arp who-has 66.74.1.213 tell 66.74.0.1
19:14:08.020553 B arp who-has 66.74.1.184 tell 66.74.0.1
19:14:08.580553 B arp who-has 66.74.1.112 tell 66.74.0.1
19:14:08.910553 B arp who-has 66.74.1.226 tell 66.74.0.1
19:14:09.180553 B arp who-has 66.74.1.158 tell 66.74.0.1
19:14:09.320553 B arp who-has 66.74.1.8 tell 66.74.0.1
19:14:09.500553 B arp who-has 66.74.1.159 tell 66.74.0.1
19:14:09.570553 B arp who-has 66.74.1.252 tell 66.74.0.1
19:14:09.700553 B arp who-has 66.74.1.116 tell 66.74.0.1
19:14:09.890553 B arp who-has 66.74.1.253 tell 66.74.0.1
19:14:10.000553 B arp who-has 66.74.1.183 tell 66.74.0.1
19:14:10.220553 B arp who-has 66.74.1.108 tell 66.74.0.1
19:14:10.290553 B arp who-has 66.74.1.192 tell 66.74.0.1
19:14:10.380553 B arp who-has 66.74.1.147 tell 66.74.0.1
19:14:10.840553 B arp who-has 66.74.1.113 tell 66.74.0.1
19:14:10.950553 B arp who-has 66.74.1.71 tell 66.74.0.1
19:14:11.630553 B arp who-has 66.74.1.237 tell 66.74.0.1
19:14:11.800553 B arp who-has 66.74.0.127 tell 66.74.0.1
19:14:11.800553 B arp who-has 66.74.1.181 tell 66.74.0.1
19:14:11.880553 B arp who-has 66.74.1.226 tell 66.74.0.1
19:14:12.260553 B arp who-has 66.74.1.18 tell 66.74.0.1
19:14:12.270553 B arp who-has 66.74.1.8 tell 66.74.0.1
19:14:12.280553 B arp who-has 66.74.1.98 tell 66.74.0.1
19:14:12.360553 B arp who-has 66.74.1.146 tell 66.74.0.1
19:14:12.980553 B arp who-has 66.74.1.122 tell 66.74.0.1
19:14:13.070553 B arp who-has 66.74.1.132 tell 66.74.0.1
19:14:13.140553 B arp who-has 66.74.1.108 tell 66.74.0.1
19:14:13.300553 B arp who-has 66.74.1.192 tell 66.74.0.1
19:14:13.330553 B arp who-has 66.74.1.208 tell 66.74.0.1
19:14:13.590553 B arp who-has 66.74.1.126 tell 66.74.0.1
19:14:13.730553 B arp who-has 66.74.1.145 tell 66.74.0.1
19:14:13.800553 B arp who-has 66.74.1.113 tell 66.74.0.1
19:14:13.910553 B arp who-has 66.74.1.71 tell 66.74.0.1
19:14:14.690553 B arp who-has 10.74.0.180 tell 10.74.0.1
19:14:14.770553 B arp who-has 66.74.1.181 tell 66.74.0.1
19:14:15.250553 B arp who-has 66.74.1.98 tell 66.74.0.1
19:14:15.320553 B arp who-has 66.74.1.146 tell 66.74.0.1
19:14:15.320553 B arp who-has 66.74.1.159 tell 66.74.0.1
19:14:15.610553 B arp who-has 66.74.1.231 tell 66.74.0.1
19:14:15.910553 B arp who-has 66.74.1.253 tell 66.74.0.1
19:14:16.060553 B arp who-has 66.74.1.189 tell 66.74.0.1
19:14:16.060553 B arp who-has 66.74.1.132 tell 66.74.0.1
19:14:16.400553 B arp who-has 66.74.1.41 tell 66.74.0.1
19:14:16.590553 B arp who-has 66.74.1.125 tell 66.74.0.1
19:14:16.610553 B arp who-has 66.74.1.126 tell 66.74.0.1
19:14:16.680553 B arp who-has 66.74.1.145 tell 66.74.0.1
19:14:17.060553 B arp who-has 66.74.1.169 tell 66.74.0.1
19:14:17.130553 B arp who-has 66.74.1.79 tell 66.74.0.1
19:14:17.280553 B arp who-has 66.74.1.35 tell 66.74.0.1
19:14:17.540553 B arp who-has 66.74.1.254 tell 66.74.0.1
19:14:17.910553 B arp who-has 66.74.1.226 tell 66.74.0.1
19:14:18.040553 B arp who-has 66.74.1.223 tell 66.74.0.1
19:14:18.230553 B arp who-has 66.74.1.8 tell 66.74.0.1
19:14:18.460553 B arp who-has 66.74.1.115 tell 66.74.0.1
Here's where I got:
Suggestions? (Non-destructive, please, the goal is to alert not hurt)To me the (SM) is analogous to some early automobile manufacturer selling autos with reins instead of a steering wheel/gas pedal combination and claiming to be "Preserving the Giddy-Up Experience."
Thanks. But, no thanks.
Nicely, though, PPPoE under Linux is seamless (to the user) once setup and part of the normal boot sequence. This leads me to consider an alternative (SM) for Linux: "Out with the old, in with the Gnu!".
I didn't know they had a league...
No, I wasn't typing...I had AIM open and never lost my connection to my office mates.
Too ****ing bad about losing this technology, though.
I'll miss Ricochet, but I'm not tossing my hardware yet...I believe the network will be the low-flying version of Iridium and get picked up for pennies on the dollar. Maybe no downtime? We'll see.
Thanks for the heartburn...
Now?
Sounds like some researcher has discovered a way to bilk a free vacation out of his employer.
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CPAN.
That's the draw of perl for rapid application development using reusable (well-tested) code. It's awesome.
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Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) is a big detractor of Vice President Dick Cheney based, partly, on his involvement with Halliburton, the energy co that employed him -- claiming outright that his association with Halliburton disqualified him from public office. At the same time she owned hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of Halliburton stock. Is she a hypocrite? I'd love to think so, but the honest answer is she was buying stocks other investors valued, not participating in Halliburton's success or failure.
I love you, too.--
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Now, I also bought RHAT shares at $16. I did this because of my appreciation for RedHat technology in my business. This was an emotional, ideological stock purchase. And it was financially stupid.
I stand a good chance at recouping my losses in MSFT, but regardless what happens with RHAT I've lost at least %25 of my money forever. Oh well, aty least I don't have to pay license fees on the RHAT software I use.
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Maybe I can sell the stocks I bought at $90 before the next judge rules to fsck them again.
It ain't over, folks. Just delayed. Looks like Jackson blew it (and not the Justice dept).
Oh, those claiming that this is due to GWB are simply dreaming. Now, if Justice decides not to pursue the case in a retrial, then you can say the current administration had some influence.
But, Supreme Court notwithstanding, Bush has no influence over judical decisions. (Just kidding about the Supreme Court thingy).
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Thanks for the tip. I haven't heard anything yet. So I went to another company and I'm already setup!
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And a test of cellphonescanner.com, too.
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Glad to hear that. This weekend I visit k5 (wonder why) and saw the link to vhosting. I signed up for an account (clicking through your site) and am awaiting a setup confirmation from the company. I hope you get something from that transaction.
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If the mainstream means the majority of on-line society, forget it. It's past time for that. The ones who will adopt Mozilla are likely already comfortable with adding PGP (or GPG) to their email client of preference, or are those who will use the AOL/Gateway/Transmeta internet appliances and liable to publich their credit card information and social security info in their on-line profiles. Both categories are outliers, not mainstream.
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Then I found eRealty through a mention at Consumer Advocate Clark Howard's web site. The attractive thing up front was the 1% rebate at close (I did receive a check for $2,100 -- 1% of the $210,000 sale price -- within days of close). But I also liked the service itself.
eRealty has traditional realtors (working, at the time anyway, on salary, not commission -- a wonderful advantage for me, the buyer) who are Internet-aware (mine was, anyway; Cindy Morgan, BTW) as well as experienced realtors.
They not only provided cool search and alert tools via their web site, but the the person touch provided by my agent and, when things got rocky with the seller's agent (idiot), the regional managers kept the deal alive and made a potential disaster rather pleasant. These guys fought for me. (They even fought for the seller, who was in the process of be forclosed upon for non-payment of mortgage; they arranged a deal with her lender to keep her out of foreclosure until my financing was approved; then, they worked with my lender, DiTech.com, to secure my financing within 2 weeks of application).
I guess this is what I appreciated: eRealty provides traditional service with modern Internet tools.
eRealty.com - Highly Recommended
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AllOutWap.com ranks the top sites.
Answer? Porn, Sports and (mobile phone) Ring-Tones..
Porn, although originally referring to writing about prostitutes, usually means images. I remember ASCII Art nudes in High School (early 80's): zit-stricken geeks hunched around a green-screen blurring their vision every-so-slightly to make out that picture of Victoria Principal. Real cool. I can (thank the Powers) only imagine how images look on Nokia 61xx Dark-Gray/Light-Gray screens.... If you're going to appeal to the Internet masses, you need to display full color motion pictures (well, you can cheat and optimize the display for flesh tones and rocking motions).
Although the marketing people understand the need to push porn (why else is it called W(h)AP and PALM PILOT?) the engineers are just figuring this out (evidently). How discouraging that your product has to appeal to the lowest common motivator to be accepted.
Why is it call High Tech, again?
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