That would be a crime wouldn't it? I admit i don't know a ton about sexual solicitation crimes, but a 28 year old saying to a 14 year old "would you like to have sex with me?".... that's a felony.
The 14 year old chuckles and thinks "man, what a loser" and walks off.
Which makes me wonder "why is it a felony?"
Does it have to do with the level of irrational fear? Or is there some really solid evidence that a 14 (or 12) year old is somehow subjected to trauma by some loser propositioning him in a feeble attempt to seduce him?
Or is it only a crime if he does a GOOD JOB and the 14 year old is seriously considering it?
Or.... should it only be a crime if they actually do something?
But what if the 14 year old propositions the 28 year old? That's surely not a crime.......... unless the older person says "uhm sure!" and then it's a felony for the older person propositioning the younger one... I think...
See, with some basic education on risk factors, the paranoia might dissapate.
My father used to talk occassionally (no, not all the time, just now and then) about this exact topic when i was 8 or 9 years old.
As a result, cholesterol scares me more than terrorism. Because it's a genuine risk to your life and health, where terrorism really frankly isn't.
TV irritates me and marketing is mostly transparent and I see the value in education and parental involvement.
These are all things that can be taught and SHOULD be taught.
If you spend a few months sitting down with 10 year old kids about what the real risks are. How insanely rare it is to be abducted or smashed by an airplane falling from the sky.... and to really think about how common things are before worrying about them... it doesn't take much before you actually have a sane and rational view.
Driving with my niece in my car makes me a little nervous. However, walking through the mall with her does not.
Watching her play in front of the pool made me a little nervous when she was very young, but going to the top of the tallest building in the city during an "orange" terror alert does not.
Am I crazy to think we can educate people to think like this? That obscene ignorance is not a default state that many people cannot climb beyond?
Someone pointed out ages ago, (and made me laugh) that your child is more likely to die in a backyard swimming pool (whether you have one, or not) than to be abducted by a pedophile.
Real-life abductions are so absurdly rare, they shouldn't even be mentioned in the news. Lightening strikes are equally more deadly than child predators. Same with freak bicycle accidents. Same with injuries resulting from sporting events or playground activities. Same with... well the list probably goes on.
So yes, you are absolutely right. Why do we choose those two things? Because the perpetrators are murky and unknown and scary and we really never hear a "well yes, but pedophiles do good things too".
You can't argue banning bicycles or making "singing in the rain" a felony.... so what's the use reporting on it?:-)/sarcasm
I'm very partial to the HTC Kaiser (aka "ATT 8925" aka "ATT Tilt" aka "HTC Tytn II").
It is GSM quad-band for global travel, uses UMTS/HSDPA 3G technolgoy for awesome global mobile broadband and it also has WiFi built in (though European and Asian standards vary slightly it should still connect to most foriegn wifi hotspots). (GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900MHz + 3.6Mbps Tri-band UMTS/HSDPA 850/1900/2100Mhz + 2.4Ghz 802.11b wifi)
It also has a GPS built in. When combined with Google maps, it has all the GPS technology you need (note, google maps requires internet connectivity where you are browsing from). If you need offline GPS, you can purchase a TomTom package for it and install it on a large micro SD card.
The best feature is the full-thumb-sized QWERTY keyboard. These HTC phones are the king of mobile-phone typing, backlit keyboard and killer features.
In a pinch, it also works as a reasonably capable mp3 player, though the battery life isn't great so it probably shouldn't be your primary.
Frankly, the battery life will be your biggest issue as they only run about a day and a half on batteries when getting email all the time and shorter if you're using it a lot. I have an giant extended li-poly battery in mine to get 3-4 days out of it but it adds a ton to the bulk and is an akward shape.
Still, along with Windows Moble functionality, there is a capable (though not really too nice) 3mp camera, it could be an all-in-one for the things you need, though I would recommend a seperate camera as well (the Canon Elph models rock for image quality vs small size).
I sit down at a Linux machine and think "I want to change the IP".
Lets see, if I'm using Gnome, it's probably in a menu on the top of the screen, maybe called System, or maybe Configuration... I don't remember.
But if you have KDE, it's probably on the bottom, coming out of the "start" menu, then on a thing called "settings".
But some distros change "settings" to "preferences", if I recall. Again, it's been a little while.
Point being, I'm an experienced user. I know exactly what a subnet mask is, why it's used and how it works and I still have to *think* about where I might find the option to change it on a given install, distro, window manager, etc.
In windows its in the "control panel" under "networking" and it has been for 12+ years on EVERY windows box... ever.
So if someone calls me up on the phone and says "damn, this box says i have to change my IP address", I can say "go to the control panel, click on networking, find "local area network connection", double click, select "transmission control protocol TCP/IP", double click, select "manually configure IP address".
For the most part, that's 100% correct on every version of windows released since 1995. Minor changes to the naming or placement of "control panel" aside, those are easily workable to even the biggest idiots.
However, please tell me how to change the IP address of my 9 year old Linux box without seeing the screen... Imagine i'm a dumb user.
What does distro mean? I don't know... it says loading vmlin...something and then has all this crazy text.... and then i get a password box... and i think there was something that said red hat. Help, how do I change my ip address".
Can you tell this person exactly where to click to do it?
It's the core of the OS that gets people confused. Windows has a consistent way to access drives it is now and always has been called "my computer" (since 95). There is a consistent way to open (and location to save) documents... ironically called "My Documents" that's basically been in the same place for every version (yes, the old non-NT variants had a different, but internally consistent location).
Where are all the documents on my 7 year old linux box? Tell me the exact path name if my username is "dude". Can you? You can take about 5 educated guesses, but you can't tell me exactly because it varies by distro... and really there isn't a consistent place because some apps will put things in your home, and others will use.folders and some distros use a "documents" folder and others have a "my documents" folder.
As for installers in Windows, I've never had to "man" a Windows installer. The internal technology may be different in each, but they are, at their core, the same user experience.
I double click it, I click next about 8 times and it is installed. That's just it. Whether it's MSI, or WISE, or whatever, it's just "click click click" and you don't have to know what the installer is doing.
package management is cool, but requires you actually *understand* the package manager to some extent. Here's another dumb user scenario:
"I have that Linux thing and I want to get xxx cool new program. Tell me exactly how to do it."
Now, if things were consistent in the way I use the word consistent, you could do it. But until every distro uses the same management system with the same UI, it's not consistent.
You have to be able to tell a user, from memory, with reasonable accuracy, EXACTLY what the name, shape, color and location of every icon is without having to know any technical details of their install other than vaguely what 3 year period it was installed in.
Once that happens, you'll see broad Linux adoption. That would require standardization on a single window manager, single widget toolset, single icon set, single menu layout, single and unique phrasing on all widgets and the total removal of the requirement t
See, maybe 2% of users want to know EXACTLY how things work (geeks). 5% of users know the basics of how stuff works and love the tools (well informed power-users).
the other 94% just want to be able to click on a button that says "go" and it does what they want.
Lets use the car analogy.
Linux is the turbocharged sports car with the computer-controlled ECU. Works great... but if you don't know what you're doing, you will roll your eyes and say "I just want it to drive me to the store, get rid of the stupid buttons that i dont need".
If a computer is a tool just like a car, then actually, 95% of users want it to "just get me to the store" (just get me to the web) without any buttons to press.
Nothing more, nothing less. You can't fire the secretary cos nobody with sufficient techinical awareness to "give a shit" will work for $8/hr.:-)
point taken. however, the initial thrust of the discussion was based on "could your grandma do it?" in response to the question of why linux does not have more wide adoption.
even if it can handle software updates far better (which was the argument from the op), the fact that there are 9 different common distros that handle updates 5 different ways makes a strong statement. myself as an experiened IT worker (but an intermediate linux user) would spend an hour or more researhing different methods of updating and package management to be able to sit down at a random unfamiliar linux box and configure it for a certain sort of auto updates.
o maybe im saying that the lack of an update manager isnt the issue, but rather the lack of consistent interfaces that make the task seem daunting.
and then... we get into editing text files to update certain software. would you have you grandma do it? what about that ditzy secretary you know who cant figure out the whole "web thingy" but really needs to read this "pdf file thingy" to book airline reservations?:-)
not trolling, just experienced with supporting "dumb users" and scared of the idea of supporting them on linx as it exists today.
"If everyone were installing the kitchen sink on Linux, it too, would have a dozen programs trying to run updates."
Let's see (on my openSUSE_factory = unstable here):
- Google Earth (auto-update, so it certainly exists over here)
- the 200+ other applications on my desktop
So no, you way off. The apps that self-update frequently on my computer are: Google stuff Adobe stuff (PhotoShop, Acrobat, etc) - please don't talk to me about GIMP, I need PhotoShop for professional reasons Firefox ATI drivers Apple software (iTunes, Quicktime) HP stuff (printer, scanner drivers)
Now, almost all of this has open source alternatives, or can be configured not to update, but IF these products were available in Linux, they would probably all have auto-update features (reference: Firefox).
And Linux can also be configured to reboot on automatic updates if you so desire. Feature or bug?
If you can switch it off it is a feature. It's that simple. Yep. And the GP was complaining about his Windows boxes rebooting after an automatic update. That IS a configurable option and therefore is a feature, not a bug.
I'm not a Microsoft lackey, but I don't think that Linux is mature as an easy to use and CONSISTENT desktop environment at this point in its life.
Don't lecture me about how it works. apt-get update if you're an Ubuntu user... but what if you're a RedHat/Fedora user? I'd have to look it up. rpm with some switches might do it. But what if you're a slackware user? Gad, i don't know how they do package management frankly, I think some of them use RPM. How about mandrivia? I'm no Linux guru, that's for sure, but i use an Ubuntu desktop regularily and i know how it works. Even though I'm a skilled computer user, knowing exactly how each distro does updates is outside of the things i care about.
However, if Linux were mainstream would your grandmother frequently run apt-get from a command line? How about that lady who works at the front desk at your company? Would she regularly update her home computer?
So frankly, Adobe Acrobat, if Linux was the default system, would probably STILL prompt you twice a month to install updates. I don't care how well apt-get update (or other flavor) works.
Well, given past statistics, the odds of being killed by a terrorist's nuclear bomb IS, IN FACT, infinitely smaller than dying of... well... anything.:-)
A lot of guys I know got into IT management through two ways.
One.... work your way up... from helpdesk, there is usually a supervisor role that is not a manager, especially at large organizations. You prove to the manager that you're the most skilled or most "together" on the team, you will get that spot when it opens up. If it does not exist and there are a dozen or more people, write a proposal to create it, pitch it to the manager as taking some burden off his/her shoulders. If he likes you, he'll approve the job.
Two... work your way out... go work for a small, fast growing company. Usually the job of "I run the whole damn business" is called "IT Manager". Regardless of whether or not you are leading people, the independent decision making and self-reliance justify the title of Manager. Perhaps as the business grows you can hire someone to help you out. Perhaps you end up finding another job in a "supervisor" or "lead" role because of your former experience.
Regardless, getting "Manager" is not an exercise in duping people or some forumla... but it's a process of impressing the upper management and getting them to think that you are skilled, level headed and capable of being "in charge" of a mission-critical department.
If *everyone* believes that something is not wrong..... doesn't that sorta necessarily make it so?
I mean the end-result of that assumption being prevalent in the vast majority of people is the death of the record and movie industry. Movies and music won't go away. They will become controlled and disseminated by other means. Perhaps bands never do studio recordings of some tracks and charge a lot for live shows to make money. Perhaps the era of "big money" bands and movies is done with. Frankly, with computer technology, a skilled hobbiest can reproduce studio quality recordings if given good musicans. A skilled hobbiest can make compelling movies.... seemingly perhaps better than Hollywood studios.
So what are we left with? Music and movies are better and cheaper and not controlled by monopoly conglomerates.
uhm...
Yay!
SI
Bingo!
The United States design teams came up with the Pentium 4, which was intended to be the end-all for chips for this decade. *makes a crashing sound*
They then focused on the Itanium as the Pentium 4 replacement. *makes a crashing sound*.
The Israel team was supposed to make some piddling "low power" mobile processor and what they came up with was so revolutionary, it ended up replacing the entire line of chips, from slim laptops to servers.
Impressive.
SI
zomg
simply brilliant!
An elegant solution to a complex problem....:-)
Of course, when the right lane is closed for construction, that would be one ANNOYING drive.
SI
So I don't really care who downloads the albums of famous people. There are plenty of brilliant bands out there who you've never heard of and won't download their albums even when they give them away (and they often do).
And you are implying that I might, instead, BUY the albums from these brilliant bands who i've never heard of?
The last two cases of a local band here in Denver making it "big" were "The Fray" and "Single File". Bot of them started by giving away music online and doing shows in the evenings for a few bucks. The Fray used that money from the shows toward recording a 3-track demo CD and that was submitted by fans to the local radio station. The airplay in town got them recognized nationally and last year their album was #1 for the year.
Did the record label who eventually signed them help? Sure, they arranged the CDs to get pressed and distributed to radio stations around the country, but they were already getting national airplay and were playing at Warped Tour before they were signed to a label.......
Am i missing something?
The fact that the major media (radio stations) are in bed with recording companies doesn't in itself justify the distribution model. It's an artificial barrier to prop up corporate interests.
Record labels were critical when records were distributed... as.... records... The only way to get national distribution was to press a kajillion records and put them on the shelf in every small town in america.
Now, some 60% of music is digital-only and 95% of music listeners listen to digital music at some point during a year... it makes the whole "wharehouse full of records" a bit of a moot point....
Help me out if i'm missing something here...
But $1 buys you a 1 in 175 million chance of winning $370 million.
That's better than 2:1 odds FOR you...
In other words.... buy $175 million in tickets to have a "sure bet" and you automatically win $370 million. That's a $195 million profit. Of course, minus taxes, it's only $80 million in profit...
?????
I've never see a lotto where the odds against were lower than the jackpot... that's not supposed to happen...
SI
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That would be a crime wouldn't it? I admit i don't know a ton about sexual solicitation crimes, but a 28 year old saying to a 14 year old "would you like to have sex with me?".... that's a felony.
The 14 year old chuckles and thinks "man, what a loser" and walks off.
Which makes me wonder "why is it a felony?"
Does it have to do with the level of irrational fear? Or is there some really solid evidence that a 14 (or 12) year old is somehow subjected to trauma by some loser propositioning him in a feeble attempt to seduce him?
Or is it only a crime if he does a GOOD JOB and the 14 year old is seriously considering it?
Or.... should it only be a crime if they actually do something?
But what if the 14 year old propositions the 28 year old? That's surely not a crime.......... unless the older person says "uhm sure!" and then it's a felony for the older person propositioning the younger one... I think...
But seriously?... Where is the crime?
See, with some basic education on risk factors, the paranoia might dissapate.
My father used to talk occassionally (no, not all the time, just now and then) about this exact topic when i was 8 or 9 years old.
As a result, cholesterol scares me more than terrorism. Because it's a genuine risk to your life and health, where terrorism really frankly isn't.
TV irritates me and marketing is mostly transparent and I see the value in education and parental involvement.
These are all things that can be taught and SHOULD be taught.
If you spend a few months sitting down with 10 year old kids about what the real risks are. How insanely rare it is to be abducted or smashed by an airplane falling from the sky.... and to really think about how common things are before worrying about them... it doesn't take much before you actually have a sane and rational view.
Driving with my niece in my car makes me a little nervous. However, walking through the mall with her does not.
Watching her play in front of the pool made me a little nervous when she was very young, but going to the top of the tallest building in the city during an "orange" terror alert does not.
Am I crazy to think we can educate people to think like this? That obscene ignorance is not a default state that many people cannot climb beyond?
Just a thought....
Someone pointed out ages ago, (and made me laugh) that your child is more likely to die in a backyard swimming pool (whether you have one, or not) than to be abducted by a pedophile.
:-) /sarcasm
Real-life abductions are so absurdly rare, they shouldn't even be mentioned in the news. Lightening strikes are equally more deadly than child predators. Same with freak bicycle accidents. Same with injuries resulting from sporting events or playground activities. Same with... well the list probably goes on.
So yes, you are absolutely right. Why do we choose those two things? Because the perpetrators are murky and unknown and scary and we really never hear a "well yes, but pedophiles do good things too".
You can't argue banning bicycles or making "singing in the rain" a felony.... so what's the use reporting on it?
I'm very partial to the HTC Kaiser (aka "ATT 8925" aka "ATT Tilt" aka "HTC Tytn II").
It is GSM quad-band for global travel, uses UMTS/HSDPA 3G technolgoy for awesome global mobile broadband and it also has WiFi built in (though European and Asian standards vary slightly it should still connect to most foriegn wifi hotspots). (GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900MHz + 3.6Mbps Tri-band UMTS/HSDPA 850/1900/2100Mhz + 2.4Ghz 802.11b wifi)
It also has a GPS built in. When combined with Google maps, it has all the GPS technology you need (note, google maps requires internet connectivity where you are browsing from). If you need offline GPS, you can purchase a TomTom package for it and install it on a large micro SD card.
The best feature is the full-thumb-sized QWERTY keyboard. These HTC phones are the king of mobile-phone typing, backlit keyboard and killer features.
In a pinch, it also works as a reasonably capable mp3 player, though the battery life isn't great so it probably shouldn't be your primary.
Frankly, the battery life will be your biggest issue as they only run about a day and a half on batteries when getting email all the time and shorter if you're using it a lot. I have an giant extended li-poly battery in mine to get 3-4 days out of it but it adds a ton to the bulk and is an akward shape.
Still, along with Windows Moble functionality, there is a capable (though not really too nice) 3mp camera, it could be an all-in-one for the things you need, though I would recommend a seperate camera as well (the Canon Elph models rock for image quality vs small size).
SI
Well, my issue tends to be this:
.folders and some distros use a "documents" folder and others have a "my documents" folder.
I sit down at a Linux machine and think "I want to change the IP".
Lets see, if I'm using Gnome, it's probably in a menu on the top of the screen, maybe called System, or maybe Configuration... I don't remember.
But if you have KDE, it's probably on the bottom, coming out of the "start" menu, then on a thing called "settings".
But some distros change "settings" to "preferences", if I recall. Again, it's been a little while.
Point being, I'm an experienced user. I know exactly what a subnet mask is, why it's used and how it works and I still have to *think* about where I might find the option to change it on a given install, distro, window manager, etc.
In windows its in the "control panel" under "networking" and it has been for 12+ years on EVERY windows box... ever.
So if someone calls me up on the phone and says "damn, this box says i have to change my IP address", I can say "go to the control panel, click on networking, find "local area network connection", double click, select "transmission control protocol TCP/IP", double click, select "manually configure IP address".
For the most part, that's 100% correct on every version of windows released since 1995. Minor changes to the naming or placement of "control panel" aside, those are easily workable to even the biggest idiots.
However, please tell me how to change the IP address of my 9 year old Linux box without seeing the screen... Imagine i'm a dumb user.
What does distro mean? I don't know... it says loading vmlin...something and then has all this crazy text.... and then i get a password box... and i think there was something that said red hat. Help, how do I change my ip address".
Can you tell this person exactly where to click to do it?
It's the core of the OS that gets people confused. Windows has a consistent way to access drives it is now and always has been called "my computer" (since 95). There is a consistent way to open (and location to save) documents... ironically called "My Documents" that's basically been in the same place for every version (yes, the old non-NT variants had a different, but internally consistent location).
Where are all the documents on my 7 year old linux box? Tell me the exact path name if my username is "dude". Can you? You can take about 5 educated guesses, but you can't tell me exactly because it varies by distro... and really there isn't a consistent place because some apps will put things in your home, and others will use
As for installers in Windows, I've never had to "man" a Windows installer. The internal technology may be different in each, but they are, at their core, the same user experience.
I double click it, I click next about 8 times and it is installed. That's just it. Whether it's MSI, or WISE, or whatever, it's just "click click click" and you don't have to know what the installer is doing.
package management is cool, but requires you actually *understand* the package manager to some extent. Here's another dumb user scenario:
"I have that Linux thing and I want to get xxx cool new program. Tell me exactly how to do it."
Now, if things were consistent in the way I use the word consistent, you could do it. But until every distro uses the same management system with the same UI, it's not consistent.
You have to be able to tell a user, from memory, with reasonable accuracy, EXACTLY what the name, shape, color and location of every icon is without having to know any technical details of their install other than vaguely what 3 year period it was installed in.
Once that happens, you'll see broad Linux adoption. That would require standardization on a single window manager, single widget toolset, single icon set, single menu layout, single and unique phrasing on all widgets and the total removal of the requirement t
Interesting.
:-)
See, maybe 2% of users want to know EXACTLY how things work (geeks). 5% of users know the basics of how stuff works and love the tools (well informed power-users).
the other 94% just want to be able to click on a button that says "go" and it does what they want.
Lets use the car analogy.
Linux is the turbocharged sports car with the computer-controlled ECU. Works great... but if you don't know what you're doing, you will roll your eyes and say "I just want it to drive me to the store, get rid of the stupid buttons that i dont need".
If a computer is a tool just like a car, then actually, 95% of users want it to "just get me to the store" (just get me to the web) without any buttons to press.
Nothing more, nothing less. You can't fire the secretary cos nobody with sufficient techinical awareness to "give a shit" will work for $8/hr.
SI
point taken. however, the initial thrust of the discussion was based on "could your grandma do it?" in response to the question of why linux does not have more wide adoption.
:-)
even if it can handle software updates far better (which was the argument from the op), the fact that there are 9 different common distros that handle updates 5 different ways makes a strong statement. myself as an experiened IT worker (but an intermediate linux user) would spend an hour or more researhing different methods of updating and package management to be able to sit down at a random unfamiliar linux box and configure it for a certain sort of auto updates.
o maybe im saying that the lack of an update manager isnt the issue, but rather the lack of consistent interfaces that make the task seem daunting.
and then... we get into editing text files to update certain software. would you have you grandma do it? what about that ditzy secretary you know who cant figure out the whole "web thingy" but really needs to read this "pdf file thingy" to book airline reservations?
not trolling, just experienced with supporting "dumb users" and scared of the idea of supporting them on linx as it exists today.
si
Let's see (on my openSUSE_factory = unstable here):
- Google Earth (auto-update, so it certainly exists over here)
- the 200+ other applications on my desktop
So no, you way off. The apps that self-update frequently on my computer are:
Google stuff
Adobe stuff (PhotoShop, Acrobat, etc) - please don't talk to me about GIMP, I need PhotoShop for professional reasons
Firefox
ATI drivers
Apple software (iTunes, Quicktime)
HP stuff (printer, scanner drivers)
Now, almost all of this has open source alternatives, or can be configured not to update, but IF these products were available in Linux, they would probably all have auto-update features (reference: Firefox).
If you can switch it off it is a feature. It's that simple. Yep. And the GP was complaining about his Windows boxes rebooting after an automatic update. That IS a configurable option and therefore is a feature, not a bug.
I'm not a Microsoft lackey, but I don't think that Linux is mature as an easy to use and CONSISTENT desktop environment at this point in its life.
SI
Don't lecture me about how it works. apt-get update if you're an Ubuntu user... but what if you're a RedHat/Fedora user? I'd have to look it up. rpm with some switches might do it. But what if you're a slackware user? Gad, i don't know how they do package management frankly, I think some of them use RPM. How about mandrivia? I'm no Linux guru, that's for sure, but i use an Ubuntu desktop regularily and i know how it works. Even though I'm a skilled computer user, knowing exactly how each distro does updates is outside of the things i care about.
However, if Linux were mainstream would your grandmother frequently run apt-get from a command line? How about that lady who works at the front desk at your company? Would she regularly update her home computer?
So frankly, Adobe Acrobat, if Linux was the default system, would probably STILL prompt you twice a month to install updates. I don't care how well apt-get update (or other flavor) works.
SI
You just complained about 3rd party software and optional features which are easily disabled.
I'm still not quite sure where this is a Windows issue.
If everyone were installing the kitchen sink on Linux, it too, would have a dozen programs trying to run updates.
And Linux can also be configured to reboot on automatic updates if you so desire.
Feature or bug?
I use both and the issues you mention are the last of the things that cause me trouble on either system.
Si
Well, given past statistics, the odds of being killed by a terrorist's nuclear bomb IS, IN FACT, infinitely smaller than dying of... well... anything. :-)
A lot of guys I know got into IT management through two ways.
One.... work your way up... from helpdesk, there is usually a supervisor role that is not a manager, especially at large organizations. You prove to the manager that you're the most skilled or most "together" on the team, you will get that spot when it opens up. If it does not exist and there are a dozen or more people, write a proposal to create it, pitch it to the manager as taking some burden off his/her shoulders. If he likes you, he'll approve the job.
Two... work your way out... go work for a small, fast growing company. Usually the job of "I run the whole damn business" is called "IT Manager". Regardless of whether or not you are leading people, the independent decision making and self-reliance justify the title of Manager. Perhaps as the business grows you can hire someone to help you out. Perhaps you end up finding another job in a "supervisor" or "lead" role because of your former experience.
Regardless, getting "Manager" is not an exercise in duping people or some forumla... but it's a process of impressing the upper management and getting them to think that you are skilled, level headed and capable of being "in charge" of a mission-critical department.
SI
If *everyone* believes that something is not wrong..... doesn't that sorta necessarily make it so? I mean the end-result of that assumption being prevalent in the vast majority of people is the death of the record and movie industry. Movies and music won't go away. They will become controlled and disseminated by other means. Perhaps bands never do studio recordings of some tracks and charge a lot for live shows to make money. Perhaps the era of "big money" bands and movies is done with. Frankly, with computer technology, a skilled hobbiest can reproduce studio quality recordings if given good musicans. A skilled hobbiest can make compelling movies.... seemingly perhaps better than Hollywood studios. So what are we left with? Music and movies are better and cheaper and not controlled by monopoly conglomerates. uhm... Yay! SI
Bingo! The United States design teams came up with the Pentium 4, which was intended to be the end-all for chips for this decade. *makes a crashing sound* They then focused on the Itanium as the Pentium 4 replacement. *makes a crashing sound*. The Israel team was supposed to make some piddling "low power" mobile processor and what they came up with was so revolutionary, it ended up replacing the entire line of chips, from slim laptops to servers. Impressive. SI
zomg simply brilliant! An elegant solution to a complex problem.... :-)
Of course, when the right lane is closed for construction, that would be one ANNOYING drive.
SI
So I don't really care who downloads the albums of famous people. There are plenty of brilliant bands out there who you've never heard of and won't download their albums even when they give them away (and they often do).
And you are implying that I might, instead, BUY the albums from these brilliant bands who i've never heard of?
The last two cases of a local band here in Denver making it "big" were "The Fray" and "Single File". Bot of them started by giving away music online and doing shows in the evenings for a few bucks. The Fray used that money from the shows toward recording a 3-track demo CD and that was submitted by fans to the local radio station. The airplay in town got them recognized nationally and last year their album was #1 for the year.
Did the record label who eventually signed them help? Sure, they arranged the CDs to get pressed and distributed to radio stations around the country, but they were already getting national airplay and were playing at Warped Tour before they were signed to a label.......
Am i missing something?
The fact that the major media (radio stations) are in bed with recording companies doesn't in itself justify the distribution model. It's an artificial barrier to prop up corporate interests.
Record labels were critical when records were distributed... as.... records... The only way to get national distribution was to press a kajillion records and put them on the shelf in every small town in america.
Now, some 60% of music is digital-only and 95% of music listeners listen to digital music at some point during a year... it makes the whole "wharehouse full of records" a bit of a moot point....
SI
Help me out if i'm missing something here... But $1 buys you a 1 in 175 million chance of winning $370 million. That's better than 2:1 odds FOR you... In other words.... buy $175 million in tickets to have a "sure bet" and you automatically win $370 million. That's a $195 million profit. Of course, minus taxes, it's only $80 million in profit... ????? I've never see a lotto where the odds against were lower than the jackpot... that's not supposed to happen... SI