Paper 696 Embodied Scrum Abstract: In the same way it is not necessary for an ant to understand complex system theory to be a good ant, a scrum master need only understand the rules of being a scrum âoeagent.â But unlike the ant, the scrum team member has an emergent sense of free will and agency that can make it difficult to embrace the simple and seemingly arbitrary rules of the scrum process. One approach to fostering an embrace of the bottom-up nature of scrum is to teach scrum masters the basic principles of complex systems theory, illustrating the power and ubiquity of self-organization, emergence, and adaptation. This paper represents one possible presentation of complex systems theory in accessible language, targeted to scrum masters. Additionally, a case is made for the relevance of first-person embodied practices for developing high quality sensory signal interpretation, i.e. radical empiricism.
Yeah that does sound like a huge load of BS. I can't believe how much smoke was blown inside of 5 or 6 sentences. Good Lord. At least coding at home you don't have to worry about that...
I haven't used it since I'm in an office but since you mention a school, I hear good things about Windows SteadyState. Maybe for library computers or other kiosk-style machines.
I have AVG 8.5 on our workstations, it's about 30 of them now. Regular AVG, not Internet Security. But the Network Edition, which has a management console. My guess is that as long as you have something you can't really go wrong. AVG works fine for me. The weird thing is that you can usually deploy AVG for the first time without rebooting the station, but every so often there will be a program update to AVG that needs a reboot to take effect.
It's about about $25 a seat I think. I've only ever bought 1 year at a time. I'm on my second year.
I don't install the link scanner, browser plugin, etc. (we have some web filtering at the router anyway). Just the antivirus/spyware/rootkit and the email and MS Office plugins. I was toying with the idea of using the firewall, since we've essentially paid for it, but I think the Windows firewall + Group Policy is probably enough for intra-LAN security.
I'm just guessing here, but maybe he already had an AT&T contract and then bought a 2G iPhone. When they first came out it was easier to get one without a contract, just take one home from the Apple store and throw your SIM in it.
The subsidized pricing and in-store activation came later.
But some cell companies (or all) will do you the "service" of renewing your contract if your SIM shows up on the network in a new phone, so maybe that's not what happened.
You know Apple releases a new phone every year, and you know AT&T makes you sign a 2-year contract. Either pay the higher price for the upgrade or live through the horror of not having the latest shiny product until your contract runs out.
Yeah, but who cares if AT&T has to listen to people whine? Maybe by being vocal they'll get to have their cake and eat it too.
I still agree...if you want special phone pricing, you wait till your contract is almost up and you twist someone's arm. That's how it's been since the beginning of time. But I've got a 2G iPhone and about a year left on my contract (waited a while to activate) so if these people get their way, you won't see me complaining.
I can't shake the feeling that this "news" was posted to spur the usual anti-Apple flamebait and the associated ad impressions.
The chances that you are going to really, life-or-death, need it are pretty small.
Yeah, but when you do, it's life-or-death.
Or to put it in Slashdot terms: I don't keep backups because I expect my hard drives to crash all the time, I keep them because just one crash would be very, very bad.
If you could come up with a definition of Islam that every Muslim would agree to, then you could determine whether it was a cult or not.
Crazy is non-denominational. Catholics are pretty famous for not going to church after they're confirmed, and yet there are also a few orders which self-flagellate.
Fundamentalism makes a mess of things no matter where it pops up. That doesn't mean that the other billion are in a cult.
I think I read more into your post than what was actually there. I'm sorry.
Caffeine does help a little bit but so far for me the thing that's helped the most was just realizing what I had. Even the medication won't help if you don't let it.
I'm sure there are different degrees of it, but the best description of it that I read was somewhere in this thread...somebody said it's like a buzzer that's set to go off every 30 seconds or so if you keep your mind in one place. It's a strange feeling.
I was on pills in grade school then I got off them. Then in high school I started up because I thought it might help. I'll never forget the first day. I got to school and I sat down and started talking to a friend. Right away she said, "is something wrong with you? You're acting different." At the time I thought she must have been psychic, because I wasn't doing anything or saying anything that I wouldn't have normally said and done.
But it was probably the first time she had ever seen me sit still without fidgeting and actually look her in the eye. And this is me at probably 18 years old. Everyone in the thread is saying, "that's how kids are supposed to act," and that may be true, but I'm not a kid and I still can't sit still. Even driving.
Caffeine can help a little bit but if I were to have enough caffeine to get that kind of feeling where I don't have to squirm around, my heart would probably explode out of my chest. The medication is just uppers, and of course caffeine is one too. So I get what you're saying. And it's not like they're a miracle cure, but they are somehow different from caffeine. It's not just about having enough energy to do things, it's about having enough energy to short circuit the ball that's bouncing around inside your head. I'm actually not that energetic in person but there's just always that twitch, it's hard to explain.
I wasn't saying "there's no such thing as ADHD," what I was saying was that ADHD is more serious than what Red Bull can fix.
I hope you will read my post history for this article (it's only a few). I have ADD and even though I took ritalin most of my life I somehow fell for the "it's fake" conspiracy theory. It was hard for me to drown out the misinformation even when faced with not only my symptoms, but also the consequences of them over many years.
When I finally acknowledged what I had, it was like seeing the elephant in the room. Yet still I have people who are close to me (who've actually been hospitalized for going crazy) who I can't bring it up with because they think it's fake and I'm a nut for believing it, despite the fact that I'm experiencing something first-hand and they're just guessing.
not only TV evangelists and the Spanish Inquisition
It's funny, as bad as the Inquisition was, compared to rest of Europe at the time, the worst you could say about it is that people were being put on trial (as opposed to just put to a gruesome death without warning or chance of defense).
I stopped going to church after I was confirmed (Catholic). Nobody called, nobody showed up at my door. Nobody sued me, nobody harassed me. That's a religion.
I agree, it's a blurry line between a religion and a cult, and as an atheist I find it all equally silly, but at least we can say that there is a spectrum, and mainstream Christianity is on a different side of that spectrum from Scientology. You can knock the Catholics, they won't make death threats against you and your family.
Have you ever read half the stories on Xenu.net? It's pretty disturbing what goes on in Scientology. Better to just be informed than to over generalize.
I think the specific fraud issue here is that they are making those sort of tv psychic hotline claims...we'll make your life better, eliminate sadness, just give us some money...but they're not saying "entertainment only" in the legal copy. Which is not to say that you couldn't accuse all faiths of doing something similar.
That's it, really. While there are a lot of people who I wouldn't trust with a legitimate religious question, your average Catholic priest or Protestant minster will most likely do their best to answer your question up-front, even without any sort of attempt to convert you.
While there are areas of Christianity that are extremely evangelical, and (I know I risk offending some here but oh well) Church of LDS has a similar thing going on with secrecy surrounding certain rituals (though they are trying to modernize), mainstream Christianity is an open book at this point.
Nothing he actually wrote was original, anyway. He took some retarded conspiracy theory bunk from Holy Blood, Holy Grail . We know it's bunk because: (1) like most conspiracy theories, the points are made by post hoc fallacies rather than evidence, and (2) they actually had the balls to sue him for plagiarism, and lost because the judge said, well, if it's "history" then I don't see how he could have plagiarized it, eh boys?
The rest of it is crappy cliffhangers every 3 pages (a la Goosebumps) and a complete lack of anything resembling fleshed-out characters or enjoyable prose.
I hadn't expected someone to bring it up on Slashdot as fact. It's dissapointing.
Honestly, there are Christian sects that do all of those things. There are support groups for ex-Mormons and ex-Watchtower the same way that there are for ex-Scientologists. If you go to their sites you will see people telling similar stories. The tactics are the same, both in making converts and in retaining them.
The main difference as I see it as that there is much more of a variety of Christian denominations. AFAIK there is only one branch of Scientology.
I'm sorry to hear about your son. One day he will be old enough to realize everything. What he has, what the signs of his focus drifting look like, what he can do to compensate for it, and how you did everything you could to help him when he wasn't old enough to help himself. Don't let these guys get to you.
I'm an adult. I have ADD. For years and years I denied it because I thought people like you knew what the fuck they were talking about. I'm almost 30 now and I have nothing to show for it, because instead of treating something I just berated myself for being "lazy."
I'm sick of you armchair quarterbacks. Stick to what you know, don't pontificate about what you don't.
Newsflash: Red Bull, coffee, and Coca Cola are medications for ADHD.
You do not understand what ADHD is. People getting tired, or not wanting to focus on things that are unpleasant...you're right, that's normal, and Red Bull is fine for that.
Slashdot Mirror
There's more important things than music? That's news to me.
That was a pretty depressing 'funny' mod. Looks like we have some shut-ins afraid to face facts and using mod points to change the subject.
Getting outside and exercising will immensely improve your quality of life. Period.
Paper 696
Embodied Scrum
Abstract: In the same way it is not necessary for an ant to understand complex system theory to be a good ant, a
scrum master need only understand the rules of being a scrum âoeagent.â But unlike the ant, the scrum team member has an emergent sense of free will and agency that can make it difficult to embrace the simple and seemingly arbitrary rules of the scrum process. One approach to fostering an embrace of the bottom-up nature of scrum is to teach scrum masters the basic principles of complex systems theory, illustrating the power and ubiquity of self-organization, emergence, and adaptation. This paper represents one possible presentation of complex systems theory in accessible language, targeted to scrum masters. Additionally, a case is made for the relevance of first-person embodied practices for developing high quality sensory signal interpretation, i.e. radical empiricism.
Yeah that does sound like a huge load of BS. I can't believe how much smoke was blown inside of 5 or 6 sentences. Good Lord. At least coding at home you don't have to worry about that...
I haven't used it since I'm in an office but since you mention a school, I hear good things about Windows SteadyState. Maybe for library computers or other kiosk-style machines.
I have AVG 8.5 on our workstations, it's about 30 of them now. Regular AVG, not Internet Security. But the Network Edition, which has a management console. My guess is that as long as you have something you can't really go wrong. AVG works fine for me. The weird thing is that you can usually deploy AVG for the first time without rebooting the station, but every so often there will be a program update to AVG that needs a reboot to take effect.
It's about about $25 a seat I think. I've only ever bought 1 year at a time. I'm on my second year.
I don't install the link scanner, browser plugin, etc. (we have some web filtering at the router anyway). Just the antivirus/spyware/rootkit and the email and MS Office plugins. I was toying with the idea of using the firewall, since we've essentially paid for it, but I think the Windows firewall + Group Policy is probably enough for intra-LAN security.
Sometimes I write something on a post-it note when I want to remember it later. I do this because they are made of paper.
I only see the L-shapes, all the time. And lately I've had no color at the top of the reply box. Oh, Slashdot.
Nice. Thanks for the info.
I'm just guessing here, but maybe he already had an AT&T contract and then bought a 2G iPhone. When they first came out it was easier to get one without a contract, just take one home from the Apple store and throw your SIM in it.
The subsidized pricing and in-store activation came later.
But some cell companies (or all) will do you the "service" of renewing your contract if your SIM shows up on the network in a new phone, so maybe that's not what happened.
You know Apple releases a new phone every year, and you know AT&T makes you sign a 2-year contract. Either pay the higher price for the upgrade or live through the horror of not having the latest shiny product until your contract runs out.
Yeah, but who cares if AT&T has to listen to people whine? Maybe by being vocal they'll get to have their cake and eat it too.
I still agree...if you want special phone pricing, you wait till your contract is almost up and you twist someone's arm. That's how it's been since the beginning of time. But I've got a 2G iPhone and about a year left on my contract (waited a while to activate) so if these people get their way, you won't see me complaining.
I can't shake the feeling that this "news" was posted to spur the usual anti-Apple flamebait and the associated ad impressions.
Agreed. And I'd add that karma whoring about how blogs can be narcissistic are is sort of like not seeing the forest for the trees.
Slashcode?
The chances that you are going to really, life-or-death, need it are pretty small.
Yeah, but when you do, it's life-or-death.
Or to put it in Slashdot terms: I don't keep backups because I expect my hard drives to crash all the time, I keep them because just one crash would be very, very bad.
If you could come up with a definition of Islam that every Muslim would agree to, then you could determine whether it was a cult or not.
Crazy is non-denominational. Catholics are pretty famous for not going to church after they're confirmed, and yet there are also a few orders which self-flagellate.
Fundamentalism makes a mess of things no matter where it pops up. That doesn't mean that the other billion are in a cult.
I think I read more into your post than what was actually there. I'm sorry.
Caffeine does help a little bit but so far for me the thing that's helped the most was just realizing what I had. Even the medication won't help if you don't let it.
I'm sure there are different degrees of it, but the best description of it that I read was somewhere in this thread...somebody said it's like a buzzer that's set to go off every 30 seconds or so if you keep your mind in one place. It's a strange feeling.
I was on pills in grade school then I got off them. Then in high school I started up because I thought it might help. I'll never forget the first day. I got to school and I sat down and started talking to a friend. Right away she said, "is something wrong with you? You're acting different." At the time I thought she must have been psychic, because I wasn't doing anything or saying anything that I wouldn't have normally said and done.
But it was probably the first time she had ever seen me sit still without fidgeting and actually look her in the eye. And this is me at probably 18 years old. Everyone in the thread is saying, "that's how kids are supposed to act," and that may be true, but I'm not a kid and I still can't sit still. Even driving.
Caffeine can help a little bit but if I were to have enough caffeine to get that kind of feeling where I don't have to squirm around, my heart would probably explode out of my chest. The medication is just uppers, and of course caffeine is one too. So I get what you're saying. And it's not like they're a miracle cure, but they are somehow different from caffeine. It's not just about having enough energy to do things, it's about having enough energy to short circuit the ball that's bouncing around inside your head. I'm actually not that energetic in person but there's just always that twitch, it's hard to explain.
I wasn't saying "there's no such thing as ADHD," what I was saying was that ADHD is more serious than what Red Bull can fix.
I hope you will read my post history for this article (it's only a few). I have ADD and even though I took ritalin most of my life I somehow fell for the "it's fake" conspiracy theory. It was hard for me to drown out the misinformation even when faced with not only my symptoms, but also the consequences of them over many years.
When I finally acknowledged what I had, it was like seeing the elephant in the room. Yet still I have people who are close to me (who've actually been hospitalized for going crazy) who I can't bring it up with because they think it's fake and I'm a nut for believing it, despite the fact that I'm experiencing something first-hand and they're just guessing.
You'll be wanting a FON then :)
I don't know about the clock speed or memory though. I'm assuming it's similar to a WRT54G. I think they have 32mb RAM now.
not only TV evangelists and the Spanish Inquisition
It's funny, as bad as the Inquisition was, compared to rest of Europe at the time, the worst you could say about it is that people were being put on trial (as opposed to just put to a gruesome death without warning or chance of defense).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Legend
TV evangelists...now THOSE guys I don't trust.
I stopped going to church after I was confirmed (Catholic). Nobody called, nobody showed up at my door. Nobody sued me, nobody harassed me. That's a religion.
I agree, it's a blurry line between a religion and a cult, and as an atheist I find it all equally silly, but at least we can say that there is a spectrum, and mainstream Christianity is on a different side of that spectrum from Scientology. You can knock the Catholics, they won't make death threats against you and your family.
Have you ever read half the stories on Xenu.net? It's pretty disturbing what goes on in Scientology. Better to just be informed than to over generalize.
I think the specific fraud issue here is that they are making those sort of tv psychic hotline claims...we'll make your life better, eliminate sadness, just give us some money...but they're not saying "entertainment only" in the legal copy. Which is not to say that you couldn't accuse all faiths of doing something similar.
That's it, really. While there are a lot of people who I wouldn't trust with a legitimate religious question, your average Catholic priest or Protestant minster will most likely do their best to answer your question up-front, even without any sort of attempt to convert you.
While there are areas of Christianity that are extremely evangelical, and (I know I risk offending some here but oh well) Church of LDS has a similar thing going on with secrecy surrounding certain rituals (though they are trying to modernize), mainstream Christianity is an open book at this point.
Nothing he actually wrote was original, anyway. He took some retarded conspiracy theory bunk from Holy Blood, Holy Grail . We know it's bunk because: (1) like most conspiracy theories, the points are made by post hoc fallacies rather than evidence, and (2) they actually had the balls to sue him for plagiarism, and lost because the judge said, well, if it's "history" then I don't see how he could have plagiarized it, eh boys?
The rest of it is crappy cliffhangers every 3 pages (a la Goosebumps) and a complete lack of anything resembling fleshed-out characters or enjoyable prose.
I hadn't expected someone to bring it up on Slashdot as fact. It's dissapointing.
Honestly, there are Christian sects that do all of those things. There are support groups for ex-Mormons and ex-Watchtower the same way that there are for ex-Scientologists. If you go to their sites you will see people telling similar stories. The tactics are the same, both in making converts and in retaining them.
The main difference as I see it as that there is much more of a variety of Christian denominations. AFAIK there is only one branch of Scientology.
I'm sorry to hear about your son. One day he will be old enough to realize everything. What he has, what the signs of his focus drifting look like, what he can do to compensate for it, and how you did everything you could to help him when he wasn't old enough to help himself. Don't let these guys get to you.
I'm an adult. I have ADD. For years and years I denied it because I thought people like you knew what the fuck they were talking about. I'm almost 30 now and I have nothing to show for it, because instead of treating something I just berated myself for being "lazy."
I'm sick of you armchair quarterbacks. Stick to what you know, don't pontificate about what you don't.
address their natural ADHD
Newsflash: Red Bull, coffee, and Coca Cola are medications for ADHD.
You do not understand what ADHD is. People getting tired, or not wanting to focus on things that are unpleasant...you're right, that's normal, and Red Bull is fine for that.
It's not ADHD.