this makes no sense to me...normally you bill for search and rescue in situations where the person *deliberately* put themselves in harms way, disregarding advice or warnings to the contrary.
for example, billing a skier who goes out of bounds on a ski resort mtn...if you have to send in a heli to go get them, or a patrol team - bill for the manpower and resources. fair enough.
are we going to start billing all the relatives of people lost at sea? is it their fault they got in a boat?
I used to have an account here/. ages ago. Sadly that PW was lost.
I registered again to simply say: Tufte is no genius, his lectures/seminars are overpriced, and I'm tired of hearing about "sparklines".
I heard Tufte speak here in Houston not too long ago. I'd really like to send him a bill for the hours of my life that I wasted.
If I wanted to hear someone rant and rave about PowerPoint, I'd pay a kid in high school. If I wanted to hear some guy with an over inflated sense of self-worth talk about his past accomplishments, I'd tune in to the presidential debates.
In short, to the OP:
1 - Tufte has been bragging about "sparklines" forever. You obviously have seen through the smoke and BS. Kudos to you. I wish my employer/coworkers did the same.
2 - Tufte constantly emphasizes "add more data" "show more info" etc etc. Yet he fails to realize that in the *real world* slides or documents (let alone a UI) that is crowded and complex does no good for the reader/user.
Hey Tufte - Give it a break. You've got enough books. You obviously have a fan base. Do the rest of us a favor and fade off into obscurity so I don't have to hear "How can we incorporate sparklines into this presentation" or "Is this PPT following Tufte's basic principles?" every damn day at the staff meetings./rant off - thanks for the vent/. i missed ye.
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this makes no sense to me...normally you bill for search and rescue in situations where the person *deliberately* put themselves in harms way, disregarding advice or warnings to the contrary. for example, billing a skier who goes out of bounds on a ski resort mtn...if you have to send in a heli to go get them, or a patrol team - bill for the manpower and resources. fair enough. are we going to start billing all the relatives of people lost at sea? is it their fault they got in a boat?
I used to have an account here /. ages ago. Sadly that PW was lost.
I registered again to simply say: Tufte is no genius, his lectures/seminars are overpriced, and I'm tired of hearing about "sparklines".
I heard Tufte speak here in Houston not too long ago. I'd really like to send him a bill for the hours of my life that I wasted.
If I wanted to hear someone rant and rave about PowerPoint, I'd pay a kid in high school. If I wanted to hear some guy with an over inflated sense of self-worth talk about his past accomplishments, I'd tune in to the presidential debates.
In short, to the OP:
1 - Tufte has been bragging about "sparklines" forever. You obviously have seen through the smoke and BS. Kudos to you. I wish my employer/coworkers did the same.
2 - Tufte constantly emphasizes "add more data" "show more info" etc etc. Yet he fails to realize that in the *real world* slides or documents (let alone a UI) that is crowded and complex does no good for the reader/user.
Hey Tufte - Give it a break. You've got enough books. You obviously have a fan base. Do the rest of us a favor and fade off into obscurity so I don't have to hear "How can we incorporate sparklines into this presentation" or "Is this PPT following Tufte's basic principles?" every damn day at the staff meetings. /rant off - thanks for the vent /. i missed ye.