It's hard to develop a connection with parents if both of them work 40 hours a week, work out at the gym, belong to a bowling or golfing league, shuttle the kids off to sport, etc.
In short: 99% of the problems we face would be solved if we had 1 working parent homes....
I can't agree with you more on that.
...there wasn't a parental bond in this instance, we'd see in most criminal behavior (ruling out mental defects)...
I don't believe mental defect=criminal. I think parental involvement would help even then. I would like to see the stats on mental=criminal there has to be studies done on this.
"We're moving to a new home and are having a family meeting this Thursday to evaluate hanging toilet paper so that the next sheet is over versus under on the roll. I was wondering how other readers have approached this decision?"
There's already a site about that. Here. Not that I recommend it.
"I'd like to set my USB to automount to a fixed drive letter when I plug it into my Windows XP laptop. I'm considering J:, P:, and possibly Q:. What do you all think? Should I look at M: as well?"
Use this. 'USBDLM is a Windows service that gives control over Window's drive letter assignment for USB drives.'
Working for a state agency I am required to use a Blackberry vs. a smartphone or other PDA. This is suppossedly because it is more secure and has an encryption password built in that will wipe the phone if lost.
Social Intelligence is a skill that can be taught and learned. That is how most people get it although somewhat unconsciously. Inherent personality does play a role which is why "Nerds" have to work harder at learning it.
Because the majority of the world runs on Social IQ more than we like to admit.
I just took over the Veritas servers (among other things) where I work. The guy I replaced (went into management) starts twitching whenever I ask him why we have the policies we do.
If they count the restore requests I get for files that have been corrupt for almost a year being backed up diligently in their corrupt form the whole time then 10% data loss is a very low number.
If they count the restore requests I get for files that have been saved to their PC hard drive that just crashed when they know they are supposed to save to the mapped drive on the server then 10% data loss is a very low number.
If they count the restore requests I get for files that have been moved not "lost" then 10% data loss is a very low number. The engineers here are on a 3month rotation schedule so they occasionally may not be working in the same department for 6 months.
I am lucky that the critical data (finished projects) are saved read only to a server cluster. So they live there forever barring massive multiple hardware failure. Normally a down server faults over, faulty drives can be hot swapped, etc.
The policy on that server was 6 months backed up to tape which should have been plenty but they wait to ask for files until the backups are gone. I just extended it to 1 year since we are migrating to a larger tape library. I feel your pain even though I just started doing this. I am patient now we'll see what a few years does.
Yes I work in IT I think TFA was referring more to the personality type that migrates towards the IT jobs being nerds. Thus being nerds IT types tend to take abuse rather than standing up for themselves. If someone is being abusive they are probably just stressed out themselves. If it happens where I work I just quietly walk away and they are usually falling over themselves to apologize later(so I will come back and fix their computer). This is not because of some god complex. It is because I treat everyone in our diverse workplace with respect. So I demand it in return. BTW I have thick skin so it takes a lot for me to walk away but I will.
When I first moved in to my apartment which has free basic cable I hooked the Comcast cable to the back of the TV and got nothing. Not wanting to deal with them I tried the Digital tuner box I had purchased when we didn't have cable and viola it worked. Got up to channel 120 very clear until my wife called to have a second room setup and they helpfully switched us to analog(big difference very fuzzy). I know this isn't the same situation but maybe this helps.
I think that Microsoft must think new users will find it intuitive but my experience tells me that people are afraid to click on anything they don't recognize (like a picture of a printer or the word print) flashing or not. The reason I chose to comment on this is because everyone I have installed MSO 2007 on has had the same problem finding the menu. Often even after I have told them where to look. Of course these are current Office Suite users.
See the Circle in the upper left corner. Click it and a menu will appear that includes print. Call me crazy but the circle seems less intuitive then clicking the word File.
It took me a long time to realize on an individual level that all advise(criticism) is good. I had to become stubborn enough to listen to it all and still do what I thought was right. Sometimes I even hear something that changes my mind about what is right but I can take it or leave it now.
On a larger scale that is what they need to do. Allow the criticism and be willing and able to stand up to it when you feel it is wrong. It helps prevent mistakes from lack of knowledge. The down side is if your up against a fancy talker you could be completely right and they could still sway public opinion against you. On the personal level my solution to that problem was to learn to speak more effectively. Perhaps they should allocate more budget to their spin dept. rather than the censor dept.?
Either Jzanu is being trite or he really buys into the whole oppression "for your own good" thing. Which is telling in itself. The powers that be always try to convince you that it is in the public interest that they are oppressing you.
Unless they ignore the problem to long. Then they have the financial backing to out do craigslist. After all they have been publishing classifieds a lot longer. If they can adapt to the new media or medium that people are migrating to. I just hope they don't borrow a page from RIAA's playbook and use those resources to attack their customers for going to other sources for their news. However they seem more sensitive to what that would do.
Circulation continues to fall at about 2.5% year-to-year for dailies and 3.3% for Sunday editions.1 The total reach of newspaper organizations including their online and niche products is growing, but this does not translate readily into sustaining advertising revenue...
What is true all over is that margins have begun to decline quickly and that high fixed costs from the era of print dominance are not sustainable. That puts some papers facing the possibility of going into the red, and sales of extraneous business units or buildings and land have become commonplace.
If only they(meaning those with a job title of journalist) would follow that higher standard then half the complaints about them would go away.
I hope we can rediscover true journalism as you describe it. What form it will take is the question. We can only hope that fair and unbiased are givens.
Until this year, mobile app developers lacked an easy way to get their software into the hands of consumers, forcing them to make deals with finicky and power-hungry carriers if they wanted to get any distribution at all.
This as apposed to forcing them to make deals with a finicky and power-hungry hardware manufacturer.
Non profit != not getting paid to work. They are still getting ad revenue and hopefully offer some subscription services above and beyond free registration. Non profit just helps around tax time as well as allowing bigger donations. ~looks thoughtfully into distance... I wonder if special interest will take advantage of this.
The only problem is that you are not looking at the big picture. Journalist don't become journalist because of some altruistic drive to report unbiased news for newspapers. The become journalist because they want to get published. The same people will find another way to satisfy that urge. Some people just have a hard time adjusting to the new way.
The problem isn't just limited to the news, either. I expect for some/.ers to offer the same solutions they do for other copyright holders whose income is being lowered by the internet's near-zero cost of distribution - the journalists should tour more, sell more merchandise, or work under a patronage model.
Oops, you got modded down. Well I thought it was funny. Your representation of what people think we think was pretty accurate. But it lacks a real understanding of what has changed.
The real solution is to embrace the new way things are distributed and use it to your advantage rather then fighting it to your own detriment.
The Internets is a tool that can be used for both good and evil. Like most tools it has no morals itself it just makes things easier.
Am I missing something here. I subscribe to the newspaper so I can access the archives on their website I put the actual paper in the recycling on my way out the door every morning.
This gives them the same revenue from me they would be getting if I actually read the paper. If they embrace this business model for techies and sell the dead trees to everyone else(there are still people not on the internet) they will be fine.
I also get some other extras for subscribing vs. free registration like the actual paper in PDF format and advanced data search capabilities in their archives.
Part of the problem is it is cheaper to subscribe to the paper then just pay for an account online. This points towards draconian thinking. Once setup the cost for the online service approaches zero. So they should charge less not more.
It's only a matter of time. One of there own.
You may be under the impression that is common today that technology can improve everything and make life generally better. Mmmm... technology... what was I saying again?
Slashdot Mirror
It's hard to develop a connection with parents if both of them work 40 hours a week, work out at the gym, belong to a bowling or golfing league, shuttle the kids off to sport, etc.
In short: 99% of the problems we face would be solved if we had 1 working parent homes. ...
I can't agree with you more on that.
...there wasn't a parental bond in this instance, we'd see in most criminal behavior (ruling out mental defects)...
I don't believe mental defect=criminal. I think parental involvement would help even then. I would like to see the stats on mental=criminal there has to be studies done on this.
So how does it know if it is lost ... and if it is lost can it 'phone home'.... does it like Reses Pieces ....
Someone enters the wrong password ... yes ... never asked ...
There is also a remote wipe command that can be sent.
"I'm thinking of switching from a soft toothbrush to a medium-soft. How has that worked out for you?"
"I'm considering moving my sock drawer from the top right to the top left drawer. Can anyone tell me the pros and cons of each arrangement?
"We're moving to a new home and are having a family meeting this Thursday to evaluate hanging toilet paper so that the next sheet is over versus under on the roll. I was wondering how other readers have approached this decision?"
"I'd like to set my USB to automount to a fixed drive letter when I plug it into my Windows XP laptop. I'm considering J:, P:, and possibly Q:. What do you all think? Should I look at M: as well?"
Working for a state agency I am required to use a Blackberry vs. a smartphone or other PDA. This is suppossedly because it is more secure and has an encryption password built in that will wipe the phone if lost.
Where was this course when I went to college.
Social Intelligence is a skill that can be taught and learned. That is how most people get it although somewhat unconsciously. Inherent personality does play a role which is why "Nerds" have to work harder at learning it.
Because the majority of the world runs on Social IQ more than we like to admit.
I just took over the Veritas servers (among other things) where I work. The guy I replaced (went into management) starts twitching whenever I ask him why we have the policies we do.
If they count the restore requests I get for files that have been corrupt for almost a year being backed up diligently in their corrupt form the whole time then 10% data loss is a very low number.
If they count the restore requests I get for files that have been saved to their PC hard drive that just crashed when they know they are supposed to save to the mapped drive on the server then 10% data loss is a very low number.
If they count the restore requests I get for files that have been moved not "lost" then 10% data loss is a very low number. The engineers here are on a 3month rotation schedule so they occasionally may not be working in the same department for 6 months.
I am lucky that the critical data (finished projects) are saved read only to a server cluster. So they live there forever barring massive multiple hardware failure. Normally a down server faults over, faulty drives can be hot swapped, etc.
The policy on that server was 6 months backed up to tape which should have been plenty but they wait to ask for files until the backups are gone. I just extended it to 1 year since we are migrating to a larger tape library. I feel your pain even though I just started doing this. I am patient now we'll see what a few years does.
Yes I work in IT I think TFA was referring more to the personality type that migrates towards the IT jobs being nerds. Thus being nerds IT types tend to take abuse rather than standing up for themselves. If someone is being abusive they are probably just stressed out themselves. If it happens where I work I just quietly walk away and they are usually falling over themselves to apologize later(so I will come back and fix their computer). This is not because of some god complex. It is because I treat everyone in our diverse workplace with respect. So I demand it in return. BTW I have thick skin so it takes a lot for me to walk away but I will.
You can't just tell people something to get their consent to make changes, and then not follow through on your end of the bargain.
You must be new here.
When I first moved in to my apartment which has free basic cable I hooked the Comcast cable to the back of the TV and got nothing. Not wanting to deal with them I tried the Digital tuner box I had purchased when we didn't have cable and viola it worked. Got up to channel 120 very clear until my wife called to have a second room setup and they helpfully switched us to analog(big difference very fuzzy). I know this isn't the same situation but maybe this helps.
I think that Microsoft must think new users will find it intuitive but my experience tells me that people are afraid to click on anything they don't recognize (like a picture of a printer or the word print) flashing or not. The reason I chose to comment on this is because everyone I have installed MSO 2007 on has had the same problem finding the menu. Often even after I have told them where to look. Of course these are current Office Suite users.
Took a long time to find it myself.
See the Circle in the upper left corner. Click it and a menu will appear that includes print. Call me crazy but the circle seems less intuitive then clicking the word File.
It took me a long time to realize on an individual level that all advise(criticism) is good. I had to become stubborn enough to listen to it all and still do what I thought was right. Sometimes I even hear something that changes my mind about what is right but I can take it or leave it now.
On a larger scale that is what they need to do. Allow the criticism and be willing and able to stand up to it when you feel it is wrong. It helps prevent mistakes from lack of knowledge. The down side is if your up against a fancy talker you could be completely right and they could still sway public opinion against you. On the personal level my solution to that problem was to learn to speak more effectively. Perhaps they should allocate more budget to their spin dept. rather than the censor dept.?
Either Jzanu is being trite or he really buys into the whole oppression "for your own good" thing. Which is telling in itself. The powers that be always try to convince you that it is in the public interest that they are oppressing you.
NASA robot to use Linux
Circulation continues to fall at about 2.5% year-to-year for dailies and 3.3% for Sunday editions.1 The total reach of newspaper organizations including their online and niche products is growing, but this does not translate readily into sustaining advertising revenue...
What is true all over is that margins have begun to decline quickly and that high fixed costs from the era of print dominance are not sustainable. That puts some papers facing the possibility of going into the red, and sales of extraneous business units or buildings and land have become commonplace.
Newspapers in 2008
If only they(meaning those with a job title of journalist) would follow that higher standard then half the complaints about them would go away.
I hope we can rediscover true journalism as you describe it. What form it will take is the question. We can only hope that fair and unbiased are givens.
Until this year, mobile app developers lacked an easy way to get their software into the hands of consumers, forcing them to make deals with finicky and power-hungry carriers if they wanted to get any distribution at all.
This as apposed to forcing them to make deals with a finicky and power-hungry hardware manufacturer.
Non profit != not getting paid to work. They are still getting ad revenue and hopefully offer some subscription services above and beyond free registration. Non profit just helps around tax time as well as allowing bigger donations. ~looks thoughtfully into distance... I wonder if special interest will take advantage of this.
The only problem is that you are not looking at the big picture. Journalist don't become journalist because of some altruistic drive to report unbiased news for newspapers. The become journalist because they want to get published. The same people will find another way to satisfy that urge. Some people just have a hard time adjusting to the new way.
You insensitive clod I get my news from TV haven't you heard of the Colbert Report
The problem isn't just limited to the news, either. I expect for some /.ers to offer the same solutions they do for other copyright holders whose income is being lowered by the internet's near-zero cost of distribution - the journalists should tour more, sell more merchandise, or work under a patronage model.
Oops, you got modded down. Well I thought it was funny. Your representation of what people think we think was pretty accurate. But it lacks a real understanding of what has changed.
The real solution is to embrace the new way things are distributed and use it to your advantage rather then fighting it to your own detriment.
The Internets is a tool that can be used for both good and evil. Like most tools it has no morals itself it just makes things easier.
Am I missing something here. I subscribe to the newspaper so I can access the archives on their website I put the actual paper in the recycling on my way out the door every morning.
This gives them the same revenue from me they would be getting if I actually read the paper. If they embrace this business model for techies and sell the dead trees to everyone else(there are still people not on the internet) they will be fine.
I also get some other extras for subscribing vs. free registration like the actual paper in PDF format and advanced data search capabilities in their archives.
Part of the problem is it is cheaper to subscribe to the paper then just pay for an account online. This points towards draconian thinking. Once setup the cost for the online service approaches zero. So they should charge less not more.
Using your logic, Shrek has the same plot pattern as Iron Man.
Now you understand...
It's only a matter of time. One of there own.
You may be under the impression that is common today that technology can improve everything and make life generally better. Mmmm... technology... what was I saying again?
The truth is that while paperless may sound sexy it is not really practical. They are trying to apply technology to what is a social problem.