I certainly did that when I got bugged about my 'open tickets', and also when I was asked to itemize my duties to hire my replacement/assistant. After a few days of emailing up task descriptions in a text file broken down at a granular level (especially noting task-switching and meetings) and including the 10% 'timekeeping' overhead they said I didn't have to keep doing that...
And I wasn't even being precious, I actually enjoyed seeing the myriad of things I did in a day written down like that:)
> Actually "hours without productivity lost to problems" could be a great metric in this case. - multiplied by users and services supported, times the estimated dollar loss of a failure.
The best bit is it's bound to increase nice and steadily, so even if a noisy secretary loses half a day for whatever reason, you can point at the additional work done that week, and say it wasn't a loss as much as slightly slower gain...
Wouldn't it be nice if there was some sort of resource where we could look up terms we didn't understand, so everyone in the world could have access to that sort of information?... Oh, wait.
Wouldn't it be nice if the website called 'papercdcase.com' contained more than just one pdf file, and also had an actual downloadable, printable template?... Oh, wait.
Assuming your are geniumely asking this question...
The answer goes: US$1 = a tip at a bar, or a cup of Soda in the States. US$1 = 1 hours wage, or a full dinner in Indonesia.
So while $1=$1 , 1 soda 1 dinner.
What exchange rates mean is that Western tourists will find things "cheap" (they can buy more things with less $ than at home) and the locals will see the Westerners as "rich" (The amount of cash dropped on a two week holiday could probably have paid off their entire mortgage) Exchange rates DO NOT equalize any of these imbalances. Although some Communist countries tried to manipulate them in that way many years back..dan.
Re:great but where are the .txt and directories?
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For directories and other files (including, interestingly but worryingly zips etc) I found much unexpected data in the Wayback Machine
Now while it's not exactly a search engine itself, it's in the same family, and I use it instead of GoogleCache when needed. Most informative were the snapshots you can find of sites recorded whilst they were in development (ie, before they turned off directory listings and turned on security settings) Good for retrieving any backups you forgot to make - although a bit hard (and slow) to re-assemble if using a web-whacker to grab the bits automatically - the mirror files are all over the place.
Wow, a decade after picking up his books, I finally grok that line from R.A.W.
Here we have dozens of people aguing about the isness and isn'tness of some Damned Thing, all the while blind to the axiom that "All propositions are true in some sense, false in some sense, and meaningless in some sense".
The photo(s) were true, in that they depicted accurately what was going on. False, in that the exact arrangement of light and shadow didn't happen. Meaningless in that it was a falsification presented as fact (the virtue of fact is that it is true, if you have a false fact, it is no longer what it is). Doubly meaningless by virtue of having passed through the intestinal tract of a modern media during wartime.
The varying interpretations here demonstrate that the manipulation wasn't done for political reasons, (or at least it didn't succeed in emphasizing the effect one way or the other).
IMO, I agree that his actions were totally wrong, unethical, dismissable, although not in this case deceptive.
It's the waiting for the next case that means we must stamp on this one.
once, three kids beat me up and I got suspended for it!!!
Surely it's random acts of violence that this whole system is out to prevent? The fact is, it's there to allow people to safely report anti-social behaviour. You might not feel like snitching yourself, but if you see some other victim being shaken down in the bikesheds, it's nice to think you might care enough to try and prevent it happening again.
It looks like this snitch-line might actually do an OK job of targeting bullies. By giving wimps a voice. This whole discussion has somehow swung around to believing it's victimizing nerds - who are actually usually on the receiving end of the sh*t that goes down.
Don't you realize your sob-story of harrasment is actually a request for for more powerful community policing? (But frankly, having someone draw cartoons in your yearbook sounds a pretty feeble form of intimidation...)
There will be a new web page soon that will post "among other things" the addresses and phone numbers of any and all corporate executives of major corporations, or even small ones that are worthy as Pinkerton is worthy of our scrutiny. As much information as is NEWS worth concerning them will be posted as well, including their photos, etc.
Heh, and this 'invasion of privacy' (tongue>cheek) is different from their actions how? Because your definition of NEWS is morally superior to theirs?
- not flamebait, just philosophy. I laud your action, just wanna doublethink your justifications.
This week I've found two Slashdot stories worth spending much time reading.
One was about someone who set up a system where members of a school could report anonymously on what they thought of other people. The content was largely personal opinions, ranging from kudos to libel. These results were immediately made available to the public, without moderation, and become a 'rating' for the targeted individual. Readers are invited to act on this information.
The freedom for someone to provide this 'service' was largely defended in/. postings.
In other news, Someone set up a system which allows members of a schoool community to voice fears about the genuine personal safety of themselves and their friends. This feedback would (theoretically) be forwarded to appropriately trained individuals (deans, social workers, peer groups) for evaluation, and possibly acted on in a manner appropriate to the community. At no point should the information that someone was accused, or the exact details of that accusation be made public, although records may be kept.
/. posters almost entirely derided this concept, and many folk activly suggested mailbombings, server hacks and flooding the system with misinformation.
The stories: Professor Sues teacherreview.com Site Operator http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/03/26/2022 43
Geek Profiling: The Next W.A.V.E. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/03/28/1832 19 ------------------------------------------
Now personally I don't think much of either of these concepts. I choose to be naive about privacy issues (I got nothing to hide) but educated about the options (I CHOOSE to have cookies enabled because it makes my life easier, I don't have to remember my/. password).
But does no-one else see the paradox in the two stories? You want to have your privacy & deny it to everyone else? Or vice versa, everyone has free speech as long as they aren't talking about you behind your back?
Slashdot Mirror
Get in line!
On a kids show called "Lets Get Inventin", Alex Drinkwater built exactly this device - and got a full working prototype going.
As you can see by the picture (half way down this article) direct image link the design is not only identical - it's BETTER with a built-in cellphone carrier! Somebody, give the kid his patent!
I certainly did that when I got bugged about my 'open tickets', and also when I was asked to itemize my duties to hire my replacement/assistant. ...
:)
After a few days of emailing up task descriptions in a text file broken down at a granular level (especially noting task-switching and meetings) and including the 10% 'timekeeping' overhead they said I didn't have to keep doing that
And I wasn't even being precious, I actually enjoyed seeing the myriad of things I did in a day written down like that
> Actually "hours without productivity lost to problems" could be a great metric in this case.
- multiplied by users and services supported, times the estimated dollar loss of a failure.
The best bit is it's bound to increase nice and steadily, so even if a noisy secretary loses half a day for whatever reason, you can point at the additional work done that week, and say it wasn't a loss as much as slightly slower gain...
Heh. Vicious cycle that is...
Wouldn't it be nice if there was some sort of resource where we could look up terms we didn't understand, so everyone in the world could have access to that sort of information? ... Oh, wait.
... Oh, wait.
Wouldn't it be nice if the website called 'papercdcase.com' contained more than just one pdf file, and also had an actual downloadable, printable template?
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4. PROFIT!
Assuming your are geniumely asking this question...
.dan.
The answer goes:
US$1 = a tip at a bar, or a cup of Soda in the States.
US$1 = 1 hours wage, or a full dinner in Indonesia.
So while $1=$1 , 1 soda 1 dinner.
What exchange rates mean is that Western tourists will find things "cheap" (they can buy more things with less $ than at home) and the locals will see the Westerners as "rich" (The amount of cash dropped on a two week holiday could probably have paid off their entire mortgage)
Exchange rates DO NOT equalize any of these imbalances. Although some Communist countries tried to manipulate them in that way many years back.
For directories and other files (including, interestingly but worryingly zips etc) I found much unexpected data in the Wayback Machine
Now while it's not exactly a search engine itself, it's in the same family, and I use it instead of GoogleCache when needed.
Most informative were the snapshots you can find of sites recorded whilst they were in development (ie, before they turned off directory listings and turned on security settings)
Good for retrieving any backups you forgot to make - although a bit hard (and slow) to re-assemble if using a web-whacker to grab the bits automatically - the mirror files are all over the place.
Wow, a decade after picking up his books, I finally grok that line from R.A.W.
Here we have dozens of people aguing about the isness and isn'tness of some Damned Thing, all the while blind to the axiom that
"All propositions are true in some sense, false in some sense, and meaningless in some sense".
The photo(s) were true, in that they depicted accurately what was going on.
False, in that the exact arrangement of light and shadow didn't happen.
Meaningless in that it was a falsification presented as fact (the virtue of fact is that it is true, if you have a false fact, it is no longer what it is).
Doubly meaningless by virtue of having passed through the intestinal tract of a modern media during wartime.
The varying interpretations here demonstrate that the manipulation wasn't done for political reasons, (or at least it didn't succeed in emphasizing the effect one way or the other).
IMO, I agree that his actions were totally wrong, unethical, dismissable, although not in this case deceptive.
It's the waiting for the next case that means we must stamp on this one.
once, three kids beat me up and I got suspended for it!!!
Surely it's random acts of violence that this whole system is out to prevent? The fact is, it's there to allow people to safely report anti-social behaviour.
You might not feel like snitching yourself, but if you see some other victim being shaken down in the bikesheds, it's nice to think you might care enough to try and prevent it happening again.
It looks like this snitch-line might actually do an OK job of targeting bullies. By giving wimps a voice. This whole discussion has somehow swung around to believing it's victimizing nerds - who are actually usually on the receiving end of the sh*t that goes down.
Don't you realize your sob-story of harrasment is actually a request for for more powerful community policing? (But frankly, having someone draw cartoons in your yearbook sounds a pretty feeble form of intimidation...)
There will be a new web page soon that will post "among other things" the addresses and phone numbers of any and all corporate executives of major corporations, or even small ones that are worthy as Pinkerton is worthy of our scrutiny. As much information as is NEWS worth concerning them will be posted as well, including their photos, etc.
Heh, and this 'invasion of privacy' (tongue>cheek) is different from their actions how? Because your definition of NEWS is morally superior to theirs?
- not flamebait, just philosophy. I laud your action, just wanna doublethink your justifications.
This week I've found two Slashdot stories worth spending much time reading.
/. postings.
2 43
2 19
/. password).
One was about someone who set up a system where members of a school could report anonymously on what they thought of other people. The content was largely personal opinions, ranging from kudos to libel.
These results were immediately made available to the public, without moderation, and become a 'rating' for the targeted individual. Readers are invited to act on this information.
The freedom for someone to provide this 'service' was largely defended in
In other news,
Someone set up a system which allows members of a schoool community to voice fears about the genuine personal safety of themselves and their friends.
This feedback would (theoretically) be forwarded to appropriately trained individuals (deans, social workers, peer groups) for evaluation, and possibly acted on in a manner appropriate to the community.
At no point should the information that someone was accused, or the exact details of that accusation be made public, although records may be kept.
/. posters almost entirely derided this concept, and many folk activly suggested mailbombings, server hacks and flooding the system with misinformation.
The stories:
Professor Sues teacherreview.com Site Operator
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/03/26/202
Geek Profiling: The Next W.A.V.E.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/03/28/183
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Now personally I don't think much of either of these concepts.
I choose to be naive about privacy issues (I got nothing to hide) but educated about the options (I CHOOSE to have cookies enabled because it makes my life easier, I don't have to remember my
But does no-one else see the paradox in the two stories?
You want to have your privacy & deny it to everyone else? Or vice versa, everyone has free speech as long as they aren't talking about you behind your back?