Do you have any evidence to support this? (I'm not trying to be a smart ass I'm really curious as to if there has been research done into why people don't vote.)
b.) educate themselves enough on the issues to be able to make an informed decision.
You don't have to take a test to prove that you are informed enough to vote, I'm willing to wager that there is a fair amount of uninformed people voting.
I'd also like to see the gender breakdown on this, from my experience women like warmer offices and men like colder offices. Since it is secreterial (sp?) skills I'm going to go with the generilzation that there are more women in the group and hence that may be why there is an increase with temp.
I have two Sony universal remotes, different models. They both have a button that basically says "turn everything off", it is smart enough to only turn off the things that are on.
How long before he gets arrested?
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Using the phrase "Hacking Congress", is probably a terrorist act. I'm pretty sure that when I drive by the Capitol, my car would get extra scrutiny if that book was in my passenger seat.
{OT} but I've got Karma to burn And for those unfamilar with the policies in DC, every car that goes within two blocks of the Capitol Building is now searched, which is a major traffic issue seeing as Independence Ave, passes with in this zone and is (rather used to be) one the fastest ways though the city, but now with the every car must be searched issue is a pain in the ass and a traffic nightmare, let alone probably pretty close to violating the 4th Amendment.
I clarified that in a later post that it if I see SQL for Dummies on a CEO's desk I'll actually be intrigued, but if I see it on the lead DBA's desk I'll be worried.
I all came from a bad experience with two managers one who was truly a "One Minute Manager" and thought that those books were the answer to everything and would give them to his staff on a regular basis hence my familiarity with them, and another who was the VP of Quality and had a copy of "Quality for Dummies" on his desk unfortunately is wasn't there as a joke, but as a learning reference:-( If I see academic business journals open to case studies on process improvement, I'd be rather impressed. The books mentioned in the review are great examples of "Airport Books" look a few threads down. Finally this is/. I'm supposed to sound harsh, bitter and jaded otherwise my comments will never get modded up;-)
You make a good point and I agree that many people over simplify the problem and that why it works on paper but not in practice. An example is that the players also do things that are very hard to measure. For example if there are some people who regardless of the value prop or the rationality will not buy a Chevy because they are a "Ford person" this doesn't factor into the example that I commented on. I guess the point I'm trying to make is similar to yours and that is the the hard part is figuring out all the variables including the irrationality of the players and the math to get the result.
Assuming both of these players are rational (rationality = wanting the biggest piece)
That is a big assumption, I suggest reading into chaos a little bit, and you will find that beyond very, very, very tiny examples that the players don't always act rationally.
If you are using the HtWFaIP and WMMC as reference books. To me it equates with going to People magazine as an authority on history. I've read those books and Design Patterns as well, I'm not saying that there is nothing to be learned by reading those books but for them to be reference books for a manager puts me on edge. I've done plenty of wrong things and I never claimed perfection. But I don't find those books inspirational and well thought out, I find them cheesey, obivious and condesending.
Like I said if it is on the Lead DBA's desk, it would raise a flag, just like if those books are on the manager's desk it would rasie a flag, if I see the reverse, it doesn't bother me.
By your argument, anyone with Design Patterns on their desk is a fool, because they should already know that stuff intuitively. That's true, to a degree - the stuff in Design Patterns should look very familiar. But you haven't spent the time weighing the pros & cons and communicating them clearly that Gamma et al have, and you need Design Patterns. If you think you don't, you probably need it more.
Design Patterns is a reference book, if you use the above mentioned books as reference books then I'm pretty sure I don't want to work for you.
As a recent college graduate I think this subject is facinating, Congrats
considering I never really gave a thought to business strategy or office politics.
You'd better otherwise you probably won't get very far.
The fact you're convinced you wont learn anything reading a book like this just underscores why you will never become management.
First I didn't say that you won't learn anything reading a book like this, but it will raise a flag to me if it is displayed on your desk, because a thought to business strategy is displaying on your desk materials that establish your background and position. I have been managment and managed a successful team, and I find it interesting that a recent college graduate has the experience and the insight to judge if I will ever become management.
Admitedly, if I were to see teach yourself Java in 21 days on one of my coworkers desks, I would be similarly distressed. But I don't post on message boards saying if you read a book for beginners you must be stupid.
Again I never said that if you read the book you are stupid, but if have it laying out on your desk and you are a manager, it is a bad sign. Just as TY Java is fine to see an fresh hire's desk, but not on your Java team lead's desk.
Oh, I don't know. Carnegie's book said a lot of fairly harmless things, like "say thank-you to people", and "try to remember what things the other person is interested in".
My point is that if you have to learn this from a book and it is not common sense then you probably won't be a very good manager.
If I go to a company and I see "How to Win Friends and Influence People", "Who Moved My Cheese","The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" or "Managment for Dummies" on a desk I know that it is not a place I want to work. To me it is the same as seeing "SQL for Dummies" on a lead DBA's desk if you are that far along in your career you should be well beyond those books.
From reading the book and some websites, the jist is that it is the last stand for "the people" to protect themselves from over zealous prosecutors and from cases where the law is unfair. This right(?) has been used for evil as well, in the 50s sometimes juries would not convict white people of killing black people, even when the facts made it very clear that the white person was guilty. I'm also not sure it has to do with the laywers trying to remind you of that fact more more so for cases where the person doesn't deserve punish for a crime, even they would be guilty by the letter of the law.
A I learned from the book "50 Things You Aren't Supposed to Know" and the Fully Informed Jury Association. Juries, while using the law as a guide, they may choose not convict even though the person may be guilty by the letter and even the spirit of the law. Jury nullification would be well warrented. (Now the people mentioned in the article are British and I am not familiar with British law, though I believe this right was developed based on the model laid out in the Magna Carta.)
I salvaged an 11 year old 486-66DX with 24mb ram. Put a 120GB HD in it, an ethernet card, and installed Debian with Bacula. All together it cost me less than $100 to provide a backup solution for three PCs. Everything is scheduled to backup automatically & I get emails if something doesn't work.
How did you find a computer that old that is able to get beyond the BIOS limit of a 2GB HDD?
Linux will let you partion the disk for 4 GB, but once you write outside of the 2 GB limit you are hosed, and yes I learned this lesson the hard way.
True, my military network-fu is limited to work visits to the Pentagon and not be allowed to touch anything fun:-( And I'm a developer by trade, not a systems guy. The point I was trying to make is that the original poster said that a good way combat spam is see when it affects mission critical work at the DoD, because they have several smart people (employees and contractors) and vast resources. I feel that since spam doesn't touch SIPRnet* it won't be marked to the highest priority, add in the fact that the spammers, though dispicable, are smart enough not to annoy the DoD (.mil), though my.gov address does get a fair share of 419 email.
*Anyway thanks for the overview of the DoD networks.
and they had $500 million, that's 1 million per person in a country where the average per capita income is $290 a year, the scammers should have stopped while they were a head.
The US Military doesn't use computers that are hooked up to the Internet (or receive external email) for secure systems. The only spam would come from other cleared people on other cleared computers and that would be pretty traceable. Now I realize that they also have external mail systems, but I doubt that spammers are dumb enough to send a lot of email to.mil addresses, and I don't think that while it only effects external systems it will get the attention it needs.
Actually I think it depends a lot on your client base. If you primary business is selling rock music, then The Clash or Radio would be good on hold music. In fact one of the many things that impresses about the ISP Speakeasy, which probably has a younger crowd than say Verizon DSL, is that when on hold with support I heard Smashing Pumpkins, while not my favorite band, it is certainly better than listening to Barbra Streisand.
I know that in Nothern Virginia, where I used to live, despite that fact I lived 10 minutes from AOL and Worldcom headquarters in a housing development less than 5 years old and was 10,000 ft from the CO, I wasn't able to get highspeed internet access. I know a couple of people who chose areas that specifically promised high speed. I instead moved into DC about 5000 feet from the CO, into an area over 200 years old where high speed is available.
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a.) get their asses to the polls
Do you have any evidence to support this? (I'm not trying to be a smart ass I'm really curious as to if there has been research done into why people don't vote.)
b.) educate themselves enough on the issues to be able to make an informed decision.
You don't have to take a test to prove that you are informed enough to vote, I'm willing to wager that there is a fair amount of uninformed people voting.
I'd also like to see the gender breakdown on this, from my experience women like warmer offices and men like colder offices. Since it is secreterial (sp?) skills I'm going to go with the generilzation that there are more women in the group and hence that may be why there is an increase with temp.
I have two Sony universal remotes, different models. They both have a button that basically says "turn everything off", it is smart enough to only turn off the things that are on.
Using the phrase "Hacking Congress", is probably a terrorist act. I'm pretty sure that when I drive by the Capitol, my car would get extra scrutiny if that book was in my passenger seat.
{OT} but I've got Karma to burn And for those unfamilar with the policies in DC, every car that goes within two blocks of the Capitol Building is now searched, which is a major traffic issue seeing as Independence Ave, passes with in this zone and is (rather used to be) one the fastest ways though the city, but now with the every car must be searched issue is a pain in the ass and a traffic nightmare, let alone probably pretty close to violating the 4th Amendment.
Actually Perot, sold of EDS several years ago, wait a couple more years and then started Perot systems.
I clarified that in a later post that it if I see SQL for Dummies on a CEO's desk I'll actually be intrigued, but if I see it on the lead DBA's desk I'll be worried.
I all came from a bad experience with two managers one who was truly a "One Minute Manager" and thought that those books were the answer to everything and would give them to his staff on a regular basis hence my familiarity with them, and another who was the VP of Quality and had a copy of "Quality for Dummies" on his desk unfortunately is wasn't there as a joke, but as a learning reference :-( If I see academic business journals open to case studies on process improvement, I'd be rather impressed. The books mentioned in the review are great examples of "Airport Books" look a few threads down. Finally this is /. I'm supposed to sound harsh, bitter and jaded otherwise my comments will never get modded up ;-)
You make a good point and I agree that many people over simplify the problem and that why it works on paper but not in practice. An example is that the players also do things that are very hard to measure. For example if there are some people who regardless of the value prop or the rationality will not buy a Chevy because they are a "Ford person" this doesn't factor into the example that I commented on. I guess the point I'm trying to make is similar to yours and that is the the hard part is figuring out all the variables including the irrationality of the players and the math to get the result.
Assuming both of these players are rational (rationality = wanting the biggest piece)
That is a big assumption, I suggest reading into chaos a little bit, and you will find that beyond very, very, very tiny examples that the players don't always act rationally.
If you are using the HtWFaIP and WMMC as reference books. To me it equates with going to People magazine as an authority on history. I've read those books and Design Patterns as well, I'm not saying that there is nothing to be learned by reading those books but for them to be reference books for a manager puts me on edge. I've done plenty of wrong things and I never claimed perfection. But I don't find those books inspirational and well thought out, I find them cheesey, obivious and condesending.
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Funny, the quality product that shipped on time was my benchmark. Also I didn't enjoy management as much, so I moved back to being a developer.
Like I said if it is on the Lead DBA's desk, it would raise a flag, just like if those books are on the manager's desk it would rasie a flag, if I see the reverse, it doesn't bother me.
By your argument, anyone with Design Patterns on their desk is a fool, because they should already know that stuff intuitively. That's true, to a degree - the stuff in Design Patterns should look very familiar. But you haven't spent the time weighing the pros & cons and communicating them clearly that Gamma et al have, and you need Design Patterns. If you think you don't, you probably need it more.
Design Patterns is a reference book, if you use the above mentioned books as reference books then I'm pretty sure I don't want to work for you.
As a recent college graduate I think this subject is facinating,
Congrats
considering I never really gave a thought to business strategy or office politics.
You'd better otherwise you probably won't get very far.
The fact you're convinced you wont learn anything reading a book like this just underscores why you will never become management.
First I didn't say that you won't learn anything reading a book like this, but it will raise a flag to me if it is displayed on your desk, because a thought to business strategy is displaying on your desk materials that establish your background and position. I have been managment and managed a successful team, and I find it interesting that a recent college graduate has the experience and the insight to judge if I will ever become management.
Admitedly, if I were to see teach yourself Java in 21 days on one of my coworkers desks, I would be similarly distressed. But I don't post on message boards saying if you read a book for beginners you must be stupid.
Again I never said that if you read the book you are stupid, but if have it laying out on your desk and you are a manager, it is a bad sign. Just as TY Java is fine to see an fresh hire's desk, but not on your Java team lead's desk.
Oh, I don't know. Carnegie's book said a lot of fairly harmless things, like "say thank-you to people", and "try to remember what things the other person is interested in".
My point is that if you have to learn this from a book and it is not common sense then you probably won't be a very good manager.
If I go to a company and I see "How to Win Friends and Influence People", "Who Moved My Cheese","The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" or "Managment for Dummies" on a desk I know that it is not a place I want to work. To me it is the same as seeing "SQL for Dummies" on a lead DBA's desk if you are that far along in your career you should be well beyond those books.
From reading the book and some websites, the jist is that it is the last stand for "the people" to protect themselves from over zealous prosecutors and from cases where the law is unfair. This right(?) has been used for evil as well, in the 50s sometimes juries would not convict white people of killing black people, even when the facts made it very clear that the white person was guilty. I'm also not sure it has to do with the laywers trying to remind you of that fact more more so for cases where the person doesn't deserve punish for a crime, even they would be guilty by the letter of the law.
A I learned from the book "50 Things You Aren't Supposed to Know" and the Fully Informed Jury Association. Juries, while using the law as a guide, they may choose not convict even though the person may be guilty by the letter and even the spirit of the law. Jury nullification would be well warrented. (Now the people mentioned in the article are British and I am not familiar with British law, though I believe this right was developed based on the model laid out in the Magna Carta.)
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I salvaged an 11 year old 486-66DX with 24mb ram. Put a 120GB HD in it, an ethernet card, and installed Debian with Bacula. All together it cost me less than $100 to provide a backup solution for three PCs. Everything is scheduled to backup automatically & I get emails if something doesn't work.
How did you find a computer that old that is able to get beyond the BIOS limit of a 2GB HDD?
Linux will let you partion the disk for 4 GB, but once you write outside of the 2 GB limit you are hosed, and yes I learned this lesson the hard way.
True, my military network-fu is limited to work visits to the Pentagon and not be allowed to touch anything fun :-( And I'm a developer by trade, not a systems guy. The point I was trying to make is that the original poster said that a good way combat spam is see when it affects mission critical work at the DoD, because they have several smart people (employees and contractors) and vast resources. I feel that since spam doesn't touch SIPRnet* it won't be marked to the highest priority, add in the fact that the spammers, though dispicable, are smart enough not to annoy the DoD (.mil), though my .gov address does get a fair share of 419 email.
*Anyway thanks for the overview of the DoD networks.
and they had $500 million, that's 1 million per person in a country where the average per capita income is $290 a year, the scammers should have stopped while they were a head.
The US Military doesn't use computers that are hooked up to the Internet (or receive external email) for secure systems. The only spam would come from other cleared people on other cleared computers and that would be pretty traceable. Now I realize that they also have external mail systems, but I doubt that spammers are dumb enough to send a lot of email to .mil addresses, and I don't think that while it only effects external systems it will get the attention it needs.
Actually I think it depends a lot on your client base. If you primary business is selling rock music, then The Clash or Radio would be good on hold music. In fact one of the many things that impresses about the ISP Speakeasy, which probably has a younger crowd than say Verizon DSL, is that when on hold with support I heard Smashing Pumpkins, while not my favorite band, it is certainly better than listening to Barbra Streisand.
I know that in Nothern Virginia, where I used to live, despite that fact I lived 10 minutes from AOL and Worldcom headquarters in a housing development less than 5 years old and was 10,000 ft from the CO, I wasn't able to get highspeed internet access. I know a couple of people who chose areas that specifically promised high speed. I instead moved into DC about 5000 feet from the CO, into an area over 200 years old where high speed is available.