And that's a big IF...
I had an energy audit run on my house earlier this year and the local power and light sent me a half dozen free CFLs.
3 of them are still functioning after less than a year.
Way to leave out salient facts from your link, such as:
"The researchers assessed the performance of 200 participants over a single task (simulated freeway driving), and again with a second demanding activity added (a cell phone conversation that involved memorizing words and solving math problems). "
So how often do you think MOST people have to "MEMORIZE WORDS and SOLVE MATH PROBLEMS" when they're on a cell phone conversation? Care to try posting a more true-to-life study that doesn't put such unreal conditions on the experiment?
It's one thing when someone's punching the keypad. It's completely different to be talking on the phone but not punching the buttons.
By the way, whenever someone admits to "When I see somebody holding a phone instead of driving, I call the police.", I give them a ration of shit. Why? 2 months ago no emergency responders were responding to emergency calls in this city because people like you, reporting non-emergency problems like that, flooded the 911 center.
IMHO, you're an idiot.
The point is, people need to figure out what they want before they get in the situation, and then communicate their desires to their next-of-kin. The problem is, this lady and her husband never apparently did that, and left it to the docs, hospitals and insurance companies to call the shots.
The time to quit is when the patient, in counsel with his/her loved ones, decides it's time to quit. I didn't read TFA because I prefer to go off half-cocked when offering my opinions, but if the widow is now wondering if it was worth it, she and her husband obviously had a failure to communicate before he was stricken.
While you're asking for things, how about some pupils that are interested, rested, fed, healthy and able to behave for 6 to 8 hours a day? How about some parents that actually care whether their children do their homework and respect the teachers? I'd love to teach too, but not when I'm going to be held responsible for delivery of the whole social welfare package instead of just teaching.
Well, I can't speak for the situation in NYC but in my small school district in KCMO, there is a) no such thing as this
"rubber room" environment you described and b) teachers, who all belong to the union, are fired on a regular basis for a variety of reasons including incompetence and mistreating students. Your example of the way things work in NYC may be true but it's not typical.
Wrong. Education (public or private) in this country works exactly as well as the provider and recipient makes it work. You come to class and pay attention, don't screw around, do the work, put in a little extra effort and you're going to go somewhere. Most importantly parents have to be involved and stay involved with the education process. Most parents in this country put practically no effort or time into making sure their kids are learning, and it shows. If there's an issue at school, most parents assume it's the other guy's fault and stick up for their kid who doesn't pay attention in class, doesn't do the homework, doesn't behave, doesn't learn anything - to them, it's ALL the teachers' or schools' fault.
Why is it when Johnny can't read we never hold to the fire the feet of the people who have these poor performers in their custody, what, 128 out of 168 hours per week (that's 76% for those of you who can read but not do math)? Or, roughly, 7130/8736 =82% of the hours per year? Who are these people who never get the blame in spite of the fact that they have far greater influence than a (generally) poorly paid babysitter? The parents. When is something going to be done to hold the parents accountable for children who come to school unprepared, emotionally and physically bankrupt and who do nothing but cause trouble when they are there? I'm not a teacher but I surely are am not the only one to notice that when kids underperform, it's never entirely the teachers' fault. Not that I mean to say there aren't some bad teachers out there who need to be fired. But not before a clear pattern is proven that a given teacher has failed to teach rather than the kid fails to learn.
So you seem to be saying it all would have been perfectly OK for the school district to REQUIRE students to take and use these laptops, and have their photos taken when and where the school district decided, had only the school district disclosed that they planned to do so, right?
I'm speechless that anyone would think an arrangement like that would have been OK.
On their personal laptops, yes they do. On servers or laptops used as test machines, no.
Think about the security concepts of least needed access and separation of duties.
On their personal laptops, they may have a need for being able to quickly and freely do certain things.
But once you get to anything approaching production, they need to be locked down.
...until wages on most jobs dropped as low as what they pay a manager at McDonalds.
I quit doing it when industry figured out they could pay 1/10 the wages to entry-level off-shore programmers they used to pay on-shore programmers.
The US has shot itself in the tech feet and there's nothing that can be done as long as nothing more is considered besides cost.
All this physics/engineering/computer geek mumbo-jumbo about energy use and whatnot completely misses the point.
The key point is whether or not the district had a policy on what software could be installed and what could not be, whether that policy was known by and understood by the system administrator, and whether the SETI software in question was disallowed under the policy (if any) or not.
If there was a policy, which was understood by the system administrator to not allow installation of the SETI software and he did it anyway, then his goose is cooked.
Otherwise, the district is probably going to be paying him damages as well as possibly giving him his job back.
if you dislike being called an "IT Guy" so much, why not just get a job on the back of a trash truck and pass out business cards that say "Sanitation Engineer"?
I'm finding out on Tuesday if I'm one of the 15% of IT guys in our company who will be jettisoned because the economy is so bad. Frankly I don't (and I'm sure my fellow IT guys as well don't) care if they call us sh!t bags as much as we'd prefer to remain employed.
"Say, for example, that Microsoft Windows violates a patent, should the patent holders be able to sue every user of Microsoft Windows?"
Apparently, now the answer is yes. Didn't used to be but now it is, in east TX anyway.
Brickwall: "So far the magnet program appears to be working, unfortunately the crocs have started to collect huge amounts of take-out menus and child artwork."
Was the OP totally kidding around about this, or was there something in the referenced article that mentioned either of these things? I sure didn't see it.
I can't believe no one else has posted my favorite yet: command "precall" in the shell.
Just go into the shell, then make sure you've entered set -o vi, then if you want to recall the last command you used, hit esc-k . Pretty basic right?
Then, if you don't know what command to enter next, hit esc-j to "precall" it...
Note - does not work on all *nixes .
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And that's a big IF... I had an energy audit run on my house earlier this year and the local power and light sent me a half dozen free CFLs. 3 of them are still functioning after less than a year.
If it's not work-related, they don't need to be going there, same as at my non-governmental job. Lame.
They probably never took the time to figure out how to do it.
That's why you put it in your ear and connect it to your phone while you're stopped. OMGWAFI
Way to leave out salient facts from your link, such as: "The researchers assessed the performance of 200 participants over a single task (simulated freeway driving), and again with a second demanding activity added (a cell phone conversation that involved memorizing words and solving math problems). " So how often do you think MOST people have to "MEMORIZE WORDS and SOLVE MATH PROBLEMS" when they're on a cell phone conversation? Care to try posting a more true-to-life study that doesn't put such unreal conditions on the experiment?
It's one thing when someone's punching the keypad. It's completely different to be talking on the phone but not punching the buttons. By the way, whenever someone admits to "When I see somebody holding a phone instead of driving, I call the police.", I give them a ration of shit. Why? 2 months ago no emergency responders were responding to emergency calls in this city because people like you, reporting non-emergency problems like that, flooded the 911 center. IMHO, you're an idiot.
Sounds like somebody has a bad case of the Mondays...
The point is, people need to figure out what they want before they get in the situation, and then communicate their desires to their next-of-kin. The problem is, this lady and her husband never apparently did that, and left it to the docs, hospitals and insurance companies to call the shots.
I agree, except I'd probably opt for a massive overdose of heroin.
The time to quit is when the patient, in counsel with his/her loved ones, decides it's time to quit. I didn't read TFA because I prefer to go off half-cocked when offering my opinions, but if the widow is now wondering if it was worth it, she and her husband obviously had a failure to communicate before he was stricken.
While you're asking for things, how about some pupils that are interested, rested, fed, healthy and able to behave for 6 to 8 hours a day? How about some parents that actually care whether their children do their homework and respect the teachers? I'd love to teach too, but not when I'm going to be held responsible for delivery of the whole social welfare package instead of just teaching.
Well, I can't speak for the situation in NYC but in my small school district in KCMO, there is a) no such thing as this "rubber room" environment you described and b) teachers, who all belong to the union, are fired on a regular basis for a variety of reasons including incompetence and mistreating students. Your example of the way things work in NYC may be true but it's not typical.
Wrong. Education (public or private) in this country works exactly as well as the provider and recipient makes it work. You come to class and pay attention, don't screw around, do the work, put in a little extra effort and you're going to go somewhere. Most importantly parents have to be involved and stay involved with the education process. Most parents in this country put practically no effort or time into making sure their kids are learning, and it shows. If there's an issue at school, most parents assume it's the other guy's fault and stick up for their kid who doesn't pay attention in class, doesn't do the homework, doesn't behave, doesn't learn anything - to them, it's ALL the teachers' or schools' fault.
Why is it when Johnny can't read we never hold to the fire the feet of the people who have these poor performers in their custody, what, 128 out of 168 hours per week (that's 76% for those of you who can read but not do math)? Or, roughly, 7130/8736 =82% of the hours per year? Who are these people who never get the blame in spite of the fact that they have far greater influence than a (generally) poorly paid babysitter? The parents. When is something going to be done to hold the parents accountable for children who come to school unprepared, emotionally and physically bankrupt and who do nothing but cause trouble when they are there? I'm not a teacher but I surely are am not the only one to notice that when kids underperform, it's never entirely the teachers' fault. Not that I mean to say there aren't some bad teachers out there who need to be fired. But not before a clear pattern is proven that a given teacher has failed to teach rather than the kid fails to learn.
So you seem to be saying it all would have been perfectly OK for the school district to REQUIRE students to take and use these laptops, and have their photos taken when and where the school district decided, had only the school district disclosed that they planned to do so, right? I'm speechless that anyone would think an arrangement like that would have been OK.
language: it's self-documenting code.
...opposing this candidate. Jim DeMint's fear of TSA being allowed to unionize is not a legitimate reason to do so.
On their personal laptops, yes they do. On servers or laptops used as test machines, no. Think about the security concepts of least needed access and separation of duties. On their personal laptops, they may have a need for being able to quickly and freely do certain things. But once you get to anything approaching production, they need to be locked down.
...until wages on most jobs dropped as low as what they pay a manager at McDonalds. I quit doing it when industry figured out they could pay 1/10 the wages to entry-level off-shore programmers they used to pay on-shore programmers. The US has shot itself in the tech feet and there's nothing that can be done as long as nothing more is considered besides cost.
All this physics/engineering/computer geek mumbo-jumbo about energy use and whatnot completely misses the point. The key point is whether or not the district had a policy on what software could be installed and what could not be, whether that policy was known by and understood by the system administrator, and whether the SETI software in question was disallowed under the policy (if any) or not. If there was a policy, which was understood by the system administrator to not allow installation of the SETI software and he did it anyway, then his goose is cooked. Otherwise, the district is probably going to be paying him damages as well as possibly giving him his job back.
if you dislike being called an "IT Guy" so much, why not just get a job on the back of a trash truck and pass out business cards that say "Sanitation Engineer"? I'm finding out on Tuesday if I'm one of the 15% of IT guys in our company who will be jettisoned because the economy is so bad. Frankly I don't (and I'm sure my fellow IT guys as well don't) care if they call us sh!t bags as much as we'd prefer to remain employed.
This can't be serious.
"Say, for example, that Microsoft Windows violates a patent, should the patent holders be able to sue every user of Microsoft Windows?" Apparently, now the answer is yes. Didn't used to be but now it is, in east TX anyway.
Brickwall: "So far the magnet program appears to be working, unfortunately the crocs have started to collect huge amounts of take-out menus and child artwork." Was the OP totally kidding around about this, or was there something in the referenced article that mentioned either of these things? I sure didn't see it.
I can't believe no one else has posted my favorite yet: command "precall" in the shell. Just go into the shell, then make sure you've entered set -o vi, then if you want to recall the last command you used, hit esc-k . Pretty basic right? Then, if you don't know what command to enter next, hit esc-j to "precall" it... Note - does not work on all *nixes .