The military does require that its members be capable of presenting a professional apperance. Tats, while the traditional mark of someone about to kick your butt, are not allowed on skin that is visible while wearing a long-sleeved dress uniform. Peircings are limited to women (1 pair, in the ears. Conservative single stud or single pearl. No hoops or danglies), or off duty and far off post.
When somone brings down the network, pull the plug on his router, disconnecting him and however many other people are attached to him. Print out a note and stick on all thier doors apologizing for the downtime, but due to XX's computer virus, the system is going to be down till you get a chance to fix the problem... like next weekend. Assuming your not going camping. When someone complains, shrug and appologize, after all, your hands are tied and your are unable to premtivly take steps to handle the issue. Your just glad the virus only took out one router instead of the entire network. Afterall, virus'es are getting smarter every day, and you where lucky this time.
Now see, you are missin' the entire point of the show. Its about the characters. Its about how they interact. Its about how the develope and what these developments do to them. Oh, and its about the one liners.:-)
But its not about the cool technology, special effects, ppl with Comic book powers, and the hope of seeing Buffy in some tight leather.
The people who would love this show are not the kind of people who we could 'get' to watch it. The people who would love this show will see us talking about it and go "Oh, that sounds intresting in an Oh-God-Oh-God-We-are-all-Going-to-Die? sort of way"
Actually, slavery is mentioned in at least one episode. In the opening bar room brawl of "The Train Job" Capt. Mal gets into a bar fight with a slaver, although not over the issue of slavery. Later Inara, attempting to get Mal and Zoe out of prison, refers to him as her indentured property. For those missin' out on a little American history, indentured servitude provided the northern states with alot immigrants and decent portion of the work force. Indentured servitude was effectively abolished at the same time slavery was. While the differences between slavery and indentured servitude are radical, don't believe that the North held the higher moral ground because it didn't rob people of their personal rights. The North held the moral high ground because of its treatment of people whose personal freedoms it had robbed.
In "Safe" when two members of the crew are kidnapped to be forced to join the population of a desperate mountain town, the local authorities don't react. Both these episodes touched on slavery enough to let us know that Yes, slavery did exist in the 'verse. However, considering that the Alliance was not going through great lengths to put a stop to it, I doubt that it was the cause of the strife between the Independence and the Alliance. Instead, I'm willing to bet the conflict was caused by unfair taxation and tariffs, and laws that favored the more industrialized planets closer to the core. While often ignored by high school history books, these were secondary issues that lead to the American Civil war, and would fit with Joss Whedon's using the Civil war as an insperation for the series.
"Hey, Sarge, I just an idea for a recruiting method that would attract the kind of people who want to be the best at something and don't mind pushing through the pain to do it!"
As an ex-soldier, that is EXACTLY the kind of guy I want in a HUMVEE with me. Esp if he wants to be the best more than I do:-)
Of course, the Army could recruit people who where willing to embrace the suck in order to make someone feel better, but then where would the RedCross and amnisty international get their people?
--Cam PS I can't wait to see the "Best Of" photo collection of potential recruits as they get shocked for the first time.
Could you imagine the future if it was made to last?
3000 years from now it will be called a form of ground to orbit communication... an ancient way to launch spacecraft... the center of a great sport or TV show... the remains of a great work of art... the first particle accelorater... or evidence that technology and intellegence where not globally spread.
--Cam PS I so wanna be there when the first archaeologist finds a 20th century time capsule. Just to watch them try and figure out WHY we did it.
Did you read the parent? Have you been following the story?
Guy posts NDA info on his blog. Guy gets fired. He he wanted to be able to post sensitive information, he shouldn't have signed the NDA. Course, that probably means he wouldn't have been fire, but without the job he accepted, Google wouldn't have been able to "censor" him. Welcome to life. If you don't want to be responsible, don't take the responsibility.
--Cam
PS. Oh, and the word is "Blinders". As in those things that a working horse wears in order to not be distracted by everything going on around him. Not "Blinkers", those things that transmit your future intentions as to which direction your going to go.
Insightful? Did you read the post? Or where you simply dazzled by the Ph.D., some big words, and the ass kissing? Obviously someone's PHB has been let out of his cage and given moderator points.
Pan Tarhei Hosé? Panty Hose? And how do you become a Ph.D. and not learn how to avoid run on sentences. Now maybe I'm just a little more critical of my sources than your average Slashdot reader, but when someone with the MeatWorld name of Panty Hose makes a statement, I tend to be a little bit skeptical. And Dr. Pan Tarhei Hose doesn't smell right.
Get a clue people. Read before you moderate. Lets use some of those critical thinking skills we claim to have.
What I really want is a game AI that plays like humans. Or at least watch how people play and learn from that.
Playing against the computer is great for getting those 10 button combos perfected, but useless for seeing if they work against someone with less than perfect reflexes and a penchant to attack endlessly. Consiously I know the holes, but because I can't practice the split second timing, I'm left trying to close my own.
All that said, I'm not sure if "wasting time" is so bad. Young children should be encouraged to play freely, not subjected 100% to a rigorous schedule of pre-planned activities. Not sure how much that can or should carry over into teenage years.
As an old fart (25) in my first year of college, this is a serious understatement. I have met some unbelievely smart people. Students who are in Calc2 or linear Alegbra thier freshman year. Students who already have 3 years in two diffrent languages and aren't stopping. Unfortunatly, because thier entire life has been dictated by a schedual of classes, teachers and parents, these unbelievely smart people are incapable of making descions. They have gotten so used to being taught that they find it impossible to do something they haven't learned or to learn through trial and error. Which makes them useless.
You want a skill any employer wants? Do something that you have no clue how to do. Learn how to learn on the go. And stop asking your teacher for every little bit direction. Figure out how to figure out what your teacher wants without bugger them.
Parent is exactly on the money, but to take it further...
We have two options A)
Plan for it. This way, SHOULD the need arise we already know how to implement a method that will cause the most impact to our intended target while limiting the impact outside of the intended target. We know what the effects will be. We know what to expect and how to react to it.
B)
Decide that Planning is horrible. Then, should the need arise, we don't have a clue what we are doing. We over do it just to be safe, and impact alot more people than we needed to. We don't know who will be effected, or what will happen.
Planning is good. I've been taught to always plan ahead. Always carry a spare and a set up jumper cables. Of course changing a tire by the side of a busy highway in the middle of the night is dangerous, but its a better option than hitchhiking. Always carry a condom. Sure sleeping with anyone you meet is not a good idea, but should you hook up with a great one, you don't wanna ruin everything in the first night. Use antivirus software. Of course you don't run suspicious executables, or download files from un-trusted sources. But it could still save you hours of hassle.
So, you're saying that if I drive around Bagdad with an R/C transmitter, I can set off IED's before I get close to them.
That is EXACTLY what my unit did. And it saved out butts on several occasions. However, I believe that grandparents concerns arn't for the roadside IEDs that threatened most, but instead for the IEDs that somehow find themselves into more sensitive areas like AHA's and Fuel points.
--Cam
As anouther poster has stated, with the current situation in Iraq, the goal isn't to disarm the explosive. The goal is to remove the threat with as little loss of life as possible.
I think that a cheap solution is perfect. Esp if its so easy that any idiot with a GED can use it.
My unit bought a bunch of cheap R/C transmitters and the crystals for the most popular channels. There where only three or four if memory serves. Anyways, the lead vehicle would have a bunch of R/C transmitters with the controls lockwired down. When an IED was controled using a cheap and easy to get R/C transmitter/reciever setup, our settup would blow it before we got to it. Saved our butts more than once. If you could build a device with an on/off switch, half-mile range that transmitted on every R/C channel used, I know that would be welcome.
Actually, they don't need to be toasted. As a matter of fact, while PopTarts have been a staple of my diet for years, I almost never toast them... in fact, I can't remeber having ever cooked a PopTart.
As to why Strawberry instead of other flavors, such as Chocolate Smores? I believe that its because for hurricans adults are buying them as a quick and easy food, and no one think sthat Chocolate Smores are the least bit nutritional.
I bet the same data shows that Hurricans lead to a rise in sales of Cigarettes, condoms, and board games.
Actually, look at a series of reactors knows as Breeder reactors. More expensive to build and fuel, but they run off of the waste from other reactors. At least before that waste got embedded in glass, drowned in concrete, and put someplace. They also generate more fuel than they use.
There are also methods to process the waste to reduce the halflife of it. Worse case senario? Bury it along an subduction fault, and let tectonic forces carry it into the mantle. My personal favorite? Bury it all, and set up a geothermal powerplant on the site.
There are alot of nuclear waste options out there that need more research and better public understanding.
OK, I see posters point, and marking him Troll is unfair.
Sure DaVinci is super cool. Sure DaVinci was super smart. And sure the thought of him making a clockwork robot centuries before anyone else could have had implications. But it didn't. This idea didn't inspire anyone to copy him. There wasn't a small group of carrage hobbiest all trying to see who could make the carrage that would get the furthest into the maze.
He had an Idea. He wrote it down. It fell into the cracks of history and accomplished nothing. Intresting, but deffinantly not worth a research grant.
A technical genius without political skills can be used and abused by a mediocre technologist with good political skills.
Thats my career plan!:-) No seriously... I see so many bright and capable people who can't play the politics game and get ground to wheat because of it. I'm good at the technical aspects, but some of these people are so much better than I am. So I figure that in return for protecting them and getting them what they want and need, I'll get them to do great things for me.
nothing, I mean nothing, is worth more than the look on the face of someone who was just beaten by a car known far as wide for it's lack of anything worthy.
I get a similar feeling when people realize they were just owned by my wife at CS.:)
I recently came from a job where the IT manager and his single lacky had to manage several hundered computers. Each of which had its own use and software requirments. And of course, all of us where banned from Admin access. Longstory short, IT was completely unable to support us, the users. It was not a minor issue, it was so bad that several of us would bring in our personal laptops to get the job done.
The solution, one that took us a year to convicne the headshed to implement, was that one or two people from each section was given adminstrator access and was responcible for his sections computers. Of course there where problems, but a broken system that could be used is alot better than a pristine system that noone could use.
Remeber, a systems admins jobs is to keep his system usable. Your network is not a garden to maintaned in a pristine condition.
This is my responce to everyone who replied to my realy post. It is in two parts, the response to the rational people. And a response to the two flamebaiters. This is also my last response. I will continue to read responses, but unless its really insightful and begs for a reply, I'm not going to waste anymore time on Slashdot.
RATIONAL
For the rational people, a rational response. I wish I could name you, but most of the responses where rational.
I am not referring to any biker that can keep the speed limit. Roads are there to provide a means for getting from point A to point B quickly. And there are a lot of other people with whom you have to share the road. Yes there are slow moving vehicles. However, even slow moving vehicles respect the need of everyone else to get somewhere quickly. Except for grandma, and she's going to lose her license anyway. Tractors never get on the highway during high volume times. Street cleaners only operate a night when the traffic is low.
Where I live (Boulder/Denver area), there are a large number of bike lanes and sidewalks. It is easy to ride a bike from anywhere to anywhere without impeding regular traffic. Yet some bikers, the ones who piss me off, refuse to accept the fact they are not a part of the regular flow of traffic. When the speed limit is 40mph, get on the sidewalk. Especially during high volume times. Don't expect that because the law gives you the right to be on the road, that not a right to cause problems.
Personally, because my area has a large number of bike trails, lanes, and sidewalks, and because we still have bikers who hog lanes and ride between lanes, I feel that we (locally) should ban bikes from the roads. They are a safety hazard. The only ones who get hurt are the bikers, but the only ones who get blamed are the drivers.
FLAMEBAIT
Mysticgoat I hope your license is taken away from you before you kill someone.
I'm sorry that you live in a culture where people act upon all emotion without control. Where I come from, it is expected for people to act rationally regardless of state of mind.
swv3752 Tough. Bikes have right of way over cars. Pedestrians have right of way over bikes and cars.
So because you have the right, you abuse the right? Way to go. That is the attitude that pisses me off.
Oh, and I do hope that no one who has taken the attitude of "I'm doing it my way, and everyone else can suffer" will never argue against second hand smoke, pollution, or anything else in which someone's actions indirectly effect you. We all live here, and we need to live together. This goes for the inconsiderate drivers as well, Mr. AC with the 20 inch rims.
--Cam
PS Sorry for the responses to the flamebait, but one of them got to a mod+5 and I had to say something.
I can't stand bikers... and its because of the stunts like that. Now, if your biking the speed limit, this doesn't apply. While I generally cruise above the speed limit, I'm not the kind of jackass to start yelling because I'm the only one speeding.
However, when I'm on my way to school or work and a car is travelling 5-10mph below the speed limit I get pretty annoyed. So when its a biker who isn't hugging the curb, but instead taking up an entire lane, I reserve the right to get pissed.
If your doing your part to ride the curb and allow people to pass, I'll do my part to pass you safely. Bikes and Cars can share the road.
Right, because it was the capitalist that first destroyed animals for his needs. It was the capitalist that first cut down trees to make her house. It was the capitalist who forced nature to only grow one kind of plant in an area, leeching nutrients from the soil. Of course, by capitalist you mean "Humanity trying its best to survive"
Whats your priority? Should we do our best to prevent damaging Mother Nature? Guess what. Mother Nature is out to kill you. And the only thing that lets us survivie is by beating her down. You say that damaging Mother Nature could be bad for us? Your right, in the long term. And no one cares for the long term. However, because the capitalist does care about his bottom line, the capitalist pig is willing to find cheap energy sources. The Capitalist pig is willing to find ways to make reintroduce nutrients into the soil. The capitalist pig is willing to do what he can to make sure that the resources he needs are there in the future and that his planet is clean.
Unlike the damn tree hugging hippies who can't take a bath for fear that the soap will harm the enviroment.
--Cam PS To all the Treehuggers in Boulder with the "Save the Planet" type bumperstickers. If you paint your rust spots, and take you car in for regular maintance, it won't polute the enviroment half as much as it does now. Set the example.
There are a couple of great replies to this, so don't expect me to say anything new.
However, this isn't the first time I've seen this arguement. My sister will go off on this rant for hours. She's a college grad, but there just isn't a job market for Pottery Majors. In the last 6 months she has taken home hundreds of job applications and filled out 20 of them.
The reality of it is that everyone else who has been making this arguement is jobless because they arn't willing to work at getting a job. They don't want a job, they want to get paid. They expect employers to hire people who are willing to put forth the effort to dye thier hair and donate time to grassroots organizations, but are unwiling to show up on time looking presentable, much less actually make an effort to do thier job well without handholding.
Jobs can get outsourced, quality can't.
--Cam PS Despite my lack of college education and a very specialised resume (Army aircraft maintance), in the last 4 months I have turned down 3 jobs. The best paid $80k+/year, the lowest $15/hour part time. Two of those jobs where in finacial services, which I have no experiance in.
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Just to be nitpickin...
The military does require that its members be capable of presenting a professional apperance. Tats, while the traditional mark of someone about to kick your butt, are not allowed on skin that is visible while wearing a long-sleeved dress uniform. Peircings are limited to women (1 pair, in the ears. Conservative single stud or single pearl. No hoops or danglies), or off duty and far off post.
--Cam
Actually.... If you want to fight dirty.
When somone brings down the network, pull the plug on his router, disconnecting him and however many other people are attached to him. Print out a note and stick on all thier doors apologizing for the downtime, but due to XX's computer virus, the system is going to be down till you get a chance to fix the problem... like next weekend. Assuming your not going camping. When someone complains, shrug and appologize, after all, your hands are tied and your are unable to premtivly take steps to handle the issue. Your just glad the virus only took out one router instead of the entire network. Afterall, virus'es are getting smarter every day, and you where lucky this time.
--Cam
Now see, you are missin' the entire point of the show. Its about the characters. Its about how they interact. Its about how the develope and what these developments do to them. Oh, and its about the one liners. :-)
But its not about the cool technology, special effects, ppl with Comic book powers, and the hope of seeing Buffy in some tight leather.
The people who would love this show are not the kind of people who we could 'get' to watch it. The people who would love this show will see us talking about it and go "Oh, that sounds intresting in an Oh-God-Oh-God-We-are-all-Going-to-Die? sort of way"
Actually, slavery is mentioned in at least one episode. In the opening bar room brawl of "The Train Job" Capt. Mal gets into a bar fight with a slaver, although not over the issue of slavery. Later Inara, attempting to get Mal and Zoe out of prison, refers to him as her indentured property. For those missin' out on a little American history, indentured servitude provided the northern states with alot immigrants and decent portion of the work force. Indentured servitude was effectively abolished at the same time slavery was. While the differences between slavery and indentured servitude are radical, don't believe that the North held the higher moral ground because it didn't rob people of their personal rights. The North held the moral high ground because of its treatment of people whose personal freedoms it had robbed.
In "Safe" when two members of the crew are kidnapped to be forced to join the population of a desperate mountain town, the local authorities don't react. Both these episodes touched on slavery enough to let us know that Yes, slavery did exist in the 'verse. However, considering that the Alliance was not going through great lengths to put a stop to it, I doubt that it was the cause of the strife between the Independence and the Alliance. Instead, I'm willing to bet the conflict was caused by unfair taxation and tariffs, and laws that favored the more industrialized planets closer to the core. While often ignored by high school history books, these were secondary issues that lead to the American Civil war, and would fit with Joss Whedon's using the Civil war as an insperation for the series.
"Hey, Sarge, I just an idea for a recruiting method that would attract the kind of people who want to be the best at something and don't mind pushing through the pain to do it!"
As an ex-soldier, that is EXACTLY the kind of guy I want in a HUMVEE with me. Esp if he wants to be the best more than I do:-)
Of course, the Army could recruit people who where willing to embrace the suck in order to make someone feel better, but then where would the RedCross and amnisty international get their people?
--Cam
PS I can't wait to see the "Best Of" photo collection of potential recruits as they get shocked for the first time.
Could you imagine the future if it was made to last?
3000 years from now it will be called a form of ground to orbit communication... an ancient way to launch spacecraft... the center of a great sport or TV show... the remains of a great work of art... the first particle accelorater... or evidence that technology and intellegence where not globally spread.
--Cam
PS I so wanna be there when the first archaeologist finds a 20th century time capsule. Just to watch them try and figure out WHY we did it.
Did you read the parent? Have you been following the story?
Guy posts NDA info on his blog. Guy gets fired. He he wanted to be able to post sensitive information, he shouldn't have signed the NDA. Course, that probably means he wouldn't have been fire, but without the job he accepted, Google wouldn't have been able to "censor" him. Welcome to life. If you don't want to be responsible, don't take the responsibility.
--Cam
PS. Oh, and the word is "Blinders". As in those things that a working horse wears in order to not be distracted by everything going on around him. Not "Blinkers", those things that transmit your future intentions as to which direction your going to go.
Insightful? Did you read the post? Or where you simply dazzled by the Ph.D., some big words, and the ass kissing? Obviously someone's PHB has been let out of his cage and given moderator points.
Pan Tarhei Hosé? Panty Hose? And how do you become a Ph.D. and not learn how to avoid run on sentences. Now maybe I'm just a little more critical of my sources than your average Slashdot reader, but when someone with the MeatWorld name of Panty Hose makes a statement, I tend to be a little bit skeptical. And Dr. Pan Tarhei Hose doesn't smell right.
Get a clue people. Read before you moderate. Lets use some of those critical thinking skills we claim to have.
--Cam
Oh, I like that Idea.
What I really want is a game AI that plays like humans. Or at least watch how people play and learn from that.
Playing against the computer is great for getting those 10 button combos perfected, but useless for seeing if they work against someone with less than perfect reflexes and a penchant to attack endlessly. Consiously I know the holes, but because I can't practice the split second timing, I'm left trying to close my own.
--Cam
All that said, I'm not sure if "wasting time" is so bad. Young children should be encouraged to play freely, not subjected 100% to a rigorous schedule of pre-planned activities. Not sure how much that can or should carry over into teenage years.
As an old fart (25) in my first year of college, this is a serious understatement. I have met some unbelievely smart people. Students who are in Calc2 or linear Alegbra thier freshman year. Students who already have 3 years in two diffrent languages and aren't stopping. Unfortunatly, because thier entire life has been dictated by a schedual of classes, teachers and parents, these unbelievely smart people are incapable of making descions. They have gotten so used to being taught that they find it impossible to do something they haven't learned or to learn through trial and error. Which makes them useless.
You want a skill any employer wants? Do something that you have no clue how to do. Learn how to learn on the go. And stop asking your teacher for every little bit direction. Figure out how to figure out what your teacher wants without bugger them.
--Cam
Remeber, if you remove all the comments from the code, it will compile faster and the executable will be smaller.
--Cam
Parent is exactly on the money, but to take it further...
We have two options
A)
Plan for it. This way, SHOULD the need arise we already know how to implement a method that will cause the most impact to our intended target while limiting the impact outside of the intended target. We know what the effects will be. We know what to expect and how to react to it.
B)
Decide that Planning is horrible. Then, should the need arise, we don't have a clue what we are doing. We over do it just to be safe, and impact alot more people than we needed to. We don't know who will be effected, or what will happen.
Planning is good. I've been taught to always plan ahead. Always carry a spare and a set up jumper cables. Of course changing a tire by the side of a busy highway in the middle of the night is dangerous, but its a better option than hitchhiking. Always carry a condom. Sure sleeping with anyone you meet is not a good idea, but should you hook up with a great one, you don't wanna ruin everything in the first night. Use antivirus software. Of course you don't run suspicious executables, or download files from un-trusted sources. But it could still save you hours of hassle.
--Cam
Toujour Pret (Always Ready)
So, you're saying that if I drive around Bagdad with an R/C transmitter, I can set off IED's before I get close to them.
That is EXACTLY what my unit did. And it saved out butts on several occasions. However, I believe that grandparents concerns arn't for the roadside IEDs that threatened most, but instead for the IEDs that somehow find themselves into more sensitive areas like AHA's and Fuel points. --Cam
As anouther poster has stated, with the current situation in Iraq, the goal isn't to disarm the explosive. The goal is to remove the threat with as little loss of life as possible.
I think that a cheap solution is perfect. Esp if its so easy that any idiot with a GED can use it.
My unit bought a bunch of cheap R/C transmitters and the crystals for the most popular channels. There where only three or four if memory serves. Anyways, the lead vehicle would have a bunch of R/C transmitters with the controls lockwired down. When an IED was controled using a cheap and easy to get R/C transmitter/reciever setup, our settup would blow it before we got to it. Saved our butts more than once. If you could build a device with an on/off switch, half-mile range that transmitted on every R/C channel used, I know that would be welcome.
--Cam
Actually, they don't need to be toasted. As a matter of fact, while PopTarts have been a staple of my diet for years, I almost never toast them... in fact, I can't remeber having ever cooked a PopTart.
As to why Strawberry instead of other flavors, such as Chocolate Smores? I believe that its because for hurricans adults are buying them as a quick and easy food, and no one think sthat Chocolate Smores are the least bit nutritional.
I bet the same data shows that Hurricans lead to a rise in sales of Cigarettes, condoms, and board games.
--Cam
Actually, look at a series of reactors knows as Breeder reactors. More expensive to build and fuel, but they run off of the waste from other reactors. At least before that waste got embedded in glass, drowned in concrete, and put someplace. They also generate more fuel than they use.
There are also methods to process the waste to reduce the halflife of it. Worse case senario? Bury it along an subduction fault, and let tectonic forces carry it into the mantle. My personal favorite? Bury it all, and set up a geothermal powerplant on the site.
There are alot of nuclear waste options out there that need more research and better public understanding.
--Cam
OK, I see posters point, and marking him Troll is unfair.
Sure DaVinci is super cool. Sure DaVinci was super smart. And sure the thought of him making a clockwork robot centuries before anyone else could have had implications. But it didn't. This idea didn't inspire anyone to copy him. There wasn't a small group of carrage hobbiest all trying to see who could make the carrage that would get the furthest into the maze.
He had an Idea. He wrote it down. It fell into the cracks of history and accomplished nothing. Intresting, but deffinantly not worth a research grant.
--Cam
A technical genius without political skills can be used and abused by a mediocre technologist with good political skills.
Thats my career plan!:-) No seriously... I see so many bright and capable people who can't play the politics game and get ground to wheat because of it. I'm good at the technical aspects, but some of these people are so much better than I am. So I figure that in return for protecting them and getting them what they want and need, I'll get them to do great things for me.
--Cam
nothing, I mean nothing, is worth more than the look on the face of someone who was just beaten by a car known far as wide for it's lack of anything worthy.
:)
I get a similar feeling when people realize they were just owned by my wife at CS.
Hope she doesn't read Slashdot.
--Cam
I recently came from a job where the IT manager and his single lacky had to manage several hundered computers. Each of which had its own use and software requirments. And of course, all of us where banned from Admin access. Longstory short, IT was completely unable to support us, the users. It was not a minor issue, it was so bad that several of us would bring in our personal laptops to get the job done.
The solution, one that took us a year to convicne the headshed to implement, was that one or two people from each section was given adminstrator access and was responcible for his sections computers. Of course there where problems, but a broken system that could be used is alot better than a pristine system that noone could use.
Remeber, a systems admins jobs is to keep his system usable. Your network is not a garden to maintaned in a pristine condition.
--Cam
This is my responce to everyone who replied to my realy post. It is in two parts, the response to the rational people. And a response to the two flamebaiters. This is also my last response. I will continue to read responses, but unless its really insightful and begs for a reply, I'm not going to waste anymore time on Slashdot.
RATIONAL
For the rational people, a rational response. I wish I could name you, but most of the responses where rational.
I am not referring to any biker that can keep the speed limit. Roads are there to provide a means for getting from point A to point B quickly. And there are a lot of other people with whom you have to share the road. Yes there are slow moving vehicles. However, even slow moving vehicles respect the need of everyone else to get somewhere quickly. Except for grandma, and she's going to lose her license anyway. Tractors never get on the highway during high volume times. Street cleaners only operate a night when the traffic is low.
Where I live (Boulder/Denver area), there are a large number of bike lanes and sidewalks. It is easy to ride a bike from anywhere to anywhere without impeding regular traffic. Yet some bikers, the ones who piss me off, refuse to accept the fact they are not a part of the regular flow of traffic. When the speed limit is 40mph, get on the sidewalk. Especially during high volume times. Don't expect that because the law gives you the right to be on the road, that not a right to cause problems.
Personally, because my area has a large number of bike trails, lanes, and sidewalks, and because we still have bikers who hog lanes and ride between lanes, I feel that we (locally) should ban bikes from the roads. They are a safety hazard. The only ones who get hurt are the bikers, but the only ones who get blamed are the drivers.
FLAMEBAIT
Mysticgoat
I hope your license is taken away from you before you kill someone.
I'm sorry that you live in a culture where people act upon all emotion without control. Where I come from, it is expected for people to act rationally regardless of state of mind.
swv3752
Tough. Bikes have right of way over cars. Pedestrians have right of way over bikes and cars.
So because you have the right, you abuse the right? Way to go. That is the attitude that pisses me off.
Oh, and I do hope that no one who has taken the attitude of "I'm doing it my way, and everyone else can suffer" will never argue against second hand smoke, pollution, or anything else in which someone's actions indirectly effect you. We all live here, and we need to live together. This goes for the inconsiderate drivers as well, Mr. AC with the 20 inch rims.
--Cam
PS Sorry for the responses to the flamebait, but one of them got to a mod+5 and I had to say something.
I can't stand bikers... and its because of the stunts like that. Now, if your biking the speed limit, this doesn't apply. While I generally cruise above the speed limit, I'm not the kind of jackass to start yelling because I'm the only one speeding.
However, when I'm on my way to school or work and a car is travelling 5-10mph below the speed limit I get pretty annoyed. So when its a biker who isn't hugging the curb, but instead taking up an entire lane, I reserve the right to get pissed.
If your doing your part to ride the curb and allow people to pass, I'll do my part to pass you safely. Bikes and Cars can share the road.
--Cam
Of Course this works, just look at the massive wealth of accurate, unbiased information that is Slashdot.
--Cam
Right, because it was the capitalist that first destroyed animals for his needs. It was the capitalist that first cut down trees to make her house. It was the capitalist who forced nature to only grow one kind of plant in an area, leeching nutrients from the soil. Of course, by capitalist you mean "Humanity trying its best to survive"
Whats your priority? Should we do our best to prevent damaging Mother Nature? Guess what. Mother Nature is out to kill you. And the only thing that lets us survivie is by beating her down. You say that damaging Mother Nature could be bad for us? Your right, in the long term. And no one cares for the long term. However, because the capitalist does care about his bottom line, the capitalist pig is willing to find cheap energy sources. The Capitalist pig is willing to find ways to make reintroduce nutrients into the soil. The capitalist pig is willing to do what he can to make sure that the resources he needs are there in the future and that his planet is clean.
Unlike the damn tree hugging hippies who can't take a bath for fear that the soap will harm the enviroment.
--Cam
PS To all the Treehuggers in Boulder with the "Save the Planet" type bumperstickers. If you paint your rust spots, and take you car in for regular maintance, it won't polute the enviroment half as much as it does now. Set the example.
There are a couple of great replies to this, so don't expect me to say anything new.
However, this isn't the first time I've seen this arguement. My sister will go off on this rant for hours. She's a college grad, but there just isn't a job market for Pottery Majors. In the last 6 months she has taken home hundreds of job applications and filled out 20 of them.
The reality of it is that everyone else who has been making this arguement is jobless because they arn't willing to work at getting a job. They don't want a job, they want to get paid. They expect employers to hire people who are willing to put forth the effort to dye thier hair and donate time to grassroots organizations, but are unwiling to show up on time looking presentable, much less actually make an effort to do thier job well without handholding.
Jobs can get outsourced, quality can't.
--Cam
PS Despite my lack of college education and a very specialised resume (Army aircraft maintance), in the last 4 months I have turned down 3 jobs. The best paid $80k+/year, the lowest $15/hour part time. Two of those jobs where in finacial services, which I have no experiance in.