Telecommuting is good when the job is not emergent and requires a high amount of concentration (architecting, engineering, designing, given you have the tools at home).
The very sort of people HP is calling in from the home.
However if your job is routine, technical, and requires lots of work, associated with stress, telecommuniting can make you lazy, slack often (having no control) and doing a bad job overall.
The very sort of people the new HP manager behind this move is used to dealing with in his previous job at Wal-Mart (no, that's not a joke. RTFA).
You'll do this because you'll be in the store buying something else, realize that you have nothing to watch tonight, think of something you want to see, and buy a disc. Cheap, easy, legal, quick.
And doesn't involve downloading anywhere in the equation.
In point of fact it won't work like that, because you don't impulse buy because you think of something. You don't think of something you hadn't already intended to buy.
I have one DVD that I bought on impulse, because I saw it in the cheapy bin at the grocery store.
Didn't have to hang around another 20 minutes waiting for it download and burn either. That woulda killed the deal deader than shit. I just grabbed it on my way to the checkout and then went home.
DVD is certainly having a negative impact on cinemagoing.
Except for the cinema owners the industry doesn't give a damn about cinema going, they care about sales. That's the whole point (in their minds) of these kiosks, to drive sales.
Selling DVDs doesn't "canabalize" the industry. In fact, home video reviltalized it with rental sales and direct to video releases.
The point, if you read the blurb, is that sales are down across the board, including home video.
Somehow or other the dim bulbs have gotten the idea that downloading is what is hurting sales, so it is downloading that people want, so it is downloading that they will offer in the stores.
Who gives a shit whether the movie was downloaded or not?
Nobody. That's who.
The relevant fact is that downloading goes in in the home. People don't want to go out.
It's the random way in which the government incoherently stabs us with little points of pain rather than ever creating any notion of consistent policy . ..
This is one of the core techniques to break someone down and make them pliable. Watch an emotionally abused child walking around on eggshells to "please" the parent if you wish to see the long term affect on behavior. The child lives in fear, constantly modifying its behavior to "control" the semirandom behavior of the abuser, when it is the abuser that is manipulating this fear to "control" the behavior of the child.
I think it would be accurate to say that in modern terms he was "bi."
In point of fact he was, because his culture was, indiscriminate. He'd get off with guys in camp because it was full of guys, and rape the women in the towns he conquered, because they were full of women.
There was, indeed, a certain aversion to homosexuality as a sexual perversion, but not because it was the obverse to heterosexual, that was just as perverted. "Bi" to one degree or another was considered normal.
It was ok to prefer one or the other, but weird not get off with whoever, or perhaps whatever, was available. Exclusion was the sexual perversion as behavioral extremism.
Alexander's primary bonded relationship was with a guy, but he had three wives as well.
The ancient Macedoneons were different from us and our mores simply cannot be mapped to their way of thinking.
Much the point of my initial post. Rape and murder were part of a good soldiers reward; and part of his duty. He was the "good guy" while performing that duty and would be the "bad guy" if he were disinclined.
And people would look at him funny besides. See the opening of Eric the Viking.
The English colonized the world with guns long before that. The battle at Waterloo pretty much decided what would be the global lingua franca.
It's an invalid comparison to knock on Americans for not speaking Russian
Who the hell was knocking on Americans for not speaking Russian? I don't speak Russian, and many Americans would say that I am Russian (being only a few gens removed from Russian ancestors) and have been know to consort with Russians.
I was, rather blatenly, knocking on Americans for not speaking English!
Just to spread things around a bit and so they don't start getting any snootier about the language than they already are Joseph Conrad had better command of English than most of the English. Jeezum Crow I wish I could write like that.
I was sitting around one day, cold, damp and miserable. Then I had a brainstorm - fire is hot! Perhaps if I could find a way of creating a small fire at my own will I could get; and remain, dry and toasty.
The exhaltation soon passed, however, when I realized I wouldn't benefit from this because anybody else could use my idea as well.
And that's why we're all sitting here, cold, damp and miserable today when if we only had a patent system you could all be paying me a tribute to be dry and toasty.
Damn I hate being cold and damp. I wish I could just build a fire. You guys suck.
You seem to be arguing that the term shouldn't have been used for vinyl "albums", but it's a few decades to late for that discussion.
I know. I was, however, timely for the discussion several decades ago and still possess a few albums.
Obviously I also lost the argument several decades ago.
I will, however, reiterate that I agree it has nothing to do with media. I aver that The White Album on vinyl is an album and that Yo-Yo Ma's CDs of the Bach Cello Suites is also an album.
And I agree that the word album is just as applicable to a single CD as it is to a single vinyl disk . ..or HD.
But we both seem to have lost that argument already. What goes around comes around.:)
None whatsoever. I've never been east of Prague myself, although half of my great grandparents emigrated from Minsk. Much more recently I had a Russian ex-ballerina living in my house for a couple of years. Nice girl. Legs to die for. She ended up prefering Florida to upstate NY.
The average Russian speaks English about as well as the average American speaks Russian.
Who said anything about average? Certainly not I.
I'll ask this though: How many Russian pilots speak English?
All of them.
How many American pilots speak Russian?
Very few.
For good or ill English is the modern Lingua Franca. When a Russian encounters a second language in school it is most likely to be English and English is the most sought after language training sought out in adult education.
In America the most common second language is Spanish. Even though I live only a few hours drive away from French Canada the most likely languages I'm going to encounter in my daily life are Spanish and Hindi, because despite the proximity of Cananda we have more people from South America (and Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic and. ..) here than from Canada.
French, however, is the next most likely second language.
Very few Americans seek to learn Russian, and usually only for some special purpose.
I think you would find, if you looked into the matter, that the average Russian speaks English much, much better than the average American speaks French. They value their second language higher.
When in Prague (and NYC, and Montreal, and my living room) I tend to converse with Russians (and Czechs) in English. They usually insist upon it for the practice.
And a good many Americans who speak the majority tongue of the land these days have a good deal of trouble reading Dickens (Gibbon is right out), because they do not speak the language.
An album is a collection of songs released together. ..
on multiple instances of media in a single package. The term actually comes from the age of lacquer and 78 rpm when even a single musical work could span multiple disks. The record sleeves were bound together in a single "album." A collection of disks/songs in a single book jacket, like a collection of stamps or photographs in a stamp or photograph album.
"Album" refered to the binding, not the media.
Thus The White Album actually is, but Revolver actually isn't.
. ..what are you going to call a download-only album. .. you can't call that a CD can you?
Go to your local stamp dealer. Buy a couple dozen stamps. Are they an "album"?
. ..the quite relevant fact that their target market speaks English.
Well, it's strictly anecdotal evidence, of course, but my experience is that a random Russian pulled off the street speaks better English than a random American pulled off the street.
You might say that a fitness function is equivalent to an actual design, but i disagree.
Let's say that I would say that it is the meat of design.
I've seen computers come up with quite novel design solutions.
There are an infinate number of novel solutions to any given problem. Only a few of them are interesting. Even fewer are suitable. Novelty is the meat of art, not applied mathematics.
It is, of course, up to you what role you assign to art in your design.
Enlightment itself is "superhuman" power, except for the fact that, like "race," there is no such thing in humans. If a human has the power, it is a human power.
One may achieve the "superhuman" ability to perform The Cobra position, if one is prepared to suffer permemant injury to the vertabrae to accomplish it.
Slashdot Mirror
Very nice, really; and thank you, but. . .
would it be possible to have the HTML material presented in HTML?
KFG
Now all the foreign people can study this course for free.
And without it they couldn't just go to a library.
KFG
No.
KFG
Telecommuting is good when the job is not emergent and requires a high amount of concentration (architecting, engineering, designing, given you have the tools at home).
The very sort of people HP is calling in from the home.
However if your job is routine, technical, and requires lots of work, associated with stress, telecommuniting can make you lazy, slack often (having no control) and doing a bad job overall.
The very sort of people the new HP manager behind this move is used to dealing with in his previous job at Wal-Mart (no, that's not a joke. RTFA).
KFG
You'll do this because you'll be in the store buying something else, realize that you have nothing to watch tonight, think of something you want to see, and buy a disc. Cheap, easy, legal, quick.
And doesn't involve downloading anywhere in the equation.
In point of fact it won't work like that, because you don't impulse buy because you think of something. You don't think of something you hadn't already intended to buy.
I have one DVD that I bought on impulse, because I saw it in the cheapy bin at the grocery store.
Didn't have to hang around another 20 minutes waiting for it download and burn either. That woulda killed the deal deader than shit. I just grabbed it on my way to the checkout and then went home.
KFG
DVD is certainly having a negative impact on cinemagoing.
Except for the cinema owners the industry doesn't give a damn about cinema going, they care about sales. That's the whole point (in their minds) of these kiosks, to drive sales.
Selling DVDs doesn't "canabalize" the industry. In fact, home video reviltalized it with rental sales and direct to video releases.
The point, if you read the blurb, is that sales are down across the board, including home video.
Somehow or other the dim bulbs have gotten the idea that downloading is what is hurting sales, so it is downloading that people want, so it is downloading that they will offer in the stores.
Who gives a shit whether the movie was downloaded or not?
Nobody. That's who.
The relevant fact is that downloading goes in in the home. People don't want to go out.
KFG
It's misleading to even refer to him as Bi. Back then such distinctions didn't exist.
If I didn't say that it's certainly what I intended to say.
KFG
. . .the US was too expensive and now India is as well. Time to move to an even cheaper place . . .
Thank God for Mississippi.
KFG
It's the random way in which the government incoherently stabs us with little points of pain rather than ever creating any notion of consistent policy . . .
This is one of the core techniques to break someone down and make them pliable. Watch an emotionally abused child walking around on eggshells to "please" the parent if you wish to see the long term affect on behavior. The child lives in fear, constantly modifying its behavior to "control" the semirandom behavior of the abuser, when it is the abuser that is manipulating this fear to "control" the behavior of the child.
Have a nice night . . . my child.
KFG
Morons.
Optimist.
KFG
Bless you, sir. Bless you, bless you, bless you.
KFG
I think it would be accurate to say that in modern terms he was "bi."
In point of fact he was, because his culture was, indiscriminate. He'd get off with guys in camp because it was full of guys, and rape the women in the towns he conquered, because they were full of women.
There was, indeed, a certain aversion to homosexuality as a sexual perversion, but not because it was the obverse to heterosexual, that was just as perverted. "Bi" to one degree or another was considered normal.
It was ok to prefer one or the other, but weird not get off with whoever, or perhaps whatever, was available. Exclusion was the sexual perversion as behavioral extremism.
Alexander's primary bonded relationship was with a guy, but he had three wives as well.
The ancient Macedoneons were different from us and our mores simply cannot be mapped to their way of thinking.
Much the point of my initial post. Rape and murder were part of a good soldiers reward; and part of his duty. He was the "good guy" while performing that duty and would be the "bad guy" if he were disinclined.
And people would look at him funny besides. See the opening of Eric the Viking.
KFG
America colonizes the world with media.
The English colonized the world with guns long before that. The battle at Waterloo pretty much decided what would be the global lingua franca.
It's an invalid comparison to knock on Americans for not speaking Russian
Who the hell was knocking on Americans for not speaking Russian? I don't speak Russian, and many Americans would say that I am Russian (being only a few gens removed from Russian ancestors) and have been know to consort with Russians.
I was, rather blatenly, knocking on Americans for not speaking English!
Just to spread things around a bit and so they don't start getting any snootier about the language than they already are Joseph Conrad had better command of English than most of the English. Jeezum Crow I wish I could write like that.
KFG
I was sitting around one day, cold, damp and miserable. Then I had a brainstorm - fire is hot! Perhaps if I could find a way of creating a small fire at my own will I could get; and remain, dry and toasty.
The exhaltation soon passed, however, when I realized I wouldn't benefit from this because anybody else could use my idea as well.
And that's why we're all sitting here, cold, damp and miserable today when if we only had a patent system you could all be paying me a tribute to be dry and toasty.
Damn I hate being cold and damp. I wish I could just build a fire. You guys suck.
KFG
. . .the bad guys are and always have been rapists and murderers.
Alexander the "Great."
KFG
I have never been indicted nor found guilty of any crime. . .
Until now, refusnik. We'll be watching you.
KFG
500 hour review (whatever that is supposed to mean)
How long you can expect it to take to click through it.
KFG
I wonder why a mechanism to prevent them is offered if it isn't used. Sigh
Because in the spirit of the article they intend to repost this one 38 more times.
KFG
You seem to be arguing that the term shouldn't have been used for vinyl "albums", but it's a few decades to late for that discussion.
.or HD.
:)
I know. I was, however, timely for the discussion several decades ago and still possess a few albums.
Obviously I also lost the argument several decades ago.
I will, however, reiterate that I agree it has nothing to do with media. I aver that The White Album on vinyl is an album and that Yo-Yo Ma's CDs of the Bach Cello Suites is also an album.
And I agree that the word album is just as applicable to a single CD as it is to a single vinyl disk . .
But we both seem to have lost that argument already. What goes around comes around.
KFG
How much time have you spent in Russia?
.) here than from Canada.
None whatsoever. I've never been east of Prague myself, although half of my great grandparents emigrated from Minsk. Much more recently I had a Russian ex-ballerina living in my house for a couple of years. Nice girl. Legs to die for. She ended up prefering Florida to upstate NY.
The average Russian speaks English about as well as the average American speaks Russian.
Who said anything about average? Certainly not I.
I'll ask this though: How many Russian pilots speak English?
All of them.
How many American pilots speak Russian?
Very few.
For good or ill English is the modern Lingua Franca. When a Russian encounters a second language in school it is most likely to be English and English is the most sought after language training sought out in adult education.
In America the most common second language is Spanish. Even though I live only a few hours drive away from French Canada the most likely languages I'm going to encounter in my daily life are Spanish and Hindi, because despite the proximity of Cananda we have more people from South America (and Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic and. .
French, however, is the next most likely second language.
Very few Americans seek to learn Russian, and usually only for some special purpose.
I think you would find, if you looked into the matter, that the average Russian speaks English much, much better than the average American speaks French. They value their second language higher.
When in Prague (and NYC, and Montreal, and my living room) I tend to converse with Russians (and Czechs) in English. They usually insist upon it for the practice.
And a good many Americans who speak the majority tongue of the land these days have a good deal of trouble reading Dickens (Gibbon is right out), because they do not speak the language.
English.
KFG
An album is a collection of songs released together. . .
.what are you going to call a download-only album. . . you can't call that a CD can you?
.you can't call that a CD can you?
on multiple instances of media in a single package. The term actually comes from the age of lacquer and 78 rpm when even a single musical work could span multiple disks. The record sleeves were bound together in a single "album." A collection of disks/songs in a single book jacket, like a collection of stamps or photographs in a stamp or photograph album.
"Album" refered to the binding, not the media.
Thus The White Album actually is, but Revolver actually isn't.
. .
Go to your local stamp dealer. Buy a couple dozen stamps. Are they an "album"?
No. They are a "collection."
. .
No, but you can call it an HD.
KFG
. . .the quite relevant fact that their target market speaks English.
Well, it's strictly anecdotal evidence, of course, but my experience is that a random Russian pulled off the street speaks better English than a random American pulled off the street.
KFG
Either remember to click the Post Anonymously box or delete your sig before you post, Alex. :)
KFG
You might say that a fitness function is equivalent to an actual design, but i disagree.
Let's say that I would say that it is the meat of design.
I've seen computers come up with quite novel design solutions.
There are an infinate number of novel solutions to any given problem. Only a few of them are interesting. Even fewer are suitable. Novelty is the meat of art, not applied mathematics.
It is, of course, up to you what role you assign to art in your design.
KFG
It's origin is as a path to enlightenment.
I know. I have studied it under Indians.
Enlightment itself is "superhuman" power, except for the fact that, like "race," there is no such thing in humans. If a human has the power, it is a human power.
One may achieve the "superhuman" ability to perform The Cobra position, if one is prepared to suffer permemant injury to the vertabrae to accomplish it.
The path to enlightment does not require this.
KFG