Well, we can't use this episode for any kind of comparison because Adria heard something she wasn't meant to hear, and had nothing to do with her. Heck, she could just as easily have photographed two random guys and made up the whole story, because the incident wasn't recorded. You can't defend from asshats like that. It's sad that a guy lost his job over it, but I'm glad she lost hers. And thanks to all this negative publicity, I can only hope she has a heck of a time finding a new one.
As for more normal situations... there are so many variables that it's really hard to give you a magic bullet statement. The easiest thing to do is simply not do that kind of thing until the person has been part of the team for a while and you develop an idea of what they're like. Of course, this is general advice that can apply to any gender. What you need to do is read up on kinesiology. That knowledge will help you identify whether someone is uncomfortable, angry, what have you, before a situation gets out of hand. If you arn't sure... ask. Just asking someone (in a suitably caring tone of voice) if they're bothered by something you said, goes a very long way to making them feel like you actually care about their feelings.
It also depends a great deal on the general environment. I have never experienced a professional environment where sexual jokes are cracked on a regular basis, so I have nothing to compare to. However, I have been in industrial situations where the guys have been pretty crass on a regular basis, and I just avoided those people cause I had better things to do than deal with that.
You know, it would be really nice if the US started putting more effort into early identification and treatment of these whackjob crazies *before* massacres happen. But that will never happen because American culture demands mental illness be swept under the rug.
It would also be nice if American culture would start focusing more on actually being nice to one another, and by extension, the rest of the world. But that will never happen because American culture revels in greed and self-importance, and there's no room for being nice when you're busy amassing more wealth than your next door neighbour.
So this is going to keep happening. Innocent children will continue to die, everyone will wring their hands and bemoan how bad the world is and how video games caused it or movies caused it or purple goldfish caused it, and in the end nothing will change.
Unfortunately you've already got +5 insightful so I can't mod you +1 funny. Unless you weren't trying to be funny, in which case I'd mod you +1 ironic.
(Hint to people who don't get it: UEFI is a replacement to BIOS. There's no such thing as a 'BIOS' with UEFI.)
is put a chilling effect on developer conferences in general, and put pressure on conference staff to create policies that shouldn't even be necessary.
Talk freely and openly? Not anymore. Oh no! Someone said compile and link in the same sentence! I'm offended! As a female myself, now I have to worry that if I walk up to another developer, their first thought will be, "Oh shit, it's a woman. Gotta scoot!"
Do you have a smart phone? Sorry, you're not allowed to use it anymore because you might be taking photos of other people to post on your twitfaceplus feed in order to disrupt their lives.
This whole thing is a big pile of idiocy, and mindbogglingly poorly handled on ALL sides.
It takes a minute or two for Kies to just connect to the phone and display the status. The last time I (tried to) back up, I let it go all night and the next morning it was still at the beginning of the backup with no progress at all.
Several times I have tried to do something as simple as copy music to my phone, with nothing happening. Rebooting the phone seemed to help.
On the phone PTP mode fails completely. When I turn that on and load up Picasa, it detects the phone as a camera but then just sits there twiddling it's thumbs instead of showing me my importable photos.
The quality of Samsung's software is mindbogglingly poor. For the prices they charge for their devices, it's unacceptable.
Because that's what comes with the phone, and should be the base method of backing up, syncing music, photos, etc.
Other tools are good for when you want to do something special that the base software doesn't provide. They shouldn't be necessary because the base software doesn't work at all.
And this is so random that I had to post it. I couldn't remember how to spell discernible, so I typed "descernable" into google. This was in my list of results:
As someone with the same problem, I feel your frustration. Apart from setting up some kind of fancy noise cancelling device, your only real option is to drown out the sound with another sound.
You can use things like -a noisy humidifier/heater/AC -an ocean track on repeat -white noise generator -various forms of electronic music. Ideally stuff that has no discernible melody and few if any vocals. I suggest Orbital, Apollo 440, Daft Punk or similar. There are some ok shoutcasts stations, however a lot of them will interrupt the music with somebody with delusions of DJ-hood start talking about this or that, so YMMV.
"many of the software improvements in the Samsung Galaxy S4 could make their way into existing Samsung Galaxy S3 phones."
You mean Kies will finally work? Samsung should be ashamed of themselves for releasing such half-baked crap. I certainly won't be buying another Samsung device. Maybe they need to spend less time coming up with cool new gee-whizbang features and spend more time making the existing ones actually work as advertised.
When real money is being lost as a result of their mistake, then they're the ones who need to apologize, not me. If people arn't supposed to be using the thing, then there shouldn't be real money being exchanged for it. If people are buying bitcoins with real money, and companies are performing transactions for real goods and services with bitcoins, then it doesn't matter what the version number is. It's at 1.0 whether they like it or not, and they are going to have to deal with the fallout when Something Bad(tm) happens.
I'm not familiar with how their development process goes, but the only way something like this can happen is that they failed to do their due diligence AND not perform sufficient testing before uploading the code to a public repository.
And no, your comparison is not even close to similar. This isn't about a piece of software trying to work with a rough spec that almost no one can properly agree on. This is about two versions of the same official bitcoin software, using the official bitcoin protocol, with data generated by said official software.
What this DOES compare to, is how Word 2003 and Word 2007 can mangle the output of each other's documents. People bitch and moan all the time about compatibility issues between different versions of Microsoft Office, and rightly so. But this problem is much worse, because as far as I know (and you're free to correct me on this), the stock market hasn't crashed because Word 2003 couldn't figure out what to do with a piece of bold text created by Word 2007.
No need to contend. It is. All you can do is provide tools so that the law-abiding majority can effectively ostracize the trouble-makers. It won't eliminate the problem but it will make it much harder.
One very easy way to do it is to version the protocols so that you don't allow connections to older versions. That will take care of a good chunk of the low hanging fruit. From there it becomes much harder, and you have to take more advanced steps to validate the clients you connect to such as checksums, certificates, etc.
This sort of thing was solved a long time ago, but because it's "old", people just dismiss it out of hand.
It's called versioning the protocol and having compatibility lists. When two clients connect, they exchange version numbers and if one is too old then the newer one performs additional checks to verify compatibility. If the issue is reconcilable then it aborts the connection with an error. Or programatically enforce that the older version is discontinued and that anyone who is using it can no longer participate in the chain.
I apologize if I sound exasperated and holier than thou... actually, no, I don't. How the hell do people design a system that they intend to be the backbone of a major financial system but fail to accommodate for such things? It is nothing short of stupidity and incompetence.
If a major bank tried to pull this sort of nonsense, they'd be bankrupt so fast that the stockholders would have whiplash.
The only way stuff could be on google, is if said stuff already happened. ie: People having already suffered the consequences of dangerous drug interactions.
While it's certainly useful to have this knowledge, I fail to see how this translates to 'predicting' drug interaction. If people are googling for a combination of drug + a specific side effect, then they either are trying to find out if such an effect exists, or they have reason to suspect that such an effect exists, which *somebody* likely (and inadvertently) discovered that interaction the hard way.
I agree. However everyone *knows* skype. They have a huge user base. That base will be even bigger when MS finishes forcing all MSN users onto it. There are standards, and then there are defacto standards because everyone uses the same product.
I *really* like the idea of Jitsi. Unfortunately I'm also likely to never use it because I don't know a single other person that uses it, or uses other tools that share the same protocols, despite the fact that said protocols are open standards. Skype is now just another IM system I have to have an account on, which requires me to use Trillian so I don't have 50 different IM clients. Why would I want yet *another* one?
I would agree, except for one problem. Most of these people were voted in in the first place. Which means if you sweep the lot out, guess what happens? The same caliber of dufus is just going to be voted back in again.
Any given population gets the government they deserve. And a massive percentage of the US population are mindboggling ignorant about how the world works, think that their ignorant opinions should have equal value to those provided by actual experts in their respected fields, and think that it's more important to be able to sit down and have a beer with their representatives than it is for said representatives to be competent at their jobs.
That is correct. And that is exactly what I did. Everything worked perfectly and I was merrily on my way until the next day when it started declaring that activation failed. I had to do a whole bunch of googling just to find out what went wrong.
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Well, we can't use this episode for any kind of comparison because Adria heard something she wasn't meant to hear, and had nothing to do with her. Heck, she could just as easily have photographed two random guys and made up the whole story, because the incident wasn't recorded. You can't defend from asshats like that. It's sad that a guy lost his job over it, but I'm glad she lost hers. And thanks to all this negative publicity, I can only hope she has a heck of a time finding a new one.
As for more normal situations... there are so many variables that it's really hard to give you a magic bullet statement. The easiest thing to do is simply not do that kind of thing until the person has been part of the team for a while and you develop an idea of what they're like. Of course, this is general advice that can apply to any gender. What you need to do is read up on kinesiology. That knowledge will help you identify whether someone is uncomfortable, angry, what have you, before a situation gets out of hand. If you arn't sure... ask. Just asking someone (in a suitably caring tone of voice) if they're bothered by something you said, goes a very long way to making them feel like you actually care about their feelings.
It also depends a great deal on the general environment. I have never experienced a professional environment where sexual jokes are cracked on a regular basis, so I have nothing to compare to. However, I have been in industrial situations where the guys have been pretty crass on a regular basis, and I just avoided those people cause I had better things to do than deal with that.
You know, it would be really nice if the US started putting more effort into early identification and treatment of these whackjob crazies *before* massacres happen. But that will never happen because American culture demands mental illness be swept under the rug.
It would also be nice if American culture would start focusing more on actually being nice to one another, and by extension, the rest of the world. But that will never happen because American culture revels in greed and self-importance, and there's no room for being nice when you're busy amassing more wealth than your next door neighbour.
So this is going to keep happening. Innocent children will continue to die, everyone will wring their hands and bemoan how bad the world is and how video games caused it or movies caused it or purple goldfish caused it, and in the end nothing will change.
I tried to use that analogyfinder site, but I couldn't find the setting for 'cars'.
Unfortunately you've already got +5 insightful so I can't mod you +1 funny. Unless you weren't trying to be funny, in which case I'd mod you +1 ironic.
(Hint to people who don't get it: UEFI is a replacement to BIOS. There's no such thing as a 'BIOS' with UEFI.)
is put a chilling effect on developer conferences in general, and put pressure on conference staff to create policies that shouldn't even be necessary.
Talk freely and openly? Not anymore. Oh no! Someone said compile and link in the same sentence! I'm offended! As a female myself, now I have to worry that if I walk up to another developer, their first thought will be, "Oh shit, it's a woman. Gotta scoot!"
Do you have a smart phone? Sorry, you're not allowed to use it anymore because you might be taking photos of other people to post on your twitfaceplus feed in order to disrupt their lives.
This whole thing is a big pile of idiocy, and mindbogglingly poorly handled on ALL sides.
It takes a minute or two for Kies to just connect to the phone and display the status. The last time I (tried to) back up, I let it go all night and the next morning it was still at the beginning of the backup with no progress at all.
Several times I have tried to do something as simple as copy music to my phone, with nothing happening. Rebooting the phone seemed to help.
On the phone PTP mode fails completely. When I turn that on and load up Picasa, it detects the phone as a camera but then just sits there twiddling it's thumbs instead of showing me my importable photos.
The quality of Samsung's software is mindbogglingly poor. For the prices they charge for their devices, it's unacceptable.
I would rather have a 200mb monstrosity that works, than an 87mb pile of crap that isn't even good enough to be a boat anchor.
Because that's what comes with the phone, and should be the base method of backing up, syncing music, photos, etc.
Other tools are good for when you want to do something special that the base software doesn't provide. They shouldn't be necessary because the base software doesn't work at all.
And this is so random that I had to post it. I couldn't remember how to spell discernible, so I typed "descernable" into google. This was in my list of results:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18637995
I.. um... Well... ok thanks.... good to know.
Not as bad as when some guy posted a link to the symbian website but forgot the m. That's still my favorite. :)
As someone with the same problem, I feel your frustration. Apart from setting up some kind of fancy noise cancelling device, your only real option is to drown out the sound with another sound.
You can use things like
-a noisy humidifier/heater/AC
-an ocean track on repeat
-white noise generator
-various forms of electronic music. Ideally stuff that has no discernible melody and few if any vocals. I suggest Orbital, Apollo 440, Daft Punk or similar. There are some ok shoutcasts stations, however a lot of them will interrupt the music with somebody with delusions of DJ-hood start talking about this or that, so YMMV.
"many of the software improvements in the Samsung Galaxy S4 could make their way into existing Samsung Galaxy S3 phones."
You mean Kies will finally work? Samsung should be ashamed of themselves for releasing such half-baked crap. I certainly won't be buying another Samsung device. Maybe they need to spend less time coming up with cool new gee-whizbang features and spend more time making the existing ones actually work as advertised.
When real money is being lost as a result of their mistake, then they're the ones who need to apologize, not me. If people arn't supposed to be using the thing, then there shouldn't be real money being exchanged for it. If people are buying bitcoins with real money, and companies are performing transactions for real goods and services with bitcoins, then it doesn't matter what the version number is. It's at 1.0 whether they like it or not, and they are going to have to deal with the fallout when Something Bad(tm) happens.
I'm not familiar with how their development process goes, but the only way something like this can happen is that they failed to do their due diligence AND not perform sufficient testing before uploading the code to a public repository.
And no, your comparison is not even close to similar. This isn't about a piece of software trying to work with a rough spec that almost no one can properly agree on. This is about two versions of the same official bitcoin software, using the official bitcoin protocol, with data generated by said official software.
What this DOES compare to, is how Word 2003 and Word 2007 can mangle the output of each other's documents. People bitch and moan all the time about compatibility issues between different versions of Microsoft Office, and rightly so. But this problem is much worse, because as far as I know (and you're free to correct me on this), the stock market hasn't crashed because Word 2003 couldn't figure out what to do with a piece of bold text created by Word 2007.
Too bad I can't mod in a discussion I've posted in. I would have totally given you a +1 "Informative.... And Scary."
Why do I only ever find out about these things, when it's too late?
No need to contend. It is. All you can do is provide tools so that the law-abiding majority can effectively ostracize the trouble-makers. It won't eliminate the problem but it will make it much harder.
One very easy way to do it is to version the protocols so that you don't allow connections to older versions. That will take care of a good chunk of the low hanging fruit. From there it becomes much harder, and you have to take more advanced steps to validate the clients you connect to such as checksums, certificates, etc.
"That seems like common sense..."
I won't say it. It's too easy. :)
This sort of thing was solved a long time ago, but because it's "old", people just dismiss it out of hand.
It's called versioning the protocol and having compatibility lists. When two clients connect, they exchange version numbers and if one is too old then the newer one performs additional checks to verify compatibility. If the issue is reconcilable then it aborts the connection with an error. Or programatically enforce that the older version is discontinued and that anyone who is using it can no longer participate in the chain.
I apologize if I sound exasperated and holier than thou... actually, no, I don't. How the hell do people design a system that they intend to be the backbone of a major financial system but fail to accommodate for such things? It is nothing short of stupidity and incompetence.
If a major bank tried to pull this sort of nonsense, they'd be bankrupt so fast that the stockholders would have whiplash.
Me-too first post!
The only way stuff could be on google, is if said stuff already happened. ie: People having already suffered the consequences of dangerous drug interactions.
While it's certainly useful to have this knowledge, I fail to see how this translates to 'predicting' drug interaction. If people are googling for a combination of drug + a specific side effect, then they either are trying to find out if such an effect exists, or they have reason to suspect that such an effect exists, which *somebody* likely (and inadvertently) discovered that interaction the hard way.
I guess Dr. Raymond Cocteau was right after all! (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106697/)
If only I could delete my post...
I got Jitsi confused with something else entirely. I'll just shut up now and sit in a corner.
I agree. However everyone *knows* skype. They have a huge user base. That base will be even bigger when MS finishes forcing all MSN users onto it. There are standards, and then there are defacto standards because everyone uses the same product.
I *really* like the idea of Jitsi. Unfortunately I'm also likely to never use it because I don't know a single other person that uses it, or uses other tools that share the same protocols, despite the fact that said protocols are open standards. Skype is now just another IM system I have to have an account on, which requires me to use Trillian so I don't have 50 different IM clients. Why would I want yet *another* one?
He didn't have to. That intern did all the inhaling for him. :)
I would agree, except for one problem. Most of these people were voted in in the first place. Which means if you sweep the lot out, guess what happens? The same caliber of dufus is just going to be voted back in again.
Any given population gets the government they deserve. And a massive percentage of the US population are mindboggling ignorant about how the world works, think that their ignorant opinions should have equal value to those provided by actual experts in their respected fields, and think that it's more important to be able to sit down and have a beer with their representatives than it is for said representatives to be competent at their jobs.
That is correct. And that is exactly what I did. Everything worked perfectly and I was merrily on my way until the next day when it started declaring that activation failed. I had to do a whole bunch of googling just to find out what went wrong.