As a teacher i have some things I "must " do F2F, but then much of my work (grading and planning could be done at home.
But I do not want to work from home.
I keep a strong, strong separation between work and home. When I am home I do family things, house things, play things, me things even. When I am at work I work: I work solid and I work hard and I work focused. I don't have distractions and I accomplish my work within the time constraints of a reasonable workday (about 8 hours).
I saw a commercial for something the other day where the commercial was saying that white collar workers "routinely worked 80 hour weeks." Stupid people. You are not working smart if it takes you 80 hours to complete your assignment. Or you are not employing yourself with a smart company. Nobody can stay truly focused on a task (or a series of tasks) for that amount of time in a day. So, clearly (and we see the results whenever we interact with people who are "working" like this) they are losing massive amounts of time to inefficiency, just so they can pretend to be working "sooooo hard"
I used to work for an old man, a wise old man, who would not let people work more than 40 hours a week. "go home, spend time with your family. If you want to work, work on your house, play with your kids, do something other than work." He got more work out of his employees, he had almost no one trying to cheat him on hours or sick leave or any other excuse to get something from the company because everyone felt that they were being considered as people who existed outside the company.
He passed away a few years ago and his son sold the company. While his son understood his dad's approach he just didn't want to fight the current business climate where lying cheating and stealing are built in to the everyday interactions of employee/employer. He recognized that trying to hire someone with existing skills meant you were going to have to try to retrain them to an entirely foreign system. It wasn't worth the trouble.
4 or 5 years ago I started to research investments in battery companies to find some green investments that might turn a good profit. It was quite frustrating, they were mostly poor performing "penny" stock companies that had wide swings tied to small changes in individual contract sales and fulfillment. Nothing here said I, move on. So I did.
The problem seemed to be that the people with the knowledge to start and run battery companies were coming out of the old battery tech fields, not the new material science field. Essentially, you need to understand that breaking into an old industry (and batteries are very old of course) is nothing like breaking into a new industry, like computers or mobile phones. New ideas have a much higher bar in an old industry. So, even with the most brilliant idea in the world, you need more time and money to be successful , to jump the bar, to overcome the existing bases of the old companies. So, to see failures like this is not surprising.
One of the reasons I don't invest in kickstarter projects is that just a good idea is not good enough. Business acumen and a recognized place in the industry are hugely important in a lot of the things that people want to do. There are many many forces that decide the failure or success of an idea.
I wonder... is this specific to Apple? My WeTab has a root terminal available in their app store which automatically gives me root access. Plus their community forum pages give lots of ways to install other OSs.
I have an idea, a modest proposal really. How about, since the worry is criminals getting guns that "honest citizens" can't get, we just get rid of all, i mean all as in every since gun-like thing, projectile weapon, for ten years. In that time, every weapon discovered in any situation is destroyed, gun manufacturers are shut down and military weapons are set to individual recognition so that they can only be fired by their "owner" who is probably a robot. After ten years manufacturers are allowed to manufacture weapons that are: taxed at 100%, fire only with individual recognition as proven to work by the military, and available only to citizens who have passed both an intensive background check and a mandatory safety and use education and certification program. That might make me feel safe going out of my house at night again.
I got tired of lappies in 2005 and went back to desktops, don't miss them one bit. When I started with laptops I needed mobility, was doing international consulting and such. But now, when I am away from my desk I am AWAY from my desk, my phone might be in my pocket, but I erased all the ringtones so it vibrates only. I miss a buttload of calls, oh yes I do and everybody who calls me knows it.
So all of this is moot, it has no great importance. I see that when Apple realized that people could be convinced to spend extra money on something just so they could take it out to the coffeeshop and be seen with the newest toy, they knew they had a nice fat bag of fools to sucker in. And they were not proven wrong. I still am amazed by the number of people who carry a laptop around with them and never use it except to check their email while they drink a coffee. Hey, howabout just taking ten minutes to..... think about something. Yeah, think bout it, now.... think.....
Because of two factors. First, everybody wants to believe that an amorphous and super-powerful force is keeping them from being who they dream they are. Second, If they aren't paying extra-high taxes then why aren't they as well off as their parents were with this kind of income?
Most people today want to see the government as an amorphous and all-powerful force AGAINST them, when in fact the government is, ingeneral, just trying to do what it has been told to do by the people that aged P voted into office. And they aren't as well off because they have higher standards of living and higher expectations for their ability to spend beyond their income like their parents did.
I haven't read the article, but even without reading I can tell you that REAL scientists, like hmmm, maybe anthropologists, don't go around sounding like media pundits who make a show of "knowing " shit. They are thoughtful, careful in their language and attention to the reality that is the human environment.
As a linguist I studied anth, and with anthies, they are awesome. Got a PhD anthie in the office right now, smarter than many a programmer/hacker in the wild i would bet (as in she can walk logic rings around most programmers any day, she is a joy to argue with)
Thank you, as a member of that older generation i find it embarrassing that just because we had the marketing numbers everybody else is derogated to the scrapeheap of unimportance.
My 2011 Hyundai Sonata has "iPad integration" which is a USB plug in and an audio in plug to go from the headphone jack to the car. You just use the USB plug that connects the iPod to computer and off you go. Plus, since I don't have an iPod, I can just pluf a usb drive (flash or hdd) and play out of that. The car does choke on everything over 4Gb though. It lets you plug in and reads the first 4Gb, then chokes and will just show those.
Probably means that USB is dead in the near future...
Because they don't sell it to jerks like you, duh. Like you couldn't "type it into a search box on a [real] search engine" (not one of those bingy thingies) and found out about it. Quit trying to hide the fact that you either are a shill for MS or you don't know how to use a search engine.
I use LibreOffice in a large American university (as faculty) and interact with MS Office 2010 every day. I never use MS Office, I do use helpful extensions like "multisave" and PDF save, but have never had a problem with interaction. Most people don't know that I am using LibreOffice ( and Fedora for that matter) unless I tell them. Mostly I wait for them to ask what is up with my computer (I don't bother to require log-in on startup and many other security requirements for the W7 computers since no one can figure out what to do with my desktop unless I tell them to pretend it is a Mac;)>)
Lotus Symphony is an Open Office clone with an IBM GUI (slight mod from Ooo). They do push it as part of the Lotus Suite. It's not a bad product, but after using it the GUI was a little bit "off" for my taste. No real complaint, just didn't excite me as being worth the trouble. But I am not a business, I don't expect support, etc. Still your statement is patently false.
Excuse me, but isn't the war for resources based on a scarcity of resources? Like , mmmm, clean potable water? If you disagree, tell the Israelis they don't have any worries
simple answer: "in loco parentis" Schools sit in a particularly difficult legal location where they are given "TLD" (as in top level domain) responsibilities for children (any individual younger than 16 --or whatever-- years old) without any of the rights and powers that normally come with that responsibility.
Another way to put it: schools are required to act with the same responsibility (and punishment for failure) for children that parents have, but also are tied up and down by mandatory administrative requirements that essentially keep them from using the adult powers they used to have.
Why? Well you, the parents, want to trust the school where you send your child. But (OK, I'm going to be controversially supportive of schools and teachers now, haters prepare flame war weapons...now!) we have been told, by the media, by the politicians, by our friends and co-workers who share this shit through FB and twitshit, that schools are not safe; schools are not teaching our kids; schools are full of sex offenders; schools are unable to keep our children safe from drugs and sex and violence and and and... the fear, my friends, the fear that is used to keep you afraid of everything so that you won't think.
Yes, there are anecdotes that can be used by the media and the politicos to feed the fear, but how it plays out in the day to day world is not to do with those big, bad events, it is to do with the grinding reality of parent/teacher/student/administration interaction: all built on fear of different things.
My own anecdote: my sister has two MAs from good universities, all focused on teaching and preaching (yes, she is ordained). She started teaching in a public school system in the mid-70s and has worked there ever since, until retiring this year. She retired because a student learned how to game the system and, together with her mother, made accusations about the attendance record for her classes with my sister that forced my sister into a defensive posture, left her with bad evaluation scores and a cascading shitstorm based on her effort to get the kid to prepare for an upcoming performance which she was not prepared for, therefore could not attend, therefore could not pass the class (which was an elective and didn't affect anything except her extra-curricular activities) and so my sister was blamed and derogated for not letting her perform when she wasn't prepared. So, after spending a year fighting the crap that came about because of a kid who skipped class and didn't want (with parental support) to take responsibility for her failed actions my sister "retired" and now teaches private lessons only.
What is the connection?: The kid was afraid to have her extra-curricular activities below the minimum she "needed" for her chosen university.
The parents were afraid their kid would not get "what she wanted," they are paying taxes for her to get what she wants after all, and if she doesn't get what she wants they have failed as parents, so they feared failure as well
The school system (administration) fears that they will be seen as uncooperative, obstructive, hurting children's prospects, that the superintendent will lose the next election, that they will lose more funding to privet schools, to IB, to charter schools, to all the various ways that stories like this ('hard working student penalized by failure to attend music class") can be used to attack the public school system.
The teachers fear bad evaluations, bad letters in their portfolio, bad comments from admin about cranky parents, and loss of tenure, salary, position, status and all the rest they have fought for years to achieve.
All because one nasty little piece of work was afraid to lose some points for attendance and to take the consequences.
This is the effect of fear in our society, not government, not the media (they both feed off the fear, but they are not the fear itself) but we, the people, are the source of the fear. Like the people in the house across the street who I ha
My story is far outside the norm: I was struggling with how to teach/explain IP to Asian students who were being encouraged by MS to use pirated versions of MS products to achieve the lock-in they now have in places like Korea, China, Thailand, etc. I went to open source to prove to students that there were equal and equally free ways to run their computers and do their school work without buying in to things like MS. It didn't work, lock-in made it just too damn hard for the kids, but me, I stuck with and don't want to go back. Just onery I reckon.
Sorry, but this is just not true. My son is a 4th grade (9year old) student at a public magnet school for technology and world culture. He is honored by the other students for his ability in math and science. They all want him to be on their teams, help them understand math concepts (and he is used by the teachers to go around and explain concepts to other students because he does it in a way that the other kids "just get"), goes to the math bowl, the science olympics and anything else he can get into. We live in a "transitional neighborhood" surrounded by black and hispanic kids who are in and out of our house in the afternoons unlike the other neighbors who send their kids to private schools and keep them locked in on the weekends because they are failing (wait for it) math and science and every other thing.
It's not that my son is a genius, he has had some advantages in his education, but he is not bullied because of it, he is honored, by the teachers and the students in their own ways.
when the iPhone first came out I had a colleague who was planning on flying to HK (from Shanghai) and buying 10 iPhones and returning with them. He could cover the cost of the trip, overnight in HK and still pack away some mad cash. There are some damn stupid Chinese in China. Just sayin'
And it doesn't matter if it was "anonymous" or not, I would not even want to accept email from a computer that had been messing with Mossad, Imagine your refrigerator being hacked with a command to blow itself up and take the house with it. Or your heat pump, hot water heater, microwave, all at the same time: that is Mossad style.
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As a teacher i have some things I "must " do F2F, but then much of my work (grading and planning could be done at home.
But I do not want to work from home.
I keep a strong, strong separation between work and home. When I am home I do family things, house things, play things, me things even. When I am at work I work: I work solid and I work hard and I work focused. I don't have distractions and I accomplish my work within the time constraints of a reasonable workday (about 8 hours).
I saw a commercial for something the other day where the commercial was saying that white collar workers "routinely worked 80 hour weeks." Stupid people. You are not working smart if it takes you 80 hours to complete your assignment. Or you are not employing yourself with a smart company. Nobody can stay truly focused on a task (or a series of tasks) for that amount of time in a day. So, clearly (and we see the results whenever we interact with people who are "working" like this) they are losing massive amounts of time to inefficiency, just so they can pretend to be working "sooooo hard"
I used to work for an old man, a wise old man, who would not let people work more than 40 hours a week. "go home, spend time with your family. If you want to work, work on your house, play with your kids, do something other than work." He got more work out of his employees, he had almost no one trying to cheat him on hours or sick leave or any other excuse to get something from the company because everyone felt that they were being considered as people who existed outside the company.
He passed away a few years ago and his son sold the company. While his son understood his dad's approach he just didn't want to fight the current business climate where lying cheating and stealing are built in to the everyday interactions of employee/employer. He recognized that trying to hire someone with existing skills meant you were going to have to try to retrain them to an entirely foreign system. It wasn't worth the trouble.
4 or 5 years ago I started to research investments in battery companies to find some green investments that might turn a good profit. It was quite frustrating, they were mostly poor performing "penny" stock companies that had wide swings tied to small changes in individual contract sales and fulfillment. Nothing here said I, move on. So I did.
The problem seemed to be that the people with the knowledge to start and run battery companies were coming out of the old battery tech fields, not the new material science field. Essentially, you need to understand that breaking into an old industry (and batteries are very old of course) is nothing like breaking into a new industry, like computers or mobile phones. New ideas have a much higher bar in an old industry. So, even with the most brilliant idea in the world, you need more time and money to be successful , to jump the bar, to overcome the existing bases of the old companies. So, to see failures like this is not surprising.
One of the reasons I don't invest in kickstarter projects is that just a good idea is not good enough. Business acumen and a recognized place in the industry are hugely important in a lot of the things that people want to do. There are many many forces that decide the failure or success of an idea.
I wonder ... is this specific to Apple? My WeTab has a root terminal available in their app store which automatically gives me root access. Plus their community forum pages give lots of ways to install other OSs.
yes, yes we should
I have an idea, a modest proposal really. How about, since the worry is criminals getting guns that "honest citizens" can't get, we just get rid of all, i mean all as in every since gun-like thing, projectile weapon, for ten years. In that time, every weapon discovered in any situation is destroyed, gun manufacturers are shut down and military weapons are set to individual recognition so that they can only be fired by their "owner" who is probably a robot.
After ten years manufacturers are allowed to manufacture weapons that are: taxed at 100%, fire only with individual recognition as proven to work by the military, and available only to citizens who have passed both an intensive background check and a mandatory safety and use education and certification program.
That might make me feel safe going out of my house at night again.
I got tired of lappies in 2005 and went back to desktops, don't miss them one bit. When I started with laptops I needed mobility, was doing international consulting and such. But now, when I am away from my desk I am AWAY from my desk, my phone might be in my pocket, but I erased all the ringtones so it vibrates only. I miss a buttload of calls, oh yes I do and everybody who calls me knows it.
So all of this is moot, it has no great importance. I see that when Apple realized that people could be convinced to spend extra money on something just so they could take it out to the coffeeshop and be seen with the newest toy, they knew they had a nice fat bag of fools to sucker in. And they were not proven wrong. I still am amazed by the number of people who carry a laptop around with them and never use it except to check their email while they drink a coffee. Hey, howabout just taking ten minutes to ..... think about something. Yeah, think bout it, now.... think.....
Because of two factors. First, everybody wants to believe that an amorphous and super-powerful force is keeping them from being who they dream they are. Second, If they aren't paying extra-high taxes then why aren't they as well off as their parents were with this kind of income?
Most people today want to see the government as an amorphous and all-powerful force AGAINST them, when in fact the government is, ingeneral, just trying to do what it has been told to do by the people that aged P voted into office.
And they aren't as well off because they have higher standards of living and higher expectations for their ability to spend beyond their income like their parents did.
I haven't read the article, but even without reading I can tell you that REAL scientists, like hmmm, maybe anthropologists, don't go around sounding like media pundits who make a show of "knowing " shit. They are thoughtful, careful in their language and attention to the reality that is the human environment.
As a linguist I studied anth, and with anthies, they are awesome. Got a PhD anthie in the office right now, smarter than many a programmer/hacker in the wild i would bet (as in she can walk logic rings around most programmers any day, she is a joy to argue with)
Without Joseph Campbell there would have been no Star Warz
Thank you, as a member of that older generation i find it embarrassing that just because we had the marketing numbers everybody else is derogated to the scrapeheap of unimportance.
My 2011 Hyundai Sonata has "iPad integration" which is a USB plug in and an audio in plug to go from the headphone jack to the car. You just use the USB plug that connects the iPod to computer and off you go. Plus, since I don't have an iPod, I can just pluf a usb drive (flash or hdd) and play out of that. The car does choke on everything over 4Gb though. It lets you plug in and reads the first 4Gb, then chokes and will just show those.
Probably means that USB is dead in the near future...
Because they don't sell it to jerks like you, duh.
Like you couldn't "type it into a search box on a [real] search engine" (not one of those bingy thingies) and found out about it. Quit trying to hide the fact that you either are a shill for MS or you don't know how to use a search engine.
I use LibreOffice in a large American university (as faculty) and interact with MS Office 2010 every day. I never use MS Office, I do use helpful extensions like "multisave" and PDF save, but have never had a problem with interaction. Most people don't know that I am using LibreOffice ( and Fedora for that matter) unless I tell them. Mostly I wait for them to ask what is up with my computer (I don't bother to require log-in on startup and many other security requirements for the W7 computers since no one can figure out what to do with my desktop unless I tell them to pretend it is a Mac;)>)
Lotus Symphony is an Open Office clone with an IBM GUI (slight mod from Ooo). They do push it as part of the Lotus Suite. It's not a bad product, but after using it the GUI was a little bit "off" for my taste. No real complaint, just didn't excite me as being worth the trouble. But I am not a business, I don't expect support, etc. Still your statement is patently false.
I rate this a "pants-on-fire"
Excuse me, but isn't the war for resources based on a scarcity of resources? Like , mmmm, clean potable water? If you disagree, tell the Israelis they don't have any worries
And why do you think that using up the resources for our own personal use will not hasten that particular "end time"
simple answer: "in loco parentis"
Schools sit in a particularly difficult legal location where they are given "TLD" (as in top level domain) responsibilities for children (any individual younger than 16 --or whatever-- years old) without any of the rights and powers that normally come with that responsibility.
Another way to put it: schools are required to act with the same responsibility (and punishment for failure) for children that parents have, but also are tied up and down by mandatory administrative requirements that essentially keep them from using the adult powers they used to have.
Why? Well you, the parents, want to trust the school where you send your child. But (OK, I'm going to be controversially supportive of schools and teachers now, haters prepare flame war weapons ...now!) we have been told, by the media, by the politicians, by our friends and co-workers who share this shit through FB and twitshit, that schools are not safe; schools are not teaching our kids; schools are full of sex offenders; schools are unable to keep our children safe from drugs and sex and violence and and and... the fear, my friends, the fear that is used to keep you afraid of everything so that you won't think.
Yes, there are anecdotes that can be used by the media and the politicos to feed the fear, but how it plays out in the day to day world is not to do with those big, bad events, it is to do with the grinding reality of parent/teacher/student/administration interaction: all built on fear of different things.
My own anecdote: my sister has two MAs from good universities, all focused on teaching and preaching (yes, she is ordained). She started teaching in a public school system in the mid-70s and has worked there ever since, until retiring this year. She retired because a student learned how to game the system and, together with her mother, made accusations about the attendance record for her classes with my sister that forced my sister into a defensive posture, left her with bad evaluation scores and a cascading shitstorm based on her effort to get the kid to prepare for an upcoming performance which she was not prepared for, therefore could not attend, therefore could not pass the class (which was an elective and didn't affect anything except her extra-curricular activities) and so my sister was blamed and derogated for not letting her perform when she wasn't prepared. So, after spending a year fighting the crap that came about because of a kid who skipped class and didn't want (with parental support) to take responsibility for her failed actions my sister "retired" and now teaches private lessons only.
What is the connection?:
The kid was afraid to have her extra-curricular activities below the minimum she "needed" for her chosen university.
The parents were afraid their kid would not get "what she wanted," they are paying taxes for her to get what she wants after all, and if she doesn't get what she wants they have failed as parents, so they feared failure as well
The school system (administration) fears that they will be seen as uncooperative, obstructive, hurting children's prospects, that the superintendent will lose the next election, that they will lose more funding to privet schools, to IB, to charter schools, to all the various ways that stories like this ('hard working student penalized by failure to attend music class") can be used to attack the public school system.
The teachers fear bad evaluations, bad letters in their portfolio, bad comments from admin about cranky parents, and loss of tenure, salary, position, status and all the rest they have fought for years to achieve.
All because one nasty little piece of work was afraid to lose some points for attendance and to take the consequences.
This is the effect of fear in our society, not government, not the media (they both feed off the fear, but they are not the fear itself) but we, the people, are the source of the fear. Like the people in the house across the street who I ha
My story is far outside the norm: I was struggling with how to teach/explain IP to Asian students who were being encouraged by MS to use pirated versions of MS products to achieve the lock-in they now have in places like Korea, China, Thailand, etc. I went to open source to prove to students that there were equal and equally free ways to run their computers and do their school work without buying in to things like MS. It didn't work, lock-in made it just too damn hard for the kids, but me, I stuck with and don't want to go back. Just onery I reckon.
which is Prezi, (or some other web-based platform which was my point)
Where we come from it is spelled "gif" and pronounced /hif/ (with the Dutch /g/ sound which doesn't really have an English variant)
ditto
Sorry, but this is just not true. My son is a 4th grade (9year old) student at a public magnet school for technology and world culture. He is honored by the other students for his ability in math and science. They all want him to be on their teams, help them understand math concepts (and he is used by the teachers to go around and explain concepts to other students because he does it in a way that the other kids "just get"), goes to the math bowl, the science olympics and anything else he can get into.
We live in a "transitional neighborhood" surrounded by black and hispanic kids who are in and out of our house in the afternoons unlike the other neighbors who send their kids to private schools and keep them locked in on the weekends because they are failing (wait for it) math and science and every other thing.
It's not that my son is a genius, he has had some advantages in his education, but he is not bullied because of it, he is honored, by the teachers and the students in their own ways.
They got nothin' on New Orleans, those were some bad, bad cops. Mean MothaFuggahs, personal experience, ....nuf sed
when the iPhone first came out I had a colleague who was planning on flying to HK (from Shanghai) and buying 10 iPhones and returning with them. He could cover the cost of the trip, overnight in HK and still pack away some mad cash. There are some damn stupid Chinese in China. Just sayin'
And it doesn't matter if it was "anonymous" or not, I would not even want to accept email from a computer that had been messing with Mossad, Imagine your refrigerator being hacked with a command to blow itself up and take the house with it. Or your heat pump, hot water heater, microwave, all at the same time: that is Mossad style.