We currently have about a 5 minute whiteboard session every other day from the Manager, and are left to Execute everything as we go. We used to have a 2 hour meeting last year, about every month. Those were good times.
Man, if 30 hours a week was ever a norm, that'd be awesome! Sitting and talking about how awesome it'd be to get stuff done. I mean, they do realize that there are only 40 hours in a work week, right? Thats like 2 hours a day of actual work!
I know that. The trick is that someone could exclude zero and use no fingers as 1, should they desire, and no hands up as zero.
The trick was that you have to know binary up to 1024, and then be clever enough to use a new method for a third state of finger type, ultimately making it 3 ^ 10
Yes - but its merely taking existing technology and applying it to an also niche application. About a month after the Sixth Sense was demo'd they finished a prototype that didn't require finger caps to identify the fingers.
The whole Idea of the sixth sense was more about: Reliable Input output wherever you are, with an OS that understands universal gestures.
The fact that it was wearable was only meant to exagerate that point. This news article listed here is nothing that wasn't around in 2009.
Well then you gotta give us reason to believe you are in fact a nerd. You can't just say "I don't like Firefly" and "I'm a nerd" in the same sentence and Expect us to believe you.
And no, an account on Slashdot does not get you any closer.
"But in the Iran-Iraq war you sold guns to both sides."
"Did you ever consider that I wanted both sides to lose?"
We should be pointing out more reasons for the guys to sue each other than just a petty Flash dispute, we should arm them with the means to sue each other into oblivion!
Than, if my calculations are correct, the lawyers will have made enough to buy new yachts, bolstering the economy slightly. It's really a win for everybody all around.
The thing is - I don't work selling to customers. I am deploying to employees within the same company as me. So all the headaches, tradeoffs, and everything else that goes with it become MY headaches and tradeoffs and everything else that goes with it for me to deal with while they are trying to get work done.
I am not responsible for poor choices, that is the job of the IT Manager, and the general consensus is that they'd rather have a corporation that is too big to fail backing their software than the OS Community.
This is true. The general rule for turning left around here is just yield on solid green. You will get 1 car enter the intersection turning left but waiting for traffic to finish up.
Okay, light turns yellow. A few people run the yellow light, they can make it through without penalty. You, turning left, waiting your turn, are left accelerating out of the intersection with the lights red. I'd hate to get dinged for that.
There is a huge difference between being lazy and not having time. If I have to wait a month and reschedule my plans around a council meeting, it sure doesn't get things resolved quickly or efficiently.
Where do you live that allows your neighbourhood to have a 50 person conference call with a city official or an email service that allows you to check up on the status of an individual request without pestering a single official?
Your response is akin to "Social Networking? Bah! We've had email and phones for ages!"
He can't help it, the first 11 didn't go over so well, it made him superstitious
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The problem here isn't really about Dollars and Cents though, if it were, more people WOULD use Linux.
Its more about Hassle-free computing. My mother wants to turn on a computer, click on a button to listen to music, or to webcam chat with Grandma, or play a movie while cooking. All of that was either pre-setup on her machine, or was given precise instructions on how to do it. She may complain its slow, but thats about as far as it goes.
She doesn't have to know how to test if her IP Address is good. She doesn't have to update drivers. She doesn't have to get any patches or specific versions, other than what windows automatically suggests she does. Even that is optional.
If anything, the reason Microsoft is still in the game is because they have focused their energy on making it easier to plug and play with the non-technical.
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I can dream, can't I? :)
Yes, and you're the kind of individual we need running for office.
You win!
I'm young enough to say that I haven't.
But old enough to know who he is at the same time.
I would KILL to have a 2 hour meeting per week!
We currently have about a 5 minute whiteboard session every other day from the Manager, and are left to Execute everything as we go. We used to have a 2 hour meeting last year, about every month. Those were good times.
Man, if 30 hours a week was ever a norm, that'd be awesome! Sitting and talking about how awesome it'd be to get stuff done. I mean, they do realize that there are only 40 hours in a work week, right? Thats like 2 hours a day of actual work!
I know that. The trick is that someone could exclude zero and use no fingers as 1, should they desire, and no hands up as zero.
The trick was that you have to know binary up to 1024, and then be clever enough to use a new method for a third state of finger type, ultimately making it 3 ^ 10
Maaaaaaaybe...
NO WAIT!
try counting to 1025 with just your fingers.
Yes - but its merely taking existing technology and applying it to an also niche application. About a month after the Sixth Sense was demo'd they finished a prototype that didn't require finger caps to identify the fingers.
The whole Idea of the sixth sense was more about:
Reliable Input output wherever you are, with an OS that understands universal gestures.
The fact that it was wearable was only meant to exagerate that point. This news article listed here is nothing that wasn't around in 2009.
Well then you gotta give us reason to believe you are in fact a nerd. You can't just say "I don't like Firefly" and "I'm a nerd" in the same sentence and Expect us to believe you.
And no, an account on Slashdot does not get you any closer.
What about that "Sixth Sense" thing we all saw on TED a year ago?
demonstrating the use of cameras and laser pico-projectors to "extend" a laptop's user interface to adjacent surfaces.
As opposed to extend the output onto any surface in front of you, adjacent or not, and the input to any gesture in front of you?
This is unimpressive.
I know the difference, it's still early and Coffee hasn't arrived yet. It happens.
This reminds me of a line from a movie...
"But in the Iran-Iraq war you sold guns to both sides."
"Did you ever consider that I wanted both sides to lose?"
We should be pointing out more reasons for the guys to sue each other than just a petty Flash dispute, we should arm them with the means to sue each other into oblivion!
Than, if my calculations are correct, the lawyers will have made enough to buy new yachts, bolstering the economy slightly. It's really a win for everybody all around.
Yeah, I mean why would you leave Activision in the first place? It's not like EA is any better.
Oh. I see what you did there.
The thing is - I don't work selling to customers. I am deploying to employees within the same company as me. So all the headaches, tradeoffs, and everything else that goes with it become MY headaches and tradeoffs and everything else that goes with it for me to deal with while they are trying to get work done.
I am not responsible for poor choices, that is the job of the IT Manager, and the general consensus is that they'd rather have a corporation that is too big to fail backing their software than the OS Community.
This is true. The general rule for turning left around here is just yield on solid green. You will get 1 car enter the intersection turning left but waiting for traffic to finish up.
Okay, light turns yellow. A few people run the yellow light, they can make it through without penalty. You, turning left, waiting your turn, are left accelerating out of the intersection with the lights red. I'd hate to get dinged for that.
There is a huge difference between being lazy and not having time. If I have to wait a month and reschedule my plans around a council meeting, it sure doesn't get things resolved quickly or efficiently.
They don't like to be called that.
Marathon bots can act like insurgents
And you don't think this is dangerous? Perhaps the insurgents you are programming are not like the insurgents we encounter.
Unless I miss my mark (which is entirely possible) thats 4pm till 8pm Mountain Standard Time. Not so bad.
Where do you live that allows your neighbourhood to have a 50 person conference call with a city official or an email service that allows you to check up on the status of an individual request without pestering a single official?
Your response is akin to "Social Networking? Bah! We've had email and phones for ages!"
You laugh now, but if System Shock 2 is any indication of what the future will be like, you could not be more right.
He can't help it, the first 11 didn't go over so well, it made him superstitious
The problem here isn't really about Dollars and Cents though, if it were, more people WOULD use Linux.
Its more about Hassle-free computing. My mother wants to turn on a computer, click on a button to listen to music, or to webcam chat with Grandma, or play a movie while cooking. All of that was either pre-setup on her machine, or was given precise instructions on how to do it. She may complain its slow, but thats about as far as it goes.
She doesn't have to know how to test if her IP Address is good. She doesn't have to update drivers. She doesn't have to get any patches or specific versions, other than what windows automatically suggests she does. Even that is optional.
If anything, the reason Microsoft is still in the game is because they have focused their energy on making it easier to plug and play with the non-technical.
I thought everybody learned that after the reoccuring TM joke in the Monkey Island series.
I've gone through my share of cluttered closets, dusty vents, underneath dirty desks, and cleaned the fluff off of old computers.
However, nothing makes me feel dirtier than installing Windows Genuine Advantage, as part of the new computer deployment checklist.