Now the PC manufacturers are free from Microsoft.
They can build their own tablets using their hardware expertise and probably _buy_ a good software package easier than Microsoft can purchase hardware expertise.
Joel Spolsky is the one who pointed out that the very best workers are seldom on the market and when they are on the market, they aren't there for long.
Joel did not point out that even tho most everybody thinks of himself as a topnotch worker, less than 5% are correct;-)
Companies looking for good workers need to hire them when they are available. If you only wait to hire when you -need- to hire, all you get to choose from is what is currently available on the market.
It's the same thing that is happening with the Gaia Hypothesis today. Rejected by both biologists and geologists without examination (based on popular mis-stated re-interpretations of the book). The most useless criticism I've heard from Biology--the Science--is that there is no control mechanism.
But apparently there is a control mechanism (called DNA) for single cells, grouped cells such as lichens, multicellular animals (DNA controls the individual cells AND the multiple cell reproduction), trees (which include individual cells, leaves and constructed spaces such as sap tubes) and wolves, including their pack behavior. But DNA cannot control anything larger such as Gaia. Demonstrates to me the myopia written about in Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolution.
Read The Gaia Hypothesis yourself if you consider yourself a scientist.
The mathematical formula is not the problem. All it does is make it possible to get more exact about your guess as to what the future holds (based on your guesses about the actual values of things instead of the expected values). But math cannot predict the future any better than Tarot Cards can.
Truly free markets don't have copyrights and trademarks. They don't even actually have money. They are free and have to be navigated the same way Arab caravan traders worked,thru barter with no hope or reliance on any sort of government or cultural agents in common.
The security guards at our building look folks in the face each day to see if they're having a bad day or not.
One of the things that would tremendously improve security but is totally against privacy is to have each worker inform the building when they are breaking up with a girlfriend/boyfriend or filing for divorce. Most of the workplace shootings are over mundane crap like that. Of course, Big Brother isn't actually interested in _workplace_ security, just profit security.
there are more male programmers than female ones because of the extra range of the Y-chromosome. The last article to supposedly refute that put _teachers_ in with real STEM people and that invalidates their study.
See for yourself in any public high school (where the students aren't self-selected some way). Both the highest-level AP classes and the lowest level prison-prep classes are dominated by males.
Javascript. Learn Javascript in 24 Hours or something like that. You'll learn the basic concepts of programming (variables, loops, conditional tests) in an easy-to-program-and-test environment. A text editor and a browser is all you need. (I don't know if Apple/Macs have an actual text editor available but I know Windoze and *nix all do).
Compare the fundamental tenets of Mormonism as espoused by Joe Smith against the fundamentals espoused by Baha'u'llah (if you want to compare teaching of contemporary Prophets). The Baha'is win hands down.
Scary. Systemic means it is in the corn oil which means it is in pretty much all processed food which is pretty much any food that comes in a box or jar. About the only saving grace (so far) is the minuteness of the quantities. Hope it doesn't build up in human bodies like DDT.
bizarre aside--it is more difficult to get into Veterinary school than med school. Some of the epidemiological veterinarians I work with were talking one day about how difficult it was and two of them said they didn't relax until after they'd gotten accepted at Harvard Medical School because at least they had a fall-back if they didn't get into vet school. (There are 5 veterinary colleges in the U.S.)
Being fired for not giving up your password is the same thing as being fired for not voluntarily submitting to a whole house search but waiting instead for a search warrant. The district will lose big time on this. Giving up your password violates Facebook policy. I also wonder if the school district itself has a policy for protecting their own district-issued passwords. If so and if it is equally as strong or stronger than Facebook's, they're in a boatload of hurt.
Protection from whom? What is the risk to my personal data or my personal laptop if my WiFi _connection_ is open (assuming I've changed the default admin pwd on the router itself). Seems to me the cops have identified a solution before they actually defined a problem. same old same old
I don't have links to the studies but the studies themselves were funded by reinsurance companies, the money that backs up the insurance companies you and I buy from. They wanted to know how global warming was going to affect the future of storms.
Looking ahead with a non-ideological eye is probably why they have most of the money.
I believe the only thing they count is if you click around inside the site itself.
If you only ever click to it from some place else, the paywall doesn't track you _even_ as it tracks your account (I can post comments on any page that is open). If you only click on links to NYT from google's news page or even better, signup with NYT itself for emails and then link from them, you can read anything that has a link.
That's even easier than deleting cookies and you don't have to try to navigate the newspapers table of contents.
None of those percentages 16-28% sound very good to me.
The reason the govt is the worst is what others mentioned--too many cooks spoiling the broth.
The Department of Homeland Security consists of 22 separate Agencies that report to 88 different Congressional committees.That last sentence is a problem statement in my opinion.
I think at least half of the stuff we learn from science is completely useless, maybe even 90% (like Sturgeon's Rule).
The problem is we don't know which half is useless until several centuries have gone by so we need to investigate it all.
Seems to me it is obvious that choosing government policy the same way we choose Top 40 hits is silly, but at least it's democratic and everyone gets a say-so. Of course, not everyone does get a say-so in straight-up democracy. In US dollar-fueled democracy, it is even worse.
True representation could be done thru a lottery system. Then the much-lauded One-percenters would only comprise 1% of Congress.
If your company policy is 'limited personal use," then you're covered.
That's a range of behavior. I would _NOT_ create encrypted partitions or do anything that would look like you're trying to hide stuff.
That's a big red flag and may get you noticed. Most of the time, they aren't going to examine your browsing history. Too much other stuff to do.
Legally, no one is sure what the 'limited' part of personal use means. Facebook and Slashdot and reading email and news items are probably okay.
Just don't do anything you wouldn't want your mother to see. If so, get your own netbook or option2: make a bootable Ubuntu USB stick and boot from it.
Slashdot Mirror
and the difference between how wikipedia works and how academia works is what exactly?
Now the PC manufacturers are free from Microsoft.
They can build their own tablets using their hardware expertise and probably _buy_ a good software package easier than Microsoft can purchase hardware expertise.
We have bubonic plague endemic in prairie dog colonies in Colorado. It is spread by fleas and every so often, a dog colony collapses as it flares up.
We are warned to keep cats away form the colonies because they carry the fleas but I've never read where cats actually get the plague.
Joel Spolsky is the one who pointed out that the very best workers are seldom on the market and when they are on the market, they aren't there for long.
;-)
Joel did not point out that even tho most everybody thinks of himself as a topnotch worker, less than 5% are correct
Companies looking for good workers need to hire them when they are available. If you only wait to hire when you -need- to hire, all you get to choose from is what is currently available on the market.
It's the same thing that is happening with the Gaia Hypothesis today. Rejected by both biologists and geologists without examination (based on popular mis-stated re-interpretations of the book). The most useless criticism I've heard from Biology--the Science--is that there is no control mechanism.
But apparently there is a control mechanism (called DNA) for single cells, grouped cells such as lichens, multicellular animals (DNA controls the individual cells AND the multiple cell reproduction), trees (which include individual cells, leaves and constructed spaces such as sap tubes) and wolves, including their pack behavior. But DNA cannot control anything larger such as Gaia. Demonstrates to me the myopia written about in Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolution.
Read The Gaia Hypothesis yourself if you consider yourself a scientist.
It does seem weird that dogs could smell ore hundreds of feet deep.
OTOH, I've read where sharks only need two molecules to detect blood.
The mathematical formula is not the problem. All it does is make it possible to get more exact about your guess as to what the future holds (based on your guesses about the actual values of things instead of the expected values). But math cannot predict the future any better than Tarot Cards can.
I imagine the anti-video game conservatives will be depressed over this story. What sort of inspiring game would cheer them up?
Cringely also is not a single entity but a conglomeration of various writers over the years ;-)
Truly free markets don't have copyrights and trademarks. They don't even actually have money. They are free and have to be navigated the same way Arab caravan traders worked,thru barter with no hope or reliance on any sort of government or cultural agents in common.
The security guards at our building look folks in the face each day to see if they're having a bad day or not.
One of the things that would tremendously improve security but is totally against privacy is to have each worker inform the building when they are breaking up with a girlfriend/boyfriend or filing for divorce. Most of the workplace shootings are over mundane crap like that. Of course, Big Brother isn't actually interested in _workplace_ security, just profit security.
there are more male programmers than female ones because of the extra range of the Y-chromosome. The last article to supposedly refute that put _teachers_ in with real STEM people and that invalidates their study.
See for yourself in any public high school (where the students aren't self-selected some way). Both the highest-level AP classes and the lowest level prison-prep classes are dominated by males.
Javascript. Learn Javascript in 24 Hours or something like that. You'll learn the basic concepts of programming (variables, loops, conditional tests) in an easy-to-program-and-test environment. A text editor and a browser is all you need. (I don't know if Apple/Macs have an actual text editor available but I know Windoze and *nix all do).
Compare the fundamental tenets of Mormonism as espoused by Joe Smith against the fundamentals espoused by Baha'u'llah (if you want to compare teaching of contemporary Prophets). The Baha'is win hands down.
Scary. Systemic means it is in the corn oil which means it is in pretty much all processed food which is pretty much any food that comes in a box or jar. About the only saving grace (so far) is the minuteness of the quantities. Hope it doesn't build up in human bodies like DDT.
bizarre aside--it is more difficult to get into Veterinary school than med school. Some of the epidemiological veterinarians I work with were talking one day about how difficult it was and two of them said they didn't relax until after they'd gotten accepted at Harvard Medical School because at least they had a fall-back if they didn't get into vet school. (There are 5 veterinary colleges in the U.S.)
Being fired for not giving up your password is the same thing as being fired for not voluntarily submitting to a whole house search but waiting instead for a search warrant. The district will lose big time on this. Giving up your password violates Facebook policy. I also wonder if the school district itself has a policy for protecting their own district-issued passwords. If so and if it is equally as strong or stronger than Facebook's, they're in a boatload of hurt.
Protection from whom? What is the risk to my personal data or my personal laptop if my WiFi _connection_ is open (assuming I've changed the default admin pwd on the router itself). Seems to me the cops have identified a solution before they actually defined a problem. same old same old
I don't have links to the studies but the studies themselves were funded by reinsurance companies, the money that backs up the insurance companies you and I buy from. They wanted to know how global warming was going to affect the future of storms.
Looking ahead with a non-ideological eye is probably why they have most of the money.
I believe the only thing they count is if you click around inside the site itself.
If you only ever click to it from some place else, the paywall doesn't track you _even_ as it tracks your account (I can post comments on any page that is open). If you only click on links to NYT from google's news page or even better, signup with NYT itself for emails and then link from them, you can read anything that has a link.
That's even easier than deleting cookies and you don't have to try to navigate the newspapers table of contents.
None of those percentages 16-28% sound very good to me.
The reason the govt is the worst is what others mentioned--too many cooks spoiling the broth.
The Department of Homeland Security consists of 22 separate Agencies that report to 88 different Congressional committees.That last sentence is a problem statement in my opinion.
I think at least half of the stuff we learn from science is completely useless, maybe even 90% (like Sturgeon's Rule).
The problem is we don't know which half is useless until several centuries have gone by so we need to investigate it all.
You forgot: Don't BUY evil.
Seems to me it is obvious that choosing government policy the same way we choose Top 40 hits is silly, but at least it's democratic and everyone gets a say-so. Of course, not everyone does get a say-so in straight-up democracy. In US dollar-fueled democracy, it is even worse.
True representation could be done thru a lottery system. Then the much-lauded One-percenters would only comprise 1% of Congress.
If your company policy is 'limited personal use," then you're covered.
That's a range of behavior. I would _NOT_ create encrypted partitions or do anything that would look like you're trying to hide stuff.
That's a big red flag and may get you noticed. Most of the time, they aren't going to examine your browsing history. Too much other stuff to do.
Legally, no one is sure what the 'limited' part of personal use means. Facebook and Slashdot and reading email and news items are probably okay.
Just don't do anything you wouldn't want your mother to see. If so, get your own netbook or option2: make a bootable Ubuntu USB stick and boot from it.