There simply isn't enough of it and of high enough quality. Avatar had some good 3D sequences, but even that flagship production was spotty. And, who cares about watching home movies of your 2 year-old flinging her own poo in stereovision? I appreciate the effort by the industry to push this advancement, but it's not there yet. I think it's doable, but when the 3D Coke ad is more visually stunning than the Resident Evil flick that follows it, there's room for improvement.
His "researchers" also discovered that humans respond better when working at ambient temperatures and when exposed to the elements. They also like to be beaten with whips when they're insubordinate.
I meant in the pleasure sense, not reproductive. You're not spending money (usually) to have sex, so it's essentially free entertainment and it doesn't take up much time.
The government can plant devices in public places (e.g. a listening device with double-sided tape on the seat of your chair) that can then be transported by you (and not the government) into a private place.
I'm assuming that the implication is that engineers can solve our problems with process. Lots of social problems might seem like the solutions can be obviously derived with logic, but we're human beings and we do a lot of things that aren't driven by logic. Having children isn't logical; it's expensive, a time drain, and ultimately a financial loss. Practically any form of entertainment we engage in isn't logical (besides intercourse), since we're probably wasting time and resources best spent elsewhere. Hell, even our diets aren't logical. We should all be eating nutrition bars carefully concocted to provide us with the optimal calories and nutrients to keep us functioning (regardless of taste).
I had the enlightening experience of dating a social worker who explained how often the layman's "logical" and simplistic solutions to all kinds of domestic issues were either ineffective or could be downright detrimental. When you understand that, you can start to envision how the "obvious" solution to social ailment X would fail in practice (otherwise it would have been tried already).
Maybe it's because I've been online for about 20 years now and I've learned my lesson, but I never got into the whole social networking thing. The notion of posting every triviality in my life on the web without regard for the privacy or embarrassment of myself or my friends boggles the mind.
My theory is that as reality TV has become so mainstream and so many famous-for-being-famous celebs have found wealth regardless of their lack of talent and charisma, lots of regular folk are clamoring for their 15 minutes of fame that could make them the next millionaire Snookie. I created a Facebook page just for people to find me and I purposely don't stay logged in. I was embarrassed to see the rants, self-pitying pleas, flaunting, and exhibitions posted by people I barely knew. I guess like any other new technology, it'll take time for people to learn how to manage it in their lives.
Looks like it's in your summary. Engineering departments are station-centric while IT scope is organization wide. Can you cite cases where local control trumped organizational needs? This is a bit of a tangent, but you might want to look into the history of the USAF splitting from the US Army. Both had many intertwined relationships, but the USAF side saw how being under the auspices of the Army detracted from their own goals and growth. I see a lot of similarities here.
Note, I'm assuming that your problems making your case are a communications reason, and not an issue of looking for personal reasons to sever yourself from your direct managers.
I worked in a high school that had gone through a massive investment in computer technology under the assumption that the mere presence of PCs in every classroom was some kind of education panacea. And, they were on the way to buying laptops for *every* high school student with just as little preparation.
The first thing you need to start with is having a game plan to make use of your computers as well as a way to educate all the teachers that will be accessing your labs to craft lesson plans. Second, you need to make an honest assessment of how much access your lab(s) will have. Then, and only then do the normal network admin issues come into play.
I will say this; high school kids will do the damnedest things in your labs and you better be prepared to deal with them. Some posters here think that jacking with a school IT network is a geek's rite of passage, but it's not fun scrubbing systems after a bunch of pimply wannabe hackers have clumsily manipulated your configurations:
* A 16-ish girl looking at lingerie catalogs online to apparently entice the 30-ish boyfriend I saw her in town with. * Kids stealing mouse tracking balls because they were "neat". * Porn downloads of course. I even found a beastiality mpeg on a machine once:( * Expect zero sophistication when it comes to downloading files. * Usual script kiddie crap.
I'd say the one advantage you have is with well-communicated policies, you can convince your superiors to enforce stricter policies than in other environments because you're dealing with children at their most devious.
They should've been using some kind of fuzzy algorithm to prevent drastic inputs. That would've been one of the first thoughts if I were the designer and I know it's a issue developers in the auto industry have addressed.
Banning technology is the accommodation that the league makes for allowing networks to broadcast every time a player or coach farts on the sidelines. You can't combine that kind of access with instantaneous contact with the outside world. Honestly, they should just stop the sideline bimbos from shoving mikes into every conversation between a coach and a player, but that'll never happen.
On top of that, there's a wink-nudge system of players and coaches tipping off members of the sports media to game plans so that sportscasters can sound smart, insightful, and observant during games. You tell your former coach-turned-color-commentator that you're going to run zone blitzes all day, who then tells the audience that he "notices" lots of zone blitzing packages, then you can't very well have opposing staff members watching at home and firing off texts to their offensive coordinator.
Actually, this is probably good. It takes a lot of political skill to maintain a dictatorship in the face of all of the normal crises in addition to quelling uprisings. I'd make the argument that a dictator is the highest form of politician since you don't even have the legitimacy of a crown to validate your power. An unprepared heir to a dictator won't likely be able to maintain the current state. Odds are, the military has seen the damage done by KJI and will tack back to a more accessible government; assuming they take over.
It's the Sounds Obama Censored In Augmented Language Imbedded in Streamed Television Act. Another one of his anti-business attempts to bring more government regulations to the Free Market and stifle natural market forces!
Yeah, but let's be realistic. There's a lot of things we might do in jest among friends that could be detrimental in the future. People snapping pictures surreptitiously at parties or "spy shots" should be kicked out, like what happened to Phelps.
When they made the cowardly decision not to make it Osama Bin Laden. It wasn't intended to be a high school popularity contest; it was the biggest news maker of the year; e.g. Hitler during the WWII era. That's when they started the slide into marketability-driven choices.
...I've soured on the Android (performance and privacy issues) and the iPhone looks expensive (based on the iPhone tax it looks like service providers charge). But, I also had about 2 years of development experience on the inferior Windows Mobile platform when Microsoft pissed on the developer base, then shoved us out the door.
I'd say he's right there's room for another competitor, but his ain't it.
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There simply isn't enough of it and of high enough quality. Avatar had some good 3D sequences, but even that flagship production was spotty. And, who cares about watching home movies of your 2 year-old flinging her own poo in stereovision? I appreciate the effort by the industry to push this advancement, but it's not there yet. I think it's doable, but when the 3D Coke ad is more visually stunning than the Resident Evil flick that follows it, there's room for improvement.
His "researchers" also discovered that humans respond better when working at ambient temperatures and when exposed to the elements. They also like to be beaten with whips when they're insubordinate.
Like cheering a guy on when he stops beating his wife.
I meant in the pleasure sense, not reproductive. You're not spending money (usually) to have sex, so it's essentially free entertainment and it doesn't take up much time.
The government can plant devices in public places (e.g. a listening device with double-sided tape on the seat of your chair) that can then be transported by you (and not the government) into a private place.
Well, since cars have been around for a century, I wouldn't expect the explosion in development you're predicting.
I'm assuming that the implication is that engineers can solve our problems with process. Lots of social problems might seem like the solutions can be obviously derived with logic, but we're human beings and we do a lot of things that aren't driven by logic. Having children isn't logical; it's expensive, a time drain, and ultimately a financial loss. Practically any form of entertainment we engage in isn't logical (besides intercourse), since we're probably wasting time and resources best spent elsewhere. Hell, even our diets aren't logical. We should all be eating nutrition bars carefully concocted to provide us with the optimal calories and nutrients to keep us functioning (regardless of taste).
I had the enlightening experience of dating a social worker who explained how often the layman's "logical" and simplistic solutions to all kinds of domestic issues were either ineffective or could be downright detrimental. When you understand that, you can start to envision how the "obvious" solution to social ailment X would fail in practice (otherwise it would have been tried already).
Maybe it's because I've been online for about 20 years now and I've learned my lesson, but I never got into the whole social networking thing. The notion of posting every triviality in my life on the web without regard for the privacy or embarrassment of myself or my friends boggles the mind.
My theory is that as reality TV has become so mainstream and so many famous-for-being-famous celebs have found wealth regardless of their lack of talent and charisma, lots of regular folk are clamoring for their 15 minutes of fame that could make them the next millionaire Snookie. I created a Facebook page just for people to find me and I purposely don't stay logged in. I was embarrassed to see the rants, self-pitying pleas, flaunting, and exhibitions posted by people I barely knew. I guess like any other new technology, it'll take time for people to learn how to manage it in their lives.
Yes, and ancient arrowheads are definitive proof of the heat-seeking missile technology the aliens used to conquer their quadrant of the galaxy.
Looks like it's in your summary. Engineering departments are station-centric while IT scope is organization wide. Can you cite cases where local control trumped organizational needs? This is a bit of a tangent, but you might want to look into the history of the USAF splitting from the US Army. Both had many intertwined relationships, but the USAF side saw how being under the auspices of the Army detracted from their own goals and growth. I see a lot of similarities here.
Note, I'm assuming that your problems making your case are a communications reason, and not an issue of looking for personal reasons to sever yourself from your direct managers.
I worked in a high school that had gone through a massive investment in computer technology under the assumption that the mere presence of PCs in every classroom was some kind of education panacea. And, they were on the way to buying laptops for *every* high school student with just as little preparation.
The first thing you need to start with is having a game plan to make use of your computers as well as a way to educate all the teachers that will be accessing your labs to craft lesson plans. Second, you need to make an honest assessment of how much access your lab(s) will have. Then, and only then do the normal network admin issues come into play.
I will say this; high school kids will do the damnedest things in your labs and you better be prepared to deal with them. Some posters here think that jacking with a school IT network is a geek's rite of passage, but it's not fun scrubbing systems after a bunch of pimply wannabe hackers have clumsily manipulated your configurations:
* A 16-ish girl looking at lingerie catalogs online to apparently entice the 30-ish boyfriend I saw her in town with. :(
* Kids stealing mouse tracking balls because they were "neat".
* Porn downloads of course. I even found a beastiality mpeg on a machine once
* Expect zero sophistication when it comes to downloading files.
* Usual script kiddie crap.
I'd say the one advantage you have is with well-communicated policies, you can convince your superiors to enforce stricter policies than in other environments because you're dealing with children at their most devious.
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I'm not a hardcore gamer, but I've only had one subscription-based game and that was WoW.
They should've been using some kind of fuzzy algorithm to prevent drastic inputs. That would've been one of the first thoughts if I were the designer and I know it's a issue developers in the auto industry have addressed.
Banning technology is the accommodation that the league makes for allowing networks to broadcast every time a player or coach farts on the sidelines. You can't combine that kind of access with instantaneous contact with the outside world. Honestly, they should just stop the sideline bimbos from shoving mikes into every conversation between a coach and a player, but that'll never happen.
On top of that, there's a wink-nudge system of players and coaches tipping off members of the sports media to game plans so that sportscasters can sound smart, insightful, and observant during games. You tell your former coach-turned-color-commentator that you're going to run zone blitzes all day, who then tells the audience that he "notices" lots of zone blitzing packages, then you can't very well have opposing staff members watching at home and firing off texts to their offensive coordinator.
You'll need to practice increasing your range to piss on more people beneath you.
Actually, this is probably good. It takes a lot of political skill to maintain a dictatorship in the face of all of the normal crises in addition to quelling uprisings. I'd make the argument that a dictator is the highest form of politician since you don't even have the legitimacy of a crown to validate your power. An unprepared heir to a dictator won't likely be able to maintain the current state. Odds are, the military has seen the damage done by KJI and will tack back to a more accessible government; assuming they take over.
It's the Sounds Obama Censored In Augmented Language Imbedded in Streamed Television Act. Another one of his anti-business attempts to bring more government regulations to the Free Market and stifle natural market forces!
In a couple of years, I'm sure we'll see knockoffs being deployed by 3rd world countries.
Yeah, but let's be realistic. There's a lot of things we might do in jest among friends that could be detrimental in the future. People snapping pictures surreptitiously at parties or "spy shots" should be kicked out, like what happened to Phelps.
I've got an LG Ally. Can't remember my GF's model, but her's is flaky too.
When they made the cowardly decision not to make it Osama Bin Laden. It wasn't intended to be a high school popularity contest; it was the biggest news maker of the year; e.g. Hitler during the WWII era. That's when they started the slide into marketability-driven choices.
...I've soured on the Android (performance and privacy issues) and the iPhone looks expensive (based on the iPhone tax it looks like service providers charge). But, I also had about 2 years of development experience on the inferior Windows Mobile platform when Microsoft pissed on the developer base, then shoved us out the door.
I'd say he's right there's room for another competitor, but his ain't it.
He just can't keep the damned Joes from meddling with Cobra's plans to dominate the world with it.
I tried a few searches that failed, and it looks like others have too.