Perhaps that's a good solution for zero G situations. It's got to be easier to type on a keyboard than to nudge around a mouse floating in the air.....
...whenever some one is catching up, they are bound to be viewed with suspicion. Will they be a threat? Will they inconveninece my life? Will they thwart my desires? Is it any different from getting a 3 year old to share his candies?
Google: A) 99.99% of data for 1.2 billions people vs. B) 0% of data for $1.2 billions of people.
and 100% of data is available for 4 billions people in both cases.
Wikipedia: A) 99.99% of data for 5 billions people vs. B) 100% of data for 4 billions people.
"And when simple training doesn't work, you just end up beating people over the head anyway. What sense would it make to teach someone corporate policy and then not enforce it?"
Who said anything about not enforcing policy? Please don't put words in my mouth.
The point is that almost every company have password policy and I have yet to see ONE COMPANY that provides live training (not just a document) on how to create a good password.
As for the secuity guards, I got explicit instruction on how to display my ID while working in the defense industry. That's all I'm asking for in password policies.
A better analogy is where the security guard requies you to recite a secret phrase before entering the premises. But you can't get in because your intonation is off and he/she won't tell you what you said wrong.
Let's beware of petty bureaucrats grasping tightly onto some imagined power that they have.
Why does IT want to wield password policy like a club? Are their egos so... (nevermind)
The obvious solution is to do some simple training for the employees. I've read many effective approaches on/. which can be taught in 10-15 minutes. This can be incorporated into new employee orientation or annual Data Privacy updates. Users are often unhappy with their interaction with corporate IT already. Why be so adversarial?
I agree with the other posters that big gestues might be OK with touch pad. But it is really NOT good with doing detailed work. Try placing that line in JUST the right position in the narrow space between two figures. Think about using Photshop with a touch screen. It's not so easy.
Compounding the precision issue, is that your finger blocks you view of the screen, so you might have to swivel your head just to see what's going on.
I've worked on touch screen designs in another incarnation. They have their niche, but I can't see them as a general UI for most applications. 3D spatial gestures - I think - has a much better chance of succeeding here.
Then again. It's always fair to consider: are the ban effective?
- electronic ban in cabin: well there are plenty of other electrical devices built into the cabin, so it's not clear that this helps much.
- liquid and gel in luggage only: it seems not too difficult to rig up a time delayed mechanism to mix liquids in a piece luggage. So when the handler 'gently' place your luggage in/out of the plane....
I would have to conclude that the new ban only marginally improve safety and that was probably why the ban was NOT put in place 1 year ago. So I can see this being relaxed into a random search regime after the hysteria dies down.
A much better answer would be scanning equipment that can detect the wide assortment of explosives, but they are apparently not ready for prime time yet.
Any one remember that windowing system? They used postscript as the screen rendering language. Thus fully abstracting away the attrbibutes of the monitor. This is back in the 80's.
of investing more billions in redundant weapon systems.
I know it's not as easy to sell politically, but I really think we would get more useful technology transfer out of that than weason systems. (much of which isn't useful outside of a weapon context)
Just when do you think we can buy a depleted uranium bunker buster in our local Walmart?
You described the classic - laddering of bond maturities. Unfortunately this doesn't help currently in the USA because the 1 year interest rate is about the same as 5 or 10 year rates.
The MOST important factor you haven't clarified is your investment goal. When might you need the cash and for what? These choices make a HUGE difference in strategies.
For more new graduates without much savings, I'd say you need to say liquid as you may need to buy a car or move, etc. If we assume a 2-3 years horizon, that really cuts out stock, real estate, and any exotica others have talked about. That is because the chance of a downturn JUST when you need the money is too high in these investments. So CD is just fine. The most adventurous one should get with a 2-3 year horizon is investment grade short maturity corporate bonds which you can buy using a brokerage account.
Beyond that, the advice about paying off debt is sound in most cases. However, there IS some advantage for a new graduate to carry a small debt AND keep paying it off. That way you can build a credit history. The key is not to dig your self deeper by borrowing to pay for vacations and such.
In terms of emotional resonance, Season 27 of Dr. Who is undoubtedly the best of the lot in 2005-2006. I've been mulling over why that is. One aspect I can see is that the Doctor and Companion and friends are mostly characters we can believe in - people who might be living down the block (well, except for the Doctor). It's easy to empathsize with them in spite of the weird circumstances they may be in. The new stories also often delve into the subtle and human effects that the Doctor has caused among his associates and in the universe. THAT has also made the series more human.
BSG and B5 characters are situated more in an operatic setting where everything is grander and more intense. But that also puts an emotional distance between the character and oneself.
Sadly, Stargate now is just plodding along without Anderson. It looks like a retirement home for Scifi Channel series actors.
For the grand daddy for gritty and depressing SciFi, one must seek out Blake's 7. It is the only tv series where the ending is truely unpredictable and shocking. Still very good in my book.
For that $5 rental, the phone CANNOT be broken. You cab probably drive a CAR over it and it'd keep working. Your Walmart phone will probably break if you drop it once on the floor.
It may have been overengineered - but there was NO planned obsolence and LESS wasted materials.
He's the one who said Bush denied access to classified information to the investigative branch of DOJ, thus effectively ending the probe. If Bush really wanted the probe to be effectively, he could have made sure that access is granted to this branch which had ample experience handling secret and very sensitive information in the past.
Not knowing anything about your school area, I certainly cannot say whethere it's homogenized or not. What I DO know is that even if a parent joins a 'homeschool co-ops and groups", it would be one that the parent CHOSE. Whereas in the public school, the parent does not get to choose WHO attends except for choosing where their residence. Your average school is also certainly bigger than these "homeschool co-ops and groups". Thus it is clear that the child would have a greater chance to meet more diverse types of people at a larger unselected public school vs a smaller "homeschool co-ops and groups" chosen by her/his parent on average.
I'm talking about controlled studies that compare the effectiveness of these schooling environments - With all variables controlled for.
In fact, such a study is NOT POSSIBLE, because the student/parent populations are SELF SELECTED. Many people agree that parental involvement is the primary factor for the success of the children. There is NO way to control for this. Home schooling is even worse because you can't even get complete measurement of outcome.
With out such studies, you can belive what you will. But all you have are anecdotes and inconclusive indications.
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"command line interfaces will be commonplace."
Perhaps that's a good solution for zero G situations. It's got to be easier to type on a keyboard than to nudge around a mouse floating in the air.....
...whenever some one is catching up, they are bound to be viewed with suspicion. Will they be a threat? Will they inconveninece my life? Will they thwart my desires? Is it any different from getting a 3 year old to share his candies?
on the whims of one person elected by 20 millions ?
Google: A) 99.99% of data for 1.2 billions people vs. B) 0% of data for $1.2 billions of people.
and 100% of data is available for 4 billions people in both cases.
Wikipedia: A) 99.99% of data for 5 billions people vs. B) 100% of data for 4 billions people.
The choices aren't really comparable, no?
"And when simple training doesn't work, you just end up beating people over the head anyway. What sense would it make to teach someone corporate policy and then not enforce it?"
Who said anything about not enforcing policy? Please don't put words in my mouth.
The point is that almost every company have password policy and I have yet to see ONE COMPANY
that provides live training (not just a document) on how to create a good password.
As for the secuity guards, I got explicit instruction on how to display my ID while
working in the defense industry. That's all I'm asking for in password policies.
A better analogy is where the security guard requies you to recite a secret phrase before
entering the premises. But you can't get in because your intonation is off and he/she won't tell you
what you said wrong.
Let's beware of petty bureaucrats grasping tightly onto some imagined power that they have.
Why does IT want to wield password policy like a club? ... (nevermind)
/. which can be taught in 10-15 minutes.
Are their egos so
The obvious solution is to do some simple training for the employees.
I've read many effective approaches on
This can be incorporated into new employee orientation or annual Data Privacy
updates.
Users are often unhappy with their interaction with corporate IT already. Why be so adversarial?
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I agree with the other posters that big gestues might be OK with touch pad.
But it is really NOT good with doing detailed work.
Try placing that line in JUST the right position in the narrow space
between two figures. Think about using Photshop with a touch screen. It's not so easy.
Compounding the precision issue, is that your finger blocks you view of
the screen, so you might have to swivel your head just to see what's going on.
I've worked on touch screen designs in another incarnation. They have their
niche, but I can't see them as a general UI for most applications.
3D spatial gestures - I think - has a much better chance of succeeding here.
So why not implement such a ban 1 year ago?
Then again. It's always fair to consider: are the ban effective?
- electronic ban in cabin: well there are plenty of other electrical devices built into the cabin, so it's not clear that this helps much.
- liquid and gel in luggage only: it seems not too difficult to rig up a time delayed mechanism to mix liquids in a piece luggage. So when the handler 'gently' place your luggage in/out of the plane....
I would have to conclude that the new ban only marginally improve safety
and that was probably why the ban was NOT put in place 1 year ago.
So I can see this being relaxed into a random search regime after
the hysteria dies down.
A much better answer would be scanning equipment that can detect the wide
assortment of explosives, but they are apparently not ready for prime time yet.
that's the motto used by Fox in their advertising.
Always good for a chuckle!
Any one remember that windowing system?
They used postscript as the screen rendering language.
Thus fully abstracting away the attrbibutes of the monitor.
This is back in the 80's.
Why do you accept such insanity even if you grant a legitimate benefit for
them not to be recognized ?
Check it out.
The most outrageous journalist in an o-so-familiar city filled with surveilence and counter-surveilence.
of investing more billions in redundant weapon systems.
I know it's not as easy to sell politically, but I really think we would
get more useful technology transfer out of that than weason systems.
(much of which isn't useful outside of a weapon context)
Just when do you think we can buy a depleted uranium bunker buster in
our local Walmart?
The problem is that many are too poor to afford them.
The earth produces many times the calories needed to feed all the world's population, if used efficiently.
The problem is poverty, lifestyle, and distribution. NOT scacity.
I think you're on the right track. THe $100 laptop may be best
used by small business people initially then by students.
You described the classic - laddering of bond maturities. Unfortunately this doesn't help currently in the USA because the 1 year interest rate is about the same as 5 or 10 year rates.
The MOST important factor you haven't clarified is your investment goal.
When might you need the cash and for what? These choices make a HUGE difference
in strategies.
For more new graduates without much savings, I'd say you need to say liquid as you may
need to buy a car or move, etc. If we assume a 2-3 years horizon, that really cuts out
stock, real estate, and any exotica others have talked about. That is because the chance
of a downturn JUST when you need the money is too high in these investments.
So CD is just fine. The most adventurous one should get with a 2-3 year horizon is
investment grade short maturity corporate bonds which you can buy using a brokerage account.
Beyond that, the advice about paying off debt is sound in most cases. However, there IS
some advantage for a new graduate to carry a small debt AND keep paying it off.
That way you can build a credit history. The key is not to dig your self deeper
by borrowing to pay for vacations and such.
In terms of emotional resonance, Season 27 of Dr. Who is undoubtedly the best
of the lot in 2005-2006. I've been mulling over why that is.
One aspect I can see is that the Doctor and Companion and friends are mostly
characters we can believe in - people who might be living down the block
(well, except for the Doctor). It's easy to empathsize with them
in spite of the weird circumstances they may be in. The new stories
also often delve into the subtle and human effects that the Doctor has caused among
his associates and in the universe. THAT has also made the series more human.
BSG and B5 characters are situated more in an operatic setting where
everything is grander and more intense. But that also puts an emotional
distance between the character and oneself.
Sadly, Stargate now is just plodding along without Anderson. It looks like a
retirement home for Scifi Channel series actors.
For the grand daddy for gritty and depressing SciFi, one must seek out Blake's 7.
It is the only tv series where the ending is truely unpredictable and shocking.
Still very good in my book.
For that $5 rental, the phone CANNOT be broken. You cab probably drive a CAR over
it and it'd keep working. Your Walmart phone will probably break if you drop it once on the floor.
It may have been overengineered - but there was NO planned obsolence and LESS wasted materials.
It was still good in the early 80's.
But as soon as the AT&T break up occured, all the money
were redirected to applied research.
Too bad. Had the BEST corporate library I've ever seen.
what do you expect?
Of course, it's also trying to pack the supreme court when it has
the chance now.
He's the one who said Bush denied access to classified information to the investigative branch of DOJ, thus effectively ending the probe. If Bush
really wanted the probe to be effectively, he could have made sure that
access is granted to this branch which had ample experience handling
secret and very sensitive information in the past.
THINK for yourself.
that's the best benefit of Netflix.
money in the stock market?
Doubtful.
Those who had a bad experience may not be motivated to
post.
Not knowing anything about your school area, I certainly cannot say
whethere it's homogenized or not. What I DO know is that even if
a parent joins a 'homeschool co-ops and groups", it would be one that
the parent CHOSE. Whereas in the public school, the parent does not
get to choose WHO attends except for choosing where their residence.
Your average school is also certainly bigger than these "homeschool co-ops and groups".
Thus it is clear that the child would have a greater chance to meet more
diverse types of people at a larger unselected public school vs
a smaller "homeschool co-ops and groups" chosen by her/his parent on average.
I'm talking about controlled studies that compare the effectiveness of these schooling environments - With all variables controlled for.
In fact, such a study is NOT POSSIBLE, because the student/parent populations
are SELF SELECTED. Many people agree that parental involvement is the primary
factor for the success of the children. There is NO way to control for this.
Home schooling is even worse because you can't even get complete measurement of
outcome.
With out such studies, you can belive what you will. But all you have
are anecdotes and inconclusive indications.