Speaking only for myself, I'd rather have the thieves be able to steal my wallet rather than forcing them to cut off my arm (or whatever other part this thing is implanted in).
> For non-technies that already know how to use > Windows and nothing else, unfortunately Windows > is the right tool for the job.
The problem with this argument is it assumes that non-techies already know how to use Windows. In my experience most Windows users don't know how to use Windows.
Switching to Linux wouldn't be that much of a learning curve because they won't ever learn how to use it (just like they never learned how to use Windows).
3. Apologize for the oversight & remove the GPL'd code.
For most code, Option 3 would be suicide, since it would help the person/corporation who could still sue them. However, with GPL code, it could work out well. The authors and the open source community would probably react favorably to a company that said, "Whoops, we screwed up, but we respect the GPL, so we've removed the GPL'd code."
However, no one dares to apologize anymore. It would be like admitting they did something wrong;-)
Maybe I'm reading this wrong, but it seemed to me that the company was suggesting that profs would be able to alter the content of books they *didn't* write. Maybe allowing a prof to design a custom text book including all the subjects a particular class would cover by selecting chapters or subsets of books. Then they would publish the custom version specifically for those students.
So it would be like the prof saying, "Hey I like this Introduction to Physics text book, but drop the stuff on optics cause we won't cover that this semester, and add a brief introduction on quantum theory." Then next semester he decides that optics should be in, rendering the printing of the textbook from the last semester worthless.
They might even be able to make it look like they're saving the students money: Last semester "Intro to Physics" cost $75, this semester the students can get "Your University's Intro to Physics" for only $65! Seems great unless you realize that the used copy cost $30 last semester, and the "custom" edition contains only half the material.
Nick (age 5 - just started kindergarten), has no trouble using both mouse buttons as well as the wheel in the middle.
Alex (age 2+5/6), has a bit of trouble using the mouse. He tends to click the wrong button. However he hasn't completely gotten the idea that he has to put the mouse cursor on top of the thing he wants to click yet. Kiddie programs written for a kid his age are not very difficult. If you can slide the mouse back & forth, you'll have no trouble.
Bethany (age 1/2), just sits there & slobbers on the computer. She might be the wisest of them all.
Of course, it all depends on the backgrounds of the kids. I've got computers in my house. Their daycare center has computers. The elementary school has computers. Not every child grows up in the same environment.
The world has been a sad place since all the parents were wiped out. Who will look after the children?
Oh, wait a minute, I'm a parent. I'm also responsible for my children...hmmm...
Now that I think about it, most of the children in my son's school also appear to have parents or guardians. In fact, I can't think of one child that isn't being cared for by some adult.
Hey, maybe this is a problem that parents can deal with!
Oh, wait, that's right. That would require personal responsibility. We don't have that anymore. Everything is someone else's fault.
Thank God we didn't have the internet when I was a kid, so I never had to see any pornography.
Go into any school where children have to say the pledge. Ask them to describe what it means. Most won't even have any idea. Hell, most won't even be able to recite it unless they have two dozen other mindless drones reciting it with them.
Should they be making a pledge that they don't even understand? Can we expect them to understand it when most of them think the Civil war was fought against France?
In my department, our problem is that we rely on vendor supported applications, and none of these products support Macs at all.
The IT group would have loved to stay with Macs, but we had no choice.
We have two hold outs. Every couple of months we would get a complaint from one of them that they still couldn't access the purchasing site from their PC. Each time we would point to the requirements page where it says that Macs aren't supported and would only work with Virtual PC. Lather, rinse, repeat.
On the other hand, THEY ARE NOT YOUR CUSTOMERS, THEY ARE YOUR COWORKERS! If they were customers, they could expect the money they spend to increase with the amount of work required. Instead they demand the impossible and expect it to cost nothing. The fallacy that the user base are customers was developed by Management when they wanted to make the staff think they matter without actually spending the money that their needs would require.
Here's the rule: Your customers don't get paid from the same bank account as you.
We're outsourcing our desktop support. Now the user community can finally be treated like customers. If they want to increase their demands on the support staff, they'll be increasing the money they spend.
Since it accepts requests by email, it would seem to be nice to be able to delete actual garbage.
However, I would agree with the developers. We use Wreq (old, unsupported, undeveloped) which fulfills a similar role. It does not provide any mechanism for deleting a request. Even using the delete just moves the requests into the "deleted" queue.
On the one hand, it might seem like a good idea to be able to purge the deleted requests from time to time. On the other hand, I've found actual unresolved requests that had been "deleted" by my coworkers.
One of the selling points to the user community for using the help desk email was that the users request would never, ever be deleted. (as opposed to emailing a person, or leaving a voice mail, or telling him about your problem while he's trying to take a piss at the urinal).
I work in a hospital. I once worked with the Neurology department & I've been in Radiology for the past four years. I can say with absolute certainty that nurses, aides, and doctors are just as stupid as everyone else.
The idea that some doctor would walk into an ICU with a cellphone that is contaminated with bacteria doesn't suprise me at all.
You might feel that an alcohol wipe would be as effective on the grooved, seamed, and perforated surface of a cell phone as it is on a stethescope, but I would rather see a study *prove* it works.
Just buy yourself a diesel/electric locomotive. It should be able to turn that home heating oil into electricity for you.
Seriously, it is possible that your home heating oil is the same thing as diesel fuel. It all depends on what additives have been mixed in. I did a quick search and found this:
If you can ignore the fact that they're trying to sell you something, you might notice that there are quite a few portable diesel generators which could possibly be powered using your home heating oil.
> Who guarantees the database is not full of this > guy's issues with the companies that set the > sensor off?
Like everything else in the world, fear of lawsuits will prevent all but the most obvious examples: I will not buy these cigarettes because my scanner says they may cause cancer.
I disagree. My wife & I run a small business & we've found that what people already know is usually useless. We need people to do things *OUR* way, not the way they did it at the place where they don't work anymore.
We'd rather take someone who has flexibility and the ability to learn. Unfortunately most of the people who apply have neither.
I'm not saying that plenty of small businesses don't want you to know exactly what you need to know. It's just that their owners are morons;-)
Compare that to the number of people killed due to problems with electricity. Include fires caused by electrical problems. Electrocution. Leave out lightning.
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Speaking only for myself, I'd rather have the thieves be able to steal my wallet rather than forcing them to cut off my arm (or whatever other part this thing is implanted in).
Actually, it says that corporate customers account for 85% of Dell's business, not 85% of calls.
Of course, I'd bet most of the U.S. is pretty well sick of seeing that guy anyway.
> For non-technies that already know how to use
> Windows and nothing else, unfortunately Windows
> is the right tool for the job.
The problem with this argument is it assumes that non-techies already know how to use Windows. In my experience most Windows users don't know how to use Windows.
Switching to Linux wouldn't be that much of a learning curve because they won't ever learn how to use it (just like they never learned how to use Windows).
Hell, I'll sell it to you for $599!
> With an SUV you have to climb up.
With an SUV *you* have to climb up. I don't. With other cars I have to climb down to get in & climb out to get out of them.
Don't forget:
;-)
3. Apologize for the oversight & remove the GPL'd code.
For most code, Option 3 would be suicide, since it would help the person/corporation who could still sue them. However, with GPL code, it could work out well. The authors and the open source community would probably react favorably to a company that said, "Whoops, we screwed up, but we respect the GPL, so we've removed the GPL'd code."
However, no one dares to apologize anymore. It would be like admitting they did something wrong
Maybe I'm reading this wrong, but it seemed to me that the company was suggesting that profs would be able to alter the content of books they *didn't* write. Maybe allowing a prof to design a custom text book including all the subjects a particular class would cover by selecting chapters or subsets of books. Then they would publish the custom version specifically for those students.
So it would be like the prof saying, "Hey I like this Introduction to Physics text book, but drop the stuff on optics cause we won't cover that this semester, and add a brief introduction on quantum theory." Then next semester he decides that optics should be in, rendering the printing of the textbook from the last semester worthless.
They might even be able to make it look like they're saving the students money: Last semester "Intro to Physics" cost $75, this semester the students can get "Your University's Intro to Physics" for only $65! Seems great unless you realize that the used copy cost $30 last semester, and the "custom" edition contains only half the material.
Nick (age 5 - just started kindergarten), has no trouble using both mouse buttons as well as the wheel in the middle.
Alex (age 2+5/6), has a bit of trouble using the mouse. He tends to click the wrong button. However he hasn't completely gotten the idea that he has to put the mouse cursor on top of the thing he wants to click yet. Kiddie programs written for a kid his age are not very difficult. If you can slide the mouse back & forth, you'll have no trouble.
Bethany (age 1/2), just sits there & slobbers on the computer. She might be the wisest of them all.
Of course, it all depends on the backgrounds of the kids. I've got computers in my house. Their daycare center has computers. The elementary school has computers. Not every child grows up in the same environment.
I haven't grown since High School either. However, I was taller than everyone else there when I was in 9th grade, so I don't think it matters.
According to the article:
"The study, released Thursday, was controlled for gender, weight and age, and found that each inch in height added about $789 a year in pay."
So, it looks like this is above & beyond any gender, age, or weight inequity.
At 6'4", I'm OK with this. Of course, my wife is 5'1" so it probably all evens out.
The world has been a sad place since all the parents were wiped out. Who will look after the children?
Oh, wait a minute, I'm a parent. I'm also responsible for my children...hmmm...
Now that I think about it, most of the children in my son's school also appear to have parents or guardians. In fact, I can't think of one child that isn't being cared for by some adult.
Hey, maybe this is a problem that parents can deal with!
Oh, wait, that's right. That would require personal responsibility. We don't have that anymore. Everything is someone else's fault.
Thank God we didn't have the internet when I was a kid, so I never had to see any pornography.
"Butt on" is worse than just "butt". The filter just assumed that someone forgot the space.
Go into any school where children have to say the pledge. Ask them to describe what it means. Most won't even have any idea. Hell, most won't even be able to recite it unless they have two dozen other mindless drones reciting it with them.
Should they be making a pledge that they don't even understand? Can we expect them to understand it when most of them think the Civil war was fought against France?
In my department, our problem is that we rely on vendor supported applications, and none of these products support Macs at all.
The IT group would have loved to stay with Macs, but we had no choice.
We have two hold outs. Every couple of months we would get a complaint from one of them that they still couldn't access the purchasing site from their PC. Each time we would point to the requirements page where it says that Macs aren't supported and would only work with Virtual PC. Lather, rinse, repeat.
On the other hand, THEY ARE NOT YOUR CUSTOMERS, THEY ARE YOUR COWORKERS! If they were customers, they could expect the money they spend to increase with the amount of work required. Instead they demand the impossible and expect it to cost nothing. The fallacy that the user base are customers was developed by Management when they wanted to make the staff think they matter without actually spending the money that their needs would require.
Here's the rule: Your customers don't get paid from the same bank account as you.
We're outsourcing our desktop support. Now the user community can finally be treated like customers. If they want to increase their demands on the support staff, they'll be increasing the money they spend.
Since it accepts requests by email, it would seem to be nice to be able to delete actual garbage.
However, I would agree with the developers. We use Wreq (old, unsupported, undeveloped) which fulfills a similar role. It does not provide any mechanism for deleting a request. Even using the delete just moves the requests into the "deleted" queue.
On the one hand, it might seem like a good idea to be able to purge the deleted requests from time to time. On the other hand, I've found actual unresolved requests that had been "deleted" by my coworkers.
One of the selling points to the user community for using the help desk email was that the users request would never, ever be deleted. (as opposed to emailing a person, or leaving a voice mail, or telling him about your problem while he's trying to take a piss at the urinal).
> Nurses, Aides and doctors aren't stupid.
I work in a hospital. I once worked with the Neurology department & I've been in Radiology for the past four years. I can say with absolute certainty that nurses, aides, and doctors are just as stupid as everyone else.
The idea that some doctor would walk into an ICU with a cellphone that is contaminated with bacteria doesn't suprise me at all.
You might feel that an alcohol wipe would be as effective on the grooved, seamed, and perforated surface of a cell phone as it is on a stethescope, but I would rather see a study *prove* it works.
> No fucking noisy kids who won't STFU
Yeah, but how does a home theater help when the noisy kids live in the same house?
This salary survey is done by SAGE, a professional organization made up of systems administrators.
I can't remember what I paid for membership, but I know it wasn't thousands. Maybe around $150 w/the USENIX membership.
Just buy yourself a diesel/electric locomotive. It should be able to turn that home heating oil into electricity for you.
Seriously, it is possible that your home heating oil is the same thing as diesel fuel. It all depends on what additives have been mixed in. I did a quick search and found this:
Diesel generators
If you can ignore the fact that they're trying to sell you something, you might notice that there are quite a few portable diesel generators which could possibly be powered using your home heating oil.
> Who guarantees the database is not full of this
> guy's issues with the companies that set the
> sensor off?
Like everything else in the world, fear of lawsuits will prevent all but the most obvious examples: I will not buy these cigarettes because my scanner says they may cause cancer.
Why do they need to crush anything else? Thats not ... "the american way".
What America are you talking about?
I disagree. My wife & I run a small business & we've found that what people already know is usually useless. We need people to do things *OUR* way, not the way they did it at the place where they don't work anymore.
;-)
We'd rather take someone who has flexibility and the ability to learn. Unfortunately most of the people who apply have neither.
I'm not saying that plenty of small businesses don't want you to know exactly what you need to know. It's just that their owners are morons
Compare that to the number of people killed due to problems with electricity. Include fires caused by electrical problems. Electrocution. Leave out lightning.
Hasn't anyone here heard of Netflix. I've been renting DVDs online & returning by snail mail for years now.
I can't see any value in this technology.