Employers are more likely to do a criminal background check than go searching and reading blogs mentioning applicants' names. Attempting to delete or squelch a blog post is silly - the blog got the information from somewhere, didn't it? And that source is likely available to employers.
If your name popped up in a criminal records search, it should be fairly easy for the employer to determine that the criminal illini1022 is not the same person as the applicant illini1022.
Several years ago I read in my newspaper of the arrest of a man my age, with my same name, for pedophilia. He was a teacher employed at a school within 10 miles of where I grew up and went to high school. My only thought was that people who knew me years ago but didn't stay in touch would read it and think it was about me. But I didn't worry about a real impact, such as employment, and in fact I have a job that requires a clearance and just two years ago conducted a criminal records check on all of us when the contract changed. Nothing questionable about me showed up.
Sure it looked fun, but my reaction was more like, "wouldn't it be easier to just ride in the boat?" And if the added feature is being able to gain elevation and move back and forth, well, a cherry-picker in a boat then. Without having to wear the propulsion system on you.
The demo of making music reminded me of building things with Scratch, except that it's done with physical objects instead of stacking and joining GUI elements on screen.
You must be referring to Open Source desktop apps installed on your computer. To get something installed on a locked-down box does require putting in a request - although I've never had one turned down (I have Eclipse, Subversion, Python, Firefox and more installed).
As for custom applications - DoD has been using Open Source software in development of custom apps for years - myself for 7+ years, personally. I've never encountered resistence to developing and deploying apps that utilize Open Source software (like Apache, PostgreSQL, and much more). It's rare that I use commercial software to build anything on the job - other than having a Windows dev box.
Pretty much any software can be described as much-criticized, especially when it's popular and then undergoes a rewrite or significant changes. Hear the cries of "it doesn't do x, it used to do x like so" for [Gnome|KDE|MS Office|Vista|Python|Finder|fill in blank]. Regardless of whether many people are happy with the changes, you'll find a group that is very vocal in its discontent.
On the other hand, not all software can be described as popular, which KDE certainly is (in the OSS world).
It actually is. You're entering the text to edit it. F2?? What relationship does that have with the task it represents? Let's see, was it F2, or was it F3, I forgot. Maybe F4.
I don't see a similar confusion with "was it the Enter key, or Backspace key, or Shift bar to get me to enter some text for the filename?"
I've been using almost all open source, both for architectural solutions and for custom software, in DoD since joining in 2005, and I know there are plenty of others doing the same.
This has only happened to me when dragging trash and I miss the trash can before releasing the mouse button. I can wind up with an icon partially under the dock. Never has gone completely under the dock, but at any rate, I could always hide the dock to then grab and move the icon to another spot on the desktop.
I thought the same thing and was amused, because the typical reaction has been "KDE looks like Windows"; now when I look at Windows 7, I first thought, hey, Windows looks like KDE!
If I thought there was a good shot of me getting my money back for the device, I'd certainly join up on board a class action lawsuit.
Even if you thought it was ridiculous to blame the company for your loss of control over the product?
As to luggage and their handles, a luggage handle is the primary means of holding onto your luggage, you don't typically grasp the bag and use the handle as a secondary way of giving extra reliability to your grasp. If my luggage handle failed, it wouldn't be unreasonable to contact the maker for a warranty claim. I don't view the Wiimote's wrist strap as analogous. It is not the intrinsic means of holding the device.
This also got me thinking about guitars. The first thing a lot of guitarists do when they get a guitar is put strap locks on it. Some people feel that certain guitars have too small of strap buttons, or just in general they don't trust the ones that come on any guitar. I personally don't use locks, but have experienced and seen guitars hanging around the player by the strap, no hands, and suddenly the strap comes off and the guitar falls (I've caught mine, whew).
It's a known fact that there is a risk your guitar strap may slip off the guitar, and aftermarket strap locks address that risk. Yet I've never heard of lawsuits trying to get all guitar manufacturers, or strap manufacturers, to include strap locks or otherwise redesign the standard strap buttons on guitars or holes for buttons in the strap. I suppose some people have tried suing or filing a warranty claim for their busted guitar, but were told it was negligence, end of story. Of course, the falling guitar is usually only damaging itself, not a secondary item like the Wii remote smashing a TV, but the dollar amount of damage could be similar.
Since the Wiimote strap is not a safety device and is a convenience feature, I cannot agree that Nintendo is liable.
My camera came with a strap. If I were dangling my camera by its strap, not holding the actual camera body, and the strap broke and my camera smashed to the pavement, it would never occur to me to sue the camera manufacturer. My thoughts, after the "oh shit" would be, "I shouldn't have been doing that and should have been more careful."
Precisely - that's as far as I got in the video before closing it and concluding "fake". Hey, watch me take this prepared sheet of text, hold it in front of this doll, and a recording of the text is played OMG IT'S READING IT!! Really, people, I thought nerds would be dissecting this thing like they do Star Wars movie physics, but no, seems the majority have swallowed the hook.
Wow.... I gave up after a full minute, using Safari 3 on OS X Tiger. Never did load anything. I think the stopwatch was me counting time go by, waiting for this demo to load.
I dropped Perl for Python as well, and I never had to "get over" the indentation thing. Never understood why the big gripe. Programmers type braces and semicolons all the time without giving it a thought, someone elsewhere in this story asked why not an End statement in Python... yet somehow indenting code in a standard, readable way is noxious to them.
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I don't believe it's intended as video game entertainment. It's an educational simulation to train people who may need to devise disaster response policy. Players run through the simulation, make certain choices, and then they all engage in an after-action review session to check the appropriateness, or effectiveness, of their choices.
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Employers are more likely to do a criminal background check than go searching and reading blogs mentioning applicants' names. Attempting to delete or squelch a blog post is silly - the blog got the information from somewhere, didn't it? And that source is likely available to employers.
If your name popped up in a criminal records search, it should be fairly easy for the employer to determine that the criminal illini1022 is not the same person as the applicant illini1022.
Several years ago I read in my newspaper of the arrest of a man my age, with my same name, for pedophilia. He was a teacher employed at a school within 10 miles of where I grew up and went to high school. My only thought was that people who knew me years ago but didn't stay in touch would read it and think it was about me. But I didn't worry about a real impact, such as employment, and in fact I have a job that requires a clearance and just two years ago conducted a criminal records check on all of us when the contract changed. Nothing questionable about me showed up.
Sure it looked fun, but my reaction was more like, "wouldn't it be easier to just ride in the boat?" And if the added feature is being able to gain elevation and move back and forth, well, a cherry-picker in a boat then. Without having to wear the propulsion system on you.
The demo of making music reminded me of building things with Scratch, except that it's done with physical objects instead of stacking and joining GUI elements on screen.
You must be referring to Open Source desktop apps installed on your computer. To get something installed on a locked-down box does require putting in a request - although I've never had one turned down (I have Eclipse, Subversion, Python, Firefox and more installed).
As for custom applications - DoD has been using Open Source software in development of custom apps for years - myself for 7+ years, personally. I've never encountered resistence to developing and deploying apps that utilize Open Source software (like Apache, PostgreSQL, and much more). It's rare that I use commercial software to build anything on the job - other than having a Windows dev box.
That was weird.
The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
Pretty much any software can be described as much-criticized, especially when it's popular and then undergoes a rewrite or significant changes. Hear the cries of "it doesn't do x, it used to do x like so" for [Gnome|KDE|MS Office|Vista|Python|Finder|fill in blank]. Regardless of whether many people are happy with the changes, you'll find a group that is very vocal in its discontent.
On the other hand, not all software can be described as popular, which KDE certainly is (in the OSS world).
It actually is. You're entering the text to edit it. F2?? What relationship does that have with the task it represents? Let's see, was it F2, or was it F3, I forgot. Maybe F4.
I don't see a similar confusion with "was it the Enter key, or Backspace key, or Shift bar to get me to enter some text for the filename?"
Bizarre. Just... bizarre.
Please read a book (same goes to moderators who found it insightful).
Ha ha.
OpenLDAP. PostgreSQL. Apache. etc. Examples of OSS software used not to program with, but as components of a software system architecture.
The DoD put out several papers on using Open Source dating back several years. I believe one was mentioned on Slashdot at the time.
Here is one from 2006.
I've been using almost all open source, both for architectural solutions and for custom software, in DoD since joining in 2005, and I know there are plenty of others doing the same.
This has only happened to me when dragging trash and I miss the trash can before releasing the mouse button. I can wind up with an icon partially under the dock. Never has gone completely under the dock, but at any rate, I could always hide the dock to then grab and move the icon to another spot on the desktop.
Perhaps, indeed.
I thought the same thing and was amused, because the typical reaction has been "KDE looks like Windows"; now when I look at Windows 7, I first thought, hey, Windows looks like KDE!
Next we'll hear that the sub designers chose Lucas for the electrics.
If I thought there was a good shot of me getting my money back for the device, I'd certainly join up on board a class action lawsuit.
Even if you thought it was ridiculous to blame the company for your loss of control over the product?
As to luggage and their handles, a luggage handle is the primary means of holding onto your luggage, you don't typically grasp the bag and use the handle as a secondary way of giving extra reliability to your grasp. If my luggage handle failed, it wouldn't be unreasonable to contact the maker for a warranty claim. I don't view the Wiimote's wrist strap as analogous. It is not the intrinsic means of holding the device.
This also got me thinking about guitars. The first thing a lot of guitarists do when they get a guitar is put strap locks on it. Some people feel that certain guitars have too small of strap buttons, or just in general they don't trust the ones that come on any guitar. I personally don't use locks, but have experienced and seen guitars hanging around the player by the strap, no hands, and suddenly the strap comes off and the guitar falls (I've caught mine, whew).
It's a known fact that there is a risk your guitar strap may slip off the guitar, and aftermarket strap locks address that risk. Yet I've never heard of lawsuits trying to get all guitar manufacturers, or strap manufacturers, to include strap locks or otherwise redesign the standard strap buttons on guitars or holes for buttons in the strap. I suppose some people have tried suing or filing a warranty claim for their busted guitar, but were told it was negligence, end of story. Of course, the falling guitar is usually only damaging itself, not a secondary item like the Wii remote smashing a TV, but the dollar amount of damage could be similar.
Since the Wiimote strap is not a safety device and is a convenience feature, I cannot agree that Nintendo is liable.
My camera came with a strap. If I were dangling my camera by its strap, not holding the actual camera body, and the strap broke and my camera smashed to the pavement, it would never occur to me to sue the camera manufacturer. My thoughts, after the "oh shit" would be, "I shouldn't have been doing that and should have been more careful."
Precisely - that's as far as I got in the video before closing it and concluding "fake". Hey, watch me take this prepared sheet of text, hold it in front of this doll, and a recording of the text is played OMG IT'S READING IT!! Really, people, I thought nerds would be dissecting this thing like they do Star Wars movie physics, but no, seems the majority have swallowed the hook.
I'm sure I will be.
Wow.... I gave up after a full minute, using Safari 3 on OS X Tiger. Never did load anything. I think the stopwatch was me counting time go by, waiting for this demo to load.
I dropped Perl for Python as well, and I never had to "get over" the indentation thing. Never understood why the big gripe. Programmers type braces and semicolons all the time without giving it a thought, someone elsewhere in this story asked why not an End statement in Python... yet somehow indenting code in a standard, readable way is noxious to them.
Like http://docs.python.org/library/2to3.html, perhaps?
I don't believe it's intended as video game entertainment. It's an educational simulation to train people who may need to devise disaster response policy. Players run through the simulation, make certain choices, and then they all engage in an after-action review session to check the appropriateness, or effectiveness, of their choices.
Oh, the ironing is delicious! 'MustBeOriginal' quoting verbatim from Grandpa Simpson! ;)