If you are heading out to somewhere new and don't want to rely on a lifeline back to where you come from (or where you come from isn't interested in offering such a lifeline) your only sane choice is to settle on a level of technology that is sustainable, repairable and replaceable on the ground.
You can get some sort of appreciation from thinking of one elephant and building from that to 100 elephants is a reasonable stretch.
However, if you start with a Big Mac, then the number you end up with (say 1 million?) is so large that you are left with something that is still difficult to visualise.
I hate it when I see someone flaming or trolling a company employee in a forum. I see it as an incredibly weak and cowardly act as they are essentially picking a fight and taunting someone they know is restricted from responding in kind.
According to the press release issued when they sold their share of IBM GSA to IBM it is part of "Telstra's vision which is to improve its internal IT skills base".
If they are stopping outsourcing stuff to IBM GSA they are certainly going to need extra people to cover it. (Of course, a lot of those people will probably be poached from IBM GSA...)
It seems to me that Americans seem to have actually abandoned the belief that democracy can work.
Most of the effort seems to go on "minimising" government or using the constitution to stop the government from doing bad things rather than getting the government to want the right things in the first place..
Frankly I find that a bit scary.
</huge generalisation>
I could have defended my English errors with cries of "it's a living language!".
Seriously though, the fact that languages inevitably change over time does not mean it isn't worth putting in a little effort to maintain consistancy and specificity of a language.
You could consider kazaa.com using legal means to manipulate the apparent ranking of other kazaa-related websites as an artificial means to improve their own rank.
Perhaps all Kazaa.com related results should be demoted by the same number of sites that they've had banned?
In reality though this would probably just detract further from the quality of Google's results though it might deter future DMCA complaints to Google.
The same mistake, maybe, but I don't see why they'd make more mistakes. I certainly don't see them charging for stock they don't have (ie stuff you previously bought) as the major advantage to RFID is its stock management capabilities.
I guess it probably comes down to consumer protection mechanisms too. It doesn't appear that overcharging is a problem here in Australia even though it is self regulated using a "Code of Practice for Computerised Checkout Systems in Supermarkets". Amoung other things if a good is overcharged here you get the first one free and the subsequent ones at the lower price so the store has an incentive not to overcharge.
Overcharging here seems to be ~1% of purchases. This is
a) less than the USA (at 3.4%)
b) less ($ amount wise) than undercharges
c) significantly less than pre automated scanning rates.
So it's not really fair to blame the scanning technologies themselves on any problems you see. It's the implementation that seems to be bad. If your supermarkets are giving you consumers a raw deal you should target them, not the technology.
Which page, the blog or the Chunder page?
The Chunder page, in keeping with it's theme, was always supposed to be somewhat hideous and difficult to look at even for people of "normal vision" (it hasn't been updated for many years, it was just a joke amoung friends that got surprisingly popular for a bit).
The best suggestion I have is to use something like Opera which has "accessibility layout", "high contrast (b/w)" and "High contrast (w/b)" user stylesheets which will turn an ugly page like that into something much more reasonable.
These things contain unique IDs.
A shop will only be scan out and charge for an item that it has identified as being in stock.
Once it's been purchased and scanned out of the system if you go back to the store (or another store) you won't be charged because that store knows it doesn't have a product with that ID to sell.
Unless of course you are claiming that SCO taking down their website of their own accord would magically make other peoples websites at the same location disappear.....
However they do not want to be burdened by excess minutae. As a vendor (of anything) part of your role is to use your knowledge and skills to provide value to the consumer.
The article correctly points out that end users don't often care about toolkits or window managers. He somehow misses that no-one is really asking them to. All they need to do is pick a vendor to take care of that for them.
I don't have to think or care about any "compatibility problems". When I pull stuff from Ximian Desktop it is just going to work.
Installing Mozilla + Realplayer + Java + Acrobat + Flash is easier on my Linux PC than it is on Windows because I can simply get it all from the same place in one easy hit, no need to hunt around individual sites, navigating download mirrors or trying to work out where Real have put the link that actually goes to the free version.
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Australia has been involved in a lot of things that would piss of extremist Muslims.
Our army seems extremely professional. First rate SAS troops, a reasonable knack for peace-keeping and even some cool (if obvious in hindsight) gun technology.
If you are heading out to somewhere new and don't want to rely on a lifeline back to where you come from (or where you come from isn't interested in offering such a lifeline) your only sane choice is to settle on a level of technology that is sustainable, repairable and replaceable on the ground.
That means low tech.
I don't think I've ever seen one with a roof.
You can get some sort of appreciation from thinking of one elephant and building from that to 100 elephants is a reasonable stretch.
However, if you start with a Big Mac, then the number you end up with (say 1 million?) is so large that you are left with something that is still difficult to visualise.
Sure, it can do easy conversions like 1 pint in decilitres.
But can it do 1 cloud in elephants? No!
Perhaps Google isn't god after all.
I see no reason why most people should have some natural appreciation of what "550 tons" actually means.
I hate it when I see someone flaming or trolling a company employee in a forum. I see it as an incredibly weak and cowardly act as they are essentially picking a fight and taunting someone they know is restricted from responding in kind.
in the same way that a wart on the end of your nose would be.
A friend of mine used to use what he termed an archaeological filing system.
It was based on the simple principal that the older something was the further down in the pile it would be.
Your all-in-one-folder technique and "ls -t" would work equally well.
According to the press release issued when they sold their share of IBM GSA to IBM it is part of "Telstra's vision which is to improve its internal IT skills base".
If they are stopping outsourcing stuff to IBM GSA they are certainly going to need extra people to cover it. (Of course, a lot of those people will probably be poached from IBM GSA...)
It seems to me that Americans seem to have actually abandoned the belief that democracy can work.
Most of the effort seems to go on "minimising" government or using the constitution to stop the government from doing bad things rather than getting the government to want the right things in the first place..
Frankly I find that a bit scary.
</huge generalisation>
It was an unintentional typo, rather than an attempt at witty wordplay.
I could have defended my English errors with cries of "it's a living language!".
Seriously though, the fact that languages inevitably change over time does not mean it isn't worth putting in a little effort to maintain consistancy and specificity of a language.
You could consider kazaa.com using legal means to manipulate the apparent ranking of other kazaa-related websites as an artificial means to improve their own rank.
Perhaps all Kazaa.com related results should be demoted by the same number of sites that they've had banned?
In reality though this would probably just detract further from the quality of Google's results though it might deter future DMCA complaints to Google.
And then you should see the kazaagold sponsored link. At least I do.
The second "Sponsored link" is A bit of an oversight there I guess....
My wireless network runs 128bit WEP so if I'm going to consider adding my xbox to that network it will have to have 128 bit WEP as well.
WEP might not be perfect, but it's better than nothing.
They don't seem to actually have a single consistant position on anything.
Is SCO actually being run by a Perl script that periodically checks their stock price to see if it needs to emit some random statement?
The same mistake, maybe, but I don't see why they'd make more mistakes. I certainly don't see them charging for stock they don't have (ie stuff you previously bought) as the major advantage to RFID is its stock management capabilities.
I guess it probably comes down to consumer protection mechanisms too. It doesn't appear that overcharging is a problem here in Australia even though it is self regulated using a "Code of Practice for Computerised Checkout Systems in Supermarkets". Amoung other things if a good is overcharged here you get the first one free and the subsequent ones at the lower price so the store has an incentive not to overcharge.
Overcharging here seems to be ~1% of purchases. This is
a) less than the USA (at 3.4%)
b) less ($ amount wise) than undercharges
c) significantly less than pre automated scanning rates.
So it's not really fair to blame the scanning technologies themselves on any problems you see. It's the implementation that seems to be bad. If your supermarkets are giving you consumers a raw deal you should target them, not the technology.
Which page, the blog or the Chunder page? The Chunder page, in keeping with it's theme, was always supposed to be somewhat hideous and difficult to look at even for people of "normal vision" (it hasn't been updated for many years, it was just a joke amoung friends that got surprisingly popular for a bit).
The best suggestion I have is to use something like Opera which has "accessibility layout", "high contrast (b/w)" and "High contrast (w/b)" user stylesheets which will turn an ugly page like that into something much more reasonable.
These things contain unique IDs. A shop will only be scan out and charge for an item that it has identified as being in stock. Once it's been purchased and scanned out of the system if you go back to the store (or another store) you won't be charged because that store knows it doesn't have a product with that ID to sell.
It's the 21st century, surely we can produce materials that simply stands up to washing and drying without needing special attention?
Unless of course you are claiming that SCO taking down their website of their own accord would magically make other peoples websites at the same location disappear.....
However they do not want to be burdened by excess minutae. As a vendor (of anything) part of your role is to use your knowledge and skills to provide value to the consumer.
The article correctly points out that end users don't often care about toolkits or window managers. He somehow misses that no-one is really asking them to. All they need to do is pick a vendor to take care of that for them.
I don't have to think or care about any "compatibility problems". When I pull stuff from Ximian Desktop it is just going to work.
Installing Mozilla + Realplayer + Java + Acrobat + Flash is easier on my Linux PC than it is on Windows because I can simply get it all from the same place in one easy hit, no need to hunt around individual sites, navigating download mirrors or trying to work out where Real have put the link that actually goes to the free version.