And we're not quite sure what normal temperature should be, anyway.
Part of the whole problem is the whole illusion that the weather is somehow (1) stable and (2) something we can (and should) adjust to suit our needs. Little arrogant, if you ask me...
it would be interesting to know whether there are any productive scientists who are religious fanatics.
I'm not really sure what your definition of fanatic is, but every few years, a poll is done to measure religious attitudes among scientists. The Washington Post had a story on it quite a while back...here are some highlights that should let you make up your own mind...
These contemporary researchers found that about four in 10 randomly selected scientists two years ago professed belief "in a personal God," almost exactly the same proportion as in 1916, Bishop reported.
One key result from the current study to a question that wasn't asked in 1916: More than half - 55 percent - endorsed the Darwinian view that "humans developed over millions of years from less advanced forms of life. God had no part in this process."
Bishop notes, however, that "a surprisingly large percentage (40 percent) subscribed to the 'theistic evolutionist' idea that 'humans developed over millions of years from less advanced forms of life, but God guided this process, including humankind's creation.'" Only 5 percent endorsed a creationist view that God created humans "pretty much in their present form at one time within the past 10,000 years."
how about networking these things to a white board during a meeting or teleconference where everyone can draw on the same white board?
You know how everyone is always boo-hooing about how hard it is to find a job in this economy? Well -- something like this would be a KILLER APP -- the kind of thing that none of us knew we needed until it existed.
I bet if 10 slashdotters got together, they could come up with a beta in no time...Seriously. Someone is going to write something like this. A room full of people sitting in a meeting, tablet PCs on their arms, each networked to the other and running a whiteboard app right on the screen... Wow. Why shouldn't that someone be a group of coders here on/....? Hell, you wouldn't even have to make it Open Source -- you could just make a really killer beta app and then have Microsoft buy it from you...
As I read the NYTimes article, and saw that most tablets included keyboards, it became clear once again that Bill Gates isn't really predicting the worldwide takeover of tablet PCs
You're kidding, right? The very first thing I thought when I saw this was, "Wow, I'd like to get me one of these..." followed almost immediately by, "I sure hope I can get a keyboard for it!"
I would love to have one. The interface would make sense -- most of the time -- but there would be times that a mini portable keyboard (like my Stowaway for my Clie) would really come in handy. It is still a design innovation for 2002. But then with your knee-jerk "Bill Gates != innovation" reference, you are sure to appeal to the Slashdot crowd and get modded right up.
Maybe there will be some convergance between laptops and PCs and we'll get the best of both in 2007. In the meantime -- this really is an innovation, bigot, and I for one don't mind seeing the Microsoft juggernaut behind it.
Its funny, isn't it, how much people think this is an either/or equation. 1984 and Brave New World were not critiques of communism -- they were critiques of increasing surveillance and other intrusions into daily lives. Its not like the Communist countries were the only ones who moved towards increasing surveillance of their citizens -- its just the speed at which they did it and the overtness of the intrusiveness was more obvious. But we're all headed in the same direction. It was obvious in 1948 when Orwell wrote his book. It is all the more obvious today.
I would charge it to my credit card, get my email, then deny the charge. Very easily done...
Very easily done. There's also a name for that sort of thing. Its called credit card fraud, charging something that you have no intention of ever paying...
But above all what the poster and most others fail to do is to distinguish between what Catholics do and what the Church teaches.
For instance, I have it on good authority that the first leader of the Roman Catholic Church, Simon Peter, actually denied that he was friends with Jesus just before J.C.'s execution.
Point being: Individual actions of people -- even famous people -- who belong to a group do not = the beliefs of the group.
Side note -- it is often said that Ghandi once said, "I would have been a Christian if it wasn't for all the Christians."
People who read/. are by and large intelligent. (Mod me +1 "insightful" for that statement.)
There certainly seems to be a lot of un-thought through anti-relgious (and anti-Christian) bigotry floating around among this crowd, though. (Mod me -1 "troll" for that statement)
I was in a large shared server facility that still used a Halon system, which when released, fills the area suffocating the fire (and any living creatures in the area as well).
Look -- geeks sue for the wrong kind of keyboard -- ergonomics = safety after all -- do you really think there is just this dangerous gas ready to be released where you work and you have exactly 20 seconds to escape before you die?
"Three things must come together at the same time to start a fire. The first ingredient is fuel (anything that can burn), the second is oxygen (normal breathing air is ample) and the last is an ignition source (high heat can cause a fire even without a spark or open flame). Traditionally, to stop a fire you need to remove one side of the triangle - the ignition, the fuel or the oxygen. Halon adds a fourth dimension to fire fighting - breaking the chain reaction. It stops the fuel, the ignition and the oxygen from dancing together by chemically reacting with them. Many people believe that Halon displaces the air out of the area it is dispensed in. Wrong! Even for the toughest hazards, less than an 8% concentration by volume is required. There is still plenty of air to use in the evacuation process. (Emphasis added by me)
Keep in mind that while we build our stained glass castles, there will be barbarians around throwing bricks. That's the best they can do, those barbarians: bricks. Well, most of 'em anyway. All the smart ones are obviously on our side, inside the stained glass castle. Yeah, that's got to be true. We are perfectly safe inside.
Seems like a lot of work goes into making sure our castles and highways can withstand attacks but not much effort is expended getting people to buy into the system... not because becoming a part of it is "selling out"; no, we help build it because no matter how smart you are, if you are throwing a stone, you aren't leading a revolution, you are just a barbarian. It'd be nice to see that message dusted off and given the airtime it deserves...
As it should, but I think (hope) that Google is more sophisticated than that. It will go up for queries like "google law suit", not for anything SearchKing cares about.
You are overthinking this. Frankly, I'd be surprised if Google really cared if you happen to visit SearchKing. Have you ever been there? Me too. Once. Just long enough to reaffirm my loyalty to Google - the only King of Searching in my book!
In a free market, having an aggressive strategy to remain at the top does not always mean crushing the competition. Sometimes, having a damn good product focusing on THAT and ignoring the gnats (like LawsuitKing) that come along is more than enough. No need having "sophisticated" tweaks made to their search algorithm.
Just wanted to say that I, too, went for the hole in the wall method of making my PC quiet. A few Belkin cables shoved through the hole to extend the keyboard, mouse and monitor and -- volia -- even my $300 white box PC with the fan like a jet engine is silent (to me) when I use my computer.
Subspace was a classic beta online game that a lot of people played. Think asteroids meets quake. It kind of died out when it went commercial though.
Uhhh... (quickly does a ?usage command)... I've logged several hundred hours in the last year playing Subspace. Its not owned by Virgin anymore. You can pick up a free copy of the client, now called Continuum, here. The game is a fast paced mixture of strategy and action played real time with other players. There are usually about 1000 or so people playing at any time.
It takes about a week to go from bad to good. It takes months or years to go from good to really good. My favorite arena is Extreme Games. I always fly the spider. (D*$#@ cloakers!)
...So, really, Subspace still rules... but considering the beta came out in 1997, still not sure about Classic
Is the LifeGem made from remains or ashes? The proprietary LifeGem creation process creates diamonds from the true essence of our loved ones, the carbon. Our families receive the ashes as all others do when choosing cremation, except our families also receive a certified, high-quality LifeGem created diamond to memorialize their loved one's unique and wonderful life.
...so... it would seem if these diamonds are manufactured from the "true essence" of our loved ones, the carbon, isn't it logical that they are made from any old carbon... (Crafy, aren't they?)...No need to think too much about CO2 or any other pesky details.
Someone needs to mod this guy up. He is absolutely 100% right! Heheh -- they are just making a killing (pardon the pun) from highly overpriced manufactured diamonds... not actually made FROM the loved ones at ALL!
At any rate, marketing people are a dime a dozen. Good IT people are not.
Spoken like a techie who doesn't understand that the entire reason for IT to exist is to SUPPORT THE MISSION OF THE ENTERPRISE.
Good people -- be they in marketing, software development or administrative support -- are always more difficult to find and a company will typically try to identify these people and retain them.
But to say that the creative skills and people-saavy know how that a marketing person has isn't valuable to an organization is rubbish.
At the risk of getting modded a troll, think of it this way: The janitorial staff keeps systems running. The groundskeepers who mow the lawn and shovel the sidewalks (I live in Minnesota, where that is essential for over half the year) keep systems running. The IT department keeps systems running...
But unless you are a strictly IT shop, it is the people involved in the PRODUCTION, SALES, and MARKETING of your product who generate the revenue to pay for the support staff. Without them, there are no systems, no toys to play with, no lusers to complain about.
This idea that people skills and creativity are somehow less valuable than the logical skills involved in picking up a book and learning an application/system is VERY IT-centric and I can assure you that the rest of the enterprise doesn't share that view... something to think about.
I hate to come off cold and unfeeling here -- gosh, I wouldn't want that -- but let's get real for a moment...
A whole industry exists to teach students how to get into medical school - to exploit its weaknesses. Medicine is a place where arrogance, confidence, and power dominates. The "caring doctor" is a myth.
Is this a BAD thing? Really? Given the importance of what doctors do, I personally would like to see the field attract the sharpest minds possible. People with confidence. Power. Intellect. If you are willing to accept for a moment that there is a distribution of talent/abilities out there; that certain people possess intelligence, drive, stamina in greater quanities than others...why is it so wrong to set up a system that seeks out, attracts and rewards these traits?
The "caring doctor" is a myth.
Frankly, I don't care all that much if my doctor is not selected on the basis of her caring behavior. Yes, it is nice. Yes, I feel good knowing that my sick mother is treated respectfully by her doctor. But ultimately, I want her to see a doctor who is COMPETENT.
BTW, without giving a full-blown personality inventory to each applicant its impossible to select for caring behaviour. Rather, schools select for the appearance of such behaviour...
Agreed and agreed. You and I both seem to agree that it would be next to impossible to screen for this. So what do you propose? And what problem are you trying to remedy here, anyway? While the "user experience" might be less pleasant for some patients who would prefer touchy feely doctors, MEDICINE as a whole benefits from having more competent people in the profession, people who tend to display this behavior. It could be aruged either way (you obviously for, me obviously opposed) whether testing for "caring behavior" would produce better doctors...What doesn't appear to be in question is that there is no real mechanism to do this. I for one won't waste my time worrying about it...
Actually, getting caught was just bad luck for him, not a mistake.
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The mistake was in doing something WRONG -- setting up a system ahead of time to cause DAMAGE to the property of someone else is WRONG. Once you stop working for that company, you have no right to do bad things to their systems. Actually, when you DO work there, you don't have a right to do bad things to their systems. You still don't have a RIGHT to the information that is on their systems. My GOD, the arrogance of programmers/system admins who feel that it is their network to do with as they please. Unless you are the one signing the check each week, that is...
Vandalism is vandalism. I get pissed when the punks down the street spraypaint a fence and mess up what is a beautiful neighborhood. I get pissed when someone with a big ego and a bigger sense of entitlement comes up with a way to vandalize the property of their former boss. It is sophomoric, unethical and just plain wrong.
I can see the case for security on a personal system. A laptop. A privately owned workstation. I am all for freeing information and sharing what we know. Knowledge is power. Open source is good. Preaching to the choir, there. But...
The direction that a subset of our community seems to take... this gleeful boating about destroying the private property of another... the idea that might makes right... well, let's just say it pisses me off and does a disservice to the community.
You also have to get special equipment to extend the monitor cable so that it shows up clear if you put the box in another room.
...uhhhh, maybe a little EXPENSIVE, but hardly special equipment. I got sick of my new boxes getting louder and louder and finally chose a simple solution. Extension cables for the monitor, audio, keyboard, mouse and USB. My box now sits 30-40ft away in another room, and my workstation is peaceful once more.
No flicker, no ghosting. Picked them up from Belkin .
Lighten up my ass, i'm sick of being a sysadmin. Honestly, I don't think i'm ever going back to anything IT realated anymore because it is not me that is the one with the holier than thou attitude, it's them.
You ever see the SNL sketches about "Your Company's Computer Support Guy"? If you haven't maybe you should. While watching it, see if you recognize anyone in the sketch...
I ain't a fucking burger flipper you got that? The last people in the company that should be that stupid are the one's in charge.
I am shocked, just SHOCKED, that you are currently out of work.
No matter how much you try and warn these people they just don't listen. They have the attention span of a gerbil and it shows. And everytime it would happen I would always get the same answer from them, "But I swear I didn't open that attatchment" To which I would reply, "The computer must have MAGICALLY sprouted hands and fingers and opened the attatchment itself, oh don't forget it also typed in your webmail username and password for you too"
(An open message to all bitter support people, angry at "end users")
(chuckles softly) Ever stop to consider that 99% of the "end users" (they are actually called people, or employees... you know the people we support who do the actual WORK that pays our salaries) out there don't really give a rip about your job frustrations any more than you care about the new IRS guidelines taxing the patience of Phil from accounting... Let's face it, most of what you tell them goes in one ear and out the other. NOT because they have the attention span of gerbils, but because YOU, and so many many like you, have a giant chip on your shoulder. You don't respect the people you work with, you don't appreciate the fact that you have a specialized skill that others don't share. So you talk down to your users, then you talk over their heads, then you talk about things that don't concern them or how they do their job. The signal to noise ratio is such that OF COURSE they won't really listen when you warn about viruses...
Lighten up a little, learn to see the bigger picture, learn to see your co-workers (once you get a job again) with compassion and not this holier than thou crap and I bet you might start to notice a change.
M.U.L.E. is the reason I my GPA dropped to ~2.0 in middle school!
...and apparently you never did catch up from slacking on some of that grammar homework. (lowers forehead into palm of hand and slowly shakes head) I my, indeed...
Maybe we are on to something here. Maybe the bad grammar/spelling endemic to Slashdot is a direct result of games like M.U.L.E... M.U.L.E., Tetris, Doom, Tony Hawk... I wonder how many people still struggling with typos have Mario and his many incarnations to thank...
Also, not directly related to the parent post but to the article poster: If you RTFA you'll see its not a port, its a new game. Big difference. Kind of like comparing a PBS documentary about the Titantic to the James Cameron movie. In both cases, I think I personally would prefer the original.
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Heheh... I live in the Twin Cities myself... Can't say that I am a fan of Soucheray, but I'll listen to him tomorrow just for you, Golias...
In the meantime, I'll do both. REPLY to messages AND continue to mod down comments that I think are full of shit.
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You can mod my comment down as a flame if you like, but I was serious.
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And we're not quite sure what normal temperature should be, anyway.
Part of the whole problem is the whole illusion that the weather is somehow (1) stable and (2) something we can (and should) adjust to suit our needs. Little arrogant, if you ask me...
it would be interesting to know whether there are any productive scientists who are religious fanatics.
I'm not really sure what your definition of fanatic is, but every few years, a poll is done to measure religious attitudes among scientists. The Washington Post had a story on it quite a while back...here are some highlights that should let you make up your own mind...
These contemporary researchers found that about four in 10 randomly selected scientists two years ago professed belief "in a personal God," almost exactly the same proportion as in 1916, Bishop reported.
One key result from the current study to a question that wasn't asked in 1916: More than half - 55 percent - endorsed the Darwinian view that "humans developed over millions of years from less advanced forms of life. God had no part in this process."
Bishop notes, however, that "a surprisingly large percentage (40 percent) subscribed to the 'theistic evolutionist' idea that 'humans developed over millions of years from less advanced forms of life, but God guided this process, including humankind's creation.'" Only 5 percent endorsed a creationist view that God created humans "pretty much in their present form at one time within the past 10,000 years."
(Emphasis added by me)
Original Washington Post Article
how about networking these things to a white board during a meeting or teleconference where everyone can draw on the same white board?
/. ...? Hell, you wouldn't even have to make it Open Source -- you could just make a really killer beta app and then have Microsoft buy it from you...
You know how everyone is always boo-hooing about how hard it is to find a job in this economy? Well -- something like this would be a KILLER APP -- the kind of thing that none of us knew we needed until it existed.
I bet if 10 slashdotters got together, they could come up with a beta in no time...Seriously. Someone is going to write something like this. A room full of people sitting in a meeting, tablet PCs on their arms, each networked to the other and running a whiteboard app right on the screen... Wow. Why shouldn't that someone be a group of coders here on
Just a thought...
grins to self and hopes a seed has been planted
As I read the NYTimes article, and saw that most tablets included keyboards, it became clear once again that Bill Gates isn't really predicting the worldwide takeover of tablet PCs
You're kidding, right? The very first thing I thought when I saw this was, "Wow, I'd like to get me one of these..." followed almost immediately by, "I sure hope I can get a keyboard for it!"
I would love to have one. The interface would make sense -- most of the time -- but there would be times that a mini portable keyboard (like my Stowaway for my Clie) would really come in handy. It is still a design innovation for 2002. But then with your knee-jerk "Bill Gates != innovation" reference, you are sure to appeal to the Slashdot crowd and get modded right up.
Maybe there will be some convergance between laptops and PCs and we'll get the best of both in 2007. In the meantime -- this really is an innovation, bigot, and I for one don't mind seeing the Microsoft juggernaut behind it.
Its funny, isn't it, how much people think this is an either/or equation. 1984 and Brave New World were not critiques of communism -- they were critiques of increasing surveillance and other intrusions into daily lives. Its not like the Communist countries were the only ones who moved towards increasing surveillance of their citizens -- its just the speed at which they did it and the overtness of the intrusiveness was more obvious. But we're all headed in the same direction. It was obvious in 1948 when Orwell wrote his book. It is all the more obvious today.
I would charge it to my credit card, get my email, then deny the charge. Very easily done...
Very easily done. There's also a name for that sort of thing. Its called credit card fraud, charging something that you have no intention of ever paying...
But above all what the poster and most others fail to do is to distinguish between what Catholics do and what the Church teaches.
/. are by and large intelligent. (Mod me +1 "insightful" for that statement.)
For instance, I have it on good authority that the first leader of the Roman Catholic Church, Simon Peter, actually denied that he was friends with Jesus just before J.C.'s execution.
Point being: Individual actions of people -- even famous people -- who belong to a group do not = the beliefs of the group.
Side note -- it is often said that Ghandi once said, "I would have been a Christian if it wasn't for all the Christians."
People who read
There certainly seems to be a lot of un-thought through anti-relgious (and anti-Christian) bigotry floating around among this crowd, though. (Mod me -1 "troll" for that statement)
I was in a large shared server facility that still used a Halon system, which when released, fills the area suffocating the fire (and any living creatures in the area as well).
Look -- geeks sue for the wrong kind of keyboard -- ergonomics = safety after all -- do you really think there is just this dangerous gas ready to be released where you work and you have exactly 20 seconds to escape before you die?
Taken from the first site that came up on Google...
"Three things must come together at the same time to start a fire. The first ingredient is fuel (anything that can burn), the second is oxygen (normal breathing air is ample) and the last is an ignition source (high heat can cause a fire even without a spark or open flame). Traditionally, to stop a fire you need to remove one side of the triangle - the ignition, the fuel or the oxygen. Halon adds a fourth dimension to fire fighting - breaking the chain reaction. It stops the fuel, the ignition and the oxygen from dancing together by chemically reacting with them. Many people believe that Halon displaces the air out of the area it is dispensed in. Wrong! Even for the toughest hazards, less than an 8% concentration by volume is required. There is still plenty of air to use in the evacuation process. (Emphasis added by me)
I'm not an expert, but urban myths bug me...
...beware of the guy reeking of oily rags and hiding a blowtorch behind his back offering to help put out the fire...
Keep in mind that while we build our stained glass castles, there will be barbarians around throwing bricks. That's the best they can do, those barbarians: bricks. Well, most of 'em anyway. All the smart ones are obviously on our side, inside the stained glass castle. Yeah, that's got to be true. We are perfectly safe inside.
... not because becoming a part of it is "selling out"; no, we help build it because no matter how smart you are, if you are throwing a stone, you aren't leading a revolution, you are just a barbarian. It'd be nice to see that message dusted off and given the airtime it deserves...
Seems like a lot of work goes into making sure our castles and highways can withstand attacks but not much effort is expended getting people to buy into the system
As it should, but I think (hope) that Google is more sophisticated than that. It will go up for queries like "google law suit", not for anything SearchKing cares about.
You are overthinking this. Frankly, I'd be surprised if Google really cared if you happen to visit SearchKing. Have you ever been there? Me too. Once. Just long enough to reaffirm my loyalty to Google - the only King of Searching in my book!
In a free market, having an aggressive strategy to remain at the top does not always mean crushing the competition. Sometimes, having a damn good product focusing on THAT and ignoring the gnats (like LawsuitKing) that come along is more than enough. No need having "sophisticated" tweaks made to their search algorithm.
Nothing to see here.
Just wanted to say that I, too, went for the hole in the wall method of making my PC quiet. A few Belkin cables shoved through the hole to extend the keyboard, mouse and monitor and -- volia -- even my $300 white box PC with the fan like a jet engine is silent (to me) when I use my computer.
Subspace was a classic beta online game that a lot of people played. Think asteroids meets quake. It kind of died out when it went commercial though.
...So, really, Subspace still rules... but considering the beta came out in 1997, still not sure about Classic
Uhhh... (quickly does a ?usage command)... I've logged several hundred hours in the last year playing Subspace. Its not owned by Virgin anymore. You can pick up a free copy of the client, now called Continuum, here. The game is a fast paced mixture of strategy and action played real time with other players. There are usually about 1000 or so people playing at any time.
It takes about a week to go from bad to good. It takes months or years to go from good to really good. My favorite arena is Extreme Games. I always fly the spider. (D*$#@ cloakers!)
It needs to be REPEATED...
...so... it would seem if these diamonds are manufactured from the "true essence" of our loved ones, the carbon, isn't it logical that they are made from any old carbon... (Crafy, aren't they?)...No need to think too much about CO2 or any other pesky details.
From their website FAQ:
Is the LifeGem made from remains or ashes? The proprietary LifeGem creation process creates diamonds from the true essence of our loved ones, the carbon. Our families receive the ashes as all others do when choosing cremation, except our families also receive a certified, high-quality LifeGem created diamond to memorialize their loved one's unique and wonderful life.
Always read the fine print. Heh.
Someone needs to mod this guy up. He is absolutely 100% right! Heheh -- they are just making a killing (pardon the pun) from highly overpriced manufactured diamonds... not actually made FROM the loved ones at ALL!
Let's see (wondering through Best Buy) ... 16x CD burner = $89, ... 40x CD burner = $250, ... DVD burner = $400 ...
...
First off, its "wandering" not "wondering"
Secondly -- I just picked up a 40x burner at Best Buy LAST WEEK for $89 - $20 rebate = $69.
Thirdly -- you can sit on the bleeding edge and pay 6-10 times as much for something that you know will either
(a) Drop significantly in price in the next 6 months -2 years.
(b) Become obsolete (and worthless) in the next 6 months - 2 years.
I, however, will enjoy my non-alpha release that is cheaper, more stable, and has support/drivers on the web site, thank you very much!
At any rate, marketing people are a dime a dozen. Good IT people are not.
Spoken like a techie who doesn't understand that the entire reason for IT to exist is to SUPPORT THE MISSION OF THE ENTERPRISE.
Good people -- be they in marketing, software development or administrative support -- are always more difficult to find and a company will typically try to identify these people and retain them.
But to say that the creative skills and people-saavy know how that a marketing person has isn't valuable to an organization is rubbish.
At the risk of getting modded a troll, think of it this way: The janitorial staff keeps systems running. The groundskeepers who mow the lawn and shovel the sidewalks (I live in Minnesota, where that is essential for over half the year) keep systems running. The IT department keeps systems running...
But unless you are a strictly IT shop, it is the people involved in the PRODUCTION, SALES, and MARKETING of your product who generate the revenue to pay for the support staff. Without them, there are no systems, no toys to play with, no lusers to complain about.
This idea that people skills and creativity are somehow less valuable than the logical skills involved in picking up a book and learning an application/system is VERY IT-centric and I can assure you that the rest of the enterprise doesn't share that view... something to think about.
I hate to come off cold and unfeeling here -- gosh, I wouldn't want that -- but let's get real for a moment...
A whole industry exists to teach students how
to get into medical school - to exploit its
weaknesses. Medicine is a place where arrogance,
confidence, and power dominates. The "caring
doctor" is a myth.
Is this a BAD thing? Really? Given the importance of what doctors do, I personally would like to see the field attract the sharpest minds possible. People with confidence. Power. Intellect. If you are willing to accept for a moment that there is a distribution of talent/abilities out there; that certain people possess intelligence, drive, stamina in greater quanities than others...why is it so wrong to set up a system that seeks out, attracts and rewards these traits?
The "caring doctor" is a myth.
Frankly, I don't care all that much if my doctor is not selected on the basis of her caring behavior. Yes, it is nice. Yes, I feel good knowing that my sick mother is treated respectfully by her doctor. But ultimately, I want her to see a doctor who is COMPETENT.
BTW, without giving a full-blown personality
inventory to each applicant its impossible to
select for caring behaviour. Rather, schools
select for the appearance of such behaviour...
Agreed and agreed. You and I both seem to agree that it would be next to impossible to screen for this. So what do you propose? And what problem are you trying to remedy here, anyway? While the "user experience" might be less pleasant for some patients who would prefer touchy feely doctors, MEDICINE as a whole benefits from having more competent people in the profession, people who tend to display this behavior. It could be aruged either way (you obviously for, me obviously opposed) whether testing for "caring behavior" would produce better doctors...What doesn't appear to be in question is that there is no real mechanism to do this. I for one won't waste my time worrying about it...
Actually, getting caught was just bad luck for him, not a mistake.
{rant}
The mistake was in doing something WRONG -- setting up a system ahead of time to cause DAMAGE to the property of someone else is WRONG. Once you stop working for that company, you have no right to do bad things to their systems. Actually, when you DO work there, you don't have a right to do bad things to their systems. You still don't have a RIGHT to the information that is on their systems. My GOD, the arrogance of programmers/system admins who feel that it is their network to do with as they please. Unless you are the one signing the check each week, that is...
Vandalism is vandalism. I get pissed when the punks down the street spraypaint a fence and mess up what is a beautiful neighborhood. I get pissed when someone with a big ego and a bigger sense of entitlement comes up with a way to vandalize the property of their former boss. It is sophomoric, unethical and just plain wrong.
I can see the case for security on a personal system. A laptop. A privately owned workstation. I am all for freeing information and sharing what we know. Knowledge is power. Open source is good. Preaching to the choir, there. But...
The direction that a subset of our community seems to take... this gleeful boating about destroying the private property of another... the idea that might makes right... well, let's just say it pisses me off and does a disservice to the community.
{/rant}
You also have to get special equipment to extend the monitor cable so that it shows up clear if you put the box in another room.
...uhhhh, maybe a little EXPENSIVE, but hardly special equipment. I got sick of my new boxes getting louder and louder and finally chose a simple solution. Extension cables for the monitor, audio, keyboard, mouse and USB. My box now sits 30-40ft away in another room, and my workstation is peaceful once more.
No flicker, no ghosting. Picked them up from Belkin .
Lighten up my ass, i'm sick of being a sysadmin. Honestly, I don't think i'm ever going back to anything IT realated anymore because it is not me that is the one with the holier than thou attitude, it's them.
You ever see the SNL sketches about "Your Company's Computer Support Guy"? If you haven't maybe you should. While watching it, see if you recognize anyone in the sketch...
I ain't a fucking burger flipper you got that? The last people in the company that should be that stupid are the one's in charge.
I am shocked, just SHOCKED, that you are currently out of work.
No matter how much you try and warn these people they just don't listen. They have the attention span of a gerbil and it shows. And everytime it would happen I would always get the same answer from them, "But I swear I didn't open that attatchment" To which I would reply, "The computer must have MAGICALLY sprouted hands and fingers and opened the attatchment itself, oh don't forget it also typed in your webmail username and password for you too"
(An open message to all bitter support people, angry at "end users")
(chuckles softly) Ever stop to consider that 99% of the "end users" (they are actually called people, or employees... you know the people we support who do the actual WORK that pays our salaries) out there don't really give a rip about your job frustrations any more than you care about the new IRS guidelines taxing the patience of Phil from accounting... Let's face it, most of what you tell them goes in one ear and out the other. NOT because they have the attention span of gerbils, but because YOU, and so many many like you, have a giant chip on your shoulder. You don't respect the people you work with, you don't appreciate the fact that you have a specialized skill that others don't share. So you talk down to your users, then you talk over their heads, then you talk about things that don't concern them or how they do their job. The signal to noise ratio is such that OF COURSE they won't really listen when you warn about viruses...
Lighten up a little, learn to see the bigger picture, learn to see your co-workers (once you get a job again) with compassion and not this holier than thou crap and I bet you might start to notice a change.
M.U.L.E. is the reason I my GPA dropped to ~2.0 in middle school!
... I wonder how many people still struggling with typos have Mario and his many incarnations to thank...
...and apparently you never did catch up from slacking on some of that grammar homework. (lowers forehead into palm of hand and slowly shakes head) I my, indeed...
Maybe we are on to something here. Maybe the bad grammar/spelling endemic to Slashdot is a direct result of games like M.U.L.E... M.U.L.E., Tetris, Doom, Tony Hawk
Also, not directly related to the parent post but to the article poster: If you RTFA you'll see its not a port, its a new game. Big difference. Kind of like comparing a PBS documentary about the Titantic to the James Cameron movie. In both cases, I think I personally would prefer the original.
Heheh... I live in the Twin Cities myself... Can't say that I am a fan of Soucheray, but I'll listen to him tomorrow just for you, Golias...
In the meantime, I'll do both. REPLY to messages AND continue to mod down comments that I think are full of shit.
You can mod my comment down as a flame if you like, but I was serious.