In addition to the Zinsser book, which I will secure in moments from my favorite online book store, I highly recommend "Simply Speaking: Will America Be the Death of English?" and "A Civil Tongue," both by Edwin Newman.
Both also sadly out of print, but I did find a link here.
Not for a minute did I think that anyone would think this was a perpetual motion machine.
However, the efficiencies involved are pretty compelling if you click through the Kantor site onto the research.
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There's not a way to make plastics without oil, but there's a way to make oil out of organic wastes which can, of course, be used to make more plastics.
Point of pedantry; They must not think they're all Mario Andretti since I've observed Mario driving around town, and he is respectful of all traffic laws. I'm sure that he recognizes that the race track with proper equipment and procedures is the only appropriate venue for the go-fast stuff.
don't like the light of day. This deserves a wide audience as well as the help that Chip himself needs.
The sad part about it is that the suits who use HMS would go "Open proxy? Isn't that something that we do when we vote our stock?" and go back to their financial reports.
What we need is a UDP for entities, rather than netblocks.
Re:And let me guess...... (Score:1) by aerique (206) Alter Relationship on Wednesday June 29, @11:52AM (#12941862) (http://www.aerique.net/) Well, just because Bush Jr. likes to be the corporations' bukake bitch doesn't mean Microsoft didn't (and doesn't) abuse its monopolistic powers.
I remember marvelling at the fact that each of the beams had a particular name - a QX9 ray would do something different than a ZZ4 ray, to use two made-up examples.
Damn, I have one 20-page paper to write and I'm done for the semester. I think after that it's time to pick up some of the Lensman books and get back into the Galactic Patrol again.
Meine Grammatik is nicht sehr gut and Google has about 6100 hits for "Gegen die Dummheit" versus 6800 for "Mit der Dummheit." So I'm going with the majority, and grammar be damned for now.:)
No, I don't know why it's being relaunched. My guess is that it's probably one of the answers that we are looking for in the age of search that didn't quite cut it. But isn't that what all these different meta-searches are talking about? The ability to get semantic meaning imbued into the web?
There is a chemical in the plant odor that causes hallucinations. Two of them bloomed at the same time, and it caused some of my neighbors to seek psychological counsel because of hearing whispers and seeing shadows.
The botanist reporting on the progress on Big Bucky did report that he was feeling a little "spaced out.":)
The biggest problem with Morse (and the failure of Morse teaching systems that don't recognize this) is that it's an aural language (sound and time) and you're representing it as a visual language (with. and -.)
You need to be saying the sound and not the picture of it.
It's not...---... but rather dididit dah dah dah dididit.
My good AC, you have not seen good scholastic wrestling if you insist on standing behind that comment. Wrestling is one of the purest jock sports there is. No pads. No team mates. Just you - and your opponent -- and the mat.
It was either that, or starve my kids and lose my house. On the whole, a good tradeoff.
Actually, I have a monthly meeting with my boss tomorrow, and I think I'm going to put this on the agenda.
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Musings I had this last Friday afternoon, stuck in Yet Another Traffic Jam:
I have 95-99% of what I need to be productive with my Thinkpad and my PKI token.
Yet I haul my ass out of bed every day, put on office togs and get in the car. I drive 60 miles (that's about 2.5 gallons of gasoline) and walk into a cubicle farm, sit down, and plug my laptop into a docking station.
60 miles away, in my home office (which has a door and a view, mind you) sits another docking station which can do exactly the same thing.
After 8 hours, I get up, pack up the laptop, and drive 60 miles back home.
As "Miami Vice" said, FOSS is not an answer to 'build or buy.'
There can still be perfectly valid reasons why a company would want to go with a commercial product to address a need -- or even (whispered) outsource that need.
FOSS is an enabler. It allows a company to answer the "build or buy" question and remove a large component of the upfront cost from the equation, at the expense of (perhaps) a slightly greater in-house support burden (if you have source code trees that need to be maintained, for example.)
But if you're manufacturing widgets, and you have this cool software that optimizes the manufacture of the widgets so your widgets are the best widgets out there, that's where your IT staff should be spending its time; not on forecasting, replenishment, payroll and G/L software.
If you're a business, make an inventory of the functions that you perform.
Now pull out a B-to-B phone book (or a Thomas Registry.) Betcha find at least one entity that does that service as their primary line of business for just about every function you perform.
Are you so sure of your competence that you think you can 'do it' better than those people who OTHER people are paying to do it?
There are two things that many/.ers here are missing when they knee-jerk "blablabla India blablabla $5 bux an hour bla no benefits."
Pretty soon companies that are flocking to the third world will run out of qualified IT workers there too. Then the salaries will start rising. How long before they reach equilibrium? I'll bet not very long.
Too, I haven't read TFA yet (running out the door to my non-outsourced IT job) but I will bet that it didn't make mention of the huge proportion of workers (and not just IT workers) that are getting close to retirement age. We could see a spike in demand the likes of which nobody has seen, and one that even a third-world supply of workers won't be able to fill; all to replace current positions, to say nothing of economic expansion. (Business 2.0 had a recent article about it called "The Coming Job Boom.")
I'm 45 and I work in IT. I'm not worried. In a few years it'll be raining soup. Grab a bucket.
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In addition to the Zinsser book, which I will secure in moments from my favorite online book store, I highly recommend "Simply Speaking: Will America Be the Death of English?" and "A Civil Tongue," both by Edwin Newman.
Both also sadly out of print, but I did find a link here.
Not for a minute did I think that anyone would think this was a perpetual motion machine.
However, the efficiencies involved are pretty compelling if you click through the Kantor site onto the research.
There's not a way to make plastics without oil, but there's a way to make oil out of organic wastes which can, of course, be used to make more plastics.
This was some pretty cool stuff.
yet ALL think they are Mario Andretti.
Point of pedantry; They must not think they're all Mario Andretti since I've observed Mario driving around town, and he is respectful of all traffic laws. I'm sure that he recognizes that the race track with proper equipment and procedures is the only appropriate venue for the go-fast stuff.
Slightly OT, but what is that word in Polish? That could be a useful addition to my vocabulary.
I slightly know Slavonic pronounciation but a crib would also be helpful.
Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgaben- übertragungsgesetz
r ing-law." Of course.
Ah, the "Beef-meat-labelling-inspection-assignment-monito
don't like the light of day. This deserves a wide audience as well as the help that Chip himself needs.
The sad part about it is that the suits who use HMS would go "Open proxy? Isn't that something that we do when we vote our stock?" and go back to their financial reports.
What we need is a UDP for entities, rather than netblocks.
I remember marvelling at the fact that each of the beams had a particular name - a QX9 ray would do something different than a ZZ4 ray, to use two made-up examples.
Damn, I have one 20-page paper to write and I'm done for the semester. I think after that it's time to pick up some of the Lensman books and get back into the Galactic Patrol again.
Thanks for the link, BTW.
Meine Grammatik is nicht sehr gut and Google has about 6100 hits for "Gegen die Dummheit" versus 6800 for "Mit der Dummheit." So I'm going with the majority, and grammar be damned for now. :)
...like the Semantic Web?
No, I don't know why it's being relaunched. My guess is that it's probably one of the answers that we are looking for in the age of search that didn't quite cut it. But isn't that what all these different meta-searches are talking about? The ability to get semantic meaning imbued into the web?
Ah, but the word "loose" was spelled correctly. Used incorrectly, mind you but the spelling was impeccable.
There is a chemical in the plant odor that causes hallucinations. Two of them bloomed at the same time, and it caused some of my neighbors to seek psychological counsel because of hearing whispers and seeing shadows.
:)
The botanist reporting on the progress on Big Bucky did report that he was feeling a little "spaced out."
He began with QC QC QC etc.
I think you mean "CQ."
The biggest problem with Morse (and the failure of Morse teaching systems that don't recognize this) is that it's an aural language (sound and time) and you're representing it as a visual language (with . and -.)
...---... but rather dididit dah dah dah dididit.
You need to be saying the sound and not the picture of it.
It's not
Wrestling doesn't count?
My good AC, you have not seen good scholastic wrestling if you insist on standing behind that comment. Wrestling is one of the purest jock sports there is. No pads. No team mates. Just you - and your opponent -- and the mat.
It was either that, or starve my kids and lose my house. On the whole, a good tradeoff.
Actually, I have a monthly meeting with my boss tomorrow, and I think I'm going to put this on the agenda.
Musings I had this last Friday afternoon, stuck in Yet Another Traffic Jam:
I have 95-99% of what I need to be productive with my Thinkpad and my PKI token.
Yet I haul my ass out of bed every day, put on office togs and get in the car. I drive 60 miles (that's about 2.5 gallons of gasoline) and walk into a cubicle farm, sit down, and plug my laptop into a docking station.
60 miles away, in my home office (which has a door and a view, mind you) sits another docking station which can do exactly the same thing.
After 8 hours, I get up, pack up the laptop, and drive 60 miles back home.
Now THAT's insanity.
Isn't that an oxymoron?
As "Miami Vice" said, FOSS is not an answer to 'build or buy.'
There can still be perfectly valid reasons why a company would want to go with a commercial product to address a need -- or even (whispered) outsource that need.
FOSS is an enabler. It allows a company to answer the "build or buy" question and remove a large component of the upfront cost from the equation, at the expense of (perhaps) a slightly greater in-house support burden (if you have source code trees that need to be maintained, for example.)
But if you're manufacturing widgets, and you have this cool software that optimizes the manufacture of the widgets so your widgets are the best widgets out there, that's where your IT staff should be spending its time; not on forecasting, replenishment, payroll and G/L software.
If you're a business, make an inventory of the functions that you perform.
Now pull out a B-to-B phone book (or a Thomas Registry.) Betcha find at least one entity that does that service as their primary line of business for just about every function you perform.
Are you so sure of your competence that you think you can 'do it' better than those people who OTHER people are paying to do it?
...not only what the Semantic Web is about, but more pragmatically why this is in "Hardware." :)
Well, as far as karma goes, you're currently evenly split between 'insightful' and 'troll.' :)
I have gone off metamodding for a while, 'cause I was becoming a metamod addict.
Is there a +1 'Cojones' modifier?
And of those 4 bn people, how many are qualified, motivated or desirous of doing this kind of work?
Y'see, there's a reason I said "run out of qualified IT workers" rather than "run out of people."
There are two things that many /.ers here are missing when they knee-jerk "blablabla India blablabla $5 bux an hour bla no benefits."
Pretty soon companies that are flocking to the third world will run out of qualified IT workers there too. Then the salaries will start rising. How long before they reach equilibrium? I'll bet not very long.
Too, I haven't read TFA yet (running out the door to my non-outsourced IT job) but I will bet that it didn't make mention of the huge proportion of workers (and not just IT workers) that are getting close to retirement age. We could see a spike in demand the likes of which nobody has seen, and one that even a third-world supply of workers won't be able to fill; all to replace current positions, to say nothing of economic expansion. (Business 2.0 had a recent article about it called "The Coming Job Boom.")
I'm 45 and I work in IT. I'm not worried. In a few years it'll be raining soup. Grab a bucket.