I think state media is fine if it exists in competition with private media. But the supposed separation between the journalists and the people writing checks is at best a wire mesh door. It might stop overt manipulation but you're not going to get a state media that is highly critical of it's primary backers in government.
You might get the state media to attack one party in political systems that have more then one party. But they'll be consistently loyal to a given political faction. That is their camp in the government and separated from that alliance they wouldn't be able to attack either party.
It's amusing hearing countries like China, Russia, or Saudi Arabia being cited as examples of successful state media. These are all countries with spotty histories of tolerating political decent in media. In all three countries journalists have been jailed or killed at intervals for rocking the boat.
So sure, state media is working in those countries but in large part that's because it isn't totally safe to be a journalist in those countries. Russia has gotten a lot better and china is getting better. But there are always lingering allegations of secret police shutting up journalists. Not long ago an outspoken critic of Putin was killed in a mugging. And the notion that it was actually an assassination of a political critic was a popular conspiracy theory. No one besides the muggers really knows what happened. And both China and Saudi Arabia still openly jail journalists that piss off the wrong people in government.
I have no problem with state media. But if it's your primary source for news then you're ultimately having your impression of the world formed by at least one powerful faction in the government if not the ruling faction. Private media is also biased. But it tends to be the bias of the owners which can be a much smaller faction in the society. Further, where private media exists there tends to be a lot of it. And while one source can be biased most of the bias is canceled out if you consume a lot of different media.
The US is not an equal system. It could be but most of the problem is that the parents don't care in many communities. Parents that don't care have children that don't care. And when the parents and students don't care the teachers don't care.
This is the problem with the inner city schools. The parents don't care. If they weren't required to deliver their kids to class every day they'd just be sitting at home watching tv.
Outside of that realm which is hopeless, US education is actually pretty good. Even our public schools are pretty good in any situation where parents give a damn and that is allowed to matter.
Student busing is a problem. Mostly because it pushes kids from communities where no one cares to communities where people do. It tends to create unequal environments. I saw one public school where all the local kids went to honors classes. ALL OF THEM. The non-honors classes were considered to be for stupid people for bused kids. And the local kids all did honors or AP. Without exception. The local kids didn't much talk to the bused kids because they didn't leave near each other and didn't share classes. A few bused kids took honors classes but it was less then five percent.
Anyway, communities where people care there are community programs that people participate in and teach them how to be adults. There are sports programs that teach team work and the value of hard work. There are camping groups that teach kids some basic skills as well as respect for nature. There are various hobbyist groups with their own emphasis and often secondary benefits.
The US is complicated. It's a mistake to take our national numbers and lump them together into one number. That would be like lumping all the education stats of the EU together and expecting that to make sense. It's just too complicated. You have to break it down so you can see where the system works and where it doesn't.
Perhaps a better phrase would be "hollowed out"... the insides sucked out leaving a shell.
Everything that was special about blizzard will soon be little more then a memory if they don't change course and quickly. D3 is a continuation of the WoW path. Blizzard might have made most of their money from WoW but WoW isn't why customers trusted them enough to sign on to WoW.
They built that on the back of their RTS and hack and slash franchise history. They pulled that community. It will only accept so many betrayals. And once it's gone well, it has to be reearned. And most companies never earn that sort of trust. Ever. So the ability to reearn that sort of thing once lost is minimal.
Hmmm... Blizzard is one of those companies that could pinch a turd off in the toilet and sell millions of copies of it so long as it has their logo on it.
That fan loyalty however was hard won by delivering good games.
Blizzard might have made money but they lost respect and lost credibility. Their ability to do that again is reduced. Think of when Disney started opening disney stores all over and completely devalued their animation department?
The company died a little. And even now they haven't recovered from what Michael Eisner did to them.
What is happening to Blizzard is comparable. They're being sold out.
A major problem with these sorts of courses is that they're often not taught in a way that emphasizes their utility to the student. If you're thinking about being a psychologist for example why is calculus important? I'm not saying it isn't. I can think of several different ways it could be very important especially as it regards understanding statistics.
But you might want to create some test questions that relate to their majors.
In business calculus they focus on it's relationship to various economic calculations. So you might want to look at drug trial statistics or anthropological/demographic statistics.
And for the love of God... please tell them that correlation is not causation. You'd be doing everyone a huge favor. These guys are going going write stupid papers or write blogs or something similar that will pop up in the media. And everyone here at slashdot will be facepalming over another dumb paper that didn't acknowledge that simple fact.
The MBAs are very useful for administration but that doesn't mean they need to be in charge. Subordinate them to secretarial functions and give actual department control to people that actually know what is going on.
MS's problems are really kind of bizarre. It's not for lack of talent or trying they just keep screwing up. It has to be management. You don't get such systematic across the board f' ups unless management is behind it.
If making the feature optional isn't enough for you.. what would it take to get you to be content? For me, an optional system is fair. I don't see how that hurts anyone. Will linux support not be as good as windows support? It never is... But that has nothing to do with this situation.
Twice shy... The older users are just the younger users that have gone through some bad times.
You have experience failing... failing hardcore. Everything going wrong. You know things like "why to back up" because there was that time you didn't and it was a fairly traumatic experience.
That's all is...
What might be helpful is communicating to younger would be IT professionals what is really a real problem that they have to really take really seriously... really. Different organizations have different ways of communicating that sort of thing.
The army does it by hurting you. They put you in situations where if you do the wrong thing something hits you or you puke tear gas or you get hit with sticks... or you just get told repeatedly to run laps. They hurt you until you learn. Doctors have residency programs where they keep the training wheels on to say nothing of the dissections of cadavers.
There probably should be some sort of hazing ritual in IT. Something just to emphasis best practices. Maybe give them a harddrive that is failing on purpose just so they can lose everything. Maybe give them disks with auto executing malware. Whatever.
This is what happens when you have ONE legislative body or even two that are elected the same way.
Ideally you want at LEAST two that are elected in a different enough way that there would be a culture difference between the two houses. The only legislation that gets passed is what can be agreed upon by BOTH bodies.
I think I was pretty clear about this being a feature you could disable. Wasn't I clear about that? I think I was...
So how exactly would that harm your system if it were something anyone could turn off with a simple trip to the bios?
And here's a little something extra... IF it is something you can disable then implementation will be spotty and that means it might merely be a passing fad. We've seen a lot of little ideas about changing the bios one way or the other. And it rarely catches on.
The way to argue against things you don't like is to smile and poison them. Smile, shake their hand, let them and watch them die.
Confronting things directly is the course of last resort. It's what you do when everything else has failed.
That said, I believe the first wave of worms were spread around locally... That is, someone physically connected to machines inside their operations and intentionally spread the infection. There are more then a few Iranians that don't want the Ayatollah to have a bomb.
I have no problem with security features being put in the bios. But if they could potentially make given OS's incompatible then it has to be something you can turn off.
And if you can turn it off then everyone gets what they want.
MS gets a little security on their malware plagued OS. And everyone else can just shut it off.
... why do we even bother? You know what... everyone get a nuke, everyone weaponize your virus of choice... why bother trying to preserve any semblance of world peace. Lets just nuke each other and get it over with...
Fire up the virology labs... lets make doomsday bugs. Sure billions might die but it's in the cause of science... and of course, lets tell every tin pot psychotic dictatorship how to make it.
If someone needs to lift finger prints from a subject it has traditionally meant that someone needs to get him to touch something. With this, a guy can walk behind you, take a few pictures without ever touching you, and have your finger prints printed out in rubber.
Rather then giving us a better way to use finger prints... this means we have to go to retina scans.
Slashdot Mirror
What could possibly go wrong. /s
I think state media is fine if it exists in competition with private media. But the supposed separation between the journalists and the people writing checks is at best a wire mesh door. It might stop overt manipulation but you're not going to get a state media that is highly critical of it's primary backers in government.
You might get the state media to attack one party in political systems that have more then one party. But they'll be consistently loyal to a given political faction. That is their camp in the government and separated from that alliance they wouldn't be able to attack either party.
It's amusing hearing countries like China, Russia, or Saudi Arabia being cited as examples of successful state media. These are all countries with spotty histories of tolerating political decent in media. In all three countries journalists have been jailed or killed at intervals for rocking the boat.
So sure, state media is working in those countries but in large part that's because it isn't totally safe to be a journalist in those countries. Russia has gotten a lot better and china is getting better. But there are always lingering allegations of secret police shutting up journalists. Not long ago an outspoken critic of Putin was killed in a mugging. And the notion that it was actually an assassination of a political critic was a popular conspiracy theory. No one besides the muggers really knows what happened. And both China and Saudi Arabia still openly jail journalists that piss off the wrong people in government.
I have no problem with state media. But if it's your primary source for news then you're ultimately having your impression of the world formed by at least one powerful faction in the government if not the ruling faction. Private media is also biased. But it tends to be the bias of the owners which can be a much smaller faction in the society. Further, where private media exists there tends to be a lot of it. And while one source can be biased most of the bias is canceled out if you consume a lot of different media.
And yet how many psych studies don't take this into consideration?
Tell them again. It didn't sink in the first time.
The US is not an equal system. It could be but most of the problem is that the parents don't care in many communities. Parents that don't care have children that don't care. And when the parents and students don't care the teachers don't care.
This is the problem with the inner city schools. The parents don't care. If they weren't required to deliver their kids to class every day they'd just be sitting at home watching tv.
Outside of that realm which is hopeless, US education is actually pretty good. Even our public schools are pretty good in any situation where parents give a damn and that is allowed to matter.
Student busing is a problem. Mostly because it pushes kids from communities where no one cares to communities where people do. It tends to create unequal environments. I saw one public school where all the local kids went to honors classes. ALL OF THEM. The non-honors classes were considered to be for stupid people for bused kids. And the local kids all did honors or AP. Without exception. The local kids didn't much talk to the bused kids because they didn't leave near each other and didn't share classes. A few bused kids took honors classes but it was less then five percent.
Anyway, communities where people care there are community programs that people participate in and teach them how to be adults. There are sports programs that teach team work and the value of hard work. There are camping groups that teach kids some basic skills as well as respect for nature. There are various hobbyist groups with their own emphasis and often secondary benefits.
The US is complicated. It's a mistake to take our national numbers and lump them together into one number. That would be like lumping all the education stats of the EU together and expecting that to make sense. It's just too complicated. You have to break it down so you can see where the system works and where it doesn't.
Mathematics should always be taught in context unless it's a math major.
Something to ground the material.
Perhaps a better phrase would be "hollowed out"... the insides sucked out leaving a shell.
Everything that was special about blizzard will soon be little more then a memory if they don't change course and quickly. D3 is a continuation of the WoW path. Blizzard might have made most of their money from WoW but WoW isn't why customers trusted them enough to sign on to WoW.
They built that on the back of their RTS and hack and slash franchise history. They pulled that community. It will only accept so many betrayals. And once it's gone well, it has to be reearned. And most companies never earn that sort of trust. Ever. So the ability to reearn that sort of thing once lost is minimal.
Hmmm... Blizzard is one of those companies that could pinch a turd off in the toilet and sell millions of copies of it so long as it has their logo on it.
That fan loyalty however was hard won by delivering good games.
Blizzard might have made money but they lost respect and lost credibility. Their ability to do that again is reduced. Think of when Disney started opening disney stores all over and completely devalued their animation department?
The company died a little. And even now they haven't recovered from what Michael Eisner did to them.
What is happening to Blizzard is comparable. They're being sold out.
A major problem with these sorts of courses is that they're often not taught in a way that emphasizes their utility to the student. If you're thinking about being a psychologist for example why is calculus important? I'm not saying it isn't. I can think of several different ways it could be very important especially as it regards understanding statistics.
But you might want to create some test questions that relate to their majors.
In business calculus they focus on it's relationship to various economic calculations. So you might want to look at drug trial statistics or anthropological/demographic statistics.
And for the love of God... please tell them that correlation is not causation. You'd be doing everyone a huge favor. These guys are going going write stupid papers or write blogs or something similar that will pop up in the media. And everyone here at slashdot will be facepalming over another dumb paper that didn't acknowledge that simple fact.
Just saying.
I think I was reading another discussion about how apple store employees are paid poorly and they should unionize so they get better treatment.
I was in the group that said "they're just clerks"... and that made me a bad person for some reason. And now we get this... thus validating the point.
They're just clerks.
I largely agree.
The MBAs are very useful for administration but that doesn't mean they need to be in charge. Subordinate them to secretarial functions and give actual department control to people that actually know what is going on.
Fine... if everyone wants to go digging up Turning have fun... Enjoy your weekend with the corpse.
... Hyperbole is not an argument.
MS's problems are really kind of bizarre. It's not for lack of talent or trying they just keep screwing up. It has to be management. You don't get such systematic across the board f' ups unless management is behind it.
You might as well do a criminal investigation on Julius Caesar.
Then we agree. Having concerns is fine... so long as they don't turn into ultimatums.
So what would you do to avoid the problem?
If making the feature optional isn't enough for you.. what would it take to get you to be content? For me, an optional system is fair. I don't see how that hurts anyone. Will linux support not be as good as windows support? It never is... But that has nothing to do with this situation.
you seem to be prejudging the situation... which implies a fixed and powerful bias which I interpreted as having a powerful emotional context.
Why don't you save your rage for when that happens rather then accusing people of a conspiracy that they might not be guilty of at all.
Give people the benefit of the doubt here.
Twice shy... The older users are just the younger users that have gone through some bad times.
You have experience failing... failing hardcore. Everything going wrong. You know things like "why to back up" because there was that time you didn't and it was a fairly traumatic experience.
That's all is...
What might be helpful is communicating to younger would be IT professionals what is really a real problem that they have to really take really seriously... really. Different organizations have different ways of communicating that sort of thing.
The army does it by hurting you. They put you in situations where if you do the wrong thing something hits you or you puke tear gas or you get hit with sticks... or you just get told repeatedly to run laps. They hurt you until you learn. Doctors have residency programs where they keep the training wheels on to say nothing of the dissections of cadavers.
There probably should be some sort of hazing ritual in IT. Something just to emphasis best practices. Maybe give them a harddrive that is failing on purpose just so they can lose everything. Maybe give them disks with auto executing malware. Whatever.
Just something to engender some healthy paranoia.
This is what happens when you have ONE legislative body or even two that are elected the same way.
Ideally you want at LEAST two that are elected in a different enough way that there would be a culture difference between the two houses. The only legislation that gets passed is what can be agreed upon by BOTH bodies.
Checks and balances.
I think I was pretty clear about this being a feature you could disable. Wasn't I clear about that? I think I was...
So how exactly would that harm your system if it were something anyone could turn off with a simple trip to the bios?
And here's a little something extra... IF it is something you can disable then implementation will be spotty and that means it might merely be a passing fad. We've seen a lot of little ideas about changing the bios one way or the other. And it rarely catches on.
The way to argue against things you don't like is to smile and poison them. Smile, shake their hand, let them and watch them die.
Confronting things directly is the course of last resort. It's what you do when everything else has failed.
I don't even grasp why you'd do that.
That said, I believe the first wave of worms were spread around locally... That is, someone physically connected to machines inside their operations and intentionally spread the infection. There are more then a few Iranians that don't want the Ayatollah to have a bomb.
I have no problem with security features being put in the bios. But if they could potentially make given OS's incompatible then it has to be something you can turn off.
And if you can turn it off then everyone gets what they want.
MS gets a little security on their malware plagued OS. And everyone else can just shut it off.
... why do we even bother? You know what... everyone get a nuke, everyone weaponize your virus of choice... why bother trying to preserve any semblance of world peace. Lets just nuke each other and get it over with...
Fire up the virology labs... lets make doomsday bugs. Sure billions might die but it's in the cause of science... and of course, lets tell every tin pot psychotic dictatorship how to make it.
If someone needs to lift finger prints from a subject it has traditionally meant that someone needs to get him to touch something. With this, a guy can walk behind you, take a few pictures without ever touching you, and have your finger prints printed out in rubber.
Rather then giving us a better way to use finger prints... this means we have to go to retina scans.
There has to be a better way.
If you found the above post to be incoherent then you are literally illiterate.
So it's that or you're lying.
Flip a coin... you're either a moron or a jackass.
*yawn*