Have the employees work in groups of 2-3 or so. Perhaps at most 4 or so. 5 is right out!;-)
Seriously, I think that works best. You gain the benefits of being able to directly communicate with each other if you need to (obviously only people in the same departments should be grouped up), while having the relative silence at least compared to an open office landscape. I can't believe managers still trust in either of the extremes. What's the benefit of isolating your workers to not be able to easily exchange ideas when they need to? And what's the point with building among the most noisy and distracting environments possible?
It's actually their responsibility to know better as a proper work environment can heavily influence the company efficiency.
There's a national blacklist here as well, and I've inadvertely ended up on it and got some harsh message from a police website about pedophilia or whatever it was.:-S
Which brings me to my point -- I hope they never log whoever are ending up on these blacklisted sites to somehow use the information, because with spam messages, scam sites, and the general reality of the web, one can easily end up on blocked sites without even intending to. In my case, it was about some misleading link on a regular legit webpage, or maybe the domain had expired and been bought up by some shady business.:-p
Personally I'd rather be without these blocks, and can't say the world have become a better place with them. It seems to in no way shatter e.g. pedophile groups with the continued problem. Someone who're really looking for this can also just head over to Freenet for example. I think the downsides of risking false positives aren't really worth it.
GoogleOS isn't vaporware as it hasn't been announced for a public release by Google. There was some news about Google using a custom *nix based OS internally, and it has indeed been deployed.
That it's not even vaporware also says a bit why I think these articles are a bit useless.
I'm sure there archival product will work great, but it's just that after two years, it will have been rendered incompatible with the archived data format..
Well, Scott Adams writes comedy, parodies, often with reflections on society, and he suggested Bill Gates for leader. I looked at it as comedy pretty much by default.;) But sure, as with other things he writes on his blog, I'm sure there can be more than a grain of seriousness in it too. Just thinking that one can't write the whole thing off as a deep analysis by him.
Well, nature is among the most complex systems we're aware of, so it's always extremely hard to claim an idea and easily see if it'd work. The obvious question this idea raises to me is for example: how would the reduced solar energy affect wildlife, and what chain effects would that have to nature, both as for animals and plants?
Indeed, but I bet that's only because the morons that don't know how to drive are already dead...
And not too many new bad drivers are born? I don't quite follow this reasoning.:-) As long as people are getting at all killed, you'll have causalities in traffic, and people immigrate and get born all the time.
[xterm] The problem with America is stupidity. I'm not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?
Reality check: I don't hear large crowds of desktop users ask for proper symlink support. In that case, proper Windows software (including game) compatibility is more important.
I think you're statistics is completely wrong. That 80% would probably rather be "by people who buy a new computer". Also you need to define "just works" -- you seem to mean feature set perfection, competing operating systems don't have that either, either in features or lack of bugs.
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Have the employees work in groups of 2-3 or so. Perhaps at most 4 or so. 5 is right out! ;-)
Seriously, I think that works best. You gain the benefits of being able to directly communicate with each other if you need to (obviously only people in the same departments should be grouped up), while having the relative silence at least compared to an open office landscape. I can't believe managers still trust in either of the extremes. What's the benefit of isolating your workers to not be able to easily exchange ideas when they need to? And what's the point with building among the most noisy and distracting environments possible?
It's actually their responsibility to know better as a proper work environment can heavily influence the company efficiency.
Oh, and here's a link just to give some substance to what I'm saying. :-)0 051125
http://www.thelocal.se/article.php?ID=2571&date=2
There's a national blacklist here as well, and I've inadvertely ended up on it and got some harsh message from a police website about pedophilia or whatever it was. :-S
:-p
Which brings me to my point -- I hope they never log whoever are ending up on these blacklisted sites to somehow use the information, because with spam messages, scam sites, and the general reality of the web, one can easily end up on blocked sites without even intending to. In my case, it was about some misleading link on a regular legit webpage, or maybe the domain had expired and been bought up by some shady business.
Personally I'd rather be without these blocks, and can't say the world have become a better place with them. It seems to in no way shatter e.g. pedophile groups with the continued problem. Someone who're really looking for this can also just head over to Freenet for example. I think the downsides of risking false positives aren't really worth it.
OK, you just used Peter Jackson, hobbits, shooting, and banging in the same post. :-(
Example of a 10% different human.
Of climate change, or of the greenhouse effect?
There's a difference here, and it lies in what's causing the estimating climate changes.
Is that more due to rising H20 levels or rising CO2 levels?
Totally agreed.
I'll say -- fuck that list and just read something like this.
Google hasn't even said they're making one.
Jeez.
It's stupidities like these articles that makes people think there's actually some work being done on something here.
Google is not making a GoogleOS, at least not for public use, or in that case, it hasn't been announced.
They have not even hinted on it. They have however debunked they're making one when asked.
GoogleOS isn't vaporware as it hasn't been announced for a public release by Google.
There was some news about Google using a custom *nix based OS internally, and it has indeed been deployed.
That it's not even vaporware also says a bit why I think these articles are a bit useless.
But these non-believers are per definition sinners and not innocents, so that's alright!
I love the religious logic.
If you get to choose them all, not really, but unfortunately you don't, and they're in these cases often random.
People actually let their browsers remember their passwords? I have never trusted my browser that much.
:-p
If it's a browser feature, it's bound to be used.
If I'd be serious for a moment here, yes, actually that sounds sensible to me as for large random spherical objects drifting around in space. Why not?
"on fire" = "really hot and shiny" -- see also "Natalie Portman wearing bling-bling".
I'm sure there archival product will work great, but it's just that after two years, it will have been rendered incompatible with the archived data format..
Jar-Jar is free to shine, but only if what's shining on him is boiling oil.
Well, Scott Adams writes comedy, parodies, often with reflections on society, and he suggested Bill Gates for leader. I looked at it as comedy pretty much by default. ;) But sure, as with other things he writes on his blog, I'm sure there can be more than a grain of seriousness in it too. Just thinking that one can't write the whole thing off as a deep analysis by him.
And I fail to see your sense of humor.
I see very little "fan boying" (that's one horrible verb) over these news actually, as is to be expected from the critical minded geeks on Slashdot. ;)
Well, nature is among the most complex systems we're aware of, so it's always extremely hard to claim an idea and easily see if it'd work. The obvious question this idea raises to me is for example: how would the reduced solar energy affect wildlife, and what chain effects would that have to nature, both as for animals and plants?
And not too many new bad drivers are born? I don't quite follow this reasoning.
As long as people are getting at all killed, you'll have causalities in traffic, and people immigrate and get born all the time.
Reality check: I don't hear large crowds of desktop users ask for proper symlink support.
In that case, proper Windows software (including game) compatibility is more important.
IT SHOWS GOOD SPIRIT THAT THEY TRIED
:-)
Sorry, but that use to be the kind of patting on the back you give to children who come last in a competition.
I think you're statistics is completely wrong. That 80% would probably rather be "by people who buy a new computer".
Also you need to define "just works" -- you seem to mean feature set perfection, competing operating systems don't have that either, either in features or lack of bugs.