It's really amazing for someone (esp. at O'Reilly) to make a statement that devices that emit EM radiation by both design and intended function are "bad apples". It's like saying your TV is behaving badly by having its screen be altered by nearby television signals.
Actually, the culprit is more likely the poor shielding in your clock radio or PBX phone or cheap PC speakers (which are not intended to care about open-air RF*) than it is your wireless phone (which specifically is).
Look, a business's job in a capitalist system is to make money. When ethics, rules, laws, etc. get in the way of making money, either weigh the risk and ignore them, or (if you have the means) try to change them. The goal is not to follow rules. The goal is to maximize ROI.
So there's two problems with the empty, unhelpful "go get a new job" argument. One is that there is no reason at all to expect that your new job will be any less likely to ignore/break ethics/rules/etc... particularly as some industries find it hard to maintain income through normal means these days. (See previous paragraph.) And the second problem is that, in regards to "these days", finding another job -- particularly a stable job -- is going to become more difficult. If you have a stable job, it's smart to keep it.
In other words, if you're ready to be a hermit, go for it.
If politics were a mere matter of numbers on a level playing field, this whole exercise would have value. But it doesn't.
Case in point: 2004.
"While it is true that had Kerry won Ohio, he would have won the election, he would have needed 59,301 voters to switch their vote from Bush to win the state. That number is more than the 57,787 votes (in New Mexico, Iowa, and Colorado) needed to affect the election that's listed here. "
You might deduce then that the smart move would have been to go after voters in those three states instead of going after voters in Ohio because it would have meant less voters to turn. The problem is that Ohio has 1.5 million more people than those three states combined, meaning a larger pool to get switchers out of, and has 1/6th the land area, making it a lot easier to campaign in.
Kids should be getting more frequent updates on what their average grade is. There's no reason a student should suddenly find themselves at the end of the first marking period with a big "oh shit" mark of 20%. They should have known exactly how bad they were doing well before that, and not only that, but been pushed towards extra help.
This is all assuming the student even cares if they pass.
When my job was sent to India, we got two 1-hour group sessions with a job coach, who had absolutely no experience in our field or what we were experiencing, and who admitted up front that he usually does sessions a minimum of 8 hours long.
I will say that his resume style ideas seem to have been good advice, if nothing else.
But I think I'd have rather had a book like this, were that it had existed.
I admit, that was my motivation for submitting. I'm a long-time subscriber. And somewhere I have a TiT book. Right after upgrading (I'd let my premium lapse years ago), I submitted the story.
The question is, is there anyone at Yahoo! these days reading within 2-3 blogs' copypasta range of Slashdot?
Yeah, it sucks that Yahoo! yahoos are using the Spam button as an unsubscribe method, perhaps not aware the damage it does to the list en masse for other Yahoo! users, and in this case, for the viability of the list itself.
That shouldn't result in this sort of outcome though. The point of the story here is not just that Yahoo has stopped delivering, but that This Is True is going to suffer as it loses ad impressions as a secondary result.
No sane person could consider TiT spam. It has one real ad, in the middle of the email; it comes at most once a week; and it is only opt-in.
Ads aren't TiT's only revenue source, though -- readers can get an expanded, more frequent, and ad-free version of the list by getting a paid subscription.
The demise of Usenet was a long time ago, and coincided with the introduction of the web-based forum.
And this is the single most damaging thing to the availability of information to happen to the Internet, at least until the Wiki came along (which hasn't necessarily solved the problem in question). When there was Usenet, there was one (okay, maybe two) places to find an answer to a question on a given topic of expertise. Now, with the move to isolated independent web-based forums, of which there may be at least a dozen or more possible places to find information (not to mention a multitude of competing general question sites like Yahoo Answers et al), the odds of finding an answer on the Internet to a question have gone down, because the probability that the person with the answer to your question visits or has visited the web fora you visit has gone down.
In short: Used to be everyone would use one or two Usenet groups both to ask and answer questions, now everyone uses any given number of the much larger set of web fora on the same topic. It actually has become less likely to find a good answer to a question these days.
(And at least on Usenet even if no one could answer your question, you'd be certain to get lots of entertaining snark from regulars.)
...In that the five cities in the nation that are available include one on the west coast and one on the east coast. So much for "my" cable zone. I'm all for fighting the recent FISA law but not for using fly-by-night hype-feeding dotcoms to fight it.
You know what helps cut down on this Laptop Drive of Shame? Letting your employees stay the fuck home instead of having to come into your cramped noisy cubicle farm, particularly if your office is on the outskirts of human civilization.
Not only does this reduce the Laptop Drive of Shame problem, it also saves more gas.
Now, raise your hand if your company gives you a laptop. Hi, you guys are most likely middle managers, so blow me about your whining about your company laptop. The rest of us are still shackled to a desktop.
If this whole laptop and gas thing mattered, we'd stop making people trudge into mind-sucking offices every day for no good reason except to make it easier to corral and boss them around.
Just imagine how much less information we would have on the web if we weren't able to make sprites and words fly around like a bad theme park movie. HTML simply is no good at sharing knowledge.
This sounds like an experiment a coworker once relayed to me: Given a object you want to measure, drop a ruler onto it from a height of a few feet. Do this repeatedly and each time record the value on the ruler at the edge of the object. The average of a sufficient number of such values will approach the actual measurement.
Just applied to humans. Go figure, the world is self-similar like that.
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This.
It's really amazing for someone (esp. at O'Reilly) to make a statement that devices that emit EM radiation by both design and intended function are "bad apples". It's like saying your TV is behaving badly by having its screen be altered by nearby television signals.
Actually, the culprit is more likely the poor shielding in your clock radio or PBX phone or cheap PC speakers (which are not intended to care about open-air RF*) than it is your wireless phone (which specifically is).
(*Unless they are wireless speakers, of course.)
A content-centric networking design would pre-define the types and modes of content that would go on the network.
So, with "all" due respect, Alex, fuck you.
you should probably be looking for a new job,
Good fucking luck with that.
Look, a business's job in a capitalist system is to make money. When ethics, rules, laws, etc. get in the way of making money, either weigh the risk and ignore them, or (if you have the means) try to change them. The goal is not to follow rules. The goal is to maximize ROI.
So there's two problems with the empty, unhelpful "go get a new job" argument. One is that there is no reason at all to expect that your new job will be any less likely to ignore/break ethics/rules/etc... particularly as some industries find it hard to maintain income through normal means these days. (See previous paragraph.) And the second problem is that, in regards to "these days", finding another job -- particularly a stable job -- is going to become more difficult. If you have a stable job, it's smart to keep it.
In other words, if you're ready to be a hermit, go for it.
It's the granddaddy of PDA OS and it's making a comeback.
I said it's making a comeback, dammit.
Grr.
It's too bad no one has created email servers that companies could install and run themselves.
were those Pentagon $1,000 screws or $400 chair-foot caps?
If politics were a mere matter of numbers on a level playing field, this whole exercise would have value. But it doesn't.
Case in point: 2004.
"While it is true that had Kerry won Ohio, he would have won the election, he would have needed 59,301 voters to switch their vote from Bush to win the state. That number is more than the 57,787 votes (in New Mexico, Iowa, and Colorado) needed to affect the election that's listed here. "
You might deduce then that the smart move would have been to go after voters in those three states instead of going after voters in Ohio because it would have meant less voters to turn. The problem is that Ohio has 1.5 million more people than those three states combined, meaning a larger pool to get switchers out of, and has 1/6th the land area, making it a lot easier to campaign in.
Kids should be getting more frequent updates on what their average grade is. There's no reason a student should suddenly find themselves at the end of the first marking period with a big "oh shit" mark of 20%. They should have known exactly how bad they were doing well before that, and not only that, but been pushed towards extra help.
This is all assuming the student even cares if they pass.
While Apple's iPhone may be the first device most people call to mind when they think of a touch interface mobile
that hasn't stopped them from thinking they aren't dumbasses.
Anything like this?
http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/ipod-gets-exploded-trapped-in-resin/
I feel like an Obama LAN party is in order, donation-based with proceeds going to the campaign.
(OK, so it could be a McCain LAN party, or more appropriately, a computers-and-wires party.)
Fundamentalists, eh? Prepared for the schism when the Internet stops the practice of Slashdot?
When my job was sent to India, we got two 1-hour group sessions with a job coach, who had absolutely no experience in our field or what we were experiencing, and who admitted up front that he usually does sessions a minimum of 8 hours long.
I will say that his resume style ideas seem to have been good advice, if nothing else.
But I think I'd have rather had a book like this, were that it had existed.
I admit, that was my motivation for submitting. I'm a long-time subscriber. And somewhere I have a TiT book. Right after upgrading (I'd let my premium lapse years ago), I submitted the story.
The question is, is there anyone at Yahoo! these days reading within 2-3 blogs' copypasta range of Slashdot?
Simply put, users are not always that smart.
(Did you miss the "Yahoo!" part or something?)
Yeah, it sucks that Yahoo! yahoos are using the Spam button as an unsubscribe method, perhaps not aware the damage it does to the list en masse for other Yahoo! users, and in this case, for the viability of the list itself.
That shouldn't result in this sort of outcome though. The point of the story here is not just that Yahoo has stopped delivering, but that This Is True is going to suffer as it loses ad impressions as a secondary result.
No sane person could consider TiT spam. It has one real ad, in the middle of the email; it comes at most once a week; and it is only opt-in.
Ads aren't TiT's only revenue source, though -- readers can get an expanded, more frequent, and ad-free version of the list by getting a paid subscription.
I suppose it depends on whether your primary goal is to get information or to avoid spam.
The demise of Usenet was a long time ago, and coincided with the introduction of the web-based forum.
And this is the single most damaging thing to the availability of information to happen to the Internet, at least until the Wiki came along (which hasn't necessarily solved the problem in question). When there was Usenet, there was one (okay, maybe two) places to find an answer to a question on a given topic of expertise. Now, with the move to isolated independent web-based forums, of which there may be at least a dozen or more possible places to find information (not to mention a multitude of competing general question sites like Yahoo Answers et al), the odds of finding an answer on the Internet to a question have gone down, because the probability that the person with the answer to your question visits or has visited the web fora you visit has gone down.
In short: Used to be everyone would use one or two Usenet groups both to ask and answer questions, now everyone uses any given number of the much larger set of web fora on the same topic. It actually has become less likely to find a good answer to a question these days.
(And at least on Usenet even if no one could answer your question, you'd be certain to get lots of entertaining snark from regulars.)
...In that the five cities in the nation that are available include one on the west coast and one on the east coast. So much for "my" cable zone. I'm all for fighting the recent FISA law but not for using fly-by-night hype-feeding dotcoms to fight it.
P2P rebroadcasting: Like multicast, except with multiple competing and incompatible standards, and no need for skilled network administrators.
You know what helps cut down on this Laptop Drive of Shame? Letting your employees stay the fuck home instead of having to come into your cramped noisy cubicle farm, particularly if your office is on the outskirts of human civilization.
Not only does this reduce the Laptop Drive of Shame problem, it also saves more gas.
Now, raise your hand if your company gives you a laptop. Hi, you guys are most likely middle managers, so blow me about your whining about your company laptop. The rest of us are still shackled to a desktop.
If this whole laptop and gas thing mattered, we'd stop making people trudge into mind-sucking offices every day for no good reason except to make it easier to corral and boss them around.
This is just like VRML, circa ten freaking years ago.
Just imagine how much less information we would have on the web if we weren't able to make sprites and words fly around like a bad theme park movie. HTML simply is no good at sharing knowledge.
Living in Seattle, I was looking forward to a new office on a pretty campus in Redmond.
I could take the MS shuttle, have lunch at Canyons or CJ, etc.
Autism = retardation? Nice.
This sounds like an experiment a coworker once relayed to me: Given a object you want to measure, drop a ruler onto it from a height of a few feet. Do this repeatedly and each time record the value on the ruler at the edge of the object. The average of a sufficient number of such values will approach the actual measurement.
Just applied to humans. Go figure, the world is self-similar like that.
All hail chaos.