I've tried this more than my fair share, and I end up going to bed, waking up fine, and she's up half the night stewing about what was said, and the other half of the night thinking of ways to ensure that the punishment she's about to inflict upon me will have me suffering in exquisite ways as I try to figure out what's wrong (as I've completely forgot about the night before).
999 times out of 1,000 it's over something very minor, and an "I'm sorry, I wasn't thinking" will solve the situation, and that one time in a thousand, then you need to stay up and hash it out and not childishly take your ball and go home to bed.
This is not to say that I don't still do it (I'm a male, therefore, axiomatically, stupid), but I _know_ what the right thing is to do...and my wife is a saint for having to put up with me. Really.
I had the same reaction. This sounds as if what they're doing is changing a particular location in six separate translations (or degrees of freedom if you like), but what they described didn't in any way involve any physical dimension outside of the 3 classical ones (as far as I can tell).
However, IANAPP, therefore might not grasp the particular nuances of quantum theory that actually make what they did leap past x, y, and z.
Screw that! My employer doesn't need to know I read slashfiction or what kind of porn I browse at home. Now, the porn I browse at work, that's different!
This is actually a really good point. One of the problems with Google Browser Sync is that it does sync the browsing histories...so if I use firefox at home to view some NSFW sites, then those show up the next morning in my history as sites I've browsed in my work laptop's history.
I work for a company that's pretty cool (and "gets it") about these things, and the IT guy in charge of things, I could explain this to, and he'd grok it...but if I worked at my wife's place of business, they'd look at me and say, "homo say what?" as they showed me the door for violating their AUP.
Perhaps a way of having multiple profiles and managing what follows you where would be in order.
I have to agree. I was diagnosed OCD in 1996 (and no, it's not all Jack Nicholson in "As Good As It Gets"), and have been on a pretty standard OCD regiment since then.
100 mg/Bupropion/day to compensate for generalized obsessive depression
100 mg/Seroquel/day for mood swings related to my more manic type of OCD
1mg Xanax as needed for panic attacks (I seem pre-disposed to anxiety and panic attacks in regards to my OCD triggers).
People who know me, know that I rail against drug companies marketing directly to the consumer ("whatever ails you, we've got some magic pill to fix it!!!!1!"); but I know me, both on, and off meds, and I know that the only way I'm functional is when I'm fully medicated. I hate that I have to take these pills every day for the rest of my life so I'm where the rest of you are naturally, but I accept that because I know that without these, I'd be curled up in a ball in the corner of my room waiting for the end to come (like I was back in college when my father found me and made me see a doctor). I've come to see it no differently than those of you that need to take Lipitor to control your cholesterol. You didn't choose to have higher cholesterol, but now that you know you have it, you can deal with it.
Meds have their place, but like all things, they can be abused. People should think long and hard before they asked their physician for a psycho-active med. And honestly, I think we need to restrict script privileges to those that have studied neuro-chemistry and know what they're doing...no GP should be prescribing the heavy hitters of psych drugs.
Most of the people on here will say something along the lines of one of the two variants:
1) Human-computer interaction is a discipline and you should read this HCI book or that HCI book. (Alan Cooper's About Face comes to mind).
Actually, I'd say this: HCI is a discipline, and if you are unsure how to design an interface, talk to someone who is trained in UX/UI design.
Don't think reading one (or ten) book will suddenly make you able to design a good interface...it won't, learning how to correctly display information, actions, state, and any of another 100 considerations takes a lot of study, a lot of knowledge of your audience, and natural ability.
Just like I found out this past weekend with my (mis)adventures with under-the-sink plumbing, reading a HOWTO and printing out instructions from a website won't suddenly turn you into a competent plumber. Call the expert.
My experience with a current construction project for a major airline at a major airport speaks to a discomfortingly confused security situation. Oooh, ooh, let me guess...my guess would be that this is about the Terminal 3 rehab American is currently doing at O'Hare.
Not only does this story sound like stupid aviation red-tape, but it's also got some classic Chicago moments (the badging office being closed until 1 pm is a pretty good give-away).
You're welcome to disagree, of course, but try fitting out a US-based organisation with $3 copies of MS software and see how long it takes the BSA to drop on them like a ton of bricks. Well, since the BSA IS MSFT, I'd say you'd be waiting quite a bit of time there.
The problem with building more runways is that in most areas (New York, Los Angelas, Chicago), development is already done around the major airport. You can't expand further out. True to a certain extent...in Chicago, at least, there's been an on-going attempt (for 10+ years) to reconfigure ORD's runways and add some more, smaller runways (the better to help with regional jets), but, this being America, that plan has been consistently held up by pissy people who live near an airport ("but we didn't know that there's be planes flying overhead when we bought the place 10 years ago"!) and the eco-nuts who are generally opposed to an increase in air traffic.
What I don't get is we have a mayor who's not afraid to draw on the runway of an airport he doesn't like (to wit: the midnight ride of backhoes) but won't lift a finger to really help out one of the great economic engines of his city. Must be too busy trying to count all the money coming in from the Department of Hired Trucks...
But you've got a totally different working culture in Japan. In Japan, companies actually take some degree of responsibility for their employees. In the US, companies would be quite happy to work employees until they drop, and then serve the remains up as lunch if they thought it would make a penny a unit more profit.
Um, not really. My dad has worked for Honda of America Manufacturing's Marysville Auto Plant (Honda's US Car making arm) for 20+ years now, many of those on the line. He and all HAM (yes, that IS the unfortunate acronym for Honda of America Manufacturing...) associates get better than UAW scale wages and as good, if not better than UAW health care...as an example, when I was in college, the health plan picked up my elective PRK so I wouldn't have to wear glasses anymore...I thought that was pretty sweet.
The UAW every couple of years tries to organize at HAM, and hasn't been able to get an in...I think they think it's because management rigs the vote or coerces the associates...I think it's just a matter of economics...when you're getting a fair deal, it's hard to get worked up over union representation. I don't mean that to sound flippant...think about it, Honda's kept labor problems to a minimum by "doing the right thing" and as an added benefit doesn't have to put up with one of the most painful, short-sighted unions in America. Truly a win-win.
Now I think when i was like gold ultimate handjob elite years ago my bags had tags that usually made them come out first, but this seems just kinda crappy. I mean, remember when you got a meal on airplanes? No wonder people hate to fly. God I wish we had these on AA. I've been AAdvantage Platinum for like 10 years (and just 50K miles away from my 1MM logo-thingy...mmmm...lifetime Gold status...), and I swear to god my bags are always the last one out on the carousel. The only time I know that AA gives bags priority treatment are if you're traveling internationally in either a premium cabin (J or F), or are in coach and have oneworldsapphire or emerald status (which I do via my PLT status).
All that being said, I'm not sure that paying an extra buck or two to move my bags to the head of the queue is all that offensive of an idea. For those of us who travel extensively for work (hence my status), I think it'd be worth it to us so we could get going that much faster out of the airport.
Oh well, off to bed, since I'm on a 0615 departure out of ORD...lovely.
But determining the optimal layout of a form to benefit the users of the system requires observing people and their needs. Understanding what parts of a program are going to be changed because of changing user needs is more important in program design than deciding whether you need a heap sort or insertion sort. Yes, you should know the difference, but you seldom need to program it, just choose the correct one from the system library.
CS graduates tend to design programs for machine efficiency, not human efficiency. But it is humans that are expensive, not machines. I think you're confusing HCI with CS. As a person who specialized in HCI in my undergrad, I can tell you my coursework was radically different from my friends who were pure MathCS. While we did a number of courses in common, it was not out of the ordinary for me to be over in the College of Fine Arts taking an industrial design course, or over at the social sciences department taking a course in decision science (which is actually what my degree is in).
While HCI and CS are two separate, yet intertwined disciplines, they are fundamentally different art forms, with different manners of thought, problem solving, techniques, and problem spaces. It would be a mistake to confuse one for the other. That being said, it's been quite useful for me, as I stumble through my career to have had a good grounding in CS fundamentals. While I'll never need to determine if a particular interface is Big O or not, that I have a better than the average bear's idea of what goes on below those pretty interfaces I design allows me to meet both the users needs and make the wire frames I deliver to whatever poor engineer is going to have to build this thing not want to find the nearest firearm and start taking shots at me.
To your greater point, I think there is some merit, as we move closer and closer to ubiquitous computing, the greatest challenge presenting system designers won't be how to eek out more horsepower from the processor, it will be shoehorning in the interactivity seamlessly to the user and the environment. One area where you do see a merging of pure MathCS/HCI is, ironically, in the field of aerospace. One of the posters mentioned trying to fly the (sexy) new 787 without a grounding in math...and while I grant that pilots need to know a whole lot of hard science, one of HCI's (er, rather Human Factors) most obvious areas of impact is in the cockpit, and instrument design. Boeing/Airbus/Fokker/whoever spend a lot of time, money, and research into figuring out the most intelligent, intuitive, and natural way of informing the pilot of everything he or she needs to know to make split-second decisions that have literal life-or-death consequences.
In a graduate course I took on dependable system design, the very first class, the professor had us read portions of the cockpit voice recorder transcript for American Airlines flight 965. This was the flight which crashed in the mountains near Cali, Colombia back in 1995. One of the underlying reasons for this crash was the interface for the autopilot was overly complicated while entering waypoints into the system, and when the pilot-in-command chose a wrong waypoint with a similar name to the one he needed (without the system sanity checking and throwing some query back to the cockpit crew) and literally turned his 757 into a mountain.
In this case, all the math and science couldn't save the airplane, but perhaps a system that was designed to check user inputs against some sense of "hey, is this the right data point" might have allowed the pilots to get out of the situations before anything worse than needing to do a five minute loop around the mountains back onto their flight path.
Not really. Volume is the amount of shares traded during the last trading period. So, they had 30,000 shares traded the last time around.
The number you're looking for shares outstanding, which based on a market cap of $19.94MM USD, I'm guessing that they have around 20,000,000 outstanding shares.
So, as long as you're selling your Malibu mansion, you should be able to cover us.:D
When it comes to software performance, it's pretty useless to compare the performance of your software to a previous version of that same software. You need to compare your performance to that of the current leader in the same market.
Methink you might want to be a little more clear about what you mean by "leader". If I were to pick "share of market" then IE 6 would still be the benchmark, and in that case, my own experience is that FF2 is still better.
If these devices were placed in the Short North here (Columbus, OH), then they would be laughed off as a bizarre marketing ploy... <insert snarky Gallery Hop comment here>
"your credit score drops by the amazing amount of, what, 3 * 10 = 30 points. Big deal."
As someone who is going to be a first time home buyer (and mortgage getter), I can tell you that 30 points is a VERY big deal with mortgage companies.
Remember inquiries (at least in the US) take 12 months to get off your score, so if you were shopping for a car loan or apartment or whatever within 12 months of trying to get a mortgage, you got some 'splaining to do with the mortgage broker/agent. And they're not the most...understanding people you'll ever deal with.
"(And just because your TOS has a clause allowing you to do so doesn't make you not-evil..)"
Um, why? Seems to me they're telling you what they'll do, and then they go and do it. One assumes you agreed to the TOS and service contract, so, how, exactly is it evil? Bad business practice, yes, evil, no.
And yet, you never really answered his point. Sad, but true, the reason these jobs exist is that they ARE cheaper than robot labor at this time. Yes, it sounds cruel, heck, it IS cruel, but it is the world in which we find ourselves.
Calling him a jag-off won't change that or any other facts.
There is a difference between a society choosing, through its government, to fund "Big Science" projects, and a society being forced, through the collection of taxes to fund research into something as mundane as how to increase the "spreadability" of a tasty dairy product.
Society shouldn't fund every Tom, Dick, and Harry's research grant because it's "science." There should be some relationship between the need for public funds and the common weal. Or is that concept too Objectivist for you?
Oh good lord...this whole article is now going to degenerate into a discussion of what is really meant by "tallest" and "largest".
I live in Chicago, and people still try to make the argument that if you count from the sub-sub-sub-sub-basement to the top of the tranmission spikes, then the Sears Tower is still the world's {largest | tallest}.
I guess bragging rights still must count for something.
it is a GOOD idea (to the rest of the world anyway)
Not really. The UN is as effective as the League of Nations. Crap like this just doesn't work. As long as every nation acts in their own self-interest (as they should), nothing like the UN will ever work.
...and you're likely to be met with the cop outside the building with their trusty MAG light flashlight saying something along the lines of "hey pal, i gots yer google map right here"
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No, NO, NO!
I've tried this more than my fair share, and I end up going to bed, waking up fine, and she's up half the night stewing about what was said, and the other half of the night thinking of ways to ensure that the punishment she's about to inflict upon me will have me suffering in exquisite ways as I try to figure out what's wrong (as I've completely forgot about the night before).
999 times out of 1,000 it's over something very minor, and an "I'm sorry, I wasn't thinking" will solve the situation, and that one time in a thousand, then you need to stay up and hash it out and not childishly take your ball and go home to bed.
This is not to say that I don't still do it (I'm a male, therefore, axiomatically, stupid), but I _know_ what the right thing is to do...and my wife is a saint for having to put up with me. Really.
I had the same reaction. This sounds as if what they're doing is changing a particular location in six separate translations (or degrees of freedom if you like), but what they described didn't in any way involve any physical dimension outside of the 3 classical ones (as far as I can tell).
However, IANAPP, therefore might not grasp the particular nuances of quantum theory that actually make what they did leap past x, y, and z.
Screw that! My employer doesn't need to know I read slashfiction or what kind of porn I browse at home. Now, the porn I browse at work, that's different!
This is actually a really good point. One of the problems with Google Browser Sync is that it does sync the browsing histories...so if I use firefox at home to view some NSFW sites, then those show up the next morning in my history as sites I've browsed in my work laptop's history.
I work for a company that's pretty cool (and "gets it") about these things, and the IT guy in charge of things, I could explain this to, and he'd grok it...but if I worked at my wife's place of business, they'd look at me and say, "homo say what?" as they showed me the door for violating their AUP.
Perhaps a way of having multiple profiles and managing what follows you where would be in order.
I am currently on the following cocktail:
- 150 mg/Luvox/day for gross OCD symptoms
- 100 mg/Bupropion/day to compensate for generalized obsessive depression
- 100 mg/Seroquel/day for mood swings related to my more manic type of OCD
- 1mg Xanax as needed for panic attacks (I seem pre-disposed to anxiety and panic attacks in regards to my OCD triggers).
People who know me, know that I rail against drug companies marketing directly to the consumer ("whatever ails you, we've got some magic pill to fix it!!!!1!"); but I know me, both on, and off meds, and I know that the only way I'm functional is when I'm fully medicated. I hate that I have to take these pills every day for the rest of my life so I'm where the rest of you are naturally, but I accept that because I know that without these, I'd be curled up in a ball in the corner of my room waiting for the end to come (like I was back in college when my father found me and made me see a doctor). I've come to see it no differently than those of you that need to take Lipitor to control your cholesterol. You didn't choose to have higher cholesterol, but now that you know you have it, you can deal with it.Meds have their place, but like all things, they can be abused. People should think long and hard before they asked their physician for a psycho-active med. And honestly, I think we need to restrict script privileges to those that have studied neuro-chemistry and know what they're doing...no GP should be prescribing the heavy hitters of psych drugs.
Most of the people on here will say something along the lines of one of the two variants:
1) Human-computer interaction is a discipline and you should read this HCI book or that HCI book. (Alan Cooper's About Face comes to mind).
Actually, I'd say this: HCI is a discipline, and if you are unsure how to design an interface, talk to someone who is trained in UX/UI design.
Don't think reading one (or ten) book will suddenly make you able to design a good interface...it won't, learning how to correctly display information, actions, state, and any of another 100 considerations takes a lot of study, a lot of knowledge of your audience, and natural ability.
Just like I found out this past weekend with my (mis)adventures with under-the-sink plumbing, reading a HOWTO and printing out instructions from a website won't suddenly turn you into a competent plumber. Call the expert.
Not only does this story sound like stupid aviation red-tape, but it's also got some classic Chicago moments (the badging office being closed until 1 pm is a pretty good give-away).
What I don't get is we have a mayor who's not afraid to draw on the runway of an airport he doesn't like (to wit: the midnight ride of backhoes) but won't lift a finger to really help out one of the great economic engines of his city. Must be too busy trying to count all the money coming in from the Department of Hired Trucks...
In Soviet Russia, software pirates you!
"This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it."
Even more topical with Fred running...<g>
But you've got a totally different working culture in Japan. In Japan, companies actually take some degree of responsibility for their employees. In the US, companies would be quite happy to work employees until they drop, and then serve the remains up as lunch if they thought it would make a penny a unit more profit.
Um, not really. My dad has worked for Honda of America Manufacturing's Marysville Auto Plant (Honda's US Car making arm) for 20+ years now, many of those on the line. He and all HAM (yes, that IS the unfortunate acronym for Honda of America Manufacturing...) associates get better than UAW scale wages and as good, if not better than UAW health care...as an example, when I was in college, the health plan picked up my elective PRK so I wouldn't have to wear glasses anymore...I thought that was pretty sweet.
The UAW every couple of years tries to organize at HAM, and hasn't been able to get an in...I think they think it's because management rigs the vote or coerces the associates...I think it's just a matter of economics...when you're getting a fair deal, it's hard to get worked up over union representation. I don't mean that to sound flippant...think about it, Honda's kept labor problems to a minimum by "doing the right thing" and as an added benefit doesn't have to put up with one of the most painful, short-sighted unions in America. Truly a win-win.
All that being said, I'm not sure that paying an extra buck or two to move my bags to the head of the queue is all that offensive of an idea. For those of us who travel extensively for work (hence my status), I think it'd be worth it to us so we could get going that much faster out of the airport.
Oh well, off to bed, since I'm on a 0615 departure out of ORD...lovely.
seriously, one of the funniest lines in a movie ever. Every single time I see or hear that I bust a gut.
While HCI and CS are two separate, yet intertwined disciplines, they are fundamentally different art forms, with different manners of thought, problem solving, techniques, and problem spaces. It would be a mistake to confuse one for the other. That being said, it's been quite useful for me, as I stumble through my career to have had a good grounding in CS fundamentals. While I'll never need to determine if a particular interface is Big O or not, that I have a better than the average bear's idea of what goes on below those pretty interfaces I design allows me to meet both the users needs and make the wire frames I deliver to whatever poor engineer is going to have to build this thing not want to find the nearest firearm and start taking shots at me.
To your greater point, I think there is some merit, as we move closer and closer to ubiquitous computing, the greatest challenge presenting system designers won't be how to eek out more horsepower from the processor, it will be shoehorning in the interactivity seamlessly to the user and the environment. One area where you do see a merging of pure MathCS/HCI is, ironically, in the field of aerospace. One of the posters mentioned trying to fly the (sexy) new 787 without a grounding in math...and while I grant that pilots need to know a whole lot of hard science, one of HCI's (er, rather Human Factors) most obvious areas of impact is in the cockpit, and instrument design. Boeing/Airbus/Fokker/whoever spend a lot of time, money, and research into figuring out the most intelligent, intuitive, and natural way of informing the pilot of everything he or she needs to know to make split-second decisions that have literal life-or-death consequences.
In a graduate course I took on dependable system design, the very first class, the professor had us read portions of the cockpit voice recorder transcript for American Airlines flight 965. This was the flight which crashed in the mountains near Cali, Colombia back in 1995. One of the underlying reasons for this crash was the interface for the autopilot was overly complicated while entering waypoints into the system, and when the pilot-in-command chose a wrong waypoint with a similar name to the one he needed (without the system sanity checking and throwing some query back to the cockpit crew) and literally turned his 757 into a mountain.
In this case, all the math and science couldn't save the airplane, but perhaps a system that was designed to check user inputs against some sense of "hey, is this the right data point" might have allowed the pilots to get out of the situations before anything worse than needing to do a five minute loop around the mountains back onto their flight path.
Not really. Volume is the amount of shares traded during the last trading period. So, they had 30,000 shares traded the last time around.
:D
The number you're looking for shares outstanding, which based on a market cap of $19.94MM USD, I'm guessing that they have around 20,000,000 outstanding shares.
So, as long as you're selling your Malibu mansion, you should be able to cover us.
When it comes to software performance, it's pretty useless to compare the performance of your software to a previous version of that same software. You need to compare your performance to that of the current leader in the same market.
Methink you might want to be a little more clear about what you mean by "leader". If I were to pick "share of market" then IE 6 would still be the benchmark, and in that case, my own experience is that FF2 is still better.
Oh how I miss Roadhouse Annie's...
"your credit score drops by the amazing amount of, what, 3 * 10 = 30 points. Big deal."
As someone who is going to be a first time home buyer (and mortgage getter), I can tell you that 30 points is a VERY big deal with mortgage companies.
Remember inquiries (at least in the US) take 12 months to get off your score, so if you were shopping for a car loan or apartment or whatever within 12 months of trying to get a mortgage, you got some 'splaining to do with the mortgage broker/agent. And they're not the most...understanding people you'll ever deal with.
"(And just because your TOS has a clause allowing you to do so doesn't make you not-evil..)"
Um, why? Seems to me they're telling you what they'll do, and then they go and do it. One assumes you agreed to the TOS and service contract, so, how, exactly is it evil? Bad business practice, yes, evil, no.
And yet, you never really answered his point. Sad, but true, the reason these jobs exist is that they ARE cheaper than robot labor at this time. Yes, it sounds cruel, heck, it IS cruel, but it is the world in which we find ourselves.
Calling him a jag-off won't change that or any other facts.
Wow, that's not the point and you know it.
There is a difference between a society choosing, through its government, to fund "Big Science" projects, and a society being forced, through the collection of taxes to fund research into something as mundane as how to increase the "spreadability" of a tasty dairy product.
Society shouldn't fund every Tom, Dick, and Harry's research grant because it's "science." There should be some relationship between the need for public funds and the common weal. Or is that concept too Objectivist for you?
Oh good lord...this whole article is now going to degenerate into a discussion of what is really meant by "tallest" and "largest".
I live in Chicago, and people still try to make the argument that if you count from the sub-sub-sub-sub-basement to the top of the tranmission spikes, then the Sears Tower is still the world's {largest | tallest}.
I guess bragging rights still must count for something.
it is a GOOD idea (to the rest of the world anyway)
Not really. The UN is as effective as the League of Nations. Crap like this just doesn't work. As long as every nation acts in their own self-interest (as they should), nothing like the UN will ever work.
...and you're likely to be met with the cop outside the building with their trusty MAG light flashlight saying something along the lines of "hey pal, i gots yer google map right here"
:-D