Take your hottest running box, upgrade it to a P4 3.06 and UNDERclock it to a 2.9 and use a nice quiet fan. Period. C'mon, it's not like you're going to miss the last 166mHz. Plus you get to upgrade (woohoo!). Problem solved.
AFAIK, "Multi-layer injection molded" plastic is not really recyclable at all. Maybe they can melt it down and use it for plastic packing bubbles or something where the properties of the plastic don't matter much. But when you take a piece of "Multi-layer injection molded" plastic and melt it down the layers all melt together like a soup, their different properties mingling together into a plastic "grunge" that isn't usable for much. There is no way to seperate the layers and end up with anything like what you started with, i.e, make another can out of them.
That is, this product is FAR less recyclable than aluminum cans.
How about going beyond just a heirarchy? What about a graphical map? Your circle reference could be mapped as just that.. a circle.
You're probably right that most people would think it was neat for a few days and that's it. I think I would really use it though. Sometimes I get 3,4,5 branches(or circles) going at once..looks more like a heap of bushes and vines than a tree. Be great to have a map sometimes, especially for research.
What would REALLY be nice, is an entirely new function/button called "Tree View" that would include all the URL information from all the browser windows used during that session and map them to a branched tree.
Possible features might include using different colors for urls visited in different browser windows; A zoom in/out for deep detailed tree viewing; hover over a URL and get info like when you were there and for how long, etc.
I'd really love to see what my tree looks like at the end of a furious browsing session. Aside from being a practical browsing tool it could even help improve technique and shed light on surfing habits.
Maybe I could even learn not to get sidetracked so darn much.
Well said. I'd like to add a thought placing some of the blame on our schools. Which is:
In a mature industry like medicine students are taught a broad understanding of all concepts. A student studying to be an ear, nose, and throat doctor must learn about the nervous system, the heart, nutrition, cancer, bacteria, and broken bones before said student ever gets to be an intern. This helps ensure that the doctor understands his/her specialty as an intregal part of a whole system. That way the ear doctor can refer you to a neurologist if you need one, or tell you to drop the caffeine from your diet and the ringing will stop if that's the case. Even though s/he's not a nutritionist or neurologist s/he knows enough to treat the human system and not just treat the ear as an insolated phenomenon.
So why are so many CS graduates going out into the work force with a few OO languages under their belt and maybe a general idea of what a NIC does and THAT'S IT?? It's crazy. We need developers who can see and understand whole systems, who can discuss data modeling, image rendering, archive methodology, user interface, Ease of Use, compression, the L2 cache, hyperthreading, know volts from watts, and be able to muster a little respect for the accounting department. Then with experience use that broad knowledge to understand existing infrastructure, legacy systems, and future trends so they can look intelligently at a given business model and write project proposals based on ROI. Then defend their methods vs. others. To me that is a Doctor of CS. Our schools need to spit out far less Code Monkeys and start making far more Code Wizards.
Currently the above is most often accomplished via committee. A committee of PHB's and Code Monkeys. No wonder it's a mess.
Well, hopefully that last bit isn't seen as being trollish. I think it's one of the major issues we face.
Corporations use custom installs all the time to change the default Save Type. A common example was to have everybody's default save type revert to Word 95 (.doc) because only half of the company was up and running on 97.
So, why don't more companies make RTF or now XML the default save type? They're already doing custom network installs anyway. If a majority of Fortune 500 companies did this it wouldn't matter what Jane & Joe Home User had as their default. They'll be used to what they see at work.
One might imagine there are many readers here who have some influence over their IT department. Shouldn't be that hard to just say No to default.doc?
Trading support software is developed in-house at *all* of the investment banks (i.e. Supported in house, no warranty).
Um..I work with a trading desk every day. Some of it is in-house, much of it isn't. There's a huge list of vendors that supply trading desk applications. Many of them sell software with Excel plugin capability. Bloomberg and Bridge come to mind. And you're right, why in the world would you switch away from Excel.
Regardless of all that, if one of our developers downloaded an obscure scripting language with no support and started rolling out custom applications I'm pretty sure we'd escort him to the door on the spot. Things like compliance, due diligence, split second transaction accountability, Business Recovery, transparency, etc all mean you can't just toss out whatever widgets you like. Can you imagine rolling out trade balancing tools to a trading desk writting in unsupported language 'Foo', and then putting in your 2 week notice?
Bakshi has taken two paragraphs and produced one of the most moving scenes in any adaptation of the book... When Bilbo finally says "I understand now; put it away" the feeling of despair is very strong.
Only IF you've read the book. Someone who's never read the book would have been completely lost by such subtlety. One thing Jackson has done is make the story accessible to those who haven't read the book. Same with the breakdancing.. would it have been better for them just to stare intently at each other? What should that battle have looked like? Somehow you have to show two battling wizards to old fanboys and newcomers alike. I actually expected more fireworks. But that goes against Tolkien's vision. The telepathy crap actually happened. Galadriel "entered their thoughts", "knew their minds" etc. Again, how do you show that in a movie? Just have the characters talk about it afterwards? That's boring.
I think when you take one of the greatest stories of all time and put it in movie format you have to go to the theater with altered expectations. EXPECT big screen effects, tell yourself the Balrog was caught up while breaking through walls he couldn't fit through, and don't look for a full course meal in minute subtleties in a big screen fantasy epic.
2 Support staff / 50 users = Happy productive users, proactive support, bliss. Environment stays ahead of the upgrade curve. Support staff has time to understand current business practices and provide value-added enhancements.
1 Support staff / 50 users = Users OK, support staff fights fires big and small at a good pace. Environment stays fairly static, but current enough.
1 support staff / 100 users = users angry, less productive, small fires get ignored. Training and proactive support is only a dream.
With that said, 5 people for 200 users is 1 support staff per 40 users. That's not so bad! Are these people all doing the same job? Are the 200 divided among different departments? If so maybe you can each take your own 40 or so users in 1 or 2 departments as "Primary" and the other 160 as secondary. If you can divide them by business function and develop closer relationships by each concentrating on 40 people, your job will likely get easier. At least it will get more rewarding as the same 40 people come to rely on you and respect you more and more. Not only that, but you get to know your users better and decide which users to teach instead of just fix every time. This works great if you have good people. In the past I have more than doubled my "free" time by including 5 minutes of training with every support call. After a while they mostly fixed the small problems themselves. Three cheers for empowered users!
If it makes you feel better, I know 2 guys who are the sole support for 600 users, and have been for almost 2 years. Guaranteed nobody is happy with that.
I was thinking more of the long term effect of supply and demand. If teachers become very rare, schools will have to pay tip-top dollar to acquire one. You are right in the short term, only people who are not in it for the money would initially go through the stringent education. But then when we're left with no teachers, when schools are screaming for more teachers, they cough up the cash for one of the rare ones out there because that's the only choice they have. Once this happens enough, once schools are selling their monkey bars and running fund raisers to get just one more teacher, then teachers will be more and more like doctors. And people like me and you will jump on board because now they are getting paid what they're worth.
I don't see any other way out of the cycle. No one is going to pay 60K to the grade school teachers in my area. Period. One minor example: We bought our house from a second grade teacher. We were having dinner and she was talking about giving birth and she mentioned her "uvula or whatever it is" and giggled like a 13 year old. I want my kids' teachers to know what their uterus is and what it does. I'm not paying 60K a year for a giggling Chief Popsicle-Stick Engineer.
Somebody want solutions to the education problem? A few humble suggestions, not easy ones:
1. Require national standard minimum skills tests for EVERY ACCREDITED MAJOR before a degree is granted. Get professors and top hiring managers to design the test. This helps keep our universities from graduating every single person they possible can. Really, where else can we find a financial incentive for our universities to flunk more people and graduate less of them? Degrees should not be a dime a dozen.
2. Make grade school HARD. If it takes little Johnny an extra 3 years to graduate, so be it. Holding back brighter kids so the less able ones don't feel bad has to stop. I honestly want my second grader learning Intro Chinese, Solar System basics, Ecology (where litter goes), math that isn't memorization, etc. etc. No more whole days spent on Red+Blue=Purple.
3. Simple one: Make it VERY HARD to become a teacher. This is what the AMA did for doctors. This gives us better teachers who we know are motivated. It shrinks the teacher pool so we are forced to start paying more for teachers. Sure, it hurts initially when class sizes grow, but it pays off in the long run, and still 40 kids to one great teacher is far better than 10 kids to one lousy teacher.
These 3 steps could be implemented without spending much taxpayer money, and the benefits would be easy to see after a few years.
Agreed. The only "Kiddie-factor" in Nintendo games that I disapprove of, well actually it drives me CRAZY, is the music and sound effects.
E.g. - It's been years and years since I've played Super Mario Bro's, but every time I jump on something I hear that little BOING sound in my mind and that way-too-catchy kiddie-midi-music that WON'T LEAVE MY BRAIN! Aaaaggghhh!
Love the games, but PLEASE leave out the little kiddie-bop tunes. Nintendo, please for the love of aural sanity take your musical cues from 'Bugs Bunny' and the 'Wild Thornberries' NOT 'My Little Pony' and Ronald McDonald. Thanks so much!
These People are known to do a great job appealing to the younger market segment. Get one of their controllers and an adapter, or just get a PC controller that is very close in size and design.
..are very likely in desperate need of help. Not too many Non-Profit Organizations have their own 50+ K a year IT person. They have Suzy the receptionist and Dan the accountant who know how to reboot things. Most NPO's that I've seen are caught in this expensive loop:
"We bought this tech to keep up with the world, we bought it piecemeal as we could afford it. It's a hodge-podge myriad of HW and SW that we can barely get to work most of the time. We can't afford to upgrade everything, and if we could we wouldn't know where to start. ROI? what is that?"
So if you could function as a for-profit IT outsource to enough of your local NPO's who can't afford their own in-house IT you'd likely make good money and be a regular hero. There's no billions in it, but it might be a great gig.
So do some in-depth market research in this area and report back here. Cuz now you owe me that.;)
You either have no clue or no morals. I'm guessing no clue. The Headwater Forest is full of ancient redwood trees. You ever see them? The Coast Redwoods are up to 2000 years old. The Giant Sequoias can be over 3,500 years old. Some of these trees were around when the Phoenicians invented the alphabet, and when Jerusalem was founded. Young trees of 700 or so were around when the first Samurai drew his first sword. Replant? Don't be ridiculous.
Of course there's a kook in every group but by and large these "hypocritical short-sighted" activists you speak of aren't out to ban all logging, renounce all technology, or any other such luddite activity. They just think a happy medium is logging oak or maple trees, not chopping down irreplaceable 2000 year old redwoods to make coffee tables.
Most people think it's fine to eat meat, but would be appalled to see bald eagle and rhinoceros meat at the deli. At minimum the same logic should be applied to threatened irreplaceable two to three thousand year old trees.
You really think they should compromise and let just a few people panel their basements in Sequoia? The idea is disgusting.
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So now can I get a pill that will keep me from being late all the time?
than most of the fancy-pants cooling I've seen:
Take your hottest running box, upgrade it to a P4 3.06 and UNDERclock it to a 2.9 and use a nice quiet fan. Period. C'mon, it's not like you're going to miss the last 166mHz. Plus you get to upgrade (woohoo!). Problem solved.
Will I have to wait another 7 years for the conclusion?
AFAIK, "Multi-layer injection molded" plastic is not really recyclable at all. Maybe they can melt it down and use it for plastic packing bubbles or something where the properties of the plastic don't matter much. But when you take a piece of "Multi-layer injection molded" plastic and melt it down the layers all melt together like a soup, their different properties mingling together into a plastic "grunge" that isn't usable for much. There is no way to seperate the layers and end up with anything like what you started with, i.e, make another can out of them.
That is, this product is FAR less recyclable than aluminum cans.
As far as I know that is, I'm no expert.
Hmm..I know people who say "I don't eat anything that had a face."
Now they'll have to say "I don't eat anything that has face-building information in its genes."
How about going beyond just a heirarchy? What about a graphical map? Your circle reference could be mapped as just that.. a circle.
..looks more like a heap of bushes and vines than a tree. Be great to have a map sometimes, especially for research.
You're probably right that most people would think it was neat for a few days and that's it. I think I would really use it though. Sometimes I get 3,4,5 branches(or circles) going at once
What would REALLY be nice, is an entirely new function/button called "Tree View" that would include all the URL information from all the browser windows used during that session and map them to a branched tree.
Possible features might include using different colors for urls visited in different browser windows; A zoom in/out for deep detailed tree viewing; hover over a URL and get info like when you were there and for how long, etc.
I'd really love to see what my tree looks like at the end of a furious browsing session. Aside from being a practical browsing tool it could even help improve technique and shed light on surfing habits.
Maybe I could even learn not to get sidetracked so darn much.
It will be 800 feet across, and 300 feet high and will cost $800 mil."
How cheaply could we hurl the whole thing out of orbit?
[Left Brain]
Great! Now we can watch 10 dozen channels of crap at 3 and an half feet tall.
[Right Brain]
Yeah but there are TWO Matrix's coming out! And then Return of the King!!
[Left]
It's a gazillion dollars!
[Brain]
AND Daredevil AND the Hulk.
[Left]
Yeah but the resolution could be better and we hatesses the MPAA!
[Right]
Look how SMALL Spider-Man is! LEAVE US ALONE!
It's going right in the middle of that wall.
Well said. I'd like to add a thought placing some of the blame on our schools. Which is:
In a mature industry like medicine students are taught a broad understanding of all concepts. A student studying to be an ear, nose, and throat doctor must learn about the nervous system, the heart, nutrition, cancer, bacteria, and broken bones before said student ever gets to be an intern. This helps ensure that the doctor understands his/her specialty as an intregal part of a whole system. That way the ear doctor can refer you to a neurologist if you need one, or tell you to drop the caffeine from your diet and the ringing will stop if that's the case. Even though s/he's not a nutritionist or neurologist s/he knows enough to treat the human system and not just treat the ear as an insolated phenomenon.
So why are so many CS graduates going out into the work force with a few OO languages under their belt and maybe a general idea of what a NIC does and THAT'S IT?? It's crazy. We need developers who can see and understand whole systems, who can discuss data modeling, image rendering, archive methodology, user interface, Ease of Use, compression, the L2 cache, hyperthreading, know volts from watts, and be able to muster a little respect for the accounting department. Then with experience use that broad knowledge to understand existing infrastructure, legacy systems, and future trends so they can look intelligently at a given business model and write project proposals based on ROI. Then defend their methods vs. others. To me that is a Doctor of CS. Our schools need to spit out far less Code Monkeys and start making far more Code Wizards.
Currently the above is most often accomplished via committee. A committee of PHB's and Code Monkeys. No wonder it's a mess.
Well, hopefully that last bit isn't seen as being trollish. I think it's one of the major issues we face.
Can't fool me. If they were serious they'd have said 1.44 TB.
If I build it, does that make it an iMac?
Corporations use custom installs all the time to change the default Save Type. A common example was to have everybody's default save type revert to Word 95 (.doc) because only half of the company was up and running on 97.
.doc?
So, why don't more companies make RTF or now XML the default save type? They're already doing custom network installs anyway. If a majority of Fortune 500 companies did this it wouldn't matter what Jane & Joe Home User had as their default. They'll be used to what they see at work.
One might imagine there are many readers here who have some influence over their IT department. Shouldn't be that hard to just say No to default
Trading support software is developed in-house at *all* of the investment banks (i.e. Supported in house, no warranty).
Um..I work with a trading desk every day. Some of it is in-house, much of it isn't. There's a huge list of vendors that supply trading desk applications. Many of them sell software with Excel plugin capability. Bloomberg and Bridge come to mind. And you're right, why in the world would you switch away from Excel.
Regardless of all that, if one of our developers downloaded an obscure scripting language with no support and started rolling out custom applications I'm pretty sure we'd escort him to the door on the spot. Things like compliance, due diligence, split second transaction accountability, Business Recovery, transparency, etc all mean you can't just toss out whatever widgets you like. Can you imagine rolling out trade balancing tools to a trading desk writting in unsupported language 'Foo', and then putting in your 2 week notice?
'Lug, you aren't going to roll something out to your Trading Desk with "no support and no warranty"?
Are you?
"I want to reenact "Wayne's World", a al geek style. How do I do it? What programming should I have? Will you guys watch my show?
Well, will ya?
Bakshi has taken two paragraphs and produced one of the most moving scenes in any adaptation of the book... When Bilbo finally says "I understand now; put it away" the feeling of despair is very strong.
Only IF you've read the book. Someone who's never read the book would have been completely lost by such subtlety. One thing Jackson has done is make the story accessible to those who haven't read the book. Same with the breakdancing.. would it have been better for them just to stare intently at each other? What should that battle have looked like? Somehow you have to show two battling wizards to old fanboys and newcomers alike. I actually expected more fireworks. But that goes against Tolkien's vision. The telepathy crap actually happened. Galadriel "entered their thoughts", "knew their minds" etc. Again, how do you show that in a movie? Just have the characters talk about it afterwards? That's boring.
I think when you take one of the greatest stories of all time and put it in movie format you have to go to the theater with altered expectations. EXPECT big screen effects, tell yourself the Balrog was caught up while breaking through walls he couldn't fit through, and don't look for a full course meal in minute subtleties in a big screen fantasy epic.
In my experience
2 Support staff / 50 users = Happy productive users, proactive support, bliss. Environment stays ahead of the upgrade curve. Support staff has time to understand current business practices and provide value-added enhancements.
1 Support staff / 50 users = Users OK, support staff fights fires big and small at a good pace. Environment stays fairly static, but current enough.
1 support staff / 100 users = users angry, less productive, small fires get ignored. Training and proactive support is only a dream.
With that said, 5 people for 200 users is 1 support staff per 40 users. That's not so bad! Are these people all doing the same job? Are the 200 divided among different departments? If so maybe you can each take your own 40 or so users in 1 or 2 departments as "Primary" and the other 160 as secondary. If you can divide them by business function and develop closer relationships by each concentrating on 40 people, your job will likely get easier. At least it will get more rewarding as the same 40 people come to rely on you and respect you more and more. Not only that, but you get to know your users better and decide which users to teach instead of just fix every time. This works great if you have good people. In the past I have more than doubled my "free" time by including 5 minutes of training with every support call. After a while they mostly fixed the small problems themselves. Three cheers for empowered users!
If it makes you feel better, I know 2 guys who are the sole support for 600 users, and have been for almost 2 years. Guaranteed nobody is happy with that.
I was thinking more of the long term effect of supply and demand. If teachers become very rare, schools will have to pay tip-top dollar to acquire one. You are right in the short term, only people who are not in it for the money would initially go through the stringent education. But then when we're left with no teachers, when schools are screaming for more teachers, they cough up the cash for one of the rare ones out there because that's the only choice they have. Once this happens enough, once schools are selling their monkey bars and running fund raisers to get just one more teacher, then teachers will be more and more like doctors. And people like me and you will jump on board because now they are getting paid what they're worth.
I don't see any other way out of the cycle. No one is going to pay 60K to the grade school teachers in my area. Period. One minor example: We bought our house from a second grade teacher. We were having dinner and she was talking about giving birth and she mentioned her "uvula or whatever it is" and giggled like a 13 year old. I want my kids' teachers to know what their uterus is and what it does. I'm not paying 60K a year for a giggling Chief Popsicle-Stick Engineer.
Somebody want solutions to the education problem? A few humble suggestions, not easy ones:
1. Require national standard minimum skills tests for EVERY ACCREDITED MAJOR before a degree is granted. Get professors and top hiring managers to design the test. This helps keep our universities from graduating every single person they possible can. Really, where else can we find a financial incentive for our universities to flunk more people and graduate less of them? Degrees should not be a dime a dozen.
2. Make grade school HARD. If it takes little Johnny an extra 3 years to graduate, so be it. Holding back brighter kids so the less able ones don't feel bad has to stop. I honestly want my second grader learning Intro Chinese, Solar System basics, Ecology (where litter goes), math that isn't memorization, etc. etc. No more whole days spent on Red+Blue=Purple.
3. Simple one: Make it VERY HARD to become a teacher. This is what the AMA did for doctors. This gives us better teachers who we know are motivated. It shrinks the teacher pool so we are forced to start paying more for teachers. Sure, it hurts initially when class sizes grow, but it pays off in the long run, and still 40 kids to one great teacher is far better than 10 kids to one lousy teacher.
These 3 steps could be implemented without spending much taxpayer money, and the benefits would be easy to see after a few years.
Agreed. The only "Kiddie-factor" in Nintendo games that I disapprove of, well actually it drives me CRAZY, is the music and sound effects.
E.g. - It's been years and years since I've played Super Mario Bro's, but every time I jump on something I hear that little BOING sound in my mind and that way-too-catchy kiddie-midi-music that WON'T LEAVE MY BRAIN! Aaaaggghhh!
Love the games, but PLEASE leave out the little kiddie-bop tunes. Nintendo, please for the love of aural sanity take your musical cues from 'Bugs Bunny' and the 'Wild Thornberries' NOT 'My Little Pony' and Ronald McDonald. Thanks so much!
These People are known to do a great job appealing to the younger market segment. Get one of their controllers and an adapter, or just get a PC controller that is very close in size and design.
So if you could function as a for-profit IT outsource to enough of your local NPO's who can't afford their own in-house IT you'd likely make good money and be a regular hero. There's no billions in it, but it might be a great gig.
So do some in-depth market research in this area and report back here. Cuz now you owe me that.
You either have no clue or no morals. I'm guessing no clue. The Headwater Forest is full of ancient redwood trees. You ever see them? The Coast Redwoods are up to 2000 years old. The Giant Sequoias can be over 3,500 years old. Some of these trees were around when the Phoenicians invented the alphabet, and when Jerusalem was founded. Young trees of 700 or so were around when the first Samurai drew his first sword.
Replant? Don't be ridiculous.
Of course there's a kook in every group but by and large these "hypocritical short-sighted" activists you speak of aren't out to ban all logging, renounce all technology, or any other such luddite activity. They just think a happy medium is logging oak or maple trees, not chopping down irreplaceable 2000 year old redwoods to make coffee tables.
Most people think it's fine to eat meat, but would be appalled to see bald eagle and rhinoceros meat at the deli. At minimum the same logic should be applied to threatened irreplaceable two to three thousand year old trees.
You really think they should compromise and let just a few people panel their basements in Sequoia? The idea is disgusting.
Not one redwood. There are plenty of other trees.
Got the point. Just feeling mischievous. :]