I'll agree that someone with cognative learning skills is always a good thing -- but sometimes you can't take the risk of them learning on the job... or not learning, as the case may be.
Although, based on the people I know who are OCPs, I'd probably take someone who's a generalist over certified Oracle.
But here's where we get to the real problems -- what is the person tasked with doing? Not knowing the correct commands, and having to look up everything when they don't work as expected can slow you down significantly. We're not talking 10-20% loss of effectiveness... we're talking down to 10-20% of total effectiveness. That means we're on par with replacing someone who touch types with someone who does the old hunt-and-peck.
Would you want a really good general doctor performing open heart surgery on you? How about if I told you that they're about 50% as efficient as the specialist that you could have in their place? Do you really want him learning on you? Is it okay if he keeps going back and checking a reference book while you're split open on a table? (and before you complain that this is an unrealistic example -- there are plenty of computer systems that can result in fatalities if someone screws up).
I'm not going to say that generalists don't have their place -- they do. If nothing else, they're not so focused on one thing, that they can help to track down what's gone wrong, so they can then go to the specialist for the knowledge they need.
The specialists need to have a general background in their subject area, before they build up to the specialization. In the case of anyone who manages an application, be it a database, web server, or whatever, you know that you start by analyzing the problem -- look for things that have changed; look for bottlenecks (poor cache performance, memory paging, competing processes, physical reads and writes, etc)... blah, blah, blah... But they might not know enough to be able to fix the problem... just narrow down where it is. The good folks, in any field, have a realistic view of what their skills are, and they know when they need to get outside help.
I'll agree to a point -- the best security class I ever had was in an 'Engineering Management' department, and it went over general concepts, risk analysis, but never went into details on any particular tools. They mentioned that tools existed to do specific tasks, and they brought out PGP to explain assymetric keys, but that was it. The result was that they covered a lot of the items that can't be fixed by technology -- like users, and the need for policies and training, not just some firewall appliance.
However, as someone who's had to switch between apps many, many times, I'd say that it takes a whole lot more than 10-15 minutes to get up to speed on a new technology. The concepts of good SQL structure may remain the same between databases, and you'll be able to get to a basic competent level, but 'show tables' just doesn't work in Oracle (one possibile replacement is 'SELECT TABLE_NAME FROM ALL_TABLES WHERE OWNER='schema name'). Learning the syntax differences between languages takes some time -- figuring out how you have to handle specific tasks, and the refinements between the different apps (eg, some languages may optimize different logic patterns, so one style of loop may be faster in LanguageA, while a different type of loop is faster in LanguageB.)
I'd say that there's a good chance that if the person is truly competent in one application, they'll be competent in another similar application... but equally competent? I don't think so.
Kryten:
We must take action. Be bold, positive, decisive. I suggest we move from blue alert to red alert, sir.
Cat:
Forget red! Let's go all the way up to brown alert!
Kryten:
But there's no such thing as brown alert, sir.
Cat:
You won't be saying that in a minute. And don't say I didn't alert you!
I you've hit on the big issue -- some people don't seem to appreciate that they're impacting your time. With a doctor or lawyer, you may ask for a bit of advice off the top of their head, but you don't expect them to reset a broken bone in their spare time. Asking a mechanic friend if you should worry about a funny noise is different from asking them to rebuild your engine.
So, if you're going to ask favors from someone, be polite, ask them if they have time for a question, before you expect them to drop everything they're doing, and fix it immediately. Odds are, your being able to check email or play minesweeper isn't a high priority on your friend's list, when they're trying to recover from a bad day at work, where they spent 14 straight days of 12-16 hrs days fixing a server so 35k people could read their email.
For some reason, we don't expect waiters/waitresses to go and get us drinks at our every whim, yet there are some professions (IT, medical, lawyer, seem to be the big ones), where it seems people are just okay with asking them for advise whenever they feel like it.
(oh -- and wearing an 'RTFM' shirt to parties doesn't seem to help, either. You go and explain the significance to someone, and someone else hears half of the explaination, and you get a 'you work in computers? I'm having this weird problem...')
You're making a large number of assumptions in your first paragraph:
The OCR is always correct.
The documents could be represented in ASCII
The text is the only part of the document with any value
Of course, your second paragraph shows that clearly those assumptions can't be true -- why would someone pay more for something without an additional benefit?
And you wouldn't maintain seperate databases -- pictures aren't searchable. You'd want to use any OCRd (preferably vetted afterwards) as the basis for indexing the images, so that you could help people find more images that might be of interest to them (which you mentioned in the second paragraph). However, I'm not sure what the requirements are that the LOC operates under, so even if they're allowed to do cost recovery or otherwise charge fees.
If you're trying to enter information, the typical mode of input from a laptop is to type, which expects both hands to be available. This is not the case if you're trying to balance the laptop in one arm, while typing one-handed.
Tablets, on the other hand, provide for input through writing. Writing can easily be done with one hand, while you are holding the tablet in the other.
The hinged design of laptops also moves their center of gravity so that they are more difficult to balance on your arm.
The point is -- if it's inconvenient, you're not going to do it. It's fine for the occassional thing, but that's just not acceptable for something that you need to do every day in order to accomplish your job.
The input from a tablet may be crap, but it's still better than trying to use a laptop standing up.
Using a laptop assumes that you have a lap (or other suitable surface) to place it. Basically, tablets are a goodreplacement for things that might've otherwise have been done by someone with a clipboard, while they're standing. (the medical profession comes to mind quickly... I'm guessing there are other uses as well).
Having something to quickly show something, and pass it back and forth between people might be useful, too. (sales? real estate?)
I'm not in one of those fields, so to me, it's fluff... just the bad input of a PDA combined with the bulky inconvenience of a laptop.
I've seen more than my share of resistance issues. (why the GW Solarcar came in 4th place in the 1995 GM Sunrayce -- because we used conductive epoxy, which caused oxidation on the aluminum, but not until we had some current going through them for a day or two).
That being said, I can think of a few reasons why different cables might be better than others. (I'm not going to justify a specific brand, though, as I'm guessing that there are plenty of other quality products without the extra price).
Others have already commented on resistance, shielding and connector quality -- all very important. You also have issues with the quality of the wire. (microstranded wire can take tighter turns, where you might not be able to get a standard cable to... but of course, you don't want to keep too tight of a radius in the long term, but it can be useful when you're trying to snake them through initially). There can also be impedance mismatch, which can cause problems, if you're using cables that were made for a different specification.
Oh -- and as to the jewelry comment -- count the number of Hummers/Lexi/Lincolns/etc in a Walmart parking lot. It amazed me.
It might let you call other editors to modify the records -- I've never tried. But it's still better than trying to create the correct LDIF so that you can pass it to ldapmodify, no matter how much you might dislike an editor.
I'd highly recommend that anyone who has to administer LDAP (that's Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, for those who don't use it. [aka NetInfo Services for the mac, or Active Directory for windows]), especially if it's on systems that have tight ACIs for admin rights to look into ldapsh, which lets you walk the tree using cd, and use vi to edit records.
I have no idea if it's just a bad translation, or if they just really have no clue that there are other fantasy role playing games other than Dungeons and Dragons, so they're using it as a generic term.
Also, just because you have folks who are dressed up and have foam weapons, it's not necessarily a LARP. There's also the category 'Live Action Wargamers', who fight, but don't go for that whole character development type stuff. Darkon, Markland, Dagorhir and to some degree, the SCA come to mind. (but the SCAdians will probably take offense to that).
LARPs tend to be less about combat... stuff like NERO and Archaea.
(I have no idea where Amtgard falls, as the only times I've seen their members, they were swinging pretty soft.. and they were using PVC cores, which would break quickly in most wargames, but that might not be all groups)
I haven't had any problems with my gerbers, but then again, everyone uses them a little bit differently.
My first 'multitool' was the original Gerber Multitool, annodized black. You can't get it anymore, as the non-locking blades were a problem. [I don't have it, because someone borrowed it, and I never got it back -- but it held up well for many years, even through my time working on a solar car team in college.] It also had the problem that the Philips screwdriver in it was a #2, so it was useless for small screws.
My next was the SOG Power Pliers. Another nice set, but I did manage to damage the wire cutters (don't try to cut spring steel with 'em -- my own fault, really), and I had changed out some of the components, but I've never seen them offered anywhere other than AAFES, which I don't have access to anymore. I'd say this one held a blade worse than my Gerber. It also doesn't have locking blades, and is a little harder to open one handed. I really like the line cutter though, which I had put in as a replacement. Other issues is that the grip is uncomfortable when trying to use it as pliers. And, it has a #1 Phillips, which is useless on racks, but fine for computer internals. They've fixed my main gripes with the Power Lock [but not the lack of Phillips #2].
I replaced my original MultiPliers with the MultiPlier 600 -- it's not black (but they do make a black version), but it deals with the locking issues from my original. Other than that, there's not much difference.
I've used Leatherman, but I didn't see that it was vastly superior to what I already had. I do keep a Leatherman Micra on my keychain. I also have a Leatherman Squirt S4 that I was given as a gift, but it looks like crap when the enamled coating gets knicked up from your keys. (It is, however, easier on your hands, and has a Phillips #1 vs a #2).
One of my most used tools, though, isn't a knife/plier combo -- it's the Latshaw Pocket Wrench II. It's perfect for tightening down the bolks in a rack. (Especially as the rails for a Sun 220R/420R need you to tighten a nut right where the sides push in, and you can't get a normal wrench in there).
Anyway, whatever you do -- I'd suggest carrying two, preferably different types, with complimentary tool packages. Sure, sometimes you just need pliers or a screwdriver, but I find that I often need to hold a nut, while turning a screw, and so just having one would be mostly useless.
But of course -- I'm mostly just racking equipment, and installing cards and such -- the person who was an electrician, above, most likely needs different gear. [And there are also times when the full fledged item is better -- I keep a screwdriver set in my desk, because it's often faster than using a multitool]
When I was in elementary school (DODDS [Department of Defense Dependant Schooling]), we didn't have enough students to spread them out evenly for all of the grades. Twice, I was placed into a mixed-year class.
For some things, the whole class interacted with each other (reading time, recess, etc). But for much of the day, the teacher would teach one grade, while the other group did their classwork assignments. That time might've been otherwise been used by the teacher to grade papers -- but she didn't grade quizzes, tests, homework, or classwork -- the class did.
She would collect up all of our work, mix them up, and hand them back to the class, and give us red pens. If anyone got their own page, we had to trade with whoever was next to us. She'd read out the answers, and we'd mark them, and sign our name as the grader. She'd collect them, and do spot checks to make sure we didn't mess up. [someone could also complain if they were unfairly marked].
Now, in today's high schools, there are chances at people cheating -- spot checks can help, and if you find something was consistently boosting grades, you have it impact their grade negatively. Some folks might complain that kids might make fun of the others who don't get high grades -- yes, there's that chance [we actually had the opposite -- I remember getting teased for getting good grades], but there's also the possibility that if there isn't so much anomynity that kids will have reason to work harder.
I admit, this won't work for essay questions and longer reports, but there is no reason for teachers to be taking home stacks of papers to grade every night. Sure, they might mean well, and be dedicated to their job, but it's like anything -- work smarter, not harder.
I admit, I'm not a teacher, but I do have a few friends who are teachers, and occassionally drop by my highschool, more than 10 years later. [I actually gave a talk, when I accidentally dropped in on the day they were covering 'The Internet' and 'Search Engines'] -- it seems to me that the problem isn't so much the size, but problems with such a heterogeneous mix of students. Some students are solitary learners, some learn by example, some are very visual, some like story context, and some have to learn by doing.
It might be possible to take the same idea above (more than one 'class', but instead of seperating by age -- seperate by learning style. [I'm not sure which would be easier to handle, and this would probably need some tests run to validate the idea]
Meanwhile at the Mayo Clinic, Mr. Burns is told he has every disease known and unknown to man, it's just that they are all existing and trying to get through the door together in something the doctor's call "Three Stooges Syndrome". The doctors do warn him that a stiff breeze could kill him.
I have a Palm, and I have multiple Nindendos of different generations. Most of the males from my generation (late 20s) have a better opinion of Nintendo than they do most other consumer electronics companies.
The Nintendo DS has a touch screen on it, that might be useable for writing input -- There comes bundled a little communications package, which accepts 'writing'.
When I first got my DS, I saw how nice it would be to use it as an organizer. Imagine -- being able to claim your nintendo as a tax write-off! [and well, it'd be one less thing to carry with me when I'm travelling].
I'm not much of one for bundling -- I've moved back to an older phone, just so I don't have to wait for java and crap like that to load. But I could see a benefit in this particular combination, provided that the palm wrote out its memory to non-volitile RAM, in case I ever drained the battery from playing games.
And whoever said you'd use them both at the same time? It's possible these days that Nintendo could pack enough memory into one of their cartridges to place the Palm OS on a Nintendo DS cartridge, rather than into the handheld itself.
Although, it'd be rather inconvenient to quit your game, so you could check your address book, it's still a possibility -- but licensing doesn't mean it's going to ever go anywhere. It's good business practice to keep your R&D going, so you can be ready to move in interesting directions. I didn't see anything in the article (which was rather short), saying they were planning on putting it into a specific product, or that we might see it in use in any sort of time frame.
It's intentional that there are multiple glyphs that look the same, but represent different characters in Unicode. (for sorting order, spell checking, etc.)
So you just need to work off of that strength, and flag when someone's mixed any two groups of characters. (I'm not sure what the official Unicode name is for them... the different sets assigned to each language or function).
Anyway, you start with the assumption that a domain name is going to contain only characters from one of those groups, and you report if it's otherwise. Now, there are still problems with people not looking closely, and confusing 'resume.com' with 'résumé.com' or something similar, but you'll fix the problems with identical glyphs.
The important thing to do is to not assume that ASCII is the only 'good' form, as that would make it rather english-centric (I'm not sure what other languages can map all of their characters into ASCII)
My grandfather is Carl Pacifico, and after being a chemical engineer, moved to management, and then, after selling his company, became a business consultant. (which is when he was doing handwriting analysis).
He started studying human behavior, and from that, thinking in general, and now spends his time trying to further research into cognative neuropsychology.
He's not some Miss Clio wanna-be trying to hawk his wares. I don't even know if he's done much with his handwriting analysis work in years, if not decades.
From the times that I've tried analysing other people's (and my own) handwriting, it seems to compare well with what I knew of the people, but I haven't tried doing double blind studies or anything else that would provide statistical proof as to the accuracy of the studies.
They're not by any means 100% accurate, but my grandfather used to do contracting analysing handwriting of potential executive hires for a few companies.
Now, he'll be the first to tell you that it's not a perfect science -- but if you see five different indicators that suggest the person is dishonest, there's a better chance that there's a correlation.
Here are a few points that I remember from reading the manual that he had written --
Pressure of the writing is an indicator of the person's stress level. [how hard are they pushing the writing implement into the paper?].
A person who tends to come back and write back over the top of their words (not to make a correction -- writing over it twice or more) is a sign of dishonesty.
Your normal handwriting tells your personality; Your signature tells how you want people to think you are. (so a person whose signature is like their handwriting is more likely to be comfortable with themselves)
A person whose lines slope downwards as they write tend to be pessimists (if upward, optimists)
There are things that can be infered from the angle the writing, the general shape of letters, how the person dots their i's, the width of the margins, how they place the addresses on the letters.
I would relate handwriting analysis to be more like reading someone's mannerisms and how they dress -- it can be a good indicator, but isn't a perfect correlation. Whereas, astrology and the like are basically just cold reading (normally, based on the person's reactions, mannerisms, and how they dress), and not really on the stars.
Now, that's not to say that someone can read something wrong -- I'm sure it happens all the time -- my grandfather has one indicator (the size of decenders) that he attributes to 'passion' -- someone may attribute it to sexuality, sports, or even as agression and a tendancy towards violance. You have to read it in combination with other indicators.
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I'll agree that someone with cognative learning skills is always a good thing -- but sometimes you can't take the risk of them learning on the job... or not learning, as the case may be.
... blah, blah, blah ... But they might not know enough to be able to fix the problem ... just narrow down where it is. The good folks, in any field, have a realistic view of what their skills are, and they know when they need to get outside help.
Although, based on the people I know who are OCPs, I'd probably take someone who's a generalist over certified Oracle.
But here's where we get to the real problems -- what is the person tasked with doing? Not knowing the correct commands, and having to look up everything when they don't work as expected can slow you down significantly. We're not talking 10-20% loss of effectiveness... we're talking down to 10-20% of total effectiveness. That means we're on par with replacing someone who touch types with someone who does the old hunt-and-peck.
Would you want a really good general doctor performing open heart surgery on you? How about if I told you that they're about 50% as efficient as the specialist that you could have in their place? Do you really want him learning on you? Is it okay if he keeps going back and checking a reference book while you're split open on a table? (and before you complain that this is an unrealistic example -- there are plenty of computer systems that can result in fatalities if someone screws up).
I'm not going to say that generalists don't have their place -- they do. If nothing else, they're not so focused on one thing, that they can help to track down what's gone wrong, so they can then go to the specialist for the knowledge they need.
The specialists need to have a general background in their subject area, before they build up to the specialization. In the case of anyone who manages an application, be it a database, web server, or whatever, you know that you start by analyzing the problem -- look for things that have changed; look for bottlenecks (poor cache performance, memory paging, competing processes, physical reads and writes, etc)
so um... based on my competancy tests, could you even guess my speciality?
I'll agree to a point -- the best security class I ever had was in an 'Engineering Management' department, and it went over general concepts, risk analysis, but never went into details on any particular tools. They mentioned that tools existed to do specific tasks, and they brought out PGP to explain assymetric keys, but that was it. The result was that they covered a lot of the items that can't be fixed by technology -- like users, and the need for policies and training, not just some firewall appliance.
... but equally competent? I don't think so.
However, as someone who's had to switch between apps many, many times, I'd say that it takes a whole lot more than 10-15 minutes to get up to speed on a new technology. The concepts of good SQL structure may remain the same between databases, and you'll be able to get to a basic competent level, but 'show tables' just doesn't work in Oracle (one possibile replacement is 'SELECT TABLE_NAME FROM ALL_TABLES WHERE OWNER='schema name'). Learning the syntax differences between languages takes some time -- figuring out how you have to handle specific tasks, and the refinements between the different apps (eg, some languages may optimize different logic patterns, so one style of loop may be faster in LanguageA, while a different type of loop is faster in LanguageB.)
I'd say that there's a good chance that if the person is truly competent in one application, they'll be competent in another similar application
There was a similar discussion two weeks ago on Perl Monks: Code Samples and Previous Employers
(Although in that case, it was when an interviewer pushed him to violate his NDA)
Red Dwarf, Series 8, Episode 1.
I you've hit on the big issue -- some people don't seem to appreciate that they're impacting your time. With a doctor or lawyer, you may ask for a bit of advice off the top of their head, but you don't expect them to reset a broken bone in their spare time. Asking a mechanic friend if you should worry about a funny noise is different from asking them to rebuild your engine.
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So, if you're going to ask favors from someone, be polite, ask them if they have time for a question, before you expect them to drop everything they're doing, and fix it immediately. Odds are, your being able to check email or play minesweeper isn't a high priority on your friend's list, when they're trying to recover from a bad day at work, where they spent 14 straight days of 12-16 hrs days fixing a server so 35k people could read their email.
For some reason, we don't expect waiters/waitresses to go and get us drinks at our every whim, yet there are some professions (IT, medical, lawyer, seem to be the big ones), where it seems people are just okay with asking them for advise whenever they feel like it.
(oh -- and wearing an 'RTFM' shirt to parties doesn't seem to help, either. You go and explain the significance to someone, and someone else hears half of the explaination, and you get a 'you work in computers? I'm having this weird problem
He gives cooking tips in the extras on Once Upon a Time in Mexico. (and a bit more about making movies and such).
He had a really good tip -- learn to cook your favorite food. Get really good at cooking it, then learn to cook your next favorite, etc.
- The OCR is always correct.
- The documents could be represented in ASCII
- The text is the only part of the document with any value
Of course, your second paragraph shows that clearly those assumptions can't be true -- why would someone pay more for something without an additional benefit?And you wouldn't maintain seperate databases -- pictures aren't searchable. You'd want to use any OCRd (preferably vetted afterwards) as the basis for indexing the images, so that you could help people find more images that might be of interest to them (which you mentioned in the second paragraph). However, I'm not sure what the requirements are that the LOC operates under, so even if they're allowed to do cost recovery or otherwise charge fees.
If you're trying to enter information, the typical mode of input from a laptop is to type, which expects both hands to be available. This is not the case if you're trying to balance the laptop in one arm, while typing one-handed.
Tablets, on the other hand, provide for input through writing. Writing can easily be done with one hand, while you are holding the tablet in the other.
The hinged design of laptops also moves their center of gravity so that they are more difficult to balance on your arm.
The point is -- if it's inconvenient, you're not going to do it. It's fine for the occassional thing, but that's just not acceptable for something that you need to do every day in order to accomplish your job.
The input from a tablet may be crap, but it's still better than trying to use a laptop standing up.
Using a laptop assumes that you have a lap (or other suitable surface) to place it. Basically, tablets are a goodreplacement for things that might've otherwise have been done by someone with a clipboard, while they're standing. (the medical profession comes to mind quickly... I'm guessing there are other uses as well).
... just the bad input of a PDA combined with the bulky inconvenience of a laptop.
Having something to quickly show something, and pass it back and forth between people might be useful, too. (sales? real estate?)
I'm not in one of those fields, so to me, it's fluff
I've seen more than my share of resistance issues. (why the GW Solarcar came in 4th place in the 1995 GM Sunrayce -- because we used conductive epoxy, which caused oxidation on the aluminum, but not until we had some current going through them for a day or two).
... but of course, you don't want to keep too tight of a radius in the long term, but it can be useful when you're trying to snake them through initially). There can also be impedance mismatch, which can cause problems, if you're using cables that were made for a different specification.
That being said, I can think of a few reasons why different cables might be better than others. (I'm not going to justify a specific brand, though, as I'm guessing that there are plenty of other quality products without the extra price).
Others have already commented on resistance, shielding and connector quality -- all very important. You also have issues with the quality of the wire. (microstranded wire can take tighter turns, where you might not be able to get a standard cable to
Oh -- and as to the jewelry comment -- count the number of Hummers/Lexi/Lincolns/etc in a Walmart parking lot. It amazed me.
It might let you call other editors to modify the records -- I've never tried. But it's still better than trying to create the correct LDIF so that you can pass it to ldapmodify, no matter how much you might dislike an editor.
I'd highly recommend that anyone who has to administer LDAP (that's Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, for those who don't use it. [aka NetInfo Services for the mac, or Active Directory for windows]), especially if it's on systems that have tight ACIs for admin rights to look into ldapsh, which lets you walk the tree using cd, and use vi to edit records.
I have no idea if it's just a bad translation, or if they just really have no clue that there are other fantasy role playing games other than Dungeons and Dragons, so they're using it as a generic term.
Also, just because you have folks who are dressed up and have foam weapons, it's not necessarily a LARP. There's also the category 'Live Action Wargamers', who fight, but don't go for that whole character development type stuff. Darkon, Markland, Dagorhir and to some degree, the SCA come to mind. (but the SCAdians will probably take offense to that).
LARPs tend to be less about combat... stuff like NERO and Archaea.
(I have no idea where Amtgard falls, as the only times I've seen their members, they were swinging pretty soft.. and they were using PVC cores, which would break quickly in most wargames, but that might not be all groups)
I haven't had any problems with my gerbers, but then again, everyone uses them a little bit differently.
My first 'multitool' was the original Gerber Multitool, annodized black. You can't get it anymore, as the non-locking blades were a problem. [I don't have it, because someone borrowed it, and I never got it back -- but it held up well for many years, even through my time working on a solar car team in college.] It also had the problem that the Philips screwdriver in it was a #2, so it was useless for small screws.
My next was the SOG Power Pliers. Another nice set, but I did manage to damage the wire cutters (don't try to cut spring steel with 'em -- my own fault, really), and I had changed out some of the components, but I've never seen them offered anywhere other than AAFES, which I don't have access to anymore. I'd say this one held a blade worse than my Gerber. It also doesn't have locking blades, and is a little harder to open one handed. I really like the line cutter though, which I had put in as a replacement. Other issues is that the grip is uncomfortable when trying to use it as pliers. And, it has a #1 Phillips, which is useless on racks, but fine for computer internals. They've fixed my main gripes with the Power Lock [but not the lack of Phillips #2].
I replaced my original MultiPliers with the MultiPlier 600 -- it's not black (but they do make a black version), but it deals with the locking issues from my original. Other than that, there's not much difference.
I've used Leatherman, but I didn't see that it was vastly superior to what I already had. I do keep a Leatherman Micra on my keychain. I also have a Leatherman Squirt S4 that I was given as a gift, but it looks like crap when the enamled coating gets knicked up from your keys. (It is, however, easier on your hands, and has a Phillips #1 vs a #2).
One of my most used tools, though, isn't a knife/plier combo -- it's the Latshaw Pocket Wrench II. It's perfect for tightening down the bolks in a rack. (Especially as the rails for a Sun 220R/420R need you to tighten a nut right where the sides push in, and you can't get a normal wrench in there).
Anyway, whatever you do -- I'd suggest carrying two, preferably different types, with complimentary tool packages. Sure, sometimes you just need pliers or a screwdriver, but I find that I often need to hold a nut, while turning a screw, and so just having one would be mostly useless.
But of course -- I'm mostly just racking equipment, and installing cards and such -- the person who was an electrician, above, most likely needs different gear. [And there are also times when the full fledged item is better -- I keep a screwdriver set in my desk, because it's often faster than using a multitool]
one trillion bits * (1/1.024)**4 = 0.90947 terabits
Using more widely used measurements, they're looking at 116.5 gigabytes per square inch, or 18.0 gigabytes per square centimeter.
When I was in elementary school (DODDS [Department of Defense Dependant Schooling]), we didn't have enough students to spread them out evenly for all of the grades. Twice, I was placed into a mixed-year class.
For some things, the whole class interacted with each other (reading time, recess, etc). But for much of the day, the teacher would teach one grade, while the other group did their classwork assignments. That time might've been otherwise been used by the teacher to grade papers -- but she didn't grade quizzes, tests, homework, or classwork -- the class did.
She would collect up all of our work, mix them up, and hand them back to the class, and give us red pens. If anyone got their own page, we had to trade with whoever was next to us. She'd read out the answers, and we'd mark them, and sign our name as the grader. She'd collect them, and do spot checks to make sure we didn't mess up. [someone could also complain if they were unfairly marked].
Now, in today's high schools, there are chances at people cheating -- spot checks can help, and if you find something was consistently boosting grades, you have it impact their grade negatively. Some folks might complain that kids might make fun of the others who don't get high grades -- yes, there's that chance [we actually had the opposite -- I remember getting teased for getting good grades], but there's also the possibility that if there isn't so much anomynity that kids will have reason to work harder.
I admit, this won't work for essay questions and longer reports, but there is no reason for teachers to be taking home stacks of papers to grade every night. Sure, they might mean well, and be dedicated to their job, but it's like anything -- work smarter, not harder.
I admit, I'm not a teacher, but I do have a few friends who are teachers, and occassionally drop by my highschool, more than 10 years later. [I actually gave a talk, when I accidentally dropped in on the day they were covering 'The Internet' and 'Search Engines'] -- it seems to me that the problem isn't so much the size, but problems with such a heterogeneous mix of students. Some students are solitary learners, some learn by example, some are very visual, some like story context, and some have to learn by doing.
It might be possible to take the same idea above (more than one 'class', but instead of seperating by age -- seperate by learning style. [I'm not sure which would be easier to handle, and this would probably need some tests run to validate the idea]
Sure, we had Broadcast Flag in Trouble and Court Says FCC Out-of-Bounds With Digital TV ...but you also missed Preparing for the Broadcast Flag?, where these this court ruling was already mentioned
The DC Circuit Court isn't so sure the FCC has the right to make that rule.
I have no idea what you can do to try to sway the judicial system, as it's only 2 of 3 so far.
I guess you could contribute to the folks trying to take the FCC to court over this.
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(it was posted 3 weeks ago, under a slightly different subject, for those who don't do regex substitution)
Episode 238: The Mansion Family
Many adults are kids at heart.
I have a Palm, and I have multiple Nindendos of different generations. Most of the males from my generation (late 20s) have a better opinion of Nintendo than they do most other consumer electronics companies.
The Nintendo DS has a touch screen on it, that might be useable for writing input -- There comes bundled a little communications package, which accepts 'writing'.
When I first got my DS, I saw how nice it would be to use it as an organizer. Imagine -- being able to claim your nintendo as a tax write-off! [and well, it'd be one less thing to carry with me when I'm travelling].
I'm not much of one for bundling -- I've moved back to an older phone, just so I don't have to wait for java and crap like that to load. But I could see a benefit in this particular combination, provided that the palm wrote out its memory to non-volitile RAM, in case I ever drained the battery from playing games.
And whoever said you'd use them both at the same time? It's possible these days that Nintendo could pack enough memory into one of their cartridges to place the Palm OS on a Nintendo DS cartridge, rather than into the handheld itself.
Although, it'd be rather inconvenient to quit your game, so you could check your address book, it's still a possibility -- but licensing doesn't mean it's going to ever go anywhere. It's good business practice to keep your R&D going, so you can be ready to move in interesting directions. I didn't see anything in the article (which was rather short), saying they were planning on putting it into a specific product, or that we might see it in use in any sort of time frame.
It's intentional that there are multiple glyphs that look the same, but represent different characters in Unicode. (for sorting order, spell checking, etc.)
... the different sets assigned to each language or function).
So you just need to work off of that strength, and flag when someone's mixed any two groups of characters. (I'm not sure what the official Unicode name is for them
Anyway, you start with the assumption that a domain name is going to contain only characters from one of those groups, and you report if it's otherwise. Now, there are still problems with people not looking closely, and confusing 'resume.com' with 'résumé.com' or something similar, but you'll fix the problems with identical glyphs.
The important thing to do is to not assume that ASCII is the only 'good' form, as that would make it rather english-centric (I'm not sure what other languages can map all of their characters into ASCII)
My grandfather is Carl Pacifico, and after being a chemical engineer, moved to management, and then, after selling his company, became a business consultant. (which is when he was doing handwriting analysis).
He started studying human behavior, and from that, thinking in general, and now spends his time trying to further research into cognative neuropsychology.
He's not some Miss Clio wanna-be trying to hawk his wares. I don't even know if he's done much with his handwriting analysis work in years, if not decades.
From the times that I've tried analysing other people's (and my own) handwriting, it seems to compare well with what I knew of the people, but I haven't tried doing double blind studies or anything else that would provide statistical proof as to the accuracy of the studies.
Now, he'll be the first to tell you that it's not a perfect science -- but if you see five different indicators that suggest the person is dishonest, there's a better chance that there's a correlation.
Here are a few points that I remember from reading the manual that he had written --
- Pressure of the writing is an indicator of the person's stress level. [how hard are they pushing the writing implement into the paper?].
- A person who tends to come back and write back over the top of their words (not to make a correction -- writing over it twice or more) is a sign of dishonesty.
- Your normal handwriting tells your personality; Your signature tells how you want people to think you are. (so a person whose signature is like their handwriting is more likely to be comfortable with themselves)
- A person whose lines slope downwards as they write tend to be pessimists (if upward, optimists)
There are things that can be infered from the angle the writing, the general shape of letters, how the person dots their i's, the width of the margins, how they place the addresses on the letters.I would relate handwriting analysis to be more like reading someone's mannerisms and how they dress -- it can be a good indicator, but isn't a perfect correlation. Whereas, astrology and the like are basically just cold reading (normally, based on the person's reactions, mannerisms, and how they dress), and not really on the stars.
Now, that's not to say that someone can read something wrong -- I'm sure it happens all the time -- my grandfather has one indicator (the size of decenders) that he attributes to 'passion' -- someone may attribute it to sexuality, sports, or even as agression and a tendancy towards violance. You have to read it in combination with other indicators.