I work at a University where Exchange dominates proceedings, like many other institutions. Watching staff and students stampede away from it when they realise there is an IMAP alternative when they are told about it (fine yes Exchange supports IMAP but the Uni's implementation does not) is quite heartening.
If they tried this at my institution there would be riots quite frankly - does everyone in your CS department run Windows? Even in the Biology departments not everyone runs Windows! I certainly couldn't accept this kind of situation occurring for staff, so I wouldn't therefore accept it occurring for students. In a world where the concept of choice is so readily bandied about as being 'a good thing' this is a retrograde step, regardless of who the vendor is.
Of course many of the students and staff already forward their email en masse to Gmail and either store it/deal with it there..
I agree - it's a fantastic book. I've also found help in understanding Asperger's from Martian in the Playground (Clare Sainsbury) but most of all by the excellent book Asperger Syndrome and Long-Term Relationships (Ashley Stanford) which is aimed at 'neurotypical' (NT) partners of people suffering from Asperger's. The latter is particularly good for understanding AS in the context of an adult relationship, but as it is written by an NT rather than AS author is particularly good for those of us who want an insight into the condition.
Whereas I am sick and tired of people trotting out this 'We're all a bit Aspergers' line because we're in IT.
I work partly embedded in an academic CS environment, there are plenty of people there who aren't the most socially adept, but to suggest that these people all have Asperger's is nonsense.
There's a huge problem with people self-diagnosing autistic spectrum disorders, they read a paragraph or two on Asperger's and then they have the 'omg that's me!' moment. I can happily sit around all day picking bits out of DSM criteria that fit my personality.
Let me tell you something, these geeks don't have Asperger's. I have a girlfriend who is diagnosed with Asperger's and believe you me she is nothing like the people I know in the CS department.
Just because you're a bit shy, antisocial, have a thing for code and maths and aren't the most outgoing person in the world doesn't make you fucking Asperger's.
You don't want to be autistic, you don't even want to pretend to be autistic. Watching someone with Asperger's struggle with living day to day is not fun. You geeks don't struggle to live from day to day. Panic attacks are not the sole preserve of people with Asperger's, and when you see an AS suffer 'overloaded' with stimuli you don't want to be around because there's nothing you can do to calm them down and they're using one of their coping mechanisms to keep themselves from literally losing the plot.
Living with Asperger's is not something you should aspire to. You can be logical, antisocial, good with computers and suffer panic attacks and still not be Asperger's or anywhere on the autistic spectrum.
Repeat after me - Wikiepdia is not a fucking doctor, it cannot diagnose you. If you think you all have Asperger's go get a referral to someone who can tell you. Watch as they boot you out of the surgery for wasting their time.
regards,
long suffering partner of a wonderful Asperger's gf.
My solution was to upload as much pornographic material as I could then add people as friends. Those people who blindly authorise add's without checking your profile certainly complain fast enough when xxx material appears in their friends list. I also started filling out the 'report offensive material' on my own account.
"I can confirm this method works. I can also confirm you cannot achieve this by uploading videos - they screen and delete but will not ban your account on ground of you uploading questionable video content. Also if you attempt to upload any shock site material, they have pretty good filters to prevent this from ever being displayed. It took a while, one photograph I uploaded and subsequently reported as being offensive was deemed not to be outside their terms and conditions. The second one however got me banned. If anyone is desparate to know what the content of these two photographs were, well I guess you can but ask."
The first photo was a shot of what can only be described as interracial anal intercourse. The second one a female face covered in what appears to be male ejaculate. Quite why one is deemed offensive and not the other I to this day have no idea:)
"My real bug bear are security lights. I believe that the government has introduced legislation so that troublesome security lights can be removed.
About 20 years ago, one of my neighbours - Brian - installed a security light over his garage. It provided no real protection for the house and the only real benefit was to provide Brian's dog with some illumination for his noctural pee.
And every time Brian's security light went on, oops, there goes any dark adaption or time exposure. Discussions with Brian proved 'ineffective'. The only solution was the one recommended by Patrick Moore - an airgun. He could never figure why so many of his bulbs died so frequently and so spectacularly. (They really do go with a fearsome bang!)":)
From TFWP : "In late 2005, Computing & Communications at the University of Washington began a project to create a new family of email tools built upon the Pine® Message System. This family of tools is called Alpine. Alpine consists of a UNIX command-line program, a PC version, and a Web version.
Alpine will be licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0."
PINE was my first UNIX mail reader on the now defunct MRC HGMP server circa 1995 (how I miss that account) so I grew to love it. That was around the time I still thought PICO was a neat editor. Then I found vi, them vim, then mutt, and I've not looked back:)
I have sat down and read this, as a geneticist for the first time. I'm surprised given how much I've read about the failure to credit Franklin with the work exactly how many times she and Wilkins are referenced and name checked all throughout the paper. At least once per page. It's lovely to read this paper though, without it I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing and to see the discovery of the structre laid bare like this rather than simply shown to me in a textbook is rather wonderful.
I'm not entirely sure this is a problem. We have a heirachy of media that cascades, simplifying down at each stage. In this case we normally have something like Nature article (for the practicing biologist) -> Nature News and Views (for the lazy people who read Nature but can't be arsed to read the article) -> New Scientist article/comment (for the interested layman) -> traditional news media (the proletariat). At each stage something is lost. I don't expect the public to care about a prediction method for the sequences involved in higher ordering of chromatin structure, but the fact they might find out that DNA does more than just 'make genes' I think is a relevant point.
The headline however, is unnecessarily sensationalist..
"The analyst whose laptop was stolen from his house was not a teleworker, just someone who took work home with him."
On what grounds are you going to detract from telecommuting in that statement? Every worker I know a)has a latop and b)moves it around. I don't think any of us would call ourselves telecommuters in any sense of the word. The fact we take work home, on 'theivable' media isn't an argument against telecommuting, it's an argument for us not taking work home!
I know there are telecommuters on/., but everyone I know, even in the IT industry has to go and show some flesh at a physical location to get paid. I'd love to telecommute but to be honest, it's mostly impractical for most people who have to engage with humans to get their job done effectively.
The next question for me is, who is this backlash against?
Having spent the last 2 days trying to get their simply retarded 'Web Publishing Engine' working on a fairly standard OS X install with a perfectly happy FileMaker Advanced Server 8 database server that is also installed there, I cannot recommend this as a great solution. Their technical support people seem to have the 'resintall, reboot' mantra firmly embedded in their heads and no amount of talking to them has made me think that they are adquately trained to support their own software.
That's been de rigeur for summer male fashion in the UK for a couple of years now. I hope to $DEITY it dies a death soon, I'm fed up with watching football hooligan types trying to look metrosexual.. I'm with you though, white, black, navy is as far as it goes;)
Ta for the link. Was playing Eve Online with my headphones on, and the volume up when the website started playing gunshot noises at me. I'm sending you the bill for the repair of my ruptured eardrums
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Cool - You run that? I have an Aspie gf - she loves it and I find it very useful too!
;) Neither of my GoDaddy domains suffered any issues..
To stay on topic
I work at a University where Exchange dominates proceedings, like many other institutions. Watching staff and students stampede away from it when they realise there is an IMAP alternative when they are told about it (fine yes Exchange supports IMAP but the Uni's implementation does not) is quite heartening.
If they tried this at my institution there would be riots quite frankly - does everyone in your CS department run Windows? Even in the Biology departments not everyone runs Windows! I certainly couldn't accept this kind of situation occurring for staff, so I wouldn't therefore accept it occurring for students. In a world where the concept of choice is so readily bandied about as being 'a good thing' this is a retrograde step, regardless of who the vendor is.
Of course many of the students and staff already forward their email en masse to Gmail and either store it/deal with it there..
I agree - it's a fantastic book. I've also found help in understanding Asperger's from Martian in the Playground (Clare Sainsbury) but most of all by the excellent book Asperger Syndrome and Long-Term Relationships (Ashley Stanford) which is aimed at 'neurotypical' (NT) partners of people suffering from Asperger's. The latter is particularly good for understanding AS in the context of an adult relationship, but as it is written by an NT rather than AS author is particularly good for those of us who want an insight into the condition.
Whereas I am sick and tired of people trotting out this 'We're all a bit Aspergers' line because we're in IT.
I work partly embedded in an academic CS environment, there are plenty of people there who aren't the most socially adept, but to suggest that these people all have Asperger's is nonsense.
There's a huge problem with people self-diagnosing autistic spectrum disorders, they read a paragraph or two on Asperger's and then they have the 'omg that's me!' moment. I can happily sit around all day picking bits out of DSM criteria that fit my personality.
Let me tell you something, these geeks don't have Asperger's. I have a girlfriend who is diagnosed with Asperger's and believe you me she is nothing like the people I know in the CS department.
Just because you're a bit shy, antisocial, have a thing for code and maths and aren't the most outgoing person in the world doesn't make you fucking Asperger's.
You don't want to be autistic, you don't even want to pretend to be autistic. Watching someone with Asperger's struggle with living day to day is not fun. You geeks don't struggle to live from day to day. Panic attacks are not the sole preserve of people with Asperger's, and when you see an AS suffer 'overloaded' with stimuli you don't want to be around because there's nothing you can do to calm them down and they're using one of their coping mechanisms to keep themselves from literally losing the plot.
Living with Asperger's is not something you should aspire to. You can be logical, antisocial, good with computers and suffer panic attacks and still not be Asperger's or anywhere on the autistic spectrum.
Repeat after me - Wikiepdia is not a fucking doctor, it cannot diagnose you. If you think you all have Asperger's go get a referral to someone who can tell you. Watch as they boot you out of the surgery for wasting their time.
regards,
long suffering partner of a wonderful Asperger's gf.
Totally OT.. mine are -12. You are the first person I've ever come across with worse eyesight than me :P
Yeah I know, I'm currently seeding it :P
I wonder...
I had the same issue.
:)
My solution was to upload as much pornographic material as I could then add people as friends. Those people who blindly authorise add's without checking your profile certainly complain fast enough when xxx material appears in their friends list. I also started filling out the 'report offensive material' on my own account.
I got the idea from The Consumerist
As my blog on the issue notes:
"I can confirm this method works. I can also confirm you cannot achieve this by uploading videos - they screen and delete but will not ban your account on ground of you uploading questionable video content. Also if you attempt to upload any shock site material, they have pretty good filters to prevent this from ever being displayed. It took a while, one photograph I uploaded and subsequently reported as being offensive was deemed not to be outside their terms and conditions. The second one however got me banned. If anyone is desparate to know what the content of these two photographs were, well I guess you can but ask."
The first photo was a shot of what can only be described as interracial anal intercourse. The second one a female face covered in what appears to be male ejaculate. Quite why one is deemed offensive and not the other I to this day have no idea
From my local astro mailing list:
:)
"My real bug bear are security lights. I believe that the government has
introduced legislation so that troublesome security lights can be removed.
About 20 years ago, one of my neighbours - Brian - installed a security
light over his garage. It provided no real protection for the house and the
only real benefit was to provide Brian's dog with some illumination for his
noctural pee.
And every time Brian's security light went on, oops, there goes any dark
adaption or time exposure. Discussions with Brian proved 'ineffective'. The
only solution was the one recommended by Patrick Moore - an airgun. He
could never figure why so many of his bulbs died so frequently and so
spectacularly. (They really do go with a fearsome bang!)"
Maybe there will be a massive switch to Alpine?
:)
From TFWP : "In late 2005, Computing & Communications at the University of Washington began a project to create a new family of email tools built upon the Pine® Message System. This family of tools is called Alpine. Alpine consists of a UNIX command-line program, a PC version, and a Web version.
Alpine will be licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0."
PINE was my first UNIX mail reader on the now defunct MRC HGMP server circa 1995 (how I miss that account) so I grew to love it. That was around the time I still thought PICO was a neat editor. Then I found vi, them vim, then mutt, and I've not looked back
How will we know when the War On Terror is over?
It's slated to finish shortly after the War On Drugs.
I have sat down and read this, as a geneticist for the first time. I'm surprised given how much I've read about the failure to credit Franklin with the work exactly how many times she and Wilkins are referenced and name checked all throughout the paper. At least once per page. It's lovely to read this paper though, without it I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing and to see the discovery of the structre laid bare like this rather than simply shown to me in a textbook is rather wonderful.
Ah you clearly haven't seen Mr Blair's UK initiative.
Ok it's not retailers, but I think your point was broader than you realise.
Those of us in our 30's or 40's were around to remember when videogaming was invented.
Kids these days!
I'm not entirely sure this is a problem. We have a heirachy of media that cascades, simplifying down at each stage. In this case we normally have something like Nature article (for the practicing biologist) -> Nature News and Views (for the lazy people who read Nature but can't be arsed to read the article) -> New Scientist article/comment (for the interested layman) -> traditional news media (the proletariat). At each stage something is lost. I don't expect the public to care about a prediction method for the sequences involved in higher ordering of chromatin structure, but the fact they might find out that DNA does more than just 'make genes' I think is a relevant point.
The headline however, is unnecessarily sensationalist..
Cool, someone else has come across that book. Ah it brings back all those warm fuzzy zeitgeisty feelings just thinking about it.
I don't run anything ATM, but I used to participate in GIMPs, looking for large Mersenne primes. That's more interesting to me than curing cancer.
Just wait until you get, or someone you know gets it. Your attitude might change.
"The analyst whose laptop was stolen from his house was not a teleworker, just someone who took work home with him."
/., but everyone I know, even in the IT industry has to go and show some flesh at a physical location to get paid. I'd love to telecommute but to be honest, it's mostly impractical for most people who have to engage with humans to get their job done effectively.
On what grounds are you going to detract from telecommuting in that statement? Every worker I know a)has a latop and b)moves it around. I don't think any of us would call ourselves telecommuters in any sense of the word. The fact we take work home, on 'theivable' media isn't an argument against telecommuting, it's an argument for us not taking work home!
I know there are telecommuters on
The next question for me is, who is this backlash against?
Having spent the last 2 days trying to get their simply retarded 'Web Publishing Engine' working on a fairly standard OS X install with a perfectly happy FileMaker Advanced Server 8 database server that is also installed there, I cannot recommend this as a great solution. Their technical support people seem to have the 'resintall, reboot' mantra firmly embedded in their heads and no amount of talking to them has made me think that they are adquately trained to support their own software.
YMMV
That's been de rigeur for summer male fashion in the UK for a couple of years now. I hope to $DEITY it dies a death soon, I'm fed up with watching football hooligan types trying to look metrosexual.. I'm with you though, white, black, navy is as far as it goes ;)
Clearly he was trying to get it past your spam filters.
Part of this work was done by colleagues of mine at the Institute for Research into Environmental Sustainability part of Newcastle University, UK.
The BBC report on this several month old story is here!
Ta for the link. Was playing Eve Online with my headphones on, and the volume up when the website started playing gunshot noises at me. I'm sending you the bill for the repair of my ruptured eardrums
Linky if that's the press release the intro was referring to!
Nonsense, everyone know it was Rowland Rivron..