Here's a follow-on idea: charge users from tiered-supportive ISPs to access your site (or just add a surcharge if you are already selling them something). Explain that you are doing this because you have to pay off their ISP. Nothing educates faster than a hit in the wallet.../t
The problem not with AIM and other similar apps (pure security issues aside) is the (in)ability of people to shut up. It might pose no risk if you chat with a friend for 5 minutes twice a day. But if there are 10 friends and each chat takes 10 minutes, that is not only hours(!) off your work time, but also a concentration breaker.
But that's already the case with both the phone on your desk and the cell phone / gsm in your pocket - and yet most of us don't spend our days yakking with our friends - in fact, we even say things like "I can't talk, i'm busy, i'll call you later." The fact of the matter is that you will never be able to force people to concentrate on their work no matter how well you control their environment. The more you try, the more you're going to piss them off, the more they're going to resent you and the less actual work you'll get out of them.
Hire professionals, treat them like adults, and focus on the results they achieve.
Now, I don't know much here, but just because information is publicly out there doesn't mean a potential employer could legally look at it right?
I'd say if information is publicly available, then it's available to members of the public - including any who might be your potential employers. I know that it's illegal to ask a job applicant questions covering a number of different areas of their private lives (religion, sexual orientation,...) but that's not the same thing. In this day and age, googling a prospective hire is due diligence, not an invasion of privacy.
I mean, just because someone writes something on *the internet* doesn't mean it's true.
The truth will always out... or at least we can hope so. Otherwise we're all just a character assassination from being social pariahs.
In Asia, only South Korea has more than 8% of their total population being identified as Christian (China 1%, Japan 0.7%, Indonesia 8%, Thailand 0.5%, etc).
Yes, but one percent of one point three billion people is thirteen million people. To put that in context, there are more Christians in China than there are people in Ireland... and that's before we start to question the percentage: the CIA world fact book estimates three to four percent. Now we're talking between thirty nine and fifty two million... more than the total population of Spain. I'm not picking a fight, i just wanted to point out that there are so many people in Asia that saying things like "...only x percent of Asians are..." gives a skewed vision of things.
The internet will treat this as damage and route around it if they throttle down people.
Is your home connected to multiple service providers? Because if it isn't, i don't see how you're going to "route around" the fact that there's only one internet line into your house...
parent currently modded at +4 funny, but should really be insightful...
lots of people on both sides of the debate frame the question in terms of human activity "harming the environment" or "hurting the planet". The planet has been around since long before we got here and it will still be around long after we're gone. Forget the whales, we've got to save the humans!
7) people who check in code which breaks cvs or, upon a code review, are found to not sufficiently adhere to your guidelines owe their dev group donuts.
We have a little garden gnome statue for this: he lives on the desk of the latest person to have messed up. We even do a little procession through the workplace to bring him to his new abode.
The book "Dive into Python", which i've seen referred to lower down on this page, is probably *not* a good resource for somebody with no programming experience in that it aims to serve as a very fast introduction to python for people who already know what flow control is. Having said that, once you've gotten a bit more comfortable, do double back and read it because it's a great book!
They don't care how rotten and worm-ridden the inside of the apple is, so long as the outside is bright and shiny.
Which is ironic, given the fact that they're the ones who are going to eat the damn thing - and then complain about the taste. I sometimes get the impression that users expect you to make it pretty during office hours and then come back on your own time and actually make it work.
The choice for home users is usually either A) what they use at work, B) what Bob down the street uses, C) what their neighborhood geek told them to get, or D) what platform they can play the most games on.
The choice of most users is A) what the machine came with when they bought it. Most people don't have the foggiest clue what an operating system is.
Microsoft would never allow Dell or any of the other major manufacturers to sell their boxes with an Apple OS.
Well, Dell already sells machines with factory-installed Linux, so i don't know about *never*, although i do concede that they certainly wouldn't appreciate it, especially since the target market would be different (any maybe bigger? hmmm, something to ponder...)
The real question is what would Apple gain by licensing OSX to Dell (or any other manufacturer/assembler)? They already did licensing deals with a number of third parties way back when, and shut them down post haste when it turned out they where cannibalizing their own sales.
And I'll restate the point others have made: Apple's superiority in terms of user experience is directly attributable to the tight integration between and control of the hardware.
I'll go further than that: Apple's superiority in terms of P/E ratio is directly attributable to the surcharge they can get away with because "they're so pwetty";)
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Here's a follow-on idea: charge users from tiered-supportive ISPs to access your site (or just add a surcharge if you are already selling them something). Explain that you are doing this because you have to pay off their ISP. Nothing educates faster than a hit in the wallet... /t
Postgres is a SQL DATABASE SERVER! it is designed to be installed by people that know what they are doing and can READ.
LMAO! Most excellent comment - put that on a t-shirt.
The problem not with AIM and other similar apps (pure security issues aside) is the (in)ability of people to shut up. It might pose no risk if you chat with a friend for 5 minutes twice a day. But if there are 10 friends and each chat takes 10 minutes, that is not only hours(!) off your work time, but also a concentration breaker.
/t
But that's already the case with both the phone on your desk and the cell phone / gsm in your pocket - and yet most of us don't spend our days yakking with our friends - in fact, we even say things like "I can't talk, i'm busy, i'll call you later." The fact of the matter is that you will never be able to force people to concentrate on their work no matter how well you control their environment. The more you try, the more you're going to piss them off, the more they're going to resent you and the less actual work you'll get out of them.
Hire professionals, treat them like adults, and focus on the results they achieve.
It's not rocket science.
Welcome to the new world, where truth doesnt really matter. Doubt me? Just look around..Truth is totally optional, its all about smear.
What's so "new world" about that? "Smear" has probably been around for as long as language.
Now, I don't know much here, but just because information is publicly out there doesn't mean a potential employer could legally look at it right?
...) but that's not the same thing. In this day and age, googling a prospective hire is due diligence, not an invasion of privacy.
I'd say if information is publicly available, then it's available to members of the public - including any who might be your potential employers. I know that it's illegal to ask a job applicant questions covering a number of different areas of their private lives (religion, sexual orientation,
I mean, just because someone writes something on *the internet* doesn't mean it's true.
The truth will always out... or at least we can hope so. Otherwise we're all just a character assassination from being social pariahs.
In Asia, only South Korea has more than 8% of their total population being identified as Christian (China 1%, Japan 0.7%, Indonesia 8%, Thailand 0.5%, etc).
Yes, but one percent of one point three billion people is thirteen million people. To put that in context, there are more Christians in China than there are people in Ireland... and that's before we start to question the percentage: the CIA world fact book estimates three to four percent. Now we're talking between thirty nine and fifty two million... more than the total population of Spain. I'm not picking a fight, i just wanted to point out that there are so many people in Asia that saying things like "...only x percent of Asians are..." gives a skewed vision of things.
Here here.
Where? Where?
http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mhear.html/
I thought west meant counterclockwise.
No, that would be widdershins
That was a historical aberration and there's no economic policy that will bring it back
Noooooooo!
All my hopes are still pinned on the IT fairy.
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/feb 2006/tc20060209_810527.htm
20 mbit? Bastard!
Here in sunny funny Belgium ADSL maxes out at 4.4 mbit and cable at 10 mbit. For about the same price too...
The internet will treat this as damage and route around it if they throttle down people.
Is your home connected to multiple service providers? Because if it isn't, i don't see how you're going to "route around" the fact that there's only one internet line into your house...
parent currently modded at +4 funny, but should really be insightful...
lots of people on both sides of the debate frame the question in terms of human activity "harming the environment" or "hurting the planet". The planet has been around since long before we got here and it will still be around long after we're gone. Forget the whales, we've got to save the humans!
7) people who check in code which breaks cvs or, upon a code review, are found to not sufficiently adhere to your guidelines owe their dev group donuts.
We have a little garden gnome statue for this: he lives on the desk of the latest person to have messed up. We even do a little procession through the workplace to bring him to his new abode.
Now, some books that might help:
There's also the book "How to Think Like a Computer Scientist - Learning with Python" available for free at http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/thinkCSpy/
The book "Dive into Python", which i've seen referred to lower down on this page, is probably *not* a good resource for somebody with no programming experience in that it aims to serve as a very fast introduction to python for people who already know what flow control is. Having said that, once you've gotten a bit more comfortable, do double back and read it because it's a great book!
no comment...
Well, Bob Cringely did notice something interesting - check out these two links:
http://www.apple.com/movies
http://www.apple.com/hello
hmmmmm...
doesn't mean they will, doesn't mean they won't... but it might mean they might.
Unless it's Apple's intention that you don't watch the content on your video iPod, this seems very highly unlikely.
The apple store is selling an AV cable to "...connect your iPod to a television -- either directly or via the Universal Dock" - price: $19
On what grounds would a suit be filed do you suspect?
On the grounds that they're already paying those legal retainers, so why the hell not? It's nice to have grounds, but money is all you need.
err... but.... i mean...
you're right. i'll get my coat.
The only tab feature I'd like from Firefox is the warning on closing the whole window when you have multiple tabs open.
that should be in tools -> options -> tabbed browsing -> Features, under "warn on closing a window with multiple tabs open"
i say *should be* because i have entirely too many extensions installed, i don't know what's stock any more.
It should be configurable as "browser.tabs.warnOnClose" in about:config
They don't care how rotten and worm-ridden the inside of the apple is, so long as the outside is bright and shiny.
Which is ironic, given the fact that they're the ones who are going to eat the damn thing - and then complain about the taste. I sometimes get the impression that users expect you to make it pretty during office hours and then come back on your own time and actually make it work.
The choice for home users is usually either A) what they use at work, B) what Bob down the street uses, C) what their neighborhood geek told them to get, or D) what platform they can play the most games on.
The choice of most users is A) what the machine came with when they bought it. Most people don't have the foggiest clue what an operating system is.
Microsoft would never allow Dell or any of the other major manufacturers to sell their boxes with an Apple OS.
;)
Well, Dell already sells machines with factory-installed Linux, so i don't know about *never*, although i do concede that they certainly wouldn't appreciate it, especially since the target market would be different (any maybe bigger? hmmm, something to ponder...)
The real question is what would Apple gain by licensing OSX to Dell (or any other manufacturer/assembler)? They already did licensing deals with a number of third parties way back when, and shut them down post haste when it turned out they where cannibalizing their own sales.
And I'll restate the point others have made: Apple's superiority in terms of user experience is directly attributable to the tight integration between and control of the hardware.
I'll go further than that: Apple's superiority in terms of P/E ratio is directly attributable to the surcharge they can get away with because "they're so pwetty"
errr, i'm the guy arguing that people *should* be allowed to filter what they see, remember?
forget preview - try forethought.