Most smokers have what psychologists/psychiatrists call an "oral fixation." So when they quit smoking, they try to ease those cravings by chewing on gum, crunching on veggies or fruit, or eating more.
The other thing is that when you quit smoking, your tastebuds are soon free of the coating of tars and nicotine from smoking, and you can taste more, so food simply tastes better. And if it's tasty, of course you're gonna want to eat more!
Personally I don't think there are any real appetite "suppresant" properties to nicotine. If there are, they're negligable.
So these developers are crying because they invested in a technology that's becoming obsolete? What else is new?
I've got way more dead technologies under my belt than I have active ones. It's the price you pay for being in the computer industry -- some of the skills you pick up will never be used again. Hopefully you learn some techniques from working with those tools that will carry over to future projects, but as long as you got a functional project out the door and in the hands of the users, what difference does it make whether you get to use the tools again?
Then again, I enjoy learning new technologies. I don't expect to be doing the same-old, same-old for years, much less decades. And guess what? I've never learned a tool without learning some skills that did apply down the road.
In order for a doctor to use a text input device, they'd have to be able to spell. And given the number of times my pharmacists have had to call for clarification or "interpret" a doctor's scrawl, I'm pretty sure the vast majority of them can't.
But that doesn't change the fact that speech-recognition technology still can't deal with accents very well, and it's been a long, long time since I've seen a doctor who was born and raised in north america.
The technical teams already have their hands full supporting your systems and customers. Asking them to learn about pricing models and sales techniques will alienate and piss off a lot of them. If a techie wanted to be a sales person, they'd have signed up as a sales rep.
Your sales team, on the other hand, should be trained in the technology they're selling so they can answer customer questions. It's called "knowing your product." And if you don't know you're product, you aren't a good sales rep, just another lizard in a suit.
If your customers "clam up" when transferred to a sales rep, your sales reps aren't doing a good job. Our sales reps get along with our customers, answer the questions they can, and bring in techies on the hard questions. They work with the customer and earn their trust, the same as our techies do. Your problem isn't transferring calls to sales -- it's that your sales team is probably putting on too much pressure to buy upgrades and services that the customer doesn't really need. An unfortunately common situation.
It's not illegal to film them, so you don't need a law explicitly making it legal. What you need is for these thugs to be charged with assault and more.
It may not be illegal in Spain, but the US doesn't care about local laws. The bullies of the world think everyone has to do things their way. There's a reason so much of the world hates the US, and their belligerant public policies are a huge chunk of it.
The sports industry in the US is even more vicious about takedowns than the MPAA or RIAA. They just don't make a big public deal of it the way the latter two do -- they just squash sites as quickly as they can.
Funny how other Science Fiction series manage to incorporate all the special effects they need to tell a story without blowing the bank's budget. Apparently George wants movie-grade FX on a TV budget.
It's like saying that clicking and dragging a mouse cursor to the right should always do the same thing, regardless of the type of program, mode, and what you clicked on.
Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying. If you have non-standard behaviours that need to be coded in an app, they should be handled through pop-up/press-n-hold menus or buttons/icons, not by overloading the meaning of the vocabulary of gestures provided by a platform.
To do otherwise is like having "Delete" menu items meaning delete in some apps, but something else in other apps. You don't overload the meaning of "Delete" -- you use a different menu item label for the "something else."
Gee, an open competitive market and still AT&T is dragging their feet on bringing out competitive and innovative technologies, playing catch up with newer companies. So much for the theory that competition sparks innovation.
The issue isn't with gestures per se. It's whether the gestures and application responses to those gestures are consistent, and they're not. Without consistency, the user doesn't learn how to effectively use a platform, only a handful of applications.
If stroke-right deletes in one case, it should be the gesture for delete in all cases. Without consistency, a UI is non-intuitive and fails at it's primary goal of making a platform usable.
with the ability to plug into virtually any IP-PBX solution in existence
Clearly you've never actually tried to integrate SIP stacks. The hurdles, workarounds, configuration, and general nightmare still end up unworkable far too often. SIP is very flexible -- which means it's not necessarily compatible.
About the only way to subvert the whole process before oil runs out would be to create a renewable organic fuel with limited negatives vis a vis fossilized plant matter.
They already have. It's called bio-diesel. And the hemp version doesn't require all the fertilizers and prime crop land that some bio sources do. But it does require a shift to diesel engines from gasoline engines, something the Europeans are way ahead of North America on doing.
They rescheduled the debates in Canada for the hockey fans. Surely the geeks can get them to reschedule the election now to make room for this broadcast...
A buddy of mine has six heavy internet users on a 10MBit pipe. Believe me, with all of them wanting to stream video, download torrents, play music, etc. they'd exceed the cap in no time.
Access doesn't really mean anything more than having the opportunity to swing by your local library to use one of the public computers from time to time. Access does not mean having personal broadband, an iPad, a netbook, or any of the other gadgets and toys that some would like to think it means.
I do believe that basic access should be a guaranteed right -- but that does not absolve the individual from having to pay their bills, do some legwork to get to the library, or otherwise put in an effort to make use of their rights. Think "voting" -- just because you have a "right" to vote does not mean anyone else has to do diddly squat to help you get to the polling station.
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Most smokers have what psychologists/psychiatrists call an "oral fixation." So when they quit smoking, they try to ease those cravings by chewing on gum, crunching on veggies or fruit, or eating more.
The other thing is that when you quit smoking, your tastebuds are soon free of the coating of tars and nicotine from smoking, and you can taste more, so food simply tastes better. And if it's tasty, of course you're gonna want to eat more!
Personally I don't think there are any real appetite "suppresant" properties to nicotine. If there are, they're negligable.
So these developers are crying because they invested in a technology that's becoming obsolete? What else is new?
I've got way more dead technologies under my belt than I have active ones. It's the price you pay for being in the computer industry -- some of the skills you pick up will never be used again. Hopefully you learn some techniques from working with those tools that will carry over to future projects, but as long as you got a functional project out the door and in the hands of the users, what difference does it make whether you get to use the tools again?
Then again, I enjoy learning new technologies. I don't expect to be doing the same-old, same-old for years, much less decades. And guess what? I've never learned a tool without learning some skills that did apply down the road.
In order for a doctor to use a text input device, they'd have to be able to spell. And given the number of times my pharmacists have had to call for clarification or "interpret" a doctor's scrawl, I'm pretty sure the vast majority of them can't.
But that doesn't change the fact that speech-recognition technology still can't deal with accents very well, and it's been a long, long time since I've seen a doctor who was born and raised in north america.
Had it been a penguin, then it would have been funny...
The video doesn't slander the school.
The video doesn't commit libel against it's teachers.
No one is threatened.
No one is harmed.
WTF are they even complaining about this video for? This kid should be talking to a lawyer and suing the school.. This is Canada, not Nazi Germany.
The technical teams already have their hands full supporting your systems and customers. Asking them to learn about pricing models and sales techniques will alienate and piss off a lot of them. If a techie wanted to be a sales person, they'd have signed up as a sales rep.
Your sales team, on the other hand, should be trained in the technology they're selling so they can answer customer questions. It's called "knowing your product." And if you don't know you're product, you aren't a good sales rep, just another lizard in a suit.
If your customers "clam up" when transferred to a sales rep, your sales reps aren't doing a good job. Our sales reps get along with our customers, answer the questions they can, and bring in techies on the hard questions. They work with the customer and earn their trust, the same as our techies do. Your problem isn't transferring calls to sales -- it's that your sales team is probably putting on too much pressure to buy upgrades and services that the customer doesn't really need. An unfortunately common situation.
It's not illegal to film them, so you don't need a law explicitly making it legal. What you need is for these thugs to be charged with assault and more.
It may not be illegal in Spain, but the US doesn't care about local laws. The bullies of the world think everyone has to do things their way. There's a reason so much of the world hates the US, and their belligerant public policies are a huge chunk of it.
The sports industry in the US is even more vicious about takedowns than the MPAA or RIAA. They just don't make a big public deal of it the way the latter two do -- they just squash sites as quickly as they can.
Funny how other Science Fiction series manage to incorporate all the special effects they need to tell a story without blowing the bank's budget. Apparently George wants movie-grade FX on a TV budget.
Everyone knows it, but I'll state the obvious: The US patent system is badly broken.
Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying. If you have non-standard behaviours that need to be coded in an app, they should be handled through pop-up/press-n-hold menus or buttons/icons, not by overloading the meaning of the vocabulary of gestures provided by a platform.
To do otherwise is like having "Delete" menu items meaning delete in some apps, but something else in other apps. You don't overload the meaning of "Delete" -- you use a different menu item label for the "something else."
Gee, an open competitive market and still AT&T is dragging their feet on bringing out competitive and innovative technologies, playing catch up with newer companies. So much for the theory that competition sparks innovation.
The issue isn't with gestures per se. It's whether the gestures and application responses to those gestures are consistent, and they're not. Without consistency, the user doesn't learn how to effectively use a platform, only a handful of applications.
If stroke-right deletes in one case, it should be the gesture for delete in all cases. Without consistency, a UI is non-intuitive and fails at it's primary goal of making a platform usable.
Clearly you've never actually tried to integrate SIP stacks. The hurdles, workarounds, configuration, and general nightmare still end up unworkable far too often. SIP is very flexible -- which means it's not necessarily compatible.
Man, I can't believe I waited longer for the ads to load than to read the so-called article.
Ad sponsored fluff piece. This was worth mentioning on Slashdot?
They already have. It's called bio-diesel. And the hemp version doesn't require all the fertilizers and prime crop land that some bio sources do. But it does require a shift to diesel engines from gasoline engines, something the Europeans are way ahead of North America on doing.
Oh really? You mean there are existing safety standards for new technology?
And here I thought it was just the engineer's conservative estimates...
They rescheduled the debates in Canada for the hockey fans. Surely the geeks can get them to reschedule the election now to make room for this broadcast...
A buddy of mine has six heavy internet users on a 10MBit pipe. Believe me, with all of them wanting to stream video, download torrents, play music, etc. they'd exceed the cap in no time.
Access doesn't really mean anything more than having the opportunity to swing by your local library to use one of the public computers from time to time. Access does not mean having personal broadband, an iPad, a netbook, or any of the other gadgets and toys that some would like to think it means.
I do believe that basic access should be a guaranteed right -- but that does not absolve the individual from having to pay their bills, do some legwork to get to the library, or otherwise put in an effort to make use of their rights. Think "voting" -- just because you have a "right" to vote does not mean anyone else has to do diddly squat to help you get to the polling station.
If all you want is someone to chat with, there's no shortage of websites where you can hook up with people for that purpose.
Chatting with a bot and pretending it's your girlfriend has got to be the saddest case of self-delusion I've ever heard of.
As long as it runs on the JVM, it's still stuck without support for unsigned data types. Not interested.
Canada never made the mistake of letting websites off the hook for sales tax.
Yet it's interesting to note that they were expected to know Greek and Latin from high school (or equivalent.)
There was also a much greater emphasis on Geography back then. Nowadays that's an optional course.
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