Listen AC moron, if my business was one where fashion was an integral part, you can be damn sure I'd learn plenty about it.
Just as if anyone has to operate a piece of equipment every day they should learn how it operates.
But I guess you're onr of those people who just go to work to collect a paycheck and nothing more, doing no more than necessary to not get fired. Which is exactly the type of person who learns how to perform factory-worker like memorized tasks rather than understanding the how and why of their job and tools.
Seriously, though, this article is a load of hooey. "Fatigue?" Please. It is an inconvenience at most.
I agree. Sounds like the people being mentioned in the comments (especially the Photoshop people) are the type who won't be able to use their machine if your re-arrange the icons on the desktop or...worse yet, log into their machine so that the next time the log on their username isn't automatically in there.
Anyone who's worked internal IT know exactly the users I'm talking about. They can hardly operate a machine, but there are one or two apps that they learned by nothing more than memorization, taking much more time than it should have, and if anything at all changes they freak.
GPS -- while the "big brother" factor is pretty big here, as well as location-dependent SMS advertising, it's also useful for your average user -- like, say, telling your phone to use BLuetooth to sync only when you're a certain computer at XY coords, or a yellow-pages/direction system that can tell "you are here".
I just rented a mobile phone while in the UK, and it knew where I was plenty well enough to tell me local weather and where to find the closest ATM. Towers aren't that far apart.....you don't need the phone to report your position down to a resolution of a few inches to get that kind of information.
I suppose you advocate simply stealing things if the costs get TOO high?
-Need more copies of a book? photocopy it
-Need specific recording for music class? Limewire
-Need some software for the computer lab? Buy one copy and put it on all the machines.
When you move out of your parent's basement you'll probably have a different view on things. Like holding educational institutions to higher moral standards than you hope the general population would have.
And don't think that just because it's been allowed as a loophole in the law that it's the "right" thing to do.
The most obsurd part was that the photos in question were for teaching a PHOTOGRAPHY class. What better way to introduce potential photographers to the business than to show them how to rip off right like a pro, right?
While you've received replies to the contrary, they are WRONG. This is allowed in most cases, because educational institutions don't have to play by copyright laws like the rest of us do.
The "fair use" provisions that have been awarded to them blow giant holes the copyright protection of nearly all forms of media.
Take it from a photographer who's tried to prosecute for stock photos being blatanltly ripped off of a stock house's web site and used in classroom materials without payment or permission.
There aren't enough components on the board (that I can see) unless there is an external power supply.
Most tubes are going to require abot 16,000 volts to the grid. You'll need a nice-sized transformer to step up normal line current to that. And if it's powered off the MB power harness.....well, I son't think that's even possible. What's the highest voltage there? 12v? That trnasformer would have to be huge.
And all of that isn't even taking in to account the heat problems.
"The drops are not designed to be split," she said. "The Internet product needs a dedicated feed so that it runs as efficiently as it's supposed to."
I've seen it installed by Comcast this way SEVERAL time for people with Cable Modems and analog or digital cable.
A Comcast Cable representative said Comcast also performs tap audits to identify customers using unauthorized video hookups.
Right....the tech checking if some moron terminated an extra connection with a screw-on F from RadioShack while he's setting up a neighbor's connection in the same box is not what I'd call an "audit."
The tap audit lets the operator evaluate services piped into the home to see if any are not being paid for.
I'd really like to know how many people actually believe that there is some magic box they can hook up to a cable line and know what you're stealing/what kind of box you have on youe TV/how many splitters you have/etc.
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Since when is an AS/400 a mainframe.
Maybe I'm just a nitpicking geek, but come on writers.....do some f*ing research.
Ford also has close to 50% ownership of Mazda as a company.
Calm down, spanky. It's was a joke.
Software and security don't "wear out". If they seem to, they were broken in the first place.
....or is it all the pr0n?
Then why do my Win2k installs slow down to a crawl after a few weeks and require a re-install to work properly?
Oh yeah....you already explained that. Broken to begin with.
a hit of sufficient size in an ocean would create tsunamis that would wipe out human habitation on the surrounding coasts
That's OK. I've got New Jersey between the ocean and where I live.
Maybe your story was too difficult to prepare for posting due to spelling errors.
Listen AC moron, if my business was one where fashion was an integral part, you can be damn sure I'd learn plenty about it.
Just as if anyone has to operate a piece of equipment every day they should learn how it operates.
But I guess you're onr of those people who just go to work to collect a paycheck and nothing more, doing no more than necessary to not get fired. Which is exactly the type of person who learns how to perform factory-worker like memorized tasks rather than understanding the how and why of their job and tools.
Seriously, though, this article is a load of hooey. "Fatigue?" Please. It is an inconvenience at most.
I agree. Sounds like the people being mentioned in the comments (especially the Photoshop people) are the type who won't be able to use their machine if your re-arrange the icons on the desktop or...worse yet, log into their machine so that the next time the log on their username isn't automatically in there.
Anyone who's worked internal IT know exactly the users I'm talking about. They can hardly operate a machine, but there are one or two apps that they learned by nothing more than memorization, taking much more time than it should have, and if anything at all changes they freak.
GPS -- while the "big brother" factor is pretty big here, as well as location-dependent SMS advertising, it's also useful for your average user -- like, say, telling your phone to use BLuetooth to sync only when you're a certain computer at XY coords, or a yellow-pages/direction system that can tell "you are here".
I just rented a mobile phone while in the UK, and it knew where I was plenty well enough to tell me local weather and where to find the closest ATM. Towers aren't that far apart.....you don't need the phone to report your position down to a resolution of a few inches to get that kind of information.
Anything else is just too big brother for me.
All it takes is someone to grade the test that actually knows what they are doing.
But if they knew enough about coding to do that, they'd have a real job and wouldn't be grading written tests.
Oh well...it was a nice idea.
Try hanging out somewhere other than in crack houses.
What else weighs that same as a duck?
Education costs money.
I suppose you advocate simply stealing things if the costs get TOO high?
-Need more copies of a book? photocopy it
-Need specific recording for music class? Limewire
-Need some software for the computer lab? Buy one copy and put it on all the machines.
When you move out of your parent's basement you'll probably have a different view on things. Like holding educational institutions to higher moral standards than you hope the general population would have.
And don't think that just because it's been allowed as a loophole in the law that it's the "right" thing to do.
The most obsurd part was that the photos in question were for teaching a PHOTOGRAPHY class. What better way to introduce potential photographers to the business than to show them how to rip off right like a pro, right?
I'm not sure where you live or what kind of friends you have
Poor ones, aparrantly.
While you've received replies to the contrary, they are WRONG. This is allowed in most cases, because educational institutions don't have to play by copyright laws like the rest of us do.
The "fair use" provisions that have been awarded to them blow giant holes the copyright protection of nearly all forms of media.
Take it from a photographer who's tried to prosecute for stock photos being blatanltly ripped off of a stock house's web site and used in classroom materials without payment or permission.
Didn't know that about audio tubes. I only know about RF amps, and assumed it was the same...and went brain dead on the grid/plate thing.
So I still don't see 300 volts comming off of that board....do you?
There aren't enough components on the board (that I can see) unless there is an external power supply.
Most tubes are going to require abot 16,000 volts to the grid. You'll need a nice-sized transformer to step up normal line current to that. And if it's powered off the MB power harness.....well, I son't think that's even possible. What's the highest voltage there? 12v? That trnasformer would have to be huge.
And all of that isn't even taking in to account the heat problems.
"The drops are not designed to be split," she said. "The Internet product needs a dedicated feed so that it runs as efficiently as it's supposed to."
I've seen it installed by Comcast this way SEVERAL time for people with Cable Modems and analog or digital cable.
A Comcast Cable representative said Comcast also performs tap audits to identify customers using unauthorized video hookups.
Right....the tech checking if some moron terminated an extra connection with a screw-on F from RadioShack while he's setting up a neighbor's connection in the same box is not what I'd call an "audit."
The tap audit lets the operator evaluate services piped into the home to see if any are not being paid for.
I'd really like to know how many people actually believe that there is some magic box they can hook up to a cable line and know what you're stealing/what kind of box you have on youe TV/how many splitters you have/etc.
You can get a three-phase converter for well under $500 that runs on 220 volts....plug it into your dryer outlet.
Or better yet, just give it to me.
Come on. Proportionality has nothing to do with this from a technological standpoint.
Comparing low-earth orbit satellite access to terrestrial wireless is the proverbial apple to oranges comparison.
OK, now here comes the "mine doens't work exactly like yours" troll who doesn't know that there are other desktops and browsers out there.
SHIFT works with OPERA and IE, probably others. Middle click works with Nutscrape and Mozilla.
And if you actually needed to be told that I'd be surprised if you could find your way back here to read this comment.
It's the people who think they need to create a teaser for their site who are creating the problem.
I'm not connvinced that Flash is ever REALLY necessary, but the above is at least 90% of my problem with it.
Ahhh...but when you wanted to load into running memory you needed the extra ,1. Otherwise it was in user space and you had to RUN it.
Remember those nifty programs that started up as soon as they started loading?
Yes, it occured to me and was dismissed.
I don't like Flash.