1. Look at books from Christopher Alexander, the author of "Design Patterns" for Architecture/Environmental Architecture. Christopher Alexander advocates that you can't possibly design and think of everything at once, even in architecture, so you should leave some flexibility in your building process so you can change the layout as people use it.
2. Look at some Feng Shui books. Even if you don't believe in some of that hocus pocus, there is still some advice in there that makes a lot of sense.
3. And finally, look at a book called "The Social Life of Information", this will tell you how information propagates through the office, and it talks about some really cool office layouts/experiments that have miserably failed in real life.
No, but at least we shouldn't have loaned him one billion dollars just after he massacred all those Kurds. We knew about it. The whole world knew about it.
Please educate yourself before you take the moral high ground.
". I'm tired of spending the first 10 minutes of my day rebooting just so I can get to work.
I must be very lucky because I typically go weeks without rebooting."
Luck and may be even a good power supply. The most overlooked piece of hardware that can cause frequent crashes is the power supply. And also, crashing can also depend on the kind of software you're using as well. For instance, I've seen a number of crashes when only Dreamweaver MX was running.
The "cheaper labor" would be Americans:-) Actually Chinese and Korean according to the article.
Don't forget technology. Technology has helped automate a lot of those Animation jobs previously done by humans.
Another example of how short-sighted greed can ruin culture/world-class skill set of a country.
It hasn't ruined the Japanese anime culture. There is more Japanese anime than ever before. And it hasn't ruined the world-class skill set of the country either. In some ways, the Japanese anime industry is a lot like the Hollywood Movie industry, it's so competitive, most of the small fries who work in it won't ever make any money, but they'll certainly die trying anyway.
I'd recommend Activewords (a Macro?? language for Windows -- it's the easiest to learn), Lazslo (an easy Flash tag based language), or Ruby (an easy object-oriented scripting language)
"but there are several legitamite reasons they may not send an itemized bill."
Find me a company that sucks and I'll provide you with "legitimate" reasons of why they suck. If their system is not up to snuff, then it's their responsibility to change it. I don't see what's the use in classifying their incompetency as legitimate.
In the 1990s, the NYPD developed an intensely data-driven style of policing centered around a program called CompStat, which basically tracks crimes and their locations, times, etc. This allows the police to see where things are heating up and deploy more and better-targeted resources to the area. It's been extremely effective, and crime has dropped about 60-70%.
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This reminds me of all those LCD screens shown in the background of those stock market news shows. It gives an illusion of authority, credibility, and control. I expect that many interviews and press conferences will be given in front of this war room.
Now, if we could only staff this war room with a bunch of good looking out-of-work actors and a couple of embedded journalists, then we would be all set and New York would be ready for just about anything.
The article doesn't say the student sued, it said the student is "to sue", and the article didn't interview anyone else on this story -- so I assume the student is entertaining his own little private fantasy and the paper published it just to get a rile out of us.
"A student who was booted off his degree course for plagiarism is to sue the university."
Actually you emails are copyright so your aunt does not have the right to publish it on the internet or anywhere else without express permission of you, the copyright holder. Similarly permission should be sought for resending on the information, although of course in most cases this is considered implicit by context.
Yes and no. You can claim your email is copyrighted and you can even have your lawyer append a little legal warning at the bottom of your email, but don't count on a court enforcing copyright for you. If you don't trust the recipient, sending sensitive valuable private information is simply asking for trouble, the doctrine of fair use is too broad and too vague for that.
I used to work for a large corporation that was threatening to sue an individual student. The student scanned and published every threatening letter (snail mail) we sent him, eventually we stopped going after him -- we felt this was making us look bad.
Copyright doesn't prevent people from publishing and criticizing letters that you send them. Copyright doesn't prevent people from paraphrasing and publishing quotes from your letters. And Copyright is certainly not going to prevent people from analyzing and indexing your emails. Again, the recipient gets to decide what they can do with your email and if they chose to get it indexed for marketing purposes, it is not going to infringe on your copyright. Hell, copyright doesn't even apply to private directory information, copyright is not there to protect your privacy, its purpose is to protect your creative work. So unless, you're sending your aunt a new manuscript and she decides to publish it entirely, I think this is a non-issue.
...landlord-tenant relations, that in order to prevent one side from being excessively harmed by the concentration of power on the other side, the government has seen fit to legislate.
Interestingly enough, the best landlords I've ever had were located in cities that did not have rent-control and did not have much of renters protection.
When either the landlord or the renter can get rid of each other pretty quickly, you wouldn't believe how healthy and civil the relationship is between the two.
How would you like it if you never had to pay for a call again, but you couldn't find a provider who offered ad-free service, or who promised not to listen in on your calls? After all, if 90% of the market loves the free service and doesn't care about the privacy issues, who are you to say they shouldn't have it?
If just one percent of the population wants to make phone calls privately, then that's enough of a need to have a niche-market. Bucking the trend is profitable for some companies.
It's _VERY_ different from a letter to your aunt that is sealed in an envelope and is strictly private. In fact, it's a federal offense to open said letter if you aren't the authorized recipient. Your letter analogy only applies to encrypted e-mail communication, which is used, I'm guessing, less than 10% of the time.
And yet, the aunt in question still has the right to show your letter to someone else, scan it and publish it on the internet, ask someone else to open it for her, etc.
In other words, the sender still has no control over the letter once he has sent it to the recipient. The responsibility falls on the recipient to do what she wants with the letter.
And it seems to me, people are trying to control something they never had the control of in the first place.
And how about those people who are forwarding their OTHER email addresses to their gmail accounts? How can we tell that joesixpack@hotmail.com is forwarding to joesixpack@gmail.com?
Once you send your email off, it's no longer yours to control. This follows the laws of nature and the laws of the land.
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Telecommuting doesn't work. Read "The Social Life of Information" for sources.
2. Look at some Feng Shui books. Even if you don't believe in some of that hocus pocus, there is still some advice in there that makes a lot of sense.
3. And finally, look at a book called "The Social Life of Information", this will tell you how information propagates through the office, and it talks about some really cool office layouts/experiments that have miserably failed in real life.
Considered it confirmed, although the original statement is a bit somewhat exaggerated.
Please educate yourself before you take the moral high ground.
I must be very lucky because I typically go weeks without rebooting."
Luck and may be even a good power supply. The most overlooked piece of hardware that can cause frequent crashes is the power supply. And also, crashing can also depend on the kind of software you're using as well. For instance, I've seen a number of crashes when only Dreamweaver MX was running.
Speak for yourself. I use a Linux box as my primary PC and upgrading is a pain in the neck for me. If it ain't broken, don't fix it, that's my moto.
Don't forget technology. Technology has helped automate a lot of those Animation jobs previously done by humans.
Another example of how short-sighted greed can ruin culture/world-class skill set of a country.
It hasn't ruined the Japanese anime culture. There is more Japanese anime than ever before. And it hasn't ruined the world-class skill set of the country either. In some ways, the Japanese anime industry is a lot like the Hollywood Movie industry, it's so competitive, most of the small fries who work in it won't ever make any money, but they'll certainly die trying anyway.
Too bad you're addicted to Slashdot now...
I'd recommend Activewords (a Macro?? language for Windows -- it's the easiest to learn), Lazslo (an easy Flash tag based language), or Ruby (an easy object-oriented scripting language)
Find me a company that sucks and I'll provide you with "legitimate" reasons of why they suck. If their system is not up to snuff, then it's their responsibility to change it. I don't see what's the use in classifying their incompetency as legitimate.
How do you know the drop was due to CompStat and not to Giulani's controversial law enforcement practices?h tml
http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/nycrime.htm
http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/newyork.
Now, if we could only staff this war room with a bunch of good looking out-of-work actors and a couple of embedded journalists, then we would be all set and New York would be ready for just about anything.
"A student who was booted off his degree course for plagiarism is to sue the university."
Yes and no. You can claim your email is copyrighted and you can even have your lawyer append a little legal warning at the bottom of your email, but don't count on a court enforcing copyright for you. If you don't trust the recipient, sending sensitive valuable private information is simply asking for trouble, the doctrine of fair use is too broad and too vague for that.
I used to work for a large corporation that was threatening to sue an individual student. The student scanned and published every threatening letter (snail mail) we sent him, eventually we stopped going after him -- we felt this was making us look bad.
Copyright doesn't prevent people from publishing and criticizing letters that you send them. Copyright doesn't prevent people from paraphrasing and publishing quotes from your letters. And Copyright is certainly not going to prevent people from analyzing and indexing your emails. Again, the recipient gets to decide what they can do with your email and if they chose to get it indexed for marketing purposes, it is not going to infringe on your copyright. Hell, copyright doesn't even apply to private directory information, copyright is not there to protect your privacy, its purpose is to protect your creative work. So unless, you're sending your aunt a new manuscript and she decides to publish it entirely, I think this is a non-issue.
I agree with most of your post, but please note that you no longer need to send in your material in order to register it for copyright.
Japanese cars, not American cars. Get your facts straight.
Interestingly enough, the best landlords I've ever had were located in cities that did not have rent-control and did not have much of renters protection.
When either the landlord or the renter can get rid of each other pretty quickly, you wouldn't believe how healthy and civil the relationship is between the two.
If just one percent of the population wants to make phone calls privately, then that's enough of a need to have a niche-market. Bucking the trend is profitable for some companies.
Who cares about your problem? If you email-me, I have the right to publish your email on my web site, period.
And yet, the aunt in question still has the right to show your letter to someone else, scan it and publish it on the internet, ask someone else to open it for her, etc.
In other words, the sender still has no control over the letter once he has sent it to the recipient. The responsibility falls on the recipient to do what she wants with the letter. And it seems to me, people are trying to control something they never had the control of in the first place.
Once you send your email off, it's no longer yours to control. This follows the laws of nature and the laws of the land.
The difference is that this is a high-visibility service and politicians thrive on staying visible.
Had Google been a no-name company, the service would never have made the mainstream press and the politicians would never have blocked it.
Sadly, that's usually the case. I've seen both the US and France do projects for that reason.
The way Section 107 is written, I do not understand it either. Can you link to a page that explains fair use a little better?
A couple of years ago, Opera was the most user-friendly and the most accessible browser on the market.