I would take the opposite stance. Anyone who has ever worked for the government, and that includes the military/americorps, shouldn't be allowed to vote. There is a conflict of interest otherwise.
You wouldn't want to have your maid set her own salary and decide her own job description. Would you?
The superstition came from France and it was true only when the maid broke the mirror. The rule was that she would have to work seven years for free for her employer.
Your article is from Fast Company. Fast Company is not a credible source. If you're ever interviewed by Fast Company, they will lick your ass and say you are god. I know this because they interviewed my boss once, and I knew for a fact he wasn't god.
Going FreeBSD for the web box, Oracle and Linux for the application server, and Windows for the file servers, just isn't piratical. When you choose a system unless there is very unusual circumstances you only go with one platform.
I wonder why you picked this particular combination. Oracle is is like a $500,000 industrial truck
Few of us can afford it and few of us need its capabilities. FreeBSD and Linux are similar, but not quite interchangeable, so you could simply pick the one with the features you really need.
I guess what's missing from your scenario is the needs of your company. How many employees do you support? What are their jobs? What are the different departments? It's not necessarily what you need, it's what your employer needs?
Total information awareness is a form of socialism. The public is subsidizing the cost of security, when individuals and corporations should take care and pay for the cost of their own security.
The US government funded Osama Bin Laden when he was committing acts of terrorism against the USSR. The US government funded and incited atrocious acts of terrorism all throughout South America, Asia, and the Middle East. Go ahead, dispute any of my claims, and I'll find you a reputable source for it. "They didn't create the situation." My ass.
In the perfect world of an IT administrator, graphic designers wouldn't need Macs, developers wouldn't need different languages, and different departments wouldn't need different software packages. I am glad you feel you live in that world, because it is certainly not the same world I live in.
.NET didn't clone Java. To be more technically accurate,.NET and Java were both inspired from SmallTalk. And it's more like each company hired some of the best people in the country and all those best people all happened to have done of their research on SmallTalk.
"...Hmm if anyone has access to Microsoft Partner Source they have pretty good presentation on ROI of a Windows Server vs Linux. Basically it said that with just a web server Linux has the better ROI, but when it came to an applications server Windows not only has better ROI, but a more complete applications suite, many available as both 1st and 3rd developers "
In other words, Microsoft thinks it's better than Linux (except in the simplest cases). I'll be damned !
What's next, companies making hammers saying that their hammers have better ROIs than screwdrivers.
I wander how such a presentation would go. "When nailing three hundred nails, each nail costing around $0.5, each MS hammer costing $7, each LN screwdriver costing $.50, each employee costing $10 an hour, [...]; our MS Hammer does the job 5000 times more accurately than our LN Screwdriver, therefore the ROI with a MS hammer is superior to LN screwdriver by a factor of blah...blah."
Hopefully, most IT managers already know that Linux and Windows are not necessarily interchangeable. They're both different tools with different capabilities and it sure would be stupid not to have both those tools in your toolbox.
I agree, in California the "deregulation" of the electricity-generating industry was actually a "reregulation" and not a deregulation.
I don't know which is worst, Democrats who want price caps on everything, or Republicans who keep on using words like "deregulation", or "liberation", to mean the exact opposite situation.
As someone who supports free trade, helping someone out or helping a country out is not my primary purpose. Helping myself is my primary purpose. It's all about helping myself get cheaper consumer goods and services. And if this behavior happens to help out some third world country, that's even better, but again, that's not my primary purpose.
Personally, I find your comparaison to slavery offensive. What you are advocating is slavery. Free trade is not slavery. Putting a gun to my head so I can not "shop around" is slavery.
In the past seven years, I have edited the writing of a number of professionals--including instructional designers, engineers, management consultants, environmental planners, biologists, psychologists, Army officers, and journalists--who write with computers. Like most users of word processing, these are not "writers"--they are professionals whose work requires them to write. Few of these have ever heard of "the writing process," and few have had any formal training since freshman English 20 years ago. For them, like millions of others, writing by computer is largely a self-taught enterprise.
Although most of these professionals share the belief that computers help them write, they display specific writing problems that may actually be caused, or accentuated, by the fact that they write on computers.
There are two reasons why the writing problems of professionals may be important to teachers of writing. First, students that I have taught (graduate students in instructional development and education, juniors and seniors majoring in communication and journalism) show similar tendencies when they write on computers. Though student writers may not have enough experience to demonstrate all of them, they distinctly gravitate toward the writing problems described here.
Second, many students from writing classes will soon be surrounded by people who have largely taught themselves writing and word processing. These self-taught professionals will become your graduates' next writing instructors--and their bosses. Unless students bring with them enough experience to maintain and defend good writing habits--the kind that make them effective, productive writers--they may be swamped by the kind of writing habits and writing problems common among self-taught professionals.
I will describe the problems I have observed among "real world" users of word processing and suggest some strategies for working with future professionals while they are still your students. What I have to say will apply best to nonfiction writing that is amenable to strong focus and clear organization--functional writing of the kind required of professionals in many fields.
The Editing Trap [Substituting Writing for Thinking]
Computers seem to tempt people to substitute writing for thinking. When they write with a computer, instead of rethinking their drafts for purpose, audience, content, strategy, and effectiveness, most untrained writers just keep editing the words they first wrote down. I have seen reports go through as many as six versions without one important improvement in the thought. In such writing, I find sentences that have had their various parts revised four or five times on four or five different days. Instead of focusing, simplifying, and enlivening the prose, these writers tend to graft on additional phrases, till even the qualifiers are qualified and the whole, lengthening mess slows to a crawl.
Drawn in by the word processor's ability to facilitate small changes, such writers neglect the larger steps in writing. They compose when they need to be planning, edit when they need to be revising.
Problems in Collaboration by Computer
Computers encourage more collaborative writing, and they encourage the collaboration to be far more intense. Before computers, the usual form of collaboration consisted of dividing up the work so that different authors wrote different chapters; then they reviewed one another's work. Writing with computers, though, collaborators can enter into one another's work so readily and revise it so easily that, in effect, co-authors can mutually co-write each sentence.
This kind of collaborative writing can be difficult to read. No two writers have quite the same sense about punctuation, tone, rhythm, headings, sentence variation,
20 years ago? Try 205 years ago. In 1798, Thomas Malthus predicted a doomsday scenario based on population growth and resource scarcity. In the end, his theory flopped -- all his predictions were proven incorrect by the reality of our survival and our continued population growth.
History seems to be repeating itself. When the prediction of Global Warming stops going according to plan -- another revised version of a doomsday scenario will be there to take its place. I am sure that the Malthusian theory wasn't the first and that Global Warming won't be the last.
Obviously, you've never been called by an automated voice telemarketing system. What do you do when it's a recording. Do you wait on the line, press all the buttons they ask you to press, so you can waste the time of the telemarketer when you *finally* get to reach him/her.
And what do you when it's simply just an automated dialer. With automated dialers, it means they call you and if you happen to pick up, you get put into a queue and you have to wait until the telemarketer talks to you. This way, the telemarketer in question doesn't waste anytime waiting for the phone to ring. And if the telemarketer doesn't have the time to speak to you, you're left hanging on the phone until their machine hangs up on you and you have no idea who was on the other line because their machine didn't say anything.
Sometimes, I pick up dozens of dud calls the same day, my caller id shows the same thing unknown name and unknown number, and then when I finally get connected, I find out it was only a telemarketer trying to reach me all those times.
Granted, my case is a bit special, my mother is visiting me from my home country and she is so naive about those things, she littered the entire internet with my contact info looking for special deals on travel. But still, this really pisses me off.
While this is not really a copyright issue, now we're allowed to take pictures of Starbucks. Before this, most Starbucks managers used to politely ask you to put your camera away, and it's rumored that at least one stupid manager tried to confiscate the camera of someone who had taken the picture of a friend inside his Starbucks. http://emergentreport.com/dj/archives/000360.html
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You wouldn't want to have your maid set her own salary and decide her own job description. Would you?
(/tongue seriously implanted in my cheek)
It may have worked in your case, but it didn't work in the UK when British Telecom was a government entity.
The superstition came from France and it was true only when the maid broke the mirror. The rule was that she would have to work seven years for free for her employer.
Your article is from Fast Company. Fast Company is not a credible source. If you're ever interviewed by Fast Company, they will lick your ass and say you are god. I know this because they interviewed my boss once, and I knew for a fact he wasn't god.
I wonder why you picked this particular combination. Oracle is is like a $500,000 industrial truck Few of us can afford it and few of us need its capabilities. FreeBSD and Linux are similar, but not quite interchangeable, so you could simply pick the one with the features you really need.
I guess what's missing from your scenario is the needs of your company. How many employees do you support? What are their jobs? What are the different departments? It's not necessarily what you need, it's what your employer needs?
I wasn't. I was trying to be funny. I guess I need to work on it.
It's just that I couldn't document my first claim although I know it's true. Oh well...
I guess you're right. When a gang member gets killed as retaliation for having killed someone else the previous day. We can condemn the new killer, but not the dead killer. Noone was "wearing those tight pants" as Fox News is trying to make us believe and even if anyone was, that's the least of people's worries. Our government has actually _killed_ thousands of innocent people before 9/11. If you don't believe me, please say so, say which fact you don't believe -- I am tired of arguing clichés and vague generalities.
What? Next thing you'll tell me is that XML/XSLT is not a derivative of Scheme.
Total information awareness is a form of socialism. The public is subsidizing the cost of security, when individuals and corporations should take care and pay for the cost of their own security.
People will never accept the head of CIA as their leader. I don't know what the guy is smoking.
The US government funded Osama Bin Laden when he was committing acts of terrorism against the USSR. The US government funded and incited atrocious acts of terrorism all throughout South America, Asia, and the Middle East. Go ahead, dispute any of my claims, and I'll find you a reputable source for it. "They didn't create the situation." My ass.
In the perfect world of an IT administrator, graphic designers wouldn't need Macs, developers wouldn't need different languages, and different departments wouldn't need different software packages. I am glad you feel you live in that world, because it is certainly not the same world I live in.
.NET didn't clone Java. To be more technically accurate, .NET and Java were both inspired from SmallTalk. And it's more like each company hired some of the best people in the country and all those best people all happened to have done of their research on SmallTalk.
In other words, Microsoft thinks it's better than Linux (except in the simplest cases). I'll be damned !
What's next, companies making hammers saying that their hammers have better ROIs than screwdrivers. I wander how such a presentation would go. "When nailing three hundred nails, each nail costing around $0.5, each MS hammer costing $7, each LN screwdriver costing $.50, each employee costing $10 an hour, [...]; our MS Hammer does the job 5000 times more accurately than our LN Screwdriver, therefore the ROI with a MS hammer is superior to LN screwdriver by a factor of blah...blah."
Hopefully, most IT managers already know that Linux and Windows are not necessarily interchangeable. They're both different tools with different capabilities and it sure would be stupid not to have both those tools in your toolbox.
It is pretty cool. Has anyone tried it yet? If this thing can go faster than 40 words per minute, I'll download it.
I don't know which is worst, Democrats who want price caps on everything, or Republicans who keep on using words like "deregulation", or "liberation", to mean the exact opposite situation.
Personally, I find your comparaison to slavery offensive. What you are advocating is slavery. Free trade is not slavery. Putting a gun to my head so I can not "shop around" is slavery.
Not a big market now, but who knows what will happen twenty-thirty years from now.
The "Social Life of Information", a book written by researchers at Xerox PARC, has a very good critic of Online Education. I highly recommend it.
http://www.longleaf.net/ggrow/computerbad.html
[How Computers Cause Bad Writing]
In the past seven years, I have edited the writing of a number of professionals--including instructional designers, engineers, management consultants, environmental planners, biologists, psychologists, Army officers, and journalists--who write with computers. Like most users of word processing, these are not "writers"--they are professionals whose work requires them to write. Few of these have ever heard of "the writing process," and few have had any formal training since freshman English 20 years ago. For them, like millions of others, writing by computer is largely a self-taught enterprise.
Although most of these professionals share the belief that computers help them write, they display specific writing problems that may actually be caused, or accentuated, by the fact that they write on computers.
There are two reasons why the writing problems of professionals may be important to teachers of writing. First, students that I have taught (graduate students in instructional development and education, juniors and seniors majoring in communication and journalism) show similar tendencies when they write on computers. Though student writers may not have enough experience to demonstrate all of them, they distinctly gravitate toward the writing problems described here.
Second, many students from writing classes will soon be surrounded by people who have largely taught themselves writing and word processing. These self-taught professionals will become your graduates' next writing instructors--and their bosses. Unless students bring with them enough experience to maintain and defend good writing habits--the kind that make them effective, productive writers--they may be swamped by the kind of writing habits and writing problems common among self-taught professionals.
I will describe the problems I have observed among "real world" users of word processing and suggest some strategies for working with future professionals while they are still your students. What I have to say will apply best to nonfiction writing that is amenable to strong focus and clear organization--functional writing of the kind required of professionals in many fields.
The Editing Trap [Substituting Writing for Thinking]
Computers seem to tempt people to substitute writing for thinking. When they write with a computer, instead of rethinking their drafts for purpose, audience, content, strategy, and effectiveness, most untrained writers just keep editing the words they first wrote down. I have seen reports go through as many as six versions without one important improvement in the thought. In such writing, I find sentences that have had their various parts revised four or five times on four or five different days. Instead of focusing, simplifying, and enlivening the prose, these writers tend to graft on additional phrases, till even the qualifiers are qualified and the whole, lengthening mess slows to a crawl.
Drawn in by the word processor's ability to facilitate small changes, such writers neglect the larger steps in writing. They compose when they need to be planning, edit when they need to be revising.
Problems in Collaboration by Computer
Computers encourage more collaborative writing, and they encourage the collaboration to be far more intense. Before computers, the usual form of collaboration consisted of dividing up the work so that different authors wrote different chapters; then they reviewed one another's work. Writing with computers, though, collaborators can enter into one another's work so readily and revise it so easily that, in effect, co-authors can mutually co-write each sentence.
This kind of collaborative writing can be difficult to read. No two writers have quite the same sense about punctuation, tone, rhythm, headings, sentence variation,
History seems to be repeating itself. When the prediction of Global Warming stops going according to plan -- another revised version of a doomsday scenario will be there to take its place. I am sure that the Malthusian theory wasn't the first and that Global Warming won't be the last.
Follow the money. Find out who will make those GPS trackers and you will have found who initiated this silly little law.
And what do you when it's simply just an automated dialer. With automated dialers, it means they call you and if you happen to pick up, you get put into a queue and you have to wait until the telemarketer talks to you. This way, the telemarketer in question doesn't waste anytime waiting for the phone to ring. And if the telemarketer doesn't have the time to speak to you, you're left hanging on the phone until their machine hangs up on you and you have no idea who was on the other line because their machine didn't say anything.
Sometimes, I pick up dozens of dud calls the same day, my caller id shows the same thing unknown name and unknown number, and then when I finally get connected, I find out it was only a telemarketer trying to reach me all those times.
Granted, my case is a bit special, my mother is visiting me from my home country and she is so naive about those things, she littered the entire internet with my contact info looking for special deals on travel. But still, this really pisses me off.
While this is not really a copyright issue, now we're allowed to take pictures of Starbucks. Before this, most Starbucks managers used to politely ask you to put your camera away, and it's rumored that at least one stupid manager tried to confiscate the camera of someone who had taken the picture of a friend inside his Starbucks. http://emergentreport.com/dj/archives/000360.html