Anything that looks like it'll take more than a few minuites to read, probably won't be.
People who are woefully un-informed about computers generally aren't going to be interested in reading anything longer than a pamphalet about the subject. If that.
Think about it, how often have you re-explained the same thing (ferinstance "Why doesn't the computer just know the difference between a good program and a bad one?") to the same person, only to have them glaze over, and repeat "but why?"
I admire your initiative, but I'm skeptical about much of a positive result.
Using the same analogy, you go to a bar, hand your keys to a valet and your ID to a doorman
And that's why I choose not to go to places like that.
I don't leave my car with Valets. I don't go to places that scan my ID.
I certainly don't let my credit card out of my sight for signifigant amounts of time.
And I avoid software that gives information about me to others (especially without my explicit permission as to what -if any- information they get).
There are innumerable situations like that and worse that people just blithely stumble through assuming the trust of complete strangers
Would probably have a conniption fit if they walked into a bar and the bartender brought them "their usual" without being prompted...... I don't see the big deal.
It's a big deal if you go into a bar that you've never been to before, and the bartender, whom you've never spoken to before, brings you your "usual".
It's about privacy, and control over any information relating to me and my preferences/behaviour/habits/quirks/identity.
But when you play internet games a lot of traffic is moving.
Yeah, a lot of traffic, but it's not ICMP or SMTP, which are easy to tell from "more normal" traffic.
It has been suggested here before; why don't consumer packages from ISPs come with port 25 (and/or other "well known" server ports) blocked by default, and an easy way (one phone call, or a secure self-serv web interface) for someone who knows they want the port enabled to make it so?
Most consumer packages don't allow servers, anyway, and state that in the TOS. Usually they have a power user or small business pacage for not too much more $$ that allows serving (and provides more bandwidth)
These illegal and corrupt acts happen even in democracies with 3-4 parties. Look at Canada!
The current ruling party is fighting for its' life because of corruption, and I bet they'll be re-elected too. The 3rd most popular party (socialist) tells its' voters to vote for the Liberals (the ruling left-wing party) because they don't want the 'scary' Conservative party to win.
As long as there's two ends of the political spectrum, you'll have two leading parties, with the others fulfilling special interests that never get enough votes to matter much.
And the party who is likely to come in 2nd or 3rd this time only exists in one province. And their reason for existing is to remove themselves from the country.
This time I'm voting Rhino. At least they admit that they can't be trusted.
The charge of even a full capacitor will not approach the charge of rubbing one's socks against a rug and touching someone.
Possibly, but still, how do you think Mumsie (and her lawyer) would react to sparks coming out of the cereal box (regardless of the actions that led to it)?
All you need is a small coil of wire in there and a capacitor big enough to power the display long enough for you to get to the checkout.
Oh, yeah. That's what we need. Cereal boxes with capacitors in them.
Can't you see lil' Johnny poking a fork/steak knife/scissors into the side of the box to cut out the cool picture, and then BZZZZORPP!! as he discharges the last bit of the capacitor into his weapon of choice!
Not to mention, Capacitors aren't exactly full of food-grade ingredients. What happens if they get damaged (box cutter anyone?)?
ANY piece of computer equipment say "Made in the USA" in the past few years. In fact, I can't even recall any that said "Assembled in the USA". Ditto for Canada
I just looked at the back of my Blackberry. "Made in Canada". (of course the battery is "Assembled in China of Japanese Materials")
The same thing will happen with water. Sure, the beverly hills types will have their pools and constant running water, economic forces will allow them to do this. The "regular" people will start to conserve water because they must
...And the poor will go without, because they can't afford it. Which may be tolerable when you were talking about gasoline, but it's not acceptable when we're talking about water.
I've worked for people who used to code for a very short period of time, but moved into management. I've known people who coded for a very long time and switched to management. And I've known the old-school holdouts like me who have no interest in becoming management.
If you want to be a tech guru, well, you'll just simply have to be more knowledgeable and skilled than most people. Knowledge of arcana is amust for guru status.
If you want to go into management, start reading books on that or enroll in your MBS program.
Sadly, in my experience, nobody is going to manage your career more than you will.
I don't think the OP is trying to set up something to manage everyone's careers for them. It sounds to me like he's involved in defining the parameters for advancement within the org. Then, if someone wants to change jobs within the department, they know what they need to do, or at least what the other jobs are that are available to them.
I'm a tech, and have been for 11 years at this company. But then again, we are also a very 'flat' organization. There is one "level" of tech, and then managers at the next step up the org chart. At one time there was a "Techical Leader" position , and a few Tech Support (guru if you will) positions, and those were at a different pay scale/traning level than the average Tech.
A few years ago, a new upper level executive in HR decided to "flatten" the overall company's Org Chart (part of his specific mandate from the CEO, the memo said). He did this by (among other things) making only one classification of technician (and somehow managed to add a new strata of mid-level managers). The only place for a tech here to move is to move to management, or move out.
I'm rambling a bit, but I wish the OP luck with his project. If you manage to succeed with it, let us know how, wouldya?
Ahhh... That explains all the comments about "visually" oriented people "geting it" right away.
And here I was counting letters in the words of the name, and trying to figure out how they related to the 2 signifigant faces of a die.
I agree that the threat of stiff penalties (like the oft mentioned cutting off a thief's hand) doesn't reduce the crime rate, when so many criminals don't believe that they can be caught (If I am too smart to be caught, why should I worry about the penalty).
However, harsh penalties probably do reduce the recidivism rate, which would have some effect on the overall crime rate. A one-handed thief will probably not be as effective as a two handed thief. An excecuted murderer is not likely to kill anyone else again. (not that I'm advocating capital punishment)
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Interesting.
The dongles don't just un-lock the program, they are the program.
People who are woefully un-informed about computers generally aren't going to be interested in reading anything longer than a pamphalet about the subject. If that.
Think about it, how often have you re-explained the same thing (ferinstance "Why doesn't the computer just know the difference between a good program and a bad one?") to the same person, only to have them glaze over, and repeat "but why?"
I admire your initiative, but I'm skeptical about much of a positive result.
Yeah, but it sounds like they're on the road to building Deep Thought.
I'm glad someone else couldn't resist that one.
It saves me the trouble of posting it.
And that's why I choose not to go to places like that.
I don't leave my car with Valets.
I don't go to places that scan my ID.
I certainly don't let my credit card out of my sight for signifigant amounts of time.
And I avoid software that gives information about me to others (especially without my explicit permission as to what -if any- information they get).
There are innumerable situations like that and worse that people just blithely stumble through assuming the trust of complete strangers
Some people.
Not all of us.
It's a big deal if you go into a bar that you've never been to before, and the bartender, whom you've never spoken to before, brings you your "usual".
It's about privacy, and control over any information relating to me and my preferences/behaviour/habits/quirks/identity.
Yeah, a lot of traffic, but it's not ICMP or SMTP, which are easy to tell from "more normal" traffic.
It has been suggested here before; why don't consumer packages from ISPs come with port 25 (and/or other "well known" server ports) blocked by default, and an easy way (one phone call, or a secure self-serv web interface) for someone who knows they want the port enabled to make it so?
Most consumer packages don't allow servers, anyway, and state that in the TOS. Usually they have a power user or small business pacage for not too much more $$ that allows serving (and provides more bandwidth)
Or you could disable the stylesheet (alt-V-Y-N) to read the liked page in glorious, high-contrast, whatever your defaults are.
Yeah, that's what I was going to say.
Here's the show's web site
It's my 5 year-old's favourite non-animated show.
From a site that I maintain, a model railroad hobby site:
1024x768 44.95%
800x600 36.05%
1280x1024 8.96%
1152x864 4.53%
Other 2.59%
640x480 1.64%
1600x1200 1.24%
And, just for the halibut, from the same site:
Netscape 17.38% - MSIE 82.07% - Other 0.49%
Windows 91.84% - Mac 4.06% - Unix 0.78% - Other 3.30%
Exactly.
From TFA:
Google's simple pages, quick to load and easy to read, helped the site build a following
I hope thay have calculated the risk in moving away from what "helped the site build a following".
Yeah, but they're just re-selling Telus/MTS/Sasktel's service ,and re-branding it as their own.
Do you thing that they'll be able to (long term, sustainably) undercut their network supplier?
These illegal and corrupt acts happen even in democracies with 3-4 parties. Look at Canada!
The current ruling party is fighting for its' life because of corruption, and I bet they'll be re-elected too. The 3rd most popular party (socialist) tells its' voters to vote for the Liberals (the ruling left-wing party) because they don't want the 'scary' Conservative party to win.
As long as there's two ends of the political spectrum, you'll have two leading parties, with the others fulfilling special interests that never get enough votes to matter much.
And the party who is likely to come in 2nd or 3rd this time only exists in one province. And their reason for existing is to remove themselves from the country.
This time I'm voting Rhino. At least they admit that they can't be trusted.
The charge of even a full capacitor will not approach the charge of rubbing one's socks against a rug and touching someone.
Possibly, but still, how do you think Mumsie (and her lawyer) would react to sparks coming out of the cereal box (regardless of the actions that led to it)?
All you need is a small coil of wire in there and a capacitor big enough to power the display long enough for you to get to the checkout.
Oh, yeah. That's what we need. Cereal boxes with capacitors in them.
Can't you see lil' Johnny poking a fork/steak knife/scissors into the side of the box to cut out the cool picture, and then BZZZZORPP!! as he discharges the last bit of the capacitor into his weapon of choice!
Not to mention, Capacitors aren't exactly full of food-grade ingredients. What happens if they get damaged (box cutter anyone?)?
ANY piece of computer equipment say "Made in the USA" in the past few years. In fact, I can't even recall any that said "Assembled in the USA". Ditto for Canada
I just looked at the back of my Blackberry. "Made in Canada". (of course the battery is "Assembled in China of Japanese Materials")
The same thing will happen with water. Sure, the beverly hills types will have their pools and constant running water, economic forces will allow them to do this. The "regular" people will start to conserve water because they must
...And the poor will go without, because they can't afford it. Which may be tolerable when you were talking about gasoline, but it's not acceptable when we're talking about water.
How do they get "most powerful" from a frequecy spec? Power is measured in Watts, not Hz, right?
Besides, this is the worlds most powerful subwoofer.
this guy springs to mind as the obvious expert.
I've worked for people who used to code for a very short period of time, but moved into management. I've known people who coded for a very long time and switched to management. And I've known the old-school holdouts like me who have no interest in becoming management.
If you want to be a tech guru, well, you'll just simply have to be more knowledgeable and skilled than most people. Knowledge of arcana is amust for guru status.
If you want to go into management, start reading books on that or enroll in your MBS program.
Sadly, in my experience, nobody is going to manage your career more than you will.
I don't think the OP is trying to set up something to manage everyone's careers for them. It sounds to me like he's involved in defining the parameters for advancement within the org. Then, if someone wants to change jobs within the department, they know what they need to do, or at least what the other jobs are that are available to them.
I'm a tech, and have been for 11 years at this company. But then again, we are also a very 'flat' organization. There is one "level" of tech, and then managers at the next step up the org chart. At one time there was a "Techical Leader" position , and a few Tech Support (guru if you will) positions, and those were at a different pay scale/traning level than the average Tech.
A few years ago, a new upper level executive in HR decided to "flatten" the overall company's Org Chart (part of his specific mandate from the CEO, the memo said). He did this by (among other things) making only one classification of technician (and somehow managed to add a new strata of mid-level managers).
The only place for a tech here to move is to move to management, or move out.
I'm rambling a bit, but I wish the OP luck with his project. If you manage to succeed with it, let us know how, wouldya?
Ahhh... That explains all the comments about "visually" oriented people "geting it" right away.
And here I was counting letters in the words of the name, and trying to figure out how they related to the 2 signifigant faces of a die.
Unfotunately, one rumor says that the smarter you are, the longer it takes to figure out.
I have figured out how to answer the puzzle, but I have no idea how the name relates to that understanding of the solution to the puzzle.
What does that say about me?
I agree that the threat of stiff penalties (like the oft mentioned cutting off a thief's hand) doesn't reduce the crime rate, when so many criminals don't believe that they can be caught (If I am too smart to be caught, why should I worry about the penalty).
However, harsh penalties probably do reduce the recidivism rate, which would have some effect on the overall crime rate. A one-handed thief will probably not be as effective as a two handed thief. An excecuted murderer is not likely to kill anyone else again. (not that I'm advocating capital punishment)
So... You move into a house that acts as a Faraday cage, and somehow it's the cell provider's problem?
No wireless technology guarentees coverage everywhere. The laws of physics must be obeyed.
What the hell are sequence pants?
They've got a MIDI out plug 'round back. That's how those 100% keyboard bands kept time.
The whole thing was syncronized to the output of someone's butt.
Actually, that explains a lot about the mainstream music of the time.