Nobody cares how good your document looks....
If your paper says something worthwhile, that's all that matters.
I would like for you to test this idea. The next time you have a research paper (or business proposal or what not), publish it on a web site with a flashing background, use scrolling marquees to display the text, and add some music by New Kids on the Block. Let us know how it works out.
When you have already laid off everyone and downsized your IT department to so few employees, its kind of hard to avoid having a single person with so much power.
You can always start your own businesses that would fair better and eventually beat the competition. Or you can form unions. Or you can relocate to where there are better prospects.
Yep. I am self-employed so I don't have to deal with it, but it is not for everyone. Especially those who have families or who have medical conditions and cannot get individual health insurance. Or people who lack experience or are in debt and need a steady paycheck, and so on.
Believe me I used to be like you guys saying that if people don't like it then why don't they just leave, but over time I have realized that is an over-simplification.
I'd like to see less government involvement in the workplace, and just let the employee and employer agree on work conditions and rules and expectations.
Don't like the policies? Go get another job. It's that easy, really.
It's not really that simple. It might work in the case of a few bad companies, but what if all companies adopt the same work conditions? That is the thing about pure capitalism, that companies can become too greedy at the expense of human beings, so there needs to be a balance of regulations that protect the factors that are not purely financial (human health, environmental, safety, non-discrimination, etc). This happened a lot in the industrial revolution before labor laws and still happens in other parts of the world, which imported goods are so cheap.
(I am not an economist nor am I a historian, so someone who is either can probably set me straight on the details)
... setting personal boundaries and expectations with your employer and co-workers? Just because you have a Blackberry does not make you an indentured servant.
On a side note, I had a previous employer offer me a Blackberry as an enticement to stay when I gave my notice to leave. Needless to say my decision remained the same.
I own a Blackberry (my own, I'm self employed and also an ISV of a Blackberry app) and the biggest complaint I have about them is many companies hand them out as status symbols and not to the people who could really make good use of them.
Managers who come in and immediately institute sweeping changes are usually gone just as quickly was they arrived. What you are talking about is a strategy, not a mandate from a king on a throne. A strategy is something you move toward that guides your decisions. So maybe you standardize on two or three standards that can be used, and you get much of the benefit that way. But then again, if this is all about upper management's ego, then only one standard will do, of course.
And finally IT is not a plug and play commodity. If your IT department sucks, it is not because you need to standardize on a development environment. Maybe the company should "standardize" on hiring intelligent, qualified people and "standardize" the HR policies on paying them what they are worth.
it was possible for participants to read master data records and consumer profiles without bypassing even basic security measures. Access to the comprehensive survey results could be gained by simply changing the customer ID number in the browser's address bar.
The data was not lost, they failed to secure it. There is a difference between the two, although it doesn't make it any less of a problem. But headlines like this are misleading.
Furthermore the 41,000 number is misleading because there is no evidence supporting how many records were viewed using this method.
I have done some software development work for the Airlines, and one thing I learned is your bags do not necessarily follow the same path you do (yes even on a direct flight). The fact that you checked them early actually was probably your mistake because you gave them a chance to put them on a different flight.
And from my own personal experience it is frustrating trying to communicate with the baggage complaint desk person (could there be a worse job?) because the airline doesn't consider them lost, only delayed, and they are sure to remind you of that throughout the conversation.
A lot of salesmen I know would be the type to "lose" their laptop, cell phone, etc when what they really want is a new one. Losing it is the easiest way to get what they want.
600,000 laptops lost x 70% are not recovered = 420,000 laptops.
According to TFA, they destroy all unrecovered laptops.
If you consider the average value of those laptops to be $1000, which is probably low, then they are wasting $420,000,000 each year by destroying the laptops. Why not at least donate them to a charity or school system. This is completely insane.
I watched the video and it only shows it cleaning dry debris out of a gutter. But most gutters (or at least mine) tend to have soggy, caked-up gunk in them, not just dry leaves. How often do you have to use this thing? I mean I clean out my gutters about 3 times a year right now, only when they get really full. But if I had this thing I probably would have to do it MORE OFTEN because it probably won't work as well on a gutter that is packed full of leaves. I would rather do a big job a few times a year, than do a smaller job say 10 to 15 times a year.
A better idea would be to create a new kind of gutter. Maybe one that could be manually (or automatically) tilted over to dump out all of the debris, instead of trying to clean it in the upright position.
Thanks for the Psychology lesson and enlightening me. You really know so much about why people think the way they think. Obviously I am a narrow thinker, and you are the one who sees the big picture.
I am unafraid of others who think differently than me, which is why I posted what I believe, but obviously it was threatening to you, which compelled you to post a diatribe refuting my beliefs... God forbid someone on Slashdot has deviated from the groupthink that is pervasive around here.
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I would like for you to test this idea. The next time you have a research paper (or business proposal or what not), publish it on a web site with a flashing background, use scrolling marquees to display the text, and add some music by New Kids on the Block. Let us know how it works out.
The next thing you know someone will ask for a replacement for vi.
When you have already laid off everyone and downsized your IT department to so few employees, its kind of hard to avoid having a single person with so much power.
I can tell from the title alone that this has got to be the shortest book ever written.
.0 releases always have alot of bugs.
You can always start your own businesses that would fair better and eventually beat the competition. Or you can form unions. Or you can relocate to where there are better prospects.
Yep. I am self-employed so I don't have to deal with it, but it is not for everyone. Especially those who have families or who have medical conditions and cannot get individual health insurance. Or people who lack experience or are in debt and need a steady paycheck, and so on.
Believe me I used to be like you guys saying that if people don't like it then why don't they just leave, but over time I have realized that is an over-simplification.
I'd like to see less government involvement in the workplace, and just let the employee and employer agree on work conditions and rules and expectations. Don't like the policies? Go get another job. It's that easy, really.
It's not really that simple. It might work in the case of a few bad companies, but what if all companies adopt the same work conditions? That is the thing about pure capitalism, that companies can become too greedy at the expense of human beings, so there needs to be a balance of regulations that protect the factors that are not purely financial (human health, environmental, safety, non-discrimination, etc). This happened a lot in the industrial revolution before labor laws and still happens in other parts of the world, which imported goods are so cheap.
(I am not an economist nor am I a historian, so someone who is either can probably set me straight on the details)
... setting personal boundaries and expectations with your employer and co-workers? Just because you have a Blackberry does not make you an indentured servant.
On a side note, I had a previous employer offer me a Blackberry as an enticement to stay when I gave my notice to leave. Needless to say my decision remained the same.
I own a Blackberry (my own, I'm self employed and also an ISV of a Blackberry app) and the biggest complaint I have about them is many companies hand them out as status symbols and not to the people who could really make good use of them.
...is don't f--- it up.
Managers who come in and immediately institute sweeping changes are usually gone just as quickly was they arrived. What you are talking about is a strategy, not a mandate from a king on a throne. A strategy is something you move toward that guides your decisions. So maybe you standardize on two or three standards that can be used, and you get much of the benefit that way. But then again, if this is all about upper management's ego, then only one standard will do, of course.
And finally IT is not a plug and play commodity. If your IT department sucks, it is not because you need to standardize on a development environment. Maybe the company should "standardize" on hiring intelligent, qualified people and "standardize" the HR policies on paying them what they are worth.
it was possible for participants to read master data records and consumer profiles without bypassing even basic security measures. Access to the comprehensive survey results could be gained by simply changing the customer ID number in the browser's address bar.
The data was not lost, they failed to secure it. There is a difference between the two, although it doesn't make it any less of a problem. But headlines like this are misleading.
Furthermore the 41,000 number is misleading because there is no evidence supporting how many records were viewed using this method.
It is illegal to sell your vote, but not illegal to buy your vote.
First, I would check the airport.
can someone boil it down to a couple sentences for me?
I have done some software development work for the Airlines, and one thing I learned is your bags do not necessarily follow the same path you do (yes even on a direct flight). The fact that you checked them early actually was probably your mistake because you gave them a chance to put them on a different flight.
And from my own personal experience it is frustrating trying to communicate with the baggage complaint desk person (could there be a worse job?) because the airline doesn't consider them lost, only delayed, and they are sure to remind you of that throughout the conversation.
LOL, I thought I posted this in the airline luggage story, but either I clicked the wrong one, or slashdot posted it in the wrong place.
A lot of salesmen I know would be the type to "lose" their laptop, cell phone, etc when what they really want is a new one. Losing it is the easiest way to get what they want.
600,000 laptops lost x 70% are not recovered = 420,000 laptops.
According to TFA, they destroy all unrecovered laptops.
If you consider the average value of those laptops to be $1000, which is probably low, then they are wasting $420,000,000 each year by destroying the laptops.
Why not at least donate them to a charity or school system. This is completely insane.
That is nothing compared to the amount of passenger's luggage that is lost daily by the airlines.
But still, what kind of moron loses their laptop while traveling? I can't imagine letting it out of my sight or even out of my reach.
I don't get it, what are you guys talking about?
Might I suggest... Lindows?
No Dvorak version?
QWERTY is for losers!
I watched the video and it only shows it cleaning dry debris out of a gutter. But most gutters (or at least mine) tend to have soggy, caked-up gunk in them, not just dry leaves. How often do you have to use this thing? I mean I clean out my gutters about 3 times a year right now, only when they get really full. But if I had this thing I probably would have to do it MORE OFTEN because it probably won't work as well on a gutter that is packed full of leaves. I would rather do a big job a few times a year, than do a smaller job say 10 to 15 times a year.
A better idea would be to create a new kind of gutter. Maybe one that could be manually (or automatically) tilted over to dump out all of the debris, instead of trying to clean it in the upright position.
Thanks for the Psychology lesson and enlightening me. You really know so much about why people think the way they think. Obviously I am a narrow thinker, and you are the one who sees the big picture.
I am unafraid of others who think differently than me, which is why I posted what I believe, but obviously it was threatening to you, which compelled you to post a diatribe refuting my beliefs... God forbid someone on Slashdot has deviated from the groupthink that is pervasive around here.
I have no concern, or consideration for a clump of cells.
Lucky for you, your mother did