Yeah... we call it the "Power 9 Network" (although I don't know the justification for the "Power" part - probably some internal PR thing). It sure makes my internal server whitelists easy to maintain!
"It didn't work in this place" is insufficient reason to ban it in another, period. Whether or not individual municipalities want to experiment with providing access should be up to them and their citizens.
So limit it to civil cases. I think that the vast majority of people aren't talking about criminal prosecutions when they complain about the US being a litigation-happy society. The lower burden of proof and (sometimes justifiably) astronomically large damages awarded in civil cases are simply far too tempting for many lawyers (and litigants, unfortunately).
Probably because until we institute a voting procedure a little more like this, our best chance for satisfaction is to vote for the major-party candidate that we dislike the least.
Oh yes! Oddly enough, it was my fellow nerd of an officemate that got me into mountain biking. There are several of us at my office who use the many fine trails in the area at lunch time (and this is where an understanding manager and on-site showers are invaluable).
I'm also very much into rollerblading (yeah, yeah, "inline skating") and music (trombone). I like to keep busy...
If it's the users who are so dumb, why is it your brilliant software that's got the bugs?
First off, buggy software and dumb users are not mutually exclusive problems. (Insert M$-bashing "My manager can't figure out how to make an appointment in LookOut!" here.):-)
Forcing arrogant developers to do their own tech support is about the best possible management practice I can think of--consider it a forced course in humility
Arrogance doesn't have to have anything to do with it. I can't tell you the number of times I've come across badly-written bug reports submitted by my own more-experienced coworkers. Some of it is often due to inexperience (I shudder when I read the first couple of reports I ever submitted at work). Yeah, I know that the original topic was about non-technical users, but I've got to stand up for developers a little bit here.
I defintely agree, however, that spending some time doing tech support is a wonderful idea. Bottom line, it pays to have open communication between developers and users - otherwise how do you know what they want?
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Yeah... we call it the "Power 9 Network" (although I don't know the justification for the "Power" part - probably some internal PR thing). It sure makes my internal server whitelists easy to maintain!
"It didn't work in this place" is insufficient reason to ban it in another, period. Whether or not individual municipalities want to experiment with providing access should be up to them and their citizens.
Or really, anything that will demonstrate how evil it is to use "gift" as a verb... ;-)
What about "wife" implies regular sex? I rather thought it was the opposite...
So limit it to civil cases. I think that the vast majority of people aren't talking about criminal prosecutions when they complain about the US being a litigation-happy society. The lower burden of proof and (sometimes justifiably) astronomically large damages awarded in civil cases are simply far too tempting for many lawyers (and litigants, unfortunately).
Probably because until we institute a voting procedure a little more like this, our best chance for satisfaction is to vote for the major-party candidate that we dislike the least.
I'm also very much into rollerblading (yeah, yeah, "inline skating") and music (trombone). I like to keep busy...
By the way, I do not understand your sig, is it a joke from a movie or something?
It's from the movie Animal House. If you haven't seen it, you should... (Not that it has anything to do with TCPA or BIOS!)
First off, buggy software and dumb users are not mutually exclusive problems. (Insert M$-bashing "My manager can't figure out how to make an appointment in LookOut!" here.) :-)
Forcing arrogant developers to do their own tech support is about the best possible management practice I can think of--consider it a forced course in humility
Arrogance doesn't have to have anything to do with it. I can't tell you the number of times I've come across badly-written bug reports submitted by my own more-experienced coworkers. Some of it is often due to inexperience (I shudder when I read the first couple of reports I ever submitted at work). Yeah, I know that the original topic was about non-technical users, but I've got to stand up for developers a little bit here.
I defintely agree, however, that spending some time doing tech support is a wonderful idea. Bottom line, it pays to have open communication between developers and users - otherwise how do you know what they want?