Be sure to explain why a certain procedure is used, and specify what can go wrong if shortcuts are taken. Not just 'here's the way it's done' but also 'and here's why we do it that way'. This should increase compliance.
Jah-Wren Ryel wrote: "I think it is at least as true as the FBI looking the other way when their informants commit 'petty' crimes because they think that getting the big fish is worth it.
In Terry Pratchett's 'Diskworld' series, thieves have to actually buy licences. Perhaps the FBI should consider this as a possible source of income?
Astronomy is one of the areas where amateurs can make a significant contribution. I listened to a radio program about this the other day. Ah, here we are:
"Some of these enthusiasts get a thrill out of seeing sky sights with their own eyes, while others patiently scan the heavens to discover things that no human has seen before.
David Tate monitors the skies from a small fibreglass dome which he built himself in his back garden near High Wycombe.
He has set up a telescope with a webcam attached which he uses to record movie sequences of the planets. After processing, some of his images rival those produced by the professionals.
Mike Oates in Manchester doesn't need to watch the skies in his search for comets: he uses a home computer rather than a telescope.
By monitoring images taken by the NASA/ESA SOHO satellite, published daily on the Internet, he can record comets which graze the sun and sometimes crash into it. So far Mike has discovered 145 comets without even looking down a telescope.
But the top prize for amateur dedication must go to Tom Boles in Suffolk.
Every night that it is not cloudy he goes to his little observatory and uses three telescopes simultaneously to scan about 12,000 distant galaxies every week.
On the cloudy nights he studies each galaxy to search for the faint flashes of distant exploding stars or supernovae. Over the decade he has been doing this, he has clocked up a world record of 202 discoveries!"
This reminds me of a story about Queen Victoria (of Britain.) Someone was showing her around a factory where they were producing wire for electrical street lighting, and she asked:
"How do you drill the hole in the wire for the electricity to go through?" While this revealed that she didn't understand how electricity works, it was rather a good question.
How does this relate to the matter at hand? Well, we need to come up with some good questions to help us work out how this water bridge thing works.
Would you please share how you have seen the professor you mentioned in passing, use technology effectively for Math and Physics lessons?
Go into detail.
"Then they buggered it all up by replacing in house cleaners with minimum wage contract workers, and we got a whole new set of problems, but that's another story."
You don't say? There's an article in the current UK publication 'Private Eye' about cleaners in Welsh hospitals. After reverting from minimum wage contract workers back to in house cleaners again, they cut MRSA infections by some large percentage.
Evidently in house cleaners really do care more about doing the job right.
Brian May's a bit of a hacker. Most of his music was played on a guitar he built himself.
For example: "The tremolo system is made from an old hardened-steel knife-edge shaped into a V and two motorbike valve springs to counter the string tension."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Special
"setting Blackle to your homepage only saves energy if you have Google for your homepage in the first place"
Can you give examples of possible home pages that are darker than Blackle? They're the ones where you wouldn't save energy when swapping over to Blackle.
drosboro said:
"Makes me glad I'm Canadian. We just have to pay a ridiculous levy on our iPods and CD-Rs because we're bound to use them to pirate music."
Let me guess, this doesn't mean you're legally allowed to fill your CD-Rs and iPods with pirated music, even though you pay a tax for that.
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This 'Personal helicopter' looks cool, though mouth-dryingly dangerous:
http://www.c00lstuff.com/1150/Personal_helicopter/
There's a great photo here:
You can't force people to follow directions they deem arbitrary.
http://www.michaelsalamon.com/user-interface/procedurally-enforcing-workflow/
Be sure to explain why a certain procedure is used, and specify what can go wrong if shortcuts are taken. Not just 'here's the way it's done' but also 'and here's why we do it that way'. This should increase compliance.
Jah-Wren Ryel wrote: "I think it is at least as true as the FBI looking the other way when their informants commit 'petty' crimes because they think that getting the big fish is worth it.
In Terry Pratchett's 'Diskworld' series, thieves have to actually buy licences. Perhaps the FBI should consider this as a possible source of income?
Astronomy is one of the areas where amateurs can make a significant contribution. I listened to a radio program about this the other day. Ah, here we are:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/citizenscience.shtml (N.B. May not work in the USA?)
"Some of these enthusiasts get a thrill out of seeing sky sights with their own eyes, while others patiently scan the heavens to discover things that no human has seen before.
David Tate monitors the skies from a small fibreglass dome which he built himself in his back garden near High Wycombe.
He has set up a telescope with a webcam attached which he uses to record movie sequences of the planets. After processing, some of his images rival those produced by the professionals.
Mike Oates in Manchester doesn't need to watch the skies in his search for comets: he uses a home computer rather than a telescope.
By monitoring images taken by the NASA/ESA SOHO satellite, published daily on the Internet, he can record comets which graze the sun and sometimes crash into it. So far Mike has discovered 145 comets without even looking down a telescope.
But the top prize for amateur dedication must go to Tom Boles in Suffolk.
Every night that it is not cloudy he goes to his little observatory and uses three telescopes simultaneously to scan about 12,000 distant galaxies every week.
On the cloudy nights he studies each galaxy to search for the faint flashes of distant exploding stars or supernovae. Over the decade he has been doing this, he has clocked up a world record of 202 discoveries!"
My Dad told me a story about the Radio news back when he was a boy. One day, the announcer said
"There has been no news today, so instead here is some light music."
Sadly, this would never happen nowadays.
Don't tell that to the queen.
They should change it to an opt-in list, rather than an opt-out list.
In the UK there is a list for opting out of junk snail mail:
http://www.mpsonline.org.uk/mpsr/
And a list to opt out of telemarketer phone calls:
http://www.mpsonline.org.uk/tps/
If only we could opt out of spam email too!
> I use Avast free home edition anti-virus program
...
> [...]
> And I don't download and install "free" programs and games.
Ummm
This reminds me of a story about Queen Victoria (of Britain.) Someone was showing her around a factory where they were producing wire for electrical street lighting, and she asked:
"How do you drill the hole in the wire for the electricity to go through?"
While this revealed that she didn't understand how electricity works, it was rather a good question.
How does this relate to the matter at hand? Well, we need to come up with some good questions to help us work out how this water bridge thing works.
"I work in an organisation who has a Microsoft Enterprise Agreement license so on Vista's launch I installed [...] Vista Ultimate on my home PC"
Does your license agreement actually cover installing MS software at home?
What does this update do, that it's needed for PCs that use WGA, but not PCs that use WSUS?
Many companies use WSUS to deliver Windows updates.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/wsus/default.aspx
Did the stealth updates install on PCs that don't have WGA installed, and don't update from the Windows web site? If not, what effect will that have?
"cause a power generator to self-destruct remotely". This seems unlikely.
/stickler
What probably happened was that they "remotely caused a power generator to self-destruct."
Yeah, those anti piracy ads are getting really mean.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTbX1aMajow
F.Y.I.
I just tried, and "=850*77.1" gives the correct answer of 65535 in MS Excel 2003, as well.
Joce640k posted:"Seriously, how hard is it to beat a camera. A hoodie, a baseball cap and sunglasses - it's not like they're high definition video"
True enough. But get a load of this:
Human Gait DNA to Better ID Potential Terrorists?
http://www.securityinfowatch.com/article/article.jsp?id=10099&siteSection=316
So, "Facebook Exposes Advertisers To Free Speech", eh?
We can't have that!
Would you please share how you have seen the professor you mentioned in passing, use technology effectively for Math and Physics lessons? Go into detail.
"Then they buggered it all up by replacing in house cleaners with minimum wage contract workers, and we got a whole new set of problems, but that's another story."
You don't say? There's an article in the current UK publication 'Private Eye' about cleaners in Welsh hospitals. After reverting from minimum wage contract workers back to in house cleaners again, they cut MRSA infections by some large percentage.
Evidently in house cleaners really do care more about doing the job right.
Brian May's a bit of a hacker. Most of his music was played on a guitar he built himself.
For example: "The tremolo system is made from an old hardened-steel knife-edge shaped into a V and two motorbike valve springs to counter the string tension."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Special
"setting Blackle to your homepage only saves energy if you have Google for your homepage in the first place"
Can you give examples of possible home pages that are darker than Blackle? They're the ones where you wouldn't save energy when swapping over to Blackle.
Yes, I thought 'containment' straight away.
Was this written by GWB, or is there a real semantic difference between 'containment' and 'containerization'?
drosboro said: "Makes me glad I'm Canadian. We just have to pay a ridiculous levy on our iPods and CD-Rs because we're bound to use them to pirate music."
Let me guess, this doesn't mean you're legally allowed to fill your CD-Rs and iPods with pirated music, even though you pay a tax for that.
"didn't have any means to distract themselves indoors."
Please would you expand on this part of your arguement?