Agreed!
I have the same problems with Firefox, and very rarely ever see this behavior in Chrome.
In addition, Firefox on my home laptop (which is admittedly getting closer and closer to obsolete) takes anywhere from 10 seconds to two minutes load, with no indication that it's doing anything. Chrome has never taken more than about 2 or 3 seconds to load.
Slightly more than that, but not by a whole lot. NASA's FAQ says each flight costs around $450m, which averaged over 138m taxpaying Americans (the 2007 taxpaying population) is $3.26 per flight per taxpayer. Figure three flights per year and it's still dirt cheap at $9.78/year/taxpayer. That's about what I spend on gasoline over a period of two days, and less than a single meal at Arby's.
I don't begrudge this expense at all, given what the program has given us.
Your argument is valid, but your numbers were slightly low-balled.
Ironic choice of planet, and I'm wondering if it was intentional. From Wikipedia's article on Plutocracy:
The word plutocracy (Modern Greek: - ploutokratia) is derived from the ancient Greek root ploutos, meaning wealth and kratos, meaning to rule or to govern.
What the article fails to mention is that the world 'ploutos' is derived from the name of the Greek god Pluto (or vice-versa, not sure which was the cause and which was the effect).
Perhaps this will discourage fewer anonymous fuckwads in the future.
I'd personally prefer it if it encouraged fewer of them, or discouraged more... whichever paradigm works for you. Discouraging fewer of them seems like a goal that's entirely too easy to meet...
I'm in agreement about the doubtfulness of the idea of "expectation of anonymity" in this case, but not for the reasons you state. Port posted her comments in a public space. If she had simply defaced pictures of Cohen and showed them to friends in person, no harm would've been done beyond what routinely happens in any high school in the world. By posting her insulting material online for anyone to see, she put her nastiness in the public arena. Inside my house, I expect privacy. On the street, I most certainly don't. She chose to make her pettiness public, and in doing so, lost any expectation of privacy.
... but try Meetup.com. It'll help a lot if you have hobbies beyond the tech scene, too (yes, I know that's sacrilege).
Suggestions from my own life, some of which are still geekish, just not necessarily IT-centered:
Astronomy (yes, some chicks dig it)
Bicycling (lots of chicks dig it... unfortunately none that are interested in me!)
Fiction writing (there are plenty of writing groups out there, and they're usually a good mix of the genders).
Community work (this could be anything from volunteering for a citizen panel for your local government, to volunteering with Big Brothers/Big Sisters, to getting involved with the ACLU)
Book clubs
Toastmasters (lots of attractive women at these, but I only know that because my brother in DC, and some friends here in SC (both genders) , are involved... I'm not into giving public presentations myself, so this is more on the level of rumor
You get the idea. Basically, if you go out there and try to have a real life, you'll end up having a real life.
On the very day this question was posted, this article appeared in New Scientist, talking about the $3B the US' National Science Foundation received as part of the stimulus, and the promise made by Pres. Bush and supported by Pres. Obama to double the NSF's funding in 10 years.
dont blame just the christians, they simply have a head start on everyone else.
Oh no you don't! We Jews were here long before those Christians! Err wait, we've already had enough blame laid on us over the years, forget I said that.
It's 99% of the people who purport to follow him that manage to genuinely fuck up the world."
Oh yea 99% of the worlds problems are caused by Christians...
Read the first statement again. He didn't say 99% of the world's problems are caused by the followers of some bronze age nutcase. He said 99% of that nutcase's followers cause problems for the world. It's a bit of a difference.
(To the tune of the Pink Panther theme...) Pedant... Pedant... (etc)
That $1 per gallon gasoline actually will have no impact on global warming. The carbon in it came from CO2 in the atmosphere to begin with, so returning it to its source is a neutral activity. My question is, if it can be produced that cheaply, can we then further the process with a tax on the final product, and produce solid carbon blocks for sequestration-- thus making the entire deal beneficial to the environment?
Aside from all the joking (which I heartily endorse), it's good to hear a little common sense, too. I work in an environment where I'm surrounded (almost but not quite) by engineers of all stripes. Of the 400 or so people in my building, only about 20% are not engineers, including me. Just the same, the mix of engineers' social skills is approximately the same as the rest of us. Some of them I'd love to have at any party, some of them I'd dread meeting anywhere and anywhen. Just like any other category, and roughly in the same proportions. That "perceived" lack of social skills is complete BS. If you want someone without social skills, you want my uncle Craig, not an engineer.
By your definition, I'm not in that 80%-- but I'm willing to improve to reach it.
I started in the IT field in December of '92, and didn't get into management until about two years ago. I'd had one brief (6 months) experience leading a two-person team during all that time, and hated it. It turns out, years later, that the reason I hated it is that I wasn't given sufficient resources to lead my other team-member, let alone to drive toward anything new. I've learned since then.
In my current position, I'm the leader for a team of (currently seven people, but it'll grow to nine in the next two or three weeks). We serve a large group of a much larger division of one of the largest five corporations in the world, but we're contractors (although at least we get good benefits). As a result, we're flexible, we're forced to work well together as a team, and because our corporate management is solid, we have the ability to, as Nancy Reagan said, "just say no."
Here are the things I pay the most attention to:
Customer priorities, as set by my group manager. It doesn't matter what the clients who request work from my manager think their priorities are; it matters only what my manager knows the priorities are. He sees things from a much larger perspective than any individual client.
Intra-team communications. We have a weekly meeting, which usually only takes about 15 minutes, so that each of us is aware of what the others are working on. While this information is usually not immediately useful, it often becomes so after a few weeks have passed. An example just today is a query I'd written that pertained directly to what two of my employees were working on.
Conflicts with regular employees. It doesn't matter how many angels surround you and your team, there will always be at least one asshole. Watch out for this person (male or female, it can be either or both) and try to figure out how best to address his or her needs without upsetting the other priorities set for your team.
Excess of meetings. My own advice: dial in to every meeting to which you're invited (assuming the meetings aren't in-person-- if they are, you're just screwed). Give the meeting about 20% of your attention and continue working on something else with the other 80% (with the phone muted, of course). If your name comes up, reverse those proportions immediately, then switch back once the conversation's done with you. I'm not saying to only give 20% of your energy to any given effort. I'm only suggesting that in most meetings, you can listen with 20% of your attention while continuing to get measurable work done with the other 80%. There have been many meetings in which I never did need to switch gears at all, for that matter.
I work for an intelligent manager (the opposite of a PHB) who has a very clear and concise vision toward which he wants our entire group (which comprises much more than my contract team) to work. As a result, particularly since he is an attendee at my weekly meetings, we are slowly but surely able to aim toward that goal.
I hope this helps someone out there. I've had to discover each piece of it myself through hard experience (especially the "dealing with assholes" part), and wish anyone just entering into management much luck in figuring out these bits of strategy. When I first entered management ranks, I talked with my father about leadership roles and responsibilities, and my skittishness about the idea. As he'd been a USAF officer for over 20 years (and has been retired for just as long), I value his input on this subject. His only advice was not to worry, and that in his experience, nobody is a born leader. We all have to learn along the way. Personally I still believe that there are people who learn easier and earlier how to lead than others (and I'm a hard late-comer), but his words encouraged me, and today I'm (mostly) successful in my management endeavors.
From what I can tell in this article, this technology doesn't do anything pro or con concerning our dependence on foreign oil. Nationally, we here in the US are still self-sufficient regarding coal.
Actually telescopes, binoculars, etc, are a lousy way to watch a meteor shower. The viewing area is just too small compared to the area across which the meteors streak, and the chances of one actually crossing the viewing area is negligible. Whether you're a city dweller doomed to seeing only fireballs, or a rural farmer who gets to see every last dust particle burning in the upper atmosphere, the naked eye works better.
It's not an entirely analogous field, but when I was much younger (read: stupid), I worked in retail photofinishing. We had an unwritten rule that, while the adage "The customer is always right" was still correct, not everyone who entered the store was a customer.
But. We weren't referring to people who figured out how to maximize their coupons. If anything, those of us grunts who worked at minimum wage + a dime admired those folks. Instead, I have two examples in mind.
The first was a lady who used to come in to our shop about two or three times per month with her own pre-developed negatives and 3.5X5" prints of various international politicians (to date myself, her favorites were Gorbachev and Yeltsin), and would ask us to reprint them as various sizes of enlargements (5X7" through 11X14", as we didn't handle anything larger on our in-store machines). Normally this wouldn't have been a problem, but the color balance on the machines she used to print the 3.5X5" was awful. Her idea of normal skin tone makes a Swede in the middle of winter look sunburned. Just the same, she insisted that the final product always be matched exactly to the color tones of the image she brought with her.
We could dispose of most of our customers with requests for enlargements with only a few minutes of labor required for each-- basically enough to dust the negative, throw it under the glass, adjust for the (admittedly amateur) photographer's poor composition and lighting, and wait for the print to come out the other end of the printer for QC purposes. For this lady, every single print required at least 10 to 15 minutes, sometimes having to re-do the same print upwards of 10 times-- and thus losing not only a profit on her print, but on several other customers' prints as well.
Still, she never once (that I know of) spoke an ill word of us, and I know that she did recommend us to other customers. To us this made her a devil of a customer, but one worth keeping happy.
The other example came a year or so after I met the first party, once I'd taken a lateral to a different store.
The second customer, also female (just coincidence; we had plenty of asshole male customers too, but these are the two who stick out in my memory after all these years), brought a role of film to us during the xmas rush. Our in-store machines were down due to mechanical problems at the time (not an unusual occurrence with this chain of stores), and we advised her that for quicker service she'd be better off taking it elsewhere for that day and two or three days following (we were already backed up well over one hundred rolls of film by this time). While I'm fairly sure that I dealt with her during this first session, I'm not certain, and wasn't even a day or two later. At any rate, this customer came back in a couple of days later with a claim ticket (you know the one, from the top of the bag into which you deposit your roll of film) that looked like one of ours, but didn't match anything we could find. We searched, we searched some more, we searched even more, while the line of customers backed up behind her (as I said, it was xmas season). We finally had to beg her to come back later while we continued to search, as we just couldn't find it. Over a period of not less than two months, she continued to do so while complaining to our district manager that we'd lost her film and only offered her a free roll of film & free processing on that roll in exchange (our standard policy).
Finally, after a very late-night date (yeah, yeah, I know, I read/., what am I doing with a date), one of my coworkers & I had a strange thought: what if this lady had dropped her film off at our neighboring store at the next shopping mall over? It would certainly explain why her claim ticket didn't match any number we had in our system! We took a private note for ourselves, promising to follow up on it in the morning, which we did. The neighboring store reported that yes, they had such a roll of fi
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Agreed!
I have the same problems with Firefox, and very rarely ever see this behavior in Chrome.
In addition, Firefox on my home laptop (which is admittedly getting closer and closer to obsolete) takes anywhere from 10 seconds to two minutes load, with no indication that it's doing anything. Chrome has never taken more than about 2 or 3 seconds to load.
Slightly more than that, but not by a whole lot. NASA's FAQ says each flight costs around $450m, which averaged over 138m taxpaying Americans (the 2007 taxpaying population) is $3.26 per flight per taxpayer. Figure three flights per year and it's still dirt cheap at $9.78/year/taxpayer. That's about what I spend on gasoline over a period of two days, and less than a single meal at Arby's.
I don't begrudge this expense at all, given what the program has given us.
Your argument is valid, but your numbers were slightly low-balled.
Ironic choice of planet, and I'm wondering if it was intentional. From Wikipedia's article on Plutocracy:
The word plutocracy (Modern Greek: - ploutokratia) is derived from the ancient Greek root ploutos, meaning wealth and kratos, meaning to rule or to govern.
What the article fails to mention is that the world 'ploutos' is derived from the name of the Greek god Pluto (or vice-versa, not sure which was the cause and which was the effect).
I knew someone would beat me to it...
Spouting gas produces rings? That explains my laundry...
Technically I guess you could think of our equatorial-orbit artificial satellites as a ring...
But not the proof of Fermat's last theorem!
I thought BE was of the crapola genre?
Perhaps this will discourage fewer anonymous fuckwads in the future.
I'd personally prefer it if it encouraged fewer of them, or discouraged more... whichever paradigm works for you. Discouraging fewer of them seems like a goal that's entirely too easy to meet...
I'm in agreement about the doubtfulness of the idea of "expectation of anonymity" in this case, but not for the reasons you state. Port posted her comments in a public space. If she had simply defaced pictures of Cohen and showed them to friends in person, no harm would've been done beyond what routinely happens in any high school in the world. By posting her insulting material online for anyone to see, she put her nastiness in the public arena. Inside my house, I expect privacy. On the street, I most certainly don't. She chose to make her pettiness public, and in doing so, lost any expectation of privacy.
NYCL, care to weigh in?
I was hoping nobody would beat me to it-- oh well!
Mine was December 21, the winter solstice of the year in which I got married. We chose that date because it was the longest night of the year...
Or maybe Clinton just decided that chasing skirts was a better idea than getting his brains blown out.
Clinton got something else blown out instead.
... but try Meetup.com. It'll help a lot if you have hobbies beyond the tech scene, too (yes, I know that's sacrilege).
Suggestions from my own life, some of which are still geekish, just not necessarily IT-centered:
You get the idea. Basically, if you go out there and try to have a real life, you'll end up having a real life.
Best of luck
On the very day this question was posted, this article appeared in New Scientist, talking about the $3B the US' National Science Foundation received as part of the stimulus, and the promise made by Pres. Bush and supported by Pres. Obama to double the NSF's funding in 10 years.
Perhaps the government does fund research...
dont blame just the christians, they simply have a head start on everyone else.
Oh no you don't! We Jews were here long before those Christians! Err wait, we've already had enough blame laid on us over the years, forget I said that.
It's 99% of the people who purport to follow him that manage to genuinely fuck up the world."
Oh yea 99% of the worlds problems are caused by Christians...
Read the first statement again. He didn't say 99% of the world's problems are caused by the followers of some bronze age nutcase. He said 99% of that nutcase's followers cause problems for the world. It's a bit of a difference.
(To the tune of the Pink Panther theme...) Pedant... Pedant... (etc)
Oh sure, take a perfectly good Assembly program and rewrite it in Latin Vulgate BASIC. Sure, sure...
That $1 per gallon gasoline actually will have no impact on global warming. The carbon in it came from CO2 in the atmosphere to begin with, so returning it to its source is a neutral activity. My question is, if it can be produced that cheaply, can we then further the process with a tax on the final product, and produce solid carbon blocks for sequestration-- thus making the entire deal beneficial to the environment?
Aside from all the joking (which I heartily endorse), it's good to hear a little common sense, too. I work in an environment where I'm surrounded (almost but not quite) by engineers of all stripes. Of the 400 or so people in my building, only about 20% are not engineers, including me. Just the same, the mix of engineers' social skills is approximately the same as the rest of us. Some of them I'd love to have at any party, some of them I'd dread meeting anywhere and anywhen. Just like any other category, and roughly in the same proportions. That "perceived" lack of social skills is complete BS. If you want someone without social skills, you want my uncle Craig, not an engineer.
By your definition, I'm not in that 80%-- but I'm willing to improve to reach it.
I started in the IT field in December of '92, and didn't get into management until about two years ago. I'd had one brief (6 months) experience leading a two-person team during all that time, and hated it. It turns out, years later, that the reason I hated it is that I wasn't given sufficient resources to lead my other team-member, let alone to drive toward anything new. I've learned since then.
In my current position, I'm the leader for a team of (currently seven people, but it'll grow to nine in the next two or three weeks). We serve a large group of a much larger division of one of the largest five corporations in the world, but we're contractors (although at least we get good benefits). As a result, we're flexible, we're forced to work well together as a team, and because our corporate management is solid, we have the ability to, as Nancy Reagan said, "just say no."
Here are the things I pay the most attention to:
I hope this helps someone out there. I've had to discover each piece of it myself through hard experience (especially the "dealing with assholes" part), and wish anyone just entering into management much luck in figuring out these bits of strategy.
When I first entered management ranks, I talked with my father about leadership roles and responsibilities, and my skittishness about the idea. As he'd been a USAF officer for over 20 years (and has been retired for just as long), I value his input on this subject. His only advice was not to worry, and that in his experience, nobody is a born leader. We all have to learn along the way. Personally I still believe that there are people who learn easier and earlier how to lead than others (and I'm a hard late-comer), but his words encouraged me, and today I'm (mostly) successful in my management endeavors.
From what I can tell in this article, this technology doesn't do anything pro or con concerning our dependence on foreign oil. Nationally, we here in the US are still self-sufficient regarding coal.
Actually telescopes, binoculars, etc, are a lousy way to watch a meteor shower. The viewing area is just too small compared to the area across which the meteors streak, and the chances of one actually crossing the viewing area is negligible. Whether you're a city dweller doomed to seeing only fireballs, or a rural farmer who gets to see every last dust particle burning in the upper atmosphere, the naked eye works better.
It's not an entirely analogous field, but when I was much younger (read: stupid), I worked in retail photofinishing. We had an unwritten rule that, while the adage "The customer is always right" was still correct, not everyone who entered the store was a customer.
/., what am I doing with a date), one of my coworkers & I had a strange thought: what if this lady had dropped her film off at our neighboring store at the next shopping mall over? It would certainly explain why her claim ticket didn't match any number we had in our system! We took a private note for ourselves, promising to follow up on it in the morning, which we did. The neighboring store reported that yes, they had such a roll of fi
But. We weren't referring to people who figured out how to maximize their coupons. If anything, those of us grunts who worked at minimum wage + a dime admired those folks. Instead, I have two examples in mind.
The first was a lady who used to come in to our shop about two or three times per month with her own pre-developed negatives and 3.5X5" prints of various international politicians (to date myself, her favorites were Gorbachev and Yeltsin), and would ask us to reprint them as various sizes of enlargements (5X7" through 11X14", as we didn't handle anything larger on our in-store machines). Normally this wouldn't have been a problem, but the color balance on the machines she used to print the 3.5X5" was awful. Her idea of normal skin tone makes a Swede in the middle of winter look sunburned. Just the same, she insisted that the final product always be matched exactly to the color tones of the image she brought with her. We could dispose of most of our customers with requests for enlargements with only a few minutes of labor required for each-- basically enough to dust the negative, throw it under the glass, adjust for the (admittedly amateur) photographer's poor composition and lighting, and wait for the print to come out the other end of the printer for QC purposes. For this lady, every single print required at least 10 to 15 minutes, sometimes having to re-do the same print upwards of 10 times-- and thus losing not only a profit on her print, but on several other customers' prints as well.
Still, she never once (that I know of) spoke an ill word of us, and I know that she did recommend us to other customers. To us this made her a devil of a customer, but one worth keeping happy.
The other example came a year or so after I met the first party, once I'd taken a lateral to a different store.
The second customer, also female (just coincidence; we had plenty of asshole male customers too, but these are the two who stick out in my memory after all these years), brought a role of film to us during the xmas rush. Our in-store machines were down due to mechanical problems at the time (not an unusual occurrence with this chain of stores), and we advised her that for quicker service she'd be better off taking it elsewhere for that day and two or three days following (we were already backed up well over one hundred rolls of film by this time). While I'm fairly sure that I dealt with her during this first session, I'm not certain, and wasn't even a day or two later. At any rate, this customer came back in a couple of days later with a claim ticket (you know the one, from the top of the bag into which you deposit your roll of film) that looked like one of ours, but didn't match anything we could find. We searched, we searched some more, we searched even more, while the line of customers backed up behind her (as I said, it was xmas season). We finally had to beg her to come back later while we continued to search, as we just couldn't find it. Over a period of not less than two months, she continued to do so while complaining to our district manager that we'd lost her film and only offered her a free roll of film & free processing on that roll in exchange (our standard policy).
Finally, after a very late-night date (yeah, yeah, I know, I read
Funny, I was thinking the flame wars on here would qualify...