McCartney says... "They're very confused, and they will admit it themselves: that this is a new world, and they're a little bit at a loss as to what to do. So they've got millions of dollars and X budget... for them to come up with boring ways -- because they've been at it for so long -- to what they call "market" it. And I find that all a bit disturbing."
"While you would be hard-pressed to convince me to return, I am glad I went."
Reminds me of the one visit I paid to Compton, southern Calif, back in....1978? Except I wasn't the least bit glad I went.
That person the train hit was most likely a suicide. Those uniforms were soldiers, assigned to ride the trains in case of trouble. Today, there are regular police, however, looking for baggage thieves, pickpockets, swindlers running cons, etc.
Same as in Japan, except in Japan you are expected to not pull this kind of stunt either during rush hour, or on a busy line so as to cause the least trouble to the fewest commuters. They used to publish monthly listings of the best places to jump onto the tracks... I think in the last 5 years, I've seen less than 1/2 dozen bodies...mostly people from the country crossing busy streets or riding bicycles out in traffic.
Those decade old photos should be up on Google/Picasso, as an example. China has changed in so many ways in just the last ten years...of course, many things have not, but to see the cities grow can be interesting, I think:)
The 'Lonely Planet' book series made all the difference when I first came to Asia...even inside China, 15 ~ years back. I'm sure metadata will be huge, someday. But it follows on the heals of other terrific resources that have already 'been there, done that' and will continue for quite some time I am sure.
I learned how to get the local Chinese police to help move me to my next destination - If you were caught inside the frontier, they were ordered to return you to the last city you visited. The trick was to tell them your next city instead of the last one - they would load you up and happily take you on to your next destination. Courtesy Lonely Planet - try finding that kind of help w/Flcker:)
For those still not vedy-vedy sure about what a vedy-vedy huge literal dump india vedy vedy is...
Which (vedy continuously!) developing country on the planet turns out less than 20% year-on-year MBA recipients capable of being considered 'employable'...? INDIA! Hugh! Vedy huge:)
Specifics aside, this kind of thing is just another piece of why India (as opposed to China, Vietnam etc.) remains all talk and no action. Would you, as an American or EU business owner want to set up shop in a country where these types of things are routine events? Can you imagine having to plan for a vigilante attack ("They said something about our workers couldn't use the office computers and network to access CNN...") in your production schedule...? Not.
India continues to prove itself incapable of shaking off such middle ages thinking and it is time the rest of the world stopped listening to the hype about how it is ready to sit at the table. Let them continue to sit in the dirt and eat with their hands if they like it so much.
I've gone thru actual fire fighting training, from structure to fuel storage/well head suppression to forest fire fighting in remote areas, and until you've had a chance to choke on real smoke and smell real burning flesh, you're not quite capable of grasping the gravity of what you may have gotten yourself into when things are no longer being simulated.
That said, simulations could help to weed out the ones that sign on as a result of the 'fever' and excitement that attracts a certain type looking only for the rush of action - action that eventually takes a heavy toll when a hapless individual has nothing more than their imagination to fall back on in a real emergency.
As opposed to... What? Change is expected - along w/unrecognizable traits.
"Google, Microsoft and Yahoo have remained complicit"
'remained' - remained..? You mean like they haven't taken any time-outs yet...? Or, they get together in Bermuda twice a year to compare notes and plan how they will rule...?
The gentrification of the internet is always a concern, I suppose, but I am reminded of a phrase that was coined 'long about the first time such topics popped up - "The internet interprets restriction as an interruption and routes around it."
Seems to me that one of the basics of (pointed) redirection is blocking and/or interrupting - fine, bring it on.
"Want to do simple tasks? Buy a commercial program"
And what's so wrong with that? Is it better to download a 'free' screensaver that gapes your hard drive's ass to the entire Eastern block? $15.00 gonna break your porn budget?
Every single person here has been affected by this guy - some more than others, but all negatively. This is not the time to turn the other cheek, because every time you deleted one of his emails, you were doing just that.
Now is the time for him to get the short/pointy end of the stick...the stick that he sharpened and used on all of us. He took time away from each of us that we will never get back. Talking about fair this or fair that in terms of years behind bars....are you serious? Wake up. This guy leached your life and given the opportunity, he would not hesitate to do it again.
It is only fair to take his time away from him until he has no more.
You're purposely sending people to a rigged website...? Does this mean you're in on the trap or just that you're clueless about what really lies behind MOAB?
Yep, o-l-d. old - like since Jan. this year, I think - but hey, it's zonk and the weekend and he's tired and can't find his stuffed monkey, so what ya' gonna do...
ZONK!!! Wake up or go home - sorry, you are at home...please either at least wake ALL the up, or go back to sleep, preferably away from the keyboard, dammit:)
...stop boasting you use/. for 'daily IT news'. Why not just say you're too lazy to identify legitimate sources.
It is routinely dated aggregate at best, where dupes still happen too often and you're being fed fodder without cross-references simply to draw eyeballs (meaning no rhyme or reason behind what gets posted).
Get out and see the www.orld - it is bigger, brighter and more focused than life depicted here, I promise:)
I've been climbing this hill for nearly the last two decades.
You simply have to put yourself in their shoes and explain things in a way that means something to them and their own priorities, agendas, etc. This means knowing quite a bit about other jobs and what drives the people you are attempting to 'educate', of course.
Again, put things in their terms, focusing on what your idea/plan/suggestion is going to do to help them solve whatever it is that happens to be important to them at that time. Not yours...
Then, as mentioned above, give them three suggestions, your favorite last, in such a way that they will turn from one and two. Let them take whatever time they need to mull things over - some people need minutes and some need days. Once you laid things out and done your best to cache things on their terms, relax and let them come around. Be available to follow-ups, but don't get in their face or they will be prone to reacting negatively, as I'm sure you already know:)
"Many channels have wised up to offering their content hosted from their own sites for free -- with commercials"
Wised up - just like that, eh?.
Yesterday they couldn't unwrap a corndog and now they've figured it all out and they've got iTunes on the run.
The world....is such a funny place....isn't it...?
I mean, I'm always keen to see things work out for others. And I love the serendipitous nature of this whirlwind we call 'now'. But who among us would have not been taken by surprise to see the words 'wised up' and 'channels' staring back at us from within the same sentence.
Well, good for them, right! HUPHUPHURRAH!. After all these years of chasing their cute stubby little analog tails while bumping the audio of their next commercial and struggling with prime time in multiple time zones and interrupting Bonanza with news of a new First Kitten, well - there can be only one thing to say.
iTunes is dead! Long live iTunes!
(Now where was that renewal card for TV Guide... Honey!!)
"What was the title of the book I looked at and..."
Hate to break it to someone, but some of us can do that already - it is a burden sometimes, to be sure, but we can do it, without so much as a grunt and thank you mama...
You think the unitary Japanese govt. knows dry rice about software, Grasshopper?...no chance. You want to know what the boys in the diet DO know about? Nationalism.
The Japanese Govt. had yet another nationalistic fit (that's what they do - that's their job - happens to be one of their standing orders.), and what you're relying on for your FTA is the press release to mask the flag waving ("The government has said explicitly it wants to decrease its reliance on Microsoft as a server operating system platform." - nice translation & spin by the PR wonks, have to admit).
The Japanese Govt. asked around why they couldn't hello-kitty-pretty-please have a Japanese OS from a Japanese software company, written by Japanese countrymen/women, and there was only one answer, no matter what they wanted to hear or have. At the least, then, they could make sure they weren't supporting a singularity - they hate having to get up in the morning and have a pure non-J anything stare back just so they can check their email. So, next-best-thing... they give the boot to a product from a non-domestic supplier - the only choice left then, was OSS (a mixed breed to be sure, but we all know how they rate), and it would have to do. Nationalism served, face-loss #545 avoided, all's well with the masters of the planet and back to business as usual.
Pay close attention before you go running off to the front office. The vendors are doing this - not the buyers/clients/users. In Japan, the vendors tell the buyers what and when they will buy. Say it with me: v e n d o r s
"...heavily fined for posting a porn link in an adult discussion forum."
5000 HongKong dollars equals approx. $650.00 us dollars. Just a shade more than double that of a parking ticket. By HK standards, at least, this is not a 'heavy fine'.
"The SIM PlanetQuest instrument will be so accurate, it could measure the thickness of a nickel at a distance from Earth to the moon."
Last I heard the boys still had issues dealing w/simple math. It might be best to hold off on such parlor triks as this until the tutors come back with a reasonable report...
Slashdot Mirror
McCartney says... "They're very confused, and they will admit it themselves: that this is a new world, and they're a little bit at a loss as to what to do. So they've got millions of dollars and X budget... for them to come up with boring ways -- because they've been at it for so long -- to what they call "market" it. And I find that all a bit disturbing."
...what he said!
My Nikon S6 has done this for this last year... SD & WiFi & 3" LCD - I can even control it from the computer.
And...when Safari reaches, oh, say, 10% ~ 20% of the level of breach-possibles that any of the current IE clients are facing, let us know, eh?
Until then, the mud on the carpet came in on your shoes, not mine.
Game on, baby... :)
"While you would be hard-pressed to convince me to return, I am glad I went."
:)
Reminds me of the one visit I paid to Compton, southern Calif, back in....1978? Except I wasn't the least bit glad I went.
That person the train hit was most likely a suicide. Those uniforms were soldiers, assigned to ride the trains in case of trouble. Today, there are regular police, however, looking for baggage thieves, pickpockets, swindlers running cons, etc.
Same as in Japan, except in Japan you are expected to not pull this kind of stunt either during rush hour, or on a busy line so as to cause the least trouble to the fewest commuters. They used to publish monthly listings of the best places to jump onto the tracks... I think in the last 5 years, I've seen less than 1/2 dozen bodies...mostly people from the country crossing busy streets or riding bicycles out in traffic.
Those decade old photos should be up on Google/Picasso, as an example. China has changed in so many ways in just the last ten years...of course, many things have not, but to see the cities grow can be interesting, I think
"Try finding that in a guidebook."
:)
The 'Lonely Planet' book series made all the difference when I first came to Asia...even inside China, 15 ~ years back. I'm sure metadata will be huge, someday. But it follows on the heals of other terrific resources that have already 'been there, done that' and will continue for quite some time I am sure.
I learned how to get the local Chinese police to help move me to my next destination - If you were caught inside the frontier, they were ordered to return you to the last city you visited. The trick was to tell them your next city instead of the last one - they would load you up and happily take you on to your next destination. Courtesy Lonely Planet - try finding that kind of help w/Flcker
For those still not vedy-vedy sure about what a vedy-vedy huge literal dump india vedy vedy is...
:)
Which (vedy continuously!) developing country on the planet turns out less than 20% year-on-year MBA recipients capable of being considered 'employable'...? INDIA! Hugh! Vedy huge
How's that for shagging dah pooch, eh?
And here I am, thinking I was missing something by not attending Harvard...
Ah, yes - India.
The 'next big thing'...for the last 15+ years.
Specifics aside, this kind of thing is just another piece of why India (as opposed to China, Vietnam etc.) remains all talk and no action. Would you, as an American or EU business owner want to set up shop in a country where these types of things are routine events? Can you imagine having to plan for a vigilante attack ("They said something about our workers couldn't use the office computers and network to access CNN...") in your production schedule...? Not.
India continues to prove itself incapable of shaking off such middle ages thinking and it is time the rest of the world stopped listening to the hype about how it is ready to sit at the table. Let them continue to sit in the dirt and eat with their hands if they like it so much.
No Shoes - No Shirt - No Service
I've gone thru actual fire fighting training, from structure to fuel storage/well head suppression to forest fire fighting in remote areas, and until you've had a chance to choke on real smoke and smell real burning flesh, you're not quite capable of grasping the gravity of what you may have gotten yourself into when things are no longer being simulated.
That said, simulations could help to weed out the ones that sign on as a result of the 'fever' and excitement that attracts a certain type looking only for the rush of action - action that eventually takes a heavy toll when a hapless individual has nothing more than their imagination to fall back on in a real emergency.
"could change beyond all recognition"
As opposed to... What? Change is expected - along w/unrecognizable traits.
"Google, Microsoft and Yahoo have remained complicit"
'remained' - remained..? You mean like they haven't taken any time-outs yet...? Or, they get together in Bermuda twice a year to compare notes and plan how they will rule...?
The gentrification of the internet is always a concern, I suppose, but I am reminded of a phrase that was coined 'long about the first time such topics popped up - "The internet interprets restriction as an interruption and routes around it."
Seems to me that one of the basics of (pointed) redirection is blocking and/or interrupting - fine, bring it on.
"Want to do simple tasks? Buy a commercial program"
And what's so wrong with that? Is it better to download a 'free' screensaver that gapes your hard drive's ass to the entire Eastern block? $15.00 gonna break your porn budget?
I know the boys have been busy and all, but can someone at least inform them that Apple dropped the word 'Computer' from their name recently?
And no, I'm not going to offer to help - I tried that back in 2000, and they couldn't find their collective asses without directions...
Online Payola against Publication Age -- Older and younger sites tended to refuse advertising and cash in exchange for editorial content
Every single person here has been affected by this guy - some more than others, but all negatively. This is not the time to turn the other cheek, because every time you deleted one of his emails, you were doing just that.
Now is the time for him to get the short/pointy end of the stick...the stick that he sharpened and used on all of us. He took time away from each of us that we will never get back. Talking about fair this or fair that in terms of years behind bars....are you serious? Wake up. This guy leached your life and given the opportunity, he would not hesitate to do it again.
It is only fair to take his time away from him until he has no more.
"Read up the MOAB."
You're purposely sending people to a rigged website...? Does this mean you're in on the trap or just that you're clueless about what really lies behind MOAB?
Yep, o-l-d. old - like since Jan. this year, I think - but hey, it's zonk and the weekend and he's tired and can't find his stuffed monkey, so what ya' gonna do...
:)
ZONK!!! Wake up or go home - sorry, you are at home...please either at least wake ALL the up, or go back to sleep, preferably away from the keyboard, dammit
...stop boasting you use /. for 'daily IT news'. Why not just say you're too lazy to identify legitimate sources.
:)
It is routinely dated aggregate at best, where dupes still happen too often and you're being fed fodder without cross-references simply to draw eyeballs (meaning no rhyme or reason behind what gets posted).
Get out and see the www.orld - it is bigger, brighter and more focused than life depicted here, I promise
I've been climbing this hill for nearly the last two decades.
:)
You simply have to put yourself in their shoes and explain things in a way that means something to them and their own priorities, agendas, etc. This means knowing quite a bit about other jobs and what drives the people you are attempting to 'educate', of course.
Again, put things in their terms, focusing on what your idea/plan/suggestion is going to do to help them solve whatever it is that happens to be important to them at that time. Not yours...
Then, as mentioned above, give them three suggestions, your favorite last, in such a way that they will turn from one and two. Let them take whatever time they need to mull things over - some people need minutes and some need days. Once you laid things out and done your best to cache things on their terms, relax and let them come around. Be available to follow-ups, but don't get in their face or they will be prone to reacting negatively, as I'm sure you already know
"Many channels have wised up to offering their content hosted from their own sites for free -- with commercials"
Wised up - just like that, eh?.
Yesterday they couldn't unwrap a corndog and now they've figured it all out and they've got iTunes on the run.
The world....is such a funny place....isn't it...?
I mean, I'm always keen to see things work out for others. And I love the serendipitous nature of this whirlwind we call 'now'. But who among us would have not been taken by surprise to see the words 'wised up' and 'channels' staring back at us from within the same sentence.
Well, good for them, right! HUPHUPHURRAH!. After all these years of chasing their cute stubby little analog tails while bumping the audio of their next commercial and struggling with prime time in multiple time zones and interrupting Bonanza with news of a new First Kitten, well - there can be only one thing to say.
iTunes is dead! Long live iTunes!
(Now where was that renewal card for TV Guide... Honey!!)
"What was the title of the book I looked at and..."
Hate to break it to someone, but some of us can do that already - it is a burden sometimes, to be sure, but we can do it, without so much as a grunt and thank you mama...
You think the unitary Japanese govt. knows dry rice about software, Grasshopper? ...no chance. You want to know what the boys in the diet DO know about? Nationalism.
The Japanese Govt. had yet another nationalistic fit (that's what they do - that's their job - happens to be one of their standing orders.), and what you're relying on for your FTA is the press release to mask the flag waving ("The government has said explicitly it wants to decrease its reliance on Microsoft as a server operating system platform." - nice translation & spin by the PR wonks, have to admit).
The Japanese Govt. asked around why they couldn't hello-kitty-pretty-please have a Japanese OS from a Japanese software company, written by Japanese countrymen/women, and there was only one answer, no matter what they wanted to hear or have. At the least, then, they could make sure they weren't supporting a singularity - they hate having to get up in the morning and have a pure non-J anything stare back just so they can check their email. So, next-best-thing... they give the boot to a product from a non-domestic supplier - the only choice left then, was OSS (a mixed breed to be sure, but we all know how they rate), and it would have to do. Nationalism served, face-loss #545 avoided, all's well with the masters of the planet and back to business as usual.
Pay close attention before you go running off to the front office. The vendors are doing this - not the buyers/clients/users. In Japan, the vendors tell the buyers what and when they will buy. Say it with me: v e n d o r s
"...heavily fined for posting a porn link in an adult discussion forum."
5000 HongKong dollars equals approx. $650.00 us dollars. Just a shade more than double that of a parking ticket. By HK standards, at least, this is not a 'heavy fine'.
"The SIM PlanetQuest instrument will be so accurate, it could measure the thickness of a nickel at a distance from Earth to the moon."
Last I heard the boys still had issues dealing w/simple math. It might be best to hold off on such parlor triks as this until the tutors come back with a reasonable report...