I would not expect the normal consumer experience to mirror that of the drivers on the TG track.
I also would not expect published petrol MPG figures to match the MPG TG gets on their track.
Your little darling is so convinced they will be a millionaire professional sportsperson/musician/actor because you've always told them how 'special' they were, that they carry this overinflated sense of entitlement into the classroom along with 30 other 'special' kids.
I see this attitude in the classroom every day but I chalk it up to:
* intellectual immaturity and lack of realistic future expectations
* internalizing "gangsta"-style bragging
* parent[s] modeling abrasive, confrontational behaviour
rather than to "you're special" talk.
As a general rule, my classrooms look like:
10% - want to learn
80% - warm bodies, can be kept on task if the situation is optimal.
10% - deliberately disruptive/destructive
The 10% learners will learn no matter what. Sometimes they resort to iPods to drown out the chaos from the disruptives.
The 10% disruptives can sometimes be reached, but usually they serve to undercut the success of the 80% "normals". The 10% disruptives that are not amenable to casual behaviour modification in the classroom (ie, cannot be altered without 100% teacher attention) need to be booted from the class until they can behave civilly. But having to send a kid out of the classroom for discipline/referral is widely regarded as signs of poor teacher performance. Why couldn't s/he keep control of the classroom, huh?
I am as anti-1984 as the next guy, but I swear we need video cameras in the classroom so the parents/public/administration can see the scope of the problem.
I'd say the agreement could be that the patient is free to post about the doctor. The patient agrees that doing so allows the physician to post, in public, about the patient.
This should help us identify legitimate whistleblowers from Munchhausen whackjob hypochondriacs and whiners.
If humans were rational we could do something like "anyone seated in an aisle seat with nothing in an overhead bin can disembark now". This would stop the overhead bin addicts from jumping up and blocking the aisle throughout the length of the plane (as soon as|before) it stops rolling. Then you have extra room that the binners could use to more efficiently step on people, drop bags on the heads of patiently-waiting others, etc.
Retailiatory feedback is apparently the exact problem eBay is (allegedly) trying to fix.
I really hate sellers that say "leave me feedback first and then I will leave feedback". Nice veiled threat there.
The ironic part here is that it seems police helicopters are perfectly happy to shine their kabillion-power spotlights into the eyes of pedestrians and automobile drivers.
iPods are highly overrated, and irritatingly restrictive.
I have a sandisk sansa express (3gb after adding in the microSD) and the wife has a creative zen stone 3gb. Both were cheap and show up as USB drives on our respective Debian Linux 2.6.x boxen.
Yep, my old Treo600 was cheap/unlocked runs stably, and spends most of its day playing me mp3 podcasts.
Maybe they are too dorky-looking for the general public.
It is surprising how little they demand from L1 people
A great deal is demanded from L1 people, but it is not obvious how or where.
Here is the scenario: customer buys on price, driving him to the cheapest, thinnest-margin product. The producer still has to provide some kind of support out of that thin margin and knows the callcenter is a cost center not a profit center. The marketing and sales droids have already made wild and unsubstantiated claims about the product.
Solution: staff the callcenter with lowpay quasi-techs and judge them strictly on talk time average and number of calls taken. Provide them with little or no training, no physical examples of the supported product, and no way to talk to the engineers that truly know how it works under the hood.
The unstated real job of the L1 tech is to act as a punching bag absorbing blows for the company. Provide the lowest level of support possible that still avoids either customer revolt or calls escalated to management. Insulate the salesdroids, management, and engineers from any feedback on how their product is functioning in the real world.
Companies sure love driving away paying customers with that
If you can sell the same widget to two customers (one of whom calls your callcenter and the other does not) which is the most profitable in the short term?
especially in the cases where it's painfully hard to get past that L1 moron asking "is
your power cord plugged in" to someone who potentially could help.
You might be surprised how many L1 customer morons don't have their power cord plugged in, or plugged into a wall socket that has no power, or it's plugged in but not turned on.
Not knowing English (the tech support guy) for real doesn't help either.
In my experience our Indian brethren speak better English than the American L1 phonejockeys. The current crop of highschool grads I've had the displeasure of talking to are borderline illiterate.
If it's the accent you mean, I'd say between our lowest common denominator schools, tongue piercings, dip in the lower lip, Yo MTV Raps slurring and general apathy it's pretty hard to understand Little Johnny America.
Although the quality of the cam in my old Treo600 is not good by modern standards, I assigned the function to a hotbutton and go from phone "off" to pic snapped in about a second.
I find that 90% of my pics are with the treo crapcam, just because it's with me at all times.
The qset (?) palm app helps the quality of the images quite a bit by limiting the.jpg compression.
I run a used, unlocked Treo600 which I really like. It's stable, didn't cost much, and works fine for what I need. I went from carrying a phone, a palm500 and an mp3 player to carrying a treo600 with a 1gb card in it.
Plus it's a world-band GSM that you can pop 'most any prepaid sim into in most countries and get a signal.
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There is sufficient room between free and the $0.10/ea price that is commonly seen in the wild.
"The police shouldn't be seen as just arrest machines. They've more roles than that." Like asset forfeiture. To protect and serve (the state).
This is the difference between "calculated" and "observed".
I would not expect the normal consumer experience to mirror that of the drivers on the TG track. I also would not expect published petrol MPG figures to match the MPG TG gets on their track.
Lego FTW. And +1 to the "random blocks" bit. I don't understand why they pack Lego in prefab kits today. Weird.
Actually, I'm not sure that one DOES have better things to do than learn essential survival skills before wandering into the wilderness.
I checked it out from my local library.
This is the first credible account of Audio unintended I have read. Thanks for writing it up; interesting stuff.
That's the part that caught my eye. I read it a few times then gave up.
I see this attitude in the classroom every day but I chalk it up to: * intellectual immaturity and lack of realistic future expectations * internalizing "gangsta"-style bragging * parent[s] modeling abrasive, confrontational behaviour rather than to "you're special" talk. As a general rule, my classrooms look like: 10% - want to learn 80% - warm bodies, can be kept on task if the situation is optimal. 10% - deliberately disruptive/destructive The 10% learners will learn no matter what. Sometimes they resort to iPods to drown out the chaos from the disruptives. The 10% disruptives can sometimes be reached, but usually they serve to undercut the success of the 80% "normals". The 10% disruptives that are not amenable to casual behaviour modification in the classroom (ie, cannot be altered without 100% teacher attention) need to be booted from the class until they can behave civilly. But having to send a kid out of the classroom for discipline/referral is widely regarded as signs of poor teacher performance. Why couldn't s/he keep control of the classroom, huh? I am as anti-1984 as the next guy, but I swear we need video cameras in the classroom so the parents/public/administration can see the scope of the problem.
I'd say the agreement could be that the patient is free to post about the doctor. The patient agrees that doing so allows the physician to post, in public, about the patient. This should help us identify legitimate whistleblowers from Munchhausen whackjob hypochondriacs and whiners.
If humans were rational we could do something like "anyone seated in an aisle seat with nothing in an overhead bin can disembark now". This would stop the overhead bin addicts from jumping up and blocking the aisle throughout the length of the plane (as soon as|before) it stops rolling. Then you have extra room that the binners could use to more efficiently step on people, drop bags on the heads of patiently-waiting others, etc.
An elegant solution. Which, of course, means it'll never get past the PHBs.
Retailiatory feedback is apparently the exact problem eBay is (allegedly) trying to fix. I really hate sellers that say "leave me feedback first and then I will leave feedback". Nice veiled threat there.
The ironic part here is that it seems police helicopters are perfectly happy to shine their kabillion-power spotlights into the eyes of pedestrians and automobile drivers.
iPods are highly overrated, and irritatingly restrictive. I have a sandisk sansa express (3gb after adding in the microSD) and the wife has a creative zen stone 3gb. Both were cheap and show up as USB drives on our respective Debian Linux 2.6.x boxen.
Yep, my old Treo600 was cheap/unlocked runs stably, and spends most of its day playing me mp3 podcasts. Maybe they are too dorky-looking for the general public.
... the state.
When I was letting the neighborhood used http through my little WAP, my SSID was "www.mydomain.invalid/wireless" (faked here but was a real URL).
It had guidelines for use, and my thoughts about the whole matter. I thought it would be a fun way to let people know how/why I was running open http.
I took it offline after a recent LAN reconfig. THis might be the reminder I need to set it back up.
A great deal is demanded from L1 people, but it is not obvious how or where.
Here is the scenario: customer buys on price, driving him to the cheapest, thinnest-margin product. The producer still has to provide some kind of support out of that thin margin and knows the callcenter is a cost center not a profit center. The marketing and sales droids have already made wild and unsubstantiated claims about the product.
Solution: staff the callcenter with lowpay quasi-techs and judge them strictly on talk time average and number of calls taken. Provide them with little or no training, no physical examples of the supported product, and no way to talk to the engineers that truly know how it works under the hood.
The unstated real job of the L1 tech is to act as a punching bag absorbing blows for the company. Provide the lowest level of support possible that still avoids either customer revolt or calls escalated to management. Insulate the salesdroids, management, and engineers from any feedback on how their product is functioning in the real world.
If you can sell the same widget to two customers (one of whom calls your callcenter and the other does not) which is the most profitable in the short term?
You might be surprised how many L1 customer morons don't have their power cord plugged in, or plugged into a wall socket that has no power, or it's plugged in but not turned on.
In my experience our Indian brethren speak better English than the American L1 phonejockeys. The current crop of highschool grads I've had the displeasure of talking to are borderline illiterate.
If it's the accent you mean, I'd say between our lowest common denominator schools, tongue piercings, dip in the lower lip, Yo MTV Raps slurring and general apathy it's pretty hard to understand Little Johnny America.
Although the quality of the cam in my old Treo600 is not good by modern standards, I assigned the function to a hotbutton and go from phone "off" to pic snapped in about a second. I find that 90% of my pics are with the treo crapcam, just because it's with me at all times. The qset (?) palm app helps the quality of the images quite a bit by limiting the .jpg compression.
I run a used, unlocked Treo600 which I really like. It's stable, didn't cost much, and works fine for what I need. I went from carrying a phone, a palm500 and an mp3 player to carrying a treo600 with a 1gb card in it.
Plus it's a world-band GSM that you can pop 'most any prepaid sim into in most countries and get a signal.
Modified e-maxxes are already being used in the field. I know this because I answer their phone calls when they call in to get tech support from us.
Traxxas models are Hobby Class models like Tamiyas are.
They are fully rebuildable.
Looks to me like they're cooking in a wood pit.