When a ball drops on a baseball field at the midpoint between two positions, it's scored a "hit" for the opposition rather than an "error" against either player. Still, a hit for the other side is a bad thing for the entire team.
This mess was big enough that there's a large enough supply of blame to give some to everybody involved.
- No system should require a manual reboot on a regular basis... there should at least be a script capable of accomplishing that. But somehow, one got implemented. Blame whoever bought it. - Windows shouldn't have had a faw that required monthly reboots. Blame Microsoft. - Somebody should have done the reboots like they were told to. Blame that poor smuck.
Bottom line is that everybody's at fault because had any one piece in the chain done their job properly the failure wouldn't have happened, but a cascade of mistakes lead to the ball hitting the grass instead of a glove.
Pepsi operates "at a world class level", but they "just have a different flavor" than Coca-Cola. Burger King operates "at a world class level", but they "just have a different flavor" than McDonalds.
We don't like monopolies in our marketplace, and as a result we always have a place for the perpetual also-ran. Never able to capture the #1 spot may seem depressing, but it's still possible to profit as a #2 and be lying in wait in case the #1 player makes real big mistakes.
Google will have to seriously misbehave in order to give up enough market share so that Ask Jeeves can pass them. However, having Ask Jeeves parked in the #2 rank spot is enough motivation that hopefully Google will never forget its "Don't be Evil" policy.
If the insert asked the same questions as the billboard test, then that would have been a dupe for sure... same message being delivered over different media is still the same message.
There's a reason why there was a ? in my subject. It wasn't clear at the time I was posting it was a dupe.
At the time I was posting, the article got slashdotted so there was no article to read. Not even Google's Cache was saving us.
Besides, this story is very close to the billboard story in that Google is posting its want ads in the form of geek quizes in order to reduce the number of resumes they get and hopefully improve their signal-to-noise ratio. If anything, the summary should have at least mentioned the past story to make it glaringly clear it wasn't a dupe.
Is GLAT just an acronym for the same game that Slashdot made look silly with groupthink applied, or is this a whole other thing? I'd RTFA to find out, but as I said, it got Slashdotted.
The Slashdot summary is a little mis-worded such that it'll cause some unneeded alarm.
If you configure File/Print sharing in the "wrong" way as the article talks about, it'll expose those services to the whole 'net even through the Windows Firewall. If there's firewall security installed anywhere else on the way to the Internet, such as at the edge router where firewalls really belong, Windows XP isn't so dumb as to pierce that level of security. Even a simple NAT is enough to be an effective blocker.
In other words... we're running into "That's not a bug, that's a feature!" terroritory. If you ask Windows to share your files and printers accross an IP-based networks, you should be sure that the network is separated by a real firewall from the rest of the Internet. Fail to do that, and you might as well expect this is going to happen.
This, unfortunately, is a "union-busting" type of tactic. That is, when the employer points out that each employee is competiting against each other employee for the most-desirable jobs, the idea that a union leads to equal and therefore better treatment doesn't quite hold true anymore.
It's not as much an auction as much as it is a way to rank people when the schedules are being drawn up. If nobody goes under the max price, then the schedule is random-made... however, if somebody's willing to trade a little pay, they get the most-desirable prime slots. Those who are holding out for the highest pay will end up getting the overnight and holiday shifts.
But remember that nursing is a regulated field. That is to say, this system is only open to RNs, Registered Nurses, who the hostpital deals with on a regular basis. Anybody of sub-standard quality should be ejected from the system and not be allowed to bid.
Why don't they have online queues for hospital waiting rooms? That's because they *want* you to bleed out in the Emergency room so that the hospital can help ensure they get better funding, or at least that's the way it is in Canada. They spend all kinds of money on eShift to get it running and all the nurses buy into it because they are either too tired to realize they're being screwed by the system, or they have no choice. *sigh*
Okay... somebody doesn't know what triage is. When somebody shows up in the an emergency room, the first person they see is always the triage nurse. The process of triage is a simple concept that's hard to execute... putting people into one of three groups.
- Those who are in such extreme need they must be treated right away in order to save their life. These get treated first. - Those who are in need of treatment, but aren't going to die or suffer much if their treatment is delayed a bit. Those are the people who have to wait until all of the people in the first category have been taken care of. - Those who can't be treated. They're already beyond hope, and any effort spent on them would be wasted.
The waiting in the emergency room isn't due to lack of funding... it's a random thing based on whether a higher-priority case is in your way at the moment.
This most certainly is an innovative solution for determining the "fair value" of work... but it seems quite dangerous for a hospital to be trying it out. What happens if a shift gets left on the board with nobody willing to bid under the max posted?
This kind of system is great to use when there's more labor supply than demand, but seems dangerously close to a colapse should the staff decide they want to cause a problem... no need to give two weeks notice or even to quit, just refuse to bid on the designated day and therefore nobody will be assigned to work that day.
Having an unmanned checkout at Wal-Mart is one thing, having not enough nurses to cover all of the patients in a hospital is quite another.
I just installed a US Robotics "USR8200" unit here and can give it a firm recommendation. It looks like your typical router with firewall, with 2 USB 2.0 ports and a firewire port, it can be a pretty good file server too. Install the new just released official firmware and it adds adds print serving and the ability to have it do "family friendly" content screening is available with a small monthly fee subscription if you really want to do that.
Britney's carrer as an aritst I don't think is over... but her ability to produce a #1 "pop" hit is something she'll likely never regain.
There's a point beyond "cool" called "worn out"... and pop artists of all kinds have to avoid going there. Once you hit that point, you've made all the money you're really going to make and hopefully have the financial planning done so that you can live the rest of your life with break-even art the rest of the time.
I'd love to see this kind of thing built into cameras in the same way that Kodak is known to symbolically code film they sell to indicate the manufacture date of the film.
High resolution? No need for that... it's just a nice little trap for people trying to say a staged photo proves something that it really doesn't. If the original film indicates a year after the date you're claiming or that you were nowhere near the place you claim the photo was taken, then you're a liar and we can forget everything you had to say...
Companies that change names to a made-up word usually need to be given a closer look... they usually have soiled their first name so badly they can't use it anymore.
It's interesting to head-to-head MythTV and Microsofts WMC as two computer/TV units... but as far as I'm concerned I'm sticking with my TiVo as a unit that runs Linux and does nothing but drive my TV. Afterall, the more computing tasks you give a box, the more likely you are to crash it, and I demand high reliablity from my TV.
$7.99/mo sounds pretty good if you don't want an OTA subscription.
$7.99/mo. doesn't sound that good to me when $9.99/mo. to either Real or the new Napster gets you unlimited playing of anything you want to download for as long as your subscription remains current.
"Free as in beer" doesn't quite describe what's going on here. It's closer to "Free as in the toy in a Cracker Jacks box" in that it's free if you're already purchasing the main subscription which just happens to cost more than XM's...
Because Sirius charges $3 a month more for their base month-to-month plan... so with them you're paying for the online streams even if you don't use it.
XM's "add streaming of our music online" for $3.99 sounds like a pretty cool deal when taken alone, but their main competitor Sirius actually includes that feature for free with purchase of the main subscription. They'll even offer a 3-day trial of the streaming service for non-subscribers in the hopes of convinving people to sign up based on that. Of course, Sirius charges $3 a month more than XM for their base subscription.
Yahoo always has been in the business of branching out and becoming a "web portal" rather than a search engine. That's why they've got e-mail, fanatasy football games, a music news site, an IM client, and all sorts of other things in their brand image.
It's Google who always stayed as a search engine only and is making newsworthy branch out efforts in the form of GMail and such.
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When a ball drops on a baseball field at the midpoint between two positions, it's scored a "hit" for the opposition rather than an "error" against either player. Still, a hit for the other side is a bad thing for the entire team.
This mess was big enough that there's a large enough supply of blame to give some to everybody involved.
- No system should require a manual reboot on a regular basis... there should at least be a script capable of accomplishing that. But somehow, one got implemented. Blame whoever bought it.
- Windows shouldn't have had a faw that required monthly reboots. Blame Microsoft.
- Somebody should have done the reboots like they were told to. Blame that poor smuck.
Bottom line is that everybody's at fault because had any one piece in the chain done their job properly the failure wouldn't have happened, but a cascade of mistakes lead to the ball hitting the grass instead of a glove.
Pepsi operates "at a world class level", but they "just have a different flavor" than Coca-Cola.
Burger King operates "at a world class level", but they "just have a different flavor" than McDonalds.
We don't like monopolies in our marketplace, and as a result we always have a place for the perpetual also-ran. Never able to capture the #1 spot may seem depressing, but it's still possible to profit as a #2 and be lying in wait in case the #1 player makes real big mistakes.
Google will have to seriously misbehave in order to give up enough market share so that Ask Jeeves can pass them. However, having Ask Jeeves parked in the #2 rank spot is enough motivation that hopefully Google will never forget its "Don't be Evil" policy.
If the insert asked the same questions as the billboard test, then that would have been a dupe for sure... same message being delivered over different media is still the same message.
There's a reason why there was a ? in my subject. It wasn't clear at the time I was posting it was a dupe.
At the time I was posting, the article got slashdotted so there was no article to read. Not even Google's Cache was saving us.
Besides, this story is very close to the billboard story in that Google is posting its want ads in the form of geek quizes in order to reduce the number of resumes they get and hopefully improve their signal-to-noise ratio. If anything, the summary should have at least mentioned the past story to make it glaringly clear it wasn't a dupe.
The poor little blog is Slashdotted already... but this seems quite close to this report of an atypical want ad from Google.
Is GLAT just an acronym for the same game that Slashdot made look silly with groupthink applied, or is this a whole other thing? I'd RTFA to find out, but as I said, it got Slashdotted.
Chances are the real nurse will pretty quickly report that bids they didn't place were showing up in the system.
I think a fake name that shows up without a proper intro in a 50 user environment usually stands out as a red-flag situation.
The Slashdot summary is a little mis-worded such that it'll cause some unneeded alarm.
If you configure File/Print sharing in the "wrong" way as the article talks about, it'll expose those services to the whole 'net even through the Windows Firewall. If there's firewall security installed anywhere else on the way to the Internet, such as at the edge router where firewalls really belong, Windows XP isn't so dumb as to pierce that level of security. Even a simple NAT is enough to be an effective blocker.
In other words... we're running into "That's not a bug, that's a feature!" terroritory. If you ask Windows to share your files and printers accross an IP-based networks, you should be sure that the network is separated by a real firewall from the rest of the Internet. Fail to do that, and you might as well expect this is going to happen.
This, unfortunately, is a "union-busting" type of tactic. That is, when the employer points out that each employee is competiting against each other employee for the most-desirable jobs, the idea that a union leads to equal and therefore better treatment doesn't quite hold true anymore.
It's not as much an auction as much as it is a way to rank people when the schedules are being drawn up. If nobody goes under the max price, then the schedule is random-made... however, if somebody's willing to trade a little pay, they get the most-desirable prime slots. Those who are holding out for the highest pay will end up getting the overnight and holiday shifts.
But remember that nursing is a regulated field. That is to say, this system is only open to RNs, Registered Nurses, who the hostpital deals with on a regular basis. Anybody of sub-standard quality should be ejected from the system and not be allowed to bid.
Why don't they have online queues for hospital waiting rooms? That's because they *want* you to bleed out in the Emergency room so that the hospital can help ensure they get better funding, or at least that's the way it is in Canada. They spend all kinds of money on eShift to get it running and all the nurses buy into it because they are either too tired to realize they're being screwed by the system, or they have no choice. *sigh*
Okay... somebody doesn't know what triage is. When somebody shows up in the an emergency room, the first person they see is always the triage nurse. The process of triage is a simple concept that's hard to execute... putting people into one of three groups.
- Those who are in such extreme need they must be treated right away in order to save their life. These get treated first.
- Those who are in need of treatment, but aren't going to die or suffer much if their treatment is delayed a bit. Those are the people who have to wait until all of the people in the first category have been taken care of.
- Those who can't be treated. They're already beyond hope, and any effort spent on them would be wasted.
The waiting in the emergency room isn't due to lack of funding... it's a random thing based on whether a higher-priority case is in your way at the moment.
This most certainly is an innovative solution for determining the "fair value" of work... but it seems quite dangerous for a hospital to be trying it out. What happens if a shift gets left on the board with nobody willing to bid under the max posted?
This kind of system is great to use when there's more labor supply than demand, but seems dangerously close to a colapse should the staff decide they want to cause a problem... no need to give two weeks notice or even to quit, just refuse to bid on the designated day and therefore nobody will be assigned to work that day.
Having an unmanned checkout at Wal-Mart is one thing, having not enough nurses to cover all of the patients in a hospital is quite another.
I just installed a US Robotics "USR8200" unit here and can give it a firm recommendation. It looks like your typical router with firewall, with 2 USB 2.0 ports and a firewire port, it can be a pretty good file server too. Install the new just released official firmware and it adds adds print serving and the ability to have it do "family friendly" content screening is available with a small monthly fee subscription if you really want to do that.
Britney's carrer as an aritst I don't think is over... but her ability to produce a #1 "pop" hit is something she'll likely never regain.
There's a point beyond "cool" called "worn out"... and pop artists of all kinds have to avoid going there. Once you hit that point, you've made all the money you're really going to make and hopefully have the financial planning done so that you can live the rest of your life with break-even art the rest of the time.
I'd love to see this kind of thing built into cameras in the same way that Kodak is known to symbolically code film they sell to indicate the manufacture date of the film.
High resolution? No need for that... it's just a nice little trap for people trying to say a staged photo proves something that it really doesn't. If the original film indicates a year after the date you're claiming or that you were nowhere near the place you claim the photo was taken, then you're a liar and we can forget everything you had to say...
Companies that change names to a made-up word usually need to be given a closer look... they usually have soiled their first name so badly they can't use it anymore.
It's interesting to head-to-head MythTV and Microsofts WMC as two computer/TV units... but as far as I'm concerned I'm sticking with my TiVo as a unit that runs Linux and does nothing but drive my TV. Afterall, the more computing tasks you give a box, the more likely you are to crash it, and I demand high reliablity from my TV.
Well, so much for Goggle's grand plan of changing the signal to noise ratio... their "secret" e-mail address is now officially slashdotted. :)
$7.99/mo sounds pretty good if you don't want an OTA subscription. $7.99/mo. doesn't sound that good to me when $9.99/mo. to either Real or the new Napster gets you unlimited playing of anything you want to download for as long as your subscription remains current.
"Free as in beer" doesn't quite describe what's going on here. It's closer to "Free as in the toy in a Cracker Jacks box" in that it's free if you're already purchasing the main subscription which just happens to cost more than XM's...
Because Sirius charges $3 a month more for their base month-to-month plan... so with them you're paying for the online streams even if you don't use it.
XM's "add streaming of our music online" for $3.99 sounds like a pretty cool deal when taken alone, but their main competitor Sirius actually includes that feature for free with purchase of the main subscription. They'll even offer a 3-day trial of the streaming service for non-subscribers in the hopes of convinving people to sign up based on that. Of course, Sirius charges $3 a month more than XM for their base subscription.
They just broke down the company name to Infineon...
Yahoo always has been in the business of branching out and becoming a "web portal" rather than a search engine. That's why they've got e-mail, fanatasy football games, a music news site, an IM client, and all sorts of other things in their brand image.
It's Google who always stayed as a search engine only and is making newsworthy branch out efforts in the form of GMail and such.