Man, I do some of my best thinking when I'm doing chores around the house. When I was telecommuting full-time, I did a whole ton of chores while worrying over some problem or other, then (frequently stopping in the middle, to resume later) going and implementing the solution I came up with. Most of the time, the solution I came up with worked the first time, or the second, whereas in an office, it would take 4-5 shots before the problem was solved.
But those could be targeted. If your enemy only knows where your units are appearing, they can't target the supply line, only the origin and destination.
Well, internally I'd be inclined to use my own format anyway, and to start with it (so I don't have to wrap my head around someone else's file format while I work on ui). The important part is the concept being available in the open document format.
I generally consider latex an output target, even though it's not really an output target (it's an input with it's own set of output targets), and html is definitely an output target.:)
I'll think on it some more, I'm going to have time to tackle an interesting project of some sort this summer, and I'm still seeing and sawing between making a fancy math editor with ajax as a browser-based app or with qt and adding a network layer to it that will probably be http to simplify setting up a server. The goal here is similar enough to what we're talking about and within the larger scope that I try to grab information when it's handed to me that might help me think about it.:) The larger scope is a single program that will completely replace the combination of computers, notebooks, and textbooks used for all classes up to and including graduate level classes. So, take notes in class (and do it as fast as you can with paper and pencil), do homework, writing and research assignments, etc. It can be a suite of applications, but interoperability has to be seemless, and running can't depend on network being available (which is the problem with it being a web app).
In the annotated books that I've read (which isn't many), the main text was spaced so that the notes next to it always referred to the section it was walking about, and used footnote-like symbols to provide specific anchors when needed.
The basic "space the text right" feature shouldn't be terribly difficult, and the ui is just having a pane to the left and a pane to the right, so it would be the same ui that you have for editing the document by itself.
I'll dig around some more, I'm actually very interested in this sort of thing, specifically finding a ui that can actually replace paper for all intents and purposes (particularly doing complex math). If the file format supports comments of some sort, then the primitives are there to build on, and no special extensions needed that would make it difficult to exchange documents.
It's a little different in OO.o 2.0.4 (which is what I have). It's not discoverable! More importantly, I think, it doesn't appear to be terribly useful. I was thinking more like a dual-paned view, similar to what you'd have if you used an annotated Bible. The main text is in one pane, and there's a side pane with comments on the text. That's what I'd consider truly supporting annotating documents.
I'll fool around with it some more some time and see if I can get more out of it, thanks for mentioning it.
I took a distance learning Comp 2 class this semester that I wound up dropping, and the teacher used the track changes feature to write comments in.
All that said, yes, I wholeheartedly agree there needs to be a way to annotate documents. Why are we here in 2007 with a billion years of word processing behind us and we still can't annotate documents in a word processor?
I disagree completely. Now, it's true that the conversation itself was a borderline conversation, and you'd have to consider the culture at the workplace to determine if it was appropriate. I have worked in places where such a conversation is not only appropriate, but occurs regularly. I've also worked in places that were the complete opposite, you could only talk about violence in movies or else you got in trouble. We don't know the culture, all we know is that he said it coincidentally on the day of the VT shootings, and there are several distinct possibilities here. 1) He said it like he did because he was thinking of how *he* would deal with a shooter. 2) He didn't know about the shootings (you may disregard this all you want, but I hadn't heard about them until 6pm, so it's a possibility anyway). 3) It was a continuation of a conversation that started before the VT shooting, which therefore means the employer should have fired the shooting for improper behavior.
Where I work, in a school lab, we actually talked about what we'd use for weapons in that situation and how we'd defeat the shooter before he killed us or anybody else, and our conversation was a bit more graphic than his. Of course, it was limited and private in nature (i.e. limited to me and another person, and when others appeared we broke it off and talked about other things because we were concerned they wouldn't appreciate the topic).
So, anyway, yes, I think the employer should have taken a few minutes and thought about it and that a better response would have been mediation between the webcomic guy and the wanna-be whistleblower. Consider the coworker's situation. Now she/he has learned that she can get someone fired by tattling on them. And the employer knows she's a knee-jerker. Do you really think this is going to affect the work environment in a positive way? Did the employer really do the right thing?
Can we get past the idea that businesses can do whatever they want so long as they are pursuing revenue? I think that that is the most dangerous idea facing society today, even if we have 100 college shootings.
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I think his strategy included saying "Hey, let's make this more sane by X, Y, and Z!" and the prospective employer saying "sure, let's do it", not reading it, not even looking at it, initialing where you tell him to, and watching you sign it.
Don't just think that the fuckin' new guy is the only one who signs contracts without reading them.
I can anecdotally support that too. At school I've been hearing kids from education majors to engineering majors saying they need to get a new computer because their old one is running like crap, but they don't want to shell out for Vista when they've heard it's total crap. Most are saying they're going Macintrash when they upgrade. A few will cave and get Vista-loaded PCs, but the rest are wanting an alternative. They don't like the choices available, and they want an alternative.
You're right up to a point. The point where you start being wrong is where the rubber meets the road. No matter how much money you spend, or how good/bad equipment you buy, you will never build a lab that simulates the real world. Security testing must be done on production networks because that's the network you need to know is secure. Your lab might be the securest place in the world, and it might be running a perfect replica of your production network, but you don't know your production network is secure until you test your production network.
I'm not supporting the guy or chastising him, I frankly don't give a rat's ass about him and his situation.
Heh, I think the one time I ate at Trudy's, the service was so bad I've never been back. It was the one down south where South Lamar hits 290. That was years ago, though, so either they've cleaned up their act or gone out of business. In another place, at a little mexican joint in north austin, a waitress told me that mole sauce wasn't very good, and I've never been interested in it since then. Probably just as well, the reason I finally quit eating chocolate was that all the drugs caught up with me (common among drug addicts to neglect personal hygene to varying extents), so now I've got so many holes in my teeth that eating chocolate is literally painful. So I guess I don't really care how its defined by the FDA, I'm not going to eat it anyway.
In another aside, my sister-in-law made a point of feeding mole sauce to her diabetic mother. She was going to a mexican church at the time (they're not Mexican, she just speaks Spanish and is a Spanish teacher nowadays, and not surprisingly prefers mexican company to white company), so she got the hang of making mole sauce or so I hear, because as previously mentioned, I won't eat it.
Are you still in Austin? If you are, and you've still got your chocolate habit, you really ought to go out on Airport drive to the Lammes store and checkout their chocolate. Also, Blue Bonnet ice cream has a wonderful flavor called Triple Chocolate that's available throughout Texas.
Well, you do know that a lot of these supplements, herbs, and juices contain the same active chemicals as prescription drugs, but since they're not regulated like prescription drugs, people are killing themselves with them, right?
Oh yeah, 2000 year old medicine can't be wrong. (Here's a hint: it's just as wrong as 2000 year old religion)
I'm going to have to say it's all about what you grew up with. My grandma used to always bring us the commodity chocolate from the UK whenever she went to visit family, and that shit sucked balls, man. Balls. I hated it. But I had to eat it or my grandma would go on a long rant about how Americans can't make chocolate for shit.
Best chocolate I've ever eaten was Toblerone, and some stuff produced here in Austin (Lammes chocolate). Tied, they are. At the time, I thought Toblerone was imported from Switzerland, but I seem to remember finding out since then that it's owned by Hershey.
Yes, he's done many things of praise. For one thing, he showed us exactly what a chicken looks like if it runs around with its head cut off. We won't be making that mistake again.
He's also introduced all sorts of new words into the vernacular, such as evil-doers, nucular, etc.
Not to mention, it doesn't matter. Average intelligence has arguably not changed in the last 5000 years, what's changed is our knowledge of the world around us, so any perceived modern intelligence has more to do with applying the same creativity our ancients had to a better developed understanding of the world around us. If you (you the reader) compare the average fifth grade education even in our borked US public schools to the average education of, say, a Roman peasant or a peasant in the high middle ages, I think you'll find that we've got the better education. We need to keep trending towards more understanding, and the fact is that more crazy religious whackos have made positive contributions to society than otherwise (I'm thinking about Newton and Galileo and the likes of them). There isn't any objective way to look at our current body of science and conclude that religious whackos are a bad influence, because overall they have been a net positive influence.
So no, I don't think any existing religious movement is going to damage our overall understanding of the world around us nor do I think it's going to result in massive scientific and technological regression. Rather, I think the danger has to do with undoing a great deal of work in areas of human rights, good government, and so forth, and that's understanding that it's these particular areas where religious whackos have had a net negative influence.
THat's because evolution doesn't work that way. It's opt-out, not opt-in. Natural selection selects who will die, not who will live. Unless you take that definition implicitly, but it's better not to. Just consider that natural selection wipes out unviable species, it shouldn't be interpreted as a reward for viable species.
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Man, I do some of my best thinking when I'm doing chores around the house. When I was telecommuting full-time, I did a whole ton of chores while worrying over some problem or other, then (frequently stopping in the middle, to resume later) going and implementing the solution I came up with. Most of the time, the solution I came up with worked the first time, or the second, whereas in an office, it would take 4-5 shots before the problem was solved.
Now I work in a lab, no telecommuting for me!
But those could be targeted. If your enemy only knows where your units are appearing, they can't target the supply line, only the origin and destination.
Well, internally I'd be inclined to use my own format anyway, and to start with it (so I don't have to wrap my head around someone else's file format while I work on ui). The important part is the concept being available in the open document format.
I generally consider latex an output target, even though it's not really an output target (it's an input with it's own set of output targets), and html is definitely an output target. :)
I'll think on it some more, I'm going to have time to tackle an interesting project of some sort this summer, and I'm still seeing and sawing between making a fancy math editor with ajax as a browser-based app or with qt and adding a network layer to it that will probably be http to simplify setting up a server. The goal here is similar enough to what we're talking about and within the larger scope that I try to grab information when it's handed to me that might help me think about it. :) The larger scope is a single program that will completely replace the combination of computers, notebooks, and textbooks used for all classes up to and including graduate level classes. So, take notes in class (and do it as fast as you can with paper and pencil), do homework, writing and research assignments, etc. It can be a suite of applications, but interoperability has to be seemless, and running can't depend on network being available (which is the problem with it being a web app).
In the annotated books that I've read (which isn't many), the main text was spaced so that the notes next to it always referred to the section it was walking about, and used footnote-like symbols to provide specific anchors when needed.
The basic "space the text right" feature shouldn't be terribly difficult, and the ui is just having a pane to the left and a pane to the right, so it would be the same ui that you have for editing the document by itself.
I'll dig around some more, I'm actually very interested in this sort of thing, specifically finding a ui that can actually replace paper for all intents and purposes (particularly doing complex math). If the file format supports comments of some sort, then the primitives are there to build on, and no special extensions needed that would make it difficult to exchange documents.
It's a little different in OO.o 2.0.4 (which is what I have). It's not discoverable! More importantly, I think, it doesn't appear to be terribly useful. I was thinking more like a dual-paned view, similar to what you'd have if you used an annotated Bible. The main text is in one pane, and there's a side pane with comments on the text. That's what I'd consider truly supporting annotating documents.
I'll fool around with it some more some time and see if I can get more out of it, thanks for mentioning it.
Hmmm, simple directions for using that feature in OO.o and I'll get back to you? :)
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I took a distance learning Comp 2 class this semester that I wound up dropping, and the teacher used the track changes feature to write comments in.
All that said, yes, I wholeheartedly agree there needs to be a way to annotate documents. Why are we here in 2007 with a billion years of word processing behind us and we still can't annotate documents in a word processor?
I disagree completely. Now, it's true that the conversation itself was a borderline conversation, and you'd have to consider the culture at the workplace to determine if it was appropriate. I have worked in places where such a conversation is not only appropriate, but occurs regularly. I've also worked in places that were the complete opposite, you could only talk about violence in movies or else you got in trouble. We don't know the culture, all we know is that he said it coincidentally on the day of the VT shootings, and there are several distinct possibilities here. 1) He said it like he did because he was thinking of how *he* would deal with a shooter. 2) He didn't know about the shootings (you may disregard this all you want, but I hadn't heard about them until 6pm, so it's a possibility anyway). 3) It was a continuation of a conversation that started before the VT shooting, which therefore means the employer should have fired the shooting for improper behavior.
Where I work, in a school lab, we actually talked about what we'd use for weapons in that situation and how we'd defeat the shooter before he killed us or anybody else, and our conversation was a bit more graphic than his. Of course, it was limited and private in nature (i.e. limited to me and another person, and when others appeared we broke it off and talked about other things because we were concerned they wouldn't appreciate the topic).
So, anyway, yes, I think the employer should have taken a few minutes and thought about it and that a better response would have been mediation between the webcomic guy and the wanna-be whistleblower. Consider the coworker's situation. Now she/he has learned that she can get someone fired by tattling on them. And the employer knows she's a knee-jerker. Do you really think this is going to affect the work environment in a positive way? Did the employer really do the right thing?
Can we get past the idea that businesses can do whatever they want so long as they are pursuing revenue? I think that that is the most dangerous idea facing society today, even if we have 100 college shootings.
I think his strategy included saying "Hey, let's make this more sane by X, Y, and Z!" and the prospective employer saying "sure, let's do it", not reading it, not even looking at it, initialing where you tell him to, and watching you sign it.
Don't just think that the fuckin' new guy is the only one who signs contracts without reading them.
I can anecdotally support that too. At school I've been hearing kids from education majors to engineering majors saying they need to get a new computer because their old one is running like crap, but they don't want to shell out for Vista when they've heard it's total crap. Most are saying they're going Macintrash when they upgrade. A few will cave and get Vista-loaded PCs, but the rest are wanting an alternative. They don't like the choices available, and they want an alternative.
Dell needs to hurry up!
Nah. All falsified credentials are blamed on Wikipedia, aren't they?
You're right up to a point. The point where you start being wrong is where the rubber meets the road. No matter how much money you spend, or how good/bad equipment you buy, you will never build a lab that simulates the real world. Security testing must be done on production networks because that's the network you need to know is secure. Your lab might be the securest place in the world, and it might be running a perfect replica of your production network, but you don't know your production network is secure until you test your production network.
I'm not supporting the guy or chastising him, I frankly don't give a rat's ass about him and his situation.
Heh, I think the one time I ate at Trudy's, the service was so bad I've never been back. It was the one down south where South Lamar hits 290. That was years ago, though, so either they've cleaned up their act or gone out of business. In another place, at a little mexican joint in north austin, a waitress told me that mole sauce wasn't very good, and I've never been interested in it since then. Probably just as well, the reason I finally quit eating chocolate was that all the drugs caught up with me (common among drug addicts to neglect personal hygene to varying extents), so now I've got so many holes in my teeth that eating chocolate is literally painful. So I guess I don't really care how its defined by the FDA, I'm not going to eat it anyway.
In another aside, my sister-in-law made a point of feeding mole sauce to her diabetic mother. She was going to a mexican church at the time (they're not Mexican, she just speaks Spanish and is a Spanish teacher nowadays, and not surprisingly prefers mexican company to white company), so she got the hang of making mole sauce or so I hear, because as previously mentioned, I won't eat it.
Are you still in Austin? If you are, and you've still got your chocolate habit, you really ought to go out on Airport drive to the Lammes store and checkout their chocolate. Also, Blue Bonnet ice cream has a wonderful flavor called Triple Chocolate that's available throughout Texas.
Well, you do know that a lot of these supplements, herbs, and juices contain the same active chemicals as prescription drugs, but since they're not regulated like prescription drugs, people are killing themselves with them, right?
Oh yeah, 2000 year old medicine can't be wrong. (Here's a hint: it's just as wrong as 2000 year old religion)
I'm going to have to say it's all about what you grew up with. My grandma used to always bring us the commodity chocolate from the UK whenever she went to visit family, and that shit sucked balls, man. Balls. I hated it. But I had to eat it or my grandma would go on a long rant about how Americans can't make chocolate for shit.
Best chocolate I've ever eaten was Toblerone, and some stuff produced here in Austin (Lammes chocolate). Tied, they are. At the time, I thought Toblerone was imported from Switzerland, but I seem to remember finding out since then that it's owned by Hershey.
Ever read any Clausewitz?
/me hands WindBourne his sense of humor back.
Looks like you dropped this.
Don't forget aobut bombing Tripoli, the beirut hijacking, the Challenger blowing up...
The happiest news we've had since WW2 ended, in this order, are:
Yes, he's done many things of praise. For one thing, he showed us exactly what a chicken looks like if it runs around with its head cut off. We won't be making that mistake again.
He's also introduced all sorts of new words into the vernacular, such as evil-doers, nucular, etc.
THe Fantastic 4 aren't mutants, they're altered humans. They rode a spaceship through a radiation field...
We wouldn't call you inhuman. Just emo.
...and mathematicians are people too disconnected from the world to be engineers.
Not to mention, it doesn't matter. Average intelligence has arguably not changed in the last 5000 years, what's changed is our knowledge of the world around us, so any perceived modern intelligence has more to do with applying the same creativity our ancients had to a better developed understanding of the world around us. If you (you the reader) compare the average fifth grade education even in our borked US public schools to the average education of, say, a Roman peasant or a peasant in the high middle ages, I think you'll find that we've got the better education. We need to keep trending towards more understanding, and the fact is that more crazy religious whackos have made positive contributions to society than otherwise (I'm thinking about Newton and Galileo and the likes of them). There isn't any objective way to look at our current body of science and conclude that religious whackos are a bad influence, because overall they have been a net positive influence.
So no, I don't think any existing religious movement is going to damage our overall understanding of the world around us nor do I think it's going to result in massive scientific and technological regression. Rather, I think the danger has to do with undoing a great deal of work in areas of human rights, good government, and so forth, and that's understanding that it's these particular areas where religious whackos have had a net negative influence.
THat's because evolution doesn't work that way. It's opt-out, not opt-in. Natural selection selects who will die, not who will live. Unless you take that definition implicitly, but it's better not to. Just consider that natural selection wipes out unviable species, it shouldn't be interpreted as a reward for viable species.