Rapportive was the first product that really shocked me into being privacy conscious. It allowed people to data mine my email and find many of my online accounts, even ones which I've always selected privacy options to not link my email to the account. Seeing as Linkedin members are a product for company looking for employees, I won't be surprised if Linkedin start selling rather invasive background checks on it members to perspective employers. Will have to considering deleting my account.
I worked for a mortgage company for a week. One thing I learned is that they try to acquire more information than they are suppose to have. Part of my job was asking for information from employers without consent from the applicant. Every employer I talked to said that we need to send the official permission form in first before they would talk to me, not that I was at all persuasive.
A lot of employers will only verify strictly factual info, such as dates of employment and salary, as it's not worth it for them to volunteer info they could be sued over (whether preferential treatment or defamation)
I was once in the cubical next to my boss when he got a call for a job check for an apartment I applied for, he said a lot of glowing things about me as a favor to help me get the place.
If you read the story, this is not being at work, this is about doing outside contract work from home, and the screenshots are just one of the metrics used to justify pay for billed hours, keystrokes is another. The point in using another computer is to avoid being deducted 10 minutes worth of pay for a non-work related screen shot for perhaps what may be a 1 minute Skype break. The Skype break would only effect the key log rate instead.
Text messaging might be a great way to flirt, but my boss sent me a network down emergency via text messaging, and it didn't get addressed for 3 days. Seriously, people need to use the proper medium for the message. A network down emergency is worthy of a phone call. Bulky info or info that needs to be saved should be sent via email. Teenagers use text messaging because they aren't communicating anything of substance to each other.
I'm surprised PETA has not spoken up on how Mario keeps a gorilla in a small cage. Sometimes this poorly treated gorilla escapes causing all sorts of havoc. Mario has also been known to sometimes take shrooms and abuse turtles, causing much property damage while he steals other people's money. And he acts like it's just some sort of game!
And that is the biggest pain with these new UI's, How I do my job has stayed relatively consistent since 1995. Now people have to relearn their jobs, from office suites to general OS. And for what? A possible marginal increase of usability? This is after not only you've retrained somebody's computer knowledge, but retrained their spatial reflexes.
The other issue is it's become far more complicated to support and train these users through traditional avenues.
If it was just as computer nerds using computers, then yes, one could get away with redesigning basic interfaces as we'd figure out how to cope. But when you are working with the general public, incremental changes over time is what is needed.
What that chart doesn't show is the several months the iPhone 3G was practically unusable because the iPhone 3 OS didn't work properly on it. Once they finally manage to get an update pushed out that actually work, I stopped updating the darn thing. I would have far preferred they held it back till it worked on that hardware. Google is playing it smart and not causing old hardware to brick or become unusable for people. This is a good thing.
That certainly could be true. One of the issue, especially with reading the epistles, is we are on one side of the conversation, and we try to fill that side in using modern world viewpoints. First Corinthians is especially abused in this manner.
Couple corrections, Dead Sea Scrolls belong to a Jewish sect and are old testament, they prove nothing about the early Christian church. Scholars date Gospel of John to be in it's final form between 90 and 100 AD, so it can't be in retort to Gospel of Thomas. The Gospel of John clearly about defining Christian belief apart from Jewish. The miracles described are to show Jesus preformed greater miracles than the Jewish prophets. Interestingly enough, if you read the letters of John, it's most likely arguing against the theory that Jesus wasn't also a man and was only divine. The Gospel of John also moved away from talking about Jewish law, and instead taught the doctrine of love, following in the footsteps of the teachings of Paul. The authorship of Paul's letters is a more complicated issue than did he or didn't he write them. He likely may have had someone write them for him, taking his thoughts and putting them to paper for him, especially during his later imprisonment.
Actually the degree to work in IT is CIS (Computer Information Science) or MIS (Management Information Science) and they are often taught in Schools of Management. You learn both the technological, plus the business side of IT. Some Universities combine CIS and CS into the same department. Although you wouldn't know such degrees existed looking at the job listings as it would seem most of the IT jobs that list a specific degree list Computer Science. Personally I think a CS degree to help ghost some PC's is a bit of the wrong direction, it's like looking for a Physics graduate to sweep your science lab.
My company used to use RT. I could work the ticket system from Opera Mini on my Symbian based phone. My company moved to a closed source solution called Connectwise because it integrated the entire customer database into the ticket system. Although now we have trouble using even from windows mobile phones.
Actually originally the masses didn't vote, the state governments picked the electors, we didn't see that till the first election of JQA vs Jackson. Thus the term Jacksonian Democracy. The original idea of how are government was set up wasn't that the masses were uneducated, but was to keep the passion of the masses in check in order to provide a stable government and that the government didn't take a too sharp of a turn over election year passions. In the US congress the house was suppose to represent the passions of the people, while the Senate was a more reflective body that tempered those passions in a more long looking viewpoint. Remember democracy doesn't necessarily mean rule by the mob, in fact rule by mob will is what they were trying to prevent.
The current good of the Electoral system is that is contains close calls to a smaller voting segment. If a national election was really close, you could see the disaster of Florida in 2000 go across the entire nation.
Wow, I post a comment about what technology is relevant, and it provokes a lot of good feedback, one that is rated Insightful, and my comment gets rated O: Troll??? Yes I took an unpopular stance, but I was not trolling. I think perhaps too many people are rating comments on personal agreement these days.
Actually it's been Microsoft's competitors nipping at his heels that pushed the industry along. Digital Research's CP/M (which turned into DR DOS) predated MS-DOS and continued to force it to play catch up for the entire life of MS-DOS. DESQview gave DOS users windows four months before Windows 1.0 and didn't get surpassed till Windows 3.0. IBM was selling a 32-BIT GUI Internet ready operating system called OS/2 to end users since 1992, a year before Windows NT, which wasn't even targeted to home users, Micrsoft didn't do that till 1995. In 1994 OS/2 already included an entire suite of Internet utilities including a Web Browser, something that take Microsoft till November 1995 to do, although not for retail till 1998.
Before Bob came out I saw a news report about Microsoft. They interviews some guy working on future company technology, an animated assistant. It was a Parrot I believe.
This is very true. Especially if you can specialize in a high paid skill that might not have constant demand. Some network guys work 8 months a year while taking home 80K.
As for regular employment, my company used to have a part time guy, but he got paid at far less per hour on top of that.
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The problem people have with Facebook isn't that it wasn't creepy enough. What Google+ has mostly done is make Facebook not look that bad after all.
Rapportive was the first product that really shocked me into being privacy conscious. It allowed people to data mine my email and find many of my online accounts, even ones which I've always selected privacy options to not link my email to the account. Seeing as Linkedin members are a product for company looking for employees, I won't be surprised if Linkedin start selling rather invasive background checks on it members to perspective employers. Will have to considering deleting my account.
I worked for a mortgage company for a week. One thing I learned is that they try to acquire more information than they are suppose to have. Part of my job was asking for information from employers without consent from the applicant. Every employer I talked to said that we need to send the official permission form in first before they would talk to me, not that I was at all persuasive.
A lot of employers will only verify strictly factual info, such as dates of employment and salary, as it's not worth it for them to volunteer info they could be sued over (whether preferential treatment or defamation)
I was once in the cubical next to my boss when he got a call for a job check for an apartment I applied for, he said a lot of glowing things about me as a favor to help me get the place.
Was it built to transport shipments of the world's tiniest violin to people everywhere? I know I can, I know I can, I know I can!
If you read the story, this is not being at work, this is about doing outside contract work from home, and the screenshots are just one of the metrics used to justify pay for billed hours, keystrokes is another. The point in using another computer is to avoid being deducted 10 minutes worth of pay for a non-work related screen shot for perhaps what may be a 1 minute Skype break. The Skype break would only effect the key log rate instead.
Text messaging might be a great way to flirt, but my boss sent me a network down emergency via text messaging, and it didn't get addressed for 3 days. Seriously, people need to use the proper medium for the message. A network down emergency is worthy of a phone call. Bulky info or info that needs to be saved should be sent via email. Teenagers use text messaging because they aren't communicating anything of substance to each other.
I'm surprised PETA has not spoken up on how Mario keeps a gorilla in a small cage. Sometimes this poorly treated gorilla escapes causing all sorts of havoc. Mario has also been known to sometimes take shrooms and abuse turtles, causing much property damage while he steals other people's money. And he acts like it's just some sort of game!
Reminds me of the joke about futons, "a not that comfortable couch that turns into an even less comfortable bed, wow both those things in one!"
And that is the biggest pain with these new UI's, How I do my job has stayed relatively consistent since 1995. Now people have to relearn their jobs, from office suites to general OS. And for what? A possible marginal increase of usability? This is after not only you've retrained somebody's computer knowledge, but retrained their spatial reflexes. The other issue is it's become far more complicated to support and train these users through traditional avenues. If it was just as computer nerds using computers, then yes, one could get away with redesigning basic interfaces as we'd figure out how to cope. But when you are working with the general public, incremental changes over time is what is needed.
I could have sworn my friend's Android phone already did everything Siri does two years ago, only faster.
What that chart doesn't show is the several months the iPhone 3G was practically unusable because the iPhone 3 OS didn't work properly on it. Once they finally manage to get an update pushed out that actually work, I stopped updating the darn thing. I would have far preferred they held it back till it worked on that hardware. Google is playing it smart and not causing old hardware to brick or become unusable for people. This is a good thing.
That certainly could be true. One of the issue, especially with reading the epistles, is we are on one side of the conversation, and we try to fill that side in using modern world viewpoints. First Corinthians is especially abused in this manner.
Couple corrections, Dead Sea Scrolls belong to a Jewish sect and are old testament, they prove nothing about the early Christian church. Scholars date Gospel of John to be in it's final form between 90 and 100 AD, so it can't be in retort to Gospel of Thomas. The Gospel of John clearly about defining Christian belief apart from Jewish. The miracles described are to show Jesus preformed greater miracles than the Jewish prophets. Interestingly enough, if you read the letters of John, it's most likely arguing against the theory that Jesus wasn't also a man and was only divine. The Gospel of John also moved away from talking about Jewish law, and instead taught the doctrine of love, following in the footsteps of the teachings of Paul. The authorship of Paul's letters is a more complicated issue than did he or didn't he write them. He likely may have had someone write them for him, taking his thoughts and putting them to paper for him, especially during his later imprisonment.
Actually the degree to work in IT is CIS (Computer Information Science) or MIS (Management Information Science) and they are often taught in Schools of Management. You learn both the technological, plus the business side of IT. Some Universities combine CIS and CS into the same department. Although you wouldn't know such degrees existed looking at the job listings as it would seem most of the IT jobs that list a specific degree list Computer Science. Personally I think a CS degree to help ghost some PC's is a bit of the wrong direction, it's like looking for a Physics graduate to sweep your science lab.
The earliest I remember reading Slashdot was Spring of 98. You've been a beacon of how to do a website right. Best of luck on your future endeavors!
I have very similar feelings. When I use XFCE, it's a breath of fresh air.
My company used to use RT. I could work the ticket system from Opera Mini on my Symbian based phone. My company moved to a closed source solution called Connectwise because it integrated the entire customer database into the ticket system. Although now we have trouble using even from windows mobile phones.
Actually originally the masses didn't vote, the state governments picked the electors, we didn't see that till the first election of JQA vs Jackson. Thus the term Jacksonian Democracy. The original idea of how are government was set up wasn't that the masses were uneducated, but was to keep the passion of the masses in check in order to provide a stable government and that the government didn't take a too sharp of a turn over election year passions. In the US congress the house was suppose to represent the passions of the people, while the Senate was a more reflective body that tempered those passions in a more long looking viewpoint. Remember democracy doesn't necessarily mean rule by the mob, in fact rule by mob will is what they were trying to prevent.
The current good of the Electoral system is that is contains close calls to a smaller voting segment. If a national election was really close, you could see the disaster of Florida in 2000 go across the entire nation.
It's true, agents from the future are disrupting the Large Hadron Collider in order to prevent a black hole from eating the earth.
Wow, I post a comment about what technology is relevant, and it provokes a lot of good feedback, one that is rated Insightful, and my comment gets rated O: Troll??? Yes I took an unpopular stance, but I was not trolling. I think perhaps too many people are rating comments on personal agreement these days.
Lossy is outdated, lossless is the future, free software should be focusing on it's lossless formats like FLAC.
Actually it's been Microsoft's competitors nipping at his heels that pushed the industry along. Digital Research's CP/M (which turned into DR DOS) predated MS-DOS and continued to force it to play catch up for the entire life of MS-DOS. DESQview gave DOS users windows four months before Windows 1.0 and didn't get surpassed till Windows 3.0. IBM was selling a 32-BIT GUI Internet ready operating system called OS/2 to end users since 1992, a year before Windows NT, which wasn't even targeted to home users, Micrsoft didn't do that till 1995. In 1994 OS/2 already included an entire suite of Internet utilities including a Web Browser, something that take Microsoft till November 1995 to do, although not for retail till 1998.
Before Bob came out I saw a news report about Microsoft. They interviews some guy working on future company technology, an animated assistant. It was a Parrot I believe.
There was a time when it was ok to play games on computers at some workplaces since it helped teach you how to use them better.
This is very true. Especially if you can specialize in a high paid skill that might not have constant demand. Some network guys work 8 months a year while taking home 80K. As for regular employment, my company used to have a part time guy, but he got paid at far less per hour on top of that.