I'll second that for UrT. Admittedly, the walljumps that are fun as can be are not terribly realistic, but the teamwork is critical, as is strategy. Spawn-killing noobs? Protect your base or die in it I say. I think that's pretty realistic. The recoil and reload times as well as bleeding are realistic enough to push real strategy beyond pray and spray. OK, probably not a very realistic damage chart. But the fact that you have a choice after being shot of either taking care of your wounds or continuing to bleed out while you keep shooting is one of the reasons I love this game.
I'll suggest another MS solution, just build your own database. Because of my personal scenario I have few options for software. Access is already installed at my workplace so I just built a database for jobs. Recurring stuff just goes in my Calendar. But anything new coming in that is a project to a quick task goes in my database.
A form makes a convenient view to record who the job is for, what kind of job it is, any special tags you want to assign the job, and you have choices for what boxes you want for different types of data. Do you want to record the updates on the project/job? Do you want to record when you received the job and when you finished? I find 4 slots for milestones/sub-goals is plenty for me. You could add a date for the milestones if you wanted to.
This all makes it easy to view only unfinished jobs, or certain types of tasks, or to run a report by milestone dates.
Prior to using Access I just had odds and ends here and there and it was too hard to track. One note wouldn't be a good solution for me because many of my tasks are quick, but I still need to record them. Using OneNote would not be as convenient, nor as easy to turn into an end of year report detailing how time was spent.
You say these inequalities linger into the future, but you've done nothing to describe how they linger. The lack of female representatives cannot be due to inequalities since 1920, almost a century ago, when females gained equality in voting power.
You are merely reinforcing the original poster's argument that the what may have happened a century ago (before suffrage) has nothing to do with today's politics in which women wield a majority of voting power.
Amen to that. The blurring of work/personal life is something that management loves because they get 24/7 employees that see no problem with doing work for free. But then when employees display casual behavior at work (jeans/tshirts, inappropriate language, flirting, surfing facebook) the bosses get all in a tizzy. They have created their own monster here by blurring that line between personal life and work.
I was salary in an industry that was not well protected by labor laws. I did take work home and work late, but my bosses realized it that I did great work and did extra work and they rewarded me appropriately. Now I have a new boss, less recognition, and hourly pay. And you better believe it that when I'm asked to do an extra job I make it clear that it's overtime. The downside is my pay is less. The upside is that my time is even more valuable.
Second that. Zero space for storage for existing equipment. Definitely no storage space for broken equipment. With current replacement costs vs repair? If it's broke it's gone. Either to proper disposal or in my garage until I get a chance to take it out there on my own time.
Why? Why do you have to draw the line somewhere? You are talking about a line where some adults get to tell other adults what material is safe for them to see?
Seriously, this guy is epic. But I don't know if I would have burned that bridge. It sounds like he was told that the previous work was going to be paid for if the deal worked out, which it didn't. Rather than saying no I think I would have asked for money up front, including enough to justify hours lost on the other project that didn't pan out. I mean, if this guy were to do the work without cash up front he'd be a noob. There's just not enough information there to say if he threw away a paying job or mocked some imbecile that was just wasting his time.
I make the mistake all the time of thinking most people are so stupid. And then I realize that if it's most people, then they aren't stupid... they are average. And if half the population is dumber than that... well, there will always be work for someone above the 50th. The most important skills are valuable to any employer.
I'm about to be looking myself. 7 years in and I've tripled my beginning salary. At the end of year 2 had two bosses fighting over who got to keep me. Got a new boss who wants her own person in there and they've messed with my pay to get me out.
I'm not too worried. I wasn't even trained for this job when I came in. Within a year my bosses were coming to me asking me the questions. Within 2 years they were fighting over having me exclusively. Within 3 years they were asking me to tell them how to respond to data on customers and product. By year 4 there were people at the head office calling me for advice and asking how I was making things work that were completely stalled at other sites. There's plenty of opportunity for a smart kid who pays attention and makes their boss look good.
Of course the real BCC need is in companies that haven't cracked down on internal spam. "Here's a funny joke!", "Here's a picture of a cute kitten that does funny things at work!", "Here's a brighten your Friday email!".
And of course they get forwarded 10 times around the company, harvesting more names every time until they float out of the intranet to be caught by spammers in a variety of ways.
Plenty of arguments in this post are talking about kids being able to run and play. But this is not the case described in the post. P.E. is not unstructured play time in which a student gets the chance to set his own limits according to how he feels.
The P.E. teacher will determine the activity and will most likely be telling Johnny to keep (skipping rope, doing jumping jacks, 5 more pushups). The teacher is unable to monitor if the child is outside of a safe pulse range and most kids couldn't tell you either. Partly because of the math involved which includes checking your resting pulse.
Schools are starting to figure out that if Johnny needs a waiver and a physical to voluntarily compete in track after school then they are certainly liable if something happens to Johnny while he is involuntarily participating in athletic training directed by the coach during gym class. Both are physically strenuous activities being directed by a teacher/coach that is simultaneously trying to supervise around 30 other kids. And that teacher/coach has absolutely no way of knowing if the child is in good enough shape to participate or when they child has hit their limit.
School has longer hours than it used to. Homework is long. And parents work more which means parents have the kids in daycare instead of playing in the backyard after school. These kids are in as bad of shape as we adults are. Monitoring heart rates is kind of smart.
On the other side, it sounds like the school is pretty much admitting some liability on their part... knowledge that the students will have different limits of how much exercize is safe. If they aren't going to buy these for every kid they can pretty much plan on being sued by the parents of the kid who didn't have one and "was too tired to do well in class after gym".
As far as I can see, all they do is make it tougher for users to use strong passwords (due to being unable to memorize them), thus leading to weaker passwords and less security.
Absolutely. I work in computer training and for years I have done my best to urge users not to use passwords. I recommend acronyms for easy to remember sentences and similar strong passwords.
And, worse yet, the nature of this workplace makes it a hazard to have passwords written down.
What's the biggest hindrance? Regular password changes. Far enough apart that users don't remember when it's coming. Spur of the moment enough that the user can't remember a good password and doesn't have time to plan for a secure one. And no restrictions on passwords.
It gets better. Our regular downtime is spaced just in time to occur shortly after a password change. So there is a good chance that passwords will be forgotten at least once per year.
It's been widely known for long enough that password changes required by software is not good for security. I do not understand why IT so often fails to recognize this problem.
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I feel more like this is society cheating humanity.
I don't know where the line falls, but there is a line where what we do is productive and healthy. On the other side of that line we may be productive, but we are not healthy. I don't believe that a society with so many people out of work is really in need of a work force that pops pills to be more productive.
Humanity is plenty productive already and needs more downtime to devote to the arts, culture, civil liberties, families, and other outlets that enrich our lives and those of future generations.
It's unfortunate that I'm sitting here at 3:00 AM wishing I had those drugs so I could get focused on my report I need to finish. Because the real answer is that instead of wishing I had drugs to complete one of the 5 jobs I work for one paycheck I should be wishing that my employer hired 4 other people so that the jobs got done right and we didn't have 4 people on unemployment.
So I don't feel like these drugs cheat evolution. Mankind doesn't need to evolve to become more productive. Instead society needs to evolve to allow for our already incredible levels of productivity.
NCLB. The federal government is only measuring success, and rewarding it, for reading and math scores. This means that the schools will not give teachers enough time to adequately cover science and social studies. In Michigan that state does not even give schools adequate tests for measuring any scientific knowledge.
No. It isn't about the ISP keeping logs. It is about you not being able to claim that someone else committed a crime with your internet connection through your wireless router. If you have to keep logs, if you don't have logs that clear yourself then you are guilty.
This is an attack on the presumption of innocence. I don't believe they have any serious thoughts about regular users keeping 2 years of logs.
"Anyone that thinks Documentation might lead to their dismissal because "We don't need him anymore" is dead wrong. If you write documentation, you'll be the most loved person in all of IT in your company."
True enough. My job is putting together training documents. Well, part of my job anyway. I get emails every day saying 'What would we do without you?' for just sending out an email with a couple of screen caps and a couple lines about how to perform a task. If it doesn't have to be fancy record the procedure on your cell or camera and give them a video to reference.
1. Get an idea of what co-workers are doing. 2. Get enough shallow information to draw conclusions about what tasks are the biggest wastes of their time. 3. Create a procedure or document an established procedure that will cut their time on those tasks.
Time is all about respect. If I waste your time I don't respect you and if you waste my time you don't value me. Save someone 10 minutes a day and you just saved them an hour for the week. That's an hour of their life they just got back which is worth at least $6 in the US. If you saved an hour of work a week for 30 employees you just saved your boss over ten grand for the year. I made a few changes to a procedure and documented it today. It took me 5 minutes and saved 29 employees 5 minutes each day.
Man I loved that Operation Overkill game. I found some telnet BBS's a couple of years back that were running it and it was still a lot of fun. That game was so active during the glory days though. Now you've done it. I'm going to have to go google up some telnet BBS's and get hooked again. You monster.
We discuss volume limiters because we don't have an objective way to gauge volume.
In our cars we have speedometers. We are aware when we are traveling at dangerous speeds. If we did not have speedometers we might look more seriously for speed limiters for cars.
While some sort of decibel meters in our PDL's might seem like a good idea, some earlier post pointed out that decibels will vary according to the headphones. That makes a decibel reading built into the PLD unreliable.
I don't like the nanny police either. But keeping products safe doesn't seem unreasonable.
You ever try those mosquito ringtones? I tested several frequencies out with a range of people, kids to adults. I had the worst hearing of any of them. Many of them were from that inbetween range where people weren't really running around with walkmen. Personally I used it loud all the time.
When do I really notice it? When there is background noise. It all blends into a bass hum. Then I really can't make out half of what kids or girls are saying to me and I have to see their lips to compensate.
He actually acknowledges the Naval Observatory in the 3rd paragraph right next to the first picture in the article. However, per the article, these are not blurred by Google, rather by the image providers. "Thatâ(TM)s not to say that the all of the images in Google Maps and Google Earth are as detailed as they could be. As Google has acknowledged in the past, there are spots, such as the U.S. Naval Observatoryâ"home for another 116 days to Vice President Dick Cheneyâ"that have been deliberately blurred or pixelated by the companies that sell aerial imagery to Google. (See image at left. You can click on this image and all of the images in this article to see larger versions.)" -3rd paragraph of article, 1st picture
I think the point the poster was making is that if the government is bailing them out then there can be no competition. How can an upstart, with better ideas, compete in a market where billions in cash is thrown at failed business models. It's happened, but it's happened rarely. Google and Firefox are examples.
So if there is no competition due to government intervention then I'd agree that the government has created a monopoly of sorts.
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This applies to most businesses. Incompetent management leads to flawed benchmarks/performance rubrics/whatever. Most people will eventually toe the line and meet whatever they are paid for.
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Specs are ultimately the answers to questions. 'How do we want to do this?' ' What makes the most sense here?' The problem with specs/data/answers is that many managers aren't astute enough to ask the right questions.
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I'll second that for UrT. Admittedly, the walljumps that are fun as can be are not terribly realistic, but the teamwork is critical, as is strategy. Spawn-killing noobs? Protect your base or die in it I say. I think that's pretty realistic. The recoil and reload times as well as bleeding are realistic enough to push real strategy beyond pray and spray. OK, probably not a very realistic damage chart. But the fact that you have a choice after being shot of either taking care of your wounds or continuing to bleed out while you keep shooting is one of the reasons I love this game.
I'll suggest another MS solution, just build your own database. Because of my personal scenario I have few options for software. Access is already installed at my workplace so I just built a database for jobs. Recurring stuff just goes in my Calendar. But anything new coming in that is a project to a quick task goes in my database.
A form makes a convenient view to record who the job is for, what kind of job it is, any special tags you want to assign the job, and you have choices for what boxes you want for different types of data. Do you want to record the updates on the project/job? Do you want to record when you received the job and when you finished? I find 4 slots for milestones/sub-goals is plenty for me. You could add a date for the milestones if you wanted to.
This all makes it easy to view only unfinished jobs, or certain types of tasks, or to run a report by milestone dates.
Prior to using Access I just had odds and ends here and there and it was too hard to track. One note wouldn't be a good solution for me because many of my tasks are quick, but I still need to record them. Using OneNote would not be as convenient, nor as easy to turn into an end of year report detailing how time was spent.
You say these inequalities linger into the future, but you've done nothing to describe how they linger. The lack of female representatives cannot be due to inequalities since 1920, almost a century ago, when females gained equality in voting power.
You are merely reinforcing the original poster's argument that the what may have happened a century ago (before suffrage) has nothing to do with today's politics in which women wield a majority of voting power.
Amen to that. The blurring of work/personal life is something that management loves because they get 24/7 employees that see no problem with doing work for free. But then when employees display casual behavior at work (jeans/tshirts, inappropriate language, flirting, surfing facebook) the bosses get all in a tizzy. They have created their own monster here by blurring that line between personal life and work.
I was salary in an industry that was not well protected by labor laws. I did take work home and work late, but my bosses realized it that I did great work and did extra work and they rewarded me appropriately. Now I have a new boss, less recognition, and hourly pay. And you better believe it that when I'm asked to do an extra job I make it clear that it's overtime. The downside is my pay is less. The upside is that my time is even more valuable.
Second that. Zero space for storage for existing equipment. Definitely no storage space for broken equipment. With current replacement costs vs repair? If it's broke it's gone. Either to proper disposal or in my garage until I get a chance to take it out there on my own time.
Why? Why do you have to draw the line somewhere? You are talking about a line where some adults get to tell other adults what material is safe for them to see?
I care. But I was busy counting the words in the article.
Seriously, this guy is epic. But I don't know if I would have burned that bridge. It sounds like he was told that the previous work was going to be paid for if the deal worked out, which it didn't. Rather than saying no I think I would have asked for money up front, including enough to justify hours lost on the other project that didn't pan out.
I mean, if this guy were to do the work without cash up front he'd be a noob. There's just not enough information there to say if he threw away a paying job or mocked some imbecile that was just wasting his time.
I make the mistake all the time of thinking most people are so stupid. And then I realize that if it's most people, then they aren't stupid... they are average. And if half the population is dumber than that... well, there will always be work for someone above the 50th. The most important skills are valuable to any employer.
I'm about to be looking myself. 7 years in and I've tripled my beginning salary. At the end of year 2 had two bosses fighting over who got to keep me. Got a new boss who wants her own person in there and they've messed with my pay to get me out.
I'm not too worried. I wasn't even trained for this job when I came in. Within a year my bosses were coming to me asking me the questions. Within 2 years they were fighting over having me exclusively. Within 3 years they were asking me to tell them how to respond to data on customers and product. By year 4 there were people at the head office calling me for advice and asking how I was making things work that were completely stalled at other sites. There's plenty of opportunity for a smart kid who pays attention and makes their boss look good.
Of course the real BCC need is in companies that haven't cracked down on internal spam. "Here's a funny joke!", "Here's a picture of a cute kitten that does funny things at work!", "Here's a brighten your Friday email!".
And of course they get forwarded 10 times around the company, harvesting more names every time until they float out of the intranet to be caught by spammers in a variety of ways.
Plenty of arguments in this post are talking about kids being able to run and play. But this is not the case described in the post. P.E. is not unstructured play time in which a student gets the chance to set his own limits according to how he feels.
The P.E. teacher will determine the activity and will most likely be telling Johnny to keep (skipping rope, doing jumping jacks, 5 more pushups). The teacher is unable to monitor if the child is outside of a safe pulse range and most kids couldn't tell you either. Partly because of the math involved which includes checking your resting pulse.
Schools are starting to figure out that if Johnny needs a waiver and a physical to voluntarily compete in track after school then they are certainly liable if something happens to Johnny while he is involuntarily participating in athletic training directed by the coach during gym class. Both are physically strenuous activities being directed by a teacher/coach that is simultaneously trying to supervise around 30 other kids. And that teacher/coach has absolutely no way of knowing if the child is in good enough shape to participate or when they child has hit their limit.
School has longer hours than it used to. Homework is long. And parents work more which means parents have the kids in daycare instead of playing in the backyard after school. These kids are in as bad of shape as we adults are. Monitoring heart rates is kind of smart.
On the other side, it sounds like the school is pretty much admitting some liability on their part... knowledge that the students will have different limits of how much exercize is safe. If they aren't going to buy these for every kid they can pretty much plan on being sued by the parents of the kid who didn't have one and "was too tired to do well in class after gym".
As far as I can see, all they do is make it tougher for users to use strong passwords (due to being unable to memorize them), thus leading to weaker passwords and less security.
Absolutely. I work in computer training and for years I have done my best to urge users not to use passwords. I recommend acronyms for easy to remember sentences and similar strong passwords.
And, worse yet, the nature of this workplace makes it a hazard to have passwords written down.
What's the biggest hindrance? Regular password changes. Far enough apart that users don't remember when it's coming. Spur of the moment enough that the user can't remember a good password and doesn't have time to plan for a secure one. And no restrictions on passwords.
It gets better. Our regular downtime is spaced just in time to occur shortly after a password change. So there is a good chance that passwords will be forgotten at least once per year.
It's been widely known for long enough that password changes required by software is not good for security. I do not understand why IT so often fails to recognize this problem.
I feel more like this is society cheating humanity.
I don't know where the line falls, but there is a line where what we do is productive and healthy. On the other side of that line we may be productive, but we are not healthy. I don't believe that a society with so many people out of work is really in need of a work force that pops pills to be more productive.
Humanity is plenty productive already and needs more downtime to devote to the arts, culture, civil liberties, families, and other outlets that enrich our lives and those of future generations.
It's unfortunate that I'm sitting here at 3:00 AM wishing I had those drugs so I could get focused on my report I need to finish. Because the real answer is that instead of wishing I had drugs to complete one of the 5 jobs I work for one paycheck I should be wishing that my employer hired 4 other people so that the jobs got done right and we didn't have 4 people on unemployment.
So I don't feel like these drugs cheat evolution. Mankind doesn't need to evolve to become more productive. Instead society needs to evolve to allow for our already incredible levels of productivity.
Merit pay wont matter or will make matters worse.
NCLB. The federal government is only measuring success, and rewarding it, for reading and math scores. This means that the schools will not give teachers enough time to adequately cover science and social studies. In Michigan that state does not even give schools adequate tests for measuring any scientific knowledge.
So, this is not so much about whether RIAA is behaving within the law, but more that they are sucking up the courts time for trivial matters?
And he is going to compel the record execs themselves to waste their own time if they are going to waste his?
No. It isn't about the ISP keeping logs. It is about you not being able to claim that someone else committed a crime with your internet connection through your wireless router. If you have to keep logs, if you don't have logs that clear yourself then you are guilty.
This is an attack on the presumption of innocence. I don't believe they have any serious thoughts about regular users keeping 2 years of logs.
"Anyone that thinks Documentation might lead to their dismissal because "We don't need him anymore" is dead wrong. If you write documentation, you'll be the most loved person in all of IT in your company."
True enough. My job is putting together training documents. Well, part of my job anyway. I get emails every day saying 'What would we do without you?' for just sending out an email with a couple of screen caps and a couple lines about how to perform a task. If it doesn't have to be fancy record the procedure on your cell or camera and give them a video to reference.
1. Get an idea of what co-workers are doing.
2. Get enough shallow information to draw conclusions about what tasks are the biggest wastes of their time.
3. Create a procedure or document an established procedure that will cut their time on those tasks.
Time is all about respect. If I waste your time I don't respect you and if you waste my time you don't value me. Save someone 10 minutes a day and you just saved them an hour for the week. That's an hour of their life they just got back which is worth at least $6 in the US. If you saved an hour of work a week for 30 employees you just saved your boss over ten grand for the year. I made a few changes to a procedure and documented it today. It took me 5 minutes and saved 29 employees 5 minutes each day.
Man I loved that Operation Overkill game. I found some telnet BBS's a couple of years back that were running it and it was still a lot of fun. That game was so active during the glory days though. Now you've done it. I'm going to have to go google up some telnet BBS's and get hooked again. You monster.
We discuss volume limiters because we don't have an objective way to gauge volume.
In our cars we have speedometers. We are aware when we are traveling at dangerous speeds. If we did not have speedometers we might look more seriously for speed limiters for cars.
While some sort of decibel meters in our PDL's might seem like a good idea, some earlier post pointed out that decibels will vary according to the headphones. That makes a decibel reading built into the PLD unreliable.
I don't like the nanny police either. But keeping products safe doesn't seem unreasonable.
You ever try those mosquito ringtones? I tested several frequencies out with a range of people, kids to adults. I had the worst hearing of any of them. Many of them were from that inbetween range where people weren't really running around with walkmen. Personally I used it loud all the time.
When do I really notice it? When there is background noise. It all blends into a bass hum. Then I really can't make out half of what kids or girls are saying to me and I have to see their lips to compensate.
Ha-ha! Time for a new acronym. Instead of TFA we'll have to tell guys to TFE. TFEncyclopedia, or TFD, TFDictionary.
He actually acknowledges the Naval Observatory in the 3rd paragraph right next to the first picture in the article. However, per the article, these are not blurred by Google, rather by the image providers.
"Thatâ(TM)s not to say that the all of the images in Google Maps and Google Earth are as detailed as they could be. As Google has acknowledged in the past, there are spots, such as the U.S. Naval Observatoryâ"home for another 116 days to Vice President Dick Cheneyâ"that have been deliberately blurred or pixelated by the companies that sell aerial imagery to Google. (See image at left. You can click on this image and all of the images in this article to see larger versions.)" -3rd paragraph of article, 1st picture
I think the point the poster was making is that if the government is bailing them out then there can be no competition. How can an upstart, with better ideas, compete in a market where billions in cash is thrown at failed business models. It's happened, but it's happened rarely. Google and Firefox are examples.
So if there is no competition due to government intervention then I'd agree that the government has created a monopoly of sorts.
This applies to most businesses. Incompetent management leads to flawed benchmarks/performance rubrics/whatever. Most people will eventually toe the line and meet whatever they are paid for.
Specs are ultimately the answers to questions. 'How do we want to do this?' ' What makes the most sense here?' The problem with specs/data/answers is that many managers aren't astute enough to ask the right questions.