That report just ignores the fact that most of FOX's content is opinion stuff. Sure, the same can be said for their competition, but in my experience of occasional channel flipping into those domains, I've been more likely to see a news broadcast on CNN and I've been more likely to see opinion stuff on FOX.
The solution. The company should realise that remembering passwords is not easy and provide extra time, extra incentives and extra [whatever] to motivate the users. For example, when it's time to change the passwords (let's say every month), invite the employees to the tech office, have the tech admin explain it to them in a comfortable and a novel (each month) way during a couple of minutes. Then give them a cup of good coffee turn on some good soothing classical music, and give them 5-10 minutes to enjoy the coffee and the music, as well as have time to invent a new password or find a way to remember a computer-generated one. There are many techniques to do that and I believe with a little bit of effort everyone can do it.
GREAT IDEA! yet another meeting to waste people's time during the work day thereby forcing them to stay late again just to get their job done..;/
I've read a whole lot of books on my palm pilot mobile phone thingy. It's half the size of a paperback, can hold many many books, doesn't require lighting since it makes its own, and I've allready read most everything of interest at my local small town library... and , no, it does not hurt my eyes. I actually prefer reading off this thing now. I'm starting to wish that commercial books included ASCII versions with their dead wood types on the shelves.
Last week I was at a bookstore and was about to buy this interesting book, but decided not to, because I knew how much of a pain it would be to lug the fat thing around.. and there wasn't an ASCII version included to handle that problem.. so I left it,, and decided that maybe I'd read it some other time in the future when I spent more time at home, and the size/weight issue wouldn't matter so much.
It is. A developer with a nominal salary of $50k each (not too high, really, for a good developer) costs about double that once you factor in the taxes the employer has to pay on the salary (FICA, etc), the benefits the employee gets (health insurance, etc) and such sundry items.
In real terms, a single decent developer probably costs about $120k per year.
true.. but if you're going to pay salaries then you need to provide offices and all kinds of other support... which would just be a total waste of the funds.. Seems obvious that the money would be spent on hiring people on a freelance basis. $25/hr ain't bad.. even if you do have to pay for your own health and dental. Some programmers who got familys and big house and car payments might prefer their current corporate jobs a nd corporate saleries... but then.. people shouldn't be working for non-profits for the money.
Quite frankly.. in my opinion, $25/hr is alot of money. I'd love to be making that much again and consistently. And to do it on a fun project that to a degree benefits humanity.
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Most InDesign users wouldn't be sending out InDesign format documents to prepress, they'd be sending PDFs.
Must limit their options... I have a hard time finding shops that will accept PDFs.
I must disagree. I can't argue with your own personal experience, but your statement is totally counter to my own experience. I work for a print house in RTP, NC and adobe acrobat is seriously embedded in everything we do. Of course we use macs and quark.. graphic designers tend to have no ability to learn anything new and thats basically all there is to say to that. But I was talking about acrobat. Practically everything in the industry handles pdf as well as postscript. Even the xerox docutech and docucolor printers we have have acrobat imbedded in them. And the docutech is controlled by a sun running solaris... Now on to other places. I haven't seen any company involved in printing that does not handle pdfs. even tiny copy service companies like kinkos require pdfs. The only limitation I've found is in the version of acrobat that they support.
The last time I came across a print related company that did not handle pdf's was some time in the 90's like 1997 or perhaps earlier.
"Of course, there's no need to mention Microsoft's inability to create a stable system."
I guess i've heard this demonization of windows too much lately.. guess i have to respond this time.. the two whisky's help;]
I'm presently working at a print house where i operate a xerox docucolor and a docutech.. The docutech is operated by a sun running solaris and the docucolor is operated by a dual 700 running nt4. That solaris flakes out so damn easy.. I have to reboot it at least once a week.. and then there was that time that it totally crashed when all i was doing was adding icons to the control panel.. The nt4 machine has only needed rebooting every few weeks for very specific reasons like a power outage and the power supply going bad. And I'm not even touching on the ease of use and breadth of use issue, which the nt4 machine would win hands down of course..
so.. allow me to take a deep breath. I got it out of my system.. time to move on with life.
btw.. trash bill gates all you want (i do).. but if you're gonna trash windows, be specific about which windows version and be relative.
a few months ago i bought a cd mp3 player that plays audio cds, cd's burnt with mp3's and even vcds for only $51.. sure its a cheep taiwanese piece of crap, but its incredibly useful, plays everything i got.. (why would i have anything in those other formats?) and when i accidentally dropped it several feet onto hard concrete floor and put a crack in the lcd screen.. i cried a whole lot less than i would have had i actually spent like a $100 or more on it. Besides, it still works, can't read the track number anymore, but just having a track number wasnt very useful to begin with.. (get what you pay for) And when I decided to look for and buy an mp3 cd player i was expecting to pay alot more.
Comparatively speaking, going over the shuttle with a fine toothed comb is a "pre-flight check". As would be checking the shuttle with a telephoto lense or any other device while it is in orbit.
Btw, it should be apparrent that walking around the shuttle and kicking its wheels or a similar cursory inspection that a private plane's preflight check is, would not make a difference to any of the problems that have brought shuttles down so far.
wow.. some totally obvious, and humerous in my opinion, sarcasm.... and still someone finds a way to throw in some U.S. bashing.
Before I start some more of it... I should specify that like all good americans I'm quick to criticize my gov and society,, but I do make an effort to keep it related to the subject at hand.
point 1.. you'd think science was a religion for alot of people here. It appears that many people think that science is the end all be all and that science isnt a tool that we use to further are human needs and wants at all. Have we forgotten the purpose? We're not up in space just to learn irrelavent stuff.. We're not doing so much science up there just cause we're curious. We're putting the effort to learn all that because we intend on living and pioneering out there.
point 2.. what's wrong with freighters? how are we suppose to do anything in space, science or otherwise, if we don't move stuff there, and around one we get it there? How in earth are we to get anything done in space otherwise? Of course that consists of the larger percentage of NASA expenses, because it consists of the largest need to do anything other than look up there from down here with telescopes.
point 3 My last big beef with many posters here is their excessive worry about the lives of our astronauts. These men and woment are freekin' pioneers for crying out loud! A vocation that never ever in history has ever been remotely safe. Our astronauts know that and are very adamant about the goal being worth the risk. If they think so, I think so.
conclusion.. yes I think we need to put alot of work into the next generation of manned launch vehicles. We started to make a big move with that in the early 90's but apparently the money got cut off right when at least a couple better/faster/cheeper projects were coming to fruition. It wouldnt take nearly as much effort as the shuttle project originally took to finish one or two of these projects off and have something better to do our space work for us, be it freighting, science or other.
Why have I not heard anyone else in the media talk about these past projects and the opportunities they offer?
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That report just ignores the fact that most of FOX's content is opinion stuff. Sure, the same can be said for their competition, but in my experience of occasional channel flipping into those domains, I've been more likely to see a news broadcast on CNN and I've been more likely to see opinion stuff on FOX.
hog wash! ;]
andre the giant still rocks!
The solution. The company should realise that remembering passwords is not easy and provide extra time, extra incentives and extra [whatever] to motivate the users. For example, when it's time to change the passwords (let's say every month), invite the employees to the tech office, have the tech admin explain it to them in a comfortable and a novel (each month) way during a couple of minutes. Then give them a cup of good coffee turn on some good soothing classical music, and give them 5-10 minutes to enjoy the coffee and the music, as well as have time to invent a new password or find a way to remember a computer-generated one. There are many techniques to do that and I believe with a little bit of effort everyone can do it.
;/
GREAT IDEA! yet another meeting to waste people's time during the work day thereby forcing them to stay late again just to get their job done..
I've read a whole lot of books on my palm pilot mobile phone thingy. It's half the size of a paperback, can hold many many books, doesn't require lighting since it makes its own, and I've allready read most everything of interest at my local small town library... and , no, it does not hurt my eyes. I actually prefer reading off this thing now. I'm starting to wish that commercial books included ASCII versions with their dead wood types on the shelves.
Last week I was at a bookstore and was about to buy this interesting book, but decided not to, because I knew how much of a pain it would be to lug the fat thing around.. and there wasn't an ASCII version included to handle that problem.. so I left it,, and decided that maybe I'd read it some other time in the future when I spent more time at home, and the size/weight issue wouldn't matter so much.
true.. but if you're going to pay salaries then you need to provide offices and all kinds of other support... which would just be a total waste of the funds.. Seems obvious that the money would be spent on hiring people on a freelance basis. $25/hr ain't bad.. even if you do have to pay for your own health and dental. Some programmers who got familys and big house and car payments might prefer their current corporate jobs a nd corporate saleries... but then.. people shouldn't be working for non-profits for the money. Quite frankly.. in my opinion, $25/hr is alot of money. I'd love to be making that much again and consistently. And to do it on a fun project that to a degree benefits humanity.
Most InDesign users wouldn't be sending out InDesign format documents to prepress, they'd be sending PDFs.
.. Now on to other places. I haven't seen any company involved in printing that does not handle pdfs. even tiny copy service companies like kinkos require pdfs. The only limitation I've found is in the version of acrobat that they support.
The last time I came across a print related company that did not handle pdf's was some time in the 90's like 1997 or perhaps earlier.
Must limit their options... I have a hard time finding shops that will accept PDFs.
I must disagree. I can't argue with your own personal experience, but your statement is totally counter to my own experience. I work for a print house in RTP, NC and adobe acrobat is seriously embedded in everything we do. Of course we use macs and quark.. graphic designers tend to have no ability to learn anything new and thats basically all there is to say to that. But I was talking about acrobat. Practically everything in the industry handles pdf as well as postscript. Even the xerox docutech and docucolor printers we have have acrobat imbedded in them. And the docutech is controlled by a sun running solaris.
"Of course, there's no need to mention Microsoft's inability to create a stable system."
;]
I guess i've heard this demonization of windows too much lately.. guess i have to respond this time.. the two whisky's help
I'm presently working at a print house where i operate a xerox docucolor and a docutech.. The docutech is operated by a sun running solaris and the docucolor is operated by a dual 700 running nt4. That solaris flakes out so damn easy.. I have to reboot it at least once a week.. and then there was that time that it totally crashed when all i was doing was adding icons to the control panel.. The nt4 machine has only needed rebooting every few weeks for very specific reasons like a power outage and the power supply going bad. And I'm not even touching on the ease of use and breadth of use issue, which the nt4 machine would win hands down of course..
so.. allow me to take a deep breath. I got it out of my system.. time to move on with life.
btw.. trash bill gates all you want (i do).. but if you're gonna trash windows, be specific about which windows version and be relative.
a few months ago i bought a cd mp3 player that plays audio cds, cd's burnt with mp3's and even vcds for only $51.. sure its a cheep taiwanese piece of crap, but its incredibly useful, plays everything i got.. (why would i have anything in those other formats?) and when i accidentally dropped it several feet onto hard concrete floor and put a crack in the lcd screen.. i cried a whole lot less than i would have had i actually spent like a $100 or more on it. Besides, it still works, can't read the track number anymore, but just having a track number wasnt very useful to begin with.. (get what you pay for) And when I decided to look for and buy an mp3 cd player i was expecting to pay alot more.
BTW.. the burned cd's hold "data files" too.
Comparatively speaking, going over the shuttle with a fine toothed comb is a "pre-flight check". As would be checking the shuttle with a telephoto lense or any other device while it is in orbit.
Btw, it should be apparrent that walking around the shuttle and kicking its wheels or a similar cursory inspection that a private plane's preflight check is, would not make a difference to any of the problems that have brought shuttles down so far.
wow.. some totally obvious, and humerous in my opinion, sarcasm.... and still someone finds a way to throw in some U.S. bashing.
... I should specify that like all good americans I'm quick to criticize my gov and society,, but I do make an effort to keep it related to the subject at hand.
Before I start some more of it
sounds wasteful and expensive.. and probably not very safe. there has got to be good reasons why nobody does it that way anymore.
point 1..
you'd think science was a religion for alot of people here. It appears that many people think that science is the end all be all and that science isnt a tool that we use to further are human needs and wants at all.
Have we forgotten the purpose?
We're not up in space just to learn irrelavent stuff.. We're not doing so much science up there just cause we're curious. We're putting the effort to learn all that because we intend on living and pioneering out there.
point 2..
what's wrong with freighters?
how are we suppose to do anything in space, science or otherwise, if we don't move stuff there, and around one we get it there?
How in earth are we to get anything done in space otherwise? Of course that consists of the larger percentage of NASA expenses, because it consists of the largest need to do anything other than look up there from down here with telescopes.
point 3
My last big beef with many posters here is their excessive worry about the lives of our astronauts. These men and woment are freekin' pioneers for crying out loud! A vocation that never ever in history has ever been remotely safe. Our astronauts know that and are very adamant about the goal being worth the risk. If they think so, I think so.
conclusion..
yes I think we need to put alot of work into the next generation of manned launch vehicles. We started to make a big move with that in the early 90's but apparently the money got cut off right when at least a couple better/faster/cheeper projects were coming to fruition. It wouldnt take nearly as much effort as the shuttle project originally took to finish one or two of these projects off and have something better to do our space work for us, be it freighting, science or other.
Why have I not heard anyone else in the media talk about these past projects and the opportunities they offer?