My dad does international shipping and so needs to send messages to places other than the First World, and he uses a Telex machine regularly. Also, he has a PC for typing up faxes sometimes, but he prefers his bulky IBM Selectric typewriter for everyday use. My brother works for him and has his own Selectric, but he uses the PC a little more.
They are hoarding the ball-heads for the typewriter, since you have to swap them in when you want to change fonts. Sweet!
"Campus police tend to be on the lower end of the police officer bell curve."
Pfft. I work at a small college, and our Safety & Security officers have a higher standard of training than we do in IT.:7) (Forty hours minimum of profesional development per year.) I'm a proud BC alum, and they do have real police officers there. Pretty good IT, too, and this surprises me.
Goldberg's Pants wrote, "I remember one comment was 'How many bloggers are embedded in Falujah?'"
Well, how about Michael Yon? (www.michaelyon-online.com) Oh, he may not be there this week, but he's been in hotter spots than most bloggers in the last few years -- and he hasn't got a corporation to handle his expense reports for body armor and QuikClot, either.
So, help me understand...how can we extend your analogy to the next-nearest transition between detail-obsessed, controlling, uniformed, long-serving, autocrats -- meaning, of course, not Apple but the Fidel-to-Raoul transition currently underway in Cuba?:7)
I got a spontaneous nosebleed while asleep one night after too much coffee, too many cokes, and the only time I ate a No-Doz. Good thing I happened to wake up and notice how the pillowcase was glued to my face. (Ugh, sorry.) Couldn't save the pillow case. Or the pillow, honestly. Scared my girlfriend a bit. too.
> > What I'm seeing these days is that teenagers are listening to the music I listened to as a kid, because > the music of their own generation is crap. >
"Hey, you kids! Come over here on my lawn! Sit down, have an iced tea, and check out this Dick Dale record!"
Mr. Slippery wrote, "Incredibly few subjects change enough in five years to render textbooks out of date."
Given the publish or perish culture, many things are *made* to change whether they need it or not. (Gentlemen, I give you...post-modernism!)
I was an English lit major, and I was amazed how many new versions of old stuff I was told to buy. I mean, there's been very few new Dickens novels in the past twenty decades, but loads (and I use that term quite carefully) of new commentary.
Lucky Classics majors: I have five copies of Edith Wharton's "Mythology" stolen from my high school, and I never needed to buy an updated edition for any of the Greek or Roman lit. classes I took.
You know, if they'd made a headless, small-case Mac -- like an improved Mini or, better, something in the old Sun "lunchbox" (IPX/IPC) formfactor -- they might have made enough money to pay for these lawyers, too.
> >Who cares which company assembled all the pieces. The pieces are back together, so the old company is back together. >
Exactly! When that "liquid metal" Terminator reassembled itself in the factory after the tanker trunk exploded, did it need to start with its head? Nuh-uh, didn't think so.
Um, I think that "knap" is a verb meaning to chip flint into spear points and knives. In other words, to make useful tools out of dumb rock -- a near-miracle that I really can't credit to the Microsoft gang.
Some salesguy from Parallels called me up and asked when I would buy something like the third paid upgrade in a year. I told him that the software simply died -- *again* -- and I wasn't going to reinstall it. Also, I hadn't bothered buying the last update because, well, I was tired of giving them money for a buggy product. He was pretty disappointed. Then he asked if I was the guy who bought Mac software for my employer. I told him no, but I was one of the most knowledgeable people in IT about Macs, and added that I would be making fun of his product if asked.
I tried out Virtual Box at USENIX last month when I realized that my Parallels install wouldn't work any more. I downloaded it and installed OpenSolaris before we were out of the first group of Peter Baer Galvin's slides. Go, Virtual Box, go!
Well, can we raise overall quality by shrinking the number of administrators?
Rhode island, with one million (more or less) residents, has 39 school districts. That's thirty-nine superintendents, and thirty-nine Everything Elses. Now, the Los Angeles Unified School District has about 700k students in K-12. I *know* Rhode Island doesn't have that many students, and so each administrator should be able to focus like a laser on their comparatively-small population of students. Perhaps if we consolidated some of those small RI districts, we could reduce overhead costs and also bring most Best Practices to the fore.
And another thing: with fewer school districts and superintendents, it's less likely that town School Committee meetings will devolve into personal vendetta. *shrug* Just saying.
That links it to an excerpt from Ben Hamper's book, "Rivethead: Tales from the Assembly Line." Great, great stuff about working for GM in the 70s and 80s. Blew my mind when my English teacher handed us the excerpt from "Harper's" magazine in, oh, 1987 or so. All those typical books chosen to appeal to teens -- "Catcher in the Rye," et al. -- went out the window. Yay, Mr. Peick & Mr. Syman!
"Childs intends to 'expose the utter mismanagement, negligence, and corruption at DTIS, which if left unchecked, will in fact place the City of San Francisco in danger,' according to his motion."
*cough* Unabomber *cough* Will he have a manifesto, too? *rolls eyes*
Mr. Childs, call the local newspaper newsroom or TV station and let them expose all the power, corruption and lies; they've got the budget for that kind of thing.
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My dad does international shipping and so needs to send messages to places other than the First World, and he uses a Telex machine regularly. Also, he has a PC for typing up faxes sometimes, but he prefers his bulky IBM Selectric typewriter for everyday use. My brother works for him and has his own Selectric, but he uses the PC a little more.
They are hoarding the ball-heads for the typewriter, since you have to swap them in when you want to change fonts. Sweet!
Nah, shoot their computers, too. Bring an extra clip, come to think of it, and shoot their backup gear and then TP their yard with the backup tapes.
"Campus police tend to be on the lower end of the police officer bell curve."
Pfft. I work at a small college, and our Safety & Security officers have a higher standard of training than we do in IT. :7) (Forty hours minimum of profesional development per year.) I'm a proud BC alum, and they do have real police officers there. Pretty good IT, too, and this surprises me.
Are you whispering in italics because you're a polite Canadian? Cheney's gone, man, you don't have to worry about criticizing America anymore!
Goldberg's Pants wrote, "I remember one comment was 'How many bloggers are embedded in Falujah?'"
Well, how about Michael Yon? (www.michaelyon-online.com) Oh, he may not be there this week, but he's been in hotter spots than most bloggers in the last few years -- and he hasn't got a corporation to handle his expense reports for body armor and QuikClot, either.
So, help me understand...how can we extend your analogy to the next-nearest transition between detail-obsessed, controlling, uniformed, long-serving, autocrats -- meaning, of course, not Apple but the Fidel-to-Raoul transition currently underway in Cuba? :7)
I got a spontaneous nosebleed while asleep one night after too much coffee, too many cokes, and the only time I ate a No-Doz. Good thing I happened to wake up and notice how the pillowcase was glued to my face. (Ugh, sorry.) Couldn't save the pillow case. Or the pillow, honestly. Scared my girlfriend a bit. too.
caitsith01 wrote, "Lawyers don't cause litigation. Parties cause litigation."
Say, is that anything like "Guns don't kill people, people kill people"?
Pick up an *actual* 747 (on EBay, or the Seattle craigslist) and then watch the seatback TV.
"Google regrets the error." What, it always works for the New York Times!
Oh, my, well said: "+1, Beat About The Heads And Ears."
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> IT staff: just me.
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"...and my old pal Johnnie Walker/And his brothers, Black and Red."
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> What I'm seeing these days is that teenagers are listening to the music I listened to as a kid, because
> the music of their own generation is crap.
>
"Hey, you kids! Come over here on my lawn! Sit down, have an iced tea, and check out this Dick Dale record!"
(Not that I disagree with you. :7)
So... Can you share your cheat sheet? That'd be one big public service!
Mr. Slippery wrote, "Incredibly few subjects change enough in five years to render textbooks out of date."
Given the publish or perish culture, many things are *made* to change whether they need it or not. (Gentlemen, I give you...post-modernism!)
I was an English lit major, and I was amazed how many new versions of old stuff I was told to buy. I mean, there's been very few new Dickens novels in the past twenty decades, but loads (and I use that term quite carefully) of new commentary.
Lucky Classics majors: I have five copies of Edith Wharton's "Mythology" stolen from my high school, and I never needed to buy an updated edition for any of the Greek or Roman lit. classes I took.
Hey, I drive a Camry (YIC), and I would *never* use The Gimp!
Isn't that "Red Dawn"? Man, I hope there's a 20th anniversary director's cut version soon!
You know, if they'd made a headless, small-case Mac -- like an improved Mini or, better, something in the old Sun "lunchbox" (IPX/IPC) formfactor -- they might have made enough money to pay for these lawyers, too.
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>Who cares which company assembled all the pieces. The pieces are back together, so the old company is back together.
>
Exactly! When that "liquid metal" Terminator reassembled itself in the factory after the tanker trunk exploded, did it need to start with its head? Nuh-uh, didn't think so.
Goth poetry? Nope... Emo love song.
Um, I think that "knap" is a verb meaning to chip flint into spear points and knives. In other words, to make useful tools out of dumb rock -- a near-miracle that I really can't credit to the Microsoft gang.
Agreed!
Some salesguy from Parallels called me up and asked when I would buy something like the third paid upgrade in a year. I told him that the software simply died -- *again* -- and I wasn't going to reinstall it. Also, I hadn't bothered buying the last update because, well, I was tired of giving them money for a buggy product. He was pretty disappointed. Then he asked if I was the guy who bought Mac software for my employer. I told him no, but I was one of the most knowledgeable people in IT about Macs, and added that I would be making fun of his product if asked.
I tried out Virtual Box at USENIX last month when I realized that my Parallels install wouldn't work any more. I downloaded it and installed OpenSolaris before we were out of the first group of Peter Baer Galvin's slides. Go, Virtual Box, go!
- Will
Well, can we raise overall quality by shrinking the number of administrators?
Rhode island, with one million (more or less) residents, has 39 school districts. That's thirty-nine superintendents, and thirty-nine Everything Elses. Now, the Los Angeles Unified School District has about 700k students in K-12. I *know* Rhode Island doesn't have that many students, and so each administrator should be able to focus like a laser on their comparatively-small population of students. Perhaps if we consolidated some of those small RI districts, we could reduce overhead costs and also bring most Best Practices to the fore.
And another thing: with fewer school districts and superintendents, it's less likely that town School Committee meetings will devolve into personal vendetta. *shrug* Just saying.
Rivets. *huge grin* Here, read this: http://www.michaelmoore.com/hamper/excerpt5.html "Punching rivets is..."
That links it to an excerpt from Ben Hamper's book, "Rivethead: Tales from the Assembly Line." Great, great stuff about working for GM in the 70s and 80s. Blew my mind when my English teacher handed us the excerpt from "Harper's" magazine in, oh, 1987 or so. All those typical books chosen to appeal to teens -- "Catcher in the Rye," et al. -- went out the window. Yay, Mr. Peick & Mr. Syman!
- Will
"Childs intends to 'expose the utter mismanagement, negligence, and corruption at DTIS, which if left unchecked, will in fact place the City of San Francisco in danger,' according to his motion."
*cough* Unabomber *cough* Will he have a manifesto, too? *rolls eyes*
Mr. Childs, call the local newspaper newsroom or TV station and let them expose all the power, corruption and lies; they've got the budget for that kind of thing.