Forbes should be responsible enough to dig a little deeper into news, and not presumably blindly link to articles without verifying correctness or content. Reuters isn't the only news source available on Earth. Forbes could have done a little further checking to obtain and link to an article that is a little more complete and correct and that doesn't help further spread FUD.
It's like if I had a news site and linked to some bozo crap like this.
I see the light. This is all very true. The tedium of most of these studies get lost in practical everyday applications. It's more about being a well-rounded person who doesn't embarass him/herself playing Jeopardy I suppose.
The concept about critical, logical, analytical thinking makes sense.
Certainly higher math has its cross-disciplinary place. Other science and technology fields for sure. But note that I was speculating about the "average adult." I think that other fields like Literature, History, etc. all are more applicable in everyday life for an average adult. In a practical/functional sense what other than +, -, *,/, and perhaps introductory algebra does an average adult need to know to get by?
Actually, economics can be used as a singular or a plural. So the writer doesn't require remedial grammar as you have suggested. Check the dictionary yourself.
I'm not sure why this was modded down. I tend to agree. Just recently I started self-paced learning on topics that I'd been poor at in the past. Higher mathematics is a perfect example. I was thinking about it the other day and couldn't come up with what math --- other than the four basic functions (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division) and maybe really basic algebra --- being an average adult requires. That's why my college Calculus learning is totally lost now when I look at this subject as a 35-year-old.
What's other folks' takes on this? Other subjects like Literature, History, etc. tend to have stuck with me more for sure.
Any operating system that's contemporary should come bundled with a media player, a PPP dialer, a WWW browser, a mail client, etc. If not some big flashy proprietary behemoth of each at least a "lite" version that offers basic functionality out of the box.
This is exactly how you hit the nail on the head with Media Player 6.4. I too prefer a smaller implementation of media playback. No fancy hallucinatory light shows, no huge ad banners, not a plethora of external lookups/links, etc. That way when I pop a CD in my system doesn't peg for 15 seconds trying to do everything under the sun. Just play the damn media and offer me basic controls!
Even those anti-Microsoft zealots would have to concede that bundling Windows with lite versions of their software (e.g. - Outlook Express 6, Media Player 6.4, etc.) allows users at a new PC the ability to get their feet wet. Then once they do they can pay for, download and install whatever the hell they want.
What are your talking about in terms of non-published MS standards affecting WMP? If know it plays the non-published Windows Media Format files but it also plays anything from CDA to MP3 to AVI et. al. These are seem pretty standard and pretty published to me.
I could understand if Microsoft was exclusively trying to leverage WMP's presence on default Windows OS installations so that users would be painted into a proprietary corner, but is this really the case? Really, re-read your statement:
The soulution is to write a streaming standard
and implimentation and get government to ENFORCE
it.
Isn't this exaggerating the situation a tad bit? Did Microsoft write a streaming, enforced standard in terms of simple implmentations of AVI, MP3, CDA, and the like?
No way. The government is so inept they can barely deliver my mail correctly. How can I believe they have some elaborate meta-database of all of humanity? All centralized? Yeah, right.
When I first moved up to Ohio I still had a Florida Driver License. Got two speeding tickets in Ohio and never paid them. Never heard anything more about them. Perhaps the super-duper meta-database was hit by the Slammer worm, eh? What is the database platform anyway? I bet there would be a huge government contract for whichever vendor was chosen. Especially if it was for the super-duper meta-database of humanity. Perhaps that was that Oracle California deal from awhile back, huh?
I know some of the folks who post like sci-fi and high-tech. Hell all of us I guess otherwise why would we be participants? But let's dial the big brother paranoia down a tad okay?
Actually you are wrong as well. You have combined two different historical examples. One was a USENET religious posting about Jesus coming again, while the other was a DEC promotional message sent out via ARPANET.
Scan the posts on this topic. The 1978 subject line post gives specific examples about what I am referring to...
I personally use Spambayes. It runs on my Outlook client and employs Bayesian heuristics and the few messages that do get through I mark as spam to even better train the system. Although I haven't tangibly recorded the success ratio I would estimate that it was about 95% effective the first week of usage. After training it that amount of time it has been about 99% effective. Rather than download and update all of the DNS blacklist stuff the Bayesian filtering seems to do the job. Even those weird random word messages or haiku deals get flagged.
My company's mail server is running Norton Antivirus Corporate Edition. Although it couldn't scan the password-protected (hence encrypted) ZIP attachments of the latest Beagle variant it did report these failures as errors and quarrantined the attachments as a result. Thank God.
What's pitiful is how the AV service automatically updates its virus definitions daily. But at the rate these variants are coming out I am manually updating in the middle of the workday as well. I almost get misty eyed back when Microsoft-based threats were just relatively minor nuisances like Word macro viruses!
What I do is check out Linux software books from my public library. They typically include CD's with full distributions on them. That's how I got Red Hat 8.0. Beats paying for supposedly free software or having to watch hundreds of megs crawl across the wire...
Just curious, how can the first post be redundant? Isn't that a bit contradictory? Since I'm the first one to pose this please don't mod me as being Redundant as well:-)
I recently purchased a Fujitsu P Series Lifebook that uses a TM processor (see their site for details). It's pretty slick. Don't have a CD/DVD drive, but I'm using my unit for remote admin work so I love being able to go wireless, grab a wired connection, or even use GPRS via a PC Card. The touch screen is great as well.
I was an IT Manager of a larger call center several years ago. I know of agents who tried to pad their stats by disconnecting customers as you mentioned. But what I find amazing is that some call centers don't invest time and money in call monitoring technology.
There are many automated solutions that record agent conversations against their scheduled work times. Then supervisors can play back the conversations in order to help mentor and provide feedback. That in turn helps increase the knowledge level of call center agents, even amidst huge attrition rates.
But then again those call centers solely interested in making a buck with no attention to customer care probably wouldn't spend money or branch out into these areas. A shame...
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Yes. It justifies my existence and provides me with an exaggerated sense of self-importance. Next question...
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Warmed over pizza with a Mexican beer or two. Next question please...
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I haven't personally read this one, but since the author is the originator of C++ I would think it would be the real deal. Personally I check out books from my public library system. That gives me some sort of a time-based goal to get through the thing before I have to return it. If I like the book and would like to keep it on hand as a reference I will scope out buying it.
The pet peeve that bugs me the most (and this Practical C++ book is included) are typos in the source code. Beginning programmers must pull their hair out trying to get code to compile that has such errors. Even books that I check out from the library get written in as I correct typos so other unfortunate souls won't run into the same pitfalls.
This book has been in my reference shelf for awhile now. Some areas are emphasized more than others -- arrays more than vectors, structs more than classes -- but overall it's a good companion.
In terms of going over bit manipulation, memory addresses, pointers, etc. it really goes into detail that I wouldn't expect for an entry-level reference. Then again it's so thorough it really isn't just an entry-level reference!
When were you a PrimeCo customer? The years I recall relatively poor customer service were after launch (1996) up through 1998 or so. Past that things smoothed out heading into 2000 and the VZW mergers.
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It's like if I had a news site and linked to some bozo crap like this.
The concept about critical, logical, analytical thinking makes sense.
Certainly higher math has its cross-disciplinary place. Other science and technology fields for sure. But note that I was speculating about the "average adult." I think that other fields like Literature, History, etc. all are more applicable in everyday life for an average adult. In a practical/functional sense what other than +, -, *, /, and perhaps introductory algebra does an average adult need to know to get by?
Actually, economics can be used as a singular or a plural. So the writer doesn't require remedial grammar as you have suggested. Check the dictionary yourself.
What's other folks' takes on this? Other subjects like Literature, History, etc. tend to have stuck with me more for sure.
This is exactly how you hit the nail on the head with Media Player 6.4. I too prefer a smaller implementation of media playback. No fancy hallucinatory light shows, no huge ad banners, not a plethora of external lookups/links, etc. That way when I pop a CD in my system doesn't peg for 15 seconds trying to do everything under the sun. Just play the damn media and offer me basic controls!
Even those anti-Microsoft zealots would have to concede that bundling Windows with lite versions of their software (e.g. - Outlook Express 6, Media Player 6.4, etc.) allows users at a new PC the ability to get their feet wet. Then once they do they can pay for, download and install whatever the hell they want.
I could understand if Microsoft was exclusively trying to leverage WMP's presence on default Windows OS installations so that users would be painted into a proprietary corner, but is this really the case? Really, re-read your statement:
The soulution is to write a streaming standard and implimentation and get government to ENFORCE it.
Isn't this exaggerating the situation a tad bit? Did Microsoft write a streaming, enforced standard in terms of simple implmentations of AVI, MP3, CDA, and the like?
When I first moved up to Ohio I still had a Florida Driver License. Got two speeding tickets in Ohio and never paid them. Never heard anything more about them. Perhaps the super-duper meta-database was hit by the Slammer worm, eh? What is the database platform anyway? I bet there would be a huge government contract for whichever vendor was chosen. Especially if it was for the super-duper meta-database of humanity. Perhaps that was that Oracle California deal from awhile back, huh?
I know some of the folks who post like sci-fi and high-tech. Hell all of us I guess otherwise why would we be participants? But let's dial the big brother paranoia down a tad okay?
Actually you are wrong as well. You have combined two different historical examples. One was a USENET religious posting about Jesus coming again, while the other was a DEC promotional message sent out via ARPANET. Scan the posts on this topic. The 1978 subject line post gives specific examples about what I am referring to...
I personally use Spambayes. It runs on my Outlook client and employs Bayesian heuristics and the few messages that do get through I mark as spam to even better train the system. Although I haven't tangibly recorded the success ratio I would estimate that it was about 95% effective the first week of usage. After training it that amount of time it has been about 99% effective. Rather than download and update all of the DNS blacklist stuff the Bayesian filtering seems to do the job. Even those weird random word messages or haiku deals get flagged.
What's pitiful is how the AV service automatically updates its virus definitions daily. But at the rate these variants are coming out I am manually updating in the middle of the workday as well. I almost get misty eyed back when Microsoft-based threats were just relatively minor nuisances like Word macro viruses!
What I do is check out Linux software books from my public library. They typically include CD's with full distributions on them. That's how I got Red Hat 8.0. Beats paying for supposedly free software or having to watch hundreds of megs crawl across the wire...
Just curious, how can the first post be redundant? Isn't that a bit contradictory? Since I'm the first one to pose this please don't mod me as being Redundant as well :-)
Speaking of "withh all the buttons...in the rigth place" are you using a Dvorak keyboard today?
Are we just another form of a "flash mob?" I guess "slash mob" sounds close enough...
I recently purchased a Fujitsu P Series Lifebook that uses a TM processor (see their site for details). It's pretty slick. Don't have a CD/DVD drive, but I'm using my unit for remote admin work so I love being able to go wireless, grab a wired connection, or even use GPRS via a PC Card. The touch screen is great as well.
There are many automated solutions that record agent conversations against their scheduled work times. Then supervisors can play back the conversations in order to help mentor and provide feedback. That in turn helps increase the knowledge level of call center agents, even amidst huge attrition rates.
But then again those call centers solely interested in making a buck with no attention to customer care probably wouldn't spend money or branch out into these areas. A shame...
Yes. It justifies my existence and provides me with an exaggerated sense of self-importance. Next question...
Warmed over pizza with a Mexican beer or two. Next question please...
Everything from Writing Hirigana to Proust to Kerouac to Linux to Cisco Administration. Jack of all trade master of none.
The pet peeve that bugs me the most (and this Practical C++ book is included) are typos in the source code. Beginning programmers must pull their hair out trying to get code to compile that has such errors. Even books that I check out from the library get written in as I correct typos so other unfortunate souls won't run into the same pitfalls.
cout << "Hello World!";
I've heard that the Preview button does wonders. Perhaps I should use it every now and then :-|
Probably using the sign would've helped!
In terms of going over bit manipulation, memory addresses, pointers, etc. it really goes into detail that I wouldn't expect for an entry-level reference. Then again it's so thorough it really isn't just an entry-level reference!
When were you a PrimeCo customer? The years I recall relatively poor customer service were after launch (1996) up through 1998 or so. Past that things smoothed out heading into 2000 and the VZW mergers.