Not neccessarily. Some of us understand that a PDA/MP3 player and a telephone do not have the same usage patterns: The phone part drains the PDA's battery while not in active use; the huge screen drains the phone's batteries while used for non-communication. This interference is not necessarily considered tolerable, although this opinion is becoming rarer as people value having only one item in their pocket higher.
More importantly, owning a 200 EUR PDA and a 30 EUR phone on prepaid is much cheaper than owning a 700 EUR phone or a 1 EUR phone on a contract that will cost you 700 EUR, yet it's perfectly adequate for a lot of people who need both a PDA and a phone but rarely need one to talk to the other. Not everyone needs a status symbol to call people - and smartphones have largely lost their status symbol status anyway. Plus, stutter-the-phone-off plans have the unnerving trait of costing you money even if you didn't call anyone, didn't send any SMS/MMS and didn't use any data services. Not my cuppa, although I might consider a smartphone if they got 2-5 times cheaper without getting worse.
Of course in the USA where you have a selection of a dozen carrier-approved phones mostly on subsidized plans (read: you stutter off new phones whether you need them or not) all of that is void and you might as well go for the expensive ones.
Of course it makes the whole thing even more bewildering: They decided to include a feature that was only of interest to people who wouldn't make them any money - until the slim model, which actually turned a profit on each unit sold but didn't include the feature.
What were they thinking? That everyone who'd build a cluster of PS3s would also buy PS3 games in bulk? Were they trying to bring Blu-ray movies to the data center? Were they adding bullet points to the PS3's capability list in the hope of making the launch price look smaller?
I honestly have no idea why they thought it'd make sense to include Other OS in the first place. It wasn't enough to placate the homebrew crowd and there doesn't seem to be a busness case for it.
That's what Sony gets for wanting to eat their cake and have it. IIRC they added Other OS as a way to avoid higher import tariffs (computers vs. game consoles). At the same time the didn't want people to actually use it because they were selling the PS3 at a loss and it would only generate money through game sales. Then someone turned Other OS into something useful, they took it away and now they're up in arms because people went to great lengths to re-enable it, undermining the entire platform in the process.
I think the lesson here is "don't sell your product as something it isn't supposed to be". That just makes you look evil when you try to keep people from using it for what they thought you allowed them.
Bruce Willis with a nuclear warhead, of course. Coincidentally, that also works against rogue admins although you might want to instruct Willis to target the admin's house and not the server room.
Nitpick time! They don't actually have problems with their admin(s); the OP just asked about handling rogue admins in general since they've had other people quit on bad terms. As other posters have pointed out, this can happen as a result of differing opinions on the things the organization is about (nonprofits tend to exist in rather politicized environments) so even good management might not be able to keep someone from deciding he doesn't like the way they do things.
In short, an admin may turn hostiled because of political decisions made by the organization even though management did everything right. The OP wants to know what to do about that possibility.
Well, right off the bat I'd say that a Galaxy is any starship with a registry number in the format NCC-71xxx. While that definition may exclude a few ships previously considered to be Galaxy-class, those are just a few outliers that probably nobody cares about.
Huh, interesting. I get a 403 when I try to access that page. Probably because I'm from Communist Europe or something. Thankfully Google is a good, honest, red-blooded American citizen who an be trusted with this vital information. Who also has no qualms about sharing it with all those pinkos abroad. God bless you, Google cache! *salutes while the American flag is waving in the background*
Confusingly, you will find "Evangelicals" in Europe who aren't what you'd call Evangelicals. For instance, in German the term is used to describe Protestants; for instance, the most important Protestant organisation in Germany is called the "Evangelical Church in Germany" (EKD). Actually, there are two German terms, "evangelisch", which means "Protestant" and "evangelikal", which means "Evangelical" - however, most people who haven't studied theology won't know the latter word. In fact, I didn't know it until Wikipedia explained it to me.
Yes, this is confusing when, as a German reading these discussions, you aren't aware of (or have forgotten) the difference in terminology and wonder why American Protestants are so weird - they aren't, you're just thinking of the wrong term.
This terminology doesn't appear to occur in Romance languages but a brief check of the Swedish Wikipedia article on the EKD reveals that at least Swedish seems to share it.
A more reasonable prediction is that China will take an increasingly large slice of the cake for a while, just like the EU is trying to (using the Euro as leverage). Of course at some point there will be an equilibrium until the next player rises to power or one falls.
How large will the respective cake slices end up? I have no idea. China does have enormous capacities for production and trade, however, so I expect theirs to be significant. The sky won't fall but people will get used to dealing with China.
You're making a lot of the same generalizations you decry. No, not all Chinese shools are bad just like not all American ones are. Yes, China can actually produce fairly level-headed people who aren't hardcore communist drones.
As for the Soviet Union and how they called everything great: That doesn't mean that anyone attending the school would think it's a good school if it wasn't. The Soviet satellite states had a number of similarities; one of them was that the people knew that 95% of what the officials said was utter bullshit. Your school might have been an elite school but was it a good elite school? If it wasn't you wouldn't give a shit about how good it was.
Plus, the SU had one similarity with China: They wanted to be the top dog so they tried to get their hands on highly-skilled people. China heavily outsources for that right now but the SU produced a lot of decent scientists themselves.
No matter how much it may offend your patriotism, the USA are not automatically better at everything than everyone else, especially in something like education that changes from district to district. They also won't be quite as powerful in a few decades as they are now. I don't say that they will entirely fail but China is positioning itself to become the trade partner and the European Union is trying to replace the Dollar as the most important global trade currency with the Euro. With this new competition, the American slice of the cake will end up smaller - by how much depends on how the global players act in the next few decades.
Just don't make the mistake of underestimating any of them - China, the EU and the USA.
Sony did sell the PS3 with Other OS as an explicitly supported feature. Other OS didn't have the performance of GameOS because Sony didn't want people to distribute unlicensed games. The homebrew community decided they didn't like that and jailbroke Other OS.
This is the point where cheating became possible and this is where Sony could've prevented it altogether by having better-designed safety measures. They could've admitted defeat on the Other OS front and changed the hypervisor so that it gives people hardware access without giving them access to the bootloader and certain other aspects of the device - not stuff that homebrewers will legitimately want to use but enough to ensure that signed and unsigned code will never run at the same time. That would've kept most of the best hackers off their back as only those interested in cracking and cheating would've kept working on the PS3.
Instead, they decided to engage in a hacking war with a community known to be skilled, dedicated and resourceful. The result, predictably, is that they lost control over their console at a deeper level than before.
Sony didn't start the war (even though their crippled Other OS failed to appease the homebrewers) but their actions were directly responsible for its outcome. They could've kept their losses small; instead they tried to eliminate them entirely - which nobody had ever succeeded at before.
My recommendation for the PS4: Give the homebrewers a full-featured Other OS option and just ensure that signed and unsigned code can't talk to each other. That way the homebrewers will not be hellbent about hacking their way past the hypervisor. If Sony are afraid of homebrew games stealing the commercial games' thunder they just need to do like Microsoft did with XBox Live Arcade and turn them into a second market. They just need to avoid the usually Sony-typical control trip; those tend to work out badly.
The light would still lag. Why? Because pedestrians might be crossing and you can't just tell them to jump out of the way because some car doesn't want to brake. So at the shortest the red phase will last for the time it takes an average pedestrian to cross the road plus a safety margin unless the lights were preparing for a green phase anyway.
If the intersection is very unlikely to have pedestrians you still need a bit of lag in order to let anyone without a transponder clear the crossing street. The lag might be short enough to let you slow down without stopping entirely, of course.
When I read the heading I was excited but it turns out that the Mexicans are just using some kind of launching device instead of a 65-ton fire support 'mech. That would've been way cooler and it would also deter border patrol officers from interfering - you never know if that LRM-20 that just acheived a lock on you carries drugs or explosives.
Then again, wouldn't a Gauss Rifle make for a much more effective delivery system?
No. If you have anything to do with American politics you must only wear red, white and blue. Ideally all of your clothes have a stars-and-stripes pattern. Also, whenever you're not talking, eating or sleeping you must whistle the Yankee Doodle or chant "USA! USA!" so that everyone knows you are, in fact, an American. From America.
Strip Cf and declaw combining characters by not allowing two (or more than n for a reasonably low n) of them right after another. Most browsers tend to display weird things when thirty combining characters are applied to the same character, usually vertically spilling the combining characters all over the page.
I'd also take a look at Cc. Some characters in there might cause trouble and there's no legitimate use for most of them. With Cc checked (it's not that big), combining characters filtered and Cf blocked there should be very little in the way of harmful Unicode characters left.
Seriously. I appreciate the redesign (even though it does make scrolling somewhat sluggish) but one of my main gripes with Slashdot is the arbitrary whitelist of Unicode characters (not to forget that some characters are only allowed as HTML entities). When I saw the story in the RSS feed I hoped that the whitelist had been repaced with a more reasonable policy (like eliminating all control characters and not allowing two combining characters after another). That would do the job of the original whitelist without eliminating hundreds of perfectly valid characters.
Sometimes the devil you don't know is slightly more attractive than the one you do.
This. If you have a "president" who's kept the country under martial law for decades and generally hasn't done a very good job of caring for his citizens you're quite motivated to elect anyone who isn't him.
Remember how Barack Obama was everbody's darling for a while not because of anything he said or did but mainly because he wasn't George W. Bush. And now imagine that Bush had been in office since 1981. Suddenly the devil you don't know is not just attractive but a sex symbol.
Actually, that's why I'm looking forward to Matrix 4. Whatever they do it will be entertaining. Either they actually write a decent movie and ignore the worst parts of parts 2 and 3 and we end up with something that can be called a worthy sequel to part 1. Or they create a train wreck that appeals to the bad movie crowd. Either way we win.
Of course they could create a solidly mediocre movie that appeals to no one. That's the only remaining danger and I hope it won't come to pass.
Actually, they should make it like Speed Racer. Unneccessary special effects up the wazoo, a story that doesn't make sense but doesn't need to and John Goodman beating the snot out of some ninjas. The Matrix universe is a lost cause anyway so let's just make a movie that dares to be stupid. In fact, put it right on the poster: "Matrix Re-violenced. The machines thought they had won the war - but they never expected us to use violence!"
I am aware that the term is not found in the dictionary; it merely makes sense according to the rules by which words are constructed. (Of course it's still useless, which is why nobody uses it, excluding those who mean "supposedly".)
Also, -le and -ly do not interfere with each other as they are used in different contexts. Since we were talking about the -ly form that's what I used.
Well, "supposably" seems to be a perfectly valid word. It expresses that the thing it's applied to can be supposed - as opposed to something that can't be supposed at all. I am aware that it's a fairly useless word but it does make sense.
I am also aware that virtually everyone using the word does not think it means what I think it means.
I was still in school when they switched over and even I have little to no idea about the new rules. As a result I now use an inconsistent mix of the old and new rules.
That's fairly common with people who were switched over halfway through their education and it'll take us a generation to get the old rules out of the system, simply because everyone above a certain age has still learned the old ones. And this is with a few minor changes. Large changes like what would be neccessary to align English pronounciation and spelling probably would take several steps, which would take correspondingly long.
Well, unless you do a radical change that means that either everyone relearns the language or your change is completely ignored. And we all know what would be the more likely outcome.
Doctor Who is a show about a semi-immortal magical genius who can travel through time in a police box. With that kind of backdrop people don't expect to see anything resembling science within two timeslots.
Fringe is being evaluated based on what the first season told us: "He is a jack-of-all-trades. He is his half-senile scientist father. Together, they fight crime!" With that kind of backdrop people expect the show to be much more down to earth. Of course Abrams always knew that the show would be about relatives from another dimension trying to destroy the world but the first season was all about not letting us know - and we were hit with the dissonance of what seems to be a sciency show featuring absolutely nonsensical science.
In a way, even Threshold is better than Fringe in that regard. Sure, Threshold was insultingly stupid. But they were up-front about what the show was about so people didn't expect anything to make sense. Of course the show still managed to surprise us with stupidity but we already knew we were watching a serial B-movie from the get-go.
With Fringe, J.J. Abrams fans knew what to expect but everyone else didn't. Correspondingly, J.J. Abrams fans tend to ignore the science in favor of the metaplot and everyone else tends to ignore the metaplot in favor of the science. At least that's what I observed.
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Not neccessarily. Some of us understand that a PDA/MP3 player and a telephone do not have the same usage patterns: The phone part drains the PDA's battery while not in active use; the huge screen drains the phone's batteries while used for non-communication. This interference is not necessarily considered tolerable, although this opinion is becoming rarer as people value having only one item in their pocket higher.
More importantly, owning a 200 EUR PDA and a 30 EUR phone on prepaid is much cheaper than owning a 700 EUR phone or a 1 EUR phone on a contract that will cost you 700 EUR, yet it's perfectly adequate for a lot of people who need both a PDA and a phone but rarely need one to talk to the other. Not everyone needs a status symbol to call people - and smartphones have largely lost their status symbol status anyway. Plus, stutter-the-phone-off plans have the unnerving trait of costing you money even if you didn't call anyone, didn't send any SMS/MMS and didn't use any data services. Not my cuppa, although I might consider a smartphone if they got 2-5 times cheaper without getting worse.
Of course in the USA where you have a selection of a dozen carrier-approved phones mostly on subsidized plans (read: you stutter off new phones whether you need them or not) all of that is void and you might as well go for the expensive ones.
Ah, I stand corrected.
Of course it makes the whole thing even more bewildering: They decided to include a feature that was only of interest to people who wouldn't make them any money - until the slim model, which actually turned a profit on each unit sold but didn't include the feature.
What were they thinking? That everyone who'd build a cluster of PS3s would also buy PS3 games in bulk? Were they trying to bring Blu-ray movies to the data center? Were they adding bullet points to the PS3's capability list in the hope of making the launch price look smaller?
I honestly have no idea why they thought it'd make sense to include Other OS in the first place. It wasn't enough to placate the homebrew crowd and there doesn't seem to be a busness case for it.
There's only one way if you want to be able to safely upload stuff fer real. Outspend the entertainment lobby. It is a lot of hard work, though.
FTFY
That's what Sony gets for wanting to eat their cake and have it. IIRC they added Other OS as a way to avoid higher import tariffs (computers vs. game consoles). At the same time the didn't want people to actually use it because they were selling the PS3 at a loss and it would only generate money through game sales. Then someone turned Other OS into something useful, they took it away and now they're up in arms because people went to great lengths to re-enable it, undermining the entire platform in the process.
I think the lesson here is "don't sell your product as something it isn't supposed to be". That just makes you look evil when you try to keep people from using it for what they thought you allowed them.
Bruce Willis with a nuclear warhead, of course. Coincidentally, that also works against rogue admins although you might want to instruct Willis to target the admin's house and not the server room.
Nitpick time! They don't actually have problems with their admin(s); the OP just asked about handling rogue admins in general since they've had other people quit on bad terms. As other posters have pointed out, this can happen as a result of differing opinions on the things the organization is about (nonprofits tend to exist in rather politicized environments) so even good management might not be able to keep someone from deciding he doesn't like the way they do things.
In short, an admin may turn hostiled because of political decisions made by the organization even though management did everything right. The OP wants to know what to do about that possibility.
Well, right off the bat I'd say that a Galaxy is any starship with a registry number in the format NCC-71xxx. While that definition may exclude a few ships previously considered to be Galaxy-class, those are just a few outliers that probably nobody cares about.
Huh, interesting. I get a 403 when I try to access that page. Probably because I'm from Communist Europe or something. Thankfully Google is a good, honest, red-blooded American citizen who an be trusted with this vital information. Who also has no qualms about sharing it with all those pinkos abroad. God bless you, Google cache! *salutes while the American flag is waving in the background*
Confusingly, you will find "Evangelicals" in Europe who aren't what you'd call Evangelicals. For instance, in German the term is used to describe Protestants; for instance, the most important Protestant organisation in Germany is called the "Evangelical Church in Germany" (EKD). Actually, there are two German terms, "evangelisch", which means "Protestant" and "evangelikal", which means "Evangelical" - however, most people who haven't studied theology won't know the latter word. In fact, I didn't know it until Wikipedia explained it to me.
Yes, this is confusing when, as a German reading these discussions, you aren't aware of (or have forgotten) the difference in terminology and wonder why American Protestants are so weird - they aren't, you're just thinking of the wrong term.
This terminology doesn't appear to occur in Romance languages but a brief check of the Swedish Wikipedia article on the EKD reveals that at least Swedish seems to share it.
A more reasonable prediction is that China will take an increasingly large slice of the cake for a while, just like the EU is trying to (using the Euro as leverage). Of course at some point there will be an equilibrium until the next player rises to power or one falls.
How large will the respective cake slices end up? I have no idea. China does have enormous capacities for production and trade, however, so I expect theirs to be significant. The sky won't fall but people will get used to dealing with China.
You're making a lot of the same generalizations you decry. No, not all Chinese shools are bad just like not all American ones are. Yes, China can actually produce fairly level-headed people who aren't hardcore communist drones.
As for the Soviet Union and how they called everything great: That doesn't mean that anyone attending the school would think it's a good school if it wasn't. The Soviet satellite states had a number of similarities; one of them was that the people knew that 95% of what the officials said was utter bullshit. Your school might have been an elite school but was it a good elite school? If it wasn't you wouldn't give a shit about how good it was.
Plus, the SU had one similarity with China: They wanted to be the top dog so they tried to get their hands on highly-skilled people. China heavily outsources for that right now but the SU produced a lot of decent scientists themselves.
No matter how much it may offend your patriotism, the USA are not automatically better at everything than everyone else, especially in something like education that changes from district to district. They also won't be quite as powerful in a few decades as they are now. I don't say that they will entirely fail but China is positioning itself to become the trade partner and the European Union is trying to replace the Dollar as the most important global trade currency with the Euro. With this new competition, the American slice of the cake will end up smaller - by how much depends on how the global players act in the next few decades.
Just don't make the mistake of underestimating any of them - China, the EU and the USA.
Sony did sell the PS3 with Other OS as an explicitly supported feature. Other OS didn't have the performance of GameOS because Sony didn't want people to distribute unlicensed games. The homebrew community decided they didn't like that and jailbroke Other OS.
This is the point where cheating became possible and this is where Sony could've prevented it altogether by having better-designed safety measures. They could've admitted defeat on the Other OS front and changed the hypervisor so that it gives people hardware access without giving them access to the bootloader and certain other aspects of the device - not stuff that homebrewers will legitimately want to use but enough to ensure that signed and unsigned code will never run at the same time. That would've kept most of the best hackers off their back as only those interested in cracking and cheating would've kept working on the PS3.
Instead, they decided to engage in a hacking war with a community known to be skilled, dedicated and resourceful. The result, predictably, is that they lost control over their console at a deeper level than before.
Sony didn't start the war (even though their crippled Other OS failed to appease the homebrewers) but their actions were directly responsible for its outcome. They could've kept their losses small; instead they tried to eliminate them entirely - which nobody had ever succeeded at before.
My recommendation for the PS4: Give the homebrewers a full-featured Other OS option and just ensure that signed and unsigned code can't talk to each other. That way the homebrewers will not be hellbent about hacking their way past the hypervisor. If Sony are afraid of homebrew games stealing the commercial games' thunder they just need to do like Microsoft did with XBox Live Arcade and turn them into a second market. They just need to avoid the usually Sony-typical control trip; those tend to work out badly.
The light would still lag. Why? Because pedestrians might be crossing and you can't just tell them to jump out of the way because some car doesn't want to brake. So at the shortest the red phase will last for the time it takes an average pedestrian to cross the road plus a safety margin unless the lights were preparing for a green phase anyway.
If the intersection is very unlikely to have pedestrians you still need a bit of lag in order to let anyone without a transponder clear the crossing street. The lag might be short enough to let you slow down without stopping entirely, of course.
When I read the heading I was excited but it turns out that the Mexicans are just using some kind of launching device instead of a 65-ton fire support 'mech. That would've been way cooler and it would also deter border patrol officers from interfering - you never know if that LRM-20 that just acheived a lock on you carries drugs or explosives.
Then again, wouldn't a Gauss Rifle make for a much more effective delivery system?
No. If you have anything to do with American politics you must only wear red, white and blue. Ideally all of your clothes have a stars-and-stripes pattern. Also, whenever you're not talking, eating or sleeping you must whistle the Yankee Doodle or chant "USA! USA!" so that everyone knows you are, in fact, an American. From America.
Strip Cf and declaw combining characters by not allowing two (or more than n for a reasonably low n) of them right after another. Most browsers tend to display weird things when thirty combining characters are applied to the same character, usually vertically spilling the combining characters all over the page.
I'd also take a look at Cc. Some characters in there might cause trouble and there's no legitimate use for most of them. With Cc checked (it's not that big), combining characters filtered and Cf blocked there should be very little in the way of harmful Unicode characters left.
I think they should've called the function drainBatteryOnMobileDevices(). I mean, it doesn't seem to do anything besides putting load on the CPU.
Seriously. I appreciate the redesign (even though it does make scrolling somewhat sluggish) but one of my main gripes with Slashdot is the arbitrary whitelist of Unicode characters (not to forget that some characters are only allowed as HTML entities). When I saw the story in the RSS feed I hoped that the whitelist had been repaced with a more reasonable policy (like eliminating all control characters and not allowing two combining characters after another). That would do the job of the original whitelist without eliminating hundreds of perfectly valid characters.
Sometimes the devil you don't know is slightly more attractive than the one you do.
This. If you have a "president" who's kept the country under martial law for decades and generally hasn't done a very good job of caring for his citizens you're quite motivated to elect anyone who isn't him.
Remember how Barack Obama was everbody's darling for a while not because of anything he said or did but mainly because he wasn't George W. Bush. And now imagine that Bush had been in office since 1981. Suddenly the devil you don't know is not just attractive but a sex symbol.
Actually, that's why I'm looking forward to Matrix 4. Whatever they do it will be entertaining. Either they actually write a decent movie and ignore the worst parts of parts 2 and 3 and we end up with something that can be called a worthy sequel to part 1. Or they create a train wreck that appeals to the bad movie crowd. Either way we win.
Of course they could create a solidly mediocre movie that appeals to no one. That's the only remaining danger and I hope it won't come to pass.
Actually, they should make it like Speed Racer. Unneccessary special effects up the wazoo, a story that doesn't make sense but doesn't need to and John Goodman beating the snot out of some ninjas. The Matrix universe is a lost cause anyway so let's just make a movie that dares to be stupid. In fact, put it right on the poster: "Matrix Re-violenced. The machines thought they had won the war - but they never expected us to use violence!"
I am aware that the term is not found in the dictionary; it merely makes sense according to the rules by which words are constructed. (Of course it's still useless, which is why nobody uses it, excluding those who mean "supposedly".)
Also, -le and -ly do not interfere with each other as they are used in different contexts. Since we were talking about the -ly form that's what I used.
Well, "supposably" seems to be a perfectly valid word. It expresses that the thing it's applied to can be supposed - as opposed to something that can't be supposed at all. I am aware that it's a fairly useless word but it does make sense.
I am also aware that virtually everyone using the word does not think it means what I think it means.
I was still in school when they switched over and even I have little to no idea about the new rules. As a result I now use an inconsistent mix of the old and new rules.
That's fairly common with people who were switched over halfway through their education and it'll take us a generation to get the old rules out of the system, simply because everyone above a certain age has still learned the old ones. And this is with a few minor changes. Large changes like what would be neccessary to align English pronounciation and spelling probably would take several steps, which would take correspondingly long.
Well, unless you do a radical change that means that either everyone relearns the language or your change is completely ignored. And we all know what would be the more likely outcome.
Actually, "autokineticon" sounds much cooler than "automobile".
The difference lies in the presentation.
Doctor Who is a show about a semi-immortal magical genius who can travel through time in a police box. With that kind of backdrop people don't expect to see anything resembling science within two timeslots.
Fringe is being evaluated based on what the first season told us: "He is a jack-of-all-trades. He is his half-senile scientist father. Together, they fight crime!" With that kind of backdrop people expect the show to be much more down to earth. Of course Abrams always knew that the show would be about relatives from another dimension trying to destroy the world but the first season was all about not letting us know - and we were hit with the dissonance of what seems to be a sciency show featuring absolutely nonsensical science.
In a way, even Threshold is better than Fringe in that regard. Sure, Threshold was insultingly stupid. But they were up-front about what the show was about so people didn't expect anything to make sense. Of course the show still managed to surprise us with stupidity but we already knew we were watching a serial B-movie from the get-go.
With Fringe, J.J. Abrams fans knew what to expect but everyone else didn't. Correspondingly, J.J. Abrams fans tend to ignore the science in favor of the metaplot and everyone else tends to ignore the metaplot in favor of the science. At least that's what I observed.