After several years of concert-going it finally sunk in that that sound quality in my local arena was terrible and that most performances had turned into special effects demonstrations rather than focusing on the music. I've simply quit going.
There are small, intimate concert spaces in my area with only 1500 seats. Occasionally some good performers come to these like Louis Black, Cyndi Lauper, and BB King. That's just perfect...it's worth the money for a personal experience. Sitting in the local hocky arena, in contrast, is an awful experience: sound distortion, bad views, ridiculously narrow seats, security body searches upon entry, insultingly high drink prices...
Consumers need to savvy-up and reject these massive high-priced concerts as a bad value. If Madonna starts performing to half-filled arenas, she'll lower her prices.
Damn, she's greedy!
If the red rain has an extraterrestrial origin, how can one explain that it only landed in India over a two month period. I'm no astronomer or physicist but that just doesn't seem right to me. How could something that was in orbit consistently fall down on the Earth in exactly the same region for a two month period. You've clearly go all sorts of variables in play that would make that outcome unlikely: the velocity & trajectory of the extraterrestrial mass, gravitational influence of the Earth and moon, weather, etc.
The cries of the nonbelievers are making good use of Achems Razor: "the simplest answer tends to be the correct answer". In this case, terrestrial causes would seem to fit that bill.
I can't help but feel that the scammer is getting his just desserts. On the other hand, I believe it's worth taking note of what this activity really is: vigilante scamming, also known as taking the law into your own hands.
If going outside the legal system to fight back is OK in this situation, where else is it OK to do this? One wonders how steep this particular slippery slope is.
Google is great at narrowing a search and, in my experience, beats a library hands down. There's an advantage to the library that I have not yet been able to adequately mirror using Google though: walking the stacks.
In doing research, a fair amount of useful tidbits have been found by scanning adjacent information on the physical shelves. I've found gems in books and journals rarely accessed but which resided near the shelf location of my intended target.
Yes, hyperlinking gets you to related internet-based material too, but it tends to be the most popular material. A good research library that has ample shelf space in the stacks has all of the related material grouped together regardless of popularity. That's an advantage for getting breadth on an academic topic.
Under those circumstances, the whole question "which is faster" misses uncovering this important difference.
I think Apple has something to be proud of here. They've attracted some of the very best technical talent in the industry and are keeping them employed in the US. Apple accomplished this during an economic downturn in which technology companies were laying off double digit percentages of their workforces. Instead of shrinking, Apple diversified its product line while hanging onto (and adding to) its technical talent pool. The result are a diverse set of applications that appeal to both consumers AND vertical markets. Oh, and they are making a profit and are a debt free company.
"Kudos to Apple" is appropriate. This is one company that has worked hard and managed to stay focused over a long period. They deserve recognition for it.
Apple seems to have remade itself into a premium software developer. I used to think of Apple as the cool hardware manufacturer but now they are bringing that same innovation, simplicity, and style to software.
No wonder Adobe has been wary recently. They must be wondering when Apple will be competing with them across their entire product line.
Worry when you *arent* asked, because it means management doesnt think you know anything valuable.
This is an insightful point. If you can do a good job training foreign workers then guess what: you have another skill for your resume. Since nothing will stop the outsourcing transition, it seems prudent to pick up skills that are valuable in this new reality. That includes vendor management, project management, and remote training. I'd train them well and then tout that I am good at "global cross-functional communication, training, and project management" on the old resume.:-)
Perhaps some perspective: I recently traveled from the US to a S. American country requiring an entry visa. The visit to the consolate, the document verification, the identity verification, and the intollerable hours of wasted time made me wish for an "instant" visa system. The US photo and fingerprinting system is little more than a very fast way to accomplish a significant component of a visa system: identity verification and tracking at points of entry/exit.
If the US fingerprint/photo system is to be so roundly condemned, let's include countries with cumbersome visa systems as well. They are at least as invasive and often more so.
Um, organism migration is normal behavior
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If one steps back and looks at interplanetary exploration a bit more generically, it is actually quite similar to early man hopping from continent to continent populating (or should we say "infecting") each land mass along the way with humanity.
Migration is something organisms do. Plain and simple.
Truthfully, I'd be more concerned about ET organisms messing up our environment more than the other way around.
When I was a kid, there was little that could be done to keep me from tinkering under the hood whenever I was given access to a computer. My natural curiosity led me to the "advanced" features right away. Something about not liking the idea that the "grown ups" had hidden away features and functionality rubbed me the wrong way. I suspect a lot of kids are like that. In this reaspect, then, the fact that UNIX is under the hood in Mac OS X is a good thing. Open up the terminal window and your're right there. If I was a kid now, I'd probably discover the terminal within a day or two.
Something to keep in mind: kids like exploring. Even more important to keep in mind: kids generally lilke to push boundaries. If there's a part of a computer OS that's off limits, they are gonna try to go there and tinker with it. Guaranteed.
A reasonable question. I was skeptical at first too, thinking it was a waste of time. All it took was persistence and a good memory. Grandma was able to navigate based upon auditory feedback. I set it up so that when the mouse passed over each of her three choices (email, web, text editor) it would speak the application name.
She's not too good with a mouse but does manage decently well since the auditory feedback is reasonable whenever she hits a menu. The keypad is her backup navigation method.
My positive story aside, I really do wish that someone would design a computer specifically for older people. Keyboards are much tougher for them due to arthritic hands and lower sensitivity in the finger tips making it harder to feel the edges of keys. Mice often require too much fine motor control for elderly folks with arthritis. Those with vision impairment face all sorts of challenges when it comes to getting properly oriented on a display and activating the right application/feature/selection.
Don't get me wrong - I am thrilled with the accessibility features that manufacturers (especially Apple) build into their products. They helped my grandma. It would just be nice to see something designed from the ground up for accessibility rather than something modified after the fact. I think the industry can do even better.
It worked for my 91 year old blind grandmother. The VA tried teaching her how to use a PC and after she got home from the 3 week course she then left a the following message on my voicemail:
"This windows is good for nothin'. Terrible. Just worthless. I can't make computer go."
We set her up with a Mac under Simple Finder and now she can "make computer go" just fine.
If a 91 year old blind woman who is new to computers can figure out a Macintosh, I'd say it's a damned good solution!
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After several years of concert-going it finally sunk in that that sound quality in my local arena was terrible and that most performances had turned into special effects demonstrations rather than focusing on the music. I've simply quit going. There are small, intimate concert spaces in my area with only 1500 seats. Occasionally some good performers come to these like Louis Black, Cyndi Lauper, and BB King. That's just perfect...it's worth the money for a personal experience. Sitting in the local hocky arena, in contrast, is an awful experience: sound distortion, bad views, ridiculously narrow seats, security body searches upon entry, insultingly high drink prices... Consumers need to savvy-up and reject these massive high-priced concerts as a bad value. If Madonna starts performing to half-filled arenas, she'll lower her prices. Damn, she's greedy!
If the red rain has an extraterrestrial origin, how can one explain that it only landed in India over a two month period. I'm no astronomer or physicist but that just doesn't seem right to me. How could something that was in orbit consistently fall down on the Earth in exactly the same region for a two month period. You've clearly go all sorts of variables in play that would make that outcome unlikely: the velocity & trajectory of the extraterrestrial mass, gravitational influence of the Earth and moon, weather, etc.
The cries of the nonbelievers are making good use of Achems Razor: "the simplest answer tends to be the correct answer". In this case, terrestrial causes would seem to fit that bill.
Thank you. I, too, am unable to make sense of it.
How do you prefer to receive feedback from your employees?
I can't help but feel that the scammer is getting his just desserts. On the other hand, I believe it's worth taking note of what this activity really is: vigilante scamming, also known as taking the law into your own hands.
If going outside the legal system to fight back is OK in this situation, where else is it OK to do this? One wonders how steep this particular slippery slope is.
Google is great at narrowing a search and, in my experience, beats a library hands down. There's an advantage to the library that I have not yet been able to adequately mirror using Google though: walking the stacks.
In doing research, a fair amount of useful tidbits have been found by scanning adjacent information on the physical shelves. I've found gems in books and journals rarely accessed but which resided near the shelf location of my intended target.
Yes, hyperlinking gets you to related internet-based material too, but it tends to be the most popular material. A good research library that has ample shelf space in the stacks has all of the related material grouped together regardless of popularity. That's an advantage for getting breadth on an academic topic.
Under those circumstances, the whole question "which is faster" misses uncovering this important difference.
"Kudos to Apple" is appropriate. This is one company that has worked hard and managed to stay focused over a long period. They deserve recognition for it.
Apple seems to have remade itself into a premium software developer. I used to think of Apple as the cool hardware manufacturer but now they are bringing that same innovation, simplicity, and style to software. No wonder Adobe has been wary recently. They must be wondering when Apple will be competing with them across their entire product line.
Worry when you *arent* asked, because it means management doesnt think you know anything valuable.
:-)
This is an insightful point. If you can do a good job training foreign workers then guess what: you have another skill for your resume. Since nothing will stop the outsourcing transition, it seems prudent to pick up skills that are valuable in this new reality. That includes vendor management, project management, and remote training. I'd train them well and then tout that I am good at "global cross-functional communication, training, and project management" on the old resume.
If the US fingerprint/photo system is to be so roundly condemned, let's include countries with cumbersome visa systems as well. They are at least as invasive and often more so.
If one steps back and looks at interplanetary exploration a bit more generically, it is actually quite similar to early man hopping from continent to continent populating (or should we say "infecting") each land mass along the way with humanity.
Migration is something organisms do. Plain and simple.
Truthfully, I'd be more concerned about ET organisms messing up our environment more than the other way around.
When I was a kid, there was little that could be done to keep me from tinkering under the hood whenever I was given access to a computer. My natural curiosity led me to the "advanced" features right away. Something about not liking the idea that the "grown ups" had hidden away features and functionality rubbed me the wrong way. I suspect a lot of kids are like that. In this reaspect, then, the fact that UNIX is under the hood in Mac OS X is a good thing. Open up the terminal window and your're right there. If I was a kid now, I'd probably discover the terminal within a day or two. Something to keep in mind: kids like exploring. Even more important to keep in mind: kids generally lilke to push boundaries. If there's a part of a computer OS that's off limits, they are gonna try to go there and tinker with it. Guaranteed.
Has alphaville upgraded to computer voting yet or are they still using punchcards?
A reasonable question. I was skeptical at first too, thinking it was a waste of time. All it took was persistence and a good memory. Grandma was able to navigate based upon auditory feedback. I set it up so that when the mouse passed over each of her three choices (email, web, text editor) it would speak the application name. She's not too good with a mouse but does manage decently well since the auditory feedback is reasonable whenever she hits a menu. The keypad is her backup navigation method. My positive story aside, I really do wish that someone would design a computer specifically for older people. Keyboards are much tougher for them due to arthritic hands and lower sensitivity in the finger tips making it harder to feel the edges of keys. Mice often require too much fine motor control for elderly folks with arthritis. Those with vision impairment face all sorts of challenges when it comes to getting properly oriented on a display and activating the right application/feature/selection. Don't get me wrong - I am thrilled with the accessibility features that manufacturers (especially Apple) build into their products. They helped my grandma. It would just be nice to see something designed from the ground up for accessibility rather than something modified after the fact. I think the industry can do even better.
It worked for my 91 year old blind grandmother. The VA tried teaching her how to use a PC and after she got home from the 3 week course she then left a the following message on my voicemail: "This windows is good for nothin'. Terrible. Just worthless. I can't make computer go." We set her up with a Mac under Simple Finder and now she can "make computer go" just fine. If a 91 year old blind woman who is new to computers can figure out a Macintosh, I'd say it's a damned good solution!