I had a friend who dealt with death claims caused by his company. One time when asked for "a copy of the audio cassette" containing the story, he sent them a photocopy of it.
I haven't upgraded to the retail version yet, I'm running the last RC but I'd noticed some extremely slow file operations. I had a directory for InstantRails which has tons of sub-folders (6700+) and over 50,000 total files under it. I moved it from one location to another, something that in XP is instant. With Vista it sat more than 20 minutes "calculating time remaining" and then was instant once it got down to the actual act of moving. My assumption was that with the whole "Previous Version" feature you can do on a folder or file (which is actually kinda cool), that it was making copies for historical purposes.
It's only going to be an exclusive contract with Cingular for a while.
There are a few reasons they coupled with Cingular 1) They had to innovate some of the ways in which the cell phone communicates with the network, to allow for features like the call splitting/merging & random access voice mail 2) They knew that it would be so revolutionary that people would drop their current provider and switch, and they wanted to make money from that fact. Part of the deal with Cingular is that Apple gets part of the monthly fees from the iPhone users.
As other phone companies gear up to support the features of the iPhone and once their exclusivity contract runs out, Apple will happily accept money from the people who wouldn't/couldn't switch to Cingular but still want the phone.
I did that, not in bio class but when I was a very young lad. My family was watching Nova and I made some comment and mixed the two up. The room went completely silent, and I realized my mistake. I didn't know what an orgasm was at that point in my life, but the reaction made me very curious about them:)
I think you may be making some assumptions that there is no order to a pile.
Piles are a time-based filing system based on last-accessed date & time. If you just recently got something or looked at something, it will be on the top, and for me, most of what I need is within the top strata.
Your comment seems to assume that you would need to search the entire pile, but once you start getting into papers you haven't seen since before you last saw the document you are looking for, you've gone too far. In addition, if you haven't seen it for a while, you don't start at the top. Maybe the pile system works well for those who playing a lot of Memory as a child. If someone asks me for a document, I know which stack and how deep in the stack I need to go based on topic and long ago I last retrieved that document... I just see where it would be in my head, and voila, there it is. Once you get used to it and skilled at it, I find that it's actually faster that traditional filing.
I did a quick google search for "time based filing", here's excerpts from documents which recognize the benefits of time-based filing for various purposes:
1. THE TIMESTORE PROJECT
[...]Time-based visualization can complement or replace the traditional semantic based email by using an aspect of human memory that most existing email systems ignore: temporal organization in autobiographical memory [4].Lifestreams: a storage model for personal data
Conventional software systems, such as those based on the "desktop metaphor," are ill-equipped to manage the electronic information and events of the typical computer user. We introduce a new metaphor, Lifestreams, for dynamically organizing a user's personal workspace. Lifestreams uses a simple organizational metaphor, a time-ordered stream of documents, as an underlying storage system. Stream filters are used to organize, monitor and summarize information for the user. [...]
Obviously, when multiple people need to be able to access the same set of files, then an agreed-upon system needs to be used other than a time-based index relative only to one person's memory. I'm not suggesting that every messy desk has underlying organization, but one cannot assume that there is no system just because because one is missing the index -- the filer's memory.
I have a friend at Microsoft, a Level 2 Architect who has been a part of many interviews. He told me that I should apply. I responded "But I don't have a degree." He laughed, he said "Half the people at Microsoft don't have degrees. They don't really care about that, as long as you have experience and a love for programming. The only thing a degree will get you that you'll need in the interview is the algorithms course. Here's the book to read and you'll pass the interview, no problem."
He said one one of the questions that he'd asked interviewees was "What do you hate about C++?" and lost interest in people who said that they had no problems with it. He wanted to find people who could see the flaws and had suggestions for how to fix them.
MS software/practices may not be nearly as good as you want them to be, but the people in the company aren't nearly as sinister or close-minded as you'd apparently like them to be.
last.fm is a great way to test this out. I find (virtually) all my new music through this site. My "neighbors" that it finds can have wide and varied tastes as well, but even though the genres are different from each other (and not simply "find more artists like this one") there's something underlying the connections between the music that is not immediately apparent. I love browsing my "neighbors" music tastes and seeing "got it, got it, got it, who? (goes to alltunes, previews, loves it, then downloads), got it, got it, got it, got it, who?, got it, got it.."
It makes me very curious to talk with some of them. If someone generally likes all the same artists that you do (especially ones that are not on the radio) would it mean that you would get along well with them? If our music is more chill, sentimental, melodic, lyrical with occasional trance and techno... would the "rhythm" of our personalities match pretty well?
It's not that I don't get alone with people who are on the opposite ends of the music spectrum, but I've found that the people I'm most compatible with having deeper conversations with and find each others' "flow" really enjoy the music I expose them to, have already heard it, or have stuff that I really appreciate. It's not a prereq, but it definitely has not gone unnoticed.
All I can think is that your job must not be that important and/or that you weren't that committed to it. If you are able to quit and just stop coming without messing up the projects you were a part of, you weren't really that integral and are apparently easily replaceable.
>> They dont trust you during those two weeks and youre just asking for a hard time
You must not have a good reputation with the company. If people are not trusting you during the 2 weeks, then you didn't really have much of a good relationship with them.
If you are parting on good terms, you should be working with people to close up any holes, document what is left open and capture any knowledge you had that can help them out. If you're showing yourself as wanting to make sure they aren't left high and dry without you, they will trust you... and the recommendations will be even better.
Simplicity of a single task within complex apps can mean more complexity... I work for a company that does a remote ordering application, the user can save and print lists of items. During a training session a user (sales rep) asked me how can he send the report to his customer. I told him to go to the report, save to PDF and email it. That was way too much for him to take in and he responded like it was the most ridiculous thing that he'd have to do 3 steps. 3 freakin steps! He wanted a single menu option to do it. With that mentality, there'd be all these menu options to automate all the different ways you could use the software... thus turning into a Word menu nightmare. If he does that all the time, then yes, making it a menu option may help save time.
I definitely support adverts on WP. Pardon the length but I think there are some important points here and a lot of good to be done.
SIZE AND PLACEMENT
Why not have an opt-in for the ads? Right now they have space at the top devoted to getting donations. Instead, have a link that says "Show relevant ads to support Wikipedia" When you click it, do not have the ads appear at the top, but have them display down the left underneath the "in other languages" box. Have it be one of the options when signing up for an account, defaulted to turned off (personally, I would code it to default on but there seem to be a lot of people really up in arms about the idea of ads.) Have a short description of how the money is used. Even if only a fraction of the people turned it on, then they could still have plenty of funds for servers and other projects, maybe not the hundreds of millions that are predicted, but enough.
I would rather it was just always on, down on the left side of the page so that more money could be made.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
I don't really understand the conflict of interest argument. With AdSense, what ads show could change daily based on the settings of the different advertiser's accounts and Google's algorithm which determines how good of a fit that ad is. If no one clicks on it, then it isn't a good ad to show for the keywords and it is automatically removed. The only conflict would be information about Google itself since WP would not be receiving money directly from anyone else and wouldn't have to worry about bowing to any of the sponsors. The sponsors may not even know their ads are being shown on WP.
If WP were to accept money directly from a company, Chevrolet, for example, then WP may worry about not having anything negative about Chevy's so that they don't lose their funding that they had grown accustomed to. Direct relationships with the advertisers would definitely cause conflicts of interest.
EXISTING EXPENSES
It seems by some of the comments that people are not thinking all the way through this. There was a comment made about how since the contributors add/edit/update for free that WP should do the same. They do not understand handling 2.5 billion page hits in a month costs some serious money for the server farms and bandwidth.
GLOBAL COMMUNITY
Keep thinking all the way through this... suppose WP *is* making $100m per year by ads they have on the site and uses that money to help get clean drinking/bathing water in villages in Africa, helping set up schools in 3rd world countries, etc, etc. There are people in this world who don't have access to some basic necessities of survival that WP could help out and we're throwing tantrums because we have to look at an ad? Seriously?? If having ads served on WP means that a well can be built in a city so that people can have clean water for drinking and bathing are we really such ad-free purists that we are blind to all the good that could be done here? Have we forgotten what WP is about? WP is about the community of the world coming together and producing something of worth.
DISCOURAGING CONTRIBUTIONS
Would ads make me not want to contribute to WP? Absolutely not! If I knew that the money was going toward good causes, then the better WP is (by all of us adding/updating), the more it is used. The more people view it, the more money it makes and the more good they -oops, I mean *WE*- can do. We aren't talking about WP having ads so that they can drive Ferraris and have them take advantage of the contributor's efforts for their own wallets.
BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE
We are possibly on the cusp of the world community banding together through our contributions to and use of Wikipedia to be able to help ridiculous amounts of people. Will there be different people with different agendas for where the money goes? I guarantee it. Does that mean that we shouldn't do it at all? Me and my coworkers may have different ideas about where to go for lunch, bu
As I was reading the summary, I thought for sure it was going to say that to avoid problems with network connectivity that $8.5B in research had found that you can walk over and talk to your cube neighbors directly...
The version of this type of DVD Player I'd heard of allowed you to make and share your own versions. You could do some pretty cool edits with them, where they had turned a swordfighting scene in The Princess Bride to be lightsabers, have cartoony splotches over the bullet holes, or to superimpose a girdle in the nude drawing scene of Titanic. It didn't produce another copy, it ran with an original DVD in one drive and the edits on CD-ROM (burned from the internet or your own edits) in the other drive.
Just recently my sister wanted to show her kids Whale Rider, which is a great movie. There is a scene where the kids are dancing around and the adult is teaching them about being a man with lots of references to their "dicks". It was critical to the movie because it was showing how the tribe valued the men and the main character (young girl) couldn't fit in as a warrior, however, my sister didn't want her 4 year old seeing that scene and immitating that behavior. They were planning on just fast-forwarding through the scene but then couldn't find the DVD anyway.
So, since people are more than capable of fast-forwarding parts they don't want their kids to see and since it doesn't make an unauthorized copy of the movie, why is having (basically) an automated fast-forwarding DVD player a problem?
I lived in LA for a few years and knew a number of people involved with different aspects of the movie industry. While some violence, language or sex is in movies because it's necessary to the plot, there's also a lot specifically added to give it the R rating for those who don't want to feel like they are seeing a "kid" movie if it's PG-13 or PG, many times the studios add it simply for the marketing of the film which may or may not be against the director/writer's original vision. Some movies are, by nature, uneditable and an R at heart. Others intentionally got the R rating by adding one more F word or a quick shot of full-frontal nudity just for the marketing value of the R rating... if, in those cases, those studios are only about how to make it the most marketable they can increase their marketability by allowing some watchers to choose to not see those parts.
DVD players are made with the ability that you can watch it with different levels of rating, though I have yet to find a DVD that makes use of this feature. The studios would have the potential of raising their sales by selling DVDs with the option of watching it with studio-controlled edits. Some movies it would simply not be possible or worth it, but for others the removal of one or two gratuitous scenes would allow people to watch who would otherwise would not have.
They got on the PA and read off only 16 bits of information, then halted. It was a hidden message, meant only for the programmers. Much like the story of the telegraph station who put out an ad for an operator. In the room full of applicants, there was a tapping sound that only one applicant heard. In Morse code, they were tapping "If you understand this, you are hired, come to the back room. STOP"
But I'm not going to work for ComAir.:P
realistic-looking, actors different from the mainstream garbage... isn't that what indy films are for?? (btw: i recommend "all the real girls")
the problem is the gen pop _wants_ to see the same actors/actresses over and over again. you can take a movie and swap out the actor for someone more well known and dramatically affect the financial outcome of the movie, even if both actors/actresses are equally talented/good-looking.
"oh, let's go! it's the new Affleck movie!" well, maybe that example doesn't work as well since Gigli.
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I had a friend who dealt with death claims caused by his company. One time when asked for "a copy of the audio cassette" containing the story, he sent them a photocopy of it.
I haven't upgraded to the retail version yet, I'm running the last RC but I'd noticed some extremely slow file operations. I had a directory for InstantRails which has tons of sub-folders (6700+) and over 50,000 total files under it. I moved it from one location to another, something that in XP is instant. With Vista it sat more than 20 minutes "calculating time remaining" and then was instant once it got down to the actual act of moving. My assumption was that with the whole "Previous Version" feature you can do on a folder or file (which is actually kinda cool), that it was making copies for historical purposes.
It's only going to be an exclusive contract with Cingular for a while.
There are a few reasons they coupled with Cingular
1) They had to innovate some of the ways in which the cell phone communicates with the network, to allow for features like the call splitting/merging & random access voice mail
2) They knew that it would be so revolutionary that people would drop their current provider and switch, and they wanted to make money from that fact. Part of the deal with Cingular is that Apple gets part of the monthly fees from the iPhone users.
As other phone companies gear up to support the features of the iPhone and once their exclusivity contract runs out, Apple will happily accept money from the people who wouldn't/couldn't switch to Cingular but still want the phone.
I did that, not in bio class but when I was a very young lad. My family was watching Nova and I made some comment and mixed the two up. The room went completely silent, and I realized my mistake. I didn't know what an orgasm was at that point in my life, but the reaction made me very curious about them :)
Piles are a time-based filing system based on last-accessed date & time. If you just recently got something or looked at something, it will be on the top, and for me, most of what I need is within the top strata.
Your comment seems to assume that you would need to search the entire pile, but once you start getting into papers you haven't seen since before you last saw the document you are looking for, you've gone too far. In addition, if you haven't seen it for a while, you don't start at the top. Maybe the pile system works well for those who playing a lot of Memory as a child. If someone asks me for a document, I know which stack and how deep in the stack I need to go based on topic and long ago I last retrieved that document... I just see where it would be in my head, and voila, there it is. Once you get used to it and skilled at it, I find that it's actually faster that traditional filing.
I did a quick google search for "time based filing", here's excerpts from documents which recognize the benefits of time-based filing for various purposes:
1. THE TIMESTORE PROJECT [...]Time-based visualization can complement or replace the traditional semantic based email by using an aspect of human memory that most existing email systems ignore: temporal organization in autobiographical memory [4]. Lifestreams: a storage model for personal data
Conventional software systems, such as those based on the "desktop metaphor," are ill-equipped to manage the electronic information and events of the typical computer user. We introduce a new metaphor, Lifestreams, for dynamically organizing a user's personal workspace. Lifestreams uses a simple organizational metaphor, a time-ordered stream of documents, as an underlying storage system. Stream filters are used to organize, monitor and summarize information for the user. [...]
Obviously, when multiple people need to be able to access the same set of files, then an agreed-upon system needs to be used other than a time-based index relative only to one person's memory. I'm not suggesting that every messy desk has underlying organization, but one cannot assume that there is no system just because because one is missing the index -- the filer's memory.
Ok, maybe he's not right about 2010, but Dec 12, 2012 is the end of the world, so in that respect DRM will be gone. :)
Oh no, look out! a google search for 12/21/2012
I have a friend at Microsoft, a Level 2 Architect who has been a part of many interviews. He told me that I should apply. I responded "But I don't have a degree." He laughed, he said "Half the people at Microsoft don't have degrees. They don't really care about that, as long as you have experience and a love for programming. The only thing a degree will get you that you'll need in the interview is the algorithms course. Here's the book to read and you'll pass the interview, no problem."
He said one one of the questions that he'd asked interviewees was "What do you hate about C++?" and lost interest in people who said that they had no problems with it. He wanted to find people who could see the flaws and had suggestions for how to fix them.
MS software/practices may not be nearly as good as you want them to be, but the people in the company aren't nearly as sinister or close-minded as you'd apparently like them to be.
Well, I would if I had the Barney And Friends Do Dallas soundtrack.
last.fm is a great way to test this out. I find (virtually) all my new music through this site. My "neighbors" that it finds can have wide and varied tastes as well, but even though the genres are different from each other (and not simply "find more artists like this one") there's something underlying the connections between the music that is not immediately apparent. I love browsing my "neighbors" music tastes and seeing "got it, got it, got it, who? (goes to alltunes, previews, loves it, then downloads), got it, got it, got it, got it, who?, got it, got it.."
It makes me very curious to talk with some of them. If someone generally likes all the same artists that you do (especially ones that are not on the radio) would it mean that you would get along well with them? If our music is more chill, sentimental, melodic, lyrical with occasional trance and techno... would the "rhythm" of our personalities match pretty well?
It's not that I don't get alone with people who are on the opposite ends of the music spectrum, but I've found that the people I'm most compatible with having deeper conversations with and find each others' "flow" really enjoy the music I expose them to, have already heard it, or have stuff that I really appreciate. It's not a prereq, but it definitely has not gone unnoticed.
you forgot:
Punk: "Something sad happened and I want to kill us all"
>> I dont give notice when I quit
All I can think is that your job must not be that important and/or that you weren't that committed to it. If you are able to quit and just stop coming without messing up the projects you were a part of, you weren't really that integral and are apparently easily replaceable.
>> They dont trust you during those two weeks and youre just asking for a hard time
You must not have a good reputation with the company. If people are not trusting you during the 2 weeks, then you didn't really have much of a good relationship with them.
If you are parting on good terms, you should be working with people to close up any holes, document what is left open and capture any knowledge you had that can help them out. If you're showing yourself as wanting to make sure they aren't left high and dry without you, they will trust you... and the recommendations will be even better.
Simplicity of a single task within complex apps can mean more complexity... I work for a company that does a remote ordering application, the user can save and print lists of items. During a training session a user (sales rep) asked me how can he send the report to his customer. I told him to go to the report, save to PDF and email it. That was way too much for him to take in and he responded like it was the most ridiculous thing that he'd have to do 3 steps. 3 freakin steps! He wanted a single menu option to do it. With that mentality, there'd be all these menu options to automate all the different ways you could use the software... thus turning into a Word menu nightmare. If he does that all the time, then yes, making it a menu option may help save time.
SIZE AND PLACEMENT
Why not have an opt-in for the ads? Right now they have space at the top devoted to getting donations. Instead, have a link that says "Show relevant ads to support Wikipedia" When you click it, do not have the ads appear at the top, but have them display down the left underneath the "in other languages" box. Have it be one of the options when signing up for an account, defaulted to turned off (personally, I would code it to default on but there seem to be a lot of people really up in arms about the idea of ads.) Have a short description of how the money is used. Even if only a fraction of the people turned it on, then they could still have plenty of funds for servers and other projects, maybe not the hundreds of millions that are predicted, but enough. I would rather it was just always on, down on the left side of the page so that more money could be made.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
I don't really understand the conflict of interest argument. With AdSense, what ads show could change daily based on the settings of the different advertiser's accounts and Google's algorithm which determines how good of a fit that ad is. If no one clicks on it, then it isn't a good ad to show for the keywords and it is automatically removed. The only conflict would be information about Google itself since WP would not be receiving money directly from anyone else and wouldn't have to worry about bowing to any of the sponsors. The sponsors may not even know their ads are being shown on WP. If WP were to accept money directly from a company, Chevrolet, for example, then WP may worry about not having anything negative about Chevy's so that they don't lose their funding that they had grown accustomed to. Direct relationships with the advertisers would definitely cause conflicts of interest.
EXISTING EXPENSES
It seems by some of the comments that people are not thinking all the way through this. There was a comment made about how since the contributors add/edit/update for free that WP should do the same. They do not understand handling 2.5 billion page hits in a month costs some serious money for the server farms and bandwidth.
GLOBAL COMMUNITY
Keep thinking all the way through this... suppose WP *is* making $100m per year by ads they have on the site and uses that money to help get clean drinking/bathing water in villages in Africa, helping set up schools in 3rd world countries, etc, etc. There are people in this world who don't have access to some basic necessities of survival that WP could help out and we're throwing tantrums because we have to look at an ad? Seriously?? If having ads served on WP means that a well can be built in a city so that people can have clean water for drinking and bathing are we really such ad-free purists that we are blind to all the good that could be done here? Have we forgotten what WP is about? WP is about the community of the world coming together and producing something of worth.
DISCOURAGING CONTRIBUTIONS
Would ads make me not want to contribute to WP? Absolutely not! If I knew that the money was going toward good causes, then the better WP is (by all of us adding/updating), the more it is used. The more people view it, the more money it makes and the more good they -oops, I mean *WE*- can do. We aren't talking about WP having ads so that they can drive Ferraris and have them take advantage of the contributor's efforts for their own wallets.
BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE
We are possibly on the cusp of the world community banding together through our contributions to and use of Wikipedia to be able to help ridiculous amounts of people. Will there be different people with different agendas for where the money goes? I guarantee it. Does that mean that we shouldn't do it at all? Me and my coworkers may have different ideas about where to go for lunch, bu
As I was reading the summary, I thought for sure it was going to say that to avoid problems with network connectivity that $8.5B in research had found that you can walk over and talk to your cube neighbors directly...
The version of this type of DVD Player I'd heard of allowed you to make and share your own versions. You could do some pretty cool edits with them, where they had turned a swordfighting scene in The Princess Bride to be lightsabers, have cartoony splotches over the bullet holes, or to superimpose a girdle in the nude drawing scene of Titanic. It didn't produce another copy, it ran with an original DVD in one drive and the edits on CD-ROM (burned from the internet or your own edits) in the other drive. Just recently my sister wanted to show her kids Whale Rider, which is a great movie. There is a scene where the kids are dancing around and the adult is teaching them about being a man with lots of references to their "dicks". It was critical to the movie because it was showing how the tribe valued the men and the main character (young girl) couldn't fit in as a warrior, however, my sister didn't want her 4 year old seeing that scene and immitating that behavior. They were planning on just fast-forwarding through the scene but then couldn't find the DVD anyway. So, since people are more than capable of fast-forwarding parts they don't want their kids to see and since it doesn't make an unauthorized copy of the movie, why is having (basically) an automated fast-forwarding DVD player a problem? I lived in LA for a few years and knew a number of people involved with different aspects of the movie industry. While some violence, language or sex is in movies because it's necessary to the plot, there's also a lot specifically added to give it the R rating for those who don't want to feel like they are seeing a "kid" movie if it's PG-13 or PG, many times the studios add it simply for the marketing of the film which may or may not be against the director/writer's original vision. Some movies are, by nature, uneditable and an R at heart. Others intentionally got the R rating by adding one more F word or a quick shot of full-frontal nudity just for the marketing value of the R rating... if, in those cases, those studios are only about how to make it the most marketable they can increase their marketability by allowing some watchers to choose to not see those parts. DVD players are made with the ability that you can watch it with different levels of rating, though I have yet to find a DVD that makes use of this feature. The studios would have the potential of raising their sales by selling DVDs with the option of watching it with studio-controlled edits. Some movies it would simply not be possible or worth it, but for others the removal of one or two gratuitous scenes would allow people to watch who would otherwise would not have.
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/07/29/445242 .aspx
IE7 will *not* pass the acid2 test, they were not even trying.
I'm sure many have seen this already... a quick way to show how much of the CSS spec is supported by your browser.
http://www.webstandards.org/act/acid2/test.html
I'd be interested to know how IE7 fairs, IE6's rendering is horrendous.
I'm finding I have the same "problem."
They got on the PA and read off only 16 bits of information, then halted. It was a hidden message, meant only for the programmers. Much like the story of the telegraph station who put out an ad for an operator. In the room full of applicants, there was a tapping sound that only one applicant heard. In Morse code, they were tapping "If you understand this, you are hired, come to the back room. STOP" But I'm not going to work for ComAir. :P
I heard it from the ComAir desk at the airport when I was trying to get home. :(
(no message)
realistic-looking, actors different from the mainstream garbage... isn't that what indy films are for?? (btw: i recommend "all the real girls")
the problem is the gen pop _wants_ to see the same actors/actresses over and over again. you can take a movie and swap out the actor for someone more well known and dramatically affect the financial outcome of the movie, even if both actors/actresses are equally talented/good-looking.
"oh, let's go! it's the new Affleck movie!" well, maybe that example doesn't work as well since Gigli.