I have a bigger problem with utilities sales staff at the front door. At the third time I have to say not interested in the conversation I actually roll out the old "What part of 'NO!' do you not understand?".
I recently worked on a project to roll out Smart Meters to large number of properties. This project has been painted as evil in the media and has been largely unpopular with the general public.
During the meter installation phase, we received a letter form a customer saying that they had placed a poisonous snake in the their meter box with a heat lamp and padlocked it - the installer to proceed at own risk.
All threats were passed to the police, plus they were risking disconnection as it is illegal to have a powerpoint in the actual meter box.
I beg to differ - motivation falls into two separate categories - internal and external motivations.
Say you want to lose some weight and buff up a bit. The internal motivation may be you don't like the way you look and you want to avoid health problems in the future. Any time you feel yourself starting to slack off, you have to revisit your goals and the reasons why you started the weight loss program in the first place.
Many people have difficulty managing internal motivations, so they rely on external motivations - in the case of the weight loss example, you may hire a personal trainer who will show up and badger you into following your agreed exercise routine. You may also join something like Weight Watchers where you have a regular weigh in and will be 'shamed' within the support group if you don't follow your agreed plan.
When it comes to study, having the goal of becoming a Doctor may be an internal motivation to pay attention in class - you have a personal reason for wanting to excel. Not wanting to waste money on a course you drop out of or may have to repeat, or having to tell your parent you failed a course they paid for is an external motivation.
The greatest success comes when someone is truly engaged and internally motivated to achieve. If you rely entirely on external motivations and don't really want to be doing whatever it is you are working towards, as soon as the external factor lets up you'll stop.
Having an entertaining lecturer is certainly better than having a boring one, but if the student is only doing the course because they don't know what else to do with their time, it's unlikely they will absorb the lessons for any length of time.
I used to do Mac support and have spent plenty of time removing viruses from the old Mac System 6/7/8/9.x machines. I have never seen a Mac OSX virus 'in the wild'.
Like any other form of security theatre, if you go long enough without being attacked, you get alert fatigue and begin to consider the threat negligible or non-existent and begin to consider yourself immune. I don't even have an anti-virus software on my home computers and would probably need to hear about a mass outbreak before I would consider installing any given my experiences of the performance hit windows machines seem to take when running anti-viral software.
I used to swear by McAffe or Norton's, now I consider them potentially worse than half the malware out there for how they turn a perfectly good machine to molasses.
I tend to only use bags for produce for items that are either too small to be left loose, like string beans or grapes or the like. If I use a bag I try to use these, my mother gave me some a few years back for Christmas and I keep them with my reusable bags in the boot of the car.
If you can't manage that, at least bring scantily-clad women to the party... nobody expects them to answer questions about the device, and as a bonus, you'll get a lot of pictures of it.
Even in jest, can we not continue to perpetuate this as a good idea for tech expos. And people wonder why it's hard to get women interested in IT.
Oh, I know how to use stylesheets and the like, I hate corporate templates that use them poorly. It's things like the auto-formatting that jumps in for numbered lists and the like where you have to fight it to get the numbering how you want it when it would have been faster to just type the damn thing manually.
I have worked in MS saturated environments for most of the last 20 years. The bit I find frustrating is how they try to 'help' you constantly.
If I wanted to indent that paragraph, I would have done so myself. No I really didn't want to apply the same formula to that cell. Stop moving my text boxes for me in Visio for $deities sake, I'd just gotten them aligned how I needed them.
I live in an area of Melbourne (Australia) that has a sharp economic divide between moderately wealthy and poor. In my neighbourhood there are new McMansions going up that cost 3-4 times what our house cost 10 years ago, and the random house that is 10 times the value depending on the location. We also have a high number of migrants (mostly asian, indian and african) who are often living in shared houses, typically rented, who have minimal resources, low incomes and virtually no savings.
A few years back I spent about 6 months unemployed and was a frequent visitor to the local library. The internet enabled PCs were pretty much constantly in use by people looking for work, answering email, trying to use public services that were only available online, etc... The common users were typically either immigrants, the elderly or (judging by their clothes) people who couldn't afford a connection at home.
Most of the paperwork I need to do my taxes now is all online (including submitting a return). My utilities and bank charge extra to get bills and statements on paper rather than receiving them electronically. Job ads for middle income jobs are almost exclusively advertised electronically. There are hundreds of little ways that we are edged online, and it's happened so gradually you probably haven't even noticed it.
Which is the theory behind the NBN in Australia. Of course the Liberal party (note the use of the capital "L"), think wireless is smarter because it's cheaper to deploy than running fiber to every house.
Good luck getting a glass of wine with your medium rare pork chop.
That's your problem right there - you don't eat pork medium rare - only well done. Less chance of salmonella or other nasties. The other white meat and all of that.
One of my former flat-mates had 3 guys in his year at high school with the same first, middle and last names. While it was a fairly large high school, it wasn't anywhere near as large as a university.
There was an article in the local broadsheet last winter saying that many Australian's suffered from a vitamin D deficiency. They said that it was in part caused by our "Slip, Slop, Slap" campaign which was devised to combat the incidence of skin cancer.
Apparently the amount of sun exposure you need to get the daily requirement of Vitamin D is greater than the recommended daily exposure to UV given the levels down here.
As a consequence my husband and I started taking Vitamin D supplements last winter. Not sure if it's helping or not.
For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the wheel, New York, wars and so on - whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - for precisely the same reasons.
- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Slashdot Mirror
Isn't it hunter2? I thought that was the default password for the internets.
My husband's best man started signing this during our vows at our wedding. 12 years on and I haven't forgotten (or possibly forgiven).
Mix tapes. Recorded from the radio.
I have a bigger problem with utilities sales staff at the front door. At the third time I have to say not interested in the conversation I actually roll out the old "What part of 'NO!' do you not understand?".
I recently worked on a project to roll out Smart Meters to large number of properties. This project has been painted as evil in the media and has been largely unpopular with the general public.
During the meter installation phase, we received a letter form a customer saying that they had placed a poisonous snake in the their meter box with a heat lamp and padlocked it - the installer to proceed at own risk.
All threats were passed to the police, plus they were risking disconnection as it is illegal to have a powerpoint in the actual meter box.
I beg to differ - motivation falls into two separate categories - internal and external motivations.
Say you want to lose some weight and buff up a bit. The internal motivation may be you don't like the way you look and you want to avoid health problems in the future. Any time you feel yourself starting to slack off, you have to revisit your goals and the reasons why you started the weight loss program in the first place.
Many people have difficulty managing internal motivations, so they rely on external motivations - in the case of the weight loss example, you may hire a personal trainer who will show up and badger you into following your agreed exercise routine. You may also join something like Weight Watchers where you have a regular weigh in and will be 'shamed' within the support group if you don't follow your agreed plan.
When it comes to study, having the goal of becoming a Doctor may be an internal motivation to pay attention in class - you have a personal reason for wanting to excel. Not wanting to waste money on a course you drop out of or may have to repeat, or having to tell your parent you failed a course they paid for is an external motivation.
The greatest success comes when someone is truly engaged and internally motivated to achieve. If you rely entirely on external motivations and don't really want to be doing whatever it is you are working towards, as soon as the external factor lets up you'll stop.
Having an entertaining lecturer is certainly better than having a boring one, but if the student is only doing the course because they don't know what else to do with their time, it's unlikely they will absorb the lessons for any length of time.
Oh snap!
England and America are two countries separated by the same language.
possibly by Shaw
Costumers are a pretty difficult to please group in general, it's not really that much of a reach.
That, and the fact that most rave attendees aren't old enough to have been long term players of Pac Man.
I used to do Mac support and have spent plenty of time removing viruses from the old Mac System 6/7/8/9.x machines. I have never seen a Mac OSX virus 'in the wild'.
Like any other form of security theatre, if you go long enough without being attacked, you get alert fatigue and begin to consider the threat negligible or non-existent and begin to consider yourself immune. I don't even have an anti-virus software on my home computers and would probably need to hear about a mass outbreak before I would consider installing any given my experiences of the performance hit windows machines seem to take when running anti-viral software.
I used to swear by McAffe or Norton's, now I consider them potentially worse than half the malware out there for how they turn a perfectly good machine to molasses.
I tend to only use bags for produce for items that are either too small to be left loose, like string beans or grapes or the like. If I use a bag I try to use these, my mother gave me some a few years back for Christmas and I keep them with my reusable bags in the boot of the car.
Define violent porn.
Is it only where someone is being raped?
What if someone gets slapped?
What if someone is a bit enthusiastic and bites or scratches someone?
Where do you draw the line?
If you can't manage that, at least bring scantily-clad women to the party... nobody expects them to answer questions about the device, and as a bonus, you'll get a lot of pictures of it.
Even in jest, can we not continue to perpetuate this as a good idea for tech expos. And people wonder why it's hard to get women interested in IT.
Oh, I know how to use stylesheets and the like, I hate corporate templates that use them poorly. It's things like the auto-formatting that jumps in for numbered lists and the like where you have to fight it to get the numbering how you want it when it would have been faster to just type the damn thing manually.
MS Word 5.1a was the 'good version IMHO.
I have worked in MS saturated environments for most of the last 20 years. The bit I find frustrating is how they try to 'help' you constantly.
If I wanted to indent that paragraph, I would have done so myself. No I really didn't want to apply the same formula to that cell. Stop moving my text boxes for me in Visio for $deities sake, I'd just gotten them aligned how I needed them.
I live in an area of Melbourne (Australia) that has a sharp economic divide between moderately wealthy and poor. In my neighbourhood there are new McMansions going up that cost 3-4 times what our house cost 10 years ago, and the random house that is 10 times the value depending on the location. We also have a high number of migrants (mostly asian, indian and african) who are often living in shared houses, typically rented, who have minimal resources, low incomes and virtually no savings.
A few years back I spent about 6 months unemployed and was a frequent visitor to the local library. The internet enabled PCs were pretty much constantly in use by people looking for work, answering email, trying to use public services that were only available online, etc... The common users were typically either immigrants, the elderly or (judging by their clothes) people who couldn't afford a connection at home.
Most of the paperwork I need to do my taxes now is all online (including submitting a return). My utilities and bank charge extra to get bills and statements on paper rather than receiving them electronically. Job ads for middle income jobs are almost exclusively advertised electronically. There are hundreds of little ways that we are edged online, and it's happened so gradually you probably haven't even noticed it.
Which is the theory behind the NBN in Australia. Of course the Liberal party (note the use of the capital "L"), think wireless is smarter because it's cheaper to deploy than running fiber to every house.
Good luck getting a glass of wine with your medium rare pork chop.
That's your problem right there - you don't eat pork medium rare - only well done. Less chance of salmonella or other nasties. The other white meat and all of that.
One of my former flat-mates had 3 guys in his year at high school with the same first, middle and last names. While it was a fairly large high school, it wasn't anywhere near as large as a university.
*snort*
I'd argue that everybody has an ego, but it's not often belittled and abused if your conclusions are the same as those of everyone else.
Or as Skyhooks said all those years ago Ego is not a Dirty Word.
There was an article in the local broadsheet last winter saying that many Australian's suffered from a vitamin D deficiency. They said that it was in part caused by our "Slip, Slop, Slap" campaign which was devised to combat the incidence of skin cancer.
Apparently the amount of sun exposure you need to get the daily requirement of Vitamin D is greater than the recommended daily exposure to UV given the levels down here.
As a consequence my husband and I started taking Vitamin D supplements last winter. Not sure if it's helping or not.
For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the wheel, New York, wars and so on - whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - for precisely the same reasons.
- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
dick cheney who had a HeartMate II device fitted in 2010 and lived without a pulse for 15 months
So what you are saying is that Dick Cheney is a zombie. Not that I'm surprised.