Funny that it takes a study to find this out. It should be obvious to anyone who is dating, online or not. The only real difference between online dating and real life dating is online dating allows one to find faults quicker so you can move on to the next 'loser'.
Besides, some reasons behind this situation have already been described.
At least on Big Bang Theory you can hear a quick synopsis of Schredinger's Cat thought experiment, watch them bounce a laser off the moon, use the power of the internet to turn their lights on and off or have a robotic hand give them a pack of soy sauce (among other things).
What does one get from Biggest Loser? Don't eat so much and get off your fat ass?
I wouldn't call it so much revenge as removing from society people who clearly have no intention of abiding by common rules of civility.
One doesn't need a religious edict to know that killing someone for their wallet is something you don't do or that raping anyone is acceptable.
While I wouldn't condone the death penalty in this case, there are numerous cases where the person has had numerous run ins such as burglary, assault, drunken driving, etc where it's obvious no amount of jail time will make them change their ways.
Since they refuse to live by common rules of decency, we, as a society, should not have to continually have our tax dollars poured down the bottomless pit housing, feeding and caring for these people.
Everyone makes mistakes or does something when they are desperate. I'm not talking about those folks. I'm talking about habitual recidivists who just don't care. If they don't care about hurting someone else, we shouldn't care if they are permanently removed from society.
Is your organization looking for another one? Because, like you, that's what I do. When I tell people my job is solve the world's problems, I mean that both jokingly and literally. Everything that comes through our organization I have to work on at some point.
Put another way, every organization has that one person they can go to knowing that person will help me resolve their issue. That person is me.
As an aside, a good generalists isn't good just because they have a wide variety of technical knowledge. They are good also because they can communicate with people at all levels to both explain situations as well as get to the root of the problem or question then turn around and give clear, concise information to those who need to fix or act upon the information.
The old saw about people in IT not being people-oriented cannot apply to generalists. To most people in an organization, they are the face of IT.
Cultural. In China, and most of the far east, the parents will scrimp and save so their kids can go to the best school they can afford, the idea being the kid(s) will get a nice job with high pay and in return, help mom and dad by sending money back.
That and a status thing. "My child works for (XYZ Company) and is Vice -President of cutting jobs. He might be President next year!"
You have to remember, it's the little things in Asian countries that make a difference. For instance, if you're giving a speech in front of Asian businessmen (or women), it is considered bad form to wave your arms about to make a point. To them, it shows lack of self control (ever notice how Asian leaders always stand ramrod straight at the podium and never move their arms?)
Same with working long hours in a factory. It is a sign of devotion and control to work there under those conditions because, in the end, their child will benefit.
That and our labor laws. Plus, and let's be honest here, there are very few Americans who would work at a place which could roust them out of bed at any time to go back to the factory floor just to produce a new version of a product which had minor changes from the last.
Considering the number of times I go into a store to where I think the product I want should be, only to find it doesn't exist (empty shelves), not in my size (I'm not a hippo), or ugly color (brown is not a fashion statement), and repeat this month after month, I can assure you retailers don't care about their customers.
If they did, they would see people like me leaving empty handed and make changes. The fact that I go into the same stores and get the same results (insanity I know), shows no matter how technical people want to get, it all comes down to a human problem.
I can get a jar of Trader Joe's dijon mustard for less than I can at any other store in my area AND get more of it as well.
Not to mention the mustard is thicker and has a better flavor.
The only unfortunate part is there isn't a TJ's near me. When I'm out traveling I try to find a store near my location so I can stop in and buy a jar or two.
There are some things at TJ's which are more expensive, but on the whole, their prices are reasonable when compared to other stores. You are thinking of Whole Foods which, despite what they say, should be called Whole Paycheck.
Referring back to my original post, some of the H1-Bs that are working with us are very good at their jobs. We are in a multi-year long ERP "upgrade" (yeah, that's what they're calling it) process and, since our previous CIO told the entire IT department, "You're not qualified to work on ERP", we used Deloitte to bring in truckloads of H1-Bs.
Some know what they're doing. You tell them what you need, they do it. They can discuss ways of improving or modifying it to get what you want.
Others are lucky if they know what a mouse is.
H1-Bs are a necessary evil, but to claim they are the panacea for the software industry is just plain wrong.
It's nice that you seem to think projects will get accomplished by someone with an H1-B if no one else is available. Maybe that is part of the reason 68% of IT projects fail.
I am not solely blaming H1-B for project failures, but considering what I've seen from the mass of H1-Bs that my organization has on, it certainly doesn't surprise me.
People can talk all they want about how H1-B helps companies, but in reality, that help is in extremely narrow and highly technical areas. For the vast majority of cases, there are plenty of unemployed people in this country who can do the work but the company is unwilling to pay them what they should get or train them to get them up to speed. Or both.
Think of it this way (extremely simple example follows):
If you want to get to the meat of a walnut, you first have to crack the walnut shell. This requires some effort on your part.
If, instead, you didn't have to crack the shell but had a bowl of walnut meat sitting in front of you, it requires much less effort to eat it.
Same thing (I hope) with what the OP said. Instead of having to strip the "outer shell" of the ions at the same time you try to excite them, stripping them first THEN exciting them becomes much easier.
If what I just said isn't remotely close to what was stated, I'll go back to pre-school along with you.
I don't think it's lighter than XFCE, just because of nautilus. Looks rather right at it's position in your list.
What I recommend when you want lightweight but powerful: Don't use a graphical login manager, boot to console and use startx (run it from.profile if you want) with an.xinitrc like this
conky &
xfce4-session
For a network manager use wicd with the curses frontend, this way you also have wifi in console mode. My desktop idles at ca. 80 MB of memory usage, and I have all the rest of my 1 GB RAM for applications. Funny thing is, I'm mostly doing 3D stuff using clutter/ cogl via jhbuild. If I need auto mounting, I just start thunar before plugging in any devices. My processor is a centrino 1.7 Mhz.
This, right here, is exactly why Linux will not become ubiquitous on the desktop for the average user. Do you folks listen to yourself?
No average user wants to have to jump through the hoops you just described to get something to work. People get ticked off when a disc doesn't autorun, you want them to find a.profile and modify it?
I'm not harping on you personally. Just the description you gave of getting something to work.
My sentiments exactly. It's a steaming pile of shit that only a programmer could love. Windows 8 looks even worse.
Someone made a comment about what a good manager should be like. Their comment was that a good manager should provide guidance, clarify tasks, assist when needed but otherwise, stay out of the way.
That is the same philosophy that an OS should have. Unfortunately MS has gone down the path of the micromanager. "You don't need to see this stuff so I'll just hide it for you. Oh, you want to see it? I'm sorry, I can't do that."
it's not my duty on *my computer* to "change paradigms" at the whim of pseudo-bored software companies.
This is what happens when you let programmers design your applications. It's Rule #1 in IT that should never be broken but Canonical seems to be going out of their way to add to the pile of examples for why this rule exists.
Per your comments on Win7, I have tried to turn as much cruft off as possible, but the programmers decided otherwise. It seems they went out of their way to make things more difficult, to hide as much as possible and make it much more tortuous to do simple things.
There's a reason people keep upgrading to Windows XP.
True, but when you're going on interviews or going out with the parents on special occasions, a tie is a requirement. Also, some collars on the shirts I wear rub on my neck so not having that bit of stubble to be irritated is a good thing. That and when wearing turtlenecks like Steve Jobs (though I'm not an Apple fanboy. I just look good in dark-colored turtlenecks).
That said, as difficult as it is for me to find clothes to wear, I may end up wearing togas and loinclothes.
Laser hair removal is not permanent. It may make the hair be gone for an extended period of time, but it is not permanent.
If you want permanent hair removal, you have to go with electrolysis. It is time consuming, can be expensive for each trip and is not the most comfortable thing to go through, but it is permanent.
I should know. Been doing it for years. Pretty soon, I won't have to shave my neck area at all. What has been done is now perfectly smooth. No issues with irritation when wearing a tie.
Programmers don't really understand good design and usability.
This is the first rule of IT that should never be broken: Never let a programmer design your application.
One would think this should be obvious, but it is astounding how often this rule is broken. GIMP, Linux in general, Windows 7, games, the list goes on. Time and again, when applications suck, you can trace it back to letting programmers have a hand in designing it.
Looks like I may have to try out Fx 4 and see how things go.
3.6 is a very nice browser. Never had any problems using it or with memory usage.
*Sigh* Why is it when I find something that just does what I want, the manufacturer has to discontinue it and replace it with something a whole lot crappier?
when you are worried about rockets raining down on your house from militants.
Or settlers coming into your town and torching your houses, cutting down your olive trees or crops, burning your places of worship, or putting up mobile homes on your crop land and claiming it is now part of some foreign country, and knowing that those who perpetrated these acts will never be punished in the same way as you would if you had done those acts.
This doesn't even include wondering if the military of a foreign government will come rolling in and tell you you have 10 minutes to get your stuff, that the area is be taken over by said foreign government.
Having read that article, and the ones the author links to, it is quite clear why IT, and business in general, is in such shambles. People want to continually measure things, but they don't know what they want to measure.
I hadn't realized it, but I have been saying the same thing the author of the article said for some time: what is your goal? I use this quote from Seneca:
If a man does not know to what port he is sailing, no wind is favorable
This simple phrase should apply to every project, every metric, every everything. What is your ultimate goal? What do you want to accomplish? Only then can you answer the question: how do I get to that point.
It's something brand new that they don't understand and are actually a little afraid of.
In some cases, yes. Some people are afraid of new technology, particularly when they hear news stories of people's accounts being hacked or other related items.
However, and I know this will be hard to believe, but there are those people who just don't give a rat's ass about being connected. They don't feel the need to have someone contact them 24/7, to surf the interwebs, or post their daily shit for everyone to see.
Considering the little that I have to deal with on a daily basis about people thinking they need to the latest and greatest, then whining when it either doesn't work or live up to their expectations, then expect me to figure out what's wrong, those who don't care about being connected are most likely much happier and less frazzled people.
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Funny that it takes a study to find this out. It should be obvious to anyone who is dating, online or not. The only real difference between online dating and real life dating is online dating allows one to find faults quicker so you can move on to the next 'loser'.
Besides, some reasons behind this situation have already been described.
At least on Big Bang Theory you can hear a quick synopsis of Schredinger's Cat thought experiment, watch them bounce a laser off the moon, use the power of the internet to turn their lights on and off or have a robotic hand give them a pack of soy sauce (among other things).
What does one get from Biggest Loser? Don't eat so much and get off your fat ass?
I wouldn't call it so much revenge as removing from society people who clearly have no intention of abiding by common rules of civility.
One doesn't need a religious edict to know that killing someone for their wallet is something you don't do or that raping anyone is acceptable.
While I wouldn't condone the death penalty in this case, there are numerous cases where the person has had numerous run ins such as burglary, assault, drunken driving, etc where it's obvious no amount of jail time will make them change their ways.
Since they refuse to live by common rules of decency, we, as a society, should not have to continually have our tax dollars poured down the bottomless pit housing, feeding and caring for these people.
Everyone makes mistakes or does something when they are desperate. I'm not talking about those folks. I'm talking about habitual recidivists who just don't care. If they don't care about hurting someone else, we shouldn't care if they are permanently removed from society.
Good generalists are hard to find,
Is your organization looking for another one? Because, like you, that's what I do. When I tell people my job is solve the world's problems, I mean that both jokingly and literally. Everything that comes through our organization I have to work on at some point.
Put another way, every organization has that one person they can go to knowing that person will help me resolve their issue. That person is me.
As an aside, a good generalists isn't good just because they have a wide variety of technical knowledge. They are good also because they can communicate with people at all levels to both explain situations as well as get to the root of the problem or question then turn around and give clear, concise information to those who need to fix or act upon the information.
The old saw about people in IT not being people-oriented cannot apply to generalists. To most people in an organization, they are the face of IT.
and if it's true why isn't china like this?
Cultural. In China, and most of the far east, the parents will scrimp and save so their kids can go to the best school they can afford, the idea being the kid(s) will get a nice job with high pay and in return, help mom and dad by sending money back.
That and a status thing. "My child works for (XYZ Company) and is Vice -President of cutting jobs. He might be President next year!"
You have to remember, it's the little things in Asian countries that make a difference. For instance, if you're giving a speech in front of Asian businessmen (or women), it is considered bad form to wave your arms about to make a point. To them, it shows lack of self control (ever notice how Asian leaders always stand ramrod straight at the podium and never move their arms?)
Same with working long hours in a factory. It is a sign of devotion and control to work there under those conditions because, in the end, their child will benefit.
That and our labor laws. Plus, and let's be honest here, there are very few Americans who would work at a place which could roust them out of bed at any time to go back to the factory floor just to produce a new version of a product which had minor changes from the last.
Considering the number of times I go into a store to where I think the product I want should be, only to find it doesn't exist (empty shelves), not in my size (I'm not a hippo), or ugly color (brown is not a fashion statement), and repeat this month after month, I can assure you retailers don't care about their customers.
If they did, they would see people like me leaving empty handed and make changes. The fact that I go into the same stores and get the same results (insanity I know), shows no matter how technical people want to get, it all comes down to a human problem.
I can get a jar of Trader Joe's dijon mustard for less than I can at any other store in my area AND get more of it as well.
Not to mention the mustard is thicker and has a better flavor.
The only unfortunate part is there isn't a TJ's near me. When I'm out traveling I try to find a store near my location so I can stop in and buy a jar or two.
There are some things at TJ's which are more expensive, but on the whole, their prices are reasonable when compared to other stores. You are thinking of Whole Foods which, despite what they say, should be called Whole Paycheck.
Referring back to my original post, some of the H1-Bs that are working with us are very good at their jobs. We are in a multi-year long ERP "upgrade" (yeah, that's what they're calling it) process and, since our previous CIO told the entire IT department, "You're not qualified to work on ERP", we used Deloitte to bring in truckloads of H1-Bs.
Some know what they're doing. You tell them what you need, they do it. They can discuss ways of improving or modifying it to get what you want.
Others are lucky if they know what a mouse is.
H1-Bs are a necessary evil, but to claim they are the panacea for the software industry is just plain wrong.
It's nice that you seem to think projects will get accomplished by someone with an H1-B if no one else is available. Maybe that is part of the reason 68% of IT projects fail.
I am not solely blaming H1-B for project failures, but considering what I've seen from the mass of H1-Bs that my organization has on, it certainly doesn't surprise me.
People can talk all they want about how H1-B helps companies, but in reality, that help is in extremely narrow and highly technical areas. For the vast majority of cases, there are plenty of unemployed people in this country who can do the work but the company is unwilling to pay them what they should get or train them to get them up to speed. Or both.
Think of it this way (extremely simple example follows):
If you want to get to the meat of a walnut, you first have to crack the walnut shell. This requires some effort on your part.
If, instead, you didn't have to crack the shell but had a bowl of walnut meat sitting in front of you, it requires much less effort to eat it.
Same thing (I hope) with what the OP said. Instead of having to strip the "outer shell" of the ions at the same time you try to excite them, stripping them first THEN exciting them becomes much easier.
If what I just said isn't remotely close to what was stated, I'll go back to pre-school along with you.
I don't think it's lighter than XFCE, just because of nautilus. Looks rather right at it's position in your list.
.profile if you want) with an .xinitrc like this
.profile and modify it?
What I recommend when you want lightweight but powerful: Don't use a graphical login manager, boot to console and use startx (run it from
conky & xfce4-session
For a network manager use wicd with the curses frontend, this way you also have wifi in console mode. My desktop idles at ca. 80 MB of memory usage, and I have all the rest of my 1 GB RAM for applications. Funny thing is, I'm mostly doing 3D stuff using clutter/ cogl via jhbuild. If I need auto mounting, I just start thunar before plugging in any devices. My processor is a centrino 1.7 Mhz.
This, right here, is exactly why Linux will not become ubiquitous on the desktop for the average user. Do you folks listen to yourself?
No average user wants to have to jump through the hoops you just described to get something to work. People get ticked off when a disc doesn't autorun, you want them to find a
I'm not harping on you personally. Just the description you gave of getting something to work.
Oh come on, Futurama did it better. (small commercial at beginning of Comedy Central clip)
My sentiments exactly. It's a steaming pile of shit that only a programmer could love. Windows 8 looks even worse.
Someone made a comment about what a good manager should be like. Their comment was that a good manager should provide guidance, clarify tasks, assist when needed but otherwise, stay out of the way.
That is the same philosophy that an OS should have. Unfortunately MS has gone down the path of the micromanager. "You don't need to see this stuff so I'll just hide it for you. Oh, you want to see it? I'm sorry, I can't do that."
it's not my duty on *my computer* to "change paradigms" at the whim of pseudo-bored software companies.
This is what happens when you let programmers design your applications. It's Rule #1 in IT that should never be broken but Canonical seems to be going out of their way to add to the pile of examples for why this rule exists.
Per your comments on Win7, I have tried to turn as much cruft off as possible, but the programmers decided otherwise. It seems they went out of their way to make things more difficult, to hide as much as possible and make it much more tortuous to do simple things.
There's a reason people keep upgrading to Windows XP.
Just have these guys design every site.
Just another example of Rule #2 of IT that should never be broken: Never let a web designer design your web site.
True, but when you're going on interviews or going out with the parents on special occasions, a tie is a requirement. Also, some collars on the shirts I wear rub on my neck so not having that bit of stubble to be irritated is a good thing. That and when wearing turtlenecks like Steve Jobs (though I'm not an Apple fanboy. I just look good in dark-colored turtlenecks).
That said, as difficult as it is for me to find clothes to wear, I may end up wearing togas and loinclothes.
Laser hair removal is not permanent. It may make the hair be gone for an extended period of time, but it is not permanent.
If you want permanent hair removal, you have to go with electrolysis. It is time consuming, can be expensive for each trip and is not the most comfortable thing to go through, but it is permanent.
I should know. Been doing it for years. Pretty soon, I won't have to shave my neck area at all. What has been done is now perfectly smooth. No issues with irritation when wearing a tie.
Unless you think the equipment to run the network, the cabling, the people to maintain it, electricity, etc cost nothing, it's not free.
In this case, it's the taxpayers of London (possibly the UK) who are footing the bill for this "free" service.
Programmers don't really understand good design and usability.
This is the first rule of IT that should never be broken: Never let a programmer design your application.
One would think this should be obvious, but it is astounding how often this rule is broken. GIMP, Linux in general, Windows 7, games, the list goes on. Time and again, when applications suck, you can trace it back to letting programmers have a hand in designing it.
I meant what I said, and I said what I meant.
An elephant's faithful, er, no, wait. Wrong place.
But I did mean what I said.
Looks like I may have to try out Fx 4 and see how things go.
3.6 is a very nice browser. Never had any problems using it or with memory usage.
*Sigh* Why is it when I find something that just does what I want, the manufacturer has to discontinue it and replace it with something a whole lot crappier?
when you are worried about rockets raining down on your house from militants.
Or settlers coming into your town and torching your houses, cutting down your olive trees or crops, burning your places of worship, or putting up mobile homes on your crop land and claiming it is now part of some foreign country, and knowing that those who perpetrated these acts will never be punished in the same way as you would if you had done those acts.
This doesn't even include wondering if the military of a foreign government will come rolling in and tell you you have 10 minutes to get your stuff, that the area is be taken over by said foreign government.
So now *I* have to subsidize people's irrational fears?
Sure, isn't that the logic behind forcing me to pay the health insurance for my neighbor who smokes two packs a week?
After all, you never know when you'll:
Get run over by a bus
Come down with Ebola
Be attacked by a Bengal tiger
Have a cough
Subsidizing irrational fears is part of what drives the economy. Insurance, as a rule, is a subsidy to irrational fears.
In case you missed it, here is the link to the story.
If you want the article itself, there ya go.
Having read that article, and the ones the author links to, it is quite clear why IT, and business in general, is in such shambles. People want to continually measure things, but they don't know what they want to measure.
I hadn't realized it, but I have been saying the same thing the author of the article said for some time: what is your goal? I use this quote from Seneca:
If a man does not know to what port he is sailing, no wind is favorable
This simple phrase should apply to every project, every metric, every everything. What is your ultimate goal? What do you want to accomplish? Only then can you answer the question: how do I get to that point.
It's something brand new that they don't understand and are actually a little afraid of.
In some cases, yes. Some people are afraid of new technology, particularly when they hear news stories of people's accounts being hacked or other related items.
However, and I know this will be hard to believe, but there are those people who just don't give a rat's ass about being connected. They don't feel the need to have someone contact them 24/7, to surf the interwebs, or post their daily shit for everyone to see.
Considering the little that I have to deal with on a daily basis about people thinking they need to the latest and greatest, then whining when it either doesn't work or live up to their expectations, then expect me to figure out what's wrong, those who don't care about being connected are most likely much happier and less frazzled people.