I agree with you in principle but I'd be curious to learn all the details of this case. Perhaps there were some phone calls made and the manager refused to immediately comply. In the article it said:
Scott says he's unsure whether his suspension was due to the unorthodox policy, or because he spoke to the media.
But says he remains committed to making a difference, regardless of the label.
"I wouldn't say rebel, but I can be rebellious. I can fight for what I believe in," he said.
I'm sure that managers are (or at least should be) given authority to make many decisions but I'm also sure that there are some policies in place that limit the decision-making to some extent. For instance, they may be able to make some choices on product placement in many cases but in certain specific cases they are required to put up certain products and posters as part of a larger agreement the store made with the company they got the product from. They may have some leaway to give customers discounts but there may also be a limit to the amount of discount or the number of discounts they can give.
It's quite possible that the manager was given the power to make many meaningful choices and yet refusing to sell a product to someone and talking to the media were two choices that were explicitly against corporate policy. Even if it was a small town shop I'm sure the owner would give the manager at the very least some guiding principles that he wanted followed and he probably would tell the manager that if he planned anything drastic he'd want the manager to talk to him about it first.
In my experience, people use the term "curve" in vastly different ways. I believe the "real" usage of a curve is when the distribution of scores are taken and only the top x% get As the next y% get Bs etc. all the way down to Fs so no matter how hard or easy a test is, someone is guaranteed to get an A and someone is guaranteed to get an F.
As far as I know, this is only done when there are a lot of people (enough to get a good distribution) and even then typically only in very demanding disciplines (like medical school).
But some teachers will talk about a curve when they really mean that if everyone gets question #17 wrong then everyone's score will go up by x%
Another way I've heard people use it is when a teacher says he'll shift the top score in the class to 100% and whatever he has to add to the score will then also be added to every other student. For instance, the smartest kid in the class got a 92%. Then everyone in the class gets +8% added to their score.
I've seen a lot of variants to these types of "curves" but I've never had a true curve like the one I first described in any of the three colleges I've attended. That's not to say that no teacher in any of the schools I attended ever used a curve...perhaps some did...but I never was in their class nor did I ever hear of a fellow student complaining about it (and I heard lots of students complaining about all kinds of things in their classes).
I would be really surprised to hear of a high school or middle school that actually brought a kids score down because of a curve. Have you ever heard of a kid getting an 85 on a test but got an F because he happened to be on the low end of the curve (everyone else scored higher)? In my experience, if you did the work and followed the directions you were pretty much guaranteed a B- or higher. Every time I got lower or any of the people I knew got lower, it was because they didn't do an assignment, turned things in late on a regular basis, or something similar.
I imagine parents would go ballistic if their kid got a C or less in a class simply because, while they did the work well, others did it better.
You posted as an AC but if you do happen to read this, how were curves calculated and used in your undergraduate classes (and what was your major)?
I vaguely remember an episode from GI Joe where they teamed up with their Russian counterparts. In the comics they often had to deal with international issues and people from other countries. I don't think GI Joe was about how the American military is the right answer to all the world's problems...just some of them. They even taught about how kids can solve other problems they might face without fighting in their "Knowing is half the battle" schticks.
Why can't GI Joe remain American and be a force for good without saying "American military is the right answer to all the world's problems"? If there was an Italian superhero team would you suggest changing it into an international superhero team because you don't think Italian superheroes is the right answer to all the world's problems?
This is a personal preference thing. I used to be a firefox user and when I switched to opera I had the same gripe.
Somewhere along the way I've gotten used to opera's way of doing things and have even come to prefer it. I agree that adding an option to do it either way would be nice.
Did he discover them all instantaneously? Why not send a quick email to each one as they become available. He could even do some quick copy/pasting if necessary. Why give the full list to everyone instead of the pertinent parts to each?
It seems difficult to believe that he found the time to find all of thesee but couldn't find the time to separate the information to give to each respective office.
I agree with you except that it could change if wii ever reaches whatever elusive critical mass that people keep talking about. Attachment rates can be somewhat low but if there are enough wii out there, it may still sell better. 360 and ps3 may be similar to design toward but if there are more wiis out there than 360s and ps3s combined then the wii design may still be the priority.
It still can't overcome the power issue. They simply can't make the graphics as detailed on the wii as they can on the other two systems...but if the wii sells enough consoles quick enough, people may end up deciding that for most games the 360 version looks better but the wii version plays better.
I have my doubts on whether the wii can reach that critical mass quick enough, though. They are selling incredibly well now but if they don't get enough great 3rd party games soon they may forever lose the high-attach-rate customers and then they'd have to outsell their competitors that much more before they could reach that critical mass.
Obviously, I wasn't there so I can't say anything for sure in your case but in a lot of cases the adult starts off asking how things are going and the kid says flatly, "Fine!" and then decides the adult is clueless as they start treating the kid like he is fine.
This may not apply in all situations but often kids withhold information about their worries and then get angry when the adult tries to help them with "the least of their worries."
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Do you really think the number of people who:
1. are considering an HD player
2. are porn consumers
3. don't use the internet
is a sizeable enough number to determine which HD format will succeed?
Sure, the number of people in category 1 will rise over time but the number of people in group 3 will likely decline just as fast if not faster.
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The real problem is the speed of the burners. If the person has to sit around for any length of time to burn it, the typical user is going to start surfing or playing solitaire or something else. This will likely mess up the burn as they are probably using a measly 512MB on their memory hog vista.
If the burners were to start showing up on computers in Best Buy and burn at a reasonable speed then you might start seeing SOME of the Joe SixPacks occasionally backing up their whole computer or at least all that really mattered to them.
I think you'd have more than a few pissed off fans if they revealed anything important to the story outside of the show.
Incidentally, they've been doing this a lot with Heroes. Perhaps not IMPORTANT but things that add to the story and are semi-spoilers. I eventually decided to read their graphic novels a week later to help prevent this. Their whole "Heroes 360" thing they've been promoting has been all about adding additional details that aren't exactly necessary but are important in understanding the characters and background in a very meaningful way. They have fake websites, graphic novels, text messaging news, etc. that are all supposed to add to the experience.
Why must every decision either be the best, most secure, or one made by an idiot? Aren't there decisions that may not be the ideal or may have some downsides to that aren't made by idiots?
Did you read my initial post? I like Miis for what they are. I just question how well a celebrity HotOrNot style competition would work with these kinds of caricatures. Maybe I'm wrong...apparently some people think it'll do great. I just imagine thousands of wii owners creating hundreds of celebrity wiis and many many of them being almost exact duplicates. When they are almost the same (or exactly the same) what is the fun (or use) in rating them?
Exactly. Most of those I couldn't name until I read who they were. Then it became obvious and, yes, it's a decent caricature. But imagine what the runner up Hulk Hogan would look like. Probably identical. Same with all the others.
Maybe this sounds racist but I think most Miis look pretty much the same. I don't own a wii so maybe it's been updated since the last time I've played with it but the options seem pretty limited. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy it for what it is and I made one with a beard that looked halfway like mine but if they are going to make a contest on creating the most "realistic" celebrity I think we're going to see a whole lot of nearly identical miis that don't look all THAT much like any particular celebrity.
It's a very rough caricature. How realistic can people make them? Someone will make Madonna and when it's pointed out I might even agree that it kind of looks like her but if I would never have looked at the mii and immediately thought MADONNA!
My nephews own a wii and they created a mii for everyone in our extended family. They did as good a job as anyone could do but I couldn't pick out who people were because the options would have to be a lot more detailed to distinguish between my nose and my brother's nose, for instance. So how are people going to vote on celebrity miis? This one's head is a LITTLE bit bigger. That one has a slightly darker skin color. How do you decide which is better when they are all nearly identical?
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It's quite possible that the manager was given the power to make many meaningful choices and yet refusing to sell a product to someone and talking to the media were two choices that were explicitly against corporate policy. Even if it was a small town shop I'm sure the owner would give the manager at the very least some guiding principles that he wanted followed and he probably would tell the manager that if he planned anything drastic he'd want the manager to talk to him about it first.
In my experience, people use the term "curve" in vastly different ways. I believe the "real" usage of a curve is when the distribution of scores are taken and only the top x% get As the next y% get Bs etc. all the way down to Fs so no matter how hard or easy a test is, someone is guaranteed to get an A and someone is guaranteed to get an F.
As far as I know, this is only done when there are a lot of people (enough to get a good distribution) and even then typically only in very demanding disciplines (like medical school).
But some teachers will talk about a curve when they really mean that if everyone gets question #17 wrong then everyone's score will go up by x%
Another way I've heard people use it is when a teacher says he'll shift the top score in the class to 100% and whatever he has to add to the score will then also be added to every other student. For instance, the smartest kid in the class got a 92%. Then everyone in the class gets +8% added to their score.
I've seen a lot of variants to these types of "curves" but I've never had a true curve like the one I first described in any of the three colleges I've attended. That's not to say that no teacher in any of the schools I attended ever used a curve...perhaps some did...but I never was in their class nor did I ever hear of a fellow student complaining about it (and I heard lots of students complaining about all kinds of things in their classes).
I would be really surprised to hear of a high school or middle school that actually brought a kids score down because of a curve. Have you ever heard of a kid getting an 85 on a test but got an F because he happened to be on the low end of the curve (everyone else scored higher)? In my experience, if you did the work and followed the directions you were pretty much guaranteed a B- or higher. Every time I got lower or any of the people I knew got lower, it was because they didn't do an assignment, turned things in late on a regular basis, or something similar.
I imagine parents would go ballistic if their kid got a C or less in a class simply because, while they did the work well, others did it better.
You posted as an AC but if you do happen to read this, how were curves calculated and used in your undergraduate classes (and what was your major)?
It's all about ease of use AND price. How easy can something be easy if it isn't affordable to you?
I vaguely remember an episode from GI Joe where they teamed up with their Russian counterparts. In the comics they often had to deal with international issues and people from other countries. I don't think GI Joe was about how the American military is the right answer to all the world's problems...just some of them. They even taught about how kids can solve other problems they might face without fighting in their "Knowing is half the battle" schticks.
Why can't GI Joe remain American and be a force for good without saying "American military is the right answer to all the world's problems"? If there was an Italian superhero team would you suggest changing it into an international superhero team because you don't think Italian superheroes is the right answer to all the world's problems?
I don't have a middle mouse button on my laptop but I believe this will work in Opera.
Tools...Preferences...Advanced tab...Middle Click Options...Open in Background Tab (Or Open in New Tab...whichever you prefer)
This is a personal preference thing. I used to be a firefox user and when I switched to opera I had the same gripe. Somewhere along the way I've gotten used to opera's way of doing things and have even come to prefer it. I agree that adding an option to do it either way would be nice.
Did he discover them all instantaneously? Why not send a quick email to each one as they become available. He could even do some quick copy/pasting if necessary. Why give the full list to everyone instead of the pertinent parts to each? It seems difficult to believe that he found the time to find all of thesee but couldn't find the time to separate the information to give to each respective office.
I agree with you except that it could change if wii ever reaches whatever elusive critical mass that people keep talking about. Attachment rates can be somewhat low but if there are enough wii out there, it may still sell better. 360 and ps3 may be similar to design toward but if there are more wiis out there than 360s and ps3s combined then the wii design may still be the priority.
It still can't overcome the power issue. They simply can't make the graphics as detailed on the wii as they can on the other two systems...but if the wii sells enough consoles quick enough, people may end up deciding that for most games the 360 version looks better but the wii version plays better.
I have my doubts on whether the wii can reach that critical mass quick enough, though. They are selling incredibly well now but if they don't get enough great 3rd party games soon they may forever lose the high-attach-rate customers and then they'd have to outsell their competitors that much more before they could reach that critical mass.
In my opinion, the most likely and most common "edits" are really resizing images/videos.
Do that and you'll be paying a TON of money in the form of alimony.
Obviously, I wasn't there so I can't say anything for sure in your case but in a lot of cases the adult starts off asking how things are going and the kid says flatly, "Fine!" and then decides the adult is clueless as they start treating the kid like he is fine. This may not apply in all situations but often kids withhold information about their worries and then get angry when the adult tries to help them with "the least of their worries."
Any technologically advanced country that is small and dense will have an easier time bringing great internet rates to people than the U.S.
Shouldn't that be overladies?
Do you really think the number of people who:
1. are considering an HD player
2. are porn consumers
3. don't use the internet
is a sizeable enough number to determine which HD format will succeed?
Sure, the number of people in category 1 will rise over time but the number of people in group 3 will likely decline just as fast if not faster.
The real problem is the speed of the burners. If the person has to sit around for any length of time to burn it, the typical user is going to start surfing or playing solitaire or something else. This will likely mess up the burn as they are probably using a measly 512MB on their memory hog vista. If the burners were to start showing up on computers in Best Buy and burn at a reasonable speed then you might start seeing SOME of the Joe SixPacks occasionally backing up their whole computer or at least all that really mattered to them.
Don't forget the playstation 2 is still for sale (and doing quite well).
The downside is that the new ipod might be spelled 'Zune'.
Why must every decision either be the best, most secure, or one made by an idiot? Aren't there decisions that may not be the ideal or may have some downsides to that aren't made by idiots?
I'd poke it with a stick regardless of its size.
Did you read my initial post? I like Miis for what they are. I just question how well a celebrity HotOrNot style competition would work with these kinds of caricatures. Maybe I'm wrong...apparently some people think it'll do great. I just imagine thousands of wii owners creating hundreds of celebrity wiis and many many of them being almost exact duplicates. When they are almost the same (or exactly the same) what is the fun (or use) in rating them?
Exactly. Most of those I couldn't name until I read who they were. Then it became obvious and, yes, it's a decent caricature. But imagine what the runner up Hulk Hogan would look like. Probably identical. Same with all the others.
Maybe this sounds racist but I think most Miis look pretty much the same. I don't own a wii so maybe it's been updated since the last time I've played with it but the options seem pretty limited. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy it for what it is and I made one with a beard that looked halfway like mine but if they are going to make a contest on creating the most "realistic" celebrity I think we're going to see a whole lot of nearly identical miis that don't look all THAT much like any particular celebrity.
It's a very rough caricature. How realistic can people make them? Someone will make Madonna and when it's pointed out I might even agree that it kind of looks like her but if I would never have looked at the mii and immediately thought MADONNA!
My nephews own a wii and they created a mii for everyone in our extended family. They did as good a job as anyone could do but I couldn't pick out who people were because the options would have to be a lot more detailed to distinguish between my nose and my brother's nose, for instance. So how are people going to vote on celebrity miis? This one's head is a LITTLE bit bigger. That one has a slightly darker skin color. How do you decide which is better when they are all nearly identical?