What about politicians? On a personal level, I'm much more concerned whenever I hear politicians say nearly anything about science. On some level, many people have a inkling that celebs are a high percentage crackpot, but elected officials pass laws. Very scary.
Want to get along with your boss or your employees? Communicate. Show up when you say you will. Do what you say you're going to do for them. When there is a problem, let them know as soon as you're aware of it. Give them honest feedback about how you think something should be done.
Specific to bosses: Give credit where due. Recognise and note it when folks go above and beyond. If you've got an issue with how someone is working (or not working), bring it forward quickly with specific examples, and specific comments about how to improve. Don't tell tales out of class. Recognition is public; feedback is private.
That is hands down the best advice I could imagine ever.
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What the hell is a secret military aircraft doing in the middle of the busiest airport in America?
Funny how on the extremes of both ends, personal liberties are what we lose. How do we stay in the middle? Also a good question if you're stranded on a melting ice shelf...
The environmental left, which seems to be run by anti-capitalist intellectuals and the general misfits, though the foot soldiers are normal caring people that want to leave the world better, not worse, adopted the Marxist/Leninist ends justify the means, and it blew up in their faces. For example,there is now pretty much incontrovertible evidence that humans ARE causing an unprecedented shift in certain chemicals that tend to correlate with climate change in the past, and evidence that we are causing climate change. However, the champions of this are the same malcontents that championed global cooling, zero population growth because we were going to run out of food, and other problems that do not exist.
Actually, scientists also "championed" global climate changes being correlated to rising CO2 levels. The above statement almost lumps them in with all anti-capitalist leftists. Some hippie scientist also 'championed' the idea that the earth revolved around the sun at a time when it was politically unsavory . He paid for it in the short term, but he was still right, and the lies of his opposition ultimately caught up with them.
The interesting thing about the environmental commie leftists is that now George w. Bush has to start agreeing with them, at least with respect to polar bears. But, polar bears may stage a comeback and totally blow the hippies' credibility out of the water. One can only hope.
Minnesota has something like called 'crimnet'. Its so inaccurate and awkward that many cops to do use it give up and use commercial web sites (who in turn mine data from crimnet and make it easier to search). Its harder now to correct bad information, and bad people get away while good people get permanently nailed - without ever having committed a crime.
This looks like a great opportunity for terrorists, many of whom have better technical resources that the feds.
It is. It'll make you sterile, cause your hair to fall out, your car to quite working, give you AIDS, your pants will hike up to your shins, your socks won't match, you'll get bad breath, and your watch will quit. I know this because I saw it on TV.
There an old saying "those who don't do politics are done in by it"
The notion that (mis)leading others gets you ahead worked fine when religion ran the land. With the advent of science, however, things have begun to change (bearing in mind that lying to get ahead is all but encoded into the human genome and has been the way to get things done for thousands of years). Now, you can lie all you want, and you might get ahead doing it, but it catches up with you.
For example politicians have been trying to lie about global climate change, and now the conservative christian right and republican party are poised to be irrevocably painted as the people who fought science on climate change the most. From dying polar bears to the 41-square mile 3000 year old polar ice shelf that broke off recently, its getting harder and harder to lie about it. The conservative crusade against science, built mostly on lies, is getting its comeuppance. It worked great for awhile, and may work briefly again.
Its true - lying gets you ahead in the short term, but it catches up with you. Smart people, like most geeks and nerds are, figure this out and avoid it.
What steps would you take to prove that a screenshot is 'authentic'? If I doctored a screenshot to include a list of songs, how would you discover the doctoring? How would establish that the song names contained the correct songs and not something else? Are all screenshots unalterable?
Describe the process of 'proving' that someone's home computer used a given IP address at a given time. Anywhere.
I guess I usually hope that rather that posting rehashes of news everybody has heard (like this posting), I'd rather, for any given topic, see postings of info not commonly seen, like this.(quote of Ford at his VP confirmation hearing regarding a possible Nixon pardon - go ahead mod this offtopic).
Nerds are by definition not in the mainstream, and this news clearly is (not that all mainstream items are offtopic). While there are various different types of nerds out there into various topics of interest, its the nerds of the kind this site was ostensibly started for that has for the life of the site that has defined the vast majority of the topic matter that gets a submission put up on the front page.
One of the things that makes this sight interesting to nerds is that it isn't crowded with mainstream media items like this. Why not post the latest news out of Iraq each day (On the basis that this news transcends genres most Iraq news would qualify and nerds of various genres would find it interesting), Iran, or most of the middle east?
Broaden your scope, lose your focus. Lose your focus, lose your interest.
I wonder if they'll imitate the secure part in addition to the looks.
Then there's User Account Control, an intrusive dialog box that pops up whenever you try to install a program or adjust a PC-wide setting, requesting that you confirm the change by entering your password. This will strike most people as an unnecessary nuisance, and you can turn it off.
I'm going to patent using punctuation to indicate pauses, clauses, beginning, and ending of sentences as well as tone (question, exclamation, trailing thoughts, etc...) in electronic messages.
"The biology textbook generally refers to religion and the existence of God in a negative way. It infringes on believers' rights,"
I don't know anything about Russian law, but do religious groups have the right not to be dissed? Would that go for all religious groups, and non-religious groups too? Considering how insulting it is to have someone claim theirs is the only right way and everyone else is going to hell, I would think this a precedent that 'believers' wouldn't want to set.
I'm also quite annoyed by people more into geek or nerd 'culture' than the intellectual pursuits which usually end up earning the honorable title of geek or nerd. People just into the look, sound, dress, or other surface effect just aren't.
I find this is mostly a complaint either from those who haven't quite gotten how the Mac UI works yet
Been using MacOS since before system 6.
or people who are using poorly-designed apps.
Using an app called "Finder". I often want to change a window size depending on what I'm doing with the window - sorting contents based on name, type, or date -- or -- previewing images or movies and various sizes and also sorting. The 'green' button doesn't really help in cases where I'd like to make a window's preview smaller to scan for content which might be spotted in a smaller preview icon to scan more files in a window, as opposed to larger preview icons to see more in depth. The case will depend to a large extent on what's being done at any given time, and individual preference. Not that a modified click-n-drag would make a huge difference, but having the choice would at times make for a better perceived work flow.
Also, windows users would find the modified (control or alt) click-n-drag (or at least the option to change it) very satisfying, and it need not change the lower right hand corner convention for the aged users desiring a unambiguous directive for resizing a window. There is something to be said for the somewhat individually organic process of managing windows. It just seems like a good idea to support individual variation. I do agree that good implementation of the green button should cover most resize needs. I think the rational for including a lower right hand corner resize handle could be the same rational for modified click-n-drag to resize as well.
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What about politicians? On a personal level, I'm much more concerned whenever I hear politicians say nearly anything about science. On some level, many people have a inkling that celebs are a high percentage crackpot, but elected officials pass laws. Very scary.
That is hands down the best advice I could imagine ever.
What the hell is a secret military aircraft doing in the middle of the busiest airport in America?
Never let rookies fly the stealth UFOs
FTFA:"The abusive boss has been well documented in movies"
... movies?! ...
Well documented in the
How about also well documented in Mad Magazine...
No one ever expects the spanish inquisition...
at the expense of our personal liberties
Funny how on the extremes of both ends, personal liberties are what we lose. How do we stay in the middle? Also a good question if you're stranded on a melting ice shelf...
The environmental left, which seems to be run by anti-capitalist intellectuals and the general misfits, though the foot soldiers are normal caring people that want to leave the world better, not worse, adopted the Marxist/Leninist ends justify the means, and it blew up in their faces. For example,there is now pretty much incontrovertible evidence that humans ARE causing an unprecedented shift in certain chemicals that tend to correlate with climate change in the past, and evidence that we are causing climate change. However, the champions of this are the same malcontents that championed global cooling, zero population growth because we were going to run out of food, and other problems that do not exist.
Actually, scientists also "championed" global climate changes being correlated to rising CO2 levels. The above statement almost lumps them in with all anti-capitalist leftists. Some hippie scientist also 'championed' the idea that the earth revolved around the sun at a time when it was politically unsavory . He paid for it in the short term, but he was still right, and the lies of his opposition ultimately caught up with them.
The interesting thing about the environmental commie leftists is that now George w. Bush has to start agreeing with them, at least with respect to polar bears. But, polar bears may stage a comeback and totally blow the hippies' credibility out of the water. One can only hope.
Minnesota has something like called 'crimnet'. Its so inaccurate and awkward that many cops to do use it give up and use commercial web sites (who in turn mine data from crimnet and make it easier to search). Its harder now to correct bad information, and bad people get away while good people get permanently nailed - without ever having committed a crime.
This looks like a great opportunity for terrorists, many of whom have better technical resources that the feds.
It is. It'll make you sterile, cause your hair to fall out, your car to quite working, give you AIDS, your pants will hike up to your shins, your socks won't match, you'll get bad breath, and your watch will quit. I know this because I saw it on TV.
There an old saying "those who don't do politics are done in by it"
The notion that (mis)leading others gets you ahead worked fine when religion ran the land. With the advent of science, however, things have begun to change (bearing in mind that lying to get ahead is all but encoded into the human genome and has been the way to get things done for thousands of years). Now, you can lie all you want, and you might get ahead doing it, but it catches up with you.
For example politicians have been trying to lie about global climate change, and now the conservative christian right and republican party are poised to be irrevocably painted as the people who fought science on climate change the most. From dying polar bears to the 41-square mile 3000 year old polar ice shelf that broke off recently, its getting harder and harder to lie about it. The conservative crusade against science, built mostly on lies, is getting its comeuppance. It worked great for awhile, and may work briefly again.
Its true - lying gets you ahead in the short term, but it catches up with you. Smart people, like most geeks and nerds are, figure this out and avoid it.
What steps would you take to prove that a screenshot is 'authentic'? If I doctored a screenshot to include a list of songs, how would you discover the doctoring? How would establish that the song names contained the correct songs and not something else? Are all screenshots unalterable?
Describe the process of 'proving' that someone's home computer used a given IP address at a given time. Anywhere.
I guess I usually hope that rather that posting rehashes of news everybody has heard (like this posting), I'd rather, for any given topic, see postings of info not commonly seen, like this.(quote of Ford at his VP confirmation hearing regarding a possible Nixon pardon - go ahead mod this offtopic).
The A380 is flying. Far from a spruce goose.
Is it ethical? Probably not.
A new laptop to run Ubuntu on? Who cares?
Certain news items trancend news genres
Nerds are by definition not in the mainstream, and this news clearly is (not that all mainstream items are offtopic). While there are various different types of nerds out there into various topics of interest, its the nerds of the kind this site was ostensibly started for that has for the life of the site that has defined the vast majority of the topic matter that gets a submission put up on the front page.
One of the things that makes this sight interesting to nerds is that it isn't crowded with mainstream media items like this. Why not post the latest news out of Iraq each day (On the basis that this news transcends genres most Iraq news would qualify and nerds of various genres would find it interesting), Iran, or most of the middle east?
Broaden your scope, lose your focus. Lose your focus, lose your interest.
This is on 'news for nerds' why again?
. . . mods who of course ARE wise . . .
The who are what?
FTA: However, "things radically change" when consumption goes beyond these levels
For starters, you wake up in bed with a stranger not knowing how either got there...
Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery.
I wonder if they'll imitate the secure part in addition to the looks.
Then there's User Account Control, an intrusive dialog box that pops up whenever you try to install a program or adjust a PC-wide setting, requesting that you confirm the change by entering your password. This will strike most people as an unnecessary nuisance, and you can turn it off.
I guess not.
I'm going to patent using punctuation to indicate pauses, clauses, beginning, and ending of sentences as well as tone (question, exclamation, trailing thoughts, etc...) in electronic messages.
Some links would be cool...
"The biology textbook generally refers to religion and the existence of God in a negative way. It infringes on believers' rights,"
I don't know anything about Russian law, but do religious groups have the right not to be dissed? Would that go for all religious groups, and non-religious groups too? Considering how insulting it is to have someone claim theirs is the only right way and everyone else is going to hell, I would think this a precedent that 'believers' wouldn't want to set.
I'm also quite annoyed by people more into geek or nerd 'culture' than the intellectual pursuits which usually end up earning the honorable title of geek or nerd. People just into the look, sound, dress, or other surface effect just aren't.
I find this is mostly a complaint either from those who haven't quite gotten how the Mac UI works yet
Been using MacOS since before system 6.
or people who are using poorly-designed apps.
Using an app called "Finder". I often want to change a window size depending on what I'm doing with the window - sorting contents based on name, type, or date -- or -- previewing images or movies and various sizes and also sorting. The 'green' button doesn't really help in cases where I'd like to make a window's preview smaller to scan for content which might be spotted in a smaller preview icon to scan more files in a window, as opposed to larger preview icons to see more in depth. The case will depend to a large extent on what's being done at any given time, and individual preference. Not that a modified click-n-drag would make a huge difference, but having the choice would at times make for a better perceived work flow.
Also, windows users would find the modified (control or alt) click-n-drag (or at least the option to change it) very satisfying, and it need not change the lower right hand corner convention for the aged users desiring a unambiguous directive for resizing a window. There is something to be said for the somewhat individually organic process of managing windows. It just seems like a good idea to support individual variation. I do agree that good implementation of the green button should cover most resize needs. I think the rational for including a lower right hand corner resize handle could be the same rational for modified click-n-drag to resize as well.