Except that a "dock" is already a common thing in computer UIs, whereas an Indian tribe and the name of a developer's kid's toy elephant are not. It's as if someone came out with a product called "mouseWM" that was neither a window manager nor accepted mouse input, but was actually a scripting language or something.
The farmer thing was always bullshit (so to speak.) First off, farmers get up well before dawn anyway, and second, their schedule is not dictated by a clock. Animals that need attending to don't know or care what time NIST says it is, all they know is the sun's coming up and they're awake and hungry and their udders are full or whatever.
I don't know what kind of martinets you work for, but the choice isn't between unquestioning obeisance and telling your boss to fuck off. If supervisors are wasting your time making you go to meetings that have nothing to do with you, they'll appreciate your feedback to that effect, unless they're pathological control freaks and/or idiots.
Anyway, I don't think the article is talking about answering ZOMG EMERGENCY 911 calls, since it's so obviously expected of you to respond to those no matter where you are.
There are reasons for social protocols to exist. Sometimes they involve cementing the authority of elders or some such self-serving flimflammery, but just as often they have been ultimately arrived at through a dispassionate logical process. If you don't need to be paying attention in a meeting then either it is a poorly-run meeting or it is a meeting that you shouldn't need to attend in the first place. If you are pointlessly forced to be there it's still incumbent upon you not to waste other people's time in addition to your own.
In your unlikely speculative future scenario of current twenty-year-olds maintaining their current counterproductive habits in two or three decades when they're managers and executives, the inefficiencies of their callow self-absorption would be reflected in their measurable performance -- which is why it won't happen. Paying attention and showing a modicum of respect to coworkers and superiors aren't some "old person" quirks like wearing your pants up around your ribcage or shaving with a straight razor, they're essential grease on the gears of any cooperative endeavour.
I just looked it up and the MBP I’m typing this on was produced in mid-late 2007. I installed Mavericks without any workarounds and it runs just as well as any of the preceding OS versions.
No, the expensive hardware is bundled with it, not the other way around. You can go to the store and buy a copy with no hardware whatsoever, then install it on some used $200 Macbook from craigslist. I have one six or seven years old that runs it happily.
A little OT, but: They'd be useful for allowing the producers to zoom way in on replays without having to lose resolution downstream. You'd only need the high bandwidth between the camera and the production booth/truck. Or do they already do this and that's what you're talking about?
Citation needed. This must be the same folk etymology that tells us "faggot" comes from the word for bundle of sticks because homosexuals used to be burnt at the stake. (None of which is true.)
"Asshole" has negative connotations because that's where shit comes from. Future generations may replace it with "Slashdot comment."
Unfortunately the name of this company perpetuates the confusion between "climate" and "weather" so beloved by denialists and hack comedians. ("Hey, if there's all this global warming, how come on the way over here I could feel my nipples but not my fingers? I mean, it's cold out! How cold is it? So cold that lawyers are putting their hands in their own pockets!" etc.)
Recipient of billions in government bailout money uses rugged individualist self-sufficiency as marketing tool. The irony is so thick you need a chainsaw attached to your arm stump to cut it.
This particular revelation is kind of a non-issue. When they have data, I would hope that they map it and crosslink it and use it in intelligent ways instead of keeping it in a file drawer for future blackmail or something. The scandal is that so much of the data has been illegally/illegitimately collected in the first place. Worrying that they're able to figure out that "SillyNickName" on Slashdot is the same guy as @sillynick on Twitter and "Nicholas Name" on Facebook and map out his social network connections is missing the forest for the trees; they shouldn't be looking at StupidNickName in the first place absent reasonable cause and a warrant.
The manufacturers generally don’t want the hassle of owning and managing a nation-wide network of storefronts. As with any large retail franchise, having independent dealers provides them with a buffer of sorts: If the manufacturer’s much-hyped new model turns out to be a lemon, it’s the dealers who are stuck with the inventory. If a dealership goes out of business for whatever reason, it’s no skin off the company’s teeth.
Dealerships exist for the convenience of the manufacturers, not the customers.
The answer is to distribute the benefits of automation. If your factory has 1000 workers each doing 40 hours a week, and automation makes 250 of those human jobs unnecessary, instead of laying off 250 people altogether while keeping the remaining 750 on a 40 hour schedule, keep everyone on board at 30 hours a week. Even if you pay them the same hourly wage (because you’re a greedy asshole who’ll be first against the wall when the revolution comes,) thirty hours is better than zero hours.
The problem there is with the system of knock-on costs associated with each individual employee. Considering payroll taxes, health benefits, etc., it’s cheaper to have one guy working 40 hours than two guys each working 20, or four guys each working 10, even if the wages are identical. The sharp point of the fulcrum dividing “have something” and “have absolutely nothing” won’t be ground down to a gentler radius until those systemic problems are overhauled.
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I always reset them to "CHANGETHISPASSWORDRIGHTNOW"
Doesn't seem to have any effect whatsoever on user behavior.
Except that a "dock" is already a common thing in computer UIs, whereas an Indian tribe and the name of a developer's kid's toy elephant are not. It's as if someone came out with a product called "mouseWM" that was neither a window manager nor accepted mouse input, but was actually a scripting language or something.
A republic is a form of democracy.
The farmer thing was always bullshit (so to speak.) First off, farmers get up well before dawn anyway, and second, their schedule is not dictated by a clock. Animals that need attending to don't know or care what time NIST says it is, all they know is the sun's coming up and they're awake and hungry and their udders are full or whatever.
I don't know what kind of martinets you work for, but the choice isn't between unquestioning obeisance and telling your boss to fuck off. If supervisors are wasting your time making you go to meetings that have nothing to do with you, they'll appreciate your feedback to that effect, unless they're pathological control freaks and/or idiots.
Anyway, I don't think the article is talking about answering ZOMG EMERGENCY 911 calls, since it's so obviously expected of you to respond to those no matter where you are.
Then why are you at those meetings? There are better ways to register your disagreement than shitting in the punchbowl.
There are reasons for social protocols to exist. Sometimes they involve cementing the authority of elders or some such self-serving flimflammery, but just as often they have been ultimately arrived at through a dispassionate logical process. If you don't need to be paying attention in a meeting then either it is a poorly-run meeting or it is a meeting that you shouldn't need to attend in the first place. If you are pointlessly forced to be there it's still incumbent upon you not to waste other people's time in addition to your own.
In your unlikely speculative future scenario of current twenty-year-olds maintaining their current counterproductive habits in two or three decades when they're managers and executives, the inefficiencies of their callow self-absorption would be reflected in their measurable performance -- which is why it won't happen. Paying attention and showing a modicum of respect to coworkers and superiors aren't some "old person" quirks like wearing your pants up around your ribcage or shaving with a straight razor, they're essential grease on the gears of any cooperative endeavour.
I'm a just over 40 and that all sounds like shit my grandparents would do, not my coevals.
I just looked it up and the MBP I’m typing this on was produced in mid-late 2007. I installed Mavericks without any workarounds and it runs just as well as any of the preceding OS versions.
No, the expensive hardware is bundled with it, not the other way around. You can go to the store and buy a copy with no hardware whatsoever, then install it on some used $200 Macbook from craigslist. I have one six or seven years old that runs it happily.
A little OT, but: They'd be useful for allowing the producers to zoom way in on replays without having to lose resolution downstream. You'd only need the high bandwidth between the camera and the production booth/truck. Or do they already do this and that's what you're talking about?
This may be why the kids don't want those "potentially secure" cybersecurity jobs.
Not really, the burden of proof is on the claimant.
FWIW, several of Buffalo's wireless routers ship with DD-WRT now.
Citation needed. This must be the same folk etymology that tells us "faggot" comes from the word for bundle of sticks because homosexuals used to be burnt at the stake. (None of which is true.)
"Asshole" has negative connotations because that's where shit comes from. Future generations may replace it with "Slashdot comment."
Unfortunately the name of this company perpetuates the confusion between "climate" and "weather" so beloved by denialists and hack comedians. ("Hey, if there's all this global warming, how come on the way over here I could feel my nipples but not my fingers? I mean, it's cold out! How cold is it? So cold that lawyers are putting their hands in their own pockets!" etc.)
Recipient of billions in government bailout money uses rugged individualist self-sufficiency as marketing tool. The irony is so thick you need a chainsaw attached to your arm stump to cut it.
This particular revelation is kind of a non-issue. When they have data, I would hope that they map it and crosslink it and use it in intelligent ways instead of keeping it in a file drawer for future blackmail or something. The scandal is that so much of the data has been illegally/illegitimately collected in the first place. Worrying that they're able to figure out that "SillyNickName" on Slashdot is the same guy as @sillynick on Twitter and "Nicholas Name" on Facebook and map out his social network connections is missing the forest for the trees; they shouldn't be looking at StupidNickName in the first place absent reasonable cause and a warrant.
What kind of poker games are they running over there that the house plays a hand?
I didn’t mean lemon as in defective, I meant lemon as in unpopular.
The manufacturers generally don’t want the hassle of owning and managing a nation-wide network of storefronts. As with any large retail franchise, having independent dealers provides them with a buffer of sorts: If the manufacturer’s much-hyped new model turns out to be a lemon, it’s the dealers who are stuck with the inventory. If a dealership goes out of business for whatever reason, it’s no skin off the company’s teeth.
Dealerships exist for the convenience of the manufacturers, not the customers.
Does this mean that this snail molts, or was that a poorly-written way of saying eight empty shells from the same species?
Hm, maybe it was a knee-jerk benefit of the doubt; I shudder to think he meant it the way you took it.
That speaks to poorly-engineered automation, not automation in general.
The answer is to distribute the benefits of automation. If your factory has 1000 workers each doing 40 hours a week, and automation makes 250 of those human jobs unnecessary, instead of laying off 250 people altogether while keeping the remaining 750 on a 40 hour schedule, keep everyone on board at 30 hours a week. Even if you pay them the same hourly wage (because you’re a greedy asshole who’ll be first against the wall when the revolution comes,) thirty hours is better than zero hours.
The problem there is with the system of knock-on costs associated with each individual employee. Considering payroll taxes, health benefits, etc., it’s cheaper to have one guy working 40 hours than two guys each working 20, or four guys each working 10, even if the wages are identical. The sharp point of the fulcrum dividing “have something” and “have absolutely nothing” won’t be ground down to a gentler radius until those systemic problems are overhauled.