I used to be an office manager for a small hazmat shower manufacturer. We found that the people we had glueing the pipes together would stand up when we were pressing them to hurry and crank out the showers due to a large order. Not sure if them standing did anything besides show us managers that they were hurrying but we always met our deadlines.
I doubt it would be more painful then the a shot and most diabetics would welcome it if it left no permanet scars like needles can.
Hell I'd even pay a few extra bucks for this method even if it was more painful. Pain I can stand, the idea of something foreign and large entering my body is another story.
Re:How much editorial oversight is enough?
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They are already doing something to stop the "spur of the moment" edits. Having an already established user account is required to edit the articles deemed "semi-controversial" articles. So yes, you can still register an account and make some crazy changes to the article four days later but I'd imagine most lose interest.
For those articles where established users are "disagreeing heavily" on what the article should say it is flagged as controversial and only editors can change it.
"The space station is located in orbit around the Earth at an altitude of approximately 360 km (220 miles), a type of orbit usually termed low Earth orbit (The actual height varies over time by several kilometres due to atmospheric drag and reboosts [3]). It orbits Earth in a period of about 92 minutes; by June 2005 it had completed more than 37,500 orbits since launch of the Zarya module on November 20, 1998."
I'm not sure how much air they have in their air packs but more then 90 minutes is definetly feasible. Would be a really scary 90 minutes though wouldn't it?
... but you find yourself drifting in space with no hope of rescue. Do you:
A. Take off helmet?
B. Let air run out and aphyxiate?
C. Pray that the galactic president is stealing a spaceship with the Infinite Improbability Drive in it?
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I have a better idea, one that is easy for everyone to implement. Wikipedia is the encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Treat it as such.
This would be akin to getting insurance for speeding tickets. If it is an illegal act you can't have someone just have someone pay the supposed settlement for you. Since PB isn't "technically" doing anything illegal in Sweden I suppose you can technically get insurance for it, although IANAL and definetly not well versed in Sweden law. This kind of thing will unfortunatly never fly in the US due to file sharing of copyrighted material being illegal.
Actually, now that I think about it, this kind of thing makes the *AAS even more reckless. After all, why do they care if they sue you if you have an insurance company who is just going to pay them off?
Got slapped with a huge fine because your 12 year old downloaded the latest britney spear song? Damn, guess you should have gotten the *AA insurance!
Well AC, perhaps you should create an account on wikipedia and change the incorrect information. You can cite your information and everything. That is the great thing about Wikipedia: If something is wrong, or something needs to be updated because it is time sensitive material, you can change it.
You can also just go bitch about it on/. instead of doing anything. I guess Wikipedia and voter turnout do have somehing in common: A bunch of people bitching about how things are but not willing to doing anything about it.
I guess but if I recall correctly hiroshima did a little bit more then just "blow in some curtains". Even if accurate this is a pretty bad metaphor, the Hiroshima bomb brings on ideas of destruction and chaos. Even if you took the radiation aspect away from the Hiroshima bomb it still would have done far more damage. Guess the whole line of "location, location, location" really is true.
It is time to phase out your old business model. It is obvious from online services like iTunes and Allofmp3 that people are willing to pay reasonable prices to obtain their music online. They also need to learn that CDs are no longer the preferred format people want to listen to their music in. Of the few people I know who do go buy cds the first thing they do is stick it into their PC, rip it to MP3, and toss it either on an MP3 CD or their iPod.
I know I'm just talking crazy. It makes way more sense to spend hundreds of millions of dollars greasing politicians hands and suing everyone instead of spending a few million to just design and implement a download system.
I tend to disagree with you Falcon. There are many parts of WoW that are tedious and hard with returns that are definetly sub par. In the late 30s when you are given dozens of travel quests and are having to walk to new areas it is definetly hard to avoid getting killed by yourself by either mob or player. (IMO PvE servers shouldn't even be in this game, but to each his own)
WoW definetly hit the MMO nail on the head with less swings and with far more accuracy towards what the players wanted then any other MMO. The general public wants a somewhat casual play enviroment. The general public does not want a hardcore MMO. Mark my words, the next extremely succesful MMO will be the one that takes WoW and adds to it. As of yet I haven't seen anyone trying to do this but it is only a matter of time.
Gah, cut me off. Guess you can't put less then 3 into posts... here is the first part:
Now I'm a novice linux user and I know what it feels like when you first start it up. Took me a week to get the ati drivers installed and working. Your standard user is not going to do this. HOWEVER, once this part is done, the OS works great and would be easy for anyone to pick up.
So, why doesn't Dell just build their own custom linux distro. Call it Dellnix or something. They probably wouldn't even need to hire that many people on, if any. Just present it as a challenge to the open source community and promise recognition and their name somewhere for contributing.
Now I'm a novice linux user and I know what it feels like when you first start it up. Took me a week to get the ati drivers installed and working (
Three problems I see here:
Dell will have to spend money to get this going. Someone will have to be hired on to do testing, help with programming, setting up the imaging machines, etc. Will they save enough money from not having to buy windows to justify this cost?
Next is weither or not to have software support for their linux distro. Having worked the last year in a call center pulling people off the phones to train them is a HUGE cost. Most contracts (which I'm assuming Dell has outsource their tech suppot to another company in India) state that you only get paid for your agents when they are on the phones. So if they are in a training room not only are you not making your profit on them, you are eating the cost of the hourly wages. Now, some companies will offer to pay for the training but either way it will be difficult.
Lastly, out of the small market share that linux has, how many people actually buy Dell PCs? Everyone I know that runs linux either built their PC or are running it on a laptop.
Bottom Line: Will putting linux on desktops profit Dell in anyway? I don't know for certain, but my gut instinct says no way.
I have worked for IT companies that had were over 99% white staffed in a predominetly black neighborhood.
I have worked for IT companies where I was one of only white people there in a predominetly white neighborhood.
I have yet to work in one with an equal mix.
From my viewpoint it's always been the numbers game. In the first job I mentioned there were more white people getting promoted then black people. In the second, the exact opposite. I didn't view it as racism nor did I feel anyone was being racist in a benificial or otherwise manner at either job. I have also had people at both companies complain that "Man, how come no people are getting promoted?" Well duh, if 99% of your employees are of one color, what do you think is gonna happen around promotion time? Like I said, nothing to do with racism, it's just been the numbers game.
Now, I have not worked in a place with equal mixes of races but I think most people just use "racism" as an excuse for why they didn't get promoted this time around.
"Cable Tech Support, John speaking. How can I help you?"
"Yeah... I can't get my internet connection to work"
"I'm sorry, you have a p2p client on your PC. Please uninstall this program to enable your internet connection."
Not that I'm concerned about it, I'm sure 15 seconds after they do this someone will have a work around but still... don't try to say that you are doing it for "malware" purposes
Actually your stomach does very little absorbtion, it is your small intestines that actually absorb the most thing. Carbonation causes the valve to your intestines to open up faster which means the caffeine be absorbed very quickly.
Sadly enough I learned this while researching why yager bombs screw me up so much (It's actually the taurine in it but that is for another post)
Let me check my RSS Feed here...
Microsoft
Microsoft
Microsoft
Linux
RIAA
Microsoft
Google
BBC
Linux
Game Review... hmm, think your theory is slightly flawed
Slashdot Mirror
I used to be an office manager for a small hazmat shower manufacturer. We found that the people we had glueing the pipes together would stand up when we were pressing them to hurry and crank out the showers due to a large order. Not sure if them standing did anything besides show us managers that they were hurrying but we always met our deadlines.
Monday's flight was also supposed to set the stage for an Indian mission to the Moon.
Something tells me there may be a lack of volunteers for this now...
I doubt it would be more painful then the a shot and most diabetics would welcome it if it left no permanet scars like needles can.
Hell I'd even pay a few extra bucks for this method even if it was more painful. Pain I can stand, the idea of something foreign and large entering my body is another story.
They are already doing something to stop the "spur of the moment" edits. Having an already established user account is required to edit the articles deemed "semi-controversial" articles. So yes, you can still register an account and make some crazy changes to the article four days later but I'd imagine most lose interest.
For those articles where established users are "disagreeing heavily" on what the article should say it is flagged as controversial and only editors can change it.
Not a perfect system but better then nothing.
From wikipedia:
"The space station is located in orbit around the Earth at an altitude of approximately 360 km (220 miles), a type of orbit usually termed low Earth orbit (The actual height varies over time by several kilometres due to atmospheric drag and reboosts [3]). It orbits Earth in a period of about 92 minutes; by June 2005 it had completed more than 37,500 orbits since launch of the Zarya module on November 20, 1998."
I'm not sure how much air they have in their air packs but more then 90 minutes is definetly feasible. Would be a really scary 90 minutes though wouldn't it?
... but you find yourself drifting in space with no hope of rescue. Do you:
A. Take off helmet?
B. Let air run out and aphyxiate?
C. Pray that the galactic president is stealing a spaceship with the Infinite Improbability Drive in it?
I have a better idea, one that is easy for everyone to implement. Wikipedia is the encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Treat it as such.
Anyone remember the Family Guy Parody of Star Wars where Luke is doing Laser Eye Surgery with his lightsaber?
Don't know about you but that pretty much turned me off from anything with "plasma" and "operation" in it.
This would be akin to getting insurance for speeding tickets. If it is an illegal act you can't have someone just have someone pay the supposed settlement for you. Since PB isn't "technically" doing anything illegal in Sweden I suppose you can technically get insurance for it, although IANAL and definetly not well versed in Sweden law. This kind of thing will unfortunatly never fly in the US due to file sharing of copyrighted material being illegal.
Actually, now that I think about it, this kind of thing makes the *AAS even more reckless. After all, why do they care if they sue you if you have an insurance company who is just going to pay them off?
Got slapped with a huge fine because your 12 year old downloaded the latest britney spear song? Damn, guess you should have gotten the *AA insurance!
Well AC, perhaps you should create an account on wikipedia and change the incorrect information. You can cite your information and everything. That is the great thing about Wikipedia: If something is wrong, or something needs to be updated because it is time sensitive material, you can change it.
/. instead of doing anything. I guess Wikipedia and voter turnout do have somehing in common: A bunch of people bitching about how things are but not willing to doing anything about it.
You can also just go bitch about it on
I guess but if I recall correctly hiroshima did a little bit more then just "blow in some curtains". Even if accurate this is a pretty bad metaphor, the Hiroshima bomb brings on ideas of destruction and chaos. Even if you took the radiation aspect away from the Hiroshima bomb it still would have done far more damage. Guess the whole line of "location, location, location" really is true.
It is time to phase out your old business model. It is obvious from online services like iTunes and Allofmp3 that people are willing to pay reasonable prices to obtain their music online. They also need to learn that CDs are no longer the preferred format people want to listen to their music in. Of the few people I know who do go buy cds the first thing they do is stick it into their PC, rip it to MP3, and toss it either on an MP3 CD or their iPod. I know I'm just talking crazy. It makes way more sense to spend hundreds of millions of dollars greasing politicians hands and suing everyone instead of spending a few million to just design and implement a download system.
I tend to disagree with you Falcon. There are many parts of WoW that are tedious and hard with returns that are definetly sub par. In the late 30s when you are given dozens of travel quests and are having to walk to new areas it is definetly hard to avoid getting killed by yourself by either mob or player. (IMO PvE servers shouldn't even be in this game, but to each his own) WoW definetly hit the MMO nail on the head with less swings and with far more accuracy towards what the players wanted then any other MMO. The general public wants a somewhat casual play enviroment. The general public does not want a hardcore MMO. Mark my words, the next extremely succesful MMO will be the one that takes WoW and adds to it. As of yet I haven't seen anyone trying to do this but it is only a matter of time.
Great... how long before we have the wii kid?
The real question we all want an answer to is: Is it mana or monna?
According to this article here http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2006/04 /microsoft_expands_antipiracy_p.html the update cannot be uninstalled.
Gah, cut me off. Guess you can't put less then 3 into posts... here is the first part: Now I'm a novice linux user and I know what it feels like when you first start it up. Took me a week to get the ati drivers installed and working. Your standard user is not going to do this. HOWEVER, once this part is done, the OS works great and would be easy for anyone to pick up.
So, why doesn't Dell just build their own custom linux distro. Call it Dellnix or something. They probably wouldn't even need to hire that many people on, if any. Just present it as a challenge to the open source community and promise recognition and their name somewhere for contributing.
Now I'm a novice linux user and I know what it feels like when you first start it up. Took me a week to get the ati drivers installed and working (
Three problems I see here:
Dell will have to spend money to get this going. Someone will have to be hired on to do testing, help with programming, setting up the imaging machines, etc. Will they save enough money from not having to buy windows to justify this cost?
Next is weither or not to have software support for their linux distro. Having worked the last year in a call center pulling people off the phones to train them is a HUGE cost. Most contracts (which I'm assuming Dell has outsource their tech suppot to another company in India) state that you only get paid for your agents when they are on the phones. So if they are in a training room not only are you not making your profit on them, you are eating the cost of the hourly wages. Now, some companies will offer to pay for the training but either way it will be difficult.
Lastly, out of the small market share that linux has, how many people actually buy Dell PCs? Everyone I know that runs linux either built their PC or are running it on a laptop.
Bottom Line: Will putting linux on desktops profit Dell in anyway? I don't know for certain, but my gut instinct says no way.
I have worked for IT companies that had were over 99% white staffed in a predominetly black neighborhood. I have worked for IT companies where I was one of only white people there in a predominetly white neighborhood. I have yet to work in one with an equal mix. From my viewpoint it's always been the numbers game. In the first job I mentioned there were more white people getting promoted then black people. In the second, the exact opposite. I didn't view it as racism nor did I feel anyone was being racist in a benificial or otherwise manner at either job. I have also had people at both companies complain that "Man, how come no people are getting promoted?" Well duh, if 99% of your employees are of one color, what do you think is gonna happen around promotion time? Like I said, nothing to do with racism, it's just been the numbers game. Now, I have not worked in a place with equal mixes of races but I think most people just use "racism" as an excuse for why they didn't get promoted this time around.
Here's how slashdot works: You give them money, you get to see articles first Simple, no?
Francine: How's everyone's French toast? Stan: Smelly and ungrateful. But this American toast is delicious!
"Cable Tech Support, John speaking. How can I help you?" "Yeah... I can't get my internet connection to work" "I'm sorry, you have a p2p client on your PC. Please uninstall this program to enable your internet connection." Not that I'm concerned about it, I'm sure 15 seconds after they do this someone will have a work around but still... don't try to say that you are doing it for "malware" purposes
Actually your stomach does very little absorbtion, it is your small intestines that actually absorb the most thing. Carbonation causes the valve to your intestines to open up faster which means the caffeine be absorbed very quickly. Sadly enough I learned this while researching why yager bombs screw me up so much (It's actually the taurine in it but that is for another post)
"This is the worst book ever written. I wouldn't even use it to pee on. It deserves to be thrown in the garbage with dog poop."
Let me check my RSS Feed here... Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft Linux RIAA Microsoft Google BBC Linux Game Review ... hmm, think your theory is slightly flawed