If you look at the blogs linked on the Raging Cow page, you will see they all have one thing in common.
Each one has some of the most horrible web design I've ever seen! Getting rid of any sort of indicator for URLs. Lots and lots of frames. Colors that make my eyes bleed. It's like they all read every book on what not to do and did it.
The marketing people must have thought that the pages are so bad they loop around the scale and become super-impressive and a hip.
So they flew in 6 people and their parents to talk about this extreme milk drink called Raging Cow, and all they are going to pay these people is promotional products? Like Raging Cow shirts and hats?
Wouldn't it have been cheaper to just offer to mail out a shirt or hat or bumper sticker to anyone that posts a banner or something in their blog? And how did they determine that these 6 people are the ultimate in-crowd?
It sounds to me like some marketing monkey just started scanning headlines to see wht was popular. "BLOGS! That's the next big thing! We'll get lots of marketing done that way!"
Uh huh. Riiiiiiiight.
Unless one of those 6 was Michael. After all he did post the story to/. I hope he gets a shirt out of it:)
I agree with your assesment of needing a "Strategist" role. That is the role I take whenever someone comes to me with a new project. They may know their own business, but rarely understand automating it. They have a "process" hat mainly involves doing whatever seems right for that case- something very tricky to code. Or they want to collect data and generate reports that they don't have any real plan to use.
Or even worse, they expect that just putting their processes online will magically solve all their problems. So a "Strategist" is definately needed to help set goals and expectations.
Is it just me, or does it sound like a non-issue? The stores that are mentioned are ones that do have physical locations in every state, but they used paperwork tricks to make a company with the same name and the same products to avoid having to do sales tax.
From what I read, the summary is that those stores agreed to close the loophole voluntarily, and besides it was annoying customers anyways when they tried to return things at the local store. This won't affect Amazon or other mainly online businesses.
Re:If I had a nickel...
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So would that make getting a nickel for every time you heard about the next "billion-dollar industry" istelf be a billion-dollar industry?:)
I agree that you have to have buy-in to a certain extent, but one of the things in Six-Sigma is having all of your processes documented. That alone is very handy. Think of it as documentation for the job instead of code. So if someone takes off, there is the documentation on what to do when things go wrong. It is much more applicable to larger corporations where there are "pockets of excellence" which also means their are usually "large bags of crap performance". If you can take the documented processes from the good group and move them to the bad groups, then the company benifits.
I also agree that Six-Sigma often translates as "give money to consultants".
Depending on the industry the original poster works in, not doing it might not be an option. In the automotive industry, it is a requirement by the Big 3 to do business.
The description does sound like a business fad, but in practice is is a very effective way to improve manufacturing processes. I'm not sure if it translates well to IT.
Disheartening? Maybe if you own part of Monster.com.
What percentage of all available jobs do you think are posted on the site? I'd bet good money that it is less then 5% and and I'd even feel pretty good on a bet that it is less then 1%.
I'm prety confidant that there are more then 9741 job openings for programmers in the U.S.
That is the RIAA playing a shell game. It is possible that the RIAA itself does not collect information on the cost of a CD, but you can be guarenteed that each of their members has the costs charted down to the last penny.
I have a computer with a spare 17" monitor in the kitchen. It also has a decent sound card and an old tv tuner. The monitor, speakers, keyboard and mouse don't take up that much room, and the keyboard (it is one of the thin rubber ones that is spill proof and can be rolled up) and mouse can be put on top of the monitor, freeing up counter top space.
I use it all the time for watching tv or listening to music while I'm cooking, or to chat with some friends while waiting for the odd 5 minutes that some recieps call for. I don't use it to store recipes, but I do use it to look up recipes online. Besides, if you area true geek, you will have the recipes hosted on your own webserver:)
If it has to be hidden, build a cabnet where the monitor goes and have it able to open up to see the monitor when you are going to use it. Be careful of ventilation, but that woudl be the only concern I can think of, and that isn't important for LCD monitors.
So everyone is perfect?
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I don't understand why there are so many people saying this is bad or implying that people who use Linux don't need it because they are so good. I must have missed the evolutionary step that made all Linux users so perfect that they never make mistakes. That is all the Recycle Bin is.
Sure, some people use it as temporary folder, but so what? There will always be people who use things other then the way they are intended. If it works for them, so what? If it is so painful for you to contemplate, don't look at it.
If this automatically downloads and installs future patches, does this mean that you do not have to agree to any new EULAs? Since you won't be clicking "I agree" on them, do they count?
Just a reminder, a home PBX might be cool, but if your phones go through a PBX, you need to make sure you have a regular phone in case the power goes out.
If the person is in prison, it is not a crime to limit their speach. It is done regularly. So it is still a non-issue. The person convicted of the crime might have been required to give up the ID and password for the site as part of the verdict. That would make it legally authorized access.
I don't feel movie critcis should be listened too, IMO they are nothing more than paid Comic Book Store Guys with newspapers and TV programs to vent upon.
Exactly! These guys go and watch movies for a living. How is their tastes in movies going to compare to someone what wants to see them for fun?
I know this was meant as a joke, but it is correct in this case. Most of these continuity "errors" are storytelling. There are a couple about how Mary Jane and the tram falling are reflected in his goggles, but that is more of a visual storytelling trick then a mistake.
It seems like most of the other half are people pointing out how many times they saw the movie to notice things like people that look like other Marvel heroes in the background or references to other Marvel people. I would say at least half of the "bugs" are more easter egg sort of things included in the film.
I looked at that, and had to laugh. I'm just waiting for someone to complain about the data carrying capability of my CD/MP3 player when I am expected to take my laptop with a 30 Gig hard drive home each night.
Are they going to ban CDs too?
I know that employees are the biggest security risks, but there has to be some sort of diminishing return in this. Besides, locking down your network on both the internal and external side is work that can't be avoided or established through policy.
Even though this guy is dead and has questionable privacy rights, I would bet she is looking for information on who he interacted with in the game. Those people are very much alive (presumably) and will be the targets of lawsuits from this angry mother for... I don't even know what, but I wouldn't be surprised to see her sue Sony for the people's names and then sue them for encouraging her son to die or some such thing.
I feel sorry for the woman and can understand her need to lash out at something, but it also looks like she is just looking for money.
I'm caught between wondering if this is a good idea (selling stories) and wondering if this is an April's Fools troll....
Of course, it seems like a good percentage of the stories are already just big ads for a website or new gadget anyways... I'm not sure if we would notice a difference:)
It took me a while to figure out where the SaveNow windows were coming from. I install everything custom and it still got on my system somehow. So either somebody wasn't playing nice and didn't make it an option, or made it something differently named, or I could have missed it when installing. But I usually pay very close attention when installign software.
I realize that the information is coming from the typical people using tech support, but how can the voice recognition try to recognize anything without a microphone?
I suppose there could be a built in mic in a laptop the person is overlooking, but otherwise? If it is smart enough to recognize speech, shouldn't it be smart enough to realize no one is talking?
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If you look at the blogs linked on the Raging Cow page, you will see they all have one thing in common.
Each one has some of the most horrible web design I've ever seen! Getting rid of any sort of indicator for URLs. Lots and lots of frames. Colors that make my eyes bleed. It's like they all read every book on what not to do and did it.
The marketing people must have thought that the pages are so bad they loop around the scale and become super-impressive and a hip.
So they flew in 6 people and their parents to talk about this extreme milk drink called Raging Cow, and all they are going to pay these people is promotional products? Like Raging Cow shirts and hats?
/. I hope he gets a shirt out of it :)
Wouldn't it have been cheaper to just offer to mail out a shirt or hat or bumper sticker to anyone that posts a banner or something in their blog? And how did they determine that these 6 people are the ultimate in-crowd?
It sounds to me like some marketing monkey just started scanning headlines to see wht was popular. "BLOGS! That's the next big thing! We'll get lots of marketing done that way!"
Uh huh. Riiiiiiiight.
Unless one of those 6 was Michael. After all he did post the story to
I agree with your assesment of needing a "Strategist" role. That is the role I take whenever someone comes to me with a new project. They may know their own business, but rarely understand automating it. They have a "process" hat mainly involves doing whatever seems right for that case- something very tricky to code. Or they want to collect data and generate reports that they don't have any real plan to use.
Or even worse, they expect that just putting their processes online will magically solve all their problems. So a "Strategist" is definately needed to help set goals and expectations.
Is it just me, or does it sound like a non-issue? The stores that are mentioned are ones that do have physical locations in every state, but they used paperwork tricks to make a company with the same name and the same products to avoid having to do sales tax.
From what I read, the summary is that those stores agreed to close the loophole voluntarily, and besides it was annoying customers anyways when they tried to return things at the local store. This won't affect Amazon or other mainly online businesses.
So would that make getting a nickel for every time you heard about the next "billion-dollar industry" istelf be a billion-dollar industry? :)
I agree that you have to have buy-in to a certain extent, but one of the things in Six-Sigma is having all of your processes documented. That alone is very handy. Think of it as documentation for the job instead of code. So if someone takes off, there is the documentation on what to do when things go wrong. It is much more applicable to larger corporations where there are "pockets of excellence" which also means their are usually "large bags of crap performance". If you can take the documented processes from the good group and move them to the bad groups, then the company benifits.
I also agree that Six-Sigma often translates as "give money to consultants".
Depending on the industry the original poster works in, not doing it might not be an option. In the automotive industry, it is a requirement by the Big 3 to do business.
The description does sound like a business fad, but in practice is is a very effective way to improve manufacturing processes. I'm not sure if it translates well to IT.
Disheartening? Maybe if you own part of Monster.com.
What percentage of all available jobs do you think are posted on the site? I'd bet good money that it is less then 5% and and I'd even feel pretty good on a bet that it is less then 1%.
I'm prety confidant that there are more then 9741 job openings for programmers in the U.S.
That is the RIAA playing a shell game. It is possible that the RIAA itself does not collect information on the cost of a CD, but you can be guarenteed that each of their members has the costs charted down to the last penny.
I have a computer with a spare 17" monitor in the kitchen. It also has a decent sound card and an old tv tuner. The monitor, speakers, keyboard and mouse don't take up that much room, and the keyboard (it is one of the thin rubber ones that is spill proof and can be rolled up) and mouse can be put on top of the monitor, freeing up counter top space.
:)
I use it all the time for watching tv or listening to music while I'm cooking, or to chat with some friends while waiting for the odd 5 minutes that some recieps call for. I don't use it to store recipes, but I do use it to look up recipes online. Besides, if you area true geek, you will have the recipes hosted on your own webserver
If it has to be hidden, build a cabnet where the monitor goes and have it able to open up to see the monitor when you are going to use it. Be careful of ventilation, but that woudl be the only concern I can think of, and that isn't important for LCD monitors.
I don't understand why there are so many people saying this is bad or implying that people who use Linux don't need it because they are so good. I must have missed the evolutionary step that made all Linux users so perfect that they never make mistakes. That is all the Recycle Bin is.
Sure, some people use it as temporary folder, but so what? There will always be people who use things other then the way they are intended. If it works for them, so what? If it is so painful for you to contemplate, don't look at it.
Are these guys just trying to make a buck off of CDex and Napster without much if any work?
So when does Napster come out and beat on them for trademark violation?
If this automatically downloads and installs future patches, does this mean that you do not have to agree to any new EULAs? Since you won't be clicking "I agree" on them, do they count?
Just a reminder, a home PBX might be cool, but if your phones go through a PBX, you need to make sure you have a regular phone in case the power goes out.
If the person is in prison, it is not a crime to limit their speach. It is done regularly. So it is still a non-issue. The person convicted of the crime might have been required to give up the ID and password for the site as part of the verdict. That would make it legally authorized access.
The only reason I watch the Super Bowl is for the interesting and funny commercials.
If adverisers want us to watch make us interested like that. Don't save the best stuff for one night a year.
I don't feel movie critcis should be listened too, IMO they are nothing more than paid Comic Book Store Guys with newspapers and TV programs to vent upon.
Exactly! These guys go and watch movies for a living. How is their tastes in movies going to compare to someone what wants to see them for fun?
I know this was meant as a joke, but it is correct in this case. Most of these continuity "errors" are storytelling. There are a couple about how Mary Jane and the tram falling are reflected in his goggles, but that is more of a visual storytelling trick then a mistake.
It seems like most of the other half are people pointing out how many times they saw the movie to notice things like people that look like other Marvel heroes in the background or references to other Marvel people. I would say at least half of the "bugs" are more easter egg sort of things included in the film.
I looked at that, and had to laugh. I'm just waiting for someone to complain about the data carrying capability of my CD/MP3 player when I am expected to take my laptop with a 30 Gig hard drive home each night.
Are they going to ban CDs too?
I know that employees are the biggest security risks, but there has to be some sort of diminishing return in this. Besides, locking down your network on both the internal and external side is work that can't be avoided or established through policy.
Even though this guy is dead and has questionable privacy rights, I would bet she is looking for information on who he interacted with in the game. Those people are very much alive (presumably) and will be the targets of lawsuits from this angry mother for ... I don't even know what, but I wouldn't be surprised to see her sue Sony for the people's names and then sue them for encouraging her son to die or some such thing.
I feel sorry for the woman and can understand her need to lash out at something, but it also looks like she is just looking for money.
Come on! If there was a real story out here today no one would believe it!
I'm caught between wondering if this is a good idea (selling stories) and wondering if this is an April's Fools troll....
:)
Of course, it seems like a good percentage of the stories are already just big ads for a website or new gadget anyways... I'm not sure if we would notice a difference
It took me a while to figure out where the SaveNow windows were coming from. I install everything custom and it still got on my system somehow. So either somebody wasn't playing nice and didn't make it an option, or made it something differently named, or I could have missed it when installing. But I usually pay very close attention when installign software.
I realize that the information is coming from the typical people using tech support, but how can the voice recognition try to recognize anything without a microphone?
I suppose there could be a built in mic in a laptop the person is overlooking, but otherwise? If it is smart enough to recognize speech, shouldn't it be smart enough to realize no one is talking?
I've got one of those and I like it. It can sync with a Palm too. It is big, but smaller then the similarly featured Timex watch I had.