I was speaking of the mathematical kind of statistics, not the kind of obvious logical connections someone without any statistics training at all could make.
Hate to post twice, but I was heading out to pick up a DLP projector tonight and the one I wanted at the price I wanted was at Best Buy (surprised? me too) in Culver City, but at one I'd never been to. I thought, hey, I'll see if I can use Street View to help me, like that guy from/. said.:) I put in the address, and while a slightly nearby street had been mapped, it was done a couple years ago while the entire area was being redeveloped - and thus is now totally useless. It's just a bunch of photos of constructions sites.:(
Yeah, that is a good use for it if you happen to live somewhere that has the streets done - but I find that even in west Los Angeles, Street View isn't available for my destination half the time.
So I read through his article. Yes, the whole mindless rant. The conclusion that one should REALLY draw from it is: Zed Shaw is a douche with Asperger's who clearly feels like his own personal area of expertise is underappreciated. Hey Zed, get over it.
Yeah, I'm sure there's a reason the guy submitted this anonymously - he didn't want the world being able to associate even a user name with an action so monumentally stupid. I wonder if he got pissed off when that $20 copy of Windows he bought during his last visit to Shanghai didn't activate when he got home, either.
You make a good point. Most management doesn't seem to know a Ferrari from a Pinto - all they know is they want "car." They go shopping, find the cheapest dealer around, buy the cheapest model on the lot, take it home, and then get really really pissed when they find out they don't have a Ferrari in the garage.
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At the Bank of Germany, we're not happy until you're not happy.
Yeah, right.. this question is so stupid, I would be surprised if anyone in their right mind would attach their name to it. The answer: Yes, of course, but no more so than most any other legitimate profession (and by legitimate I rule out the predominant abundance of power abuse in American politics).
And so much of it has changed right before our collective eyes. As example, there is no way anyone in their right mind would try to create an album like Paul's Boutique in today's sue-happy licensing-whore world - yet that album still stands as one of the greatest rap albums of all time.
Why? The parent's rule should still work to prevent accidents, in principal, if simple common sense is also followed. Whether all signals are out or just your signal is out - when you come to an intersection with your signal out you treat it like a Stop sign. Then, common sense takes over - if you're at a stop sign, you don't proceed until you can determine it is safe to enter the intersection.
Most intersection accidents are caused when this last simple step is not followed, and people go just assuming they have right of way whether it is actually safe to take right of way or not. In the above example - if you come to an intersection where your light is out - don't assume the cross-traffic is going to stop!
So some random site names a guy Person of the Decade. Who gives a shit? A nobody website (when it comes to things like this) conducted some half-assed poll on their site and we're supposed to care even one iota? Hey, guess what.. my website polled me, and found I was named Person of the Decade! Eat that Steve Jobs!
These groups and these complaints are a perfect example of people who don't understand the idea of freedom. They are the people who want everyone to live like they live and believe what they believe. They don't get that people are free to make and sell whatever games they want, and that people are free to choose which games they buy and which they don't. If people wanted more religious video games, companies would recognize this demand and create more religious video games. There are no regulations encouraging or prohibiting any of this. If there are few religious video games, realize that the demand must just not be there for it.
This is not an answer you can get from/. Nor should you be trying to get it here. That you are asking it of/. says much, indeed. In the end, every situation requiring after hours development is different. Sometimes having the manager around is more useful. Sometimes NOT having the manager around is more useful. Somewhere along the line, MBAs the world over convinced everyone that there was a logical decoupling of the understanding requiring for managing a business and the understanding of the business being managed. This, inevitably, means that more often than not, it is the staff who know more about what needs to be done than does the manager. The good IT managers have realized this and understand that their role is now more one of strategic thinking based on team recommendation mixed with supporting and enabling their team with resources and authority than one of hands-on involvement or mentoring in the execution of any of the underlying details. This, in turn, means that for every scenario the team has to work after hours, the manager's job is to ask 2 questions: First, ask the team, "Is there anything I can do to help or can you foresee any challenges I might be able to remove?" Second, if they say no, then ask yourself, "If I'm going home, is there anything I can do to show my team some small measure of my and the company's appreciation that they're not?"
It's not just the summary making the leap from carbon to life. The entire article makes the same leap, though to be fair - it does indicate that the leap is a very large one.
I think it's been fairly well established that African swallows are no better at carrying coconuts. It's a question of mass ratios. That said, there have been recent discoveries in OCT protocols (octopus coconut transport) that you may be interested in.
The naive narcissists still fawning over getting to have their own web page about nothing but THEM are now sad that people will actually SEE that webpage. Awww, boo hoo... Guess what, folks - you're not paying customers, you're using a free service. You don't like it, don't use it.
Faulty logic. If "anyone" can fix it, so too can "anyone" get in there and break it. It's much harder for me to go in and make my Windows computer less secure that it would be for me to get in and do the same to my linux box.
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I was speaking of the mathematical kind of statistics, not the kind of obvious logical connections someone without any statistics training at all could make.
Hate to post twice, but I was heading out to pick up a DLP projector tonight and the one I wanted at the price I wanted was at Best Buy (surprised? me too) in Culver City, but at one I'd never been to. I thought, hey, I'll see if I can use Street View to help me, like that guy from /. said. :) I put in the address, and while a slightly nearby street had been mapped, it was done a couple years ago while the entire area was being redeveloped - and thus is now totally useless. It's just a bunch of photos of constructions sites. :(
Yeah, that is a good use for it if you happen to live somewhere that has the streets done - but I find that even in west Los Angeles, Street View isn't available for my destination half the time.
So I read through his article. Yes, the whole mindless rant. The conclusion that one should REALLY draw from it is: Zed Shaw is a douche with Asperger's who clearly feels like his own personal area of expertise is underappreciated. Hey Zed, get over it.
And statistics would have told you nothing about what was really important in your example. :)
Yeah, I'm sure there's a reason the guy submitted this anonymously - he didn't want the world being able to associate even a user name with an action so monumentally stupid. I wonder if he got pissed off when that $20 copy of Windows he bought during his last visit to Shanghai didn't activate when he got home, either.
This sounds like a genius way to get me to stop using StreetView. Not like it was of much use beyond novelty, anyway.
Plus it would seem there are 6 others to go after before we get to you, anyway. ;)
You make a good point. Most management doesn't seem to know a Ferrari from a Pinto - all they know is they want "car." They go shopping, find the cheapest dealer around, buy the cheapest model on the lot, take it home, and then get really really pissed when they find out they don't have a Ferrari in the garage.
At the Bank of Germany, we're not happy until you're not happy.
How about YOU realize that that is only true because of all of the resources the government prevents to prevent terrorism, you insensitive clod!~
Yeah, right.. this question is so stupid, I would be surprised if anyone in their right mind would attach their name to it. The answer: Yes, of course, but no more so than most any other legitimate profession (and by legitimate I rule out the predominant abundance of power abuse in American politics).
And so much of it has changed right before our collective eyes. As example, there is no way anyone in their right mind would try to create an album like Paul's Boutique in today's sue-happy licensing-whore world - yet that album still stands as one of the greatest rap albums of all time.
Which is precisely why you should be driving defensively. ;)
Why? The parent's rule should still work to prevent accidents, in principal, if simple common sense is also followed. Whether all signals are out or just your signal is out - when you come to an intersection with your signal out you treat it like a Stop sign. Then, common sense takes over - if you're at a stop sign, you don't proceed until you can determine it is safe to enter the intersection.
Most intersection accidents are caused when this last simple step is not followed, and people go just assuming they have right of way whether it is actually safe to take right of way or not. In the above example - if you come to an intersection where your light is out - don't assume the cross-traffic is going to stop!
So some random site names a guy Person of the Decade. Who gives a shit? A nobody website (when it comes to things like this) conducted some half-assed poll on their site and we're supposed to care even one iota? Hey, guess what.. my website polled me, and found I was named Person of the Decade! Eat that Steve Jobs!
These groups and these complaints are a perfect example of people who don't understand the idea of freedom. They are the people who want everyone to live like they live and believe what they believe. They don't get that people are free to make and sell whatever games they want, and that people are free to choose which games they buy and which they don't. If people wanted more religious video games, companies would recognize this demand and create more religious video games. There are no regulations encouraging or prohibiting any of this. If there are few religious video games, realize that the demand must just not be there for it.
I have a BS in comp. sci.
Oh, so an MCSE in other words? Get it? Hehe. B. S. in comp sci?
This is not an answer you can get from /. Nor should you be trying to get it here. That you are asking it of /. says much, indeed. In the end, every situation requiring after hours development is different. Sometimes having the manager around is more useful. Sometimes NOT having the manager around is more useful. Somewhere along the line, MBAs the world over convinced everyone that there was a logical decoupling of the understanding requiring for managing a business and the understanding of the business being managed. This, inevitably, means that more often than not, it is the staff who know more about what needs to be done than does the manager. The good IT managers have realized this and understand that their role is now more one of strategic thinking based on team recommendation mixed with supporting and enabling their team with resources and authority than one of hands-on involvement or mentoring in the execution of any of the underlying details. This, in turn, means that for every scenario the team has to work after hours, the manager's job is to ask 2 questions: First, ask the team, "Is there anything I can do to help or can you foresee any challenges I might be able to remove?" Second, if they say no, then ask yourself, "If I'm going home, is there anything I can do to show my team some small measure of my and the company's appreciation that they're not?"
It's not just the summary making the leap from carbon to life. The entire article makes the same leap, though to be fair - it does indicate that the leap is a very large one.
That we litter, and don't care where?
I think it's been fairly well established that African swallows are no better at carrying coconuts. It's a question of mass ratios. That said, there have been recent discoveries in OCT protocols (octopus coconut transport) that you may be interested in.
At some age, most kids will learn not to OD on drugs or drain cleaner. I think we all agree that some don't.
I'm okay with natural selection when it comes to this one.
The naive narcissists still fawning over getting to have their own web page about nothing but THEM are now sad that people will actually SEE that webpage. Awww, boo hoo... Guess what, folks - you're not paying customers, you're using a free service. You don't like it, don't use it.
Faulty logic. If "anyone" can fix it, so too can "anyone" get in there and break it. It's much harder for me to go in and make my Windows computer less secure that it would be for me to get in and do the same to my linux box.