Failure comes wrapped in many packages. I'd hate to think my desire to have someone who could handle setbacks and failures would cause me to overlook a person who had failed in other careers, been kicked to the curb in other disciplines, and finally found their place in the sun, so to speak.
Every sorcerer was once an apprentice. Every wizard was once a n00b. Even Linus, Bill, and Steve.
I got the feeling from the article that this is the result of several properly aligning factors.
1. The school likes being known as a 'tech pioneer.'
2. The product needed a landmark event from an understanding, capable customer;
3. The price _must_ have been perfect;
4. The school was really ready for an upgrade and the timing was exactly right to make 802.11g obsolete upon order.
I'm old enough to remember Senator Gore speaking at my high school - and old enough to remember Tipper Gore as a huge advocate of age labels on record albums.
I remember a general disdain for Gore in Tennessee leading up to the 2000 election - a feeling that he had abandoned his roots. We'll see what happens in days ahead.
South Carolina education is a little deceptive. The schools in the Myrtle Beach area are extraordinary, with high teacher pay, excellent resources, and strong student achievement. Cross the county line, and you find one of the most underfunded and outdated school districts in the United States.
If you're looking for smart, capable people in South Carolina (or California, or Idaho, or wherever), you'll find smart, capable people - as long as compensation is strong.
Most of Google's hires may be from out of state, but they will quickly become South Carolinians through property purchase, taxation, and spending their money within the local service economy.
Teaching them to love Lowcountry shrimp boil will take a few weeks; teaching them to say "y'all" as a pronoun will take a few months; teaching them to refer to all soft drinks as "Coke" takes one to two years. But now I'm offtopic.....
The Wikimedia Board of Directors (or its equivalent) must make decisions that guarantee the long-term viability of the nonprofit organization. If they fail to do so, bad things happen.
The revenue from Google ads on the front page alone would surely guarantee the financial viability of the whole Wikimedia brand for years to come.
I see this as a board decision alone. While the community would have an uproar, the organization would survive. The vast majority of their "clients" would never realize the difference.
I know musicians who can reproduce a musical score after only one hearing. Are we going to find a way to control them? What's more - they have virtually limitless memory.
Someone call someone before the fabric of society is torn!
Should we be suspicious of every large business that started out small? At what point does a small, presumably non-corporate business become "big" and full of the "temptations of corporate culture"?
Google's shareholders have virtually no voice in the operation of the company, remember? How can a company be answerable to people that never had a real voice in the company in the first place?
I worked as a security guard for a while, back in college.
A huge part of the training emphasizes that the security officer's rights are no different than anyone else. "Citizen's arrest" is a real law.
That said....the most important thing I ever did as a security guard was call an ambulance for someone who was ill. The whole job was a lot of sitting in an elevated box in the parking lot, waving at the people on shift change, pointing the truckers to the loading docks, and lots of reading.
I know of no employer who would seriously expect security guards to run off photographers. For the occasional event that we needed "real cops," the company hired them, sidearm and all.
I have a friend in county law enforcement who works private security as a second full-time job, making much more than he makes for the county. The paradox? He can't quit the county because he couldn't keep his private security job.
Her literary allusions are far from contrived. The HP books are accessible to children and sophisticated enough for the discerning reader. She's shown every indication of sharing her immense wealth and has done nothing to flaunt her success.
I would guess that the best people hit around 90 percent. Redundant systems provide the difference between 90 and 100 percent.
Helpdesk documentation helps move the department towards 100 percent.
I'd also add that thorough documentation is essential for identifying patterns, especially if you're dealing with older machines.
Which machines are chronic problems? What time of day does the machine turn weird? What users have the touch of death - whatever machine they use, breaks down? What programs are chronic problems - are we missing a patch?
When I managed a school computer lab, the tickets revealed the Truth - in a way that management could understand. Result? A brand-new computer lab, nice and shiny.
...to tell the police that your house will be unoccupied.
I second the motion about renting the house. A local real estate agent would probably handle the details for you in exchange for a portion of the rent.
I may be waaay off base. Feel free to correct (like you needed permission).
The whole point of copyright is money. Shouldn't anyone suing over a copyright issue have to show that their client suffered financial loss right up front before anything else?
I'm reminded of the Hedgehog Concept from Good to Great.
"We've got to zero in on a few key priorities," Semel told the financial community after Yahoo released its third-quarter earnings.
While Semel's challenge is painfully radical and hints at cutbacks as something of a panacea, his memo has some important points.
Yahoo needs to follow Jim Collins's advice - find the intersection of their passion, the thing they could do better than anyone in the world, and their profit engine. Focus all of their energies on that spot. Dismiss "good things" to gain "great things."
The idea of OpenHuman is still like a MUD. The "OpenHuman" person may or may not resemble the person entering the data, uploading the pictures, and answering the email.
Everyone (and no one) can be an action hero online.
Microsoft wants to be responsible for its own security - more importantly, Microsoft wants to reap the financial rewards for becoming responsible for its own security. The personal home user will end up paying a bit more for lack of competition in security software, which won't matter to Microsoft - the real market is corporate sales.
I've gotten to the point where I don't listen to podcasts that aren't transcribed. I know that I'm missing some good things, but podcasting is limited to the speed of the transmission. I can scan text 5-10x faster than the podcast.
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Failure comes wrapped in many packages. I'd hate to think my desire to have someone who could handle setbacks and failures would cause me to overlook a person who had failed in other careers, been kicked to the curb in other disciplines, and finally found their place in the sun, so to speak.
Every sorcerer was once an apprentice. Every wizard was once a n00b. Even Linus, Bill, and Steve.
I got the feeling from the article that this is the result of several properly aligning factors.
1. The school likes being known as a 'tech pioneer.'
2. The product needed a landmark event from an understanding, capable customer;
3. The price _must_ have been perfect;
4. The school was really ready for an upgrade and the timing was exactly right to make 802.11g obsolete upon order.
Mondale carried his home state and the District of Columbia.
I'm old enough to remember Senator Gore speaking at my high school - and old enough to remember Tipper Gore as a huge advocate of age labels on record albums.
I remember a general disdain for Gore in Tennessee leading up to the 2000 election - a feeling that he had abandoned his roots. We'll see what happens in days ahead.
True. A few years ago, we replaced a bad hard drive and were shocked at how much smoother the machine ran without all the preloaded garbage.
My new first step in setting up a new machine? Hard drive wipe.
South Carolina education is a little deceptive. The schools in the Myrtle Beach area are extraordinary, with high teacher pay, excellent resources, and strong student achievement. Cross the county line, and you find one of the most underfunded and outdated school districts in the United States.
If you're looking for smart, capable people in South Carolina (or California, or Idaho, or wherever), you'll find smart, capable people - as long as compensation is strong.
Most of Google's hires may be from out of state, but they will quickly become South Carolinians through property purchase, taxation, and spending their money within the local service economy.
Teaching them to love Lowcountry shrimp boil will take a few weeks; teaching them to say "y'all" as a pronoun will take a few months; teaching them to refer to all soft drinks as "Coke" takes one to two years. But now I'm offtopic.....
Don't forget that it would also be completely integrated with Windows but utterly incompatible with Linux, OS X, or even WinXP.
Mod parent funny.
The Wikimedia Board of Directors (or its equivalent) must make decisions that guarantee the long-term viability of the nonprofit organization. If they fail to do so, bad things happen.
The revenue from Google ads on the front page alone would surely guarantee the financial viability of the whole Wikimedia brand for years to come.
I see this as a board decision alone. While the community would have an uproar, the organization would survive. The vast majority of their "clients" would never realize the difference.
I know musicians who can reproduce a musical score after only one hearing. Are we going to find a way to control them? What's more - they have virtually limitless memory.
Someone call someone before the fabric of society is torn!
Should we be suspicious of every large business that started out small? At what point does a small, presumably non-corporate business become "big" and full of the "temptations of corporate culture"?
Google's shareholders have virtually no voice in the operation of the company, remember? How can a company be answerable to people that never had a real voice in the company in the first place?
Cautious? Sure. Suspicious? I'm not sure.
I worked as a security guard for a while, back in college.
A huge part of the training emphasizes that the security officer's rights are no different than anyone else. "Citizen's arrest" is a real law.
That said....the most important thing I ever did as a security guard was call an ambulance for someone who was ill. The whole job was a lot of sitting in an elevated box in the parking lot, waving at the people on shift change, pointing the truckers to the loading docks, and lots of reading.
I know of no employer who would seriously expect security guards to run off photographers. For the occasional event that we needed "real cops," the company hired them, sidearm and all.
I have a friend in county law enforcement who works private security as a second full-time job, making much more than he makes for the county. The paradox? He can't quit the county because he couldn't keep his private security job.
Her literary allusions are far from contrived. The HP books are accessible to children and sophisticated enough for the discerning reader. She's shown every indication of sharing her immense wealth and has done nothing to flaunt her success.
I suspect that PayPal will release the funds within 24 hours of the /. report.
No one wants that kind of bad PR.
No one is safe from the IE7 upgrade. Not even on another planet.
Mod up Hermit's comment.
I would guess that the best people hit around 90 percent. Redundant systems provide the difference between 90 and 100 percent.
Helpdesk documentation helps move the department towards 100 percent.
I'd also add that thorough documentation is essential for identifying patterns, especially if you're dealing with older machines.
Which machines are chronic problems?
What time of day does the machine turn weird?
What users have the touch of death - whatever machine they use, breaks down?
What programs are chronic problems - are we missing a patch?
When I managed a school computer lab, the tickets revealed the Truth - in a way that management could understand. Result? A brand-new computer lab, nice and shiny.
Outside? You mean....out there under the blue roof?
Man, that's just frightening. No telling what might happen. I might end up walking around the block or some other fresh insanity.
...to tell the police that your house will be unoccupied.
I second the motion about renting the house. A local real estate agent would probably handle the details for you in exchange for a portion of the rent.
I may be waaay off base. Feel free to correct (like you needed permission).
The whole point of copyright is money. Shouldn't anyone suing over a copyright issue have to show that their client suffered financial loss right up front before anything else?
Just my thoughts.
While Semel's challenge is painfully radical and hints at cutbacks as something of a panacea, his memo has some important points.
Yahoo needs to follow Jim Collins's advice - find the intersection of their passion, the thing they could do better than anyone in the world, and their profit engine. Focus all of their energies on that spot. Dismiss "good things" to gain "great things."
It's not too late for Yahoo....yet.
Score-related bonuses guarantee that teachers will "teach to the test."
This is a good thing if the test is a good one - meaning, if the test evaluates authentic skills in an authentic application.
The unfortunate reality: standardized tests are rarely (if ever) authentic assessments of student learning.
The idea of OpenHuman is still like a MUD. The "OpenHuman" person may or may not resemble the person entering the data, uploading the pictures, and answering the email.
Everyone (and no one) can be an action hero online.
The images from Hubble have captured the public's imagination for years. I'm glad that NASA found a way to keep Hubble around a little bit longer.
Microsoft wants to be responsible for its own security - more importantly, Microsoft wants to reap the financial rewards for becoming responsible for its own security. The personal home user will end up paying a bit more for lack of competition in security software, which won't matter to Microsoft - the real market is corporate sales.
I've gotten to the point where I don't listen to podcasts that aren't transcribed. I know that I'm missing some good things, but podcasting is limited to the speed of the transmission. I can scan text 5-10x faster than the podcast.
The package could have included IE 7, as was rumored yesterday.