Yeah.. my employer is already worried about a rumour that links gaming to violence.. I've no idea why, that guy from accounts who ran rampage shooting people in our office clearly hadn't played that much Halo.. His master chief outfit wasn't even realistic.
True, The nations who are leaving stuff in space should be responsible for trying to remove as much of their mess as possible. Leaving the Envisat Earth observation satellite floating around should not be permitted (I know.. who polices space etc)
I did wonder about that to be honest but have come to the conclusion that they want to keep people hanging on to get a proper look at it.. If they have not tested it yet they are pretty ambitious to want to fly 6000km!.
It has also been picked up by the BBC who are running the story here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7821979.stm
They only have badly mocked up pictures too????
I agree - it looks awesome.. that is something that I can see a serious practical use for, especially in places like Australia with massive areas of land with little or no population / buildings to speak of. Would be very cool if you could fly most of the way to your neighbours or nearest town and then drop down, pack the "wings" away and drive into town..
My wife has just come over to me (she listens to Radio 1) and told me that I need to install another browser on all our machines.. I guess she has never noticed that we are a Ubuntu household!!
At least the message is getting across to normal non techie users at the moment that IE is bad..
This is the problem with being a beta tester of something which is seen as cool - you want to test it, and you want people to know and see that your testing it, hence when it goes wrong - you look like a bit silly.
"Man your iphone is cool" "Yeah - I am a beta tester too!!" "Wicked can I have a go" "Sure" "hey this thing is fcuked! - you suck"
If you leave your laptop in work all the time so you can remote onto it - how about getting a big ass meaty desktop, bolt that bad boy to the floor - no need for the external storage anymore, as you have more storage in your desktop - worried about backups - install a second disk - or make use of the "network" - bolt your monitors to the desk or attach kensington locks to everything..
or like parent said - get a job in a place where people are not going to steal your stuff....
This is totally off topic and I expect to be scored as such, however - Glonoinha I like your post, I like it a lot it's well written and makes perfect sense.
How the hell did you get access to my document - I store it on my personal USB drive, its the only copy... when they took it off me and gave me that new one I thought they destroyed my personal one..
Does that mean you have those pictures of my wife too???
Unfortunately computer nerds do not make up the majority of computer users in the world. Your average family with a computer does not have a geek living there to suggest that they don't bother buying their PC from PC World, they build one and install Linux instead - they pop out to the nearest aircraft hanger sized computer shop and buy an over spec'd super computer to play sims and surf facebook. These computers come with Vista / XP because that is what they use at work / school etc.
I know plenty of people who run Vista at home, I use it at work (I am managing our Vista Trial) but at home I stay XP for the family machine and Fedora for my laptop.. Vista hates old hardware but runs well assuming you have a decent spec machine - but I agree with the bluetooth bug reported above - that drives me insane.. I wouldnt mind but I barely use it - and it still warns me its not installed properly every day..
In case your wondering - no we are not rolling out Vista to our enterprise any time soon..
Your totally right - the World was a far worse place before America got involved with major wars. Doh.. Have you ever actually "Won" a war? - or do you kind of show up - kill a lot of people and then lose interest - the whole while raping the local economy to the benefit America? You would dive in an "fight and beat whoever was attacking them" yeah - sure.. perhaps if it was Switzerland against Norway... so many people are fed up with American bullshit - why do you think Team America World Police ever got made.. the rest of the world would not care if America was totally destroyed by some kind of Natual Disaster.
no there isn't I know loads of IT workers and they do know it all:) I wonder if users have compiled a list of IT worker traits which they dislike. I used to work with a bloke who had mastered the ability to make the users think he was doing them a favor - instead of just the job he was paid for! - they would be overly grateful to him for having the time to help them.. I have no idea how he acomplished this, but he did. And would then return to the comfort of the tech room and play another level of his favorite FPS
Damn, in a rush to elaborate on my previous rushed and redundant post I have made countless spelling mistakes during said elaboration. Now in my rush to highlight said spelling mistakes and unfortunate word omissions, then to apologise for them I have yet again posted something that will be marked as redundant - will this ever end??? will it????
Having been modded as redundant I feel need to elaborate. (Sorry was in a strange rush to get my first ever first post)
We are talking about high school children now - and as such the emphasis is surely on the do's and don't of good graphic design, its about teaching kids good techniques, and style. This in my opinion is best performed using tools which are freely available to the children so that they can go away and practice what they have been taught. Using the latest version of Photoshop is likely to hinder their ability to practice as not many highschool kids in my experiance have the money to drop on the latest and greatest Adobe produce, sure they can go and download a copy from a torrent site - but is this something which we should encourage, all be it indirectly. If you use GIMP and the other Open Source software which are freely available, they can practice techniques and gain a good insight into the design - before they go on and perfect those skills in higher education. Where they may have the budget to purchase the latest over priced packages.
totally off topic - I was recently involved in a test at work to trial some new software - 180 users were sent a document detailing how to install and configure a VPN application - the instructions contained some bad instructions - which if followed to the letter - would block http access - of the 180 users installing the software - only 3 reported the problem - 177 people did not read the instructions - or read them but did not follow them!
I had never read it either until I noticed this discussion - I have flicked through it in the past few mins.. it doesn't look very exciting.. and as I live in the UK - I am expecting the knock on the door shortly..
better hide my stash of Anti Aircraft missiles just in case.
The types of food which you mention that Italians and Spanish eat keep you fuller for longer - it is possible to eat these foods and loose weight - just stay off the bad carbs at the same time - a la GI diet. I know - I did it and lost 60lbs - I am keeping the weight off - and actually eat far better tasting food than the processed crap than I ate before.
its rubbish! - although I have printed out a number of pages and left them dotted around my office:) - they are already drawing quite a bit of attention with everyone wondering where they are coming from hehe -
is the guy wearing the camera on his head??? - surely he would have been better taking pictures of the actual book rather than the desk / his hands / the carpet etc...
This is not entirely true - I hire lots of non-degreed people in the UK - and we don't pay them any less - we go on experience / personality and aptitude. If anything getting into IT from an early age (bypassing Uni) could do you some favours - I earn far more than a lot of colleagues who have Degree's because I was in paid employment 4 years before they were - hence 4 years more pay rises. In that 4 years I also gained far more practical experience than they ever did in Class. I am not suggesting that a degree is not worth the effort, as it clearly is - however it doesn't hold much weight to me when I am looking for new staff - somebody with a 1st from Oxford is far less use to me than somebody with 4 years work experience behind them - I want staff to hit the ground running - not have to teach them how to work the photocopier and fax.
Oh yeah - I come from an IT background - and I suggest that what degree you pick depends on what type of job you want. Want to be a coder - CS all the way, want to work in Infrastructure - IT all the way. Want to be a *Great* sys admin CS degree - with a side order of IT sys admin & Scripting experience - the best mix IMHO
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Yeah.. my employer is already worried about a rumour that links gaming to violence.. I've no idea why, that guy from accounts who ran rampage shooting people in our office clearly hadn't played that much Halo.. His master chief outfit wasn't even realistic.
I knew i'd backed a winner.. I'm with the clever crowd. I've emailed my family to look at this thread.. my mum wants to know what a spunkymonkey is.
God help anybody who used facebook and this app... there's every chance they will get home tonight and find an imposter in bed with their wife.
I agree with all of the above. I don't understand it but this guy sounds like he knows what he is talking about.
True, The nations who are leaving stuff in space should be responsible for trying to remove as much of their mess as possible. Leaving the Envisat Earth observation satellite floating around should not be permitted (I know.. who polices space etc)
Can't we just remove the larges pieces? Surely we could "drag" some of this larger stuff back down to earth?
I did wonder about that to be honest but have come to the conclusion that they want to keep people hanging on to get a proper look at it.. If they have not tested it yet they are pretty ambitious to want to fly 6000km!. It has also been picked up by the BBC who are running the story here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7821979.stm They only have badly mocked up pictures too????
I agree - it looks awesome.. that is something that I can see a serious practical use for, especially in places like Australia with massive areas of land with little or no population / buildings to speak of. Would be very cool if you could fly most of the way to your neighbours or nearest town and then drop down, pack the "wings" away and drive into town..
It is not the first flying car - check out this bad boy - it begins its journey from London to Tombouctou tomorrow! http://www.skycarexpedition.com/the_expedition.php
My wife has just come over to me (she listens to Radio 1) and told me that I need to install another browser on all our machines.. I guess she has never noticed that we are a Ubuntu household!! At least the message is getting across to normal non techie users at the moment that IE is bad..
This is the problem with being a beta tester of something which is seen as cool - you want to test it, and you want people to know and see that your testing it, hence when it goes wrong - you look like a bit silly.
"Man your iphone is cool"
"Yeah - I am a beta tester too!!"
"Wicked can I have a go"
"Sure"
"hey this thing is fcuked! - you suck"
If you leave your laptop in work all the time so you can remote onto it - how about getting a big ass meaty desktop, bolt that bad boy to the floor - no need for the external storage anymore, as you have more storage in your desktop - worried about backups - install a second disk - or make use of the "network" - bolt your monitors to the desk or attach kensington locks to everything..
or like parent said - get a job in a place where people are not going to steal your stuff....
This is totally off topic and I expect to be scored as such, however - Glonoinha I like your post, I like it a lot it's well written and makes perfect sense.
Best thing I have read on Slashdot in a while.
Cheers.
Nick
"the mandatory 100-page approval document."
How the hell did you get access to my document - I store it on my personal USB drive, its the only copy... when they took it off me and gave me that new one I thought they destroyed my personal one..
Does that mean you have those pictures of my wife too???
Unfortunately computer nerds do not make up the majority of computer users in the world. Your average family with a computer does not have a geek living there to suggest that they don't bother buying their PC from PC World, they build one and install Linux instead - they pop out to the nearest aircraft hanger sized computer shop and buy an over spec'd super computer to play sims and surf facebook. These computers come with Vista / XP because that is what they use at work / school etc.
I know plenty of people who run Vista at home, I use it at work (I am managing our Vista Trial) but at home I stay XP for the family machine and Fedora for my laptop.. Vista hates old hardware but runs well assuming you have a decent spec machine - but I agree with the bluetooth bug reported above - that drives me insane.. I wouldnt mind but I barely use it - and it still warns me its not installed properly every day..
In case your wondering - no we are not rolling out Vista to our enterprise any time soon..
Your totally right - the World was a far worse place before America got involved with major wars. Doh.. Have you ever actually "Won" a war? - or do you kind of show up - kill a lot of people and then lose interest - the whole while raping the local economy to the benefit America? You would dive in an "fight and beat whoever was attacking them" yeah - sure.. perhaps if it was Switzerland against Norway... so many people are fed up with American bullshit - why do you think Team America World Police ever got made.. the rest of the world would not care if America was totally destroyed by some kind of Natual Disaster.
no there isn't I know loads of IT workers and they do know it all :) I wonder if users have compiled a list of IT worker traits which they dislike. I used to work with a bloke who had mastered the ability to make the users think he was doing them a favor - instead of just the job he was paid for! - they would be overly grateful to him for having the time to help them.. I have no idea how he acomplished this, but he did. And would then return to the comfort of the tech room and play another level of his favorite FPS
Damn, in a rush to elaborate on my previous rushed and redundant post I have made countless spelling mistakes during said elaboration. Now in my rush to highlight said spelling mistakes and unfortunate word omissions, then to apologise for them I have yet again posted something that will be marked as redundant - will this ever end??? will it????
Having been modded as redundant I feel need to elaborate. (Sorry was in a strange rush to get my first ever first post) We are talking about high school children now - and as such the emphasis is surely on the do's and don't of good graphic design, its about teaching kids good techniques, and style. This in my opinion is best performed using tools which are freely available to the children so that they can go away and practice what they have been taught. Using the latest version of Photoshop is likely to hinder their ability to practice as not many highschool kids in my experiance have the money to drop on the latest and greatest Adobe produce, sure they can go and download a copy from a torrent site - but is this something which we should encourage, all be it indirectly. If you use GIMP and the other Open Source software which are freely available, they can practice techniques and gain a good insight into the design - before they go on and perfect those skills in higher education. Where they may have the budget to purchase the latest over priced packages.
Yes, next question?...
totally off topic - I was recently involved in a test at work to trial some new software - 180 users were sent a document detailing how to install and configure a VPN application - the instructions contained some bad instructions - which if followed to the letter - would block http access - of the 180 users installing the software - only 3 reported the problem - 177 people did not read the instructions - or read them but did not follow them!
I had never read it either until I noticed this discussion - I have flicked through it in the past few mins.. it doesn't look very exciting.. and as I live in the UK - I am expecting the knock on the door shortly..
better hide my stash of Anti Aircraft missiles just in case.
The types of food which you mention that Italians and Spanish eat keep you fuller for longer - it is possible to eat these foods and loose weight - just stay off the bad carbs at the same time - a la GI diet. I know - I did it and lost 60lbs - I am keeping the weight off - and actually eat far better tasting food than the processed crap than I ate before.
its rubbish! - although I have printed out a number of pages and left them dotted around my office :) - they are already drawing quite a bit of attention with everyone wondering where they are coming from hehe -
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is the guy wearing the camera on his head??? - surely he would have been better taking pictures of the actual book rather than the desk / his hands / the carpet etc
This is not entirely true - I hire lots of non-degreed people in the UK - and we don't pay them any less - we go on experience / personality and aptitude. If anything getting into IT from an early age (bypassing Uni) could do you some favours - I earn far more than a lot of colleagues who have Degree's because I was in paid employment 4 years before they were - hence 4 years more pay rises. In that 4 years I also gained far more practical experience than they ever did in Class. I am not suggesting that a degree is not worth the effort, as it clearly is - however it doesn't hold much weight to me when I am looking for new staff - somebody with a 1st from Oxford is far less use to me than somebody with 4 years work experience behind them - I want staff to hit the ground running - not have to teach them how to work the photocopier and fax.
Oh yeah - I come from an IT background - and I suggest that what degree you pick depends on what type of job you want. Want to be a coder - CS all the way, want to work in Infrastructure - IT all the way. Want to be a *Great* sys admin CS degree - with a side order of IT sys admin & Scripting experience - the best mix IMHO