A close friend who does friends-and-family tech support recommends people buy from Costco:
90 day no-hassle return policy
Manufacturer's warranty extended by a year
Tech support directly from Costco because they were unwilling to accept the quality they could get from outsourcing -- good enough to fix issues his non-techy family ran into
He's been fixing peoples' computers for years, and this is the best solution he came up with, so I trust it.
* Remote desktop and VPN are your best friends. Learn them, live them, love them.
I'd like to point out Teamviewer for quick, minimal-setup user assistance. It's come in handy a couple times for me and work acceptably even halfway around the world. I believe they charge for corporate users.
There are quite a few options nowadays to meet this sort of need. Fog Creek Copilot is Joel Spolsky's entry into this space.
I don't think it's utterly beyond belief that a good CEO can make deals with other bigwigs and boost the company's bottom line at least 200x as much as an average worker can.
The multiplier can be much greater than that -- but there are still ways to make it work for you.
So theoretically they've exposed themselves to prosecution for perjury. If I called the DA in San Francisco or in my own jurisdiction and asked them to prosecute, what do you think the chances are that they'd do it? Zero, I'd guess.
IANAL, but I remember reading that it's particularly rare to prosecute for perjury in general.
They were even willing to put their money where their mouth is. I recall they had some internal conflict over this and finally decided on a pro-artificial meat position; unfortunately I can't find the reference just now.
but finally got it working by chance and said so in my comments. The code worked, but I didn't understand why and said so.
On the scale of:
No comments
Useless comments (increment i by one)
Comments describing the working part
Comments describing the situation
A complete solution
You fall somewhere between 3.5 and 4.5. While you didn't solve the problem in its entirety, anyone who has to debug your code after the fact doesn't have to start from item one. Should they decide to solve the problem, they have less work to do -- you've made it easier to incrementally improve the code. Good job.
Possible areas of interest will be topics of the environment, energy conservation, war, social issues, and others.
When I was in high school, I couldn't grasp that kind of stuff. It took some years of autonomy, bureaucracy, voting, and workplace interaction before I could get a personal sense of these issues -- e.g., maintaining your household, waiting on hold to straighten out a billing error, workplace politics. Much good science fiction describes grand visions of the items at the scale you're referring to, but do your highschoolers have the autonomy and responsibility to extrapolate their own personal experience to social, industrial, political, military goings-on at the city, state, national, planetary, galactic scale?
In my uninformed opinion, I'd go with
stories that describe the interactions of individuals or smaller groups of people set on a smaller stage
short stories (Arena by Frederic Brown comes to mind, but I read it pre-highschool) that can't lay out a huge, textured world and society in a short format but nevertheless get a good story with strong science fiction or fantasy elements across.
I'd then try to gauge their reactions and opinions and whether/how they can understand or identify emotionally or intellectually with the stories and characters. You can always work your way up to the bigger issues should some subset of your students show interest or aptitude in understanding them.
One counterpoint to this is that science fiction explicitly provides a sense of scale for these things and lays out these larger issues for detailed examination. As such, it may serve your students if they (and you) are exposed to the concepts now and it can later inform their future experience when they're more directly confronted with these ideas.
Profs. hate this just as much as the students do because they have to constantly rework their syllabus to fit the new chapters. This results in the profs wanting to use the same edition book for years and years. The book publishers figured out that this is impossible if they stop publishing their old editions. Thus, profs can't require the old book because there's nowhere to buy it.
Then why don't the profs themselves collaborate to write books for these intro-level topics and release them as open textbooks? If making it available in this manner would solve this syllabus-reworking headache, multiple professors at different schools could use these books to teach their classes and save themselves a lot of time -- or maybe I'm missing the whole picture?
Linuxprinting.org used to recommend the Laserjet 1200, and I bought one based on the recommendation. I haven't pressed it into heavy use (maybe a few hundred pages to date) but it's produced beautiful output so far and is always ready to print. Many used and nearly-new ones between 5k-50k page counts described as in perfect working order are available on ebay in the $100-$150 range, assuming you can't get one of the nigh-immortal LaserJet 4/5s.
Of course, now I may just be a girl, and thus interested in the mechanics of social interaction... but I can't believe that boy geeks and nerds have been so abjectly turned off to social mechanics that they don't want to learn about how it works. Here we are, a subculture of people who love to pull things apart and see how they work... but we don't want to pull apart the ephemeral and latch it into concrete physiological responses?
Wish I had mod points. Deborah Tannen's 'You Just Don't Understand' does a good job of identifying patterns in social interactions; IMHO, patterns lead to hypotheses, hypotheses to experiments, experiments to data. Frankly, a woman had to mention this book and bring up the topic to me before I was motivated to apply analysis and pattern-matching to social interaction and observation of physiological responses -- so good job bringing up the application of the scientific principle to something traditionally categorized as touchy-feely. Lie to me*, police procedurals, American Scientific Mind and Psychology Today, etc. seem to indicate that this awareness is moving out of the lab and into mainstream society, though.
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Careful! You need to use the correct product for this problem.
Your wish is granted.
Fixed fines where income is variable is like sentencing one person to 10 years when another gets a month for the same offense.
Or, in some cases, carry an even less fair disparity, in practical terms.
Or are you simply taking something that seems like a data point and extrapolating it to cover a vast swath of applications?
Well yeah, that's what he was saying -- statistics!
I doubt any businesses today would hire a BOFH.
Even the BOFH has ways of keeping up with the times -- it's all about being able to adapt to changing conditions.
He's been fixing peoples' computers for years, and this is the best solution he came up with, so I trust it.
Hey, it could happen.
* Remote desktop and VPN are your best friends. Learn them, live them, love them.
I'd like to point out Teamviewer for quick, minimal-setup user assistance. It's come in handy a couple times for me and work acceptably even halfway around the world. I believe they charge for corporate users.
There are quite a few options nowadays to meet this sort of need. Fog Creek Copilot is Joel Spolsky's entry into this space.
Depending on the number of working entries, I think this guy will have to update his song.
I recommend something in this style.
Luckily, a similar situation was addressed and resolved in a Better off Ted episode.
This belongs in here. Writ up a story and submit it!
I don't think it's utterly beyond belief that a good CEO can make deals with other bigwigs and boost the company's bottom line at least 200x as much as an average worker can.
The multiplier can be much greater than that -- but there are still ways to make it work for you.
What can they do ... nothing
... priceless.
So theoretically they've exposed themselves to prosecution for perjury. If I called the DA in San Francisco or in my own jurisdiction and asked them to prosecute, what do you think the chances are that they'd do it? Zero, I'd guess.
IANAL, but I remember reading that it's particularly rare to prosecute for perjury in general.
They were even willing to put their money where their mouth is. I recall they had some internal conflict over this and finally decided on a pro-artificial meat position; unfortunately I can't find the reference just now.
but finally got it working by chance and said so in my comments. The code worked, but I didn't understand why and said so.
On the scale of:
You fall somewhere between 3.5 and 4.5. While you didn't solve the problem in its entirety, anyone who has to debug your code after the fact doesn't have to start from item one. Should they decide to solve the problem, they have less work to do -- you've made it easier to incrementally improve the code. Good job.
And it's impossible for anyone to be familiar with every piece of GPL'd code out there, and it's impossible to build a database of such code.
Well, at least one company is trying to do just that, and to help companies avoid this very problem.
Just roll them into one. It's even got a catchy name.
Today it makes no more sense than to say ... "these skis are licensed, not sold."
No *more* sense perhaps, but people rent skis. IANAL, can someone comment on the legal difference between licensure, rentals, and leasing?
Possible areas of interest will be topics of the environment, energy conservation, war, social issues, and others.
When I was in high school, I couldn't grasp that kind of stuff. It took some years of autonomy, bureaucracy, voting, and workplace interaction before I could get a personal sense of these issues -- e.g., maintaining your household, waiting on hold to straighten out a billing error, workplace politics. Much good science fiction describes grand visions of the items at the scale you're referring to, but do your highschoolers have the autonomy and responsibility to extrapolate their own personal experience to social, industrial, political, military goings-on at the city, state, national, planetary, galactic scale?
In my uninformed opinion, I'd go with
I'd then try to gauge their reactions and opinions and whether/how they can understand or identify emotionally or intellectually with the stories and characters. You can always work your way up to the bigger issues should some subset of your students show interest or aptitude in understanding them.
One counterpoint to this is that science fiction explicitly provides a sense of scale for these things and lays out these larger issues for detailed examination. As such, it may serve your students if they (and you) are exposed to the concepts now and it can later inform their future experience when they're more directly confronted with these ideas.
Profs. hate this just as much as the students do because they have to constantly rework their syllabus to fit the new chapters. This results in the profs wanting to use the same edition book for years and years. The book publishers figured out that this is impossible if they stop publishing their old editions. Thus, profs can't require the old book because there's nowhere to buy it.
Then why don't the profs themselves collaborate to write books for these intro-level topics and release them as open textbooks? If making it available in this manner would solve this syllabus-reworking headache, multiple professors at different schools could use these books to teach their classes and save themselves a lot of time -- or maybe I'm missing the whole picture?
Linuxprinting.org used to recommend the Laserjet 1200, and I bought one based on the recommendation. I haven't pressed it into heavy use (maybe a few hundred pages to date) but it's produced beautiful output so far and is always ready to print. Many used and nearly-new ones between 5k-50k page counts described as in perfect working order are available on ebay in the $100-$150 range, assuming you can't get one of the nigh-immortal LaserJet 4/5s.
Of course, now I may just be a girl, and thus interested in the mechanics of social interaction... but I can't believe that boy geeks and nerds have been so abjectly turned off to social mechanics that they don't want to learn about how it works. Here we are, a subculture of people who love to pull things apart and see how they work... but we don't want to pull apart the ephemeral and latch it into concrete physiological responses?
Wish I had mod points. Deborah Tannen's 'You Just Don't Understand' does a good job of identifying patterns in social interactions; IMHO, patterns lead to hypotheses, hypotheses to experiments, experiments to data. Frankly, a woman had to mention this book and bring up the topic to me before I was motivated to apply analysis and pattern-matching to social interaction and observation of physiological responses -- so good job bringing up the application of the scientific principle to something traditionally categorized as touchy-feely. Lie to me*, police procedurals, American Scientific Mind and Psychology Today, etc. seem to indicate that this awareness is moving out of the lab and into mainstream society, though.