Posts by Hollerith 1 902 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Jun 2009
Someone with a BA degree has fille dout a lot of forms, and successfully, because they have a degree. That suggests they can read a form, understand it, fill it out, and submit it.
It doesn't prove they can, but the degree is strongly supportive of the thought that they can.
Mr Harvey, I concur. I have had to invent a rigid naming convention to make sure no device plays random movements, and that all parts of a suite stay in the right order. Imagine my dismay when, trying out a music service, I found Albertini cozied up to Sibelius etc. Canceled, wiped, restored, and now rely on various internet radio stations (BBC3, Klara.Continuo, etc) to be introduced to new music, which I then usually buy on CD, rip and feel safely provided for until I finally pop my clogs.
So they finally make a
somethign that people pretty much like, ending the sh~tstorm that was Windows 8/8a, and then they put the shotgun firmly against their other foot and pull the trigger.
They really do need a Devil's Advocate Department that asks "what could go wrong here?" in every scenario and have the power to be heard.
Sorry to hear you say that. I guess not all is well in the house of Tomislav? The last thing I want is my wife to leave the room: she is very comely and one of my main pleasure is resting my eyes on her. Also, she is the wittiest person I know, so I am always having fun.
I guess these speakers are for you.
My sister, who has a mathematical backgroudn and is pretty good around computers, got interested in Linux and gave it a go. A week later, fed up and raging, she ditched it. If Linux wants to be a competitor, it cannot stay as it is. It's just too bloody hard for the normal punter. Of course, it doesn't have to want to be a competitor, but it would be nice if there were something out there people like my sister could use.
Certain things get adopted because we either get used to an early version, even if crap, or because the early version got it right, or because it works just fine and the labour to learn the new version doesn't bring equal rewards.
I do not want to learn how to use every new system. I need totopen up and get to work. I do not have time for a learning curve. I have adapted the older way of doign things to something useful for me and now it is as engained as playing the piano. Keyborards have remained Qwerty for almost 130 years because they were just this side of good enough.
The change has to be gaspingly wonderful for most people to decide that the cost of learning is worth it.
Two years of hell first trying to stop Oracle being brought in by themanagement lads that wanted Big Kit, and then trying to get it to do what we needed it to do (a zillion kilometres of bespoking) and watching the money in the budget evaporate into Oracle's coffers while we limped on... I left, underwent intensive therapy, and am a abetter person for it (the twitches are pretty infrequent now).
Adam Smith said (to compress) all capitalism inexorably leads to monopoly. Do all forms of government inexorably lead to oligarchy or even tyranny? Smith said that Governemnt has to regulate capitalism to forestall monopolies. But who forestalls governments? By the time they need it, the People have ceased to be a power.
Goirls in traditonal households (Islam) int he UK do suffer a vitamin D deficiency. It's been known about for some time.
Women wear clothing under the burka -- they aren't in a nightie or anything. Once they are home, they remove the burka and are then still fully clothed.
Having fashioned for myself an outfit of layers, not unlike Bedouin males, for coping with a trip in he desert, just to see if it would work, I found it did, amazingly well. The sweat gets wicked away and someone the layers of cloth that insulate in winter insultate you, along the lines of adobe walls, in the heat.
It seems a lot of modern offices can't get this right. I will be freezing, the chap or chapess next to me is broiling, or vice versa. I finally bring in either a small fan or a quiet, under-the-desk heater (kept from the eyes of Health and Safety) and sort myself out.
Oh gawd I had to put one of these in and then spent months 'seeding' it with as much wit and charm as I could muster to try to get the corpse to breathe. A few customer-facing teams used it very effectively, the rest could not give a flying monkey's, and I finally handed it on to someone else.
However, this article is spot-on about social media. There is no place for hesitation cuts. If you are going into social media, first decide how you are going to handle worst-case scenarios, who is going to be the 'voice' of your organisation, and then be quick and smart and helpful. If you can't get it right, don't do it at all.
"Politically correct" started out as a not using words or phrases, or jokes, about people that were offensive to those people. Also, not using names that were offensive. If First Nation Canadians would prefer to be called that than "injun", then the PC line was to respect their wishes. It was not a preemptive cringe or censorship, it was common courtesy.
The info about pretty much every atrocity committed on USA or UK soil is in the databases of the American or British spooks, but they never spot it. If we simply shut down these operations, what exactly would happen? What aspect national or international security would be crippled? There are some sweaty-palmed types that like to listen. They used to do it with a glass pressed to the wall (with one hand) and now they do it with a web of tentacles that reaches into every single device we own. The only ones profiting from that are them.
The USA wants to win the hearts and minds of the Pacific Rim countries and so draw them from the PR of China's ever-greater economic gravity well. However, you catch more flies with honey than vinegar. Why not try an agreement more equal and less weighted to the economic good of one 'partner' (USA) and make these countries feel more welcome? Then, when that works, you can gently start inclinging the pitch of the playing field. The Austrian Empire in the 1800s kept trying to do agreements with the terms being 'we own the ball' and wonderd why the little national units kept not playing nicely. China is smarter: it first gives away goodies, and only when the recipient is well and truly in hock does it yank the chain.
I got a tablet, never used it, gave swiped it and gave it away, and bought a great, light laptop that is my office away from home. I also have a desk PC, a good old-fashioned box, because I like having a mother-ship. I am now eyeing a Samsung galaxy for my coat pocket, to replace an old backBerry. The tablet will not ever tempt me again. It just didn't have enough of what I wanted: power, easy portability, and privacy.
It's not the madness that was Diana-grief. That expands like foam and turned out to be as long-lasting. Cilla has been in people's lives, however tangentally, for decades. Like any person associated with one's childhood, she figures larger than her talent. Why all this begrudging of a pleasant minor star's passing being lamented?
Wow. I've worked alongside you, I believe, or another of your clones. And you are just the same in projects as you are with your kit: assuming you know better, doing your own thing, sneering at the rest of the team... and when you leave, we clean up after you and hoist a pint in celebration of your departure.
I hope that Woods is reasonably successful. The $10m is to scare these jerks. That the internet made it easier for the pond-scum who used to write libellous notes to newspapers as letters to the Editor, or who batch-mailed nasty letters to whole neighbourhoods, to get their nasty giggles to a much more vast audience does not mean that we should simply shrug and say "just ignore it." If the internet is our main street and community, let's keep the creeps from pissing up the walls and throwing dogshit at people.
Please stop being misleading about Lincoln's political party. American parties have general swapped and re-used the words 'Democrat'. 'Republican', 'Federalist' etc over the course of their two-plus centuries. The Republican party of Licoln's time was a fresh start-up and was a radical/liberal party opposed to slavery and so on. Over time, the Democrats and this new Republican party slowly swapped political places, the Democrats heating up the liberal angle and the Republicans, being in power for a long time and getting too settled in, becoming more and more conservative. To say Lincoln = Republican, as if that were the party of today, is juvenile and ignorant, and I sure wish people would stop it.
...because we have had property lawyers for at least 1000 years. Being able to control what you own was just as important for medieval craftsmen and traders caravanning their merchandise over long distances as it is now. Property laws, and the people who can defend them, arose because they were needed. Do you think the early lawyers invented a profession and then hung around the marketplace touting their wares? I don't get the downer on lawyers. I have always got excellent advice and service and I don't mind paying for what I need.
...because this one's ruined by drool now. I salute the awesomeness of my fellow Canadians.
A repy to Me19713: not every organisation can run to water-cooled stuff. As long as I could site this down the hall, I would take fans over water, beause simpler, as long as they do the job.
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