@coliver said:
@art_of_shred said:
educrats
I've never heard this term before, can you define it?
LMGTFY:
educrat. An officer, administrator or other bureaucrat in a school district. The word combines the Latin part of educator with the Greek part of bureaucrat.
@Bud said:
More than a few of these names look familiar to me, but I'm Bud and I live in Norman, Oklahoma.
I like coffee.
Welcome, Bud. I think we'll get along just fine. 
I've been involved in a small discussion about making business cards that stand out. Already knowing that sometimes my thoughts and ideas are not necessarily in line with the popular opinions (even though they're always brilliant...), I wanted to see what others out there on the receiving end think; so I'll reserve my personal opinions for the comments section. The big question is, what do you think of non-standard format business cards? Square cards, round cards, or other variations.
@Dashrender said:
@thanksaj said:
@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@coliver said:
Welcome to Americanism, where the intelligent and creative get punished and the mediocre get rewarded.
We are a big country, more like India, China and the Philippines. We don't have the luxury of having good education for everyone and high end jobs for everyone like small, elite countries like Norway, Finland and Switzerland have. They don't need "base economy" workers, they have other countries for that nearby. They are small and a huge percentage of their population can have amazing jobs. But the US is too large. Canada could try for that, but the US and Mexico are just too big. We have to provide the service sector, the manufacturing sector, the mining and transportation sectors, the agriculture, the forestry, the tourism. We can't make ourselves supported by banking, design, engineering and research. We can do those things, but they have to be a sideline. The core economy must be able to support hundreds of millions of people.
Great point - we have this broken notion that everyone can be and more importantly, should be at the top of their class, but as Scott pointed out, there just isn't enough room for that. Maybe in 20-50 years when our technology can take over all of the menial service jobs, but not today.
I pity when that happens.
Really? why? sure we'll have a time where we'll have an employment problem but in a generation, with luck we'll have lower population growth, yet at the same time faster knowledge understanding.
For starters, only 10% of the population will ever be in the top 10%. Next, the huddled masses of average people aren't motivated enough to become part of that 10%. Those who are... are what makes up that 10%. Yes, we can do a better job of education, but we first need to understand and admit that not everyone cares or is capable of being excellent at life in general (in terms of education, career, etc.). We need a system that is dynamic enough to meet the needs of those who are under the bar, yet flexible enough to nurture those who are above it. Squeezing both ends to the middle can only result in failure. To cover that inevitable failure, the system lowers the bar. In the end, we get a mechanism for churning out below-average workers.
I just had to step in and take care of this gaping hole in the content of this site. Was this a mere oversight? Is there something deeper and far more sinister being woven into the fabric of this community? How can we claim to be an IT community of the geeks, by the geeks, and for the geeks... and yet not a single topic is dedicated to bacon? I distinctly recall a post praising coffee and its obvious merits. So without further ado, let's have a "bacon" thread!
@thanksaj said:
@art_of_shred said:
@Dashrender said:
@thanksaj said:
@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@coliver said:
Welcome to Americanism, where the intelligent and creative get punished and the mediocre get rewarded.
We are a big country, more like India, China and the Philippines. We don't have the luxury of having good education for everyone and high end jobs for everyone like small, elite countries like Norway, Finland and Switzerland have. They don't need "base economy" workers, they have other countries for that nearby. They are small and a huge percentage of their population can have amazing jobs. But the US is too large. Canada could try for that, but the US and Mexico are just too big. We have to provide the service sector, the manufacturing sector, the mining and transportation sectors, the agriculture, the forestry, the tourism. We can't make ourselves supported by banking, design, engineering and research. We can do those things, but they have to be a sideline. The core economy must be able to support hundreds of millions of people.
Great point - we have this broken notion that everyone can be and more importantly, should be at the top of their class, but as Scott pointed out, there just isn't enough room for that. Maybe in 20-50 years when our technology can take over all of the menial service jobs, but not today.
I pity when that happens.
Really? why? sure we'll have a time where we'll have an employment problem but in a generation, with luck we'll have lower population growth, yet at the same time faster knowledge understanding.
For starters, only 10% of the population will ever be in the top 10%. Next, the huddled masses of average people aren't motivated enough to become part of that 10%. Those who are... are what makes up that 10%. Yes, we can do a better job of education, but we first need to understand and admit that not everyone cares or is capable of being excellent at life in general (in terms of education, career, etc.). We need a system that is dynamic enough to meet the needs of those who are under the bar, yet flexible enough to nurture those who are above it. Squeezing both ends to the middle can only result in failure. To cover that inevitable failure, the system lowers the bar. In the end, we get a mechanism for churning out below-average workers.
To be honest, I think the way classes are organized is backwards. While lumping people by ability seems smart, you have the brilliant but lazy kids together with the smart and hard-working, and some above-average and extremely diligent, all in one class. It would make more sense to go, not by aptitude, but attitude. Put all the kids willing to work their ass off together and mentor to kids as necessary. Put all the kids who don't give a $4!+ in another class. Assign teachers accordingly. You'd probably yield much more productive results, albeit not in terms of statistics.
That's kind of how it was when I was in grade school. We had 4 groups per class. In 6th grade, there was 6-1, 6-2, 6-3, and 6-4. The 1's were the upper crust. It had to be a mix though, as 4 relatively equal-in-size groups had to be parsed out of the total group. Still, it set the pace closer to what the group was ready for. Too bad all the whiners had to come around and complain "it's not fair", and even worse that anyone listened.
There are 2 places to get the agent for Windows. You can get them on the web site: http://www.unitrends.com/support/latest-agent-releases , or you can pull them from the share on the appliance (UEB). If you go to your server, open up <Run> and enter \192.168.1.50 (ex. ...it's whatever the IP of the UEB is) you can see the Windows Agent Share folder and get it from there. There will be a 32 and 64 bit option, as well as the bare metal agent, which is only for physical Windows platforms (not virtual).
It's so hard to come up with a good serious band name. All the cool ones are silly, and all the serious ones sound like you're trying too hard. I like 'The Kings of Uranus". How about that?
I think I found the primary issue here. What the heck are you guys doing reading Barbie books? Get a life, man! Is that what you do in your spare time, when you're not watching "ABBA" musicals? Sheesh.
You can create a CIFS or NFS share on your NAS to attach storage that way. Here's how...
http://support.unitrends.com/ikm/questions.php?questionid=936
@scottalanmiller said:
@MattSpeller said:
@art_of_shred said:
True, but can you imagine Mad Max in a electric? Wow, that's just lame.
Solar panels and batteries in the desert would make a hell of a lot more sense than random oil rigs / refineries
And everything would be so much faster. And you could sneak up on people better.
I'd have to put playing cards in the wheels.
Well, it's not just Skype. I've encountered plenty of software that is legitimate software that doesn't actually close when you click the "X". It's mildly annoying, but it hasn't caused me to question the motives or legitimacy of the manufacturer or the product. It's just annoying and I learn how to make it do what I want. If people in general aren't that smart... well... too bad for them.
So, you're saying there's a chance I could make it as a singer?
@PSX_Defector Good point, unless it's a soft-switch that is routed through a computer somewhere, which is unlikely but still possible. I don't know, so can't say for sure.
I still say the same thing I have been saying all along. If there were any nude pics on my phone, they would NOT be of myself! What kind of person has nude pics of themselves on their phone? The only thing that would make sense is if they were purposely taken to send to someone else. At that point, there are any number of avenues they can take to being viewed by God-knows-who out there. At the very least, whoever the intended recipient was probably showed them to all his buddies. Dumb. Just dumb. Or, it was done on purpose. Either way, how is that Google's problem or fault?
I thought this was a random thread. There seems to be a very pronounced pattern as of late...
@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
I wonder if this is true given that they lost my account
Do you use your NTG account (assuming that's the one that's lost) as your MS account for Windows 10?
Also, I don't think O365 accounts have anything to do with MS accounts in regards to the MS account that Windows 10 uses for things like OneDrive and the Windows Store. even though the account name and password might be the same, but I could be wrong.
Correct. MS account is totally separate from O365 account.
