You deserve this dough..

Oct 27, 2008

- That's decent news about Yanev opening the door for you or asking for you; whichever. You know you have certain cohorts who are with you on your rights to generate dialog/discussion and bring forth new ideas. Me, I'm only on here when I have the time lately. I was diagnosed with some arthritis in my lower back they won't fix right now, so my time at the keyboard is precious to me and I use it sparingly, but judiciously. So if I'm not chiming in with you on some things don't think I'm not behind you on new ideas. I'm probably otherwise occupied. What we've still tossed around since late last Spring is how to test an experts knowledge correctly and online. The way I feel about paper credentials is rather jaded. Anyone with a few thousand dollars and a few weekends can get a paper certificate on anything they want. Does that mean they are good? No. I've had to work with Novell and MS certified network administrators who had more hubs daisy chained then was feasible in the Network topology. And these were hubs that could easily have been switches for the same price. And I've met an A+ certified PC Tech who thought a USB cable should be longer than 15ft and didn't understand impedance and its affect on DC voltage loss on long wire runs. My point is that having paper is no different than making your own Pigskin in Photo shop. Who is going to be the central legal authority for verification? FixYa won't spend the money, as you know, they're understaffed as it is.

BTW, I asked the new CM to have another 'Get Together Conference" somewhere. She's looking for a gadget guru to be in their booth at the Vegas CE show also if you didn't know. I'm not certain she found one or not.

Later,
Worldvet

On this nut case that's gone under his rock or wherever. You will notice him on his inevitable return by him starting a thread and then overly trying to micromanage the responses This is not like what you wanted to experiment with in credentialing experts (a decent enough idea, just hard to pull off) but this guy talks to himself inside his own threads and if you 'interrupt him' he gets really pissed off.

Anyway, the teaching of English to Help Centers must have been a real tar trap. I hear from my clients who own a new Dell for example (and don't realize, until later, a tech can work on the PC without voiding a warranty-should the tech know what they're doing) that its the heavy accents they have the most trouble with.

Looked at your challenge of another idiot on the board as an expert, and how you taunted him relentlessly. That's what I did wit the other idiots I recognize are back on another name. I just ask them to disclose what other board names they've used before. The normal person will state: "What otehr names?" But, the socially unacceptable will not acknowledge the question at all.

Oct 27, 2008

- I was wondering how many Experts clicked through to by Bunn coffee filters, that appear regularly on the Unanswered questions page.