Wednesday, January 07, 2015

 

Frame work for ethical decision making




·  Which option will produce the most good and do the least harm? (The Utilitarian Approach)
·  Which option best respects the rights of all who have a stake? (The Rights Approach)
·  Which option treats people equally or proportionately? (The Justice Approach)
·  Which option best serves the community
as a whole, not just some members?
(The Common Good Approach)
·  Which option leads me to act as the sort of person I want to be? (The Virtue Approach) -
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Similar detail description of the five approaches:
Test  your ethical dilemma with different tests based on five approaches mentioned above with examples:

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Saturday, January 03, 2015

 

Copy folders without content



Freeware Treecopy  is small utility that could do this task with graphical interface.
As the Treecopy briefly states - Have you ever needed to copy a directory structure without copying the files? TreeCopy now makes this possible. Our small program will allow you to select the "from directory" and "into directory", and it will proceed to copy ONLY the directory structure(only folders with names are copied, no contents are copied). The utility is bundled with functionality such as a command line interface, calculate directories, Windows XP look and feel and much, much more!

If you would like to use command line cmd or other options, you may look up the following website:


 

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Friday, January 02, 2015

 

Date to corresponding day in MS Excel



Say you put on the date in D20 cell and want to get corresponding day in the previous cell C20. In this case the command to be written at the function box located in the top of excel sheet(just after fx symbol)after you put in your cursor in C20   is as follows:
D20 cell: 1/10/2015
C20 cell: =TEXT(WEEKDAY(D20),"dddd")

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