Just because you have an Open Source Project you should always try to keep professional about it. This doesn't mean you cannot have some light hearted humor going around for names. But you need to think if you are in a business meeting and you need to bring up the name, would you feel uncomfortable using the words. Or after the meeting you have been sent to HR for some additional "Sensitivity Training".
Are Americans in general a kinda overboard about these things... Sure but why make a product that you want to share with everyone, then put words in it to make people uncomfortable using it? It just isn't professional.
A couple years ago I was at universal studios in August (a hot time to be in Florida) what they had was a kiosk of misting stations just some pipes pumping a fine mist of water to a group of 10 people at a time. For about a minute in those you feel better for about 15 minutes. But you could store a large tub of water and a gas pump and place these at key locations. After you are done you take it apart and pack it away.
Legacy systems built over the years rarely if ever are pure in style, and every intro programmer goes back and sees the legacy code will gasp in horror that they did things that way.
Early LAMP designs were often very basic. With SQL queries built right in in a bunch of random spots, yes it is bad design, but the alternative was parsing a flat text file.
Many apps were not really expected to be huge, but released fast when you want a fast release there is little time architecting it to work well. I use to be a Software Architect at a former job, who demanded the product to be released fast. So the best I could do is give a basic structure on how it should work and pray to God that the developers do a good job. Then I got a boss who was more interested in control of his product idea, that we would be punished for trying to advocate best practices. And he used buzz words like "this is agile development" or "enterprise class" while the method he had us do it just made it worse.
The moral is, bad code is an organizational problem, not any one person in the chain.
Besides religion there are other good reasons why you don't want that information to be public. Sexual activity is a private thing, and should be kept that way. 1. Showing that you have too much or two little says things about your private life that you may not want to be public. Eg. You got onto an argument that day, or get other worried that your relationship is failing.
2. If you are trying to have children, you may not want to let the public know this until it is fact. As this could effect ones personal career.
3. It makes it unconfortable for those who are not getting some.
Call Center jobs in the United States are considered very low end jobs with a high turn over, because most Americans even in this economic situation can get better jobs. Hence why they go to India or other countries, mostly because it is cheaper, but also because it is considered a good job if you can take it there so you get a better work from there. The problem isn't that jobs are being outsourced, or even the Visas. It is that The United States lately has seemed to lag in Creating new types of jobs.
20/30 years ago Computer Jobs were big bucks you can get a good paying job as a Computer Operator, and Data Entry. Today such skills are basic for all new employees. Today Computers while advancing are not state of the art, the industry as matured and best practices have been made.
But the world and America hasn't done much lately to create new industries. We see some cool stuff in Nano-technology and Bio-Engineering, and in other areas but not enough for a good market to come out with people with new skills to come in and people can venture in without experience because no one has experience in that field.
America past success was creating new industry capitalizing on it until it matured, then pass it off to the rest of the world while it goes onto the next big thing. But Nano-Tech and Bio-Engineering has brought up a lot of resistant people from Religious Zealots, to Hyper-Liberal Envionuts (Who think they are liberal, just because they don't like the Religious Zealots, or confuse being a democrat with being liberal) who are fighting tooth and nail against the next big thing from taking place.
As the TFA stated "10% of Americans are Wicked Smart" we need to start using our brain power more on solving the problem then using it to go against some political party (both sides) who is catering to get the other 90% vote. Don't worry about outsourcing jobs, if you are then you have already been doomed as you see a world were we cannot create the next new thing. And if we cannot create the next new thing then outsourced jobs is the least of our concern.
That is a stupid assignment for a community college. Many students are doing adult learning and their computers are provided by work are rather tightly locked down. As well installing an OS incorrectly could whipe out all their existing data.
And the off chance some one like me comes in the class. Who has tried a lot of OS's DOS Windows GEM Unixs VMS AS400 PrimeOS Linux Mac OS OS X Plan 9 Minuette Inferno And I am knowing I am missing some.
It is just the professor pushing people to use Linux
$250k to compensate the college for trying out a new technology. I get the feeling that the university didn't really want to go to Google Apps anyways but used to as a bargaining chip with Microsoft. Organizations have done this before all the time. I don't know Boeing, Air Bus seem like a better deal. Or You know Ford we like those Chevy's for our fleet trucks. An educated consumer can really give those evil corporations a ride. (They just make all their money off of the stupid consumers)
Yes yes, America's Low End Mass produced consumer product is of lower quality the Europe's Mid/Upper range quality products. Everything is better in Europe even the tear gas launched at protesters because your government cannot afford your raise.
The Flying Car is one of those things that I see will take a while before technology really gets there and mature enough to be useful. But there are real benefits towards the flying car. Lets say a flying car will only be allowed to fly 50 ft in the air, and over existing roadways, and you need 15 clearance over the car. you can still triple the volume that our current roadways take.
Yes once the kinks and technology gets out only the rich will afford the flying cars, then as production moves and more kinks are clear up it will become more popular. I think the major hurdle is making these guys energy efficient. As a road car doesn't need use energy to keep it above gravity
Probably. There is a huge difference from hair used as a material to hair found in your food. Should should be more creaped out from your keyboard on your PC.
Well I think it is more to the fact the Plastic lens takes up just as much plastic or more then the frames do. Especially the fact that they grind down 50% and toss away of the lens so it can fit in the frames.
Environmentalism isn't about Facts, it is about finding ways to be get a leg up being snottier to your neighbors, or feeling good about spending more money, for a lesser quality good. That said I am glad that people are looking into different types of producing materials. Hair and plant resin seems a lot like the concept on concrete and iron re-bar where the resin offers the hardness and compression strength and the hair gives it flexibility, and stops it from shattering.
-10C what do you live in the tropics or something? Where I live you need to be wary of driving into Bose–Einstein condensate, well I exaggerate but -30c days are common during the winter.
Well there are a few advantages to being in the gym. 1. You have 365day 24 hours access, without problems of weather getting in the way. Biking in even an inch of snow is very tough and dangerous. 2. Not all roads are safe for bikers. I happen to live on some high volume county roads where there isn't much of a breakdown lane (if any) and a lot of large trucks drive by. 3. When biking you need to bike until you are Half warn out so you can turn around and go back the other way... Judging when you are half warn out is tough. A gym bike you can go on for a long time. Once you can't go any further you can stop without trying to figure out how to go back home. 4. You can increase your distance every day, normal biking (if you travel in a loop to prevent #3) you go the same distance. 5. You can try different methods, after a while you get use to your ride and once you switch you are off guard and realize you weren't as good as you thought you were.
Well going up a steep hill even if you are on the lowest gear is still a lot harder going flat on high gear. I cant talk about pros but myself I feel the urge to try to bike at the same speed. So while I am in in low gear I am peddling faster up the hill burring a lot more energy.
It the republicans fault, it's the democrats fault. It's every Americans fault! Including me! Fine we made mistakes, now what? Polarizing each party so they are debating purely on philosophy won't help. It will make the liberals more liberal and the conservatives more conservative.
The US culture has a trait "rugged individualism" which both helps us and hinders us. Socialism will not work in the US because of it. And because of it we need government control to stop us from going to short sighted.
We need to get away from politics and blaming "the Man" for all the problems and go out and make yourself better. Take a risk start that company you wanted to start, look harder for the job that pays better. Stop worrying about those nutjobs that the news is covering. Focus on your life and then when election time come vote for who you want. After it is over get back to your life.
All this political bickering distracts us from our real lives.
If your group did something to really annoy a government, and said government really wants to get you, chances are you will get caught. It may not be IT related you brag about it to your friends, they may mention that they know said person who did this, the trick is to find the 5 degrees of separation which the path will bring you to the person.
I think America is going threw a generational change right now. Those Baby boomers who were born after WWII are now retiring and us Generation X, and Y didn't get the best hand off. I predict that things will get better once Gen X and Y picks up the touch again and relearns some lessons, that wasn't passed down to us.
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Just because you have an Open Source Project you should always try to keep professional about it. This doesn't mean you cannot have some light hearted humor going around for names. But you need to think if you are in a business meeting and you need to bring up the name, would you feel uncomfortable using the words. Or after the meeting you have been sent to HR for some additional "Sensitivity Training".
Are Americans in general a kinda overboard about these things... Sure but why make a product that you want to share with everyone, then put words in it to make people uncomfortable using it? It just isn't professional.
A couple years ago I was at universal studios in August (a hot time to be in Florida) what they had was a kiosk of misting stations just some pipes pumping a fine mist of water to a group of 10 people at a time. For about a minute in those you feel better for about 15 minutes. But you could store a large tub of water and a gas pump and place these at key locations. After you are done you take it apart and pack it away.
Legacy systems built over the years rarely if ever are pure in style, and every intro programmer goes back and sees the legacy code will gasp in horror that they did things that way.
Early LAMP designs were often very basic. With SQL queries built right in in a bunch of random spots, yes it is bad design, but the alternative was parsing a flat text file.
Many apps were not really expected to be huge, but released fast when you want a fast release there is little time architecting it to work well. I use to be a Software Architect at a former job, who demanded the product to be released fast. So the best I could do is give a basic structure on how it should work and pray to God that the developers do a good job. Then I got a boss who was more interested in control of his product idea, that we would be punished for trying to advocate best practices. And he used buzz words like "this is agile development" or "enterprise class" while the method he had us do it just made it worse.
The moral is, bad code is an organizational problem, not any one person in the chain.
Besides religion there are other good reasons why you don't want that information to be public. Sexual activity is a private thing, and should be kept that way.
1. Showing that you have too much or two little says things about your private life that you may not want to be public. Eg. You got onto an argument that day, or get other worried that your relationship is failing.
2. If you are trying to have children, you may not want to let the public know this until it is fact. As this could effect ones personal career.
3. It makes it unconfortable for those who are not getting some.
Call Center jobs in the United States are considered very low end jobs with a high turn over, because most Americans even in this economic situation can get better jobs. Hence why they go to India or other countries, mostly because it is cheaper, but also because it is considered a good job if you can take it there so you get a better work from there.
The problem isn't that jobs are being outsourced, or even the Visas. It is that The United States lately has seemed to lag in Creating new types of jobs.
20/30 years ago Computer Jobs were big bucks you can get a good paying job as a Computer Operator, and Data Entry. Today such skills are basic for all new employees. Today Computers while advancing are not state of the art, the industry as matured and best practices have been made.
But the world and America hasn't done much lately to create new industries. We see some cool stuff in Nano-technology and Bio-Engineering, and in other areas but not enough for a good market to come out with people with new skills to come in and people can venture in without experience because no one has experience in that field.
America past success was creating new industry capitalizing on it until it matured, then pass it off to the rest of the world while it goes onto the next big thing.
But Nano-Tech and Bio-Engineering has brought up a lot of resistant people from Religious Zealots, to Hyper-Liberal Envionuts (Who think they are liberal, just because they don't like the Religious Zealots, or confuse being a democrat with being liberal) who are fighting tooth and nail against the next big thing from taking place.
As the TFA stated "10% of Americans are Wicked Smart" we need to start using our brain power more on solving the problem then using it to go against some political party (both sides) who is catering to get the other 90% vote. Don't worry about outsourcing jobs, if you are then you have already been doomed as you see a world were we cannot create the next new thing. And if we cannot create the next new thing then outsourced jobs is the least of our concern.
That is a stupid assignment for a community college.
Many students are doing adult learning and their computers are provided by work are rather tightly locked down. As well installing an OS incorrectly could whipe out all their existing data.
And the off chance some one like me comes in the class. Who has tried a lot of OS's
DOS
Windows
GEM
Unixs
VMS
AS400
PrimeOS
Linux
Mac OS
OS X
Plan 9
Minuette
Inferno
And I am knowing I am missing some.
It is just the professor pushing people to use Linux
$250k to compensate the college for trying out a new technology. I get the feeling that the university didn't really want to go to Google Apps anyways but used to as a bargaining chip with Microsoft. Organizations have done this before all the time. I don't know Boeing, Air Bus seem like a better deal. Or You know Ford we like those Chevy's for our fleet trucks. An educated consumer can really give those evil corporations a ride. (They just make all their money off of the stupid consumers)
Yes yes, America's Low End Mass produced consumer product is of lower quality the Europe's Mid/Upper range quality products. Everything is better in Europe even the tear gas launched at protesters because your government cannot afford your raise.
They use Linux and PostgreSQL. That means it is the most superior design right?
Sorry I couldn't come to work today. I was at the buffet last night.
And it is not just Americans that means these cars cannot carry two healthy weight people. 200lbs man and 130 lbs woman.
The Flying Car is one of those things that I see will take a while before technology really gets there and mature enough to be useful. But there are real benefits towards the flying car. Lets say a flying car will only be allowed to fly 50 ft in the air, and over existing roadways, and you need 15 clearance over the car. you can still triple the volume that our current roadways take.
Yes once the kinks and technology gets out only the rich will afford the flying cars, then as production moves and more kinks are clear up it will become more popular. I think the major hurdle is making these guys energy efficient. As a road car doesn't need use energy to keep it above gravity
Probably.
There is a huge difference from hair used as a material to hair found in your food. Should should be more creaped out from your keyboard on your PC.
Or goats, cows, and other animals with horns that we raise and and kill daily for food.
Well I think it is more to the fact the Plastic lens takes up just as much plastic or more then the frames do. Especially the fact that they grind down 50% and toss away of the lens so it can fit in the frames.
Environmentalism isn't about Facts, it is about finding ways to be get a leg up being snottier to your neighbors, or feeling good about spending more money, for a lesser quality good. That said I am glad that people are looking into different types of producing materials. Hair and plant resin seems a lot like the concept on concrete and iron re-bar where the resin offers the hardness and compression strength and the hair gives it flexibility, and stops it from shattering.
That would be so cool to watch in a gym.
I have seen bikes where you peddle to power a fan that blows on you, the faster you peddle the more the fan blows.
-10C what do you live in the tropics or something? Where I live you need to be wary of driving into Bose–Einstein condensate, well I exaggerate but -30c days are common during the winter.
Well there are a few advantages to being in the gym.
1. You have 365day 24 hours access, without problems of weather getting in the way. Biking in even an inch of snow is very tough and dangerous.
2. Not all roads are safe for bikers. I happen to live on some high volume county roads where there isn't much of a breakdown lane (if any) and a lot of large trucks drive by.
3. When biking you need to bike until you are Half warn out so you can turn around and go back the other way... Judging when you are half warn out is tough. A gym bike you can go on for a long time. Once you can't go any further you can stop without trying to figure out how to go back home.
4. You can increase your distance every day, normal biking (if you travel in a loop to prevent #3) you go the same distance.
5. You can try different methods, after a while you get use to your ride and once you switch you are off guard and realize you weren't as good as you thought you were.
Well going up a steep hill even if you are on the lowest gear is still a lot harder going flat on high gear. I cant talk about pros but myself I feel the urge to try to bike at the same speed. So while I am in in low gear I am peddling faster up the hill burring a lot more energy.
It the republicans fault, it's the democrats fault.
It's every Americans fault! Including me!
Fine we made mistakes, now what? Polarizing each party so they are debating purely on philosophy won't help. It will make the liberals more liberal and the conservatives more conservative.
The US culture has a trait "rugged individualism" which both helps us and hinders us. Socialism will not work in the US because of it. And because of it we need government control to stop us from going to short sighted.
We need to get away from politics and blaming "the Man" for all the problems and go out and make yourself better. Take a risk start that company you wanted to start, look harder for the job that pays better. Stop worrying about those nutjobs that the news is covering. Focus on your life and then when election time come vote for who you want. After it is over get back to your life.
All this political bickering distracts us from our real lives.
Interpol?
If your group did something to really annoy a government, and said government really wants to get you, chances are you will get caught. It may not be IT related you brag about it to your friends, they may mention that they know said person who did this, the trick is to find the 5 degrees of separation which the path will bring you to the person.
I think America is going threw a generational change right now. Those Baby boomers who were born after WWII are now retiring and us Generation X, and Y didn't get the best hand off. I predict that things will get better once Gen X and Y picks up the touch again and relearns some lessons, that wasn't passed down to us.
But probably reduce people getting digital copies of the presentation so they can reference it later.