Not to diminish China's achievement, but Russia is definitely way ahead of them or anyone else. Plus AFAIK China's space technology is mostly licensed from Russia. Is politics getting in the way? Well then doesn't it make even more sense to team with Russia since they are now significantly "less communist" than China (even if mass media may not reflect that)?
[I am a project manager on software development project]
Definitely do weekly status reports and release notes (if you have software releases - I do).
You will achieve 2 goals doing status reports and release notes:
1) communicate what you do to other people
2) improve your visibility and justify your necessity to your company.
Both should be a list of items accomplished within last week (or implemented in latest release). Separate user-facing and back-end changes in 2 separate groups - non-technical people will only be interested in user-facing changes, so if they are separate and in the first group - there is more chance people will actually pay attention.
To make it easier to do each week I recommend using some bug/issue tracking software (I use Axosoft Ontime) and if you do any coding - source control system (I use Subversion).
When including item in the list also put the number of item in your bug tracking system at the end of the line. Subversion can be configured to required comments before commit and send email notifications to interested parties after commit. I force my developers to always put descriptive comments and related bug # (if applicable). This makes it easier for me to do weekly status reports/release notes - I just go through these emails at the end of the week.
Send these not only to your boss but to other team members as well.
To find out if someone actually reads these put somewhere in the middle of the list "17) If you are reading this please reply to me with "the eagle has landed" in the subject line". Don't let the fact that only 10% (at best) will respond to discourage you - these maybe the only people that count.
[I am a project manager on software development project]
Definitely do weekly status reports and release notes (if you have software releases - I do).
You will achieve 2 goals doing status reports and release notes:
1) communicate what you do to other people
2) improve your visibility and justify your necessity to your company.
Both should be a list of items accomplished within last week (or implemented in latest release). Separate user-facing and back-end changes in 2 separate groups - non-technical people will only be interested in user-facing changes, so if they are separate and in the first group - there is more chance people will actually pay attention.
To make it easier to do each week I recommend using some bug/issue tracking software (I use Axosoft Ontime) and if you do any coding - source control system (I use Subversion).
When including item in the list also put the number of item in your bug tracking system at the end of the line.
Subversion can be configured to required comments before commit and send email notifications to interested parties after commit. I force my developers to always put descriptive comments and related bug # (if applicable). This makes it easier for me to do weekly status reports/release notes - I just go through these emails at the end of the week.
Send these not only to your boss but to other team members as well.
To find out if someone actually reads these put somewhere in the middle of the list "17) If you are reading this please reply to me with "the eagle has landed" in the subject line". Don't let the fact that only 10% (at best) will respond to discourage you - this maybe the only people that count.
CPU is not a problem. Memory is. As others mentioned, get at least 2GB (total). Also people tend to forget about hard drives. 7200rpm make a noticeable difference comparing to 5400 (I think there was also 4200rpm laptop drives, but not sure. Very often default hard drive on laptops is 5400rpm)
I've read somewhere that wired headset may act as antenna ending in your ear (anyone with better knowledge of physics please chime in). So it may not actually be a solution.
What about the cities? I live in the apartment building, my car is parked on the street wherever I can find a spot. How would I charge it if it was electric? I don't believe new infrastructure (publicly accessible electrical outlets on the sidewalks?) will be built.
Does anyone see a viable solution? The only one I see is quick (semi)automated battery swap at the gas station (or "electric" station). But now that I thought about it it will probably be logistical nightmare - different cars will require different kind of batteries.
I think electric cars will only become viable when the time of full recharge is similar to full tank gas refill and mileage on the full charge is similar to that of full tank of gas.
Does anyone know what % of money that cable/satellite TV providers charge subscribers goes back to content providers? From what I gather - very little but I failed to find any specific information so far.
Anyway, I am thinking about the business model where content providers generate 100% of their income from the subscription fees. No ads at all. Or an option to pay and be rid of 100% of the ads. This of course would drastically change the foundation of broadcast industry and would most likely be blocked by largest advertisers.
At this time it just seems that TV content is nothing but a filler between the commercials. Wasn't it supposed to be the other way around?
The lack of interesting content on TV is a related problem that is just as important. I, for once, just stopped watching TV altogether 7 years ago and haven't had any kind of service since. My decision was 70% motivated by luck of content I was interested in and 30% by annoyance of commercials.
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Not to diminish China's achievement, but Russia is definitely way ahead of them or anyone else. Plus AFAIK China's space technology is mostly licensed from Russia. Is politics getting in the way? Well then doesn't it make even more sense to team with Russia since they are now significantly "less communist" than China (even if mass media may not reflect that)?
[I am a project manager on software development project]
Definitely do weekly status reports and release notes (if you have software releases - I do).
You will achieve 2 goals doing status reports and release notes:
1) communicate what you do to other people
2) improve your visibility and justify your necessity to your company.
Both should be a list of items accomplished within last week (or implemented in latest release). Separate user-facing and back-end changes in 2 separate groups - non-technical people will only be interested in user-facing changes, so if they are separate and in the first group - there is more chance people will actually pay attention.
To make it easier to do each week I recommend using some bug/issue tracking software (I use Axosoft Ontime) and if you do any coding - source control system (I use Subversion).
When including item in the list also put the number of item in your bug tracking system at the end of the line. Subversion can be configured to required comments before commit and send email notifications to interested parties after commit. I force my developers to always put descriptive comments and related bug # (if applicable). This makes it easier for me to do weekly status reports/release notes - I just go through these emails at the end of the week.
Send these not only to your boss but to other team members as well.
To find out if someone actually reads these put somewhere in the middle of the list "17) If you are reading this please reply to me with "the eagle has landed" in the subject line". Don't let the fact that only 10% (at best) will respond to discourage you - these maybe the only people that count.
[I am a project manager on software development project] Definitely do weekly status reports and release notes (if you have software releases - I do). You will achieve 2 goals doing status reports and release notes: 1) communicate what you do to other people 2) improve your visibility and justify your necessity to your company. Both should be a list of items accomplished within last week (or implemented in latest release). Separate user-facing and back-end changes in 2 separate groups - non-technical people will only be interested in user-facing changes, so if they are separate and in the first group - there is more chance people will actually pay attention. To make it easier to do each week I recommend using some bug/issue tracking software (I use Axosoft Ontime) and if you do any coding - source control system (I use Subversion). When including item in the list also put the number of item in your bug tracking system at the end of the line. Subversion can be configured to required comments before commit and send email notifications to interested parties after commit. I force my developers to always put descriptive comments and related bug # (if applicable). This makes it easier for me to do weekly status reports/release notes - I just go through these emails at the end of the week. Send these not only to your boss but to other team members as well. To find out if someone actually reads these put somewhere in the middle of the list "17) If you are reading this please reply to me with "the eagle has landed" in the subject line". Don't let the fact that only 10% (at best) will respond to discourage you - this maybe the only people that count.
CPU is not a problem. Memory is. As others mentioned, get at least 2GB (total). Also people tend to forget about hard drives. 7200rpm make a noticeable difference comparing to 5400 (I think there was also 4200rpm laptop drives, but not sure. Very often default hard drive on laptops is 5400rpm)
This is Apple's ultimate goal!
It took me 30 minutes for clean setup for x64 version on Core 2 Duo 2.1 Ghz, new SATA hard drive (relatively fast).
Is that an addiction too?
I've read somewhere that wired headset may act as antenna ending in your ear (anyone with better knowledge of physics please chime in). So it may not actually be a solution.
Can anyone explain? This is a serious question, believe it or not.
Who is he? Is there any other sources confirming this?
Considering the amount of data (50GB AFAIK) one has to rip and to write to BD-R, how long will it take to do using current technology? Anyone knows?
Don't waste our time
What about the cities? I live in the apartment building, my car is parked on the street wherever I can find a spot. How would I charge it if it was electric? I don't believe new infrastructure (publicly accessible electrical outlets on the sidewalks?) will be built.
Does anyone see a viable solution? The only one I see is quick (semi)automated battery swap at the gas station (or "electric" station). But now that I thought about it it will probably be logistical nightmare - different cars will require different kind of batteries.
I think electric cars will only become viable when the time of full recharge is similar to full tank gas refill and mileage on the full charge is similar to that of full tank of gas.
Does anyone know what % of money that cable/satellite TV providers charge subscribers goes back to content providers? From what I gather - very little but I failed to find any specific information so far. Anyway, I am thinking about the business model where content providers generate 100% of their income from the subscription fees. No ads at all. Or an option to pay and be rid of 100% of the ads. This of course would drastically change the foundation of broadcast industry and would most likely be blocked by largest advertisers. At this time it just seems that TV content is nothing but a filler between the commercials. Wasn't it supposed to be the other way around?
The lack of interesting content on TV is a related problem that is just as important. I, for once, just stopped watching TV altogether 7 years ago and haven't had any kind of service since. My decision was 70% motivated by luck of content I was interested in and 30% by annoyance of commercials.