This person doesn't have to be a geek, but does need to be fluent in both tech talk and managementese. He or she also needs to master the delicate skill of telling the bosses no without offending them, says Adriana Zona, director of IT for Minco, a manufacturer of components for military and medical facilities.
"You can't tell the business side an idea is nonsense if they're the ones who came up with it," she says. "I call these people the bouncers or gatekeepers -- they guard IT from irresponsible requests. Half of their job is saying no in a friendly way. Every IT department is bombarded with these kinds of requests. If you did them all, you wouldn't be doing the right thing for your company."
Time dilation effects only become observable a *lot* closer to c than anything man-made has remotely been.
Relevant link:http://www.1728.com/reltivty.htm
Velocities in ordinary life which to us might seem incredibly fast have only a miniscule relativistic effect. For example, orbital velocity (5 miles per second) produces a relativistic factor of change of only 1.000000000360219.
Travelling at 93,141.1985 miles per second (half the speed of light) produces a factor of 1.1547005383792517. Here the velocity is incredibly fast and yet the change is still quite small.
At.9 times the speed of light, the factor becomes 2.294157338705618. Finally, the effects of relativity become significant.
I think the term is tau factor, which, according to the above site's calculator, is 1.0000000016077795, or a difference of about 1 second subjective time over the last 33 years.
Indeed, I have yet to find anything as original and fun since I first played a decade ago. Only the decline of servers running interesting maps and rulesets has caused my playtime to decrease, hopefully this move will cause a new generation to discover the game and bring their own creative energy to the game. Thank God I finished college before they did this!
My father has been an organic gardener for 30 years and he purchases cottonseed hulls every couple of years for mulch. The parent is correct, these are not "waste" products that are being miraculously turned into useful energy, this application would be a net loss. Hopefully the biofuel bubble will collapse quickly enough for people to wake up to the necessity of responsible energy policy rather than hoping for a magic pill.
If a board position is what you are after, there are fast-track positions for that sort of thing that don't involve 24x7 on-call work fixing OS installs for shops' on-site technician (brother-in-law) at the fabulous rate of $25k/yr (with experience).
I guess education really is good for something, these grads are pretty smart;)
Agreed, just perusing the first chapter reminds me that those things done for love are the best and I look forward to partaking of the author's research and insights. In honesty, I've been grousing about GL's revisionist tendencies in his telling of the 'making of' story behind the films for quite a number of years now. I really would think more of the man and the movies if he would just admit that he 'discovered' his story as he went, as many writers do.
I missed out on doing a CS degree, so I pass no judgement on the following link's veracity, but it does provide an interesting perspective on the conventional wisdom of the development job market
Our WoW guild is very similar, with many parents with both adult and small children. My own children are members and sometimes my wife or I slide over and let them take their turn at the keyboard with the other parent logged on with them. It's not really different from playing 2-player Super Mario Bros. with my dad as an adolescent, and most days my kids and I would rather toss a ball or play an old fashioned card or board game together. PC gaming is more of a novelty for my kids, probably comes from not living the "American Dream" of owning 8 PC's for my kids to get in trouble on where I can't see them, who knows *shrug*. Point is, any affirmative involvement with your kids is a good thing.
The panel contains both the charged and grounded elements required to induce current, it is only necessary to get a hold of each of those sides (such as grabbing exposed conductor in both hands) to make a perfect circuit across your chest. It only takes something less than 1 Amp to stop the heart IIRC. As the previous post said, though, the risk is minimal and these things are done to the limits of safety (we hope).
A similar venture was funded in my home state in 2001; it just got it's NASA funding pulled without a single martini served in orbit, far's I can tell. You'd think it was independent contractors with the lowest bid that built the shuttle, sheesh...
Very likely; it mirrors Microsoft's successful strategy over the years of encouraging development on their platform through discounted educational versions and free reduced-functionality builds of their environments and documentation. Grabbing up significant numbers of hobbyists and developers to keep a synergistic library of apps has to have had a positive impact on maintaining MSWin's momentum in the market.
I'll respectfully disagree here, the article is reporting an opinion of an influential developer, not trying to define anything specific. Wright's echoing the same insight that everyone else has had on the Wii; Nintendo is playing a different game (pardon the pun) from the "Big 2" everyone was watching a couple of years ago, and winning new customers from the disaffected masses that aren't willing to sacrifice feeding their children in exchange for a high-polygon paperweight:) It's not just about the box, it's about strategy IMO.
I'm not suprised to hear this, I have gotten the sense over the last few years (and been guilty myself at times) of an inclination in the US to believe that education is the limit of our involvement in advancing. As though we somehow don't need to apply our knowledge in concert with critical thinking and good old-fashioned hard work, that ridiculous salaries should wash over us as a result of keeping a seat warm and displaying a BS. I think too many of us remember the boom when our MCSE buddies were pulling $50k/yr to play Quake; it's set a bad precedent.
The title is true, but I fear the time for rectifying this is past. WoW has completely changed the landscape since SWG released, and a new Star Wars MMO would be caught in a catch 22 of trying to hit the right marketing formula while avoiding comparisons to its predecessor (NGE, not Pre CU). And there is plenty of speculation that LA had as much to do with the NGE as SOE, or were at least complicit. I'm not up on the licensing technicalities, but I doubt any Star Wars title would ship without LA's touch upon it. With even the best possible intentions, the taint of the NGE may be hard to avoid. Add to this the fact that a KOTOR MMO would not tie-in well with Lucas' upcoming Star Wars projects (set in the Ep III-IV period); KOTOR brings a smaller (though possibly more infuential) demographic; and one would not be ready by the time the nwe Star Wars projects release anyway.
Not that I don't love the iconic characters from the OT, but this is exactly what I've been hoping to see in live action. If Star Wars Revelations is any indication, these kinds of stories could be done on a modest budget with talented and under utilized actors that could elicit the fan response of a Han Solo -ish character while staying low-key enough to allow viewers to be swept up into the absolutely huge and mysterious setting. I think it would be an absolute blast to throw some of the Empire's more obscure minions into the spotlight as a foil to some rebellious or independent spacers on the fringe (a la "Firefly"), similar to some of the plots in the old animated "Star Wars: Droids" from the 80s.
I disagree, this is simply a way to engage students as well as a reflection of the continued change in our culture and economy. I am currently attending an adult studies program and it seems that there is a strong undercurrent of successful professionals that are reinventing themselves several times throughout their careers. Certainly the age of learning a trade and plying a single skill set for life seems to be drawing to a close. Available options and demand are changing too quickly and workers of this century are having to adapt. This shouldn't be seen by observers or administrators as a vocational program but as an opportunity for students to develop patterns of thinking about how to dovetail their interests and abilities with the needs of the marketplace and maintain relevance. I would say we should, as a society, consider what pressures the emerging economy is creating on those preparing to enter the workforce; but as a practical matter the change is already here, and our future will be determined by our ability to adapt.
Who here that remembers the original muds thought that we'd be a lot further along in vr worlds after 3-d near-photo-realistic graphics became prevalent? The market is great at filling needs, but I think it sometimes stinks at serving innovation.
From the report:
"...it was quickly apparent that the files were not really encrypted with 4096-bit RSA....This is a bit bewildering...implementing real 4096-bit RSA is simple and would have made it extremely difficult, if not impossible, to produce a working decryptor without paying $300."
Silly script kiddies.
I use both, but I imagine based on the lack of hype surrounding Thunderbird that the project is a dog for Mozilla (meant in the business model sense), and that's probably not something they need to be saddled with at this stage of the game. Hopefully wherever it lands, the new development house will continue to work closely with Mozilla and stake out their own market. Considering what's been done with OpenOffice and Exchange's expense, surely there's enough demand for a free or open collaboration system which could benefit from continued refinement of Thunderbird as a front-end?
Interesting strategic move, I assume they're trying to leverage the Open Source buzzword without buying in to the free as in speech model, which is where some of the more fascinating innovations in development and marketing could possibly be hatched. Will this make even a ripple in the free software community?
Or at least a more interesting one, I may give up trying to master chess for poker:) The potential for less concrete interactions between players to influence the outcome more closely matches the real-world interaction of individuals IMHO. (And yes, I'm aware that chess games involve plenty of psychology, but not between a human player and computer opponent.)
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This person doesn't have to be a geek, but does need to be fluent in both tech talk and managementese. He or she also needs to master the delicate skill of telling the bosses no without offending them, says Adriana Zona, director of IT for Minco, a manufacturer of components for military and medical facilities. "You can't tell the business side an idea is nonsense if they're the ones who came up with it," she says. "I call these people the bouncers or gatekeepers -- they guard IT from irresponsible requests. Half of their job is saying no in a friendly way. Every IT department is bombarded with these kinds of requests. If you did them all, you wouldn't be doing the right thing for your company."
Relevant link:http://www.1728.com/reltivty.htm
Velocities in ordinary life which to us might seem incredibly fast have only a miniscule relativistic effect. For example, orbital velocity (5 miles per second) produces a relativistic factor of change of only 1.000000000360219. Travelling at 93,141.1985 miles per second (half the speed of light) produces a factor of 1.1547005383792517. Here the velocity is incredibly fast and yet the change is still quite small. At .9 times the speed of light, the factor becomes 2.294157338705618. Finally, the effects of relativity become significant.
I think the term is tau factor, which, according to the above site's calculator, is 1.0000000016077795, or a difference of about 1 second subjective time over the last 33 years.
Indeed, I have yet to find anything as original and fun since I first played a decade ago. Only the decline of servers running interesting maps and rulesets has caused my playtime to decrease, hopefully this move will cause a new generation to discover the game and bring their own creative energy to the game. Thank God I finished college before they did this!
My father has been an organic gardener for 30 years and he purchases cottonseed hulls every couple of years for mulch. The parent is correct, these are not "waste" products that are being miraculously turned into useful energy, this application would be a net loss. Hopefully the biofuel bubble will collapse quickly enough for people to wake up to the necessity of responsible energy policy rather than hoping for a magic pill.
If a board position is what you are after, there are fast-track positions for that sort of thing that don't involve 24x7 on-call work fixing OS installs for shops' on-site technician (brother-in-law) at the fabulous rate of $25k/yr (with experience). I guess education really is good for something, these grads are pretty smart ;)
Agreed, just perusing the first chapter reminds me that those things done for love are the best and I look forward to partaking of the author's research and insights. In honesty, I've been grousing about GL's revisionist tendencies in his telling of the 'making of' story behind the films for quite a number of years now. I really would think more of the man and the movies if he would just admit that he 'discovered' his story as he went, as many writers do.
I missed out on doing a CS degree, so I pass no judgement on the following link's veracity, but it does provide an interesting perspective on the conventional wisdom of the development job market
http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/itaa.real.html/
Our WoW guild is very similar, with many parents with both adult and small children. My own children are members and sometimes my wife or I slide over and let them take their turn at the keyboard with the other parent logged on with them. It's not really different from playing 2-player Super Mario Bros. with my dad as an adolescent, and most days my kids and I would rather toss a ball or play an old fashioned card or board game together. PC gaming is more of a novelty for my kids, probably comes from not living the "American Dream" of owning 8 PC's for my kids to get in trouble on where I can't see them, who knows *shrug*. Point is, any affirmative involvement with your kids is a good thing.
The panel contains both the charged and grounded elements required to induce current, it is only necessary to get a hold of each of those sides (such as grabbing exposed conductor in both hands) to make a perfect circuit across your chest. It only takes something less than 1 Amp to stop the heart IIRC. As the previous post said, though, the risk is minimal and these things are done to the limits of safety (we hope).
A similar venture was funded in my home state in 2001; it just got it's NASA funding pulled without a single martini served in orbit, far's I can tell. You'd think it was independent contractors with the lowest bid that built the shuttle, sheesh...
Very likely; it mirrors Microsoft's successful strategy over the years of encouraging development on their platform through discounted educational versions and free reduced-functionality builds of their environments and documentation. Grabbing up significant numbers of hobbyists and developers to keep a synergistic library of apps has to have had a positive impact on maintaining MSWin's momentum in the market.
I'll respectfully disagree here, the article is reporting an opinion of an influential developer, not trying to define anything specific. Wright's echoing the same insight that everyone else has had on the Wii; Nintendo is playing a different game (pardon the pun) from the "Big 2" everyone was watching a couple of years ago, and winning new customers from the disaffected masses that aren't willing to sacrifice feeding their children in exchange for a high-polygon paperweight :) It's not just about the box, it's about strategy IMO.
I'm not suprised to hear this, I have gotten the sense over the last few years (and been guilty myself at times) of an inclination in the US to believe that education is the limit of our involvement in advancing. As though we somehow don't need to apply our knowledge in concert with critical thinking and good old-fashioned hard work, that ridiculous salaries should wash over us as a result of keeping a seat warm and displaying a BS. I think too many of us remember the boom when our MCSE buddies were pulling $50k/yr to play Quake; it's set a bad precedent.
Exactly; how wide of the good ol' EU to prevent MS from suing people with no money.
Glad I wasn't swayed by all the glowing reviews.
The title is true, but I fear the time for rectifying this is past. WoW has completely changed the landscape since SWG released, and a new Star Wars MMO would be caught in a catch 22 of trying to hit the right marketing formula while avoiding comparisons to its predecessor (NGE, not Pre CU). And there is plenty of speculation that LA had as much to do with the NGE as SOE, or were at least complicit. I'm not up on the licensing technicalities, but I doubt any Star Wars title would ship without LA's touch upon it. With even the best possible intentions, the taint of the NGE may be hard to avoid. Add to this the fact that a KOTOR MMO would not tie-in well with Lucas' upcoming Star Wars projects (set in the Ep III-IV period); KOTOR brings a smaller (though possibly more infuential) demographic; and one would not be ready by the time the nwe Star Wars projects release anyway.
Not that I don't love the iconic characters from the OT, but this is exactly what I've been hoping to see in live action. If Star Wars Revelations is any indication, these kinds of stories could be done on a modest budget with talented and under utilized actors that could elicit the fan response of a Han Solo -ish character while staying low-key enough to allow viewers to be swept up into the absolutely huge and mysterious setting. I think it would be an absolute blast to throw some of the Empire's more obscure minions into the spotlight as a foil to some rebellious or independent spacers on the fringe (a la "Firefly"), similar to some of the plots in the old animated "Star Wars: Droids" from the 80s.
I disagree, this is simply a way to engage students as well as a reflection of the continued change in our culture and economy. I am currently attending an adult studies program and it seems that there is a strong undercurrent of successful professionals that are reinventing themselves several times throughout their careers. Certainly the age of learning a trade and plying a single skill set for life seems to be drawing to a close. Available options and demand are changing too quickly and workers of this century are having to adapt. This shouldn't be seen by observers or administrators as a vocational program but as an opportunity for students to develop patterns of thinking about how to dovetail their interests and abilities with the needs of the marketplace and maintain relevance. I would say we should, as a society, consider what pressures the emerging economy is creating on those preparing to enter the workforce; but as a practical matter the change is already here, and our future will be determined by our ability to adapt.
Who here that remembers the original muds thought that we'd be a lot further along in vr worlds after 3-d near-photo-realistic graphics became prevalent? The market is great at filling needs, but I think it sometimes stinks at serving innovation.
Interesting, the first I heard of the idea was Arthur C. Clarke's Imperial Earth, but they used lasers to blind possible threats instead of LEDs.
Words fail, I can only echo my heartfelt sympathy for all who have suffered loss in this tragedy.
From the report: "...it was quickly apparent that the files were not really encrypted with 4096-bit RSA....This is a bit bewildering...implementing real 4096-bit RSA is simple and would have made it extremely difficult, if not impossible, to produce a working decryptor without paying $300." Silly script kiddies.
I use both, but I imagine based on the lack of hype surrounding Thunderbird that the project is a dog for Mozilla (meant in the business model sense), and that's probably not something they need to be saddled with at this stage of the game. Hopefully wherever it lands, the new development house will continue to work closely with Mozilla and stake out their own market. Considering what's been done with OpenOffice and Exchange's expense, surely there's enough demand for a free or open collaboration system which could benefit from continued refinement of Thunderbird as a front-end?
Interesting strategic move, I assume they're trying to leverage the Open Source buzzword without buying in to the free as in speech model, which is where some of the more fascinating innovations in development and marketing could possibly be hatched. Will this make even a ripple in the free software community?
Or at least a more interesting one, I may give up trying to master chess for poker :) The potential for less concrete interactions between players to influence the outcome more closely matches the real-world interaction of individuals IMHO. (And yes, I'm aware that chess games involve plenty of psychology, but not between a human player and computer opponent.)