Well, in my opinion, this increase of productivity is short term only and will not result in overall raise in productivity through whole company. I have several reasons for this:
After some time people will feel comfortable with this new way and start to chat about non-working issues constantly which will drag other employees that would otherwise work into the debate. Have one such person and it destroys morale of whole team.
Even if they will work more, they will soon feel tired and start to complain that they work too much. You can go on for 6 months, maybe longer, but then you will start to feel exhausted. The company will slowly start to lose their best employees. Since the best always leave first.
The team work will make the best work more since the begginers will constantly ask some questions and ask for help. When you are let alone, you at least try to do something yourself, but when you have guru at hand, its so much easier to raise your head and fire a question.
Despite of this, I think this type of work can be used, but not constantly. In my opinion you can do 2 days a week some kind of workshop where all of the team work together and the rest of week close them in cubes. This would most likely serve pretty well.
I'd say, forget EU countries and go in one of these countries that are civilized enough, but yet only apply for membership in EU. To name few: Hungary, Czech Republic, Poland, Latvia.
The shortage of IT workers is same, the locals often move in other countries towards west. But the appreciation for someone from the west with a bit of experience and know-how could make it worth for you. You will most likely make it with English only since most of local folks now takes english like a second language.
For any country, start with US company having offices in this country. IBM, Microsoft, PriceWaterHouseCoopers, Andersen Consulting, and similar big companies are everywhere and usually have all workers english-speaking.
Expect to earn less money, than in US, but the lower cost of living makes it kinda easy for you in case you have some savings. Get $50k and buy yourself nice house. But really ponder to leave US in case you have some debt there...
If you will have good experience, you might even get net savings after taxes comparable or higher to what you get in high-living-costs areas like Silicon Valley.
Ad (1) You can use file utility together with some easy config to make very easy and effective scripts like 'exec', 'open', 'view' or whatever that will open file with appropriate application for the given type. Wonder no one did so far...
And you have no problems with name of files. With tab-completion as a standard feature of bash, you never really type the name or ls anymore.:)
Ad (2) even in GUI you can use keyboard and shortcuts. If you will learn to use them, then even the selection of files will go in instant.
Its all only about what you get used to. With the difference that pointing device has kind of limited capabilities compared to keyboard. So in case you will use only mouse, you will be always loser.
No it's not, asshole! IP addresses of hosts within a network change, a naming system needs to stand one layer higher to allow the owner of the network some flexibility. IP addresses have all sorts of problems for use as host names, multiple hosts per IP, multiple IPs per host and so on
You've ever heard about IPv6?
Wake up: DNS is disintegrating as we speak and ICANN is not helping. What do you think is the solution?
Well... DNS is fine, its just US domains that are the pain. And even... unless you will get some change to the whole concept, you hardly get any improvement. Search engines can help here some.
Its called IP address, stupid!
Thats the first and main reason, why DNS was created at all. Because people had problems to remember IP addressed. And also because when you just hear about a company 'Underplunder, Inc.' you don't have to suck out of your finger some name, but can just try underplunder.com and you might get your match...
You are Americans, well, I don't disagree with you. None the less if you won't care about the rest of world, your diplomatic relations will cool down. You will have harder time to deal with other countries. You will have hard time to keep peace in middle east so these sources of oil you are so much dependent on would not stop to flow. You will have much harder time in export and import of other goods, you should better check labels on items around you. Many of them are made in China (mostly) or other foreign countries. You are Americans, you might not care for the rest of world, but like it or not, you are too far from being independent on it.
I won't vote since I am not a citizen of US. Yep, surprise, there are such among slashdot readers:)
Although I have followed all the campaign carefully all along and I have to say that I was really disappointed that NO ONE during the whole process asked a question: "How will other countries view US and how will change their dealing with US in case Bush (Gore) will get elected?" I think that US is one of the most self-centric countries in the world and you should definitely start to look out of your borders. The world does not end there.
I personally think that experience of other countries with former president George Bush were not really the best ones and that a lot of countries is concerned about electing his son who will be surely under huge impact of his father. Its even told much more out of US borders, that its George Bush senior running for yet another presidential term. I would definitely expect international relations to cool down somewhat in case he will get elected.
On the other hand most of Europe is now ruled by Social democrats, and in case Gore will get elected, US will experience continuation of very good political relations with Europe region.
Also consider that Gore is not babbling with idiotic smile frozen on his face. Try to imagine yourself in a skin of foreign president who would need to talk some serious business with Bush... I would comfort such person in advance.
I personally don't like social democrats in europe and democrats in US are the same sort, but I have to say that considering what are US republicans, then my choice would be clear.
Well, in Europe its pretty easy. There are only two stances. First is this one of EU. Many states that are not in EU are right now in process of requesting membership in EU which means that their laws have to comply with standards and policies of EU, before they get accepted. So in these states (like Czech Republic, Hungaria and Poland in first wave and Slovakia, baltic countries, Chroatia and others in second wave) is the situation similar to this in EU.
The other stance is the one of Rusia, Ukraine, Belorus, and other countries of Soviet Union. Most of them have none legislative or do not have institutions to enforce their laws.
Well, I think that this is Good Thing(TM) what they did. A sect that uses hypnosis and all other possible methods of modern psychology to get new members and then strip them of all their possession you can never be sure of anything. These people are severly harmful to the society.
On the other hand it might also prove as good idea how to fight MSFT in Europe... if this will go through, someone will go and prove that Bill himself is scientologist or whatever:)
Let out this stupid (or any later version) clause. I am not going to distribute my programs under licence that I do not know! After all, Linus Torvlads recently expressed similar concerns.
This ASP loophole closed. You can see that more or less every company is now focusing on service oriented programming. What the heck you think.NET is all about? M$ using GPLed code now without any problems...
Use of daemons from GPLed code once they communicate through in-site interface. I fear that the other case when these provide interface to non-GPLed code won't be possible to cover.
Kasparov lost most likely due to some problems that didn't let him concentrate and prepare fully for the game, but he is still so far ahead, that I am pretty sure he will return very soon. He is natural genius supported with extremly hard work, sometimes I really wonder how much work he put in his preparations. He is the kind of strategic mastermind that none of US generals would like to face in battle:)
Well... this saturday I crossed atlantic in plane... 30000 feet only and -57C (some where around -70F) well... talk about temperature... I suppose that in these 165000 feet it will be even a bit lower... under -100C... She is going to spend over 15 minutes at these extreme temperatures... it should burn all uncovered skin for sure.. and I would bet she will blackout in the warmout. Because subjectively the change will be like if you would jump in +70C hot water... basicly no way!
Well, the interesting part on this is the speed at which she will go. I thought that this might already cause some deformations and I would almost surely expect something broken...
And by the way she does not need to bother screaming, because at this speed she will be down much sooner than they will even hear her scream:)
I suppose that for any serious work on Mars that would require these tons of water, we will anyway need a lot of energy. And since they will prolly have to build nuclear powerplant there, the issue of water is kind of irrelevant with so much ice...
BTW It would be anyway kinda problematic to get the water to surface without letting it freeze to ice again... considering the temperature on Mars's surface.
What you describe here is exactly the kind of self-censorship they want us all force into. I've lived for most of my life in communist country where they used oppression and terror, not for the sake of it, but to make people to start with self-censorship. And it worked great. You should come and see the mental damage that is done to the people here even now...
I am natively speaking Czech/Slovak and my primary and secondary language are German and Russian, but you cannot help it. If you work around computers, you simply HAVE TO learn english. There is no way how to get around it. I have few friends that tried, but either they overcome incredible difficulties or they just gave up. But however english is my third foreign language, it soon became the one that I use most.
There is several reasons why english spread so much, but I think one is really important. You can learn just 3000 words to be able to fully express yourself in most cases. Basic english is something that really helps this language to spread. When you count into it kind of easy grammar...
And I especially like that there are no special symbols, special characters, just all the basic latin characters and thats it. Don't even talk about ease of computer recognition...
But what I think will move english forward is the fact that more and more 3rd world countries use english as their official language. And these countries are now stepping forward too...
I cannot find WinME in the list. I tried to play with them, but they are so terribly borring. I have to say that its absolutelly no improvement from the previous version of this point&click game.
This seems to be only one step from 'virtual CDs'. Just think what is the price of CD composed from:
price of media
price of production
price of distribution
profit for record company
fee to some copyright organization
sales tax
Now when you could buy a virtual CD, something like a legal ownership of the music, then you could download and use the mp3 legally. I am pretty sure that price of CD without the first 3 components and with reduced 4th one would go into more than affordable range. Then mp3.com could provide this service of selling virtual CDs to gain legal permit to the songs:)
Why there are laws and regulations that are targeted against or in favor of some religion groups? Do you feel this as problem? What are you and your party going to do against it?
In other words, how much in your opinion should government affect minor (non-Christian) religions by accepting or supporting laws that propagate some (Christian) moral values and inhibit other sets or subsets of moral values?
Don't you think that accepting of such laws will severly harm all moral values in the nation since laws are trying hard to replace (, dictate and enforce) moral values to people?
I always wondered to these people who keep preinstalled OS on their computers. Its like to have a hacker with full root access on your computer and let it be. The only you can do to be sure the system you have is secure is to install it yourself or get it from some image certified by some authority, but to trust some PC selling company is like to trust a hacker who claims he is White Hat!
People, please, don't try to return back to metered access. The only who earns on this is the telephone company. The only reason that blocks the expansion of internet in Europe is that there are not flat rates for phone calls!
Low flat rates of phone calls is something that everyone envies you. In czech republic you get aproximatelly 20 times lower income than in US at average ($2500/year) and you can pay up to $200 per month for phone in case you use internet. $30/month is dream of anyone there even though the income is much lower!
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- After some time people will feel comfortable with this new way and start to chat about non-working issues constantly which will drag other employees that would otherwise work into the debate. Have one such person and it destroys morale of whole team.
- Even if they will work more, they will soon feel tired and start to complain that they work too much. You can go on for 6 months, maybe longer, but then you will start to feel exhausted. The company will slowly start to lose their best employees. Since the best always leave first.
- The team work will make the best work more since the begginers will constantly ask some questions and ask for help. When you are let alone, you at least try to do something yourself, but when you have guru at hand, its so much easier to raise your head and fire a question.
Despite of this, I think this type of work can be used, but not constantly. In my opinion you can do 2 days a week some kind of workshop where all of the team work together and the rest of week close them in cubes. This would most likely serve pretty well.The shortage of IT workers is same, the locals often move in other countries towards west. But the appreciation for someone from the west with a bit of experience and know-how could make it worth for you. You will most likely make it with English only since most of local folks now takes english like a second language.
For any country, start with US company having offices in this country. IBM, Microsoft, PriceWaterHouseCoopers, Andersen Consulting, and similar big companies are everywhere and usually have all workers english-speaking.
Expect to earn less money, than in US, but the lower cost of living makes it kinda easy for you in case you have some savings. Get $50k and buy yourself nice house. But really ponder to leave US in case you have some debt there...
If you will have good experience, you might even get net savings after taxes comparable or higher to what you get in high-living-costs areas like Silicon Valley.
Ad (1) You can use file utility together with some easy config to make very easy and effective scripts like 'exec', 'open', 'view' or whatever that will open file with appropriate application for the given type. Wonder no one did so far...
And you have no problems with name of files. With tab-completion as a standard feature of bash, you never really type the name or ls anymore. :)
Ad (2) even in GUI you can use keyboard and shortcuts. If you will learn to use them, then even the selection of files will go in instant.
Its all only about what you get used to. With the difference that pointing device has kind of limited capabilities compared to keyboard. So in case you will use only mouse, you will be always loser.
You've ever heard about IPv6?
Wake up: DNS is disintegrating as we speak and ICANN is not helping. What do you think is the solution?
Well... DNS is fine, its just US domains that are the pain. And even... unless you will get some change to the whole concept, you hardly get any improvement. Search engines can help here some.
Its called IP address, stupid! Thats the first and main reason, why DNS was created at all. Because people had problems to remember IP addressed. And also because when you just hear about a company 'Underplunder, Inc.' you don't have to suck out of your finger some name, but can just try underplunder.com and you might get your match...
I Cant Accept Net Tyrrany
This way its recursive acronym like GNU and you get more support on this site.
Who wins California, wins the election.. its clear now. And it was traditionally democarat's state, no?
You are Americans, well, I don't disagree with you. None the less if you won't care about the rest of world, your diplomatic relations will cool down. You will have harder time to deal with other countries. You will have hard time to keep peace in middle east so these sources of oil you are so much dependent on would not stop to flow. You will have much harder time in export and import of other goods, you should better check labels on items around you. Many of them are made in China (mostly) or other foreign countries. You are Americans, you might not care for the rest of world, but like it or not, you are too far from being independent on it.
Although I have followed all the campaign carefully all along and I have to say that I was really disappointed that NO ONE during the whole process asked a question: "How will other countries view US and how will change their dealing with US in case Bush (Gore) will get elected?" I think that US is one of the most self-centric countries in the world and you should definitely start to look out of your borders. The world does not end there.
I personally think that experience of other countries with former president George Bush were not really the best ones and that a lot of countries is concerned about electing his son who will be surely under huge impact of his father. Its even told much more out of US borders, that its George Bush senior running for yet another presidential term. I would definitely expect international relations to cool down somewhat in case he will get elected.
On the other hand most of Europe is now ruled by Social democrats, and in case Gore will get elected, US will experience continuation of very good political relations with Europe region.
Also consider that Gore is not babbling with idiotic smile frozen on his face. Try to imagine yourself in a skin of foreign president who would need to talk some serious business with Bush... I would comfort such person in advance.
I personally don't like social democrats in europe and democrats in US are the same sort, but I have to say that considering what are US republicans, then my choice would be clear.
The other stance is the one of Rusia, Ukraine, Belorus, and other countries of Soviet Union. Most of them have none legislative or do not have institutions to enforce their laws.
On the other hand it might also prove as good idea how to fight MSFT in Europe... if this will go through, someone will go and prove that Bill himself is scientologist or whatever :)
Bullsh*t! They just let out DueDog...
Kasparov lost most likely due to some problems that didn't let him concentrate and prepare fully for the game, but he is still so far ahead, that I am pretty sure he will return very soon. He is natural genius supported with extremly hard work, sometimes I really wonder how much work he put in his preparations. He is the kind of strategic mastermind that none of US generals would like to face in battle :)
Well... this saturday I crossed atlantic in plane... 30000 feet only and -57C (some where around -70F) well... talk about temperature... I suppose that in these 165000 feet it will be even a bit lower ... under -100C ... She is going to spend over 15 minutes at these extreme temperatures... it should burn all uncovered skin for sure.. and I would bet she will blackout in the warmout. Because subjectively the change will be like if you would jump in +70C hot water... basicly no way!
And by the way she does not need to bother screaming, because at this speed she will be down much sooner than they will even hear her scream :)
BTW It would be anyway kinda problematic to get the water to surface without letting it freeze to ice again... considering the temperature on Mars's surface.
What you describe here is exactly the kind of self-censorship they want us all force into. I've lived for most of my life in communist country where they used oppression and terror, not for the sake of it, but to make people to start with self-censorship. And it worked great. You should come and see the mental damage that is done to the people here even now...
What is with you guys? Half of the stories today is about playstation 2. Come on, change the topic...
I am natively speaking Czech/Slovak and my primary and secondary language are German and Russian, but you cannot help it. If you work around computers, you simply HAVE TO learn english. There is no way how to get around it. I have few friends that tried, but either they overcome incredible difficulties or they just gave up. But however english is my third foreign language, it soon became the one that I use most.
There is several reasons why english spread so much, but I think one is really important. You can learn just 3000 words to be able to fully express yourself in most cases. Basic english is something that really helps this language to spread. When you count into it kind of easy grammar...
And I especially like that there are no special symbols, special characters, just all the basic latin characters and thats it. Don't even talk about ease of computer recognition ...
But what I think will move english forward is the fact that more and more 3rd world countries use english as their official language. And these countries are now stepping forward too...
I cannot find WinME in the list. I tried to play with them, but they are so terribly borring. I have to say that its absolutelly no improvement from the previous version of this point&click game.
- price of media
- price of production
- price of distribution
- profit for record company
- fee to some copyright organization
- sales tax
Now when you could buy a virtual CD, something like a legal ownership of the music, then you could download and use the mp3 legally. I am pretty sure that price of CD without the first 3 components and with reduced 4th one would go into more than affordable range. Then mp3.com could provide this service of selling virtual CDs to gain legal permit to the songsWhy there are laws and regulations that are targeted against or in favor of some religion groups? Do you feel this as problem? What are you and your party going to do against it?
In other words, how much in your opinion should government affect minor (non-Christian) religions by accepting or supporting laws that propagate some (Christian) moral values and inhibit other sets or subsets of moral values?
Don't you think that accepting of such laws will severly harm all moral values in the nation since laws are trying hard to replace (, dictate and enforce) moral values to people?
I always wondered to these people who keep preinstalled OS on their computers. Its like to have a hacker with full root access on your computer and let it be. The only you can do to be sure the system you have is secure is to install it yourself or get it from some image certified by some authority, but to trust some PC selling company is like to trust a hacker who claims he is White Hat!
People, please, don't try to return back to metered access. The only who earns on this is the telephone company. The only reason that blocks the expansion of internet in Europe is that there are not flat rates for phone calls!
Low flat rates of phone calls is something that everyone envies you. In czech republic you get aproximatelly 20 times lower income than in US at average ($2500/year) and you can pay up to $200 per month for phone in case you use internet. $30/month is dream of anyone there even though the income is much lower!