Look up almost any available LCD screen and the backlight is a big part of the spec; it's hard to find an LCD screen with just a reflector. Here's a quote from Wikipedia:
If he drops the capitalisation down to "storm trooper" the trademark goes to the German army in WWI, or whichever member of the allied general staff had to describe what had just rolled up the Western Front.
"Enslavement? No. Specifically forbidden and a mortal sin."
Except for women - oh, sorry; forgot that they're chattels, and property doesn't have rights.
To be fair, most Muslims are fine people, or at least no more rabid than the average Yank. It's just the countries in and around Asia Minor that need to get used to the idea that female emancipation is a good thing.
...which is why we have to conquer the moon, and then Mars, and do it before the Chinese/Muslims get there first. We can set up goldmines and ship it back to Earth to secure the dollar against our own gold standard, just the way nature intended. And we'll all ride round on moonbuggies and wear silver jumpsuits.
I'm very afraid of nuclear power, but I'm still for it. Not enough mutants these days, and have you noticed how the world's warmed up since we stopped having all those nuclear tests in the 50s and 60s?
There's a difference between operational IT and business advantage IT.
The latter develops (or integrates, or buys) systems or trains staff, in order to give the business a competitive advantage - that's the fun stuff for IT staff, but usually requires more IT knowledge than most managers can deploy. That is the kind of IT that the article is focusing on.
The former is something that most managers think that they can understand, so they are tempted to exert their influence over operational processes in the same way as over financial or communication processes. Then the whole thing can get stuck in meetings and committees.
Your IT department's process really does suck.
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Our operational IT staff have to fight off the HR and financial departments who want to drown the quick and efficient IT processes in paperwork.
The real problem is that IT is hard
- hard to define requirements
- hard to predict benefits
- hard to predict timelines
compared to employing more people.
Top-level management are usually people people; that's why they did MBAs rather than get real qualifications. Top-level management already have a head full of business domain knowledge (if you're lucky) and techniques for climbing the greasy pole (usually), and have to spend time on inter-company and inter-manager warfare.
I have consistently had problems getting clients to think about how their business works. They have got along for years without having to worry about it because they delegate responsibility to lower-level managers, who in turn delegate to the workers; between them, the various levels of management and employees use their brains and get the job done.
IT isn't like that - you tell a computer to do X and it'll do X, even if it should 'do X unless [really complex exception case], in which case do Y'. So there is an upfront cost to IT of defining what and how the business really does, and then checking it and checking it again. Worse still, form the POV of top management, this requires that the value of the knowledge of the lowest-level staff is acknowledged, while at the same time showing how little the top managers understand the details of their business - WHICH IS TO BE EXPECTED: the top-level guys are paid for direction not operational detail. But people being people, any deficiencies are implicitly taken to be criticism and can be used in inter-manager warfare.
I'd like to note that mitigating these factors is a large part of what led to Agile. But Agile admits that it can fall into the 'hard to predict' trap, whereas waterfall and 'glittering phalanx' claim not to.
First a bold assertion: Newton's theory of gravity is infinitely more accurate than astrology, averaged over all the situations you'll be in during your life.
Second, an upsetting truth: astrology is twaddle. It is twaddle because (1) it is not verified by independent observation (2) it does not try to explain its mechanisms (3) it depends on revealed wisdom and rejects empirical methods of determining truth and falsehood.
Thirdly, an even more upsetting truth: religions are mainstream versions of astrology - all the points in above apply to religions.
Belief systems are not comparable to the scientific method as systems for understanding the world, because the scientific method relies on measurements that can be made by any (sufficiently well funded) observer, whereas religions and belief systems rely on mental models that are held to be true irrespective of independently observable evidence. If I derive a model through scientific process and program it into a computer, the computer will predict experimental results accurately even though the computer has no belief. Try programming a computer with a religious or spiritual belief without running into Occam's razor.
About time - the Cybernetics Department at the University of Reading had T-Ray images up on their notice board from 1996, when I was doing my degree there back in 1999.
For people who value their privacy, offer the choice; for T-Ray scans join the left-hand queue, for cavity searches join the right-hand queue, for full body X-rays lie down on the conveyor next to your hand luggage.
If I go and buy a CD in a music shop it'll cost me AUD$25-40 for a new release, AUD$15 for an old one. So each CD is worth $15, and the rest is hype-markup. Say 1/3 markup for the shop, 1/3 in distribution, 1/3 for the artist; that's $5 for the artist over 10 tracks, or 50 cents per track. If I can pick and choose the tracks I'll happily pay 50 cents per track to download them from the artist at a decent data rate. Or even 75 cents per track if the label wants a cut.
This gets more complex for movies because production costs are so much higher, but all of the blockbusters make their production costs back in the first week or two on the big screens - because cinema tickets are cheaper than concert tickets, people go and see more films. Basic economics: lower prices, more sales. Works for KMart/WalMart/AMart/Ikea/etc. And why are they still using film when digital cameras make production faster and cheaper?
The article forgets that massive costs are incurred at every stage and level of the media industry, so cutting levels out will cut the cost down to the consumer, which will increase sales. Garage-level musicians in Brazil have a regular and adequate income from selling CDs at a few tens of cents a time. The music and film industry superstars require huge infrastructures that don't make economic sense.
It's time for the digital media producers to start adapting to the leaner and meaner economics of the new millenium.
What happens when it gets knocked against something? I bet that you'd end up with droplets all over the place: can just see the astronauts suing because their groins got burnt (shouldn't be putting coffee there anyway).
It's an open container - so the contents can spill if the container and content experience shear that overcomes surface tension when the fluid is at an exposed edge. and because it's a helix it's all exposed edge!
I'd go for the squeezy-bulb approach any time.... Ha! - squeezy.
What Mr Dimwhit-Martinson fails to realise is that (1) the buoys would be marked so that he'd only run over them if he really is as stupid as he sounds (2) it's not his fishery (3) making the sea more complex with such structures will increase the catch because the fish can hide from predators and dumbarse fishermen and have a better chance of getting to breeding age before being hauled in and gutted.
It's so much worse than that: the days will be longer but there'll be fewer of them. Do NOT tell the Catholic Church: they'll throw a hissy fit if you try to take away saints' days.
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On the good side there'll be fewer inane public awareness/charity days like 'Today is international sewage workers and associated trades day' (Oct 26th).
Good, but here's a better one...http://www.ceto.com.au/home.php : electricity generation and desalination from the same equipment. And the generators can be centralised and/or put on land for easier maintenance.
But I have to congratulate the Oregon guys for getting such a large study going at all. I bet it'll increase fish stocks in the area by providing protection from predators and fishermen.
If I am a provider of a resource at a URI (e.g. www.google.com) I serve content in response to a request. If a third party then intercepts that response content and changes it they are creating a second copy of the response and presenting that to the client. Therefore they are breaking copyright. They are also committing fraud, by representing their copy of the response as mine.
I'd be happy for them to build nuke plants if
1) the designers were forced to live within 10km of the plant they design
2) the contractors were forced to live within 10km of the plant they worked on
3) the politicians were forced to live within 10km of the plant they approved
4)... and we stored the barrels of waste under their back yards
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Look up almost any available LCD screen and the backlight is a big part of the spec; it's hard to find an LCD screen with just a reflector. Here's a quote from Wikipedia:
A liquid crystal display (LCD) is a thin, flat display device made up of any number of color or monochrome pixels arrayed in front of a light source or reflector.
RTM
Paper isn't an emmitive surface, it's reflective.
If he drops the capitalisation down to "storm trooper" the trademark goes to the German army in WWI, or whichever member of the allied general staff had to describe what had just rolled up the Western Front.
Except for women - oh, sorry; forgot that they're chattels, and property doesn't have rights.
To be fair, most Muslims are fine people, or at least no more rabid than the average Yank. It's just the countries in and around Asia Minor that need to get used to the idea that female emancipation is a good thing.
So little men really ARE touchy. And I thought that was just a baseless prejudice!
...which is why we have to conquer the moon, and then Mars, and do it before the Chinese/Muslims get there first. We can set up goldmines and ship it back to Earth to secure the dollar against our own gold standard, just the way nature intended. And we'll all ride round on moonbuggies and wear silver jumpsuits.
I'm very afraid of nuclear power, but I'm still for it. Not enough mutants these days, and have you noticed how the world's warmed up since we stopped having all those nuclear tests in the 50s and 60s?
The latter develops (or integrates, or buys) systems or trains staff, in order to give the business a competitive advantage - that's the fun stuff for IT staff, but usually requires more IT knowledge than most managers can deploy. That is the kind of IT that the article is focusing on.
The former is something that most managers think that they can understand, so they are tempted to exert their influence over operational processes in the same way as over financial or communication processes. Then the whole thing can get stuck in meetings and committees.
Your IT department's process really does suck.
.
Our operational IT staff have to fight off the HR and financial departments who want to drown the quick and efficient IT processes in paperwork.
Should have said 'no' and see what happened.
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phalanx :- launch a large block of andersons at the problem
glittering :- the andersons are so expensive you'd expect them to be gold-plated
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An anderson is one of the many faceless employees of Anderson Consulting.
Top-level management are usually people people; that's why they did MBAs rather than get real qualifications. Top-level management already have a head full of business domain knowledge (if you're lucky) and techniques for climbing the greasy pole (usually), and have to spend time on inter-company and inter-manager warfare.
I have consistently had problems getting clients to think about how their business works. They have got along for years without having to worry about it because they delegate responsibility to lower-level managers, who in turn delegate to the workers; between them, the various levels of management and employees use their brains and get the job done.
IT isn't like that - you tell a computer to do X and it'll do X, even if it should 'do X unless [really complex exception case], in which case do Y'. So there is an upfront cost to IT of defining what and how the business really does, and then checking it and checking it again. Worse still, form the POV of top management, this requires that the value of the knowledge of the lowest-level staff is acknowledged, while at the same time showing how little the top managers understand the details of their business - WHICH IS TO BE EXPECTED: the top-level guys are paid for direction not operational detail. But people being people, any deficiencies are implicitly taken to be criticism and can be used in inter-manager warfare.
I'd like to note that mitigating these factors is a large part of what led to Agile. But Agile admits that it can fall into the 'hard to predict' trap, whereas waterfall and 'glittering phalanx' claim not to.
Second, an upsetting truth: astrology is twaddle. It is twaddle because (1) it is not verified by independent observation (2) it does not try to explain its mechanisms (3) it depends on revealed wisdom and rejects empirical methods of determining truth and falsehood.
Thirdly, an even more upsetting truth: religions are mainstream versions of astrology - all the points in above apply to religions.
Belief systems are not comparable to the scientific method as systems for understanding the world, because the scientific method relies on measurements that can be made by any (sufficiently well funded) observer, whereas religions and belief systems rely on mental models that are held to be true irrespective of independently observable evidence. If I derive a model through scientific process and program it into a computer, the computer will predict experimental results accurately even though the computer has no belief. Try programming a computer with a religious or spiritual belief without running into Occam's razor.
For people who value their privacy, offer the choice; for T-Ray scans join the left-hand queue, for cavity searches join the right-hand queue, for full body X-rays lie down on the conveyor next to your hand luggage.
Well done there sir! And you shall have a little medal.
Spend $500 on a bulk CD burner/printer and the other $500 on stacks of CDs and open your own low-cost CD printing company.
If I go and buy a CD in a music shop it'll cost me AUD$25-40 for a new release, AUD$15 for an old one. So each CD is worth $15, and the rest is hype-markup. Say 1/3 markup for the shop, 1/3 in distribution, 1/3 for the artist; that's $5 for the artist over 10 tracks, or 50 cents per track. If I can pick and choose the tracks I'll happily pay 50 cents per track to download them from the artist at a decent data rate. Or even 75 cents per track if the label wants a cut. This gets more complex for movies because production costs are so much higher, but all of the blockbusters make their production costs back in the first week or two on the big screens - because cinema tickets are cheaper than concert tickets, people go and see more films. Basic economics: lower prices, more sales. Works for KMart/WalMart/AMart/Ikea/etc. And why are they still using film when digital cameras make production faster and cheaper? The article forgets that massive costs are incurred at every stage and level of the media industry, so cutting levels out will cut the cost down to the consumer, which will increase sales. Garage-level musicians in Brazil have a regular and adequate income from selling CDs at a few tens of cents a time. The music and film industry superstars require huge infrastructures that don't make economic sense. It's time for the digital media producers to start adapting to the leaner and meaner economics of the new millenium.
What happens when it gets knocked against something? I bet that you'd end up with droplets all over the place: can just see the astronauts suing because their groins got burnt (shouldn't be putting coffee there anyway).
It's an open container - so the contents can spill if the container and content experience shear that overcomes surface tension when the fluid is at an exposed edge. and because it's a helix it's all exposed edge!
I'd go for the squeezy-bulb approach any time. ... Ha! - squeezy.
What Mr Dimwhit-Martinson fails to realise is that (1) the buoys would be marked so that he'd only run over them if he really is as stupid as he sounds (2) it's not his fishery (3) making the sea more complex with such structures will increase the catch because the fish can hide from predators and dumbarse fishermen and have a better chance of getting to breeding age before being hauled in and gutted.
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On the good side there'll be fewer inane public awareness/charity days like 'Today is international sewage workers and associated trades day' (Oct 26th).
Also http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200705/s1925888.htm
Good, but here's a better one...http://www.ceto.com.au/home.php : electricity generation and desalination from the same equipment. And the generators can be centralised and/or put on land for easier maintenance. But I have to congratulate the Oregon guys for getting such a large study going at all. I bet it'll increase fish stocks in the area by providing protection from predators and fishermen.
Could just use a disk eraser in the logoff script. Burn a lot of energy, but WTF.
If I am a provider of a resource at a URI (e.g. www.google.com) I serve content in response to a request. If a third party then intercepts that response content and changes it they are creating a second copy of the response and presenting that to the client. Therefore they are breaking copyright. They are also committing fraud, by representing their copy of the response as mine.
I'd be happy for them to build nuke plants if 1) the designers were forced to live within 10km of the plant they design 2) the contractors were forced to live within 10km of the plant they worked on 3) the politicians were forced to live within 10km of the plant they approved 4) ... and we stored the barrels of waste under their back yards