Now that Putin's dissolved that pesky and meddlesome parliament, his plans for the Russian conquest can proceed apace.
First up: Ukraine! Ukraine is weak. He did not dissolved the parliament, he accepted the resignation of PM(if PM resigns then the cabinet of ministers is also dissolved). The parliament is not going anywhere till the end of mandate(Early next year).
well, blue screen came with both free and paid for editions of windows. this new black screen is only for the free editions, or so microsoft says. I bet you that none of the "free" version users will ever experience a BlaSoD initiated by a message from MS servers....
So basically it means that only paid version owners will experience this new feature. And it's like in karate black is better than blue!
If I remember correctly IBM is opting for ODF instead of proprietary formats. I think we will se more products from IBM that support ODF. Maybe they will donate some developer work to Eclipse to have OO.o integrated into? Eclipse - the new emacs, but runs on more platforms!
That is the same problem with Java. But RoR is not targeted to lure out PHP developers, but rather Java developers. That is why RoR deployment and env is much more similar to Java's, that is basically a separate instance needed. While PHP thrives in low cost hosting, since PHP needs nothing else other than PHP files to run and an apache module(witch comes installed with pretty much anything these days).
Yeah, Ruby has a problem that you can do 1 thing in 1000 different ways. I recently read how a guy proposed to make the nil object in Ruby something more than a nil object... Now that is horrifying maintainance HELL. Imagine if someone redefined + to mean - and - to mean + on an integer without telling you? ( http://coderoshi.blogspot.com/2007/08/cheap-tricks-v-pwning-nil.html ) (For the PHP crowd nil is like undefined var)
If he and RoR disciples wouldn't slam Java so hard maybe I would take his slide seriously. And BTW reminding you that RoR targets Java people more than PHP.
I like Ruby and I like RoR, but I am a Java person(J in JAlexoid stands for Java). Oh and BTW thanks for the link, and if someone out of RoR camp slams Java for no reason, I'll jus redirect them there.
I live in Toronto, Canada. Yesterday night I was walking by the Mel Lastman's Square and a kid, probably not older than 16 was standing there distributing a socialist newspaper. Another young girl was distributing some kind of a Che Guevara pamphlet. I wish the public education put more emphasis on history and philosophy education (as well as hard sciences,) and would provide these kids with enough information and thinking abilities to understand what exactly such people as Che have done in their lives and why exactly socialist propaganda ends up going the bloody road every time it attempts to change the human nature. Then again, I was born in the former USSR and this is sort of like second nature to understand these things. Hey! Don't confuse communism(no private property) with socialism. Scandinavian countries are basically socialist... Quality healthcare at no extra cost, education and many other stuff.
Shoot, I can plan a base on the moon. Doesn't mean a thing. It will cost them billions of rubles to actually DO it, and I don't think they have a big enough credit card.
Hey... maybe they expect someone to buy it? Like they sold the RD-180 engines...
I am doing personal stuff on BOTH monitors! And my laptop is for work.... And I am on a phone meeting at the same time.
Now that's what I call multitasking!
The thing for managers is that they have to make hard decisions.
And I mean hard as choosing one of 2 options:
"Do something bad for someone"
"Do something equally bad for someone else".
And the bad thing is that making a decision based on prejudice is the possibly worst mistake a manager could ever do.
When I was leading a development team I considered my primary role to be an umbrella for the developers. I did my best (frequently not good enough) to insulate them from the assorted pressures of the management team (political, revenue/sales, deadline etc...).
All this is sort of avoiding the primary, fundamental issue: when you are a manager you have the power (and responsibility) to fire someone.
This is the real rub. Can you do it?
In my case, I came to a decision that I needed to fire a developer who was completely inadequate to the position. Only this: she was one of the sweetest, kindest people I have ever met. Additionally, if I were to let her go, she would be sent back to India - forcing her husband to also go back. It would have been devastating to them.
So what to do? She was not able to perform her job function and it was costing the company revenue. On the other hand, I wouldn't have been surprised to see Bambi walk up and eat out of her hand whilst blue jays perched on her shoulder (this is how kind hearted and sweet the girl was).
And I had to fire her.
So I tried.
And failed.
I came to find out this about myself: when confronted with a tearful employee who says she'll do anything, including work for half the salary if only I won't fire her - I cave.
This turned out, in the long run, to be one of the worst management decisions I've ever made. I agreed to keep her on at a reduced salary. She continued to perform inadequately but over time she had been with the company long enough that dismissing her wasn't an option.
Everything she wrote ended up having to be completely rewritten and she wasn't learning from experience or coaching. Even though she was working at a reduced salary, she ended up costing the company a high multiple of her salary in lost productivity, alienated clients and rework costs.
So what was the "right" thing to do in that situation? On the one hand, I felt a moral imperative to help this kind, tender and wonderful person. On the other, I had a commitment and moral responsibility to the company I worked for.
Finally, I reached the correct solution: I resigned my position as manager of the team.
As I'm sure you've noticed, I am personally not suited for management. I will never put myself in that situation again.
Just because I'm a talented developer, doesn't mean that I have the ability to make tough managerial decisions when they are called for. Those are two different skill sets, and one of the reasons that I tend to not resent my managers. Firing someone is brutal, and unless you are comfortable with those types of decisions and _sticking_with_them_ I strongly recommend that you avoid the managerial gig and stay in development.
Ah, I forgot: in a grant application budget you can (and should, these days) have an item for "publication cost". I.e., the money you expect to pay for publishing your results.
Talking about freedom of science...
I wouln;t state that science is going to hell, it's more like hell is coming to science...
I've read through a lot of the ideas on here, and I figure it might be worthwhile to throw some of my own words into the mix.
There are a lot of anarchists on here - they don't like to be called that, but that's what they are. There are a lot of people who wouldn't know copyright law if it hit them in the face, but insist on speaking out as though they're authorities on it. There are people here who are quiet and informed, and quiet and uninformed. There are informed brawlers, soft-spoken lawyers, writers, programmers, and pirates. And, there are a lot of people who would push their own agenda on anything that comes their way, even to the detriment of you and your class.
Trust none of them.
Your students are about to meet somebody who is at the heart of one of the major social issues of our time. Get them reading up on it, make sure they're reading both sides of the issue, and then leave it in their hands. Don't put your trust in Slashdot, or some online forum - if you do that, you're putting it into the hands of a bunch of people who you've probably never met, and who may not even be who they say they are. Put your trust in your students - give them what they need to be informed, and then trust them to understand it (and if they disagree with your conclusions, keep in mind that YOU could be the one who misunderstood something). The most important part of education in the end, the part that ultimately can save you from something terrible, is learning to think critically for yourself and make up your own mind. Let them do that.
I should add that he has to inform the students about his own views and basis for them.
Somebody more powerful, yes, but not necessarily someone more intelligent.
That is the formula for the bulk of decision-making throughout history.
Yeah...... Let him demonstrate his "intelligence" and then "crush" him by displaying caveats...
But you might try to be careful... he may be really smart and not disillusioned and knows the reality... So try not to get burned.
But anyway even the smartest person can be exposed as dumb...
Railways are the worst thing to compare... Germany's DB is a wonderful company, and it's a monopoly there(I have no idea about if it's state run). Most EU countries have state owned railway companies, and it somehow does not hurt their quality of service. Oh and btw, I tried online booking, it costs to get from Manchester to York (the railway part) as much as it costs to go from Paris to Cote d'Azure. SNCF is a monopoly...
Take a look at US, the so called pioneer of railways, where is the US railway system now? It has a really BAD service area... I think that's mostly because railroads are allowed to be owned by private companies and there is basically no public railways...(I may be really wrong here, so correct me if you know the reality)
First of all you are a admin in the last 50 of Fortune 150, because you are not in the Fortune 100:)
Asking you for productivity is like asking you PHB for productivity... You can always do like they do forward the request for productivity to the object that you manage(in this case you machines). But machines cannot give you any output on that point, so you'll have to compile it yourself. Put monthly average downtime there... The load averages for your machines... And such... Ask users to provide their productivity, because your "productivity" is a result of their productivity...:) But that would go to the extreme. You can hint that to your PHB and maybe he'll realize that all those statistics are irrelevant. Except for downtime and load averages...
I would like to add that: Christianity may be viewed as a faith of lost morality Judaism is a faith of the "chosen" one's Islam my be viewed as a faith of hate
CNN just had this special "God's Warriors" (http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2007/gods.warriors/). Just read though the site it's really good. I personally have lived with people of many religions. My family is a religious MIX. Grandfather was a muslim, went twice to Mecca for Hajj. Grandmother on the other side was a religious jew. My parents are Orthodox Christians and I have a very nice mix of those 3 religions. Oh and for the people that are against islam, I would like to remind you that in Russia Islam Christianity and Judaism live side by side for over 5 centuries.
It's an democratic government's responsibility to treat EVERYONE equally. And yes choice of OS is also under that category. And the treating everyone equally goes even for convicted people. Conviction imposes some restrictions on your freedoms, but definitely NOT on the right of equality. Imagine if black felons would be treated not the same as white felons?(example: sent to labor camps instead of prisons) Can you spell "Huge equal rights movement demonstration"?
>> just has to follow the very simple rules in order to get the easy version of punishment.
Any rule that the government FORCES you to comply with HAS to be accessible TO ANYONE. Equal right you know. If they can offer him something to ease his sentence IT should NOT imply ANY unreasonable* financial burden, unless it's a tax or some other official government money collecting scheme. And as far as I know buying MS license is NOT a TAX.
Don't be too close minded too, you are slashing Java and Ruby and such... witch came a long way. When was the last time you TRIED latest stuff with Java? Or any other non.NET lang, for that matter.
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First up: Ukraine! Ukraine is weak. He did not dissolved the parliament, he accepted the resignation of PM(if PM resigns then the cabinet of ministers is also dissolved). The parliament is not going anywhere till the end of mandate(Early next year).
Please DO have in mind that this is happening in EU. Where there are different rules and regulations for warranties.
well, blue screen came with both free and paid for editions of windows. this new black screen is only for the free editions, or so microsoft says. I bet you that none of the "free" version users will ever experience a BlaSoD initiated by a message from MS servers....
So basically it means that only paid version owners will experience this new feature. And it's like in karate black is better than blue!
>> "nobody ever got fired for picking Microsoft rather than the free alternatives"
I have never heard of that saying.
But replace MS with IBM or Java(drop "rather than the free alternatives") and the saying becomes true.
If I remember correctly IBM is opting for ODF instead of proprietary formats.
I think we will se more products from IBM that support ODF.
Maybe they will donate some developer work to Eclipse to have OO.o integrated into?
Eclipse - the new emacs, but runs on more platforms!
That is the same problem with Java.
But RoR is not targeted to lure out PHP developers, but rather Java developers.
That is why RoR deployment and env is much more similar to Java's, that is basically a separate instance needed.
While PHP thrives in low cost hosting, since PHP needs nothing else other than PHP files to run and an apache module(witch comes installed with pretty much anything these days).
Yeah, Ruby has a problem that you can do 1 thing in 1000 different ways.
I recently read how a guy proposed to make the nil object in Ruby something more than a nil object... Now that is horrifying maintainance HELL. Imagine if someone redefined + to mean - and - to mean + on an integer without telling you?
( http://coderoshi.blogspot.com/2007/08/cheap-tricks-v-pwning-nil.html )
(For the PHP crowd nil is like undefined var)
If he and RoR disciples wouldn't slam Java so hard maybe I would take his slide seriously.
And BTW reminding you that RoR targets Java people more than PHP.
I like Ruby and I like RoR, but I am a Java person(J in JAlexoid stands for Java).
Oh and BTW thanks for the link, and if someone out of RoR camp slams Java for no reason, I'll jus redirect them there.
Why do you hate the "masses"?
That is why MDs are not "Real geeks" and get girlfriends.
Hey... maybe they expect someone to buy it? Like they sold the RD-180 engines...
Means that I finally CAN THINK of using it in a VMWare container....
I am doing personal stuff on BOTH monitors! And my laptop is for work.... And I am on a phone meeting at the same time.
Now that's what I call multitasking!
And I mean hard as choosing one of 2 options:
And the bad thing is that making a decision based on prejudice is the possibly worst mistake a manager could ever do.
When I was leading a development team I considered my primary role to be an umbrella for the developers. I did my best (frequently not good enough) to insulate them from the assorted pressures of the management team (political, revenue/sales, deadline etc...).
All this is sort of avoiding the primary, fundamental issue: when you are a manager you have the power (and responsibility) to fire someone.
This is the real rub. Can you do it?
In my case, I came to a decision that I needed to fire a developer who was completely inadequate to the position. Only this: she was one of the sweetest, kindest people I have ever met. Additionally, if I were to let her go, she would be sent back to India - forcing her husband to also go back. It would have been devastating to them.
So what to do? She was not able to perform her job function and it was costing the company revenue. On the other hand, I wouldn't have been surprised to see Bambi walk up and eat out of her hand whilst blue jays perched on her shoulder (this is how kind hearted and sweet the girl was).
And I had to fire her.
So I tried.
And failed.
I came to find out this about myself: when confronted with a tearful employee who says she'll do anything, including work for half the salary if only I won't fire her - I cave.
This turned out, in the long run, to be one of the worst management decisions I've ever made. I agreed to keep her on at a reduced salary. She continued to perform inadequately but over time she had been with the company long enough that dismissing her wasn't an option.
Everything she wrote ended up having to be completely rewritten and she wasn't learning from experience or coaching. Even though she was working at a reduced salary, she ended up costing the company a high multiple of her salary in lost productivity, alienated clients and rework costs.
So what was the "right" thing to do in that situation? On the one hand, I felt a moral imperative to help this kind, tender and wonderful person. On the other, I had a commitment and moral responsibility to the company I worked for.
Finally, I reached the correct solution: I resigned my position as manager of the team.
As I'm sure you've noticed, I am personally not suited for management. I will never put myself in that situation again.
Just because I'm a talented developer, doesn't mean that I have the ability to make tough managerial decisions when they are called for. Those are two different skill sets, and one of the reasons that I tend to not resent my managers. Firing someone is brutal, and unless you are comfortable with those types of decisions and _sticking_with_them_ I strongly recommend that you avoid the managerial gig and stay in development.
-Clay
Talking about freedom of science...
I wouln;t state that science is going to hell, it's more like hell is coming to science...
There are a lot of anarchists on here - they don't like to be called that, but that's what they are. There are a lot of people who wouldn't know copyright law if it hit them in the face, but insist on speaking out as though they're authorities on it. There are people here who are quiet and informed, and quiet and uninformed. There are informed brawlers, soft-spoken lawyers, writers, programmers, and pirates. And, there are a lot of people who would push their own agenda on anything that comes their way, even to the detriment of you and your class.
Trust none of them.
Your students are about to meet somebody who is at the heart of one of the major social issues of our time. Get them reading up on it, make sure they're reading both sides of the issue, and then leave it in their hands. Don't put your trust in Slashdot, or some online forum - if you do that, you're putting it into the hands of a bunch of people who you've probably never met, and who may not even be who they say they are. Put your trust in your students - give them what they need to be informed, and then trust them to understand it (and if they disagree with your conclusions, keep in mind that YOU could be the one who misunderstood something). The most important part of education in the end, the part that ultimately can save you from something terrible, is learning to think critically for yourself and make up your own mind. Let them do that.
I should add that he has to inform the students about his own views and basis for them.
Yeah...... Let him demonstrate his "intelligence" and then "crush" him by displaying caveats...
But you might try to be careful... he may be really smart and not disillusioned and knows the reality... So try not to get burned.
But anyway even the smartest person can be exposed as dumb...
>British Rail
Railways are the worst thing to compare...
Germany's DB is a wonderful company, and it's a monopoly there(I have no idea about if it's state run). Most EU countries have state owned railway companies, and it somehow does not hurt their quality of service.
Oh and btw, I tried online booking, it costs to get from Manchester to York (the railway part) as much as it costs to go from Paris to Cote d'Azure. SNCF is a monopoly...
Take a look at US, the so called pioneer of railways, where is the US railway system now? It has a really BAD service area... I think that's mostly because railroads are allowed to be owned by private companies and there is basically no public railways...(I may be really wrong here, so correct me if you know the reality)
First of all you are a admin in the last 50 of Fortune 150, because you are not in the Fortune 100 :)
:) But that would go to the extreme. You can hint that to your PHB and maybe he'll realize that all those statistics are irrelevant.
Asking you for productivity is like asking you PHB for productivity...
You can always do like they do forward the request for productivity to the object that you manage(in this case you machines).
But machines cannot give you any output on that point, so you'll have to compile it yourself.
Put monthly average downtime there... The load averages for your machines... And such...
Ask users to provide their productivity, because your "productivity" is a result of their productivity...
Except for downtime and load averages...
I second the statements of parent.
.
I would like to add that:
Christianity may be viewed as a faith of lost morality
Judaism is a faith of the "chosen" one's
Islam my be viewed as a faith of hate
CNN just had this special "God's Warriors" (http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2007/gods.warriors/)
Just read though the site it's really good.
I personally have lived with people of many religions.
My family is a religious MIX.
Grandfather was a muslim, went twice to Mecca for Hajj.
Grandmother on the other side was a religious jew.
My parents are Orthodox Christians and I have a very nice mix of those 3 religions.
Oh and for the people that are against islam, I would like to remind you that in Russia Islam Christianity and Judaism live side by side for over 5 centuries.
>>"Linux: The only operating system the NSA doesn't 0wn."
:)
Amen to that brother...
Been hiding from NSA for a year now under it
O crap I forgot to log OUT!
It's an democratic government's responsibility to treat EVERYONE equally. And yes choice of OS is also under that category.
And the treating everyone equally goes even for convicted people. Conviction imposes some restrictions on your freedoms, but definitely NOT on the right of equality.
Imagine if black felons would be treated not the same as white felons?(example: sent to labor camps instead of prisons)
Can you spell "Huge equal rights movement demonstration"?
>> just has to follow the very simple rules in order to get the easy version of punishment.
Any rule that the government FORCES you to comply with HAS to be accessible TO ANYONE. Equal right you know. If they can offer him something to ease his sentence IT should NOT imply ANY unreasonable* financial burden, unless it's a tax or some other official government money collecting scheme. And as far as I know buying MS license is NOT a TAX.
And Windows license price IS unreasonable.
Don't be too close minded too, you are slashing Java and Ruby and such... witch came a long way. .NET lang, for that matter.
When was the last time you TRIED latest stuff with Java? Or any other non