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Not spying on your employees is a good practice. Should good management practices be mandated?
My take on it is that the law (common or otherwise) should grant employees an expectation of privacy even when they are at work. Companies that do want to monitor what is being done on their equipment during hours they are paying the employee should be allowed to do so. As long as they make sure they dispel this expectation.
But with the Nexus 1 discontinued, and Eric Schmidt having announced there will be no Nexus 2, where does that leave people going forward into the future?
Queuing up to by the Nokia N900. Yes, it runs Linux.
The other myth is that carbon dioxide is the major green house gas. Water vapor is the major green house gas (about 80% of the green house effect that makes earth livable is from water vapor.) This is relevant because Nuclear power plants, like coal fired power plants, are big steam engines, many of which release large quantities of steam into the atmosphere.
Power plants like Diablo Canyon in Southern California get around the issue of needing large quantities of water by being feed by the ocean, but the new power plants on the Mississippi river seem to be causing other power plants to run short of water, so more power plants on the Mississippi probably will not result in much of an increase in electricity produced.
I am not well up on the details of reactor design, but if they convert water to steam, run it through a turbine and then release it into the air, that is actually a plus in my book.
Steam essentially is simply water + energy. You can get creative with what you do to extract that energy.heat engines can vary in efficiency, but who cares? It was 'waste energy' anyway.
I definitely acknowledge the effect of culture on an individual's output. And I'd also say that from observation, Indians certainly are more hesitant than Americans are to question authority. However, I doubt that that changes whether they are competent or not.
As a counterexample, I'd claim that (again, from observation) that Koreans show a much greater tendency to defer to authority than Indians do. However, from a technology standpoint, that does not affect their productivity or quality of work.
Suits will find ways to mismanage any kind of employee. Even in India for example, the Mercedes Benz plant in Pune consistently ranks near the top in their quality tests (much higher than US plants). I suspect it has something to do with Mercs being sold for roughly the same price in both countries.
You certianly get what you pay for - with a little margin of error:)
Like we've seen time and time again with India, no, they cannot write software as well as Americans, Europeans, the Japanese, and Australians can.
Your nationality has little to do with the quality of code you can write.
I guess you also believe that the Chinese cannot manufacture products as well as Americans can. I'd argue that they definitely can, but if they did that, then your kids wouldn't have fewer toys to play with because they would cost you more. As long as you buy cheap, poorly manufactured goods from China, they will sell it to you.
Similarly, when you are willing to pay what you would pay an Australian, European or a Japanese programmer, let me know. I will find you an Indian who is as competent.
Ignoring the racist implications of your rant, if you outsource software development to India and pay them a fraction of what you pay 'Westerners', I would definitely expect the quality of code to be low.
Foreign developers who are as good as you or better than you will not do your job for a fraction of the cost. They would simply migrate to a place where they get paid well for their work.
Outsourcing companies are typically cheap and shitty because your managers like cheap shit. If your manager bought shit computers from Dell for his employees, is it Dell's fault for making money off his stupidity?
My point is that it shouldn't be up to the manufacturer, but should be part of the specification itself so that it is not up to the hardware manufacturers or the ISPs.
Not sure if it is within the scope of the specifications, but not sure why it should be terribly difficult to make it so.
Perhaps the solution would be to update the standards to require encryption by default. The keys should be generated automatically by the device and the exchange of keys could involve some sort of physical contact necessary for the setup (like pushing a button on your router when told to),
Of course, this would only be the default (for grandma). You can use your 1337 skillz to pick any of the other broadcasting and encryption options available today, but that will then be voluntary.
In a way, it is like building homes without windows and those who really want one can make one - which ensures everyone with a window knows they have one.
This might very well be true. Of course, the withdrawal symptoms of nicotine addiction are very mild in comparison which might make heroin seem more 'addictive'?
On mild inclines, there usually is no need to engage the e-brake, primarily because you do not roll back significantly, but there are still ways to avoid it.
Another terrible way to avoid rolling back is to not fully depress your clutch, but if your e-brake is shot, it works. (I used it for a couple of weeks before I was getting my e-brake fixed and my clutch replaced - I wouldn't advise it it too many other situations)
Most students who find it relevant can purchase a student version of Matlab/Simulink for $99. It might be expensive for a poor college student, but it was far more useful than some $150 textbooks I was told to purchase. I do not want to sound preachy, but for what is a full version of Matlab/Simulink, it is very good value for money. And getting your boss to purchase some toolboxes is as much of a justification for piracy as Octave is an alternative to Matlab.
Disclaimer: I have not had to purchase a copy of Matlab since I've always had legal access to a personal copy or a machine with a licensed copy installed.
I have to agree (especially after this past weekend's Manchester derby), but I believe the OP is making a reference to American football where the time (of play, not of the game) is much more tightly controlled.
Which makes the analogy interesting as different sports have different concepts of deadlines and duration of play. As long as there was no violation of their stated rules, I do not see a problem as I think both teams deserved to win and there was only room for one on the podium. I am sure Ensemble will do just fine for themselves (financially and in terms of reputation) with the algorithm they've developed over the past 3.5 years to a point where the 1M may not be such a big deal down the road.
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Most computer science students don't know how to write code. So it doesn't matter at all.
I feel like your spelling of experiance is some level of brilliant meta-commentary that I'm not qualified to understand.
I agree, unequifaxally, that it is genius
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As it is I put metal foil tape over them now
So no one finds out about your Tihande-1A which is capable of 2.5 petafaps?
Cheers!
http://www.mysimplemobile.com/index.aspx
It's a T-Mobile MVNO
Cheers!
Not spying on your employees is a good practice. Should good management practices be mandated?
My take on it is that the law (common or otherwise) should grant employees an expectation of privacy even when they are at work. Companies that do want to monitor what is being done on their equipment during hours they are paying the employee should be allowed to do so. As long as they make sure they dispel this expectation.
Looks like we all know that there's no such thing as a whitelist either...
But with the Nexus 1 discontinued, and Eric Schmidt having announced there will be no Nexus 2, where does that leave people going forward into the future?
Queuing up to by the Nokia N900. Yes, it runs Linux.
Cheers!
What do you mean "Nice try"? He wasn't really trying to hide behind that username, you know...
Like this?
http://tinyurl.com/24fxz3w
The other myth is that carbon dioxide is the major green house gas. Water vapor is the major green house gas (about 80% of the green house effect that makes earth livable is from water vapor.) This is relevant because Nuclear power plants, like coal fired power plants, are big steam engines, many of which release large quantities of steam into the atmosphere.
Power plants like Diablo Canyon in Southern California get around the issue of needing large quantities of water by being feed by the ocean, but the new power plants on the Mississippi river seem to be causing other power plants to run short of water, so more power plants on the Mississippi probably will not result in much of an increase in electricity produced.
I am not well up on the details of reactor design, but if they convert water to steam, run it through a turbine and then release it into the air, that is actually a plus in my book.
Steam essentially is simply water + energy. You can get creative with what you do to extract that energy.heat engines can vary in efficiency, but who cares? It was 'waste energy' anyway.
Cheers!
I definitely acknowledge the effect of culture on an individual's output. And I'd also say that from observation, Indians certainly are more hesitant than Americans are to question authority. However, I doubt that that changes whether they are competent or not.
As a counterexample, I'd claim that (again, from observation) that Koreans show a much greater tendency to defer to authority than Indians do. However, from a technology standpoint, that does not affect their productivity or quality of work.
Suits will find ways to mismanage any kind of employee. Even in India for example, the Mercedes Benz plant in Pune consistently ranks near the top in their quality tests (much higher than US plants). I suspect it has something to do with Mercs being sold for roughly the same price in both countries.
You certianly get what you pay for - with a little margin of error :)
Cheers!
your kids wouldn't have fewer toys
The should be "would have fewer".
Cheers!
Like we've seen time and time again with India, no, they cannot write software as well as Americans, Europeans, the Japanese, and Australians can.
Your nationality has little to do with the quality of code you can write.
I guess you also believe that the Chinese cannot manufacture products as well as Americans can. I'd argue that they definitely can, but if they did that, then your kids wouldn't have fewer toys to play with because they would cost you more. As long as you buy cheap, poorly manufactured goods from China, they will sell it to you.
Similarly, when you are willing to pay what you would pay an Australian, European or a Japanese programmer, let me know. I will find you an Indian who is as competent.
Cheers!
Ignoring the racist implications of your rant, if you outsource software development to India and pay them a fraction of what you pay 'Westerners', I would definitely expect the quality of code to be low.
Foreign developers who are as good as you or better than you will not do your job for a fraction of the cost. They would simply migrate to a place where they get paid well for their work.
Outsourcing companies are typically cheap and shitty because your managers like cheap shit. If your manager bought shit computers from Dell for his employees, is it Dell's fault for making money off his stupidity?
Cheers!
My point is that it shouldn't be up to the manufacturer, but should be part of the specification itself so that it is not up to the hardware manufacturers or the ISPs.
Not sure if it is within the scope of the specifications, but not sure why it should be terribly difficult to make it so.
Perhaps the solution would be to update the standards to require encryption by default. The keys should be generated automatically by the device and the exchange of keys could involve some sort of physical contact necessary for the setup (like pushing a button on your router when told to),
Of course, this would only be the default (for grandma). You can use your 1337 skillz to pick any of the other broadcasting and encryption options available today, but that will then be voluntary.
In a way, it is like building homes without windows and those who really want one can make one - which ensures everyone with a window knows they have one.
This might very well be true. Of course, the withdrawal symptoms of nicotine addiction are very mild in comparison which might make heroin seem more 'addictive'?
Cheers!
You don't need to be James Bond to do left-foot braking, you just need to understand when it is to be used (on the racetrack only).
And in bumper cars
This should help:
http://www.ehow.com/how_2212548_drive-uphill-manual-transmission.html
On mild inclines, there usually is no need to engage the e-brake, primarily because you do not roll back significantly, but there are still ways to avoid it.
Another terrible way to avoid rolling back is to not fully depress your clutch, but if your e-brake is shot, it works. (I used it for a couple of weeks before I was getting my e-brake fixed and my clutch replaced - I wouldn't advise it it too many other situations)
Most students who find it relevant can purchase a student version of Matlab/Simulink for $99. It might be expensive for a poor college student, but it was far more useful than some $150 textbooks I was told to purchase. I do not want to sound preachy, but for what is a full version of Matlab/Simulink, it is very good value for money. And getting your boss to purchase some toolboxes is as much of a justification for piracy as Octave is an alternative to Matlab.
Disclaimer: I have not had to purchase a copy of Matlab since I've always had legal access to a personal copy or a machine with a licensed copy installed.
This is going to blow your mind ... are you writey? My kindle can ARITHMETIC
storing the state of 30 qubits needs about 16 GB, which is large, but perfectly doable in todays computers
I can haz ur USB for teh ReddyBoozt?
kthxbai.
involving high speed protons,
Bt wot abt deez hispeed *photons*?
Do they go *whoosh*?
I have to agree (especially after this past weekend's Manchester derby), but I believe the OP is making a reference to American football where the time (of play, not of the game) is much more tightly controlled.
Which makes the analogy interesting as different sports have different concepts of deadlines and duration of play. As long as there was no violation of their stated rules, I do not see a problem as I think both teams deserved to win and there was only room for one on the podium. I am sure Ensemble will do just fine for themselves (financially and in terms of reputation) with the algorithm they've developed over the past 3.5 years to a point where the 1M may not be such a big deal down the road.
Congrats to both!
*taps parent on shoulder*
Sorry to interrupt sir, but I wanted to let you know that the patent on understanding sarcasm has expired and you are hereby invited to use it.