Virtual particles do impart force. My understanding is that it is a net of zero, Universe wide, but maybe not locally. Virtual particles can push two plates together, and create torque issues with nano-structures.
My current manager couldn't hack it as an engineer, but he understands the problems good enough. He protects us programmers from the harsh realities of inter-departmental politics, he's a good people person. He tries to maintain a good balance of not bothering us and coming to us for our opinions for stuff like estimated time to get work completed or what kind of issues we need to worry about.
Several of us programmers are the "quirky" smart type and don't do well with idiots and have been known to get verbally snippy. But we keep getting raises because we deliver. I couldn't imagine working with an incompetent manager, I would feel sorry for them.
Product have made something that's not quite right. We ask them to fix it.
The statement of work should have everything as required. If the statement of work is satisfied, then the work is done, if it is not, then it needs to be finished, otherwise it's a breach of contract.
Our division breaks even, but we use internal billing to track interdepartmental charges. Because we don't really make money, we have a hard time getting more funding to hire more people. Until sales found out that nearly every multi-million dollar contract that comes in requires a service that only our department supplies and no other department can supply. Suddenly we're getting money thrown at us. Could have used this funding a few years back. Now we've got a backlog of work on top of the new contract deliverables.
You forgot quotes around "skills" to indicate the sarcasm of what many people call "skills". Skills don't get outdated, knowledge does. Problem solving is a skill, programming in C is knowledge. A skillful person can easily apply their skills to new problems.
And these women play well with other women, will cooperate and open doors for each other
Great, now I got tea all over my monitor. Great joke! I wonder how many of those women getting college degrees are for psychology.
High School Teacher: Ohh, I see you do well with test taking. You should go to college where you can further increase your ability to take tests.
Soon we will have an army of women who are highly educated in test taking and a psychology major. Since you can't find a good psychology job that doesn't require a PHD, they can be great secretaries./sarc
But really, our educational system is messed up. Women are smart as men on average, but it's not as simple as getting a degree, you need a marketable degree and preferably in a non-saturated market. We're treating college like extended high school. Moar Test Taking!!!!!
I also read that even if the LHC did create a "stable" black hole that didn't immediately evaporate, that if it fell to the center of the Earth, it would take about 10,000 years before it came in contact with other matter to consume. The Earth would die of other reasons far before the pico-blackhole was able to do any real damage.
"During the past year, EPB Fiber Optics surpassed the 50,000-customer mark."
"Our customer service representatives and business sales team added thousands of customers to the fiber optic network, earning $80.7 million in revenue over the past fiscal year.[2013]"
They make $80mil/year in revenue, but they save $50mil/year because of the fiber. Even if they offered the 1Gb for $0/month, they'd still be nearly breaking even.
My brother has an app on his smart phone that not only reports host fast you are moving, but if you're moving faster than some set speed, it puts the phone on silent. He longer gets bothered by his phone ringing or flashing him while driving.
There was/. on how much you exercise is less important than how often you exercise, when you have a desk job. People who got up and did mild exercise once every 1-2 hours saw no difference in circulation than not sitting, but sitting 4+ hours saw nearly no benefit from any amount of exercise. Or something like that.
VB.Net still uses enough English to make some things hard to remember. Concepts are easy to remember, specific words are not. Some concepts have multiple words.
I'll search for it later, but when Chattanooga announced that they paid off all of their debt, they reduced the 1gb package from $300 to $70. All of the tech sites covered this in exact detail and showed exactly how they got funded, how they paid stuff back, etc.
What are you talking about? My water bill is strait forward. Pay a connection fee based on the size of your water pipe, you pay a usage fee and you pay a sewer fee. If you're planning on doing something that consumes a large amount of water but not sewer, like filling a pool, just call the water company, tell them about how much water and your reason, and they'll remove the sewer usage fee for that amount of sewage on your next bill.
Connection fee
3/4 inch $6.00
1 inch $10.50
1 1/4 inch $14.00
1 1/2 inch $18.00
2 inch $27.00
flat rate $3.35 per 100 cubic feet
No sales tax for residential, but sales tax for businesses. 1% late fee per month, you have up to 20 days from the time you receive your bill to pay it before considered late.
Our water and electric meters are wireless and are monitored in near-real-time, which has allowed them to make their water pumps "smart" by speeding up or slowing down based on actual usage. They passed this savings down to us by reducing our per unit water costs by $0.10.
Chattanooga lost their credit rating did to overwhelming debt from their government broadband attempt
Chattanooga paid off all debt after 3 years, while saving the local community $50mil/year in increased electrical stability, general savings, and quicker repairs because of the fiber.
Utopia got the lowest bidder, who so happened to have a horrible track record of unprofessional network implementations.
According to AT&T, they covered my entire city with DSL, but if you called them up, they did not service you. Eventually I was able to get the list of addresses that they actually covered, one street.
The definition of "broadband" is about to change, lets see how many people have access to 25/3 of faster Internet.
I'd be curious to know how many people actually get their rated speeds.
Making ISPs common carriers allows ISPs access to right of ways. Kind of an important thing. Strangely enough, government regulation lowers the barrier to entry, I assume this is a good thing, but I could be wrong. Maybe the current extremely high barrier to entry is a good thing.
Common Carrier status for ISPs will let them get access to right of ways. As it stands right now, ISPs do not have access to right of ways, only telcoms and cable companies do, which is why nearly every land line ISP is also a telcom or cable company.
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Virtual particles do impart force. My understanding is that it is a net of zero, Universe wide, but maybe not locally. Virtual particles can push two plates together, and create torque issues with nano-structures.
Lies and falsehoods are easy to counter
You make a huge assumption that most people are rational, they are not.
More than 5. Still at my first job.
My current manager couldn't hack it as an engineer, but he understands the problems good enough. He protects us programmers from the harsh realities of inter-departmental politics, he's a good people person. He tries to maintain a good balance of not bothering us and coming to us for our opinions for stuff like estimated time to get work completed or what kind of issues we need to worry about.
Several of us programmers are the "quirky" smart type and don't do well with idiots and have been known to get verbally snippy. But we keep getting raises because we deliver. I couldn't imagine working with an incompetent manager, I would feel sorry for them.
Product have made something that's not quite right. We ask them to fix it.
The statement of work should have everything as required. If the statement of work is satisfied, then the work is done, if it is not, then it needs to be finished, otherwise it's a breach of contract.
I don't see the issue.
Our division breaks even, but we use internal billing to track interdepartmental charges. Because we don't really make money, we have a hard time getting more funding to hire more people. Until sales found out that nearly every multi-million dollar contract that comes in requires a service that only our department supplies and no other department can supply. Suddenly we're getting money thrown at us. Could have used this funding a few years back. Now we've got a backlog of work on top of the new contract deliverables.
changes in tech make their skills useless
You forgot quotes around "skills" to indicate the sarcasm of what many people call "skills". Skills don't get outdated, knowledge does. Problem solving is a skill, programming in C is knowledge. A skillful person can easily apply their skills to new problems.
And these women play well with other women, will cooperate and open doors for each other
Great, now I got tea all over my monitor. Great joke! I wonder how many of those women getting college degrees are for psychology.
/sarc
High School Teacher: Ohh, I see you do well with test taking. You should go to college where you can further increase your ability to take tests.
Soon we will have an army of women who are highly educated in test taking and a psychology major. Since you can't find a good psychology job that doesn't require a PHD, they can be great secretaries.
But really, our educational system is messed up. Women are smart as men on average, but it's not as simple as getting a degree, you need a marketable degree and preferably in a non-saturated market. We're treating college like extended high school. Moar Test Taking!!!!!
I also read that even if the LHC did create a "stable" black hole that didn't immediately evaporate, that if it fell to the center of the Earth, it would take about 10,000 years before it came in contact with other matter to consume. The Earth would die of other reasons far before the pico-blackhole was able to do any real damage.
"During the past year, EPB Fiber Optics surpassed the 50,000-customer mark."
"Our customer service representatives and business sales team added thousands of customers to the fiber optic network, earning $80.7 million in revenue over the past fiscal year.[2013]"
They make $80mil/year in revenue, but they save $50mil/year because of the fiber. Even if they offered the 1Gb for $0/month, they'd still be nearly breaking even.
Ahh yes, the "you have it better than others, so you should take it in the ass and like it, because it's better than being dead" argument.
I can sue them once I'm paying for the service and not receiving it. I can't sue my grocery store for being out of stock.
My brother has an app on his smart phone that not only reports host fast you are moving, but if you're moving faster than some set speed, it puts the phone on silent. He longer gets bothered by his phone ringing or flashing him while driving.
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/...
Learning to program has little to do with learning a programming language. Programming is a thought process.
I highly enjoy C#, it allows me to write flexible yet concise code that is easy to read. Many languages give you one or the other.
There was /. on how much you exercise is less important than how often you exercise, when you have a desk job. People who got up and did mild exercise once every 1-2 hours saw no difference in circulation than not sitting, but sitting 4+ hours saw nearly no benefit from any amount of exercise. Or something like that.
Rule of thumb, lots of mini breaks.
VB.Net still uses enough English to make some things hard to remember. Concepts are easy to remember, specific words are not. Some concepts have multiple words.
I'll search for it later, but when Chattanooga announced that they paid off all of their debt, they reduced the 1gb package from $300 to $70. All of the tech sites covered this in exact detail and showed exactly how they got funded, how they paid stuff back, etc.
What are you talking about? My water bill is strait forward. Pay a connection fee based on the size of your water pipe, you pay a usage fee and you pay a sewer fee. If you're planning on doing something that consumes a large amount of water but not sewer, like filling a pool, just call the water company, tell them about how much water and your reason, and they'll remove the sewer usage fee for that amount of sewage on your next bill.
Connection fee
3/4 inch $6.00
1 inch $10.50
1 1/4 inch $14.00
1 1/2 inch $18.00
2 inch $27.00
flat rate $3.35 per 100 cubic feet
No sales tax for residential, but sales tax for businesses. 1% late fee per month, you have up to 20 days from the time you receive your bill to pay it before considered late.
Our water and electric meters are wireless and are monitored in near-real-time, which has allowed them to make their water pumps "smart" by speeding up or slowing down based on actual usage. They passed this savings down to us by reducing our per unit water costs by $0.10.
Chattanooga lost their credit rating did to overwhelming debt from their government broadband attempt
Chattanooga paid off all debt after 3 years, while saving the local community $50mil/year in increased electrical stability, general savings, and quicker repairs because of the fiber.
Utopia got the lowest bidder, who so happened to have a horrible track record of unprofessional network implementations.
According to AT&T, they covered my entire city with DSL, but if you called them up, they did not service you. Eventually I was able to get the list of addresses that they actually covered, one street.
The definition of "broadband" is about to change, lets see how many people have access to 25/3 of faster Internet.
I'd be curious to know how many people actually get their rated speeds.
Making ISPs common carriers allows ISPs access to right of ways. Kind of an important thing. Strangely enough, government regulation lowers the barrier to entry, I assume this is a good thing, but I could be wrong. Maybe the current extremely high barrier to entry is a good thing.
Federal law already states Internet access cannot be taxed. I assume that law would take precedence of Title II taxation.
Common Carrier status for ISPs will let them get access to right of ways. As it stands right now, ISPs do not have access to right of ways, only telcoms and cable companies do, which is why nearly every land line ISP is also a telcom or cable company.