Or the group is tackling more complex things in those months. Tester is working like crazy so he doesn't have to work late near Christmas etc. Maybe you release in the new year and everyone is focused on finding and fixing bugs rather than writing new code. A sample of one company (how many products?) probably isn't sufficient. That said I've spent the last couple weeks tracking down one nasty bug, but its December...
Politicians are like cochroaches you can't kill them you just have their wife(Hillary), brother(Jeb), son(Kim Jong-Un), reincarnation (Dali Lama) take over/start/continue in politics and the people obsessed with the family can continue to compare their politics to their dead ancestor ad nauseum.No what you really need is a separation of powers so no one or two groups can completely run the country from making laws, operations and finance... oh what the US already has that and it works great.
Cool. I'm actually in Canada but sounds like a similar thing. Our EMR/PACS etc is shared amongst a couple hospitals (and we use the same IT support provider so it is "one helpdesk") as well as a more wide(at least in terms of hospitals, not geographically) email system than direct seems to: (probably an easier nut to crack since SMTP is more standardized than other stuff) http://www.ehealthontario.on.ca/programs/one_mail.asp.
Connection between nearby hospitals mail server runs through a encrypted network everything else is unencrypted and employee policy is nothing patient related goes to anyone outside of the encrypted network. Personal email: I save all my offensive remarks for/. posts my email is pretty boring actually.
Why nuke from orbit. The subway would be a lot of fun. Since the US doesn't have a manned space program anymore I think it would be more ironic to save he orbit nukes for Cape Canaveral.
My last IT shop job what we did is have weekly meetings. Anything older than a couple days was brought up and the group discussed it to see if someone else needed to take it on or what had to happen. Other than that the only thing that affected you as in individual was your project preformance. We all had a day a week were we had no operational responsiblities. During that day we worked on projects (and of course if we had spare time we could work on them on other days). Regardless we owned the project, the project was directly related to what we were supposed to be able to do (for example I did clustering and wireless security overhaul since I have done HPC before and was the net admin). Everything else was: is the customer happy? If so it doesn't matter how long it takes to solve the problem just let them know within a couple hours that you got their request and what you need from them, and for long term things (new servers, can you develop this etc) every few days what you are doing and that is good enough.
on Raymond Chen's site (The old new thing) a sporting goods store wanted to increase the upsales of "shoe protecting" sprays. They offered the staff a kickback since they had a ridiculously high margin on the spray (like 80%). Anyways the sales people were allowed to use discounts at their discrecion and the store had coupons frequntly. So... smart employees gave away the spray and used coupons or "discounts" to make up the difference so they'd get the kick back. In general any behavior you offer a reward for that isn't exactly what you want as a company will result in you getting what you are incentivizing regardless of whether or not you get what you want out of the deal. The only solution: tie the reward directly to what you want, eg. if you want more profit for the company than give profit sharing. You still have to work hard to remove disincentives, ie crappy employees that make the goal unachievable and so make even your good employees just take it easy since there is no reason to put in the extra effort, but at least you make your employees incentives tied to your organization wide goals.
I disagree on this one (but you are free to disagree with me:-)). I find that often books start out fast and than drag on (eg. random mystery novel that starts out with lots of slash and dash and then becomes obvious only to be dragged on for another 200 pages while the hero figures out how to kill the bad guy) or conversely are slow paced but pick up and are interesting (eg. Lord of the Rings series, I've just unleashed a bunch of Wraiths I realize) kind of making the rest of the book interesting because it helps understand the overall action later on. Regardless and unfortunately, I don't know if the book is worth it until I've read it. It is a very rare book that is so bad I give up part way through (probably a sign of lack of culture but Moby Dick and War and Peace are on that list), reading the book pretty much acts as a filter of am I going to read the whole series/everything from the author/or am I going to move on to another book in my nearly bottomless list of "I should read that"?
Yep that is what I read as well. I think it might even been a/. post a couple months ago some guy rant on why he turned down a 6 or 7 figure deal for self publishing. He was complaining that the publisher also wanted the same 90% or so for ebooks even though they literally would be doing no work/materials for those extra electronic sales. He broke it down, 70% of $3 is 2.10 10% of $20 is $2 but they also get you for advertisement, manufacturing, etc etc. By the time you are done you get ~0.50 a book with a regular publisher and you piss off a bunch of fans by making them wait 6 months for the paperback. It is a no brainer.
That said I can see the appeal of being able to say that you are a best seller publishing with say Penguin versus I'm a self published author who is a best seller on Amazon. I guess once again it becomes a trade off between money and street cred ala OSS versus selling out to Apple/MS/Google.
I don't see the infringement they still can speak they just aren't allowed to scream at everyone anymore. Last time I checked there were noise limits in most cities and they aren't getting challenged on constitutional grounds. No one's saying you can't listen to music at 2am you just can't listen to it loud enough that everyone else in the area has to hear it that late.
The authors probably made more per sale on the $1-3 books than the ones that sold the $25 real books through a normal publisher too. So everyone wins but the publishers. Authors get more fans, more money, customers pay less I suspect people read more etc. I realize there is a selection bias towards people that would pay ~$100 for something to read books are likely to be people that read a lot of books but I think it goes both ways. I used to read a lot, slowed down, but bought a kindle a few years ago and now read way more again and more varied things because I don't necessarily have to pay oddles to try something different that wouldn't be popular enough to be in the library. Much less of a hassle. I literally was getting to the point where the libraries in my town didn't have any more books I was interested in reading. Now I can download whatever I want, I'm not limited to what is in the local book store/library can "acquire" just about anything so cost isn't an issue etc.
It's more impulse buy versus I have to think about it at least from what I learnt in management econ. $5 or so and people just buy. Its the price of a nice beer, it might be good, it might be crap, but it is $5 who cares. To get a mail in order on the other hand you have to log in find the book click on it, pay for it, wait a few days recieve it etc. There is more involved. A kindle type a couple characters, click on the book, click again and it is yours. Bill goes right to your credit card on file pay your credit card bill like you hopefully do anyways and there is near 0 effort involved. You can get close to that experience with "one click checkout" on their website but you still have the hassle of "doing something now for something you'll enjoy later" as the US savings rate can attest: that is no small feat.
The article says that the small reactors do not need pumps because convection is sufficient to dissipate the heat for the reactor itself. I'd imagine a small scale reactor means a small scale storage pond which they'd just have to keep them small enough that they are the same way: convection is enough provided that the thermal density isn't too high.
I second that one. Girls do come in different sizes. On a related note: I knew a girl who was massive and butt ugly (> 6' 250+ lbs) who was studying to be a dentist. She was very shanana like the character in In Living Color. She insisted not only does her guy have to be bigger than her, but he would need to make more money than her too. So looking at ~1% of the population in terms of physicial size, and ~1% in terms of income and willing to marry butt ugly. I wished her luck on that one for some reason it wasn't received very well.
Price versus demand. If the oil price included the external costs the total "at the pump" price probably would be higher but the demand for alternatives that had a much lower environmental footprint/tax would be larger. Its a demand thing: we only need tar sands as long as other methods don't give us enough oil at the market price. But if the market price drops because of demand all of a sudden easier to obtain oil is sufficient while the total cost (because of the CO2 trading/tax/whatever scheme comes up) might actually be higher. Tar sands extraction is horrendous to the environment so the externality costs that should be included in the decision to use it would be correspondingly larger compared to getting it from the arab reserves.
It's better than living in a hot box floating in the ocean. There are other mechanisms to cohersing other people to play nice. Like tarrifs that fully account for the emisions not already covered by treaties/taxes the manufacturing country has. Us charging ourselves for the environmental costs of our choices doesn't mean we can't charge competing countries wishing to sell their stuff here the same amount.
China actually has been improving from what I hear. I think their objection to Kyoto is they don't have the infrastructure already to make a gradual transition. They need to build up really quickly and that means dirty plants. That said they are spending more on renewables than the US (maybe not saying much) but still we can't get the US a pass and than dump on China. The real error in their thinking though IMO is "you were an idiot in the past so I get to be an idiot now, its only fair". No it isn't fair. People doing stupid things doesn't justify you doing stupid things.
That comes back to Canada (I'm canadian): so what that China and India aren't members of Kyoto: is Kyoto better than nothing? Yes. Is Kyoto in the right direction if not far enough towards what we need to do: yes. So all refusing to abide by Kyoto or something like it until everyone agrees accomplishes nothing other than giving ourselves an excuse to not do what is right regardless of what the other person is doing. If we want to force people to have similar practices than have a trade tarrif which adjusts their products to account for emissions. Say $40 per tonne carbon equivalent including transportation and all other incidentals of production. Have the same sort of tax internally too. It is fine to adjust the corporate rate so that the net revenue stays the same but that way companies will have a financial incentive to become more environmentally friendly and the markets move towards products that are more efficient.
More like the conservatives don't want to do anything to adversely affect the Alberta tar sands. Any sort of restrictions on CO2 emissions will make oil less attractive. Tar sands needs oil prices high to be profitable so...
True though relying on old things isn't exactly something that the *nix world can claim they don't do either. After all a large part of linux "innovation" has been the copying of the features of UNIX from back in the 1970's. Sure there are new schedulers etc but ultimately the structure of the OS has stayed pretty consistent over time. MS is going to blow away a lot of their old framework with Metro in Win 8 (and the WinRT vs MFC replacement). Anyways things like apps not being able to write ad hoc to the harddrive is going to make things "interesting" to say the least. I guess give it 5 years and if people are still choicing to port things over to the new run time rather than to Mac or Linux than there will likely be proof that it isn't "old incompatiblities" that is keeping users.
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Or the group is tackling more complex things in those months. Tester is working like crazy so he doesn't have to work late near Christmas etc. Maybe you release in the new year and everyone is focused on finding and fixing bugs rather than writing new code. A sample of one company (how many products?) probably isn't sufficient. That said I've spent the last couple weeks tracking down one nasty bug, but its December ...
Beat me to it. I was going to say "bonnet but you wear it in your pants".
"but your brain stays here ... sorry about that but its the rules."
Well when you are in your 70's and your spouse is dead and your kids are living across the country home might not be > work.
Politicians are like cochroaches you can't kill them you just have their wife(Hillary), brother(Jeb), son(Kim Jong-Un), reincarnation (Dali Lama) take over/start/continue in politics and the people obsessed with the family can continue to compare their politics to their dead ancestor ad nauseum.No what you really need is a separation of powers so no one or two groups can completely run the country from making laws, operations and finance ... oh what the US already has that and it works great.
Cool. I'm actually in Canada but sounds like a similar thing. Our EMR/PACS etc is shared amongst a couple hospitals (and we use the same IT support provider so it is "one helpdesk") as well as a more wide(at least in terms of hospitals, not geographically) email system than direct seems to: (probably an easier nut to crack since SMTP is more standardized than other stuff) http://www.ehealthontario.on.ca/programs/one_mail.asp.
Connection between nearby hospitals mail server runs through a encrypted network everything else is unencrypted and employee policy is nothing patient related goes to anyone outside of the encrypted network. Personal email: I save all my offensive remarks for /. posts my email is pretty boring actually.
Why nuke from orbit. The subway would be a lot of fun. Since the US doesn't have a manned space program anymore I think it would be more ironic to save he orbit nukes for Cape Canaveral.
Come now everyone knows that anyone with money is both incompetent and greedy. No one ever deserves more money than you they are just lucky.
My last IT shop job what we did is have weekly meetings. Anything older than a couple days was brought up and the group discussed it to see if someone else needed to take it on or what had to happen. Other than that the only thing that affected you as in individual was your project preformance. We all had a day a week were we had no operational responsiblities. During that day we worked on projects (and of course if we had spare time we could work on them on other days). Regardless we owned the project, the project was directly related to what we were supposed to be able to do (for example I did clustering and wireless security overhaul since I have done HPC before and was the net admin). Everything else was: is the customer happy? If so it doesn't matter how long it takes to solve the problem just let them know within a couple hours that you got their request and what you need from them, and for long term things (new servers, can you develop this etc) every few days what you are doing and that is good enough.
on Raymond Chen's site (The old new thing) a sporting goods store wanted to increase the upsales of "shoe protecting" sprays. They offered the staff a kickback since they had a ridiculously high margin on the spray (like 80%). Anyways the sales people were allowed to use discounts at their discrecion and the store had coupons frequntly. So ... smart employees gave away the spray and used coupons or "discounts" to make up the difference so they'd get the kick back. In general any behavior you offer a reward for that isn't exactly what you want as a company will result in you getting what you are incentivizing regardless of whether or not you get what you want out of the deal. The only solution: tie the reward directly to what you want, eg. if you want more profit for the company than give profit sharing. You still have to work hard to remove disincentives, ie crappy employees that make the goal unachievable and so make even your good employees just take it easy since there is no reason to put in the extra effort, but at least you make your employees incentives tied to your organization wide goals.
I disagree on this one (but you are free to disagree with me :-)). I find that often books start out fast and than drag on (eg. random mystery novel that starts out with lots of slash and dash and then becomes obvious only to be dragged on for another 200 pages while the hero figures out how to kill the bad guy) or conversely are slow paced but pick up and are interesting (eg. Lord of the Rings series, I've just unleashed a bunch of Wraiths I realize) kind of making the rest of the book interesting because it helps understand the overall action later on. Regardless and unfortunately, I don't know if the book is worth it until I've read it. It is a very rare book that is so bad I give up part way through (probably a sign of lack of culture but Moby Dick and War and Peace are on that list), reading the book pretty much acts as a filter of am I going to read the whole series/everything from the author/or am I going to move on to another book in my nearly bottomless list of "I should read that"?
That said I can see the appeal of being able to say that you are a best seller publishing with say Penguin versus I'm a self published author who is a best seller on Amazon. I guess once again it becomes a trade off between money and street cred ala OSS versus selling out to Apple/MS/Google.
I don't see the infringement they still can speak they just aren't allowed to scream at everyone anymore. Last time I checked there were noise limits in most cities and they aren't getting challenged on constitutional grounds. No one's saying you can't listen to music at 2am you just can't listen to it loud enough that everyone else in the area has to hear it that late.
The authors probably made more per sale on the $1-3 books than the ones that sold the $25 real books through a normal publisher too. So everyone wins but the publishers. Authors get more fans, more money, customers pay less I suspect people read more etc. I realize there is a selection bias towards people that would pay ~$100 for something to read books are likely to be people that read a lot of books but I think it goes both ways. I used to read a lot, slowed down, but bought a kindle a few years ago and now read way more again and more varied things because I don't necessarily have to pay oddles to try something different that wouldn't be popular enough to be in the library. Much less of a hassle. I literally was getting to the point where the libraries in my town didn't have any more books I was interested in reading. Now I can download whatever I want, I'm not limited to what is in the local book store/library can "acquire" just about anything so cost isn't an issue etc.
It's more impulse buy versus I have to think about it at least from what I learnt in management econ. $5 or so and people just buy. Its the price of a nice beer, it might be good, it might be crap, but it is $5 who cares. To get a mail in order on the other hand you have to log in find the book click on it, pay for it, wait a few days recieve it etc. There is more involved. A kindle type a couple characters, click on the book, click again and it is yours. Bill goes right to your credit card on file pay your credit card bill like you hopefully do anyways and there is near 0 effort involved. You can get close to that experience with "one click checkout" on their website but you still have the hassle of "doing something now for something you'll enjoy later" as the US savings rate can attest: that is no small feat.
Hey if it has a kiss sticker on it you owe him royalties. Is there anything out there without a kiss sticker?
How about New Orleans?
The article says that the small reactors do not need pumps because convection is sufficient to dissipate the heat for the reactor itself. I'd imagine a small scale reactor means a small scale storage pond which they'd just have to keep them small enough that they are the same way: convection is enough provided that the thermal density isn't too high.
I second that one. Girls do come in different sizes. On a related note: I knew a girl who was massive and butt ugly (> 6' 250+ lbs) who was studying to be a dentist. She was very shanana like the character in In Living Color. She insisted not only does her guy have to be bigger than her, but he would need to make more money than her too. So looking at ~1% of the population in terms of physicial size, and ~1% in terms of income and willing to marry butt ugly. I wished her luck on that one for some reason it wasn't received very well.
Price versus demand. If the oil price included the external costs the total "at the pump" price probably would be higher but the demand for alternatives that had a much lower environmental footprint/tax would be larger. Its a demand thing: we only need tar sands as long as other methods don't give us enough oil at the market price. But if the market price drops because of demand all of a sudden easier to obtain oil is sufficient while the total cost (because of the CO2 trading/tax/whatever scheme comes up) might actually be higher. Tar sands extraction is horrendous to the environment so the externality costs that should be included in the decision to use it would be correspondingly larger compared to getting it from the arab reserves.
It's better than living in a hot box floating in the ocean. There are other mechanisms to cohersing other people to play nice. Like tarrifs that fully account for the emisions not already covered by treaties/taxes the manufacturing country has. Us charging ourselves for the environmental costs of our choices doesn't mean we can't charge competing countries wishing to sell their stuff here the same amount.
That comes back to Canada (I'm canadian): so what that China and India aren't members of Kyoto: is Kyoto better than nothing? Yes. Is Kyoto in the right direction if not far enough towards what we need to do: yes. So all refusing to abide by Kyoto or something like it until everyone agrees accomplishes nothing other than giving ourselves an excuse to not do what is right regardless of what the other person is doing. If we want to force people to have similar practices than have a trade tarrif which adjusts their products to account for emissions. Say $40 per tonne carbon equivalent including transportation and all other incidentals of production. Have the same sort of tax internally too. It is fine to adjust the corporate rate so that the net revenue stays the same but that way companies will have a financial incentive to become more environmentally friendly and the markets move towards products that are more efficient.
More like the conservatives don't want to do anything to adversely affect the Alberta tar sands. Any sort of restrictions on CO2 emissions will make oil less attractive. Tar sands needs oil prices high to be profitable so ...
True though relying on old things isn't exactly something that the *nix world can claim they don't do either. After all a large part of linux "innovation" has been the copying of the features of UNIX from back in the 1970's. Sure there are new schedulers etc but ultimately the structure of the OS has stayed pretty consistent over time. MS is going to blow away a lot of their old framework with Metro in Win 8 (and the WinRT vs MFC replacement). Anyways things like apps not being able to write ad hoc to the harddrive is going to make things "interesting" to say the least. I guess give it 5 years and if people are still choicing to port things over to the new run time rather than to Mac or Linux than there will likely be proof that it isn't "old incompatiblities" that is keeping users.