If you cannot automate tasks as part of your job, someone else who can will be more cost effective, or someone else will fully automate your job. Either way, I imagine being able to script some automation together will be an essential part of being able to gain work in the future, especially as so much of general work consists of repetitive tasks.
Sites like iftt and other introductions to scripting solutions, make this type of automation easy for the general population to get the building blocks of automation without the overheads of making a request to an IT specialist.
How many programmers work on mail merge or the many other office functions that have been solved many times over already? Yes, just as today, there will be some spreadsheets from hell and some vb messes, but the same productivity pressures will retain more of the capable ones than the mess generators.
Middle managers creating their own crap scripts can still have a huge impact on their productivity, and this is an area that some traditional IT departments have not supported very well other than to try to lock it down, albeit with some good reasons.
(Laws | Contracts) are just a set of rules that may have been codified in a sloppy fashion which allows a number of implicit logic errors to slip through as there is no formal testing.
I have worked in areas related to encoding acts of legislation and regulation into chunks of DSL for processing by a rule engine. It was easier than I expected, but was not without challenges.
When compared to normal business process automation, at least laws have a specific definition(s) for every term already defined as well as specific outcomes; whereas the agony of throwing BAs at interpreting a business function that is poorly defined and without any specific outcomes can be a nightmare.
Imagine the first inroads are as supplementary tools to identify legal loopholes and gaps(the implicit logic errors when the rules are combined).
In terms of writing contracts, this has already been heavily automated; remember EDI, umm, trading systems, electronic purchasing?
Judiciary bodies already use software that highlight variations in sentencing whilst guiding judges and magistrates on a range of factors that determined previous sentence ranges(precedents).
But apart from sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system, and public health what services have google ever provided?
If I owned a hardware store and advertised hammers by displaying the use of the hammer in breaking into a house/safe whatever, then maybe there would be some not unexpected bad blood from people who experienced some damage from hammer wielding thieves, or were even just worried about the possibility.
Whether the recipient seemed like they deserved such treatment because they did bad things to kittens is moot, being seen to promote illegal activities as a positive use of your product is just a bit silly, even if you vehemently disagree with said law.
Arguing about the pros and cons of banning hammers in a particular store because in some cases the use is wrong but seems justified seems even sillier to me.
Piracy is much better than the alternative, using the alternative happily.
Making a feel-good story out of giving to people what they have already taken that they cannot pay for must be such a cool result for a middlemanaging doublespeak specialist!
Wikileaks have succeeded where all others have failed, simply by burying everyone in 91,000 documents looking for easter eggs!
Really, the amount of time spent trying to get a name out those docs before they died of old age, even with such helpful categorisation would surely be enough to completely disable any real activity.
It seems to be spin however tenuously tied to the truth to destroy the validity of Wikileaks and any info they receive that they then release which is in some way embarrassing.
Queensland is NOT part of Australia, and any sort of intelligence fled during the Joh Bjelke-Petersen years when he kept telling everyone "d d d dont you worry bout that now!" in response to any questions from the media.
Intelligent design is just the usual Queensland double speak dialect for being told to do and believe what you are told or face the consequences of just what happens with that there banjo.
At least that would be more interesting than the trite drivel that comes up as most highlighted now, but then again the most of anything tends to be pretty lame.
Not so sure, reading with progressive glasses makes people move their heads instead of using their eyes as anything off centre is blurry due to the vertical variable lens strength, so neither the tracking or the projection onto the glasses would not work well in this instance.
Perfect way to have your own music server turned radio station, when there is no ethernet and lotsa wifi interference or range problems, can be a great way for getting your own music to the shed down the back of the yard.
The main downside is in only being able to control playlists etc from one central location - if you have some means of doing this(ie a netbook,computer or other device, you have enough network to setup something like the squeezebox. Still, setup a big playlist and just tune in to your own station.
You could also use this as a way of extending your squeezebox based music network as well, you can setup your own stream. I needed to put the output from an eeepc through an amplifier before putting the signal into the fm transmitter, but it worked very well.
For whole of house music it actually works better than software based syncronisation of the music servers, which can be be annoyingly a little out of sync due to network and cpu performance.
Just be careful of the amount of gain vs fm transmission laws, fines can be large for what could be taken as running a pirate radio station.
It actually works best in lower population density areas, as in the big cities there may not be a clear enough area available in the FM band for a reliable signal.
Something like this is great for getting the signal to the studio out the back tho....
There are already a number of semi-automated legislation interpreters in the rule engine field, albeit like early OCR systems, but the application and testing of formal logic to new or amended acts cannot come soon enough!
I can just imagine future proposals requiring successful test runs of existing and new test scenarios before voting proceeds.
This seems to ignore the director circuit - directors on the boards of large companies is a very small, close-knit group that often make decisions to further their own group.
Have a look at the list of boards that a director of a large public company is on, ostensibly as proof of their capability, but also representative of the highly inbred and insular nature of the group.
This group evolves from and rewards the executives who it sees as supporting the group, not some blind egalitarian principle of capitalism.
Shareholders provide the funds, and this is controlled by majority shareholders, and, yup, the same directors again on different boards.
In oz, and probably many other places for that matter, your real name is what you are known by, there is no requirement to have a formal change from the birth certificate name registered by deed poll, it just makes it easier to deal with all the various institions such as banks etc.
So if you regularly use and are known as drunkenoaf for example, that is your real name.
Tracking down aliases that are linked to it that have an analogue address etc should be a doddle for most the the readers here, let alone someone unfriendly..
I remember when AAPT first started as an alternative to the sole gov telecommunications provider with microwave radios.
Storms were a problem, even heavy rain was an issue but in particular a tree that had a preservation order. In high winds it intermittently interrupted the main link between the central city and the main datacentre.
As flaky as wireless may have been, it completely changed the face of telecommunications in Australia.
I have not only employed developers based on their involvement in FOSS projects, but actually use it to cull the list of prospects - ie no visibilty in a FOSS project, application goes in the bin.
The ease of getting involved has no bearing on what it takes to deliver valuable code.
There are a few others doing this in Australia, and although it may be limited I believe it is a growing trend.
The reason is not the demonstration of touchy-feely tree-hugging volunteering by the applicants, but that the best developers do not switch off at 5PM, and they are always looking for new ways to excercise their skills and increase their knowledge.
The fruits of their journeys are also visible for like minded or simply pragmatic business people to leverage against competitors. Competitors that do not get that employing average gets you average results.
Yes it does, very minor issue with Trac + svn tho, it needs to be on same server or you need to frig about with svn replications for the integration to work nicely.
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If you cannot automate tasks as part of your job, someone else who can will be more cost effective, or someone else will fully automate your job. Either way, I imagine being able to script some automation together will be an essential part of being able to gain work in the future, especially as so much of general work consists of repetitive tasks.
Sites like iftt and other introductions to scripting solutions, make this type of automation easy for the general population to get the building blocks of automation without the overheads of making a request to an IT specialist.
How many programmers work on mail merge or the many other office functions that have been solved many times over already? Yes, just as today, there will be some spreadsheets from hell and some vb messes, but the same productivity pressures will retain more of the capable ones than the mess generators.
Middle managers creating their own crap scripts can still have a huge impact on their productivity, and this is an area that some traditional IT departments have not supported very well other than to try to lock it down, albeit with some good reasons.
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/
(Laws | Contracts) are just a set of rules that may have been codified in a sloppy fashion which allows a number of implicit logic errors to slip through as there is no formal testing.
I have worked in areas related to encoding acts of legislation and regulation into chunks of DSL for processing by a rule engine. It was easier than I expected, but was not without challenges.
When compared to normal business process automation, at least laws have a specific definition(s) for every term already defined as well as specific outcomes; whereas the agony of throwing BAs at interpreting a business function that is poorly defined and without any specific outcomes can be a nightmare.
Imagine the first inroads are as supplementary tools to identify legal loopholes and gaps(the implicit logic errors when the rules are combined).
In terms of writing contracts, this has already been heavily automated; remember EDI, umm, trading systems, electronic purchasing?
Judiciary bodies already use software that highlight variations in sentencing whilst guiding judges and magistrates on a range of factors that determined previous sentence ranges(precedents).
You are being disingenuous, the "merely advise" is in fact a two year time limit for member states to put the change into legislation.
Sounds alot like vinyl to me, and I only just chucked out the old turntables!
But apart from sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system, and public health what services have google ever provided?
If I owned a hardware store and advertised hammers by displaying the use of the hammer in breaking into a house/safe whatever, then maybe there would be some not unexpected bad blood from people who experienced some damage from hammer wielding thieves, or were even just worried about the possibility.
Whether the recipient seemed like they deserved such treatment because they did bad things to kittens is moot, being seen to promote illegal activities as a positive use of your product is just a bit silly, even if you vehemently disagree with said law.
Arguing about the pros and cons of banning hammers in a particular store because in some cases the use is wrong but seems justified seems even sillier to me.
Piracy is much better than the alternative, using the alternative happily. Making a feel-good story out of giving to people what they have already taken that they cannot pay for must be such a cool result for a middlemanaging doublespeak specialist!
The B-Ark now has a destination!
Wikileaks have succeeded where all others have failed, simply by burying everyone in 91,000 documents looking for easter eggs!
Really, the amount of time spent trying to get a name out those docs before they died of old age, even with such helpful categorisation would surely be enough to completely disable any real activity.
It seems to be spin however tenuously tied to the truth to destroy the validity of Wikileaks and any info they receive that they then release which is in some way embarrassing.
Queensland is NOT part of Australia, and any sort of intelligence fled during the Joh Bjelke-Petersen years when he kept telling everyone "d d d dont you worry bout that now!" in response to any questions from the media. Intelligent design is just the usual Queensland double speak dialect for being told to do and believe what you are told or face the consequences of just what happens with that there banjo.
i-everything will get tacky soon enough, just like e-everything and as did blue-everything.
Spose it would be a problem if most people made a note of what happened to jenny, and her phone number...
At least that would be more interesting than the trite drivel that comes up as most highlighted now, but then again the most of anything tends to be pretty lame.
Not so sure, reading with progressive glasses makes people move their heads instead of using their eyes as anything off centre is blurry due to the vertical variable lens strength, so neither the tracking or the projection onto the glasses would not work well in this instance.
This can't be /. - you let your family use windows?
Perfect way to have your own music server turned radio station, when there is no ethernet and lotsa wifi interference or range problems, can be a great way for getting your own music to the shed down the back of the yard.
The main downside is in only being able to control playlists etc from one central location - if you have some means of doing this(ie a netbook,computer or other device, you have enough network to setup something like the squeezebox. Still, setup a big playlist and just tune in to your own station.
You could also use this as a way of extending your squeezebox based music network as well, you can setup your own stream. I needed to put the output from an eeepc through an amplifier before putting the signal into the fm transmitter, but it worked very well.
For whole of house music it actually works better than software based syncronisation of the music servers, which can be be annoyingly a little out of sync due to network and cpu performance.
Just be careful of the amount of gain vs fm transmission laws, fines can be large for what could be taken as running a pirate radio station.
It actually works best in lower population density areas, as in the big cities there may not be a clear enough area available in the FM band for a reliable signal.
Something like this is great for getting the signal to the studio out the back tho....
http://www.fordray.com.au/Products/fmt_lp/fmt_lp.html
There are already a number of semi-automated legislation interpreters in the rule engine field, albeit like early OCR systems, but the application and testing of formal logic to new or amended acts cannot come soon enough! I can just imagine future proposals requiring successful test runs of existing and new test scenarios before voting proceeds.
Anyone remember the recent orwellian actions of Amazon, the Kindle, and the 'its a license not a book'?
This seems to ignore the director circuit - directors on the boards of large companies is a very small, close-knit group that often make decisions to further their own group.
Have a look at the list of boards that a director of a large public company is on, ostensibly as proof of their capability, but also representative of the highly inbred and insular nature of the group.
This group evolves from and rewards the executives who it sees as supporting the group, not some blind egalitarian principle of capitalism.
Shareholders provide the funds, and this is controlled by majority shareholders, and, yup, the same directors again on different boards.
Bit like the way government works I suppose.
It is a security measure
In oz, and probably many other places for that matter, your real name is what you are known by, there is no requirement to have a formal change from the birth certificate name registered by deed poll, it just makes it easier to deal with all the various institions such as banks etc.
So if you regularly use and are known as drunkenoaf for example, that is your real name.
Tracking down aliases that are linked to it that have an analogue address etc should be a doddle for most the the readers here, let alone someone unfriendly..
I remember when AAPT first started as an alternative to the sole gov telecommunications provider with microwave radios. Storms were a problem, even heavy rain was an issue but in particular a tree that had a preservation order. In high winds it intermittently interrupted the main link between the central city and the main datacentre. As flaky as wireless may have been, it completely changed the face of telecommunications in Australia.
I have not only employed developers based on their involvement in FOSS projects, but actually use it to cull the list of prospects - ie no visibilty in a FOSS project, application goes in the bin. The ease of getting involved has no bearing on what it takes to deliver valuable code. There are a few others doing this in Australia, and although it may be limited I believe it is a growing trend. The reason is not the demonstration of touchy-feely tree-hugging volunteering by the applicants, but that the best developers do not switch off at 5PM, and they are always looking for new ways to excercise their skills and increase their knowledge. The fruits of their journeys are also visible for like minded or simply pragmatic business people to leverage against competitors. Competitors that do not get that employing average gets you average results.
trac + subversion works well.
Yes it does, very minor issue with Trac + svn tho, it needs to be on same server or you need to frig about with svn replications for the integration to work nicely.