This raises the cost and time to train new fliers in an era when pay cuts and more-demanding schedules already have made the profession less attractive.
Well, duh! Cut pay, make schedules more demanding, and whine about a pilot shortage!
I've been down the same road as you. Although I've moved on to management, I still write Android apps in my spare time. I use Java for that, not because it's such a great language--it's pretty crude actually--but because that's pretty much what you have to write in if you're doing Android. Yes I know there are other choices, but not...really.
Now I'm literally training young hot-shots to be better programmers. Most of my effort with the brighter ones is setting boundaries. They tend to be loose canons, lacking direction and focus. The ones that will listen really can accomplish amazing things, but the ones that already know everything end up doing lots of re-writing because they didn't stop and think or ask for input.
We need the hot-shots because we old fogies can get set in our ways. But we also need the maturity that experience brings. The two kinds of people, under good leadership, can accomplish amazing things.
I've been wondering about that too. In exactly what way is Sandy the storm of the century? It's barely a category 1 storm. Yes, it's big, but not unprecedentedly so. Storm surges are significant, but far less than storm surges from other recent storms. Is it just where the storm is headed that makes this one so "huge," or am I missing something? Maybe in a couple of days we'll all know.
What Mr. Benioff is forgetting is that Windows 8 is a throw-away version of Windows. Big business is too busy moving to Windows 7 from XP right now, they were going to skip Windows 8 no matter how good or bad it was! Microsoft has a long history of playing catch-up, and then overtaking the competition long after the competition thought they had the game sewed up. Windows 8 may be a colossal dud, but don't count Microsoft out yet.
You're right, when it comes to the consumer market. But Microsoft is still firmly entrenched in business. I predict large corporations will eat up Microsoft's new tablet.
Sure, that is a big part of NASA's mission. But if we don't find ways to entice young people to pursue science, where will that leave us? What's the harm in creating a little publicity? It seems to me that a stunt like this can go a long way towards advancing science, in the long run.
That was my point...it is the only way right now. Superconductor research is advancing rapidly, with new advances leading, step by step, towards room-temperature superconductors. Even if that holy grail is never achieved, the temperatures required certainly are going up. There are, I'm sure, many other opportunities for refinement of the technology.
There is nothing like high cost to spur innovation! Who would have thought that, just a few years after the human genome was first fully sequenced, at a cost of billions of dollars and years of time, others would invent machines that could do it for just a few thousand dollars, in a week? Could the people involved in the original project have envisioned this? Hardly.
All I'm saying is, we should not be too hasty to get the government involved in making rules to relieve such a shortage. Cost has an amazing way of bringing out the creativity in people.
the cost of helium is artificially low.
Therein lies the real problem...some intellectuals in the past deemed it helpful to artificially lower the cost of helium. The government props up the market, and causes an artificial shortage.
Professor Welton says that because there is a shortage, we should (essentially) make rules against using Helium for "trivial" purposes like party balloons. This seems rather draconian to me. Is helium really the only way to cool MRI machines? I'll bet that, if prices rise enough, somebody will invent a new method not involving helium. Should partiers give up helium balloons? I'll be that, if prices rise enough, they will stop using them without being coerced.
The observation was that total plant life is not increasing. How does that imply a limit? What factors indicate that plant life should be increasing?
During the recent global recession, many people's incomes have remained stagnant, or decreased. Does that mean those people have reached the limit of their income potential?
Which version of Facebook is he talking about? Facebook has changed the way it looks so many times, even Facebook doesn't look like Facebook any more! On the other hand, Facebook has changed its look so many times, any look will be like at least one version of Facebook!
Remember Visual Studio 4, back when Egghead Software was still a powerhouse? Microsoft went to a subscription model for Visual Studio. For an annual subscription fee, you were guaranteed to always have the latest version of Visual Studio. It actually seemed like a good deal at the time...but it lasted only about a year. Now...the "home" version (Visual Studio Express) is free. Let's hope MS Office follows the same path!
It takes a LONG time for big businesses to move to new versions of anything. They are just now moving off of Windows XP and IE 7. Many major software systems used by big companies (such as GE Centricity) still don't even support IE 9, so customers of such software can't move forward even if they wanted to!
It looks like Google is taking a page out of Apple's book. It's stunts like this that keep Apple out of the office (for the most part). Microsoft, on the other hand, has a reputation for supporting legacy software just about forever...lots of old DOS programs still work! Microsoft has been rewarded by businesses in a big way.
Never mind that they haven't done it yet, or that the idea may be just pie in the sky. They had the idea first, so they should patent it. That way, if by some miracle somebody does do it one day, they can sue the pants off of them. That seems to be the way things are done these days.
After the oil has been heated up by all those processors, pipe it to nearby fast food restaurants to cook French fries and all those other delicious, fattening foods! Yum!
Hand tools have their place. If you're building something small, or you want to prove that it can be done, or you just can't afford real tools. But for anything non-trivial, you need power tools, both for home building, and for software building.
Back in the 80s when I was in college, everybody signed up for Computer Science because there was money to be made, it was the thing to do. I noticed that few people made C's...people either made straight A's or flunked out. They got it, or they didn't.
Now, as a long-time programmer and hiring manager, I find the same trend: people are either naturally really good at programming, or they just don't get it. As with any art form, reading books and education can only go so far.
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This raises the cost and time to train new fliers in an era when pay cuts and more-demanding schedules already have made the profession less attractive.
Well, duh! Cut pay, make schedules more demanding, and whine about a pilot shortage!
Yes, and members of Congress!
Sure, and after 5-10 years of legal battles, your DVR just might work again!
Very well said.
I've been down the same road as you. Although I've moved on to management, I still write Android apps in my spare time. I use Java for that, not because it's such a great language--it's pretty crude actually--but because that's pretty much what you have to write in if you're doing Android. Yes I know there are other choices, but not...really.
Now I'm literally training young hot-shots to be better programmers. Most of my effort with the brighter ones is setting boundaries. They tend to be loose canons, lacking direction and focus. The ones that will listen really can accomplish amazing things, but the ones that already know everything end up doing lots of re-writing because they didn't stop and think or ask for input.
We need the hot-shots because we old fogies can get set in our ways. But we also need the maturity that experience brings. The two kinds of people, under good leadership, can accomplish amazing things.
I've been wondering about that too. In exactly what way is Sandy the storm of the century? It's barely a category 1 storm. Yes, it's big, but not unprecedentedly so. Storm surges are significant, but far less than storm surges from other recent storms. Is it just where the storm is headed that makes this one so "huge," or am I missing something? Maybe in a couple of days we'll all know.
Charles Udell, USPTO commissioner in 1899, is said to have said, "Everything that can be invented – has already been invented."
http://www.inventionmysteries.com/article4.html
What Mr. Benioff is forgetting is that Windows 8 is a throw-away version of Windows. Big business is too busy moving to Windows 7 from XP right now, they were going to skip Windows 8 no matter how good or bad it was! Microsoft has a long history of playing catch-up, and then overtaking the competition long after the competition thought they had the game sewed up. Windows 8 may be a colossal dud, but don't count Microsoft out yet.
You're right, when it comes to the consumer market. But Microsoft is still firmly entrenched in business. I predict large corporations will eat up Microsoft's new tablet.
Why exactly should NASA be doing "pure science"?
Sure, that is a big part of NASA's mission. But if we don't find ways to entice young people to pursue science, where will that leave us? What's the harm in creating a little publicity? It seems to me that a stunt like this can go a long way towards advancing science, in the long run.
http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html
And...it's a stretch to even find a correlation, with percentages that small!
Actually, the "samples" refer to the food products handed out by retirees at the Sam's club down there.
It is, at least right now.
That was my point...it is the only way right now. Superconductor research is advancing rapidly, with new advances leading, step by step, towards room-temperature superconductors. Even if that holy grail is never achieved, the temperatures required certainly are going up. There are, I'm sure, many other opportunities for refinement of the technology.
There is nothing like high cost to spur innovation! Who would have thought that, just a few years after the human genome was first fully sequenced, at a cost of billions of dollars and years of time, others would invent machines that could do it for just a few thousand dollars, in a week? Could the people involved in the original project have envisioned this? Hardly.
All I'm saying is, we should not be too hasty to get the government involved in making rules to relieve such a shortage. Cost has an amazing way of bringing out the creativity in people.
the cost of helium is artificially low.
Therein lies the real problem...some intellectuals in the past deemed it helpful to artificially lower the cost of helium. The government props up the market, and causes an artificial shortage.
Professor Welton says that because there is a shortage, we should (essentially) make rules against using Helium for "trivial" purposes like party balloons. This seems rather draconian to me. Is helium really the only way to cool MRI machines? I'll bet that, if prices rise enough, somebody will invent a new method not involving helium. Should partiers give up helium balloons? I'll be that, if prices rise enough, they will stop using them without being coerced.
Make it easy / free for people to upgrade, and they will upgrade!
http://insights.chitika.com/2012/chrome-18-sees-high-adoption-rates-33-of-users-are-running-latest-version-in-under-a-week/
The observation was that total plant life is not increasing. How does that imply a limit? What factors indicate that plant life should be increasing?
During the recent global recession, many people's incomes have remained stagnant, or decreased. Does that mean those people have reached the limit of their income potential?
Which version of Facebook is he talking about? Facebook has changed the way it looks so many times, even Facebook doesn't look like Facebook any more! On the other hand, Facebook has changed its look so many times, any look will be like at least one version of Facebook!
Remember Visual Studio 4, back when Egghead Software was still a powerhouse? Microsoft went to a subscription model for Visual Studio. For an annual subscription fee, you were guaranteed to always have the latest version of Visual Studio. It actually seemed like a good deal at the time...but it lasted only about a year. Now...the "home" version (Visual Studio Express) is free. Let's hope MS Office follows the same path!
It takes a LONG time for big businesses to move to new versions of anything. They are just now moving off of Windows XP and IE 7. Many major software systems used by big companies (such as GE Centricity) still don't even support IE 9, so customers of such software can't move forward even if they wanted to!
It looks like Google is taking a page out of Apple's book. It's stunts like this that keep Apple out of the office (for the most part). Microsoft, on the other hand, has a reputation for supporting legacy software just about forever...lots of old DOS programs still work! Microsoft has been rewarded by businesses in a big way.
Is this an opening for Yahoo?
Never mind that they haven't done it yet, or that the idea may be just pie in the sky. They had the idea first, so they should patent it. That way, if by some miracle somebody does do it one day, they can sue the pants off of them. That seems to be the way things are done these days.
Maybe, but not likely. Any user savvy enough to understand the implications of DNT...is likely to be savvy enough to use Chrome or Firefox!
The linked article now has an update: Amazon will offer an opt-out option after all, for $15.
After the oil has been heated up by all those processors, pipe it to nearby fast food restaurants to cook French fries and all those other delicious, fattening foods! Yum!
Hand tools have their place. If you're building something small, or you want to prove that it can be done, or you just can't afford real tools. But for anything non-trivial, you need power tools, both for home building, and for software building.
Back in the 80s when I was in college, everybody signed up for Computer Science because there was money to be made, it was the thing to do. I noticed that few people made C's...people either made straight A's or flunked out. They got it, or they didn't.
Now, as a long-time programmer and hiring manager, I find the same trend: people are either naturally really good at programming, or they just don't get it. As with any art form, reading books and education can only go so far.