If they train an existing employee that only get someone who "knows" the material. If they outsource or hire someone new that can get someone who actually done it before. As anyone who has tried to get hired on the strength of a newly learned skill can tell you, companies only value skills that have already been applied at other companies.
When you control the design and the manufacture, you have intimate knowledge of both. You can better design for the manufacturing process, and alter the manufacturing process to suit the design. This just isn't possible to the same extent when you work through a foundry
True, but AMD has not opperated this way since they initially spun off Global Foundaries. Bobcat and Bulldozer were specifically designed to be portable between foundaries and not dependent on special process tweeks. AMD's recent experience with Global Foundaries was the worst of both worlds: limited control and poor execution. Since AMD doesn't have the money to re-enter the fab business, the only viable direction available was to cut the cord and become truly fabless. They might not get any better control but at least they should be able to find a foundary that can execute.
Lastly, very little is shot in 1080p. that has changed recently, but all United states braodcast cameras are either 1080i (1/2 the resolution of 1080p)
1080i is not half the resolution of 1080p. It is the same resolution with half the frame rate. I.e., 30Hz rather than 60Hz. This isn't very important for most film transfers since movies are classically shot at 24Hz. Since TNG was a US television production, it should have been shot at 30Hz but I'll admit: I haven't looked it up.
Mines would be big - think autonomous boxes that sit quietly playing asteroid until something big that lacks the FOF beacon comes into range.
Classical mines operate on the principle of detecting without being detected and then exploding at very close range.
Getting a manoeuvring object close enough to the target that exploding would cause any damage is unrealistic in space. Without a medium (air or water) to transmit a shock wave, your bomb must get very very close and space is just too big for this to happen with any plausible mass of mines.
I'm assuming that the target is an actively manoeuvring military vessel. Satellites run into trouble with space debris all the time but that is because the satellites have predictable, over used orbits, no ability to detect foreign objects and very limited ability to manoeuvre.
More realistically, your "mine" would be an automated firing platform. Once the enemy is detected, an active assault (laser or missile) is launched.
There is no measure of productivity that does not have huge flaws. We'd like to measure quality but there isn't even a reliable definition of quality.
Other posters have mentioned that developers will game the system. That is true. Even if the metric is simply personal observation, people will exceptional and sometimes devious social skills will game the system. That is what office politics and the good old boy network are about.
If trick is to combine subjective and object metrics (even if flawed). You need the objective metrics to catch the social slackers. You need subjective measurements to catch deliberate distortions and account for variations in working styles.
Granted, there will always be idiots who will a tool inappropriately but that does not mean it is a bad tool.
On a serious note, I know several people in real life that have used eHarmony before. Most of them ended up getting married after their first or second date using the service and shortly after a year or so of meeting each other for the first time. That tells me two things. First, eHarmony has got the system down to a science with regards to their list of questions they ask members to take. Second, (and most important) members of eHarmony are already taking a serious and mature attitude with regards to finding a mate for life. When two people make it a serious effort to make a relationship work, I'm not surprised that eHarmony has what I think is the best success rate of them all.
eHarmony matches conservative mariage minded people with other conservative mariage minded people. The more extreme and fringe types are rejected. They famously reject gays but, really, they only work with simple cogs. That might actually be the key: Super "normal" people can find each other more quickly and with less drama if the "freeks" are excluded.
When an article about fsck has a tag line of "What's the damage", I expect to see some discussion of how fsck deals with a damaged file system.
The time required to fsck a file system that doesn't need checking is less interesting and inconsistant with the title. Although, if fsck had complained about the known clean file system that would be interesting.
I think this is great idea in principle but problematic to put into practice.
One is enforcement costs to importing country (In your example, the US) Are you going to send EPA and OSHA inspectors all over the world? Who pays for that? Will foreign governments even allow the inspectors to operate?
Another is the cost of compliance born by the company. Complying with one set of rules can be difficult. Complying with two sets of rules can be impractical. Complying with n sets of rules may be impossible because they will almost certainly contradict. Back in the late 80's/early 90's US automakers were trying to export to Japan. Japan had complicated rules for vehicles sold there that, in the view of US manufactures, made it impossible for foreign makes to profitably participate in the Japanese market.
Because of the second point, such rules become trade barriers and run afoul with treaty obligations.
Ultimately, I think the rules need to be standardized world-wide but that is a long term task given the difficulty in getting nations to agree on even the simplest things.
The problem is that Islamic civilization was not always as you describe, nor is it even now. At one time, many Islamic societies were far more advanced and open than their Western European counterparts. What you're saying makes about as much sense as condemning Christianity based on what you find wrong in Catholicism.
More accurately: The most succesful and better known Islamic empires in the Middle East were more advanced and open than the ravaged remains of the West Romain Empire and yet uncivilized lands of Western Europe where held sway.
This doesn't execuse the religious persecutiong by the Byzantines but socities do tend to be less tollerant when they are on the defensive. Also, even the more elightened socities were rather intollerant by modern standards.
Well, there is that whole "Pursuit of Knowledge" thing. And while things might be on the move, they haven't left yet.
For most people, the first priority is to pay the bills: food, clothing, housing, health care. While a good laymen's knowledge of science and technology is a good thing it is a challenge to get much beyond that with the time and energy that remains after working a full time job. And that's for the fields where it practical at all to pursue as hobbies. Many fields have no effective "cottege" form. Without a lot of money, a lot of time, and quite a few people, you can't build anything.
Indeed, I work in Europe. I somehow had in the back of my mind that there is less vacation in the US, but 2 weeks seems really too little. How do you manage to go on holidays?
Holidays are very short or they don't happen every year. Those two weeks often include sick days. Taking vacation adjacent to holidays is a common technique to eak out an extra day or two. In good years you get ridiculous things like flying to Hawaii for a long weekend.
And it gets worse. Even when there are enough vacation days accrued for a real trip, it can be difficult to get the boss to agree to let you take all those days consecutive.
What kind of slave driver company would only give 2 weeks of vacation per year??? I don't know anyone that has less than 5-6 weeks per year.
You obviously don't work in the US. Around here, two weeks is minimum, three weeks is generous, and four weeks is fat. Four weeks is something you only get by working many years at a generous company.
Being curious, I lookedit up: 1661 m, or a shade above one mile. So, yes, it'd have an effect.
For first hand experience of this effect, fly to Nairobi and then head to Mombasa, on the Kenya coast. Nariboi's altitude keeps it relatively cool. Mombasa, necessarily just above sea level, is a cooker.
I think "executives" should be held up to a higher standard of values then "regular" employees. An executive that advertises they are looking for work is showing no commitment or respect for his/her current employer. An executive is paid a lot of money to run a company and keep it successful and to keep moral high, if they are unable to recognize the error of looking for job opportunities online, the effect it has on the moral of the company, then it is not acceptable for them to maintain an executive position, period.
Had this been an article about a regular Joe employee being fired for posting a CV online then I would be outraged, but an executive should be more discreet in searching for new work as they are getting paid a lot of money to protect the interests of the company that is employing them.
Although the article refereed to Mr Flexman as an "executive", he was not the CEO. He wasn't even a VP. His title was "Graduate and Development Manager". This puts him in a gray area. He was not a "keyboard jocky" he wasn't the identifiable face of the corporation, either. Your assertion that the top levels should be held to a higher standard is valid but I don't "executive" is the grade anyway. The distinction should be made at "officer". Officers already have different legal obligations that regular employees. If are not on the board of directors than you are just an employee and the standard rules should apply.
The fact that we have both global travel and different races is an exceptional situation, and a temporary one (in ~500 years, maybe less, there will only be 1 human race left, unless global travel ends before that time). It is not known which race that will be, but if other island species evolution patterns are any indications, whatever race survives will look a lot like the original human race. It would be interesting to see whether the remaining race would be black or not (if not, that would be a strong indication that the original humans in Africa were not actually black before the races split up. My money's on that they weren't black (cause primates have white skin
I'm going to guess that you've never a mountain gorilla in person. They are black. In fact their skin is so dark that it is difficult for the eye to focus on. Chimpanzee's are also black though not to the abyss level of gorillas. Off hand, I can't think of an African primate whose exposed skin is not "black". Macaques are "white" but these extremely numerous and wide spread monkeys live in Asia, not Africa.
We didn't expect it to happen so quickly, that's all. Bacteria evolve much more rapidly than insects: E. coli splits once every 8 hours under optimal conditions in colonies of millions of cells, and may mutate up to 0.003% of their genome with each cell division under stress. That's a lot of brute forcing power. Insects, by contrast, have much more elaborate and stringent eukaryotic mutation controls, and most species take a couple of weeks to hatch.
Which probably means that some small fraction of the population was already resistant when the "experiment" began. No need to wait for a lucky mutation. Just apply strong selection pressure and the trait quickly spreads.
Why is everyone so scared of the probability of an Islamic based party being democratically elected without fraud in the middle east?
When you elect someone who doesn't believe that he should ever be unelected, you get the worst kind of despot: A despot with a mandate. Say goodby to rule of reason and the rights of minorities.
You also get confirmation that trying to bring peace, stability, and tolerance to the region may be futile. Given the choice, the people will elect the same sort of war mongering religious extremists that we've been struggling against all these years.
Now, there is no guarantee that it will turn out like that. The Islamists could respect the political process that brought them to power as well as the rights of those who do not share their radical views or even their religion. But the despotic thread is strong enough to be a real worry.
To be fair though, I don't think most of the anger comes from missing the minor.1 incremental updates. It is the major ones like 2.3 to 4.0 that have people really bothered.
But if the vendors can't be counted on to provide the.1 updates, which are presumably less involved, what you makes you think current phones will ever get 4.0?
AT&T was broken up into AT&T (The long distance carrier), Bell Labs (relabeled Lucent), and regional Bell Operating Companies.
AT&T of today is Southwestern Bell (SBC) + Pac Bell + Bell South + Ameritech
Verizon is NYNEX + Bell Atlantic + GTE
CenturyLink is USWest + CenturyTel (not a Bell company)
Cingular was a joint venture between SBC and Bell South and was renamed when those two entities merged and acquired AT&T.
The Modern day AT&T is a reformation of the bulk of the old AT&T, albeit with management lead by one of the more ethically challenged corners rather than from the original top.
English is an official language of India, and not the primary one. The primary official language is Hindi - you know,a native language.
FTFY
There is no single native language for all of India. There isn't even a single native language for a majority of India. Hindi is is the most popular first language in India but native Hindi speakers are largely confined to handful of states of the North/Central area. India's high tech centers, where most of the outsourcing/offshoring takes place, are mostly in the South.
Ask yourself: When are you ever going to read all those email again? When is *anybody* ever going to read them again.
1) I need to order ink recently. Now, I don't print much but I vaguely remembered a good supplier that I had used in the past. But what was it called? A few moments of greping and I found it: in a confirmation email from three years ago.
2) I met a woman on a Meetup hike recently that I seem to have met before. Was this the blind date from four years ago? The smoking gun was in an email from 2007.
3) I've had occasional need to look up old acquaintances. While I might have created a contact file at various points, odds are I have forgotten what I named it or where I put it. But I am quite sure the information is in email.
The real treasure is email that is ten or more years ago. You think you remember what happened in the right order? Trust me. You don't. An email archive is like a diary except it is less work and more complete.
Watch Opera? When you have no job, looking for work IS your job and you should spend at least 8 hours a day doing it.
Don't tell the recruiter that. If you have been out of work for any length of time you will inevitably be asked what you have been doing in your time "off". "Looking for work" is always the wrong answer.
Periodic fairs for jobs in China have been held in the SF Bay Area going back to at least early 2009 so this is nothing all that new. The Chinese jobs usually required fluent Mandarin. The Indian jobs might be more approachable for non-Indians since English is the language of the educated class. Not that it matters much to me. I traveled in India for six months and while it is a fascinating place to visit, I don't want to live there.
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If they train an existing employee that only get someone who "knows" the material. If they outsource or hire someone new that can get someone who actually done it before. As anyone who has tried to get hired on the strength of a newly learned skill can tell you, companies only value skills that have already been applied at other companies.
When you control the design and the manufacture, you have intimate knowledge of both. You can better design for the manufacturing process, and alter the manufacturing process to suit the design. This just isn't possible to the same extent when you work through a foundry
True, but AMD has not opperated this way since they initially spun off Global Foundaries. Bobcat and Bulldozer were specifically designed to be portable between foundaries and not dependent on special process tweeks. AMD's recent experience with Global Foundaries was the worst of both worlds: limited control and poor execution. Since AMD doesn't have the money to re-enter the fab business, the only viable direction available was to cut the cord and become truly fabless. They might not get any better control but at least they should be able to find a foundary that can execute.
A good companion project would be smaller robot that runs at only 9mph but for longer distances. Call it "Gazelle"
Lastly, very little is shot in 1080p. that has changed recently, but all United states braodcast cameras are either 1080i (1/2 the resolution of 1080p)
1080i is not half the resolution of 1080p. It is the same resolution with half the frame rate. I.e., 30Hz rather than 60Hz. This isn't very important for most film transfers since movies are classically shot at 24Hz. Since TNG was a US television production, it should have been shot at 30Hz but I'll admit: I haven't looked it up.
Mines would be big - think autonomous boxes that sit quietly playing asteroid until something big that lacks the FOF beacon comes into range.
Classical mines operate on the principle of detecting without being detected and then exploding at very close range.
Getting a manoeuvring object close enough to the target that exploding would cause any damage is unrealistic in space. Without a medium (air or water) to transmit a shock wave, your bomb must get very very close and space is just too big for this to happen with any plausible mass of mines.
I'm assuming that the target is an actively manoeuvring military vessel. Satellites run into trouble with space debris all the time but that is because the satellites have predictable, over used orbits, no ability to detect foreign objects and very limited ability to manoeuvre.
More realistically, your "mine" would be an automated firing platform. Once the enemy is detected, an active assault (laser or missile) is launched.
There is no measure of productivity that does not have huge flaws. We'd like to measure quality but there isn't even a reliable definition of quality.
Other posters have mentioned that developers will game the system. That is true. Even if the metric is simply personal observation, people will exceptional and sometimes devious social skills will game the system. That is what office politics and the good old boy network are about.
If trick is to combine subjective and object metrics (even if flawed). You need the objective metrics to catch the social slackers. You need subjective measurements to catch deliberate distortions and account for variations in working styles.
Granted, there will always be idiots who will a tool inappropriately but that does not mean it is a bad tool.
Hah! So true.
On a serious note, I know several people in real life that have used eHarmony before. Most of them ended up getting married after their first or second date using the service and shortly after a year or so of meeting each other for the first time. That tells me two things. First, eHarmony has got the system down to a science with regards to their list of questions they ask members to take. Second, (and most important) members of eHarmony are already taking a serious and mature attitude with regards to finding a mate for life. When two people make it a serious effort to make a relationship work, I'm not surprised that eHarmony has what I think is the best success rate of them all.
eHarmony matches conservative mariage minded people with other conservative mariage minded people. The more extreme and fringe types are rejected. They famously reject gays but, really, they only work with simple cogs. That might actually be the key: Super "normal" people can find each other more quickly and with less drama if the "freeks" are excluded.
When an article about fsck has a tag line of "What's the damage", I expect to see some discussion of how fsck deals with a damaged file system.
The time required to fsck a file system that doesn't need checking is less interesting and inconsistant with the title. Although, if fsck had complained about the known clean file system that would be interesting.
I think this is great idea in principle but problematic to put into practice.
One is enforcement costs to importing country (In your example, the US) Are you going to send EPA and OSHA inspectors all over the world? Who pays for that? Will foreign governments even allow the inspectors to operate?
Another is the cost of compliance born by the company. Complying with one set of rules can be difficult. Complying with two sets of rules can be impractical. Complying with n sets of rules may be impossible because they will almost certainly contradict. Back in the late 80's/early 90's US automakers were trying to export to Japan. Japan had complicated rules for vehicles sold there that, in the view of US manufactures, made it impossible for foreign makes to profitably participate in the Japanese market.
Because of the second point, such rules become trade barriers and run afoul with treaty obligations.
Ultimately, I think the rules need to be standardized world-wide but that is a long term task given the difficulty in getting nations to agree on even the simplest things.
The problem is that Islamic civilization was not always as you describe, nor is it even now. At one time, many Islamic societies were far more advanced and open than their Western European counterparts. What you're saying makes about as much sense as condemning Christianity based on what you find wrong in Catholicism.
More accurately:
The most succesful and better known Islamic empires in the Middle East were more advanced and open than the ravaged remains of the West Romain Empire and yet uncivilized lands of Western Europe where held sway.
This doesn't execuse the religious persecutiong by the Byzantines but socities do tend to be less tollerant when they are on the defensive. Also, even the more elightened socities were rather intollerant by modern standards.
Well, there is that whole "Pursuit of Knowledge" thing. And while things might be on the move, they haven't left yet.
For most people, the first priority is to pay the bills: food, clothing, housing, health care. While a good laymen's knowledge of science and technology is a good thing it is a challenge to get much beyond that with the time and energy that remains after working a full time job. And that's for the fields where it practical at all to pursue as hobbies. Many fields have no effective "cottege" form. Without a lot of money, a lot of time, and quite a few people, you can't build anything.
Indeed, I work in Europe. I somehow had in the back of my mind that there is less vacation in the US, but 2 weeks seems really too little. How do you manage to go on holidays?
Holidays are very short or they don't happen every year. Those two weeks often include sick days. Taking vacation adjacent to holidays is a common technique to eak out an extra day or two. In good years you get ridiculous things like flying to Hawaii for a long weekend. And it gets worse. Even when there are enough vacation days accrued for a real trip, it can be difficult to get the boss to agree to let you take all those days consecutive.
What kind of slave driver company would only give 2 weeks of vacation per year??? I don't know anyone that has less than 5-6 weeks per year.
You obviously don't work in the US. Around here, two weeks is minimum, three weeks is generous, and four weeks is fat. Four weeks is something you only get by working many years at a generous company.
Being curious, I looked it up: 1661 m, or a shade above one mile. So, yes, it'd have an effect.
For first hand experience of this effect, fly to Nairobi and then head to Mombasa, on the Kenya coast. Nariboi's altitude keeps it relatively cool. Mombasa, necessarily just above sea level, is a cooker.
I think "executives" should be held up to a higher standard of values then "regular" employees. An executive that advertises they are looking for work is showing no commitment or respect for his/her current employer. An executive is paid a lot of money to run a company and keep it successful and to keep moral high, if they are unable to recognize the error of looking for job opportunities online, the effect it has on the moral of the company, then it is not acceptable for them to maintain an executive position, period.
Had this been an article about a regular Joe employee being fired for posting a CV online then I would be outraged, but an executive should be more discreet in searching for new work as they are getting paid a lot of money to protect the interests of the company that is employing them.
Although the article refereed to Mr Flexman as an "executive", he was not the CEO. He wasn't even a VP. His title was "Graduate and Development Manager". This puts him in a gray area. He was not a "keyboard jocky" he wasn't the identifiable face of the corporation, either. Your assertion that the top levels should be held to a higher standard is valid but I don't "executive" is the grade anyway. The distinction should be made at "officer". Officers already have different legal obligations that regular employees. If are not on the board of directors than you are just an employee and the standard rules should apply.
The fact that we have both global travel and different races is an exceptional situation, and a temporary one (in ~500 years, maybe less, there will only be 1 human race left, unless global travel ends before that time). It is not known which race that will be, but if other island species evolution patterns are any indications, whatever race survives will look a lot like the original human race. It would be interesting to see whether the remaining race would be black or not (if not, that would be a strong indication that the original humans in Africa were not actually black before the races split up. My money's on that they weren't black (cause primates have white skin
I'm going to guess that you've never a mountain gorilla in person. They are black. In fact their skin is so dark that it is difficult for the eye to focus on. Chimpanzee's are also black though not to the abyss level of gorillas. Off hand, I can't think of an African primate whose exposed skin is not "black". Macaques are "white" but these extremely numerous and wide spread monkeys live in Asia, not Africa.
We didn't expect it to happen so quickly, that's all. Bacteria evolve much more rapidly than insects: E. coli splits once every 8 hours under optimal conditions in colonies of millions of cells, and may mutate up to 0.003% of their genome with each cell division under stress. That's a lot of brute forcing power. Insects, by contrast, have much more elaborate and stringent eukaryotic mutation controls, and most species take a couple of weeks to hatch.
Which probably means that some small fraction of the population was already resistant when the "experiment" began. No need to wait for a lucky mutation. Just apply strong selection pressure and the trait quickly spreads.
Who would guess that owners of expensive devices marketed for style rather that practicality would be less careful with their money?
Why is everyone so scared of the probability of an Islamic based party being democratically elected without fraud in the middle east?
When you elect someone who doesn't believe that he should ever be unelected, you get the worst kind of despot: A despot with a mandate. Say goodby to rule of reason and the rights of minorities.
You also get confirmation that trying to bring peace, stability, and tolerance to the region may be futile. Given the choice, the people will elect the same sort of war mongering religious extremists that we've been struggling against all these years.
Now, there is no guarantee that it will turn out like that. The Islamists could respect the political process that brought them to power as well as the rights of those who do not share their radical views or even their religion. But the despotic thread is strong enough to be a real worry.
To be fair though, I don't think most of the anger comes from missing the minor .1 incremental updates. It is the major ones like 2.3 to 4.0 that have people really bothered.
But if the vendors can't be counted on to provide the .1 updates, which are presumably less involved, what you makes you think current phones will ever get 4.0?
Yes it is.
AT&T was broken up into AT&T (The long distance carrier), Bell Labs (relabeled Lucent), and regional Bell Operating Companies.
AT&T of today is Southwestern Bell (SBC) + Pac Bell + Bell South + Ameritech
Verizon is NYNEX + Bell Atlantic + GTE
CenturyLink is USWest + CenturyTel (not a Bell company)
Cingular was a joint venture between SBC and Bell South and was renamed when those two entities merged and acquired AT&T.
The Modern day AT&T is a reformation of the bulk of the old AT&T, albeit with management lead by one of the more ethically challenged corners rather than from the original top.
English is an official language of India, and not the primary one. The primary official language is Hindi - you know, a native language.
FTFY
There is no single native language for all of India. There isn't even a single native language for a majority of India. Hindi is is the most popular first language in India but native Hindi speakers are largely confined to handful of states of the North/Central area. India's high tech centers, where most of the outsourcing/offshoring takes place, are mostly in the South.
Ask yourself: When are you ever going to read all those email again? When is *anybody* ever going to read them again.
1) I need to order ink recently. Now, I don't print much but I vaguely remembered a good supplier that I had used in the past. But what was it called? A few moments of greping and I found it: in a confirmation email from three years ago.
2) I met a woman on a Meetup hike recently that I seem to have met before. Was this the blind date from four years ago? The smoking gun was in an email from 2007.
3) I've had occasional need to look up old acquaintances. While I might have created a contact file at various points, odds are I have forgotten what I named it or where I put it. But I am quite sure the information is in email.
The real treasure is email that is ten or more years ago. You think you remember what happened in the right order? Trust me. You don't. An email archive is like a diary except it is less work and more complete.
Watch Opera? When you have no job, looking for work IS your job and you should spend at least 8 hours a day doing it.
Don't tell the recruiter that. If you have been out of work for any length of time you will inevitably be asked what you have been doing in your time "off". "Looking for work" is always the wrong answer.
Periodic fairs for jobs in China have been held in the SF Bay Area going back to at least early 2009 so this is nothing all that new. The Chinese jobs usually required fluent Mandarin. The Indian jobs might be more approachable for non-Indians since English is the language of the educated class. Not that it matters much to me. I traveled in India for six months and while it is a fascinating place to visit, I don't want to live there.