Would you want to pay them for that 20% of the time that they would be using to do nothing towards your project?
Because productivity goes up when your workers feel appreciated, valued and cared for. Otherwise, why bother giving them sick days when they're sick? They're not being paid to be sick. Most companies have a wellness program (or employee assistance program) to prevent workers from becoming less productive DUE to all those other non-related-to-the-project issues.
Because no one works for a solid 8 hours on a high-level project without having peaks and valleys in their productivity. The 20% rule would help those peaks last longer when on-task. No one, no matter what you believe, works at their best for the entire day, every day, day after day. Sure, you pay them for work - do you measure quality or quantity? Don't you want your employees to be more productive? And if it cost you an hour of pay each day to make the other 7 extremely productive, don't you think that's a good trade-off?
Whatever you do don't handcuff your briefcase to your hand. At least not if you value your hand:)
In other words - the best investment in protecting yourself (and your stuff) is... SELF DEFENCE. Not guns, not locks, not pepper spray... but self defence of some sort. Not the "tournament style" martial arts that are so common, but a common-sense approach that emphasizes avoidance, while preparing you to respond physically if required. My recommendation? Take a look at Krav Maga.
Degree may not boost your career, do you see so many jobless PhDs around ?
Take some risk to start up your own company may give you a boost.
Because you posted AC, I'm going to assume that you don't realize that a Ph.D can take, on average, between 6 and 10 years, lacking any undergraduate work. Also, starting your own company may give a boost - but that's not really answering the question.
There is one thing that the AC/OP got right - the type degree doesn't matter nearly so much (notice: I qualified that with "nearly") as the fact that you hold a degree. What I'd suggest, is to get a degree in the type of management that you'd like to be - If you're planning on overseeing a bunch of programmers, figure out what they would have, and try for that. In other words - your "promotability" doesn't depend on your degree, it depends on the success of your direct reports (your area of responsibility).
If you connect with your direct reports in a way that makes them more productive (and it sounds as if you plan to use the degree to do this), then going "higher" will happen. You'll be a top performer, as a manager, and in most companies, performance is the #1 factor in promotion. Isn't that your goal?
Well, if you read the proposed law (too much to ask?), you'll notice that it isn't about protesting with a mask on. It's about doing things illegally with a mask on. The article mentions illegal protesting as an example, and hypes it up to sound as if protesting is being made illegal.
This article is an excellent example of the types of future-energy that we'll need to rely on.
Unfortunately, many people don't believe that spending money now is in our best interest - they'd rather wait until gas hits $10/gallon to invest in reducing the average price of energy. There are already many semi-viable alternative fuels, but for some reason, a large majority of people are content to continue "as-is", and let the current energy crisis continue.
Most of those people though, claim "What energy crisis?"
Police "participate" in riots via trying to shut them down, and commonly wear masks. So are the police going to be arrested?
hello law of unintended consequences.
... right, just like they wear handguns in public (illegal, in canada), and confine people against their will (also against the law in canada). It's totally wrong for the police to do things that regular folks can't...
... "Fuck the police, they're violating our constitutional rights" despite the fact that the Supreme Court has long held that the right to peaceably assemble is limited by reasonable time and space constraints, and permit requirements are completely lawful.
K, I'm gonna lay some free-range truth on you here; whether or not you choose to accept it is up to you:
It doesn't matter one bit what the SCOTUS says when it comes to the Constitution - the fact remains that the Constitution is, by its own wording, the supreme, undeniable, unquestionable law of the land, and short of a Constitutional Amendment to the contrary, approved by 2/3 of the population, it's going to stay that way. As a matter of fact, if not for seditious turncoats such as yourself, we wouldn't have to be concerned about getting government approval to exercise our Constitutional rights, as no patriot in their right mind would ever allow such a travesty to occur, regardless of how they felt about the protest.
In summation: fuck you and your cow-towing to the political elite and their attempts to subvert the Constitution. I'm going to exercise my right to peaceably assemble whether you like it or not - you can take your 'permit' and shove it up your ass.
Good job thread (news?) jacking this into some american pissing contest over the use of guns.
Too bad we already have a law in place, that makes covering your face while committing a crime, illegal.
That's all this law is - you ALREADY can't wear a mask when committing an illegal act (or it's two illegal acts). In other words? Move along, nothing to see here. Most states have the same law on the book, fwiw.
So, the book was written in one language, translated into another, just so that people can use a third language effectively?
Sounds like the year of the linux desktop has arrived.
On a more serious note, it's kinda sad that you could probably have learned a second language (adequately for reading) faster than the translation took...
On Facebook, you use @ links to mention friends in a post or comment. So if you say something innocent like "I went to the movies with @Jane, @Peter and @Bob", that would trigger such a spam filter.
... only if you didn't habitually link to large numbers of people, AND if those people never interacted back.
Maybe I missed something, but since the headline said school inquiry, shouldn't there be some info about that either in the blurb or the article it's linking to?
You know what's even more surprising? That someone at MIT didn't do it first. You know, those west coast silicon valley hipsters havn't been known to do anything progressive in the area of tech progress.
Yet again, we have another example of an inefficient government being too slow to act. Now, the question should be : Is it inefficent AND slow? Or just inefficient?
Incorrect. Human stupidity and greed have been around for a long time, and if they were the leading factor, then we'd have a financial crash every few minutes (seconds?).
Human greed may have been the finger that pushed the button(s), but there was an entire system that was set up based on a series of "tools", including some fancy algorithms.
I just hope that the user interface doesn't include the disaster bar. I know that setting off a volcano in your city center can add excitement and all, but that would be going too far.
I believe you could retain a functional disaster bar by simply installing Windows ME. I think they called it the "start menu", though. You could sandbox your SimCity instances too, and make it (slightly) recursive.
Please have the courtesy to remain constant in your comparisons. There are a lot of [insert culturally appropriate term for socially awkward, yet highly intelligent doll collectors] here.
IBM != HAL. IBM = HAL Logic Systems. That means Watson = Hal9000.
So: IBM = Cyberdyne, Weyland/Yutani, or Davros. Watson = Skynet, Bishop and the Daleks.
"Duuude, did you see the pictures of the mayor getting defragged last night?"
"Sure, his hard disk is really fast, and yeah, he goes into standby pretty quick... but there's virtually no time delay when waking him back up!"
"What do you mean, more ram?"
"Small town mayor caught letting strange women use his touchpad"
"What do you mean, Sharon? You know you can't really catch a virus from him"
"Fsck! Fsck Fsck Fsck! That's all I ever hear from you!"
"For the last time, can someone explain to IT that it's called sandboxing, not 'putting on protection'".
"When's the last time you were blown out, Mr. Mayor?"
"DVDA? How about DVD-R?"
"Hey! Watch where you put that stick!"
"Wrong port! Wrong port!"
"It doesn't work if you put it in upside down. I don't feel anything!"
"What do you mean, you want me to switch? I was born THIS way!"
"Yeah, who's your mac daddy?"
Depends on the objective. If the objective is to capture and control ground, then you need troops. If the objective is to simply obliterate an enemy, then you don't.
...The old war of obliteration isn't politically feasable any more though
so... you do need troops? Or you don't? Or... if you could blow everything up, you wouldn't, but you can't blow everything up, so you do, so it doesn't REALLY depend, since you can't really choose your objective.
Iran is a rich Muslim theocracy with some attibutes of a Republic. North Korea is a poverty-stricken pseudo-monarchy with attributes of Stalinism. They are about as likely to be on the speaking terms with each other as Henry Kissinger with Alexander Chikatilo.
Ah, so about the same speaking terms as the president of cuba and the president of the usa?
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Would you want to pay them for that 20% of the time that they would be using to do nothing towards your project?
Because productivity goes up when your workers feel appreciated, valued and cared for. Otherwise, why bother giving them sick days when they're sick? They're not being paid to be sick. Most companies have a wellness program (or employee assistance program) to prevent workers from becoming less productive DUE to all those other non-related-to-the-project issues.
Because no one works for a solid 8 hours on a high-level project without having peaks and valleys in their productivity. The 20% rule would help those peaks last longer when on-task. No one, no matter what you believe, works at their best for the entire day, every day, day after day. Sure, you pay them for work - do you measure quality or quantity? Don't you want your employees to be more productive? And if it cost you an hour of pay each day to make the other 7 extremely productive, don't you think that's a good trade-off?
Whatever you do don't handcuff your briefcase to your hand. At least not if you value your hand :)
In other words - the best investment in protecting yourself (and your stuff) is ... SELF DEFENCE. Not guns, not locks, not pepper spray ... but self defence of some sort. Not the "tournament style" martial arts that are so common, but a common-sense approach that emphasizes avoidance, while preparing you to respond physically if required. My recommendation? Take a look at Krav Maga.
Quartz Extreme and Core Image. Are there any other real reasons to spend all that money on generic hardware?
Core Animation.
Damn you, 10.5 ... my signature is now out of date. Just like fanboi flamewars. Then again, we havn't changed those yet, either.
Degree may not boost your career, do you see so many jobless PhDs around ? Take some risk to start up your own company may give you a boost.
Because you posted AC, I'm going to assume that you don't realize that a Ph.D can take, on average, between 6 and 10 years, lacking any undergraduate work. Also, starting your own company may give a boost - but that's not really answering the question.
There is one thing that the AC/OP got right - the type degree doesn't matter nearly so much (notice: I qualified that with "nearly") as the fact that you hold a degree. What I'd suggest, is to get a degree in the type of management that you'd like to be - If you're planning on overseeing a bunch of programmers, figure out what they would have, and try for that. In other words - your "promotability" doesn't depend on your degree, it depends on the success of your direct reports (your area of responsibility).
If you connect with your direct reports in a way that makes them more productive (and it sounds as if you plan to use the degree to do this), then going "higher" will happen. You'll be a top performer, as a manager, and in most companies, performance is the #1 factor in promotion. Isn't that your goal?
Protesting is not "an illegal act".
Well, if you read the proposed law (too much to ask?), you'll notice that it isn't about protesting with a mask on. It's about doing things illegally with a mask on. The article mentions illegal protesting as an example, and hypes it up to sound as if protesting is being made illegal.
This article is an excellent example of the types of future-energy that we'll need to rely on.
Unfortunately, many people don't believe that spending money now is in our best interest - they'd rather wait until gas hits $10/gallon to invest in reducing the average price of energy. There are already many semi-viable alternative fuels, but for some reason, a large majority of people are content to continue "as-is", and let the current energy crisis continue.
Most of those people though, claim "What energy crisis?"
Right. Too soon to get upset. It's just a bill. It will likely never pass, just as Ron Paul's Audit the Fed bill never passed.
Oh wait. It did pass. Nevermind.
I don't ever remember Ron Paul running for office in Canada. Thanks for trying, though.
Police "participate" in riots via trying to shut them down, and commonly wear masks. So are the police going to be arrested?
hello law of unintended consequences.
... right, just like they wear handguns in public (illegal, in canada), and confine people against their will (also against the law in canada). It's totally wrong for the police to do things that regular folks can't...
*sigh*
It's an unlawful protest if you don't have a permit.
Got one right here.
... "Fuck the police, they're violating our constitutional rights" despite the fact that the Supreme Court has long held that the right to peaceably assemble is limited by reasonable time and space constraints, and permit requirements are completely lawful.
K, I'm gonna lay some free-range truth on you here; whether or not you choose to accept it is up to you: It doesn't matter one bit what the SCOTUS says when it comes to the Constitution - the fact remains that the Constitution is, by its own wording, the supreme, undeniable, unquestionable law of the land, and short of a Constitutional Amendment to the contrary, approved by 2/3 of the population, it's going to stay that way. As a matter of fact, if not for seditious turncoats such as yourself, we wouldn't have to be concerned about getting government approval to exercise our Constitutional rights, as no patriot in their right mind would ever allow such a travesty to occur, regardless of how they felt about the protest. In summation: fuck you and your cow-towing to the political elite and their attempts to subvert the Constitution. I'm going to exercise my right to peaceably assemble whether you like it or not - you can take your 'permit' and shove it up your ass.
Good job thread (news?) jacking this into some american pissing contest over the use of guns.
Too bad we already have a law in place, that makes covering your face while committing a crime, illegal.
That's all this law is - you ALREADY can't wear a mask when committing an illegal act (or it's two illegal acts). In other words? Move along, nothing to see here. Most states have the same law on the book, fwiw.
So, the book was written in one language, translated into another, just so that people can use a third language effectively?
Sounds like the year of the linux desktop has arrived.
On a more serious note, it's kinda sad that you could probably have learned a second language (adequately for reading) faster than the translation took...
On Facebook, you use @ links to mention friends in a post or comment. So if you say something innocent like "I went to the movies with @Jane, @Peter and @Bob", that would trigger such a spam filter.
... only if you didn't habitually link to large numbers of people, AND if those people never interacted back.
Maybe I missed something, but since the headline said school inquiry, shouldn't there be some info about that either in the blurb or the article it's linking to?
You know what's even more surprising? That someone at MIT didn't do it first. You know, those west coast silicon valley hipsters havn't been known to do anything progressive in the area of tech progress.
/sarcasm
Yet again, we have another example of an inefficient government being too slow to act. Now, the question should be : Is it inefficent AND slow? Or just inefficient?
Any sufficiently repeated quote is indistinguishable from intelligent thought
Fixed that for you.
... a processor without a on die gpu, if I'm going to have more heat I want more performance.
Yes, as I read the article, it basically says "New CPU processing speeds, New CPU heat levels ... with overclocked OLD cpu".
It was human stupidity and greed.
Incorrect. Human stupidity and greed have been around for a long time, and if they were the leading factor, then we'd have a financial crash every few minutes (seconds?).
Human greed may have been the finger that pushed the button(s), but there was an entire system that was set up based on a series of "tools", including some fancy algorithms.
I just hope that the user interface doesn't include the disaster bar. I know that setting off a volcano in your city center can add excitement and all, but that would be going too far.
I believe you could retain a functional disaster bar by simply installing Windows ME. I think they called it the "start menu", though. You could sandbox your SimCity instances too, and make it (slightly) recursive.
Please have the courtesy to remain constant in your comparisons. There are a lot of [insert culturally appropriate term for socially awkward, yet highly intelligent doll collectors] here.
IBM != HAL. IBM = HAL Logic Systems. That means Watson = Hal9000.
So: IBM = Cyberdyne, Weyland/Yutani, or Davros. Watson = Skynet, Bishop and the Daleks.
I cannot wait for the first sex scandal.
"Duuude, did you see the pictures of the mayor getting defragged last night?" ... but there's virtually no time delay when waking him back up!"
"Sure, his hard disk is really fast, and yeah, he goes into standby pretty quick
"What do you mean, more ram?"
"Small town mayor caught letting strange women use his touchpad"
"What do you mean, Sharon? You know you can't really catch a virus from him"
"Fsck! Fsck Fsck Fsck! That's all I ever hear from you!"
"For the last time, can someone explain to IT that it's called sandboxing, not 'putting on protection'".
"When's the last time you were blown out, Mr. Mayor?"
"DVDA? How about DVD-R?"
"Hey! Watch where you put that stick!"
"Wrong port! Wrong port!"
"It doesn't work if you put it in upside down. I don't feel anything!"
"What do you mean, you want me to switch? I was born THIS way!"
"Yeah, who's your mac daddy?"
Depends on the objective. If the objective is to capture and control ground, then you need troops. If the objective is to simply obliterate an enemy, then you don't.
...The old war of obliteration isn't politically feasable any more though
so ... you do need troops? Or you don't? Or ... if you could blow everything up, you wouldn't, but you can't blow everything up, so you do, so it doesn't REALLY depend, since you can't really choose your objective.
Right, because all enemies of US are related.
Iran is a rich Muslim theocracy with some attibutes of a Republic. North Korea is a poverty-stricken pseudo-monarchy with attributes of Stalinism. They are about as likely to be on the speaking terms with each other as Henry Kissinger with Alexander Chikatilo.
Ah, so about the same speaking terms as the president of cuba and the president of the usa?
But not unclear *why* he left.
Yes, he "left".
I'm sure the Iranian government is outraged as his defection, and not secretly holding him in an north korean off-shore detainment centre.
Cue every fucking Apple fag in the world parrotting that IPv6 is evil and broken - and that's why Apple has removed it.
I wasn't aware you could buy fruity, avian cigarettes, nor was I aware they were against IPv6. After all, everyone knows cigarettes are bad for you.
It'll be interesting when people start getting this surgery as a performance enhancing drug.
Though, I worry about the "drive by" hackings.