Wait.
Now that I have awakened, from my daze. Am I legally entitled to 2 hours or 6 minutes and 14 seconds back?
I know the other hundreds of hours I've wasted on windows is covered under the EULA.
Slashdot is hardly the right venue to get a good answer to this question
Yeah, but I'd rather see this type of question and attempts at an answer, than 14 reviews of games and interviews with game developers and CEO's of gaming companies.
I think that there should be a fork of./ for people who work on linux/unix and like linux/unix.:)
We ran into the same problem.
What we finally did is lock the editing page, so that if someone else had it opened you were not allowed to update it until they removed the lock on that page.
Or the user could over ride the page lock if they felt pretty sure that the other user was not using it for editing ( Maybe they just had it open on their desktop).
In a table we put the page, user identification, and timestamp when the lock was created.
So whenever the page was opened, it checked the table to see if it was locked. If it was locked, then it displayed header showing who had it locked and how long they have had it.
We generally only have 3 to 4 users that may open a page for editing and they soon learn that if you are going to edit something after it has been sitting for some time to update the page.
We should probably update this with ajax so that at least the header of the page tells the user someone else has taken the lock.
But currently happens though is that the page won't update if it doesn't have a lock and the user has to go back if and start over if someone stole the lock. So far I haven't heard of it happening, because they usually open or update right before they start editing so they know they have the lock.
But handling it in this manner has greatly reduced our problems.
Yeah, it's amazing how if you think it could happen it will. And most of our problems, I think, were caused by users opening the same page on multiple computers and then instead of closing the page, they were updating the page with the old information.
Not an EE or an ET, but will take a swing. You need two connection from each side of the AC regulated with a diode in each connection (4 diodes, 4 lines connecting). Assuming AC voltage is not high enough to break your diodes.
I followed the link and thought that it was a very obscure topic.
Just struck me as something where I really couldn't imagine a whole lot of people would read something like this.
First line of Chapter 16 Ensemble Learning: "The idea of ensemble learning is to build a prediction model by combining the strengths of a collection of simpler base models".
I understand the what the parent post is getting at. There are a lot of marketing crap names out there. I've just gotten used to telling them please explain what you are talking about and very often I find that is where vendor, peer employee, employee get's stuck. You find out later it's just a dynamic application using a database and webserver.
But in this case "Ensemble" is not a new term, even by my old fart standards, it's been around since 1995 and describes the use of multiple modeling methods to achieve an improved model. It can also be the same like method combined to create a different model. It's not a term that people would generally know and I think the original poster of the article should have defined it. Because it definitely sounds like one of this marketing terms.
The name and the actual usage isn't like somebody figured out how to split the atom. If you do data mining and data analysis, you are probably going to event this technique on your own.
"How did you come up with such a trustworthy predictive model?"
" Well I used a neural network, a tree model, and a linear regression model and combined them together, an ensemble you might say of modeling techniques".
ever serviced a discovery litigation from google ?
Have you?
Can you site multiple sources of discovery litigation? In companies with less than 100 employees ?
In a large number of companies it is cost prohibitive to employ someone to run nothing but email and pay for a lot of the bells and whistle's that you are talking about.
I doubt it. Once you get out of high school and work in the real world, you'll find that just because something happens, people don't always get fired.
Why, because usually you'll be firing one of your best employee's a 20 percenter, one of the ones that actually does the work and knows what is going on. And even if it wasn't a 20 percenter , you don't want to send out the message, that if you do something and it causes a problem you're going to get fired.
I can hear it now, "Remember Bob, he was like us, then one day he went out and did something, something went wrong, so they shit canned him. That was five years ago and we haven't done anything since."
This is the natural order of market progression, and is the march towards general social wealth.
I was with you until this sentence. Econ 101 doesn't teach this, or at least it didn't when I took it. Also I haven't seen many examples where 'market progression --> general social wealth'. How are you defining general social wealth? I'd define it as an increase in overall health of a society.
I suppose we can agree that Soulskill could use a clearer writing style; hard though, I guess, if you're just copy and pasting bits of the New York Times.
It's even harder if you are copying and pasting from the Houston Chronicle.
The 100$ video card tends to have 50% of the performance of the 200$ one, which has 50% of the performance of the 400$ one.
If only we had more people like you, then we could call an end to this economic crisis.
I'm glad you believe this hogwash (otherwise provide examples).
How do you know that there is that much more functionality? I mean if you don't use it, is it really there?
Once you explore Windows Vista, I think that you will find that you had about the same functionality that you had with a computer running XP, a clock and a calendar, and maybe add a picture in a picture frame to that?
I'm not quite sure of all the reasons that these type of changes fail and I'm not familiar with scrum, but it sounds similar to other changes I have encountered in business processes.
Take Quality and ISO: just about everywhere I have seen this, there has been an epic failure of some type
Usually because people can't accept a transition or change. Why? Usually because people take it, that if this works better, then I am a failure, because my past ways were wrong. So they look for ways to make it fail. In this instance, one of the easiest ways to make it fail is to follow it literally to the letter and not bend it to the business. Or a better way of saying it is: Instead of taking the best parts of these processes and applying them to the business current business process, just ad-hoc change everything.
Example: From Quality and ISO Management Reviews: I have seen this transition in 3 different environments.
1. Every report within management and to management had to be changed or was mandated to be changed sometimes a little, but usually a lot. Result: Information that was critical or that needed to be passed along wasn't, just the new numbers. Reports became a complete waste of time and meetings which were a 60% waste of time, became a 90% waste of time. (epic fail: failure blamed on Quality Management and implementation of ISO)
2. Just change the titles of everything and continue on.(epic fail: failure blamed on Quality Management and implementation of ISO)
3. Look at what is currently being done. Consolidate information that is needed to meet business goals. Define business goals objectively. If the TPC reports aren't doing any good, get rid of them. Usually, the hardest part here is that management has a real hard time defining the business goals objectively. (some improvement)
I was going to go into SPC, which is a subset of Quality, but the mistakes in it's usage are about the same and happen for about the same reason.
So, the question I would ask is roughly the same you ask. Does it make sense that the best coders are scrummasters in your business process/environment? I think what you are going to find are answers which are not black and white. And what you should be looking for here in the answers are the answers to the questions, When is it a good idea for the best coders to be scrummasters and when is it not? Which, will probably evolve into, what makes a good scrummaster? Which evolves to, who within this group of people would make the best scrummaster?
Since we started out as small company, we have given partial reimbursement for laptops.
Now that we are a bigger company I have asked that people who need laptops get reimbursed for them and that they become company property. One of the problems we run into is that people want to install personal programs on their computers and conflicts arise with either security or business apps. It's ridiculous that an IT department has to spend time getting Itunes working on a laptop or fix an employees home network.
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Wait.
Now that I have awakened, from my daze. Am I legally entitled to 2 hours or 6 minutes and 14 seconds back?
I know the other hundreds of hours I've wasted on windows is covered under the EULA.
Amen
Slashdot is hardly the right venue to get a good answer to this question
Yeah, but I'd rather see this type of question and attempts at an answer, than 14 reviews of games and interviews with game developers and CEO's of gaming companies.
./ for people who work on linux/unix and like linux/unix. :)
I think that there should be a fork of
We ran into the same problem.
What we finally did is lock the editing page, so that if someone else had it opened you were not allowed to update it until they removed the lock on that page.
Or the user could over ride the page lock if they felt pretty sure that the other user was not using it for editing ( Maybe they just had it open on their desktop).
In a table we put the page, user identification, and timestamp when the lock was created.
So whenever the page was opened, it checked the table to see if it was locked. If it was locked, then it displayed header showing who had it locked and how long they have had it.
We generally only have 3 to 4 users that may open a page for editing and they soon learn that if you are going to edit something after it has been sitting for some time to update the page.
We should probably update this with ajax so that at least the header of the page tells the user someone else has taken the lock.
But currently happens though is that the page won't update if it doesn't have a lock and the user has to go back if and start over if someone stole the lock. So far I haven't heard of it happening, because they usually open or update right before they start editing so they know they have the lock.
But handling it in this manner has greatly reduced our problems.
Yeah, it's amazing how if you think it could happen it will. And most of our problems, I think, were caused by users opening the same page on multiple computers and then instead of closing the page, they were updating the page with the old information.
These are US government and legal matters which we are talking about here.
There fixed it for you.
You had to ask?
Shit , you work at the same place I do.
Not an EE or an ET, but will take a swing. You need two connection from each side of the AC regulated with a diode in each connection (4 diodes, 4 lines connecting). Assuming AC voltage is not high enough to break your diodes.
I followed the link and thought that it was a very obscure topic.
Just struck me as something where I really couldn't imagine a whole lot of people would read something like this.
Current favorite tech book: Racing the Beam [bit.ly] , on the Atari VCS
So your the one that bought that book.
I read one of the followup post and tehy had a link to The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction By Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani, Jerome Friedman
:-)
First line of Chapter 16 Ensemble Learning: "The idea of ensemble learning is to build a prediction model by combining the strengths of a collection of simpler base models".
Yeah, that's what I meant to say
I understand the what the parent post is getting at. There are a lot of marketing crap names out there. I've just gotten used to telling them please explain what you are talking about and very often I find that is where vendor, peer employee, employee get's stuck. You find out later it's just a dynamic application using a database and webserver.
But in this case "Ensemble" is not a new term, even by my old fart standards, it's been around since 1995 and describes the use of multiple modeling methods to achieve an improved model. It can also be the same like method combined to create a different model. It's not a term that people would generally know and I think the original poster of the article should have defined it. Because it definitely sounds like one of this marketing terms.
The name and the actual usage isn't like somebody figured out how to split the atom. If you do data mining and data analysis, you are probably going to event this technique on your own.
"How did you come up with such a trustworthy predictive model?"
" Well I used a neural network, a tree model, and a linear regression model and combined them together, an ensemble you might say of modeling techniques".
ever serviced a discovery litigation from google ?
Have you?
Can you site multiple sources of discovery litigation? In companies with less than 100 employees ?
In a large number of companies it is cost prohibitive to employ someone to run nothing but email and pay for a lot of the bells and whistle's that you are talking about.
I doubt it. Once you get out of high school and work in the real world, you'll find that just because something happens, people don't always get fired.
Why, because usually you'll be firing one of your best employee's a 20 percenter, one of the ones that actually does the work and knows what is going on. And even if it wasn't a 20 percenter , you don't want to send out the message, that if you do something and it causes a problem you're going to get fired.
I can hear it now, "Remember Bob, he was like us, then one day he went out and did something, something went wrong, so they shit canned him. That was five years ago and we haven't done anything since."
I care
This is the natural order of market progression, and is the march towards general social wealth.
I was with you until this sentence. Econ 101 doesn't teach this, or at least it didn't when I took it. Also I haven't seen many examples where 'market progression --> general social wealth'. How are you defining general social wealth? I'd define it as an increase in overall health of a society.
I suppose we can agree that Soulskill could use a clearer writing style; hard though, I guess, if you're just copy and pasting bits of the New York Times.
It's even harder if you are copying and pasting from the Houston Chronicle.
Don't worry, your health care provider has already made this decision for you.
What?
What commercial product is Linux a clone of?
gcc? MySQL? OpenSSL?
The 100$ video card tends to have 50% of the performance of the 200$ one, which has 50% of the performance of the 400$ one.
If only we had more people like you, then we could call an end to this economic crisis.
I'm glad you believe this hogwash (otherwise provide examples).
This "Tato Nano" sounds great. I wish they would offer it here in the US.
Full disclosure: I'm also in favor of taking down guard rails during ice storms.
How do you know that there is that much more functionality? I mean if you don't use it, is it really there?
Once you explore Windows Vista, I think that you will find that you had about the same functionality that you had with a computer running XP, a clock and a calendar, and maybe add a picture in a picture frame to that?
I'm not quite sure of all the reasons that these type of changes fail and I'm not familiar with scrum, but it sounds similar to other changes I have encountered in business processes.
Take Quality and ISO: just about everywhere I have seen this, there has been an epic failure of some type
Usually because people can't accept a transition or change. Why? Usually because people take it, that if this works better, then I am a failure, because my past ways were wrong. So they look for ways to make it fail. In this instance, one of the easiest ways to make it fail is to follow it literally to the letter and not bend it to the business. Or a better way of saying it is: Instead of taking the best parts of these processes and applying them to the business current business process, just ad-hoc change everything.
Example: From Quality and ISO Management Reviews: I have seen this transition in 3 different environments.
1. Every report within management and to management had to be changed or was mandated to be changed sometimes a little, but usually a lot. Result: Information that was critical or that needed to be passed along wasn't, just the new numbers. Reports became a complete waste of time and meetings which were a 60% waste of time, became a 90% waste of time. (epic fail: failure blamed on Quality Management and implementation of ISO)
2. Just change the titles of everything and continue on.(epic fail: failure blamed on Quality Management and implementation of ISO)
3. Look at what is currently being done. Consolidate information that is needed to meet business goals. Define business goals objectively. If the TPC reports aren't doing any good, get rid of them. Usually, the hardest part here is that management has a real hard time defining the business goals objectively. (some improvement)
I was going to go into SPC, which is a subset of Quality, but the mistakes in it's usage are about the same and happen for about the same reason.
So, the question I would ask is roughly the same you ask. Does it make sense that the best coders are scrummasters in your business process/environment? I think what you are going to find are answers which are not black and white. And what you should be looking for here in the answers are the answers to the questions, When is it a good idea for the best coders to be scrummasters and when is it not? Which, will probably evolve into, what makes a good scrummaster? Which evolves to, who within this group of people would make the best scrummaster?
I think this is the best solution to the problem.
Since we started out as small company, we have given partial reimbursement for laptops.
Now that we are a bigger company I have asked that people who need laptops get reimbursed for them and that they become company property. One of the problems we run into is that people want to install personal programs on their computers and conflicts arise with either security or business apps. It's ridiculous that an IT department has to spend time getting Itunes working on a laptop or fix an employees home network.
Not completely. You have to take a fat person and give them 20 oxycottons a day, to reach Rush's level of stupidity.