It is kinda insane. The Army, Navy, Marines, and (of course) Air Force all have flying vehicles. I think if it flies, it should be handled by the Air Force
IF you knew your history of Army Aviation, and such you'd know that the Air Force has no interest in providing the Marines and Army with what they want. In fact, when drones started becoming big, the Air Force specifically said they would not touch anything that doesn't fly above 10,000ft. So what will the Army or Marine Corps do if the Air Force doesn't want to provide them with the Close Air Support and low level surveillance that they need? They will roll their own of course! And it's the Air Force's lack of interest in such things that keeps food on my table, too!
Except that road infrastructure is already funded by gasoline taxes. So if you're moving around cargo, you're paying taxes on the gas used to haul it in the first place.
I told you I didn't know anything about them! And honestly, I don't care much. I hate doing these government documents, they never get read and provide way more information than will ever be needed.
Anyway, even if we could use those tools for our technical documents at the end of the project, we likely couldn't use them at the beginning of the contract life cycle, which is contract capture. The senior people in charge of writing our business plans have a hard enough time using Office, which they already "know." They aren't the kind of people that would want to learn something new. If these tools are easy to use for non-technical people then maybe other companies will have luck deploying them.
Uh no BS my friend. OOMA is a VOIP application. Apple does not let you anywhere near the core functionality of the iPhone. It's obvious you've never tried to develop for the iPhone. Unless they've drastically changed the public APIs, you can't even touch the calendar with an iPhone app. So yes, you might be able to apply filtering to your VOIP line on your iPhone, but you can't filter your calls on your iPhone with a 3rd party app. Not unless you use your number thru Google Voice or whatever. You could not create an app that blocks calls from people who aren't in your address book, for instance. Apple won't let you do it.
Perhaps LaTeX and Docbook XML are better at formatting documents, I don't know. I've never used either. But I do know that the people who review, accept, and ultimately use the documentation are often unskilled at computer use, and would likely not be able to use the software in the first place.
But you've obviously never done advanced formatting, because functionally there is a huge difference. If you took a MIL-STD-498 compliant document and then opened it inside of Open Office, all of the formatting would be ruined. If you tried to create a MIL-STD-498 compliant document in Open Office, you'd find that it is lacking the proper functionality to meet the requirements. It's not a matter of paying for certifications. Its a matter of capability. Trust me, my boss hates Microsoft and would rather create these documents with vi if he could. He's tried open office. I've tried open office. It just doesn't work.
We're talking about Microsoft Office, not productivity tools.;-)
I have to supply documentation to the government that complies with MIL-STD-498. Google Docs, Open Office, LibreOffice, etc do not have enough functionality to comply with the standard. This has to do with sections, table of contents, table of authorities, etc. So you may be joking, but there is a reason that Office is a valid requirement.
I'm not trying to say they are right or wrong, I am just pointing out that you are missing a part of the equation that they say is the key to their belief system. The fact that you intentionally left this piece out of your post suggests that you were A) unaware of that or B) deliberately leaving it out to suggest to people that scientific reasoning could be used to explain something that is a matter of faith. Especially when one of the very definitions of faith is: firm belief in something for which there is no proof
What all of those religions require though is *FAITH*. If you are applying scientific method to any of those claims then you are not showing faith. So even if any of those religions were to be true, and you were doing those things without faith, you would not see the reward. That's the point that you are missing.
The problem is the distance from my back to the seat in front of me. I do not overflow the seat in any way, and yet my knees are buried 1-2" into the back of the person in front of me on 90% of the flights. The only seats that seem to fit me are 1) first class and 2) United economy plus. Oh and business class on KLM is nice, too.
I *think* the reason they have you turn laptops, ipods, and other electronic devices during taxi,takeoff, and landing is for safety purposes. If they have a water landing, they don't want the guy on the overwing exits to pop the doors open because he didn't hear the announcement to only use the front/rear exits, right?
I would beg to differ. Except on military installations, most of the contractors I have met work in corporate facilities. The only ones that I have seen work on facility provide hardware/software support of government systems.
40% isn't a high enough markup on the contract employees. My company does government contracts and I often get to see the pay rates + bill rates. When you take into account the overhead of maintaining and running a building, paying benefits, etc, the company has to charge about $3 for every $1 the employee gets paid. That includes such costs as HR, as well.
That's the rate for a Cost + Fixed Fee contract. We prefer these because they are cheaper for the government. We are not allowed to profit, as a company, on anything except for that fixed fee. So all that cost has to go to employee + overhead, or else we can get busted. The latest trend for contracts is Firm Fixed price, which is actually more expensive for the government. Why? Because the government only pays out as certain milestones are reached. That means that my company has to get financing from a bank to pay employees until we get paid. Or we have to have the cash on hand to front the cost of the contract. So, there is often interest charged in addition to overhead + profit.
My last company developed embedded products and they had just over 100 engineers total. Most of them were involved with software. They also produced a lot more than just one or two devices in a year. I was wondering the same thing.
This should not come as a shock to anyone. If I was a WebOS developer working for HP, you can bet your ass I'd have been spending the last couple of months applying elsewhere. As far as the CEO - I'm sure he has a nice, golden parachute. Bend over, stockholders....
They may not have had months of notice. The HP Touchpad firesale was only about 5 weeks ago. I talked to an HP employee the day before the announcement, and she had no idea this was going on. She dealt exclusively with the Touchpad.
That depends. Hardware or software R&D? I don't know anything about Accenture, but HP could be a bit of a gamble at the moment. I've seen previous employers hire people just to lay them off in a month or two, along with others.
I've never broken one or even heard of one being broken. Laptop power connectors on the other hand...
I, on the otherhand, have gotten a phone straight from the factory with a detached micro-USB port. I'm looking at you HTC. Great product, if you get one that doesn't have a manufacturing defect!
They are identical. The only way to tell the difference is to open the box and see the model number printed on the unit, which is likely to be an NH2. The firmware between the two are incompatible. If you flash to DD-WRT or OpenWRT right now, there is no way to flash back. My experience with DD-WRT showed constant dropping of the WiFi adapter.
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It is kinda insane. The Army, Navy, Marines, and (of course) Air Force all have flying vehicles. I think if it flies, it should be handled by the Air Force
IF you knew your history of Army Aviation, and such you'd know that the Air Force has no interest in providing the Marines and Army with what they want. In fact, when drones started becoming big, the Air Force specifically said they would not touch anything that doesn't fly above 10,000ft. So what will the Army or Marine Corps do if the Air Force doesn't want to provide them with the Close Air Support and low level surveillance that they need? They will roll their own of course! And it's the Air Force's lack of interest in such things that keeps food on my table, too!
Except that road infrastructure is already funded by gasoline taxes. So if you're moving around cargo, you're paying taxes on the gas used to haul it in the first place.
I told you I didn't know anything about them! And honestly, I don't care much. I hate doing these government documents, they never get read and provide way more information than will ever be needed.
Anyway, even if we could use those tools for our technical documents at the end of the project, we likely couldn't use them at the beginning of the contract life cycle, which is contract capture. The senior people in charge of writing our business plans have a hard enough time using Office, which they already "know." They aren't the kind of people that would want to learn something new. If these tools are easy to use for non-technical people then maybe other companies will have luck deploying them.
Uh no BS my friend. OOMA is a VOIP application. Apple does not let you anywhere near the core functionality of the iPhone. It's obvious you've never tried to develop for the iPhone. Unless they've drastically changed the public APIs, you can't even touch the calendar with an iPhone app. So yes, you might be able to apply filtering to your VOIP line on your iPhone, but you can't filter your calls on your iPhone with a 3rd party app. Not unless you use your number thru Google Voice or whatever. You could not create an app that blocks calls from people who aren't in your address book, for instance. Apple won't let you do it.
err need to Jailbreak for that!
I have an android phone. I am just pointing out to the OP that you would need an android for that.
You'll have to jailbreak/root that iPhone to provide this kind of functionality.
Perhaps LaTeX and Docbook XML are better at formatting documents, I don't know. I've never used either. But I do know that the people who review, accept, and ultimately use the documentation are often unskilled at computer use, and would likely not be able to use the software in the first place.
But you've obviously never done advanced formatting, because functionally there is a huge difference. If you took a MIL-STD-498 compliant document and then opened it inside of Open Office, all of the formatting would be ruined. If you tried to create a MIL-STD-498 compliant document in Open Office, you'd find that it is lacking the proper functionality to meet the requirements. It's not a matter of paying for certifications. Its a matter of capability. Trust me, my boss hates Microsoft and would rather create these documents with vi if he could. He's tried open office. I've tried open office. It just doesn't work.
We're talking about Microsoft Office, not productivity tools. ;-)
I have to supply documentation to the government that complies with MIL-STD-498. Google Docs, Open Office, LibreOffice, etc do not have enough functionality to comply with the standard. This has to do with sections, table of contents, table of authorities, etc. So you may be joking, but there is a reason that Office is a valid requirement.
I'm not trying to say they are right or wrong, I am just pointing out that you are missing a part of the equation that they say is the key to their belief system. The fact that you intentionally left this piece out of your post suggests that you were A) unaware of that or B) deliberately leaving it out to suggest to people that scientific reasoning could be used to explain something that is a matter of faith. Especially when one of the very definitions of faith is: firm belief in something for which there is no proof
What all of those religions require though is *FAITH*. If you are applying scientific method to any of those claims then you are not showing faith. So even if any of those religions were to be true, and you were doing those things without faith, you would not see the reward. That's the point that you are missing.
I'm only 6'3", but my legs are proportionally longer than normal. The difference is only a few inches, but it makes a huge difference on a plane.
The problem is the distance from my back to the seat in front of me. I do not overflow the seat in any way, and yet my knees are buried 1-2" into the back of the person in front of me on 90% of the flights. The only seats that seem to fit me are 1) first class and 2) United economy plus. Oh and business class on KLM is nice, too.
I *think* the reason they have you turn laptops, ipods, and other electronic devices during taxi,takeoff, and landing is for safety purposes. If they have a water landing, they don't want the guy on the overwing exits to pop the doors open because he didn't hear the announcement to only use the front/rear exits, right?
I would beg to differ. Except on military installations, most of the contractors I have met work in corporate facilities. The only ones that I have seen work on facility provide hardware/software support of government systems.
40% isn't a high enough markup on the contract employees. My company does government contracts and I often get to see the pay rates + bill rates. When you take into account the overhead of maintaining and running a building, paying benefits, etc, the company has to charge about $3 for every $1 the employee gets paid. That includes such costs as HR, as well.
That's the rate for a Cost + Fixed Fee contract. We prefer these because they are cheaper for the government. We are not allowed to profit, as a company, on anything except for that fixed fee. So all that cost has to go to employee + overhead, or else we can get busted. The latest trend for contracts is Firm Fixed price, which is actually more expensive for the government. Why? Because the government only pays out as certain milestones are reached. That means that my company has to get financing from a bank to pay employees until we get paid. Or we have to have the cash on hand to front the cost of the contract. So, there is often interest charged in addition to overhead + profit.
Yeah but Apple stock just works. You don't have to fiddle with it when you get home.
My last company developed embedded products and they had just over 100 engineers total. Most of them were involved with software. They also produced a lot more than just one or two devices in a year. I was wondering the same thing.
This should not come as a shock to anyone. If I was a WebOS developer working for HP, you can bet your ass I'd have been spending the last couple of months applying elsewhere. As far as the CEO - I'm sure he has a nice, golden parachute. Bend over, stockholders....
They may not have had months of notice. The HP Touchpad firesale was only about 5 weeks ago. I talked to an HP employee the day before the announcement, and she had no idea this was going on. She dealt exclusively with the Touchpad.
That depends. Hardware or software R&D? I don't know anything about Accenture, but HP could be a bit of a gamble at the moment. I've seen previous employers hire people just to lay them off in a month or two, along with others.
You'd be surprised. My Dual core HTC Evo 3D has over twice the battery life of my single core Evo 4G. The battery is only 50% bigger.
What is this doublespeak you speak of? Us proles have no idea what you are referring to.
I've never broken one or even heard of one being broken. Laptop power connectors on the other hand ...
I, on the otherhand, have gotten a phone straight from the factory with a detached micro-USB port. I'm looking at you HTC. Great product, if you get one that doesn't have a manufacturing defect!
They are identical. The only way to tell the difference is to open the box and see the model number printed on the unit, which is likely to be an NH2. The firmware between the two are incompatible. If you flash to DD-WRT or OpenWRT right now, there is no way to flash back. My experience with DD-WRT showed constant dropping of the WiFi adapter.