Harry Potter never was and will never be sci fi. Either this was an attempt by the Hugo committee to move into mainstream, or just an idiotic blunder. Either way all self-respecting sci-fi authors should pitch their Hugos in the trash.
The assumption is that parents will use this information responsibly. I wonder if this can be used to make the school liable for instances where parents don't use it responsibly? Say an abusive parent: "You missed PE again? What's wrong with you? What kind of nancy-boy are you?".
Or can the parents use it to make the school liable for the school's performance? Concerned parent: "Look, according to your database, Johnny attended all his classes and turned in all his homework. How come he can't read?" (didn't get admitted to Yale...etc.)
How involved do schools *really* want to be?
I about died when I saw this. I graduated with a BS CS. I would have loved a job like this and made a point of selling myself as a lab-rat at interviews. Now I'm quitting the field.
This field is completely screwed-up and I don't think any of the employers know what they want, or what they need. Worse yet they don't seem very interested in trying very hard to resolve what they want and what they need. They just hire and fire at random. I get hired one place because I know OOP and C++ and they don't use it and then I can't get hired anywhere else because they want OOP and C++ but I havn't used it. Or its not the right flavor of tools and platforms. No company I ever interviewed at emphasized "thinking" or "problem-solving". For a "programmer" to survive you cannot afford to consider jobs that are not "hot". That might explain the problem.
My advice is if you're looking for programmers who think, hire thinkers and let them program.
The Air Force hasn't gotten anything..They are funneling money to a SUNK COST. The Air Force can't afford to run its own satcom network...at least it shouldn't...it should be spending its money higher priority systems.
There's not enough material in the article to really draw any conclusions...I mean was the productivity for the same period or hour by hour? This just seems to reinforce the 'the more hours the better' idea.
If the payoff is really communication and collaboration do you have to do it by locking people in a big room for several months?
My experience has been that managers tend to treat each of their staff as a their personal staff member...ignoring collaboration and teamwork...Assignments tend to be: "Do this for me." If you collaborate with someone else it wreaks their discrete little world... "No, X is doing this...Y is doing that, I need you to do this..". Everything is broken down into pairwise interactions between the "team" member and the "team" leader.
In really bad places I've worked this is taken to the extreme. Managers only have confidence in one or two key people. They use the "hero" approach. Heros get the real assignments and everyone else gets something to make sure they stay out of the way. This ends up with about 90% of the staff severly pissed off and 10% meglomaniacs. The managers spend all of their time and effort either trying to swap dogs for heros or beating dogs and praising heros. You still get the high turnover as well. The meglomaniacs leave becasue they have beautiful resumes after a short time. The dogs leave becasue they are pissed off... However, the managers always seem to stay.
So...what you really mean is that this is corporate welfare spent in an attempt to justify a bad decision on the part of the Air Force? I think I prefer ordinary corporate welfare.
Good point. Besides I thought we are supposed to be anxious over the election...does that give them a coup excuse? I wonder who Motorola's special friend at the DoD is?
I don't get it. Are these just random permutations of digital data patented or am i missing something? I mean can I take a patent out on all images that resemble a scan of my buttcheeks?
Does anyone know how subscriptions are handled by business and corporate accounting? Is there a financial incentive for them to subscribe instead of buying?
MS persecutes it's own customers! Way to go. Just what a business needs to worry about: A visit from the MS Inquisition. Maybe they should set up a hotline (or hotpage) where you can nark on your competition. This just makes Linux a better choice.
"Our three main weapons are..."
Knowing how much malicious glee this news brings to this site... at what price? This will only feed the 'Stop Hackers at Any Price' sentiment. I can't help wondering if MS didn't permit it to happen... It makes them look vulnerable, (not a trait associated with super-power monopolies) and gives Bill some ammunition to use against the 'open-source-file-swapping-naked-box-hacker-menace '. A much better ROI than the crappy product he peddles.
Whatever competitive advantage this might actually have, Motorola will completely and utterly screw it up. There are more phbs per ^2foot there than any two other companies combined. I can hear how it got started: "...well, if we had this data, we would actually be somewhere instead of the losers we are today look at Iridium..." The M in Motorola stands for Mediocrity
"But if a stranger came into your house, looked through everything, touched several items, and left (after building a small, out of the way door to be sure he could easily enter again), would you consider that harmless?"
Oddy enought though this is eaxctly the privelege corporations would like to reserve for themselves. I would like to hear Palmer explain how some of the recent methods used to track people around the web are not "hacking" by his defintion!
Did anyone else feel a chill run down their spine when Charles Palmer said:
>>Innovations like biometrics and smart cards will go a long way toward making security easier for the end user as well as for the system administrators. ????
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Harry Potter never was and will never be sci fi. Either this was an attempt by the Hugo committee to move into mainstream, or just an idiotic blunder. Either way all self-respecting sci-fi authors should pitch their Hugos in the trash.
The assumption is that parents will use this information responsibly. I wonder if this can be used to make the school liable for instances where parents don't use it responsibly? Say an abusive parent: "You missed PE again? What's wrong with you? What kind of nancy-boy are you?". Or can the parents use it to make the school liable for the school's performance? Concerned parent: "Look, according to your database, Johnny attended all his classes and turned in all his homework. How come he can't read?" (didn't get admitted to Yale...etc.) How involved do schools *really* want to be?
In the future they'll just fire your body.
I about died when I saw this. I graduated with a BS CS. I would have loved a job like this and made a point of selling myself as a lab-rat at interviews. Now I'm quitting the field. This field is completely screwed-up and I don't think any of the employers know what they want, or what they need. Worse yet they don't seem very interested in trying very hard to resolve what they want and what they need. They just hire and fire at random. I get hired one place because I know OOP and C++ and they don't use it and then I can't get hired anywhere else because they want OOP and C++ but I havn't used it. Or its not the right flavor of tools and platforms. No company I ever interviewed at emphasized "thinking" or "problem-solving". For a "programmer" to survive you cannot afford to consider jobs that are not "hot". That might explain the problem. My advice is if you're looking for programmers who think, hire thinkers and let them program.
I thought the graphic that went with the story was particularly thoughtful and balanced...with journalism like this who needs terrorists?
Yes, well I wouldn't spend too much effort on it You won't be needing that where you're going ;-)
I can see the headlines now. Of course it will all be recorded on the black box.
And the verdict in the case of US vs Microsoft is...
The Judge is acquitted of bias!
Mr. Borg Gates wins again.
Ummm... that's not a bad thing is it? damn! out of pills again...gotta go.
The Air Force hasn't gotten anything..They are funneling money to a SUNK COST. The Air Force can't afford to run its own satcom network...at least it shouldn't...it should be spending its money higher priority systems.
There's not enough material in the article to really draw any conclusions...I mean was the productivity for the same period or hour by hour? This just seems to reinforce the 'the more hours the better' idea.
If the payoff is really communication and collaboration do you have to do it by locking people in a big room for several months?
My experience has been that managers tend to treat each of their staff as a their personal staff member...ignoring collaboration and teamwork...Assignments tend to be: "Do this for me." If you collaborate with someone else it wreaks their discrete little world... "No, X is doing this...Y is doing that, I need you to do this..". Everything is broken down into pairwise interactions between the "team" member and the "team" leader.
In really bad places I've worked this is taken to the extreme. Managers only have confidence in one or two key people. They use the "hero" approach. Heros get the real assignments and everyone else gets something to make sure they stay out of the way. This ends up with about 90% of the staff severly pissed off and 10% meglomaniacs. The managers spend all of their time and effort either trying to swap dogs for heros or beating dogs and praising heros. You still get the high turnover as well. The meglomaniacs leave becasue they have beautiful resumes after a short time. The dogs leave becasue they are pissed off... However, the managers always seem to stay.
So...what you really mean is that this is corporate welfare spent in an attempt to justify a bad decision on the part of the Air Force? I think I prefer ordinary corporate welfare.
Good point. Besides I thought we are supposed to be anxious over the election...does that give them a coup excuse? I wonder who Motorola's special friend at the DoD is?
What do you advertise to someone who wants stuff for free?
I don't get it. Are these just random permutations of digital data patented or am i missing something? I mean can I take a patent out on all images that resemble a scan of my buttcheeks?
Does anyone know how subscriptions are handled by business and corporate accounting? Is there a financial incentive for them to subscribe instead of buying?
MS persecutes it's own customers! Way to go. Just what a business needs to worry about: A visit from the MS Inquisition. Maybe they should set up a hotline (or hotpage) where you can nark on your competition. This just makes Linux a better choice. "Our three main weapons are..."
Reminds me when we wrote in Richard Nixon as a candidate for class presient and he actually won. They had to do another election.
Knowing how much malicious glee this news brings to this site... at what price? This will only feed the 'Stop Hackers at Any Price' sentiment. I can't help wondering if MS didn't permit it to happen... It makes them look vulnerable, (not a trait associated with super-power monopolies) and gives Bill some ammunition to use against the 'open-source-file-swapping-naked-box-hacker-menace '. A much better ROI than the crappy product he peddles.
is a very good reason not to bother napping co-workers.
Nuts. I only have six. Four more and I can take over the world!!!!
Whatever competitive advantage this might actually have, Motorola will completely and utterly screw it up. There are more phbs per ^2foot there than any two other companies combined. I can hear how it got started: "...well, if we had this data, we would actually be somewhere instead of the losers we are today look at Iridium..." The M in Motorola stands for Mediocrity
"But if a stranger came into your house, looked through everything, touched several items, and left (after building a small, out of the way door to be sure he could easily enter again), would you consider that harmless?" Oddy enought though this is eaxctly the privelege corporations would like to reserve for themselves. I would like to hear Palmer explain how some of the recent methods used to track people around the web are not "hacking" by his defintion!
Did anyone else feel a chill run down their spine when Charles Palmer said: >>Innovations like biometrics and smart cards will go a long way toward making security easier for the end user as well as for the system administrators. ????
>>Do hackers still believe in magic or practice a mystical religion?
;-)
Only a silly muggle would ask a question like that