Especially status updates. A one-line email from each member, aggregated by a PM and sent to the group, can be read whenever I'm at a stopping point and can switch tasks without losing my place in my work. Blowing 15 minutes every day to listen to everyone say '8 hours on feature X yesterday, 32 remaining' is not my idea of a positive use of my time.
That's 15 minutes, plus the time required to get back to work, both in terms of socialization just after the meeting and time to remember exactly where you left off, multiplied by the number of people. On a large team, that's basically a person-day of work gone every day.
That article reads like a list of every stupid idea a project manager has ever had. Here's an idea: keep the status meetings to once a week major changes in the project, keep individuals informed of changes that affect them as they happen, and let the workers do the work. When we're done, we'll update the feature/bug tracking system to indicate that we're done and move on. The tracking system will then notify the next person down the line (QA, build, PM, whoever) that something is ready for them, and if they have questions they can come talk to us directly, one on one. Go back to the agile manifesto, and screw off with all the buzzword-laden process crap.
Teachers Colleges are badly organized, and heavily weighed towards liberal arts. So of course their graduates tend to have less skills in math/science. There are a lot of people in those organizations who want to do better, but the spark still has not been lit of a renaissance there.
Canadian here, so I'm not sure if this applies to the US, but here our teachers' colleges select largely based on university grades with no consideration to major. At the university I went to 50% was a pass pretty much school-wide, but most science/engineering students required a 60-65% minimum average to stay in their program, while most arts students required a 75%, and the class averages reflected this. That is, the arts averages were about 10-15% higher than the rest of the school because the requirements were higher. Of course more arts students will get in when the top of their bell curve is placed in a different place than the technical subjects.
Canada is pretty easy to get into. Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and Waterloo all have pretty healthy tech industries, depending on what specific area you're into.
And the context is pretty much exactly as I said, he's pointing out that Google exists under US laws including the Patriot act and if you Google something they may not have a choice to keep it private.
Not at all. Mexico and Brazil both also do a fair bit of assembly, in Brazil's case due to the massive import taxes driving companies to put factories there to make their widgets affordable to Brazillians. Assembly can be done pretty much anywhere, if Africa stabilizes and people are willing to assemble for half the wage of the Chinese the jobs will be gone. Manufacturing electronics takes equipment and skilled labor that assembling electronics does not.
Do you have a source for that quote? I've seen something similar that could be taken out of context that way, it was along the line of "If you're doing something you don't want people to know about, why are you telling Google about it?", and the context was that Google isn't going to break the law to cover your tracks if someone knocks on the door with a warrant.
The 300k/year is a sunk cost at this point. Unless this is an exceptionally unusual drug the cost to manufacture is nearly nonexistent compared to the cost of research and clinical trials and such. At this point it hurts the drug company not at all to give the drug to people who can't afford it, if they aren't allowed to just set the price for each person to however high that person can afford. It's a strange problem, really, since there are so few people who this drug will help there's no economy of scale to get the money back on the research, but once the research is done the money is gone and what kind of cruel person will prevent others from living until the patent runs out simply to make back an investment that will probably never be made back anyway?
50 years ago the average person with CF lived to be less than 5 years old. Today the average is into the 20s. I suppose you think that's due to the magical fairies that make diseases less lethal as time goes on?
Apple created one thing that didn't exist before that is what really saved the company. It wasn't the iPod, it was the thing that actually made the iPod useful for most people. Apple created iTunes. They actually got license agreements to sell songs online, legally, for a price that people would pay. That was why everyone bought iPods, because they could play music that you could purchase legally without having to rip a CD. Combined with the original iPod being a pretty good MP3 player they were able to pretty much claim a monopoly in the MP3 player market, which allowed them to keep improving the iPod and eventually led to much of their current product line.
You can fly without the TSA BS, just get a private license and rent a plane. It takes away pretty much everything that makes commercial flying worthwhile in the first place, but even the TSA doesn't have the resources to have an agent at every tiny airport to check the Cessna pilots.
Extradition generally requires 3 things:
The law broken must exist, or have an equivalent, in the extraditing country. Hence Canada won't extradite draft dodgers to the USA
The evidence presented must be sufficient to secure a trial - you can't just give a name and crime and expect to extradite someone
The punishment if the person is found guilty must be within what the extraditing country would find reasonable. Thus any country without capital punishment will get assurances not to seek the death penalty before extraditing to the USA, for crimes where it would be a possibility.
Google makes nearly all their money from advertising. While they are a juggernaut in terms of the number of areas they are active in or investing in, they mostly give their products away to get people to look at ads. Apple on the other hand has a near monopoly in one area (MP3 players), and is in the top 2 companies in at least 3 others (MP3 store, tablets, touchphones). And that's before you look at their desktop and laptop lines, where they aren't the market leader. It shouldn't be surprising that Apple makes more money than Google.
Microsoft was sitting on a huge pile of cash for a very long time in the late 90s, early 2000s. Sometimes companies have vision, and sometimes they just have so much money that they actually don't know what to do with all of it.
-40 plus some windchill can freeze fuel in the fuel line of a running car if you don't use fuel line antifreeze and your car has fuel lines where they're exposed to the wind. I had it happen once on an old car, I think they've just changed the location of the fuel lines to keep them out of the windflow, but ICEs aren't immune to the cold of a northern Alberta winter.
If you're in Britain then wikipedia tells me that oil/coal makes up about 75% of your electricity, so it's not 100% by any means. The other thing is that a power plant has no weight limitations, can capture emissions, and will generally be better maintained than your average car. The efficiency gains on the generating end alone make it worth it to switch to electric.
Funny thing about Ford. He paid his employees enough to buy cars, but he didn't pay his suppliers enough to pay their employees the same amount. Pretty much the same thing that Apple is doing. At least, the people I know working directly for Apple seem to be pretty well paid.
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Especially status updates. A one-line email from each member, aggregated by a PM and sent to the group, can be read whenever I'm at a stopping point and can switch tasks without losing my place in my work. Blowing 15 minutes every day to listen to everyone say '8 hours on feature X yesterday, 32 remaining' is not my idea of a positive use of my time.
That's 15 minutes, plus the time required to get back to work, both in terms of socialization just after the meeting and time to remember exactly where you left off, multiplied by the number of people. On a large team, that's basically a person-day of work gone every day.
That article reads like a list of every stupid idea a project manager has ever had. Here's an idea: keep the status meetings to once a week major changes in the project, keep individuals informed of changes that affect them as they happen, and let the workers do the work. When we're done, we'll update the feature/bug tracking system to indicate that we're done and move on. The tracking system will then notify the next person down the line (QA, build, PM, whoever) that something is ready for them, and if they have questions they can come talk to us directly, one on one. Go back to the agile manifesto, and screw off with all the buzzword-laden process crap.
Teachers Colleges are badly organized, and heavily weighed towards liberal arts. So of course their graduates tend to have less skills in math/science. There are a lot of people in those organizations who want to do better, but the spark still has not been lit of a renaissance there.
Canadian here, so I'm not sure if this applies to the US, but here our teachers' colleges select largely based on university grades with no consideration to major. At the university I went to 50% was a pass pretty much school-wide, but most science/engineering students required a 60-65% minimum average to stay in their program, while most arts students required a 75%, and the class averages reflected this. That is, the arts averages were about 10-15% higher than the rest of the school because the requirements were higher. Of course more arts students will get in when the top of their bell curve is placed in a different place than the technical subjects.
Canada is pretty easy to get into. Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and Waterloo all have pretty healthy tech industries, depending on what specific area you're into.
And the context is pretty much exactly as I said, he's pointing out that Google exists under US laws including the Patriot act and if you Google something they may not have a choice to keep it private.
Not at all. Mexico and Brazil both also do a fair bit of assembly, in Brazil's case due to the massive import taxes driving companies to put factories there to make their widgets affordable to Brazillians. Assembly can be done pretty much anywhere, if Africa stabilizes and people are willing to assemble for half the wage of the Chinese the jobs will be gone. Manufacturing electronics takes equipment and skilled labor that assembling electronics does not.
China *assembles* electronics. Korea, Indonesia, and a few other Asian countries make them.
Do you have a source for that quote? I've seen something similar that could be taken out of context that way, it was along the line of "If you're doing something you don't want people to know about, why are you telling Google about it?", and the context was that Google isn't going to break the law to cover your tracks if someone knocks on the door with a warrant.
The 300k/year is a sunk cost at this point. Unless this is an exceptionally unusual drug the cost to manufacture is nearly nonexistent compared to the cost of research and clinical trials and such. At this point it hurts the drug company not at all to give the drug to people who can't afford it, if they aren't allowed to just set the price for each person to however high that person can afford. It's a strange problem, really, since there are so few people who this drug will help there's no economy of scale to get the money back on the research, but once the research is done the money is gone and what kind of cruel person will prevent others from living until the patent runs out simply to make back an investment that will probably never be made back anyway?
There are no treatments for CF
50 years ago the average person with CF lived to be less than 5 years old. Today the average is into the 20s. I suppose you think that's due to the magical fairies that make diseases less lethal as time goes on?
A comment on /. saying you can't know everything? You must be new here.
I assumed that this was the GOP's way of indicating that they plan to lose the election. I'm hoping for better candidates for 2016...
Apple created one thing that didn't exist before that is what really saved the company. It wasn't the iPod, it was the thing that actually made the iPod useful for most people. Apple created iTunes. They actually got license agreements to sell songs online, legally, for a price that people would pay. That was why everyone bought iPods, because they could play music that you could purchase legally without having to rip a CD. Combined with the original iPod being a pretty good MP3 player they were able to pretty much claim a monopoly in the MP3 player market, which allowed them to keep improving the iPod and eventually led to much of their current product line.
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So a movie has no value? Transporting goods has no value? I'm glad I don't live in your world.
You can fly without the TSA BS, just get a private license and rent a plane. It takes away pretty much everything that makes commercial flying worthwhile in the first place, but even the TSA doesn't have the resources to have an agent at every tiny airport to check the Cessna pilots.
Source?
Extradition generally requires 3 things:
The law broken must exist, or have an equivalent, in the extraditing country. Hence Canada won't extradite draft dodgers to the USA
The evidence presented must be sufficient to secure a trial - you can't just give a name and crime and expect to extradite someone
The punishment if the person is found guilty must be within what the extraditing country would find reasonable. Thus any country without capital punishment will get assurances not to seek the death penalty before extraditing to the USA, for crimes where it would be a possibility.
VPN doesn't obscure endpoints. They can see if you're connected to your employer or to some anonymizing service.
Google makes nearly all their money from advertising. While they are a juggernaut in terms of the number of areas they are active in or investing in, they mostly give their products away to get people to look at ads. Apple on the other hand has a near monopoly in one area (MP3 players), and is in the top 2 companies in at least 3 others (MP3 store, tablets, touchphones). And that's before you look at their desktop and laptop lines, where they aren't the market leader. It shouldn't be surprising that Apple makes more money than Google.
Microsoft was sitting on a huge pile of cash for a very long time in the late 90s, early 2000s. Sometimes companies have vision, and sometimes they just have so much money that they actually don't know what to do with all of it.
-40 plus some windchill can freeze fuel in the fuel line of a running car if you don't use fuel line antifreeze and your car has fuel lines where they're exposed to the wind. I had it happen once on an old car, I think they've just changed the location of the fuel lines to keep them out of the windflow, but ICEs aren't immune to the cold of a northern Alberta winter.
If you're in Britain then wikipedia tells me that oil/coal makes up about 75% of your electricity, so it's not 100% by any means. The other thing is that a power plant has no weight limitations, can capture emissions, and will generally be better maintained than your average car. The efficiency gains on the generating end alone make it worth it to switch to electric.
Funny thing about Ford. He paid his employees enough to buy cars, but he didn't pay his suppliers enough to pay their employees the same amount. Pretty much the same thing that Apple is doing. At least, the people I know working directly for Apple seem to be pretty well paid.