I agree with the part about being scared. There may be a management issue where he doesn't feel comfortable about being honest about his own skill set. I just went through a manager change. I couldn't have an honest conversation with my old sup without being punished in some way. It got to the point where I just didn't tell him anything. Especially when it came to admitting and fixing my own short comings. With my new supervisor its a night and day difference. Evaluate, identify, and fix. No punishment and no problems at all with giving and receiving honest feedback.
A friend just bought a package of iOS apps directly from a developer. The things he was looking for were: Verifiable income. Payback on investment in 1-2 years based on the current revenue.
If the app he is buying is generating $1k/month of verifiable revenue he would be looking to pay between $10-24k for the app.
There are too many clone apps and free apps out there to justify a payback time any longer than 1-2 years.
I registered an LLC a few weeks ago. After a few days I wanted to change the name of the LLC. All I had to do was agree that I had the legal right to change the business documents by hitting the okay button. No password. No identity check. Just had to hit the okay button.
This theft doesn't surprise me. Its way too easy to do.
Online courses, if designed as online courses instead of dumping text onto a site, can be quite good. The course will need to be designed for online consumption - tutorials, audio visual aids, help desk accessible teaching staff and students..
I agree with this quite a bit. If an online course is designed well it makes for a great teaching aid.
We used Aplia as a supplement for my micro and macro economics courses and it was great. The site interacts really well with the user and enhances the learning experience. http://www.aplia.com/economics/
However, other online courses I have taken have not been designed well. Most of the bad ones I have seen have been supplement sites from the textbook publishers (mainly Pearson) I had to use this awful online supplement for corporate finance. http://myfinancelab.mathxl.com/login_finance.htm
I do believe online learning is the future of education. But we also have a steep learning curve as far figuring out and implementing what works and what doesn't. Its just going to take time and experience for elearning to become effective.
Mod this up. This sounds more like a personnel problem than a hardware/software problem. Get the right people into those vacant positions and let them make the decisions for you. Don't spend any money on hardware or software until those positions are filled.
This is a good explanation of why these loans are bad.
$30 Billion is enough financing for Huawei to corner any market that they choose. That gives them too much power.
While the Chinese may have embraced capitalism (in the wake of the demise of the USSR), they certainly don't believe in free market economics, and will use whatever means they can to control and manipulate the markets.
You can boo hoo the US governments corporate bail outs all you want. But the bail outs were never intended to grab and control market share.
Consider also a telecom company that sniffs the calls of its users and sells this information to other companies. That would be an even bigger outrage.
Why does it still work differently with social networks?
It works differently because social networks offer their services for free. Telecoms get cash for their services and social networks ( mainly Facebook) get your personal data (instead of cash).
In no case would I run the site from home. You'll probably get your home Internet yanked.
Aside from data caps, what other pitfalls are there to doing something like this?
I know Comcast will let you upgrade your home account to a business account with a much larger cap.
What do you consider to be industrial systems specifically? Something you might see in a steam plant maybe or oil refinery maybe?
I can only hope that is so. Studying c++ now and work in a power plant as an operator.
A lot of research into addiction is focused on dopamine.
http://www.utexas.edu/research/asrec/dopamine.html
Drugs like Wellbutrin are classified as DRI's or Dopamine re-uptake inhibitors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dopamine_reuptake_inhibitor
SSRI's are meant to affect serotonin level's but can also affect dopamine level's. This is one reason why psychologists have started prescribing multiple medications to treat depression . Usually one SSRI and one DRI to maintain serotonin and dopamine levels
So using anti-depressants to treat game addiction was bound to happen. I think that in our lifetime we will see drugs that will eliminate addiction all together (for those that are willing to take them).
And they cost the student about $40 at the bookstore. Completely mandatory for the class.. All for the sake of 'encouraging' students to show up to class.
My CS proffesor used Dyknow last semester to teach a discrete class. In class he would use a tablet to write his notes which were then displayed trough a projector. The notes and sound were recorded in real time, then posted online so that students could download then listen and watch the lecture again.
This type of recording technology was great.
One thing I hate as a student is an over reliance on Blackboard. This application works okay for administrative tasks but really sucks as a teaching tool. Online discussion, quizes, and teaching material on this platform has always been slow, unreliable, and had little learning value for me.
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I agree with the part about being scared. There may be a management issue where he doesn't feel comfortable about being honest about his own skill set. I just went through a manager change. I couldn't have an honest conversation with my old sup without being punished in some way. It got to the point where I just didn't tell him anything. Especially when it came to admitting and fixing my own short comings.
With my new supervisor its a night and day difference. Evaluate, identify, and fix. No punishment and no problems at all with giving and receiving honest feedback.
A friend just bought a package of iOS apps directly from a developer. The things he was looking for were:
Verifiable income.
Payback on investment in 1-2 years based on the current revenue.
If the app he is buying is generating $1k/month of verifiable revenue he would be looking to pay between $10-24k for the app.
There are too many clone apps and free apps out there to justify a payback time any longer than 1-2 years.
*just rehashed
There might be a few decent apps that go up for sale on apptopia, but most are ust rehased versions of apps that already exist.
Apptopia: Home of the $1 million dollar flashlight app.
http://www.apptopia.com/listings/flashlight-by-i4software
I registered an LLC a few weeks ago. After a few days I wanted to change the name of the LLC. All I had to do was agree that I had the legal right to change the business documents by hitting the okay button. No password. No identity check. Just had to hit the okay button.
This theft doesn't surprise me. Its way too easy to do.
It looks like Aplia is now part of Cengage.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aplia
Online courses, if designed as online courses instead of dumping text onto a site, can be quite good. The course will need to be designed for online consumption - tutorials, audio visual aids, help desk accessible teaching staff and students. .
I agree with this quite a bit. If an online course is designed well it makes for a great teaching aid.
We used Aplia as a supplement for my micro and macro economics courses and it was great.
The site interacts really well with the user and enhances the learning experience.
http://www.aplia.com/economics/
However, other online courses I have taken have not been designed well.
Most of the bad ones I have seen have been supplement sites from the textbook publishers (mainly Pearson)
I had to use this awful online supplement for corporate finance.
http://myfinancelab.mathxl.com/login_finance.htm
I do believe online learning is the future of education.
But we also have a steep learning curve as far figuring out and implementing what works and what doesn't.
Its just going to take time and experience for elearning to become effective.
Mod this up. This sounds more like a personnel problem than a hardware/software problem. Get the right people into those vacant positions and let them make the decisions for you. Don't spend any money on hardware or software until those positions are filled.
This is a good explanation of why these loans are bad.
$30 Billion is enough financing for Huawei to corner any market that they choose. That gives them too much power.
While the Chinese may have embraced capitalism (in the wake of the demise of the USSR), they certainly don't believe in free market economics, and will use whatever means they can to control and manipulate the markets.
You can boo hoo the US governments corporate bail outs all you want. But the bail outs were never intended to grab and control market share.
Yep. Well said.
Consider also a telecom company that sniffs the calls of its users and sells this information to other companies. That would be an even bigger outrage.
Why does it still work differently with social networks?
It works differently because social networks offer their services for free. Telecoms get cash for their services and social networks ( mainly Facebook) get your personal data (instead of cash).
In no case would I run the site from home. You'll probably get your home Internet yanked.
Aside from data caps, what other pitfalls are there to doing something like this? I know Comcast will let you upgrade your home account to a business account with a much larger cap.
The Google pulldown needs an NSA tag.
I would pay my fair share for Farscape to be on and making new content again. That was a great show.
I can't wait for the IPO.
Does it seem a little wrong to call it an 'IT system'? Control system, SCADA, or embedded system maybe, but IT?
What do you consider to be industrial systems specifically? Something you might see in a steam plant maybe or oil refinery maybe? I can only hope that is so. Studying c++ now and work in a power plant as an operator.
We are getting a Wonderware user interface installed next week. Anything in particular I should be concerned about.
This is a good point when you consider websites like cramster.com and coursehero.com.
Can't wait.
A lot of research into addiction is focused on dopamine. http://www.utexas.edu/research/asrec/dopamine.html Drugs like Wellbutrin are classified as DRI's or Dopamine re-uptake inhibitors. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dopamine_reuptake_inhibitor SSRI's are meant to affect serotonin level's but can also affect dopamine level's. This is one reason why psychologists have started prescribing multiple medications to treat depression . Usually one SSRI and one DRI to maintain serotonin and dopamine levels So using anti-depressants to treat game addiction was bound to happen. I think that in our lifetime we will see drugs that will eliminate addiction all together (for those that are willing to take them).
And they cost the student about $40 at the bookstore. Completely mandatory for the class.. All for the sake of 'encouraging' students to show up to class.
My CS proffesor used Dyknow last semester to teach a discrete class. In class he would use a tablet to write his notes which were then displayed trough a projector. The notes and sound were recorded in real time, then posted online so that students could download then listen and watch the lecture again. This type of recording technology was great. One thing I hate as a student is an over reliance on Blackboard. This application works okay for administrative tasks but really sucks as a teaching tool. Online discussion, quizes, and teaching material on this platform has always been slow, unreliable, and had little learning value for me.
Yep- How many students get through calculus in high school using a calculator only to get screwed in college calculus when they can't use one.