Since I sympathize with cops and google "products" seem to be stuck in eternal Beta, I'd say it's a horrible idea. If you don't agree you're welcome to test drive the/. Beta.
Jello - the answer is simple. Try to translate your Slashdot submission into a graph of emoticons and pictures. You're free to use any emoticons/pics you wish or create your own - except using pictures of text of course. Then post the result for us on some web site and a link to it here. We'll post what we made out of it.
British Columbia and Quebec have such laws. In certain BC areas you must use winter tires or carry tire chains. In Quebec you must use winter or studded tires from December 15 to March 15. There's a funny province too - Ontario does NOT allow studded tires in the south of the province ($1000 fine). Only non-studded winter tires.
Didn't Nassem Taleb already debunk "risk management" in his book "The Black Swan"? It basically says that the whole "risk management" thing is based on the wrong understanding of statistics. The fact that an event has a very low statistical probability does not preclude it from happening at any time. The probability of drawing an ace from a deck of cards is low yet it does not preclude the possibility that the first card you draw is an ace. The economists did not understand this (maybe intentionally - some people get paid to not understand / misunderstand) and decided that if an event has a low probability then it would never happen.
Well it would take some 10 inch of snow or some serious freezing rain / ice to deter canucks from driving. This being said, it also has to be mentioned that winter tires are mandatory in some provinces. And since the white season can take up to 6 months, not only are people experienced with driving in such conditions, but they are also choosing their vehicles according to their winter driving experience and skills.
I like it that Newman complains of "lack of intellectual rigor" then mentions a "known problem" as an excuse for eliminating from the study the 1.5TB Seagate drives. Except that according to Seagate, the known problem with this series "does not result in data loss nor does it impact the reliability of the drive". Additionally, the "known problem" was for firmware versions SD15, SD17 & SD18. Did Mr. Newman have the "intellectual rigor" to check if the tested drives were having one of the affected firmware versions?
So if you can't explain it through a shortage of natural gas, you're now trying to blame it on a shortage of iron pipe? You're winging it, there's no shortage of iron either. So we have the resources and the demand, yet the "invisible hand" failed to connect them? where's your "econ 101" when you need it?
You either must have worked for some really nice organizations or this was a long time ago... What I see these days are IT Depts starved to death by "cost cuts" initiatives to the point that they can offer only the bare minimum level of support.
A typical scenario these days would be that the level 1 guy is located offshore and all he does is to capture whatever you're telling him over the phone, using the enterprise ticket management system; then assign it to the proper queue and give you a ticket nr. Then someone else gets to look at the ticket; if it's a question about how to use a particular function in a particular application, he will decide that you need more training and close the ticket with some "user error" resolution. Otherwise he will try to decide if the the problem affects just your workstation or if it is a company wide issue. In the first case, they'll get your workstation re-imaged - no one has the time and resources these days to hunt individual obscure corruptions of Windows registry or similar stuff. If it affects more than one user, then and only then there will be some further investigation. Yes, it's all like in the good old Bastard Operator from Hell stories. All caused by "profit maximizing" aka "cost cuts".
The "invisible hand" you're mentioning is just the natural resources trading firms that saw an opportunity to increase their markup for the supplementary quantities. If you want to bring it to "econ 101" then it would be a failure of the markets due to insufficient competition in the trading sector.
Anyway if anyone here still believes in "econ 101" fairy tales I would recommend reading Steve Keen's "Debunking Economics".
If you're manning the help desk, MSO is just one of the standard corporate apps. You don't need to understand how to exactly use it to the last detail/function or be proficient at it. That would be the users' concern. Your concern will be to check if MSO is installed and able to start/work on the user's workstation. If not, you'll schedule an installation or re-imaging of the workstation.
How did this get transformed again into a discussion about Office... if these young gentlemen are preparing themselves for an IT career, Office is as relevant as eyes on a tapeworm... we could as well discuss Photoshop or some video editing package... In "Enterprise IT" most of your communication will be done through e-mail or a ticket management system... you may have to read some documentation in PDF format... or WORD but guess what... it will be some text about application footprint/interfaces/configuration that needs no special formatting whatsoever and could be done as well in Notepad or vi.... you may also have the odd XCEL file with a list of servers/datacenter location/patches to be applied (where the only usefulness of Xcel is to enable you to sort the list by various columns)... and the yearly Powerpoint document from HR describing changes to your healthcare / pension plan... and that's all folks, so once again... Why was Office brought into this discussion?
I remember the choir of economists praising the virtues of "carbon credits" until everybody noticed that it was all about creating the opportunity for some "investment banking" firms to act as clearinghouses for such "credits" and make a hefty profit out of nothing. I'm wondering if this isn't something similar. Complete with some "high frequency trading" schemes.
Remember, this is not some surgeons publishing in a medical journal. It's "economists" airing in WSJ.
The WD does indeed play almost every format, and for the odd files, there's handbrake to help converting them to something that works. A Haswell Quick Sync capable graphics chip (e.g 4600) will make short work of any transcoding job - hours of waiting become minutes.
Please define "value" first. Otherwise it's one of those never ending "is it good for the economy?" debates, where everyone has his own definition of "good", "economy", and what they mean when used together.
Quick fix: in glorious MS tradition rename the site My Healthcare.net Now since few people would be able to figure out how to deal with the space in the website name, the congestion issue will be taken care of.
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CEO pay is also an outlier, what's his plan about it?
Since I sympathize with cops and google "products" seem to be stuck in eternal Beta, I'd say it's a horrible idea. If you don't agree you're welcome to test drive the /. Beta.
Jello - the answer is simple. Try to translate your Slashdot submission into a graph of emoticons and pictures. You're free to use any emoticons/pics you wish or create your own - except using pictures of text of course. Then post the result for us on some web site and a link to it here. We'll post what we made out of it.
It actually works very nicely:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
British Columbia and Quebec have such laws. In certain BC areas you must use winter tires or carry tire chains. In Quebec you must use winter or studded tires from December 15 to March 15. There's a funny province too - Ontario does NOT allow studded tires in the south of the province ($1000 fine). Only non-studded winter tires.
Didn't Nassem Taleb already debunk "risk management" in his book "The Black Swan"? It basically says that the whole "risk management" thing is based on the wrong understanding of statistics. The fact that an event has a very low statistical probability does not preclude it from happening at any time. The probability of drawing an ace from a deck of cards is low yet it does not preclude the possibility that the first card you draw is an ace. The economists did not understand this (maybe intentionally - some people get paid to not understand / misunderstand) and decided that if an event has a low probability then it would never happen.
It means nothing. Recommended reading here:
http://www.1010tires.com/store/content/winter-tires-guide.aspx
Well it would take some 10 inch of snow or some serious freezing rain / ice to deter canucks from driving. This being said, it also has to be mentioned that winter tires are mandatory in some provinces. And since the white season can take up to 6 months, not only are people experienced with driving in such conditions, but they are also choosing their vehicles according to their winter driving experience and skills.
Didn't we have HTML "standard" yet every browser interpreted it in slightly different ways? Remember the days you had to use IE6 or else?
If in the end they got to pay the same amount of money except to German workers instead of MS, this would still be a good result for them.
I like it that Newman complains of "lack of intellectual rigor" then mentions a "known problem" as an excuse for eliminating from the study the 1.5TB Seagate drives. Except that according to Seagate, the known problem with this series "does not result in data loss nor does it impact the reliability of the drive". Additionally, the "known problem" was for firmware versions SD15, SD17 & SD18. Did Mr. Newman have the "intellectual rigor" to check if the tested drives were having one of the affected firmware versions?
The same guys that decided to run java on such systems?
Justin is famous for "looking cute", his singing alone wouldn't have brought him this far.
So if you can't explain it through a shortage of natural gas, you're now trying to blame it on a shortage of iron pipe? You're winging it, there's no shortage of iron either. So we have the resources and the demand, yet the "invisible hand" failed to connect them? where's your "econ 101" when you need it?
Mhhh... can someone confirm that the Beta is nothing but some form of punishment for the Anonymous Cowards....
And we just gave you an additional 10% discount by lowering the CAD/USD exchange ratio to 0.9.... would you say "no" to such deal....???
You either must have worked for some really nice organizations or this was a long time ago... What I see these days are IT Depts starved to death by "cost cuts" initiatives to the point that they can offer only the bare minimum level of support.
A typical scenario these days would be that the level 1 guy is located offshore and all he does is to capture whatever you're telling him over the phone, using the enterprise ticket management system; then assign it to the proper queue and give you a ticket nr. Then someone else gets to look at the ticket; if it's a question about how to use a particular function in a particular application, he will decide that you need more training and close the ticket with some "user error" resolution. Otherwise he will try to decide if the the problem affects just your workstation or if it is a company wide issue. In the first case, they'll get your workstation re-imaged - no one has the time and resources these days to hunt individual obscure corruptions of Windows registry or similar stuff. If it affects more than one user, then and only then there will be some further investigation.
Yes, it's all like in the good old Bastard Operator from Hell stories. All caused by "profit maximizing" aka "cost cuts".
This ain't any "Econ 101" "supply & demand" thing. There's plenty of natural gas around to the extent that it just get wasted:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/breakthrough/gas-flaring-on-the-rise-despite-environmental-and-health-concerns/article14088342/
The "invisible hand" you're mentioning is just the natural resources trading firms that saw an opportunity to increase their markup for the supplementary quantities. If you want to bring it to "econ 101" then it would be a failure of the markets due to insufficient competition in the trading sector. Anyway if anyone here still believes in "econ 101" fairy tales I would recommend reading Steve Keen's "Debunking Economics".
If you're manning the help desk, MSO is just one of the standard corporate apps. You don't need to understand how to exactly use it to the last detail/function or be proficient at it. That would be the users' concern. Your concern will be to check if MSO is installed and able to start/work on the user's workstation. If not, you'll schedule an installation or re-imaging of the workstation.
How did this get transformed again into a discussion about Office... if these young gentlemen are preparing themselves for an IT career, Office is as relevant as eyes on a tapeworm... we could as well discuss Photoshop or some video editing package...
In "Enterprise IT" most of your communication will be done through e-mail or a ticket management system... you may have to read some documentation in PDF format... or WORD but guess what... it will be some text about application footprint/interfaces/configuration that needs no special formatting whatsoever and could be done as well in Notepad or vi.... you may also have the odd XCEL file with a list of servers/datacenter location/patches to be applied (where the only usefulness of Xcel is to enable you to sort the list by various columns)... and the yearly Powerpoint document from HR describing changes to your healthcare / pension plan... and that's all folks, so once again... Why was Office brought into this discussion?
I remember the choir of economists praising the virtues of "carbon credits" until everybody noticed that it was all about creating the opportunity for some "investment banking" firms to act as clearinghouses for such "credits" and make a hefty profit out of nothing. I'm wondering if this isn't something similar. Complete with some "high frequency trading" schemes. Remember, this is not some surgeons publishing in a medical journal. It's "economists" airing in WSJ.
The WD does indeed play almost every format, and for the odd files, there's handbrake to help converting them to something that works. A Haswell Quick Sync capable graphics chip (e.g 4600) will make short work of any transcoding job - hours of waiting become minutes.
Agreed. If you're genuinely interested in people's input, you organize a referendum. Anything else is pretty much a joke.
Please define "value" first. Otherwise it's one of those never ending "is it good for the economy?" debates, where everyone has his own definition of "good", "economy", and what they mean when used together.
Quick fix: in glorious MS tradition rename the site My Healthcare.net Now since few people would be able to figure out how to deal with the space in the website name, the congestion issue will be taken care of.