What metrics will tell you that someone is doing good work?
Suppose I mostly review other people's code and make suggestions for improvement, answer lots of random questions about obscure corners of various specifications, work on really tricky bugs that take a long time to track down, look at upcoming roadmaps and figure out how they're going to affect us, etc.. What objective metric do you use to measure my performance? Lines of code submitted doesn't work, bug closure rate doesn't work--there is no simple numerical statistic to measure.
Well, if it was a programmer I was trying to measure I think I'd start with some combination of output and quality. Does the person meet deadlines consistently? How many bugs requiring rework are found etc. Combine them to develop a metric and refine the metric over time as best you can. Determine good ways to measure performance is one of the functions of a manager. Or you could have a bad manager that just rates employees on how much he likes them. If that's the case it's in the employees best interest to kiss ass rather than do a good job. Basically, your manager should be defining clear and measurable objectives. The measurements get used to rank and reward employees. If it's the latter, hopefully the director will eventually become aware and do the needful.
Later you can add metrics for how many times the employee used the correct cover sheets on their TPS reports.
Pfft. Everyone on any given team knows who is good and who is dead weight. Listen to people, and make appropriate decisions. Yes, metrics are good to show improvement over time, but a weak, immature and cowardly way to identify poor performers.
Or you could just generate metrics that do a better job of showing who is good and who is dead weight. If you have accurate metrics, there is no need for a debate on the topic.
(OTOH, I find it hilarious that I get more calls when I declare my race as "Other" (as though the HR machinery seems to completely ignore the fact that I put "Human" in the descriptor field. Go figure.)
I changed mine to Asian since I was born in the Philippines (albeit to white parents stationed there). I did it because I overheard an executive director at my firm tell managers that minorities and women were off limits when selecting folks for an impending layoff.
How would you go about protecting against this sort of attack?
To answer you though, I don't think you can. A shooter with a.50 cal rifle and maybe some explosive ammo could definitely hit an airplane at that distance. I think I read an article about some serviceman in iraq shooting a much smaller target (person) over a mile away once. I'm sure in 10 or 15 minutes time you could think of 10 things of greater concern.
If I were a gambling man, I'd wager on your second choice.
"Currently paying for Skype premium to do multiuser video chat."
You wouldn't need Jitsi or Skype to do that if you were on a Mac.
Facetime only workie on mac. Jitsi and Skype work on pretty much everything, PC (macos/linux/osx), mobile (android/ios)... If I were on mac I'd still have the same dilemma. I gave up on proprietary software about 10 years ago, and now only use it when there is no other choice.
I'm interested. Currently paying for Skype premium to do multiuser video chat. Does anyone know if this product does 1080p streams in multiuser? Skype only does it when one on one, but drops down to SD in multiuser mode.
I can't check the features list because it appears the jitsi site has been slashdotted.
So Daniel Craig walks up to this scanner and is greeted by a female voice that goes, "Good morning, Mr. Nicholson. We have detected that you are about to commit a felony. We strongly urge you to reconsider."
Or, "Good morning, Mr. Nicholson. Please enjoy this taser shock before our agents perform a body cavity search".
I have the 30" center and a 19" on each side, but I've only ever gamed on the middle monitor. I don't think I've ever even played a game that was capable of multi-monitor. And, like you, I have an older setup.
I've also got a 30" center, but two 22" side monitors. I only game on the 30". If you've got the nvidia surround setup the games don't need to be capable, The drivers tell the OS that you really have one monitor with an extremely wide resolution. It won't work right (or at all?) with different resolutions on the three monitors. There are a few games that actually do support multi monitor (MS Flight Simulator) but they are few and far between.
Trust is something that has to be earned. You can't "design" a trustworthy robot. You have to design robots and get them into the field. Over time, people will either develop trust or solidify their distrust based on interactions with the robots. It seems silly to me that a company would consider the appearance of a robot to be the primary factor in building trust.
Given that the most read sectors probably contain parts of your OS and pagefile, and considering the size of a modern OS and the size of a modern game, you really expect there its likely with only 8GB that the sectors containing your game will end up on it? Its not impossible, but I know several games that have more than 8GB of content in and of themselves.
The write cache is probably a good thing, but I wouldn't expect gamers to see much performance on the read side of things with one of these. Much better off going with a discrete SSD or a more traditional hybrid setup.
Given the price, and the price of the 3rd gen crucial/micron ssd's due out this month I'd say this isn't a gamer product. This is a value/low end product.
A Parrot AR drone always stays within wifi range of its operator, and has an altimeter to ensure it never goes higher than 350 feet.
Nah, go check their forums. There's more than a few reports there of users whose' drones mysteriously took off and disappeared into the sky. I don't think anyone really knows what happened because they don't end up recovering the device afterward. Also, you can turn off that altitude limit right in the standard software.
...or any number of other manufacturers/models. There's hundreds of them these days.
The parrot has some software glitches that sometimes cause the thing to just take off and disappear into the sky when flying. The only reason I think it's unlikely to be a parrot is that the battery life on them is far to short to get up that high.
And it's a black helicopter, so it's probably NSA. No word about it being equipped with mind control lasers though.
Small black quadcopters are available to the public for next to nothing. The multi million dollar NSA units are probably the size of a bug, and armed with missiles in case they encounter a subversive type.
That's called FPV, If you want it to be a drone you need autonomous flight system.
The ar.drone has an onboard mips processor running linux. It comes out of the box with autonomous capability, which can easily be extended for longer programmed flights.
I don't think somthing that's a "toy" like an AR.Drone even has enough wireless range for that height. Standard RC equipment might let you fly that far, but bectoo small to see.... Clearly this is somebody that knows where they were flying to cause trouble.
You can program the onboard computer for a set flight path very easily. Could have been what this is. Also, replacing the control mechanism and flying using the cameras is becoming more common.
Wouldn't it make more sense to use a system with a larger width lens to gather and capture more photons to increase the ability to get imagery in low-light conditions? Funnel more photons captured with a larger lens onto the same focal plane: more photons come onto the same pixel areas, leading to higher signal levels for the same stop and exposure time, right?
Kind of amazing that microsoft has had the nerve to go after Google's privacy practices, when its own regarding Bing generally arent as good. AFAIK Bing / MS Mail (whatever its called now) has historically scanned email in the same way as google, and the whole point of Bing is to datamine for advertising.
Huh? This case shows the exact opposite. The auditor found the problem. Cisco is now offering to make it right. Without that auditor it wouldn't be happening. I'd say the auditor saving the state 8 million bucks justifies having an auditor for the next few hundred years.
Aren't they protected from liability as long as they act as "dumb pipes"? Doesn't his mean they are opening themselves up for liability? Yeah, I understand the ones that own media companies but what about the rest? Seems like a way to lose customers is all.
Everyone should draw a crappy picture in paint, host it on something free like google sites, and spread links that bring people to a second page that says "You don't have permission to click this link" with a link to the picture itself. Then bring copyright complaints to all the ISPs of all the people who inevitably click that and hence download your copyrighted crap without permission. Flood the fuckers.
They aren't going to be losing customers because in MOST markets there is no competition for a customer to choose. With very little risk to their market share they don't have a lot to lose.
Slashdot Mirror
Does that include the IP addresses of the 20 million visitors they will get over the next 48 hours for appearing on the Slashdot FP?
If I were a gambling man, my money would rest on "yes".
What metrics will tell you that someone is doing good work?
Suppose I mostly review other people's code and make suggestions for improvement, answer lots of random questions about obscure corners of various specifications, work on really tricky bugs that take a long time to track down, look at upcoming roadmaps and figure out how they're going to affect us, etc.. What objective metric do you use to measure my performance? Lines of code submitted doesn't work, bug closure rate doesn't work--there is no simple numerical statistic to measure.
Well, if it was a programmer I was trying to measure I think I'd start with some combination of output and quality. Does the person meet deadlines consistently? How many bugs requiring rework are found etc. Combine them to develop a metric and refine the metric over time as best you can. Determine good ways to measure performance is one of the functions of a manager. Or you could have a bad manager that just rates employees on how much he likes them. If that's the case it's in the employees best interest to kiss ass rather than do a good job. Basically, your manager should be defining clear and measurable objectives. The measurements get used to rank and reward employees.
If it's the latter, hopefully the director will eventually become aware and do the needful.
Later you can add metrics for how many times the employee used the correct cover sheets on their TPS reports.
Pfft. Everyone on any given team knows who is good and who is dead weight. Listen to people, and make appropriate decisions. Yes, metrics are good to show improvement over time, but a weak, immature and cowardly way to identify poor performers.
Or you could just generate metrics that do a better job of showing who is good and who is dead weight. If you have accurate metrics, there is no need for a debate on the topic.
We'll just start here...
(OTOH, I find it hilarious that I get more calls when I declare my race as "Other" (as though the HR machinery seems to completely ignore the fact that I put "Human" in the descriptor field. Go figure.)
I changed mine to Asian since I was born in the Philippines (albeit to white parents stationed there). I did it because I overheard an executive director at my firm tell managers that minorities and women were off limits when selecting folks for an impending layoff.
How would you go about protecting against this sort of attack?
To answer you though, I don't think you can. A shooter with a .50 cal rifle and maybe some explosive ammo could definitely hit an airplane at that distance. I think I read an article about some serviceman in iraq shooting a much smaller target (person) over a mile away once. I'm sure in 10 or 15 minutes time you could think of 10 things of greater concern.
If I were a gambling man, I'd wager on your second choice.
I was merely saying that I hope parrot addresses the problem GP mentioned...
(macos/linux/osx) lol.. windows/linux/osx
"Currently paying for Skype premium to do multiuser video chat."
You wouldn't need Jitsi or Skype to do that if you were on a Mac.
Facetime only workie on mac. Jitsi and Skype work on pretty much everything, PC (macos/linux/osx), mobile (android/ios)... If I were on mac I'd still have the same dilemma. I gave up on proprietary software about 10 years ago, and now only use it when there is no other choice.
I'm interested. Currently paying for Skype premium to do multiuser video chat. Does anyone know if this product does 1080p streams in multiuser? Skype only does it when one on one, but drops down to SD in multiuser mode. I can't check the features list because it appears the jitsi site has been slashdotted.
So Daniel Craig walks up to this scanner and is greeted by a female voice that goes, "Good morning, Mr. Nicholson. We have detected that you are about to commit a felony. We strongly urge you to reconsider."
Or, "Good morning, Mr. Nicholson. Please enjoy this taser shock before our agents perform a body cavity search".
I have the 30" center and a 19" on each side, but I've only ever gamed on the middle monitor. I don't think I've ever even played a game that was capable of multi-monitor. And, like you, I have an older setup.
I've also got a 30" center, but two 22" side monitors. I only game on the 30". If you've got the nvidia surround setup the games don't need to be capable, The drivers tell the OS that you really have one monitor with an extremely wide resolution. It won't work right (or at all?) with different resolutions on the three monitors. There are a few games that actually do support multi monitor (MS Flight Simulator) but they are few and far between.
Trust is something that has to be earned. You can't "design" a trustworthy robot. You have to design robots and get them into the field. Over time, people will either develop trust or solidify their distrust based on interactions with the robots. It seems silly to me that a company would consider the appearance of a robot to be the primary factor in building trust.
True it could have been a runaway AR.Drone. Those are about 2ft wide, the bodies have bright colors on them but they're black with the body removed.
Maybe Parrot will start taking the the runaway problems more seriously if that's the case.
We can only hope.
Given that the most read sectors probably contain parts of your OS and pagefile, and considering the size of a modern OS and the size of a modern game, you really expect there its likely with only 8GB that the sectors containing your game will end up on it? Its not impossible, but I know several games that have more than 8GB of content in and of themselves.
The write cache is probably a good thing, but I wouldn't expect gamers to see much performance on the read side of things with one of these. Much better off going with a discrete SSD or a more traditional hybrid setup.
Given the price, and the price of the 3rd gen crucial/micron ssd's due out this month I'd say this isn't a gamer product. This is a value/low end product.
A Parrot AR drone always stays within wifi range of its operator, and has an altimeter to ensure it never goes higher than 350 feet.
Nah, go check their forums. There's more than a few reports there of users whose' drones mysteriously took off and disappeared into the sky. I don't think anyone really knows what happened because they don't end up recovering the device afterward. Also, you can turn off that altitude limit right in the standard software.
...or any number of other manufacturers/models. There's hundreds of them these days.
The parrot has some software glitches that sometimes cause the thing to just take off and disappear into the sky when flying. The only reason I think it's unlikely to be a parrot is that the battery life on them is far to short to get up that high.
Why? If it was above and not inline with the wingtip vortices it should be fine. Even if it tumbled, 1800' is plenty for recovery.
Yep, and if it is an ar.drone the onboard AI will automatically handle the recovery for you.
And it's a black helicopter, so it's probably NSA. No word about it being equipped with mind control lasers though.
Small black quadcopters are available to the public for next to nothing. The multi million dollar NSA units are probably the size of a bug, and armed with missiles in case they encounter a subversive type.
That's called FPV, If you want it to be a drone you need autonomous flight system.
The ar.drone has an onboard mips processor running linux. It comes out of the box with autonomous capability, which can easily be extended for longer programmed flights.
I don't think somthing that's a "toy" like an AR.Drone even has enough wireless range for that height. Standard RC equipment might let you fly that far, but bectoo small to see.... Clearly this is somebody that knows where they were flying to cause trouble.
You can program the onboard computer for a set flight path very easily. Could have been what this is. Also, replacing the control mechanism and flying using the cameras is becoming more common.
Wouldn't it make more sense to use a system with a larger width lens to gather and capture more photons to increase the ability to get imagery in low-light conditions? Funnel more photons captured with a larger lens onto the same focal plane: more photons come onto the same pixel areas, leading to higher signal levels for the same stop and exposure time, right?
Why not do both?
the same thing MS does
The elephant in the room.
Kind of amazing that microsoft has had the nerve to go after Google's privacy practices, when its own regarding Bing generally arent as good. AFAIK Bing / MS Mail (whatever its called now) has historically scanned email in the same way as google, and the whole point of Bing is to datamine for advertising.
Bing Bing Bing! We have a winner! Related: http://media.fukung.net/images/3895/Pot%20Kettle%20Black.jpg
Huh? This case shows the exact opposite. The auditor found the problem. Cisco is now offering to make it right. Without that auditor it wouldn't be happening. I'd say the auditor saving the state 8 million bucks justifies having an auditor for the next few hundred years.
I use my high school yearbook to raise one of my monitors an inch.
Aren't they protected from liability as long as they act as "dumb pipes"? Doesn't his mean they are opening themselves up for liability? Yeah, I understand the ones that own media companies but what about the rest? Seems like a way to lose customers is all.
Everyone should draw a crappy picture in paint, host it on something free like google sites, and spread links that bring people to a second page that says "You don't have permission to click this link" with a link to the picture itself. Then bring copyright complaints to all the ISPs of all the people who inevitably click that and hence download your copyrighted crap without permission. Flood the fuckers.
They aren't going to be losing customers because in MOST markets there is no competition for a customer to choose. With very little risk to their market share they don't have a lot to lose.