It's the key to successful time management generally - whether you're a project manager or team member. If as an individual you are honest about how long it's going to take you to do stuff, you're helping the project manager by letting him know accurately how the project is doing, and helping yourself because you won't get all the chicken-sh*t stuff that isn't really necessary to do. The other key to good project and self-management is vision & focus - if you focus on the goals of the project, and prioritise accordingly, junking the stuff that doesn't help the project, you'll become more effective within that project.
It's not lack of technical knowledge that makes a good project manager, just management style. The received wisdom is that a technically clued PM will want to get personally involved in every aspect of the project & tend to just send people out as gophers - go do this, go do that, whereas a less technically clued one will leave how the developers work largely up to them and just present them with the target, timescale and reasoning behind the project so they buy into the project more & use their creativity together to make a better product. However, the connection between technical knowledge and management style is one of coincidence not one of actual cause & effect. A techy PM will be able to accurately scope a project & give a timescale estimate based on facts rather than expectations. If his management style is right, he should be able to get his team to produce a better project than one who knows little or nothing & expects miracles.
Still fewer people if they read that article. The DeCSS issue is not about piracy, though the plaintiffs would have you believe it is. CSS is broken routinely by every hardware DVD player that has been chipped. CSS determines regionality - it isn't an anti-piracy measure at all! It's about freedom to use *nix boxen to display the film instead of a Windoze box or DVD player.
I suspect it might be advisable to simply boycott channels that employ anti-copying technology. If it's less profitable for them to use the technology than to abandon it, they'll abandon it. As a British TV viewer I object to having to pay per view for certain sports events, on top of paying my TV license and cable subscriptions, so I simply don't watch pay-per-view. I think if they introduce anti-copying technology to the UK I will simply give up watching TV & save myself a stack of money.
Afghanistan hasn't declared war - Osama Bin Laden has. The Taliban, a small and despotic cult who have killed, raped, and tortured the Afghan population into an exhausted, terrified, maimed, orphaned group of destitutes, have refused to give Bin Laden up to the US. The majority of Afghans would welcome it if the US invaded and got rid of the Taliban. However, it looks more like the US will merely bomb the piles of rubble the Russians left behind, kill thousands of these starved and scared people, leaving the real villains untouched.
2 points - if 40% aren't white, then 60% are. And the Ring of Steel isn't solely on the lookout for Irish terrorists, or that in itself would be racist - what about ETA, Palestinian terrorists, Libyan bombers, or indeed anyone who is an enemy of our allies (which includes a lot of countries where the people aren't white)?
The trouble with this is that cameras do not deter most acts of violence. The media have created a society where women and old people are afraid to go out at night unless there are cameras, when statistically the people most likely to become victims of violence are young men between 15 and 30 years old. The kind of violence most often perpetrated against them is usually the result of drunk & disorderly behaviour, which a camera will not stop. If cameras are used as a substitute for police foot patrols there will end up being more violence, and a greater part of the population locked up in prison. Having a police van on the corner of the street is far more deterrent than a camera.
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It's the key to successful time management generally - whether you're a project manager or team member. If as an individual you are honest about how long it's going to take you to do stuff, you're helping the project manager by letting him know accurately how the project is doing, and helping yourself because you won't get all the chicken-sh*t stuff that isn't really necessary to do.
The other key to good project and self-management is vision & focus - if you focus on the goals of the project, and prioritise accordingly, junking the stuff that doesn't help the project, you'll become more effective within that project.
It's not lack of technical knowledge that makes a good project manager, just management style. The received wisdom is that a technically clued PM will want to get personally involved in every aspect of the project & tend to just send people out as gophers - go do this, go do that, whereas a less technically clued one will leave how the developers work largely up to them and just present them with the target, timescale and reasoning behind the project so they buy into the project more & use their creativity together to make a better product. However, the connection between technical knowledge and management style is one of coincidence not one of actual cause & effect. A techy PM will be able to accurately scope a project & give a timescale estimate based on facts rather than expectations. If his management style is right, he should be able to get his team to produce a better project than one who knows little or nothing & expects miracles.
Still fewer people if they read that article. The DeCSS issue is not about piracy, though the plaintiffs would have you believe it is. CSS is broken routinely by every hardware DVD player that has been chipped. CSS determines regionality - it isn't an anti-piracy measure at all! It's about freedom to use *nix boxen to display the film instead of a Windoze box or DVD player.
I suspect it might be advisable to simply boycott channels that employ anti-copying technology. If it's less profitable for them to use the technology than to abandon it, they'll abandon it. As a British TV viewer I object to having to pay per view for certain sports events, on top of paying my TV license and cable subscriptions, so I simply don't watch pay-per-view. I think if they introduce anti-copying technology to the UK I will simply give up watching TV & save myself a stack of money.
Afghanistan hasn't declared war - Osama Bin Laden has.
The Taliban, a small and despotic cult who have
killed, raped, and tortured the Afghan population
into an exhausted, terrified, maimed, orphaned
group of destitutes, have refused to give Bin Laden up to
the US. The majority of Afghans would welcome it
if the US invaded and got rid of the Taliban.
However, it looks more like the US will merely
bomb the piles of rubble the Russians left behind,
kill thousands of these starved and scared people, leaving the real villains untouched.
2 points - if 40% aren't white, then 60% are. And the Ring of Steel isn't solely on the lookout for Irish terrorists, or that in itself would be racist - what about ETA, Palestinian terrorists, Libyan bombers, or indeed anyone who is an enemy of our allies (which includes a lot of countries where the people aren't white)?
The trouble with this is that cameras do not deter most acts of violence. The media have created a society where women and old people are afraid to go out at night unless there are cameras, when statistically the people most likely to become victims of violence are young men between 15 and 30 years old. The kind of violence most often perpetrated against them is usually the result of drunk & disorderly behaviour, which a camera will not stop. If cameras are used as a substitute for police foot patrols there will end up being more violence, and a greater part of the population locked up in prison. Having a police van on the corner of the street is far more deterrent than a camera.
Erm, aren't Tierra del Fuego and Jo'burg on different tectonic plates, which are gradually moving apart? Can we say "Cracks and flooded tunnels"?