So engineers are roughly half as unemployed as compared to the whole country. Sounds like you need more of them.
Unemployment rate 4.5% is also approaching the viable minimum rate. It's just not possible to have a 0 percent unemployment rate since there are always people moving to different parts of country or somesuch. It's called frictional unemployment. So yeah, you need more.
He was, and he wasn't. If you specify a stop-start system when ordering a new car you also get a beefier battery automatically. The systems also monitor engine temperature and current running time and do not stop the engine if the engine hasn't been running continuously for at least 10 minutes after the start of the drive, or the engine temperature isn't high enough.
Facebook's killer app: baby pictures. The 50-something women - a demographic that is big, wealthy and hard to reach in the net - just love to see their grandkids, comment on how cute they are and share the pictures with their friends.
The obvious solution to this is to separate the distribution to a separate company, as in district heating. The power grid company already deals with hundreds of residencies and maintains the grid.
And if you are doing the infrastructure from scratch you can do trigeneration relatively cheaply for district cooling.
Cogeneration (or combined heat and power) can increase the efficiency of fossil fuel plants by a factor of 2 (from 50% to 93% efficiency mention in this Times article).
The downside is that the the piping infrastructure investment needed is huge. Maybe this data center powered heating scheme can give it a leg up.
And the usually unstated observation is that Finnish and most other European school systems have a much stronger tracking mechanism than U.S. schools--not in the sense of "knowing where the kids are," but in the sense of putting them into classes oriented towards universities or not, trade school or not, and such. As a result, kids at the lowest rungs aren't necessarily taking the tests if they've already left or enter vocational education, and the ones at the bottom aren't holding back the ones at the top.
That is just wrong regarding Finland. The WSJ article linked in the grandparent post specifies 15-year old students at excelling at international tests. In Finland that is 9th grade or final year of middle school. The first "tracking" happens after the 9th grade with the students enrolling in either "lukio" high schools or vocational schools. Up to the 9th grade there is little to none tracking of students based on their abilities. My personal opinion is that there should be somewhat more tracking. The current system allows the gifted students to cruise and does not challenge them because most of the teachers' effort will be in the low end of the bell curve.
disclaimer: I am a product of the Finnish educational system and my direct experience with it is about a decade old.
Can't you just generate your own root certificate, use it to sign all the web-app certs and then distribute your own root certificate to all the employees?
While RIM and Symbian are powerhouses from a corporate standpoint, they've never had the crossover attraction that Palm had and WinCE has to a lesser degree -- lots of useful third-party apps that make you want to carry it with you in your personal life, not just when your job tells you to.
Umm, what? The Symbian 3rd-party software ecosystem is quite healthy despite the somewhat draconian signing issues. Considering that at the moment you have to jailbreak your iPhone to get any meaningful amount of software into it, self-signing a symbian application (which I've never had to do, btw.) is quite insignificant.
Nokia Maps. Free but the routing and guiding functions have a subscription fee. Still, it can be a pretty good deal if you only need the routing stuff every once in a while. Maps are free and can be either downloaded beforehand or streamed to the phone while on the road.
Um, why would they do that? Why give up sales of almost 600 million dollars?
At the moment there are only two players in the mapping business, TeleAtlas and Navteq. TomTom recently bought TeleAtlas so why would Nokia just give up the whole market to them?
A my university we have a course called Software Project where the students form groups of ~7 people and go through a two semester project. The course is compulsory for Software Engineering majors and minors. The project topics are solicited from the laboratories and researchers of the university, as well as businesses. The businesses pay 3000 euros to the university for getting their project implemented so they actually have a stake at getting something out of the project. Clients also have to grade the project team from their own perspective. Course staff assigns mentors to teams and grades the teams from software engineering perspective.
Nowadays the students have to take the course twice, once in a developer/tester role and again as a project manager, architect or in another specialist role.
The course is actually one of the best in school and greatly benefits everyone: the students get real-world experience in long term project and the clients get a low-cost, good quality (usually) software solution.
The course overview
I would keep on quoting No Silver Bullet and expand onto the rest of the "complexity, conformity, changeability, and invisibility" mantra.
Especially the invisibility part is usually easy to grasp.
One textbook also made a comparison with a steel bridge: if the bridge crashes the damages are huge, if software crashes a boot can usually solve the situation temporarily. Also, civil engineers are rarely asked to move the almost completed bridge mile upriver and turn it 90 degrees by the lengthwise axis.
I see Creative Commons as a brand and a movement:
The movement is about encouraging others to share their stuff.
The brand is about convenience: I see the CC icons and I know instantly what I can do with the material. I don't have to read (as the author doesn't have to write) the specific license for each product.
You see, the problematic point is not so much that the little sticker on new machines is there to show that you have prepaid (hence adding to the price of new machines) BUT that all the old machines are levyed for a fee to recycle them.
Here in Finland the government decided to pay for the recycling of the old cars (in new cars the cost of recycling is added to the price). This was a very good move as first the junkyards started advertising free pickup service for the clunkers. At the moment they are actually paying good money to be allowed to take away they the carcass that's been littering the parking lot for the best part of 10 years because no one was willing to pay for the removal.
Of course the price of steel being what it is also helps.
My parliament group (Finnish conservatives) has been very co-operative and opposed the bill.
Quite weird actually, the supposedly pro-business right-wingers listening to their voters and actually doing something for the small guys while the anti-business socialists are very much pro-patents and don't even want to hear the other side of the issue.
My parliament group (Finnish conservatives) has been very co-operative and opposed the bill.
Quite weird actually, the supposedly pro-business right-wingers listening to their voters and actually doing something for the small guys while the anti-business socialists are very much pro-patents and don't even want to hear the other side of the issue.
iFS can manage all content -- which is scattered across PC desktops, document management systems, and websites -- in a single repository, he said. It supports the storage and management of more than 150 different file types, including documents created using XML.
My 90mm floppy disk with its FAT-12 filesystem can hold documents created using XML!
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So engineers are roughly half as unemployed as compared to the whole country. Sounds like you need more of them. Unemployment rate 4.5% is also approaching the viable minimum rate. It's just not possible to have a 0 percent unemployment rate since there are always people moving to different parts of country or somesuch. It's called frictional unemployment. So yeah, you need more.
He was, and he wasn't. If you specify a stop-start system when ordering a new car you also get a beefier battery automatically. The systems also monitor engine temperature and current running time and do not stop the engine if the engine hasn't been running continuously for at least 10 minutes after the start of the drive, or the engine temperature isn't high enough.
Facebook's killer app: baby pictures. The 50-something women - a demographic that is big, wealthy and hard to reach in the net - just love to see their grandkids, comment on how cute they are and share the pictures with their friends.
Hillebrandt is not the only one claiming to have invented SMS. Another contender is Finnish Matti Makkonen
The obvious solution to this is to separate the distribution to a separate company, as in district heating. The power grid company already deals with hundreds of residencies and maintains the grid.
And if you are doing the infrastructure from scratch you can do trigeneration relatively cheaply for district cooling.
Cogeneration (or combined heat and power) can increase the efficiency of fossil fuel plants by a factor of 2 (from 50% to 93% efficiency mention in this Times article). The downside is that the the piping infrastructure investment needed is huge. Maybe this data center powered heating scheme can give it a leg up.
And the usually unstated observation is that Finnish and most other European school systems have a much stronger tracking mechanism than U.S. schools--not in the sense of "knowing where the kids are," but in the sense of putting them into classes oriented towards universities or not, trade school or not, and such. As a result, kids at the lowest rungs aren't necessarily taking the tests if they've already left or enter vocational education, and the ones at the bottom aren't holding back the ones at the top.
That is just wrong regarding Finland. The WSJ article linked in the grandparent post specifies 15-year old students at excelling at international tests. In Finland that is 9th grade or final year of middle school. The first "tracking" happens after the 9th grade with the students enrolling in either "lukio" high schools or vocational schools. Up to the 9th grade there is little to none tracking of students based on their abilities. My personal opinion is that there should be somewhat more tracking. The current system allows the gifted students to cruise and does not challenge them because most of the teachers' effort will be in the low end of the bell curve.
disclaimer: I am a product of the Finnish educational system and my direct experience with it is about a decade old.
Can't you just generate your own root certificate, use it to sign all the web-app certs and then distribute your own root certificate to all the employees?
While RIM and Symbian are powerhouses from a corporate standpoint, they've never had the crossover attraction that Palm had and WinCE has to a lesser degree -- lots of useful third-party apps that make you want to carry it with you in your personal life, not just when your job tells you to.
Umm, what? The Symbian 3rd-party software ecosystem is quite healthy despite the somewhat draconian signing issues. Considering that at the moment you have to jailbreak your iPhone to get any meaningful amount of software into it, self-signing a symbian application (which I've never had to do, btw.) is quite insignificant.I couldn't find the cost for Windows Mobile but for Symbian it's as low as $2.50 (used to be up to $7.25).
(from http://www.symbian.com/news/pr/2006/pr20063401.html)
Nokia Maps. Free but the routing and guiding functions have a subscription fee. Still, it can be a pretty good deal if you only need the routing stuff every once in a while. Maps are free and can be either downloaded beforehand or streamed to the phone while on the road.
Um, why would they do that? Why give up sales of almost 600 million dollars?
At the moment there are only two players in the mapping business, TeleAtlas and Navteq.
TomTom recently bought TeleAtlas so why would Nokia just give up the whole market to them?
Nowadays the students have to take the course twice, once in a developer/tester role and again as a project manager, architect or in another specialist role.
The course is actually one of the best in school and greatly benefits everyone: the students get real-world experience in long term project and the clients get a low-cost, good quality (usually) software solution. The course overview
I would keep on quoting No Silver Bullet and expand onto the rest of the "complexity, conformity, changeability, and invisibility" mantra.
Especially the invisibility part is usually easy to grasp.
One textbook also made a comparison with a steel bridge: if the bridge crashes the damages are huge, if software crashes a boot can usually solve the situation temporarily. Also, civil engineers are rarely asked to move the almost completed bridge mile upriver and turn it 90 degrees by the lengthwise axis.
Until recently I had JOBS job: Java, Oracle, Bea, Solaris
I see Creative Commons as a brand and a movement:
The movement is about encouraging others to share their stuff.
The brand is about convenience: I see the CC icons and I know instantly what I can do with the material. I don't have to read (as the author doesn't have to write) the specific license for each product.
And no, he didn't invent the layout either.
Here in Finland the government decided to pay for the recycling of the old cars (in new cars the cost of recycling is added to the price). This was a very good move as first the junkyards started advertising free pickup service for the clunkers. At the moment they are actually paying good money to be allowed to take away they the carcass that's been littering the parking lot for the best part of 10 years because no one was willing to pay for the removal.
Of course the price of steel being what it is also helps.
Do they talk about SmartPhone© users (MS) smartphone users (MS, Symbian et al) or smart phone users ie. ones that do remember to shut their phone down when going to theatre, can keep their voice low enough that the whole bus doesn't hear their conversation and do not keep their ringtone at maximum volume so that they can leave the phone at their desk while themselves being at the other end of the building
The default SMS received alert on Nokia phones has actually been S M S in Morse code for at least 10 years.
My parliament group (Finnish conservatives) has been very co-operative and opposed the bill. Quite weird actually, the supposedly pro-business right-wingers listening to their voters and actually doing something for the small guys while the anti-business socialists are very much pro-patents and don't even want to hear the other side of the issue.
Quite weird actually, the supposedly pro-business right-wingers listening to their voters and actually doing something for the small guys while the anti-business socialists are very much pro-patents and don't even want to hear the other side of the issue.
Bah, I already saw the Hale-Bopp. It's all been downhill since 1997.
Finland is at the very top and we educate every kid. Finland also had one of the smallest deviations in the stats.
iFS can manage all content -- which is scattered across PC desktops, document management systems, and websites -- in a single repository, he said. It supports the storage and management of more than 150 different file types, including documents created using XML.
My 90mm floppy disk with its FAT-12 filesystem can hold documents created using XML!