Microsoft is remarkably family friendly, compared to other tech companies (including Google). If you ever plan on actually having a family, or if your current employer does not give a shit if you ever see your children, Microsoft is a great place to work.
Nice. He won't even have to learn Russian. I heard that's a requirement on the ISS - to know at least a few basic phrases. And seeing that he holds an advanced degree, he won't have any trouble doing the actual work, which is another requirement. And he's not very heavy.
The concept of program manager is the single most fucked up aspect of Microsoft culture, IMO. Basically, the assumption is that developers can not, on a fundamental level:
1. Talk to each other directly 2. Understand what the customer needs 3. Deliver software on time
Anyone with any brain at all sees immediately that all three assumptions are pure bovine excrement, but there's a large layer of well entrenched PM's at Microsoft, up to about 30% of each product team. 95% of these folks do absolutely nothing but (mis)communicate, hold meetings, "manage releases" (whatever the heck that means) and manage up. The remaining 5% are worth their weight in rare earth metals, but they're a tiny minority and they would be better used in a position of authority, like a Project Manager. Program manger has no reports and no authority over either development or test. Oftentimes they have no specialized education and no area expertise. They are randomly assigned to "areas" and told to "spec them out". Most of them even have to design UI, despite not having any usability or UI design experience (I'm sure that explains a lot). So they throw together a primitive spec, and the developer (who is typically an area expert) then spends a lot of time trying to politely explain how big a pile of flaming poo their spec is and why certain things need to be done differently to be even possible.
The worst part is, PM role is typically considered something of a fast track to management. So you end up with a lot of people who have not a slightest idea what they're talking about making strategic decisions.
So I say, let them have it. The rest of the world will just assume that their developers and testers have a brain. Seems to be a pretty safe assumption to make, most of the time.
... (like they did with Android) and roll their own office suite. The first versions don't have to be terribly sophisticated. OO.org is a writeoff at this point I'm afraid. It's slow, bloated, buggy and annoyingly incompatible (nothing major, just an occasional incompatibility here and there). This new suite should focus squarely on online, maybe considering offline story more as a V2 feature.
Guess what, Russia still has enough nukes to sterilize the planet, chemical, biological and more recently space weapons and a huge conventional army. And it doesn't do what the US tells it to do anymore. A little bit of a propaganda campaign on TV and the populace will be just about as rabid about it as it was back then.
>> To build a cluster of processors with the same >> data-handling capacity of a human brain today >> is well within the range of a mid-size research grant
Nope. The brain is hundred billion neurons, connected by 100 trillion synapses. Sure the "clock frequency" is very low, but even taking this into account, those figures far exceed what could be built with today's technology. Not to mention that scientists today have absolutely no clue how major parts of the brain work, so even if hardware was available, it'd take decades of tinkering to get anything reasonable running on it.
I've never seen a VP who knows anything about what he's overseeing. So he caught some general phrases from his engineers and put them on the blog. Scientists' posts would be much more interesting.
You can't post a video with two people having consentual sex. Yet you can post videos showing violence, inciting hatred and bragging about terrorist attacks.
Personally, I think that if we allow terrorist videos, then at the very least pr0n should be allowed, too.:-)
Just think how much of a boon this is for microsurgeons - folks who stitch together nerves, small blood vessels, etc. Hand tremor and even its inherent precision is no longer an issue. Plus, you can have more than two "hands". This will only get better, and eventually we'll probably see minor surgeries performed without any human intervention.
If only their product name didn't have the exclamation mark in it, and their logo didn't look like a knot made out of condoms, they'd see much better uptake.:-)
I grew up in a town near a military airbase, so I remember sonic booms pretty well, because I heard them at least a few times a week. Sonic booms always came in pairs. They kind of sound like if someone strikes a giant drum with those thick Japanese drumsticks. It made the glass in our windows rattle a bit.
Full, unlimited PDF capabilities - my primary use for it would be to read scientific papers Decent support of Unicode Larger screen - sorry, folks, 8 inches is not gonna get me excited Querty keyboard and built in search capabilities
Unfortunately, there's no device that would satisfy all four requirements, which is why they didn't get my money.
Just be aware, that you'll have to learn to walk again when you're done. I had to spend about 10 days in bed once after a surgery, and guess what, I had to learn to walk again. I just could not do it; in fact even sitting up felt really weird.
Some of the "inexpensive" laptops are $600! For a bit over that amount you can get a full blown laptop with larger screen and hard drive, higher resolution and more comfortable keyboard. What am I missing here?
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Microsoft is remarkably family friendly, compared to other tech companies (including Google). If you ever plan on actually having a family, or if your current employer does not give a shit if you ever see your children, Microsoft is a great place to work.
That sort of was my point. Although he probably considers himself Jewish.
Nice. He won't even have to learn Russian. I heard that's a requirement on the ISS - to know at least a few basic phrases. And seeing that he holds an advanced degree, he won't have any trouble doing the actual work, which is another requirement. And he's not very heavy.
Sounds like it's for "friends and family of Sprint employees" only.
The concept of program manager is the single most fucked up aspect of Microsoft culture, IMO. Basically, the assumption is that developers can not, on a fundamental level:
1. Talk to each other directly
2. Understand what the customer needs
3. Deliver software on time
Anyone with any brain at all sees immediately that all three assumptions are pure bovine excrement, but there's a large layer of well entrenched PM's at Microsoft, up to about 30% of each product team. 95% of these folks do absolutely nothing but (mis)communicate, hold meetings, "manage releases" (whatever the heck that means) and manage up. The remaining 5% are worth their weight in rare earth metals, but they're a tiny minority and they would be better used in a position of authority, like a Project Manager. Program manger has no reports and no authority over either development or test. Oftentimes they have no specialized education and no area expertise. They are randomly assigned to "areas" and told to "spec them out". Most of them even have to design UI, despite not having any usability or UI design experience (I'm sure that explains a lot). So they throw together a primitive spec, and the developer (who is typically an area expert) then spends a lot of time trying to politely explain how big a pile of flaming poo their spec is and why certain things need to be done differently to be even possible.
The worst part is, PM role is typically considered something of a fast track to management. So you end up with a lot of people who have not a slightest idea what they're talking about making strategic decisions.
So I say, let them have it. The rest of the world will just assume that their developers and testers have a brain. Seems to be a pretty safe assumption to make, most of the time.
... (like they did with Android) and roll their own office suite. The first versions don't have to be terribly sophisticated. OO.org is a writeoff at this point I'm afraid. It's slow, bloated, buggy and annoyingly incompatible (nothing major, just an occasional incompatibility here and there). This new suite should focus squarely on online, maybe considering offline story more as a V2 feature.
Guess what, Russia still has enough nukes to sterilize the planet, chemical, biological and more recently space weapons and a huge conventional army. And it doesn't do what the US tells it to do anymore. A little bit of a propaganda campaign on TV and the populace will be just about as rabid about it as it was back then.
>> To build a cluster of processors with the same
>> data-handling capacity of a human brain today
>> is well within the range of a mid-size research grant
Nope. The brain is hundred billion neurons, connected by 100 trillion synapses. Sure the "clock frequency" is very low, but even taking this into account, those figures far exceed what could be built with today's technology. Not to mention that scientists today have absolutely no clue how major parts of the brain work, so even if hardware was available, it'd take decades of tinkering to get anything reasonable running on it.
Now they're VPs. He probably hasn't seen any code and hasn't read any whitepapers in the last decade.
I've never seen a VP who knows anything about what he's overseeing. So he caught some general phrases from his engineers and put them on the blog. Scientists' posts would be much more interesting.
Nice links there. I was wondering if you have an idea on where to get bargain basement priced DSP boards for audio. Mono 24 bit I/O is enough.
You can't post a video with two people having consentual sex. Yet you can post videos showing violence, inciting hatred and bragging about terrorist attacks.
:-)
Personally, I think that if we allow terrorist videos, then at the very least pr0n should be allowed, too.
It's a boon for both. Microsurgeons will make fewer mistakes and be able to perform more complex operations.
Because for them it's Yahoo mail or AOL Mail or Hotmail.
Just think how much of a boon this is for microsurgeons - folks who stitch together nerves, small blood vessels, etc. Hand tremor and even its inherent precision is no longer an issue. Plus, you can have more than two "hands". This will only get better, and eventually we'll probably see minor surgeries performed without any human intervention.
>> prohibiting digital alteration of an innocent image of a
>> child so that sexually explicit activity is instead depicted.
http://www.stumbleupon.com/tag/pedobear/
If only their product name didn't have the exclamation mark in it, and their logo didn't look like a knot made out of condoms, they'd see much better uptake. :-)
If he's looking to create wealth, he needs to be looking for an African Warren Buffet.
It either returns garbage or "your request can not be understood".
I grew up in a town near a military airbase, so I remember sonic booms pretty well, because I heard them at least a few times a week. Sonic booms always came in pairs. They kind of sound like if someone strikes a giant drum with those thick Japanese drumsticks. It made the glass in our windows rattle a bit.
Seriously. The verb is "naebat'" which means "to fuck over".
Full, unlimited PDF capabilities - my primary use for it would be to read scientific papers
Decent support of Unicode
Larger screen - sorry, folks, 8 inches is not gonna get me excited
Querty keyboard and built in search capabilities
Unfortunately, there's no device that would satisfy all four requirements, which is why they didn't get my money.
That's not about the muscles. Vestibular system gets screwed up very quickly if you don't use it.
Just be aware, that you'll have to learn to walk again when you're done. I had to spend about 10 days in bed once after a surgery, and guess what, I had to learn to walk again. I just could not do it; in fact even sitting up felt really weird.
Some of the "inexpensive" laptops are $600! For a bit over that amount you can get a full blown laptop with larger screen and hard drive, higher resolution and more comfortable keyboard. What am I missing here?