The $12m is just for the planning. They originally though $8 million would be enough but it wasn't. The UW payroll system (really HR system) has to take care of around 60,00 employees at several campuses plus county extension branches. There are all sorts of job descriptions with different contracts, vacation, sick leave, seniority, retirement plans, insurance, etc.
The previous failure was an embarassment and some reporter figured they could stir up some trouble by making a big deal out of this. It's better that they get all the processes sorted out before they start writing custom code.
I understand the temptation to try something new. I've wanted to do something in Rails but haven't had the time. Also, I've grown suspicious of frameworks in general. A lot of people swear by Struts, Spring, Rails, Grails, etc. I think frameworks can make easy things dead simple but hard things almost impossible. I do all my web apps as hand rolled MVC using servlets and JSPs. I've never coded myself into a corner with that.
I've been roasting my own coffee for five years and I can say with certainty that coffee is best after it has rested a day or two. The sweet spot seems to be from 2-7 days after a roast. Then it starts to dull. Depending on the bean, it may still be drinkable at 10-14 days after the roast. After that, it's good compost.
A darker roast doesn't seem to need as much rest time as a lighter roast. I think that the oxidation process can improve a too bright bean. That's why a lighter roaster tastes better 1-2 days later.
As for the whole religious war over origins, tastes vary. I've had really good JBM but it's not worth $30/lb to me.
Admittedly, I'd prefer not to go back to ForTran but if it was the only tool available, I'd just get to it.
About half of my job requires programming in Java which is, IMNSHO, the worst programming language evar (except maybe COBOL). If I can deal with that, ForTran would be no problem.
As far as the capabilities of VB, I haven't used it for a long time but it was pretty powerful and had the virtue of some pretty in-depth help files. I got started programming (professionally) with Access and VBA in the antediluvian mid 90s. I was able to learn it on the job and write some usable apps with it. I don't hate VB but it's not a serious option since I only use linux.
Wired has TWO more subscribers, at least. Their decision to publish the AT&T materials plus the fact that they have good content convinced me to subscribe.
Seriously, I know there are bad people in the world. I really have to ask, though, how many child predators and pornographers are there? It seems everything is about stopping child pornography and people who prey on children. Just how prevalent is this?
I have to wonder if politicians are creating bogeys so they can take more control. Video games are making kids violent so we have to control them. The fact that there's no evidence for it is just a technicality. This intarweb thing makes kids vulnerable to perverts. Let's pass some unenforceable law so it looks like we care about kids. That way they won't notice us lining our pockets with PAC money.
Okay, I'm probably being cynical. I'm sure the people in Washington have everyone's best interests at heart.
I like the 2.6 kernel over the 2.4 kernel because I can play MP3s and Oggs without skips every time I refocus the window.
On the down side, I'm running Ubuntu 5.04 on a Sony S270 laptop. I use the 2.6.11 when I want sound to work at all and 2.6.10 when I want my touch pad to work right. I've tried a couple of custom compiles of 2.6.10 and 2.6.11 but haven't gotten either to work right yet.
Ditto. I loved the original Shenmue on Dreamcast and Shenmue II on Xbox. A Shenmue III title would motivate me to buy whichever next gen console it came out for. I'd like to see it on Xbox 360 but I'd buy a PS3 if necessary.
Jim
I roast my own coffee beans. Coffee has been around since the Dark ages and known in the West since the Renaissance so it's not really ancient. Besides, everyone roasted coffee until the late 19th century. It didn't come in cans until then. Still, it predates electronics and such. (As far as we know...)
The Dell you are trying to sync with may be part of the problem. In the last few years I've lost respect for Dell due to their use of random hardware and chips. The are the new Gateway. I've never been able to mount my MP3 player on my work machine which is a Dell. I've had no problem with a cheap HP, an old Micron or a newer Shuttle. I think the USB ports are too flaky to be fully supported under linux on the Dells.
...but the total value of the company is unchanged. The company is just transferring equity from one group of investors to another.
That's not precisely true. The value of the company IS the shareholder equity. Equity, aka capital = assets - liabilities. (Accounting 101)
Prior to an exercise of options, the company has a pool of its own stock which is an asset. When the exercise takes place, that asset is diminished but the company receives cash. The company's total assets are reduced by the difference between the strike price and the current share price. Therefore that difference should be listed as a liability and booked as an expense at the time of the exercise.
I'm a recent convert to Python but do most of my development in Perl (mainly because of its ubiquity). I work really hard at writing clean code but it can still be a nightmare to come back to six months or a year down the road.
The only gotchas I've noticed with SuSE (and Mandrake) is that they tend to have ALSA sound drivers as the default. I guess those have gotten a lot better in recent years but it used to be a big hassle to get them working and that was if your card/chipset was supported. The ALSA drivers should be technically superior to the free OSS drivers but you should check to be sure your card is supported.
Another gotcha, if you choose to run KDE is artsd. I won't even attempt to explain it because I'm bound to say something inflammatory.
On the good side, SuSE has always been strong in XFree86 support. I think they still have developers contributing to whatever form of the project is still going. I remember having to get XFree86 from SuSE to run on my RedHat 5.0 box because they had the only support for my Diamond Viper card.
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The $12m is just for the planning. They originally though $8 million would be enough but it wasn't. The UW payroll system (really HR system) has to take care of around 60,00 employees at several campuses plus county extension branches. There are all sorts of job descriptions with different contracts, vacation, sick leave, seniority, retirement plans, insurance, etc. The previous failure was an embarassment and some reporter figured they could stir up some trouble by making a big deal out of this. It's better that they get all the processes sorted out before they start writing custom code.
I understand the temptation to try something new. I've wanted to do something in Rails but haven't had the time. Also, I've grown suspicious of frameworks in general. A lot of people swear by Struts, Spring, Rails, Grails, etc. I think frameworks can make easy things dead simple but hard things almost impossible. I do all my web apps as hand rolled MVC using servlets and JSPs. I've never coded myself into a corner with that.
I've been roasting my own coffee for five years and I can say with certainty that coffee is best after it has rested a day or two. The sweet spot seems to be from 2-7 days after a roast. Then it starts to dull. Depending on the bean, it may still be drinkable at 10-14 days after the roast. After that, it's good compost.
A darker roast doesn't seem to need as much rest time as a lighter roast. I think that the oxidation process can improve a too bright bean. That's why a lighter roaster tastes better 1-2 days later.
As for the whole religious war over origins, tastes vary. I've had really good JBM but it's not worth $30/lb to me.
Jim
For Java programming, I use FindBugs. I mostly use it through an Eclipse plugin.
Admittedly, I'd prefer not to go back to ForTran but if it was the only tool available, I'd just get to it.
About half of my job requires programming in Java which is, IMNSHO, the worst programming language evar (except maybe COBOL). If I can deal with that, ForTran would be no problem.
As far as the capabilities of VB, I haven't used it for a long time but it was pretty powerful and had the virtue of some pretty in-depth help files. I got started programming (professionally) with Access and VBA in the antediluvian mid 90s. I was able to learn it on the job and write some usable apps with it. I don't hate VB but it's not a serious option since I only use linux.
Eclipse does that.
:set ts=4
I don't know what the big deal is, just
Wired has TWO more subscribers, at least. Their decision to publish the AT&T materials plus the fact that they have good content convinced me to subscribe.
And why is AT&T so upset. If they have nothing to hide....
I didn't before. :(
Seriously, I know there are bad people in the world. I really have to ask, though, how many child predators and pornographers are there? It seems everything is about stopping child pornography and people who prey on children. Just how prevalent is this?
I have to wonder if politicians are creating bogeys so they can take more control. Video games are making kids violent so we have to control them. The fact that there's no evidence for it is just a technicality. This intarweb thing makes kids vulnerable to perverts. Let's pass some unenforceable law so it looks like we care about kids. That way they won't notice us lining our pockets with PAC money.
Okay, I'm probably being cynical. I'm sure the people in Washington have everyone's best interests at heart.
I like the 2.6 kernel over the 2.4 kernel because I can play MP3s and Oggs without skips every time I refocus the window.
On the down side, I'm running Ubuntu 5.04 on a Sony S270 laptop. I use the 2.6.11 when I want sound to work at all and 2.6.10 when I want my touch pad to work right. I've tried a couple of custom compiles of 2.6.10 and 2.6.11 but haven't gotten either to work right yet.
Jim
Ditto. I loved the original Shenmue on Dreamcast and Shenmue II on Xbox. A Shenmue III title would motivate me to buy whichever next gen console it came out for. I'd like to see it on Xbox 360 but I'd buy a PS3 if necessary. Jim
I roast my own coffee beans. Coffee has been around since the Dark ages and known in the West since the Renaissance so it's not really ancient. Besides, everyone roasted coffee until the late 19th century. It didn't come in cans until then. Still, it predates electronics and such. (As far as we know ...)
Jim
I thought it needed the "obvious" tag.
Finally, the end of the Republican party is in sight.
The Dell you are trying to sync with may be part of the problem. In the last few years I've lost respect for Dell due to their use of random hardware and chips. The are the new Gateway. I've never been able to mount my MP3 player on my work machine which is a Dell. I've had no problem with a cheap HP, an old Micron or a newer Shuttle. I think the USB ports are too flaky to be fully supported under linux on the Dells.
Just my $0.02, YMMV, etc.
Charles Forte didn't live to see this. He would have loved it.
d'oh!
Too bad I don't mod any more. I would have modded this up. I would have been torn between 'funny' and 'informative'.
Now I'm waiting for news about flame spurts and ROUSs.
Prior to an exercise of options, the company has a pool of its own stock which is an asset. When the exercise takes place, that asset is diminished but the company receives cash. The company's total assets are reduced by the difference between the strike price and the current share price. Therefore that difference should be listed as a liability and booked as an expense at the time of the exercise.
I'm a recent convert to Python but do most of my development in Perl (mainly because of its ubiquity). I work really hard at writing clean code but it can still be a nightmare to come back to six months or a year down the road.
It is a WinZip vulnerability in the same way a castle wall is vulnerable to a battering ram.
The only gotchas I've noticed with SuSE (and Mandrake) is that they tend to have ALSA sound drivers as the default. I guess those have gotten a lot better in recent years but it used to be a big hassle to get them working and that was if your card /chipset was supported. The ALSA drivers should be technically superior to the free OSS drivers but you should check to be sure your card is supported.
Another gotcha, if you choose to run KDE is artsd. I won't even attempt to explain it because I'm bound to say something inflammatory.
On the good side, SuSE has always been strong in XFree86 support. I think they still have developers contributing to whatever form of the project is still going. I remember having to get XFree86 from SuSE to run on my RedHat 5.0 box because they had the only support for my Diamond Viper card.
Luckily FreeBSD comes with perl so you can do this:
/usr/ports/vanished-letters
cd
CMD=`perl -e 'print chr(155), "ake";'
$CMD
Now if I can just figure out a groovy perl one-liner to get java.