Once wrote a language for specifying state machines for communication software. Internally, I had decided to name every project after genera of opisthobranchs (sea slugs) that I had observed while scuba diving. I called the language and compiler Rostanga. Due to a lack of creativity in our marketing and executive talent, it never got renamed and the compiler shipped with that name.
I think there is a misunderstanding if you think this means employers don't owe for the time spent sleeping when on duty.
Emphasis mine:
...up to 8 hours of sleeping time can be
excluded from overtime compensation, if...
This is known as the exception that proves the rule. The fact that they are exempting sleep time from overtime implies that it is paid time.
Also note the conditions for exempting sleep time from overtime include:
(3) at least five hours of sleep are possible during the scheduled sleeping periods; and (4) interruptions to perform duties are considered time worked.
Twice I have received a free consult from two different lawyers through the referral service here in Austin, TX.
The first gave me two extremely useful pieces of advice:
The exact phrase to use in a FAX to the other party that would telegraph my intentions to his lawyer. The other party offered a full settlement with interest on the same day he received the FAX.
Not to use the consulting lawyer's firm if I had to go to court since his firm had a policy of not taking cases on contingency and this case was an excellent candidate for contingency since, if it went to court, it would be eligible for treble damages.
The second consult led to a half price deal to review some real estate documents. He made a one line change that disambiguated the exit conditions if I was not satisfied such that it would be clear that I would not owe money.
So, one free, one cheap, and both helpful. Lawyers aren't all bad.
I wonder if the authors of the study considered another possible effect? When I used to work in a research lab, 90+% of our references in papers came from a shared BibTeX database. A single error in entry of a paper we all read would naturally be propagated to anything we wrote. In addition to private citation libraries such as that one, there are a growing number of freely available (and possible error-filled) online citation sources. One could easily read the paper and still make the same error in citation as 77 other authors if one is using the same citation database. I read the New Scientist article and there is no indication that they considered this effect.
Rackspace does indeed rule. I run a machine for a non-profit called Knowbility, that hosts about 30 other non-profits. Rackspace is on the pricey side (which bothered me less when they were donating service in-kind, but is an impact on our budget now), but the support and uptime have been excellent. Every support call I've ever made, even the ones that were due to being moderately clueless (I picked up the site on short notice for a non-profit), has been solved rapidly and completely. Every question gets a complete answer on the first try. No ticket gets closed until I agree that the problem is solved.
We were running a remote event in California that involved building web sites that we were hosting at rackspace. While setting up the hosting late on a Friday night, one of our people managed to hose our VNC so we could no longer get in and also mess up the virtual hosting. Rackspace support walked us through fixing it so we could complete the competition without any major hassles.
Our current plan is to continue hosting there and convert our Windows server to Linux. Their charge for a basic Linux box is US$230/month with 30 GB (overage is US$3.50/GB).
Voice to text is related to text to voice because if you have both, then you have a voice only system: no keyboard, no monitor, just sound. It might be a cell phone operated hands free or it might be a computer configured for a blind user. The integration of the two technologies is a powerful combination, better than either alone. I've been wanting such a system for along time.
No, it's been one year since the last annual Leonid shower. However, it has been 33 years since the last peak of the shower, as the article said (emphasis mine):
approximately every 33 years the Leonid Meteor shower
becomes a breathtaking meteor storm
In other (perhaps better, perhaps not) words, although the shower comes every year, the peak comes every 33 years.
My experience is that a well though out mind map can be an effective first step. It is a great way to start thinking about what you want to say and do. I've used mind maps a number of times for the first pass at outlining a new idea or web site. I've never found them useful for the actual navigation. I find that people not used to mind maps find that style of navigation completely incomprehensible.
Do yourself a favor. Instead of a Mind Map, start thinking about what you want to say/do, what is most important, and if you have to draw, use a real graphical business system modeller, like Visio or Kivio.
This comment is somewhat ironic as Visio includes a Mind Map template that they recommend for use in creating outlines.
Umm, if you can't expand the acronyms on your own, are you really likely to have a good answer to the question?
DMTF
- Distributed Management Task Force. This link was in the article (and CIM and WBEM have quick links on the DMTF home) for those who read the article and were curious.
Years and years ago (1989 or 1990? I know I was using it in 1990), some folks at HP Labs created an X server that shared and transferred windows among different hosts. It was called SharedX and became a product. </p> <p> It was basically the hypothetical solutiond described by others: a virtual X server that allowed having the windows appear on multiple desktops. They went through a lot of agony to deal with different screen depths and worried about, but never solved, issues of gamma correction. </p> <p> It was a joy to use. I could share individual windows with other people and selectively grant input control to them. Although moving windows wasn't a target feature, it was available as a side effect. </p> <p> I searched for it recently and couldn't find any interesting web references. </p>
I find that the function and number type names are difficult to communicate and subject to change. Do you really want to rename all of the machines, or worse subdomains, just because of a system architecture or deployment change?
I go with completely unrelated themes. My personal favorite is phlya, genera, and species of interesting marine fauna. So, I used to have a subdomain filled with latin names of various sea slugs. Only downside of my particular choice was some people had trouble spelling gymnothorax or navanax. You might want something less obscure.
Use a different theme for each category of server if that helps you. If the category definitions change, you can still keep the names.
In the eyes of the IRS an activity can be "not-for-profit" if you are expecting revenue (e.g. I teach SCUBA), but not profit (I spend more on my own education, equipment, and dives for classes than I gross from the classes). See IRS pub 535 for more (http://www.irs.gov/prod/forms_pubs/pubs/p5350104. htm). In such an activity expenses can be used to offset income, but you are not allowed to declare a loss.
A "non-profit" is usually a 501(c)(3) organization (http://www.irs.gov/prod/bus_info/tax_pro/irm-part/part07/36070a.html#ss1) that is forbidden from making money (it's a little more complicated than that, but that'll do for here).
An "LLC" (which according to the web site is what MAPS really is) is a Limited Liability Company, which is a relatively new U.S. structure for creating a business that has many of the liability limitations of a corporation without all of the expense, tax, and hassle. One could create an LLC and operate it as a not-for-profit business. It would be perfectly legal to change ones mind and go ahead and make money. If successful (at making money), you might even have some time to go file amended tax returns for prior years and deduct the startup costs. This will be much easier if you have filed form 5213 ("Election to Postpone Determination As To Whether the Presumption Applies That an Activity is Engaged in for Profit").
I used to think that wishus was right. It's impossible to get into the zone with a pair. I generally refer to it as "flow" (cf. Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi's various books and papers on flow). Unlike many posters claiming many things about XP we are actually doing XP here, and I have been in flow while actually pairing. It's even more effective than flowing solo.
The best advice I can give is to try some of the practices. Use the ones that work. Ignore the ones that don't, but try as many of them as you can. Especially the ones that you think sound silly.
XP isn't, as one person mistakenly though, a cookbook approach to development that prohibits creativity. Doing an actual XP project here, I've got better code (as demonstrated by the tests, lack of bug reports, and easy responses to feature requests) and had more fun than I've had in years.
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Once wrote a language for specifying state machines for communication software. Internally, I had decided to name every project after genera of opisthobranchs (sea slugs) that I had observed while scuba diving. I called the language and compiler Rostanga. Due to a lack of creativity in our marketing and executive talent, it never got renamed and the compiler shipped with that name.
This is known as the exception that proves the rule. The fact that they are exempting sleep time from overtime implies that it is paid time.
Also note the conditions for exempting sleep time from overtime include:
Those are fairly severe limits.
Twice I have received a free consult from two different lawyers through the referral service here in Austin, TX.
The first gave me two extremely useful pieces of advice:
The second consult led to a half price deal to review some real estate documents. He made a one line change that disambiguated the exit conditions if I was not satisfied such that it would be clear that I would not owe money.
So, one free, one cheap, and both helpful. Lawyers aren't all bad.
I wonder if the authors of the study considered another possible effect? When I used to work in a research lab, 90+% of our references in papers came from a shared BibTeX database. A single error in entry of a paper we all read would naturally be propagated to anything we wrote. In addition to private citation libraries such as that one, there are a growing number of freely available (and possible error-filled) online citation sources. One could easily read the paper and still make the same error in citation as 77 other authors if one is using the same citation database. I read the New Scientist article and there is no indication that they considered this effect.
Rackspace does indeed rule. I run a machine for a non-profit called Knowbility, that hosts about 30 other non-profits. Rackspace is on the pricey side (which bothered me less when they were donating service in-kind, but is an impact on our budget now), but the support and uptime have been excellent. Every support call I've ever made, even the ones that were due to being moderately clueless (I picked up the site on short notice for a non-profit), has been solved rapidly and completely. Every question gets a complete answer on the first try. No ticket gets closed until I agree that the problem is solved.
We were running a remote event in California that involved building web sites that we were hosting at rackspace. While setting up the hosting late on a Friday night, one of our people managed to hose our VNC so we could no longer get in and also mess up the virtual hosting. Rackspace support walked us through fixing it so we could complete the competition without any major hassles.
Our current plan is to continue hosting there and convert our Windows server to Linux. Their charge for a basic Linux box is US$230/month with 30 GB (overage is US$3.50/GB).
Voice to text is related to text to voice because if you have both, then you have a voice only system: no keyboard, no monitor, just sound. It might be a cell phone operated hands free or it might be a computer configured for a blind user. The integration of the two technologies is a powerful combination, better than either alone. I've been wanting such a system for along time.
No, it's been one year since the last annual Leonid shower. However, it has been 33 years since the last peak of the shower, as the article said (emphasis mine):
In other (perhaps better, perhaps not) words, although the shower comes every year, the peak comes every 33 years.
My experience is that a well though out mind map can be an effective first step. It is a great way to start thinking about what you want to say and do. I've used mind maps a number of times for the first pass at outlining a new idea or web site. I've never found them useful for the actual navigation. I find that people not used to mind maps find that style of navigation completely incomprehensible.
This comment is somewhat ironic as Visio includes a Mind Map template that they recommend for use in creating outlines.
Umm, if you can't expand the acronyms on your own, are you really likely to have a good answer to the question?
Years and years ago (1989 or 1990? I know I was using it in 1990), some folks at HP Labs created an X server that shared and transferred windows among different hosts. It was called SharedX and became a product.
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It was basically the hypothetical solutiond described by others: a virtual X server that allowed having the windows appear on multiple desktops. They went through a lot of agony to deal with different screen depths and worried about, but never solved, issues of gamma correction.
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It was a joy to use. I could share individual windows with other people and selectively grant input control to them. Although moving windows wasn't a target feature, it was available as a side effect.
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I searched for it recently and couldn't find any interesting web references.
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And don't forget Liskov's book from the follow-on course at MIT: Program Development in Java: Abstraction, Specification, and Object-Oriented Design. The original (using CLU rather than Java) is out of print, but the Java one is good.
I go with completely unrelated themes. My personal favorite is phlya, genera, and species of interesting marine fauna. So, I used to have a subdomain filled with latin names of various sea slugs. Only downside of my particular choice was some people had trouble spelling gymnothorax or navanax. You might want something less obscure.
Use a different theme for each category of server if that helps you. If the category definitions change, you can still keep the names.
IANAL, but....
In the eyes of the IRS an activity can be "not-for-profit" if you are expecting revenue (e.g. I teach SCUBA), but not profit (I spend more on my own education, equipment, and dives for classes than I gross from the classes). See IRS pub 535 for more (http://www.irs.gov/prod/forms_pubs/pubs/p5350104. htm). In such an activity expenses can be used to offset income, but you are not allowed to declare a loss.
A "non-profit" is usually a 501(c)(3) organization (http://www.irs.gov/prod/bus_info/tax_pro/irm-part /part07/36070a.html#ss1) that is forbidden from making money (it's a little more complicated than that, but that'll do for here).
An "LLC" (which according to the web site is what MAPS really is) is a Limited Liability Company, which is a relatively new U.S. structure for creating a business that has many of the liability limitations of a corporation without all of the expense, tax, and hassle. One could create an LLC and operate it as a not-for-profit business. It would be perfectly legal to change ones mind and go ahead and make money. If successful (at making money), you might even have some time to go file amended tax returns for prior years and deduct the startup costs. This will be much easier if you have filed form 5213 ("Election to Postpone Determination As To Whether the Presumption Applies That an Activity is Engaged in for Profit").
I used to think that wishus was right. It's impossible to get into the zone with a pair. I generally refer to it as "flow" (cf. Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi's various books and papers on flow). Unlike many posters claiming many things about XP we are actually doing XP here, and I have been in flow while actually pairing. It's even more effective than flowing solo. The best advice I can give is to try some of the practices. Use the ones that work. Ignore the ones that don't, but try as many of them as you can. Especially the ones that you think sound silly. XP isn't, as one person mistakenly though, a cookbook approach to development that prohibits creativity. Doing an actual XP project here, I've got better code (as demonstrated by the tests, lack of bug reports, and easy responses to feature requests) and had more fun than I've had in years.