He will have forgotten the conversation next time your name comes round round on his list. He will probably have you down in his notes as a C# & Java Hiring manager!!!
This doesnt sound very much like flex-time as I know it. I'm currently on flexible-time my employers requires 7.5hour per day for 5 days a week. I must be in between core hours 9:30 to 4:30, and this is probably one of the least flexible schemes by UK standards since I cannot carry over-worked hours to another day, which is more typical.
Saying no is usually a bad idea and practically impossible irl with more senior personnel,managers, directors. No, creates bad feeling on the part of the rejected requester. It is much better to help them understand their request in context. You should seek to priorities this workload into what is Urgent and what is Important. Many things that are urgent, are not important, and many things that are important are not urgent. Understand the distiction and work it, Always address the Important tasks first. Distribute the prioties, more often than not people can understand why their task is lower priority. If not let the two competing requesters battle it out themselves, it also keeps you out of the politics, and conserves your energy for the task in hand.
I feel uneasy about these claims, even from Scientific America. This article is clearly pushing a pro-pollution agenda, the article is unclear on who is funding this research and what the true affiliations of the researchers are. Though we can readily guess.
I think we need to offer the sceptic's response; Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary proof.
Yep there is no doubt that Card Counting is about skill and strategy, but Casinos like to suggest that it is somehow cheating and illegal or fraudulant.
They have been know to illegally detain (kidnap) ard counters, even take back (i.e. steal) their winnings. It is the Casinos that are usually crooks, many owned and operated in conjunction with organise crime and are involved with money laundering, fraud and deception.
A tortoise challenges Achilles, the swift Greek warrior, to a race, gets a 10m head start, and says Achilles can never pass him. When Achilles has run 10m, the tortoise has moved a further metre. When Achilles has covered that metre, the tortoise has moved 10cm...and so on. It is impossible for Achilles to pass him. The paradox is that in reality, Achilles would easily do so. A similar paradox, called the Dichotomy, stipulates that you can never reach your goal, as in order to get there, you must firstly travel half of the distance. But once you've done that, you must still traverse half the remaining distance, and half again, and so on. What's more, you can't even get started, as to travel a certain distance, you must firstly travel half of that distance, and so on.
The 'flaw' of this 'paradox' is that this is a method of approximation by stepwise refinement. It can never be expected to produce a definitive solution.
First off, why is synchronous orbit a hint as to their breakup? There's no reason that synchronous orbit is preferred, either as a capture point or as a point for breakup. I dont think the article suggest it is, in fact I suggest that since
In fact, synchronous orbit is an unstable equilibrium: a slight perturbation drives everything away from it. (Which is why Phobos is heading inward and Deimos outward.)
I think this is what he is suggesting, a synchronous orbit is not prefered because it is unstable. On a large moon that instability leads to break up. Consider the differental effect of Kepler's Third Law on the inner and surface of the moon. Mass within transfer obit radius is drawn towards the gravity well and the mass outside the transfer obit radius would be thrown away. The larger the object the more the stress this would cause. The central question seems to be is this stress enough to overcome the moons structural stability, and this is a question for materials scientiest not astronomers.
many blue-screen "jokes" and anti-MS zealotry a damned decent job of creating stable operating systems. up for 27 days without a reboot (XP Professional) much legacy code responsible for instabilities in the past.
Ordinary consumers expect an STB to be as stable as their TV not a PC.
We use a 53Mhz Pace DSL 4000 STBwhich is also decoding the MPEG stream in software and the responsiveness of the EPG is still instantaneous.
If an STB has an EPG that is as slow as you describe it is probably because it's using a carrousel EPG, each EPG data page is broadcast round-robin and the STB is waiting for the page to come around.
Whilst Hungary may not be *cash* rich it is modern European Country, rich in History and Culture and will be joining the EU next year, which should give you a clue to how much of 'developed' nation it is. It certainly is not a second world country never mind 3rd. Historically it a super-power in it own right as the Center of Austro-Hungarian Empire.
None of that bug report is at all useful if there is no logical way for all of those preconditions they listed to actually be met
That is a very big IF and an assumption that is just not sustainable is you want to produce quality software.
it would be nice if code would explicitly check for a NULL before dereferencing, but if there's no earthly way for the pointer to actually BE a NULL pointer at that time (barring memory corruption -- in which case all bets are off and your code is doomed anyway) then I wouldn't call those errors.
If you want to ensure your code is robust today and stays so in future a programmer needs to implement his code defensively. One requirement of this is guarding against NULL pointers. Invalid assumption such assumping this may never happen in a root of many bugs in software. It will a programmers a few seconds to do this right in the first place, discovering this type of bug the hard way can cost man-days or man-weeks of testing and debugging and lost productivity.
Regocnition of this fact is a primary reason why mature development shops use code walk-through techniques and since this is an automated version of this proven technique all professional programmers should applaud it.
This whole exercise seems very suspect to me.
How ? Their agenda is clearly demonstrating the capabilities of their tool-set. Making excuses for sloppy coding practice is much more 'suspect' IMHO.
Following a petition for Winding Up Order, either the company pays the debt or the court issues the winding up order. If successful, the court takes over the company's fiduciary responsibility. The court appoints a 'Liquidator' or 'Administrator', who is usually a specialist accountant from the private sector who attempts to rebuild or sell-off the company assets and pay it's debts.
This is all based on ancient tort law which the US shares with the UK, a quick search turns up this. Which highlights a substantially similar process for the US.
Not ability nor disability.
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I exhibits most of the diagnostic indicators of ADHD and/or Autism, but I've never been 'diagnosed' and firmly reject the premise these are a disability or disease. I am poor at sport and empathic stuff, I'm constantly told I lack focus and concentration yet I know I am quite capable of focusing and concentration on something I find interesting and challenging for much longer than 'normal' people.
The real question should what is 'normal' and why should everybody be 'normal'. When any ability, attribute or skill of people is measured some people must end up on the extremes of the curve, this is entirely normal and is called a normal distribution.
Some people are good at sport, some people are poor at sport. Some people are high EQ, some people are low EQ. Some people are high IQ, some people are low IQ.
My special abilities allow me to conceive unusually and innovative solutions to problems, I can think around a problem in a way that 'normal' people are unable to even contemplate because they think in what I see as simplistic linear manner. I think this makes me and other similar people gifted not disabled.
You should also know that many of the greatest minds in history have exhibited the same symptoms as what is now called ADHD and/or Autism, Albert Einstein, Issac Newton, Isambard Brunel, Alexander Graham Bell; to name four.
Why are so many supposed 'normal' people prepared to label these abilities a disease or disability that must have a cause ? Many of these same people ascribe ADHD and/or Autism to MMR (or mercury in vaccines) because if it is a disease or disability it must have a cause. These 'normal' people are *supposed* to be empathic, yet give little consideration to our feelings in fact they do this despite our feels or thought on this subject. I think they should focus more effort into understanding that labelling.
Scenario 1 - I'm the editor of slash-effective.net.uk, the biggest site in the blog-sphere and I write an article rebutting Joe Grundy's undies. - Joe Grundy publishes an obscure page on ambridge-village-life.net.uk, refuting my claims and Lynda Snell deals with all his dirty laundry. Result: thousands read my account and few read his own rebuttal.
Scenario 2 - Joe Grundy publishes an obscure blog page ambridge-village-life.net.uk, write an article rebutting me as an ignorant townie with no knowledge of rural life. - I'm the editor of slash-effective.co.uk, a tiny under-linked site in the blog-sphere and I write an article rebutting Joe Grundy's undies. Result: Nobody reads his page so I'm not bothered. If I happen to be that bothered I can rebut his claims myself.
Whilst presented humorously this is a serious point. If I am larger and more powerful I have an obligation to allow fair access, that is what this proposed law will provide. If I'm smaller that obligation is worthless. The subject already has more power to spin their PR.
#1 Joe Grundy/Lynda Snell are characters in a popular radio soap who have just introduced a blog.
I have to disagree, typically Broadcasters & Newspapers have much more power that the subjects of their reports. A right of response seems entirely fair and reasonable to me.
This AC should be +5 Funny not +5 Interesting, moderators engage brains before moderating, tacking chips in fertiliser and gasoline!!!
p.s. AC you better watch out for those my^H^Hthose stealth tracking packets that are now winging there way to your PC now and will be tracked all the way by my^H^H those Sentinals^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H UN Stealth choppers.
Condemning a whole nation as weak-mined fools is not +5 Interesting it is the action of ignorant bigots (or perhaps an rather insightful troll).
You're the single silliest example of constrictive Theocracy in action.
No. Egypt is a immature democracy that is nominally secular, it is not a Theocracy. The emphasis should be on immature.
The matrix is banned because it questions your main sponsored religion/s? Keanu Reeves is a percieved threat to your rule?
Egypt law preserves religious tolerance and features minority Christian and Jewish populations. The Islamic majority is predominately Sunni, a mostly moderate form of Islam.
Your citizens are weakminded, foolish, and easily swayed.
No. Urban Egypt is a paragon compared to much of the middle east. Rural Egypt is under developed and religiously conservative; very many rural Egyptians may never see this film so are in no position to call it themselves.
Your hold on power is tenuous, and you cannot handle the slightest challenge to your authority.
This movie could be readily exploited by a minority of extremists to challenge the government, the government response would likely be rather draconian, so yes the Matrix::Reloaded is a threat to the Government but not to the Authorities.
Here, Here. Egypt is a secular state with freedom of religion, however its Government and society is under considerable pressure from a large minority of religious zealots. This is likely a pragmatic not a knee jerk action, given the Matrix::Reloaded is already available 'underground'.
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I don't expect to hear from him in 3-4 months.
Thats a high hope.
He will have forgotten the conversation next time your name comes round round on his list. He will probably have you down in his notes as a C# & Java Hiring manager!!!
This doesnt sound very much like flex-time as I know it. I'm currently on flexible-time my employers requires 7.5hour per day for 5 days a week. I must be in between core hours 9:30 to 4:30, and this is probably one of the least flexible schemes by UK standards since I cannot carry over-worked hours to another day, which is more typical.
don't "underestimate" this advice!
Yes; this is good advice.
Saying no is usually a bad idea and practically impossible irl with more senior personnel,managers, directors. No, creates bad feeling on the part of the rejected requester. It is much better to help them understand their request in context. You should seek to priorities this workload into what is Urgent and what is Important. Many things that are urgent, are not important, and many things that are important are not urgent. Understand the distiction and work it, Always address the Important tasks first. Distribute the prioties, more often than not people can understand why their task is lower priority. If not let the two competing requesters battle it out themselves, it also keeps you out of the politics, and conserves your energy for the task in hand.
I feel uneasy about these claims, even from Scientific America. This article is clearly pushing a pro-pollution agenda, the article is unclear on who is funding this research and what the true affiliations of the researchers are. Though we can readily guess.
I think we need to offer the sceptic's response; Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary proof.
However, the same story was in The Sunday Times.
What gets me every time is when there is, say, an explosion (ala Star Wars) in space, and it goes "Boom!".
Simple, the Ships UI is simple aurally enhanced.
Yep there is no doubt that Card Counting is about skill and strategy, but Casinos like to suggest that it is somehow cheating and illegal or fraudulant.
They have been know to illegally detain (kidnap) ard counters, even take back (i.e. steal) their winnings. It is the Casinos that are usually crooks, many owned and operated in conjunction with organise crime and are involved with money laundering, fraud and deception.
This sort of disagreement can only be resolved with a fork.
So you suggest adopting the philosophers' spaghetti solution ? or do Americans' spell fork differently too ?
A tortoise challenges Achilles, the swift Greek warrior, to a race, gets a 10m head start, and says Achilles can never pass him. When Achilles has run 10m, the tortoise has moved a further metre. When Achilles has covered that metre, the tortoise has moved 10cm...and so on. It is impossible for Achilles to pass him. The paradox is that in reality, Achilles would easily do so. A similar paradox, called the Dichotomy, stipulates that you can never reach your goal, as in order to get there, you must firstly travel half of the distance. But once you've done that, you must still traverse half the remaining distance, and half again, and so on. What's more, you can't even get started, as to travel a certain distance, you must firstly travel half of that distance, and so on.
The 'flaw' of this 'paradox' is that this is a method of approximation by stepwise refinement. It can never be expected to produce a definitive solution.
First off, why is synchronous orbit a hint as to their breakup? There's no reason that synchronous orbit is preferred, either as a capture point or as a point for breakup. I dont think the article suggest it is, in fact I suggest that since
In fact, synchronous orbit is an unstable equilibrium: a slight perturbation drives everything away from it. (Which is why Phobos is heading inward and Deimos outward.)
I think this is what he is suggesting, a synchronous orbit is not prefered because it is unstable. On a large moon that instability leads to break up. Consider the differental effect of Kepler's Third Law on the inner and surface of the moon. Mass within transfer obit radius is drawn towards the gravity well and the mass outside the transfer obit radius would be thrown away. The larger the object the more the stress this would cause. The central question seems to be is this stress enough to overcome the moons structural stability, and this is a question for materials scientiest not astronomers.
many blue-screen "jokes" and anti-MS zealotry
a damned decent job of creating stable operating systems.
up for 27 days without a reboot (XP Professional)
much legacy code responsible for instabilities in the past.
Ordinary consumers expect an STB to be as stable as their TV not a PC.
We use a 53Mhz Pace DSL 4000 STBwhich is also decoding the MPEG stream in software and the responsiveness of the EPG is still instantaneous.
If an STB has an EPG that is as slow as you describe it is probably because it's using a carrousel EPG, each EPG data page is broadcast round-robin and the STB is waiting for the page to come around.
powers which of course would inevitably be abused
Then you need a Police Complaints Authority / Internal-Affairs Dept, they need to watched too so a Police Oversight Committee, and on and on.
Literacy definition: age 15 and over can read and write
k /prin t/us.html
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United States
male: 97%
female: 97% (1979 est.)
total population: 97%
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factboo
Hungary
total population: 99%
male: 99%
female: 98% (1980 est.)
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factb
Whilst Hungary may not be *cash* rich it is modern European Country, rich in History and Culture and will be joining the EU next year, which should give you a clue to how much of 'developed' nation it is. It certainly is not a second world country never mind 3rd. Historically it a super-power in it own right as the Center of Austro-Hungarian Empire.
More on Hungary.
None of that bug report is at all useful if there is no logical way for all of those preconditions they listed to actually be met
That is a very big IF and an assumption that is just not sustainable is you want to produce quality software.
it would be nice if code would explicitly check for a NULL before dereferencing, but if there's no earthly way for the pointer to actually BE a NULL pointer at that time (barring memory corruption -- in which case all bets are off and your code is doomed anyway) then I wouldn't call those errors.
If you want to ensure your code is robust today and stays so in future a programmer needs to implement his code defensively. One requirement of this is guarding against NULL pointers. Invalid assumption such assumping this may never happen in a root of many bugs in software. It will a programmers a few seconds to do this right in the first place, discovering this type of bug the hard way can cost man-days or man-weeks of testing and debugging and lost productivity.
Regocnition of this fact is a primary reason why mature development shops use code walk-through techniques and since this is an automated version of this proven technique all professional programmers should applaud it.
This whole exercise seems very suspect to me.
How ? Their agenda is clearly demonstrating the capabilities of their tool-set. Making excuses for sloppy coding practice is much more 'suspect' IMHO.
This not only pisses off Hormel but real people to, and Yes Spamer is my real surname
So call this junk email what it really is. Unsolicited commercial email (UCE) or Unsolicited bulk email (UBE).
Do not be confused by the name. "Open Forum" have a history of being a pro-patent/IP and anti-open-source as exposed by Bruce Perens a few months back. They are Masters of FUD who have in the past made false claims to speak for the open source community.
"Winding Up Orders" are a bankruptcy issue.
Following a petition for Winding Up Order, either the company pays the debt or the court issues the winding up order. If successful, the court takes over the company's fiduciary responsibility. The court appoints a 'Liquidator' or 'Administrator', who is usually a specialist accountant from the private sector who attempts to rebuild or sell-off the company assets and pay it's debts.
UK Insolvency Law and FAQs.
This is all based on ancient tort law which the US shares with the UK, a quick search turns up this. Which highlights a substantially similar process for the US.
I exhibits most of the diagnostic indicators of ADHD and/or Autism, but I've never been 'diagnosed' and firmly reject the premise these are a disability or disease. I am poor at sport and empathic stuff, I'm constantly told I lack focus and concentration yet I know I am quite capable of focusing and concentration on something I find interesting and challenging for much longer than 'normal' people.
The real question should what is 'normal' and why should everybody be 'normal'. When any ability, attribute or skill of people is measured some people must end up on the extremes of the curve, this is entirely normal and is called a normal distribution.
Some people are good at sport, some people are poor at sport.
Some people are high EQ, some people are low EQ.
Some people are high IQ, some people are low IQ.
My special abilities allow me to conceive unusually and innovative solutions to problems, I can think around a problem in a way that 'normal' people are unable to even contemplate because they think in what I see as simplistic linear manner. I think this makes me and other similar people gifted not disabled.
I think you should read the THE EVIL PRACTICE OF NARCOTHERAPY FOR ATTENTION DEFICIT by Dr. David Keirsey. It may change the way you think about yourself.
You should also know that many of the greatest minds in history have exhibited the same symptoms as what is now called ADHD and/or Autism, Albert Einstein, Issac Newton, Isambard Brunel, Alexander Graham Bell; to name four.
There are many more here.
Finally two rhetorical questions.
Why are so many supposed 'normal' people prepared to label these abilities a disease or disability that must have a cause ? Many of these same people ascribe ADHD and/or Autism to MMR (or mercury in vaccines) because if it is a disease or disability it must have a cause. These 'normal' people are *supposed* to be empathic, yet give little consideration to our feelings in fact they do this despite our feels or thought on this subject. I think they should focus more effort into understanding that labelling.
Scenario 1
- I'm the editor of slash-effective.net.uk, the biggest site in the blog-sphere and I write an article rebutting Joe Grundy's undies.
- Joe Grundy publishes an obscure page on ambridge-village-life.net.uk, refuting my claims and Lynda Snell deals with all his dirty laundry.
Result: thousands read my account and few read his own rebuttal.
Scenario 2
- Joe Grundy publishes an obscure blog page ambridge-village-life.net.uk, write an article rebutting me as an ignorant townie with no knowledge of rural life.
- I'm the editor of slash-effective.co.uk, a tiny under-linked site in the blog-sphere and I write an article rebutting Joe Grundy's undies.
Result: Nobody reads his page so I'm not bothered. If I happen to be that bothered I can rebut his claims myself.
Whilst presented humorously this is a serious point. If I am larger and more powerful I have an obligation to allow fair access, that is what this proposed law will provide. If I'm smaller that obligation is worthless. The subject already has more power to spin their PR.
#1 Joe Grundy/Lynda Snell are characters in a popular radio soap who have just introduced a blog.
Is this a requirement for newspapers in Europe?
(in UK) Yes via the Press Complaints Commission and similar right of response exists with broadcasters moderated by the Broadcasting Standards Commission
but this sounds very bad
I have to disagree, typically Broadcasters & Newspapers have much more power that the subjects of their reports. A right of response seems entirely fair and reasonable to me.
This AC should be +5 Funny not +5 Interesting, moderators engage brains before moderating, tacking chips in fertiliser and gasoline!!!
p.s. AC you better watch out for those my^H^Hthose stealth tracking packets that are now winging there way to your PC now and will be tracked all the way by my^H^H those Sentinals^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H UN Stealth choppers.
Agent^H^H^H^H^H Fred Smith.
Condemning a whole nation as weak-mined fools is not +5 Interesting it is the action of ignorant bigots (or perhaps an rather insightful troll).
You're the single silliest example of constrictive Theocracy in action.
No. Egypt is a immature democracy that is nominally secular, it is not a Theocracy. The emphasis should be on immature.
The matrix is banned because it questions your main sponsored religion/s? Keanu Reeves is a percieved threat to your rule?
Egypt law preserves religious tolerance and features minority Christian and Jewish populations. The Islamic majority is predominately Sunni, a mostly moderate form of Islam.
Your citizens are weakminded, foolish, and easily swayed.
No. Urban Egypt is a paragon compared to much of the middle east. Rural Egypt is under developed and religiously conservative; very many rural Egyptians may never see this film so are in no position to call it themselves.
Your hold on power is tenuous, and you cannot handle the slightest challenge to your authority.
This movie could be readily exploited by a minority of extremists to challenge the government, the government response would likely be rather draconian, so yes the Matrix::Reloaded is a threat to the Government but not to the Authorities.
Here, Here. Egypt is a secular state with freedom of religion, however its Government and society is under considerable pressure from a large minority of religious zealots. This is likely a pragmatic not a knee jerk action, given the Matrix::Reloaded is already available 'underground'.