I work for a large software/hardware and the situation is much the same. I have seen a 2nd Line manager (Director or VIP level) step down to work on systems.
They don't look down at truly talented Engineers, they treat them with great respect. I received a thank you note from one of these engineers and it was placed in my HR file as a major accomplishment. Directly contributed to a salary raise.
I am a Team Lead as well, but my company expects that to be 80% management, 20% keyboard as guide. You can do what you want, but unless you show willingness to get off that keyboard, you will not advance.
When I was made Team Lead, it was made clear I could refuse or step down if it was not to my liking. Good engineers are not always good leaders, nor do they want Management responsibilities. Having a way for them to advance and keep technical is a good plan to keep the best people on staff.
HIV and lung cancer are different, you have controls. People who don't have the HIV virus do not have AIDS. Those that do, have AIDS symptoms based on the advanced stage of the virus.
Same with lung cancer. Control group does not smoke, and those that do smoke have higher rates of cancer.
Show me the control for Earth where it does not have Humans to eliminate the contributions of Greenhouse gas and not only will we have proved it we will have a quantitative proof that we can decide how much we need to reduce as humans.
(there is a control: Mars. Ice caps are melting. But GW people don't like to discuss it)
Funny you should say that. I never said what side I was on, nor did I support a specific side.
What I did do is call Nature out for their obvious bias in what is supposed to be a scientific discussion.
I am unconvinced in the matter, I see too many observable facts that indicate there is nothing we can do to stop or even slow what is happening. The fact is that Mars has shrinking icecaps. Better data exists for the mapping of the Mars Ice Caps than Earth's. Cassini first observed them in 1666. Earths had to wait until satellites gave a full picture as good as Mars.
Two planets, both have shrinking ice caps, one does not have humans. Ergo, some other agent is at work that can impact both planets. I have yet to see a hypothesis that explains how humans could cause the melting on Mars.
Which means at the very least we need to identify the cause and use it to determine how much of Earth's warming is due to whatever is causing Mars melting and see how much is left. That amount would then be under scrutiny for AGW.
And I cloak it in religious overtones because if it is not science, it is a matter of faith. Go read Popper's Demaracation: The criterion of the scientific status of a theory is its falsifiability, or refutability, or testability.
If the "science is irrefutable", then it is no longer science.
That's right, anyone who "denies" global warming is human caused is denying the truth.
Some "climate-change-denialist fringe" (also their words in the link) who deny the "scientific case" of human-caused (their words, and honest ones. It does not rise to the level of a theory) No, they could not be credible scientists that look at the data and see other hypothesis. Nor could they be credible in questioning the base data. The "debate is over".
Sorry Nature, epic fail.
Starting your argument with a personal attack is not good form. You expose your own bias to believe the human-caused global warming hypothesis by doing the very thing the scientists in the emails do: attack and discredit those who disagree with you.
Every scientific theory, and even "laws" like gravity, must stand up to rigorous scientific questioning... or they are merely pseudo-religious beliefs. You might as well declare Al Gore the Global Warming Pope and set up a church in Copenhagen.
If you can't spell the common words in a comment, how will you be able to do it in code? This is especially true in JAVA and other "verbose" languages.
(following code is totally made up to illustrate a point, not to be compiled or used)
I am a very successful SA who did not get an IS related degree. (it was in humanities, actually)
I went back and got an IS related degree and my career has taken off.
1. "Rules of thumb" became business rules. Same knowledge, different name. And that name makes all the difference. 2. I now know what motivates Business people and what pushes their buttons to get what I want. 3. Better management skills. Useful even when I was not a manager.
One year after getting my degree, my ROI is paid back in increased salary and two promotions.
My vehicle has a CVT, Continuously Variable Transmission.
It remains at the optimal 5500RPM power band for the motor from start to 65mph. (after 65mph, the engine creeps to 8000 at 79mph)
While mine happens to be on a Vespa 250GTS, but you can get them on cars as well.
Unfortunately, most people dislike them, there is no audio feedback on how fast you are going and the engine revs higher than with a standard automatic. It also "feels" slower because it never lurches, just a smooth power curve up to the top speed.
Oh, and on topic... the Vespa swooping curves seem to fool radar detectors. I can pace a regular car past on of the road side radars that display your speed for "safety" and I am consistently found to be going 5 to 10 MPH under the speed of the car right in front of me.
Not tried it against laser, but it might not be fooled.
The rules have changed for cable vrs Broadcast. With so many channels (vrs 3 or 4 if you include PBS) it is harder to get viewers.
As for FOX news eventual flame out... I am sure the Obama administration will look as kindly on them as it does the other agencies that are dying today.
In all honestly, unless someone gets a brain and makes the internet pay for news... news will die because it has failed to adapt to the new media. That is what this is really all about.
Bail them all out if you like, they will still go the way of the Big Three who insisted on making cars the way they always had.
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Yeah, had a developer that thought he was smart like that. Don't try it around a Sysadmin worth his salt.
He is long gone, btw. Soon as I showed Security what his software package was doing they frogmarched him off the property.
Shapes should be included. The more unique the signal, the more likely people will notice the change from one state to another.
A square, a plus and a circle should do it.
Until they can capture the smell of someone getting gutshot, people might think they want realism.
That is how he lost half a finger.
fear, ruthlessness, and a trademark infringement takedown letter!
And there is always Vulva... I mean Volvo
The institute he mentions does not support Intelligent Design (Creation Lite) or Creation.
So it is unfair to say that is there motivation for opposing AGW, it is just dismissing other hypothesis out of hand.
I think you mean the Media.
Ah.. so refreshing.
They MUST be wrong if they are right wing.
Yeah, I know. Vast right wing conspiracy.
No one lives far away enough from Yellowstone if there is a supervolcano eruption.
And as slashdotters, we will take that exact logic as proof anyone not doing Open Source must be nefarious. (Except you Windows geeks)
Yet, with Climate, it is ok. We don't give the same baleful eye to closed source research.
They make items from kids to professional engineer grade.
Expensive, but the don't come apart like Legos and the robtics kit is top notch.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischertechnik
I work for a large software/hardware and the situation is much the same. I have seen a 2nd Line manager (Director or VIP level) step down to work on systems.
They don't look down at truly talented Engineers, they treat them with great respect. I received a thank you note from one of these engineers and it was placed in my HR file as a major accomplishment. Directly contributed to a salary raise.
I am a Team Lead as well, but my company expects that to be 80% management, 20% keyboard as guide. You can do what you want, but unless you show willingness to get off that keyboard, you will not advance.
When I was made Team Lead, it was made clear I could refuse or step down if it was not to my liking. Good engineers are not always good leaders, nor do they want Management responsibilities. Having a way for them to advance and keep technical is a good plan to keep the best people on staff.
HIV and lung cancer are different, you have controls.
People who don't have the HIV virus do not have AIDS. Those that do, have AIDS symptoms based on the advanced stage of the virus.
Same with lung cancer. Control group does not smoke, and those that do smoke have higher rates of cancer.
Show me the control for Earth where it does not have Humans to eliminate the contributions of Greenhouse gas and not only will we have proved it we will have a quantitative proof that we can decide how much we need to reduce as humans.
(there is a control: Mars. Ice caps are melting. But GW people don't like to discuss it)
Funny you should say that. I never said what side I was on, nor did I support a specific side.
What I did do is call Nature out for their obvious bias in what is supposed to be a scientific discussion.
I am unconvinced in the matter, I see too many observable facts that indicate there is nothing we can do to stop or even slow what is happening. The fact is that Mars has shrinking icecaps. Better data exists for the mapping of the Mars Ice Caps than Earth's. Cassini first observed them in 1666. Earths had to wait until satellites gave a full picture as good as Mars.
Two planets, both have shrinking ice caps, one does not have humans. Ergo, some other agent is at work that can impact both planets. I have yet to see a hypothesis that explains how humans could cause the melting on Mars.
Which means at the very least we need to identify the cause and use it to determine how much of Earth's warming is due to whatever is causing Mars melting and see how much is left. That amount would then be under scrutiny for AGW.
And I cloak it in religious overtones because if it is not science, it is a matter of faith. Go read Popper's Demaracation: The criterion of the scientific status of a theory is its falsifiability, or refutability, or testability.
If the "science is irrefutable", then it is no longer science.
It is a religion.
Of course the earth is warming.
What is at question is why, and who is doing it, or is it a natural phenomenon.
Denialists.
That's right, anyone who "denies" global warming is human caused is denying the truth.
Some "climate-change-denialist fringe" (also their words in the link) who deny the "scientific case" of human-caused (their words, and honest ones. It does not rise to the level of a theory)
No, they could not be credible scientists that look at the data and see other hypothesis. Nor could they be credible in questioning the base data. The "debate is over".
Sorry Nature, epic fail.
Starting your argument with a personal attack is not good form. You expose your own bias to believe the human-caused global warming hypothesis by doing the very thing the scientists in the emails do: attack and discredit those who disagree with you.
Every scientific theory, and even "laws" like gravity, must stand up to rigorous scientific questioning... or they are merely pseudo-religious beliefs. You might as well declare Al Gore the Global Warming Pope and set up a church in Copenhagen.
No, it smokes a cigarette after.
Proton on proton,
that is sooo hawt.
I say we nominate them both, then have a death match.
The loser gets the prize posthumously.
You can't have it both ways.
If you can't spell the common words in a comment, how will you be able to do it in code? This is especially true in JAVA and other "verbose" languages.
(following code is totally made up to illustrate a point, not to be compiled or used)
#This fixes an acess issue in BUG 12345.
org.apache.bcel.classfile.AcessFlags = NULL;
I have done both routes.
I am a very successful SA who did not get an IS related degree. (it was in humanities, actually)
I went back and got an IS related degree and my career has taken off.
1. "Rules of thumb" became business rules. Same knowledge, different name. And that name makes all the difference.
2. I now know what motivates Business people and what pushes their buttons to get what I want.
3. Better management skills. Useful even when I was not a manager.
One year after getting my degree, my ROI is paid back in increased salary and two promotions.
YMMV.
No, I meant CVT.
My vehicle has a CVT, Continuously Variable Transmission.
It remains at the optimal 5500RPM power band for the motor from start to 65mph. (after 65mph, the engine creeps to 8000 at 79mph)
While mine happens to be on a Vespa 250GTS, but you can get them on cars as well.
Unfortunately, most people dislike them, there is no audio feedback on how fast you are going and the engine revs higher than with a standard automatic. It also "feels" slower because it never lurches, just a smooth power curve up to the top speed.
Oh, and on topic... the Vespa swooping curves seem to fool radar detectors. I can pace a regular car past on of the road side radars that display your speed for "safety" and I am consistently found to be going 5 to 10 MPH under the speed of the car right in front of me.
Not tried it against laser, but it might not be fooled.
One reason to love CVT's.
The engine is always at the optimal RPM
They killed the jolly old fatELF.
The rules have changed for cable vrs Broadcast. With so many channels (vrs 3 or 4 if you include PBS) it is harder to get viewers.
As for FOX news eventual flame out... I am sure the Obama administration will look as kindly on them as it does the other agencies that are dying today.
In all honestly, unless someone gets a brain and makes the internet pay for news... news will die because it has failed to adapt to the new media. That is what this is really all about.
Bail them all out if you like, they will still go the way of the Big Three who insisted on making cars the way they always had.