Org behavior is an applied psychology class that covers the things that motivate people to act positively, negatively, or indifferently in an organization. It's far from pointless if you're going to be responsible for the professional plight of any number of individuals.
What you're saying sounds reasonable, but the problem is that there is a lot of cost involved in supporting multiple code bases. Not only because they can change pretty drastically between versions (regardless of the trivial change in the user-facing appearance) but also because new revisions are generally easier to maintain as you start to build up experience and knowledge in the problem domain. It's generally in the best long-term interest of the producer and consumer (much more so the former) to move to the new code.
Also with software, the marginal cost of production is such that it is really easy to flood the market with new product. This cuts down on the incentive of the producer to offer discounts on older versions, though some retailers still do. But generally that is waaaay after the fact when the software in question has probably been written off of the inventory.
I thought the same thing. The CD sounded better (it had a limited sample rate but the MD used compression) was simpler (fewer moving parts than the MD) and due to that simplicity (along with wider industry support) became much cheaper to make.
It has nothing to do with wrong. It has to do with the fact that the acceptable age for a woman to give consent is directly related to the complexity of the society in question.
Back in the older times, people thought that women should be able to have sex when they are able to have kids. The idea has definitely run its course, but it isn't a completely unreasonable proposition given the societal context.
Exactly. Before Iraq, the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka were the most prolific suicide bombers in the world. There was a book published a few years back where a guy basically looked at every suicide attack committed over the last 25 or so years and found the common thread to not be religion, but the presence of a perceived occupying force.
The world's favorite resource happens to be abundant in predominately Muslim countries and instability and oppression have flourished as a result of the power structures that have arisen around it. Mix that with the intense pride that Arabs are known to have and I think you have a much better explanation than a lack of trim - though I'm sure that does factor in somewhere.
No, the homework assignments that I skipped were generally reinforcement exercises and they primarily happened in core classes (Freshman and Sophmore year). Some people require less reinforcement than others, it seems silly to me to base a portion of a grade on such things.
The assignments that truly required thought and analysis - which were more the norm when I hit my major - I did happily.
I didn't go to class because it was pointless most of the time. You can tell after two classes is the professor is actually adding anything to the material or just reciting powerpoint slides, in the case of the latter (read: the majority) I had better things to do (e.g. reading software development books, writing programs, going to professional user groups, etc) than listening to somebody read notes for an hour. I paid go to school to learn things. I didn't pay to inflate the teacher's ego with my attendance. If I can demonstrate mastery of the subject matter, it shouldn't matter if I was in class or not. I worked my ass off when the class required it.
As for not hiring me, that would be your loss. I have 10 years of outstanding employee reviews - never merely average or good - and successful projects under my belt. Primarily because I am good at applying the 80/20 rule - recognizing the things that matter the most and getting them done. It was clear to me which 80% of the time spent in a classroom was pure garbage and I decided to make better use of the time. Comparing college to a job is specious on a number of levels, which - like I said - is why most trained HR recruiters (HR was one of my management concentrations) take GPA with a grain of salt.
Note, before anyone replies with a sob story, if you hire people that get C's, expect C work in the world
In the world of proper HR, grades don't mean a whole lot by themselves as a relative measure for applicants. This is because their veracity differs between school systems, schools, school units (e.g. college of engineering, college of business), degree programs, degree concentrations, and individual professors. It is almost impossible to compare students from two different schools solely on their grades.
My undergrad GPA was something like a 2.8. I understood the material covered at least as well as the 4.0 students, but many times I had better places to be than in class, better things to do than "homework," was placed with subpar, motivation-killing students in group assignments (the bane of higher ed these days), yet somehow people were surprised that I scored in the 97th percentile (SEM would have dropepd me to 94th) nationwide on my exit assessment exam. So little of a grade is based on whether you know the material and so much of it is based on the professor's ego. Now that's my business school experience (management, I dropped out of systems because I could teach myself that stuff in 1/4 the time) so maybe engineering programs are different.
I would hope so, but as I've worked in Higher Ed for the last nine years, I really doubt it.
Last I read, Windows and Office are where Microsoft basically make all of their money. The other units (I think there are three or four) were aggregate losers.
Yeah except I'm sure these guys are more likely to be capturing innocent people as I would guess that a lot of this work is probably done via botnets. But maybe I'm wrong.
The point is that the money in the recording industry is in marketing and distribution. Payola can turn pretty much anybody into a star. Even still some stars will shine brighter than others.
As long as there is money to be made, people will step in to make it. It only take 50 out of 35 million people to make 50 bullshit Hip Hop albums.
To my knowledge (I am fairly close to the industry), there is no black person in the music industry with the power to green light an album. Production means nothing, the music industry is a marketing and distribution industry and there are very few blacks in control there.
Cry me a river dude. For real. I don't want anything from you and I hate to bruise your ego but most black people don't want anything from you. Maybe you haven't noticed but, AMERICA has an entitlement mentality. There is no group in this country that isn't trying to get over on it and I guarantee you entitlements to white women (particularly affirmative action - yes, your mother has probably benefited from "entitlements" so make sure you whine to her too) eclipse anything that blacks get. After Katrina I saw an awful lot of white people on the news wanting government to "help" them with gas prices, if that isn't an entitlement mentality I don't know what is. We won't even get on old people and corporate handouts which disproportionately benefit non-blacks. Much of this country was built on government handouts that blacks got a disproportionately low benefit from (GI Bill, Homestead act, and the New Deal to name a few).
Predictably, you single out blacks because they are on the news (your beloved Hispanics are getting lots of air time these days too), but I bet if you plotted the places where those crimes took place you'd find lots of unemployment and drugs. You'll also find a lot of scared black people because, contrary to what you might like to think think, these criminal elements are a minority.
The biggest victims of black criminality are black and I can assure you that these people don't enjoy that reality. It's a problem, lots of people (including me) are working hard to solve it. If it's not happening fast enough for you then your help is appreciated, if you can't be bothered to help then please, by all means keep bitching.
You guys kill me with that "I never owned slaves" bit. You or your family didn't have to own slaves to benefit from slavery. Any Irish family that migrated during the potato famine probably dealt with discrimination here, but it abated a hell of a lot sooner than it did for blacks who weren't able to fully participate in this society until 1964. At least the Irish, Italians, and Jews were made officially "white" where they originally weren't black people have pretty much always been considered alien and second-class. But of course the lack of black socialization is some kind of problem with black people and their culture. That's rich.
I'm not saying that all whites are racist and blacks deserve no blame for the current issues, but the history is clear, and these things can't be fixed on an arbitrary time table because you're tired of seeing a minority of black people on the news. This isn't about favored minorities, that's such a pathetic argument and line of thinking. Get over it or get to it.
Of course you can choose what offends you, anybody can take offense and anything, but clearly there are times where one can be offended because they are ignorant to all of the facts of a case. Like when some group was trying to ban Huckleberry Finn from schools because of the use of the "N" word. They have every right to be offended, but chances are they only see the word and know nothing about the circumstances surrounding its use by characters in the book and the relevance of the word in American discourse at the time. It's roughly (very roughly) similar to somebody getting pissed off at a Buddhist for brandishing a Swastika.
The Chris Rock thing is the same way, he was talking about how trusting whites is difficult for older blacks who still remember Jim Crowe. This is a legitimate matter to discuss - just like a small child's ignorance of racism in a racist world - so if whites choose to be offended, that's on them. However, it doesn't affect the veracity of Chris Rock or Mark Twain's points and silencing that commentary would have a negative affect on our culture and society. The same can't be said of Imus' statements.
That's not to say that only good - or even valid - points should be expressed by people, it's just to say that all "offense" isn't created equally.
Maier was fired, people boycotted The Dixie Chicks, Ludacris lost a lucrative deal with Pepsi because of disgruntled O'Rielly Factor viewers, and Danny Glover lost his contract with MCI due to pressure from Joe Scarborough (technically it wasn't renewed, but there was a big deal made out of his "leftist" views and an MCI boycott was started by Scarborough's viewers and later other rightys so it probably wasn't a coincidence).
I have no problem with any of these incidents - well maybe Maier's - and I have no problem with Imus being fired. People are using the tools that are legally afforded them by US law. I hate that it happened, but it's not like the Feds broke into his studio and locked him up. That's when people should be pissed.
If a white person joins the Klan because of Jesse or Al, then they were going to join regardless.
I'm black and I don't know a single other black person that is scared to discuss issues in the black community with non-blacks. "Non-Africans" and particularly white Americans are so wrapped up in their perceived slights at the hands of blacks that they just make these jackass assumptions.
Like how this and the Micheal Richards incident have turned into indictments of black culture. Here's a clue, black people have very little control over their "popular" culture. The distinct majority of the people who distribute and buy that bullshit music are NOT BLACK. That's not to say that black people are totally innocent, but let's not act like Jesse and Al are the only people who are profiting at the expense of blacks. In reality, they are bit players.
Who made him the final arbiter of whether a person is a "N" or not? Nobody has that right. This attempt to repurpose that word for poor uneducated black people is beyond ridiculous and I am amazed at how many people (black and otherwise) have drank the kool aid.
Oh give me a break. If somebody that speaks to millions of people per day insults you, it doesn't matter if you're a listener or not. It's out of line, period. I don't know if he should have gotten fired, but hey, when you live by the sword, you die by the sword.
Where did he state that he had a rule not to offend? Regardless, the routine where he says "cracker" a whole bunch of times is the one where he is talking about one of his older relatives and how they view whites. He's not using it to address whites in the audience or in general.
Ludacris, Danny Glover, The Dixie Chicks, and Bill Maier (sp) are just a few minority or liberals that have been punished for saying things that right wingers didn't like over the last few years.
But don't let that get in the way of your victim streak.
Now with the prevalence of Open Source software, mature software design patterns, more reliable and accessible broadband, and more collective software project management it's possible that there could be success.
Obviously bad coders / designers will still abound, but I like the chances.
Six days of creation... The six 'days' are very close to the actual order of events, and if you had to explain the creation of the galaxy and all things in it to pre-Roman humans would you really be happy trying to explain the concept of astromechanics, biochemistry and evolution? Nah, much easier to explain it in terms of days. People understand those.
I hear you, but "Let there be light!" before creating the sun the moon and stars has always been a little hard to swallow.
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Org behavior is an applied psychology class that covers the things that motivate people to act positively, negatively, or indifferently in an organization. It's far from pointless if you're going to be responsible for the professional plight of any number of individuals.
What you're saying sounds reasonable, but the problem is that there is a lot of cost involved in supporting multiple code bases. Not only because they can change pretty drastically between versions (regardless of the trivial change in the user-facing appearance) but also because new revisions are generally easier to maintain as you start to build up experience and knowledge in the problem domain. It's generally in the best long-term interest of the producer and consumer (much more so the former) to move to the new code.
Also with software, the marginal cost of production is such that it is really easy to flood the market with new product. This cuts down on the incentive of the producer to offer discounts on older versions, though some retailers still do. But generally that is waaaay after the fact when the software in question has probably been written off of the inventory.
I thought the same thing. The CD sounded better (it had a limited sample rate but the MD used compression) was simpler (fewer moving parts than the MD) and due to that simplicity (along with wider industry support) became much cheaper to make.
It has nothing to do with wrong. It has to do with the fact that the acceptable age for a woman to give consent is directly related to the complexity of the society in question.
Back in the older times, people thought that women should be able to have sex when they are able to have kids. The idea has definitely run its course, but it isn't a completely unreasonable proposition given the societal context.
Exactly. Before Iraq, the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka were the most prolific suicide bombers in the world. There was a book published a few years back where a guy basically looked at every suicide attack committed over the last 25 or so years and found the common thread to not be religion, but the presence of a perceived occupying force.
The world's favorite resource happens to be abundant in predominately Muslim countries and instability and oppression have flourished as a result of the power structures that have arisen around it. Mix that with the intense pride that Arabs are known to have and I think you have a much better explanation than a lack of trim - though I'm sure that does factor in somewhere.
You are aware that the age of consent in some parts the United States (Delaware) was seven as recently as the mid 18th century right?
Not only are there screenshots, but one of the best video game trailers for the time it was released.
You don't see idiots taking home $50,000 + a year
Can't... stop... laughing...
No, the homework assignments that I skipped were generally reinforcement exercises and they primarily happened in core classes (Freshman and Sophmore year). Some people require less reinforcement than others, it seems silly to me to base a portion of a grade on such things.
The assignments that truly required thought and analysis - which were more the norm when I hit my major - I did happily.
I didn't go to class because it was pointless most of the time. You can tell after two classes is the professor is actually adding anything to the material or just reciting powerpoint slides, in the case of the latter (read: the majority) I had better things to do (e.g. reading software development books, writing programs, going to professional user groups, etc) than listening to somebody read notes for an hour. I paid go to school to learn things. I didn't pay to inflate the teacher's ego with my attendance. If I can demonstrate mastery of the subject matter, it shouldn't matter if I was in class or not. I worked my ass off when the class required it.
As for not hiring me, that would be your loss. I have 10 years of outstanding employee reviews - never merely average or good - and successful projects under my belt. Primarily because I am good at applying the 80/20 rule - recognizing the things that matter the most and getting them done. It was clear to me which 80% of the time spent in a classroom was pure garbage and I decided to make better use of the time. Comparing college to a job is specious on a number of levels, which - like I said - is why most trained HR recruiters (HR was one of my management concentrations) take GPA with a grain of salt.
Note, before anyone replies with a sob story, if you hire people that get C's, expect C work in the world
In the world of proper HR, grades don't mean a whole lot by themselves as a relative measure for applicants. This is because their veracity differs between school systems, schools, school units (e.g. college of engineering, college of business), degree programs, degree concentrations, and individual professors. It is almost impossible to compare students from two different schools solely on their grades.
My undergrad GPA was something like a 2.8. I understood the material covered at least as well as the 4.0 students, but many times I had better places to be than in class, better things to do than "homework," was placed with subpar, motivation-killing students in group assignments (the bane of higher ed these days), yet somehow people were surprised that I scored in the 97th percentile (SEM would have dropepd me to 94th) nationwide on my exit assessment exam. So little of a grade is based on whether you know the material and so much of it is based on the professor's ego. Now that's my business school experience (management, I dropped out of systems because I could teach myself that stuff in 1/4 the time) so maybe engineering programs are different.
I would hope so, but as I've worked in Higher Ed for the last nine years, I really doubt it.
Last I read, Windows and Office are where Microsoft basically make all of their money. The other units (I think there are three or four) were aggregate losers.
Yeah except I'm sure these guys are more likely to be capturing innocent people as I would guess that a lot of this work is probably done via botnets. But maybe I'm wrong.
The point is that the money in the recording industry is in marketing and distribution. Payola can turn pretty much anybody into a star. Even still some stars will shine brighter than others.
As long as there is money to be made, people will step in to make it. It only take 50 out of 35 million people to make 50 bullshit Hip Hop albums.
To my knowledge (I am fairly close to the industry), there is no black person in the music industry with the power to green light an album. Production means nothing, the music industry is a marketing and distribution industry and there are very few blacks in control there.
Cry me a river dude. For real. I don't want anything from you and I hate to bruise your ego but most black people don't want anything from you. Maybe you haven't noticed but, AMERICA has an entitlement mentality. There is no group in this country that isn't trying to get over on it and I guarantee you entitlements to white women (particularly affirmative action - yes, your mother has probably benefited from "entitlements" so make sure you whine to her too) eclipse anything that blacks get. After Katrina I saw an awful lot of white people on the news wanting government to "help" them with gas prices, if that isn't an entitlement mentality I don't know what is. We won't even get on old people and corporate handouts which disproportionately benefit non-blacks. Much of this country was built on government handouts that blacks got a disproportionately low benefit from (GI Bill, Homestead act, and the New Deal to name a few).
Predictably, you single out blacks because they are on the news (your beloved Hispanics are getting lots of air time these days too), but I bet if you plotted the places where those crimes took place you'd find lots of unemployment and drugs. You'll also find a lot of scared black people because, contrary to what you might like to think think, these criminal elements are a minority.
The biggest victims of black criminality are black and I can assure you that these people don't enjoy that reality. It's a problem, lots of people (including me) are working hard to solve it. If it's not happening fast enough for you then your help is appreciated, if you can't be bothered to help then please, by all means keep bitching.
You guys kill me with that "I never owned slaves" bit. You or your family didn't have to own slaves to benefit from slavery. Any Irish family that migrated during the potato famine probably dealt with discrimination here, but it abated a hell of a lot sooner than it did for blacks who weren't able to fully participate in this society until 1964. At least the Irish, Italians, and Jews were made officially "white" where they originally weren't black people have pretty much always been considered alien and second-class. But of course the lack of black socialization is some kind of problem with black people and their culture. That's rich.
I'm not saying that all whites are racist and blacks deserve no blame for the current issues, but the history is clear, and these things can't be fixed on an arbitrary time table because you're tired of seeing a minority of black people on the news. This isn't about favored minorities, that's such a pathetic argument and line of thinking. Get over it or get to it.
Of course you can choose what offends you, anybody can take offense and anything, but clearly there are times where one can be offended because they are ignorant to all of the facts of a case. Like when some group was trying to ban Huckleberry Finn from schools because of the use of the "N" word. They have every right to be offended, but chances are they only see the word and know nothing about the circumstances surrounding its use by characters in the book and the relevance of the word in American discourse at the time. It's roughly (very roughly) similar to somebody getting pissed off at a Buddhist for brandishing a Swastika.
The Chris Rock thing is the same way, he was talking about how trusting whites is difficult for older blacks who still remember Jim Crowe. This is a legitimate matter to discuss - just like a small child's ignorance of racism in a racist world - so if whites choose to be offended, that's on them. However, it doesn't affect the veracity of Chris Rock or Mark Twain's points and silencing that commentary would have a negative affect on our culture and society. The same can't be said of Imus' statements.
That's not to say that only good - or even valid - points should be expressed by people, it's just to say that all "offense" isn't created equally.
Maier was fired, people boycotted The Dixie Chicks, Ludacris lost a lucrative deal with Pepsi because of disgruntled O'Rielly Factor viewers, and Danny Glover lost his contract with MCI due to pressure from Joe Scarborough (technically it wasn't renewed, but there was a big deal made out of his "leftist" views and an MCI boycott was started by Scarborough's viewers and later other rightys so it probably wasn't a coincidence).
I have no problem with any of these incidents - well maybe Maier's - and I have no problem with Imus being fired. People are using the tools that are legally afforded them by US law. I hate that it happened, but it's not like the Feds broke into his studio and locked him up. That's when people should be pissed.
If a white person joins the Klan because of Jesse or Al, then they were going to join regardless.
I'm black and I don't know a single other black person that is scared to discuss issues in the black community with non-blacks. "Non-Africans" and particularly white Americans are so wrapped up in their perceived slights at the hands of blacks that they just make these jackass assumptions.
Like how this and the Micheal Richards incident have turned into indictments of black culture. Here's a clue, black people have very little control over their "popular" culture. The distinct majority of the people who distribute and buy that bullshit music are NOT BLACK. That's not to say that black people are totally innocent, but let's not act like Jesse and Al are the only people who are profiting at the expense of blacks. In reality, they are bit players.
As a black man I'll tell you that there is a big problem with that logic.
Who made him the final arbiter of whether a person is a "N" or not? Nobody has that right. This attempt to repurpose that word for poor uneducated black people is beyond ridiculous and I am amazed at how many people (black and otherwise) have drank the kool aid.
Oh give me a break. If somebody that speaks to millions of people per day insults you, it doesn't matter if you're a listener or not. It's out of line, period. I don't know if he should have gotten fired, but hey, when you live by the sword, you die by the sword.
Where did he state that he had a rule not to offend? Regardless, the routine where he says "cracker" a whole bunch of times is the one where he is talking about one of his older relatives and how they view whites. He's not using it to address whites in the audience or in general.
Look it up.
Ludacris, Danny Glover, The Dixie Chicks, and Bill Maier (sp) are just a few minority or liberals that have been punished for saying things that right wingers didn't like over the last few years.
But don't let that get in the way of your victim streak.
Now with the prevalence of Open Source software, mature software design patterns, more reliable and accessible broadband, and more collective software project management it's possible that there could be success.
Obviously bad coders / designers will still abound, but I like the chances.
I hear you, but "Let there be light!" before creating the sun the moon and stars has always been a little hard to swallow.