I just really want to know if there is anything in there about "offensive content" or "national security". I could imagine this being a power grab to censor the internet and strip encryption. They have been pretty hot lately about encryption and all the sudden this happens... I'm paranoid.
We're not talking about accuracy or track records, we're talking about providing an estimate. These organizations estimate and project constantly, and they are wrong a lot, but it works overall. It gives some structure and a goal for the project. Sales projections are clearly worse, pure voodoo, but we still do them, because they work somehow. At the very least, these estimates come from someone charged with knowing a lot about the subject, so it's a good idea to clue everyone else in on what you think the timeline could be.
Our rule for new projects was x2 for a best case scenario and then raised an order of magnitude(hour-day-week-month-year). For example - If everything goes well this job should take 1 day of continuous work - so we estimate in our hellhole of a reality it will be done in 2 weeks. It was surprisingly accurate.
Thanks, I was beginning to think that software developers were completely dissociated from the rest of the world. Writing the software isn't the only part of the business. Marketing and sales are going to have to know about when things are done so they know when to have everything ready, and that's not even getting into the financial and executive parts of things. Not to mention you are basically saying that you have no idea how much the project is going to cost. Really, if you can't at least provide an estimate then it's either not your job to do so or you need to find a new job.
I agree, but they didn't have the internet,GPS or traceable payments way back when either. I'm not saying that Uber is doing it right, but I can envision how you could by using these new tools. If in order to be a part of this system you have a background check, your bank account linked, pick up and drop off information logged, and your GPS constantly logged while active - along with a passenger feedback system - it's going to be awfully difficult to provide bad service, charge too much and then murder your passengers on a regular basis.
That's crazy. I understand the point of licenses, but I would like the option to use a non-licensed service. Maybe I don't care if my barber has a license, but I really want to make sure my electrician does. Maybe I'm broke and running around to job interviews and I'm willing to use an 'unlicensed' daycare because it's cheaper and I've heard good things about it. If I want to be a dummy and used an unlicensed dentist that should be my choice. Naturally you'd have to scale up the legal repercussions on both sides though.
It does not make sense for solar. It would make sense to have a set fee for solar. Why? The price you pay without solar is based on the power being generated somewhere most likely very far away and then transported to your house. Now, with home generation, you are selling directly to your neighbor. There is very little loss and very little infrastructure required. The solar producers should have to pay some form of set fee to maintain the infrastructure, but charging them by the KWh is an unnecessary disincentive to participate. A lot of this is the cost of having a monopoly. You can't just start a neighborhood power distribution company, and if you tried 'sharing' your electricity with your neighbors I imagine you'd have unhappy officials stopping by.
You should not have to pay transport costs for the power you produce, because that power doesn't have to run back to the power plant and then back out. Most likely your neighbors are using that power, and the power loss is minimal. I could see a few dollars charge for general upkeep, but it shouldn't a percentage of what you produce because that is irrelevant. I could see adding some cost for additional data infrastructure so that panels can talk to the plant and the plant can potentially throttle panels to even out demand swings, but there's got to be a better solution.
Perhaps the government should declare a Jihad on unregistered SIM cards? Or create the Intracellular Electronic Documentation Service to keep track of this stuff?
GaAs wafers are extremely expensive, but that's nothing compared to the cost of retooling and process development.
It will be worth the effort though, because you can do really cool stuff with electricity and photons when you move to GaAs/N. I just wonder if Intel will stay on top when we move from Si to something else.
The issue is that they didn't have this policy in the beginning. There would be no Blogger if it wasn't for the users. There are a lot of users that helped to get the site popular, Google is changing the terms on everyone now that the community is established. It's a pretty shitty thing to do. "Thanks for bringing us traffic, now fuck off!"
I imagine you end up killing the things that eat the mosquitoes. I figured, animals eat plants, mosquitoes feed on animals, bats feed on mosquitoes, plants feed on bat shit.
Put yourself in the head of someone that just wants to kill cops. Do you really think you need an app to find a random cop? You could, I don't know... call them and report something so they show up, or create some anonymous mayhem and wait. Like it was said above, the only way you'd see this used by criminals is to avoid the police.
4/1 sounds absolutely acceptable as a baseline for broadband, especially if they plan on mandating broadband as a public utility. That's enough to pay your bills, do social media and some basic video streaming. Are you streaming HD content on every device in your house, NO, but you expect that from what we'd consider a basic service. It should be enough so that you can do necessary things with reasonable efficiency, not having another entertainment box.
This is less about terrorism and more about corporate intelligence. They can't exactly come out and say "We rely on surveillance to game economies worldwide."
The way we do taxes is just crazy anyway. Why isn't there an online system for this? Why do I have to fill out w2 information when the government already has a copy? Why don't I go to IRS.gov, login and see all of the tax documents that my bank, 401K, work, etc have sent in? I just go through and verify everything is correct, answer some questions - like HRblock does - and be on my way? Sure, things get incredibly complicated businesses, but let's at least streamline the other 100million or so accounts.
If you read his reply I think it will illuminate a bit on why we disagree on some of the finer points. He's more on the "don't offend people" side of the spectrum and I'm more on the "don't get offended" side. After working in groups there is some value in making it very clear that all ideas will be greeted warmly, so you'd best have thought it through before taking up everyone's time. Otherwise we're spend more time on somehow rationalizing 6 month Bob's nonsense than we are on implementing 10 year Sam's plan.
Don't get me wrong - Ogres are generally just as bad. They stifle good ideas and eventually the group dies. Right now I'm just seeing a tendency towards coddling everyone.
Being a dick is just as bad a promoting shit ideas. Ideally you aren't partaking in either, but all ideas aren't equal. A lot of the times you need someone qualified in the group to carry the stick and shut down bad ideas.
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I just really want to know if there is anything in there about "offensive content" or "national security". I could imagine this being a power grab to censor the internet and strip encryption. They have been pretty hot lately about encryption and all the sudden this happens... I'm paranoid.
We're not talking about accuracy or track records, we're talking about providing an estimate. These organizations estimate and project constantly, and they are wrong a lot, but it works overall. It gives some structure and a goal for the project. Sales projections are clearly worse, pure voodoo, but we still do them, because they work somehow. At the very least, these estimates come from someone charged with knowing a lot about the subject, so it's a good idea to clue everyone else in on what you think the timeline could be.
Our rule for new projects was x2 for a best case scenario and then raised an order of magnitude(hour-day-week-month-year). For example - If everything goes well this job should take 1 day of continuous work - so we estimate in our hellhole of a reality it will be done in 2 weeks. It was surprisingly accurate.
Thanks, I was beginning to think that software developers were completely dissociated from the rest of the world. Writing the software isn't the only part of the business. Marketing and sales are going to have to know about when things are done so they know when to have everything ready, and that's not even getting into the financial and executive parts of things. Not to mention you are basically saying that you have no idea how much the project is going to cost. Really, if you can't at least provide an estimate then it's either not your job to do so or you need to find a new job.
I agree, but they didn't have the internet,GPS or traceable payments way back when either. I'm not saying that Uber is doing it right, but I can envision how you could by using these new tools. If in order to be a part of this system you have a background check, your bank account linked, pick up and drop off information logged, and your GPS constantly logged while active - along with a passenger feedback system - it's going to be awfully difficult to provide bad service, charge too much and then murder your passengers on a regular basis.
That's crazy. I understand the point of licenses, but I would like the option to use a non-licensed service. Maybe I don't care if my barber has a license, but I really want to make sure my electrician does. Maybe I'm broke and running around to job interviews and I'm willing to use an 'unlicensed' daycare because it's cheaper and I've heard good things about it. If I want to be a dummy and used an unlicensed dentist that should be my choice. Naturally you'd have to scale up the legal repercussions on both sides though.
It does not make sense for solar. It would make sense to have a set fee for solar. Why? The price you pay without solar is based on the power being generated somewhere most likely very far away and then transported to your house. Now, with home generation, you are selling directly to your neighbor. There is very little loss and very little infrastructure required. The solar producers should have to pay some form of set fee to maintain the infrastructure, but charging them by the KWh is an unnecessary disincentive to participate. A lot of this is the cost of having a monopoly. You can't just start a neighborhood power distribution company, and if you tried 'sharing' your electricity with your neighbors I imagine you'd have unhappy officials stopping by.
You should not have to pay transport costs for the power you produce, because that power doesn't have to run back to the power plant and then back out. Most likely your neighbors are using that power, and the power loss is minimal. I could see a few dollars charge for general upkeep, but it shouldn't a percentage of what you produce because that is irrelevant. I could see adding some cost for additional data infrastructure so that panels can talk to the plant and the plant can potentially throttle panels to even out demand swings, but there's got to be a better solution.
Any freedoms end if they hurt business. That's the new Libertarianism.
My biggest complaint about this is that they were using eminent domain to take people's land for a project that is not primarily for the public good.
Perhaps the government should declare a Jihad on unregistered SIM cards? Or create the Intracellular Electronic Documentation Service to keep track of this stuff?
GaAs wafers are extremely expensive, but that's nothing compared to the cost of retooling and process development. It will be worth the effort though, because you can do really cool stuff with electricity and photons when you move to GaAs/N. I just wonder if Intel will stay on top when we move from Si to something else.
The issue is that they didn't have this policy in the beginning. There would be no Blogger if it wasn't for the users. There are a lot of users that helped to get the site popular, Google is changing the terms on everyone now that the community is established. It's a pretty shitty thing to do. "Thanks for bringing us traffic, now fuck off!"
What about rituals? Daily rituals...
And what about the radioactive werebeasts? We're asking the questions everyone else is too afraid to ask.
I imagine you end up killing the things that eat the mosquitoes. I figured, animals eat plants, mosquitoes feed on animals, bats feed on mosquitoes, plants feed on bat shit.
Well duh! If you put it on the moon every time it rains we're going to get radiated.
Put yourself in the head of someone that just wants to kill cops. Do you really think you need an app to find a random cop? You could, I don't know... call them and report something so they show up, or create some anonymous mayhem and wait. Like it was said above, the only way you'd see this used by criminals is to avoid the police.
4/1 sounds absolutely acceptable as a baseline for broadband, especially if they plan on mandating broadband as a public utility. That's enough to pay your bills, do social media and some basic video streaming. Are you streaming HD content on every device in your house, NO, but you expect that from what we'd consider a basic service. It should be enough so that you can do necessary things with reasonable efficiency, not having another entertainment box.
This is less about terrorism and more about corporate intelligence. They can't exactly come out and say "We rely on surveillance to game economies worldwide."
I like this. I want my car to sound like tires screeching non-stop.
The way we do taxes is just crazy anyway. Why isn't there an online system for this? Why do I have to fill out w2 information when the government already has a copy? Why don't I go to IRS.gov, login and see all of the tax documents that my bank, 401K, work, etc have sent in? I just go through and verify everything is correct, answer some questions - like HRblock does - and be on my way? Sure, things get incredibly complicated businesses, but let's at least streamline the other 100million or so accounts.
The people complaining about win8 don't use keyboard shortcuts effectively.
If you read his reply I think it will illuminate a bit on why we disagree on some of the finer points. He's more on the "don't offend people" side of the spectrum and I'm more on the "don't get offended" side. After working in groups there is some value in making it very clear that all ideas will be greeted warmly, so you'd best have thought it through before taking up everyone's time. Otherwise we're spend more time on somehow rationalizing 6 month Bob's nonsense than we are on implementing 10 year Sam's plan. Don't get me wrong - Ogres are generally just as bad. They stifle good ideas and eventually the group dies. Right now I'm just seeing a tendency towards coddling everyone.
Being a dick is just as bad a promoting shit ideas. Ideally you aren't partaking in either, but all ideas aren't equal. A lot of the times you need someone qualified in the group to carry the stick and shut down bad ideas.