In my experience, bad management coupled with agile programming leads to dramatically worse results, however.
Agile programming requires good management and very experienced engineers to work effectively. Very few organizations have both.
In the several organizations I've been at that have toyed with it, its been a total failure because of that reason -- a failure clear to the engineers involved, and people like myself looking at the mess from the outside, but the management directly involved can't seem to see that time to deliver has gone up and quality has gone down.
A contributors liability will not be $2M or even $10M. The point of the umbrella policy is to not have to pay a dime if something happens -- the insurance company will handle it.
And an LLC (or full corporation, since you're going to be on the board) does not protect you in the way you seem to think it does. As a principal in a corporation, its critical to have an umbrella policy because you *are* liable for the actions of the company. The primary thing you're not liable for is financial losses. You're not safe from criminal or civil actions.
Actually, no, if you're looking for personal liability protection, buy a personal liability insurance policy.
$2m in liability coverage is a couple hundred dollars a year. If you have any assets (and you'd have to in order to be concerned about liability), its an absolute no-brainer to buy an umbrella policy.
Except the battery life isn't very good, and the screen sucks to look at for any length of time.
I have one. Haven't touched it in nine months. Its an interesting (if overpriced) toy.
The GP is absolutely right -- the gimmicks with it aren't really all that compelling to 99% of the people who would possibly spend $200 (or $400) for one, and in every other way there are far better products on the market now.
Um. Its a hole in the ground with stuff brought in through a tunnel that they ordered online and crap like that.
There's no radiation. No 250,000 mile trip to get there. No soul sucking vacuum outside. No corrosive, likely cancer causing dust. No gravity well to get out of or back into.
Building that provides as much engineering know-how related to moon colonies as the Lincoln Log houses I built as a 3 year old.
You clearly didn't read the paper. The things you were talking about were covered in there.
They are the ones we *need* to plan for, because there is a difference between an extinction level event and something that kills anything less than 100% -- it even points out that North America was originally colonized by likely less than 100 people. We also know there was a pinch point in human history about that small in the past, as well.
But we *can* do things to avoid most of the possible extinction level events. Thats precisely what the paper talked about.
Not really relevant -- the astronaut system in the US is a very specialized thing these days. There's a minimum of people getting to do it and a huge pool of people wanting to. That'll always skew towards older people.
Starfleet would be much more like the military in that regard. Its reasonable to assume that like any military force, ages will skew downwards.
I'm guessing most people on here have no idea how a bookmaker figures out the odds on a bet. Its not how most people think.
If a bookmaker gives 2:1 odds that, say, the Red Sox will beat the Yankees, he is NOT saying he believes (in any form) that the Yankees are more likely to win. The reason you get two dollars back for every one is not because its twice as likely the Yankees will win, but rather the bookmaker has twice the money coming in betting for the Yankees. That may translate indirectly to odds being based on the likelihood of something happening, but its indirect because its purely about money in versus money out for each side of a bet.
So lowering the odds in bets that God exists doesn't mean the bookmaker thinks there is a God or thinks its any more likely, it just means that he's found more people willing to take that bet, pretty much on faith.
(It still amazes me, back on this direct subject, how misrepresented the term "God Particle" is in the media -- they completely gloss over the fact that it was a term meant to mock theists, not support them)
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In my experience, bad management coupled with agile programming leads to dramatically worse results, however.
Agile programming requires good management and very experienced engineers to work effectively. Very few organizations have both.
In the several organizations I've been at that have toyed with it, its been a total failure because of that reason -- a failure clear to the engineers involved, and people like myself looking at the mess from the outside, but the management directly involved can't seem to see that time to deliver has gone up and quality has gone down.
A contributors liability will not be $2M or even $10M. The point of the umbrella policy is to not have to pay a dime if something happens -- the insurance company will handle it.
And an LLC (or full corporation, since you're going to be on the board) does not protect you in the way you seem to think it does. As a principal in a corporation, its critical to have an umbrella policy because you *are* liable for the actions of the company. The primary thing you're not liable for is financial losses. You're not safe from criminal or civil actions.
Actually, no, if you're looking for personal liability protection, buy a personal liability insurance policy.
$2m in liability coverage is a couple hundred dollars a year. If you have any assets (and you'd have to in order to be concerned about liability), its an absolute no-brainer to buy an umbrella policy.
People are sue-happy these days.
Except the battery life isn't very good, and the screen sucks to look at for any length of time.
I have one. Haven't touched it in nine months. Its an interesting (if overpriced) toy.
The GP is absolutely right -- the gimmicks with it aren't really all that compelling to 99% of the people who would possibly spend $200 (or $400) for one, and in every other way there are far better products on the market now.
Um. Its a hole in the ground with stuff brought in through a tunnel that they ordered online and crap like that.
There's no radiation. No 250,000 mile trip to get there. No soul sucking vacuum outside. No corrosive, likely cancer causing dust. No gravity well to get out of or back into.
Building that provides as much engineering know-how related to moon colonies as the Lincoln Log houses I built as a 3 year old.
Most experts seem to agree the domestic species most likely to thrive and continue (and likely even become a dominant species) post-man are cats.
Dogs would starve and die out, but cats will do just as they've done in places where Man has left -- survive. Oh, and wipe out songbirds.
You clearly didn't read the paper. The things you were talking about were covered in there.
They are the ones we *need* to plan for, because there is a difference between an extinction level event and something that kills anything less than 100% -- it even points out that North America was originally colonized by likely less than 100 people. We also know there was a pinch point in human history about that small in the past, as well.
But we *can* do things to avoid most of the possible extinction level events. Thats precisely what the paper talked about.
Curb stomp.
"most of us"
You might want to expand your world-view slightly... even if you are not a fan of their products, living in THAT fantasy world will get you nowhere.
And the space shuttles?
Not really relevant -- the astronaut system in the US is a very specialized thing these days. There's a minimum of people getting to do it and a huge pool of people wanting to. That'll always skew towards older people.
Starfleet would be much more like the military in that regard. Its reasonable to assume that like any military force, ages will skew downwards.
You do know the average age of people in the US military, right?
Our aircraft carriers and subs are all run by kids.
You're an idiot.
No offense, but you are.
How would googlebombing cause people to go buy drugs?
Tracking an outbreak for the CDC doesn't force people to get sick.
Haven't seen the latest tallies for the cost of Katrina here in the US, have you?
No, its not cheaper. Its massively more expensive to fight nature.
So you're saying your knowledge of statistical analysis is actually better than the PhD's at Google? Impressive!
Thats a seriously great idea ...
It totally sidesteps the problem of early symptoms not typically getting people to the doctor where it can potentially be reported/tracked.
There's probably a lot of trends that can be detected the same way beyond just disease.
If you knew anything about Slashdot
tgd (2822) ...
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*scratches head*
Which one will the root shell be running in when I type reboot?
If you paid $600 for your computer, it might've had an enter key on the keyboard ...
Nope, same kernel.
There was talk early on about a new kernel architecture, and there were versions of W7 with an experimental one, but not anymore.
There's a certain irony to your sig.
And for the mods: yes, this is relevant to the discussion.
I'm guessing most people on here have no idea how a bookmaker figures out the odds on a bet. Its not how most people think.
If a bookmaker gives 2:1 odds that, say, the Red Sox will beat the Yankees, he is NOT saying he believes (in any form) that the Yankees are more likely to win. The reason you get two dollars back for every one is not because its twice as likely the Yankees will win, but rather the bookmaker has twice the money coming in betting for the Yankees. That may translate indirectly to odds being based on the likelihood of something happening, but its indirect because its purely about money in versus money out for each side of a bet.
So lowering the odds in bets that God exists doesn't mean the bookmaker thinks there is a God or thinks its any more likely, it just means that he's found more people willing to take that bet, pretty much on faith.
(It still amazes me, back on this direct subject, how misrepresented the term "God Particle" is in the media -- they completely gloss over the fact that it was a term meant to mock theists, not support them)
Wait, hold on. There's girls on Slashdot?
Unlike the GP, I *do* live in an expensive part of the country and if I could pay $850 a WEEK I'd be sporting a solid gold iPhone.
I've dropped mine entirely too much to be bling anymore. I thought it was because I'm clumsy, but I guess its because I'm not poor.
Its 2.5 times past its expected life.
The rovers are like cockroaches, nothing will kill them. They're closer to 20x.