I agreed with all the parent posts. Don't escalate without having discussed it with the program manager.
See it from their perspective, they also want what is best for the project. They want to ensure the project is on time and on budget... and a success. So you need to explain how your approach is better and how it will lead to a successful approach. A program manager will often do this because they don't understand the product/solution being developed. So explain what a good set up would be and why, and include examples of where this has worked for you before.
Also be aware that you may not get your way. Create a strategy for this situation. Ensure that you are in a position lead the technical piece. Ensure you have your ass covered when the shit hits the fan due to the PMs approach by documenting your approach.
First I would take the verbal approach with the PM. They may take a lot of talking to. Then if you think you have resistance follow up with and email. The email does not need to be pages, just short and sweet. Explain your position with 3 or 4 points, and how it would lead to a successful project.
What vpn provider do you use? We are on holiday in china and use things like googlemaps, gmail, tourist guides that use google maps. It is very frustrating. Even the android app store is not working (play.google.com). I have tried many vpn providers but they all appear blocked, tor dors not work either.
Consciousness is an illusion, along with free will. It doesn't actually exist, but your brain perceives the world and the actions you are taking in the context of consciousness.
Hmmm, do you have the scientific papers to back this up? I believe you are just making an assumption, like people used to assume the Earth was flat. I agree that this is currently the easiest explanation, but no-one has actually come up with a reasonable theory for it. It's the "I feeling" that I refer to as consciousness, to my knowledge there is no physical explanation of its mechanism. How does the universe allow for this awareness, the "I feeling"?
I definitely agree with the article, it's not so much what we know about the universe, but what we don't know that is really interesting.
My biggest wonder is consciousness. What is it? How does it work? If I am conscious, does this mean the universe is conscious? Am I conscious? Is consciousness only available in higher order complex physical structures (like higher order mammals), or is it possible in lower order structure too, like rocks? I have to say that this there is not a big effort to solve this question. For me it's the most important question to answer, and most interesting. Where do you start to answer such a question? Of course many great thinkers have tried to answer the question, but at the moment it's little more than just philosophy.
Another interesting question is: How the heck does the universe exist?
This is just a phased array antenna (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phased_array). The applications of a phased array allow you to have a direct "beam" to the transmitting tower, which means that you can use significantly less power, and possibly transmit over a larger distance. The idea has been around for a long time, almost 100 years.
It will be interesting if they get this to work, especially for mobile devices like laptops and mobile phones, because when you move your phone you need to immediately redirect the signal "beam" towards the transmitter / receiver. If you miss, you lose your signal. Not only that, calculating the direction of the beam and requires you to regulate frequency and intensity of hundreds of the transmitters on the phased array, this calculation will create a superposition of waves in one direction and cancellation of the waves in the other in the other directions. Hence a "beam" in one direction. The calculation of direction of the "beam" is computationally intensive, but I presume it could be optimised using a lot of hard coding.
Regardless if the US produce evidence or not. The Megaupload saga can be considered a success by the US authorities, MPAA, etc. Because they have destroyed Megaupload and all alternate providers like Megaupload are shaking in their pants. They have one this battle. But the war rages.
I couple of years ago I was in your position. I went looking for the best Windows desktop manager. I was coming from a Linux / X world and was spoiled with my rich desktop environment, but I am stuck with my corporate laptop with Windows XP. I looked at a few multiple desktop tools and VirtuaWin was the best and most stable for me. The other tool I tried for a while was the tool from Microsoft, but it was worthless.
The features I use most are
- Switch desktop (dah!!) (using Windows Key + Left/Right)
- Move Window to another desktop (via mouse clicks on desktop tray)
- Keep window on top (via mouse clicks on title bar... very handy)
- Always show Window (via mouse click on title bar)
I don't expect much of my desktop switching tool, just that it has the above functionality. It does have one bug that crops up 2 or 3 times a year, and that's that all the windows will appear on one desktop, even hidden windows that should never be seen as a window, like desktop tray items. I am just presuming this is a VirtuaWin bug, but I can live with it.
Sometimes when a process that is linked to a window is under heavy CPU load (like Excel sometimes) VirtuaWin won't be able to handle the Window very well. I think this is more of a MS Windows problem than a VirtuaWin problem, and this issue was extremely bad with the MS Multi Desktop tool.
The developer does not seem to be making updates very frequently, but there are no features or bugs I need fixed.
1 in a trillion. Yeah right. What happens when someone signal jams my brakes, or you are driving past an electric fence, near lightning or some other failure. I will let others be the guinea pigs.
Quantum Computing isn't going to work immediately, it's just life. It's going to make small progressions over time. Eventually there will be advancements that will make them practical for a given purpose. They will follow something like a "Moore's Law" of Quantum computing. Then some intelligent person will utter "I think there is a world market for maybe five Quantum computers"!!!
I propose (and I presume I am no where near the first): wikipedia.org = like today, but without Jimmy's face in your face. wikipedia.com = ad supported, for those, like me, who don't mind supporting Wikipedia with ads
Everyone wins: Jimmy does, Wikipedia does, the Internet does and the advertisers do.
ok, you're right. To "drive" Windows at 200MPH down the freeway it takes an IT person. To meander at 30MPH it takes your average user. Unfortunately Linux isn't a good vehicle for those who don't want to learn how to drive.
Actually, I have to agree with the article. I have been using Linux as my primary OS since 1998, at work I require Windows. Linux has come leaps and bounds since 1998 - I remember text based YaST, trying to install Debian on a 486, it was painful, but fun at the same time. My first Linux install brought me to a command line... "now what, wheres the GUI!!!"
Anyway, today I run Ubuntu and I have a partner and child, and zero time to configure my PC. Last time I upgraded Ubuntu to 9.04 many things broke, and like always the comment from my darling partner was "you are never upgrading again". That was after a long list of tests which I complete after each install - webcam works - check, sound works - check, video playback works - check, internet works - check, favorite programs work - check, workarounds work - check, favorite hacks work - check, etc, etc. After fixing, hacking, etc, I thought the system was ready. But then things were still broken, Skyping with family required a rare boot into windows to use the "unbroken and always works" version. And another 10 annoyances.
My father just asked about Linux and I told him to install Ubuntu 8.04, the last LTS. Because it is the most stable version, I told him not to install the most recent, because it is definitely not stable (not that I expect it to be).
Anyway, I agree with most of the article and the premise, that it still takes a IT person to "drive" Linux.... and I think it still has a long way to go. But at the same time I love using and have no desire to change, but then I am a geek.
I am vegan and have been for many years. I do not believe plants feel pain, and if they would, it would be in a different way than we do. We have a central nervous system that transmits sensation (e.g. pain) to our brain, although this is not the only function of the central nervous system. The brain reacts in many ways with the consequence that we will take action to avoid the pain. I, and many other vegans, will do our best not to eat, wear or use anything that comes from an animal that has a central nervous system. You can consider this as my choice of a "boundary". A crab is a relatively advanced crustacean and obviously has a central nervous system, hence can feel pain and take action to avoid pain. So I won't support the killing of these.
I find it interesting what modern research is finding. It is showing that we are very related to animals (as opposed to some beliefs). Not only in physiological make up, but also in our psychological make. Research is starting to show that animals have feelings and have awareness of themselves, and not just for primates, this is also for other species.
I agree totally. 21.4 seconds is incredibly slow, and that's only to get to the login screen... which is typically only half way. I know that it is possible to boot Linux in 5 seconds for some special cases. However, the boot time should be even quicker.
For a BEC (Bose Einstein Condensate) to form you require temperatures at a millionth of a degree Kelvin, where as liquid helium is at about 2 degrees Kelvin. BECs are extremely difficult to create, even in the best of conditions. I just don't see this as an issue.
The whole black hole scenario is much more interesting.
I have organised and been to many LAN parties, although none as big as yours. I have never had anything reported as being stolen. Geeks are geeks and generally will not leave their PC for too long. I would trust the people who come, but make them aware that everyone is responsible for their own gear/lives. If you are really concerned have them sign a disclaimer.
To my layman's understanding of the brain, this experiment is just measuring the rate at which the visual cortex is seeing things. It does not account for the fact that the brain may actually be working quicker behind the scenes.
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MS and other vendors would not have such a large market share without piracy. Piracy helps the large vendors keep their market share since anyone can install their software. Look at the copy protection systems in place for software... they suck!!! They are not nearly as sophisticated as what the entertainment industry have developed, and it almost works.
The main reason I don't see MS developing hardware copy protection soon is because they will loose up to 70% (wild guess plucked from the eather) of their users. Mostly in 3rd world countries. Where would they go?... *Free* software. Copy protection will reduce the market share, which is more important than the lost revenue (since the customers don't want to pay at all, they want something for free). Piracy helps the customer being locked into a certain piece of software. So it's better for MS to give away copies under-the-table (piracy) than it is for the user to go to another vendor.
Build in a copy protection into MS Windows and MS Office and the market share will reduce as the market goes to alternative software vendors (e.g. Openoffice, Staroffice, etc). This will fragment the market and make it more viable for businesses (the real source of income) to install Openoffice for their users, since their users are now using it at home. When this occurs you will see MS giving away their operating system and Office (a basic version) for free, but we are not yet at that stage.
Yes, some geeks will always break copy protection systems. But getting those warez is a little bit more difficult, doesn't look nice and shiney like your friends freshly burned copy of Vista and the user actually feels they are breaking the law.
How can cloned animals be anymore ethical than non-cloned? They are still born (no labs here after conception), raised in a factory in awfull conditions and slaughted.
If you really want to learn a 70's language, you can start with Fortran77, it came hot off the press just a year before you got your first computer. However, I recomend learning in C if you are already computer literate. It's not the most modern programing language but there are lots of resources available and until recently it has probably been the most popular programming languages. With C you will learn all the nasty things like "pointers" and "memory allocation" that the modern langauges tend to hide. You also get to learn a very well structured language.
Then you will also need a good IDE (integrated development environment) and development platform, for Linux there is Anjuta, Eclipse, Emacs (for those who are not affraid), and many more.
And the thing I most recomend, is just search the web for interesting bits of code, compile and run them, then discect them.
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Midnight Commander is not perfect. I have seen it do strange things with the progress bar.
I agreed with all the parent posts. Don't escalate without having discussed it with the program manager.
See it from their perspective, they also want what is best for the project. They want to ensure the project is on time and on budget... and a success. So you need to explain how your approach is better and how it will lead to a successful approach. A program manager will often do this because they don't understand the product/solution being developed. So explain what a good set up would be and why, and include examples of where this has worked for you before.
Also be aware that you may not get your way. Create a strategy for this situation. Ensure that you are in a position lead the technical piece. Ensure you have your ass covered when the shit hits the fan due to the PMs approach by documenting your approach.
First I would take the verbal approach with the PM. They may take a lot of talking to. Then if you think you have resistance follow up with and email. The email does not need to be pages, just short and sweet. Explain your position with 3 or 4 points, and how it would lead to a successful project.
What vpn provider do you use? We are on holiday in china and use things like googlemaps, gmail, tourist guides that use google maps. It is very frustrating. Even the android app store is not working (play.google.com). I have tried many vpn providers but they all appear blocked, tor dors not work either.
This comment made me happy and even more so to see it with positive score.
Actually, I think my initial score was 3, now it's 2, ... I'm just waiting till it's -1.
Consciousness is an illusion, along with free will. It doesn't actually exist, but your brain perceives the world and the actions you are taking in the context of consciousness.
Hmmm, do you have the scientific papers to back this up? I believe you are just making an assumption, like people used to assume the Earth was flat. I agree that this is currently the easiest explanation, but no-one has actually come up with a reasonable theory for it. It's the "I feeling" that I refer to as consciousness, to my knowledge there is no physical explanation of its mechanism. How does the universe allow for this awareness, the "I feeling"?
I definitely agree with the article, it's not so much what we know about the universe, but what we don't know that is really interesting.
My biggest wonder is consciousness. What is it? How does it work? If I am conscious, does this mean the universe is conscious? Am I conscious? Is consciousness only available in higher order complex physical structures (like higher order mammals), or is it possible in lower order structure too, like rocks? I have to say that this there is not a big effort to solve this question. For me it's the most important question to answer, and most interesting. Where do you start to answer such a question? Of course many great thinkers have tried to answer the question, but at the moment it's little more than just philosophy.
Another interesting question is: How the heck does the universe exist?
This is just a phased array antenna (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phased_array). The applications of a phased array allow you to have a direct "beam" to the transmitting tower, which means that you can use significantly less power, and possibly transmit over a larger distance. The idea has been around for a long time, almost 100 years.
It will be interesting if they get this to work, especially for mobile devices like laptops and mobile phones, because when you move your phone you need to immediately redirect the signal "beam" towards the transmitter / receiver. If you miss, you lose your signal. Not only that, calculating the direction of the beam and requires you to regulate frequency and intensity of hundreds of the transmitters on the phased array, this calculation will create a superposition of waves in one direction and cancellation of the waves in the other in the other directions. Hence a "beam" in one direction. The calculation of direction of the "beam" is computationally intensive, but I presume it could be optimised using a lot of hard coding.
Regardless if the US produce evidence or not. The Megaupload saga can be considered a success by the US authorities, MPAA, etc. Because they have destroyed Megaupload and all alternate providers like Megaupload are shaking in their pants. They have one this battle. But the war rages.
I couple of years ago I was in your position. I went looking for the best Windows desktop manager. I was coming from a Linux / X world and was spoiled with my rich desktop environment, but I am stuck with my corporate laptop with Windows XP. I looked at a few multiple desktop tools and VirtuaWin was the best and most stable for me. The other tool I tried for a while was the tool from Microsoft, but it was worthless.
The features I use most are
- Switch desktop (dah!!) (using Windows Key + Left/Right)
- Move Window to another desktop (via mouse clicks on desktop tray)
- Keep window on top (via mouse clicks on title bar... very handy)
- Always show Window (via mouse click on title bar)
I don't expect much of my desktop switching tool, just that it has the above functionality. It does have one bug that crops up 2 or 3 times a year, and that's that all the windows will appear on one desktop, even hidden windows that should never be seen as a window, like desktop tray items. I am just presuming this is a VirtuaWin bug, but I can live with it.
Sometimes when a process that is linked to a window is under heavy CPU load (like Excel sometimes) VirtuaWin won't be able to handle the Window very well. I think this is more of a MS Windows problem than a VirtuaWin problem, and this issue was extremely bad with the MS Multi Desktop tool.
The developer does not seem to be making updates very frequently, but there are no features or bugs I need fixed.
1 in a trillion. Yeah right. What happens when someone signal jams my brakes, or you are driving past an electric fence, near lightning or some other failure. I will let others be the guinea pigs.
Quantum Computing isn't going to work immediately, it's just life. It's going to make small progressions over time. Eventually there will be advancements that will make them practical for a given purpose. They will follow something like a "Moore's Law" of Quantum computing. Then some intelligent person will utter "I think there is a world market for maybe five Quantum computers"!!!
I propose (and I presume I am no where near the first):
wikipedia.org = like today, but without Jimmy's face in your face.
wikipedia.com = ad supported, for those, like me, who don't mind supporting Wikipedia with ads
Everyone wins: Jimmy does, Wikipedia does, the Internet does and the advertisers do.
QED
ok, you're right. To "drive" Windows at 200MPH down the freeway it takes an IT person. To meander at 30MPH it takes your average user. Unfortunately Linux isn't a good vehicle for those who don't want to learn how to drive.
Actually, I have to agree with the article. I have been using Linux as my primary OS since 1998, at work I require Windows. Linux has come leaps and bounds since 1998 - I remember text based YaST, trying to install Debian on a 486, it was painful, but fun at the same time. My first Linux install brought me to a command line... "now what, wheres the GUI!!!"
Anyway, today I run Ubuntu and I have a partner and child, and zero time to configure my PC. Last time I upgraded Ubuntu to 9.04 many things broke, and like always the comment from my darling partner was "you are never upgrading again". That was after a long list of tests which I complete after each install - webcam works - check, sound works - check, video playback works - check, internet works - check, favorite programs work - check, workarounds work - check, favorite hacks work - check, etc, etc. After fixing, hacking, etc, I thought the system was ready. But then things were still broken, Skyping with family required a rare boot into windows to use the "unbroken and always works" version. And another 10 annoyances.
My father just asked about Linux and I told him to install Ubuntu 8.04, the last LTS. Because it is the most stable version, I told him not to install the most recent, because it is definitely not stable (not that I expect it to be).
Anyway, I agree with most of the article and the premise, that it still takes a IT person to "drive" Linux. ... and I think it still has a long way to go. But at the same time I love using and have no desire to change, but then I am a geek.
that 71/100 score looks _exactly_ the same as Firefox. ... and when on Earth is MS going to use opensource to this degree!?
I am vegan and have been for many years. I do not believe plants feel pain, and if they would, it would be in a different way than we do. We have a central nervous system that transmits sensation (e.g. pain) to our brain, although this is not the only function of the central nervous system. The brain reacts in many ways with the consequence that we will take action to avoid the pain. I, and many other vegans, will do our best not to eat, wear or use anything that comes from an animal that has a central nervous system. You can consider this as my choice of a "boundary". A crab is a relatively advanced crustacean and obviously has a central nervous system, hence can feel pain and take action to avoid pain. So I won't support the killing of these.
I find it interesting what modern research is finding. It is showing that we are very related to animals (as opposed to some beliefs). Not only in physiological make up, but also in our psychological make. Research is starting to show that animals have feelings and have awareness of themselves, and not just for primates, this is also for other species.
I agree totally. 21.4 seconds is incredibly slow, and that's only to get to the login screen... which is typically only half way. I know that it is possible to boot Linux in 5 seconds for some special cases. However, the boot time should be even quicker.
Cool, maybe we can have a Jesus-Elvis hybrid... "Eljus"!?
What about investing that money and effort in trying to save the thousands of species currently endangered of going extinct!
For a BEC (Bose Einstein Condensate) to form you require temperatures at a millionth of a degree Kelvin, where as liquid helium is at about 2 degrees Kelvin. BECs are extremely difficult to create, even in the best of conditions. I just don't see this as an issue.
The whole black hole scenario is much more interesting.
I have organised and been to many LAN parties, although none as big as yours. I have never had anything reported as being stolen. Geeks are geeks and generally will not leave their PC for too long. I would trust the people who come, but make them aware that everyone is responsible for their own gear/lives. If you are really concerned have them sign a disclaimer.
To my layman's understanding of the brain, this experiment is just measuring the rate at which the visual cortex is seeing things. It does not account for the fact that the brain may actually be working quicker behind the scenes.
MS and other vendors would not have such a large market share without piracy. Piracy helps the large vendors keep their market share since anyone can install their software. Look at the copy protection systems in place for software ... they suck!!! They are not nearly as sophisticated as what the entertainment industry have developed, and it almost works.
... *Free* software. Copy protection will reduce the market share, which is more important than the lost revenue (since the customers don't want to pay at all, they want something for free). Piracy helps the customer being locked into a certain piece of software. So it's better for MS to give away copies under-the-table (piracy) than it is for the user to go to another vendor.
The main reason I don't see MS developing hardware copy protection soon is because they will loose up to 70% (wild guess plucked from the eather) of their users. Mostly in 3rd world countries. Where would they go?
Build in a copy protection into MS Windows and MS Office and the market share will reduce as the market goes to alternative software vendors (e.g. Openoffice, Staroffice, etc). This will fragment the market and make it more viable for businesses (the real source of income) to install Openoffice for their users, since their users are now using it at home. When this occurs you will see MS giving away their operating system and Office (a basic version) for free, but we are not yet at that stage.
Yes, some geeks will always break copy protection systems. But getting those warez is a little bit more difficult, doesn't look nice and shiney like your friends freshly burned copy of Vista and the user actually feels they are breaking the law.
Go Vegan!!!
How can cloned animals be anymore ethical than non-cloned? They are still born (no labs here after conception), raised in a factory in awfull conditions and slaughted.
http://www.goveg.com/f-top10cows.asp (View some of the vids)
I think 90% of you believe this steak will be raise in the test tube... RTFM!!!!
If you really want to learn a 70's language, you can start with Fortran77, it came hot off the press just a year before you got your first computer. However, I recomend learning in C if you are already computer literate. It's not the most modern programing language but there are lots of resources available and until recently it has probably been the most popular programming languages. With C you will learn all the nasty things like "pointers" and "memory allocation" that the modern langauges tend to hide. You also get to learn a very well structured language.
:)
A good place to start with C is: http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/Dave/C/CE.html It is a good intro.
Then you will also need a good IDE (integrated development environment) and development platform, for Linux there is Anjuta, Eclipse, Emacs (for those who are not affraid), and many more.
And the thing I most recomend, is just search the web for interesting bits of code, compile and run them, then discect them.
But most of all, Enjoy