I could sit on a bicycle seat in almost standing position if it'd pass safety regulations and brought decent savings.
Please do not give RyanAir any ideas. They are doing perfectly well in making flying the travel equivalent of water boarding themselves without any extra input
Jami Counter, senior director at SeatGuru.com, which tracks airline seats and amenities. 'All that foam cushion and padding probably didn't add all that much comfort. All that's been taken out,' he said. 'You haven't really lost all that much if the airline does it right.'"
He shouted from business class.
I wonder if we made a law that said all airline executives had to fly economy whether they would be so keen to make these changes
I think some hobbies are just like that - you can't have gear with too poor quality or it will affect your experience so badly you'll lose interest. Learning to play the guitar on a cheap guitar that can't keep the tuning sucks.
Well Sea Sick Steve and his 3 stringed guitar would probably disagree with you...
Another example would be why start driving in a small hatchback when you could just go and buy a F1 car....
Personally I think it is more important to learn things like composition, light and to develop your own style. You don't have to spend $1000's to do that. In fact all the functions tend to get in the way. You are so busy trying to locate the right mode you miss the shot. Or worse do not take the camera out with you because it is to heavy or worry about it being stolen or damaged.
My advice is to start simple. It will take a while to learn the camera, but at the same time you will be learning your basic skill. At some time you will become frustrated because the camera will not do what you want, then look at changing. Even then do not go to the top of the range. Unless your income is from photography you are unlikely to reach the limits of even a modest DSLR.
I think there is a point here. A number of people I know who have DSLR's but never move the setting off auto, or touch any of the settings. The question is whether they would of been better of getting a cheaper high end compact.
I only got A DSLR when I felt I had reached the end of the capabilities of the compacts I had. Low light performance was especially a issue. But whatever camera I had the main issue is composition. $1000 of camera is not help with that.
Some of my favorite photo's were taken with a $200 compact. Also note that 95% of the worlds greatest photo's were taken with cameras whose capabilities were far less than you can get on a average digital camera.
Intel should really be putting something back into the community. While they are mucking around the engineers of the future are learning to use their greatest competitor's hardware.
What they should of done is make a $50 board, give away a cut down version of vxworks(which they own). However they are so scared of undercutting the bottom line they will not do this.
Seriously they deserve everything that is going to happen to them
Depressing Inevitability This was the only likely scenario once Elop tied Nokia to the MS mast and cut away the lifeboats. It was always going to be we sail together and we sink together. In many ways Nokia has fulfilled their side of the bargain by generating some hardware which is as good as any phone out there. What has held them back is the OS, which despite having some good features is always lagging behind the iphone and android, and seems incapable of introducing the needed changes at the rate required in a consumer device.
In a perfect world, Nokia would take over responsibility of the MS mobile division and it would be left alone to force the changes that the engineers of Nokia know are required. However what is more likely is that Microsoft will smother the innovative culture in Nokia to make it more like itself, so that we will get a company more concerned about how Office runs on the phone than offering the best consumer experience. I also can't wait to see how the trolls of Helsinki react to their first stack ranking session.
What is confusing about this is the timing. Is this Ballmer's last hurrah or Elop's last desperate grab for power. If your CEO had just announced he would be leaving so would not be taking long term responsibility for such a decision, as a board wouldn't you say Whoa, maybe we will get the next guy in to look at this? Lets face it with Baller's acquisition track record it may be more profitable to take the billions of dollars, pile it the middle of Oulu and set fire to it....
When I read the news my first thought was how terrible it will be that there will be no more culture novels. My 2nd thought was for his family and friends, which is a pretty terrible way of thinking about these things.
My only excuse is that I know the man by the joy his books have given me, and I feel his impending loss by the realisation of the gap in my life that will result when no new ones appear.
While I agree with him to a certain point, there is a limit to how far security can be imposed on a user. Security always introduces overhead to doing a job. A user will accept that to a certain point if the reason is explained, however there is a point where putting more onerous security restrictions on a user is counter productive.
For example, if the IT policy is that passwords must be changed every week, be 80% different, be a combination of letters, numbers, upper and lowe case and cannot contain any part of your userID. That sounds safe,however it puts a great issue for users to generate and remember passwords. so what happens? They write them down and security is compromised.
Using the car analogy, the reason that driving is safer now is that the work of driving safely is hidden. Users do not need to work to drive safely, items like anti-lock brakes mean that users are safer without additional workload. What we need in security is ways to make things secure while at the same time reducing the effort to keep secure, for example bio-metrics.
One example is Spam. Spam as basically been defeated not by making but more onus on the email reader but having better spam detection which means 99% of the time users are not aware spam has even arrived
The one positive thing you could say about the bread products around him was that they were probably as edible now as they were on the day they were baked.
As a slightly off thread, I always wondered why Intel bought windriver. One of the issues we have is that finding someone who knows the OS well is difficuilt because there is no way of getting exposure to it unless you have a lot money.
I can't help thinking Intel have missed a trick here. With the rise of the embedded hobbiest with things like Raspberry Pi, a new generation of engineers are learning, however there experience is based around ARM and linux, so further marginalising Intel in the embedded world, which is likely to be the big growth area in the future.
If intel was smart they would create there own hobbiest board based around an embeeded core duo or the like and provide a free version of vxworks to run on it. It doesn't need some of the high end features, but would provide early exposure to the OS as well as raising the profile of Intel in the embedded space.
Also most likely both would of been written in assembler at the time, the analysis is most likely flawed. On the other hand the creator of QDOS has already admitted that his was work did invole using a debugger on CP/M so it wasn't totally clean.
'Ask Bill why function code 6 [in MS-DOS, to output a string] ends in a dollar sign. No one in the world knows that but me' — the late Gary Kildall, inventor of CP/M and founder of Intergalactic Digital Research, quoted by Robert Cringely in Accidental Empires.
One night in his office, Bill Gates is alone. He's done all his email and he's ready for home. But there's a light in the corner from no glowing screen — It's the ghost of Gary Kildall, all bearded and green. Cries the spirit: Hey William, with all due respect Windows is but CP/M, and I've come to collect. Offer me no argument, I'll not stand for tricks: For I know why there's a dollar in function code 6.
Sing: We'll have no excuses, we'll have no more tricks, Kildall put the dollar sign in function code 6!
Then Gates eyes the spirit without fear in his soul, And calls to his rival: Go hence bearded ghoul! Do you think I will yield to this Scooby-Doo tactic? Where now is the firm that was 'Intergalactic'? Your BIOS lies obsolete, your functions uncalled, And if programmers saw them they'd be quite appalled, It matters not a bit that you scream and you holler For what kind of jerk ends a string with a dollar?
Sing: A currency display bug must most surely foller, The ghost ends his strings not with NUL but with $!
Now when Bill calls the shots we know who prevails. And it seems so this instance. The spook stops his wails. Its extremities fade — like the feline in Alice — Till only its head's left, still leering with malice. But it calls out defiantly: Now don't you forget You've won in this dollar-world, but there's more to come yet. CP/M's still wowing 'em where the folks aren't so pure-oh: For the demons of Hellfire have switched to the Euro.
Sing: The dominion of Beelzebub makes us all feel uneasy But at least the exchange rate is on par with the EC. One two three one three two three two one stop.
There is another reason why such a system suck. It ignores the fundamentals of team dynamics in a development environment. In a team you have innovators, those guys who are always coming up with the new ideas. You also have the consolidators, those guys who do the dull stuff, like maintaining legacy code, documentation. If you have a team full of innovators they will always be looking at the next great thing and want to work on maintaining the present work. If you have a team of consolidators, you will get a static stale development team. The right mix is a combination of both.
One of the problem with stack is system is it emphasises one side over the other, usually the innovators, who tend to shout loudest anyway, and ignore the guys in the background who provide the support to those guys.
I firmly believe that there is no individual merit system that cannot be gamed and is not counter-productive to a team. If you wish to implement a merit system, rate the team, not the individuals. In the end a badly performing team will force out the poor performers themselves if there promotion/raises are based on the teams performance.
I can only talk from what I have seen and done, but in the UK we have a online university called the Open university which is generally well regarded. That is not to say that all employers will provide the same respect as say a MSc from Oxford or Cambridge(Actually a side point, a MSc from Oxford or Cambridge is generally worthless since they will award you one for just staying alive after your BSc), but a lot of managers I know got their MBA's from the Open University so they know its value.
Generally most qualifications especially technical ones really show nothing about once you left university Any attempt to continue your education and extend your skills and knowledge should be valued by your present and future employer. If not you are working for the wrong company.
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I could sit on a bicycle seat in almost standing position if it'd pass safety regulations and brought decent savings.
Please do not give RyanAir any ideas. They are doing perfectly well in making flying the travel equivalent of water boarding themselves without any extra input
There have been occasions where life jackets have save lives, however it probably is marginal.
Jami Counter, senior director at SeatGuru.com, which tracks airline seats and amenities. 'All that foam cushion and padding probably didn't add all that much comfort. All that's been taken out,' he said. 'You haven't really lost all that much if the airline does it right.'"
He shouted from business class.
I wonder if we made a law that said all airline executives had to fly economy whether they would be so keen to make these changes
Using it to display photo's on a public display panel. Also looking at using one as a wireless router
Police don't prevent crime
Easy scientific way to do this. Remove police from area over a period of time and see if crime goes up or down...
I think some hobbies are just like that - you can't have gear with too poor quality or it will affect your experience so badly you'll lose interest. Learning to play the guitar on a cheap guitar that can't keep the tuning sucks.
Well Sea Sick Steve and his 3 stringed guitar would probably disagree with you...
Another example would be why start driving in a small hatchback when you could just go and buy a F1 car....
Personally I think it is more important to learn things like composition, light and to develop your own style. You don't have to spend $1000's to do that. In fact all the functions tend to get in the way. You are so busy trying to locate the right mode you miss the shot. Or worse do not take the camera out with you because it is to heavy or worry about it being stolen or damaged.
My advice is to start simple. It will take a while to learn the camera, but at the same time you will be learning your basic skill. At some time you will become frustrated because the camera will not do what you want, then look at changing. Even then do not go to the top of the range. Unless your income is from photography you are unlikely to reach the limits of even a modest DSLR.
I think there is a point here. A number of people I know who have DSLR's but never move the setting off auto, or touch any of the settings. The question is whether they would of been better of getting a cheaper high end compact.
I only got A DSLR when I felt I had reached the end of the capabilities of the compacts I had. Low light performance was especially a issue. But whatever camera I had the main issue is composition. $1000 of camera is not help with that.
Some of my favorite photo's were taken with a $200 compact. Also note that 95% of the worlds greatest photo's were taken with cameras whose capabilities were far less than you can get on a average digital camera.
Snowball in hell
Sound of eyeballs getting reall big
Intel should really be putting something back into the community. While they are mucking around the engineers of the future are learning to use their greatest competitor's hardware.
What they should of done is make a $50 board, give away a cut down version of vxworks(which they own). However they are so scared of undercutting the bottom line they will not do this.
Seriously they deserve everything that is going to happen to them
You mean places like Fort Hood? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Hood_shooting)
Depressing Inevitability
This was the only likely scenario once Elop tied Nokia to the MS mast and cut away the lifeboats. It was always going to be we sail together and we sink together.
In many ways Nokia has fulfilled their side of the bargain by generating some hardware which is as good as any phone out there. What has held them back is the OS, which despite having some good features is always lagging behind the iphone and android, and seems incapable of introducing the needed changes at the rate required in a consumer device.
In a perfect world, Nokia would take over responsibility of the MS mobile division and it would be left alone to force the changes that the engineers of Nokia know are required. However what is more likely is that Microsoft will smother the innovative culture in Nokia to make it more like itself, so that we will get a company more concerned about how Office runs on the phone than offering the best consumer experience. I also can't wait to see how the trolls of Helsinki react to their first stack ranking session.
What is confusing about this is the timing. Is this Ballmer's last hurrah or Elop's last desperate grab for power. If your CEO had just announced he would be leaving so would not be taking long term responsibility for such a decision, as a board wouldn't you say Whoa, maybe we will get the next guy in to look at this? Lets face it with Baller's acquisition track record it may be more profitable to take the billions of dollars, pile it the middle of Oulu and set fire to it....
Isn't this film just Metropolis in space?
When I read the news my first thought was how terrible it will be that there will be no more culture novels. My 2nd thought was for his family and friends, which is a pretty terrible way of thinking about these things.
My only excuse is that I know the man by the joy his books have given me, and I feel his impending loss by the realisation of the gap in my life that will result when no new ones appear.
Still pretty shitty though
James Lyne once said that he changed to standard security certificate dialog to say "by cllicking this you kill 1000 kittens".
No one raised an issue, not even IT.
Which goes to show how pointless the dialog is and how far it goes in adding security
While I agree with him to a certain point, there is a limit to how far security can be imposed on a user. Security always introduces overhead to doing a job. A user will accept that to a certain point if the reason is explained, however there is a point where putting more onerous security restrictions on a user is counter productive.
For example, if the IT policy is that passwords must be changed every week, be 80% different, be a combination of letters, numbers, upper and lowe case and cannot contain any part of your userID. That sounds safe,however it puts a great issue for users to generate and remember passwords. so what happens? They write them down and security is compromised.
Using the car analogy, the reason that driving is safer now is that the work of driving safely is hidden. Users do not need to work to drive safely, items like anti-lock brakes mean that users are safer without additional workload. What we need in security is ways to make things secure while at the same time reducing the effort to keep secure, for example bio-metrics.
One example is Spam. Spam as basically been defeated not by making but more onus on the email reader but having better spam detection which means 99% of the time users are not aware spam has even arrived
One danger is that they may give him too much and he starts saying weird things about frogs...(Apologies to DNA)
The one positive thing you could say about the bread products around him
was that they were probably as edible now as they were on the day they were
baked.
Terry Pratchett
If I had the points, I'd mod you up. Basically summed up all I was thinking
As a slightly off thread, I always wondered why Intel bought windriver. One of the issues we have is that finding someone who knows the OS well is difficuilt because there is no way of getting exposure to it unless you have a lot money.
I can't help thinking Intel have missed a trick here. With the rise of the embedded hobbiest with things like Raspberry Pi, a new generation of engineers are learning, however there experience is based around ARM and linux, so further marginalising Intel in the embedded world, which is likely to be the big growth area in the future.
If intel was smart they would create there own hobbiest board based around an embeeded core duo or the like and provide a free version of vxworks to run on it. It doesn't need some of the high end features, but would provide early exposure to the OS as well as raising the profile of Intel in the embedded space.
Just a thought....
Whoops posted as AC
Just think without the manned space program and the technology behind it, film and TV special effects wouldn't be half as good as they are now ;)
Also it wouldn't be so easy to identify and out the conspiracy nutters
Ahh, floppies. The very definition of optimism knowing that when the following message came up
Not ready reading drive A
Abort, Retry, Fail?
That you were screwed, but you would still choose one anyway
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abort,_Retry,_Fail%3F
Also most likely both would of been written in assembler at the time, the analysis is most likely flawed. On the other hand the creator of QDOS has already admitted that his was work did invole using a debugger on CP/M so it wasn't totally clean.
Here's the register take on it http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/08/07/kildall_unforensic_ieee_smear/
and here's Verity Stob's
Waltz$
'Ask Bill why function code 6 [in MS-DOS, to output a string] ends in a dollar sign. No one in the world knows that but me' — the late Gary Kildall, inventor of CP/M and founder of Intergalactic Digital Research, quoted by Robert Cringely in Accidental Empires.
One night in his office, Bill Gates is alone.
He's done all his email and he's ready for home.
But there's a light in the corner from no glowing screen —
It's the ghost of Gary Kildall, all bearded and green.
Cries the spirit: Hey William, with all due respect
Windows is but CP/M, and I've come to collect.
Offer me no argument, I'll not stand for tricks:
For I know why there's a dollar in function code 6.
Sing: We'll have no excuses, we'll have no more tricks,
Kildall put the dollar sign in function code 6!
Then Gates eyes the spirit without fear in his soul,
And calls to his rival: Go hence bearded ghoul!
Do you think I will yield to this Scooby-Doo tactic?
Where now is the firm that was 'Intergalactic'?
Your BIOS lies obsolete, your functions uncalled,
And if programmers saw them they'd be quite appalled,
It matters not a bit that you scream and you holler
For what kind of jerk ends a string with a dollar?
Sing: A currency display bug must most surely foller,
The ghost ends his strings not with NUL but with $!
Now when Bill calls the shots we know who prevails.
And it seems so this instance. The spook stops his wails.
Its extremities fade — like the feline in Alice —
Till only its head's left, still leering with malice.
But it calls out defiantly: Now don't you forget
You've won in this dollar-world, but there's more to come yet.
CP/M's still wowing 'em where the folks aren't so pure-oh:
For the demons of Hellfire have switched to the Euro.
Sing: The dominion of Beelzebub makes us all feel uneasy
But at least the exchange rate is on par with the EC.
One two three one three two three two one stop.
There is another reason why such a system suck. It ignores the fundamentals of team dynamics in a development environment. In a team you have innovators, those guys who are always coming up with the new ideas. You also have the consolidators, those guys who do the dull stuff, like maintaining legacy code, documentation. If you have a team full of innovators they will always be looking at the next great thing and want to work on maintaining the present work. If you have a team of consolidators, you will get a static stale development team. The right mix is a combination of both.
One of the problem with stack is system is it emphasises one side over the other, usually the innovators, who tend to shout loudest anyway, and ignore the guys in the background who provide the support to those guys.
I firmly believe that there is no individual merit system that cannot be gamed and is not counter-productive to a team. If you wish to implement a merit system, rate the team, not the individuals. In the end a badly performing team will force out the poor performers themselves if there promotion/raises are based on the teams performance.
I can only talk from what I have seen and done, but in the UK we have a online university called the Open university which is generally well regarded. That is not to say that all employers will provide the same respect as say a MSc from Oxford or Cambridge(Actually a side point, a MSc from Oxford or Cambridge is generally worthless since they will award you one for just staying alive after your BSc), but a lot of managers I know got their MBA's from the Open University so they know its value.
Generally most qualifications especially technical ones really show nothing about once you left university Any attempt to continue your education and extend your skills and knowledge should be valued by your present and future employer. If not you are working for the wrong company.
Early reviewers say that the result is worse than the original, but much better than the Special Edition.
But still better than Red Tails