That leaves an estimated six billion dollars to his heirs,
No thats not true;
From: http://www.nndb.com/people/445/000022379/ He's said his children won't inherit any great wealth when he dies. "There's no reason why future generations of little Buffetts should command society just because they came from the right womb. Where's the justice in that?"
>sometimes the 6-year-old has it right. "Why don't people just talk instead of having wars?"
Have you've ever seen two 6 year olds fight over a useless toy both of them will forget in about 2 hours?
Have you've ever seen a 6 year old go into extreme crying/temper tantrum mode causing fustration to their parents (you know, the ones who feed and love them) just because they can't get a small shiny colourful package of candy?
When the majority of voting shareholders are actively managing the company, how can that rule apply? Google could lose money and as long as the majority of shareholders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, are ok with that what can anyone do?
The minority shareholders can't out-vote the majority. The government officials are not going to step in just because a company is running out of money.
>that doesn't address the fundamental problem of joining and reading/updating/deleting rows from six tables is slower (in most, but not all cases) than putting it in one.
May I suggest you build your own persistency layer on the tier you have control over that does the inserting/updating/deleting? That way you just need to address the 6 tables once and never look at it again. I don't think you should have a problem with a 2-3(?) hour job.
Everyone is different so I would take a manager and ask for feedback on a draft.
But in general;
>To what depth should one descend into Information Security and Technology topics?
Enough to make it clear as to why the topic is important and what impact it makes on the company. And not too long to make people bored.
> More generally, how would a technical person relate to a non-technical person?
With clear accurate words and descriptive and varied sentences. Interesting examples are good too. One of the best documents about a technical/complex topic I've read is at http://www.torontoinquiry.ca/ It was a long and boring inquiry about computer leasing, goverment procedures and its long and detailed. But reads like a trashy novel and very accessable and understandable. I enjoyed reading it and afterwards I felt I knew what had happened.
>Should all technical terms be defined or just cryptic ones?
Every single one of them in the glossery.
>What assumptions are reasonable to make about the reader (Non-Technical Managers)?
That they have at least a high-school level reading level and they need to know the information contained in your document.
>What physical format should an analysis take, bulleted points or in depth discussion?"
Yes. Use what ever you think you should need to use to clearly covey information. Formatting and layout are just tools.
"To map the very stuff of life; to look into the genetic mirror and watch a million generations march past. That, friends, is both our curse and our proudest achievement. For it is in reaching to our beginnings that we begin to learn who we truly are."
-- Academician Prokhor Zakharov,
"Address to the Faculty"
I think the parent realizes this. Thats why he is saying to have a financial safety net for when bad things happen. Live within your means so you can build a net and so you don't feel like you "deserve" a certain lifestyle.
A net won't save you from everything, but its hard to feel sorry for someone who didn't make the sacrifices to financially protect himself from "bad things" that everyone should realize could happen.
>The problem with this approach is that you damage the business by thinking only of yourself.
Again, 1000 times over, I rather destroy my business/job than destroy my family. When I say that, I'm not thinking about myself, I'm thinking about my family and those that mean alot to me.
>I'm not sure I'd directly say that customers aren't a priority (because he'll certainly take it that way) and that could get around.
Between my family and personal relationship life and business life/customers, the later doesn't even rank close.
I wouldn't care if it get around. "I failed to perform to what a customer expected because I had to handle my personal life." is something I can easily live with.
You can ALWAYS get other customers/bosses/co-workers but you can't get another family.
On one hand, there should be nothing wrong bunch of people getting together in public.
But... it is disturbing when you are not part of the crowd/don't get it. Imagine if you held an open party at a public park and suddenly a bunch of people you don't know showed up dressed in all leather and large hats. Is that funny or unsettling? How would you feel about a bunch of people who effectively hijacked your party because they thought it would be fun?
>As long as a flash mob/stunt doesn't injure innocent bystanders and cause undue distress to officials I don't see the harm.
From what I can tell, it did cause undue stress on the Best Buy employees.
After you've set up ads and paid subscriptions (for extra features!) its all about keeping them coming back;
1. Slashvertisments. Hidden ads disgused as original content! Two birds, one stone!
2. Obvious trolls posing as "news that you want to know." Flamewars never hurt anyone that really matters but it does drive up website hits!
3. Dupes. Make it look like you have more content each and every day!
4. User editable "tags" to postings. Make it look like you care about the public's opinion but, really, its your website. Trust me, no one is going to notice when you "edit" them.
But dude, its lines are unrestrained. UNRESTRAINED!!!!
I don't know about you, but do you know how much it bugs me went I you have to look at a monitor's restrained lines all day long?
Just the other day I was telling my coworker that I would pay good money for a monitor with a form that is innovating, offering designs that are both personal and novel.
>It could be either, it could be both. >If the browser is a critical thinker, he/she can derive what's missing.
Ok, so in my example what is the possible reason? Its almost become fashionable to hate the Bush administration and there are examples of photoshopped photos of US officials. Recently retired high ranking generals came out very critical of Rumsfeld which caused him to go on the defensive to address it, also Bush is at a all-time approval rating low. What does the critical thinker derive as the reason for the hypothetical censorship?
>and where there is a will, there is a way.
Is this what it comes down to? "I'm sure that everything will be ok if we just let things be. Somehow. Someway. One day, eventually."?
>google just provides a valuable tool to achieve it
How can Google be the tool to get around censorship when it actively participates in it?
>Basically...they improve the Google experience for Chinese users at the expense of censorship.
Who gives a crap about the "Google experience" if the experience is censored? "Wow, look how fast I can get the government-approved view of the world!"
>I'm pretty sure that the guys running Google understand that censorship ultimately can't work forever.
Censorship doesn't have to last forever to be effective. 1989 happened 17 years ago and so far thats good enough for the Chinese government.
>google add a note at the bottom of the page saying something to the effect of "some of your search results have been omitted in compliance with local laws".
Suppose I search for "rumsfeld secretary of defense " and I get a nice set of results but at the bottom of the search page it says "some of your search results have been omitted in compliance with local laws".
Now is it; 1. Faked pictures/fan-fic stories about Donald Rumsfeld that clearly (or maybe not so clearly) break one of the multiple local decency laws. or 2. Legitimate criticism of a high-ranking official highlighting his various professional flaws worthy of public discussion.
For me the whole Google/China thing comes down to the question - Do you trust a company and a government to think for you?
>Google isn't censoring the internet for the chinese, they are optimizing it.
Thats a new one.
They are omitting results due to local laws. If this is optimizing, why don't they omit every single search result in America that would break local laws here?
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That leaves an estimated six billion dollars to his heirs,
No thats not true;
From: http://www.nndb.com/people/445/000022379/
He's said his children won't inherit any great wealth when he dies. "There's no reason why future generations of little Buffetts should command society just because they came from the right womb. Where's the justice in that?"
And Bill Gates has said similar things also.
>sometimes the 6-year-old has it right. "Why don't people just talk instead of having wars?"
Have you've ever seen two 6 year olds fight over a useless toy both of them will forget in about 2 hours?
Have you've ever seen a 6 year old go into extreme crying/temper tantrum mode causing fustration to their parents (you know, the ones who feed and love them) just because they can't get a small shiny colourful package of candy?
Sometimes 6 year olds don't have it right.
>Sorry, but I'd consider it more evil to deprive China of Google, even if it is censored.
Why do you say this?
Google is a company; is it wrong to deprive a group a people access to the services of a company?
Do you also think it is wrong if China kicked out Pfizer? Or Universal Studios? Or a noodle-making Japanese company?
Why do the people of China NEED the services of Google?
When the majority of voting shareholders are actively managing the company, how can that rule apply? Google could lose money and as long as the majority of shareholders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, are ok with that what can anyone do?
The minority shareholders can't out-vote the majority.
The government officials are not going to step in just because a company is running out of money.
Thats Reality 101.
>that doesn't address the fundamental problem of joining and reading/updating/deleting rows from six tables is slower (in most, but not all cases) than putting it in one.
May I suggest you build your own persistency layer on the tier you have control over that does the inserting/updating/deleting? That way you just need to address the 6 tables once and never look at it again. I don't think you should have a problem with a 2-3(?) hour job.
For future reference, ask for a view with the 6 tables joined.
Then you can have build the simple query you want and any issues with performance/maintenance will be in in the DBA hands.
Unless you are playing with data-warehouse size data or are using a toy *cough*MySQL*cough* a view like this shouldn't be a problem.
Everyone is different so I would take a manager and ask for feedback on a draft.
But in general;
>To what depth should one descend into Information Security and Technology topics?
Enough to make it clear as to why the topic is important and what impact it makes on the company. And not too long to make people bored.
> More generally, how would a technical person relate to a non-technical person?
With clear accurate words and descriptive and varied sentences. Interesting examples are good too. One of the best documents about a technical/complex topic I've read is at http://www.torontoinquiry.ca/ It was a long and boring inquiry about computer leasing, goverment procedures and its long and detailed. But reads like a trashy novel and very accessable and understandable. I enjoyed reading it and afterwards I felt I knew what had happened.
>Should all technical terms be defined or just cryptic ones?
Every single one of them in the glossery.
>What assumptions are reasonable to make about the reader (Non-Technical Managers)?
That they have at least a high-school level reading level and they need to know the information contained in your document.
>What physical format should an analysis take, bulleted points or in depth discussion?"
Yes. Use what ever you think you should need to use to clearly covey information. Formatting and layout are just tools.
"To map the very stuff of life; to look into the genetic mirror and watch a million generations march past. That, friends, is both our curse and our proudest achievement. For it is in reaching to our beginnings that we begin to learn who we truly are."
-- Academician Prokhor Zakharov,
"Address to the Faculty"
Because its one more thing you have to worry about and which you may not be able to justify to those you need to justify your time.
Why not write up a thick document that you may or may not need just because its "standard" in some programming methodology?
The only person who can truly explain why Chuck-Norris jokes are funny is Chuck Norris.
>You know, bad things happen.
I think the parent realizes this. Thats why he is saying to have a financial safety net for when bad things happen. Live within your means so you can build a net and so you don't feel like you "deserve" a certain lifestyle.
A net won't save you from everything, but its hard to feel sorry for someone who didn't make the sacrifices to financially protect himself from "bad things" that everyone should realize could happen.
>The problem with this approach is that you damage the business by thinking only of yourself.
Again, 1000 times over, I rather destroy my business/job than destroy my family. When I say that, I'm not thinking about myself, I'm thinking about my family and those that mean alot to me.
>I'm not sure I'd directly say that customers aren't a priority (because he'll certainly take it that way) and that could get around.
Between my family and personal relationship life and business life/customers, the later doesn't even rank close.
I wouldn't care if it get around. "I failed to perform to what a customer expected because I had to handle my personal life." is something I can easily live with.
You can ALWAYS get other customers/bosses/co-workers but you can't get another family.
I'm kinda mixed on this one.
... it is disturbing when you are not part of the crowd/don't get it. Imagine if you held an open party at a public park and suddenly a bunch of people you don't know showed up dressed in all leather and large hats. Is that funny or unsettling? How would you feel about a bunch of people who effectively hijacked your party because they thought it would be fun?
On one hand, there should be nothing wrong bunch of people getting together in public.
But
>As long as a flash mob/stunt doesn't injure innocent bystanders and cause undue distress to officials I don't see the harm.
From what I can tell, it did cause undue stress on the Best Buy employees.
After you've set up ads and paid subscriptions (for extra features!) its all about keeping them coming back;
1. Slashvertisments. Hidden ads disgused as original content! Two birds, one stone!
2. Obvious trolls posing as "news that you want to know." Flamewars never hurt anyone that really matters but it does drive up website hits!
3. Dupes. Make it look like you have more content each and every day!
4. User editable "tags" to postings. Make it look like you care about the public's opinion but, really, its your website. Trust me, no one is going to notice when you "edit" them.
But dude, its lines are unrestrained. UNRESTRAINED!!!!
I don't know about you, but do you know how much it bugs me went I you have to look at a monitor's restrained lines all day long?
Just the other day I was telling my coworker that I would pay good money for a monitor with a form that is innovating, offering designs that are both personal and novel.
>It could be either, it could be both.
>If the browser is a critical thinker, he/she can derive what's missing.
Ok, so in my example what is the possible reason? Its almost become fashionable to hate the Bush administration and there are examples of photoshopped photos of US officials. Recently retired high ranking generals came out very critical of Rumsfeld which caused him to go on the defensive to address it, also Bush is at a all-time approval rating low.
What does the critical thinker derive as the reason for the hypothetical censorship?
>and where there is a will, there is a way.
Is this what it comes down to? "I'm sure that everything will be ok if we just let things be. Somehow. Someway. One day, eventually."?
>google just provides a valuable tool to achieve it
How can Google be the tool to get around censorship when it actively participates in it?
>Basically...they improve the Google experience for Chinese users at the expense of censorship.
Who gives a crap about the "Google experience" if the experience is censored? "Wow, look how fast I can get the government-approved view of the world!"
>I'm pretty sure that the guys running Google understand that censorship ultimately can't work forever.
Censorship doesn't have to last forever to be effective. 1989 happened 17 years ago and so far thats good enough for the Chinese government.
As the AC clearly points out, you need more than just coding skills to stay employed. You also need interpersonal skills.
>google add a note at the bottom of the page saying something to the effect of "some of your search results have been omitted in compliance with local laws".
Suppose I search for "rumsfeld secretary of defense " and I get a nice set of results but at the bottom of the search page it says "some of your search results have been omitted in compliance with local laws".
Now is it;
1. Faked pictures/fan-fic stories about Donald Rumsfeld that clearly (or maybe not so clearly) break one of the multiple local decency laws.
or
2. Legitimate criticism of a high-ranking official highlighting his various professional flaws worthy of public discussion.
For me the whole Google/China thing comes down to the question - Do you trust a company and a government to think for you?
>Google isn't censoring the internet for the chinese, they are optimizing it.
Thats a new one.
They are omitting results due to local laws. If this is optimizing, why don't they omit every single search result in America that would break local laws here?
Its flamebait. Look how the article is set up. "more ammo", "Heart-warming".
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>How would Microsoft be different if Paul Allen was 50% (or more) owner.
Thats a great point, but do you really think this is the place that can insightfully discuss this?
You want a better story? How about this;
Apple's Finest Flip-Flops
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/mac/0,70546-0.h
Non-flamebait (unless you want to hang/defend Steve Jobs over everything he did in the past 15 years), interesting and tech-related.
The Cringely article is just fuel for hate on slashdot.
Ah well. :)
The 37 year old is a moron and has either a loose grasp of reality or is surrounded by bigger morons.
Happy now?
>How is it that there's no indication that they are corrupt to the core when so many MS developers are saying that they are?
I'm commenting on "It's difficult to know what has gone wrong, but it wouldn't be a surprise...". Its guessing, not insightful.
Unless you want to start playing the "he-said, she-said"/"I heard from a friend of a friend" games.