TFA doesn't actually mention any problems, and most people on the non-public SP2 Beta news groups (disclaimer: I'm an SP2 technical tester) are reporting this beta is very stable. I haven't had any serious issues with it, and I've yet to see any proof of a 'show-stopper' that would cause such a delay.
Haven't you read the reports? When you put it in standby it steals your credit card and goes on a shopping spree, poisons your dog, microwaves your cat, gets intimate with your mother and your sister at the same time, torches your car, steals money from your favourite charity, sends insulting messages and incriminating photos to your boss, and turns your girlfriend into a lesbian.
A Ph. D. doesn't work that way, and however helpful intelligence might be to getting one, it isn't sufficient alone. You also need a large degree of tolerance for absurdity.
I know. I have a Masters. Part of me wonders if I'll regret never having gone for a PhD. However I could never tolerate the BS and it would be a hellish few years of my life with next to no pay....in a way it's too late for me anyway. I 33, married, and have a 5 month old. If I were going to get a PhD. I should have done it by now, before I had such responsibilities.
The reason why I like Google is that their search engine works extremely well. In fact, how often does google search find what you're looking for?
It actually depends on how specialized your search is. For example I wouldn't use the general web engine to find academic papers or medical literature.
One of the problems with determining how good a search engine is is working out what it's not displaying. How do you do that comparison when Google's considered the only game in town?
I remember AltaVista back in the day wasn't so bad then it went through a period where it wasn't keeping up, and Google took over. I still seem to see periods where Google's search isn't returning what I expect and then it gets better again. I would like to see a second search engine that's just as diverse so that there's some competition.
Personally, I'd like to see those that brought these charges in turn charged with child endangerment, and possibly for possessing child pornography. I can't think of anything more evil than a law designed to protect children being turned against them to ruin their lives by people whose beliefs are twisted incompatible with the freedoms they pretend to protect.
Anyone else reading the article think "Hot damn! Now I'll be able to do that PhD, get laid, get rich and retire in 5 years. I just have to pop lots of pills"? Sometimes reading the article (or even the summary in this case) can be a real bummer. I should've known better.
Kelly needs to cut staff but is obviously squeamish about letting people go. Her best bet is to let d-bag Doug do the dirty work, after which giving him the axe will not only be easy, but gratifying. Then Kelly can avail herself of the current worker surplus to re-staff her leaner, meaner team. Chances are she will be able to trade-up across the board.
That doesn't work. People aren't going to forget that she let a good manager go, and put a douche bag in charge that fired half the staff.
Sure, Doug is wasting time with his machinations. So is Stuart with his guru schtick. The question is, who is more valuable to Kelly?
Sure if it's fake "guru schtick" but that's not what the article indicated.
If being nice is the sharpest tool in Stuart's collection, he will fail hard trying to squeeze the necessary increase in productivity out of his empire of pampered loyalists.
Funny. The bosses that I've seen get the most out of me and the people I've worked with have not been the assholes.
I have over the years read several articles about who the most successful CEO's are, those that are humble. When things go well, they give credit to the "team". When things go bad they take the blame. I think in the long run nice guys finish first. You can not trust someone who is a backstabber.
You mean like Bill Gates? Steve Ballmer? Steve Jobs?
I don't think you're being realistic. It's harder to be a good person and a good CEO than it is to be a successful CEO. It's also more worthwhile since having success without having to sacrifice your integrity and your soul may mean you get to enjoy that success a lot more.
Of course you can always find an anecdotal counterexample, but the one time I decided I wanted to get someone out of a management position that was interfering with my job, it wound up backfiring hugely (the situation was *worse* after I succeeded) and on a personal level it's something I regret to this day.
On the other hand, every time I've come into a job situation and behaved with honesty and integrity, it's worked out well for me. And I get to sleep at night
I agree that you should do your job with honesty and integrity and that in the long run it's the best. However your vague description of things going badly for you when you tried to be ruthless isn't a good example. All this suggests is that you did poorly at something you had no experience with.
Reminds me of the frustrated scene in "Office Space" where 3 software engineers are trying to work out how to launder money - 'I can't believe what a bunch of nerds we are. We're looking up "money laundering" in a dictionary.'. One of them points out that they're not stupid, just inexperienced. Criminals are far stupider but more knowledgeable and experienced at commiting crime so are less likely to get caught.
why not just collect unemployment until you can find a decent-paying gig?... You'll be able to sleep in every day, go to the gym, work on personal projects, go out on dates, and much more!
Is that what you put on your resume, or is that what you tell the girls when you ask them out on a date?
Define "worth keeping". I don't recall the article saying that Doug was inept, just that he was a ruthless jerk. His "backstabbing" was pretty insightful, IMO, and for Kelly, keeping him around was probably the right choice given the economic climate.
Huh? In the current economic climate, where you can only afford to keep some of your staff, you'd pick the shark who trashes moral, takes as much out of the company as he can, and doesn't do the job effectively? (I'm sorry but no matter what the article says about both being competentif you're spending your time being petty and passing the buck or stealing credit, that's less time you have to do your job competently) Meanwhile fire someone that could raise your moral by being fair to the employees you can keep? Way to guarantee your company sinks.
That was my initial reaction. But at that level of responsibility I much prefer someone being appointed for their competency to manage well rather than their ability to do technical work. I have no idea if Chu is a good manager or not, just saying that the Peter Principle is something to be avoided.
That's rather unfair. I'm guessing this wasn't a one man technical effort and that Steven Chu led a team. Now that doesn't immediately make him competent to lead at the national level but I don't think he could be where he is without some management skills. In my experience the best managers I've had are ex-techies who've either lost interest, or patience, or passion...or have other responsibilities (usually one or more children) and who don't want to spend the time keeping up with every technical development any more. The only way to know if he'll do well at the national level is to try him out and see how he does.
Anyone remember the seen from the movie Amadeus where the Emperor had declared that the ballet was banned, so he walks into a rehersal and sees how ridiculous ballet is without music. The difference is the emperor changes his mind and allows the music whereas our media companies aren't that sensible.
I'm getting a mental image of a boardroom full of executives forced to read the policy out loud at gunpoint by a sysadmin that's gone postal and insists no one will get hurt if they just read the whole thing.
"The Great Underground Empire has recently fallen and the land is in disarray. The Royal Treasury has been sacked. The stock market has collapsed, leading even mighty FrobozzCo International to fire employees from throughout its subsidiaries
One reason I think Apple has such a cult following is that there is something to follow. When was the last time you got excited about a new Dell product offering?
All my laptops have been Dells. Despite the issues I've had (2 failed hardrives, failed motherboard, older ones had screens that would get scuffed by the casing) they're consistently about 20-30% cheaper - not something i can ignore. Also they carry top end mobile GPUs. I'm right into flight simulators and get most of my "me time" on the train (1st person shooters occassionally catch my interest, but I wouldn't spend big money to play them). No Apple computer at the time of purchase would do for me what my current Dell laptop does. The prices on the Apple machines were the highest, and my experiences with Apple support make Dell's missed appointments etc look good. Oh and for that higher price the hard drives weren't as large, the processors were slower and I didn't get a complimentary 3 year warranty. I'm very excited about having a flight simulator, DVD player, chess machine, occassional games machine, portable book reader, music player. The more grunt and the less I had to pay the better.
At some point, though, Apple will have to overcome the (incorrect) perception that "Steve Jobs is Apple", and that without him, Apple will most certainly fail
They rebuilt the company on the perception that his re-taking control would make all the difference. Apple, like few other companies is built on marketing perception. Their products are okay (not revolutionary, certainly not what the fans claim). Their support is patchy and their disregard for the customer comes across often. What has bolstered them is this false perception that all things coming from Steve Jobs' head are creatively brilliant. You reap what you sew.
Can't you see this is just more proof the moon landings didn't happen!? It's all part of a massive deal between Disney studios that shot the original moon landings and Bollywood. In exchange for their support Bollywood have the rights for Highschool Musical 4: Summer in Mumbai in which the kids all get summer jobs in an Indian call center but struggle to fit in because their names don't need to be westernized. Disney will also be outsourcing the next lunar landings to a Bollywood studio to cut costs. Expect to see moon rocks in the shape of traditional Indian cusine some time early next decade.
Please explain then why the airport in Sydney Australia had to be lengthened specifically to accomodate the A380. Whereas we've had 747s landing here for decades.
I suspect that there are a lot of slashdotters who aren't strong on Cosmology and won't be bothered looking up the significance of the CMB on Wikipedia (I must say the Wikipedia article is particularly dense and won't be the easiest for non-specialists to digest).
So in a nutshell, the CMB is the the radiation we see in every direction of the sky. It's a little more complicated but you can think of it as the afterglow of the big bang. (Note: That is an over-simplication. To understand it better you have to look at a timeline of what happened after the big bang, especially hyper-inflation and recombination).
The reason it's so important is that it is the result of and thus put limits on the conditions at the time of the Big Bang. Since we don't have time machines and can't observe the universe from the outside, it is a critical piece of observational data against which we test our theories.
It is a particularly important piece of the puzzle when trying to work out what's going on with regards to dark matter because the amount of dark matter and the way in which it formed must be consistent with conditions that produced the CMB we observe.
Someone please Correct me if I'm wrong but if you're mapping 4GB of video RAM you'll not be able to run a 32 bit OS. Given that this is a gaming PC, wouldn't this be a deal breaker? I mean even the uber gamers occassionally like to run older games right?
I keep the cards with the device I use them most with.
MicroSD - my phone or GPS SD - Point and click camera CF - SLR
Oh and chuck smaller capacity cards as you replace them (like the ones that they ship with cameras and fit 3 images). They're worse than useless - they're a distraction (possibly at a crucial time in photography).
I find I don't need thousands of SD cards. I probably have 20 SD cards and 10 CF cards.
Since the name is still under copyright, I propose that we have a new comic "Poopie the sailor person". He could go around eating brussel sprouts. His girlfriend's name would be Canola Oil and his arch enemy Brittas would be a thug that went around killing copyright holders and waiting until the copyright expired.
Will Poopie save the day? Tune in same bat time, same bat channel. Same bat shit.
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TFA doesn't actually mention any problems, and most people on the non-public SP2 Beta news groups (disclaimer: I'm an SP2 technical tester) are reporting this beta is very stable. I haven't had any serious issues with it, and I've yet to see any proof of a 'show-stopper' that would cause such a delay.
Haven't you read the reports? When you put it in standby it steals your credit card and goes on a shopping spree, poisons your dog, microwaves your cat, gets intimate with your mother and your sister at the same time, torches your car, steals money from your favourite charity, sends insulting messages and incriminating photos to your boss, and turns your girlfriend into a lesbian.
What leads to this sort of decline?
Greed. From shareholders, managers and customers.
More more more for less less less....something's gotta give.
A Ph. D. doesn't work that way, and however helpful intelligence might be to getting one, it isn't sufficient alone. You also need a large degree of tolerance for absurdity.
I know. I have a Masters. Part of me wonders if I'll regret never having gone for a PhD. However I could never tolerate the BS and it would be a hellish few years of my life with next to no pay....in a way it's too late for me anyway. I 33, married, and have a 5 month old. If I were going to get a PhD. I should have done it by now, before I had such responsibilities.
The reason why I like Google is that their search engine works extremely well. In fact, how often does google search find what you're looking for?
It actually depends on how specialized your search is. For example I wouldn't use the general web engine to find academic papers or medical literature.
One of the problems with determining how good a search engine is is working out what it's not displaying. How do you do that comparison when Google's considered the only game in town?
I remember AltaVista back in the day wasn't so bad then it went through a period where it wasn't keeping up, and Google took over. I still seem to see periods where Google's search isn't returning what I expect and then it gets better again. I would like to see a second search engine that's just as diverse so that there's some competition.
Offtopic: That would be zoophilia, not paedophilia...
If it's a puppy can't it be both?
Personally, I'd like to see those that brought these charges in turn charged with child endangerment, and possibly for possessing child pornography. I can't think of anything more evil than a law designed to protect children being turned against them to ruin their lives by people whose beliefs are twisted incompatible with the freedoms they pretend to protect.
Anyone else reading the article think "Hot damn! Now I'll be able to do that PhD, get laid, get rich and retire in 5 years. I just have to pop lots of pills"? Sometimes reading the article (or even the summary in this case) can be a real bummer. I should've known better.
Keep your eye on the ball here.
Try to be a little less consdescending here.
Kelly needs to cut staff but is obviously squeamish about letting people go. Her best bet is to let d-bag Doug do the dirty work, after which giving him the axe will not only be easy, but gratifying. Then Kelly can avail herself of the current worker surplus to re-staff her leaner, meaner team. Chances are she will be able to trade-up across the board.
That doesn't work. People aren't going to forget that she let a good manager go, and put a douche bag in charge that fired half the staff.
Sure, Doug is wasting time with his machinations. So is Stuart with his guru schtick. The question is, who is more valuable to Kelly?
Sure if it's fake "guru schtick" but that's not what the article indicated.
If being nice is the sharpest tool in Stuart's collection, he will fail hard trying to squeeze the necessary increase in productivity out of his empire of pampered loyalists.
Funny. The bosses that I've seen get the most out of me and the people I've worked with have not been the assholes.
I have over the years read several articles about who the most successful CEO's are, those that are humble. When things go well, they give credit to the "team". When things go bad they take the blame. I think in the long run nice guys finish first. You can not trust someone who is a backstabber.
You mean like Bill Gates? Steve Ballmer? Steve Jobs?
I don't think you're being realistic. It's harder to be a good person and a good CEO than it is to be a successful CEO. It's also more worthwhile since having success without having to sacrifice your integrity and your soul may mean you get to enjoy that success a lot more.
Of course you can always find an anecdotal counterexample, but the one time I decided I wanted to get someone out of a management position that was interfering with my job, it wound up backfiring hugely (the situation was *worse* after I succeeded) and on a personal level it's something I regret to this day.
On the other hand, every time I've come into a job situation and behaved with honesty and integrity, it's worked out well for me. And I get to sleep at night
I agree that you should do your job with honesty and integrity and that in the long run it's the best. However your vague description of things going badly for you when you tried to be ruthless isn't a good example. All this suggests is that you did poorly at something you had no experience with.
Reminds me of the frustrated scene in "Office Space" where 3 software engineers are trying to work out how to launder money - 'I can't believe what a bunch of nerds we are. We're looking up "money laundering" in a dictionary.'. One of them points out that they're not stupid, just inexperienced. Criminals are far stupider but more knowledgeable and experienced at commiting crime so are less likely to get caught.
why not just collect unemployment until you can find a decent-paying gig? ... You'll be able to sleep in every day, go to the gym, work on personal projects, go out on dates, and much more!
Is that what you put on your resume, or is that what you tell the girls when you ask them out on a date?
Define "worth keeping". I don't recall the article saying that Doug was inept, just that he was a ruthless jerk. His "backstabbing" was pretty insightful, IMO, and for Kelly, keeping him around was probably the right choice given the economic climate.
Huh? In the current economic climate, where you can only afford to keep some of your staff, you'd pick the shark who trashes moral, takes as much out of the company as he can, and doesn't do the job effectively? (I'm sorry but no matter what the article says about both being competentif you're spending your time being petty and passing the buck or stealing credit, that's less time you have to do your job competently) Meanwhile fire someone that could raise your moral by being fair to the employees you can keep? Way to guarantee your company sinks.
That was my initial reaction. But at that level of responsibility I much prefer someone being appointed for their competency to manage well rather than their ability to do technical work. I have no idea if Chu is a good manager or not, just saying that the Peter Principle is something to be avoided.
That's rather unfair. I'm guessing this wasn't a one man technical effort and that Steven Chu led a team. Now that doesn't immediately make him competent to lead at the national level but I don't think he could be where he is without some management skills. In my experience the best managers I've had are ex-techies who've either lost interest, or patience, or passion...or have other responsibilities (usually one or more children) and who don't want to spend the time keeping up with every technical development any more. The only way to know if he'll do well at the national level is to try him out and see how he does.
Anyone remember the seen from the movie Amadeus where the Emperor had declared that the ballet was banned, so he walks into a rehersal and sees how ridiculous ballet is without music. The difference is the emperor changes his mind and allows the music whereas our media companies aren't that sensible.
I'm sure if you ask them to, they will.
I'm getting a mental image of a boardroom full of executives forced to read the policy out loud at gunpoint by a sysadmin that's gone postal and insists no one will get hurt if they just read the whole thing.
"The Great Underground Empire has recently fallen and the land is in disarray. The Royal Treasury has been sacked. The stock market has collapsed, leading even mighty FrobozzCo International to fire employees from throughout its subsidiaries
So it's reality based then?
One reason I think Apple has such a cult following is that there is something to follow. When was the last time you got excited about a new Dell product offering?
All my laptops have been Dells. Despite the issues I've had (2 failed hardrives, failed motherboard, older ones had screens that would get scuffed by the casing) they're consistently about 20-30% cheaper - not something i can ignore. Also they carry top end mobile GPUs. I'm right into flight simulators and get most of my "me time" on the train (1st person shooters occassionally catch my interest, but I wouldn't spend big money to play them). No Apple computer at the time of purchase would do for me what my current Dell laptop does. The prices on the Apple machines were the highest, and my experiences with Apple support make Dell's missed appointments etc look good. Oh and for that higher price the hard drives weren't as large, the processors were slower and I didn't get a complimentary 3 year warranty. I'm very excited about having a flight simulator, DVD player, chess machine, occassional games machine, portable book reader, music player. The more grunt and the less I had to pay the better.
At some point, though, Apple will have to overcome the (incorrect) perception that "Steve Jobs is Apple", and that without him, Apple will most certainly fail
They rebuilt the company on the perception that his re-taking control would make all the difference. Apple, like few other companies is built on marketing perception. Their products are okay (not revolutionary, certainly not what the fans claim). Their support is patchy and their disregard for the customer comes across often. What has bolstered them is this false perception that all things coming from Steve Jobs' head are creatively brilliant. You reap what you sew.
Can't you see this is just more proof the moon landings didn't happen!? It's all part of a massive deal between Disney studios that shot the original moon landings and Bollywood. In exchange for their support Bollywood have the rights for Highschool Musical 4: Summer in Mumbai in which the kids all get summer jobs in an Indian call center but struggle to fit in because their names don't need to be westernized. Disney will also be outsourcing the next lunar landings to a Bollywood studio to cut costs. Expect to see moon rocks in the shape of traditional Indian cusine some time early next decade.
Please explain then why the airport in Sydney Australia had to be lengthened specifically to accomodate the A380. Whereas we've had 747s landing here for decades.
I suspect that there are a lot of slashdotters who aren't strong on Cosmology and won't be bothered looking up the significance of the CMB on Wikipedia (I must say the Wikipedia article is particularly dense and won't be the easiest for non-specialists to digest).
So in a nutshell, the CMB is the the radiation we see in every direction of the sky. It's a little more complicated but you can think of it as the afterglow of the big bang. (Note: That is an over-simplication. To understand it better you have to look at a timeline of what happened after the big bang, especially hyper-inflation and recombination).
The reason it's so important is that it is the result of and thus put limits on the conditions at the time of the Big Bang. Since we don't have time machines and can't observe the universe from the outside, it is a critical piece of observational data against which we test our theories.
It is a particularly important piece of the puzzle when trying to work out what's going on with regards to dark matter because the amount of dark matter and the way in which it formed must be consistent with conditions that produced the CMB we observe.
On the Extreme 4 GB of Video RAM? Seriously?
Someone please Correct me if I'm wrong but if you're mapping 4GB of video RAM you'll not be able to run a 32 bit OS. Given that this is a gaming PC, wouldn't this be a deal breaker? I mean even the uber gamers occassionally like to run older games right?
I keep the cards with the device I use them most with.
MicroSD - my phone or GPS
SD - Point and click camera
CF - SLR
Oh and chuck smaller capacity cards as you replace them (like the ones that they ship with cameras and fit 3 images). They're worse than useless - they're a distraction (possibly at a crucial time in photography).
I find I don't need thousands of SD cards. I probably have 20 SD cards and 10 CF cards.
Ballmer should be nervous.
Well if you keep Balmer, you have to factor in the cost of bolting down every chair in the place.
Since the name is still under copyright, I propose that we have a new comic "Poopie the sailor person". He could go around eating brussel sprouts. His girlfriend's name would be Canola Oil and his arch enemy Brittas would be a thug that went around killing copyright holders and waiting until the copyright expired.
Will Poopie save the day? Tune in same bat time, same bat channel. Same bat shit.