Well - many people have to do project time estimates to when the contract.
You are right about the job being - deliver the product, but if you don't have the contract in the first place, you're on the bread line!
So - my point to the guy was that he needs to ask questions to learn HOW the work is done. This makes him better at his job in the future - and less of a pain to the people he has to bug all the time to get their progress reports!
Also- like it or not - MSProject is the standard schedule package in use with maybe 99.99% of the market share. I don't like that there isn't a good alternative (at least MrProject isn't up to snuff yet... need to look at GanttProject mentioned above..) You also need to use whatever the rest of the company uses - the project manager RARELY gets to pick the tools.
Also, MSProject is a reasonable product. It does get the job done. Even though it comes from the Evil Empire -it still is a decent tool.
MS Project is your main tool - learn it - live it.
As someone else mentioned, your main purpose is to be the glue that hold the various groups working on a project together. This is done through meetings, and schedules.
You need to communicate, and clear up other's mis-communications. Keep asking questions - get the people to explain to you why something is going wrong. You'll eventually become an old hand at doing project estimates!
I've been listening to Air America lately - and mostly what I hear is disgruntled people not wanting to believe that Bush won. The conspiracy theories out there are amazing!
So what happens if the FIRST recount doesn't make Mr. Kerry President? Do we ask for ANOTHER recount ala 2000? 100K votes ain't that close folks!
Actually -what is in their "text books" is VERY important. It means the youth is being fed a steady diet of hate mongering - that everything bad in their lives is due to the great Satan. It's very much the same way that Hitler blamed the Jews for Germany's ills. Bin Laden blames us for everything wrong in the Middle east instead of looking to their own societies for most of their ills.
Note that 10M is better than 5B that SCO is suing for!!!!
I think the company did the right thing. It is only prudent to ask someone for the proof, like the numbers of the patents! Without that, it likely WAS a scam.
But then, losing the right to vote is suspension of rights as well.
As far as I'm concerned it makes perfect sense to dis-allow convicted felons the vote. They commited crimes against law-abiding citizens and there ARE consequences.
So Carter is belly-aching about the felons not being able to vote. What about the soldiers that were cheated of their vote in 2000? It cuts both ways!
For my first point, it isn't Jeb Bush's job to fix issues with Florida's voting mechanisms. It is the legislature that controls all of this.
Second - and more to the point - President Carter is a totally partisan observer here, and I discount ANYTHING he says on the subject due to that fact.
Lastly, this report asserts through inuendo that Katherine Harris and Jeb Bush committed some underhanded nonsense during the election. From my point of view - Mrs. Harris followed the letter of the law. It was the State Supreme court that kept on making it up as it went along!
You REALLY need to get your facts straight...or maybe NPR does... now THERE is a surprise.
In CA same sex mariages are illegal. They have been illegal for awhile, and the most recent decision I've heard is where the judge threw out all of the marriages performed in SF.
Now maybe some day the people of CA will decide otherwise, but right now that is the case. It's also possible that a judge will overturn that law - though it is also the wishes of a rather large majority (60%+) as of a few years ago via the CA initiative process.
Note - marriages are different from domestic partners here. A marriage is defined as between a man and a woman. That's it. Same sex couples have most of rights here that married people do - likely not all rights, but most.
When the mayor of SF decided that he didn't like that definition he unilaterlly decided to not obey the law. Likely he broke more than one law in doing so, and possibly could be criminally prosecuted, though the CA DA has chosen not too. What he SHOULD have done is gone to court on behalf of some representative couples and challenge the law in courts. That ISN'T what he did - he just broke the law -
They were taping the Kid's week shows to be viewed in late October. Point being the show had just returned from hiatus.
Trebek hadn't seen Ken for a couple months. Even though it plays on TV like it's back-to-back, they did get a break from each other. I imagine that he won't have ANY trouble at all calling the new champion by the correct name.
There is so much nonsense in this series I'm not sure what to comment about.
ARM advertises -just not in the magazines you read! Further, ARM isn't a monopolist, they just happen to be the most successful and oldest of the companies that supply this type of item. There is also Tensilica, MIPS, and ARC to name three of their competitors.
They also have done a good job of propagating their technology by giving some of it away! What say you? Yep. They have published the specs for the AMBA bus which has become the defacto standard for connecting things together inside a chip.
Now -they didn't give away their own implementations of this stuff, but the spec is more than sufficient to build the structure in a couple of days.
Perhaps ARMs biggest success has indeed been their market path. They have done deals with every major chip manufacturer so that I can get access to their designs by merely paying royalties. I can go give them 750K up front if I want their IP to use myself, or I can pay maybe 50 cents a chip instead. This gives me a lower entry price with only the foundary guys paying the 750K. In one fashion they get paid twice!
In any case, they aren't the only ones on the market, merely the most successful.
They are not only un-shielded, they are poorly maintained! Hams have been fighting the much simpler problem of AC arcing from power polls for decades to mention one problem.
Quick story - friend of mine and I were experiencing TERRIBLE power line noise on the HF frequencies. We used our beams to get a rough idea of where it was, then employed your basic Mark 1 sledge hammer to tweak each poll in the suspected area while carrying an AM radio. We located the problem in about 20 minutes of effort. We were lucky - his dad was a Lineman for the city utility.
The NORMAL way this goes is that it takes a couple of years and a couple of nastygrams from FCC to get a power company to fix the problem. Now add BPL to the mix and you have a recipe for disaster!
And when we do "De-regulate" they only do it half-way like the power utilties deregulation of a few years ago.
De-regulate - Hey you power companies, you aren't allowed to own power generation anymore! Oh - and you can't have long term contracts to insure your costs. We're forming a new "market" where everyone will bid on the price of power. We'll pick the most expensive one, and that is what everyone will make! If it costs you 5 bucks a kilowatt hour to buy the power, you can only charge your customers 1 buck per kilowatt hour!
EXCUSE ME? XP starts swapping as soon as you start ANYTHING. If you look at it's memory footprint out of the box it requires just at 128MB after boot. As soon as you try to use it it's swapping.
I agree 100% - and oddly I think software is the real commodity, not hardware!
While a base PC is a commodity, many peripheral solutions are not. Hardware will always have a physical cost, while software doesn't have too - if nothing else due to the cost of production between software and hardware. (Note I didn't account for development costs here.)
This means things that everyone uses, i.e. the OS will be a commodity. By-BYE Bill....
Well, it looks like it's more fundamental than that. Further, I would challenge this one in court because it is obvious to someone skilled in the art, i.e ME!
It looks like what they have REALLY patented is the method used to multiply up clock frequencies within a phase locked loop system. I would imagine there is prior art on this one going back 50 years.
If this patent is up-held, I would imagine 75% of all chip designs violate it! This is the same mechanism you use to take a 32Khz clock in and derive 3.2Mhz (or whatever multiple you want..)
"The U.S. was in great shape DUE to Clinton. Bush and his greed bastard henchmen fucked it all up."
The Dot Com era occured under Clinton which led to the recession. The recession technically started at the very end of the Clinton administration.
Clinton DID run away from the vast majority of challenges to the US abroad during his administration as written by the original poster. That taught the terrorists exactly the wrong lesson and emboldened them to strike again and again thinking that the US would turn and run.
Now onto topic! I commute with a gentleman/ex-canadian every day who has been living in the US for about 8 years now. He ran away from the taxes, poor health care, and constant interference of the government to come to California. (I can't explain why he chose CA..) He is now a US citizen thinking that this is the best place to be. Most interesting, since his Dad was British he has joint Canadian, British, and now US citizenship. He can work anywhere in the EU, Canada, or here. Look where he chooses to stay???
So why does the poor dude who started this whole topic think the grass is greener over our Northern border??? It's only green a few months a year!;-)
I've got to believe that you can sell it if you use the fact that NOVELL is become a large Linux play. Why not use NOVELLs solution running under Linux initially??????
Create a test case for Samba after that is successful, then say good bye to MS.
I've got to think that if NOVELL is already in use,then NOVELL as a replacement answer even though it is on top of Linux has to be politically possible??
Having been an "observer" of Stephen Dunifer and the FCC actions towards him for better than a decade, Mr. Dunnifer is definately in the "pirate" class. I've had more than one email exchange with the evil FCC engineer-in-charge at the time on the subject. (I live maybe 30 miles from Berzerkley and have never actually HEARD FRB..) I've also watched what Dunifer has said on their web site, etc over the years.
People would be best advised to study a little history before they start castigating the FCC, giving Dunifer full support, or ignoring his message.
As it turns out, in the mid 20's radio was in the state that Dunifer is advocating, i.e. pure chaos. You had grocery stores putting up transmitters and advertising without licensing, or auto-dealers, or whoever could afford the hardware. A true free-for-all.
Eventually congress stepped into the mess and passed the Communications act of 1934 which created the FCC. Part of FCCs charter was to regulate the air-waves so this problem wouldn't re-occur again.
Another red herring you hear all the time is "freedom of speach" on radio. The simple problem with this is that use of the radio spectrum is treated much like driving a car is under law. It is a privilege, not a right to have access to the radio spectrum under US law. That is what gives FCC the authority/ability to limit what people can say on broadcast radio! It's the same mechanisms that makes it illegal to drive as fast as you want too.
Now I mentioned that I also thought that Dunifer did have some good points to make even though he has acted as a pirate to make his point. The FCC had effectively frozen out legal low-power stations at the time Dunifer started transmitting. I think THAT was a mistake.
Local power in the US is sent via High Voltage AC. Very few connections in the US are DC - but there is at least one I know of. The Northwest Intertie used to ship power between Washington state and Southern CA uses a High Voltage DC. There is a simple physical reason why - it is about a 1500 mile trip, i.e. roughly 1/4 wavelength at 60Hz. They went DC because of that little feature.
The southern terminus of the transmission facility is visible off of I5 as you enter LA from the North.
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Well - many people have to do project time estimates to when the contract.
You are right about the job being - deliver the product, but if you don't have the contract in the first place, you're on the bread line!
So - my point to the guy was that he needs to ask questions to learn HOW the work is done. This makes him better at his job in the future - and less of a pain to the people he has to bug all the time to get their progress reports!
Also- like it or not - MSProject is the standard schedule package in use with maybe 99.99% of the market share. I don't like that there isn't a good alternative (at least MrProject isn't up to snuff yet... need to look at GanttProject mentioned above..) You also need to use whatever the rest of the company uses - the project manager RARELY gets to pick the tools.
Also, MSProject is a reasonable product. It does get the job done. Even though it comes from the Evil Empire -it still is a decent tool.
MS Project is your main tool - learn it - live it.
As someone else mentioned, your main purpose is to be the glue that hold the various groups working on a project together. This is done through meetings, and schedules.
You need to communicate, and clear up other's mis-communications. Keep asking questions - get the people to explain to you why something is going wrong. You'll eventually become an old hand at doing project estimates!
I've been listening to Air America lately - and mostly what I hear is disgruntled people not wanting to believe that Bush won. The conspiracy theories out there are amazing!
So what happens if the FIRST recount doesn't make Mr. Kerry President? Do we ask for ANOTHER recount ala 2000? 100K votes ain't that close folks!
Actually -what is in their "text books" is VERY important. It means the youth is being fed a steady diet of hate mongering - that everything bad in their lives is due to the great Satan. It's very much the same way that Hitler blamed the Jews for Germany's ills. Bin Laden blames us for everything wrong in the Middle east instead of looking to their own societies for most of their ills.
That one is EASY - Kerry will raise taxes, Bush won't. They have both said this REPEATEDLY.
Just for accuracy's sake - your off by a couple orders of magnitude. 186000/60 = 3100 miles
Note that 10M is better than 5B that SCO is suing for!!!!
I think the company did the right thing. It is only prudent to ask someone for the proof, like the numbers of the patents! Without that, it likely WAS a scam.
Wait a minute - that discribes ALL of Slashdot!!!
How is the Politics portion different?
As others have said - it depends on the state.
But then, losing the right to vote is suspension of rights as well.
As far as I'm concerned it makes perfect sense to dis-allow convicted felons the vote. They commited crimes against law-abiding citizens and there ARE consequences.
So Carter is belly-aching about the felons not being able to vote. What about the soldiers that were cheated of their vote in 2000? It cuts both ways!
For my first point, it isn't Jeb Bush's job to fix issues with Florida's voting mechanisms. It is the legislature that controls all of this.
Second - and more to the point - President Carter is a totally partisan observer here, and I discount ANYTHING he says on the subject due to that fact.
Lastly, this report asserts through inuendo that Katherine Harris and Jeb Bush committed some underhanded nonsense during the election. From my point of view - Mrs. Harris followed the letter of the law. It was the State Supreme court that kept on making it up as it went along!
If you are going to pick on someone for pickup trucks - PICK ON THE RIGHT IDIOTS...it was Dateline that blew up the truck on NBC.
SHEESH!
You REALLY need to get your facts straight...or maybe NPR does... now THERE is a surprise.
In CA same sex mariages are illegal. They have been illegal for awhile, and the most recent decision I've heard is where the judge threw out all of the marriages performed in SF.
Now maybe some day the people of CA will decide otherwise, but right now that is the case. It's also possible that a judge will overturn that law - though it is also the wishes of a rather large majority (60%+) as of a few years ago via the CA initiative process.
Note - marriages are different from domestic partners here. A marriage is defined as between a man and a woman. That's it. Same sex couples have most of rights here that married people do - likely not all rights, but most.
When the mayor of SF decided that he didn't like that definition he unilaterlly decided to not obey the law. Likely he broke more than one law in doing so, and possibly could be criminally prosecuted, though the CA DA has chosen not too. What he SHOULD have done is gone to court on behalf of some representative couples and challenge the law in courts. That ISN'T what he did - he just broke the law -
That's why I have no use for him.
I was at a taping of Jeopardy two weeks ago.
They were taping the Kid's week shows to be viewed in late October. Point being the show had just returned from hiatus.
Trebek hadn't seen Ken for a couple months. Even though it plays on TV like it's back-to-back, they did get a break from each other. I imagine that he won't have ANY trouble at all calling the new champion by the correct name.
There is so much nonsense in this series I'm not sure what to comment about.
ARM advertises -just not in the magazines you read! Further, ARM isn't a monopolist, they just happen to be the most successful and oldest of the companies that supply this type of item. There is also Tensilica, MIPS, and ARC to name three of their competitors.
They also have done a good job of propagating their technology by giving some of it away! What say you? Yep. They have published the specs for the AMBA bus which has become the defacto standard for connecting things together inside a chip.
Now -they didn't give away their own implementations of this stuff, but the spec is more than sufficient to build the structure in a couple of days.
Perhaps ARMs biggest success has indeed been their market path. They have done deals with every major chip manufacturer so that I can get access to their designs by merely paying royalties. I can go give them 750K up front if I want their IP to use myself, or I can pay maybe 50 cents a chip instead. This gives me a lower entry price with only the foundary guys paying the 750K. In one fashion they get paid twice!
In any case, they aren't the only ones on the market, merely the most successful.
They are not only un-shielded, they are poorly maintained! Hams have been fighting the much simpler problem of AC arcing from power polls for decades to mention one problem.
Quick story - friend of mine and I were experiencing TERRIBLE power line noise on the HF frequencies. We used our beams to get a rough idea of where it was, then employed your basic Mark 1 sledge hammer to tweak each poll in the suspected area while carrying an AM radio. We located the problem in about 20 minutes of effort. We were lucky - his dad was a Lineman for the city utility.
The NORMAL way this goes is that it takes a couple of years and a couple of nastygrams from FCC to get a power company to fix the problem. Now add BPL to the mix and you have a recipe for disaster!
And when we do "De-regulate" they only do it half-way like the power utilties deregulation of a few years ago.
De-regulate - Hey you power companies, you aren't allowed to own power generation anymore! Oh - and you can't have long term contracts to insure your costs. We're forming a new "market" where everyone will bid on the price of power. We'll pick the most expensive one, and that is what everyone will make! If it costs you 5 bucks a kilowatt hour to buy the power, you can only charge your customers 1 buck per kilowatt hour!
It does make one consider moving!!!
EXCUSE ME? XP starts swapping as soon as you start ANYTHING. If you look at it's memory footprint out of the box it requires just at 128MB after boot. As soon as you try to use it it's swapping.
XP is comfortable at 256Mb and above.
I agree 100% - and oddly I think software is the real commodity, not hardware!
While a base PC is a commodity, many peripheral solutions are not. Hardware will always have a physical cost, while software doesn't have too - if nothing else due to the cost of production between software and hardware. (Note I didn't account for development costs here.)
This means things that everyone uses, i.e. the OS will be a commodity. By-BYE Bill....
Yeah - but you gotta admit the choice of names was STOOPID!
I've seen it called PCI-E (usually with a capital letter) and this seems to be the easiest nomenclature around.
Only a couple problems with concept.
1) The patriot act won't be found un-constitutional.
2) You probably don't have the funds to afford the lawyer.
Isn't it just easier to tell the cops you are a hobbiest trying to fix his camera and put the matter to bed?
Well, it looks like it's more fundamental than that. Further, I would challenge this one in court because it is obvious to someone skilled in the art, i.e ME!
It looks like what they have REALLY patented is the method used to multiply up clock frequencies within a phase locked loop system. I would imagine there is prior art on this one going back 50 years.
If this patent is up-held, I would imagine 75% of all chip designs violate it! This is the same mechanism you use to take a 32Khz clock in and derive 3.2Mhz (or whatever multiple you want..)
"The U.S. was in great shape DUE to Clinton. Bush and his greed bastard henchmen fucked it all up."
;-)
The Dot Com era occured under Clinton which led to the recession. The recession technically started at the very end of the Clinton administration.
Clinton DID run away from the vast majority of challenges to the US abroad during his administration as written by the original poster. That taught the terrorists exactly the wrong lesson and emboldened them to strike again and again thinking that the US would turn and run.
Now onto topic! I commute with a gentleman/ex-canadian every day who has been living in the US for about 8 years now. He ran away from the taxes, poor health care, and constant interference of the government to come to California. (I can't explain why he chose CA..) He is now a US citizen thinking that this is the best place to be. Most interesting, since his Dad was British he has joint Canadian, British, and now US citizenship. He can work anywhere in the EU, Canada, or here. Look where he chooses to stay???
So why does the poor dude who started this whole topic think the grass is greener over our Northern border??? It's only green a few months a year!
I've got to believe that you can sell it if you use the fact that NOVELL is become a large Linux play. Why not use NOVELLs solution running under Linux initially??????
Create a test case for Samba after that is successful, then say good bye to MS.
I've got to think that if NOVELL is already in use,then NOVELL as a replacement answer even though it is on top of Linux has to be politically possible??
Having been an "observer" of Stephen Dunifer and the FCC actions towards him for better than a decade, Mr. Dunnifer is definately in the "pirate" class. I've had more than one email exchange with the evil FCC engineer-in-charge at the time on the subject. (I live maybe 30 miles from Berzerkley and have never actually HEARD FRB..) I've also watched what Dunifer has said on their web site, etc over the years.
People would be best advised to study a little history before they start castigating the FCC, giving Dunifer full support, or ignoring his message.
As it turns out, in the mid 20's radio was in the state that Dunifer is advocating, i.e. pure chaos. You had grocery stores putting up transmitters and advertising without licensing, or auto-dealers, or whoever could afford the hardware. A true free-for-all.
Eventually congress stepped into the mess and passed the Communications act of 1934 which created the FCC. Part of FCCs charter was to regulate the air-waves so this problem wouldn't re-occur again.
Another red herring you hear all the time is "freedom of speach" on radio. The simple problem with this is that use of the radio spectrum is treated much like driving a car is under law. It is a privilege, not a right to have access to the radio spectrum under US law. That is what gives FCC the authority/ability to limit what people can say on broadcast radio! It's the same mechanisms that makes it illegal to drive as fast as you want too.
Now I mentioned that I also thought that Dunifer did have some good points to make even though he has acted as a pirate to make his point. The FCC had effectively frozen out legal low-power stations at the time Dunifer started transmitting. I think THAT was a mistake.
Local power in the US is sent via High Voltage AC. Very few connections in the US are DC - but there is at least one I know of. The Northwest Intertie used to ship power between Washington state and Southern CA uses a High Voltage DC. There is a simple physical reason why - it is about a 1500 mile trip, i.e. roughly 1/4 wavelength at 60Hz. They went DC because of that little feature.
The southern terminus of the transmission facility is visible off of I5 as you enter LA from the North.