I was in a situation where we had a very bright and capable college intern, and we hired him when he graduated. The kid was the kind of person you could throw an amorphous ill-stated problem at and he'd work out a solution. He also had mad Linux and OSS skills which was sadly lacking at the company I was working for.
However, he was a bit odd, like Sheldon on Big Bang Theory (but a bit nicer). He was nervous with strangers. He had a certain way of living his life, and did not like change.
So (after he was moved out of my group) the company came along and put him on the road by himself to visit customer sites across the country and meet new people in unfamiliar cities. He melted down and was let go after a few months of that.
Some people were not meant to work with customers. Some people were not meant to work on amorphous technical problems. Everyone has strengths and weaknesses. A good manager will recognize that, and maximize the performance of their reports (along the lines of the theorem of comparative advantage).
I'm not saying you should never challenge your reports or encourage them to push their limits, but you should recognize that pushing them too far may break them.
Please explain why California doesn't have passenger rail and internet service equivalent to France
LawsuitsAnja Raudabaugh, executive director of the Madera County Farm Bureau, a plaintiff in one of the suits, said an injunction is the only avenue available to "prevent permanent damage and irreparable harm" to agriculture from construction and operation of the train system.
"Over the course of the last 20 years, nearly $500 billion has been collected by the telecom companies to (allegedly) bring America into the 21st century
People keep saying this, but precisely which law are they talking about?
I was in the Internet industry in 1996, and I never heard about this. There was loop access unbundling (which came and went), but I never heard about $200 billion or $500 billion going to expand broadband.
Note that in this case it's about good censorship. Most countries on earth have these kind of pre-election rules to combat PR attack on the last hours of elections
Most Islamic countries on earth have rules to combat insulting the Prophet. "Good censorship" is an oxymoron.
Any book that wants to claim to talk about US Internet speeds has to deal with the fact that our average local loops are significantly longer than those of most other countries.
I think there is a great detective story here, because it isn't just a rural or suburban detached house issue, but even in cities the average local loop length is longer, and every meter cuts down on DSL speed.
I suspect that in the 70's and 80's a lot of central offices were consolidated, which made tons of sense for efficient voice delivery, but had the knock -on effect of crushing DSL speeds with long local loops. Today, there is little desire to spend the capital on more distributed central offices.
Now I am sure there also is regulatory capture as well in terms of lowering competition through regulation or local franchising. But you have to address the fact that we are starting with longer loops.
new analysis suggests that if anything, suicides among farmers have been decreasing since the introduction of GM cotton by Monsanto in 2002...It also found that the adoption of pest-resistant Bt cotton varieties had led to massive increases in yield and a 40% decrease in pesticide use.
So stop repeating this false rumor, because you may be killing people by doing so.
What is the real reason for the suicides at all? Perhaps it is the state-owned institutions that dominate the banking sector and capital markets...
The report identifies a lack of financial support for farmers as a key problem leading many to borrow money from loan sharks at crippling interest rates.
there are always some who will push the legal and ethical envelope in order to make a larger profit. Such is the way of Capitalism, it appears
Isn't is more the way of Socialism, as these doctors are billing the government?
If they were actually billing the patients, the patients would probably say "screw you, why am I paying you twice for the same procedure? See you in court!"
There are huge areas where very poor people are living on subsistence agriculture in small plots that are not very productive, especially in Africa and the backwaters of India and China.
Eventually these small plots will be joined into huge efficient and more productive farms with GPS-optimized fertilization and irrigation.
All it would really take is true land ownership rights by the current farmers (many countries do not allow their poor farmers to own the land, its ownership is governmental or transfers are highly restricted), as well as some investment in infrastructure. The first would allow farmers to sell their small plots into larger farms, and the second would make it worth the investment in the large farms to be able to bring the produce out effectively.
More development of service or manufacturing jobs would also be needed to absorb many of the current farm workers, as the larger efficient farms would be more automated and need fewer workers.
A year before Ronald Reagan took office, the United States was #1 in the world in social mobility, meaning the possibility that a person born in one class could move up in his lifetime. Today, the United States is #31 among OECD nations.
Previous studies of recent U.S. trends in intergenerational income mobility have produced widely varying results, partly because of large sampling errors. By making more efficient use of the available information in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we generate more reliable estimates of the recent time series variation in intergenerational mobility. Our results, which pertain to the cohorts born between 1952 and 1975, do not reveal major changes in intergenerational mobility.
these are STEM jobs douche bag. Which means they will work for a corporation not start one. Having a STEM degree doesn't mean you have financial means or business knowledge to start a business.
Immigrant business founders tended to be highly educated - 96% held bachelor's degrees and 74% held graduate or postgraduate degrees, with 75% of these degrees in STEM fields (i.e. your "douche bags").
The vast majority of these company founders didn't come to the United States as entrepreneurs - 52% came to study, 40% came to work, and 5.5% came for family reasons. Only 1.6% came to start companies in America.
In a quarter of the U.S. science and technology companies founded from 1995 to 2005, the chief executive or lead technologist was foreign-born. In 2005, these companies generated $52 billion in revenue and employed 450,000 workers. In some industries, the numbers were much higher; in Silicon Valley, the percentage of immigrant-founded startups had increased to 52%.
Does anyone what these people do after coming to the US? Are they instantly eligible for food stamps, social security benefits, medicare/medicaid, unemployment etc. ?
1) You generally need to work for one year before you can get unemployment benefits for being laid off.
2) You are eligible for premium-free Part Medicare A if you are age 65 or older and you or your spouse worked and paid Medicare taxes for at least 10 years.
3) The Affordable Care Act of 2010, signed by President Obama on March 23, 2010, creates a national Medicaid minimum eligibility level of 133% of the federal poverty level ($29,700 for a family of four in 2011) for nearly all Americans under age 65. This Medicaid eligibility expansion goes into effect on January 1, 2014. Undocumented immigrants are not eligible for Medicaid regardless of their income, and legal immigrants who have resided in the U.S. for less than five years are also not eligible, though states have the option of extending Medicaid coverage to legal immigrant children and pregnant women who are in the 5-year waiting period.
4) For Social Security, most qualified aliens are ineligible for SSI until they become U.S. citizens. Moreover, a worker must have 10 years of Social Security-covered employment to be eligible for retirement benefits.
5) Non-citizens like tourists and students are generally not eligible for SNAP (food stamps). Non-citizens who must meet an additional condition need only meet ONE of the following conditions to be eligible for SNAP: 5 years of residence, 10 years of work, children under 18, blind or disabled, elderly born on or before 8-22-31 who lawfully resided in the U.S. on 8-22-96, or active duty in the military.
Modern machines read the barcodes on the reel to avoid that problem and passive elements are eletrically measured in the fraction of a second from pick to place and discarded when out of spec.
Thanks for the info!
But perhaps in this case someone chose the wrong reel ahead of time (accidentally or trying to be cheap), and programmed it in so that the machine read the "proper" barcode and placed the "in spec" inductor!
The best way it to impose high tariffs on any product coming form a country that doesn't mean out federal environment, safety and pay standards.
The US has the weakest regulations on firing employees in the world (including most developing nations), and of course our mandatory vacation time is much lower than Western Europe, so I guess by your calculus the world should impose high tariffs on us!
The world of manufacturing is faster and more flexible than ever because of cheap human labor in Chinese factory.
That is assuming your cheap Chinese labor put on the reel with the proper inductor value on the SMT pick and place machine (my anecdotal experience with Chinese assembly has not been very positive recently!)
Flying back home recently, there was a spare seat between myself and another passenger. The other passenger left his MacBook on the seat accidently as we were landing.
Upon the thrust reversers coming on, his MacBook flew off the seat and slammed hard into the floor.
Wind power already supplies over 21% of Denmarkâ(TM)s electricity
Denmark produced 9.84 TWhrof wind power in 2011. That is 1.1 GWe on average. In other words, all of Denmark's wind power is equivalent to about one nuclear reactor.
Moreover as Wikipedia points out "Denmark is connected by transmission line to other European countries (fx Cross-Skagerrak) and therefore it does not need to install additional peak-load plant to balance its wind power."
The US consumed 4,151 TWh of electricity in 2010, about 120 times the 34.5 TWh of electricity consumed by Denmark.
There are many broadcasters the world over broadcasting 1080p over the air.
According to my own sense of things and Wikipedia, there are zero 1080p/24 broadcasts in the world, even on satellite.
There are 1080p/24 video-on-demand files delivered by satellite.
1080p/24 (typically 1080p/23.98) though often used for production is kind of a special beast in the live signal broadcast engineering world. It has a tendency to break infrastructure designed around 720p/59.97 or 1080i/59.94.
The TV vendors went out and made 3D sets before the content producers and distributors were ready.
How many people watch 3D at home today? Not too many. The occasional 3d Blu-ray perhaps.
4K is the same way. It is being pushed out from TV vendors way ahead of a coherent strategy for production or distribution. Right now there is no 4K Blu-ray standard, for example.
That said, I believe 4K has a better chance of eventually being typical viewing in the home rather than glasses-based stereoscopic 3D which never will. But 4K being typical in the home is 5-10 years out.
I'll add that at least one major network uses IP contribution video from NFL statidums (JPEG 2000 at 100 Mbps). Evidently it works, but they and the stadiums are on-network with the same provider.
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I was in a situation where we had a very bright and capable college intern, and we hired him when he graduated. The kid was the kind of person you could throw an amorphous ill-stated problem at and he'd work out a solution. He also had mad Linux and OSS skills which was sadly lacking at the company I was working for.
However, he was a bit odd, like Sheldon on Big Bang Theory (but a bit nicer). He was nervous with strangers. He had a certain way of living his life, and did not like change.
So (after he was moved out of my group) the company came along and put him on the road by himself to visit customer sites across the country and meet new people in unfamiliar cities. He melted down and was let go after a few months of that.
Some people were not meant to work with customers. Some people were not meant to work on amorphous technical problems. Everyone has strengths and weaknesses. A good manager will recognize that, and maximize the performance of their reports (along the lines of the theorem of comparative advantage).
I'm not saying you should never challenge your reports or encourage them to push their limits, but you should recognize that pushing them too far may break them.
Please explain why California doesn't have passenger rail and internet service equivalent to France
Lawsuits Anja Raudabaugh, executive director of the Madera County Farm Bureau, a plaintiff in one of the suits, said an injunction is the only avenue available to "prevent permanent damage and irreparable harm" to agriculture from construction and operation of the train system.
"Over the course of the last 20 years, nearly $500 billion has been collected by the telecom companies to (allegedly) bring America into the 21st century
People keep saying this, but precisely which law are they talking about?
I was in the Internet industry in 1996, and I never heard about this. There was loop access unbundling (which came and went), but I never heard about $200 billion or $500 billion going to expand broadband.
Note that in this case it's about good censorship. Most countries on earth have these kind of pre-election rules to combat PR attack on the last hours of elections
Most Islamic countries on earth have rules to combat insulting the Prophet. "Good censorship" is an oxymoron.
I've been watching bill moyers the last few weeks and its informative to see just HOW BADLY we are doing under C.U.
Can you fill us in?
By the way, despite CU, I'm still voting for Gary Johnson.
Any book that wants to claim to talk about US Internet speeds has to deal with the fact that our average local loops are significantly longer than those of most other countries.
I think there is a great detective story here, because it isn't just a rural or suburban detached house issue, but even in cities the average local loop length is longer, and every meter cuts down on DSL speed.
I suspect that in the 70's and 80's a lot of central offices were consolidated, which made tons of sense for efficient voice delivery, but had the knock -on effect of crushing DSL speeds with long local loops. Today, there is little desire to spend the capital on more distributed central offices.
Now I am sure there also is regulatory capture as well in terms of lowering competition through regulation or local franchising. But you have to address the fact that we are starting with longer loops.
uarter of a million Indian farmers that committed suicide because of Monsanto's GM
Indian farmer suicides not GM related, says study
So stop repeating this false rumor, because you may be killing people by doing so.
What is the real reason for the suicides at all? Perhaps it is the state-owned institutions that dominate the banking sector and capital markets...
58 percent of the households in the lowest income quintile in 1996 moved to a higher category by 2005.(data here). I don't see the problem.
I make a ton more than my father, and was born around 1970.
there are always some who will push the legal and ethical envelope in order to make a larger profit. Such is the way of Capitalism, it appears
Isn't is more the way of Socialism, as these doctors are billing the government?
If they were actually billing the patients, the patients would probably say "screw you, why am I paying you twice for the same procedure? See you in court!"
There are huge areas where very poor people are living on subsistence agriculture in small plots that are not very productive, especially in Africa and the backwaters of India and China.
Eventually these small plots will be joined into huge efficient and more productive farms with GPS-optimized fertilization and irrigation.
All it would really take is true land ownership rights by the current farmers (many countries do not allow their poor farmers to own the land, its ownership is governmental or transfers are highly restricted), as well as some investment in infrastructure. The first would allow farmers to sell their small plots into larger farms, and the second would make it worth the investment in the large farms to be able to bring the produce out effectively.
More development of service or manufacturing jobs would also be needed to absorb many of the current farm workers, as the larger efficient farms would be more automated and need fewer workers.
A year before Ronald Reagan took office, the United States was #1 in the world in social mobility, meaning the possibility that a person born in one class could move up in his lifetime. Today, the United States is #31 among OECD nations.
You should look at this cohort study:
these are STEM jobs douche bag. Which means they will work for a corporation not start one. Having a STEM degree doesn't mean you have financial means or business knowledge to start a business.
Immigrant business founders tended to be highly educated - 96% held bachelor's degrees and 74% held graduate or postgraduate degrees, with 75% of these degrees in STEM fields (i.e. your "douche bags").
The vast majority of these company founders didn't come to the United States as entrepreneurs - 52% came to study, 40% came to work, and 5.5% came for family reasons. Only 1.6% came to start companies in America.
In a quarter of the U.S. science and technology companies founded from 1995 to 2005, the chief executive or lead technologist was foreign-born. In 2005, these companies generated $52 billion in revenue and employed 450,000 workers. In some industries, the numbers were much higher; in Silicon Valley, the percentage of immigrant-founded startups had increased to 52%.
So to all those foreign students with high education degrees, GET THE HELL OUT
Not entirely sure why they should get out instead of you.
I couldn't get a job as a programmer for 3 years despite beating 82% of all programmers
Maybe you are just an annoying person...you certainly sound like one!
Does anyone what these people do after coming to the US? Are they instantly eligible for food stamps, social security benefits, medicare/medicaid, unemployment etc. ?
1) You generally need to work for one year before you can get unemployment benefits for being laid off.
2) You are eligible for premium-free Part Medicare A if you are age 65 or older and you or your spouse worked and paid Medicare taxes for at least 10 years.
3) The Affordable Care Act of 2010, signed by President Obama on March 23, 2010, creates a national Medicaid minimum eligibility level of 133% of the federal poverty level ($29,700 for a family of four in 2011) for nearly all Americans under age 65. This Medicaid eligibility expansion goes into effect on January 1, 2014. Undocumented immigrants are not eligible for Medicaid regardless of their income, and legal immigrants who have resided in the U.S. for less than five years are also not eligible, though states have the option of extending Medicaid coverage to legal immigrant children and pregnant women who are in the 5-year waiting period.
4) For Social Security, most qualified aliens are ineligible for SSI until they become U.S. citizens. Moreover, a worker must have 10 years of Social Security-covered employment to be eligible for retirement benefits.
5) Non-citizens like tourists and students are generally not eligible for SNAP (food stamps). Non-citizens who must meet an additional condition need only meet ONE of the following conditions to be eligible for SNAP: 5 years of residence, 10 years of work, children under 18, blind or disabled, elderly born on or before 8-22-31 who lawfully resided in the U.S. on 8-22-96, or active duty in the military.
Modern machines read the barcodes on the reel to avoid that problem and passive elements are eletrically measured in the fraction of a second from pick to place and discarded when out of spec.
Thanks for the info!
But perhaps in this case someone chose the wrong reel ahead of time (accidentally or trying to be cheap), and programmed it in so that the machine read the "proper" barcode and placed the "in spec" inductor!
The best way it to impose high tariffs on any product coming form a country that doesn't mean out federal environment, safety and pay standards.
The US has the weakest regulations on firing employees in the world (including most developing nations), and of course our mandatory vacation time is much lower than Western Europe, so I guess by your calculus the world should impose high tariffs on us!
The world of manufacturing is faster and more flexible than ever because of cheap human labor in Chinese factory.
That is assuming your cheap Chinese labor put on the reel with the proper inductor value on the SMT pick and place machine (my anecdotal experience with Chinese assembly has not been very positive recently!)
Flying back home recently, there was a spare seat between myself and another passenger. The other passenger left his MacBook on the seat accidently as we were landing.
Upon the thrust reversers coming on, his MacBook flew off the seat and slammed hard into the floor.
Well, it was a new one with SSDs, and it was OK!
I'm sold.
Wind power already supplies over 21% of Denmarkâ(TM)s electricity
Denmark produced 9.84 TWhrof wind power in 2011. That is 1.1 GWe on average. In other words, all of Denmark's wind power is equivalent to about one nuclear reactor.
Moreover as Wikipedia points out "Denmark is connected by transmission line to other European countries (fx Cross-Skagerrak) and therefore it does not need to install additional peak-load plant to balance its wind power."
The US consumed 4,151 TWh of electricity in 2010, about 120 times the 34.5 TWh of electricity consumed by Denmark.
The only way around it with B&W film is to have three simultaneous cameras shooting through color filters.
Which is exactly what Technicolor was, simultaneously photographing two consecutive frames of a black-and-white film behind red and green filters.
Or is the latency an issue with keeping video and audio synced up?
With "embedded audio", AES pairs are mapped as ancillary data packets in the video stream, so A/V sync is not so much a problem in uncompressed.
Compression is the killer for A/V sync, because it has to split up video and audio.
BBC R&D were claiming their DiracPro boxes introduced a latency measured in lines (like 30).
I've seen a number of H.264 and JPEG-2000 contribution codecs that are under one frame of latency as well. This one claims 1ms latency.
There are many broadcasters the world over broadcasting 1080p over the air.
According to my own sense of things and Wikipedia, there are zero 1080p/24 broadcasts in the world, even on satellite.
There are 1080p/24 video-on-demand files delivered by satellite.
1080p/24 (typically 1080p/23.98) though often used for production is kind of a special beast in the live signal broadcast engineering world. It has a tendency to break infrastructure designed around 720p/59.97 or 1080i/59.94.
The TV vendors went out and made 3D sets before the content producers and distributors were ready.
How many people watch 3D at home today? Not too many. The occasional 3d Blu-ray perhaps.
4K is the same way. It is being pushed out from TV vendors way ahead of a coherent strategy for production or distribution. Right now there is no 4K Blu-ray standard, for example.
That said, I believe 4K has a better chance of eventually being typical viewing in the home rather than glasses-based stereoscopic 3D which never will. But 4K being typical in the home is 5-10 years out.
I'll add that at least one major network uses IP contribution video from NFL statidums (JPEG 2000 at 100 Mbps). Evidently it works, but they and the stadiums are on-network with the same provider.