Yep, I've said that here before. Consider: - the high proportion of domains that are.com, current TLDs don't improve the workload of root servers that much - the trend (and sales pitches) for buying fred.com and fred.net and fred.org and fred.us and fred.com.au etc.. what's the good of that?
Or, if the UN did take over TLDs, they might tell the yanks to deflate their egos and stick all their domains in.US
People who buy online already get to pick and choose. However, there are still some people who walk into shops and buy CDs. They often don't want all 11 (or however many) tracks specifically, but want a few and will take the rest as part of the package. Still, albums are priced in the same order of magnitude as movies on DVD. Amazing.
A proposed price of $7 means discount retailers may sell at $5. Now, if you buy CDs in shops, and your main interest is 1 or 2 songs, buy a ringle, and skip the album. (Not that they'd ever put two chart-toppers on the same ringle).
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Some of those are readily measurable, but are really a measure of effective purchasing. (buy faster gear, etc). You could perhaps assess how the system workload (imposed by all other users) increases each year, how you maintain performance and improve reliability in spite of the increasing demans, and how you're doing so without increasing annual expenditure..?
Also, ask for suggestions based on other "non-producing" roles. e.g. how does a safety manager demonstrate his performance? (by improving externally audited safety accreditation ratings, and reducing human downtime?) Or a legal secretary? Skip the CFO, as they'll say "come in under budget" - when it's a budget they formulated anyway.
.. he's not saying "take your work when you're meant to be on leave", it's more "go see interesting places while you're working". If you're travelling but not taking leave, it's an entirely different perspective.
It does require a certain kind of job, and does restrict the kind of travel you do. Taking a young family to "wet and wild" restricts you to brief phone calls. You have to be making enough time available to actually do the work.
I'd give it a go, but my daughter refuses to miss a day of school, and I have 6 weeks' leave still owing.. if I don't take it as leave, it could get cancelled on me.
The author actually claims that consumers are willing to pay more for laptops because of resale value. I reread that like 5 times to make sure I wasnt reading it wrong.
You should have re-read it a 6th time. He said they would pay more for better laptop hardware because of perceived better value and potential for resale.
The perceptions may be wrong, and the resale on a better laptop may still be almost zero, but the point is some people will pay more if they believe they're getting a better product.
This particular frog was ranting and raving about the rate of climate change, so his associates said "we'll show YOU how the climate changes", and threw him into the amber, where he'd be suspended like Han Solo for 25,000,000 years. He's still waiting to be awakened, and expecting the world to be very, very cold.
..and of course we're all qualified to say "if it's in amber, it must be 25,000,000 years old. They stopped making that stuff around 24,999,940 years ago when the old lady with the recipe died".
I am not sure the question makes sense. Engineering is about solving problems. That isn't a rote field, but teaching the solving of problems is done by example. Ideally you want to educate somebody able to solve a novel problem.
Spot on. Having an engineering degree, and having taught some subjects in the same, it's not always easy; made worse when the intake contains a lot of students from a rote-learning background.
Poor use of the word "career" though. Its origins already mean trajectory or heading, rather than "job".
Merriam Webster: Career
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle French carriere, from Old Occitan carriera street, from Medieval Latin carraria road for vehicles, from Latin carrus car
1 a : speed in a course b : COURSE, PASSAGE
No, it's headless. It's just the fact of it being Win2003 that requires the RAM. I'm appalled at vendors selling PCs with XP and only 256M - it's like selling a car but locking it in 1st gear.
I can run a Linux box with a 386 or 486 at like 66 MHz and 16 mb RAM. My friend used to run Apache webserver and an FTP on a 486, it worked great.
Memory hog. I ran OS/2 with 8M and it was great. Yes, I ran a web and ftp server on it too! At the time, Linux enthusiasts were boasting of running networking and GUI in 4M machines, while Win95 was barely useable in 8M. OS/2 was in between.
Actually, designing and building bridges does have complexities, but at least the requirements don't change too rapidly. A multi-storey building is in between - the basic principles are known but details still need to be managed and requirements and assumptions can shift. Joel Spolski wrote about attending a course on managing construction projects, and was stunned to discover how non-static the designs and schedules can be there. That said, software is all about complexity. We try to model real-world processes that real-world experts struggle to understand and describe, let alone real-world joe-average types. And the tools and preferred methods are only a few years old.
I assume from the title you think there's something wrong with the units used. They didn't say "430MW/year". If you make a 43W cell, and you can make 10,000,000 of them in 12 months, then you can make 430MW worth of cells in a year. Units are ok, just a question of whether they have the technology and resources to achieve it.
At last, a comment that might credibly explain what's going on. Apparently the argument is over mechanical royalties (the term is out of date, but is still understandable). That means it's about the legal owner of the recording - in most cases this is not the artist nor the writer. If record companies have contracts mandating what they do with money received on distribution of their "mechanical" asset (recording), then that's something they negotiated. Industry-wide "standard" fees for reproduction, including use on radio, tv, in clubs, etc are also negotiated, though the vast majority follow a common fee structure that allows the reproducers to get on with their own business without constantly consulting lists of "who charges what". There are a few exceptions, who closely guard their property and have different fees or restrictions (Beatles,..)
As many here have said, much of the cost of production and distribution should have come way down with current technology. This is arguably what the "mechanical" aspect of a mechanical copyright is about, so yes, I'll join those saying "mechanical licence fees should come down, and not just for ringtones". Far out, a ringtone is very easy to describe as advertising..
Yes
Several of my friends from uni are now in management. (We were told at uni that within a few years, half of engineering graduates would be. Do you think we were interested?) They seem to be doing quite well.
My dad has long been a hands-on keep-in-touch civil engineer / general manager, and it was clear from those above, below, and beside him that they all appreciated him in that role.
No On the other hand, a lot of technically good people do not adapt easily to managing. I've seen plenty stuff it up. Of various "IT Managers" I've worked under, the last one was my favourite. His background is business management and HR, not IT. He learned how to keep oddball techs working together, and was able to keep us motivated through some difficult times. The level of trust between us was so good that even while disagreeing on something, we could explicitly state our own and each others' bias, and then compensate for it in reaching agreement in the way forward.
Since then we've had some restructuring and outsourcing, and I now answer directly to the CEO. A parallel position to mine was created, and I happily allowed the guy in it to notch up to effectively become IT manager, with two new junior techs under him. He's doing well as a group manager, and I'm able to keep focus where my strengths are, and where it's harder to find anyone else to cover the work.
Depends
Some people are suited to managing employees. Some people are suited to managing projects (but not necessarily having any other role in them). Some people require close, regular management, and some don't. Some situations need a person with both technical understanding and the authority to direct, purchase, and prioritise for whole groups.
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It's possible, but not automatic, and not always necessary.
Let's see. 10 years ago, OS/2 supported more Windows applications than any version of Windows. (Win95 broke a lot of 16-bit and Win32s apps).
I was going to say MS do better now, but the new version of Exchange only runs (supported) on 64-bit OS. The previous version only runs on 32-bit Windows. There will be no in-place upgrades of Exchange.
Against that there's the repeated/. arguments on MS default security settings vs breaking applications that assume the old, generous defaults.
IBM's iSeries (AS/400) has maintained backward compatibility through some major system upgrades, including change of CPU, without requiring access to source code, and I believe this was actually a progression through several platforms (system 37, 38, 380, 390 or something like that).
It should work in Australia. Privacy laws here state that: - If I ask a company operating in Australia what information they have about me, they are obliged to tell me - If I ask where they got this information, again they must answer - If I ask the same company to remove such records, AFAIK they must, though there are reasonable exceptions to this one. (e.g. if i've done business with them, they have to keep financial records. if it's my bank, they might have to cancel the mortgage to comply..) - Companies operating here are not supposed to pass on private information without consent, which is why so many competitions and things have clauses in tiny writing to get your consent.
um, we're talking about orbits, intersections with other orbiting objects (and avoiding others). I think the date matters somehow, though it should be mostly in the planning.
Perhaps the other companies involved said "heres a bit of money you can have if you just shove off and let go". Wouldn't have expected it since Microsoft has the resources to fight it out, and wouldn't want to encourage other patent trolling.
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Yep, I've said that here before. Consider: .com, current TLDs don't improve the workload of root servers that much
.US
- the high proportion of domains that are
- the trend (and sales pitches) for buying fred.com and fred.net and fred.org and fred.us and fred.com.au etc.. what's the good of that?
Or, if the UN did take over TLDs, they might tell the yanks to deflate their egos and stick all their domains in
People who buy online already get to pick and choose. However, there are still some people who walk into shops and buy CDs. They often don't want all 11 (or however many) tracks specifically, but want a few and will take the rest as part of the package. Still, albums are priced in the same order of magnitude as movies on DVD. Amazing.
A proposed price of $7 means discount retailers may sell at $5. Now, if you buy CDs in shops, and your main interest is 1 or 2 songs, buy a ringle, and skip the album. (Not that they'd ever put two chart-toppers on the same ringle).
It happened last night. Unfortunately the effect only lasted a couple of hours.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
Some of those are readily measurable, but are really a measure of effective purchasing. (buy faster gear, etc).
You could perhaps assess how the system workload (imposed by all other users) increases each year, how you maintain performance and improve reliability in spite of the increasing demans, and how you're doing so without increasing annual expenditure..?
Also, ask for suggestions based on other "non-producing" roles. e.g. how does a safety manager demonstrate his performance? (by improving externally audited safety accreditation ratings, and reducing human downtime?) Or a legal secretary? Skip the CFO, as they'll say "come in under budget" - when it's a budget they formulated anyway.
.. he's not saying "take your work when you're meant to be on leave", it's more "go see interesting places while you're working". If you're travelling but not taking leave, it's an entirely different perspective.
It does require a certain kind of job, and does restrict the kind of travel you do. Taking a young family to "wet and wild" restricts you to brief phone calls. You have to be making enough time available to actually do the work.
I'd give it a go, but my daughter refuses to miss a day of school, and I have 6 weeks' leave still owing.. if I don't take it as leave, it could get cancelled on me.
You should have re-read it a 6th time. He said they would pay more for better laptop hardware because of perceived better value and potential for resale.
The perceptions may be wrong, and the resale on a better laptop may still be almost zero, but the point is some people will pay more if they believe they're getting a better product.
Yeah. Notice the article describes "running in" 50MB. The system wasn't running entirely in RAM..
This particular frog was ranting and raving about the rate of climate change, so his associates said "we'll show YOU how the climate changes", and threw him into the amber, where he'd be suspended like Han Solo for 25,000,000 years. He's still waiting to be awakened, and expecting the world to be very, very cold.
..and of course we're all qualified to say "if it's in amber, it must be 25,000,000 years old. They stopped making that stuff around 24,999,940 years ago when the old lady with the recipe died".
..but the effects are repeated every year.
It's a series of tubes!
Spot on. Having an engineering degree, and having taught some subjects in the same, it's not always easy; made worse when the intake contains a lot of students from a rote-learning background.
Poor use of the word "career" though. Its origins already mean trajectory or heading, rather than "job".
Merriam Webster:
Career
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle French carriere, from Old Occitan carriera street, from Medieval Latin carraria road for vehicles, from Latin carrus car
1 a : speed in a course b : COURSE, PASSAGE
No, it's headless. It's just the fact of it being Win2003 that requires the RAM. I'm appalled at vendors selling PCs with XP and only 256M - it's like selling a car but locking it in 1st gear.
I can run a Linux box with a 386 or 486 at like 66 MHz and 16 mb RAM.
My friend used to run Apache webserver and an FTP on a 486, it worked great.
Memory hog. I ran OS/2 with 8M and it was great. Yes, I ran a web and ftp server on it too!
At the time, Linux enthusiasts were boasting of running networking and GUI in 4M machines, while Win95 was barely useable in 8M. OS/2 was in between.
Actually, designing and building bridges does have complexities, but at least the requirements don't change too rapidly. A multi-storey building is in between - the basic principles are known but details still need to be managed and requirements and assumptions can shift. Joel Spolski wrote about attending a course on managing construction projects, and was stunned to discover how non-static the designs and schedules can be there. That said, software is all about complexity. We try to model real-world processes that real-world experts struggle to understand and describe, let alone real-world joe-average types. And the tools and preferred methods are only a few years old.
Hey, that goes with "cheap Tuesday" for pizza. Puts a new "spin" on the Eagle Boys ad.
Yes, it should be rated "funny". Back in 1996, OS/2 was more Windows-compatible than any version of Windows.
I assume from the title you think there's something wrong with the units used. They didn't say "430MW/year".
If you make a 43W cell, and you can make 10,000,000 of them in 12 months, then you can make 430MW worth of cells in a year. Units are ok, just a question of whether they have the technology and resources to achieve it.
As many here have said, much of the cost of production and distribution should have come way down with current technology. This is arguably what the "mechanical" aspect of a mechanical copyright is about, so yes, I'll join those saying "mechanical licence fees should come down, and not just for ringtones". Far out, a ringtone is very easy to describe as advertising..
free transactions in a micropayment environment
Several of my friends from uni are now in management. (We were told at uni that within a few years, half of engineering graduates would be. Do you think we were interested?) They seem to be doing quite well.
My dad has long been a hands-on keep-in-touch civil engineer / general manager, and it was clear from those above, below, and beside him that they all appreciated him in that role.
No
On the other hand, a lot of technically good people do not adapt easily to managing. I've seen plenty stuff it up. Of various "IT Managers" I've worked under, the last one was my favourite. His background is business management and HR, not IT. He learned how to keep oddball techs working together, and was able to keep us motivated through some difficult times. The level of trust between us was so good that even while disagreeing on something, we could explicitly state our own and each others' bias, and then compensate for it in reaching agreement in the way forward.
Since then we've had some restructuring and outsourcing, and I now answer directly to the CEO. A parallel position to mine was created, and I happily allowed the guy in it to notch up to effectively become IT manager, with two new junior techs under him. He's doing well as a group manager, and I'm able to keep focus where my strengths are, and where it's harder to find anyone else to cover the work.
Depends
Some people are suited to managing employees. Some people are suited to managing projects (but not necessarily having any other role in them). Some people require close, regular management, and some don't. Some situations need a person with both technical understanding and the authority to direct, purchase, and prioritise for whole groups.
Answer
It's possible, but not automatic, and not always necessary.
.. they may as well ban a bunch of other EMR sources: fluorescent lighting, wireless security/surveilance systems, appliances with motors..
Against that there's the repeated
IBM's iSeries (AS/400) has maintained backward compatibility through some major system upgrades, including change of CPU, without requiring access to source code, and I believe this was actually a progression through several platforms (system 37, 38, 380, 390 or something like that).
It should work in Australia. Privacy laws here state that:
- If I ask a company operating in Australia what information they have about me, they are obliged to tell me
- If I ask where they got this information, again they must answer
- If I ask the same company to remove such records, AFAIK they must, though there are reasonable exceptions to this one. (e.g. if i've done business with them, they have to keep financial records. if it's my bank, they might have to cancel the mortgage to comply..)
- Companies operating here are not supposed to pass on private information without consent, which is why so many competitions and things have clauses in tiny writing to get your consent.
um, we're talking about orbits, intersections with other orbiting objects (and avoiding others). I think the date matters somehow, though it should be mostly in the planning.
Perhaps the other companies involved said "heres a bit of money you can have if you just shove off and let go". Wouldn't have expected it since Microsoft has the resources to fight it out, and wouldn't want to encourage other patent trolling.