I recently started time management courses, which were offered courtesy of my clients (a big european bank) HR dept. I attend these courses for 2 hours, 3 mornings a week, starting at 11:00. The only problem is that the courses are given at another location in the city, so I have to travel to my usual workplace and then leave mid morning, wasting 45 minutes in transit, to go attend the seminars, and returning (another 45 minutes) resulting in a loss of 1.5 hours a day for a total of 5.5 hours a week. This training lasts 6 weeks.
I have to admit that since I started this training I am much more aware of time.
The company does face challenges. It is charged with transforming a tool that's geared for a small Unix developer community into a product for the masses....
Cloudmark's solution requires a free plug-in that plays a minor role in the background of Microsoft's Outlook, the only e-mail client that the product is currently available for.
hmmm having to choose between the lesser of two evils : spam or viruses, i dunno...
"Well, sure, the Frinkiac-7 looks impressive, don't touch it, but I predict that within 100 years, computers will be twice as powerful, 10,000 times larger, and so expensive that only the five richest kings of Europe will own them." - Professor John Frink
My question is what of system were they using before to tabulate election results?... And what is it about open source that makes it better? Also it would be interesting to know what computerized systems other countries are using to tabulate the results...
there are thousands of ENRONS waiting to happen...
There is tons of advertising for alcohol in France
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France is a bad example... There is tons of advertising for alcohol in France, there are just regulations and guidelines to follow, such as including some fine print saying that excessive consumption is hazardous... blah blah blah...
very much the same as advertising for tobacco products on the US...
The fine print dosn't work too much though... its 11:36am in Paris and seeing those ads in the metro made me damn thirsty... wish i had one of those watches now!!! Oh wait this is France... i can buy liquor anywhere... and drink it anywhere!!!... what a repressed society i tell ya!
"NTT DoCoMo to Launch Location Information Service Based on Own PlatformTOKYO, JAPAN, November 20, 2001---NTT DoCoMo, Inc. announced today that it will launch a nationwide position-information service based on the DoCoMo Location Platform, dubbed the "DLP service," on November 27, 2001.
The service uses information from global positioning satellites (GPS) to identify, register and communicate geographic position. Through Application service providers (ASPs) and other companies, users can access related services, such as:
confirming one's current location to, for example, obtain information about the area
informing others of one's position
registering positions on a server database
confirming the location of a third party, such as teachers checking the whereabouts of students on a school outing......"
Cell phones, dig video camcorders, pda's, mp3 players... they're all getting smaller...how long till they become implantable??...One day...soon...i hope..then again someone has to spec out that kind of I/O and UI... what a brain teaser...no pun intended...
I found these links for linux scientific freeware on this page http://www.freepatents.org/liberty/logiciels.html
Its in French... but then again the majority of my African friends speak it.... there is a lot in there.....sorry for the lack of form....and i didn't check all the links.... hope its useful...
Sciences et ingénierie
Scientific Applications on Linux http://SAL.KachinaTech.COM/
Index très complet d'applications scientifiques et professionnelles (gratuites, shareware ou commerciales) qui tournent sous Linux.
Its been my experience that most of my fellow IT coworkers and I have always been way to busy while on the job to get into the aspects which may be considered social such as chit-chat, gossip, just plain old fooling around, etc... Which dosn't necessarily mean that IT folks are anti-social IMHO... simply (too) busy. And the IT environment itself isn't the most condusive for the aformentioned activities.
However, I have made many friends over the years working in IT... but our social interaction has taken place mostly outside of work, in a less stressful environment. We do talk about our personal lives and we still talk endlessly about work related issues... but its easier to laugh about it over a couple of cold ones than in front of a brokendown box minutes before crucial demos by the bossman to his bosses...
Even cooler fone from Nokia for SMS
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Nokia came out with an even cooler phone for SMS a few weeks ago, the 5510. It has a full char set keyboard... and an MP3 player... no dig cam though... info here: http://www.nokia.com/phones/5510/index.html
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I recently started time management courses, which were offered courtesy of my clients (a big european bank) HR dept. I attend these courses for 2 hours, 3 mornings a week, starting at 11:00. The only problem is that the courses are given at another location in the city, so I have to travel to my usual workplace and then leave mid morning, wasting 45 minutes in transit, to go attend the seminars, and returning (another 45 minutes) resulting in a loss of 1.5 hours a day for a total of 5.5 hours a week. This training lasts 6 weeks.
I have to admit that since I started this training I am much more aware of time.
The company does face challenges. It is charged with transforming a tool that's geared for a small Unix developer community into a product for the masses....
Cloudmark's solution requires a free plug-in that plays a minor role in the background of Microsoft's Outlook, the only e-mail client that the product is currently available for.
hmmm having to choose between the lesser of two evils : spam or viruses, i dunno...
"Well, sure, the Frinkiac-7 looks impressive, don't touch it, but I predict that within 100 years, computers will be twice as powerful, 10,000 times larger, and so expensive that only the five richest kings of Europe will own them." - Professor John Frink
My question is what of system were they using before to tabulate election results? ... And what is it about open source that makes it better? Also it would be interesting to know what computerized systems other countries are using to tabulate the results...
there are thousands of ENRONS waiting to happen...
France is a bad example ... There is tons of advertising for alcohol in France, there are just regulations and guidelines to follow, such as including some fine print saying that excessive consumption is hazardous ... blah blah blah ...
... wish i had one of those watches now!!! Oh wait this is France ... i can buy liquor anywhere ... and drink it anywhere!!! ... what a repressed society i tell ya!
very much the same as advertising for tobacco products on the US...
The fine print dosn't work too much though... its 11:36am in Paris and seeing those ads in the metro made me damn thirsty
from NTT DoCoMO's site
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http://investor.nttdocomo.com/news/20011120-651
"NTT DoCoMo to Launch Location Information Service Based on Own PlatformTOKYO, JAPAN, November 20, 2001---NTT DoCoMo, Inc. announced today that it will launch a nationwide position-information service based on the DoCoMo Location Platform, dubbed the "DLP service," on November 27, 2001.
The service uses information from global positioning satellites (GPS) to identify, register and communicate geographic position. Through Application service providers (ASPs) and other companies, users can access related services, such as:
confirming one's current location to, for example, obtain information about the area
informing others of one's position
registering positions on a server database
confirming the location of a third party, such as teachers checking the whereabouts of students on a school outing......"
Cell phones, dig video camcorders, pda's, mp3 players... they're all getting smaller...how long till they become implantable??...One day...soon...i hope..then again someone has to spec out that kind of I/O and UI... what a brain teaser...no pun intended...
I found these links for linux scientific freeware on this page http://www.freepatents.org/liberty/logiciels.html
.....sorry for the lack of form....and i didn't check all the links.... hope its useful...
o me.html :8000/u/magma/ h tml
Its in French... but then again the majority of my African friends speak it.... there is a lot in there
Sciences et ingénierie
Scientific Applications on Linux http://SAL.KachinaTech.COM/
Index très complet d'applications scientifiques et professionnelles (gratuites, shareware ou commerciales) qui tournent sous Linux.
Statistiques
fiasco http://www.fsf.org/software/fiasco/index.html
xldlas http://a42.com/~thor/xldlas/
MacAnova http://www.stat.umn.edu/~gary/macanova/macanova.h
R http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/R/contents.html
Calcul formel
MuPAD http://www.mupad.de
Maple http://www.maplesoft.com/
Mathematica http://www.wolfram.com/
Macsyma http://www.macsyma.com/
Magma http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au
Macaulay2 http://www.math.uiuc.edu/Macaulay2/
Singular http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/~zca/Singular/
Analyse numérique
Scilab http://www-rocq.inria.fr/scilab/
Matlab http://www.mathworks.com/products/matlab/mlover.s
Octave http://www.che.wisc.edu/octave/
Its been my experience that most of my fellow IT coworkers and I have always been way to busy while on the job to get into the aspects which may be considered social such as chit-chat, gossip, just plain old fooling around, etc... Which dosn't necessarily mean that IT folks are anti-social IMHO... simply (too) busy. And the IT environment itself isn't the most condusive for the aformentioned activities. However, I have made many friends over the years working in IT... but our social interaction has taken place mostly outside of work, in a less stressful environment. We do talk about our personal lives and we still talk endlessly about work related issues ... but its easier to laugh about it over a couple of cold ones than in front of a brokendown box minutes before crucial demos by the bossman to his bosses...
Nokia came out with an even cooler phone for SMS a few weeks ago, the 5510. It has a full char set keyboard... and an MP3 player... no dig cam though... info here: http://www.nokia.com/phones/5510/index.html