No. In fact I'd go as far as debating the value of a batchelor degree - I have one, and it's mostly irrelevant for 95% of IT. I've done well as a result of having one, because it looks good on my CV, and it set me up for meeting my first employer.
It's also given me an overview of a lot of concepts that my colleagues just 'don't get'.
But for actual hard experience? 2 years in the industry counts way more.
EVE's much the same - the players can propose a motion for the CSM to debate, but anything that doesn't actually have any basis to it gets shot down. CSM can also request statistics on something, to see if it supports such a discussion.
There's a vetting process - the council needs to be able to travel to iceland for a face to face once during the term, so passports and stuff are needed.
But... if a gold seller could get onto the advisory council - assuming they could summon up the few thousand votes they'd need - so what? CCP has no obligation to _actually_ listen to them at the end of the day. And what'd be the worst they'd do? Suggest motions that make it easier to 'farm' cash? Well, they could, but that would alter their profit margin - it's not what I can buy with an ISK (EVE gold) that influences it's price, it's how much effort I have to expend to make it myself.
Anything else, like voting in macros or whatever... *shrug* not going to get very far I reckon.
My radius of prospective jobs is vastly increased by having a car. I live just across the road from the railway station, but I still drive to work, because where I work isn't near the train line.
In the vast majority of companies, looking professional, having 'face time' and looking like you're busy all day is all the managers actually notice. Your actual productivity is entirely irrelevant, because no one actaully knows how to measure 'productivity' in the vast majority of job functions, so instead rely on stupid measurements that are utterly irrelevant. The guy spending 3 days colouring in a spread sheet looks more productive than they guy who spent 20 minutes writing a perl script to do his job. (I know this, because I got much hate for this when I automated away most of someone's job)
4x more before or after you include the value of your time? I tend to reckon it at somewhere between my overtime rate, and the price of going to the cinema, depending on whether the journey is a relaxing 'sit back and read' sort of a journey, or a hellish 'stand all the way, change 5 times and have to fight with other commuters' sort of journey.
I disagree. An infrastructure service, such as public transport, needs to support the entire population, even when it's not profitable to do so. The 'profitable' bits are the peak throughput routes at rush hour, but in order for public transport to be viable, the person cleaning the office after hours _also_ needs to be able to get home - even if that does mean they're the only person on the train, and it's not making money running at that time of day.
Or indeed, it'll still get me home again at 10pm one evening because I've had to work late due to a disaster.
It's a bit like roads in some ways - I need a road to my house, even if it's less 'profitable' in terms of maintenance because only two people use it, and they only use it twice a day.
Infrastructure services exist to supplement the local economy, not replace it.
Interesting question. I think the core problem is that mass transit will always have fundamental limitiations:
1/ Finite number of 'pick up' points.
2/ Finite number of routes.
3/ A running schedule, meaning you'll always have to wait for the next train/bus.
You've also got a few others you can work around, such as crowding and general 'discomfort' on the journey.
But one you have a hard time getting away from is that most of the cost of a car is 'owning the metal' - if I have to own a car for any reason (maybe I go away at weekends?) then a lot of my cost of ownership is already a 'sunk' cost - insuring, owning the vehicle, 'storage' - I have to pay for anyway.
So you'd have to create me something, mass transit wise, that would support my 'usual' journeys, in a sensible amount of time and comfort - walking down the street to a bus stop/train stop is fine, a 5 mile hike across town is not. You'd also have to factor in some kind of way of mitigating my need to own a vehicle. Travel time would need to be 'reasonable' but I'd accept a bit longer if I could actually 'count' the time as free time - if I can sit on a train for 20 minutes and read a book/use my laptop that's more useful to me than 5 minutes on the train, 5 minutes changing/waiting for the next train, 5 minutes on the train.
Oh, and being able to get home at odd hours if I work late is also pretty handy, as is being able to get home after a night out.
Not an easy one to solve, I think. But I think you'd start with some kind of urban light rail (either above or below ground, depending on area density - suburban areas you'd get away with above ground). Include a 'quick rent' service for a car when I need it - not just for those weekends away, but also for when I need to pop to the supermarket. And support the light rail network with bicycle rental stations - which I've seen in other areas - to get around between the gaps in the rail network.
Ideally you'd set it up so you could do a 'transit account' similar to... what they've got in London with 'Oyster'. So you can easily 'pick' your transit, without having to worry about stuff like having change for the bike/tube/train, and a 'car rental account' where you can pre-authorize the standard rental agreements (insurance, drivers license, deposit, that kind of thing) and just pick up a car at short-ish notice.
Oh, and an umbrella rental system too:)
Ideally prices would also scale by availability and demand, to the point of effectively subsidising the people who travel by the mass transit network rather than drive.
Anyway, something like that - you _need_ the integrated approach, because otherwise people will buy cars because they need a car sometimes, and then it's cheaper and quicker to travel by car. Either that or just massively subsidise your public transit network, to the point where it's free/very nearly free. If you can't make it more convenient than a car (which frankly, you can't) then you can appeal to the pocket - if it's free to take an hour crossing a city by public transport, and it costs fuel to take half an hour by car, you'll still get some people choosing to.
Last few times I've commuted, the train I've been on has been full to the point of completely stuffed. Not so much an hour of peace and quiet, as an hour spend huddling over my laptop and 'stuff' (e.g. gym kit, because I like to go work out on my lunch break), wondering why I didn't drive instead, because even if it had taken 3x as long as usual, it'd still be faster, and I'd still be sitting down.
Alternatively, the would be criminals who are clever enough to get away with it... don't make it into the papers, ever. Have a look some time what the 'write down' of any given company is, and you'll see quite scary numbers. I can tell you for sure that a large bank I work for goes through billions each year in fraud. Stuff that they cannot reclaim or take legal action over, even with their rather impressive mutual agreements with other banks for return of funds.
That's crime, but it doesn't get reported or prosecuted, simply because... they have no idea who did it and how.
Clearly it's a custom server housing for optimized airflow which'll lead to a net decrease in cooling requirements across the datacentre. And you need one as a functional prototype, rather than forking out that scale of investment per rack initially, so you can validate whether it will actually save your company money long term.
I was looking at how to do something similar, using a combination of VMWare (http://www.vmware.com/), Symmetrix V-MAX (http://www.emc.com/products/detail/hardware/symmetrix-v-max.htm) and then just some template 'blade centre' style enclosures, such as HP's Proliant series.
Now, the V-MAX at least is a bit new to have seen it in the field much, but it would seem there's definitely some scope for the 'linearly scalable' building block data centre - by decoupling the VMs from the physical hardware, you get some impressive scalability.
And none more so than in 'support' services - medical is one, but so is IT, and in each of them you just sort of 'expect' that they work.
No one notices the 364 days of the year that email worked, but they'll be screaming about the one it doesn't.
I am reminded of Dwarf Fortress - a game which I saw the graphics, and assumed 'oh, old game' until I realised that it was possibly the most intricate 'simulation' style game I'd ever run into. And the graphics are ascii, although I believe it has coloured text too:)
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Hmm, I need to find a University where I can get a good grade on a masters by 'not showing up'. The notion appeals to me.
No. In fact I'd go as far as debating the value of a batchelor degree - I have one, and it's mostly irrelevant for 95% of IT. I've done well as a result of having one, because it looks good on my CV, and it set me up for meeting my first employer.
It's also given me an overview of a lot of concepts that my colleagues just 'don't get'.
But for actual hard experience? 2 years in the industry counts way more.
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There was this one guy who told me about this awesome idea he had for making soap. Out of liposuction clinics. Can you believe it?
EVE's much the same - the players can propose a motion for the CSM to debate, but anything that doesn't actually have any basis to it gets shot down. CSM can also request statistics on something, to see if it supports such a discussion.
There's a vetting process - the council needs to be able to travel to iceland for a face to face once during the term, so passports and stuff are needed. ... if a gold seller could get onto the advisory council - assuming they could summon up the few thousand votes they'd need - so what? CCP has no obligation to _actually_ listen to them at the end of the day. And what'd be the worst they'd do? Suggest motions that make it easier to 'farm' cash? Well, they could, but that would alter their profit margin - it's not what I can buy with an ISK (EVE gold) that influences it's price, it's how much effort I have to expend to make it myself.
But
Anything else, like voting in macros or whatever... *shrug* not going to get very far I reckon.
So... just like a real election then?
My radius of prospective jobs is vastly increased by having a car. I live just across the road from the railway station, but I still drive to work, because where I work isn't near the train line.
What's your hourly rate?
In the vast majority of companies, looking professional, having 'face time' and looking like you're busy all day is all the managers actually notice. Your actual productivity is entirely irrelevant, because no one actaully knows how to measure 'productivity' in the vast majority of job functions, so instead rely on stupid measurements that are utterly irrelevant. The guy spending 3 days colouring in a spread sheet looks more productive than they guy who spent 20 minutes writing a perl script to do his job. (I know this, because I got much hate for this when I automated away most of someone's job)
That's easy. Everyone who's using the train isn't in my way on the road.
4x more before or after you include the value of your time? I tend to reckon it at somewhere between my overtime rate, and the price of going to the cinema, depending on whether the journey is a relaxing 'sit back and read' sort of a journey, or a hellish 'stand all the way, change 5 times and have to fight with other commuters' sort of journey.
I disagree. An infrastructure service, such as public transport, needs to support the entire population, even when it's not profitable to do so. The 'profitable' bits are the peak throughput routes at rush hour, but in order for public transport to be viable, the person cleaning the office after hours _also_ needs to be able to get home - even if that does mean they're the only person on the train, and it's not making money running at that time of day.
Or indeed, it'll still get me home again at 10pm one evening because I've had to work late due to a disaster.
It's a bit like roads in some ways - I need a road to my house, even if it's less 'profitable' in terms of maintenance because only two people use it, and they only use it twice a day.
Infrastructure services exist to supplement the local economy, not replace it.
Interesting question. I think the core problem is that mass transit will always have fundamental limitiations:
... what they've got in London with 'Oyster'. So you can easily 'pick' your transit, without having to worry about stuff like having change for the bike/tube/train, and a 'car rental account' where you can pre-authorize the standard rental agreements (insurance, drivers license, deposit, that kind of thing) and just pick up a car at short-ish notice. :)
1/ Finite number of 'pick up' points.
2/ Finite number of routes.
3/ A running schedule, meaning you'll always have to wait for the next train/bus.
You've also got a few others you can work around, such as crowding and general 'discomfort' on the journey.
But one you have a hard time getting away from is that most of the cost of a car is 'owning the metal' - if I have to own a car for any reason (maybe I go away at weekends?) then a lot of my cost of ownership is already a 'sunk' cost - insuring, owning the vehicle, 'storage' - I have to pay for anyway.
So you'd have to create me something, mass transit wise, that would support my 'usual' journeys, in a sensible amount of time and comfort - walking down the street to a bus stop/train stop is fine, a 5 mile hike across town is not. You'd also have to factor in some kind of way of mitigating my need to own a vehicle. Travel time would need to be 'reasonable' but I'd accept a bit longer if I could actually 'count' the time as free time - if I can sit on a train for 20 minutes and read a book/use my laptop that's more useful to me than 5 minutes on the train, 5 minutes changing/waiting for the next train, 5 minutes on the train.
Oh, and being able to get home at odd hours if I work late is also pretty handy, as is being able to get home after a night out.
Not an easy one to solve, I think. But I think you'd start with some kind of urban light rail (either above or below ground, depending on area density - suburban areas you'd get away with above ground). Include a 'quick rent' service for a car when I need it - not just for those weekends away, but also for when I need to pop to the supermarket. And support the light rail network with bicycle rental stations - which I've seen in other areas - to get around between the gaps in the rail network.
Ideally you'd set it up so you could do a 'transit account' similar to
Oh, and an umbrella rental system too
Ideally prices would also scale by availability and demand, to the point of effectively subsidising the people who travel by the mass transit network rather than drive.
Anyway, something like that - you _need_ the integrated approach, because otherwise people will buy cars because they need a car sometimes, and then it's cheaper and quicker to travel by car. Either that or just massively subsidise your public transit network, to the point where it's free/very nearly free. If you can't make it more convenient than a car (which frankly, you can't) then you can appeal to the pocket - if it's free to take an hour crossing a city by public transport, and it costs fuel to take half an hour by car, you'll still get some people choosing to.
Arriving to work moist and sticky isn't particularly fun though.
Last few times I've commuted, the train I've been on has been full to the point of completely stuffed. Not so much an hour of peace and quiet, as an hour spend huddling over my laptop and 'stuff' (e.g. gym kit, because I like to go work out on my lunch break), wondering why I didn't drive instead, because even if it had taken 3x as long as usual, it'd still be faster, and I'd still be sitting down.
Alternatively, the would be criminals who are clever enough to get away with it... don't make it into the papers, ever. Have a look some time what the 'write down' of any given company is, and you'll see quite scary numbers. I can tell you for sure that a large bank I work for goes through billions each year in fraud. Stuff that they cannot reclaim or take legal action over, even with their rather impressive mutual agreements with other banks for return of funds. ... they have no idea who did it and how.
That's crime, but it doesn't get reported or prosecuted, simply because
Your sample space is made up entirely of the criminals who _did_ get caught. I'm pretty sure the successful ones aren't around to comment...
I love the gymnastics they went through to cover up the fact that when shooting the original, no one knew what a parsec was, and it just sounded cool.
Independance was declared in 1776. The first English dictionary was published in 1755.
Clearly it's a custom server housing for optimized airflow which'll lead to a net decrease in cooling requirements across the datacentre. And you need one as a functional prototype, rather than forking out that scale of investment per rack initially, so you can validate whether it will actually save your company money long term.
Stupid parents correlates to stupid children. Who'da thought it?
I was looking at how to do something similar, using a combination of VMWare (http://www.vmware.com/), Symmetrix V-MAX (http://www.emc.com/products/detail/hardware/symmetrix-v-max.htm) and then just some template 'blade centre' style enclosures, such as HP's Proliant series.
Now, the V-MAX at least is a bit new to have seen it in the field much, but it would seem there's definitely some scope for the 'linearly scalable' building block data centre - by decoupling the VMs from the physical hardware, you get some impressive scalability.
And none more so than in 'support' services - medical is one, but so is IT, and in each of them you just sort of 'expect' that they work.
No one notices the 364 days of the year that email worked, but they'll be screaming about the one it doesn't.
I am reminded of Dwarf Fortress - a game which I saw the graphics, and assumed 'oh, old game' until I realised that it was possibly the most intricate 'simulation' style game I'd ever run into. And the graphics are ascii, although I believe it has coloured text too :)