These processes have been around for a while, but their overall efficiency at converting biomass directly to H2 was low. The posted article talks about important improvement in efficiency. Lets just hope that they meet expectations.
A 5% salary cut is acceptable. It doesn't affect anybody that hard, and should help the company to bounce back.
What's happening here is different. The company wants to save money in the short-term to solve their cash flow problems. This is simply caused by bad management, and will hit their employees pretty hard.
You also have to consider the fact that this may not solve the problem. The bad managers are probably still around, and bound to make other bad decisions for cash flow.
I don't know what I would do in that situation, but, for sure, I would complain about bad management: "Why do I have to pay because they don't know how to handle cash flows?"
From what was asked in a similar school in my U., 30 lines of code similar out of hundreds is very plausible.
It is in fact more than plausible, it is going to happen... remember, 1100 students took this course! 30 lines similar to ONE of these other students? Geesh... try to do it WITHOUT having that kind of similarities!
I've been a T.A. in CS courses last term at some Canadian University. Very uninteresting work.
Most of the students were collaboration. This was deemed fair par the prof, the instructional assistant, and all the T.A.s. Sometimes, it went a bit too far. Some students were only copying each other, with only a few lines different. The ones we caught, we sanctionned by giving them a zero on the assignment. But most were missed (6 different T.A.).
But in this case, the student had only 30 of the lines similar to another. I cannot see how this could be bad!
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But the freshman was accused of similarities on 30 out of hundreds of lines of computer code...
Having marked many CS assignments, I can't see how this could be blamed on the student. There is a discrete number of solution paths! Especially for a 1st year course.
Condemn the school, I say. They generalize for all students, and giving them Incomplete is basically considering them guilty until proven innocent.
I think you didn't get swagr's idea: Yes, but Coke/Pepsi won't penalize these people for giving you a glass of water.
Your answer and MS won't penalise OEM's for giving you free anti-virus software is like giving a spoon to someone who wants a knife. Your answer is simply a troll hidden behind a seemingly cleaver line.
MS is penalizing their clients (Dell,...), by not letting them adress a growing market. Even if you buy Windows, you'll be penalized, as Dell's sales volumes effectively decrease as Linux market increases.
Every customer is penalized by such an abuse of power.
I think the whole issue comes from management style. Some people try to manage programmers as they do chain manufacturing employees: just count the number of units done in a day.
Do they evaluate doctors, engineers, or managers performance using simple metrics? Usually not, because they see them as trying to solve problems. They recognize that a quick correct diagnosic of a cancer is better than requiring tens of tests (and days)!
There is a not-so-new concept in management called empowerment: giving responsibility to employees, so that they regulate themselves. Any manager that still needs a simple metric to evaluate employee performance just didn't get it.
I'm not a programmer myself, but it looks from the comments that what they want is simply trust, like anybody else.
A PHB that trust you to do your job, and that you trust to do his own.
If your good at what your doing, and your boss is good in managing, everything will turn out fine...... if not, your bound to failure.
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biomass -> H2 + CH4 + H20 + CO + CO2
The CH4 left, rather than being thrown out, is transformed into H2.
CH4 + H20 + (Catalyst) --> H2 + ... (No details available)
These processes have been around for a while, but their overall efficiency at converting biomass directly to H2 was low. The posted article talks about important improvement in efficiency. Lets just hope that they meet expectations.
Copyright laws enable you to a fair use of what you paid for. That should include ripping MP3 for your nice new player.
What's happening here is different. The company wants to save money in the short-term to solve their cash flow problems. This is simply caused by bad management, and will hit their employees pretty hard.
You also have to consider the fact that this may not solve the problem. The bad managers are probably still around, and bound to make other bad decisions for cash flow.
I don't know what I would do in that situation, but, for sure, I would complain about bad management: "Why do I have to pay because they don't know how to handle cash flows?"
From what was asked in a similar school in my U., 30 lines of code similar out of hundreds is very plausible. It is in fact more than plausible, it is going to happen... remember, 1100 students took this course! 30 lines similar to ONE of these other students? Geesh... try to do it WITHOUT having that kind of similarities!
Your answer and MS won't penalise OEM's for giving you free anti-virus software is like giving a spoon to someone who wants a knife. Your answer is simply a troll hidden behind a seemingly cleaver line.
MS is penalizing their clients (Dell, ...), by not letting them adress a growing market. Even if you buy Windows, you'll be penalized, as Dell's sales volumes effectively decrease as Linux market increases.
Every customer is penalized by such an abuse of power.
Do they evaluate doctors, engineers, or managers performance using simple metrics? Usually not, because they see them as trying to solve problems. They recognize that a quick correct diagnosic of a cancer is better than requiring tens of tests (and days)!
There is a not-so-new concept in management called empowerment: giving responsibility to employees, so that they regulate themselves. Any manager that still needs a simple metric to evaluate employee performance just didn't get it.
I'm not a programmer myself, but it looks from the comments that what they want is simply trust, like anybody else. A PHB that trust you to do your job, and that you trust to do his own. If your good at what your doing, and your boss is good in managing, everything will turn out fine... ... if not, your bound to failure.