They are usually packed with inter-personal relationships and petty politics. A friend once gave me this bit of insight: "The politics are so vicious because the stakes are so small".
The first time I heard that, it was in reference to university machinations.
In which case, you need a boss who understands the politics and is ACTIVELY working to counter them AND has the support of HIS boss.
I am familiar with the need for a champion (connected person pushing for your project), and the current place I'm at is so very bad at this stuff. I'm mostly venting.
The sad thing is that once your technical skills are at the "minimally competent" level, you'd be better advised to learn corporate politics to further your career.
Got any pointers? This technical genius would like to further himself out of the cannon fodder box and into something more lucrative.
anyone ever had to use their own property to band-aid something within the company about ready to explode?
Don't ever do that. If you do, then they think their current budget is fine, so they won't pony up the next time, and, should you ever leave, how are you ever going to retrieve your property?
Look at the Firestone tire recall...would you all be saying "Just use the tires even though they suck...when you crash and die, just return the tires for new ones". I thought not.
No, I'd say "Inflate the tires properly and they won't explode." Seriously, do you expect Firestone to pay for abuse at the hands of customers or distributors (Ford)?
People with extreme political views have always been watched and recorded in most developed contries. For centuries.
Yes, but now you can get a list of all members of a particular party or religion with their addresses included, along with recordings of anything objectionable that they've said. I would imagine that this is rather novel.
Boost may well have a map. Depending on whether the ecu is told what gear you're in, you have 1 or 2 variables that determine max boost - rpm and gear. You may want to restrict the boost in low gears to avoid wheelspin, and you also want to taper boost at high rpms to avoid overloading the injectors.
Whoda thunk that it'd be more expensive to entirely change your infrastructure from Windows to Linux than it would be to simply upgrade to a new version of Windows????? Wow! We should install Windows everywhere!
More important: who in their right mind would do a wholesale change in their infrastructure? That's just asking for a disaster, I don't care what you're deploying.
It's funny when ricers try to race me in my 911. I feel sorry for them, really.
Which 911? Give me about another 2 years and I'll have a worthy opponent for anything short of a turbo. Best part is, it's a toyota - repairs are cheap(er).
Do I need to install a really big fan on my car to mod it?
Um, yes actually. If you're tuning a turbo car with an intercooler, you need a large fan to provide airflow while getting the boost and fuel map right.
Oops, guess I screwed the pooch on that one. I guess I should study up on the political situation - should happen about the time its primary export isn't blood.
This is the place where Chuck Taylor took over and killed all the white farmers, right? Then he gave their land to his cronies who, unfortunately, didn't know how to farm. So now this little fuckstain of a country imports food instead of exports it. Is that the place?
Sadly, this is normal for Africa - Rwanda, Sierra Leone, and lots of other places have rampant violence and genocide and nobody cares because they're all in Africa (or something).
What this has to do with Australia, I have no idea.
Okay, so what *should* we do with the products of fission? Recycling is not allowed, since this yields a bit of plutonium which automatically causes all nations to start building bombs. You don't want to store it. "Use it" or "throw it away" seem to be the only options. Should we wave a magic wand and make it disappear?
Recycle the fuel. It's illegal, but that's a political problem. This will allow us to further reduce the size of the waste and extend the life of the fuel itself. Take the leftovers and stick it in a disused uranium mine.
What they will do license their patent under no-fee terms that nevertheless exclude any Free Software from using it. Packages under BSD-like license, and commerical packages, will be fine but anything similar to the GPL will be incompatible with the MS patent license.
Big whoop. Build a module that implements their patented juju and runs as a daemon, write another module that talks to the first module via some sort of IPC, and release the first module under BSD. We still have the problem of patent-encumbered standards, which really shouldn't be allowed.
I seriously wish the seattle police woulda done even more. I cheered them when I read the paper the next day. Even though the article tried to make it out as something bad.
Well they did go apeshit on a bunch of mostly peaceful protesters instead of arresting the violent ones like they did the previous time. I was in Seattle when it was happening. I wonder how many of the violent protestors were planted by the cops - it seems to be increasingly common.
The current convention (k==1024) has been in use for over 30 years by the entire industry. NIST declaring new prefixes is a solution to a problem that doesn't exist. What they should be doing is declaring that, in matters of bytes, convention rules. Then they could call the HD manufacturers on their semi-deceptive practices (not really deceptive because nobody believes them).
History does not record the forward leaps and bounds civilized society has made, nor the precipices from which it has been pulled, by the judiciously well-placed but otherwise private administration of a veteran law-officer's wooden stick.
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They are usually packed with inter-personal relationships and petty politics. A friend once gave me this bit of insight: "The politics are so vicious because the stakes are so small".
The first time I heard that, it was in reference to university machinations.
In which case, you need a boss who understands the politics and is ACTIVELY working to counter them AND has the support of HIS boss.
I am familiar with the need for a champion (connected person pushing for your project), and the current place I'm at is so very bad at this stuff. I'm mostly venting.
The sad thing is that once your technical skills are at the "minimally competent" level, you'd be better advised to learn corporate politics to further your career.
Got any pointers? This technical genius would like to further himself out of the cannon fodder box and into something more lucrative.
anyone ever had to use their own property to band-aid something within the company about ready to explode?
Don't ever do that. If you do, then they think their current budget is fine, so they won't pony up the next time, and, should you ever leave, how are you ever going to retrieve your property?
In many companies, it is more important to not be blamed for a problem than it is to be the one who solved a problem.
Fuck 'em. I want a company that's interested in getting the job done right, not playing stupid blame games when they screw up.
Hi John, how is your family? Tycho Baker epsiLon.
The **AA will be applying for a patent on this exact idea tomorrow.
The RIAA is patenting the one time pad? Will wonders never cease.
Look at the Firestone tire recall...would you all be saying "Just use the tires even though they suck...when you crash and die, just return the tires for new ones". I thought not.
No, I'd say "Inflate the tires properly and they won't explode." Seriously, do you expect Firestone to pay for abuse at the hands of customers or distributors (Ford)?
Ask your average person on the street about a national ID card, and they use the "if you've got nothing to hide..." justification.
Heh. Everybody's got something.
People with extreme political views have always been watched and recorded in most developed contries. For centuries.
Yes, but now you can get a list of all members of a particular party or religion with their addresses included, along with recordings of anything objectionable that they've said. I would imagine that this is rather novel.
Boost doesn't have a map, it has a level.
Boost may well have a map. Depending on whether the ecu is told what gear you're in, you have 1 or 2 variables that determine max boost - rpm and gear. You may want to restrict the boost in low gears to avoid wheelspin, and you also want to taper boost at high rpms to avoid overloading the injectors.
Whoda thunk that it'd be more expensive to entirely change your infrastructure from Windows to Linux than it would be to simply upgrade to a new version of Windows????? Wow! We should install Windows everywhere!
More important: who in their right mind would do a wholesale change in their infrastructure? That's just asking for a disaster, I don't care what you're deploying.
It's funny when ricers try to race me in my 911. I feel sorry for them, really.
Which 911? Give me about another 2 years and I'll have a worthy opponent for anything short of a turbo. Best part is, it's a toyota - repairs are cheap(er).
I would imagine fan blades are just going to cause more obstructions when you are going 60mph anyway.
The point is that you're not going 60 on a dyno. You're stationary, doing 4krpm in 3rd gear. Fans are necessary.
Do I need to install a really big fan on my car to mod it?
Um, yes actually. If you're tuning a turbo car with an intercooler, you need a large fan to provide airflow while getting the boost and fuel map right.
Oops, guess I screwed the pooch on that one. I guess I should study up on the political situation - should happen about the time its primary export isn't blood.
It seems that most cars today are carbon fiber.
I know of one (Carrera GT), but it costs as much as a freaking house. Could you point to a carbon fiber car that costs under $30k?
This is the place where Chuck Taylor took over and killed all the white farmers, right? Then he gave their land to his cronies who, unfortunately, didn't know how to farm. So now this little fuckstain of a country imports food instead of exports it. Is that the place?
Sadly, this is normal for Africa - Rwanda, Sierra Leone, and lots of other places have rampant violence and genocide and nobody cares because they're all in Africa (or something).
What this has to do with Australia, I have no idea.
Okay, so what *should* we do with the products of fission? Recycling is not allowed, since this yields a bit of plutonium which automatically causes all nations to start building bombs. You don't want to store it. "Use it" or "throw it away" seem to be the only options. Should we wave a magic wand and make it disappear?
Recycle the fuel. It's illegal, but that's a political problem. This will allow us to further reduce the size of the waste and extend the life of the fuel itself. Take the leftovers and stick it in a disused uranium mine.
Since 90% of spam is being sent by zombie PC's these days;
The really big spamhauses have dedicated facilities, TYVM. Makes you wonder exactly why they are so hot for SPF.
What they will do license their patent under no-fee terms that nevertheless exclude any Free Software from using it. Packages under BSD-like license, and commerical packages, will be fine but anything similar to the GPL will be incompatible with the MS patent license.
Big whoop. Build a module that implements their patented juju and runs as a daemon, write another module that talks to the first module via some sort of IPC, and release the first module under BSD. We still have the problem of patent-encumbered standards, which really shouldn't be allowed.
have a deep-seeded hatred for such errors, they make me loose my mind.
Um, 'Deep seated' and 'lose'. Grammer flames must include an error - it's the law.
You're the bigest joke on the Internet
I could back up your whole hard drive on a floppy diskette.
I seriously wish the seattle police woulda done even more. I cheered them when I read the paper the next day. Even though the article tried to make it out as something bad.
Well they did go apeshit on a bunch of mostly peaceful protesters instead of arresting the violent ones like they did the previous time. I was in Seattle when it was happening. I wonder how many of the violent protestors were planted by the cops - it seems to be increasingly common.
The current convention (k==1024) has been in use for over 30 years by the entire industry. NIST declaring new prefixes is a solution to a problem that doesn't exist. What they should be doing is declaring that, in matters of bytes, convention rules. Then they could call the HD manufacturers on their semi-deceptive practices (not really deceptive because nobody believes them).
History does not record the forward leaps and bounds civilized society has made, nor the precipices from which it has been pulled, by the judiciously well-placed but otherwise private administration of a veteran law-officer's wooden stick.
For instance, consider the fine officers of Selma, AL and Seattle, WA.