I agree. Company managers should have some ability to work out their strategy before making it public. It would have been worse if they made their intent known without revealing their whole plan. In general investors like predictability, waffling should be left to the politicians.
I oversimplified the argument to make a point. Very few people care about a diamond planet way off in a distant corner of the Universe. It has no real impact on their daily life. The environment affects all of us, and if you are going to use research to justify changes to human behavior, expect a lot of interest and criticism, from both the highly educated and crack-pots. I am not trying to say that environmental research is wrong, but that it is a bit of an apples to orange comparison between climate and astronomical research.
I think what he is saying is that since the diamond planet researchers are not advocating that we divert money and resources to making a trip to mine the planet, they are receiving less scrutiny than the climate researchers who say the environment is changing therefor we all need to stop driving cars. The diamond planet has no real consequence to us. The climate research does, and will be subject to questions.
Remember the Apple Newton. A good product, but was before its time. I wonder how many of these failed products will inspire technology that has yet to be developed.
You have a good point about the safeguards. Banks spend truck-loads of money to secure their systems. Just wait until the average taxpayer finds out just how much the government will need to spend to create a secure online system, then maintain it every year.
I am not sure that he is saying that when available he would jump all over the new technology, but rather his employer might be interested in doing a cost benefit analysis. There are restaurants that reprint their menus weekly or even daily. If you are printing 100 copies of a one page document daily, one ream of this paper could last three years. Compare that to the more than 200 reams you use now over the same time period.
This is an interesting was of thinking about the real cost of Netflix, but this assumes that you purchased your broadband connection to do noting but watch movies. Personally I consider my broadband costs as separate, since I would pay for it anyway. Netflix probably reduces my overall household expenses since I no longer rent or buy many movies.
In my experience yes. Programmers could work 10+ a day, but not for an indefinite period of time. To successfully crash a schedule, you need to provide strong goal, and reasonable milestones. As milestones are met, be prepared to give some kind of reward. The rewards don't have to cost a lot. Maybe a free day off for the whole team, or a happy hour on the company. In my opinion the most important part is to have defined end point. When the goal is met, the schedule goes back to normal.
I will not argue that the Governor is using the bully pulpit for some attention, but is it wrong for him to say that there are way too many phones in use, and I want them turned in? What would happen if you looked at your cable bill and discovered you were being charged for HBO (without authorization)? I doubt you would say that it is only $20/mo, which it not a significant portion of my total household budget. I bet you would be on the phone with that company disputing the charge. Yes, a detailed analysis should be performed, but if you see something is broken, why not fix it?
What I have a problem with is using my personal mobile *number*; it's mine and it's private. I don't want to deal with neither my current bosses nor my current customers once I don't work for my current company nor I want to change my personal number to avoid it.
There are technical solutions to this problem. Google Voice might be an option. Some companies have the capability to forward calls from an office extension to outside lines. Someone posted below that LG is developing a VM for phones, so you can have additional profiles.
Perhaps one lesson here is to ask up front, during the negotiation for the job, about staying in contact after hours, or otherwise away from your desk. If burden on your personal phone is likely to be high, build that into your compensation.
I would consider this a reasonable compromise. You can pick your own phone and features, and your employer can pay for their use of your device, especially in situations where the use is not too frequent.
So yeah, if your employer requires you to use a tool to perform any aspect of your job then the employer absolutely should be expected to provide you with that tool.
I am not sure I agree. There are many auto repair shops, and plumbing companies that require you to provide your own tools. These tools are vastly more expensive, albeit more durable, than a mobile phone. I am told that they do this because when you own the tools, you are more likely to take care of them, and not loose them. If your employers pays you a decent wage, why shouldn't they expect you to provide certain tools. To clarify, I am talking about incidental phone use, not the traveling salesman using hundreds or thousands of minutes in the regular course of their duties.
This article, from 2007, suggests that 82% of Americans have a mobile phone. Have we reached a tipping point where an employer might expect you to provide your own mobile phone? Exceptions will be made for those jobs that require frequent, daily usage, but what about the tech support guy with takes two or three 30 minute calls after hours every month? Odds are he already has a phone. Should your employer (in this case the State of CA) be expected to pay the base price of the phone and calling plan? I am not passing judgment on anyone with a company issued phone, just posing some academic questions.
(3) Or, the President could let the bill sit on his desk and expire.
To clarify this point, the President has ten days to review the legislation (excluding Sundays). If he fails to act (sign the bill) the legislation becomes law, unless Congress is not in session. If Congress has adjourned the session, the President gets what is called a pocket veto. He has vetoed the law with out sending it back to Congress.
A carpenter can estimate the amount of time required to frame a house, or build a deck, with a high degree of accuracy. This is evidenced by the fact that he can put a rule on how much to over estimate. He can do this because of his 40 years experience. There are very few people experienced in building orbital infrared telescopes, hence the margin of error is much wider.
the concept that the writers 'had a plan' was blown for me early on.
I recall reading, during the 1st or 2nd season, that the BSG writers did indeed have a plan. That the entire series was mapped out, much like Babylon 5 was. I was equally disappointed to learn that the final five were chosen so late, and that there really was no plan, by either the Cylons or the writers. Like you, I was so frustrated by BSG that I chose not to get vested in Caprica.
My beef with the finale was that for months we kept hearing the line "all will be revealed". But we never found out who was pulling the strings, or why. The writers also left clues, such as the constellations in the Tomb of Athena, that turned out to be bogus. It is impossible to tie up every plot line, but how about the major ones. To me if felt like a Sherlock Holmes novel where you don't find out "who done it".
This is a point that a lot of people miss. They see that the US students placed 20th on some test, and scream "something should be done about this." History is full of examples of people who got poor grades in school, but turned out to be successful. You also need to consider that the US has a large and diverse population. It can be unfair to compare our average score to a small country. For example, is it fair to compare the math scores of country like Finland, a country of 5+ million, to the entire US? The example comparison is even more dubious when you consider that not all children in Finland go to high school. Students there are tracked into a high school or vocational school program around the 9th grade.
I am not an expert on Finland, I just site them as a why to show that these kinds of rankings are not always an apples-to-apples comparison. Historically, the US education system has done a pretty darn good job of creating a large pool of creative thinkers, willing to take risks, and create things we never thought possible.
What do you propose should happen when enough people vote your "none of the above" option? It would be interesting to have a system where another election is held, but the current candidates are banned from that ballot.
I found it ironic that during the 2000 Presidential Election, one of the DC electors abstained from voting because DC does not have a voting representative in Congress.
I gave my 802.11b router to my in-laws. They have two compters and rarely use them at the same time , only using them to check email and surf the web. Their ISP is a greater bottleneck, with a top speed of 6mbps, than the router.
Making the USPS a completely private entity is not the right answer. I am one of those conservatives who believe in the enumerated powers of Congress. Federal law compels the USPS to provide service to all addresses in the US. I believe that this is essential to our democracy. If you are upset now about them closing the mail box a few miles away, imagine how great you will feel when it is relocated to the next town.
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I agree. Company managers should have some ability to work out their strategy before making it public. It would have been worse if they made their intent known without revealing their whole plan. In general investors like predictability, waffling should be left to the politicians.
I oversimplified the argument to make a point. Very few people care about a diamond planet way off in a distant corner of the Universe. It has no real impact on their daily life. The environment affects all of us, and if you are going to use research to justify changes to human behavior, expect a lot of interest and criticism, from both the highly educated and crack-pots. I am not trying to say that environmental research is wrong, but that it is a bit of an apples to orange comparison between climate and astronomical research.
I think what he is saying is that since the diamond planet researchers are not advocating that we divert money and resources to making a trip to mine the planet, they are receiving less scrutiny than the climate researchers who say the environment is changing therefor we all need to stop driving cars. The diamond planet has no real consequence to us. The climate research does, and will be subject to questions.
Remember the Apple Newton. A good product, but was before its time. I wonder how many of these failed products will inspire technology that has yet to be developed.
You have a good point about the safeguards. Banks spend truck-loads of money to secure their systems. Just wait until the average taxpayer finds out just how much the government will need to spend to create a secure online system, then maintain it every year.
I am not sure that he is saying that when available he would jump all over the new technology, but rather his employer might be interested in doing a cost benefit analysis. There are restaurants that reprint their menus weekly or even daily. If you are printing 100 copies of a one page document daily, one ream of this paper could last three years. Compare that to the more than 200 reams you use now over the same time period.
This is an interesting was of thinking about the real cost of Netflix, but this assumes that you purchased your broadband connection to do noting but watch movies. Personally I consider my broadband costs as separate, since I would pay for it anyway. Netflix probably reduces my overall household expenses since I no longer rent or buy many movies.
In my experience yes. Programmers could work 10+ a day, but not for an indefinite period of time. To successfully crash a schedule, you need to provide strong goal, and reasonable milestones. As milestones are met, be prepared to give some kind of reward. The rewards don't have to cost a lot. Maybe a free day off for the whole team, or a happy hour on the company. In my opinion the most important part is to have defined end point. When the goal is met, the schedule goes back to normal.
I will not argue that the Governor is using the bully pulpit for some attention, but is it wrong for him to say that there are way too many phones in use, and I want them turned in? What would happen if you looked at your cable bill and discovered you were being charged for HBO (without authorization)? I doubt you would say that it is only $20/mo, which it not a significant portion of my total household budget. I bet you would be on the phone with that company disputing the charge. Yes, a detailed analysis should be performed, but if you see something is broken, why not fix it?
What I have a problem with is using my personal mobile *number*; it's mine and it's private. I don't want to deal with neither my current bosses nor my current customers once I don't work for my current company nor I want to change my personal number to avoid it.
There are technical solutions to this problem. Google Voice might be an option. Some companies have the capability to forward calls from an office extension to outside lines. Someone posted below that LG is developing a VM for phones, so you can have additional profiles.
Perhaps one lesson here is to ask up front, during the negotiation for the job, about staying in contact after hours, or otherwise away from your desk. If burden on your personal phone is likely to be high, build that into your compensation.
I would consider this a reasonable compromise. You can pick your own phone and features, and your employer can pay for their use of your device, especially in situations where the use is not too frequent.
So yeah, if your employer requires you to use a tool to perform any aspect of your job then the employer absolutely should be expected to provide you with that tool.
I am not sure I agree. There are many auto repair shops, and plumbing companies that require you to provide your own tools. These tools are vastly more expensive, albeit more durable, than a mobile phone. I am told that they do this because when you own the tools, you are more likely to take care of them, and not loose them. If your employers pays you a decent wage, why shouldn't they expect you to provide certain tools. To clarify, I am talking about incidental phone use, not the traveling salesman using hundreds or thousands of minutes in the regular course of their duties.
This article, from 2007, suggests that 82% of Americans have a mobile phone. Have we reached a tipping point where an employer might expect you to provide your own mobile phone? Exceptions will be made for those jobs that require frequent, daily usage, but what about the tech support guy with takes two or three 30 minute calls after hours every month? Odds are he already has a phone. Should your employer (in this case the State of CA) be expected to pay the base price of the phone and calling plan? I am not passing judgment on anyone with a company issued phone, just posing some academic questions.
(3) Or, the President could let the bill sit on his desk and expire.
To clarify this point, the President has ten days to review the legislation (excluding Sundays). If he fails to act (sign the bill) the legislation becomes law, unless Congress is not in session. If Congress has adjourned the session, the President gets what is called a pocket veto. He has vetoed the law with out sending it back to Congress.
A carpenter can estimate the amount of time required to frame a house, or build a deck, with a high degree of accuracy. This is evidenced by the fact that he can put a rule on how much to over estimate. He can do this because of his 40 years experience. There are very few people experienced in building orbital infrared telescopes, hence the margin of error is much wider.
the concept that the writers 'had a plan' was blown for me early on.
I recall reading, during the 1st or 2nd season, that the BSG writers did indeed have a plan. That the entire series was mapped out, much like Babylon 5 was. I was equally disappointed to learn that the final five were chosen so late, and that there really was no plan, by either the Cylons or the writers. Like you, I was so frustrated by BSG that I chose not to get vested in Caprica.
My beef with the finale was that for months we kept hearing the line "all will be revealed". But we never found out who was pulling the strings, or why. The writers also left clues, such as the constellations in the Tomb of Athena, that turned out to be bogus. It is impossible to tie up every plot line, but how about the major ones. To me if felt like a Sherlock Holmes novel where you don't find out "who done it".
This is a point that a lot of people miss. They see that the US students placed 20th on some test, and scream "something should be done about this." History is full of examples of people who got poor grades in school, but turned out to be successful. You also need to consider that the US has a large and diverse population. It can be unfair to compare our average score to a small country. For example, is it fair to compare the math scores of country like Finland, a country of 5+ million, to the entire US? The example comparison is even more dubious when you consider that not all children in Finland go to high school. Students there are tracked into a high school or vocational school program around the 9th grade.
I am not an expert on Finland, I just site them as a why to show that these kinds of rankings are not always an apples-to-apples comparison. Historically, the US education system has done a pretty darn good job of creating a large pool of creative thinkers, willing to take risks, and create things we never thought possible.
What do you propose should happen when enough people vote your "none of the above" option? It would be interesting to have a system where another election is held, but the current candidates are banned from that ballot.
I found it ironic that during the 2000 Presidential Election, one of the DC electors abstained from voting because DC does not have a voting representative in Congress.
This is a problem when citing any online work. Most academic citation styles have you include a date when citing an online work.
I gave my 802.11b router to my in-laws. They have two compters and rarely use them at the same time , only using them to check email and surf the web. Their ISP is a greater bottleneck, with a top speed of 6mbps, than the router.
Making the USPS a completely private entity is not the right answer. I am one of those conservatives who believe in the enumerated powers of Congress. Federal law compels the USPS to provide service to all addresses in the US. I believe that this is essential to our democracy. If you are upset now about them closing the mail box a few miles away, imagine how great you will feel when it is relocated to the next town.
I, for one, would like to welcome our new cow overlords.