I have 168 hours in a week. I work in front of a computer 40+ hours a week. I do graduate school online, so add about 20 hours. I sleep 8 hours a night, so subtract 56 hours. That leaves us 52 hours. 1 hour per week is spent in church, with my wife in the choir. She spends all of saturday at the farm with the hourses, so 14 hours spent there. I have a potential 38 hours, minus any time using the restroom. I believe it.
The US Attorney General is right. The Constitution itself does not expressly grant Habeas Corpus. It just says when it can be taken away. Article 1 Section 9 does say "The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it." The Bill of Rights does cover the idea of Habeas Corpus in Amendment 6, but not expressly mentions the words Habeas Corpus. Case law and custom does support Habeas Corpus, especially Ex parte Milligan.
If a US senator asks if the Constitution grants Habeas Corpus, the correct answer is no.
Unfortunately, I picked up my mouse from the NIHM research facility. It has been horrible. I wake up in the middle of the night and the little bugger is correcting my code, playing with my pda, tweaking my project plans, embezzling from my work. Keeps shopping on line for peanut butter and sunflower seeds.
Now, if you excuse me. It is my time for exercise on the treadmill according to my pda.
Unfortunately, you have no clue what you are talking about. Redhat Enterprise 3. In addition, one can't say we don't have sufficient in house support. We have significant DBA support: 4 qualified in Oracle, Sybase, and Microsoft. A server support group with Linux, AIX, HP-Unix, and Windows background. AIX and HP-Unix guys (who also do Linux) have 10+ years experience each in Unix. We have programmers who between them cover a good portion of modern programming languages in common use. One can't say we don't know how to deal with data load. We deal with systems with up to 7 GB of growth a week.
To handle a simple medical forms program (not truly that simple, since it adds the patient info to the form so it has to have an HL7 interface), with about 300ish form types and about 1500ish users, the MySQL database couldn't perform. The vendor couldn't get the app to scale properly across a two-system cluster due to lack of developer support. The MS rep heard from one of our DBAs and the vendor was offered a lucrative package to convert. We payed for Win 2003 and SQL Server 2k enterprise(with a sharp discount), with an uptime movement from 78% to 99% (we had a broadcast storm from a core switch). In clinical applications, even just creating and printing forms, we need the crap to work.
I don't care about if MS is better then OSS or Big Iron or Swiss Cheese. If the system can't get the job done, I have no use for it. If it takes the capabilities beyond what my 140+ IT department has to run, then it is useless. We run a ERP, Patient Accounting System, Electronic Patient Records, and a myriad of other systems on different platforms. The only OSS based system we have is our security system, which works great. Ideals don't matter when saving lives.
Sorry to all the normal people for the rant. It has been one of those days.
I am about to tick a few of you off, but oh well. I work at a hospital as a system analyst. Look at my profile for my qualifications. We tend to purchase systems that are best fit for our environment, then write the glue to make them work. We have had systems running on MySQL that we have purchases the last couple of years. Every single one of them have converted to another DBMS package, usually MS SQL Server - with one moving to Oracle. Every system we have had running on MySQL has been undependable and unreliable. Support from the vendor has stunk and we end up having to troubleshoot the database issues without much help from the developers, because they do not have DBMS vendor support. When they switch to a commercial package, support quality improves drastically. All a person has to do to understand why is to go out to MSDN or Technet. Microsoft isn't the only vendor that has such fantastic support, but they are a good example.
The support issues with applications using MySQL have gotten so bad, that we now have a directive from my CIO that we are not allowed to implement any system based off of MySQL. The cost-benefit is not there for us to try to keep a MySQL database stable.
I think this depends on the area of the country. In california, it was hispanics in the kitchen when I lived there. In Kansas, whites. In the south, blacks. It just depends on who has the go-get attitude and the largest percentage share of the labor force.
Really, I guess all of those gamertag and gamertag1 parings are my imagination. I do get a lot of connection to host lost errors when the host is losing, but not a consistent problem. Oh, you have to aim with the shotgun.
The storyline is pushed lightly in this title. I think that was a choice in how much Marcus would truly know. I have to admit, the solution via his father to mapping the tunnels seemed a little too much of a plot hole. Even so, I find myself attempting to play this game on insane. The description of Insane is spot on, the game is very difficult. Dieing to a lucky burst of a troika sucks. The allied AI suffers, but is better with squad commands, when they become available. I love the achievements for playing Dom in Co-op. I can't quit you Dom. The switches in game-play are nice, in the way they breakup the game into a smooth experience. I wish the matchmaking from Halo2 could be incorporated, but I understand why. Besides that, multiplayer has been seamless on split-screen or xbox live. The d-pad functionality just makes sense. Left for left shoulder, right for right shoulder, up go the grenades, and fall back to the pistol. Genius. The game really pushes the destroyed beauty motif, in a very elegant way. I really enjoyed this game.
I would recommend Gears of War as a first buy for the 360, followed by Oblivion, Saints Row, and Dead Rising. Gears of War really shines in HD, but can be played on a core system with a standard tv and a memory card. 399.97 + tax for a memory card, core system, and Gears of War isn't bad. I would spend the extra 100 bucks + tax though to get the Pro box with the harddrive, wireless controller, and xbox live year gold subscription.
I would disagree. Tory v. Cochran shows the Supreme Court's willingness to uphold injunctions where a private pary slanders and libels a public figure. I would also refer you to Campbell v. Nolan, where a public official (Michael Nolan, a city administrator) won a monetary judgement verses a private individual for slander. Recent cases are friendly to public figures and officials.
You are partially correct. Public figures have to prove actual malice. In the case, New York Times v. Sullivan, it was found that with a public figure, there must be proof of actual malice. Actual malice is defined as the statement being false or in reckless disregard for the truth. ref Is the question in malice? In my opinion, yes. This is a political hack attacking a public figure. (Ken Mehlman is the head of the RNC) By falsely 'outing' Ken Mehlman, we have a malicious act. In addition, because of Bill Maher belief that Mehlman would be harmed by this information, the act shows reckless disregard. Ergo, this shows a reckless disregard for the truth, if not true.
I would have to concure. Not only is CNN being responsible to ethics, but such statements can be considered slanderous and actionable under U.S. law if not true. Another good example of someone talking out of their wazu right into a lawsuit.
I would look into some mediation training for your CS reps. Mediation, unlike arbitration, is not binding and costs less. By mediation techniques, you should be able to come up with an equitable solution.
I see this solution to be prone to data errors. Therefore, I suggest that the vendor puts their money where their mouth is. Put them in some dozen tablets at a college for students and test the fail rate. Stick them in a SAN for a large data center and test the mean-time to failure. Hell, run Slashdot on them. I want to see failure, power consumption, and shock test data.
Sony income from electronics was 8 billion yen. This is the unit that lost 51 billion yen due to the battery recall, with a revenue of 1.4 trillion. The previous year - same quarter, they did 28.1 billion, but with 1.2 trillion in revenue. I will swag that to an operating margin of about 2% for second quarter, 2005. In comparison, Microsoft did a margin of 28% last year with revenues of 44 billion USD (about 5.2 trillion yen) for the whole year. IBM did 8.7%. Google did 25%. Now bear with me, I am swagging this big time. So Sony's one unit in a quarter did about a quarter of Microsoft's total yearly revenue with a horrible margin the year before and did a little better this year, but was hurt by the 51 billion yen (429 million USD) battery recall.
Does this mean that income would be higher if not for the 51 billion yen albitross around Sony's neck? Not likely due to tax considerations. They wrote the whole bunch off as a loss, so they would not have to deal with the tax considerations of 51 billion. Even though, they would have been about 31 billion more minus the tax benefits to the loss. Good swag for that would be 16.2 billion yen (Assuming a 32% tax, whih I think theirs is higher). So, we could of expected a 14.6 billion growth? No, what did they not spend that money on because of the recall? Another fact is that we don't know how Sony financed the 51 billion.
In other words, Sony's financial picture stinks and what-ifs don't improve the picture, because what-ifs are irrelivant. Wether 1.6% or.1% profit across the total corporation, the picture isn't good. If they got the whole 51 billion, they would have a massive profit margin of 2.8%. Now, if Sony were to trim some fat (like the media division), then they could look better, but not much. The biggest earner for Sony in the terms of money and margin is their Financial Services. I would suggest investing in the improvement the Financial Services branch, drop the media (been a dog for years), and try to make the other units more profitable. Currently, Sony's management is not servicing the need of its owners (the investors) and they need to have a round of comming to Jesus meetings. I would suggest the investors put in a vote of no confidence in the board and hire a new one, mandating that the top three players at Sony get fired very publicly.
Little more expensive then Dell, but worth it. Responsive Service and sensible sizing. Dell's sizing tools suck. We have a database system with 170 GB of data and 7 GB a quarter growth and the sizing tool said we needed a two-processor system with 2 GB of RAM and 200 GB worth of storage.
BTW, I have no problem with people who have English as a second or third language. I even don't have problem with non-english speakers. I do have a problem when they are not fluent in English at all and are put on Phone Support duty.
Dell had a problem with multiple remit lines on a check. For those of you who do not know, remit lines are the break out of a check to pay multiple invoices. This way I could pay 300 invoices with one check. Dell tends to credit the whole amount to one lease structure (we have several hundred due to Dell's efficient billing scheme) and cut us a check for the remainder of the check. Following that, they send us a nasty gram about not paying on the other accounts.
This happened to me on two personnal DFS accounts. I had bought a laptop one year and another two years later. I had $34 left on the first and wrote a check for that amount and wrote one for $170 on the other laptop. A month later, I wrote a check for $170 on the second laptop and two days later, got a check for $170. Calling Dell, I pointed out the issue. Mr. English-is-probably-not-even-my-second-language had no clue what I was saying when I pointed out that they were applying my payment wrong. So, I figure they will get a clue. I send another check the next month for $170 and get one for $170. They also send a paid-in-full letter for the SECOND account. I call and get Mr. English-is-probably-not-even-my-second-language again and get told that this was not a mistake. I stop sending checks.
A year later, I get a letter from a collection agency, asking for the amount of the laptop. I send them a letter within 30 days and ask for proof of the debt and send the payment-in-full letter, asking for response in 60 days as required by law. I don't hear anything from that collection agency again; but six months later, I get another asking for the money. Wash, rise, repeat. Flash forward 3 years later. I am still getting letters every six months, which I challenge. By my state law, they can't collect. By federal law, they have refused a valid payment.
What is funny about this situation is that I am heading the team reviewing the vendor we use for PCs at work. The company I work for have 5,000+ desktops and laptops, plus servers. We already get our servers now from IBM. We have a final three for the PC decision. I can't tell you who they are, but I can tell you Michael Dell is not amoung them due to billing issues. Our PC Lease contract is for about $1,000,000 per year and Dell is losing it due to inability in their AR department. DUMB!
Funny, we just did this analysis at work. Our cost is about $1,500 to $5,000 per pc tech and server guy, depending on the training package we send them. PCs will be replaced on the standard 3 year cycle, so no addition cost there. Assuming the worst, $5,000 worth of training each for 18 people, we are spending $27.27 per user (About 3,300 of them). Testing of applications cost us nothing with Vista, since if it isn't on the vendors' Supported Technical Enviroment, we will not install the app on vista machines. Essentially a non-issue for us.
Now, if I did not follow a 3 year cycle, upgraded each pc to support Vista instead of just replaced the pc, and trained the user expensive training, maybe I could get to $3,500. ($1,500 training, $2,000 in pc upgrades) Hey look, I would be an idiot.
I thought they were changing the Konomi code just for Sony's revolutionary controller, which didn't steal the movement from Wii or the guide button from XBox360...
Up down Up down left right left right shake the snot out of it in frustration
On a side note: I would like to see a game that could figure out that you just threw the controller across the room and bring up the help system. 'I see that you are frustrated. Would you like some help with the game or cool off with a walk first?'
I did some quick analysis of ice core data and I see a flaw. Looking here, I see that they can see C02 data starting a couple of decades before before 1950. I would like to see ice core data covering 1980 to now. How do we know that the PPM is being read right? Lets see the Ice Core to Modern temperature reading corrolation. How about ice core to atmospheric CO2 concentrations? Anyone know where some more modern data sets are?
It is likely that you have a line in your job description that reads 'and other tasks'. Many of us have it. Well, honestly, many of you have it since I helped my boss rewrite the job descriptions of my coworkers and me. This includes educating your boss. Here is the trick, if your boss is an idiot, what makes you think you are not? There are several essential skills needed for management, some skills are more important then others depending on position. These skills are technical skills, managerial skills, personnal skills, and networking (suck up) skills. Your boss has to have some technical skills to manage you, but not as great as you have. His level should be enough to make decent decisions based off the information you give him. He should have better managerial, personnal, and networking skills, but not as good as his boss, who would be offset by lesser technical skills. You discuss your perception with you boss and learn his perspective on things.
On a side note, most IT workers expect for some ungodly reason that their bosses have equal or greater technical skills. My manager has an ETL and BI expert (me), two ERP and business process experts (my cohort and me), several SQL experts (7 of us including me), two EDI experts (my cohort and another guy), two pc experts (another guy and me), web programmer (me), a server expert (me), 3 HR process experts (3 other people), and 9 cobal programmers (don't look at me, I don't do big iron). Add in the fact that he also has 3 records retention technicians, their manager, and two archivists (in the traditional sense), one would get the idea how diverse his staff is. How the hell could he be expected to have this skill set? Now he needed to be educated on how we work in some instances. He viewed script programming easy, yet he had never seen complex scripting for business apps on the web before. It is my job to fix misperceptions that would make his decisions wrong and it is his job to ask for information in my area of expertise before shooting his mouth off.
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I have 168 hours in a week. I work in front of a computer 40+ hours a week. I do graduate school online, so add about 20 hours. I sleep 8 hours a night, so subtract 56 hours. That leaves us 52 hours. 1 hour per week is spent in church, with my wife in the choir. She spends all of saturday at the farm with the hourses, so 14 hours spent there. I have a potential 38 hours, minus any time using the restroom. I believe it.
The US Attorney General is right. The Constitution itself does not expressly grant Habeas Corpus. It just says when it can be taken away. Article 1 Section 9 does say "The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it." The Bill of Rights does cover the idea of Habeas Corpus in Amendment 6, but not expressly mentions the words Habeas Corpus. Case law and custom does support Habeas Corpus, especially Ex parte Milligan.
If a US senator asks if the Constitution grants Habeas Corpus, the correct answer is no.
Unfortunately, I picked up my mouse from the NIHM research facility. It has been horrible. I wake up in the middle of the night and the little bugger is correcting my code, playing with my pda, tweaking my project plans, embezzling from my work. Keeps shopping on line for peanut butter and sunflower seeds.
Now, if you excuse me. It is my time for exercise on the treadmill according to my pda.
Unfortunately, you have no clue what you are talking about. Redhat Enterprise 3. In addition, one can't say we don't have sufficient in house support. We have significant DBA support: 4 qualified in Oracle, Sybase, and Microsoft. A server support group with Linux, AIX, HP-Unix, and Windows background. AIX and HP-Unix guys (who also do Linux) have 10+ years experience each in Unix. We have programmers who between them cover a good portion of modern programming languages in common use. One can't say we don't know how to deal with data load. We deal with systems with up to 7 GB of growth a week.
To handle a simple medical forms program (not truly that simple, since it adds the patient info to the form so it has to have an HL7 interface), with about 300ish form types and about 1500ish users, the MySQL database couldn't perform. The vendor couldn't get the app to scale properly across a two-system cluster due to lack of developer support. The MS rep heard from one of our DBAs and the vendor was offered a lucrative package to convert. We payed for Win 2003 and SQL Server 2k enterprise(with a sharp discount), with an uptime movement from 78% to 99% (we had a broadcast storm from a core switch). In clinical applications, even just creating and printing forms, we need the crap to work.
I don't care about if MS is better then OSS or Big Iron or Swiss Cheese. If the system can't get the job done, I have no use for it. If it takes the capabilities beyond what my 140+ IT department has to run, then it is useless. We run a ERP, Patient Accounting System, Electronic Patient Records, and a myriad of other systems on different platforms. The only OSS based system we have is our security system, which works great. Ideals don't matter when saving lives.
Sorry to all the normal people for the rant. It has been one of those days.
I am about to tick a few of you off, but oh well. I work at a hospital as a system analyst. Look at my profile for my qualifications. We tend to purchase systems that are best fit for our environment, then write the glue to make them work. We have had systems running on MySQL that we have purchases the last couple of years. Every single one of them have converted to another DBMS package, usually MS SQL Server - with one moving to Oracle. Every system we have had running on MySQL has been undependable and unreliable. Support from the vendor has stunk and we end up having to troubleshoot the database issues without much help from the developers, because they do not have DBMS vendor support. When they switch to a commercial package, support quality improves drastically. All a person has to do to understand why is to go out to MSDN or Technet. Microsoft isn't the only vendor that has such fantastic support, but they are a good example.
The support issues with applications using MySQL have gotten so bad, that we now have a directive from my CIO that we are not allowed to implement any system based off of MySQL. The cost-benefit is not there for us to try to keep a MySQL database stable.
I think this depends on the area of the country. In california, it was hispanics in the kitchen when I lived there. In Kansas, whites. In the south, blacks. It just depends on who has the go-get attitude and the largest percentage share of the labor force.
Really, I guess all of those gamertag and gamertag1 parings are my imagination. I do get a lot of connection to host lost errors when the host is losing, but not a consistent problem. Oh, you have to aim with the shotgun.
The storyline is pushed lightly in this title. I think that was a choice in how much Marcus would truly know. I have to admit, the solution via his father to mapping the tunnels seemed a little too much of a plot hole. Even so, I find myself attempting to play this game on insane. The description of Insane is spot on, the game is very difficult. Dieing to a lucky burst of a troika sucks. The allied AI suffers, but is better with squad commands, when they become available. I love the achievements for playing Dom in Co-op. I can't quit you Dom. The switches in game-play are nice, in the way they breakup the game into a smooth experience. I wish the matchmaking from Halo2 could be incorporated, but I understand why. Besides that, multiplayer has been seamless on split-screen or xbox live. The d-pad functionality just makes sense. Left for left shoulder, right for right shoulder, up go the grenades, and fall back to the pistol. Genius. The game really pushes the destroyed beauty motif, in a very elegant way. I really enjoyed this game.
I would recommend Gears of War as a first buy for the 360, followed by Oblivion, Saints Row, and Dead Rising. Gears of War really shines in HD, but can be played on a core system with a standard tv and a memory card. 399.97 + tax for a memory card, core system, and Gears of War isn't bad. I would spend the extra 100 bucks + tax though to get the Pro box with the harddrive, wireless controller, and xbox live year gold subscription.
Don't mind me, I am cranky.
I would disagree. Tory v. Cochran shows the Supreme Court's willingness to uphold injunctions where a private pary slanders and libels a public figure. I would also refer you to Campbell v. Nolan, where a public official (Michael Nolan, a city administrator) won a monetary judgement verses a private individual for slander. Recent cases are friendly to public figures and officials.
You are partially correct. Public figures have to prove actual malice. In the case, New York Times v. Sullivan, it was found that with a public figure, there must be proof of actual malice. Actual malice is defined as the statement being false or in reckless disregard for the truth. ref Is the question in malice? In my opinion, yes. This is a political hack attacking a public figure. (Ken Mehlman is the head of the RNC) By falsely 'outing' Ken Mehlman, we have a malicious act. In addition, because of Bill Maher belief that Mehlman would be harmed by this information, the act shows reckless disregard. Ergo, this shows a reckless disregard for the truth, if not true.
I would have to concure. Not only is CNN being responsible to ethics, but such statements can be considered slanderous and actionable under U.S. law if not true. Another good example of someone talking out of their wazu right into a lawsuit.
I worked in the tech field without a degree. Here is my advice. Get one. Thank you.
Screw that, send there scrawny ass to Levenworth. They will be HIGHLY popular there.
I would look into some mediation training for your CS reps. Mediation, unlike arbitration, is not binding and costs less. By mediation techniques, you should be able to come up with an equitable solution.
I see this solution to be prone to data errors. Therefore, I suggest that the vendor puts their money where their mouth is. Put them in some dozen tablets at a college for students and test the fail rate. Stick them in a SAN for a large data center and test the mean-time to failure. Hell, run Slashdot on them. I want to see failure, power consumption, and shock test data.
Sony income from electronics was 8 billion yen. This is the unit that lost 51 billion yen due to the battery recall, with a revenue of 1.4 trillion. The previous year - same quarter, they did 28.1 billion, but with 1.2 trillion in revenue. I will swag that to an operating margin of about 2% for second quarter, 2005. In comparison, Microsoft did a margin of 28% last year with revenues of 44 billion USD (about 5.2 trillion yen) for the whole year. IBM did 8.7%. Google did 25%. Now bear with me, I am swagging this big time. So Sony's one unit in a quarter did about a quarter of Microsoft's total yearly revenue with a horrible margin the year before and did a little better this year, but was hurt by the 51 billion yen (429 million USD) battery recall.
Does this mean that income would be higher if not for the 51 billion yen albitross around Sony's neck? Not likely due to tax considerations. They wrote the whole bunch off as a loss, so they would not have to deal with the tax considerations of 51 billion. Even though, they would have been about 31 billion more minus the tax benefits to the loss. Good swag for that would be 16.2 billion yen (Assuming a 32% tax, whih I think theirs is higher). So, we could of expected a 14.6 billion growth? No, what did they not spend that money on because of the recall? Another fact is that we don't know how Sony financed the 51 billion.
In other words, Sony's financial picture stinks and what-ifs don't improve the picture, because what-ifs are irrelivant. Wether 1.6% or .1% profit across the total corporation, the picture isn't good. If they got the whole 51 billion, they would have a massive profit margin of 2.8%. Now, if Sony were to trim some fat (like the media division), then they could look better, but not much. The biggest earner for Sony in the terms of money and margin is their Financial Services. I would suggest investing in the improvement the Financial Services branch, drop the media (been a dog for years), and try to make the other units more profitable. Currently, Sony's management is not servicing the need of its owners (the investors) and they need to have a round of comming to Jesus meetings. I would suggest the investors put in a vote of no confidence in the board and hire a new one, mandating that the top three players at Sony get fired very publicly.
Wrong guess. Microsoft SQL Server.
Dumb DBA is why we used that tool. I bought 2 1.5 TB SAN drawers.
Little more expensive then Dell, but worth it. Responsive Service and sensible sizing. Dell's sizing tools suck. We have a database system with 170 GB of data and 7 GB a quarter growth and the sizing tool said we needed a two-processor system with 2 GB of RAM and 200 GB worth of storage.
BTW, I have no problem with people who have English as a second or third language. I even don't have problem with non-english speakers. I do have a problem when they are not fluent in English at all and are put on Phone Support duty.
Dell had a problem with multiple remit lines on a check. For those of you who do not know, remit lines are the break out of a check to pay multiple invoices. This way I could pay 300 invoices with one check. Dell tends to credit the whole amount to one lease structure (we have several hundred due to Dell's efficient billing scheme) and cut us a check for the remainder of the check. Following that, they send us a nasty gram about not paying on the other accounts.
This happened to me on two personnal DFS accounts. I had bought a laptop one year and another two years later. I had $34 left on the first and wrote a check for that amount and wrote one for $170 on the other laptop. A month later, I wrote a check for $170 on the second laptop and two days later, got a check for $170. Calling Dell, I pointed out the issue. Mr. English-is-probably-not-even-my-second-language had no clue what I was saying when I pointed out that they were applying my payment wrong. So, I figure they will get a clue. I send another check the next month for $170 and get one for $170. They also send a paid-in-full letter for the SECOND account. I call and get Mr. English-is-probably-not-even-my-second-language again and get told that this was not a mistake. I stop sending checks.
A year later, I get a letter from a collection agency, asking for the amount of the laptop. I send them a letter within 30 days and ask for proof of the debt and send the payment-in-full letter, asking for response in 60 days as required by law. I don't hear anything from that collection agency again; but six months later, I get another asking for the money. Wash, rise, repeat. Flash forward 3 years later. I am still getting letters every six months, which I challenge. By my state law, they can't collect. By federal law, they have refused a valid payment.
What is funny about this situation is that I am heading the team reviewing the vendor we use for PCs at work. The company I work for have 5,000+ desktops and laptops, plus servers. We already get our servers now from IBM. We have a final three for the PC decision. I can't tell you who they are, but I can tell you Michael Dell is not amoung them due to billing issues. Our PC Lease contract is for about $1,000,000 per year and Dell is losing it due to inability in their AR department. DUMB!
Funny, we just did this analysis at work. Our cost is about $1,500 to $5,000 per pc tech and server guy, depending on the training package we send them. PCs will be replaced on the standard 3 year cycle, so no addition cost there. Assuming the worst, $5,000 worth of training each for 18 people, we are spending $27.27 per user (About 3,300 of them). Testing of applications cost us nothing with Vista, since if it isn't on the vendors' Supported Technical Enviroment, we will not install the app on vista machines. Essentially a non-issue for us.
Now, if I did not follow a 3 year cycle, upgraded each pc to support Vista instead of just replaced the pc, and trained the user expensive training, maybe I could get to $3,500. ($1,500 training, $2,000 in pc upgrades) Hey look, I would be an idiot.
I thought they were changing the Konomi code just for Sony's revolutionary controller, which didn't steal the movement from Wii or the guide button from XBox360...
Up down Up down left right left right shake the snot out of it in frustration
On a side note: I would like to see a game that could figure out that you just threw the controller across the room and bring up the help system. 'I see that you are frustrated. Would you like some help with the game or cool off with a walk first?'
I would suggest that before people point about China's right to protect the space above them, that those people would look at TREATY ON PRINCIPLES GOVERNING THE ACTIVITIES OF STATES IN THE EXPLORATION AND USE OF OUTER SPACE, INCLUDING THE MOON AND OTHER CELESTIAL BODIES (1967) and AGREEMENT RELATING TO THE INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE ORGANIZATION "INTELSAT" (with annexes and Operating Agreement)(1971). We blew up a derelict russian satellite with a F15 firing a special missle in the '80s and it caused all sorts of issues, so there is international precident on this being a bad thing. In addition, all we have to do is take pictures from the 'side' view or develop 'stealthy' satillites.
I did some quick analysis of ice core data and I see a flaw. Looking here, I see that they can see C02 data starting a couple of decades before before 1950. I would like to see ice core data covering 1980 to now. How do we know that the PPM is being read right? Lets see the Ice Core to Modern temperature reading corrolation. How about ice core to atmospheric CO2 concentrations? Anyone know where some more modern data sets are?
It is likely that you have a line in your job description that reads 'and other tasks'. Many of us have it. Well, honestly, many of you have it since I helped my boss rewrite the job descriptions of my coworkers and me. This includes educating your boss. Here is the trick, if your boss is an idiot, what makes you think you are not? There are several essential skills needed for management, some skills are more important then others depending on position. These skills are technical skills, managerial skills, personnal skills, and networking (suck up) skills. Your boss has to have some technical skills to manage you, but not as great as you have. His level should be enough to make decent decisions based off the information you give him. He should have better managerial, personnal, and networking skills, but not as good as his boss, who would be offset by lesser technical skills. You discuss your perception with you boss and learn his perspective on things.
On a side note, most IT workers expect for some ungodly reason that their bosses have equal or greater technical skills. My manager has an ETL and BI expert (me), two ERP and business process experts (my cohort and me), several SQL experts (7 of us including me), two EDI experts (my cohort and another guy), two pc experts (another guy and me), web programmer (me), a server expert (me), 3 HR process experts (3 other people), and 9 cobal programmers (don't look at me, I don't do big iron). Add in the fact that he also has 3 records retention technicians, their manager, and two archivists (in the traditional sense), one would get the idea how diverse his staff is. How the hell could he be expected to have this skill set? Now he needed to be educated on how we work in some instances. He viewed script programming easy, yet he had never seen complex scripting for business apps on the web before. It is my job to fix misperceptions that would make his decisions wrong and it is his job to ask for information in my area of expertise before shooting his mouth off.