Older people end up in programming jobs for one of two reasons:
They are passionate about what they do and did not want to get into management where their talents would be wasted. You want these ones.
They're grundging old farts that constantly got looked over for promotion etc. You don't want these.
Ask them about previous jobs. If they bitch and moan about "clueless managers" etc etc then they're probably in the latter group. Remember, most organizations are pretty much the same; they'll soon be grumbling about yours too.
Good ones will typically be able to articulate what they did within a business framework with measurable outcomes: "Improved xxx by yyy%". They will typically have a pretty good handle on ideas like process improvement etc. Look too for good mentors. No point in having experienced people if they just sit in the corner and don't interact with the young 'uns.
GreenHills make RTOS solutions for embedded use etc. The emphasis is on robustness and security over features. It is a painstaking process of testing and verification to add features.
Sure, in theory, Windows and Linux could attain these levels of security but in practice Windows and Linux favor adding features and capabilities. Compromises have to be made to get stuff out in an acceptable timeframe.
People like Ericsson Mobile Platforms (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ericsson_Mobile_Platforms) provide the same design to multiple handset vendors. As the industry progresses we can expect to see growing commonality.
A vast % of water flowing from glaciers etc flows under the gravels and underground. If people could not follow the tracers (dyes etc) then how will they follow ducks? That they could not follow tracers indicates that the water travels via some non-obvious (ie. non-surface) path. Sure some ducks might turn up at point A, but likely a lot of water is traveling underground and the ducks won't go there.
I live in a place which is the result of glacial deposits and only a small % of the water here travels on the surface, or even anywhere near where the rivers are.
Sure, the ducks might provide a bit of curiosity, but it would be misleading to take them as being representative of water flow as a whole.
If you're a practical sort of person then it really helps to understand what the math means in some sort of physical context. The academic purists be damned!
The melt waters flowing under the glacier and through small streams will flow through gravels and other obstructions that the rubber duckies can't flow through. Thus, any data coming back will have a huge caveat hanging over it and will be rather useless from a scientific point of view. Radioactive tracers etc can give far better information.
There are two purposes for such documents: Inform: part from the little "purpose" bit, the SANS does not do much. (2) A legal rope to hang a user with. What most of the SANS doc is.
Folks, nobody reads a document like this. They will lose interest after the first few lines then either skip to the signing bit or throw it away.
Real security comes from informing the user, not from baffling and swamping them with techno-legal bs.
If you want real security, then clearly explain the issues.
I believe that other parts of the world have observed the same result too.
Of course it is very difficult to make an apples to apples comparison since energy demands are changing year to year anyway. Observed changes cannot be only attributed to the DST changes.
Don't look stupid at the next shareholders' meeting. What have MS really got to show for the last two years or so? A string of failures: Zune, Vista, Yahoo... MS need to show shareholders that they are still competing with the other players and are not just burning their cash. Apple and Google have app stores (running or in development). Therefore MS better have one too.
If you want to progress an idea then you need to find some funding for it. Using the military has always been a classic way to get this done. Global Warming research also works these days.
Sure, what the scientists are doing might one day turn into something that saves a soldier's life, most current soldiers would probably prefer to see some of that rather go towards funding more down-to-earth spending on basic stuff like body armor etc.
The last 8 years have seen a dramatic erosion of the international good will that USA built up. Something that Obama can fix almost immediately is working towards rebuilding that good will. This is reflected in how the world has welcomed the change.
Changing the USA mindset from fear mongering to hope is a huge thing in itself and is the first step towards rebuilding US as a nation and an international player.
While the "first black president" thing might be an historic moment for black civil rights, that is not what Obama is about.
What about a pull strip cutter? Anyone remember cigarette packs? They came in cellophane wrappers with a red strip that you pulled to cleanly cut the packaging open. Surely the same idea could be scaled up to open any sort of packaging?
This is as old as the hills. When I lived in apartheid South Africa in the 1980s the sanctions made it illegal to export various chips to South Africa. They still got there disguised as legal electronic components. The middle men made a killing. Limiting availability might have made USA etc voters happy, but all that really happened was that the South African military industry got a shot in the arm, building its own stuff and selling it to other willing customers. Same deal for the South African nuclear program.
Nothing much has changed. Smaller stuff like special electronics can be easily hidden inside perfectly legal consumer electronic devices and the $8/hr TSA guy working at the airport will never know the difference. Unless you completely seal borders (??how??) and cut off all tourism etc, you're just doing it for show.
For all the talk of roadable planes etc, Little Nellie style flying machines are pretty close.
Small autogyros are very maneuverable, have short take off/landing and are potentially a lot safer too. A small auto gyro gives reasonable speed and mileage. Landed, the rotor can be folded away quite easily and the autogyro could be easily powered by its own engine (as a simple motor trike).
Sure the young 'uns can sit up all night and crank out code fast, but quite often the older guys will be relaxing and thinking a bit more and come up with better code.
But that might also be because by age 40 you'd probably have diverted into management if you were no good at coding.
In the business world, where nobody worries about games etc, MS Office is the "lock-in app" for Windows. Once people realise that OpenOffice provides a desktop solution, then they might also realise that Linux runs all their favourite software, except viruses.
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They are passionate about what they do and did not want to get into management where their talents would be wasted. You want these ones.
They're grundging old farts that constantly got looked over for promotion etc. You don't want these.
Ask them about previous jobs. If they bitch and moan about "clueless managers" etc etc then they're probably in the latter group. Remember, most organizations are pretty much the same; they'll soon be grumbling about yours too.
Good ones will typically be able to articulate what they did within a business framework with measurable outcomes: "Improved xxx by yyy%". They will typically have a pretty good handle on ideas like process improvement etc. Look too for good mentors. No point in having experienced people if they just sit in the corner and don't interact with the young 'uns.
FLOPS and MIPS are all very well, but if the OS is pissing them away then it does not matter much.
Perhaps there really is a future in USA.
Sure, in theory, Windows and Linux could attain these levels of security but in practice Windows and Linux favor adding features and capabilities. Compromises have to be made to get stuff out in an acceptable timeframe.
People like Ericsson Mobile Platforms (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ericsson_Mobile_Platforms) provide the same design to multiple handset vendors. As the industry progresses we can expect to see growing commonality.
Buy yourself an EeePC through regular channels and send a donation cheque/check to OLPC.
Or just send them a cheque...
I live in a place which is the result of glacial deposits and only a small % of the water here travels on the surface, or even anywhere near where the rivers are.
Sure, the ducks might provide a bit of curiosity, but it would be misleading to take them as being representative of water flow as a whole.
If you're a practical sort of person then it really helps to understand what the math means in some sort of physical context. The academic purists be damned!
The melt waters flowing under the glacier and through small streams will flow through gravels and other obstructions that the rubber duckies can't flow through. Thus, any data coming back will have a huge caveat hanging over it and will be rather useless from a scientific point of view. Radioactive tracers etc can give far better information.
Sure, you can get sunlight readable color screens but they chew power and are costly.
You're wrong to attach any grand meaning to it.
What have we really accomplished? Take us away and the earth would hardly miss us.
Inform: part from the little "purpose" bit, the SANS does not do much.
(2) A legal rope to hang a user with. What most of the SANS doc is.
Folks, nobody reads a document like this. They will lose interest after the first few lines then either skip to the signing bit or throw it away.
Real security comes from informing the user, not from baffling and swamping them with techno-legal bs.
If you want real security, then clearly explain the issues.
And my patent on trolling patent trolling trolls?
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Of course it is very difficult to make an apples to apples comparison since energy demands are changing year to year anyway. Observed changes cannot be only attributed to the DST changes.
Don't look stupid at the next shareholders' meeting.
What have MS really got to show for the last two years or so? A string of failures: Zune, Vista, Yahoo...
MS need to show shareholders that they are still competing with the other players and are not just burning their cash. Apple and Google have app stores (running or in development). Therefore MS better have one too.
Sure, what the scientists are doing might one day turn into something that saves a soldier's life, most current soldiers would probably prefer to see some of that rather go towards funding more down-to-earth spending on basic stuff like body armor etc.
Changing the USA mindset from fear mongering to hope is a huge thing in itself and is the first step towards rebuilding US as a nation and an international player.
While the "first black president" thing might be an historic moment for black civil rights, that is not what Obama is about.
to tell them it is a new project. You should also make sure they change the project name so as to prevent confusion with the old and now dead project.
What about a pull strip cutter? Anyone remember cigarette packs? They came in cellophane wrappers with a red strip that you pulled to cleanly cut the packaging open. Surely the same idea could be scaled up to open any sort of packaging?
Anyone thinking that getting a patent will make a broken concept work is naive.
Nothing much has changed. Smaller stuff like special electronics can be easily hidden inside perfectly legal consumer electronic devices and the $8/hr TSA guy working at the airport will never know the difference. Unless you completely seal borders (??how??) and cut off all tourism etc, you're just doing it for show.
Small autogyros are very maneuverable, have short take off/landing and are potentially a lot safer too. A small auto gyro gives reasonable speed and mileage. Landed, the rotor can be folded away quite easily and the autogyro could be easily powered by its own engine (as a simple motor trike).
But that might also be because by age 40 you'd probably have diverted into management if you were no good at coding.
In the business world, where nobody worries about games etc, MS Office is the "lock-in app" for Windows. Once people realise that OpenOffice provides a desktop solution, then they might also realise that Linux runs all their favourite software, except viruses.