Just wait until you hire a few people and see which ones fall apart under pressure.
A degree program proves how you managed to make it through a degree program. The lack thereof shows a lack of ability to muster all of the components of completion, ie. resources, determination, intelligence, the ability to stick with and attain a goal.
Higher education is like an obstacle course. If you want to, you can say that it trains you to get through obstacle courses. Or you can decide that if you need someone with some stamina, some ability and the desire to finish something, you might want to go looking at those who've completed an obstacle course, rather than those who could've given enough time, or a ride to the obstacle course, or long-term, low-intensity obstacle course training.
Everybody learns at different speeds and learn faster with different methods
True. And if I want to hire someone who can assimilate information and use it fast enough to do the work I need to do, then I will probably want to hire someone who could learn and do fast enough to get through a degree program.
I think the point that they are trying to make is that you won't do well in that course if you can't write well. Which is true for many courses in University.
At least they are offering some resources which might help those who have trouble communicating well in their written work.
I guess one might argue that writing well is something that you learn by writing often. You can buy books that will help you, but this is one of those courses that you won't master through acquiring new facts from your text.
If you don't know about Janis, why not either 1) read a different story 2) read this one and learn about her 3) go to google and figure out who the hell she is.
You should be giving unique email addresses to your friends...
Get a domain, with catch-all email. If you mail to joe, send it with a return address of joe@myemaildomain.com. If you fill out a web form at sears, mark your address as sears@myemaildomain.com. My personal favourite is to mark the email address on my WHOIS form as dontspam@myemaildomain.com. When I go after a spammer, I can refer to that email address, and say that it only exists on my WHOIS form, and that they must be scooping emails from the WHOIS database. Poetic justice.
The fact that "The Mythical Man-Month" says something doesn't make it automatically applicable in all situations. I mean, replacing people who haven't done anything? I don't know if you're losing much, there. If they'd come up with something that a replacement might have to get their head around, I'd tend to agree. But they've apparently done dick.
Matrox has a history of abandoning large sections of their users. They left owners of the Motion JPEG hardware high and dry when they decided that it was too difficult to get the hardware working correctly, and that it was better to run it without the hardware acceleration. Those who had spent hundreds for hardware-accelerated video recording were left with a system that was comparable to ones available for $30 or $40.
Go sign up with an ISP with flat rate usage. Dial in. Don't log off. See how long you can go without them dropping your connection, or pointing you to a section of your user agreement that indicates that while the ISP advertises the service as flat rate, it is only flat rate to those who use up to a certain amount per day, month, year, etc.
By bandwidth, I meant bandwidth. It is sold with a certain price per gigabyte. They can't give it away without limits. I was being somewhat sarcastic, since very few members of their target audience come to Disney looking for bandwidth.
Seats in the auditorium are limited, and have an upper limit as to cost. It is feasible to price access to this resource on a flat-rate basis.
The "flat rate" refers to the concept of paying a certain amount for something that you can take without limits. Note: Phone companies would looooove to switch away from flat rate. They started making noise about this when people got modems and started using their resources for much, much longer than they used to...
"Metered" means something that has a fixed per-unit cost. Cable tv doesn't count because they aren't giving away things that have a certain cost, they are giving away access to content whose cost has is (relatively speaking) limited. Look at it this way. The cable company doesn't care if you watch TV 24 hours a day, because it doesn't cost them more if you do. They are selling something that doesn't cost them more if you use more. So it's not metered. If you ride in a taxi, it costs them more (gas, etc) to go further, so there's a meter in the cab. Your ride is metered.
There are a limited number of rides at disney. The cost of the resources that they are selling (access to rides) is, practically speaking, limited. Note that they do not provide unlimited hotdogs or pop or Cadillacs or bandwidth with the price of admission, because these have a per-unit cost that prevents them from doing so.
If you owned a buffet, and a NFL football team showed up after you opened and ate all of your food and demanded more, what would you do? You'd kick them out. Flat rate, "unlimited" offers are always limited (somehow) for this reason. They don't crow about it, but it's true. If you go searching for web space, some companies will proudly tell you that they provide unlimited bandwidth. They don't. Once your usage hits a certain level, they kick you out, or charge you more. That's just the way it is. People pay their rent by selling stuff. People don't pay their rent for long by buying stuff at a certain price per unit and then selling it on an unlimited basis.
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Just wait until you hire a few people and see which ones fall apart under pressure.
A degree program proves how you managed to make it through a degree program. The lack thereof shows a lack of ability to muster all of the components of completion, ie. resources, determination, intelligence, the ability to stick with and attain a goal.
Higher education is like an obstacle course. If you want to, you can say that it trains you to get through obstacle courses. Or you can decide that if you need someone with some stamina, some ability and the desire to finish something, you might want to go looking at those who've completed an obstacle course, rather than those who could've given enough time, or a ride to the obstacle course, or long-term, low-intensity obstacle course training.
Education has always been overrated.
Horseshit.
Everybody learns at different speeds and learn faster with different methods
True. And if I want to hire someone who can assimilate information and use it fast enough to do the work I need to do, then I will probably want to hire someone who could learn and do fast enough to get through a degree program.
I think the point that they are trying to make is that you won't do well in that course if you can't write well. Which is true for many courses in University.
At least they are offering some resources which might help those who have trouble communicating well in their written work.
I guess one might argue that writing well is something that you learn by writing often. You can buy books that will help you, but this is one of those courses that you won't master through acquiring new facts from your text.
To share your ignorance of the topic with us?
If you don't know about Janis, why not either
1) read a different story
2) read this one and learn about her
3) go to google and figure out who the hell she is.
You're pretty funny.
I've got a Rio Receiver so I can easily play random songs from my 1500-or-so CD collection.
Strangely enough, it does manage to play music that I bought from a store. The Compaq unit most likely would, too.
You should be giving unique email addresses to your friends...
Get a domain, with catch-all email. If you mail to joe, send it with a return address of joe@myemaildomain.com. If you fill out a web form at sears, mark your address as sears@myemaildomain.com. My personal favourite is to mark the email address on my WHOIS form as dontspam@myemaildomain.com. When I go after a spammer, I can refer to that email address, and say that it only exists on my WHOIS form, and that they must be scooping emails from the WHOIS database. Poetic justice.
The fact that "The Mythical Man-Month" says something doesn't make it automatically applicable in all situations. I mean, replacing people who haven't done anything? I don't know if you're losing much, there. If they'd come up with something that a replacement might have to get their head around, I'd tend to agree. But they've apparently done dick.
Have them replaced.
There are other developers out there. Some of them actually produce code.
Not any more
Ahem. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
In my experience, local cable companies don't really give a shit what their customers say, especially about the internet.
You truly rock.
Give that buck to me.
Way to slip an affiliate link into that story. Care to share your new-found riches with the rest of us?
Way to pack those Amazon affiliate links into that submission...
Anyone? Anyone? Beuller? Beuller?
Great! Where are the 2000 drivers with Hardware support that I was promised?
Matrox has a history of abandoning large sections of their users. They left owners of the Motion JPEG hardware high and dry when they decided that it was too difficult to get the hardware working correctly, and that it was better to run it without the hardware acceleration. Those who had spent hundreds for hardware-accelerated video recording were left with a system that was comparable to ones available for $30 or $40.
I'll second the recommendation for The Bat. It rocks, and I gladly paid the registration fee.
Very few objects are sold that manage to not function in the hands of terrorists.
Wouldn't that kind of go against the part where he said "I get sick and tired of reading the same story on different web sites"?
Go sign up with an ISP with flat rate usage. Dial in. Don't log off. See how long you can go without them dropping your connection, or pointing you to a section of your user agreement that indicates that while the ISP advertises the service as flat rate, it is only flat rate to those who use up to a certain amount per day, month, year, etc.
Don't get all metaphorical on me.
By bandwidth, I meant bandwidth. It is sold with a certain price per gigabyte. They can't give it away without limits. I was being somewhat sarcastic, since very few members of their target audience come to Disney looking for bandwidth.
Seats in the auditorium are limited, and have an upper limit as to cost. It is feasible to price access to this resource on a flat-rate basis.
You can take as many newspapers as you like?
The "flat rate" refers to the concept of paying a certain amount for something that you can take without limits. Note: Phone companies would looooove to switch away from flat rate. They started making noise about this when people got modems and started using their resources for much, much longer than they used to...
"Metered" means something that has a fixed per-unit cost. Cable tv doesn't count because they aren't giving away things that have a certain cost, they are giving away access to content whose cost has is (relatively speaking) limited. Look at it this way. The cable company doesn't care if you watch TV 24 hours a day, because it doesn't cost them more if you do. They are selling something that doesn't cost them more if you use more. So it's not metered. If you ride in a taxi, it costs them more (gas, etc) to go further, so there's a meter in the cab. Your ride is metered.
A bucket of my waste.
There are a limited number of rides at disney. The cost of the resources that they are selling (access to rides) is, practically speaking, limited. Note that they do not provide unlimited hotdogs or pop or Cadillacs or bandwidth with the price of admission, because these have a per-unit cost that prevents them from doing so.
If you owned a buffet, and a NFL football team showed up after you opened and ate all of your food and demanded more, what would you do? You'd kick them out. Flat rate, "unlimited" offers are always limited (somehow) for this reason. They don't crow about it, but it's true. If you go searching for web space, some companies will proudly tell you that they provide unlimited bandwidth. They don't. Once your usage hits a certain level, they kick you out, or charge you more. That's just the way it is. People pay their rent by selling stuff. People don't pay their rent for long by buying stuff at a certain price per unit and then selling it on an unlimited basis.