Australia is notoriously regulation happy (yesterday sent off $100 fine for NOT voting in the election - that's how regulated we are.)
However we have a champion of the poor dispossessed geek in Allan Fels. The ACCC is the counterbalance to the Australian authoritarianism and big business, and actually works quite well, as it has teeth and a fearless leader.
All credit to the ACCC for taking on a difficult and messy problem.
A non-apple notebook depreciates 1/(2^n) where n is the time in years you bought it.
It is better to buy a really good quality one, as they are much better put together.
I develop on linux, but can't wean myself off editplus (although I like kate a lot).
I have just bought a couple of toshiba 7200s for about $600. With the money I have saved, they now have 802.11,10/100, and 320MB, 40GB. Ultralight magnesium frame, made in japan quality, and still the biggest screen on an ultralight (13.3 XGA). Both dualboot 2000/7.3. One mainly 2000, one mainly 7.3, but redundancy is useful. And buying second hand means you are not paying anything to the he-who-cannot-be-named.
This is a very interesting observation. Unfortunately it is also complete rubbish from a ophthalmological/ neurological point of view. Sorry.
I admire the succinct nature of their reply to you.
Are when you have to employ people on a contract so they can feed their kids. Although the article is a bit (very) thin, it makes the important point that it is possible to do both (although it doesn't mention the NuSphere problems).
A point that may be relevant though, is that these were mature products which went GPL, i.e. they protected their IP until they had a sufficiently large user base.
can be good, but is too inconsistent to recommend to everyone.
If you want to listen on the internet, look out for Triple J No ads, excellent non-patronising news/ features. Completely uncensored. I only wish the UK had something like it.
What people don't realise when the read x is linked to y is how this is done.
generally it is a retrospective study, which cannot prove X causes Y, only that X is associated with Y. Retrospective studies are not good science, and you only use them when it is too difficult or expensive to do a proper (prospective) study.
the statistical test used in medicine to decide if X is associated with Y is that if the result had less than 1 in 20 chance of occurring by chance.
Factor in publication bias (the tendancy to only publish positive results) and this means that at least one in twenty medical stories you read about is rubbish.
This is one of the dangers of data-mining, especially if done by people with people with political agendas.
I work in healthcare Healthcare sysadmins are often pretty poorly paid and are often people who would not make it in a business environment, and the security is often minimal. I know, I 'test' it. I think we will have a few more of these disasters until the healthcare industry realises that IT is part of its core business and has to pay accordingly.
The same with product activation, which was touted for win2k.
Maybe their technique for these less palatable aspects of their business is to announce, allow the fuss to die down, and then introduce it when it has become 'old news'.
Or maybe I'm crediting them with too much intelligence.
tendonitis is real, CTS is real, most doctors would say that RSI patients tend to be nutters.
(IMHO, IAAD)
rest and splinting are standared treatments for tendonitis and CTS. Use whatever works but CTS has a genetic component, and other diseases may also predispose you to it. CTS is not really classified as an 'overuse injury'in that overuse is not proven to cause it, although overuse may exacerbate the symptoms, if you appreciate the difference
tendonitis is an overuse injury, and splinting, drugs like ibuprofen and steroid injections are all useful.
Does Embrace, Extend, Extinguish ring any bells?
Remember microsofts' previous antagonism to bluetooth?
Remember java?
Interoperability means interoperability with MS standards.
Slashcode integrates the two, using an open peer review process, and might be an interesting way of presenting the information, but if you want a 'traditional' journal process, and format, you are probably better to use two separate process.
One would be a document sharing system, for the peer review process, the other a publishing system. Generally, systems seem to do one of these nicely, but rarely both.
My vote would be to go with the slashcode, as I think the open peer review process is intrinsically more valid, and slashcode has had a lot of geeks trying to break it, and perl is easy to customise.
Remember the browser war - cash rich company buying market share to create a monopoly, which they are successfully defending
I think we (the open source zealots) tend to see everything the way we would like it to be, rather than is.
The problem with the companies you list is, as you point out, that they have been attached to the teats of cash cows for too long and are vulnerable to disruptive innovations. You never hear the bullet that kills you.
Part of the problem may be that previously small, nimble companies become bloated, their management structures become unable to prune the dying limbs, usually due to internal politics, and turf wars.
It must be very difficult to fight a competitor (Linux) with no overheads, no fixed costs. Like a hydra - every time you attack it, it grows another distribution.
It is strange that IBM doesn't figure in your list (no I don't work for them), as despite its monolithicity, it managed to see the Linux steamroller, and managed to get on board, rather than view the process from ground level. More credit to them, as it must have been a very courageous leap in the dark at the time.
Err, no You're halfway to a masters degree at Charles Sturt Univeristy. This is like the difference between a state university and an ivy league one.
If you want a degree based on 'Recognition of Prior Learning', look through your spam. If you want a degree which takes your prior learning, and builds on it, go to a 'more academic' university.
From the course organiser's viewpoint, recognising your 'prior learning' is a convenient way of saying 'less work, more money'.
Who are you doing it for?
For your self-fulfillment / your CV / fill in time ?
From an employer's perspective, I would not give much credit to someone with a bit of paper from a purely online 'university' course.
You do not know
what the standards are
that the person who did the 'work' is the same person in front of you.
Therefore I would never spend my money on a purely on line course.
I would never spend my money on a course without a final exam.
I would only spend my money on a respected course, with a bit of a track record. This is not just academic snobbery.
one of the most important benefits is the networking. And networking with other losers is inherantly less productive (so my friends tell me as they are leaving).
In reality the money is not that important. Your time is actually the most valuable resource you will put into this degree, so if you are going to do it, you may as well do the best course you can afford.
If I were going to use a distance learning univ, I would use one which had been set up and has long experience in the joys of distance learning - in the UK, the Open University. These universities have been in the game a lot longer than U.Phoenix and recognise that pure distance learning with no face to face is not good. At a masters + level, where critical thinking is important, you need to develop a relationship with your tutor.
I did an MBA this way - mixed distance with some face to face, and found it worked very well.
There is a lot to be said (from an educational and a practical viewpoint) for doing your further study while you are working. An employer with their head screwed on will support you, and you will be able to relate your learning to real-life.
Over the past decade, many universities have been pressured into setting up distance learning as it obviously increases their income, without increasing their expenditure. They had little interest or experience in managing these students, and much unhappiness has resulted.
[Previous convictions: two bachelors degrees, two masters incorporating distance learning and now on PhD on distance/ web based learning.]
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Australia is notoriously regulation happy (yesterday sent off $100 fine for NOT voting in the election - that's how regulated we are.)
However we have a champion of the poor dispossessed geek in Allan Fels. The ACCC is the counterbalance to the Australian authoritarianism and big business, and actually works quite well, as it has teeth and a fearless leader.
All credit to the ACCC for taking on a difficult and messy problem.
- A non-apple notebook depreciates 1/(2^n) where n is the time in years you bought it.
- It is better to buy a really good quality one, as they are much better put together.
I develop on linux, but can't wean myself off editplus (although I like kate a lot). I have just bought a couple of toshiba 7200s for about $600. With the money I have saved, they now have 802.11,10/100, and 320MB, 40GB. Ultralight magnesium frame, made in japan quality, and still the biggest screen on an ultralight (13.3 XGA). Both dualboot 2000/7.3. One mainly 2000, one mainly 7.3, but redundancy is useful. And buying second hand means you are not paying anything to the he-who-cannot-be-named.This is a very interesting observation.
Unfortunately it is also complete rubbish from a ophthalmological/ neurological point of view. Sorry.
I admire the succinct nature of their reply to you.
Are when you have to employ people on a contract so they can feed their kids.
Although the article is a bit (very) thin, it makes the important point that it is possible to do both (although it doesn't mention the NuSphere problems).
A point that may be relevant though, is that these were mature products which went GPL, i.e. they protected their IP until they had a sufficiently large user base.
can be good, but is too inconsistent to recommend to everyone.
If you want to listen on the internet, look out for Triple J No ads, excellent non-patronising news/ features. Completely uncensored. I only wish the UK had something like it.
- generally it is a retrospective study, which cannot prove X causes Y, only that X is associated with Y. Retrospective studies are not good science, and you only use them when it is too difficult or expensive to do a proper (prospective) study.
- the statistical test used in medicine to decide if X is associated with Y is that if the result had less than 1 in 20 chance of occurring by chance.
- Factor in publication bias (the tendancy to only publish positive results) and this means that at least one in twenty medical stories you read about is rubbish.
This is one of the dangers of data-mining, especially if done by people with people with political agendas.I work in healthcare
Healthcare sysadmins are often pretty poorly paid and are often people who would not make it in a business environment, and the security is often minimal. I know, I 'test' it.
I think we will have a few more of these disasters until the healthcare industry realises that IT is part of its core business and has to pay accordingly.
doing the same for the Direct Marketing Association as we have for the self styled 'spam king'
Details here
The same with product activation, which was touted for win2k.
Maybe their technique for these less palatable aspects of their business is to announce, allow the fuss to die down, and then introduce it when it has become 'old news'.
Or maybe I'm crediting them with too much intelligence.
tendonitis is real, CTS is real, most doctors would say that RSI patients tend to be nutters.
(IMHO, IAAD)
rest and splinting are standared treatments for tendonitis and CTS. Use whatever works but CTS has a genetic component, and other diseases may also predispose you to it. CTS is not really classified as an 'overuse injury'in that overuse is not proven to cause it, although overuse may exacerbate the symptoms, if you appreciate the difference
tendonitis is an overuse injury, and splinting, drugs like ibuprofen and steroid injections are all useful.
I agree. have been with them for a while and am very pleased.
Does Embrace, Extend, Extinguish ring any bells?
Remember microsofts' previous antagonism to bluetooth?
Remember java?
Interoperability means interoperability with MS standards.
- The 'closed' peer review process
- The 'open' publishing process
Slashcode integrates the two, using an open peer review process, and might be an interesting way of presenting the information, but if you want a 'traditional' journal process, and format, you are probably better to use two separate process.One would be a document sharing system, for the peer review process, the other a publishing system. Generally, systems seem to do one of these nicely, but rarely both.
My vote would be to go with the slashcode, as I think the open peer review process is intrinsically more valid, and slashcode has had a lot of geeks trying to break it, and perl is easy to customise.
Remember the browser war - cash rich company buying market share to create a monopoly, which they are successfully defending
I think we (the open source zealots) tend to see everything the way we would like it to be, rather than is.
The problem with the companies you list is, as you point out, that they have been attached to the teats of cash cows for too long and are vulnerable to disruptive innovations. You never hear the bullet that kills you.
Part of the problem may be that previously small, nimble companies become bloated, their management structures become unable to prune the dying limbs, usually due to internal politics, and turf wars.
It must be very difficult to fight a competitor (Linux) with no overheads, no fixed costs. Like a hydra - every time you attack it, it grows another distribution.
It is strange that IBM doesn't figure in your list (no I don't work for them), as despite its monolithicity, it managed to see the Linux steamroller, and managed to get on board, rather than view the process from ground level. More credit to them, as it must have been a very courageous leap in the dark at the time.
Err, no
You're halfway to a masters degree at Charles Sturt Univeristy. This is like the difference between a state university and an ivy league one.
If you want a degree based on 'Recognition of Prior Learning', look through your spam.
If you want a degree which takes your prior learning, and builds on it, go to a 'more academic' university.
From the course organiser's viewpoint, recognising your 'prior learning' is a convenient way of saying 'less work, more money'.
you obviously didn't live in the UK then. My paintings always had that 'grey sky' look.
For your self-fulfillment / your CV / fill in time ?
From an employer's perspective, I would not give much credit to someone with a bit of paper from a purely online 'university' course.
You do not know
- what the standards are
- that the person who did the 'work' is the same person in front of you.
Therefore I would never spend my money on a purely on line course.I would never spend my money on a course without a final exam.
I would only spend my money on a respected course, with a bit of a track record. This is not just academic snobbery.
- one of the most important benefits is the networking. And networking with other losers is inherantly less productive (so my friends tell me as they are leaving).
- In reality the money is not that important. Your time is actually the most valuable resource you will put into this degree, so if you are going to do it, you may as well do the best course you can afford.
If I were going to use a distance learning univ, I would use one which had been set up and has long experience in the joys of distance learning - in the UK, the Open University. These universities have been in the game a lot longer than U.Phoenix and recognise that pure distance learning with no face to face is not good. At a masters + level, where critical thinking is important, you need to develop a relationship with your tutor.I did an MBA this way - mixed distance with some face to face, and found it worked very well.
There is a lot to be said (from an educational and a practical viewpoint) for doing your further study while you are working. An employer with their head screwed on will support you, and you will be able to relate your learning to real-life.
Over the past decade, many universities have been pressured into setting up distance learning as it obviously increases their income, without increasing their expenditure. They had little interest or experience in managing these students, and much unhappiness has resulted.
[Previous convictions: two bachelors degrees, two masters incorporating distance learning and now on PhD on distance/ web based learning.]
Good Luck!
Fact 4 - MSCE = skill shortage