In the end; you seem to be the responsible manager. You have to calculate the above things to your satisfaction and spend your money to make things work best taking into account all possibilities and not just this one.
Absolutely correct, it' all about risk management.
You can't outsource responsibility to your shareholders, though, and that has to be added to any risk equation.
One of the risks that has been rearing its head lately about outsourcing critical data is that data security walls seem to be thinner the further afield you go. It's especially bad where bribery is an entrenched part of the economy. Bottom line: if you don't have good reason to trust your outsourcer then don't trust them with your data. It's the keys to the till and should be as carefully controlled.
Meh. Somewhere in there I was a sysadmin for about ten years too. Also DBA. We had to wear many hats, talent was hard to find and the schools weren't turning them out yet. And if you'd read my post you'd see my work does involve a computer - I've been in the computing industry continuously for forty years or so and have done pretty much every thing in it at least once, including designing cables and setting up some rather large networks. Out of all that, I'm really only proud of the development work I've done, and a few innovations that made it into ITIL. The rest was just a job. Respect? Well, you're allowed to insult your friends.
You need to change your terminology, because if you are saying that developers are not part of Information Technology, you are full of shit.
Oh dear dear dear. I may be uh, compostally privileged, but I am pretty much across the industry. I even started a bit of it (not hard when you enter the industry in 1969). "IT" or "ICT" is commonly used to denote network, server and desktop infrastructure these days. Development, that is COTS package development or bespoke customisation is usually abstracted and referred to as -- well, "Development".
I asked my daughter once what genus Dragons were most closely related to - were they a type of bird? "No, silly daddy! Dragons are Dragon-type".
So I'd classify Developers as Developer-type, and leave the term IT to the wire-pullers and server-pluggers.
If distance were of no concern Australia would probably be the best place for data centers.
I think it is, personally. It's not just the false-floor space, it's the head space of driving home to "Ho hum, another hundred miles of f*****g perfect beaches". And the schools turn out educated people, for the most part. As in -- they have to study, hard, or they don't pass. Stunning place, really. Come on down.
And it is real. It is a newly opened high-security data center run by one of Swedenâ(TM)s largest ISPs, located in an old nuclear bunker deep below the bedrock of Stockholm city, sealed off from the world by entrance doors 40 cm thick (almost 16 inches).
But... is it proof against Ninjas? Looks like the perfect spot to relocate TPB.
Not really, no. It's kind of like the difference between a doctor and a patient. Or to use a car analogy, the difference between being an automotive engineer and the guy who takes money for candy bars, magazines and fuel.
Disclosure: I was a developer for about thirty years before I took a step down and moved into marketing. I learned a lot of languages but was stopped when I discovered I was having trouble mastering Hindi.
The Farmers' Almanac publishers are highly secretive about the method used to make its predictions, only stating publicly that it is a "top secret mathematical and astronomical formula, that relies on sunspot activity, tidal action, planetary position and many other factors."
From their own site they say "We derive our weather forecasts from a secret formula that was devised by the founder of this Almanac, Robert B. Thomas, in 1792."
I'm not trying to denigrate science done from the agricultural perspective, and they do have a nice and informative web site, but the above "formula" sounds very like paddock pastry to me and does not fill me with trust with regard to predicting weather trends in a manner useful to scholarship, especially of the form that dictates broad scale eco policy. Call me a skeptic, but if they aren't open about their methods I can't trust them.
Scienceworks in Melbourne, Australia. Come to think of it, just come to Australia. Don't bother with Sydney though, they've only got that rather overpolished steampunk exo over at the Powerhouse Museum . But if you are really into natural history, just take a 4WD excursion through Kakadu in the Deep North. You'll see birds that'll reduce you to tears. The wildlife ain't so bad either. But stay away from the pools, they're a croc. Just sayin'.
Having a bulldog in your front yard and leaving your front door open does not mean your house is protected.
I love broken metaphors.
That depends entirely on the size of the anger in your bulldog and the equipment of the persons you are trying to protect your house against. Against a casual thief, it's good. Casual thief with a crowbar, it's maybe 50-50. Casual thief armed with mortar, go figure.
On top of that, Farmer's Almanac, long a very trusted and reliable predictor of future events, has predicted a cooling...
It's good to see the Slashdot audience moving back to reliance on such scholarly peer-reviewed journals. That's science, that is, science by the quart.
It's a chemical. Don't get it on your skin, don't breathe the dust. And don't ingest any, because it might stabilise your mood swings. Not advisable to get the stuff wet, though, and cracked batteries can be interesting if exposed to water.
It's a lot less carcinogenic than that petroleum stuff we use, though.
Oh, and ions. Gotta watch out for those ions. I think Darth Vader uses them.
You can't say what you really mean, or people might catch on. "We need to criminalize everything you do on your computer at home"? Wouldn't fly. So they say things like "We need to modernize the laws." Everyone likes being modern, right? Who'd want to stand in the way of progress?
Extraordinarily insightful, Dr. Spin.
And of course, it works both ways. By a quick and easy turn of phrase, we've also equated the simple pure technological act of making a file copy with people who steal ships and kill old people off the coast of Somalia. We can't call it "illegal backups", can we? No, let's try... piracy. That has the right ring to it. Yep, let's round up all these fluffy bunnies and arrest them as... call them hirsuite rodents for piracy.
Besides the effect of unrelaxed stress, there is a clear point of diminishing returns when you do a single thing overlong. For me it's a 10 hour limit. I also obey the 4pm Friday rule. To work beyond this point is stupid. But when you're always available, these limits are not communicated to the people who can reach you, generally, so you lose.
One of the most potent way for a salesman to increase customer interest is to tell him that he cannot afford it. It signals confidence in the product and its value. The car salesman implies that he doesn't need the customers business, there's plenty of other people he can sell the car to.
"And would the gentleman to whom you are the gentleman for, show a financial interest in acquiring such a vehicle?" asked the motor's agent.
Ice formed on the upper reaches of the butler. "Sir should not presume to ask. But a draught can be arranged, if that's the extent of it."
Confidence in your own value, and a neutral attitude of "is this arrangement the best for both of us?" sends a clear signal that it's worth it for them to pursue the arrangement. It's also a least-baggage, lowest anxiety approach to the arrangement. If you're right for each other, nobody will flinch at adjusting conditions to make it work. If you're not, then no amount of adjustment will help.
If you expect to be in and gone in one year, ask for salary on the high end of the scale. If not, try to pick a range that won't see you the first to go at the first round of layoffs.
Remember, some positions are hired on pure speculation - the BDM is "90% sure we're going to get this contract so we have to ramp up". This sort of position is a wee bit volatile, and far too common for comfort. You'll need a bit extra at the end to finance the next job hunt, so don't live too high in the meantime.
Other questions: "What happened to my predecessor?" - If you have no "predecessor" then the job is a new opening. Follow that bit of data with "How is the job funded?" These are the sort of questions that can be hugely useful, as well as make a decent impression. If you don't like the answers, back out with a smile - if the job isn't backed with a good business case, it's waste of everybody's time to proceed further.
Here in Victoria, Australia, we have an excellent series of community papers - "Leader" - that are all free. Their content is local, and - perhaps more importantly - the adverts are mostly local as well. You get the local tradesmen and household service shops, local restaraunts. You don't get "Nike" so much.
If I need the tree trimmed or a sliding glass door fixed I find I tend to check the local newspaper before I check the Internet.
Why am I slowly turning my back on a medium - the Internet - I've helped foster over the last few years? I'm not sure. But I think it has to do with real connections with community instead of virtual ones. I may chat more in a WoW guild, but for making the house and home function well I connect better with real people. Local newspapers appeal more to the social monkey in me. They have a balance. They work.
It's more of an indication that they want to discharge their obligations in reporting threats to their business from competitors. The stock exchange and rules for publicly traded securities require this sort of disclosure to holders of a company's stock. I think it's purely a matter of adhering to their obligations for honest reporting to the people who own them. NTSHMA.
Cue the jokes. But when has advertising ever been honest? Did you know that there is a profession called "food sculptor" whose job it is is to carefully assemble food for advertising photography? That jucy hamburger patty is actually a cold item painted with glycerin.
As for "how far the product is from reality" that can be anything from "available now" to "let's drum up interest and see if it's worth paying R&D for this idea".
It's old news in the technology industry, too -- iirc IBM announced the OS/360 system one full year before the first example was shipped (and in response to a new CDC 6000 series computer that had just hit the market). This tradition goes back to when the first priest had to market the first pharaoh. Get over it.
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In the end; you seem to be the responsible manager. You have to calculate the above things to your satisfaction and spend your money to make things work best taking into account all possibilities and not just this one.
Absolutely correct, it' all about risk management.
You can't outsource responsibility to your shareholders, though, and that has to be added to any risk equation.
One of the risks that has been rearing its head lately about outsourcing critical data is that data security walls seem to be thinner the further afield you go. It's especially bad where bribery is an entrenched part of the economy. Bottom line: if you don't have good reason to trust your outsourcer then don't trust them with your data. It's the keys to the till and should be as carefully controlled.
Somewhere there is a village missing its idiot.
Meh. Somewhere in there I was a sysadmin for about ten years too. Also DBA. We had to wear many hats, talent was hard to find and the schools weren't turning them out yet. And if you'd read my post you'd see my work does involve a computer - I've been in the computing industry continuously for forty years or so and have done pretty much every thing in it at least once, including designing cables and setting up some rather large networks. Out of all that, I'm really only proud of the development work I've done, and a few innovations that made it into ITIL. The rest was just a job. Respect? Well, you're allowed to insult your friends.
Not just an instrument innovator, he was a bloody good guitarist as well. That guy could slap notes.
Nah, go ahead, stick your neck out.
You need to change your terminology, because if you are saying that developers are not part of Information Technology, you are full of shit.
Oh dear dear dear. I may be uh, compostally privileged, but I am pretty much across the industry. I even started a bit of it (not hard when you enter the industry in 1969). "IT" or "ICT" is commonly used to denote network, server and desktop infrastructure these days. Development, that is COTS package development or bespoke customisation is usually abstracted and referred to as -- well, "Development".
I asked my daughter once what genus Dragons were most closely related to - were they a type of bird? "No, silly daddy! Dragons are Dragon-type".
So I'd classify Developers as Developer-type, and leave the term IT to the wire-pullers and server-pluggers.
If distance were of no concern Australia would probably be the best place for data centers.
I think it is, personally. It's not just the false-floor space, it's the head space of driving home to "Ho hum, another hundred miles of f*****g perfect beaches". And the schools turn out educated people, for the most part. As in -- they have to study, hard, or they don't pass. Stunning place, really. Come on down.
And it is real. It is a newly opened high-security data center run by one of Swedenâ(TM)s largest ISPs, located in an old nuclear bunker deep below the bedrock of Stockholm city, sealed off from the world by entrance doors 40 cm thick (almost 16 inches).
But ... is it proof against Ninjas? Looks like the perfect spot to relocate TPB.
Developers aren't IT?
Not really, no. It's kind of like the difference between a doctor and a patient. Or to use a car analogy, the difference between being an automotive engineer and the guy who takes money for candy bars, magazines and fuel.
Disclosure: I was a developer for about thirty years before I took a step down and moved into marketing. I learned a lot of languages but was stopped when I discovered I was having trouble mastering Hindi.
The Farmers' Almanac publishers are highly secretive about the method used to make its predictions, only stating publicly that it is a "top secret mathematical and astronomical formula, that relies on sunspot activity, tidal action, planetary position and many other factors."
From their own site they say "We derive our weather forecasts from a secret formula that was devised by the founder of this Almanac, Robert B. Thomas, in 1792."
I'm not trying to denigrate science done from the agricultural perspective, and they do have a nice and informative web site, but the above "formula" sounds very like paddock pastry to me and does not fill me with trust with regard to predicting weather trends in a manner useful to scholarship, especially of the form that dictates broad scale eco policy. Call me a skeptic, but if they aren't open about their methods I can't trust them.
Scienceworks in Melbourne, Australia. Come to think of it, just come to Australia. Don't bother with Sydney though, they've only got that rather overpolished steampunk exo over at the Powerhouse Museum . But if you are really into natural history, just take a 4WD excursion through Kakadu in the Deep North. You'll see birds that'll reduce you to tears. The wildlife ain't so bad either. But stay away from the pools, they're a croc. Just sayin'.
Having a bulldog in your front yard and leaving your front door open does not mean your house is protected.
I love broken metaphors.
That depends entirely on the size of the anger in your bulldog and the equipment of the persons you are trying to protect your house against. Against a casual thief, it's good. Casual thief with a crowbar, it's maybe 50-50. Casual thief armed with mortar, go figure.
You're only partly right. To non-experts, the Internet is like Tijuana...
You owe me a keyboard, LordEnder. And a new bowl of soup.
On top of that, Farmer's Almanac, long a very trusted and reliable predictor of future events, has predicted a cooling ...
It's good to see the Slashdot audience moving back to reliance on such scholarly peer-reviewed journals. That's science, that is, science by the quart.
...Hummingbird Motor...
Shenanigans! T'ain't no surch animal. Or did I miss a "Whoosh"?
If you want a true magical motor, look up the Stirling Engine.
If you want an engine that's closest to the ideal of running off pure entropy, that's your bunny.
Li-Ion batteries use a lot things that aren't good for the environment
Such as -- Lithium ?
It's a chemical. Don't get it on your skin, don't breathe the dust. And don't ingest any, because it might stabilise your mood swings. Not advisable to get the stuff wet, though, and cracked batteries can be interesting if exposed to water.
It's a lot less carcinogenic than that petroleum stuff we use, though.
Oh, and ions. Gotta watch out for those ions. I think Darth Vader uses them.
You can't say what you really mean, or people might catch on. "We need to criminalize everything you do on your computer at home"? Wouldn't fly. So they say things like "We need to modernize the laws." Everyone likes being modern, right? Who'd want to stand in the way of progress?
Extraordinarily insightful, Dr. Spin.
And of course, it works both ways. By a quick and easy turn of phrase, we've also equated the simple pure technological act of making a file copy with people who steal ships and kill old people off the coast of Somalia. We can't call it "illegal backups", can we? No, let's try ... piracy. That has the right ring to it. Yep, let's round up all these fluffy bunnies and arrest them as ... call them hirsuite rodents for piracy.
Yes.
I like the way I feel when I'm thinking.
I like the way I feel when I'm being creative.
(In fact, I like the way I feel when I'm being procreative, but that's another story.)
I like the warm fuzzy feedback I get when some cold jagged radical slams into place in an equation.
But it all blows up if I'm drinking fine wine and doing mathematics. People are harmed.
Please, people, for the sake of the children -- don't drink and derive!
Besides the effect of unrelaxed stress, there is a clear point of diminishing returns when you do a single thing overlong. For me it's a 10 hour limit. I also obey the 4pm Friday rule. To work beyond this point is stupid. But when you're always available, these limits are not communicated to the people who can reach you, generally, so you lose.
Answer? Turn the bloody things off at night.
One of the most potent way for a salesman to increase customer interest is to tell him that he cannot afford it. It signals confidence in the product and its value. The car salesman implies that he doesn't need the customers business, there's plenty of other people he can sell the car to.
"And would the gentleman to whom you are the gentleman for, show a financial interest in acquiring such a vehicle?" asked the motor's agent.
Ice formed on the upper reaches of the butler. "Sir should not presume to ask. But a draught can be arranged, if that's the extent of it."
Confidence in your own value, and a neutral attitude of "is this arrangement the best for both of us?" sends a clear signal that it's worth it for them to pursue the arrangement. It's also a least-baggage, lowest anxiety approach to the arrangement. If you're right for each other, nobody will flinch at adjusting conditions to make it work. If you're not, then no amount of adjustment will help.
If you expect to be in and gone in one year, ask for salary on the high end of the scale. If not, try to pick a range that won't see you the first to go at the first round of layoffs.
Remember, some positions are hired on pure speculation - the BDM is "90% sure we're going to get this contract so we have to ramp up". This sort of position is a wee bit volatile, and far too common for comfort. You'll need a bit extra at the end to finance the next job hunt, so don't live too high in the meantime.
Other questions: "What happened to my predecessor?" - If you have no "predecessor" then the job is a new opening. Follow that bit of data with "How is the job funded?" These are the sort of questions that can be hugely useful, as well as make a decent impression. If you don't like the answers, back out with a smile - if the job isn't backed with a good business case, it's waste of everybody's time to proceed further.
Here in Victoria, Australia, we have an excellent series of community papers - "Leader" - that are all free. Their content is local, and - perhaps more importantly - the adverts are mostly local as well. You get the local tradesmen and household service shops, local restaraunts. You don't get "Nike" so much.
If I need the tree trimmed or a sliding glass door fixed I find I tend to check the local newspaper before I check the Internet.
Why am I slowly turning my back on a medium - the Internet - I've helped foster over the last few years? I'm not sure. But I think it has to do with real connections with community instead of virtual ones. I may chat more in a WoW guild, but for making the house and home function well I connect better with real people. Local newspapers appeal more to the social monkey in me. They have a balance. They work.
Curious - which version of XP? Just ran that on my work laptop and it works fine. I'm running XP Pro 2002 SP2.
It's more of an indication that they want to discharge their obligations in reporting threats to their business from competitors. The stock exchange and rules for publicly traded securities require this sort of disclosure to holders of a company's stock. I think it's purely a matter of adhering to their obligations for honest reporting to the people who own them. NTSHMA.
As for "how far the product is from reality" that can be anything from "available now" to "let's drum up interest and see if it's worth paying R&D for this idea".
It's old news in the technology industry, too -- iirc IBM announced the OS/360 system one full year before the first example was shipped (and in response to a new CDC 6000 series computer that had just hit the market). This tradition goes back to when the first priest had to market the first pharaoh. Get over it.