its far cheaper on many items (books on mathematics for ex.)
It's a sad, sad picture you're painting there. You are still buying mathematics books for your erstwhile partner? Clearly the love is still there, yet sadly sublimated for the abstract rigor and discipline of functions and relations in the abstract sphere, to the detriment of love in the physical. Who can compete with that?
We outsourced a lot of development and IT to an Indian office, and found the experience to be most similar to managing a workforce composed entirely of interns
We've found in our dealings with offshore developers that the Indians are very process minded. Very process minded. It's the superficially attractive "Paper Raj" that kills you. CMM level 5 certification, for example, is absolutely right down their alley.
Problem is, CMM5 doesn't actually equate to delivery on time and under budget, just that your processes are correct (ref: Capability Maturity Model). For although process methodology and certification is the sort of thing that appeals to your non-tech execs and risk managers, it doesn't provide clue the first toward whether or not the firm can actually build or deliver to your specification.
To make it work you need to be involved almost to the point of managing it yourself, and it's a fine balance whether the tradeoffs are financially worth it.
So if you want process, cool, go to India for the job. If you want intelligent and clever design, you need an intelligent and clever person near you. It doesn't matter whether they're Indian or caucasian, M or F or alternative, brains come in all packages. But you need to find that person, yourself. Your outsourcer won't necessarily put the best or right person on the job you need done, they'll fill the spot. The "company full of interns" reference above is spot on and scary.
The Madoff lesson is that you don't just diversify your investments, you diversify your managers. In other words, one manager who says the portfolio is diversified is not enough
Hear hear!
If you are lucky enough to have enough money to invest, break it into at least three slices and find three entirely different directions to invest it, with as much independence between the three as you can possibly figure out how to do. That can be three entirely different money managers or three different targets, e.g. cash account, real estate and stocks.
In other words, diversification starts with you.
And stocks can be a really good idea right now if you're cluey enough to pick a few survivors (this is the "buy low" part of the market. "Sell high" comes later.)
Only on/. would a story about gold farming lead directly to conclusions of imminent cultural revolt and overthrow of authority.
I don't know, I see this every day. It takes a lot of manure to get gold to germinate, and the people of Thunder Bluff have to deal with uprisings all the time from the gold farmers. If it weren't for the protection of Cairne Bloodhoof I'd be all a'lather too.
Indeed practically nothing short of another tank can stop a tank
Well, I agree that tanks are pretty nasty business -- but isn't their main vulnerability the big gun itself? I'd wonder if you couldn't clog it fairly easily with something low tech and get the tank to blow itself up. And a building-destroying round can take out a building, but it's pretty inefficient as an antipersonnel weapon up close - you need soldiers for that. One round could take out one person, of course, but that's the wrong target. A tank is pretty much a single purpose mobile demolition device.
Has anyone thought to ask the opinion of a museum curator? Any of the major institutions should have a network of document preservation specialists they can tap.
Reference to GEB, very much worth reading. The Tortoise was reading a bit of escapist literature when his life was threatened. He ate some pushcorn and moved into the chapter he was reading. If I remember correctly, the chapter ended up on a stack fault. Think of a novel written by Randall Munroe and you'll get the idea.
So, Is there hope for finding the missing Dr Who episodes?
Sorry, not with today's technology. The Doctor was last seen looking for them. Unfortunately it's rumoured he'd carried a copy of Hofstadter's "Goedel-Escher-Bach" with him and was midway through an exciting chapter when he reached for the pushcorn by mistake. He's currently lost in a prison of his plot device.
That would be great if true. To lose the originals of the greatest technological and exploration achievement event since Columbus is a gut-wrenching thought. (And the existing copies are poor quality.)
Agree. So, when will we get to see the copies on You Tube?
We have a similar situation in Australia, but here voting is required. Not sure if we would ever consent to online voting with Conroy in charge, however - people simply won't trust a voting system with a filtering czar in power. We have an entire continent that is very sparsely populated and it might be a good way to cut back on the personal cost for some of the smaller commumities.
We're larger in population than a similarly-sized continent to our south, however, unless you count their rather dense population of Linux aficionados.
There has to be a joke in there somewhere about chickens being classified as munitions..
Or at least a story...
I remember hearing about an aircraft canopy design being tested against bird strike by having dead chickens fired at it via an air cannon. It was the best emulation they could come up with.
However, somewhere between plan and execution a detail was missed, and the test was performed with frozen chickens. Results were indeterminate.
And also that the files are available without a private agreement. Having to log in means accepting the EULA and agreeing to be part of a private exchange. Trivial point, perhaps, but the difference between public and private is the difference between a public investigation and a private one. Private investigations are subject to specific laws concerning behavior.
I live in the US and have looked at migrating to another country.
It's not a bad thing to do, I've done it. Moved from California to Australia in 1981 and have not spent ten milliseconds in regret since. Flew back for family issues a couple of times and each visit reinforced how well we chose. Come on down, we could probably use you.
And as an aside, I've never seen a more well-run bureaucracy than the Australian immigration people, when you play it by the book (i.e. do not try to sneak in). Had to visit them once or twice for visas, never spent more than 10 minutes per visit, they were well informed and their systems work.
Slashdot Mirror
Good luck monitoring a data packet with GPS, not that the politicians haven't probably already tried to.
I think if we sold the government a list of buzzwords and told them they had real value, perhaps they'd be willing to invest in...
Oh, wait...
its far cheaper on many items (books on mathematics for ex.)
It's a sad, sad picture you're painting there. You are still buying mathematics books for your erstwhile partner? Clearly the love is still there, yet sadly sublimated for the abstract rigor and discipline of functions and relations in the abstract sphere, to the detriment of love in the physical. Who can compete with that?
http://www.xkcd.com/55/
I'd go for the secret, hollowed-out coin myself.
We have a couple "cowboys", myself included. We blaze proof of concept code in whatever the heck
Blazing SDL's?
I don't think many people want to be cowboys either, for exactly the reasons you gave
Momma, don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
Don't let 'em code or treat users too rough
Let 'em learn process and business and stuff.
Of course, we have to live in it now...
We outsourced a lot of development and IT to an Indian office, and found the experience to be most similar to managing a workforce composed entirely of interns
We've found in our dealings with offshore developers that the Indians are very process minded. Very process minded. It's the superficially attractive "Paper Raj" that kills you. CMM level 5 certification, for example, is absolutely right down their alley.
Problem is, CMM5 doesn't actually equate to delivery on time and under budget, just that your processes are correct (ref: Capability Maturity Model). For although process methodology and certification is the sort of thing that appeals to your non-tech execs and risk managers, it doesn't provide clue the first toward whether or not the firm can actually build or deliver to your specification.
To make it work you need to be involved almost to the point of managing it yourself, and it's a fine balance whether the tradeoffs are financially worth it.
So if you want process, cool, go to India for the job. If you want intelligent and clever design, you need an intelligent and clever person near you. It doesn't matter whether they're Indian or caucasian, M or F or alternative, brains come in all packages. But you need to find that person, yourself. Your outsourcer won't necessarily put the best or right person on the job you need done, they'll fill the spot. The "company full of interns" reference above is spot on and scary.
The Madoff lesson is that you don't just diversify your investments, you diversify your managers. In other words, one manager who says the portfolio is diversified is not enough
Hear hear!
If you are lucky enough to have enough money to invest, break it into at least three slices and find three entirely different directions to invest it, with as much independence between the three as you can possibly figure out how to do. That can be three entirely different money managers or three different targets, e.g. cash account, real estate and stocks.
In other words, diversification starts with you.
And stocks can be a really good idea right now if you're cluey enough to pick a few survivors (this is the "buy low" part of the market. "Sell high" comes later.)
Only on /. would a story about gold farming lead directly to conclusions of imminent cultural revolt and overthrow of authority.
I don't know, I see this every day. It takes a lot of manure to get gold to germinate, and the people of Thunder Bluff have to deal with uprisings all the time from the gold farmers. If it weren't for the protection of Cairne Bloodhoof I'd be all a'lather too.
Indeed practically nothing short of another tank can stop a tank
Well, I agree that tanks are pretty nasty business -- but isn't their main vulnerability the big gun itself? I'd wonder if you couldn't clog it fairly easily with something low tech and get the tank to blow itself up. And a building-destroying round can take out a building, but it's pretty inefficient as an antipersonnel weapon up close - you need soldiers for that. One round could take out one person, of course, but that's the wrong target. A tank is pretty much a single purpose mobile demolition device.
Has anyone thought to ask the opinion of a museum curator? Any of the major institutions should have a network of document preservation specialists they can tap.
Reference to GEB, very much worth reading. The Tortoise was reading a bit of escapist literature when his life was threatened. He ate some pushcorn and moved into the chapter he was reading. If I remember correctly, the chapter ended up on a stack fault. Think of a novel written by Randall Munroe and you'll get the idea.
So, Is there hope for finding the missing Dr Who episodes?
Sorry, not with today's technology. The Doctor was last seen looking for them. Unfortunately it's rumoured he'd carried a copy of Hofstadter's "Goedel-Escher-Bach" with him and was midway through an exciting chapter when he reached for the pushcorn by mistake. He's currently lost in a prison of his plot device.
But what if they want the exclusive-may? Saying "XOR" in casual conversation still isn't accepted
It may eventually. Or it may not, depending on whether it does or doesn't. Language will adapt, will-he nil-he.
That would be great if true. To lose the originals of the greatest technological and exploration achievement event since Columbus is a gut-wrenching thought. (And the existing copies are poor quality.)
Agree. So, when will we get to see the copies on You Tube?
Isn't that the old modern-guy-goes-back-to-medieval-times-and-pretends-to-be-a-wizard-
Not that modern. Try "Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" by Mark Twain.
a "few" random spinoff technologies? Funniest thing I've ever read. Thank you sir!
And quite ironic. Unless he wrote his response on a machine without miniaturised electronics - diesel typewriter perhaps.
You mean commutative?
Yes. (/facepalm) Thanks for correction.
We have a similar situation in Australia, but here voting is required. Not sure if we would ever consent to online voting with Conroy in charge, however - people simply won't trust a voting system with a filtering czar in power. We have an entire continent that is very sparsely populated and it might be a good way to cut back on the personal cost for some of the smaller commumities.
We're larger in population than a similarly-sized continent to our south, however, unless you count their rather dense population of Linux aficionados.
Hmm... time to go vote I guess. I hear it's on the Internet (Googles...)
"Best prices on Vote Canada at www.votecanada.myaggregator.ru"... that must be it.
(Click)
There has to be a joke in there somewhere about chickens being classified as munitions..
Or at least a story...
I remember hearing about an aircraft canopy design being tested against bird strike by having dead chickens fired at it via an air cannon. It was the best emulation they could come up with.
However, somewhere between plan and execution a detail was missed, and the test was performed with frozen chickens. Results were indeterminate.
Assuming you have a web browser.
And also that the files are available without a private agreement. Having to log in means accepting the EULA and agreeing to be part of a private exchange. Trivial point, perhaps, but the difference between public and private is the difference between a public investigation and a private one. Private investigations are subject to specific laws concerning behavior.
I live in the US and have looked at migrating to another country.
It's not a bad thing to do, I've done it. Moved from California to Australia in 1981 and have not spent ten milliseconds in regret since. Flew back for family issues a couple of times and each visit reinforced how well we chose. Come on down, we could probably use you.
And as an aside, I've never seen a more well-run bureaucracy than the Australian immigration people, when you play it by the book (i.e. do not try to sneak in). Had to visit them once or twice for visas, never spent more than 10 minutes per visit, they were well informed and their systems work.
But talk about the ultimate vote...
all of the Lithium is located in countries that are hostel [sic] towards the U.S. - which is a bit of a problem ...
Bolivia, China, Chile and the United States are the main sources of supply.
I know Windows bashing is frowned on...
If you see evidence of windows bashing in your inflatable car, you've probably lost your sound system. Check the dash.