Now, we pay the N managers 60$ per hour, and the offshore guys $10 per hour, each. So the net cost is $90 per hour for 3 times as much work as one onshore guy at $50.
So, which company will succeed? Output of one man at $50 per hour, or output of three for $90 per hour?
There is a net benefit to society, the ex-programmer is making more money, and he's producing cheaper code. There's a net benefit to the offshore society, they are earning reasonable wages in context.
The loser, admittedly, is the competing on-shore programmer, who either has to drop his hourly rate to $30, or figure out how to become more productive, or go and find 3 dudes to write code for him. Any of those three is a viable strategy, I'd suggest option 2 is the least stressful and the most satisfying, since I don't enjoy management or poverty.
Fascinating. That was not my intended sub-text, and on re-reading it I find it very difficult to bring that out as the primary message. Yes I was having a go at the local OO groupies. That was all. I'd add that reviews of spreadsheets in grown up PC magazines also tend to leave me underwhelmed.
As to Gnumeric, OK, fair call, the next big personal spreadsheet project I take on I'll give it a spin.
you don't use spreadsheets for safety related calculations.
Now, admittedly there is a reasonable argument that says you shouldn't use spreadsheets for calculations that mey have legal repercussions, but that is a separate issue.
Typically to get a working spreadsheet built and validated would take the thick end of two weeks, say 60 hours.
Now, at a charge out rate of $150 ph, that means it represents $9000 of time. If we import the same thing into OO and have to check it out and rebuild the broken bits, that's probably $2000 of lost time.
Plus, we don't know how to write macros in OO. So many of our spreadsheets wouldn't run.
And I somehow doubt that the company I work for pays $579 for Office.
How do you evaluate a spreadsheet? It is interesting that the local gonzoes who rabbit on about OO rarely seem to use spreadsheets, or, if they do and claim that OO's spreadsheet is a near perfect replacement for Excel then they are either very limited users or liars.
I must confess, I haven't tried Gnumeric, in anger.
Paid the same? Surely the fundamental USAn issue is that they (you) are typically paid 30% more than other first world engineers for a given amount/quality of work. I don't know if it is true for all professional and technical jobs, I certainly is for automotive engineering, which is what I do.
Wages in France tend to be rather lower, in my experience, than the UK, for technical jobs.
They do not meet the safety criterion for normal cars. They are driven by inexperienced drivers from the age-group with the highest accident rate. They should not be on public roads.
The car's design is inherently bad. It is not safe for the environment in which it is to be used. Students do not have the engineering judgement to design, build and race a car for use on public roads in normal traffic.
Oh, I lead the mechanical design for two major subsystems (chassis/suspension and wheel motor) for the 1999 World Solar Challenge winner by the way, and I work for a real car company on vehicle dynamics.
I'm sorry, there is no way that a solar car meets the basic requirements for road safety. The inherent requirement for light weight guarantees that in an accident involving any normal vehicle the solar car's structure will collapse.
In order to have low rolling resistance the tires are much less robust than ordinary car tires. They are more puncture prone, and have less grip.
In order to have good aerodynamics the cars sit very low to the road, so they will slide under other vehicles, and get squashed.
Finally, male students are very accident prone drivers, and tend not to have the driving skills to allow them to cope with emergencies.
"All he was trying to do was further research in alternative energy sources...a very noble cause."
How does driving a solar powered car on public roads further research? Is there some unique interaction between photons and trucks that needs to be investigated? If so where are the research papers?
Designing and building a solar car is an interesting project suitable for a university engineering department's students. Designing a very light weight car that can be driven safely on public roads in normal traffic, by students, is not. In my opinion the university has failed in their duty of care.
You wouldn't be referring to the fabulously stable (sarcasm) system 7.2 - 7.5.5 would you? At the time I was using that I was using W3.1, and I can assure you that in terms of reboots/day there was little to choose between them.
The advantage of W3.1 of course was that eventually you could figure out exactly what thoughtcrime had been committed, whereas the little Mac bomb obeyed its own rules.
If you don't believe me set up a PC with W3.1 and an SE with 7.5.5, and try and use either!
Concorde did use a/b to get through the transonic drag bump, but as you say, it did not need a/b to cruise at M2
I don't think fuel cost was the real killer, Concorde used about 1 tonne of fuel per passenger, so (say) $500 of fuel for a ticket that was probably around $4000, one way.
Unless he has exceeded the speed of sound then the sound energy will still reach him. The source and the receiver are moving at the same speed, so in your river analogy they move together. Even if the receiver was stationary, so long as the current is slower than the wave speed, waves will still arrive at the receiver.
5/10 for coming up with a reasonable model. 0/10 for thinking it through. You fail it.
(1) complying with arbitrary requests is part of many interview processes and even jobs
(2) Just because some HR dude is a moron doesn't tell you much about the rest of the organisation. I get worried when I see the morons at the top of the tree, not the botom.
I use Excel. I have tried to use OO, for quite a large project. There is no way I could switch across without spending MONTHS rewriting and revalidating old spreadsheets. I could not do this in reality because the OO spreadsheet does not handle my large complex worksheets in a stable fashion , its graphs do not provide sufficient functionality, and its scripting language is (so far as I can determine) poorly documented, at best, for a noob.
OO is not a competitor for Office, it is a competitor for Word with a non compatible spreadsheet thrown in.
So you haven't transferred Office users to OO, you have transferred Word users across.
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That would be fine if the first world competitors were also forced to give up their 'unfair' advantages.
So, close most of the schools, switch the electricity off randomly, and install corrupt governments. (Oh well, sounds like California).
Now, we pay the N managers 60$ per hour, and the offshore guys $10 per hour, each. So the net cost is $90 per hour for 3 times as much work as one onshore guy at $50.
So, which company will succeed? Output of one man at $50 per hour, or output of three for $90 per hour?
There is a net benefit to society, the ex-programmer is making more money, and he's producing cheaper code. There's a net benefit to the offshore society, they are earning reasonable wages in context.
The loser, admittedly, is the competing on-shore programmer, who either has to drop his hourly rate to $30, or figure out how to become more productive, or go and find 3 dudes to write code for him. Any of those three is a viable strategy, I'd suggest option 2 is the least stressful and the most satisfying, since I don't enjoy management or poverty.
Yes, that is such a neat editor. On a slightly different topic I use Winmerge to compare text files, effectively it is gdiff for Windows, but nicer.
Fascinating. That was not my intended sub-text, and on re-reading it I find it very difficult to bring that out as the primary message. Yes I was having a go at the local OO groupies. That was all. I'd add that reviews of spreadsheets in grown up PC magazines also tend to leave me underwhelmed.
As to Gnumeric, OK, fair call, the next big personal spreadsheet project I take on I'll give it a spin.
you don't use spreadsheets for safety related calculations.
Now, admittedly there is a reasonable argument that says you shouldn't use spreadsheets for calculations that mey have legal repercussions, but that is a separate issue.
Typically to get a working spreadsheet built and validated would take the thick end of two weeks, say 60 hours.
Now, at a charge out rate of $150 ph, that means it represents $9000 of time. If we import the same thing into OO and have to check it out and rebuild the broken bits, that's probably $2000 of lost time.
Plus, we don't know how to write macros in OO. So many of our spreadsheets wouldn't run.
And I somehow doubt that the company I work for pays $579 for Office.
How do you evaluate a spreadsheet? It is interesting that the local gonzoes who rabbit on about OO rarely seem to use spreadsheets, or, if they do and claim that OO's spreadsheet is a near perfect replacement for Excel then they are either very limited users or liars.
I must confess, I haven't tried Gnumeric, in anger.
He appears to think that Word boots up. Wrong, it executes. He has a buggy installation of Word that he'd rather write about than fix.
Yeah, he's gonna make a terrific tech writer.
Paid the same? Surely the fundamental USAn issue is that they (you) are typically paid 30% more than other first world engineers for a given amount/quality of work. I don't know if it is true for all professional and technical jobs, I certainly is for automotive engineering, which is what I do.
Wages in France tend to be rather lower, in my experience, than the UK, for technical jobs.
They do not meet the safety criterion for normal cars. They are driven by inexperienced drivers from the age-group with the highest accident rate. They should not be on public roads.
What /useful/ lessons are being learnt by racing (which is illegal in many jurisdictions btw) on public roads?
The car's design is inherently bad. It is not safe for the environment in which it is to be used. Students do not have the engineering judgement to design, build and race a car for use on public roads in normal traffic.
Oh, I lead the mechanical design for two major subsystems (chassis/suspension and wheel motor) for the 1999 World Solar Challenge winner by the way, and I work for a real car company on vehicle dynamics.
We build the cars you will buy. If we build the cars you 'ought' to buy, but you don't buy them, then we go bust.
Th history books are littered with the names of car companies that tried to sell cars that people 'should' have bought.
You, the consumer, make the choice. You, the voter, make the choice.
I'm sorry, there is no way that a solar car meets the basic requirements for road safety. The inherent requirement for light weight guarantees that in an accident involving any normal vehicle the solar car's structure will collapse.
In order to have low rolling resistance the tires are much less robust than ordinary car tires. They are more puncture prone, and have less grip.
In order to have good aerodynamics the cars sit very low to the road, so they will slide under other vehicles, and get squashed.
Finally, male students are very accident prone drivers, and tend not to have the driving skills to allow them to cope with emergencies.
"All he was trying to do was further research in alternative energy sources...a very noble cause."
How does driving a solar powered car on public roads further research? Is there some unique interaction between photons and trucks that needs to be investigated? If so where are the research papers?
Designing and building a solar car is an interesting project suitable for a university engineering department's students. Designing a very light weight car that can be driven safely on public roads in normal traffic, by students, is not. In my opinion the university has failed in their duty of care.
Do you try people's front doors as well? How about the cash drawer on a cash register? Might not be locked!
If you had found one that was unlocked what would you have done?
Oh ho. So a kid who walks up to your car and tries the doorhandles is not guilty of anything untoward?
Sorry, he needs a boot up the arse.
He doesn't need to be sent to jail, he DOES need to be reminded that we'd rather he stopped being a fuckwit.
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You wouldn't be referring to the fabulously stable (sarcasm) system 7.2 - 7.5.5 would you? At the time I was using that I was using W3.1, and I can assure you that in terms of reboots/day there was little to choose between them.
The advantage of W3.1 of course was that eventually you could figure out exactly what thoughtcrime had been committed, whereas the little Mac bomb obeyed its own rules.
If you don't believe me set up a PC with W3.1 and an SE with 7.5.5, and try and use either!
Concorde did use a/b to get through the transonic drag bump, but as you say, it did not need a/b to cruise at M2
I don't think fuel cost was the real killer, Concorde used about 1 tonne of fuel per passenger, so (say) $500 of fuel for a ticket that was probably around $4000, one way.
Unless he has exceeded the speed of sound then the sound energy will still reach him. The source and the receiver are moving at the same speed, so in your river analogy they move together. Even if the receiver was stationary, so long as the current is slower than the wave speed, waves will still arrive at the receiver.
5/10 for coming up with a reasonable model. 0/10 for thinking it through. You fail it.
that's one way to reduce your employment options.
I'd bear two things in mind:
(1) complying with arbitrary requests is part of many interview processes and even jobs
(2) Just because some HR dude is a moron doesn't tell you much about the rest of the organisation. I get worried when I see the morons at the top of the tree, not the botom.
How would you define "virtually flawlessly" in a business context?
How does the lost time encompassed in the weasel word "virtually" compare with the trivial cost (in a businees sense) of Office?
I use Excel. I have tried to use OO, for quite a large project. There is no way I could switch across without spending MONTHS rewriting and revalidating old spreadsheets. I could not do this in reality because the OO spreadsheet does not handle my large complex worksheets in a stable fashion , its graphs do not provide sufficient functionality, and its scripting language is (so far as I can determine) poorly documented, at best, for a noob.
OO is not a competitor for Office, it is a competitor for Word with a non compatible spreadsheet thrown in.
So you haven't transferred Office users to OO, you have transferred Word users across.
Working in feet and seconds
s1(0)-s2(0)=7/12
a=-32.2 (ie a 1 g stop)
First car
s1(t)=v0*t-16.1*t^2
s2(t)=-7/12+v0*t
They collide when s1 =s2
so v0*t-16.1*t^2=-7/12+v0*t
so t is sqrt(7/(12*16)) or roughly 0.2 s
so the car in front will have slowed by 6 fps, or 4 mph.
So the OP was wrong, with a 1g stop, but not by much, and if she'd assumed a more realistic acceleration, she'd be right, or wrong by less.
Read your grammar book, he wrote 'are', not 'were'. Watch out for the Egyptians, Romans, Poms, etc