Real world: Employer pays you for your work, and provides you with any work materials. School World: You pay the school in order to do work, and provide your own materials.
It's not free. It's payed for by taxes. So even though the parents don't get an education bill each month. They still get a property tax bill, and an income tax bill, and a sales tax on every purchase.
I would say that they really can't operate cars either. I imagine these car users going through a mental checklist: Merge on to ramp Watch for incoming traffic Oh crap should I speed up or slow down, I don't remember. *phew* managed to merge with only causing a small traffic jam. Immediately cut off traffic while proceeding to the left most lane, and travelling 10 mph below the speed limit. *starts raining* SLAM ON BRAKES!
This is only a value-added subset of the Hadley data. That was "peer-reviewed" by scientists "approved" by Hadley CRU. Which means that it's worthless.
You can't prove a negative. It is the responsibility of the scientists to prove it IS happening. The "deniers" have been asking the CRU for reproducible data. They were stonewalled until FOIA request were made. Then the answer was no we destroyed it when we moved buildings.
There is no data, and the models are not reproducible. Therefore
Take for example two small companies (Alpha and Beta) of similar size both offering similar services in a community. Alpha has made an effort to be compliant in their licensing, the Beta has not. Since Beta has not spent the time and money to comply with licensing, it is able to provide it's services at lesser cost than Alpha. Alpha loses customers to Beta.
It's not just BSA and Microsoft that loses out on such a scenario.
No, it's not a problem. A binary search and a sequential search will both solve the question. The binary search is just more efficient.
If you're asking questions that lead to the answer "use this algorithm" then you're not asking the right questions. You're saying that you're looking for generalists, and that your "use of many options" doesn't limit them to a particular platform. But by giving them the option, you are limiting them. You would be better off asking them which language they would use for a given problem, or what the pros and cons would be of choosing that language.
It still strikes me that the questions you are asking are looking for a code monkey, not a software engineer.
In paragraph two, you explain your hiring practices. Then in paragraph three, you complain that the candidates you hire suck. Could it be that you're hiring practices are a fault?
From my reading of your hiring practices, the interview questions your using do not correlate to the 3 items for which you're looking.
You're basing your hiring on the following criteria: Ability to reproduce rote algorithms. Ability to solve problems on a particular platform. (python, foxpro, php, etc.) Ability to remember items from high-school and freshman year college.
A number of highly qualified hires I've interviewed would fail your process. The candidates I'm looking for don't waste their time memorizing algorithms, or studying freshman level CS. All of your interview questions could be solved by googling.
Instead, you should be looking for candidates that can explain the pros and cons of different development methodologies, ask intelligent questions when given a development scenario, and explain how they would approach solving a problem. These three items would give you a much better correlation to the 3 skills your looking for.
Let's look at the customer's perspective between the HD DVD players that lack hardware vs. the Blu-Ray players that lack hardware.
Crappy HD DVD hardware that doesn't play 1080i: Customer inserts disc, movie and bonus materials both play. Customer doesn't know anything's wrong unless they're a videophile.
Crappy Blu-Ray hardware profile 1.0: Customer inserts disc. Receives message "This disc is not compatible with this player. You may still watch the movie. If you would like to view the bonus features please upgrade to another multi-hundred dollar player."
Customer buys a profile 1.1 player, in a year from now... Customer inserts disc. Receives message "This disc is not compatible with this player. You may still watch the movie. If you would like to view the bonus features please upgrade to another multi-hundred dollar player."
Wait a minute. That's not a problem with blu-ray, that's brilliant!
There are 110 years of oil reserves in the US (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_reserves#United_ States). But if we can't come up with an alternative fuel source in that amount of time, I'll just assume that a nuclear holocaust has happened.
As a web (among others) developer, having Safari on my machine is great. I'll never use it except for testing my sites to make sure they'll look and function the same on a Mac.
It'll save me from having to pester friends with Macs to send me screenshots of the website and trying to fix it. I now have access to all the major browsers on the same box.
Downloaded 3.0 and 3.0.1. Safari will never be used as my browser, but I'm glad it's available on Windows as a development tool.
I actually use your thread when pointing out to people why Linux fails to gain acceptance on the desktop in both a home and corporate environment. I also point my clients to this thread anytime someone suggests using a linux distribution without a support contract.
Basically the failure of being able to provide reliable support for a frustrated and disgruntled user really hurts the image of Linux and reinforces the stereotype of techies as being arrogant and condescending.
What's wrong with someone getting paid for a good design? Before Immersion, the technology for creating vibration as feedback for a human interface was available, but had never been used that way before. Immersion came up with the idea, an idea that no one had thought of before.
There are some really bad patents out there, but I don't see this as being one.
Well. $10,000 plus travel expenses doesn't sound like a bribe to me. Seems more like small compensation. Writing a dissenting paper takes time. Lots of it. These professors make more than 10K a month. And, it would take quite some time to write a paper.
Course we could say that the scientists who wrote the IPCC were bribed for their time as well. I think that I will start bribing my employees to work for me as well.
I think that this is much more a case of... The AEI is looking for papers critical of the IPCC's findings. As compensation they are offering $10,000 plus expenses. While AEI hopes that this is incentive, they realize that it's not very much. But, they don't have great funding. 1.6 million barely covered their budget last year.
These numbers aren't that big. !!!!$10K!!! (a months salary) $1.6 million!!! (6 months - year operating cost) Does noone understand accounting and expenses anymore?
Real bribes could easily be done by ExxonMobile, real bribes in the 100k for people and 100M for companies. This isn't a bribe, it's a pittance. Looks to me that AEI is actually wanting real papers, not names signed on for their agenda.
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Actually in Georgia, the Jury determines the facts and the law. But only for criminal cases.
Article 1 Section 1 Paragraph XI A
http://www.sos.ga.gov/elections/GAConstitution.pdf
Real world: Employer pays you for your work, and provides you with any work materials.
School World: You pay the school in order to do work, and provide your own materials.
It's not free. It's payed for by taxes. So even though the parents don't get an education bill each month. They still get a property tax bill, and an income tax bill, and a sales tax on every purchase.
I would say that they really can't operate cars either. I imagine these car users going through a mental checklist:
Merge on to ramp
Watch for incoming traffic
Oh crap should I speed up or slow down, I don't remember. *phew* managed to merge with only causing a small traffic jam.
Immediately cut off traffic while proceeding to the left most lane, and travelling 10 mph below the speed limit.
*starts raining*
SLAM ON BRAKES!
Awesome! I'll take a look. Thank you!
I'd be satisfied to review the algorithms used for the climate model. But neither they nor the data have been made available.
Sorry, you're the troll. Show me the evidence, and I'll change my mind.
I'm not making the claim that global temperatures are stable.
I'm not making the claim that global temperatures are rising due to natural causes
I'm not making the claim that Global temperatures are rising due to man, but it will have beneficial effects.
I'm not making the claim that Global temperatures are rising due to man, and will cause global catastrophe but all proposed solutions will fail.
I'm saying, the claims your making are bunk because you have no evidence.
This is only a value-added subset of the Hadley data. That was "peer-reviewed" by scientists "approved" by Hadley CRU. Which means that it's worthless.
You can't prove a negative. It is the responsibility of the scientists to prove it IS happening. The "deniers" have been asking the CRU for reproducible data. They were stonewalled until FOIA request were made. Then the answer was no we destroyed it when we moved buildings.
There is no data, and the models are not reproducible. Therefore
Take for example two small companies (Alpha and Beta) of similar size both offering similar services in a community. Alpha has made an effort to be compliant in their licensing, the Beta has not. Since Beta has not spent the time and money to comply with licensing, it is able to provide it's services at lesser cost than Alpha. Alpha loses customers to Beta.
It's not just BSA and Microsoft that loses out on such a scenario.
No, it's not a problem. A binary search and a sequential search will both solve the question. The binary search is just more efficient.
If you're asking questions that lead to the answer "use this algorithm" then you're not asking the right questions. You're saying that you're looking for generalists, and that your "use of many options" doesn't limit them to a particular platform. But by giving them the option, you are limiting them. You would be better off asking them which language they would use for a given problem, or what the pros and cons would be of choosing that language.
It still strikes me that the questions you are asking are looking for a code monkey, not a software engineer.
In paragraph two, you explain your hiring practices. Then in paragraph three, you complain that the candidates you hire suck. Could it be that you're hiring practices are a fault?
From my reading of your hiring practices, the interview questions your using do not correlate to the 3 items for which you're looking.
You're basing your hiring on the following criteria:
Ability to reproduce rote algorithms.
Ability to solve problems on a particular platform. (python, foxpro, php, etc.)
Ability to remember items from high-school and freshman year college.
A number of highly qualified hires I've interviewed would fail your process. The candidates I'm looking for don't waste their time memorizing algorithms, or studying freshman level CS. All of your interview questions could be solved by googling.
Instead, you should be looking for candidates that can explain the pros and cons of different development methodologies, ask intelligent questions when given a development scenario, and explain how they would approach solving a problem. These three items would give you a much better correlation to the 3 skills your looking for.
Let's look at the customer's perspective between the HD DVD players that lack hardware vs. the Blu-Ray players that lack hardware.
Crappy HD DVD hardware that doesn't play 1080i:
Customer inserts disc, movie and bonus materials both play. Customer doesn't know anything's wrong unless they're a videophile.
Crappy Blu-Ray hardware profile 1.0:
Customer inserts disc. Receives message "This disc is not compatible with this player. You may still watch the movie. If you would like to view the bonus features please upgrade to another multi-hundred dollar player."
Customer buys a profile 1.1 player, in a year from now...
Customer inserts disc. Receives message "This disc is not compatible with this player. You may still watch the movie. If you would like to view the bonus features please upgrade to another multi-hundred dollar player."
Wait a minute. That's not a problem with blu-ray, that's brilliant!
There are 110 years of oil reserves in the US (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_reserves#United_ States). But if we can't come up with an alternative fuel source in that amount of time, I'll just assume that a nuclear holocaust has happened.
As a web (among others) developer, having Safari on my machine is great. I'll never use it except for testing my sites to make sure they'll look and function the same on a Mac.
It'll save me from having to pester friends with Macs to send me screenshots of the website and trying to fix it. I now have access to all the major browsers on the same box.
Downloaded 3.0 and 3.0.1. Safari will never be used as my browser, but I'm glad it's available on Windows as a development tool.
An example. I leave my cd-player and my cd-wallet on the front porch of my house. It's not locked up, it's a safe community.
Someone comes along and copies my CDs and leaves.
Explain to me how I'm guilty of distribution? Just because I don't lock up my CDs doesn't mean that someone else has the right to copy them.
Amen!
Metallica hasn't been metal since the black album and even it was iffy.
I actually use your thread when pointing out to people why Linux fails to gain acceptance on the desktop in both a home and corporate environment. I also point my clients to this thread anytime someone suggests using a linux distribution without a support contract.
Basically the failure of being able to provide reliable support for a frustrated and disgruntled user really hurts the image of Linux and reinforces the stereotype of techies as being arrogant and condescending.
What's wrong with someone getting paid for a good design? Before Immersion, the technology for creating vibration as feedback for a human interface was available, but had never been used that way before. Immersion came up with the idea, an idea that no one had thought of before.
There are some really bad patents out there, but I don't see this as being one.
Nintendo's rumble-pak technology was based on a different design to a patent that Nintendo holds.
Yup. When looking for Murloc eyes, I found it really funny that apparently some Murlocs didn't have eyes.
Vista Certification is nowhere near $10K. MS was actually offering a free certification program prior to the release of Vista.
1.) Got an artist in the house here who does all her work with Florescent bulbs. Not too big a deal to adjust for a different white temperature.
2.) Right on!
Well. $10,000 plus travel expenses doesn't sound like a bribe to me. Seems more like small compensation. Writing a dissenting paper takes time. Lots of it. These professors make more than 10K a month. And, it would take quite some time to write a paper.
Course we could say that the scientists who wrote the IPCC were bribed for their time as well. I think that I will start bribing my employees to work for me as well.
I think that this is much more a case of... The AEI is looking for papers critical of the IPCC's findings. As compensation they are offering $10,000 plus expenses. While AEI hopes that this is incentive, they realize that it's not very much. But, they don't have great funding. 1.6 million barely covered their budget last year.
These numbers aren't that big. !!!!$10K!!! (a months salary) $1.6 million!!! (6 months - year operating cost) Does noone understand accounting and expenses anymore?
Real bribes could easily be done by ExxonMobile, real bribes in the 100k for people and 100M for companies. This isn't a bribe, it's a pittance. Looks to me that AEI is actually wanting real papers, not names signed on for their agenda.
Sorry for the rambling...