Why in articles like this do I never read anything about the underlying data structures. All I hear about it code code code. It's almost as if a data model is the dumping ground and the code is what's important.
By the way, has anyone ever heard of ORM (Object Role Modeling)? Natural language modeling of information requirements that uses a mathematical formula to generate an Entity Relationship structure.
That's why I decided to go into data/systems architecture. I still get to work with technology. I don't write code (fine by me) but I still get to most of the systems and even the occassional algorithm.
Beauty is that I have so much interaction with the business users in my job that it would be very difficult to outsource most of my functions.
They key here is to find a job that requires a high degree of customer interaction. When you do that, you'll have a better understanding of what their needs are and how to solve them.
I think the translation is more accurately represented by: "The most powerful and historically successful country in the world is currently under the leadership of people further to the right than the rest of the world while globalization is rapidly building the success and power of former third world countries"
any president would be moderated by a cabinet, a House and Senate, and a judiciary
let's see here.....ummmm. conservative republican cabinet, republican controlled house, republican controlled senate, conservative majority in judiciary.
yeah, soulds like a lot of moderation of the president to me
That's just what MOST economists think. Most of them also think that 400+ Billion and growing deficits are bad too.
Luckily, we have the OTHER economists running the majority of the coutry (at the state and federal levels) who believe rightly that the economy can truly be jump started by giving more money to those with the lowest propensity to spend (aka: rich people).
Then they can fall back on having the conservative media sound machine (fox news, 90% of talk radio, clear channel, etc...) to continuously spout about the "liberal media"
You were probably modded down because how something looks is purely subjective. Ipod snobs will remark that ANYTHING that isn't Ipod looks ugly.
Rest assured that the design has been a MAJOR consideration. YOU might not like it. Extreme design (where people have a strong love it/hate it viewpoint almost instantly) is becoming more and more common in products. Get used to things you consider ugly.
Quit with the F'ing MBA hating. Education isn't the problem, it's greed (there is a difference). I've 2/3 completed my MBA program and it isn't because I want to screw people. The program has helped me learn how to more effectively deal with people and find out what they want. I wanted to know this because I'm a Data Architect and understanding customers (internal or external) is what it's all about.
The problem is that the typical CEO in this country doesn't have a long tenure at their respective companies. CEO pay and incentive bonuses are based on share price. Follow the logic and it's easy to see that making decisions based on long term impact won't garner anything for the poor CEO, so they make decisions that will provide quite bumps to sharte price (and hence stock options).
I recently wrote a small research oriented paper for a class on employee turnover. The surveys and research performed over the last year or so all agree that when the job market comes back, there will be a mass exodus of knowledge from organizations.
IIRC roughtly 35% of IT workers are actively seeking new jobs (currently employed), while another 15% are waiting until the economy improves before they begin the active seeking phase.
The paper also went into how the costs of employee turnover affect the bottom line. The commonly quoted figure of $10,000 to replace an employee is WAY OFF. With labor, advertising, lost productivity, additional training, etc... the actual cost is between 50-150% of the previous person's annual salary.
Good incentive to keep your employees. My last company didn't heed my warning a few months ago. But my remaining coworkers over there DID get big raises as soon as I left and they started asking for the same things I had been for 2 years. Glad I could help.
They can and probably would sue her if she sold her domain name to a porn company. But the problem is that it's HER domain name and she has no legal obligation to do or not do something because of a book title that she had no interest in publishing.
In essence, penguin could jump up and down and scream all they want, but after their book and the actions they've taken, the only groups that would be interested in purchasing the domain would be penguin and a porn operator and the real Katie can't be legally compelled to sell to any specific group.
Do you really think that we can sustain a viable, competitive economy by cutting most social service programs? What do you think happens when the 90% of the country that are have-nots doesn't have ANYTHING to fall back on? Last thing you want is 225 million people with nothing to lose and 25 million holding all the purse strings.
That said, I also don't agree with subsidizing broadband penetration, but I DO agree with subsidizing research geared towards finding better, faster, more available communication systems. That way, everybody benefits and even those in the sticks will eventually have faster connections.
I don't know what they've been teaching for each of the past 17 years. All I can attest to is what I've been taught for each of the past 2 years.
I'm not trying to disagree with the argument that the prime decision makers are focusing incorrectly on the short-term, I'm just pointing out that each of those individuals took what he/she wanted from their education.
If some arrogant self-centered dick goes to school for a business degree to make a ton of money, they are going to still be an arrogant self-centered dick when making decisions.
Don't blame the schools because a disproportionate number of people who've CHOSEN to go into business are short-sighted dicks.
ummmm....have you gone to school for management? maybe the short-term only thinking is only taught at the undergrad level (and roughly 70% of the time at the masters level), but they also try to bash it into our heads that R&D investement is GOOD and long-term thinking is GOOD. Hell, maybe it's my cheap-ass diverse school ( http://www.metrostate.edu ).
I agree that management are trained to produce the greatest increase in share price for the company (this is how they personally are judged).
Analysts on the other hand, place a tremendous amount of value on R&D spending. That IS a long term effect.
The day a company announces increases in R&D spending, their share price will go up. This is because the money they are spending on R&D increases the probability they will develop something that could make a lot of money.
Open Zaurus is going to have some fun with this one.
It's a tad on the pricey side though as an SL-5500 can be had for under $200 and the SL-5600 (which has the 400 MHz xscale proc and 64 MB of RAM) is under $400 last time I checked
To be honest, the way the parent jumps on anyone ignorant of the actual situation is troll worthy. But the link is dead on as far as what actually was claimed.
He was a senator that was taking credit for an initiative he funded while in office. How stupid could he be? No other senator would EVER take credit for something they had even the smallest part in.
Aikido isn't a "get in your face" type of martial art, it's more of a "take your opponent down as fast as possible with adding as little of your own energy as possible" kind of art. EVERYTHING is taught by example and partner/group work.
Very cool stuff.
Here for more information
It depends on who the chicken-littles are. The religious right (the people in control of the US) for instance would see some of this science as blasphemy and create legislation to criminalize researching it.
Maybe the US can't stop this type of research everywhere in the world, but maybe those in control will decided that this "subversive" research will someday endanger the US and they need to be "liberated"
I didn't just say "make things fair". I just have a big problem with lawsuit happy people that think that any wrong should be rewarded with millions of dollars.
If a company deliberatly lies to you about a product such as the internet access in this case, you should be allowed to sue and collect any damages (real, punative, and pain & suffering) that apply. But get real, you don't deserve $10 million because your frickin' ISP shuts off your account. I can see treble real damages plus some sort of punative damages.
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Don't forget fiber to the home (ma bell apparently planned this 20 years ago, but got broken up instead).
Why in articles like this do I never read anything about the underlying data structures. All I hear about it code code code. It's almost as if a data model is the dumping ground and the code is what's important.
By the way, has anyone ever heard of ORM (Object Role Modeling)? Natural language modeling of information requirements that uses a mathematical formula to generate an Entity Relationship structure.
http://www.orm.net/
http://www.objectrolemodeling.com/
http://www.ormcentral.com/
http://www.inconcept.com/jcm/
That's why I decided to go into data/systems architecture. I still get to work with technology. I don't write code (fine by me) but I still get to most of the systems and even the occassional algorithm.
Beauty is that I have so much interaction with the business users in my job that it would be very difficult to outsource most of my functions.
They key here is to find a job that requires a high degree of customer interaction. When you do that, you'll have a better understanding of what their needs are and how to solve them.
I think the translation is more accurately represented by:
"The most powerful and historically successful country in the world is currently under the leadership of people further to the right than the rest of the world while globalization is rapidly building the success and power of former third world countries"
boy, what a mouthful
any president would be moderated by a cabinet, a House and Senate, and a judiciary let's see here.....ummmm. conservative republican cabinet, republican controlled house, republican controlled senate, conservative majority in judiciary. yeah, soulds like a lot of moderation of the president to me
There are always plots in The Rock movies, sometimes they just don't make it on screen.
That's just what MOST economists think. Most of them also think that 400+ Billion and growing deficits are bad too.
Luckily, we have the OTHER economists running the majority of the coutry (at the state and federal levels) who believe rightly that the economy can truly be jump started by giving more money to those with the lowest propensity to spend (aka: rich people).
Then they can fall back on having the conservative media sound machine (fox news, 90% of talk radio, clear channel, etc...) to continuously spout about the "liberal media"
Thanks for not paying attention
You were probably modded down because how something looks is purely subjective. Ipod snobs will remark that ANYTHING that isn't Ipod looks ugly.
Rest assured that the design has been a MAJOR consideration. YOU might not like it. Extreme design (where people have a strong love it/hate it viewpoint almost instantly) is becoming more and more common in products. Get used to things you consider ugly.
Quit with the F'ing MBA hating. Education isn't the problem, it's greed (there is a difference). I've 2/3 completed my MBA program and it isn't because I want to screw people. The program has helped me learn how to more effectively deal with people and find out what they want. I wanted to know this because I'm a Data Architect and understanding customers (internal or external) is what it's all about.
The problem is that the typical CEO in this country doesn't have a long tenure at their respective companies. CEO pay and incentive bonuses are based on share price. Follow the logic and it's easy to see that making decisions based on long term impact won't garner anything for the poor CEO, so they make decisions that will provide quite bumps to sharte price (and hence stock options).
I recently wrote a small research oriented paper for a class on employee turnover. The surveys and research performed over the last year or so all agree that when the job market comes back, there will be a mass exodus of knowledge from organizations.
IIRC roughtly 35% of IT workers are actively seeking new jobs (currently employed), while another 15% are waiting until the economy improves before they begin the active seeking phase.
The paper also went into how the costs of employee turnover affect the bottom line. The commonly quoted figure of $10,000 to replace an employee is WAY OFF. With labor, advertising, lost productivity, additional training, etc... the actual cost is between 50-150% of the previous person's annual salary.
Good incentive to keep your employees. My last company didn't heed my warning a few months ago. But my remaining coworkers over there DID get big raises as soon as I left and they started asking for the same things I had been for 2 years. Glad I could help.
They can and probably would sue her if she sold her domain name to a porn company. But the problem is that it's HER domain name and she has no legal obligation to do or not do something because of a book title that she had no interest in publishing.
In essence, penguin could jump up and down and scream all they want, but after their book and the actions they've taken, the only groups that would be interested in purchasing the domain would be penguin and a porn operator and the real Katie can't be legally compelled to sell to any specific group.
I'm typing this response at the end of my work day on my work computer.
A 2.4 GHz Pentium 4 and 1 GB of RAM, running....NT4.0 with Office 97 (with clippy turned on and no way to hid him)
bite me
Do you really think that we can sustain a viable, competitive economy by cutting most social service programs? What do you think happens when the 90% of the country that are have-nots doesn't have ANYTHING to fall back on? Last thing you want is 225 million people with nothing to lose and 25 million holding all the purse strings.
That said, I also don't agree with subsidizing broadband penetration, but I DO agree with subsidizing research geared towards finding better, faster, more available communication systems. That way, everybody benefits and even those in the sticks will eventually have faster connections.
I've had 5 different "Real" email accounts since 1998. I've had ONE Yahoo email account since 1998.
I kind of like the option of NOT having to change my email account (and notify everyone of the change) just because I change my frickin' ISP.
When I can afford to have hosting set up for myself on my own domain, then I'll move my "Fake" email to my own personally hosted email.
Is this that hard to understand?
until Microsoft releases their next initiative titled "glass openings" as an extension to Windows to allow more frickin' transparency effects.
I don't know what they've been teaching for each of the past 17 years. All I can attest to is what I've been taught for each of the past 2 years.
I'm not trying to disagree with the argument that the prime decision makers are focusing incorrectly on the short-term, I'm just pointing out that each of those individuals took what he/she wanted from their education.
If some arrogant self-centered dick goes to school for a business degree to make a ton of money, they are going to still be an arrogant self-centered dick when making decisions.
Don't blame the schools because a disproportionate number of people who've CHOSEN to go into business are short-sighted dicks.
ummmm....have you gone to school for management? maybe the short-term only thinking is only taught at the undergrad level (and roughly 70% of the time at the masters level), but they also try to bash it into our heads that R&D investement is GOOD and long-term thinking is GOOD. Hell, maybe it's my cheap-ass diverse school ( http://www.metrostate.edu ).
I agree that management are trained to produce the greatest increase in share price for the company (this is how they personally are judged).
Analysts on the other hand, place a tremendous amount of value on R&D spending. That IS a long term effect.
The day a company announces increases in R&D spending, their share price will go up. This is because the money they are spending on R&D increases the probability they will develop something that could make a lot of money.
It's a tad on the pricey side though as an SL-5500 can be had for under $200 and the SL-5600 (which has the 400 MHz xscale proc and 64 MB of RAM) is under $400 last time I checked
To be honest, the way the parent jumps on anyone ignorant of the actual situation is troll worthy. But the link is dead on as far as what actually was claimed.
He was a senator that was taking credit for an initiative he funded while in office. How stupid could he be? No other senator would EVER take credit for something they had even the smallest part in.
Yeah! I was totally unaware of Microsoft's anti-competitive monopolistic behavior until this ruling. All my friends were shocked as well.
Emacs is a nice operating system, all it really needs now is a text editor.
Aikido isn't a "get in your face" type of martial art, it's more of a "take your opponent down as fast as possible with adding as little of your own energy as possible" kind of art. EVERYTHING is taught by example and partner/group work.
Very cool stuff. Here for more information
--Smart consumers and smart bosses never by on cost alone; what they buy on is value, which is benefit divided by cost.
The problem here is how many consumers are "smart" and how many of our bosses are "smart"?
The majority of consumers are motivated by price and sales, not "Made in USA" tags
It depends on who the chicken-littles are. The religious right (the people in control of the US) for instance would see some of this science as blasphemy and create legislation to criminalize researching it.
Maybe the US can't stop this type of research everywhere in the world, but maybe those in control will decided that this "subversive" research will someday endanger the US and they need to be "liberated"
I didn't just say "make things fair". I just have a big problem with lawsuit happy people that think that any wrong should be rewarded with millions of dollars.
If a company deliberatly lies to you about a product such as the internet access in this case, you should be allowed to sue and collect any damages (real, punative, and pain & suffering) that apply. But get real, you don't deserve $10 million because your frickin' ISP shuts off your account. I can see treble real damages plus some sort of punative damages.
My beef is with excessive damage rewards.