I hear you, however this era of 'altruism' may feel like we are patronizing the Haitians. It is true that giving food and temporary shelters is great and will save some lifes, but you cannot just rebuild a country by doing this.
But, in order to rebuild a country, you need more than just throwing food at refugees. This article is interesting as it brings Katrina experience to help Haiti. It seems the best results happen when the locals are involved. There are many reports of this in Thailand after the tsunami.
There is nothing wrong with helping but helping without asking the opinion of the locals and keeping out of the loop will never give good results, it will leave the impression that you treat them like children and infantilize them. Now that the local ISPs have voiced their opinion, we should listen to their proposals and try to formulate a plan.
I am living in the EU, and I think the EU should maybe start by having a real government before to be so quick on judging on other matters, it feels much like the EU is a group of country trying to chase their lost empire in the 19th century or so...
The EU government seems to think that they are the most important in the world while neither China or the US care about them as Obama showed recently.
Hard to believe that this got modded informative, this is total anecdotal evidence. There has been at least one new gaming platform every 2 or 3 years. What is next ? A reply pointing out that the NES was linked to higher crime rates ?
You are bound to find anecdotal evidence if you look hard enough and this is a terrible example.
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The Economist, the FT and the WSJ are not free. However these are specialist magazines aimed toward people who need opinions and news in finance. I do not see how the NYT will find a niche of people who are willing to pay a subscription.
What the analysis is probably missing is that, like many people, although I am subscribed to The Economist, the FT AND the WSJ:
- 1 - I am more or less forced to read these since it is a part of my job
- 2 - The average reader of these magazines is earning more money than your average NYT reader
- 3 - I am not paying for these, my company is paying the subscription so I do not care about the price
In finance, you have specialized magazines such as Risk and Credit which subscription is about a thousand quids a year, and the price of the subscription to the FT is almost irrelevant (except it cannot be higher than the printed version).
I do not think that many NYT reader will get a subscription trough their job.
However they may succeed to implement a system of micropayments to get a bunch of articles, although my intuition tells me that most of people will just switch to a different news source. As long as there is not a monopoly (an oligopoly to be exact) and someone is willing to provide news for free, you will not be able to sell them, it reminds me of the music industry and piracy although the system of low payments from iTunes worked.
Great, now wrapping this DLL, I can test for the validity of a key. Embed this within a worm so that the IPs are different and you just completed the perfect tool to find out the valid cd keys.
Even if you work in Finance IT, having a math background allows you to move into much more lucrative jobs where you will implement fairly complex methodologies. You can look for quantitative developers job specs, they will require you to have a fairly above average math background compared to your average IT dude.
A thing that frustrated me is that you have to follow the program designed for the average kid.
When I was young, I was particularly talented in science and jumped two classes as a result.
However I do not think that my situation was ideal, I was bullied alot more than other kids because I was younger. And the level in science was still weak for myself.
A better system may be to teach earlier classes by level instead of forcing everybody to have the same level in all subjects.
That would have two side effects. First, you would be able at a younger age to show more interest in a particular subject and progress more quickly. Then it would solve the problem of the classes to follow the speed of the slowest.
(sorry for my English, it is not my first language and, obviously I always sucked at any non-science subject.
You forgot that most of high school teachers cannot answer these questions either. Outside of the things there were taught, they tend to be like your average slightly more educated person on general knowledge
I think what the guy who posted above you meant, is that "I can see why a system developer would implement this", not "I see why an application developer would do this".
Just do a breakdown analysis, of yourself versus other solutions.
Other solutions include:
Hiring contractors
Outsource the support
Remove the support (sacking yourself)
Just put figures on all the alternatives and back them up by examples in other departments or studies found on the internet. If you cannot put figures, try to come up to a sensible figure and explain your calculation. Go straight to the point and avoid details that nobody (but yourself) cares about.
Put also previsions for the next year and easy to understand graphs, a plan for the next business year and ideas of what could be bought/invested to improve the cost efficiency of yourself and your boss.
Are these kind of devises more for the show or are they really useful.
Personally, I always find myself writing notes faster with a pen and paper. I have tried several alternatives ranging from Palm, Pocket PCs, having a laptop with me... but from my point of view nothing beat having a pen and a paper to take quick notes, making a drawing,... during a speech/course.
If anybody here know a good solution, I would be glad to know how I could find a good replacement. My principal issue with paper notes is that it is easy to lose and take more time to classify them.
I was thinking about this, because it makes 4 minutes per page. Then, I realized that he must have been interrupted during his speech and must have taken at least 2 breaks...
I also realize that your post is sarcastic, but you need to present your ideas, you can't attack a president without presenting your ideas... Your idea of an email is absolutely horrible...
Can someone from the US elaborate on the process of validation for an impeachment ? I live in Europe and would like to know if any Congressman can charge the US president with impeachment and who is gonna vote to decide if there was an impeachment, would there be a possibility for an appeal then and how much time would the whole procedure take ?
Some points are intruiging for me, such as:
Invading Iraq, A Sovereign Nation, in Violation of the UN Charter As the UN is not particularly an US insitution, can you charge the US president for impeachment for not following the UN charter ?
Slashdot Mirror
In any crisis, the worst can come out of people who are usually held in place by the law. Just look at what happened after Katrina
I hear you, however this era of 'altruism' may feel like we are patronizing the Haitians. It is true that giving food and temporary shelters is great and will save some lifes, but you cannot just rebuild a country by doing this.
But, in order to rebuild a country, you need more than just throwing food at refugees. This article is interesting as it brings Katrina experience to help Haiti. It seems the best results happen when the locals are involved. There are many reports of this in Thailand after the tsunami.
There is nothing wrong with helping but helping without asking the opinion of the locals and keeping out of the loop will never give good results, it will leave the impression that you treat them like children and infantilize them. Now that the local ISPs have voiced their opinion, we should listen to their proposals and try to formulate a plan.
I am not sure that it is very different to democracy ...
I am living in the EU, and I think the EU should maybe start by having a real government before to be so quick on judging on other matters, it feels much like the EU is a group of country trying to chase their lost empire in the 19th century or so ...
The EU government seems to think that they are the most important in the world while neither China or the US care about them as Obama showed recently.
It seems that lately every manufacturer is trying to impose new standard in order to maximize their future sales.
Hard to believe that this got modded informative, this is total anecdotal evidence. There has been at least one new gaming platform every 2 or 3 years. What is next ? A reply pointing out that the NES was linked to higher crime rates ?
You are bound to find anecdotal evidence if you look hard enough and this is a terrible example.
/agree with you, had some issues on the launch date, it was pretty annoying.
But to answer the question, it was needed because they plan to make some additional money by selling expansions and additional content.
From the viewpoint of the government, it is still better to get a small share of the taxes than none whatsoever.
... as opposite to making them unlawful ?
I do not understand, if they make it unlawful it still gives the same incentives, isn't it ?
I think your post is quite naive, you supposed that the right people will suffer in 20 years time.
However the perpetrators and the persons who were in charge are unlikely to be arrested or suffer the direct consequences in 20 years time.
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Has the site been just slashdotted ?
Well not really, they would rather ban Monopoly and its ... "Get out of jail" card ...
That could give ideas to inmates.
... I can't believe people are paying for this.
... noobs !
Just cast cure to remove the confusion status
Suing TiVo for delivering content ?
Next is Neanderthal suing them for using fire or a wheel ?
The Economist, the FT and the WSJ are not free. However these are specialist magazines aimed toward people who need opinions and news in finance. I do not see how the NYT will find a niche of people who are willing to pay a subscription.
What the analysis is probably missing is that, like many people, although I am subscribed to The Economist, the FT AND the WSJ:
- 1 - I am more or less forced to read these since it is a part of my job
- 2 - The average reader of these magazines is earning more money than your average NYT reader
- 3 - I am not paying for these, my company is paying the subscription so I do not care about the price
In finance, you have specialized magazines such as Risk and Credit which subscription is about a thousand quids a year, and the price of the subscription to the FT is almost irrelevant (except it cannot be higher than the printed version).
I do not think that many NYT reader will get a subscription trough their job.
However they may succeed to implement a system of micropayments to get a bunch of articles, although my intuition tells me that most of people will just switch to a different news source. As long as there is not a monopoly (an oligopoly to be exact) and someone is willing to provide news for free, you will not be able to sell them, it reminds me of the music industry and piracy although the system of low payments from iTunes worked.
Great, now wrapping this DLL, I can test for the validity of a key. Embed this within a worm so that the IPs are different and you just completed the perfect tool to find out the valid cd keys.
It is not exactly 0%, but we get your point.
http://www.frbdiscountwindow.org/
Even if you work in Finance IT, having a math background allows you to move into much more lucrative jobs where you will implement fairly complex methodologies. You can look for quantitative developers job specs, they will require you to have a fairly above average math background compared to your average IT dude.
A thing that frustrated me is that you have to follow the program designed for the average kid. When I was young, I was particularly talented in science and jumped two classes as a result.
However I do not think that my situation was ideal, I was bullied alot more than other kids because I was younger. And the level in science was still weak for myself.
A better system may be to teach earlier classes by level instead of forcing everybody to have the same level in all subjects.
That would have two side effects. First, you would be able at a younger age to show more interest in a particular subject and progress more quickly. Then it would solve the problem of the classes to follow the speed of the slowest.
(sorry for my English, it is not my first language and, obviously I always sucked at any non-science subject.
You forgot that most of high school teachers cannot answer these questions either. Outside of the things there were taught, they tend to be like your average slightly more educated person on general knowledge
I think what the guy who posted above you meant, is that "I can see why a system developer would implement this", not "I see why an application developer would do this".
Other solutions include:
Just put figures on all the alternatives and back them up by examples in other departments or studies found on the internet. If you cannot put figures, try to come up to a sensible figure and explain your calculation. Go straight to the point and avoid details that nobody (but yourself) cares about.
Put also previsions for the next year and easy to understand graphs, a plan for the next business year and ideas of what could be bought/invested to improve the cost efficiency of yourself and your boss.
Are these kind of devises more for the show or are they really useful.
... but from my point of view nothing beat having a pen and a paper to take quick notes, making a drawing, ... during a speech/course.
Personally, I always find myself writing notes faster with a pen and paper. I have tried several alternatives ranging from Palm, Pocket PCs, having a laptop with me
If anybody here know a good solution, I would be glad to know how I could find a good replacement. My principal issue with paper notes is that it is easy to lose and take more time to classify them.
I was thinking about this, because it makes 4 minutes per page. Then, I realized that he must have been interrupted during his speech and must have taken at least 2 breaks ...
... Your idea of an email is absolutely horrible ...
:p
I also realize that your post is sarcastic, but you need to present your ideas, you can't attack a president without presenting your ideas
what next ? Let's create http://www.youimpeach.com/ ?
Some points are intruiging for me, such as: Invading Iraq, A Sovereign Nation, in Violation of the UN Charter As the UN is not particularly an US insitution, can you charge the US president for impeachment for not following the UN charter ?