All the leads I've ever worked with helped come up with the project plan, delegated work to others AND to themselves. Once we started coding, they coded with us as well. Of course they spent less time coding, because they did have other administrative tasks we didn't, but they did spend time (sometimes a good chunk) developing. They are still developers, with some manageral tasks added. They are not managers with some developer tasks. That's also why they were paid more than normal developers, but still less than full blown managers.
Any good head chef had best be able to prepare Rice-a-roni, just as they also need to prepare other dishes as well. Head chefs DO cook when needed.
Give the hacker types a few laptops and a credit card. They'll have you a working perl script to do whatever you want over the weekend and at a total cost to you of whatever their bar-tab was.
Great. And now my company reliese on some garbage unreadable perl script that no one else will be able to maintain. No thanks.
I disagree. A lead developer is still a developer, and their duties would likely still include, you know, developing. At least every company I've ever worked at had that as the lead developer's role. What you're describing is a manager.. not a lead developer.
But... in nearly every case, the organic item will be substantially higher priced than the non-organic equivalent. How can your food bill _not_ be effected?
Unless of course you're wrong that in every case the organic item is substantilly more expense. My food bill went up because the prices for EVERYTHING were going up, because gas prices were going up.
I think organic farming is a fairly bad idea, at least for general adoption. Food is precious, and deliberately growing food in less efficient ways would be disastrous if it ever became commonplace. Fortunately, it's only the preoccupation of rich Westerners with disposable income. As a luxury item, there's nothing wrong with it.
Sorry, but if I can avoid ingesting posionous pesticides, preservatives and growth hormones, I think it's a great idea. I also get fresher, better tasting food. And again, you say it's "less efficient," but once again provide no citation or evidence to back up your claim. I'll also offer for you a link which cites a study that disproves your statement: http://www.foodrevolution.org/askjohn/12.htm
Also fortunately for me, I live in "the West", and as long as my family and friends have their needs met, I don't care what happens elsewhere. I'm not going to increase my risk for cancer and other disease so someone else can eat.
What about the people who CAN'T get vaccines? Like newborns, people alergic to eggs, had a reaction in the past, have a supressed immune system due to disease or drugs for a transplant?
Oh well. That's life. People get sick, and sometimes die. We aren't going to ever overcome that, just like we'll never have a crime free society.
Another point would be that vaccines, depending on the vaccine, are only 90-99% effective. Some people's immune systems either don't learn, or don't keep the antibodies. I have an aunt like that. You can vaccinate her against chicken pox all you like, 3 months later or so and she'll be vulnerable to it again.
Well, sucks to be her then I guess. At the end of the day, I only care about my family and friends. Anyone else I'm not going to worry about.
Ya, which is why I'd rather have a gun when someone is chasing me with a hammer.
I've heard of kids killing each other with a hammer too. Purposefully.
And if drugs were LEGAL, the violence associasted with it would vanish..just like it did when Prohibition was removed.
See, when you try to take away freedom, you end up creating a criminal underground that keeps the supply of whatever going... and the high price people are willing to pay leads to crime.
I'd say trying to tell people what they should be doing with their own body is more dangerous than any hammer.
My favorite zip code to use for this is 12345. When the clerk snaps back something about giving a fake zip code, it's great fun to correct them that no, that is a zip for Schenectady, NY.
If you read it, it says they can use your credit card information with the zip code you provide to get your full address. Maybe that's how this was done.
My wife got me my Wii. It's been a while since I owned a console (SNES). I like it, but I'm not into causal gamers. I try to buy all the kinds of games I do like (Tomb Raider, RE4, etc), but sadly there isn't much choice for me. So I plan on getting a PS3. I'll continue to buy games for both (Tomb Raider UW, since it seems the Wii version is different). Hopefully more serious games will come to the Wii.
So... I'm with you, but I'm losing faith that my kind of games will ever take hold on the Wii.
We switch much of our food to organic versions. Some were organic to begin with (bison ground meat, for example). Our food bill hasn't fluxuated in any meaningful way. Of course, I still go to teh same grocery store.. just get more out of the organic section than their other sections.
People think driving an electric car is green -- but then fail to take into account that those high performance batteries are highly toxic and need replaced every few years.
It's better to take the battery out and figure out how to responsibly dipose of it / recycle it than to continue to flood the air with CO2 and other poisonous gases.
And the aluminum required to build those cars to be light enough to be practical requires huge amounts of electricity -- and most of that energy is created by burning coal.
Most of the energy to do anything is created by burning coal. So I'm not sure that this point is at all relevent. It also takes a lot of alumnium to build regular cars too.
Fundamentally, it can't yet be done because we don't know what's more or less harmful than the next thing -- does a ton of carbon monoxide in the atmosphere equate to "more harm" than several ounces of CFCs?
Since a ton of CO2 in the air causes different damage than CFCs, I don't think you'll be able to compare. You're basically asking "do you want severe climate change or being fried to death with UV rays to kill the human race?"
Many green products are of inferior quality and are higher priced than their non-green counterparts.
Really? And you've done a research study to show this? Or are you just making shit up?
Why is this sham movement getting attention in the technical community? I'm not saying this as a troll, I honestly want to know -- how can you people as engineers and scientists look at this and say that any aspect of this so-called movement is objective?
Because contrary to what you think, there are things you can do to make a change for the better. Reducing energy consumption is a good thing, it will give us time to find better sources of energy. The plant based cleaners are not as harsh and work just as well as conventional ones. Read the poison warnings on each. The "green" one is usually not nearly as dangerous as the chemical one.
A sizable minority that is getting huge product lines aimed at them? Have you see the Greeworks line from Clorox? How about the green labels on SC Johnson Wax products? I don't know whether this movement will continue or not, especially with the recession, but it seems to be based off of the huge number of products aimed at "green" people, I'd hardly call it a minority.
So it seems the answer here is better; a minor, one-time expense paid by those that need converters to continue watching TV, vs. paying for a one-time adjustment and the continued expense of premium gas over regular.
I find your statement silly... since without government intervention in the first place (licensing the airwaves) we wouldn't have a workable broadcast system now to begin with. Sorry, TV is a luxury that nobody needs. All the coupon program has done is driven up costs to taxpayers and to those buying the converters. I shouldn't have to help someone else buy something so their TV works, especially since I wasn't involved in the decision to switch to DTV either.
Well, sorry, I don't feel bad. Parents are constantly bleating how "we" need to "protect the children." Well, guess what? Statistically speaking, parents ARE the biggest threat to their children. So, sorry I don't feel bad when parents are put over the coals.
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All the leads I've ever worked with helped come up with the project plan, delegated work to others AND to themselves. Once we started coding, they coded with us as well. Of course they spent less time coding, because they did have other administrative tasks we didn't, but they did spend time (sometimes a good chunk) developing. They are still developers, with some manageral tasks added. They are not managers with some developer tasks. That's also why they were paid more than normal developers, but still less than full blown managers.
Any good head chef had best be able to prepare Rice-a-roni, just as they also need to prepare other dishes as well. Head chefs DO cook when needed.
Give the hacker types a few laptops and a credit card. They'll have you a working perl script to do whatever you want over the weekend and at a total cost to you of whatever their bar-tab was.
Great. And now my company reliese on some garbage unreadable perl script that no one else will be able to maintain. No thanks.
Heh... /. bug.
Anyway... technically your code proves that both functions give the same answer.. not that they give the RIGHT answer.
I disagree. A lead developer is still a developer, and their duties would likely still include, you know, developing. At least every company I've ever worked at had that as the lead developer's role. What you're describing is a manager.. not a lead developer.
I never said it was. But CO is, and there are other harmful chemicals in exhast as well, and potentially even some unburnt gasoline.
But... in nearly every case, the organic item will be substantially higher priced than the non-organic equivalent. How can your food bill _not_ be effected?
Unless of course you're wrong that in every case the organic item is substantilly more expense. My food bill went up because the prices for EVERYTHING were going up, because gas prices were going up.
I think organic farming is a fairly bad idea, at least for general adoption. Food is precious, and deliberately growing food in less efficient ways would be disastrous if it ever became commonplace. Fortunately, it's only the preoccupation of rich Westerners with disposable income. As a luxury item, there's nothing wrong with it.
Sorry, but if I can avoid ingesting posionous pesticides, preservatives and growth hormones, I think it's a great idea. I also get fresher, better tasting food. And again, you say it's "less efficient," but once again provide no citation or evidence to back up your claim. I'll also offer for you a link which cites a study that disproves your statement: http://www.foodrevolution.org/askjohn/12.htm
Also fortunately for me, I live in "the West", and as long as my family and friends have their needs met, I don't care what happens elsewhere. I'm not going to increase my risk for cancer and other disease so someone else can eat.
What about the people who CAN'T get vaccines? Like newborns, people alergic to eggs, had a reaction in the past, have a supressed immune system due to disease or drugs for a transplant?
Oh well. That's life. People get sick, and sometimes die. We aren't going to ever overcome that, just like we'll never have a crime free society.
Another point would be that vaccines, depending on the vaccine, are only 90-99% effective. Some people's immune systems either don't learn, or don't keep the antibodies. I have an aunt like that. You can vaccinate her against chicken pox all you like, 3 months later or so and she'll be vulnerable to it again.
Well, sucks to be her then I guess. At the end of the day, I only care about my family and friends. Anyone else I'm not going to worry about.
Well, that's what you get for going with a bank. Go with a Credit Union, who's actual purpose is to serve thier members, not shareholders.
Banks suck, and shouldn't be used for anything.
Hard to kill someone at ten yards with a hammer
Ya, which is why I'd rather have a gun when someone is chasing me with a hammer.
I've heard of kids killing each other with a hammer too. Purposefully.
And if drugs were LEGAL, the violence associasted with it would vanish..just like it did when Prohibition was removed.
See, when you try to take away freedom, you end up creating a criminal underground that keeps the supply of whatever going... and the high price people are willing to pay leads to crime.
I'd say trying to tell people what they should be doing with their own body is more dangerous than any hammer.
My favorite zip code to use for this is 12345. When the clerk snaps back something about giving a fake zip code, it's great fun to correct them that no, that is a zip for Schenectady, NY.
Also found this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIP_code#Marketing
If you read it, it says they can use your credit card information with the zip code you provide to get your full address. Maybe that's how this was done.
My wife got me my Wii. It's been a while since I owned a console (SNES). I like it, but I'm not into causal gamers. I try to buy all the kinds of games I do like (Tomb Raider, RE4, etc), but sadly there isn't much choice for me. So I plan on getting a PS3. I'll continue to buy games for both (Tomb Raider UW, since it seems the Wii version is different). Hopefully more serious games will come to the Wii.
So... I'm with you, but I'm losing faith that my kind of games will ever take hold on the Wii.
No it doesn't. If someone refuses to immunize, I still have mine, so I'll be fine. Viruses can mutate without having people that aren't immunized.
Perhaps, but I think an iron curtain will protect us.
We switch much of our food to organic versions. Some were organic to begin with (bison ground meat, for example). Our food bill hasn't fluxuated in any meaningful way. Of course, I still go to teh same grocery store.. just get more out of the organic section than their other sections.
Some issues? You mean like catching fire?
People think driving an electric car is green -- but then fail to take into account that those high performance batteries are highly toxic and need replaced every few years.
It's better to take the battery out and figure out how to responsibly dipose of it / recycle it than to continue to flood the air with CO2 and other poisonous gases.
And the aluminum required to build those cars to be light enough to be practical requires huge amounts of electricity -- and most of that energy is created by burning coal.
Most of the energy to do anything is created by burning coal. So I'm not sure that this point is at all relevent. It also takes a lot of alumnium to build regular cars too.
Fundamentally, it can't yet be done because we don't know what's more or less harmful than the next thing -- does a ton of carbon monoxide in the atmosphere equate to "more harm" than several ounces of CFCs?
Since a ton of CO2 in the air causes different damage than CFCs, I don't think you'll be able to compare. You're basically asking "do you want severe climate change or being fried to death with UV rays to kill the human race?"
Many green products are of inferior quality and are higher priced than their non-green counterparts.
Really? And you've done a research study to show this? Or are you just making shit up?
Why is this sham movement getting attention in the technical community? I'm not saying this as a troll, I honestly want to know -- how can you people as engineers and scientists look at this and say that any aspect of this so-called movement is objective?
Because contrary to what you think, there are things you can do to make a change for the better. Reducing energy consumption is a good thing, it will give us time to find better sources of energy. The plant based cleaners are not as harsh and work just as well as conventional ones. Read the poison warnings on each. The "green" one is usually not nearly as dangerous as the chemical one.
A sizable minority that is getting huge product lines aimed at them? Have you see the Greeworks line from Clorox? How about the green labels on SC Johnson Wax products? I don't know whether this movement will continue or not, especially with the recession, but it seems to be based off of the huge number of products aimed at "green" people, I'd hardly call it a minority.
Well, the publisher doesn't want to sell it without the DRM. So you're both not losing out... just you.
Except that you bought the disc with said software, put it in your computer, and then ran this installer. That's not criminal at all.
So it seems the answer here is better; a minor, one-time expense paid by those that need converters to continue watching TV, vs. paying for a one-time adjustment and the continued expense of premium gas over regular.
I find your statement silly... since without government intervention in the first place (licensing the airwaves) we wouldn't have a workable broadcast system now to begin with. Sorry, TV is a luxury that nobody needs. All the coupon program has done is driven up costs to taxpayers and to those buying the converters. I shouldn't have to help someone else buy something so their TV works, especially since I wasn't involved in the decision to switch to DTV either.
Well, there was a time Nazi Germany didn't have death camps either, and the GGP didn't specify exactly what year. Perhaps he meant 1939 Germany.
Well, sorry, I don't feel bad. Parents are constantly bleating how "we" need to "protect the children." Well, guess what? Statistically speaking, parents ARE the biggest threat to their children. So, sorry I don't feel bad when parents are put over the coals.
Ahh, I see. So that Nazi's were fine and dandy up until they started the death camps. Anything prior was acceptable to you?
Fair enough... does the extra CO2 uptake also offset the CO2 generated cutting and planting to begin with?