People get accidents when there is a bee in the car, when changing radio channels, when talking with the kids in the back. When people get distracted, they do not notice other things. That is basically the definition of distracted.
When I drove in Argentina, I saw a sign called 'vado'. My Spanish was not good enough to know what it was, but I knew if they put a sign where I was (in the middle of nowhere), there is a reason for it, so I better slow down. It was a bridge out of order and I had to wade though the water. Not an issue, but it would have been if I had not reduced speed.
I could see a HUD doing something similar. When a red triangle pops up I know I need to pay attention. I need to slow down and have time to asses the situation.
Now if this happens each time I go a bit over the speed-limit, it will not have any effect. If it is because I get to close to the car in front of me, then it can be useful.
And the reason cellphones are singled out is because they are use way more then you have a bee in your car or you change the channel. Not per person, but in general. That means the duration of being distracted is much, much longer, resulting in a measurable increase.
That is basically how Windows users describe Linux and that is what they use. So yeah, they were given the tools and made the thing themselves from components they bought (from RedHat)
Why use a onelinerand what is in that oneliner? I would use a script or a program to run it. Thta can be run as a 'oneliner'. `sh/usr/local/bin/IKEA-Update` is also a onliner.
It is also not importand what is in that oneliner. Is it the standard update, or does it contain their own command with 360 different programs in it, subroutines and numerous other points of failure.
The Uber job for IT has a name. It is called 'outsourcing'.
It is cheaper for the customer. It is easier on the regfulation and it creates jobs by making it cheaper. So more IT people will be enslaved, uh, hired.
I am sure you can find more similarities. The difference is the location and Uber just changes the local regulations by lobbying. Instead of exporting the jobs to a foreign country, because iof regulations. They change the regulations.
I am sure that if you ask anybody, they will happily do it for you, not only the emplyees.
And this will work anywhere in the world. If you ask; the chances of getting a bad person who runs away with your camera are minimal if you pick them.
Also: stop taking pictures and look around. Most of the pictures you take are a: never looked at by anybody and/or b: of a subject that you can doanload. No need to take a picture of the Disney Castle as many already have and you can download one that is better than what you will take.
"as other typical tests" sounds to me that it would be competition for other companies. It would not be too absurd to think that these companies try to avaoid competition by bribery and other means.
Not sure what the laws are in your country, but if you have the choice of getting fired or resigning, I would take getting fired every time. I mean, what are they going to do if I don't resign? Fire me for not resigning?
If I resign, I have nothing. If they fire me, I get at least some parting money and most likely some unemployment benefit.
And even if I did something illegal that would cause them to not pay me anything and not get any benefits (e.g. if I stoe from the company) resigning would not be my choice. Let them do the paperwork.
There is only one reason I would choose resigning over getting fired and that would be that I would be guilty of a crime and resigning would mean no charges. And I mean GUILTY as in no way I can ever get out of this as I know I did it willfully.
And even then I would make darn well sure I talk to a lawer first if it is the only option.
I can translate from KMH to feet per minute. I know that seconds and even jiffy exist, but what is this 'snappy' and 'sluggish' you talk about.
Most likely you are now used to the speed and now just want it to go even faster.
First: do a complete new install and see if it is still 'snappy'. If it isn't, then it is your perception of the speed. If it is, start adding things as you lost likely did and see when it starts to happen.
I must say, my PCs are just as fast as they were when I got them out of the box, or at least almost. Yes, I have added software that will slow things a little bit down, but only if I measure it, not when I actually use it. At least, I am unable to notice the difference.
So please come back with information like: when I reinstalled Windows 7, the time to load a 17MB image into GIMP was x time. After 4 weeks, the time it takes is X+Y. I have only done upgrades and between upgrades A7 and A8 I noticed a time increse in the loading if the same image from 0 to +Y.
The update did change FileA.exe and FileB.exe. What I further did was...
And that is how you do a technical posting. Not "I think it might be, like, you know, sluggish like a slug, not, I don't know,. like snappy, like a snapper."
Are we talking about the same Frajce that fought against the English on a new continent. The same that gave one country a statue that symbolises their liberty. The same country that commited 18.000 troops in the first Gulf war?
Waiting if something better comes along can be a very bad thing. What you need to do is set a final time as to when you take the decision. e.g. in month or whatever. That gives you the timeframe and you hire the best candidate that you found.
I have hired the only person that showed up. I do not care to see X people if that one person is what we need.
I have also NOT hired people, even when we needed staffing. I will not hire just to get the FTE count to budget. At that moment it is better to set a new date and start looking for others. Those that applied where not a good fit. So we do not look at them again.
I am rather uderstaffed than that I have people that do not how to do their job or that I can not train within w reasonable time/cost to do their job.
Once q manager forced me to hire a person 'because we needed a person'. Took 4 months of not only my time in training the untrainable, we payed 4 months salery for nothing and had to start al over again.
He quit because he found so,ething that was better suited to him.
I would have rather been understaffed than having a weight pulkling be down.
This is a great market, because if this is realy possible, all you need is to slip in a law that ALL newborn are to be registerd as a citizen and you are golden.
As we are all suspects why still use it as to determine a smaller group. We are all guilty. Perhaps not of the crime they are currently investigating, but still
Working in Belgium, Europe. Overtime is payable, even for those that say it is included in their pay (Higher management).
If I do overtime, they need to ask me, be carefull it is not a hidden order and they either pay me 150% or give it back as free time at 150%.
And that is cdlear overtime. Now imagine there is a burst at the end of a project, I would stay longer as long as it would be clear I would be leaving earlier once the project is over. It must come from both sides.
I never ask for the extra pay, but rather the extra fee time, because with the extra pay, almost all of it will go to taxes. Just not worth it (which is why they do it)
Also if I need to do a double workload all the time, it means they did not hire enogh people. The gain they make will not go to extra pay. The gain will not even be a lower price for the customers. The gain will be to give the 1% that extra bit of money they really need.
From what I understand the unions in the US are more a gilde than a union. In Belgium I can join three major unions (and some smaller ones) no matter what profession I have
And nobody ever asked me if I was in a Union or not. This is because nobady cares. If I get fired, they better be doing it following the correct procedure, or they are going to pay, regardless if I am in a union or not.
Exception for those who represent the unions.
Want to close a company? Good, follow the procedures. Want to fire somebody? Good, follow procedure. An by procedure, I mean the law.
The law is much on the side of the employer to even out the power companies have.
And what would be wrong with that? I mean, as long as they go through the proper chanels and follow procedure. e.g. they hold up qn election if neon lights should be banned or not. If the majority wants that to happen, so be it.
What could happen is that 81 more people move in and they get the majority. Well, so be it.
To me this is just another case of "Everybody wants change, nobody wants to change." and this goes for BOTH sides.
And why call them loonies? I know people with imaginary friends that they talk to only on sunday and I don't call them loonies (ok, I do, but not for that reason.)
The reason people use these horns is not a medical (technical) issue. It is a social issue. You can not solve a social problem with a technical solution.
It is like telling your future wife that the artificial diamond is identical to the blood diamond she wants. It doen't work that way.
It works the same way a talisman works for a sports person. If it works, it is functional.
Asked a docter once if a placebo, if it works, isn't really a medicine.
The problem is that you start with e.g. a headache of a hangover. You take a placebo and your headache is over. This will not work for other things, like leukemia, but people will not be able to tell where to draw the line.
So they will take the Pharma products when it is not realy needed (with a hangover, hydrate) while they take homeopathy if they have something serious (Steve Jobs anybody?).
I believe that something serious is being done as soon as I start seeing gpg signatures in emails. To me that is the first step. Not so much the encoding and that nobody can read it, but that I am sure that the mail from my bank is from my bank.
Because not only will that show me that they are doing something about it. It will show me that they are serious. It will also show others and will make other people start using it.
That way I can send an email from my address, sign it and it will be offcial. There are obviously several ways of doing this.
You need to know how Amazon gets to the products. Are they actually random, or is Amazon payed to enter certain products into the Vine revieuws program. If that is the case, they themselves fall under the trap of "quit pro quo".
And I can easily see that Amazon would like to have more positive than negative revies as a negative review could mean a non-sale. And most of the time people tell themselves it was money well spend (Hey, they do it for politics as well. Human nature I guess)
The reason they like some negative reviews is because it makes them seem impartial. If this means the reviews are 50/50, a Vine could make the balance go to positive when it was used early enough.
With an enough large product assortment and a large enough buyers base, this can easiy mean the Vine project is making them money. Probably will not work on each and every product and not all the time, but it might just be good enough. It is just their way of doing marketing and all the time saying 'but it is objective testing' with a straight face, while you know that removing the progran will cost you money and THAT is what the game is about.
Sure, they speak English, but that is not their main language. People will want their product to be in their own language.
And language is not even the main issue. Culture is. I live in Berlgium. 55% are Dutch speaking 55% French (1% German). Even between those two, there are differences that are not just language. So you take a Dutch company where they speak Dutch and they say: we have a market of 16 milion people. Let us go to the Dutch part of Belgium, so we can add 5 million.
I have seen many try and fail. The culture is different. The use of the language is different. The mentaliry is different. What they did wrong was that they acted as if it was just a bigger market share. Those that made it did it by looking at it as a differnt new market, not an extra market.
And this you must do for each country in Europe.
Regulations in themselves are not the problem. The differnces in regulations are. What works in one country will not automagically work in another.
A simple example. Working hours. In Belgium you need to have fixed working hours. I have worked at a company where we had 200 or so shifts that you have to give to some official instance. We had to change the working hours. In The Netherlands this would not be the case as there you are much more flexible in working hours.
This will affect your working operations. If you have support staff, this will affect your staffing.
In The Netherlands, EVERYTHING will be discussed people will bring issues to the table. In Belgium, that won't work. You need to do it between the meetings.
And these are just two countries. Each country will be a new chalange, unless you just plop in some local management and hope they do what you asked them to do, because what they understand what you told them to do does not mean they understof of how you want to di business.
Slashdot Mirror
People get accidents when there is a bee in the car, when changing radio channels, when talking with the kids in the back. When people get distracted, they do not notice other things. That is basically the definition of distracted.
When I drove in Argentina, I saw a sign called 'vado'. My Spanish was not good enough to know what it was, but I knew if they put a sign where I was (in the middle of nowhere), there is a reason for it, so I better slow down. It was a bridge out of order and I had to wade though the water. Not an issue, but it would have been if I had not reduced speed.
I could see a HUD doing something similar. When a red triangle pops up I know I need to pay attention. I need to slow down and have time to asses the situation.
Now if this happens each time I go a bit over the speed-limit, it will not have any effect. If it is because I get to close to the car in front of me, then it can be useful.
And the reason cellphones are singled out is because they are use way more then you have a bee in your car or you change the channel. Not per person, but in general. That means the duration of being distracted is much, much longer, resulting in a measurable increase.
That is basically how Windows users describe Linux and that is what they use. So yeah, they were given the tools and made the thing themselves from components they bought (from RedHat)
Why use a onelinerand what is in that oneliner? /usr/local/bin/IKEA-Update` is also a onliner.
I would use a script or a program to run it. Thta can be run as a 'oneliner'.
`sh
It is also not importand what is in that oneliner. Is it the standard update, or does it contain their own command with 360 different programs in it, subroutines and numerous other points of failure.
The Uber job for IT has a name. It is called 'outsourcing'.
It is cheaper for the customer. It is easier on the regfulation and it creates jobs by making it cheaper. So more IT people will be enslaved, uh, hired.
I am sure you can find more similarities. The difference is the location and Uber just changes the local regulations by lobbying. Instead of exporting the jobs to a foreign country, because iof regulations. They change the regulations.
I am sure that if you ask anybody, they will happily do it for you, not only the emplyees.
And this will work anywhere in the world. If you ask; the chances of getting a bad person who runs away with your camera are minimal if you pick them.
Also: stop taking pictures and look around. Most of the pictures you take are a: never looked at by anybody and/or b: of a subject that you can doanload. No need to take a picture of the Disney Castle as many already have and you can download one that is better than what you will take.
"as other typical tests" sounds to me that it would be competition for other companies. It would not be too absurd to think that these companies try to avaoid competition by bribery and other means.
Not sure what the laws are in your country, but if you have the choice of getting fired or resigning, I would take getting fired every time. I mean, what are they going to do if I don't resign? Fire me for not resigning?
If I resign, I have nothing. If they fire me, I get at least some parting money and most likely some unemployment benefit.
And even if I did something illegal that would cause them to not pay me anything and not get any benefits (e.g. if I stoe from the company) resigning would not be my choice. Let them do the paperwork.
There is only one reason I would choose resigning over getting fired and that would be that I would be guilty of a crime and resigning would mean no charges. And I mean GUILTY as in no way I can ever get out of this as I know I did it willfully.
And even then I would make darn well sure I talk to a lawer first if it is the only option.
Because 'to save face' does not work.
I can translate from KMH to feet per minute. I know that seconds and even jiffy exist, but what is this 'snappy' and 'sluggish' you talk about.
Most likely you are now used to the speed and now just want it to go even faster.
First: do a complete new install and see if it is still 'snappy'. If it isn't, then it is your perception of the speed. If it is, start adding things as you lost likely did and see when it starts to happen.
I must say, my PCs are just as fast as they were when I got them out of the box, or at least almost. Yes, I have added software that will slow things a little bit down, but only if I measure it, not when I actually use it. At least, I am unable to notice the difference.
So please come back with information like: when I reinstalled Windows 7, the time to load a 17MB image into GIMP was x time. After 4 weeks, the time it takes is X+Y. I have only done upgrades and between upgrades A7 and A8 I noticed a time increse in the loading if the same image from 0 to +Y.
The update did change FileA.exe and FileB.exe. What I further did was ...
And that is how you do a technical posting. Not "I think it might be, like, you know, sluggish like a slug, not, I don't know,. like snappy, like a snapper."
Are we talking about the same Frajce that fought against the English on a new continent. The same that gave one country a statue that symbolises their liberty. The same country that commited 18.000 troops in the first Gulf war?
Waiting if something better comes along can be a very bad thing. What you need to do is set a final time as to when you take the decision. e.g. in month or whatever. That gives you the timeframe and you hire the best candidate that you found.
I have hired the only person that showed up. I do not care to see X people if that one person is what we need.
I have also NOT hired people, even when we needed staffing. I will not hire just to get the FTE count to budget. At that moment it is better to set a new date and start looking for others. Those that applied where not a good fit. So we do not look at them again.
I am rather uderstaffed than that I have people that do not how to do their job or that I can not train within w reasonable time/cost to do their job.
Once q manager forced me to hire a person 'because we needed a person'. Took 4 months of not only my time in training the untrainable, we payed 4 months salery for nothing and had to start al over again.
He quit because he found so,ething that was better suited to him.
I would have rather been understaffed than having a weight pulkling be down.
This is a great market, because if this is realy possible, all you need is to slip in a law that ALL newborn are to be registerd as a citizen and you are golden.
Gattaca anybody?
As we are all suspects why still use it as to determine a smaller group. We are all guilty. Perhaps not of the crime they are currently investigating, but still
Working in Belgium, Europe. Overtime is payable, even for those that say it is included in their pay (Higher management).
If I do overtime, they need to ask me, be carefull it is not a hidden order and they either pay me 150% or give it back as free time at 150%.
And that is cdlear overtime. Now imagine there is a burst at the end of a project, I would stay longer as long as it would be clear I would be leaving earlier once the project is over. It must come from both sides.
I never ask for the extra pay, but rather the extra fee time, because with the extra pay, almost all of it will go to taxes. Just not worth it (which is why they do it)
Also if I need to do a double workload all the time, it means they did not hire enogh people. The gain they make will not go to extra pay. The gain will not even be a lower price for the customers. The gain will be to give the 1% that extra bit of money they really need.
From what I understand the unions in the US are more a gilde than a union. In Belgium I can join three major unions (and some smaller ones) no matter what profession I have
And nobody ever asked me if I was in a Union or not. This is because nobady cares. If I get fired, they better be doing it following the correct procedure, or they are going to pay, regardless if I am in a union or not.
Exception for those who represent the unions.
Want to close a company? Good, follow the procedures. Want to fire somebody? Good, follow procedure. An by procedure, I mean the law.
The law is much on the side of the employer to even out the power companies have.
And what would be wrong with that? I mean, as long as they go through the proper chanels and follow procedure. e.g. they hold up qn election if neon lights should be banned or not. If the majority wants that to happen, so be it.
What could happen is that 81 more people move in and they get the majority. Well, so be it.
To me this is just another case of "Everybody wants change, nobody wants to change." and this goes for BOTH sides.
And why call them loonies? I know people with imaginary friends that they talk to only on sunday and I don't call them loonies (ok, I do, but not for that reason.)
I read TFA and he did not have a backup, because he had to do it manually. The solution to that is putting it in the cloud.
So I am not sure how much I trust him with anything if his solution of 'manual' is 'the cloud'.
I had a HD failure on my main drive of my NAS. I do have automated backup, so no worries. Bought a new drive, moved the data back, done.
With the prices of HDs I have all data double and I have incremential backups on two systems. No, not offline (except for
I do not get why not more people have their own domain, especialy people here that have enough knowledge on doing what is needed.
That way you don't become dependent on anybody.
They write it off AND they don't need to pay. Ever heard about Hollywood accounting? I bet they are looking to charge the artist to have it up.
The reason people use these horns is not a medical (technical) issue. It is a social issue. You can not solve a social problem with a technical solution.
It is like telling your future wife that the artificial diamond is identical to the blood diamond she wants. It doen't work that way.
Obviously the media will not be reporting about this because it will impact the media.
Now as much as I am against shooting the messenger, the media has not been the messenger for a LONG time now.
And as long as people are not looking for alternatives, nothing will change.
It works the same way a talisman works for a sports person. If it works, it is functional.
Asked a docter once if a placebo, if it works, isn't really a medicine.
The problem is that you start with e.g. a headache of a hangover. You take a placebo and your headache is over. This will not work for other things, like leukemia, but people will not be able to tell where to draw the line.
So they will take the Pharma products when it is not realy needed (with a hangover, hydrate) while they take homeopathy if they have something serious (Steve Jobs anybody?).
I believe that something serious is being done as soon as I start seeing gpg signatures in emails. To me that is the first step. Not so much the encoding and that nobody can read it, but that I am sure that the mail from my bank is from my bank.
Because not only will that show me that they are doing something about it. It will show me that they are serious. It will also show others and will make other people start using it.
That way I can send an email from my address, sign it and it will be offcial. There are obviously several ways of doing this.
You need to know how Amazon gets to the products. Are they actually random, or is Amazon payed to enter certain products into the Vine revieuws program. If that is the case, they themselves fall under the trap of "quit pro quo".
And I can easily see that Amazon would like to have more positive than negative revies as a negative review could mean a non-sale. And most of the time people tell themselves it was money well spend (Hey, they do it for politics as well. Human nature I guess)
The reason they like some negative reviews is because it makes them seem impartial. If this means the reviews are 50/50, a Vine could make the balance go to positive when it was used early enough.
With an enough large product assortment and a large enough buyers base, this can easiy mean the Vine project is making them money. Probably will not work on each and every product and not all the time, but it might just be good enough. It is just their way of doing marketing and all the time saying 'but it is objective testing' with a straight face, while you know that removing the progran will cost you money and THAT is what the game is about.
Sure, they speak English, but that is not their main language. People will want their product to be in their own language.
And language is not even the main issue. Culture is. I live in Berlgium. 55% are Dutch speaking 55% French (1% German). Even between those two, there are differences that are not just language. So you take a Dutch company where they speak Dutch and they say: we have a market of 16 milion people. Let us go to the Dutch part of Belgium, so we can add 5 million.
I have seen many try and fail. The culture is different. The use of the language is different. The mentaliry is different. What they did wrong was that they acted as if it was just a bigger market share. Those that made it did it by looking at it as a differnt new market, not an extra market.
And this you must do for each country in Europe.
Regulations in themselves are not the problem. The differnces in regulations are. What works in one country will not automagically work in another.
A simple example. Working hours. In Belgium you need to have fixed working hours. I have worked at a company where we had 200 or so shifts that you have to give to some official instance. We had to change the working hours. In The Netherlands this would not be the case as there you are much more flexible in working hours.
This will affect your working operations. If you have support staff, this will affect your staffing.
In The Netherlands, EVERYTHING will be discussed people will bring issues to the table. In Belgium, that won't work. You need to do it between the meetings.
And these are just two countries. Each country will be a new chalange, unless you just plop in some local management and hope they do what you asked them to do, because what they understand what you told them to do does not mean they understof of how you want to di business.
... that there is no such thing as a free lunch.