No, writing lousy code is not a prerequisite for being considered great and invaluable. As/.ers are so fond of saying, correlation is not causation.
It's just that if you are a lousy coder, you probably have time for proper amounts of sucking up, while if you're a great coder, you probably are too busy getting things to work properly to concern yourself with interpersonal relationships. And it's easy to see why the former get more promotions than the latter.
First off, those of us with Bachelor's of Science degrees would prefer you abbreviate that as "BSc" or "B.Sc." and not "B.S.". Especially when talking to/about employers.:-P
Second, the time to ask for a raise based on your MSc is prior to employment, if you had the MSc prior to employment, or prior to taking the courses if you're taking it while employed (though this is obviously talking about a "what-if" scenario).
Third, if you value your MSc and your employer doesn't, perhaps this is not the employer you're looking for. You simply are not going to find challenges appropriate to your level of schooling here.
Personally, I work for a company that *does* pay more to Masters' holders than those with merely a Bachelor's. But I don't have one and have no intention of going back to school to get one. When I had time to go back, I didn't care. Now I don't have time (wife, kids) and still don't care. The amount of effort for the payoff simply is not that valuable to me. I'd rather spend that time playing with my kids than studying.
Since getting a new laptop from $work (a Lenovo, no less), I've been in the opposite situation. I have few problems printing to a winprinter-like device (hp2600n which HP says "don't use with Linux), and those problems are all ghostscript problems. But my laptop, running XP, I've given up trying to get it to work. I lost the CD that came with the printer, and trying to figure out which stupid driver to download from HP is a lost cause. So the only machines that can print here are Linux.
First off, we need to define "too much" on a case-by-case basis. And, no, California is being stupid about it. Everyone is so numb that the warning has no meaning left.
Second, the amount I was being warned about is far smaller than in the study here. With a theoretical dose-response relationship, I would have to worry about long-term effects of large amounts of testosterone.
It really depends on what they see as their revenue stream.
One option is to try to lock all your customers in to your vertical stack, such that you spend all your money with them. This is known as the "bundle everything with your OS" tactic. Microsoft has had some success with this.
Another option is to enable partners to drive sales of your base product. That is, you provide the base product (say OS) and encourage others to provide value to your product by producing add-ons. This could be known as the "contract out your OS to some weenie startup who stole the code they're trying to sell you" model. Didn't work so well for IBM. Although IBM is doing better with it now - perhaps they vet their partners better.
I'm not really sure why MS would go the other road, especially since the first one works so well for them in the Windows space, and seems to be the way Apple is going... though the second way seems to be the way that Sony does their PlayStation which has traditionally worked well for them (until the Xbox came in and further divvied up the console market). What the second method really does is encourage others to sell your product. Maybe I'm naive in business (I'm just a drone at a big company, not an entrepreneur), but I'd probably want to go with the second method, if only to get people selling my stuff without having to pay them;-)
No serious side effects? Oddly, I've been told by a number of doctors that extra testosterone injections increase chances of cancer... I'd call that a side effect, even if it's further out than this study did.
No other device stores nearly so much of a user's information as a computer. Except maybe a filing cabinet, and you damned well better know where to find your information there, because there's no "grep" tool for that!
All I'm saying is that analogising a computer against a lawn mower may break down for some things. And this might just be one of them.
I don't expect a user to be able to write a program, or even a script, or even a batch file. But I do expect them to know where they store their stuff insofar as its similarities to a set of filing cabinets goes.
Maybe I'm reading it wrong, but it strikes me more of wanting the US to get exactly what it voted for, which the OP was presuming was a loss in said war.
The only thing that matters with regard to government documents is archival. For that purpose, standardization is necessary. PDF is a natural choice, especially now that it has features like forms and menus which allow for a little bit of interactivity.
Hopefully the guys in the government (or corporate) offices are little more forward thinking than you. I doubt it, but I can hope. Archival is of limited (but not no) value without the ability to modify or expand on old docs. Who wants to copy and paste the old document into a new one when you can just load the old document, tweak it, and save it under a new name? Especially when the old document was the source for a PDF file with forms and menus and such. Or when dealing with new laws that require more/less/different information on the form, or what have you.
A form from 2002 may need some minor tweaks in 2012. I hope your archive includes something you can modify, or it'll be ten times more expensive to change.
The PDFs are fine. But something immutable is only of value for historical purposes (which can also include legal purposes). Something that can be copied and modified for current uses has a much bigger value. For about the same reason that you don't retype your entire source file every time you need to make a minor change to it.
I mean, really. If the army had just a shred of the decency that this conspiracy theory alleges (protecting people from the horrors of war), they'd have had Konami pull DDR first. The horrors! I'll never be able to erase the memory of fat aunt May doing the... <shudder>
like being fired at by an individual with a gun when you have none.
I think you may have just hit upon the problem. The guys who wish to do you harm have more power than the defenders.
CCW probably would have taken care of most of these issues. If even 10% of the populace were trained to carry concealed weapons, many of these atrocities could have been "crazy person kills two, gets shot down by four bystanders." Now, I realise that carrying weapons onto flying sardine cans is a different type of crazy, but assuming that it were allowed, rather than one covert lawman on the plane, we'd have 10 (assuming over a hundred passengers). Suddenly, 10 on 5 seem like much better odds of not crashing into a building. Seriously, I think the terrists would have chosen different attack vectors if they knew that 10% of the average plane's passengers were armed and cranky.
By providing open-standard compression/decompression media libraries from the community, the content producers can focus on, you know, content. Media producers are media producers, not software developers, so anything that allows them to focus on "core competencies" instead of flitting about with things they shouldn't have to care about should be a win for everyone.
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No, writing lousy code is not a prerequisite for being considered great and invaluable. As /.ers are so fond of saying, correlation is not causation.
It's just that if you are a lousy coder, you probably have time for proper amounts of sucking up, while if you're a great coder, you probably are too busy getting things to work properly to concern yourself with interpersonal relationships. And it's easy to see why the former get more promotions than the latter.
Really? You have video?
On second thought, I'll just take your word for it, and you keep the videos.
Also known as The President?
Mind you, maybe that's part of the problem ... and the Czar Czar should be the Speaker of the House...
So if 20,000 people want to see the same episode of MythBusters they will have 20,000 copies of it on their servers.
All stored using hardlinks to the master copy so they don't take 20,000 times the space. :-P
"What do you mean? We bought you Visual Studio with Visual C/C++ and Visual BASIC!"
Don't confuse them with facts. They'll just retaliate by making your life worse.
First off, those of us with Bachelor's of Science degrees would prefer you abbreviate that as "BSc" or "B.Sc." and not "B.S.". Especially when talking to/about employers. :-P
Second, the time to ask for a raise based on your MSc is prior to employment, if you had the MSc prior to employment, or prior to taking the courses if you're taking it while employed (though this is obviously talking about a "what-if" scenario).
Third, if you value your MSc and your employer doesn't, perhaps this is not the employer you're looking for. You simply are not going to find challenges appropriate to your level of schooling here.
Personally, I work for a company that *does* pay more to Masters' holders than those with merely a Bachelor's. But I don't have one and have no intention of going back to school to get one. When I had time to go back, I didn't care. Now I don't have time (wife, kids) and still don't care. The amount of effort for the payoff simply is not that valuable to me. I'd rather spend that time playing with my kids than studying.
Since getting a new laptop from $work (a Lenovo, no less), I've been in the opposite situation. I have few problems printing to a winprinter-like device (hp2600n which HP says "don't use with Linux), and those problems are all ghostscript problems. But my laptop, running XP, I've given up trying to get it to work. I lost the CD that came with the printer, and trying to figure out which stupid driver to download from HP is a lost cause. So the only machines that can print here are Linux.
My guess:
You misspelled "hope".
And look at how many of those Brits, especially the early ones, are DEAD, and not just pining for the fjords.
It just wouldn't be lucrative anymore ;-)
Never has a "woosh" post been more relevant than in a thread poking fun at wind power...
Bring a blank HD with you, download the data from your home server on the way to the meeting, sync it back before heading home ...
First off, we need to define "too much" on a case-by-case basis. And, no, California is being stupid about it. Everyone is so numb that the warning has no meaning left.
Second, the amount I was being warned about is far smaller than in the study here. With a theoretical dose-response relationship, I would have to worry about long-term effects of large amounts of testosterone.
It really depends on what they see as their revenue stream.
One option is to try to lock all your customers in to your vertical stack, such that you spend all your money with them. This is known as the "bundle everything with your OS" tactic. Microsoft has had some success with this.
Another option is to enable partners to drive sales of your base product. That is, you provide the base product (say OS) and encourage others to provide value to your product by producing add-ons. This could be known as the "contract out your OS to some weenie startup who stole the code they're trying to sell you" model. Didn't work so well for IBM. Although IBM is doing better with it now - perhaps they vet their partners better.
I'm not really sure why MS would go the other road, especially since the first one works so well for them in the Windows space, and seems to be the way Apple is going... though the second way seems to be the way that Sony does their PlayStation which has traditionally worked well for them (until the Xbox came in and further divvied up the console market). What the second method really does is encourage others to sell your product. Maybe I'm naive in business (I'm just a drone at a big company, not an entrepreneur), but I'd probably want to go with the second method, if only to get people selling my stuff without having to pay them ;-)
No serious side effects? Oddly, I've been told by a number of doctors that extra testosterone injections increase chances of cancer ... I'd call that a side effect, even if it's further out than this study did.
What if you steal the drugs from your girlfriend's wallet and sell THAT to schoolchildren?
(Sounds like AC is playing the role of a victim ... where's my "-1, Alanis Ironic" mod?)
It's interesting to me how peoples' point of view changes reality.
It's interesting how when some people think they're broadening their minds what they're really doing is stretching their conscience.
No other device stores nearly so much of a user's information as a computer. Except maybe a filing cabinet, and you damned well better know where to find your information there, because there's no "grep" tool for that!
All I'm saying is that analogising a computer against a lawn mower may break down for some things. And this might just be one of them.
I don't expect a user to be able to write a program, or even a script, or even a batch file. But I do expect them to know where they store their stuff insofar as its similarities to a set of filing cabinets goes.
Maybe I'm reading it wrong, but it strikes me more of wanting the US to get exactly what it voted for, which the OP was presuming was a loss in said war.
The only thing that matters with regard to government documents is archival. For that purpose, standardization is necessary. PDF is a natural choice, especially now that it has features like forms and menus which allow for a little bit of interactivity.
Hopefully the guys in the government (or corporate) offices are little more forward thinking than you. I doubt it, but I can hope. Archival is of limited (but not no) value without the ability to modify or expand on old docs. Who wants to copy and paste the old document into a new one when you can just load the old document, tweak it, and save it under a new name? Especially when the old document was the source for a PDF file with forms and menus and such. Or when dealing with new laws that require more/less/different information on the form, or what have you.
A form from 2002 may need some minor tweaks in 2012. I hope your archive includes something you can modify, or it'll be ten times more expensive to change.
The PDFs are fine. But something immutable is only of value for historical purposes (which can also include legal purposes). Something that can be copied and modified for current uses has a much bigger value. For about the same reason that you don't retype your entire source file every time you need to make a minor change to it.
QED
I mean, really. If the army had just a shred of the decency that this conspiracy theory alleges (protecting people from the horrors of war), they'd have had Konami pull DDR first. The horrors! I'll never be able to erase the memory of fat aunt May doing the ... <shudder>
like being fired at by an individual with a gun when you have none.
I think you may have just hit upon the problem. The guys who wish to do you harm have more power than the defenders.
CCW probably would have taken care of most of these issues. If even 10% of the populace were trained to carry concealed weapons, many of these atrocities could have been "crazy person kills two, gets shot down by four bystanders." Now, I realise that carrying weapons onto flying sardine cans is a different type of crazy, but assuming that it were allowed, rather than one covert lawman on the plane, we'd have 10 (assuming over a hundred passengers). Suddenly, 10 on 5 seem like much better odds of not crashing into a building. Seriously, I think the terrists would have chosen different attack vectors if they knew that 10% of the average plane's passengers were armed and cranky.
By providing open-standard compression/decompression media libraries from the community, the content producers can focus on, you know, content. Media producers are media producers, not software developers, so anything that allows them to focus on "core competencies" instead of flitting about with things they shouldn't have to care about should be a win for everyone.
Seriously, people.
It's a 1d20, and they can add half their hit dice plus CON bonus, if any.