This week on CSI Egypt, Grishom and the team discover a dead King at a Cairo Museum. At first they believed he was killed by a blow to the back of the head, but further investigation lead them to believe it was a sword to the knee cap.
Who could have knee capped this young King and will Grishom catch the culprit?
I hate to say this, but from experience of being an IT worker outside the IT Departments and being one inside, I'm not always sure it is bureaucracy (unless you include company politics under the bureaucracy banner).
The last company I worked for had timelines included for anything which needed to be requested, and I noticed most non-IT departments just ignored them. Like when I was asked at 4PM on a Friday to organise a PC for someone starting on a Monday morning. Like, how did they expect the IT Department to have that up and running in the 1 hour left of work time... and on a Friday none the less when the PC guys were going to run off to have drinks.
On the other hand, I was also in a unique position when they wanted to upgrade the Network team from 5 to 8 to deal with all the work, but some bright manager decided to cut the team to two. The rational being that they could save money. Instead, we had over 100 projects which couldn't get done, as the two of us were fighting fires all the time. Yet, people claimed our department was often too bureaucratic and we were never getting anything done.
You're talking about a lot of paperwork being needed. I always found Paperwork to be important (not just for covering my butt, but also to ensure we didn't have any clashes with what work needed to be done. Nothing worse than removing a router needed for files coming in at 6PM when it could get done at 7PM with no problems). If someone is inventing stuff which needs to be included in paperwork just for the sake of it, then that's a problem. If its there for a reason, then unfortunately, its a nessecary pain.
I think your managements best bet is to get some people in there to do some time and motion type studies (find out where things are slowing down/stopping) and install better procedures. Also, better paper work should be created.
I used to create my paper work in the order of when things needed to be used or get done. Especially if it passed through the hands of a few departments.
Your memory upgrade problem sounds a little like a problem we had once. We ordered a Sun Ultra machine, and it was all worked out, specs, cost etc, and then a manager sat on it due to political reasons (he didn't want to make the WRONG decission in case he got fired, so he sat on the paperwork). One year later, we still didn't have the machine. Someone else pretended to do the specs again (and all they did was blow the dust off the old specs done by someone else), and they ordered the machine. By this stage, we needed a better machine, as some of the uses had now changed (with more peopel deciding they wanted to be put on that machine and everything), and it was underspeced for the job.
Then, there have been times work was given to some people (and it's sat in their intray with an tome of other paperwork) while other guys have been mucking about throwing balls around the room as they have no work. A simple misallocation of resources in a Department.
So, a Time and Motion study for the IT Department, and better procedures for them. Maybe moving people in IT from one area to another in order to better utilise them. More people in some areas to stop bottle necks with paper work. But, it will require the IT manaagers to be on board. Nothing worse than having to fight the Managers in order to get their departments to actually work.
'Some claim English has over half a million non-technical words, which is utter bullshit. They must have been adding in the words in Beowulf. I'd bet there are no more than 100000 non-slang words in all English modern literature put together.'
You'd actually lose that bet. There are actually close to 150,000 non-technical and non-slang words (but at least you are closer than half a million). They're not including words from Beowulf etc. English has easily over 1 million words (including all the technical ones, slang ones and everything). When they compile the Dictionaries every year, they only included words that are actually in everyday use. Normally they lose about 50,000 in the process.
The reason English has so many words is because it's a language that is a combination of MANY other languages and borrows from everywhere.
Let's face it, it's got Germanic roots, has Celtic, Latin, French, and Greek thrust in it from invasions, inhabitants and clerics, as well as other words it's picked up from other languages all over, like Tsunami from Japan.
A lot of what you wrote above didn't seem to have a lot to do with answering the question that DeadcatX2 was proposing, which was a citation supporting your belief that Japanese had a bigger Vocab than English. [Unless they've removed a post in between and you were answerin someone else].
Do you have the citation, or is it just your belief? Every source I can find seems to believe English has without a doubt a huge vocabulary. (And in some cases the largest).
Even the Oxford English Dictionary states that it is most likely true that English has the most words.
They're trying to develop a new Mario Catalyst and a Donkey Kong 2600... you can not only use them to connect networks together, but you can race them in go carts.
However, to someone who has rehearsed the lie and is able to live it by recalling the lie from memory as if it had actually happened, then regionality of blood flow or glucose utilization in the brain becomes a much less useful measure.
Have they tested that at all?
I wonder if it still goes to the part of brain that relies on creativity. After all, even if a Lie has been told and retold over and over by a person to the point that they begin to believe it, wasn't it stored in the creative part of the brain to begin with and therefore will always get retreived from that part of the brain?
Or is there evidence that eventually the brain moves where it was stored to another part of the brain?
They already did the Starship Troopers thing - when they invaded that planet with the sentient balls.
As long as the movie doesn't have bouncing of the seventh type - otherwise they can kiss my shiney metal ass.
I think you might find that the purpose of corporate bloggers, is it's another avenue of propergander for the corporation to use to get it's message out there. Only by using blogs, it will probably be camophlaged in a way to make it look like it's a persons opinion or facts from an unbiased source, rather than part of the Corporate Internet Advertising machine.
As such, a good blog with a good disguise might pull in big bucks for the Corp (by selling their products), provided they get enough people reading them. After all, some blogs have thousands of individuals visit them each week. (Some of my friends have hundreds each day, and they are all different IP addresses, so it is most likely they are individual people.)
Will it go bust... depends how much the craze hits. I think it probably won't be too bad, but I can certainly see an eventual decline in the nummber of Blogger jobs required. A lot will depend on the success of it.
Woops! Sorry, JIF is a cleaning product in my country. Made by Unilever
Sorry for confusion. Of course, Peanut butter might make him think twice before becoming a tyrant again!:-)
I wonder what would have happened if he'd been discovered by HAL.
David: Are you my mother?
HAL: I'm sorry, I cant' let you do that Dave.
David: Are you my mother?
HAL: I'm sorry, I cant' let you do that Dave.
David: Are you my mother?
HAL: I'm sorry, I cant' let you do that Dave.
"one of their "scientists" had slime growing under their sink. Man, thats a whole WMD program right there, our country was clearly in imminent danger from those stinky mildew-wielding terrists"
This has to do with the US finding Weapons of Mass Disposal units doesn't it? They had to go in for sanitation reasons! What do you think Bush meant when he said he was going to "clean up the world"? It's all about the hygene, and any dictator we find not showering and living in a little rat infested hole, just isn't hygenic enough to run a country. I say, strip them down to the underpants and scrub them with some steel wool and Jif! Let's clean up Iraq!
I was witness to a similar incedent where I used to work where the Sys Admins claimed their systems couldn't be hacked. The System architect challenged them, and the Sys Admin Manager bet him a years wages he couldn't do it.
The second in charge Sys Admin gave him [the architect] the IP address of the machine they claimed couldn't be hacked.
15 minutes later, the Architect had hacked into their system.
The aftermath of the situation was the Sys Admin team denied goving permission and tried to get the architect fired. There was nothing in writing and if I hadn't of been there to witness the bet, the guy would have lost his job.
Matthew 12:30 & Luke 11:21 "He who is not with me is againts me, and he who does not gather with me scatters."
Or the other way around...
Mark 9:38 - 41
"Teacher," said John, "We saw a man driving out demons in your name and we told him to stop, because he was not one of us."
"Do not stop him," Jesus said. "No one who does a miracle in my name can in the next moment say anything bad about me, for whoever is not against us is for us. I tell you the truth, anyone who gives you a cup of water in my name because you belong to Christ will certainly not lose his reward."
Sounds like someone's rippin' off Jesus! Wonder if he'd sue!:-)
"The brain is damn good at that too btw."
I already do that sort of thing by squinting at the pixilated people who are supposedly anonymous on TV and see who they really are.:-)
Slashdot Mirror
I'm reliable, I update everyday! :-)
'10? That seems kind of high for the average programmer with an average amount of experience. Is that with true fluency or just passing knowledge?'
... easy ... you do know your binary don't you? :-)
:-)
Yeah, 10
1100100% of programmers should know some!
This week on CSI Egypt, Grishom and the team discover a dead King at a Cairo Museum. At first they believed he was killed by a blow to the back of the head, but further investigation lead them to believe it was a sword to the knee cap.
Who could have knee capped this young King and will Grishom catch the culprit?
I hate to say this, but from experience of being an IT worker outside the IT Departments and being one inside, I'm not always sure it is bureaucracy (unless you include company politics under the bureaucracy banner). The last company I worked for had timelines included for anything which needed to be requested, and I noticed most non-IT departments just ignored them. Like when I was asked at 4PM on a Friday to organise a PC for someone starting on a Monday morning. Like, how did they expect the IT Department to have that up and running in the 1 hour left of work time ... and on a Friday none the less when the PC guys were going to run off to have drinks.
On the other hand, I was also in a unique position when they wanted to upgrade the Network team from 5 to 8 to deal with all the work, but some bright manager decided to cut the team to two. The rational being that they could save money. Instead, we had over 100 projects which couldn't get done, as the two of us were fighting fires all the time. Yet, people claimed our department was often too bureaucratic and we were never getting anything done.
You're talking about a lot of paperwork being needed. I always found Paperwork to be important (not just for covering my butt, but also to ensure we didn't have any clashes with what work needed to be done. Nothing worse than removing a router needed for files coming in at 6PM when it could get done at 7PM with no problems). If someone is inventing stuff which needs to be included in paperwork just for the sake of it, then that's a problem. If its there for a reason, then unfortunately, its a nessecary pain.
I think your managements best bet is to get some people in there to do some time and motion type studies (find out where things are slowing down/stopping) and install better procedures. Also, better paper work should be created.
I used to create my paper work in the order of when things needed to be used or get done. Especially if it passed through the hands of a few departments.
Your memory upgrade problem sounds a little like a problem we had once. We ordered a Sun Ultra machine, and it was all worked out, specs, cost etc, and then a manager sat on it due to political reasons (he didn't want to make the WRONG decission in case he got fired, so he sat on the paperwork). One year later, we still didn't have the machine. Someone else pretended to do the specs again (and all they did was blow the dust off the old specs done by someone else), and they ordered the machine. By this stage, we needed a better machine, as some of the uses had now changed (with more peopel deciding they wanted to be put on that machine and everything), and it was underspeced for the job.
Then, there have been times work was given to some people (and it's sat in their intray with an tome of other paperwork) while other guys have been mucking about throwing balls around the room as they have no work. A simple misallocation of resources in a Department.
So, a Time and Motion study for the IT Department, and better procedures for them. Maybe moving people in IT from one area to another in order to better utilise them. More people in some areas to stop bottle necks with paper work. But, it will require the IT manaagers to be on board. Nothing worse than having to fight the Managers in order to get their departments to actually work.
'Some claim English has over half a million non-technical words, which is utter bullshit. They must have been adding in the words in Beowulf. I'd bet there are no more than 100000 non-slang words in all English modern literature put together.'
You'd actually lose that bet. There are actually close to 150,000 non-technical and non-slang words (but at least you are closer than half a million). They're not including words from Beowulf etc. English has easily over 1 million words (including all the technical ones, slang ones and everything). When they compile the Dictionaries every year, they only included words that are actually in everyday use. Normally they lose about 50,000 in the process.
The reason English has so many words is because it's a language that is a combination of MANY other languages and borrows from everywhere.
Let's face it, it's got Germanic roots, has Celtic, Latin, French, and Greek thrust in it from invasions, inhabitants and clerics, as well as other words it's picked up from other languages all over, like Tsunami from Japan.
A lot of what you wrote above didn't seem to have a lot to do with answering the question that DeadcatX2 was proposing, which was a citation supporting your belief that Japanese had a bigger Vocab than English. [Unless they've removed a post in between and you were answerin someone else].
Do you have the citation, or is it just your belief? Every source I can find seems to believe English has without a doubt a huge vocabulary. (And in some cases the largest).
Even the Oxford English Dictionary states that it is most likely true that English has the most words.
They're trying to develop a new Mario Catalyst and a Donkey Kong 2600 ... you can not only use them to connect networks together, but you can race them in go carts.
However, to someone who has rehearsed the lie and is able to live it by recalling the lie from memory as if it had actually happened, then regionality of blood flow or glucose utilization in the brain becomes a much less useful measure.
Have they tested that at all?
I wonder if it still goes to the part of brain that relies on creativity. After all, even if a Lie has been told and retold over and over by a person to the point that they begin to believe it, wasn't it stored in the creative part of the brain to begin with and therefore will always get retreived from that part of the brain?
Or is there evidence that eventually the brain moves where it was stored to another part of the brain?
Plus, they missed the boat with this one too - it had already been done in 1973!
LINK
I find it funny they disproved a myth which had already had it's feasibility proven.
But, like everyone says, it's all about entertainment and blowing stuff up.
p.s. Nice death rays. There are a few people with those sorts of things running around now!
Oh ... the piano teachers splinter ruler! It sometimes goes WHACK WHACK WHACK too! :-)
They'll patent it all and then sue Linux and claim it all as MS innovation ... just like everything else they've ever done.
They already did the Starship Troopers thing - when they invaded that planet with the sentient balls. As long as the movie doesn't have bouncing of the seventh type - otherwise they can kiss my shiney metal ass.
You've met the CEO then.
I've invented a new game, where you play a game designer and have to invent and code a brand new game unlike anything seen before!
:-)
I hope it sells!
Absolutely!
I think you might find that the purpose of corporate bloggers, is it's another avenue of propergander for the corporation to use to get it's message out there. Only by using blogs, it will probably be camophlaged in a way to make it look like it's a persons opinion or facts from an unbiased source, rather than part of the Corporate Internet Advertising machine.
... depends how much the craze hits. I think it probably won't be too bad, but I can certainly see an eventual decline in the nummber of Blogger jobs required. A lot will depend on the success of it.
:-)
As such, a good blog with a good disguise might pull in big bucks for the Corp (by selling their products), provided they get enough people reading them. After all, some blogs have thousands of individuals visit them each week. (Some of my friends have hundreds each day, and they are all different IP addresses, so it is most likely they are individual people.)
Will it go bust
Just my two cents worth.
Woops! Sorry, JIF is a cleaning product in my country. Made by Unilever :-)
Sorry for confusion. Of course, Peanut butter might make him think twice before becoming a tyrant again!
I wonder what would have happened if he'd been discovered by HAL.
David: Are you my mother?
HAL: I'm sorry, I cant' let you do that Dave.
David: Are you my mother?
HAL: I'm sorry, I cant' let you do that Dave.
David: Are you my mother?
HAL: I'm sorry, I cant' let you do that Dave.
[repeat ad infinitum!]
"one of their "scientists" had slime growing under their sink. Man, thats a whole WMD program right there, our country was clearly in imminent danger from those stinky mildew-wielding terrists"
This has to do with the US finding Weapons of Mass Disposal units doesn't it? They had to go in for sanitation reasons! What do you think Bush meant when he said he was going to "clean up the world"? It's all about the hygene, and any dictator we find not showering and living in a little rat infested hole, just isn't hygenic enough to run a country. I say, strip them down to the underpants and scrub them with some steel wool and Jif! Let's clean up Iraq!
And sharks with Friggin' lasers on their head jokes ... and that's my brain completely downloaded onto slashdot! Who needs to wait till 2050!?
Wasn't The Phantom Console Episode I ... we're up to Episode III already people!
I can't agree more.
I was witness to a similar incedent where I used to work where the Sys Admins claimed their systems couldn't be hacked. The System architect challenged them, and the Sys Admin Manager bet him a years wages he couldn't do it.
The second in charge Sys Admin gave him [the architect] the IP address of the machine they claimed couldn't be hacked.
15 minutes later, the Architect had hacked into their system.
The aftermath of the situation was the Sys Admin team denied goving permission and tried to get the architect fired. There was nothing in writing and if I hadn't of been there to witness the bet, the guy would have lost his job.
Get permission & get it in writing.
Cheers.
How do you know they didn't clone him?
Battlestar Episode 2 - Attack of the Hoss Clones!
Matthew 12:30 & Luke 11:21
...
:-)
"He who is not with me is againts me, and he who does not gather with me scatters."
Or the other way around
Mark 9:38 - 41
"Teacher," said John, "We saw a man driving out demons in your name and we told him to stop, because he was not one of us."
"Do not stop him," Jesus said. "No one who does a miracle in my name can in the next moment say anything bad about me, for whoever is not against us is for us. I tell you the truth, anyone who gives you a cup of water in my name because you belong to Christ will certainly not lose his reward."
Sounds like someone's rippin' off Jesus! Wonder if he'd sue!
"The brain is damn good at that too btw." :-)
I already do that sort of thing by squinting at the pixilated people who are supposedly anonymous on TV and see who they really are.
"Alztimers (spelling? im lazy)"
:-) You couldn't even spell "I'm lazy" correctly! I love it! :-)
You certainly are.