It would depend on the lander or even the landkreis... it's roughly 30 guns per 100 persons averaged over Germany, in my landkreis it's just below 90 handguns per 100 persons (5 years old statistic). That's just privately owned handguns... if you throw in the hunting weapons and service weapons, there's probably more weapons than people.
In the real world, I have never been able to get even close to the announced mpg-rating of the 2011 econetic fiesta. I had one for 3 months as a replacement vehicle and I enjoyed it except for the mileage. My 2011 A3 2.0TDI has consistently given me a better mileage, even with the DSG gearbox... I do get around 54 MPG with the Audi.
8. Oracle managed services failed to grasp what a replication timestamp was. For a week, their daily report was indicating that the replication had worked flawlessly even tho the timestamp on the target hadn't changed.
9. Oracle managed services sent me the daily report of another company, with financial information, on more than one occasion. They have also obviously sent my customer's data to other companies.
10. Back when Sun was still a separate entity, they won a 4 years staffing/project contract where the first action point was implementing unified authentication with LDAP (the site was mostly Solaris 8, with some HP-UX and a pair of AIX boxen). They only successfully delivered this feature 7 years later, after three contract extensions, when the whole site had been migrated to Solaris 10. They were surprised when they didn't win the new staffing/project contract and even more surprised when the customer massively migrated to RHEL.
I never said it was an honest measure, but it is the measure used by the hard drive industry. It is also very similar to quality measures in many other industries. You take a reasonable sample, run a test for a certain amount of time and infer/extrapolate reliability figures based on the test. On the back-end, you redesign your process to eliminate as many variations as possible on the manufacturing side.
The alternative would be to really test the disks for 3-5 years in a lab before releasing them on the market, or really testing a large amount of drive trains for 10 years and so many miles before releasing to market. The first company to really do that will go bankrupt before shipping the next generation of devices.
The same way it is calculated for rotating platters, I would guess.
The lab sets up a test with 1000 drives for 1000 hours. If one drive failed during the 1000 hours, the MTBF will be advertised as 1,000,000 hours ([1000x1000]/1). [short time period] * [number of pieces tested] / [number of pieces tested which failed within that time period] = MTBF.
I usually ask a variation of that question... What's something you see about yourself as a potential weakness for this role?
The question is open enough that you don't need to pick your worst weakness. I actually don't really care about the potential weakness, I expect the candidate to be mature enough to be honest/candid and to come up with an improvement plan or a way to work around the weakness. Answering "I don't have any weakness" is usually a sure way to be put in the circular filing device.
This question has no bearing on my life whatsoever and I can't believe how retarded society at large must be for that question to receive so much attention. Believe what you want to believe (or not believe) and respect others ability to do the same.
I haven't seen the CPU as the bottleneck on any of the DB servers I have administered in the last 4 years, except on seriously under-spec'd systems. The most CPU intensive DB at work is peaking at 3 cores out of 24, but maxes on IOPS (8GB link to an auto-tiered SAN, 50% SSD disk pool) and RAM (256GB) throughout the entire job.
Imagine a large corporation where every department has its own IT department, where no embedded IT department trusts any other embedded IT department and where few people trust the centralized IT. Throw in the fact that most of the IT is managed from Luxembourg, the political impossibility to enforce rules across the network, the relatively low salary for the IT people not on the paper pusher path (becoming internal would have cost me a whole third of my salary), the insanity of the promotion rules, core services being outsourced to the lowest bidder every five years... and you've got the recipe for the mess they're in.
The technical solutions to fix the EP IT issues are known and easy, the problem is getting the political support to make them stick.
That is because corporate is strictly short term. There are two evaluation windows in the corporate world: quarterly profits of the corporation and annual review of the employee. Delaying a project by up to 24-to-32 weeks instead of 14-to-22 weeks by hiring a "promising candidate" is definitely a career limiting move as you have introduced a serious risk to the project.
Not necessarily, because in those 6 months he (or the rest of his team) would have been less productive as the promising applicant was trained.
I have been in that situation twice in the last two years and now the "promising applicant" would need to be exceptionally close or hired straight from the direct network of a team member... If I spend more time over 6 months training a new hire or controlling/correcting his work than I'd have spent doing the work myself in the first place, then it makes no sense to hire the "promising applicant". I would rather temporarily spread the workload across the team (and drop less important tasks if necessary) until "the right one" turns up.
Belgium effectively had a government. The exiting government handled the day to day business until the newly elected one finally moved in. The "crisis" actually reduced the Belgian deficit.
Second layer of icing on the cake, Belgian education is essentially free.
They don't even need to nationalise the whole electricity system. My local supplier generates 99.9% of the electricity locally through one renewable source... that is the way it has been locally for as far as I can tell. And yet, we pay through the nose "to encourage the switch to renewable energies".
Tossing out numbers is idiotic at best, but since you fabricated numbers it's pure propaganda. The establishment of a tax system is based on percentages, not dollar amounts. Why? Because this is the only way to make the system fair. If I make 1 billion dollars and pay 10% tax, and you make 50 dollars and pay 10% tax, the system would be fair. What is unfair, is that someone holds the ability to make a billion dollars while other people in the same society starve.
Actually no, what you have described is the most repressive and unfair tax system possible in all cases where the cost of living is higher than 45 dollars. Let's, for the sake of the argument, say that the cost of living is 50 dollars. Now the person earning 50 dollars pays 5 dollars of tax and is thus 5 dollars short and can't afford the basic necessities. The person earning 1 billion dollars will pay 100 million dollars and thus still keep 899950 dollars above the cost of living. Hardly fair and clearly put in place for the profit of the people in charge. That is actually as close to the medieval model as you can get in modern society.
Let's for a second posit that not all money is equal in utility... money below the cost of living is way more useful than money above the cost of living, and the usefulness progressively decreases the further you get from the cost of living. I mean, if the cost of living is 50 dollars you don't want to keep less than those 50 dollars. That is why usually the tax system is working with progressive brackets (from 10% to 39.6% currently in the US) instead of a flat tax. Money below the cost of living should be taxed less than money above the cost of living, which is why the brackets and effective taxation rates depend on your situation (single, married filing taxes together, married filing taxes separately, head of household).
Practical example, at the current US tax rates, for a head of household earning 100000 dollars and not doing any fiscal optimization. The tax bracket is 25% but the effective tax rate is below that. The brackets are as follows: 10% for money between 0 and 12750, 15% for money between 12750 and 48600, 25% between 48600 and 125450. So he's effectively paying 10% for the first 12750 dollars he's earned (1275), 15% on the next 35850 dollars (5377.5) and 25% on what's left (51400, so 12850) for a grand total of 19502.5 dollars. That is an effective tax rate of 19.5%.
Rates: varies between 0.24 and 0.27 per kWh, before taxes, depending on the subscription you take. My area is 100% renewable and has been for decades (several dams). The local government, before the energy supply was privatized, has spent a fortune on windmills and photo-voltaic parks but our energy supply is wholly generated by the dams.
The rates across the border for the same service are:
Luxembourg: 0.16€/KWh (+6% VAT) for 100% renewable (http://www.leoenergy.lu/particuliers/nos_tarifs/electricite__1).
France: 0.1209€/KWh (all taxes included) for renewable.
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Hint: how prevalent are handguns in Germany?
It would depend on the lander or even the landkreis... it's roughly 30 guns per 100 persons averaged over Germany, in my landkreis it's just below 90 handguns per 100 persons (5 years old statistic). That's just privately owned handguns... if you throw in the hunting weapons and service weapons, there's probably more weapons than people.
In the real world, I have never been able to get even close to the announced mpg-rating of the 2011 econetic fiesta. I had one for 3 months as a replacement vehicle and I enjoyed it except for the mileage. My 2011 A3 2.0TDI has consistently given me a better mileage, even with the DSG gearbox... I do get around 54 MPG with the Audi.
8. Oracle managed services failed to grasp what a replication timestamp was. For a week, their daily report was indicating that the replication had worked flawlessly even tho the timestamp on the target hadn't changed.
9. Oracle managed services sent me the daily report of another company, with financial information, on more than one occasion. They have also obviously sent my customer's data to other companies.
10. Back when Sun was still a separate entity, they won a 4 years staffing/project contract where the first action point was implementing unified authentication with LDAP (the site was mostly Solaris 8, with some HP-UX and a pair of AIX boxen). They only successfully delivered this feature 7 years later, after three contract extensions, when the whole site had been migrated to Solaris 10. They were surprised when they didn't win the new staffing/project contract and even more surprised when the customer massively migrated to RHEL.
I guess somebody probably meant to write "peas and vegetables". At least that would make sense as peas are legumes and not vegetables...
I never said it was an honest measure, but it is the measure used by the hard drive industry. It is also very similar to quality measures in many other industries. You take a reasonable sample, run a test for a certain amount of time and infer/extrapolate reliability figures based on the test. On the back-end, you redesign your process to eliminate as many variations as possible on the manufacturing side.
The alternative would be to really test the disks for 3-5 years in a lab before releasing them on the market, or really testing a large amount of drive trains for 10 years and so many miles before releasing to market. The first company to really do that will go bankrupt before shipping the next generation of devices.
Which would explain why repeated studies have found the MTBF published by manufacturers to be orders of magnitude higher than reality.
The same way it is calculated for rotating platters, I would guess.
The lab sets up a test with 1000 drives for 1000 hours. If one drive failed during the 1000 hours, the MTBF will be advertised as 1,000,000 hours ([1000x1000]/1). [short time period] * [number of pieces tested] / [number of pieces tested which failed within that time period] = MTBF.
That's actually a fair point... maybe it should be modified to "there is no wrong honest answer to this question" :)
He may not have lied...
I usually ask a variation of that question... What's something you see about yourself as a potential weakness for this role?
The question is open enough that you don't need to pick your worst weakness. I actually don't really care about the potential weakness, I expect the candidate to be mature enough to be honest/candid and to come up with an improvement plan or a way to work around the weakness. Answering "I don't have any weakness" is usually a sure way to be put in the circular filing device.
Remember... Oracle stands for: One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison
You forgot the 4th position.
This question has no bearing on my life whatsoever and I can't believe how retarded society at large must be for that question to receive so much attention. Believe what you want to believe (or not believe) and respect others ability to do the same.
Your rehash of Pascal's wager is overly simplistic, just like the original.
What about you believe in God and it turns out Allah/Zeus/Odin/Pan/Quetzalcoatl/Invisible Pink Unicorn do(es) exist while God doesn't?
By the way, Pascal's wager was put on the Index by the Vatican... because faith through logic is not faith.
I haven't seen the CPU as the bottleneck on any of the DB servers I have administered in the last 4 years, except on seriously under-spec'd systems. The most CPU intensive DB at work is peaking at 3 cores out of 24, but maxes on IOPS (8GB link to an auto-tiered SAN, 50% SSD disk pool) and RAM (256GB) throughout the entire job.
It makes me wonder how the Jomon and associated cultures fit in the picture.
Imagine a large corporation where every department has its own IT department, where no embedded IT department trusts any other embedded IT department and where few people trust the centralized IT. Throw in the fact that most of the IT is managed from Luxembourg, the political impossibility to enforce rules across the network, the relatively low salary for the IT people not on the paper pusher path (becoming internal would have cost me a whole third of my salary), the insanity of the promotion rules, core services being outsourced to the lowest bidder every five years... and you've got the recipe for the mess they're in.
The technical solutions to fix the EP IT issues are known and easy, the problem is getting the political support to make them stick.
That is because corporate is strictly short term. There are two evaluation windows in the corporate world: quarterly profits of the corporation and annual review of the employee. Delaying a project by up to 24-to-32 weeks instead of 14-to-22 weeks by hiring a "promising candidate" is definitely a career limiting move as you have introduced a serious risk to the project.
Not necessarily, because in those 6 months he (or the rest of his team) would have been less productive as the promising applicant was trained.
I have been in that situation twice in the last two years and now the "promising applicant" would need to be exceptionally close or hired straight from the direct network of a team member... If I spend more time over 6 months training a new hire or controlling/correcting his work than I'd have spent doing the work myself in the first place, then it makes no sense to hire the "promising applicant". I would rather temporarily spread the workload across the team (and drop less important tasks if necessary) until "the right one" turns up.
Belgium effectively had a government. The exiting government handled the day to day business until the newly elected one finally moved in. The "crisis" actually reduced the Belgian deficit.
Second layer of icing on the cake, Belgian education is essentially free.
They don't even need to nationalise the whole electricity system. My local supplier generates 99.9% of the electricity locally through one renewable source... that is the way it has been locally for as far as I can tell. And yet, we pay through the nose "to encourage the switch to renewable energies".
It would be nice if the price reduction reached the end consumer... the retail price is still more than 25 times that.
Would that announcement have been made like 8 days ago?
Tossing out numbers is idiotic at best, but since you fabricated numbers it's pure propaganda. The establishment of a tax system is based on percentages, not dollar amounts. Why? Because this is the only way to make the system fair. If I make 1 billion dollars and pay 10% tax, and you make 50 dollars and pay 10% tax, the system would be fair. What is unfair, is that someone holds the ability to make a billion dollars while other people in the same society starve.
Actually no, what you have described is the most repressive and unfair tax system possible in all cases where the cost of living is higher than 45 dollars. Let's, for the sake of the argument, say that the cost of living is 50 dollars. Now the person earning 50 dollars pays 5 dollars of tax and is thus 5 dollars short and can't afford the basic necessities. The person earning 1 billion dollars will pay 100 million dollars and thus still keep 899950 dollars above the cost of living. Hardly fair and clearly put in place for the profit of the people in charge. That is actually as close to the medieval model as you can get in modern society.
Let's for a second posit that not all money is equal in utility... money below the cost of living is way more useful than money above the cost of living, and the usefulness progressively decreases the further you get from the cost of living. I mean, if the cost of living is 50 dollars you don't want to keep less than those 50 dollars. That is why usually the tax system is working with progressive brackets (from 10% to 39.6% currently in the US) instead of a flat tax. Money below the cost of living should be taxed less than money above the cost of living, which is why the brackets and effective taxation rates depend on your situation (single, married filing taxes together, married filing taxes separately, head of household).
Practical example, at the current US tax rates, for a head of household earning 100000 dollars and not doing any fiscal optimization. The tax bracket is 25% but the effective tax rate is below that. The brackets are as follows: 10% for money between 0 and 12750, 15% for money between 12750 and 48600, 25% between 48600 and 125450. So he's effectively paying 10% for the first 12750 dollars he's earned (1275), 15% on the next 35850 dollars (5377.5) and 25% on what's left (51400, so 12850) for a grand total of 19502.5 dollars. That is an effective tax rate of 19.5%.
Non-German living in Germany.
Rates: varies between 0.24 and 0.27 per kWh, before taxes, depending on the subscription you take. My area is 100% renewable and has been for decades (several dams). The local government, before the energy supply was privatized, has spent a fortune on windmills and photo-voltaic parks but our energy supply is wholly generated by the dams.
The rates across the border for the same service are: