Such a decision would effectively disallow students from undertaking any form of wiki research. My dissertation was on wikis and CMS and naturally I cited a lot of material from Wikipedia. It would be difficult for a student to research wikis if they could not cite Wikipedia.
I have. In fact many clients can be more irrational and demanding than many bosses. There are many abusive clients out there. The nice thing is that it is much easier to refuse do a business with some specific clients, rather than fire an abusive boss. You can, and you should, select the clients you can work more effectively with.
Great. From now on AAP (Association of American Publishers) is on my black list of organisations that negatively affect social advances for their own bottom line instead of adapting and finding a way to profit in a changing social environment.
There is nothing that wouldn't allow open-access journals to have peer-reviewed articles. In fact, peer review would work much better and more efficiently in an open access publication.
I support the free information movement, as every individual untouched by greed should do. Information wants to be free, and a bunch of PR professionals and executives do not have the power to stop a social movement, especially in the age of the Internet.
If an employee is bad at work but excels on open-source projects, it means that you failed, as an employer or a manager, to create a motivating working environment, and that you need to take care of the talent you hired.
Getting a union will only hurt IT. Employers know how to put their own people and informants in unions, and everything gets corrupted in no time. The solution is to find a way to earn money without relying on a company at all, to get outside this slavery system alltogether. This means opening your own startup, becoming a contractor, working as freelance... Unfortunately you do need not only technical ability and great personal stamina, but also lots of luck and some form of starting capital to start (the good news is that this starting capital doesn't really need to be money, it can be social capital as well, although of course the most secure form of capital is money). Such plans work best when you are debt-free and kids-free, however.
The problem with this "no signs of growth in employment history? next CV!" approach is that it automatically filters out people who invest energy in personal projects, like open-source software.
Career-wise, I think you should get into management or other supervisory positions as quickly as you can. Enrol to a management programme in college, or do anything possible to get entitled to add "management skills" on your CV (resume).
Another possibility would be to become a teacher. Get any advanced computer science and education qualifications you can find, and go teach.
Note that education may be too pricey in USA, but it may be much cheaper for you to enrol to a UK distant education programme, like the ones offered by Open University.
You can do remote real-time pair programming by using an editor such as Gobby or Ace, and use a wiki to share internal documentation. If you have a handsfree microphone/headphone set and VoIP you can minimise the communication barrier much further. And if you think you need to see the other person, you can use a webcam as well. I do not believe that agile development can't happen over the Internet. The only problems are setting the systems to work without problems (e.g. in some connections VoIP packets often get lost), the work culture of the participants (some people seem unable to communicate well without body language clues), and the ergonomics of their working environments.
Poor cod. It's already overfished by the fishing industry, and if the pharmaceuticals decide to start catching it too, it will get extinct as quick as you can count 1, 2, 3.
We need more aquacultures in the short term and better biogenetic technology in the long term. Some day we may eat cloned food we grow in the laboratory, and let nature alone to recover.
Anything can kill you if you over-do it, and water is no exception. The poor victim probably didn't know about electrolytes and why athletes drink isotonic drinks. I want to believe that the radio station competition's organisers were also unaware of water intoxication. However, this doesn't change the sad fact that ignorance about scientific facts led to the death of a mother.
That's why America (and the world as well) must invest in higher-quality science education.
I think I am one of those people who can't read ClearType fonts. I really can't comprehend why M$ is pushing it, as, at least to my eyes, it makes text unreadable and blurred by colour tones.
From my own personal and subjective experience, MIT has the best designed site from a usability perspective out of all the American university sites I have ever visited. I think it is seconded only by Berkeley.
The fact that "0" == false returns true is a feature, not a bug. It allows you to rapidly develop some constructs if you know what you are doing. If you want to test for types too, use === as in if ("0" === false).
The problem is that IT people are seen as blue collar workers because they work so closely with machines. They are also not very rare, so they are easy to fire and replace. However, they do have to have lots of knowledge and skill in order to perform their job properly. Seeing their skills being equated to those of blue collar workers, it is not surprisingly that they get upset.
Visitors from Google are not your real customers, they are more like guests. You should service them well, of course, and they do contribute a lot to your profitability (if you are commercial) or your popularity as a site. But your real customers are those who remember your URL by heart and visit you again and again, posting to your forum and buying from you repeatedly. You should focus on them. Have an pot-in mailing list where they can learn about your news and make sure they are interested to know what new things you have to offer.
I see young teenagers on the bus being extremely anti-social, like leaving their food inside the bus, etc. I wonder whether they enjoy using busses full of sandwiches and the unavoided nasty bugs that get attracted to them.
I believe anti-social behaviour happens because of the failure of the modern family to pass certain social norms to children. Maybe this has to do with the large populations of modern nations and therefore with the loss of the psychological sense of community in our societies.
In a small community people who fall in anti-social behaviour would get either ridiculed or mentored by a friend or parent. Perhaps this is what happens with the Internet now: Internet users feel like being in a world community and therefore tend to correct others. However, I believe that they do this in the wrong way, as a person who gets ridiculed online may loss their job or be forced to leave their university.
People who video anti-social behaviour may feel like little police officers doing something good for society, or they may do this just for fun. The bad thing is, the filmed people are humans just like us but their identity is not known to the video posters, and it is very easy to objectify a stranger, especially when you know that they will have difficulty finding you after you say or post something bad about them online.
Perhaps schools instead of educating the children should educate their parents, first.
My friend you do not need to learn any colour theory... Just, whenever you design a website, put some photos of sexy women here and there, and nobody will notice your lack of design skills!
A very creative idea. But it isn't correct, I argue: We put the CPU inside the box because the box is a controlled environment. Many times I run computers with their boxes open, but only when I know that the external airflow is more than the internal airflow. However, having an industry standard with the CPU dependent on external airflow is not correct because people won't know how to properly place their computer, and thus this is a recipe for tech-ignorant people to burn their CPU. If you know what you are doing, then it is really better to have the CPU outside the box, but only if you are smart enough to set up your space in such a way where the CPU will receive more airflow externally (some people use a big room airfan or an aircondition blowing cool air directly against an open box).
I define wealth as the ability to be completely free of other people and society while still being able to buy products and services from people who work.
Thus, a person living in the jungle alone is free and not dependent on society but is not rich because they still cannot buy anything that society produces.
A person is rich, however, if is able to escape a country in war although the currency has been devalued and become worthless, or is able to live quite well during a financial crisis when other people are starving on the street.
Sometimes society may ask you to do things you don't want, and can force you to do it because you aren't rich. But if you are wealthy, you can ignore society's demands without giving up the ability to buy its products and services. This is the essence of wealth.
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Such a decision would effectively disallow students from undertaking any form of wiki research. My dissertation was on wikis and CMS and naturally I cited a lot of material from Wikipedia. It would be difficult for a student to research wikis if they could not cite Wikipedia.
Come on. Engineers need some time to relax from the very stressful work they do. What better time to relax for a minute than when in the toilet? :)
(how long until your manager asks you why you didn't solve that bug when you come out of the WC?)
I have. In fact many clients can be more irrational and demanding than many bosses. There are many abusive clients out there. The nice thing is that it is much easier to refuse do a business with some specific clients, rather than fire an abusive boss. You can, and you should, select the clients you can work more effectively with.
Great. From now on AAP (Association of American Publishers) is on my black list of organisations that negatively affect social advances for their own bottom line instead of adapting and finding a way to profit in a changing social environment.
There is nothing that wouldn't allow open-access journals to have peer-reviewed articles. In fact, peer review would work much better and more efficiently in an open access publication.
I support the free information movement, as every individual untouched by greed should do. Information wants to be free, and a bunch of PR professionals and executives do not have the power to stop a social movement, especially in the age of the Internet.
Become self-employed. You will never have to work with abusive bosses again.
SO? What SO? Should we have one? We're nerds, for Flying Spaghetti Monster's sake!
If an employee is bad at work but excels on open-source projects, it means that you failed, as an employer or a manager, to create a motivating working environment, and that you need to take care of the talent you hired.
Getting a union will only hurt IT. Employers know how to put their own people and informants in unions, and everything gets corrupted in no time. The solution is to find a way to earn money without relying on a company at all, to get outside this slavery system alltogether. This means opening your own startup, becoming a contractor, working as freelance... Unfortunately you do need not only technical ability and great personal stamina, but also lots of luck and some form of starting capital to start (the good news is that this starting capital doesn't really need to be money, it can be social capital as well, although of course the most secure form of capital is money). Such plans work best when you are debt-free and kids-free, however.
The problem with this "no signs of growth in employment history? next CV!" approach is that it automatically filters out people who invest energy in personal projects, like open-source software.
Career-wise, I think you should get into management or other supervisory positions as quickly as you can. Enrol to a management programme in college, or do anything possible to get entitled to add "management skills" on your CV (resume).
Another possibility would be to become a teacher. Get any advanced computer science and education qualifications you can find, and go teach.
Note that education may be too pricey in USA, but it may be much cheaper for you to enrol to a UK distant education programme, like the ones offered by Open University.
You can do remote real-time pair programming by using an editor such as Gobby or Ace, and use a wiki to share internal documentation. If you have a handsfree microphone/headphone set and VoIP you can minimise the communication barrier much further. And if you think you need to see the other person, you can use a webcam as well. I do not believe that agile development can't happen over the Internet. The only problems are setting the systems to work without problems (e.g. in some connections VoIP packets often get lost), the work culture of the participants (some people seem unable to communicate well without body language clues), and the ergonomics of their working environments.
Poor cod. It's already overfished by the fishing industry, and if the pharmaceuticals decide to start catching it too, it will get extinct as quick as you can count 1, 2, 3.
We need more aquacultures in the short term and better biogenetic technology in the long term. Some day we may eat cloned food we grow in the laboratory, and let nature alone to recover.
Anything can kill you if you over-do it, and water is no exception. The poor victim probably didn't know about electrolytes and why athletes drink isotonic drinks. I want to believe that the radio station competition's organisers were also unaware of water intoxication. However, this doesn't change the sad fact that ignorance about scientific facts led to the death of a mother.
That's why America (and the world as well) must invest in higher-quality science education.
I think I am one of those people who can't read ClearType fonts. I really can't comprehend why M$ is pushing it, as, at least to my eyes, it makes text unreadable and blurred by colour tones.
I wonder what is going to happen if I print p0rn with a 3D printer...
From my own personal and subjective experience, MIT has the best designed site from a usability perspective out of all the American university sites I have ever visited. I think it is seconded only by Berkeley.
The fact that "0" == false returns true is a feature, not a bug. It allows you to rapidly develop some constructs if you know what you are doing. If you want to test for types too, use === as in if ("0" === false).
The problem is that IT people are seen as blue collar workers because they work so closely with machines. They are also not very rare, so they are easy to fire and replace. However, they do have to have lots of knowledge and skill in order to perform their job properly. Seeing their skills being equated to those of blue collar workers, it is not surprisingly that they get upset.
Teachers often also describe their students with colourful words, just like BOFH do.
Visitors from Google are not your real customers, they are more like guests. You should service them well, of course, and they do contribute a lot to your profitability (if you are commercial) or your popularity as a site. But your real customers are those who remember your URL by heart and visit you again and again, posting to your forum and buying from you repeatedly. You should focus on them. Have an pot-in mailing list where they can learn about your news and make sure they are interested to know what new things you have to offer.
I believe anti-social behaviour happens because of the failure of the modern family to pass certain social norms to children. Maybe this has to do with the large populations of modern nations and therefore with the loss of the psychological sense of community in our societies.
In a small community people who fall in anti-social behaviour would get either ridiculed or mentored by a friend or parent. Perhaps this is what happens with the Internet now: Internet users feel like being in a world community and therefore tend to correct others. However, I believe that they do this in the wrong way, as a person who gets ridiculed online may loss their job or be forced to leave their university.
People who video anti-social behaviour may feel like little police officers doing something good for society, or they may do this just for fun. The bad thing is, the filmed people are humans just like us but their identity is not known to the video posters, and it is very easy to objectify a stranger, especially when you know that they will have difficulty finding you after you say or post something bad about them online.
Perhaps schools instead of educating the children should educate their parents, first.
My friend you do not need to learn any colour theory... Just, whenever you design a website, put some photos of sexy women here and there, and nobody will notice your lack of design skills!
A very creative idea. But it isn't correct, I argue: We put the CPU inside the box because the box is a controlled environment. Many times I run computers with their boxes open, but only when I know that the external airflow is more than the internal airflow. However, having an industry standard with the CPU dependent on external airflow is not correct because people won't know how to properly place their computer, and thus this is a recipe for tech-ignorant people to burn their CPU. If you know what you are doing, then it is really better to have the CPU outside the box, but only if you are smart enough to set up your space in such a way where the CPU will receive more airflow externally (some people use a big room airfan or an aircondition blowing cool air directly against an open box).
Thus, a person living in the jungle alone is free and not dependent on society but is not rich because they still cannot buy anything that society produces.
A person is rich, however, if is able to escape a country in war although the currency has been devalued and become worthless, or is able to live quite well during a financial crisis when other people are starving on the street.
Sometimes society may ask you to do things you don't want, and can force you to do it because you aren't rich. But if you are wealthy, you can ignore society's demands without giving up the ability to buy its products and services. This is the essence of wealth.
If I die and I have no family members and no friends, why should I care what is going to happen to my PCs, my servers, or my bank accounts?