Uh oh, mastery of baseball stats? Better deport me right now, and probably a good portion of the readers of this site.
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http://www.boatsafe.com/kids/roger1099.htm
offers a fine explanation of a nautical mile. Synopsis: it is the distance of one minute at the equator, or 6,080 feet. If does *not* change with your lattitude, however, so doesn't really accomodate Earth's roundness any more than standard miles.
You must not be even passably good on the simulator then. I have no idea how this relates to actually flying a 757 or whatever, but anyone with a few days in a simulator should be able to hit those buildings based on my experience. In MS's simulator I can roll the 737 right between the radio towers on top of the Sears tower - and that is only with a few weeks of practice.
So, if they had that much practice and the 757 is truly as easy to fly in real life as in the simulator, then hitting the WTC is easy. I am told by an experienced pilot, however, that disabling the autopilot and getting the planes on an exact heading for NYCity would have been the most problematic part.
This is the perfect toy for a former windsurfing spead junkie! As far as a windsurfer, and perfect for these aging muscles! It might not be as fun, but speed is addictive!
The bigest of these is that you do not have understand the process that you are managing.
No, actually the maxim is "You do not need to know how to do the job of the people you are managing."
Understanding the process, however, is important. Blue Sky kind of stuff. If you have ever seen the Medicine Wheel, similar to Myers-Briggs that us MBAs all love, you will note that certain people like to do certain things. Most good managers (and some MBAs) are North or East kind of people -- either real drivers or visionaries. We hire the people to manage the details for us, coddle people's feelings and get the work done, while we concern ourselves with how the company will make more money, expand market share, receive a higher ROI etc. It's hard to say what the world would be like w/o MBAs - it could be better, but I'd bet not. MBAs like success too much, and failure is what drives many of us to expand the economy even further. I doubt we would have had a dot-com revolution w/o them -- they funneled venture capital from the old world markets into the new ones.
90% of students enrolled at my school were having their tuition paid for by the companies they worked for. ROI is pretty high when your only investment is time, energy and approx. $1500 for books over 3 years.
Especially if you can expect a $10k increase in any of the next few years that you would not see otherwise.
MBA is at *most* an 18 month full-time commitment. For me, as a business undergrad, it took me 3 years part time - 5 courses per year (2 per semester, 1 in the summer).
The current recommendation for PhD is 3 - 4 years full time. I am currently researching a part-time PHd program, and the miniumum is 4 years. (University of Phoenix)
They also teach you a bit about accountancy and law, I hear. Be a jack of all trades! Take an MBA!
Well, that is what the MBA was designed for. To take smart people with non-business degrees and enable them to understand the rest of the business (beyond just technical stuff). Unfortunately the MBA has been corrupted by people in marketing, and particularly finance, who are just using it as another feather in their cap, and as a path to greater wealth.
MBA = jack of all trades. MBA also = well recognized achievement, unlike an additional degree in psychology or marketing or whatever. Heck, for many it might be more valuable than a Masters in Computer Science. I know it was for me.
This is true, however MBA or other advanced degree is still a readily available advanced degree for all undergraduate types. I just got mine ('01) and I have a BSBA in Marketing for undergraduate.
Anyway, relax. Breathe. MBAs are virtually useless for people coming straight out of undergrad, but they are very valuable to people who have been in teh workforce for some time. I was out of school for 9 years before going back for my MBA and I have been told by companies that they view my particular experience with the MBA as far more valuable than otherwise. In otherwords, the people starting at Anderson with BBAs and MBAs were more thabn likely people without real world experience. But, put two identical people together - one w/ 10 years industry experience and another w/ 10 years industry experience and an MBA and who do you think will get the second interview? You bet - the MBA -- mostly because it shows perseverance, drive, commitment, ability to handle multiple priorities etc. Even better is when you can demonstrate you ability to handle work, school and a family (as I have) - people are impressed.
Then again, geeks should stay coding and forget about advancement into the management ranks. You'll hate it. Leave it up to us MBAs with hobbyist experience to lead your projects!
Well I use NEDIT and I think it kicks butt - mostly cause it has a very similar look and feel to a windows based editor. If I have to do some one liner extra quick I use VI.
Wow, so this is what interests you people. No wonder us MBAs can't relate at all! I tried writing a simple C++ program and thought I did alright, but all the stuff you guys are talking about just goes way over my head. Good thing I dropped out of CompSci and became a business type guy - I couldn't hang for sure.
Easier yet, and usually more available is warm/hot water. Get a cup of coffee, let it cool down a bit and douse the tongue with it. It'll melt the ice layer and voila - no ripping.
With that said, I too got my tongue stuck to a metal pole when I was 11. I just ripped it off, and it hurt. I wish I knew about the water trick then, but then again I probably wouldn't have used it -- oh, the embarrasment of calling up to my Mum "NNNNuuuuuNNNNN! Ny hounge isth shuck who netal whole!"
Ask your grandparents if, when they were your age, a police officer or sheriff?s deputy could pull you over, throw all your possessions in the street and still have his job the next day if he didn?t find anything.
I guess if you lived in Montgomery, Alabama and happened to be Black, then your answer would be "Yes". It is very interesting how your question can be answered so differently depending upon your racial background. It seems I can determine some of yours simply from this post (and also that your family has lived in this country a while).
As has been said many times already, the point is that the fighter is way more maneuverable than the prop plan on autopilot. It wouldn't have happened in reverse, either, because it didn't happen in the first place - the chinese jet hit the american plane. Period.
How do you mean "drift into health care"? Do you equate working for insurance companies == government work? Have you worked for either?
If so, you would know enough not to post such drivel. Every developer on my staff contributes to the bottom line. Any developer on my staff has a series of projects to do, and if they get it done w/o any bugs then they are free to do whatever they want on whatever time is left. As the PHB my job is to ensure they have as little time left over to work on open source projects as possible - unless I consider it to be in my/the company's best interest (for instance, let the programmer work on the project if it keeps him happy, and gets another extra few hours of productivity out of him).
Health Care and Government employees suffer from stereotyped images of their working environment. We should all band together and stop this workism - it's just like racism!!
We're keeping you guys employed though. Sales makes the economy happen, at least in this country where we don't barter for the food we eat.
I was at a sales presentation the other day and everyone was crowded around a guy who had a Palm on one side of a portfolio, and a writing pad on the other side. Under the writing pad was a pressure sensitive pad that transfered his handwriting on the paper to the Palm. He didn't have handwriting recognition software, but if he did - wow. We were all impressed, but I have no idea how much those things cost.
But us sales/marketing guys still need to make a living, just like you techies. And we can't help that our memories are pretty good for remembering client details - like names, addresses, client relationships etc.
Essentially everything that the tech world complains about w/ regard to non-competes applies to everyone else. In many cases, the only living I can make is as a salesperson for a competing company -- sure, sales can be considered a portable talent, but many years are often wasted getting to know a particular industry, and that knowledge is not translatable.
You can sit and stifle in your own body fat. Us PHB's rule most of the readership of this website, and don't forget it.
I am an MBA and quite proud of the hell that I put programmers and system admins through on a daily basis. I am quite fond of yelling at the top of my lungs "if we capture the data, we must be able to report on it!!!"
In all seriousness, I do have an MBA, and have been a PHB at the time. But business people are what make our economy run. Sure, we require the services of lots of worker bees like yourselves, and we truly appreciate it. Especially at bonus and stock option time.
p.s. Best combination is an undergraduate comp.sci related degree and an MBA. Name your price in pre-dotcom world. Nowadays you might have to work for an insurance company, but we pay pretty well too.
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Uh oh, mastery of baseball stats? Better deport me right now, and probably a good portion of the readers of this site.
http://www.boatsafe.com/kids/roger1099.htm
offers a fine explanation of a nautical mile. Synopsis: it is the distance of one minute at the equator, or 6,080 feet. If does *not* change with your lattitude, however, so doesn't really accomodate Earth's roundness any more than standard miles.
Clearly the Chinese, or the Indians or the Japanese or anyone else from a Tom Clancy novel.
You must not be even passably good on the simulator then. I have no idea how this relates to actually flying a 757 or whatever, but anyone with a few days in a simulator should be able to hit those buildings based on my experience. In MS's simulator I can roll the 737 right between the radio towers on top of the Sears tower - and that is only with a few weeks of practice.
So, if they had that much practice and the 757 is truly as easy to fly in real life as in the simulator, then hitting the WTC is easy. I am told by an experienced pilot, however, that disabling the autopilot and getting the planes on an exact heading for NYCity would have been the most problematic part.
If you read the engineering sites mentioned already, you will see that the load bearing columns are in the center of the building.
Yes, it is likely that some of them were taken out, but it is not as obvious as you state - nor were they at the outside edge of the building.
This is the perfect toy for a former windsurfing spead junkie! As far as a windsurfer, and perfect for these aging muscles! It might not be as fun, but speed is addictive!
The bigest of these is that you do not have understand the process that you are managing.
No, actually the maxim is "You do not need to know how to do the job of the people you are managing."
Understanding the process, however, is important. Blue Sky kind of stuff. If you have ever seen the Medicine Wheel, similar to Myers-Briggs that us MBAs all love, you will note that certain people like to do certain things. Most good managers (and some MBAs) are North or East kind of people -- either real drivers or visionaries. We hire the people to manage the details for us, coddle people's feelings and get the work done, while we concern ourselves with how the company will make more money, expand market share, receive a higher ROI etc. It's hard to say what the world would be like w/o MBAs - it could be better, but I'd bet not. MBAs like success too much, and failure is what drives many of us to expand the economy even further. I doubt we would have had a dot-com revolution w/o them -- they funneled venture capital from the old world markets into the new ones.
90% of students enrolled at my school were having their tuition paid for by the companies they worked for. ROI is pretty high when your only investment is time, energy and approx. $1500 for books over 3 years.
Especially if you can expect a $10k increase in any of the next few years that you would not see otherwise.
MBA is at *most* an 18 month full-time commitment. For me, as a business undergrad, it took me 3 years part time - 5 courses per year (2 per semester, 1 in the summer).
The current recommendation for PhD is 3 - 4 years full time. I am currently researching a part-time PHd program, and the miniumum is 4 years. (University of Phoenix)
They also teach you a bit about accountancy and law, I hear. Be a jack of all trades! Take an MBA!
Well, that is what the MBA was designed for. To take smart people with non-business degrees and enable them to understand the rest of the business (beyond just technical stuff). Unfortunately the MBA has been corrupted by people in marketing, and particularly finance, who are just using it as another feather in their cap, and as a path to greater wealth.
MBA = jack of all trades. MBA also = well recognized achievement, unlike an additional degree in psychology or marketing or whatever. Heck, for many it might be more valuable than a Masters in Computer Science. I know it was for me.
This is true, however MBA or other advanced degree is still a readily available advanced degree for all undergraduate types. I just got mine ('01) and I have a BSBA in Marketing for undergraduate.
Anyway, relax. Breathe. MBAs are virtually useless for people coming straight out of undergrad, but they are very valuable to people who have been in teh workforce for some time. I was out of school for 9 years before going back for my MBA and I have been told by companies that they view my particular experience with the MBA as far more valuable than otherwise. In otherwords, the people starting at Anderson with BBAs and MBAs were more thabn likely people without real world experience. But, put two identical people together - one w/ 10 years industry experience and another w/ 10 years industry experience and an MBA and who do you think will get the second interview? You bet - the MBA -- mostly because it shows perseverance, drive, commitment, ability to handle multiple priorities etc. Even better is when you can demonstrate you ability to handle work, school and a family (as I have) - people are impressed.
Then again, geeks should stay coding and forget about advancement into the management ranks. You'll hate it. Leave it up to us MBAs with hobbyist experience to lead your projects!
Well I use NEDIT and I think it kicks butt - mostly cause it has a very similar look and feel to a windows based editor. If I have to do some one liner extra quick I use VI.
Wow, so this is what interests you people. No wonder us MBAs can't relate at all! I tried writing a simple C++ program and thought I did alright, but all the stuff you guys are talking about just goes way over my head. Good thing I dropped out of CompSci and became a business type guy - I couldn't hang for sure.
Gawd how I wish I had some mod points right now. This post has me in tears. :)
Easier yet, and usually more available is warm/hot water. Get a cup of coffee, let it cool down a bit and douse the tongue with it. It'll melt the ice layer and voila - no ripping.
With that said, I too got my tongue stuck to a metal pole when I was 11. I just ripped it off, and it hurt. I wish I knew about the water trick then, but then again I probably wouldn't have used it -- oh, the embarrasment of calling up to my Mum "NNNNuuuuuNNNNN! Ny hounge isth shuck who netal whole!"
Ask your grandparents if, when they were your age, a police officer or sheriff?s deputy could pull you over, throw all your possessions in the street and still have his job the next day if he didn?t find anything.
I guess if you lived in Montgomery, Alabama and happened to be Black, then your answer would be "Yes". It is very interesting how your question can be answered so differently depending upon your racial background. It seems I can determine some of yours simply from this post (and also that your family has lived in this country a while).
Nah, better if it showed up at 4:20 pm last Friday, 4/20.
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Are you humour impaired? This was in no-fashion a troll either. It should have been moderated Funny quite a few times, not "Interesting".
Hell, I am still laughing.
As has been said many times already, the point is that the fighter is way more maneuverable than the prop plan on autopilot. It wouldn't have happened in reverse, either, because it didn't happen in the first place - the chinese jet hit the american plane. Period.
How do you mean "drift into health care"? Do you equate working for insurance companies == government work? Have you worked for either?
If so, you would know enough not to post such drivel. Every developer on my staff contributes to the bottom line. Any developer on my staff has a series of projects to do, and if they get it done w/o any bugs then they are free to do whatever they want on whatever time is left. As the PHB my job is to ensure they have as little time left over to work on open source projects as possible - unless I consider it to be in my/the company's best interest (for instance, let the programmer work on the project if it keeps him happy, and gets another extra few hours of productivity out of him).
Health Care and Government employees suffer from stereotyped images of their working environment. We should all band together and stop this workism - it's just like racism!!
We're keeping you guys employed though. Sales makes the economy happen, at least in this country where we don't barter for the food we eat.
I was at a sales presentation the other day and everyone was crowded around a guy who had a Palm on one side of a portfolio, and a writing pad on the other side. Under the writing pad was a pressure sensitive pad that transfered his handwriting on the paper to the Palm. He didn't have handwriting recognition software, but if he did - wow. We were all impressed, but I have no idea how much those things cost.
But us sales/marketing guys still need to make a living, just like you techies. And we can't help that our memories are pretty good for remembering client details - like names, addresses, client relationships etc.
Essentially everything that the tech world complains about w/ regard to non-competes applies to everyone else. In many cases, the only living I can make is as a salesperson for a competing company -- sure, sales can be considered a portable talent, but many years are often wasted getting to know a particular industry, and that knowledge is not translatable.
You asked for it.
"but can't find it because it was spelled wrong." is also gramatically incorrect. You should have written:
",but can't find it because it was spelled incorrectly."
:-)
You can sit and stifle in your own body fat. Us PHB's rule most of the readership of this website, and don't forget it.
I am an MBA and quite proud of the hell that I put programmers and system admins through on a daily basis. I am quite fond of yelling at the top of my lungs "if we capture the data, we must be able to report on it!!!"
In all seriousness, I do have an MBA, and have been a PHB at the time. But business people are what make our economy run. Sure, we require the services of lots of worker bees like yourselves, and we truly appreciate it. Especially at bonus and stock option time.
p.s. Best combination is an undergraduate comp.sci related degree and an MBA. Name your price in pre-dotcom world. Nowadays you might have to work for an insurance company, but we pay pretty well too.