There is genuine value in a well-run change management program. Organizations need to know what is going on in their infrastructure, and plan things properly. In many industries there is a growing regulatory requirement to have change management, and auditors are looking for these things more often too. Many smaller shops are bringing in change control, so rather than handing in your badge my advice would be to deal with it and learn the lessons. One lesson is rather than fight it, use it to your advantage. Yes, there's paperwork, however if you follow the system correctly they cannot blame you if things go wrong. What you thought of as freedom was also a risk to your own position as you had sole responsibility - change control means less freedom, but you are covered. Also, you can get budget for better management systems which will make your life easier. Put together a realistic list of what you need and get involved with setting up the change control process. If you stay silent or fight it you won't get a say.
If someone takes medicine to lower a fever but stays at home until he/she is better then nobody else gets the flu. Yet people who get sick feel compelled to go to work because of work ethics or pressure from employers, and they expose everyone who is on the train/bus with them, or in the line at Starbucks. Surely the message should not be "if you take asprin you're killing people", but "stay home until you're better"!
I fly single engine propeller aircraft with a Vne (Velocity never exceed) of maybe 220mph, but cruising generally about 130mph. The idea of losing vision at that speed is pretty horrible, but at 1000mph it would be terrifying no matter how experienced or brave you are.
When Chuck Yeager was flying the X-1 one time his windows froze up and he could not see out, but at least he still had instruments and landed safely with the help of his chase plane. Not being able to actually see is a big level above that.
Why do people relate intelligence with age? People do not get smarter the older they get, quite often the opposite as IQ tends to decrease with age. There are 3 year olds that are smarter then adults, and vice-versa. There are genius 3 year olds and stupid 3 year olds.
What is really being said is that people without preconceived notions of how computer interfaces work will get used to a completely new interface standard than people who have been using a completely different format for the past 15 years, which I would have considered completely obvious. It would be the same with people transitioning from QWERTY to Dvorak as opposed to those with no typing experience, those without experience would get used to Dvorak much faster.
Now I'm seriously worried. Every time I played Masters of Orion 2 and I got situated in an area where the closest habitable planet was far away I always got my ass kicked by some civilization that was able to expand quickly. Our only hope is to start developing Deuterium fuel cells, and quickly!
I almost handed in my notice then and there but very soon after they announced that the whole team was being made redundant so I waited for the payout instead. So I ended up getting my bonus in other ways.
At a former employer I joined a team that was under-performing. I worked hard to get things back on track and I did my absolute best. At my bonus meeting my boss told me that I had done a great job and I was the best performer on the team by far, but he had to give a certain number of people a good review, some a fair review, and one an under-performing review. He didn't do this by job performance but by length of service, and since I was a new guy he gave me the poor review so I got almost no bonus! After that I didn't work so hard....
I for one am happy that law enforcement is finally figuring out how to apply traditional police work to the internet successfully. It's the good old-fashioned sting made digital.
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You've got to be kidding! The way to make grilling fun is to get good results, and that means understanding what you're doing. I use an app called BB Meat Master which has an odd name and looks basic but the info on it is absolute gold and I haven't grilled a steak wrong since. You can spend $100 on a wireless something or other or you can spend $1 on an app. Your choice!
So far the UK government has managed to do 0% of the things it says it will do, so I fully expect these measures to go precisely nowhere. Of course they'll annouce several monumenatally draconian and ineffective policies that they will later backtrack on before allowing this initiative to fade away.
One of the secrets of the internet's massive success is the lack of controls over it; if there had been strict security and processes in place it would likely not have come about. One of the downsides is that all our security measures are tacked-on, there is no built-in security to the protocols used on the internet and as a result security is a massive problem. How do we go from the wild west to having at least a reasonable level of trusted computing?
If I could keep my physical shape and my marbles I would see running out of things to do to keep busy as a problem. To combat that I would expect to see 95 year olds going back to University, and people having extremely varied careers like being a doctor, then an engineer, then taking 10 years out to lay bricks. The question I would have is would it work? Given that the one thing I would like to do in my life is to explore another planet and the technology to do that is centuries away, would I feel fulfilled with my life? I'd like the chance to find out!
As a parent I'd be more worried about my kid being targeted for being smart than stupid. Maybe in addition to a nice bracelet they should give the good scorers Jujitsu classes as well so they can protect themselves from the jocks.
Exactly, it's circular. People like what they hear so execs give us more of it to the point that's all we ever get. The same thing's happening with hollywood, nobody is willing to go off formula so we are getting the same movie formulas all the time.
There are 2 ways to look at these results. One is that out of all the music produced this formula is what the majority of people want to listen to, or it could be that this is what the record companies flog us because it's what they think we want to hear. Either way this is all that bands will be producing from now on, meaning less variety in music. It's a case of data driven choices gone mad.
My next album title's going to be I-III-IV, should make me a million.
I almost feel like politicians hear the words "farm" and "agricultural" and think, "We're 'Merica, we make technology....farming is for for the third world."
The best thing for our country would be a massive return to farming/agriculture. We would get better food with more nutrition, be self sufficient once again, and keep our money from flying out of the country. There's such a stigma against farming. Well, news flash. Unless we want to start deciding who gets to eat and who doesn't (and that's already happening in parts of the world), we need to refocus our efforts into growing useful stuff...not subsidizing corn to make ethanol. Corn's not even efficient for ethanol production...if you feel like we need to be making ethanol, start a new switch grass industry. That's efficient enough to where we wouldn't need to subsidize it.
To be successful, a country has to be self sufficient in either agriculture or technology. If all you do is grow food, you need to be able to trade food for technology, and vice versa. Unfortunately, we're not self sufficient in either and, unless that changes, we're going to be in a world of hurt in another 20 years down the road...
Are you kidding? We are already overfarming as it is! We are irrigating so much that the water table is THOUSANDS of feet down in many places. Farming more is simply going to make it worse.
The sugars in switchgrass are hard to free up, they haven't found a way to produce ethanol from switchgrass in a way that produces more energy than it uses.
The real problem with this wasn't that ethanol itself is a bad idea. It's not. It's that CORN is a very bad way to make ethanol because there's not much energy in it.
Well, that's not exactly true. Ethanol is actually a bad choice as a replacement for gasoline. First it only has 80% of the energy per unit of volume, meaning you will only get about 80-80% of the mileage off of it. Second, it evaporates very easily so there will be quite a bit of it that simply goes up into the air. Third, it is a solvent and eats away at seals and hoses. Fourth, it cannot use the same pipelines as gasoline for transportation, making it more expensive. All in all, not a good option.
If the US used every acre of cropland for biofuel feedstock production it would only be able to produce 40% of transportation fuel needs and then there'd be nothing to eat! It's impossible to make even a dent in fossil fuel usage with biofuels, and by trying we will make food more expensive for everyone and reduce the surplus that helps to feed the world's poor.
Hmm... Sounds like we need to shift our focus from propping up friendly puppet despots in oil-producing regions and start propping them up in agriculturally productive ones... Rising food prices(and a bit of judicious repression, good for the defense industry) should ensure a steady supply of squalid, desperate peasant labor to work the biofuel fields. We can't eat our cake and drive it too; but eating our cake and driving theirs is eminently possible...
You are definitely right in that biofuels imports would simply substitute one despot for another, however the problem is wherever it comes from it will still compete against the food on our tables and make food more expensive and scarce. It's already happened in places and I for one am not willing to have people starve so I can use biofuels that aren't really green. Ethanol is a poor substitute for gasoline as it only has 80% of the energy per unit of volume, and it has other properties that make it a bad choice for fuel. Add to that there's only 20% carbon saving compared to fossil fuels and there really is no point in using them.
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There is genuine value in a well-run change management program. Organizations need to know what is going on in their infrastructure, and plan things properly. In many industries there is a growing regulatory requirement to have change management, and auditors are looking for these things more often too. Many smaller shops are bringing in change control, so rather than handing in your badge my advice would be to deal with it and learn the lessons.
One lesson is rather than fight it, use it to your advantage. Yes, there's paperwork, however if you follow the system correctly they cannot blame you if things go wrong. What you thought of as freedom was also a risk to your own position as you had sole responsibility - change control means less freedom, but you are covered. Also, you can get budget for better management systems which will make your life easier. Put together a realistic list of what you need and get involved with setting up the change control process. If you stay silent or fight it you won't get a say.
When the message is drink more beer I'm willing to accept an article at face value.
If got had meant us to be in space he would have made us with skin that replaces cells with polarized silicone and given us acid for blood.
If someone takes medicine to lower a fever but stays at home until he/she is better then nobody else gets the flu. Yet people who get sick feel compelled to go to work because of work ethics or pressure from employers, and they expose everyone who is on the train/bus with them, or in the line at Starbucks. Surely the message should not be "if you take asprin you're killing people", but "stay home until you're better"!
Maybe if he showed more interest in potential partners and less interest in python scripting he'd actually get a date!
I fly single engine propeller aircraft with a Vne (Velocity never exceed) of maybe 220mph, but cruising generally about 130mph. The idea of losing vision at that speed is pretty horrible, but at 1000mph it would be terrifying no matter how experienced or brave you are.
When Chuck Yeager was flying the X-1 one time his windows froze up and he could not see out, but at least he still had instruments and landed safely with the help of his chase plane. Not being able to actually see is a big level above that.
Why do people relate intelligence with age? People do not get smarter the older they get, quite often the opposite as IQ tends to decrease with age. There are 3 year olds that are smarter then adults, and vice-versa. There are genius 3 year olds and stupid 3 year olds.
What is really being said is that people without preconceived notions of how computer interfaces work will get used to a completely new interface standard than people who have been using a completely different format for the past 15 years, which I would have considered completely obvious. It would be the same with people transitioning from QWERTY to Dvorak as opposed to those with no typing experience, those without experience would get used to Dvorak much faster.
Now I'm seriously worried. Every time I played Masters of Orion 2 and I got situated in an area where the closest habitable planet was far away I always got my ass kicked by some civilization that was able to expand quickly. Our only hope is to start developing Deuterium fuel cells, and quickly!
I almost handed in my notice then and there but very soon after they announced that the whole team was being made redundant so I waited for the payout instead. So I ended up getting my bonus in other ways.
At a former employer I joined a team that was under-performing. I worked hard to get things back on track and I did my absolute best. At my bonus meeting my boss told me that I had done a great job and I was the best performer on the team by far, but he had to give a certain number of people a good review, some a fair review, and one an under-performing review. He didn't do this by job performance but by length of service, and since I was a new guy he gave me the poor review so I got almost no bonus! After that I didn't work so hard....
I for one am happy that law enforcement is finally figuring out how to apply traditional police work to the internet successfully. It's the good old-fashioned sting made digital.
You've got to be kidding! The way to make grilling fun is to get good results, and that means understanding what you're doing. I use an app called BB Meat Master which has an odd name and looks basic but the info on it is absolute gold and I haven't grilled a steak wrong since. You can spend $100 on a wireless something or other or you can spend $1 on an app. Your choice!
So far the UK government has managed to do 0% of the things it says it will do, so I fully expect these measures to go precisely nowhere. Of course they'll annouce several monumenatally draconian and ineffective policies that they will later backtrack on before allowing this initiative to fade away.
Absolutely, however I suspect they may run into durability issues.
Why re-invent the wheel, just skin a few politicians.
One of the secrets of the internet's massive success is the lack of controls over it; if there had been strict security and processes in place it would likely not have come about. One of the downsides is that all our security measures are tacked-on, there is no built-in security to the protocols used on the internet and as a result security is a massive problem. How do we go from the wild west to having at least a reasonable level of trusted computing?
If I could keep my physical shape and my marbles I would see running out of things to do to keep busy as a problem. To combat that I would expect to see 95 year olds going back to University, and people having extremely varied careers like being a doctor, then an engineer, then taking 10 years out to lay bricks. The question I would have is would it work? Given that the one thing I would like to do in my life is to explore another planet and the technology to do that is centuries away, would I feel fulfilled with my life? I'd like the chance to find out!
As a parent I'd be more worried about my kid being targeted for being smart than stupid. Maybe in addition to a nice bracelet they should give the good scorers Jujitsu classes as well so they can protect themselves from the jocks.
Exactly, it's circular. People like what they hear so execs give us more of it to the point that's all we ever get. The same thing's happening with hollywood, nobody is willing to go off formula so we are getting the same movie formulas all the time.
There are 2 ways to look at these results. One is that out of all the music produced this formula is what the majority of people want to listen to, or it could be that this is what the record companies flog us because it's what they think we want to hear. Either way this is all that bands will be producing from now on, meaning less variety in music. It's a case of data driven choices gone mad.
My next album title's going to be I-III-IV, should make me a million.
Meaning we would have to wholesale re-engineer all vehicles at enormous expense, not a good idea when you cannot produce enough to matter.
I almost feel like politicians hear the words "farm" and "agricultural" and think, "We're 'Merica, we make technology....farming is for for the third world."
The best thing for our country would be a massive return to farming/agriculture. We would get better food with more nutrition, be self sufficient once again, and keep our money from flying out of the country. There's such a stigma against farming. Well, news flash. Unless we want to start deciding who gets to eat and who doesn't (and that's already happening in parts of the world), we need to refocus our efforts into growing useful stuff...not subsidizing corn to make ethanol. Corn's not even efficient for ethanol production...if you feel like we need to be making ethanol, start a new switch grass industry. That's efficient enough to where we wouldn't need to subsidize it.
To be successful, a country has to be self sufficient in either agriculture or technology. If all you do is grow food, you need to be able to trade food for technology, and vice versa. Unfortunately, we're not self sufficient in either and, unless that changes, we're going to be in a world of hurt in another 20 years down the road...
Are you kidding? We are already overfarming as it is! We are irrigating so much that the water table is THOUSANDS of feet down in many places. Farming more is simply going to make it worse.
The sugars in switchgrass are hard to free up, they haven't found a way to produce ethanol from switchgrass in a way that produces more energy than it uses.
The real problem with this wasn't that ethanol itself is a bad idea. It's not. It's that CORN is a very bad way to make ethanol because there's not much energy in it.
Well, that's not exactly true. Ethanol is actually a bad choice as a replacement for gasoline. First it only has 80% of the energy per unit of volume, meaning you will only get about 80-80% of the mileage off of it. Second, it evaporates very easily so there will be quite a bit of it that simply goes up into the air. Third, it is a solvent and eats away at seals and hoses. Fourth, it cannot use the same pipelines as gasoline for transportation, making it more expensive. All in all, not a good option.
If the US used every acre of cropland for biofuel feedstock production it would only be able to produce 40% of transportation fuel needs and then there'd be nothing to eat! It's impossible to make even a dent in fossil fuel usage with biofuels, and by trying we will make food more expensive for everyone and reduce the surplus that helps to feed the world's poor.
Hmm... Sounds like we need to shift our focus from propping up friendly puppet despots in oil-producing regions and start propping them up in agriculturally productive ones... Rising food prices(and a bit of judicious repression, good for the defense industry) should ensure a steady supply of squalid, desperate peasant labor to work the biofuel fields. We can't eat our cake and drive it too; but eating our cake and driving theirs is eminently possible...
You are definitely right in that biofuels imports would simply substitute one despot for another, however the problem is wherever it comes from it will still compete against the food on our tables and make food more expensive and scarce. It's already happened in places and I for one am not willing to have people starve so I can use biofuels that aren't really green. Ethanol is a poor substitute for gasoline as it only has 80% of the energy per unit of volume, and it has other properties that make it a bad choice for fuel. Add to that there's only 20% carbon saving compared to fossil fuels and there really is no point in using them.