How do you handle programmers? The same way you handle kindergarteners. Really, if you've ever had kids, you already have all the skills you need to manage engineers. Set clear expectations and priorities. Make sure they play nice with each other. Give them a shiny new toy when they've been good. As a manager, you filter all the information coming from above. Good managers filter out the pressure and bullshit and only on passes on information that gives the programmers a good idea of what their goals and priorities should be. Bad managers just pass on the shitting on they get from their managers along to their underlings, sometimes even amplifying it.
This recession was caused by GREED, facilitated by deregulation that started before Bush, but was greatly helped along by the Bush administration's apparent policy of always putting the fox in charge of guarding the hen house. But you have to admit, Bush's strategy for bringing down the price of gasoline has really worked! Next time perhaps you SUV drivers should be a little more careful what you pray for...
the results suggest that galaxies form around giant black holes in the way that a pearl forms around grit.
You mean, pearls are formed by nacre spiraling in towards the grit, inexorably drawn by the forces of gravity??? All this time I thought they were formed by bivalves secreting the substance around the grit to protect themselves from irritation -- silly me! Can somebody please explain this with a car analogy instead?
Dude, the mistake you made is you should have sent Al Gore back in time to invent the internet sooner, instead of sending Mel Gibson back to have sex with Hitler's mom! If you're gonna build a time machine, THINK before you violate the law of causality! It's not like you'll ever get a do-over on interfering with the past!
I'm not an RF Engineer, but I suspect that the periodic transmissions the iPhone sends to the cell tower would wreck havoc with FM reception -- in other words, you could use it to listen to FM music only if you turned the cell phone feature off first. Also might not work with Bluetooth enabled, even though that is a much weaker signal, so forget about listening to the radio on bluetooth headphones... besides which, if you've got an iPhone, can't you stream most radio stations over the 3G network?
I hadn't thought of using it to play your MP3s through your car stereo. Just bear in mind that all 3 of these radio services are mutually exclusive, and although you can time division multiplex between 802.11n and Bluetooth, if you are doing FM, that is pretty much the only thing you can do for the whole time. FM wireless transmission in a car is very much subject to interference; even the cassette tape emulator my wife uses to play her iPod on her car stereo works better. Ideally, car stereos would just come with a USB connector on the front panel! By the way, I've tried streaming hi-def videos over 802.11n to my MacBook while listening to the audio on Bluetooth stereo headphones and it DOES NOT WORK. There is just enough audio dropout over the Bluetooth to be extremely annoying; I don't know whether or not it can be fixed in firmware. Putting all your radios in the same chip should make it easier to time division multiplex them.
Reminds of the time I took a Rorschach ink blot test. For every ink blot shown, I responded that it reminded me of sex. At the conclusion, the psychiatrist said "Mr. Locke, you appear to be obsessed with sex!" to which I replied "What do you mean me?!? YOU are the one that drew all those dirty pictures!"
Yes, downtime is important. But for myself, I prefer my downtime to be a little less like work (the same reason I don't play bridge; it requires too much thinking). While it may be possible for some people to just wander around and talk to other people, I'm much too results oriented, and am driven to learn as much as I can about the character class I'm playing, try to optimize the order of quest completion, constantly upgrade my equipment, and level grind. I've even been known to criticize my daughter for not taking her current quest seriously. (I helped my daughter's Warlock get an imp. It told her "Give me a break!" so she took it swimming in the river, because it obviously needed a break!) Other people may be able to play without taking it so seriously. I do believe games that have a social aspect are much better than to single-player vs. computer games (e.g. most of the entertainment value in Runescape comes from talking to the other players). If you believe playing WoW has value for you, then by all means do so... but don't kid yourself that you're actually accomplishing anything.
Well, it is essentially mental masturbation, but it is done in a 3D rendered environment that is absolutely gorgeous! (Flying place to place on a griffen was actually fun.) "Playing" WoW is actually a lot of work; there is so much to learn. I guess it operates on the same principle as fraternities -- it's so difficult to get through being a pledge or to get to a high level, that people mentally assign a very high value to being part of it in order to justify the effort they have already expended. So whereas I would recommend it for kids with too much time on their hands or people trapped in a hospital or other institution because it does provide the illusion of actually having accomplished something, I would not recommended it for people who have jobs and kids of their own to support, as they almost certainly have more important things to do with their time. Full disclosure -- I've only played a free 10-day trial of WoW before giving it up, but my 7-year old daughter really enjoyed creating new characters. Also, although the penalty for dying is very small (mostly costs you time to run from graveyard back to where you died), it still stings when you get killed, and can leave me depressed for the rest of the day.
With this new technology, I'm pretty sure my wife can power our entire house! Of course things will get pretty dark and cold when she's not home, but that happens already anyway.
With a name like "Zvi Devir" and a home in Haifa, I think there's a good chance he's not Catholic! That being said, he should be called an Israeli, not a Jew.
We need to support every reasonable alternative to oil.
The key word here is "reasonable". Given the current state of battery technology, the price/performance of a pure electric car is not "reasonable". Face it -- the reason we've been using gas is that it is frickin' cheap by comparison. Alternative fuels don't become economically feasible until gas costs more than $3/gallon. Want to really encourage the development of alternative energy sources? Then slap a $3/gallon tax on gasoline and watch how fast people switch to other fuels. (Note that the UK already charges $3.80/gallon in total tax, while the US still charges $0.47/gallon.)
I would greatly prefer the money to go to companies with *vision* rather than to companies that will waste the money making hybrid SUVs.
I think most American taxpayers would object to the US government bailing out Toyota, Honda, and Nissan!
You can't build any purely electric car with a decent range without putting $30,000 worth of batteries in it. So Joe Sixpack isn't going to be able to afford it no matter what you do. If your going to spend money, spend it either on making cheaper hybrids, or on basic battery research. Plug in hybrids are what we need right now, but no major auto company will have them available for sale until 2010. Excellent planning, dudes!
Ever see "Victor, Victoria", where the title character (Julie Andrews) got rave reviews as a female impersonator because she actually _was_ a woman pretending to be a man? How long before some robot actor gets lauded for being "so lifelike, just like a human", and then we discover that it's really a human actor inside a robot suit? Weren't there actually people inside CP30 and R2D2 (at least in some shots)?
"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for
authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place
of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their
households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They
contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties
at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers."
-- Socrates
"What is happening to our young
people? They disrespect their elders, they disobey their parents. They
ignore the law. They riot in the streets inflamed with wild notions.
Their morals are decaying. What is to become of them?"
-- Plato
"I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on
frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond
words... When I was young, we were taught to be discreet and
respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly disrespectful and impatient of restraint"
The scheme involves a number of ground-breaking proposals to encourage the adoption of electric vehicles, including speeding up the installation of electric vehicle charging outlets on streets and in homes, and offering incentives for companies to install charging stations in the workplace.
On streets?!? Gee, what could possible go wrong with that... nobody would be tempted to, say, unplug that cable from your car and steal the power you are paying for, now would they? How many companies (other than government contractors like Lockheed) have secure parking lots? What's to stop me from plugging in my motor home and living there? Have they really thought about all the different ways this system can be abused? Wouldn't a simple battery-exchange program(just like the propane-tank exchange they already have at Lowe's/Home Depo) work a lot better?
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No connection. Palin is such a media whore that she set the fire herself to try to keep her name in the news.
How do you handle programmers? The same way you handle kindergarteners. Really, if you've ever had kids, you already have all the skills you need to manage engineers. Set clear expectations and priorities. Make sure they play nice with each other. Give them a shiny new toy when they've been good. As a manager, you filter all the information coming from above. Good managers filter out the pressure and bullshit and only on passes on information that gives the programmers a good idea of what their goals and priorities should be. Bad managers just pass on the shitting on they get from their managers along to their underlings, sometimes even amplifying it.
This recession was caused by GREED, facilitated by deregulation that started before Bush, but was greatly helped along by the Bush administration's apparent policy of always putting the fox in charge of guarding the hen house. But you have to admit, Bush's strategy for bringing down the price of gasoline has really worked! Next time perhaps you SUV drivers should be a little more careful what you pray for...
It will be about as difficult for Windows 7 to be a better OS than Vista as it is for Obama to be a better president than Bush!
This analogy is more appropriate because unlike pearls, both black holes and pile-ups on the Autobahn really suck!
I'm surprised Stark's reply didn't include the phrase "see figure one". My reply certainly would have!
You mean, pearls are formed by nacre spiraling in towards the grit, inexorably drawn by the forces of gravity??? All this time I thought they were formed by bivalves secreting the substance around the grit to protect themselves from irritation -- silly me! Can somebody please explain this with a car analogy instead?
Dude, the mistake you made is you should have sent Al Gore back in time to invent the internet sooner, instead of sending Mel Gibson back to have sex with Hitler's mom! If you're gonna build a time machine, THINK before you violate the law of causality! It's not like you'll ever get a do-over on interfering with the past!
I'm not an RF Engineer, but I suspect that the periodic transmissions the iPhone sends to the cell tower would wreck havoc with FM reception -- in other words, you could use it to listen to FM music only if you turned the cell phone feature off first. Also might not work with Bluetooth enabled, even though that is a much weaker signal, so forget about listening to the radio on bluetooth headphones... besides which, if you've got an iPhone, can't you stream most radio stations over the 3G network?
I hadn't thought of using it to play your MP3s through your car stereo. Just bear in mind that all 3 of these radio services are mutually exclusive, and although you can time division multiplex between 802.11n and Bluetooth, if you are doing FM, that is pretty much the only thing you can do for the whole time. FM wireless transmission in a car is very much subject to interference; even the cassette tape emulator my wife uses to play her iPod on her car stereo works better. Ideally, car stereos would just come with a USB connector on the front panel! By the way, I've tried streaming hi-def videos over 802.11n to my MacBook while listening to the audio on Bluetooth stereo headphones and it DOES NOT WORK. There is just enough audio dropout over the Bluetooth to be extremely annoying; I don't know whether or not it can be fixed in firmware. Putting all your radios in the same chip should make it easier to time division multiplex them.
Reminds of the time I took a Rorschach ink blot test. For every ink blot shown, I responded that it reminded me of sex. At the conclusion, the psychiatrist said "Mr. Locke, you appear to be obsessed with sex!" to which I replied "What do you mean me?!? YOU are the one that drew all those dirty pictures!"
That would be used for what, exactly?
Yes, downtime is important. But for myself, I prefer my downtime to be a little less like work (the same reason I don't play bridge; it requires too much thinking). While it may be possible for some people to just wander around and talk to other people, I'm much too results oriented, and am driven to learn as much as I can about the character class I'm playing, try to optimize the order of quest completion, constantly upgrade my equipment, and level grind. I've even been known to criticize my daughter for not taking her current quest seriously. (I helped my daughter's Warlock get an imp. It told her "Give me a break!" so she took it swimming in the river, because it obviously needed a break!) Other people may be able to play without taking it so seriously. I do believe games that have a social aspect are much better than to single-player vs. computer games (e.g. most of the entertainment value in Runescape comes from talking to the other players). If you believe playing WoW has value for you, then by all means do so... but don't kid yourself that you're actually accomplishing anything.
Well, it is essentially mental masturbation, but it is done in a 3D rendered environment that is absolutely gorgeous! (Flying place to place on a griffen was actually fun.) "Playing" WoW is actually a lot of work; there is so much to learn. I guess it operates on the same principle as fraternities -- it's so difficult to get through being a pledge or to get to a high level, that people mentally assign a very high value to being part of it in order to justify the effort they have already expended. So whereas I would recommend it for kids with too much time on their hands or people trapped in a hospital or other institution because it does provide the illusion of actually having accomplished something, I would not recommended it for people who have jobs and kids of their own to support, as they almost certainly have more important things to do with their time. Full disclosure -- I've only played a free 10-day trial of WoW before giving it up, but my 7-year old daughter really enjoyed creating new characters. Also, although the penalty for dying is very small (mostly costs you time to run from graveyard back to where you died), it still stings when you get killed, and can leave me depressed for the rest of the day.
Does that mean xkcd is now considered child pr0n in Australia? Those characters sure look under 18 to me!
Great... so how do you explain the average British Comedian's penchant for dressing up in drag?
With this new technology, I'm pretty sure my wife can power our entire house! Of course things will get pretty dark and cold when she's not home, but that happens already anyway.
With a name like "Zvi Devir" and a home in Haifa, I think there's a good chance he's not Catholic! That being said, he should be called an Israeli, not a Jew.
The key word here is "reasonable". Given the current state of battery technology, the price/performance of a pure electric car is not "reasonable". Face it -- the reason we've been using gas is that it is frickin' cheap by comparison. Alternative fuels don't become economically feasible until gas costs more than $3/gallon. Want to really encourage the development of alternative energy sources? Then slap a $3/gallon tax on gasoline and watch how fast people switch to other fuels. (Note that the UK already charges $3.80/gallon in total tax, while the US still charges $0.47/gallon.)
I would greatly prefer the money to go to companies with *vision* rather than to companies that will waste the money making hybrid SUVs.
I think most American taxpayers would object to the US government bailing out Toyota, Honda, and Nissan!
You can't build any purely electric car with a decent range without putting $30,000 worth of batteries in it. So Joe Sixpack isn't going to be able to afford it no matter what you do. If your going to spend money, spend it either on making cheaper hybrids, or on basic battery research. Plug in hybrids are what we need right now, but no major auto company will have them available for sale until 2010. Excellent planning, dudes!
I, for one, welcome our immortal rodent overlords!
Ever see "Victor, Victoria", where the title character (Julie Andrews) got rave reviews as a female impersonator because she actually _was_ a woman pretending to be a man? How long before some robot actor gets lauded for being "so lifelike, just like a human", and then we discover that it's really a human actor inside a robot suit? Weren't there actually people inside CP30 and R2D2 (at least in some shots)?
"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers."
-- Socrates
"What is happening to our young people? They disrespect their elders, they disobey their parents. They ignore the law. They riot in the streets inflamed with wild notions. Their morals are decaying. What is to become of them?"
-- Plato
"I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words... When I was young, we were taught to be discreet and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly disrespectful and impatient of restraint"
-- Hesiod (8th century BC)
Now get off my lawn you damn kids!
The scheme involves a number of ground-breaking proposals to encourage the adoption of electric vehicles, including speeding up the installation of electric vehicle charging outlets on streets and in homes, and offering incentives for companies to install charging stations in the workplace.
On streets?!? Gee, what could possible go wrong with that... nobody would be tempted to, say, unplug that cable from your car and steal the power you are paying for, now would they? How many companies (other than government contractors like Lockheed) have secure parking lots? What's to stop me from plugging in my motor home and living there? Have they really thought about all the different ways this system can be abused? Wouldn't a simple battery-exchange program(just like the propane-tank exchange they already have at Lowe's/Home Depo) work a lot better?