People look into the cost of more efficient energy production and think it is a cost, but in reality it is an investment. Coal, oil and other traditional energy forms are at the end of their development curve (nucleair and fusion not yet though) but renewable energy is just starting.
It's like when a big company decided they would not go for development of LED-lights and keep focusing on the normal lightbulbs. What they forgot was that led-bulbs had a much higher cost-down potential than standard light bulbs and that this would not likely get much better for traditional light bulbs but would very likely improve a lot for LED-lights. The same goes with green energy - we're just at the start of it and there is still a lot of cost-down potential, new discoveries to be made, more efficiency to be gained.
I've worked for two government councils now and there are rather large differences between them. Even between different departments within the same city. And the big failed projects are ofcourse in the news but not the successful ones. So I wouldn't avoid it on principle if you were a freelancer. As for a permanent job, meh, you can always leave. Just make sure you rent, not buy.
Oh, and the smaller the council, the bigger your (positive or negative) impact. A small town with some good people running its IT dept. can be a great place to work.
Because if it saves me one hour of work, it saves me the 200 bucks (after taxes). And it saves me much more than that. So no complaint from me. Even at ten times the price I would still lose money going to Libre Office. Really, the initial investment is just meh. Only private individuals worry about that and they're not the biggest market for Microsoft anyway so prices are greatly reduced for that audience anyway (buy a license from a student who bought his license for 10 bucks, or buy the Home Office thingy for 99 dollars).
For businesses, it's the upkeep, training and general productivity of the majority of its workforce where the real money is spent.
Macros and templates I can understand, but seriously, what has the ribbon got to do with that?
Office 2007 improved my personal performance *for the tasks I do routinely, 90% of the time* with at least 20%. Since I write down all my activities rounded down to 15 minute intervals (for tax reasons) it is easy to see how much time I spend on doing administrative stuff. And that really was faster. But the biggest improvement was not with me but with my (computer illiterate) wife. After installing Office 2007 the number of questions about "how can I do this or that" dropped to near zero.
So I suspect strongly that for a lot of casual/standard users the ribbon is a huge improvement in usability, but for power-users (that use loads of macros and other things they shouldn't be doing in Office perhaps), it's only a small improvement at best or they have lost some (rarely used) options that make their life harder.
Which means that I think it will probably be a very cold day in Hell before Microsoft will change products, because the ones who complain the most are also the ones who can easily move to other products (or already did so), and the ones who benefit most (and measurably) make up 80% or more of the target audience.
So Albert Einstein would not have used computers? I doubt that that would be the case. He never struck me (from his biographies) as a man who was afraid to try new and useful inventions. Unlike the people working in your company, I might say:P
I think you hit the nail on the head. It's about time Aspect Oriented Computing was integrated into the compilers. If this works as advertised (*) I'm all for it.
(*) no need for cynical remarks here, I can think of them well enough myself, thanks:)
Protecting people from this kind of harassment is not a new item in law. The fact he did something on internet does not suddenly make it right or completely different. What he did is the equivalent of mailing death threats or insults to someone - those aren't protected by free speech-laws either. Depending on content, they are criminal in ALL the jurisdictions on the planet. It's not censorship, it's stopping a stalker with a history of this type of behavior.
Thank you for your opinion. I value it at a negative value. Basically worthless, but perhaps even less than that. I might want to charge you for the time I took reading it.
If you don't like this message, just ignore it. You're really thick-skinned. And thick-skulled. Shouldn't be a problem. After all, common human interactions are beyond you, so it's not like I'm hurting you or anything.
Hey, here's an idea: why don't you tell everyone the ads for deceased people are just "whoring". And all the people putting them up are pimps. Why not make it an article in the newspapers. You're so thick-skinned, I'm sure you can take the abuse that will follow.
Oh, did you start disliking me already? No problem, you have a thick skin. I'm sure you can take it.
Very few countries do. For several reasons. But the UK specifically has really un-cool laws concerning free speech. Mostly they're used to stop government critics, whistleblowers and paparazzi, to protect the wealthy. Sometimes they can also be used by commoners like ourselves, such as in this case.
You could say the same for cannibalism. Just don't look surprised when the police comes to take you away and puts you in the house with the other funny people in padded rooms.
There is a difference between being right in the abstract (yes, you are) and being a part of society. You can be right while society will have nothing to do with you. This is such a case. Yes, you can choose to be a cannibal. There are consequences for violating societies laws and customs however, as the troller discovered.
I'm not in favor of blindly accepting all the customs and morals of society - "the rubbish of ages" - but in this case there was no point in trolling except to hurt someone else. So good luck with the troller in jail, I hope he learns a bit. 18 weeks is, after all, not the end of his live.
Cool - she's basically doing his parenting, then, and socializing him. Because this is part of what upbringing is about: socializing your kids to the point they understand what is acceptable in society.
This was the virtual equivalent of defacing someones grave. Ignore that as well? Hey, it's merely offensive - no need to get upset about it. After all, you can always have it cleaned, even if I wrote on the stone that your mother slept with everyone. Take it like a man, it's just words...
If you don't see the problem with this, or its virtual equivalent, I suggest you talk to someone who had this happen to him or her. Might give you some perspective.
Except this was on the memorial page, which was unavoidable for the family to visit. And the troller knew that. Or would you like someone to deface the grave of your mother with the statement "hey, if you don't like it, just don't visit"? This is basically the same thing and the court looked upon it in the same light.
If he had posted this only on his own blog, and on youtube without posting a link on the memorial page, the sentence would probably have been much reduced if given at all. But that wouldn't have been fun, now would it?
I guess most people have learnt from Enron and Arthur Anderson Accountants that even the accountants can't be trusted once they get the benefits from closing their eyes. So while you are in all likelihood correct, the damage that has been done to the reputation of accountants the world over is pretty hard to repair.
I'm not arguing with the content of the study - I'm pretty sure it's an academic subject, I'm a CS major myself.
My problem is the name. It's giving the wrong signal to wanna-be students about the type of study it is. Even calling it Applied Maths With Calculating Devices would be better than Computer science in conveying what it means to follow this study.
Calling it Computer Science: everyone who ever touched a computer feels qualified to study the subject. Calling it Applied Maths: suddenly everyone who doesn't like maths will stay away. That's a win.
Calling this study "Computer Science" was marketing gone horribly wrong.
Same here - any university that doesn't teach you mathematics first, is a failure. And the name "computer studies" has a lot to do with that. Call it "Information Maths" or Information Science and expectations will change.
And neither includes Information Science, which is what you get taught elsewhere. Seriously: naming a study Computer Studies is asking for trouble. Give it a better name and include rigorous math. Computer Science is a big red sign telling everyone "vocational studies, not a real academic subject". Small wonder you don't get Ph.D's.
It is almost always better to move to another position while employed, because it doesn't give the hiring party a clue that you are desperate. It really impacts your salary otherwise at a lot of places and the redundancy pay rarely compensates, unless you are at the end of your career - not at the start.
Start looking for another job right now, while there is no hurry and you don't need to accept the first thing that gets offered. Also, moving out before the axe falls feels much better than getting replaced by someone else and getting kicked out.
If that had been the reason we would be drowning in zeppelins nowadays, as cars and airplanes have had a much worse track record and see what happened there.
The problem was more that it is really difficult to get them to fly profitable. You need ground crew, they're very sensitive to heavy winds and they take a lot of fuel compared to an airplane due to a distinctly un-aerodynamic profile.
This blimp seems to have solved most of the issues due to its shape, requiring no groundcrew and much more stable in the face of even heavy winds. I'm curious to see how the fuel efficiency works out.
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Which is something akin to creating a new version of Casablanca with an ending that has better appreciation by current sample audiences. Brrrr...
People look into the cost of more efficient energy production and think it is a cost, but in reality it is an investment. Coal, oil and other traditional energy forms are at the end of their development curve (nucleair and fusion not yet though) but renewable energy is just starting.
It's like when a big company decided they would not go for development of LED-lights and keep focusing on the normal lightbulbs. What they forgot was that led-bulbs had a much higher cost-down potential than standard light bulbs and that this would not likely get much better for traditional light bulbs but would very likely improve a lot for LED-lights. The same goes with green energy - we're just at the start of it and there is still a lot of cost-down potential, new discoveries to be made, more efficiency to be gained.
I've worked for two government councils now and there are rather large differences between them. Even between different departments within the same city. And the big failed projects are ofcourse in the news but not the successful ones. So I wouldn't avoid it on principle if you were a freelancer. As for a permanent job, meh, you can always leave. Just make sure you rent, not buy.
Oh, and the smaller the council, the bigger your (positive or negative) impact. A small town with some good people running its IT dept. can be a great place to work.
Because if it saves me one hour of work, it saves me the 200 bucks (after taxes). And it saves me much more than that. So no complaint from me. Even at ten times the price I would still lose money going to Libre Office. Really, the initial investment is just meh. Only private individuals worry about that and they're not the biggest market for Microsoft anyway so prices are greatly reduced for that audience anyway (buy a license from a student who bought his license for 10 bucks, or buy the Home Office thingy for 99 dollars).
For businesses, it's the upkeep, training and general productivity of the majority of its workforce where the real money is spent.
Macros and templates I can understand, but seriously, what has the ribbon got to do with that?
Office 2007 improved my personal performance *for the tasks I do routinely, 90% of the time* with at least 20%. Since I write down all my activities rounded down to 15 minute intervals (for tax reasons) it is easy to see how much time I spend on doing administrative stuff. And that really was faster. But the biggest improvement was not with me but with my (computer illiterate) wife. After installing Office 2007 the number of questions about "how can I do this or that" dropped to near zero.
So I suspect strongly that for a lot of casual/standard users the ribbon is a huge improvement in usability, but for power-users (that use loads of macros and other things they shouldn't be doing in Office perhaps), it's only a small improvement at best or they have lost some (rarely used) options that make their life harder.
Which means that I think it will probably be a very cold day in Hell before Microsoft will change products, because the ones who complain the most are also the ones who can easily move to other products (or already did so), and the ones who benefit most (and measurably) make up 80% or more of the target audience.
So Albert Einstein would not have used computers? I doubt that that would be the case. He never struck me (from his biographies) as a man who was afraid to try new and useful inventions. Unlike the people working in your company, I might say :P
I think you hit the nail on the head. It's about time Aspect Oriented Computing was integrated into the compilers. If this works as advertised (*) I'm all for it.
(*) no need for cynical remarks here, I can think of them well enough myself, thanks :)
They come in handy on those long, cold nights when first aid workers start telling each other stories about who pulled what out of whose anus :)
Okay: the guestbook at a funeral then. Doesn't change my point.
Protecting people from this kind of harassment is not a new item in law. The fact he did something on internet does not suddenly make it right or completely different. What he did is the equivalent of mailing death threats or insults to someone - those aren't protected by free speech-laws either. Depending on content, they are criminal in ALL the jurisdictions on the planet. It's not censorship, it's stopping a stalker with a history of this type of behavior.
Thank you for your opinion. I value it at a negative value. Basically worthless, but perhaps even less than that. I might want to charge you for the time I took reading it.
If you don't like this message, just ignore it. You're really thick-skinned. And thick-skulled. Shouldn't be a problem. After all, common human interactions are beyond you, so it's not like I'm hurting you or anything.
Hey, here's an idea: why don't you tell everyone the ads for deceased people are just "whoring". And all the people putting them up are pimps. Why not make it an article in the newspapers. You're so thick-skinned, I'm sure you can take the abuse that will follow.
Oh, did you start disliking me already? No problem, you have a thick skin. I'm sure you can take it.
Very few countries do. For several reasons. But the UK specifically has really un-cool laws concerning free speech. Mostly they're used to stop government critics, whistleblowers and paparazzi, to protect the wealthy. Sometimes they can also be used by commoners like ourselves, such as in this case.
You could say the same for cannibalism. Just don't look surprised when the police comes to take you away and puts you in the house with the other funny people in padded rooms.
There is a difference between being right in the abstract (yes, you are) and being a part of society. You can be right while society will have nothing to do with you. This is such a case. Yes, you can choose to be a cannibal. There are consequences for violating societies laws and customs however, as the troller discovered.
I'm not in favor of blindly accepting all the customs and morals of society - "the rubbish of ages" - but in this case there was no point in trolling except to hurt someone else. So good luck with the troller in jail, I hope he learns a bit. 18 weeks is, after all, not the end of his live.
Cool - she's basically doing his parenting, then, and socializing him. Because this is part of what upbringing is about: socializing your kids to the point they understand what is acceptable in society.
This was the virtual equivalent of defacing someones grave. Ignore that as well? Hey, it's merely offensive - no need to get upset about it. After all, you can always have it cleaned, even if I wrote on the stone that your mother slept with everyone. Take it like a man, it's just words...
If you don't see the problem with this, or its virtual equivalent, I suggest you talk to someone who had this happen to him or her. Might give you some perspective.
Except this was on the memorial page, which was unavoidable for the family to visit. And the troller knew that. Or would you like someone to deface the grave of your mother with the statement "hey, if you don't like it, just don't visit"? This is basically the same thing and the court looked upon it in the same light.
If he had posted this only on his own blog, and on youtube without posting a link on the memorial page, the sentence would probably have been much reduced if given at all. But that wouldn't have been fun, now would it?
I guess most people have learnt from Enron and Arthur Anderson Accountants that even the accountants can't be trusted once they get the benefits from closing their eyes. So while you are in all likelihood correct, the damage that has been done to the reputation of accountants the world over is pretty hard to repair.
I'd assume Killzone 3 or 4, more likely.
Oh good idea! I'm going to do that right now.
I'm not arguing with the content of the study - I'm pretty sure it's an academic subject, I'm a CS major myself.
My problem is the name. It's giving the wrong signal to wanna-be students about the type of study it is. Even calling it Applied Maths With Calculating Devices would be better than Computer science in conveying what it means to follow this study.
Calling it Computer Science: everyone who ever touched a computer feels qualified to study the subject.
Calling it Applied Maths: suddenly everyone who doesn't like maths will stay away. That's a win.
Calling this study "Computer Science" was marketing gone horribly wrong.
Same here - any university that doesn't teach you mathematics first, is a failure. And the name "computer studies" has a lot to do with that. Call it "Information Maths" or Information Science and expectations will change.
And neither includes Information Science, which is what you get taught elsewhere. Seriously: naming a study Computer Studies is asking for trouble. Give it a better name and include rigorous math. Computer Science is a big red sign telling everyone "vocational studies, not a real academic subject". Small wonder you don't get Ph.D's.
It is almost always better to move to another position while employed, because it doesn't give the hiring party a clue that you are desperate. It really impacts your salary otherwise at a lot of places and the redundancy pay rarely compensates, unless you are at the end of your career - not at the start.
Start looking for another job right now, while there is no hurry and you don't need to accept the first thing that gets offered. Also, moving out before the axe falls feels much better than getting replaced by someone else and getting kicked out.
If that had been the reason we would be drowning in zeppelins nowadays, as cars and airplanes have had a much worse track record and see what happened there.
The problem was more that it is really difficult to get them to fly profitable. You need ground crew, they're very sensitive to heavy winds and they take a lot of fuel compared to an airplane due to a distinctly un-aerodynamic profile.
This blimp seems to have solved most of the issues due to its shape, requiring no groundcrew and much more stable in the face of even heavy winds. I'm curious to see how the fuel efficiency works out.
But it was okay, because noone could see the presentation anyway.