I'm going to provide the same management advise I once gave to a relative. This may have already been said in this thread but I'll give it a go.
1. A manager's job doesn't involve "Knowing" anything; it involves knowing who knows it and connecting them to the people with the questions.
2. A manager doesn't solve or identify problems; a manager brings what could be problems to the people with the knowledge to solve them,
and then LISTENS to their advice before making a decision.
3. A manager is not an employee's friend, confidant or buddy, but their boss. So, no matter how much you may personally like the person,
if they work like jack shit fire them.
Just my 2 cents,
p.s. I seriously doubt I had much influence, but the relative in question went from a "team lead" position to manager of half a multinational's account base in 5 years.
Yes, thank you. It's not the final velocity attained, but the rate at which that velocity is obtained.
So, to paraphrase, for Rockets it's half about Acceleration and half about maximum Velocity.
For example a rocket that accelerates up to 100m/s in a minute but then can not accelerate further is a worse choice than a rocket that constantly accelerated at a speed of 1m/s2. Only if, the former rocket would not have reached it's goal before the later rocket reached a speed high enough to negate the inital gain of the first rocket.
Correct me if I happen to be mistaken, but what physics and maths I attended state that the greek Delta translates in equations as the phrase "change in".
So, therefore, Delta-V = change in V (or change in Velocity).
If, "Delta-V for rockets is all about the final velocity obtained". Why is the symbol Delta used instead of one for maximum?
Actually, I believe the problem is that the 32bit timer was used as a date stamp for the database listing the current position of the planes or which planes were expected.
when the value rolled over, while the system still had room for more entries, the data was improperly ordered with current flights mixed with those from 49.7 days ago..
just a guess, but it seems like an error I had to fix with a y2k-type problem.
You are unfortunately both forgetting the true measure of the efficiency or worth of a power generations medium.... Does the amount of energy over the lifetime of the producer outweigh the cost of manufacture and maintenance of said producer?
Aka.. Does it cost more to build and run than can conceivably be gotten out of it given near infinite working lifetime, if the math says your in the red constantly no matter if labor cost or counted or not then you're screwed.. Otherwise it's a viable method.
It is grossly inefficient to use fossil fuels to generate power on an energy in/out scale however the energy in is negligent as 99% of it was done millions of years ago. Currently you get a lot more power than it cost to mine and ship and burn it. So... currently it's a viable method of energy use.
Fsck now the species will die out in a handful of generations.
Nerds in general usually get laid a handful of times so no more babies, unless they find a geek grrl.
hmm, on the other hand if we are all nerds then all girls must be a derivitive of or similar to a geek grrl (who can be the most attractive in my opinion, aka a girl who like geek stuff, is smart, and still sexy)......
I believe I have a unique method of password selection for passwords I care about.
I read a lot of sci-fi/fantasy books. So, I just choose a secondary or obsure character from the book (usually end up with a name like Thwyrriel). If it needs a number I choose a page the names on, not neccesarily the first one.
Since even if someone else read the book and knows you read it, unless you talk about it they won't know which out of the multiple obscure characters you choose.
hey, a question for those with more knowledge than me.
Would it be possible to have the individual nodes of the array be cell phone towers using the existing signals they are constantly transmitting for use in radar imaging. I understand the wavelength is different, but would cell phone length waves still interfere enough to return a proper reading?
just a thought of using a existing setup for data.
While admittedly the Slashdot elite botched the interview questions. They did peak my interest.
After reading Georgy's issue stance, I'm curious if politician has hard answers to their issue platform. While I think that Georgy is by far the best candidate (too bad I'm not a Californian), like all politicians she seems to only vaguely state her stance and platforms. In most cases if not all, she is citing more problems then solutions. I for one will become an avid voter and supporter of any candidate that has a solution I admire and believe in long before I vote for one that just agrees that there is a problem.
I'm curious if Georgy or anyone else running has any solutions to offer.
The only thing most individuals/corporations truly understand is money. So, Make it simple, have anyone who is issued a patent that is overturned or has prior art pay back twice the royalties they earned. Also make it free to challenge a patent or a very small reasonable fee like $50.
This should grossly reduce the stupid profit only patents.
The light does not really travel through the chamber at all, so therefore it does not travel faster than the speed of light. What occurs is that the highly excited cesium atoms act in a manner similar to einstein-boseium condesate for purposes of light absorbtion. The atoms exist in such an exited state that they can neither absorb nor reflect the light pulse. The atoms at the end of the tube emit the light at the same time as the atoms at the begining absorb the light, because the atoms are so highly excited they must emit light before than can absorb any. The leading edge spoken of is a gedanken construct to explaing the reverse wave of negative light that propogates from the end of the chamber to the begining. When the negative light wave hits the original light wave they cancel each other out. The emited energy of the mirror of the negative wave(which is the wave of light that is emitted from the end of the tube) is identical to the original pulse and is emitted from the end of the tube at the same instant the original pulse enters.
When I was in grade school, my teacher, my principal, and my counselor believed I had a learning disability (I do, I learn too quickly for school;). So the suggested I be put on rydalin.
My mother went and discussed the possiblity with my doctor. Fortunately, both of them were doubtful of the need. So, my mother secretly put me on rydalin for a couple of weeks.
The brilliant school administrators called and asked if I had been placed on rydalin yet each week, again strongly suggesting I begin taking the drug. They Brilliant Administrators could not tell the differance.
we need a better method of teaching kids than at the pace of the slowest learner amoung them.
The main problem in the schools today is a lack of funding. However, this lack comes not from a unwillingness to have children learn,but from a lack of return on the investment. The government knows that our schools are horrible, but have no clue on how to fix them. Some think that throwing money at them is the solution. Others think we need more teachers. Some think it is better equipment.
None of these is truly the problem. The problem is we use the same division of subjects that students were taught at the end of the Middle Ages.
For instance, Math teaches you about logic and patterns. Great, a useful skill. What about the impact advancements in math had on say history, or science, or even politics. An example, pythagoris's [sic] theorem that allows people to calculate distance of the edges of triangles. It allowed the romans the abilty to better plan their attacks.
The point (yes, i know i took my time) is that all ideas have an impact on their world and most importantly spawn more ideas. It is these connections between ideas that shaped history, technology, and our entire society. Communism was created from the same set of ideas that spawned the american revolution (with different emphasie[sic]).
Look at how history is taught. In 1492 stuff happened... in 1493 some other stuff happened. Not in 1492 columbus discovered america this impacted spain in this manner..., the natives in this manner, ect....
Or science, (at least until high school) today chemistry, tommorow geology. How are our children to learn if they are just told to memorize a series of facts and not even shown how they relate. Children aren't born with efficient signal to noise filters. They must be developed. By showing them the signals, they can then recognize them in the noise.
If we teach our children to think in terms of ideas and their impact, then they will know how to learn, think and react to their world. Perhaps even better than we do.
Personally, I like the concept of a information market. While I think information should be free (speech, not beer), most people tend to think that things tend to be worth what you pay for them. Think if we had to pay for each news story, people would care a lot more about the news and we would have a much stronger impact as to its quality. The same holds true for all types of knowledge. If someone discovered a way to produce nearly free (beer) electricity and decided to free (speech) the process, most people would think it was a good as free beer (namely you might as well poor it down the urinal to save your body the trouble). But if you surround it with legal bindings and charge a nominal fee (just enough to through off the suspecion your giving it away) people will flock to obtain it. Look at the retail market, this is how things work. Remember the line of the archtypial overspending wife "But honey, I got it on Sale". So, selling information will bring home how valuable it really is and line a few piggybanks in the process;).
The largest aspect of the gnu/linux success is the openess. It filled a niche when it came out, but so did the bsd's. The difference was that it was easier for users to fix problems in linux than any of the bsd's due to the licensing (gpl). Not that user's couldn't fix bugs in bsd, just that it wa easier under the gpl. This (and a number of crazed advocates) is the reason everyone is looking to linux instead of a bsd. ------------------ beware the penguins. there comming. -----------
yes, after he had already had conceived of general relativity. he went to university to find out if he was right and learn the math and theory to prove or disprove his theories.
Probabillity waveforms and dimentions
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Time Doesn't Exist
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The author's concepts are still in the fuzzy and less than well-defined state. Let me see if I can clarify.
The author is stating that the universe exists not as a stream of connected events but as a steam of collapsed probability waveforms. Whenever any observer takes a measurement of a now the waveform collapses to a specific set of platonia (the author's title for all set of all possible configurations of all particles in the universe). Since we as living things are, fairly constantly, observing the universe at large, the waveforms collapse at very similar configurations. Our brains (adapted to find patterns in chaos to enable us to have the evolutionary advantage of reasonably predicting the future for extremely short intervals) to link the events together as a causality stream. When in fact the most that causality is, is the maximizing of certain probabilities that we commonly associate with other events.
In truth our perception of space-time itself is nothing more than our brain linking measurable qualities of macroscopic configurations of particles into a framework we can understand (well most of us;) and manipulate. The concepts of the three dimensions or and other measurable event is merely our brains labeling of the interaction of particles to increase or decrease the probability of different configurations of Platonia.
And now the poor attempt at the math.
Each configuration of set P(Platonia) has associated probality p(for sake of arguement lets assume that it is an adaptive value) and a series of measurable qualities Mn that define obeservable phenomenom for a given now. so that
pn=Pn/(Mn-M(n-1))
Mn=E[all measurable qualities of all particles in the universe for any given NOW].
So that for
(Mn-M(n-1))
as the perviced time between any two observations decreases delta M decreases and approches zero yielding an almost certainty.
(of course some of you who actually got past mor than the first year of calculas can elaborate. )
Weird_one
--------- Then again I could just have been hallucinating.
Microsoft (hence to be known as blind, deaf, loud, and stupid (in a diabolical, evil-genius kinda-way)) is running their site on either windows 98(unlikely) or NT3.0. Funny the article keeps refering to the stability of 4.0 you would at least think they would buy their own hype.
-"Never underestimate the power of human stupidity" R.A.H or microsoft marketing (opps. redundancy error)
"Clockwork orange" for "1984"? The paranoid must control everything government is starting already. Well, at least we can count on their general incompetence to help us prevent the destruction of the bane of all public education systems--thinking for yourself.
Don't get me wrong. I think kids should be educated, but also taught how to think rather than regurgitate info.
Slashdot Mirror
I think I understand that laser light is covailent or along the same polar plane, and the normal light is not.
Would it be possible to create a lense that allows only non-laser light thru?
should I post this to ask slashdot?
I'm going to provide the same management advise I once gave to a relative. This may have already been said in this thread but I'll give it a go.
1. A manager's job doesn't involve "Knowing" anything; it involves knowing who knows it and connecting them to the people with the questions.
2. A manager doesn't solve or identify problems; a manager brings what could be problems to the people with the knowledge to solve them,
and then LISTENS to their advice before making a decision.
3. A manager is not an employee's friend, confidant or buddy, but their boss. So, no matter how much you may personally like the person,
if they work like jack shit fire them.
Just my 2 cents,
p.s. I seriously doubt I had much influence, but the relative in question went from a "team lead" position to manager of half a multinational's account base in 5 years.
Yes, thank you.
It's not the final velocity attained, but the rate at which that velocity is obtained.
So, to paraphrase, for Rockets it's half about Acceleration and half about maximum Velocity.
For example a rocket that accelerates up to 100m/s in a minute but then can not accelerate further is a worse choice than a rocket that constantly accelerated at a speed of 1m/s2. Only if, the former rocket would not have reached it's goal before the later rocket reached a speed high enough to negate the inital gain of the first rocket.
Correct me if I happen to be mistaken, but what physics and maths I attended state that the greek Delta translates in equations as the phrase "change in".
So, therefore, Delta-V = change in V (or change in Velocity).
If, "Delta-V for rockets is all about the final velocity obtained".
Why is the symbol Delta used instead of one for maximum?
Actually, I believe the problem is that the 32bit timer was used as a date stamp for the database listing the current position of the planes or which planes were expected.
when the value rolled over, while the system still had room for more entries, the data was improperly ordered with current flights mixed with those from 49.7 days ago..
just a guess, but it seems like an error I had to fix with a y2k-type problem.
You are unfortunately both forgetting the true measure of the efficiency or worth of a power generations medium.... Does the amount of energy over the lifetime of the producer outweigh the cost of manufacture and maintenance of said producer?
Aka.. Does it cost more to build and run than can conceivably be gotten out of it given near infinite working lifetime, if the math says your in the red constantly no matter if labor cost or counted or not then you're screwed.. Otherwise it's a viable method.
It is grossly inefficient to use fossil fuels to generate power on an energy in/out scale however the energy in is negligent as 99% of it was done millions of years ago. Currently you get a lot more power than it cost to mine and ship and burn it. So... currently it's a viable method of energy use.
ECT... ad nauseum.
Isn't this the same lander that had the metric verses imperial measurement issue?
So, I now believe the real problem is it can't decide whether to boot linux or windows before sending info back.
Either that, or it just blew up with shiny bits scattered around.
Fsck now the species will die out in a handful of generations.
Nerds in general usually get laid a handful of times so no more babies, unless they find a geek grrl.
hmm, on the other hand if we are all nerds then all girls must be a derivitive of or similar to a geek grrl (who can be the most attractive in my opinion, aka a girl who like geek stuff, is smart, and still sexy)......
I welcome this new world.:-D
I believe I have a unique method of password selection for passwords I care about.
I read a lot of sci-fi/fantasy books. So, I just choose a secondary or obsure character from the book (usually end up with a name like Thwyrriel). If it needs a number I choose a page the names on, not neccesarily the first one.
Since even if someone else read the book and knows you read it, unless you talk about it they won't know which out of the multiple obscure characters you choose.
Just thought I'd share.
hey, a question for those with more knowledge than me.
Would it be possible to have the individual nodes of the array be cell phone towers using the existing signals they are constantly transmitting for use in radar imaging. I understand the wavelength is different, but would cell phone length waves still interfere enough to return a proper reading?
just a thought of using a existing setup for data.
While admittedly the Slashdot elite botched the interview questions. They did peak my
interest.
After reading Georgy's issue stance, I'm curious if politician has hard
answers to their issue platform. While I think that Georgy is by far the best
candidate (too bad I'm not a Californian), like all politicians she seems to only
vaguely state her stance and platforms. In most cases if not all, she is citing more
problems then solutions. I for one will become an avid voter and supporter of any
candidate that has a solution I admire and believe in long before I vote for one that
just agrees that there is a problem.
I'm curious if Georgy or anyone else running has any solutions to offer.
The only thing most individuals/corporations truly understand is money. So, Make it simple,
have anyone who is issued a patent that is overturned or has prior art pay back twice the royalties they earned. Also make it free to challenge a patent or a very small reasonable fee like $50.
This should grossly reduce the stupid profit only patents.
'yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss' 2001-03-06 09:58:00
The light does not really travel through the chamber at all,
so therefore it does not travel faster than the speed of light. What occurs is that the highly
excited cesium atoms act in a manner similar to einstein-boseium condesate for purposes of light
absorbtion. The atoms exist in such an exited state that they can neither absorb nor reflect the light
pulse. The atoms at the end of the tube emit the light at the same time as the atoms at the
begining absorb the light, because the atoms are so highly excited they must emit light before
than can absorb any. The leading edge spoken of is a gedanken construct to explaing the reverse
wave of negative light that propogates from the end of the chamber to the begining. When
the negative light wave hits the original light wave they cancel each other out. The emited energy
of the mirror of the negative wave(which is the wave of light that is emitted from the end of the tube)
is identical to the original pulse and is emitted from the end of the tube at the same instant
the original pulse enters.
hope this helps explain things.
weird one
I agree.
;). So the suggested I be put on rydalin.
When I was in grade school, my teacher, my principal, and my counselor believed I had a learning disability (I do, I learn too quickly for school
My mother went and discussed the possiblity with my doctor. Fortunately, both of them were doubtful of the need. So, my mother secretly put me on rydalin for a couple of weeks.
The brilliant school administrators called and asked if I had been placed on rydalin yet each week, again strongly suggesting I begin taking the drug. They Brilliant Administrators could not tell the differance.
we need a better method of teaching kids than at the pace of the slowest learner amoung them.
The main problem in the schools today is a lack of funding. However, this lack comes not from a unwillingness to have children learn,but from a lack of return on the investment. The government knows that our schools are horrible, but have no clue on how to fix them. Some think that throwing money at them is the solution. Others think we need more teachers. Some think it is better equipment.
None of these is truly the problem. The problem is we use the same division of subjects that students were taught at the end of the Middle Ages.
For instance, Math teaches you about logic and patterns. Great, a useful skill. What about the impact advancements in math had on say history, or science, or even politics. An example, pythagoris's [sic] theorem that allows people to calculate distance of the edges of triangles. It allowed the romans the abilty to better plan their attacks.
The point (yes, i know i took my time) is that all ideas have an impact on their world and most importantly spawn more ideas. It is these connections between ideas that shaped history, technology, and our entire society. Communism was created from the same set of ideas that spawned the american revolution (with different emphasie[sic]).
Look at how history is taught. In 1492 stuff happened... in 1493 some other stuff happened. Not in 1492 columbus discovered america this impacted spain in this manner..., the natives in this manner, ect....
Or science, (at least until high school) today chemistry, tommorow geology. How are our children to learn if they are just told to memorize a series of facts and not even shown how they relate. Children aren't born with efficient signal to noise filters. They must be developed. By showing them the signals, they can then recognize them in the noise.
If we teach our children to think in terms of ideas and their impact, then they will know how to learn, think and react to their world. Perhaps even better than we do.
Personally, I like the concept of a information market. While I think information should be free (speech, not beer), most people tend to think that things tend to be worth what you pay for them. Think if we had to pay for each news story, people would care a lot more about the news and we would have a much stronger impact as to its quality. The same holds true for all types of knowledge. If someone discovered a way to produce nearly free (beer) electricity and decided to free (speech) the process, most people would think it was a good as free beer (namely you might as well poor it down the urinal to save your body the trouble). But if you surround it with legal bindings and charge a nominal fee (just enough to through off the suspecion your giving it away) people will flock to obtain it. Look at the retail market, this is how things work. Remember the line of the archtypial overspending wife "But honey, I got it on Sale". So, selling information will bring home how valuable it really is and line a few piggybanks in the process ;).
The largest aspect of the gnu/linux success is the openess. It filled a niche when it came out, but so did the bsd's. The difference was that it was easier for users to fix problems in linux than any of the bsd's due to the licensing (gpl). Not that user's couldn't fix bugs in bsd, just that it wa easier under the gpl. This (and a number of crazed advocates) is the reason everyone is looking to linux instead of a bsd. ------------------ beware the penguins. there comming. -----------
yes, after he had already had conceived of general relativity. he went to university to find out if he was right and learn the math and theory to prove or disprove his theories.
The author's concepts are still in the fuzzy and less than well-defined state. Let me see if I can clarify.
;) and manipulate. The concepts of the three dimensions or and other measurable event is merely our brains labeling of the interaction of particles to increase or decrease the probability of different configurations of Platonia.
The author is stating that the universe exists not as a stream of connected events but as a steam of collapsed probability waveforms. Whenever any observer takes a measurement of a now the waveform collapses to a specific set of platonia (the author's title for all set of all possible configurations of all particles in the universe). Since we as living things are, fairly constantly, observing the universe at large, the waveforms collapse at very similar configurations. Our brains (adapted to find patterns in chaos to enable us to have the evolutionary advantage of reasonably predicting the future for extremely short intervals) to link the events together as a causality stream. When in fact the most that causality is, is the maximizing of certain probabilities that we commonly associate with other events.
In truth our perception of space-time itself is nothing more than our brain linking measurable qualities of macroscopic configurations of particles into a framework we can understand (well most of us
And now the poor attempt at the math.
Each configuration of set P(Platonia) has associated probality p(for sake of arguement lets assume that it is an adaptive value) and a series of measurable qualities Mn that define obeservable phenomenom for a given now. so that
pn=Pn/(Mn-M(n-1))
Mn=E[all measurable qualities of all particles in the universe for any given NOW].
So that for
(Mn-M(n-1))
as the perviced time between any two observations decreases delta M decreases and approches zero yielding an almost certainty.
(of course some of you who actually got past mor than the first year of calculas can elaborate. )
Weird_one
---------
Then again I could just have been hallucinating.
Microsoft (hence to be known as blind, deaf, loud, and stupid (in a diabolical, evil-genius kinda-way)) is running their site on either windows 98(unlikely) or NT3.0. Funny the article keeps refering to the stability of 4.0 you would at least think they would buy their own hype.
-"Never underestimate the power of human stupidity" R.A.H
or microsoft marketing (opps. redundancy error)
"Clockwork orange" for "1984"? The paranoid must control everything government is starting already. Well, at least we can count on their general incompetence to help us prevent the destruction of the bane of all public education systems--thinking for yourself.
Don't get me wrong. I think kids should be educated, but also taught how to think rather than regurgitate info.