Again, I think this is part of the employees responsibility to manage expectations. I think it's human nature, rather than a fault with the manager, to want more stuff. You just have to re-establish shared goals through communication. If the manager asks for extra stuff, and it's not mission critical, it can be added onto the schedule and accomplished after the core requirements are finished. More often than not, deadlines get fudged, and I'm sure the manager will appreciate a final, complete project rather than an incomplete project with feature creep.
but to use a project launch as leverage is to show that you're manipulative and not a team player.
I highly agree with this statement. If you want a raise, you should do it at the beginning of a project, not the end. Otherwise, from your bosses perspective, it's kinda like renegotiating the price after they've paid the agreed-upon price tag. However, However, I feel its sufficiently diplomatic to ask for more resources that will help move the project along. If your being overworked, it helps to communicate what you can do and what resources you need to reach the agreed upon goal. If you agree upon a schedule and provide progress reports, your boss can gauge the effort your making and decide whether your worth it or need more help. Beyond that, it's a question of how much you enjoy your work. If your not happy and management doesn't give you the resources to do your job, it wouldn't be a bad idea to work somewhere else.
I suspect if anyone is working up to 80 hours, they're either paid a decent amount, not managing expectations very well, or a masochist.
Just to be a little pedantic here, the GP said that Google might copyright their exploit, not patent it. Source code and the like are actually valid targets for copyright protection and can still incur a tidy sum of legal fees. The copyright restrictions would ultimately slow down MS as they couldn't legally use or copy the third-party's code (if there was code involved) to break their system and do subsequent testing on it. They can however write their own code to break their system in the same-ish way, do regression testing on that, and release a fix.
There are many reasons to care about the survival of a species. One is so we can feel good about ourselves. Another, perhaps more important reason, is that we don't know how the organisms absence will effect the ecology; and if they're extinct, it makes it more difficult for the environment to recover from the impact. I had a biology professor present an interesting example of the chained effects that occur when a species becomes endangered or extinct:
Over the past century or so, humans have lowered the whale population significantly. Consequently, killer whales, who feed on these organisms had to find another food source, so they started eating otters and sea lions. These creatures have a much lower caloric content than whale fat, so the killer whales ate a lot more to supplement their diet. In turn, sea otters and the like were responsible for eating sea urchins, which eat seaweed and kelp. With fewer sea otters, the urchin populations are not kept in check and they destroy the kelp forests at a greater rate. These forests happen to be the home of other organisms, so the chain of effects continues.
Note, I'm going by memory here, but I could probably dig up the study that talks about this stuff. With regards to the bluefin tuna, if they go extinct, a similar chain of events might occur which will come back to bite us humans in the ass. Again, it's not just about keeping other animals safe, but ensuring we have a sustainable habitat to live in too.
Also Unix/Linux far outnumber Windows Server in terms of presence on the Internet
It also helps that the linux alternatives are free and available for any os. It allows apache to reach a more diverse user base who just want to setup a basic web server.
Well, the consequence of putting Ubuntu, or any linux distro on a tablet, is that it would provide a less restrictive platform than the iPad. If you want your own drivers, software, etc, then you can just apt-get them. I imagine this will also be nicer for developers as they wouldn't have to wrestle with vague rules on getting their work submitted to the apple store. What Canonical should do, after this, is setup an opt-in app store, such that users can support developers if they want to.
From my impression, Michael Moore is a satirical journalist with leftish leanings (really left if you're in the US). One of his first films in Flint Michigan, illustrated the economic devastation that occurred when a car manufacturer outsourced to Mexico; i.e. an entire city crumbled due to greedy capitalism. Bowling for columbine emphasized poor parentage and our irresponsibility to manage firearms, even though we are highly vocal about gun rights. Fahrenheit 9/11 was a big bash fest on the Bush administration and Iraq war. (Those are the ones I've seen). A lot of his views are liberal, or more so against the right winged perspective. I imagine a lot of people also don't like him because he comes off presenting his point of view as the Truth and he does some pretty rude things to get the shots he needs. In regards to this and the GP, Moore can be effective in assembling events to present a solid argument in his favor.
Erm, I don't know if barristering is the right word, but I did register my number on the no-call list and a few calls still got through. I like having the landline around in case I need to make faxes, but otherwise it doesn't see much use. So, I keep it unplugged. Easier than fiddling with another gadget to filter my calls.
The summary is poorly worded. ATI's Powercolor HD5970 video card supports 12 display outputs. If you have two, you go up to 24 display outputs. At that point, you could monitor the whole of the matrix.
Ya, I have similar habits, which is funny because I'm considered the 'tech' guy in my family. I have no cable, leave my landline unplugged (to stop annoying solicitors), and leave my cell at home on silent. Email is about as close as I get to 'instant messaging' nowadays. And this helps me focus on whatever tasks need my immediate attention (like commenting on slashdot:D).
My family (parents and siblings), interestingly enough, finds this annoying because they want instant access. I think because I spend more time around computers than them, I'm a bit disenchanted as to the utility, or life-quality improvements yet-another-device will add to my life.
I think it's more of a cultural artifact than a reflection of the current state of our society. If look back some 20-30 years, internet was still in its infancy and sports were the only form of entertainment. The people who manage tv and cable networks probably came from that era, and therefore don't realize the strong impact video games have, or for that matter, a tv series with a decent story line. Eventually, they'll pass the reins on to a younger generation who view video games as a spectator sport. This is kind of starting already with Spike TV and Gametrailers.
That being said, I stopped watching TV because they only show sports or some cheap reality tv drama. It's funny because the network's crappy content is probably creating a self-feedback loop. People who watch TV watch sports, while others who watch anything else have moved on. Clearly, this means that they should air more sports because it captures the most attention of their existing customers.
It's funny watching the videos, because they look cinematic enough to be a news event but they're treated as a sports event.
I'm half expecting the narration to be in a somber, journalistic tone: ...and the alliance initiated hostilities, killing 10,000 civilians.
Then the sports commentator tone comes in: ...it looks like the scimitar ripped right through that battleships hull. The alliance is doing good damage to those ships. But they'll want to step up their game if they want more kill points.
It's kinda surreal in a weird way.
Yes, but the GP's (or GGGP now) post was in regards to the merit of a centralized bureaucracy. Without a centralized bureaucracy, things such as amendments wouldn't exist or they'd be generated on a state-by-state basis, thereby allowing abuse at a local level.
mostly agree, but local positions can vary unnacceptably.
Uh, no. Unacceptably to you. Please stay out of other's ppl's way of life. What makes you think you know best for the rest of the US, and by extension, the world?
One very easy example to the GPs comment is racism. The majority in a small locale may view it acceptable to mistreat, abuse, and even murder a minority group, because of their race, color or creed. If the local governance allows this and isn't regulated, this could have far reaching effects across the nation ranging from gradual desensitization and acceptance of abuse to retaliatory effects where the minority is in the majority. Again, I am inclined to agree with the GP that a centralized government helpful for normalizing laws across regions.
That guess was based on the assumption they were using an e-ink screen, but using a much higher refresh rate to get gray-scale videos and smooth writing with the stylus. As someone else has already posted, it's probably not e-ink but probably LCD as someone else has mentioned.
Normally, the display is gray scale because an e-ink display is used which causes less of a draw on power and extends out the battery life to a week. I'm guessing that the 10-our battery life is a conservative estimate. Otherwise your standard eee-pc/iPad clone outperforms such a device because they're color, available now at 300$, and last up to 10 hours.
Another thing to mention is that a lot of inefficiencies in code are more likely to come from the design in the code rather than the choice of language. If you program a crappy for-loop, it'll be crappy in any language. High level languages allow us to optimize where needed because there's less complexity, or greater clarity in the source; documentation, unit testing and profiling goes a long way too.
Also, the GP says that the increased speed in hardware is only good for eye candy or resource hungry applications. My NLP code and huge databases would beg to differ:P.
I agree with most of your post but I still think the kid could be fostered into coding if they were given some exposure rather than a generic 'what do you want to do with your life' question. My best suggestion along those lines is to see if the kid fiddles with map makers (e.g. from valve or blizzard) or show them some small programs in openGL or pyOgre where there's some immediate feedback to the work they put in. Again, the poster is right in one sense, coding is hard work, and if the kid doesn't have a predisposition to that, then it ain't going to happen in the near future.
Wow, you went on an oblivious rant there... The GP was only suggesting a method to prove whether or not there may be a backdoor. A diff on the bytes is a quick and easy way to see that something is different. Reverse engineering would verify whether the differences were malicious or not. This is time consuming, which is why a quick diff would be more practical in the first place. I have nooo idea where you pulled out that bit about American conspiracy theories, but one might think you were trying to act as a flamebait.
Maybe. Another option might be to pay our outsourced labor more, particularly when you have a 1000% markup on a product going from manufacturing to the sales point. The way I see it, if they are paid fairly, it also allows for competitive manufacturing industries to open up elsewhere. Not going to happen for a couple of years, but it's an idealism.
Usually labor is exported to get around laws in this country that prevent exploitation. This may range from a job with a reasonable wage to a scraping by in a sweatshop with long hours doing repetitive tasks. In order to get the price of the device down, they may have to take the latter option. I just think it would be ironic to use (maybe even exploit) a country's cheap labor to give them devices which they cannot afford (because we set the price) as an act of charity. I don't think it's because we're innately evil, just a little schizophrenic as a group of people.
This is probably going to get me modded as troll, but I'm curious anyways. How much of the low price is dependant on our exploitation of cheap labor? One laptop per-child made by a child? (well, probably a young adult anyways) Even with markets of scale, 75$ is an impressive price tag.
Slashdot Mirror
Again, I think this is part of the employees responsibility to manage expectations. I think it's human nature, rather than a fault with the manager, to want more stuff. You just have to re-establish shared goals through communication. If the manager asks for extra stuff, and it's not mission critical, it can be added onto the schedule and accomplished after the core requirements are finished. More often than not, deadlines get fudged, and I'm sure the manager will appreciate a final, complete project rather than an incomplete project with feature creep.
but to use a project launch as leverage is to show that you're manipulative and not a team player.
I highly agree with this statement. If you want a raise, you should do it at the beginning of a project, not the end. Otherwise, from your bosses perspective, it's kinda like renegotiating the price after they've paid the agreed-upon price tag. However, However, I feel its sufficiently diplomatic to ask for more resources that will help move the project along. If your being overworked, it helps to communicate what you can do and what resources you need to reach the agreed upon goal. If you agree upon a schedule and provide progress reports, your boss can gauge the effort your making and decide whether your worth it or need more help. Beyond that, it's a question of how much you enjoy your work. If your not happy and management doesn't give you the resources to do your job, it wouldn't be a bad idea to work somewhere else.
I suspect if anyone is working up to 80 hours, they're either paid a decent amount, not managing expectations very well, or a masochist.
Just to be a little pedantic here, the GP said that Google might copyright their exploit, not patent it. Source code and the like are actually valid targets for copyright protection and can still incur a tidy sum of legal fees. The copyright restrictions would ultimately slow down MS as they couldn't legally use or copy the third-party's code (if there was code involved) to break their system and do subsequent testing on it. They can however write their own code to break their system in the same-ish way, do regression testing on that, and release a fix.
There are many reasons to care about the survival of a species. One is so we can feel good about ourselves. Another, perhaps more important reason, is that we don't know how the organisms absence will effect the ecology; and if they're extinct, it makes it more difficult for the environment to recover from the impact. I had a biology professor present an interesting example of the chained effects that occur when a species becomes endangered or extinct:
Over the past century or so, humans have lowered the whale population significantly. Consequently, killer whales, who feed on these organisms had to find another food source, so they started eating otters and sea lions. These creatures have a much lower caloric content than whale fat, so the killer whales ate a lot more to supplement their diet. In turn, sea otters and the like were responsible for eating sea urchins, which eat seaweed and kelp. With fewer sea otters, the urchin populations are not kept in check and they destroy the kelp forests at a greater rate. These forests happen to be the home of other organisms, so the chain of effects continues.
Note, I'm going by memory here, but I could probably dig up the study that talks about this stuff. With regards to the bluefin tuna, if they go extinct, a similar chain of events might occur which will come back to bite us humans in the ass. Again, it's not just about keeping other animals safe, but ensuring we have a sustainable habitat to live in too.
Also Unix/Linux far outnumber Windows Server in terms of presence on the Internet
It also helps that the linux alternatives are free and available for any os. It allows apache to reach a more diverse user base who just want to setup a basic web server.
Well, the consequence of putting Ubuntu, or any linux distro on a tablet, is that it would provide a less restrictive platform than the iPad. If you want your own drivers, software, etc, then you can just apt-get them. I imagine this will also be nicer for developers as they wouldn't have to wrestle with vague rules on getting their work submitted to the apple store. What Canonical should do, after this, is setup an opt-in app store, such that users can support developers if they want to.
I see what you did there -_-.
1 in 10 people have trouble with binary.
From my impression, Michael Moore is a satirical journalist with leftish leanings (really left if you're in the US). One of his first films in Flint Michigan, illustrated the economic devastation that occurred when a car manufacturer outsourced to Mexico; i.e. an entire city crumbled due to greedy capitalism. Bowling for columbine emphasized poor parentage and our irresponsibility to manage firearms, even though we are highly vocal about gun rights. Fahrenheit 9/11 was a big bash fest on the Bush administration and Iraq war. (Those are the ones I've seen). A lot of his views are liberal, or more so against the right winged perspective. I imagine a lot of people also don't like him because he comes off presenting his point of view as the Truth and he does some pretty rude things to get the shots he needs. In regards to this and the GP, Moore can be effective in assembling events to present a solid argument in his favor.
Erm, I don't know if barristering is the right word, but I did register my number on the no-call list and a few calls still got through. I like having the landline around in case I need to make faxes, but otherwise it doesn't see much use. So, I keep it unplugged. Easier than fiddling with another gadget to filter my calls.
The summary is poorly worded. ATI's Powercolor HD5970 video card supports 12 display outputs. If you have two, you go up to 24 display outputs. At that point, you could monitor the whole of the matrix.
Ya, I have similar habits, which is funny because I'm considered the 'tech' guy in my family. I have no cable, leave my landline unplugged (to stop annoying solicitors), and leave my cell at home on silent. Email is about as close as I get to 'instant messaging' nowadays. And this helps me focus on whatever tasks need my immediate attention (like commenting on slashdot :D).
My family (parents and siblings), interestingly enough, finds this annoying because they want instant access. I think because I spend more time around computers than them, I'm a bit disenchanted as to the utility, or life-quality improvements yet-another-device will add to my life.
I think it's more of a cultural artifact than a reflection of the current state of our society. If look back some 20-30 years, internet was still in its infancy and sports were the only form of entertainment. The people who manage tv and cable networks probably came from that era, and therefore don't realize the strong impact video games have, or for that matter, a tv series with a decent story line. Eventually, they'll pass the reins on to a younger generation who view video games as a spectator sport. This is kind of starting already with Spike TV and Gametrailers.
That being said, I stopped watching TV because they only show sports or some cheap reality tv drama. It's funny because the network's crappy content is probably creating a self-feedback loop. People who watch TV watch sports, while others who watch anything else have moved on. Clearly, this means that they should air more sports because it captures the most attention of their existing customers.
It's funny watching the videos, because they look cinematic enough to be a news event but they're treated as a sports event.
...and the alliance initiated hostilities, killing 10,000 civilians.
...it looks like the scimitar ripped right through that battleships hull. The alliance is doing good damage to those ships. But they'll want to step up their game if they want more kill points.
I'm half expecting the narration to be in a somber, journalistic tone:
Then the sports commentator tone comes in:
It's kinda surreal in a weird way.
Yes, but the GP's (or GGGP now) post was in regards to the merit of a centralized bureaucracy. Without a centralized bureaucracy, things such as amendments wouldn't exist or they'd be generated on a state-by-state basis, thereby allowing abuse at a local level.
mostly agree, but local positions can vary unnacceptably.
Uh, no. Unacceptably to you. Please stay out of other's ppl's way of life. What makes you think you know best for the rest of the US, and by extension, the world?
One very easy example to the GPs comment is racism. The majority in a small locale may view it acceptable to mistreat, abuse, and even murder a minority group, because of their race, color or creed. If the local governance allows this and isn't regulated, this could have far reaching effects across the nation ranging from gradual desensitization and acceptance of abuse to retaliatory effects where the minority is in the majority. Again, I am inclined to agree with the GP that a centralized government helpful for normalizing laws across regions.
you'll shit bricks.
That guess was based on the assumption they were using an e-ink screen, but using a much higher refresh rate to get gray-scale videos and smooth writing with the stylus. As someone else has already posted, it's probably not e-ink but probably LCD as someone else has mentioned.
Normally, the display is gray scale because an e-ink display is used which causes less of a draw on power and extends out the battery life to a week. I'm guessing that the 10-our battery life is a conservative estimate. Otherwise your standard eee-pc/iPad clone outperforms such a device because they're color, available now at 300$, and last up to 10 hours.
Another thing to mention is that a lot of inefficiencies in code are more likely to come from the design in the code rather than the choice of language. If you program a crappy for-loop, it'll be crappy in any language. High level languages allow us to optimize where needed because there's less complexity, or greater clarity in the source; documentation, unit testing and profiling goes a long way too.
:P.
Also, the GP says that the increased speed in hardware is only good for eye candy or resource hungry applications. My NLP code and huge databases would beg to differ
Ya, I think it's based off the cartoon.
I agree with most of your post but I still think the kid could be fostered into coding if they were given some exposure rather than a generic 'what do you want to do with your life' question. My best suggestion along those lines is to see if the kid fiddles with map makers (e.g. from valve or blizzard) or show them some small programs in openGL or pyOgre where there's some immediate feedback to the work they put in. Again, the poster is right in one sense, coding is hard work, and if the kid doesn't have a predisposition to that, then it ain't going to happen in the near future.
Wow, you went on an oblivious rant there... The GP was only suggesting a method to prove whether or not there may be a backdoor. A diff on the bytes is a quick and easy way to see that something is different. Reverse engineering would verify whether the differences were malicious or not. This is time consuming, which is why a quick diff would be more practical in the first place. I have nooo idea where you pulled out that bit about American conspiracy theories, but one might think you were trying to act as a flamebait.
Maybe. Another option might be to pay our outsourced labor more, particularly when you have a 1000% markup on a product going from manufacturing to the sales point. The way I see it, if they are paid fairly, it also allows for competitive manufacturing industries to open up elsewhere. Not going to happen for a couple of years, but it's an idealism.
Usually labor is exported to get around laws in this country that prevent exploitation. This may range from a job with a reasonable wage to a scraping by in a sweatshop with long hours doing repetitive tasks. In order to get the price of the device down, they may have to take the latter option. I just think it would be ironic to use (maybe even exploit) a country's cheap labor to give them devices which they cannot afford (because we set the price) as an act of charity. I don't think it's because we're innately evil, just a little schizophrenic as a group of people.
This is probably going to get me modded as troll, but I'm curious anyways. How much of the low price is dependant on our exploitation of cheap labor? One laptop per-child made by a child? (well, probably a young adult anyways) Even with markets of scale, 75$ is an impressive price tag.