"It was only switched on again a week ago, and you want it to be spewing out Higgs' already?!!?"
Black holes would be good, too. Naked singularities -- even better! It's like the most expensive Fisher Price "Build your own little universe in a bottle or destroy yours trying" toy.
THIS. What they did was horrible. You don't open up your innards to the world like that -- especially when you suspect it will break!
They may be smart scientists but they are shit-poor managers.
You are absolutely right. This whole thing is a joke right now. Their web cast isn't working well and when I do get something, it looks like a NASA control room with big screens up on the walls.
When is it really going live? This is like watching a train wreck in slow motion.
The path to becoming a CIO or even CEO from an IT background has a lot to do with connecting the two vast worlds. IT is a very logic oriented field -- programming, database design, integrating various systems, etc. At its core, IT really is a huge black box that takes a lot of business inputs and then spits out out outputs that sales managers can use effectively.
Business thinking is more of an artform. There is a lot of politics involved in business. Anyone who has seen Dangerfield in "Back to School" can appreciate this.
The trick is to become that "someone" who can do that "input/output" on the fly. CIO's aren't CIO's because they know the most from an IT perspective. CIO's become such because of their ability to bridge the "business speak" with the "geek speak" in real-time.
If you have an appreciation for what your business is trying to do, you can offer suggestions and become a valuable resource to upper management. In time, you become a part of the C-rank executives.
The CEO isn't impressed with HOW IT does what it does, he's only concerned about the WHY and WHEN. He has a vision and it is the role of a CIO to help put into motion that vision using IT as a tool, not a means to an end.
I've worked in the IT/IS field for approximately ten years and in that time I've learned a lot of important things. The best in the field will always have jobs because they have learned to expand their skill sets to encompass the entire business objective.
IT/IS is a tool for business, not many businesses make IT critical to their business plan. If you're in IT/IS right now, get more proactive in participating in business discussions by suggesting how IT can add value to the goals of that business.
Unfortunately, a lot of people who end up within IT usually have poor social skills and even poorer communication skills. I've seen help-desk employees get visibily upset because a user didn't understand the difference between "the CPU box" and "the hard-drive." Guess what? Guess what? They're still at the help-desk talking down to people making only $20 an hour.
Part of the problem here is that space exploration is inherently dangerous and risky. There is no way you will ever remove all of the risk -- and because of this there will be future accidents and loss of life while we explore the stars.
The men and women who volunteer to do this are extremely courageous individuals that should be honored and thanked many times over. Each time a shuttle goes up, there are a million ways something can go wrong yet only one way everything can go perfectly.
NASA, along with the government and general public, must understand that although the risks associated with space flight are huge, the potential rewards are far greater.
Hopefully our government will give NASA the funding needed to develop a better way to put people in orbit. Until that time, we must realize that there are risks associated with each launch but we must keep aiming for the stars because, in the long run, humanity stands to gain far more than the risks from occasional loss of life that occur when something goes horribly wrong.
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They need to stop resisting. Remember that Mary goes willingly.
"It was only switched on again a week ago, and you want it to be spewing out Higgs' already?!!?" Black holes would be good, too. Naked singularities -- even better! It's like the most expensive Fisher Price "Build your own little universe in a bottle or destroy yours trying" toy.
THIS. What they did was horrible. You don't open up your innards to the world like that -- especially when you suspect it will break! They may be smart scientists but they are shit-poor managers.
You are absolutely right. This whole thing is a joke right now. Their web cast isn't working well and when I do get something, it looks like a NASA control room with big screens up on the walls. When is it really going live? This is like watching a train wreck in slow motion.
Step 1: Announce intro to the second. Step 2: Get hit with hundreds of thousands of requests Step 3: Crash the servers
The path to becoming a CIO or even CEO from an IT background has a lot to do with connecting the two vast worlds. IT is a very logic oriented field -- programming, database design, integrating various systems, etc. At its core, IT really is a huge black box that takes a lot of business inputs and then spits out out outputs that sales managers can use effectively. Business thinking is more of an artform. There is a lot of politics involved in business. Anyone who has seen Dangerfield in "Back to School" can appreciate this. The trick is to become that "someone" who can do that "input/output" on the fly. CIO's aren't CIO's because they know the most from an IT perspective. CIO's become such because of their ability to bridge the "business speak" with the "geek speak" in real-time. If you have an appreciation for what your business is trying to do, you can offer suggestions and become a valuable resource to upper management. In time, you become a part of the C-rank executives. The CEO isn't impressed with HOW IT does what it does, he's only concerned about the WHY and WHEN. He has a vision and it is the role of a CIO to help put into motion that vision using IT as a tool, not a means to an end.
I've worked in the IT/IS field for approximately ten years and in that time I've learned a lot of important things. The best in the field will always have jobs because they have learned to expand their skill sets to encompass the entire business objective. IT/IS is a tool for business, not many businesses make IT critical to their business plan. If you're in IT/IS right now, get more proactive in participating in business discussions by suggesting how IT can add value to the goals of that business. Unfortunately, a lot of people who end up within IT usually have poor social skills and even poorer communication skills. I've seen help-desk employees get visibily upset because a user didn't understand the difference between "the CPU box" and "the hard-drive." Guess what? Guess what? They're still at the help-desk talking down to people making only $20 an hour.
"Mom, look! I found naked pictures of that lady who just asked us if we want coffee! I found it under PILOT, MY DOCUMENTS, MILE HIGH PARTY."
Maybe they were just trying to dry it off after trying to get it to drink some juice.
So you're saying Slashdotters will be able to lose their virginity in 20 years? Sweet!
and doesn't touch ground with the other, he should be fine. Wait, how does one ground himself while in space?
Part of the problem here is that space exploration is inherently dangerous and risky. There is no way you will ever remove all of the risk -- and because of this there will be future accidents and loss of life while we explore the stars. The men and women who volunteer to do this are extremely courageous individuals that should be honored and thanked many times over. Each time a shuttle goes up, there are a million ways something can go wrong yet only one way everything can go perfectly. NASA, along with the government and general public, must understand that although the risks associated with space flight are huge, the potential rewards are far greater. Hopefully our government will give NASA the funding needed to develop a better way to put people in orbit. Until that time, we must realize that there are risks associated with each launch but we must keep aiming for the stars because, in the long run, humanity stands to gain far more than the risks from occasional loss of life that occur when something goes horribly wrong.