Windows 10 would be great, without all the crapware they bundle with it. I've used PowerShell and Group Policies to disable most of it, but you can't get rid of Cortona, Edge or (now) Bing Search.
I don't mind google's ads - for the most part they are unobtrusive and are often helpful. Yahoo on the other hand looks like someone barfed into my browser.
The real problem is that many, many websites have incredibly obnoxious ads that degrade the user experience and interfere with the functioning of the site. That's why I use an ad blocker.
I just love the "buy genuine Ford/GM/Chrysler(Fiat)/Toyota/Honda parts" thing. Ford is really pushing this with ads saying you should purchase over-priced tires, batteries, headlights, oi filters, wiper blades, belts, brake pads, oil, transmission fluids, brake fluid, etc. to ensure you get "genuine" parts for your Ford. Except that Ford doesn't make any of these parts; they source them from the same OEM manufacturers are the aftermarket guys do and them mark them up twice as much. Then the dealer sticks it to you with the labour / installation fees.
You don't need a Ford "technician" to tell you what type of tires to put on your Ford - it's written in your owners manual. Some of the OEM parts are really low quality. Ford Motorcraft spark plugs for example; use NGK, Denso or Bosch - actually anything else. When I bought my Honda, the dealer had installed really soft brake pads to improve test drive stopping performance. I had scored rotors within the first 8 months (San Francisco). I now use EBC or Hawk pads. OEM batteries are not much good in cold or hot weather (I now live in Canada). Get a DieHard or Optima. Does ANYONE use OEM branded oil?
Box.com would also likely be effected. If I recall, one of the primary reasons for locating in the UK was to cloud storage outside the reach of the USA Patriot Act.
More details.
Carl Lindsay was a drug dealer, the 3 men showed up to purchase some pot and pulled a gun on him.
The robber / victim, Stephen Swindells received 4 wounds, all inflicted from BEHIND and all inflicted AFTER chasing him from the home.
You are overlooking the obvious truth that the views of 50 or so wealthy, white, male, slave owners on how to structure and govern a democracy, as are pertinent and practical today as during the industrial revolution / romantic era when they were conceived.
Diaprim is now only available through a single specialty distributor rather than the normal wholesale channels. This helps support the high price and allows the distributor to control to whom and how much of the drug is dispensed. This distribution model, and the tiny market for the medication are what prevent generic manufactures from competing. This douchebag specifically targets drugs meet these criteria. After all, he's not a scientist at all, but a hedge fund manager who has made a living out of recognizing opportunities for arbitrage.
Memorization allows you to recall information and reproduce a process or methodology without really understanding what you are doing.
Learning allows you to understand the concepts and generalize and apply them to new or different situations.
Our entire education system is increasingly tilted towards memorization and achievement testing. This approach is efficient to a point, but will produce students / employees who are basically functional and even productive within a certain field, but lack critical thinking and the fundamental knowledge to solve complex problems. They may also be over confident and unable to recognize when they have overreached or are presented with a problem that goes beyond their training.
I do consulting work in health care. I have a BASc an MBA and 30 years of experience. I've worked with people with technical certifications who were quite brilliant and able to understand and work and contribute at a very high level in a complex, multi-vendor environment, and others who, due to their training could not get past a certain way of looking at a problem. I've also been required by clients to work with a certified PMP even though I have successfully managed many large and complex projects or have a project manager in mind who is much more suited for the job.
In the end, I wouldn't hire or reject a candidate because of a certification or lack thereof.
Perhaps it would have helped you if the question had been prefaced with "In the general sense and any person with half a brain would understand the terms input and output,..."
My kids elementary school in Vancouver did this. They replaced an entire computer lab of PCs with a bunch of iPads. Half the iPads were stolen within 6 months, but worse than that - they were useless. A tablet is good for consuming content, not creating content. If you want kids to learn to do something more useful with a computer than watch YouTube videos, teach them to work on real computers.
I work as a consultant in both the public and private sector, so my perspective on this is a bit different. I've worked for the big firms, but now work through a network of other boutique consulting firms to deliver larger projects. Each of your points has a counter argument and counter evidence. I will say that I don't think anyone gets their money's worth from the big firms. Their rates are too high and while they may have access to the right expertise, after the first week of the engagement the specialists are all gone and the client left with the B team. I've been approached many times to subcontract under one of the big firms and I've so far turned them down because they are so arrogant. They usually don't want to actually use my specific industry expertise, they just want my CV to bolster their bid. They trust their endless pool of resources and standardized methodologies to make up for their lack of expertise.
I'd also like to point out that the failure rate of IT projects in general is very high (close to 70%) with little to no difference between in house and out sourced projects. I would add that a sizable portion of my work is refocusing (or replacing / undoing) projects that were started in house and went off the rails. I also know the flip side is also true - failing external projects are brought in house just as often.
There are several good (and some bad) reasons to bring in consultants.;
When you don't have the skills in house, or when your in house skills are fully utilized on other projects it makes sense to hire contractors. Contrary to popular belief, most IT staff do not spend most of their day playing Minecraft or streaming episodes of The Big Bang Theory at work. Most IT staff I'm familiar with work 50 - 60 hours per week and have weeks of backloged operations support and in house projects. Expecting them to add yet another major project off the side of their desk is a strategy for failure. Contractors (can) bring focus. I usually only work on 1 or at most 2 major project at a time.
Hiring staff for projects is not easy and not always the best idea. When you hire someone you invest in recruiting, training, benefits, pension, etc. because you expect that person to be with you, and productive for at least 3 - 5 years. If you hire people just for a project, at the end of the project you can end up with staff who are either under utilized or under motivated because their skills and/or ambitions are no longer what you need. Alternatively, you could end up creating projects with shaky business cases just because you have some in house resources. As a consultant, while I love to be re-engaged for subsequent work, I have no expectation of such. My best marketing is to get the job done. I usually include a post implementation review 2 - 3 months after the project. For me, this is a sales opportunity, but it is also an opportunity for the client to evaluate and learn from the implementation. This is something that doesn't always happen with in house projects.
When people say contractors get paid more than in house staff they are not seeing the whole picture. The things I mentioned above - recruiting costs, training costs, benefits, pensions, health insurance, vacations, paid breaks, statutory holidays, office space, admin support and HR support are all costs for internal staff that are either paid by or not applicable to contractors. Additionally, I carry errors and omissions and liability insurance - where the client company is entirely on the hook for the errors, omissions and liability risk of its employees. Finally, contractors can only bill hours actually worked on the project (or in some cases, a fixed price) where staff are paid regardless of utilization. When you factor all of those things in, experienced staff with equivalent expertise are often paid/cost more than contractors.
The biggest problem with outsourced projects is often in procurement. I haven't seen very many good procurement departments. They are often eith
Even the 5% that are/have been/may be digitized, if they are not properly indexed and tagged they are essentially lost. Digitizing an academic archive is not simply stuffing pages in a scanner.
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Windows 10 would be great, without all the crapware they bundle with it. I've used PowerShell and Group Policies to disable most of it, but you can't get rid of Cortona, Edge or (now) Bing Search.
Personally, I think its a tie between Lotus Notes and iTunes are the worst software ever in any category.
Because even climate scientists can use a sandwich.
I don't mind google's ads - for the most part they are unobtrusive and are often helpful. Yahoo on the other hand looks like someone barfed into my browser.
The real problem is that many, many websites have incredibly obnoxious ads that degrade the user experience and interfere with the functioning of the site. That's why I use an ad blocker.
The whole effort seems pointless to me. Ever hear of a PO box?
But they'll be "retina" OLED displays. :P
I just love the "buy genuine Ford/GM/Chrysler(Fiat)/Toyota/Honda parts" thing. Ford is really pushing this with ads saying you should purchase over-priced tires, batteries, headlights, oi filters, wiper blades, belts, brake pads, oil, transmission fluids, brake fluid, etc. to ensure you get "genuine" parts for your Ford. Except that Ford doesn't make any of these parts; they source them from the same OEM manufacturers are the aftermarket guys do and them mark them up twice as much. Then the dealer sticks it to you with the labour / installation fees.
You don't need a Ford "technician" to tell you what type of tires to put on your Ford - it's written in your owners manual. Some of the OEM parts are really low quality. Ford Motorcraft spark plugs for example; use NGK, Denso or Bosch - actually anything else. When I bought my Honda, the dealer had installed really soft brake pads to improve test drive stopping performance. I had scored rotors within the first 8 months (San Francisco). I now use EBC or Hawk pads. OEM batteries are not much good in cold or hot weather (I now live in Canada). Get a DieHard or Optima. Does ANYONE use OEM branded oil?
It's certainly not the UI.
Box.com would also likely be effected. If I recall, one of the primary reasons for locating in the UK was to cloud storage outside the reach of the USA Patriot Act.
More details. Carl Lindsay was a drug dealer, the 3 men showed up to purchase some pot and pulled a gun on him. The robber / victim, Stephen Swindells received 4 wounds, all inflicted from BEHIND and all inflicted AFTER chasing him from the home.
You are overlooking the obvious truth that the views of 50 or so wealthy, white, male, slave owners on how to structure and govern a democracy, as are pertinent and practical today as during the industrial revolution / romantic era when they were conceived.
What situation would require you to lie about your ethnicity and ancestry?
Except that I think what GSK sold what exclusive rights to market the drug in the US.
Diaprim is now only available through a single specialty distributor rather than the normal wholesale channels. This helps support the high price and allows the distributor to control to whom and how much of the drug is dispensed. This distribution model, and the tiny market for the medication are what prevent generic manufactures from competing. This douchebag specifically targets drugs meet these criteria. After all, he's not a scientist at all, but a hedge fund manager who has made a living out of recognizing opportunities for arbitrage.
Memorization allows you to recall information and reproduce a process or methodology without really understanding what you are doing. Learning allows you to understand the concepts and generalize and apply them to new or different situations. Our entire education system is increasingly tilted towards memorization and achievement testing. This approach is efficient to a point, but will produce students / employees who are basically functional and even productive within a certain field, but lack critical thinking and the fundamental knowledge to solve complex problems. They may also be over confident and unable to recognize when they have overreached or are presented with a problem that goes beyond their training.
I do consulting work in health care. I have a BASc an MBA and 30 years of experience. I've worked with people with technical certifications who were quite brilliant and able to understand and work and contribute at a very high level in a complex, multi-vendor environment, and others who, due to their training could not get past a certain way of looking at a problem. I've also been required by clients to work with a certified PMP even though I have successfully managed many large and complex projects or have a project manager in mind who is much more suited for the job.
In the end, I wouldn't hire or reject a candidate because of a certification or lack thereof.
Perhaps it would have helped you if the question had been prefaced with "In the general sense and any person with half a brain would understand the terms input and output, ..."
I'm so stunned I almost blew a mouthful of F4 super oxygenated water trough my nose.
Doesn't sound like there was a whole lot of math involved; just old fashion police work.
I'm going to do the same for Wiki articles that use "real" as an adverb instead of "really".
My kids elementary school in Vancouver did this. They replaced an entire computer lab of PCs with a bunch of iPads. Half the iPads were stolen within 6 months, but worse than that - they were useless. A tablet is good for consuming content, not creating content. If you want kids to learn to do something more useful with a computer than watch YouTube videos, teach them to work on real computers.
Virgin Galactic is taking deposits for reservations now.
They'll pay you in New Pesos.
I work as a consultant in both the public and private sector, so my perspective on this is a bit different. I've worked for the big firms, but now work through a network of other boutique consulting firms to deliver larger projects. Each of your points has a counter argument and counter evidence. I will say that I don't think anyone gets their money's worth from the big firms. Their rates are too high and while they may have access to the right expertise, after the first week of the engagement the specialists are all gone and the client left with the B team. I've been approached many times to subcontract under one of the big firms and I've so far turned them down because they are so arrogant. They usually don't want to actually use my specific industry expertise, they just want my CV to bolster their bid. They trust their endless pool of resources and standardized methodologies to make up for their lack of expertise.
I'd also like to point out that the failure rate of IT projects in general is very high (close to 70%) with little to no difference between in house and out sourced projects. I would add that a sizable portion of my work is refocusing (or replacing / undoing) projects that were started in house and went off the rails. I also know the flip side is also true - failing external projects are brought in house just as often.
There are several good (and some bad) reasons to bring in consultants.;
When you don't have the skills in house, or when your in house skills are fully utilized on other projects it makes sense to hire contractors. Contrary to popular belief, most IT staff do not spend most of their day playing Minecraft or streaming episodes of The Big Bang Theory at work. Most IT staff I'm familiar with work 50 - 60 hours per week and have weeks of backloged operations support and in house projects. Expecting them to add yet another major project off the side of their desk is a strategy for failure. Contractors (can) bring focus. I usually only work on 1 or at most 2 major project at a time.
Hiring staff for projects is not easy and not always the best idea. When you hire someone you invest in recruiting, training, benefits, pension, etc. because you expect that person to be with you, and productive for at least 3 - 5 years. If you hire people just for a project, at the end of the project you can end up with staff who are either under utilized or under motivated because their skills and/or ambitions are no longer what you need. Alternatively, you could end up creating projects with shaky business cases just because you have some in house resources. As a consultant, while I love to be re-engaged for subsequent work, I have no expectation of such. My best marketing is to get the job done. I usually include a post implementation review 2 - 3 months after the project. For me, this is a sales opportunity, but it is also an opportunity for the client to evaluate and learn from the implementation. This is something that doesn't always happen with in house projects.
When people say contractors get paid more than in house staff they are not seeing the whole picture. The things I mentioned above - recruiting costs, training costs, benefits, pensions, health insurance, vacations, paid breaks, statutory holidays, office space, admin support and HR support are all costs for internal staff that are either paid by or not applicable to contractors. Additionally, I carry errors and omissions and liability insurance - where the client company is entirely on the hook for the errors, omissions and liability risk of its employees. Finally, contractors can only bill hours actually worked on the project (or in some cases, a fixed price) where staff are paid regardless of utilization. When you factor all of those things in, experienced staff with equivalent expertise are often paid/cost more than contractors.
The biggest problem with outsourced projects is often in procurement. I haven't seen very many good procurement departments. They are often eith
Even the 5% that are/have been/may be digitized, if they are not properly indexed and tagged they are essentially lost. Digitizing an academic archive is not simply stuffing pages in a scanner.
Another chapter in Stephen Harper's war on science.