Wow. Whatever happened to trusting people to do their jobs and just dealing with the outliers?
Employment case law on unfair treatment. People have managed to claim that they have been treated unfairly because someone else in the organisation has been treated differently. If someone says "OK Joe, I know this is your first sick break in five years don't worry about it" then bill, who has been sick every Friday for six months can claim unfair treatment if he is asked to provide proof.
In our organisation all the IT managers are very upset that despite a low (less than 3%) absence rate we have to employ silly rules so they can keep a check on call centre staff (over 16% absence rate, for some reason often occurring on Fridays)
You do realise that your management has virtually guaranteed that any employee who is at all worthwhile is going to be looking for a job elsewhere as soon as this gets around, right?
A similar thing happened to some "community internet" initiatives in the UK. In villages where there was no broadband, people costed out getting a T1 line to their village and splitting the cost. It usually came to slightly more than broadband from the big providers - but with the choice of that or dial-up people would sign up for the service.
The community projects would get the money together and order the T1 line. What British Telecom did, of course, was install a much bigger trunk than needed for a single T1 line, as the extra cost is pretty low and then offer broadband in the area. Many people would then say "I wouldn't have signed for the community project if I knew that broadband was coming here anyway" and try to get out of their commitment. Usually after a year which people had signed up to the project would fold because everyone would switch to BT rather than renew. So BT gets paid to install a line and then uses it to give cheaper competition.
Our HR department is the opposite. We were recently given a list of questions we must ask everyone whenthey return from sick leave.
Imagine how stupid I felt asking someone who returned after having a broken leg in a car accident which was the other driver's fault: "Do you think that this is likely to recur?", and with his leg in plaster "Have you any written evidence, such a s a medical certificate, showing that this was a genuine illness?".
More to the point with the possibility of a flu pandemic people have to make every reasonable effort to come into work, and must declare that they did so on returning
.
There is an escalation process for repeat absences, whatever the reason and a bonus for not being sick in a year, so I am sure some people will think "hey this could be swine flu but if I don't try to get in I could end up in disciplinary. On the bright side if it is swine flu maybe someone in HR will catch it".
basically a microkernel architecture splits subsystems such as file systems, device drivers and security out of the kernel and into separate modules. This leads to an overhead of context switching to different processes on a single processor. A user process requesting access to a file may need a context switch to the kernel, another to security, another to the filesystem and then another to the disk device driver. With multiple processors this overhead can be removed.
How many times is this old chestnut going to be tossed around?
MS tried a microkernel with NT and its HAL. It didn't really work very well. Most Unix varients don't even bother to try.
I think you are right at the moment. I am not sure that you will still be right when processors are 256-core or greater. I think that at some point the overhead of microkernals will be made up for by utilisation of greater parallelisation.
Along the same lines as the above post.... What a waste of my taxes. I am getting fed up of hearing about cash going to dubious research projects. There are some big problems to be solved out there for example reducing mans dependence on fossil fuels and reducing the damage they cause our planet. Why are we wasting cash on this dubious project?????
Many PHD students will feed back what they learned into industry on graduation. Its called education, and it is not a waste of money even if Minix 3 is not the next best OS. Some things that come out of it will almost certainly be used.
Software, heal thyself? There's a reason self-modifying code is frowned upon. Besides, is kernel reliability really an issue these days? Even the Windows kernel only really crashes when you feed it bad memory.
They are actually talking about things like driver isolation with monitoring and restarts. The answer to whether kernels are stable enough depends on your requirements. I find that I am much less forgiving when my DVD player crashes and doesn't record the film I have set than when my computer crashes, though both are now very rare events. Monitoring, isolation and restarting is used in things like engine management systems, where failures are even less welcome and a full OS with this level of reliability is bound to have applications in medicine, industry, "defence", etc.
At least I won't have to bother with all this washing your hands, avoiding public places, looking out for symptoms malarkey. Serves you meat eaters right!
I hope that this gets modded funny. However sadly I think it is informative. After all they responded to India saying it would increase border defences after the Mumbai attack by saying it would reduce efforts in the War against terror.
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There's something vaguely comforting and familiar about medical professionals also starting their indexes at 0.
be even more comforting if they referred to the pig that infected them as "case -1".
I wonder if anyone in the history of the world has failed to understand that some times have higher uncertainty than others?
Just hang around on slashdot. you will find someone who will misunderstand almost anything.
Wow. Whatever happened to trusting people to do their jobs and just dealing with the outliers?
Employment case law on unfair treatment. People have managed to claim that they have been treated unfairly because someone else in the organisation has been treated differently. If someone says "OK Joe, I know this is your first sick break in five years don't worry about it" then bill, who has been sick every Friday for six months can claim unfair treatment if he is asked to provide proof. In our organisation all the IT managers are very upset that despite a low (less than 3%) absence rate we have to employ silly rules so they can keep a check on call centre staff (over 16% absence rate, for some reason often occurring on Fridays)
You do realise that your management has virtually guaranteed that any employee who is at all worthwhile is going to be looking for a job elsewhere as soon as this gets around, right?
I think its pretty standard in most UK companies.
(Note: This only applies to England & Wales, as all Scottish & Northern Irish telephone exchanges are broadband enabled)
This was happening a few years back, there aren't many places in England without broadband enabled exchanges now.
A similar thing happened to some "community internet" initiatives in the UK. In villages where there was no broadband, people costed out getting a T1 line to their village and splitting the cost. It usually came to slightly more than broadband from the big providers - but with the choice of that or dial-up people would sign up for the service.
The community projects would get the money together and order the T1 line. What British Telecom did, of course, was install a much bigger trunk than needed for a single T1 line, as the extra cost is pretty low and then offer broadband in the area. Many people would then say "I wouldn't have signed for the community project if I knew that broadband was coming here anyway" and try to get out of their commitment. Usually after a year which people had signed up to the project would fold because everyone would switch to BT rather than renew. So BT gets paid to install a line and then uses it to give cheaper competition.
Some Large Dinosaurs Survived the K-T Extinction
Abybody who knows CowboyNeal would see this as old news
Our HR department is the opposite. We were recently given a list of questions we must ask everyone whenthey return from sick leave.
Imagine how stupid I felt asking someone who returned after having a broken leg in a car accident which was the other driver's fault: "Do you think that this is likely to recur?", and with his leg in plaster "Have you any written evidence, such a s a medical certificate, showing that this was a genuine illness?".
More to the point with the possibility of a flu pandemic people have to make every reasonable effort to come into work, and must declare that they did so on returning
.
There is an escalation process for repeat absences, whatever the reason and a bonus for not being sick in a year, so I am sure some people will think "hey this could be swine flu but if I don't try to get in I could end up in disciplinary. On the bright side if it is swine flu maybe someone in HR will catch it".
By the 37th century we will be accustomed to making sense at all times, and doing The Right Thing.
You just try getting anywhere with that attitude in today's corporate world!
Well I guess a job in politics is out of the question then.
basically a microkernel architecture splits subsystems such as file systems, device drivers and security out of the kernel and into separate modules. This leads to an overhead of context switching to different processes on a single processor. A user process requesting access to a file may need a context switch to the kernel, another to security, another to the filesystem and then another to the disk device driver. With multiple processors this overhead can be removed.
How many times is this old chestnut going to be tossed around?
MS tried a microkernel with NT and its HAL. It didn't really work very well. Most Unix varients don't even bother to try.
I think you are right at the moment. I am not sure that you will still be right when processors are 256-core or greater. I think that at some point the overhead of microkernals will be made up for by utilisation of greater parallelisation.
Along the same lines as the above post.... What a waste of my taxes. I am getting fed up of hearing about cash going to dubious research projects. There are some big problems to be solved out there for example reducing mans dependence on fossil fuels and reducing the damage they cause our planet. Why are we wasting cash on this dubious project?????
Many PHD students will feed back what they learned into industry on graduation. Its called education, and it is not a waste of money even if Minix 3 is not the next best OS. Some things that come out of it will almost certainly be used.
Software, heal thyself? There's a reason self-modifying code is frowned upon. Besides, is kernel reliability really an issue these days? Even the Windows kernel only really crashes when you feed it bad memory.
They are actually talking about things like driver isolation with monitoring and restarts. The answer to whether kernels are stable enough depends on your requirements. I find that I am much less forgiving when my DVD player crashes and doesn't record the film I have set than when my computer crashes, though both are now very rare events. Monitoring, isolation and restarting is used in things like engine management systems, where failures are even less welcome and a full OS with this level of reliability is bound to have applications in medicine, industry, "defence", etc.
You can catch swine flue just by using twitter. Funny, with a name like that I always though that bird flue was the bigger risk.
At least I won't have to bother with all this washing your hands, avoiding public places, looking out for symptoms malarkey. Serves you meat eaters right!
A great way of running multiple OSs, much easier than the competition.
Guess the blown vacuum tube?
That wasn't just a game, you could get paid for that
God, if he exists, must do so in a state of perfection that would be well beyond anything that we can easily recognize.
How do you know He can't be sloppy?
That is actually a very good point. Omnipotence must include the ability to be sloppy. It also proves that men are closer to God than women...
Now see, this proves there must be a Designer! ;-)
Show me the designer label and I'll believe you
It will just join berkley DB in the "its still around if you want it" class.
With the ability to run Hulu, YouTube and others, the question of dropping your cable becomes a little bit more reasonable
. Also with access to all those porn sites, the question of pulling your cable becomes a little bit more reasonable
I hope that this gets modded funny. However sadly I think it is informative. After all they responded to India saying it would increase border defences after the Mumbai attack by saying it would reduce efforts in the War against terror.
What about BTRFS? Will that continue as the future direction or will they pick up ZFS instead?
Can't be much fun having a collapsing nuclear power next door.
I don't know. Would any Canadians like to comment?
"It would also help keep track of ships at sea that could pose a threat." In other words any unexpected ships heading to major ports from Pakistan.
Someone should tell them that fibre to the premises doesn't mean sheep's wool. That'll piss on their barbie.