Actually, short breaks _don't_ improve productivity. Latest study (Harvard Business Review - http://hbr.org/2012/05/coffee-breaks-dont-boost-productivity-after-all/ar/1 - _do_ sign up and read the whole article, don't just read the headline) shows that productivity is, at best, indifferent to micro breaks and at worst, reduced significantly.
Those breaks _do_ have some effect on the stress level of the employee, but that's not of the employer _immediate_ concern (though long-term employers should factor this into their calculations).
Numbers and cases, or it isn't science.
(oh, and 5 minutes of an 8 hours day is ~1%, not 0.2%).
Lot's of "not an infringement" marks there. Yes to "overall structure", but no to almost everything else, including a yes to "did Sun pushed Google to do this" (rephrased).
I wonder how much weight does a blurred statement like that have. You could almost say that the same covers all "inspired" work.
Unfortunately, the Sun JVM (now Oracle main JVM) "array cells are consecutive in memory" blocks this. When the JVM reports "free memory = T" it must be able to allocate an array of size T. However, due to the aforementioned feature, this require the JVM to pre-allocate all the memory so it can reshuffle everything to be able to allocate that array in consecutive memory addresses.
So why didn't they (Sun, now Oracle) drop this feature? Because it helps tremendously in signal and image processing, allow you to fine-tune memory-based optimizations and, usually, offers better array instantiation speed.
Pity. I thought it was a great series of games, especially the 4th one. Best space-simulator of its time (in my opinion). Also was disappointed that Archon lost.
College education is not only about "depth", it's also about "width'. You get to taste more things that you would if you'd have only your "2 month on job training".
In my university days, I understood a lot of calculus by visualizing an animated sequence (mean value theorem, limits, derivatives...). Animation is a great tool for these things. Same goes for numerical analysis. Also (from the same days), linear algebra can be (often / sometimes) simplified to a 2d / 3d projection which can be displayed easily by a computer. Forget that you CAN'T draw in 3D or can't animate in 2D on the board - the computer can. And of course - physics, chemistry, geography, history - omg, history would be so cool to learn with a projector, if done correctly (not just clips - diagrams, arrows on the world map describing population movements, pressures, wars) - all of the "real world" sciences are much more fun when working in the real world. Even political science (if your school offers it) can enjoy the benefits of a projector, even if only as a video machine (watching Marting Luther King Jr. making his speech for example). However - I don't think that a projector is a "magic wand". It conforms to the equation "invest more time, reap more results". If you invest the proper amount of time preparing good material (and not only video clips), your students would enjoy it immensely. Just my 2 bits.
I'm ready to pay for any site I can't live without. So far that's not a single site. It's not a single site, but it's a lot of groups of several sites. If all the sites in a group goes "pay-me", I'd find it very hard to continue feeding my news/data addiction.
I really don't mind someone else paying for me. I hate it when the speakers start burping out loud or when the ad takes over the page or when it takes 100% CPU time to render. However, I accept that for the most sites, the availability of "free" content relies on ads.
Who do you think pay for everything? Who do you think SHOULD pay for everything?
Glad it worked? I'm horrified it worked. Every time someone (re)validates Einstein relativity theories, we actually know we're one step further from FTL (Faster than light - though I'd be surprised if any/. geek wouldn't know the term) than we thought we were before.
I like developing for the web...
actually, I don't. I like developing in a non-gui environment, but I'm currently assigned to a "gui" team. Developing for the web (at least in my environment) allows me to (mostly) concentrate more on the problem itself and less on the "how thing are going to look". This is probably due to the great framework we use for web (mix of Struts and our own very extensive framework) and the lack of such framework for our (now abandoned) swing application.
However, in my opinion, availability of mature frameworks is the decisive point when it comes to enterprise-level development. As a junior developer in my company my requests to change frameworks (or at least, conform to the rules of the one we use). Web development, or at least the variant I've seen 'here' (at my work place), almost forces you to work correctly (don't think I haven't encountered terrible code that broke all conventions as well).
I could be wrong (again, little experience with these things), but from what I've seen so far, if I'm stuck with UI development, I'd prefer the web over desktop.
I think using a captcha like this one (html-table rendered) is bad web-manners.
The rendering of such a table, pixel by pixel, is a huge toll on browsers. Even on my (relatively) new and (relatively) powerful machine, it took Firefox a noticeable amount of time to render the image, and caused my hard drive to crunch a little. I don't even want to imagine less powerful machines or, random-fluctuation-of-time-and-space forbid, mobile devices.
All in all, I think this method severely limits the users accessing this site.
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Actually, short breaks _don't_ improve productivity. Latest study (Harvard Business Review - http://hbr.org/2012/05/coffee-breaks-dont-boost-productivity-after-all/ar/1 - _do_ sign up and read the whole article, don't just read the headline) shows that productivity is, at best, indifferent to micro breaks and at worst, reduced significantly. Those breaks _do_ have some effect on the stress level of the employee, but that's not of the employer _immediate_ concern (though long-term employers should factor this into their calculations). Numbers and cases, or it isn't science. (oh, and 5 minutes of an 8 hours day is ~1%, not 0.2%).
Lot's of "not an infringement" marks there. Yes to "overall structure", but no to almost everything else, including a yes to "did Sun pushed Google to do this" (rephrased). I wonder how much weight does a blurred statement like that have. You could almost say that the same covers all "inspired" work.
"nature intended" - really? in this forum? Good luck avoiding the hailstorm.
...and Xmx should be 9999G...
Unfortunately, the Sun JVM (now Oracle main JVM) "array cells are consecutive in memory" blocks this. When the JVM reports "free memory = T" it must be able to allocate an array of size T. However, due to the aforementioned feature, this require the JVM to pre-allocate all the memory so it can reshuffle everything to be able to allocate that array in consecutive memory addresses. So why didn't they (Sun, now Oracle) drop this feature? Because it helps tremendously in signal and image processing, allow you to fine-tune memory-based optimizations and, usually, offers better array instantiation speed.
Pity. I thought it was a great series of games, especially the 4th one. Best space-simulator of its time (in my opinion). Also was disappointed that Archon lost.
College education is not only about "depth", it's also about "width'. You get to taste more things that you would if you'd have only your "2 month on job training".
http://blog.andreineculau.com/2008/06/repagination/ - Repagination hacked to work in FF3.5. Enjoy. (not that the article was worth the effort)
In my university days, I understood a lot of calculus by visualizing an animated sequence (mean value theorem, limits, derivatives...). Animation is a great tool for these things. Same goes for numerical analysis.
Also (from the same days), linear algebra can be (often / sometimes) simplified to a 2d / 3d projection which can be displayed easily by a computer. Forget that you CAN'T draw in 3D or can't animate in 2D on the board - the computer can.
And of course - physics, chemistry, geography, history - omg, history would be so cool to learn with a projector, if done correctly (not just clips - diagrams, arrows on the world map describing population movements, pressures, wars) - all of the "real world" sciences are much more fun when working in the real world. Even political science (if your school offers it) can enjoy the benefits of a projector, even if only as a video machine (watching Marting Luther King Jr. making his speech for example).
However - I don't think that a projector is a "magic wand". It conforms to the equation "invest more time, reap more results". If you invest the proper amount of time preparing good material (and not only video clips), your students would enjoy it immensely.
Just my 2 bits.
yep, still ./ed
If all the sites in a group goes "pay-me", I'd find it very hard to continue feeding my news/data addiction.
I really don't mind someone else paying for me. I hate it when the speakers start burping out loud or when the ad takes over the page or when it takes 100% CPU time to render. However, I accept that for the most sites, the availability of "free" content relies on ads.
Who do you think pay for everything? Who do you think SHOULD pay for everything?
Glad it worked? I'm horrified it worked. /. geek wouldn't know the term) than we thought we were before.
Every time someone (re)validates Einstein relativity theories, we actually know we're one step further from FTL (Faster than light - though I'd be surprised if any
Damm gravity.
I like developing for the web... actually, I don't. I like developing in a non-gui environment, but I'm currently assigned to a "gui" team. Developing for the web (at least in my environment) allows me to (mostly) concentrate more on the problem itself and less on the "how thing are going to look". This is probably due to the great framework we use for web (mix of Struts and our own very extensive framework) and the lack of such framework for our (now abandoned) swing application. However, in my opinion, availability of mature frameworks is the decisive point when it comes to enterprise-level development. As a junior developer in my company my requests to change frameworks (or at least, conform to the rules of the one we use). Web development, or at least the variant I've seen 'here' (at my work place), almost forces you to work correctly (don't think I haven't encountered terrible code that broke all conventions as well). I could be wrong (again, little experience with these things), but from what I've seen so far, if I'm stuck with UI development, I'd prefer the web over desktop.
I think using a captcha like this one (html-table rendered) is bad web-manners. The rendering of such a table, pixel by pixel, is a huge toll on browsers. Even on my (relatively) new and (relatively) powerful machine, it took Firefox a noticeable amount of time to render the image, and caused my hard drive to crunch a little. I don't even want to imagine less powerful machines or, random-fluctuation-of-time-and-space forbid, mobile devices. All in all, I think this method severely limits the users accessing this site.