Re:Too few computers, too little bandwidth
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As a health service manager, having to decide between enough hospital beds or enough computers, which do you suppose is more likely to keep you in your job?
I suppose it all depends on whether or not your predecessor actually did his job correctly or not. If you've inherited a system that's fundamentally flawed and you need to start from scratch then sure, your documentation will be redundant. If however, you're continuing to maintain a system / further enhance the infrastructure that you've inherited then lacking any documentation can and does (but not always) increase the time required to pickup where the last guy left off.
There's always the argument that you shouldn't need any documentation for a well designed system (be it a network, code base et al) if you know what you're doing ('self documenting'), but I'm more pissed to be landed on a project with _zero_ documentation than to be landed on one with bad documentation that at least gives me a rough outline / idea of what's currently there.
Yes it does. For example I have a bookmark called 'Google Quick Search' with the google keyword assigned, when you type google search term it changes the keyword to the title of the bookmark and grabs the URL specified with the term when you return.
OSX already does this and it works flawlessly. Granted, when I bought my first Mac and switched to Mac OS 14 months ago it took me 6 months to realise you could cycle through the subset of open windows for each application.
Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty, said: "We opposed the big brother database because it gave the state direct access to everybody's communications. But this network of black boxes achieves the same thing via the back door."
This sounds like the current season / episode of 24, the UK gets it's very own 'CTU network'!
Not every person is a greedy money grabbing bastard, there are and always will be those of us who would just like to be able to survive comfortably.
You can't blame people for desiring a better life, that is human nature. In the 'first' world, a better life might be that new flat screen tv, or it could be off the drugs and off the streets, in the 'third' world it could be as simple as getting water / food for your family.
It's all relative, money is just the modern world's necessity to survive, I'm not greedy because I want to pay a bit more to live in a home that's comfortable for me.
I guess one of the good sides of being a contract developer / consultant is how most companies will make sure you (generally) have absolutely everything you need / are comfortable and happy so as to be most efficient.
Surely it would make more sense to reduce the cost of video games? I know more people that have been the victim of violent crime purely by kids mugging them for that xbox or game the kid couldn't afford.
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As a health service manager, having to decide between enough hospital beds or enough computers, which do you suppose is more likely to keep you in your job?
Wish I had mod points.
UK here, can't get it either. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot indeed. Ah well, thank god for Apple.
...and Chrome has no developer tools? What kind of crack are the marketing team on at Microsoft?
Volts don't kill you, amps do.
That was low. Really, really low.
Opera is, the only, web browser, that renders /. correctly for you?
:/
What the hell kind of machine are you using?
I suppose it all depends on whether or not your predecessor actually did his job correctly or not. If you've inherited a system that's fundamentally flawed and you need to start from scratch then sure, your documentation will be redundant. If however, you're continuing to maintain a system / further enhance the infrastructure that you've inherited then lacking any documentation can and does (but not always) increase the time required to pickup where the last guy left off.
There's always the argument that you shouldn't need any documentation for a well designed system (be it a network, code base et al) if you know what you're doing ('self documenting'), but I'm more pissed to be landed on a project with _zero_ documentation than to be landed on one with bad documentation that at least gives me a rough outline / idea of what's currently there.
It's exactly that kind of attitude that creates this world of badly/un - documented infrastructure.
Barely, it's not a bad effort, only one little x in the top right.
Yes it does. For example I have a bookmark called 'Google Quick Search' with the google keyword assigned, when you type google search term it changes the keyword to the title of the bookmark and grabs the URL specified with the term when you return.
OSX already does this and it works flawlessly. Granted, when I bought my first Mac and switched to Mac OS 14 months ago it took me 6 months to realise you could cycle through the subset of open windows for each application.
How much are Microsoft paying you to say this, Mr. Anonymous Coward?
Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty, said: "We opposed the big brother database because it gave the state direct access to everybody's communications. But this network of black boxes achieves the same thing via the back door."
This sounds like the current season / episode of 24, the UK gets it's very own 'CTU network'!
Ok now even I'm not going to let this one slip, what's going on /.?
Bird flu, pig flu, what's next?
I wish I could mod this funny, informative and (new option) true.
No, it's just you.
Aye, they used the concept in the construction of the Bahrain World Trade Center.
Not every person is a greedy money grabbing bastard, there are and always will be those of us who would just like to be able to survive comfortably.
You can't blame people for desiring a better life, that is human nature. In the 'first' world, a better life might be that new flat screen tv, or it could be off the drugs and off the streets, in the 'third' world it could be as simple as getting water / food for your family.
It's all relative, money is just the modern world's necessity to survive, I'm not greedy because I want to pay a bit more to live in a home that's comfortable for me.
I guess one of the good sides of being a contract developer / consultant is how most companies will make sure you (generally) have absolutely everything you need / are comfortable and happy so as to be most efficient.
*ahem*
...English should be, as well.
Series of tubes.
I wonder if they can detect speed camera's too.
I wonder...
Most of the page focuses on IE8 Standards mode, but it also turns out that IE7 compatibility mode isn't quite the same as IE7 itself.
That old chestnut, eh?
Surely it would make more sense to reduce the cost of video games? I know more people that have been the victim of violent crime purely by kids mugging them for that xbox or game the kid couldn't afford.