One of the problems with e-mail is that employees can have casual conversations about something
that can later be taken out of context. For example, two engineers talk about a procedure that is
really stupid and doesn't mean anything. Five years later, lawyers perform a "discovery" and find
"evidence" that engineers didn't take procedures seriously. Now they can sue.
The problem with saving some of your e-mail is that the lawyers can claim that you deleted incriminating
e-mail and only saved e-mail that proved your side of the story. The answer to that is have a consistent
policy where all e-mail is deleted after some time. 180 days seems awfully short, 1 year seems more
appropriate, but I guess it depends on what kind of business you are in.
I personally disagree with people who prototype in one language and
"enterprise" in another one. Maybe this works for web sites or GUI's,
but not for numerical software.
I have a colleague who insists on prototyping numerical software in VB
and Excel then porting to Fortran/C++ (before laughing, remember it's numerical analysis).
All's this does is create shitty Fortran/C++ because he hasn't developed his
Fortran/C++ skills. A good developer should be able to "think" in his chosen
language.
I'm also a native English speaker.
I went to France and had a great time. I decided to learn French.
I didn't make much progress.
The next year I went to Italy. I had an even better time and Italian seemed
like an easier language to learn, so I decided to learn Italian.
Again, didn't make much progress.
I worked a semester in New Mexico, and took a course in Spanish. I can't have
a Spanish conversation, but I know quite a few Spanish words.
I then gave a training course in Germany, in English, and they apologized that their
English wasn't very good. (Can you imagine a German company coming to America
and giving a training course in German?)
I now work extensively with Japanese customers. I will start a Japanese class next
week. Everybody I work with in Japan knows English.
Oh, and my wife is from Eastern Europe and my kids are bi-lingual. I know quite a few
words, but can't hold a conversation. I've traveled to her country, and most people
know English.
It sounds Egotistic, but English really is the international language.
It helps to know *about* other languages, but I don't think it's worth the effort
to know another language fluently. Most likely, you'll end up working with people
in an unexpected country.
What happens if the government pays you to modify an already existing product. Do they get rights to the existing product?
My company was in a similar situation a couple of years ago. The government paid a fairly small amount of money to us to modify an existing product and then assummed that they owned the entire product, and could redistribute it!
Thankfully our situation was settled before
lawyers were involved.
It's sounds like the reports of "hacking" are completely overblown.
Call me crazy, but I don't consider changing a URL "hacking". If you would have broken into their system, it would be a completely different situation.
Good luck on your future endeavors. I really feel sorry for they guys who applied to multiple schools, check their results, and are now screwed out of all of their choices.
Let me get this straight, you want to leave the US because American Airlines asked some guy for a list of where he will be staying?
Seems pretty petty.....
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There are now fewer than a dozen students who are feeling pretty stupid right now...
Moore wasn't the first person to recognize this, only the most famous. See for example: http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=1PX1HUsIBhnOSOsxcM2HoJZHv-9rtnNPOu-CA--584-UA4GLXxhWz842JmRDy&hl=en which describes Selengut's results from 1959. Selengut predicted computer speeds would double in magnitude every 10 years.
One of the problems with e-mail is that employees can have casual conversations about something that can later be taken out of context. For example, two engineers talk about a procedure that is really stupid and doesn't mean anything. Five years later, lawyers perform a "discovery" and find "evidence" that engineers didn't take procedures seriously. Now they can sue. The problem with saving some of your e-mail is that the lawyers can claim that you deleted incriminating e-mail and only saved e-mail that proved your side of the story. The answer to that is have a consistent policy where all e-mail is deleted after some time. 180 days seems awfully short, 1 year seems more appropriate, but I guess it depends on what kind of business you are in.
I have a colleague who insists on prototyping numerical software in VB and Excel then porting to Fortran/C++ (before laughing, remember it's numerical analysis). All's this does is create shitty Fortran/C++ because he hasn't developed his Fortran/C++ skills. A good developer should be able to "think" in his chosen language.
I'm also a native English speaker. I went to France and had a great time. I decided to learn French. I didn't make much progress. The next year I went to Italy. I had an even better time and Italian seemed like an easier language to learn, so I decided to learn Italian. Again, didn't make much progress. I worked a semester in New Mexico, and took a course in Spanish. I can't have a Spanish conversation, but I know quite a few Spanish words. I then gave a training course in Germany, in English, and they apologized that their English wasn't very good. (Can you imagine a German company coming to America and giving a training course in German?) I now work extensively with Japanese customers. I will start a Japanese class next week. Everybody I work with in Japan knows English. Oh, and my wife is from Eastern Europe and my kids are bi-lingual. I know quite a few words, but can't hold a conversation. I've traveled to her country, and most people know English. It sounds Egotistic, but English really is the international language. It helps to know *about* other languages, but I don't think it's worth the effort to know another language fluently. Most likely, you'll end up working with people in an unexpected country.
What happens if the government pays you to modify an already existing product. Do they get rights to the existing product?
My company was in a similar situation a couple of years ago. The government paid a fairly small amount of money to us to modify an existing product and then assummed that they owned the entire product, and could redistribute it!
Thankfully our situation was settled before lawyers were involved.
Call me crazy, but I don't consider changing a URL "hacking". If you would have broken into their system, it would be a completely different situation.
Good luck on your future endeavors. I really feel sorry for they guys who applied to multiple schools, check their results, and are now screwed out of all of their choices.
Most (all?) of their reactors are traditional PWR reactors based on the Westinghouse design.
They do, however, reprocess their fuel and reuse the plutonium.
Are the Sun C, C++, Fortran compilers included, or do you have to use the GNU compilers?
If the Sun compilers are not included, does anybody know if they are avialable, and for how much?
Thanks for any help!
No problem. I'll give them the same address I gave on the NYT registration page :)
What is really insulting is when European hotels "hold" my passport for me. That really pisses me off...
Also, why did a casino in Monico need a copy of my passport? I've never been asked for a copy of my passport in Vegas (or anywhere else).
I don't see how you can possibly make the argument that visitors to the US have less privacy than visitors to Europe.
Let me get this straight, you want to leave the US because American Airlines asked some guy for a list of where he will be staying? Seems pretty petty.....
(yes I'm trying to be funny)