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Wood is a form of biofuel.
See what I did there?
Does "biofuel" still seem like a mysterious magical term.
Good point!
I was thinking of posting, "Wait a second.. Question: How much of Earth's breathable oxygen is transformed via algae? Will her next invention be something that generates power from water, transforming it into acid?"
Interesting concept.
Now how about watching your seizures start (if you have epilepsy)? Watching your migraine start is fascinating until you have it.
...of the respondents lied.
It just denial - the first step to accepting they have a condition.
When I was a kid, I didn't fit in with any group. There were the jocks, the nerds, and a couple of other groups. It was fair to say that if there was a group of kids that fit into a group like that, I was more than likely getting beat up by them. Today, they call me a nerd, but I'm not. I've never been a nerd. You don't have to be a nerd to work in technology, or even write code. I'm just a normal guy with a family, trying to make a living.
Denial is the first step in recovery.
Athleticism automatically gets you booted out of the club. That, and using cool lingo.
Cool lingo in your username has ruled you out of the Soul Club.
Also, coal power plants produce more nuclear radiation yearly than all the nuclear accidents in the entire history of the human race including our weapons testing and use.
Could you please cite a source of this information? I have been trying to convince people that nuclear power is by far the best of all options long-term, but always get stuck on fear, NIMBY, and citations of prior accidents by the other party.
I could really use this information in a logical argument. Do you have any sources you can cite?
Must post the obligatory reply:
If you do not know, then you are in no position to pick your boss, even if that silly concept would be a reality. Then even then, you turn to slashdot, to a bunch of mostly unwashed gpl fanatics, it just doesn't look good. Maybe you should have taken your silly imagination to a professional consultation firm or something.
I thought distributed computing was a "good thing"...
While I agree the IT manager is failing, it seems that the employees he's managing are also failing by taking advantage of his incompetence. While the IT manager should have enough knowledge to know better, it's the responsibility of his employees to give him the best advice possible for completion of the projects.
How does this account for the large numbers of management individuals who DO listen to their subordinates, followed by an ERASE?
"Sure, Bob. I see your view on that. We really do need to upgrade the database underlying infrastructure before our customers are unable to order products, switching to a new vendor. I will get cracking right away on this!"
Sometimes, management will overlook the fact that a new measurement technique may not provide useful data
Sometimes?
Head of IT doesn't really need to know that much tech. His blind trust in his underlings might be an issue, but lack of technical skills is not really an issue
There is a minimum level of IT competency that leads to credibility as an IT manager, however
The most common metric for managers is project completion - not project satisfaction.
If your manager is consistently meeting their targets and performance objectives, you don't have much recourse - Unless you're at one of the very forward-thinking companies that actually accounts for subordinate satisfaction in managerial performance reviews. Which is unlikely, because even companies that adhere to that philosophy don't generally put it in practice.
What I'm reading here is that perhaps a working solution would be to "deprogram" business knowledge from all non-managerial graduates. It would basically make the process of finding faults before the compromise system functionality null.
Now if only we could only place your reply into the beginning of Business Administration college courses (I mean the VERY beginning), this country might actually go somewhere.
Good summary!
Unfortunately, to HR, most people with more business college experience than actual hands-on technical knowledge are the cream of the crop for management of technical minds.
Funny, I had one job where a techie was placed in management. His hair went grey in 5 years and he always wanted to seclude himself from people. He spent more time in Outlook, on the phone, in meetings, and traveling than he did touching his keyboard for tech work, but damn was he good when he could. Basically, management pulled him away from tech work. Coincidentally, those in management always wanted to know what those "darn tech idiots were doing" and spent more time and money on Six-Sigma and meeting about possible current and future activities rather than, you know, asking any techs or having them in the meetings. I'm straying from the answer now... The answer to the article's question is (humorously) in the subject line of my reply.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
It's fine if you just use it without stressing that oh-my-god-it's-different. It's definitely not perfect, but it's fine.
Now if we could have ever gotten people to have that same opinion about Linux..... Damn.
You do know that money spent on these projects isn't actually destroyed, right? It's spent, people get paid, corporations make money.
Understood. My irritation is that people outside of said corporation are lead to believe that a solution is in the near future or being actively worked on when, in fact, there might be nothing of any significant value being achieved. Sure people are taking the money home, but the problem isn't being solved.
The statement I just made does not apply if they are actually working hard on finding a solution and have knowledgeable people on staff, of course.
Can't open /usr/fortunes. Lid stuck on cookie jar.