He is correctly spelling those words, in fact since it's the Queen's English it's arguably more correct than your (ahem) "English" (We don't speak English in America we speak American, and rightly so)
Please mod parent up, although I think the time period stipulation of 3 years might be appropriate for some industries - others where development time is longer it might not be enough.
I can relate to this guy as a musician too, the guys that actually make the music are last in line at the money trench. It's a lot like being a developer actually in a funny sort of way. Indie artists are not weeping any tears over the industry one bit, so we really don't give a fsck. Sell your own CD's and T-shirts, the profit margins are WAY better.
I wonder how many alcohol addled/ class skipping / whoremonger MBA's truly understand the laws of "supply and demand" and to be fair how many CS graduates remember the nuances of linked lists with pointers. Although I do see where there could be some overlap of skills in hiring hookers and engineering talent...
So are those new pies which are made do they sit there doing nothing or do they actually go to work creating value for the whole? (and yes you may call me a socialist if I can call you a fascist) Explain to me how complex financial instruments (derivatives on commodities futures for example) actually focus capital to be used by innovation in any way whatsoever?
And while you say now that Science and Tech workers need to be innovators and business leaders, that might be a great sound bite and all to appease all you Ayn Rand fans, but in reality people who are truly like that bristle at the thought of working themselves to death for someone else (VC's, CEO's, stockholders etc.) to a) take the credit b) steal the idea and c) take the money Not to mention that for every business leader to be successful there have to be a ready supply of people who are a) too scared b) lazy c)sane enough to not want to venture out on their own for x number of years with no safety net whatsoever to speculate that their idea is the one that hits the jackpot. What we need is a clear understanding that innovation and true cutting edge technology takes development time (more than you think always) and for those who are leaders to increase their understanding of the technology that they are leading. Frankly we need less "leadership" and more people willing to roll their sleeves up and get the work done in the trenches, just the opposite.
I understand your point, but Randall has a specialized audience who is suited to absorbing more information than "someone on the street" I have to say I thought it was brilliantly executed and easily grok'ed. Someone else posted links to other graphs that were pyramidal in shape that were easier to understand and yet somehow misleading due to the logarithmic scale - how do you communicate that to the general public? I suppose comparing it to the richter scales, although every time this comes up on/. the factor of 10 vs. 31,000 times argument comes up so even that is commonly misleading.
Well, it's like fish realizing that they are in water, they don't even know that there is a software monoculture. If I had $5 for every time someone said the internet is down, and really it has to do with their browser... Or something lame like another window has obscured their browser or something.
Amen to that! I was a computer science major once, I dropped out to pursue a music career (I was 18 at the time, I wish I could go back in time and kick my own ass, but I digress) I came out to the west coast to rekindle my interest in coding got a job in the tail of the dot com bubble and bust, and when the dust settled and I was collecting unemployment I started checking out Suse and Red Hat and I found that linux was frankly a pain in the ass after several attempts of compiling kernels and drivers, even with a modicum of technical experience.like I had I went back to using windows. A few years later I kept hearing about Ubuntu and after one too many installs of XP that didn't work and one too many viruses and all the bad press about Vista ( and being a struggling artist = no money) I decided to chuck it and try Ubuntu. I held my breath and did a clean install. It was a little bit rough figuring out xorg.conf and getting audio to work (I have high technical demands for that), but Ubuntu has been overall great. I have since dedicated myself to learning everything I can about system admin and bash, the last tech gig I had the guy couldn't believe how I "flowed through bash" I can certainly attest to the fact that Ubuntu made it a logical and well designed environment to just run out of the box. Unless you are a techie it wouldn't have made sense before now. I am now an unabashed fanboy, though I still cheat and use microsoft products from time to time (Like this xp laptop, although it's days are numbered... in my defense all the asus linux netbooks were sold out when I bought this computer)
The first thing I do now when I do a fresh install of ubuntu is to setup the windows key on my keyboard to open a terminal through the shortcuts menu. It is SO satisfying to know that no matter what processes are running I can reach in and kill one if necessary, no quibbling. Daemon be gone!
Yeah FOSS is awesome, but there is a time and place for commercial software and there is nothing wrong with getting paid for your efforts.
Every oil company has a "division" of alternative energy and they do a lot of buying up of patents of green energy. I know someone who visited one of the said departments and there was reportedly several unopened boxes of expensive testing equipment gathering dust and two guys just sitting around doing nothing in one small room. Additionally, I once knew another guy who worked in an alternative energy department of an oil company (we worked together in another part time endeavor - non technical) and he had plenty of free time. Also his emails were nothing like any engineer I've ever known, they rambled on and made hardly any sense. I got the distinct feeling that he was a placeholder.
So what really is the worth of an ideology if it's not to convince the people of a nation of some sort of exceptionalism to invade another country to control resources? Wars over ideology? I can't buy it. Now to say that we invaded Iraq because we wanted their oil is an oversimplification, it's that Hussein was trying to convert the way of trading oil to be dollar based into being euro based - which in my amateur armchair economist way I can only imagine that it would have some sort of impact on the worth of our currency - it only stands to reason. That IMHO is why we invaded Iraq, well that and the people making that decision were all in the oil business, so they knew what to do with the stuff and knew how to personally profit from oil AND defense contracts. Ideology? Really? You think the army has some document that quantifies the value of that somewhere? Wait a minute - is that you Mr. Cheney?
"Funny how no one points at Poland, Norway, Denmark, Netherlands, Belgium, Yugoslavia, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Greece, and Luxembourg."
That's because they're not French.
(All in fun of course my wife is French. And yes there is nothing more fun than taking the piss out of em as the Brits say, they get so damn defensive... )
Yeah, I feel as secure about government policy on the security of my private medical records as I do about security on voting machines or the security implemented on "mission critical" drones. That has worked out well./sarcasm Which company are they going to outsource the implementation of security policy, and really who is auditing this stuff and can we have some transparency on this please?? And don't give me any crap about if people know how the security works then it will be insecure... look at the difference between security on open source in the linux world and the closed source approach the government usually takes.
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He is correctly spelling those words, in fact since it's the Queen's English it's arguably more correct than your (ahem) "English" (We don't speak English in America we speak American, and rightly so)
I can relate to this guy as a musician too, the guys that actually make the music are last in line at the money trench. It's a lot like being a developer actually in a funny sort of way. Indie artists are not weeping any tears over the industry one bit, so we really don't give a fsck. Sell your own CD's and T-shirts, the profit margins are WAY better.
I wonder how many alcohol addled/ class skipping / whoremonger MBA's truly understand the laws of "supply and demand" and to be fair how many CS graduates remember the nuances of linked lists with pointers. Although I do see where there could be some overlap of skills in hiring hookers and engineering talent...
So are those new pies which are made do they sit there doing nothing or do they actually go to work creating value for the whole? (and yes you may call me a socialist if I can call you a fascist) Explain to me how complex financial instruments (derivatives on commodities futures for example) actually focus capital to be used by innovation in any way whatsoever? And while you say now that Science and Tech workers need to be innovators and business leaders, that might be a great sound bite and all to appease all you Ayn Rand fans, but in reality people who are truly like that bristle at the thought of working themselves to death for someone else (VC's, CEO's, stockholders etc.) to a) take the credit b) steal the idea and c) take the money Not to mention that for every business leader to be successful there have to be a ready supply of people who are a) too scared b) lazy c)sane enough to not want to venture out on their own for x number of years with no safety net whatsoever to speculate that their idea is the one that hits the jackpot. What we need is a clear understanding that innovation and true cutting edge technology takes development time (more than you think always) and for those who are leaders to increase their understanding of the technology that they are leading. Frankly we need less "leadership" and more people willing to roll their sleeves up and get the work done in the trenches, just the opposite.
I understand your point, but Randall has a specialized audience who is suited to absorbing more information than "someone on the street" I have to say I thought it was brilliantly executed and easily grok'ed. Someone else posted links to other graphs that were pyramidal in shape that were easier to understand and yet somehow misleading due to the logarithmic scale - how do you communicate that to the general public? I suppose comparing it to the richter scales, although every time this comes up on /. the factor of 10 vs. 31,000 times argument comes up so even that is commonly misleading.
Tell it is to safeguard the earth from a big bad meteor or that it can be used to detect a trrorist backyard missile. You'll get funds.
What makes you think they didn't?
Well, it's like fish realizing that they are in water, they don't even know that there is a software monoculture. If I had $5 for every time someone said the internet is down, and really it has to do with their browser... Or something lame like another window has obscured their browser or something.
Amen to that! I was a computer science major once, I dropped out to pursue a music career (I was 18 at the time, I wish I could go back in time and kick my own ass, but I digress) I came out to the west coast to rekindle my interest in coding got a job in the tail of the dot com bubble and bust, and when the dust settled and I was collecting unemployment I started checking out Suse and Red Hat and I found that linux was frankly a pain in the ass after several attempts of compiling kernels and drivers, even with a modicum of technical experience.like I had I went back to using windows. A few years later I kept hearing about Ubuntu and after one too many installs of XP that didn't work and one too many viruses and all the bad press about Vista ( and being a struggling artist = no money) I decided to chuck it and try Ubuntu. I held my breath and did a clean install. It was a little bit rough figuring out xorg.conf and getting audio to work (I have high technical demands for that), but Ubuntu has been overall great. I have since dedicated myself to learning everything I can about system admin and bash, the last tech gig I had the guy couldn't believe how I "flowed through bash" I can certainly attest to the fact that Ubuntu made it a logical and well designed environment to just run out of the box. Unless you are a techie it wouldn't have made sense before now. I am now an unabashed fanboy, though I still cheat and use microsoft products from time to time (Like this xp laptop, although it's days are numbered... in my defense all the asus linux netbooks were sold out when I bought this computer) The first thing I do now when I do a fresh install of ubuntu is to setup the windows key on my keyboard to open a terminal through the shortcuts menu. It is SO satisfying to know that no matter what processes are running I can reach in and kill one if necessary, no quibbling. Daemon be gone! Yeah FOSS is awesome, but there is a time and place for commercial software and there is nothing wrong with getting paid for your efforts.
Every oil company has a "division" of alternative energy and they do a lot of buying up of patents of green energy. I know someone who visited one of the said departments and there was reportedly several unopened boxes of expensive testing equipment gathering dust and two guys just sitting around doing nothing in one small room. Additionally, I once knew another guy who worked in an alternative energy department of an oil company (we worked together in another part time endeavor - non technical) and he had plenty of free time. Also his emails were nothing like any engineer I've ever known, they rambled on and made hardly any sense. I got the distinct feeling that he was a placeholder.
So what really is the worth of an ideology if it's not to convince the people of a nation of some sort of exceptionalism to invade another country to control resources? Wars over ideology? I can't buy it. Now to say that we invaded Iraq because we wanted their oil is an oversimplification, it's that Hussein was trying to convert the way of trading oil to be dollar based into being euro based - which in my amateur armchair economist way I can only imagine that it would have some sort of impact on the worth of our currency - it only stands to reason. That IMHO is why we invaded Iraq, well that and the people making that decision were all in the oil business, so they knew what to do with the stuff and knew how to personally profit from oil AND defense contracts. Ideology? Really? You think the army has some document that quantifies the value of that somewhere? Wait a minute - is that you Mr. Cheney?
"Funny how no one points at Poland, Norway, Denmark, Netherlands, Belgium, Yugoslavia, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Greece, and Luxembourg."
That's because they're not French.
(All in fun of course my wife is French. And yes there is nothing more fun than taking the piss out of em as the Brits say, they get so damn defensive... )
Yeah, I feel as secure about government policy on the security of my private medical records as I do about security on voting machines or the security implemented on "mission critical" drones. That has worked out well. /sarcasm Which company are they going to outsource the implementation of security policy, and really who is auditing this stuff and can we have some transparency on this please?? And don't give me any crap about if people know how the security works then it will be insecure... look at the difference between security on open source in the linux world and the closed source approach the government usually takes.