T124.1.17.ZZ.Plural-Z.Alpha: Intentional self-harm injury sustained to left head in booth 24 at Eccentrica Gallumbits Spa and Saunas, hit in the head with a gold brick wrapped in a slice of lemon.
If you've ever tried to be truly creative, you should try a search on TVTropes or even just google whenever you come up with something that you think is original. It often seems like every (big) idea has already been done - the only variation is in combinations or details.
Forget your rather weak anti-socialism examples, how about "pricing your whole economy out of global competition because of economy-wide tax burdens for entitlement programs".
The extreme of socialism is a tiny pool of extremely skilled and productive workers taxed for the lion's share of their wages to pay for a large number of unproductive people. These unproductive people fall into two categories: the wealthy ruling class (the government and their sanctioned monopolies), and those in social programs. The body of those in social programs must be large enough to guarantee re-election for the government cabal, so it's a very sizable portion of the population.
The government looks good to the rest of the world (and much of its own population) because they are providing for the "weak" of society (but with a massively overbroad brush) while still getting wealthy, and the middle class is exploited until it stops existing, or is sustained if enough people from the middle class can be productive enough for everyone else while keeping the belief that they are doing the right thing in working.
A cynical person might say this is what's happening to some of Western Europe right now.
Like it or not, I can get those a dime a dozen overseas.
Good local people are much better than great remote people, and the number of great remote people willing to work for you is much smaller than the number of good local people.
If you're referring to cheap remote people: in 2 years time, when your cheap-as-chips cobbled together software fails spectaculary and none of your current remote team were already present when the original crap was written so they have no idea how to fix it, and NO inclination to stick their necks out to try. The few good people in that "cheap remote" location have the same job-mobility than the good ones here, except shittier work, so they are more likely to bail on you at the drop of a hat or a slight salary increase. Because they are cheap and good, some smart manager somewhere *will* figure out that he can just pay (a lot!) more than you to get the good guys. You can't match their offer, because your whole business model is already based on Location X costing Y less than your previous local setup.
And then you are stuck with lousy remote people, which are infinitely worse than even mediocre local people. You might even see the wonderful reality of negative productivity.
Of course, if you are that smart manager that is paying the remote good guys a LOT of money you might not quite be so badly off, but then they aren't exactly cheap anymore either.
If memory serves, it is generally the opinion of everyone with a functioning brain that, for all situations wherein technology makes an illegal act easier, the correct solution is not to ban the technology.
With the slight addition: if that technology has an actual useful purpose (which could be the illegal act itself, or something else). I don't think free access to VX nerve gas would do society a lot of good.
Still doesn't help all that much if you have less-privacy-savvy friends that are inclined to post a lot of crap about you on THEIR social networking sites.
My solution: don't have any friends. You don't need a social network, and nobody will be posting about you!
Ironically, those tube amps are starting to be replaced with computers, in some cases dedicated modeling units (Fractal Audio Axe-FX 2), in many other cases through modeling sofware, on a PC:)
To a native C++ developer used to deterministic cleanup, garbage collection is a collosal non-deterministic pain in the ass, especially in the presence of wrapped native objects.
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An example, please.
Patents and copyrights, obviously. They had it right all along! ;-)
BIOS, all the way down.
Re-imagining means: "I imagine it will work this time", after it didn't work the first time you imagined it either.
I learned to touch-type on those, and that's nowhere 25 years ago!
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Or, wait, *counts*
Damn...
Get off my lawn.
Microsoft is still as evil as ever. It's just that everyone else has caught up to their level of evil, so it doesn't seem as disproportionate anymore.
New Microsoft slogan: "just slightly less evil than Google. Okay, Apple. Okay, Sony."
I thought "In post-soviet russia, the president is interested in you!".
T124.1.17.ZZ.Plural-Z.Alpha: Intentional self-harm injury sustained to left head in booth 24 at Eccentrica Gallumbits Spa and Saunas, hit in the head with a gold brick wrapped in a slice of lemon.
... In contrast, programmers have it nice in the sense that when they do a good job ...
See, that's where your argument loses all credibility.
Everyone knows that programmers never do a good job!.
Was there ever a competitive market for FPUs, or did only one FPU make and model work with each CPU? GPUs are meant to be replaced.
Well, there was Weitek.
If you've ever tried to be truly creative, you should try a search on TVTropes or even just google whenever you come up with something that you think is original. It often seems like every (big) idea has already been done - the only variation is in combinations or details.
Damn, we attached the magnet to the wrong side of the post-doctorate student's head when he was writing that study.
Now you see why I wear a tin foil hat.
What does removing gauze have to do with magnets?
and fires Ballmer...
And puts itself up for sale.
Early tomorrow morning: "Ubuntu buys Microsoft".
Forget your rather weak anti-socialism examples, how about "pricing your whole economy out of global competition because of economy-wide tax burdens for entitlement programs".
The extreme of socialism is a tiny pool of extremely skilled and productive workers taxed for the lion's share of their wages to pay for a large number of unproductive people. These unproductive people fall into two categories: the wealthy ruling class (the government and their sanctioned monopolies), and those in social programs. The body of those in social programs must be large enough to guarantee re-election for the government cabal, so it's a very sizable portion of the population.
The government looks good to the rest of the world (and much of its own population) because they are providing for the "weak" of society (but with a massively overbroad brush) while still getting wealthy, and the middle class is exploited until it stops existing, or is sustained if enough people from the middle class can be productive enough for everyone else while keeping the belief that they are doing the right thing in working.
A cynical person might say this is what's happening to some of Western Europe right now.
Like it or not, I can get those a dime a dozen overseas.
Good local people are much better than great remote people, and the number of great remote people willing to work for you is much smaller than the number of good local people.
If you're referring to cheap remote people: in 2 years time, when your cheap-as-chips cobbled together software fails spectaculary and none of your current remote team were already present when the original crap was written so they have no idea how to fix it, and NO inclination to stick their necks out to try. The few good people in that "cheap remote" location have the same job-mobility than the good ones here, except shittier work, so they are more likely to bail on you at the drop of a hat or a slight salary increase. Because they are cheap and good, some smart manager somewhere *will* figure out that he can just pay (a lot!) more than you to get the good guys. You can't match their offer, because your whole business model is already based on Location X costing Y less than your previous local setup.
And then you are stuck with lousy remote people, which are infinitely worse than even mediocre local people. You might even see the wonderful reality of negative productivity.
Of course, if you are that smart manager that is paying the remote good guys a LOT of money you might not quite be so badly off, but then they aren't exactly cheap anymore either.
Your application sounds interesting. You left out the important detail though: how is your golf game?
Good enough to convincingly let you win.
HP used to mean printers in the minds of many people.
Then they had to pay for an ink cartridge, and the word "ripoff" came to mind..
Come on, those cartridges aren't that expensive. They just come in a very large package that says "HP Printer".
If memory serves, it is generally the opinion of everyone with a functioning brain that, for all situations wherein technology makes an illegal act easier, the correct solution is not to ban the technology.
With the slight addition: if that technology has an actual useful purpose (which could be the illegal act itself, or something else). I don't think free access to VX nerve gas would do society a lot of good.
Well. One thing 5000 cameras DIDN'T do is stop people from looting.
Next time they should obviously begin by looting the cameras.
Still doesn't help all that much if you have less-privacy-savvy friends that are inclined to post a lot of crap about you on THEIR social networking sites.
My solution: don't have any friends. You don't need a social network, and nobody will be posting about you!
Ironically, those tube amps are starting to be replaced with computers, in some cases dedicated modeling units (Fractal Audio Axe-FX 2), in many other cases through modeling sofware, on a PC :)
Garbage collection is such a huge win
To a native C++ developer used to deterministic cleanup, garbage collection is a collosal non-deterministic pain in the ass, especially in the presence of wrapped native objects.
But a more complicated joke would go right over the women's heads.
But...women can't help being shorter on average than men....
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