Man, speak for yourself. I would definitely have more fun driving the new S-Class Mercedes than my old beatup Honda Civic. And with iPod and podcasting, I even enjoy the daily commute now. And with my ReplayTV, I enjoy watching the TV again. I don't share your view of technology.
I think Dell has a smart management team. They realise that they are a market leader in hardware, and the balance of power is shifting.
I think this is exactly the reason. What you need to realise is that half of M$ income is comming from the M$ Office package. What would happen to this if Dell would, for example, decide to preinstall OpenOffice.org 2.0 on all the new customer machines as a value add? Why wouldn't they? I think the next five years will see a dramatic changes in the power distribution thanks to this one bargaining chip.
I went to Computer Science course in a prestige university in Eastern European (formerly communist) country. Out of 120 students enrolled into the program, 4 were women. There were about 15 in math major. Out of these most ended in either financial math or statistics departments, none in algebra, functional analysis and other more theoretical departments. There was also a teaching major math/cs, which had more than 50% of women enrolled. Coincidentally the student with highest IQ I met at this university was a girl and math major. I am not making any conclusions, just presenting facts.
Actually, I am glad I am still resisting to the cell phone addiction after all these years. While not having a cell phone is certainly a hassle at times, it also brings this really good feeling at other times.
Just say no to cell phones.
Three years ago I was trying to buy my high end camera online. I went on Yahoo Shopping like this guy and went up by price. The first three shops I placed the order with all tried to pull similar tricks with me. They didn't have it in stock when I didn't want to buy accesories, they would inform me they would send me just the camera without the accessories included by manufacturer in the original package, they would charge me extra for these, I could only get the advertised price if I bought overpriced batteries and it went on. It took me two months of waiting and phone calls and it was late January when I realized these are just scams. I looked up details of all the three stores and they had one thing in common. They has all address in Brooklyn, NY.
I end up buying the camera from a store in South Carolina and there were no problems whatsoever and I had it in few days with everything as advertised. That is when I decided not to ever buy anything online from shops based in Brooklyn, NY. No matter how cheap it seems. I seriously think this matter should be investigated and this shop is just one of many there.
I am lazy and I am proud of it. Laziness is the mother of all the progress. If people wouldn't be too lazy to walk, there would be no wheel invented and if they wouldn't be too lazy to get up from the sofa, there is no remote control. I am too lazy to work hard and so I come with clever ways how to make my job easier so I don't need to. If I wouldn't be lazy, I would just work hard as every other idiot out there.:)
I am not surprised in the least that there is a "lazy" gene. Evolution practically demands for it to be so, considering the terrible advantage that laziness brings in your struggle for survival. Besides, some people are just too lazy to do something stupid to get themselves killed. Like join the army or sky dive or drive two much, when they could spend a quiet evening on their sofa instead:)
What is so bad on astrology being considered as science? Its a high time we started to teach necromancy, thaumathurgy and demonology in our schools or the world will become pretty boring place.
Well, go and try to tell that to any Novell Netware System Administrator and you will hear stories that will make the hair on your back stand for days. Besides, consistent incompetence is usually indistinguishable from malice anyway.
... since he got rich on money he stole from all of us, it always feels like I would be doing part of the donating here. And yes, if someone uses illegal methods to enrich himself its like stealing from me in my book.
Actually, with Enterprise Manager and all the different Advisor packages, everyone and their dog and their cat and even their grandmother can administer an Oracle database. Its scary to even imagine, but what can happen, will happen.
Furthermore, you cannot put a responsibility on shoulders of someone who does not hold a decision power. I can do my best, but if some manager decides to release my code before I get time to test it and fix bugs, how can I be held accountable for that? The responsibility clearly has to be with the entity actually releasing/selling the code and this entity should have internal process to transfer the responsibility to where appropriate by withdrawing bonuses from or laying off employees responsible for the problem.
Ethically, the only thing that can be said about them is that they're following the law.
Since the US started to enact laws that enforce some forms of ethics and morals for the whole society, it seems like americans started to confuse a moral or ethical and lawful behavior.
Ethically, the only thing that can be said about them is that they're total scumbags. Legally, they are following the law.
The simple fact of the matter is that the United States could destroy most of the economies in the World simply by telling our citizens not to buy or sell things from/to them. You might begrudge us for having that kind of economic power but it's the reality of the situation and it isn't going to change anytime soon.
The only thing that still keeps the US economy afloat is the fact that for most countries is US a primary export partner. If you decided to boycott for example EU or China, they would have no reason to prop US economy by holding the US dollar in reserves. So they would release the extremly large quantities of US dollars that they hold in their national banks. Either one of them doing this would bring the dollar to half its worth instantly and this would trigger other countries getting rid of it.
Not only would that instantly ground the US economy to halt and create extrem e shortages of goods and sky rocketing prices on everything, it would constantly cancel your country's credit rating and anything you would want would need to be domestically produced. And while most of military contractors are by law local companies, the lack of credit and inability to get deficit budget, would make you sacrifice quite a lot of social, educational and infrastructure programs spiraling your economy further down by ever increasing pace.
I don't say the rest of the world would not feel it, China could say good bye to an economic growth for a decade and Europe would be hard pressed to find alternative markets, the world economy would go into a recession for quite some time, but the rest of the world would get eventually out of it, but I doubt the US would be ever again a power of any sort.
The only diplomatic reason I see for this not happening at this time is that the world has enough problems to deal with one country being so poor that they have to sell all their nukes on the black market. Nobody needs another Russia right now.
Don't worry, the work is fully underway since '70. You still managed to get away by turning Venezuela from its plans to exchange dollar for euro in oil trades and invading Iraq once they did the same, but its just a last poor attempt to keep your failing economy and falling dollar afloat. The only thing that keeps you alive is that you are a primary export target for most of the other countries, so when I hear idiots like O'Reilly shouting for boycott of France and to add Germany for a good measure, I just have a really good laugh. Hell, I might even have a blast and join in on the fun with these shouting 'Boycott China because human rights violations' to speed it all up.
Quite the opposite. General specs like this are completely useless. Specification is at its best when it describes some fixed and strict process or protocol to be exactly followed. Like the HTML spec. Or the POSIX spec. Specification that sort of list all the features some program is supposed to have is more than useless for its high affinity to change. Then you have the problem with de-normalizing your source of truth with code and spec getting out of sync and you being left in chaos.
A lot of small time hackers think that if they picked python or ruby for their pet project instead of PERL than all of sudden everybody has done so and the language is going to die. Its simply not true. There are more jobs with PERL as requirement than there were anytime before and the usage of PERL overall is still growing. Its actually quite acceptable language of choice now that the Java hype has passed.
The fact is that alpha-geeks are moving on to the next new and cool technology or language out there, but the people that actually do software development for living are not moving anywhere. But every now and then some post about PERL comes out and there will be a troll pronouncing the death of PERL moderated as insightful.
In other news the local officials said that a local fire station has become a fire hazard, because people just behave irresponsibly and let their stove on when going to work or candles burning while they go sleep, since they know the firemen will just put the fire off anyway. A new study was commisioned to study whether police departments are not secretly inducing crime.
Same goes for school admins, college admins and managers and upper managers at work. none of them will EVER understand technology and you are extremely scary because you know technology.
I hear you, man, I met one like this in 1993 when I came to university. By 1994 I was the one paid by uni to do his former job. You can either take it or take action. If I see incompetence, I need to act to erradicate it.
But don't build (or live in) a city like New Orleans (or the population centers along the major CA faults)
Aren't you a smart boy? Lets relocate Los Angeles, San Jose, San Francisco, Oakland and surrounding areas put all these 30 million people to some safer location, like for example,... where?
So many people need to work to sustain themselves, its not like there would be millions of jobs all over US. But I've got a better news for you, there is very real danger of a great (100+ feet high) tsunami for the whole west coast of atlantic ocean. There is about 100 million people who have a high chance to die when it comes all the way from New York to Rio de Janeiro. Should they all move too? Ok,... where?
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Man, speak for yourself. I would definitely have more fun driving the new S-Class Mercedes than my old beatup Honda Civic. And with iPod and podcasting, I even enjoy the daily commute now. And with my ReplayTV, I enjoy watching the TV again. I don't share your view of technology.
I think this is exactly the reason. What you need to realise is that half of M$ income is comming from the M$ Office package. What would happen to this if Dell would, for example, decide to preinstall OpenOffice.org 2.0 on all the new customer machines as a value add? Why wouldn't they? I think the next five years will see a dramatic changes in the power distribution thanks to this one bargaining chip.
You don't cut the trees, you just paint them white :)
I went to Computer Science course in a prestige university in Eastern European (formerly communist) country. Out of 120 students enrolled into the program, 4 were women. There were about 15 in math major. Out of these most ended in either financial math or statistics departments, none in algebra, functional analysis and other more theoretical departments. There was also a teaching major math/cs, which had more than 50% of women enrolled. Coincidentally the student with highest IQ I met at this university was a girl and math major. I am not making any conclusions, just presenting facts.
Actually, I am glad I am still resisting to the cell phone addiction after all these years. While not having a cell phone is certainly a hassle at times, it also brings this really good feeling at other times. Just say no to cell phones.
I end up buying the camera from a store in South Carolina and there were no problems whatsoever and I had it in few days with everything as advertised. That is when I decided not to ever buy anything online from shops based in Brooklyn, NY. No matter how cheap it seems. I seriously think this matter should be investigated and this shop is just one of many there.
I am not surprised in the least that there is a "lazy" gene. Evolution practically demands for it to be so, considering the terrible advantage that laziness brings in your struggle for survival. Besides, some people are just too lazy to do something stupid to get themselves killed. Like join the army or sky dive or drive two much, when they could spend a quiet evening on their sofa instead :)
What is so bad on astrology being considered as science? Its a high time we started to teach necromancy, thaumathurgy and demonology in our schools or the world will become pretty boring place.
Well, go and try to tell that to any Novell Netware System Administrator and you will hear stories that will make the hair on your back stand for days. Besides, consistent incompetence is usually indistinguishable from malice anyway.
... since he got rich on money he stole from all of us, it always feels like I would be doing part of the donating here. And yes, if someone uses illegal methods to enrich himself its like stealing from me in my book.
Actually, with Enterprise Manager and all the different Advisor packages, everyone and their dog and their cat and even their grandmother can administer an Oracle database. Its scary to even imagine, but what can happen, will happen.
With PERL you don't even need to be in a debugger...
No, no, it *is* Taco, I think he wanted to say: "I've said my peace", not "I've said my piece".
FYI. Almost nobody inside of Oracle has any idea either. There are 55,000 employees and I would bet that 54,900 of them have no clue. Including me. :)
Furthermore, you cannot put a responsibility on shoulders of someone who does not hold a decision power. I can do my best, but if some manager decides to release my code before I get time to test it and fix bugs, how can I be held accountable for that? The responsibility clearly has to be with the entity actually releasing/selling the code and this entity should have internal process to transfer the responsibility to where appropriate by withdrawing bonuses from or laying off employees responsible for the problem.
Since the US started to enact laws that enforce some forms of ethics and morals for the whole society, it seems like americans started to confuse a moral or ethical and lawful behavior.
Ethically, the only thing that can be said about them is that they're total scumbags. Legally, they are following the law.
The only thing that still keeps the US economy afloat is the fact that for most countries is US a primary export partner. If you decided to boycott for example EU or China, they would have no reason to prop US economy by holding the US dollar in reserves. So they would release the extremly large quantities of US dollars that they hold in their national banks. Either one of them doing this would bring the dollar to half its worth instantly and this would trigger other countries getting rid of it.
Not only would that instantly ground the US economy to halt and create extrem e shortages of goods and sky rocketing prices on everything, it would constantly cancel your country's credit rating and anything you would want would need to be domestically produced. And while most of military contractors are by law local companies, the lack of credit and inability to get deficit budget, would make you sacrifice quite a lot of social, educational and infrastructure programs spiraling your economy further down by ever increasing pace.
I don't say the rest of the world would not feel it, China could say good bye to an economic growth for a decade and Europe would be hard pressed to find alternative markets, the world economy would go into a recession for quite some time, but the rest of the world would get eventually out of it, but I doubt the US would be ever again a power of any sort.
The only diplomatic reason I see for this not happening at this time is that the world has enough problems to deal with one country being so poor that they have to sell all their nukes on the black market. Nobody needs another Russia right now.
Don't worry, the work is fully underway since '70. You still managed to get away by turning Venezuela from its plans to exchange dollar for euro in oil trades and invading Iraq once they did the same, but its just a last poor attempt to keep your failing economy and falling dollar afloat. The only thing that keeps you alive is that you are a primary export target for most of the other countries, so when I hear idiots like O'Reilly shouting for boycott of France and to add Germany for a good measure, I just have a really good laugh. Hell, I might even have a blast and join in on the fun with these shouting 'Boycott China because human rights violations' to speed it all up.
Quite the opposite. General specs like this are completely useless. Specification is at its best when it describes some fixed and strict process or protocol to be exactly followed. Like the HTML spec. Or the POSIX spec. Specification that sort of list all the features some program is supposed to have is more than useless for its high affinity to change. Then you have the problem with de-normalizing your source of truth with code and spec getting out of sync and you being left in chaos.
The fact is that alpha-geeks are moving on to the next new and cool technology or language out there, but the people that actually do software development for living are not moving anywhere. But every now and then some post about PERL comes out and there will be a troll pronouncing the death of PERL moderated as insightful.
The world is moving on ... to PERL.
In other news the local officials said that a local fire station has become a fire hazard, because people just behave irresponsibly and let their stove on when going to work or candles burning while they go sleep, since they know the firemen will just put the fire off anyway. A new study was commisioned to study whether police departments are not secretly inducing crime.
I hear you, man, I met one like this in 1993 when I came to university. By 1994 I was the one paid by uni to do his former job. You can either take it or take action. If I see incompetence, I need to act to erradicate it.
You can eat your mouse and have it too :)
Aren't you a smart boy? Lets relocate Los Angeles, San Jose, San Francisco, Oakland and surrounding areas put all these 30 million people to some safer location, like for example, ... where?
So many people need to work to sustain themselves, its not like there would be millions of jobs all over US. But I've got a better news for you, there is very real danger of a great (100+ feet high) tsunami for the whole west coast of atlantic ocean. There is about 100 million people who have a high chance to die when it comes all the way from New York to Rio de Janeiro. Should they all move too? Ok, ... where?