...for them to just give up like that. Scuttling programs with no real replacement.
Haven't heard of the Collapse? Haven't even noticed that food prices have doubled in the past year with many nutritional items going off the shelf or being replaced with high-fructose, high-subsidy corn syrup or high-subsidy, high-pesticide soy?
Nicely done, Idiomatick.
As for North Koreans, their behaviour is right on schedule, no surprises. The Americans prop up these regimes by isolating them.... no thinking is going on in Washington either even though the Messiah won the election.
Expect more of the same from countries that have been kept isolated, now that the US are growing weaker and collapsing internally.
We live in the US and have always been on the DNC list and we get hammered nevertheless. Especially around dinnertime. The DNC is ineffectual and I have concluded that being on it makes you a special target.
This is like the recent subway stabbing in Toronto, which made front-page-news, because it is so rare. In US cities it's commonplace, and hushed up (no reporting) so as not to drag down speculative real estate values and foreign investment.
I live in the northern US and wouldn't complain. A collapsing superpower with falling-apart infrastructure, a debt-addict government and a personality cult surrounding the chief executive --- is not a good place to raise children.
...no rights, only priveleges. That's the teacher's job, to prepare you to fit into society later on. Become a compliant, obedient, brainless consumer-citizen.
In today's world, any VB6 forms developer is automatically a.NET guru. Drag buttons onto a form, don't bother considering memory usage, declare lots of strings on the fly. The programming, over time, seems to outstretch the availability of cheap hardware produced in China's sweatshops and bought on credit, to keep up. Each new release of just about any system, is more bloated, not better.
I can't blame them, they know that their project will be outsourced to the Bangalores of the world, and that they will be laid off anyway, so who cares about quality?
I went to college 25 years ago, but it was the same back then; if there was any resource needed by all or most students (such as parking) it was held in artificially short supply, regulated, metred, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, and numbered.
When you're a student, they get you any way they can, BECAUSE they can. In addition to the bad education that you're getting for the high tuition, honing your ability to regurgitate information without understanding.
My suggestion is to form a cooperative, get a cellular modem card, a dedicated laptop (can be old & cheap) and a wireless access point. Several of you chip in, and voila... unlimited bandwidh for a lower fixed cost than the university are rack-renting the students.
No doubt the fascist administrators will come up with a rule against cooperatives as well... but it might take a year or so, and you can rotate the antenna amongst different dorm rooms to keep it hidden.
You get what you pay for...
Try opendns, dyndns. I've been a happy customer of the latter for years. It makse a slow IPS fly, just by eliminating an ISP's DNS bottleneck, which is too tempting for Marketing.
I also use private DNS on the road; it helps with hotel/airport ISPs as well.
As machines become faster and cheaper, automation progresses, why are we forced to work longer hours for less pay?
After 9/11, Wall St. replaced our project managers with guys from the military, who acted like Terminators. They used public humiliation to make us more productive, evenings & weekends were mandatory, and one day anyone who had small children or was pregnant was fired.
I now work for a large IT company, a competitor of IBM, that is doing very well, yet we were told that 'because of the economy' our bonuses would be 'sharply curtailed'.
Now what is a bonus, besides a portion of my salary that is set aside while the company earns interest on it, then (optionally) paid to me a month after the quarter closes?
All of this finagling has not helped them. Now they need a bailout from the taxpayer, hundreds of billions of dollars. Why? Here are some vital clues: http://henrygeorge.org/
...but that's because the Vermont legislators, in their wisdom, hand out monopolies and subsidies like there's no tomorrow. Consider IBM, which enjoys almost-free electrical power in my state, cheap land and no taxes on that land.
Nearby IBM roads are blacktopped yearly at public expense whilst roads elsewhere in the state have been washed out in the Summer storms, bridges are gone and the repairs are not proceeding for lack of public funds. For technology work, I have to commute outside of Vermont.
I live in Vermont and run a home office; fortunately twisted pair still work. Speaking of twisted pair, our legislators handed a telephone monopoly to Fairpoint Communications. (over public outcry) Fairpoint are the only company that can get away with erecting billboards in Vermont. You tell me how!
...drive a Pickup SUV 45 laps around a parking lot (fending off shopping carts with its Rhino Bars), in order to find a very close parking space. So it would hardly have to walk, ever.;)
The real effect of the Colonial Rebellion (if you set aside the whole 'freedom' propaganda) was to create a new class of those who are almost always above the law. By 'The People' what they really meant was 'Their People'. And they held on to the instutution of Slavery much longer than the civilised world did. As long as they possibly could.
This is why the many levels of bureaucratic government in the US so easily scoff at International Law, but create one stupid law after another, to keep the masses in line.
It's all primitive crap. I trust people who rehash others' material and republish it in order to make money, more than I trust people who want to help you by feeding you with more primitive crap.
Why do I say primitive?
Because today's GUIs have not evolved one iota since the original rip-off from PARC. Software has followed the cultural landscape: suburban sprawl, huge resource drains, high social cost. 'Make 'em wait' is the watchword of the day. And give 'em carpal tunnel; force repetitive motions, unnecessary click-throughs etc.
You'd be better off:
1. Follow your instincts;
2. Completely decouple your UI from the business logic of the app so that the UI can be easily replaced by the user; allowing users to switch UIs at need. (even provide a scripted command line version);
3. Talk to the users!
Talking to the users is the biggest no-no in the field. You're supposed to tell the users what THEY want, and involve Marketing to assimilate them. As an Architect, I broke this rule in 1998 when I talked to stock traders on the floor of a 'major city' stock exchange; the result was a scripted, 'skin' UI that could be configured by the user (e.g. they could drag controls around the screen and resize them, make them left- or right-hand, how sinister) and rescripted from the server on updates. It was ahead of its time, was written in TCL-TK, so I could show running prototypes to the users and then immediately program in their suggested changes and improvements so they could experiment with them right then and there.
Alas, 9/11 came and went, and the project was bangalored, rewritten in Java and turned into expensive bloatware. Good news is that it had the buy-in of the traders, who knew that they had their input and that their concerns were addressed. Operations bought in because it was instrumented, out-of-box (no stupid monitoring scripts running on yet another Unix host --- today's Architects try to add as many moving parts as possible). Even Management bought in because it was simple and cheap, got Linux onto the Floor and got expensive HP servers off of the Floor.
You forgot the following money sinks:
- tearing up the concrete interstate highways and replacing them with temporary blacktop that has to be ground up and resurfaced yearly;
- maintenence money for bridges and tunnels that seems to disappear until a bridge actually falls down;
- insane subsidies to agribusiness (about 50 cents a gallon) to grow crops for ethanol fuel at a loss, keep those SUVs going with cheap fuel as a further subsidy to GM/Ford/Chrysler
- the criminal 'justice' system which has dropped the presumption of innocence and now warehouses in jails as many of the problematic as possible
- public subsidies to private real estate speculation: taxing income rather than land.
I could go on all day.
Me too (a SAAB, of course, of the same vintage). Wouldn't want anything newer... too much dependence on junk technology. People are starving, still stuck on only one planet, but engineers design GPS units so that SUV drivers should never have to learn to read a map.
For the cost of the last 'emergency' appropriation to rebuild Iraq's infrastracture, we could have sent people to Mars. The returns on this venture would have made it far more cost effective than continuing to send unmanned probes to a close-by planet which we had the technology to go visit, in person, by about 1973.
City Government are not competent to use such a system for any purpose other than generating revenue and growing the cancer of a bureaucracy still further.
Just before I got laid off (along with a very pregnant woman), they even gave market surveillance over to India. The next generation of cyberterrorists (kids whose families are getting bombed in Iraq today) will have the States by the neck because corporations today are too eager to give up control of their technology to the lowest bidder (Bangalore).
This so-called 'move' actually ties them to a mainframe running DB2, slamming the door on IBM's competition. AIX is just a mainframe LPAR, and Linux for trader workstations is a cheap way to get rid of the dinosaur super-expensive captive-market HP boxes and kowtow to IBM by running their JRE from end to end of every transaction.
That's not the real problem. The real problem is that when someone scoots out (relatively faster) to pick it up, there's no telling whether it winds up in the Smithsonian, on eBay, or in a student dormitory.
I work for a major competitor of IBM, in Global Consulting Services. Recently our earnings, even at the hyperbolae forecast by our current hire-a-CEO, exceeded expectations, as reported to the Street. Personally, my review at the end of last Quarter was 'Outstanding' in all respects. I really hustled last year and improved myself
But we received 2% raises. That's a slap in the face and a coded message to update one's resume, and start interviewing elswehere. I wonder if our hire-a-CEO knew.
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...for them to just give up like that. Scuttling programs with no real replacement.
Haven't heard of the Collapse? Haven't even noticed that food prices have doubled in the past year with many nutritional items going off the shelf or being replaced with high-fructose, high-subsidy corn syrup or high-subsidy, high-pesticide soy?
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&safe=off&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENCA260&q=peak+oil+collapse
http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/
(I bet a lot of you assumed that the Internet would be there forever, as well...)
Nicely done, Idiomatick. As for North Koreans, their behaviour is right on schedule, no surprises. The Americans prop up these regimes by isolating them.... no thinking is going on in Washington either even though the Messiah won the election. Expect more of the same from countries that have been kept isolated, now that the US are growing weaker and collapsing internally.
We live in the US and have always been on the DNC list and we get hammered nevertheless. Especially around dinnertime. The DNC is ineffectual and I have concluded that being on it makes you a special target.
This is like the recent subway stabbing in Toronto, which made front-page-news, because it is so rare. In US cities it's commonplace, and hushed up (no reporting) so as not to drag down speculative real estate values and foreign investment.
I live in the northern US and wouldn't complain. A collapsing superpower with falling-apart infrastructure, a debt-addict government and a personality cult surrounding the chief executive --- is not a good place to raise children.
...no rights, only priveleges. That's the teacher's job, to prepare you to fit into society later on. Become a compliant, obedient, brainless consumer-citizen.
In today's world, any VB6 forms developer is automatically a .NET guru. Drag buttons onto a form, don't bother considering memory usage, declare lots of strings on the fly. The programming, over time, seems to outstretch the availability of cheap hardware produced in China's sweatshops and bought on credit, to keep up. Each new release of just about any system, is more bloated, not better.
I can't blame them, they know that their project will be outsourced to the Bangalores of the world, and that they will be laid off anyway, so who cares about quality?
I went to college 25 years ago, but it was the same back then; if there was any resource needed by all or most students (such as parking) it was held in artificially short supply, regulated, metred, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, and numbered.
When you're a student, they get you any way they can, BECAUSE they can. In addition to the bad education that you're getting for the high tuition, honing your ability to regurgitate information without understanding.
My suggestion is to form a cooperative, get a cellular modem card, a dedicated laptop (can be old & cheap) and a wireless access point. Several of you chip in, and voila... unlimited bandwidh for a lower fixed cost than the university are rack-renting the students.
No doubt the fascist administrators will come up with a rule against cooperatives as well... but it might take a year or so, and you can rotate the antenna amongst different dorm rooms to keep it hidden.
You get what you pay for... Try opendns, dyndns. I've been a happy customer of the latter for years. It makse a slow IPS fly, just by eliminating an ISP's DNS bottleneck, which is too tempting for Marketing. I also use private DNS on the road; it helps with hotel/airport ISPs as well.
As machines become faster and cheaper, automation progresses, why are we forced to work longer hours for less pay? After 9/11, Wall St. replaced our project managers with guys from the military, who acted like Terminators. They used public humiliation to make us more productive, evenings & weekends were mandatory, and one day anyone who had small children or was pregnant was fired. I now work for a large IT company, a competitor of IBM, that is doing very well, yet we were told that 'because of the economy' our bonuses would be 'sharply curtailed'. Now what is a bonus, besides a portion of my salary that is set aside while the company earns interest on it, then (optionally) paid to me a month after the quarter closes? All of this finagling has not helped them. Now they need a bailout from the taxpayer, hundreds of billions of dollars. Why? Here are some vital clues: http://henrygeorge.org/
...but that's because the Vermont legislators, in their wisdom, hand out monopolies and subsidies like there's no tomorrow. Consider IBM, which enjoys almost-free electrical power in my state, cheap land and no taxes on that land.
Nearby IBM roads are blacktopped yearly at public expense whilst roads elsewhere in the state have been washed out in the Summer storms, bridges are gone and the repairs are not proceeding for lack of public funds. For technology work, I have to commute outside of Vermont.
I live in Vermont and run a home office; fortunately twisted pair still work. Speaking of twisted pair, our legislators handed a telephone monopoly to Fairpoint Communications. (over public outcry) Fairpoint are the only company that can get away with erecting billboards in Vermont. You tell me how!
...drive a Pickup SUV 45 laps around a parking lot (fending off shopping carts with its Rhino Bars), in order to find a very close parking space. So it would hardly have to walk, ever. ;)
The real effect of the Colonial Rebellion (if you set aside the whole 'freedom' propaganda) was to create a new class of those who are almost always above the law. By 'The People' what they really meant was 'Their People'. And they held on to the instutution of Slavery much longer than the civilised world did. As long as they possibly could.
This is why the many levels of bureaucratic government in the US so easily scoff at International Law, but create one stupid law after another, to keep the masses in line.
It's all primitive crap. I trust people who rehash others' material and republish it in order to make money, more than I trust people who want to help you by feeding you with more primitive crap.
Why do I say primitive?
Because today's GUIs have not evolved one iota since the original rip-off from PARC. Software has followed the cultural landscape: suburban sprawl, huge resource drains, high social cost. 'Make 'em wait' is the watchword of the day. And give 'em carpal tunnel; force repetitive motions, unnecessary click-throughs etc.
You'd be better off:
1. Follow your instincts;
2. Completely decouple your UI from the business logic of the app so that the UI can be easily replaced by the user; allowing users to switch UIs at need. (even provide a scripted command line version);
3. Talk to the users!
Talking to the users is the biggest no-no in the field. You're supposed to tell the users what THEY want, and involve Marketing to assimilate them. As an Architect, I broke this rule in 1998 when I talked to stock traders on the floor of a 'major city' stock exchange; the result was a scripted, 'skin' UI that could be configured by the user (e.g. they could drag controls around the screen and resize them, make them left- or right-hand, how sinister) and rescripted from the server on updates. It was ahead of its time, was written in TCL-TK, so I could show running prototypes to the users and then immediately program in their suggested changes and improvements so they could experiment with them right then and there.
Alas, 9/11 came and went, and the project was bangalored, rewritten in Java and turned into expensive bloatware. Good news is that it had the buy-in of the traders, who knew that they had their input and that their concerns were addressed. Operations bought in because it was instrumented, out-of-box (no stupid monitoring scripts running on yet another Unix host --- today's Architects try to add as many moving parts as possible). Even Management bought in because it was simple and cheap, got Linux onto the Floor and got expensive HP servers off of the Floor.
Cheers!
Must say, I'm impressed. Anyone under 40, these days, spells (and pronounces) it, 'Artic' which is actually an Articulated Lorry.
You forgot the following money sinks: - tearing up the concrete interstate highways and replacing them with temporary blacktop that has to be ground up and resurfaced yearly; - maintenence money for bridges and tunnels that seems to disappear until a bridge actually falls down; - insane subsidies to agribusiness (about 50 cents a gallon) to grow crops for ethanol fuel at a loss, keep those SUVs going with cheap fuel as a further subsidy to GM/Ford/Chrysler - the criminal 'justice' system which has dropped the presumption of innocence and now warehouses in jails as many of the problematic as possible - public subsidies to private real estate speculation: taxing income rather than land. I could go on all day.
You didn't mention whether she was on the phone at the time.
The shock of hitting your car must have knocked her mobile phone right out of her hand.
-Your Resident Luddite
Me too (a SAAB, of course, of the same vintage). Wouldn't want anything newer... too much dependence on junk technology. People are starving, still stuck on only one planet, but engineers design GPS units so that SUV drivers should never have to learn to read a map.
For the cost of the last 'emergency' appropriation to rebuild Iraq's infrastracture, we could have sent people to Mars. The returns on this venture would have made it far more cost effective than continuing to send unmanned probes to a close-by planet which we had the technology to go visit, in person, by about 1973.
City Government are not competent to use such a system for any purpose other than generating revenue and growing the cancer of a bureaucracy still further.
Just before I got laid off (along with a very pregnant woman), they even gave market surveillance over to India. The next generation of cyberterrorists (kids whose families are getting bombed in Iraq today) will have the States by the neck because corporations today are too eager to give up control of their technology to the lowest bidder (Bangalore).
This so-called 'move' actually ties them to a mainframe running DB2, slamming the door on IBM's competition. AIX is just a mainframe LPAR, and Linux for trader workstations is a cheap way to get rid of the dinosaur super-expensive captive-market HP boxes and kowtow to IBM by running their JRE from end to end of every transaction.
I wonder how well he grasped the above term, or followed the 'golden thread of British Justice'.
He could emigrate to the States, where the 1776 rebellion put an end to the Presumption of Innocence, and concentrate on revenue generation.
I'm working nights on my MBA. No need to go down, along with the ship.
That's not the real problem. The real problem is that when someone scoots out (relatively faster) to pick it up, there's no telling whether it winds up in the Smithsonian, on eBay, or in a student dormitory.
That explains the bacteria that have become the overlords in Washington DC, but not the tacit agreement of the fools who follow this bacteria.
I work for a major competitor of IBM, in Global Consulting Services. Recently our earnings, even at the hyperbolae forecast by our current hire-a-CEO, exceeded expectations, as reported to the Street. Personally, my review at the end of last Quarter was 'Outstanding' in all respects. I really hustled last year and improved myself
But we received 2% raises. That's a slap in the face and a coded message to update one's resume, and start interviewing elswehere. I wonder if our hire-a-CEO knew.