I work for a product design company. We work with (consult for) companies that want to bring a product to market but don't have the internal engineering expertise or capacity to do it themselves. There are a lot of companies like this. They employ some engineers to create specifications and make technical decisions, but not enough engineers to complete the project in a reasonable time.
I have trouble believing that a normal IT department is equipped to do a large-scale migration, especially when they need to continue supporting all their normal business operations.
In summary, if you want to be successful with a large software project--and large software projects aren't what your business does, you probably need outside help that does it routinely. Then the question becomes how you evaluate this outside help's qualifications, how you write your contract, how you set your milestones, and how you communicate your requirements. But that's an entirely different story.
You are exactly right. This column by Glenn Greenwald is timely, and a far better source than "InfoWorld". Here are some select quotes:
This massive new expenditure of money is not primarily devoted to defending against cyber-aggressors. The US itself is the world's leading cyber-aggressor. A major purpose of this expansion is to strengthen the US's ability to destroy other nations with cyber-attacks. Indeed, even the Post report notes that a major component of this new expansion is to "conduct offensive computer operations against foreign adversaries".
As Wired's Ryan Singel wrote: "[McConnell is] talking about changing the internet to make everything anyone does on the net traceable and geo-located so the National Security Agency can pinpoint users and their computers for retaliation."
Don't forget that McConnell is the chode who got the telecoms retroactively immunized for their participation in the illegal NSA domestic spying program.
I'm a fan of your TED talks. It strikes me that many of your greatest discoveries come from destroying samples. You cut apart bones to see their growth stage, drop bones in acid (for no reason?) and found blood vessels. How did you develop this attitude toward your work?
You are shifting the goal posts. Your argument was that corporate profit is double-taxed. I have refuted that and nothing in this reply addresses that point. Your only claim is entirely unsubstantiated, when you say that, "That money will eventually be spent." My first link illustrated that corporate cash-on-hand is rising faster now than historically, but it has still risen historically. It cannot rise if it is "eventually" spent, unless if you are comically measuring time in decades or lifetimes.
Every dollar of profit is not taxed eventually. For the most part, corporations sit on their profits to increase cash-on-hand [1]. This increases flexibility for them, gives them better banking terms, and causes share price to increase. This increases the wealth of those who own the shares, but this increase in wealth is untaxed unless these shares were to be sold. Once you are a millionaire or billionaire, you don't need to sell shares--instead, you can take out loans against them [2].
Effectively, reducing corporate tax to 0% would be a 100% loss. Corporations do not spend more money on cap ex just because they have more cash on hand. Similarly, they do not increase salaries; U.S. wages have fallen by more than 50% since 1970 (in inflation-adjusted dollars) [3].
No, he negotiated the current gold-standard TV contract for creative artists. This is less money but full control of his great show "Louie" which runs on FX.
If you are like me, you thought, "What the fuck is Righthaven?"
Righthaven LLC [is] the Las Vegas “technology company” that has been filing copyright infringement lawsuits in... Nevada against numerous unsuspecting website owners (almost always without notice) for copyright infringement of news articles originally published in the Las Vegas Review Journal.
I'm glad that BP is being made to take responsibility for the spill. Corporations shouldn't be allowed to shield themselves from liability by hiding behind contractors and wholly-owned subsidiaries.
I think they are progressing in their craft and growing as artists. When they started, it was just about making jokes. As you move through the comics, you can see the evolution of their personae, their cast of characters, and especially their point of view. Today, Penny Arcade produces comics that are a social commentary on the gaming industry. Their goals have expanded from making people laugh to representing gaming as a serious social movement.
I don't think any of those things are immoral. Fortunately, they don't use subjective things like your examples in morality research. What the OP and you both ignore is that intentionality is very important in moral decisions. It is why we have the phrase, "The ends justify the means," and why most people have an uncomfortable reaction to the phrase—often it isn't true.
I am a software engineer working in product development, mostly prototyping on embedded systems. There are few cases that require more math than I could reasonably do in my head. Anything more complex than that usually should requires the input of a domain expert, simply because it isn't time effective for me to learn it.
I think Day of Defeat did an even better job than Counter-Strike. In DoD, something like 50% of the weapons make one-hit kills (all machine guns, single-shot rifles, sniper rifles, and grenades.) In CS, a rifle takes 3-5 hits to kill someone with armor and a grenade does <=50% damage; in DoD two-thirds of the classes have primary weapons that kill in a single hit, in addition to grenades that will wipe out an entire room.
This weapon style wouldn't work in CS because of the single-spawn round-based system. As the lethality of weapons increases, so does the viability of camping. DoD solves this by pairing infinite-respawning with incremental goals such as control points. The effective damage-rate of weapons affects gameplay, game balance, and map design. The 8-round/sec machine gun in DoD is only balanced because a single rifle shot can knock it out. The DoD grenades are only balanced because the maps are larger than CS.
Insects, arachnids, and octopi all evolved more numerous limbs than their ancestors. What we see is that the number and type of limbs is expressed separately from the location of the limbs. It would be a lot more surprising to see legs on a horse's back than to see a horse with six legs.
Many others have listed "fun" books. While many of them are good, others fall into the pulp category. (This is my favorite category, but isn't suited for a decent lit course.) If you are looking for something with a little more meat, then these have artistic merit.
Science Fiction
The Book of the New Sun, by Gene Wolfe
Dune, by Frank Herbert
Glasshouse, by Charles Stross
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, by Philip K. Dick
The Forever War, by Joe Haldeman
Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut
Fantasy
Watership Down, by Richard Adams
Something Wicked This Way Comes, by Ray Bradbury
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll
The Dark Tower series, by Steven King
Reaper Man or Making Money, by Terry Pratchett
Slashdot Mirror
It's interesting that it is never atheists who make these claims.
I work for a product design company. We work with (consult for) companies that want to bring a product to market but don't have the internal engineering expertise or capacity to do it themselves. There are a lot of companies like this. They employ some engineers to create specifications and make technical decisions, but not enough engineers to complete the project in a reasonable time.
I have trouble believing that a normal IT department is equipped to do a large-scale migration, especially when they need to continue supporting all their normal business operations.
In summary, if you want to be successful with a large software project--and large software projects aren't what your business does, you probably need outside help that does it routinely. Then the question becomes how you evaluate this outside help's qualifications, how you write your contract, how you set your milestones, and how you communicate your requirements. But that's an entirely different story.
Statistically atheists know the most about religion, according to the Pew Forum's U.S. Religious Knowledge Survey.
This massive new expenditure of money is not primarily devoted to defending against cyber-aggressors. The US itself is the world's leading cyber-aggressor. A major purpose of this expansion is to strengthen the US's ability to destroy other nations with cyber-attacks. Indeed, even the Post report notes that a major component of this new expansion is to "conduct offensive computer operations against foreign adversaries".
As Wired's Ryan Singel wrote: "[McConnell is] talking about changing the internet to make everything anyone does on the net traceable and geo-located so the National Security Agency can pinpoint users and their computers for retaliation."
Don't forget that McConnell is the chode who got the telecoms retroactively immunized for their participation in the illegal NSA domestic spying program.
Who are your heroes? Conversely, who are your villains?
I'm a fan of your TED talks. It strikes me that many of your greatest discoveries come from destroying samples. You cut apart bones to see their growth stage, drop bones in acid (for no reason?) and found blood vessels. How did you develop this attitude toward your work?
You are shifting the goal posts. Your argument was that corporate profit is double-taxed. I have refuted that and nothing in this reply addresses that point. Your only claim is entirely unsubstantiated, when you say that, "That money will eventually be spent." My first link illustrated that corporate cash-on-hand is rising faster now than historically, but it has still risen historically. It cannot rise if it is "eventually" spent, unless if you are comically measuring time in decades or lifetimes.
Every dollar of profit is not taxed eventually. For the most part, corporations sit on their profits to increase cash-on-hand [1]. This increases flexibility for them, gives them better banking terms, and causes share price to increase. This increases the wealth of those who own the shares, but this increase in wealth is untaxed unless these shares were to be sold. Once you are a millionaire or billionaire, you don't need to sell shares--instead, you can take out loans against them [2].
Effectively, reducing corporate tax to 0% would be a 100% loss. Corporations do not spend more money on cap ex just because they have more cash on hand. Similarly, they do not increase salaries; U.S. wages have fallen by more than 50% since 1970 (in inflation-adjusted dollars) [3].
Here are my references, which are pretty half-assed since I just googled for stuff I'd already read and linked the first similar thing. But hey, it's already 50% more informative than the average post.
[1] http://blogs.reuters.com/david-cay-johnston/2012/07/16/idle-corporate-cash-piles-up/
[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/08/opinion/the-zuckerberg-tax.html?_r=0
[3] http://www.thestreet.com/story/11480568/1/us-standard-of-living-has-fallen-more-than-50-opinion.html
No, he negotiated the current gold-standard TV contract for creative artists. This is less money but full control of his great show "Louie" which runs on FX.
Yes.
Righthaven LLC [is] the Las Vegas “technology company” that has been filing copyright infringement lawsuits in ... Nevada against numerous unsuspecting website owners (almost always without notice) for copyright infringement of news articles originally published in the Las Vegas Review Journal.
Via http://www.righthavenlawsuits.com/.
Alien Swarm gives a laser beam so you can see where you and your allies are aiming.
The Wire.
I'm glad that BP is being made to take responsibility for the spill. Corporations shouldn't be allowed to shield themselves from liability by hiding behind contractors and wholly-owned subsidiaries.
Do you know any people who do these jobs? I know several, and if anything they get paid too little.
I think they are progressing in their craft and growing as artists. When they started, it was just about making jokes. As you move through the comics, you can see the evolution of their personae, their cast of characters, and especially their point of view. Today, Penny Arcade produces comics that are a social commentary on the gaming industry. Their goals have expanded from making people laugh to representing gaming as a serious social movement.
Why post anonymous if you are just going to tell everyone your name in your post?
I don't think any of those things are immoral. Fortunately, they don't use subjective things like your examples in morality research. What the OP and you both ignore is that intentionality is very important in moral decisions. It is why we have the phrase, "The ends justify the means," and why most people have an uncomfortable reaction to the phrase—often it isn't true.
I am a software engineer working in product development, mostly prototyping on embedded systems. There are few cases that require more math than I could reasonably do in my head. Anything more complex than that usually should requires the input of a domain expert, simply because it isn't time effective for me to learn it.
And yet we live...
The reasons that you are posting anonymously are not obvious. Real experts aren't ashamed of their knowledge.
I think Day of Defeat did an even better job than Counter-Strike. In DoD, something like 50% of the weapons make one-hit kills (all machine guns, single-shot rifles, sniper rifles, and grenades.) In CS, a rifle takes 3-5 hits to kill someone with armor and a grenade does <=50% damage; in DoD two-thirds of the classes have primary weapons that kill in a single hit, in addition to grenades that will wipe out an entire room.
This weapon style wouldn't work in CS because of the single-spawn round-based system. As the lethality of weapons increases, so does the viability of camping. DoD solves this by pairing infinite-respawning with incremental goals such as control points. The effective damage-rate of weapons affects gameplay, game balance, and map design. The 8-round/sec machine gun in DoD is only balanced because a single rifle shot can knock it out. The DoD grenades are only balanced because the maps are larger than CS.
Insects, arachnids, and octopi all evolved more numerous limbs than their ancestors. What we see is that the number and type of limbs is expressed separately from the location of the limbs. It would be a lot more surprising to see legs on a horse's back than to see a horse with six legs.
Google respects robots.txt, as any good web spider does.
Many others have listed "fun" books. While many of them are good, others fall into the pulp category. (This is my favorite category, but isn't suited for a decent lit course.) If you are looking for something with a little more meat, then these have artistic merit.
Science Fiction
The Book of the New Sun, by Gene Wolfe
Dune, by Frank Herbert
Glasshouse, by Charles Stross
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, by Philip K. Dick
The Forever War, by Joe Haldeman
Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut
Fantasy
Watership Down, by Richard Adams
Something Wicked This Way Comes, by Ray Bradbury
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll
The Dark Tower series, by Steven King
Reaper Man or Making Money, by Terry Pratchett