Why in blue blazes would you be driving with cruise control on in traffic? I guess now we need to see what the effect of stupid drivers is on the formation of traffic jams. Oh wait, we already know -- it's the stuid a@@holes that not only break the rules, but cause accidents.
Most pre-paid vendors will ask you for a SSN, for purposes of govenrment surveillance assistance under the guise of the Communications Aid for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA). I know by experience that Boost (which has a prepaid data plan on the Sprint network) does.
Recession got you down? Pissed off because your job got outsourced to Bangalore so your boss could get a fat bonus? No jobs openings in your area?
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I doubt it. 2 years ago, MD Lt. Gov Michael Steele ran for the Senate. And largely black audiences heckled him and called him Uncle Tom and threw "Oreos" at the stage -- to imply that he is half black, half white.
They treat Barry Soetoro so well because he's a Democrat -- if a black man had tried to run for President on the Republican ticket, he would have been lynched by the Democrats, media, and "urban population" (media slang for black people).
A Black man DID try to run for President as a Republican -- Alan Keyes. The officials from the party of Lincoln and the alleged "big tent" responded by denying him entry to the Republican debates during the primaries.
If you're black in Long Beach, CA they mess with you for jaywalking. A motorcycle cop threatened to give me a ticket for jaywalking near the intersecton of Broadway and Linden ave.
The problem is that you would have to amend the Constitution in order to institute term limits in the Senate (where Tubes served). There is no way that will ever happen
Has anybody ever observed gravity waves? Or observed gravitons? Yet, scientists all over BELIEVE they exist because they fit someone's mathematical model. Without any observation of these phenomena to PROVE their existence, would not anyone who believes these things exist be guilty of operating on FAITH?
The problem is not one of faith, everyone believes in something. The question really is what you are putting your faith in.
For those who think what those of us who subscribe to ID believe, consider the position of our Earth in the Milky Way. Earth is positioned in such a way (on the outer arms of the galaxy, facing in away from the galactic core) that ALL of the observations used to formulate cosmological models are possible. If the earth was pointed into the galactic core, it would be perpetually daylight and we would know nothing but what we see in front of our faces? Our position in the galaxy enables use to observe the unfolding of creation (especially now that we can map CMBR).
Consider all of the highly improbable events that had to line up in just the right sequence, in just the right time in order for life to appear on earth. Using Occam's razor, ID seems to be the simplest explanation. It doesn't obviate investigating how the designer did what he did. Getting to know the designer is not [necessarily] the purpose of science, but understanding the work of the designer can be.
For all of the emotional illogic ID'ers are accused of from most non-ID'ers, I find it amusing that most non-IDer's use insults and emotional distractions to make their case.
Let me understand the value of these tools -- if I'm a working professional, they're worth about $9K, but if I'm a student, they're worth nothing. And I should be willing to pay for this stuff, why....?
The unemployment rate is dropping not because of domestic job creation, the rate is dropping because people are falling out of the bottom of the system. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, we are in the middle of the highest rate of long term unemployment (not working 6 months or longer) in 20 years. There are more than enough stats to support the arguments of liberal and conservative consituencies, which as one poster already suggested implies that the debate is not necessarliy a politically oriented one.
Proponents of offshoring like Bush economic advisor Gregory Mankiw like to talk about how increased productivity eventually leads to job creating investment in the economy. That's fine of you're talking about a domestic economy -- growth stays home. In a global economy, the same principle holds, in toto -- the job creation doesn't necessarily occur in the same countries where the productivity is reported because outsourcing works for commodities (sorry guys, software IS a commodity these days) and the focus is no longer placed on whiz-bang ways to make it, but rather how to make it cheaper. Hmmm, does this mean we can thank object oriented programming and code re-use for the outsourcing fiasco? Bring me the head of Grady Booch!:-)
Jokes aside, we need to remember that (especially since the bubble burst), corporations are run by bean counters. And to bean counters are like crackheads, if saving a little money is good, saving a shitload of money is great -- even if there are negative side effects (like the destruction of the middle class). And like the addicts they are, they will go through all sorts of mental gymnastics to explain/justify their addiction. Only when confronted with the truth, in the right way, can you make an addict accept the truth of his disease. What we could benefit from is an economic/mathematical model that would confirm the hollowing out effect we constantly complain about.
Just to qualify myself on that addiction stuff, I've been clean & sober for 16 years by the grace of God.
What about OpenOffice and MySQL ? Those are OS projects that supply what most businesses need. In the US, most businesses are small businesses. MS Office is for most of them, the extent of their automation, so I think the combo of OO/MySql is a decent example.
Also, Tomcat offers a viable alternative to Websphere for most application scenarios, if you are budget conscious. Not to mention that any savings you might realize with a MS solution initially may evaporate if you have to scale your architecture up for more capacity.
I do, however, agree with your closing premise. Not everyone that is concerned with support is a shill for Microsoft. Some of them are shills for RedHat:-)
Quality hasn't got a F&#$*($king thing to do with it! It's all about cost. Look at Roger Siboni CEO of E.piphany. When asked in a CBSMarketwatch interview if he was concerned about the fact that by sending 60% of his R&D to India (via Wipro) that he might well be faced in 5 years with an Indian competitor using his company's codebase against him, he replied "Yeah we though about it, but the savings were just too good to pass up". Great, that's just like my ex-wife saying "I got this at 50% off, look at the money I saved" Duuuuh!
The point you're missing is that Justin Frankel SOLD Nullsoft to AOL. He didn't have to sell his company to AOL. He could have stayed independent. Of course, he probably would have gone under, so he made a deal with the devil to keep his little company alive. Frankel's situation is not the same as your regular employee. In this case he could have told AOL to F.O., but he didn't. He took the money and now he's bitching up because he doesn't like the rules of the game he chose to play.
I agree with you, an invididual vs. a corporation is almost always a losing proposition and "regular" employees get rufu'ed all the time. However, I have no pity for anyone who sells their company to AOL and then has a pity party on the Net because he's not being allowed to "express" himself. Screw him. There's a truckload of good programmers in this country who just want to be able to go to work, but can't because American companies would rather use cheap labor from the "world pool". And over here we have poor little Justin Frankel, sitting on a bunch of cash and stock options from selling Nullsoft, and you want ME to feel sorry for him? In a pig's eye. Tell the little maricon to grow up.
What load of crap! HE SOLD HIS COMPANY TO THE DEVIL!!! Now he's whining about censorship. Gimme a fjorking break! If he didn't want to lose his freedom of expression, he should have kept his company. I hear him complaining about not being able to "express" himself. BFD, there's a lot of us who don't get to "express" ourselves in code and get paid for it -- that's why we HACK! Justin's a big boy and he knew who he was getting in bed with and the price is right. How come we didn't hear him complaining when he was cashing those checks. Now that his stock options aint worth shyt, he bitchin about not being able to express himself. Grow up for crying out loud!
Not so fast there. There is a lawsuit going on right now over just such an issue. The std agreement covers any intellectual property developed by the employee during his tenure, unless such work is disclosed and excluded from the agreement at the start of employment.
You're forgetting the "early adopter price penalty". Try $500 - $750 until the "taffies" (Technically advanced families") have all got one, then the price will drop accordingly to keep the margins up.
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Why in blue blazes would you be driving with cruise control on in traffic? I guess now we need to see what the effect of stupid drivers is on the formation of traffic jams. Oh wait, we already know -- it's the stuid a@@holes that not only break the rules, but cause accidents.
Most pre-paid vendors will ask you for a SSN, for purposes of govenrment surveillance assistance under the guise of the Communications Aid for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA). I know by experience that Boost (which has a prepaid data plan on the Sprint network) does.
Recession got you down? Pissed off because your job got outsourced to Bangalore so your boss could get a fat bonus? No jobs openings in your area?
We're here to tell you of the many new amazing opportunities here for you in the world of online criminal enterprise. For an investment of a mere $550, you can be on your way in the exciting and profitable world of cybercrime.
But wait, there's more. For the next 10 min. we're offering the WrongCo ATM Card skimmer attachment. Just attach one of these beauties to that ATM inside the corner liquor store and within minutes you'll have all the information you need to start draining the bank accounts of unsuspecting victims.
A 10 to 20 year value, yours for only $550 in the next minutes. Operators are standing by.....
The fact that one of the letters in the organization's initials stands for "America" sort of gives one a clue... Bloody tossers!
I doubt it. 2 years ago, MD Lt. Gov Michael Steele ran for the Senate. And largely black audiences heckled him and called him Uncle Tom and threw "Oreos" at the stage -- to imply that he is half black, half white.
They treat Barry Soetoro so well because he's a Democrat -- if a black man had tried to run for President on the Republican ticket, he would have been lynched by the Democrats, media, and "urban population" (media slang for black people).
A Black man DID try to run for President as a Republican -- Alan Keyes. The officials from the party of Lincoln and the alleged "big tent" responded by denying him entry to the Republican debates during the primaries.
If you're black in Long Beach, CA they mess with you for jaywalking. A motorcycle cop threatened to give me a ticket for jaywalking near the intersecton of Broadway and Linden ave.
The problem is that you would have to amend the Constitution in order to institute term limits in the Senate (where Tubes served). There is no way that will ever happen
Absurd, you say. Perhaps, perhaps not.
Has anybody ever observed gravity waves? Or observed gravitons? Yet, scientists all over BELIEVE they exist because they fit someone's mathematical model. Without any observation of these phenomena to PROVE their existence, would not anyone who believes these things exist be guilty of operating on FAITH?
The problem is not one of faith, everyone believes in something. The question really is what you are putting your faith in.
For those who think what those of us who subscribe to ID believe, consider the position of our Earth in the Milky Way. Earth is positioned in such a way (on the outer arms of the galaxy, facing in away from the galactic core) that ALL of the observations used to formulate cosmological models are possible. If the earth was pointed into the galactic core, it would be perpetually daylight and we would know nothing but what we see in front of our faces? Our position in the galaxy enables use to observe the unfolding of creation (especially now that we can map CMBR).
Consider all of the highly improbable events that had to line up in just the right sequence, in just the right time in order for life to appear on earth. Using Occam's razor, ID seems to be the simplest explanation. It doesn't obviate investigating how the designer did what he did. Getting to know the designer is not [necessarily] the purpose of science, but understanding the work of the designer can be.
For all of the emotional illogic ID'ers are accused of from most non-ID'ers, I find it amusing that most non-IDer's use insults and emotional distractions to make their case.
Let me understand the value of these tools -- if I'm a working professional, they're worth about $9K, but if I'm a student, they're worth nothing. And I should be willing to pay for this stuff, why....?
The unemployment rate is dropping not because of domestic job creation, the rate is dropping because people are falling out of the bottom of the system. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, we are in the middle of the highest rate of long term unemployment (not working 6 months or longer) in 20 years. There are more than enough stats to support the arguments of liberal and conservative consituencies, which as one poster already suggested implies that the debate is not necessarliy a politically oriented one.
:-)
Proponents of offshoring like Bush economic advisor Gregory Mankiw like to talk about how increased productivity eventually leads to job creating investment in the economy. That's fine of you're talking about a domestic economy -- growth stays home. In a global economy, the same principle holds, in toto -- the job creation doesn't necessarily occur in the same countries where the productivity is reported because outsourcing works for commodities (sorry guys, software IS a commodity these days) and the focus is no longer placed on whiz-bang ways to make it, but rather how to make it cheaper. Hmmm, does this mean we can thank object oriented programming and code re-use for the outsourcing fiasco? Bring me the head of Grady Booch!
Jokes aside, we need to remember that (especially since the bubble burst), corporations are run by bean counters. And to bean counters are like crackheads, if saving a little money is good, saving a shitload of money is great -- even if there are negative side effects (like the destruction of the middle class). And like the addicts they are, they will go through all sorts of mental gymnastics to explain/justify their addiction. Only when confronted with the truth, in the right way, can you make an addict accept the truth of his disease. What we could benefit from is an economic/mathematical model that would confirm the hollowing out effect we constantly complain about.
Just to qualify myself on that addiction stuff, I've been clean & sober for 16 years by the grace of God.
OK, Hitler killed 6 million Jews during the Holocaust. What about the 600 million Africans that Americans killed during slavery?
What about OpenOffice and MySQL ? Those are OS projects that supply what most businesses need. In the US, most businesses are small businesses. MS Office is for most of them, the extent of their automation, so I think the combo of OO/MySql is a decent example.
:-)
Also, Tomcat offers a viable alternative to Websphere for most application scenarios, if you are budget conscious. Not to mention that any savings you might realize with a MS solution initially may evaporate if you have to scale your architecture up for more capacity.
I do, however, agree with your closing premise. Not everyone that is concerned with support is a shill for Microsoft. Some of them are shills for RedHat
Quality hasn't got a F&#$*($king thing to do with it! It's all about cost. Look at Roger Siboni CEO of E.piphany. When asked in a CBSMarketwatch interview if he was concerned about the fact that by sending 60% of his R&D to India (via Wipro) that he might well be faced in 5 years with an Indian competitor using his company's codebase against him, he replied "Yeah we though about it, but the savings were just too good to pass up". Great, that's just like my ex-wife saying "I got this at 50% off, look at the money I saved" Duuuuh!
The point you're missing is that Justin Frankel SOLD Nullsoft to AOL. He didn't have to sell his company to AOL. He could have stayed independent. Of course, he probably would have gone under, so he made a deal with the devil to keep his little company alive. Frankel's situation is not the same as your regular employee. In this case he could have told AOL to F.O., but he didn't. He took the money and now he's bitching up because he doesn't like the rules of the game he chose to play.
I agree with you, an invididual vs. a corporation is almost always a losing proposition and "regular" employees get rufu'ed all the time. However, I have no pity for anyone who sells their company to AOL and then has a pity party on the Net because he's not being allowed to "express" himself. Screw him. There's a truckload of good programmers in this country who just want to be able to go to work, but can't because American companies would rather use cheap labor from the "world pool". And over here we have poor little Justin Frankel, sitting on a bunch of cash and stock options from selling Nullsoft, and you want ME to feel sorry for him? In a pig's eye. Tell the little maricon to grow up.
What load of crap! HE SOLD HIS COMPANY TO THE DEVIL!!! Now he's whining about censorship. Gimme a fjorking break! If he didn't want to lose his freedom of expression, he should have kept his company. I hear him complaining about not being able to "express" himself. BFD, there's a lot of us who don't get to "express" ourselves in code and get paid for it -- that's why we HACK! Justin's a big boy and he knew who he was getting in bed with and the price is right. How come we didn't hear him complaining when he was cashing those checks. Now that his stock options aint worth shyt, he bitchin about not being able to express himself. Grow up for crying out loud!
Not so fast there. There is a lawsuit going on right now over just such an issue. The std agreement covers any intellectual property developed by the employee during his tenure, unless such work is disclosed and excluded from the agreement at the start of employment.
You're forgetting the "early adopter price penalty". Try $500 - $750 until the "taffies" (Technically advanced families") have all got one, then the price will drop accordingly to keep the margins up.