That's a feature, not a bug. Otherwise the technical folks would forever be on version 1.x.
Sometimes you just have to push people.
That would be fine if every product they sold got better and better. Unfortunately, they usually sell something we used to make 20 years ago, with additional features we have yet do develop. It's more like forking a project over and over, instead of moving on to version 2.0.
Oh, and they promised them they would have it by tomorrow. This isn't software, this is a physical product. Good luck getting union labor to pull an all nighter.
I have to run, the president of the company is about to give a speech about why we spend so much on R&D, and how we can reduce that figure.
The scientific method stipulates that the results must be verifiable. This is why scientific research undergoes peer review. Jack Thompson's studies were not verifiable, as you pointed out.
The Wall Street Journal makes press releases available for companies listed in its Company Research pages. The PR departments of these companies write the press releases, not WSJ reporters.
That one skill is quite important for sales and marketing people. Their next most important skill (breathing doesn't count) is knowing when and how to keep their mouth shut when the technical people get involved in a sale or project.
I think the reverse is also true, though.
I think the grandparent is right and the parent is wrong.
Where I work, the salespeople try their best to keep the customers away from the engineers. We usually find out later that the salespeople sold something to the customers that we don't make.
Economics isn't a perfect science, and it often heavily relies on imperfect data from a biased world.
Define perfect data? There is no such thing. In any science, you must make assumptions to simplify complex systems.
example: An object in earth's gravitational pull accelerates towards the center of the earth at a rate of 9.8m/s/s, assuming the effects of air resistance are negligible, and the object is near the surface of the earth.
What makes it a science is not the quality of data, or the assumptions that are made. It's the use of the scientific method. My personal experience tells me that people distrust economics, and psychology because they don't understand statistics. It also doesn't help that most intro courses don't cover the math involved.
If I haven't convinced you, here is a pretty graph. Note the effect of our applied knowledge of economics has on inflation after 1950.
I also note that Chemistry has changed much in the last 100 years since the advent of quantum mechanics. I also can't seem to find any decent physics books on Project Gutenberg.
The US military has some nice textbooks online. I don't know how they got there though, they don't seem official.
I've also had professors who took their test material directly off of the practice exams on the CD. Once I figured it out, I saved a ton of time studying those practice exams. I received better grades too.
Everyone wants a faster and more stable web browser. However, standards on the internet are diverging. The future browser will be expected to handle more plugins than it does now. Right now we have Flash and Java. Soon we will have Silverlight/Moonlight. Who knows what will come next.
In order for the browser to be the best it can be, we need to reduce the usage of proprietary protocols on the internet. We need the internet to be straightforward and open. I don't foresee this happening in the near future, and I therefore wish you good luck.
In other words, for better or worse, the browser is replacing the desktop for many types of applications. As it does so it requires the protocols to be able to support these new apps not only from a standards perspective, but also for security and performance.
And there lies the paradox.
I think everyone is on the same page when we talk about the web replacing the desktop. What I really want to see is open source software leading the way. Not just on the desktop, but on the back end too. It needs to develop the protocols to do so. If the open source community doesn't develop the tools and technology now, we will only become slaves to another corporation in the near future.
What I want on my future web browser is a better internet.
1. Ok, I like that
2. I consider that part of web browsing. It wasn't in the past, but things change.
3. I don't want something that goes on the internet to access my local drive. Just like I don't prepare meat on the same counter I prepare vegetables.
4. FTP and HTTP are part of browsing the web, and there are protocols I don't want. I don't want it to use the StormWorm protocol.(in jest)
5. Managing downloads is fine, perhaps put.torrent file in a special location so the torrent client will find it. But I don't want it to depend on too much other software.
There used to be shows like that. They were called "Call for Help" and "The Screen Savers"(and just about any other show) on TechTV.
Yeah, but that was on some obscure channel that only techies watched. Why doesn't DIY network have this? Can't Martha Stewart take 5 minutes to teach people how to install RAM in between baking pies and quilting?
Slashdot Mirror
if any two computers can no longer talk to each other, can we still call it "the internet?"
The only difference between Office '97 it's successors is product activation, and extra fees for PowerPoint.
all of those DIMMs of RAM. I'm thinking they will have to come up with something smaller. Maybe more than one DIMM on a... DIMM?
Excellent, thanks!
I'm afraid taint.org might not be safe for work.
That's a feature, not a bug. Otherwise the technical folks would forever be on version 1.x. Sometimes you just have to push people.
That would be fine if every product they sold got better and better. Unfortunately, they usually sell something we used to make 20 years ago, with additional features we have yet do develop. It's more like forking a project over and over, instead of moving on to version 2.0.
Oh, and they promised them they would have it by tomorrow. This isn't software, this is a physical product. Good luck getting union labor to pull an all nighter.
I have to run, the president of the company is about to give a speech about why we spend so much on R&D, and how we can reduce that figure.
The scientific method stipulates that the results must be verifiable. This is why scientific research undergoes peer review. Jack Thompson's studies were not verifiable, as you pointed out.
The system works once again!
The Wall Street Journal makes press releases available for companies listed in its Company Research pages. The PR departments of these companies write the press releases, not WSJ reporters.
Good point! Here's the press release.
I spent all week compiling Gentoo just to find out I could do it 10% faster.
end sarcasm
That one skill is quite important for sales and marketing people. Their next most important skill (breathing doesn't count) is knowing when and how to keep their mouth shut when the technical people get involved in a sale or project.
I think the reverse is also true, though.
I think the grandparent is right and the parent is wrong.
Where I work, the salespeople try their best to keep the customers away from the engineers. We usually find out later that the salespeople sold something to the customers that we don't make.
ZOMBOcom. Clearly they are winning the talent war.
Extra funny points for bringing up a random website I haven't visited in years. I forgot all about that.
Economics isn't a perfect science, and it often heavily relies on imperfect data from a biased world.
Define perfect data? There is no such thing. In any science, you must make assumptions to simplify complex systems.
example:
An object in earth's gravitational pull accelerates towards the center of the earth at a rate of 9.8m/s/s, assuming the effects of air resistance are negligible, and the object is near the surface of the earth.
What makes it a science is not the quality of data, or the assumptions that are made. It's the use of the scientific method. My personal experience tells me that people distrust economics, and psychology because they don't understand statistics. It also doesn't help that most intro courses don't cover the math involved.
If I haven't convinced you, here is a pretty graph. Note the effect of our applied knowledge of economics has on inflation after 1950.
This article ispired me to look through Project Gutenberg for old Science and Math books.
This Calculus book looks decent.
Here's an Algebra book, but it doesn't look very good.
I also note that Chemistry has changed much in the last 100 years since the advent of quantum mechanics. I also can't seem to find any decent physics books on Project Gutenberg.
The US military has some nice textbooks online. I don't know how they got there though, they don't seem official.
I've also had professors who took their test material directly off of the practice exams on the CD. Once I figured it out, I saved a ton of time studying those practice exams. I received better grades too.
whiner, $75 is cheap! I paid over $200 for Internal Combustion Engine Fundamentals. That was a few years ago. Open Courseware my ass! Heywood doesn't post the book online. Just the labs, homework, and syllabus.
So, what are you going to do? Get a pirated copy of your ethics book?
where are the answer keys?
Everyone wants a faster and more stable web browser. However, standards on the internet are diverging. The future browser will be expected to handle more plugins than it does now. Right now we have Flash and Java. Soon we will have Silverlight/Moonlight. Who knows what will come next.
In order for the browser to be the best it can be, we need to reduce the usage of proprietary protocols on the internet. We need the internet to be straightforward and open. I don't foresee this happening in the near future, and I therefore wish you good luck.
In other words, for better or worse, the browser is replacing the desktop for many types of applications. As it does so it requires the protocols to be able to support these new apps not only from a standards perspective, but also for security and performance.
And there lies the paradox.
I think everyone is on the same page when we talk about the web replacing the desktop. What I really want to see is open source software leading the way. Not just on the desktop, but on the back end too. It needs to develop the protocols to do so. If the open source community doesn't develop the tools and technology now, we will only become slaves to another corporation in the near future.
What I want on my future web browser is a better internet.
1. Ok, I like that .torrent file in a special location so the torrent client will find it. But I don't want it to depend on too much other software.
2. I consider that part of web browsing. It wasn't in the past, but things change.
3. I don't want something that goes on the internet to access my local drive. Just like I don't prepare meat on the same counter I prepare vegetables.
4. FTP and HTTP are part of browsing the web, and there are protocols I don't want. I don't want it to use the StormWorm protocol.(in jest)
5. Managing downloads is fine, perhaps put
Duct tape.
Correct! It's the only possible answer. It should be modded +5 insightful, end discussion, no other answers shall be modded higher.
More speed and less bloat.
and it should browse the internet of course. If it doesn't do that, it's not a browser.
I don't want it to...
make coffee, I have a coffee maker for that.
wash dishes, I have a dishwasher for that.
drive me to work, I have a car for that.
It should do it's job, nothing more, nothing less.
if I hadn't left an image of my retina at the crime scene!
I've heard if your old keyboard gets too crusty you can throw it in the dishwasher. Anybody try it?
There used to be shows like that. They were called "Call for Help" and "The Screen Savers"(and just about any other show) on TechTV.
Yeah, but that was on some obscure channel that only techies watched. Why doesn't DIY network have this? Can't Martha Stewart take 5 minutes to teach people how to install RAM in between baking pies and quilting?