Was dissapointed to see most of the proposals were hastily put together and didn't feature anything new. They were all apollo command modules. It's not clear if any of these companies are taking seriously this crew exploration vehicle.
The lack of creativity is reminiscent of all business in certain countries. There's an attitude that creativity can be bought from somewhere else and if no-one from elsewhere wants to sell creativity then just keep living with 40 year old technology.
In growing economies open source may be useful for getting you in the door after college. Once you're in the door or in a declining economy open source will cost you. Managers resent employees who are more visible than they are. Other programmers resent you for upstaging them in public. While everyone who programs free software in college can be considered doing it for the credentials, anyone still doing it after college is probably doing it for themself.
The way w.e. do software projects is probably the most backward, inefficient in the world. It's unique in that programmers are hired to do very specific tasks and are sent packing when they're done. Each role is filled by people specifically for that one function with no-one responsible for overall success. Even the representatives for these projects are only contracted to be representative for a year and then they're gone.
Unlike programming there is no such thing as knowing how to be a manager. There's no metric to rate you as good or bad. You are now purely a representative of other people's work. It is your subordinates performance which determines your performance and nothing else.
Like most managers you won't be able to determine who works for you and you won't have a past to be judged by. You'll be hired at the final stages of projects when all the implementation has been done to justify management. It's purely a matter of picking the right programming team to get hired by.
With congress overrulling NASA again on even a robotic servicing mission and most of u.s. wanting to get out of science and technology, now is the time to pay China to do space missions.
Last year CNN kept saying social security was in a crisis, George Bush was avoiding the problem, and Jim Kerry was the only one addressing the problem. They even had specials on Alan Greenspan saying social security was in a crisis but George Bush wasn't doing anything about it. They brought on guest after guest who said the social security crisis required draconian tax hikes to fix.
Now CNN is bringing on guest after guest who says social security isn't in a crisis. They now say there is no need for tax hikes to fix social security since it's purely fictitious. They now say the crisis is purely a political agenda to distract us from Iraq.
Is it a crisis which requires massive tax hikes to fix and which George Bush is ignoring like CNN said last year or is it an attempt to distract us like CNN says this year? Is there any right answer besides whatever is the opposite of George Bush's latest speech?
Manufacturing plant between Bermuda and Hawaii? With strategies like that Intel deserves to die. We feel however that Intel's disappearance from the CPU space has really slowed down the improvements. Today's chips at the same price point aren't doing any more than chips 5 years ago. The difference in price required to get very small improvements is much higher than the difference in price 5 years ago.
Let's get one thing clear. US will never ever compete with France or India in space technology. It's time us got out of the things we don't have the skill or the desire to be involved in and let superior nations do those things for u.s..
The commercial launch business which Boing calls non existent actually does exist, just not in US. The Arianne 5 is used all the time to launch multiple satellites simultaneously.
Instead of dumping engineers and then acting like u.s. can still do technical things, we need to start admitting the hard stuff is beyond our means and other countries really do have superior engineers.
Apple has so much luster it isn't suprising that people would sneak in to work there for free. More interesting than the fact that they continued to work on company projects after being laid off was that they insisted on doing it in the Apple building rather than in their bedrooms. It doesn't matter what they're doing, just being a part of Apple culture gets people real excited. Not sure whether it's the counterculture, the kind of people Apple hires, or the management style of Steve Jobless. No other company motivates as many people to spend the rest of their lives working for free on its products as Apple.
Remember after George Bush II won the election in 2000 that CNN laid off most of their employees. Now once again an election has hit Time Warner's interests hard and a lot of people are paying the price. You could have predicted mass layoffs in AOL/Time Warner/CNN after the election.
The extra money is already being used for ozone studies, studies into space telescopes which are never going to be built, environmental science, and more bone loss studies. There's no mention of any mission to Mars, or any new space vehicle in any of the projects announced since 2003.
Not sure if working in India is going to be as decent as Wallmart or Burger King, but for retirement you'll definitely be better off leaving US. With taxes expected to double or triple in 30 years, no-one with any brain cells is going to retire here.
It's long been known that investment in video capture interfaces has no future. Camcorders eventually are going to be accessed from our workstations like a regular filesystem. The whole idea of logging clips, deck control, serial digital interfaces, and the millions of dollars invested in these systems is going to be replaced by ethernet and network filesystems.
Nowadays unless you live in an advanced civilization like India, contracting to hire is the way it's done. All your bosses are going to be hired that way and most of the programmers. Most of the contractors end up "permanent" unless they're complete terrorists.
Contractors do not get paid more than "permanent" people. In fact they're paid much less considering the lack of bonuses, vacation time, and insurance plans. Even with the loss of benefits since 2000, the benefits that staff members get are still far more than contractors get compensated for.
The advantage to contracting is that you're your own boss, you essentially run your own business. You can apply to any management position and say you qualify because you ran your own "business". This is how most programmers get into management.
Forget about capturing the YUV output of your satellite box. Electronic components are extremely expensive and the kind of ADC you need to capture an analog HDTV signal is unaffordable.
With US too strapped for cash to continue with this program, it's time to consider sending it to China for further development. The Chinese space agency could make seriously faster progress than NASA ever could, since most of the physicists instead of being contracted from China could actually be in China year round.
China also owns the machine that made the X-32 so instead of getting stuck in red tape exporting Chinese manufacturing, they could just launch it right across the street from the factory.
Finally China is in a much better cash situation to fund long term programs like this. Foreign investment is at record levels, allowing China to do long term projects that would bankrupt any other nation.
Don't forget the Delta IV heavy launch, whose latest postponement has it lifting off on Nov 18. This should be the most powerful rocket to lift off from the area of land between Bermuda and Hawaii since the 70's. It's supposed to be able to hurl 48,000 lbs of payload to low Earth orbit, almost 1/4 the capacity of the Saturn V. What an accomplishment.
If it was any other job description you might think the husband was cheeting on the wife and the long hours were a lie, but obviously he's not president of the United States so we can trust him.
The best thing to do for programmers is just not work the required hours and let them get rid of you if they like it. A lot of programmers get in this mode where they think they're on a ship at sea or they can't stand the ego bruising associated with a death march. The fact is you don't have to obey crazy hours if you don't want to and a termination is a small material consequence compared to losing your standard of living or suffering brain damage.
The single solitary justification for crazy hours is maybe if you're trying for a management job somewhere else. Long hours in high risk startups are a requirement for anyone looking for eventual management jobs. Unless you consider EA a high risk startup you're probably wasting your time.
Face it. Somewhere between project management and engineer the stock options cut off. That's the way it's been for most of human history. It isn't a new phenomenum, just one which was briefly forgotten in 1999.
More interestingly is how dumping management jobs for low end programming jobs was all the rage in the nineties. Everyone kept saying how their management jobs sucked and how they loved programming. Now they're once again learning why they got out of programming in the first place.
Now, just like the 80's they're hopping jobs clinging to whatever hope that one day they might get snapped up for a big corporate management job so they can have stock options. Yes, the mundane administrative world had its benefits and it once again does.
If I was that guy I wouldn't even think about U.S. anymore. Move to a country which values the work you do and you'll be better off, even if the numeric amount if less.
In case you were living in your cube, frantically preparing your killer web page for when Jim Carrey won and brought back the dot com boom or perhaps you were frantically fixing Y2K bugs because you thought Jim Carrey would bring back Y2K compliance contracts, you figured out that the Democrats have nominated Hillary Clinton for president in 2008. She hit the campaign trail today.
The nomination of Hillary Clinton seems more like a last ditch, desperate attempt to get back into the game. She's literally all they have left, the only recognizable name who could possibly survive an election.
Most democrats seem to think the reason they waited this long before calling her up was because she was a sledgehammer being brought out to fix a watch. That's like baseball teams using the worst players and keeping the best players on the bench because the best players are overkill.
Hillary Clinton will run against a republican of much less fame in 2008. It's a mathematical certainty. Hillary Clinton winning is highly unlikely because
#1 gender views just aren't at the level of electing heroines for presidents and most democrats want to subsidize wife domestication not bring wives into the workforce.
#2 a wife who excused a cheating husband and continued to sleep in the same bed while the semen was still wet flat out doesn't have the conviction to make the kind of radical changes the democrats want to make.
DARPA paid for the internet. The air force paid for GPS. You like cell phones, PDA's, satellite TV? All TV satellites are launched on former ICBM's. All the high frequency RF technology in your handheld gadgets comes from practical military needs. Your beloved.com startups in 1999 which democrats call a boom without end and republicans call a bubble, were all made possible by defense research. Defense spending tends to be a republican thing.
Then of course, technology is often cited as the foundation of the middle class. If it wasn't for technology, low end workers would have no way to increase their productivity. Socialism solves the lack of worker productivity by subsidizing low end workers instead of increasing their productivity through technology. Democrats tend to prefer things that subsidize low end workers and not things that increase productivity.
You could have motion tracked a zoom image of the moon. Just cut out the 15 frames where you're realigning the tripod and motion track to get a rock solid picture.
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Was dissapointed to see most of the proposals were hastily put together and didn't feature anything new. They were all apollo command modules. It's not clear if any of these companies are taking seriously this crew exploration vehicle.
The lack of creativity is reminiscent of all business in certain countries. There's an attitude that creativity can be bought from somewhere else and if no-one from elsewhere wants to sell creativity then just keep living with 40 year old technology.
In growing economies open source may be useful for getting you in the door after college. Once you're in the door or in a declining economy open source will cost you. Managers resent employees who are more visible than they are. Other programmers resent you for upstaging them in public. While everyone who programs free software in college can be considered doing it for the credentials, anyone still doing it after college
is probably doing it for themself.
The way w.e. do software projects is probably the most backward, inefficient in the world. It's unique in that programmers are hired to do very specific tasks and are sent packing when they're done. Each role is filled by people specifically for that one function with no-one responsible for overall success. Even the representatives for these projects are only contracted to be representative for a year and then they're gone.
Unlike programming there is no such thing as knowing how to be a manager. There's no metric to rate you as good or bad. You are now purely a representative of other people's work. It is your subordinates performance which determines your performance and nothing else.
Like most managers you won't be able to determine who works for you and you won't have a past to be judged by. You'll be hired at the final stages of projects when all the implementation has been done to justify management. It's purely a matter of picking the right programming team to get hired by.
With congress overrulling NASA again on even a robotic servicing mission and most of u.s. wanting to get out of science and technology, now is the time to pay China to do space missions.
Last year CNN kept saying social security was in a crisis, George Bush was avoiding the problem, and Jim Kerry was the only one addressing the problem. They even had specials on Alan Greenspan saying social security was in a crisis but George Bush wasn't doing anything about it. They brought on guest after guest who said the social security crisis required draconian tax hikes to fix.
Now CNN is bringing on guest after guest who says social security isn't in a crisis. They now say there is no need for tax hikes to fix social security since it's purely fictitious. They now say the crisis is purely a political agenda to distract us from Iraq.
Is it a crisis which requires massive tax hikes to fix and which George Bush is ignoring like CNN said last year or is it an attempt to distract us like CNN says this year? Is there any right answer besides whatever is the opposite of George Bush's latest speech?
Manufacturing plant between Bermuda and Hawaii? With strategies like that Intel deserves to die. We feel however that Intel's disappearance from the CPU space has really slowed down the improvements. Today's chips at the same price point aren't doing any more than chips 5 years ago. The difference in price required to get very small improvements is much higher than the difference in price 5 years ago.
Let's get one thing clear. US will never ever compete with France or India in space technology.
It's time us got out of the things we don't have the skill or the desire to be involved in and let superior nations do those things for u.s..
The commercial launch business which Boing calls non existent actually does exist, just not in US. The Arianne 5 is used all the time to launch multiple satellites simultaneously.
Instead of dumping engineers and then acting like u.s. can still do technical things, we need to start admitting the hard stuff is beyond our means and other countries really do have superior engineers.
Apple has so much luster it isn't suprising that people would sneak in to work there for free. More interesting than the fact that they continued to work on company projects after being laid off was that they insisted on doing it in the Apple building rather than in their bedrooms. It doesn't matter what they're doing, just being a part of Apple culture gets people real excited. Not sure whether it's the counterculture, the kind of people Apple hires, or the management style of Steve Jobless. No other company motivates as many people to spend the rest of their lives working for free on its products as Apple.
Remember after George Bush II won the election in 2000 that CNN laid off most of their employees. Now once again an election has hit Time Warner's interests hard and a lot of people are paying the price. You could have predicted mass layoffs in AOL/Time Warner/CNN after the election.
Source "fire" is a funny name for a company. It must be American.
The extra money is already being used for ozone studies, studies into space telescopes which are never going to be built, environmental science, and more bone loss studies. There's no mention of any mission to Mars, or any new space vehicle in any of the projects announced since 2003.
They better get started on the Mars base they said they were going to build a few years ago if they ever intend to get this one started.
Not sure if working in India is going to be as decent as Wallmart or Burger King, but for retirement you'll definitely be better off leaving US. With taxes expected to double or triple in 30 years, no-one with any brain cells is going to retire here.
It's long been known that investment in video capture interfaces has no future. Camcorders eventually are going to be accessed from our workstations like a regular filesystem. The whole idea of logging clips, deck control, serial digital interfaces, and the millions of dollars invested in these systems is going to be replaced by ethernet and network filesystems.
Nowadays unless you live in an advanced civilization like India, contracting to hire is the way it's done. All your bosses are going to be hired that way and most of the programmers. Most of the contractors end up "permanent" unless they're complete terrorists.
Contractors do not get paid more than "permanent" people. In fact they're paid much less considering the lack of bonuses, vacation time, and insurance plans. Even with the loss of benefits since 2000, the benefits that staff members get are still far more than contractors get compensated for.
The advantage to contracting is that you're your own boss, you essentially run your own business. You can apply to any management position and say you qualify because you ran your own "business". This is how most programmers get into management.
Forget about capturing the YUV output of your satellite box. Electronic components are extremely expensive and the kind of ADC you need to capture an analog HDTV signal is unaffordable.
With US too strapped for cash to continue with this program, it's time to consider sending it to China for further development. The Chinese space agency could make seriously faster progress than NASA ever could, since most of the physicists instead of being contracted from China could actually be in China year round.
China also owns the machine that made the X-32 so instead of getting stuck in red tape exporting Chinese manufacturing, they could just launch it right across the street from the factory.
Finally China is in a much better cash situation to fund long term programs like this. Foreign investment is at record levels, allowing China to do long term projects that would bankrupt any other nation.
Don't forget the Delta IV heavy launch, whose latest postponement has it lifting off on Nov 18. This should be the most powerful rocket to lift off from the area of land between Bermuda and Hawaii since the 70's. It's supposed to be able to hurl 48,000 lbs of payload to low Earth orbit, almost 1/4 the capacity of the Saturn V. What an accomplishment.
If it was any other job description you might think the husband was cheeting on the wife and the long hours were a lie, but obviously he's not president of the United States so we can trust him.
The best thing to do for programmers is just not work the required hours and let them get rid of you if they like it. A lot of programmers get in this mode where they think they're on a ship at sea or they can't stand the ego bruising associated with a death march. The fact is you don't have to obey crazy hours if you don't want to and a termination is a small material consequence compared to losing your standard of living or suffering brain damage.
The single solitary justification for crazy hours is maybe if you're trying for a management job somewhere else. Long hours in high risk startups are a requirement for anyone looking for eventual management jobs. Unless you consider EA a high risk startup you're probably wasting your time.
Face it. Somewhere between project management and engineer the stock options cut off. That's the way it's been for most of human history. It isn't a new phenomenum, just one which was briefly forgotten in 1999.
More interestingly is how dumping management jobs for low end programming jobs was all the rage in the nineties. Everyone kept saying how their management jobs sucked and how they loved programming. Now they're once again learning why they got out of programming in the first place.
Now, just like the 80's they're hopping jobs clinging to whatever hope that one day they might get snapped up for a big corporate management job so they can have stock options. Yes, the mundane administrative world had its benefits and it once again does.
If I was that guy I wouldn't even think about U.S. anymore. Move to a country which values the work you do and you'll be better off, even if the numeric amount if less.
In case you were living in your cube, frantically preparing your killer web page for when Jim Carrey won and brought back the dot com boom or perhaps you were frantically fixing Y2K bugs because you thought Jim Carrey would bring back Y2K compliance contracts, you figured out that the Democrats have nominated Hillary Clinton for president in 2008. She hit the campaign trail today.
The nomination of Hillary Clinton seems more like a last ditch, desperate attempt to get back into the game. She's literally all they have left, the only recognizable name who could possibly survive an election.
Most democrats seem to think the reason they waited this long before calling her up was because she was a sledgehammer being brought out to fix a watch. That's like baseball teams using the worst players and keeping the best players on the bench because the best players are overkill.
Hillary Clinton will run against a republican of much less fame in 2008. It's a mathematical certainty. Hillary Clinton winning is highly unlikely because
#1 gender views just aren't at the level of electing heroines for presidents and most democrats want to subsidize wife domestication not bring wives into the workforce.
#2 a wife who excused a cheating husband and continued to sleep in the same bed while the semen was still wet flat out doesn't have the conviction to make the kind of radical changes the democrats want to make.
DARPA paid for the internet. The air force paid for GPS. You like cell phones, PDA's, satellite TV? All TV satellites are launched on former ICBM's. All the high frequency RF technology in your handheld gadgets comes from practical military needs. Your beloved .com startups in 1999 which democrats call a boom without end and republicans call a bubble, were all made possible by defense research. Defense spending tends to be a republican thing.
Then of course, technology is often cited as the foundation of the middle class. If it wasn't for technology, low end workers would have no way to increase their productivity. Socialism solves the lack of worker productivity by subsidizing low end workers instead of increasing their productivity through technology. Democrats tend to prefer things that subsidize low end workers and not things that increase productivity.
You could have motion tracked a zoom image of the moon. Just cut out the 15 frames where you're realigning the tripod and motion track to get a rock solid picture.