What some of the comments about Ballmer fail to note is that he kept his audience engaged. Modern video media creates the audience expectation that something dynamic will take place every 15 to 20 seconds, for that is the longest one camera angle will characteristically be held. Change slides, wave your arms, walk into the audience, but move. That's what will keep you and your presentation in the audience's attention.
... the Microgram Wars of the '60s and '70s, as well as the broad range of consumptive behaviours directly associated with said campaigns, I'll have to admit I'm sceptical.
... "One man's music is another man's noise." I'm not sure but what this feature might not warm the heart of many an enterprise admin struggling to enforce security in an environment of sprawling attack surfaces and wildly proliferating attack points.
... could we have a category for "Best Left-handed Actor"? I mean, it isn't like the awards are already bloated, largely meaningless, self-congratulatory or just plain boring, is it?
Of course, the awards are really for the public. The studios only care about the money.
It occurs that if you run the sheet, printing a single pixel, through the printer once and then reverse it for the actual print run, the resulting sheet should be sufficiently obfuscated.
American corporations, by and large, never have felt much responsibility toward the people whose money they take. "Caveat emptor" is what they give, while unquestioning customer loyalty is what they hope to demand. Apple has been unusually successful in obtaining the latter, but that has no reflection on how they address the former. For most corporations, any demonstration of loyalty to a customer is only a means to an end, with few exceptions. If the board has any loyalty at all, it's to their quarterly bonus and, hence, to a display of loyalty to the shareholders. At every level, it's just hired guns ready to wash their hands to line their pockets.
There's laissez faire capitalism, but what we get is generally laissez unfair.
... if, instead of just appearing to be a window from the outside, you could project scenes of your own choosing to the outside world. The possibilities for mischief tantalize.
Constant distraction plaguing every level of design, development and implementation is a good thing. I know this because I've been into space.
Signed,
Fake Mark Shuttleworth
In the unlikely event that the code being refactored is poorly documented, (ahem, ahem), a programmer who implements faster, more compact, shinier code to replace existing libraries may choose to leave the old libraries in place, (still poorly documented), to avoid breakage and meet deadline. It's more like cities being built upon the remains of their older selves, rather than having a faulty construction manifest.
Education, like many other professions, has long sought to inculcate a dependency in students for the system's product. Little time is spent addressing the development of self-teaching skills as it is much more profitable to charge for academia's traditional services, needed or not. Accreditation and a monopoly on diplomas help to cement that profitable model in the social structure. Put simply, education has become just another racket that fails to really meet the needs of society, while charging a premium for their product and creating the illusion of necessity.
Of course, this is little different than law, medicine, or investment banking.
"Fair competition" is a liberal social construct; most corporate captains are conservative to a feudal degree. The eventual goal of controlling public access and demand is designed to give the monopolist essentially similar control over their subjects as a feudal lord. Basically, it's about handing business a power previously reserved for government, the power of taxation. Don't ya just love social progress?
The GPL is, really, a lot like water rights. Proprietary software is like water from a well, where the well owner controls access and distribution. Water from the nearby stream is free to all, as with GPLed software, but some collect and haul the water, charging their customers for the convenience of delivery.
The power supply is a discrete subsystem and should not be construed as sufficiently integral to the device it powers to allow such a broad patent. Will Apple now patent the replacement of a substation transformer to extract royalties from the power company?
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What some of the comments about Ballmer fail to note is that he kept his audience engaged. Modern video media creates the audience expectation that something dynamic will take place every 15 to 20 seconds, for that is the longest one camera angle will characteristically be held. Change slides, wave your arms, walk into the audience, but move. That's what will keep you and your presentation in the audience's attention.
... until the SWAT team mistakenly takes you down.
... the Microgram Wars of the '60s and '70s, as well as the broad range of consumptive behaviours directly associated with said campaigns, I'll have to admit I'm sceptical.
... may have had something to say about this.
... "One man's music is another man's noise." I'm not sure but what this feature might not warm the heart of many an enterprise admin struggling to enforce security in an environment of sprawling attack surfaces and wildly proliferating attack points.
Troublingly, I find your steps show a remarkable similarity to those listed in industry whitepapers on implementing an IT department.
... could we have a category for "Best Left-handed Actor"? I mean, it isn't like the awards are already bloated, largely meaningless, self-congratulatory or just plain boring, is it?
Of course, the awards are really for the public. The studios only care about the money.
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... use a thesaurus.
It occurs that if you run the sheet, printing a single pixel, through the printer once and then reverse it for the actual print run, the resulting sheet should be sufficiently obfuscated.
... suggest a good utility for printing additional, obfuscating dots?
... was a disgrace to the U. S. legal system.
Whatever happened to, "Hope I die before I get old"?
... for bootleggers.
Canonical seems more and more determined to abandon any loyalty to its users. They should not be surprised when users reciprocate.
... if Capitol Records hasn't become "immaterial".
American corporations, by and large, never have felt much responsibility toward the people whose money they take. "Caveat emptor" is what they give, while unquestioning customer loyalty is what they hope to demand. Apple has been unusually successful in obtaining the latter, but that has no reflection on how they address the former. For most corporations, any demonstration of loyalty to a customer is only a means to an end, with few exceptions. If the board has any loyalty at all, it's to their quarterly bonus and, hence, to a display of loyalty to the shareholders. At every level, it's just hired guns ready to wash their hands to line their pockets.
There's laissez faire capitalism, but what we get is generally laissez unfair.
... if, instead of just appearing to be a window from the outside, you could project scenes of your own choosing to the outside world. The possibilities for mischief tantalize.
Constant distraction plaguing every level of design, development and implementation is a good thing. I know this because I've been into space.
Signed,
Fake Mark Shuttleworth
In the unlikely event that the code being refactored is poorly documented, (ahem, ahem), a programmer who implements faster, more compact, shinier code to replace existing libraries may choose to leave the old libraries in place, (still poorly documented), to avoid breakage and meet deadline. It's more like cities being built upon the remains of their older selves, rather than having a faulty construction manifest.
... deliver clue to those who would presume to supply clue to it.
Education, like many other professions, has long sought to inculcate a dependency in students for the system's product. Little time is spent addressing the development of self-teaching skills as it is much more profitable to charge for academia's traditional services, needed or not. Accreditation and a monopoly on diplomas help to cement that profitable model in the social structure. Put simply, education has become just another racket that fails to really meet the needs of society, while charging a premium for their product and creating the illusion of necessity.
Of course, this is little different than law, medicine, or investment banking.
"Fair competition" is a liberal social construct; most corporate captains are conservative to a feudal degree. The eventual goal of controlling public access and demand is designed to give the monopolist essentially similar control over their subjects as a feudal lord. Basically, it's about handing business a power previously reserved for government, the power of taxation. Don't ya just love social progress?
The GPL is, really, a lot like water rights. Proprietary software is like water from a well, where the well owner controls access and distribution. Water from the nearby stream is free to all, as with GPLed software, but some collect and haul the water, charging their customers for the convenience of delivery.
The power supply is a discrete subsystem and should not be construed as sufficiently integral to the device it powers to allow such a broad patent. Will Apple now patent the replacement of a substation transformer to extract royalties from the power company?
... code bloat is.