Never mind... It's the summary that reads like a dupe.
Reminds me John Stewart's coverage of how Fox News uses "Questions": "Does John Murtha's push for withdrawl encourage terrorists and insurgents to increase the number of attacks on our troops in Iraq?"
These days, "Betamax" sounds more like an office supply chain more than anything else, but it's always been smoother than "Vee Aitch Ess"... Didn't help back then, either.
Let's face it... The supply of women ready to put themselves out on display on the internet pales in comparison to the sheer mass of teen angst that flows out onto myspace/youtube/livjournals etc.:)
"Will Saddam get a chance to talk about how he had US support during the war with Iran? I doubt it."
Being 27, and knowing the target audience for this line of thought, it sounds like some sort of big revelation. Reality is probably closer to the fact that when I was a kid, this stuff wasn't in the history books, not a part of everyday conversation, and really, not all that darned important to anybody anyway.
"Saddam shouldn't be executed he should be kept alive in a cell for the rest of his life as a lesson for the Iraqi's to learn from."
A sentence to a lifetime of boredom strikes fear in the hearts of very few men who would follow in Saddam's footsteps. While it's probably dreary, anyone who's seen The Shawshank Redemption (but skipped Cool Hand Luke) could learn to deal with such a fate.
"Executing Saddam will only turn him into a martyr."
Martyrs are rarely found hanging from the gallows. Saddam's case is even less likely, since he chose to duck and cover in a rathole rather than go out with guns blazing. If anything, his behavior in court makes him look like a pathetic politician more than an evil dictator or candidate for martyrdom.:)
Speaking at least for myself, I had to choose between moving out of an affordable house in a town with very few programming jobs, or stay here and make better money at a far easier job in another industry... Now, on the side I just do contact work for my old employer to keep my skills up and the money rolling in. Right now, though, there's just not enough money and motivation for even many MEDIOCRE programmers to stay in the industry. Bugfixing is too much work rarely fun, and nobody likes to watch software get driven into a wall by marketing wonks, and too many programmers of all sorts are tired of the industry mentality that most software should be overpriced + underperforming.
As a developer on a gnome project, I can tell you bluntly that additional women would help. Additional men would help. Heck, additional crack smoking monkeys would even come in handy, as long as they could tell the difference beween a semaphore and a banana*.
[*]The semaphore and banana requirement also applies to women.
"They had posted the original story here as well."
Uhm... no, they didn't. Try searching "veterans" and such. No story. I work for a newspaper, and remember the day it broke. Slashdot ignored the story, including my submission: "VA loses 26.5 million SSNs to theft & incompetence Monday May 22, @01:25PM Rejected "
Tired of blaming Disney and the US government for extending copyright protections? You had the wrong target anyway... the US and the rest of the world usually falls right behind Germany's lead in extending their terms to reach back until 1919 and the Treaty of Versailles. That milestone saw Germany lose Asprin and all sorts of intellectual property, and they've been fierce in protections ever since. International trade agreements means that everyone has to play by aproximately the same rules in this space, and decent copyright terms are now long dead.
"'The bubble generation is much more attuned to the fact that things can get really out of hand,' says Bill Burnham, a former partner at Mobius Venture Capital. 'There's a level of caution that has been ingrained.'"
Let's see... Energy and home prices skyrocketing. Low unemployment, but virtually no improvement in salaries. The new bubble? It's healthcare, baby. Every market is targeting the baby boomers and milking them for as much money as possible, and when you combine that with a generation of people who have been saying "I deserve the best care no matter what the cost." forever while sitting on their lethargic hinds 24/7, we've got the current recipie for disaster.
Supposedly the information doesn't actually contain things like people's names, or at least is not usable in that way without getting more information, probably by getting a warrant or asking the phone companies for more information about a specific user. This would most likely be useful to have a ready-to-go database (pile of evidence) that could not only link terror suspects to their record communictaions once they have been found, but to also bring in new leads connected to the suspect.
"... In the end, a minor shift in his departure time results in saving driving hours equivalent to over a third of the vacation time given annually by his employer."
In France, this means you would gain 2 additional months of free time.;)
"If Microsoft think that the scope of the application is too small to be considered a completely separate package, it's not going to be the "Photoshop Killer" that they want it to be."
It's not what about what 'can be done', but what would make them the most product. This approach is:
1) Publish 4 as a bundle, which is just as cheap to mass produce as 1 standalone would be. 2) Sell the bundle of 4 at the cost of 3. 4) Profit! The customer thinks they are getting a good deal, though they probably won't regularly use more than 1 of the 4 products.
"Hey guys, lets get a lot of photos of people pretending to paint, then copy and paste and rotate them a lot so it looks like a kaleidoscope!"
Genius, I tell you. Pure genius.
I need one of those koosh Microsoft jobs... From where I'm standing, I'm reminded of the Ghostbusters line: "I've worked in the private sector. They expect results."
"Some internet service providers aren't very pleased about that, because although they sell their internet connections as unlimited usage, if people actually take them up on the offer then they can't actually cope with demand.":)
Slashdot Mirror
Never mind... It's the summary that reads like a dupe.
Reminds me John Stewart's coverage of how Fox News uses "Questions": "Does John Murtha's push for withdrawl encourage terrorists and insurgents to increase the number of attacks on our troops in Iraq?"
Deja Vu
It won't work for me, as I doubt they'll make Nekketsu Street Basket: Ganbare! Dunk Heroes available stateside on the Wii anytime soon. :)
" (do I sound like X-Files yet?)."
Unintelligible, overwrought, and pointless? Yes.
These days, "Betamax" sounds more like an office supply chain more than anything else, but it's always been smoother than "Vee Aitch Ess"... Didn't help back then, either.
don't worry, I doubt it was sarcasm.
I can't compete with you physically, and you're no match for my brains.
Let's face it... The supply of women ready to put themselves out on display on the internet pales in comparison to the sheer mass of teen angst that flows out onto myspace/youtube/livjournals etc. :)
"Will Saddam get a chance to talk about how he had US support during the war with Iran? I doubt it."
:)
Being 27, and knowing the target audience for this line of thought, it sounds like some sort of big revelation. Reality is probably closer to the fact that when I was a kid, this stuff wasn't in the history books, not a part of everyday conversation, and really, not all that darned important to anybody anyway.
"Saddam shouldn't be executed he should be kept alive in a cell for the rest of his life as a lesson for the Iraqi's to learn from."
A sentence to a lifetime of boredom strikes fear in the hearts of very few men who would follow in Saddam's footsteps. While it's probably dreary, anyone who's seen The Shawshank Redemption (but skipped Cool Hand Luke) could learn to deal with such a fate.
"Executing Saddam will only turn him into a martyr."
Martyrs are rarely found hanging from the gallows. Saddam's case is even less likely, since he chose to duck and cover in a rathole rather than go out with guns blazing. If anything, his behavior in court makes him look like a pathetic politician more than an evil dictator or candidate for martyrdom.
30 days from now? Pipe dream. The Shiites want their day (or years) in court with Saddam, no matter that the verdict will be the same. :)
Speaking at least for myself, I had to choose between moving out of an affordable house in a town with very few programming jobs, or stay here and make better money at a far easier job in another industry... Now, on the side I just do contact work for my old employer to keep my skills up and the money rolling in. Right now, though, there's just not enough money and motivation for even many MEDIOCRE programmers to stay in the industry. Bugfixing is too much work rarely fun, and nobody likes to watch software get driven into a wall by marketing wonks, and too many programmers of all sorts are tired of the industry mentality that most software should be overpriced + underperforming.
I don't think self esteem is in danger here... the Californium will just inject a more Calcium atoms here and there, and BAM! Instant confidence.
"Ever wondered why the participation of women is higher in KDE ?"
Do you believe that the ratio of women to men involved with a free software project is a useful metric for quality?
As a developer on a gnome project, I can tell you bluntly that additional women would help. Additional men would help. Heck, additional crack smoking monkeys would even come in handy, as long as they could tell the difference beween a semaphore and a banana*.
[*]The semaphore and banana requirement also applies to women.
"They had posted the original story here as well."
Uhm... no, they didn't. Try searching "veterans" and such. No story. I work for a newspaper, and remember the day it broke. Slashdot ignored the story, including my submission:
"VA loses 26.5 million SSNs to theft & incompetence Monday May 22, @01:25PM Rejected "
Shamelessly ripping off a nostalgic old "The Onion" article.
Ah, yes... I remember that article. Feels like I just read it yesterday.
Tired of blaming Disney and the US government for extending copyright protections? You had the wrong target anyway... the US and the rest of the world usually falls right behind Germany's lead in extending their terms to reach back until 1919 and the Treaty of Versailles. That milestone saw Germany lose Asprin and all sorts of intellectual property, and they've been fierce in protections ever since. International trade agreements means that everyone has to play by aproximately the same rules in this space, and decent copyright terms are now long dead.
How else did you think they'd justify injecting RFID tags into our heads?
Hey, now... Go easy on the guy. It's not his fault that liberals and democrats haven't updated their knee-jerk talking points since 2003.
"'The bubble generation is much more attuned to the fact that things can get really out of hand,' says Bill Burnham, a former partner at Mobius Venture Capital. 'There's a level of caution that has been ingrained.'"
Let's see... Energy and home prices skyrocketing. Low unemployment, but virtually no improvement in salaries. The new bubble? It's healthcare, baby. Every market is targeting the baby boomers and milking them for as much money as possible, and when you combine that with a generation of people who have been saying "I deserve the best care no matter what the cost." forever while sitting on their lethargic hinds 24/7, we've got the current recipie for disaster.
Caution? Bah. It's top-heavy protectionism.
Supposedly the information doesn't actually contain things like people's names, or at least is not usable in that way without getting more information, probably by getting a warrant or asking the phone companies for more information about a specific user. This would most likely be useful to have a ready-to-go database (pile of evidence) that could not only link terror suspects to their record communictaions once they have been found, but to also bring in new leads connected to the suspect.
"... In the end, a minor shift in his departure time results in saving driving hours equivalent to over a third of the vacation time given annually by his employer."
;)
In France, this means you would gain 2 additional months of free time.
"If Microsoft think that the scope of the application is too small to be considered a completely separate package, it's not going to be the "Photoshop Killer" that they want it to be."
It's not what about what 'can be done', but what would make them the most product. This approach is:
1) Publish 4 as a bundle, which is just as cheap to mass produce as 1 standalone would be.
2) Sell the bundle of 4 at the cost of 3.
4) Profit! The customer thinks they are getting a good deal, though they probably won't regularly use more than 1 of the 4 products.
"Hey guys, lets get a lot of photos of people pretending to paint, then copy and paste and rotate them a lot so it looks like a kaleidoscope!"
Genius, I tell you. Pure genius.
I need one of those koosh Microsoft jobs... From where I'm standing, I'm reminded of the Ghostbusters line: "I've worked in the private sector. They expect results."
"This, of course, is why I'm posting AC."
That, and the tin foil gloves make it hard to type a 200 character password without error.
"Some internet service providers aren't very pleased about that, because although they sell their internet connections as unlimited usage, if people actually take them up on the offer then they can't actually cope with demand." :)