The funny thing is, they're all right. (Except maybe for HR -- real talent isn't attracted by HR weenies, they're attracted by interesting challenges, competent co-workers and managers, a good work environment, and good compensation)
Everyone in a healthy company, from the CEO on down to the janitorial staff, should be contributing to the bottom line in some manner -- either directly by making product, selling product, etc, or indirectly by making the direct contributors more efficient.
You have to spend money to make money. Cutting productive staff en mass is NEVER a sign of a healthy business. Cutting unproductive individuals is something that should be done continuously as needed, not in batches. Mass layoffs are almost always evidence that management is incompetent. The only legitimate exception I can think of is after a merger where redundant individuals and departments can be eliminated due to economies of scale.
you start to wonder why medical equipment that performs simple functions costs tens of thousands of dollars. Blame the lawyers. $5 of parts, $5 of labor to assemble them, and several thousands of dollars of insurance to pay off the inevitable multi-million dollar lawsuits that will come your way when something bad happens to someone while they were hooked up to your gadget.
And yes it really will spoil your 10-year-old's day if you're playing Solitaire instead of joining them on the rides. Not at much as me spewing my guts all over her and the rest of the family.
I have an inner ear condition which make me very prone to motion sickness. I simply cannot ride many amusement park rides without becoming violently ill. Waiting at the ride exit playing solitaire while my wife takes our 5 and 10 year olds on the rides is a preferable alternative to projectile vomiting.
Forget open source. There is a time and a place to use software, and there is a time and a place to use pen and paper.
Elections are not the place to use software.
A big metal box with a slot on the top to accept paper ballets, and locked with a big-ass padlock will always be better and more reliable than any electronic system you can come up with.
They said the same thing back in the 60s. The F-4 was designed around the "dogfighting is dead" theory of air combat. Less than spectacular real world results over Vietnam lead to the F-14 and F-15, which are both excellent dogfighters.
Actually my convertible (2006 Toyota Solara) gets better mileage with the top and windows down (28.2 MPG) than it does with the top up and AC on (27.6 MPG)
Forumla 1 racers don't have AM radios, either, nor power windows. They must suck, eh? As a practical means of transportation, yes they do suck.
At a minimum a car has to be capable of hauling your ass to and from work on public roads, legally. Being able to two kids and a weeks worth of groceries is pretty much the baseline for anything besides a sportscar or commuter car.
I know of not one person who backs them up Now you do.
After having had to replace several of my kids' favorite movies, I started making copies of all their movies and putting the originals out of reach. I usually wind up making two copies - one for the house and one for the car.
Could anyone living in Ms. Pikser's state file a complaint with the state's Bar Association against her, or would it have to be some standing in this particular case?
You (and many others) are assuming that "microsoft exec" means someone involved with the engineering side of the business. Any large (or even medium sized company) software company has lots of positions that are completely non-technical: HR, legal, facilities. Furthermore, software development is only one of many lines of business Microsoft is in. Would you expect someone who manages graphic artists to know (or even care about) the inner workings of an operating system?
Yeah, that will work really well - until it transits the moon, a planet, or a star.
Government agencies love to whine about the obvious - it's one of the ways they get more money.
Armed revolution is much less interesting than reality TV or celebrity gossip.
Bread and Circuses. Keep the masses fed and entertained and you can get away with anything.
I forget his name, but there's a rather famous geologist who's been saying for years that petroleum is created by geologic, not organic, processes. For the most part he's been dismissed as a crank. Perhaps this is the evidence to get the establishment to start taking him more seriously.
I'm pretty sure they aren't doing any deep inspection -- before I dumped them they clamped down on any outbound file transfer. They would slow me down to about 40k/s after the first couple of MB when I was uploading pictures (that I took) to my photography website via SCP.
Even Verizon paid for the fiber itself, it still runs over (and under) public land and right-of-ways, giving the government a legitimate right to regulate how they can use it.
I'm on Comcast, and I upload pictures to my photography website via SCP. The uploads get throttled after the first couple of MB.
Encryption makes no difference to what they're doing. They don't need to know what's in the packets to decide whether or not to throttle them -- they can make that decision based on what's in the header.
Just because the states are being made to do the dirty work, doesn't mean that it isn't a national ID card. If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck...
In wartime, US presidents have often violated the Constitution, citing threat to the republic. Lincoln suspended habeas corpus, Wilson signed the odious Sedition Act of 1918 and Franklin Roosevelt interred citizens unsuspected of crimes. All of these actions were against US citizens who had not acted against the republic.
So that makes it OK??
You can't arrest me for committing murder, officer, because [points to someone else] HE killed someone and didn't get arrested for it, therefore it must be OK.
Vista is already beating XP's sales figures at the same point in XP's release.
Only because M$ has bullied the large PC companies into not giving consumers the choice between Vista and XP. If you buy a new computer, you get Vista whether you want it or not.
This is nothing new. The only reason that Vista is beating XP's sales numbers is that the PC market is larger now than it was then.
You have the right idea about RoR (speaking as someone who excitedly spent/wasted/ a month learning into it). RoR has some hot ideas but it tries to be too smart and locked down for its own good.
I had the same experience. Right now I'm trying out Catalyst + Mason running under mod_perl.
Catalyst takes most of the good ideas from RoR and combines them with Perl's TIMTOWTDI philosophy, rather than Rails' "our way or the highway" attitude.
It's ok to have drives from the same batch in a RAID 1+0 array as long as all the siblings are on the same side... of course if you're mirroring a drive to another drive in the same batch, you're asking for trouble.
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Everyone in a healthy company, from the CEO on down to the janitorial staff, should be contributing to the bottom line in some manner -- either directly by making product, selling product, etc, or indirectly by making the direct contributors more efficient.
You have to spend money to make money. Cutting productive staff en mass is NEVER a sign of a healthy business. Cutting unproductive individuals is something that should be done continuously as needed, not in batches. Mass layoffs are almost always evidence that management is incompetent. The only legitimate exception I can think of is after a merger where redundant individuals and departments can be eliminated due to economies of scale.
Heinlein had that idea in 1949. It's a recurring plot point in The Man Who Sold The Moon.
There's one perched outside my window singing right now. Birds == dinosaurs that survived and adapted to climatic change.
Forget open source. There is a time and a place to use software, and there is a time and a place to use pen and paper. Elections are not the place to use software. A big metal box with a slot on the top to accept paper ballets, and locked with a big-ass padlock will always be better and more reliable than any electronic system you can come up with.
They said the same thing back in the 60s. The F-4 was designed around the "dogfighting is dead" theory of air combat. Less than spectacular real world results over Vietnam lead to the F-14 and F-15, which are both excellent dogfighters.
Before stealth came around, B-52s used to carry cruise-missile sized decoys that had the same radar cross-section as a B-52.
Actually my convertible (2006 Toyota Solara) gets better mileage with the top and windows down (28.2 MPG) than it does with the top up and AC on (27.6 MPG)
After having had to replace several of my kids' favorite movies, I started making copies of all their movies and putting the originals out of reach. I usually wind up making two copies - one for the house and one for the car.
Could anyone living in Ms. Pikser's state file a complaint with the state's Bar Association against her, or would it have to be some standing in this particular case?
You (and many others) are assuming that "microsoft exec" means someone involved with the engineering side of the business. Any large (or even medium sized company) software company has lots of positions that are completely non-technical: HR, legal, facilities. Furthermore, software development is only one of many lines of business Microsoft is in. Would you expect someone who manages graphic artists to know (or even care about) the inner workings of an operating system?
That nice warm shower feels pretty good until you realize someone is pissing on you.
Yeah, that will work really well - until it transits the moon, a planet, or a star. Government agencies love to whine about the obvious - it's one of the ways they get more money.
Armed revolution is much less interesting than reality TV or celebrity gossip. Bread and Circuses. Keep the masses fed and entertained and you can get away with anything.
I forget his name, but there's a rather famous geologist who's been saying for years that petroleum is created by geologic, not organic, processes. For the most part he's been dismissed as a crank. Perhaps this is the evidence to get the establishment to start taking him more seriously.
I'm pretty sure they aren't doing any deep inspection -- before I dumped them they clamped down on any outbound file transfer. They would slow me down to about 40k/s after the first couple of MB when I was uploading pictures (that I took) to my photography website via SCP.
Even Verizon paid for the fiber itself, it still runs over (and under) public land and right-of-ways, giving the government a legitimate right to regulate how they can use it.
I'm on Comcast, and I upload pictures to my photography website via SCP. The uploads get throttled after the first couple of MB. Encryption makes no difference to what they're doing. They don't need to know what's in the packets to decide whether or not to throttle them -- they can make that decision based on what's in the header.
Just because the states are being made to do the dirty work, doesn't mean that it isn't a national ID card. If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck...
I had the same experience. Right now I'm trying out Catalyst + Mason running under mod_perl.
Catalyst takes most of the good ideas from RoR and combines them with Perl's TIMTOWTDI philosophy, rather than Rails' "our way or the highway" attitude.
Mason is a PHP-like templating language for Perl.
It's ok to have drives from the same batch in a RAID 1+0 array as long as all the siblings are on the same side... of course if you're mirroring a drive to another drive in the same batch, you're asking for trouble.