I worked for a company, wherein the "get it out the door" mode was the way things were. Code reviews got dropped off the project plan as soon as that date was going to be missed.
When something was delivered, the consultants would always blame the developers and engineers because obviously, they can't code worth shit.
Of course, I always knew it was the sales force's fault, for promising deliveries that we had not a ghost of a chance of making.
Needless to say, the company, which at one point had massive potential, and was loved by Sand Hill Road, is now a pale shadow of what it could have been. It's sad to watch all your hard work completely nullified by a cadre of inept bunglers....
When you consider the percentage of the population that actually votes, compared with the demographics of who is a member of which party, and then add in who their legislation ultimately ends up benfitting, it's not a hard conclusion to reach at all. Republicans don't care wbout who you are or where you came from, what matters is that they have money, and they look out for their own. They wrap themselves up in the flag, and they know people eat that up. Don't even try to claim that conservatives care about poor people, when it's so obvious that they believe that poor people are that way because they are lazy.
Thankfully, none of the reasons that you cite are reasons why he doesn't get my vote.
Firstly, he doesn't get my vote because I know that Bush is basically an opportunist, and he will be a caretaker president, ruled by the long arm of daddy.
Secondly, as George Bush is the governor of Texas, a state which constitutionally has a very weak executive, I question his experience.
Thirdly, Gore was a multi-term senator before he became a vice-president, which is very relevant experience toward being president.
Fourthly, Gore is obviously an intelligent person, who can read and write and debate and author legislation. What has George Bush done? The man proudly claims that he doesn't even like to read.
Fifthly, like it or not, the nation's economy is doing quite well. The vast majority of the credit here goes to the policies architected by both Clinton and his cabinet, which includes the VP. Budget surplus? What do Republicans know about budget surpluses? Reagan would have squandered it on some hare-brained scheme like Star Wars
Sixthly, which is more disgraceful? A president who had the audacity to have sexual liaisons with a White House intern ( oh, yeah, that's never happened before), or a president who sets up clandestine slush funds to train mercenaries and death squads in Central America from the proceeds of cocaine sales after the congress *explicitly forbade* him to do it?
So there's the real deal kiddo. Go ahead. Vote Bush. See if he's all you're hoping for. I doubt that he is.
*side note...i think this whole spanish thing is a crock. those two shitheads running for pres are gonna shit on all the mexicans once they get elected*
Well, yeah, that's a given. GWB's Spanish is marginal at best. It's easy to look like you can speak Spanish when you're reading it off a teleprompter. The Repubs definitely want to look like they care about nonwhite people. In actuality, they do, as long as they have six figure salaries and act white anough. George P. Bush is the whitest Latino I've ever seen. Who the republicans can't stand are the middle class and especially the poor. Their wrongheadedness and bigotry is totally transparent when you view their activities in that light.
Well, this is my biggest gripe about Gore. He needs to grow some cojones. When that whole flap started instead of his lame ass response, what he should have said was the truth:
"I *never* said that I invented the damn thing!! All I said was I (and others from both sides of the aisle) helped author and sponsored most of the bills in Congress that allowed the internet to be publicly accessible."
This is what pisses off about the guy, he can't just call bullshit on the misrepresentations, lest he be viewed as contentious.
I've learned from many sites, in particular, The Daily Howler, that the news media isn't interested in the real deal when it comes to politics, especially.
There was recently a criticism in the above mentioned site, of a NYT columnist who spoke of Al Gore's press conferences as "boring" because all he talked about was health care, and other "boring" things like what he wants to do if he's elected president. In contrast, George Bush's press conferences are "fun", because GeeDubyah makes jokes, gives the press guys cute nicknames, talks about golf, and what they all did over the weekend.
What does this illustrate? It illustrates that reporters are not the hard-boiled "get down to the truth" types that they would like themselves portrayed as. Rather, they are like bored teenagers, who'd rather go watch a riot or talk about parties than watch some boring press conference about something so dry as health care, or the genuine concerns of people protesting at the conventions.
Note that many reporters don't get degrees in journalism, but usually communications. Working in the news media is a stepping stone to taking a position in a PR firm usually.
For those of you who are not aware, this is how it works with the Meta Group, Gartner, etc:
You have to *pay* them to say good things about your company/product. It's that simple. These guys are not objective. They push the products that have paid them the fee for deigning to review their products. This is how it works. Since I'm sure that no one has given Meta the money it takes for a good review, they won't give Linux or anything Open Source a good review.
I guarantee you that if Red Hat or someone else gave the Meta group the money, you'd be hearing within days that "Red Hat is the best of all Linux distros, and they'd be really nervous if their company's IT managers were using a different one."
Well, you can actually blame Netscape for not adhering to the standards. The LAYER and ILAYER tags that Nyetscape implements are not recognized by the W3C. The DIV and SPAN tags are. I think this is one of the only cases I can think of where MSFT has actually complied with the standard. ( As to their input on what the standard should be, I cannot say.)
As far as censorship, I'm inclined to have a sign posted that reads something like "You can have unblocked access to the net, as long as we (the management) don't get any complaints. If you are viewing material which is deemed inappropriate, and someone complains, we may be forced to implement some type of site-blocking software, which is notoriously unreliable, and therefore you may no longer be able to access some sites, regardless of the content. Please respect these rules and you may enjoy unfettered access to the riches of the internet."
The difference, in my mind, is that while Apache certainly at one point used the source from HTTPD, the group developing Apache has added so much more that HTTPD ever had, not to mention it works so much better. Innovation, in the sense that we're really talking about here, is in the fact that Apache took an already existing piece of software, and came up with newer and better ways of serving up web pages.
Microsoft, to use one example, released MS Office to destroy Lotus. They released an inferior product to Lotus' office suite, but practically rammed it down people's throats. In this case, they reverse engineered an already existing and superior product, and through their marketing and aggressive sales, managed to foist an inferior product on the corporate world. No innovation here, just predatory tactics.
That's correct. They were due to pitch IBM for an OS for the new IBM PC's, and they purchased QDOS for something like $20,000 or some ridiculuously lowball number like that.
Microsoft has never been known for being an innovative company. Rather, they usually opt to reverse engineer or buy something that's innovative.
Urusei Yatsura or, "Those Obnoxious Aliens", is the creation of Rumiko Takahashi (who also did Ranma 1/2) has got to be one of the best anime series ever. It was ( I believe ) Japan's longest running TV series, and there are a bunch of movies and direct to video releases as well.
While it's not the total sci-fi bloodfest variety, U.Y. is hilarious and very sexy, as long as you're turned on by sexy demon women with green hair and fangs wearing tiger-striped bikinis. I highly recommend it for something a little lighter and weirder than usual.
The book on Palm programming describes the function of Palm devices as a "satellite" to another PC or PCs. Notice that Palm devices don't have keyboards. This is totally intentional, as if one is going to do a lot of data entry, then you'll do it on your PC and sync it. Palm devices are designed to be compact enough to fit into a shirt pocket, and still deliver all the functionality of a PDA. So with a Palm, I can do all the necessary things I need to do while traveling, doing business, and in transit. This rarely invloves doing spreadsheets or writing anything other than small notes or memos.
WinCE devices seem to elude definition. Are they PDAs? Are they small computers? I can't imagine how frustrating it would be trying to use Excel or Word or any serious desktop app on a hendheld device. Sorry, I like not being blind. If they're "Pocket PCs", then I expect a keyboard and pointing device, and much of the same functionality of a laptop computer, without having to sacrifice too much. The price of these little honeys has to make it worthwhile.
One of the things I've always admired was the minimal-minded approach to the Palm devices, and their cousins the Handspring PDAs. The OS is stable, and it's always there when I need it. I did not buy a WinCE device because I felt that I didn't need or want the functionality that the WinCE devices supposedly provided. Reports of WinCE's unreliability also put me off.
Software is another big issue for me. I love the variety and selection of software available for the Palm device, and this is due to the support developers get from Palm. WinCE developers are in the same position as Windows developers. The same predatory practices that led to Windows domination and the deaths of Lotus, Novell, etc. are in play here as well.
But I digress. My original point is that the Palm family of devices do not, at least apparently, have the same reason for being that WinCE devices do. I think the similarity between the devices ends beyond their small size.
Yes, I noticed that the monitors switched from generic PixelVision brand monitors to Gateway brand flat screen monitors. It would be interesting to find out just how much Gateway paid NBC to provide them with that subtle form of advertising.
Incidentally, does anyone know if that form of advertising actually works?
Care to define "top business-to-business marketplace"?
I think what this person is trying to describe is the net-based business people are engaging in by developing ways for businesses to connect to their suppliers. "Business-to-business" procurement apps for the net, like the kind made by Ariba, Commerce One and Concur, to name the big heavies in that arena. I'd venture to say that MS probably does have a bigger foothold in those markets, since all the above listed companies are pretty Windows-centric.
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I worked for a company, wherein the "get it out the door" mode was the way things were. Code reviews got dropped off the project plan as soon as that date was going to be missed.
When something was delivered, the consultants would always blame the developers and engineers because obviously, they can't code worth shit.
Of course, I always knew it was the sales force's fault, for promising deliveries that we had not a ghost of a chance of making.
Needless to say, the company, which at one point had massive potential, and was loved by Sand Hill Road, is now a pale shadow of what it could have been. It's sad to watch all your hard work completely nullified by a cadre of inept bunglers....
When you consider the percentage of the population that actually votes, compared with the demographics of who is a member of which party, and then add in who their legislation ultimately ends up benfitting, it's not a hard conclusion to reach at all. Republicans don't care wbout who you are or where you came from, what matters is that they have money, and they look out for their own. They wrap themselves up in the flag, and they know people eat that up. Don't even try to claim that conservatives care about poor people, when it's so obvious that they believe that poor people are that way because they are lazy.
Oh yeah, the libertarians. They make sense. I think we should privatize the police force, too. Reactionaries. Ayn Rand would be pleased.
Inflammatory? Geez, man. I'm man enough to accept that some people will disagree with me. Guess you're not.
Ummm, actually, that's not what he said. Check the congressional record.
Firstly, he doesn't get my vote because I know that Bush is basically an opportunist, and he will be a caretaker president, ruled by the long arm of daddy.
Secondly, as George Bush is the governor of Texas, a state which constitutionally has a very weak executive, I question his experience.
Thirdly, Gore was a multi-term senator before he became a vice-president, which is very relevant experience toward being president.
Fourthly, Gore is obviously an intelligent person, who can read and write and debate and author legislation. What has George Bush done? The man proudly claims that he doesn't even like to read.
Fifthly, like it or not, the nation's economy is doing quite well. The vast majority of the credit here goes to the policies architected by both Clinton and his cabinet, which includes the VP. Budget surplus? What do Republicans know about budget surpluses? Reagan would have squandered it on some hare-brained scheme like Star Wars
Sixthly, which is more disgraceful? A president who had the audacity to have sexual liaisons with a White House intern ( oh, yeah, that's never happened before), or a president who sets up clandestine slush funds to train mercenaries and death squads in Central America from the proceeds of cocaine sales after the congress *explicitly forbade* him to do it?
So there's the real deal kiddo. Go ahead. Vote Bush. See if he's all you're hoping for. I doubt that he is.
Well, yeah, that's a given. GWB's Spanish is marginal at best. It's easy to look like you can speak Spanish when you're reading it off a teleprompter. The Repubs definitely want to look like they care about nonwhite people. In actuality, they do, as long as they have six figure salaries and act white anough. George P. Bush is the whitest Latino I've ever seen. Who the republicans can't stand are the middle class and especially the poor. Their wrongheadedness and bigotry is totally transparent when you view their activities in that light.
"I *never* said that I invented the damn thing!! All I said was I (and others from both sides of the aisle) helped author and sponsored most of the bills in Congress that allowed the internet to be publicly accessible."
This is what pisses off about the guy, he can't just call bullshit on the misrepresentations, lest he be viewed as contentious.
I've learned from many sites, in particular, The Daily Howler, that the news media isn't interested in the real deal when it comes to politics, especially.
There was recently a criticism in the above mentioned site, of a NYT columnist who spoke of Al Gore's press conferences as "boring" because all he talked about was health care, and other "boring" things like what he wants to do if he's elected president. In contrast, George Bush's press conferences are "fun", because GeeDubyah makes jokes, gives the press guys cute nicknames, talks about golf, and what they all did over the weekend.
What does this illustrate? It illustrates that reporters are not the hard-boiled "get down to the truth" types that they would like themselves portrayed as. Rather, they are like bored teenagers, who'd rather go watch a riot or talk about parties than watch some boring press conference about something so dry as health care, or the genuine concerns of people protesting at the conventions.
Note that many reporters don't get degrees in journalism, but usually communications. Working in the news media is a stepping stone to taking a position in a PR firm usually.
For those of you who are not aware, this is how it works with the Meta Group, Gartner, etc:
You have to *pay* them to say good things about your company/product. It's that simple. These guys are not objective. They push the products that have paid them the fee for deigning to review their products. This is how it works. Since I'm sure that no one has given Meta the money it takes for a good review, they won't give Linux or anything Open Source a good review.
I guarantee you that if Red Hat or someone else gave the Meta group the money, you'd be hearing within days that "Red Hat is the best of all Linux distros, and they'd be really nervous if their company's IT managers were using a different one."
The dehumanization of other people is learned behavior, which is what truly enables violence.
As a healthy and responsible porn consumer, it irks me that you should make this foolish conclusion.
As far as censorship, I'm inclined to have a sign posted that reads something like "You can have unblocked access to the net, as long as we (the management) don't get any complaints. If you are viewing material which is deemed inappropriate, and someone complains, we may be forced to implement some type of site-blocking software, which is notoriously unreliable, and therefore you may no longer be able to access some sites, regardless of the content. Please respect these rules and you may enjoy unfettered access to the riches of the internet."
Other than that, what can you do?
Well, if it was made that easy, then the people who make censorware would all be out of a job.
As Al Franken says "Rush Limbaugh is a big fat idiot"
The difference, in my mind, is that while Apache certainly at one point used the source from HTTPD, the group developing Apache has added so much more that HTTPD ever had, not to mention it works so much better. Innovation, in the sense that we're really talking about here, is in the fact that Apache took an already existing piece of software, and came up with newer and better ways of serving up web pages.
Microsoft, to use one example, released MS Office to destroy Lotus. They released an inferior product to Lotus' office suite, but practically rammed it down people's throats. In this case, they reverse engineered an already existing and superior product, and through their marketing and aggressive sales, managed to foist an inferior product on the corporate world. No innovation here, just predatory tactics.
Microsoft has never been known for being an innovative company. Rather, they usually opt to reverse engineer or buy something that's innovative.
Don't say anything bad about Britney Spears. You're talking about the woman I love!
Urusei Yatsura or, "Those Obnoxious Aliens", is the creation of Rumiko Takahashi (who also did Ranma 1/2) has got to be one of the best anime series ever. It was ( I believe ) Japan's longest running TV series, and there are a bunch of movies and direct to video releases as well.
While it's not the total sci-fi bloodfest variety, U.Y. is hilarious and very sexy, as long as you're turned on by sexy demon women with green hair and fangs wearing tiger-striped bikinis. I highly recommend it for something a little lighter and weirder than usual.
WinCE devices seem to elude definition. Are they PDAs? Are they small computers? I can't imagine how frustrating it would be trying to use Excel or Word or any serious desktop app on a hendheld device. Sorry, I like not being blind. If they're "Pocket PCs", then I expect a keyboard and pointing device, and much of the same functionality of a laptop computer, without having to sacrifice too much. The price of these little honeys has to make it worthwhile.
One of the things I've always admired was the minimal-minded approach to the Palm devices, and their cousins the Handspring PDAs. The OS is stable, and it's always there when I need it. I did not buy a WinCE device because I felt that I didn't need or want the functionality that the WinCE devices supposedly provided. Reports of WinCE's unreliability also put me off.
Software is another big issue for me. I love the variety and selection of software available for the Palm device, and this is due to the support developers get from Palm. WinCE developers are in the same position as Windows developers. The same predatory practices that led to Windows domination and the deaths of Lotus, Novell, etc. are in play here as well.
But I digress. My original point is that the Palm family of devices do not, at least apparently, have the same reason for being that WinCE devices do. I think the similarity between the devices ends beyond their small size.
Incidentally, does anyone know if that form of advertising actually works?
Unlikely you'll be cavity searched. Travel freely.
I think what this person is trying to describe is the net-based business people are engaging in by developing ways for businesses to connect to their suppliers. "Business-to-business" procurement apps for the net, like the kind made by Ariba, Commerce One and Concur, to name the big heavies in that arena. I'd venture to say that MS probably does have a bigger foothold in those markets, since all the above listed companies are pretty Windows-centric.
They make great field archery targets at 10-15 yards.