ET if anything was probably good for the industry and consumers. Right now I think we are seeing a return of shovelware, and its effects.
We definitely go through phases in shovelware. In the early 90s when PC gaming started to become mainstream there were a tremendous number of really, really bad games.
But the big issue with the NYT is that despite being a global player, it still has this New York focus that makes it less useful for those of us not in New York. The BBC does truly global coverage, and there's no American equivalent. NYT is the closest we have, but they're going to have to do more to prove that they're a global player and not just a regional paper with really good national and international coverage before I pull out my wallet.
If you're not in New York, then why bother going on?
But seriously, I've found the BBC isn't quite as cosmopolitan, and American newspapers not quite as provincial, as people seem to think. The New York Times has strong global reporting as good as anything the BBC does, in addition to the NY stuff which you can filter out quite easily if you want.
The problem with IT is that because it's a support service it's harder for managers and accountants to see what the advantages are so they are more likely to try and cut it along with support departments.
Why does IT deserve some special recognition though? Accounting is a cost center, as are marketing, advertising, legal, secretarial, etc. employees. IT is the only one who has this martyr complex.
Do I think Messinger would have located the city's emergency command center in the World Trade Center, a complex that had already been the subject of a terrorist attack? No, not really. Why do you?
But this is difficult for lefties to get. You cant just do what everyone wants you to do because they will threaten you if you dont. Sometimes you have to just fight back until either you or your enemy are no longer standing (or one has to submit).
Your cowardice sickens me. Waaah, the world is so scary that we need to shoot at everything that moves otherwise they might come after us. Grow a backbone.
No, our military was invited into Saudi Arabia. Dont be confused between our post war occupation of Germany/Japan following WW2 and our military arrangements with Britain, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Kuwait, Qatar, etc.. When you are allowed in without having to fire a shot, your invited. Your characterization is simply trying to frame the US as "occupiers".
What exactly is your point? It's the "righties" who trot out the tired old "they hate us for their freedoms." Stating that's bin Laden's reasoning doesn't imply agreement with his beliefs.
As far as politicizing counter terrorism, it was the Obama administration that made it political, threatening to prosecute intelligence agency personnel for actions taken during the Bush administration. Its all about politics.
The right has politicized terrorism to the point of absurdity, and Obama's administration just threatened to prosecute intelligence agency personnel for BREAKING THE LAW.
Just look at the shit storm caused by 9/11. All of that has happened from two buildings being destroyed. Imagine the reaction from millions of deaths and a city being leveled, especially if it's a city belonging to some super power. My thoughts are that the world would collectively move towards something out of 1984. I feel as though this would be bad.
It depends on the method of delivery. Smuggled into a city, yes, definitely would be as bad as you describe above, though the nature of how the world is set up makes a universal 1984 situation improbable. Delivery via conventional weapons, probably would be 1984-like just for the country that actually launched them.
Where has there been an "easing of tension in world politics"? Please name one tense situation that has become less tense in the last year.
Violence is down in Israel and the occupied territories, particularly in the West Bank. The relationship between Russia and the US have thawed somewhat. U.S.-E.U. relations are definitely warmer now than they were before Obama took office. The North Korea situation is better than it was under Bush, ditto for Cuba-U.S. relations.
Even if some rogue nation (or non-rogue nation) hit a city with a nuclear missile you're not talking about the end of civilization. The blast radius would be a couple of miles, so you could take out a sizeable chunk of a downtown area. The damage would probably be significantly less than the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, which certainly didn't annihilate civilization.
It should have been moved close to midnight but I suspect these guys, like the Nobel Foundation, are in love with the new president. They think the world is all rainbows and poppies now, despite plenty of evidence to the contrary.
Or they accurately realize that GWB's leaving office and Obama entering it caused a noticeable easing of tension in world politics. This isn't so much because of the job Obama's done, but rather because of the destructive nature of GWB's administration.
A lot of people tend to think that just because the person is over in India they'll be willing to work for a sub-average wage. Which, given regular circumstances, is generally true. Coding is another thing all together. If you live in a poverish state, you can't be expected to know C++. In fact it might be a stretch to say you know how to operate a computer. Those people who get hired for "Tech Support" aren't guru's by any means (and I think we all knew that). But they have been trained how to handle with customers, the basics of operating a computer, and are given a good list of responses. Programming is not something you can train "on the job". You need previous knowledge on the basics of computers. Then you need to learn a bit of program theory, how it all works. Lastly you need to learn the Syntax of various languages. A lot of people drop out when they can't deal with the Syntax. Some people drop out when they can't get the theory. Some people just don't like computers. You can't hire someone off the street and think that within a short time they'll be able to pick up all of those skills.
I think a lot of the blame for the myth of the supercompetent Indian programmer comes from Michael Lewis's dot-com era book the New New Thing, which described the IIT system and make it sound like it produced legions of the best programmers in the world. While the IITs are excellent schools and produce some first-rate programmers, Lewis overstated it. Also, a lot of these outsourcing proponents don't realize that most of the programmers they're going to get are not IIT grads.
The fact that the case still isn't dismissed apparently means the lobby of electrosensitives is rather strong there:(
According to the article the lawsuit also alleges failure to follow certain environmental/legal procedures when building the tower. What does that have to do with "electrosensitives."
So if you didn't grease the right people new hospitals don't get built. Demand goes up while supply doesn't and costs skyrocket. The medical industry long relied on charities like the Shriners and many others to keep hospitals running. The costs have gotten so high that all but a few charities can actually fund a hospital.
Browse digg and sometimes Huffpo and you'll find that that's not entirely true. Obama has a definite fan club...
Uhhh...how would the existence of an Obama fan club disprove "he's attacked from the left plenty"? They're not mutually exclusive positions. If I had said "EVERYBODY on the left attacks Obama" then you might have a point.
Few things have annoyed me as much as when I worked inside a particular three-letter acronym department than watching the public debate about something totally inflammatory while the department was unambiguously in the right by any reasonable standard, but the policy was to not engage in the debate with anyone but Congress. Of course, many members of Congress were fanning the flames for their own political gain without the slightest actual interest in the real (lack of a) problem. This wasn't a matter of vague opinion, either, it was an issue of rigorously documented fact that easily refuted the arguments going on in public.
The idea of executive agencies entering the public debate is not really a good one. If that means that you sometimes have to put up with mass stupidity, then that's what you have to do. Your idea of "rigorously documented fact" might not be so cut and dried as you think.
Remember when the left-wingers merely suspected GWB of thinking about possibly doing something similar and how apeshit crazy they went over that slim possibility? Where are those people now?
Right where they usually are? Obama has been attacked plenty of times by the left, throughout his entire presidency. How on earth can you honestly pretend otherwise.
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ET if anything was probably good for the industry and consumers. Right now I think we are seeing a return of shovelware, and its effects.
We definitely go through phases in shovelware. In the early 90s when PC gaming started to become mainstream there were a tremendous number of really, really bad games.
I have yet to find a game based on a movie that hasn't sucked.
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade springs to mind, GREAT old LucasArts game.
Add it to the list!
But the big issue with the NYT is that despite being a global player, it still has this New York focus that makes it less useful for those of us not in New York. The BBC does truly global coverage, and there's no American equivalent. NYT is the closest we have, but they're going to have to do more to prove that they're a global player and not just a regional paper with really good national and international coverage before I pull out my wallet.
If you're not in New York, then why bother going on?
But seriously, I've found the BBC isn't quite as cosmopolitan, and American newspapers not quite as provincial, as people seem to think. The New York Times has strong global reporting as good as anything the BBC does, in addition to the NY stuff which you can filter out quite easily if you want.
The problem with IT is that because it's a support service it's harder for managers and accountants to see what the advantages are so they are more likely to try and cut it along with support departments.
Why does IT deserve some special recognition though? Accounting is a cost center, as are marketing, advertising, legal, secretarial, etc. employees. IT is the only one who has this martyr complex.
Thanks -- you've reminded me of why I don't leave Austin unless the destination is out-of-state.
And me why I have no interest in ever visiting Texas.
Nobody on here is going to be taking 3 girls home on a bike.
This is slashdot, nobody here is going to be taking 1 girl home on a bike, limo, car, or bus.
But after 11 years in development it never reached a satisfactory level of usability.
Wait, ReactOS or Wine?
makes sense our schools gave up teaching geography and history, who needs that when we have blogs.
What are you talking about? The overwhelming academic consensus is there is no such continent as "Zealandia."
Do I think Messinger would have located the city's emergency command center in the World Trade Center, a complex that had already been the subject of a terrorist attack? No, not really. Why do you?
But this is difficult for lefties to get. You cant just do what everyone wants you to do because they will threaten you if you dont. Sometimes you have to just fight back until either you or your enemy are no longer standing (or one has to submit).
Your cowardice sickens me. Waaah, the world is so scary that we need to shoot at everything that moves otherwise they might come after us. Grow a backbone.
Janet Napolitano who makes former FEMA chief Mike Brown look like Rudy Giuliani.
Giuliani's incompetence caused lives to be lost on 9/11.
No, our military was invited into Saudi Arabia. Dont be confused between our post war occupation of Germany/Japan following WW2 and our military arrangements with Britain, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Kuwait, Qatar, etc.. When you are allowed in without having to fire a shot, your invited. Your characterization is simply trying to frame the US as "occupiers".
What exactly is your point? It's the "righties" who trot out the tired old "they hate us for their freedoms." Stating that's bin Laden's reasoning doesn't imply agreement with his beliefs.
As far as politicizing counter terrorism, it was the Obama administration that made it political, threatening to prosecute intelligence agency personnel for actions taken during the Bush administration. Its all about politics.
The right has politicized terrorism to the point of absurdity, and Obama's administration just threatened to prosecute intelligence agency personnel for BREAKING THE LAW.
Just look at the shit storm caused by 9/11. All of that has happened from two buildings being destroyed. Imagine the reaction from millions of deaths and a city being leveled, especially if it's a city belonging to some super power. My thoughts are that the world would collectively move towards something out of 1984. I feel as though this would be bad.
It depends on the method of delivery. Smuggled into a city, yes, definitely would be as bad as you describe above, though the nature of how the world is set up makes a universal 1984 situation improbable. Delivery via conventional weapons, probably would be 1984-like just for the country that actually launched them.
Where has there been an "easing of tension in world politics"? Please name one tense situation that has become less tense in the last year.
Violence is down in Israel and the occupied territories, particularly in the West Bank. The relationship between Russia and the US have thawed somewhat. U.S.-E.U. relations are definitely warmer now than they were before Obama took office. The North Korea situation is better than it was under Bush, ditto for Cuba-U.S. relations.
Even if some rogue nation (or non-rogue nation) hit a city with a nuclear missile you're not talking about the end of civilization. The blast radius would be a couple of miles, so you could take out a sizeable chunk of a downtown area. The damage would probably be significantly less than the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, which certainly didn't annihilate civilization.
It should have been moved close to midnight but I suspect these guys, like the Nobel Foundation, are in love with the new president. They think the world is all rainbows and poppies now, despite plenty of evidence to the contrary.
Or they accurately realize that GWB's leaving office and Obama entering it caused a noticeable easing of tension in world politics. This isn't so much because of the job Obama's done, but rather because of the destructive nature of GWB's administration.
A lot of people tend to think that just because the person is over in India they'll be willing to work for a sub-average wage. Which, given regular circumstances, is generally true. Coding is another thing all together. If you live in a poverish state, you can't be expected to know C++. In fact it might be a stretch to say you know how to operate a computer. Those people who get hired for "Tech Support" aren't guru's by any means (and I think we all knew that). But they have been trained how to handle with customers, the basics of operating a computer, and are given a good list of responses. Programming is not something you can train "on the job". You need previous knowledge on the basics of computers. Then you need to learn a bit of program theory, how it all works. Lastly you need to learn the Syntax of various languages. A lot of people drop out when they can't deal with the Syntax. Some people drop out when they can't get the theory. Some people just don't like computers. You can't hire someone off the street and think that within a short time they'll be able to pick up all of those skills.
I think a lot of the blame for the myth of the supercompetent Indian programmer comes from Michael Lewis's dot-com era book the New New Thing, which described the IIT system and make it sound like it produced legions of the best programmers in the world. While the IITs are excellent schools and produce some first-rate programmers, Lewis overstated it. Also, a lot of these outsourcing proponents don't realize that most of the programmers they're going to get are not IIT grads.
The fact that the case still isn't dismissed apparently means the lobby of electrosensitives is rather strong there :(
According to the article the lawsuit also alleges failure to follow certain environmental/legal procedures when building the tower. What does that have to do with "electrosensitives."
Go Microsoft!!!
So if you didn't grease the right people new hospitals don't get built. Demand goes up while supply doesn't and costs skyrocket. The medical industry long relied on charities like the Shriners and many others to keep hospitals running. The costs have gotten so high that all but a few charities can actually fund a hospital.
Not necessarily.
They may not have as good weapons, but they have much better brains.
Than whom exactly?
In the meantime, your idea about what I am referring to is so abstract that you have no basis for making that judgment.
So why not tell us exactly what happened?
Browse digg and sometimes Huffpo and you'll find that that's not entirely true. Obama has a definite fan club...
Uhhh...how would the existence of an Obama fan club disprove "he's attacked from the left plenty"? They're not mutually exclusive positions. If I had said "EVERYBODY on the left attacks Obama" then you might have a point.
Few things have annoyed me as much as when I worked inside a particular three-letter acronym department than watching the public debate about something totally inflammatory while the department was unambiguously in the right by any reasonable standard, but the policy was to not engage in the debate with anyone but Congress. Of course, many members of Congress were fanning the flames for their own political gain without the slightest actual interest in the real (lack of a) problem. This wasn't a matter of vague opinion, either, it was an issue of rigorously documented fact that easily refuted the arguments going on in public.
The idea of executive agencies entering the public debate is not really a good one. If that means that you sometimes have to put up with mass stupidity, then that's what you have to do. Your idea of "rigorously documented fact" might not be so cut and dried as you think.
Remember when the left-wingers merely suspected GWB of thinking about possibly doing something similar and how apeshit crazy they went over that slim possibility? Where are those people now?
Right where they usually are? Obama has been attacked plenty of times by the left, throughout his entire presidency. How on earth can you honestly pretend otherwise.