The engineers fix their problems and make things work.
Or...they don't. Why does slashdot have this universal view that all engineers are competent? I have lost count of the poorly designed products I've used that were bad because the engineers didn't do a good job. In fact, if a company successfully sells poorly engineered products for many years, that means their sales people are better than their tech people.
The fact that these technical folks are not acting like salesmen is precisely why they are trusted. You will crassly exploit that trust only at your own peril.
A lot of people in both groups tend to lie. A sales guy will lie to get a sale so he can make money. An engineer will lie to avoid blame for a technical issue so he can safeguard his job and his reputation. A customer shouldn't trust either.
I disagree. It's about the parents. A parent who is motivated enough to apply for (and pay for) the catholic school is going to be motivated to make sure their kids do their homework.
"In the US the old say "Don't touch my entitlements""
Let's be fair here; EVERY country other than Japan they say don't touch my entitlements. The US isn't special in this regard; Japan certainly is.
This. I'm a lawyer with a couple years of good experience, reported cases, multiple bar admissions, etc. and I clicked on this story because I was thinking of maybe going back to IT and have been contemplating taking the certification route. Though to be fair, most lawyers and law students are fully aware of how screwed they are right now. The funny thing is they are now starting to sue the law schools, which will be very interesting.
I don't know what the situation is like in the US, but, here in England, we have far more prospective lawyers (students with their degrees, conversion course where necessary, and vocational courses completed) looking for jobs than there are jobs available.
In the U.S. it's probably even worse. There are roughly twice as many law graduates every year than jobs waiting for them, and even then a lot of the jobs that are available are barely past minimum wage (it is not uncommon for entry-level lawyer to pay 35k a year, about the same as bachelor's degree-level jobs, and US students pay far, far more than they do in England for the law degree so they tend to accrue 100k+ in loans). It is probably the worst job market for lawyers in the past 100 years, and it has been exacerbated by an explosion of law schools and increasing enrollment, since law schools are one of the few academic departments that tend to turn a profit for the universities.
Uhhh...wha? "Linux plays second fiddle to FreeBSD's kernel"? Have you perfected some form of hitherto unknown amazingly potent form of crack, and taken to smoking it? I think Linux has always been overhyped, and the FreeBSD kernel may in fact be superior, but how strung out do you have to be to think that in terms of "relevance" that the Linux kernel has lost out to FreeBSD?
In other words, the problem is the record labels screwing over artists, so the remedy is for the Pirate Bay to make money by offering the work and screwing over the artists even more? As bad as the labels are, they at least compensate the artists SLIGHTLY. The Pirate Bay just screws them over completely.
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Huh? I've played both and don't think they're anything alike outside the interface...
Loom was amazing, especially when they remade it with CD sound. Unfortunately it's waaaay too short.
That's why I won it in 2009.
Why counteract Alfred Nobel's wish?
Important advances in computing are recognized by the Nobel Prize in physics. This is a non-story.
The Nobel Peace Prize lost its lustre when Henry Kissinger won it; don't blame Obama.
And nobody would have understood it.
The engineers fix their problems and make things work.
Or...they don't. Why does slashdot have this universal view that all engineers are competent? I have lost count of the poorly designed products I've used that were bad because the engineers didn't do a good job. In fact, if a company successfully sells poorly engineered products for many years, that means their sales people are better than their tech people.
The fact that these technical folks are not acting like salesmen is precisely why they are trusted. You will crassly exploit that trust only at your own peril.
A lot of people in both groups tend to lie. A sales guy will lie to get a sale so he can make money. An engineer will lie to avoid blame for a technical issue so he can safeguard his job and his reputation. A customer shouldn't trust either.
Ahh, that legendary slashdot compassion.
He's a good writer, just not a good script writer. The underlying stories are fine, the scripts just aren't great.
I loved ESB, but you're right, it didn't really have a plot; it was more a series of mini-stories.
I disagree. It's about the parents. A parent who is motivated enough to apply for (and pay for) the catholic school is going to be motivated to make sure their kids do their homework.
Yep, American school food is as bad as British restaurant food...
"They need to work on their brand name not being associated with douchy behavior." That's their marketing strategy.
Reading a few books or taking a few classes does not make you an expert. This is a question about biology more than physics.
You are right. Therefore, we have physicists [aps.org] looking at the problem. Don't trust (medical) doctors with Maxwell's equations, people.
Yet we should trust physicists with cell biology?
But there are plenty of counterexamples; look at Italy, for example.
Is a more-than-two-party system better? I don't see evidence of that when looking at other countries.
"In the US the old say "Don't touch my entitlements"" Let's be fair here; EVERY country other than Japan they say don't touch my entitlements. The US isn't special in this regard; Japan certainly is.
This. I'm a lawyer with a couple years of good experience, reported cases, multiple bar admissions, etc. and I clicked on this story because I was thinking of maybe going back to IT and have been contemplating taking the certification route. Though to be fair, most lawyers and law students are fully aware of how screwed they are right now. The funny thing is they are now starting to sue the law schools, which will be very interesting.
I don't know what the situation is like in the US, but, here in England, we have far more prospective lawyers (students with their degrees, conversion course where necessary, and vocational courses completed) looking for jobs than there are jobs available.
In the U.S. it's probably even worse. There are roughly twice as many law graduates every year than jobs waiting for them, and even then a lot of the jobs that are available are barely past minimum wage (it is not uncommon for entry-level lawyer to pay 35k a year, about the same as bachelor's degree-level jobs, and US students pay far, far more than they do in England for the law degree so they tend to accrue 100k+ in loans). It is probably the worst job market for lawyers in the past 100 years, and it has been exacerbated by an explosion of law schools and increasing enrollment, since law schools are one of the few academic departments that tend to turn a profit for the universities.
Yes, but he's attempting to shoehorn that into an overall argument that the FSF license is no longer relevant.
Uhhh...wha? "Linux plays second fiddle to FreeBSD's kernel"? Have you perfected some form of hitherto unknown amazingly potent form of crack, and taken to smoking it? I think Linux has always been overhyped, and the FreeBSD kernel may in fact be superior, but how strung out do you have to be to think that in terms of "relevance" that the Linux kernel has lost out to FreeBSD?
In other words, the problem is the record labels screwing over artists, so the remedy is for the Pirate Bay to make money by offering the work and screwing over the artists even more? As bad as the labels are, they at least compensate the artists SLIGHTLY. The Pirate Bay just screws them over completely.