I am speaking of regulations that prevent a company from laying down lines and competing with the established providers. I don't care what they charge because the more there are putting in lines, the lower the prices will be.
We must ask why Java applets haven't become ubiquitous on the internet as the client-side standard for RIAs
It's simple. Because someone will always come out with something different and call it better. People will then learn it, update their resumes, and get paid more money because they know the "latest" in the technology. Then it will repeat itself again. There will always be an alphabet of options and acronyms for creating application, on the web or workstation. People just love re-inventing the wheel.
I guess you'd just reflexively say "yes" to avoid being a "roadblock" to the "business needs" - after all, you don't want to refuse to "except (sic) without lengthy disagreement the 'needs' of the business people.
Ahem....
"business needs" are the driving force behind the vast majority of programming. The "needs" of the business people are the reason most programmers exist. Indeed, other than to calculate shell trajectories, these "needs" are why computers were created. Can we say "International Business Machines"?
Yes, "business people" can be a little pigheaded and unreasonable sometimes, but they are the one's paying the bills and endowing Chairs at the universities.
If Michael Dell said we need to store word documents in the Oracle database so that the sales people have ready access to their notes and which can be mined in the future for potential leads, then you can bet that the computer scientists at Oracle would happily figure out a way to make it happen.
I have been I the computer field since 1986 and my experience is exactly the opposite of yours
My first job (with my MIS degree) was at an aerospace company filled with computer scientists. Of course being the New Guy I started out by supporting the existing systems written by the Computer Scientists.
I found that while their code was exceptionally efficient and in most cases elegant, it was totally unsupportable without extensive input from them. No comments, variables named with just numbers and consonants, and even Goto statements. Keep in mind, this was the mid-eighties and the MIS degree was a very new degree option (at least in the states) before that, everyone was a CS major.
At my school a large part of the MIS degree was emphasis on writing flexible and maintainable code. People come and go and business requirements change. CS people seemed more focused on writing code that was small, tight, and fast. Nice if you are writing code to simulate nuclear explosions, sucks if you are writing an inventory system supporting multiple business and manufacturing divisions.
Is an MIS degree a "vocational" degree? Perhaps, but it is also entails a great deal of analysis. It also involves a great deal of theory.
From another post: A Computer Scientist needs to know about Unlimited Register Machines, Turing Machines and Lambda Calculus. A Computer Scientist needs to know about type theory and graph theory.
A business programmer/analyst needs to know about accounting practices and inventory systems and how to structure batch systems with run-control procedures that have the ability to recover from errors, crashes, restarts, etc.
While a CS major could write a flight control system that absolutely must work or people can die, a business programmer can write a payroll system that absolutely has to work also.
Just try explaining to a 50,000 employee company why their checks didn't get cut or deposited. Then has a discussion with the unions about covering the costs of overdrafts. Then have a discussion with your VP of info systems, VP of accounting, and the CIO, etc.
Despite the cost, this shows that indeed it is possible to make a home energy self sufficient.
The question is now, what would this cost if it were a *requirement* for all new homes? How low would mass production push the costs? Could the cost of new power plants that won't need to be built be used to subsidize this effort?
Many new revolutionary technologies (phones, electricy) required government regulation and subsidies (in many forms) to get past the chicken and the egg dilemma. Perhaps this is one of those times?
Political Speech, paid for or not, is the very kind of speech that the 1st Amendment was designed to protect.
The recent Supreme Court decisions that say otherwise are wrong will most likely be overturned in the future.
If you want to cleanup political speech, then it would be better to rescind the protections politicians have now against lawsuits.
If candidate A says candidate B is a drunk and candidate B clearly is not, then A should be on the hook for libel and defamation, just like the average Joe would be.
I've often marveled at the similarity between liberals and my ex-wife.
They are never happy. They always think they would do a better job if only they were in charge. Of course, other people can never do it exactly right. They are obsessive about most things. They panic at the drop of a hat. They get angry when they don't get their way. It's always someone else's fault.
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I am speaking of regulations that prevent a company from laying down lines and competing with the established providers. I don't care what they charge because the more there are putting in lines, the lower the prices will be.
Regulations that prevent competition is why.
They didn't say anything about the overwhelming bias evident in many entries driven by political agendas.
Ha! Modded up by a "denier" and modded down by an "alarmist".
I was wondering how far down I'd have to go to find a post from some slug turning this into a Iraq/Iran issue.
RealClimate.org is nothing more than DailyKos for the science community.
Everything on it is politized and there is no hint of an open discussion, just a wide belief in an open and shut case from the dooomsday advocates.
The US did not sign Kyoto. George Bush did not believe in global warming, so he reneged on the agreement made by Clinton to sign the protocol.
Clinton did not sign the Kyoto agreement because the Senate voted 98-0 to reject it.
Yes. It would have been better if an objective and non-biased publication ran the story...say like the Ney York Times?
Now if I could just find my clozapine. Maybe the other me hid it.
There is always a runaway something that will kill us all.
We must ask why Java applets haven't become ubiquitous on the internet as the client-side standard for RIAs
It's simple. Because someone will always come out with something different and call it better. People will then learn it, update their resumes, and get paid more money because they know the "latest" in the technology. Then it will repeat itself again. There will always be an alphabet of options and acronyms for creating application, on the web or workstation. People just love re-inventing the wheel.
A reporter misunderstanding and taking statements out of context? Never happen.
Next thing ya know, they'll be making things up and calling them fake but accurate.
I guess you'd just reflexively say "yes" to avoid being a "roadblock" to the "business needs" - after all, you don't want to refuse to "except (sic) without lengthy disagreement the 'needs' of the business people.
Ahem....
"business needs" are the driving force behind the vast majority of programming. The "needs" of the business people are the reason most programmers exist. Indeed, other than to calculate shell trajectories, these "needs" are why computers were created. Can we say "International Business Machines"?
Yes, "business people" can be a little pigheaded and unreasonable sometimes, but they are the one's paying the bills and endowing Chairs at the universities.
If Michael Dell said we need to store word documents in the Oracle database so that the sales people have ready access to their notes and which can be mined in the future for potential leads, then you can bet that the computer scientists at Oracle would happily figure out a way to make it happen.
Assemba?...assemboo?...Asssememblee?....ok, what are you talking about?
I have been I the computer field since 1986 and my experience is exactly the opposite of yours
My first job (with my MIS degree) was at an aerospace company filled with computer scientists. Of course being the New Guy I started out by supporting the existing systems written by the Computer Scientists.
I found that while their code was exceptionally efficient and in most cases elegant, it was totally unsupportable without extensive input from them. No comments, variables named with just numbers and consonants, and even Goto statements. Keep in mind, this was the mid-eighties and the MIS degree was a very new degree option (at least in the states) before that, everyone was a CS major.
At my school a large part of the MIS degree was emphasis on writing flexible and maintainable code. People come and go and business requirements change.
CS people seemed more focused on writing code that was small, tight, and fast. Nice if you are writing code to simulate nuclear explosions, sucks if you are writing an inventory system supporting multiple business and manufacturing divisions.
Is an MIS degree a "vocational" degree? Perhaps, but it is also entails a great deal of analysis. It also involves a great deal of theory.
From another post: A Computer Scientist needs to know about Unlimited Register Machines, Turing Machines and Lambda Calculus. A Computer Scientist needs to know about type theory and graph theory.
A business programmer/analyst needs to know about accounting practices and inventory systems and how to structure batch systems with run-control procedures that have the ability to recover from errors, crashes, restarts, etc.
While a CS major could write a flight control system that absolutely must work or people can die, a business programmer can write a payroll system that absolutely has to work also.
Just try explaining to a 50,000 employee company why their checks didn't get cut or deposited. Then has a discussion with the unions about covering the costs of overdrafts. Then have a discussion with your VP of info systems, VP of accounting, and the CIO, etc.
There, be Sea Monsters.
My nation's Army can kick your nation's Army's butt!
ppppbbbzzzzzztttt!
Do your part to reduce Global Warming...stop breathing.
I haven't seen anyone discredit this panel or this document yet
It's from the U.N. What more do you need to make you think twice about its objectivity and accuracy?
Hey,
Didn't I see you at the one of the recent Global Trade riots? Was that you with the gasoline bombs?
Representatives from The Union Of Concerned Scientists, a left wing organization, said they were told by some that they were "muzzled".
It was a left wing, Democrat wankfest to embarrass the administration led by that partisan ass, Henery Waxman.
Funny how these muzzled scientists keep turning up to be heard all the time. Guess they are not really muzzled.
It's no joke. He serves on the advisory committee to the Lunatic Caucus in Congress.
Despite the cost, this shows that indeed it is possible to make a home energy self sufficient.
The question is now, what would this cost if it were a *requirement* for all new homes? How low would mass production push the costs? Could the cost of new power plants that won't need to be built be used to subsidize this effort?
Many new revolutionary technologies (phones, electricy) required government regulation and subsidies (in many forms) to get past the chicken and the egg dilemma. Perhaps this is one of those times?
Political Speech, paid for or not, is the very kind of speech that the 1st Amendment was designed to protect.
The recent Supreme Court decisions that say otherwise are wrong will most likely be overturned in the future.
If you want to cleanup political speech, then it would be better to rescind the protections politicians have now against lawsuits.
If candidate A says candidate B is a drunk and candidate B clearly is not, then A should be on the hook for libel and defamation, just like the average Joe would be.
I've often marveled at the similarity between liberals and my ex-wife.
They are never happy. They always think they would do a better job if only they were in charge. Of course, other people can never do it exactly right. They are obsessive about most things. They panic at the drop of a hat. They get angry when they don't get their way. It's always someone else's fault.
If only I could give liberals the boot too.
So now we have reached the inevitable conclusion of any Slashdot discussion.
The facts of one side are impugned by the other and visa versa.
Next would be the character of the posters, but, I don't have time for that today.