The very worst thing about "dead fish" and "death march" projects is how easy it is for ANYONE to label the Bringer of Bad News (i.e.: he who points out the hard, cold realities) a NEGATIVE INFLUENCE.
This then reinforces the more cynical attitude of just shutting up and letting shite hit fan, especially if by doing so, OTHER PEOPLE will be splattered with said shite. Sad that by this, one becomes known as a "team player". Bleh.
Can't you see yourself? You're just their mirror image.
You see a "terrorist" (or hear about one on TV -- no difference to you) and you instantly transform yourself into a terrorist capable of even greater violence. You two scumbag armies go back and forth, fighting each other, except you both have really, really bad aim so most of the time you're attacking innocent bystanders.
Wow. This is really stupid even for an AC.
You are inappropriately using the principal of identity- person who kills people=person who kills people. The principle is perfectly applicable to integers, which are entirely defined by the single characteristic: quantity. NOt so applicable to any human action or characteristic. You are wrong to equate anyone who kills with anyone else who kills because neither motives, methods or effects are taken into account.
A person who blows up civilians, children, or indiscriminate public gatherings of people is NOT the same as the person who kills him for it. Nor is it relevant (really) whether this is done to stop further outrages, as a deterrent, or as simple revenge.
It's not even that hard to differentiate them, really.
The last bit about the 'armies' of your little analogy shooting the imaginary 'innocent bystanders' therein because of their imputed poor shooting ability...wtf??
Not when the (revenue-producing) ads showing in the whitespace are for:
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Heh. Seriously, when I heard, maybe 10 years ago, an NPR report on the coming wave of outsourcing, the examples they recorded WERE of "computer science graduates who speak perfect unaccented english for $50/week". Of course, the companies (probably both US and Indian) soon realized they could get an "english mangler who may have seen a computer once" for waaay less than $50/week.
So the plan was to hand these less-expensive people scripts and flow charts/solution trees and roll around in the great pile of extra money like Scrooge McDuck. and I'm sure it's worked out exactly like that for some few execs.
That's why I've always felt bad dealing with unintelligible or ill-prepared service people in India and always try to be aware that they too are victims of decisions taken with NO consideration for customer satisfaction.
Companies are going to have to allow for 'cultural bias' and keep 'customer-facing' services local. The data and correspondence stuff? Not so much.
Huh? It's a demographic that moves on AS SOON AS IT IS A FEW YEARS AWAY FROM MAKING REAL MONEY.
And, as was pointed out, the demographic remains stable, as those people are replaced BY OTHER POOR COLLEGE KIDS. Jebus. Only a marketroid would think a bit o' jargon and some buzzwords ("branding" "targeted demographic" "viral marketing" "word of mouth campaign launches" "buzz") will make people forget the whole overhyped 'net bubble of the late 90s.
Or maybe that doesn't even matter. The marketroids always get their piece of the pie before anyone is really sure there is going to BE a pie, don't they? What else CAN they say?
To believe News Corp is going to get anything near $2b in ACTUAL REVENUES from this is another sad demonstration of insufficient cynicism, methinks.
Ah, but 'sucks' is such a relative judgement, isn't it?
I thought TV sucked 15 years ago when I discovered the internet* and stopped watching, but Judith H. Crist! have you watched anything on the tube lately???
Watch MTV or Elimidate for five minutes and listen...that's the sound of your brain cells losing turgidity, collapsing into flaccid heaps.
Firefly could only be an improvement.
*-Yes, yes, yes, the internet sucks too, but it's interactive suckage, man!)
The 'get a grip' comment (ignoring the connotation a person of dubious taste and even more dubious sense of humor might put on it, in a thread peripherally involving porn) is most appropriate, also. Our rights are not gone. Yeah, yeah, 'eternal vigilance' yadayada...
What is striking about the responses in this thread is the sight of otherwise intelligent people adding 1+1 and getting "C" and of course, CONSPIRACY starts with "C" so it all fits together!!! Fuck Bush!! Slippery slope arguments CAN be made, but valid ones not so easily, and certainly not crediby by people who refer to the "Red Scare" as if it were entirely a manipulative invention of the US Government.
Nor can such arguments credibly be made by anyone who tries to attribute our government's lamentable tech/IP/patent policies to the 'neocons' or Republicans or Christian Right. That just shows your agenda. If your really want to be vigilant about your rights, be cynical about ALL governmentoidal entities...the Dems whore out to the media companies and the Repubs whore out to the Baptists, and don't EVEN try to pretend either one is the Good Guys. Be cynical about Google, as well.
Though I guess if Google has record of your search terms for 'Caulkin nude clown' or 'labia dumplings with anus sauce' or something like that, it would justify a pretty hysterical response from you...
Ummmm....why do you say conditions in Africa were harsher than in Asia??
This would be before the desertification of N. Africa and the expansion of the Sahara, and there are LOTS of places in the rest of the continent where conditions for living (of a primitive, hunter-gatherer sort) are quite salubrious.
And, of course, there would not be the negative effects of racism, First World agricultural subsidies, kleptocratic governments and religion, which supposedly account for the non-environmental 'harsh conditions' we find in Africa nowadays.
Also, by way of clarifying definitions, for civilization you'd have to have agriculture. It provides both geographical stability and surplus, which are at least precursors to what we would call 'civilization'.
So when will Sony be going to jail for their root kit issue? Funny how there not facing criminal charges when what they did was so worse. Add in the fact they still have not taken responsibility for what they did.
Errr...there is the matter of damage...the **AA can at least make their (very dubious) case that they have suffered lost sales. Anything like the rootkit issue, wherein someone's product damaged or compromised my property (or I purchased a product I couldn't use as I wiashed) should be handled in the marketplace.
IOW, boycott or try to avoid Sony products, badmouth them, etc. Hopefully, whatever the effect on Sony, this will work to show those **AA fucks that whoever takes a big step forward with effective DRM is at least stepping into the Dog Poopoo of Controversy, if not, as we might wish, onto the Bannana Peel of Legislation-Inspiring Outrage.
Bullshit. The RIAA spends their shitload of promotional money on bullshit homogenzied gangsta/slut wannabe crap.
No RIAA-affiliated label has promoted a band, group or individual I liked in ten years.
Make no mistake, the RIAA would prefer there to be two artists (total) in each of 6-10 genres, and each selling a copy of their CD to every human being on the planet. They have no interest in diversity, creativity, niche marketing...It's called economics, it ISN'T that difficult and screw 'em. They do not give a shite about me, the artists, art in general, and they frequently run over fluffy kittens in their SUVs!!! Damn them.
Look: Retail stores could completely end shoplifting by the simple expedient of assigning a security guard to every shopper. This is not cost efficient, so they just write off...what 3-5%?
When the RIAA gets filesharing down to where my daughter can't set it up in 5 minutes, and it takes me a half an hour, then they'll be satisfied.
Isn't it amusing (or is that irony?) that the same people who will not accept, or even analyze, assurances regarding the safety of Bioengineered products will reverse the terms of the 'benefit-of-the-doubt' equation when someone like Weill makes assertions?? I suspect that the altered perspective comes from one entity being a corporation and having a clear and visible profit-making motive and one being a kindly-looking old fart with a well-concealed profit motive.
What a sucker.
He also posted:
"You don't get to decide. The gummint, in its infinite wisdom, has decided that giving you a choice would simply confuse and frighten you. So they refuse to implement truth-in-labeling laws for GM foods. Aren't you glad they think you're an idiot?"
Is it better to have YUO or some Green freaks deciding for me? Seems to me, whoever wants to make something unavailable is more limiting my choice than someone who merely fails to give me information...
"The population is growing at 2x every 35 to 40 years at its current rate..."
Yes, and we know that rates can never change, therefore, as you so...ah...what's the word? "STUPIDLY" state: It's a simple matter of math. Just adding and subtracting, right?
Only...people who did that same math with the birthrate data available 40 years ago got it way the hell wrong. Just like Malthus. How could that have happened? Could it be that the world you are trying to analyze is actually NOT a static system? Birth rates, changes in longevity, death rates...all change, and what is more, they change in ways that YOU (in particular) will be unlikely to anticipate.
Make no mistake...EVERY-FSCKING-THING in the Guardian is leftist claptrap. Always and without exception. There's your static system.
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Wait, I just heard a bulletin on CNN that after being resurrected, King butchered the mortuary attendants and then did the same to the police who came to investigate...early reports indicate that King has removed the pineal gland of his victims, for reasons that will not become clear until the end of the book.
King has fled into nearby woods, and search efforts have been hampered by an oppressive mist which cloaks an eldritch and unthinkable horror.*
*-King is thought to have been joined by Dead Author H.P.Lovecraft.
*sigh*
I have seen this debunked several times, but that, to a true paranoid conspiracist, just proves the vastness of the conspiracy. The absence of evidence proves the power of those involved in the coverup.
Thus, by the power of their imagined enemies, are the small and petty raised to signifigance.
I mean, look at the kind of people the Greynoses are always interested in!
errr...no. AOL charges, what? $24.95/mo? I have heard that their cost for providing service is less than $5/mo/subscriber, all labor and bandwidth costs included. Giving them, even pissing away money like they had two dicks, a clear income monthly of nearly.5billion US$. They actually do NOT need banners and advertising to make a profit...There are probably other, more sinister reasons...bwuaahahahahah!
It is as if people are lab testing Lamborghinis, but all roads are dirt or cobblestone.
The other thing (that you don't mention in your thoughtful analysis) is the software end of the deal. WTF are people doing with the computational power anyway? Fast CPUs bottlenecked at disk or bus, super vid cards...for what apps? I still don't see anything that even tests my DURON chip overmuch.
The high-end (media processing, content developers) users who NEED max performance may not even find single-CPU systems adequate at all...For true utility, we have to look at the ACTUAL goal for product usage. I think we find there is very little value for most users in anything over a 700m Duron or even 500+m PIII...
A 1.7P4 or 1.3Tbird, on a solid board w/ Raid drives (or SCSI)...that's for geeks, (the kind of rabid techies whose.sig includes system specs down to the make of their mb spacers) the OEMS, to get back to your point, are just selling numbers to the ignorant...
And remember, people use 50" flat panel hdtv-capable screens to watch Rikki Lake and Survivor, so the waste is not without paralell.
Well, the layout of the graphs (don't give me that 'graphic design considerations' crap!), the failure to EMPHASIZE that you were comparing newest Intel w/ old AMD processors, failure to use a board supporting 266...all these things, they don't look so good, mate.
If you weight performance results by the clock speeds of the processors, then you can tell whether there is any actual advantage conveyed by the Intel architecture. THEN you can look at price and determine value. When this is done, IMNSHO, the AMD is the hands-down better processor.
I know you kind of conceded this point in the review, briefly, on your way to saying "Oh Boy! Wait till we get the NEW Intel CPUs!!" Just thought you bent over backwards to minimize the P4s downside. (Of course, that's the hazard of doing h/w reviews, huh?)
And you didn't even mention, that, to use a P4 you have to give money to those sleazy Patent Pirates, RAMBUTT!! THAT's a reason not to go Intel, right there....
Bongo, Seanb, get over yourselves. Do you know how lame it is to allow your response to something be dictated by that of others, positive or negative?
I'm kind of the same way, if too many people like something, I'm definitely leery of it. But that didn't stop me from liking "kid stuff" like SouthPark and Beavis and Butthead, and totally accepted stuff like the Simpsons.
Maybe it's just more fun for ya to keep track of what uncool people like so you can set your sights carefully on properly cool stuff. Just doesn't seem worth it. MP is freakin' genius, man, and if you can afford to dislike genius comedy because people less tuned-in than yourselves enjoy it...good luck.
And you know what's REEELY funny about that is that virtually every human being in this country doesn't think she's as good looking as they think "everybody" thinks she is.
I think the pudgy-faced little cow is getting over.
Besides, Tom Greens' comedic genius has evolved far from sucking teat...
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The very worst thing about "dead fish" and "death march" projects is how easy it is for ANYONE to label the Bringer of Bad News (i.e.: he who points out the hard, cold realities) a NEGATIVE INFLUENCE. This then reinforces the more cynical attitude of just shutting up and letting shite hit fan, especially if by doing so, OTHER PEOPLE will be splattered with said shite. Sad that by this, one becomes known as a "team player". Bleh.
Can we get a Ba-dum! *CHING!* on up in heah?
That said, I think the Mexicans pretty much forget all their SOUTH American compatriots on May...uhhh...7th, or whenever Mayonaise Day is...
Adonis?
Wow. This is really stupid even for an AC.
You are inappropriately using the principal of identity- person who kills people=person who kills people. The principle is perfectly applicable to integers, which are entirely defined by the single characteristic: quantity. NOt so applicable to any human action or characteristic. You are wrong to equate anyone who kills with anyone else who kills because neither motives, methods or effects are taken into account.
A person who blows up civilians, children, or indiscriminate public gatherings of people is NOT the same as the person who kills him for it. Nor is it relevant (really) whether this is done to stop further outrages, as a deterrent, or as simple revenge.
It's not even that hard to differentiate them, really.
The last bit about the 'armies' of your little analogy shooting the imaginary 'innocent bystanders' therein because of their imputed poor shooting ability...wtf??
Not when the (revenue-producing) ads showing in the whitespace are for:
[b]Outsourced Call Centers
In the Philippines highly trained reps deliver superior performance.
www.ePERFORMAX.com
Outsourced Call Center
Improve agent productivity; provide great customer service. Free trial.
www.salesforce.com/service&support
Outsource to India
Wyoming co. has 200 desk ofc. bldg. in Bangalore, staff to your needs
www.globalstaffingconnection.com[/b]
Heh. Seriously, when I heard, maybe 10 years ago, an NPR report on the coming wave of outsourcing, the examples they recorded WERE of "computer science graduates who speak perfect unaccented english for $50/week". Of course, the companies (probably both US and Indian) soon realized they could get an "english mangler who may have seen a computer once" for waaay less than $50/week.
So the plan was to hand these less-expensive people scripts and flow charts/solution trees and roll around in the great pile of extra money like Scrooge McDuck. and I'm sure it's worked out exactly like that for some few execs.
That's why I've always felt bad dealing with unintelligible or ill-prepared service people in India and always try to be aware that they too are victims of decisions taken with NO consideration for customer satisfaction.
Companies are going to have to allow for 'cultural bias' and keep 'customer-facing' services local. The data and correspondence stuff? Not so much.
Huh? It's a demographic that moves on AS SOON AS IT IS A FEW YEARS AWAY FROM MAKING REAL MONEY.
And, as was pointed out, the demographic remains stable, as those people are replaced BY OTHER POOR COLLEGE KIDS. Jebus. Only a marketroid would think a bit o' jargon and some buzzwords ("branding" "targeted demographic" "viral marketing" "word of mouth campaign launches" "buzz") will make people forget the whole overhyped 'net bubble of the late 90s.
Or maybe that doesn't even matter. The marketroids always get their piece of the pie before anyone is really sure there is going to BE a pie, don't they? What else CAN they say?
To believe News Corp is going to get anything near $2b in ACTUAL REVENUES from this is another sad demonstration of insufficient cynicism, methinks.
Perhaps, as a small business woman, you would have better luck running Linux on the desktop if you got a taller chair?
Correct your sig, dude.
"Every parasite needs AN ecosystem..."
*tch tch*
Ah, but 'sucks' is such a relative judgement, isn't it?
I thought TV sucked 15 years ago when I discovered the internet* and stopped watching, but Judith H. Crist! have you watched anything on the tube lately???
Watch MTV or Elimidate for five minutes and listen...that's the sound of your brain cells losing turgidity, collapsing into flaccid heaps.
Firefly could only be an improvement.
*-Yes, yes, yes, the internet sucks too, but it's interactive suckage, man!)
Agreed.
The 'get a grip' comment (ignoring the connotation a person of dubious taste and even more dubious sense of humor might put on it, in a thread peripherally involving porn) is most appropriate, also. Our rights are not gone. Yeah, yeah, 'eternal vigilance' yadayada...
What is striking about the responses in this thread is the sight of otherwise intelligent people adding 1+1 and getting "C" and of course, CONSPIRACY starts with "C" so it all fits together!!! Fuck Bush!! Slippery slope arguments CAN be made, but valid ones not so easily, and certainly not crediby by people who refer to the "Red Scare" as if it were entirely a manipulative invention of the US Government.
Nor can such arguments credibly be made by anyone who tries to attribute our government's lamentable tech/IP/patent policies to the 'neocons' or Republicans or Christian Right. That just shows your agenda. If your really want to be vigilant about your rights, be cynical about ALL governmentoidal entities...the Dems whore out to the media companies and the Repubs whore out to the Baptists, and don't EVEN try to pretend either one is the Good Guys. Be cynical about Google, as well.
Though I guess if Google has record of your search terms for 'Caulkin nude clown' or 'labia dumplings with anus sauce' or something like that, it would justify a pretty hysterical response from you...
You know who you are.
Ummmm....why do you say conditions in Africa were harsher than in Asia??
This would be before the desertification of N. Africa and the expansion of the Sahara, and there are LOTS of places in the rest of the continent where conditions for living (of a primitive, hunter-gatherer sort) are quite salubrious.
And, of course, there would not be the negative effects of racism, First World agricultural subsidies, kleptocratic governments and religion, which supposedly account for the non-environmental 'harsh conditions' we find in Africa nowadays.
Also, by way of clarifying definitions, for civilization you'd have to have agriculture. It provides both geographical stability and surplus, which are at least precursors to what we would call 'civilization'.
Errr...there is the matter of damage...the **AA can at least make their (very dubious) case that they have suffered lost sales. Anything like the rootkit issue, wherein someone's product damaged or compromised my property (or I purchased a product I couldn't use as I wiashed) should be handled in the marketplace.
IOW, boycott or try to avoid Sony products, badmouth them, etc. Hopefully, whatever the effect on Sony, this will work to show those **AA fucks that whoever takes a big step forward with effective DRM is at least stepping into the Dog Poopoo of Controversy, if not, as we might wish, onto the Bannana Peel of Legislation-Inspiring Outrage.
All your humor are belong to us.
Oh, sorry...
Bullshit. The RIAA spends their shitload of promotional money on bullshit homogenzied gangsta/slut wannabe crap.
No RIAA-affiliated label has promoted a band, group or individual I liked in ten years.
Make no mistake, the RIAA would prefer there to be two artists (total) in each of 6-10 genres, and each selling a copy of their CD to every human being on the planet. They have no interest in diversity, creativity, niche marketing...It's called economics, it ISN'T that difficult and screw 'em. They do not give a shite about me, the artists, art in general, and they frequently run over fluffy kittens in their SUVs!!! Damn them.
Look:
Retail stores could completely end shoplifting by the simple expedient of assigning a security guard to every shopper. This is not cost efficient, so they just write off...what 3-5%?
When the RIAA gets filesharing down to where my daughter can't set it up in 5 minutes, and it takes me a half an hour, then they'll be satisfied.
Maybe.
Isn't it amusing (or is that irony?) that the same people who will not accept, or even analyze, assurances regarding the safety of Bioengineered products will reverse the terms of the 'benefit-of-the-doubt' equation when someone like Weill makes assertions?? I suspect that the altered perspective comes from one entity being a corporation and having a clear and visible profit-making motive and one being a kindly-looking old fart with a well-concealed profit motive.
What a sucker.
He also posted:
"You don't get to decide. The gummint, in its infinite wisdom, has decided that giving you a choice would simply confuse and frighten you. So they refuse to implement truth-in-labeling laws for GM foods. Aren't you glad they think you're an idiot?"
Is it better to have YUO or some Green freaks deciding for me? Seems to me, whoever wants to make something unavailable is more limiting my choice than someone who merely fails to give me information...
"The population is growing at 2x every 35 to 40 years at its current rate..."
Yes, and we know that rates can never change, therefore, as you so...ah...what's the word? "STUPIDLY" state: It's a simple matter of math. Just adding and subtracting, right?
Only...people who did that same math with the birthrate data available 40 years ago got it way the hell wrong. Just like Malthus. How could that have happened? Could it be that the world you are trying to analyze is actually NOT a static system? Birth rates, changes in longevity, death rates...all change, and what is more, they change in ways that YOU (in particular) will be unlikely to anticipate.
Make no mistake...EVERY-FSCKING-THING in the Guardian is leftist claptrap. Always and without exception. There's your static system.
Wait, I just heard a bulletin on CNN that after being resurrected, King butchered the mortuary attendants and then did the same to the police who came to investigate...early reports indicate that King has removed the pineal gland of his victims, for reasons that will not become clear until the end of the book.
King has fled into nearby woods, and search efforts have been hampered by an oppressive mist which cloaks an eldritch and unthinkable horror.*
*-King is thought to have been joined by Dead Author H.P.Lovecraft.
*sigh*
I have seen this debunked several times, but that, to a true paranoid conspiracist, just proves the vastness of the conspiracy. The absence of evidence proves the power of those involved in the coverup.
Thus, by the power of their imagined enemies, are the small and petty raised to signifigance.
I mean, look at the kind of people the Greynoses are always interested in!
errr...no. AOL charges, what? $24.95/mo? I have heard that their cost for providing service is less than $5/mo/subscriber, all labor and bandwidth costs included. Giving them, even pissing away money like they had two dicks, a clear income monthly of nearly .5billion US$. They actually do NOT need banners and advertising to make a profit...There are probably other, more sinister reasons...bwuaahahahahah!
Thenk Yew.
.sig includes system specs down to the make of their mb spacers) the OEMS, to get back to your point, are just selling numbers to the ignorant...
It is as if people are lab testing Lamborghinis, but all roads are dirt or cobblestone.
The other thing (that you don't mention in your thoughtful analysis) is the software end of the deal. WTF are people doing with the computational power anyway? Fast CPUs bottlenecked at disk or bus, super vid cards...for what apps? I still don't see anything that even tests my DURON chip overmuch.
The high-end (media processing, content developers) users who NEED max performance may not even find single-CPU systems adequate at all...For true utility, we have to look at the ACTUAL goal for product usage. I think we find there is very little value for most users in anything over a 700m Duron or even 500+m PIII...
A 1.7P4 or 1.3Tbird, on a solid board w/ Raid drives (or SCSI)...that's for geeks, (the kind of rabid techies whose
And remember, people use 50" flat panel hdtv-capable screens to watch Rikki Lake and Survivor, so the waste is not without paralell.
Well, the layout of the graphs (don't give me that 'graphic design considerations' crap!), the failure to EMPHASIZE that you were comparing newest Intel w/ old AMD processors, failure to use a board supporting 266...all these things, they don't look so good, mate.
If you weight performance results by the clock speeds of the processors, then you can tell whether there is any actual advantage conveyed by the Intel architecture. THEN you can look at price and determine value. When this is done, IMNSHO, the AMD is the hands-down better processor.
I know you kind of conceded this point in the review, briefly, on your way to saying "Oh Boy! Wait till we get the NEW Intel CPUs!!" Just thought you bent over backwards to minimize the P4s downside. (Of course, that's the hazard of doing h/w reviews, huh?)
And you didn't even mention, that, to use a P4 you have to give money to those sleazy Patent Pirates, RAMBUTT!! THAT's a reason not to go Intel, right there....
I agree! Let's end the patriarchical discrimination that keeps women from the upper levels of our businesses!
But let's keep the 'glass ceiling'. Then we can look up their dresses.
Bongo, Seanb, get over yourselves. Do you know how lame it is to allow your response to something be dictated by that of others, positive or negative?
I'm kind of the same way, if too many people like something, I'm definitely leery of it. But that didn't stop me from liking "kid stuff" like SouthPark and Beavis and Butthead, and totally accepted stuff like the Simpsons.
Maybe it's just more fun for ya to keep track of what uncool people like so you can set your sights carefully on properly cool stuff. Just doesn't seem worth it. MP is freakin' genius, man, and if you can afford to dislike genius comedy because people less tuned-in than yourselves enjoy it...good luck.
Brad
And you know what's REEELY funny about that is that virtually every human being in this country doesn't think she's as good looking as they think "everybody" thinks she is.
I think the pudgy-faced little cow is getting over.
Besides, Tom Greens' comedic genius has evolved far from sucking teat...
thank you, gentlemen...
"A six-ounce swallow can't break 56-bit encryption."
...made my morning. Well, I'm off to surf the ol' Web now...
"Wait, a minnit, that's not a web browser, you're usin' cocoanuts!"