"Like most of the Gartner stuff, it's sort of an Utopian state -- we're certainly not there yet," said Stevan Lewis, director of enterprise planning for BMO Financial Group.
Yeah, what utopian state is that Stevan? When you won't have to deal with us pesky delta types who drive the economy? And by the way, try spelling your first name like a real Steve, asshole.
Did you hear me say government was a perfect institution? Is any institution perfect? Fuck no. Democratic governments have flaws, yes. But it is far better than the alternative of letting the lesser, greedier, malicious people fuck over everyone else because no one can keep them in check. And that's exactly what you'd get without government.
Hopefully we are all striving to achieve a good quality of life, not just good quality code.
The poster frames this question as to whether code quality hurts after working 80 hours per week. Shouldn't we be asking whether the quality of your life hurts instead? If working too much hurts our social and family life as well as our ability to participate in society's extracurricular activities, isn't that alone cause for alarm?
If your philosophy is "work to live" then no, this is not rational. But if your philosophy is "live to work and serve the man," then 80 hourse per week is great.
In addition to political donations, they can afford armies of lobbyists. Imagine if you could hire a couple dozen people to schmooze with your local and state politictians every day.
Well, folks, it's your choice. Do you want big government to spend $40 billion for the recently launched f-ww jet fighter (designed to go to war agains the mighty Soviet empire) and another $200 billion for occupying Iraq (unnecessarily)? Or do you want big government to spend money on things that will build a more productive, prosperous society?
What unnerves me more than anything is the simple fact that election officials are so adamantly against paper receipts. There is simply no rational explanation for not wanting them. I've heard it said that cost is a factor. But, really now, how much more can a simple tape register add to the cost of a probably already over-priced voting machine with a CRT, a networked computer, and proprietary software inside? Isn't safeguarding democracy and people's faith in it worth spending a few bucks?
I think you're right if you are comparing it to a subway train. Thousands of people can crowd into a train in just a minute or two. Handling that kind of volume where everyone has to get in and out of individual pods would cause an unbearably long queue.
But if you compared it to bus queues, my guess is that it'd probably be at least as efficient. With a bus, you often have to wait 15 or 20 minutes just to get on. Then you have to wait for new passengers to get on and off at every stop and then stop at every light. Anyone who has taken a bus in a large metropolitan area knows that it can be extremely slow going.
If had to wait as long as 30 minutes for one of these pods, you would still get to your destination before the bus (and perhaps even a car if traffic is gridlocked).
Probably most of the images created for this software come from government agencies for the public good. I think the government should also get involved with licensing and furthering this software even further so all citizens can take advantage of it. If every poor taxpayer chipped in few cents and weatlhier tax payers chipped in a few bucks, we'd have one universal service that everyone could have access to and make use of.
How does he find time to actually listen to them?
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Assume the average song is 4 minutes long, he would have to listen for almost 7 years straight without sleeping just to hear his collection!
There's a guy who works down the hall from me for a credit union who couldn't even use his fucking computer because it was so cluttered with popups and spyware. Every fucking day he had problems getting on the net. I had him install Firefox about 3 months ago and he's never had a single problem.
The market for consumer products that bank on the cool factor to sell goods and services is quickly shrinking. When every product is cool, nothing's cool anymore. I'm officially getting off the gizmo treadmill. Who wants to keep shelling out $300 every few months for some super-wham-o-dyne gadget that's going to be superseded by another super-super-wham-o-dyne gadget in two months?
Maybe I'm just getting old. How do you younger kids feel? You bored by these things, too?
Yes, I had a quite an amazing experience recently. I did a fresh install of Windows XP for my elderly aunt. Then I hooked her up to her cable modem. Within 5 seconds of being online, she was getting Microsoft Messenger spam. From this, we can safely conclude XP is inherently insecure.
The article in the Portland Tribune is written by a right-wing think tank. I want to know how otherwise intelligent people let themselves get blinded by a simplistic and single-minded ideology (i.e. government is evil) as to put the entire fucking planet at risk. "Global warming can't be real! That would require action by governments!"
Your words indicate that you think the world is just one big supermarket full of jobs to be picked off the shelf. "Hmmm...this aisle doesn't have many jobs I like, I think I'll stroll over to the next." Yeah, OK, that might be true for the real geniuses out there. But for most earthlings, that's just not the way it works.
My criticism? What criticism? The only criticism in my post is the criticism you read into it. I was simply reminding folks that it is the profit motive that has driven Microsoft to release their software as open source.
But it certainly can be legitimately argued that the profit motive can, in the long run, do more harm than good. For example, when one company is so eager to make a profit that they strangle the competition, that's not good. Microsoft has done it in the past and their economic imperative to make money makes it likely they will continue to push the envelope of anti-trust regulation. I'm not criticizing here, either, I'm just stating reality.
Microsoft's primary motivation is making as much money as possible. They understand they will never make a dime selling content managment software. That market has been locked up by tons of other open source offerings. Since they have nothing to lose, they are releasing their own CMS software to promote ASP and Windows servers. You can be sure that the lead developer in charge of this software will make sure that this CMS will require all sorts of feature inherent to the.NET platform that aren't found on Linux OS's.
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"Like most of the Gartner stuff, it's sort of an Utopian state -- we're certainly not there yet," said Stevan Lewis, director of enterprise planning for BMO Financial Group.
Yeah, what utopian state is that Stevan? When you won't have to deal with us pesky delta types who drive the economy? And by the way, try spelling your first name like a real Steve, asshole.
Did you hear me say government was a perfect institution? Is any institution perfect? Fuck no. Democratic governments have flaws, yes. But it is far better than the alternative of letting the lesser, greedier, malicious people fuck over everyone else because no one can keep them in check. And that's exactly what you'd get without government.
Hopefully we are all striving to achieve a good quality of life, not just good quality code.
The poster frames this question as to whether code quality hurts after working 80 hours per week. Shouldn't we be asking whether the quality of your life hurts instead? If working too much hurts our social and family life as well as our ability to participate in society's extracurricular activities, isn't that alone cause for alarm?
If your philosophy is "work to live" then no, this is not rational. But if your philosophy is "live to work and serve the man," then 80 hourse per week is great.
Well, I hate libertarians, so we're even. I think you guys are naive as fuck. Nothing personal, that's just my opinion. :)
In addition to political donations, they can afford armies of lobbyists. Imagine if you could hire a couple dozen people to schmooze with your local and state politictians every day.
That one single person (because that's what corporations are under the law) can have so much power because they have money.
Well, folks, it's your choice. Do you want big government to spend $40 billion for the recently launched f-ww jet fighter (designed to go to war agains the mighty Soviet empire) and another $200 billion for occupying Iraq (unnecessarily)? Or do you want big government to spend money on things that will build a more productive, prosperous society?
You can't have both.
Capitalism's report card
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Capitalism is great at producing oceans of sugar water, mountains of bars of soap, and all the latest consumer techno gadgets you can imagine, A+
Providing vital infrastructures like roads, highways and utilities, well, not so good. D+
What unnerves me more than anything is the simple fact that election officials are so adamantly against paper receipts. There is simply no rational explanation for not wanting them. I've heard it said that cost is a factor. But, really now, how much more can a simple tape register add to the cost of a probably already over-priced voting machine with a CRT, a networked computer, and proprietary software inside? Isn't safeguarding democracy and people's faith in it worth spending a few bucks?
I think you're right if you are comparing it to a subway train. Thousands of people can crowd into a train in just a minute or two. Handling that kind of volume where everyone has to get in and out of individual pods would cause an unbearably long queue.
But if you compared it to bus queues, my guess is that it'd probably be at least as efficient. With a bus, you often have to wait 15 or 20 minutes just to get on. Then you have to wait for new passengers to get on and off at every stop and then stop at every light. Anyone who has taken a bus in a large metropolitan area knows that it can be extremely slow going.
If had to wait as long as 30 minutes for one of these pods, you would still get to your destination before the bus (and perhaps even a car if traffic is gridlocked).
When I look at the bottom of the maps in Keyhole, many of them say they are copyrighted by a government agency.
Probably most of the images created for this software come from government agencies for the public good. I think the government should also get involved with licensing and furthering this software even further so all citizens can take advantage of it. If every poor taxpayer chipped in few cents and weatlhier tax payers chipped in a few bucks, we'd have one universal service that everyone could have access to and make use of.
Assume the average song is 4 minutes long, he would have to listen for almost 7 years straight without sleeping just to hear his collection!
Type "fuck microsoft" into Microshit's engine and then type "fuck google" into Google.
Which search engine is better? Try it at home and you decide!
Type "fuck microsoft" into Microshit's engine and then type "fuck google" into Google.
Which search engine is better? You decide!
There's a guy who works down the hall from me for a credit union who couldn't even use his fucking computer because it was so cluttered with popups and spyware. Every fucking day he had problems getting on the net. I had him install Firefox about 3 months ago and he's never had a single problem.
The market for consumer products that bank on the cool factor to sell goods and services is quickly shrinking. When every product is cool, nothing's cool anymore. I'm officially getting off the gizmo treadmill. Who wants to keep shelling out $300 every few months for some super-wham-o-dyne gadget that's going to be superseded by another super-super-wham-o-dyne gadget in two months?
Maybe I'm just getting old. How do you younger kids feel? You bored by these things, too?
Just one virus and I'll get free porn for life.
Great, now we've found a way to outsource cashier work over to data entry jobs in India.
Yes, I had a quite an amazing experience recently. I did a fresh install of Windows XP for my elderly aunt. Then I hooked her up to her cable modem. Within 5 seconds of being online, she was getting Microsoft Messenger spam. From this, we can safely conclude XP is inherently insecure.
The article in the Portland Tribune is written by a right-wing think tank. I want to know how otherwise intelligent people let themselves get blinded by a simplistic and single-minded ideology (i.e. government is evil) as to put the entire fucking planet at risk. "Global warming can't be real! That would require action by governments!"
Your words indicate that you think the world is just one big supermarket full of jobs to be picked off the shelf. "Hmmm...this aisle doesn't have many jobs I like, I think I'll stroll over to the next." Yeah, OK, that might be true for the real geniuses out there. But for most earthlings, that's just not the way it works.
My criticism? What criticism? The only criticism in my post is the criticism you read into it. I was simply reminding folks that it is the profit motive that has driven Microsoft to release their software as open source.
But it certainly can be legitimately argued that the profit motive can, in the long run, do more harm than good. For example, when one company is so eager to make a profit that they strangle the competition, that's not good. Microsoft has done it in the past and their economic imperative to make money makes it likely they will continue to push the envelope of anti-trust regulation. I'm not criticizing here, either, I'm just stating reality.
Microsoft's primary motivation is making as much money as possible. They understand they will never make a dime selling content managment software. That market has been locked up by tons of other open source offerings. Since they have nothing to lose, they are releasing their own CMS software to promote ASP and Windows servers. You can be sure that the lead developer in charge of this software will make sure that this CMS will require all sorts of feature inherent to the .NET platform that aren't found on Linux OS's.