I usually look for negative reviews first when considering a product. I will google for "$product sucks". I try and see why people think it sucks. If I don't see any negative reviews, I know that no one is actually buying the product.
Definitely!
I would add that I pretty much ignore 5 star reviews. They're the ones where someone gets it on time and that warrants a 5 in their view. I really hate the dumb asses on Amazon who post +5 I haven't finished reading it yet but it's great! Or some of the 5 star reviews are plants - shills. Then they're the +1 stars that say something like "I haven't gotten it yet!" or they preach.
As far as equipment goes, no one has a rating for durability. Many products are great right out of the box but tank in less than a year.
Lenovo has a "Value Line" that has the features that you need. The link has a comparison chart with the "Thinkpad" line.
If you can, why not save a few bucks and get the "Value Line" or be able to spend the extra money on more RAM, peripherals, etc.... or beer? I see a few features with the Thinkpad line that may be unnecessary for a developer.
Windows 98 (I have really old embedded software compilers that only run on 98, and yes I have tried every trick in the book to make them run on Linux)...
If can't get it to run on Linux, what will make it run on Mac OS?
Your post does have a bit of Mac Fanboy feel to it - just saying.
So what you're saying is you have a hard time with any kind of fiction that's not science fiction?
Nope.
I merely expressed a preference. That's all and it's nothing more. I respect Serling's immensely. I just prefer The Outer Limits over the Twilight Zone and I expressed why I have that preference. Everything else you projected onto my post - which is easy to do, especially here on Slashdot because of all the Star Wars vs. whatever statements you have pointed out.
I like the Twilight Zone but the show has a tendency to be more super natural than science fiction. The Outer Limits explains anything "super natural" as being caused by aliens and many of their shows incorporate science into their plots. For example, Think Like A Dinosaur brings in the whole transporting folks issue: "beaming" the information to another place, being left with a "copy" and then having to destroy the copy. That was something I read in Scientific American not too long ago. In that article, a physicist talked about using quantum entanglement to instantaneously send the information of a person somewhere else, create the person there, create a copy and then having to destroy the original. It also discussed the ethics of it. There it is in a plot.
Both shows can be a little preachy, but the Twilight Zone can get a little overboard. But then again, Rod Serling intended that when he created the show. Speaking of Rod Serling, a great show about him and his creations at PBS
Unlike China, Brazil actually has a thriving world class aeronautical industry . I see in the business press how the Boeing and Airbus needs to watch out for the Chinese and I think , "Chinese?! The Brazilians are well on their way."
Although Brazil has quite a few social problems, they're well on their way to getting their shit to together and I'm thinking in the not too distant future, they'll be a very large power house in the World Economy. I may start taking Portuguese!
I can't help but have this image of you at work, hair a mess with several days worth of beard growth, wearing a bathrobe and bunny slippers, walking around with a coffee cup with god knows what in it, and answering technical questions with Shakespearean quotes. They won't fire you because they can't find anyone else and they're not sure if you have a WMD planted somewhere in the city.
We're in a unique part of history where there is a
huge upheaval in technology - mostly centered around computing. Newspapers are biting the dust, film cameras are biting the dust - digital cameras are basically computers with lenses; new weapons are being developed and I'm sure in my lifetime, guns that use gun powder and bullets will not be used by modern militaries; music playing and purchases is changing dramatically; and there's more. Sure, many of those old technologies will probably stay around, but they won't be mainstream: they'll be something that hobbiests use. There will be a few folks who still use film cameras and there will be a few niche camera producers that will still make the camera, film and supplies. There will still be gun makers for those that still or have to keep using gun powder - or the government will outlaw the new weapons for civilian use. And there may be some traditional newspapers around here and there. But the thing is, things are changing at a fast pace now and eventually will slow down. If you look at progress throughout history there are times where their are huge leaps and changes and then things fo back to a baseline of progress. Some past examples: the Industrial Revolution and the Renaissance,
That is part of the reason Federal contracting is a specialized business and why it is not as profitable as it appears to be.
Depends on who is doing the books.
Manger interviewing accountants:
"2+2=?" First accountant, "4". mgr: "Thank you will be in touch." Mgr with 2nd accountant:" What's 2+2=" 2nd Accountant "5". Mgr: " Thank you for stopping by. " Mgr 3rd Acct" "What's 2+2=?" 3rd Accountant: "What do you want it to be?" MGR "You're hired!"
If Government contracting has so little profit, then why are so many companies scrambling to do it?
If the Feds paid nearly 10 million bucks for that I am obviously in the wrong line
of work. It looks like something I could knock off in a few weeks with Django and MySQL.
First start a company. Then make campaign contributions to the incumbent politicians that are part of the committee that overseas these things. Start in the Senate. Of course, you'll have to get around the campaign finance laws, but don't worry, there are plenty of law firms that can help - for a very nice price.
That' s not enough though! You also need a lobbying firm to lobby other politicians and the Government offices that also have input - there are folks that will do that for a nice price too.
Now, there will be others who will do the same, so you'll have to be very strategic and get the best advisers.
Now, after winning the contract, just outsource the actual design and implementation to the lowest bidder, and keep the profits; which in this case $10 million minus $5-6 million in campaign contributions and lobbyists less $200,000 (let's be generous!) for the actual software development, leaves you a profit of $3.8 million to $4.8 million.
Of course, you may have to go overseas because, as every CIO says, there are no qualified American programmers and they have to go overseas for the talent! All those people that don't have jobs out in the market now aren't qualified - even though the companies that used to employ them found them to be qualified for years but had to let them go for cost cutting purposes. They're out of work so there must be something wrong with them!
But wait! There's more!
You won't book the $3.8 to $4.8 million! You'll have other expenses and things to pay, tax write-offs and whatnot that will leave you with a loss. Then of course, there's going to be tax credits that will enable you and your buddies to get more money out of the American Taxpayer.
That is how you make money with Government contracts.
Actually, they're doing 75 then down to 55, then they pass you at 80, then you end up passing them up ahead at 65 while they're doing 60, then they're passing you again....while they're in the far left hand lane.
Then there are the folks who walk to their car, get in, and then dial heir phones. It as if they waited to get in their car in order to use the phone. My wife used to call me on the road. Every time she did, I would ask if there's anything important. If not, I would tell her to concentrate on the road because of the idiots on the road she has to watch out for. Sh still calls me from stop lights, but no longer when she's in traffic. BTW, this is Metro Atlanta where, I believe, has the highest per capita of morons driving - in one of the worst commutes in the country. I think only LA has us beat.
If you did any of those things, you you be the one going to jail.
The judge may get investigated. We're talking about real life here. Although, your idea would make a half way decent script for a direct to video movie. You would need a lot more violence (gun fights and move martial arts) and gratuitous sex - plenty of babes running around naked. It doesn't even have to make sense in the story - just have some hot chick taking off her clothes.
The idiots who hand out prison sentances for missing a council tax payment but give muggers a slap on the wrist need vacating from their benches (or ideally the gene pool).
That's the legislators fault - not the judges. Sure, the judges have discretion when sentencing, but it has to be within the law. I think it's ridiculous that there are so many folks in jail for life because they got caught a couple of times with a joint. But that's what the legislators wrote in the law to be tough in "The War on Drugs" (TM).
The one thing I don't understand is, why don't we actually see MORE breaches in data security than we do now? I mean like real deal, big time, Italian Job / Oceans 11 type stuff. Yeah a little crime here and there, ok. But with IT pervading every major monetary transaction, people in the know could essentially steal an infinite amount of money.
What we learned during the 2008 financial crisis is that there are plenty of ways for crooks to steal an infinite amount of money legally.
You were self motivated or had parents that really valued books or a peer group that valued "being smart" or all the above. You are not typical.
What the parent was referring to was that the upper middle class parents encouraged Summer activities like camp, music lessons, etc... You are right and that lower class parents can achieve the same thing if they valued education - a perfect example would be poor immigrants who understand that education is the key to a better life: Immigrant Asian families are stereotypical of this.
OTH, I've talked to many lower income Americans (born and raised and at least third generation) who think that when their cable TV goes out it is a major issue. I actually has a man complain that his kids were without TV! Going to the library to read is just a foreign concept to them - generally speaking. There are exceptions, of course.
I've heard of estates being managed by attorneys or trustees, who then did what they needed to do for the beneficiaries of the estate on their behalf. I've even heard of folks who had no control over the estate but it was in the control of the managing attorney, who then would run up fees and in the process spend the estate down. I maybe confusing legal terms: "estate" - "trust" - ???
In this particular case, it looks like Joyce's grandson is running the show.
As noted in a post below, the estate is really Joyce's grandson. Guessing, he may have used the copyright law to try to keep some embarrassing family "issues" out of the spot light.
I don't know about you guys, but I'd be a bit hesitant to have my family's issues put in the spot light - even if the perpetrators are long dead: J. Joyce died 68 years ago. Yeah, Joyce is dead, but his grandson has got to live with these things now.
Not everyone is eager to expand upon academic study of Joyce, however; Stephen Joyce, James' grandson and sole beneficiary owner of the estate, has been alleged to have destroyed some of the writer's correspondence,[49] threatened to sue if public readings were held during Bloomsday,[50] and blocked adaptations he felt were 'inappropriate'.[51] On 12 June 2006, Carol Schloss, a Stanford University professor, sued the estate and prevailed for refusing to give permission to use material about Joyce and his daughter on the professor's website.
I have no public comment other than I guess this is what the current copyright laws have brought us and I'm not sure if this is what the founders had in mind.
I was thinking of ships with zits. Of course, as the ship gets older, it will probably grow out of it. It will be bad for the ships that ship chocolate and potato chips!
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I usually look for negative reviews first when considering a product. I will google for "$product sucks". I try and see why people think it sucks. If I don't see any negative reviews, I know that no one is actually buying the product.
Definitely!
I would add that I pretty much ignore 5 star reviews. They're the ones where someone gets it on time and that warrants a 5 in their view. I really hate the dumb asses on Amazon who post +5 I haven't finished reading it yet but it's great! Or some of the 5 star reviews are plants - shills. Then they're the +1 stars that say something like "I haven't gotten it yet!" or they preach.
As far as equipment goes, no one has a rating for durability. Many products are great right out of the box but tank in less than a year.
Doesn't that just proof that they have Internet access?
No. It proves they don't If they did have internet access, you know their geeks would be surfing porn and playing WoW instead of building bombs.
Geeze.
If you can, why not save a few bucks and get the "Value Line" or be able to spend the extra money on more RAM, peripherals, etc.... or beer? I see a few features with the Thinkpad line that may be unnecessary for a developer.
Windows 98 (I have really old embedded software compilers that only run on 98, and yes I have tried every trick in the book to make them run on Linux)...
If can't get it to run on Linux, what will make it run on Mac OS?
Your post does have a bit of Mac Fanboy feel to it - just saying.
Nope.
I merely expressed a preference. That's all and it's nothing more. I respect Serling's immensely. I just prefer The Outer Limits over the Twilight Zone and I expressed why I have that preference. Everything else you projected onto my post - which is easy to do, especially here on Slashdot because of all the Star Wars vs. whatever statements you have pointed out.
Both shows can be a little preachy, but the Twilight Zone can get a little overboard. But then again, Rod Serling intended that when he created the show. Speaking of Rod Serling, a great show about him and his creations at PBS
Although Brazil has quite a few social problems, they're well on their way to getting their shit to together and I'm thinking in the not too distant future, they'll be a very large power house in the World Economy. I may start taking Portuguese!
I can't help but have this image of you at work, hair a mess with several days worth of beard growth, wearing a bathrobe and bunny slippers, walking around with a coffee cup with god knows what in it, and answering technical questions with Shakespearean quotes. They won't fire you because they can't find anyone else and they're not sure if you have a WMD planted somewhere in the city.
We're in a unique part of history where there is a huge upheaval in technology - mostly centered around computing. Newspapers are biting the dust, film cameras are biting the dust - digital cameras are basically computers with lenses; new weapons are being developed and I'm sure in my lifetime, guns that use gun powder and bullets will not be used by modern militaries; music playing and purchases is changing dramatically; and there's more. Sure, many of those old technologies will probably stay around, but they won't be mainstream: they'll be something that hobbiests use. There will be a few folks who still use film cameras and there will be a few niche camera producers that will still make the camera, film and supplies. There will still be gun makers for those that still or have to keep using gun powder - or the government will outlaw the new weapons for civilian use. And there may be some traditional newspapers around here and there. But the thing is, things are changing at a fast pace now and eventually will slow down. If you look at progress throughout history there are times where their are huge leaps and changes and then things fo back to a baseline of progress. Some past examples: the Industrial Revolution and the Renaissance,
Depends on who is doing the books.
Manger interviewing accountants:
"2+2=?"
First accountant, "4".
mgr: "Thank you will be in touch."
Mgr with 2nd accountant:" What's 2+2="
2nd Accountant "5".
Mgr: " Thank you for stopping by. "
Mgr 3rd Acct" "What's 2+2=?"
3rd Accountant: "What do you want it to be?"
MGR "You're hired!"
If Government contracting has so little profit, then why are so many companies scrambling to do it?
If the Feds paid nearly 10 million bucks for that I am obviously in the wrong line of work. It looks like something I could knock off in a few weeks with Django and MySQL.
First start a company. Then make campaign contributions to the incumbent politicians that are part of the committee that overseas these things. Start in the Senate. Of course, you'll have to get around the campaign finance laws, but don't worry, there are plenty of law firms that can help - for a very nice price.
That' s not enough though! You also need a lobbying firm to lobby other politicians and the Government offices that also have input - there are folks that will do that for a nice price too.
Now, there will be others who will do the same, so you'll have to be very strategic and get the best advisers.
Now, after winning the contract, just outsource the actual design and implementation to the lowest bidder, and keep the profits; which in this case $10 million minus $5-6 million in campaign contributions and lobbyists less $200,000 (let's be generous!) for the actual software development, leaves you a profit of $3.8 million to $4.8 million.
Of course, you may have to go overseas because, as every CIO says, there are no qualified American programmers and they have to go overseas for the talent! All those people that don't have jobs out in the market now aren't qualified - even though the companies that used to employ them found them to be qualified for years but had to let them go for cost cutting purposes. They're out of work so there must be something wrong with them!
But wait! There's more!
You won't book the $3.8 to $4.8 million! You'll have other expenses and things to pay, tax write-offs and whatnot that will leave you with a loss. Then of course, there's going to be tax credits that will enable you and your buddies to get more money out of the American Taxpayer.
That is how you make money with Government contracts.
No targeted ads!
It's not the government's job to protect particular business models or industries from technological innovation.
I'm in the:
industries you insensitive clod!
Actually, they're doing 75 then down to 55, then they pass you at 80, then you end up passing them up ahead at 65 while they're doing 60, then they're passing you again ....while they're in the far left hand lane.
Then there are the folks who walk to their car, get in, and then dial heir phones. It as if they waited to get in their car in order to use the phone. My wife used to call me on the road. Every time she did, I would ask if there's anything important. If not, I would tell her to concentrate on the road because of the idiots on the road she has to watch out for. Sh still calls me from stop lights, but no longer when she's in traffic. BTW, this is Metro Atlanta where, I believe, has the highest per capita of morons driving - in one of the worst commutes in the country. I think only LA has us beat.
The judge may get investigated. We're talking about real life here. Although, your idea would make a half way decent script for a direct to video movie. You would need a lot more violence (gun fights and move martial arts) and gratuitous sex - plenty of babes running around naked. It doesn't even have to make sense in the story - just have some hot chick taking off her clothes.
The idiots who hand out prison sentances for missing a council tax payment but give muggers a slap on the wrist need vacating from their benches (or ideally the gene pool).
That's the legislators fault - not the judges. Sure, the judges have discretion when sentencing, but it has to be within the law. I think it's ridiculous that there are so many folks in jail for life because they got caught a couple of times with a joint. But that's what the legislators wrote in the law to be tough in "The War on Drugs" (TM).
What we learned during the 2008 financial crisis is that there are plenty of ways for crooks to steal an infinite amount of money legally.
...and be lauded for it.
What the parent was referring to was that the upper middle class parents encouraged Summer activities like camp, music lessons, etc... You are right and that lower class parents can achieve the same thing if they valued education - a perfect example would be poor immigrants who understand that education is the key to a better life: Immigrant Asian families are stereotypical of this.
OTH, I've talked to many lower income Americans (born and raised and at least third generation) who think that when their cable TV goes out it is a major issue. I actually has a man complain that his kids were without TV! Going to the library to read is just a foreign concept to them - generally speaking. There are exceptions, of course.
But yeah, Joyce died 68 years ago and this is his grandson who's doing all this.
In this particular case, it looks like Joyce's grandson is running the show.
I don't know about you guys, but I'd be a bit hesitant to have my family's issues put in the spot light - even if the perpetrators are long dead: J. Joyce died 68 years ago. Yeah, Joyce is dead, but his grandson has got to live with these things now.
Just a guess as to his motives.
Not everyone is eager to expand upon academic study of Joyce, however; Stephen Joyce, James' grandson and sole beneficiary owner of the estate, has been alleged to have destroyed some of the writer's correspondence,[49] threatened to sue if public readings were held during Bloomsday,[50] and blocked adaptations he felt were 'inappropriate'.[51] On 12 June 2006, Carol Schloss, a Stanford University professor, sued the estate and prevailed for refusing to give permission to use material about Joyce and his daughter on the professor's website.
I have no public comment other than I guess this is what the current copyright laws have brought us and I'm not sure if this is what the founders had in mind.
... Schreck, a research analyst with IMS Research.
As a work around, I think he plans on just having Donkey carry around more batteries.
Right. He fakes his death, his artwork then becomes worth a fortune, he lives as a very rich guy under another name. Brilliant!
And if he becomes too famous, well, he can do what Elvis did and live in obscurity, occasionally appearing to keep his fans interested.
I was thinking of ships with zits. Of course, as the ship gets older, it will probably grow out of it. It will be bad for the ships that ship chocolate and potato chips!