So, they'd use lasers to melt the crystals? Or is lower temperature than that? If one left their cell phone in the car during the Summer, would the memory be wiped out?
If you buy one of these suckers, you'd best make sure your girlfriend really enjoys dusting. Oh, wait a minute...this is Slashdot.
I'd also point out that, in addition to slashdot, this is also the 21st century.
You tell 'em. I have an out of work programmer who's job was off-shored dusting my shit.
Th story starts when I was out on a date with this really hot OB/GYN of Asian decent from California. She was either at work or at the gym, which, being a doctor and a gym rat made any relationship pretty much impossible - then again that's what she told me. Anyway, I asked her if she actually liked being a doctor and she replied, "Most of the time. Although, dealing with the managed care and insurance was a downer." She then added that if she was really out for money, she would have went into law or computers. A doctor thought computers was a more lucrative profession than medicine. This was in 2000.
Before 2001, firms would roll their own internal systems so there was plenty of software development around. They didn't trust the "solution" providers, like SAP, yet because they firmly believed that those firms charged too much and they didn't want to do business like the solutions providers told them to operate. And back then, a development team was basically, a few designers/coders, an architect, a business analyst, a DBA or two, and the network guys who were off on their own. So, we had about 8+ folks working on a project - not including the network guys. Also, there was plenty of work because of the impending doom of 1/1/2000, when planes were going to fall out of the air, dogs and cats sleeping together, and Western Civilization going back to the stone age. Life was good, Making six figures as a contractor wasn't unheard of and even the norm.
Then came the recession of 2001 - 2002, maybe even into 2003.
Companies found out that it was cheaper in the long run to buy software off the shelf. They realized that SAP, IBM, Oracle, Perot, Siebels, EDS, etc... maybe was better and cheaper than rolling their own from scratch. So, out with the development teams, and in with the programmer/DBA & programmer/network admin - this is for most business environments. There wasn't a need for so many programmers anymore and if they did need a programmer, well, you could offshore for a hell of a lot less. Sure, there is still a demand for programmers, but no where near as many that were needed as back in the 90s. The market has shrank dramatically. Many companies no longer have their in house development staff. They outsourced it off to specialists or even off-shored it. (There is still a demand for blacksmiths, but instead of a demand for a couple per town, there is maybe a demand for a couple per state - if that. The same goes for buggy whip makers. And even then, many of those do it as a hobby and have day jobs because there isn't enough business to make a living.)
So, basically, IT has become another white collar corporate cog type of job.
This is just my take.
Have to stop correcting because Slashdot's entry script is falking out on me...
So far, their guys haven't steered me wrong. They'll look stuff up, especially if it's technical, on their machines. Their prices are as good as Newegg and you don't have to pay S&H but you do have to pay local sales tax, obviously. And they treat me well as a customer - unlike the big box stores.
I don't mean this to be advertisement, but considering that the typical retail store and most American businesses for that matter treat the customer as some sort of nuisance, I'd like to give some good words to a company that, so far, has been treating me right. Note, as soon as they slip up I'll be the first to slam them.
Disclaimer: This is a sample of one person dealing with one store with about a dozen purchases.
If you're being invaded and use nukes, wouldn't that mean you're nuking your own country? And if the invader's country is across the World, without an intercontinental delivery system, your only option is to threaten said invader's allies that may be near you. Then the allies only alternative is to protect itself and do a first strike on the nuclear plants.
If Iran proceeds with this, they are basically demanding Israel attack them, possibly with their own nuclear weapons.
Iran is playing a very dangerous game. Let's hope the Obama Administration is much more skillful than the previous administration.
When you guys see these kinds of articles, the ones that say "save BIG money with F/OSS","Get anything you need in software for FREE with F/OSS", etc... and there you are: designing, researching, cranking out code, putting it out there, and for the exception of a very very small minority of you, barely getting enough money to pay for the bandwidth for your server(s) - if that.
I'd be pretty pissed to see folks in big offices making real nice livings off of software that I designed and developed and tested.
Shit I forgot about you Young'ins> That song by Buffalo Springfield (Neil Young was in it - the crazy looking old guy who sang "Rockin in the Free World" ) was a song about the Kent State Massacre. A bunch of national guardsmen shot some college kids for protesting against the Viet Nam War.
Their subsides basically end up in the pockets of the big grain companies. In the first section of "The Omnivore's Dilemma", there's a farmer who explains how the government subsidies actually has distorted the relationship between supply and demand pushing prices down and down. Basically, the farmer gets less for his corn, has to produce more to get paid more and get more subsidies, which then because of greater supply, the price falls, so the farmer having to make payments, produces even more corn, and down and down we go. The benefits go to the HFC/Corn processors. They're getting cheap corn at the expense of the tax payers.
I can't remember the farmer's name, but he actually wants the subsidies to end because it will allow corn prices to increase - at least when he was interviewed.
From your own links, there is just an announcement of the summit and the other one just has some vague statements about who is going to be there, how they're going to be peaceful, how the police are overreacting, and an insistence that things will be peaceful.
But that's never the case is it? If it's just a minority of people who are doing it, I have a suggestion: turn those people over to the cops and tell the cops that you want peace.
Until we are able to achieve that world, we need to build popular pressure to win reforms that support democracy, human rights, and social and economic justice.
From what I gather, it is a socialist movement. It's hard to tell with all the double speak, euphemisms, and misunderstanding on their own part.
I do have a problem with folks from the Developed World, such as those protesters, arrogantly thinking that they know what's best for the people they are supposedly standing up for.
A friend of mine has been out there for the majority of this week.
Is he a journalist or a protester?
If he's a protester, I am curious just what he thinks he's accomplishing? For the life of me, I have no idea what they're protesting about, or what their problem with the G20 and every other type of international economic summit is, or what they think they can do about it. If their goal is to "get the word out"; well, they're doing a really shitty job.
As far as I can tell, they're just a bunch of punks who are causing damage and rioting for the sake of causing damage and rioting under the false pretense of standing up for something.
I didn't see anything about them trying to eliminate the socioeconomic attribute from the study. In other words, remove all the poor kids from the data and see if there is still a correlation. If there is a difference among kids from the same socioeconomic background being born in different times of the year, then I would consider that there is something to what season a kid is born.
Sonnna-of-a-bitch! Why couldn't they have discovered that when I was young! I was born too goddamn early! I could have been getting laid during those months, but noooooo, I was working and going to Summer school! A lot fucking good it did me! Instead of being washed up and depressed and I could be washed up, depressed, and with some fond memories from my young adulthood of getting laid by randy smart chicks!
I've been experiencing weird things too with Slashdot and stories not loading and seeing things that don't make sense. I don't get it.
Anyway, back to the topic of Windows 98 being released today. I wonder if the Clinton Administration will continue with the anti trust investigations into M$.
According to this website (in the bar on the right), $49 in 1979 is the same as $143.90 in today's dollars or $49 is $16.69 in 1979 dollars. The price has actually come down in terms of real dollars.
But, that's what the economists say. They're also saying the economy is getting better and we should be happy.
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He was talking about Apple, no the users.
Have strippers, a keg, taking sledgehammers to Windows machines, you get the idea.
Yeah, and? We were all talking about Vista too and that affected sales, how again?
Come on, this video is complex, challenging art.
I was hoping to see a bunch of anal sex with the caption being, "Hey, you got it up the ass with Vista be prepared for Windows 7!"
So, they'd use lasers to melt the crystals? Or is lower temperature than that? If one left their cell phone in the car during the Summer, would the memory be wiped out?
For $700 I'd expect at least one FW800 port on the front.
And a self-lubricating vagina and a mouth.
...designed in conjunction with BMW DesignWorks.
Next up, case designs by Ferrari, Gucci, Louis Vuitton, etc....
Then Ralph Lauren will do one for the bankers.
If you buy one of these suckers, you'd best make sure your girlfriend really enjoys dusting. Oh, wait a minute...this is Slashdot. I'd also point out that, in addition to slashdot, this is also the 21st century.
You tell 'em. I have an out of work programmer who's job was off-shored dusting my shit.
Before 2001, firms would roll their own internal systems so there was plenty of software development around. They didn't trust the "solution" providers, like SAP, yet because they firmly believed that those firms charged too much and they didn't want to do business like the solutions providers told them to operate. And back then, a development team was basically, a few designers/coders, an architect, a business analyst, a DBA or two, and the network guys who were off on their own. So, we had about 8+ folks working on a project - not including the network guys. Also, there was plenty of work because of the impending doom of 1/1/2000, when planes were going to fall out of the air, dogs and cats sleeping together, and Western Civilization going back to the stone age. Life was good, Making six figures as a contractor wasn't unheard of and even the norm.
Then came the recession of 2001 - 2002, maybe even into 2003.
Companies found out that it was cheaper in the long run to buy software off the shelf. They realized that SAP, IBM, Oracle, Perot, Siebels, EDS, etc... maybe was better and cheaper than rolling their own from scratch. So, out with the development teams, and in with the programmer/DBA & programmer/network admin - this is for most business environments. There wasn't a need for so many programmers anymore and if they did need a programmer, well, you could offshore for a hell of a lot less. Sure, there is still a demand for programmers, but no where near as many that were needed as back in the 90s. The market has shrank dramatically. Many companies no longer have their in house development staff. They outsourced it off to specialists or even off-shored it. (There is still a demand for blacksmiths, but instead of a demand for a couple per town, there is maybe a demand for a couple per state - if that. The same goes for buggy whip makers. And even then, many of those do it as a hobby and have day jobs because there isn't enough business to make a living.)
So, basically, IT has become another white collar corporate cog type of job.
This is just my take.
Have to stop correcting because Slashdot's entry script is falking out on me...
I don't mean this to be advertisement, but considering that the typical retail store and most American businesses for that matter treat the customer as some sort of nuisance, I'd like to give some good words to a company that, so far, has been treating me right. Note, as soon as they slip up I'll be the first to slam them.
Disclaimer: This is a sample of one person dealing with one store with about a dozen purchases.
If Iran proceeds with this, they are basically demanding Israel attack them, possibly with their own nuclear weapons.
Iran is playing a very dangerous game. Let's hope the Obama Administration is much more skillful than the previous administration.
I'd be pretty pissed to see folks in big offices making real nice livings off of software that I designed and developed and tested.
I guess that's why I'm not a F/OSS developer.
Shit I forgot about you Young'ins> That song by Buffalo Springfield (Neil Young was in it - the crazy looking old guy who sang "Rockin in the Free World" ) was a song about the Kent State Massacre. A bunch of national guardsmen shot some college kids for protesting against the Viet Nam War.
Stop, hey, what's that sound,
That's your ear drums blow'in out.
But what about the poor corn farmers???!????
Their subsides basically end up in the pockets of the big grain companies. In the first section of "The Omnivore's Dilemma", there's a farmer who explains how the government subsidies actually has distorted the relationship between supply and demand pushing prices down and down. Basically, the farmer gets less for his corn, has to produce more to get paid more and get more subsidies, which then because of greater supply, the price falls, so the farmer having to make payments, produces even more corn, and down and down we go. The benefits go to the HFC/Corn processors. They're getting cheap corn at the expense of the tax payers.
I can't remember the farmer's name, but he actually wants the subsidies to end because it will allow corn prices to increase - at least when he was interviewed.
But that's never the case is it? If it's just a minority of people who are doing it, I have a suggestion: turn those people over to the cops and tell the cops that you want peace.
Until we are able to achieve that world, we need to build popular pressure to win reforms that support democracy, human rights, and social and economic justice.
From what I gather, it is a socialist movement. It's hard to tell with all the double speak, euphemisms, and misunderstanding on their own part.
I do have a problem with folks from the Developed World, such as those protesters, arrogantly thinking that they know what's best for the people they are supposedly standing up for.
A friend of mine has been out there for the majority of this week.
Is he a journalist or a protester?
If he's a protester, I am curious just what he thinks he's accomplishing? For the life of me, I have no idea what they're protesting about, or what their problem with the G20 and every other type of international economic summit is, or what they think they can do about it. If their goal is to "get the word out"; well, they're doing a really shitty job.
As far as I can tell, they're just a bunch of punks who are causing damage and rioting for the sake of causing damage and rioting under the false pretense of standing up for something.
I think that's a potential area for error in this study: eduction == socioeconomic status.
I didn't see anything about them trying to eliminate the socioeconomic attribute from the study. In other words, remove all the poor kids from the data and see if there is still a correlation. If there is a difference among kids from the same socioeconomic background being born in different times of the year, then I would consider that there is something to what season a kid is born.
Sonnna-of-a-bitch! Why couldn't they have discovered that when I was young! I was born too goddamn early! I could have been getting laid during those months, but noooooo, I was working and going to Summer school! A lot fucking good it did me! Instead of being washed up and depressed and I could be washed up, depressed, and with some fond memories from my young adulthood of getting laid by randy smart chicks!
I'm disappointed guys!
Anyway, back to the topic of Windows 98 being released today. I wonder if the Clinton Administration will continue with the anti trust investigations into M$.
So, which category do they deny? The category of truth or the category of lying?
I wish I took the Stat class you had. It sounds like it was more fun and practical. :)
But, that's what the economists say. They're also saying the economy is getting better and we should be happy.