In a nutshell, the lead-up to the Iraq war. This all happened as I was just getting into politics and at the time I was a voracious consumer of news, up to even trying to read legislation (not with much success as I have no legal training). It was blatantly obvious to anyone who followed the news at any beyond a cursory level that we were all being conned into a war and all of the major news outlets were in on the fix. Either they were enabling or simply too afraid to dissent. Even the mighty New York Times had Judith Miller serving as a government mouthpiece.
It seems to be even worse now. I gave up on 60 minutes after watching Lara "look at my tits" Logan do everything short of fellate an Army general in an interview where he was selling unpopular US military strategy.
I was in AFROTC 20 years ago. It was known for a long time that the "battle boom" of pilots from Vietnam who went to the air lines was drying up, and when those numbers fell, there'd be a suction of active duty pilots lured into the civilian sector to fill in the need. There's always going to be a line of kids trying to fly fighters. This is more a Pin vs Pout issue. Couple that with a smaller Air Force of gourmet fighters and drones and now the civilian sector is going to have to get used to finding/creating other pools of pilots with 1000s of hours in hand.
We're all way too willing to surrender rights for security from terrorism. Look at the uproar when the TSA tried to repeal the small knives ban. The second another terrorism incident occurs, people will be looking for their civic scapegoat and no elected official wants to wear that bullseye. Until people are willing to accept risk, politicians have shrewdly decided to give the people what they demand.
EDIT: Just read the rationale for the alert and that is NOT a good use of the system. I totally agree with the existence, but only for direct threats of harm.
My exact reaction. A neighbor's kid goes missing, law enforcement needs timely info, and people are complaining? If it was your kid, you'd want the National Guard called in.
As for the people who aren't going to look, there's still a group of people who know the car.
Welcome to Wall Street 2100, the sequel. I watched a pretty good panel discussion about the subtle change in our financial sector from investment- to trader-focused. People aren't worried about profit or fundamentals or products. Companies aren't even trying to sell themselves to the individual investor anymore since it's all about the big boys slinging massive HFTs. It's about how your stock is playing in the market. I always wondered how so many ubersmart people could be duped by Enron. The reality is, they weren't. They just didn't care so long as the checks continued to clear.
Maybe a subsurface probe that drills down where we expect to find liquid water, then to tests there? Maybe just dig a deep hole and test. Hell, set off a bomb if you have to. Our best bets are under the dirt now.
I was in a corp a few weeks ago where a manager started on a rant detailing some of his reprehensible views, including legalizing pedophilia. He followed up with, "if you don't like it you can just leave the corp." Sorry, but I don't want unfettered access to the crudest thoughts in the mind of every human being I interact with. Even if you can't understand why, there's a point to civility and social standards.
Any idiot can sue for absolutely anything. I can sue my chair manufacturer for making me fat because it's so comfy. Now, if someone *wins* one of these ridiculous suites, THAT is news!
we're just going to keep on burning it till we see an effect, and a big and unambiguous one.
No, we're seeing effects already. We're going to keep burning it until the devil is knocking at the door, then the skeptics will be the ones screaming the loudest about how they're new solution is the best.
Based on a rumor I heard about a local mega-development firm, make sure you build your app with the flexibility to swap out DB implementations and make sure the Oracle sales guys *know* it. Prices change drastically when they know you're not locked in. As for PostgreSQL, from my experience where I'm sure you'll lose out is with tools and a development environment.
Specifically, that is. Microsoft's business strategy has been to crush upstarts with overwhelming force (even at a loss), then move on. My company had started working on Palm apps just as that tactic took effect. In the oughties, technology expanded so far that there were simply too many holes in the dike to plug. And, with mobile devices and broadband eating into the role of the desktop, MS doesn't have the money tree of Windows and Office giving them unlimited cash to throw around squashing mosquitoes. They really need to start being realistic about what kind of a niche they want to hold onto just as IBM has kept themselves relevant. They're still making tons of money, I just don't think they should keep on trying to hop on every passing train.
Those roads are in no way intended for motorcyclists. In fact, I'd say 1/2 of these roads are ANTI-motorcyclist since they often have gravel shoulders and "joints" that get splashed up on the tarmac. I know this because I've dropped my bike 2X sliding over rural gravel splashed up on the road.
Sponsored by a local company (probably recruiting) and not officially ACM-sanctioned. These are the kinds of competitions where if you practice you'll do much better at them. Our college had just rebooted their ACM club and I got the distinct feeling that had we been dedicated for years a team could place very high. We were around the 80% percentile or so and still burned 1/2 our time figuring out the logistics (physical space and PC access was limited). On top of that, we had a couple questions worked out, just formatting errors (silly stuff like one too many CRLFs) that the automated graded rejected.
I'm not slamming these results since I think the project winners are probably very good programmers over all, but I bet a schools that focus and compete every year are at a distinct advantage. I've seen these pattern repeated in other areas like spelling bees.
Get yourself a really nice tablet for browsing from the couch, in bed, or on the road. But, you STILL need a decent PC for typing up that occasional document. High-end tablet and low-end PC is perfect for the general user. People erroneously go for the laptop when what they want is something uber-portable not semi-portable (there are some cool laptop-tablet combos out there).
I figured this out as a movie buff who loves looking up actors and movies on the fly from my couch.
I bet it improves the error rate. I learned to type on electric typewriters. As PCs took over for word processing, my error rate has gotten terrible. On an electric typewriter, making one mistake is a pain in the butt to fix, even with the ones that have the built-in correction tape.
But, urban areas do subsidize rural areas. I live in Kansas and it's amazing how remote and sparse humanity gets just 5 miles outside of the KC metro. There was a stat from I think the 2004 Prez election where, except for 2 exceptions (Texas and Colorado?), every red state was a net consumer of tax revenue and every blue state was a net producer.
When I riding my motorcycles over hundreds of miles through farmland where there's hardly any traffic and hardly any houses, you still see immaculately maintained roads, power lines, etc. No way that the 2-3 houses you might see on a one mile stretch are paying for that infrastructure out of their taxes. And as contradictory as it might seem, these are the communities that rail the most against Big Government. Every time we take a step towards giving these regions a taste of what the Free Market really means, Congressmen swoop in to reverse the effects.
As an example, we had price protections on crops (I think corn) that were repealed maybe 10 or so years ago. Prices immediately tanked and the distribution middlemen basically ate the profits (your food didn't get any cheaper). So, rather than cheering on the Free Market, Congress came back with new farmer subsidizes that in effect rewarded the distributors.
Now, I'm not against farmer subsidizes since they protect these guys from the wild variances of Mother Nature, but there needs to be some education process on that whole Government Bad motif.
If you keep missing deadlines and find yourself in overtime crunches, the problem is with the way you estimate costs. Lots of shops assume that you're supposed to start working 60 hour weeks and running around flailing your arms right before every release. If that's your pattern, figure out why things are so delayed and factor that in. If management doesn't accept your estimates and they turn out to be closer to reality, there's not much more you can do.
Any changes and feature additions obviously have to be included in the estimate.
Movies and music are NOT free. Get that through your head. You might find it convenient to freely stream a flick some conglomerate of investors sank $100 million to produce. No matter how you rationalize what you're doing you're taking for free what someone spent money to produce and is trying to sell.
The fundamentals will not change. Not thinking a movie is worth of your $10 is not an excuse. Thinking the lead actor is an untalented douche is not an excuse. Hating the producer is not an excuse. Your convenience is not an excuse. You are not entitled to free shit and you are not a delicate unique little snowflake.
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In a nutshell, the lead-up to the Iraq war. This all happened as I was just getting into politics and at the time I was a voracious consumer of news, up to even trying to read legislation (not with much success as I have no legal training). It was blatantly obvious to anyone who followed the news at any beyond a cursory level that we were all being conned into a war and all of the major news outlets were in on the fix. Either they were enabling or simply too afraid to dissent. Even the mighty New York Times had Judith Miller serving as a government mouthpiece.
It seems to be even worse now. I gave up on 60 minutes after watching Lara "look at my tits" Logan do everything short of fellate an Army general in an interview where he was selling unpopular US military strategy.
I was in AFROTC 20 years ago. It was known for a long time that the "battle boom" of pilots from Vietnam who went to the air lines was drying up, and when those numbers fell, there'd be a suction of active duty pilots lured into the civilian sector to fill in the need. There's always going to be a line of kids trying to fly fighters. This is more a Pin vs Pout issue. Couple that with a smaller Air Force of gourmet fighters and drones and now the civilian sector is going to have to get used to finding/creating other pools of pilots with 1000s of hours in hand.
Why bother with a lawsuit when you can dump a few hundred thousand in the right campaign coffers? Local politicians come very cheap.
We're all way too willing to surrender rights for security from terrorism. Look at the uproar when the TSA tried to repeal the small knives ban. The second another terrorism incident occurs, people will be looking for their civic scapegoat and no elected official wants to wear that bullseye. Until people are willing to accept risk, politicians have shrewdly decided to give the people what they demand.
EDIT: Just read the rationale for the alert and that is NOT a good use of the system. I totally agree with the existence, but only for direct threats of harm.
My exact reaction. A neighbor's kid goes missing, law enforcement needs timely info, and people are complaining? If it was your kid, you'd want the National Guard called in.
As for the people who aren't going to look, there's still a group of people who know the car.
Welcome to Wall Street 2100, the sequel. I watched a pretty good panel discussion about the subtle change in our financial sector from investment- to trader-focused. People aren't worried about profit or fundamentals or products. Companies aren't even trying to sell themselves to the individual investor anymore since it's all about the big boys slinging massive HFTs. It's about how your stock is playing in the market. I always wondered how so many ubersmart people could be duped by Enron. The reality is, they weren't. They just didn't care so long as the checks continued to clear.
A cheek?
Maybe a subsurface probe that drills down where we expect to find liquid water, then to tests there? Maybe just dig a deep hole and test. Hell, set off a bomb if you have to. Our best bets are under the dirt now.
Maybe the poster is a woman?
I was in a corp a few weeks ago where a manager started on a rant detailing some of his reprehensible views, including legalizing pedophilia. He followed up with, "if you don't like it you can just leave the corp." Sorry, but I don't want unfettered access to the crudest thoughts in the mind of every human being I interact with. Even if you can't understand why, there's a point to civility and social standards.
They're also known for their shadow melds and healing moon pools.
Volcano IS a woman!
Any idiot can sue for absolutely anything. I can sue my chair manufacturer for making me fat because it's so comfy. Now, if someone *wins* one of these ridiculous suites, THAT is news!
we're just going to keep on burning it till we see an effect, and a big and unambiguous one.
No, we're seeing effects already. We're going to keep burning it until the devil is knocking at the door, then the skeptics will be the ones screaming the loudest about how they're new solution is the best.
Based on a rumor I heard about a local mega-development firm, make sure you build your app with the flexibility to swap out DB implementations and make sure the Oracle sales guys *know* it. Prices change drastically when they know you're not locked in. As for PostgreSQL, from my experience where I'm sure you'll lose out is with tools and a development environment.
Specifically, that is. Microsoft's business strategy has been to crush upstarts with overwhelming force (even at a loss), then move on. My company had started working on Palm apps just as that tactic took effect. In the oughties, technology expanded so far that there were simply too many holes in the dike to plug. And, with mobile devices and broadband eating into the role of the desktop, MS doesn't have the money tree of Windows and Office giving them unlimited cash to throw around squashing mosquitoes. They really need to start being realistic about what kind of a niche they want to hold onto just as IBM has kept themselves relevant. They're still making tons of money, I just don't think they should keep on trying to hop on every passing train.
Those roads are in no way intended for motorcyclists. In fact, I'd say 1/2 of these roads are ANTI-motorcyclist since they often have gravel shoulders and "joints" that get splashed up on the tarmac. I know this because I've dropped my bike 2X sliding over rural gravel splashed up on the road.
Sponsored by a local company (probably recruiting) and not officially ACM-sanctioned. These are the kinds of competitions where if you practice you'll do much better at them. Our college had just rebooted their ACM club and I got the distinct feeling that had we been dedicated for years a team could place very high. We were around the 80% percentile or so and still burned 1/2 our time figuring out the logistics (physical space and PC access was limited). On top of that, we had a couple questions worked out, just formatting errors (silly stuff like one too many CRLFs) that the automated graded rejected.
I'm not slamming these results since I think the project winners are probably very good programmers over all, but I bet a schools that focus and compete every year are at a distinct advantage. I've seen these pattern repeated in other areas like spelling bees.
Get yourself a really nice tablet for browsing from the couch, in bed, or on the road. But, you STILL need a decent PC for typing up that occasional document. High-end tablet and low-end PC is perfect for the general user. People erroneously go for the laptop when what they want is something uber-portable not semi-portable (there are some cool laptop-tablet combos out there).
I figured this out as a movie buff who loves looking up actors and movies on the fly from my couch.
Ditto!
I bet it improves the error rate. I learned to type on electric typewriters. As PCs took over for word processing, my error rate has gotten terrible. On an electric typewriter, making one mistake is a pain in the butt to fix, even with the ones that have the built-in correction tape.
But, urban areas do subsidize rural areas. I live in Kansas and it's amazing how remote and sparse humanity gets just 5 miles outside of the KC metro. There was a stat from I think the 2004 Prez election where, except for 2 exceptions (Texas and Colorado?), every red state was a net consumer of tax revenue and every blue state was a net producer.
When I riding my motorcycles over hundreds of miles through farmland where there's hardly any traffic and hardly any houses, you still see immaculately maintained roads, power lines, etc. No way that the 2-3 houses you might see on a one mile stretch are paying for that infrastructure out of their taxes. And as contradictory as it might seem, these are the communities that rail the most against Big Government. Every time we take a step towards giving these regions a taste of what the Free Market really means, Congressmen swoop in to reverse the effects.
As an example, we had price protections on crops (I think corn) that were repealed maybe 10 or so years ago. Prices immediately tanked and the distribution middlemen basically ate the profits (your food didn't get any cheaper). So, rather than cheering on the Free Market, Congress came back with new farmer subsidizes that in effect rewarded the distributors.
Now, I'm not against farmer subsidizes since they protect these guys from the wild variances of Mother Nature, but there needs to be some education process on that whole Government Bad motif.
If you keep missing deadlines and find yourself in overtime crunches, the problem is with the way you estimate costs. Lots of shops assume that you're supposed to start working 60 hour weeks and running around flailing your arms right before every release. If that's your pattern, figure out why things are so delayed and factor that in. If management doesn't accept your estimates and they turn out to be closer to reality, there's not much more you can do.
Any changes and feature additions obviously have to be included in the estimate.
Movies and music are NOT free. Get that through your head. You might find it convenient to freely stream a flick some conglomerate of investors sank $100 million to produce. No matter how you rationalize what you're doing you're taking for free what someone spent money to produce and is trying to sell.
The fundamentals will not change. Not thinking a movie is worth of your $10 is not an excuse. Thinking the lead actor is an untalented douche is not an excuse. Hating the producer is not an excuse. Your convenience is not an excuse. You are not entitled to free shit and you are not a delicate unique little snowflake.