What makes you think your law applies in my country?
My understanding is that most, if not all, industrialized nations have some sort of laws covering defamatory speech. And among those, the United States' laws are often more LENIENT than those in other countries.
The problem is that Macintosh has never been accepted on corporate desktops, and that's where Microsoft's next version of Windows will be unstoppable.
Microsoft's been having enough trouble getting their CURRENT version of Windows on corporate desktops. A huge segment of the market is still sticking with Win2K because it's been tested, it meets corporate needs, and it works "well enough" and XP offers so few compelling new features that an upgrade isn't justified.
So even if you use not one single recommendation (we need the disco ball, damnit!), you have something reasonable and well documented to compare against, which makes your job easier.
Until it comes time to justify to the PHBs and bean-counters why you didn't follow every recommendation in the standard, to the letter. Sure, YOU know that your custom solution is more appropriate than the baseline, but how are you going to defend it to people that don't understand it as well?
coffee is a powerful diarrhetic, which ultimately means it removes more water from your body than it provides.
Please note that the water removal takes place mainly as urination, and not in the way suggested by your... alternate... spelling of the term.
This can cause dehydration, probably the foremost cause of cancer (whether people realize it or not).
Proof? I'm willing to concede that dehydration could logically be an influencing factor in the development on cancer, but I've not heard of any medical studies concluding such.
if parents want to live out in the hinterlands(far from thier town school) then they should have to pay the cost for transporting the kid in every day.
Yes, that's why some families with school-age children live far far away from the schools -- because they WANT to. Housing costs must have nothing to do with it...
At the high school level, students that are otherwise served by buses should be forced to use them instead of driving their own cars to school.
Yes, the best way to deal with teenagers is to force them to do something they don't want to do.
As if that could be achieved anyway -- depending on how it's written, a law banning high-school-age students from driving their own cars on public roads to and from school could well be unconstitutional.
Could schools discourage students from driving themselves to school by eliminating parking spaces, charging high parking fees, etc.? Sure. But there's few situations where a school's authority over student behavior extends beyond campus.
In my experience, all the "social" aspect of school (public or private) does is breed elitist and exclusionary people. If someone is the least bit different, school is the worst place to send them, they will be excluded, looked down on and made fun of by the "cliquey" people.
And the "Real World" isn't like that?
Might as well get kids used to it while they're young.
You don't need someone who knows zOS, you need someone who can learn zOS.
You also need someone who WANTS to learn zOS, and possibly end up working with it and it alone for the rest of their career.
Choosing to specialize in mainframe technology means your employment options are going to be limited to those companies which have mainframes. Specialize in something more widespread, like Unix administration or web development, and you can work for practically anyone.
All the mainframe experts I know right now are barely past 40, and worried that their jobs will disappear before they hit retirement. I can't say I'd blame a recent university graduate for not following in their footsteps.
Why not just create a free (as in beer) pr0n-service while holding up "Don't be evil" moral standars, and watch the competition be washed away?
Usenet binary groups already exist!
Incidentally, I'm pretty sure Perfect Ten used to (or still does?) post its own images to Usenet, as a form of marketing. I have to wonder why they're surprised that content they were giving away for free found its way onto other web sites.
In one post he accused google of manipulating their stock price while SIMULTANEOUSLY saying they were going to have the biggest point loss in the history of the company. I'm sorry, but I fail to see why they'd manipulate their own stock price down.
So the company can buy the stock back for much less than they previously sold it for, meaning the public IPO earnings were "free money"? Or so executives can buy stock on the cheap now, and then execute a master plan to bring the price back up, putting more money in their own pockets?
It's the same thing SCO has been accused of doing, and personally I suspect that the board of WWE, Inc. is doing the same thing. What other explanation for the sorry state of pro wrestling can there be?
it might wake my North American friends up to the fact that there are these things called "diseases" out there in the real world and that "yes, unbelievable or not" Americans can contract them and die from them.
Do you Americans not immunise your children?
We do. Most (all?) states have laws which dictate that a child may not begin to attend school unless he or she has received vaccination against a set of diseases -- and that set invariably includes measles.
Now, it may be possible that the outbreak at Microsoft is among older employees who were not subject to mandatory immunization as children, or expatriates who did not spend their childhoods here. Neither scenario is related to your accusatory post, though. Safe to say, though, that almost every American-born person under the age of 30 has indeed received a measles vaccine.
Now that I've set you straight on the facts, will you cease your "North Americans are ignorant of the real world" tirade?
We need to cap CEO salaries to something like 4 times what their best people on the ground earn. Don't think it can work?
I don't. Before the ink was even dry on a theoretical "maximum wage" law, we would see:
1) challenges to to Constitutionality of the law
2) massive exploitation of the inevitable loopholes. So the CEO's salary can only be the equivalent of $80/hr? The board will put together a compensation package that includes multimillion-dollar "performance incentives" to supplement that $150k/year then. Or the CEO is no longer an "employee", he is now an outside consulting company and the two business are free to negotiate whatever contract they wish between them with no cap.
In any case, corporations are not beholden to make the CEO rich; that is just a side effect. They are beholden to the SHAREHOLDERS. Many shareholders are wealthy individuals, yes, but many more are group managed investments. Like your 401(k). Yes, YOURS.
If you don't like the culture of corporate greed, cash out your retirement accounts and store wads of bills under your mattress, because otherwise you're contributing to the problem.
I've also spent time building teams in India, and its been pretty much hit and miss. Some teams do great work and are very successful, other teams spend their time trying to negotiate to do less work and have longer times to complete projects
How is this different than working with a development team from anywhere else in the world?
At Cornell, two of the largest library buildings (there are about a dozen throughout the campus) are Uris Library and Olin Library, and they are located directly across from each other.
Uris, the one with the clocktower, is kind of an all-purpose library. There are reference, fiction, nonfiction, periodicals despartments, yes, but there are also grand rooms full of study carrels, computer labs, cooperative work rooms, lounges, etc. It is a place to go to study.
Olin, in contrast, is a place to go to get books, and little else. There are few amenities, just shelf after shelf, row after row, floor after floor of books. In the basement they even have motorized stacks so more books can be fit in the space without the nuisance of having to leave space for humans in between each row.
Libraries can be places for books AND/OR places for people. I see no problem with facilities specializing in catering towards one or the other, as long as both are ultimately still available.
Teachers must be properly trained to use this technology to its fullest. I'm afraid that won't realistically happen until the next generation of teachers emerges that has grown up all their lives around computers.
Sorry. It's going to take a lot longer than just one generation for education to "use technology to its fullest".
The paradigm for teaching for the past, oh, 4000 years has been primarily verbal--lectures and dialogues. There's not much technology can do to supplement those activities. It will take a wholesale change in our approach to teaching to change that.
Large areas of land with little or no lighting and little or no security, filled with LCD screens... Sounds like the perfect opportunity for latenight theft.
I'm sure they'll design in some anti-theft features. Like maybe embedding each LCD in a block of granite that weighs several hundred pounds.
Given that the NWS is still going forward with making this data available, I don't think that the folks at the NWS support the bill.
It's promising, though, that only one Senator (Rick Santorum) was willing to sponsor the bill, and it's now been sitting dormant in committee for four months. Perhaps the Senate has better things to do than pass laws that ensure that a government agency cannot offer its services to the public.
What doe sthis say about how advanced a country is when even their police departments understand cyber life well enough to grasp the thought of an MMPORG mugging
Clearly this police department DOESN'T understand "cyber life" well enough, or they'd have recognized that if an action is an intentional part of the game design, it cannot be a criminal act.
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What makes you think your law applies in my country?
My understanding is that most, if not all, industrialized nations have some sort of laws covering defamatory speech. And among those, the United States' laws are often more LENIENT than those in other countries.
The problem is that Macintosh has never been accepted on corporate desktops, and that's where Microsoft's next version of Windows will be unstoppable.
Microsoft's been having enough trouble getting their CURRENT version of Windows on corporate desktops. A huge segment of the market is still sticking with Win2K because it's been tested, it meets corporate needs, and it works "well enough" and XP offers so few compelling new features that an upgrade isn't justified.
Windows 98 did not contain some magic software to allow you to call your friends for free.
Explain what C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\2600HZ.WAV was for, then.
So even if you use not one single recommendation (we need the disco ball, damnit!), you have something reasonable and well documented to compare against, which makes your job easier.
Until it comes time to justify to the PHBs and bean-counters why you didn't follow every recommendation in the standard, to the letter. Sure, YOU know that your custom solution is more appropriate than the baseline, but how are you going to defend it to people that don't understand it as well?
By making computer chips more efficient, Sterling believes he can change computing by "one to three orders of magnitude"
So his plan is to ride the Moore's Law wave for 18 to 54 months?
(15 to 1500 years if they meant decimal orders of magnitude, rather than binary)
coffee is a powerful diarrhetic, which ultimately means it removes more water from your body than it provides.
Please note that the water removal takes place mainly as urination, and not in the way suggested by your... alternate... spelling of the term.
This can cause dehydration, probably the foremost cause of cancer (whether people realize it or not).
Proof? I'm willing to concede that dehydration could logically be an influencing factor in the development on cancer, but I've not heard of any medical studies concluding such.
if parents want to live out in the hinterlands(far from thier town school) then they should have to pay the cost for transporting the kid in every day.
Yes, that's why some families with school-age children live far far away from the schools -- because they WANT to. Housing costs must have nothing to do with it...
Or more accurately, raise *MY* taxes so *YOUR* child can go to school.
Not all of us are parents.
Or even more accurately, raise *OUR* taxes so *SOME OF OUR* children can go to school.
Not all of us are parents, but we all benefit from having an educated populace.
(Please save the debate over whether public schools succeed in accomplishing that for another time, thanks.)
At the high school level, students that are otherwise served by buses should be forced to use them instead of driving their own cars to school.
Yes, the best way to deal with teenagers is to force them to do something they don't want to do.
As if that could be achieved anyway -- depending on how it's written, a law banning high-school-age students from driving their own cars on public roads to and from school could well be unconstitutional.
Could schools discourage students from driving themselves to school by eliminating parking spaces, charging high parking fees, etc.? Sure. But there's few situations where a school's authority over student behavior extends beyond campus.
In my experience, all the "social" aspect of school (public or private) does is breed elitist and exclusionary people. If someone is the least bit different, school is the worst place to send them, they will be excluded, looked down on and made fun of by the "cliquey" people.
And the "Real World" isn't like that?
Might as well get kids used to it while they're young.
You don't need someone who knows zOS, you need someone who can learn zOS.
You also need someone who WANTS to learn zOS, and possibly end up working with it and it alone for the rest of their career.
Choosing to specialize in mainframe technology means your employment options are going to be limited to those companies which have mainframes. Specialize in something more widespread, like Unix administration or web development, and you can work for practically anyone.
All the mainframe experts I know right now are barely past 40, and worried that their jobs will disappear before they hit retirement. I can't say I'd blame a recent university graduate for not following in their footsteps.
Why not just create a free (as in beer) pr0n-service while holding up "Don't be evil" moral standars, and watch the competition be washed away?
Usenet binary groups already exist!
Incidentally, I'm pretty sure Perfect Ten used to (or still does?) post its own images to Usenet, as a form of marketing. I have to wonder why they're surprised that content they were giving away for free found its way onto other web sites.
- Its sheer financial power has sent salaries in Silicon Valley rocketing
Oh no, how terrible!
We wouldn't want employees to actually be able to AFFORD the $799,000 bungalows the Silicon Valley residents live in!
In one post he accused google of manipulating their stock price while SIMULTANEOUSLY saying they were going to have the biggest point loss in the history of the company. I'm sorry, but I fail to see why they'd manipulate their own stock price down.
So the company can buy the stock back for much less than they previously sold it for, meaning the public IPO earnings were "free money"? Or so executives can buy stock on the cheap now, and then execute a master plan to bring the price back up, putting more money in their own pockets?
It's the same thing SCO has been accused of doing, and personally I suspect that the board of WWE, Inc. is doing the same thing. What other explanation for the sorry state of pro wrestling can there be?
it might wake my North American friends up to the fact that there are these things called "diseases" out there in the real world and that "yes, unbelievable or not" Americans can contract them and die from them.
Do you Americans not immunise your children?
We do. Most (all?) states have laws which dictate that a child may not begin to attend school unless he or she has received vaccination against a set of diseases -- and that set invariably includes measles.
Now, it may be possible that the outbreak at Microsoft is among older employees who were not subject to mandatory immunization as children, or expatriates who did not spend their childhoods here. Neither scenario is related to your accusatory post, though. Safe to say, though, that almost every American-born person under the age of 30 has indeed received a measles vaccine.
Now that I've set you straight on the facts, will you cease your "North Americans are ignorant of the real world" tirade?
We need to cap CEO salaries to something like 4 times what their best people on the ground earn. Don't think it can work?
I don't. Before the ink was even dry on a theoretical "maximum wage" law, we would see:
1) challenges to to Constitutionality of the law
2) massive exploitation of the inevitable loopholes. So the CEO's salary can only be the equivalent of $80/hr? The board will put together a compensation package that includes multimillion-dollar "performance incentives" to supplement that $150k/year then. Or the CEO is no longer an "employee", he is now an outside consulting company and the two business are free to negotiate whatever contract they wish between them with no cap.
In any case, corporations are not beholden to make the CEO rich; that is just a side effect. They are beholden to the SHAREHOLDERS. Many shareholders are wealthy individuals, yes, but many more are group managed investments. Like your 401(k). Yes, YOURS.
If you don't like the culture of corporate greed, cash out your retirement accounts and store wads of bills under your mattress, because otherwise you're contributing to the problem.
I've also spent time building teams in India, and its been pretty much hit and miss. Some teams do great work and are very successful, other teams spend their time trying to negotiate to do less work and have longer times to complete projects
How is this different than working with a development team from anywhere else in the world?
Quit your fucking crying and VOTE.
I remember the last time they had this technology... when it was called "Mortimer Ichabod Marker".
At Cornell, two of the largest library buildings (there are about a dozen throughout the campus) are Uris Library and Olin Library, and they are located directly across from each other.
Uris, the one with the clocktower, is kind of an all-purpose library. There are reference, fiction, nonfiction, periodicals despartments, yes, but there are also grand rooms full of study carrels, computer labs, cooperative work rooms, lounges, etc. It is a place to go to study.
Olin, in contrast, is a place to go to get books, and little else. There are few amenities, just shelf after shelf, row after row, floor after floor of books. In the basement they even have motorized stacks so more books can be fit in the space without the nuisance of having to leave space for humans in between each row.
Libraries can be places for books AND/OR places for people. I see no problem with facilities specializing in catering towards one or the other, as long as both are ultimately still available.
One computer for every three students? How did they ever think that many computers would help with the children's education?
Xtreme Programming?
(the third child, of coure, plays The Manager.)
Teachers must be properly trained to use this technology to its fullest. I'm afraid that won't realistically happen until the next generation of teachers emerges that has grown up all their lives around computers.
Sorry. It's going to take a lot longer than just one generation for education to "use technology to its fullest".
The paradigm for teaching for the past, oh, 4000 years has been primarily verbal--lectures and dialogues. There's not much technology can do to supplement those activities. It will take a wholesale change in our approach to teaching to change that.
Large areas of land with little or no lighting and little or no security, filled with LCD screens... Sounds like the perfect opportunity for latenight theft.
I'm sure they'll design in some anti-theft features. Like maybe embedding each LCD in a block of granite that weighs several hundred pounds.
Given that the NWS is still going forward with making this data available, I don't think that the folks at the NWS support the bill.
It's promising, though, that only one Senator (Rick Santorum) was willing to sponsor the bill, and it's now been sitting dormant in committee for four months. Perhaps the Senate has better things to do than pass laws that ensure that a government agency cannot offer its services to the public.
What doe sthis say about how advanced a country is when even their police departments understand cyber life well enough to grasp the thought of an MMPORG mugging
Clearly this police department DOESN'T understand "cyber life" well enough, or they'd have recognized that if an action is an intentional part of the game design, it cannot be a criminal act.