Nope. I mean that if the company's core function is the production of software, and they outsource all software production, that all that is left is managers. At that point, it would be better for the consumer to purchase directly from the company actually performing the production. In this way, the management kill any intrinsic value that their company holds.
You don't have to do anything. The reason that people get outsourced like this is because companies are managed by people who do not value their technical personnel at all, and think that a company that only has managers actually has some value.
If you don't want to be outsourced, work for a company that thinks that they actually need to produce something, instead of some drunken fraternity party managed by drunken frat boys.
There are conspiracy theorists who really do believe that bit about the WTC.
I generally think that, in reality, people are unwilling to believe that the government can't take care of them. They look at it as this omnipotent thing. When it fails, they look for reasons that it failed. Terrorists attacked the WTC? No way, the government must've done it!
If I see your name on the Slashdot stories that put the XXX domain in an unfavorable light (where posters were saying that it's right-wing Christian nonsense to try to limit otherwise legal Internet activity, and how the US government was promoting censorship) I'm going not going to be able to concentrate on the outrageously distasteful pornography I'm looking at, I'll be laughing so hard.
NMCI was talked about while I had a summer job doing network support at a Navy base as an undergraduate. The contract was awarded in October, 2000. Bush wasn't even elected yet.
With all due respect, while I know that Bush isn't the greatest president we've ever had, I believe that the NMCI contract was in the works before his time. It was also negotiated by the Dept of the Navy, if I recall. Congress had a big thing where they scolded the Navy for awarding a this as a sole-source contract.
So, while the NMCI might not be so great, and, while Bush may not be so great either, I don't think that the two are related.
Yes, but did you read the other awards?
Practically anybody who does anything with genetics is a "biopirate" in their book.
J Craig Venter
For undertaking, with flagrant disregard for national sovereignty over biodiversity, a US-funded global biopiracy expedition on his yacht, Sorcerer II, to collect and sequence microbial diversity from the world's oceans and soils. The genetic material will play a role in his most ambitious project to date: building an entirely new artificial organism.
It's not relying on people not knowing where your insecure webserver is.
This sounds a lot more like when the military doesn't say, "Hey, drop your bombs here, our troops are over heeeerrrreeee!" I suppose that, by your argument, the troops should just be well protected enough to survive that bomb blast, but that's not how it works in these scenarios. They like to keep these things secret.
By the way, if you were wondering the password to my computer, it's TYPE_THESE_WORDS_IN.
I would have to say that the technology is moving forward though, it's the offerings of industry that are perhaps not where people would like them to be. Perhaps industry views it more as a potential fad item than anything with real staying power. It sure seems as though the money has been on HD-TV, which most people aren't using yet. Why would they skip an opportunity to pump you for a buck after you've bought your HD-TV?
Dollars and cents for a research objective though, $750,000 to put together a satellite, from research objectives to fabrication and everything between, minus the cost of the launch, is a bargain.
What exactly is the economic incentive for them to coalesce? Last time I checked, the whole point was to pump gamers for money on a monthly cycle, rather than just up front with each release.
Long ago, I was an undergraduate at WVU (not that long, I suppose, I'm only 26).
As a member of Upsilon Pi Epsilon (Computer Science Honor Society), I was invited to the WVU Computer Science Academy inductions. Inductees are alumni of the program who have made a major contribution either to science or industry. One of the inductees was a very interesting gentleman. He was blind, and professors remembering his antics told a story of him writing code allowing the paper tape writer to output braile.
Whatever your background is, that's pretty much the end of the argument.
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Nope. I mean that if the company's core function is the production of software, and they outsource all software production, that all that is left is managers. At that point, it would be better for the consumer to purchase directly from the company actually performing the production. In this way, the management kill any intrinsic value that their company holds.
Sorry, I thought that that was the same as this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavarand
The coolest random number generator ever.
http://www.lavarnd.org/
You don't have to do anything. The reason that people get outsourced like this is because companies are managed by people who do not value their technical personnel at all, and think that a company that only has managers actually has some value.
If you don't want to be outsourced, work for a company that thinks that they actually need to produce something, instead of some drunken fraternity party managed by drunken frat boys.
In 20 years, undergraduate computer science students will be required to write virtual machine monitors.
Right now, I have taken classes that required me to write neural networks, and perform experiments on compute clusters.
20 years ago, this was a big deal.
There are conspiracy theorists who really do believe that bit about the WTC.
I generally think that, in reality, people are unwilling to believe that the government can't take care of them. They look at it as this omnipotent thing. When it fails, they look for reasons that it failed. Terrorists attacked the WTC? No way, the government must've done it!
If I see your name on the Slashdot stories that put the XXX domain in an unfavorable light (where posters were saying that it's right-wing Christian nonsense to try to limit otherwise legal Internet activity, and how the US government was promoting censorship) I'm going not going to be able to concentrate on the outrageously distasteful pornography I'm looking at, I'll be laughing so hard.
Yes, here's the timeline.
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http://www.nmci.navy.mil/Press_Room/NMCI%20AT%20A
NMCI was talked about while I had a summer job doing network support at a Navy base as an undergraduate. The contract was awarded in October, 2000. Bush wasn't even elected yet.
With all due respect, while I know that Bush isn't the greatest president we've ever had, I believe that the NMCI contract was in the works before his time. It was also negotiated by the Dept of the Navy, if I recall. Congress had a big thing where they scolded the Navy for awarding a this as a sole-source contract.
So, while the NMCI might not be so great, and, while Bush may not be so great either, I don't think that the two are related.
Yes, but did you read the other awards? Practically anybody who does anything with genetics is a "biopirate" in their book. J Craig Venter For undertaking, with flagrant disregard for national sovereignty over biodiversity, a US-funded global biopiracy expedition on his yacht, Sorcerer II, to collect and sequence microbial diversity from the world's oceans and soils. The genetic material will play a role in his most ambitious project to date: building an entirely new artificial organism.
Ahh, I feel much freer now knowing that there will be cameras watching my every move.
I don't know, but I find it,i.e.all to be quite intriguing.
Well, they do all just line up and shoot each other. Like in wars prior to the American Revolution.
This is a little different.
It's not relying on people not knowing where your insecure webserver is.
This sounds a lot more like when the military doesn't say, "Hey, drop your bombs here, our troops are over heeeerrrreeee!" I suppose that, by your argument, the troops should just be well protected enough to survive that bomb blast, but that's not how it works in these scenarios. They like to keep these things secret.
By the way, if you were wondering the password to my computer, it's TYPE_THESE_WORDS_IN.
I have shutter glasses, they're ok.
I would have to say that the technology is moving forward though, it's the offerings of industry that are perhaps not where people would like them to be. Perhaps industry views it more as a potential fad item than anything with real staying power. It sure seems as though the money has been on HD-TV, which most people aren't using yet. Why would they skip an opportunity to pump you for a buck after you've bought your HD-TV?
I'll eat you for that comment! RAWR!!
There should be no legal distinction between stealing chewing gum from a shop and performing an illegal download.
So, you'd get two years for stealing gum?
Here's a holographic projector as well, albeit, 2D.
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http://www.elecdesign.com/Articles/Index.cfm?AD=1
We have better 3D video cards, better holograms, and all kinds of great graphics research. I would say that the 3D technology has advanced greatly.
Yes. The sign at the theater not to bring in outside food or drink.
Well, sorry, you've said it, and you're stuck with what you said, Anonymous Coward!
Dollars and cents for a research objective though, $750,000 to put together a satellite, from research objectives to fabrication and everything between, minus the cost of the launch, is a bargain.
What exactly is the economic incentive for them to coalesce? Last time I checked, the whole point was to pump gamers for money on a monthly cycle, rather than just up front with each release.
Long ago, I was an undergraduate at WVU (not that long, I suppose, I'm only 26).
As a member of Upsilon Pi Epsilon (Computer Science Honor Society), I was invited to the WVU Computer Science Academy inductions. Inductees are alumni of the program who have made a major contribution either to science or industry. One of the inductees was a very interesting gentleman. He was blind, and professors remembering his antics told a story of him writing code allowing the paper tape writer to output braile.
Whatever your background is, that's pretty much the end of the argument.
It was *cough* a joke.