Motorola better start early and hire 500 Chinese developers to reverse engineer the Outlook sync because that's 9 times out of 10 why Microsoft wins every market they come into: Microsoft's undocument file formats. I can't believe how many times I've heard the "doesn't sync with outlook complaint" on many a non-microsoft pda forum.
I met a guy who had been working in tech for several years. He then lost his job and sent out 200 resumes. He didn't get a job and found himself competing against people with 20 years experience for jobs. He decided to give up on tech and lent some money out to open a liquor store. Now he makes tons of money, far more than he did in programming, and the work is easy. For instance, he went to Costco, bought $900 worth of Champagne and sold it for $5000 on New Years. He's putting in an underground cofee shop just like he did in his native Lithuania. Sorry guys, tech is a graveyard right now and unless you're really good you should explore other careers. If there's another dot.com boom come back but otherwise it isn't worth it.
Wow.. That's a little more than one ascii character per second... I can see the bits coming down now: A...L...I...E...N...A...T...T...A...C...K NO CARRIER
The Russians say they can get to Mars by 2014. They also have a suborbital space plane in the works. I think the Russians actually like being underestimated, in fact I wouldn't be suprised if it's an intentional part of their strategy.
Long narratives are fun reading but what we really need out of business books is a bunch of design patterns for businesses. We already have books on Business Modelling with UML . Why not start a whole patterns anti-patterns series based on this approach?
Electronic voting is screwy but, IMHO, The guy is just a little too out there on some stuff to be an effective spokesperson. If you google around you'll see.
For Example America's most controversial writer Gore Vidal has launched the most scathing attack to date on George W Bush's Presidency, calling for an investigation into the events of 9/11 to discover whether the Bush administration deliberately chose not to act on warnings of Al-Qaeda's plans.
Vidal's highly controversial 7000 word polemic titled 'The Enemy Within' - published in the print edition of The Observer today - argues that what he calls a 'Bush junta' used the terrorist attacks as a pretext to enact a pre-existing agenda to invade Afghanistan and crack down on civil liberties at home
More people die of malaria annually than any other disease and DDT is the most effective and cheapest way to fight mosquitos. Of course DDT is very dangerous to radical environmentalists in developed countries who are concerned about people in sub-saharan Africa then they are about the miniscule environmental effect that spraying DDT on interior walls will have.
It's kind of annoying that these days, when any new technology arrives, it is subject to a ridiculously paranoid environmentalism filter. Resevoir water is about.0001% of all water on the planet and people are worried about gas exchange and the temperature of it! Enough to deprive populations in the developing world of clean drinking water? I was suprised that the cost of the system wasn't mentioned in the header, only the environmental impact.
Here's what Bill Burke of the Jboss group has to say about all this: Over at the ServerSide
Posted By: Bill Burke on October 17, 2003 @ 10:51 AM in response to Message #98961. First, let me say that PostNuke is an excellent framework. Very early this year, we ported the JBoss website to PHP PostNuke because we loved the functionality. Unfortunately, it didn't scale one bit, even a little bit. The main culprit, I believe, was that PHP PostNuke made SQL queries for every part of the webpage on every single HTTP call. No caching what-so-ever. It brought www.jboss.org to its knees and our community was upset for a few days until we brought back the old JBoss driven website.
Since we liked Postnuke so much, we decided to start Nukes on JBoss. Which is built upon J2EE and JBoss and is now running www.jboss.org since May thanks to Nukes creator Julien Viet.
Is Java more scalable than PHP? I don't know. But Nukes on JBoss is definately orders of magnitude more scaleable than PHP PostNuke. We know from experience.
Uranium has to go somewhere. I guess you could say before it was mined it was in the mountain and the "mountain" was contaminated for millions of years. The point is, if you bury the stuff and it has no chance of getting in the ground water its as harmless as its ever going to get.
As soon as we can make people more intelligent and we do enough clinical trials I say, let's go for it. What have we got to loose? All we can do is improve the speed of technological progress!
News Flash: China, in a desperate attempt to keep up with the United States has introduced a wave of new registration including the death penalty for spamming. A seperate bill, also introduced, proposes 30 years hard labor for trolling Slashdot.
Reading tech books from start to finish is quite underrated. I find that if you don't read every word in a tech book, one often misses important information that can save a lot of time.
I would invite all of you to check out Austrian School of Economics. It has nothing to do with Austria except that's were all the origional theorists came from during its founding in the very early 20th century.
It is the major alternative to traditional Macro-Econ and Marxism. Among the economists of this "school" of thought are Nobel Prize winners Freidrich Hayek and renowned economist Ludwig Von Mises. It explains all economics starting with the premise that all action occurs because people are uneasy. If they were not uneasy they would not act. People exchange act to exchange a less desirable set of circumstances for a more desirable one. What people desire is subjective but people arrange their wants in a scale choosing the most desired things and setting aside others they cannot have simultaneously. It then goes from there to develop theories of money, credit and the business cycle. They were the only ones to explain and predict the current economic malaise we are in now. A good sources for information on the Austrian School is Mises Institute.
They have a free library of online books where you can read the classics. Among some of those I recommend are:
Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth which gives some very interesting arguments as to why pure central planning is impossible that have to with problems of information distribution to the planners.
Economic Science and the Austrian Method. This is a good explanation of the school and why and how its methods and understanding are different from traditional macro econ.
When other posters rebutted your arguments, you came back to say that 3000 deaths is nothing to worry about. You are disgusting!
Far more people would have died if Allende had taken over. That and there would have been terror famines as there are in most communist takeovers. Terror famines are great for destroying the social fabric of a country and making everyone a whimpering begging slave to the government
Using your logic, that the whole Chilean coup was a result of CIA intervention and had only token popular support, I would say, "If only our CIA had used its magnificent omnipotent powers to have overthrown the Ho Chi Minh government we could have saved ourselves the whole Vietnam war".
If so, then why didn't the opposition arrange demonstrations, arrange strikes without massive CIA intervention and actually manage to keep the strikes going, and demand changes?
Just like In Tinamen Square and the Prague Spring these people get rolled over by tanks. Non-Violent protest against communist regieme usually is a death sentence.
Fact is, Allende was democratically elected, and the opposition, even with CIA help, didn't manage to raise enough support in the population to get anywhere near overthrowing his government before they decided to start murdering innocent people.
Just Think! We could have saved the entire Vietnam war with just a little CIA Intervention. We could have saved trillions not to mention thousands of American lives.! The CIA and American military machine of the early 70s was far from omnipotent and they could have not been successful in supressing a truly popular government. Allende was very unpopular at the time.
If Allende was so bad for Chile, why couldn't the CIA stay out of it and let Chileans decide for themselves and throw him out of power?
And why did they support a fascist dictator if the goal was to "save" the Chilean people from suffering?
Facism is an ideology based on racial superiority, complete and total corporate subservience to government, military expansionism, and systematic religious persecution as a central aim of the government. None of these things existed in Chile under Pinochet.
Try telling the hundreds of thousands of people that had close friends or relatives killed because of Pinochet that the coup was "necessary", and that you think the CIA and a small group of military officers, none elected officials, had a right to take that decision on behalf of the Chilean people.
That was 3000 over 15 years not Hundreds of thousands..
I have been to Chile many times. I've talked to people who live there. The 1970s coup was very necessary. The whole country was an economic disaster and there were massive food shortages and the country was quickly being taken over by the radical left supporters of Allende and their Cuban backers. Businesses were being nationalized and the chilean supreme court had ruled that the Allende government was violating the constitution in trying to impose communism, though they were ignored.
Over 15 years, 3000 people were killed, but this was remarkably humane compared to the communist revolutions at the time. Around the same time in Cambodia, 3,000,000 people (That's 1000 times more people) were executed by a fanatical communist regieme. In the aftermath of Vietnam there were 10s of thousands killed in political executions.
Communists hate Pinochet because he was the only person to ever remove a communist government from power. Up to that point it was assumed that the world would soon be 100% communist because slowly but surely every country was turning communist and no country had ever gone back.
Today in Chile many people marvel at the non-Chilean's media's obsession with the Allende Coup. Today Chile has the best economy in Latin America, and the least corrupt, most well run government in the region that actually does a great job at promoting things like public health.
I was there during the 2000 election between Lagos and Lavin and if you read the Chilean or Argentinan press you saw story after story about Lagos and Lavin's varying postitions on the economy, education, etc. If you read the international press the whole thing was Pinochet vs Allende , Pinochet vs Allende. It's as if you were reading about the 2000 U.S election in some newspaper and they were framing the whole thing as an election where the primary issue was the Vietnam War.
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Motorola better start early and hire 500 Chinese developers to reverse engineer the Outlook sync because that's 9 times out of 10 why Microsoft wins every market they come into: Microsoft's undocument file formats. I can't believe how many times I've heard the "doesn't sync with outlook complaint" on many a non-microsoft pda forum.
I met a guy who had been working in tech for several years. He then lost his job and sent out 200 resumes. He didn't get a job and found himself competing against people with 20 years experience for jobs.
He decided to give up on tech and lent some money out to open a liquor store. Now he makes tons of money, far more than he did in programming, and the work is easy. For instance, he went to Costco, bought $900 worth of Champagne and sold it for $5000 on New Years. He's putting in an underground cofee shop just like he did in his native Lithuania. Sorry guys, tech is a graveyard right now and unless you're really good you should explore other careers. If there's another dot.com boom come back but otherwise it isn't worth it.
Wow.. That's a little more than one ascii character per second... I can see the bits coming down now: A...L...I...E...N...A...T...T...A...C...K
NO CARRIER
Want to learn how to lie well? Just practice your campaign speech in front of this thing.
The Russians say they can get to Mars by 2014. They also have a suborbital space plane in the works. I think the Russians actually like being underestimated, in fact I wouldn't be suprised if it's an intentional part of their strategy.
Isn't it neat. The whole world is going on a roadtrip around mars. It's like the whole planet is getting towed along behind the rover :).
Long narratives are fun reading but what we really need out of business books is a bunch of design patterns for businesses. We already have books on Business Modelling with UML . Why not start a whole patterns anti-patterns series based on this approach?
Well genius, this is low moderated Slashdot comments after all, not the London Observer's Editorial page.
Electronic voting is screwy but, IMHO, The guy is just a little too out there on some stuff to be an effective spokesperson. If you google around you'll see.
For Example
America's most controversial writer Gore Vidal has launched the most scathing attack to date on George W Bush's Presidency, calling for an investigation into the events of 9/11 to discover whether the Bush administration deliberately chose not to act on warnings of Al-Qaeda's plans.
Vidal's highly controversial 7000 word polemic titled 'The Enemy Within' - published in the print edition of The Observer today - argues that what he calls a 'Bush junta' used the terrorist attacks as a pretext to enact a pre-existing agenda to invade Afghanistan and crack down on civil liberties at home
Does it sync with Outlook? Sad but true.
Yes linux is a plot by COMMUNISTS to take over the world. No, this is not a parody.
Linux and the GPL, A Hard Look at Leftist Software Development
A reservoir and a human being are two completely different things. Anthropomorphizing everything is another screwy environmentalist habit.
For Example http://www.malaria.org/DDTpage.html
It's kind of annoying that these days, when any new technology arrives, it is subject to a ridiculously paranoid environmentalism filter. Resevoir water is about .0001% of all water on the planet and people are worried about gas exchange and the temperature of it! Enough to deprive populations in the developing world of clean drinking water? I was suprised that the cost of the system wasn't mentioned in the header, only the environmental impact.
Over at the ServerSide
Uranium has to go somewhere. I guess you could say before it was mined it was in the mountain and the "mountain" was contaminated for millions of years. The point is, if you bury the stuff and it has no chance of getting in the ground water its as harmless as its ever going to get.
As soon as we can make people more intelligent and we do enough clinical trials I say, let's go for it. What have we got to loose? All we can do is improve the speed of technological progress!
News Flash: China, in a desperate attempt to keep up with the United States has introduced a wave of new registration including the death penalty for spamming. A seperate bill, also introduced, proposes 30 years hard labor for trolling Slashdot.
Reading tech books from start to finish is quite underrated. I find that if you don't read every word in a tech book, one often misses important information that can save a lot of time.
Groan! Can't type today
:)
were->where
winners->winner (Von Mises did not win the Nobel Prize)
delete extra "exchange"
Had to type it kinda fast.. Slashdot and all
It is the major alternative to traditional Macro-Econ and Marxism. Among the economists of this "school" of thought are Nobel Prize winners Freidrich Hayek and renowned economist Ludwig Von Mises. It explains all economics starting with the premise that all action occurs because people are uneasy. If they were not uneasy they would not act. People exchange act to exchange a less desirable set of circumstances for a more desirable one. What people desire is subjective but people arrange their wants in a scale choosing the most desired things and setting aside others they cannot have simultaneously. It then goes from there to develop theories of money, credit and the business cycle. They were the only ones to explain and predict the current economic malaise we are in now. A good sources for information on the Austrian School is Mises Institute.
They have a free library of online books where you can read the classics. Among some of those I recommend are
Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth which gives some very interesting arguments as to why pure central planning is impossible that have to with problems of information distribution to the planners.
Economic Science and the Austrian Method. This is a good explanation of the school and why and how its methods and understanding are different from traditional macro econ.
Far more people would have died if Allende had taken over. That and there would have been terror famines as there are in most communist takeovers. Terror famines are great for destroying the social fabric of a country and making everyone a whimpering begging slave to the government
Using your logic, that the whole Chilean coup was a result of CIA intervention and had only token popular support, I would say, "If only our CIA had used its magnificent omnipotent powers to have overthrown the Ho Chi Minh government we could have saved ourselves the whole Vietnam war".
If so, then why didn't the opposition arrange demonstrations, arrange strikes without massive CIA intervention and actually manage to keep the strikes going, and demand changes?
Just like In Tinamen Square and the Prague Spring these people get rolled over by tanks. Non-Violent protest against communist regieme usually is a death sentence.
Fact is, Allende was democratically elected, and the opposition, even with CIA help, didn't manage to raise enough support in the population to get anywhere near overthrowing his government before they decided to start murdering innocent people.
Just Think! We could have saved the entire Vietnam war with just a little CIA Intervention. We could have saved trillions not to mention thousands of American lives.! The CIA and American military machine of the early 70s was far from omnipotent and they could have not been successful in supressing a truly popular government. Allende was very unpopular at the time.
If Allende was so bad for Chile, why couldn't the CIA stay out of it and let Chileans decide for themselves and throw him out of power?
And why did they support a fascist dictator if the goal was to "save" the Chilean people from suffering?
Facism is an ideology based on racial superiority, complete and total corporate subservience to government, military expansionism, and systematic religious persecution as a central aim of the government. None of these things existed in Chile under Pinochet.
Try telling the hundreds of thousands of people that had close friends or relatives killed because of Pinochet that the coup was "necessary", and that you think the CIA and a small group of military officers, none elected officials, had a right to take that decision on behalf of the Chilean people.
That was 3000 over 15 years not Hundreds of thousands..
Over 15 years, 3000 people were killed, but this was remarkably humane compared to the communist revolutions at the time. Around the same time in Cambodia, 3,000,000 people (That's 1000 times more people) were executed by a fanatical communist regieme. In the aftermath of Vietnam there were 10s of thousands killed in political executions.
Communists hate Pinochet because he was the only person to ever remove a communist government from power. Up to that point it was assumed that the world would soon be 100% communist because slowly but surely every country was turning communist and no country had ever gone back.
Today in Chile many people marvel at the non-Chilean's media's obsession with the Allende Coup. Today Chile has the best economy in Latin America, and the least corrupt, most well run government in the region that actually does a great job at promoting things like public health.
I was there during the 2000 election between Lagos and Lavin and if you read the Chilean or Argentinan press you saw story after story about Lagos and Lavin's varying postitions on the economy, education, etc. If you read the international press the whole thing was Pinochet vs Allende , Pinochet vs Allende. It's as if you were reading about the 2000 U.S election in some newspaper and they were framing the whole thing as an election where the primary issue was the Vietnam War.