Townsend - homosexual yes, pedophile huh? Never heard that one.
Believe it or not, some bands make it big because people like their sound. Some fade away (heard any New Kids on the Block lately), the really good ones stick around.
I was hardly ever in sync with the musical times. I started listing to the Beatles in the mid-late 70's, the Who in the early 80s. Adored them then, still enjoy the music now. The last couple of years Ive started listening to old punk that came out when I was in high school. Hated it then, love it now (bands like X, Social Distortion, the Germs, the Ramones, Black Flag, the Jam, the Buzzcocks (love the commercial).
Good music is good music, period. Good operating systems are good operating systems, period.
And remember, the Who and the Beatles have NO money behind them anymore - they don't exist. The fact that a child like Rob listens to them years after they broke up indicates choice, not advertising. Don't you THINK?
>>Do I want MY children to have the right to worship THEIR god in public schools? Yes. Do I want YOUR children to have the right to worship their god in public schools? Yes.
Until you can explain to me how to handle having a Muslim teacher praying to Allah in a class full of Fundamentalist Baptist children, without censoring the teacher or the parents, I'd say religion is better taught at home.
The point is that a TOY exceeds gov't limits on exporting technology. The questions now should be: - How to update the standards reasonably - Whether the US should try limiting technology xfers like this at all.
Sorry, I don't see problems with sensible limitations - I wouldn't hand a gun to someone that I had reason to believe would want to shoot me with it. Whether I could stop him from getting a gun somewhere else is, sadly, another story.
FYI, BellSouth has full Spanish support. If a customer informs them that they are Spanish speaking, they get their bills in Spanish & get referred to Spanish speaking service reps.
I've thought about this a lot, and here's a way I think it could be done:
Candidates qualify for gov't assistance if they get enough signatures from voters in their districts. They get money, plus TV/radio time & newspaper space (+free internet space?).
They can accept any other money they want (this gets around the 1st amendment stuff) but cannot vote for anything pertaining to those donors. This must be rigorously enforced.
You can spend your own money, but only to a certain amount (big 1st amendment issues).
(sorry to non-usa people for blathering abt stuff you don't give a **** about)
It's always good to look for new things, but you shouldn't abandon the 'old' things automatically just because they aren't new anymore.
Let the movie stand on its own merits. It's only a few more days and you can actually see for yourself.
The big problem with the hype is that there's so much it has a chance of eliminating any ration judgement of the movie itself. Just try to ignore it. That's what I've been doing (trying, anyway). I want to see how the movie is for ME. That's the important thing. Don't write it off just because there are 1.23 million media outlets trying to outdo one another in publicity.
The problem is this: a lot of software projects fail. A lot more are way late or don't work.
Writing good software is difficult. We all know that. But there's got to be a way to make better software faster.
My experience, and I'm sure a lot of people will agree, is that the entire process is screwed up. The customer doesn't know what they want, the project manager changes the specs w/o telling the user, ambiguity in requirements, and yes, idiotic programmers. The whole process needs to be changed.
One big advantage of building bridges (for the example) is that it's been done for so long, the building process, from the first glimmer of an idea to the opening, is pretty clear.
THIS is what we need - a clear, well documented process that works and everying buys into, not certification of one role in the entire process.
I congratulate you on having the time & wherewithal to home school your children. However, I must disagree with your assessments about private school, homeschooling & vouchers.
When I was growing up, both my parents worked. It wasn't to buy us better stuff - we had two b&w tv's (one we got free when we bought the other), I got hand-me-down clothes until I was old enough to buy my own (& outgrew EVERYBODY!). They both worked so the family would survive.
There was no way we could have attended a private school - no transportation. Homeschooling - absolutely out of the question. If vouchers were available, I would have been part of the last remnants of the public school system - no telling how much worse it would be with much smaller numbers.
I live in Georgia, which is the source for many of the guns used in NYC. We have very few restrictions here. The problem with local restrictions is they only work if you can keep the guns from coming in from elsewhere.
LOC advantages: - easy to count - can be used for historical purposes
LOC disadvantages: - nothing to measure actual performance of the code - coding is only 1/3 of any given project - dependent on language - I used to pound out 100+ lines of COBOL a day no sweat, can't do that in C++ and actually do a good job.
To me, the important problem and what could well be throwing off the numbers is the coding vs. requirement/analysis/design/testing steps. Software factories pound out code, nothing else. The rest of the work is done onshore. You're only measuring a small part of the job (just generally the most fun part!)
I worked on a $10 million+ project that used a prototype that was cobbled up over a weekend by four people. They never changed the basic design. There were over 120 people working on this project at some points. The users were actually told that they couldn't get changes they requested because it didn't fit the prototype.
Is there anyone who surfs much at all that doesn't know Amazon.com has agreements with people that provide links? I would think by now it's common knowledge enough that anyone should know what's happening.
Dilbert is a cartoon - SA just customized it to mainly address management idiocies.
Those idiocies will be around forever - plenty of places recognize that something is wrong, but don't care about fixing it. SA can sell management seminars till the cows come home, not too many will change.
BUT, his ideas on an ideal company (in the last chapter of his first book, the 'OA5' company) was right on. That was a company I would love to work for. That's the writing that keeps me reading Dilbert thru the agressive selling.
I agree. If I wanted to check on a pepsi giveaway, I'd like to be able to type 'pepsi.com' and not get something else.
Apple? Well its 'applecomputers.com'. Apple is too generic.
Common sense... Too much to ask for?
I dislike these stupid trademark infringement lawsuits as much as the next guy, but people have sunk lots of money into their trademarks and should at least have right of first refusal (gray areas, see 'common sense' above.
Sorry, he was my representative and I have to disagree with you about Newtie.
The problem I have with Newt, besides him being a crybaby who took his ball & went home when he couldn't be speaker anymore, is that he was a HUGE proponent of the name-calling that has permeated politics this decade. It's hare to have a rational discussion with someone who's calling you names (as you may have noticed here).
You're right though, he didn't deserve the treatment he got that got him removed as Speaker, but I have to think of it as someone getting jumped by the very attack dogs he trained so well.
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Townsend - homosexual yes, pedophile huh? Never heard that one.
Believe it or not, some bands make it big because people like their sound. Some fade away (heard any New Kids on the Block lately), the really good ones stick around.
I was hardly ever in sync with the musical times. I started listing to the Beatles in the mid-late 70's, the Who in the early 80s. Adored them then, still enjoy the music now. The last couple of years Ive started listening to old punk that came out when I was in high school. Hated it then, love it now (bands like X, Social Distortion, the Germs, the Ramones, Black Flag, the Jam, the Buzzcocks (love the commercial).
Good music is good music, period. Good operating systems are good operating systems, period.
And remember, the Who and the Beatles have NO money behind them anymore - they don't exist. The fact that a child like Rob listens to them years after they broke up indicates choice, not advertising. Don't you THINK?
>>Do I want MY children to have the right to worship THEIR god in public schools? Yes. Do I want YOUR children to have the right to
worship their god in public schools? Yes.
Until you can explain to me how to handle having a Muslim teacher praying to Allah in a class full of Fundamentalist Baptist children, without censoring the teacher or the parents, I'd say religion is better taught at home.
You're missing the point of the article.
The point is that a TOY exceeds gov't limits on exporting technology. The questions now should be:
- How to update the standards reasonably
- Whether the US should try limiting technology xfers like this at all.
Sorry, I don't see problems with sensible limitations - I wouldn't hand a gun to someone that I had reason to believe would want to shoot me with it. Whether I could stop him from getting a gun somewhere else is, sadly, another story.
FYI, BellSouth has full Spanish support. If a customer informs them that they are Spanish speaking, they get their bills in Spanish & get referred to Spanish speaking service reps.
Former BS employee.
I've thought about this a lot, and here's a way I think it could be done:
Candidates qualify for gov't assistance if they get enough signatures from voters in their districts. They get money, plus TV/radio time & newspaper space (+free internet space?).
They can accept any other money they want (this gets around the 1st amendment stuff) but cannot vote for anything pertaining to those donors. This must be rigorously enforced.
You can spend your own money, but only to a certain amount (big 1st amendment issues).
(sorry to non-usa people for blathering abt stuff you don't give a **** about)
It's always good to look for new things, but you shouldn't abandon the 'old' things automatically just because they aren't new anymore.
Let the movie stand on its own merits. It's only a few more days and you can actually see for yourself.
The big problem with the hype is that there's so much it has a chance of eliminating any ration judgement of the movie itself. Just try to ignore it. That's what I've been doing (trying, anyway). I want to see how the movie is for ME. That's the important thing. Don't write it off just because there are 1.23 million media outlets trying to outdo one another in publicity.
The problem is this: a lot of software projects fail. A lot more are way late or don't work.
Writing good software is difficult. We all know that. But there's got to be a way to make better software faster.
My experience, and I'm sure a lot of people will agree, is that the entire process is screwed up. The customer doesn't know what they want, the project manager changes the specs w/o telling the user, ambiguity in requirements, and yes, idiotic programmers. The whole process needs to be changed.
One big advantage of building bridges (for the example) is that it's been done for so long, the building process, from the first glimmer of an idea to the opening, is pretty clear.
THIS is what we need - a clear, well documented process that works and everying buys into, not certification of one role in the entire process.
I congratulate you on having the time & wherewithal to home school your children. However, I must disagree with your assessments about private school, homeschooling & vouchers.
When I was growing up, both my parents worked. It wasn't to buy us better stuff - we had two b&w tv's (one we got free when we bought the other), I got hand-me-down clothes until I was old enough to buy my own (& outgrew EVERYBODY!). They both worked so the family would survive.
There was no way we could have attended a private school - no transportation. Homeschooling - absolutely out of the question. If vouchers were available, I would have been part of the last remnants of the public school system - no telling how much worse it would be with much smaller numbers.
Something to think about.
Sorry it's off topic - hit a sensitive spot.
I live in Georgia, which is the source for many of the guns used in NYC. We have very few restrictions here. The problem with local restrictions is they only work if you can keep the guns from coming in from elsewhere.
LOC advantages:
- easy to count
- can be used for historical purposes
LOC disadvantages:
- nothing to measure actual performance of the
code
- coding is only 1/3 of any given project
- dependent on language - I used to pound out
100+ lines of COBOL a day no sweat, can't do
that in C++ and actually do a good job.
To me, the important problem and what could well be throwing off the numbers is the coding vs. requirement/analysis/design/testing steps. Software factories pound out code, nothing else. The rest of the work is done onshore. You're only measuring a small part of the job (just generally the most fun part!)
I worked on a $10 million+ project that used a prototype that was cobbled up over a weekend by four people. They never changed the basic design. There were over 120 people working on this project at some points. The users were actually told that they couldn't get changes they requested because it didn't fit the prototype.
Very depressing.
Is there anyone who surfs much at all that doesn't know Amazon.com has agreements with people that provide links? I would think by now it's common knowledge enough that anyone should know what's happening.
Rob's completely upfront abt the cdnow link.
Dilbert is a cartoon - SA just customized it to mainly address management idiocies.
Those idiocies will be around forever - plenty of places recognize that something is wrong, but don't care about fixing it. SA can sell management seminars till the cows come home, not too many will change.
BUT, his ideas on an ideal company (in the last chapter of his first book, the 'OA5' company) was right on. That was a company I would love to work for. That's the writing that keeps me reading Dilbert thru the agressive selling.
What I would like to know is how the hell win98 recognized a cd-rom connected to the sound card!
I agree. If I wanted to check on a pepsi giveaway, I'd like to be able to type 'pepsi.com' and not get something else.
Apple? Well its 'applecomputers.com'. Apple is too generic.
Common sense... Too much to ask for?
I dislike these stupid trademark infringement lawsuits as much as the next guy, but people have sunk lots of money into their trademarks and should at least have right of first refusal (gray areas, see 'common sense' above.
Yeah, being a Republicans great...
but wait, I'm jewish. They want me to listen to prayers to Jesus every day...
oh yeah, and I'm gay too, and should not have any rights of free association at all.
Guess I need to be a straight christian, then I'll be free.
Sorry, he was my representative and I have to
disagree with you about Newtie.
The problem I have with Newt, besides him being a crybaby who took his ball & went home when he couldn't be speaker anymore, is that he was a HUGE proponent of the name-calling that has permeated politics this decade. It's hare to have a rational discussion with someone who's calling you names (as you may have noticed here).
You're right though, he didn't deserve the treatment he got that got him removed as Speaker, but I have to think of it as someone getting jumped by the very attack dogs he trained so well.