If you have to outsource part of your project to a company that is say next door or on the same block it is alot easier to keep tabs on what is going on and on making changes.
As a project manager who has worked with developers in India, I can say that the preceding statement is false.
I found it just as easy to keep tabs on what was going on. The fact that the developers were not right next door made us do a much better job on requirements gathering, design, and change management.
It's all in how the project is managed.
Which leads me to my next point, and that is, it's a great time to be a PM! Especially one with a technical background.
The BLS recently announced that Project Management was one of the five top jobs in demand.
I think that many developers who complain about lack of career options aren't looking hard enough at the Project Manager track.
Yeah, I know all the horror stories and jokes about PMs who don't know shit from shinola, but think of the difference YOU could make if you were the PM.
I heard the same complaints in the Army by enlisted personnel about officers. And yet everyone in the Army knew that the officers who had come from the enlisted ranks were some of the best!
It's even worse in NY where people think the entire state is located in Manhattan and don't realize that I don't want to drive 5 hours one way from Syracuse for a job.
At what point do these people start insisting that you pay each time you listen. And if you happen to remember the tune and it plays over in your head, you get charged for that too!
Seriously, this is getting ridiculous. The argument they present does open the door for them to create a product that plays once and then disintegrates.
Either you buy a song and have the right to listen to it forever, or you have to pay for a limited number of listens. The RIAA is trying to reduce that limited number to the lowest number they possibly can.
So terrorists will now be able to have a cell-phone bomb detonate based on more specific parameters, like, when the train goes into a tunnel. Or, when there's a lot of people around.
"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."
--Samuel Adams
And we have forgotten them! The fact that we quote Samuel Adams more than two hundred years after the fact and nobody could even tell you the name of someone who advocated for peace and reconciliation with King George is testament to the power and truth of the principle espoused in this quote by Adams.
Of course, if we all started practicing the principles espoused by our Founding Fathers, we'd have our phones tapped, our email monitored, our movements shadowed, and our patriotism questioned.
And since when the hell did Disney become evil?
Obviously you've never had to sit with your six year old through the Disney On Ice version of Monsters, Inc.
Governments don't care about what's moral or immoral either. Governments and corporations are alike in the fact that they owe allegiance to something or someone other than the individual. Only individuals are moral creatures, because only individuals have free will.
It seems to me that everyone wants (or says they want) to move more toward voice interaction. *picture Scotty talking into the mouse "Oh, computer!"*
Now, since voice recognition is so difficult due to the myriad twists and turns of human language, why not split the difference and design an input device that enables us to use both our hands and our words?
If I could just say "shift" or "alt" or "cap" instead of having to convolute my fingers to hit those keys on the keyboard, that might be a start.
Some UI guru (like that new one they just hired at MS) should be able to figure out what the best mix of hand/voice usage would give us optimal efficiency.
At least it would placate us until they got the entire voice recognition thing figured out.
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Bad, wicked, naughty Zoot. She's been setting alight to our beacon, which, I just remembered, is space station shaped.
It's not the first time this has happened.
And I'm sure they've got robots building robots. Man, that's just stupid.
Is it 3 laws safe?
Street vendors in China have been doing this same thing for years at a much lower price.
I thought "blob" stood for "binary large object."
So isn't it redundant to say "binary blob"?
They'll toe the line for China, but not for Wall Street?
Haven't the Mormons been saying this for 150 years?
Anyone want to lay odds that Amazon starts opening mall stores?
If you have to outsource part of your project to a company that is say next door or on the same block it is alot easier to keep tabs on what is going on and on making changes.
As a project manager who has worked with developers in India, I can say that the preceding statement is false.
I found it just as easy to keep tabs on what was going on. The fact that the developers were not right next door made us do a much better job on requirements gathering, design, and change management.
It's all in how the project is managed.
Which leads me to my next point, and that is, it's a great time to be a PM! Especially one with a technical background.
The BLS recently announced that Project Management was one of the five top jobs in demand.
I think that many developers who complain about lack of career options aren't looking hard enough at the Project Manager track.
Yeah, I know all the horror stories and jokes about PMs who don't know shit from shinola, but think of the difference YOU could make if you were the PM.
I heard the same complaints in the Army by enlisted personnel about officers. And yet everyone in the Army knew that the officers who had come from the enlisted ranks were some of the best!
It's even worse in NY where people think the entire state is located in Manhattan and don't realize that I don't want to drive 5 hours one way from Syracuse for a job.
"You've got questions, we've got unverified answers!"
or my personal favorite:
"You've got money, we've got pockets!"
At what point do these people start insisting that you pay each time you listen. And if you happen to remember the tune and it plays over in your head, you get charged for that too!
Seriously, this is getting ridiculous. The argument they present does open the door for them to create a product that plays once and then disintegrates.
Either you buy a song and have the right to listen to it forever, or you have to pay for a limited number of listens. The RIAA is trying to reduce that limited number to the lowest number they possibly can.
So terrorists will now be able to have a cell-phone bomb detonate based on more specific parameters, like, when the train goes into a tunnel. Or, when there's a lot of people around.
I created a random starfield generator and pretended like I was on the bridge of the Enterprise for hours!
Oh god! I was such a NERD! No wonder my first date stood me up.
So, start "straining" the onerous government agencies with FOIA (freedom of information act) requests.
"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."
--Samuel Adams
And we have forgotten them! The fact that we quote Samuel Adams more than two hundred years after the fact and nobody could even tell you the name of someone who advocated for peace and reconciliation with King George is testament to the power and truth of the principle espoused in this quote by Adams.
Of course, if we all started practicing the principles espoused by our Founding Fathers, we'd have our phones tapped, our email monitored, our movements shadowed, and our patriotism questioned.
How f****d is that!
And since when the hell did Disney become evil? Obviously you've never had to sit with your six year old through the Disney On Ice version of Monsters, Inc.
Hormel is really the ONLY company that can legitimately do something about the problem of SPAM®
Doing so can result in corporal punishment.
They give spankings in the Air Force?
I suspect the late 20th century and early 21st century will become a mini-dark ages (at least for personal or family things).
LOL
Get outside of your technology world for a few minutes and look at the HUGE boom in a multi-million dollar trend called "scrap-booking."
Well it just went past my house!
Ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha!
Governments don't care about what's moral or immoral either. Governments and corporations are alike in the fact that they owe allegiance to something or someone other than the individual. Only individuals are moral creatures, because only individuals have free will.
What percentage of the population refuses to take polls?
It seems to me that everyone wants (or says they want) to move more toward voice interaction. *picture Scotty talking into the mouse "Oh, computer!"*
Now, since voice recognition is so difficult due to the myriad twists and turns of human language, why not split the difference and design an input device that enables us to use both our hands and our words?
If I could just say "shift" or "alt" or "cap" instead of having to convolute my fingers to hit those keys on the keyboard, that might be a start.
Some UI guru (like that new one they just hired at MS) should be able to figure out what the best mix of hand/voice usage would give us optimal efficiency.
At least it would placate us until they got the entire voice recognition thing figured out.
"Oh, computer!"
I think it is great that we could get a Futurama posting right after a posting on Intelligent Design.
I think Slashdot may be influenced by a Higher Power.
*Angelic Voices*
"Oh stop groveling!"