I know it's not exactly true, but in modern America it may as well be. Long-term thought no longer exists. A moral CEO would be replaced or sued after a few quarterly reports showed his actions weren't making profits in the near future.
That, and because public corporations are legally required to be amoral sociopaths. It doesn't matter if Mr. Rogers is in charge of the corporation, his shareholders will sue him if he doesn't fuck over his neighbor for a buck.
That's why you pirate the eBook, and if you like it, buy the paperback. Loan the paperback to your friend or email them the ebook, whichever they prefer.
There's no reason to buy before you try these days. Reward quality, not deceptive advertising and horrible DRM that only punishes you for paying.
My local farmer's market costs about half of grocery store prices and has about three times the selection as local grocery stores, so they must get a really good deal the night before...
Two fish are in a fish bowl. One says, "Do you know how to drive this thing?"
There are several Europeans higher in this thread who interpreted the joke that way and found it funny. So let's actually make that the joke, which has been proven funny to many people. So, now that the joke is perfectly understood and still found funny, who is the victim?
I agree that adding more people in the middle of the project doesn't lead to any increased productivity (and often just makes things worse), but if those people are permanent workers who are there from the beginning, surely tasks can be divided such that you do actually get a linear increase in productivity.
I should say "didn't do any of this shit before American flights started requiring all incoming flights to do it" because there is a lot of crap one has to go through now. My local airport just has a separate terminal specifically for American and Israeli flights so they can keep the bullshit to a minimum for passengers flying to less paranoid destinations.
European airports don't do any of this shit, and in fact just banned the x-ray machines. And yet, they could still probably criticize American airports for "lax security" because all of this is just security theater and does fuck all to actually secure the flight.
That's why you push the button halfway down to focus, then when you have the shot you want, push button the rest of the way. I've taken tons of macro photos of ants, bees, and pets that all turn out fine.
It would be nice to have a "screw focusing, take the photo now and I'll accept what I get" button though.
I have a Canon PowerShot A650 and love it. It perfectly hits the niche between brain dead morons and tech tweakers. I bought it because my PowerShot A80 died a couple of years ago and I found out they stopped making them, so I went with the closest thing I could find.
I'm convinced it takes the best pictures of any camera on the market for a "brain dead moron" if just left on the "Auto" setting. But if you want more, you can attach lenses to it, and you can mess with about 80% of the same features of a DSLR.
It's not really that bad for the people there? Are you fucking kidding? It's not bad for the families and friends of government workers but for the other 95% it's living hell. You visiting North Korea for an "awesome small talk subject" is just giving money to prop up one of the most evil regimes since Hitler's Germany.
Watch nearly any documentary on North Korea. It's hard to find good video because anyone caught recording in non-approved areas is tortured to death, along with all of their family members, but some people care about more than small talk and have taken those risks.
It's only "safe to visit" because you are literally only taken to areas approved by the government, where "normal" North Koreans do not live or frequent, and because you are with a government tour guide at all times. And that's assuming you don't do something stupid like bring contraband, take a photo without asking your tour guide for permission first, try to sneak away from the tour group, give the appearance of being in any way anti-North-Korean, etc.
That said, cloud based systems do seem like they would seriously suck at enterprise-level. I recommend them as a second tier fail-safe for anyone with less than 20 employees though...
But how often do you need ALL of your data right now?
Generally in the case of a catastrophic failure, you can get up and running with just a fraction of your files and then later on you restore all your archived data. Do you really have hundreds of gigs of critical data you need immediately to get your employees back to work? Even if you're imaging and backing up entire systems along with your data, I can't imagine you need more than a few dozen gigs to get back to business.
Aside from that, most of the online services also offer (expensive) overnight shipping of hard drives with all your data, so that you're only without your files (worst case) 24 hours.
I'm just a freelance developer, but I do occasional work involving multimedia files so I've got about 300gb of project files to back up. I just keep an extra hard drive backing up the original files every night, and also back it up to an online service.
It takes a few weeks for the initial backup, but once it's up I'm set. The cloud services don't usually help with files you accidentally delete locally, but my local backup helps with that. The only problem then is if I delete a file, then my local backup dies before I realize it, but even in that case, I generally have a third drive that backs up the backup whenever I remember (which is admittedly only every couple of months).
The RAZR was not even remotely a smart phone. In fact, if anything is deserving of the term dumb phone, it does. The original Razr was essentially one of the lowest quality cell phones you can imagine, with out-of-date technology and terrible software design, combined with a gargantuan marketing blitz (take a look at some movies and television shows, and even celebrity news articles, for the two years following its release).
I actually owned one because, if nothing else, it was the nicest looking phone for the price. Using it was painful, though.
Yeah, that was a major plot point in The Social Network. You'd think Zynga of all companies would have seen that movie and known the proper way to handle this exact situation.
I worked with Drupal for two years, then this past year switched to building anything new in WordPress. It's easier for both developers and clients. It's easier to write plugins, easier to build templates, and just feels way more organized and coherent.
Even disregarding the fact most clients have used WordPress before, it's still easier for them because instead of logging in to Drupal and being faced with a thousand different options and, in 6 and earlier, content creation and content management being in two different locations for some bizarre reason, they just have a few things they're actually interested in seeing and all the boring stuff is tucked away under "settings" or can be very easily removed during development without any hacks.
In terms of using a framework like Symfony, Rails, etc, obviously they're better for clients that have big budgets and/or are extremely demanding about exact details of how something looks/functions. However, nearly anything you want to do requires more planning (on both the client, who has to know exactly what features they want and how it should work) and more implementation time (generally writing a feature from scratch instead of installing and tweaking a plugin). So in the end... nobody wants to waste money, and even big clients generally prefer "we can install this plugin and tweak it to look nice on your site for about $300" as opposed to "it will take $8000 and a three weeks to build that feature into your site and admin"
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I know it's not exactly true, but in modern America it may as well be. Long-term thought no longer exists. A moral CEO would be replaced or sued after a few quarterly reports showed his actions weren't making profits in the near future.
Hah, yes, I could see a lot of places doing that too, and a lot of people preferring to work that way.
Now we just need to get the people in charge to go along with the entire "work less" concept in the first place...
That, and because public corporations are legally required to be amoral sociopaths. It doesn't matter if Mr. Rogers is in charge of the corporation, his shareholders will sue him if he doesn't fuck over his neighbor for a buck.
That's why you pirate the eBook, and if you like it, buy the paperback. Loan the paperback to your friend or email them the ebook, whichever they prefer.
There's no reason to buy before you try these days. Reward quality, not deceptive advertising and horrible DRM that only punishes you for paying.
My local farmer's market costs about half of grocery store prices and has about three times the selection as local grocery stores, so they must get a really good deal the night before...
Two fish are in a fish bowl. One says, "Do you know how to drive this thing?"
There are several Europeans higher in this thread who interpreted the joke that way and found it funny. So let's actually make that the joke, which has been proven funny to many people. So, now that the joke is perfectly understood and still found funny, who is the victim?
I agree that adding more people in the middle of the project doesn't lead to any increased productivity (and often just makes things worse), but if those people are permanent workers who are there from the beginning, surely tasks can be divided such that you do actually get a linear increase in productivity.
I should say "didn't do any of this shit before American flights started requiring all incoming flights to do it" because there is a lot of crap one has to go through now. My local airport just has a separate terminal specifically for American and Israeli flights so they can keep the bullshit to a minimum for passengers flying to less paranoid destinations.
Have you traveled outside the US?
European airports don't do any of this shit, and in fact just banned the x-ray machines. And yet, they could still probably criticize American airports for "lax security" because all of this is just security theater and does fuck all to actually secure the flight.
That's why you push the button halfway down to focus, then when you have the shot you want, push button the rest of the way. I've taken tons of macro photos of ants, bees, and pets that all turn out fine.
It would be nice to have a "screw focusing, take the photo now and I'll accept what I get" button though.
I have a Canon PowerShot A650 and love it. It perfectly hits the niche between brain dead morons and tech tweakers. I bought it because my PowerShot A80 died a couple of years ago and I found out they stopped making them, so I went with the closest thing I could find.
I'm convinced it takes the best pictures of any camera on the market for a "brain dead moron" if just left on the "Auto" setting. But if you want more, you can attach lenses to it, and you can mess with about 80% of the same features of a DSLR.
It's still not equal incentive because the rich don't need the extra cash to put food on the table tonight.
Cops generally don't get disciplined for something like this, they just get paid leave until the whole thing blows over.
It's not really that bad for the people there? Are you fucking kidding? It's not bad for the families and friends of government workers but for the other 95% it's living hell. You visiting North Korea for an "awesome small talk subject" is just giving money to prop up one of the most evil regimes since Hitler's Germany.
Watch nearly any documentary on North Korea. It's hard to find good video because anyone caught recording in non-approved areas is tortured to death, along with all of their family members, but some people care about more than small talk and have taken those risks.
It's only "safe to visit" because you are literally only taken to areas approved by the government, where "normal" North Koreans do not live or frequent, and because you are with a government tour guide at all times. And that's assuming you don't do something stupid like bring contraband, take a photo without asking your tour guide for permission first, try to sneak away from the tour group, give the appearance of being in any way anti-North-Korean, etc.
I imagine it works almost exactly like a modem. Don't you remember accidentally picking up the telephone while using the internet during the 90s? :)
That said, cloud based systems do seem like they would seriously suck at enterprise-level. I recommend them as a second tier fail-safe for anyone with less than 20 employees though...
But how often do you need ALL of your data right now?
Generally in the case of a catastrophic failure, you can get up and running with just a fraction of your files and then later on you restore all your archived data. Do you really have hundreds of gigs of critical data you need immediately to get your employees back to work? Even if you're imaging and backing up entire systems along with your data, I can't imagine you need more than a few dozen gigs to get back to business.
Aside from that, most of the online services also offer (expensive) overnight shipping of hard drives with all your data, so that you're only without your files (worst case) 24 hours.
I'm just a freelance developer, but I do occasional work involving multimedia files so I've got about 300gb of project files to back up. I just keep an extra hard drive backing up the original files every night, and also back it up to an online service.
It takes a few weeks for the initial backup, but once it's up I'm set. The cloud services don't usually help with files you accidentally delete locally, but my local backup helps with that. The only problem then is if I delete a file, then my local backup dies before I realize it, but even in that case, I generally have a third drive that backs up the backup whenever I remember (which is admittedly only every couple of months).
In America it's even worse. You're required to pay ASCAP for any public performance, even if you're just playing old classical music or something.
Maybe put him in the care of people who aren't suffering from depression?
The RAZR was not even remotely a smart phone. In fact, if anything is deserving of the term dumb phone, it does. The original Razr was essentially one of the lowest quality cell phones you can imagine, with out-of-date technology and terrible software design, combined with a gargantuan marketing blitz (take a look at some movies and television shows, and even celebrity news articles, for the two years following its release).
I actually owned one because, if nothing else, it was the nicest looking phone for the price. Using it was painful, though.
Yeah, that was a major plot point in The Social Network. You'd think Zynga of all companies would have seen that movie and known the proper way to handle this exact situation.
If we don't figure out an energy solution better than geothermal in "a couple thousand years" I don't think we deserve to survive.
I worked with Drupal for two years, then this past year switched to building anything new in WordPress. It's easier for both developers and clients. It's easier to write plugins, easier to build templates, and just feels way more organized and coherent.
Even disregarding the fact most clients have used WordPress before, it's still easier for them because instead of logging in to Drupal and being faced with a thousand different options and, in 6 and earlier, content creation and content management being in two different locations for some bizarre reason, they just have a few things they're actually interested in seeing and all the boring stuff is tucked away under "settings" or can be very easily removed during development without any hacks.
In terms of using a framework like Symfony, Rails, etc, obviously they're better for clients that have big budgets and/or are extremely demanding about exact details of how something looks/functions. However, nearly anything you want to do requires more planning (on both the client, who has to know exactly what features they want and how it should work) and more implementation time (generally writing a feature from scratch instead of installing and tweaking a plugin). So in the end... nobody wants to waste money, and even big clients generally prefer "we can install this plugin and tweak it to look nice on your site for about $300" as opposed to "it will take $8000 and a three weeks to build that feature into your site and admin"