Most likely it's a fucked up schedule again. They come up with features, in the middle of the product cycle it becomes clear that all of them can't be implemented, they start cutting features. They cut about 1/4 of them, then 3/4 through the product cycle 1/4 more. And in the very end of it all, marketing comes up with an awesome idea to push this thing through a standards body. VPs are ecstatic, engineers swear and cringe, everyone hopes standards committee won't notice missing shit. Standards committee notices, shit hits the fan, engineers get lower performance ratings in their yearly reviews, VPs get fat bonuses and stock grants. Everything continues unchanged.
The best, most logical assembly language I've seen was in my Spectrum. Quite frankly I think Zilog deserves a lot more respect than it gets these days. Anyone who's programmed Z80 assembly will puke from just seeing the ugly x86 flavor.
I want folks who have money realize that it's in their best interest to outsource lawyers and higher management as well. A lawyer can charge up to $700 an hour. Some if not most CEOs cost even more. Just imagine the savings!
Yeah, right. Someone sits there and solders 4-layer motherboards with SMD components by hand.:0) A few manyally installed caps here and there doesn't count.
I've lost two teeth, so I was thinking of installing implants to fill the gap and prevent other teeth and jawbone from deteriorating. Total cost in the US is $7K. Total cost in a good clinic in, say, Russia is $2K. Airfare to Russia is $2.4K (two round trips). There would be $2.6K left to blow on expensive toys.
The deciding factor was that my medical insurance would not pay the bill if I went abroad for medical treatment. I would also be unable to deduct the money using flexible spending account.
If I were in a need of a heart surgery, however, there would be no question whatsoever. I would not pay three times my yearly salary for 12 hours of someone's time.
"60 hour work weeks except in some circumstances" - it's 6 days a week 10 hours per day
"children 14 and above are considered adults where law permits"
"hazardous waste to be "characterized"
It's littered with zero-accountability phrases like this. The range in which this document can be interpreted is pretty wild.
Sounds like "get out of the jail free" document to me.
As a side note, if their foreign workers aren't even getting this much respect, then I see why everything coming out of third world is so cheap. It's all made by 14 year old kids working 12 hours a day six days a week without any protection, medical insurance, etc.
I've lost any desire to buy anything from HP, IBM or anyone else involved in this crap. Give me "made in the US" label or give me death.
For the life of me I don't see how Google can be worth this much. Yes, the profit is pretty darn good (and deserved), but its market cap is just absurd right now.
I was born and raised in Russia, so I just can't pass this hogwash.
1. While I agree that it's easy to find legal "mainstream" music, I couldn't care less about mainstream. I listen to the stuff considered exotic even here in the US. Try to find something like this legally in Russia, especially shortly after an album comes out. This is the stuff that's only a couple of mouse clicks away in the US. Also, CDs are usually either close or well above $20, which is way too much even in the US.
2. Broadband. Yeah, for $24 there you get a whopping 1GB of traffic per month and pay for every megabyte on top of that. Plus, you have to pay for the equipment as well. And this is only in Moscow. No wonder iTunes type businesses are having a hard time taking off.
3. Pulse dialing. Depends on the company and where you live. In most cases a call to change from pulse to tone dialing will only cause a roaring laugh on the other end.
4. Contrary to what the guy says, you can be just as well connected in a small town. My brother in southern Russia had a 128kbps ISDN line with 1GB traffic limit for a little over $15 a month.
Move the data to another HD. The point for me is that it's very ulikely that I'll lose data backed up to an hdd like this. Which is exactly what I want.
How about a hard drive that has hardware RAID inside it, one virtual HD per plate, with 2 plates for RAID 1, or three plates for RAID5.
Make one that's 100GB. I don't care about RPMs, I just want to be DAMN sure that it's not going to die on me. I also want to have low cost drives to archive my data to for long term storage. These RAID-ized drives would fit the bill perfectly.
A lot of comapanies are coming to a realization that outsourcing doesn't really work that well for most jobs. It works for some (support, manual testing, sustained engineering), but for critical pieces of work it rarely does.
What works, however, is hiring your own people in India and keeping them there, moving the entire products there, Dev, Test, PM, whole enchilada. A few US PMs stay here to gather and forward requirements and oversee development, everything else is there. This is how MS does it, so expect others to join the trend soon.
This doesn't seem to be an option for small to medium size companies, though. Those will either rely on US workforce or go out of business (which is fine with big corporations).
ing to kill myself with. Imagine waking up every morning in pain, and forgetting what you did five minutes ago. Being an old man is no fun. Personally I hope I'll die when I'm 65-70.
And this sucks in a major way. I haven't been using MS e-mail software for a year now, and while Firefox search isn't that bad per se, I think indexing my email with Google would add a lot of value anyway.
playing with a bomb while sitting on top of a nuclear reactor when I hear about GM technologies.
Repeat after me, WE DON'T KNOW ENOUGH about genetics to do the kind of things we do these days. You know when I'll say we know enough and can safely do whatever we want with DNA? When scientists build a completely new animal or plant out of raw amino acids. That's when. Until then, I'd force them to do their research in well controlled labs and have their experimental plants compeletely isolated from the outside world.
The extent of the problem is scary really. Walk into any US grocery store. Look at the labels. If you don't see "organic" explicitly written on them, then you can almost guarantee you're buying something that contains GMOs. There are lists of "GM" foods available on the web. 95% of the food you eat already contains GMOs! Health effects of this will only be figured out 20 years down the road. For now you're a guinea pig, and you're paying them to conduct experiments on you.
Record labels have nothing to lose here. Revenues they get from Apple are laughable.
Apple, however, can't: 1. Make tracks more expensive - nobody's gonna buy them 2. Share the DRM format - bye bye iTunes revnues 3. Implement stronger DRM - nobody will buy tracks 4. Tell the record labels to fuck off - where are they gonna get the music then?
I don't know about you, but I can't survive without a little Howard Stern in the morning. I'll have to subscribe to Sirius if it's the only station where he's going to appear.
I remember the concept of Vel Satis. It was a jaw dropping car. Instead, they've downgraded it to a frikkin' Toyota Avalon, and then fucked up the electronics.
It's WAY too late. For me the main feature in an IM client these days is not whether it's decentralized or XML based. It's whether or not it supports audio and video conferencing. I'm saving hundreds of dollars in long distance (including international) charges by using MSN Messenger. I can not migrate to a client that doesn't support audioconferencing at the very least.
I, for one, welcome our millionaire overlords. I wish more tech companies had folks who had enough money to retire, so that those who don't have enough money yet would be able to make a bit more and advance their careers a bit faster. Where I work, it's like a freakin' concrete wall up there. Folks who have been with the company are well put in their trenches and it's nearly impossible to get anywhere, because the "old boys club" is everywhere. I wish the stock price doubled and they took off. I'd be a happy camper then.
I need to patent "A method for filing patents for ridiculously stupid things and apparatus for getting them through USPTO". I'll donate all the money I get from it (and this will be a TON of money) to charities, too.
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Most likely it's a fucked up schedule again. They come up with features, in the middle of the product cycle it becomes clear that all of them can't be implemented, they start cutting features. They cut about 1/4 of them, then 3/4 through the product cycle 1/4 more. And in the very end of it all, marketing comes up with an awesome idea to push this thing through a standards body. VPs are ecstatic, engineers swear and cringe, everyone hopes standards committee won't notice missing shit. Standards committee notices, shit hits the fan, engineers get lower performance ratings in their yearly reviews, VPs get fat bonuses and stock grants. Everything continues unchanged.
The best, most logical assembly language I've seen was in my Spectrum. Quite frankly I think Zilog deserves a lot more respect than it gets these days. Anyone who's programmed Z80 assembly will puke from just seeing the ugly x86 flavor.
I want folks who have money realize that it's in their best interest to outsource lawyers and higher management as well. A lawyer can charge up to $700 an hour. Some if not most CEOs cost even more. Just imagine the savings!
Yeah, right. Someone sits there and solders 4-layer motherboards with SMD components by hand. :0) A few manyally installed caps here and there doesn't count.
And I've put together my computer by myself. Its motherboard and processor were assembled by robots.
I've lost two teeth, so I was thinking of installing implants to fill the gap and prevent other teeth and jawbone from deteriorating. Total cost in the US is $7K. Total cost in a good clinic in, say, Russia is $2K. Airfare to Russia is $2.4K (two round trips). There would be $2.6K left to blow on expensive toys.
The deciding factor was that my medical insurance would not pay the bill if I went abroad for medical treatment. I would also be unable to deduct the money using flexible spending account.
If I were in a need of a heart surgery, however, there would be no question whatsoever. I would not pay three times my yearly salary for 12 hours of someone's time.
"60 hour work weeks except in some circumstances" - it's 6 days a week 10 hours per day
"children 14 and above are considered adults where law permits"
"hazardous waste to be "characterized"
It's littered with zero-accountability phrases like this. The range in which this document can be interpreted is pretty wild.
Sounds like "get out of the jail free" document to me.
As a side note, if their foreign workers aren't even getting this much respect, then I see why everything coming out of third world is so cheap. It's all made by 14 year old kids working 12 hours a day six days a week without any protection, medical insurance, etc.
I've lost any desire to buy anything from HP, IBM or anyone else involved in this crap. Give me "made in the US" label or give me death.
For the life of me I don't see how Google can be worth this much. Yes, the profit is pretty darn good (and deserved), but its market cap is just absurd right now.
I was born and raised in Russia, so I just can't pass this hogwash.
1. While I agree that it's easy to find legal "mainstream" music, I couldn't care less about mainstream. I listen to the stuff considered exotic even here in the US. Try to find something like this legally in Russia, especially shortly after an album comes out. This is the stuff that's only a couple of mouse clicks away in the US. Also, CDs are usually either close or well above $20, which is way too much even in the US.
2. Broadband. Yeah, for $24 there you get a whopping 1GB of traffic per month and pay for every megabyte on top of that. Plus, you have to pay for the equipment as well. And this is only in Moscow. No wonder iTunes type businesses are having a hard time taking off.
3. Pulse dialing. Depends on the company and where you live. In most cases a call to change from pulse to tone dialing will only cause a roaring laugh on the other end.
4. Contrary to what the guy says, you can be just as well connected in a small town. My brother in southern Russia had a 128kbps ISDN line with 1GB traffic limit for a little over $15 a month.
You're a Java or C# "developer", right? There's no way in heck you can program all day in C++ and get everything to compile without at least warnings.
If only 2.5" drives weren't so expensive.
>> you're paying for eye candy basically
No, you ain't even paying for that, because this thing looks HORRIBLE compared to iMac.
Move the data to another HD. The point for me is that it's very ulikely that I'll lose data backed up to an hdd like this. Which is exactly what I want.
How about a hard drive that has hardware RAID inside it, one virtual HD per plate, with 2 plates for RAID 1, or three plates for RAID5.
Make one that's 100GB. I don't care about RPMs, I just want to be DAMN sure that it's not going to die on me. I also want to have low cost drives to archive my data to for long term storage. These RAID-ized drives would fit the bill perfectly.
A lot of comapanies are coming to a realization that outsourcing doesn't really work that well for most jobs. It works for some (support, manual testing, sustained engineering), but for critical pieces of work it rarely does.
What works, however, is hiring your own people in India and keeping them there, moving the entire products there, Dev, Test, PM, whole enchilada. A few US PMs stay here to gather and forward requirements and oversee development, everything else is there. This is how MS does it, so expect others to join the trend soon.
This doesn't seem to be an option for small to medium size companies, though. Those will either rely on US workforce or go out of business (which is fine with big corporations).
ing to kill myself with. Imagine waking up every morning in pain, and forgetting what you did five minutes ago. Being an old man is no fun. Personally I hope I'll die when I'm 65-70.
And this sucks in a major way. I haven't been using MS e-mail software for a year now, and while Firefox search isn't that bad per se, I think indexing my email with Google would add a lot of value anyway.
playing with a bomb while sitting on top of a nuclear reactor when I hear about GM technologies.
Repeat after me, WE DON'T KNOW ENOUGH about genetics to do the kind of things we do these days. You know when I'll say we know enough and can safely do whatever we want with DNA? When scientists build a completely new animal or plant out of raw amino acids. That's when. Until then, I'd force them to do their research in well controlled labs and have their experimental plants compeletely isolated from the outside world.
The extent of the problem is scary really. Walk into any US grocery store. Look at the labels. If you don't see "organic" explicitly written on them, then you can almost guarantee you're buying something that contains GMOs. There are lists of "GM" foods available on the web. 95% of the food you eat already contains GMOs! Health effects of this will only be figured out 20 years down the road. For now you're a guinea pig, and you're paying them to conduct experiments on you.
Record labels have nothing to lose here. Revenues they get from Apple are laughable.
Apple, however, can't:
1. Make tracks more expensive - nobody's gonna buy them
2. Share the DRM format - bye bye iTunes revnues
3. Implement stronger DRM - nobody will buy tracks
4. Tell the record labels to fuck off - where are they gonna get the music then?
I think they're royally fucked.
I don't know about you, but I can't survive without a little Howard Stern in the morning. I'll have to subscribe to Sirius if it's the only station where he's going to appear.
I remember the concept of Vel Satis. It was a jaw dropping car. Instead, they've downgraded it to a frikkin' Toyota Avalon, and then fucked up the electronics.
It's WAY too late. For me the main feature in an IM client these days is not whether it's decentralized or XML based. It's whether or not it supports audio and video conferencing. I'm saving hundreds of dollars in long distance (including international) charges by using MSN Messenger. I can not migrate to a client that doesn't support audioconferencing at the very least.
If _BillG_ has to run anti-malware programs, everyone else is in _deep_shit_.
I, for one, welcome our millionaire overlords. I wish more tech companies had folks who had enough money to retire, so that those who don't have enough money yet would be able to make a bit more and advance their careers a bit faster. Where I work, it's like a freakin' concrete wall up there. Folks who have been with the company are well put in their trenches and it's nearly impossible to get anywhere, because the "old boys club" is everywhere. I wish the stock price doubled and they took off. I'd be a happy camper then.
I need to patent "A method for filing patents for ridiculously stupid things and apparatus for getting them through USPTO". I'll donate all the money I get from it (and this will be a TON of money) to charities, too.