The lack of recognition of the primacy of "ease-of-use" is a huge problem for open sourcers. This will be a difficult skill gap to bridge, because Microsoft is driven by profit (customers), and therefore will be incentivized to actually produce things that people, other than propeller-heads, want. The world really, really, really, doesn't give a rats a$$ about how elegant your design is, but because your reward system is based on peer approval, rather than "customer" (a concept that doesn't event exist in open source) approval, you'll never understand this.
To summarize: making something complex is easy, making something simple (and useful) is very hard.
Complaining to the open source propeller heads about low salaries, when they essentially work for free, doesn't make any sense. If you're willing to code for nothing, I believe you can still undercut the Indians.
Spoken like a true Communist. I'm sure that you shop for the most expensive product when you go to the store. So do the evil capitalists. What you really want is a government official deciding what each profession gets paid, independent of actual supply and demand. Seize the means of production comrade! Freedom can only be acheived through total control of the government.
No all rail sucks. It simply doesn't make economic sense. Amtrak is bankrupt, and the new trains will just achieve the same worthless results, albeit at a higher velocity.
Classis moron legislation, crafted by morons, elected by morons. The populace deserves stupid laws like this; probably worse. At worst, I could see the state requiring the posting of the maximum G for a ride, not regulating it. It is a fine demonstration of the unrestrained, limitless power that government has be granted by the feeble minded masses.
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Yeah, except of course they liked it. It is annoying when the world doesn't present itself as your personal theme park or anthropological museum.
You have many unsupported assertions. If American corps. were so reviled, they wouldn't be successful. If American culture was so bad, it wouldn't sell. If other, native cultures were so valuable, people would value them above American culture and they would survive. The reason American corps. and culture is so successful is that it focusses on average people's desires, not the desires of a cultural elite. People gladly trade their native cultures for American culture. Supply and demand.
You forgot to mention that the U.S. is also the leading force for freedom and democracy in the world, and the most prosperous and moral civilization in human history. Minor points.
Busses suck. By definition, they're right in the middle of traffic. A tourist monorail is nice for a town like Vegas, where the bulk of the attractions are so nicely arranged. Never work in LA though.
Thank heavens this stupid idea will die. It's amazing anyone productive still makes their home there. I'm an American, and I think my taxes are about double what they should be, I can't imagine enduring what you people do.
Another stupid idea. Two stupid ideas actually. A cabinet level post for implementing equality; fantastically stupid. Add to that the idea of just giving unearned assets to people, cosmically stupid. Too bad that asteroid missed earth.
You're desire for quality is admirable, and believe me I've worked in the environment you're describing. I believe that it's rather typically in any non-aerospace company. The problem is that, contrary to popular mythology, the benefits of quality are not absolute in a business sense. There is a level of quality that customers simply won't pay for. So if you're going to have this discussion with your boss, be prepared to listen also. Quitting may be your only recourse, but be prepared to seek out a job with Boeing if you want a waterfall, TQM environment.
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then the ingredients won't weigh anything.
The lack of recognition of the primacy of "ease-of-use" is a huge problem for open sourcers. This will be a difficult skill gap to bridge, because Microsoft is driven by profit (customers), and therefore will be incentivized to actually produce things that people, other than propeller-heads, want. The world really, really, really, doesn't give a rats a$$ about how elegant your design is, but because your reward system is based on peer approval, rather than "customer" (a concept that doesn't event exist in open source) approval, you'll never understand this.
To summarize: making something complex is easy, making something simple (and useful) is very hard.
Complaining to the open source propeller heads about low salaries, when they essentially work for free, doesn't make any sense. If you're willing to code for nothing, I believe you can still undercut the Indians.
Spoken like a true Communist. I'm sure that you shop for the most expensive product when you go to the store. So do the evil capitalists. What you really want is a government official deciding what each profession gets paid, independent of actual supply and demand. Seize the means of production comrade! Freedom can only be acheived through total control of the government.
Too trivial for terrorists to attack. Just blow up, or throw something on the track.
No all rail sucks. It simply doesn't make economic sense. Amtrak is bankrupt, and the new trains will just achieve the same worthless results, albeit at a higher velocity.
Classis moron legislation, crafted by morons, elected by morons. The populace deserves stupid laws like this; probably worse. At worst, I could see the state requiring the posting of the maximum G for a ride, not regulating it. It is a fine demonstration of the unrestrained, limitless power that government has be granted by the feeble minded masses.
Yeah, except of course they liked it. It is annoying when the world doesn't present itself as your personal theme park or anthropological museum.
You have many unsupported assertions. If American corps. were so reviled, they wouldn't be successful. If American culture was so bad, it wouldn't sell. If other, native cultures were so valuable, people would value them above American culture and they would survive. The reason American corps. and culture is so successful is that it focusses on average people's desires, not the desires of a cultural elite. People gladly trade their native cultures for American culture. Supply and demand.
America is free, as is a great deal of the world. I think a lot of people simply don't like what people choose when they are free: American culture.
Or maybe you'd be typing this in Russian now, on a Soviet computer.
That's easy. If the weak always submit to the strong without a fight, there will be no more war.
Ahh, the great father/savior/dictator will use his/her absolute power over life on earth to "force" a change. Not while I live.
You forgot to mention that the U.S. is also the leading force for freedom and democracy in the world, and the most prosperous and moral civilization in human history. Minor points.
Yes. Allowing them to remain poor, given your alternatives, is the superior approach.
Yes, your suspicion is correct: you are just a yahoo.
If you're worried about $10, you're in the wrong town.
Busses suck. By definition, they're right in the middle of traffic. A tourist monorail is nice for a town like Vegas, where the bulk of the attractions are so nicely arranged. Never work in LA though.
Boy those communists are long winded. No wonder they have been relegated to the past (forever hopefully).
Thank heavens this stupid idea will die. It's amazing anyone productive still makes their home there. I'm an American, and I think my taxes are about double what they should be, I can't imagine enduring what you people do.
Another stupid idea. Two stupid ideas actually. A cabinet level post for implementing equality; fantastically stupid. Add to that the idea of just giving unearned assets to people, cosmically stupid. Too bad that asteroid missed earth.
You're desire for quality is admirable, and believe me I've worked in the environment you're describing. I believe that it's rather typically in any non-aerospace company. The problem is that, contrary to popular mythology, the benefits of quality are not absolute in a business sense. There is a level of quality that customers simply won't pay for. So if you're going to have this discussion with your boss, be prepared to listen also. Quitting may be your only recourse, but be prepared to seek out a job with Boeing if you want a waterfall, TQM environment.
What I'd like to see is have it manufacture a copy of itself.
Which is OK, as it is populated by idiots as well.
Of course what you've written is complete nonsense. There is no evidence of "murder".