What government agency and can you send some of their management my way? I've been on this project four years and they still can't decide what they want the system to do even though it's been in production for two years.
While there are a large number of IT types that are heavily into role playing, my experience in the past 15 years has been that it's almost exclusively non-coding IT personal that are into it. I've met very very few coders that role play (though the vast majority of them are into FPS games for some reason), and not a single of the truly great coders I've known had any interest in them. Sysadmins/netadmins and field techs, however, seem highly enamored of them.
The irony of your view is that the reason private schools have better science education is because they refuse to include Intelligent Design in their science courses, while public schools have to spend millions of dollars on lawsuits by right wing religious zealots who want to force their religion beliefs into science classes.
The private schools don't answer to the board of education, the public schools do. The religious right spends incredible amounts of money each year getting ID'ers elected to the school boards to try and mandate teaching ID. I went to both public and private schools. The difference wasn't tremendous in terms of the quality of teachers, but there was a tremendous difference in the currency of the materials as the public schools didn't have the money for updated textbooks.
Actually, like many singers, Spears does not generally write her songs. On her first post-"Ooops" album she is only credited on 5 songs apparently, most likely for lyrics rather than music. The songs on her first album were written by professional songwriters.
You're already maxed on mod, but you are so right. I worked on supply chain management systems and in particular migrating a legacy product to Websphere on AS/400, and those are astoundingly complex systems.
I've never understood this mindset. The idea that corporations are somehow going to be more benevolent than governments with how they rape an pillage us common folk. At least governments have the benefit of being largely hobbled by an ineffective bureacracy. So who do you want as your slave driver? A ruthlessly efficient malevolent corporation, or a ruthlessly moribund malevolent government bureacracy?
That's all well and good, but the physical media and physical transportation are the smallest part of a cd's price (except for the artist's cut, which is pathetic). The record companies are thinking "Hell, the blank cd, jewel case, 20 page booklet, shrink wrap, shipping and handling all only come to about a buck a unit. We sell CDs new in stores for $17.99, so on iTunes they should be $16.99."
You can't fault their logic. You can argue that their physical cd prices are insane (which they are) but based on the price of them now, it is entirely reasonable for the execs to think that knocking a dollar off is fair.
Artists "make" about a buck a CD max. The artist cut isn't from the retail price of the cd, but from the profit. Thanks to the wonderful art of entertainment industry accounting, few albums are ever profitable, and the ones that are make less than 2-3 dollars profit per unit. Of that, the artist only gets a small percentage, out of which they have to pay agents and managers. Of course, this is only AFTER they have paid back the cost of recording and promoting the album.
Yes, you read that right: The label does not pay for recording, producing, or promoting the album. The artist does. The label will give them an advance (which they usually blow) but it has to be paid back in full before the artist sees a penny of profits.
One of my favorite examples was Faith No More back in the early 90's. With a platinum selling album and several hit singles and virtually no investment on the part of the label, they had to tour 18 months to support the album before they got a break and they were all still living with their parents and driving beat up junkers from the 70's because they were broke.
Based on that logic I could say that Java is crap and useless for serious software development. I'm on a project where the original coding was done by people learning Java (and OO in general) on the job. It's horrendous, but I'm smart enough to realize that it's not the fault of the language that their code sucks.
Those aren't even GOOD photoshop mock ups. Even within a given pic of the "processor" some fonts are sharp and clear while others are fuzzy. The whole site took no more than a drunken hour and a half. I expect a better quality of internet hoax in this day and age, dammit.
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You're confusing invention with adoption. While all those things were invented for some 'serious' purpose and primarily used for that at first, it is volume purchasing by people who want faster/better/cooler gaming or porn that brings them to the mass market.
FEMA's budget has been largely eliminated, and they were ordered to stop disaster preparedness operations in the spring, as that function was going to be assigned to some not yet created agency.
I'm all for trashing FEMA's legendary incompetence, but you can't blame them much for this one, except their douche-bag of a spokesmonkey who spouts out "oh, all things considered I think it's gone pretty well" nonsense.
The failure to respond lies 100% in the lap of the Department of Homeland Security.
It's been said a million times, but this is precisely why I won't pay for a slashdot subscription. Nor will I click on any ads. Even if I see an ad that looks interesting (which is fairly often, I'll open a new tab and browse there manually rather than give slashdot the traffic revenue. An occasional dupe is one thing, but when 25% of the stories on the front page are dupes from YESTERDAY, it's clear that OSDN doesn't give a shit about quality.
I agree that responsibilities come with rights. The proper response to libelous or slanderous or just downright hateful speech isn't to gag people, it's more speech.
It is beautiful irony to me that one of the greatest features is also one of the greatest problems.
Amazing, studies commissioned by home schooling advocates say that homes schooling is great! Who'd have thought?
Seriously, I know people who home school. Some of them are great. Most of them are people who are offended that the local schools don't teach strict Evangelical Christian doctrine (how is that different from the Islamic schools in the Middle East that are a churning out ideological zealots who view the US as evil?). The people who most want to home school are the least likely to be able to adequately teach their kids about things like chemistry, biology, and math.
Though since they often believe that those topics along with any view of history that deviates from "America is Number One and always good and right" is a lie being forced on them by liberals, they don't care if their kids don't learn them. Someone has to work at McDonald's, I guess.
I do believe that technology has great potential to provide distance learning, but home schooling is a vastly different topic from distance learning.
You must be unfamiliar with legal systems in third world countries. Execution is a very real possibility. Severe beatings and years in a miserable prison are likely.
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Um, this has been the MS PR line for months. Slow news day?
Space, heat, power consumption, aesthetics. Just to name the most significant reasons.
What government agency and can you send some of their management my way? I've been on this project four years and they still can't decide what they want the system to do even though it's been in production for two years.
While there are a large number of IT types that are heavily into role playing, my experience in the past 15 years has been that it's almost exclusively non-coding IT personal that are into it. I've met very very few coders that role play (though the vast majority of them are into FPS games for some reason), and not a single of the truly great coders I've known had any interest in them. Sysadmins/netadmins and field techs, however, seem highly enamored of them.
Yea, but there's clearly no bias, because Dvorak was one of them. And he used a PC. See? No bias whatsoever!
The irony of your view is that the reason private schools have better science education is because they refuse to include Intelligent Design in their science courses, while public schools have to spend millions of dollars on lawsuits by right wing religious zealots who want to force their religion beliefs into science classes.
The private schools don't answer to the board of education, the public schools do. The religious right spends incredible amounts of money each year getting ID'ers elected to the school boards to try and mandate teaching ID. I went to both public and private schools. The difference wasn't tremendous in terms of the quality of teachers, but there was a tremendous difference in the currency of the materials as the public schools didn't have the money for updated textbooks.
"Learn how to use QuickTime 7 Pro to export your home movies to iTunes and sync them to your new iPod."
If you've got video content in any format recognized by QT Pro, you're good to go.
Yes, because most non-computer geek households have a file server.
Actually, like many singers, Spears does not generally write her songs. On her first post-"Ooops" album she is only credited on 5 songs apparently, most likely for lyrics rather than music. The songs on her first album were written by professional songwriters.
You're already maxed on mod, but you are so right. I worked on supply chain management systems and in particular migrating a legacy product to Websphere on AS/400, and those are astoundingly complex systems.
Because it's harassment for PROFIT. And in America profit is more important than anything and everything else.
I've never understood this mindset. The idea that corporations are somehow going to be more benevolent than governments with how they rape an pillage us common folk. At least governments have the benefit of being largely hobbled by an ineffective bureacracy. So who do you want as your slave driver? A ruthlessly efficient malevolent corporation, or a ruthlessly moribund malevolent government bureacracy?
Fails at w3c. It still looks better and is way faster, so big ups to y'all.
That's all well and good, but the physical media and physical transportation are the smallest part of a cd's price (except for the artist's cut, which is pathetic). The record companies are thinking "Hell, the blank cd, jewel case, 20 page booklet, shrink wrap, shipping and handling all only come to about a buck a unit. We sell CDs new in stores for $17.99, so on iTunes they should be $16.99."
You can't fault their logic. You can argue that their physical cd prices are insane (which they are) but based on the price of them now, it is entirely reasonable for the execs to think that knocking a dollar off is fair.
Artists "make" about a buck a CD max. The artist cut isn't from the retail price of the cd, but from the profit. Thanks to the wonderful art of entertainment industry accounting, few albums are ever profitable, and the ones that are make less than 2-3 dollars profit per unit. Of that, the artist only gets a small percentage, out of which they have to pay agents and managers. Of course, this is only AFTER they have paid back the cost of recording and promoting the album.
Yes, you read that right: The label does not pay for recording, producing, or promoting the album. The artist does. The label will give them an advance (which they usually blow) but it has to be paid back in full before the artist sees a penny of profits.
One of my favorite examples was Faith No More back in the early 90's. With a platinum selling album and several hit singles and virtually no investment on the part of the label, they had to tour 18 months to support the album before they got a break and they were all still living with their parents and driving beat up junkers from the 70's because they were broke.
Absolutely correct. Mod that sucker up.
Based on that logic I could say that Java is crap and useless for serious software development. I'm on a project where the original coding was done by people learning Java (and OO in general) on the job. It's horrendous, but I'm smart enough to realize that it's not the fault of the language that their code sucks.
Those aren't even GOOD photoshop mock ups. Even within a given pic of the "processor" some fonts are sharp and clear while others are fuzzy. The whole site took no more than a drunken hour and a half. I expect a better quality of internet hoax in this day and age, dammit.
You're confusing invention with adoption. While all those things were invented for some 'serious' purpose and primarily used for that at first, it is volume purchasing by people who want faster/better/cooler gaming or porn that brings them to the mass market.
FEMA's budget has been largely eliminated, and they were ordered to stop disaster preparedness operations in the spring, as that function was going to be assigned to some not yet created agency.
I'm all for trashing FEMA's legendary incompetence, but you can't blame them much for this one, except their douche-bag of a spokesmonkey who spouts out "oh, all things considered I think it's gone pretty well" nonsense.
The failure to respond lies 100% in the lap of the Department of Homeland Security.
It's been said a million times, but this is precisely why I won't pay for a slashdot subscription. Nor will I click on any ads. Even if I see an ad that looks interesting (which is fairly often, I'll open a new tab and browse there manually rather than give slashdot the traffic revenue. An occasional dupe is one thing, but when 25% of the stories on the front page are dupes from YESTERDAY, it's clear that OSDN doesn't give a shit about quality.
I agree that responsibilities come with rights. The proper response to libelous or slanderous or just downright hateful speech isn't to gag people, it's more speech.
It is beautiful irony to me that one of the greatest features is also one of the greatest problems.
"The Internet is not your personal stump to beat up people."
Actually, that's one of the greatest strengths of the internet. True freedom of speech.
Amazing, studies commissioned by home schooling advocates say that homes schooling is great! Who'd have thought?
Seriously, I know people who home school. Some of them are great. Most of them are people who are offended that the local schools don't teach strict Evangelical Christian doctrine (how is that different from the Islamic schools in the Middle East that are a churning out ideological zealots who view the US as evil?). The people who most want to home school are the least likely to be able to adequately teach their kids about things like chemistry, biology, and math.
Though since they often believe that those topics along with any view of history that deviates from "America is Number One and always good and right" is a lie being forced on them by liberals, they don't care if their kids don't learn them. Someone has to work at McDonald's, I guess.
I do believe that technology has great potential to provide distance learning, but home schooling is a vastly different topic from distance learning.
You must be unfamiliar with legal systems in third world countries. Execution is a very real possibility. Severe beatings and years in a miserable prison are likely.