Hah!
I stopped for very nearly the same reason. I made a deal with myself somewhere around book 6 that if he introduced another new female character in the next 100 pages and described her as having "rose petal lips" that I was done.
So I was done...
As hard as it is right now, outsourcing is a competitive advantage for the US and will contribute to our further econmoic dominance internationally. Think about it, outsourcing allows US based companies to lower their costs compared to say German companies. The almost universal desire to speak english provides us with a large pool of talent that we can communicate with. This is a *good* thing for the US. Germany (for example) will have a very hard time finding large pools of German speaking workers overseas to outsource easily to. In the long run this will hurt their ability to compete with the US.
The other point I would like to make is that this is really a case of the chickens coming home to roost. The US has subsidized for so long agricultural production that it has in essence removed the potential profit from that industry for those in developing nations. The results of this is two-fold: One, by definition protectionist agricultural policies have raised prices and therefore costs within the US making the US less competitive against other nations. Two, by eliminating the ability of developing nations to compete at the lower end of the ecomnomic tier, we have forced them to vault the value chain in order to participate in trade.
Finally for those of you who are upset about the moral aspect of this: It is far more "moral" in my opinion for a US job to go to a person in a developing nation than it is for the US to raise protectionist barriers to force those workers out of the potential labor pool.
The lack of sugar meant that my tastebuds did not recognize that I was drinking, so I was constantly thirsty.[snip](and I was sick of running to the bathroom every 20 minutes.)
Actually the symptoms you describe are consistent with the early stages of diabetes. You really should loook into it, and consider losing the sugar all together.
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I second your opionion. There are good studies available that reveal that > 95% of women in the porn industry in the US were sexually abused as children. The same studies also reveal deeply low self esteem, high incidence of depression, drug abuse, alchohol abuse and on and on and on. Why do you think that is? Is it possible that the porn industry is an industry that exploits broken people?
As a parent of a young son, I know I have a responsibility to protect him from exposure to porn not only for his own sake, but to ensure that I do not help conribute to the exploitation of yet more vulnerable young girls.
Ummm... we're not talking Murphy's law here, we're talking about people who bring problems down on their own heads.
There's a difference.
If he had done the testing and used his mad skillz to recover, then no problem, shit happens. My point was that he didn't do the testing and then thought the was a hero for fixing the problem that he created.
I agree, everyone makes mistakes, and recovering from them is an important skill, but those who are careful and professional can avoid the need for these kinds of heroics in the first place. Work smarter, not harder.
It seems to me that there is a relationship between the same mentality that says "You can't make me wear X" and that which says "You can't make me work in a controlled and disciplined way."
I had a bunch of new handsets dropped on me by the NEAX 'expert' who was on a short contract (from overseas) to design the roll-out of these new units (D-Term V's), who incidentally NEVER actually attended the site in question to find out that our PABX did not support them at all, according to NEC and Telstra. So I find this out after removing everyones phone, their old 4 wire digital cards, and patching then replacing with new phones, 2 wire digital cards and patching and then.... the programming.... which didn't work.
So to summarize:
Without ever testing, he removed everyone's old phone, put in the new phones and tried to program them. This is after the expert "dropped" the new phones on him. He obviously knew that the "expert" had never visited the site, not doing any testing is negligence.
This is clearly sloppy and unprofessional work, and I stand by my instinct to walk him out. I'm not being a jerk here. If I did the same thing I would expect that my employment would be extremely short term.
Furthermore, he is responding to a poster asking only that people dress with "some semblance of style" the poster is clearly not advocating mandatory "expensive suits", but a resonable standard of professional dress.
So let me get this straight, I am supposed to be impressed that you rolled out a massive change without testing it and then had to work your ass off to fix it? In so doing you nearly cost your company downtime, and also cost yourself your weekend.
You sound like just another seat-of-the-pants cowboy that gives IT a bad name. If you worked for me, I would have walked you out the door on Monday. You are a classic case of martyrdom through incompetence.
It would be like MS saying you can't use MS Word if your using it to write up a document critical of MS, or to write up source code for something competing with an MS product.
Actually it would be more like MS producing a free version of Word but requiring that if you used that version of Word for *anything* you can't even use a competitors product for criticising Microsoft.
One problem with your analogy is that we are not comparing apples to apples by comparing GM to Record Labels/RIAA/Artists. If I had a magic transmorgifier that I could point at a Corvette, hit a button and have an almost perfect copy appear from nowhere would it be stealing for me to climb in and drive away?
I think the basic argument in support of Iintellectual Property is beginning to fail. One cannot expect that a finite amount of effort like creating a digital recorded music source for a given song should be rewarded in perpetuity. Artists should be paid for performance not for recording, and recordings should be made only to promote and support the artists performace.
A final thought do you really believe that anyone undermining another companies business model deserves to be sued? Should Barnes and Noble sue Amazon.com?
Actually, you speaketh out of your ass. The power to declare something unconstitutional rests not with the legislative or the executive, but the judicial branch. Legality does not imply constitutionality.
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Hah! I stopped for very nearly the same reason. I made a deal with myself somewhere around book 6 that if he introduced another new female character in the next 100 pages and described her as having "rose petal lips" that I was done. So I was done...
Ouch. That feels better.
The other point I would like to make is that this is really a case of the chickens coming home to roost. The US has subsidized for so long agricultural production that it has in essence removed the potential profit from that industry for those in developing nations. The results of this is two-fold: One, by definition protectionist agricultural policies have raised prices and therefore costs within the US making the US less competitive against other nations. Two, by eliminating the ability of developing nations to compete at the lower end of the ecomnomic tier, we have forced them to vault the value chain in order to participate in trade.
Finally for those of you who are upset about the moral aspect of this: It is far more "moral" in my opinion for a US job to go to a person in a developing nation than it is for the US to raise protectionist barriers to force those workers out of the potential labor pool.
Actually the symptoms you describe are consistent with the early stages of diabetes. You really should loook into it, and consider losing the sugar all together.
Woosh!
As a parent of a young son, I know I have a responsibility to protect him from exposure to porn not only for his own sake, but to ensure that I do not help conribute to the exploitation of yet more vulnerable young girls.
PG Tips *is* good, but not as good as Lipton Yellow Label. (Which is entirely different from nasty ole' regular Lipton)
There was a precusor non-id game called Castle Wolfenstein
He's on a different page.
It wasn't an exe 'cause it ran only on C64 and AppleII.
Young whippersnappers.
Ummm... we're not talking Murphy's law here, we're talking about people who bring problems down on their own heads.
There's a difference.
If he had done the testing and used his mad skillz to recover, then no problem, shit happens. My point was that he didn't do the testing and then thought the was a hero for fixing the problem that he created.
I agree, everyone makes mistakes, and recovering from them is an important skill, but those who are careful and professional can avoid the need for these kinds of heroics in the first place. Work smarter, not harder.
Didn't ignore the point.
It seems to me that there is a relationship between the same mentality that says "You can't make me wear X" and that which says "You can't make me work in a controlled and disciplined way."
I had a bunch of new handsets dropped on me by the NEAX 'expert' who was on a short contract (from overseas) to design the roll-out of these new units (D-Term V's), who incidentally NEVER actually attended the site in question to find out that our PABX did not support them at all, according to NEC and Telstra. So I find this out after removing everyones phone, their old 4 wire digital cards, and patching then replacing with new phones, 2 wire digital cards and patching and then.... the programming.... which didn't work.
So to summarize:
Without ever testing, he removed everyone's old phone, put in the new phones and tried to program them. This is after the expert "dropped" the new phones on him. He obviously knew that the "expert" had never visited the site, not doing any testing is negligence.
This is clearly sloppy and unprofessional work, and I stand by my instinct to walk him out. I'm not being a jerk here. If I did the same thing I would expect that my employment would be extremely short term.
Furthermore, he is responding to a poster asking only that people dress with "some semblance of style" the poster is clearly not advocating mandatory "expensive suits", but a resonable standard of professional dress.
So let me get this straight, I am supposed to be impressed that you rolled out a massive change without testing it and then had to work your ass off to fix it? In so doing you nearly cost your company downtime, and also cost yourself your weekend.
You sound like just another seat-of-the-pants cowboy that gives IT a bad name. If you worked for me, I would have walked you out the door on Monday. You are a classic case of martyrdom through incompetence.
How Completely Unprofessional.
It would be like MS saying you can't use MS Word if your using it to write up a document critical of MS, or to write up source code for something competing with an MS product.
Actually it would be more like MS producing a free version of Word but requiring that if you used that version of Word for *anything* you can't even use a competitors product for criticising Microsoft.
Not even MS goes that far.
I think the basic argument in support of Iintellectual Property is beginning to fail. One cannot expect that a finite amount of effort like creating a digital recorded music source for a given song should be rewarded in perpetuity. Artists should be paid for performance not for recording, and recordings should be made only to promote and support the artists performace.
A final thought do you really believe that anyone undermining another companies business model deserves to be sued? Should Barnes and Noble sue Amazon.com?
Richard
Actually, you speaketh out of your ass. The power to declare something unconstitutional rests not with the legislative or the executive, but the judicial branch. Legality does not imply constitutionality.
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Teach the children well, start them with a readable language that catches many mistakes learning prgrammers make automatically, let them get exposed to OO and make nice gui apps so they will feel like they are ding "real" programming. Which of course they will be