You think the lab down the hall isn't working on a new strain of Ebola that this vaccine doesn't protect against? I'm going to have to ask you to hand in your tin foil hat.
That's it, exactly. Same experience with Malaysia and Korean devs and managers. The answer is always "Yes, yes, of course, we will do that, no problem," to any question. I understand that it's partly cultural; it's considered rude to just say no. But it goes way beyond that: they will lie straight to your face (or over a video link) and actually get tetchy about being questioned, even when they have a track record of failures and screw ups behind them.
Other fun things to deal with are the rapid staff turnover, the guarantee that they'll take the code you paid them to write with them to a competitor, and that you might find that you don't even have a copy. Keep the source repository under your control, and no commitee, no payee.
You're defending a company that's trying to assert invention rights over design features that appeared in 2001: Space Odyssey and Star Trek: The Next Generation. Please to be fucking yourself right off, this isn't a serious discussion, it's Apple using lawyers to stifle market competition.
They aren't using CGI because they can't afford it. They can't afford it because they're penniless nobodies with no track record and a dull sounding arthouse premise who can't get funding any other way than by begging for it retail. This is essentially online panhandling.
Kyoto is a "no you may not", and that doesn't play in the sticks. Enclaves of the super rich (hello) telling the struggling impoverished that they can't aspire to the same standard of living is a risible strategy. We're trying to tell the rural population of India and China that refrigerators and showers are a luxury that they should live without.
What we need is a "yes we can" of Apollonian proportions. Throw a trillion dollars at fusion, see if it sticks. Heck, throw five, or ten trillion at it. Bet the farm. We can either make it cheaper to manufacture with clean energy than coal power, or we can start filling sandbags.
The USA won't accept significant change either, but there's enough of an ecomental vote that some token pretence of greenwashing is politically astute. China and India are at least being honest, and that has value as it shows that there's no mileage in beggaring ourselves voluntarily now before [insert current buzzword for global warming] beggars us later.
It's a technological problem, it needs a technological solution. Just setting goals and targets doesn't achieve that. Throwing a trillion dollars at fusion power might, and that's essentially what it's going to take to get us off the fossil teat before the last scrap of coal has been dug up, gas extracted, and oil squeezed out of it.
Version 11 is due out next week and is supposed to be faster.
Yeah, sure, if you want to use an obsolete version, go ahead, Consumer McSheep. All the cool development work is now being done on version 15... uh, I'm sorry, while I was typing, attention shifted to 17. Ooh, shiny.
Le sigh. The GP is pointing out that even in companies or jurisdictions where workers can't be made to do extra hours without pay, that refusing to do so - being That Guy - can be a career limiting move.
"Team player" is just thinly veiled management babble for "submissive".
Well, telling people that "they're screwed" probably doesn't help. I daren't search from work, but I expect there's already a "YOU GONNA GET ASSANGED" memepic doing the rounds.
I can't see Google trying to assert a patent claim against a site that they cited as prior art for continuing to use its groupthink enforcement system. You'd have to be a patent troll of Intellectual Venturian proportions to even contemplate anything so Quixotic.
Bingo. And -1 redundant to every other comment in this thread that doesn't mention the smoking elephant in the airplane toilet.
A hand grenade has about 690,000 Joules of chemical energy (~150g of TNT at 4.6 MJ per kg). A high capacity external battery pack (a reasonable carry-on, right?) packs around 550,800 Joules (I can find 153 Watt-hours packs). That's in the same ballpark. Extracting it is left as a (thought) exercise for the reader.
Another combat-feat paper implementation of WOW. Mostly just different flavoured ways of dealing damage.
OK, Basic and 1st Edition Advanced was much the same, but extensive non-combat spells, thief abilities and milieu helpers in the DM's guide at least gave a grounding for something beyond chipping away at hit points.
Eh, I'm probably just jaded. This'll fly well with WOWers and geezers looking to get back to basics, and you can't argue with the price.
Urgh. Pedantry fail. Oracle is also company, not just a product, but in any case neither Palantir nor Oracle nor A-N-Other company/system doesn't describe an extant boogeyman TLA panopticon. Never mind, the Slashduh Collective have already decided that if it scares and angers us, it must be true.
The same massive industries that report that they make no taxable profits also report that they now run on unicorn burps and pixie sneezes? Gasps of amazement.
Crib notes: this is a description of what a Palantir system could do in TLA Wet Dream Land, not what it does do. Palantir is a product, not a system: the article might as well say "SQL".
"Own" the game? No, no, no, you own the media. At best, you have some sort of vague and revocable promise to not get sued for making copies of it in your hard drive and RAM.
Since they don't include the weight of the compressors that they're tethered to, and the power generation for them. So, cool toys, but they're not going to come stomping down Main Street any time soon, unless they're trailing a reeeeeally long extension cord.
I'd suggest that a reading age of 16 is somewhat excessive for McCaffrey. There's nothing particularly objectionable about her work, but it's essentially Choose Your Own Adventure level writing, with the choices removed.
I hope her afterlife has a thesaurus so that she can look up alternatives to "slathering".
I wouldn't really bother with Heinlein's later work, it's basically propaganda about why hot young chicks should screw older men while calling them daddy. Of course, if cross generational incest appeals to you, knock yourself out.
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You think the lab down the hall isn't working on a new strain of Ebola that this vaccine doesn't protect against? I'm going to have to ask you to hand in your tin foil hat.
That's it, exactly. Same experience with Malaysia and Korean devs and managers. The answer is always "Yes, yes, of course, we will do that, no problem," to any question. I understand that it's partly cultural; it's considered rude to just say no. But it goes way beyond that: they will lie straight to your face (or over a video link) and actually get tetchy about being questioned, even when they have a track record of failures and screw ups behind them.
Other fun things to deal with are the rapid staff turnover, the guarantee that they'll take the code you paid them to write with them to a competitor, and that you might find that you don't even have a copy. Keep the source repository under your control, and no commitee, no payee.
You're defending a company that's trying to assert invention rights over design features that appeared in 2001: Space Odyssey and Star Trek: The Next Generation. Please to be fucking yourself right off, this isn't a serious discussion, it's Apple using lawyers to stifle market competition.
They aren't using CGI because they can't afford it. They can't afford it because they're penniless nobodies with no track record and a dull sounding arthouse premise who can't get funding any other way than by begging for it retail. This is essentially online panhandling.
Kyoto is a "no you may not", and that doesn't play in the sticks. Enclaves of the super rich (hello) telling the struggling impoverished that they can't aspire to the same standard of living is a risible strategy. We're trying to tell the rural population of India and China that refrigerators and showers are a luxury that they should live without.
What we need is a "yes we can" of Apollonian proportions. Throw a trillion dollars at fusion, see if it sticks. Heck, throw five, or ten trillion at it. Bet the farm. We can either make it cheaper to manufacture with clean energy than coal power, or we can start filling sandbags.
The USA won't accept significant change either, but there's enough of an ecomental vote that some token pretence of greenwashing is politically astute. China and India are at least being honest, and that has value as it shows that there's no mileage in beggaring ourselves voluntarily now before [insert current buzzword for global warming] beggars us later.
It's a technological problem, it needs a technological solution. Just setting goals and targets doesn't achieve that. Throwing a trillion dollars at fusion power might, and that's essentially what it's going to take to get us off the fossil teat before the last scrap of coal has been dug up, gas extracted, and oil squeezed out of it.
Yeah, sure, if you want to use an obsolete version, go ahead, Consumer McSheep. All the cool development work is now being done on version 15... uh, I'm sorry, while I was typing, attention shifted to 17. Ooh, shiny.
Le sigh. The GP is pointing out that even in companies or jurisdictions where workers can't be made to do extra hours without pay, that refusing to do so - being That Guy - can be a career limiting move.
"Team player" is just thinly veiled management babble for "submissive".
Very cryptic stuff: are you sure They didn't get to you too?
If you want to be taken even remotely seriously, provide names, dates, observed methods and supporting evidence. Go on, amaze us.
Well, telling people that "they're screwed" probably doesn't help. I daren't search from work, but I expect there's already a "YOU GONNA GET ASSANGED" memepic doing the rounds.
If you're trapped in a free-falling elevator, whether it's on fire or not is probably the least (or briefest) of your worries.
Good news: last time you looked, he was still sitting in the back and hadn't stabbed you yet.
You could switch your computer off rather than using it to turn fossil fuel into CO2 and hipster hair-shirt proselytizing.
I can't see Google trying to assert a patent claim against a site that they cited as prior art for continuing to use its groupthink enforcement system. You'd have to be a patent troll of Intellectual Venturian proportions to even contemplate anything so Quixotic.
Bingo. And -1 redundant to every other comment in this thread that doesn't mention the smoking elephant in the airplane toilet.
A hand grenade has about 690,000 Joules of chemical energy (~150g of TNT at 4.6 MJ per kg). A high capacity external battery pack (a reasonable carry-on, right?) packs around 550,800 Joules (I can find 153 Watt-hours packs). That's in the same ballpark. Extracting it is left as a (thought) exercise for the reader.
Another combat-feat paper implementation of WOW. Mostly just different flavoured ways of dealing damage.
OK, Basic and 1st Edition Advanced was much the same, but extensive non-combat spells, thief abilities and milieu helpers in the DM's guide at least gave a grounding for something beyond chipping away at hit points.
Eh, I'm probably just jaded. This'll fly well with WOWers and geezers looking to get back to basics, and you can't argue with the price.
Get a job with the TSA Grope Squad?
Urgh. Pedantry fail. Oracle is also company, not just a product, but in any case neither Palantir nor Oracle nor A-N-Other company/system doesn't describe an extant boogeyman TLA panopticon. Never mind, the Slashduh Collective have already decided that if it scares and angers us, it must be true.
The same massive industries that report that they make no taxable profits also report that they now run on unicorn burps and pixie sneezes? Gasps of amazement.
If you make a box for it, they will check it.
Crib notes: this is a description of what a Palantir system could do in TLA Wet Dream Land, not what it does do. Palantir is a product, not a system: the article might as well say "SQL".
Sounds great, I'll light the candles.
"Own" the game? No, no, no, you own the media. At best, you have some sort of vague and revocable promise to not get sued for making copies of it in your hard drive and RAM.
Since they don't include the weight of the compressors that they're tethered to, and the power generation for them. So, cool toys, but they're not going to come stomping down Main Street any time soon, unless they're trailing a reeeeeally long extension cord.
I'd suggest that a reading age of 16 is somewhat excessive for McCaffrey. There's nothing particularly objectionable about her work, but it's essentially Choose Your Own Adventure level writing, with the choices removed.
I hope her afterlife has a thesaurus so that she can look up alternatives to "slathering".
I wouldn't really bother with Heinlein's later work, it's basically propaganda about why hot young chicks should screw older men while calling them daddy. Of course, if cross generational incest appeals to you, knock yourself out.