BRILLIANT! This is spot on. Learn Universe/Unidata (IBM's version of pick) -- IBM lets you download the docs and the full system for free. No youngsters are getting into this industry and, if you look (maybe in some unlikely places), there is billable work and shops who are desperate for staff willing to commit to learning a system that has no IDE.
>The cell phone. Analog cell phones first took off in USA, today USA is struggling to implement 3G while its relatively common in Europe / Asia.
Bzzt. Wrong.
Europe is struggling to implement 3G because they aggressively standardized early and now the infrastructure costs to upgrade to 3G are too high. The US is in flux with competing technologies. The one that has the most features for the most reasonable price will win. There was a TechCentral column about this recently.
What's interesting to me is that we have an idea how sick or well Boeing is.
Airbus is opaque. They keep promising to open their books but keep finding reasons not to. How much are they losing? How much in European tax dollars have they spent?
Plus I hear worrisome rumors that the A380 is seriously overweight.
My god, I am/was a hard-core b5 fanboy during the original broadcast but afterwards I look back and think two things: 1-he did a great job making up stuff as he went along and actors dropped out and 2-jms can't write dialog that's not horribly stilted to save his life.
I shudder now listening to some of the heroic monologues Sheridan and Ivanova and (oh geez) Delenn made.
I *liked* the show a lot. G'kar and Londo kick freaking ass.
But Sisko and Garak and...DS9 is simply a richer, fuller story. Less preachy (which is incredible after TNG) than B5 and more fun too!
We (my partner and I) have 20 programmers that work for our very own foreign-owned company in Vietnam.
Our guys are *good*. They're smart, constantly learning new things and are quite dedicated. At need, they willingly work late hours for special projects and accelerated deadlines.
But one thing that makes our projects work so well is that we think of it (as another poster said) as a **long** commute. One of us is there for about two weeks every month. Houston to Saigon averages about $1000-1100 per flight. It is a *required* business expense for us.
And it's a two-way commute: we're very anxious to get individual staff members over here as soon as we can (lots of visa problems thus far). Not only do we want to get them property indoctrinated with US business practices (!) but we want to show them that a Houston summer is at *least* as unpleasant as one in Saigon.:-)
"...service that is probably not competively [sic] priced."
Careful with your assumptions, dude.
In my area, the VisorPhone uses Voicestream ('cause it's the only GSM provider available to me). I negotiated the service with Voicestream (choosing from their current plans) and Handspring didn't have anything more to do with me after I bought the phone.
> I would give my left nut to do that in public. Must be the geek in me.:)
Hell, I'd give up my left nut if it'd be replaced with a processor, my right butt cheek for the battery pack, a twiddler hanging from my neck (instead of the tie I haven't worn in ten years), stereoscopic display build into my prescription glasses and that plate in my skull replaced with a wireless ethernet/cell phone combo.
and every year, upgrade to a smaller but faster and cooler running testicle...
Yeah, B5 has a certain amount of cohesiveness and quality.
But all it *really* has going for it is Londo and G'kar.
JMS writes horrid dialogue for Sheridan and Delenn. If I hear "Someone once said..." or "As someone once told me..." ever again, I'll scream.
The end of the Shadow War may have been intellectually satisfying but it was *not* satisfying on a visceral level. Turning great and powerful enemies into whiny children in ten minutes...bah. And who really gave a damn about Byron's telepaths? Not me.
i wonder how well this would go over with someone who wasn't intimately familiar with the storyline?
overall, well done. very well done. some of my favorite dialogue fragments survived. good scenery, intriguing costumes.
i understand most of the sequence changes that occur. unlike the goon who posted earlier, i'm not put off by a brunette irulan but i was a little irritated by the crappy dialogue written for her scene with paul: "don't judge a book by it's cover". jeez.
i somehow failed to notice who yueh was until i saw him at the episode climax. only then did i recall seeing him in earlier scenes. but i don't think he was ever clearly identified before that.
the guild heighliner was good. the navigator was a mite gratuitous but not unacceptable.
We're successful. We take on custom jobs (Java: Servlets and EJB mostly) and do much of the design and management here and get most of the work done in VietNam.
The key is that the folks in VietNam work for us and have for a long time. Plus we visit them *every* month. We maintain tight communication via email, wiki, chat and the rare conference call. We have found an excellent manager and some *stellar* programmers. And we treat them well.
I can see where some people have problems: particularly when they're seeking silver bullet solutions. I think outsourcing, especially overseas, is tough to do ad hoc: it requires a relationship, an understanding of cultures, patience, and a *lot* of communication.
Like anything, it's not the right tool for every job but it's a good tool for the right job.
Yeah, the Together products seem sweet but jeez...They're incredibly expensive. I know, I know: "You get what you pay for" and "A craftsman doesn't scrimp on his tools", etc but still...$7200 for "Together Control Center" and something like $5400 for the next step down? I always know I'm not going to be thrilled with the price of a tool when I can't find it listed on the website. Do they think I'll be so impressed by the download that I won't care when I find out what it costs? Or that if I knew up front, I wouldn't download it (maybe there's some truth to that one).
I'm sure it's just my "been-there, done-that, been-burnt" cynic's attitude but I always quail when I hear someone mention "milestones" and "caring about the project".
I think that pride and a care for the project are incredibly important but most of the efforts I've seen to inculcate these feelings from above have been painfully condescending and have ended in failure.
I'm much more motivated by trust and respect and challenge.
I've done some of my best work when I've been given some room & bitten off more than I could chew --- and then tried to do it anyway.
Well thought-out, non-proprietary standards are a good thing. When I'm sober I'll tell you why I think something like JINI is the key (hint: do you really want (say) toshiba deciding to implement a microwave oven/ip interface based on (say) finger?).
i can imagine a PHB specifying non-open source solaris for some projects. will this make it easier to get linux in the door? will it alienate some segments of solaris users?
You know, maybe you shouldn't be so quick to dismiss that chemistry class. By far the most useful thing that came out of my high school chemistry class was a bone-deep appreciation and understanding of the scientific process.
Sometimes what you're learning isn't the obvious thing and isn't something that you can pick up from the basics and a week-long overview course.
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BRILLIANT! This is spot on. Learn Universe/Unidata (IBM's version of pick) -- IBM lets you download the docs and the full system for free. No youngsters are getting into this industry and, if you look (maybe in some unlikely places), there is billable work and shops who are desperate for staff willing to commit to learning a system that has no IDE.
Or try http://www.terminalc.com/
Ask for references.
Consumers in the US demand cheaper fares and care less about additional onboard services.
Domestic first class is about a bigger seat.
If you want big bowls of ice cream, eat them at home. Don't increase my ticket cost for that stuff.
>The cell phone. Analog cell phones first took off in USA, today USA is struggling to implement 3G while its relatively common in Europe / Asia.
Bzzt. Wrong.
Europe is struggling to implement 3G because they aggressively standardized early and now the infrastructure costs to upgrade to 3G are too high. The US is in flux with competing technologies. The one that has the most features for the most reasonable price will win. There was a TechCentral column about this recently.
What's interesting to me is that we have an idea how sick or well Boeing is.
Airbus is opaque. They keep promising to open their books but keep finding reasons not to. How much are they losing? How much in European tax dollars have they spent?
Plus I hear worrisome rumors that the A380 is seriously overweight.
Oh well.
My god, I am/was a hard-core b5 fanboy during the original broadcast but afterwards I look back and think two things: 1-he did a great job making up stuff as he went along and actors dropped out and 2-jms can't write dialog that's not horribly stilted to save his life.
I shudder now listening to some of the heroic monologues Sheridan and Ivanova and (oh geez) Delenn made.
I *liked* the show a lot. G'kar and Londo kick freaking ass.
But Sisko and Garak and...DS9 is simply a richer, fuller story. Less preachy (which is incredible after TNG) than B5 and more fun too!
We (my partner and I) have 20 programmers that work for our very own foreign-owned company in Vietnam.
:-)
Our guys are *good*. They're smart, constantly learning new things and are quite dedicated. At need, they willingly work late hours for special projects and accelerated deadlines.
But one thing that makes our projects work so well is that we think of it (as another poster said) as a **long** commute. One of us is there for about two weeks every month. Houston to Saigon averages about $1000-1100 per flight. It is a *required* business expense for us.
And it's a two-way commute: we're very anxious to get individual staff members over here as soon as we can (lots of visa problems thus far). Not only do we want to get them property indoctrinated with US business practices (!) but we want to show them that a Houston summer is at *least* as unpleasant as one in Saigon.
As we speak, I'm recording my mp3's to my VoiceStream voice mail.
I'll be able to listen to mp3's using my phone!
Whoo Hoo!
> The only effective weapon against terrorism is to do absolutely nothing.
> Make any change at all in response, and you are instantly losing. Pandering to the desired effect, which is 'change'.
I don't know about the rest of you geeks but I learned in Junior High that ignoring attacks doesn't work.
Submission isn't good for a Junior High geek and it's not one whit better for a people.
Capitulation anyone?
I didn't think so.
"self reliant cultures"
pardon me. what the fuck are you talking about?
"...service that is probably not competively [sic] priced."
Careful with your assumptions, dude.
In my area, the VisorPhone uses Voicestream ('cause it's the only GSM provider available to me). I negotiated the service with Voicestream (choosing from their current plans) and Handspring didn't have anything more to do with me after I bought the phone.
> I would give my left nut to do that in public. Must be the geek in me. :)
Hell, I'd give up my left nut if it'd be replaced with a processor, my right butt cheek for the battery pack, a twiddler hanging from my neck (instead of the tie I haven't worn in ten years), stereoscopic display build into my prescription glasses and that plate in my skull replaced with a wireless ethernet/cell phone combo.
and every year, upgrade to a smaller but faster and cooler running testicle...
Yeah, B5 has a certain amount of cohesiveness and quality.
But all it *really* has going for it is Londo and G'kar.
JMS writes horrid dialogue for Sheridan and Delenn. If I hear "Someone once said..." or "As someone once told me..." ever again, I'll scream.
The end of the Shadow War may have been intellectually satisfying but it was *not* satisfying on a visceral level. Turning great and powerful enemies into whiny children in ten minutes...bah. And who really gave a damn about Byron's telepaths? Not me.
B5 is very, very good. But DS9 was better.
Sorry.
spoilers.
i wonder how well this would go over with someone who wasn't intimately familiar with the storyline?
overall, well done. very well done. some of my favorite dialogue fragments survived. good scenery, intriguing costumes.
i understand most of the sequence changes that occur. unlike the goon who posted earlier, i'm not put off by a brunette irulan but i was a little irritated by the crappy dialogue written for her scene with paul: "don't judge a book by it's cover". jeez.
i somehow failed to notice who yueh was until i saw him at the episode climax. only then did i recall seeing him in earlier scenes. but i don't think he was ever clearly identified before that.
the guild heighliner was good. the navigator was a mite gratuitous but not unacceptable.
i'm highly anticipating tomorrow: "who rules here? *I* rule here!"
We're successful. We take on custom jobs (Java: Servlets and EJB mostly) and do much of the design and management here and get most of the work done in VietNam.
The key is that the folks in VietNam work for us and have for a long time. Plus we visit them *every* month. We maintain tight communication via email, wiki, chat and the rare conference call. We have found an excellent manager and some *stellar* programmers. And we treat them well.
I can see where some people have problems: particularly when they're seeking silver bullet solutions. I think outsourcing, especially overseas, is tough to do ad hoc: it requires a relationship, an understanding of cultures, patience, and a *lot* of communication.
Like anything, it's not the right tool for every job but it's a good tool for the right job.
Yeah, the Together products seem sweet but jeez...They're incredibly expensive.
I know, I know: "You get what you pay for" and "A craftsman doesn't scrimp on his tools", etc but still...$7200 for "Together Control Center" and something like $5400 for the next step down?
I always know I'm not going to be thrilled with the price of a tool when I can't find it listed on the website. Do they think I'll be so impressed by the download that I won't care when I find out what it costs? Or that if I knew up front, I wouldn't download it (maybe there's some truth to that one).
I'm sure it's just my "been-there, done-that, been-burnt" cynic's attitude but I always quail when I hear someone mention "milestones" and "caring about the project".
I think that pride and a care for the project are incredibly important but most of the efforts I've seen to inculcate these feelings from above have been painfully condescending and have ended in failure.
I'm much more motivated by trust and respect and challenge.
I've done some of my best work when I've been given some room & bitten off more than I could chew --- and then tried to do it anyway.
JINI.
Well thought-out, non-proprietary standards are a good thing. When I'm sober I'll tell you why I think something like JINI is the key (hint: do you really want (say) toshiba deciding to implement a microwave oven/ip interface based on (say) finger?).
i can imagine a PHB specifying non-open source solaris for some projects. will this make it easier to get linux in the door? will it alienate some segments of solaris users?
do i care?
oops. i guess it was just slow spreading to the "other" netscape ftp sites. bsd has shown up...
looks like it's just for aix, dec, hpux, irix & sun. tough luck so far.
You know, maybe you shouldn't be so quick to dismiss that chemistry class. By far the most useful thing that came out of my high school chemistry class was a bone-deep appreciation and understanding of the scientific process.
Sometimes what you're learning isn't the obvious thing and isn't something that you can pick up from the basics and a week-long overview course.
Todd
[p.s., Thanks, Mrs. Wxly]