Certifications are to determine that you are rigorous and methodical in your discipline, not to measure your creative problem solving skills.
How does proving that you do follow well-established engineering methodologies and procedures, including exacting standards, stop you from solving "new problems".
THe only thing it would stop is high-schoolers or college flunkies from calling themselves "software engineers".
And, maybe it would get some respectability into the software engineering profession.
LOL... yeh... because bandwidth is what is preventing people from hack X. Its not the insanity of Scheiffler's design, or the arcana of Gettys' et.al implementation.
yeh, its the bnandwidth thats stopping people from just sitting down and whacking X...
what about Bartleby the Scrivener? Thats a fairly coma-inducing text.... and yet, there is value to reading it, as long as you skip the large passages of text describing the brass buttons on Bartleby's jacket in excruciating painstaking detail...
and yet the simple phrase "I would prefer not to" has served me well in various negotiations and interactions.
bernanke is a monetarist, of course he thinks that control of the monetary policy was the cause of the GD.
the thing to watch with bernanke is to see if he can continue to fight unemployment... greenspan was excellent with this, but pure monetarists have a tendency to ignore unemployment and focuss soolely on inflation.
oh, and ben is currently terrified of deflation...
gas prices already went thru the roof. i dont recall price-controls on gas, i remember rationing.
Would you have rathered price wars, and hoarding? The worst assumption in economics is that the markets act rationally.
If you want to talk about the problems of insane price ceilings set by the govt, you are in the right era. The govt. in teh 70's froze prices of autos. After the controls were lifted, the car companies raised prices, and then started giving back a "rebate", so that they could raise prices if there was another
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Wow, just wow.
API's first, always. Everything else is easy to change, but if you eff up the API's, you are in a world of shit when they have to change.
So, like when was the last time googles servies were down?
You mean local net access? wouldnt regular email be useless then too?
it is such a huge improvement to have your data accessible from anywhere, just using a browser, then having to be chained to one device.
net access is about as reliable as telephone or electric at this point, and you are singing the whines of 5 years ago.
oh come on, the technics 1200's are pretty good, not audiophile quality, but still pretty good.
any "underground" hip-hop, electronica, or punk rekkid shops have them.
yes, thats why msft is sitting at 5 year lows....
its part of a stratified economics. the poor have limited economic choices, and often end up with illegal jobs to make ends meet.
if you look at costco's annual report, you will notice that their net-profit is almost equal to their membership fees.
they run the rest of the business as break-even. that means the 12-15% markup is just enough to cover the costs.
What utter bullshit.
Certifications are to determine that you are rigorous and methodical in your discipline, not to measure your creative problem solving skills.
How does proving that you do follow well-established engineering methodologies and procedures, including exacting standards, stop you from solving "new problems".
THe only thing it would stop is high-schoolers or college flunkies from calling themselves "software engineers".
And, maybe it would get some respectability into the software engineering profession.
Of course, we could have a formal accreditation program, you know, like every other engineering profession in the world
yes, people (mostly the government) do have token ring setups.
the funnest, is that i've done work for naval ships that required 10base2. You know... CheaperNet!
with flash, you plug a DOM into your onboard IDE, and hit it with a glue gun. /producing upwrds of 250k units a year this way :-)
er... it aint the drivers for X that are slow... its the protocol.
LOL... yeh... because bandwidth is what is preventing people from hack X. Its not the insanity of Scheiffler's design, or the arcana of Gettys' et.al implementation.
yeh, its the bnandwidth thats stopping people from just sitting down and whacking X...
what about Bartleby the Scrivener? Thats a fairly coma-inducing text.... and yet, there is value to reading it, as long as you skip the large passages of text describing the brass buttons on Bartleby's jacket in excruciating painstaking detail...
and yet the simple phrase "I would prefer not to" has served me well in various negotiations and interactions.
well.. i'd like to redefine your point...
An individual's success in Biology is measured by the bumber of time that their genes are replicated through the geene pool.
its not more "advanced", its more "successful"
yes, but most it departments are there to support the business, and not invent thin-client solutions.
which is why they buy the thin clients.
yeh... real estate gains are even more bizarre than stock gains.
real estate is so damn hard and costly to liquidate.
freedom of movement is a right.
they could not have gotten the right-of-way rights without eminent domain, and the govt. does have a duty to expand infrastructure.
not only would there have been no train monopoly, there would have been no rails at all if not for the government
bernanke is a monetarist, of course he thinks that control of the monetary policy was the cause of the GD.
the thing to watch with bernanke is to see if he can continue to fight unemployment... greenspan was excellent with this, but pure monetarists have a tendency to ignore unemployment and focuss soolely on inflation.
oh, and ben is currently terrified of deflation...
just a point of order:
there is little light passenger rail in the US.
freight rail is very very healthy. you cant ship everything by 18 wheeler, efficiently.
there could be a democratic/socialist construct, too...
except that the governmeent is supposed to reflect "the will of the people", by giving them elected officials thru democratic institutions.
are you that intentionally dense, russ? do you think that we should have multiple governments, all competing?
oops, meant to post this as me.
gas prices already went thru the roof. i dont recall price-controls on gas, i remember rationing.
Would you have rathered price wars, and hoarding? The worst assumption in economics is that the markets act rationally.
If you want to talk about the problems of insane price ceilings set by the govt, you are in the right era. The govt. in teh 70's froze prices of autos. After the controls were lifted, the car companies raised prices, and then started giving back a "rebate", so that they could raise prices if there was another