i am fully aware that Sony is mid-grade of equiptment. i have owned Harmon Kardon equipt (before some bad college roomies stole it), and I understand high end stuff is beautiful.
Sony's stuff just works... I'm not going to buy cheap crap anymore is my point.
Its like cordless phones around the house... i was going through vtech crap every year or two... this last one failed, and i decided to just buy the AT&T cordless ones... why? because I have confidence that I wont replace it for at least 5 years, maybe 10.
i'm not an audiophile - but i do demand that the stuff i buy: 1) produces "good enough" quality output. this is for the user to decide. i found that most sony stuf is "good enough" 2) keeps working as expected for a long time.
this is the reason that i've decided to just buy Sony home electronics... yeh, i'll pay a bit more, but you know what - my 50 disk cd changer will work 10 years from now.
There are other companies that produce quality, like phillips, yamaha, onkyo etc etc... but pretty much it boils down to:
you are part of the reason that us "Software Engineers" are looked down upon by the rest of the engineering community. i'm pretty sure what i do is engineering, as i'm working/studying under an MSEE, but what you do - is probably crap.
pat yourself on the back about being smarter than all those people with silly degrees and credentials. we will be actively trying to marginalize you and to turn my profession into a respected, redulate entity.
because you need to run your economy on something in the mean time... you need to be able to produce in the oil economy in order to move into the FOO economy...
remember this - all wars ever fought have always been about control of natural resources, or trade routes. In a word, wars always come down to the economy.
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hey dickhead - if it truly has a 4% mortality rate, that will kill 1/25 people.
thats at least one student in a highschool class.
at least one person in your extended family.
it does need to be quarantined, or we are all fscked.
i am fully aware that Sony is mid-grade of equiptment. i have owned Harmon Kardon equipt (before some bad college roomies stole it), and I understand high end stuff is beautiful.
Sony's stuff just works... I'm not going to buy cheap crap anymore is my point.
Its like cordless phones around the house... i was going through vtech crap every year or two... this last one failed, and i decided to just buy the AT&T cordless ones... why? because I have confidence that I wont replace it for at least 5 years, maybe 10.
i'm not an audiophile - but i do demand that the stuff i buy:
1) produces "good enough" quality output. this is for the user to decide. i found that most sony stuf is "good enough"
2) keeps working as expected for a long time.
this is the reason that i've decided to just buy Sony home electronics... yeh, i'll pay a bit more, but you know what - my 50 disk cd changer will work 10 years from now.
There are other companies that produce quality, like phillips, yamaha, onkyo etc etc... but pretty much it boils down to:
you get what you pay for.
yup... he may have midunderestimated the timeline by 4 years, but NC's/thinclients are going to eb everywhere....
and my shit is gonna be running half of them...
what 'bout five times? what do we do then?
say, have you heard about the new RFC for adding a bit to IPv4?
read here.
i'm just happy that Apple implemented RFC 3514
its very important, and i dont understand why slashdot isnt posting it.
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its really important, and i dont understand why slashdot isnt posting it.
read the whitepaper here
i'm going to kee this up until slashdot posts about the evil bit.
at the science fiction... double feature...
does that ego keep you warm at night?
you are part of the reason that us "Software Engineers" are looked down upon by the rest of the engineering community. i'm pretty sure what i do is engineering, as i'm working/studying under an MSEE, but what you do - is probably crap.
pat yourself on the back about being smarter than all those people with silly degrees and credentials. we will be actively trying to marginalize you and to turn my profession into a respected, redulate entity.
good luck on the sidelines.
i'm getting that way too...
any consumer/audio i buy - automatically look at sony - their shit just works... and doesnt break on you.
you find it insulting?
what i find insulting is the absolute lack of real reporting done by US news outfits. i want the truth, not reazd me a government memo.
and if you think that cnn/msnbc/fox are doing anything except propagandizing you are a fool.
too bad we got an oil man leading this country :-(
i did temper my statement (i think) the other reason is control of trade routes.
i think that nuclear energy is a good move, except that whole radiation thing... much less pollution, though you do have the waste...
fusion... ugh... so far off still...
hydrogen? no cost effective way to ge tthe hydrocarbons w/o oil...
because you need to run your economy on something in the mean time... you need to be able to produce in the oil economy in order to move into the FOO economy...
remember this - all wars ever fought have always been about control of natural resources, or trade routes. In a word, wars always come down to the economy.
so you're for getting rid of the insurance companies and getting a single payer health care system?
you mean that labor is the greatest of the three inputs to business?
felt my ass...
they took a risk with a company, failed, and walked away with millions.
i'd be feeling really horrible somewhere in aruba sipping mai-tai's.
felt bad my ass - i guess thats why all those CEO's of failed dotcoms commited suicide...
now quit your whining you pinko commie - you have no right to a job !!! get off your ass and sucking of the public teat!!!
the above is sarcasm
exactly whats wrong with open office, aside from it not being MS-Office?
no, really - tell me, i'd love to know, as i've been using it for a while, and it looks mature, stable and feature-full engough for me.
what fucking world are you living in?
do you understand how life was before those institutions you so blindly denigrate, existed?
You mean taking care of the less fortunate?
yep, i'm all for it.
so - now you're up to working for 0.25 a day, no unions, no minimum wage and no social safety net.
let me make this perfectly clear : if you got your wish - this country would have gone ommunist a LONNNGNGG time ago.
unions did not destroy capitalism - they saved it.
>Thank you muchly to minimum wage legislation and
>unions for bringing this wonderful scenario to
>pass.
so, you're for working in coal mines for $0.25 per day, and owing our lives to the company store?
good god man - they normally get upwards of 200,000 miles without needing any serious repair work outside of a water pump, and maintenance items...
if you can limp 150,00 without a major system going in a US car, let me know.
its obvious that AOP will succeed where OOP, Top-Down Design, UML, and JAD failed.
its another stupid methodology that appdev shops will spend lots of money chasing.
bfd.