I'm sorry, did you just claim that Northern Han share "little similarity beside their specifically pointed out racial subtype"? - LOL
I'll remember that the next time I'm in China - "Note to self, the Han Chinese in the north are only genetically similar, otherwise they are all different..."
...from SIEMENS that very likely the process used to design/spec/create/test the firmware resembled software engineering in no fashion whatsoever.
Hell, this is a company whose senior software engineers in their corporate research center(s) think you need to use Tomcat in order to have a client talk to a server (apparently they don't actually know/understand how to use a socket themselves - no shit.)
I have to admit since I finally bit the bullet and went to their cable modem 20MB service, the thing virtually always test out at 31MB/s for looong periods of transfer, I have been quite happy. It's a little expensive, but it is fast, and (so far) consistently 30Mbps/5Mbps down and up - not just in short bursts (I was worried about that.)
You couldn't eradicate fraternization but you could certain ban group funding, group advertising, et cetera. The goal wouldn't be to eradicate people in government working together, the goal would be to ban these total f***ing deadlocks between presidents, senates, houses, polarist supreme courts, et cetera.
The decision of a police officer to take a life in order to prevent death or serious injury to people other than the US citizen he/she is going to shoot IS different from the decision of the President of the United States of America to take a life in order to prevent death or serious injury to people other than the US citizen he is going to have shot.
The difference is that the President gets to make a much more reasoned, weighted, and thoughtful consideration, and he is very likely (at least in this particular case) going to be saving many more lives.
I take the constitution and its amendments very seriously, but I read them a little more literally than you probably do.
"In all criminal prosecutions..." - He hasn't been prosecuted for anything. He's been targeted for assassination as a clear and present danger to the country.
Next thing you'll be arguing that the 6th amendment means Cops can't shoot people who are shooting at them...
Of course it is, but unless you think no one ever deserved assassination what is your point? If you believe no one ever deserves assassination then you're what I would refer to as a zealot.
Yeah, that's right, Obama orders the assassination of a Yemeni/US dual citizen who happens a senior Al Qaeda member, that's EXACTLY the same as Republicans holding the country hostage over 'raising the debt ceiling' (which they did every year for that a**hat Bush without question - suddenly it's critical to the future of the nation's economy to be fiscally conservative LOL.) The same as the Republican, sorry NeoCon party using every dirty trick known to man to enact "Tort Reform", to elect/steam-roll State Supreme Court judges around the country. The same Republican party that is vociferously anti-gay and yet several times recently has congressional leaders being outed as paying or participating in luridly gay sex. The same Republican party that eviscerated the EPA, that lied to us to go to war in Iraq, that created this national debt issue, that outed a CIA operative in revenge for her husband speaking the truth, that is anti-regulation in Wall Street, that has no problems with taxes on the poor, or middle class, but demands that tax cuts for the wealthy continue despite tax shortfalls nationally! FFS, I could go on an on.
F***, like I said before, I don't like Democrats either, but at least they just come across as either stupid or bleeding heart. Republicans come across as Machiavellian, greedy, and downright evil.
Abolish the party system entirely. NO Democrats, NO Republicans, NO business contribution, individual contribution caps.
...seems to consist of people who truly believe that whatever you can get away with is kosher. F*** I can't stand them. I can't fathom how a middle class or lower person could even dream of voting for them - all that bullsh** about family values - they couldn't care less, they'll say whatever you want to hear. There are some dems like that as well, Nancy Pelosi (for example) - that b**** is the devil.
Step one to a better USA - abolish the party system entirely. Your only affiliation should be to individual constituents.
If you don't understand the nuances and impact of technology choices (such as platform, language, deployment target) you will be a limited (if perhaps very valuable) software engineer.
Knowing when/how/why to use Java over C++ or C over C++ or C++ over (insert language here), or when to use.NET and what the differences between Mono's support for.NET and versions of.NET, et cetera, ad nausuem - these are the things that really help you provide valuable input and guidance to a company about managing cost/time to deliver/support and all the rest of the lifecycle.
I would also recommend a strong aversion to zealotry (whether language, operating system, or other) because it will only hurt you in the long run. Everything is a tool in the toolbox. Don't be King of the Hammer.
You sound like the kind of person who always looks for vilification in what has been written or said.
I don't hold any disdain for someone who is a programmer, I am simply pointing out that there is a difference between the training of someone (as an example) who has a Computer Science B.S. and a guy who hasn't. If you read that in a manner I did not intend, it could come across as 'snooty.' That's not my intention at all.
As I pointed out in my original post, there are gifted programmers who learn much of what it means to be a software engineer and there are CompSci graduates who are crap software engineers and useless programmers.
Being a software engineer is a superset of being a programmer. To be a good software engineer you must have good programming skills, but you must also have more, you need to have the dedication to do the crap parts of the job that nobody enjoys and most programmers ignore (writing test cases, building test harnesses, documenting your code thoroughly, writing your code with a clarity of purpose where you can and carefully documenting when you have to be 'clever' or non-obviously efficient/fast. You have to write/assist/evaluate technical documentation. You have to think like an architect when practicable. There are a myriad of other things that make an effective and valuable software engineer. Programming is a small part of it.
Now, you don't need a degree in Computer Science to be a good software engineer, I personally know a few engineers who are really good and they have degrees in something else, and I had a guy working for me who never finished his degree and he was/is great. It's also no guarantee of ability because I have worked with a few people who have had P.h.Ds in Comp Sci (usually they had math backgrounds) and they were worse than useless (how do you get a P.h.D in CompSci and not understand thread synchronization...?)
Anyhow, most CTOs separate the field the same way I do, between 'programmers' and 'software engineers' and consider them very different.
There are programmers and there are Software Engineers.
The two things are different, and people who don't know any better equate them.
There's nothing wrong with being a programmer at all, but programming is a subset of Software Engineering.
It's akin to the difference, imho, between a construction worker and an architect. One can be a hack or a craftsmen, but tends to have a smaller overall picture of the where/what/when/why behind decisions that often seem unimportant or superfluous. The other can be incompetent or a good engineer and tends to have (or is supposed) the background of understanding to know why things are or should be done a certain way - at the very least being able to understand the impact of short term decisions on the long term.
Do you have some sort of signal booster on the line? You may be hitting the 'downstream device' limit which is yet another way the DRM a**hats screw you.
I'm sorry, I thought you were saying something else. You can't be arrested for resisting arrest when there's no original charge. Now, the police can screw you over by lying, but that's true of any situation.
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I'm sorry, did you just claim that Northern Han share "little similarity beside their specifically pointed out racial subtype"? - LOL
I'll remember that the next time I'm in China - "Note to self, the Han Chinese in the north are only genetically similar, otherwise they are all different..."
You're confusing ethnicity and race. In the western world, which is how you describe this forum, Han Chinese are considered an ethnic group.
...from SIEMENS that very likely the process used to design/spec/create/test the firmware resembled software engineering in no fashion whatsoever.
Hell, this is a company whose senior software engineers in their corporate research center(s) think you need to use Tomcat in order to have a client talk to a server (apparently they don't actually know/understand how to use a socket themselves - no shit.)
Personally, I live the slow-mo head shots... :)
I have to admit since I finally bit the bullet and went to their cable modem 20MB service, the thing virtually always test out at 31MB/s for looong periods of transfer, I have been quite happy. It's a little expensive, but it is fast, and (so far) consistently 30Mbps/5Mbps down and up - not just in short bursts (I was worried about that.)
No one?
Hitler didn't deserve to be assassinated? Stalin? Mao?
How many MILLIONS of people would be alive today if someone had managed to kill them?
Imprisonment? Are you for real? I guess someone could just step up and arrest Hitler in 1934, right? LOL.
You're likely one of those people who suddenly changes their mind one of those types of people kills someone you love.
Assassination only makes martyrs out of people in the eyes of the people who already worshiped them to begin with.
You couldn't eradicate fraternization but you could certain ban group funding, group advertising, et cetera. The goal wouldn't be to eradicate people in government working together, the goal would be to ban these total f***ing deadlocks between presidents, senates, houses, polarist supreme courts, et cetera.
You obviously don't.
The decision of a police officer to take a life in order to prevent death or serious injury to people other than the US citizen he/she is going to shoot IS different from the decision of the President of the United States of America to take a life in order to prevent death or serious injury to people other than the US citizen he is going to have shot.
The difference is that the President gets to make a much more reasoned, weighted, and thoughtful consideration, and he is very likely (at least in this particular case) going to be saving many more lives.
I take the constitution and its amendments very seriously, but I read them a little more literally than you probably do.
"In all criminal prosecutions..." - He hasn't been prosecuted for anything. He's been targeted for assassination as a clear and present danger to the country.
Next thing you'll be arguing that the 6th amendment means Cops can't shoot people who are shooting at them...
He'd never take that job...
Of course it is, but unless you think no one ever deserved assassination what is your point? If you believe no one ever deserves assassination then you're what I would refer to as a zealot.
3:1 Republicans to Democrats
Funny, I seem to recall calling Nancy Pelosi the f***ing devil...
Yeah, that's right, Obama orders the assassination of a Yemeni/US dual citizen who happens a senior Al Qaeda member, that's EXACTLY the same as Republicans holding the country hostage over 'raising the debt ceiling' (which they did every year for that a**hat Bush without question - suddenly it's critical to the future of the nation's economy to be fiscally conservative LOL.) The same as the Republican, sorry NeoCon party using every dirty trick known to man to enact "Tort Reform", to elect/steam-roll State Supreme Court judges around the country. The same Republican party that is vociferously anti-gay and yet several times recently has congressional leaders being outed as paying or participating in luridly gay sex. The same Republican party that eviscerated the EPA, that lied to us to go to war in Iraq, that created this national debt issue, that outed a CIA operative in revenge for her husband speaking the truth, that is anti-regulation in Wall Street, that has no problems with taxes on the poor, or middle class, but demands that tax cuts for the wealthy continue despite tax shortfalls nationally! FFS, I could go on an on.
F***, like I said before, I don't like Democrats either, but at least they just come across as either stupid or bleeding heart. Republicans come across as Machiavellian, greedy, and downright evil.
Abolish the party system entirely. NO Democrats, NO Republicans, NO business contribution, individual contribution caps.
...seems to consist of people who truly believe that whatever you can get away with is kosher. F*** I can't stand them. I can't fathom how a middle class or lower person could even dream of voting for them - all that bullsh** about family values - they couldn't care less, they'll say whatever you want to hear. There are some dems like that as well, Nancy Pelosi (for example) - that b**** is the devil.
Step one to a better USA - abolish the party system entirely. Your only affiliation should be to individual constituents.
I would have to agree.
If you don't understand the nuances and impact of technology choices (such as platform, language, deployment target) you will be a limited (if perhaps very valuable) software engineer.
Knowing when/how/why to use Java over C++ or C over C++ or C++ over (insert language here), or when to use .NET and what the differences between Mono's support for .NET and versions of .NET, et cetera, ad nausuem - these are the things that really help you provide valuable input and guidance to a company about managing cost/time to deliver/support and all the rest of the lifecycle.
I would also recommend a strong aversion to zealotry (whether language, operating system, or other) because it will only hurt you in the long run. Everything is a tool in the toolbox. Don't be King of the Hammer.
You sound like the kind of person who always looks for vilification in what has been written or said.
I don't hold any disdain for someone who is a programmer, I am simply pointing out that there is a difference between the training of someone (as an example) who has a Computer Science B.S. and a guy who hasn't. If you read that in a manner I did not intend, it could come across as 'snooty.' That's not my intention at all.
As I pointed out in my original post, there are gifted programmers who learn much of what it means to be a software engineer and there are CompSci graduates who are crap software engineers and useless programmers.
Being a software engineer is a superset of being a programmer. To be a good software engineer you must have good programming skills, but you must also have more, you need to have the dedication to do the crap parts of the job that nobody enjoys and most programmers ignore (writing test cases, building test harnesses, documenting your code thoroughly, writing your code with a clarity of purpose where you can and carefully documenting when you have to be 'clever' or non-obviously efficient/fast. You have to write/assist/evaluate technical documentation. You have to think like an architect when practicable. There are a myriad of other things that make an effective and valuable software engineer. Programming is a small part of it.
Now, you don't need a degree in Computer Science to be a good software engineer, I personally know a few engineers who are really good and they have degrees in something else, and I had a guy working for me who never finished his degree and he was/is great. It's also no guarantee of ability because I have worked with a few people who have had P.h.Ds in Comp Sci (usually they had math backgrounds) and they were worse than useless (how do you get a P.h.D in CompSci and not understand thread synchronization...?)
Anyhow, most CTOs separate the field the same way I do, between 'programmers' and 'software engineers' and consider them very different.
There are programmers and there are Software Engineers.
The two things are different, and people who don't know any better equate them.
There's nothing wrong with being a programmer at all, but programming is a subset of Software Engineering.
It's akin to the difference, imho, between a construction worker and an architect. One can be a hack or a craftsmen, but tends to have a smaller overall picture of the where/what/when/why behind decisions that often seem unimportant or superfluous. The other can be incompetent or a good engineer and tends to have (or is supposed) the background of understanding to know why things are or should be done a certain way - at the very least being able to understand the impact of short term decisions on the long term.
There are, of course, exceptions to everything.
I guess they screwed it up then by changing out the tubes in front of the UN inspectors...
...expanding enrichment production because of the influx of tubes was a direct result of this damage...?
Do you have some sort of signal booster on the line? You may be hitting the 'downstream device' limit which is yet another way the DRM a**hats screw you.
Best 'tongue in cheek' post of the week.
Yes, just about every junior to mid-level officer (along with many many Non-Coms) in the Marine Corps.
Kelly Mejia has been working with the Fullerton Police Department for at least six years and earns about $86,000 per year as a patrol officer
What? Holy crap batman. I have no problem with cops getting paid, but $86k for a PATROL OFFICER? Wow... Guess that iPad was worth it, eh? Lol.
I'm sorry, I thought you were saying something else. You can't be arrested for resisting arrest when there's no original charge. Now, the police can screw you over by lying, but that's true of any situation.