A country is an artificial abstraction. You should be happy for your peers in India building a parallel high technology business that will help the whole human race move forward more quickly by providing global IT at reduced rates while supporting investments into the Indian school system.
Why should I be happy for them? My government and their corporate masters have decided that I don't get to reap the same benefits.
I kind of shorthanded COBOL to mean "COBOL and the mainframe environment". The typical user of a COBOL system is a company doing internal data processing, financials, reporting, etc. The customers are internal, and they are happy when they are getting their services as cheaply as possible. It's a cost of doing business, an expense.
On the other hand you have software products - web-based applications and the like, whose customers want constant feature and content upgrades, and are willing to pay a reasonable fee for them.
Why upgrade your financial transaction processing system unless it's costing you more than it needs to? Are there more $$ at risk than the cost?
But good programmers do also need social environments and open space with people. This is important or else you get "geek" syndrome, not good.
What are you talking about? My co-workers are all family men and women that just want to put in their 8 hours and go home to be their kids soccer taxi service. Why would I want to socialize with them?
People didn't create software products in COBOL. It was strictly an MIS language, because the computers that it was used on were internal systems. That's why nobody ever felt the need to get rid of it - nobody ever wants to upgrade the backoffice.
The F-14 was a very interesting plane. It was a dedicated interceptor, built for pure speed - not really made for dogfighting, no matter what Top Gun claimed. It also carried the most powerful air intercept radar in either the Navy or the Air Force inventory. The backseat guy was the Radar Intercept Officer - it took a dedicated crewman just to work the damn thing. It was kind of like a flying SAM platform, almost.
It had two main roles. First was the BARCAP role. The USA kept carrier groups on patrol in case the Soviets launched bomber strikes, and the F-14 was the first line of defense against them. The idea was that it could catch up with a Soviet bomber group before they reached launch range, lock onto the big bombers, fire its AIM-54s, and get out once the missiles went terminal. It wasn't supposed to mix it up with the escorting fighters, that was the job of escorting F-14s or the F-15s from the USAF. Once the USSR collapsed, BARCAP wasn't such a big deal, so that's when they decided to give it ground attack capability.
It was also tasked with Fleet Air Defense, meaning to protect the carrier air group from airborne threats - bombers dedicated to anti-ship strikes, cruise missiles, fighters scrambled to attack Navy bombers. In this role, it was obseleted by the AEGIS cruiser as much as the F/A-18.
I apologize in advance if I got any of the facts wrong - this is just as I remember it as a plane geek.
Between golfing, cycling, and just walking I get plenty of exercise. The thing is, I don't go around and brag about it. Many people exercise, even MMO players. I don't proclaim what a great paragon of health and fitness (and presumably beauty and human life in general) that I am while simultaneously downgrading those who don't. THAT is pretentiousness.
What favors did the Saudis owe Bush in 2004? The Iraq campaign destabilized the entire middle east. It ran up the cost of doing business, and if the Saudis were caught assisting the Bushes in any way they'd be pariahs among their own people.
Now, what favors do the domestic oil companies owe him in 2006? The gov't non-response to Katrina (no, I don't think Bush could have prevented a hurricane, so don't go there) allowed oil-transport infrastructure to crumble, which allowed the oil companies to bypass the normal environment-based checks on their exploration. How can you tell an oil company no to drilling in Alaska when they're losing thousands offloading supertankers on the other side of the continent?
If you think the market isn't manipulated to whatever state benefits the wealthiest class the most, you need to get your nose out of the Ayn Rand. Our piss-ant dollars have no power.
One final thought... All a degree shows is that for 4 years (at least for undergrad) you can do what you're told. A desirable trait in corporate America for its low level employees in sector 7G.
More importantly, it shows that you will do what you're told even though you're paying a ridiculous sum to jump through an insane obstacle course of bureaucratic hoops and authoritarian bullshit.
On the other hand, if you get something of value out of it, what's the harm?
Though, I'd rather have my kid at a school where gaming was damn easy, as opposed to a school where drinking was the only thing to do every day.
Someone didn't get their American culture memo.
Partying is what college kids are SUPPOSED to do. College kids are SUPPOSED to go out and have promiscuous sex while too fucked up to remember it.
Gaming leaves them in their rooms, sober (well, maybe) and with few friends, not at parties, probably disliked by other people. That's not how the American College Experience works.
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Thank God the congress knows how to protect me from the evil casinos! Four more years!
A country is an artificial abstraction. You should be happy for your peers in India building a parallel high technology business that will help the whole human race move forward more quickly by providing global IT at reduced rates while supporting investments into the Indian school system.
Why should I be happy for them? My government and their corporate masters have decided that I don't get to reap the same benefits.
I kind of shorthanded COBOL to mean "COBOL and the mainframe environment". The typical user of a COBOL system is a company doing internal data processing, financials, reporting, etc. The customers are internal, and they are happy when they are getting their services as cheaply as possible. It's a cost of doing business, an expense.
On the other hand you have software products - web-based applications and the like, whose customers want constant feature and content upgrades, and are willing to pay a reasonable fee for them.
Why upgrade your financial transaction processing system unless it's costing you more than it needs to? Are there more $$ at risk than the cost?
But good programmers do also need social environments and open space with people. This is important or else you get "geek" syndrome, not good.
What are you talking about? My co-workers are all family men and women that just want to put in their 8 hours and go home to be their kids soccer taxi service. Why would I want to socialize with them?
People didn't create software products in COBOL. It was strictly an MIS language, because the computers that it was used on were internal systems. That's why nobody ever felt the need to get rid of it - nobody ever wants to upgrade the backoffice.
no, it's a feature
It's an outsourcing thing. You can usually get away with offshoring glue code, but not major component work.
Gartner is just trying to justify offshoring and make $$ by telling MBAs what they already believe.
The F-14 was a very interesting plane. It was a dedicated interceptor, built for pure speed - not really made for dogfighting, no matter what Top Gun claimed. It also carried the most powerful air intercept radar in either the Navy or the Air Force inventory. The backseat guy was the Radar Intercept Officer - it took a dedicated crewman just to work the damn thing. It was kind of like a flying SAM platform, almost.
It had two main roles. First was the BARCAP role. The USA kept carrier groups on patrol in case the Soviets launched bomber strikes, and the F-14 was the first line of defense against them. The idea was that it could catch up with a Soviet bomber group before they reached launch range, lock onto the big bombers, fire its AIM-54s, and get out once the missiles went terminal. It wasn't supposed to mix it up with the escorting fighters, that was the job of escorting F-14s or the F-15s from the USAF. Once the USSR collapsed, BARCAP wasn't such a big deal, so that's when they decided to give it ground attack capability.
It was also tasked with Fleet Air Defense, meaning to protect the carrier air group from airborne threats - bombers dedicated to anti-ship strikes, cruise missiles, fighters scrambled to attack Navy bombers. In this role, it was obseleted by the AEGIS cruiser as much as the F/A-18.
I apologize in advance if I got any of the facts wrong - this is just as I remember it as a plane geek.
Halibut you quit floundering about, take these two aspirin and call me in the marlin.
We like to assume things, don't we?
Between golfing, cycling, and just walking I get plenty of exercise. The thing is, I don't go around and brag about it. Many people exercise, even MMO players. I don't proclaim what a great paragon of health and fitness (and presumably beauty and human life in general) that I am while simultaneously downgrading those who don't. THAT is pretentiousness.
I have never been able to wire anything cleanly, no matter how hard I try. It always ends up looking worse than that yellow rack.
How do you fit your pretentiousness in the kayak?
aye, dead man's chest indeed, arrr
Don't make a hobbit of that joke
At the end of the day we're still talking about two short guys that like to kick ass, right?
Yes, business major.
What favors did the Saudis owe Bush in 2004? The Iraq campaign destabilized the entire middle east. It ran up the cost of doing business, and if the Saudis were caught assisting the Bushes in any way they'd be pariahs among their own people.
Now, what favors do the domestic oil companies owe him in 2006? The gov't non-response to Katrina (no, I don't think Bush could have prevented a hurricane, so don't go there) allowed oil-transport infrastructure to crumble, which allowed the oil companies to bypass the normal environment-based checks on their exploration. How can you tell an oil company no to drilling in Alaska when they're losing thousands offloading supertankers on the other side of the continent?
If you think the market isn't manipulated to whatever state benefits the wealthiest class the most, you need to get your nose out of the Ayn Rand. Our piss-ant dollars have no power.
I can't believe people aren't figuring this out.
It's election season, dumbasses, they're lowering prices to help out their buddies in Washington.
So what the fuck are you supposed to watch on it, then?
You're letting them hair-split their way around common sense. You're part of the problem.
now the corporations are directly designing the school systems? why aren't we tattooed with a sponsor logo at birth?
One final thought... All a degree shows is that for 4 years (at least for undergrad) you can do what you're told. A desirable trait in corporate America for its low level employees in sector 7G.
More importantly, it shows that you will do what you're told even though you're paying a ridiculous sum to jump through an insane obstacle course of bureaucratic hoops and authoritarian bullshit.
On the other hand, if you get something of value out of it, what's the harm?
Though, I'd rather have my kid at a school where gaming was damn easy, as opposed to a school where drinking was the only thing to do every day.
Someone didn't get their American culture memo.
Partying is what college kids are SUPPOSED to do. College kids are SUPPOSED to go out and have promiscuous sex while too fucked up to remember it.
Gaming leaves them in their rooms, sober (well, maybe) and with few friends, not at parties, probably disliked by other people. That's not how the American College Experience works.
You're breaking homogeneity, soldier.
At my work, I'm blocked from all gaming news sites. However, I can go on gunbroker.com and bid on all the firearms I want.
Not that I've tried, but I'm pretty sure my employer blocks 1-900 numbers and other pay-per-minute services that get charged back to the number.
A lot more people know what the Fields Medal is than you think, thanks to "Good Will Hunting." Most
Good job appealing to the elitism of the moderators. Don't spend all that karma in one place.
only on slashdot would a refusal of a monetary prize be considered proof of a mental illness.