It's more about researcher vs. teacher. The guys with tenure are the ones with the big, juicy grants. And, oddly enough, they're the researchers. And researchers usually (N.B. I did not say "always".) are not the best teachers. All else is commentary.
Where are the songs from the 80's and 90's and 00's that will be the classic rock that will have the longevity the Stones' songs have had and somehow still do?
It's not the songs. I would say that several songs from the 80's-00's were good enough to be classics. The issue is the music business that spits bands out if the hits aren't continuous from both single and album sales. The Stones had ten years of backing from their label, which lasted them through twenty more years of sucky releases before they became a real nostalgia act. I doubt that Adele or Lady Gaga get this kind of support. If they don't hit multi-platinum on their singles and albums each and every time, they're screwed, as the labels will drop them instantly. Word on the street is if LG's third album performs as "poorly" as her second, she's history (Again. Sorry, Stephanie). The labels don't put the same amount into artist development as they used to.
Then when you aggregate this with the concentration of music media with its tightly-controlled play-lists and rigid formats, it's a wonder that anything new sticks at all (Hint: Oldies stations make more money).
Finally, you just don't have a baby boom to support new artists. The number of and disposable income of younger people are both dropping. And that lower income goes to a large number of other entertainment options.
So yeah, we won't get label-backed bands like the Rolling Stones or Pink Floyd anymore. The best you can hope for is something like a Dave Mathews, who does enough of his own support and development that he might be able to tough it out between the time he's "relevant" and the time he's "nostalgia". Otherwise, it's off to the casino tours with the rest of you...
The company we're gather images from......without effecting internal network performance.
I mean really... If you can't manage to write a coherent, error-free paragraph written in fairly simple SVO sentences or can't be bothered to proofread an article submission before posting, what makes you think that you could effectively manage a cloud-based infrastructure (or any other kind, for that matter)?
Hell, with your skills just burn the files onto DVD's and toss them in the rubbish bin. It'll work just as well...
"They don't allow it" is a wholly unacceptable answer and it's the best I've received.
How about "We ran the numbers and allowing Virgin Mobile users to move to Ting would cost us $10M in additional system integration charges while not doing so would cost $2M in potentially lost customers. I think the company made the right decision there, don't you?" More acceptable or comforting? Maybe not, but probably closer to the truth.
... they used to sell something like those in the missionary book store to stash our Books of Mormon, so we could always be ready with one! I kept it for years after my mission to Belgium before finally passing it along to one of my kids who thought it was cool.
It is, if the newspaper is in a town where politicians are at. Washington seems to fit the bill. Make no mistake, Bezos has bought himself a bully pulpit, even if the "internet uber alles" nerds here think it's useless - politicians still think newspapers are important, as do many people who vote for them.
Has their lack of relevancy finally reached the point where they've simply been relegated to the status of being used as trading cards for rich people?
Pretty much, yeah. That's the new model.
Actually, sports teams and low circulation specialty magazines went this route quite a while back. Why? Every business is in a delicate cash-flow dance. The internet caused the amount of income for newspapers to drop precipitously. As such, many have lost profitability, cut staff, and (sadly) gone out of business, often leaving important local issues not covered. The only thing they have to bank on any more is their reputation (which was damaged in the early wave of downsizing due to corporate consolidation and ownership in the nineties) and their prestige (slightly dubious, to be sure, but present, nonetheless). Both of these intangibles make them irresistible as (relatively low cost) economic fashion accessories for wealthy folks. Expect more of this in the future.
Wealthy patrons will buy publications and let them run fairly independently, except for particular issues that they want to flog. The patron gets influence, prestige, and a hobby and the public gets better press (albeit middle of the road and innocuous) than it can support financially. It's the business model all of you internet folk have been clamoring for the newspapers to find. Sure, it's corporate/1% owned, but what isn't these days?
... They think it's the only way to poison the experience with ads. But why are public broadcasters like PBS, BBC, and Australia's ABC doling the same thing?
Because a loooong time ago, "public" broadcasters started getting less and less of their money from the government (at least here in the US, and I assume other places) and and a lot more from corporate interests who want to be acknowledged. Just putting your content online, allowing your acknowledgements to be elided by third-party vultures would be a really quick path to no more funding at all.
Plus, as government funding dried up and corporations became the only place to get funding, corporations became more chea^Wfrugal with their donations. In that environment, the public broadcasting organizations started looking for other revenue streams (such as deals with cable companies, infomercials in pledge drives disguised as "specials", ads on digital sites, etc.). Again, third-party apps could do nothing but erode these streams, which are quickly becoming the most stable of the funding streams involved in our supposedly "public" broadcasting system.
The authors didn't say that increasing temperature was the only factor involved.
Unless one is completely brain-dead, one can see that things like population age distribution, better/worse social safety net, more/less income disparity, economic opportunity, political oppression, etc., also have an impact on interpersonal and cross-group violence. The surprising thing about the study is that it shows that the correlation is so great.
Therefore, climate change deniers must discount and mock the article because if climate change has negative impacts of any kind, we might have to do something to stop it - and that would be awful.
do you really think the power of lambda notation and list processing has anything to do with parens?
No, but it does have everything to do with the ease of code transformation and transformation of input data to code. Come back and tell me how handy syntax is after writing about a dozen DSLs.
The only correct response is to throw an exception. Yes, it sucks. But it is the only correct response.
Plus, you're running on a VM already. It's not like the checking overhead is that great - you probably get an over/underflow indication from the ALU on an unsigned subtraction or addition if your hardware designer wasn't a complete idiot. In fact, you should be doing the same check for signed integers unless your language designer was a complete idiot - especially in a VM environment. But I guess you'd prefer your program to give you incorrect results slightly more quickly... Let me avoid your software, please.
The difference is that Gordon Ramsay is a foul-mouthed abusive fellow who can do nothing but yell and insult the people competing in his programs when they make the tiniest mistake, and Michel Rue's harshest comment has been along the lines of "that needed more seasoning" or "that was too pink for my taste".
He also has shitty restaurants, whom anyone who has had the misfortune of mistakenly stumbling into his "Burger" restaurant at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas knows.
In the type of circles I move in, I really only think I've witnessed the following three attitudes when it comes to dealing with/confronting failure...
Sadly, you must run in awful circles. I've also met people whose attitude with respect to failure is to analyze it rationally and work with the person who failed to figure out how to not fail in similar ways in the future. It's called coaching and seems to be a valued skill. I'm sorry you haven't encountered it in your travels.
Asimov's writing was great, but his characters a tad too wooden for modern tastes. If he's remembered for anything it will be his fabulous pop-sci fact writing.
And for being a contemporary of Bradbury, of course.
I can tell you that there are a hell of a lot of titles that are not available as eBooks - especially older ones. Not to mention that you haven't lived until you find a few where the Kindle version costs more than the paper edition. I mean WTF?
I hate Amazon. I just hate them less than everyone else. Which appears to be the new standard in business success metrics.
...because the end is when the code dies. If it dies, he has failed.
It is not a failure. All code dies. Nothing lasts forever. It is a result of change and the fact that no one can control the environment to the extent that artifacts can be protected from all environmental changes for all time. Eventually the asteroid hits.
No, there are only agile "thought leaders" in your organization who will tell you (and your management) that planning anything up front is the wrong thing to do because acting on that planning will cause, rather than prevent, rework.
In reality, anything having to do with process is all about balance and appropriateness of process to the environment. However, deviating from the high process priest's orthodoxy is often thought of as being anti- and will be severely punished.
... but the county courthouse wanted thousands of dollars to copy the transcripts and would not allow me to simply come down and copy them myself.
I should hope not. I don't want official transcripts to be handled by any random member of the community - they could be damaged or destroyed that way, maliciously or otherwise. Yes, the person doing that might be charged after the fact, but the documentation is still gone. So I'm glad they didn't hand you official government documents to dick around with however you wanted to. And, in fact, I'm not sorry that they wanted to charge you for the extra work they had to go to for you - your fellow citizens don't need to pay for your particular hobby horse.
Besides, if the newspaper were seriously interested in your story, they would have submitted the FOIA request themselves (and paid for it). The sad truth is that reporters get "leads" from people with axes to grind all the time and the best way to deal with them is to say "Docs or it didn't happen". Unless you can present a more compelling story, you're just another nut with an agenda.
Finally, as for the DOT "killing your business model", it's not the government's job to provide extra services to make your business succeed. You should have known about the data processing methods and their associated costs involved before you started the business. If the only people who wanted the data available were folks (like you) hoping to profit by free-riding on special work (i.e., computer system development) that they wanted done by the government, I see no reason that your fellow taxpayers should pay for your hand out.
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It's more about researcher vs. teacher. The guys with tenure are the ones with the big, juicy grants. And, oddly enough, they're the researchers. And researchers usually (N.B. I did not say "always".) are not the best teachers. All else is commentary.
Where are the songs from the 80's and 90's and 00's that will be the classic rock that will have the longevity the Stones' songs have had and somehow still do?
It's not the songs. I would say that several songs from the 80's-00's were good enough to be classics. The issue is the music business that spits bands out if the hits aren't continuous from both single and album sales. The Stones had ten years of backing from their label, which lasted them through twenty more years of sucky releases before they became a real nostalgia act. I doubt that Adele or Lady Gaga get this kind of support. If they don't hit multi-platinum on their singles and albums each and every time, they're screwed, as the labels will drop them instantly. Word on the street is if LG's third album performs as "poorly" as her second, she's history (Again. Sorry, Stephanie). The labels don't put the same amount into artist development as they used to.
Then when you aggregate this with the concentration of music media with its tightly-controlled play-lists and rigid formats, it's a wonder that anything new sticks at all (Hint: Oldies stations make more money).
Finally, you just don't have a baby boom to support new artists. The number of and disposable income of younger people are both dropping. And that lower income goes to a large number of other entertainment options.
So yeah, we won't get label-backed bands like the Rolling Stones or Pink Floyd anymore. The best you can hope for is something like a Dave Mathews, who does enough of his own support and development that he might be able to tough it out between the time he's "relevant" and the time he's "nostalgia". Otherwise, it's off to the casino tours with the rest of you...
The company we're gather images from ... ...without effecting internal network performance.
I mean really... If you can't manage to write a coherent, error-free paragraph written in fairly simple SVO sentences or can't be bothered to proofread an article submission before posting, what makes you think that you could effectively manage a cloud-based infrastructure (or any other kind, for that matter)?
Hell, with your skills just burn the files onto DVD's and toss them in the rubbish bin. It'll work just as well...
I thought turkeys could fly!
I don't know about that... but they're really good at plummeting, if you drop them from high enough.
"They don't allow it" is a wholly unacceptable answer and it's the best I've received.
How about "We ran the numbers and allowing Virgin Mobile users to move to Ting would cost us $10M in additional system integration charges while not doing so would cost $2M in potentially lost customers. I think the company made the right decision there, don't you?" More acceptable or comforting? Maybe not, but probably closer to the truth.
... they used to sell something like those in the missionary book store to stash our Books of Mormon, so we could always be ready with one! I kept it for years after my mission to Belgium before finally passing it along to one of my kids who thought it was cool.
The book or the bag?
Is buying a newspaper like buying politicians?
It is, if the newspaper is in a town where politicians are at. Washington seems to fit the bill. Make no mistake, Bezos has bought himself a bully pulpit, even if the "internet uber alles" nerds here think it's useless - politicians still think newspapers are important, as do many people who vote for them.
Has their lack of relevancy finally reached the point where they've simply been relegated to the status of being used as trading cards for rich people?
Pretty much, yeah. That's the new model.
Actually, sports teams and low circulation specialty magazines went this route quite a while back. Why? Every business is in a delicate cash-flow dance. The internet caused the amount of income for newspapers to drop precipitously. As such, many have lost profitability, cut staff, and (sadly) gone out of business, often leaving important local issues not covered. The only thing they have to bank on any more is their reputation (which was damaged in the early wave of downsizing due to corporate consolidation and ownership in the nineties) and their prestige (slightly dubious, to be sure, but present, nonetheless). Both of these intangibles make them irresistible as (relatively low cost) economic fashion accessories for wealthy folks. Expect more of this in the future.
Wealthy patrons will buy publications and let them run fairly independently, except for particular issues that they want to flog. The patron gets influence, prestige, and a hobby and the public gets better press (albeit middle of the road and innocuous) than it can support financially. It's the business model all of you internet folk have been clamoring for the newspapers to find. Sure, it's corporate/1% owned, but what isn't these days?
Says someone who clearly doesn't know how to properly prepare human.
Maybe he just needs a good cookbook.
... They think it's the only way to poison the experience with ads. But why are public broadcasters like PBS, BBC, and Australia's ABC doling the same thing?
Because a loooong time ago, "public" broadcasters started getting less and less of their money from the government (at least here in the US, and I assume other places) and and a lot more from corporate interests who want to be acknowledged. Just putting your content online, allowing your acknowledgements to be elided by third-party vultures would be a really quick path to no more funding at all.
Plus, as government funding dried up and corporations became the only place to get funding, corporations became more chea^Wfrugal with their donations. In that environment, the public broadcasting organizations started looking for other revenue streams (such as deals with cable companies, infomercials in pledge drives disguised as "specials", ads on digital sites, etc.). Again, third-party apps could do nothing but erode these streams, which are quickly becoming the most stable of the funding streams involved in our supposedly "public" broadcasting system.
The authors didn't say that increasing temperature was the only factor involved.
Unless one is completely brain-dead, one can see that things like population age distribution, better/worse social safety net, more/less income disparity, economic opportunity, political oppression, etc., also have an impact on interpersonal and cross-group violence. The surprising thing about the study is that it shows that the correlation is so great.
Therefore, climate change deniers must discount and mock the article because if climate change has negative impacts of any kind, we might have to do something to stop it - and that would be awful.
Yeah, but when used in guitars, the tone is a bit dark.
do you really think the power of lambda notation and list processing has anything to do with parens?
No, but it does have everything to do with the ease of code transformation and transformation of input data to code. Come back and tell me how handy syntax is after writing about a dozen DSLs.
The only correct response is to throw an exception. Yes, it sucks. But it is the only correct response.
Plus, you're running on a VM already. It's not like the checking overhead is that great - you probably get an over/underflow indication from the ALU on an unsigned subtraction or addition if your hardware designer wasn't a complete idiot. In fact, you should be doing the same check for signed integers unless your language designer was a complete idiot - especially in a VM environment. But I guess you'd prefer your program to give you incorrect results slightly more quickly... Let me avoid your software, please.
The difference is that Gordon Ramsay is a foul-mouthed abusive fellow who can do nothing but yell and insult the people competing in his programs when they make the tiniest mistake, and Michel Rue's harshest comment has been along the lines of "that needed more seasoning" or "that was too pink for my taste".
He also has shitty restaurants, whom anyone who has had the misfortune of mistakenly stumbling into his "Burger" restaurant at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas knows.
In the type of circles I move in, I really only think I've witnessed the following three attitudes when it comes to dealing with/confronting failure...
Sadly, you must run in awful circles. I've also met people whose attitude with respect to failure is to analyze it rationally and work with the person who failed to figure out how to not fail in similar ways in the future. It's called coaching and seems to be a valued skill. I'm sorry you haven't encountered it in your travels.
And don't forget the fez. Fezzes are cool.
I woke up right away and thought, "did we run something over!" Since then my wife has never sung in front of me.
You're lucky you didn't say that out loud - the something run over would have been you!
Plus, if you lose it or accidentally delete it, you can just ask the NSA for a copy.
Oddly enough, most people don't give a rat's ass about that - most of them would be thankful for the backup. Not that this is good, but just sayin'.
Asimov's writing was great, but his characters a tad too wooden for modern tastes. If he's remembered for anything it will be his fabulous pop-sci fact writing.
And for being a contemporary of Bradbury, of course.
I have a Kindle, you insensitive clod...
I can tell you that there are a hell of a lot of titles that are not available as eBooks - especially older ones. Not to mention that you haven't lived until you find a few where the Kindle version costs more than the paper edition. I mean WTF?
I hate Amazon. I just hate them less than everyone else. Which appears to be the new standard in business success metrics.
...because the end is when the code dies. If it dies, he has failed.
It is not a failure. All code dies. Nothing lasts forever. It is a result of change and the fact that no one can control the environment to the extent that artifacts can be protected from all environmental changes for all time. Eventually the asteroid hits.
Agile doesn't solve problems. People do. There's your problem right there.
No, there are only agile "thought leaders" in your organization who will tell you (and your management) that planning anything up front is the wrong thing to do because acting on that planning will cause, rather than prevent, rework.
In reality, anything having to do with process is all about balance and appropriateness of process to the environment. However, deviating from the high process priest's orthodoxy is often thought of as being anti- and will be severely punished.
... but the county courthouse wanted thousands of dollars to copy the transcripts and would not allow me to simply come down and copy them myself.
I should hope not. I don't want official transcripts to be handled by any random member of the community - they could be damaged or destroyed that way, maliciously or otherwise. Yes, the person doing that might be charged after the fact, but the documentation is still gone. So I'm glad they didn't hand you official government documents to dick around with however you wanted to. And, in fact, I'm not sorry that they wanted to charge you for the extra work they had to go to for you - your fellow citizens don't need to pay for your particular hobby horse.
Besides, if the newspaper were seriously interested in your story, they would have submitted the FOIA request themselves (and paid for it). The sad truth is that reporters get "leads" from people with axes to grind all the time and the best way to deal with them is to say "Docs or it didn't happen". Unless you can present a more compelling story, you're just another nut with an agenda.
Finally, as for the DOT "killing your business model", it's not the government's job to provide extra services to make your business succeed. You should have known about the data processing methods and their associated costs involved before you started the business. If the only people who wanted the data available were folks (like you) hoping to profit by free-riding on special work (i.e., computer system development) that they wanted done by the government, I see no reason that your fellow taxpayers should pay for your hand out.