This is my point. Close knit teams know when to leave each other alone. This means the advantage of remote working (not being disturbed) is lessened. And the advantages of having someone close by are there too.
Remote workers are not as useful for close knit development teams as ones in the office. Sometimes you need to speak face to face. All else being equal, of course.
I'll let someone else address these points as, even though you've replied to me in some sort of personal way, I'm not American. So I can't speak for America or anyone in it.
I like what you're saying about the budget stuff - but costs do inflate sometimes and if the government gets their requirements wrong and needs something else then either they cough up more money or it won't get built. Companies won't be able to afford billions in overruns and all the investment goes to waste because you can't expect one company to pick up another's work easily, if at all. It doesn't work that way. You do pick an interesting mix of things to cut back on though, from the very large to the very small.
When was the last time that the US really screwed up in protecting its economic interests though? When was the last time a foreign power nationalised everything and told the US companies to ship out?
And yes there is terrorism, which could be construed as a response to US acts (depending on your point of view) and that would not be any more moral or right even if ti was because the US had done something wrong. So how would you tackle that one?
You have not read the post properly. Read it again but try to understand what I am saying. Nowhere did I say you should stop playing EVE. It says so much that there are so many defensive straw man arguments being attacked in response to what I said. I am happy to make a comparison with sport as that is an equally futile pursuit (if feeding the starving and stopping war were your sorts of aim) except it has richer human contact and aforementioned fitness benefits.
That doesn't address the point that nothing replaces face to face contact. Running a guild is utterly irrelevant, unless you are saying it is a more social activity than, say, being captain of a sports club.
That's a shame, as being with other people is without doubt richer than any form of online socialising, in terms of the subtlety of interaction and ease of communication. If you work very hard at making yourself understood via a computer and spend little time talking to people and having engrossing conversation then sure it will be easy to be physically on your own. But is because you are never experiencing the richness I am talking about, and that is a shame.
Putting aside the straw man you just built there (where did I say in that post it left you friendless?), those friendships are less immersive than those built through direct contact. You may disagree but this is why meet-ups happen.
The Sun is unlikely to explode. More likely it will become a red giant and then a white dwarf. It is not seemingly big enough to go supernova. Hope this is not too definite for you.
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I made an observation about development teams. I guess in that way I assumed everyone was a developer, yes.
This is my point. Close knit teams know when to leave each other alone. This means the advantage of remote working (not being disturbed) is lessened. And the advantages of having someone close by are there too.
Remote workers are not as useful for close knit development teams as ones in the office. Sometimes you need to speak face to face. All else being equal, of course.
I'll let someone else address these points as, even though you've replied to me in some sort of personal way, I'm not American. So I can't speak for America or anyone in it.
I like what you're saying about the budget stuff - but costs do inflate sometimes and if the government gets their requirements wrong and needs something else then either they cough up more money or it won't get built. Companies won't be able to afford billions in overruns and all the investment goes to waste because you can't expect one company to pick up another's work easily, if at all. It doesn't work that way.
You do pick an interesting mix of things to cut back on though, from the very large to the very small.
When was the last time that the US really screwed up in protecting its economic interests though? When was the last time a foreign power nationalised everything and told the US companies to ship out?
And yes there is terrorism, which could be construed as a response to US acts (depending on your point of view) and that would not be any more moral or right even if ti was because the US had done something wrong. So how would you tackle that one?
What does the Department of Education actually do then? Set federal standards?
What would you cut, and why? Genuine question. Feel free to give as detailed an answer as possible.
Maybe they understand but they don't agree? After all, the army are paid with other people's money but you wouldn't be without them, would you?
Somewhere in there you have a reasonable point i.e. no one should expect a job on a plate and everyone must work hard.
The rest is just nonsense.
Um, they earn more than that in Germany but have a better lifestyle.
Jimmy Savile!?
What is so extreme about San Francisco then? I ask out of ignorance, not challenging you.
How can something that isn't there be a pile of shit? :)
When the hell does he find time to do that? He spend a lot of his time answering people's emails. In fact most, I think.
This is Tomi Ahonen. Laying into Nokia and Windows Phone is his USP.
Play time when you have important and necessary commitments is living on borrowed time.
You have not read the post properly. Read it again but try to understand what I am saying.
Nowhere did I say you should stop playing EVE. It says so much that there are so many defensive straw man arguments being attacked in response to what I said.
I am happy to make a comparison with sport as that is an equally futile pursuit (if feeding the starving and stopping war were your sorts of aim) except it has richer human contact and aforementioned fitness benefits.
Yeah but you can find better ways to enjoy it as you go.
You appear to be vociferously agreeing with me.
That doesn't address the point that nothing replaces face to face contact. Running a guild is utterly irrelevant, unless you are saying it is a more social activity than, say, being captain of a sports club.
That's a shame, as being with other people is without doubt richer than any form of online socialising, in terms of the subtlety of interaction and ease of communication. If you work very hard at making yourself understood via a computer and spend little time talking to people and having engrossing conversation then sure it will be easy to be physically on your own. But is because you are never experiencing the richness I am talking about, and that is a shame.
Yeah every sport has that. Even swimming, which is mainly a cage fight in a swimming pool.
Actually, a cage fight in a swimming pool might make a good televised event. ;-)
Putting aside the straw man you just built there (where did I say in that post it left you friendless?), those friendships are less immersive than those built through direct contact. You may disagree but this is why meet-ups happen.
The Sun is unlikely to explode. More likely it will become a red giant and then a white dwarf. It is not seemingly big enough to go supernova. Hope this is not too definite for you.