Humans MAY develop resistance or immunity. MAYBE. It's never a guarantee. And if the agent is particularly virulent, well, that's great. We just kill off a majority of the population so a small number of people who won the genetic lottery can spend the rest of their lives walking the earth trying to find someone to breed with.
There are already classes of pathogen out there that are resistant. MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus), and VRE (Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus). And yes, to a healthy person, these don't pose a massive threat. They're relatively mild. However, to someone who's immunocompromised (and I don't just mean HIV, I mean anyone whose immune system is suppressed, via illness, medication, etc), these can represent a massive overload to a person's system.
So, without being particularly virulent (as killing your host is bad ecology), these can still represent a massive health issue. As systemic overload results in two classes of people. The healthy and the dead.
Usually "exciting" is used as a positive recommendation. That's not the case here. Something like this is BAD. REALLY bad. There are whole classes of pathogens that are kept under control via antibiotic therapy now. If they suddenly develop resistance, we're in DEEP shit.
Pretty sure that no country on earth is "clean" at this point.
Keep this fully in mind when some country is spouting off on their outrage, or thinking about offering services because of their "strong privacy laws".
None of these bastards, nor their successors, will hesitate for a fraction of a nanosecond if they think they'll gain something by violation of your rights. And if you think they will, because of something written down on a piece of paper someplace, you're fucking deluded.
In my experience, companies like yours never truly understand why the client needs but rather what you think they should have.
Not in this case unfortunately. A couple of the things that are crucial to this client:
Reliable syncing (the in-house thing is a stand-alone VFP 101 project). Shared calendar. Integrated e-mail functionality. They make extensive use of the package's automated processes. The ability to build and save groups off of SQL queries and filters. The ability to store BLOB data. The ability to support extensive organizational charts
The in-house thing is basically at the level of a glorified spreadsheet right now with a single-table structure. And this thing has supposedly been in development for five years!
The reason these people are on the package they're on is because we did an extensive business process analysis for them, before we made any suggestions.
and didn't treat them like a joke like you seem to.
I'm sorry, I wasn't aware that threatening to move off a comprehensive system, that does exactly what you need and want it to do plus with room to grow, and downgrade to something with fewer capabilities that an Excel spreadsheet, just to get a better price, was anything BUT a joke.
I *do* care about my clients and their needs. And when I can't provide for them, I tell them so. My company doesn't need to lock in customers. We already have more than we can comfortably handle. And more, a massive chunk of it is ridiculously loyal to us. BECAUSE we don't BS them, and don't take them for granted. But if someone wants to leave and do their own thing? That's their prerogative. Just don't ask us to support it.
We've had a client who, for years, has been threatening to move off to his own little CRM system that one of his in-house techs cooked up. He does this, mostly, because he thinks he's going to frighten us into giving him a free upgrade of his current software.
We always make sure to mute the phone when he does this, so he doesn't hear us laughing at him.
His tech's solution is basically a Fox Pro front end on an excel spreadsheet. And it doesn't even do a tenth of what the client needs, let alone come close to the functionality of his current package.
Sure, Musk can actually afford to hire a group of REAL programmers. But, still, they're reinventing the wheel, and there's no guarantee the system's going to grow with the company.
Exactly. The "intelligence" committees first and only response to this kind of stuff is "shut up or we shut you up".
This kind of shit is the thing Americans NEED to know and understand about the government. They're NOT your friends. And, as much as it hurts US interests abroad, this kind of shenanigans needs to be know there too.
People need to get pissed off about being forced to live in a panopticon state. People need to start pushing back at the government. And the government needs to learn that they're a bunch of expendable employees, not the bosses.
We're now LESS free than we were, and the fucking morons claiming to "run" the country (insert your country's name here), are no closer to eradicating or even MITIGATING terrorism. Oh yes. And they, and a bunch of their friends, are now MUCH richer.
First and worst, politicians were involved. Everything else pretty much is a cascade effect off that. Second, cronyism. Third, you had a bunch of non-technical people setting up moving goalposts for the technical people to hit, with regard to the technical specs of the site. Fourth, distinct lack of firm, single-message communication to the technical teams with regards to whether the project was or was not going forward.
I could go on and on about all the fuckups with regard to this. But I'd just piss off a bunch of people who aren't worth my time.
It's going to mean that building the control platform for these things is going to have to have MUCH stricter tolerances, and be gone over much more rigorously. And there's going to have to be comprehensive testing of the subsystems, both individually and as a whole.
People's lives are at stake here, and the automakers would do well to be properly paranoid about it.
Look back at Grimshaw v. Ford Motor Co. Now think of this as "Ford Pinto II".
I'm talking about project management. Not "management personnel".
The former is an often-overlooked skill. The latter are simply obsequious middlemen who raise costs by trying to insert themselves where they aren't wanted (see "rapist").
Because you have a bunch of people who have zero technical knowledge and zero REAL project management experience calling the shots. They come up with bullshit specs and a bunch of pie-in-the-sky.
Because some greedy fuck of a salesdisck at a company sees "Gubmint Fundin'", performs a cranial-rectal insertion and promises shit his techs have NO way to actually deliver.
Because the American people have gotten out of the habit of tarring, feathering and lynching civil servants that pull stupid shit like this.
It'll either get killed off immediately, or loaded down with so much pork that whenever people mention the bill, everyone in earshot busts out with "It's BACOOOOOOON!"
There's no way in hell, even in a more fuel efficient society, that the government is going to give up even a CENT of possible revenue.
If you think your government, from the goodness of their heart, are going to lighten your financial burdens in any way, shape or form, you're fucking deluded.
Yes, in a more fuel efficient society, the gas tax becomes less of a burden. That's not the same thing as "going away".
No. Microsoft now has devices made to their specs and can tweak as much as apple if they wish to do so on those devices.
Yeah. Try again. IT IS STILL RUNNING WINDOWS. And not all of the tweaks necessary are as low-level as drivers. Sure they could spit out a "Windows: Special Microsoft Stuff Edition". But then they'd have to support that, separate from the rest of the Windows ecosystem. That's KINDA why they stopped putting out Tablet Edition versions of Windows and merged everything into a common OS (for good or ill).
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This is not something you "adapt" to. PERIOD.
Humans MAY develop resistance or immunity.
MAYBE. It's never a guarantee.
And if the agent is particularly virulent, well, that's great. We just kill off a majority of the population so a small number of people who won the genetic lottery can spend the rest of their lives walking the earth trying to find someone to breed with.
There are already classes of pathogen out there that are resistant. MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus), and VRE (Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus).
And yes, to a healthy person, these don't pose a massive threat. They're relatively mild. However, to someone who's immunocompromised (and I don't just mean HIV, I mean anyone whose immune system is suppressed, via illness, medication, etc), these can represent a massive overload to a person's system.
So, without being particularly virulent (as killing your host is bad ecology), these can still represent a massive health issue. As systemic overload results in two classes of people. The healthy and the dead.
Usually "exciting" is used as a positive recommendation. That's not the case here.
Something like this is BAD. REALLY bad.
There are whole classes of pathogens that are kept under control via antibiotic therapy now.
If they suddenly develop resistance, we're in DEEP shit.
Pretty sure that no country on earth is "clean" at this point.
Keep this fully in mind when some country is spouting off on their outrage, or thinking about offering services because of their "strong privacy laws".
None of these bastards, nor their successors, will hesitate for a fraction of a nanosecond if they think they'll gain something by violation of your rights.
And if you think they will, because of something written down on a piece of paper someplace, you're fucking deluded.
In my experience, companies like yours never truly understand why the client needs but rather what you think they should have.
Not in this case unfortunately. A couple of the things that are crucial to this client:
Reliable syncing (the in-house thing is a stand-alone VFP 101 project).
Shared calendar.
Integrated e-mail functionality.
They make extensive use of the package's automated processes.
The ability to build and save groups off of SQL queries and filters.
The ability to store BLOB data.
The ability to support extensive organizational charts
The in-house thing is basically at the level of a glorified spreadsheet right now with a single-table structure. And this thing has supposedly been in development for five years!
The reason these people are on the package they're on is because we did an extensive business process analysis for them, before we made any suggestions.
and didn't treat them like a joke like you seem to.
I'm sorry, I wasn't aware that threatening to move off a comprehensive system, that does exactly what you need and want it to do plus with room to grow, and downgrade to something with fewer capabilities that an Excel spreadsheet, just to get a better price, was anything BUT a joke.
I *do* care about my clients and their needs. And when I can't provide for them, I tell them so. My company doesn't need to lock in customers. We already have more than we can comfortably handle. And more, a massive chunk of it is ridiculously loyal to us. BECAUSE we don't BS them, and don't take them for granted. But if someone wants to leave and do their own thing? That's their prerogative. Just don't ask us to support it.
They're always good for a laugh.
We've had a client who, for years, has been threatening to move off to his own little CRM system that one of his in-house techs cooked up. He does this, mostly, because he thinks he's going to frighten us into giving him a free upgrade of his current software.
We always make sure to mute the phone when he does this, so he doesn't hear us laughing at him.
His tech's solution is basically a Fox Pro front end on an excel spreadsheet.
And it doesn't even do a tenth of what the client needs, let alone come close to the functionality of his current package.
Sure, Musk can actually afford to hire a group of REAL programmers. But, still, they're reinventing the wheel, and there's no guarantee the system's going to grow with the company.
Well, first of all, sending them to Chicago would be stupid.
If the local populace didn't kill them out of hand, they'd at least be in for a "tune up" by the local CPD officers.
He'd be kept quiet one way or another.
Exactly. The "intelligence" committees first and only response to this kind of stuff is "shut up or we shut you up".
This kind of shit is the thing Americans NEED to know and understand about the government. They're NOT your friends.
And, as much as it hurts US interests abroad, this kind of shenanigans needs to be know there too.
People need to get pissed off about being forced to live in a panopticon state. People need to start pushing back at the government. And the government needs to learn that they're a bunch of expendable employees, not the bosses.
RIMJobber1: What's that flushing sound?
RIMJobber2: Why's there swirly blue water all over the place?
RIM: RUH ROH RAGGY!
You noticed this is in the EU, not some 3rd world police state, right?
I fail to see the difference...
Sorry. The terrorists WON already.
We're now LESS free than we were, and the fucking morons claiming to "run" the country (insert your country's name here), are no closer to eradicating or even MITIGATING terrorism.
Oh yes. And they, and a bunch of their friends, are now MUCH richer.
Yep. You only have to defend yourself, in court. Multiple times, with a company whose ROUNDING ERRORS are more than you'll ever make in your lifetime.
First and worst, politicians were involved. Everything else pretty much is a cascade effect off that.
Second, cronyism.
Third, you had a bunch of non-technical people setting up moving goalposts for the technical people to hit, with regard to the technical specs of the site.
Fourth, distinct lack of firm, single-message communication to the technical teams with regards to whether the project was or was not going forward.
I could go on and on about all the fuckups with regard to this. But I'd just piss off a bunch of people who aren't worth my time.
Teach him about furries.
It's going to mean that building the control platform for these things is going to have to have MUCH stricter tolerances, and be gone over much more rigorously. And there's going to have to be comprehensive testing of the subsystems, both individually and as a whole.
People's lives are at stake here, and the automakers would do well to be properly paranoid about it.
Look back at Grimshaw v. Ford Motor Co.
Now think of this as "Ford Pinto II".
I'm talking about project management. Not "management personnel".
The former is an often-overlooked skill. The latter are simply obsequious middlemen who raise costs by trying to insert themselves where they aren't wanted (see "rapist").
Because you have a bunch of people who have zero technical knowledge and zero REAL project management experience calling the shots. They come up with bullshit specs and a bunch of pie-in-the-sky.
Because some greedy fuck of a salesdisck at a company sees "Gubmint Fundin'", performs a cranial-rectal insertion and promises shit his techs have NO way to actually deliver.
Because the American people have gotten out of the habit of tarring, feathering and lynching civil servants that pull stupid shit like this.
Yeah. Help me to understand that.
An anti-piracy group establishing ANYTHING that enables piracy, so they can get people's IDs?
Okay. Great. Now they know who some of these guys are!
But that still doesn't get them out of the fact that they were complicit in piracy operations.
All that, eventually, happens is that real pirates migrate to The Next Big Thing, and you get a bunch of little fish.
Citing diminishment of of revenues from gas taxes, due to the influence of electric cars, 8 states are working to impose a per-mile road tax.
That's the problem.
Currently, they're looking at data for autonomous vehicles in a complete vacuum.
I'm quite sure that having such cars on the roads in percentile quantities will yield their own sets of unique fatalities sooner or later.
In the mean time, I'm not an quadriplegic. So I'll choose to drive my own damn car.
Now let's hope to god they have their driver situation hashed out.
AMD/ATI has always put out fairly nice hardware. But, more often than not, they're always falling on their faces because of shoddy drivers.
It'll either get killed off immediately, or loaded down with so much pork that whenever people mention the bill, everyone in earshot busts out with "It's BACOOOOOOON!"
Gorilla Arms Inducer.
No. The gas tax is NOT going way.
There's no way in hell, even in a more fuel efficient society, that the government is going to give up even a CENT of possible revenue.
If you think your government, from the goodness of their heart, are going to lighten your financial burdens in any way, shape or form, you're fucking deluded.
Yes, in a more fuel efficient society, the gas tax becomes less of a burden. That's not the same thing as "going away".
No.
Microsoft now has devices made to their specs and can tweak as much as apple if they wish to do so on those devices.
Yeah. Try again. IT IS STILL RUNNING WINDOWS. And not all of the tweaks necessary are as low-level as drivers.
Sure they could spit out a "Windows: Special Microsoft Stuff Edition".
But then they'd have to support that, separate from the rest of the Windows ecosystem.
That's KINDA why they stopped putting out Tablet Edition versions of Windows and merged everything into a common OS (for good or ill).