Not only can our galaxy (and others) slice through other structures, it can itself be sliced through. In fact, it's happening right now -- a dwarf galaxy is in the process of colliding with our own, over on the other side of the galactic
core.
Not that we can actually see it, of course, other than with very powerful radiotelescopes....
...but will they stay late? In a nice,
comfortable office with all the comforts of home,
sure, but in a cold, unpleasant McCube, no way.
If you want your employees to spend long hours
getting your product out the door, you need to
provide an environment that they'll want
to spend long hours in....
New York State already has a law subjecting
telemarketers to penalties of up to $2000 per
violation for calling anyone on New York's
"Do Not Call" list, which all telemarketers
are required to have on hand. I'm on the list.
I get my net connection by phone (DSL).
Does that make spammers liable to $2k per spam?
Could the NYS AG be persuaded to read the law
that way, and start going after spammers?
Re:Star Wars creamed the spin-offs from day one.
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Um, actually, they didn't. The original Kenner line of Star Wars toys didn't appear until many, many months after the original movie opened -- and even then, they came at a frustratingly slow trickle for an eight year old.
In short, the toys were an afterthought. It wasn't until ESB that the toy machine really got cranking, and it wasn't until ROTJ that the storyline began to suffer due to the merchandising. But contrast the long, slow trickle of a handful of toys after ANH with the enormous tail-wagging-the-dog blitz that accompanied The Phantom Menace....
...the prequel trilogy is a tragedy, which demands a somewhat more mature audience than the popcorn adventure of Episode IV... or Spider-Man.
Re:An issue of generational turnover, how?
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I'm one of the GenXer "elders" who were the
original Star Wars constituency, and I grew up
watching "Spider-Man" on the Electric Company
when I was in elementary school:
Spider-Man!
Where are you coming from, Spider-Man?
Nobody knows who you are!
How is this a generational issue?
My issue with the new Star Wars films is that after two films, I still haven't made the emotional connection with any of the characters that I did with Luke and Han and (especially) Princess Leia when I was growing up. Ewan McGregor is starting to get there, but none of the rest of the characters have the charisma of the original set -- or of Peter Parker and Mary Jane.
If CMOS isn't going to hit the wall until 2012,
why worry? After all, that's when the alien
invasion is going to arrive, and we won't need
to worry about what happens after that....
We're currently outsourcing our framework for unit testing our code to a company in India, and it's working well so far. The key, I think, is that the company we're working with is a CMM Level 5 organization, which has a very robust (if high-ceremony) development process, and all of the proposals, schedules, design documents, et cetera that we've gotten from them are extremely thorough.
The knock on CMM is that it makes the process more important than the talent of the engineers; the knock on offshore engineers is lack of experience or talent. So here's a case where CMM can pull an inexpensive team *up* to a high quality standard.
I had a very different experience after my July layoff; I sent my resume to 35-40 carefully targeted positions, and got a dozen calls in fairly short order, plus a larger number of cold calls from recruiters and companies who read but don't post (probably to avoid being resume-spammed). That led to three viable offers, including my present job.
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Not that we can actually see it, of course, other than with very powerful radiotelescopes....
If you want your employees to spend long hours getting your product out the door, you need to provide an environment that they'll want to spend long hours in....
Two tin cans and a reeeeeeeeeeeeeeally long ball of string, perhaps?
"We're sorry -- the space probe you have reached is not in service. Please check the coordinates and try again." *click*
Does that make spammers liable to $2k per spam? Could the NYS AG be persuaded to read the law that way, and start going after spammers?
In short, the toys were an afterthought. It wasn't until ESB that the toy machine really got cranking, and it wasn't until ROTJ that the storyline began to suffer due to the merchandising. But contrast the long, slow trickle of a handful of toys after ANH with the enormous tail-wagging-the-dog blitz that accompanied The Phantom Menace....
...the prequel trilogy is a tragedy, which demands a somewhat more mature audience than the popcorn adventure of Episode IV... or Spider-Man.
Spider-Man!
Where are you coming from, Spider-Man?
Nobody knows who you are!
How is this a generational issue?
My issue with the new Star Wars films is that after two films, I still haven't made the emotional connection with any of the characters that I did with Luke and Han and (especially) Princess Leia when I was growing up. Ewan McGregor is starting to get there, but none of the rest of the characters have the charisma of the original set -- or of Peter Parker and Mary Jane.
If CMOS isn't going to hit the wall until 2012, why worry? After all, that's when the alien invasion is going to arrive, and we won't need to worry about what happens after that....
We're currently outsourcing our framework for unit testing our code to a company in India, and it's working well so far. The key, I think, is that the company we're working with is a CMM Level 5 organization, which has a very robust (if high-ceremony) development process, and all of the proposals, schedules, design documents, et cetera that we've gotten from them are extremely thorough. The knock on CMM is that it makes the process more important than the talent of the engineers; the knock on offshore engineers is lack of experience or talent. So here's a case where CMM can pull an inexpensive team *up* to a high quality standard.
I'm still getting periodic inquiries, btw....
...not only that, but the biggest battle of the "war" so far was fought with knives between a handful of combatants.