"Thus it is in Islamic countries like Ghana and Nigeria, where religious beliefs have kept the spread of AIDS at bay..."
You mean the belief that it's ok to rape a woman up the ass and share her with your buddies? (Because regular sex is baadddd) Oh yeah, I can see where this would stem the tide of AIDS.
Just out of curiousity, how would you tell if someone had died of AIDS in such oppressive countries?
(I am surprised that people think Africa will have less "churn" though.)
Sheesh, not getting that newspaper that cost you, what, 50 cents? This makes you angry? I think it's time you sit down and think about what's really important in life.
If you're missing that paper, call up the company and ask to have your subscription extended by 1 paper to make up for the loss. Ta da.
If McDonalds didn't have my Big Mac I'd either ask for my money back or change my order. I wouldn't get angry about it. It's just a hamburger.
Now if this is a problem, say you're missing a paper every other week. Or that McDonalds is always out of Big Macs, then stop ordering that paper and stop going to that McDonalds. It's not worth the time on your part to keep on having to accommodate them.
Nope. I love it. It means that there's enough free PHP stuff out there to get things done. And enough PHP business to employee full time PHP programmers.
It sounds fantastic, and I'm very excited that these guys have managed to create jobs by writing useful tools.
"How is life truly 'better' today then it was 100 or 1000 years ago? You have more toys and convenience and more luxury but you still have to work like a dog and it still costs you (in work) the same amount of time taken away from life."
Work-wise? I can choose the job field I want to work in. If I don't like it I can switch. I do not have to be what my father was, and what his father was.
Just create a testing program that runs under windows. It checks the hardware that's installed vs a database of campatible hardware. Points out things you must replace or OS/X won't run.
It's not that hard.
I would like to see beige G5 boxes someday. They're just another platform after all.
"Well, the game works a little differently when you don't make your own hardware, are given the market on a silver platter by the leading computer company (IBM in 1981, for the slow-witted readers), and then maintain it through the years via all sorts of cutthroat/questionable/illegal means."
Well yes, the game works differently when you are not Microsoft. I wholeheartedly agree. Care to expand on why porting an existing OS to a market 20 times the size of their current one is a bad thing? I'm kind of fuzzy on that.
Oh my god! Someone better tell Microsoft that there's no profit in making an OS for the PC before they go out of business!
"OS X will never, never, never run on any hardware that Apple has not produced..."
I thought the G5 was produced by IBM? I didn't realize that Apple had manufactoring plants putting out Apple Monitors, Mice and "Superdrives". I just thought they contracted other companies to make them and stuck their logo on them.
So from here, it looks like Apple produces nothing, just design, quality control, and patching Open Source software to make it look "Apple".
Why in the world did you post AC anyways? It looks like you put a lot of effort in your post.
Wow, more than 64k rows? That sounds like a lot of data. If only there was a program out there to base all your data in.
Some sort of "Data base" who's function is to handle a lot of data. Man, I bet there would be a big demand for this sort of program if anyone wrote one.
"In the same way, I can't just tell a programmer 'write me a database app which does our accounting' either. I have to communicate my knowledge and requirements to the person."
Er, why not?
After getting such a request from my manager, I'd confirm that I had the backing to do this project from the other managers that this would effect. I'd then get a list of requirements from all of them. After that, I'd check to see if "the wheel" already exists (It probably does) and check it against the list of requirements. Go back to each of the managers and review the solution with them. (esp. accounting)
Set up new accounting system, transfer data, train accountants, test, fix, adjust. Hold a few meetings with the managers and enough powerpoint slides to commit them to the new system (or face an even longer meeting with even more powerpoint slides)
If possible, switch over people to the new system one area at a time so you can be there for problems, questions, and hand holding.
Ta da. New accounting system. Some of us come from enviroments where the boss tells people where to go, not how to get there.
I thought the worst thing you can do is pour gasoline on your programmers and set them a little bit on fire?
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A degree in Journalism?
Here in Colorado, the amount of students enrolled in the school of Journalism has noticably increased.
In the interview with the dean, he was asked "Why has it gone up?" his answer was "I don't know."
This isn't something that you need to translate from cuniform. To find out why more students are enrolling, all he had to do is walk down the hall and ask them.
I'm sure these hard-hitting investigative skills are being instilled into the student body.
And since when has anyone from slashdot been impressed by a degree?
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"Thus it is in Islamic countries like Ghana and Nigeria, where religious beliefs have kept the spread of AIDS at bay..."
You mean the belief that it's ok to rape a woman up the ass and share her with your buddies? (Because regular sex is baadddd) Oh yeah, I can see where this would stem the tide of AIDS.
Just out of curiousity, how would you tell if someone had died of AIDS in such oppressive countries?
(I am surprised that people think Africa will have less "churn" though.)
I'd go "That's ridiculous".
Sheesh, not getting that newspaper that cost you, what, 50 cents? This makes you angry? I think it's time you sit down and think about what's really important in life.
If you're missing that paper, call up the company and ask to have your subscription extended by 1 paper to make up for the loss. Ta da.
If McDonalds didn't have my Big Mac I'd either ask for my money back or change my order. I wouldn't get angry about it. It's just a hamburger.
Now if this is a problem, say you're missing a paper every other week. Or that McDonalds is always out of Big Macs, then stop ordering that paper and stop going to that McDonalds. It's not worth the time on your part to keep on having to accommodate them.
Seriously? Your paper didn't show up and you were angry?
What is so important about that newspaper? I was surprised to read that they got 40k phone call complaints.
Why would Microsoft care about users that don't exist?
Nope. I love it. It means that there's enough free PHP stuff out there to get things done. And enough PHP business to employee full time PHP programmers.
It sounds fantastic, and I'm very excited that these guys have managed to create jobs by writing useful tools.
I have a very difficult time debugging perl scripts and figuring out how to do new things with it.
:)
PHP is more like a more friendly. Allows you to fumble around and then gives you informative errors. Kind of like your first Girlfriend.
Well, the first week of her anyways.
I know this wasn't your point, but really:
"How is life truly 'better' today then it was 100 or 1000 years ago? You have more toys and convenience and more luxury but you still have to work like a dog and it still costs you (in work) the same amount of time taken away from life."
Work-wise? I can choose the job field I want to work in. If I don't like it I can switch. I do not have to be what my father was, and what his father was.
Why would they make it compatible?
Just create a testing program that runs under windows. It checks the hardware that's installed vs a database of campatible hardware. Points out things you must replace or OS/X won't run.
It's not that hard.
I would like to see beige G5 boxes someday. They're just another platform after all.
What, other companies don't do quality control? Making sure your product works is not something unique to Apple.
Great, my first post was labeled as a troll. sigh.
Why don't you list off the components of making something, and list them in order of the most important to the least important.
Personally, putting the product in a pretty blue shell ranks among the least important.
Could you be more vague?
"Well, the game works a little differently when you don't make your own hardware, are given the market on a silver platter by the leading computer company (IBM in 1981, for the slow-witted readers), and then maintain it through the years via all sorts of cutthroat/questionable/illegal means."
Well yes, the game works differently when you are not Microsoft. I wholeheartedly agree. Care to expand on why porting an existing OS to a market 20 times the size of their current one is a bad thing? I'm kind of fuzzy on that.
Oh my god! Someone better tell Microsoft that there's no profit in making an OS for the PC before they go out of business!
"OS X will never, never, never run on any hardware that Apple has not produced..."
I thought the G5 was produced by IBM? I didn't realize that Apple had manufactoring plants putting out Apple Monitors, Mice and "Superdrives". I just thought they contracted other companies to make them and stuck their logo on them.
So from here, it looks like Apple produces nothing, just design, quality control, and patching Open Source software to make it look "Apple".
Why in the world did you post AC anyways? It looks like you put a lot of effort in your post.
They're living in the coldest most desolate place on earth. Isn't it kind of late to be worrying about psychological plusses?
"Yeah, and here....I want a window. Ooo! And we can keep the bunnies over here! And everything, everything must be a shade of puice."
You have a long way to go.
Gauss rifle?
Do you mean a "coil gun"?
Wow, more than 64k rows? That sounds like a lot of data. If only there was a program out there to base all your data in.
Some sort of "Data base" who's function is to handle a lot of data. Man, I bet there would be a big demand for this sort of program if anyone wrote one.
Interesting. Nothing you say conflicts with my point whatsoever. And my previous post draws upon the paragraph I quoted you from.
Essentially, my point was "You don't have to have detailed project specs to do something."
"In the same way, I can't just tell a programmer 'write me a database app which does our accounting' either. I have to communicate my knowledge and requirements to the person."
Er, why not?
After getting such a request from my manager, I'd confirm that I had the backing to do this project from the other managers that this would effect. I'd then get a list of requirements from all of them. After that, I'd check to see if "the wheel" already exists (It probably does) and check it against the list of requirements. Go back to each of the managers and review the solution with them.
(esp. accounting)
Set up new accounting system, transfer data, train accountants, test, fix, adjust. Hold a few meetings with the managers and enough powerpoint slides to commit them to the new system (or face an even longer meeting with even more powerpoint slides)
If possible, switch over people to the new system one area at a time so you can be there for problems, questions, and hand holding.
Ta da. New accounting system. Some of us come from enviroments where the boss tells people where to go, not how to get there.
Why would you turn it off?
I'd modify the focus. Increase the area of the target, and the power that's hitting it will decrease dramatically.
As opposed to an "Immobile Device"?
Even if they had no competition I wouldn't go to Toys R Us. The last time I was there, there were no prices posted.
I don't care if there are scanners located throughout the store. I want to know how much something costs when I look at it.
Reeeaaaaly.
So, use any open source software?
Do you own it?
No? Go directly to jail.
I thought the worst thing you can do is pour gasoline on your programmers and set them a little bit on fire?
A degree in Journalism?
Here in Colorado, the amount of students enrolled in the school of Journalism has noticably increased.
In the interview with the dean, he was asked "Why has it gone up?" his answer was "I don't know."
This isn't something that you need to translate from cuniform. To find out why more students are enrolling, all he had to do is walk down the hall and ask them.
I'm sure these hard-hitting investigative skills are being instilled into the student body.
And since when has anyone from slashdot been impressed by a degree?