Or is this more an acting job rather than a presenting job. And if it is presenting then what made you interested in heavy engineering ? If not, good acting job:-)
Thousands of people killed in attacks has happened before, hey Timothy McVeigh nearly managed it, and the crack down on people like him was... pretty much no-existant (he still holds the per-captia record as 19 people took part in Sept11th).
Terrorism was also supported by the US, Iran-Contra anyone ? Columbian Death Squads, Chilie. Sadam Hussain ? Israel ?
This is not new, look at other attacks in the Far East. Sure the scale was large, and it was horrific. But this really isn't something that didn't exist before Sept11th.
Oh and Sinn Fein used to be illegal when funds were channelled to it.
The US must also invade the US as they were informed of terrorists acting inside their borders before Sept 11th and did nothing. Plus several US Citizens have been arrested as terrorists, and someone somewhere must have been covering up for them before they were caught.
Spain has ETA, the UK has the IRA (and where does most of the funding for that come from... oh yes the citizens of the USA). And before someone says "That is just inside the borders of the country" remember that the IRA have commited acts of terrorism in other countries, have trained in Libya and have helped train terrorists in Columbia.
Yet only when the US faces a threat is terrorism something new....
See the link above, he was a World Cup (a competition involving the majority of the world's countries) winner in 1966 for England.
If it had been a real Nobby Stiles he would have run at Gromit, jumped on him two footed then punched him. Nobby wasn't the most elegant player in the world:-)
Clearly with the Soccermatic Wallace is looking to expand into the US Soccer Mom market, the domestic version will of course continue to be called the "Footymatic":-)
More Cheese Gromit ?
A history of being right...
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And a history of corporate suits ignoring what he says. If you do read and implement what he says it will save you time and make you money.
These are the great books of Software Engineering written by people who know, and can prove it. headed by The Mythical Man Month and Peopleware everytime I re-read them it depresses me. Another year on, and still the same mistakes as 30 years ago.
And created one of the largest automotive companies in the world thanks to the economies of scale this gave him. When automated painting became cheep... he switched.
The iPod is an MP3 player, its selling well. We don't want to turn it into a piece of technical bloatware that geeks can ask for any old crap to be put into because its "cool". The iPod is "cool" not because of all the things it has, but because of the fact it does what it sets out to do well.
We see no evidence that there is consumer demand for the device you describe, and USB and Firewire hard-disks already exist, we know this because we support them.
One product does not have to do everything, to sell well it should do what it sets out to do very well, and we believe the iPod achieves that aim.
Regards
Apple
PS. We had a bet in the office that you've never designed hardware, can you confirm this.
This is EXACTLY the sort of case that the patent system was set up to support. This is a GOOD example of patents working well. Intel infringed on the work of another individual, okay they claim they didn't know about it, but how much should we believe that a corporation like that didn't just think "Hell we've got the most lawyers".
Intel get zero sympathy from me here, too many big companies have played the lawyer card and won.
As reference above. If you have a team of 10 leading a team of 100 and the 10 are brilliant and the 100 are average what do you do ?
Fire the 100 give the money to the 10.
How motivated would you be if delivery means you get 10 times your current salary ?
Complexity != number of coders
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Get thee to the bible of all things Software The Mythical Man Month. Take 15 motivated and talented indivduals (they have to be both) and they will whoop the arse off a team ten times their size which is filled with average people.
Adding more people _makes_ a project more complex but not in terms of the problem being solved, it makes it more complex because there is more communication and communication is not always accurate, the more communication the more bugs. Its no suprise when you look at some elements of large OSS projects that you see that PersonX does everything on Y, its this "master" concept that helps them deliver. And of course in having an excessively large testing team by commercial standards, testers out-numbers codes by huge ratios, any one been on a commercial project where there was even parity.
OSS is the best way to run a paid or unpaid project IMO, the problem is that it looks so expensive on the surface the companies don't do it. But the Total Cost of Ownership is much higher because of the lack of testing and the lack of review, and of course because instead of 15 developers and 100 testers they have 100 developers and 3 testers, 6 managers, 1 programme manager, two account managers, one account director and two administration assistants.
The common factor between OSS and standard commercial is that no-one does enough documentation.
Like anything Evolutionary (Sociology, Politics etc etc) arena except Biology there is one uniting factor in the application of Evolution theory to another area. It doesn't make sense, and is founded on the standard lack of understanding of science found throughout the fluffy subjects, as Rutherford said
"All research in the social sciences can be summed up by the phrase 'some do, some don't'.
To mention on the same page as Noble Prize winners a bunch of mumbo-jumbo just shows what an unscientific world we live in.
The phrase "widely optimistic" comes to mind. "Open", this would be describing CDMA v GSM how ? GSM is used in Europe, Africa, Middle East, Asia, Australia, and now in large parts of the US. Competition is between a large number of international firms based around the globe in a number of different countries and competing in vastly different markets with differing pressures.
CDMA, US and what is it, one other country. Companies almost exclusively based in the US.
Maybe Japan and Europe will lose the current massive advantage they have in Mobile technology, its possible, after all the US is only 2 years or so behind Europe which is 2 years behind Japan.
And anyone who thinks that doing CDMA helps WCDMA is living in the clouds. Who are the large phone companies in the US, Vodaphone, T-Mobile any one ? And who owns them.... What are the most popular handsets ?
Companies in the US will survive but don't except them to thrive, unless of course protectionism comes in to prevent fair competition.
While Telco's aren't super stocks anymore, they are still moving on, most of the rest of the planet has suffered less in the last year because they didn't have as big a bubble that burst and haven't faced enough corruption.
GSM and 2G exploded in Europe and Asia well before it took off in the US.
Err that well known "Democratic Party" Candidate and President Ronald Regan signed up to the funding of the Big Dig, funding was continued by another Democratic leader called George Bush.
See those things waving at you in the distance ? They are the Facts, wander over and see them some time.
$819.8m revenue in a year is not "niche" in my book. Slashdot editors yet again demonstrate their inability to understand that the corporate enterprise market is a billion dollar industry which contains lots of professionals for whom "cool scripts" "Perl" "PHP" and "MySQL" exist only to cause issues.
The Application Server market is over 2 billion dollars a year.
This isn't just about browsers, its about mobile phones, PDAs, servers, TVs, Set-top boxes, smart cards etc etc.
And its not just about Web content, its about authorisation systems as a whole.
A browser is just one very very small part of what Liberty could be used for. And while a browser remembers a password, it doesn't know who you are and cannot prove that you are that person.
Sun as in java.sun.com are one of the members of the group.
And as to.NET with its VM and bid for the enterprise not being a competitor to Java with its VM and establishment in the enterprise. Same as saying Linux isn't a competitor to Windows.
Slashdot Mirror
Or is this more an acting job rather than a presenting job. And if it is presenting then what made you interested in heavy engineering ? If not, good acting job :-)
The Anthrax was posted by a US Citizen...
Thousands of people killed in attacks has happened before, hey Timothy McVeigh nearly managed it, and the crack down on people like him was... pretty much no-existant (he still holds the per-captia record as 19 people took part in Sept11th).
Terrorism was also supported by the US, Iran-Contra anyone ? Columbian Death Squads, Chilie. Sadam Hussain ? Israel ?
This is not new, look at other attacks in the Far East. Sure the scale was large, and it was horrific. But this really isn't something that didn't exist before Sept11th.
Oh and Sinn Fein used to be illegal when funds were channelled to it.
The US must also invade the US as they were informed of terrorists acting inside their borders before Sept 11th and did nothing. Plus several US Citizens have been arrested as terrorists, and someone somewhere must have been covering up for them before they were caught.
Spain has ETA, the UK has the IRA (and where does most of the funding for that come from... oh yes the citizens of the USA). And before someone says "That is just inside the borders of the country" remember that the IRA have commited acts of terrorism in other countries, have trained in Libya and have helped train terrorists in Columbia.
Yet only when the US faces a threat is terrorism something new....
See the link above, he was a World Cup (a competition involving the majority of the world's countries) winner in 1966 for England.
:-)
If it had been a real Nobby Stiles he would have run at Gromit, jumped on him two footed then punched him. Nobby wasn't the most elegant player in the world
Stanley Matthews, Tom Finney and Nobby Stiles and of course the club in question Preston North End
Clearly with the Soccermatic Wallace is looking to expand into the US Soccer Mom market, the domestic version will of course continue to be called the "Footymatic"
More Cheese Gromit ?
And a history of corporate suits ignoring what he says. If you do read and implement what he says it will save you time and make you money.
These are the great books of Software Engineering written by people who know, and can prove it. headed by The Mythical Man Month and Peopleware everytime I re-read them it depresses me. Another year on, and still the same mistakes as 30 years ago.
And created one of the largest automotive companies in the world thanks to the economies of scale this gave him. When automated painting became cheep... he switched.
Bad example, insert 2c to try again.
Dear Eric_Cartman_South_P,
The iPod is an MP3 player, its selling well. We don't want to turn it into a piece of technical bloatware that geeks can ask for any old crap to be put into because its "cool". The iPod is "cool" not because of all the things it has, but because of the fact it does what it sets out to do well.
We see no evidence that there is consumer demand for the device you describe, and USB and Firewire hard-disks already exist, we know this because we support them.
One product does not have to do everything, to sell well it should do what it sets out to do very well, and we believe the iPod achieves that aim.
Regards
Apple
PS. We had a bet in the office that you've never designed hardware, can you confirm this.
This is EXACTLY the sort of case that the patent system was set up to support. This is a GOOD example of patents working well. Intel infringed on the work of another individual, okay they claim they didn't know about it, but how much should we believe that a corporation like that didn't just think "Hell we've got the most lawyers".
Intel get zero sympathy from me here, too many big companies have played the lawyer card and won.
And how do they prove that they are who they say they are. A Voice, A handshake, all far too easy to fake.
This is a conference of shysters, real digital ID people would have just sent a smart card with their ID and an encrypted version of the presentation.
As reference above. If you have a team of 10 leading a team of 100 and the 10 are brilliant and the 100 are average what do you do ?
Fire the 100 give the money to the 10.
How motivated would you be if delivery means you get 10 times your current salary ?
Get thee to the bible of all things Software The Mythical Man Month. Take 15 motivated and talented indivduals (they have to be both) and they will whoop the arse off a team ten times their size which is filled with average people.
Adding more people _makes_ a project more complex but not in terms of the problem being solved, it makes it more complex because there is more communication and communication is not always accurate, the more communication the more bugs. Its no suprise when you look at some elements of large OSS projects that you see that PersonX does everything on Y, its this "master" concept that helps them deliver. And of course in having an excessively large testing team by commercial standards, testers out-numbers codes by huge ratios, any one been on a commercial project where there was even parity.
OSS is the best way to run a paid or unpaid project IMO, the problem is that it looks so expensive on the surface the companies don't do it. But the Total Cost of Ownership is much higher because of the lack of testing and the lack of review, and of course because instead of 15 developers and 100 testers they have 100 developers and 3 testers, 6 managers, 1 programme manager, two account managers, one account director and two administration assistants.
The common factor between OSS and standard commercial is that no-one does enough documentation.
To have someone to phone up and drop everything to do anything she wants.
:(
Bugger, looks like I'm out of a job
Like anything Evolutionary (Sociology, Politics etc etc) arena except Biology there is one uniting factor in the application of Evolution theory to another area. It doesn't make sense, and is founded on the standard lack of understanding of science found throughout the fluffy subjects, as Rutherford said
"All research in the social sciences can be summed up by the phrase 'some do, some don't'.
To mention on the same page as Noble Prize winners a bunch of mumbo-jumbo just shows what an unscientific world we live in.
Incommings $10 million. Expenses $10 million, royalties paid... zero.
If they get to charge this overhead what is to stop this overhead becomming huge ?
The phrase "widely optimistic" comes to mind. "Open", this would be describing CDMA v GSM how ? GSM is used in Europe, Africa, Middle East, Asia, Australia, and now in large parts of the US. Competition is between a large number of international firms based around the globe in a number of different countries and competing in vastly different markets with differing pressures.
CDMA, US and what is it, one other country. Companies almost exclusively based in the US.
Maybe Japan and Europe will lose the current massive advantage they have in Mobile technology, its possible, after all the US is only 2 years or so behind Europe which is 2 years behind Japan.
And anyone who thinks that doing CDMA helps WCDMA is living in the clouds. Who are the large phone companies in the US, Vodaphone, T-Mobile any one ? And who owns them.... What are the most popular handsets ?
Companies in the US will survive but don't except them to thrive, unless of course protectionism comes in to prevent fair competition.
Microsoft develop the base product... Windows
Intel develop the base product... PentiumIV
Microsoft develop additional products... IE, Office
Intel develop additional products... Motherboards, chipsets
Microsoft's additional products are faster
Intel's additional products are faster
Microsoft is using internal unpublished APIs
Intel is.......
Ummmm
While Telco's aren't super stocks anymore, they are still moving on, most of the rest of the planet has suffered less in the last year because they didn't have as big a bubble that burst and haven't faced enough corruption.
GSM and 2G exploded in Europe and Asia well before it took off in the US.
This won't fail because the US doesn't do it.
Err that well known "Democratic Party" Candidate and President Ronald Regan signed up to the funding of the Big Dig, funding was continued by another Democratic leader called George Bush.
See those things waving at you in the distance ? They are the Facts, wander over and see them some time.
$819.8m revenue in a year is not "niche" in my book. Slashdot editors yet again demonstrate their inability to understand that the corporate enterprise market is a billion dollar industry which contains lots of professionals for whom "cool scripts" "Perl" "PHP" and "MySQL" exist only to cause issues.
The Application Server market is over 2 billion dollars a year.
Niche my arse
This isn't just about browsers, its about mobile phones, PDAs, servers, TVs, Set-top boxes, smart cards etc etc.
And its not just about Web content, its about authorisation systems as a whole.
A browser is just one very very small part of what Liberty could be used for. And while a browser remembers a password, it doesn't know who you are and cannot prove that you are that person.
Sun as in java.sun.com are one of the members of the group.
.NET with its VM and bid for the enterprise not being a competitor to Java with its VM and establishment in the enterprise. Same as saying Linux isn't a competitor to Windows.
And as to
But unfortunately a bit too obvious.
:-)
The best programming language is of course the most obscure, that way you keep your job