Heh, you little fucking socialist.. Just like legacy AT&T, you would have terrible service, it would be expensive, and they would never upgrade.
Hey, fuck you. Isn't this story basically saying that verizon won't upgrade unless they make money off of it? Besides, city services have proven more responsive than the phone company.
That keeps prices down and service good.
We are talking about the phone company, remember?
I just want to allow more players in the market than 2.
So do what I propose. It's not like the city won't upgrade, especially if there's demand.
Microsoft: doesn't matter if people like their stuff. Of course, their monopoly is limited to things with legacy data/biz processes. Server and embedded markets are less tied to the past.
Gas and electric local distribution: you want two sets of gas pipes everywhere?
Cable: you need right of way to have a cable network and the city doesn't want two people digging up the roads.
Last mile data network: same reason
Granted, the last three could have multiple players, but it's a lot more expensive with little benefit. Frankly, I'd prefer them to be city utilities with equal access to anyone who wants in.
If you hadn't noticed, the undead aren't very nice. It's refreshing to see some more variety than three flavors of boy scout to choose from, even if I don't go for it.
The value of MVC is that it results in a better seperation of interface code, isolation of business logic, and lower bug count than alternatives. This results in lower overall cost and the option to add new interfaces in the future. Sure, it may not be appropriate for one off hacks, but how often do they end up being used for years anyway?
The fact is, a lot of artists don't make it because the barriers to financial success -- not to making a recording, mind you, but to financial independence so one can actually spend pressure-free creative time making music -- are now much higher.
They're actually lower. You can get a recording studio put together for $10k or so (or you can write music with a couple guitars and some rented space).
That's why the radio is filled with utter pop trash; that's why bands *must* tour instead working in the studio, creating new music, that's why recordings are lowest common denominator compressed to the roof, so that every radio station and every moron DJ can have music that is "just as loud" as the other guy.
No, it's the labels. They insisted on pop trash that sound like whatever was successful last year and wanted the album to be louder (because people rate those higher). Bands that are signed have to tour because that's the only way to make money - record deals suck. Bands sign because that's the only way to get heard, unless you go the mp3 route.
In 1970, you'd have made a few tens of thousands of dollars, you'd be at least encouraged, and you'd probably have a raft of new equipment or at least some studio hours paid for.
Nah, you'd have $1600 paid off of your advance. Regardless of what you're trying to prove, the mp3 scene is far better for most artists than what they had in the 70s - you can get your music out to millions and then go on tour (where the real money is).
You know who makes enough to survive? Britney Fucking Spears, that's who. And the rest of her ilk. Because she's mainstream, and despite the copying, just as you imply, she does fine.
There are exactly two or three of her at any given time - manufactured crap. Don't go after that because you'll never get there by being any good. You can get popular locally playing small venues, but I have no idea how to break into the big time without signing.
Write the best quality code you can within the budget you have. Always. Because you'll live with a significant percentage of whatever you create, and the future costs of change may well be orders of magnitude more than your initial cost of creation.
So don't change it - if the cost of change >>> cost of replacement, do that, right?
Does Coke keep its formula secret because it's embarrassed or because it wants to make its product harder to copy?
Does Coke keep its formula secret? What advantage do you have producing fake coke? It's fairly cheap to buy, and selling something that tastes like coke under a different name doesn't sound like a good idea.
Double the wage given to strawberry pickers and the prices go up by what - 20%? I'm saying that I don't like poeple hopping the border and expecting to be catered to and you trot out a chestnut about tripling prices? Gimme a break. I think we can handle a 10-20% drop in the labor pool over a couple years - farmers offer more cash and the produce costs a bit more - woo woo.
There's religious tolerance and then there's suffering fools. If you want to go claim that god created the earth in 6 days, go right ahead. I won't throw stones or anything. You could even be one of those screwballs that thinks there's a war on christianity (as the pres and most of the legislature is christian). I won't try to get you silenced. What I won't do is take you seriously as a scientist. Bible literalism makes me doubt your objectivity - it also gets in the way of the scientific method, as that requires you to consider only what you can observe.
We really are too indulgent with the religious fringe over here - they shout about how we're a christian nation and how we should have god everywhere and we respond calmly as if these were sensible people. Really, when you make your arguments with volume and bombast, all you deserve is mockery.
ID is a political movement, not a scientific or religious one, and I prefer to ignore them.
What you're leaving out is that ID is apolitical movement masquerading as a scientific theory. This is a direct assault on science. Don't ignore it, fight it.
Don't get me started on the Nova tax crap. They really should secede, especially after that $1000 traffic fee debacle last month.
My story: I got a house in springfield in 2000 for $170k (townhouse with basement, no garage). The mortgage was $1200/mo and there was PMI. I could have done an 80/15 thing like I have now, but I was young and foolish. I made $60k starting (I assume it'd be different now) and had money for toys. I would probably be able to make 90k there, but that's a fair bit - if 90k is about the limit for middle class, then where are the middle class jobs? My perception is that 90k is a fairly well paid position and that there aren't that many people making that or more. If I'm mistaken, I'd love to know who it is making 90k and above.
I'm not talking about immigrants here, I'm talking about people who come here because the money's good (usually not legally) and have no intention of speaking english because they don't have to. Anyway, what's wrong with rounding up those mexicans who haven't got the right to be here in the first place? That's better than Mexico gives by a long shot.
That's right. Come to America and be American. Don't come here and be Mexican and expect us to cater to you. It's our country, so you get to do as we do. Anything less is uncivilized. Or would you go do Germany and demand they speak english and get worked up over abortions and gays?
The problem with creationists is that they take the bible literally and expect the rest of us to weigh their myth equally against good science. Any scientist who is a creationist should be viewed with deepest suspicion.
That's a lousy troll - you started by calling whoever it is you dislike a liberal (classic blunder #43), then spewed something about a cartel forming, which is what you get when nobody regulates business. You finished with a page from the neocons where if you don't like the way things are rigged, then you hate america.
My understanding is that destruction of evidence is only relevant when discovery has been served or you know it's about to be served - habitually deleting email after 2 weeks is just habit. Otherwise, my company would have to archive every piece of email that went through its systems.
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Heh, you little fucking socialist.. Just like legacy AT&T, you would have terrible service, it would be expensive, and they would never upgrade.
Hey, fuck you. Isn't this story basically saying that verizon won't upgrade unless they make money off of it? Besides, city services have proven more responsive than the phone company.
That keeps prices down and service good.
We are talking about the phone company, remember?
I just want to allow more players in the market than 2.
So do what I propose. It's not like the city won't upgrade, especially if there's demand.
What difference will that make? Idiots will still dig up the lines.
Granted, the last three could have multiple players, but it's a lot more expensive with little benefit. Frankly, I'd prefer them to be city utilities with equal access to anyone who wants in.
It isn't a silver bullet, but if it helps, so much the better; I like having lots of bullets to choose from.
No, I'm simply pointing out that there's a certain amount of motivation to produce when you get to improve your situation with the results.
Funny, what I've heard is that the rennaissance was started by the rulers in italy allowing people to keep most of the fruits of their labor.
If you hadn't noticed, the undead aren't very nice. It's refreshing to see some more variety than three flavors of boy scout to choose from, even if I don't go for it.
When you said Detroit, the first thing I thought of was West B'more. Sorry
The value of MVC is that it results in a better seperation of interface code, isolation of business logic, and lower bug count than alternatives. This results in lower overall cost and the option to add new interfaces in the future. Sure, it may not be appropriate for one off hacks, but how often do they end up being used for years anyway?
Cool - next trick is to dump only those allocations made after the checkpoint and still active. Suddenly, the output is more manageable.
"This station is configured to produce foodstuffs that fit within healthy nutritional parameters. Are you sure you want to ...?"
Like the computer is stupid enough to get between a woman and chocolate...
The fact is, a lot of artists don't make it because the barriers to financial success -- not to making a recording, mind you, but to financial independence so one can actually spend pressure-free creative time making music -- are now much higher.
They're actually lower. You can get a recording studio put together for $10k or so (or you can write music with a couple guitars and some rented space).
That's why the radio is filled with utter pop trash; that's why bands *must* tour instead working in the studio, creating new music, that's why recordings are lowest common denominator compressed to the roof, so that every radio station and every moron DJ can have music that is "just as loud" as the other guy.
No, it's the labels. They insisted on pop trash that sound like whatever was successful last year and wanted the album to be louder (because people rate those higher). Bands that are signed have to tour because that's the only way to make money - record deals suck. Bands sign because that's the only way to get heard, unless you go the mp3 route.
In 1970, you'd have made a few tens of thousands of dollars, you'd be at least encouraged, and you'd probably have a raft of new equipment or at least some studio hours paid for.
Nah, you'd have $1600 paid off of your advance. Regardless of what you're trying to prove, the mp3 scene is far better for most artists than what they had in the 70s - you can get your music out to millions and then go on tour (where the real money is).
You know who makes enough to survive? Britney Fucking Spears, that's who. And the rest of her ilk. Because she's mainstream, and despite the copying, just as you imply, she does fine.
There are exactly two or three of her at any given time - manufactured crap. Don't go after that because you'll never get there by being any good. You can get popular locally playing small venues, but I have no idea how to break into the big time without signing.
Write the best quality code you can within the budget you have. Always. Because you'll live with a significant percentage of whatever you create, and the future costs of change may well be orders of magnitude more than your initial cost of creation.
So don't change it - if the cost of change >>> cost of replacement, do that, right?
Does Coke keep its formula secret because it's embarrassed or because it wants to make its product harder to copy?
Does Coke keep its formula secret? What advantage do you have producing fake coke? It's fairly cheap to buy, and selling something that tastes like coke under a different name doesn't sound like a good idea.
Double the wage given to strawberry pickers and the prices go up by what - 20%? I'm saying that I don't like poeple hopping the border and expecting to be catered to and you trot out a chestnut about tripling prices? Gimme a break. I think we can handle a 10-20% drop in the labor pool over a couple years - farmers offer more cash and the produce costs a bit more - woo woo.
Is religious intolerance a moral reason?
There's religious tolerance and then there's suffering fools. If you want to go claim that god created the earth in 6 days, go right ahead. I won't throw stones or anything. You could even be one of those screwballs that thinks there's a war on christianity (as the pres and most of the legislature is christian). I won't try to get you silenced. What I won't do is take you seriously as a scientist. Bible literalism makes me doubt your objectivity - it also gets in the way of the scientific method, as that requires you to consider only what you can observe.
We really are too indulgent with the religious fringe over here - they shout about how we're a christian nation and how we should have god everywhere and we respond calmly as if these were sensible people. Really, when you make your arguments with volume and bombast, all you deserve is mockery.
ID is a political movement, not a scientific or religious one, and I prefer to ignore them.
What you're leaving out is that ID is apolitical movement masquerading as a scientific theory. This is a direct assault on science. Don't ignore it, fight it.
Don't get me started on the Nova tax crap. They really should secede, especially after that $1000 traffic fee debacle last month.
My story: I got a house in springfield in 2000 for $170k (townhouse with basement, no garage). The mortgage was $1200/mo and there was PMI. I could have done an 80/15 thing like I have now, but I was young and foolish. I made $60k starting (I assume it'd be different now) and had money for toys. I would probably be able to make 90k there, but that's a fair bit - if 90k is about the limit for middle class, then where are the middle class jobs? My perception is that 90k is a fairly well paid position and that there aren't that many people making that or more. If I'm mistaken, I'd love to know who it is making 90k and above.
I'm not talking about immigrants here, I'm talking about people who come here because the money's good (usually not legally) and have no intention of speaking english because they don't have to. Anyway, what's wrong with rounding up those mexicans who haven't got the right to be here in the first place? That's better than Mexico gives by a long shot.
That's right. Come to America and be American. Don't come here and be Mexican and expect us to cater to you. It's our country, so you get to do as we do. Anything less is uncivilized. Or would you go do Germany and demand they speak english and get worked up over abortions and gays?
The problem with creationists is that they take the bible literally and expect the rest of us to weigh their myth equally against good science. Any scientist who is a creationist should be viewed with deepest suspicion.
In what part of the country is $60k/yr lower middle class? Maybe in SF, but you can pull down that sort of money hauling trash there.
Would you rather ship the best possible product or the one we can make a living of?".
The best possible product that people will buy? There's such a thing as a reputation for quality.
Or "tell me why you think this indian engineer, who's probably in the top few percentiles of indians in general, can't do as good a job as you?"
He probably can. Good luck getting him for cheap.
That's a lousy troll - you started by calling whoever it is you dislike a liberal (classic blunder #43), then spewed something about a cartel forming, which is what you get when nobody regulates business. You finished with a page from the neocons where if you don't like the way things are rigged, then you hate america.
My understanding is that destruction of evidence is only relevant when discovery has been served or you know it's about to be served - habitually deleting email after 2 weeks is just habit. Otherwise, my company would have to archive every piece of email that went through its systems.
Actually, I'm considering a server upgrade - AM2 opteron at 2.4G, 500G disk, 4G ram for about $1000. 8G would be another $300. Who cares about office?