I'd rather have 1 rock star coder than 20 mediocre ones. If you rock, I would hire you permanently as I would get more for my money than trying to get 5 to 10 middle of the road programmers to get the same thing done. And it would be cheaper.
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Ummm... what exactly is this right thing that Bush is doing? Taking away Constitutional Rights? Power grabs? Invading countries that insulted his father? Not seeing your Bush hero worshiping in the same light as this movie. In the movie, even the FISA sonar cell phone equipment was destroyed. I took that as them saying that even though they wanted to do good with it, they knew it would only corrupt them. Bush gets no same parallel, he is no hero and should be held accountable for his actual crimes.
ISP's should not be able to have it both ways. Either they are providing a service and not responsible for what is sent across their networks or they are responsible and everyone should be able to sue them. I would pick option 1, but what do I know.
And if they are going to do stuff like this in the name of child pornography, why are the freeways still open? They obviously facilitate actual child abuse so why not just nip it in the bud and close the freeways? Think of the children!
The way they mis-managed their semi-conductor division pretty much made that the kiss of death. Great technology and good folks there at both AMD and Motorola, but folks that use to be Motorola Management might as well run around in a bunch of robes chanting for their ability to screw things up.
I agree with your points, but I think that the second product line you mention was exactly marketing driven development. Instead of taking care of the end Customer, they let their marketing folks convince them they should do all of this DRM stuff for an "un-tapped" market (to make money off of Hollywood). There are numerous cases of this in Vista.
I think it has just begun. If you donated to Obama, ask for you campaign contribution back so you can donate it to the ACLU. If Obama is not going to represent people, then give your money to someone that will.
I think it is pretty safe to say, if you can get the government to subsidize the cost of the capital (mind you, that is you and I paying for it), charge 100x the cost to Customers for the operation of a portion of that network, and not have to upkeep the rest, that you would make more money than glutting the market with the entire capacity.
The minute VoIP came out and the Telecoms could not stop it, the price of telephone service dropped in price by an order of magnitude. Maybe you need to clarify your point?
I am a Software Engineer and I have. Depends on what you are doing, but to collect requirements there are lots of situations that it is handy. If you are doing chip design, then yes, maybe Chinese or an Asian Language would be good, but if you are building something there is nothing like talking to the people who are going to actually use it. A lot of Engineers try to avoid talking to the end customer, but there are lots of these folks who write amazing code and build a crappy product.
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I'd rather have 1 rock star coder than 20 mediocre ones. If you rock, I would hire you permanently as I would get more for my money than trying to get 5 to 10 middle of the road programmers to get the same thing done. And it would be cheaper.
Ummm ... what exactly is this right thing that Bush is doing? Taking away Constitutional Rights? Power grabs? Invading countries that insulted his father? Not seeing your Bush hero worshiping in the same light as this movie. In the movie, even the FISA sonar cell phone equipment was destroyed. I took that as them saying that even though they wanted to do good with it, they knew it would only corrupt them. Bush gets no same parallel, he is no hero and should be held accountable for his actual crimes.
Any movie with Prince doing the Bat Dance will surely be remembered for 50 years. So true.
Are you that star wars kid whose movie I saw the other day?
ISP's should not be able to have it both ways. Either they are providing a service and not responsible for what is sent across their networks or they are responsible and everyone should be able to sue them. I would pick option 1, but what do I know. And if they are going to do stuff like this in the name of child pornography, why are the freeways still open? They obviously facilitate actual child abuse so why not just nip it in the bud and close the freeways? Think of the children!
The way they mis-managed their semi-conductor division pretty much made that the kiss of death. Great technology and good folks there at both AMD and Motorola, but folks that use to be Motorola Management might as well run around in a bunch of robes chanting for their ability to screw things up.
Oh, wait, it is NADA.
dang, you so stole my line.
I agree with your points, but I think that the second product line you mention was exactly marketing driven development. Instead of taking care of the end Customer, they let their marketing folks convince them they should do all of this DRM stuff for an "un-tapped" market (to make money off of Hollywood). There are numerous cases of this in Vista.
DRM is also a form of marketing driven design (if you include Hollywood as your Customer) and it has not paid off for me in any way yet.
They could have updated the stat on how many times the US could destroy the world with this B-2 upgrade, but it is strangely absent. How sad.
If Vista is any measure, Windows 7 should not include marketing driven development.
I vote for adding "Cowboy Neil" as a mod option.
Sweet, nice for those guys to make me a nice list to go buy.
I think it has just begun. If you donated to Obama, ask for you campaign contribution back so you can donate it to the ACLU. If Obama is not going to represent people, then give your money to someone that will.
Well, a police state is a lot safer.
If I was a hacker I would look for that comment to find an exploit in the first place. And other like
// this is ugly, but it seems to work
// remember to fix this later
// whoever wrote this sucks
Favorite quote "When all you have is a hammer, everything becomes a nail."
I think it is pretty safe to say, if you can get the government to subsidize the cost of the capital (mind you, that is you and I paying for it), charge 100x the cost to Customers for the operation of a portion of that network, and not have to upkeep the rest, that you would make more money than glutting the market with the entire capacity.
The minute VoIP came out and the Telecoms could not stop it, the price of telephone service dropped in price by an order of magnitude. Maybe you need to clarify your point?
Anyone else not worried as the Telcoms have been playing the artificial scarcity bit for years?
I am a Software Engineer and I have. Depends on what you are doing, but to collect requirements there are lots of situations that it is handy. If you are doing chip design, then yes, maybe Chinese or an Asian Language would be good, but if you are building something there is nothing like talking to the people who are going to actually use it. A lot of Engineers try to avoid talking to the end customer, but there are lots of these folks who write amazing code and build a crappy product.
If you live in the Southwest or Texas I agree with learning Spanish. Your marketability goes up dramatically if you have a fairly good grasp of it.
geeeetttttttt hiiiiiiiiiiiiimmmmmmmmmm!!!!!!!!!!!
(I would have used all caps, but stupid slashdot filter)
So true. They also should not throw chairs.