So, lets see if I can boil this article down to three talking points:
software projects are usually done in concert with business process changes,
business process changes are often poorly managed, and
the resulting problems are usually not due to software implementation issues
In other words, if you want your software projects to succeed, recognize that the management and executives are where a company's resources should be concentrated. The programmers are usually unimportant to the success of a project, and businesses can safely spend fewer resources on them without negatively affecting most projects.
And for impersonally killing thousands of people, in cold blood, with millions of witnesses, and being caught grinning into the camera, he may well be re-elected. Superb
That's not a grin. It's a smirk. Totally different thing.
They must be forced to use exceptionally accurate thermometers in hospitals in the rest of the world. Who would have guessed that they must measure down to 1/100th of a degree! It just makes it clear to me that metric is the wrong way to go.
On an unrelated note, I have to ask why they had so many photos of planes flying into buildings, women in burkas, and the attack on the USS Cole. But all of the voiceover was eerily disconnected from the images. They kept talking about Iraq, while showing images from an unrelated war a half a world away in Afghanistan.
What's the deal with that? Why would anyone want to relate Afghanistan and Iraq?
Wow. Only eight comments so far. I'm actually kind of sad about that. Do you guys have any idea what this thread would look like already on Fark?
I wonder how many people (like me) are reluctant to post in Political threads because we will undoubtedly lose karma in the process. There are only so many (-1) flamebait posts I want to see next to my name, you know?
If you are male, and he is male, then he is a guy who gets off watching other guys pee. He is gay. It is contagious. You, by living there, have probably caught the gay from him. You should plan your move to the Pacific Northwest as soon as possible.
If you are female, and she is female, then you are both lesbians. You are probably already on a website. Insist that you be given a share of the profits. Please post a link to the site on Slashdot.
If you are female, and he is male, then he is creepy. Get out of the house, right now, this minute. Really. Go. Now. Call some very large, ugly, and imposing male relatives and explain the situation. They will help you get your stuff from the house. File a restraining order, and talk to your lawer about getting out of the lease.
If you are male, and she is female, then she is kinky. Hubba hubba hubba. She has very kinky friends, too. All of her friends are bi. She makes home lesbian porno movies with her friends when no-one else is at home. Lock yourself in your room, and masturbate furiously while thinking about this.
Or, if you are a human being and the other person is a human being, format and wipe the motherfucker's hard drives. Put any CD or DVD backups in the oven. Pack his or her shit up. When he or she comes home, have a frank and serious discussion about respecting the privacy of others, and ask him or her to move hell out, right away. If he or she whines, call the cab company yourself, and pay for his or her ride to the nearest hotel. Call your landlord and ask to have this person removed from the lease, and the locks changed.
Without doing the math, I'm going to guess that to a ground observer a sattelite with a 24 hour period is going to appear to figure-eight through some fixed point directly above the equator.
The height of the figure-eight is probably going to be twice the incination. The width is probably going to be a pretty number.
Can we really reverse the trend of high-paying jobs outsourced to India, etc,
Yes.
and will that translate to better, high-paying jobs in the US?
No.
Most respected economists believe that outsourcing has the net effect of creating jobs. You might lose your particular job, but two more opportunities will pop up. Protectionism usually has opposite the intended effect. You might save a couple of specific jobs, but at the cost of not creating more jobs. The people who already have jobs thank you, but the people out of work are screwed.
And, I really have to ask... are there really IT people who can't find work? I've taken the last two months off, and I haven't looked for a job at all. I haven't sent out a single resume or sent feelers to any of my contacts. But I'm being called by recruiters regardless. Is it more difficult in certain parts of the country right now?
No. You see, I was being sarcastic. Copyright and Patent law has reached the stage where it is used to retard the arts and sciences, not promote it as was originally intended.
I honestly believe that if the owner refuses to distribute a work, they should lose the exclusive rights to that work. You're not going to find too many people who agree with me, though. Certainly not lawmakers or judges, anyhow.
Hey! Quit your whining It's not like he quit distributing copies of the original Star Wars. That's the point of copyright law, after all. Remember that copyright is built into the US Constitution for a reason:
To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;
Everyone knows that if he just stopped making copies of the original available, he wouldn't be promoting the progress of science or useful arts, and he would lose his copyright on it.
Bush's stance on that issue actually carries quite a bit of weight with me.
Unfortunately, Bush's public stance on most issues don't carry any weight in his proposed budgets.
Its really cool that he talks about spending billions of dollars to go to Mars. Its really cool that he talks about spending billions of dollars to rebuild Iraq, or fight AIDS in Africa, or a whole bunch of other cool ideas. Wake me up if he ever decides to actually do more than talk.
Having the largest prison population in the world is a much bigger threat to America than H1B workers ever will be. Prisons are a breeding ground for communicable disease.
Why didn't you just make your own replacement switch, using open bsd, some spare ethernet cards, and an old 486 you had lying around? Then, if you had problems, you could go to a mailing list or usenet newsgroup or irc chat, and get almost immediate help.
That's what real men do on slashdot. People who need technical support are wussies, or have jobs, or silly crap like that.
You read the article. You get pissed. You get a little adrenelin rush writing your snarky post. The replies validate your views, and validate you as a person.
And your addiction to slashdot grows.
Slashdot wouldn't be nearly as addicting (and hence not as popular) if it were the type of site you think want. If you care so much, go read the New York Times technical section or something. If you get sick of the well written "real news", I bet we see you back here, making another snarky post.
These high rate of expenditures are interesting as quality of legal work so far has been sophmorphic and low quality.
I'd like to think SCO is getting some value for the $7 million dollars they spent in the last 3 months. But, simply by accepting this case the law firm has demonstrated questionable ethics.
In fact, I bet they're sending McBride a listless shaved chimpanzee and a bottle of cheap tequila every evening, but are billing SCO for 12 year old boys and Perfidio.
A quote in that story, from Paul Brown, head of the Center for Tissue Regeneration Science at University College in London:
Just making the gross tissue shape right isn't really the problem, it's what the shape of the tissue is at the microscopic and ultramicroscopic level. That's the architecture which is so tricky and which is what gives function.
SPAM will continue to exist until people stop making spam profitable.
SPAM will continue as long as spammers percieve that spam is profitable.
I have never read an article where a spammer actually gave solid documentation of how much money he or she made. I've always read that "for a successful campaign, I get between this much and that much on a sales rate of this much or that much on a click through rate of about this on a distribution of about that."
Sending spam is a get-rich-quick scheme, and the people participating lie about how much money they make, just like every other stooge in every other get-rich-quick scheme. Spam will continue to exist as long as shitheads who live in trailers with high-interest credit cards will agree to "spend money to make money" by buying scam email proxy servers and scam bulk email software.
Any banking network must be completely physically separate from the Internet. And It must use an entirely different system, incompatible with the internet as well, using different hardware and protocols, just in case somewhere along the line some connection is inadvertently made.
You're suggesting that they design all new hardware and software for the banking system? For example, a bank on a dialup line wouldn't use POTS, but would use a line totally seperated from the TELCO network? And, the MODEM wouldn't be compatible with a standard MODEM?
I imagine inventing entirely new protocols just for the banks, digging trenches between all of them to run brand new cables, etc., would be doable. But it sounds kinda expensive, and for dubios gain.
I haven't read the entire FedLine manual, but I don't see anywhere that says this is going to be on the internet -- only that it will use Internet Based Technologies.
If they're running an Encrypted VPN over leased lines on an airgapped network, then this story is nothing but "Fed to update network protocols to TCP/IP, just like everyone else has done."
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- software projects are usually done in concert with business process changes,
- business process changes are often poorly managed, and
- the resulting problems are usually not due to software implementation issues
In other words, if you want your software projects to succeed, recognize that the management and executives are where a company's resources should be concentrated. The programmers are usually unimportant to the success of a project, and businesses can safely spend fewer resources on them without negatively affecting most projects.And for impersonally killing thousands of people, in cold blood, with millions of witnesses, and being caught grinning into the camera, he may well be re-elected. Superb
That's not a grin. It's a smirk. Totally different thing.
Maybe "Bush started a war for profit not liberty," but what was the end goal? Has Iraq been liberated?
No.
Are the Iraqi people better off now than with Saddam?
Possibly yes, probably not.
We see them protesting instead of having their fingers chopped off for touching an American newspaper, so that appears to be some kind of advancement.
I see protesters being mown down by American helicopter gunships instead of Iraqi helicopter gunships, though I would hardly qualify as advancement.
(That said, I don't think we should have gone to Iraq. I wouldn't sacrifice myself or my loved ones for their freedom.)
Don't worry. I'm pretty sure the 1,000 or so dead Americans did not sacrifice their lives for Iraqi freedom.
They must be forced to use exceptionally accurate thermometers in hospitals in the rest of the world. Who would have guessed that they must measure down to 1/100th of a degree! It just makes it clear to me that metric is the wrong way to go.
On an unrelated note, I have to ask why they had so many photos of planes flying into buildings, women in burkas, and the attack on the USS Cole. But all of the voiceover was eerily disconnected from the images. They kept talking about Iraq, while showing images from an unrelated war a half a world away in Afghanistan.
What's the deal with that? Why would anyone want to relate Afghanistan and Iraq?
Wow. Only eight comments so far. I'm actually kind of sad about that. Do you guys have any idea what this thread would look like already on Fark?
I wonder how many people (like me) are reluctant to post in Political threads because we will undoubtedly lose karma in the process. There are only so many (-1) flamebait posts I want to see next to my name, you know?
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shut up barjockey, you cock
If you are male, and he is male, then he is a guy who gets off watching other guys pee. He is gay. It is contagious. You, by living there, have probably caught the gay from him. You should plan your move to the Pacific Northwest as soon as possible.
If you are female, and she is female, then you are both lesbians. You are probably already on a website. Insist that you be given a share of the profits. Please post a link to the site on Slashdot.
If you are female, and he is male, then he is creepy. Get out of the house, right now, this minute. Really. Go. Now. Call some very large, ugly, and imposing male relatives and explain the situation. They will help you get your stuff from the house. File a restraining order, and talk to your lawer about getting out of the lease.
If you are male, and she is female, then she is kinky. Hubba hubba hubba. She has very kinky friends, too. All of her friends are bi. She makes home lesbian porno movies with her friends when no-one else is at home. Lock yourself in your room, and masturbate furiously while thinking about this.
Or, if you are a human being and the other person is a human being, format and wipe the motherfucker's hard drives. Put any CD or DVD backups in the oven. Pack his or her shit up. When he or she comes home, have a frank and serious discussion about respecting the privacy of others, and ask him or her to move hell out, right away. If he or she whines, call the cab company yourself, and pay for his or her ride to the nearest hotel. Call your landlord and ask to have this person removed from the lease, and the locks changed.
Without doing the math, I'm going to guess that to a ground observer a sattelite with a 24 hour period is going to appear to figure-eight through some fixed point directly above the equator.
The height of the figure-eight is probably going to be twice the incination. The width is probably going to be a pretty number.
Can we really reverse the trend of high-paying jobs outsourced to India, etc,
Yes.
and will that translate to better, high-paying jobs in the US?
No.
Most respected economists believe that outsourcing has the net effect of creating jobs. You might lose your particular job, but two more opportunities will pop up. Protectionism usually has opposite the intended effect. You might save a couple of specific jobs, but at the cost of not creating more jobs. The people who already have jobs thank you, but the people out of work are screwed.
And, I really have to ask... are there really IT people who can't find work? I've taken the last two months off, and I haven't looked for a job at all. I haven't sent out a single resume or sent feelers to any of my contacts. But I'm being called by recruiters regardless. Is it more difficult in certain parts of the country right now?
You want a job? Vote Republican. I know that's hard for liberal slashdot to swallow, but it's the truth.
No, it isn't.
In fact, we're better with neither .
No. You see, I was being sarcastic. Copyright and Patent law has reached the stage where it is used to retard the arts and sciences, not promote it as was originally intended.
I honestly believe that if the owner refuses to distribute a work, they should lose the exclusive rights to that work. You're not going to find too many people who agree with me, though. Certainly not lawmakers or judges, anyhow.
I want a Tivo that will record and playback over-the-air hdtv.
Apart from making my own out of an old computer and some baling wire, what are my options?
Bush's stance on that issue actually carries quite a bit of weight with me.
Unfortunately, Bush's public stance on most issues don't carry any weight in his proposed budgets.
Its really cool that he talks about spending billions of dollars to go to Mars. Its really cool that he talks about spending billions of dollars to rebuild Iraq, or fight AIDS in Africa, or a whole bunch of other cool ideas. Wake me up if he ever decides to actually do more than talk.
Having the largest prison population in the world is a much bigger threat to America than H1B workers ever will be. Prisons are a breeding ground for communicable disease.
How long has it been, at least 400-600 years since a nice big population dwindling event has occurred...
The 1918 Flu Pandemic probably killed more people worldwide than The Black Death. The Black Death killed a larger percentage, though.
called Cisco and explained that our network guy was 'released' from the company and they stuck me (a programmer) with his job
Taco, you're posting as an anonymous coward again. And you're still sucking up to Anne Tomlinson.
Why didn't you just make your own replacement switch, using open bsd, some spare ethernet cards, and an old 486 you had lying around? Then, if you had problems, you could go to a mailing list or usenet newsgroup or irc chat, and get almost immediate help.
That's what real men do on slashdot. People who need technical support are wussies, or have jobs, or silly crap like that.
You read the article. You get pissed. You get a little adrenelin rush writing your snarky post. The replies validate your views, and validate you as a person.
And your addiction to slashdot grows.
Slashdot wouldn't be nearly as addicting (and hence not as popular) if it were the type of site you think want. If you care so much, go read the New York Times technical section or something. If you get sick of the well written "real news", I bet we see you back here, making another snarky post.
These high rate of expenditures are interesting as quality of legal work so far has been sophmorphic and low quality.
I'd like to think SCO is getting some value for the $7 million dollars they spent in the last 3 months. But, simply by accepting this case the law firm has demonstrated questionable ethics.
In fact, I bet they're sending McBride a listless shaved chimpanzee and a bottle of cheap tequila every evening, but are billing SCO for 12 year old boys and Perfidio.
My big question is whatever happened to Atom Egoyan
No shit. Where is that guy?
A quote in that story, from Paul Brown, head of the Center for Tissue Regeneration Science at University College in London:
SPAM will continue to exist until people stop making spam profitable.
SPAM will continue as long as spammers percieve that spam is profitable.
I have never read an article where a spammer actually gave solid documentation of how much money he or she made. I've always read that "for a successful campaign, I get between this much and that much on a sales rate of this much or that much on a click through rate of about this on a distribution of about that."
Sending spam is a get-rich-quick scheme, and the people participating lie about how much money they make, just like every other stooge in every other get-rich-quick scheme. Spam will continue to exist as long as shitheads who live in trailers with high-interest credit cards will agree to "spend money to make money" by buying scam email proxy servers and scam bulk email software.
That sucks, and I will not support the IOC with my money. Someone tell me when the Olympics start, so I can be sure not to watch TV that week.
Any banking network must be completely physically separate from the Internet. And It must use an entirely different system, incompatible with the internet as well, using different hardware and protocols, just in case somewhere along the line some connection is inadvertently made.
You're suggesting that they design all new hardware and software for the banking system? For example, a bank on a dialup line wouldn't use POTS, but would use a line totally seperated from the TELCO network? And, the MODEM wouldn't be compatible with a standard MODEM?
I imagine inventing entirely new protocols just for the banks, digging trenches between all of them to run brand new cables, etc., would be doable. But it sounds kinda expensive, and for dubios gain.
I haven't read the entire FedLine manual, but I don't see anywhere that says this is going to be on the internet -- only that it will use Internet Based Technologies.
If they're running an Encrypted VPN over leased lines on an airgapped network, then this story is nothing but "Fed to update network protocols to TCP/IP, just like everyone else has done."