This is precisely why I work on referrals only. Random customers hear about how great you are and then expect perfection in five business days.
Referrals create an environment where one customer understands what the last one went through and why they decided to allow the project time.
Be up front. If you want a quick timeframe, you lose future expandability. If you want a robust program that won't be obsolete when a business process changes then that requires more time.
That way, it's the customer's decision and not yours.
...all of them had the hand eye coordination of Ray Charles.
Why are you knocking Ray Charles? The man plays piano without his eyes. You probably can't play piano with your overrated hand-eye coordination. I'm certain that if there was a way to convert different areas of a game screen into audio, he'd kick your ass at hockey.
Since you are severely analogy-challenged, perhaps you should stick to simpler language like, "all of them have poor hand-eye coordination."
But this is/.--a place where some geeks act out on their desire to be cool.
but be warned: The sequel sucks. Return to Mars is a disgrace to the trees that had to die for it to appear in print. When you finish Mars, savor it. It is a masterpiece. Just don't get pulled into buying the second one.
Whatever happened to the journalists? Last I heard, the city was going to prosecute them. If they did, in fact, begin prosecution, it's a safe bet that every government official involved will go into the next life as a frog on deck to become a high school biology experiment.
I can't believe this article got attention. Home depot jobs are cool only if they result in something useful. The numbers posted are worthless. If he had to conclude that it was "less" annoying, then nothing happened except some adequate denial to justify all the work.
The Sony Picturebook is the only true laptop I've come across. It's a great little machine. The battery power lasts at least 12 hours (quad battery) and it generates *no* significant heat. Being in a wheelchair, I'm always critical of the term for exactly the reason you mentioned. Most of the laptops sold today might not be safe on a wooden table, like alone your lap.
Are you being a troll? It has no effect on word processing at all. Increase all the system fonts all you want. Run office and increase the default view size. You don't need to be a geek to figure that out.
Postal inspectors carry guns and can really fsck up the lives of anyone that crosses them. I wouldn't be against a system of guaranteed spam free email. Any commercial email would cost money so I wouldn't care if I received sales crap in it. Pay per send, fine $ to companies that don't send commercial email at commercial rates, jail repeat offenders, end of story.
...will not be used as an invasion of privacy as if nothing illegal is happening, then they won't be looking.
Nice troll.
How does this help law enforcement? There's a huge difference between enforcing the law and turning everyone into paranoid fscks. Just because I'm not doing anything illegal doesn't mean I'll be happy with some prick monitoring it.
That's pretty much my take. WTF is he talking about? Sounds like terminal denial/rationalization to me. Even Microsoft can claim a browser innovation or two in the last five years.
That's true on earth but when these corporations are light years away, how do they face punishment for unethical or illegal behavior? It's not like government would be able to cut a supply line or order an expedition to return home.
I think the author underestimated exactly how ruthless explorers need to be. Corporations are ideal for the job if they can profit from whatever they find. I'm a little annoyed with how much time the author spent convincing me to abandon NASA in favor of corporations only to conclude that corporate exploitation would be bad.
It's a choice. If we let government call the shots, we must accept the consequences of a slow, tedious and cowardly program. If we let corporations call the shots, we must accept their rights to whatever they find.
We can learn from the exploration of the new world. NASA can issue charters with restrictions on how much power they hold over their claims (i.e., corporations keep mineral rights, US keeps territory.)
It all depends on how we want to relate to exploration and how quickly we want to get to new worlds.
The author's claim about pioneers destroying the American West is pretty shallow. I'm sure it's easy to spout nonsense like that from old Europe. Descendants of those pioneers are the people that keep it protected.
I just hope the corporations don't turn out to be as bad as they are in the sci-fi movies (Aliens, etc)
They'll be worse.
I think capitalism is a far better form of society than socialism so I'm not trolling. The reason they'll be worse, the reason they are portrayed as such is because there is an absence of a regulatory medium (i.e., government) to take the edges off capitalism.
The invisible hand can smack you without some enforcement of ethics.
Yeah... the whole signature copy thing just shows the kind of pretard that guy is. I looked at his message history, they are all zero except for the one he stole from me which got what it deserved--+ 5 insightful. It's ridiculous. How the hell does somebody avoid this?
My post occurred on Sunday June 29, @10:39PM.
The copy occurred at 10:54.
I enjoy/. but this changes everything. If some loser admires my posts then that's great but it's still plagiarism.
I don't see the point to stealing a post. This is deflating. I never log in under any other name or IP. This should be a clear cut case for banning that guy.
I don't flame anybody or remotely insult people here so I'm not sure why somebody would do this.
In a capital market, the junk eventually dies. I know this is hard for some people to believe but it's true. Linux is doing well because some of the biggest players screwed their head on straight and started shooting for ease-of-use.
"Technically superior" is a BS rationalization for not getting a product right the first time. The PC might not have been technically superior to other machines of the era bot they had the adaptive edge of being an open infrastructure.
Would you really want to operate in a market where Apple, IBM and maybe Amiga call all the shots on what hardware you can use and what software you can design with?
You make a serious point. Newsclips of late have portrayed European governments as highly sympathetic to the needs of their local economies. I doubt the EU can survive the damage to their credibility if they pass this and Munich et al. gives them the bird.
Despite zealots, governments in Europe at every level have a huge interest in seeing that Linux thrives. It's a home grown OS for them and an enormous chunk of Europe (15%) depends on Linux. Europeans will get along only if the EU isn't pulling stupid stunts that hurt individual member states. Corporate influence is much weaker because of this dynamic.
Interesting, yes, but I'm not convinced that creating a massive bureaucratic nightmare is the answer to protecting software. Unless somebody expands patent law to the God forsaken timeframe of copyright, there's not much to worry about. I seriously doubt that SCO can complete a victorious lawsuit before their clock runs out. That's why everyone thinks they want a buyout and that's why they are spinning it as a dispute over an internal agreement with IBM.
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This is precisely why I work on referrals only. Random customers hear about how great you are and then expect perfection in five business days.
Referrals create an environment where one customer understands what the last one went through and why they decided to allow the project time.
Be up front. If you want a quick timeframe, you lose future expandability. If you want a robust program that won't be obsolete when a business process changes then that requires more time.
That way, it's the customer's decision and not yours.
Thank you for your deep contribution to this /. discussion.
Why are you knocking Ray Charles? The man plays piano without his eyes. You probably can't play piano with your overrated hand-eye coordination. I'm certain that if there was a way to convert different areas of a game screen into audio, he'd kick your ass at hockey.
Since you are severely analogy-challenged, perhaps you should stick to simpler language like, "all of them have poor hand-eye coordination."
But this is /.--a place where some geeks act out on their desire to be cool.
but be warned: The sequel sucks. Return to Mars is a disgrace to the trees that had to die for it to appear in print. When you finish Mars, savor it. It is a masterpiece. Just don't get pulled into buying the second one.
Whatever happened to the journalists? Last I heard, the city was going to prosecute them. If they did, in fact, begin prosecution, it's a safe bet that every government official involved will go into the next life as a frog on deck to become a high school biology experiment.
Its red, white and blue, d00d! As for the face, I see the trademark GW squint... and is on the northeast corner.
The Great Wall of China is just one example off the top of my head. What exactly did you mean by "Chinese walls?"
I can't believe this article got attention. Home depot jobs are cool only if they result in something useful. The numbers posted are worthless. If he had to conclude that it was "less" annoying, then nothing happened except some adequate denial to justify all the work.
The Sony Picturebook is the only true laptop I've come across. It's a great little machine. The battery power lasts at least 12 hours (quad battery) and it generates *no* significant heat. Being in a wheelchair, I'm always critical of the term for exactly the reason you mentioned. Most of the laptops sold today might not be safe on a wooden table, like alone your lap.
Are you being a troll? It has no effect on word processing at all. Increase all the system fonts all you want. Run office and increase the default view size. You don't need to be a geek to figure that out.
That was funny. Much appreciated.
Postal inspectors carry guns and can really fsck up the lives of anyone that crosses them. I wouldn't be against a system of guaranteed spam free email. Any commercial email would cost money so I wouldn't care if I received sales crap in it. Pay per send, fine $ to companies that don't send commercial email at commercial rates, jail repeat offenders, end of story.
So you're saying they're passive-aggressive? I'm offended.
Nice troll.
How does this help law enforcement? There's a huge difference between enforcing the law and turning everyone into paranoid fscks. Just because I'm not doing anything illegal doesn't mean I'll be happy with some prick monitoring it.
That's pretty much my take. WTF is he talking about? Sounds like terminal denial/rationalization to me. Even Microsoft can claim a browser innovation or two in the last five years.
That's true on earth but when these corporations are light years away, how do they face punishment for unethical or illegal behavior? It's not like government would be able to cut a supply line or order an expedition to return home.
I think the author underestimated exactly how ruthless explorers need to be. Corporations are ideal for the job if they can profit from whatever they find. I'm a little annoyed with how much time the author spent convincing me to abandon NASA in favor of corporations only to conclude that corporate exploitation would be bad.
It's a choice. If we let government call the shots, we must accept the consequences of a slow, tedious and cowardly program. If we let corporations call the shots, we must accept their rights to whatever they find.
We can learn from the exploration of the new world. NASA can issue charters with restrictions on how much power they hold over their claims (i.e., corporations keep mineral rights, US keeps territory.)
It all depends on how we want to relate to exploration and how quickly we want to get to new worlds.
The author's claim about pioneers destroying the American West is pretty shallow. I'm sure it's easy to spout nonsense like that from old Europe. Descendants of those pioneers are the people that keep it protected.
They'll be worse.
I think capitalism is a far better form of society than socialism so I'm not trolling. The reason they'll be worse, the reason they are portrayed as such is because there is an absence of a regulatory medium (i.e., government) to take the edges off capitalism.
The invisible hand can smack you without some enforcement of ethics.
Let the music play!
Worry for another day!
Dance your cares away!
Down in Fraggle Rock!
Yeah... the whole signature copy thing just shows the kind of pretard that guy is. I looked at his message history, they are all zero except for the one he stole from me which got what it deserved--+ 5 insightful. It's ridiculous. How the hell does somebody avoid this?
That's my post and my signature. You think you're clever, right? I wonder how many other posts you've stolen.
My post occurred on Sunday June 29, @10:39PM. The copy occurred at 10:54. I enjoy /. but this changes everything. If some loser admires my posts then that's great but it's still plagiarism.
I don't see the point to stealing a post. This is deflating. I never log in under any other name or IP. This should be a clear cut case for banning that guy.
I don't flame anybody or remotely insult people here so I'm not sure why somebody would do this.
In a capital market, the junk eventually dies. I know this is hard for some people to believe but it's true. Linux is doing well because some of the biggest players screwed their head on straight and started shooting for ease-of-use.
"Technically superior" is a BS rationalization for not getting a product right the first time. The PC might not have been technically superior to other machines of the era bot they had the adaptive edge of being an open infrastructure.
Would you really want to operate in a market where Apple, IBM and maybe Amiga call all the shots on what hardware you can use and what software you can design with?
Linux would never exist in such a market.
You make a serious point. Newsclips of late have portrayed European governments as highly sympathetic to the needs of their local economies. I doubt the EU can survive the damage to their credibility if they pass this and Munich et al. gives them the bird. Despite zealots, governments in Europe at every level have a huge interest in seeing that Linux thrives. It's a home grown OS for them and an enormous chunk of Europe (15%) depends on Linux. Europeans will get along only if the EU isn't pulling stupid stunts that hurt individual member states. Corporate influence is much weaker because of this dynamic.
Interesting, yes, but I'm not convinced that creating a massive bureaucratic nightmare is the answer to protecting software. Unless somebody expands patent law to the God forsaken timeframe of copyright, there's not much to worry about. I seriously doubt that SCO can complete a victorious lawsuit before their clock runs out. That's why everyone thinks they want a buyout and that's why they are spinning it as a dispute over an internal agreement with IBM.