Actually, I think that you're view of how organized the government is is completely wrong. I will agree that the data is nowhere near as dynamic as that handled by google, but if you think that the data is in the same form, etc., you've never worked with any big organization
I showed my mom (former Customs analyst) this post and the parent. She says "You are right. Even our own Customs database on shipping had different programmers. They would call the same field different names depending on who did the work."
Joss Whedon should call up USA. With Monk and Dead Zone it's obvious that USA isn't afraid to back a strange-yet-brilliant show.
When they cancelled Nikita the rumor was that they only like the ones they come up with (Nikita started under the previous managment). Can't imagine anyone like that getting along with Whedon, who likes to run things his way.
(Opera is available for Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, etc.)
Finally somebody mentions the info I'm most interested in - which platforms do these run on! The company which bought mine seems to think that styled text is an essential part of any email communication, which is great for the people on Windows but totally sucks with the default mail client for Solaris.
It's fantastically disingenous to consider only the marginal cost of media to a piece of software's price tag, and to ignore the economic reality that developing a piece of software the scale of what MS delivers requires a huge up-front R&D investement.
And yet, I once worked at a very small company whose president did exactly that. His original company did office products wholesaling; he hired the neighbor kid to automate invoicing (granted, the neighbor kid - a friend of mine - was a very talented programmer), and then decided to sell the invoicing software when he realized that the $4 floppy that contained it would go for $10K - much better than selling a 4c pencil for 5c. He never grasped the idea of intangible costs - I don't think he saw much difference between his programmers and the guys who moved boxes of pencils around.
It was a very educational job - I learned never to work for anyone like that.
I got pulled over for a random check in Dec 2001, when the iPods were still new and the problem with the battery discharging even when not in use was not well known. In fact I'd just discovered the problem for myself when I turned it on to kill time and nothing happened (showed up 2 hours early, as instructed, but there was no delay at the first security check). Luckily for my iPod, the screener didn't ask me to turn it on.
Be careful who you pick, though. I had a manager who thought that when I talked through a bug with her, it meant that I didn't have a clue what I was doing, and that I was asking her for help.
Actually she was just the nearest available person when I needed to talk out the problem (Lois McMaster Bujold nailed it when she had one character say that doing that makes you slow down your thought processes til you can actually see the problem), and the last person on the team I'd go to for actual help.
They probably need to, though, since most mainstream reviewers of SF books or movies feel compelled to say something like "bucking the trend of the stories that focus on ray-guns and rocket ships" every single time. You'd think eventually they'd pick up on the fact that all of the SF they've reviewed "bucks" that so-called "trend"
most of the criticism here seems pretty superficial
Mainly because the article itself was pretty superficial. I didn't notice him mentioning the features you described, all he said was basically "ooh, shiny! Pity about the battery life and processor, but did I mention it's shiny?"
"Reminds me of US pharmaceutical companies charging some countries more than others for some drugs...."
...or books on the New York Times bestseller list being discounted by 15% at some bookstores but not others...
I can go to the other bookstore (or any of the other examples you had) and nobody tries to stop me, but if I try bringing Canadian drugs into the US, it's illegal.
It doesn't make sense. For one thing, they don't even expose the entire mask at once - most machines do it in "stripes", after the original data was "fractured" (I work on the CATS fracture software). For another, it left out the problems involved in making the mask itself - one glitch, and you've got a $5000 perfectly flat glass paperweight. Making a mask to cover the whole area multiplies those problems.
Time doesn't speed up or slow down such that I can see the change in the way the hands on my watch move (and even if it did/does I would be changing with it to a net no change).
Until one of the people with a legit reason to have your address double-clicks the latest MyDoom variant, at which point it harvests your email address from the idiot's address book.
In the year I'd worked here, I got no spam, until after MyDoom hit.
The information is all good for you. Why not read more?
Not always. When it was a required subject that I hoped to never see again (Intro to Databases aka brain-dead Cobol programming, and sure enough, 20 years later I have yet to write a single line of Cobol) then the 0 pages I was required to read in the $40 textbook was sufficient.
(Not that I think Cobol programming is necessarily brain-dead, that's just how the instructor approached it. After all, if it weren't for Cobol programmers, Y2K might've been a real problem)
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What exactly are "women's cultural thought processes"? I'm a woman, so I'd really like to know.
They're looking for words coined in SF, and existing words which picked up new meanings from SF.
I showed my mom (former Customs analyst) this post and the parent. She says "You are right. Even our own Customs database on shipping had different programmers. They would call the same field different names depending on who did the work."
He'd lose out to D.D. Harriman
That's what Amelio thought, and it was a big reason for the culture clash between him & Apple - I was there at the time, and no, it wasn't snooty.
That also describes most sales & marketing departments, even at high-tech companies.
When they cancelled Nikita the rumor was that they only like the ones they come up with (Nikita started under the previous managment). Can't imagine anyone like that getting along with Whedon, who likes to run things his way.
Finally somebody mentions the info I'm most interested in - which platforms do these run on! The company which bought mine seems to think that styled text is an essential part of any email communication, which is great for the people on Windows but totally sucks with the default mail client for Solaris.
And yet, I once worked at a very small company whose president did exactly that. His original company did office products wholesaling; he hired the neighbor kid to automate invoicing (granted, the neighbor kid - a friend of mine - was a very talented programmer), and then decided to sell the invoicing software when he realized that the $4 floppy that contained it would go for $10K - much better than selling a 4c pencil for 5c. He never grasped the idea of intangible costs - I don't think he saw much difference between his programmers and the guys who moved boxes of pencils around.
It was a very educational job - I learned never to work for anyone like that.
I got pulled over for a random check in Dec 2001, when the iPods were still new and the problem with the battery discharging even when not in use was not well known. In fact I'd just discovered the problem for myself when I turned it on to kill time and nothing happened (showed up 2 hours early, as instructed, but there was no delay at the first security check). Luckily for my iPod, the screener didn't ask me to turn it on.
Actually she was just the nearest available person when I needed to talk out the problem (Lois McMaster Bujold nailed it when she had one character say that doing that makes you slow down your thought processes til you can actually see the problem), and the last person on the team I'd go to for actual help.
You're involved in outsourcing and telemarketing - and you expect sympathy here?
This reminds me of all those old cartoon cavemen with clubs, dragging a cavewoman by the hair after he'd knocked her out with the club.
They probably need to, though, since most mainstream reviewers of SF books or movies feel compelled to say something like "bucking the trend of the stories that focus on ray-guns and rocket ships" every single time. You'd think eventually they'd pick up on the fact that all of the SF they've reviewed "bucks" that so-called "trend"
Riiiight. I'll replace over $5000 worth of software and hardware just to upgrade a $400 Palm. Or maybe I'll just get a DayRunner and a gameboy.
Mainly because the article itself was pretty superficial. I didn't notice him mentioning the features you described, all he said was basically "ooh, shiny! Pity about the battery life and processor, but did I mention it's shiny?"
I can go to the other bookstore (or any of the other examples you had) and nobody tries to stop me, but if I try bringing Canadian drugs into the US, it's illegal.
It doesn't make sense. For one thing, they don't even expose the entire mask at once - most machines do it in "stripes", after the original data was "fractured" (I work on the CATS fracture software). For another, it left out the problems involved in making the mask itself - one glitch, and you've got a $5000 perfectly flat glass paperweight. Making a mask to cover the whole area multiplies those problems.
Which "army brats" often were - I have no trouble with the 24 hour clocks, my grandparents have always had one in their kitchen.
I'd guess you've never used drugs?
In the year I'd worked here, I got no spam, until after MyDoom hit.
Given that the Lubbock article's dateline is February 5, 2002, I'm hardly surprised.
Sunnyvale Comcast does have TechTV, but only in the digital cable package.
Not always. When it was a required subject that I hoped to never see again (Intro to Databases aka brain-dead Cobol programming, and sure enough, 20 years later I have yet to write a single line of Cobol) then the 0 pages I was required to read in the $40 textbook was sufficient.
(Not that I think Cobol programming is necessarily brain-dead, that's just how the instructor approached it. After all, if it weren't for Cobol programmers, Y2K might've been a real problem)
It also looked a lot like Stargate, down to using an "A" without the crossbar in the title.