It's funny because it's true. Management might get downsized, but I can't conceive of it being outsourced. At least, management above a certain level. So, to be safe, find a job that requires neither knowledge or ethical compunctions. Like PR, marketing, or the executive suite.
Agreed. Shame Tandy missed out on its moment of glory here.
Speaking of TI and "lack of historical attibution", how did the article authors miss out on the most important commercial application of the TMS-9900 CPU... the TI 99/4 micro? That thing ROCKED. TI couldn't market the thing for crap, but it was awesome "back in the day". And they didn't do much to appease the l337 h@x0r contingent, either, with the closed and undocumented software architecture. But so much potential at a time when it had very little competition.
As I said, a pretty serious miss if they were going to talk about the TMS9900 chip.
Oh, man, you completely botched that title. It's really The Crash that Snowed. Ranks right up there with "Sale of Two Titties" by Mile Pikkens with four 'm's and a silent 'q'.
I jam my crumpets with a butter knife. And lime marmalade. Yum!
different subjects tenuously strung together by the use of the GPS system. There is no 'irony' here.
Truly said. The only irony is those who would conflate two independent scenarios into one massive conspiracy theory. And in that case, most of the jamming would be caused by the tinfoil fedora being worn by the conspiracy theorists.
I know more about C, computer internals, and security than most professionals now, so I'm not too sad:)
You also know more about IT management, unrealistic goals, undeserved punishment, and PHBs than most professionals now. I don't know whether to rejoice in your hardwon jumpstart on corporate wisdom or mourn the inevitable early onset of cynicism.
I guess I'll have to read the book to be sure,
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but isn't this terrain Douglas Hofstadter covered about twenty-five years ago in Gödel, Escher, Bach? Does Johnson's book say much new? Has a quarter-century's "progress" in CA and AI brought us any closer to singularity? And will I ever stop posting this comment in rhetorical question form?
There's also a trilogy of books revolving around the Techno-Mages, but I have yet to get around to those.
You should. IMHO, they're the best novel B5 trilogy of the bunch.
The Passing of the Techno-Mages (aka: the Techno-Mage Trilogy) Casting Shadows Summoning Light Invoking Darkness
For some reason, I was never a fan of them beyond their one episode in the second season of the show. I always felt them to be a little out of place in the B5 universe, and their frequent occurance in a lot of the more recent B5 stuff just seems like they're being crammed in.... It just seems like it's more likely to be a random story that just happens to take place in the B5 universe, instead of an extension on the original series.
The novels will give you a better feel for their place in the B5 universe. After all, the Techno-Mages make a point of hiding, so they will naturally seem totally peripheral. See the universe from their perspective and some things begin to make sense.
The way most spyware works, I think the best confection name would be "Spring Surprise".:
Milton: Ah - now, that's our speciality - covered with darkest creamy chocolate. When you pop it in your mouth steel bolts spring out and plunge straight through-both cheeks.
Praline: Well where's the pleasure in that? If people place a nice chocky in their mouth, they don't want their cheeks pierced. In any case this is an inadequate description of the sweetmeat. I shall have to ask you to accompany me to the station.
Alanis Morissette's Ironic. Ironic, because it's a song about irony, purporting to cite multiple glowing examples of irony, and containing exactly no irony. Except the meta-irony of being un-ironic.
...their only hope is that they get license fees via intimidation rather than litigation.
OK, so the only real hope to profit by armed robbery is to point the gun, but not pull the trigger.
Hmmm. OK, deal.
Historically, that works just fine. Few robberies wind up as murder unless the victim resists. And, if all else fails, killing a resisting victim works, too. At least, you may collect, and you certainly send a message to future victims, even if the current one survives. Getting shot is much less enjoyable then not getting shot.
OK, so maybe it's me. I feel so... guilty... asking for freebies from these firms. YES, they make a lot of money. YES, generally the samples are a good thing for them, because it gets their products into engineeering evaluation.
But I feel that since it's WILDLY unlikely that the company will get any followup volume business on the basis of my hobbyist hacking around, I can't see my request rising to the level of meriting a sample request. So, usually, I'll pay the (unreasonably) high rates to buy the ICs I need mail-order retail. Particularly for kinda rare old chips like Maxim smartwatch chips. (I was that close to pulling the trigger on a sample request for a smartwatch for an old Tandy PC I'm resurrecting. Guilt really sucks.)
You mean "learn to drive a car"? Then, what you're describing is probably bad. But your description sounds more typical of learning to drive a Segway. Except for the "running over a small child" part. Maybe.
You decide, work like the Japanese and die an early death from the stress, or live and love longer and enjoy yourself along the way.
Hmmm... how do you reconcile the "Japanese never take vacation" stereotype with the "Japanese tourists all over the place with the newest photography equipment hanging off their necks" stereotype? One must be wrong!
Here's a hint. Japanese take a lot of vacation. Their work days seem long, but that's because they socialize (i.e., hang out and drink) extensively with their cow-orkers after official hours. Off the clock, of course, but most are salaried and and anyways it's a good way to schmooze the boss and whatnot.
The Japanese "die an early death from stress" thing is actually associated with secondary school and college, by the way. Graduate and you're in like Flynn. But you may die (or kill yourself) trying to get there.
I totally agree with you, but you have to think of it the other way, too.
In logic, this is called a "false dilemma". In case you're wondering, it's a logical fallacy.
No, going to work to feed your family and staying at home to take care of them aren't inherently contradictory. Sane employers will accept the minor temporary hit to productivity, knowing that their ROI is an employee who's actually productive when he/she comes back. Trust me, sitting there at your desk worrying whether the kid is OK only fulfills the "sitting at the desk" portion of what management pretends is "productivity".
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It's funny because it's true. Management might get downsized, but I can't conceive of it being outsourced. At least, management above a certain level. So, to be safe, find a job that requires neither knowledge or ethical compunctions. Like PR, marketing, or the executive suite.
Speaking of TI and "lack of historical attibution", how did the article authors miss out on the most important commercial application of the TMS-9900 CPU... the TI 99/4 micro? That thing ROCKED. TI couldn't market the thing for crap, but it was awesome "back in the day". And they didn't do much to appease the l337 h@x0r contingent, either, with the closed and undocumented software architecture. But so much potential at a time when it had very little competition.
As I said, a pretty serious miss if they were going to talk about the TMS9900 chip.
Is it me, or does it seem...what's the exact opposite of ironic?... that the little "ACME" reference URL is sited at RoadRunner broadband?
No need to futz with the trees; Anonymous Cowards already have enough outlet here on /.
Nonsense. Instant deniability. You're talking about seafood.
Oh, man, you completely botched that title. It's really The Crash that Snowed. Ranks right up there with "Sale of Two Titties" by Mile Pikkens with four 'm's and a silent 'q'.
different subjects tenuously strung together by the use of the GPS system. There is no 'irony' here.
Truly said. The only irony is those who would conflate two independent scenarios into one massive conspiracy theory. And in that case, most of the jamming would be caused by the tinfoil fedora being worn by the conspiracy theorists.
You also know more about IT management, unrealistic goals, undeserved punishment, and PHBs than most professionals now. I don't know whether to rejoice in your hardwon jumpstart on corporate wisdom or mourn the inevitable early onset of cynicism.
but isn't this terrain Douglas Hofstadter covered about twenty-five years ago in Gödel, Escher, Bach? Does Johnson's book say much new? Has a quarter-century's "progress" in CA and AI brought us any closer to singularity? And will I ever stop posting this comment in rhetorical question form?
--Fermat's Second-to-Last Conjecture
You should. IMHO, they're the best novel B5 trilogy of the bunch.
The Passing of the Techno-Mages (aka: the Techno-Mage Trilogy)
Casting Shadows
Summoning Light
Invoking Darkness
For some reason, I was never a fan of them beyond their one episode in the second season of the show. I always felt them to be a little out of place in the B5 universe, and their frequent occurance in a lot of the more recent B5 stuff just seems like they're being crammed in.... It just seems like it's more likely to be a random story that just happens to take place in the B5 universe, instead of an extension on the original series.
The novels will give you a better feel for their place in the B5 universe. After all, the Techno-Mages make a point of hiding, so they will naturally seem totally peripheral. See the universe from their perspective and some things begin to make sense.
I'd settle for a phone that I can bury in my pocket and NOT have it transform into a raging fireball.
Milton: Ah - now, that's our speciality - covered with darkest creamy chocolate. When you pop it in your mouth steel bolts spring out and plunge straight through-both cheeks.
Praline: Well where's the pleasure in that? If people place a nice chocky in their mouth, they don't want their cheeks pierced. In any case this is an inadequate description of the sweetmeat. I shall have to ask you to accompany me to the station.
Kinda Zen, that.
At least it seems likely that I do.
Holy Wotan, don't forget Jul! (Ancient, not neopagan.)
And while you're at it, UNDER PENALTY OF FEDERAL LAW, keep your hand off the shift key when you insert that copy-protected CD into your computer!
But are they reading, or aren't they? Who knows? Heisenberg and Schroedinger don't, that's for sure.
OK, so the only real hope to profit by armed robbery is to point the gun, but not pull the trigger.
Hmmm. OK, deal.
Historically, that works just fine. Few robberies wind up as murder unless the victim resists. And, if all else fails, killing a resisting victim works, too. At least, you may collect, and you certainly send a message to future victims, even if the current one survives. Getting shot is much less enjoyable then not getting shot.
But I feel that since it's WILDLY unlikely that the company will get any followup volume business on the basis of my hobbyist hacking around, I can't see my request rising to the level of meriting a sample request. So, usually, I'll pay the (unreasonably) high rates to buy the ICs I need mail-order retail. Particularly for kinda rare old chips like Maxim smartwatch chips. (I was that close to pulling the trigger on a sample request for a smartwatch for an old Tandy PC I'm resurrecting. Guilt really sucks.)
You mean "learn to drive a car"? Then, what you're describing is probably bad. But your description sounds more typical of learning to drive a Segway. Except for the "running over a small child" part. Maybe.
Judging from visible evidence of his attitude, I hope for society's sake no kids evar.
Hmmm... how do you reconcile the "Japanese never take vacation" stereotype with the "Japanese tourists all over the place with the newest photography equipment hanging off their necks" stereotype? One must be wrong!
Here's a hint. Japanese take a lot of vacation. Their work days seem long, but that's because they socialize (i.e., hang out and drink) extensively with their cow-orkers after official hours. Off the clock, of course, but most are salaried and and anyways it's a good way to schmooze the boss and whatnot.
The Japanese "die an early death from stress" thing is actually associated with secondary school and college, by the way. Graduate and you're in like Flynn. But you may die (or kill yourself) trying to get there.
In logic, this is called a "false dilemma". In case you're wondering, it's a logical fallacy.
No, going to work to feed your family and staying at home to take care of them aren't inherently contradictory. Sane employers will accept the minor temporary hit to productivity, knowing that their ROI is an employee who's actually productive when he/she comes back. Trust me, sitting there at your desk worrying whether the kid is OK only fulfills the "sitting at the desk" portion of what management pretends is "productivity".
Plusgoodspeak is "doubpleplusgoodmod +5 plusgoodIngsocness."