12X the industry standard is an extraordinary claim but as usual there's absolutely zero detail of how the "maintenance" figure was calculated, eg: did they just divide the entire IT budget by the number of desktops?
It seems to me that the point of the article is to convince people that, and I quote, "it looks like the government is getting completely swindled by their PC supplier". The whole story smells of "negotiation by press release" to me, are the big IT contracts coming up for renewal by any chance?
Since when did Slashdot become horribly biased in supporting Israel?
The slashdot summary is factual, it doesn't give an opinion on the accuracy or merits of the reenactment. In other words the summary is written as NEWS should be written, the fact it is reporting on IDF propaganda in no way makes it a tool of the IDF.
Can we have a counter channel with a play-by-play according to the other sides?
Sure, but why would you want to match bad taste with more bad taste?
The idea of starting with a user manual is to make sure everyone agrees on what "it" is. The difficulty/cost of implementing it is irrelevant at that stage. Once you have agreed "what it is" the customer wants then you can start figuring out how to implement it and what it will cost. Unfortunately this is rarely done which is why you often hear business people complain that devs don't understand and devs responding by saying business people don't know what they want. If your willing to build something that is vaguely specified then it's kind of obvious you will get vague results. There is no better fertilizer for PHB's than vague specifications.
Software that flies a plane has similar regulatory restraints as the engines that drive it In most places where software meets steel if the chief engineer has not performed due diligence on the software components he is personally liable for any damage or injury caused by the software. Do you recall the cost and legal fallout from Toyota's "sticky pedal" fiasco? I agree however that designing a car and a piece of software are very different activities, I think for all but extreme cases designing a car that can be manufactured by existing robots is far more complicated and laborious than writing a piece of corporate plumbing.
Having a "tendency to belive a cop" does not in any way imply "they simply cannot fathom any circumstance where it would not be true". The tendency comes from the reasonable assumption that the cop is an independent witness who has nothing to gain. The adversarial court system exists to test that assumption. Pointing out the implementation flaws in that 1000 year old system is much easier than coming up with a better system.
Social upheaval from technological revolutions has been happening to mankind for at least the last 35,000yrs and the frequency of these revolutions has been accelerating. The thing driving the change today is the internet (or more accurately digital communications), that's what will be remembered. As an example, how many people under 40 had even heard of Elsberg before the media started making comparisons?
Did you know that celebrating violent conflict makes you a dick in most people's eyes? Besides the protests were originally about crony capitalism gobbling up the last treed park in the city, everybody else joined in because they were disgusted by the way the authorities violently dispersed the original peaceful protest.
The Turkish media is said to be under reporting it, those 20+ posts just got their facts ballsed up and are now telling everyone how much news they read.
LOL, and you were telling others how to be a skeptic. C'mon, take the challenge, be scientific and disprove my outrageous claim by providing a single example of a climate scientist making the claims that you have been told they are making. Putting words in the mouth of your opponent is propaganda 101, and you have swallowed it hook, line and sinker.
If you start purging vendors from the company every time you don't agree with a court decision then you are unlikely to hold that senior position for very long. Also if you want others to "play nice" then do so yourself and stop trying to preempt the court's decision.
This ain't the US mate, there is absolutely nothing illegal about "hacking" 127.0.0.1 to find your own password, the only people who will give a rat's arse about that are the tinfoil hat types. Even they will forget about it next week when they're busy building their sadomasochistic fantasies around the next "cyber war" story.
It's so fucking simple even a US senator could understand it. If someone has control of your machine then of course they can scrape it's memory, but a run of the mill keylogger would be much less hassle and far more useful.
We have had "proof" for a long time in the mathematical sense, what has been more difficult is collecting enough evidence to say (beyond reasonable doubt) they exist in reality (the movie of stars orbiting the milky way's central black hole is my favorite "smoking gun"). I'm 54, when I went to school we were told black holes were "mathematical curiosities" that might exist in reality but nobody was sure, it was also claimed that it was impossible to observe an exo-planet. We live in "interesting times", science in general and astronomy in particular are experiencing a "golden age" that has it's roots in WW2 and is still gathering momentum.
Using maths to predict the existence of unobserved phenomena, and then looking for evidence of that phenomena in the real world is physics in a nutshell. It's also the reason astronomers no longer laugh at the big bang theory.
Facts are not ad-homs, if you genuinely believe you are not perpetuating the "back radiation" strawman then my challenge is still a very relevant exercise in self-skepticisim. I hope (for your sake) you take up that challenge, it might help you to cultivate some of that humility the other poster was talking about and work out you're angry at the wrong people.
IIRC Spencer is the guy who created that particular strawman. But you are right that it's not just about Spencer, don't you think it's strange that virtually all the "scientific" sources you have provided me with over the years just happen to all belong to the same echo chamber. Does it tell you anything that the 50 odd lobbying organizations in that echo chamber are all located on or very close to K-street? And no, this isn't a conspiracy theory, it's a loosely coordinated 20yr $50M marketing effort sporadically funded by companies such as Peabody coal, and strongly supported by politicians such as Senator Inhofe. These people don't deserve the blind faith you have given them.
I've known two bad cases of schizophrenia (who could not hold onto a job), the negativity comes from the effect it can have on the person, not the word itself. Unfortunately the bottom line in society is that if your mind behaves "strangely" then others will shun you, if your body behaves strangely (say, cancer) then others will act with compassion, provided it's not contagious (eg:leprosy). On the bright side I think there is a lot more compassion and understanding toward "thought disorders" today than when I grew up in the 60's.
Changing the name is at best temporary relief from the stigma, the new term will eventually pick up the same stigma as the old one. As a "functioning schizophrenic" you have the opportunity to change people's attitudes by example, I understand it takes a great deal of courage to do that but you will never change anyone's attitude by "staying in the closet". For example when I think of Stephen Fry, I think educated, witty, curios, homosexual, intelligent, atheist, bipolar, introspective, honest and open, which when all rolled together creates an interesting and likeable personality.
So when I gave my wife's friend (whom I didn't know was schizophrenic) a half a joint to calm her down because she was upset, according to you she was acting when she went wandering around my yard pulling her hair out because she was planning to kill someone? Schizophrenia has both genetic and environmental causes, you have a much greater chance of having it if a relative has it, for example if your twin has it you chances of having it are 40%, However it normally doesn't appear until after puberty and it's onset is usually associated with an emotional crisis, such as a divorce. The woman mentioned above "didn't have it" until she was in her mid-thirties.
BTW: Your OBSERVABLE lack of empathy and anger about this could be some sort a mental illness, I'd get that checked out if I were you.
I've known two people who have had it in a bad way, both had adverse reactions to dope (a good indicator), neither was violent although their behavior sometimes made people very uncomfortable. One of them went missing a decade ago in the bush, they found his car but he is still missing. Both of them had a very difficult time trying to lead a normal life. One contracted it in his late teens, the other in her mid-thirties, for both of them the onset came at the same time as an emotional crisis (breaking up with someone they loved).
I myself have had auditory and visual hallucinations several times ( from staying awake for 3-4 days ) the auditory ones happen when it's quiet and it's always someone saying my name. It's kinda freaky and fascinating at the same time because it doesn't sound like "a voice in your head", it sounds like someone is in the room with you. I can't imagine how freaky it must be to have full blown conversations with it on a regular basis.
Ummm, it's dollars and euros that are being laundered here, not bitcoins. However I think casinos are still the laundry of choice for organized crime (hint some of those gambling addicts aren't really addicts). Oh, and the word you were looking for is non-existent.
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Because guessing is a wonderful way to a full understanding of any situation.
He's in good company, Feynman taught his students that guessing was the first step in the scientific method, besides where else can you start?
I can only assume you admin a home network and have difficulty stopping yourself from fiddling with it.
12X the industry standard is an extraordinary claim but as usual there's absolutely zero detail of how the "maintenance" figure was calculated, eg: did they just divide the entire IT budget by the number of desktops?
It seems to me that the point of the article is to convince people that, and I quote, "it looks like the government is getting completely swindled by their PC supplier". The whole story smells of "negotiation by press release" to me, are the big IT contracts coming up for renewal by any chance?
Also the international component will make it inherently inaccurate, eg: Oz to UK is a 1/4 sec ping on a -very- good day.
Since when did Slashdot become horribly biased in supporting Israel?
The slashdot summary is factual, it doesn't give an opinion on the accuracy or merits of the reenactment. In other words the summary is written as NEWS should be written, the fact it is reporting on IDF propaganda in no way makes it a tool of the IDF.
Can we have a counter channel with a play-by-play according to the other sides?
Sure, but why would you want to match bad taste with more bad taste?
The idea of starting with a user manual is to make sure everyone agrees on what "it" is. The difficulty/cost of implementing it is irrelevant at that stage. Once you have agreed "what it is" the customer wants then you can start figuring out how to implement it and what it will cost. Unfortunately this is rarely done which is why you often hear business people complain that devs don't understand and devs responding by saying business people don't know what they want. If your willing to build something that is vaguely specified then it's kind of obvious you will get vague results. There is no better fertilizer for PHB's than vague specifications.
Software that flies a plane has similar regulatory restraints as the engines that drive it In most places where software meets steel if the chief engineer has not performed due diligence on the software components he is personally liable for any damage or injury caused by the software. Do you recall the cost and legal fallout from Toyota's "sticky pedal" fiasco? I agree however that designing a car and a piece of software are very different activities, I think for all but extreme cases designing a car that can be manufactured by existing robots is far more complicated and laborious than writing a piece of corporate plumbing.
Having a "tendency to belive a cop" does not in any way imply "they simply cannot fathom any circumstance where it would not be true". The tendency comes from the reasonable assumption that the cop is an independent witness who has nothing to gain. The adversarial court system exists to test that assumption. Pointing out the implementation flaws in that 1000 year old system is much easier than coming up with a better system.
Social upheaval from technological revolutions has been happening to mankind for at least the last 35,000yrs and the frequency of these revolutions has been accelerating. The thing driving the change today is the internet (or more accurately digital communications), that's what will be remembered. As an example, how many people under 40 had even heard of Elsberg before the media started making comparisons?
Did you know that celebrating violent conflict makes you a dick in most people's eyes? Besides the protests were originally about crony capitalism gobbling up the last treed park in the city, everybody else joined in because they were disgusted by the way the authorities violently dispersed the original peaceful protest.
The Turkish media is said to be under reporting it, those 20+ posts just got their facts ballsed up and are now telling everyone how much news they read.
If it won't work without gravity, put it in a centrifuge,
Why the 'well it sucks and cant be used for anything yet, but we are going to try it' attitude? ISNT THAT THE POINT OF THE ISS?
Not sure of your point here, they are doing what you (and I) think they should do, right?
LOL, and you were telling others how to be a skeptic. C'mon, take the challenge, be scientific and disprove my outrageous claim by providing a single example of a climate scientist making the claims that you have been told they are making. Putting words in the mouth of your opponent is propaganda 101, and you have swallowed it hook, line and sinker.
If you start purging vendors from the company every time you don't agree with a court decision then you are unlikely to hold that senior position for very long. Also if you want others to "play nice" then do so yourself and stop trying to preempt the court's decision.
It's Oracle - as is the all knowing god. Orcacle is the sound made by a laughing killer whale.
This ain't the US mate, there is absolutely nothing illegal about "hacking" 127.0.0.1 to find your own password, the only people who will give a rat's arse about that are the tinfoil hat types. Even they will forget about it next week when they're busy building their sadomasochistic fantasies around the next "cyber war" story.
It's so fucking simple even a US senator could understand it. If someone has control of your machine then of course they can scrape it's memory, but a run of the mill keylogger would be much less hassle and far more useful.
Still, it sounds like cheating to me. Wait until the cloud gets sucked up or not. Not too long ago, patent clerks...
Three words, "transit of Mercury".
We have had "proof" for a long time in the mathematical sense, what has been more difficult is collecting enough evidence to say (beyond reasonable doubt) they exist in reality (the movie of stars orbiting the milky way's central black hole is my favorite "smoking gun"). I'm 54, when I went to school we were told black holes were "mathematical curiosities" that might exist in reality but nobody was sure, it was also claimed that it was impossible to observe an exo-planet. We live in "interesting times", science in general and astronomy in particular are experiencing a "golden age" that has it's roots in WW2 and is still gathering momentum.
Using maths to predict the existence of unobserved phenomena, and then looking for evidence of that phenomena in the real world is physics in a nutshell. It's also the reason astronomers no longer laugh at the big bang theory.
Facts are not ad-homs, if you genuinely believe you are not perpetuating the "back radiation" strawman then my challenge is still a very relevant exercise in self-skepticisim. I hope (for your sake) you take up that challenge, it might help you to cultivate some of that humility the other poster was talking about and work out you're angry at the wrong people.
IIRC Spencer is the guy who created that particular strawman. But you are right that it's not just about Spencer, don't you think it's strange that virtually all the "scientific" sources you have provided me with over the years just happen to all belong to the same echo chamber. Does it tell you anything that the 50 odd lobbying organizations in that echo chamber are all located on or very close to K-street? And no, this isn't a conspiracy theory, it's a loosely coordinated 20yr $50M marketing effort sporadically funded by companies such as Peabody coal, and strongly supported by politicians such as Senator Inhofe. These people don't deserve the blind faith you have given them.
I've known two bad cases of schizophrenia (who could not hold onto a job), the negativity comes from the effect it can have on the person, not the word itself. Unfortunately the bottom line in society is that if your mind behaves "strangely" then others will shun you, if your body behaves strangely (say, cancer) then others will act with compassion, provided it's not contagious (eg:leprosy). On the bright side I think there is a lot more compassion and understanding toward "thought disorders" today than when I grew up in the 60's.
Changing the name is at best temporary relief from the stigma, the new term will eventually pick up the same stigma as the old one. As a "functioning schizophrenic" you have the opportunity to change people's attitudes by example, I understand it takes a great deal of courage to do that but you will never change anyone's attitude by "staying in the closet". For example when I think of Stephen Fry, I think educated, witty, curios, homosexual, intelligent, atheist, bipolar, introspective, honest and open, which when all rolled together creates an interesting and likeable personality.
Very cool.
Indeed. I also wonder how effective it would be if they used real humans instead of avatars?
So when I gave my wife's friend (whom I didn't know was schizophrenic) a half a joint to calm her down because she was upset, according to you she was acting when she went wandering around my yard pulling her hair out because she was planning to kill someone? Schizophrenia has both genetic and environmental causes, you have a much greater chance of having it if a relative has it, for example if your twin has it you chances of having it are 40%, However it normally doesn't appear until after puberty and it's onset is usually associated with an emotional crisis, such as a divorce. The woman mentioned above "didn't have it" until she was in her mid-thirties.
BTW: Your OBSERVABLE lack of empathy and anger about this could be some sort a mental illness, I'd get that checked out if I were you.
I've known two people who have had it in a bad way, both had adverse reactions to dope (a good indicator), neither was violent although their behavior sometimes made people very uncomfortable. One of them went missing a decade ago in the bush, they found his car but he is still missing. Both of them had a very difficult time trying to lead a normal life. One contracted it in his late teens, the other in her mid-thirties, for both of them the onset came at the same time as an emotional crisis (breaking up with someone they loved).
I myself have had auditory and visual hallucinations several times ( from staying awake for 3-4 days ) the auditory ones happen when it's quiet and it's always someone saying my name. It's kinda freaky and fascinating at the same time because it doesn't sound like "a voice in your head", it sounds like someone is in the room with you. I can't imagine how freaky it must be to have full blown conversations with it on a regular basis.
Ummm, it's dollars and euros that are being laundered here, not bitcoins. However I think casinos are still the laundry of choice for organized crime (hint some of those gambling addicts aren't really addicts). Oh, and the word you were looking for is non-existent.