The university I attend still uses VMS on one of its main servers(an old DEC I think.) It seems that the only free COBOL compiler that actually runs right only runs on that system. If they got rid of VMS, they would have to buy a comercial version of a COBOL compiler which they don't want to do. It also turns out VMS's systems are more secure than UNIX systems since people have been looking for holes in UNIX for decades. No one in their right mind wants to use VMS let alone hack into a system running it so VMS systems have remained safe.
A U.S. company(consisting of a single person) will need to create a piece of accounting software. This it(or rather he/she) will do by completely outsourcing the work to India since it is cheaper. When the product is complete it will be sent back to the U.S. were the company will then sell it to a U.S. accounting firm. That accounting firm (consisting also of only one person) will then send the product back to India because that company outsources it's work to India too... Do I really need to tell you were the people who utilize the accounting services live? (Hint: India)
In reality what will probably happen is western companies will get so used to outsourcing to other countries that they will become dependent on it. At that point, the deptartments in those other countries will then begin to raise the price of their services till they are comparable to (and eventually surpassing) western prices. Realizing their mistake too late, western companies will then start looking back at home for western white-collar workers only to find that since there was no longer a job market for those services here, they all left to get jobs in those other countries.
Moving to another country is looking better...
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In the West, it's far less clear who will be the big winners and losers. But we'll soon find out.
Big winners: Millionaire CEO's.
Big Losers: Everyone else.
First blue-collar jobs went Mexico. Now white-collar jobs are going to India. Who does that leave working here?
Didn't you just love how they try to make these guys sound cool? I especially was amused by the description of the fed who has crap on his shelf that he thinks are some sort of trophies. I agree with you completely on your observation: it's as melodramatic as an old western and as informative as a Absolut Vodka advertisement.
This is only step 1. If and when they win this case they will then try to claim that based on this ruling, optting out of spam should also be declared unlawful.
I believe he means bad as in millions of people saying, "That #$#%#% company sued me/my friend/my relatives/my dog, I will never buy any of their products ever again." If you piss off the people who buy your stuff, then you're in for a world of hurt.
Just maybe one company will now get it through their thick skulls that just because they write something in some end-user license agreement doesn't mean it's legal to then hold a person to it. Sue on!
There's no proof that Thomas Jefferson himself had sex with his slaves, only proof that someone closely related to him did. It very well could have been his brother(?).
I could probably go find some particularly witty qoute from John Adams as well but I think I have made my point. Just because someone is dead does not mean they are forgotten or that they (or what they did) don't matter. No one is ever really dead as long as they are remembered.
use mozilla if that doesnot work stop visiting sites with pop-up ads or whenever you get to a site with pop-up ads just use the hotkeys to close the processes.
The french revolutions major causes were the rising power of the middle class (which economically opposed the power of the old aristocracy), national debts caused by wars after wars (many instigated by Louis 14th in order to demostrate his power), the tax system which had fallen into complete disarray and desperately needed reform, and a slew of terrible kings(but pretty good regents). Beneath these there are at least a dozen more minor causes. If the Illuminati had any influence on this event at all, it was insignificant. As for why the Illuminati are now obscured, I would assume because the so called "Illuminati conspiracy" has been written off as mostly baseless. There were other so-called conspiracies at the time as well: the communist conspiracy, the anrachist conspiracy, and the democratic conspiracy. Throughout the 1800's there were dozen of revolutions and wars all over Europe(mostly in france) and everyone was paranoid. The upper nobility feared democracy and had claimes of democratic conspiracies, the middle class factory owners feared the communists and hence clamed they had a conspiracy. Dozens if not hundreds of 'conspiracies' were exposed. Saying the Illumanti conspiracy started those events and that there was a big bad conspiracy going on in the 1800's is like saying that a secret government agency in contact with Alien lifeforms were really running the world in the 1900's. If you believe that: 1)you're out of touch with reality 2)you're scapegoating your own problems by claiming they arent really your fault, there such and such's fault
As for the eye, it's easier to borrow an existing symbol than to come up with one of your own. Some desginer probably said 'hey, everyone knows the eye, its on the back of $1's so ppl are familiar with it as a symbol, lets use in this context. As for the eye looking at Europe it is probably looking in the general direction of the middle-east and not so much at Europe. What they were probably trying to do was to blend a nationally recognized symbol (that since its on $1's holds a realtion to the feds) with the old Pinkerton detective agency logo(which was an all-seeing eye). The person who designed probably never even knew what the $1 bill symbol was, he/she probably jsut saw it - thought it was cool - and decided to use it.
Also, I would recommend against it. Finding out things about your girlfriend that she din't want to tell you is liek opening up old wounds. Somethings are best left in the past. It also indicates a lack of trust in a relationship taht you feel you have to go behind the other persons back. Then there is the age old porno problem: You will start thinking about your girlfriend differently after you see her amateur nude photos on the web. It's like discovering your girlfriend posed for playboy: the moment she finds out you know, your relationship will fall apart.
So your trying to blame the.com burst on geek culture? lol! What about all those suits who just poured money into the most useless e-commerce crap, not really caring about the business, only about a quick profit and then taking the money and running. The.com burst didn't happen because people suddenly realized that jsut toying around and tinkering was not very profitable. The.com burst happened because people poured money into dumb shit solely for the purposes of making money fast which caused teh market to become overvalued. People suddenly realized, "Hey, maybe amazon.com stock isn't worth $200 bucks a share" and that is when the crash began.
Re:What's the difference?
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Geeks see a need for a device/program
Not always true, the orginal personal computers could do basically nothing and, as many pointed out at the time, no one really needed one. Many of the orginal programmers and engineers built them anyway though, not because they needed them but because they thought they would be fun to play around with. They had no interest in 'exploiting' the technology, they just wanted to have fun with it.
Sure, suits don't care about the elegance of YOUR crap--but you don't care about yours, so why should they
I do care about the elegance of my programs. If my programs were inefficent (or just plain crap) I would be ashamed to say I wrote them. I take pride in what I write as every programmer should. Our programs are a reflection of our abilities. We care about the quality of what we produce, suits should care about the quality of what they are trying to sell. If your selling crap, then maybe you should reflect on the ethics of what your doing.
You also seem to be trying to rationalize your drive to make money(aka greed) by fooling yourself into believing that everyone else is only interested in the same thing. Making a good program that ppl can use is not the same as designing a means to exploits others' needs (which is what you seem to be doing.) We program becuase it is fun. We create things to help people, not exploit them. You sell our programs becuase you seem to just want to make more money. You exploit others needs for your own personal gain. If people don't need something, you try to trick them into thinking they do. You help no one but yourself. That's the difference.
To the RIAA, the 'truth' is something that their PR department made up. It has no basis in reality what-so-ever. The 'truth' is something they want you to believe. They want you to believe that what happened happened as they said it did. The facts are what actually happened. They don't want you to believe those. The RIAA has a twisted view of reality, they see what they want to see. When something does not coincide with that vision, they warp the facts so that it will. This warping creates an end product that they call the 'truth'. Their PR department then goes about trying to persaude everyone that the 'truth' is correct, even when the facts do not agree with them.
"The more they complicate the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain."
-Scotty It holds true for wear as well. The more features and extras they add, the higher the liklihood that something will go wrong with one of those features sometime down the road. In my opinion, you should buy the device that gives you what you want and very little beyond that. That way you can buy the highest quality brands at a reasonable price with a reasonable degree of certainity that it will still be working two or three years down the road. You buy soemthing thats got all the extras and your just asking for trouble.
If the russian can no longer make there scheduled deliveries on time, does that mean that the ISS gets its domino pizzas for free? (Pizza dude's late, 30 minutes late = free pizza)
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The university I attend still uses VMS on one of its main servers(an old DEC I think.) It seems that the only free COBOL compiler that actually runs right only runs on that system. If they got rid of VMS, they would have to buy a comercial version of a COBOL compiler which they don't want to do. It also turns out VMS's systems are more secure than UNIX systems since people have been looking for holes in UNIX for decades. No one in their right mind wants to use VMS let alone hack into a system running it so VMS systems have remained safe.
A U.S. company(consisting of a single person) will need to create a piece of accounting software. This it(or rather he/she) will do by completely outsourcing the work to India since it is cheaper. When the product is complete it will be sent back to the U.S. were the company will then sell it to a U.S. accounting firm. That accounting firm (consisting also of only one person) will then send the product back to India because that company outsources it's work to India too... Do I really need to tell you were the people who utilize the accounting services live? (Hint: India)
In reality what will probably happen is western companies will get so used to outsourcing to other countries that they will become dependent on it. At that point, the deptartments in those other countries will then begin to raise the price of their services till they are comparable to (and eventually surpassing) western prices. Realizing their mistake too late, western companies will then start looking back at home for western white-collar workers only to find that since there was no longer a job market for those services here, they all left to get jobs in those other countries.
In the West, it's far less clear who will be the big winners and losers. But we'll soon find out. Big winners: Millionaire CEO's. Big Losers: Everyone else. First blue-collar jobs went Mexico. Now white-collar jobs are going to India. Who does that leave working here?
Didn't you just love how they try to make these guys sound cool? I especially was amused by the description of the fed who has crap on his shelf that he thinks are some sort of trophies. I agree with you completely on your observation: it's as melodramatic as an old western and as informative as a Absolut Vodka advertisement.
But don't the gunmakers already get free advertising from video games?
This is only step 1. If and when they win this case they will then try to claim that based on this ruling, optting out of spam should also be declared unlawful.
I believe he means bad as in millions of people saying, "That #$#%#% company sued me/my friend/my relatives/my dog, I will never buy any of their products ever again." If you piss off the people who buy your stuff, then you're in for a world of hurt.
Just maybe one company will now get it through their thick skulls that just because they write something in some end-user license agreement doesn't mean it's legal to then hold a person to it. Sue on!
There's no proof that Thomas Jefferson himself had sex with his slaves, only proof that someone closely related to him did. It very well could have been his brother(?).
I could probably go find some particularly witty qoute from John Adams as well but I think I have made my point. Just because someone is dead does not mean they are forgotten or that they (or what they did) don't matter. No one is ever really dead as long as they are remembered.
"Resolved: That it is better to die free men than to live as slaves."
-Thomas Jefferson
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-Benjamin Franklin
use mozilla
if that doesnot work stop visiting sites with pop-up ads or whenever you get to a site with pop-up ads just use the hotkeys to close the processes.
The french revolutions major causes were the rising power of the middle class (which economically opposed the power of the old aristocracy), national debts caused by wars after wars (many instigated by Louis 14th in order to demostrate his power), the tax system which had fallen into complete disarray and desperately needed reform, and a slew of terrible kings(but pretty good regents). Beneath these there are at least a dozen more minor causes. If the Illuminati had any influence on this event at all, it was insignificant.
As for why the Illuminati are now obscured, I would assume because the so called "Illuminati conspiracy" has been written off as mostly baseless. There were other so-called conspiracies at the time as well: the communist conspiracy, the anrachist conspiracy, and the democratic conspiracy. Throughout the 1800's there were dozen of revolutions and wars all over Europe(mostly in france) and everyone was paranoid. The upper nobility feared democracy and had claimes of democratic conspiracies, the middle class factory owners feared the communists and hence clamed they had a conspiracy. Dozens if not hundreds of 'conspiracies' were exposed. Saying the Illumanti conspiracy started those events and that there was a big bad conspiracy going on in the 1800's is like saying that a secret government agency in contact with Alien lifeforms were really running the world in the 1900's. If you believe that:
1)you're out of touch with reality
2)you're scapegoating your own problems by claiming they arent really your fault, there such and such's fault
As for the eye, it's easier to borrow an existing symbol than to come up with one of your own. Some desginer probably said 'hey, everyone knows the eye, its on the back of $1's so ppl are familiar with it as a symbol, lets use in this context. As for the eye looking at Europe it is probably looking in the general direction of the middle-east and not so much at Europe. What they were probably trying to do was to blend a nationally recognized symbol (that since its on $1's holds a realtion to the feds) with the old Pinkerton detective agency logo(which was an all-seeing eye). The person who designed probably never even knew what the $1 bill symbol was, he/she probably jsut saw it - thought it was cool - and decided to use it.
I believe it was John Brown who said, "If someone strikes you, turn the other cheek; but if they strike you again, strike back."
Yeah, I still liking playing with my blocks and my rattle...
Sounds cool dude! You can call it "We who watch the watchers". They can see what it's like when they are on the recieving end of their own policies.
"To protect us from tyranny, you have become tyrants." -Gérard Depardieu from Danton
Your assuming that your employees arent already pissed because your the only jerk in town who doesn't give out holiday bonuses.
He suggests the practice is ok?
Does that mean its like maybe sort of alright?
Also, I would recommend against it. Finding out things about your girlfriend that she din't want to tell you is liek opening up old wounds. Somethings are best left in the past. It also indicates a lack of trust in a relationship taht you feel you have to go behind the other persons back.
Then there is the age old porno problem: You will start thinking about your girlfriend differently after you see her amateur nude photos on the web. It's like discovering your girlfriend posed for playboy: the moment she finds out you know, your relationship will fall apart.
So your trying to blame the .com burst on geek culture? lol! What about all those suits who just poured money into the most useless e-commerce crap, not really caring about the business, only about a quick profit and then taking the money and running. The .com burst didn't happen because people suddenly realized that jsut toying around and tinkering was not very profitable. The .com burst happened because people poured money into dumb shit solely for the purposes of making money fast which caused teh market to become overvalued. People suddenly realized, "Hey, maybe amazon.com stock isn't worth $200 bucks a share" and that is when the crash began.
Geeks see a need for a device/program
Not always true, the orginal personal computers could do basically nothing and, as many pointed out at the time, no one really needed one. Many of the orginal programmers and engineers built them anyway though, not because they needed them but because they thought they would be fun to play around with. They had no interest in 'exploiting' the technology, they just wanted to have fun with it.
Sure, suits don't care about the elegance of YOUR crap--but you don't care about yours, so why should they
I do care about the elegance of my programs. If my programs were inefficent (or just plain crap) I would be ashamed to say I wrote them. I take pride in what I write as every programmer should. Our programs are a reflection of our abilities. We care about the quality of what we produce, suits should care about the quality of what they are trying to sell. If your selling crap, then maybe you should reflect on the ethics of what your doing.
You also seem to be trying to rationalize your drive to make money(aka greed) by fooling yourself into believing that everyone else is only interested in the same thing. Making a good program that ppl can use is not the same as designing a means to exploits others' needs (which is what you seem to be doing.)
We program becuase it is fun. We create things to help people, not exploit them. You sell our programs becuase you seem to just want to make more money. You exploit others needs for your own personal gain. If people don't need something, you try to trick them into thinking they do. You help no one but yourself. That's the difference.
I think your putting a little too much thought into the soviet russia thing.
To the RIAA, the 'truth' is something that their PR department made up. It has no basis in reality what-so-ever. The 'truth' is something they want you to believe. They want you to believe that what happened happened as they said it did. The facts are what actually happened. They don't want you to believe those. The RIAA has a twisted view of reality, they see what they want to see. When something does not coincide with that vision, they warp the facts so that it will. This warping creates an end product that they call the 'truth'. Their PR department then goes about trying to persaude everyone that the 'truth' is correct, even when the facts do not agree with them.
"The more they complicate the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain."
-Scotty
It holds true for wear as well. The more features and extras they add, the higher the liklihood that something will go wrong with one of those features sometime down the road. In my opinion, you should buy the device that gives you what you want and very little beyond that. That way you can buy the highest quality brands at a reasonable price with a reasonable degree of certainity that it will still be working two or three years down the road. You buy soemthing thats got all the extras and your just asking for trouble.
If the russian can no longer make there scheduled deliveries on time, does that mean that the ISS gets its domino pizzas for free? (Pizza dude's late, 30 minutes late = free pizza)
Just because Their engineers can't solve the problem, the problem must be unsolvable.