I must be a producing person. While I agree that those things make it hard to hit a "any software that takes more than four months is a failure" style deadline, I'd argue that every dollar spent on good design and testing saves $5 in coding and $100 of tech support later.
Do it right the first time, don't have your software capable of doing the unexpected, and your tech support lines will be quiet, and your maintenance time when new features DO get added will be minimal.
I love this response. And being a genius jerk myself, may I suggest giving them an R&D budget and letting them pick their team, thus moving them out of day-to-day operations into what they're actually good at?
The problem is, the long term gains don't pay for the short term cost currently. That's why power companies have to give rebates to get people to buy CF.
And the environmental and power cost of recycling the mercury wipes out the power gain anyway.
If the bulbs were *truly* resource efficient, and not just energy efficient, there would be no need for the ban because the bulbs themselves would be cheaper.
I charge that in fact it is more polluting, overall, to create a CF bulb, and that's why they are more expensive.
I'm Darth Vader at night myself: http://www.cpapplus.com/ so I know about the advances happening in life extension. In a previous century, I'd be at serious risk for congestive heart failure within the next 5 years- and I'm only 41. My father is the oldest man ever in my genetic ancestry at 70.
But my point is that 40 years from mentioned in popular science fiction, to becoming reasonable science fact is pretty darn common these days. Market viability of said product may vary however. Certainly the incredibly dangerous flying motorcycle seems to be going nowhere.
I was trying to yank the conversation back to the issue that I originally posted the joke for: Who the hell has time for an affair when there is much more important work to be done?
Damn. The link was supposed to be "Atheist Misogynist Club" not the description of what they said about this one blogger who now no longer blogs because of it.
Never had the time to find out if it was mutual or not; I was married and with the 14 hour days, we never let the temptation get that far. There was always a *work based* fire to put out first that took priority.
Then 9-11-01 happened, and within two months, she was laid off, then my mother in law died, then I was laid off. Never saw her again. Never did find out if that company survived, it took me two years to find work again.
Well, you've got to remember that even 15 years ago, most guys at cons were already distracted by the soft porn that DC and Marvel laughingly call comic books. Worse yet she was a gamer- ever see the drawings they make of women on D&D boxes?
Oh, and on the opposites attract thing, I like to say that put together my wife and I have one good brain between us. And she's into soap operas, not sci-fi.
A really old joke: A preacher, a politician, and a programmer walk into a bar.
The preacher starts saying "I hope my congregation and my wife don't find out about my mistress on the side"
The politician says "I hope my constituents don't find out about my love for gay bars".
The programmer says "I introduced my mistress to my wife and gave them my credit card to go shopping with so I could GET SOME WORK DONE!"
The only time in my marriage I was tempted to stray was early on with a programmer 5 years younger than myself, when we were both still in our 20s. She was sexy as all get out, despite getting insults at cons about her boob size (B-cup, where my wife's a DD). Why didn't we do it? Because it took 14 hour days in that job just to keep the *critical* software running.
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I must be a producing person. While I agree that those things make it hard to hit a "any software that takes more than four months is a failure" style deadline, I'd argue that every dollar spent on good design and testing saves $5 in coding and $100 of tech support later.
Do it right the first time, don't have your software capable of doing the unexpected, and your tech support lines will be quiet, and your maintenance time when new features DO get added will be minimal.
Wozniak, is that you?
And when Canadian Fishermen were considered a primary economic enemy.
I love this response. And being a genius jerk myself, may I suggest giving them an R&D budget and letting them pick their team, thus moving them out of day-to-day operations into what they're actually good at?
Does that include the cost of recycling the mercury?
This is a relatively unbiased source
The problem is, the long term gains don't pay for the short term cost currently. That's why power companies have to give rebates to get people to buy CF.
And the environmental and power cost of recycling the mercury wipes out the power gain anyway.
If the bulbs were *truly* resource efficient, and not just energy efficient, there would be no need for the ban because the bulbs themselves would be cheaper.
I charge that in fact it is more polluting, overall, to create a CF bulb, and that's why they are more expensive.
I'm Darth Vader at night myself: http://www.cpapplus.com/ so I know about the advances happening in life extension. In a previous century, I'd be at serious risk for congestive heart failure within the next 5 years- and I'm only 41. My father is the oldest man ever in my genetic ancestry at 70.
But my point is that 40 years from mentioned in popular science fiction, to becoming reasonable science fact is pretty darn common these days. Market viability of said product may vary however. Certainly the incredibly dangerous flying motorcycle seems to be going nowhere.
Given a potential human lifespan of more than 60 years (really now average 73+), and the normal "generation" being only 20, I'd say we're both right
I was trying to yank the conversation back to the issue that I originally posted the joke for: Who the hell has time for an affair when there is much more important work to be done?
It's already out on the streets. It's highly illegal, but it exists.
Look out for the High Command- they're the Vulcan equivalent of Nazis!
As a rule, science fiction becomes science fact in three human generations.
But isn't Slingshot Star Trek, rather than Stargate?
We need MORE human beings with Asperger's for the next 500 years or so, not fewer.
Kanners and Asperger's are not related genetically as far as we can tell. They are a spectrum of severity, not a spectrum of causality.
Damn. The link was supposed to be "Atheist Misogynist Club" not the description of what they said about this one blogger who now no longer blogs because of it.
The modern form is the . I'm still trying to figure out their imagery, but it's pretty ugly. Exactly how do you rape someone with a chainsaw to shut them up?
You're likely to get an answer more of "100% God and 100% man", but I can easily see how the original poster mistook that for 50-50.
Never had the time to find out if it was mutual or not; I was married and with the 14 hour days, we never let the temptation get that far. There was always a *work based* fire to put out first that took priority.
Then 9-11-01 happened, and within two months, she was laid off, then my mother in law died, then I was laid off. Never saw her again. Never did find out if that company survived, it took me two years to find work again.
Well, you've got to remember that even 15 years ago, most guys at cons were already distracted by the soft porn that DC and Marvel laughingly call comic books. Worse yet she was a gamer- ever see the drawings they make of women on D&D boxes?
Good, efficient, maintainable. Choose any two. I've yet to meet any programmer that can do all three, at least, not reliably.
Oh, and on the opposites attract thing, I like to say that put together my wife and I have one good brain between us. And she's into soap operas, not sci-fi.
A really old joke:
A preacher, a politician, and a programmer walk into a bar.
The preacher starts saying "I hope my congregation and my wife don't find out about my mistress on the side"
The politician says "I hope my constituents don't find out about my love for gay bars".
The programmer says "I introduced my mistress to my wife and gave them my credit card to go shopping with so I could GET SOME WORK DONE!"
The only time in my marriage I was tempted to stray was early on with a programmer 5 years younger than myself, when we were both still in our 20s. She was sexy as all get out, despite getting insults at cons about her boob size (B-cup, where my wife's a DD). Why didn't we do it? Because it took 14 hour days in that job just to keep the *critical* software running.