And they won't become the norm util the cost of driving goes up and the subsidies given to the automobile industry go down. Large cities show economies of scale, and having good, reliable mass transit makes a big difference between choosing to drive and choosing to commute by mass transit. Most Americans DON'T HAVE the choice of good mass transit.
Or they could have competent, well-educated, knowledgable staff? My favourite bookstore offers 20% off on all purchases, _and_ they have great staff. I can ask for a book (or even ask for information on a specific topic) and I'll get a range of options. Oh, and if they don't have the book in stock, they get it ih a week or two.
There are bookstores with bigger stocks, and more diverse collections in hand, but these guys get 90% of my book buying money. And word of mouth marketing.
I like the CTO knowing about network setups and stuff. I don't want him (or her) telling me how to do my job, but to communicate the business requirements to relevant people in IT management and staff, and technical issues to management.
Seriously, it shouldn't be the CTOs job to worry about details (budgeting or technical), but they should know enough of both sides to be able to worry about those things if needed.
So why can't your IT department simply setup a website which will allow you to share files securely?
You IT department isn't incompetent by not allowing the transfer of large files via email (email should NOT be used for such purposes), but they are incompetent by dint of not considering alternative methods of file transfer. They could also setup a FTP dropbox on your network, or give said developer a shell.
Bah, Bangalore is fairly small in that respect. Mumbai's public transport system was designed to carry employees to factories. It carries a few million people more than all of Bangalore's transit. For the Americans, the trains in Mumbai alone carry more passengers than the total number of passengers travelling by mass transit in NYC.
In India, the government isn't financing the towers. Cellphone companies get hit by punitive taxes if they don't build those towers. The problem is that the electric power supply isn't all that reliable.
Well, usually the choice is between having no phone, and a cheap cellphone, My cellphone bill this month was just under 8 USD, for example.
Other than the lack of number portability, I am not tied to any provider (All the private players have support for number portability, the ogvernment owned one is not willing to budge yet). I can buy a 25 USD phone today without any contracts or obligations.
Cellphones are far cheaper than landlines (and available).
Isn't that just a function of how you kill people? By shoving them into the equivalent of prison cells for life? By killing them now? Denying them the right to freedom?
I dunno how people get SO into their jobs. I work to earn money to allow me to do and buy things I like. I have the opposite problem. I have to work hard to concentrate at work ON work....there are so many other things in life that interest me...
Some of us happen to love what we do. It stops being work, and becomes play.
Boer, not Boar. And both those options are essentially, genocide. OTOH, that _is_ the only way to win a war against an opponent determined not to lose.
And then you will probably lose the media war anyway.
And if your opponent has sufficient nuclear weapons, they can do enough damage that you wouldn't want to fight them in the first place.
Why would you bother about air superiority, when the right tactic would be to make/let the US come in on the ground, and then fight in the cities?
The US has air superiority over Iraq, but it doesn't help in urban warfare. It didn't help in Vietnam either. Air superiority is great for conventional warfare, but it doesn't help against a distributed, loosely linked opposition.
Partisian tactics can work quite well, particularly when the partisians can use the global news media as a propaganda machine.
The other way is to simply overwhelm the US with nukes in an orgy of mutually assured destruction. Or fly Boeings into a few buildings.
It is what open source does to closed source vendors like Microsoft. They can't find a single enemy to fight, but they do have to fight.
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Singapore is just another facist state. Switzerland has the advantage of being a far smaller country and a very small, homogenous and rich population.
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Could you show examples of heterogenous populations with significant economic disparities where you have similar levels of safety and freedom?
From Google:
Zurich pop - 366,809
Singapore -- Population: 4,492,150 (July 2006 est.)
London -- Population: 7.5 Million (2005 Est.)
That's a BIG difference.
http://tonygoodson.typepad.com/tonygoodson/2005/1
From http://www2.mha.gov.sg/mha/detailed.jsp?artid=130
On Friday, Education Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam announced that every school will be patrolled by security guards and fitted with up to 12 cameras over the next few months.
That seems to be common in the US, not outside it. Perhaps the US needs a cultural shift?
And they won't become the norm util the cost of driving goes up and the subsidies given to the automobile industry go down. Large cities show economies of scale, and having good, reliable mass transit makes a big difference between choosing to drive and choosing to commute by mass transit. Most Americans DON'T HAVE the choice of good mass transit.
You _could_ change your lifestyle, by simply moving out of the suburbs (or other rural area where you live).
Like, oh, a search engine moving into free email with a 1GB mailbox?
Or they could have competent, well-educated, knowledgable staff? My favourite bookstore offers 20% off on all purchases, _and_ they have great staff. I can ask for a book (or even ask for information on a specific topic) and I'll get a range of options. Oh, and if they don't have the book in stock, they get it ih a week or two.
There are bookstores with bigger stocks, and more diverse collections in hand, but these guys get 90% of my book buying money. And word of mouth marketing.
That can be the difference between the company's product as a topic on slashdot, and a dude at home posting on slashdot with no pants on.
Tell that to the Goatse guy.
And calling in someone early in the morning, especially when that person is not a morning person tends to vitiate the atmosphere.
I like the CTO knowing about network setups and stuff. I don't want him (or her) telling me how to do my job, but to communicate the business requirements to relevant people in IT management and staff, and technical issues to management.
Seriously, it shouldn't be the CTOs job to worry about details (budgeting or technical), but they should know enough of both sides to be able to worry about those things if needed.
So why can't your IT department simply setup a website which will allow you to share files securely?
You IT department isn't incompetent by not allowing the transfer of large files via email (email should NOT be used for such purposes), but they are incompetent by dint of not considering alternative methods of file transfer. They could also setup a FTP dropbox on your network, or give said developer a shell.
Stop being a kid, you clod. It's always Bombay for us oldtimers.
Just try to breathe.
Bah, Bangalore is fairly small in that respect. Mumbai's public transport system was designed to carry employees to factories. It carries a few million people more than all of Bangalore's transit. For the Americans, the trains in Mumbai alone carry more passengers than the total number of passengers travelling by mass transit in NYC.
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is not to play at all.
As true for net neutrality as for global thermonuclear war.
'The Mythical Man Month' is also chapter 2 of the book of the same name. Chapter 3 is 'The Surgical Team'.
I would recommend reading the book anyway. It's still one of the best project management books out there.
Fred Brookes put it far more succintly in TMMM.
Power supply isn't reliable (you will get power for 8 hours a day, but not round the clock).
In India, the government isn't financing the towers. Cellphone companies get hit by punitive taxes if they don't build those towers. The problem is that the electric power supply isn't all that reliable.
Well, usually the choice is between having no phone, and a cheap cellphone, My cellphone bill this month was just under 8 USD, for example.
Other than the lack of number portability, I am not tied to any provider (All the private players have support for number portability, the ogvernment owned one is not willing to budge yet). I can buy a 25 USD phone today without any contracts or obligations.
Cellphones are far cheaper than landlines (and available).
Why make a new planet? Lets just build a ship and send them off. We will call it the B ark.
The major wars in Asia have always been won from the ground, except WWII, which used nuclear weapons.
Afghanistan hasn't been won yet.
Isn't that just a function of how you kill people? By shoving them into the equivalent of prison cells for life? By killing them now? Denying them the right to freedom?
I dunno how people get SO into their jobs. I work to earn money to allow me to do and buy things I like. I have the opposite problem. I have to work hard to concentrate at work ON work....there are so many other things in life that interest me...
Some of us happen to love what we do. It stops being work, and becomes play.
Boer, not Boar. And both those options are essentially, genocide. OTOH, that _is_ the only way to win a war against an opponent determined not to lose.
And then you will probably lose the media war anyway.
And if your opponent has sufficient nuclear weapons, they can do enough damage that you wouldn't want to fight them in the first place.
Why would you bother about air superiority, when the right tactic would be to make/let the US come in on the ground, and then fight in the cities?
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The US has air superiority over Iraq, but it doesn't help in urban warfare. It didn't help in Vietnam either. Air superiority is great for conventional warfare, but it doesn't help against a distributed, loosely linked opposition.
Partisian tactics can work quite well, particularly when the partisians can use the global news media as a propaganda machine.
The other way is to simply overwhelm the US with nukes in an orgy of mutually assured destruction. Or fly Boeings into a few buildings.
It is what open source does to closed source vendors like Microsoft. They can't find a single enemy to fight, but they do have to fight.
On the other hand, I wonder if the F22s are stealthed against cellular networks as well.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/org/news/2001/e2001