A bunch of goth chicks make a star wars movie. At least it proves that George Lucas isn't the only one who hires actors that cannot act. Of course, for an amateur production, they did an amazing job.
I believe your submission was rejected because it has too darn many hyperlinks. Hard to tell what to click on to to get the main story! Is it really necessary to hyperlink "Democrats" and "AIAA"? One or two links maximum, please!
Bah, back in the day I'd kick his ass with my Nerf Ball-zooka and WildFire suction dart machine gun. (The weapons of choice at my former dot-com employer)
The "problem" (perhaps phenomenon is a better word) extends far beyond IT. I come from an IT background, but its interesting to observe the distribution of women in my MBA classes. Marketing and HR classes are packed with women, while accounting, finance, and operations have precious few. The wildcard was Marketing Research, which is like marketing but with Math. Almost all guys. It's also easy to spot the MBA major of a woman (probably a man also) by how they look and how they are dressed, but I don't want to get TOO policially uncorrect right now!
Half finished??? I've said it before and I'll say it again. If the film I saw 10 times in the theatre in 1977 was only half finished, then I demand half of my money back.
Almost the exact same thing just happened at the CMU business school; this was in the paper today. When I saw the slashdot article, I just assumed it was about the folks that broke into the CMU admissions website (and were also banned by the school as a consequence)
Funny (not insightful, as per the mod points) but of course one of Apples goals to releasing iTunes for the Mac was to increase their tiny market share. And sell iPods.
thanks for the tip, but you've proved my point. Back in the day the Mac was easy to use, and DOS required memorization of arcane commands. Now the scale is tipping the othe way!
But at home I have OSX and Windows, and feel more productive in Windows. There is a big "But" there, though - there is so much sypware, adware, popups etc in Windows that I've given up trying to defeat it and use OSX almost exclusively just for that reason. Although I love being able to alt-tab through the individual windows of an open app under XP (requires F10 on the Mac, still drives me nuts), one too many times I was doing some critical piece of work and my full screen was suddenly taken over by some commercial or movie preview. No more.
and you know what comes next - everyone on slashdot goes to slashdot to see the original article, and slashdot becomes slashdotted! After that the universe implodes onto istelf.
I remember in the original series they found another surviving Battlestar - the Pegasus, I beleive. Would be cool if the same thing happened on the new series.
I happened to catch that episode when it was rerun on another channel - USA, I think. Anyhow, one thing bugged me - if they knew the cylons would show up every 33 minutes, why not leave in 32 minutes to avoid fighting them altogether???
IIRC, Darth knew he had a son, but not a daughter. should be interesting in the movie to see if he knows that Padme is carrying twins, or thinks she is just pregnant with a single child.
yes! Glad someone else thought of that too. Although, after further review, maybe in ROTJ she was vaguely remembering her adoptive mother Mrs. Organa, and was not aware that she had a different birth mother? If Obi-Wan could tell Luke that Darth Vader killed his father, these things are easily explained away.
yep, thats the company - and that figure sticks in my mind. A lot of the growth came when they acquired Hollyer & Schwartz in Chicago and Red Shift in, I believe, Oklahoma. Oh, and I don't know why they named it that either. We used to joke that it meant you could have quality work OR inexpensive pricing, but NOT both (hence the "xor"). Also sort of a play on "Fast, Cheap, Good, pick two.
People never learn from their mistakes - my new company signed a 10 year lease too, and friday was my last day - the whole office is shutting down. Deja Vu all over again.
Then again, if you ever saw the old XOR space in Chicago (are you in Boulder or Chicago?) you'd know why we moved - 30 + people crammed into one room, small desks pushed together so they were touching. No dividers of any kind. Great for nerf gun fights, not so great for coding.
I used to work for a company that trademarked the word "xor" (that was the name of the company, now defunct, 450 souls at the height of the dot-com boom). BTW no one (outside of the computer industry) knew how to prononunce xor, so they ran a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal explaining that it is prononuced "X like the letter, or like the word"
Do the words "all" and "its" really need their own hyperlinks? I know I'm not the first one to complain about this but please - how about just one or two links to the main story???
But I can't help but be reminded by the Simpsons. Somehow introducing one disease to kill another seems like a bad idea!
Skinner: Well, I was wrong. The lizards are a godsend.
Lisa: But isn't that a bit short-sighted? What happens when we're overrun by lizards?
Skinner: No problem. We simply unleash wave after wave of Chinese needle snakes. They'll wipe out the lizards.
Lisa: But aren't the snakes even worse?
Skinner: Yes, but we're prepared for that. We've lined up a fabulous type of gorilla that thrives on snake meat.
Lisa: But then we're stuck with gorillas!
Skinner: No, that's the beautiful part. When wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death.
Well, I'm going by the business school definition - I double-checked my finance book to see what it said about it. From a marketing perspective, the classic Boston Consulting Group growth-share matrix defines cash cow as a low-growth business that does not need new investment to establish market share. I'm sure in common usage, however, that it can take on more than one meaning.
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A bunch of goth chicks make a star wars movie. At least it proves that George Lucas isn't the only one who hires actors that cannot act. Of course, for an amateur production, they did an amazing job.
"A big part of the motivation for newspapers to charge for their online content is not the revenue it will generate, but the revenue it will save"
So, in essesence, they are charging so people DON'T use their website (and instead buy the paper), instead of the other way around - brilliant!
The best way to illustrate what a software engineer does to a group of primary school kids? Take 'em on a field trip to India!
I believe your submission was rejected because it has too darn many hyperlinks. Hard to tell what to click on to to get the main story! Is it really necessary to hyperlink "Democrats" and "AIAA"? One or two links maximum, please!
Bah, back in the day I'd kick his ass with my Nerf Ball-zooka and WildFire suction dart machine gun. (The weapons of choice at my former dot-com employer)
The "problem" (perhaps phenomenon is a better word) extends far beyond IT. I come from an IT background, but its interesting to observe the distribution of women in my MBA classes. Marketing and HR classes are packed with women, while accounting, finance, and operations have precious few. The wildcard was Marketing Research, which is like marketing but with Math. Almost all guys. It's also easy to spot the MBA major of a woman (probably a man also) by how they look and how they are dressed, but I don't want to get TOO policially uncorrect right now!
Half finished??? I've said it before and I'll say it again. If the film I saw 10 times in the theatre in 1977 was only half finished, then I demand half of my money back.
Almost the exact same thing just happened at the CMU business school; this was in the paper today. When I saw the slashdot article, I just assumed it was about the folks that broke into the CMU admissions website (and were also banned by the school as a consequence)
Funny (not insightful, as per the mod points) but of course one of Apples goals to releasing iTunes for the Mac was to increase their tiny market share. And sell iPods.
You are correct; I was more productive on Windows when it worked, but since it no longer "works" (due to spyware etc.) I'm more productive on the Mac
"I'm really enjoying the so-called 'iced - cream' " - Mr. Burns
thanks for the tip, but you've proved my point. Back in the day the Mac was easy to use, and DOS required memorization of arcane commands. Now the scale is tipping the othe way!
But at home I have OSX and Windows, and feel more productive in Windows. There is a big "But" there, though - there is so much sypware, adware, popups etc in Windows that I've given up trying to defeat it and use OSX almost exclusively just for that reason. Although I love being able to alt-tab through the individual windows of an open app under XP (requires F10 on the Mac, still drives me nuts), one too many times I was doing some critical piece of work and my full screen was suddenly taken over by some commercial or movie preview. No more.
and you know what comes next - everyone on slashdot goes to slashdot to see the original article, and slashdot becomes slashdotted! After that the universe implodes onto istelf.
I remember in the original series they found another surviving Battlestar - the Pegasus, I beleive. Would be cool if the same thing happened on the new series.
I happened to catch that episode when it was rerun on another channel - USA, I think. Anyhow, one thing bugged me - if they knew the cylons would show up every 33 minutes, why not leave in 32 minutes to avoid fighting them altogether???
IIRC, Darth knew he had a son, but not a daughter. should be interesting in the movie to see if he knows that Padme is carrying twins, or thinks she is just pregnant with a single child.
yes! Glad someone else thought of that too. Although, after further review, maybe in ROTJ she was vaguely remembering her adoptive mother Mrs. Organa, and was not aware that she had a different birth mother? If Obi-Wan could tell Luke that Darth Vader killed his father, these things are easily explained away.
yep, thats the company - and that figure sticks in my mind. A lot of the growth came when they acquired Hollyer & Schwartz in Chicago and Red Shift in, I believe, Oklahoma. Oh, and I don't know why they named it that either. We used to joke that it meant you could have quality work OR inexpensive pricing, but NOT both (hence the "xor"). Also sort of a play on "Fast, Cheap, Good, pick two.
Then again, if you ever saw the old XOR space in Chicago (are you in Boulder or Chicago?) you'd know why we moved - 30 + people crammed into one room, small desks pushed together so they were touching. No dividers of any kind. Great for nerf gun fights, not so great for coding.
err...at the risk of responding to an obvious troll, most if not all managers that I know are die-hard republicans.
I used to work for a company that trademarked the word "xor" (that was the name of the company, now defunct, 450 souls at the height of the dot-com boom). BTW no one (outside of the computer industry) knew how to prononunce xor, so they ran a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal explaining that it is prononuced "X like the letter, or like the word"
Do the words "all" and "its" really need their own hyperlinks? I know I'm not the first one to complain about this but please - how about just one or two links to the main story???
Skinner: Well, I was wrong. The lizards are a godsend.
Lisa: But isn't that a bit short-sighted? What happens when we're overrun by lizards?
Skinner: No problem. We simply unleash wave after wave of Chinese needle snakes. They'll wipe out the lizards.
Lisa: But aren't the snakes even worse?
Skinner: Yes, but we're prepared for that. We've lined up a fabulous type of gorilla that thrives on snake meat.
Lisa: But then we're stuck with gorillas!
Skinner: No, that's the beautiful part. When wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death.
Well, I'm going by the business school definition - I double-checked my finance book to see what it said about it. From a marketing perspective, the classic Boston Consulting Group growth-share matrix defines cash cow as a low-growth business that does not need new investment to establish market share. I'm sure in common usage, however, that it can take on more than one meaning.