Honestly, the odds are so stacked against the idea-man that doesn't have the technical resources to be heavily involved that I don't know if it's worthwhile to do the development in the first place. First off, the standard boiler-plate contract with the developer will grant that developer full rights to the project if the idea-man can't or doesn't pay him, so the developer could end up profiting off of a finished product even if the idea-man contributes a significant amount of professional knowledge to the project. Second, the idea-man will effectively have to write pseudo-code to explain functions of the profession to the developer, so if he doesn't come into the project without at least a modicum of programming knowledge he'll poorly convey what the developer needs to do, even if he is an expert in the profession. Third, he won't be able to himself maintain the project as accounting rules and other laws change that dramatically affect the product, so maintenance will continue to be a problem.
Without already having some development experience I don't see this really working.
I've found that whoever has a position of authority in the organization makes the call, usually after having spent far too much time under the influence of a sales rep that lavishes them with meals or outings like to play golf.
Just because they're the only ones that have done it, doesn't mean that interested parties wouldn't want themselves to do it.
Which is more terrifying, the enemy that personally attacks you, that you can boast and brag about fighting him before he kills you, or the enemy that kills you that you never had a chance of defending against?
Now, imagine that the Toyota unintended vehicle acceleration problem manifested on all of the vulnerable cars at the same time. There are a LOT of Toyotas out there, and as a global car make it would not be hard for an organization, anywhere in the world that wanted to try this, to get vehicles to use to test discovered exploits on.
How do you pay for those resources when you don't have any cash and can't withdraw any from the ATM without giving up something that you need? With your body?
Very true. I met my wife after I learned how to dance. A decade ago there were so few men relative to the number of women that men had pretty good odds.
It's mildly ironic, after dating women off and on for years that I knew through geeky/nerdy circles, like ladies that were BBSers or were into Linux, I met and ultimately married a woman with a Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, arguably alpha-class geekdom, through dance.
around here, the taxi model works where the company leases the car to the driver for the day, and the driver can pick up hailed fares or can take dispatched fares. After the car and fuel is paid for the rest goes to the driver. The company pays for the maintenance with the revenue it collects from leasing-out the car.
Lead-times do not generally allow for a lot of material-shift in emergencies when those materials are necessary. Regulation can be used for prepositioning when there's otherwise no financial incentive to preposition.
On top of that, most people in this fancy new economy may not have immediate access to pay for resources. If the power is out they probably don't have the cash to pay for a market solution, or even the pricing before the disaster.
This regulation that sets pricing has the effect of normalizing prices across market volatility. Surge pricing indicates what happens when that normalizing is gone and one is literally playing the market to buy one's ride.
I don't think that Communism as a concept will ever actually work as I don't think there will ever be a post-scarcity economy, as humans will always find a way to use everything and still want more.
There was a scale for model railroading that was very close to the scale for Battletech. I think one was 1:64 and the other 1:65. If one is in to Battletech or other similar tabletop games it might make sense to select a scale that's compatible with more than one hobby, given the physical space that the hobby takes up.
If a man wants to meet women, he needs to do things that women also do, or to do things that women find interesting. The fewer women in the hobby or interest area the lower his chances. Even in some areas where women have interests they might not, on average, value the same aspects of the hobby as, on average, the men do. In automotive circles I've found that women care more about how a car looks than how fast it goes or how it otherwise performs. The Chevelle with the beautiful deep blue metallic paint polished to a mirror finish with a 2bbl 305 and stock suspension will get much more attention from the ladies at the cruise-in than the Chevelle with the dual-quad carbs on the 454 with the full Hotchkiss suspension with dull factory paint that has weathered throughout the years, even though arguably the latter means business.
I don't doubt that some women like model railroading. It's not where I would go to look for a date, but to each their own.
Or maybe their sex lives are fine, and he (assuming that the article submitter is male) simply wants to do something else other than watching TV or surfing the Internet?
Heaven forbid someone else wanting to have different hobbies for the three to four hours a day that they have to themselves...
I didn't know that about XP. We had XP with Netware at work for a short time, but we used the full Netware client instead of the lightweight Microsoft client due to problems.
I've actually taken to using XP's versions of the Microsoft Games on Windows 7, haven't tried with 8/8.1 or 10 yet. I don't like the spacing or delays added to the newer versions, and they're just cards, I don't need a 3d interpretation of a 2d game.
I had Chicago Beta 1 Build 112, from May of 1994 and went through several builds prior to release. Ran it on a Cyrix-based 486DLC at 40MHz with 8MB RAM with a 400MB hard disk drive. A couple of the betas were really messed up, but my young teenage self was more than happy to work around the problems. There was one build where msgsrv32 had to be manually killed and quickly so that the shell would load properly at initial bootup.
What initially appealed to me was the ability to use Windows NT applications that were 32 bit and more robust and reliable. Amusingly, Winzip was my first 32-bit application. It also was better for network gaming as it was easier to make the network stack work in Windows than it was with the Microsoft Network Client for DOS, though depending on the game over the years that was a useful option too.
I didn't really start to dislike Microsoft until they started forcing Internet Explorer. Windows 95 OSR2 would attempt for force its install when the OS was installed as a separate component but that could be manually killed before it did anything. With Windows 98 I found a program called 98Lite that would extract the shell from the Windows 95 source files and put it on the Windows 98 installation; there were a few bugs for GUI features that were created for 98 but otherwise it worked fairly well.
In some ways Microsoft's hamhanded IE integration helped push me towards Linux. Slackware jokingly released their version with the 2.0.0 kernel as "Slackware 96", started out with that and moved into the fold quite seriously.
You know, this novelty troll is actually starting to grow on me. I'm pretty sure there isn't a bot involved as the subject is derived from the article but not directly taken from it and the content of the post changes a bit each time.
So much better than the goatlemongirl posts we used to get...
'99 Subaru has crumple zones and probably has antilock brakes. It probably performs adequately in moderate-offset front crashes, but probably not so well on slight-offset crashes whose test parameters were only introduced in the past few years, but many new cars are still failing those tests.
So, you're saying that it 'just works' that the user logs on to his laptop, his desktop, and his tablet, and all his data seems, from his perspective to magically be identical on all of these platforms? Because I can tell you, that a whole lot of under-the-hood action is happening with Active Directory, folder redirection, caching, and conflicting version resolution that someone had to initially set up.
It depends on what they're using the computers for. This modern general-purpose computer is not the only model that we've had; we had text-based machines that only did specific things even if there was a very large selection of those specific things. We had early GUI machines that were set up much the same way; Windows 3.1 in particular was often very locked-down to the tasks that users actually needed. I sort of blame Windows 95 in that regard, it became a lot harder to restrict the functions of the computer. For some that meant being better for their jobs, but for others it has meant complaining about features that they don't really have any need to use anyway.
When I was in college we had an Xterm cluster running off an HPUX server with CDE as the windowmanager. It really didn't do a whole lot or present a whole lot of options to the users, but they xterms were still constantly in use because science and engineering students could do their work just fine and had less trouble with distractions. They did fewer things, but they did them better.
I would argue that seeking sexual gratification with another person that is actually involved in the particular act (ie, beyond being the subject of a picture or prerecorded video, or for live adult shows, more intimately than being on-stage without contact) meets the standard for at least a degree of unfaithfulness. It is also argued that falling in-love without any prurient component is being unfaithful.
Maintaining a committed relationship requires a lot of work, and based on the numbers, it looks like the vast majority of people do not understand that in their first serious relationship. That's part of the problem with the movement that the Duggars and others who claim Family Values don't seem to remember when they advocate against birth control, against premarital sex, or against anything else that makes the end of the relationship easy or even possible, people have to learn how to have relationships usually before they can actually have healthy ones. Pushing to put consequences on the results of bad relationships causes only harm.
It's still the department's failure, even if it can be tied to the director of the department or to any staff whose job is to actually train. New systems that are radically different from old ones require training. Hell, we trained users when we switched from Netware to Active Directory, even though the differences only manifested if they selected advanced options to see that it.wasn't.context.anymore and was now an ADDOMAIN instead.
So, what about making things work isn't support, at least in the context of making things work for a company whose primary mission isn't itself doing IT work for the rest of the world?
'cause where I work, technology isn't the end, it's merely a means. A very important, very expensive, very prominent means, but if another better means beyond technology-as-we-know-it came along they'd drop the IT department like a bad penny.
There is still a distinction. Advocating for the fuel-efficient-boring-car is not the same as advocating against the Ferrari.
Mr. Duggar is actively campaigning against the very activities that he was doing, and advocating for the very thing that he was destroying in his own life and the lives of his family. I for one am judging him on the very criteria for which he has said people should be judged, but I am only judging him on that criteria, as that is his criteria.
If he didn't want his private life judged, he should have stayed out of private lives at-large.
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Honestly, the odds are so stacked against the idea-man that doesn't have the technical resources to be heavily involved that I don't know if it's worthwhile to do the development in the first place. First off, the standard boiler-plate contract with the developer will grant that developer full rights to the project if the idea-man can't or doesn't pay him, so the developer could end up profiting off of a finished product even if the idea-man contributes a significant amount of professional knowledge to the project. Second, the idea-man will effectively have to write pseudo-code to explain functions of the profession to the developer, so if he doesn't come into the project without at least a modicum of programming knowledge he'll poorly convey what the developer needs to do, even if he is an expert in the profession. Third, he won't be able to himself maintain the project as accounting rules and other laws change that dramatically affect the product, so maintenance will continue to be a problem.
Without already having some development experience I don't see this really working.
I've found that whoever has a position of authority in the organization makes the call, usually after having spent far too much time under the influence of a sales rep that lavishes them with meals or outings like to play golf.
Just because they're the only ones that have done it, doesn't mean that interested parties wouldn't want themselves to do it.
Which is more terrifying, the enemy that personally attacks you, that you can boast and brag about fighting him before he kills you, or the enemy that kills you that you never had a chance of defending against?
Now, imagine that the Toyota unintended vehicle acceleration problem manifested on all of the vulnerable cars at the same time . There are a LOT of Toyotas out there, and as a global car make it would not be hard for an organization, anywhere in the world that wanted to try this, to get vehicles to use to test discovered exploits on.
I never paid for Netscape. I downloaded it via FTP through the command-line FTP client.
How do you pay for those resources when you don't have any cash and can't withdraw any from the ATM without giving up something that you need? With your body?
Very true. I met my wife after I learned how to dance. A decade ago there were so few men relative to the number of women that men had pretty good odds.
It's mildly ironic, after dating women off and on for years that I knew through geeky/nerdy circles, like ladies that were BBSers or were into Linux, I met and ultimately married a woman with a Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, arguably alpha-class geekdom, through dance.
around here, the taxi model works where the company leases the car to the driver for the day, and the driver can pick up hailed fares or can take dispatched fares. After the car and fuel is paid for the rest goes to the driver. The company pays for the maintenance with the revenue it collects from leasing-out the car.
Lead-times do not generally allow for a lot of material-shift in emergencies when those materials are necessary. Regulation can be used for prepositioning when there's otherwise no financial incentive to preposition.
On top of that, most people in this fancy new economy may not have immediate access to pay for resources. If the power is out they probably don't have the cash to pay for a market solution, or even the pricing before the disaster.
This regulation that sets pricing has the effect of normalizing prices across market volatility. Surge pricing indicates what happens when that normalizing is gone and one is literally playing the market to buy one's ride.
I don't think that Communism as a concept will ever actually work as I don't think there will ever be a post-scarcity economy, as humans will always find a way to use everything and still want more.
There was a scale for model railroading that was very close to the scale for Battletech. I think one was 1:64 and the other 1:65. If one is in to Battletech or other similar tabletop games it might make sense to select a scale that's compatible with more than one hobby, given the physical space that the hobby takes up.
Why is this crap on slashdot?
Still more genre-relevant than the article on the French train attack from yesterday.
If a man wants to meet women, he needs to do things that women also do, or to do things that women find interesting. The fewer women in the hobby or interest area the lower his chances. Even in some areas where women have interests they might not, on average, value the same aspects of the hobby as, on average, the men do. In automotive circles I've found that women care more about how a car looks than how fast it goes or how it otherwise performs. The Chevelle with the beautiful deep blue metallic paint polished to a mirror finish with a 2bbl 305 and stock suspension will get much more attention from the ladies at the cruise-in than the Chevelle with the dual-quad carbs on the 454 with the full Hotchkiss suspension with dull factory paint that has weathered throughout the years, even though arguably the latter means business.
I don't doubt that some women like model railroading. It's not where I would go to look for a date, but to each their own.
Or maybe their sex lives are fine, and he (assuming that the article submitter is male) simply wants to do something else other than watching TV or surfing the Internet?
Heaven forbid someone else wanting to have different hobbies for the three to four hours a day that they have to themselves...
I didn't know that about XP. We had XP with Netware at work for a short time, but we used the full Netware client instead of the lightweight Microsoft client due to problems.
I've actually taken to using XP's versions of the Microsoft Games on Windows 7, haven't tried with 8/8.1 or 10 yet. I don't like the spacing or delays added to the newer versions, and they're just cards, I don't need a 3d interpretation of a 2d game.
I had Chicago Beta 1 Build 112, from May of 1994 and went through several builds prior to release. Ran it on a Cyrix-based 486DLC at 40MHz with 8MB RAM with a 400MB hard disk drive. A couple of the betas were really messed up, but my young teenage self was more than happy to work around the problems. There was one build where msgsrv32 had to be manually killed and quickly so that the shell would load properly at initial bootup.
What initially appealed to me was the ability to use Windows NT applications that were 32 bit and more robust and reliable. Amusingly, Winzip was my first 32-bit application. It also was better for network gaming as it was easier to make the network stack work in Windows than it was with the Microsoft Network Client for DOS, though depending on the game over the years that was a useful option too.
I didn't really start to dislike Microsoft until they started forcing Internet Explorer. Windows 95 OSR2 would attempt for force its install when the OS was installed as a separate component but that could be manually killed before it did anything. With Windows 98 I found a program called 98Lite that would extract the shell from the Windows 95 source files and put it on the Windows 98 installation; there were a few bugs for GUI features that were created for 98 but otherwise it worked fairly well.
In some ways Microsoft's hamhanded IE integration helped push me towards Linux. Slackware jokingly released their version with the 2.0.0 kernel as "Slackware 96", started out with that and moved into the fold quite seriously.
You know, this novelty troll is actually starting to grow on me. I'm pretty sure there isn't a bot involved as the subject is derived from the article but not directly taken from it and the content of the post changes a bit each time.
So much better than the goatlemongirl posts we used to get...
'99 Subaru has crumple zones and probably has antilock brakes. It probably performs adequately in moderate-offset front crashes, but probably not so well on slight-offset crashes whose test parameters were only introduced in the past few years, but many new cars are still failing those tests.
In all honesty I would have him drive the Subaru.
So, you're saying that it 'just works' that the user logs on to his laptop, his desktop, and his tablet, and all his data seems, from his perspective to magically be identical on all of these platforms? Because I can tell you, that a whole lot of under-the-hood action is happening with Active Directory, folder redirection, caching, and conflicting version resolution that someone had to initially set up.
It depends on what they're using the computers for. This modern general-purpose computer is not the only model that we've had; we had text-based machines that only did specific things even if there was a very large selection of those specific things. We had early GUI machines that were set up much the same way; Windows 3.1 in particular was often very locked-down to the tasks that users actually needed. I sort of blame Windows 95 in that regard, it became a lot harder to restrict the functions of the computer. For some that meant being better for their jobs, but for others it has meant complaining about features that they don't really have any need to use anyway.
When I was in college we had an Xterm cluster running off an HPUX server with CDE as the windowmanager. It really didn't do a whole lot or present a whole lot of options to the users, but they xterms were still constantly in use because science and engineering students could do their work just fine and had less trouble with distractions. They did fewer things, but they did them better.
I would argue that seeking sexual gratification with another person that is actually involved in the particular act (ie, beyond being the subject of a picture or prerecorded video, or for live adult shows, more intimately than being on-stage without contact) meets the standard for at least a degree of unfaithfulness. It is also argued that falling in-love without any prurient component is being unfaithful.
Maintaining a committed relationship requires a lot of work, and based on the numbers, it looks like the vast majority of people do not understand that in their first serious relationship. That's part of the problem with the movement that the Duggars and others who claim Family Values don't seem to remember when they advocate against birth control, against premarital sex, or against anything else that makes the end of the relationship easy or even possible, people have to learn how to have relationships usually before they can actually have healthy ones. Pushing to put consequences on the results of bad relationships causes only harm.
Ah, you saw JJ's Star Trek too?
Was that what it was? With all of the lens flares I wasn't sure.
I feel so terrible now, realizing how cool I though the lens flares in Babylon 5 were, back when I was fourteen and didn't know any better.
It's still the department's failure, even if it can be tied to the director of the department or to any staff whose job is to actually train. New systems that are radically different from old ones require training. Hell, we trained users when we switched from Netware to Active Directory, even though the differences only manifested if they selected advanced options to see that it.wasn't.context.anymore and was now an ADDOMAIN instead.
So, what about making things work isn't support, at least in the context of making things work for a company whose primary mission isn't itself doing IT work for the rest of the world?
'cause where I work, technology isn't the end, it's merely a means. A very important, very expensive, very prominent means, but if another better means beyond technology-as-we-know-it came along they'd drop the IT department like a bad penny.
There is still a distinction. Advocating for the fuel-efficient-boring-car is not the same as advocating against the Ferrari.
Mr. Duggar is actively campaigning against the very activities that he was doing, and advocating for the very thing that he was destroying in his own life and the lives of his family. I for one am judging him on the very criteria for which he has said people should be judged, but I am only judging him on that criteria, as that is his criteria.
If he didn't want his private life judged, he should have stayed out of private lives at-large.