It seems that when an embassy, hospital, pharmaceutical plant or other facility protected under the Geneva conventions gets bombed, so few people care that no one has to pay any consequences.
Why should it matter if it's a "smart robot" instead of a "smart bomb"?
If the government allows contractors to consistently screw subcontractors of their IP, why would anyone want to keep subcontracting? If subcontractors decide to stop volunteering, what will that do to your military capacity?
The right thing to do from a moral standpoint is to do as the grandparent says: have the government discuss that a tech is used without getting into details. Value of the contract and/or the contribution would help the judge establish a fair compensation.
As it turns out the moral thing is also the practical and strategic thing.
OMFG.
For a second, I thought I had clicked the wrong link. The first article was obviously not the one you were referring to, so I gave the second article a more careful reading.
What a load of rat's droppings. And then I noticed the URL: free republic. Ouch.
So, do you believe a peer reviewed journal more than FR? Just so I don't use the appeal to authority, have you read the Science article?
On the frequency, Michaels happily quotes the Science article to show that no conclusive evidence could be found because "Only one region, the North Atlantic, shows a statistically significant increase."
And then he goes on to knock the study by using data only from the same region from 1940-on to show that conclusions for that one single region may be incomplete.
And of course, because they editors at FR do their job and this article went through peer-review, I'm supposed to believe this 100%, that data gathering and plotting were without fault?
Maybe the author is on to something. Perhaps he would publish in a serious journal, or make the data freely available?
TFA article confuses more storms and more severe storms, and the editors blithely repeat that assertion.
It's pretty straightforward: the force of the storm depends on the temperature on the ocean's surface. Higher temperature means nastier storms.
Look, if you don't believe humans are affecting the climate with CO2, fine. If you think things aren't getting worse, fine. But can you quit mis-representing people's arguments and research conclusions?
Now back to reading that dupe about IE being more secure than FF. Gotta love editorial standards here.
With the loaded costs of 3 point and click monkeys, you can offer a decent salary to a real sysadmin. Until the salary differential is more than 3 times, the grandparent still saves money.
Meanwhile you have 3 monkeys running a network. I wonder who's safer and most productive?
For ground-truthing geographic data, I've wondered if we could put cameras + GPS + small computer and large HDD on a vehicle. Building 3D models, reading street signs, driving instructions (stops/no right turn, parking, etc...).
It would break the mapping oligopoly - at least for that range of uses. Unfortunately, it seems to be insanely difficult right now to extract all that data.
Dude- tell your lawyer brother MS's own suite is not compatible with MS products.
I've had to use OO.org to open Powerpoint presentations- resaving them allowed the next version of Powerpoint to read it again. This whole compatibility thing is a canard, if not FUD.
OO.org won't be able to read all MS's formats perfectly 100% of the time- but then neither will MS's last version.
So what gives? Keep 1 copy of MS in the office, and switch the rest to OO.org.
As you mentionned in discussion with others, the cost of installing the extra capacity was very low- the city was laying down fiber anyways. So you're likely getting service for pennies, and the whole city benefits.
TFA indicates a cost of $200 million over 3 years for the infrastructure. I wonder what monthly payments that will mean for end users. If their track record is any indication, these companies are likely to overcharge and provide piss-poor customer service.
If Rogers and Bell are what capitalism is all about, I'll take municipal anarcho-socialism any day.
You know how you have to add "in bed" at the end of fortunes from fortune cookies?
Well, you forgot to add "in a way that lets us make more money every year" at the end of the corporate mission statement. Except it works more reliably for mission statement than fortune cookies.
At Microsoft, we work to help people and businesses throughout the world realize their full potential. This is our mission. Everything we do reflects this mission and the values that make it possible.
I'm not so sure what their slogan is: You will be assimilated?
In any case, it's clear that the only thing most of us thought as a slogan for google was Do no eviiil. The bit about organizing the world's information and making it useful- well, that's their mission statment.
With a CEO that throws chairs around and a tech with both-feet in mouth disease, I'd be selling M$ shares right now.
I'm 30 and starting classes again in 3 weeks- to finish a degree started nearly 10 years ago. Well, not the same degree mind you- more management science and MIS than B Comm.
How I wish I had taken a 1 year program to get me a job right away. Is there any reason aspiring hackers can't be allowed to study part-time for 5-6 years?
Especially if it turns out you're not cut out to be a "computer scientist", it would help if your first year you learned about SQL, regexps, programming and basic algos rather than malloc. Stuff you might actually use in other fields...
The plant will save up to 200,000 metric tons of coal and 100,000 tons of fuel oil a year.
Gee, at $200,000 that's quite a bargain. How did they get the 5-6 cents/kwh? And why is it they're having a hard time finding investors that will take a longer-term approach without being so fixed on ROI?
Oh, maybe they're off by at least two F#@$% orders of magnitude?
The reason nuclear isn't viable is cost, and as long as its proponents are this clueless about accounting, I don't expect a revival any time soon.
I suppose there never is a good time to install a technology that will cannibalize its bottom line.
According to TFA, "[BellSouth] expects to spend as much as $600 million to restore service on nearly half its 4.9 million lines in the gulf region and to 24 central offices, where local lines connect to the public phone network."
That's what, some $240+ per line? Thank god they're using wireless to cut costs in some instances!
Somehow I can't help but think that the price/performance comparison favours wireless...
I still can not understand why the average pay of a well-seasoned applications designer is still no match to that of a recently-graduated MBA
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
That was one of the funniest things I read in a while. 2 things:
-Save the company several million, and then threaten or go work somewhere else for a while. I know a student that can already make 6 figures (CAD) as a programmer, and that's why.
-The person that hires you and the MBA also has an MBA. You see the value of a tech person, the MBA type sees the value of the other person with an MBA. Who'd a thunk?
-The MBA person generally adds far more to the bottom line than your average techie, even if a properly managed techie could add more value. Oh wait- if they were properly managed, then the MBA was doing his job and adding value. So maybe they're worth it!
It's not an original thought, but our value as programmers increases as we know how to add value to a business. And then we have to negotiate, even using the threat of leaving.
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It seems that when an embassy, hospital, pharmaceutical plant or other facility protected under the Geneva conventions gets bombed, so few people care that no one has to pay any consequences.
Why should it matter if it's a "smart robot" instead of a "smart bomb"?
Sorry, no one will believe that here
If the government allows contractors to consistently screw subcontractors of their IP, why would anyone want to keep subcontracting? If subcontractors decide to stop volunteering, what will that do to your military capacity?
The right thing to do from a moral standpoint is to do as the grandparent says: have the government discuss that a tech is used without getting into details. Value of the contract and/or the contribution would help the judge establish a fair compensation.
As it turns out the moral thing is also the practical and strategic thing.
So it's established law that security contractors don't have to follow IP law.
Organized crime never had it so good.
Fer fuck's sake... the data in Science covers all oceans, his only covers the North Atlantic.
WTF, that's a rebuttal?
OMFG. For a second, I thought I had clicked the wrong link. The first article was obviously not the one you were referring to, so I gave the second article a more careful reading. What a load of rat's droppings. And then I noticed the URL: free republic. Ouch. So, do you believe a peer reviewed journal more than FR? Just so I don't use the appeal to authority, have you read the Science article? On the frequency, Michaels happily quotes the Science article to show that no conclusive evidence could be found because "Only one region, the North Atlantic, shows a statistically significant increase." And then he goes on to knock the study by using data only from the same region from 1940-on to show that conclusions for that one single region may be incomplete. And of course, because they editors at FR do their job and this article went through peer-review, I'm supposed to believe this 100%, that data gathering and plotting were without fault? Maybe the author is on to something. Perhaps he would publish in a serious journal, or make the data freely available?
TFA article confuses more storms and more severe storms, and the editors blithely repeat that assertion.
It's pretty straightforward: the force of the storm depends on the temperature on the ocean's surface. Higher temperature means nastier storms.
Look, if you don't believe humans are affecting the climate with CO2, fine. If you think things aren't getting worse, fine. But can you quit mis-representing people's arguments and research conclusions?
Now back to reading that dupe about IE being more secure than FF. Gotta love editorial standards here.
With the loaded costs of 3 point and click monkeys, you can offer a decent salary to a real sysadmin. Until the salary differential is more than 3 times, the grandparent still saves money.
Meanwhile you have 3 monkeys running a network. I wonder who's safer and most productive?
For ground-truthing geographic data, I've wondered if we could put cameras + GPS + small computer and large HDD on a vehicle. Building 3D models, reading street signs, driving instructions (stops/no right turn, parking, etc...).
It would break the mapping oligopoly - at least for that range of uses. Unfortunately, it seems to be insanely difficult right now to extract all that data.
Dude- tell your lawyer brother MS's own suite is not compatible with MS products.
I've had to use OO.org to open Powerpoint presentations- resaving them allowed the next version of Powerpoint to read it again. This whole compatibility thing is a canard, if not FUD.
OO.org won't be able to read all MS's formats perfectly 100% of the time- but then neither will MS's last version.
So what gives? Keep 1 copy of MS in the office, and switch the rest to OO.org.
A great sarchasm divides these two posts by users with 5-digit uids.
As you mentionned in discussion with others, the cost of installing the extra capacity was very low- the city was laying down fiber anyways. So you're likely getting service for pennies, and the whole city benefits.
TFA indicates a cost of $200 million over 3 years for the infrastructure. I wonder what monthly payments that will mean for end users. If their track record is any indication, these companies are likely to overcharge and provide piss-poor customer service.
If Rogers and Bell are what capitalism is all about, I'll take municipal anarcho-socialism any day.
You know how you have to add "in bed" at the end of fortunes from fortune cookies?
Well, you forgot to add "in a way that lets us make more money every year" at the end of the corporate mission statement. Except it works more reliably for mission statement than fortune cookies.
I know most people here have an allergy to corporatey stuff, but a mission statement is different from a slogan. Here's M$'s mission statement:
Our Mission
At Microsoft, we work to help people and businesses throughout the world realize their full potential. This is our mission. Everything we do reflects this mission and the values that make it possible.
I'm not so sure what their slogan is: You will be assimilated?
In any case, it's clear that the only thing most of us thought as a slogan for google was Do no eviiil. The bit about organizing the world's information and making it useful- well, that's their mission statment.
With a CEO that throws chairs around and a tech with both-feet in mouth disease, I'd be selling M$ shares right now.
I'm 30 and starting classes again in 3 weeks- to finish a degree started nearly 10 years ago. Well, not the same degree mind you- more management science and MIS than B Comm.
How I wish I had taken a 1 year program to get me a job right away. Is there any reason aspiring hackers can't be allowed to study part-time for 5-6 years?
Especially if it turns out you're not cut out to be a "computer scientist", it would help if your first year you learned about SQL, regexps, programming and basic algos rather than malloc. Stuff you might actually use in other fields...
Oh, maybe they're off by at least two F#@$% orders of magnitude?
The reason nuclear isn't viable is cost, and as long as its proponents are this clueless about accounting, I don't expect a revival any time soon.
A lot of the tree is underground... so I think it would be a carbon sink for a while even after burning.
Just think that you're lucky: $1400 for 12 billable hours and some material is fairly cheap ;)
I suppose there never is a good time to install a technology that will cannibalize its bottom line.
According to TFA, "[BellSouth] expects to spend as much as $600 million to restore service on nearly half its 4.9 million lines in the gulf region and to 24 central offices, where local lines connect to the public phone network."
That's what, some $240+ per line? Thank god they're using wireless to cut costs in some instances!
Somehow I can't help but think that the price/performance comparison favours wireless...
Sounds to me like MS is trying to change their image.
If that's the case, ESR just handed them some free PR: now every geek in open-source land knows they have a chance at an interview with MS.
The strategic thing would have been to accept the interview to get a sense of what they want exactly.
That was one of the funniest things I read in a while. 2 things:
-Save the company several million, and then threaten or go work somewhere else for a while. I know a student that can already make 6 figures (CAD) as a programmer, and that's why.
-The person that hires you and the MBA also has an MBA. You see the value of a tech person, the MBA type sees the value of the other person with an MBA. Who'd a thunk?
-The MBA person generally adds far more to the bottom line than your average techie, even if a properly managed techie could add more value. Oh wait- if they were properly managed, then the MBA was doing his job and adding value. So maybe they're worth it!
It's not an original thought, but our value as programmers increases as we know how to add value to a business. And then we have to negotiate, even using the threat of leaving.
Your economy is in sad shape, and can't be sustained very long.
Microsoft is probably still an overall benefit, as it is likely bringing more money in than sending abroad.
Your balance of trade and deficit issues boggle the imagination- but MS is the least of your worries there.
The rapture- this makes total sense now. So that's where all my socks disappear- I must be very favored by the IPU.
This information is obviously vital, and should no doubt be covered in Biology class!
If the Scientologists get their theories in, so should Pastafarians.
;)
I can't prove my beliefs in the FSM (blessed be), but you can't disprove them either. So there!
IIRC, you can sent a mini-sat up with an old converted russian ICBM for a small fraction of the cost of a full-scale launch.
:)
Keep in mind this is a university project, and probably not people that would want/need to send 50 up.
A mighty cool hack