My dad has a schoolhouse clock that has always been running as long as I've been alive. It has a note on the inside saying that it was last repaired in 1909. If a simple clock made of small pieces of iron and brass can last 100 years, a behemoth of stainless steel might be able to last 1000's.
About the content, why would any IT person ever have to resort to "trust" anyone for their software compatibility? You'd almost think they can't grab a VM image of Windows7 and test their software to see if there are compatibility issues.
Yes, it's easy to get a copy of a new OS and run your application on it, but most business applications aren't sufficiently defined, much less tested enough to be sure there aren't any bugs, much less bugs caused by the new OS.
Show of hands, how many developers use code coverage analysis tools to make sure their tests cover every part of their code, and every edge case is adequately tested?
For a good lawyer, thousands is about right, especially if they get the charges thrown out in the 1st 5 minutes. Would you rather get a cut rate attorney that takes weeks for < 200 bucks?
Sometimes the presence of a good lawyer will convince the judge right off that the case is bogus. If the judge knows that your lawyer knows his stuff and doesn't waste the court's time, the judge is more likely to follow his lead.
If nonprofits have too much money at the end of the year, I guess they have to pay it out in bonuses and retro-active benefits to their executives, right? As long as their bottom line shows no profit, who cares what, for whom, their expenses were?
Or like Universities, they can set up a endowment for the future. The only thing non-profits can't do with their money is pay investors. (Except for bond payments, which are fixed)
Before the crash, several Universities, like Harvard, had too much money in their endowments, so the IRS asked them to spend a bit more, following their charter. i.e. Their reason to exist. They were starting to, when the bottom dropped out of the market, so I don't think any are in that situation now.
The Smithsonian, NPR and PBS all have non-profit magazines.
What is the Press these days?
I am all for the press not endorsing candidates but I just don't see that happening.
Yep, almost any publication/ organization can be non-profit. All this bill does it give the newspapers the idea, and perhaps provides for the transition. Non-profits can even sell advertising and even pay outrageous amounts to the CEO.
if you are running a viable business in the long-term.
You've hit the nail on the head. The company in the story is probably not viable in the long term. Most of the people adding to this discussion seem to just want to tell everyone in the company, "Go home, your company is fubar." Real people won't give up on a sinking ship until it's too late. Management will stay with this asshole until he's dead or gone, and there's a good chance the company will fail after that.
3 out of 5 small businesses are going to fail within the 1st year. If you have one product and your genius programmer leaves, you have 0 products, and your competition eats your lunch whether they hire him or not.
The standard answer, diversify, doesn't work for most companies, because they don't have the capitol to spread out. If you try, your resources get diluted for your products and the competitor wins.
Look at Wall Street right now. They are giving > $1,000,000 bonuses to people who failed miserably, because, "That's what we have to do to keep them..." (Like they'd be able to go anywhere else) I've actually heard execs being interviewed complain about $500,000 salary caps because they are worried their "best" people will leave the country.
3 out of 5 small businesses fail within the first year. This happens all the time. (although some of these businesses don't have any geniuses, and just fail.)
Perhaps programmers should develop a secure repository of documentation that only the anointed will be allowed to access. If a company does anything to offend the guild, that company would be cut off from any and all documentation related to computers.
If your competitor hires this guy they might be able to outproduce you just long enough to put you out of business. Doing things right is important, but staying in business is the *most* important thing. (It's a gamble, like all of life, you roll the dice and take your chances.)
I worked for a small company that severely underpaid it's employees. As a result, most were people who were just out of college (me), couldn't get a job elsewhere, or didn't want to move because of family connections in the area. Many employees quit right after a spouse graduated from the nearby University.
One of the programmers was brilliant, but actually insane. He could look over your shoulder and debug the page on your terminal in a few seconds. That is, when his meds were working. He would check himself into the local mental hospital for weeks at time, during which he was truly unavailable. They kept him around because they couldn't afford to hire real programmers.
Continuous, unchanging government also means that if they proceed down the wrong path, they'll just keep going, over the cliff. Having to be re-elected every so often keeps politicians on there toes, even if they do get re-elected 90% of the time.
I've heard this, but the US Constitution doesn't allow commonwealths, and under the Ratification clause, it says:
Done in Convention by the Unanimous Consent of the States present the Seventeenth Day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven and of the Independence of the United States of America the Twelfth. In Witness whereof We have hereunto subscribed our Names.
Go. Washington is listed as the "President and deputy from Virginia". Since old George considered Virginia a state, I pretty sure we're safe in calling VA a state.
Right, the lawyers around here will clarify, but there is a principle in law that if the lie is big enough, you aren't liable. Thus, a hamburger shop can say that it has the "Best" burgers and it doesn't have to prove it.
If an anonymous statement holds no weight, then why is journalism filled with "anonymous sources say"
When a Journalist issues a statement from an anonymous source, you only give it credibility if the specific Journalist is credible to you. An online anonymous user shouldn't have the same credibility as an anonymous source quoted by Walter Cronkite.
The problem was probably that he was talking to their support department. If you ask for free support for an evaluation from the *Sales* department you'd probably get more traction. I've never had any problem getting support pre-sales. Of course I work for a 5 trillion dollar company, so YMMV. (p.s. Even though the company I work for is huge, we sometimes have problems getting support post-sales... Again, YMMV)
An AC says before if these marks are still on the records for the kids. Well why wouldn't they be? Just because the sentencing was wrong doesn't mean the crime wasn't committed.
At least in the case of Hillary Transue there was no crime, satire is constitutionally protect free speech. The judge was obviously making up crimes so he could sentence more kids to jail. Every one of the cases this judge had will have to be reviewed and retried, or if that's too expensive, they'll just have to expunge the records of everyone.
What the Judge should say at the end of this case is "I could read you my judgment, but since it contains copyrighted material, I can't divulge my decision. Case dismissed." (bang)
Issac Asimov wrote several excellent math and science introduction books. I read "Realm of Algebra" before starting Algebra in the 8th grade and aced the course.
There's a big difference between having a license for these frequencies and having permission from NASA to talk to the astronauts. I have a license. (It doesn't take that much power if you use a high gain antenna, since it's straight line of sight)
I don't have any special permission to talk with the people on the ISS. I haven't tried, as I would expect no-one to be listening on those frequencies if it wasn't set up in advance.
I don't see that there would be any danger if you were talking using licensed frequencies and powers.
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Right. I can see internet agents that live in Delaware that do your purchasing for you, but the product is shipped directly to the real buyer.
My dad has a schoolhouse clock that has always been running as long as I've been alive. It has a note on the inside saying that it was last repaired in 1909. If a simple clock made of small pieces of iron and brass can last 100 years, a behemoth of stainless steel might be able to last 1000's.
About the content, why would any IT person ever have to resort to "trust" anyone for their software compatibility? You'd almost think they can't grab a VM image of Windows7 and test their software to see if there are compatibility issues.
Yes, it's easy to get a copy of a new OS and run your application on it, but most business applications aren't sufficiently defined, much less tested enough to be sure there aren't any bugs, much less bugs caused by the new OS.
Show of hands, how many developers use code coverage analysis tools to make sure their tests cover every part of their code, and every edge case is adequately tested?
This will make organlegging possible. If you can just grab any kidney off the street and use it to replace a failing one, people will.
For a good lawyer, thousands is about right, especially if they get the charges thrown out in the 1st 5 minutes. Would you rather get a cut rate attorney that takes weeks for < 200 bucks?
Sometimes the presence of a good lawyer will convince the judge right off that the case is bogus. If the judge knows that your lawyer knows his stuff and doesn't waste the court's time, the judge is more likely to follow his lead.
If nonprofits have too much money at the end of the year, I guess they have to pay it out in bonuses and retro-active benefits to their executives, right? As long as their bottom line shows no profit, who cares what, for whom, their expenses were?
Or like Universities, they can set up a endowment for the future. The only thing non-profits can't do with their money is pay investors. (Except for bond payments, which are fixed)
Before the crash, several Universities, like Harvard, had too much money in their endowments, so the IRS asked them to spend a bit more, following their charter. i.e. Their reason to exist. They were starting to, when the bottom dropped out of the market, so I don't think any are in that situation now.
Why not just Newspapers? Why not TV?
PBS
Blogs?
I'm sure NPR and PBS have Non-profit blogs
Magazines?
The Smithsonian, NPR and PBS all have non-profit magazines.
What is the Press these days? I am all for the press not endorsing candidates but I just don't see that happening.
Yep, almost any publication/ organization can be non-profit. All this bill does it give the newspapers the idea, and perhaps provides for the transition. Non-profits can even sell advertising and even pay outrageous amounts to the CEO.
if you are running a viable business in the long-term.
You've hit the nail on the head. The company in the story is probably not viable in the long term. Most of the people adding to this discussion seem to just want to tell everyone in the company, "Go home, your company is fubar." Real people won't give up on a sinking ship until it's too late. Management will stay with this asshole until he's dead or gone, and there's a good chance the company will fail after that.
3 out of 5 small businesses are going to fail within the 1st year. If you have one product and your genius programmer leaves, you have 0 products, and your competition eats your lunch whether they hire him or not.
The standard answer, diversify, doesn't work for most companies, because they don't have the capitol to spread out. If you try, your resources get diluted for your products and the competitor wins.
Look at Wall Street right now. They are giving > $1,000,000 bonuses to people who failed miserably, because, "That's what we have to do to keep them..." (Like they'd be able to go anywhere else) I've actually heard execs being interviewed complain about $500,000 salary caps because they are worried their "best" people will leave the country.
3 out of 5 small businesses fail within the first year. This happens all the time. (although some of these businesses don't have any geniuses, and just fail.)
Perhaps programmers should develop a secure repository of documentation that only the anointed will be allowed to access. If a company does anything to offend the guild, that company would be cut off from any and all documentation related to computers.
The head of DEC, Ken Olson, has been famously quoted as saying, "We don't have any geniuses at DEC." Where are they now?
If your competitor hires this guy they might be able to outproduce you just long enough to put you out of business. Doing things right is important, but staying in business is the *most* important thing. (It's a gamble, like all of life, you roll the dice and take your chances.)
I worked for a small company that severely underpaid it's employees. As a result, most were people who were just out of college (me), couldn't get a job elsewhere, or didn't want to move because of family connections in the area. Many employees quit right after a spouse graduated from the nearby University.
One of the programmers was brilliant, but actually insane. He could look over your shoulder and debug the page on your terminal in a few seconds. That is, when his meds were working. He would check himself into the local mental hospital for weeks at time, during which he was truly unavailable. They kept him around because they couldn't afford to hire real programmers.
Continuous, unchanging government also means that if they proceed down the wrong path, they'll just keep going, over the cliff. Having to be re-elected every so often keeps politicians on there toes, even if they do get re-elected 90% of the time.
Dans les champs de l'observation le hasard ne favorise que les esprits préparés. - Louis Pasteur
In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.
Bad luck will strike you down no matter how talented you are, but good luck only works if you are smart enough to recognize and capitalize on it.
Done in Convention by the Unanimous Consent of the States present the Seventeenth Day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven and of the Independence of the United States of America the Twelfth. In Witness whereof We have hereunto subscribed our Names.
Go. Washington is listed as the "President and deputy from Virginia". Since old George considered Virginia a state, I pretty sure we're safe in calling VA a state.
Right, the lawyers around here will clarify, but there is a principle in law that if the lie is big enough, you aren't liable. Thus, a hamburger shop can say that it has the "Best" burgers and it doesn't have to prove it.
If an anonymous statement holds no weight, then why is journalism filled with "anonymous sources say"
When a Journalist issues a statement from an anonymous source, you only give it credibility if the specific Journalist is credible to you. An online anonymous user shouldn't have the same credibility as an anonymous source quoted by Walter Cronkite.
The problem was probably that he was talking to their support department. If you ask for free support for an evaluation from the *Sales* department you'd probably get more traction. I've never had any problem getting support pre-sales. Of course I work for a 5 trillion dollar company, so YMMV. (p.s. Even though the company I work for is huge, we sometimes have problems getting support post-sales... Again, YMMV)
If you want to hack biology get into plant breeding
Feed me, Seymour, Feed me.
An AC says before if these marks are still on the records for the kids. Well why wouldn't they be? Just because the sentencing was wrong doesn't mean the crime wasn't committed.
At least in the case of Hillary Transue there was no crime, satire is constitutionally protect free speech. The judge was obviously making up crimes so he could sentence more kids to jail. Every one of the cases this judge had will have to be reviewed and retried, or if that's too expensive, they'll just have to expunge the records of everyone.
What the Judge should say at the end of this case is "I could read you my judgment, but since it contains copyrighted material, I can't divulge my decision. Case dismissed." (bang)
Issac Asimov wrote several excellent math and science introduction books. I read "Realm of Algebra" before starting Algebra in the 8th grade and aced the course.
There's a big difference between having a license for these frequencies and having permission from NASA to talk to the astronauts. I have a license. (It doesn't take that much power if you use a high gain antenna, since it's straight line of sight) I don't have any special permission to talk with the people on the ISS. I haven't tried, as I would expect no-one to be listening on those frequencies if it wasn't set up in advance.
I don't see that there would be any danger if you were talking using licensed frequencies and powers.