Soon they will dispense with these formalities and simply check for the presence of pharmaceuticals in your blood (these are usually present in the conditions mentioned in the article so its just a matter of time until an academic study shows it). Since the doctors and hospitals themselves are usually responsible for creating this condition, they'll be able to justify forcibly holding anybody against their will. Boycott big pharma.
I don't personally see the 1st world countries willingly sacrificing their lifestyle and world position for the 'greater good'.
We won't willingly sacrifice our own lifestyle and position, but we have no problems with sacrificing other people's lifestyle and position for the 'greater good'! Greed is good, greed is right. Greed cuts through and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit that has marked the upward surge of mankind throughout the ages. And greed, mark my words, will not only save the united states, it will also save this malfunctioning planet.
I don't have a PVR, so I can't skip commercials. I started just leaving my TV off because I'd have to mute it every single time a commercial came on. I'd hit mute and go back to whatever I was doing on the computer, and an hour and a half later I'd remember that the TV was on and I just missed the entire program I was trying to watch because it was muted. COMMERCIALS THAT SOUND LIKE THIS ARE DOING MORE HARM THAN GOOD.
Compare the 1990 Nikkei crash in Japan to the Nasdaq dotcom crash in 2000. The Nikkei had an "echo boom" after the crash, just like the Nasdaq is experiencing now. After the nikkei echo boom, it ultimately plunged even lower than the bottom of the initial crash almost 10 years later. I'm not sure that the Nasdaq will fall below the low of its 2000 crash in the next 5 years (approximately 1,250), but you can see on those charts that there is historic precedent.
The apocalyptic future looks like... an amusement park! It'll be fun to see if they can put ads in the game without making it look like toonland. I'm sure I'll get a glance at it on some buffoon's computer at a lan party. Who knows, maybe I'll even get mesmerized by some ad while people are getting fragged everywhere.
By contrast, the 35-54 group at MySpace grew to 41 percent in August, from 32 percent a year earlier... The study was based on comScore's regular panels for measuring Internet audiences, rather than MySpace's registration information, where users often lie about their age.'
Why doesn't the blog author just say, "Google has found the optimal development strategy for their market niche and guess what it is? Flexibility and profit sharing for the employees!" Big suprise. There was absolutely no good reason for him to wail on his straw man impression of agile. I work for a proud agile java development shop, Asynchrony Solutions, in St. Louis. Agile works amazingly well for our market niche where we are held financially accountable to produce deliverables for our customers. The "agileness" just keeps all the developers and the customers on the same page throughout the entire software development cycle.
This blog author conveniently chose to not mention many of the most rewarding concepts in agile development. Our agile process includes daily stand-up meetings. Around 10 am when just about everyone is accounted for, each team member standing in a circle takes a turn summarizing what they accomplished yesterday, and what they plan to accomplish today. This serves two major purposes: people must articulate their goals thus clarifying the big picture for everybody, and each person is held accountable by their peers for how their time is spent. You wouldn't believe how this motivates people to make themselves useful so that they don't have to explain why they have nothing to say to the group at the standup.
Shame on this blog author for not even going into how agile development works hand in hand with test-driven development. Well written unit tests coded at the same time as the software itself in atomic increments is the most amazing paradigm shift in software development for decades. I feel liberated when I can fearlessly refactor code that has been written months ago by different people and integrated everywhere in the project because they have properly maintained a test suite. Contrast this with a project that has no unit tests. You have to tip-toe around every line of code, and as the project grows, it becomes exponentially harder to make even the simplest refactor. Peer programming and the agile discipline enforce test-driven development in the real world.
This article made me sad because a lot of damage was done. The blog author is riding on the implied credibility from his position at google, but he is not a professional agile developer. Although the author was right to be upset about shameless vendors who don't care if what they are selling is a mismatch for their customers, I am in awe of how everyone at my company rallies around the agile flag because we are proud that we've got a development process that works for us and our clients, and the discipline to deliver great software. It may not be as visible or high profile as google, but I work with a staff that is just as driven and talented. I hope we don't miss out on any future business because of misconceptions born from this slanderous blog article.
Also, what's up with the German and French from out of nowhere? I'm all for using them when there is no easy english equivalent, but what the hell, "Alas and alack, niente, gar nichts, zilch. Woe is me. Es tut mit leid." Those are just extra words.
Easy to explain: Legerdemain (sleight of hand).
It amplifies the prestidigitator (magician) author's drama induced authority.
I find the timing of this article to be highly relevent. I've been a windows user since I was a kid in the 1990's until a couple of weeks ago when ms announced a massive code re-write for vista. The most likely reason for the rewrite? Fixing holes in their DRM implementation. On that news, I installed linux. I failed miserably trying to install GENTOO, and ended up with UBUNTU, which I am very pleased with. I suspect DRM will be a major driver for growth in the linux userbase as long as they continue providing an alternative for people attempting to avoid DRM.
Although wikipedia is an interesting model for advancing how we do science, open source software projects provide a better model of how massively collaborative science research can be accomplished:
Open source projects are often designed to be tools for accomplishing atomic tasks in other more complicated projects with implementation specific scope.
Anyone can leverage open sourced projects to advance their own work.
Unit tests provide checks and balances that the project specification is still satisfied at each checkpoint along the development cycle.
CVS source control keeps all the developers up-to-date and synchronized as the project develops.
All developers work for free on the project, and anyone can contribute.
The primary developers are the authoritative source on the subject and make their money consulting and selling reference manuals.
All the scientists I've met are paranoid about other people stealing their big idea, and there seems to be a retarded mentality that they have to be the sole innovator. When IT people got over their egos (for the most part) and really started to collaborate on the web, life as a programmer got a lot more interesting. I don't know if scientists are creative enough to pull this off, and there may not be enough dollars to go around anyway.
This "software" is a joke. Unless it is doing some spyware crap, it shouldn't be more than about 20 lines of code. I bet I know why they are putting this software on their website. Now in court they can put the liability on the parents by saying, "You can't claim you had no way of knowing that this illegal media was on your computer because we've got free software for that on our website." Now the parents' $$$ is up for grabs.
Seriously, I daytrade stocks and futures at the office. Been doing okay. Once I'm making more doing that compared to my IT job, I'm quitting.
I do the same thing. When my trading account makes an up-swing that is the size of my yearly gross salary in a single day, that will probably be my last day at my day job. I've been at it for about 8 months and my biggest up-swing in one day is $2,000. I fund my stake with about 40% of my paycheck every 2 weeks, so it probably won't take more than a couple years for me to get there (I'm guessing about $250,000 stake because 2-1 margin gives me a half a million in buying power). I also want to experience a wicked bear market before I quit my day job so that I can quit with absolute confidence.
Send me an email if you want to talk stocks =) My last big trade was $10,000 of TASR @ $41.50, sold at $55.40. I've currently got some AAPL, GOOG, SYNA, and NVDA.
Of course, it doesn't actually matter that much to me. I'm not going to play it anyway - I use linux so I'm just going to stick to the copies of Doom 3 and Unreal Tournament 2004 that I bought and maybe play Half Life in the unlikely event that a linux port comes along.
Publicly traded company officers are required to report their salaries. You can view Larry Probst's salary on yahoo finance at the following link. For the most recently reported period it was $1.45 million, and he exercised another $22.5 million in stock options.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=ERTS
300k a year is not rich, and will never be rich again because of inflation. Slashdotters that think otherwise are the same mass of idiots that boosted the slashdot poll for Kerry to like 75% or whatever ridiculous figure it was on election day. Programmers are poor, techies are poor, and slashdotters are poor because they think that boosting their discretionary income can place them in the rich class. There are exceptions (maybe that other 25% that voted for Bush?), but most of you never will understand that the only way to get rich is to take all the money you can lay your hands on and use it to buy even more money, over and over again, possibly for decades if you can't do without some niceties along the way. A budding rich person makes several million a year and much more than that in the near future if they know what they are doing. No salary will ever get you there without incredibly talented investing skills.
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Soon they will dispense with these formalities and simply check for the presence of pharmaceuticals in your blood (these are usually present in the conditions mentioned in the article so its just a matter of time until an academic study shows it). Since the doctors and hospitals themselves are usually responsible for creating this condition, they'll be able to justify forcibly holding anybody against their will. Boycott big pharma.
Hello. I want to play a game.
We won't willingly sacrifice our own lifestyle and position, but we have no problems with sacrificing other people's lifestyle and position for the 'greater good'! Greed is good, greed is right. Greed cuts through and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit that has marked the upward surge of mankind throughout the ages. And greed, mark my words, will not only save the united states, it will also save this malfunctioning planet.
I can't believe you believe in superstitions like evolution. God made Earth, Animal, and Man. What more will you want?
I don't have a PVR, so I can't skip commercials. I started just leaving my TV off because I'd have to mute it every single time a commercial came on. I'd hit mute and go back to whatever I was doing on the computer, and an hour and a half later I'd remember that the TV was on and I just missed the entire program I was trying to watch because it was muted. COMMERCIALS THAT SOUND LIKE THIS ARE DOING MORE HARM THAN GOOD.
Compare the 1990 Nikkei crash in Japan to the Nasdaq dotcom crash in 2000. The Nikkei had an "echo boom" after the crash, just like the Nasdaq is experiencing now. After the nikkei echo boom, it ultimately plunged even lower than the bottom of the initial crash almost 10 years later. I'm not sure that the Nasdaq will fall below the low of its 2000 crash in the next 5 years (approximately 1,250), but you can see on those charts that there is historic precedent.
The apocalyptic future looks like... an amusement park! It'll be fun to see if they can put ads in the game without making it look like toonland. I'm sure I'll get a glance at it on some buffoon's computer at a lan party. Who knows, maybe I'll even get mesmerized by some ad while people are getting fragged everywhere.
"In the final stage, you fight Bush."
Until you're dead. Everybody knows Bush has godmode.
I love how this news post is cleverly filed under the "hardware" category =)
By contrast, the 35-54 group at MySpace grew to 41 percent in August, from 32 percent a year earlier ... The study was based on comScore's regular panels for measuring Internet audiences, rather than MySpace's registration information, where users often lie about their age.'
That's a lot of pedophiles.
Why doesn't the blog author just say, "Google has found the optimal development strategy for their market niche and guess what it is? Flexibility and profit sharing for the employees!" Big suprise. There was absolutely no good reason for him to wail on his straw man impression of agile. I work for a proud agile java development shop, Asynchrony Solutions, in St. Louis. Agile works amazingly well for our market niche where we are held financially accountable to produce deliverables for our customers. The "agileness" just keeps all the developers and the customers on the same page throughout the entire software development cycle.
This blog author conveniently chose to not mention many of the most rewarding concepts in agile development. Our agile process includes daily stand-up meetings. Around 10 am when just about everyone is accounted for, each team member standing in a circle takes a turn summarizing what they accomplished yesterday, and what they plan to accomplish today. This serves two major purposes: people must articulate their goals thus clarifying the big picture for everybody, and each person is held accountable by their peers for how their time is spent. You wouldn't believe how this motivates people to make themselves useful so that they don't have to explain why they have nothing to say to the group at the standup.
Shame on this blog author for not even going into how agile development works hand in hand with test-driven development. Well written unit tests coded at the same time as the software itself in atomic increments is the most amazing paradigm shift in software development for decades. I feel liberated when I can fearlessly refactor code that has been written months ago by different people and integrated everywhere in the project because they have properly maintained a test suite. Contrast this with a project that has no unit tests. You have to tip-toe around every line of code, and as the project grows, it becomes exponentially harder to make even the simplest refactor. Peer programming and the agile discipline enforce test-driven development in the real world.
This article made me sad because a lot of damage was done. The blog author is riding on the implied credibility from his position at google, but he is not a professional agile developer. Although the author was right to be upset about shameless vendors who don't care if what they are selling is a mismatch for their customers, I am in awe of how everyone at my company rallies around the agile flag because we are proud that we've got a development process that works for us and our clients, and the discipline to deliver great software. It may not be as visible or high profile as google, but I work with a staff that is just as driven and talented. I hope we don't miss out on any future business because of misconceptions born from this slanderous blog article.
I'd buy that for a dollar!
Easy to explain: Legerdemain (sleight of hand).
It amplifies the prestidigitator (magician) author's drama induced authority.
I find the timing of this article to be highly relevent. I've been a windows user since I was a kid in the 1990's until a couple of weeks ago when ms announced a massive code re-write for vista. The most likely reason for the rewrite? Fixing holes in their DRM implementation. On that news, I installed linux. I failed miserably trying to install GENTOO, and ended up with UBUNTU, which I am very pleased with. I suspect DRM will be a major driver for growth in the linux userbase as long as they continue providing an alternative for people attempting to avoid DRM.
All the scientists I've met are paranoid about other people stealing their big idea, and there seems to be a retarded mentality that they have to be the sole innovator. When IT people got over their egos (for the most part) and really started to collaborate on the web, life as a programmer got a lot more interesting. I don't know if scientists are creative enough to pull this off, and there may not be enough dollars to go around anyway.
This "software" is a joke. Unless it is doing some spyware crap, it shouldn't be more than about 20 lines of code. I bet I know why they are putting this software on their website. Now in court they can put the liability on the parents by saying, "You can't claim you had no way of knowing that this illegal media was on your computer because we've got free software for that on our website." Now the parents' $$$ is up for grabs.
Have you ever tried turning off the tv, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?
I forgot to mention, I keep a trading blog at http://fickletrader.blogspot.com
I do the same thing. When my trading account makes an up-swing that is the size of my yearly gross salary in a single day, that will probably be my last day at my day job. I've been at it for about 8 months and my biggest up-swing in one day is $2,000. I fund my stake with about 40% of my paycheck every 2 weeks, so it probably won't take more than a couple years for me to get there (I'm guessing about $250,000 stake because 2-1 margin gives me a half a million in buying power). I also want to experience a wicked bear market before I quit my day job so that I can quit with absolute confidence.
Send me an email if you want to talk stocks =) My last big trade was $10,000 of TASR @ $41.50, sold at $55.40. I've currently got some AAPL, GOOG, SYNA, and NVDA.
Publicly traded company officers are required to report their salaries. You can view Larry Probst's salary on yahoo finance at the following link. For the most recently reported period it was $1.45 million, and he exercised another $22.5 million in stock options. http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=ERTS
300k a year is not rich, and will never be rich again because of inflation. Slashdotters that think otherwise are the same mass of idiots that boosted the slashdot poll for Kerry to like 75% or whatever ridiculous figure it was on election day. Programmers are poor, techies are poor, and slashdotters are poor because they think that boosting their discretionary income can place them in the rich class. There are exceptions (maybe that other 25% that voted for Bush?), but most of you never will understand that the only way to get rich is to take all the money you can lay your hands on and use it to buy even more money, over and over again, possibly for decades if you can't do without some niceties along the way. A budding rich person makes several million a year and much more than that in the near future if they know what they are doing. No salary will ever get you there without incredibly talented investing skills.
"Main screen turn on!"
"How are you gentlemen? All your b--" EXCUSE ME SIR, YOU CANNOT USE THE WI-FI SIGNAL OUTSIDE THE LIBRARY
If they don't want people hijacking their signal, why don't they just use some magic wallpaper on the outer walls?