Shit On Again". As in "Did you hear about the latest round of layoffs? Sounds like we're SOA."
Good call. In British English, the past tense "Shat" has gained popularity, and maybe should be considered as a substitute on the other side of the pond.
Fersht predicted that during the next 12 months more companies will try to bring SOAs across an entire enterprise and then explore integration with the entire value chain. Vendor evangelism will help accelerate that process,
May I be the first to say "WTF".
SOA may be something useful. Unfortunately (?), this article does nothing to explain what it is, only that you need it, your business needs it, and if you don't you are going to be left behind all those other companies that allready have it.
I gotta invent me something like this, make it cool, and make a mint flogging it.
However, posting it to slashdot WILL NOT be my preferred manner of drumming up business.
For every exposed nipple you download, 1c gets added to your broadband bill. All these 1c go into a centrally administered fund. Every time the fun reaches $100, they kill a kitten.
This is slashdot. Forgive me for regarding "superb irony" as the exception rather than the rule. It do, however, credit you for the correct use of the widely misused term.
Never seen either of these vehicles with a Toyota nameplate. I can only assume they were made by Daihatsu, rebadged by Toyota, persumably to enter a certain market.
I'd be hesitant to put those in the quality box as the Hilux, Corrolla or the (yuck) Camry.
Nah.. Jap cars were crap through most of the 80s. It was only around 1990 they got their stuff together. Subaru, Toyota and Honda have all really got their stuff together in terms of quality and reliability. Sure, Nissan and Mitsubishi have a few great models (Nissans' 2-litre turbo is a nice little powerhouse, and the Mitsubishi short-wheelbase 4x4s are great desert hoppers), but they don't have the across the board quality or engineering that the other three have.
US cars, in general, are excellent. Give me a Chevy anyday. But never a Ford. They've lost the plot. Quality has dropped.. and not just for the whole Bridgestone/Firestone debacle. The F-series trucks are still pretty good, but their passenger vehicles and smaller SUVs are just plain horrible.
Korean cars are where the japanese were in the 70s. Hyundia is probably leading the bunch, but its still a car you throw out when it breaks. In 20 years, maybe they'll be something worth looking at.
At the same time it managed to sucker some mad dog liberals into getting up a froth at the mouth for possibly suggest such a thing.
There is a lot more than Black and White, and not wanting to live in a society where my every movement is subject to some half-wit in uniform checking "my credentials" does not make me a "Mad-dog Liberal". Libertarianism exists on both sides of the political spectrum. It basically says that, if I'm not hurting anybody, "stay the fuck out of my business"
If I'd said "Hey, lets go to the middle east with white flags and hug everybody to solve the worlds problems", I'd forgive you for jumping to conclusions.
If you remember Manhattan in the months after 9/11, a lot of these "control" mechanisms were put in place. Many of them still exist in airports.
The current "anti-terror" plans are designed to scare the american people into reelecting their current "war-hardened" leader. Chances are he's going to pull it off as well.
I wonder what this means for Syria? Lets create yet another hotbed of suicide bomber recruitment centers.
Are you looking for a funny mod, or do you honestly believe this?
Man, I don't want to live where you live.
Once you start closing off the city, limiting where people can go, checking id at checkpoints, requiring passes, having your personality analysed... you are living in fear, and the terrorists have already won.
The solution to terrorism is to change international relations so that we aren't creating enclaves that breed terrorists. Iraq was NOT a threat to the US UNTIL the US sent troops in. In doing so, the Shiites and Sunnis started working together(!!) to clear their country of the "invaders". They don't have weapons.. so they hijack planes and take hostages. Not what we'd call "fair and just" warfare, but then bombing a city from x-thousand feet up in the air using vastly superior technology isn't exactly "sporting" now, is it?
There will always be disenters, there will always be fundamentalist who hate the US or non-muslims or non-christians or non-jews or those whom, in whatever way, fail to conform to ones expected standards. But if you have create relationships that mean that a country's population is largely friendly to foreign governments, there are a lot fewer places for these terrorists to hide.
The attack on Iraq has created this environment where kids will blowing themselves up to get rid of the US "invaders". We created the terrorist recruiting ground.
In further news, an undisclosed eccentric canadian billionaire has created a similar prize for his country men in an attempt to help them "get off the ground".
This may be because, in the literary world, its generally said that everybody want's to be a poet. Those whoe can't write poetry, write short stories. Those who can't write short stories, write novels.
The idea being that short stories are more difficult to write than novels. You have relatively small amount of space to present your story, it has to have an impact, and you can't explicitly build in the back story.
As many novels have shown, especially in Sci-Fi, you can run to 600, 700... 1000 pages. Its a different art-form. A lot of them are crap.
Start writing short stories. It will help you, in the long run, to be a good novelist.
True, but the link between family income and "sucess" is much stronger. Single mothers, in general, may be poorer, but marrying them to some dipshit isn't likely to tip the scales very far. The link with marriage is indirect.
A large proportion of children growing up today with married parents have attention from either due to double careers, and the general idea amoung the "wealthy" that child-raising is just another task that can be delegated.
BTW: I come from a "broken home", as you put it. Now, what's your definition of "sucessful"?
what about that MBA from that fluff business school, sloane?
Yes, and don't call me sloane.
Oh, right.
As an MBA in training, I can see exactly where MBA and technology diverge. MBAs are great for ideas on how to manage people, finances, suppliers, clients, to anticipate market trends etc etc... and a name school gets you great contacts (what I don't have.. but hey, its 1/10th the price of the Harvard BS course).
What it doesn't teach you is how to work R&D. The economics of R&D don't work the same way as everything else does. IBM get it. Xerox got it. AT&T may still get it. Sun hopefully will get it again.S
Stuff you do now may pay off for years. In some cases for IBM and AT&T, decades. MBAs don't think on those scales. Long term is 8 quarters... 2 years.
Carly might be great in charge of the Sales part of HP, the pure commerse stuff... but she doesn't have any idea about how to run and engineering firm because she's not an engineer.
The morals of virtually all Western Societies are derived by a set of 10 rules handed supposedly handed by God to Moses.
The primary reason for goverment recognition of family to to encourage children and a stable social environment for future citizens.
"encourage children" as in "encourage production of children"? Yeah, a lot of the western world has a birth-rate that's below the replenishment rate, but failing to recognise same-sex relationships is not the way to do it.
"Hey, I'm gay, but I can't be with my Man. Guess I'll have to go poke a women and breed". Somehow I doubt it.
To get more children, there needs to be a change in society that means that people aren't so driven to spend 40-50 years of their lives building careers in order to pay for retirement. I have no solution to this. I'd love to work fewer hourse, live in a nice house, have wonderful holidays and have enough money to raise a dozen kids, but its not socioeconomically possible.
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Good call. In British English, the past tense "Shat" has gained popularity, and maybe should be considered as a substitute on the other side of the pond.
May I be the first to say "WTF".
SOA may be something useful. Unfortunately (?), this article does nothing to explain what it is, only that you need it, your business needs it, and if you don't you are going to be left behind all those other companies that allready have it.
I gotta invent me something like this, make it cool, and make a mint flogging it.
However, posting it to slashdot WILL NOT be my preferred manner of drumming up business.
SOL is "Shit out of Luck"
TOA is "Talking out of his/her Ass"
so maybe SOA is "Shitting out of his/her Ass".
Article is a good candidate for buzzword bingo. "News for Nerds" guys.
Disclaimer: I'm doing an MBA, and so I can give an educated opinion that the article is BULLSHIT.
You mean like a "tit tax"?
For every exposed nipple you download, 1c gets added to your broadband bill. All these 1c go into a centrally administered fund. Every time the fun reaches $100, they kill a kitten.
If slash was meant to have good spelling, they would have provided us with a spell checker.
They didn't, therefore it isn't.
This is slashdot. Forgive me for regarding "superb irony" as the exception rather than the rule. It do, however, credit you for the correct use of the widely misused term.
At $8k a pop, fuck going anywhere near the police. I'm going to sit at home with my camera in a foam lined box, armed with an AK-47.
I'd love a camera like this, but given that I take most of my photos while travelling, Its an investment with a level risk I can't justify.
This is for pros. In a couple of years this should filter down to the sub-$1k "prosumer" models.
Never seen either of these vehicles with a Toyota nameplate. I can only assume they were made by Daihatsu, rebadged by Toyota, persumably to enter a certain market.
I'd be hesitant to put those in the quality box as the Hilux, Corrolla or the (yuck) Camry.
Toyota own about 51% of Daihatsu. There are a few rebadged models, but the first true "Toyota-Daihastu" only appeared this yeat.
Nah.. Jap cars were crap through most of the 80s. It was only around 1990 they got their stuff together. Subaru, Toyota and Honda have all really got their stuff together in terms of quality and reliability. Sure, Nissan and Mitsubishi have a few great models (Nissans' 2-litre turbo is a nice little powerhouse, and the Mitsubishi short-wheelbase 4x4s are great desert hoppers), but they don't have the across the board quality or engineering that the other three have.
US cars, in general, are excellent. Give me a Chevy anyday. But never a Ford. They've lost the plot. Quality has dropped.. and not just for the whole Bridgestone/Firestone debacle. The F-series trucks are still pretty good, but their passenger vehicles and smaller SUVs are just plain horrible.
Korean cars are where the japanese were in the 70s. Hyundia is probably leading the bunch, but its still a car you throw out when it breaks. In 20 years, maybe they'll be something worth looking at.
Patronising little shit.
There is a lot more than Black and White, and not wanting to live in a society where my every movement is subject to some half-wit in uniform checking "my credentials" does not make me a "Mad-dog Liberal". Libertarianism exists on both sides of the political spectrum. It basically says that, if I'm not hurting anybody, "stay the fuck out of my business"
If I'd said "Hey, lets go to the middle east with white flags and hug everybody to solve the worlds problems", I'd forgive you for jumping to conclusions.
Bad example, based on the fact that Ford Cars are, in fact, shitty when compared to Toyota, while Linux isn't shitty when compared to Windows.
If you went from Ford to, say, Kia or Daihatsu, you have a better analogy.
Which orifice are you pulling these statistics out of?
Thank fuck for that.
If you remember Manhattan in the months after 9/11, a lot of these "control" mechanisms were put in place. Many of them still exist in airports.
The current "anti-terror" plans are designed to scare the american people into reelecting their current "war-hardened" leader. Chances are he's going to pull it off as well.
I wonder what this means for Syria? Lets create yet another hotbed of suicide bomber recruitment centers.
Are you looking for a funny mod, or do you honestly believe this?
Man, I don't want to live where you live.
Once you start closing off the city, limiting where people can go, checking id at checkpoints, requiring passes, having your personality analysed... you are living in fear, and the terrorists have already won.
The solution to terrorism is to change international relations so that we aren't creating enclaves that breed terrorists. Iraq was NOT a threat to the US UNTIL the US sent troops in. In doing so, the Shiites and Sunnis started working together(!!) to clear their country of the "invaders". They don't have weapons.. so they hijack planes and take hostages. Not what we'd call "fair and just" warfare, but then bombing a city from x-thousand feet up in the air using vastly superior technology isn't exactly "sporting" now, is it?
There will always be disenters, there will always be fundamentalist who hate the US or non-muslims or non-christians or non-jews or those whom, in whatever way, fail to conform to ones expected standards. But if you have create relationships that mean that a country's population is largely friendly to foreign governments, there are a lot fewer places for these terrorists to hide.
The attack on Iraq has created this environment where kids will blowing themselves up to get rid of the US "invaders". We created the terrorist recruiting ground.
My cocksucking skills are pretty ordinary as well. Maybe you'd care to give me some pointers?
SPam Random Undesirables to News Groups.
So, what's next?
SPam Ethernet Wires?
SPam over Low Amplitude Telephony?
SPam Over Older Generation Ethernets?
Something tells me that this is about to get sillier...
In further news, an undisclosed eccentric canadian billionaire has created a similar prize for his country men in an attempt to help them "get off the ground".
Its called the "eh-prize".
This may be because, in the literary world, its generally said that everybody want's to be a poet. Those whoe can't write poetry, write short stories. Those who can't write short stories, write novels.
The idea being that short stories are more difficult to write than novels. You have relatively small amount of space to present your story, it has to have an impact, and you can't explicitly build in the back story.
As many novels have shown, especially in Sci-Fi, you can run to 600, 700... 1000 pages. Its a different art-form. A lot of them are crap.
Start writing short stories. It will help you, in the long run, to be a good novelist.
True, but the link between family income and "sucess" is much stronger. Single mothers, in general, may be poorer, but marrying them to some dipshit isn't likely to tip the scales very far. The link with marriage is indirect.
A large proportion of children growing up today with married parents have attention from either due to double careers, and the general idea amoung the "wealthy" that child-raising is just another task that can be delegated.
BTW: I come from a "broken home", as you put it. Now, what's your definition of "sucessful"?
because we all know that Rinux is not Runix.
Yes, and don't call me sloane.
Oh, right.
As an MBA in training, I can see exactly where MBA and technology diverge. MBAs are great for ideas on how to manage people, finances, suppliers, clients, to anticipate market trends etc etc... and a name school gets you great contacts (what I don't have.. but hey, its 1/10th the price of the Harvard BS course).
What it doesn't teach you is how to work R&D. The economics of R&D don't work the same way as everything else does. IBM get it. Xerox got it. AT&T may still get it. Sun hopefully will get it again.S
Stuff you do now may pay off for years. In some cases for IBM and AT&T, decades. MBAs don't think on those scales. Long term is 8 quarters... 2 years.
Carly might be great in charge of the Sales part of HP, the pure commerse stuff... but she doesn't have any idea about how to run and engineering firm because she's not an engineer.
The morals of virtually all Western Societies are derived by a set of 10 rules handed supposedly handed by God to Moses. The primary reason for goverment recognition of family to to encourage children and a stable social environment for future citizens.
"encourage children" as in "encourage production of children"? Yeah, a lot of the western world has a birth-rate that's below the replenishment rate, but failing to recognise same-sex relationships is not the way to do it.
"Hey, I'm gay, but I can't be with my Man. Guess I'll have to go poke a women and breed". Somehow I doubt it.
To get more children, there needs to be a change in society that means that people aren't so driven to spend 40-50 years of their lives building careers in order to pay for retirement. I have no solution to this. I'd love to work fewer hourse, live in a nice house, have wonderful holidays and have enough money to raise a dozen kids, but its not socioeconomically possible.