Yes but what do you do when your theology conflicts with science?
God is by definition omnicient and infallible. So if god tells you to kill homosexuals (he does!) or when he tells you that pi = 3 or when he tells you that the universe was created in 7 days around 3000 years ago what do you?
WHen the gassing occured the UN wanted to sanction Iraq. The US blocked it. Why? Because we gave saddam the gas, we gave him intelligence, we gave him technology and we basically told him to gas people.
"You're not supposed to be able to. Thats the point."
No that's not the point. I can install software both on my linux system an on my mac without being root. I just install it into my home directory.
On the mac if I want to install it for everybody I drag the icon to the applications folder. The Mac then asks me for the username and the password of an admin user and it's done.
What you mean is that they are divas. They want to get paid a lot, they don't want to do work they consider menial (debug? maintain? What me? You must be kidding!), and they want to be catered to.
Again, I know that's not what you want to hear but it's true. Smart programmers don't make good employees. they are not interested in doing the day to day work required to make a company function.
"And smart programmers don't abandon you at the drop of a hat - only at the offer of more money. If you pay them the wages of 10 mediocre programmers they won't be going anywhere, and you actually save money when overhead is factored in..."
If you are paying 10 mediocre programmers 35K a piece are you really going to pay one smart programmer 350K? Of course not.
The problem is the smart people are rare and fickle. A company can not afford to rely on a few smart people who can and will abandon them at the drop of a hat.
It's better to hire 10 mediocre programmers (with a decent work ethic) then one smart programmer. I know nobody wants to hear that but it's true.
It's funny but it also contains a profound insight.
Projects fail when people don't care. People don't care if they have somebody else to blame.
That's it. There is nothing else to it.
Sales promises big things because they can blame somebody else when it's not delivered.
Management changes specs because they don't care and they can blame somebody else.
Developers don't care becuase they are just a cog in a giant wheel and if they mess up there will be another freaking insane project tommorow to work on.
Nobody cares, everybody points fingers, you start tommorow on the next big thing. Welcome to corporate america.
It's all about expectations my friend. Let me illustrate.
A while back I bought a cheapo RCA TV from target. After a couple of months the TV started making a high pitched noise. My wife could not hear it but made me insane. I took the TV back to target. They gave me a new TV. Not just a new TV but a better one since that model had been upgraded.
Try doing that with software. I dare you.
Your typical bubba has been conditioned to accept that software is crappy. Everybody at work just shrugs their shoulders when windows crashes or the IT dept asks them to reboot and try again. We all know windows just crashes sometimes.
Windows 2000 was the fifth or sixth iteration of windows. Hardly what I consider a "fresh" product.
XP did ship with an awful PNP security hole too.
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Has anybody done a study showing whether people who can solve stupid puzzles during an interview are make better employees or more productive programmers?
Honestly if somebody asked me a question like that in an interview I'd probably walk out. I don't think I would enjoy working for somebody like that all.
"Of the last three Presidents, President Clinton was the most open to lawsuits of a personal nature."
Everybody has ghosts in the closet. Clinton was unfortunate because both houses of the congress were controlled by the republicans and the republicans despite their facination with his cock hated him so much.
In the end all they accomplished was a waste of money, distracting the president and the govt when osama was planning out his attacks and theater for the freepers.
I bes osama was laughing his head off because so much of the govt was focused so hard on where clinton stuck his cock and whose mouth he came in.
They only dominate in OS and Office software. Obviously monopolies of that magnitude are not going to go away overnight.
That's not the really important thing though. The really important thing is that they have been unable to leverage those monopolies to gain monopolies in other fields despite trying desparately to do so.
They have suffered one severe setback another whether it's MSN, MS-TV (whatever the hell that was), set top boxes, MS at work, SQL server, IIS, NT server, Active directory,.NET, sidewalk, xbox, etc.
Some of those products are successful but none of them have achieved a monopoly which is the only goal for MS that counts.
As long as MS fails to leverage their monopolies to achieve other the world is a better place.
In time their current monopolies will erode and wither, all empires fall eventually but the big ones take a while.
If the US hadn't blundered it's coup so bad who knows where we might be now.
Either way we'll see how it all turns out. This action gives the US yet another reason to kill him or capture him. Look what we did to Noriega when he stopped playing nice with us.
What in MS history leads you to think that they would adapt a free and open source identity system? I mean have they adopted any standard without extending them?
Even if they did push for something like that do you really expect MS to follow their own standards?
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Yes but what do you do when your theology conflicts with science?
God is by definition omnicient and infallible. So if god tells you to kill homosexuals (he does!) or when he tells you that pi = 3 or when he tells you that the universe was created in 7 days around 3000 years ago what do you?
WHen the gassing occured the UN wanted to sanction Iraq. The US blocked it. Why? Because we gave saddam the gas, we gave him intelligence, we gave him technology and we basically told him to gas people.
Think about that.
Not to mention XUL..
Why not code to standards so that all browsers get the same interface?
14% unknown? What gives? What unkown OS is/are being used three times more then a mac?
Dubya would not use the internet. It was invented by a democrat.
"You're not supposed to be able to. Thats the point."
No that's not the point. I can install software both on my linux system an on my mac without being root. I just install it into my home directory.
On the mac if I want to install it for everybody I drag the icon to the applications folder. The Mac then asks me for the username and the password of an admin user and it's done.
run as does not even compare. Sorry.
Freedom isn't important to you, it is important to him.
What you mean is that they are divas. They want to get paid a lot, they don't want to do work they consider menial (debug? maintain? What me? You must be kidding!), and they want to be catered to.
Again, I know that's not what you want to hear but it's true. Smart programmers don't make good employees. they are not interested in doing the day to day work required to make a company function.
"And smart programmers don't abandon you at the drop of a hat - only at the offer of more money. If you pay them the wages of 10 mediocre programmers they won't be going anywhere, and you actually save money when overhead is factored in..."
If you are paying 10 mediocre programmers 35K a piece are you really going to pay one smart programmer 350K? Of course not.
The problem is the smart people are rare and fickle. A company can not afford to rely on a few smart people who can and will abandon them at the drop of a hat.
It's better to hire 10 mediocre programmers (with a decent work ethic) then one smart programmer. I know nobody wants to hear that but it's true.
It's funny but it also contains a profound insight.
Projects fail when people don't care. People don't care if they have somebody else to blame.
That's it. There is nothing else to it.
Sales promises big things because they can blame somebody else when it's not delivered.
Management changes specs because they don't care and they can blame somebody else.
Developers don't care becuase they are just a cog in a giant wheel and if they mess up there will be another freaking insane project tommorow to work on.
Nobody cares, everybody points fingers, you start tommorow on the next big thing. Welcome to corporate america.
You can already lease them.
It's all about expectations my friend. Let me illustrate.
A while back I bought a cheapo RCA TV from target. After a couple of months the TV started making a high pitched noise. My wife could not hear it but made me insane. I took the TV back to target. They gave me a new TV. Not just a new TV but a better one since that model had been upgraded.
Try doing that with software. I dare you.
Your typical bubba has been conditioned to accept that software is crappy. Everybody at work just shrugs their shoulders when windows crashes or the IT dept asks them to reboot and try again. We all know windows just crashes sometimes.
Windows 2000 was the fifth or sixth iteration of windows. Hardly what I consider a "fresh" product.
XP did ship with an awful PNP security hole too.
Has anybody done a study showing whether people who can solve stupid puzzles during an interview are make better employees or more productive programmers?
Honestly if somebody asked me a question like that in an interview I'd probably walk out. I don't think I would enjoy working for somebody like that all.
"Of the last three Presidents, President Clinton was the most open to lawsuits of a personal nature."
Everybody has ghosts in the closet. Clinton was unfortunate because both houses of the congress were controlled by the republicans and the republicans despite their facination with his cock hated him so much.
In the end all they accomplished was a waste of money, distracting the president and the govt when osama was planning out his attacks and theater for the freepers.
I bes osama was laughing his head off because so much of the govt was focused so hard on where clinton stuck his cock and whose mouth he came in.
I live in the US where the only moral imperitive is "make more money". Everything else tgakes second place to that.
Didn't judicial watch sue clinton and democrats like 300 times or something.
They only dominate in OS and Office software. Obviously monopolies of that magnitude are not going to go away overnight.
.NET, sidewalk, xbox, etc.
That's not the really important thing though. The really important thing is that they have been unable to leverage those monopolies to gain monopolies in other fields despite trying desparately to do so.
They have suffered one severe setback another whether it's MSN, MS-TV (whatever the hell that was), set top boxes, MS at work, SQL server, IIS, NT server, Active directory,
Some of those products are successful but none of them have achieved a monopoly which is the only goal for MS that counts.
As long as MS fails to leverage their monopolies to achieve other the world is a better place.
In time their current monopolies will erode and wither, all empires fall eventually but the big ones take a while.
Why would anybody want to harm Canadians? They are nice, funny, generous, kind people.
I don't even think they need an army, everybody loves them.
We OTOH need a massive army, nobody likes us, not even the canadians.
You could have them if your tried hard enough. Apparently you don't want them that bad.
BTW chemical weapons are easier to make, carry, conceal and deploy then nukes.
We live in a country where you can rent a woman's womb for 9 months and pay her to carry your baby.
We live in a country where you can buy and sell organs.
We live in a country where you can buy and sell children.
I think we should stop pretending that we care about any ethics or morals.
If you got the cash, I got what you want.
If the US hadn't blundered it's coup so bad who knows where we might be now.
Either way we'll see how it all turns out. This action gives the US yet another reason to kill him or capture him. Look what we did to Noriega when he stopped playing nice with us.
What in MS history leads you to think that they would adapt a free and open source identity system? I mean have they adopted any standard without extending them?
Even if they did push for something like that do you really expect MS to follow their own standards?