Unfortunately, we need a populace that is capable of looking to the future as well. Without that, we'll never get the political structure you're describing. People don't vote for politicians who spend money on long term projects.
[Rush Limbaugh | Keith Olberman | Shaun Hannity | Chris Matthews | Glen Beck] hasn't told me how I feel about this. Can we hold off on this conversation until later?
I suspect it is somewhere in the middle.
i.e. EDS tells BSkyB they would deliver a CRM system with golden monkeys, BSkyB says yes, and then changes their mind and wants a CRM system with golden monkeys and blue unicorns. EDS delivers, or tries to deliver a system with neither golden monkeys, nor blue unicorns.
Documentation tends to be useful in two situations. 1) In a larger organization where a manager tries to use you as a scapegoat. You can often use that documentation to appeal to HR or a higher-level manager. Although, with varying degrees of success. Or 2) After you get fired and need to have proof in discussions with other potential employees about the situation. This comes into play in small industries where word gets around, or smaller towns where a grudge holding person tries to talk to your potential employers. (Legal action would probably be warranted, but some documentation of what really happened will go a long way to getting through this).
Many states uphold the idea of at-will employment, as noted by the other comment. Basically, the state sees an employee entering into an agreement with an employer, and so long as there were no predefined terms for length of employment, then either party can leave that agreement at any time.
There are a lot of things that are perfectly suited to MySQL. The problem is when an organization or application grows and suddenly needs redundancy, and all the other fancy, expensive options that Oracle offers. An upgrade path would be brilliant. There is a market for free database software. If Oracle kills MySQL they've done nothing. Everyone can easily switch to Postgres or the branches from MySQL. I suspect that it's in their benefit to let it continue to exist and control the features, and make it upgrade compatible with OracleDB.
The primary hangup with the EU was the MySQL issue. Oracle didn't hold up 1 Billion dollars in sales with Sun by not giving up MySQL so they could kill MySQL. Releasing or breaking off MySQL would likely have removed all the barriers imposed by the EU and they could have moved along with their lives. They have an interest in MySQL, the question is what.
Which is exactly what this argument is about. Gamers who were a niche market are used to playing the kind of games that were made for their niche. Other people came into the arena and started playing games, and developers started making games for this much larger audience. If you are a niche gamer who doesn't like playing average person games, then don't. EVE is a niche game still made for the non-WoW crowd. I'm sure there are others, go play those.
The one thing the niche gamer cannot expect is that people are going to spend mainstream development money on his niche. He may have to look at some of the smaller dev houses and play those games.
Labels write checks. That's what no one else does. They are very much like loan sharks, the interest rate on the checks they write are terrifying, but if you are a small band, or a young band, many times you can afford tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars to do all those things you mentioned above.
As someone mentioned above, the alternative is to "grow organically" which really means grow very very slowly. In many cases, these bands have grown slowly. They have had regular jobs to pay for their equipment. They play tiny gigs at small bars in their home town, and they've probably worked really hard doing, essentially, two jobs, for a long time to get to the point of being recognized by a label. They have barely enough money to buy guitars and a car to get to the next gig, much less move their recording and promotion to the level that a label can offer.
This is exactly why we protect our civil liberties. A lot of people are willing to hand over exceptional rights to the government to make them safe from terrorism. The reason we don't do that is because the government abuses our rights. Proponents for strong government say it's a slippery slope argument, fortunately, we now have the evidence of wrong-doing to point back and show why rights need to be protected, and people responsible for abusing those rights should be severely prosecuted.
It sounds like that may be a possibility, but just as much as it may be a possibility that it's the corn itself. Other researchers need to replicate these results and do a couple of controls to try and isolate just the pesticides, just Monsanto corn, etc.
Because management doesn't understand technical work. They want programmers to be like factory workers turning out parts. They want a metric by which they can easily assign times and costs to. They want to be able to remove any programmer on a moments notice and replace that programmer with no effort, like a shop worker.
They want IT employees to be like mechanics. They want a fixed set of prospective problems and a book that tells them how much time it takes to fix.
They don't appreciate what technical work really is, and how complex it is. They don't like that, but they'll keep trying to shove it into a mold they can understand. The mold they were taught in their night courses at the community college on how to run a business.
The scope is a lot broader than just the Native Americans. It's a dig at imperialist tendencies of those in power. It takes a shot at how those in power tend to justify their actions, such as calling them savages or enemies, and shows, quite spectacularly how atrocious it can get when they do act.
Finally, if the hints* weren't strong enough, he was implying that the war in Iraq is just another imperialist strike for resources.
*The Colonel used several phrases popular during the lead-up to Iraq including "preemptive strike".
This is the point of health insurance. For most people, they will pay more into the system than they will receive in benefits. Were this not the case, the insurance companies would go out of business. On the other hand, if you didn't have health insurance, it would be a fast road to bankruptcy if you came down with something major.
A little dubious, but not entirely so. Hominids, through the course of evolution did show, generally, continual increases in brain size. As best we can tell, this did yield increases in intelligence. It isn't a one-to-one correlation, but I think we can make some conjectures that the lineage had a reasonably complex brain and increasing the size adds on some more capacity.
I think comparing humans to elephants to disprove the idea that brain size is relevant isn't fair. We do know it isn't an exact correlation. But we aren't comparing a human to an elephant, we're comparing a human to an earlier cousin in our lineage. They should have had far more complex brains and we can assume that the larger brain probably did give them more mental capacity over smaller brained hominids of the day. Computing absolute IQ is probably a little silly. More interesting is the discussion of our intelligence being the primary reason we prospered and other lines died off. Similar discussions happen with regards to Neandrathal, who most likely had a larger brain. It means there were other factors that may have played a much larger role in our evolution. (disease, location, social structure, etc).
In Europe, it's necessary to have those features because they are required. In the US, so far, those haven't been sought after very highly. Average US commute distance is 16 miles. Given the suburban sprawl, miles put on cars is huge, and those miles are mostly spend on freeways going in straight lines. As a result, people want to have room and they want the ride to be smooth. Hence, SUVs. They don't turn worth a darn and get miserable mileage, but they've met the requirements of a lot of people for quite a while. If we have 5-8 dollar/gallon gas, things would be different. If we had to negotiate the narrower roads of Europe, they'd be different. The point is that European cars aren't necessarily "better" they simply have met the needs of the populace. As an American who likes smaller cars that handle better, I'm fond of the shift toward smaller vehicles.
Sync doesn't require a monthly fee for those features and, instead, uses your existing cell connection. I pay plenty enough for my data plan, and would prefer not to pay for another cell plan to run my vehicle nav/assist system.
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Unfortunately, we need a populace that is capable of looking to the future as well. Without that, we'll never get the political structure you're describing. People don't vote for politicians who spend money on long term projects.
I couldn't think of Maddow's name. I think Bill O'Reilly is a caricature... which is saying something given the company listed above.
Even more frightening than the fact that people take Limbaugh et al. seriously is that MANY people take them seriously.
[Rush Limbaugh | Keith Olberman | Shaun Hannity | Chris Matthews | Glen Beck] hasn't told me how I feel about this. Can we hold off on this conversation until later?
Cristal house? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristal_(wine)
A house full of bubbly....
Or did you mean crystal? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal
I suspect it is somewhere in the middle. i.e. EDS tells BSkyB they would deliver a CRM system with golden monkeys, BSkyB says yes, and then changes their mind and wants a CRM system with golden monkeys and blue unicorns. EDS delivers, or tries to deliver a system with neither golden monkeys, nor blue unicorns.
Documentation tends to be useful in two situations. 1) In a larger organization where a manager tries to use you as a scapegoat. You can often use that documentation to appeal to HR or a higher-level manager. Although, with varying degrees of success. Or 2) After you get fired and need to have proof in discussions with other potential employees about the situation. This comes into play in small industries where word gets around, or smaller towns where a grudge holding person tries to talk to your potential employers. (Legal action would probably be warranted, but some documentation of what really happened will go a long way to getting through this).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-will_employment
Many states uphold the idea of at-will employment, as noted by the other comment. Basically, the state sees an employee entering into an agreement with an employer, and so long as there were no predefined terms for length of employment, then either party can leave that agreement at any time.
There are a lot of things that are perfectly suited to MySQL. The problem is when an organization or application grows and suddenly needs redundancy, and all the other fancy, expensive options that Oracle offers. An upgrade path would be brilliant. There is a market for free database software. If Oracle kills MySQL they've done nothing. Everyone can easily switch to Postgres or the branches from MySQL. I suspect that it's in their benefit to let it continue to exist and control the features, and make it upgrade compatible with OracleDB.
The primary hangup with the EU was the MySQL issue. Oracle didn't hold up 1 Billion dollars in sales with Sun by not giving up MySQL so they could kill MySQL. Releasing or breaking off MySQL would likely have removed all the barriers imposed by the EU and they could have moved along with their lives. They have an interest in MySQL, the question is what.
Which is exactly what this argument is about. Gamers who were a niche market are used to playing the kind of games that were made for their niche. Other people came into the arena and started playing games, and developers started making games for this much larger audience. If you are a niche gamer who doesn't like playing average person games, then don't. EVE is a niche game still made for the non-WoW crowd. I'm sure there are others, go play those.
The one thing the niche gamer cannot expect is that people are going to spend mainstream development money on his niche. He may have to look at some of the smaller dev houses and play those games.
CAN'T afford tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars...
Labels write checks. That's what no one else does. They are very much like loan sharks, the interest rate on the checks they write are terrifying, but if you are a small band, or a young band, many times you can afford tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars to do all those things you mentioned above.
As someone mentioned above, the alternative is to "grow organically" which really means grow very very slowly. In many cases, these bands have grown slowly. They have had regular jobs to pay for their equipment. They play tiny gigs at small bars in their home town, and they've probably worked really hard doing, essentially, two jobs, for a long time to get to the point of being recognized by a label. They have barely enough money to buy guitars and a car to get to the next gig, much less move their recording and promotion to the level that a label can offer.
This is exactly why we protect our civil liberties. A lot of people are willing to hand over exceptional rights to the government to make them safe from terrorism. The reason we don't do that is because the government abuses our rights. Proponents for strong government say it's a slippery slope argument, fortunately, we now have the evidence of wrong-doing to point back and show why rights need to be protected, and people responsible for abusing those rights should be severely prosecuted.
Inner lords, I think, they being inside our blood cells and all.
Is anyone else half-tempted to write a script to post back random text from Pride and Prejudice, or something to that effect?
And I don't believe the mars rovers are equipped with electron microscopes.
It's on a Google lifecycle. It should be in beta for roughly the next 7 years.
It sounds like that may be a possibility, but just as much as it may be a possibility that it's the corn itself. Other researchers need to replicate these results and do a couple of controls to try and isolate just the pesticides, just Monsanto corn, etc.
Because management doesn't understand technical work. They want programmers to be like factory workers turning out parts. They want a metric by which they can easily assign times and costs to. They want to be able to remove any programmer on a moments notice and replace that programmer with no effort, like a shop worker.
They want IT employees to be like mechanics. They want a fixed set of prospective problems and a book that tells them how much time it takes to fix.
They don't appreciate what technical work really is, and how complex it is. They don't like that, but they'll keep trying to shove it into a mold they can understand. The mold they were taught in their night courses at the community college on how to run a business.
The scope is a lot broader than just the Native Americans. It's a dig at imperialist tendencies of those in power. It takes a shot at how those in power tend to justify their actions, such as calling them savages or enemies, and shows, quite spectacularly how atrocious it can get when they do act.
Finally, if the hints* weren't strong enough, he was implying that the war in Iraq is just another imperialist strike for resources.
*The Colonel used several phrases popular during the lead-up to Iraq including "preemptive strike".
This is the point of health insurance. For most people, they will pay more into the system than they will receive in benefits. Were this not the case, the insurance companies would go out of business. On the other hand, if you didn't have health insurance, it would be a fast road to bankruptcy if you came down with something major.
A little dubious, but not entirely so. Hominids, through the course of evolution did show, generally, continual increases in brain size. As best we can tell, this did yield increases in intelligence. It isn't a one-to-one correlation, but I think we can make some conjectures that the lineage had a reasonably complex brain and increasing the size adds on some more capacity.
I think comparing humans to elephants to disprove the idea that brain size is relevant isn't fair. We do know it isn't an exact correlation. But we aren't comparing a human to an elephant, we're comparing a human to an earlier cousin in our lineage. They should have had far more complex brains and we can assume that the larger brain probably did give them more mental capacity over smaller brained hominids of the day. Computing absolute IQ is probably a little silly. More interesting is the discussion of our intelligence being the primary reason we prospered and other lines died off. Similar discussions happen with regards to Neandrathal, who most likely had a larger brain. It means there were other factors that may have played a much larger role in our evolution. (disease, location, social structure, etc).
I have a Sony PRS-505. Amazon has better prices on most books, and has a much larger selection. This is a boon.
In Europe, it's necessary to have those features because they are required. In the US, so far, those haven't been sought after very highly. Average US commute distance is 16 miles. Given the suburban sprawl, miles put on cars is huge, and those miles are mostly spend on freeways going in straight lines. As a result, people want to have room and they want the ride to be smooth. Hence, SUVs. They don't turn worth a darn and get miserable mileage, but they've met the requirements of a lot of people for quite a while. If we have 5-8 dollar/gallon gas, things would be different. If we had to negotiate the narrower roads of Europe, they'd be different. The point is that European cars aren't necessarily "better" they simply have met the needs of the populace. As an American who likes smaller cars that handle better, I'm fond of the shift toward smaller vehicles.
Sync doesn't require a monthly fee for those features and, instead, uses your existing cell connection. I pay plenty enough for my data plan, and would prefer not to pay for another cell plan to run my vehicle nav/assist system.