So they're killing a useful and surprisingly well designed product because it doesn't fit their "philosophy"? What philosophy is that? Write C# for every little scripting job?
This is what Bill Gates meant to Microsoft, even towards the end. Microsoft is what it is because he could see what was coming. And he could move the whole company where it needed to go. (True, they were late on the internet,but what a pivot they made).I just don't see anybody else able to fill that role.
The technical stuff is all doable. Politics, management, etc. -- those are hard. Best part of the job is getting that stuff out of the way and designing/coding.
Oh, of course. You know, it's not easy getting tomato plants and asparagus, etc. to grow in indoor conditions.
/they're growing food, right? //or maybe some nice ornamentals
Of course it will be used. Registrars will make ***loads of money as people like amazon and google buy up amazon.xxx and google.xxx just so someone WON'T put up a web site on them. Did you really think this was about anything but money?
Ben Affleck is a much better actor than Reeves. Of course, so's the guy who told me he needed $5 for gas so he could drive his car back home...
I seriously think Johnny Mnemonic would have been pretty good if we didn't have to watch Reeves trying to show emotion. That was painful.
I hate to say this, but there is a set of people who should not be expected to use a computer. I don't know what we're going to do with them in 10 or 20 years, when absolutely everything is online.
Because New Orleans would have been easily able to survive this hurricane before mankind, and the Corps in particular, destroyed all the natural barriers that were protecting it. It's easy to say "people shouldn't live there" but in the 1800s it was as safe as any other city in the Southern border states.
You, like most people, are overlooking a few facts here. New Orleans used to be well inland and above sea level. A long series of environmentally disastrous policies lowered the water table, removed natural barriers, concentrated storm surges, and generally guaranteed that NO was a disaster waiting to happen.
Unfortunately the government and Army Corps aren't legally liable for severe technical malpractice and rank stupidity. This suit slips through a loophole in the legal immunity the government gave the Corps.
New Orleans could be saved. And the cost of abandoning a major city is immense, far more than building better hurricane defenses. Building better hurricane walls will cost far more than restoring wetlands, allowing the water table to recover, and re-engineering the waterways. Of course, the best/cheapest solution is probably the one least likely to be selected by our broken political process.
And the cheapest solution of all (short-term) is to blame the victim and do nothing. It's worked really well so far.
I shouldn't do this, but here goes:
If you don't want to need a Cyberdyne 2000 to help you walk around when you're older, do weight training. It helps the aging retain muscle mass.
The only civilizations still surviving in our galaxy are extraordinarily powerful and consider humanity beneath notice. Which is a Good Thing, because when they notice you, it does not go well. Really, Miskatonic University is the only institution doing useful work in this area. Unfortunately they have trouble keeping research staff on.
Pretty much the only reason I trust an ATM is that I can visually verify that it gave me the right quantity and denominations of cash, and/or it printed out a deposit receipt. If I was blind I wouldn't want to use the fracking things, I'd go to a teller I trusted.
Actually most colleges don't get to this stuff at all. There's way too much computer science to cram into four years. If you're lucky there's one or two courses on software engineering, which barely scratch the surface of what's needed for the real world. If it was up to me we'd train programmers for 6 or 8 years, but for now the only way to learn this stuff is painful experience.
If it is a typical complex, highly-customized business system, it will have:
years and years of poorly- or un-documented code patches, fixes, etc.
lots of legacy code which is no longer used but never removed
Dozens of external systems which extract information from it, probably each in a different way
large amounts of critical information not written down but scattered among different user groups
So, I'd say your Phase 1 above is a vast under-estimation. And the idea that you can farm it out to an external organization, especially one without close personal contact with users, is pure fantasy.
At the end of your process you'll have a system that does maybe 20% of what the users actually need, and 50% of which is stuff no one needs any longer.
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So they're killing a useful and surprisingly well designed product because it doesn't fit their "philosophy"? What philosophy is that? Write C# for every little scripting job?
This is what Bill Gates meant to Microsoft, even towards the end. Microsoft is what it is because he could see what was coming. And he could move the whole company where it needed to go. (True, they were late on the internet,but what a pivot they made).I just don't see anybody else able to fill that role.
The technical stuff is all doable. Politics, management, etc. -- those are hard. Best part of the job is getting that stuff out of the way and designing/coding.
So we get to choose a candidate based upon which corporation has him or her in their pocket? Great.
So your first example of Jews "not living cooperatively" is when they objected to the Pharoah's slavery? Really?
Oh, of course. You know, it's not easy getting tomato plants and asparagus, etc. to grow in indoor conditions.
/they're growing food, right?
//or maybe some nice ornamentals
I agree. Sorry I have no thoughtful philosophical analysis to go with that statement.
Of course it will be used. Registrars will make ***loads of money as people like amazon and google buy up amazon.xxx and google.xxx just so someone WON'T put up a web site on them. Did you really think this was about anything but money?
Ben Affleck is a much better actor than Reeves. Of course, so's the guy who told me he needed $5 for gas so he could drive his car back home...
I seriously think Johnny Mnemonic would have been pretty good if we didn't have to watch Reeves trying to show emotion. That was painful.
Hackers have friends???
It was _way_ more effective than prohibiting online gambling. Or online prostitution, porn, file trading, yadda, yadda, yadda. Give up already.
Unable to board airplanes == imprisoned and executed? Really?
I hate to say this, but there is a set of people who should not be expected to use a computer. I don't know what we're going to do with them in 10 or 20 years, when absolutely everything is online.
It is really cool. Congratulations!
Just to set the record straight, in my case the A-level executives were idiots, causing the whole bloody company to go under.
Actually, a lot of Texans wouldn't find that strange at all. But I digress...
Because New Orleans would have been easily able to survive this hurricane before mankind, and the Corps in particular, destroyed all the natural barriers that were protecting it. It's easy to say "people shouldn't live there" but in the 1800s it was as safe as any other city in the Southern border states.
You, like most people, are overlooking a few facts here. New Orleans used to be well inland and above sea level. A long series of environmentally disastrous policies lowered the water table, removed natural barriers, concentrated storm surges, and generally guaranteed that NO was a disaster waiting to happen.
Unfortunately the government and Army Corps aren't legally liable for severe technical malpractice and rank stupidity. This suit slips through a loophole in the legal immunity the government gave the Corps.
New Orleans could be saved. And the cost of abandoning a major city is immense, far more than building better hurricane defenses. Building better hurricane walls will cost far more than restoring wetlands, allowing the water table to recover, and re-engineering the waterways. Of course, the best/cheapest solution is probably the one least likely to be selected by our broken political process.
And the cheapest solution of all (short-term) is to blame the victim and do nothing. It's worked really well so far.
I shouldn't do this, but here goes: If you don't want to need a Cyberdyne 2000 to help you walk around when you're older, do weight training. It helps the aging retain muscle mass.
Odd, the double-click works fine for me. I don't see any of the problems you complain of.
It's said that in a democracy people get the government they deserve. Until we start voting these issues, the lobbyists will own the law.
The only civilizations still surviving in our galaxy are extraordinarily powerful and consider humanity beneath notice. Which is a Good Thing, because when they notice you, it does not go well. Really, Miskatonic University is the only institution doing useful work in this area. Unfortunately they have trouble keeping research staff on.
Pretty much the only reason I trust an ATM is that I can visually verify that it gave me the right quantity and denominations of cash, and/or it printed out a deposit receipt. If I was blind I wouldn't want to use the fracking things, I'd go to a teller I trusted.
Actually most colleges don't get to this stuff at all. There's way too much computer science to cram into four years. If you're lucky there's one or two courses on software engineering, which barely scratch the surface of what's needed for the real world. If it was up to me we'd train programmers for 6 or 8 years, but for now the only way to learn this stuff is painful experience.
If it is a typical complex, highly-customized business system, it will have:
So, I'd say your Phase 1 above is a vast under-estimation. And the idea that you can farm it out to an external organization, especially one without close personal contact with users, is pure fantasy.
At the end of your process you'll have a system that does maybe 20% of what the users actually need, and 50% of which is stuff no one needs any longer.