The only obvious overlap (to me, at least) would be in management. The people doing the actual work should not be considered redundant because, well, they're doing actual work! That work generates revenue. When Oracle bought Peoplesoft, they paid for all those workers (so to speak). Eliminating all those workers is like saying, "We bought 100% of the company, but we only really care about 90% of it. We'll just throw the other 10% away." If I bought a gallon of milk, I wouldn't immediately throw away a pint of it just because I think I'm not going to be that thirsty.
I worked for the "Server" group, I think, on the i- and p-series servers. You know how IBM is: re-org every six month with minor name changes that only serve to confuse people.
What you don't hear about is that fact that to file a patent, one must present the idea in front of a committee
Not true. I worked at IBM for a couple years until last year, and I submitted several "invention disclosures", two of which were submmitted to the USPTO. For those two, I never had to appear before the patent review board (I never heard the term "Invention Evaluation Board". In fact, for the 10 or so invention disclosures I submitted, I only had to appear once before the PRB.
So I come home and instead of my game, there's a damned Post-It on my door that says that the game requires a signature. I can't sign for it, because I'm at work when it gets delivered,
Why couldn't you just sign the release form and leave it at your door? When FedEx attempts redelivery on the next day, they'll just take the note and leave the package.
Or you could do what I do, and track the package as it travels to you. On the day the package is supposed to arrive, leave a signed note on the door for the FedEx guy. He'll take the note and leave the package. It works every time for me.
I feel sorry for you if you think these analysts have any meaningful credentials. The grandparent is correct: this person really has no more idea about Xbox2 than anyone else here does.
What's even more important is that it doesn't matter if he's right about the $400 price, because I bet if you look at his track record, he's probably very close to being right only half the time (which means he's no better than random guessing). If journalists were to publish the track records of every analyst they quote, they would quickly stop wasting our time with these wankers.
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With a price increase, I can guarantee you'll have more people pirating these "AAA" titles
I don't think pirating will be affected by a $5 price difference. Instead, I think more people will be waiting for the price to go down. For example, if a game is more than 3 months old, I buy a used copy off Amazon. The only time I buy a game at full price is if it's new or a gift.
We don't have it because the pussy ragheads aren't that eager to meet Allah after all.
Offensive language aside, please don't confuse the Arab-Americans in this country with the Arabs in the Middle East. 99% of Arab-Americans, even illegal ones, are here because they don't want to live in the Middle East and they don't want to be part of any terrorism campaign or anti-Americanism. They want to be here for the same reasons every other immigrant is here: to make a better life for themselves.
I hope you only apply your scale to undergraduate grades. In grad school, a "C" is considered failing, so every decent student gets either a B or an A. Not only that, but when I was in grad school, I took only evening classes even though I didn't have a day job. That allowed me to spend tons of time on homework and studying, more than I normally would. I only got one B, so my graduate GPA is almost 4.0 even though my undergraduate GPA was a 3.1. Even if I did have a day job, I probably would have only gotten one more B.
Have you considered that there could have been billions of other universes that didn't work out prior to this one, and the only reason you think this one is perfect is because you're in it?
Um, maybe you weren't paying attention, but the whole Y2K bug was because programmers didn't expect their software to still be used by the year 2000. They knew that when they used only two bytes for the year, that it would fail when the century ended. I'm sure in many cases, this bug was even documented. But 30 years later, when Y2K started to loom, no one remembered that documentation.
Your remark wrt. programmer creativity is interesting as well. I have no idea if you have any clue how programmers are perceived by much of management, but think "interchangeable warm body that we can outsource to India at a whim" and you'll be close. Creativity? Variation? Get real, he is there to type in a pre-defined specification. Anyone can do that, and it is the exact same job every single day.
Obviously, you have never worked at any of the companies I've worked at. I have never been treated poorly, and my manager doesn't think I'm an interchangeable warm body.
If my boss wants to track my every movement, he'll get bored very quickly, since whenever I'm on the clock, I'm either at my cubicle or in the lab, both of which are within 50 feet of his office.
If my job were to deliver packages throughout town all day long, then I would expect to be tracked, because that's how my performance is measured. As a software developer, my performance is not measures in lines of code per hour. It's measured on a wide variety of factors, all of which result in a contribution to my company's needs.
I'm sorry that your work experience has been so sour that you think all managers care what every employee is doing every minute of every day. I've never met a manager like that.
Here's the question because you took an early lunch does not mean you are not doing your job.
That's for your boss to decide, not you. In some jobs, the lunch break is only allowed at certain times. What if that sixth package is supposed to be delivered before noon, and because of your early lunch, it was late.
Most bosses are reasonable and provide some flexibility to their employees. But if you don't like your boss, then you should quit.
Here is another example, you are very efficient at your job, and because of it can take a long lunch hour. Your boss realizes this and decides to give you more packages than somebody who is slower. However, instead of increasing your pay you just get more packages. Is that fair?
No, but so what? If you really are twice as efficient, then you can probably talk your boss into giving you a raise, or some other benefit. If not, quit and work for the competition. If you really are twice as efficient as all your co-workers, then you will get rewarded for it, somehow.
You're making up hypothetical examples with no evidence that they have any bearing on real life. Not only that, but comparing a UPS driver to a programmer is ridiculous. A UPS has a very simple task: deliver packages. There is no creativity and very little variation.
Maybe that's why I didn't do so well in my statistics class, but I never subscribed to the rational-degree-of-belief definition of probability. I just think it's a meaningless concept.
Let's say for instance I'm told there's a 1% chance that I'll get into a car accident next year. So based on that, I decide that it's safe to drive a car. Then let's say that I do get into an accident at one point. What have I learned? That the 99% probability that I would be safe was absolutely worthless information to me!
That's not what 50% means. You're also bad at math. That's the whole point behind probabilities: each of multiple outcomes is not necessarily equally likely.
Geez, talk about bad math. I think what you were trying to say is that the odds are either 100% or 0%, and using probability to determine whether a single event will occur is just mental masturbation for physicists.
I think his point is that since the school didn't have an official policy on the matter already in place (so that the students could know in advance that what they were doing wasn't allowed), then shouldn't be allowed to make up rules after the fact. Laws should not be made retroactive - if what you did was not specifically prohibited at the time, then you should never be punished for it.
In other words: Yes, if the school had educated the kids on the do's and dont's of sex, the school would then have the right to expel her.
It's probably impossible because it costs too much money to buy the required software and manufacture the chips. There's no way you can learn chipd design without actually designed, building, and testing chips.
I remember doing chip design in college back in 1990, and the software cost thousands of dollars. My puny chip cost $500 to manufacture, too.
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I really hate it when web sites do that. Does anyone know of a Mozilla plug-in or something that will let me edit the expiration date of any cookie, preferably when the cookie is being set?
Since of the Xbox have been increasing steadily, so it's surprising that's based on market share would be cancelled. But then, it was always hard to compete with the Official Xbox Magazine. OXM had a demo disc that came with each issue, and that made a big difference IMHO. Not only that, but it's not too hard to get a free sub to XBN if you're patient. My subscription was free, and I wasn't planning on paying for a renewal. Oh well. Hopefully, the OXM guys will use the larger subscription base to improve the magazine, rather than let this whole thing get to their heads.
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The only obvious overlap (to me, at least) would be in management. The people doing the actual work should not be considered redundant because, well, they're doing actual work! That work generates revenue. When Oracle bought Peoplesoft, they paid for all those workers (so to speak). Eliminating all those workers is like saying, "We bought 100% of the company, but we only really care about 90% of it. We'll just throw the other 10% away." If I bought a gallon of milk, I wouldn't immediately throw away a pint of it just because I think I'm not going to be that thirsty.
I worked for the "Server" group, I think, on the i- and p-series servers. You know how IBM is: re-org every six month with minor name changes that only serve to confuse people.
Not true. I worked at IBM for a couple years until last year, and I submitted several "invention disclosures", two of which were submmitted to the USPTO. For those two, I never had to appear before the patent review board (I never heard the term "Invention Evaluation Board". In fact, for the 10 or so invention disclosures I submitted, I only had to appear once before the PRB.
Why couldn't you just sign the release form and leave it at your door? When FedEx attempts redelivery on the next day, they'll just take the note and leave the package.
Or you could do what I do, and track the package as it travels to you. On the day the package is supposed to arrive, leave a signed note on the door for the FedEx guy. He'll take the note and leave the package. It works every time for me.
What's even more important is that it doesn't matter if he's right about the $400 price, because I bet if you look at his track record, he's probably very close to being right only half the time (which means he's no better than random guessing). If journalists were to publish the track records of every analyst they quote, they would quickly stop wasting our time with these wankers.
I don't think pirating will be affected by a $5 price difference. Instead, I think more people will be waiting for the price to go down. For example, if a game is more than 3 months old, I buy a used copy off Amazon. The only time I buy a game at full price is if it's new or a gift.
It something used to weed out the humorless. Apparently, it worked.
It's not illegal unless your mod chip violates Microsoft's copyrights. Some mod chips do, some don't.
Offensive language aside, please don't confuse the Arab-Americans in this country with the Arabs in the Middle East. 99% of Arab-Americans, even illegal ones, are here because they don't want to live in the Middle East and they don't want to be part of any terrorism campaign or anti-Americanism. They want to be here for the same reasons every other immigrant is here: to make a better life for themselves.
I hope you only apply your scale to undergraduate grades. In grad school, a "C" is considered failing, so every decent student gets either a B or an A. Not only that, but when I was in grad school, I took only evening classes even though I didn't have a day job. That allowed me to spend tons of time on homework and studying, more than I normally would. I only got one B, so my graduate GPA is almost 4.0 even though my undergraduate GPA was a 3.1. Even if I did have a day job, I probably would have only gotten one more B.
Have you considered that there could have been billions of other universes that didn't work out prior to this one, and the only reason you think this one is perfect is because you're in it?
Um, maybe you weren't paying attention, but the whole Y2K bug was because programmers didn't expect their software to still be used by the year 2000. They knew that when they used only two bytes for the year, that it would fail when the century ended. I'm sure in many cases, this bug was even documented. But 30 years later, when Y2K started to loom, no one remembered that documentation.
Obviously, you have never worked at any of the companies I've worked at. I have never been treated poorly, and my manager doesn't think I'm an interchangeable warm body.
If my boss wants to track my every movement, he'll get bored very quickly, since whenever I'm on the clock, I'm either at my cubicle or in the lab, both of which are within 50 feet of his office.
If my job were to deliver packages throughout town all day long, then I would expect to be tracked, because that's how my performance is measured. As a software developer, my performance is not measures in lines of code per hour. It's measured on a wide variety of factors, all of which result in a contribution to my company's needs.
I'm sorry that your work experience has been so sour that you think all managers care what every employee is doing every minute of every day. I've never met a manager like that.
That's for your boss to decide, not you. In some jobs, the lunch break is only allowed at certain times. What if that sixth package is supposed to be delivered before noon, and because of your early lunch, it was late.
Most bosses are reasonable and provide some flexibility to their employees. But if you don't like your boss, then you should quit.
Here is another example, you are very efficient at your job, and because of it can take a long lunch hour. Your boss realizes this and decides to give you more packages than somebody who is slower. However, instead of increasing your pay you just get more packages. Is that fair?
No, but so what? If you really are twice as efficient, then you can probably talk your boss into giving you a raise, or some other benefit. If not, quit and work for the competition. If you really are twice as efficient as all your co-workers, then you will get rewarded for it, somehow.
You're making up hypothetical examples with no evidence that they have any bearing on real life. Not only that, but comparing a UPS driver to a programmer is ridiculous. A UPS has a very simple task: deliver packages. There is no creativity and very little variation.
Actually, it doesn't.
Let's say for instance I'm told there's a 1% chance that I'll get into a car accident next year. So based on that, I decide that it's safe to drive a car. Then let's say that I do get into an accident at one point. What have I learned? That the 99% probability that I would be safe was absolutely worthless information to me!
That's not what 50% means. You're also bad at math. That's the whole point behind probabilities: each of multiple outcomes is not necessarily equally likely.
Geez, talk about bad math. I think what you were trying to say is that the odds are either 100% or 0%, and using probability to determine whether a single event will occur is just mental masturbation for physicists.
In other words: Yes, if the school had educated the kids on the do's and dont's of sex, the school would then have the right to expel her.
Three words: "contributory copyright infringement"
He's talking about the kernel interface, so that drivers don't need to be rewritten every six months like they do today.
I remember doing chip design in college back in 1990, and the software cost thousands of dollars. My puny chip cost $500 to manufacture, too.
I really hate it when web sites do that. Does anyone know of a Mozilla plug-in or something that will let me edit the expiration date of any cookie, preferably when the cookie is being set?
Since of the Xbox have been increasing steadily, so it's surprising that's based on market share would be cancelled. But then, it was always hard to compete with the Official Xbox Magazine. OXM had a demo disc that came with each issue, and that made a big difference IMHO. Not only that, but it's not too hard to get a free sub to XBN if you're patient. My subscription was free, and I wasn't planning on paying for a renewal. Oh well. Hopefully, the OXM guys will use the larger subscription base to improve the magazine, rather than let this whole thing get to their heads.
I was going to type in "linux", but as soon as I got to "n", it suggested "lindsay lohan". I said, "why the hell not?" and hit enter. I'm glad I did.