Not where I live. Ever tried to get an update for a Sony Experia or the like? Sony is absolutely the worst provider in terms of software - all over the entire productline, from their TV's, to their mobile devices, to the Playstation.
Samsung may be slow and install a lot of crapware on the phone. But unlike the writer of the article I think that's not an asset but a weakness. I'm buying the phone for the hardware. And Android with regular updates. Nothing else.
Really? Wow. That stepmother should really meet my Nigerian cousin-in-law. He needs someone that can help him transfer his inheritance out of the country. If you fax me your personal details we can set something up.
one set of governments is forcing you to smile and bend over, then takes whatever it needs. The other set takes whatever it needs but you don't know for sure that they do. Both are bastards but the first one is cruel to boot.
No serious company can afford to move completely offshore, out of touch with its armed defense (the US army), unless it has ties to another set of rulers. Social and economic ties to the USA are all very strong for Google. They could never move.
They could move their HQ - I'm sure they'd find out pretty soon that it would be difficult to get the same access to the rulers as they have locally. They didn't go to school with the players, they aren't married to people who know the players, they don't have the right employees, they don't really know the customs, etc. etc. I'm sure you can rebuild Google somewhere else, if you must, but it will only be the name and not the company that moves.
We just used Lotus Domino to complement the standard set of web-based software running on Oracle. There's loads of applications where you can use Domino as back-end, and for some things you really want to have it as a front-end. I'll take a gritty development environment for a few minor apps, over having to build that type of replication, security and encryption myself ANY day.
And Outlook and sharepoint may look better, but behind the scenes they're still crap. Domino wasn't holy, but it was functional and I've never seen it do the really weird stuff you can get with Microsoft's products. Our sysadmins all grew up on Outlook and Exchange, but after spending a few months with Domino they never wanted back. It was extremely safe and robust.
1. No, you're just fat and they can't make you any fatter. 2. The red haired one. 3. A chemical imbalance in your hormones. 4. Yes (and that one's easy to determine yourself, by the way, by experimenting) 5. Sentence does not parse. 6. Yes(1), as shown by this message.
(1) Definitions used in this answer: Deity: a human of average proportion with nickname "St.Creed" on slashdot. Exist: give evidence of changing their environment in any way.
I can't claim to have been treated unfairly, since I had been told that being lazy was bad and since I was the one being lazy. But I often wonder how my life would be different and likely better if grade school had been more challenging, if grades were open announced like sports results to bring out my competitive side, and if there had been tangible penalties for getting a B instead of an A on report, test, and especially homework.
Telling kids that being lazy is bad, but not giving them the tools to actually help them do something useful, is tantamount to child abuse, in my book.
I do agree that your story is pretty common. I went to high school without ever doing much. And sunk in university the first two years. Then it clicked and eventually I graduated but it was close - and under the new rules I'd never have been allowed to graduate. For a couple of my friends it was about the same.
So when my kid told me he finished his schoolwork halfway during the week, we talked to the teacher. He gets extra work now (Dalton education is very easy in that respect since everything is based on stuff the kids plan and do themselves). On saturday he gets Chinese lessons - it's a topic he finds difficult and he really has to study on it, which helps a lot with teaching him how to approach difficult but boring material.
What also helps is the fact that all the kids know roughly how they stand on grades in relation to eachother. It's an honor to get the extra calculus material and most of the kids are proud to get good grades. Yes, it's hard on the few that can't make good grades. But you can drag down everyone to their level, or push them to do better if they were lazy, or find a more suitable level for them if they can't.
His mother is used to the Chinese school system btw, she thinks we're a bunch of pussies - in Chinese classes only the top 3 kids count for anything, the rest better shape up. And while I don't think that's a good idea, it certainly works better than the reverse where the kids that are hailed as heroes are the ones who do the worst on intellectual stuff.
"just" more cancers? That "just" means we don't fully understand the role of telomeres yet. They look like simple TTL counters. However, I have the feeling that, just as with most things in our bodies, they fulfill several different roles at different times or based on environmental triggers. I still think that if the cancers can be controlled, it would one of several very interesting options.
Biosciences, the final frontier... If I was 18 and had to decide what to study again, I'm very sure it would be something in the biosciences. We're getting ready for one hell of a ride there.
The biggest difference between US unions and standard trade unions goes back to a theoretical debate that raged around the 1900's: are trade unions TRADE unions, or WORKER unions? The IWW (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Workers_of_the_World) said "workers unions", others did not.
The US unions are have more features from guilds (Writers Guild, anyone?) than from the socialist version of unions that are more common in Europe and were the ideal of the IWW. In a guild, people try to protect the income of their own members, regardless of what happens to others. In a union, you organize not by trade but by industry and company. This prevents the whole asshattery common in the US guilds because you all have the same interest, basically - both as workers but also as workers in a company.
Had the IWW won in the 20's instead of the AFL/CIO, things would have been much different in the US.
Yeah, like your right to pay for hookers and blow for mobsters and politicians, and your right to have one more massive blood-sucking operation slicing a chunk off your paycheck?
Give me a break.
-jcr
Yeah, all that should be reserved for the CEO class.
If you start talking about removing money from dividend receiving shareholders to pay employees, then that is the same thing as reducing investment in the company.
Reduced stockprices are not reduced investments. The stock has already been sold, investments made. It will only reflect on future investment rounds, but if the company provides a nice dividend or two before they do so, most investors will have forgotten the bad times.
Besides, you care confusing investment *by* the company with investment *in* the company by others. The two are not all that related.
I do agree about the German unions and their concessions. However, the USA has had a very bad history of even using army divisions and artillery to break strikes, which lead to a rather uncompromising attitude between labour and capital.
None of the measures above are any different from those taken by other bosses. But the big difference between a union and an employer is that in the union you get to vote about their decisions. If not, you can start your own union. But voting out your boss is much harder. In fact, it takes a union and a lot of pressure to do that.
But the current thread is about the naivete and self delusion necessary to assume that the entire content of letters, email, voice calls, etc is NOT recorded or even scanned, and ONLY metadata is recorded. There isn't shred of evidence to support this view and Snowden and others have specifically stated that it is not so.
True. However, for most purposes they really only want to know who's talking to who. In most cases, drone-strikes can commence based on just that data. Google "Karen Stephenson" and "The Quantum Theory of Trust" to see why all the agencies are on top of this.
Also relevant: "I'm looking for needles in haystacks. So I'm gathering haystacks." - Dutch Intelligence Chief. I guess this would explain their modus operandi as far as the "gathering of data" goes.
The Germans did it first though, with their "Schleppnetzfahndung" (dragnet investigations), in the 1970's. It lead to a lot of innocent people losing their jobs and livelihood due to being suspected of sympathizing with terrorism. I don't need a crystal ball to predict how this round will end, if the crisis continues and people start organizing to put pressure on their local rulers. The gloves *will* come off in that case.
If your own system clock is off, you disappear. But if the Global Solar Timer (GST) is off by more than 5 celestial minutes, then yes, Kerberos *does* disappear.
This isn't about protectionism though, it's about how tax money is spent. And tax money spent to improve job prospects for another country is questionable, especially considering the privacy implications of having all that personally identifying information and health records in the hands of a foreign power.
You won't see China contracting with Northrop Grumman to build Chinese submarines, and we shouldn't be seeing departments of health contracting with foreign firms to manage health care for Americans.
On the other hand, they could hire... say, the guys that recently failed in implementing another massive IT project, recently shown on slashdot. I'm pretty sure they're Americans. Yes, that will really help the USA forward: just throw more money at Americans, because we have way too much tax money and it needs spendin'!
I agree that it's a nation-level "out of pocket" type spending, but seriously: there's trade with India, I'm pretty sure the money will go back to the USA some time or another anyway. It may just be in something unrelated to IT.
Much confusion is caused by people considering either of the two parties "Left" or "Right". They're both "Right" in the sense that they are not representing organized labour and both represent sections of capitalism. Granted, the democrats usually represent the smarter sections (white collar, Silicon Valley, high tech) and the Republicans more the older entrenched sections (defense contractors, oil, heavy industry, agriculture). The whole idea one section of capital is somehow progressive and the other is not, is a bit silly: one section is just a bit smarter than the other, but both will do whatever it takes to hold on to power.
Still, I'd rather be ruled by smart overlords who try to avoid blowing up the planet (and just get a blow job instead of blown-up), than by rather dumb overlords who say into open mikes that nukes are on the way to Moscow. But don't assume either one of them has your best interests at heart. It's more that one party has more interests in common with us than the other.
Which wasn't a point for most of the people who were buying a new laptop or similar system. USB printers still worked fine, same with mouse, keyboards etc. It was a very minor subset of people who had a problem with Vista.
And when I recently switched from Vista to Windows7, it was very hard to spot the difference.
REQ.1: A report will be provided with an overview of the number of incoming, delivered and processing cases. REQ.2: A case will be counted as "incoming" when the creation_date is filled with a valid date(*). REQ.3: A case will be counted as "delivered" when the status = "Final" and the delivery_date is filled with a valid date. REQ.4: A case will be counted as "processing" when REQ1. has been satisfied but REQ.2 has not. REQ.5: All cases can be counted per "purchasing organization", "business unit" and "order month". REQ.6: A purchasing organization has a level called "organization', which consists of the full name of the organization (ORG.FULL_NAME). etc.
Non-functional requirements deal with exceptions, missing values, auditing, logging, security, backup & recovery, scheduling, etc. etc.
While the set above is not complete, it does show a bit of standard requirements.
(*) I'm sure you can nitpick about edge cases where the database suddenly gets corrupt. We ignore that explicitly.
In the software I wrote the specs for (last year) we had requirements like "The MEDICATION field has to hold a valid value that is present in table X, or the entire record will be referred to the basket for manual processing". It really doesn't need to be more complex than that, for a lot of cases.
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Not where I live. Ever tried to get an update for a Sony Experia or the like? Sony is absolutely the worst provider in terms of software - all over the entire productline, from their TV's, to their mobile devices, to the Playstation.
Samsung may be slow and install a lot of crapware on the phone. But unlike the writer of the article I think that's not an asset but a weakness. I'm buying the phone for the hardware. And Android with regular updates. Nothing else.
You win. Thread's over.
Really? Wow. That stepmother should really meet my Nigerian cousin-in-law. He needs someone that can help him transfer his inheritance out of the country. If you fax me your personal details we can set something up.
Well,
one set of governments is forcing you to smile and bend over, then takes whatever it needs. The other set takes whatever it needs but you don't know for sure that they do. Both are bastards but the first one is cruel to boot.
No serious company can afford to move completely offshore, out of touch with its armed defense (the US army), unless it has ties to another set of rulers. Social and economic ties to the USA are all very strong for Google. They could never move.
They could move their HQ - I'm sure they'd find out pretty soon that it would be difficult to get the same access to the rulers as they have locally. They didn't go to school with the players, they aren't married to people who know the players, they don't have the right employees, they don't really know the customs, etc. etc. I'm sure you can rebuild Google somewhere else, if you must, but it will only be the name and not the company that moves.
We just used Lotus Domino to complement the standard set of web-based software running on Oracle. There's loads of applications where you can use Domino as back-end, and for some things you really want to have it as a front-end. I'll take a gritty development environment for a few minor apps, over having to build that type of replication, security and encryption myself ANY day.
And Outlook and sharepoint may look better, but behind the scenes they're still crap. Domino wasn't holy, but it was functional and I've never seen it do the really weird stuff you can get with Microsoft's products. Our sysadmins all grew up on Outlook and Exchange, but after spending a few months with Domino they never wanted back. It was extremely safe and robust.
Oh dear. You missed a perfectly good opportunity to Godwin the thread.
The answers:
1. No, you're just fat and they can't make you any fatter.
2. The red haired one.
3. A chemical imbalance in your hormones.
4. Yes (and that one's easy to determine yourself, by the way, by experimenting)
5. Sentence does not parse.
6. Yes(1), as shown by this message.
(1) Definitions used in this answer: Deity: a human of average proportion with nickname "St.Creed" on slashdot. Exist: give evidence of changing their environment in any way.
Oooh, that reminds me: I couldn't figure this one out (yes, really) so perhaps you'd like to try it.
What is the chance you pick the right answer to this question the first time when picking at random?
A: 25%
B: 50%
C: 60%
D: 25%
I'd love to see a good answer to this one.
I can't claim to have been treated unfairly, since I had been told that being lazy was bad and since I was the one being lazy. But I often wonder how my life would be different and likely better if grade school had been more challenging, if grades were open announced like sports results to bring out my competitive side, and if there had been tangible penalties for getting a B instead of an A on report, test, and especially homework.
Telling kids that being lazy is bad, but not giving them the tools to actually help them do something useful, is tantamount to child abuse, in my book.
I do agree that your story is pretty common. I went to high school without ever doing much. And sunk in university the first two years. Then it clicked and eventually I graduated but it was close - and under the new rules I'd never have been allowed to graduate. For a couple of my friends it was about the same.
So when my kid told me he finished his schoolwork halfway during the week, we talked to the teacher. He gets extra work now (Dalton education is very easy in that respect since everything is based on stuff the kids plan and do themselves). On saturday he gets Chinese lessons - it's a topic he finds difficult and he really has to study on it, which helps a lot with teaching him how to approach difficult but boring material.
What also helps is the fact that all the kids know roughly how they stand on grades in relation to eachother. It's an honor to get the extra calculus material and most of the kids are proud to get good grades. Yes, it's hard on the few that can't make good grades. But you can drag down everyone to their level, or push them to do better if they were lazy, or find a more suitable level for them if they can't.
His mother is used to the Chinese school system btw, she thinks we're a bunch of pussies - in Chinese classes only the top 3 kids count for anything, the rest better shape up. And while I don't think that's a good idea, it certainly works better than the reverse where the kids that are hailed as heroes are the ones who do the worst on intellectual stuff.
"just" more cancers? That "just" means we don't fully understand the role of telomeres yet. They look like simple TTL counters. However, I have the feeling that, just as with most things in our bodies, they fulfill several different roles at different times or based on environmental triggers. I still think that if the cancers can be controlled, it would one of several very interesting options.
Biosciences, the final frontier... If I was 18 and had to decide what to study again, I'm very sure it would be something in the biosciences. We're getting ready for one hell of a ride there.
Your post probably lies somewhere in the intersection of the set of insightful postings, funny postings and "oops, I accidentally" postings.
The biggest difference between US unions and standard trade unions goes back to a theoretical debate that raged around the 1900's: are trade unions TRADE unions, or WORKER unions? The IWW (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Workers_of_the_World) said "workers unions", others did not.
The US unions are have more features from guilds (Writers Guild, anyone?) than from the socialist version of unions that are more common in Europe and were the ideal of the IWW. In a guild, people try to protect the income of their own members, regardless of what happens to others. In a union, you organize not by trade but by industry and company. This prevents the whole asshattery common in the US guilds because you all have the same interest, basically - both as workers but also as workers in a company.
Had the IWW won in the 20's instead of the AFL/CIO, things would have been much different in the US.
eve on Slashdot which should be a bastion of intellectual discourse.
You must be new here...
Yeah, like your right to pay for hookers and blow for mobsters and politicians, and your right to have one more massive blood-sucking operation slicing a chunk off your paycheck?
Give me a break.
-jcr
Yeah, all that should be reserved for the CEO class.
I thought he was discussing CEO's *blush*
If you start talking about removing money from dividend receiving shareholders to pay employees, then that is the same thing as reducing investment in the company.
Reduced stockprices are not reduced investments. The stock has already been sold, investments made. It will only reflect on future investment rounds, but if the company provides a nice dividend or two before they do so, most investors will have forgotten the bad times.
Besides, you care confusing investment *by* the company with investment *in* the company by others. The two are not all that related.
I do agree about the German unions and their concessions. However, the USA has had a very bad history of even using army divisions and artillery to break strikes, which lead to a rather uncompromising attitude between labour and capital.
None of the measures above are any different from those taken by other bosses. But the big difference between a union and an employer is that in the union you get to vote about their decisions. If not, you can start your own union. But voting out your boss is much harder. In fact, it takes a union and a lot of pressure to do that.
But the current thread is about the naivete and self delusion necessary to assume that the entire content of letters, email, voice calls, etc is NOT recorded or even scanned, and ONLY metadata is recorded. There isn't shred of evidence to support this view and Snowden and others have specifically stated that it is not so.
True. However, for most purposes they really only want to know who's talking to who. In most cases, drone-strikes can commence based on just that data. Google "Karen Stephenson" and "The Quantum Theory of Trust" to see why all the agencies are on top of this.
Also relevant: "I'm looking for needles in haystacks. So I'm gathering haystacks." - Dutch Intelligence Chief. I guess this would explain their modus operandi as far as the "gathering of data" goes.
The Germans did it first though, with their "Schleppnetzfahndung" (dragnet investigations), in the 1970's. It lead to a lot of innocent people losing their jobs and livelihood due to being suspected of sympathizing with terrorism. I don't need a crystal ball to predict how this round will end, if the crisis continues and people start organizing to put pressure on their local rulers. The gloves *will* come off in that case.
If your own system clock is off, you disappear. But if the Global Solar Timer (GST) is off by more than 5 celestial minutes, then yes, Kerberos *does* disappear.
Any more questions while I'm here? :)
This isn't about protectionism though, it's about how tax money is spent. And tax money spent to improve job prospects for another country is questionable, especially considering the privacy implications of having all that personally identifying information and health records in the hands of a foreign power.
You won't see China contracting with Northrop Grumman to build Chinese submarines, and we shouldn't be seeing departments of health contracting with foreign firms to manage health care for Americans.
On the other hand, they could hire... say, the guys that recently failed in implementing another massive IT project, recently shown on slashdot. I'm pretty sure they're Americans. Yes, that will really help the USA forward: just throw more money at Americans, because we have way too much tax money and it needs spendin'!
I agree that it's a nation-level "out of pocket" type spending, but seriously: there's trade with India, I'm pretty sure the money will go back to the USA some time or another anyway. It may just be in something unrelated to IT.
No, but when you're still on a 56K modem the service packs are pretty slow :)
Did you post this? (seeing as how you're posting as an AC and all...)
It's still a higher form of life than the propaganda sponge that believes every word the establishment commands them to think.
That's loony.
I'm not so sure. I do believe most biologists would classify primates as a higher form of life than sponges.
Much confusion is caused by people considering either of the two parties "Left" or "Right". They're both "Right" in the sense that they are not representing organized labour and both represent sections of capitalism. Granted, the democrats usually represent the smarter sections (white collar, Silicon Valley, high tech) and the Republicans more the older entrenched sections (defense contractors, oil, heavy industry, agriculture). The whole idea one section of capital is somehow progressive and the other is not, is a bit silly: one section is just a bit smarter than the other, but both will do whatever it takes to hold on to power.
Still, I'd rather be ruled by smart overlords who try to avoid blowing up the planet (and just get a blow job instead of blown-up), than by rather dumb overlords who say into open mikes that nukes are on the way to Moscow. But don't assume either one of them has your best interests at heart. It's more that one party has more interests in common with us than the other.
Which wasn't a point for most of the people who were buying a new laptop or similar system. USB printers still worked fine, same with mouse, keyboards etc. It was a very minor subset of people who had a problem with Vista.
And when I recently switched from Vista to Windows7, it was very hard to spot the difference.
Just a few requirements from last week:
REQ.1: A report will be provided with an overview of the number of incoming, delivered and processing cases.
REQ.2: A case will be counted as "incoming" when the creation_date is filled with a valid date(*).
REQ.3: A case will be counted as "delivered" when the status = "Final" and the delivery_date is filled with a valid date.
REQ.4: A case will be counted as "processing" when REQ1. has been satisfied but REQ.2 has not.
REQ.5: All cases can be counted per "purchasing organization", "business unit" and "order month".
REQ.6: A purchasing organization has a level called "organization', which consists of the full name of the organization (ORG.FULL_NAME).
etc.
Non-functional requirements deal with exceptions, missing values, auditing, logging, security, backup & recovery, scheduling, etc. etc.
While the set above is not complete, it does show a bit of standard requirements.
(*) I'm sure you can nitpick about edge cases where the database suddenly gets corrupt. We ignore that explicitly.
In the software I wrote the specs for (last year) we had requirements like "The MEDICATION field has to hold a valid value that is present in table X, or the entire record will be referred to the basket for manual processing". It really doesn't need to be more complex than that, for a lot of cases.