...stupidity. Write a new application, don't re-write the old one. Don't promise to completely match the function of the legacy system with no downtime. If that's all that matters to your users/customers then they should stick with the legacy system and spend their money on something other than re-writing a working system in a fancy new programming language.
Most of the time, a system grows over a decade or more and becomes difficult for new programmers to understand. Customers want a few simple changes and lazy, immature programmers say: "we can't change it because the old technology is no good, we have to rewrite it with the new technogloy" when they really just are too lazy or stupid to learn to use the old technology to make small changes to the existing system. I've seen this happen more than once. Never with a good result.
Food bloggers are simply braggarts. "Look at me and the wonderful food I'm enjoying! Aren't I just precious?" This is the sub-text of almost every food blog. It's even more obnoxious than disturbing the fellow diners.
I live in the land of Qworst and Comcast. I gave up on Qworst DSL a couple of years ago and switched to Comcast. I had no desire for cable tv and bought the service without Cable. A couple of months later, some nice person from Comcast called and tried to sell me a bundle with phone and cable for like $20-$30 / month more than I was paying for internet alone. I asked them how much was Cable + Internet vs. Internet alone and it turned it Cable + Internet was $67 and Internet only was $73. So, I've got cable. It sucks and I don't watch it, but I've got it.
BTW, Hulu kicks TV's ass. I can watch a show on Hulu with 5 mins of commercials or I can watch the same show on TV with 22 minutes of commercials. I'm considering netflix on-demand or Amazon.
"Sucrose needs to be broken down first, and that can only happen at a limited rate."
This is generally true of everything we eat. Not just refined sugars. A simple rule, if we want to lose weight, is to include more minimally pre-processed foods in our diet...in other words, chew our own food. A hamburger from any of the drive-thru restaurants is basically chewed for us before we put it in our mouths. And this goes for cooking too. Eat raw foods and we burn more energy digesting, digesting slower and netting fewer calories. So a pound of carrots isn't always a pound of carrots. Not when you think about what happens inside your GI-tract.
P.S. I love BBQ. I am not advocating a completely raw food diet. However, maybe 30-50% raw, unprocessed foods combined with moderation in intake and making sure we get a wide variety of mostly plants will certainly improve the health of the normal North American (including me).
And Pepsi, not Coke, was shrewd enough to realize it had to "shake things up" a bit in a market where Coke holds 51% of the soda market, to 30% for Pepsi, according to 2006 figures from the trade journal, Beverage Digest.
But the sales growth is enough to pop anyone’s lid. Coke last year sold 4.33 billion liters of carbonated drinks in China, a sales-volume jump of 70% over its results in 2000, according to market-researcher Euromonitor International and The Wall Street Journal. Pepsi sold 2.93 billion liters last year – 32% less than Coke but 93% better than it did in 2000.
David and Mr. "almost 2 people die every second" both miss THE key point illustrated by the response to the attacks on 9/11.
The people at the top of those buildings were some of the wealthiest people on the planet. If they were dirt-farmers in Sudan or Ethiopia, we'd be all maintaining our calm perspectives. But when they're multi-millionaires in NYC, then we need to do something drastic.
The idea that all people are of equal worth and value is a nice idea, but it is not put into widespread practice. The way our world allocates resources, 1 NYC bond trader or better yet, a Goldman Sach's senior partner could easily equal 1,000 Oklahomans or 5,000 Okinawans or 50,000 Columbians or 1,000,000 Sudanese or 2,000,000 Congolese. Perhaps there's a need for a human worth calculator web-site...
So, if we have to crap ourselves in coach class on airplanes 100 times a day around the USA so that a single Goldman Sachs partner has a 0.000000000373% lower chance of being a victim of a plane falling out of the sky and landing on his yacht (he would not be caught on a commercial flight), then so be it. It's a fair trade.
The one where we get to rape teenage village girls to death and hack the limbs off their little brothers so they'll be unable to make a living or extract revenge. That's some serious depravity.
Shooting a few "civilians" in a mall with automatic weapons pales in comparison.
As for civilians vs. combatants...on one level, the poor civilians are victims. But from another perspective, civilians, through action and inaction, enable combat. In the USA, we pay taxes used to buy bombs dropped on Pakistanis. That makes US civilians, at least the taxpaying ones, complicit in the death-by-drone attacks. To claim innocence is, except in the case of children who pay no taxes and exert little control, is intellectually dishonest. And Afghani civilians, by failing to fight the Taliban who hide among them are, at least in part, responsible when they become collateral damage to US attacks on those Taliban. In other words, there are no civilians.
What you are seeing now is not the internet. It's a clever simulation put in place by those that want you to believe the internet is still running. But it's not.
Paper ballots. Counted by computer. That's what we do in my state. You mark the paper ballot, insert it into a mark-sense reader and it spits out the ballot of you've inadvertently spoiled it and you can get another one and do it again. And if there's a recount, the original votes are preserved on paper, a much more stable media than computer disks.
Touch screens, for at least two or three reasons are a bad choice for voting.
I really find this "he ended the battle decisively" paradigm misleading and counterproductive. Life is not a battle. We all die. It's not defeat to die at age 70+.
The first step is to accept the fact that you and I are both going to die someday. Then, most importantly, to use that knowledge to prioritize our expenditure of time while we are healthy. And, second, when we're no longer healthy and have no prospect of becoming healthy again, plan a reasoned end of life.
It is stupid, to fight it to the bitter end, in complete denial of reality. My best friend did just that when faced with death due to liver failure. He was in terrible physical condition (too much programming, not enough moving) and would not have survived a transplant (had one been available) and he died at age 52 in an ICU after a year of balancing shitting himself with losing his cognitive function. He went into his final coma believing he'd win the lottery, get a liver transplant operation, survive it and be back to his healthy self. He never said goodbye to his wife or brothers.
At my company, we've invented and successfully implemented a new software development methodology. We call it Acelvolution. We only hire pre-pubescent humans in programming roles. We have a cadre of experienced testers. We carefully test and log all the software defects.
Once per quarter, we run a report on the defect base. We sort the developers in a list by number of defects per widget, descending, then we murder the top 10%. The bottom 10%, or the ones that produce the fewest defects per widget, are given sexual maturity hormones and encouraged to reproduce. The rest of them are given hormone treatments to retard sexual maturity and encouraged to work harder making fewer mistakes. Our standard software developer employment contract gives the company right of first refusal hiring our developers offspring. After only 17 generations, we are proud to report that our software defect rate per widget has declined by 34%.
Acelvolution. You're going to hear a lot about this new methodology in the next 5 years.
If you do not like the contract, do not do business with AT&T. You've got a choice. They're not selling you something you need (air, food, water, shelter).
It's not that space is so big. It's that time is so big. The question is not where are the alien civilizations, the question is when are the alien civilizations.
Either that, or God only bothered to make humans and the Primitive Christians are on the right track.
People pay you to help them. To make their computers work. And you want them to do what you've done, read all about computers and fix it themselves....and then why would they keep your mean angry little self around?
...stupid. I recently picked up HL2 Orange Box. It does NOT work on 3 machines, one 3 years old, two new this year. Steam just downloads and downloads forever over 22 mbps cable connection and the game never starts.
I also just picked up Neverwinter Nights 2. It needs to patch for about 5 hours before it's playable. I tried the unpatched before patching. The game deadends easily and crashes frequently and runs really slow. I feel sorry for the folks who bought this back when it was new and had to wait for the patches.
Even if the games worked as designed, the general design of games is so poor when it comes to playability that playing them has become boring. So, when money is tight, people quickly figure out what's necessary and what's not necessary and broken crappy games at $40, $50 or $60 are simply not necessary. Expect sales to continue to decline.
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...stupidity. Write a new application, don't re-write the old one. Don't promise to completely match the function of the legacy system with no downtime. If that's all that matters to your users/customers then they should stick with the legacy system and spend their money on something other than re-writing a working system in a fancy new programming language. Most of the time, a system grows over a decade or more and becomes difficult for new programmers to understand. Customers want a few simple changes and lazy, immature programmers say: "we can't change it because the old technology is no good, we have to rewrite it with the new technogloy" when they really just are too lazy or stupid to learn to use the old technology to make small changes to the existing system. I've seen this happen more than once. Never with a good result.
...with church-state separation will suffer in a government-funded HELL for eternity.
Where's any actual data that supports your assertion that the USA innovates more because it's more right-leaning?
Food bloggers are simply braggarts. "Look at me and the wonderful food I'm enjoying! Aren't I just precious?" This is the sub-text of almost every food blog. It's even more obnoxious than disturbing the fellow diners.
And you get to keep it afterwards,
More like And you HAVE to keep it afterwards...
I live in the land of Qworst and Comcast. I gave up on Qworst DSL a couple of years ago and switched to Comcast. I had no desire for cable tv and bought the service without Cable. A couple of months later, some nice person from Comcast called and tried to sell me a bundle with phone and cable for like $20-$30 / month more than I was paying for internet alone. I asked them how much was Cable + Internet vs. Internet alone and it turned it Cable + Internet was $67 and Internet only was $73. So, I've got cable. It sucks and I don't watch it, but I've got it. BTW, Hulu kicks TV's ass. I can watch a show on Hulu with 5 mins of commercials or I can watch the same show on TV with 22 minutes of commercials. I'm considering netflix on-demand or Amazon.
Did someone hold a gun to your head and force you to fly to Dubai? Nope. You chose to do it. Stop whining or stop flying.
"Sucrose needs to be broken down first, and that can only happen at a limited rate."
This is generally true of everything we eat. Not just refined sugars. A simple rule, if we want to lose weight, is to include more minimally pre-processed foods in our diet...in other words, chew our own food. A hamburger from any of the drive-thru restaurants is basically chewed for us before we put it in our mouths. And this goes for cooking too. Eat raw foods and we burn more energy digesting, digesting slower and netting fewer calories. So a pound of carrots isn't always a pound of carrots. Not when you think about what happens inside your GI-tract.
P.S. I love BBQ. I am not advocating a completely raw food diet. However, maybe 30-50% raw, unprocessed foods combined with moderation in intake and making sure we get a wide variety of mostly plants will certainly improve the health of the normal North American (including me).
I'd settle for GPS software that could find the Foodland store in Kahului on Maui.
It's not a big question, it's not even a question that hasn't been answered rather loudly and frequently.
Take a look at the revenues and profits of Coke and Pepsi in China. The two companies have 81% of the soft drink market.
From: http://moneymorning.com/2007/09/28/pepsi-goes-red-in-china/
And Pepsi, not Coke, was shrewd enough to realize it had to "shake things up" a bit in a market where Coke holds 51% of the soda market, to 30% for Pepsi, according to 2006 figures from the trade journal, Beverage Digest.
But the sales growth is enough to pop anyone’s lid. Coke last year sold 4.33 billion liters of carbonated drinks in China, a sales-volume jump of 70% over its results in 2000, according to market-researcher Euromonitor International and The Wall Street Journal. Pepsi sold 2.93 billion liters last year – 32% less than Coke but 93% better than it did in 2000.
Funny how not one of the big-team $20 million + games can compete when it comes to fun/playability/originality with the 2-man team's World of Goo.
I tried Facebook, but nobody would friend me so I think it's stupid.
David and Mr. "almost 2 people die every second" both miss THE key point illustrated by the response to the attacks on 9/11. The people at the top of those buildings were some of the wealthiest people on the planet. If they were dirt-farmers in Sudan or Ethiopia, we'd be all maintaining our calm perspectives. But when they're multi-millionaires in NYC, then we need to do something drastic. The idea that all people are of equal worth and value is a nice idea, but it is not put into widespread practice. The way our world allocates resources, 1 NYC bond trader or better yet, a Goldman Sach's senior partner could easily equal 1,000 Oklahomans or 5,000 Okinawans or 50,000 Columbians or 1,000,000 Sudanese or 2,000,000 Congolese. Perhaps there's a need for a human worth calculator web-site... So, if we have to crap ourselves in coach class on airplanes 100 times a day around the USA so that a single Goldman Sachs partner has a 0.000000000373% lower chance of being a victim of a plane falling out of the sky and landing on his yacht (he would not be caught on a commercial flight), then so be it. It's a fair trade.
The one where we get to rape teenage village girls to death and hack the limbs off their little brothers so they'll be unable to make a living or extract revenge. That's some serious depravity. Shooting a few "civilians" in a mall with automatic weapons pales in comparison. As for civilians vs. combatants...on one level, the poor civilians are victims. But from another perspective, civilians, through action and inaction, enable combat. In the USA, we pay taxes used to buy bombs dropped on Pakistanis. That makes US civilians, at least the taxpaying ones, complicit in the death-by-drone attacks. To claim innocence is, except in the case of children who pay no taxes and exert little control, is intellectually dishonest. And Afghani civilians, by failing to fight the Taliban who hide among them are, at least in part, responsible when they become collateral damage to US attacks on those Taliban. In other words, there are no civilians.
SC Johnson.
What you are seeing now is not the internet. It's a clever simulation put in place by those that want you to believe the internet is still running. But it's not.
Paper ballots. Counted by computer. That's what we do in my state. You mark the paper ballot, insert it into a mark-sense reader and it spits out the ballot of you've inadvertently spoiled it and you can get another one and do it again. And if there's a recount, the original votes are preserved on paper, a much more stable media than computer disks. Touch screens, for at least two or three reasons are a bad choice for voting.
...are the ones you don't know well enough.
I really find this "he ended the battle decisively" paradigm misleading and counterproductive. Life is not a battle. We all die. It's not defeat to die at age 70+. The first step is to accept the fact that you and I are both going to die someday. Then, most importantly, to use that knowledge to prioritize our expenditure of time while we are healthy. And, second, when we're no longer healthy and have no prospect of becoming healthy again, plan a reasoned end of life. It is stupid, to fight it to the bitter end, in complete denial of reality. My best friend did just that when faced with death due to liver failure. He was in terrible physical condition (too much programming, not enough moving) and would not have survived a transplant (had one been available) and he died at age 52 in an ICU after a year of balancing shitting himself with losing his cognitive function. He went into his final coma believing he'd win the lottery, get a liver transplant operation, survive it and be back to his healthy self. He never said goodbye to his wife or brothers.
At my company, we've invented and successfully implemented a new software development methodology. We call it Acelvolution. We only hire pre-pubescent humans in programming roles. We have a cadre of experienced testers. We carefully test and log all the software defects.
Once per quarter, we run a report on the defect base. We sort the developers in a list by number of defects per widget, descending, then we murder the top 10%. The bottom 10%, or the ones that produce the fewest defects per widget, are given sexual maturity hormones and encouraged to reproduce. The rest of them are given hormone treatments to retard sexual maturity and encouraged to work harder making fewer mistakes. Our standard software developer employment contract gives the company right of first refusal hiring our developers offspring. After only 17 generations, we are proud to report that our software defect rate per widget has declined by 34%.
Acelvolution. You're going to hear a lot about this new methodology in the next 5 years.
If you do not like the contract, do not do business with AT&T. You've got a choice. They're not selling you something you need (air, food, water, shelter).
It's not that space is so big. It's that time is so big. The question is not where are the alien civilizations, the question is when are the alien civilizations. Either that, or God only bothered to make humans and the Primitive Christians are on the right track.
Which NOT easy method do you recommend?
People pay you to help them. To make their computers work. And you want them to do what you've done, read all about computers and fix it themselves....and then why would they keep your mean angry little self around?
...stupid. I recently picked up HL2 Orange Box. It does NOT work on 3 machines, one 3 years old, two new this year. Steam just downloads and downloads forever over 22 mbps cable connection and the game never starts. I also just picked up Neverwinter Nights 2. It needs to patch for about 5 hours before it's playable. I tried the unpatched before patching. The game deadends easily and crashes frequently and runs really slow. I feel sorry for the folks who bought this back when it was new and had to wait for the patches. Even if the games worked as designed, the general design of games is so poor when it comes to playability that playing them has become boring. So, when money is tight, people quickly figure out what's necessary and what's not necessary and broken crappy games at $40, $50 or $60 are simply not necessary. Expect sales to continue to decline.