The *executives* decided we would put out updates to the code on XXXX,Nth. Then they decided we would put out two other major updates on basically the same date. They cut testing to 20% coverage and then convinced themselves that "certified" over 20% coverage is the same as "certified" over 100%. Then they slammed the code into production. Then they got scared and pulled it out.
Then they said we could adjust priorities... "as long as the dates don't change".
A standard coding cycle is about 60 days. It has a lot of waste space. An aggressive coding cycle is about 45 days. It has wasted space - but if defects are found, you don't have to change the release date. Some of these coding cycles are 14 days. We are not testing fully. We are merging code streams before observing they are stable.
If you want to pay $5000 for a spreadsheet program and $1000 a year maintenance. And even then the liability is only good for a very restricted version of the operating system, patches, and devices. If you install any device or software not covered by the contract on the machine, your coverage is void.
It's way too late. The government has greatly superior weaponry and has shown throughout history that it is willing to use it on our own citizens, veterans, students, etc. to maintain order.
If you want to be prepared to fight an oppressive government, you would be much better off to look into IED's as foreign countries have shown us. And even there, the government will stomp you (like it did in faluja (sp)).
The two great democracies are showing much stronger fascist tendencies and surveillance tendencies than a lot of countries viewed as more oppressive around the world.
On the other hand, everything goes to hell from overpopulation in the next 30 to 50 years anyway so how doe sit matter anyway?
Aye- this is actually a terrifying weapon with apparently absolutely no defense. In regular star trek- you had to get close to use transporters-- only "super-advanced" alien races could teleport at long distances (this was seen even in TOS).
But given an effective long distance teleporter you could lay waste to planets and they wouldn't even know where the hell it was coming from or be able to defend against it.
I would say the movie ignored basic logic as much as science.
In the real world, 25 years is a helluva long time. People's attitudes change a lot during that time.
I thought i saw an angel, I was completely sure, she smiled at me on the subway,
turned out she was a man I didn't know til I tried to sleep with her after eight black and tans... she was beautiful, she was beautiful, she was beautiful, I swear!
$22k car (Honda Element). Old "Ridiculous" insurance at Allstate was $1700 a year. (this even had a $500k umbrella) New insurance from 21st century is $680 a year. (very bare bones policy by my choice)
Perhaps you have a very expensive car.
I mainly left Allstate because when IKE made my house uninhabitable, they wouldn't give me a letter saying they wouldn't cover lodging in less than 6 weeks. FEMA required that letter to give me lodging assistance (and lodging at all really since FEMA had most of the hotels locked up). So I "slept" in up to 90 degree heat until I finally got a generator.
It was pretty shocking how long the power was out.
And I decided I was leaving Allstate at that point. I was really pissed off about the letter thing. It would have cost them nothing- not a dime.
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I had some major "lameness" problems with the villains.
Here is is in the past before the event that destroyed his planet, and even given 25 years to mull it over, he never told anyone or did anything else to stop the disaster?
How can anyone be that stupid?
His entire revenge motivation is predicated on an event that hasn't happened yet.
--- On a side note, for being a space traveling race, there seemed to be no spaceships around except the villains and the protagonists. No other secondary efforts to deal with the romulans... no merchant ships trying to escape. no missiles, phasers, or other land based attempts to destroy the mine.
--- on a side/side note... how is it a ship that advanced isnt' easily doing better than TOS "maximum warp".
And it seemed like the trip TO vulcan took less than an hour at maximum warp. But the trip back from vulcan to earth took a much longer amount of time.
--- Personally, I liked all the humerous bits with the characters. Young people make stupid mistakes (including leaving the parking break on).
but the first half of the movie felt great. ("10") The last half was okay. ("7")
I think there were a lot of character bits in the first half (including seeing the fabled "K" test.)
This kirk, being younger is a lot brasher and less of the seasoned man we will see by the time he is 35.
It really bugged me that Cameron was Kirk's dad. I wish it had been some other random actress. I found her much more jarring than Sylar.
A lot of the last half just seemed too implausible. it was implausibility piled on implausibility. some things were just kinda dumb (why not take security guys on the boarding mission?)
Glad I saw it- had a lot of fun the first hour and I'm not upset at the last hour--- but from this point, it almost might as well not be star trek. it's just a way for a big corporation to get money. And $15 for a movie is a bit much.
You are so fabulously correct that I am amazed that I'd never seen the obvious.
You really only need a few newspapers and even they would be competing with CNN and FOX.
My "local" paper these days consists of * pretty worthless local information * entirely useless national and world information ( A lady killed two people yesterday in some place besides where you are-- who cares? ) * useful information that is duplicated by 100 other news outlets.
The main reason that I buy it is a) editorials (duplicated in many other locations- and frequently pointless) b) comics c) a couple articles by the local business writers who I actually find intelligent and helpful (It's the houston chronicle by the way)
The main section is almost unreadable due to the lack of relevant news combined with 90% advertising content. They recently combined the editorial and business sections and shrunk both.
Oh.. and I religiously read the local Fry's ad on Monday/Wednesday/Friday. I think if Fry's went out of business, the local paper would be devastated. Three full page ads a week plus an advertising section a week.
It is interesting that the anonymous person above apparently found a way to not feel pain with gluteal shots. Perhaps he injects slowly like he sticks the needle in slowly. Or maybe walking quickly erases the bollus and restores the muscle to normal compared with an arm shot.
I'd always read it was painful (and yea, I pictured it like a bruise after a punch in the arm, not sharp pain).
When I wear my shirt unbuttoned to below my chest and show that much flesh, women look.
I understand the problem with a standard polo shirt and staring.
But it pisses me off when a women wears a shirt cut so low you can see below her bra in the front- and then she complains that you are looking at her massive visible cleavage.
---
I like boobs- but I've always been more of a mid-riff type who is fond of willowy types.
But mainly I'm co-dependent so I'm just interested in those who are interested in me. Like the cheap trick song... "I want you, to want me... I need you, to need me..."
I read a while back (I think it was on slashdot) that those who do believe in an afterlife seek heroic care at a higher rate to stay alive just a little while longer than those who do not believe in an afterlife.
When I was facing death, I wasn't afraid of dying at all. So I don't agree with the others that you are going to have a death bed conversion to wanting to stay alive.
It was my late 30's before I started using pills to control pain. Before that, I'd always just suffered through it.
Now looking back-- I think "what a flipping idiot I was!?!"
Life is a journey, and until you are 47, you won't have had the same life experiences so your emotional feelings towards these issues may change.
At over 47, I've seen many, many younger people and peers change their attitudes and opinions about everything.
Natural progression had me suffering a very nasty painful prolonged 3 to 6 month death at 33. (An operation and 5 months of chemo stopped that outcome)
On a less terminal level, it had me blind at 12 and basically insane and doomed to loss of my job at 43.
Natural progression also had my reaction speeds slower than most men so I sucked at sports and network gaming.
Now, I'm making running when the 20 year olds are tired... and making catches that I would have dropped when I was in my 20's and 30's (one handed no less! game winning point- it rocked!)
----
But at a deeper point who decided how we were *MEANT* to live? That's a moral judgement. You choose to live by your morals- I'll live by mine. Why is it wrong when I play against people who are genetic lottery winners who at 50 still out run and out catch 30 year olds? a) their knees never blew out b) they are about 5'10" to 6' c) they didn't blow out another joint (shoulder) or develop one of the other natural diseases.
Why are they meant to live well and the rest of us aren't? Who decided that?
I've used a lot of condoms in my life-- my preferred brand is "Maxxam" (gold foil).
Not only do condoms not prevent orgasm- they allow you to ride the edge a lot longer which is the closest thing to male multi-orgasm we can experience (unless you master the art of orgasm without ejaculation and I never did). As you ride the edge longer, the intensity grows and the sensations start to spread out just from your genital area to your legs, abdomen, then feet, down your arms and you can experience an entire body orgasm that just takes time to build.
You can do it without protection too. But it 's not so easy.
I've always thought that condom success rate depends on intelligence and your actual practices.
I and a lot of friends used condoms and experienced 0% failure rate (no pregnancies).
OTH, with birth-control pills, we had a failure-- but it wasn't the pills.
The lady in question admitted a year or two later that she was lying and had stopped taking the pill because she had decided she wanted to get pregnant. She also later decided she only wanted the money and not the males interference with raising the child.
As a guy, you know when you are using as condom, but you never really know when you are a using a pill.
So these shots would be good because you would *know* you were covered from your side.
I would not want poked with a giant needle on a plane. I would not want poked with a giant needle on a train. I would not want poked Oh yes I would not. Wanting to be poked would be quite insane!
1) testosterone shots are painful 2) testosterone converts to estrogen (http://www.naturodoc.com/library/hormones/masculine.htm)...The enzyme called aromatase works naturally to convert testosterone into estrogen.... Fat cells contribute a great amount of aromatase, and many nutrient deficiencies can also produce higher levels. 3) having more testosterone lowers your natural production (so going off of it can be a bitch) 4) having excess testosterone can make you more aggressive, angrier (rage), less happy but... 5) having insufficient testosterone can make you more emotional, angrier(fear), sleep poorly, less happy, anxious (free floating anxiety), loss of lust, loss of happiness, lost of performance when you do have lust.
I've been on HRT for a few years now. Having a level of about 600 makes me feel like I am 10 years younger plus the andropause symptoms went away within a week of starting supplementation. There are currently two expensive rub on versions (Testim - oil based and Androgel - alchohol based), a ton of compounded rub on versions, and shots.
Shots produce a much stronger cycle (too high for a few days, then normal for a couple weeks, then too low for a few days before your next shot). I've read the shots are painful after you get them (the testosterone hurts inside you). It's not agony and tons of guys do get the shots (much less expensive than the rub-on approach) but the getting shots sucks, and then if it hurts after you get the shot that would suck more.
I apparently had low testosterone most of my life even before i was in my 40's since I furred out big time once I went on it. I play a lot of boardgames and losing them pisses me off more than it used to so that is a downside. I didn't used to care.
A LOT of males have low testosterone starting at 43-- some earlier. It's an easy test to get. HRT is usually a one-way trip. You go on it and are on it until you show signs of prostate cancer (which estrogen is like gasoline on a fire for).
Well, actually I can't argue the fact that ODF screwed up by not finishing the spec.
OTH, from experience with Microsoft going back to DOS 3, I attribute their massive incompatibility to malice.
Unless you are working with good intent, there is almost no document or law that can't be twisted. In a friendly environment, you can specify something easily. In a hostile environment, you have to be extremely precise because any mistake will be abused. --- Then the only real solution is to do as the EU has done and say, "we don't give a crap what it says- we want behavior "X,Y,Z" or we are going to fine you into the stoneage and then require you fix it too". If EU said, "Fix it so you can read and write the formulas to these spreadsheets or face million dollar a day fines" then Microsoft would find they could easily get it working with 99.9% compliance.
And yet, amazingly, a wide variety of other ODF implementations by smaller companies all work together.
And Openoffice can successfully read a microsoft spreadsheet and save it as ODF (done that myself many times). And Openoffice can read and *fix* a corrupted word document that was crashing word and save it as ODF.
However, microsoft with a much later staff and budget can't even get basic functions working? The functions are identical between the two in many cases.
The reason it is so hard to define is so far everyone just looked at it and did it. Formally defining Power(x,y) is a lot harder than just looking at it and implement what common sense will tell you.
My experience with my friends who were teachers is that they had to work 7am to 10pm to keep up with the required paper work and grading. They finally burned out. They didn't get to pick their own curriculum- they taught to what was assigned by the state.
Combined with the low pay.. it overall seemed like a sucky job. Except for the 3 months off. But lately it's more like 2.5 months off.
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In my recent experience it worked out like this.
The *executives* decided we would put out updates to the code on XXXX,Nth.
Then they decided we would put out two other major updates on basically the same date.
They cut testing to 20% coverage and then convinced themselves that "certified" over 20% coverage is the same as "certified" over 100%.
Then they slammed the code into production.
Then they got scared and pulled it out.
Then they said we could adjust priorities... "as long as the dates don't change".
A standard coding cycle is about 60 days. It has a lot of waste space.
An aggressive coding cycle is about 45 days. It has wasted space - but if defects are found, you don't have to change the release date.
Some of these coding cycles are 14 days. We are not testing fully. We are merging code streams before observing they are stable.
So yea.. the developers should be responsible.
If you want to pay $5000 for a spreadsheet program and $1000 a year maintenance. And even then the liability is only good for a very restricted version of the operating system, patches, and devices. If you install any device or software not covered by the contract on the machine, your coverage is void.
Speaking as an American,
It's way too late. The government has greatly superior weaponry and has shown throughout history that it is willing to use it on our own citizens, veterans, students, etc. to maintain order.
If you want to be prepared to fight an oppressive government, you would be much better off to look into IED's as foreign countries have shown us. And even there, the government will stomp you (like it did in faluja (sp)).
The two great democracies are showing much stronger fascist tendencies and surveillance tendencies than a lot of countries viewed as more oppressive around the world.
On the other hand, everything goes to hell from overpopulation in the next 30 to 50 years anyway so how doe sit matter anyway?
Well they did have that department of temporal affairs referred to in the DS9 episode.
Transporters can work over infinite distances.
Aye- this is actually a terrifying weapon with apparently absolutely no defense.
In regular star trek- you had to get close to use transporters-- only "super-advanced" alien races could teleport at long distances (this was seen even in TOS).
But given an effective long distance teleporter you could lay waste to planets and they wouldn't even know where the hell it was coming from or be able to defend against it.
I would say the movie ignored basic logic as much as science.
In the real world, 25 years is a helluva long time. People's attitudes change a lot during that time.
I thought i saw an angel,
I was completely sure,
she smiled at me on the subway,
turned out she was a man ...
I didn't know til I tried to sleep with her
after eight black and tans
she was beautiful,
she was beautiful,
she was beautiful,
I swear!
Something odd there.
$22k car (Honda Element).
Old "Ridiculous" insurance at Allstate was $1700 a year. (this even had a $500k umbrella)
New insurance from 21st century is $680 a year. (very bare bones policy by my choice)
Perhaps you have a very expensive car.
I mainly left Allstate because when IKE made my house uninhabitable, they wouldn't give me a letter saying they wouldn't cover lodging in less than 6 weeks. FEMA required that letter to give me lodging assistance (and lodging at all really since FEMA had most of the hotels locked up). So I "slept" in up to 90 degree heat until I finally got a generator.
It was pretty shocking how long the power was out.
And I decided I was leaving Allstate at that point. I was really pissed off about the letter thing. It would have cost them nothing- not a dime.
I hear the new title is to be "Tryky".
I had some major "lameness" problems with the villains.
Here is is in the past before the event that destroyed his planet, and even given 25 years to mull it over, he never told anyone or did anything else to stop the disaster?
How can anyone be that stupid?
His entire revenge motivation is predicated on an event that hasn't happened yet.
---
On a side note, for being a space traveling race, there seemed to be no spaceships around except the villains and the protagonists. No other secondary efforts to deal with the romulans... no merchant ships trying to escape. no missiles, phasers, or other land based attempts to destroy the mine.
---
on a side/side note... how is it a ship that advanced isnt' easily doing better than TOS "maximum warp".
And it seemed like the trip TO vulcan took less than an hour at maximum warp. But the trip back from vulcan to earth took a much longer amount of time.
---
Personally, I liked all the humerous bits with the characters. Young people make stupid mistakes (including leaving the parking break on).
I can't explain why yet,
but the first half of the movie felt great. ("10")
The last half was okay. ("7")
I think there were a lot of character bits in the first half (including seeing the fabled "K" test.)
This kirk, being younger is a lot brasher and less of the seasoned man we will see by the time he is 35.
It really bugged me that Cameron was Kirk's dad. I wish it had been some other random actress. I found her much more jarring than Sylar.
A lot of the last half just seemed too implausible. it was implausibility piled on implausibility. some things were just kinda dumb (why not take security guys on the boarding mission?)
Glad I saw it- had a lot of fun the first hour and I'm not upset at the last hour--- but from this point, it almost might as well not be star trek. it's just a way for a big corporation to get money. And $15 for a movie is a bit much.
You are so fabulously correct that I am amazed that I'd never seen the obvious.
You really only need a few newspapers and even they would be competing with CNN and FOX.
My "local" paper these days consists of
* pretty worthless local information
* entirely useless national and world information ( A lady killed two people yesterday in some place besides where you are-- who cares? )
* useful information that is duplicated by 100 other news outlets.
The main reason that I buy it is
a) editorials (duplicated in many other locations- and frequently pointless)
b) comics
c) a couple articles by the local business writers who I actually find intelligent and helpful (It's the houston chronicle by the way)
The main section is almost unreadable due to the lack of relevant news combined with 90% advertising content. They recently combined the editorial and business sections and shrunk both.
Oh.. and I religiously read the local Fry's ad on Monday/Wednesday/Friday. I think if Fry's went out of business, the local paper would be devastated. Three full page ads a week plus an advertising section a week.
It is interesting that the anonymous person above apparently found a way to not feel pain with gluteal shots. Perhaps he injects slowly like he sticks the needle in slowly. Or maybe walking quickly erases the bollus and restores the muscle to normal compared with an arm shot.
I'd always read it was painful (and yea, I pictured it like a bruise after a punch in the arm, not sharp pain).
Bollus is a new word to me. Cool.
You know Kim.
When I wear my shirt unbuttoned to below my chest and show that much flesh, women look.
I understand the problem with a standard polo shirt and staring.
But it pisses me off when a women wears a shirt cut so low you can see below her bra in the front- and then she complains that you are looking at her massive visible cleavage.
---
I like boobs- but I've always been more of a mid-riff type who is fond of willowy types.
But mainly I'm co-dependent so I'm just interested in those who are interested in me. Like the cheap trick song... "I want you, to want me... I need you, to need me..."
I do not believe in any kind of afterlife.
I read a while back (I think it was on slashdot) that those who do believe in an afterlife seek heroic care at a higher rate to stay alive just a little while longer than those who do not believe in an afterlife.
Nothing personal taken, Deagol.
When I was facing death, I wasn't afraid of dying at all. So I don't agree with the others that you are going to have a death bed conversion to wanting to stay alive.
It was my late 30's before I started using pills to control pain. Before that, I'd always just suffered through it.
Now looking back-- I think "what a flipping idiot I was!?!"
Life is a journey, and until you are 47, you won't have had the same life experiences so your emotional feelings towards these issues may change.
At over 47, I've seen many, many younger people and peers change their attitudes and opinions about everything.
Natural progression had me suffering a very nasty painful prolonged 3 to 6 month death at 33. (An operation and 5 months of chemo stopped that outcome)
On a less terminal level, it had me blind at 12 and basically insane and doomed to loss of my job at 43.
Natural progression also had my reaction speeds slower than most men so I sucked at sports and network gaming.
Now, I'm making running when the 20 year olds are tired... and making catches that I would have dropped when I was in my 20's and 30's (one handed no less! game winning point- it rocked!)
----
But at a deeper point who decided how we were *MEANT* to live? That's a moral judgement. You choose to live by your morals- I'll live by mine.
Why is it wrong when I play against people who are genetic lottery winners who at 50 still out run and out catch 30 year olds?
a) their knees never blew out
b) they are about 5'10" to 6'
c) they didn't blow out another joint (shoulder) or develop one of the other natural diseases.
Why are they meant to live well and the rest of us aren't?
Who decided that?
who has the right to decide that for *me*?
I've used a lot of condoms in my life-- my preferred brand is "Maxxam" (gold foil).
Not only do condoms not prevent orgasm- they allow you to ride the edge a lot longer which is the closest thing to male multi-orgasm we can experience (unless you master the art of orgasm without ejaculation and I never did). As you ride the edge longer, the intensity grows and the sensations start to spread out just from your genital area to your legs, abdomen, then feet, down your arms and you can experience an entire body orgasm that just takes time to build.
You can do it without protection too. But it 's not so easy.
I've always thought that condom success rate depends on intelligence and your actual practices.
I and a lot of friends used condoms and experienced 0% failure rate (no pregnancies).
OTH, with birth-control pills, we had a failure-- but it wasn't the pills.
The lady in question admitted a year or two later that she was lying and had stopped taking the pill because she had decided she wanted to get pregnant. She also later decided she only wanted the money and not the males interference with raising the child.
As a guy, you know when you are using as condom, but you never really know when you are a using a pill.
So these shots would be good because you would *know* you were covered from your side.
I would not want poked with a giant needle on a plane.
I would not want poked with a giant needle on a train.
I would not want poked
Oh yes I would not.
Wanting to be poked would be quite insane!
1) testosterone shots are painful ...The enzyme called aromatase works naturally to convert testosterone into estrogen. ... Fat cells contribute a great amount of aromatase, and many nutrient deficiencies can also produce higher levels.
2) testosterone converts to estrogen (http://www.naturodoc.com/library/hormones/masculine.htm)
3) having more testosterone lowers your natural production (so going off of it can be a bitch)
4) having excess testosterone can make you more aggressive, angrier (rage), less happy but...
5) having insufficient testosterone can make you more emotional, angrier(fear), sleep poorly, less happy, anxious (free floating anxiety), loss of lust, loss of happiness, lost of performance when you do have lust.
I've been on HRT for a few years now. Having a level of about 600 makes me feel like I am 10 years younger plus the andropause symptoms went away within a week of starting supplementation. There are currently two expensive rub on versions (Testim - oil based and Androgel - alchohol based), a ton of compounded rub on versions, and shots.
Shots produce a much stronger cycle (too high for a few days, then normal for a couple weeks, then too low for a few days before your next shot).
I've read the shots are painful after you get them (the testosterone hurts inside you). It's not agony and tons of guys do get the shots (much less expensive than the rub-on approach) but the getting shots sucks, and then if it hurts after you get the shot that would suck more.
I apparently had low testosterone most of my life even before i was in my 40's since I furred out big time once I went on it.
I play a lot of boardgames and losing them pisses me off more than it used to so that is a downside. I didn't used to care.
A LOT of males have low testosterone starting at 43-- some earlier. It's an easy test to get. HRT is usually a one-way trip. You go on it and are on it until you show signs of prostate cancer (which estrogen is like gasoline on a fire for).
Well, actually I can't argue the fact that ODF screwed up by not finishing the spec.
OTH, from experience with Microsoft going back to DOS 3, I attribute their massive incompatibility to malice.
Unless you are working with good intent, there is almost no document or law that can't be twisted.
In a friendly environment, you can specify something easily.
In a hostile environment, you have to be extremely precise because any mistake will be abused.
---
Then the only real solution is to do as the EU has done and say, "we don't give a crap what it says- we want behavior "X,Y,Z" or we are going to fine you into the stoneage and then require you fix it too". If EU said, "Fix it so you can read and write the formulas to these spreadsheets or face million dollar a day fines" then Microsoft would find they could easily get it working with 99.9% compliance.
If it makes a profit- it will pay a tax.
Hmmmm.
That doesn't work- they go after things that don't make a profit too.
High school. It was a few years ago so my memory is fuzzy but I think it was multiple subjects.
And yet, amazingly, a wide variety of other ODF implementations by smaller companies all work together.
And Openoffice can successfully read a microsoft spreadsheet and save it as ODF (done that myself many times).
And Openoffice can read and *fix* a corrupted word document that was crashing word and save it as ODF.
However, microsoft with a much later staff and budget can't even get basic functions working? The functions are identical between the two in many cases.
The reason it is so hard to define is so far everyone just looked at it and did it. Formally defining Power(x,y) is a lot harder than just looking at it and implement what common sense will tell you.
My experience with my friends who were teachers is that they had to work 7am to 10pm to keep up with the required paper work and grading. They finally burned out. They didn't get to pick their own curriculum- they taught to what was assigned by the state.
Combined with the low pay.. it overall seemed like a sucky job. Except for the 3 months off. But lately it's more like 2.5 months off.