As you can see in DS9, big armadas form a ribbon like structure which is aligned with the opposing armada. And the ribbon cannot be evaded by flying over it or below it, you have to go left or right or through it.
The application of communism was considered not possible in Russia. And as it turned out, it did not work. However, the protesters of today do not want communism. Especially not the Russian/Chinese version. What they want is responsibility in the finance sector (which includes, that they protagonists have to pay), fair payment for everyone (which means everyone has to be able to live from his or her work), fair taxing. If the upper 10% get 80% of the GDP then they have to pay at least 80% of the taxes. As the "prime communist" Warren Buffet said: That he is paying less taxes in percent than his own secretary. This is wrong. Furthermore our present economic system privatizes gainings, but socializes losses. This has to be stopped.
BTW: In history we crashed our capitalistic systems regularly. In most cases by starting a big war. Nowadays we want a different approach.
You are allowed to help people in distress. However, no one can force you to fight. In many cases calling for help is the right thing to do. Moving away and not helping (which happens occasionally) is illegal. If I am right it is called "nonassistance of a person in danger". So it looks like that the "super hero" thing in the news is somewhat different from that.
Using version control is an standard thing to do in software development. This even applies to the embedded system. Unit-tests are not widely used. However, not using them is stupid. The same applies to other more elaborate test mechanisms. Continuous integration is not used in all companies, but the use is becoming more common lately.
If you are able to establish a tool landscape in your company then that would be a move in the right direction. What you also need is an agile development approach instead of the fumbling around approach. Agile is required, as requirements are never totally known at project start. They normally form in a longer process. Therefore you need also to support aspect oriented methods and feature driven development. And you should design for change and include monitoring in your enterprise application.
If all these things are possible you actually can stay with the company.
Smog is another problem. And China is aware of it. Even though they do not enough about it. This also applies to the CO2-problem. Nevertheless they consider global warming a problem while some here in the forum and according to the media many US citizens believe it is no big issue.
CO2 is a problem for us, as it changes the climate. So burning more of it as it is absolute necessary is stupid. And I might add, your oil is running out figures are wrong. In the 1970 the Club of Rome stated that we will run out of oil (which is logical, as there can only be a finite number of barrels). And they assumed based on present technologies how long the oil known to that time will last. This does not mean that it will run out in the exact year they prognosticated. This is due to technical changes in oil extraction and oil usage.
And remember: When you jump of a high building and you are half way down, you might think it went well so far, so why bother. You still will hit the ground.
Aha. I wonder how this can be moderated "Informative". First, it only contains a statement an opinion and no fact. Second, this opinion has been proven wrong over and over again. The only country which still believes that global warming does not exist or is not man made is the US. At least the US-media produces that vision.
Europeans think the CO2-production nowadays is a problem. China and India think it is a problem. The third world countries and pacific states think it is so. But obviously they all are hand in gloves with each other. Especially India and China.
And if you look at the forecast. It looks grim for all of us. However, the US might go up to k$37 per person. Even though you are right there are western countries which have a higher debt pressing on their citizens.
And don't forget, that the US and the UK have a higher rate of GDP generated from the finance sector than other western states, which in the end do not produce direct wealth for the majority.
They do not learn to gain knowledge and think outside the box. They learn to apply known tactics and strategies to given problems which is totally non-creative. This has its roots in every thing has to have a purpose. And it has to have a return of investment inside your horizon.
It worked in Germany, France, The Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Austria. It even worked in Italy (even though they have a totally corrupt government at the moment), Spain. It worked in Canada.
The country with the biggest dept (per person) in the western World is the US. And the US is also the country with the biggest gap between the rich (few) and the poor. But you could believe that your current model is the best in the world. As long as you do not try to bomb us. Your country, your choice. If you want a different model, you know were to look.
Reagan lowered taxes for the rich to "increase investments" which resulted in a big state deficit. He did so on the agenda of neo-liberalism as his ideology. Thatcher tried to establish a "head tax" in the UK, deregulated markets and weakened unions. All in the glory of neo-liberalism. That ideology is still very present in Western countries. The solution for Greece is to sell all its property, abolish unions and reduce people's income. According to doctrine, that will increase the welfare of all. However, I think the real solution would be when all people would pay their taxes and Greece would fight other kinds of corruption.
Before calling Reagan and Thatcher apologists of welfare, have a closer look. Thatcher wanted order (as a conservative trait) and a liberal market. Her base line could also be described as ordoliberalism. However, she moved towards a total neoliberalism during her government.
You can do all the stuff in the cloud as well. However, I do not know why this cloud thing is such a hype. But that's a different story. Good cloud environment provide you with the right information on provided performance properties and the avail virtual machine/platform. The problem is that people think in code. And code is not good to think in. Especially when you have to handle multiple sets of aspects which even are not all part of the implementation, but of the requirements to the application.
I know this is not the center argument of the article, but it is my opinion on why so many projects fail. They code first, they never think. And they never check if their model conforms to the requirements they had in the beginning. And this applies to agile project even more.
A while ago I thought most OSS application and framework projects including such Gnome and KDE are in trouble, due to the large use of the fumble-around development approach. Also known as the first code then think approach. All the great model-based, model-driven and agile development methods seam to be far away from the way many OSS projects are developed.
However, lately I came out of my ivory tower and stood eye in eye with experts from the industry who largely believe that they are professionals and really do great stuff. They also use the fumbling approach. The main difference is the call it agile. Even though it is far away from such an approach. I always thought that one of the problems of our new economy company back in the 2000 originated from being too deep in code and too light on design, planning and documentation. But it looks like, that tinkering is a more widespread way of software development. So I guess that leaves me with bad management (which was not my responsibility).
Most of these tinkering approaches originate in the absence of developer discipline and the "Add this quick"-management method. but I am telling nothing new. We all know for decades now what is wrong in software development. A lot of people wrote books on patterns (design and otherwise), but in the end if no one follows these patterns the problems remain.
The "Add this quick"-management originates at large by a misconception of IT and its importance for businesses and other organizations.
Neither is OpenBSD totally secure nor is Linux a hacked together feature swamp. Even more it is by proof (Gödel) shown that there is no way to proof a system completely. However, you can apply engineering techniques to software. Houses, machines and tools can be developed complying to certain security and safety standards. The same can be done for software. The only thing you need are tests and prediction methods which are developed by software engineers these days and really use them.
In contracts for software projects, rules to guarantee certain safety and security levels are already present. In embedded systems and trading platforms, there are even laws in place which define how safe something has to be. For example the Safety Integrity Levels are used to define how many failures may occur before violating the law. Similar stuff exists for security. The real problem is, that no one in low risk areas is willing to pay for higher safety and security levels. Present end user software is too complex and to badly written to verify or validate them. They are not even using unit tests. And when they use them, they do not test the right thing.
You will have to rewrite most software and use verification and test methods alongside to ensure higher standards. If you establish SIL 2 or higher and similar security levels for software by law today. Most software can no longer be sold or used. As none of it will comply to these standards.
However, helping people to start using such methods might be a step in the right direction. And how can we apply such methods in OSS projects?
They own many government bonds and even more they borrowed money to buy them. The US might not be able to pay back their debt as the current economic crisis slows the US growth down which reduces tax income. The stimulus of the US market with cheap money does no longer work. So the US government tries to do a little Keynes. This increases the debt and will not help to reduce it. The alternative is not to invest in the US economy which will reduce growth figures even more. This will decrease tax income and the debt will increase. So it is fair to conclude that the US cannot pay back their debt in the near future or even in the next 100 years.
Without taxing the rich and a transaction fee you will not be able to fix it. And even with it I doubt that it will work. but increasing the income without decreasing the consumer base is a wise decision. We in the Euro-zone should do the same otherwise we will share your fate.
The money for the last New Economy bubble was created to counter measure a previous bubble collapse. The fed reduced the interest rates to pump more dollars into the market. That worked perfectly. And the money had to go somewhere. And that somewhere was the New Economy. This time they burned the money in that finance crisis and housing thing. And reduced the interest rates again. However, this time the economy is in such a bad shape due to the financial crisis and the money problems in the Euro-zone and of course the trouble with the US budget keep the banks from "investing" so IPO for the web 2.0 companies is not such a good idea at the moment.
After submission of your work, you can just put it on a web site or even better put in an open access platform either of your university or if it does not have such platform in one of the public OA platforms. However, it depends on the country in their you live if you can do so. I have heard that in the US the publications are property of the university (that might be wrong). In Germany the work is your and so you can do with it what you want.
So first make sure that you own the work. Then check out Creative Commons web-site to find the right license.
The taxes are not there to pay the price of something, they are there so everyone in charged according to his or her abilities. People who get more money can pay more of that (in percent) than the poor. It is like the health system (in Europe) everyone with money pays according to his or her income and everyone gets the same insurance totally independent from the money they give. this is what a society does when they care for each other. The strong help the weak.
And the tax system is modeled accordingly. However, in the past decades politicians added loopholes so that the rich can evade paying taxes. Even that Buffet guy said that.
A flat tax is not the solution. The solution is the end of loopholes. If you have a flat tax and loopholes than this results in more taxes for the poor and less taxes for the rich. And you do not want that. Even if you are rich. Because it is stupid to destroy the community which guarantees that the money you own are worth anything.
See when you open your refrigerator, when your heating kicks in even if it is gas driven due to the start pulse. Every electricity consumption can be monitored and it can be interpreted allowing to see when you get up, what your behavior is (at home). That's why we need data security. No company should be allowed to use these data other than to control electricity production.
I would be more wise to invest the money in teachers, teacher's education and other staff stuff. Devices make kids not wise or clever. They will not be better in understanding the media when they have an iPad. The important thing to know: How media works. How information can be retrieved and how you can evaluate it.
Beside that. Kids shall run around a lot and have fun. Still sitting is not really something they should learn. And they should learn to eat real food. So the money would also better be spend on good food in kindergarten.
Because that would be fair. The whole thing is to privatize profits and let the public pay the bills. And by the way there is too much money on the market to really invest all that money and get something in return. But it is not only the financial market. You can found companies and relay responsibility for bad business decision to the banks, stakeholders etc. To make things right, the size of organizations in the financial and business area have to be limited.
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As you can see in DS9, big armadas form a ribbon like structure which is aligned with the opposing armada. And the ribbon cannot be evaded by flying over it or below it, you have to go left or right or through it.
The application of communism was considered not possible in Russia. And as it turned out, it did not work. However, the protesters of today do not want communism. Especially not the Russian/Chinese version. What they want is responsibility in the finance sector (which includes, that they protagonists have to pay), fair payment for everyone (which means everyone has to be able to live from his or her work), fair taxing. If the upper 10% get 80% of the GDP then they have to pay at least 80% of the taxes. As the "prime communist" Warren Buffet said: That he is paying less taxes in percent than his own secretary. This is wrong. Furthermore our present economic system privatizes gainings, but socializes losses. This has to be stopped.
BTW: In history we crashed our capitalistic systems regularly. In most cases by starting a big war. Nowadays we want a different approach.
You are allowed to help people in distress. However, no one can force you to fight. In many cases calling for help is the right thing to do. Moving away and not helping (which happens occasionally) is illegal. If I am right it is called "nonassistance of a person in danger". So it looks like that the "super hero" thing in the news is somewhat different from that.
Using version control is an standard thing to do in software development. This even applies to the embedded system. Unit-tests are not widely used. However, not using them is stupid. The same applies to other more elaborate test mechanisms. Continuous integration is not used in all companies, but the use is becoming more common lately.
If you are able to establish a tool landscape in your company then that would be a move in the right direction. What you also need is an agile development approach instead of the fumbling around approach. Agile is required, as requirements are never totally known at project start. They normally form in a longer process. Therefore you need also to support aspect oriented methods and feature driven development. And you should design for change and include monitoring in your enterprise application.
If all these things are possible you actually can stay with the company.
My initial argument was not if they do anything about it. It was about that they accept that fact or deny that fact.
Smog is another problem. And China is aware of it. Even though they do not enough about it. This also applies to the CO2-problem. Nevertheless they consider global warming a problem while some here in the forum and according to the media many US citizens believe it is no big issue.
CO2 is a problem for us, as it changes the climate. So burning more of it as it is absolute necessary is stupid. And I might add, your oil is running out figures are wrong. In the 1970 the Club of Rome stated that we will run out of oil (which is logical, as there can only be a finite number of barrels). And they assumed based on present technologies how long the oil known to that time will last. This does not mean that it will run out in the exact year they prognosticated. This is due to technical changes in oil extraction and oil usage.
And remember: When you jump of a high building and you are half way down, you might think it went well so far, so why bother. You still will hit the ground.
Aha. I wonder how this can be moderated "Informative". First, it only contains a statement an opinion and no fact. Second, this opinion has been proven wrong over and over again. The only country which still believes that global warming does not exist or is not man made is the US. At least the US-media produces that vision.
Europeans think the CO2-production nowadays is a problem. China and India think it is a problem. The third world countries and pacific states think it is so. But obviously they all are hand in gloves with each other. Especially India and China.
German $27,931.98 ...
Sweden $18,947.81
And if you look at the forecast. It looks grim for all of us. However, the US might go up to k$37 per person. Even though you are right there are western countries which have a higher debt pressing on their citizens.
Obviously I meant the national debt and that in comparison to the population. Have a look at: http://www.economist.com/content/global_debt_clock
And don't forget, that the US and the UK have a higher rate of GDP generated from the finance sector than other western states, which in the end do not produce direct wealth for the majority.
They do not learn to gain knowledge and think outside the box. They learn to apply known tactics and strategies to given problems which is totally non-creative. This has its roots in every thing has to have a purpose. And it has to have a return of investment inside your horizon.
It worked in Germany, France, The Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Austria. It even worked in Italy (even though they have a totally corrupt government at the moment), Spain. It worked in Canada.
The country with the biggest dept (per person) in the western World is the US. And the US is also the country with the biggest gap between the rich (few) and the poor. But you could believe that your current model is the best in the world. As long as you do not try to bomb us. Your country, your choice. If you want a different model, you know were to look.
Reagan lowered taxes for the rich to "increase investments" which resulted in a big state deficit. He did so on the agenda of neo-liberalism as his ideology. Thatcher tried to establish a "head tax" in the UK, deregulated markets and weakened unions. All in the glory of neo-liberalism. That ideology is still very present in Western countries. The solution for Greece is to sell all its property, abolish unions and reduce people's income. According to doctrine, that will increase the welfare of all. However, I think the real solution would be when all people would pay their taxes and Greece would fight other kinds of corruption.
Before calling Reagan and Thatcher apologists of welfare, have a closer look. Thatcher wanted order (as a conservative trait) and a liberal market. Her base line could also be described as ordoliberalism. However, she moved towards a total neoliberalism during her government.
You can do all the stuff in the cloud as well. However, I do not know why this cloud thing is such a hype. But that's a different story. Good cloud environment provide you with the right information on provided performance properties and the avail virtual machine/platform. The problem is that people think in code. And code is not good to think in. Especially when you have to handle multiple sets of aspects which even are not all part of the implementation, but of the requirements to the application.
I know this is not the center argument of the article, but it is my opinion on why so many projects fail. They code first, they never think. And they never check if their model conforms to the requirements they had in the beginning. And this applies to agile project even more.
A while ago I thought most OSS application and framework projects including such Gnome and KDE are in trouble, due to the large use of the fumble-around development approach. Also known as the first code then think approach. All the great model-based, model-driven and agile development methods seam to be far away from the way many OSS projects are developed.
However, lately I came out of my ivory tower and stood eye in eye with experts from the industry who largely believe that they are professionals and really do great stuff. They also use the fumbling approach. The main difference is the call it agile. Even though it is far away from such an approach. I always thought that one of the problems of our new economy company back in the 2000 originated from being too deep in code and too light on design, planning and documentation. But it looks like, that tinkering is a more widespread way of software development. So I guess that leaves me with bad management (which was not my responsibility).
Most of these tinkering approaches originate in the absence of developer discipline and the "Add this quick"-management method. but I am telling nothing new. We all know for decades now what is wrong in software development. A lot of people wrote books on patterns (design and otherwise), but in the end if no one follows these patterns the problems remain.
The "Add this quick"-management originates at large by a misconception of IT and its importance for businesses and other organizations.
Neither is OpenBSD totally secure nor is Linux a hacked together feature swamp. Even more it is by proof (Gödel) shown that there is no way to proof a system completely. However, you can apply engineering techniques to software. Houses, machines and tools can be developed complying to certain security and safety standards. The same can be done for software. The only thing you need are tests and prediction methods which are developed by software engineers these days and really use them.
In contracts for software projects, rules to guarantee certain safety and security levels are already present. In embedded systems and trading platforms, there are even laws in place which define how safe something has to be. For example the Safety Integrity Levels are used to define how many failures may occur before violating the law. Similar stuff exists for security. The real problem is, that no one in low risk areas is willing to pay for higher safety and security levels. Present end user software is too complex and to badly written to verify or validate them. They are not even using unit tests. And when they use them, they do not test the right thing.
You will have to rewrite most software and use verification and test methods alongside to ensure higher standards. If you establish SIL 2 or higher and similar security levels for software by law today. Most software can no longer be sold or used. As none of it will comply to these standards.
However, helping people to start using such methods might be a step in the right direction. And how can we apply such methods in OSS projects?
They own many government bonds and even more they borrowed money to buy them. The US might not be able to pay back their debt as the current economic crisis slows the US growth down which reduces tax income. The stimulus of the US market with cheap money does no longer work. So the US government tries to do a little Keynes. This increases the debt and will not help to reduce it. The alternative is not to invest in the US economy which will reduce growth figures even more. This will decrease tax income and the debt will increase. So it is fair to conclude that the US cannot pay back their debt in the near future or even in the next 100 years.
Without taxing the rich and a transaction fee you will not be able to fix it. And even with it I doubt that it will work. but increasing the income without decreasing the consumer base is a wise decision. We in the Euro-zone should do the same otherwise we will share your fate.
The money for the last New Economy bubble was created to counter measure a previous bubble collapse. The fed reduced the interest rates to pump more dollars into the market. That worked perfectly. And the money had to go somewhere. And that somewhere was the New Economy. This time they burned the money in that finance crisis and housing thing. And reduced the interest rates again. However, this time the economy is in such a bad shape due to the financial crisis and the money problems in the Euro-zone and of course the trouble with the US budget keep the banks from "investing" so IPO for the web 2.0 companies is not such a good idea at the moment.
After submission of your work, you can just put it on a web site or even better put in an open access platform either of your university or if it does not have such platform in one of the public OA platforms. However, it depends on the country in their you live if you can do so. I have heard that in the US the publications are property of the university (that might be wrong). In Germany the work is your and so you can do with it what you want.
So first make sure that you own the work. Then check out Creative Commons web-site to find the right license.
The taxes are not there to pay the price of something, they are there so everyone in charged according to his or her abilities. People who get more money can pay more of that (in percent) than the poor. It is like the health system (in Europe) everyone with money pays according to his or her income and everyone gets the same insurance totally independent from the money they give. this is what a society does when they care for each other. The strong help the weak.
And the tax system is modeled accordingly. However, in the past decades politicians added loopholes so that the rich can evade paying taxes. Even that Buffet guy said that.
A flat tax is not the solution. The solution is the end of loopholes. If you have a flat tax and loopholes than this results in more taxes for the poor and less taxes for the rich. And you do not want that. Even if you are rich. Because it is stupid to destroy the community which guarantees that the money you own are worth anything.
I thought TV in America is like TV in 1984, but in color and with more channels.
See when you open your refrigerator, when your heating kicks in even if it is gas driven due to the start pulse. Every electricity consumption can be monitored and it can be interpreted allowing to see when you get up, what your behavior is (at home). That's why we need data security. No company should be allowed to use these data other than to control electricity production.
I would be more wise to invest the money in teachers, teacher's education and other staff stuff. Devices make kids not wise or clever. They will not be better in understanding the media when they have an iPad. The important thing to know: How media works. How information can be retrieved and how you can evaluate it.
Beside that. Kids shall run around a lot and have fun. Still sitting is not really something they should learn. And they should learn to eat real food. So the money would also better be spend on good food in kindergarten.
iPads! What a crap.
Because that would be fair. The whole thing is to privatize profits and let the public pay the bills. And by the way there is too much money on the market to really invest all that money and get something in return. But it is not only the financial market. You can found companies and relay responsibility for bad business decision to the banks, stakeholders etc. To make things right, the size of organizations in the financial and business area have to be limited.