I was thinking the same thing when I first read this. I want to own and operate my own software. But then I looked at my online usage.
I play WoW. Yeah I bought the software, but the software is worthless with out the online services.
I use Vent. Free software, guild pays for services.
I use hotmail. I don't even have an email client installed at home.
I could go from example to example of how online services have replaced many of my digital and non-digital based activities.
Online services will never be an absolute. For example, online word processors; they will likely do wonderfully in integrated solutions, but I doubt people would start going to www.MSWord.com to write their papers when they can have Word installed locally. To be honest, you'll be hard pressed to move people from desktop Office to just about anything because it is a rock solid application. Heck MS's primary competition for Office 2k7 is still Office 2k! If MS can't get users to upgrade, how is some pay-for-service online tool going to do it?
Anyway, the article might be a bit sensational (surprise!) but it is not with out merritt.
They probably should be careful about which means they use to supress it, but they are fully in their right to say that so-and-so behaviour isn't acceptable in public.
In todays politically correct society where there is a fear of lawsuits and an assumption that any word that can be taken in a childish context will be. For example in my organization: Primary Management System was renamed because the acronym was PMS. The Financial Unit reports were renamed because some manager couldn't ask for the F-U reports with a straight face. And most recently a data translation application had its name changed because someone tried to pronounce the acronym as "La-tee-dah-tol".
Hotmail prompts you. I have my primary inbox white-listed, everything else (solicited and unsolicited spam and mailing lists) goes to a default junk mail folder. I can select any of those that I want to delete (usually easy enough to identify by the IwantmakesExytymeW/U!!!1! and buyBuyBUY This Stock! subject lines. And as soon as I hit delete it prompts me to "report selected emails as junk mail".
1) A 15 second loading screen with static graphics and a progress bar.
2) A video of a monkey smelling its finger after scratching its ass and falling off a branch. Followed by the Vonage logo and the sub-title: "Vonage, a better choice."
It's been a while since I was young enough to worry about it, but don't minors under 16 have some form of exemption? And wouldn't there have to be some form of exemption on this? Imagine low/middle income class Ma & Pa's suprise when they get a $50,000 bill from the IRS for past due taxes because their 14 year old kid went on a bunch of raids over summer break the year before.
Google provides software services. You go to Google to get directions, information, maps, images, etc. You use their rich web apps.
MS provides tools for creating rich web apps. Sure, they produce some of their own apps (MSN Search, Live, etc...) to compete with Google. But their tool-set for the most part the best IDE in the industry. This allows any Joe-Schmoe coder to kick out rich web apps. They have an an amazingly robust VM in the.Net framework, which competes excellently against Java. (And that competition will force BOTH VM's to continue to improve!)
So comparing the two companies is slightly irrelevant. Comparing MS's apples to Google's apples, Google wins, no questions asked. Comparing MS's oranges to Google's oranges... well, Google doesn't have much for oranges.
Good call, what if my under 16 year old child wins some uber digital item that the IRS deams has a real world value of $125,000. Then we take that item and donate it to some Disabled Vets NFP (ie: Tax shelter organization) in game guild. Can I claim that $125,000 fair market value donation on my tax return?
Heck, if so, anyone with a fat pile of capital gains may start looking into sponsored events in MMOs. Sure, pay a couple of college kids $5/hr to play a game they enjoy and to turn over any high value items. Donate the high value items for tax write offs and blammo! For a couple grand in labor you have a huge tax incentive!
I disagree. Joel is a very, very smart man. He just lets his ego get in his way to often. His ideas and concepts are often full of great insight and design, but they need to be de-Joelified before they can be applied out side of Fog Creek.
Joel is a smart guy. Scratch that. Joel is an incredibly smart guy. But must every single post he makes on his own web site be headlined on/.? It's not like his ego isn't big enough already. No need to stoke the flames of that fire.
Man, where did you go to school? Totally not sending my kid there;)
i was in Alg 2, which could have been taken anywheres from sophomore to senior year depending on your schedule (and drive) at my school. I had a great school though. Like you, I never studied and I flunked a few classes due to not doing my homework. I graduated with a 2.5 or so, out of the top 50%. I took a 4 year stint in the Military, a 2 year stint as a consultant, and finally went back to college. About a year after that I wound up in a math class (precalc, calc, and physics, all in a row). The first day of class, one of the other students from my high school showed up. He performed similar to me in HS, more time devoted to scoring smokes and tail than books and tests. Anyways, after 7 years away from the math books, this guy and I managed to ace the classes. 4.0s for us both through all of them. Each seemed like nothing more than a refresher course to the same stuff we did in high school years ago. Mean while we watched as other students who had just come from public, private and home schooled situations struggled with the classes. Like I said I think I had some excellent teachers and a great school district. I definitely didn't put the effort into those classes that the teachers put into me.
Oh no it is not, the difference is that for any scientist to get reputation, it must have published some work which is *peer reviewed* by other scientists. And, as we saw with the chinesse scientist, it is very easy to lose the reputation if they make fraud.
Hello Choir, this is the Preacher speaking. Global warming is bad, m'kay? Green house gasses and people are to blame, m'kay? I've got this forecast that is just like Preacher Jim's, m'kay?
Peer reviews are only worth their weight when they are neutral and comprised of technical experts of differing views. If you make the view of denying global warming so taboo that no scientist can hold that view with out immediately being questioned and insulted by society and their peers, then that view will disappear from peer reviews due to social pressure, NOT scientific proof.
To claim that science is unaffected by bias is just naive. Over time bias can be corrected, and past mistake resolved. But in the highly publicized and politicized arena of Global Climate Change (which I thought held more of a consensus than Global Warming) the social pressures are most definitely having an effect on the science.
I'm curious as to the odds on that investment. I have never owned a console in my life (I'm a PC gamer), but I've lived with a few stoners over the years.
Those guys had pretty much every console that came out. But I don't think they had more than 5-10 games for any of them. I don't know if they are representive of the average consumer, but if they are, Sony would have to expect a $30+ profit per game sold. That seems a bit out of line considering that most of these games will sell between $45-$65. Does anyone have better numbers or knowledge on the subjet?
-Rick
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No offence meant to your friend, there are many people who have a knack for project management, but... Methodologies are kind of like stories. There are only a handful of distinct stories to have ever existed, every other story in existence is merely a slight modification or attempt at recreation of one of those original stories. While your friend may not have researched and followed any specific methodology, he likely practiced one with out even knowing it.
In defense of "Agile", it can be (agile). But it takes the right mindset from the developers, project manager, upper management and customers. Agile will not succeed in environments where anyone in that chain does not have the "Agile" mindset.
...miscommunication, which sounds like the problem described in Joel's piece
Miscommunication? He's talking about context switching, which is an all too common and necessary evil in small shop development.
In any given week I can switch from architecture design to business systems analysts, back to VB6 coding for legacy app maintenance, up to.Net for the latest report release, then into testing mode preparing another test release. All the while trying to convince my supervisor of the need for structure, project management practices, and tools to make our life easier.
All that context switching definitely has a negative effect on my productivity. My supervisor asked me to tag tickets with time estimates when I closed them out. No biggie, but the shortest I'll tag a ticket for is 30 minutes. Originally I had said 1 hour, but my supervisor vigorously disagreed with my estimate of context switching's effect on productivity.
Yeah, I follow with the pump and dump strategy. My question is, are these spam emails actually having a statistically significant effect? Are people getting 150 emails saying "$$money$$ buy th!$ stockzor!!" actually buying that stock?
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I was thinking the same thing when I first read this. I want to own and operate my own software. But then I looked at my online usage.
I play WoW. Yeah I bought the software, but the software is worthless with out the online services.
I use Vent. Free software, guild pays for services.
I use hotmail. I don't even have an email client installed at home.
I could go from example to example of how online services have replaced many of my digital and non-digital based activities.
Online services will never be an absolute. For example, online word processors; they will likely do wonderfully in integrated solutions, but I doubt people would start going to www.MSWord.com to write their papers when they can have Word installed locally. To be honest, you'll be hard pressed to move people from desktop Office to just about anything because it is a rock solid application. Heck MS's primary competition for Office 2k7 is still Office 2k! If MS can't get users to upgrade, how is some pay-for-service online tool going to do it?
Anyway, the article might be a bit sensational (surprise!) but it is not with out merritt.
-Rick
They probably should be careful about which means they use to supress it, but they are fully in their right to say that so-and-so behaviour isn't acceptable in public.
Like being Jewish in public with out an arm band?
-Rick
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When I was a kid we called it "Smear the queer" and it had nothing to do with gay people.
You would think a nation like Germany would have learned the lesson better than any other. Limiting access to media and knowledge in order to 'purify' thoughts never ends well. http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/bo
-Rick
Does he have Google adsence on his page? ;)
-Rick
In todays politically correct society where there is a fear of lawsuits and an assumption that any word that can be taken in a childish context will be. For example in my organization: Primary Management System was renamed because the acronym was PMS. The Financial Unit reports were renamed because some manager couldn't ask for the F-U reports with a straight face. And most recently a data translation application had its name changed because someone tried to pronounce the acronym as "La-tee-dah-tol".
-Rick
Hey mister funny man! Come 'ere!
-Rick
Hotmail prompts you. I have my primary inbox white-listed, everything else (solicited and unsolicited spam and mailing lists) goes to a default junk mail folder. I can select any of those that I want to delete (usually easy enough to identify by the IwantmakesExytymeW/U!!!1! and buyBuyBUY This Stock! subject lines. And as soon as I hit delete it prompts me to "report selected emails as junk mail".
Super easy to use, only 1 extra click.
-Rick
I get maybe 2-4 unsolicited spam emails a day. I get another 10-20 spams a day from groups that I have an affiliation with.
-Rick
Which would you rather see?
1) A 15 second loading screen with static graphics and a progress bar.
2) A video of a monkey smelling its finger after scratching its ass and falling off a branch. Followed by the Vonage logo and the sub-title: "Vonage, a better choice."
It's a tough call.
-Rick
It's been a while since I was young enough to worry about it, but don't minors under 16 have some form of exemption? And wouldn't there have to be some form of exemption on this? Imagine low/middle income class Ma & Pa's suprise when they get a $50,000 bill from the IRS for past due taxes because their 14 year old kid went on a bunch of raids over summer break the year before.
-Rick
until you see scientists making valid predictions and still being shut out
If they are being shut out, how are you going to see them?
-Rick
Google provides software services. You go to Google to get directions, information, maps, images, etc. You use their rich web apps.
.Net framework, which competes excellently against Java. (And that competition will force BOTH VM's to continue to improve!)
MS provides tools for creating rich web apps. Sure, they produce some of their own apps (MSN Search, Live, etc...) to compete with Google. But their tool-set for the most part the best IDE in the industry. This allows any Joe-Schmoe coder to kick out rich web apps. They have an an amazingly robust VM in the
So comparing the two companies is slightly irrelevant. Comparing MS's apples to Google's apples, Google wins, no questions asked. Comparing MS's oranges to Google's oranges... well, Google doesn't have much for oranges.
-Rick
Good call, what if my under 16 year old child wins some uber digital item that the IRS deams has a real world value of $125,000. Then we take that item and donate it to some Disabled Vets NFP (ie: Tax shelter organization) in game guild. Can I claim that $125,000 fair market value donation on my tax return?
Heck, if so, anyone with a fat pile of capital gains may start looking into sponsored events in MMOs. Sure, pay a couple of college kids $5/hr to play a game they enjoy and to turn over any high value items. Donate the high value items for tax write offs and blammo! For a couple grand in labor you have a huge tax incentive!
-Rick
Joel's an idiot....
I disagree. Joel is a very, very smart man. He just lets his ego get in his way to often. His ideas and concepts are often full of great insight and design, but they need to be de-Joelified before they can be applied out side of Fog Creek.
-Rick
Joel is a smart guy. Scratch that. Joel is an incredibly smart guy. But must every single post he makes on his own web site be headlined on /.? It's not like his ego isn't big enough already. No need to stoke the flames of that fire.
-Rick
Man, where did you go to school? Totally not sending my kid there ;)
i was in Alg 2, which could have been taken anywheres from sophomore to senior year depending on your schedule (and drive) at my school. I had a great school though. Like you, I never studied and I flunked a few classes due to not doing my homework. I graduated with a 2.5 or so, out of the top 50%. I took a 4 year stint in the Military, a 2 year stint as a consultant, and finally went back to college. About a year after that I wound up in a math class (precalc, calc, and physics, all in a row). The first day of class, one of the other students from my high school showed up. He performed similar to me in HS, more time devoted to scoring smokes and tail than books and tests. Anyways, after 7 years away from the math books, this guy and I managed to ace the classes. 4.0s for us both through all of them. Each seemed like nothing more than a refresher course to the same stuff we did in high school years ago. Mean while we watched as other students who had just come from public, private and home schooled situations struggled with the classes. Like I said I think I had some excellent teachers and a great school district. I definitely didn't put the effort into those classes that the teachers put into me.
-Rick
Oh no it is not, the difference is that for any scientist to get reputation, it must have published some work which is *peer reviewed* by other scientists. And, as we saw with the chinesse scientist, it is very easy to lose the reputation if they make fraud.
Hello Choir, this is the Preacher speaking. Global warming is bad, m'kay? Green house gasses and people are to blame, m'kay? I've got this forecast that is just like Preacher Jim's, m'kay?
Peer reviews are only worth their weight when they are neutral and comprised of technical experts of differing views. If you make the view of denying global warming so taboo that no scientist can hold that view with out immediately being questioned and insulted by society and their peers, then that view will disappear from peer reviews due to social pressure, NOT scientific proof.
To claim that science is unaffected by bias is just naive. Over time bias can be corrected, and past mistake resolved. But in the highly publicized and politicized arena of Global Climate Change (which I thought held more of a consensus than Global Warming) the social pressures are most definitely having an effect on the science.
-Rick
What would the reaction had been if 1 person had stepped forward and calmly said:
"Sir, I am this man's legal council. At this time, is he under arrest?"
-Rick
I'm curious as to the odds on that investment. I have never owned a console in my life (I'm a PC gamer), but I've lived with a few stoners over the years.
Those guys had pretty much every console that came out. But I don't think they had more than 5-10 games for any of them. I don't know if they are representive of the average consumer, but if they are, Sony would have to expect a $30+ profit per game sold. That seems a bit out of line considering that most of these games will sell between $45-$65. Does anyone have better numbers or knowledge on the subjet?
-Rick
No offence meant to your friend, there are many people who have a knack for project management, but... Methodologies are kind of like stories. There are only a handful of distinct stories to have ever existed, every other story in existence is merely a slight modification or attempt at recreation of one of those original stories. While your friend may not have researched and followed any specific methodology, he likely practiced one with out even knowing it.
In defense of "Agile", it can be (agile). But it takes the right mindset from the developers, project manager, upper management and customers. Agile will not succeed in environments where anyone in that chain does not have the "Agile" mindset.
-Rick
...miscommunication, which sounds like the problem described in Joel's piece
.Net for the latest report release, then into testing mode preparing another test release. All the while trying to convince my supervisor of the need for structure, project management practices, and tools to make our life easier.
Miscommunication? He's talking about context switching, which is an all too common and necessary evil in small shop development.
In any given week I can switch from architecture design to business systems analysts, back to VB6 coding for legacy app maintenance, up to
All that context switching definitely has a negative effect on my productivity. My supervisor asked me to tag tickets with time estimates when I closed them out. No biggie, but the shortest I'll tag a ticket for is 30 minutes. Originally I had said 1 hour, but my supervisor vigorously disagreed with my estimate of context switching's effect on productivity.
-Rick
Is that in new bugs or old bugs?
-Rick
Yeah, I follow with the pump and dump strategy. My question is, are these spam emails actually having a statistically significant effect? Are people getting 150 emails saying "$$money$$ buy th!$ stockzor!!" actually buying that stock?
-Rick
Do these pump and dump scams even work? If so, by what kind of margins?
-Rick
Thanks for the link! CSIRO was indeed listed:
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CSIRO,
Telecommunications & Industry Physics, Cnr Vimiera & Pembroke Roads, Marsflied NSW 2122 PO Box 76, Epping NSW 1710 Australia Contact: Denis Redfern-General Manager, CSIRO Business Development and Commercialization, P.O. Box 93, North Ryde, NSW 1670 Australia TEL: +61-2-94908261, FAX: +61-2-94908164, EMAIL: Denis.Redfern@csiro.au
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