In some companies, he says, the freethinking products of Olin might have trouble fitting in. "Does industry want people like that? I think that's a very good question, but I think this goes beyond what industry wants," he said. "This is the right thing to do -- this is what industry needs. If the country had more people like this, we'd be in a much better situation."
Does Olin offer courses in:
How to change Wall St. to stop looking only at the next quarter's results?
How to deal with PHB's and bean counters?
How to persuade the customer to fund your "freethinking" idea instead of the customer's idea?
If not, Olin is producing useless misfits. Oh, I agree that "misfit" is something "good" to be sought after in a certain sense -- creativity is what makes us human. But that's not what the economy needs in the post-Industrial Revolution world.
Inflation computed using pre-Clinton CPI formulas has been running about 8% for the past 20 years, according to shadowstats.com. I currently make 4x as a seasoned professional now than what I did 20 years ago as a fresh college graduate. At 8% inflation per year, I'm currently making less than I did 20 years ago.
A lot of people go to Wal-Mart, see the low prices, and think inflation is low. They forget about housing, college tuition, and healthcare, which have all been running at double-digit percentage increases annually for the past several years.
I should have RTFA. The EU used the wrong word, and of course the Slashdot submitter and editor didn't bother to correct it. "Unbundling" historically has referred to Microsoft throwing everything including the kitchen sink into their OS's to quash the competition in the add-on markets and to make their customers even more dependent upon their OS's and to make it harder for them to switch in the future. The EU isn't referring to this "unbundling" but rather to repealing the "Microsoft tax" and should have used either that term or a more formal, albeit verbose, term such as "allowing OEMs to sell systems without OS's".
Is it too much to ask to name the phenomenon rather than describe it?
And margin-shredding behavior tends to spawn more margin-shredding behavior
That's called deflation. Deflation is 100x worse the inflation because during deflation the economy stops: nobody's working, nobody's buying, nobody's selling, and everybody's hoarding what little they can -- i.e., a Great Depression.
If some stranger takes a picture of me on the street without my explicit knowledge and posts it to Flickr with a Creative Commons license, would Virgin be allowed to use that image in an ad?
Sure, in this case, the subject actually knew the photographer and consented in some sense to the photo being taken, but how would Virgin know that by merely surfing Flickr? This is Flickr, not stockphotos.com. It's not reasonable to assume that releases have been signed for every photo on Flickr.
It has been my long-held opinion that the cause of the videogame crash of 1983 was due to a lack of supply rather than a lack of demand. Warner bungled up Atari, the industry leader, and Atari stopped producing quality hardware and software. There was a vacuum in supply until Nintendo came along.
Ten years from now, will they be saying that family videogames experienced a crash between Tetris and the Wii?
Voyager 1 launched in 1977, about a dozen years prior to the coining of the term "information technology".
There is a deeper, underlying beef here. IT is about boring business data and came to dominate an industry that previously was the domain of science (often but obviously not always for military purposes). CIO is trying to make its readers feel good about themselves by co-opting non-business domains of computer use.
Under the U.S. system, corporate executives will get fired -- or at least the companies will get sued by shareholders and the executives fired -- if they take any action based on morality instead of for profit. The only exception is if the moral action would be a good PR move that would boost profit, which is only a small percentage of the time. The norm is to aggressively pursue profits in the hopes that any associated immorality does not get publicized.
I'm not sure what a Catholic is supposed to do under this system, other than advocate for change, and pursue other endeavors (such as working for privately owned corporations) until U.S. corporate law is changed (including shareholder tort reform).
Public schools and the private schools that emulate them teach children to be Republicans or Democrats. Only those who get their information from outside such schools -- elite private schools for the rich (rare), or anyone going to a libary (boring, and thus rare), or anyone surfing the web (interesting, common, but until only relatively recently done so exclusively by nerds) -- will learn about that false dichotomy, the lies of history taught in common schools, and what the alternatives are.
First they came for the security clearance jobholders.
Then they came for the government employees.
Then they came for employees of government contractors and vendors.
And now that the only jobs I can have or transactions I can conduct are with the 1% of the population and market that refuses business with the government, I'm too broke to pay my property tax on my supposedly private property. So now they're coming for me.
How are you supposed to know? Fucking men like you built the hydrogen bomb. Men like you thought it up. You think you're so creative. You don't know what it's like to really create something; to create a life; to feel it growing inside you. All you know how to create is death and destruction.
You could also sell your coupon to whichever candidate was willing to pay you more for it...
Or your boss could demand your coupon as a condition of keeping your job...
Or your union leader could hint that it was in your best interests to turn over your coupon to the shop steward...
Yes, but being forced to choose one -- and there's no reason we would have to if we just went back to pencil and paper -- electronic voting is a greater threat to democracy than vote intimidation.
In fact, this situation in Ohio makes for a grand opportunity to prove that the 2004 election was stolen... and drive a stake through electronic voting once and for all. Ohio voters can see if there votes were recorded as they cast them.
A 2001 evaluation of the bridge, prepared by the University of Minnesota, reported that there were preliminary signs of fatigue on the steel truss section under the roadway, but no cracking.
The report said there was no need for the Minnesota Transportation Department to replace the bridge because of fatigue cracking.
But a May 2006 report by the department noted that inspectors saw fatigue cracks and bending of girders along the span's approaches.
I.e., in 2001 they barely passed it because they said, "at least there's no cracking." In 2006, they saw cracking but kept the bridge open anyway. At minimum, they should have closed it to heavy truck traffic, scrapped the idea of doing heavy construction (repaving) on the bridge, and started construction of a replacement immediately.
The customer is government, so the market cannot work there.
credit cards (and credit information in general)
Problems here include immunity provided by the Fair Credit Reporting Act and that the FBI refuses to pursue fraud for anything less than $100,000 or so (yet the FBI has a monopoly on interstate law enforcement).
The TSA lost its already-miniscule credibility when it announced it would stop confiscating cigarette lighters. It took an act of Congress in 2004 to overcome the cigarette lobby. Less than two years later, Congress flip-flopped, and now the TSA has discovered the cost of disposal is too high and is allowing them again.
Personally, I'd like to see a purely private system of airports open up in the U.S., whereby said system posts a $10 billion bond to cover terrorist attacks. Then we would see practical, market-driven, security.
Can you imagine what the anti-spam, IDS, and other computer security technology would be like if it were administered by a TLA?
Moore's Law as it applies to PCs has its own "law": Machrone's Law. It's not as strong a "law" as Moore's as it has had to undergo continual adjustment, but there is a definite phenomenon. Also related is the amusing Wirth's Law, also described in that IEEE Spectrum online blurb.
The Treasury Dept. is historically the one that freezes assets. The Treasury Dept. is in charge of all the U.S. banks. Of course, this is unconstittional. Banks are supposed to be regulated by the states, and then coin only gold and silver.
From a constitutional perspective, to prevent money from the U.S. flowing to prohibited international destinations, it would make more sense to require banks to clear money transfers to targeted international accounts through an office run by U.S. Marshals.
Pop quiz: Under which of the three branches of government does the Treasury Dept fall?
The U.S. has only three branches, so it must be under one of them. Answer: Executive Branch. In fact, every possible government agency you can think of falls under the Executive Branch. The Legislative Branch funds the federal agencies and the Executive Branch executes the wish of Congress. If Legislative Branch doesn't like the way the Executive Branch is executing the laws, then the Legislative Branch can tighten the purse strings.
It's absurd that there are so many agencies, which is why clear-thinking and honest people like Ron Paul advocate eliminating a bunch of agencies -- to reduce the weight of the Executive Branch and restore balance to the U.S. government structure.
Under the current scheme, Bush can stack the Justice Dept. with his political favorites. If it's the president whom the Justice Dept. should be investigating, this is an obvious conflict of interest. Thus was created the Office of the Independent Counsel (e.g. Ken Starr), which was in fact outside the three branches of government (and 10x more unconstitutional than all the other government agencies).
In my opinion, because it is Congress that holds impeachment power, something like the Office of the Independent Counsel is needed that would be under the Legislative Branch.
Back to the subject at hand, I suppose Congress can -- before this Executive Order gets enforced -- pass a law saying that the Treasury Dept. cannot use taxpayer money to enforce this particular Executive Order. After the Executive Order gets enforced in a situation, Congress might be able to impeach, though the NSA wiretapping was a much stronger case and they haven't acted on that.
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- How to change Wall St. to stop looking only at the next quarter's results?
- How to deal with PHB's and bean counters?
- How to persuade the customer to fund your "freethinking" idea instead of the customer's idea?
If not, Olin is producing useless misfits. Oh, I agree that "misfit" is something "good" to be sought after in a certain sense -- creativity is what makes us human. But that's not what the economy needs in the post-Industrial Revolution world.Why do I smell a GPL4 around the corner?
A lot of people go to Wal-Mart, see the low prices, and think inflation is low. They forget about housing, college tuition, and healthcare, which have all been running at double-digit percentage increases annually for the past several years.
I should have RTFA. The EU used the wrong word, and of course the Slashdot submitter and editor didn't bother to correct it. "Unbundling" historically has referred to Microsoft throwing everything including the kitchen sink into their OS's to quash the competition in the add-on markets and to make their customers even more dependent upon their OS's and to make it harder for them to switch in the future. The EU isn't referring to this "unbundling" but rather to repealing the "Microsoft tax" and should have used either that term or a more formal, albeit verbose, term such as "allowing OEMs to sell systems without OS's".
- Won't make Vista any less dog-slow than it is.
- Won't break Excel's 256-column limit
- Won't integrate Word and Excel into one seamless package
- Won't revolutionize the filesystem, e.g. with tags (breaking the strict hierarchy) or replacing it with relational database
- Won't add RTOS capabilities to an OS that also runs the most popular business applications
- Won't give us a standardized, robust, open standard platform for rich Internet applications.
Why is it we care about unbundling again?Sure, in this case, the subject actually knew the photographer and consented in some sense to the photo being taken, but how would Virgin know that by merely surfing Flickr? This is Flickr, not stockphotos.com. It's not reasonable to assume that releases have been signed for every photo on Flickr.
Ten years from now, will they be saying that family videogames experienced a crash between Tetris and the Wii?
Would Charles Babbage then be considered an "information technology practitioner"?
After doing some Google searches, I'm pretty sure that the "Information Technology Year" was really 1982, not 1972.
There is a deeper, underlying beef here. IT is about boring business data and came to dominate an industry that previously was the domain of science (often but obviously not always for military purposes). CIO is trying to make its readers feel good about themselves by co-opting non-business domains of computer use.
It's obvious the speaker meant to say "no malintent toward Canada" rather than "no particular reason".
"No particular reason we chose Canada" ... except for the two I'm about to mention.
I'm not sure what a Catholic is supposed to do under this system, other than advocate for change, and pursue other endeavors (such as working for privately owned corporations) until U.S. corporate law is changed (including shareholder tort reform).
Public schools and the private schools that emulate them teach children to be Republicans or Democrats. Only those who get their information from outside such schools -- elite private schools for the rich (rare), or anyone going to a libary (boring, and thus rare), or anyone surfing the web (interesting, common, but until only relatively recently done so exclusively by nerds) -- will learn about that false dichotomy, the lies of history taught in common schools, and what the alternatives are.
Then they came for the government employees.
Then they came for employees of government contractors and vendors.
And now that the only jobs I can have or transactions I can conduct are with the 1% of the population and market that refuses business with the government, I'm too broke to pay my property tax on my supposedly private property. So now they're coming for me.
How are you supposed to know? Fucking men like you built the hydrogen bomb. Men like you thought it up. You think you're so creative. You don't know what it's like to really create something; to create a life; to feel it growing inside you. All you know how to create is death and destruction.
In fact, this situation in Ohio makes for a grand opportunity to prove that the 2004 election was stolen ... and drive a stake through electronic voting once and for all. Ohio voters can see if there votes were recorded as they cast them.
For more info, see today's Minneapolis Star Tribune article.
Personally, I'd like to see a purely private system of airports open up in the U.S., whereby said system posts a $10 billion bond to cover terrorist attacks. Then we would see practical, market-driven, security.
Can you imagine what the anti-spam, IDS, and other computer security technology would be like if it were administered by a TLA?
Moore's Law as it applies to PCs has its own "law": Machrone's Law. It's not as strong a "law" as Moore's as it has had to undergo continual adjustment, but there is a definite phenomenon. Also related is the amusing Wirth's Law, also described in that IEEE Spectrum online blurb.
From a constitutional perspective, to prevent money from the U.S. flowing to prohibited international destinations, it would make more sense to require banks to clear money transfers to targeted international accounts through an office run by U.S. Marshals.
The U.S. has only three branches, so it must be under one of them. Answer: Executive Branch. In fact, every possible government agency you can think of falls under the Executive Branch. The Legislative Branch funds the federal agencies and the Executive Branch executes the wish of Congress. If Legislative Branch doesn't like the way the Executive Branch is executing the laws, then the Legislative Branch can tighten the purse strings.
It's absurd that there are so many agencies, which is why clear-thinking and honest people like Ron Paul advocate eliminating a bunch of agencies -- to reduce the weight of the Executive Branch and restore balance to the U.S. government structure.
Under the current scheme, Bush can stack the Justice Dept. with his political favorites. If it's the president whom the Justice Dept. should be investigating, this is an obvious conflict of interest. Thus was created the Office of the Independent Counsel (e.g. Ken Starr), which was in fact outside the three branches of government (and 10x more unconstitutional than all the other government agencies).
In my opinion, because it is Congress that holds impeachment power, something like the Office of the Independent Counsel is needed that would be under the Legislative Branch.
Back to the subject at hand, I suppose Congress can -- before this Executive Order gets enforced -- pass a law saying that the Treasury Dept. cannot use taxpayer money to enforce this particular Executive Order. After the Executive Order gets enforced in a situation, Congress might be able to impeach, though the NSA wiretapping was a much stronger case and they haven't acted on that.