My road didn't show up on either service (granted, it's a new subdivision and our house is 5 months old), but I found Maps24's interface clunky and the performance slow compared to Google's. Maps24 may have some nice features to investigate in detail, but Google had a very intuitive feel that you could start using productively right away...
I don't think a games award show (be it Spike's horrible monstrosity or otherwise) is going to help the situation.
Personally, it's hard to think of a problem anywhere in the world that can't be solved with a good, entertaining award show. Hopefully there's still enough time to line up some celebrity talent to announce the Iraqi election results...
Who pays for the refrigerator, and what happens if they can't or won't pay?
As a parent of three (including twins by IVF), I can tell you that the parents pay for the cryogenic storage of "spare" embryos. My wife and I have 8 embryos on the rocks in a lab, to which we pay ~$400 yearly. Once enough time has passed and we don't plan in implanting them, it's our hope that we could donate the embryos for scientific research.
Donating the embryos to a woman who wants a child is an option, but in reality the circumstances that make embryo adoption the proper choice for a woman (over other reproductive techniques) is so rare that it wouldn't lessen the amount of excess embryos to any significant degree.
My company uses a piece of 3rd party software for document formatting and archiving, and version control would be a great feature to add.
When we send payments to vendors via electronic payment, a check prints at the bottom of the statement with "VOID" across it. Due to a slipup while putting changes in production, the VOID logic was omitted a few months back and we sent signed checks out to vendors who had already received electronic payment! How's that for coming up with financial justification for version control???
For some environments, it's too much work for the benefit gained. The group I work in supports 6 different ERP environments across various AS400 partitions, with no systematic version control (there are written procedures and forms, but nothing automated). Since our goal is to integrate these 6 ERP's into 3 existing European installations, there isn't much interest in setting up more infrastrucure around the current US stuff.
That said, we do have problems occasionally with version control, and the micromanaging boss loves to bring those up at review time. At least we have a more sophisticated setup to look forward to...
Since the dividend tax cut that W pushed through (one of the few economic changes I agree with), dividends have started to become fashionable once again in the investment community.
Actually, it's sad that they had to become "fashionable" in the first place, but the bottom line is that many big companies are either starting to pay dividends for the first time (i.e. Microsoft), or are increasing their payout due to shareholder demand.
I'm in the same boat - got my hotmail account back before MS bought the service (remember when that was the get-rich-quick internet story?), and still use it as my primary personal email address today. I was about ready to jump ship, but expanding the mailbox to 250 meg and better spam controls have kept me around. It's nice to have had the same email address to use with people for almost 10 years.
This wasn't your garden-variety bureaucratic fuckup. Immediately as a result of Gulf War I, the responsibility was on Hussein to disarm, document, and allow for verification. Deception on this point was a deliberate tactic, not the result of "lost documentation".
One major problem I had was that Bush was asking Iraq to prove a negative-- prove they don't have WMDs any longer. Of course, even a school child knows that you can't prove you don't have something.
Quite the contrary, it would have been very easy to prove disarmament. Providing documentation as to how and when such activities occured, and allowing inspectors to check out the sites and scrap material to verify the truth of the documentation would have done the job.
Don't forget that the Iraqis constantly played games with the inspectors, delaying them at the front gates of facilities while trucks streamed out the back, etc. Obfuscation was a deliberate tactic on Hussein's part.
Playing the devil's advocate, however, raises some very legitimate arguments in the other direction. Iraq's responsibility was not just to disarm, but to declare how it had disarmed and allow complete, unrestricted access to inspectors to verify that this had taken place. Hussein's regime consistently failed to comply with those aspects of the program, and thus left room for doubt regarding whether disarmament had actually taken place. He was clearly trying to maintain uncertainty on that question to keep his enemies in check, while buying time in hopes that the US and its allies would eventually allow the sanctions to lessen and eventually end altogether.
I'm no fan of Bush*, but I do see the overthrow of Hussein as justified. The failure here is an underestimation of resources to win the peace, and an "our way or the highway" attitude that has left the US carrying the greatest cost and positioning our troops there as a local target for every car-bombing extremist in the Middle East.
* I think the most distressing part of the presidential campaign was when Kerry caught Bush in a debate justifying the Iraq war since "we were attacked on 9/11," and yet that didn't make much difference to the voting public. Clearly that lie was proclaimed loud and long enough for many people to buy in...
Actually, when it comes to big-market vs. small-market, you can make a good argument that hockey doesn't have a competitive balance problem, just a profit/loss problem for some teams.
2004 Conference Finalists: Calgary, San Jose, Tampa Bay, Philadelphia 2003 Conference Finalists: Minnesota, Anaheim, Ottawa, New Jersey 2002 Conference Finalists: Detroit, Colorado, Carolina, Toronto
That's 12 different teams in the last three years, running the gamut from the small-market paupers to Original Six powerhouses, to expansion success stories. The players and owners just need to agree on a system where everybody makes money over the long term, rather than worry about enforcing parity.
No, I'm saying that the effect of this lockout will probably result in 2 or 3 teams being lost. Regardless of the financial relationship between players and owners, they've done some real long-term damage to the fanbase they've been trying to build in the US.
The way they're going the NHL should pay EA to come out with another version, just to keep some kind of visibility going. Those fools have unraveled any progress made in the US over the last 20 years, and I guess we'll probably see at least 2 or 3 franchises fold in the next few years as a result.
I would submit that at least in my experience, a major cause of the (budget and time-related) failure of ERP projects is the inability of the users to adequately define their business processes, and stick to the original scope of a project. Typically you get several months in to a large-scale project and suddenly they want to add in functionality rather than waiting to do that as a post-implementation improvement.
The IT side also tends to fail by using modification as a first resort to meeting user needs. When faced with difficult questions on how to support certain processes, instead of finding a solution within the options of the existing system, all too often a mod is introduced as a quick fix. That, of course, leads to further trouble down the road...
"Purchasing power" is like saying people should get deeply in-debt with creditors, so it improves their credit rating...
Watch out, your ignorance is showing. When imports drive down the market price for a given item, the consumers in that country can now purchase more goods for the same amount of money. Hence, their purchasing power has increased.
The real point is that "rolling down the hill" connotes that Slashdot had some golden age that consisted of professional quality journalism, a high signal-to-noise ratio and a diverse range of though from a diverse group of technologically-minded individuals.
Maybe that was in the 4-digit UID days, but I certainly haven't seen it...
And if you've listened to financial news at all, you'll know there are many reasons why that number is smaller than it should really be.
If you knew anything about economics, you arrogant prick (how do you know what news I listen to or don't?), you'd know that those effects are understood and only marginally affect the results. Go look at the reports over at BLS.gov and you'll see "discouraged workers" tracked and included in monthly employment statistics.
Perot was playing the populist card in trying to stage a bold presidential campaign, and I admired him for the attempt. The economic aspects of it were thoroughly misguided, however. Free trade is the single most effective mechanism to both increase domestic purchasing power as well as give developing nations a chance to improve their situation. The barriers don't have to be dropped completely overnight, for the sake of giving people time to adjust to the structural changes that take place, but they must come down over time nonetheless.
Somebody mod this up. Everyone else seems to be caught in comparisons with a sniper shooting a bullet at a speeding cheetah, when in fact the similarities are few and far between...
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My road didn't show up on either service (granted, it's a new subdivision and our house is 5 months old), but I found Maps24's interface clunky and the performance slow compared to Google's. Maps24 may have some nice features to investigate in detail, but Google had a very intuitive feel that you could start using productively right away...
Why would blind people need a different telephone???
Wouldn't they have braille on the buttons to note the numbers and letters that they match to?
I don't think a games award show (be it Spike's horrible monstrosity or otherwise) is going to help the situation.
Personally, it's hard to think of a problem anywhere in the world that can't be solved with a good, entertaining award show. Hopefully there's still enough time to line up some celebrity talent to announce the Iraqi election results...
Who pays for the refrigerator, and what happens if they can't or won't pay?
As a parent of three (including twins by IVF), I can tell you that the parents pay for the cryogenic storage of "spare" embryos. My wife and I have 8 embryos on the rocks in a lab, to which we pay ~$400 yearly. Once enough time has passed and we don't plan in implanting them, it's our hope that we could donate the embryos for scientific research.
Donating the embryos to a woman who wants a child is an option, but in reality the circumstances that make embryo adoption the proper choice for a woman (over other reproductive techniques) is so rare that it wouldn't lessen the amount of excess embryos to any significant degree.
Does anyone have a link to the actual report?
Just search scholar.google.com for Dr. Chick N. Little...
Odd isn't it - how many times a flat broke intern turns our entire industry upside-down?
How many times is that, exactly? Not to pooh-pooh a good story, but what makes it special is exactly how rarely this really happens.
My company uses a piece of 3rd party software for document formatting and archiving, and version control would be a great feature to add.
When we send payments to vendors via electronic payment, a check prints at the bottom of the statement with "VOID" across it. Due to a slipup while putting changes in production, the VOID logic was omitted a few months back and we sent signed checks out to vendors who had already received electronic payment! How's that for coming up with financial justification for version control???
For some environments, it's too much work for the benefit gained. The group I work in supports 6 different ERP environments across various AS400 partitions, with no systematic version control (there are written procedures and forms, but nothing automated). Since our goal is to integrate these 6 ERP's into 3 existing European installations, there isn't much interest in setting up more infrastrucure around the current US stuff.
That said, we do have problems occasionally with version control, and the micromanaging boss loves to bring those up at review time. At least we have a more sophisticated setup to look forward to...
Since the dividend tax cut that W pushed through (one of the few economic changes I agree with), dividends have started to become fashionable once again in the investment community.
Actually, it's sad that they had to become "fashionable" in the first place, but the bottom line is that many big companies are either starting to pay dividends for the first time (i.e. Microsoft), or are increasing their payout due to shareholder demand.
Once again, the lack of formal standards rears its ugly head. You issued a check without receiving the source coder's scalp?
I'm in the same boat - got my hotmail account back before MS bought the service (remember when that was the get-rich-quick internet story?), and still use it as my primary personal email address today. I was about ready to jump ship, but expanding the mailbox to 250 meg and better spam controls have kept me around. It's nice to have had the same email address to use with people for almost 10 years.
This wasn't your garden-variety bureaucratic fuckup. Immediately as a result of Gulf War I, the responsibility was on Hussein to disarm, document, and allow for verification. Deception on this point was a deliberate tactic, not the result of "lost documentation".
One major problem I had was that Bush was asking Iraq to prove a negative-- prove they don't have WMDs any longer. Of course, even a school child knows that you can't prove you don't have something.
Quite the contrary, it would have been very easy to prove disarmament. Providing documentation as to how and when such activities occured, and allowing inspectors to check out the sites and scrap material to verify the truth of the documentation would have done the job.
Don't forget that the Iraqis constantly played games with the inspectors, delaying them at the front gates of facilities while trucks streamed out the back, etc. Obfuscation was a deliberate tactic on Hussein's part.
Playing the devil's advocate, however, raises some very legitimate arguments in the other direction. Iraq's responsibility was not just to disarm, but to declare how it had disarmed and allow complete, unrestricted access to inspectors to verify that this had taken place. Hussein's regime consistently failed to comply with those aspects of the program, and thus left room for doubt regarding whether disarmament had actually taken place. He was clearly trying to maintain uncertainty on that question to keep his enemies in check, while buying time in hopes that the US and its allies would eventually allow the sanctions to lessen and eventually end altogether.
I'm no fan of Bush*, but I do see the overthrow of Hussein as justified. The failure here is an underestimation of resources to win the peace, and an "our way or the highway" attitude that has left the US carrying the greatest cost and positioning our troops there as a local target for every car-bombing extremist in the Middle East.
* I think the most distressing part of the presidential campaign was when Kerry caught Bush in a debate justifying the Iraq war since "we were attacked on 9/11," and yet that didn't make much difference to the voting public. Clearly that lie was proclaimed loud and long enough for many people to buy in...
Actually, when it comes to big-market vs. small-market, you can make a good argument that hockey doesn't have a competitive balance problem, just a profit/loss problem for some teams.
2004 Conference Finalists: Calgary, San Jose, Tampa Bay, Philadelphia
2003 Conference Finalists: Minnesota, Anaheim, Ottawa, New Jersey
2002 Conference Finalists: Detroit, Colorado, Carolina, Toronto
That's 12 different teams in the last three years, running the gamut from the small-market paupers to Original Six powerhouses, to expansion success stories. The players and owners just need to agree on a system where everybody makes money over the long term, rather than worry about enforcing parity.
No, I'm saying that the effect of this lockout will probably result in 2 or 3 teams being lost. Regardless of the financial relationship between players and owners, they've done some real long-term damage to the fanbase they've been trying to build in the US.
The way they're going the NHL should pay EA to come out with another version, just to keep some kind of visibility going. Those fools have unraveled any progress made in the US over the last 20 years, and I guess we'll probably see at least 2 or 3 franchises fold in the next few years as a result.
I would submit that at least in my experience, a major cause of the (budget and time-related) failure of ERP projects is the inability of the users to adequately define their business processes, and stick to the original scope of a project. Typically you get several months in to a large-scale project and suddenly they want to add in functionality rather than waiting to do that as a post-implementation improvement.
The IT side also tends to fail by using modification as a first resort to meeting user needs. When faced with difficult questions on how to support certain processes, instead of finding a solution within the options of the existing system, all too often a mod is introduced as a quick fix. That, of course, leads to further trouble down the road...
Wrong, it's a long term gain due to the price effect, and a short-term loss as those workers move on to other jobs.
"Purchasing power" is like saying people should get deeply in-debt with creditors, so it improves their credit rating...
Watch out, your ignorance is showing. When imports drive down the market price for a given item, the consumers in that country can now purchase more goods for the same amount of money. Hence, their purchasing power has increased.
The real point is that "rolling down the hill" connotes that Slashdot had some golden age that consisted of professional quality journalism, a high signal-to-noise ratio and a diverse range of though from a diverse group of technologically-minded individuals.
Maybe that was in the 4-digit UID days, but I certainly haven't seen it...
If you judge by posts like yours, Slashdot has been rolling downhill for at least 5 years now! Must be a looooooooong hill.
And if you've listened to financial news at all, you'll know there are many reasons why that number is smaller than it should really be.
If you knew anything about economics, you arrogant prick (how do you know what news I listen to or don't?), you'd know that those effects are understood and only marginally affect the results. Go look at the reports over at BLS.gov and you'll see "discouraged workers" tracked and included in monthly employment statistics.
Perot was playing the populist card in trying to stage a bold presidential campaign, and I admired him for the attempt. The economic aspects of it were thoroughly misguided, however. Free trade is the single most effective mechanism to both increase domestic purchasing power as well as give developing nations a chance to improve their situation. The barriers don't have to be dropped completely overnight, for the sake of giving people time to adjust to the structural changes that take place, but they must come down over time nonetheless.
They like us! They really, really like us!!!
Somebody mod this up. Everyone else seems to be caught in comparisons with a sniper shooting a bullet at a speeding cheetah, when in fact the similarities are few and far between...