I have since found at least 5 more grammatical errors. While I am certain that I do not live up to the high editorial standards of Slashdot, I do promise to try better next time. If I do not succeed, please feel free to "s/.*//m".
In this instance that would be true, as each person contributing to the project would not be expected to create a line of communication with ever other participant who had already contributed. In the traditional mythical-man-month model, every added developer was assumed to have to establish a line of communication with all existing developers...make growth exponential.
I was making a correlation that wasn't 100% the same, but the article does say, "...the communication wont be a one-way street." I am sure you can see that just reading the postings and giving minimal feedback from the 18,000 contributing participants can be a full time job for several people, which will effect project planning as those ideas will need to be evaluated and assessed (and corresponded with?) in order to stay true to the projects goals. While the structure and organization of the communication is indeed different from the mythical-man-month, I think that, similarly, overall communication will be the defining challenge in this projects ability to succeed. It will be an interesting project to watch evolve.
Notably, that each line of communication increases complexity exponentially. I am not saying the project will fail, with that kind of funding it might well be successful...it just seems to me like a pandora's box of problems and delays.
People should be forced to work in their position regardless of the practical and moral personal guidelines they may have. And if they decide not too, we can use guilt and shame to persuade them otherwise...don't forget to mention the torment they will be putting their family through.
If that doesn't work, you blackmail them into staying by threatening their ability to gain future employment elsewhere. One of my personal favorites is the "do-not-poach" agreement I have with several other related (and non-related) industries. Collectively, we maintain a registry that we put these rejects with "principals" into...slavery...err...(cheap) employment then becomes quite easy. I have even been able to issue paycuts and salary reductions to those individuals that I have caught on Monster and Craigslist...
I am on board with you 100%. It is time that we as employers stood up to these bullies, who always demand better pay and health insurance, and put them in their place. They work for us at our leisure. If I call programmer X at 3am because I want a new programmable interface for my coffee-pot that allows per-day timer functionality, he better have it done by 8am and he can forget about extra-pay, overtime, or and type of bonus...he should be glad I didn't fire him on the spot for the hesitation I heard when I told him to do it. I don't care if his wife is currently in labor and about to deliver...how the hell is he going to support a child if he doesn't have a job.
That brings me to healthcare. Our efforts at lobbying and media-manipulation have not been as successful as we have hoped. Within 3-years, employees will be able to decouple their insurance plans from their employment. This has often been the primary tool that we us to keep these people in-line and their salaries capped. We need to implement more public disdain for ObamaCare...maybe leak plans for those that take early retirement to include mandatory enrollment at age 85 to a nursing facility...we can call these "death-camps". Imply that participation will result in them killing their grand-parents. We should be able to gain a few more years of enslavement security or maybe even repealment of the bill.
However, our efforts in deunionization are finally taking hold. With any luck, we will be able to reinstitute mandatory 7-day work-weeks (at reduced pay) by the end of the fiscal year.
With your help, I am sure that we can reduce further occurrences of these idiotic people jumping ship every time we make decision they claim is irrational. I find it refreshing find such a like-minded ally, thank-you.
As I recall, illiteracy was rampant...stores would commonly have the words OPEN and CLOSED with reversed N's or S's (similar to how a 3 or 4 year-old would write them). At the time, I thought it was quaint...I later realized that they knew no better.
Besides...who hasn't been in a situation where they thought the farmer's (or in this instance, hill-billy's) daughter was cute. I cite Elly May Clampett of The Beverly Hillbillies as my example.
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I am very liberal with the sharing of my password and often give it to loved ones and the occasional one-night stand. I am not sure if I have slept with any of you, but it is better to err on the side of caution. If any of you have lived in or visited San Diego, Los Angeles, Charleston, Hilton Head Island, Branson, Orlando, Tallahassee, Miami, Tampa, Clearwater, Newark, Madison, New York, Buffalo, DC, Maggie Valley, or any of the immediate surrounding areas, in the last five years... There is a chance that I may have thought you were cute and/or slept with you and given you my passwords. It would be in your best interest to completely wipe your harddrives (first with 0's, than 1's, and then alternating patterns of both 1's and 0's), as they may contain some reference to my password.
While I haven't read his book, A First-Rate Madness, I have seen a few interviews with the author... He has some interesting ideas regarding the US Presidency and some of its greatest leaders. Enough for one to conclude that maybe a touch of lunacy is exactly what those positions require.
I am far from being a republican, but I would likely vote for Ron Paul. He may be a loon, but he has been consistent and has shown a degree of moral aptitude, while other politicians pander to corporate interest. The Republican party has toted the line of less government influence for 100-years, yet, where are we? There have been as many Republican controlled justices, congressmen, and presidents, if not more, than Democratic ones.
Its time to put your money where your mouth is right-wingers...
Now if they can just resolve the CCI-bit issues, those of us that are Tivo users will once again be happy. Cable companies are exploiting customers by not allowing DVR devices to transfer in-between them (CCI-bit 0x02) and cite federal laws for doing so. And yet, they ignore those federal rules in order to offer identical multi-room-viewing products.
There is no freedom in any country...only the illusion of it. In the US, our founders where aware of this and several of them were supporters of complete government dismantlement at various intervals.
The bill will be sent back to congress for another vote. If 2/3 of the congressional body pass it, a bill still becomes law. This has been the practice for law making in this country since George Washington first exercised the power in the 1790s. I am all ears for the formation of a new system. This one is irrevocably broken and needs to be taken back to basics (I believe Thomas Jefferson once spoke of a need for the people to reform government every 18 years or so).
Regardless, I do not feel that congress is a democratic body. They are candidates of a two party system which both accept campaign funding from the same sources. This bill will likely make it into law, in its current form or another, due to the persistence and money of Big-Telco.
They determine the towns official days to endorse certain Sandwich types. Ie. Monte Cristo Mondays, Turkey Club Tuesdays, Wheat Bread Wednesdays, etc...
She was fined for her endorsement of Spam Sub Sundays.
I am equally annoyed with democrats. Now-a-days I criticize both parties, its just in this instance the republican reasoning gave me a wtf moment. The political system in this country is corrupt and irrevocably broken. The same corporations and special interest groups hedge their bets by funding both parties. This ensures that regardless of the outcome they still end up dictating policy.
By-and-large I am a little left of the fence, but only because corporate pandering is so obvious on the right. Large corporations outsource jobs, they don't create them. Some seventy plus percent of jobs in this country are created by small business. I own a small business and can tell you the reason I am not hiring has nothing to do with my tax rate.
Just five percent of the people in the US control seventy-five percent of the money in this country and most have tax breaks that have them paying little more in taxes than their middle-class counterpart. If they paid around 10-15% (excluding that FICA bitch) like the rest of us...our governments financial problems would be solved...
Just to put it into scope, the US GDP is $14,000,000,000,000. The top 5% (about 1-1.5million people, not including corporations which are people as defined by the 14th Amendment) control $10,500,000,000,000. Fifteen percent of that is $1,575,000,000,000. Which happens to be the deficit to date for this year. Amazing...If the corporations and fat-cats at the top would play fair, we would actually be succeeding as a country.
Why do republicans always side with large corporations? The impact the merger will have on jobs is that they will be reduced as AT&T consolidates redundant positions.
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I have since found at least 5 more grammatical errors. While I am certain that I do not live up to the high editorial standards of Slashdot, I do promise to try better next time. If I do not succeed, please feel free to "s/.*//m".
In this instance that would be true, as each person contributing to the project would not be expected to create a line of communication with ever other participant who had already contributed. In the traditional mythical-man-month model, every added developer was assumed to have to establish a line of communication with all existing developers...make growth exponential.
I was making a correlation that wasn't 100% the same, but the article does say, "...the communication wont be a one-way street." I am sure you can see that just reading the postings and giving minimal feedback from the 18,000 contributing participants can be a full time job for several people, which will effect project planning as those ideas will need to be evaluated and assessed (and corresponded with?) in order to stay true to the projects goals. While the structure and organization of the communication is indeed different from the mythical-man-month, I think that, similarly, overall communication will be the defining challenge in this projects ability to succeed. It will be an interesting project to watch evolve.
Notably, that each line of communication increases complexity exponentially. I am not saying the project will fail, with that kind of funding it might well be successful...it just seems to me like a pandora's box of problems and delays.
Someone hasn't read The Mythical Man Month...
Right! Screw principals!
People should be forced to work in their position regardless of the practical and moral personal guidelines they may have. And if they decide not too, we can use guilt and shame to persuade them otherwise...don't forget to mention the torment they will be putting their family through.
If that doesn't work, you blackmail them into staying by threatening their ability to gain future employment elsewhere. One of my personal favorites is the "do-not-poach" agreement I have with several other related (and non-related) industries. Collectively, we maintain a registry that we put these rejects with "principals" into...slavery...err...(cheap) employment then becomes quite easy. I have even been able to issue paycuts and salary reductions to those individuals that I have caught on Monster and Craigslist...
I am on board with you 100%. It is time that we as employers stood up to these bullies, who always demand better pay and health insurance, and put them in their place. They work for us at our leisure. If I call programmer X at 3am because I want a new programmable interface for my coffee-pot that allows per-day timer functionality, he better have it done by 8am and he can forget about extra-pay, overtime, or and type of bonus...he should be glad I didn't fire him on the spot for the hesitation I heard when I told him to do it. I don't care if his wife is currently in labor and about to deliver...how the hell is he going to support a child if he doesn't have a job.
That brings me to healthcare. Our efforts at lobbying and media-manipulation have not been as successful as we have hoped. Within 3-years, employees will be able to decouple their insurance plans from their employment. This has often been the primary tool that we us to keep these people in-line and their salaries capped. We need to implement more public disdain for ObamaCare...maybe leak plans for those that take early retirement to include mandatory enrollment at age 85 to a nursing facility...we can call these "death-camps". Imply that participation will result in them killing their grand-parents. We should be able to gain a few more years of enslavement security or maybe even repealment of the bill.
However, our efforts in deunionization are finally taking hold. With any luck, we will be able to reinstitute mandatory 7-day work-weeks (at reduced pay) by the end of the fiscal year.
With your help, I am sure that we can reduce further occurrences of these idiotic people jumping ship every time we make decision they claim is irrational. I find it refreshing find such a like-minded ally, thank-you.
I said there was a chance.
As I recall, illiteracy was rampant...stores would commonly have the words OPEN and CLOSED with reversed N's or S's (similar to how a 3 or 4 year-old would write them). At the time, I thought it was quaint...I later realized that they knew no better.
Besides...who hasn't been in a situation where they thought the farmer's (or in this instance, hill-billy's) daughter was cute. I cite Elly May Clampett of The Beverly Hillbillies as my example.
Possible future SOPA and PIPA violations:
This notice is inform the administration of Geeknet, Inc that the password of my account is Copyrighted. My password of course being 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0. While I do not own the Copyright for the password I use, it would be in the best of interest of Geeknet to shut down Slashdot and any other sites they run, which I may have an account on.
I am very liberal with the sharing of my password and often give it to loved ones and the occasional one-night stand. I am not sure if I have slept with any of you, but it is better to err on the side of caution. If any of you have lived in or visited San Diego, Los Angeles, Charleston, Hilton Head Island, Branson, Orlando, Tallahassee, Miami, Tampa, Clearwater, Newark, Madison, New York, Buffalo, DC, Maggie Valley, or any of the immediate surrounding areas, in the last five years... There is a chance that I may have thought you were cute and/or slept with you and given you my passwords. It would be in your best interest to completely wipe your harddrives (first with 0's, than 1's, and then alternating patterns of both 1's and 0's), as they may contain some reference to my password.
My password is the same as my luggage combination.
While I haven't read his book, A First-Rate Madness, I have seen a few interviews with the author... He has some interesting ideas regarding the US Presidency and some of its greatest leaders. Enough for one to conclude that maybe a touch of lunacy is exactly what those positions require.
I am far from being a republican, but I would likely vote for Ron Paul. He may be a loon, but he has been consistent and has shown a degree of moral aptitude, while other politicians pander to corporate interest. The Republican party has toted the line of less government influence for 100-years, yet, where are we? There have been as many Republican controlled justices, congressmen, and presidents, if not more, than Democratic ones.
Its time to put your money where your mouth is right-wingers...
Now if they can just resolve the CCI-bit issues, those of us that are Tivo users will once again be happy. Cable companies are exploiting customers by not allowing DVR devices to transfer in-between them (CCI-bit 0x02) and cite federal laws for doing so. And yet, they ignore those federal rules in order to offer identical multi-room-viewing products.
I this why I forget what I needed whenever I walk into the next room?
There is no freedom in any country...only the illusion of it. In the US, our founders where aware of this and several of them were supporters of complete government dismantlement at various intervals.
The bill will be sent back to congress for another vote. If 2/3 of the congressional body pass it, a bill still becomes law. This has been the practice for law making in this country since George Washington first exercised the power in the 1790s. I am all ears for the formation of a new system. This one is irrevocably broken and needs to be taken back to basics (I believe Thomas Jefferson once spoke of a need for the people to reform government every 18 years or so).
Regardless, I do not feel that congress is a democratic body. They are candidates of a two party system which both accept campaign funding from the same sources. This bill will likely make it into law, in its current form or another, due to the persistence and money of Big-Telco.
Lets try again...no coffee yet.
Blame Canada...they're not even a real country anyway.
Blame Canada...there not even a real country anyway.
They determine the towns official days to endorse certain Sandwich types. Ie. Monte Cristo Mondays, Turkey Club Tuesdays, Wheat Bread Wednesdays, etc...
She was fined for her endorsement of Spam Sub Sundays.
Its easier to conspire with one company than with two when fixing prices and overcharging for services...
As a Verizon customer, I often wonder why my $99/mo plan costs me $160...
How about we just shorten it to MPAASucksDonkeyBalls.com?
How about NetFuqups? NeutFlaps?
I am equally annoyed with democrats. Now-a-days I criticize both parties, its just in this instance the republican reasoning gave me a wtf moment. The political system in this country is corrupt and irrevocably broken. The same corporations and special interest groups hedge their bets by funding both parties. This ensures that regardless of the outcome they still end up dictating policy.
By-and-large I am a little left of the fence, but only because corporate pandering is so obvious on the right. Large corporations outsource jobs, they don't create them. Some seventy plus percent of jobs in this country are created by small business. I own a small business and can tell you the reason I am not hiring has nothing to do with my tax rate.
Just five percent of the people in the US control seventy-five percent of the money in this country and most have tax breaks that have them paying little more in taxes than their middle-class counterpart. If they paid around 10-15% (excluding that FICA bitch) like the rest of us...our governments financial problems would be solved...
Just to put it into scope, the US GDP is $14,000,000,000,000. The top 5% (about 1-1.5million people, not including corporations which are people as defined by the 14th Amendment) control $10,500,000,000,000. Fifteen percent of that is $1,575,000,000,000. Which happens to be the deficit to date for this year. Amazing...If the corporations and fat-cats at the top would play fair, we would actually be succeeding as a country.
Oops, I forgot... The total of all US citizens is only worth three-fifths that of one Fortune-500 corporation.
Why do republicans always side with large corporations? The impact the merger will have on jobs is that they will be reduced as AT&T consolidates redundant positions.
Interesting. Isn't the presence of methane indicative of life?
This is a case of the pot calling the kettle Facebook.