ever since I saw 'Men who stare at goats' I understand the truth and it is that CIA people most likely do stare at things, these being goats, walls etc and sometimes strange things happen....
What I really wanted to say is this however: now I became jedi and all those CIA and evil souls in teheran beware!!!
you can see it this way but considering the whole discussion in Israel about strike against Iranian nuclear lunatics one may say it is a perfect occasion to show the lunatics that the landing may indeed be hard and they may face opposition from infidels. In one sense it is a good thing that may have caused rethinking in some circles, alas nobody seriously expects that Iranian hardliners actually would ever give up or?
well this is a good view leading to loss of business. Even if itis a small loss it is still a loss. The attitude of this type has a tendency to extend to everybody less and soon we have a company that does not give a shit about much of its customer base. I am not saying this because I love linux so much because I do not but I have seen this - the-sucker-has-no-money-to-be-worth-anything-for-us attitude of companies that do not exist no more. In other words it is not linux that you ignore but customers. You ignore some you ignore some more and you have to close down. Unless of course you are a monopolist delivering goods that all must have to survive or has anybody seen say water company caring a lot about its customers?
I think the main point is the story. There is nothing that effects can do that works without story. Matrixes did work because there was a story. I did watch big parts of star wars saga in 2/evening pace and I was shocked how infantile the 'first' (later) parts were in comparison to the one made originally. The same applies to 3d - what do I need this horse shit for if there is no story? The guys exaggerate a bit with their quest for no CGI but if they can create the same with models why not?
it happened to me few times but then I was not agile still - now I am fully agile and I do not care. I think that is what my bosses wanted anyway. What I also observed is that clear and well structured code is usually abused for fixes of the shit that is complex and difficult to maintain in other modules - the code is converging together with all the subsidiaries towards common usually ugly denominator.
not really true -in old good times we used pair programming (this was not called that yet) for people starting at the job to couch them into experience mode. Today we have pair programming to watch for faults and enable faster problem resolution and if so then both guys should have at least some experience but still it works well in most cases. It is expensive however as two people have to sit there. Nobody said that some agile practice cannot be good.
A story about sperm & computer and no pr0n????? On/. ???? What has world come to....
Possibly we should take positively - it seems that/.ers do not stay in their cellars no more but have infiltrated scientific community to make experiments with sperms and computer!
Not even in Somalia there is one - I mean free market - it is a useful for analysis and modeling of industrial policy as well as for pushing others around. Obviously China already and US still feel strong enough to make threats with such silly arguments. The interesting issue is however whether the barriers are effecting in supporting local industry. There are some that say no - I guess it depends on whether you have some industrial policy that deserves its name or not.
with a bit of brains and letting years wear you tired you kind of become a misanthropic bastard all by itself no effort on your side needed. The common idiocy of human kind will make you so or at least has a good shot at it. This however does not have much to do with your 'social skill' thing. There are certain things that are hard wired and changing them is difficult if not impossible. You can compensate some of those if you are unlucky to have such 'weird' characteristic but you would consciously have to spend time doing so and itis not always pleasant or rewarding.
Take this example. In group of people I work with my proposals on how to approach problems tend to be thrown out of the window. This has a lot to do with the way I make them one manager told me. This morning I took notice and out of curiosity made a proposal to improve things in a silly way just to see what happens. Indeed they did what I really wanted i.e.noticed that proposal was seriously flawed but going into the right direction and then decided to do the right thing. This was a success then. This is stark contrast to situation in which I showed my co-workers how silly they are following flawed process only to be confronted with 'why did you not tell us' when the failed (after promptly ignoring my righteous advice). When I had higher testosterone levels I tried to forcefully get the message trough but now I laugh a lot. They say I got wiser. Now you figure.
Och so you decide for all of us what internet is all about? Is this it? How is it better than 'personal censorship' as you call it? There are clearly cases where some communications are unlawful. Not because they say President this is silly but because they cause people to kill very specific (or not so specific) other people. There are communications that albeit I was an author I would like to withdraw and I cannot. In a sense it is the same as being angry and telling your wife she is a stupid bitch and then trying to pull it back but you cannot. This is also beyond the fact that sometimes the stuff put on the internet about one person is put there by other person and possibly in illegal way. I think adding more of the same 'trying to pull it back but you cannot" to the overall human misery in modern society is not necessary especially if the only purpose it serves is to satisfy your need for your vision of internet (which is just a tool). Of course the measure is or may be ineffective but at least it may cause morons like Zuckerberg to rethink his policies and ideas. Not that I believe there is a good chance of that but at least somebody is trying. From this perspective I think the attempt is good (even if I look at almost all activities of the Commission and my own German Government with great and usually justified contempt).
well corruption by its nature is hidden so you rely on proxies. The index itself is criticized but people and organizations (like The Economist) use it as some indication. Good enough for me.
I suppose this is an effect of the society and its technologies development - we need more and more knowledge to operate and build 'simple' things so we need more and more education to do simple jobs - so we educate more and more people to do them but we as a society are not really smarter, better motivated etc - reading with understanding is a problem for the same part of society as before only now we need bigger part of them to have that ability (hence more college students etc). I think however not only the difficulty has increases but also the returns have decreased - if you look at last biggest zillioners they do not manufacture but are experts in innovation and then managing and marketing or speculate on stock exchange (even today it still may pay off) - this is how money is made not by engineering things. Alternative you can specialize in parasitic practice of law, try medicine or financial magic - with amount of needed skills to become what amounts to an engineering monkey and a perspective that this hard job is outsourced to Zamunda in no time why bother - better do other things (if you can). This is also a consequence of financial services dominating US (and not only) economy - talents prefer to speculate on financial markets instead of constructing things - bigger and faster ROI still even today or especially today.
I think you are onto something - there seems to be a new quality there. There are good reasons for patents but one has to realize that there are also bad side effects to them especially if patent office and legal system do not do anything with abuse by the trolls and make appropriate changes either in the patent system itself or in legal system in which the life of a parasite (troll) may be so easy that they suffocate the hosts and bring damage to the system itself. I guess an action on this must come from outside - I do not see many lawyers coming to senses any day soon.
I suspect that the countries with the socialized medicine are better off then US of A with its sad excuse for a health care system.
Of course they have their own problems and these need fixing but looking at US of A I'd say nothing to copy from.....
Well this is indeed a false dichotomy i.e. either nuclear or fossil based energy as options. The fact is that both types have serious consequences only for nuclear these are not as yet quite as profound as for fossil ones which by the way are not only reason why our climate change. Another thing is that going for nuclear is not solving much anyway - you assume that nuclear is replacing something which it may but to what extent if at all is unknown. What I see is that our energy consumption is on level unsustainable already and it will becomes worse every day. It may be that nuclear is an option that we have to consider but considering complexity and dangers that this complexity brings with it I'd say we should invest the time and money elsewhere. You will tell me of course that wind etc is not an option - of course there are problems with them only th fossil fuels are going to run out and nuclear is so troublesome that we will have to find another solution(s) anyway. Wy not start directly instead of talking nonsense?
Of course cost of waste disposal is covered in your calculation as well as the fact that accidents occur and if they do they may cost so much that companies like TEPCO had to be nationalized (or what else to call putting it under state control?). Otherwise your assessment of costs is correct.
well 'd say it is good to 'scoializing' with these assholes gives greater chance of outsourcing somebody's job to Zamunda than getting your own lost that way. Other than that pick your education based on what you like. In few years time i.e. when you finish your course the economics of your country and the profession that you wanted to be part of will change as well as you will so you can just as well enjoy yourself or get contacts for the future. This change of situation is actually a serious thing - just look in the news there is trouble and smell of gun powder.
Coming on the contacts bit I just realized that majority of my contracts I got either because somebody I knew advised my poor ass over some other or the prospective employer knew somebody who knew me. Either way it worked well for me (so far) only I think you should seriously consider getting self employed at some point. Possibly as soon as you gain some experience. It is much more difficult to do if your first try is at 45.
I do not think the company in question actually seeks to produce stuff for mobile devices you refer to. This may be an option worth considering as they can connect to almost anything but it would also bring additional considerations for instance about security etc. and this may not be preferred.
yes exactly that was this particular person's opinion about comparable advantages of each of the phone types and this opinion may be and possibly is different than yours - what a shame is it not?
oh ne - you really have no clue do you? I mean there are companies out there that do chaos development and some of them strive. There are companies out there that use formalized forms for everything and they are slowly eaten by costs of maintenance of faulty software. There are of course examples to contrary.
I laughed at the statement about continues integration. The corporation I worked for had quite some standards on stability and systems of which legacy parts exist for 20 or more years - the actual integration process is complex enough with some of the (stability) tests taking days that any 'continues' integration is just not feasible (this did not stop the management from introducing 'modern' agile principles and what not and issuing statements of success anyway).
My view is that you can live also without well tolled revision control although this makes life difficult.
I guess it depends on the size of projects and and size and complexity of legacy systems.
maybe because this was never a pure IT news site and life of stuff dealing with IT, computers, programing and what not has changed so dramatically over the years t hat the subjects we discuss and which interest us are so different than before? Also there is this small little thing: computers have been once domain of technocrats and required a monster cooling tower (exaggeration of course) and now we have a few of them around at all times, soon IP addresses (and possibly microphones & cameras) will be given to vibrators and other toys - technical progress make our life so much different that it used to be. yet there is almost no other forum where these issues are discussed. In Europe this may be canalized with pirate party (I think I will try it as others are either silly or corrupt or both) yet without meaningful discussion in many fora this is not going to bring anything. OC one may wonder if general level of discussion in/. is at all justifying our time spent but I guess this is what we have and discussion level among almost any group I came across in my lengthy life was similar. Life one may say or I just feel philosophical.
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what is this facebook you are talking about and most people will be seeing regularly?
What I really wanted to say is this however: now I became jedi and all those CIA and evil souls in teheran beware!!!
you can see it this way but considering the whole discussion in Israel about strike against Iranian nuclear lunatics one may say it is a perfect occasion to show the lunatics that the landing may indeed be hard and they may face opposition from infidels. In one sense it is a good thing that may have caused rethinking in some circles, alas nobody seriously expects that Iranian hardliners actually would ever give up or?
well this is a good view leading to loss of business. Even if itis a small loss it is still a loss. The attitude of this type has a tendency to extend to everybody less and soon we have a company that does not give a shit about much of its customer base. I am not saying this because I love linux so much because I do not but I have seen this - the-sucker-has-no-money-to-be-worth-anything-for-us attitude of companies that do not exist no more. In other words it is not linux that you ignore but customers. You ignore some you ignore some more and you have to close down. Unless of course you are a monopolist delivering goods that all must have to survive or has anybody seen say water company caring a lot about its customers?
I think the main point is the story. There is nothing that effects can do that works without story. Matrixes did work because there was a story. I did watch big parts of star wars saga in 2/evening pace and I was shocked how infantile the 'first' (later) parts were in comparison to the one made originally. The same applies to 3d - what do I need this horse shit for if there is no story? The guys exaggerate a bit with their quest for no CGI but if they can create the same with models why not?
it happened to me few times but then I was not agile still - now I am fully agile and I do not care. I think that is what my bosses wanted anyway. What I also observed is that clear and well structured code is usually abused for fixes of the shit that is complex and difficult to maintain in other modules - the code is converging together with all the subsidiaries towards common usually ugly denominator.
not really true -in old good times we used pair programming (this was not called that yet) for people starting at the job to couch them into experience mode. Today we have pair programming to watch for faults and enable faster problem resolution and if so then both guys should have at least some experience but still it works well in most cases. It is expensive however as two people have to sit there. Nobody said that some agile practice cannot be good.
oh man I press the wrong button whilemoderating what waste of points
Possibly we should take positively - it seems that /.ers do not stay in their cellars no more but have infiltrated scientific community to make experiments with sperms and computer!
Not even in Somalia there is one - I mean free market - it is a useful for analysis and modeling of industrial policy as well as for pushing others around. Obviously China already and US still feel strong enough to make threats with such silly arguments. The interesting issue is however whether the barriers are effecting in supporting local industry. There are some that say no - I guess it depends on whether you have some industrial policy that deserves its name or not.
with a bit of brains and letting years wear you tired you kind of become a misanthropic bastard all by itself no effort on your side needed. The common idiocy of human kind will make you so or at least has a good shot at it. This however does not have much to do with your 'social skill' thing. There are certain things that are hard wired and changing them is difficult if not impossible. You can compensate some of those if you are unlucky to have such 'weird' characteristic but you would consciously have to spend time doing so and itis not always pleasant or rewarding. Take this example. In group of people I work with my proposals on how to approach problems tend to be thrown out of the window. This has a lot to do with the way I make them one manager told me. This morning I took notice and out of curiosity made a proposal to improve things in a silly way just to see what happens. Indeed they did what I really wanted i.e.noticed that proposal was seriously flawed but going into the right direction and then decided to do the right thing. This was a success then. This is stark contrast to situation in which I showed my co-workers how silly they are following flawed process only to be confronted with 'why did you not tell us' when the failed (after promptly ignoring my righteous advice). When I had higher testosterone levels I tried to forcefully get the message trough but now I laugh a lot. They say I got wiser. Now you figure.
Och so you decide for all of us what internet is all about? Is this it? How is it better than 'personal censorship' as you call it? There are clearly cases where some communications are unlawful. Not because they say President this is silly but because they cause people to kill very specific (or not so specific) other people. There are communications that albeit I was an author I would like to withdraw and I cannot. In a sense it is the same as being angry and telling your wife she is a stupid bitch and then trying to pull it back but you cannot. This is also beyond the fact that sometimes the stuff put on the internet about one person is put there by other person and possibly in illegal way. I think adding more of the same 'trying to pull it back but you cannot" to the overall human misery in modern society is not necessary especially if the only purpose it serves is to satisfy your need for your vision of internet (which is just a tool). Of course the measure is or may be ineffective but at least it may cause morons like Zuckerberg to rethink his policies and ideas. Not that I believe there is a good chance of that but at least somebody is trying. From this perspective I think the attempt is good (even if I look at almost all activities of the Commission and my own German Government with great and usually justified contempt).
"they can't be bribed" - that is naive or
well corruption by its nature is hidden so you rely on proxies. The index itself is criticized but people and organizations (like The Economist) use it as some indication. Good enough for me.
I suppose this is an effect of the society and its technologies development - we need more and more knowledge to operate and build 'simple' things so we need more and more education to do simple jobs - so we educate more and more people to do them but we as a society are not really smarter, better motivated etc - reading with understanding is a problem for the same part of society as before only now we need bigger part of them to have that ability (hence more college students etc). I think however not only the difficulty has increases but also the returns have decreased - if you look at last biggest zillioners they do not manufacture but are experts in innovation and then managing and marketing or speculate on stock exchange (even today it still may pay off) - this is how money is made not by engineering things. Alternative you can specialize in parasitic practice of law, try medicine or financial magic - with amount of needed skills to become what amounts to an engineering monkey and a perspective that this hard job is outsourced to Zamunda in no time why bother - better do other things (if you can). This is also a consequence of financial services dominating US (and not only) economy - talents prefer to speculate on financial markets instead of constructing things - bigger and faster ROI still even today or especially today.
I think you are onto something - there seems to be a new quality there. There are good reasons for patents but one has to realize that there are also bad side effects to them especially if patent office and legal system do not do anything with abuse by the trolls and make appropriate changes either in the patent system itself or in legal system in which the life of a parasite (troll) may be so easy that they suffocate the hosts and bring damage to the system itself. I guess an action on this must come from outside - I do not see many lawyers coming to senses any day soon.
I suspect that the countries with the socialized medicine are better off then US of A with its sad excuse for a health care system. Of course they have their own problems and these need fixing but looking at US of A I'd say nothing to copy from.....
Well this is indeed a false dichotomy i.e. either nuclear or fossil based energy as options. The fact is that both types have serious consequences only for nuclear these are not as yet quite as profound as for fossil ones which by the way are not only reason why our climate change. Another thing is that going for nuclear is not solving much anyway - you assume that nuclear is replacing something which it may but to what extent if at all is unknown. What I see is that our energy consumption is on level unsustainable already and it will becomes worse every day. It may be that nuclear is an option that we have to consider but considering complexity and dangers that this complexity brings with it I'd say we should invest the time and money elsewhere. You will tell me of course that wind etc is not an option - of course there are problems with them only th fossil fuels are going to run out and nuclear is so troublesome that we will have to find another solution(s) anyway. Wy not start directly instead of talking nonsense?
Of course cost of waste disposal is covered in your calculation as well as the fact that accidents occur and if they do they may cost so much that companies like TEPCO had to be nationalized (or what else to call putting it under state control?). Otherwise your assessment of costs is correct.
I doubt they care at least not the ones that have a say about this.
Coming on the contacts bit I just realized that majority of my contracts I got either because somebody I knew advised my poor ass over some other or the prospective employer knew somebody who knew me. Either way it worked well for me (so far) only I think you should seriously consider getting self employed at some point. Possibly as soon as you gain some experience. It is much more difficult to do if your first try is at 45.
I do not think the company in question actually seeks to produce stuff for mobile devices you refer to. This may be an option worth considering as they can connect to almost anything but it would also bring additional considerations for instance about security etc. and this may not be preferred.
yes exactly that was this particular person's opinion about comparable advantages of each of the phone types and this opinion may be and possibly is different than yours - what a shame is it not?
I laughed at the statement about continues integration. The corporation I worked for had quite some standards on stability and systems of which legacy parts exist for 20 or more years - the actual integration process is complex enough with some of the (stability) tests taking days that any 'continues' integration is just not feasible (this did not stop the management from introducing 'modern' agile principles and what not and issuing statements of success anyway). My view is that you can live also without well tolled revision control although this makes life difficult. I guess it depends on the size of projects and and size and complexity of legacy systems.
maybe because this was never a pure IT news site and life of stuff dealing with IT, computers, programing and what not has changed so dramatically over the years t hat the subjects we discuss and which interest us are so different than before? Also there is this small little thing: computers have been once domain of technocrats and required a monster cooling tower (exaggeration of course) and now we have a few of them around at all times, soon IP addresses (and possibly microphones & cameras) will be given to vibrators and other toys - technical progress make our life so much different that it used to be. yet there is almost no other forum where these issues are discussed. In Europe this may be canalized with pirate party (I think I will try it as others are either silly or corrupt or both) yet without meaningful discussion in many fora this is not going to bring anything. OC one may wonder if general level of discussion in /. is at all justifying our time spent but I guess this is what we have and discussion level among almost any group I came across in my lengthy life was similar. Life one may say or I just feel philosophical.