It makes no difference to me as I do not buy no shit from the shitheads. OC if such boycott is execercised by many they will delegalize it or prove that by act of boycott you violate their copyrights anyway. Come to think of it then Marx was right - the law is the law of ruling classes. That is funny that it takes ultra captialists to pervert the law to such extent so as to prove it.
Well why would anybody be bothered in the first place? After all US is a country built by emirgants for emigrants with emigrants. I would be surprised if it was any other way.//
I am fascinated by what SOX can be used for. I live and work in EU country. My company is registered on NYSE which did not play any major role for me till approx 2 years ago when some genius hired a bunch of advisors and they produced NDA (non disclosure agreement) which I was supposed to sign because of SOX! I can imagine SOX can be used for anything. I wonder if we can use SOX to eradicate terrorism and possible to put new life in middle east 'peace' process. I suppose if we apply it carefully maybe even Jingjong Kill from NK admit that his quest to go for shiny mashrooms failed. What a powerfull thing SOX really is!!!
As for IT people scared of knowledgable users - knowledgable people are always scary. They may come up with an argument against something that is being said by authority. What a terrible thought - gosh they know better? OTOH there is a hole bunch of loosers there that think they know something while closer examination shows that they clearly do not. They may be very painfull in handling as customers of IT services in a huge company.
Well the theory about economy, development and their relationship with democracy is wrong. What happens is democratic systems (we do not have any real ones active currently with possible exception of Switzerland but better appoximations than western ones we do not have) stearing processes are messy and take long time - in China to the contrary: the juidicial process is fast (seems at least one franch presidential candidate likes that) not to say speedy. Take any so called Asian Tigers for example - their rule is authortarian (in Chile it was for quite some time) their economy is as free as any other i.e. there are institutions that control it and development fast. Take India and compare with China (there is no other example of similar size) and you will see that pace of progress is much slower in India.
Interesting also that the major development in EU and in North America last century had something to do with Germans insisting on fighting twice and then governements of Europe busy rebuilding their countries with huge infrastructure projects etc. Chinese do the same now. The difference is that they learned how to develop their economy and have no interest in democracy and human rights.
This will go wrong if it is not to change. History shows that authoritarian regimes, when start having problems at home, export them with their armies. That is the problem with China. We do not know which way they chose - only associations with history. If somebody says Chinese are evil s/he is wrong. If somebody says that we cannot trust their governement s/he is absolutely right.
The same applies to Russia. I laugh every time some moron like Schroeder (that ex-Chancellor of Germany) says that we can rely on Russians - well we can of course - I am not sure however whether this does not mean bigger and more powerfull armies. There is no point in unprovoked hostility but that does not mean we can allow ourselves to be unprepared.
one shall also not forget that majority of old hw seems to land in chinese reprocessing factories where they are broken down into raw materials. This of course does not mean that the process is enviornment friendly. If it were it would not be cheap enough to execute so fare away from source. But then it is not british problem.
Correct. If I try to tell my wife that there are alternatives to MS Office and windoze she calls me names and leaves the room because 'I am preaching'. It does not really matter what I say as long as she does not want to listen. The same applies to everybody else out there. I am not sure that is all that bad - at least there is a platform where the the plague of viruses does not (yet?) exist.
It is also good because it comes down to a specialization - one needs this OS for that purpose etc. The only time windoze really disturbed me is when the f...cking tax office in Germany (where I worked some time ago) told me that the only way to send my tax form to them is to use windoze. This is typical of german officials' attitude towards citizens - 'we know better and that is why you have to pay!'. I suppose nothing has changed much from ol' good times (when the trains were allegedly always on time).
Oh I see everybody can do it. It is the same as my boss told me that our cleaning lady can do the system design, coding and test (deployment left for guys wearing suits) and used that as an argument for not paying more. At end he did pay more and did employ outsourced the cleaning. He is a rich SOB now.
I know about many others that tried the trick with the cleaning lady but failed. Some are still out there and their web sites are miserable useless bunch. Mainly because the line of thaught: if everybody can do it then anybody can do it is simply a fallacy. At the end you either pay and have somthing usefull or not. Whether the job can be done by a single person is a matter of how complex the job is and how big the project is.
the majority or large portion of jobs and successfull business contacts are done this way. If you take sombody that you knew before, then you more or less know what to expect (or so you think) that is why it is so. In buinsess it is even more important than in sorting out good job applications.
It helps of course if you know something and/or people that give opinions about you think that you know something.
I also noticed that actual pay has little to do with value of a contractor but a lot with his/her negotiation skills. Knowing how much a company is willing to pay is also bonus and how do you get this info - you need to know sombody within. It is not always obvious and direct connections you have, that can help.
Knowledge and skills are essential but so are contacts (social skills then) and how you can sell yourself. These are all building blocks on which a professional career is built.
One point on the side: whether absurd or not it does not mean that one cannot make it a law - laws are not there for our liking. Whether they make sense or not is of course a valid argument but such arguments rarely prevent absurdities becoming laws or morons and criminals 'respected' politicians. That is sad reality of life.
I do not care whether said company is legal or illegal but I find it funny that russian mafia is being attacked by american one. I wonder what RIAA is going to do - send lawyers to mr Putin to teach him a lesson (or more likely to learn a lesson in law from him:) or argue with Mr Bush the Fighter to bomb Moskow into senses or out of existence. I only hope that the dust will be blown away from me.
But the missed the real target i.e. a fluorescent pig with built-in flag - all red except few yellow stars on it. The flag - they have to work on it still or they will end up as food for the fluorescent warms.
Good thing is that it will all stay within a fluorescent realm of the ruling party.
indeed and there are very good reasons why it is so as it is not really evil corporations that work this way - humans make them so because they behave exactly the same way. If a sweet inteligent individual has a choice to fish the last fish out of the see for instance and make a profit out of it s/he will do it and it will be perfectly reasonable at least for him/her - if not this individual then some other will do it so costs will be there anyway why then should s/he not do it and have at least some profit as a bonus? This mechanism has a name: tragedy of commons.
Without some kind of rules enforced by somebody there is no protection for a common good such as nature. Nature of a human being is such that this control and restrictions work the best (although arguably not really well) when applied by bodies such as governemnts.
SImilarily free markets do not exist - there are always rules attached. No rules means chaos and violence.
Even if the report is true it does not descibe any major feat - no reason to get excited then.
But if what one can hear in German media about Siemens corruption is at least partially true, then one may start having serious doubts whether the results are real or the report is bogus 'cause it was bought by money saved in e.g. BenQ Mobile disaster (more details only in german version of the article I am afraid). For those that missed the story: Simens sold its mobiles making division (together with people) to chinese and let such new company go bust. It was much cheaper and faster (and thus even cheaper) than laying people off.
When you write: They probably have some statistical correlation with reality for some kinds of programming with some kind of developers you very rigth. The point is that any language being different from all others have specific features that are better suited for certain tasks and/or people than other. Comments, documentation and program structure is the key unless of course the appl being written is, on complexity scale, rather close to famous "f.k the world" program.
But that is so obvious that majority of us will not notice anyway and indulge in language comparisons just for the sake of argument.
I see your statment about public making decisions as a fallacy. Public does not make decisions in such matters, at least not ones that become law as public has no real influence on laws and their interpretation. Unless of course you define 'public' as lawyers for big fat cats only - then such statement becomes true. OC that is not valid for all cases but 'only' for majority of important ones.
OTOH such thing as public making whatever colectively does not exist because there is not one object here that does things - there are plenty that by moving around randomly generate pressure on walls of the cylinder like a gas and like a gas can be compressed or released by use of physical force and operating the valve (the walls of a cylinder and the valve are laws).
Whether CR is good or evil, this and that. It all depends on its implementation i.e. among others on DRM. All this however makes me think twice before I buy anything or more and more often it makes me think and then I do not buy. I still have to pay a fee for CD/DVD burning HW even if I do not copy anything that is copyrighted. How is this right and how I agreed to do so?
Well - there must be methods of protecting possible victims if we know that the crime is being in a making. OTOH how perverted is justice and people working there if they think panties theft is a sex offence. I can agree that it is a terrorist activity. After all such panties, especially if worn and not washed, are known to cause such itching among security officials that they are likely to miss the bombs packed below said panties in a travel bags.
I think we should start our moral renewal comaign by searching properties of politicians and security officials - I am sure amount of illegal substances, pornography and credit card receipts from local brothels and stolen panties would be sufficient to send the bastards to hard labour camps for forseeable future and we would have peace of mind for a change.
1.Early works on it were conducted in 1970s and first NMT network went into service in 1981. Whether it was illegal in US at the time I do not know. I think it is irrelevant as it went into service in nordic countries of Europe. One of these coountries was Denmark.
2.Early mobile phones where much more powerfull source of radiation than it is the case today. If they had an effect then it would be much easier to notice than with current small and much more efficient ones.
What is interesting however is the antenae posts for BTSs which I see standing on appartment buildings. I wonder who would wish to live in an appartment directly below such transmitter even if most of energy is directed elsewhere i.e. not downwards.
there exists a cheaper solution - outsource the IT dep to China. Chances are that chinese legal system i.e. firing squads will deal with the problem more appropriately. Even if not then at least you saved something. At the very least the idea should bring some bonus to the person that proposed it.
is it not a wonder that it just comes when new release is (almost) there? I find it fascinating that every time a big corporation comes up with a new major release, suddenly the old stuff is so dangerous, inefficient and expensive to use that one stuns how on earth anybody bought such crap in the first place. PR - this is the job I should have chosen instead of bits and bytes.
I guess that is already happening if what I hear about gm-cotton in India is true. No 'old' seeds are available, new parasites 'resistent' ones are expensive and loved by said parasites so more pesticides are needed than before. strangly pesticides are produced by the same companies that corrupted the government officials and sold seeds in the first place.
I suppose I will buy myself a farm and grow veggies myself. Only then they come and put a tax on it plus I will have to pay royalties anyway as my field will be misteriously contaminated by modified seeds.
OC by saying that I become a commie, islamist terrorist and enemy of the state and freedom etc. and worst of it all my carme went down the toilet. They should panish me. Gosh I will go and panish myself by eating another tastless shit sold in next grocery.
Yes indeed - I just had a discussion about such crap today. I told project manager that this prototype stinks and he told me that they know and they requested from the responsible subcontractor to design things in a proper way. Sa we are all happy and hope fort he best. As always.
But coming to TFA - what good practices have anything to do with agile programing or any other fashionable piece of crap that some 'gurus' try to sell us for big bucks? Keeping your senses and brains sharp, listening to customer as well as designers and testers etc - what is new here? Why should I pay for a book that brings nothing that common sense wouldn't tell you in the first place (if you had it available and were ready to use it OC)?
Maybe it is good to repeat it for the slaves of fashion on managment floor or for newbies but I doubt the former understand and the later care anyway. The project manager I talked with today understood what I said. Did he change anything - no 'cause he could not, as the decisions were made elsewhere and subcontractor is doing things according to its budget and understanding of our requriements which are written (Oh gosh) in english i.e. he does what he wants and how he wants.
Life is a tragedy and a comedy - whether you cry or laugh is your choice and just about the only one you can make.
That repairs do not happen anymore (or almost) is of course part of our production philosophy - anybody tried to find replacment for power supply of any notebook? Funny that there are so many of them and that they cost as much as they do. But that is side discussion the main reason why dumping of our trash in Africa (or elsewhere) happens is that we have a lots of trash to be dumped. It costs money of course so we look for savings. Big companies look for savings so they put crap on the market that we customers have to dispose ever faster. Small man looks for savings so s/he dumps his trash to the place where costs are lower. Costs are lower where no protection of environment and people are in place or the local gov is corrupted enough not to enforce such protection. Thus typical nationalisation of costs and privatisation of profits scheme of things come into play. We all have savings to make and this all is rational at least in short term.
The same as with our trash happens with our jobs - they are exported to countries where no protection of a worker exists, where no environment protection is in place so the costs can go down. Few of the ones that profited from this process spend some cents there to get good conscience and all is well.
Anybody actually thought about the situation when Chinese and Indians (to name only the two biggest) start producing trash with the speed US citizens (and to smaller extent EU ones) do?
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It makes no difference to me as I do not buy no shit from the shitheads. OC if such boycott is execercised by many they will delegalize it or prove that by act of boycott you violate their copyrights anyway.
Come to think of it then Marx was right - the law is the law of ruling classes. That is funny that it takes ultra captialists to pervert the law to such extent so as to prove it.
Well why would anybody be bothered in the first place? After all US is a country built by emirgants for emigrants with emigrants. I would be surprised if it was any other way. //
I am fascinated by what SOX can be used for. I live and work in EU country. My company is registered on NYSE which did not play any major role for me till approx 2 years ago when some genius hired a bunch of advisors and they produced NDA (non disclosure agreement) which I was supposed to sign because of SOX! I can imagine SOX can be used for anything. I wonder if we can use SOX to eradicate terrorism and possible to put new life in middle east 'peace' process. I suppose if we apply it carefully maybe even Jingjong Kill from NK admit that his quest to go for shiny mashrooms failed.
What a powerfull thing SOX really is!!!
As for IT people scared of knowledgable users - knowledgable people are always scary. They may come up with an argument against something that is being said by authority. What a terrible thought - gosh they know better? OTOH there is a hole bunch of loosers there that think they know something while closer examination shows that they clearly do not. They may be very painfull in handling as customers of IT services in a huge company.
Well the theory about economy, development and their relationship with democracy is wrong. What happens is democratic systems (we do not have any real ones active currently with possible exception of Switzerland but better appoximations than western ones we do not have) stearing processes are messy and take long time - in China to the contrary: the juidicial process is fast (seems at least one franch presidential candidate likes that) not to say speedy. Take any so called Asian Tigers for example - their rule is authortarian (in Chile it was for quite some time) their economy is as free as any other i.e. there are institutions that control it and development fast. Take India and compare with China (there is no other example of similar size) and you will see that pace of progress is much slower in India.
Interesting also that the major development in EU and in North America last century had something to do with Germans insisting on fighting twice and then governements of Europe busy rebuilding their countries with huge infrastructure projects etc. Chinese do the same now. The difference is that they learned how to develop their economy and have no interest in democracy and human rights.
This will go wrong if it is not to change. History shows that authoritarian regimes, when start having problems at home, export them with their armies. That is the problem with China. We do not know which way they chose - only associations with history. If somebody says Chinese are evil s/he is wrong. If somebody says that we cannot trust their governement s/he is absolutely right.
The same applies to Russia. I laugh every time some moron like Schroeder (that ex-Chancellor of Germany) says that we can rely on Russians - well we can of course - I am not sure however whether this does not mean bigger and more powerfull armies. There is no point in unprovoked hostility but that does not mean we can allow ourselves to be unprepared.
one shall also not forget that majority of old hw seems to land in chinese reprocessing factories where they are broken down into raw materials. This of course does not mean that the process is enviornment friendly. If it were it would not be cheap enough to execute so fare away from source. But then it is not british problem.
Correct. If I try to tell my wife that there are alternatives to MS Office and windoze she calls me names and leaves the room because 'I am preaching'. It does not really matter what I say as long as she does not want to listen. The same applies to everybody else out there. I am not sure that is all that bad - at least there is a platform where the the plague of viruses does not (yet?) exist.
It is also good because it comes down to a specialization - one needs this OS for that purpose etc. The only time windoze really disturbed me is when the f...cking tax office in Germany (where I worked some time ago) told me that the only way to send my tax form to them is to use windoze. This is typical of german officials' attitude towards citizens - 'we know better and that is why you have to pay!'. I suppose nothing has changed much from ol' good times (when the trains were allegedly always on time).
Oh I see everybody can do it. It is the same as my boss told me that our cleaning lady can do the system design, coding and test (deployment left for guys wearing suits) and used that as an argument for not paying more. At end he did pay more and did employ outsourced the cleaning. He is a rich SOB now.
I know about many others that tried the trick with the cleaning lady but failed. Some are still out there and their web sites are miserable useless bunch.
Mainly because the line of thaught: if everybody can do it then anybody can do it is simply a fallacy. At the end you either pay and have somthing usefull or not. Whether the job can be done by a single person is a matter of how complex the job is and how big the project is.
That is perfect nonsense and that is why this 'immortal' storage will be the first place where DRM will succeed.
It helps of course if you know something and/or people that give opinions about you think that you know something.
I also noticed that actual pay has little to do with value of a contractor but a lot with his/her negotiation skills. Knowing how much a company is willing to pay is also bonus and how do you get this info - you need to know sombody within. It is not always obvious and direct connections you have, that can help.
Knowledge and skills are essential but so are contacts (social skills then) and how you can sell yourself. These are all building blocks on which a professional career is built.
One point on the side: whether absurd or not it does not mean that one cannot make it a law - laws are not there for our liking. Whether they make sense or not is of course a valid argument but such arguments rarely prevent absurdities becoming laws or morons and criminals 'respected' politicians. That is sad reality of life.
:) or argue with Mr Bush the Fighter to bomb Moskow into senses or out of existence. I only hope that the dust will be blown away from me.
I do not care whether said company is legal or illegal but I find it funny that russian mafia is being attacked by american one. I wonder what RIAA is going to do - send lawyers to mr Putin to teach him a lesson (or more likely to learn a lesson in law from him
But the missed the real target i.e. a fluorescent pig with built-in flag - all red except few yellow stars on it. The flag - they have to work on it still or they will end up as food for the fluorescent warms.
Good thing is that it will all stay within a fluorescent realm of the ruling party.
Without some kind of rules enforced by somebody there is no protection for a common good such as nature. Nature of a human being is such that this control and restrictions work the best (although arguably not really well) when applied by bodies such as governemnts. SImilarily free markets do not exist - there are always rules attached. No rules means chaos and violence.
But if what one can hear in German media about Siemens corruption is at least partially true, then one may start having serious doubts whether the results are real or the report is bogus 'cause it was bought by money saved in e.g. BenQ Mobile disaster (more details only in german version of the article I am afraid). For those that missed the story: Simens sold its mobiles making division (together with people) to chinese and let such new company go bust. It was much cheaper and faster (and thus even cheaper) than laying people off.
I am part of this infrastructure and I am not running. Not under the ground anyway.
But that is so obvious that majority of us will not notice anyway and indulge in language comparisons just for the sake of argument.
I see your statment about public making decisions as a fallacy. Public does not make decisions in such matters, at least not ones that become law as public has no real influence on laws and their interpretation. Unless of course you define 'public' as lawyers for big fat cats only - then such statement becomes true. OC that is not valid for all cases but 'only' for majority of important ones.
OTOH such thing as public making whatever colectively does not exist because there is not one object here that does things - there are plenty that by moving around randomly generate pressure on walls of the cylinder like a gas and like a gas can be compressed or released by use of physical force and operating the valve (the walls of a cylinder and the valve are laws).
Whether CR is good or evil, this and that. It all depends on its implementation i.e. among others on DRM. All this however makes me think twice before I buy anything or more and more often it makes me think and then I do not buy.
I still have to pay a fee for CD/DVD burning HW even if I do not copy anything that is copyrighted. How is this right and how I agreed to do so?
Well - there must be methods of protecting possible victims if we know that the crime is being in a making.
OTOH how perverted is justice and people working there if they think panties theft is a sex offence. I can agree that it is a terrorist activity. After all such panties, especially if worn and not washed, are known to cause such itching among security officials that they are likely to miss the bombs packed below said panties in a travel bags.
I think we should start our moral renewal comaign by searching properties of politicians and security officials - I am sure amount of illegal substances, pornography and credit card receipts from local brothels and stolen panties would be sufficient to send the bastards to hard labour camps for forseeable future and we would have peace of mind for a change.
TFA has good entertainment value. Especially when one read the predictions for 2006. I will be laughing next year too I guess.
1.Early works on it were conducted in 1970s and first NMT network went into service in 1981. Whether it was illegal in US at the time I do not know. I think it is irrelevant as it went into service in nordic countries of Europe. One of these coountries was Denmark. 2.Early mobile phones where much more powerfull source of radiation than it is the case today. If they had an effect then it would be much easier to notice than with current small and much more efficient ones. What is interesting however is the antenae posts for BTSs which I see standing on appartment buildings. I wonder who would wish to live in an appartment directly below such transmitter even if most of energy is directed elsewhere i.e. not downwards.
there exists a cheaper solution - outsource the IT dep to China.
Chances are that chinese legal system i.e. firing squads will deal with the problem more appropriately. Even if not then at least you saved something. At the very least the idea should bring some bonus to the person that proposed it.
is it not a wonder that it just comes when new release is (almost) there? I find it fascinating that every time a big corporation comes up with a new major release, suddenly the old stuff is so dangerous, inefficient and expensive to use that one stuns how on earth anybody bought such crap in the first place.
PR - this is the job I should have chosen instead of bits and bytes.
I guess that is already happening if what I hear about gm-cotton in India is true. No 'old' seeds are available, new parasites 'resistent' ones are expensive and loved by said parasites so more pesticides are needed than before. strangly pesticides are produced by the same companies that corrupted the government officials and sold seeds in the first place.
I suppose I will buy myself a farm and grow veggies myself. Only then they come and put a tax on it plus I will have to pay royalties anyway as my field will be misteriously contaminated by modified seeds.
OC by saying that I become a commie, islamist terrorist and enemy of the state and freedom etc. and worst of it all my carme went down the toilet. They should panish me. Gosh I will go and panish myself by eating another tastless shit sold in next grocery.
Yes indeed - I just had a discussion about such crap today. I told project manager that this prototype stinks and he told me that they know and they requested from the responsible subcontractor to design things in a proper way. Sa we are all happy and hope fort he best. As always.
But coming to TFA - what good practices have anything to do with agile programing or any other fashionable piece of crap that some 'gurus' try to sell us for big bucks? Keeping your senses and brains sharp, listening to customer as well as designers and testers etc - what is new here? Why should I pay for a book that brings nothing that common sense wouldn't tell you in the first place (if you had it available and were ready to use it OC)?
Maybe it is good to repeat it for the slaves of fashion on managment floor or for newbies but I doubt the former understand and the later care anyway. The project manager I talked with today understood what I said. Did he change anything - no 'cause he could not, as the decisions were made elsewhere and subcontractor is doing things according to its budget and understanding of our requriements which are written (Oh gosh) in english i.e. he does what he wants and how he wants.
Life is a tragedy and a comedy - whether you cry or laugh is your choice and just about the only one you can make.
That repairs do not happen anymore (or almost) is of course part of our production philosophy - anybody tried to find replacment for power supply of any notebook? Funny that there are so many of them and that they cost as much as they do.
But that is side discussion the main reason why dumping of our trash in Africa (or elsewhere) happens is that we have a lots of trash to be dumped. It costs money of course so we look for savings. Big companies look for savings so they put crap on the market that we customers have to dispose ever faster. Small man looks for savings so s/he dumps his trash to the place where costs are lower. Costs are lower where no protection of environment and people are in place or the local gov is corrupted enough not to enforce such protection. Thus typical nationalisation of costs and privatisation of profits scheme of things come into play.
We all have savings to make and this all is rational at least in short term.
The same as with our trash happens with our jobs - they are exported to countries where no protection of a worker exists, where no environment protection is in place so the costs can go down. Few of the ones that profited from this process spend some cents there to get good conscience and all is well.
Anybody actually thought about the situation when Chinese and Indians (to name only the two biggest) start producing trash with the speed US citizens (and to smaller extent EU ones) do?
I subscribe to drugs, especially if the weed is good but I would rather opt out of creationism if I may.