Well, certainly it had nothing to do with the plague ending, the discovery and exploitation of North and South America by the Europeans, the money made by that exploitation, the subsequent funding of universities, the rise of the merchant middle class, the beginnings of the exploitation of hydrocarbon energy (i.e. coal) for metal production, all of which contributed to increased wealth overall. At that point, the only profitable religious extremism involved stealing the property of prosperous Jews and expelling them from the country. Conquering Muslim countries? Cost too much.
After all, the games division is successful, innovative, profitable and they are forced to actually *listen* to their customers, not a cabal of pampered C++ programmers or former C++ programmers who are now middle management trying to protect their turf. Heck, they don't even change from one incompatible "no upgrade" platform every five years or so in order to screw their developers and customers, and their developer's customers in one deft move. Keep them? That's just crazy talk! Now let's all go and try and use our new Windows 8 machines, eh?
whose output is chemical, and inefficient. As long as we're going to use concentrated sunlight anyway, we'd do better to make more efficient batteries instead of needing more biomass, setting us up for even more ecological disaster.
what "assets" won't be obsolete in 10 years maybe, and definitely 20? Gloves? Shoes? Certainly not weapons or electronics. Sounds like the military needs a reason to bury something on a regular basis, but it's not equipment.
Make the balloon a 2-layered affair with a few feet of air space. Then you fill that space with thousands of small floating balloons whose interiors are slightly sticky. Meteorite hits. Small balloons immediately travel to where the air is leaking out, burst, and plug the hole with a bunch of goopy rubber until someone (or some robot) can go outside once a month or so and put on maintenance patches.
They suffer from "political myopia." They can't really be bothered to notice occurrences in the physical world. Only politics is real to them. So, like the Roman emperors who couldn't be bothered to attend to their water systems or roads, our government can't be bothered to look at refineries, or how net energy from hydrocarbons is declining even as supplies increase, or what happens when the potash is all mined out, or what happens when a few more major aquifers are completely drained. They won't be in office by then, they figure. It'll be someone else's problem.
In a large corporation, perfectly daft decisions get made daily as managers try and jockey for position and cover their asses. Actual innovative work comes fourth or fifth level down in priority, and is only done when absolutely necessary with a mandate from above.
And so, IT resources are scattered across the globe, rather than in the building. Purchasing $100.01 worth of cables goes through a three week approval process. Mission critical departments and server assets are suddenly "orphaned" with no single point of authority. Witless HR drones write job requirements that ask for "5 years experience in Windows 8 App programming." The managers who implement these changes get their bonus for cost savings, and then are gone in a year, never having to live with the consequences.
So what's the point in having a good idea, or being innovative in those circumstances when anything that doesn't server the political purposes of a manager gets quashed even before it's started?
An entrepreneur, in contrast, tells the IT person to go down to Best Buy and pick up the cables and give the bill to accounting and let them sort it out, the servers are attended to. Employees are selected for real skills by people who can reason and think and bonuses get linked to real improvements and productivity, not just what can be described in a bean counter's spreadsheet. The entrepreneur has to really perform. All a manager has to do is stay in place.
so I never have trouble with the critique. Most of the people who criticize my code however, allow that my software is usually more reliable then theirs (fewer errors and crashes) and has the best interfaces in the office (i.e. easiest to understand and navigate). So, what to make of this? They keep asking me to write stuff, even though I barely use classes except to extend and manipulate arrays (I use a lot of arrays). Empirically, this tells me that good form isn't everything, and that while it's nice to know about callbacks, virtual void functions, etc. for most everyday little apps, it doesn't seem to matter much.
"Working" is such an interesting term. In our lab environment VBScript started crashing after some otherwise unremarkable Windows security updates that corporate would not let us roll back, necessitating our rewriting everything in Powershell. Winforms will "work" until your client demands that the application be web accessible, at which point YOU get to spend the money and time to recode, or lose the business. Then you recode in WPF and/or Silverlight. As we speak, Microsoft efforts on Silverlight and WPF are shall we say, "in dissaray (http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-splits-up-its-xaml-team-whats-the-fallout/9807). How would you like to spend about 6 years learning these technologies, only to find them obsolete because decided to take us back a decade to the wonder years of HTML and javascript?
At this point, if you asked me which MS technology was worth learning, I sure couldn't tell you. Not anything to do with Windows phone or Windows 8, that's for sure. So what do you do?
VB6, Winforms, VBScript, Windows 8.... It's Microsoft once again saying, "Screw your *and* your client's investments in time, money and learning." We just had a 20-something developer with no business sense show a clueless manager with no technical expertise a new technology and we're running with it!
And then settle in for a nice long chew. What undoubtedly happened is that the bailout interfered with some upper management pig's hedge fund investment and he didn't make the millions in profits he was expecting when the company finally failed.
Interesting implication. To bother with the lawsuit, they must be planning a repeat performance, and don't want their bets interfered with this time.
We argue endlessly, but in the end, you can purchase the services of a vb.net, C#, Java, or php programmer cheaply, and languages like this, for all their faults will usually get the job done easily and on budget. Are they elegant? Well designed? Maintainable? No. No. No!
And it doesn't matter at all. Programming is about money or masturbation. Like cheap carpet in a rental unit, easy-to-use languages are more cost effective, even if you have to replace them often. You want art? Take up painting.
Hardware and chips are about the most obvious attack vector for USA defense hardware there is. I seriously doubt that more than half of our radio transmission equipment would work 15 minutes into a conflict with China, since this too is an obvious weak point. I expect that hardware generated viruses would take out quite a bit of our tactical grids as well. It's what I would do, if I were them.
Bottom line. We can't buy *ANY* defense equipment from overseas, directly or indirectly, without increasing security risks significantly.
Not that anyone cares, of course. Politicians just want to reduce costs. So do contractors and subcontractors. Monitoring all this costs money and nobody wants to be accused of "regulation" or being against globalization, and so we seal our own eventual military doom.
Sure, no problem, if you live in the 50s and have a nonworking wife who doubles as a personal servant. Absent of that, I'm sure the company won't mind paying for a personal concierge to manage my doctor appointments, arrange for the plumber and/or electrician and go to my house and wait for him, her or it until arrival in that 4 hour window, pick up the kids from school, take care of them when they're sick, pick up the car when it's ready.
A smart phone is a cheap solution. Texts are quicker and more concise then conversations and you have a record of what's said. It can get me whether I'm in the server room, or the sandwich shop at lunch. While it's perfectly understandable that IT doesn't want you to connect to the network, it's delusional to ignore the economic and social reality all around you. The 50s are over. Deal with it.
Not actually evil, but bad-tempered, bureaucratic, officious and callous. In the USA, they're frequently female and quietly but intensely crazy. Forget anything rational when dealing with them. Go around them. Get your resume' to a thinking person with actual skills, common sense and the ability to do arithmetic. That person may be able to slide you around blockage of HR. Get in as a consultant or a temp and make them dependent on you. Threaten to walk if you don't get hired.
As in most of the rest of America now, working through the system doesn't work. Adjust your thinking accordingly.
which can be tapped for oxygen, provide shielding, provide water and so on. It's not as good as lead, but you need water anyway. You may as well multipurpose the stuff.
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won't this happen on its own anyway?
if after they made their own mine tailings, they noticed that there were already mine tailings there.
Well, certainly it had nothing to do with the plague ending, the discovery and exploitation of North and South America by the Europeans, the money made by that exploitation, the subsequent funding of universities, the rise of the merchant middle class, the beginnings of the exploitation of hydrocarbon energy (i.e. coal) for metal production, all of which contributed to increased wealth overall. At that point, the only profitable religious extremism involved stealing the property of prosperous Jews and expelling them from the country. Conquering Muslim countries? Cost too much.
Can we stop pussy footing around Christians too? I'd like to stop them from legislating behavior.
After all, the games division is successful, innovative, profitable and they are forced to actually *listen* to their customers, not a cabal of pampered C++ programmers or former C++ programmers who are now middle management trying to protect their turf. Heck, they don't even change from one incompatible "no upgrade" platform every five years or so in order to screw their developers and customers, and their developer's customers in one deft move. Keep them? That's just crazy talk! Now let's all go and try and use our new Windows 8 machines, eh?
I'm from Texas. It's OK with me. Isn't there some paperwork we have to sign?
It's the ANTI-Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey. Oh, and good luck with that EU membership thing.
Can't it be both?
whose output is chemical, and inefficient. As long as we're going to use concentrated sunlight anyway, we'd do better to make more efficient batteries instead of needing more biomass, setting us up for even more ecological disaster.
what "assets" won't be obsolete in 10 years maybe, and definitely 20? Gloves? Shoes? Certainly not weapons or electronics. Sounds like the military needs a reason to bury something on a regular basis, but it's not equipment.
Make the balloon a 2-layered affair with a few feet of air space. Then you fill that space with thousands of small floating balloons whose interiors are slightly sticky. Meteorite hits. Small balloons immediately travel to where the air is leaking out, burst, and plug the hole with a bunch of goopy rubber until someone (or some robot) can go outside once a month or so and put on maintenance patches.
They suffer from "political myopia." They can't really be bothered to notice occurrences in the physical world. Only politics is real to them. So, like the Roman emperors who couldn't be bothered to attend to their water systems or roads, our government can't be bothered to look at refineries, or how net energy from hydrocarbons is declining even as supplies increase, or what happens when the potash is all mined out, or what happens when a few more major aquifers are completely drained. They won't be in office by then, they figure. It'll be someone else's problem.
In a large corporation, perfectly daft decisions get made daily as managers try and jockey for position and cover their asses. Actual innovative work comes fourth or fifth level down in priority, and is only done when absolutely necessary with a mandate from above.
And so, IT resources are scattered across the globe, rather than in the building. Purchasing $100.01 worth of cables goes through a three week approval process. Mission critical departments and server assets are suddenly "orphaned" with no single point of authority. Witless HR drones write job requirements that ask for "5 years experience in Windows 8 App programming." The managers who implement these changes get their bonus for cost savings, and then are gone in a year, never having to live with the consequences.
So what's the point in having a good idea, or being innovative in those circumstances when anything that doesn't server the political purposes of a manager gets quashed even before it's started?
An entrepreneur, in contrast, tells the IT person to go down to Best Buy and pick up the cables and give the bill to accounting and let them sort it out, the servers are attended to. Employees are selected for real skills by people who can reason and think and bonuses get linked to real improvements and productivity, not just what can be described in a bean counter's spreadsheet. The entrepreneur has to really perform. All a manager has to do is stay in place.
so I never have trouble with the critique. Most of the people who criticize my code however, allow that my software is usually more reliable then theirs (fewer errors and crashes) and has the best interfaces in the office (i.e. easiest to understand and navigate). So, what to make of this? They keep asking me to write stuff, even though I barely use classes except to extend and manipulate arrays (I use a lot of arrays). Empirically, this tells me that good form isn't everything, and that while it's nice to know about callbacks, virtual void functions, etc. for most everyday little apps, it doesn't seem to matter much.
"Working" is such an interesting term. In our lab environment VBScript started crashing after some otherwise unremarkable Windows security updates that corporate would not let us roll back, necessitating our rewriting everything in Powershell. Winforms will "work" until your client demands that the application be web accessible, at which point YOU get to spend the money and time to recode, or lose the business. Then you recode in WPF and/or Silverlight. As we speak, Microsoft efforts on Silverlight and WPF are shall we say, "in dissaray (http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-splits-up-its-xaml-team-whats-the-fallout/9807). How would you like to spend about 6 years learning these technologies, only to find them obsolete because decided to take us back a decade to the wonder years of HTML and javascript?
At this point, if you asked me which MS technology was worth learning, I sure couldn't tell you. Not anything to do with Windows phone or Windows 8, that's for sure. So what do you do?
VB6, Winforms, VBScript, Windows 8.... It's Microsoft once again saying, "Screw your *and* your client's investments in time, money and learning." We just had a 20-something developer with no business sense show a clueless manager with no technical expertise a new technology and we're running with it!
And why bother with a bomb when you can do it with a SCADA virus?
And then settle in for a nice long chew. What undoubtedly happened is that the bailout interfered with some upper management pig's hedge fund investment and he didn't make the millions in profits he was expecting when the company finally failed.
Interesting implication. To bother with the lawsuit, they must be planning a repeat performance, and don't want their bets interfered with this time.
We argue endlessly, but in the end, you can purchase the services of a vb.net, C#, Java, or php programmer cheaply, and languages like this, for all their faults will usually get the job done easily and on budget. Are they elegant? Well designed? Maintainable? No. No. No!
And it doesn't matter at all. Programming is about money or masturbation. Like cheap carpet in a rental unit, easy-to-use languages are more cost effective, even if you have to replace them often. You want art? Take up painting.
Hardware and chips are about the most obvious attack vector for USA defense hardware there is. I seriously doubt that more than half of our radio transmission equipment would work 15 minutes into a conflict with China, since this too is an obvious weak point. I expect that hardware generated viruses would take out quite a bit of our tactical grids as well. It's what I would do, if I were them.
Bottom line. We can't buy *ANY* defense equipment from overseas, directly or indirectly, without increasing security risks significantly.
Not that anyone cares, of course. Politicians just want to reduce costs. So do contractors and subcontractors. Monitoring all this costs money and nobody wants to be accused of "regulation" or being against globalization, and so we seal our own eventual military doom.
Sure, no problem, if you live in the 50s and have a nonworking wife who doubles as a personal servant. Absent of that, I'm sure the company won't mind paying for a personal concierge to manage my doctor appointments, arrange for the plumber and/or electrician and go to my house and wait for him, her or it until arrival in that 4 hour window, pick up the kids from school, take care of them when they're sick, pick up the car when it's ready.
A smart phone is a cheap solution. Texts are quicker and more concise then conversations and you have a record of what's said. It can get me whether I'm in the server room, or the sandwich shop at lunch. While it's perfectly understandable that IT doesn't want you to connect to the network, it's delusional to ignore the economic and social reality all around you. The 50s are over. Deal with it.
Not actually evil, but bad-tempered, bureaucratic, officious and callous. In the USA, they're frequently female and quietly but intensely crazy. Forget anything rational when dealing with them. Go around them. Get your resume' to a thinking person with actual skills, common sense and the ability to do arithmetic. That person may be able to slide you around blockage of HR. Get in as a consultant or a temp and make them dependent on you. Threaten to walk if you don't get hired.
As in most of the rest of America now, working through the system doesn't work. Adjust your thinking accordingly.
The fact that Microsoft missed something this *basic* doesn't exactly bode well for the future of the company. HUMANS matter. Machines don't.
which can be tapped for oxygen, provide shielding, provide water and so on. It's not as good as lead, but you need water anyway. You may as well multipurpose the stuff.
In 1997, oil hit $12 a barrel. in 2012, it was over $100 a barrel at points. A 10-fold increase in 15 years. Inflation? Really?