11. Software engineers must be addressed as “High Priest, Master of All Things Java.”
10. Project managers required to attend sensitivity training on “Deadline Flexibility”.
9. Pizza and Chinese food industries convince US businesses to stop outsourcing tech jobs to India.
8. Every Friday is “Work on useless code you think is leading edge” day.
7. Annual $1,000 stipend for purchasing cool stuff to put on your desk.
6. Constitution tweaked every two weeks.
5. Clean desks would be punishable by 15 lashes.
4. Free Xbox game for every 100 lines of code you write.
3. “Whatever” and “Same as last week” are perfectly acceptable status reports.
2. All technical issues resolved by saying “Well, it works on my PC.”
1. Congress passes Cubicle Prohibition Act.

BB Spot | Top 11 Things That Would Happen If Software Engineers Ruled The World

Balls Deep wrote:
] Yeah, Yeah everyone has seen this. Someone right now need to
] setup a page that takes paypal donations to defend the poor
] sap that sco is going to sue. Not that creating viruses is
] cool, but because SCO is yet another turd that needs to be
] wiped from the planet. My first sysadmin job was working with
] SCO, and I replaced it with Linux because SCO sucked so bad.
] I didn't want it to come to this, but it is time.
] BallsDeep officially declares war on SCO!!

The ironic part is this SCO isn't even the original SCO. This is a small spin off of the Caldera / SCO merger. The old SCO is now known as Tarantela. As far as I know, the current SCO group doesn't even make any significant revenue from a product. Their business model seems to be lawsuits and intellectual property licencing for Sys V unix. Their claims of IP theft inside current linux distributions has not yet been proven. Novell is contesting their claim to the rights to SysV in the first place (Novell sold SCO unixware in the early 90s). SCO group is nothing more than bottom feeding, opportunistic scum.

RE: SCO Offers Reward for Arrest and Conviction of Mydoom Virus Author (BallsDeep Declares war on SCO)

I feel myself becoming a mac zealot.. Yeah, I switched!

Virginia Tech's decision to replace its "Big Mac" supercomputer processors with Apple Computer Xserve G5 servers will make the installation more attractive to the federal agencies and organizations negotiating with the university for its novel supercomputer technology.
...
The installation has been up and running for a few months, but the swapping of G5s for Xserve servers will shrink the size of the installation. "We'll cut the space used by a factor of three," said a university spokeswoman. "We'll go from 3,000 square feet to 1,000 square feet."

Info Week | Customers Eye Virginia Tech's Supercomputer Upgrade

wilpig wrote:
] ] Check the year-end reports from the various sectors of
] ] the entertainment industry, and it's clear that DVD
] ] stands alone as an unqualified sensation. It's such a
] ] success that it might even be eclipsing - and
] ] cutting into - other leisure pursuits.
] ]
] ] Each DVD amounts to a consumer devoting money and time to
] ] watching a movie at home, sometimes in lieu of going to a
] ] theater or watching TV or listening to a CD.
]
] Are you listening to this RIAA? Its *NOT* only peer2peer
] trading that is responsible for your sagging sales. There are
] a number of factors, and probably the biggest is that other
] entertainment avenues are taking a larger slice of the pie.
]
] If you'd listen, you'd hear consumers voting (with their cash)
] that other entertainment avenues currently represent a better
] value for the money then a mediocre CD with 2 good tracks.
]
] LB
The album format needs to die. A $5 EP CD with 2-5 songs makes tons more sense and would sell a lot better as a result of the better price and missing songs we generally don't want anyway. I love music but personally have many more DVDs than CDs now.

RE: DVD's success steals the show

Shipping work overseas saves money that drops to the bottom line as profit.  Stock prices are today keyed to earnings-per-share as is, to a certain extent, executive compensation.  Now look at the average time that an institutional investor actually holds a given stock.  This can be measured in months, sometimes in weeks, but hardly ever in years.  So the investor timeline is short and the CEO timeline -- with average tenancies in those positions at less than five years -- is not much longer.  So offshoring works great for these two groups.  The stock goes up and along with it, the CEO's bonus and stock options.  By the time the long-term effects of this policy are felt, both the investors and the CEO are long gone.  And even if the CEO is still around, it is with a golden parachute negotiated long before that often pays him more to go away than he might have got to stay.

I have to admit that I have begun to plot my path out of tech and get my house paid off. The world economy has changed and the bottom line is the end of the line.

PBS Cringely on IT Outsourcing

I like the RX-8, but I like THIS ONE even better!!! :)

This is a way cool use of Flash!.

Transformers® RX-8

I wondered when this day would come... It has.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Eastman Kodak Co. on Tuesday said it will stop selling traditional film cameras in the United States, Canada and Western Europe, another move by the photography company to cut lines with declining appeal in favor of fast-growing digital products.

Reuters: Kodak to Stop Selling Traditional Cameras in U.S.

Four robots performing a quasi-traditional Japanese fan dance and something of an N'Synch routine. These aren't the robots of the 60's.

'Dance, Will Robinson!'

Is one's box also their castle?

When architect Mark Strauss sees a shipping container, he doesn't think of cargo holds. Instead, he thinks of housing. He imagines these hulking steel boxes - which weigh from 4,000 to 9,000 pounds - as stackable living units; as modular, low-cost homes or shelters that can help alleviate the mounting surplus of containers piling up in American ports.
Recently, as part of a national design competition, Mr. Strauss and a team of associates came up with a plan to convert hundreds of shipping containers into 351 multilevel duplex units in Gloucester, Mass.

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