Re: Politics - California state computers can't handle pay cut, controller sa...
Ed Finnell
In a message dated 8/5/2008 3:02:36 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
Ga...@EVERGREEN-SYSTEMS.COM writes:
How about I offer to go in there, analyze the situation, come up with a
solution that would work with their existing system, write it all myself and then
charge them only a few hundred grand?
>>
Seems like the Govenator ought to be able to come up with 'You or your
replacement will implement by Date Certain the following measures' period end.
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In a message dated 8/5/2008 3:52:31 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
Linda....@COMCAST.NET writes:
>The Bee laid off their technology reporter - I heard they are having budget
hard times. No wonder considering that they do such a poor job at tso many
things.
During the year that I lived in the Sacramento area (1997-1998), I observed
that the average edition of the SacBee (Sacramento Bee newspaper) used about
60% of its pages for advertising automobiles for sale. That "newspaper" was
so bad that my colleagues and I renamed it the "SuckBee". Apparently it
continues on doing a poor job at nearly everything.
Bill Fairchild
Rocket Software
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In a message dated 8/6/2008 9:16:48 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
DASD...@AOL.COM writes:
so bad that my colleagues and I renamed it the "SuckBee". Apparently it
continues on doing a poor job at nearly everything.
>>
I lived in Alameda for about eight years and finally settled on the San Jose
Mercury for Tech stuff and Oakland Tribune Sunday paper for
sports and politics. For some reason we took Weekly World News at work
or we got a subscription for meeting SLA's...long ago and far away.
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In a message dated 8/5/2008 4:34:02 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
Tom.H...@NEONESOFT.COM writes:
>Additionally, the payroll system is completely table-driven, for taxes
and salaries, so this change should only take a short while to
accomplish, not the six months asserted by controller John Chiang.
When I read the first post by someone who assumed that Chiang was telling
the truth, and therefore the taxes and salaries were hard-coded, I didn't
believe Chiang either. The SuckBee is not the only source of extreme error here.
Chiang, being a "controller", is a political creature. All we know for sure
is that he wants the public in California to believe that changing the
programs cannot be done and is floating various reasons why, which wise readers
should assume are bogus, exaggerations, or lies until proven otherwise by
competent technical experts with no political agenda.
>Reading something like this makes one wonder about the veracity of all
news reported.
"Political" news is invariably at least 99% lies, rumor, innuendo,
propaganda, disinformation, and/or garbage whether found in print or on the television
(American TV, most especially).
When I read text in IBM's Principles of Operations that explains how the
Load Address instruction works, I believe it. When I see or hear political news
I laugh.
Prussian Prime Minister Prince Otto von Bismarck summed it up thus: “Never
believe anything in politics, until it has been officially denied.”
Bill Fairchild
Rocket Software