Fully understood. But you'd think at some point that the myth of cost-savings-by-outsourcing would come to light.

Or maybe I'm giving them too much credit.

"...it was difficult to keep hold of the quality of the subcontractors' work..."
"...bad code written in India..."
"...communication problems..."

I'm shocked. How upper management types keep justifying this model with "lower costs" is completely beyond me.

"Our maps aren't inaccurate. Your towns are inaccurate."

I chose option 3: don't buy an Xbox and do something useful with your time.

This has been confirmed.

https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&hl=en&q=Cera+Fearing

I understand and appreciate your point but I still believe that there is nothing to trust in "pure" science because it's simply the application of logic and deduction. Unless you don't believe in logic itself, I don't understand how you couldn't believe in science as well.

There is no "trust" in science - there is nothing to "believe." Science is just the application of logic and reason to help explain the world around us. So what this article is really saying is that "Conservatives view of the world has dramatically departed reality since 1970." Which sounds pretty plausible to me.

"The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.” -Neil DeGrasse Tyson

...maybe we should start. The US government seems to be the only one in the world that doesn't display any interest in keeping its own businesses here and employed with its own citizens.

I'm not saying we should go out and steal foreign companies' IP, but our government really does need to step up and start protecting its citizens jobs and creating an environment where businesses don't have an incentive to move production, profits, taxes, and jobs overseas.

I actually gave a presentation this week that went over very well. Here's what I did:

• * Kept it short and simple. No one wants to sit through a long boring presentation unless they absolutely have to.
• * Started off with a slightly self depreciating joke to lighten the mood.
• * Used good graphics and animations to keep interest.
• * Kept my slides uncluttered so people actually read and understood what I put on there.
• * Used a slow and clear speaking voice so everyone can hear what I was saying.
• * Tried as much as I could to not show my nerves and I came prepared. Most people don't want to see others stumble and struggle though a bad presentation.

It's not a security update. This update is more like a complete rewrite and has very little to do with Microsoft. You see, for their first attempt Ford decided to outsource the project to a company called BSQUARE who put the UI together using Adobe Flash Lite. For some reason, the results were slightly less than stellar.

Anyway, the preliminary reviews of the new version sound promising so I am at least a little hopeful. I am still quite frustrated, however, that I've had to deal with such awful software for well over a year on a brand new vehicle that cost almost $40k.

...became painfully obvious after the 9/11 attacks and subsequent "WMDs" in Iraq. I could honestly not believe how much our government didn't know about what was going on in our own country, let alone the rest of the world.

What's the story here? It is completely legal in this great country of ours for companies to bribe, err I mean donate money to political figures. Remember, corporations are "people" and money is "free speech." And it's also business as usual for cronies, err I mean politicians, to give preferential treatment to their buddies.

So what's different about this deal that warranted an article describing something that happens every day here?

It's pretty much my favorite optical remote sensing technology.