What are you talking about? Several handsets support OBEX over Bluetooth. W960i, K850i, T650i, Nokia 6670, Nokia 6310i, Motorola e815 etc.. Why don't you people read up on stuff before you post junk?
Meanwhile, other manufacturers have been able to ship phones with a Bluetooth API for six years or so... A reference implementation and test suite is available under the APL, and has been for a very long time. Just shows how utterly stupid it is to create new standards when perfectly good ones already exist.
When you are shopping, do you always buy the cheapest clothes, vegetables, meat, shampoo, magazines, etc? No you don't, and neither does the "bean counters." In fact, they are real persons with real emotions, you know. They try to take rational decisions in the best interest of the company. If they were bean counters, they would count beans, and you would be a bean counted. Is that the value you place on your work?
Kalvin Klein isn't worried that people will stop buying his 200$ shirts just because 5$ shirts works just fine. He is perfectly capable of projecting an image making consumers spend 195$ more and believing that it was worth it. Your job is the same. Your price tag is 10x of theirs, can you have them believe that it is worth it? Can the Indians be on site within an hour? Can they write legible English documentation? Can they talk about a problem of strategic importance over a lunch with the boss? Can they chit-chat about the game during coffee breaks?
You say that you are "the best contributor in my field," does anyone but Slashdot readers know that? If not, then you have no one but yourself to blame.
The author is plain wrong. Learning new languages and tools improves your skills, yes. But that won't reduce the risk of your job getting outsourced or increase your salary. It is all about perception. Someone is valuing and someone decides whose jobs are getting outsourced. What that person, or group of persons, think is your value to the company is the only thing that matters. You might be the best employee at the company working with a team of incompetents that takes all your glory, then it doesn't matter how many languages you know or how many open source projects you have released.
Value your yourself highly and don't be afraid to let others see it. That's the best tip I know for being successful.
That is 100% wrong. First of all, the Slashdot asker might live in Europe, in which case he has even more rights to stand on. It is not uncommon here for employers stealing their employees inventions, making billions and then getting sued by the inventor for millions. If the invention is invented at work and if the invention is relevant for the work, an invention that improves the manufacturing process would be a prime example, then the company has a right to take ownership of the invention but must pay the inventor reasonable compensation. That is, a few percent of what the invention brings in.
If the invention is not relevant for work, a developer inventing a new blend of coffee for example, then that invention is the sole property of the inventor. The company has no right to it whatsoever even if the invention was made on company time using company resources.
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That's nothing. The configure scripts autoconf generates are regularly up to 50k in size. Although they are SHell scripts and should work in any shell.
The reason a lot of people (myself included) don't like unions, is because they fight for all employees, not just the good ones.
No, they fight for their members. And yes they fight for "bad employees" too. Unions aren't there to make the world happy or have a higher moral ground -- their purpose is to maximize their members paychecks.
Basically everybody in the same position gets the same pay, and employees are paid more based on years of service. This means that all you have to do to keep advancing your salary, is to do just good enough to not get fired.
Oh what an outrage. Employees expect salary increases from companies they have worked for. But unions do still not dictate what salaries companies have to pay. If the company doesn't want to pay the minimum salary the union asks for, they are free to refuse. If an employee is not satisfied with the salary the union has negotiated, he is free to demand a raise or go work some place else.
And unions make it plenty hard to fire union members also.
That is their job. Now ask yourself, do you want it to be easy for your employer to fire you or do you want it to be hard?
People should get paid based on what they bring to the company. If a guy straight out of university, his first year on the job, brings more to the company then the guy who has been working there 40 years, then he should be paid more.
Shoulda, woulda, coulda. How is that supposed to happen? The guy with 40 years of experience is supposed to magically come forward and ask for his salary to be swapped with the university grads? Union or no union, if the university graduates work is that important, then he is perfectly free to ask for the same salary as the older guys. Though the union will provide him will provide him with salary statistics so that he will not accept the first bid from the employer which is likely to be a very huge underbid.
You are horribly naive. You get paid the lowest amount the company can get away with. The corollary is that you get paid the highest amount you are able to bargain for. Problem is, as an individual up against a whole company, bargaining is hard. But that's your own fault for hating on the unions.
Indeed, which is why companies use something called "Customer Relationship Management Systems." They even make their salespeople register their clients in such systems and the update them too. That way, when the salesguy quits, he can not take the whole customer list away from you.
Definitely so. Actually most of us will never know that is going on but will year the medias version in a few days and trust that. Currently what the media has reported so far is mostly that there is some kind of conflict but they have no journalists on place to make full stories of it. Who will they side with? Is this like Kosovo? Then Russia is NATO, Georgia is Serbia and the Ossettians are Kosovo-Albanians. That would make Russia the good guy, that wont do. Maybe Ossetians are Basque? That could fit with Georgia as Spain. Or maybe they are Kurds... Media will have a hard time assigning the good and bad guy roles in this war.
That is not how go bots work. A Go board has 19x19 positions which means that for a computer to think ahead even tree moves it would have to analyze (19*19)**6 board configurations. However, Go players at a very high level play in an extremely predictable fashion. They play using a strategy which is believed to be more or less optimal waiting for the opponent to do a mistake which they can capitalize on and gain a stone or two. A Go bot can probably take advantage of that.
Lots of IT companies tries to do that all the time by hiring consultants. The smart companies, those that will still be present in 10 years, don't do that. Because it is a disastrous strategy. If the consultant can leave (and be fired) at any time, it becomes very difficult to plan ahead. Do you invest two months of training in a guy that might be gone the next week? How do you allow access to company internal data to someone that might be working for a competitor in the near future? etc.
Not necessarily. Many ISP:s ties the IP address allocation to the socket. It is quite common to do so for student apartments and dormitories. That is, the RIAA could prove, with the universitys help, which network socket the infringing file came from.
Oh man that's some of the dumbest shit ever posted on slashdot. Your solution is 1) wrong, 2) ridiculously inefficient, 3) fails horribly in non-safe languages. My condolences to the people that have had to work with you.
I don't find that theory all that unrealistic. Of the cinema movies I have seen in the last two years, almost half of them have been bad. Often when deciding what movie to watch, you have no other information available than some awesome looking posters and TV commercials. It is a market with insufficient information completely controlled by the sellers. If I knew beforehand which movies stink, then ofcourse I would buy less cinema tickets.
It is not that lots of people are watching camcorded movies instead of purchasing tickets, but those that do, and decides to post how awful the movie is, reduces sales.
E.G.#1-> I remember telling a bunch of network techs, or rather, first asking them:
"Do you know how to find the midpoint of an array, without knowing the total # of elements"
Is that some kind of trick question or are you just making up bullshit? There is no correct answer to that question.
So what is your real name then, Mr db32? If you can't understand why people use pseudonyms and why they want to separate their internet personas from their IRL ones, then I don't understand why you feel that you need to "hide" behind one.
As a woman... bla bla, boring unintersting comment... mod me +5 insightful please.
No, I'm just kidding, I'm a man. It is quite interesting to see how you believe the fact that you are a woman is relevant to your slashdot posts, but not to your real life. Or to put it another way. If some random person mods you up for "as a woman," how can you be so sure that someone wont mod you down for it?
The full context in which I call KDE 4 a mistake is: "Everyone agrees now that KDE 4.0 was a mistake. However, what the mistake was -- and whose -- is a matter of opinion. KDE developers blame distributions for rushing to include a release that was never intended for everyday use, while users blame developers for changing everything." In other words, all I'm saying is that it's causing a lot of controversy
Err.. no. That is not at all what you are saying. If everyone is in agreement on a point, there can be no controversy on that point. Anyway, the "everyone agrees... " statement was the most interesting part of your article and I was displeased to see that it was just grabbed out of the blue. If the KDE core devs feel that 4.0 was a mistake, getting to know why, what they think they should have done different and what they have learned would have been very valuable to know for other developers. If distributors feel that distributing 4.0 was a mistake, then I would like to know what they will do about it? Will they be more strict about upgrading to flaky libraries?
But it is extremely uncommon for developers to admit that they have made a mistake. And I very much doubt that the KDE 4.0 guys think it was a mistake. You definitely made a mistake if you thought that an "everyone agrees" statement would slip.:)
It's amazing how many people are pretending to be charitable. It's amazing how well that works with the public. Basically, someone who made billions of dollars with tricky, sneaky, unethical business methods can gain a positive image by spending a little of that money on public relations.
So Bill Gates is a ruthless capitalist who have built an empire by screwing over the empires of other ruthless capitalists? I have a hard time seeing how that can be "more evil" than it is "good" to give away that same money to people that actually need them. It is not like Netscape's presidents are sleeping on the streets because evil Microsoft bundled IE with Windows.
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Umm.. yeah and so can alcohol, sleeping pills, anti-depressants, sedatives and a whole host of other interesting substances.
You are wrong. Most mid to high-end handsets released in the last two years do support JSR-82. Find out for yourself at Nokia's site or at Sony Ericsson's site or search for yourself.
What are you talking about? Several handsets support OBEX over Bluetooth. W960i, K850i, T650i, Nokia 6670, Nokia 6310i, Motorola e815 etc.. Why don't you people read up on stuff before you post junk?
Meanwhile, other manufacturers have been able to ship phones with a Bluetooth API for six years or so... A reference implementation and test suite is available under the APL, and has been for a very long time. Just shows how utterly stupid it is to create new standards when perfectly good ones already exist.
You sound intensive, maybe you just need to relax.
Actually, it is your attitude.
When you are shopping, do you always buy the cheapest clothes, vegetables, meat, shampoo, magazines, etc? No you don't, and neither does the "bean counters." In fact, they are real persons with real emotions, you know. They try to take rational decisions in the best interest of the company. If they were bean counters, they would count beans, and you would be a bean counted. Is that the value you place on your work?
Kalvin Klein isn't worried that people will stop buying his 200$ shirts just because 5$ shirts works just fine. He is perfectly capable of projecting an image making consumers spend 195$ more and believing that it was worth it. Your job is the same. Your price tag is 10x of theirs, can you have them believe that it is worth it? Can the Indians be on site within an hour? Can they write legible English documentation? Can they talk about a problem of strategic importance over a lunch with the boss? Can they chit-chat about the game during coffee breaks?
You say that you are "the best contributor in my field," does anyone but Slashdot readers know that? If not, then you have no one but yourself to blame.
The author is plain wrong. Learning new languages and tools improves your skills, yes. But that won't reduce the risk of your job getting outsourced or increase your salary. It is all about perception. Someone is valuing and someone decides whose jobs are getting outsourced. What that person, or group of persons, think is your value to the company is the only thing that matters. You might be the best employee at the company working with a team of incompetents that takes all your glory, then it doesn't matter how many languages you know or how many open source projects you have released.
Value your yourself highly and don't be afraid to let others see it. That's the best tip I know for being successful.
That is 100% wrong. First of all, the Slashdot asker might live in Europe, in which case he has even more rights to stand on. It is not uncommon here for employers stealing their employees inventions, making billions and then getting sued by the inventor for millions. If the invention is invented at work and if the invention is relevant for the work, an invention that improves the manufacturing process would be a prime example, then the company has a right to take ownership of the invention but must pay the inventor reasonable compensation. That is, a few percent of what the invention brings in.
If the invention is not relevant for work, a developer inventing a new blend of coffee for example, then that invention is the sole property of the inventor. The company has no right to it whatsoever even if the invention was made on company time using company resources.
IANAL, but I can Google.
That's nothing. The configure scripts autoconf generates are regularly up to 50k in size. Although they are SHell scripts and should work in any shell.
The reason a lot of people (myself included) don't like unions, is because they fight for all employees, not just the good ones.
No, they fight for their members. And yes they fight for "bad employees" too. Unions aren't there to make the world happy or have a higher moral ground -- their purpose is to maximize their members paychecks.
Basically everybody in the same position gets the same pay, and employees are paid more based on years of service. This means that all you have to do to keep advancing your salary, is to do just good enough to not get fired.
Oh what an outrage. Employees expect salary increases from companies they have worked for. But unions do still not dictate what salaries companies have to pay. If the company doesn't want to pay the minimum salary the union asks for, they are free to refuse. If an employee is not satisfied with the salary the union has negotiated, he is free to demand a raise or go work some place else.
And unions make it plenty hard to fire union members also.
That is their job. Now ask yourself, do you want it to be easy for your employer to fire you or do you want it to be hard?
People should get paid based on what they bring to the company. If a guy straight out of university, his first year on the job, brings more to the company then the guy who has been working there 40 years, then he should be paid more.
Shoulda, woulda, coulda. How is that supposed to happen? The guy with 40 years of experience is supposed to magically come forward and ask for his salary to be swapped with the university grads? Union or no union, if the university graduates work is that important, then he is perfectly free to ask for the same salary as the older guys. Though the union will provide him will provide him with salary statistics so that he will not accept the first bid from the employer which is likely to be a very huge underbid.
You are horribly naive. You get paid the lowest amount the company can get away with. The corollary is that you get paid the highest amount you are able to bargain for. Problem is, as an individual up against a whole company, bargaining is hard. But that's your own fault for hating on the unions.
Indeed, which is why companies use something called "Customer Relationship Management Systems." They even make their salespeople register their clients in such systems and the update them too. That way, when the salesguy quits, he can not take the whole customer list away from you.
Definitely so. Actually most of us will never know that is going on but will year the medias version in a few days and trust that. Currently what the media has reported so far is mostly that there is some kind of conflict but they have no journalists on place to make full stories of it. Who will they side with? Is this like Kosovo? Then Russia is NATO, Georgia is Serbia and the Ossettians are Kosovo-Albanians. That would make Russia the good guy, that wont do. Maybe Ossetians are Basque? That could fit with Georgia as Spain. Or maybe they are Kurds... Media will have a hard time assigning the good and bad guy roles in this war.
That is not how go bots work. A Go board has 19x19 positions which means that for a computer to think ahead even tree moves it would have to analyze (19*19)**6 board configurations. However, Go players at a very high level play in an extremely predictable fashion. They play using a strategy which is believed to be more or less optimal waiting for the opponent to do a mistake which they can capitalize on and gain a stone or two. A Go bot can probably take advantage of that.
Lots of IT companies tries to do that all the time by hiring consultants. The smart companies, those that will still be present in 10 years, don't do that. Because it is a disastrous strategy. If the consultant can leave (and be fired) at any time, it becomes very difficult to plan ahead. Do you invest two months of training in a guy that might be gone the next week? How do you allow access to company internal data to someone that might be working for a competitor in the near future? etc.
In what way does unions add overhead to companies?
Not necessarily. Many ISP:s ties the IP address allocation to the socket. It is quite common to do so for student apartments and dormitories. That is, the RIAA could prove, with the universitys help, which network socket the infringing file came from.
Oh man that's some of the dumbest shit ever posted on slashdot. Your solution is 1) wrong, 2) ridiculously inefficient, 3) fails horribly in non-safe languages. My condolences to the people that have had to work with you.
I don't find that theory all that unrealistic. Of the cinema movies I have seen in the last two years, almost half of them have been bad. Often when deciding what movie to watch, you have no other information available than some awesome looking posters and TV commercials. It is a market with insufficient information completely controlled by the sellers. If I knew beforehand which movies stink, then ofcourse I would buy less cinema tickets.
It is not that lots of people are watching camcorded movies instead of purchasing tickets, but those that do, and decides to post how awful the movie is, reduces sales.
E.G.#1-> I remember telling a bunch of network techs, or rather, first asking them: "Do you know how to find the midpoint of an array, without knowing the total # of elements"
Is that some kind of trick question or are you just making up bullshit? There is no correct answer to that question.
So what is your real name then, Mr db32? If you can't understand why people use pseudonyms and why they want to separate their internet personas from their IRL ones, then I don't understand why you feel that you need to "hide" behind one.
As a woman ... bla bla, boring unintersting comment... mod me +5 insightful please.
No, I'm just kidding, I'm a man. It is quite interesting to see how you believe the fact that you are a woman is relevant to your slashdot posts, but not to your real life. Or to put it another way. If some random person mods you up for "as a woman," how can you be so sure that someone wont mod you down for it?
The answer is no,.
The full context in which I call KDE 4 a mistake is: "Everyone agrees now that KDE 4.0 was a mistake. However, what the mistake was -- and whose -- is a matter of opinion. KDE developers blame distributions for rushing to include a release that was never intended for everyday use, while users blame developers for changing everything." In other words, all I'm saying is that it's causing a lot of controversy
Err.. no. That is not at all what you are saying. If everyone is in agreement on a point, there can be no controversy on that point. Anyway, the "everyone agrees ... " statement was the most interesting part of your article and I was displeased to see that it was just grabbed out of the blue. If the KDE core devs feel that 4.0 was a mistake, getting to know why, what they think they should have done different and what they have learned would have been very valuable to know for other developers. If distributors feel that distributing 4.0 was a mistake, then I would like to know what they will do about it? Will they be more strict about upgrading to flaky libraries?
But it is extremely uncommon for developers to admit that they have made a mistake. And I very much doubt that the KDE 4.0 guys think it was a mistake. You definitely made a mistake if you thought that an "everyone agrees" statement would slip. :)
It's amazing how many people are pretending to be charitable. It's amazing how well that works with the public. Basically, someone who made billions of dollars with tricky, sneaky, unethical business methods can gain a positive image by spending a little of that money on public relations.
So Bill Gates is a ruthless capitalist who have built an empire by screwing over the empires of other ruthless capitalists? I have a hard time seeing how that can be "more evil" than it is "good" to give away that same money to people that actually need them. It is not like Netscape's presidents are sleeping on the streets because evil Microsoft bundled IE with Windows.