There are very very few businesses where start / finish times really matter, though there are more where they are enforced.
You're right that there are very few business that start / finish times matter. But your statement wasn't that it didn't matter. Your statement was "Only a few government departments run on an 8-5 schedule. DST makes no difference to the majority of people - they go to work when they feel like it." and that's just not true.
Anyone with a McJob goes to work when their shift is set, and they get very little opportunity to drive that schedule. Anyone in a company that enforces the start / stop time goes in at that time or loses their job. Most shift workers in any industry that requires round the clock operation (some manufacturing, emergency services, etc.) HAVE to be in at the time their shift starts. I'd say that we have most people covered here, and that it is a very fortunate minority that goes to work when they feel like it.
Service oriented you say? Contractors (carpenters, electricians, plumbers, sanitation, maintenance) not only can choose their hours as they please (with the exception of emergency calls), but the frequently do.
When I say service oriented, I'm talking about any service business that has an SLA with their clients. Small companies and individuals can get away with choosing their own hours, but any medium to large sized company has to be able to guarantee that their clients can speak to someone during their SLA defined hours. You just can't do that with flexitime.
How many jobs have you had? And I'm not talking employers... How many different jobs have you worked? I'd venture to guess that the answer is one or two. Ok, I'll bite that - I've had 13 jobs in my lifetime so far since finishing school. The last 9 of these have been in the IT field. The previous 4 were from a variety of fields with no two being in the same field.
The iPhone might eat into the iPod market a bit, but the real problem is that right now OTHER phones are eating into the iPod market. Things like the Sony Ericsson W850i and the W810i are more than good enough for most people. So these are people that Apple aren't selling anything to.
I think, given the following scenario, Apple would be ok with not selling an iPod...
1. Customer buys an iPhone and no iPod vs 2. Customer buys a Nokia / Sony Ericsson phone and no ipod:D
Only a few government departments run on an 8-5 schedule.
How many jobs have you had ?
4 out of my last 5 jobs all had rigid start / finish times with severe penalties for being late (but none for being early to arrive for some reason;)) and every job my wife has _ever_ had has been the same way.
Flexitime just doesn't work for any service oriented industry where you need to be at the beck and call of your clients. You need to guarantee a certain level of staff presence at their desks between certain hours. Formal schedules are the only realistic way to do this without opening yourself up to being sued for constructive dismissal (favouritism, etc.)
The article speaks rubbish. You can buy a mac without Bluetooth and WiFi - the standard powermac does not come with those, you have to add them as options.
Ok, so I'm trying the old tried and tested 'Blah sucks!' to try and get support trick:)
I cannot find a single way of talking to an IR device (http://www.alti-2.com/sport/neptune/Neptune2.htm) from OS X. It worked in 10.1, but doesn't work in 10.4 anymore.
Apple can't help, their support in India is among the worst in the world that I have ever used, and even raising an ADC support request didn't help.
I've never had any formal training in my entire life... I started out running cables, worked my way into Novel deployments and up from there.
You learn in your own time... That's the norm in not just the IT industry today, but almost any professional career requires you to spend some of your own time learning. However, you said
I haven't enough time for my official paid work, let alone the routine own-time self-maintenance stuff (learning new stuff, reading books & generally staying up to date.)
That kinda implied you were doing the 12 hours at work stint when you said you didn't have time for your official paid work.
Again, even after the learning and work, you really do have to MAKE some time for yourself, unrelated to your career. Even if it's only a couple of hours a week, it really is important.
I absolutely insist that all of my staff leave on time at least a couple of days a week, don't work overtime in response to other people's lack of planning and find something that interests them outside of work. The difference in productivity between people who work 60 hour weeks and people who work 40 hour weeks is just astounding - the 40 hour guys deliver better quality, hit more deadlines and are generally more pleasant to work with. This means that our clients (external and internal) prefer to work with these 40 hour a week 'slackers' over working with the 60 hour week guys.
I love it when someone asks for personal experience and advice, and someone else just points to some tool they found on google. No explanation of how good it is, no personal experience, but hey, I found it on Google so it must be good enough, right ?
You're not FOR the Free Software Foundation, you're in favour of Open Source.... In that case, go find an OSS approved license that didn't come from the FSF.
Maybe this kind of confusion is why Mr Stallman is so vehement about people not confusing Free Software and OSS.
How is this comment insightful ? The GPL license covers a lot more than just the kernel of most Linux distributions. Other products like GCC, glibc, in fact anything owned by the FSF almost certainly WILL move to GPL3.
Not being able to ship GCC might limit your OS slightly!
I think that is just you... Unless you work for yourself, you shouldn't be spending your whole life on paid official work. You should be spending whatever your contract requires you to do and maybe a couple of hours extra every week when it's needed.
If you can move here (and thanks to our typically loose immigration laws, you probably can),
Spoken as someone who has never tried to immigrate to the USA. I've lived in 3 countries in my life, and up until 5 years ago, my sole goal in life was to make it to the USA. But the extremely restrictive immigration polices make it almost impossible for me to get there.
Even if I can, the rules surrounding immigration make it less attractive. From South Africa I was able to move to the UK on a visa that guaranteed I would be able to settle here indefinitely. I can do the same to Australia or Canada. With the US, I can only get a temporary visa, then hope that I can convince my employer to request a green card on my behalf, and then hope that the government issues that green card. And I've heard horror stories of people not getting their cards because their employer declared a loss 3 years in a row (which is not uncommon for startups).
Why would I want to move somewhere to have to wait 3 years to find out if I'm going to be allowed to stay for another 3 years? Then wait another 3 years to find out if I am going to be able to stay forever? I'd rather go somewhere where I know before I even pack up my house that I will be able to remain indefinitely.
Now if only I could convince my wife that Canadadian winters aren't _that_ bad;)
A lot of people like to rag on Linux for having issues with hardware, but here's a challenge for you - find me an IR Adapter that runs on a current version (10.4) of Mac OS X.
I bought a device that was known to run on 10.1, but it flat out does not run on 10.4 on either the powerbook, the powermac or the Intel iMac.
In the end, I just plugged it into my Linux box and it works a treat.
I have personally had to argue with MS to get a new activation key for a perfectly legal copy of Windows XP pro...
I moved my Windows install from VMware on Linux to Parallels on OS X. I am still only running it in one place and it is a retail copy.
On top of all of this, it cost me real money to get this key because the toll free number that you have to call to get it isn't toll free or included in my monthly minutes allowance on my cell phone.
So Microsoft made me pay extra money to use a product I had already bought, and on top of that argued with me when I phoned. They kept insisting that I was using the copy in two places at once, when I am very definitely only using it in one place.
I keep trying to switch to CFLs but I can't find any decent ones. I've tried Ikea, Tesco and B&Q... all of the ones I've found so far have 3 problems that make CFL a no-go for my home and 1 issue that is annoying, but not a deal breaker.
1. They are too white. I can't find anything with decent colour temperatures.
2. They are 50-60Hz which gives my wife serious headaches and I can't find anything that is marked as being higher frequency
3. Most of them from all three locations emit an extremely high-pitched whine from time to time that is just infuriating
4. They take between 30 seconds and a minute to get to full brightness, which is a pain when you're trying to take the dog down the stairs at 04:00:D
I'm in the UK and I've tried Ikea and B&Q so far. Neither of them had much of a range and all I could get were the very 'cool' lights. My wife made me throw them away immediately as she prefers the slightly yellower light from an incandescent.
The fact that two of them caused a weird high pitched noise in the lamp they were plugged into didn't help my case much.
They are obsessed with accumulating money, sucking up to Big Business, getting free holidays from rock musicians and dubious foreign politicians (not sure in which category "Sir" Cliff Richard falls.)
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There are very very few businesses where start / finish times really matter, though there are more where they are enforced.
You're right that there are very few business that start / finish times matter. But your statement wasn't that it didn't matter. Your statement was
"Only a few government departments run on an 8-5 schedule. DST makes no difference to the majority of people - they go to work when they feel like it." and that's just not true.
Anyone with a McJob goes to work when their shift is set, and they get very little opportunity to drive that schedule. Anyone in a company that enforces the start / stop time goes in at that time or loses their job. Most shift workers in any industry that requires round the clock operation (some manufacturing, emergency services, etc.) HAVE to be in at the time their shift starts. I'd say that we have most people covered here, and that it is a very fortunate minority that goes to work when they feel like it.
Service oriented you say? Contractors (carpenters, electricians, plumbers, sanitation, maintenance) not only can choose their hours as they please (with the exception of emergency calls), but the frequently do.
When I say service oriented, I'm talking about any service business that has an SLA with their clients. Small companies and individuals can get away with choosing their own hours, but any medium to large sized company has to be able to guarantee that their clients can speak to someone during their SLA defined hours. You just can't do that with flexitime.
How many jobs have you had? And I'm not talking employers... How many different jobs have you worked? I'd venture to guess that the answer is one or two.
Ok, I'll bite that - I've had 13 jobs in my lifetime so far since finishing school. The last 9 of these have been in the IT field. The previous 4 were from a variety of fields with no two being in the same field.
The iPhone might eat into the iPod market a bit, but the real problem is that right now OTHER phones are eating into the iPod market. Things like the Sony Ericsson W850i and the W810i are more than good enough for most people. So these are people that Apple aren't selling anything to.
:D
I think, given the following scenario, Apple would be ok with not selling an iPod...
1. Customer buys an iPhone and no iPod
vs
2. Customer buys a Nokia / Sony Ericsson phone and no ipod
Only a few government departments run on an 8-5 schedule.
;)) and every job my wife has _ever_ had has been the same way.
How many jobs have you had ?
4 out of my last 5 jobs all had rigid start / finish times with severe penalties for being late (but none for being early to arrive for some reason
Flexitime just doesn't work for any service oriented industry where you need to be at the beck and call of your clients. You need to guarantee a certain level of staff presence at their desks between certain hours. Formal schedules are the only realistic way to do this without opening yourself up to being sued for constructive dismissal (favouritism, etc.)
The article speaks rubbish. You can buy a mac without Bluetooth and WiFi - the standard powermac does not come with those, you have to add them as options.
Ok, so I'm trying the old tried and tested 'Blah sucks!' to try and get support trick :)
) from OS X. It worked in 10.1, but doesn't work in 10.4 anymore.
;)
I cannot find a single way of talking to an IR device (http://www.alti-2.com/sport/neptune/Neptune2.htm
Apple can't help, their support in India is among the worst in the world that I have ever used, and even raising an ADC support request didn't help.
So for my needs, apple sucks
And yet you still can't click a button and have the windows tiled... or set them to start up in a decent tiled format :(
So how do you explain all the pre-GUI stuff such as DOS? That seemed to do quite will in the mass market.
That was a different market that hasn't existed for at least 10 years. It's just not relevant.
I've never had any formal training in my entire life... I started out running cables, worked my way into Novel deployments and up from there.
You learn in your own time... That's the norm in not just the IT industry today, but almost any professional career requires you to spend some of your own time learning. However, you said
I haven't enough time for my official paid work, let alone the routine own-time self-maintenance stuff (learning new stuff, reading books & generally staying up to date.)
That kinda implied you were doing the 12 hours at work stint when you said you didn't have time for your official paid work.
Again, even after the learning and work, you really do have to MAKE some time for yourself, unrelated to your career. Even if it's only a couple of hours a week, it really is important.
I absolutely insist that all of my staff leave on time at least a couple of days a week, don't work overtime in response to other people's lack of planning and find something that interests them outside of work. The difference in productivity between people who work 60 hour weeks and people who work 40 hour weeks is just astounding - the 40 hour guys deliver better quality, hit more deadlines and are generally more pleasant to work with. This means that our clients (external and internal) prefer to work with these 40 hour a week 'slackers' over working with the 60 hour week guys.
I love it when someone asks for personal experience and advice, and someone else just points to some tool they found on google. No explanation of how good it is, no personal experience, but hey, I found it on Google so it must be good enough, right ?
You're not FOR the Free Software Foundation, you're in favour of Open Source.... In that case, go find an OSS approved license that didn't come from the FSF.
Maybe this kind of confusion is why Mr Stallman is so vehement about people not confusing Free Software and OSS.
How is this comment insightful ? The GPL license covers a lot more than just the kernel of most Linux distributions. Other products like GCC, glibc, in fact anything owned by the FSF almost certainly WILL move to GPL3.
Not being able to ship GCC might limit your OS slightly!
I think that is just you... Unless you work for yourself, you shouldn't be spending your whole life on paid official work. You should be spending whatever your contract requires you to do and maybe a couple of hours extra every week when it's needed.
If you can move here (and thanks to our typically loose immigration laws, you probably can),
;)
Spoken as someone who has never tried to immigrate to the USA. I've lived in 3 countries in my life, and up until 5 years ago, my sole goal in life was to make it to the USA. But the extremely restrictive immigration polices make it almost impossible for me to get there.
Even if I can, the rules surrounding immigration make it less attractive. From South Africa I was able to move to the UK on a visa that guaranteed I would be able to settle here indefinitely. I can do the same to Australia or Canada. With the US, I can only get a temporary visa, then hope that I can convince my employer to request a green card on my behalf, and then hope that the government issues that green card. And I've heard horror stories of people not getting their cards because their employer declared a loss 3 years in a row (which is not uncommon for startups).
Why would I want to move somewhere to have to wait 3 years to find out if I'm going to be allowed to stay for another 3 years? Then wait another 3 years to find out if I am going to be able to stay forever? I'd rather go somewhere where I know before I even pack up my house that I will be able to remain indefinitely.
Now if only I could convince my wife that Canadadian winters aren't _that_ bad
Oh how I wish I hadn't used all my mod points yesterday :(
A lot of people like to rag on Linux for having issues with hardware, but here's a challenge for you - find me an IR Adapter that runs on a current version (10.4) of Mac OS X.
I bought a device that was known to run on 10.1, but it flat out does not run on 10.4 on either the powerbook, the powermac or the Intel iMac.
In the end, I just plugged it into my Linux box and it works a treat.
I have personally had to argue with MS to get a new activation key for a perfectly legal copy of Windows XP pro...
I moved my Windows install from VMware on Linux to Parallels on OS X. I am still only running it in one place and it is a retail copy.
On top of all of this, it cost me real money to get this key because the toll free number that you have to call to get it isn't toll free or included in my monthly minutes allowance on my cell phone.
So Microsoft made me pay extra money to use a product I had already bought, and on top of that argued with me when I phoned. They kept insisting that I was using the copy in two places at once, when I am very definitely only using it in one place.
I keep trying to switch to CFLs but I can't find any decent ones. I've tried Ikea, Tesco and B&Q... all of the ones I've found so far have 3 problems that make CFL a no-go for my home and 1 issue that is annoying, but not a deal breaker.
:D
1. They are too white. I can't find anything with decent colour temperatures.
2. They are 50-60Hz which gives my wife serious headaches and I can't find anything that is marked as being higher frequency
3. Most of them from all three locations emit an extremely high-pitched whine from time to time that is just infuriating
4. They take between 30 seconds and a minute to get to full brightness, which is a pain when you're trying to take the dog down the stairs at 04:00
unless you're filling in a petition in Britain... In that case, 100,000 signatures equals one response because, well, just because, ok?!
She's dead. Good riddance too!
Who do you ask ? I'd love to go!
Whoosh!
What ? I don't believe that at any time these people reduced the energy of the radiation beam.
:)
Oh, you meant extenuating
How do I mod you down for having no sense of humour ?
I'm in the UK and I've tried Ikea and B&Q so far. Neither of them had much of a range and all I could get were the very 'cool' lights. My wife made me throw them away immediately as she prefers the slightly yellower light from an incandescent.
The fact that two of them caused a weird high pitched noise in the lamp they were plugged into didn't help my case much.
They are obsessed with accumulating money, sucking up to Big Business, getting free holidays from rock musicians and dubious foreign politicians (not sure in which category "Sir" Cliff Richard falls.)
Neither... He's just a random sycophant.