To reiterate what an earlier poster said, there have been studies, and none have shown this to be a real issue.
Furthermore, it's not up to the people who want to disprove these people to provide the evidence, it's up to them to provide the evidence, which I guarantee they won't. They'll have some pseudo-scientist walk in there, he'll talk about the effects that these poor souls have to live through constantly, and then go home and continue writing on his webpage about how science has been stealing the future from us by suppressing the discovery of his perpetual motion machine!
And this would be fine as long as judges and juries knew how to read science and recognize its value compared to pseudo science, but most people can't. The patent office, at least as of a few years ago, patented multiple perpetual motion machines every year, either because they didn't read the application or because they didn't know that it was physically impossible. So, as long as they can put some crackpot up there who knows enough science-sounding gibberish to fool someone who doesn't know better, they actually have a chance of winning.
Is it possible that these people are actually allergic to wifi signals? Absolutely. It wouldn't even be a contender for strangest thing ever. The reason there's such a backlash against it is because there have been so many times that people have made similar allegations and ignored, lied, and suppressed actual science showing that they were wrong. Tempers are already flared over this issue, and it looks like these people are going to do the exact same thing that's been done before.
What are needed aren't more stimulants or excuses, eat for performance not for pleasure and lift your fucking ass! Why is that? A fat person who's lazy is going to consume the same amount of resources as a skinnier person who runs. How is food significantly more or less suitable for pleasure than, say, the nintendo DS you mentioned in one of your previous comments? How is it less appropriate than the internet or any other pleasurable pursuit?
What's funny is that there's plenty of food, the shortfall is mostly due to diverting the food to ethanol and feeding livestock. The biggest obstacle to feeding the poor (arguably the only obstacle) is politics and other, non-food-related problems.
Exception being people who really have some form of medical condition which make their metabolism or body not work as intended, but those people are probably very rare, if there even are any Wow. Publicly doubting that there are medical conditions that could make someone fat. What a great, insightful comment you make; you're very rational. Next time you make a comment like this, you might as well just scream about how much you hate fat people and leave the environmentalism and poor people out of it.
Perhaps he's a fat person who hates himself for being so fat? Judging from the site he's posting on and the hate that he's spewing for no apparent reason, I'm going to guess that he's 25, has the mentality of a 15 year old, lives in his mother's basement and gets told how dirty and sinful he must be to have so much weight.
But those are just guesses. Who knows, maybe I'm being optimistic:D
In that case, then I don't support the employee giving the current employer a choice. A company that's going to look out for their best interest without regard for their employees' needing to know the procedure for leaving the job isn't going to get the courtesy of me sticking around to help them out. I understand the desire to do what's best for the company in all situations, but if they take my needs and desires out of the equation that determines what they do, I'm going to take their needs and desires out of consideration for what I do.
In other words, if they're not going to be courteous enough to let me know whether or not they'll want two weeks, I'm not going to be courteous enough to give them the option.
While I can agree with that assessment, there needs to be a clear cut policy. I've had two companies where they would pick and choose who got let go immediately and who finished out their two weeks. When it came time for me to leave, I didn't give them the choice. When it's a choice between being loyal to my current company by shortchanging the company I'm moving to or being loyal to the company I'm moving to and removing the choice from my current company, I'll take the latter.
Also, the first time anyone had heard that the company might let people go instead of letting them serve out their two weeks was when our supervisor (who was extremely well liked) gave his two weeks, was given a box and escorted to the door in a very humiliating manner. The company then claimed that it was standing policy in spite of the fact that multiple people of all levels had served out their two weeks. Morale tanked and it was awful for productivity.
Sure, you may be able to fit all those bells and whistles into something you can fit in a large pocket, but what are you going to do during the impending zombie apocalypse? Suddenly you're going to want to be friends with the guy who wears a backpack of encyclopedias and cricket bats.
I believe it - the 70% that requires 10% of the effort. I've worked for a company where we had a 6 man team, and 80% of the programming was done by one man. The other 20% required much more effort, though, including debugging and extending his existing work, doing reports for it, minor fixes and changes, etc. The skeleton of the program was built by him, but the majority of the actual effort was done by others.
The same could have been said for hotmail, yahoo! mail, and the other free email programs, yet gmail continues to gain market share. It's not dominant, but it's carving an ever-increasing niche.
There is no such thing as an insurmountable lead, especially on the internet. MSN's offering something compelling with money back for consumers and sales-based cost for advertisers. Advertisers have wanted this for a long time, it eliminates click fraud at the expense of putting the control into the hands of advertisers themselves. I expect to see the pendulum swing the other way for ad fraud, with advertisers denying that sales went through, probably to the tune of 10%-20%, depending on how much they think they can get away with. I guarantee this happens, I worked for an ad brokering company that wanted a place on the admin interface for what percentage of tracking pixels weren't going to be displayed so that the sales wouldn't be reported to the lead generators.
The real question is whether the advertisers can create a compelling offering that will keep users coming back to msn. I think we'll see either this program or a similar one from another company gain popularity in the next decade.
I disagree, not because of the end users, but because of the advertisers. MSN's offering cost-per-sale rather than cost-per-click, something that Google doesn't offer. Get quality advertisers signed up and offering percent discounts on everything they buy, and you'll see people going there in spite of the awful search.
But I'm not a namefag, I swear! Take it back! I've never even been attracted to a name!
But seriously, I didn't mean that the site has no practical application, I was referring to research on the site being used in the non-online world. I really wasn't meant to demean the site in the slightest.
Society as a whole has accountability built right into the base. This blackboard, on the other hand, makes it possible for me to post things without anyone knowing who did it, completely free of accountability. If I had a ring of invisibility in high school, I would have hung out in the girls' locker room; since I regrettably didn't have any such jewelry, I didn't hang out in the girls' locker room.
This is an interesting concept and there's a lot to be learned about it, but I doubt it has a lot of practical applications since it's so far removed from reality for most people.
Yeah. Without moderation to show whether a comment is interesting or insightful, how will people ever be able to set the threshold higher to make sure that they never see unpopular opinions?
A version that's been localized to a lesser used language that isn't the primary development language of the organization. As much as people enjoy telling the US and English speakers that they're not the center of the world, the point of the matter is the for these projects (and, also, this site), English is the primary language of the people who run it and the primary language of those who use it the most. This shouldn't mean that other languages are second class citizens or anything like that, but getting worked up that a place which is predominantly english refers to other languages as "foreign" is just dumb.
He's a singer who really uses nothing but an acoustic guitar and his folk roots to make his music. Very popular, although I find his music repetitive at best.
You've got to be kidding me. This is the cushiest job in the world. You get paid to read stuff on the internet all day and moderate a forum that hundreds or more people discuss interesting things on. It would get repetitive, but still better than almost any other job I could think of.
The hardest part would be making the kdawson posts, where you have to purposely misconstrue the linked story and make inflammatory remarks for no apparently reason other than to create controversy. Those rumors that kdawson is a real person? As false as Zonk being a real person, the truth is that nobody could have their heads so far up the anuses that they could be so wrong so consistently.
I got this paper cut once while playing frisbee in the park with my programming group, so I was sweating and it really stung bad. Of course, I couldn't let my coworkers down, so I kept playing and it just kept stinging. Not quite as bad as yours, but still, it was really bad.
I'm missing your point I believe. Or being purposely obtuse which you (probably rightfully) feel you can get away with because this is a very GPL friendly forum. BSD, MIT, etc licenses allow you to do whatever you want with the code with none of the strings that the GPL has. Your false dichotomy between GPL and closed source doesn't really help promote a useful dialog about freedom of source.
which is used most notably by MySQL as a backend Unless I'm mistaken about your meaning, it's just one of many backends that can be used by MySQL, and since it's not MyIsam or InnoDB, it's definite not the most notable use of Berkley DB. Berkley DB is used by a large, large number of OSS projects for their storage needs.
Energy transport and storage to non-windy areas/times (if you want to go more than 10% wind) I don't see any reason you would want to go more than 10% wind. It's not useful when you need the electricity and it's not all that widespread. Besides, 10% isn't something to sneeze at.
On the other hand, solar energy can be used almost anywhere, and the peak production for a solar panel just happens to be during the peak draw from the grid (in the middle of the day in the middle of the summer). I expect that solar could produce the bulk of the energy demands if done right and widespread enough with hydroelectric and nuclear providing the constant power that would back up the wind and solar. Maybe throw in some coal fired plants to handle temporary power needs but sit idle most of the time.
So, baby steps to energy independence;) wind power isn't ever going to be able to provide all the energy, but it's a start, and it's nothing to laugh at.
Working in a corporation is not about "the greater good", it's about making money. Agreed, but they aren't mutually exclusive goals. Working for the good of the company is, ultimately, what you're getting paid to do. Someone who works for the good of the company is going to have higher wages, better job security, and a higher chance of promotion. If these things don't matter to you, then that's fine. If they do, then working for the greater good is the way to do it.
As for working 80 hours a week for a 40 hour a week job, well, perhaps they expected to work 80 hours a week and factored that into their pay. If management expects and demands the extra hours, then they can leave if you don't like it. If management doesn't demand those hours, than putting in the extra hours can help management come to respect you as a hard worker.
Let's put this in perspective: the submitter built html (or whatever) pages that added tutorials and help pages that weren't there before, but it sounded to me like he didn't come up with the content, he just implemented what the supervisor told him to do. This is a junior level programmer straight out of college implementing someone else's ideas (probably the job description he was given) and wanting credit for it. It sounds to me like the supervisor pushed the project through, did all the work except the actual building, and let those above him know about the project.
Should the submitter have been given some credit? Possibly, depending on the email and its tone. For most people two levels above the new guy, they just don't care who he is yet and don't want to hear about him unless he's done something noteworthy (which this certainly isn't -- it's his job). Most likely the supervisor didn't even think to mention the submitter's name because, well, there's nothing TOO mention. "My ideas were implemented, the project's done, anonymous coward (the new guy) built it and sally went ahead and photocopied this to send along to you. Also, we couldn't have done it without John at Starbuck's serving us coffee."
Expect credit when you've done something noteworthy, otherwise you'll need to stick around and get noticed for consistently doing a good job. It's not as fast as having the CEO be wowed by a memo, but if your supervisor starts to rely on you for a good job, then the guy above him will start to notice you and suggest you for promotion.
I don't think it's legal for Google to advertise for human body parts. I can see a lot of travel firms advertising for trips to Mexico on this site, however.
"We're got a problem here, Johnson. If this Chuck Norris device can do even half of what this email claims it can do, we're onto the biggest terrorist plot in history!"
"Agreed. Hopefully he hasn't finished that triggering mechanism or we're all screwed!"
Their application balls just don't appeal to me. Personally, their system tray vagina sounds like something I'd prefer, even if it's not all that pretty.
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To reiterate what an earlier poster said, there have been studies, and none have shown this to be a real issue.
Furthermore, it's not up to the people who want to disprove these people to provide the evidence, it's up to them to provide the evidence, which I guarantee they won't. They'll have some pseudo-scientist walk in there, he'll talk about the effects that these poor souls have to live through constantly, and then go home and continue writing on his webpage about how science has been stealing the future from us by suppressing the discovery of his perpetual motion machine!
And this would be fine as long as judges and juries knew how to read science and recognize its value compared to pseudo science, but most people can't. The patent office, at least as of a few years ago, patented multiple perpetual motion machines every year, either because they didn't read the application or because they didn't know that it was physically impossible. So, as long as they can put some crackpot up there who knows enough science-sounding gibberish to fool someone who doesn't know better, they actually have a chance of winning.
Is it possible that these people are actually allergic to wifi signals? Absolutely. It wouldn't even be a contender for strangest thing ever. The reason there's such a backlash against it is because there have been so many times that people have made similar allegations and ignored, lied, and suppressed actual science showing that they were wrong. Tempers are already flared over this issue, and it looks like these people are going to do the exact same thing that's been done before.
What's funny is that there's plenty of food, the shortfall is mostly due to diverting the food to ethanol and feeding livestock. The biggest obstacle to feeding the poor (arguably the only obstacle) is politics and other, non-food-related problems. Exception being people who really have some form of medical condition which make their metabolism or body not work as intended, but those people are probably very rare, if there even are any Wow. Publicly doubting that there are medical conditions that could make someone fat. What a great, insightful comment you make; you're very rational. Next time you make a comment like this, you might as well just scream about how much you hate fat people and leave the environmentalism and poor people out of it.
Perhaps he's a fat person who hates himself for being so fat? Judging from the site he's posting on and the hate that he's spewing for no apparent reason, I'm going to guess that he's 25, has the mentality of a 15 year old, lives in his mother's basement and gets told how dirty and sinful he must be to have so much weight.
:D
But those are just guesses. Who knows, maybe I'm being optimistic
That's impossible. I thought BSD was dead, or at least dying.
In that case, then I don't support the employee giving the current employer a choice. A company that's going to look out for their best interest without regard for their employees' needing to know the procedure for leaving the job isn't going to get the courtesy of me sticking around to help them out. I understand the desire to do what's best for the company in all situations, but if they take my needs and desires out of the equation that determines what they do, I'm going to take their needs and desires out of consideration for what I do.
In other words, if they're not going to be courteous enough to let me know whether or not they'll want two weeks, I'm not going to be courteous enough to give them the option.
While I can agree with that assessment, there needs to be a clear cut policy. I've had two companies where they would pick and choose who got let go immediately and who finished out their two weeks. When it came time for me to leave, I didn't give them the choice. When it's a choice between being loyal to my current company by shortchanging the company I'm moving to or being loyal to the company I'm moving to and removing the choice from my current company, I'll take the latter.
Also, the first time anyone had heard that the company might let people go instead of letting them serve out their two weeks was when our supervisor (who was extremely well liked) gave his two weeks, was given a box and escorted to the door in a very humiliating manner. The company then claimed that it was standing policy in spite of the fact that multiple people of all levels had served out their two weeks. Morale tanked and it was awful for productivity.
Sure, you may be able to fit all those bells and whistles into something you can fit in a large pocket, but what are you going to do during the impending zombie apocalypse? Suddenly you're going to want to be friends with the guy who wears a backpack of encyclopedias and cricket bats.
I'll stick with my methods, if you don't mind.
I believe it - the 70% that requires 10% of the effort. I've worked for a company where we had a 6 man team, and 80% of the programming was done by one man. The other 20% required much more effort, though, including debugging and extending his existing work, doing reports for it, minor fixes and changes, etc. The skeleton of the program was built by him, but the majority of the actual effort was done by others.
The same could have been said for hotmail, yahoo! mail, and the other free email programs, yet gmail continues to gain market share. It's not dominant, but it's carving an ever-increasing niche.
There is no such thing as an insurmountable lead, especially on the internet. MSN's offering something compelling with money back for consumers and sales-based cost for advertisers. Advertisers have wanted this for a long time, it eliminates click fraud at the expense of putting the control into the hands of advertisers themselves. I expect to see the pendulum swing the other way for ad fraud, with advertisers denying that sales went through, probably to the tune of 10%-20%, depending on how much they think they can get away with. I guarantee this happens, I worked for an ad brokering company that wanted a place on the admin interface for what percentage of tracking pixels weren't going to be displayed so that the sales wouldn't be reported to the lead generators.
The real question is whether the advertisers can create a compelling offering that will keep users coming back to msn. I think we'll see either this program or a similar one from another company gain popularity in the next decade.
I disagree, not because of the end users, but because of the advertisers. MSN's offering cost-per-sale rather than cost-per-click, something that Google doesn't offer. Get quality advertisers signed up and offering percent discounts on everything they buy, and you'll see people going there in spite of the awful search.
But I'm not a namefag, I swear! Take it back! I've never even been attracted to a name!
But seriously, I didn't mean that the site has no practical application, I was referring to research on the site being used in the non-online world. I really wasn't meant to demean the site in the slightest.
Society as a whole has accountability built right into the base. This blackboard, on the other hand, makes it possible for me to post things without anyone knowing who did it, completely free of accountability. If I had a ring of invisibility in high school, I would have hung out in the girls' locker room; since I regrettably didn't have any such jewelry, I didn't hang out in the girls' locker room.
This is an interesting concept and there's a lot to be learned about it, but I doubt it has a lot of practical applications since it's so far removed from reality for most people.
Yeah. Without moderation to show whether a comment is interesting or insightful, how will people ever be able to set the threshold higher to make sure that they never see unpopular opinions?
A version that's been localized to a lesser used language that isn't the primary development language of the organization. As much as people enjoy telling the US and English speakers that they're not the center of the world, the point of the matter is the for these projects (and, also, this site), English is the primary language of the people who run it and the primary language of those who use it the most. This shouldn't mean that other languages are second class citizens or anything like that, but getting worked up that a place which is predominantly english refers to other languages as "foreign" is just dumb.
He's a singer who really uses nothing but an acoustic guitar and his folk roots to make his music. Very popular, although I find his music repetitive at best.
You've got to be kidding me. This is the cushiest job in the world. You get paid to read stuff on the internet all day and moderate a forum that hundreds or more people discuss interesting things on. It would get repetitive, but still better than almost any other job I could think of.
The hardest part would be making the kdawson posts, where you have to purposely misconstrue the linked story and make inflammatory remarks for no apparently reason other than to create controversy. Those rumors that kdawson is a real person? As false as Zonk being a real person, the truth is that nobody could have their heads so far up the anuses that they could be so wrong so consistently.
I got this paper cut once while playing frisbee in the park with my programming group, so I was sweating and it really stung bad. Of course, I couldn't let my coworkers down, so I kept playing and it just kept stinging. Not quite as bad as yours, but still, it was really bad.
On the other hand, solar energy can be used almost anywhere, and the peak production for a solar panel just happens to be during the peak draw from the grid (in the middle of the day in the middle of the summer). I expect that solar could produce the bulk of the energy demands if done right and widespread enough with hydroelectric and nuclear providing the constant power that would back up the wind and solar. Maybe throw in some coal fired plants to handle temporary power needs but sit idle most of the time.
So, baby steps to energy independence
As for working 80 hours a week for a 40 hour a week job, well, perhaps they expected to work 80 hours a week and factored that into their pay. If management expects and demands the extra hours, then they can leave if you don't like it. If management doesn't demand those hours, than putting in the extra hours can help management come to respect you as a hard worker.
Let's put this in perspective: the submitter built html (or whatever) pages that added tutorials and help pages that weren't there before, but it sounded to me like he didn't come up with the content, he just implemented what the supervisor told him to do. This is a junior level programmer straight out of college implementing someone else's ideas (probably the job description he was given) and wanting credit for it. It sounds to me like the supervisor pushed the project through, did all the work except the actual building, and let those above him know about the project.
Should the submitter have been given some credit? Possibly, depending on the email and its tone. For most people two levels above the new guy, they just don't care who he is yet and don't want to hear about him unless he's done something noteworthy (which this certainly isn't -- it's his job). Most likely the supervisor didn't even think to mention the submitter's name because, well, there's nothing TOO mention. "My ideas were implemented, the project's done, anonymous coward (the new guy) built it and sally went ahead and photocopied this to send along to you. Also, we couldn't have done it without John at Starbuck's serving us coffee."
Expect credit when you've done something noteworthy, otherwise you'll need to stick around and get noticed for consistently doing a good job. It's not as fast as having the CEO be wowed by a memo, but if your supervisor starts to rely on you for a good job, then the guy above him will start to notice you and suggest you for promotion.
I don't think it's legal for Google to advertise for human body parts. I can see a lot of travel firms advertising for trips to Mexico on this site, however.
"We're got a problem here, Johnson. If this Chuck Norris device can do even half of what this email claims it can do, we're onto the biggest terrorist plot in history!"
"Agreed. Hopefully he hasn't finished that triggering mechanism or we're all screwed!"
Their application balls just don't appeal to me. Personally, their system tray vagina sounds like something I'd prefer, even if it's not all that pretty.