If you have good a good credit history I suggest you provide the information then steal from the company, thus subverting their rationale for requiring the credit check.
Yes you will become a martyr, but we will remember you in our prayers. God speed my friend!
Seriously, if you have no other options (other than unemployment or drastic carieer change) then you might be stuck. If you do stay with the job, I would try to impress upon the CEO/COO how such checks are demoralizing and alienating and that this isn't something you typically want to foster in employees, and furthermore, by fostering these emotions you're increasing the likelyhood that employees will be poor producers or steal from the company. Just the thing they wanted to avoid in the first place.
The stones you're casting are your accusation that the OP was somehow worse than yourself for breaking a contract with his ISP than you are for breaking the law.
The law is simply a formalized socal contract. You seem to imply that traffic laws are somehow less a part of the law than a contract with an ISP. They aren't, both are legal and social contracts.
My analogy wasn't one, neither was it a logical fallicy. It was simply an example of how we all break laws, or social contracts, all the time. It was meant to point out your hipocracy and sanctimony. You'd like the OP to live in your black and white world where, for example, if you don't like the terms of your one and only option for connectivity you simply don't have an internet connection. By the way, "casting of stones" is a phrase that originated in (as far as I know) the Christian or Jewish religion and which refers to one sinner persecuting another for sinning. (Not that I'm a religous, I just assumed it'd be a familiar analogy.)
You don't live in a black and white world and neither does anybody else.
There's every possibility the ISPs and cable companies already know about this.
Yes, exactly. The situation is similar to the motivation behind publishing exploits. The hacker community/ISP already knows about the exploit/tracking method, once the problem's published it goes away (sooner or later) thanks to developers being aware of it.
While you're casting stones, you may want to reflect on the fact that when you got your driver's license you knew that it was against the law to exceed the speed limit. Have you ever exceeded the speed limit? I thought so. Did you turn yourself in? I didn't think so. Do you support mandatory devices on cars to either limit speed or to automatically report drivers when they speed? I didn't think so. Yet you got a license by agreeing to abide by the traffic laws (which you'd needen't have done, by the way)
Error conditions are part of the abstraction TCP provides. The concept of reliability in TCP doesn't mean that it always gets your data across, but that it either does or does not and you can rely on knowing the what happend. This isn't a weakness of TCP, it's a strength.
Unfortunately there are edge conditions in which your data is recieved but you never receive the ACK(nowledge) and therefore assume that the messasge was lost. This isn't very common, but if the cat chews the CAT5 at just the right moment it can happen.
You're forgetting that the desire to make money doesn't drive innovation. Innovation only occurs when there's competition, and competition tends to die when large companies have too much say in government, which is what happens when Republicans are in charge. Look at big business' contributions to each party to see which party they think will benefit them the most. Big business contributed $60M to the recent Republican US election runs, four to five times the amount received by Democrats. The bigger the business the less they'll be interested in innovation since they'll be more eager to maintain control of their market. It's easier to control your market by shutting out competition than by innovating.
As an example look at the phone company. Before the Bell breakup they made plenty of money and produced probably nothing innovative, at least nothing that benefited the consumer. Innovation requires a push from government in the form of anti-monopolistic policies.
I don't think he was advocating writing all code in higher level languages. There is a huge segment of coding projects being written today in languages that are lower level than necessary and this reduces productivity. No, you still don't write device drivers in Python, but you might really benefit from using a high level language for an enterprise application. Any extra hardware required to compensate for speed is trivial compared to the payoff of having the app and having it sooner and more robust.
I'd suggest that it may be WebSpehere that's slow, not Java specifically. WebSphere's a little on the crappy side. We use BEA and ATG's J2EE container and they're plenty fast.
RedHat, having one of the best X installers, has a good text mode option too. It lets you instal only what you want, doesn't force you to use or install X, etc. I use it for workstations as well as servers, it's a great installer because it doesn't waste my time.
It's irritating that so much of the debian crowd takes this "whatever" attitude, or worse, the attitue that if you don't like arcane hardware information you must be a beginner. In fact this attitude is contradictory since debians' own package management system is probably the easiest to use. For consistency, shouldn't it be difficult too? Or perhaps debians' package management system is for "grandma."
What's the problem with computers performing tedious tasks on behalf of humans? Isn't that why they exist? It's good to know your way around your hardware, but it's dehumanizing to repeatedly perform tedious work that computers can do automatically.
I seem to remember a european (Brittish?) version of this type of vac that was announced a long time ago here on/., if I remember correctly, it did what you're talking about. I agree, if I have to watch it, what's the point? (Of course, I'd watch it anyway, but I want it to be able to work by itself.)
Unless you have a very small project with files of vastly different sizes, the size of each file won't matter that much. What will be more problematic is lots of dependencies. For example, if 7 machines are frequently waiting for one machine to compile a file on which their compilation task depends then you'll loose a lot of the benefit of parallel compilation.
Just for the information of people moderating me down, YES, I'm a Christian. Got a problem with that? was his.sig when I posted my comment and it appeared right below the other line. He's since changed his.sig.
The comment wasn't not meant as flaimbait, I was simply pointing out the pot-calling-kettle-black nature of his post (when you consider the original.sig) since it's often difficult and pointless to argue with people about their religion, especially aggressively self-assertive people.
Why, thank you. I'm building an excellent anecdotal record of FSF advocates who are uncritical zealots who attack anyone who disagreess with them! Way to go!
YES, I'm a Christian. Got a problem with that?
Ha! Another kind of absurd zealot just sprang to mind.
One major traffic problem that the Big Dig should help with is congestion due to automobile traffic to the airport or Route 1 from West or South of the city. I'm talking about the Mass pike connection to the new Ted Williams tunnel, which means that a majority of this traffic will no longer have to slowly wind it's way through downtown. This should be a major boon for many people, though it won't solve all the problems. This part of the Big Dig is on track to open in November of this year.
Another big improvement is that there are few exits in the new tunnel, so people going through town will take the tunnel and not have to slow down for people entering and exiting, and people going in or out of Boston will use the surface roads. Hopefully by segregating traffic this way things will move more smoothly but who knows.
The subway situation is, as you say, terrible. The worst crime of the Big Dig is the lack of North Station/South Station rail connection. I had to tell some scared young girls traveling by themselves at South Station the other day that they had to get on the Red Line, then change to the Orainge Line to get to North Station. They almost cried, and this situation isn't going to change when the Big Dig is done. I hate the silver line (bus) too, but at least it's an option where there wasn't one before.
Finally, I walk to work from Boston to Cambridge and I think more people should try this, or at least take public transportation. Even if it takes the same amount of time, riding the train leaves you free to read or play with Linux on your laptop. Isn't that better than sitting in traffic?
I disagree, yes anyone can form a corporation but that only provides one with the standard protections of all corporations, specifically protection against personal liability, but this thread isn't about that kind of protection.
What most people object to is the extra attention given large corporations, attention unavailable to any corporate entity or person who doesn't have lots of cash to give to politicians and high-power Washington lobbies. That's the form of plutocracy we have in the U.S., and it's very real.
Actually, I read an article serveral years ago which confirmed my preference for a dimly lit (but not dark) office. The article claimed that significant eye strain is created due to glare on monitors from the ambient light in bright offices. I asked my optometrist he agreed with the opinions in the article.
I've always found it more comforable to work with dim lighting, and thankfully most people at my company agree. We have desk lamps for when you're not looking at your monitor or for people that insist on having bright light. Works out better for everyone, and let's face it, with the decor of most modern offices, the less you see of it the better.
Though not young, I do have an expensive monitor (dual 21", both @ 1600x1200.) Still, I have the same problem you do. Fonts are often too small to be legible. Mozilla lets you easly adjust the font size, even for the sites you mention. It's a life saver (or eyeball saver at least) for me.
OK, I didn't record it so I can't go back and verify what you're saying. Anyway, I can imagine I'm wrong about this because it'd be so dumb otherwise. In any case, this was not SciFi and I stil maintain that. This was a western set in Outer Space, science didn't take up any space in this program.
It was kind of funny in a Rambo sense, but why was the engine intake inside? They were inside the ship if you recall. In fact, why was there an engine intake at all in a space ship? There wasn't any science in this SciFi show.
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If you have good a good credit history I suggest you provide the information then steal from the company, thus subverting their rationale for requiring the credit check.
Yes you will become a martyr, but we will remember you in our prayers. God speed my friend!
Seriously, if you have no other options (other than unemployment or drastic carieer change) then you might be stuck. If you do stay with the job, I would try to impress upon the CEO/COO how such checks are demoralizing and alienating and that this isn't something you typically want to foster in employees, and furthermore, by fostering these emotions you're increasing the likelyhood that employees will be poor producers or steal from the company. Just the thing they wanted to avoid in the first place.
The stones you're casting are your accusation that the OP was somehow worse than yourself for breaking a contract with his ISP than you are for breaking the law.
The law is simply a formalized socal contract. You seem to imply that traffic laws are somehow less a part of the law than a contract with an ISP. They aren't, both are legal and social contracts.
My analogy wasn't one, neither was it a logical fallicy. It was simply an example of how we all break laws, or social contracts, all the time. It was meant to point out your hipocracy and sanctimony. You'd like the OP to live in your black and white world where, for example, if you don't like the terms of your one and only option for connectivity you simply don't have an internet connection. By the way, "casting of stones" is a phrase that originated in (as far as I know) the Christian or Jewish religion and which refers to one sinner persecuting another for sinning. (Not that I'm a religous, I just assumed it'd be a familiar analogy.)
You don't live in a black and white world and neither does anybody else.
Yes, monopolies are bad, but breaking the contract you agreed to doesn't make them alright, it just makes you both bad.
Exactly. The OP's tone was sanctimonious and hypocritical and that was my point.
There's every possibility the ISPs and cable companies already know about this.
Yes, exactly. The situation is similar to the motivation behind publishing exploits. The hacker community/ISP already knows about the exploit/tracking method, once the problem's published it goes away (sooner or later) thanks to developers being aware of it.
OK, happy stone casting!
Let's test it on the moon! Wicked cool!
Error conditions are part of the abstraction TCP provides. The concept of reliability in TCP doesn't mean that it always gets your data across, but that it either does or does not and you can rely on knowing the what happend. This isn't a weakness of TCP, it's a strength.
Unfortunately there are edge conditions in which your data is recieved but you never receive the ACK(nowledge) and therefore assume that the messasge was lost. This isn't very common, but if the cat chews the CAT5 at just the right moment it can happen.
Socrates never wrote anything, all we know of him is from Plato, so effectively Socrates == Plato
Advertisers just need to figure out how to grab one's attention at higher speeds...
Next Up: Slow-motion adds with subtitles that play at normal speed while fast-forwarding.
You're forgetting that the desire to make money doesn't drive innovation. Innovation only occurs when there's competition, and competition tends to die when large companies have too much say in government, which is what happens when Republicans are in charge. Look at big business' contributions to each party to see which party they think will benefit them the most. Big business contributed $60M to the recent Republican US election runs, four to five times the amount received by Democrats. The bigger the business the less they'll be interested in innovation since they'll be more eager to maintain control of their market. It's easier to control your market by shutting out competition than by innovating.
As an example look at the phone company. Before the Bell breakup they made plenty of money and produced probably nothing innovative, at least nothing that benefited the consumer. Innovation requires a push from government in the form of anti-monopolistic policies.
I don't think he was advocating writing all code in higher level languages. There is a huge segment of coding projects being written today in languages that are lower level than necessary and this reduces productivity. No, you still don't write device drivers in Python, but you might really benefit from using a high level language for an enterprise application. Any extra hardware required to compensate for speed is trivial compared to the payoff of having the app and having it sooner and more robust.
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I'd suggest that it may be WebSpehere that's slow, not Java specifically. WebSphere's a little on the crappy side. We use BEA and ATG's J2EE container and they're plenty fast.
RedHat, having one of the best X installers, has a good text mode option too. It lets you instal only what you want, doesn't force you to use or install X, etc. I use it for workstations as well as servers, it's a great installer because it doesn't waste my time.
It's irritating that so much of the debian crowd takes this "whatever" attitude, or worse, the attitue that if you don't like arcane hardware information you must be a beginner. In fact this attitude is contradictory since debians' own package management system is probably the easiest to use. For consistency, shouldn't it be difficult too? Or perhaps debians' package management system is for "grandma."
What's the problem with computers performing tedious tasks on behalf of humans? Isn't that why they exist? It's good to know your way around your hardware, but it's dehumanizing to repeatedly perform tedious work that computers can do automatically.
I seem to remember a european (Brittish?) version of this type of vac that was announced a long time ago here on /., if I remember correctly, it did what you're talking about. I agree, if I have to watch it, what's the point? (Of course, I'd watch it anyway, but I want it to be able to work by itself.)
Unless you have a very small project with files of vastly different sizes, the size of each file won't matter that much. What will be more problematic is lots of dependencies. For example, if 7 machines are frequently waiting for one machine to compile a file on which their compilation task depends then you'll loose a lot of the benefit of parallel compilation.
Just for the information of people moderating me down, YES, I'm a Christian. Got a problem with that? was his .sig when I posted my comment and it appeared right below the other line. He's since changed his .sig.
.sig) since it's often difficult and pointless to argue with people about their religion, especially aggressively self-assertive people.
The comment wasn't not meant as flaimbait, I was simply pointing out the pot-calling-kettle-black nature of his post (when you consider the original
Why, thank you. I'm building an excellent anecdotal record of FSF advocates who are uncritical zealots who attack anyone who disagreess with them! Way to go!
YES, I'm a Christian. Got a problem with that?
Ha! Another kind of absurd zealot just sprang to mind.
One major traffic problem that the Big Dig should help with is congestion due to automobile traffic to the airport or Route 1 from West or South of the city. I'm talking about the Mass pike connection to the new Ted Williams tunnel, which means that a majority of this traffic will no longer have to slowly wind it's way through downtown. This should be a major boon for many people, though it won't solve all the problems. This part of the Big Dig is on track to open in November of this year.
Another big improvement is that there are few exits in the new tunnel, so people going through town will take the tunnel and not have to slow down for people entering and exiting, and people going in or out of Boston will use the surface roads. Hopefully by segregating traffic this way things will move more smoothly but who knows.
The subway situation is, as you say, terrible. The worst crime of the Big Dig is the lack of North Station/South Station rail connection. I had to tell some scared young girls traveling by themselves at South Station the other day that they had to get on the Red Line, then change to the Orainge Line to get to North Station. They almost cried, and this situation isn't going to change when the Big Dig is done. I hate the silver line (bus) too, but at least it's an option where there wasn't one before.
Finally, I walk to work from Boston to Cambridge and I think more people should try this, or at least take public transportation. Even if it takes the same amount of time, riding the train leaves you free to read or play with Linux on your laptop. Isn't that better than sitting in traffic?
I disagree, yes anyone can form a corporation but that only provides one with the standard protections of all corporations, specifically protection against personal liability, but this thread isn't about that kind of protection.
What most people object to is the extra attention given large corporations, attention unavailable to any corporate entity or person who doesn't have lots of cash to give to politicians and high-power Washington lobbies. That's the form of plutocracy we have in the U.S., and it's very real.
Actually, I read an article serveral years ago which confirmed my preference for a dimly lit (but not dark) office. The article claimed that significant eye strain is created due to glare on monitors from the ambient light in bright offices. I asked my optometrist he agreed with the opinions in the article.
I've always found it more comforable to work with dim lighting, and thankfully most people at my company agree. We have desk lamps for when you're not looking at your monitor or for people that insist on having bright light. Works out better for everyone, and let's face it, with the decor of most modern offices, the less you see of it the better.
Though not young, I do have an expensive monitor (dual 21", both @ 1600x1200.) Still, I have the same problem you do. Fonts are often too small to be legible. Mozilla lets you easly adjust the font size, even for the sites you mention. It's a life saver (or eyeball saver at least) for me.
Space Travel is no longer science fiction. Get a newer dictionary.
OK, I didn't record it so I can't go back and verify what you're saying. Anyway, I can imagine I'm wrong about this because it'd be so dumb otherwise. In any case, this was not SciFi and I stil maintain that. This was a western set in Outer Space, science didn't take up any space in this program.
It was kind of funny in a Rambo sense, but why was the engine intake inside? They were inside the ship if you recall. In fact, why was there an engine intake at all in a space ship? There wasn't any science in this SciFi show.