Kinda yes and no. In many ways we haven't learned from the past. The web suffers from unwashedmassitus. Would you rather see [Rolling Stones||Depeche Mode||Beatles||Pink Floyd||Ramones||Herbie Hancock||Social Distortion||Who||whatever your fave is] from nosebleed seats in a baseball stadium or in a small club? Letting everyone and his gramma have Front Page has its down side. This may be a technoweenie golden age, but as an old fart, I have to say content beats eye candy for all except very brief time slices.
And, old stuff is neat in and of itself.
When crunch time came(this past weekend on a big honkin' MRP system), the command line over a 14.4 modem beat those friggin' bug ridden gui tools - and no, they won't let anyone in to control things from the unprotectedintercoursenet, and rightly so.
There's a reason for this. We've got the internet now...it does everything BBSes did, only
about 50 quintillion times better.
Let's see. In the 80's, you dialed up, got a busy signal, tried again, wrote a wardialer program, got through, played games with the upload counter to keep from being kicked off.
Now, you enter a url, and the/.'d site won't respond.
That must be progress.
So if I called it the World Wide Wait, no one would think that was funny?
What the constitution says is that Congress has the power. Having the power means also having the discretion not to use the poer. The point you missed is he is putting his own reading onto what is there, incorrectly concluding that it is unconstitutional. So my statement makes as much sense as his conclusion.
Just like having a patent allows one to withhold the use of the patent. This has been explicitly upheld by the courts, just as they have upheld most businesses right to go out of business. That is the essence of power and control. Ever drink a Coke? Ever notice the Patent Pending on there? Think that is an unconstitutional abuse of the patent system? Just because there are patents means there shouldn't be industrial secrets, eh? Are people forgetting the part about any rights not explicitly given to congress are reserved to the states or the people?
Send me $100 each and I'll send you secrets to the 150MPG carburetor, the recipes of Coke and Mrs. Fields cookies, and how to make money, FAST!
Yes, there are many competent people, but the management structure strongly favors the stereotype. A big part of this is pay - they can't possibly keep young'uns when the young'uns see people with decades of experience making maybe 60K. The young'uns just hang around long enough to get something hot on their resume (without necessarily doing much), and their MBA, then off to 130K jobs BS'ing dotcoms, I mean b2b presales, or whatever. So you are left with single parents, the physically infirm and golden handcuffed burnout cases. Another big part of it is the management culture itself, but that is something that could be changed top-down. Although more likely the top would spew platitudes and the rest will be business as usual.
The other side of this is, they get dependent on contractors (and probably resent the pay differential). So I bitch, moan and whine all the way to the bank in my big BMW.
All that aside, I think the gummints job should be to tax and spend, including spending for "free" fiber access to every home in the county. Go ahead and laugh and make fun of me, then go read a damn history book about those electrical wires going into your house.
I was working on one of those circa 1984. It died because the clock overflowed after it had been up 2**32 somethingseconds. Apparently no one had actually had one up that long before... about a year and a half, but I may be misremembering the details.
It is incumbent upon management to give the amount of work that can be done in a reasonable amount of time. At best, this is controlled by some kid MBA who thinks MS Project is the best thing since buttered bread. The net effect is management has a strong incentive to cut costs, and the biggest cost is employee costs, and very little incentive to not abuse their employees by giving them the proper amount of work. Instead, they proselytize the virtues of "increased productivity," using the term on arbitrary work metrics, calling them "services," rather than production of goods.
Salary work does usually imply more extra hours, but you are signing on for that in the
first place,
This implication comes from... where? All it means is that you've fallen for corporate propaganda that it is ok for them to abuse salaried workers by calling them "management."
The important point is, management says they are willing to work with, but that is pretty much meaningless if they have all the power. Kinda like suing the US government - you can't, unless they say you can. Which can change at any time, of course.
The reality is, one month looking for every $10K in yearly pay, if you have to start looking suddenly in a down market. For most of us, that means tens of thousands of lost dollars. That's pretty restraining, for those of us with brains.
ve never worked with a Union tech, but I've worked with Union carpenters, electricians,
and plumbers.
They have all been hard working, honest, reliable, and done the highest quality work.
Having been in a small room with a large explosion due to a gummint electrician too smart to read the large clear labeling that said "Do not attach to outside power while lever is set to test," I have to say they do not always do the highest quality work.
However, if one is
a full-time employee, then the odds are that an explicit contract does not exist.
I can't say that I've worked full time for any company in years that didn't make me sign all sorts of forms clearly defining terms of employment, and usually a form stating I've read the employee handbook, too.
Maybe some first-year law student can tell us what elements define an explicit contract.
The comp.databases.oracle.* groups are very helpful to Oracle folk. Too bad most of my best stuff was 92-94.
It'll be nice to be able to bring up my old unix advocacy posts and say "SEE!! I TOLD YOU SO!"
Or not.
But the various posts about how embarrasing it is... one can but hope that our society will grow up and realize judgement of onomatopoeia is ridiculous.
joelga lives! Now all I need is an archive of my older personas.
Any comments about it? They're trying to sell me a hardened 7.0 for $100, but since I can't use regular 7.0, I'm skeptical. Kinda interesting they are trying to sell me a production version, but their website says it is beta. And nothing about 7.1.
So I'm complaining that their anaconda can't upgrade an existing RH 6.0 installation because it can't figure out how to undo it's own file system, and they tell me:
Some early K6-2 300mhz have problems with the system chips. You will
need to get replacement chips from AMD."
That's like saying I want new tires so I have to get a new engine management computer. STOOPID JERKS!
If you want a motion sensor - think about how the tilt sensor from the old pin ball machine works. Or
maybe use a car motion sensor. You could also use some mercury reed switches (like the old thermostats
have) pretty cheap if you have a few thermostats around you can chop up. Should be able to find these
things at any radio shack.
Why is it being an "open source solution" really that important? Just so it can get on
slashdot? As much as people hate Windows, (or the MacOS) there are quite a few viable webcam software
alternatives out there.
This answer has violated memory management restrictions and is being shut down.
I'm often amazed at how many people don't use the doorbell and bang on the door. It's obviously a big house, what the heck are they thinking? I can't hear either in the back yard anyways.
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Kinda yes and no. In many ways we haven't learned from the past. The web suffers from unwashedmassitus. Would you rather see [Rolling Stones||Depeche Mode||Beatles||Pink Floyd||Ramones||Herbie Hancock||Social Distortion||Who||whatever your fave is] from nosebleed seats in a baseball stadium or in a small club? Letting everyone and his gramma have Front Page has its down side. This may be a technoweenie golden age, but as an old fart, I have to say content beats eye candy for all except very brief time slices.
And, old stuff is neat in and of itself.
When crunch time came(this past weekend on a big honkin' MRP system), the command line over a 14.4 modem beat those friggin' bug ridden gui tools - and no, they won't let anyone in to control things from the unprotectedintercoursenet, and rightly so.
I thought it interesting they hadn't thought up the idea of a FAQ yet.
There's a reason for this. We've got the internet now...it does everything BBSes did, only about 50 quintillion times better.
/.'d site won't respond.
Let's see. In the 80's, you dialed up, got a busy signal, tried again, wrote a wardialer program, got through, played games with the upload counter to keep from being kicked off.
Now, you enter a url, and the
That must be progress.
So if I called it the World Wide Wait, no one would think that was funny?
I was going to cp that attachment code for java to an OODBMS here, but the preview button told me it was "Junk character post"
So imagine it is here.
Shell script for attaching to a user: sqlplus -s EOD scott/tiger EOD
What the constitution says is that Congress has the power. Having the power means also having the discretion not to use the poer. The point you missed is he is putting his own reading onto what is there, incorrectly concluding that it is unconstitutional. So my statement makes as much sense as his conclusion.
Just like having a patent allows one to withhold the use of the patent. This has been explicitly upheld by the courts, just as they have upheld most businesses right to go out of business. That is the essence of power and control. Ever drink a Coke? Ever notice the Patent Pending on there? Think that is an unconstitutional abuse of the patent system? Just because there are patents means there shouldn't be industrial secrets, eh? Are people forgetting the part about any rights not explicitly given to congress are reserved to the states or the people?
Send me $100 each and I'll send you secrets to the 150MPG carburetor, the recipes of Coke and Mrs. Fields cookies, and how to make money, FAST!
sheesh.
Now, I'm the last person to try and trumpet Ayn Rand's lunacy,
I used to think the objectivists were quaint, until I found out Alan Greenspan is one. I wonder if he did Ayn?
If the patent and copyright system do not have the effect of promoting progress, they aren't constitutional
Isn't that like saying "If the constitution doesn't say that linux is better than windows, then linux is unconstitutional?"
Not to mention everything database is supposed to be Oracle, and the use of COTS means NT on every ship...
I'm a contractor in a gummint site.
Yes, there are many competent people, but the management structure strongly favors the stereotype. A big part of this is pay - they can't possibly keep young'uns when the young'uns see people with decades of experience making maybe 60K. The young'uns just hang around long enough to get something hot on their resume (without necessarily doing much), and their MBA, then off to 130K jobs BS'ing dotcoms, I mean b2b presales, or whatever. So you are left with single parents, the physically infirm and golden handcuffed burnout cases. Another big part of it is the management culture itself, but that is something that could be changed top-down. Although more likely the top would spew platitudes and the rest will be business as usual.
The other side of this is, they get dependent on contractors (and probably resent the pay differential). So I bitch, moan and whine all the way to the bank in my big BMW.
All that aside, I think the gummints job should be to tax and spend, including spending for "free" fiber access to every home in the county. Go ahead and laugh and make fun of me, then go read a damn history book about those electrical wires going into your house.
When it becomes purely a financial matter, Thomas said, "you know it's over."
Give this man the BS artist of the year award!
I'll have to remember this the next time someone talks about a "business plan" or "going to the board of directors."
Steve Ballmer, you have nothing to worry about.
I was working on one of those circa 1984. It died because the clock overflowed after it had been up 2**32 somethingseconds. Apparently no one had actually had one up that long before... about a year and a half, but I may be misremembering the details.
It is incumbent upon management to give the amount of work that can be done in a reasonable amount of time. At best, this is controlled by some kid MBA who thinks MS Project is the best thing since buttered bread. The net effect is management has a strong incentive to cut costs, and the biggest cost is employee costs, and very little incentive to not abuse their employees by giving them the proper amount of work. Instead, they proselytize the virtues of "increased productivity," using the term on arbitrary work metrics, calling them "services," rather than production of goods.
Salary work does usually imply more extra hours, but you are signing on for that in the first place,
This implication comes from... where? All it means is that you've fallen for corporate propaganda that it is ok for them to abuse salaried workers by calling them "management."
The important point is, management says they are willing to work with, but that is pretty much meaningless if they have all the power. Kinda like suing the US government - you can't, unless they say you can. Which can change at any time, of course.
The reality is, one month looking for every $10K in yearly pay, if you have to start looking suddenly in a down market. For most of us, that means tens of thousands of lost dollars. That's pretty restraining, for those of us with brains.
If your employees are on strike, it's probably because you have done something wrong, dumbass.
ve never worked with a Union tech, but I've worked with Union carpenters, electricians, and plumbers. They have all been hard working, honest, reliable, and done the highest quality work.
Having been in a small room with a large explosion due to a gummint electrician too smart to read the large clear labeling that said "Do not attach to outside power while lever is set to test," I have to say they do not always do the highest quality work.
However, if one is a full-time employee, then the odds are that an explicit contract does not exist.
I can't say that I've worked full time for any company in years that didn't make me sign all sorts of forms clearly defining terms of employment, and usually a form stating I've read the employee handbook, too.
Maybe some first-year law student can tell us what elements define an explicit contract.
The comp.databases.oracle.* groups are very helpful to Oracle folk. Too bad most of my best stuff was 92-94.
It'll be nice to be able to bring up my old unix advocacy posts and say "SEE!! I TOLD YOU SO!"
Or not.
But the various posts about how embarrasing it is... one can but hope that our society will grow up and realize judgement of onomatopoeia is ridiculous.
joelga lives! Now all I need is an archive of my older personas.
Well, how much is your time worth to harden it? If you'll do mine for $61... you probably aren't worth it.
Any comments about it? They're trying to sell me a hardened 7.0 for $100, but since I can't use regular 7.0, I'm skeptical. Kinda interesting they are trying to sell me a production version, but their website says it is beta. And nothing about 7.1.
So I'm complaining that their anaconda can't upgrade an existing RH 6.0 installation because it can't figure out how to undo it's own file system, and they tell me:
Some early K6-2 300mhz have problems with the system chips. You will need to get replacement chips from AMD."
That's like saying I want new tires so I have to get a new engine management computer. STOOPID JERKS!
If you want a motion sensor - think about how the tilt sensor from the old pin ball machine works. Or maybe use a car motion sensor. You could also use some mercury reed switches (like the old thermostats have) pretty cheap if you have a few thermostats around you can chop up. Should be able to find these things at any radio shack.
A motion detector with reed switches on a boat???
Why is it being an "open source solution" really that important? Just so it can get on slashdot? As much as people hate Windows, (or the MacOS) there are quite a few viable webcam software alternatives out there.
This answer has violated memory management restrictions and is being shut down.
I'm often amazed at how many people don't use the doorbell and bang on the door. It's obviously a big house, what the heck are they thinking? I can't hear either in the back yard anyways.