Just this ONE was frozen. The rest of the colonies presumably stayed alive to becume the current strain of Bacillus, but there was little evolution in the intervening millions of years to differentiate them.
When you backed up Clinton during the Monica Lewinsky joke. The man committed a felony. Are we to understand that you will protect the office above and beyond any commitment to the public?
NINE YEARS! You, too, can buy a space station for $3,168.81/SECOND for the next nine years (yes, that's $20,000/minute, $11,407,711.61/hour). Of course, ;Ma rs Direct would have cost around $30 Billion. Maybe if China goes to Mars first, we'll take notice that there is something there that we may be interested in.
This link tells of the ease of going to Mars. But I can't find the real link of interest. Telling of that the ISS is being built so that the shuttle has something to do. If we took the money from the ISS, and not even touch the money from the shuttle runs, we could colonize Mars in 20 years.
Oh, and I loath the idea of terraforming Mars. Let's rip out Yellowstone and pave it over while we're at it. We need to adapt to the other planet, not ruin it the second we get there.
I am SO GLAD to finally read something fascinating. On Slashdot no less!
This is freaking awesome. Every day, I am constantly amazed by God's works. Imagine how many more life forms there could be in those rainforests we're torching every day? Now how's THAT for a cheerful Friday thought?
No, but this reminds me of my own story (much less impressive than yours) relating to Post-It Notes®.
My cubical oponent would throw over crumpled-up Post-It Notes®. After about a month, I had saved up about 10^2 of these in a large box. One day he said some inflamatory remark, and I just let him have it. Now that was cool, seeing his entire desk and floor covered in his own ammunition.
This is exactly what is happening. The government is creating the perception that there is this "evil class" of workers that make too much. Do you know how hard I've actually had to work to get to this position? And everywhere I look, I'm considered to be subhuman. To have "too much money to have my sympathy".
It doesn't matter what position we have in life, the point is that we are all human. I don't look at you and say, "Oh, well, he makes 25 dollars an hour, he doesn't deserve voting rights", or "Oh, he makes more than minimum wage. He must not need insurance."
The point is, where does it end? America is beginning a new kind of segregation. One of money. And it is quite hostile to people that actually work their way to the top.
I may not have your sympathy, but you have my pity. America deserves the socialism that it gets.
That is correct. Earlier this year, however, California's Governor had signed a bill that restored programmers the right to overtime, something which was recently removed from the FLSA. He has now been pressured to remove his support for the citizens of California, and support the position of the corporations.
It has everything to do with child labor laws. The whole concept of the FLSA was to insure that workers were not put in unconscionable situations. That ranges from people working for less than the cost of living, to 10 year olds, to people required to work 120 hours in a week (yes, I've done that).
Overtime was the FLSA's attempt to make management think a little bit before making the employee work that time. That and compensate the employee for something that was obviously more effort than anyone could be expected to put out. But certain software developers (keep in mind that if I made more than $44/hour, but was a software developer in the movie industry, I would be required to get overtime, or if I required constant supervision... why these exemptions?) do not have these protections anymore. The governor has signed them away.
True. Out of the five stories I've submitted, only two have been accepted. Compare the two stories in terms of newsworthiness. I understand that Nerds could be fascinated with electronic sewing machines.
But to be segregated by our own government as being a class of workers that do not deserve compensation for extra-ordinary working conditions... protections that are EQUAL to child-labor laws. Heck, they are in THE SAME ACT... This is equivalent to reducing the age restrictions of textile works allowed to be ten years of age.
Why are professional software developers "different" than movie-studio software developers? If you read the bill, the latter are exempted. This is a clear case of corporatism segregating the working programmer class. And if this isn't of interest to a majority of Nerds, you are lying.
Why the HELL does this make the front page, when the article I post every day this week, No More Overtime for California Programmers, is outright rejected?? If you want News for Nerds, not much hits closer to home than your paycheck. I'm beginning to join all of the whiners that say Slashdot is drifting from it's slogan.
The bill, signed by Governor Gray Davis, insures that professional software developers making more than $44/hour will not be guaranteed overtime (which was originally initiated to prevent "conditions injurious to the health and efficiency of workers". I don't know about you, but the 80-hour weeks I've done would definitely not be considered good for my health or efficiency.
Well of course the geeks don't drool over a site who's URL is www.WINFIRST.com. It's probably only going to be supported by WINdows. Kill it now before anyone else knows about it!
I can't help but wonder if such strong magnetic forces are bad for the body. I must admit that my knowledge of physiology is nearly non-existent, but it seems to me that such a tremendous amount of magnetism would be less-than-healthy.
In a word. DUH. That's why we need to do the research, rather than making a mockery of it.
And the ceramic superconductor apparently steps down the wavelength of gravitons, so that they collide with the ceramic. So it is more of a gravity blocker. The frog magnet works by pushing against the atoms inside the frog via magnetism. No gravitons are harmed in this experiment.
Soo, we have a bunch of conformist "individuals" that feel that they should only espouse what other "individuals" feel is the "correct" thing to say. This unnerves me considerably. People should be saying what they THINK, not what will get them the biggest karma.
In all seriousness, I don't see what karma can do, besides lowering consistently bad messages from one individual. And even then, that would be taken care of in a matter of minutes under a karma-less system. All karma does is turn Slashdot into a game for people with no life.
"There is no evidence that fungi have ever affected the health of the crew, or threatened the integrity of critical systems, said Jeffrey Manber, president of MirCorp, the Amsterdam-based company that has leased the rights to use Mir. He said that the situation hasn't threatened MirCorp's business ventures, which include sending the winner of a sequel to the television show ''Survivor'' to the station. "
If I read ONE MORE POST about how this is going to affect the show, I'll scream. Read the freaking story.
I've already written my own My.Mp3 service that runs on my web server, exposing directories of genres/artists/cd's/files. Replete with check-boxes for playing combinations of any of the above.
Now if I could only get the mp3 encoder for Linux working, I'd be set.:(
Hah, this reminds me of a mom-and-pop shop I worked at years ago (first non-fast-food job). I was the network admin and developer. I had changed the network password, and looking for the new one, I saw a print-out of a Microsoft Knowledge Base article. I tore out the words "Microsoft Knowledge Base", highlighted the word Knowledge, and put it over the scroll-lock light, right on my keyboard.
I knew it was secure, and that was confirmed later when I was on my honeymoon. I got a call, the boss frantic, that no one could remember the password, and that they had looked through my office for a hint. Even the other most technically inclined person slapped his head when I told him, "Are you at my desk? And you couldn't find anything? Look on my keyboard..."
<RANT> In my last two contracts, I've spend three years doing my best to save poorly managed projects. It doesn't just apply to how the managers treat the developers. What is also as important, if not more so, is how management deals with the client. If management is consistently dealing with the clients in a less-than-optimal manner, then the end product will be less than the client expects.
This can have a huge demoralizing effect on the developers that worked on the project. There is nothing sweeter than to fulfill the client's every dream, and give them something that they didn't even realize they needed. (Of course, they better realize their needs if you are doing proper life-cycle development.:)
So, here I am, looking to not renew my contract. This time around, I plan on analyzing their development cycles much more thoroughly than I have in the past. Who knows, maybe I'll luck out and get a great environment.
</RANT>On a side note, I have found that projects went much smoother when I was around for the initial Analysis phase, rather than coming in during the development phase, and having to re-work previous "documents".
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Just this ONE was frozen. The rest of the colonies presumably stayed alive to becume the current strain of Bacillus, but there was little evolution in the intervening millions of years to differentiate them.
of Bacillus. Wouldn't the evolution theory require Bacillus to have radically changed? Why hasn't it evolved in 25 million years?
When you backed up Clinton during the Monica Lewinsky joke. The man committed a felony. Are we to understand that you will protect the office above and beyond any commitment to the public?
NINE YEARS! You, too, can buy a space station for $3,168.81/SECOND for the next nine years (yes, that's $20,000/minute, $11,407,711.61/hour). Of course, ;Ma rs Direct would have cost around $30 Billion. Maybe if China goes to Mars first, we'll take notice that there is something there that we may be interested in.
This link tells of the ease of going to Mars. But I can't find the real link of interest. Telling of that the ISS is being built so that the shuttle has something to do. If we took the money from the ISS, and not even touch the money from the shuttle runs, we could colonize Mars in 20 years.
Oh, and I loath the idea of terraforming Mars. Let's rip out Yellowstone and pave it over while we're at it. We need to adapt to the other planet, not ruin it the second we get there.
What you want is this, reviewed here. Nothing is too much cooler than a 1G Tacticle Transducer.
I am SO GLAD to finally read something fascinating. On Slashdot no less!
This is freaking awesome. Every day, I am constantly amazed by God's works. Imagine how many more life forms there could be in those rainforests we're torching every day? Now how's THAT for a cheerful Friday thought?
No, but this reminds me of my own story (much less impressive than yours) relating to Post-It Notes®.
My cubical oponent would throw over crumpled-up Post-It Notes®. After about a month, I had saved up about 10^2 of these in a large box. One day he said some inflamatory remark, and I just let him have it. Now that was cool, seeing his entire desk and floor covered in his own ammunition.
Then you are a fool.
This is exactly what is happening. The government is creating the perception that there is this "evil class" of workers that make too much. Do you know how hard I've actually had to work to get to this position? And everywhere I look, I'm considered to be subhuman. To have "too much money to have my sympathy".
It doesn't matter what position we have in life, the point is that we are all human. I don't look at you and say, "Oh, well, he makes 25 dollars an hour, he doesn't deserve voting rights", or "Oh, he makes more than minimum wage. He must not need insurance."
The point is, where does it end? America is beginning a new kind of segregation. One of money. And it is quite hostile to people that actually work their way to the top.
I may not have your sympathy, but you have my pity. America deserves the socialism that it gets.
That is correct. Earlier this year, however, California's Governor had signed a bill that restored programmers the right to overtime, something which was recently removed from the FLSA. He has now been pressured to remove his support for the citizens of California, and support the position of the corporations.
Undoubtedly, they offer more campaign dollars.
The link hasn't been broken in any of the article submissions. It broke when I was formatting it for the post. The correct link is:
The bill.
It has everything to do with child labor laws. The whole concept of the FLSA was to insure that workers were not put in unconscionable situations. That ranges from people working for less than the cost of living, to 10 year olds, to people required to work 120 hours in a week (yes, I've done that).
Overtime was the FLSA's attempt to make management think a little bit before making the employee work that time. That and compensate the employee for something that was obviously more effort than anyone could be expected to put out. But certain software developers (keep in mind that if I made more than $44/hour, but was a software developer in the movie industry, I would be required to get overtime, or if I required constant supervision... why these exemptions?) do not have these protections anymore. The governor has signed them away.
True. Out of the five stories I've submitted, only two have been accepted. Compare the two stories in terms of newsworthiness. I understand that Nerds could be fascinated with electronic sewing machines.
But to be segregated by our own government as being a class of workers that do not deserve compensation for extra-ordinary working conditions... protections that are EQUAL to child-labor laws. Heck, they are in THE SAME ACT... This is equivalent to reducing the age restrictions of textile works allowed to be ten years of age.
Why are professional software developers "different" than movie-studio software developers? If you read the bill, the latter are exempted. This is a clear case of corporatism segregating the working programmer class. And if this isn't of interest to a majority of Nerds, you are lying.
If you want News for Nerds, not much hits closer to home than your paycheck. I'm beginning to join all of the whiners that say Slashdot is drifting from it's slogan.
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Thank you.
- \\NTMACHINE has been up for: 36 day(s), 23 hour(s), 53 minute(s), 37 second(s)
Of course, this beats our production server's 6 day(s), 1 hour(s), 47 minute(s), 47 second(s)Getting the costs of the delay deducted from your pay? OWCH!
Hi honey, my pay check is 2 Million!
Oh... there's a little minus sign....
Well of course the geeks don't drool over a site who's URL is www.WINFIRST.com. It's probably only going to be supported by WINdows. Kill it now before anyone else knows about it!
I can't help but wonder if such strong magnetic forces are bad for the body. I must admit that my knowledge of physiology is nearly non-existent, but it seems to me that such a tremendous amount of magnetism would be less-than-healthy.
In a word. DUH. That's why we need to do the research, rather than making a mockery of it.
And the ceramic superconductor apparently steps down the wavelength of gravitons, so that they collide with the ceramic. So it is more of a gravity blocker. The frog magnet works by pushing against the atoms inside the frog via magnetism. No gravitons are harmed in this experiment.
Soo, we have a bunch of conformist "individuals" that feel that they should only espouse what other "individuals" feel is the "correct" thing to say. This unnerves me considerably. People should be saying what they THINK, not what will get them the biggest karma.
In all seriousness, I don't see what karma can do, besides lowering consistently bad messages from one individual. And even then, that would be taken care of in a matter of minutes under a karma-less system. All karma does is turn Slashdot into a game for people with no life.
I guess NO ONE READ THE ARTICLE. jeez.
"There is no evidence that fungi have ever affected the health of the crew, or threatened the integrity of critical systems, said Jeffrey Manber, president of MirCorp, the Amsterdam-based company that has leased the rights to use Mir. He said that the situation hasn't threatened MirCorp's business ventures, which include sending the winner of a sequel to the television show ''Survivor'' to the station. "
If I read ONE MORE POST about how this is going to affect the show, I'll scream. Read the freaking story.
Slashdot: NOT for beginners!
I've already written my own My.Mp3 service that runs on my web server, exposing directories of genres/artists/cd's/files. Replete with check-boxes for playing combinations of any of the above.
:(
Now if I could only get the mp3 encoder for Linux working, I'd be set.
Hah, this reminds me of a mom-and-pop shop I worked at years ago (first non-fast-food job). I was the network admin and developer. I had changed the network password, and looking for the new one, I saw a print-out of a Microsoft Knowledge Base article. I tore out the words "Microsoft Knowledge Base", highlighted the word Knowledge, and put it over the scroll-lock light, right on my keyboard.
I knew it was secure, and that was confirmed later when I was on my honeymoon. I got a call, the boss frantic, that no one could remember the password, and that they had looked through my office for a hint. Even the other most technically inclined person slapped his head when I told him, "Are you at my desk? And you couldn't find anything? Look on my keyboard..."
Google search found This good interview with you...
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:)
In my last two contracts, I've spend three years doing my best to save poorly managed projects. It doesn't just apply to how the managers treat the developers. What is also as important, if not more so, is how management deals with the client. If management is consistently dealing with the clients in a less-than-optimal manner, then the end product will be less than the client expects.
This can have a huge demoralizing effect on the developers that worked on the project. There is nothing sweeter than to fulfill the client's every dream, and give them something that they didn't even realize they needed. (Of course, they better realize their needs if you are doing proper life-cycle development.
So, here I am, looking to not renew my contract. This time around, I plan on analyzing their development cycles much more thoroughly than I have in the past. Who knows, maybe I'll luck out and get a great environment.
</RANT>On a side note, I have found that projects went much smoother when I was around for the initial Analysis phase, rather than coming in during the development phase, and having to re-work previous "documents".
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If anyone needs a Sr. Developer/Analyst that specializes in full-lifecycle development of three-tiered applications utilizing (gasp) Microsoft products, feel free to download my Resume.doc or Resume.rtf.
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