As an American IT worker, I've never worried about the H-1B worker. Why? Because I'm a well rounded IT worker who has done most if not all of it. I'm not a 10 out 10 on every technology but I have a lot of 7's and 8's and I know more then most about networking, the internet and enterprise computing. I read, I study and I work hard, plus I can communicate effectively and I can lead a team. I'm no better then any other geek or nerd, I just try harder and recognize that what I do for a living is looked at as a cost center in most organizations.
There's no magic here. If you do a good job, communicate well, and are well rounded you should never have to worry about a job. H-1B visa workers are not a threat, they just raise the bar a little bit on native American workers. Ultimately if you are the most valuable choice for a company they will pick you. It's not always about the cheapest laborer.
Why are you worried about other peoples property, just state as part of the sign up that you can't be held responsible.
Hold the event at a licensed event center or hall. Doing this should ensure that you don't have to worry about someone getting hurt. If something happens they sue the event location (who has insurance). Talk to the venue about what they are willing to cover in case something happens. Also have a disclaimer on your tickets / sign-up sheets that explain you are to be held harmless in the event of an accident.
If you are still worried about getting sued for someone getting hurt seek Event Liability Insurance you can track down numerous places that sell it by googling for "Event Liability Insurance". Or even easier call your normal insurance rep and see if they can recommend someone. Most good car / home / renter insurance reps can get you to someone who can help.
I'm not a lawyer but if you follow these tips and do some 5th grade math you ought to be able to have fun at your event and make a couple of bucks for your time!
You're missing the point. Leave it as a free economy and allow the user base who purchases apps to bubble what's selling to the top.
Apple already has a means to deal with this. This application would have been at the dead-bottom of "Top Paid Apps" category.
And if you're too stupid to read the price, type in your password and accept a $1000 purchase well then you probably don't deserve to use a fork either.
That's an excellent suggestion. Have you tried stopping in and having a conversation with the store manager for your local video store?
Most mom and pop stores won't turn down the extra money. If all you have are corporate type stores the store manager might just do it for you as a goodwill towards the community. He does nice for you, you speak highly of the chain and help increase your business.
Different career direction. I was working for a ISP in college and ended up a systems types guy rather then programmer and haven't done much programming since then, other then shell scripting / etc...
I work for a fortune 100 company and we have a ton of middleware running on Apache Tomcat. Currently we have Tomcat running on old Sun Servers, HP Servers and newly procured Linux servers.
One surprising thing to me is the number of Windows 2003 Servers that we have running Apache Tomcat as well.
Maybe Microsoft realizes that there is some big business potential playing nicely with Apache?
It matters in the sense that it's a way for Debian to release a new installer or move to a new standard for device management, but as a whole it doesn't *really* matter. If you are using "stable" in your sources.list verses the actually release name you'll in all likelihood just upgrade right along to the new release, and probably without much fuss.
The deal feel through because of Jerry Yang's ego. Taking the deal was the right thing to do for the shareholders and he didn't do it because he let his pride/ego get in the way.
I'm not sure that this is surprising to anyone... So you've got a great idea? Perhaps the next big thing? Now you have to worry about raising capital, starting a business, locating space to work, equipment, licensing, regulations, etc...
It's just not as simple as -
1. Idea 2. Profit
Running a business is tough even when you have a great idea! It's not surprising that older more experienced people are involved in tech startups. Heck, look at google, two young guys but they had "handlers" to help them get going!
Most if not all companies who are shipping laptops, Apple, IBM, Dell, etc... Are purchasing or sourcing their LCD panels to a third party. There are only a handful of companies left producing LCD panels.
It won't take much to force wide screen panels down the consumers throat. If one of the big names stops offering traditional panels, and then a second large laptop company follows suit, it won't be long before the price of normal LCD's goes way up in price. At that point watch for the rest of the manufacturers to follow right along and *poof* no more traditional LCD panels, or at least no more traditional panels without a *huge* premium.
I'm not defending ad injection or DNS redirection by any means.
However if you are on one of these providers and they are hijacking miss typed sub domain traffic you can regain control by using a wild card DNS entry for your domain and handle this with a properly configured web server. I know Apache has supported this for some time now.
Ebay moved away from it's core business by acquiring Skype in the first place. It's not supporting their core business so it only makes sense to spin the business unit out into it's own business probably via public stock offering, thus infusing ebay with a bushel of cash. This allows them to get back to the core business and focus on expanding ebay not figuring out how to integrate a business that just doesn't fit.
I'll ask the obvious question here... Why subscribe to these providers that limit or restrict your traffic?
You may respond that, they are your only choice. Well unless you choose to go without or you choose to help lobby for better legislation then you're stuck.
Also are you willing to pay more for your internet? I choose to go with a DSL provider who is 1/3 the speed of Comcast and I pay a little more every month to be with them. Why? They don't limit my traffic and they let me have a static IP. To me it's worth it.
Just my two cents. I see a lot of people complaining but most don't want to do more then just that. Vote with your dollar! Donate to lobbies that are fighting for your cause. Otherwise stop complaining.
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Can we vote for a do over all the choices suck?
As an American IT worker, I've never worried about the H-1B worker. Why? Because I'm a well rounded IT worker who has done most if not all of it. I'm not a 10 out 10 on every technology but I have a lot of 7's and 8's and I know more then most about networking, the internet and enterprise computing. I read, I study and I work hard, plus I can communicate effectively and I can lead a team. I'm no better then any other geek or nerd, I just try harder and recognize that what I do for a living is looked at as a cost center in most organizations.
There's no magic here. If you do a good job, communicate well, and are well rounded you should never have to worry about a job. H-1B visa workers are not a threat, they just raise the bar a little bit on native American workers. Ultimately if you are the most valuable choice for a company they will pick you. It's not always about the cheapest laborer.
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Am I the only one hoping for naked pictures????
Of Sarah that is!
Why are you worried about other peoples property, just state as part of the sign up that you can't be held responsible.
Hold the event at a licensed event center or hall. Doing this should ensure that you don't have to worry about someone getting hurt. If something happens they sue the event location (who has insurance). Talk to the venue about what they are willing to cover in case something happens. Also have a disclaimer on your tickets / sign-up sheets that explain you are to be held harmless in the event of an accident.
If you are still worried about getting sued for someone getting hurt seek Event Liability Insurance you can track down numerous places that sell it by googling for "Event Liability Insurance". Or even easier call your normal insurance rep and see if they can recommend someone. Most good car / home / renter insurance reps can get you to someone who can help.
I'm not a lawyer but if you follow these tips and do some 5th grade math you ought to be able to have fun at your event and make a couple of bucks for your time!
You're missing the point. Leave it as a free economy and allow the user base who purchases apps to bubble what's selling to the top.
Apple already has a means to deal with this. This application would have been at the dead-bottom of "Top Paid Apps" category.
And if you're too stupid to read the price, type in your password and accept a $1000 purchase well then you probably don't deserve to use a fork either.
You must be new here. But welcome. You absolutely get treated better when you have more money. You can't be surprised by this?
That's an excellent suggestion. Have you tried stopping in and having a conversation with the store manager for your local video store?
Most mom and pop stores won't turn down the extra money. If all you have are corporate type stores the store manager might just do it for you as a goodwill towards the community. He does nice for you, you speak highly of the chain and help increase your business.
Funny how it works out isn't it?
Different career direction. I was working for a ISP in college and ended up a systems types guy rather then programmer and haven't done much programming since then, other then shell scripting / etc...
They day of the python? There were 2 different tools written in python.
I'm not flaming, I just thought it was interesting as I loved programming in python when in college!
I work for a fortune 100 company and we have a ton of middleware running on Apache Tomcat. Currently we have Tomcat running on old Sun Servers, HP Servers and newly procured Linux servers.
One surprising thing to me is the number of Windows 2003 Servers that we have running Apache Tomcat as well.
Maybe Microsoft realizes that there is some big business potential playing nicely with Apache?
LOL
Nice dude! I guess it (slashdot) eats the less then symbol to avoid posting html tags?
It matters in the sense that it's a way for Debian to release a new installer or move to a new standard for device management, but as a whole it doesn't *really* matter. If you are using "stable" in your sources.list verses the actually release name you'll in all likelihood just upgrade right along to the new release, and probably without much fuss.
I'm excited either way because I 3 Debian!
The deal feel through because of Jerry Yang's ego. Taking the deal was the right thing to do for the shareholders and he didn't do it because he let his pride/ego get in the way.
I had trouble with my Netgear wireless router... It would work fine for a few days then would stop accepting new connections.
I upgraded to the latest firmware and haven't had any trouble since...
If you haven't already tried, it's probably worth a shot!
Nice post!
I'm not sure that this is surprising to anyone... So you've got a great idea? Perhaps the next big thing? Now you have to worry about raising capital, starting a business, locating space to work, equipment, licensing, regulations, etc...
It's just not as simple as -
1. Idea
2. Profit
Running a business is tough even when you have a great idea! It's not surprising that older more experienced people are involved in tech startups. Heck, look at google, two young guys but they had "handlers" to help them get going!
Most if not all companies who are shipping laptops, Apple, IBM, Dell, etc... Are purchasing or sourcing their LCD panels to a third party. There are only a handful of companies left producing LCD panels.
It won't take much to force wide screen panels down the consumers throat. If one of the big names stops offering traditional panels, and then a second large laptop company follows suit, it won't be long before the price of normal LCD's goes way up in price. At that point watch for the rest of the manufacturers to follow right along and *poof* no more traditional LCD panels, or at least no more traditional panels without a *huge* premium.
I'm not defending ad injection or DNS redirection by any means.
However if you are on one of these providers and they are hijacking miss typed sub domain traffic you can regain control by using a wild card DNS entry for your domain and handle this with a properly configured web server. I know Apache has supported this for some time now.
It's interesting that the same people who sell you cable are complaining about video on demand over there data network...
Conflict of interest maybe guys?
Slashdot is working with the Chinese government to further the DOS attack on CNN by leveraging it's large and generally under-sexed user base!
Okay I'll bite.
Ebay moved away from it's core business by acquiring Skype in the first place. It's not supporting their core business so it only makes sense to spin the business unit out into it's own business probably via public stock offering, thus infusing ebay with a bushel of cash. This allows them to get back to the core business and focus on expanding ebay not figuring out how to integrate a business that just doesn't fit.
I'll ask the obvious question here... Why subscribe to these providers that limit or restrict your traffic?
You may respond that, they are your only choice. Well unless you choose to go without or you choose to help lobby for better legislation then you're stuck.
Also are you willing to pay more for your internet? I choose to go with a DSL provider who is 1/3 the speed of Comcast and I pay a little more every month to be with them. Why? They don't limit my traffic and they let me have a static IP. To me it's worth it.
Just my two cents. I see a lot of people complaining but most don't want to do more then just that. Vote with your dollar! Donate to lobbies that are fighting for your cause. Otherwise stop complaining.
Let me get this straight?
I put a server on the internet.
I don't password protect it.
I don't even bother to put a robots.txt file, which google would respect.
I get indexed and it's googles fault?
I think it's the clueless person who put a server up on the internet and made it publicly available.