Nothing wrong with a decent environment.
Keep in mind that particularly in tech companies getting the best can make a big difference.
A great coder can get more done than 10 mediocre ones but only cost 2 or 3 times as much to pay.
The best and brightest who are already earning enough that money isn't a big problem in their lives are also more likely to want to work somewhere where they're happy rather than going for that extra 5K per year.
Sure you could just up the pay but if the cost of the perks/parties is less than what you'd have to pay those same people to keep them in a horrible workplace then you're better off going with the snacks and cola.
that being said, people who are not decent workers should be dropped like a rock if they're simply not getting the work done.
The best lecturer I ever had didn't use any textbooks. If you asked him a lot of very detailed questions about some section of the course you were interested in he'd answer you and then recommend some books that might interest you but that was it.
Another good lecturer was of the opinion that by the time many books on his subject were in the library they were mostly out of date anyway.
Just trying to say, you won't get an education equal to that of the course just by reading the textbooks.
If you want to be a network engineer don't bother looking to see what the college course books on the subject are, they're chosen assuming there will be someone to help you along.
You're much better off going onto a network engineers forum and asking them what would be good to read. ask when you can't understand a concept.
You say it like people don't use and extreme one sided reading of the bible when they want to justify something and don't already suffer from a lot of misunderstandings.
I've talked to ones who believe that monopolies wouldn't really happen in a truely free market.
All problems are due to regulation you see!
And the great thing is that the term "regulation" covers to very much if you're willing to strech it so no matter what it's always because of "regulations".
Rules for monopolies:Regulation!
Health and safety laws:Regulation!
Child labour laws:Regulation!
Insider trading laws:Regulation!
Clean air laws:Regulation!
Don't you see? If we get rid of all regulation then the world will be a eutopia and everything will be great!
There are far too many people out there who see how the free market is great at providing playstations and think it would be somehow a good idea to rely on it to provide everything.
Yes private companies can be good at running some things. For others it's a massive clusterfuck. The same can be said of government bodies. They can be great at providing some things but for others are a huge fuckup.
If 3(2 just isn't enough much of the time, the more the better) or more companies can provide a competing service to everyone then it's good to be privatised. If it's something where you only have one choice and can't move company because you're hooked to one big infrastructure or there aren't enough people to support more than one service then keep the companies the fuck away. Electricity is a good example or health in lower population areas.
Health is unusual in that it doesn't fit the same model as playstations since if you really need it there's a fair chance that your earning potential is already seriously reduced.
I have no money,I want a playstation, I work and save to buy a playstation, I buy one.
I have no money,I need treatment, I'm too sick to work, I die.
Solution, bring it above board, regulate it, unionise it.
Bring it out of the back rooms and seedy motels and give the girls some decent protection.
Take the fucking control away from pimps and organised crime and you fix most of the problem.
On many counts I applaud you, you're responsible parent.
I'm curious though, if you came to believe they were hiding something forbidden in their safes how long would they remain private? 5 minutes?
At their current ages I'd agree, privacy shouldn't be an issue. For very young children a lot of control is only sensible but what's the plan for when they get older?
Tagging and tracking a 6 year old is good sense. Tagging and tracking a 16 year old is fucking creepy even if it is your child.
Either you're gonna have to change the system quite a but as they get older or they'll start rebelling big time once they hit the teens.
As the userbase shifts towards more mainstream users and away from the technically abled the percentage of users to whom the "who possesses the knowledge" actually applies drops and the number who are likely to be slow updating their systems goes up.This changes the game a little.
I'm a supporter of the open model but I can see where they're coming from.
The thing is that while security through obscurity is a fools game it can also hurt your users to publish exact details of the security vulnerabilities you've found in your own product before many of your users have had a chance to patch the problem.
Aren't they already bankrupt?
So this money will come from where?
Damn limited liability.Is there any way they can they go after the shareholders in any meaningful way once the company folds?
Bah!
Why can't slashdot pay attention to normal text formatting and instead requires me to dump br tags in whenever I want a newline.
every other damn board on the web manages the simple task of dealing with newlines.
About 10 years ago, a group of graduate students lodged a complaint with Linda C. Babcock, a professor of economics at Carnegie Mellon University: All their male counterparts in the university's PhD program were teaching courses on their own, whereas the women were working only as teaching assistants.
That mattered, because doctoral students who teach their own classes get more experience and look better prepared when it comes time to go on the job market.
When Babcock took the complaint to her boss, she learned there was a very simple explanation: "The dean said each of the guys had come to him and said, 'I want to teach a course,' and none of the women had done that," she said. "The female students had expected someone to send around an e-mail saying, 'Who wants to teach?' " The incident prompted Babcock to start systematically studying gender differences when it comes to asking for pay raises, resources or promotions. And what she found was that men and women are indeed often different when it comes to opening negotiations.
These differences, Babcock and other researchers have concluded, may partially explain the persistent gender gap in salaries, as well as other disparities in how people rise to the top of organizations. Women working full time earn about 77 percent of the salaries of men working full time, Babcock said. That figure does not take differing professions and educational levels into account, but when those and other factors are controlled for, women who work full time and have never taken time off to have children earn about 11 percent less than men with equivalent education and experience.
In one early study, Babcock brought 74 volunteers into a laboratory to play a word game called Boggle. The volunteers were told they would be paid anywhere from $3 to $10 for their time. After playing the game, each student was given $3 and asked if the sum was okay. Eight times more men than women asked for more money.
Babcock then ran the experiment a different way. She told a new set of 153 volunteers that they would be paid $3 to $10 but explicitly added that the sum was negotiable. Many more now asked for more money, but the gender gap remained substantial: 58 percent of the women, but 83 percent of the men, asked for more.
Another study quizzed graduating master's degree students who had received job offers about whether they had simply accepted the offered starting salary or had tried to negotiate for more. Four times as many men -- 51 percent of the men vs. 12.5 percent of the women -- said they had pushed for a better deal. Not surprisingly, those who negotiated tended to be rewarded -- they got 7.4 percent more, on average -- compared with those who did not negotiate.
In other words "Men get more because they ask for it"
Anyone got the math for how much video memory you'd need to render a landscape at high enough resolution with a large and complex enough environment to fool the human eye?
it kinda is.
I run windows because I like my games working out of the box without having to deal with any WINE shit.
I cannot run most of my games on Linux.
The mailbox is almost a perfect example if you throw in something to make the point of how it's easier to spot someone walking up to your mailbox without technical knowledge than to spot some wardriver dropping illegal material through your pipe.
From my bedroom I can see no less than 5 wep networks, all of which I could quite easily break into.
Yes but that's not someone using your property for something malicious, that's someone getting hurt because you haven't maintained your path properly and you have your mailbox located such that the postman has to walk over it to give you your letter.
Tripping over a cobblestone would be more like if my wifi was set to some weird frequency which knocked out the pacemakers of passers by. sure then I'd probably be liable. and rightly so.
I think strict regulation requiring cameras in every room and a special inspector in every hotel who checks everyone entering for pedophilic tendencies is the only answer.
Hotel owners and landlords should be charged with rape if they allow someone to rent a room who later has sex with a minor in there.
it's for the children after all.
If I have a second home which get's broken into while I'm away and is used by the squatters for a mail scam am I liable for what they do?
The packets are coming from my house with my return address yet I'm not the one sending them.
(equivilent to someone hacking your network)
If I lock my door but there's a lose window people can get in should I be a criminal for not securing it properly? (kinda like using WEP)
If I'm just a hippy who doesn't believe in locking my door because "it's like.... a barrier to people man." should I be subject to the same regulation as hotels,hostels and landlords?
over the top IP laws are great for big companies which own a lot of patents and copyrights already in the states but if I try to start a small company say writing software then the patent system becomes like Russian roulette. If one of the big boys decides that I've unknowingly recreated some of their patented code then I can be in for a costly legal battle.
and there are so many American students at my European Uni that they have a fairly big society. It's a running joke now that Americans come over for 6 months to life.
Yes some of the best colleges in the world are in America like MIT but America most certainly does not have a monopoly on good 3rd level education.
I like socialized healthcare simply because while the free market model works grand for playstations (You have little money, you want a playstation, so you work hard to make money, you buy one) it works less well for medical care (You have little money, you get sick, you're too sick to work, you die).
And when someone dies for no good reason the society loses all that investment in educating and raising and training that person to that point.
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Nothing wrong with a decent environment. Keep in mind that particularly in tech companies getting the best can make a big difference. A great coder can get more done than 10 mediocre ones but only cost 2 or 3 times as much to pay. The best and brightest who are already earning enough that money isn't a big problem in their lives are also more likely to want to work somewhere where they're happy rather than going for that extra 5K per year. Sure you could just up the pay but if the cost of the perks/parties is less than what you'd have to pay those same people to keep them in a horrible workplace then you're better off going with the snacks and cola. that being said, people who are not decent workers should be dropped like a rock if they're simply not getting the work done.
The best lecturer I ever had didn't use any textbooks. If you asked him a lot of very detailed questions about some section of the course you were interested in he'd answer you and then recommend some books that might interest you but that was it.
Another good lecturer was of the opinion that by the time many books on his subject were in the library they were mostly out of date anyway.
Just trying to say, you won't get an education equal to that of the course just by reading the textbooks.
If you want to be a network engineer don't bother looking to see what the college course books on the subject are, they're chosen assuming there will be someone to help you along. You're much better off going onto a network engineers forum and asking them what would be good to read.
ask when you can't understand a concept.
You say it like people don't use and extreme one sided reading of the bible when they want to justify something and don't already suffer from a lot of misunderstandings.
I've talked to ones who believe that monopolies wouldn't really happen in a truely free market.
All problems are due to regulation you see!
And the great thing is that the term "regulation" covers to very much if you're willing to strech it so no matter what it's always because of "regulations".
Rules for monopolies:Regulation!
Health and safety laws:Regulation!
Child labour laws:Regulation!
Insider trading laws:Regulation!
Clean air laws:Regulation!
Don't you see? If we get rid of all regulation then the world will be a eutopia and everything will be great!
There are far too many people out there who see how the free market is great at providing playstations and think it would be somehow a good idea to rely on it to provide everything.
Yes private companies can be good at running some things. For others it's a massive clusterfuck. The same can be said of government bodies. They can be great at providing some things but for others are a huge fuckup.
If 3(2 just isn't enough much of the time, the more the better) or more companies can provide a competing service to everyone then it's good to be privatised. If it's something where you only have one choice and can't move company because you're hooked to one big infrastructure or there aren't enough people to support more than one service then keep the companies the fuck away. Electricity is a good example or health in lower population areas.
Health is unusual in that it doesn't fit the same model as playstations since if you really need it there's a fair chance that your earning potential is already seriously reduced.
I have no money,I want a playstation, I work and save to buy a playstation, I buy one.
I have no money,I need treatment, I'm too sick to work, I die.
Solution, bring it above board, regulate it, unionise it.
Bring it out of the back rooms and seedy motels and give the girls some decent protection.
Take the fucking control away from pimps and organised crime and you fix most of the problem.
On many counts I applaud you, you're responsible parent. I'm curious though, if you came to believe they were hiding something forbidden in their safes how long would they remain private? 5 minutes?
At their current ages I'd agree, privacy shouldn't be an issue. For very young children a lot of control is only sensible but what's the plan for when they get older?
Tagging and tracking a 6 year old is good sense. Tagging and tracking a 16 year old is fucking creepy even if it is your child.
Either you're gonna have to change the system quite a but as they get older or they'll start rebelling big time once they hit the teens.
we don't have a prime minister and I'm fairly sure customs don't wear green.
I'm inclined to trust the card which has been working fine for 5 years over a card which was put in yesterday.
As the userbase shifts towards more mainstream users and away from the technically abled the percentage of users to whom the "who possesses the knowledge" actually applies drops and the number who are likely to be slow updating their systems goes up.This changes the game a little. I'm a supporter of the open model but I can see where they're coming from.
And so the cycle continues.
The thing is that while security through obscurity is a fools game it can also hurt your users to publish exact details of the security vulnerabilities you've found in your own product before many of your users have had a chance to patch the problem.
Aren't they already bankrupt? So this money will come from where? Damn limited liability.Is there any way they can they go after the shareholders in any meaningful way once the company folds?
Bah!
Why can't slashdot pay attention to normal text formatting and instead requires me to dump br tags in whenever I want a newline.
every other damn board on the web manages the simple task of dealing with newlines.
About 10 years ago, a group of graduate students lodged a complaint with Linda C. Babcock, a professor of economics at Carnegie Mellon University: All their male counterparts in the university's PhD program were teaching courses on their own, whereas the women were working only as teaching assistants. That mattered, because doctoral students who teach their own classes get more experience and look better prepared when it comes time to go on the job market. When Babcock took the complaint to her boss, she learned there was a very simple explanation: "The dean said each of the guys had come to him and said, 'I want to teach a course,' and none of the women had done that," she said. "The female students had expected someone to send around an e-mail saying, 'Who wants to teach?' " The incident prompted Babcock to start systematically studying gender differences when it comes to asking for pay raises, resources or promotions. And what she found was that men and women are indeed often different when it comes to opening negotiations. These differences, Babcock and other researchers have concluded, may partially explain the persistent gender gap in salaries, as well as other disparities in how people rise to the top of organizations. Women working full time earn about 77 percent of the salaries of men working full time, Babcock said. That figure does not take differing professions and educational levels into account, but when those and other factors are controlled for, women who work full time and have never taken time off to have children earn about 11 percent less than men with equivalent education and experience. In one early study, Babcock brought 74 volunteers into a laboratory to play a word game called Boggle. The volunteers were told they would be paid anywhere from $3 to $10 for their time. After playing the game, each student was given $3 and asked if the sum was okay. Eight times more men than women asked for more money. Babcock then ran the experiment a different way. She told a new set of 153 volunteers that they would be paid $3 to $10 but explicitly added that the sum was negotiable. Many more now asked for more money, but the gender gap remained substantial: 58 percent of the women, but 83 percent of the men, asked for more. Another study quizzed graduating master's degree students who had received job offers about whether they had simply accepted the offered starting salary or had tried to negotiate for more. Four times as many men -- 51 percent of the men vs. 12.5 percent of the women -- said they had pushed for a better deal. Not surprisingly, those who negotiated tended to be rewarded -- they got 7.4 percent more, on average -- compared with those who did not negotiate.
In other words "Men get more because they ask for it"
I loved that game, some of the mods were fantastic and it doesn't age like many games do since it was never flashy on the graphics front.
Anyone got the math for how much video memory you'd need to render a landscape at high enough resolution with a large and complex enough environment to fool the human eye?
it kinda is. I run windows because I like my games working out of the box without having to deal with any WINE shit. I cannot run most of my games on Linux.
1. Create free OS 2. Update it 3. Sell Support for free OS. 4. Profit!
The mailbox is almost a perfect example if you throw in something to make the point of how it's easier to spot someone walking up to your mailbox without technical knowledge than to spot some wardriver dropping illegal material through your pipe.
From my bedroom I can see no less than 5 wep networks, all of which I could quite easily break into.
Yes but that's not someone using your property for something malicious, that's someone getting hurt because you haven't maintained your path properly and you have your mailbox located such that the postman has to walk over it to give you your letter.
Tripping over a cobblestone would be more like if my wifi was set to some weird frequency which knocked out the pacemakers of passers by. sure then I'd probably be liable. and rightly so.
I think strict regulation requiring cameras in every room and a special inspector in every hotel who checks everyone entering for pedophilic tendencies is the only answer.
Hotel owners and landlords should be charged with rape if they allow someone to rent a room who later has sex with a minor in there.
it's for the children after all.
If I have a second home which get's broken into while I'm away and is used by the squatters for a mail scam am I liable for what they do?
The packets are coming from my house with my return address yet I'm not the one sending them.
(equivilent to someone hacking your network)
If I lock my door but there's a lose window people can get in should I be a criminal for not securing it properly? (kinda like using WEP)
If I'm just a hippy who doesn't believe in locking my door because "it's like.... a barrier to people man." should I be subject to the same regulation as hotels,hostels and landlords?
over the top IP laws are great for big companies which own a lot of patents and copyrights already in the states but if I try to start a small company say writing software then the patent system becomes like Russian roulette. If one of the big boys decides that I've unknowingly recreated some of their patented code then I can be in for a costly legal battle.
users to access pornography at a speed previously only dreamed of!
Where in europe do you mean? Some countries are better than others on this.
and there are so many American students at my European Uni that they have a fairly big society. It's a running joke now that Americans come over for 6 months to life. Yes some of the best colleges in the world are in America like MIT but America most certainly does not have a monopoly on good 3rd level education. I like socialized healthcare simply because while the free market model works grand for playstations (You have little money, you want a playstation, so you work hard to make money, you buy one) it works less well for medical care (You have little money, you get sick, you're too sick to work, you die). And when someone dies for no good reason the society loses all that investment in educating and raising and training that person to that point.