Back in school, a cheesy community college, we had one professor who always used a program called SHERLOCK.EXE to compare two files. She thought this was an infallible method to catch cheaters. We, as a class, chose to mess with her mind one day. We all submitted the same program for a weekly project, but we GREPped the hell out of the program, changing variable names willy nilly and rearranging the procedure calls. Then to add some insult to injury, we added superflous comments here and there. Wahoo, the program did not flag a single instance of "cheating". Sure the include files/libraries were the same, what could she expect? I personally had one include file that contained all the required libraries. The layout was identical for all programs, being a requirement. Wubba wubba. Exactly how many ways can you execute the same algorithm? Gazillions, or 34 to be exact. Just to let you know, we told her about her GREAT program and it's limitations. Bummer for the next class, but my group got decent grades. Yes the program worked per specification. Ho hum.
This farce, was ill conceived. The program was written in Russia. It was not against the law there, but US douchebags thought they would make a "statement". How pathetic are US anyway? Back-ups of software for archival purposes have been legal for years. Was everyone asleep at the wheel on this one? Shit, I am embarrassed at being an American. "Slick Happens"
Some vendors support end users very well, Compaq comes to mind, as I have several Compaq machines and if I have problems they fix them. HP on the other hand is a pain in the buttocks to get repair on their stuff. I have since stopped buying HP stuff, but with the merger, who knows?
IBM is great on support. Dell, has been helpful when I needed help, even replacing a front of a server that I dropped a monitor on, for free. I did pay over 3500 buckaroos for this one, so they might as well replace it for free...or risk pissing me off...like Sears, Roebuck and Company did YEARS ago. What evre did happen to Roebuck anyway? We need a poll that can be used to show how the various manufacturers perform servicewise.
If this guy gave us his address, I would personally send hin 5 bucks to help his cause. The corporate weenies need to be sent a message.
I am writing the BattleBots people to put in my two cents worth, and I am close to 50 years old. I will tell them that I will cease and desist watching their show. No big loss. In a more important vein, participants in the Battlebots show should boycott the show for two years. This would bring the Battlebots assholes to their knees and allow time for more complete development of better bots to battle with. I say hit them in their pocketbooks!
These corporations would do something like this. The smart move would be to provide a grant to OpenBSD and let the chips fall as they will. Just my opinion. Flamebait.com
One has to make assumptions with this report. Assume the farmer is innocent, or that a SMALL percentage of the Monsanto 'product' is the result of accidental transmission. I can hardly see trucks full of seed driving by and letting the seed fly everywhere. Seed comes in bags for the most part. I can see birds eating the seeds and being unable to digest the seeds, and thereby depositing the seeds elsewhere than where they are licensed. Assume that Monsanto made the seeds/hybrid/engineered fertile and capable of reproduction. (It would be a real bitch for Monsanto to have to grow gazillions of acres of rapeseed(canola) to supply farmers with seeds to use for crop production).
Now let us get some wild speculation going here...canola(Canadian Oil) also known as rapeseed, is planted for the oil extracted from the plant. Perhaps the most oil that can be extracted lies in the seed itself. (I know this is pretty far-fetched) Now let us assume that some farmer plants the Monsanto product. How would he/she extract the oil? With corn, the stuff is crushed. Wouldn't crushing the seeds basically destroy them for reproductive uses? I would guess the answer is yes, but how does the next crop spring up? Do the farmers reserve some of their crop for planting next year? Do they pool their seeds in a co-operative manner, or do they harvest their own seeds and store them where no cross contamination can occur? Do they have to relicense their reserved seeds? They are after all second generation, think of it as a software release, first crop REV 1.0, second crop REV 2.0.
Do you see how absurd this is getting?
What if this farmer is surrounded by others who use and license the Monsanto product? Are they not responsible, as this farmer apparently was held, for allowing Monsanto product to be transferred to unlicensed "users"?
I searched the US Constitution and failed to find the word 'constituents' anywhere in the document. I was taught that each representative represents the whole country, not just a specific generalized area. Perhaps what I was taught so many years ago is not correct...perhaps. Not!
For about $250.00 you can have a nifty(yes nifty)
little Personal Data Assistant. What is the point?
I carry a pen, a small spiral bound pad and my watch does the math for me. What INHERENT use does a PDA have that one should shell out $250.00?
More importantly, why run Linux on one? Where are you going to be multitasking, and what? Please do not say games, the world wastes too much time on them anyway.
Zoomshorts
There is a simple, yet often misunderstood concept
in the law, IANAL, but If I threaten you, for whatever reason, and you believe I will follow up on the threat, then I have assaulted you. You have legal recourse. It is called charging me with assault. (Lawyers please comment)
That being said, the student was acting as an agent of the school and community. She should be defended as such. If she was paranoid, and the if
other student was simply bullshitting(a legal term), then she should have used better judgement. She should be held liable for her actions if they are actionable. Rumor and innuendoe(sp) are no excuse for panic, IMNSHO. Paranoia and fear must be balanced. If this girl was paranoid and felt that many people disliked her to the point of actually hurting her, then she needs counseling. OR she needs to change they way she is, so as not to generate such dislike. Wubba!?
Why is it that we do not hear any news about the
manufacture of electronics using cement? With the
proper doping and selection of architecture we
could make our sidewalks into HUGE and unwieldy
radios and other deathtrap devices. Now THAT would be science...
Vanity press shops are NOT for distributing much of anything. They exist to satisfy a person's vanity. In other words, no other publisher wants to print your book. You would be better off if you got an agent and submitted your works to the large technology publishing companies. If you are good enough, they will pick you up as an author.
Surprise!
Dude! I use Carvin gear too. Professional quality and the price was sweet. I grabbed the 2100 dollar model with a 16 channel mixing board, one never knows when one might wish to rock and roll somewhere and need one of those babies! 1000 watts and bone shaking sound. Like their ads say, clean and transparent. Love it. My Bose 901 speakers are in the attic next to my Rectilinears.
The States are not LOSING taxes, they never had them. They wish to increase the tax burden by now taxing that which was not taxed before. These folks need to be stopped. They are typical money hungry so they can spend more politicians.
Sure it can, I believe it is as bad if not worse.
My feelings, and they are only that, are that this version is a disaster from a continuity standpoint. The timeline and the needed information that should lead us from sequence to sequence are simply missing.
While this version of the story has a closer resembelance to the actual book than the first pathetic attempt to render it on the silver screen, one simply has to wonder if the screen writer had actually read the book ever.
The timeline jumps around, important sequences are left out and I personally think it could have been done better and more accurately in BLACK and WHITE. The story simply isn't being told. My wife asked me what was going on every few minutes, and I really was at a loss to explain the rational behind the scene. The story should be complete and if we need a narrator, he/she should be there when the scenes cut to parts that do not follow the book. Mr. Herbert would probably shit his pants, then call a lawyer.
There are two things that came from this policy:
First was resentment.
Apparently there is no second thing. Excellent follow through.
The new company's offer included an adjusted sign-on bonus that paid for his previous "debt". It would be an ACTUAL debt. Nor a quote DEBT unquote, and the additional money would not end up in the employees pocket. Your point, however fuzzy, is?
Courts generally favor employees? Give me a break. When was the last time you signed a contract and defaulted on it? Oh, I guess you are a minor and still live at home too. Try the word lawyer, the other one is too hard for you to spell. I am not the employer, I merely gave one way SOME companies do business. The operative worh here is BUSINESS, not charity. It is true that one should consult a lawyer when signing any contract. That is merely prudent. The company I work for provides 80 percent reimbursement for school. College, that is. Certifications are something we look for the employees to BRING WITH THEM. The comapny I work for willpay for certifications, but on temployee terms. Real world reality check here youngster.
Well you certainly read more into the post than existed. I do not own the company, I work for them. I was merely telling folks how things work in some companies. Cost of doing business? If I were an employer, I would certainly NOT behave like a momma to my employees. I would not potty train them, not teach them manners, not teach them language, not teach them reasoning skills...
ad nauesum. Someone coming to work for me would have to bring his/her own current(as in up-to-date) skill set to get the job. I will not hand hold people who are not prepared for the work place. Cost of doing business my ass. You get some money of your own, then get the loans to start a business, then risk your own money, credit worthiness and your own reputation and start a business of your own. Then you pay for all the training your employees need or desire. Lots of luck. You are a current business owner? Consultant no doubt.
Company OFFERS this. Most companies expectpeople to bring skillsets with them when they come to work. It is not MY company,but the one I work for,and I was simply letting people know what happens here.
We use a rather standard approach, we offer training at company expense, but require the employee to work for us for a year after the training, at the same performance level. The contract is lengthy, but in essence, if we train you in a field or subject that would benefit us and the employee (making him/her more likely to seek employment elsewhere),the employee will repay the cost of training out of their last paycheck if they fail to remain with us for a year. This year timeframe is a rolling window based upon the last training received. Job performance must not decline. That is to say, we provide you with MSCE training and pay for your expenses, then you deceide to "get out of the contract" by showing poor performance in hope of being terminated and eliminating your responsibility for repayment, well, we have excellent lawyers.
This is to protect the investment we have made in our employees. Good employees are the main asset any company has, although some places do not realize this.
We are not trying to be mean, it just makes sense to protect company investments. Few people can afford the high cost of training when working at subsistance levels. (These levels are not the result of being poorly paid, but arise from the American problem of not saving enough money.) I am able to save 25 percent of my take home pay, but my co-workers are always broke and going into greater debt on a daily basis. They need new cars, fine clothes, rent their places to live and generally are not fiscally responsible. These folks want instant gratification. But this is a different topic, and I digress...
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Back in school, a cheesy community college, we had one professor who always used a program called SHERLOCK.EXE to compare two files. She thought this was an infallible method to catch cheaters. We, as a class, chose to mess with her mind one day. We all submitted the same program for a weekly project, but we GREPped the hell out of the program, changing variable names willy nilly and rearranging the procedure calls. Then to add some insult to injury, we added superflous comments here and there. Wahoo, the program did not flag a single instance of "cheating". Sure the include files/libraries were the same, what could she expect? I personally had one include file that contained all the required libraries. The layout was identical for all programs, being a requirement. Wubba wubba. Exactly how many ways can you execute the same algorithm? Gazillions, or 34 to be exact. Just to let you know, we told her about her GREAT program and it's limitations. Bummer for the next class, but my group got decent grades. Yes the program worked per specification. Ho hum.
This farce, was ill conceived. The program was written in Russia. It was not against the law there, but US douchebags thought they would make a "statement". How pathetic are US anyway? Back-ups of software for archival purposes have been legal for years. Was everyone asleep at the wheel on this one? Shit, I am embarrassed at being an American. "Slick Happens"
Some vendors support end users very well, Compaq comes to mind, as I have several Compaq machines and if I have problems they fix them. HP on the other hand is a pain in the buttocks to get repair on their stuff. I have since stopped buying HP stuff, but with the merger, who knows?
IBM is great on support. Dell, has been helpful when I needed help, even replacing a front of a server that I dropped a monitor on, for free. I did pay over 3500 buckaroos for this one, so they might as well replace it for free...or risk pissing me off...like Sears, Roebuck and Company did YEARS ago. What evre did happen to Roebuck anyway? We need a poll that can be used to show how the various manufacturers perform servicewise.
If this guy gave us his address, I would personally send hin 5 bucks to help his cause. The corporate weenies need to be sent a message.
I am writing the BattleBots people to put in my two cents worth, and I am close to 50 years old. I will tell them that I will cease and desist watching their show. No big loss. In a more important vein, participants in the Battlebots show should boycott the show for two years. This would bring the Battlebots assholes to their knees and allow time for more complete development of better bots to battle with. I say hit them in their pocketbooks!
These corporations would do something like this. The smart move would be to provide a grant to OpenBSD and let the chips fall as they will. Just my opinion. Flamebait.com
One has to make assumptions with this report. Assume the farmer is innocent, or that a SMALL percentage of the Monsanto 'product' is the result of accidental transmission. I can hardly see trucks full of seed driving by and letting the seed fly everywhere. Seed comes in bags for the most part. I can see birds eating the seeds and being unable to digest the seeds, and thereby depositing the seeds elsewhere than where they are licensed. Assume that Monsanto made the seeds/hybrid/engineered fertile and capable of reproduction. (It would be a real bitch for Monsanto to have to grow gazillions of acres of rapeseed(canola) to supply farmers with seeds to use for crop production). Now let us get some wild speculation going here...canola(Canadian Oil) also known as rapeseed, is planted for the oil extracted from the plant. Perhaps the most oil that can be extracted lies in the seed itself. (I know this is pretty far-fetched) Now let us assume that some farmer plants the Monsanto product. How would he/she extract the oil? With corn, the stuff is crushed. Wouldn't crushing the seeds basically destroy them for reproductive uses? I would guess the answer is yes, but how does the next crop spring up? Do the farmers reserve some of their crop for planting next year? Do they pool their seeds in a co-operative manner, or do they harvest their own seeds and store them where no cross contamination can occur? Do they have to relicense their reserved seeds? They are after all second generation, think of it as a software release, first crop REV 1.0, second crop REV 2.0. Do you see how absurd this is getting? What if this farmer is surrounded by others who use and license the Monsanto product? Are they not responsible, as this farmer apparently was held, for allowing Monsanto product to be transferred to unlicensed "users"?
I searched the US Constitution and failed to find the word 'constituents' anywhere in the document. I was taught that each representative represents the whole country, not just a specific generalized area. Perhaps what I was taught so many years ago is not correct...perhaps. Not!
For about $250.00 you can have a nifty(yes nifty) little Personal Data Assistant. What is the point? I carry a pen, a small spiral bound pad and my watch does the math for me. What INHERENT use does a PDA have that one should shell out $250.00? More importantly, why run Linux on one? Where are you going to be multitasking, and what? Please do not say games, the world wastes too much time on them anyway. Zoomshorts
There is a simple, yet often misunderstood concept in the law, IANAL, but If I threaten you, for whatever reason, and you believe I will follow up on the threat, then I have assaulted you. You have legal recourse. It is called charging me with assault. (Lawyers please comment) That being said, the student was acting as an agent of the school and community. She should be defended as such. If she was paranoid, and the if other student was simply bullshitting(a legal term), then she should have used better judgement. She should be held liable for her actions if they are actionable. Rumor and innuendoe(sp) are no excuse for panic, IMNSHO. Paranoia and fear must be balanced. If this girl was paranoid and felt that many people disliked her to the point of actually hurting her, then she needs counseling. OR she needs to change they way she is, so as not to generate such dislike. Wubba!?
Why is it that we do not hear any news about the manufacture of electronics using cement? With the proper doping and selection of architecture we could make our sidewalks into HUGE and unwieldy radios and other deathtrap devices. Now THAT would be science...
Vanity press shops are NOT for distributing much of anything. They exist to satisfy a person's vanity. In other words, no other publisher wants to print your book. You would be better off if you got an agent and submitted your works to the large technology publishing companies. If you are good enough, they will pick you up as an author. Surprise!
Dude! I use Carvin gear too. Professional quality and the price was sweet. I grabbed the 2100 dollar model with a 16 channel mixing board, one never knows when one might wish to rock and roll somewhere and need one of those babies! 1000 watts and bone shaking sound. Like their ads say, clean and transparent. Love it. My Bose 901 speakers are in the attic next to my Rectilinears.
The States are not LOSING taxes, they never had them. They wish to increase the tax burden by now taxing that which was not taxed before. These folks need to be stopped. They are typical money hungry so they can spend more politicians.
Sure it can, I believe it is as bad if not worse. My feelings, and they are only that, are that this version is a disaster from a continuity standpoint. The timeline and the needed information that should lead us from sequence to sequence are simply missing.
While this version of the story has a closer resembelance to the actual book than the first pathetic attempt to render it on the silver screen, one simply has to wonder if the screen writer had actually read the book ever. The timeline jumps around, important sequences are left out and I personally think it could have been done better and more accurately in BLACK and WHITE. The story simply isn't being told. My wife asked me what was going on every few minutes, and I really was at a loss to explain the rational behind the scene. The story should be complete and if we need a narrator, he/she should be there when the scenes cut to parts that do not follow the book. Mr. Herbert would probably shit his pants, then call a lawyer.
There are two things that came from this policy: First was resentment. Apparently there is no second thing. Excellent follow through. The new company's offer included an adjusted sign-on bonus that paid for his previous "debt". It would be an ACTUAL debt. Nor a quote DEBT unquote, and the additional money would not end up in the employees pocket. Your point, however fuzzy, is?
Courts generally favor employees? Give me a break. When was the last time you signed a contract and defaulted on it? Oh, I guess you are a minor and still live at home too. Try the word lawyer, the other one is too hard for you to spell. I am not the employer, I merely gave one way SOME companies do business. The operative worh here is BUSINESS, not charity. It is true that one should consult a lawyer when signing any contract. That is merely prudent. The company I work for provides 80 percent reimbursement for school. College, that is. Certifications are something we look for the employees to BRING WITH THEM. The comapny I work for willpay for certifications, but on temployee terms. Real world reality check here youngster.
I'll bet you live at home.
Well you certainly read more into the post than existed. I do not own the company, I work for them. I was merely telling folks how things work in some companies. Cost of doing business? If I were an employer, I would certainly NOT behave like a momma to my employees. I would not potty train them, not teach them manners, not teach them language, not teach them reasoning skills... ad nauesum. Someone coming to work for me would have to bring his/her own current(as in up-to-date) skill set to get the job. I will not hand hold people who are not prepared for the work place. Cost of doing business my ass. You get some money of your own, then get the loans to start a business, then risk your own money, credit worthiness and your own reputation and start a business of your own. Then you pay for all the training your employees need or desire. Lots of luck. You are a current business owner? Consultant no doubt.
Company OFFERS this. Most companies expectpeople to bring skillsets with them when they come to work. It is not MY company,but the one I work for,and I was simply letting people know what happens here.
We use a rather standard approach, we offer training at company expense, but require the employee to work for us for a year after the training, at the same performance level. The contract is lengthy, but in essence, if we train you in a field or subject that would benefit us and the employee (making him/her more likely to seek employment elsewhere),the employee will repay the cost of training out of their last paycheck if they fail to remain with us for a year. This year timeframe is a rolling window based upon the last training received. Job performance must not decline. That is to say, we provide you with MSCE training and pay for your expenses, then you deceide to "get out of the contract" by showing poor performance in hope of being terminated and eliminating your responsibility for repayment, well, we have excellent lawyers. This is to protect the investment we have made in our employees. Good employees are the main asset any company has, although some places do not realize this. We are not trying to be mean, it just makes sense to protect company investments. Few people can afford the high cost of training when working at subsistance levels. (These levels are not the result of being poorly paid, but arise from the American problem of not saving enough money.) I am able to save 25 percent of my take home pay, but my co-workers are always broke and going into greater debt on a daily basis. They need new cars, fine clothes, rent their places to live and generally are not fiscally responsible. These folks want instant gratification. But this is a different topic, and I digress...