No, they just don't have very good writing skills. If a friend tells you "I have a lot of bandwidth" you're not going to assume that he means "I receive a lot of internet traffic", are you?
It doesn't sound like they're paying for bandwidth with it, it sounds like they drive is causing more bandwidth USAGE that they can't afford.
Yes, that's my point, the way the editors phrased it conveys the exact opposite of what they meant to. Like I said, I don't think PA did anything wrong, I just think the slashdot crew, if they're going to call themselves "editors", should put some actual editorial effort into their work. When you get paid a nice salary to maybe write a few lines a day, at least do a good job.
recent charity work with Child's Play has substantially increased the bandwidth over at Penny Arcade
If it was used to increase their bandwidth, it wasn't really charity, now was it?
Don't get me wrong, I like PA, and I don't think they're misusing any of the child's play money, but the way the slashdot editors phrased it makes it sound vaguely seedy.
Well the question was, how will your MBA set you apart from all the unemployed MBAs looking for a job? You're not assured of a good job, or even a job in general, unless you're graduating from one of the top programs in the country (which you may be, I don't know). Don't be sure the MBA will be a passport to success.
So what do I do? I'm currently studying for an MBA. I'm talking to people: "What does it take to become an IT manager? How about a director?" All the "maintenance" jobs in the world can move overseas, but you still need people back at home making the decisions. I'll become one of those.
If you think an MBA is an easy ride to management, you're going to be in shock when you finish. There are a large number of MBAs out there who have been looking for management track jobs for years. Why do you think you have an advantage over them?
He raises a lot of fair questions, but you know, there are answers.
He asks pointedly "[W]hy do some modern Americans (of course, a small percentage) want only those immigrant programmers and IT workers who came during recent times to go back home, yet tend to forget that their parents or grandparents were immigrants too?"
Well what happened back then was a bit different. The problem I and a lot of people have with the visa program is:
1. It targets a very narrow kind of vocation. Do you think 100 years ago native steelworkers wouldn't complain if immigrants were allowed in--but only steelworkers? Targeting IT only is unfair in that people in the workforce outside IT don't have to face the problems it causes.
2. It's predicated on what is quite simply, a lie. Companies are supposed to be able to pick visa candidates when they can't find domestic workers with that skill. We all know they don't. There is no skillset that you can find in a foreign worker that you won't find domestically. Whether you agree or disagree on the matter, I think most people will agree they don't enjoy watching others break the law.
3. It's predicated on an insulting lie. Simply put, they say that you American coders and sysadmins and DB admins reading this just aren't good enough to fill the jobs.
4. The author's claim that the visa workers spend their salaries on the economy as an advantage doesn't fly. A domestic worker will almost always spend a higher percentage of their salary in the local economy. A visa worker sending money back to their country is from an economic standpoint, very harmful to us, for reasons any economist will be able to tell you.
5. The idea that down the road we'll benefit kind of misses the whole point. We don't all compromise an immortal hivemind. The guy who just lost his job to a visa holder can't eat or pay rent with his future hopes.
If the program was run honestly, across various career fields, and only used when there truly was a need, people would have a lot fewer troubles with it.
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They're the same kind of bitter, arrogant people who dare claim my MD from Hollywood Upstairs Medical College isn't a real degree.
Story-wise, I don't think so. They were visually almost perfect; stunning even, if that's not abusing a semi-colon.. But as a version of JRRT's story, and particularly characters, they were worthless.
Characterizations were what I was thinking of. The most notable example was Grima, who in the books was an incredibly two-dimensional character, but who in the movies achieved some actual depth. Saruman in the books was also a little bit of a clown which didn't really work.
Their toning down of the elflord thing was also a good move in my opinion, since it didn't really make too much sense that they sent out a bunch of hobbits instead of some of the higher level guys. And yes, I remember the justification, but it was clumsy and unconvincing.
Given just how mangled Fellowship of the Ring was in terms of the original characters and meaning of the book, I can only assume that UKlG has never read Lord of the Rings. Boyens' presence was a guarantee that the characters would be unrecognisable and that the story would be reduced to a shallow and meaningless shadow of its former self.
The LotR movies were different, not necessarily worse. The movies actually improved on the book in some ways.
What tips does Slashdot have for finding organizations who are willing to let students get involved with sensitive security procedures and cases?
In this economy? The closest you'll ever get to hardening a security system is when the assistant manager at McDonald's lets you lock up for the night.
Come on, you knew it was happening. Remember the last time you were about to buy stamps from the machine and suddenly that guy ran out, combed your hair, then set up a big prop picture of a bookshelf filled with books behind you?
Well the harm that will be done is that a lot of time and energy will be spent on porting code. There are a lot of areas that need improvements and a host of applications that need to be developed.
95% of OSS is pretty much a waste of time and energy. Look how much of sourceforge is full of duplicate GTK/QT frontends to some library someone came up with. If people want to waste their time, it's their time to waste, let'em.
I agree. If KDE becomes popular enough it will be a lot easier down the road for people to switch to a free-er kernel. If it doesn't become popular enough then no harm done anyway.
Never tell the spammers your account is genuine. Better that they think it's either non-existant or dormant. They have less of an incentive spamming accounts that they believe to be dead than they do one which they know to be actively in use.
But he explicitly said unsubscribing reduced his spam rate exponentially.
Question is, we're not sure the best way to do it.
If I were in your position I would start a special internship program where hardworking high school cheerleaders are assigned to members of the IT staff, and just follow them around at work learning stuff. I really wish we had a program like that when I was in IT. Especially when I was working the night shift.
Oh who cares, when was the last time you played a truly innovative sports game? By their very nature they can't go beyond the rules of the game they're based on.
I think Editors of Slashdot should not post stories that link to "must register" sites.
Why? People here take that maxim as a given, but I've never seen a convincing explanation for it.
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If someone steps on your property and refuses to leave, you have the right by natural law to use whatever force is necessary to remove them.
"Your honor, under the state penal code my actions were illegal, but that law doesn't apply to ME; I only follow natural law."
Ain't gonna work.
Though the situation mentioned sounds very fishy, no state requires you to retreat when you're in your home. I have a feeling that the facts are a lot different than how they were presented.
Yes, those goddamn chemists, always having to be in the limelight.
It would be nice if the people posting here actually figured out what ACS meant before breaking out the tired scripts about "blah blah they just want publicity blah blah marketing".
But I doubt anyone would confuse the word Google and SciFinder. If their entire suit hinge on the word Scholar, I think ACS is facing an uphill battle.
I disagree. Google, like Microsoft, has been known to buy up companies and incorporate them into their core online service. A person who wanted to use the ACS Scholar service might see the Google service, and think, "great, I was going to pay for it but now Google bought it and is offering it for free". Now that probably won't happen too much, but it's definitely possible.
For all you people who stream into slashdot to shriek about any trademark suit of any kind, can you answer this: Why would Google use the same name for their similar service? It's not like they couldn't have known it existed. Guess what, it's the first thing that comes up when you search for "scholar database" ON FREAKING GOOGLE ITSELF.
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I think you're misinterpreting it.
No, they just don't have very good writing skills. If a friend tells you "I have a lot of bandwidth" you're not going to assume that he means "I receive a lot of internet traffic", are you?
It doesn't sound like they're paying for bandwidth with it, it sounds like they drive is causing more bandwidth USAGE that they can't afford.
Yes, that's my point, the way the editors phrased it conveys the exact opposite of what they meant to. Like I said, I don't think PA did anything wrong, I just think the slashdot crew, if they're going to call themselves "editors", should put some actual editorial effort into their work. When you get paid a nice salary to maybe write a few lines a day, at least do a good job.
recent charity work with Child's Play has substantially increased the bandwidth over at Penny Arcade
If it was used to increase their bandwidth, it wasn't really charity, now was it?
Don't get me wrong, I like PA, and I don't think they're misusing any of the child's play money, but the way the slashdot editors phrased it makes it sound vaguely seedy.
Well the question was, how will your MBA set you apart from all the unemployed MBAs looking for a job? You're not assured of a good job, or even a job in general, unless you're graduating from one of the top programs in the country (which you may be, I don't know). Don't be sure the MBA will be a passport to success.
Did those MBA's looking for work go to Wharton, Harvard, or UPenn?
Some of them, yes. But maybe the parent poster will tell us if he goes to one of the top-ranked MBA programs.
So what do I do? I'm currently studying for an MBA. I'm talking to people: "What does it take to become an IT manager? How about a director?" All the "maintenance" jobs in the world can move overseas, but you still need people back at home making the decisions. I'll become one of those.
If you think an MBA is an easy ride to management, you're going to be in shock when you finish. There are a large number of MBAs out there who have been looking for management track jobs for years. Why do you think you have an advantage over them?
He raises a lot of fair questions, but you know, there are answers.
He asks pointedly "[W]hy do some modern Americans (of course, a small percentage) want only those immigrant programmers and IT workers who came during recent times to go back home, yet tend to forget that their parents or grandparents were immigrants too?"
Well what happened back then was a bit different. The problem I and a lot of people have with the visa program is:
1. It targets a very narrow kind of vocation. Do you think 100 years ago native steelworkers wouldn't complain if immigrants were allowed in--but only steelworkers? Targeting IT only is unfair in that people in the workforce outside IT don't have to face the problems it causes.
2. It's predicated on what is quite simply, a lie. Companies are supposed to be able to pick visa candidates when they can't find domestic workers with that skill. We all know they don't. There is no skillset that you can find in a foreign worker that you won't find domestically. Whether you agree or disagree on the matter, I think most people will agree they don't enjoy watching others break the law.
3. It's predicated on an insulting lie. Simply put, they say that you American coders and sysadmins and DB admins reading this just aren't good enough to fill the jobs.
4. The author's claim that the visa workers spend their salaries on the economy as an advantage doesn't fly. A domestic worker will almost always spend a higher percentage of their salary in the local economy. A visa worker sending money back to their country is from an economic standpoint, very harmful to us, for reasons any economist will be able to tell you.
5. The idea that down the road we'll benefit kind of misses the whole point. We don't all compromise an immortal hivemind. The guy who just lost his job to a visa holder can't eat or pay rent with his future hopes.
If the program was run honestly, across various career fields, and only used when there truly was a need, people would have a lot fewer troubles with it.
They're the same kind of bitter, arrogant people who dare claim my MD from Hollywood Upstairs Medical College isn't a real degree.
Story-wise, I don't think so. They were visually almost perfect; stunning even, if that's not abusing a semi-colon.. But as a version of JRRT's story, and particularly characters, they were worthless.
Characterizations were what I was thinking of. The most notable example was Grima, who in the books was an incredibly two-dimensional character, but who in the movies achieved some actual depth. Saruman in the books was also a little bit of a clown which didn't really work.
Their toning down of the elflord thing was also a good move in my opinion, since it didn't really make too much sense that they sent out a bunch of hobbits instead of some of the higher level guys. And yes, I remember the justification, but it was clumsy and unconvincing.
Given just how mangled Fellowship of the Ring was in terms of the original characters and meaning of the book, I can only assume that UKlG has never read Lord of the Rings. Boyens' presence was a guarantee that the characters would be unrecognisable and that the story would be reduced to a shallow and meaningless shadow of its former self.
The LotR movies were different, not necessarily worse. The movies actually improved on the book in some ways.
What tips does Slashdot have for finding organizations who are willing to let students get involved with sensitive security procedures and cases?
In this economy? The closest you'll ever get to hardening a security system is when the assistant manager at McDonald's lets you lock up for the night.
Come on, you knew it was happening. Remember the last time you were about to buy stamps from the machine and suddenly that guy ran out, combed your hair, then set up a big prop picture of a bookshelf filled with books behind you?
The rule of thumb is every time you see the word "ironically" starting a sentence on slashdot, the sentence won't actually be ironic.
Well the harm that will be done is that a lot of time and energy will be spent on porting code. There are a lot of areas that need improvements and a host of applications that need to be developed.
95% of OSS is pretty much a waste of time and energy. Look how much of sourceforge is full of duplicate GTK/QT frontends to some library someone came up with. If people want to waste their time, it's their time to waste, let'em.
If KDE is a platform then it's a win for FOSS.
I agree. If KDE becomes popular enough it will be a lot easier down the road for people to switch to a free-er kernel. If it doesn't become popular enough then no harm done anyway.
Never tell the spammers your account is genuine. Better that they think it's either non-existant or dormant. They have less of an incentive spamming accounts that they believe to be dead than they do one which they know to be actively in use.
But he explicitly said unsubscribing reduced his spam rate exponentially.
Silly reporter, thinking the people here actually read the beginning of the article, let alone the end...
It shouldn't be there either, because it opens the door to pure arbitrariness.
If judges don't have the ability to find people in contempt, then court orders become voluntary, which is kind of the opposite of the point.
And contempt charges are especially easy to appeal, and they're routinely overturned.
They also are always doing their drugs and drinking their alcohol. Maybe you can incorporate that into the workplace.
Question is, we're not sure the best way to do it.
If I were in your position I would start a special internship program where hardworking high school cheerleaders are assigned to members of the IT staff, and just follow them around at work learning stuff. I really wish we had a program like that when I was in IT. Especially when I was working the night shift.
Oh who cares, when was the last time you played a truly innovative sports game? By their very nature they can't go beyond the rules of the game they're based on.
I think Editors of Slashdot should not post stories that link to "must register" sites.
Why? People here take that maxim as a given, but I've never seen a convincing explanation for it.
If someone steps on your property and refuses to leave, you have the right by natural law to use whatever force is necessary to remove them.
"Your honor, under the state penal code my actions were illegal, but that law doesn't apply to ME; I only follow natural law."
Ain't gonna work.
Though the situation mentioned sounds very fishy, no state requires you to retreat when you're in your home. I have a feeling that the facts are a lot different than how they were presented.
ACS are doing this purely for the publicity.
Yes, those goddamn chemists, always having to be in the limelight.
It would be nice if the people posting here actually figured out what ACS meant before breaking out the tired scripts about "blah blah they just want publicity blah blah marketing".
But I doubt anyone would confuse the word Google and SciFinder. If their entire suit hinge on the word Scholar, I think ACS is facing an uphill battle.
I disagree. Google, like Microsoft, has been known to buy up companies and incorporate them into their core online service. A person who wanted to use the ACS Scholar service might see the Google service, and think, "great, I was going to pay for it but now Google bought it and is offering it for free". Now that probably won't happen too much, but it's definitely possible.
For all you people who stream into slashdot to shriek about any trademark suit of any kind, can you answer this: Why would Google use the same name for their similar service? It's not like they couldn't have known it existed. Guess what, it's the first thing that comes up when you search for "scholar database" ON FREAKING GOOGLE ITSELF.
Google's in the wrong here.