At the time the jewish people had no military, they had no country...they did have a lot of holocaust refugees, and a few groups who fought against the germans.
Ask any israeli if they would want their military removed and to live in peace and they will all say yes. They would prefer their taxes go to the economy not the military. They would prefer to live without fear of getting blown up. THe terrorists are the muslim extremists - get them to behave and people will live happily. The muslims can then continue on their secondary mission - breed out the jews.
Having been there, Isreal isn't even remotely 'western-civilized'. An American should seriously fear for their life there unless they know the ins and outs of that culture. God forbid you slip up and accidentally order a pepperoni pizza (my mother was ousted from the building) or stand in front of a muslim en route to prayer (my brother was picked up and thrown headfirst into a barrel of fish). A tour included a popular shootout spot, complete with bullet holes on either side of the alley. The airport we left from was bombed the day after we left. That place is NOT 'western-civilized', or anything civilized, or even safe.
An american fear for their lives in Israel...from Israeli's? Man, when I've been to Israel I can't go anywhere without people wanting to practice their...wait for it...ENGLISH speaking skills on me. I've had strangers buy me dinner just so I can speak English with them for an hour (FYI I am a guy, so it wasn't some dude trying to hit on me...well maybe it was, i am cute). Some Muslim threw your brother into a barrel of fish..and he let this happen? Not exactly life-threatening.
If you mean Israel is not western civilized - with it's malls, bars, restaurants, clubs, bowling alleys, movie theatres, nude beaches (wait maybe it's not civilized if your a conservative), voting for all citizens, free press. Plus, go to israel...and if there is a sign somewhere it has three languages written on it - Hebrew, English and Arabic. It's a foreign country, that as an English speaking person you CANT get lost. You CANT find someone who doesn't speak English (hell even my dead grandmother spoke english).
And then a 20 year old soldier walks in carrying an M16 and ammo which he is somehow allowed to because he has a slip of paper and uniform.
Let me fix that for you
"And then a 20 year old cop walks in carrying an M16 and ammo which he is somehow alloed to because he has a badge and a uniform"
You mentioned all of the people who had guns - the security personnel, the driver, etc - and your issue is with the soldier?
Sounds like a palestinian/muslim poster to me. When your people stop strapping bombs to themselves and blowing up weddings, busses, clubs, restaurants. When your people stop kidnapping of people to torture them and then kill them. When your people stop spouting gibberish about wiping out the israeli people, and then trying to carry that mission out - then talk to me about security.
BTW - ever been to US airports? I've seen plenty of them where there are cops/soldiers with rifles (aka M16 type weapons), private security personnel who have no military/police training (at least in israel most people have military/police training). Plenty of metal detectors, drug scanners, weapon scanners, bomb scanners. Plenty of german shepard dogs who are trained to sniff out weapons/drugs and trained to attack. Some people here may have forgotten, because the 9/11 attacks happend so long ago but shortly after those attacks you would see the above in HEAVY force at airports...now not as heavy, but still around. So if the security is increased because of one days of attack...imagine how security would be from decades of regular attacks.
No, the luxury of my place is that freedom of speech and human rights are still respected. Where there is no policing of people's opinions and private pictures. A place where I can be a full citizen regardless of my race. That I can express even unpopular opinions without immediately being seen as a murderous lunatic.
Have you ever read an Israeli newspaper or seen the news? they CONSTANTLY rail against each other and the gov't as political winds sway. They CONSTANTLY have protests supporting and denouncing the issues. Don't like the prime minister and his party? No worries - call a no confidence vote and you can have someone else in office...hell do it once a week if you want. In the US...don't like the President...you're stuck with him until the end of his term.
Israel is a democracy and support peoples right to speak - however, if they suspect someone is a terrorist they treat the issue extremely seriously - and why not? They are a country that has clubs, busses, weddings, restaurants, roads, homes, etc bombed and under constant threat. A small country surrounded by many other, larger, countries who care for nothing more then to destroy Israel. BTW this reporter - she knew exactly what was going on. She knew she would be scrutinized - she knew better - but didn't care. Now to say poor little girl? Give me a break - when you know your actions will cause trouble you are just as guilty. BTW she will be enjoying a new computer soon enough - on the Israeli dime. Hmm, maybe I can get the US gov't to destroy my computer so I can get a brand new one.
I disagree with the emotive language implying that Palestinians are the only ones killing innocent civilians
Define innocent civilian. If a person is housing a terrorist are they innocent? In the US if you house a criminal you can go to jail also - you do realize that? For decades terrorists would hide in their relatives homes using those homes as human body shelters (real humanitarians). The trigger-man is not the only guilty party - and if you harbor a terrorist you are supporting that person (nobody really cares if the terrorist is your kid) and will get hit in a bomb. It's a big issue - terrorists typically hide in homes of "civilians" but terrorists and their supporters don't follow the rules of engagement. They don't wear uniforms. They don't identify themselves (hell they wear masks).
So "unfortunate reality" that the poor israelis might have some bags and laptops shot given all the above, well yes, it does make me question if they have a sense of reality. Or perspective.
If it's thought to be an explosive device and they don't have a bomb unit then shooting it up, at distance, makes a lot of sense actually. If it doesn't blow up then oops, and they could compensate the person for the laptop, if it does blowup they saved lives.
Israel has lived under the real threat/actions of war and terrorism for decades - they are going to go to do things like this - and I wouldn't be surprised if US did something like this.
The RIAA will come after geeks who consider sharing....so you better be careful, these guys arent' too bright and may not understand that P2P pizza sharing is OK.
Shows you that even geeks have parties sometimes. We just have different topics between the question who pays for the pizza and who gets the last slice.
You imply that people eating pizzas, even two or more, is a sign of a geek party. I postulate that geeks aren't even cool enough to have pizza parties amongst themselves...besides a DND group sharing a pizza is no party:)
1) A novice pizza cutter can buy a metallic device you place over the pizza which guides your pizza cutter. I worked at a pizza shop and they had one...nobody ever used it.
2) Two people can easily share 50/50 split of the pizza. The only requirement is that one of the cuts needs to have gone straight down the middle, and that is where you split the pizza from. Essentially, the middle cut is the border. All other cuts just make for a weird shaped pizza slice.
3) 3 people means cutting the pizza into slices divisible by 3, which is harder.
4) 4 people = cutting slices divisible by 2, but now you need to concern yourself with two lines perfectly intersecting the middle - plus you either get 4 or 8 slices.
Pizza shops cut their pizzas to serve 8 slices. That's 4 cuts which would resemble the insignia on the british flag.
The key idea at some level is that you don't need to lose fuel to accelerate (you just lose energy).
This is what i don't understand. Energy in fuel is stored in a chemical, until it is converted. If you lose energy, which is transformed by a chemical, won't you lose the chemical? In other words lose the fuel? Going by your idea, if you lose energy, but not the mass - does that leave us with some kind of waste material (which is basically what things like exhaust fumes from a car)? What happens to the substance? Is it reusable so your one gallon of gas is an infinite gallon of gas?
Go play Warhammer Online. It's PVP oriented but they have been coming out with more high-end instances that requires team work. One place (tomb of the vulture lord) is a 6 man instance that requires a consistant group. It can be cleared out in one night if your group is really good at it...but typically starts out as 3 nights to clear, 2 nights, etc. Once you clear it a world boss appears where you need to get a raid group to defeat the boss. What makes this challenging....while you are fighting the world boss it is very well possible for the opposing faction to pop out and wipe your raid group(s). The raid boss drops an item that allows you to purchase the best items in the game.
Overall the game is geared for PVP but they have been making some good PVE instances (about 5-6 of them). The pvp is superior to WoW by a LOT. For example - being a fully defensive tank is very fun to play...and a class that every PVP group wants.
Finding a good casual guild is hard, but not impossible. I was part of a guild, The Incredibles, on Boulderfist. This guild was always in the top 3 guilds for progression on the server, and eventually became the number 1 guild. What happend to the other 2 guilds? They collapsed on themselves. One of them only ever had 50 players TOPs. They were the 1337 guild. When 25 man raids came out they condensed to 30 players (and obviously 20 players got pissed). Then a couple of key players quit and the guild collapsed, tried to reform under a different name, and fell apart again. The hardcore guilds are pretty tough to be in because of the time commitment. You gotta be willing to play 7 days a week of 8 hour/day raiding, and your off day being to farm resources. That is tough for anyone. The other guild also fell apart when a couple of key players quit. The guild I was in....casual guild. You can join to raid, you can join to pvp, you can join to be casual. You were given a designation - and that gave you certain responsibilities and priorities. You were a pvp designee (because thats what you want to do) - you were given priority into the pvp groups. YOu were also expected to show up. Same goes for PVE. Casual people could log in and just hang out and chat. If a pvp or raid group needed an extra player they were welcome to join - but not required to join. Obviously if you signed up for a raid (pve/pvp) you were required to honor your committment to the group. We had many players who came once a week to raid (because that is all they could). They were consistantly on time and worked well. The Incredibles on Boulderfist is the oldest alliance guild there (since two months after WoW came out) and is one of the top progression guilds. Their membership is in the hundreds.
So it's not impossible to find a good guild that can accomodate EVERYONEs play style.
Who plays this game, at the higher end of the spectrum, to quit after they beat a dungeon once? Most players, especially at the higher levels, want to complete there sets. So at the higher levels they will play the same dungeon 10, 20, 30, 40...100 times so they get all of their gear...then the random dropped gear or profession training drops, etc. Blizzard can add many incentives to the game to keep players involved that does not require them to restrict the timing of the bosses.
The reason blizzard is adding this timer is because it looks bad when they release a new boss, zone, etc and the 1337 guilds beat it that same night (they were probably practicing on the test server). It's like the players who went from level 60 to 70 in 24 hours. And then did it from 70 to 80. There are always going to be these players. These are the players who hang out on the test servers, have no lives, and figure out what needs to be done then. Once the release comes out BAM they are the first. Nothing wrong with this... but when some server beats the last boss of a new expansion in 24 hours it makes Blizzard look bad. Nobody cares that it's the super guild that gets sponsership, they just see that WoW = ezsauce
Once you get to level 80 they should allow you to create alt characters who start at level 50 or 60...similar to death knight. Give the player the option to also create a character from level 1. There are advantages for both options. It is not game breaking, and helps blizzard move away from the image that they try and make the game time consuming for players so players play longer.
I would ask for details up front. How can you be expected to accept a job without the details of the job? "Hey i got this awesome job for you, want it? Great...Now that you took it, your job is to clean the floor of a pig sty". Either way, i would not take that "promotion" which would expect me to work 7 days a week, 8 hours a day. BTW - check your local laws, that may be illegal. Salaried employee does not mean you get to work 7 days a week, 8 hours a day.
How are the other employees, who are getting this "opportunity" taking the situation? If all of you are feeling the same way speak to the manager...or since the manager is new, go above his/her head and say "hey the new guy, who jsut got in, is being unreasonable..."
You said a new manager. Is this the only manager? Is this YOUR manager? That makes a difference. Does EVERYONE need to be on call 24/7? See about setting up schedules. If there is 7 of you then each of you take one day a week to be on call and you rotate the days. There are ways to work around things.
As far as getting promoted to management - no you don't have to take a promotion. You can say "I appreciate the offer to increase my responsibilities, power and money but this will take me away from my passion in life and that is to do XYZ. It will also hinder my ability to grow with this constantly changing field and eventually leave me ill-prepared to deal with new technologies". This is a nice way to say "no i don't want to be an office-jockey dickwad". If your company is reasonable they will respect it and no harm done - again most people are not unreasonable. If they are not then promptly update your resume' and look for a company that wants people to do a good job and do it for a long time...It shouldn't be a surprise to anyone, but many companies out there hate it when their employees - who are amazing at their jobs - turn and say "Oh i want to be promoted out of my work for something better"...now they have to find a replacement.
Even with 10% unemployment there are plenty of jobs.
I would love to see Windows adopt an Apple-like schedule of smaller, cheaper updates released on an approximately eighteen month schedule. Of course, corporate customers demand long-term stability. But perhaps every other release could be eligible for long-term support, with an interim consumer version. Back in the 1990s, Windows 9x received a feature upgrade on an approximately yearly basis. (95, 95b, 95c, 98, 98SE) There were not huge five year gaps in which everything stagnated.
We have those...they are known as service packs. They are free. Windows XP to Vista to 7 are major changes - almost a new OS. BTW Win95 to 98 was not a free patch...it was an actual OS change...yes they had the "upgrade" version but it was big enough that you had to pay money.
Well, considering I paid $50 (to amazon) + shipping for windows home premium upgrade I got the price you mentioned.
HOnestly...$50 or $100...until the next version (about 4 years) is cheap. Though in all honesty, nobody is forcing you to get win8 when it comes out. MS has to come out with major releases like this because that is how the industry moves. Who knows, maybe by then we will have 128bit processors running around. $50 for four years comes to 3 cents a day...even suzanne struthers would be impressed. At $100 that is 6 cents a day. Not that big of a deal
As for pirates....yea no such thing...as long as people can get it free they will. I know people making six figure salaries who pirate just because they don't want to pay.
Malware is user error. Don't click yes to the prompt asking you to install a 32kb app that will give you unlimitted porn. You can't fix stupid, and neither can Microsoft.
So 5-10 more years just to START the tests? Why don't they just say that instead of saying within the next year? Either you are wrong or they are lying.
@Kelson: FTA: "Officials say it is another milestone in the LHC's drive towards its main scientific tests set for 2010."
With 2010 being a month away, history has proven that if they were starting the project in a month they would have said so (it would be more exciting). Similar to condominium realtors who say "Gorgeous condos selling from the $200s"...and when you walk in it is in the 200,000 range....starting at $295,000. Plus the article says "Drive" which is another word for "aim" or for "goal" or better yet, "we are hoping"
@AC poster who claims to be a physicist...Nope not a troll. Just a person who takes ambiguity as an attempt to conceal something. But no matter how much you say "troll" at my original post, it just won't make it so.
I agree, science is not about instant gratification but science has to start at some point. LHC project started before:2004 (this was a date i found where parts were shipped, had a hard time finding an actual start date). LHC project was finished the build, and went live: Sept 2008 (first live fire). The LHC project has not started a scientific study as of November 2009. So how much patience do we need to start experimentation, let alone completing it, publishing the raw findings, analyzing the raw findings, and the coming out with some results?
To AC about my first post and reading it - the regime is 3 raw eggs daily, 2 hours of gym daily, 1 hour of sex daily, and reading the article hours before it was posted to/. and coincidentally going to/. just as the article posted:)
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At the time the jewish people had no military, they had no country...they did have a lot of holocaust refugees, and a few groups who fought against the germans.
Ask any israeli if they would want their military removed and to live in peace and they will all say yes. They would prefer their taxes go to the economy not the military. They would prefer to live without fear of getting blown up. THe terrorists are the muslim extremists - get them to behave and people will live happily. The muslims can then continue on their secondary mission - breed out the jews.
Having been there, Isreal isn't even remotely 'western-civilized'. An American should seriously fear for their life there unless they know the ins and outs of that culture. God forbid you slip up and accidentally order a pepperoni pizza (my mother was ousted from the building) or stand in front of a muslim en route to prayer (my brother was picked up and thrown headfirst into a barrel of fish). A tour included a popular shootout spot, complete with bullet holes on either side of the alley. The airport we left from was bombed the day after we left. That place is NOT 'western-civilized', or anything civilized, or even safe.
An american fear for their lives in Israel...from Israeli's? Man, when I've been to Israel I can't go anywhere without people wanting to practice their...wait for it...ENGLISH speaking skills on me. I've had strangers buy me dinner just so I can speak English with them for an hour (FYI I am a guy, so it wasn't some dude trying to hit on me...well maybe it was, i am cute). Some Muslim threw your brother into a barrel of fish..and he let this happen? Not exactly life-threatening.
If you mean Israel is not western civilized - with it's malls, bars, restaurants, clubs, bowling alleys, movie theatres, nude beaches (wait maybe it's not civilized if your a conservative), voting for all citizens, free press. Plus, go to israel...and if there is a sign somewhere it has three languages written on it - Hebrew, English and Arabic. It's a foreign country, that as an English speaking person you CANT get lost. You CANT find someone who doesn't speak English (hell even my dead grandmother spoke english).
And then a 20 year old soldier walks in carrying an M16 and ammo which he is somehow allowed to because he has a slip of paper and uniform.
Let me fix that for you
"And then a 20 year old cop walks in carrying an M16 and ammo which he is somehow alloed to because he has a badge and a uniform"
You mentioned all of the people who had guns - the security personnel, the driver, etc - and your issue is with the soldier?
Sounds like a palestinian/muslim poster to me. When your people stop strapping bombs to themselves and blowing up weddings, busses, clubs, restaurants. When your people stop kidnapping of people to torture them and then kill them. When your people stop spouting gibberish about wiping out the israeli people, and then trying to carry that mission out - then talk to me about security.
BTW - ever been to US airports? I've seen plenty of them where there are cops/soldiers with rifles (aka M16 type weapons), private security personnel who have no military/police training (at least in israel most people have military/police training). Plenty of metal detectors, drug scanners, weapon scanners, bomb scanners. Plenty of german shepard dogs who are trained to sniff out weapons/drugs and trained to attack. Some people here may have forgotten, because the 9/11 attacks happend so long ago but shortly after those attacks you would see the above in HEAVY force at airports...now not as heavy, but still around. So if the security is increased because of one days of attack...imagine how security would be from decades of regular attacks.
You're a douche.
No, the luxury of my place is that freedom of speech and human rights are still respected. Where there is no policing of people's opinions and private pictures. A place where I can be a full citizen regardless of my race. That I can express even unpopular opinions without immediately being seen as a murderous lunatic.
Have you ever read an Israeli newspaper or seen the news? they CONSTANTLY rail against each other and the gov't as political winds sway. They CONSTANTLY have protests supporting and denouncing the issues. Don't like the prime minister and his party? No worries - call a no confidence vote and you can have someone else in office...hell do it once a week if you want. In the US...don't like the President...you're stuck with him until the end of his term.
Israel is a democracy and support peoples right to speak - however, if they suspect someone is a terrorist they treat the issue extremely seriously - and why not? They are a country that has clubs, busses, weddings, restaurants, roads, homes, etc bombed and under constant threat. A small country surrounded by many other, larger, countries who care for nothing more then to destroy Israel. BTW this reporter - she knew exactly what was going on. She knew she would be scrutinized - she knew better - but didn't care. Now to say poor little girl? Give me a break - when you know your actions will cause trouble you are just as guilty. BTW she will be enjoying a new computer soon enough - on the Israeli dime. Hmm, maybe I can get the US gov't to destroy my computer so I can get a brand new one.
I disagree with the emotive language implying that Palestinians are the only ones killing innocent civilians
Define innocent civilian. If a person is housing a terrorist are they innocent? In the US if you house a criminal you can go to jail also - you do realize that? For decades terrorists would hide in their relatives homes using those homes as human body shelters (real humanitarians). The trigger-man is not the only guilty party - and if you harbor a terrorist you are supporting that person (nobody really cares if the terrorist is your kid) and will get hit in a bomb. It's a big issue - terrorists typically hide in homes of "civilians" but terrorists and their supporters don't follow the rules of engagement. They don't wear uniforms. They don't identify themselves (hell they wear masks).
So "unfortunate reality" that the poor israelis might have some bags and laptops shot given all the above, well yes, it does make me question if they have a sense of reality. Or perspective.
If it's thought to be an explosive device and they don't have a bomb unit then shooting it up, at distance, makes a lot of sense actually. If it doesn't blow up then oops, and they could compensate the person for the laptop, if it does blowup they saved lives.
Israel has lived under the real threat/actions of war and terrorism for decades - they are going to go to do things like this - and I wouldn't be surprised if US did something like this.
The RIAA will come after geeks who consider sharing....so you better be careful, these guys arent' too bright and may not understand that P2P pizza sharing is OK.
Shows you that even geeks have parties sometimes. We just have different topics between the question who pays for the pizza and who gets the last slice.
You imply that people eating pizzas, even two or more, is a sign of a geek party. I postulate that geeks aren't even cool enough to have pizza parties amongst themselves...besides a DND group sharing a pizza is no party :)
1) A novice pizza cutter can buy a metallic device you place over the pizza which guides your pizza cutter. I worked at a pizza shop and they had one...nobody ever used it.
2) Two people can easily share 50/50 split of the pizza. The only requirement is that one of the cuts needs to have gone straight down the middle, and that is where you split the pizza from. Essentially, the middle cut is the border. All other cuts just make for a weird shaped pizza slice.
3) 3 people means cutting the pizza into slices divisible by 3, which is harder.
4) 4 people = cutting slices divisible by 2, but now you need to concern yourself with two lines perfectly intersecting the middle - plus you either get 4 or 8 slices.
Pizza shops cut their pizzas to serve 8 slices. That's 4 cuts which would resemble the insignia on the british flag.
The key idea at some level is that you don't need to lose fuel to accelerate (you just lose energy).
This is what i don't understand. Energy in fuel is stored in a chemical, until it is converted. If you lose energy, which is transformed by a chemical, won't you lose the chemical? In other words lose the fuel? Going by your idea, if you lose energy, but not the mass - does that leave us with some kind of waste material (which is basically what things like exhaust fumes from a car)? What happens to the substance? Is it reusable so your one gallon of gas is an infinite gallon of gas?
Go play Warhammer Online. It's PVP oriented but they have been coming out with more high-end instances that requires team work. One place (tomb of the vulture lord) is a 6 man instance that requires a consistant group. It can be cleared out in one night if your group is really good at it...but typically starts out as 3 nights to clear, 2 nights, etc. Once you clear it a world boss appears where you need to get a raid group to defeat the boss. What makes this challenging....while you are fighting the world boss it is very well possible for the opposing faction to pop out and wipe your raid group(s). The raid boss drops an item that allows you to purchase the best items in the game.
Overall the game is geared for PVP but they have been making some good PVE instances (about 5-6 of them). The pvp is superior to WoW by a LOT. For example - being a fully defensive tank is very fun to play...and a class that every PVP group wants.
Finding a good casual guild is hard, but not impossible. I was part of a guild, The Incredibles, on Boulderfist. This guild was always in the top 3 guilds for progression on the server, and eventually became the number 1 guild. What happend to the other 2 guilds? They collapsed on themselves. One of them only ever had 50 players TOPs. They were the 1337 guild. When 25 man raids came out they condensed to 30 players (and obviously 20 players got pissed). Then a couple of key players quit and the guild collapsed, tried to reform under a different name, and fell apart again. The hardcore guilds are pretty tough to be in because of the time commitment. You gotta be willing to play 7 days a week of 8 hour/day raiding, and your off day being to farm resources. That is tough for anyone. The other guild also fell apart when a couple of key players quit. The guild I was in....casual guild. You can join to raid, you can join to pvp, you can join to be casual. You were given a designation - and that gave you certain responsibilities and priorities. You were a pvp designee (because thats what you want to do) - you were given priority into the pvp groups. YOu were also expected to show up. Same goes for PVE. Casual people could log in and just hang out and chat. If a pvp or raid group needed an extra player they were welcome to join - but not required to join. Obviously if you signed up for a raid (pve/pvp) you were required to honor your committment to the group. We had many players who came once a week to raid (because that is all they could). They were consistantly on time and worked well. The Incredibles on Boulderfist is the oldest alliance guild there (since two months after WoW came out) and is one of the top progression guilds. Their membership is in the hundreds.
So it's not impossible to find a good guild that can accomodate EVERYONEs play style.
Who plays this game, at the higher end of the spectrum, to quit after they beat a dungeon once? Most players, especially at the higher levels, want to complete there sets. So at the higher levels they will play the same dungeon 10, 20, 30, 40...100 times so they get all of their gear...then the random dropped gear or profession training drops, etc. Blizzard can add many incentives to the game to keep players involved that does not require them to restrict the timing of the bosses.
The reason blizzard is adding this timer is because it looks bad when they release a new boss, zone, etc and the 1337 guilds beat it that same night (they were probably practicing on the test server). It's like the players who went from level 60 to 70 in 24 hours. And then did it from 70 to 80. There are always going to be these players. These are the players who hang out on the test servers, have no lives, and figure out what needs to be done then. Once the release comes out BAM they are the first. Nothing wrong with this... but when some server beats the last boss of a new expansion in 24 hours it makes Blizzard look bad. Nobody cares that it's the super guild that gets sponsership, they just see that WoW = ezsauce
Once you get to level 80 they should allow you to create alt characters who start at level 50 or 60...similar to death knight. Give the player the option to also create a character from level 1. There are advantages for both options. It is not game breaking, and helps blizzard move away from the image that they try and make the game time consuming for players so players play longer.
I would ask for details up front. How can you be expected to accept a job without the details of the job? "Hey i got this awesome job for you, want it? Great...Now that you took it, your job is to clean the floor of a pig sty". Either way, i would not take that "promotion" which would expect me to work 7 days a week, 8 hours a day. BTW - check your local laws, that may be illegal. Salaried employee does not mean you get to work 7 days a week, 8 hours a day.
How are the other employees, who are getting this "opportunity" taking the situation? If all of you are feeling the same way speak to the manager...or since the manager is new, go above his/her head and say "hey the new guy, who jsut got in, is being unreasonable..."
You said a new manager. Is this the only manager? Is this YOUR manager? That makes a difference. Does EVERYONE need to be on call 24/7? See about setting up schedules. If there is 7 of you then each of you take one day a week to be on call and you rotate the days. There are ways to work around things.
As far as getting promoted to management - no you don't have to take a promotion. You can say "I appreciate the offer to increase my responsibilities, power and money but this will take me away from my passion in life and that is to do XYZ. It will also hinder my ability to grow with this constantly changing field and eventually leave me ill-prepared to deal with new technologies". This is a nice way to say "no i don't want to be an office-jockey dickwad". If your company is reasonable they will respect it and no harm done - again most people are not unreasonable. If they are not then promptly update your resume' and look for a company that wants people to do a good job and do it for a long time...It shouldn't be a surprise to anyone, but many companies out there hate it when their employees - who are amazing at their jobs - turn and say "Oh i want to be promoted out of my work for something better"...now they have to find a replacement.
Even with 10% unemployment there are plenty of jobs.
Is that it, Dad? Did the penguin tell you to do this?
To the poster who made this comment:
Patience
Yea let's hope the science will begin in January/February like YOU claim. Though the people who run LHC said late 2010.
I would love to see Windows adopt an Apple-like schedule of smaller, cheaper updates released on an approximately eighteen month schedule. Of course, corporate customers demand long-term stability. But perhaps every other release could be eligible for long-term support, with an interim consumer version. Back in the 1990s, Windows 9x received a feature upgrade on an approximately yearly basis. (95, 95b, 95c, 98, 98SE) There were not huge five year gaps in which everything stagnated.
We have those...they are known as service packs. They are free. Windows XP to Vista to 7 are major changes - almost a new OS. BTW Win95 to 98 was not a free patch...it was an actual OS change...yes they had the "upgrade" version but it was big enough that you had to pay money.
Well, considering I paid $50 (to amazon) + shipping for windows home premium upgrade I got the price you mentioned.
HOnestly...$50 or $100...until the next version (about 4 years) is cheap. Though in all honesty, nobody is forcing you to get win8 when it comes out. MS has to come out with major releases like this because that is how the industry moves. Who knows, maybe by then we will have 128bit processors running around. $50 for four years comes to 3 cents a day...even suzanne struthers would be impressed. At $100 that is 6 cents a day. Not that big of a deal
As for pirates....yea no such thing...as long as people can get it free they will. I know people making six figure salaries who pirate just because they don't want to pay.
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Malware is user error. Don't click yes to the prompt asking you to install a 32kb app that will give you unlimitted porn. You can't fix stupid, and neither can Microsoft.
So 5-10 more years just to START the tests? Why don't they just say that instead of saying within the next year? Either you are wrong or they are lying.
@Kelson: FTA: "Officials say it is another milestone in the LHC's drive towards its main scientific tests set for 2010."
With 2010 being a month away, history has proven that if they were starting the project in a month they would have said so (it would be more exciting). Similar to condominium realtors who say "Gorgeous condos selling from the $200s"...and when you walk in it is in the 200,000 range....starting at $295,000. Plus the article says "Drive" which is another word for "aim" or for "goal" or better yet, "we are hoping"
@AC poster who claims to be a physicist...Nope not a troll. Just a person who takes ambiguity as an attempt to conceal something. But no matter how much you say "troll" at my original post, it just won't make it so.
I highly recommend bankruptcy. That is one big freakin bill.
I agree, science is not about instant gratification but science has to start at some point. LHC project started before:2004 (this was a date i found where parts were shipped, had a hard time finding an actual start date). LHC project was finished the build, and went live: Sept 2008 (first live fire). The LHC project has not started a scientific study as of November 2009. So how much patience do we need to start experimentation, let alone completing it, publishing the raw findings, analyzing the raw findings, and the coming out with some results?
/. and coincidentally going to /. just as the article posted :)
To AC about my first post and reading it - the regime is 3 raw eggs daily, 2 hours of gym daily, 1 hour of sex daily, and reading the article hours before it was posted to