I usually have to replace a hard drive every five to six months, and often these are still under warranty.
Man, where are you BUYING your drives? The back of a truck? I've had ONE hard disk failure in a few YEARS, despite working with several dozen of them. (knock on wood) I purchase at LEAST 1 per month, and just don't have trouble. (Though, when it matters, I buy two identical drives and configure with RAID1)
Or, are you just whining in order to whore for karma?
That's nothing...try a married couple sending angry IM's at each other while in their apartment.
My wife and I have been together for > 10 years. A long time. But there have been a few times where we were so enraged with each other, that verbal communication broke down.
In these very few cases, it has helped tremendously to be able to write out all our thoughts out and send them via e-mail back and forth. The somewhat impersonal touch afforded by email lets tempers cool, and lets the shouting-match argument fall back into being a reasonable debate.
I remember twice this happening - once when my wife was upstairs and me downstairs on the porch, and another time we were in the same room, and were openly polite to each other, both agreeing not to talk about it until we both agreed we were ready to, stepping in and out of the seat where the computer was in our bedroom.
I don't have a salary. I'm in on my own, running my own show, with my fingers in a number of pies. (One of those pies, growing nicely, has me in a 25% partnership in a company with 3 excellent partners, though I'm the only one with 25%)
I work as a generic programmer/CTO/CIO/sysadmin, in a number of capacities, supporting a wide variety of OSS-based solutions for a wide variety of clients.
From Schools and school districts, to ISPs to job-placement agencies, E-commerce, website hosting, etc.
My income varies widely. My wife (AKA the CFO) gets to juggle incomes where in one month, I gross $6,000, and the next month $16,000. It's quite a feat, and she plays the numbers well.
Last year, after expenses, I earned $86,000. I think I've already exceeded that this year so far, but I'm not sure. Things are well up, though. The last quarter this year looks like it might be a little tighter than the year so far.
My location? A small town in central California. Housing prices are reasonable, but not like the mid-west. Typical house around here costs $250-350,000, big ones about $650,000, and $1,000,000 buys a mansion. I paid $76,000 for my house some years ago, it's worth about $300,000 today.
Hours? Sometimes 20, sometimes 80. I have lots of "work-vacations" where I work 4 hours per day, in some other city, using the DSL service from the lobby of the hotel. I tend to travel alot, probably averaging a trip every 2-3 weeks or so in the last 3 months, about 1/2 by plane.
The last year has been very busy for me, and nicely enough, much of that business will result in a good, residual income - after the next year or so, I may never have to work for an hourly wage... ever again.
I usually work at home, on the couch, wearing a cotton T-shirt and a pair of shorts, no shoes, cordless phone in one hand, laptop in the other, either chatting or typing furiously. I work hard to keep relationships strong, and seldom lose a client. (in the past 6 years, I've lost exactly two, out of about 2 dozen groups/people I work with)
No, I don't have the stable income of somebody with a "job", but I prefer the stability of knowing that I can't get fired, and that everything I create, I own outright, and that my income is only based on my ability to sell and get the job done.
Yes, but whatever assets they do have will be taken by the music companies (and being who they are they *will* get them). Since that's all the companies could have got anyway they won't mind.
You think the company being sued has ANY assetts at all? I think they are much smarter than that...
My guess is that any assetts, including copyrights, customer accounts, etc. in fact do not belong to them, instead they are a "management" company with the legal responsibility to "maintain" these accounts and assetts for another party, the party of interest.
If Kazaa loses this fight, they'll just close shop. Since they have no assetts, the RIAA can't do jack, and KaZZaa, another "management company" opens its doors at 12:00:01 AM the following day, to begin another 3 years of legal battling with the RIAA and spyware installs on Lusers' computers.
The latter is a MUCH BIGGER NUMBER. Some 15-ish times larger. So, what you're in effect saying, is "Duhhh [sic], bigger society means bigger government using modern communications tech. Yeah, I'd say the government cranks out 148x more info today than it dis [sic] previous. Maybe in 50 years folks will say the govet [sic] will say the govet [sic] is spending "almost 1/15 as much as 2005 keeping secrets".
companies hate switching dbms because it can get very messy very fast.
Which is why I never did much with MySQL. I started with MySQL, but after being introduced to PostgreSQL, I've never looked back.
It's robust, traditionally has more features, scales nicely, and is completely free to use in any of my products sold in just about any manner I choose.
It also comes with RedHat - simply typing
yum -y install postgresql-server postgresql
does the trick... What's not to like? Why would I ever choose MySQL over Postgres?
I've given up (almost) completely on passwords. I certainly don't know the root passwords to the majority of the systems I admin.
Instead, I have a laptop with RSA keys, and login by SSH, passwordless. I don't have to remember any passwords, and (usually) root password is bogus, anyway. (Can't login to root with a password by SSH!)
Passwords are then irrelevant.
I issue a command like
ssh root@servernmae
and I'm logged in as root. If I don't have my laptop, I get nowhere. I then need physical access to machine, have to reboot the system, set a root password, and then login.
Passwords suck. Ones you can remember aren't worth using, and those worth using are near impossible to remember, especially when you have 20+ serers to remember passwords for. Why bother? I've given up on them almost entirely.
And, passwordless logins can be protected by the full strennth of a 256 bit key. (Just don't lose yer laptop!)
That's right. Because we all know that government's never do anything beneficial to the community: like roads, education for those who couldn't otherwise afford it, public transportation, water supplies, defense, the police...
And where, in his post, did he imply otherwise? All he said is that money for the state is taken by force, and that when the govt saves money, it saves YOU money. If you aren't sure about "taken by force" bit, just don't pay your income taxes for a few years.
When the agents are towing your car and boat, and walking out of your bank with your mortgage papers, you'll perhaps get an appreciation for what "taken by force" means.
How does this imply "Libertarianism"? GP poster could easily have been a ultra-left commie, that still doesn't change the truth of his/her statements.
There was a Shuttle experiment on this about 10? years ago, the put a small payload on the end of a tether cable about 3 miles long and it followed the orbit of the Shuttle. It generated a LOT of electrical current.
But, there is no free lunch.
Current generated with a tether-based system comes at the expense of orbital velocity. If you extract electricity from a tether, you're getting that energy from the orgital inertia. Thus, your orbit dwindles if you "spend" this energy.
OTOH, if you pump electricity INTO the tether, say, with solar panels or nuclear power, you can ADD energy to your orbital velocity. Thus, you can do an incredible amount of orbital manipulation merely by suplying or burning electrical energy, with NO MOVING PARTS and NO FUEL PROPELLANT.
There was an article in (I believe) Popular Science about this in the last 6 months or so I found utterly fascinating. What this means for sky hooks/space elevators is anybody's guess.
The death of Science, the growth of anti-intellectualism sweeping the United States, stems partly from the fact that most children never learn what Science is.
Ask them. To most kids, science is a class they take, where they have to regurgitate "facts" like why the sky is blue, or how hydrogen and oxygen combine to create water. It's a boring class, unless you happen to sit next to an attractive member of the opposite sex, but then, it's still not the class that's interesting...
Science is not 'fact' - Science is the best-known process by which truth can be reliably found.
Science is somewhat like the mathematical function x=1/y. Forever approaching truth, never (exactly) reaching it, forever leaving curious minds with new things to explore. Science is the magical combination of "what if" combined with the "feet on the ground" of experimentation, independent scrutiny, and validation of theories.
The "Scientific method" that is regurgitated by most Jr. High schoolers (in California, anyway) is never really *experienced* except in the case of the rare instructor who goes above and beyond the textbook curriculum. EG:
1) Gather data.
2) Form hypothesis.
3) Test hypothesis.
4) Determine conclusion
What drudgery! If that really was science, I wouldn't be interested, either!
It's sad. Entire generations of people who never get to experience the awe, wonder, and magic of science, who then seek out that awe and wonder by (best case scenario) watching magicians and listening to Art Bell, or (worst case scenario) performing criminal acts and doing drugs.
How much of the interest in the pseudo-sciences (aliens, conspiracy theories, perpetual motion machines, telepathy, Scientology) comes from the fact that they have never really been exposed to the real thing?
We're (laregly) made of carbon. Diamonds, the (formerly) hardest substance known to exist, is made of carbon. This new material is also made of carbon.
Carbon is also the basis for buckyballs, nanotubes, and recently, nanofabric.
What is it about carbon that's so special? Can these things be done with other elements, like nitrogen? Is it just because we have an oil (carbon) based economy, or what?
Seems like all the interesting stuff in materials physics in early 2000's is ALL CARBON!
Even if that person used OOo I could get garbage; if they used the linux version, and I used the Windows version, the files got mangled.
You had me until this line, which makes it clear you are somewhere out in left field.
What do you most appreciate about the view from your Redomd, WA office window?
The main reaon I've standardized on OpenOffice for my own use is that it works equally well on Windows/Linux. I've had no issues whatsoever copying OO files to/from Windows/Linux machines.
OO reads office files fairly well, well enough that when I need to read/collaborate on tech specs (my primary need) I've not had an issue using my OO for about 2 years.
PS: The specs for OO are open and freely available, but those for MSOffice are subject to incredible (all but nonexistent) licensing. It's not an issue of OO "playing nice" with MSOffice, it's an issue of MSOffice "playing nice" with nobody.
Global warming is an ALTRUISTIC reason to persue alternative energy. But, precious few great social changes happened for altruism. Real social change almost always stems from reasons economic in nature.
The biggest reasons to persue alternative energy options are ECONOMIC in nature! If the United States were to aggressively persue alternative energy (biofuels, solar energy, geothermal, nuclear, etc) the following things will result:
1) Money spent for energy stays in the US economy. It does not finance the next round of terrorism, it does not deplete the US economy worldwide, it stays here at home to pay for and feed US citizens.
2) The sovereignty and power of the US depends on the political stability of the most unstable political climate in the world - the Middle East. The peoples of the Middle East have been at war in various forms for hundreds of years! By developing energy sources from the homeland, we provide enhanced security and stability for the United States. If we aren't busy raping the Middle East, why would they be mad at us?
3) Jobs jobs JOBS! An extension of item #1, researching and building the infrastructure of solar arrays, geothermal plants, and semi-superconducting power transmission lines will create many thousands of jobs at home, rather than Arabia.
So, how about it, conservatives? It's not about "global warming" or some hippy-liberal agenda, it's about national sovereignty and economy. Are you game? Or are you more interested in pandering to the oil elite?
Come on, man. I get about 100k of Email per day, unless there are meaningful attachments. I go to my favorite MP3 site and chew thru a week's email (including attachments) in about 15 minutes.
No, I don't do "copyright infringing" P2P anymore, unless it appears to be at least reasonably legit.
And for those that do, it gets huge. FAST. (PS: How much of P2P is over HTTP? Napster was P2P HTTP... and so is GnuTella, if I recall...
There's an insane amount of bitching about how terrible the job market is, how inane and shortsighted HR departments are, blah blah blah.
If that's all true, then those business are ripe for being raped of their marketshare. Start your own business!
It takes virtually NOTHING to startup a company these days... a 1U server of commercial quality runs less than $1,000, hosting can be had for about $100/month and the Operating System is free...
Give yourself a few months worth of beans and/or working part-time, sleep on a couch with a cheapie computer borrowing the DSL service from a neighbor's wifi connection, and you can do a startup for next to NOTHING.
So why are you here whining on Slashdot about how horrible it all is???? If it's half as bad as you claim, you have the opportunity to become RICH!!!!
PS: I'm quite familiar with the startup routine - I haven't had a "job" in some 15 years, and have started quite a few businesses, successfully fed, clothed, raised, and home-schooled my family of 5 kids in one of the more economically depressed counties in California.
Startups can be thrilling! Pull up your sleeves, and don't just "think outside the box", throw the box out altogether. You'd be amazed at what you can accomplish if you:
1) Find something people will pay for,
2) Deliver that something as efficiently as possible, cost-effectively, and with a smile,
3) Wash, rinse, repeat. Before you know it, your clients are almost friends, and do most of your sales work for you by giving referrals...
Contact me if you're curious... I'd be happy to offer my experience to anybody who is serious.
Guy goes to work overseas. Gets sick. Works at Microsoft. Other employees get sick. That kind of thing NEVER happens with my 5 kids who roam the neighborhood with other kids, bringing infections home... no... never.
Wow. What a RETARDED post. Somebody needs to be beaten upside the head with a frozen trout!
Oh, nothing of note? Oh, but since you are in on the secrets of Henry Ford, you are a millionaire, right?
Oh, you aren't? Come on, not even a million?
What business have you to say what constitutes good management? There are a number of management styles, and there is more than ONE right answer.
Henry Ford had his managerial style. Read "Rich dad, poor dad" for a more current analog. It's a method, and it works.
On the other hand, there are many circumstances where having a manager with "field experience" is critical. For example, the military. Would you be wanting to follow a corporal into battle who was incompetent at shooting a gun?
Neither would I.
It's like education, or marrital relationships. There isn't a boolean "right way" and "wrong"; there are many, many "right" answers. Each answer has its strengths and weaknesses.
A consultative managerial style works well for soft, light-duty tasks that don't have much resistance or complexity. A rigid, "I been there and done it and you better too before I kick your arse" works well when there's tremendous opposition but not much complexity. A more informed, educational style works when tasks are complicated, (such as IT) especially when tasks are mutually discussed, merits and weaknesses are discussed, and a "best answer" agreed upon.
And there are many other methods, to each their own. Anybody who says otherwise is giving you a line of crap, as you've done.
Give them a dollar, and they'll suck you dry. I'm almost scared to use anything but cash at the theater for fear of what other craziness they may come up with next if they had my name on a reciept.
Bzzzzzzt!!!! I call bullshit. You had me until you wrote the above quoted bit.
Come on, man. You're afraid to use a credit card? That might, you know, indicate a legitimate purchase? Do you even have a credit card? Does your "friend" even exist, or is he merely part of that public face you'd like to be known by here on Slashdot? What's the last movie you saw (ahem) AT the theater?
Give me a bag, I have some used dinner you might need to take a look at...
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I usually have to replace a hard drive every five to six months, and often these are still under warranty.
Man, where are you BUYING your drives? The back of a truck? I've had ONE hard disk failure in a few YEARS, despite working with several dozen of them. (knock on wood) I purchase at LEAST 1 per month, and just don't have trouble. (Though, when it matters, I buy two identical drives and configure with RAID1)
Or, are you just whining in order to whore for karma?
That's nothing...try a married couple sending angry IM's at each other while in their apartment.
My wife and I have been together for > 10 years. A long time. But there have been a few times where we were so enraged with each other, that verbal communication broke down.
In these very few cases, it has helped tremendously to be able to write out all our thoughts out and send them via e-mail back and forth. The somewhat impersonal touch afforded by email lets tempers cool, and lets the shouting-match argument fall back into being a reasonable debate.
I remember twice this happening - once when my wife was upstairs and me downstairs on the porch, and another time we were in the same room, and were openly polite to each other, both agreeing not to talk about it until we both agreed we were ready to, stepping in and out of the seat where the computer was in our bedroom.
It was really quite effective!
I don't have a salary. I'm in on my own, running my own show, with my fingers in a number of pies. (One of those pies, growing nicely, has me in a 25% partnership in a company with 3 excellent partners, though I'm the only one with 25%)
I work as a generic programmer/CTO/CIO/sysadmin, in a number of capacities, supporting a wide variety of OSS-based solutions for a wide variety of clients.
From Schools and school districts, to ISPs to job-placement agencies, E-commerce, website hosting, etc.
My income varies widely. My wife (AKA the CFO) gets to juggle incomes where in one month, I gross $6,000, and the next month $16,000. It's quite a feat, and she plays the numbers well.
Last year, after expenses, I earned $86,000. I think I've already exceeded that this year so far, but I'm not sure. Things are well up, though. The last quarter this year looks like it might be a little tighter than the year so far.
My location? A small town in central California. Housing prices are reasonable, but not like the mid-west. Typical house around here costs $250-350,000, big ones about $650,000, and $1,000,000 buys a mansion. I paid $76,000 for my house some years ago, it's worth about $300,000 today.
Hours? Sometimes 20, sometimes 80. I have lots of "work-vacations" where I work 4 hours per day, in some other city, using the DSL service from the lobby of the hotel. I tend to travel alot, probably averaging a trip every 2-3 weeks or so in the last 3 months, about 1/2 by plane.
The last year has been very busy for me, and nicely enough, much of that business will result in a good, residual income - after the next year or so, I may never have to work for an hourly wage... ever again.
I usually work at home, on the couch, wearing a cotton T-shirt and a pair of shorts, no shoes, cordless phone in one hand, laptop in the other, either chatting or typing furiously. I work hard to keep relationships strong, and seldom lose a client. (in the past 6 years, I've lost exactly two, out of about 2 dozen groups/people I work with)
No, I don't have the stable income of somebody with a "job", but I prefer the stability of knowing that I can't get fired, and that everything I create, I own outright, and that my income is only based on my ability to sell and get the job done.
Does this help at all?
You're only worth as much as you're willing to walk away from.
If you're not willing to quit your job if they refuse to give you a raise then you won't get the raise.
So, the guy who refuses to leave mom's basement, and won't take a job, even when offered $300,000 per year, is worth $300,000 per year?
Also, if you walk out of a job because they won't up your pay from $60,000 to $75,000 annual, does that mean that you're worth $60,000, or $75,000?
What about when nobody hires you for $75,000?
No, you're worth whatever someobdy pays you, because (1) They agreed to pay it, and (2) you agreed to accept it.
When either stops, your worth drops.
Will Kazaa be appealing in 2006? It's been a LONG time since I found Kazaa appealing...
PS: AllOfMP3.com gets my vote - and it seems to be perfectly legal...
Yes, but whatever assets they do have will be taken by the music companies (and being who they are they *will* get them). Since that's all the companies could have got anyway they won't mind.
You think the company being sued has ANY assetts at all? I think they are much smarter than that...
My guess is that any assetts, including copyrights, customer accounts, etc. in fact do not belong to them, instead they are a "management" company with the legal responsibility to "maintain" these accounts and assetts for another party, the party of interest.
If Kazaa loses this fight, they'll just close shop. Since they have no assetts, the RIAA can't do jack, and KaZZaa, another "management company" opens its doors at 12:00:01 AM the following day, to begin another 3 years of legal battling with the RIAA and spyware installs on Lusers' computers.
1. I've never encountered corrupted data with mysql (It seems to be urban legend), and I have worked on tables with billions rows for two years.
I see MySQL hosing itself about every 9 months or so, and usually in a *bad* way. (Where you have to rely on backups bad)
I've only once seen anything similar for PostgreSQL, and I'd say I hit PG much, much harder than MySQL gets hit...
Different folks, different strokes.
Let's do some math.
.006756...
1/148 =
148/1480 =.10
The latter is a MUCH BIGGER NUMBER. Some 15-ish times larger. So, what you're in effect saying, is "Duhhh [sic], bigger society means bigger government using modern communications tech. Yeah, I'd say the government cranks out 148x more info today than it dis [sic] previous. Maybe in 50 years folks will say the govet [sic] will say the govet [sic] is spending "almost 1/15 as much as 2005 keeping secrets".
Learn what a ratio is before using it!
companies hate switching dbms because it can get very messy very fast.
Which is why I never did much with MySQL. I started with MySQL, but after being introduced to PostgreSQL, I've never looked back.
It's robust, traditionally has more features, scales nicely, and is completely free to use in any of my products sold in just about any manner I choose.
It also comes with RedHat - simply typing
yum -y install postgresql-server postgresql
does the trick... What's not to like? Why would I ever choose MySQL over Postgres?
What movie was this?
Uh... Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Instead, I have a laptop with RSA keys, and login by SSH, passwordless. I don't have to remember any passwords, and (usually) root password is bogus, anyway. (Can't login to root with a password by SSH!)
Passwords are then irrelevant.
I issue a command likeand I'm logged in as root. If I don't have my laptop, I get nowhere. I then need physical access to machine, have to reboot the system, set a root password, and then login.
Passwords suck. Ones you can remember aren't worth using, and those worth using are near impossible to remember, especially when you have 20+ serers to remember passwords for. Why bother? I've given up on them almost entirely.
And, passwordless logins can be protected by the full strennth of a 256 bit key. (Just don't lose yer laptop!)
Maybe it's YOUR knee that should be restrained.
That's right. Because we all know that government's never do anything beneficial to the community: like roads, education for those who couldn't otherwise afford it, public transportation, water supplies, defense, the police...
And where, in his post, did he imply otherwise? All he said is that money for the state is taken by force, and that when the govt saves money, it saves YOU money. If you aren't sure about "taken by force" bit, just don't pay your income taxes for a few years.
When the agents are towing your car and boat, and walking out of your bank with your mortgage papers, you'll perhaps get an appreciation for what "taken by force" means.
How does this imply "Libertarianism"? GP poster could easily have been a ultra-left commie, that still doesn't change the truth of his/her statements.
But its more for their own bottom line than for the tax payers.
Since when does improving the bottom line of a government NOT benefit its tax-payers?
(ahem)
There was a Shuttle experiment on this about 10? years ago, the put a small payload on the end of a tether cable about 3 miles long and it followed the orbit of the Shuttle. It generated a LOT of electrical current.
But, there is no free lunch.
Current generated with a tether-based system comes at the expense of orbital velocity. If you extract electricity from a tether, you're getting that energy from the orgital inertia. Thus, your orbit dwindles if you "spend" this energy.
OTOH, if you pump electricity INTO the tether, say, with solar panels or nuclear power, you can ADD energy to your orbital velocity. Thus, you can do an incredible amount of orbital manipulation merely by suplying or burning electrical energy, with NO MOVING PARTS and NO FUEL PROPELLANT.
There was an article in (I believe) Popular Science about this in the last 6 months or so I found utterly fascinating. What this means for sky hooks/space elevators is anybody's guess.
Ask them. To most kids, science is a class they take, where they have to regurgitate "facts" like why the sky is blue, or how hydrogen and oxygen combine to create water. It's a boring class, unless you happen to sit next to an attractive member of the opposite sex, but then, it's still not the class that's interesting...
Science is not 'fact' - Science is the best-known process by which truth can be reliably found.
Science is somewhat like the mathematical function x=1/y. Forever approaching truth, never (exactly) reaching it, forever leaving curious minds with new things to explore. Science is the magical combination of "what if" combined with the "feet on the ground" of experimentation, independent scrutiny, and validation of theories.
The "Scientific method" that is regurgitated by most Jr. High schoolers (in California, anyway) is never really *experienced* except in the case of the rare instructor who goes above and beyond the textbook curriculum. EG:What drudgery! If that really was science, I wouldn't be interested, either!
It's sad. Entire generations of people who never get to experience the awe, wonder, and magic of science, who then seek out that awe and wonder by (best case scenario) watching magicians and listening to Art Bell, or (worst case scenario) performing criminal acts and doing drugs.
How much of the interest in the pseudo-sciences (aliens, conspiracy theories, perpetual motion machines, telepathy, Scientology) comes from the fact that they have never really been exposed to the real thing?
Helps=yes.
I'd LOVE to learn more about polymerized nitrogen or silicon!
We're (laregly) made of carbon. Diamonds, the (formerly) hardest substance known to exist, is made of carbon. This new material is also made of carbon.
Carbon is also the basis for buckyballs, nanotubes, and recently, nanofabric.
What is it about carbon that's so special? Can these things be done with other elements, like nitrogen? Is it just because we have an oil (carbon) based economy, or what?
Seems like all the interesting stuff in materials physics in early 2000's is ALL CARBON!
Even if that person used OOo I could get garbage; if they used the linux version, and I used the Windows version, the files got mangled.
You had me until this line, which makes it clear you are somewhere out in left field.
What do you most appreciate about the view from your Redomd, WA office window?
The main reaon I've standardized on OpenOffice for my own use is that it works equally well on Windows/Linux. I've had no issues whatsoever copying OO files to/from Windows/Linux machines.
OO reads office files fairly well, well enough that when I need to read/collaborate on tech specs (my primary need) I've not had an issue using my OO for about 2 years.
PS: The specs for OO are open and freely available, but those for MSOffice are subject to incredible (all but nonexistent) licensing. It's not an issue of OO "playing nice" with MSOffice, it's an issue of MSOffice "playing nice" with nobody.
Global warming is an ALTRUISTIC reason to persue alternative energy. But, precious few great social changes happened for altruism. Real social change almost always stems from reasons economic in nature.
The biggest reasons to persue alternative energy options are ECONOMIC in nature! If the United States were to aggressively persue alternative energy (biofuels, solar energy, geothermal, nuclear, etc)
the following things will result:
1) Money spent for energy stays in the US economy. It does not finance the next round of terrorism, it does not deplete the US economy worldwide, it stays here at home to pay for and feed US citizens.
2) The sovereignty and power of the US depends on the political stability of the most unstable political climate in the world - the Middle East. The peoples of the Middle East have been at war in various forms for hundreds of years! By developing energy sources from the homeland, we provide enhanced security and stability for the United States. If we aren't busy raping the Middle East, why would they be mad at us?
3) Jobs jobs JOBS! An extension of item #1, researching and building the infrastructure of solar arrays, geothermal plants, and semi-superconducting power transmission lines will create many thousands of jobs at home, rather than Arabia.
So, how about it, conservatives? It's not about "global warming" or some hippy-liberal agenda, it's about national sovereignty and economy. Are you game? Or are you more interested in pandering to the oil elite?
You can draw a line in GIMP with shift-click!?!?
I've been using GIMP for YEARS and I gave up on lines a long, LONG time ago... I use it weekly to retouch photos...
WOW! I just tried it... I didn't know you could do that! That's mighty convenient! Where does it tell you this ANYWHERE??!?!
What, you don't remember how suprnova.org Bittorrent traffic accounted for a healthy percentage (hint: 35%) of ALL international traffic?
Come on, man. I get about 100k of Email per day, unless there are meaningful attachments. I go to my favorite MP3 site and chew thru a week's email (including attachments) in about 15 minutes.
No, I don't do "copyright infringing" P2P anymore, unless it appears to be at least reasonably legit.
And for those that do, it gets huge. FAST. (PS: How much of P2P is over HTTP? Napster was P2P HTTP... and so is GnuTella, if I recall...
There's an insane amount of bitching about how terrible the job market is, how inane and shortsighted HR departments are, blah blah blah.
If that's all true, then those business are ripe for being raped of their marketshare. Start your own business!
It takes virtually NOTHING to startup a company these days... a 1U server of commercial quality runs less than $1,000, hosting can be had for about $100/month and the Operating System is free...
Give yourself a few months worth of beans and/or working part-time, sleep on a couch with a cheapie computer borrowing the DSL service from a neighbor's wifi connection, and you can do a startup for next to NOTHING.
Why aren't you doing it? If YOU are in charge, you can't be fired. If YOU are in charge, you'll be able to use sensible HR policies to get the really good ones, too.
So why are you here whining on Slashdot about how horrible it all is???? If it's half as bad as you claim, you have the opportunity to become RICH!!!!
PS: I'm quite familiar with the startup routine - I haven't had a "job" in some 15 years, and have started quite a few businesses, successfully fed, clothed, raised, and home-schooled my family of 5 kids in one of the more economically depressed counties in California.
Startups can be thrilling! Pull up your sleeves, and don't just "think outside the box", throw the box out altogether. You'd be amazed at what you can accomplish if you:
1) Find something people will pay for,
2) Deliver that something as efficiently as possible, cost-effectively, and with a smile,
3) Wash, rinse, repeat. Before you know it, your clients are almost friends, and do most of your sales work for you by giving referrals...
Contact me if you're curious... I'd be happy to offer my experience to anybody who is serious.
This article sucks. WTf?!?!?!
Guy goes to work overseas. Gets sick. Works at Microsoft. Other employees get sick. That kind of thing NEVER happens with my 5 kids who roam the neighborhood with other kids, bringing infections home... no... never.
Wow. What a RETARDED post. Somebody needs to be beaten upside the head with a frozen trout!
So, what have you managed?
Oh, nothing of note? Oh, but since you are in on the secrets of Henry Ford, you are a millionaire, right?
Oh, you aren't? Come on, not even a million?
What business have you to say what constitutes good management? There are a number of management styles, and there is more than ONE right answer.
Henry Ford had his managerial style. Read "Rich dad, poor dad" for a more current analog. It's a method, and it works.
On the other hand, there are many circumstances where having a manager with "field experience" is critical. For example, the military. Would you be wanting to follow a corporal into battle who was incompetent at shooting a gun?
Neither would I.
It's like education, or marrital relationships. There isn't a boolean "right way" and "wrong"; there are many, many "right" answers. Each answer has its strengths and weaknesses.
A consultative managerial style works well for soft, light-duty tasks that don't have much resistance or complexity. A rigid, "I been there and done it and you better too before I kick your arse" works well when there's tremendous opposition but not much complexity. A more informed, educational style works when tasks are complicated, (such as IT) especially when tasks are mutually discussed, merits and weaknesses are discussed, and a "best answer" agreed upon.
And there are many other methods, to each their own. Anybody who says otherwise is giving you a line of crap, as you've done.
Give them a dollar, and they'll suck you dry. I'm almost scared to use anything but cash at the theater for fear of what other craziness they may come up with next if they had my name on a reciept.
Bzzzzzzt!!!! I call bullshit. You had me until you wrote the above quoted bit.
Come on, man. You're afraid to use a credit card? That might, you know, indicate a legitimate purchase? Do you even have a credit card? Does your "friend" even exist, or is he merely part of that public face you'd like to be known by here on Slashdot? What's the last movie you saw (ahem) AT the theater?
Give me a bag, I have some used dinner you might need to take a look at...