You're the one who's deluded since you think individual workers can just cease to do their jobs and go on living somehow. I go to work and do dumb bullshit all day long because it's how I am able to eat.
The only way it's going to stop is by people organizing and deciding they're not going to take it anymore, and that comes about by threats to their livelihood (pay cuts, benefit cuts) not by them actually caring about the dumb bullshit they make at work. Except, perhaps, in special cases where they make something other than bullshit which could be life-threatening, like a bridge. But as usual, Marx said it better than I can. This applies to audio engineers as much as any white collar worker and was as true in 1850 as it is today:
The fact is that these workers, indeed, are productive, as far as they increase the capital of their master; unproductive as to the material result of their labour. In fact, of course, this 'productive' worker cares as much about the crappy shit he has to make as does the capitalist himself who employs him, and who also couldn't give a damn for the junk. But, looked at more precisely, it turns out in fact that the true definition of a productive worker consists in this: A person who needs and demands exactly as much as, and no more than, is required to enable him to gain the greatest possible benefit for his capitalist.
If audio engineers had a little bit of professional self esteem they would refuse to go along with this loudness war thing.
They care a lot more about making their next mortgage payment than some immaterial bullshit about professionalism and integrity, just like everybody else.
They were never really allies; they did not fight side-by-side. There had been longstanding tension between the countries since the October Revolution when the US immediately put a trade embargo on Russia and sent in elements of the army. The tensions escalated while both sides established their respective lookalike regimes in their halves of Europe. The atom bomb was the final deciding factor of the relationship there; it was completely unnecessary to use it since the Japanese had offered to surrender well before. There was no need to flex that sort of muscle to impress the whole world. The only country that needed to be impressed was the only one that still had any military or economic capability left, the USSR.
The only reason the Cold War didn't start immediately was because Stalin knew better than to posture like that until they had a bomb of their own.
The fact that it's "cold" means the declaration is implicit, not that no declaration exists. Dropping two atomic bombs next to the USSR was all the declaration needed.
I wonder why we don't here more about Quercus in the PHP world...
Well, it's right here in your link:
This is available only in Resin Professional.
That's $700 per CPU. Precious few PHP shops are willing to actually pay for software. The ones that do, like the one I work at, still aren't going to jump at $700 for server improvements, especially if they're esoteric and the developers barely understand how to use them.
There is absolutely NO REASON WHATSOEVER why software engineers should not be compensated for excess overtime.
Of course there is a reason: programmers haven't walked off the job and demanded to be compensated. A union of programmers would be unstoppable. You can't just hire a scab when the only people who know how the software works aren't willing to cooperate.
It's a tiny part of the American population willingly going into the grinder, but it's a much bigger part of the Iraqi or Afghan population that's being sacrificed against its will.
The question here isn't whether the police ought to investigate criminal behavior, but whether they can use these tactics without a warrant. Big difference. If this guy really is so damn shady, they should have no trouble at all getting a warrant. If there's not even enough suspicion to get a warrant, he certainly deserves to be left alone.
If you don't want to take important classes like history, nobody is shoving it down your throat. You should've gone to a tech school with all the rest of the philistine loser nerds. Me? I took computer science at a liberal arts school. I did math, history, Spanish, Chinese, philosophy, literature, drugs, and sex. Today I'm a fucking great programmer with a happy marriage, an active social life, and an ever expanding breadth of knowledge on a wide variety of subjects because I learned how to learn about unfamiliar things while I was in college instead of wasting my time exclusively studying things that felt natural to me.
No, but it would probably be easy enough to have bases in Turkey, Jordan, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia that could strike there. According to Wikipedia, a Predator drone "can fly up to 400 nautical miles (740 km) to a target, loiter overhead for 14 hours, then return to its base."
With this information and a quick look at a map, it looks like they could fly drones over everything but the eastern parts of Iraq pretty easily.
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You're the one who's deluded since you think individual workers can just cease to do their jobs and go on living somehow. I go to work and do dumb bullshit all day long because it's how I am able to eat.
The only way it's going to stop is by people organizing and deciding they're not going to take it anymore, and that comes about by threats to their livelihood (pay cuts, benefit cuts) not by them actually caring about the dumb bullshit they make at work. Except, perhaps, in special cases where they make something other than bullshit which could be life-threatening, like a bridge. But as usual, Marx said it better than I can. This applies to audio engineers as much as any white collar worker and was as true in 1850 as it is today:
If audio engineers had a little bit of professional self esteem they would refuse to go along with this loudness war thing.
They care a lot more about making their next mortgage payment than some immaterial bullshit about professionalism and integrity, just like everybody else.
Don't ignore it, get that OS license key!
sausages should be made public.
There's an alarming quantity of websites where people do exactly that.
Twitter is contributing by helping them to censor. The right thing to do is simply not do business in those countries where censorship is required.
The right thing for Twitter to do is whatever makes them the most money. As long as we live in capitalism, we shouldn't expect anything better.
How about we research things we need directly instead of researching military technology and getting useful things as a side effect
They were never really allies; they did not fight side-by-side. There had been longstanding tension between the countries since the October Revolution when the US immediately put a trade embargo on Russia and sent in elements of the army. The tensions escalated while both sides established their respective lookalike regimes in their halves of Europe. The atom bomb was the final deciding factor of the relationship there; it was completely unnecessary to use it since the Japanese had offered to surrender well before. There was no need to flex that sort of muscle to impress the whole world. The only country that needed to be impressed was the only one that still had any military or economic capability left, the USSR.
The only reason the Cold War didn't start immediately was because Stalin knew better than to posture like that until they had a bomb of their own.
Besides how do you declare a cold war?
The fact that it's "cold" means the declaration is implicit, not that no declaration exists. Dropping two atomic bombs next to the USSR was all the declaration needed.
I wonder why we don't here more about Quercus in the PHP world...
Well, it's right here in your link:
This is available only in Resin Professional.
That's $700 per CPU. Precious few PHP shops are willing to actually pay for software. The ones that do, like the one I work at, still aren't going to jump at $700 for server improvements, especially if they're esoteric and the developers barely understand how to use them.
Blaming PHP for poorly written code is like blaming a car for having a bad driver.
That's why they make BMW's
You would be shocked at how far just a little charm will take you, especially in the eyes of non-technical people who can't call you on your BS.
I was shocked the first couple times I tried it, but now it's pretty routine.
There is absolutely NO REASON WHATSOEVER why software engineers should not be compensated for excess overtime.
Of course there is a reason: programmers haven't walked off the job and demanded to be compensated. A union of programmers would be unstoppable. You can't just hire a scab when the only people who know how the software works aren't willing to cooperate.
Q: What's a libertarian's favorite snack?
A: Pyrk rands.
Prosperity: the gift of stockbrokers and lawyers to the rest of us.
It's a tiny part of the American population willingly going into the grinder, but it's a much bigger part of the Iraqi or Afghan population that's being sacrificed against its will.
Now you're a criminal for destroying government property and interfering with an investigation. Your life is ruined.
The question here isn't whether the police ought to investigate criminal behavior, but whether they can use these tactics without a warrant. Big difference. If this guy really is so damn shady, they should have no trouble at all getting a warrant. If there's not even enough suspicion to get a warrant, he certainly deserves to be left alone.
If you don't want to take important classes like history, nobody is shoving it down your throat. You should've gone to a tech school with all the rest of the philistine loser nerds. Me? I took computer science at a liberal arts school. I did math, history, Spanish, Chinese, philosophy, literature, drugs, and sex. Today I'm a fucking great programmer with a happy marriage, an active social life, and an ever expanding breadth of knowledge on a wide variety of subjects because I learned how to learn about unfamiliar things while I was in college instead of wasting my time exclusively studying things that felt natural to me.
yes and yes
Actually, Windows has had a totally baffling directory layout ever since XP.
http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/06/25/bill-gates-rant-from.html
Make the directories you want compressed into mountpoints on the compressed partition.
I use vim for programming, tweaking, both locally and remotely. I use KDE.
Get Yakuake. Now I can use one of those extraneous function keys on my Apple keyboard to get a terminal to dropdown or go fullscreen at any time.
Awesome Vim story.
ummm that was a gvim story
Just cut the heat pipe open, so that the heat will flow out of it instead of being trapped inside. Now you're getting way more cooling!
No, but it would probably be easy enough to have bases in Turkey, Jordan, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia that could strike there.
According to Wikipedia, a Predator drone "can fly up to 400 nautical miles (740 km) to a target, loiter overhead for 14 hours, then return to its base."
With this information and a quick look at a map, it looks like they could fly drones over everything but the eastern parts of Iraq pretty easily.