So you are saying that because you don't approve of Swedish rape laws, the US is guilty of a conspiracy?
Sure, let's go with that, but I did say conspiracy THEORY. I never claimed to have any evidence... as a mater of fact I'm sure I said "this is entirely speculation and conspiracy theory." in my original post
It still seems fishy that the acquisitions came out at the height of the US Wikileaks scandal.
It's clear that many people here share your beliefs. It's not at all clear that they're well founded.
That's what the *tinfoil hat on/off* tags are suppose to indicate, but the fact is Sweden does have the strict sex crime laws in the world, and apparently having consensual sex with someone, but not using a condom is ground for rape charges. Based on the material I've read it seems this might be more of a case of two women finding out the slept with the same guy, felt duped and charged him with rape... Well one of them is charging him with rape, the other one is just accusing him of molesting her.
The part about the women could be being paid off is the conspiracy theory part. There's no evidence to back that up, but it seems fishy that these charges were brought against him at the height of the wikileaks scandal and politicians like Sarah Palin were calling for blood. Feel free to look up alternative referances for that link, google's got tons of them
So you're saying that the US cleverly arranged for radical Swedish feminists to pass bad rape laws, caused numerous cases to be prosecuted under those ridiculous laws
You've gone back much further than what my statement was about. I'm saying someone is possibly taking advantage of existing laws to do something under handed. I like your hat, but it seems to be made of wax paper instead of tinfoil.
All I can say is based on the material I've read, here on slashdot, various blogs and news sites, it seems the woman (singular) accusing Assange of rape willingly slept with him at the time of the allegations, but later brought charges against him. You can see the timeline article on the BBC here (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11949341). I'm of the opinion that rape is when you use violence or drugs to force someone to have sex with you. That doesn't seem to be the case here. One of the women slept with Assange willingly, but later accused him of rape because he didn't use a condom.
Also of note, only one women accused him of rape. The other brought molestation charges against him. Both women knew each other and only after discussing their sexual encounters with Assange decided to bring charges against him. It's entirely possible that nether one alone had the courage to accuse Assange of anything, but after they talked about it they were able to draw on strength in numbers, which would be commendable, but I feel it's equally likely they're being paid off, or are conspiring to "scam" Assange as he is the head of a major organization, a poor one as I understand it, but still a major one.
*tinfoil hat on*
I believe the Swedish cases against him is just a smear campaign meant to degrade his reputation, which in turn would degrade the reputation of Wikileaks. Most of the population isn't as well informed or cynical as we are here, and they do make associations such as head of organization is bad therefore organization must be bad too.
Once Assange has been sufficiently dragged through the mud he will be extradited to the US. At that point it won't matter what the US does to him most people won't care or will see it as a rapist getting what they deserve. It also won't matter what's posted on Wikileaks in the future because most people will pass it off as bad person spreading lies and discontent.
Of course none of us can actually see the future and this is entirely speculation and conspiracy theory. Only time will tell.
*tinfoil hat off*
We realize that. This is all just politics.
My organization is huge there are dozens of branches with drastically diverse functions. The thing is the security group belongs to the Technology Services (TS) Branch. TS also stands for Tough Shit, which is what they say when anyone in the organization wants to do something innovative. Our group belongs to the Science Branch. TS also has a web development group and a software development group, but other groups in the science branch come to our group for data analysis and management and application development. Mainly because TS is a huge group with no people on site. With all their bureaucracy they act as more of a road block, making it difficult for researches and scientists in the science branch to do their jobs.
My understanding is this feud has been going on for a couple decades now, long before I worked here. At one point my group was part of TS, but they decided the group wasn't cost effective so they cut it loose. Science Branch needed a group to develop tools to help analyze and manage data so they absorbed our group. Without being tethered to the TS branch and not having to deal with the bureaucracy and blot that comes with it our group did really well and started turning profit. Our group expanded and has been taking over other areas such as Networks, Databases, even designing and programming sensors. We're still not even one tenth the size of TS, which is suppose to manage all technology in the organization, but they're losing even more money because other groups, some outside of Science Branch, are coming to our group to get things done that TS has told them they won't do. Of course now because our group is making money TS wants to reabsorb us, but there's no way in hell Science Branch is letting us go because they'll go back to the way things were when there was no competition and TS held all the cards. Instead TS is playing tricks to make things difficult for us, at which point they're hoping our "shared" clients become their clients.
Back when the organization first rolled out WinXP the TS Branch tried this same security lock down trick, but ended up with a lot of push back. Some groups went as far as buying their own machines, software and put their own network infrastructure in place. Apparently it was a huge mess and took years to clean up. There are still external drives sitting around in peoples offices with massive amounts of data sitting on them, which might as well be considered lost since the only people that know the data is there are the people that sit behind the office door.
Regardless of what TS does my group will do what it always has and find a way around the restrictions. All TS is doing is hurting themselves as more and more of their clients will become "shared" clients with us or other groups in other branches that are similar to us.
I'm pushing to get a Linux distro instead of Windows 7. We have different security groups for Linux, OSX and Windows. The widows security group has it so locked down that it's useless to anyone that wants to do more than just use word and IE. We're not allowed to install any software outside what comes with the base Win7 image, including other browsers, which isn't going to work for me being the webmaster and all.
The Linux security group is considerable more lax, although Linux users have to use a web version of MS Outlook for booking boardrooms and sending/receiving e-mail within the organization. I only know two people at my work site that have Linux because you have to have a good reason to request a Linux distro.. I wonder if "So I can do my job" is a good enough reason.
I'm sure they'll relax the Win7 security once they get everything up and running and they're dealing with 100 request an hour for application installations and increased security privileges. I can tell you now if all I can do is read/write e-mails there will be a never ending torrent of them from me.
I think we need a support group.
I'm in the same boat as you except all my web projects must be IE6 compliant.
The real fun for me is going to start in October when my organization rolls Win7, with max security enabled and no admin rights (even for local IT or help desk) out to all the organization PCs.
Actually the real joke here is that chart is still relevant 6 years later.
I do spend about one third of my time on CSS, I've had issues with the missing/extra space in javaScript causing FireFox to go wonky and it's about accurate for how much time I spend correcting issues to make pages work in Internet Explorer.
I think I spend less time making the pages W3C compliant because I use tool kits that take care of most of that for me, but I definitely spend more time swearing.
As a web developer I can tell you you're correct. I have CSS and jQuery that work perfectly with FireFox, Chrome, Opera and Safari. Then I have special case CSS files for IE 6, 7, 8 and general case IE. Other browsers rarely need special case rules and never at all require special case rules for every version of the browser.
I deal with a lot of scientific data and dynamically generate graphs and plots based on variables selected in forms written in PHP. Almost guaranteed when I develop something in IE, it won't displayed correctly in FireFox, Chrome, Opera and/or Safari. If I develop something in FireFox I can't say I've ever had a problem with Chrome, Opera, or Safari, but it almost never works in IE and special case rules need to be written.
Just as an example, I have a page where a user determines the type of species they're looking at by answering questions. My organizations web standards group provided me the jQuery and CSS for the feature. The questions are contracted links in a tree like structure and are formatted as "Does the species have XXX?" or "Does the species have YYY?". When the user clicks on a link the section expands and asks another question until the user gets to the linked name of the species they're looking for, which takes them to a page with more information on the species.
The page works fine in FireFox, Chrome, Opera, and Safari, but doesn't work the same way in any IE browser. The progress enhancement solution for IE is to have all elements in the tree automatically expanded. The fact that this doesn't work in IE is a real pain in my ass. I demoed the page in FireFox and the content owner liked how it worked, but he uses IE and wasn't happy when I told him it didn't work the same way in that browser. So now he expects me to go through all the jQuery code and CSS to make it work the same way in not just IE, but every version of IE, which I'm not doing because 1) I've been told I'm not to modify features provided by the web standards group in order to ensure our web content complies with Web Content accessibility Guidelines 2.0 and 2) when the web standards group provides me with updates for jQuery features like this I'd have to go and re-update all the code again.
on the other hand there is no way for a male to fit into a female-dominated office.
I don't know if that's completely true. There are 4 guys that work in my wife's office with her and about 30 other women, but you're pretty well on the mark about it being acceptable for women to harass men and not the other way around. I've been in my wife's office once when we took our new daughter in to visit my wife's coworkers and was there when one of the guys was called "sugar cake" and one of the older women slapped him on the ass. He didn't seem to mind and just harty-har-hared it up with the girls. It was obvious I was more offended than he was. If that kind of behavior was taking place in my office, regardless of weather it was a man or women, it would have reported and at the vary least the verbal offender would be retaking our mandatory sensitivity training and the physical offender would have been suspended without pay.
I was also treated very rudely and, to my wife's embarrassment, said I was strictly there as the muscle to carry the car seat and would rather be ignored. I meant to say it jokingly, but is seemed to quickly snap the women making cat calls and remarks you'd expect a trucker to make to a pretty waitress at a truck stop back in line. Later my wife and I were told I wouldn't be allowed to visit again because "I didn't know my place" and "had over inserted my penis upsetting some of the other women". Yes my wife's manager said "penis", she was obviously upset and red in the face. If it was because of the way her employees were behaving or that I wasn't willing to let them poke fun at me, I don't know. Unfortunately my wife is the one taking the punishment, while her friends are still talking to her most of the other women are shunning her now because she "can't keep her hubby in line", which is killing her and that is the only reason I wish I had kept my mouth shut. Currently she's looking for another job while out on maternity leave, if that fails we plan to try and get her pregnant again before she goes back so she work the minimum amount of time and have another year of leave to find another job.
A lot of Americans, when they see a black person, or other minority always feel some kind of resentment and anger, regardless of their personal achievement.
That's more of a stereotype and not an exclusively American trait. I'm Canadian and have lived in both the States and in England. There is plenty of resentment and anger to go around in the States, England and yes even Canada. It's really a shame, but from my point of view it's just plain human nature. It's also human nature to divide ourselves into "us" and "them" groups and then considering our "us" group to always be on the receiving end of the stick.
I find this a little funny because my wife is currently out on mat. leave with our first child. She works in an office with four men about about 30 other women for a big insurance company and at anyone time there are at least five other women out, or going out, on mat. leave. My wife is due to go back to work in September, but has been told, by several other women she works with, now is a good time to get pregnant again.
The reasons being:
There are already three other women currently out on mat. leave and four other women due early next year. There are at least six I know of that are due to retire. Despite the company's best efforts they can't keep enough staff in the office to compensate for the women that are continually out on mat. leave, you only have to go back to work for 6 months before going out again so many of the women plan to get pregnant before they go back
The company is moving many of it's jobs over seas and if she's out on mat. leave they can't downsize her. They have to guarantee her a job when she gets back. That doesn't mean the job couldn't be in Ottawa or Montreal, where as we live in Nova Scotia, but they have to have one for her.
They also can't let her go if she's pregnant as that would be seen as discrimination.
This company also does have a day care center on site, but it costs nearly double what my wife makes working at the company. Again if she gets pregnant now we only have to find child care for 6 months until she can go off again. I know it's just delaying the inevitable, but we can at least delay needing a child care service for another year and we plan on having more than one child anyway.
I really try not to complain since the system is working for us right now, but I have to say if I was an employer I'd be scared shitless of highering young women who may be planning to start a families. The company my wife works for has just as many "temp" employees working for them then they do regular full time employees. I keep saying it's no wonder they want to move all of the jobs to Manilla, here they have to have two employees for every job so there's a temp employee to do the job while the regular one is raising their family. LOL, my wife made a comment to me on mothers day about how the government should be paying her to stay home and raise competent productive members of society, and although I agree she's worth $60,000/yr to me, I laughed and pointed out she's already making %60 of her working wage, which includes her yearly wage increase, plus what I give her, to stay home for a year, plus she'll get another year if we have another child. That's on top of other men and women who don't want to/can't have children are losing their jobs left and right while she's safe out on mat. leave.
AA is bad in any sense of the term. You used it as
When AA for whites ("legacy") is the only thing that got him in Yale.
, I'm not an American and hate to point it out, but if AA for whites was what got Bush into Yale and subsequently elected and then re-elected, AA should be locked away, removed from all vocabulary and never spoken of again.
Also I'd like to say, I like Obama, but the chatter up here in Canada is that a lot of Americans feel he was only elected because he was black and that they're quite dissatisfied with his performance. I'd really like to not take sides in the American election that's coming up, but I kind of hope Obama gets re-elected because otherwise I'm going to have to listen to my Fox News watching Dad brag about it for the next four years.
Ah, I don't think that's necessarily true. I know it's an anecdote, but my wife and I recently had a baby. She took a year off work to look after the bundle of joy. Now we're in negations for a second baby, at which point she'll take another year off work. I wanted to take the time off for the second one, but seeing as how I can't produce milk and my wife started crying at the thought of having to go back to work and leave the children with anyone that wasn't her, I caved.
Entry level positions are just that, an entry point into the company. It takes time to build up to a higher level and many women take time to start families. So say two employees start their careers at the same time, one's male the other female. The female takes time off after three years in her position to start a family and comes back two years later. So 1) she's only worked for three of the five years, the male has worked all five years, 2) she's been off for the last two years meaning the male will have two years of additional experience and training and 3) the male will have had two additional years of opportunities for advancement. I'd say it's a pretty cut and dry case for the male to end up advancing while the female falls behind. I'd also say artificially advancing the female in this situation would be unfair to the male candidate that stuck it out for 5 years while the female took time off. Not that I'm saying looking after children is easy. My wife being at home and looking after our daughter easily deserves to be paid $60,000 a year, not just because otherwise we'd be spending $25,000/yr on child care, but because of all the other things she does around the home which means I don't have to and can spend more of my time doing stuff I want.
I digress. Families are one of many reasons women show an absence in higher ranking positions. Unfortunately, bias against women is one of the reasons, but I think its contribution is much smaller that a lot of people would have us believe. I think, note I'm NOT say all, but a lot of women use it as an excuse for poor performance. It's easier to make excuses when not promoted than it is to work harder and unfortunately human nature is to take the path of least resistant.
I see the problem as people are brought up using MS products. Although I'm a technical person and know about the alternatives not everyone I know is as lucky, I can only educate so many people at a time. Another issue is when something doesn't work the way a person expects because it's different from MS Word or Excel most people just give up. I have my launch menu on the right side of my screen, which drives people batty because they're use to seeing it on the bottom. I'm sure you can imagine the comments I get when someones trying to use Libre Office on my machine and can't find some feature because the icons are different.
MS has been training people for years to use MS products at work and home so they shouldn't be surprised when an average user can't afford $150-$250 license for their home machine and pirate it instead. Because most people stick with what they know of course they'll go out and pirate it.
I switched to Linux after my brand new laptop had a catastrophic failure trying to run Windows Vista. I bought the machine close to five years ago and it came with Windows XP, a sticker that said Vista ready and an upgrade deal. The problem was once Vista was installed the machine ran like crap, it hung during start-ups and shutdowns and often just randomly restarted or blue screened. I tried to downgrade back to XP, but was told I wasn't allowed and I'd have to buy a new license. I ended up with a developers copy of Windows 7 which ran fine on the machine until the developer period was up. I wasn't going to go and spend $200 on a Windows 7 license for a machine that was suppose to have windows on it, and had considered pirating a copy. Instead I installed Ubuntu, and more recently Linux Mint, now I run a pirated copy of Windows XP in VMWare to play games, which I consider legit because my machine came with XP so I've technically paid for it. I use Linux Mint and OSS for everything else. I installed Linux Mint on my wife's two year old computer when she start having problems with Vista. That lasted a week until she decided she needed a new computer to play her Facebook games.
Yes I was disgusted and had considered divorce, but then my daughter came along so I've decided to give up on my wife and focus my attention on training her. I'm so proud eight months old and she can already use my Android phone. *cry*
I'm a Canadian, but spent some of my high school career in the States so I picked up a bit of how the US election system works. Unfortunately I think a lot of Americans don't fully understand their own democratic system. My understanding of Bush's second term was he wasn't even close to having the popular vote, but got in because of the electoral college vote him in. The college is suppose to vote the way the population tells it, but it doesn't have to, and there have been several presidents that were elected by the college that didn't have the popular vote.
Elections are just horse and pony shows to make the population feel like they have some influence. Although our election system here in Canada is considerable different, it isn't any better. None of us have any real say over who is going to tell us to bend over and take it, but modern governments have learned from past empires that if you don't keep the population happy they're going to revolt.
That statement could also be true if it was written as:
Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of politiciansI have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.
I'm quite sure Hoover wasn't a 100% honest individual himself.
Then again, although all criminals are not politicians, we all know all politicians are criminals. I'd much rather keep what little anonymity I have on the net and decided myself whom to believe rather than trust the criminals that make laws to ensure the people I'm talk to are being honest.
...Wouldn't a a USB stick work if you didn't want to use Wireless? otherwise you could run Ethernet cable through your attic and put drops in your source and destination rooms.
I agree. The current way it works is the project runs for a set period of time 30-40 days. Once the project closes you can't back out or up your pledge. That being said the Leisure Suit Larry KS project added paypal late in the game, so even though the KS project has been funded and closed you can still pre-order the game http://www.replaygamesinc.com/leisure-suit-larry-paypal-donations/. I've already pledged and been charged for the project so now all I can do is kick back and wait until October - December and read the Replay forums to see if they're making any progress. Same with the Banner Saga http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/stoic/the-banner-saga.
Actually that is a good idea. I've contributed to several projects and I was thinking what might be nice is to have a several step plan outline. The initial round of fund gathering followed by some benchmark. Then I could donate more if the project is meeting or exceeding their timeline.
When just ONE department of the Canadian government is dropping over $10,000,000 a year on Oracle licences, products and support, what anyone of us can do by not buying Oracle products won't matter. Even worse is the department I work for is so badly tied in to the Oracle stack, we could never hope to get away from it. Don't get me wrong I dislike Oracle as much as anyone right now, but they care about large companies not individuals.
I'm using Linux Mint now, but I might give Gentoo a try. Thanks for the suggestion.
As for updating after a release, I would normally update then switch to the Gnome interface, which was easy enough to do before and never gave me problems. However, with the 11.10 release (I think it was 11.10) they took that option out and the only choice I had was to boot Unity by default. That's cramming it down my throat. Similar to Sony removing Other OS from the PS3. I bought into it, not specifically for that feature, but it impacted my decision. Removing it after the fact changed my whole working dynamic and turned me off the product. I switched to Linux Mint, which has the features I want, and all is good.
From what I gather about half of Ubuntu's users felt the same and migrated to other OSs after the switch. Ubuntu made a poor choice, their loss, not mine. I do see it as a shame because up to that point it really looked like Ubuntu was going to be the Linux distro that was going to get people away from Windows. Now it's just another downgraded tablet UI in a sea of downgraded tablet UIs. But that's just my opinion.
My laptop had problems from day 1 running Windows Vista and I just couldn't deal with it locking up anymore so I switched. When I first installed Ubuntu it worked, I didn't have to do anything to it. I was quite happy until I clicked the update button and ended up with the Unity thing I had read about. I spent the next three days trying to get Gnome running again before coming across Linux Mint. After which everything just worked again.
Sorry, but cramming an unfinished product down my throat and expecting me to deal with a time consuming buggy interface is the kind of thing that turns me off of a product. After all that's kind of the reason I moved from Windows to Linux in the first place.
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You seem to be awfully admit about this not being a conspiracy... What are you trying to cover up? *Sideways Glare*
So you are saying that because you don't approve of Swedish rape laws, the US is guilty of a conspiracy?
Sure, let's go with that, but I did say conspiracy THEORY. I never claimed to have any evidence... as a mater of fact I'm sure I said "this is entirely speculation and conspiracy theory." in my original post
It still seems fishy that the acquisitions came out at the height of the US Wikileaks scandal.
It's clear that many people here share your beliefs. It's not at all clear that they're well founded.
That's what the *tinfoil hat on/off* tags are suppose to indicate, but the fact is Sweden does have the strict sex crime laws in the world, and apparently having consensual sex with someone, but not using a condom is ground for rape charges. Based on the material I've read it seems this might be more of a case of two women finding out the slept with the same guy, felt duped and charged him with rape... Well one of them is charging him with rape, the other one is just accusing him of molesting her.
The part about the women could be being paid off is the conspiracy theory part. There's no evidence to back that up, but it seems fishy that these charges were brought against him at the height of the wikileaks scandal and politicians like Sarah Palin were calling for blood. Feel free to look up alternative referances for that link, google's got tons of them
So you're saying that the US cleverly arranged for radical Swedish feminists to pass bad rape laws, caused numerous cases to be prosecuted under those ridiculous laws
You've gone back much further than what my statement was about. I'm saying someone is possibly taking advantage of existing laws to do something under handed. I like your hat, but it seems to be made of wax paper instead of tinfoil.
All I can say is based on the material I've read, here on slashdot, various blogs and news sites, it seems the woman (singular) accusing Assange of rape willingly slept with him at the time of the allegations, but later brought charges against him. You can see the timeline article on the BBC here (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11949341). I'm of the opinion that rape is when you use violence or drugs to force someone to have sex with you. That doesn't seem to be the case here. One of the women slept with Assange willingly, but later accused him of rape because he didn't use a condom.
Also of note, only one women accused him of rape. The other brought molestation charges against him. Both women knew each other and only after discussing their sexual encounters with Assange decided to bring charges against him. It's entirely possible that nether one alone had the courage to accuse Assange of anything, but after they talked about it they were able to draw on strength in numbers, which would be commendable, but I feel it's equally likely they're being paid off, or are conspiring to "scam" Assange as he is the head of a major organization, a poor one as I understand it, but still a major one.
Brilliant analysis!
Thanks!!
*tinfoil hat on*
I believe the Swedish cases against him is just a smear campaign meant to degrade his reputation, which in turn would degrade the reputation of Wikileaks. Most of the population isn't as well informed or cynical as we are here, and they do make associations such as head of organization is bad therefore organization must be bad too.
Once Assange has been sufficiently dragged through the mud he will be extradited to the US. At that point it won't matter what the US does to him most people won't care or will see it as a rapist getting what they deserve. It also won't matter what's posted on Wikileaks in the future because most people will pass it off as bad person spreading lies and discontent.
Of course none of us can actually see the future and this is entirely speculation and conspiracy theory. Only time will tell.
*tinfoil hat off*
We realize that. This is all just politics.
My organization is huge there are dozens of branches with drastically diverse functions. The thing is the security group belongs to the Technology Services (TS) Branch. TS also stands for Tough Shit, which is what they say when anyone in the organization wants to do something innovative. Our group belongs to the Science Branch. TS also has a web development group and a software development group, but other groups in the science branch come to our group for data analysis and management and application development. Mainly because TS is a huge group with no people on site. With all their bureaucracy they act as more of a road block, making it difficult for researches and scientists in the science branch to do their jobs.
My understanding is this feud has been going on for a couple decades now, long before I worked here. At one point my group was part of TS, but they decided the group wasn't cost effective so they cut it loose. Science Branch needed a group to develop tools to help analyze and manage data so they absorbed our group. Without being tethered to the TS branch and not having to deal with the bureaucracy and blot that comes with it our group did really well and started turning profit. Our group expanded and has been taking over other areas such as Networks, Databases, even designing and programming sensors. We're still not even one tenth the size of TS, which is suppose to manage all technology in the organization, but they're losing even more money because other groups, some outside of Science Branch, are coming to our group to get things done that TS has told them they won't do. Of course now because our group is making money TS wants to reabsorb us, but there's no way in hell Science Branch is letting us go because they'll go back to the way things were when there was no competition and TS held all the cards. Instead TS is playing tricks to make things difficult for us, at which point they're hoping our "shared" clients become their clients.
Back when the organization first rolled out WinXP the TS Branch tried this same security lock down trick, but ended up with a lot of push back. Some groups went as far as buying their own machines, software and put their own network infrastructure in place. Apparently it was a huge mess and took years to clean up. There are still external drives sitting around in peoples offices with massive amounts of data sitting on them, which might as well be considered lost since the only people that know the data is there are the people that sit behind the office door.
Regardless of what TS does my group will do what it always has and find a way around the restrictions. All TS is doing is hurting themselves as more and more of their clients will become "shared" clients with us or other groups in other branches that are similar to us.
I'm pushing to get a Linux distro instead of Windows 7. We have different security groups for Linux, OSX and Windows. The widows security group has it so locked down that it's useless to anyone that wants to do more than just use word and IE. We're not allowed to install any software outside what comes with the base Win7 image, including other browsers, which isn't going to work for me being the webmaster and all.
The Linux security group is considerable more lax, although Linux users have to use a web version of MS Outlook for booking boardrooms and sending/receiving e-mail within the organization. I only know two people at my work site that have Linux because you have to have a good reason to request a Linux distro.. I wonder if "So I can do my job" is a good enough reason.
I'm sure they'll relax the Win7 security once they get everything up and running and they're dealing with 100 request an hour for application installations and increased security privileges. I can tell you now if all I can do is read/write e-mails there will be a never ending torrent of them from me.
I think we need a support group.
I'm in the same boat as you except all my web projects must be IE6 compliant.
The real fun for me is going to start in October when my organization rolls Win7, with max security enabled and no admin rights (even for local IT or help desk) out to all the organization PCs.
Actually the real joke here is that chart is still relevant 6 years later.
I do spend about one third of my time on CSS, I've had issues with the missing/extra space in javaScript causing FireFox to go wonky and it's about accurate for how much time I spend correcting issues to make pages work in Internet Explorer.
I think I spend less time making the pages W3C compliant because I use tool kits that take care of most of that for me, but I definitely spend more time swearing.
As a web developer I can tell you you're correct. I have CSS and jQuery that work perfectly with FireFox, Chrome, Opera and Safari. Then I have special case CSS files for IE 6, 7, 8 and general case IE. Other browsers rarely need special case rules and never at all require special case rules for every version of the browser.
I deal with a lot of scientific data and dynamically generate graphs and plots based on variables selected in forms written in PHP. Almost guaranteed when I develop something in IE, it won't displayed correctly in FireFox, Chrome, Opera and/or Safari. If I develop something in FireFox I can't say I've ever had a problem with Chrome, Opera, or Safari, but it almost never works in IE and special case rules need to be written.
Just as an example, I have a page where a user determines the type of species they're looking at by answering questions. My organizations web standards group provided me the jQuery and CSS for the feature. The questions are contracted links in a tree like structure and are formatted as "Does the species have XXX?" or "Does the species have YYY?". When the user clicks on a link the section expands and asks another question until the user gets to the linked name of the species they're looking for, which takes them to a page with more information on the species.
The page works fine in FireFox, Chrome, Opera, and Safari, but doesn't work the same way in any IE browser. The progress enhancement solution for IE is to have all elements in the tree automatically expanded. The fact that this doesn't work in IE is a real pain in my ass. I demoed the page in FireFox and the content owner liked how it worked, but he uses IE and wasn't happy when I told him it didn't work the same way in that browser. So now he expects me to go through all the jQuery code and CSS to make it work the same way in not just IE, but every version of IE, which I'm not doing because 1) I've been told I'm not to modify features provided by the web standards group in order to ensure our web content complies with Web Content accessibility Guidelines 2.0 and 2) when the web standards group provides me with updates for jQuery features like this I'd have to go and re-update all the code again.
on the other hand there is no way for a male to fit into a female-dominated office.
I don't know if that's completely true. There are 4 guys that work in my wife's office with her and about 30 other women, but you're pretty well on the mark about it being acceptable for women to harass men and not the other way around. I've been in my wife's office once when we took our new daughter in to visit my wife's coworkers and was there when one of the guys was called "sugar cake" and one of the older women slapped him on the ass. He didn't seem to mind and just harty-har-hared it up with the girls. It was obvious I was more offended than he was. If that kind of behavior was taking place in my office, regardless of weather it was a man or women, it would have reported and at the vary least the verbal offender would be retaking our mandatory sensitivity training and the physical offender would have been suspended without pay.
I was also treated very rudely and, to my wife's embarrassment, said I was strictly there as the muscle to carry the car seat and would rather be ignored. I meant to say it jokingly, but is seemed to quickly snap the women making cat calls and remarks you'd expect a trucker to make to a pretty waitress at a truck stop back in line. Later my wife and I were told I wouldn't be allowed to visit again because "I didn't know my place" and "had over inserted my penis upsetting some of the other women". Yes my wife's manager said "penis", she was obviously upset and red in the face. If it was because of the way her employees were behaving or that I wasn't willing to let them poke fun at me, I don't know. Unfortunately my wife is the one taking the punishment, while her friends are still talking to her most of the other women are shunning her now because she "can't keep her hubby in line", which is killing her and that is the only reason I wish I had kept my mouth shut. Currently she's looking for another job while out on maternity leave, if that fails we plan to try and get her pregnant again before she goes back so she work the minimum amount of time and have another year of leave to find another job.
A lot of Americans, when they see a black person, or other minority always feel some kind of resentment and anger, regardless of their personal achievement.
That's more of a stereotype and not an exclusively American trait. I'm Canadian and have lived in both the States and in England. There is plenty of resentment and anger to go around in the States, England and yes even Canada. It's really a shame, but from my point of view it's just plain human nature. It's also human nature to divide ourselves into "us" and "them" groups and then considering our "us" group to always be on the receiving end of the stick.
The reasons being:
I really try not to complain since the system is working for us right now, but I have to say if I was an employer I'd be scared shitless of highering young women who may be planning to start a families. The company my wife works for has just as many "temp" employees working for them then they do regular full time employees. I keep saying it's no wonder they want to move all of the jobs to Manilla, here they have to have two employees for every job so there's a temp employee to do the job while the regular one is raising their family. LOL, my wife made a comment to me on mothers day about how the government should be paying her to stay home and raise competent productive members of society, and although I agree she's worth $60,000/yr to me, I laughed and pointed out she's already making %60 of her working wage, which includes her yearly wage increase, plus what I give her, to stay home for a year, plus she'll get another year if we have another child. That's on top of other men and women who don't want to/can't have children are losing their jobs left and right while she's safe out on mat. leave.
When AA for whites ("legacy") is the only thing that got him in Yale.
, I'm not an American and hate to point it out, but if AA for whites was what got Bush into Yale and subsequently elected and then re-elected, AA should be locked away, removed from all vocabulary and never spoken of again.
Also I'd like to say, I like Obama, but the chatter up here in Canada is that a lot of Americans feel he was only elected because he was black and that they're quite dissatisfied with his performance. I'd really like to not take sides in the American election that's coming up, but I kind of hope Obama gets re-elected because otherwise I'm going to have to listen to my Fox News watching Dad brag about it for the next four years.
Ah, I don't think that's necessarily true. I know it's an anecdote, but my wife and I recently had a baby. She took a year off work to look after the bundle of joy. Now we're in negations for a second baby, at which point she'll take another year off work. I wanted to take the time off for the second one, but seeing as how I can't produce milk and my wife started crying at the thought of having to go back to work and leave the children with anyone that wasn't her, I caved.
Entry level positions are just that, an entry point into the company. It takes time to build up to a higher level and many women take time to start families. So say two employees start their careers at the same time, one's male the other female. The female takes time off after three years in her position to start a family and comes back two years later. So 1) she's only worked for three of the five years, the male has worked all five years, 2) she's been off for the last two years meaning the male will have two years of additional experience and training and 3) the male will have had two additional years of opportunities for advancement. I'd say it's a pretty cut and dry case for the male to end up advancing while the female falls behind. I'd also say artificially advancing the female in this situation would be unfair to the male candidate that stuck it out for 5 years while the female took time off. Not that I'm saying looking after children is easy. My wife being at home and looking after our daughter easily deserves to be paid $60,000 a year, not just because otherwise we'd be spending $25,000/yr on child care, but because of all the other things she does around the home which means I don't have to and can spend more of my time doing stuff I want.
I digress. Families are one of many reasons women show an absence in higher ranking positions. Unfortunately, bias against women is one of the reasons, but I think its contribution is much smaller that a lot of people would have us believe. I think, note I'm NOT say all, but a lot of women use it as an excuse for poor performance. It's easier to make excuses when not promoted than it is to work harder and unfortunately human nature is to take the path of least resistant.
I see the problem as people are brought up using MS products. Although I'm a technical person and know about the alternatives not everyone I know is as lucky, I can only educate so many people at a time. Another issue is when something doesn't work the way a person expects because it's different from MS Word or Excel most people just give up. I have my launch menu on the right side of my screen, which drives people batty because they're use to seeing it on the bottom. I'm sure you can imagine the comments I get when someones trying to use Libre Office on my machine and can't find some feature because the icons are different.
MS has been training people for years to use MS products at work and home so they shouldn't be surprised when an average user can't afford $150-$250 license for their home machine and pirate it instead. Because most people stick with what they know of course they'll go out and pirate it.
I switched to Linux after my brand new laptop had a catastrophic failure trying to run Windows Vista. I bought the machine close to five years ago and it came with Windows XP, a sticker that said Vista ready and an upgrade deal. The problem was once Vista was installed the machine ran like crap, it hung during start-ups and shutdowns and often just randomly restarted or blue screened. I tried to downgrade back to XP, but was told I wasn't allowed and I'd have to buy a new license. I ended up with a developers copy of Windows 7 which ran fine on the machine until the developer period was up. I wasn't going to go and spend $200 on a Windows 7 license for a machine that was suppose to have windows on it, and had considered pirating a copy. Instead I installed Ubuntu, and more recently Linux Mint, now I run a pirated copy of Windows XP in VMWare to play games, which I consider legit because my machine came with XP so I've technically paid for it. I use Linux Mint and OSS for everything else. I installed Linux Mint on my wife's two year old computer when she start having problems with Vista. That lasted a week until she decided she needed a new computer to play her Facebook games.
Yes I was disgusted and had considered divorce, but then my daughter came along so I've decided to give up on my wife and focus my attention on training her. I'm so proud eight months old and she can already use my Android phone. *cry*
I'm a Canadian, but spent some of my high school career in the States so I picked up a bit of how the US election system works. Unfortunately I think a lot of Americans don't fully understand their own democratic system. My understanding of Bush's second term was he wasn't even close to having the popular vote, but got in because of the electoral college vote him in. The college is suppose to vote the way the population tells it, but it doesn't have to, and there have been several presidents that were elected by the college that didn't have the popular vote.
Elections are just horse and pony shows to make the population feel like they have some influence. Although our election system here in Canada is considerable different, it isn't any better. None of us have any real say over who is going to tell us to bend over and take it, but modern governments have learned from past empires that if you don't keep the population happy they're going to revolt.
Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of politiciansI have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.
I'm quite sure Hoover wasn't a 100% honest individual himself.
Then again, although all criminals are not politicians, we all know all politicians are criminals. I'd much rather keep what little anonymity I have on the net and decided myself whom to believe rather than trust the criminals that make laws to ensure the people I'm talk to are being honest.
...Wouldn't a a USB stick work if you didn't want to use Wireless? otherwise you could run Ethernet cable through your attic and put drops in your source and destination rooms.
I agree. The current way it works is the project runs for a set period of time 30-40 days. Once the project closes you can't back out or up your pledge. That being said the Leisure Suit Larry KS project added paypal late in the game, so even though the KS project has been funded and closed you can still pre-order the game http://www.replaygamesinc.com/leisure-suit-larry-paypal-donations/. I've already pledged and been charged for the project so now all I can do is kick back and wait until October - December and read the Replay forums to see if they're making any progress. Same with the Banner Saga http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/stoic/the-banner-saga.
Actually that is a good idea. I've contributed to several projects and I was thinking what might be nice is to have a several step plan outline. The initial round of fund gathering followed by some benchmark. Then I could donate more if the project is meeting or exceeding their timeline.
When just ONE department of the Canadian government is dropping over $10,000,000 a year on Oracle licences, products and support, what anyone of us can do by not buying Oracle products won't matter. Even worse is the department I work for is so badly tied in to the Oracle stack, we could never hope to get away from it. Don't get me wrong I dislike Oracle as much as anyone right now, but they care about large companies not individuals.
I'm using Linux Mint now, but I might give Gentoo a try. Thanks for the suggestion.
As for updating after a release, I would normally update then switch to the Gnome interface, which was easy enough to do before and never gave me problems. However, with the 11.10 release (I think it was 11.10) they took that option out and the only choice I had was to boot Unity by default. That's cramming it down my throat. Similar to Sony removing Other OS from the PS3. I bought into it, not specifically for that feature, but it impacted my decision. Removing it after the fact changed my whole working dynamic and turned me off the product. I switched to Linux Mint, which has the features I want, and all is good.
From what I gather about half of Ubuntu's users felt the same and migrated to other OSs after the switch. Ubuntu made a poor choice, their loss, not mine. I do see it as a shame because up to that point it really looked like Ubuntu was going to be the Linux distro that was going to get people away from Windows. Now it's just another downgraded tablet UI in a sea of downgraded tablet UIs. But that's just my opinion.
My laptop had problems from day 1 running Windows Vista and I just couldn't deal with it locking up anymore so I switched. When I first installed Ubuntu it worked, I didn't have to do anything to it. I was quite happy until I clicked the update button and ended up with the Unity thing I had read about. I spent the next three days trying to get Gnome running again before coming across Linux Mint. After which everything just worked again.
Sorry, but cramming an unfinished product down my throat and expecting me to deal with a time consuming buggy interface is the kind of thing that turns me off of a product. After all that's kind of the reason I moved from Windows to Linux in the first place.