Sure, the Google system is very useful, but it's too unstructured. You can't find people on it unless they have unusual names. Same goes for businesses. I'd like a way to say, "restrict this search to sites that have an address in Poodunk County".
It's a little late in the game for me to raise this issue, but I think this all goes to show how stupid it was to insist on "free market" domain registration. When Network Solutions had a monopoly on com, net, and org registrations, their high fees meant that only serious web site operators could buy TLDs. Yeah, these same fees put TLDs out of the reach of those with limited means. But what's wrong with second-level domains? Web presence providers gave them away for free, and it allowed more people to have vanity domain names.
It was, of course, unfair for Network Solutions to reap such large profits from a service that cost them little to opeate. But it would have made more sense to divert this money into Internet operations or research. Cutting the fees has just enabled wholesale domain squatting and the strange business of grabbing popular names for porn sites.
What the heck. I think it's time to stop trying to "fix" the domain system and think of it as a set of arbitrary addresses. For actually finding the web site you want, we need some kind of keyword system and/or a central registry of people and organization that own domain names.
I'd almost rather the whole thing burnt to ground, rather than try to clean up and recover from the water mess.
Then, if sprinkler advocates are correct, you should install them. Each sprinkler head works independently, so the water damage is limited to the area where the fire started. If you wait for the fire department to come and put out the fire, you're far more likely to have a pile of waterlogged books. If you get a good response time, they're likely to save the structure, but spray a lot of water in the process.
Besides which, if somebody got killed in a non-sprinklered building, I think the family would have a pretty good wrongful death suit. Sprinklers begin to look cheaper and cheaper.
A couple years ago, they did a bogus cam girl site. Can't remember much about it. But basically the lady was a stereotypical sports-hating airhead who somehow managed to flame ESPN in ever sentence.
Ok, Inergen, not Halon. Got ya. But I'll be it's more expensive than sprinklers. Probably more expensive than the computers you're wanting to preserve! Insurance, offsite backups, and let it go at that.
I can believe how many people seem to think hand held extinguishers are any kind of option. Yeah, it's a good idea to have them around, especially considering how cheap they are. But they're not going to replace an automatic fire suppression system. You basically have to be standing right there when the fire starts if you hope to put it out by hand.
You're right (and I was wrong) about the cost. But sprinkler advocates seem to consider sprinkers to be very effective at preserving structure and contents. The thing is that most fires start small and grow quickly. But if you have sprinklers, even a small fire will set off 3 or 4 heads, and that'll limit fire and water damage to the area around those heads. Compare that to waiting for the fire department to come -- even if they save the structure, water damage is likely to ruin the contents.
So I guess there's no really good reason sprinklers aren't in every new structure in the U.S. I'd guess that the only resistance comes from building developers, who see even a marginal increase in costs coming out of their bottom line.
In the (unlikely) event I ever build a house, you can believe it'll be sprinklered!
Yeah, I saw some of those in a hardware store, considered the price, and decided it would be stupid not to have a bunch on hand. But:
They're only useful if you're around to use them, and use them quickly. I think the rule is that if you don't catch a fire within three minutes of it starting, you should get the fuck out and call the fire department. Those suckers spread fast.
They're only got for 3 or 4 years, then you have to replace them. Come to think of it, all mine probably need replacing!
Now that you mention it, it's been a long time since I saw a Halon-equipped machine room. And that one was plastered with signs that said in effect, Don't even think of coming in here.
I stand corrected. A little Googling turns up an active movement to require sprinklers in homes. And that's a very good idea. The stats on fatalities in sprinklered versus non-sprinklered buildings are mind-boggling.
I was wrong about the cost too. It's something like $4 per square foot. OK, that's thousands for a medium-sized home. But considering the cost of a home, and the possible benefits...
Right you are. Halon isn't particularly effective anyway. It's only used in machine rooms because it doesn't damage electronics. And even that usage is on the decline. Given the way computers collapse in cost, it doesn't make sense to spend a lot of money protecting them. If you want to protect your data, back it up offsite.
Consider the ordinary building sprinkler system. There's a reason you can't put up a new public building without one: they're damned effective. But they're also expensive. I don't think I've ever heard of them in a single-family structure.
Well, if you're going to assume that everybody's out to fuck you, it does simplify your career strategy. Doesn't make for a very pleasant work day, though.
Each disk was the size of a washing machine and cost around $20,000.
An interesting gap in Gray's memory. He's not describing the disk, he's describing the drive. In 1970, all storage was removable. A free-standing IBM drive was not only the size of a washing machine, it looked like one, because the top opened up to insert or remove a disk pack. There were other multi-drive consoles that resembled pizza ovens.
Perhaps you will feel less put upon if you consider this: management can't fail to notice that you stuck with an undercompensated job. You can encourage them to understand that you're doing so because your in with them for the long haul. The resulting good will may be more valuable to you in the long term than that lost pay is in the short term.
It's possible to circulate one's resume discretely, and I suppose it's usually a good idea to do so. But I hate to imagine what kind of company you're working for, if they'd fire somebody just for circulating a resume! Indeed, that's a pretty stupid policy, considering the costs of unnecessary employee churn. At any place I've worked, a manager who thought that way would be the one who'd be looking for a job!
...and a reminder that being treated "fairly" is not something you're guaranteed. Everybody finds themselves in this kind of situation now and then, especially at the workplace. Office politics, informal relationships, HR bureaucracy, even simple happenstance -- these all have as much to do with your situation as how well you do your job.
That being said, I don't think you can assume that management is "receptive", even if you're a good employee. Management does stupid shortsighted things all the time -- that's what keeps Scott Adams in business! This particular situation is probably not due to malice or prejudice, but you really can't rule it out either.
The very first issue is to answer the question, Why are you being passed over? It might be simple oversight. It might be that somebody just doesn't like you. It might even be for a perfectly good reason you know nothing about.
That doesn't stop a serious discussion from being spammed by irrelevent and obvious jokes.
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Good point. As with many Ask Slashdot questions, this one jumps ahead to a possible solution without really describing the problem. Perhaps he's thinking in terms of enabling users with no HTML knowledge to share information. If so, there are better solutions. For example, Wikis are easy to use and trivial to administer. Though it sounds like Piecewise is looking for something more sophisticated.
...but I don't see how you can export your business process without exporting your business. If all your employees are in this country, then everything your employees do is under U.S. jurisdiction, no matter where your incorporation papers and servers are stashed.
Since neither of us are lawyers, perhaps it would be more productive if you cited a case of a company that had employees in that were able to avoid a local law because they were incorporated somewhere else.
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It's not Redundant. It's Offtopic! Jeez, stupid moderators!
Sure, the Google system is very useful, but it's too unstructured. You can't find people on it unless they have unusual names. Same goes for businesses. I'd like a way to say, "restrict this search to sites that have an address in Poodunk County".
Yeah, I know, lame, offtopic. But it had to be said!
It was, of course, unfair for Network Solutions to reap such large profits from a service that cost them little to opeate. But it would have made more sense to divert this money into Internet operations or research. Cutting the fees has just enabled wholesale domain squatting and the strange business of grabbing popular names for porn sites.
What the heck. I think it's time to stop trying to "fix" the domain system and think of it as a set of arbitrary addresses. For actually finding the web site you want, we need some kind of keyword system and/or a central registry of people and organization that own domain names.
Besides which, if somebody got killed in a non-sprinklered building, I think the family would have a pretty good wrongful death suit. Sprinklers begin to look cheaper and cheaper.
A couple years ago, they did a bogus cam girl site. Can't remember much about it. But basically the lady was a stereotypical sports-hating airhead who somehow managed to flame ESPN in ever sentence.
I can believe how many people seem to think hand held extinguishers are any kind of option. Yeah, it's a good idea to have them around, especially considering how cheap they are. But they're not going to replace an automatic fire suppression system. You basically have to be standing right there when the fire starts if you hope to put it out by hand.
So I guess there's no really good reason sprinklers aren't in every new structure in the U.S. I'd guess that the only resistance comes from building developers, who see even a marginal increase in costs coming out of their bottom line.
In the (unlikely) event I ever build a house, you can believe it'll be sprinklered!
They're only useful if you're around to use them, and use them quickly. I think the rule is that if you don't catch a fire within three minutes of it starting, you should get the fuck out and call the fire department. Those suckers spread fast.
They're only got for 3 or 4 years, then you have to replace them. Come to think of it, all mine probably need replacing!
Now that you mention it, it's been a long time since I saw a Halon-equipped machine room. And that one was plastered with signs that said in effect, Don't even think of coming in here.
I was wrong about the cost too. It's something like $4 per square foot. OK, that's thousands for a medium-sized home. But considering the cost of a home, and the possible benefits...
Consider the ordinary building sprinkler system. There's a reason you can't put up a new public building without one: they're damned effective. But they're also expensive. I don't think I've ever heard of them in a single-family structure.
Well, if you're going to assume that everybody's out to fuck you, it does simplify your career strategy. Doesn't make for a very pleasant work day, though.
Database people, unlike gamers, don't care about latency!
Perhaps you will feel less put upon if you consider this: management can't fail to notice that you stuck with an undercompensated job. You can encourage them to understand that you're doing so because your in with them for the long haul. The resulting good will may be more valuable to you in the long term than that lost pay is in the short term.
It's possible to circulate one's resume discretely, and I suppose it's usually a good idea to do so. But I hate to imagine what kind of company you're working for, if they'd fire somebody just for circulating a resume! Indeed, that's a pretty stupid policy, considering the costs of unnecessary employee churn. At any place I've worked, a manager who thought that way would be the one who'd be looking for a job!
That being said, I don't think you can assume that management is "receptive", even if you're a good employee. Management does stupid shortsighted things all the time -- that's what keeps Scott Adams in business! This particular situation is probably not due to malice or prejudice, but you really can't rule it out either.
The very first issue is to answer the question, Why are you being passed over? It might be simple oversight. It might be that somebody just doesn't like you. It might even be for a perfectly good reason you know nothing about.
That doesn't stop a serious discussion from being spammed by irrelevent and obvious jokes.
Good point. As with many Ask Slashdot questions, this one jumps ahead to a possible solution without really describing the problem. Perhaps he's thinking in terms of enabling users with no HTML knowledge to share information. If so, there are better solutions. For example, Wikis are easy to use and trivial to administer. Though it sounds like Piecewise is looking for something more sophisticated.
You want Cliff to take the time to research and add appropriate links? Don't be silly! He's too busy... uh, with something.
When Rob gets tired of all the lame puns, maybe he'll finally get rid of the "Funny" mod!
Since neither of us are lawyers, perhaps it would be more productive if you cited a case of a company that had employees in that were able to avoid a local law because they were incorporated somewhere else.