While talking to some good friends from the USA (current and former colleagues), I found this out: - When Person A comes to you and asks for your opinion/feedback on person X (which they are considering hiring), you are not allowed to say person X sucks. At most, you can refrain from commenting. Reason? Person X might sue you. In Romania (where I live), person A actually expects you to be honest and nobody's suing you for saying person X sucks.
IMO this would make it a lot harder to hire someone based on informed opinions. You have to do some guesswork. It's counterintuitive. Now, I don't condone attitudes like Linus's either, and I think both are extremes of the same range. On one hand, you have someone who doesn't give a rat's ass about other people and ranks them based on their usefulness (and shows that). on the other hand, you have a society so afraid of being sued that they're afraid to speak their mind openly.
There's a lot of middle ground to cover and I think both sides should migrate towards the centerline, if even a little bit.
My primary school was twice that distance and I walked it alone back and forth every day since the age of six. Granted, a large city is more dangerous, but this over-protection is becoming ridiculous.
"an eye for an eye" can be easily used with no victims. So newspaper X puts up a cartoon of Mohammed the Prophet. Newspaper Y could put up a cartoon with Jesus, making is a zero-sum game. Problem solved.
I call it "approaching a problem without previously existing > polluting the outcome". Doctors have tunnel vision sometimes. They rely on past experience (be it work- or document-based) too heavily.
With that being said, these occurrences are likely rare and a minority, statistics-wise.
It's all about corporate culture. When the majority of your colleagues and management chain don't read their e-mails and forget a phone conversation immediately after hanging up, there will be many occasions when they come back to you after a couple months and ask "why wasn't I told about this???". So you show them they were told, but their incompetence stood in the way. They're mostly looking for scapegoats and I show them I can't be one.
You might be lucky by working for a company with proper employees. Me, not so much. But salary is good and the company overall is successful (although hated here on/.). Meh, it's just a job. Keeps me and my family fed.
To summarize: NO personal calls while at work, no personal IMs, no website browsing, no contact with the outside world except purely for business reasons. You're describing a company I would never want to work for. Ever.
Disclaimer: I access Slashdot from work right now and nobody gives a shit.
I keep all my e-mails in an offline folder. 13 GB and counting. Saved my arse more times I am willing to count. After the first 15 or so occurrences, people generally leave me alone when I tell them "I could dig into my old e-mails for that information".
Deleting old stuff is definitely worse than keeping it secure, preferably encrypted using a separate tool and password.
Only it already WAS filmed as such, and made for a relatively entertaining movie from a certain point of view. Oh and it also fives a more literal meaning to "fuck yourself" swear.
This was not about how long they last, but about what they can do compared to similar products from the competition. How long they last depends mainly on how well the user takes care of said products. Guy A who puts his MP3 player in his back pocket next to his keys, weights 250 pounds and has a tendency to sit on stuff without removing contents from his pocket would break a Sony faster than Guy B who is protective of his belongings.
"But it's rugged/shiny!" doesn't fly for me, I take good care of my things. What I'm interested about is "how feature-packed is product A compared to product B" and "does that feature difference justify the price difference?"
For the vast majority of Sony products, the answer is NO. And a short disclaimer: I don't own any Apple products, and never have owned any. I dislike Apple for a variety of reasons but that's outside the scope of this conversation anyway:)
Apple arguably offers higher-quality (made) stuff, Sony doesn't, not really. To me, "overpriced" means "I'm selling the same shit anyone else sells but at twice the price because the logo on my shit says $BRAND".
It's very easy for me. One of my many friends from the USA has put up a VM on his main machine and installed NoMachine on it. I connect whenever I want and use his account to watch Netflix USA. In return, I gave him access to my obscenely large music collection through PLEX Media Server. Everyone's happy.
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While talking to some good friends from the USA (current and former colleagues), I found this out:
- When Person A comes to you and asks for your opinion/feedback on person X (which they are considering hiring), you are not allowed to say person X sucks. At most, you can refrain from commenting. Reason? Person X might sue you. In Romania (where I live), person A actually expects you to be honest and nobody's suing you for saying person X sucks.
IMO this would make it a lot harder to hire someone based on informed opinions. You have to do some guesswork. It's counterintuitive.
Now, I don't condone attitudes like Linus's either, and I think both are extremes of the same range. On one hand, you have someone who doesn't give a rat's ass about other people and ranks them based on their usefulness (and shows that). on the other hand, you have a society so afraid of being sued that they're afraid to speak their mind openly.
There's a lot of middle ground to cover and I think both sides should migrate towards the centerline, if even a little bit.
My primary school was twice that distance and I walked it alone back and forth every day since the age of six.
Granted, a large city is more dangerous, but this over-protection is becoming ridiculous.
"an eye for an eye" can be easily used with no victims. So newspaper X puts up a cartoon of Mohammed the Prophet. Newspaper Y could put up a cartoon with Jesus, making is a zero-sum game. Problem solved.
Any stats on how often does that happen? Or is it just an assumption?
Makes me think of the "a car will never be better than a horse" argument.
*well. Doing it well.
"Do me good" belongs to porn movie scripts, not Linux scripts. But I heard basements tend to muddy waters...
I call it "approaching a problem without previously existing > polluting the outcome".
Doctors have tunnel vision sometimes. They rely on past experience (be it work- or document-based) too heavily.
With that being said, these occurrences are likely rare and a minority, statistics-wise.
American components, Russian components... all made in Taiwan!
Checkmate.
Pretty much this.
It's all about corporate culture. When the majority of your colleagues and management chain don't read their e-mails and forget a phone conversation immediately after hanging up, there will be many occasions when they come back to you after a couple months and ask "why wasn't I told about this???". So you show them they were told, but their incompetence stood in the way. They're mostly looking for scapegoats and I show them I can't be one.
You might be lucky by working for a company with proper employees. Me, not so much. But salary is good and the company overall is successful (although hated here on /.). Meh, it's just a job. Keeps me and my family fed.
No, that's Burma Shave.
"There's no back-up, I quit, you're screwed".
To summarize: NO personal calls while at work, no personal IMs, no website browsing, no contact with the outside world except purely for business reasons.
You're describing a company I would never want to work for. Ever.
Disclaimer: I access Slashdot from work right now and nobody gives a shit.
I keep all my e-mails in an offline folder. 13 GB and counting.
Saved my arse more times I am willing to count. After the first 15 or so occurrences, people generally leave me alone when I tell them "I could dig into my old e-mails for that information".
Deleting old stuff is definitely worse than keeping it secure, preferably encrypted using a separate tool and password.
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or if you switch day and month: http://www.historyorb.com/date...
Only it already WAS filmed as such, and made for a relatively entertaining movie from a certain point of view.
Oh and it also fives a more literal meaning to "fuck yourself" swear.
This was not about how long they last, but about what they can do compared to similar products from the competition.
How long they last depends mainly on how well the user takes care of said products.
Guy A who puts his MP3 player in his back pocket next to his keys, weights 250 pounds and has a tendency to sit on stuff without removing contents from his pocket would break a Sony faster than Guy B who is protective of his belongings.
"But it's rugged/shiny!" doesn't fly for me, I take good care of my things. What I'm interested about is "how feature-packed is product A compared to product B" and "does that feature difference justify the price difference?"
For the vast majority of Sony products, the answer is NO. And a short disclaimer: I don't own any Apple products, and never have owned any. I dislike Apple for a variety of reasons but that's outside the scope of this conversation anyway :)
Apple arguably offers higher-quality (made) stuff, Sony doesn't, not really.
To me, "overpriced" means "I'm selling the same shit anyone else sells but at twice the price because the logo on my shit says $BRAND".
VM at home + NoMachine = using Netflix from anywhere without the need of VPN.
"A shoutout to my buddy Prakash!"
It's also proven that ancient people mastered the art of wireless communication. The lack of wire traces is definite proof.
+1 funny.
For those who didn't understand, oblig. reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...
New mouse does this. Wanted to mark funny, ended up as troll. Replying to fix.
It's very easy for me.
One of my many friends from the USA has put up a VM on his main machine and installed NoMachine on it. I connect whenever I want and use his account to watch Netflix USA. In return, I gave him access to my obscenely large music collection through PLEX Media Server. Everyone's happy.