No. Their shareholders demand that Dell produce an ever increasing value to the company - forever and ever. They have to get bigger or the stock value will decline and the CEO's options will not be worth enough.
I think this could set a new precedent of how things are done in Congress. A far more efficient way. Our reps and senators could get together to vote for an unnamed and unspecified bill. Various congressmen could stand up and speak to the issues that are most important to their constituency and party. Republicans can argue about how the bill is a hand-out sponsored by the democrats and that we all just need to have some personal responsibility. The democrats could argue about how this is required to protect the children/poor/minorities. Once all the grand standing is completed and the various pork riders attached, it will be voted on. Once approved it can then be forwarded to the various lobbyists to fill in the blanks. It would be something like a blank check but a more democratic version. The details never mattered anyways.
Considering the unashamed nature of the greed in investment banking, this is not at all surprising. The whole point is to hoard as much as you can for yourself and limit your losses on every front possible. While essential, programmer salaries are nothing but an expense to be limited as much as possible. If you expected altruism or fair play, you're in the wrong industry.
That said, if you want to experience unfair salaries, try being a sysadmin/programmer in an academic setting. Oh, your salary is only in the low six figure range? Whiners.
If anything, I'd be glad to be on a social network that wasn't occupied by obsessive browser game addicts. Ideally, they would stay on Facebook forever.
We call those types of individuals "normal" people. For the remainder of society, there's Slashdot.
Unless they can get Farmville ported to an open platform most facebook users will never leave no matter hope open or technically superior an alternative is.
I'm trying to figure this one out. A bill that passed the senate that reinforces some portion of our individual liberties. I'm having trouble seeing where the corporate benefit is here. I didn't think anything made its way through any part of congress without some corporation getting something out of it. I must be missing something.
A high level of intelectual abilities (i.e. IQ) is no defense against it: just look at all the religious-like flamewars around things like editors and operating systems.
Spoken like one of those vi users. Some of us know how to use our high IQs.
Yes, you apparently survived them, but the Acetyline and Ox. in a trash bag is quite dangerous. There's a lot of power with that volume and a trash bag can produce a static spark on its own pretty easily. I had a friend in high school who ignited a few bags with some impressive results. Scary stuff.
I recall getting hassled by the local cops when my cousins and I decided to ignite a strip of magnesium in an empty parking lot. You'd think we were loading sticks of dynamite in a van by the way the officer initially reacted. That was about 20 years ago. I'd probably be looking at charges if it were done today.
'anybody who has spent more than 5 minutes on our website or talking to our staff knows that these things are not true.'
That, in a nutshell, is why the public in general will ever know what is true. We've pretty much reduced our collective thinking to ingesting media prepared "sound bites" and have no motivation to think beyond that point. I heard a politician or campaign manager once summarize the problem with the statement: "if you're explaining, you've lost" (or something to that effect.
... helping to perpetuate the stereotype that all Slashdot posters are scrawny, basement dwelling nerds that can't participate in activities that most well-adjusted human beings can enjoy.
'... Most of them are just not mature enough to handle that,'...and they never will be as long as we continue to treat them like little children instead of young adults.
I live in VT and you don't know how badly I really do wish this were true. Most years we have snow on the ground from mid-Nov through early May. It isn't unusual for frosts occur in June and August.
This dome would also end up trapping in a lot of pollution unless they would prohibit cars and trucks from driving inside.
Slashdot Mirror
I think there are more product names than words in that summary. What was this all about again?
No. Their shareholders demand that Dell produce an ever increasing value to the company - forever and ever. They have to get bigger or the stock value will decline and the CEO's options will not be worth enough.
This has been solved for quite a long time. Perl's built in regular expression tests have had the ability to check for strings for many years now.
if( $var =~ /\w/) {}
"It's like buying a new, luxury car — and discovering that it comes with non-removable bumper stickers"
Funny, that's pretty much the same reason why I'll never consider getting a tattoo either.
I think this could set a new precedent of how things are done in Congress. A far more efficient way. Our reps and senators could get together to vote for an unnamed and unspecified bill. Various congressmen could stand up and speak to the issues that are most important to their constituency and party. Republicans can argue about how the bill is a hand-out sponsored by the democrats and that we all just need to have some personal responsibility. The democrats could argue about how this is required to protect the children/poor/minorities. Once all the grand standing is completed and the various pork riders attached, it will be voted on. Once approved it can then be forwarded to the various lobbyists to fill in the blanks. It would be something like a blank check but a more democratic version. The details never mattered anyways.
Considering the unashamed nature of the greed in investment banking, this is not at all surprising. The whole point is to hoard as much as you can for yourself and limit your losses on every front possible. While essential, programmer salaries are nothing but an expense to be limited as much as possible. If you expected altruism or fair play, you're in the wrong industry.
That said, if you want to experience unfair salaries, try being a sysadmin/programmer in an academic setting. Oh, your salary is only in the low six figure range? Whiners.
If anything, I'd be glad to be on a social network that wasn't occupied by obsessive browser game addicts. Ideally, they would stay on Facebook forever.
We call those types of individuals "normal" people. For the remainder of society, there's Slashdot.
Unless they can get Farmville ported to an open platform most facebook users will never leave no matter hope open or technically superior an alternative is.
the Zune-phone!!
Like I care about what those insignificant little researchers say. They're just jealous of my success.
So MIT is spending how much money on reinventing the pigeon??
It's a cow, Vern, a cow!!
I'm trying to figure this one out. A bill that passed the senate that reinforces some portion of our individual liberties. I'm having trouble seeing where the corporate benefit is here. I didn't think anything made its way through any part of congress without some corporation getting something out of it. I must be missing something.
A high level of intelectual abilities (i.e. IQ) is no defense against it: just look at all the religious-like flamewars around things like editors and operating systems.
Spoken like one of those vi users. Some of us know how to use our high IQs.
Yes, you apparently survived them, but the Acetyline and Ox. in a trash bag is quite dangerous. There's a lot of power with that volume and a trash bag can produce a static spark on its own pretty easily. I had a friend in high school who ignited a few bags with some impressive results. Scary stuff.
I recall getting hassled by the local cops when my cousins and I decided to ignite a strip of magnesium in an empty parking lot. You'd think we were loading sticks of dynamite in a van by the way the officer initially reacted. That was about 20 years ago. I'd probably be looking at charges if it were done today.
I don't know, I didn't actually read the article.
'anybody who has spent more than 5 minutes on our website or talking to our staff knows that these things are not true.'
That, in a nutshell, is why the public in general will ever know what is true. We've pretty much reduced our collective thinking to ingesting media prepared "sound bites" and have no motivation to think beyond that point. I heard a politician or campaign manager once summarize the problem with the statement: "if you're explaining, you've lost" (or something to that effect.
"Dell has been accused of selling thousands of desktop PCs despite knowing the machines contained faulty components"
I didn't realize that the Windows installation was considered a component.
... helping to perpetuate the stereotype that all Slashdot posters are scrawny, basement dwelling nerds that can't participate in activities that most well-adjusted human beings can enjoy.
You make that sound like a bad thing.
I've noticed that the internet has become more springtime fresh, like the cool dew on a summer's morning.
'... Most of them are just not mature enough to handle that,' ...and they never will be as long as we continue to treat them like little children instead of young adults.
Is this something that will bepart of the next stable gnome release?
Funny thing is that Slackware includes Gimp therefore making it more user friendly than Ubuntu.
Vermont really does get a lot of summer.
I live in VT and you don't know how badly I really do wish this were true. Most years we have snow on the ground from mid-Nov through early May. It isn't unusual for frosts occur in June and August.
This dome would also end up trapping in a lot of pollution unless they would prohibit cars and trucks from driving inside.