In all honesty, when was the last time you got a BSoD? Since I've switched to XP pro I haven't had a BSoD since. I have to admit to being pleasently surprised.
How come upper management never uses them? Even they know cubes are crap. At my last job I went from an office, where I was highly productive, to a cube where I didn't do a damn thing until I left. Too many interruptions, too much noise.
Dude, I helped develop or test half that shit. None of it is new, well maybe to commercial it's new. And maybe it's new to you. But it isn't new to me at all.
And it's a complete joke and waste of money. More of Congress making stupid laws and costing people more money, and now we have accountants telling us how to make software? And what counts as 'quality'? Please...
You didn't take physics in college did you? The difference is that an airplane is a faraday cage, and you're -inside- the cage with your device, not outside. And that makes a huge difference to the electronics that are also inside the cage with you.
As for his statement about 'will cause an accident' I believe it already has.
And yes, I'm an expert on Navigation systems in Aircraft. Or at least I was throughout the late 80's and early 90's. I don't think anything has really changed in the last decade though.
So basically although electricity may get slightly more expensive we'll always have it available from breeder reactors. For me the real mystery is why environmentalists aren't crazy about this, taking nuclear waste and generating energy and non-radioactive waste? Sounds like an environmentalist's dream, but I guess they just can't see past the N-word.
Because environmentalists these days aren't about the environment, they're about politics. Real environmentalists are all for nuclear power.
But of course, they're a TV network, aren't they? Wonder if they're begining to feel the heat with people turning off TV which is a one-way medium, and turning on their computers where they get to interact with other people?
Personally I'd rather have people on Computers than TV, computing is far more social, and (hopefully!) intellectually stimulating than the drivel that constitutes as network programming these days!!
Really, what about China? Google gave into China's censorship demands without a moment's hesitation while at the same time fighting off a somewhat harmless request for information from the US Justice Department. So in all fairness I'm not worried about Google giving the data to the US government, they've already shown they won't do that. But I am worried about them giving it to China, because they've already shown that they won't fight the Chinese government.
And no, this isn't meant as a troll or flamebait. I just find their behavior to be rather contradictory and to put it mildly, odd.
And you have proof that it would have these effects? I know that in 20 years I'll hit SS retirement age. I also know there won't be anything left in the system for me by then, if they haven't jacked the age up another 5 or 10 years.
Bush didn't say they had to do it a certain way, he just said 'we're going to consider every option'. The Democrats blocked him for one reason, and one reason only: Politics. They don't really give a shit about your or me.
And btw, please tell me a job that gives you a million dollar retirement after two years of work? And where YOU get to decide YOURSELF just how much money, and other benefits you get WITHOUT having to contribute a dime of your own money. What Congress has given itself does not compare to any retirement plan in the rest of the world.
That is, I think, the best place to find people and find a job. Dice has been around since the old BBS days and has a solid reputation among professionals. I've gotten more jobs via Dice than any other two methods combined. I've also hired more people via Dice when in a hiring manager position.
Fancy alternative hiring methods? WHY? This is a business, not a game show. Yes it's true that word of mouth, and employee references are an even better way to bring people in, but you can't count on it when you need someone for a specific position.
If your company goes and starts doing all these 'strange and innovative' job recruitment methods you're only telling me one thing: I don't want to work there, because you're either going to piss away your budget and go out of business, or you're all a bunch of stuck up asswades and working there is going to really suck.
Yes I've worked at fun and exciting places. Or fun and exciting until they hired some Harvard grad who didn't understand business or our business model and in his attempts to 'make a bigger profit' turned the place into hell on earth and ran us out of business. In all those cases it wasn't until someone decided to try and get 'innovative' with business practices that we went down the tubes. Innovation is for designs, not how you run a business. Innovatively run offices always suck for the people who have to work there.
Yes, but it is true that they have a separate and higher paying pension fund. So if SS were to go under tomorrow, they wouldn't care at all. They've made sure that -they're- taken care of.
I used to be a regular submitter on the HNN site. Due to my work I get leads on technical stuff that often doesn't make the mainstream news for weeks.
I've never once had an article posted here on/. I have seen every article I've posted, posted later by someone else with only one exception.
So I no longer bother to post to/. Even though I've been coming here since it started. It's just a waste of my time, as the editors definitely prefer some posters over others.
First of all, there are no privacy rights in the constitution. Just FYI.
IP rights protect privacy in that they give you the rights to things you have developed. In days gone past people would keep the things they developed secret (like blue tinted glass in old cathedrals) because they didn't want to lose their ownership, rights, and control. But if someone stole that from you, you had no way to prove it was yours.
IP says, we're going to let you take your private property, and share it with the world so that no one else can make money off of it but you. (Trade secrets work in the same manner of course). The trade off is that your IP only grants you an exclusive time of ownership, BUT you can safely license it to others to make a lot more money without losing your property.
This also gives further incentive to inventors and the like to invent more things so that they may make money off of it. If you don't allow me IP, then why should I invent, why should I share my 'secrets/privacy'? And then of course if anything I kept private gets stolen, how am I to prove it? And even if I -do- prove it, as I am not allowed to own Intellectual Property, I am -not- allowed to keep it for myself, because once my privacy has been exposed it's gone.
Now they 'law of unintended consequences' part that follows logically:
Then of course the lawyers come and steal everyone's privacy away on the grounds that they might be hiding further IP, which of course they are not entitled too.
As for the law, it's not really that hard, Logic is what prevails in the courts. Want to understand the legal system, study logic. Want to understand why laws get written, study politics. IANAL but I've been in court enough that I can defend myself just fine.
And a truely painful one. They never realize they're wrong and always want to be an exception to the rule. Look at this guy, what did he do after he was banned? Immediately tried to destroy the system!
Then he writes all about it in an attempt to get further attention (like most rule breakers, he's an attention whore and just wants everyone to notice him). I doubt they were laughing at him, they probably didn't care and were just hoping he'd leave and never come back.
Personally if I worked at Second life, after reading this article I'd perm ban the guy. People like this never learn, until the judge sentences them to life in prison. And policing them is a boring and thankless job, with lots of abuse thrown in.
Depends if that third party is a private party or the government. Governments are not subject to copyright or patent restrictions in time of war, or when dealing with foreign powers.
And before asking to prove you wrong, I'd suggest you first try to prove you're right. Your statements about the NSA were wrong. Either defend your attack with with facts, or just let it drop. But don't change the subject.
But the whole goal of publishing something under protection is to continue to own something that you'd otherwise keep private! Aren't you familar with the reasons for Intellectual Property and the history of it?
Guilds were built on the idea of 'secret formulas' (ie things that were private and never intended to be made public so you could make money off of them).
If you get rid of IP, then the people that come up with these ideas will keep them private, because they won't want to lose the money they stand to make. And even more draconian licenses and other restraints will return to the market place. The whole purpose of IP is to protect Private Property. Don't they teach anybody history anymore?
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In all honesty, when was the last time you got a BSoD? Since I've switched to XP pro I haven't had a BSoD since. I have to admit to being pleasently surprised.
How come upper management never uses them? Even they know cubes are crap. At my last job I went from an office, where I was highly productive, to a cube where I didn't do a damn thing until I left. Too many interruptions, too much noise.
Dude, I helped develop or test half that shit. None of it is new, well maybe to commercial it's new. And maybe it's new to you. But it isn't new to me at all.
And it's a complete joke and waste of money. More of Congress making stupid laws and costing people more money, and now we have accountants telling us how to make software? And what counts as 'quality'? Please...
Ah yes, and we all know what an expert on aircraft both Toby and the writers of west wing were.
And the answer to Toby's question was 'yes sir, without a doubt.'
You didn't take physics in college did you? The difference is that an airplane is a faraday cage, and you're -inside- the cage with your device, not outside. And that makes a huge difference to the electronics that are also inside the cage with you.
As for his statement about 'will cause an accident' I believe it already has.
And yes, I'm an expert on Navigation systems in Aircraft. Or at least I was throughout the late 80's and early 90's. I don't think anything has really changed in the last decade though.
So basically although electricity may get slightly more expensive we'll always have it available from breeder reactors. For me the real mystery is why environmentalists aren't crazy about this, taking nuclear waste and generating energy and non-radioactive waste? Sounds like an environmentalist's dream, but I guess they just can't see past the N-word.
Because environmentalists these days aren't about the environment, they're about politics. Real environmentalists are all for nuclear power.
This is the point exactly!
But of course, they're a TV network, aren't they? Wonder if they're begining to feel the heat with people turning off TV which is a one-way medium, and turning on their computers where they get to interact with other people?
Personally I'd rather have people on Computers than TV, computing is far more social, and (hopefully!) intellectually stimulating than the drivel that constitutes as network programming these days!!
Really, what about China? Google gave into China's censorship demands without a moment's hesitation while at the same time fighting off a somewhat harmless request for information from the US Justice Department. So in all fairness I'm not worried about Google giving the data to the US government, they've already shown they won't do that.
But I am worried about them giving it to China, because they've already shown that they won't fight the Chinese government.
And no, this isn't meant as a troll or flamebait. I just find their behavior to be rather contradictory and to put it mildly, odd.
And you have proof that it would have these effects? I know that in 20 years I'll hit SS retirement age. I also know there won't be anything left in the system for me by then, if they haven't jacked the age up another 5 or 10 years.
Bush didn't say they had to do it a certain way, he just said 'we're going to consider every option'. The Democrats blocked him for one reason, and one reason only: Politics. They don't really give a shit about your or me.
And btw, please tell me a job that gives you a million dollar retirement after two years of work? And where YOU get to decide YOURSELF just how much money, and other benefits you get WITHOUT having to contribute a dime of your own money. What Congress has given itself does not compare to any retirement plan in the rest of the world.
That is, I think, the best place to find people and find a job. Dice has been around since the old BBS days and has a solid reputation among professionals. I've gotten more jobs via Dice than any other two methods combined. I've also hired more people via Dice when in a hiring manager position.
Fancy alternative hiring methods? WHY? This is a business, not a game show. Yes it's true that word of mouth, and employee references are an even better way to bring people in, but you can't count on it when you need someone for a specific position.
If your company goes and starts doing all these 'strange and innovative' job recruitment methods you're only telling me one thing: I don't want to work there, because you're either going to piss away your budget and go out of business, or you're all a bunch of stuck up asswades and working there is going to really suck.
Yes I've worked at fun and exciting places. Or fun and exciting until they hired some Harvard grad who didn't understand business or our business model and in his attempts to 'make a bigger profit' turned the place into hell on earth and ran us out of business. In all those cases it wasn't until someone decided to try and get 'innovative' with business practices that we went down the tubes. Innovation is for designs, not how you run a business. Innovatively run offices always suck for the people who have to work there.
Wow, I want that job! (not yours, the interviewers!! ;-)
Yes, but it is true that they have a separate and higher paying pension fund. So if SS were to go under tomorrow, they wouldn't care at all. They've made sure that -they're- taken care of.
Yeah google follows it, so does yahoo, but it's the sites that don't which cause the most problems (at least for me).
So using it doesn't guarentee you anything. Nor does it protect you.
I used to be a regular submitter on the HNN site. Due to my work I get leads on technical stuff that often doesn't make the mainstream news for weeks.
/. I have seen every article I've posted, posted later by someone else with only one exception.
/. Even though I've been coming here since it started. It's just a waste of my time, as the editors definitely prefer some posters over others.
I've never once had an article posted here on
So I no longer bother to post to
But we don't whine like a baby when held responsible for our transgressions. Your problem is that you don't want to punish anyone.
Makes me suspect you are quite the rule breaker yourself. Otherwise why would you defend the indefensible? It's called projection.
Wow, you're an idiot, do you know that?
'prejudice against those who break the rules is just as bad as racism'?
Sorry, but that has to the the stupidest thing I've heard anyone utter in years.
And this isn't a government, it's a privately run enterprise.
First of all, there are no privacy rights in the constitution. Just FYI.
IP rights protect privacy in that they give you the rights to things you have developed. In days gone past people would keep the things they developed secret (like blue tinted glass in old cathedrals) because they didn't want to lose their ownership, rights, and control. But if someone stole that from you, you had no way to prove it was yours.
IP says, we're going to let you take your private property, and share it with the world so that no one else can make money off of it but you. (Trade secrets work in the same manner of course). The trade off is that your IP only grants you an exclusive time of ownership, BUT you can safely license it to others to make a lot more money without losing your property.
This also gives further incentive to inventors and the like to invent more things so that they may make money off of it. If you don't allow me IP, then why should I invent, why should I share my 'secrets/privacy'? And then of course if anything I kept private gets stolen, how am I to prove it? And even if I -do- prove it, as I am not allowed to own Intellectual Property, I am -not- allowed to keep it for myself, because once my privacy has been exposed it's gone.
Now they 'law of unintended consequences' part that follows logically:
Then of course the lawyers come and steal everyone's privacy away on the grounds that they might be hiding further IP, which of course they are not entitled too.
As for the law, it's not really that hard, Logic is what prevails in the courts. Want to understand the legal system, study logic. Want to understand why laws get written, study politics. IANAL but I've been in court enough that I can defend myself just fine.
And a truely painful one. They never realize they're wrong and always want to be an exception to the rule. Look at this guy, what did he do after he was banned? Immediately tried to destroy the system!
Then he writes all about it in an attempt to get further attention (like most rule breakers, he's an attention whore and just wants everyone to notice him). I doubt they were laughing at him, they probably didn't care and were just hoping he'd leave and never come back.
Personally if I worked at Second life, after reading this article I'd perm ban the guy. People like this never learn, until the judge sentences them to life in prison. And policing them is a boring and thankless job, with lots of abuse thrown in.
Depends if that third party is a private party or the government. Governments are not subject to copyright or patent restrictions in time of war, or when dealing with foreign powers.
And before asking to prove you wrong, I'd suggest you first try to prove you're right. Your statements about the NSA were wrong. Either defend your attack with with facts, or just let it drop. But don't change the subject.
But the whole goal of publishing something under protection is to continue to own something that you'd otherwise keep private! Aren't you familar with the reasons for Intellectual Property and the history of it?
Guilds were built on the idea of 'secret formulas' (ie things that were private and never intended to be made public so you could make money off of them).
If you get rid of IP, then the people that come up with these ideas will keep them private, because they won't want to lose the money they stand to make. And even more draconian licenses and other restraints will return to the market place. The whole purpose of IP is to protect Private Property. Don't they teach anybody history anymore?
Umm no. You obviously have no understanding of the law. And this does not address my question in the slightest.