Agreed completely. Whiny kids who won't stand up for themselves but expect the court system to stand up for them. Litigation in this case is not just immature, but also wasteful and imho just plain stupid.
If you have problems in your current job, talk to your manager. If he stonewalls you, talk to his manager, etc... If you feel there is another part of your company that does not have said problems, seek an internal transfer.
If open discussion with your management chain fails and internal transfer is undesirable or not possible, find another job.
... where, unless you are upper management, you are getting the shaft. Being a developer, I particularly like how (at my company anyway) our sales staff pulls down Director level salary and obscene commissions on the gross (NOT net) product they push out the door... even when it means a loss for the company.
I remember back years ago where there were a few movements to form programmers unions... doomed to failure from the inception. Programmers don't need huge entrenched installations to do our work like, say, UAW workers do... and since every cocky high school kid who has churned out "Hello World" in Visual Basic thinks they can do real development... and the typical management position that developers are an easily replaced commodity.
I dunno. I'm just old and jaded. Always do the best work you are capable of doing, and if you feel you deserve better compensation when your company is either unwilling (don't see you as a valuable asset) or unable (poor decisions have left them so fubar that they can't) then it is time to move on. Possibly more important... if you are unhappy doing what you are doing, forget the compensation and move ASAP.
Suing your own company for a perceived lack of compensation is the best way to build resentment and to nail the coffin shut on your future with that, or any other, company.
While I haven't read TFA, I'd imagine that the early termination fees contradicted some interpretation of a law on the books in the state of CA. Vague? Well, yes. and no. Welcome to the law.
IMO, threat of early termination fees keeps subscribers paying far past the point of subsidizing cheap phones. Telcos take a back seat only to oil companies on the scumbag scale. I get a reminder of that every month in the mail.
The internet is more than just the data lines. Its the entire 7 layer burrit... errr... OSI model. Are they planning on re-defining every protocol implemented? At the very least they would need to address every layer 5, 6, and 7 protocol... on a budget of $12m? heh. Smells like a researcher who knows all the right buzzwords to really confuse a government appropriations committee. mmmmm pork.
You are asking the right questions. The social implications of their success are frightening, to say the least.
Removing age related death from the human equation will create an unsustainable population on this small planet in very short term. Births worldwide would have to be regulated to a rate dictated by the sum of other causes of death (accidental, incurable disease, war, famine...).
Or maybe we package sterilization with the product. Then you get to choose to either live forever OR have children.
In "A World Out of Time", Larry Niven conjectured similar technology concept which resulted in global catastrophe... and a "version 2" of the technology which granted unlimited lifespan, but limited physical development to pre-puberty so the recipients were unable to reproduce. A fun read if you have the time.
I read a paper a few years back (somewhere webby, but i can't remember where) that came to the conclusion... "If it is at all possible to build a virtual system with enough detail to describe our universe, then it is probable we are in one already."
As I remember, the conversation threads then devolved into whether or not it would be possible for one of those virtual systems to, within the simulation, build a virtual simulation with the same resolution... giving rise to 1st, 2nd, 3rd,... and n-th tier simulations.... which inevitably gave rise to the old post, "You're very clever, young man, very clever, but it's turtles all the way down!"
imo, the only valid form of recognition is in compensation. do your job well. if you feel you are not being compensated adequately for your performance, then take action. good management, whether they appear to take credit for your hard work or not, usually recognizes where the talent lies and will take action to protect their own asses/raises/options.
I don't think it runs Linux. I dunno... about 2/3 of the way down in the 2.6.25.4 patch notes... yeah... right there:
commit f96e856cd870007bb8f344e62eff228eba3f6989 Author: Chris Wright Date: Mon May 5 13:50:24 2008 -0700
added support for elongated orbit millisecond pulsars.
I would never give a customer direct query access to any database critical to the rest of my business.
A possible solution is to replicate the data tables they need onto a separate physical server that they can hammer all they want. Pass the cost of the server on to them as a one time "setup fee", and away they go with whatever obscene table joins their interns want to write. Additionally charge them for maintaining the extra service... if they want more they should pay more.
If you don't want to spring for another oracle license, throw postgres or mysql at the problem.
If the dataset is small enough, another solution is to simply export data tables to the client and let them expend time and resources importing into their own database system. They can then hammer their database all they want... and bad queries are the problem of their DBA.
I'd pull the trigger on your Legal team in either scenario... just to protect your asse(t)s.
If this were put in place, it would be less than a week before the ISP bill had hundreds of additional charges: Music Fee $5 Movie Fee $10.50 TV Fee $7... You've hit the nail on the head. The proposed solution is too media-specific and will only open the door to endless non-governmental "taxes" on internet connections in the future.
...of my "Unix Programmers's Manual" circa 1983 from Bell Laboratories where they say something along the lines of... "Filenames can be infinite in length (where infinity is set to 255 characters)..."
was in using perl to perform an xsl transform converting xml directly into executable perl code. hooray for eval. surprisingly it was one of our most stable jobs and ran for years with no problems. i think this was mostly because everybody was afraid to touch it once it got going... is there anything perl can't do?
Not to mention that I sincerely doubt that anyone is currently using some super-secret ultra-elite hashing algorithm that no one else knows about. You have obviously never heard of my ROT-13.5 algorithm. They never figure out that extra.5
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Agreed completely. Whiny kids who won't stand up for themselves but expect the court system to stand up for them. Litigation in this case is not just immature, but also wasteful and imho just plain stupid.
If you have problems in your current job, talk to your manager. If he stonewalls you, talk to his manager, etc... If you feel there is another part of your company that does not have said problems, seek an internal transfer.
If open discussion with your management chain fails and internal transfer is undesirable or not possible, find another job.
... where, unless you are upper management, you are getting the shaft. Being a developer, I particularly like how (at my company anyway) our sales staff pulls down Director level salary and obscene commissions on the gross (NOT net) product they push out the door ... even when it means a loss for the company.
I remember back years ago where there were a few movements to form programmers unions ... doomed to failure from the inception. Programmers don't need huge entrenched installations to do our work like, say, UAW workers do ... and since every cocky high school kid who has churned out "Hello World" in Visual Basic thinks they can do real development ... and the typical management position that developers are an easily replaced commodity.
I dunno. I'm just old and jaded. Always do the best work you are capable of doing, and if you feel you deserve better compensation when your company is either unwilling (don't see you as a valuable asset) or unable (poor decisions have left them so fubar that they can't) then it is time to move on. Possibly more important ... if you are unhappy doing what you are doing, forget the compensation and move ASAP.
Suing your own company for a perceived lack of compensation is the best way to build resentment and to nail the coffin shut on your future with that, or any other, company.
While I haven't read TFA, I'd imagine that the early termination fees contradicted some interpretation of a law on the books in the state of CA. Vague? Well, yes. and no. Welcome to the law.
IMO, threat of early termination fees keeps subscribers paying far past the point of subsidizing cheap phones. Telcos take a back seat only to oil companies on the scumbag scale. I get a reminder of that every month in the mail.
The internet is more than just the data lines. Its the entire 7 layer burrit... errr ... OSI model. Are they planning on re-defining every protocol implemented? At the very least they would need to address every layer 5, 6, and 7 protocol... on a budget of $12m? heh. Smells like a researcher who knows all the right buzzwords to really confuse a government appropriations committee. mmmmm pork.
It's not so bad if your getting ~40 RPH (rods per hogshead).
You are asking the right questions. The social implications of their success are frightening, to say the least.
Removing age related death from the human equation will create an unsustainable population on this small planet in very short term. Births worldwide would have to be regulated to a rate dictated by the sum of other causes of death (accidental, incurable disease, war, famine...).
Or maybe we package sterilization with the product. Then you get to choose to either live forever OR have children.
In "A World Out of Time", Larry Niven conjectured similar technology concept which resulted in global catastrophe ... and a "version 2" of the technology which granted unlimited lifespan, but limited physical development to pre-puberty so the recipients were unable to reproduce. A fun read if you have the time.
I read a paper a few years back (somewhere webby, but i can't remember where) that came to the conclusion ... "If it is at all possible to build a virtual system with enough detail to describe our universe, then it is probable we are in one already."
... giving rise to 1st, 2nd, 3rd,... and n-th tier simulations. ... which inevitably gave rise to the old post, "You're very clever, young man, very clever, but it's turtles all the way down!"
As I remember, the conversation threads then devolved into whether or not it would be possible for one of those virtual systems to, within the simulation, build a virtual simulation with the same resolution
imo, the only valid form of recognition is in compensation. do your job well. if you feel you are not being compensated adequately for your performance, then take action. good management, whether they appear to take credit for your hard work or not, usually recognizes where the talent lies and will take action to protect their own asses/raises/options.
welcome to the corporate pyramid scheme.
Author: Chris Wright
Date: Mon May 5 13:50:24 2008 -0700
added support for elongated orbit millisecond pulsars.
just thought this article deserved a comment. Let me fill in the gaps ...
I welcome our elongated orbit millisecond pulsar overlords!
Can you imagine a beowulf cluster of those??
I would never give a customer direct query access to any database critical to the rest of my business.
... if they want more they should pay more.
... and bad queries are the problem of their DBA.
... just to protect your asse(t)s.
A possible solution is to replicate the data tables they need onto a separate physical server that they can hammer all they want. Pass the cost of the server on to them as a one time "setup fee", and away they go with whatever obscene table joins their interns want to write. Additionally charge them for maintaining the extra service
If you don't want to spring for another oracle license, throw postgres or mysql at the problem.
If the dataset is small enough, another solution is to simply export data tables to the client and let them expend time and resources importing into their own database system. They can then hammer their database all they want
I'd pull the trigger on your Legal team in either scenario
Pew pew pew pew.
(quad core)
Music Fee $5
Movie Fee $10.50
TV Fee $7
Put the Cleric and Druid away ... bring out the Mage. Animate Dead. How cool would that be at parties?
...of my "Unix Programmers's Manual" circa 1983 from Bell Laboratories where they say something along the lines of ... "Filenames can be infinite in length (where infinity is set to 255 characters)..."
Simple solution! Redefine "Unlimited".
No no ... you're doing it wrong. The REAL benefit of 8 cores is that you can get some work done while the Storm Worm is busily taking over the world.
was in using perl to perform an xsl transform converting xml directly into executable perl code. hooray for eval. surprisingly it was one of our most stable jobs and ran for years with no problems. i think this was mostly because everybody was afraid to touch it once it got going... is there anything perl can't do?
And of course the other end of the spectrum is ... http://zombo.com/. ... the real is unreal at zombo com.
Chuck Norris. 'nuff said.
Vista has it. I spewed coke on my monitor...
...my eyes saw "MIT's Henry Jenkins", but my mind read "MIT's Leroy Jenkins".
He rolled a 1. nuff said.