Screw shell access, give me back the years I spent at failed dot coms and what I lost on internet stocks. That'd be golden days for me, thank you very much.
No one forced you to buy Internet stocks nor work for a startup.
For us what made the Coop possible was not so much money as the availability of volunteers with sufficient technical and legal experience. I would say that any community, low-income or not, that had such volunteers available could make a go of it. Money is not really the barrier to entry.
If a DSLAM costs X amount of dollars, and you have significantly less than that, you aren't going to get a Coop built. People power is tremendous but in the end it really does come down to money.
On it, there are more than 2500 MP3s (10 gigs worth of them), of which about 50% have been downloaded with Napster and Gnutella. The rest have been made from CDs I borrowed from the library (they have that little sign that says "pirating music kills it" - I chuckle whenever I see it...), and which I copied for my own use.
All legally, of course. And my friends are quite welcome to make copies for themselves (still legally, of course).
It's not legal because you say it is. Please point me to the law that says you can legally download mp3s from napster and share them with friends. Oh and the law that says teh same for library cds as well.
High school graduation tied to an exit exam, that has as one of it's requirements to pass: Community Service.
Since when did the schools become a place to get free student labor and not ( and I know this may sound like a troll) actually a place to educate people.
You can say "well rounded student" all you want but in the end well rounded doesn't teach you how to add and subtract.
Sneakemail.
They're looking for 'donations'.
They're going to forward all email to your main account now.
I give them 3 months and they're gone altogether.
If it were would VA Software be switching to DB2?
Personally I like Postgres but hey if the Bastion of Open Source won't even it's it's own food.
Of course this is all just my opinion.
You understand what I am saying. Some people don't. When across the board cuts come, it doesn't matter if you maintain 1 line of code or 20000, you had better have a reaaaally high revenue per employee number for the accountants to drool over.
Oh and my company was in the Fortune 25 and stable.
Not full of myself, I just study economics. I don't work for a company that does layoffs. I work for a company that has maintained profitable standings with a growing margin for many many years. That's why so many people are dissillusioned with the market, they pick companies that aren't stable. No matter how good you are, if your company is on rocks, so are you.
It must be pretty good to have the knowledge to pick a company that won't be bought by someone else. That was my 'mistake'. I went to work for a company that didn't do layoffs, and was doing really well. So well that when the buyout offer came, the owner saw 6 month vacations to Switzerland instead of 2 weeks. The new company was profitable. But it was shaky, I suppose. Yeah bd me for not jumping ship and looking elsewhere. But hey when that company got bought by another company that was very profitable, I felt better. But hey, even profitable companies can layoff, sure the first round was only 5 people and I should have seen it coming. 14 months later, the layoff, right after the fiscal year ended. 3 months later, surprise surprise, they were looking for programmers to replce those they laid off. Silyl me, thiught, hey may as well apply, didn't even get a rejection letter from them. Oh and those programmer positions are still posted and they won't fill them til they can offer a decent salary ( and that's saying a lot for where I live). So yeah maybe I sucked at what I did but I see a bunch of people who didn't suck get canned and a bunch of people who sucked more than I did, avoid the layoffs. It all came down to "layoff all those that make X dollars or more, until we have a much better revenue per employee number".
They are quite crappy, yes. I got in a small accident when I was 17. They cut off my parents insurance because of it. I couldn't have caused more than a few K of damage, too. My parents had to sign a contract stating that I would never drive one of "their" cars again (it was my car) for them to have their policy back.
Well if it was yours you were making the payments on it? And the title was only in your name?
Go ahead and lay me off, I know I'm worth more to the company here than not here. They'd just have to hire someone else in for a couple bucks less an hour who has no clue about the thousands and thousands of lines of code. I'm worth what they pay, end of story. Same thing with everyone else that still has jobs for the most part. If you don't have a job, you weren't worth what they paid for you.
Wow aren't we full of ourselves? Eventualy, the layoffs wil come to you. The accountants demand that profit be high. Sure you are a great programmer who knows a lot of lines of code but after the 3rd round of layoffs and there is a still a loss of money ( Not a real loss to you and me, I'm talking accountant speak), the decison wil be made: ditch some higher paid people but not til we hire a few 'consultants'. So unless you are project manager for Microsoft XP, you are expendable.
Hint: The part in italics is written by the person who submitted the story. What Taco wrote is in regular text... Do you want them editing what people submit now ?? Maybe adding (sic) would be appropriate though so that people know who made the error. Of course, the editors have to catch the error first !
Yes, we know we said there would be no LWN.net Weekly Edition this time around, but, in the end, it was worth the trouble to put together a mini version. So here it is; with luck, the full Weekly will be back on August 15. "
mod me as troll if you want, but this is what I honestly think.
Do you really think they were going away? When places run out of money/go bankrupt, they just disappear, they don't ask for money and put 'just one more edition' out This whole begging for money is starting to sound like those commericals in the 80's "Going out of business, get a good deal now!" But they never did go out of business.
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or maybethey value you enough not to train you.
Think about it. No training, you aren't really leave and get another high paying job material.
The USPS is already broke. At least that is what they tellme every 3 years when rates go up.
I sometimes wonder what it was like to live back when you had to actually use common sense to survive.
Because the influx of certain social....um diseases.....made it necessary to be close to the penicillin.
No one forced you to buy Internet stocks nor work for a startup.
....and this works at 3am, on a sunday?
If a DSLAM costs X amount of dollars, and you have significantly less than that, you aren't going to get a Coop built. People power is tremendous but in the end it really does come down to money.
He has a point. You are trying to quash his first amendment rights. Just becuase it's an email system doesn't make it better.
oh you're in Canada.
Damn if Deer Hunter gets ported I can *finally* wipe this Win98 partition away!
AOL has announced it is buying Information Wave Technologies.
It's not legal because you say it is. Please point me to the law that says you can legally download mp3s from napster and share them with friends. Oh and the law that says teh same for library cds as well.
High school graduation tied to an exit exam, that has as one of it's requirements to pass: Community Service.
Since when did the schools become a place to get free student labor and not ( and I know this may sound like a troll) actually a place to educate people.
You can say "well rounded student" all you want but in the end well rounded doesn't teach you how to add and subtract.
Can't you print PDFs? Print em out. Staple and mail. There you have print.
Sneakemail. They're looking for 'donations'. They're going to forward all email to your main account now. I give them 3 months and they're gone altogether.
If it were would VA Software be switching to DB2?
Personally I like Postgres but hey if the Bastion of Open Source won't even it's it's own food.
Of course this is all just my opinion.
but I can almost guarantee some diseased civil war ravaged 8 year old with one leg, didn't pick those flowers.
Oh and my company was in the Fortune 25 and stable.
It must be pretty good to have the knowledge to pick a company that won't be bought by someone else. That was my 'mistake'. I went to work for a company that didn't do layoffs, and was doing really well. So well that when the buyout offer came, the owner saw 6 month vacations to Switzerland instead of 2 weeks. The new company was profitable. But it was shaky, I suppose. Yeah bd me for not jumping ship and looking elsewhere. But hey when that company got bought by another company that was very profitable, I felt better. But hey, even profitable companies can layoff, sure the first round was only 5 people and I should have seen it coming. 14 months later, the layoff, right after the fiscal year ended. 3 months later, surprise surprise, they were looking for programmers to replce those they laid off. Silyl me, thiught, hey may as well apply, didn't even get a rejection letter from them. Oh and those programmer positions are still posted and they won't fill them til they can offer a decent salary ( and that's saying a lot for where I live). So yeah maybe I sucked at what I did but I see a bunch of people who didn't suck get canned and a bunch of people who sucked more than I did, avoid the layoffs. It all came down to "layoff all those that make X dollars or more, until we have a much better revenue per employee number".
Well if it was yours you were making the payments on it? And the title was only in your name?
Wow aren't we full of ourselves? Eventualy, the layoffs wil come to you. The accountants demand that profit be high. Sure you are a great programmer who knows a lot of lines of code but after the 3rd round of layoffs and there is a still a loss of money ( Not a real loss to you and me, I'm talking accountant speak), the decison wil be made: ditch some higher paid people but not til we hire a few 'consultants'. So unless you are project manager for Microsoft XP, you are expendable.
I remember saying over 3 years ago to a friend "I won't get a DVD recorder til the format is standardized. And that should be in 6-8 months." oops.
Gore couldn't even win in his home state, what the hell are you talking about?
They already do.
mod me as troll if you want, but this is what I honestly think.
Do you really think they were going away? When places run out of money/go bankrupt, they just disappear, they don't ask for money and put 'just one more edition' out This whole begging for money is starting to sound like those commericals in the 80's "Going out of business, get a good deal now!" But they never did go out of business.
I was wary of these emails I was getting so I set up some sneakemail accounts and voila, I got all kinds of spam.