This surprises me, I hate to use these sort of universal qualifiers, but in a LOT of companies Systems Admins and Systems engineers are overworked. So many that it seems like "duh, everyone knows this". What's worse is that its accepted and people (managers) don't seem bothered about it in the slightest bit.
My personal experience is that I worked as a Systems Administrator and then Systems Engineer for about 9 years. I left the field because it is an exceedingly frustrating career path that invaded any sort of personal life that I may desire to have. It was normal to work much more than I should. We're raised to believe that 40-60 hours a week is reasonable along with occasional peaks. However it was normal for me to work 60-80, hours a week, I remember a 3-4 month period where I literally only went home to shower and sleep for 4 hour intervals. This sort of treatment isn't just a few companies here-or-there, but this was my experience in working at 3 different places.
I would have left the profession long ago, but as it was I found myself stifled by this statement "You need more experience" or perhaps "you need a degree". What I found was that the sheer magnitude of work that had been put on my plate was so much that it was impossible for me to get "more" experience let alone a degree.
As an aside, before you go on with the "you should have known better and had a degree before you started this line of work" rhetoric, I grew up poor, and after I graduated high school my parents still didn't have the cash to help me in college. An entry level IT job in the late 90's paid crap, so I could barely pony up rent, food, car insurance, and other basic expenses - let alone get a degree. Too bad I was a fast learner, I quickly found myself with more responsibility and not much extra money.
What I've described is not limited to my own experience, I have met countless people who have had the exact same experience. Basically it goes something like this:
1. Was planning on going to college, but couldn't 2. Left home, got an IT job 3. Learned fast, got lots of responsibility 4. Got too much responsibility, can't leave work 5. Want out, but can't because "you need more experience" or "you need a degree"
I count it a miracle that I was able to transition from one career (SE work) to another (Developer) AND work on getting both experience and a degree at the same time, but I really don't see any other way to get out of this sort of trap.
Well, I agree that authority is a good thing. My choice of words was really just a writing device and isn't intended to be a truth statement or elevate some sort of philosophy (i.e. Anarchism) in any way.
That being said, I would disagree with this rearrangement it indicates that there are some people who are not only, innately stupid, but they are also authorized to be stupid in some function. In this particular case the local authority, in my opinion, usurped the fourth amendment, which is certainly outside of the chain of command. Federal rights are supposed to be universal.
Maybe I'm not a lawyer or a judge - but so what? The USA is founded on the principle of a government by the people - not merely the educated legal aristocrats.
There are always people with authority and the stupidity to use it. So he's been shut down, yes it's terrible - and illegal - and unconstitutional. Perhaps the best way to show your outrage: buy his book: at $29 bucks, why not? That way, just in case justice is not done, he will be able to be well financed to return to his work.
Although according to this theory, I am simply predisposed to say so, I for one am glad that Louisiana has passed the academic freedom law.
Theories such as this are both dangerous and absurd. I think it's obvious that my initial inclination about some subject matter may come from my emotions, past experience, or whatever we want to call it. However this theory would really suggest that I am ruled by my emotions, which simply isn't so.
Furthermore, the type of decisions that they studied aren't entirely critical or representative of a real world scenario. I can imagine pushing buttons while staring blankly into a screen and getting into a rut - ever worked in a network operations center? It is mind numbing, repetitive, and boring.
Yes, I agree. A friend of mine mentioned today how many news media companies merely repeat what is on the newswire. I think that's an unfortunate turn of events, and it brings out the worst in journalism really.
I've noticed this trend as well, however it seems to me as though these languages are specializing rather than dying.
For example, it seems to me that C has a long future ahead of it as the de-facto low-level language. C++ is evolving in many ways, while trying to be true to the 'as close to the hardware' as possible roots. Many of the changes that have been outlined in the C++0x specification are rather interesting indeed.
I've spent the past year of my life using Python every day, and I'll admit that it has excellent utility as a general purpose programming language. However I do not see it replacing C in kernel development, nor do I see systems libraries being re-written in Python. I do however see many opportunities for rapid application development, web development, and other application-centric development in Python.
To be fair, there hasn't been anything earth shattering from the systems level programmers in some time, although the call has gone out to 'fix' threading, and if anyone takes that seriously I am certain that we'll see an increasing number of lines of code written in C and C++ again.
Finally, number of lines written doesn't mean one language is better than another. Frankly that's really silly, and it doesn't hold up to marketability either. I was recently in the job market, and many many people had no clue what Python was. Then again, I live in Seattle.
So you'd like to see more editorials? I think that's actually a great idea although network television is probably a difficult outlet for this (think air time). The top two networks in the US that are known for their editorial pieces are CNN & Fox, both of which are obviously slanted.
I've often wondered whether or not the speed of the news makes it improbably difficult to remain objective, or at least rigorous in ones opinion about reporting a matter.
Judging the quagmire of intent is onerous ground. This is especially so if you entreat to generalize such a consideration to the entire news media enterprise of the based on an anchor or reporter who merely has the profession of reporting the news for 30 minutes to an a day while reading from a teleprompter.
If person 'A' says something and news company 'B' reports it then I do not see how news company B is in any way suggesting support of what person A says.
For example, if President Bush says "The surge is working" and Peter Jennings reports that The President or Brookings Institution reports that "the surge is working". Mr. Jennings is merely quoting an outside source, which is at the heart of reporting the news, which does not indicate any sort of support.
If on the other hand the President said something that was newsworthy and the media refused to report on it then they would be guilty of manufacturing the news instead of reporting it.
Perhaps I'm missing something, but what does an FTC ruling have to do with a different ruling from ISO? They are two entirely different organizations entirely.
I'm sorry, I may just live a sheltered life in Seattle, but aside from some cable news stations I have yet to see any 'pro-war' media and the veil of objectivity seems very thin. If they are being paid off to be pro-war then they are doing a very bad job.
There are two sides to this argument, the problem is that it's nothing more than two different a priori or axiomatic sets of philosophical truths. Unfortunately I rarely see either party attempting to find common group as they believe the other is necessarily fallacious because they stand in contradiction to a fairly emotionally invested topic. Saying "Children and young people need to be empowered to keep themselves safe" is has the same philosophical weight as saying "we need to protect our children in the best way we can". In the US this basically is the, now age-defining conservative vs. liberal debate and so I'll cut to the chase and say who the heck cares? If you're going to raise your kids, then raise them with the philosophical viewpoint you feel is best. Isn't rearing children really one of our most fundamental rights? If not, shouldn't it be? Why do people on both sides of the argument feel the need to push their agenda on each other through the legal system? It's wearisome for those of us who are politically moderate and find both "sides" to be just as fallacious as the other.
Oh come now, don't go asking people on slashdot for their reasons to believe in the universal law of causation or to account for why they believe in induction in the first place, they may get mad:)
perhaps I should have rephrased what I said a bit, but that's correct, the difference is that Nvidia provides a shim and a binary driver, in ndiswrapper's case they are only providing the shim - no binary object code - so they (ndiswrapper) isn't actually providing anything non-GPL is it? The problem as I read it is one of how licensing symbol semantics inside the kernel, not of whether or not ndiswrapper is actually GPL software. Perhaps the title is misleading?
Isn't ndiswrapper just a shim, even if it's does very little translation? Businesses have been making proprietary to GPL shim's for ages, you know like Nvidia's driver. Why wouldn't the converse acceptable, or at least worthy of discussion?
This story would have struck me as strange only a few short years ago when I thought that IT folk (such as myself) were the only people who got paged out of bed at 3AM, however after having kids I realize that it's far more normative. Especially being that there are so many fussy and colicy babies.
I've really only heard that they are infringing on 'some patents' - anyone have a good synopsis of why Vonage is getting successfully sued out of business?
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This surprises me, I hate to use these sort of universal qualifiers, but in a LOT of companies Systems Admins and Systems engineers are overworked. So many that it seems like "duh, everyone knows this". What's worse is that its accepted and people (managers) don't seem bothered about it in the slightest bit.
My personal experience is that I worked as a Systems Administrator and then Systems Engineer for about 9 years. I left the field because it is an exceedingly frustrating career path that invaded any sort of personal life that I may desire to have. It was normal to work much more than I should. We're raised to believe that 40-60 hours a week is reasonable along with occasional peaks. However it was normal for me to work 60-80, hours a week, I remember a 3-4 month period where I literally only went home to shower and sleep for 4 hour intervals. This sort of treatment isn't just a few companies here-or-there, but this was my experience in working at 3 different places.
I would have left the profession long ago, but as it was I found myself stifled by this statement "You need more experience" or perhaps "you need a degree". What I found was that the sheer magnitude of work that had been put on my plate was so much that it was impossible for me to get "more" experience let alone a degree.
As an aside, before you go on with the "you should have known better and had a degree before you started this line of work" rhetoric, I grew up poor, and after I graduated high school my parents still didn't have the cash to help me in college. An entry level IT job in the late 90's paid crap, so I could barely pony up rent, food, car insurance, and other basic expenses - let alone get a degree. Too bad I was a fast learner, I quickly found myself with more responsibility and not much extra money.
What I've described is not limited to my own experience, I have met countless people who have had the exact same experience. Basically it goes something like this:
1. Was planning on going to college, but couldn't
2. Left home, got an IT job
3. Learned fast, got lots of responsibility
4. Got too much responsibility, can't leave work
5. Want out, but can't because "you need more experience" or "you need a degree"
I count it a miracle that I was able to transition from one career (SE work) to another (Developer) AND work on getting both experience and a degree at the same time, but I really don't see any other way to get out of this sort of trap.
Anyone else's experiences?
-b
iphonedevcentral.org is also pretty good for those (such as myself) who are not well versed in objective C.
Why precisely is Psystar a bad guy?
Well, I agree that authority is a good thing. My choice of words was really just a writing device and isn't intended to be a truth statement or elevate some sort of philosophy (i.e. Anarchism) in any way.
That being said, I would disagree with this rearrangement it indicates that there are some people who are not only, innately stupid, but they are also authorized to be stupid in some function. In this particular case the local authority, in my opinion, usurped the fourth amendment, which is certainly outside of the chain of command. Federal rights are supposed to be universal.
Maybe I'm not a lawyer or a judge - but so what? The USA is founded on the principle of a government by the people - not merely the educated legal aristocrats.
(jumps down off soapbox)
Thank you
-b
aah, well then good point
well then to heck with it, sick whatever political activist group you want on them...
There are always people with authority and the stupidity to use it. So he's been shut down, yes it's terrible - and illegal - and unconstitutional. Perhaps the best way to show your outrage: buy his book: at $29 bucks, why not? That way, just in case justice is not done, he will be able to be well financed to return to his work.
Although according to this theory, I am simply predisposed to say so, I for one am glad that Louisiana has passed the academic freedom law.
Theories such as this are both dangerous and absurd. I think it's obvious that my initial inclination about some subject matter may come from my emotions, past experience, or whatever we want to call it. However this theory would really suggest that I am ruled by my emotions, which simply isn't so.
Furthermore, the type of decisions that they studied aren't entirely critical or representative of a real world scenario. I can imagine pushing buttons while staring blankly into a screen and getting into a rut - ever worked in a network operations center? It is mind numbing, repetitive, and boring.
Yes, perhaps and it would be accurate to say that mathematics, logic, science, and philosophy have more to do with each other than meet the eye.
-b
I'm not entirely following, are you saying that mankind, or some mathematically non-contingent entity invented Mathematics?
cheers
-b
Yes, I agree. A friend of mine mentioned today how many news media companies merely repeat what is on the newswire. I think that's an unfortunate turn of events, and it brings out the worst in journalism really.
Cheers
-Brian
I've noticed this trend as well, however it seems to me as though these languages are specializing rather than dying.
For example, it seems to me that C has a long future ahead of it as the de-facto low-level language. C++ is evolving in many ways, while trying to be true to the 'as close to the hardware' as possible roots. Many of the changes that have been outlined in the C++0x specification are rather interesting indeed.
I've spent the past year of my life using Python every day, and I'll admit that it has excellent utility as a general purpose programming language. However I do not see it replacing C in kernel development, nor do I see systems libraries being re-written in Python. I do however see many opportunities for rapid application development, web development, and other application-centric development in Python.
To be fair, there hasn't been anything earth shattering from the systems level programmers in some time, although the call has gone out to 'fix' threading, and if anyone takes that seriously I am certain that we'll see an increasing number of lines of code written in C and C++ again.
Finally, number of lines written doesn't mean one language is better than another. Frankly that's really silly, and it doesn't hold up to marketability either. I was recently in the job market, and many many people had no clue what Python was. Then again, I live in Seattle.
Cheers
-b
So you'd like to see more editorials? I think that's actually a great idea although network television is probably a difficult outlet for this (think air time). The top two networks in the US that are known for their editorial pieces are CNN & Fox, both of which are obviously slanted.
I've often wondered whether or not the speed of the news makes it improbably difficult to remain objective, or at least rigorous in ones opinion about reporting a matter.
Judging the quagmire of intent is onerous ground. This is especially so if you entreat to generalize such a consideration to the entire news media enterprise of the based on an anchor or reporter who merely has the profession of reporting the news for 30 minutes to an a day while reading from a teleprompter.
If person 'A' says something and news company 'B' reports it then I do not see how news company B is in any way suggesting support of what person A says.
For example, if President Bush says "The surge is working" and Peter Jennings reports that The President or Brookings Institution reports that "the surge is working". Mr. Jennings is merely quoting an outside source, which is at the heart of reporting the news, which does not indicate any sort of support.
If on the other hand the President said something that was newsworthy and the media refused to report on it then they would be guilty of manufacturing the news instead of reporting it.
I'll respectfully disagree.
Perhaps I'm missing something, but what does an FTC ruling have to do with a different ruling from ISO? They are two entirely different organizations entirely.
I'm sorry, I may just live a sheltered life in Seattle, but aside from some cable news stations I have yet to see any 'pro-war' media and the veil of objectivity seems very thin. If they are being paid off to be pro-war then they are doing a very bad job.
Why?
There are two sides to this argument, the problem is that it's nothing more than two different a priori or axiomatic sets of philosophical truths. Unfortunately I rarely see either party attempting to find common group as they believe the other is necessarily fallacious because they stand in contradiction to a fairly emotionally invested topic. Saying "Children and young people need to be empowered to keep themselves safe" is has the same philosophical weight as saying "we need to protect our children in the best way we can". In the US this basically is the, now age-defining conservative vs. liberal debate and so I'll cut to the chase and say who the heck cares? If you're going to raise your kids, then raise them with the philosophical viewpoint you feel is best. Isn't rearing children really one of our most fundamental rights? If not, shouldn't it be? Why do people on both sides of the argument feel the need to push their agenda on each other through the legal system? It's wearisome for those of us who are politically moderate and find both "sides" to be just as fallacious as the other.
Oh come now, don't go asking people on slashdot for their reasons to believe in the universal law of causation or to account for why they believe in induction in the first place, they may get mad :)
-b
perhaps I should have rephrased what I said a bit, but that's correct, the difference is that Nvidia provides a shim and a binary driver, in ndiswrapper's case they are only providing the shim - no binary object code - so they (ndiswrapper) isn't actually providing anything non-GPL is it? The problem as I read it is one of how licensing symbol semantics inside the kernel, not of whether or not ndiswrapper is actually GPL software. Perhaps the title is misleading?
that's a good point, the only difference is one of distribution, in this case ndiswrapper is really just providing the shim not the binary itself.
Isn't ndiswrapper just a shim, even if it's does very little translation? Businesses have been making proprietary to GPL shim's for ages, you know like Nvidia's driver. Why wouldn't the converse acceptable, or at least worthy of discussion?
-b
This story would have struck me as strange only a few short years ago when I thought that IT folk (such as myself) were the only people who got paged out of bed at 3AM, however after having kids I realize that it's far more normative. Especially being that there are so many fussy and colicy babies.
-b
I've really only heard that they are infringing on 'some patents' - anyone have a good synopsis of why Vonage is getting successfully sued out of business?
Google may just buy you.
And no, I don't think that would be evil but redemptive.