> I got out of it because I was tired of being > relatively poorly paid for the same pressure > and on-the-job stress as a pediatric > neurologist.
Wow. Think you could tone down the hyperbole there?
A pediatric neurologist is responsible for the lives of children. Very sick children. From time to time said doctor would probably be in the position of telling someone that their child could not be saved. Is that the kind of pressure and stress you experienced?
Depends on the situation. The risks should be balanced by the reward, and you should never take a risk if you won't survive it going the wrong way.
Gambling is for suckers. All your decisions should lead to increasing (or maintaining or at least minimizing the drop in) profit.
In RedHat's situation, it makes much more sense to let a competitor take the risk. If their competitor fails, then it is one less competitor to worry about. If their competitor starts to look like it will succeed, RedHat can adjust their focus to include the desktop. Even if their desktop product is not as good as the competition, they'll make sales just because people will decide to use the same distro on the clients as on the server.
> The main problem with some things being "free" > is just that - there ain't enough cash money > to make the world go round.
How about if it isn't free, just isn't too expensive: a not-for-profit corporation handing out certs. The price you pay would cover the cost of validating you are who you claim to be & managing the certificate (& all the other nonsense that goes along with funding an "entity".
I think the big difference is you didn't move the monitor around to scroll the screen. The window on a larger world idea is old, but on PDA's it is much more useful if you can use the physical location of the device to control what the window is showing.
My biggest problem with Segway is that the creator has said that it would be used on the sidewalk. He also said the top speed was 12.5 mph. I don't want to get hit by someone going 12.5 mph walking, segwaying, skating, or riding a bike.
I wonder how long before two morons on segways talking on their cellphones ram into each other in a head-on collision at top speed.
At a minumum the company making them should prove how safe they are in a collision by having a couple executives ram each other. At top speed. Also they should show how safe they are for pedestrians by ramming a few executives while they stand on the sidewalk.
How long before someone posts some mods to get a segway going at 80mph?
I didn't read the article, but I did read the summary, where it said:
"Magnetic docking systems were never used in the past as magnetic fields posed dangers to sensitive cargo like TVs and monitors. Researchers at the Delft University of Technology have developed electromagnets whose magnetic fields do not penetrate far into the ship for this special application."
...and right about now you'd be realizing that you still haven't paid off your school loans and the health insurance companies make the practice of medicine nearly impossible......you'd probably be thinking about going back to school and getting a degree in engineering;-)
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Doctors do admit it to you if you're a woman: When you've spoken to a doctor for many months and described all your symptoms in detail and gone through many, many tests, your doctor may eventually recommend that you see a psychologist. If you're lucky, you'll realize that this is doctor-speak for "I just don't have any idea what is causing your symptoms*", and you'll keep looking until you find a doctor who is willing to keep trying. I think this has happened to all the women I know.
Of course, if you're a man you don't see the doctor until you stop being able to get an erection, so by the time the doctor sees you the diagnosis is obvious.
Last time I saw a GP the diagnosis was "virus" and I was offered antibiotics. I never went back.
*of course there's always the possibility that you really do need to see a psychologist;-)
Hmmm. I don't think anything in the article said he wasn't required to document all procedures. However, how do you force him to?
Documentation is a necessity for the reason you mentioned (when sysadmin is unavailable). However, it has nothing to do with this situation. Unless you are the most stupid disgruntled employee who ever lived, you won't document the changes you've made to destroy the system.
So, how do you force the person who must have root access to document everything?
> I used to use fred, since the keys are together > in a nice square on qwerty keyboards.
Ahhh, a kindred spirit. Fred Derf has always been the name I've used for testing software. Fred once saved my ass in college. Working on a group project I screwed up while deleting files (really stupid, like not realizing that \rm *s* would delete every copy because every copy started with "s". However I had earlier saved a backup copy as "fred" out of laziness & "fred" was still there;-)
That was a little harsh, so I feel the need to add to my comment. The mistake web designers make is sometimes understandable. When you have a 100Mbit connection to the web server, it is often easy to get carried away and forget that other folks are accessing it over a 28.8 dialup. I've done it myself, although I don't claim to be a web designer, so perhaps they should be held to a higher standard.
On the other hand, I just can't tolerate email which includes HTML to make the text blue. That's just stupid and wasteful.
I don't see stinginess as the reason, but I can understand why some people would think so. The people I know who use dialup generally have other options available. However, they don't see a reason to trade their $10/month dialup for a $50/month cable/DSL connection. If the content isn't worth $600/year, people aren't going to pay.
Let's face it, the only reason the current content requires the higher bandwidth is because most web designers don't design for their audience. Every day I see pages (& emails) which waste bandwidth for no reason. For example, I just saw an email yesterday that used light blue text. It was an HTML mail. The HTML which was included was *HUGE*, but all it did was turn the text blue. The message would have been easier to read if it was sent as plain ascii. Now, who in their right mind is going to pay $40 more per month to read blue email?
Yes, but the reason Mac users are loyal to Apple is something called "Stockholm Syndrome". They've been held captive for so long, that they've started to love their captor;-)
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> I got out of it because I was tired of being
> relatively poorly paid for the same pressure
> and on-the-job stress as a pediatric
> neurologist.
Wow. Think you could tone down the hyperbole there?
A pediatric neurologist is responsible for the lives of children. Very sick children. From time to time said doctor would probably be in the position of telling someone that their child could not be saved. Is that the kind of pressure and stress you experienced?
Note that it is a trilogy, yet it contains 4 disks. Clearly they intended movie #2 to be removed & discarded.
Depends on the situation. The risks should be balanced by the reward, and you should never take a risk if you won't survive it going the wrong way.
Gambling is for suckers. All your decisions should lead to increasing (or maintaining or at least minimizing the drop in) profit.
In RedHat's situation, it makes much more sense to let a competitor take the risk. If their competitor fails, then it is one less competitor to worry about. If their competitor starts to look like it will succeed, RedHat can adjust their focus to include the desktop. Even if their desktop product is not as good as the competition, they'll make sales just because people will decide to use the same distro on the clients as on the server.
No one is forcing them to pay the licensing fees. All they have to do is switch to OSS.
> The main problem with some things being "free"
> is just that - there ain't enough cash money
> to make the world go round.
How about if it isn't free, just isn't too expensive: a not-for-profit corporation handing out certs. The price you pay would cover the cost of validating you are who you claim to be & managing the certificate (& all the other nonsense that goes along with funding an "entity".
I think the big difference is you didn't move the monitor around to scroll the screen. The window on a larger world idea is old, but on PDA's it is much more useful if you can use the physical location of the device to control what the window is showing.
My biggest problem with Segway is that the creator has said that it would be used on the sidewalk. He also said the top speed was 12.5 mph. I don't want to get hit by someone going 12.5 mph walking, segwaying, skating, or riding a bike.
I wonder how long before two morons on segways talking on their cellphones ram into each other in a head-on collision at top speed.
At a minumum the company making them should prove how safe they are in a collision by having a couple executives ram each other. At top speed. Also they should show how safe they are for pedestrians by ramming a few executives while they stand on the sidewalk.
How long before someone posts some mods to get a segway going at 80mph?
I didn't read the article, but I did read the summary, where it said:
"Magnetic docking systems were never used in the past as magnetic fields posed dangers to sensitive cargo like TVs and monitors. Researchers at the Delft University of Technology have developed electromagnets whose magnetic fields do not penetrate far into the ship for this special application."
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Well, it is no worse. What it means is that we still have to get Congress to undo the wrong (or allow some limit to exist).
> I have feared the dreaded "axe" almost every day
> (well at least on thursdays - seems to be the
> favorite layoff day around here)
Try taking as many Thursdays off as you can.
...and right about now you'd be realizing that you still haven't paid off your school loans and the health insurance companies make the practice of medicine nearly impossible... ...you'd probably be thinking about going back to school and getting a degree in engineering ;-)
Doctors do admit it to you if you're a woman: When you've spoken to a doctor for many months and described all your symptoms in detail and gone through many, many tests, your doctor may eventually recommend that you see a psychologist. If you're lucky, you'll realize that this is doctor-speak for "I just don't have any idea what is causing your symptoms*", and you'll keep looking until you find a doctor who is willing to keep trying. I think this has happened to all the women I know.
;-)
Of course, if you're a man you don't see the doctor until you stop being able to get an erection, so by the time the doctor sees you the diagnosis is obvious.
Last time I saw a GP the diagnosis was "virus" and I was offered antibiotics. I never went back.
*of course there's always the possibility that you really do need to see a psychologist
How can a holiday be stolen?
Ah, so that's what's been wrong with the coffee...
> and a huge fine (something like $60,000, which
> was a lot back then).
Wow. I must not be making enough money, because I think that is still a lot.
Hmmm. I don't think anything in the article said he wasn't required to document all procedures. However, how do you force him to?
Documentation is a necessity for the reason you mentioned (when sysadmin is unavailable). However, it has nothing to do with this situation. Unless you are the most stupid disgruntled employee who ever lived, you won't document the changes you've made to destroy the system.
So, how do you force the person who must have root access to document everything?
> I used to use fred, since the keys are together
;-)
> in a nice square on qwerty keyboards.
Ahhh, a kindred spirit. Fred Derf has always been the name I've used for testing software. Fred once saved my ass in college. Working on a group project I screwed up while deleting files (really stupid, like not realizing that \rm *s* would delete every copy because every copy started with "s". However I had earlier saved a backup copy as "fred" out of laziness & "fred" was still there
That was a little harsh, so I feel the need to add to my comment. The mistake web designers make is sometimes understandable. When you have a 100Mbit connection to the web server, it is often easy to get carried away and forget that other folks are accessing it over a 28.8 dialup. I've done it myself, although I don't claim to be a web designer, so perhaps they should be held to a higher standard.
On the other hand, I just can't tolerate email which includes HTML to make the text blue. That's just stupid and wasteful.
I don't see stinginess as the reason, but I can understand why some people would think so. The people I know who use dialup generally have other options available. However, they don't see a reason to trade their $10/month dialup for a $50/month cable/DSL connection. If the content isn't worth $600/year, people aren't going to pay.
Let's face it, the only reason the current content requires the higher bandwidth is because most web designers don't design for their audience. Every day I see pages (& emails) which waste bandwidth for no reason. For example, I just saw an email yesterday that used light blue text. It was an HTML mail. The HTML which was included was *HUGE*, but all it did was turn the text blue. The message would have been easier to read if it was sent as plain ascii. Now, who in their right mind is going to pay $40 more per month to read blue email?
Yes, but the reason Mac users are loyal to Apple is something called "Stockholm Syndrome". They've been held captive for so long, that they've started to love their captor ;-)
Wow! We must work at the same hospital ;-)
Sounds like a musical that was done in a dinner theater where I worked. It was The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
Lots of fun.
Actually, we installed smoke alarms in the kitchen, but they went off every time we made dinner so we removed the batteries.
"...he burnt down the warehouse with toilet paper and lightbulbs...professors resorted to carrying lightbulbs..."
I don't even want to think about what you were doing about the other shortages resulting from that fire.