What about workflow? How do I minimize a window? Can I run my cpu and weather applet on top bar? What about having more than one window open on the desktop? What if I want to see all that running while not leaving my libraoffice out of view or closed? Can I move my cursor over the icons and get a shrunken preview? Windows and gnome 2 had these abilities for years with the exception of the gpu accelerated preview. Windows NT 4 and win95 had these for over 15 years. Even Grandma would be frustrated by the limitations of gnome shell. It is not a resistant to change. It is the worst gui ever made. Even windows 1.0 made it easier to find things. It is so horrible and so unusable that I switched back to Windows and will leave Unix on a VM. If gnome 2 wont be updated it means it will eventually not compile. That makes us angry as we dont want linux to fade away but kde and gnome killed it on the desktop. Thats why there is so much hate
I can replace nacl with IE 6 in your post and mention css box model as a way to optimize w3c standards too. Doesnt mean its ok because its not from Microsoft. Implementing something your own way is evil and proprietary. I did a search and read comments 9 years ago on slashdot and IE 6 was better and supported more standards but things were starting to get monopolized as a result. I seethis and Googles cloud ecosystem as no different than MS. I dont like it
IE 6 was a great browser in 2001 regardless of its security shortcomings found years later. Everyone on slashdot back then admitted to using it but were scared and assumed the WWW would die soon because of it. Everyone seems to be oblivious that Google is another evil big corporation no different than Microsoft. Actually synergy is behind Google now, like it was with MS a decade ago.
Dart is chrome only, the javascript libraries are Chrome only or particulary run much better on Chrome (google ones like V8), this and many other proprietary HTML 5 code like that site with the band a few months ago that only work in Chrome. This game will use HTML 5 but has other proprietary hooks to make sure it wont run in any browser.
Google is making it clear they look at the browser as an operating system. At least Microsoft today is running away from ActiveX and trying to do good with IE 10 which will be the most open and standards compliant browser to date. Firefox is dying and is losing popularity. In a year or two from now it will be a IE vs Chrome world.
Anyone else bugged or am I just paranoid? I just want a great browser and not a simple fast one, but with the real goodies underneath it that are dependent on Chrome.
You are right a few comments back up. Your wage is $12 an hour if that was shaquel's in India is willing to work for. You can't compete with cost alone and if that is all employers look at then you move in with your parents and try to figure out how to pay for your student loans when that is all there is.
If I only had a $100,000 budget and needed 3 programmers I would set these wages too. Accountants see this and drool and sigh... I do not need to go further. It is our culture.
I am trying to leave I.T. by starting a business. I do not know if I have the drive or not to see it through but as I see it the only way to get money is hiring these programmers and support contractors yourself and sell your solution to others, or specialize in something like the medical field or marketing where image is everything and a guy who barely speaks english wont cut it. I saw ads on Craigslist where they wanted a contractor for Phostoshop and Dreamweaver work and MUST HAVE OWN LICENSED versions for $9.00/hr! Do these guys know much these packages cost for someone working for so very low?
I do agree witht he assholish part of me that people need to work harder and employers have a right to do constant checks because people at home work even less than the office, but you have to look after yourself as your boss clearly does not. I hope my business suceeds and I make it with my product if I ever get it working. I do not see a way out otherwise sadly unless you already got the 8 years experience. JR programmers from India will just come here when mid level work is needed sadly
Not the jobs I worked at. I was paid by the hour. One of them did try not to pay me overtime. I did not complain but another contractor did and ended up getting us fired.:-)... but that is a whole other story. Every ad in my area for IT work is all contract 1040 and pays by the hour and you are treated like an employee but with no benefits. With over 10% unemployment in my area you have to do it. Infact, everyone where I am at does this for at least 90 days. Sucks for the contractors but it is a big win for employers.
I am curious where you got that idea with the IRS. I surely was always paid by the hour except for one job.
YOu can't just take over a drone and land it that way on a whim if someone invaded your air space. This was deliberate and very well planned. My hunch is the drone controller in California... remember the one with malware/rootkit on it that hit the news as no one could remove it... ahem... might have been planted by the Iranians and when it was shipped to Pakistan the Iranians waited until it close enough to take it over and rooted into it.
Never mind the US has a good probability of having a repeat of 2008 thanks to irresponsible spending from wars and a bloated military budget and the fact we funded Libya, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
Would do you suggest? Bombing a foreign country? Yeah I am sure there will not be any repurcussions or a call for sanctions agaisnt the US from all muslim countries, Russia, China, and Syria. If anything the people will rally in support of the nuclear bomb and view it neccessary to anhiliate Israel and bomb US cities before they bomb us, etc.
It is not that simple and besides even if you do bomb it enough material from the skin will still give the Iranians knowledge of how it works and how to amke their own stealth nuclear missles anyway.
Remember a month ago it hit the news that the drone testing facility in California had a virus and malware that the government couldn't remove? Programs were loaded from thumb drives?
So if Israel or the US can make Stuxnet to infliltrate their nuclear facilities what makes you think the Iranians didn't do the same with US technology and reverse the protocol? Or simply they infected the drones computer with a rootkit and as soon as the computer heard a signal it disabled the US's subroutines in it and turned them into zombies.
My guess is the Iranians/Russians were responsible and simply remoted into the aircrafts computer and landed it in Iran. This is troubling as Israel and the US would surely use these drones before the attack on Iran's nuclear facilities begen very soon.
I do not work minimum wage anymore thank you with the exception of a 2nd job last year to help my family out. Why cant people work hard all the time until exhaustion? Many do but statistics dont lie. Investors need you to work full capacity like you did at UPS. I stand by my words as companies productivity actually went UP after layoffs when told do more for less. The employees were goofing or not working super hard.
Mcdonalds they sure do and in factories and call centers. Tough work and your getting paid 4x as much so why not? Someone out of work will be happy to if you wont. Thats capitalism
You mean not a printed pic of the goatse guy? I think one incident of that would change official policy ASAP. Sexual harassment suits galore scare employers more than anything
Because most people are thieves. People on average work only 60% of the time. Water cooler chat, lunch, texting, web browsing, stretching, add up. This recession is focusing on less producing more and the fact its working shows people were not as committed.
I had shitty minimum wage jobs where I had to clock in before if your getting paid many times more why cant you? Its not fair to the entry level grunts at your company or client
OpenDNS does have an appeal. However it is such a high target for malware writters. If you can poison it you get tons of bussiness andeCommerce bank logins who go out of there way to use openDNS for security. I am nervous switching to it. Especially after CA keeo getting hacked into
Except in the US businessmen are cheap and have more interest in cutting costs than following safety rules. Fukashima had the same attitude of costs and could have avoided the meltdown. I would feel better if governments ran them rather than for profit deregulated corporations who have brainwashed the populace that anything else is evil socialism.
That is standard GAAP reporting. Accountants could lose their CPA if they reclassified it otherwise. Accountants just follow rules and do not think. These guys are the ones who run the companies and Wall Street hedge funds who determine if the CEO gets his bonus or gets canned.
I have just a Bachelors in Business Administration, but I have to tell you I worked my damn ass off. The MBA program at my school is even tougher with the finance final 8 hours long all essay with 100 questions with a 1-2 page answer for each one! That is crazy.
You may disagree with me and AK Marc's assesment on focusing on share prices and cutting I.T. because accounting labels it a cost center rather than an investment/asset, but it is valuable knowledge because the shareholders do look at that. Infact, that is all they look at if you work for a publically traded company. That my friend is a view of reality.
Not eveyone thinks so shallow but you are required by law at any public company. I just explain it as it is and MBA's are valuable for business people that teach you a lot. Before you smirk on how they should start all businesses I have to say if you have a family that is selfish. Same is true if you owe student loans or need a steady paycheck as 80% of businesses fail within 2 years. MBA is the next step where you do not want to go that far until the kids have moved out and you have more savings to use for co-lateral for small business loans.
Want to earn more than go work and better yourself.
Court cases determined that it is indeed the fidiciary duty of every CEO to raise the stock price as its only job it needs to focus on. You can disagree all you want but this is why we outsource and why it makes sense to put money for sales by cutting I.T. Anyone who invests wants it to be like real estate where they put in $100,000 and sell it for $150,000 6 months later for $50,000 profit.
That is the name of the game.
What I said about a company's sole job I really meant it which came from a CFO who teaches accounting and finance in college. It was important to just look at the ratios and utilizing the right debt and having the right expenses and assets on hand. Do that they will go far. If they make money but mess that up they need to be fired. It was taught the very first day of class sadly.
Do not like it? Then go work for a private company or small business. The CEO frankly could care less about you or how you want to increase productivity with money. He wants his bonus and so do the shareholders who are the true owners of the corporation.
Those reports are what determines your company's stock price. It is not money why a public company exists. That is a private compay's job. Public companies exist soley to raise their stock price any means necessary by utilizing creative financial ratios. CEOs get their raises or get fired by them.
Home Depot fired their rockstar CEO who increased profits by 30%. Why? Shareprice didn't move because the financial spreadsheets were not in Wall Streets liking. These shareholders and not the customer is what pays your salary.
I wrote the post about value but I do understand software can save money and increase efficiency. But accountants consider them cost centers and that is the problem rather than investments. SIgh
The GAAP accounting rules is what is hurting I.T. If you want to say BS then join a private company seriously. Apple and Goolge are the only ones who give a finger to Wall Street and focus on profit but they have the massive cash reserves to do so while most other businesses do not.
BOA and Chase all use 40 year old software running in 3 emulators. They refuse to upgrade as it adds no shareholder value and aren utilizing them just fine.
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Wake me up when gnome 3 can do the ultimate task of minizing a window from 1984 gui era mac and windows 1.0
... And gnome3 is 2girls1cup. To top it off, your asked which you would prefer to wack off too?
Personally nothing would be the best seeing all of that. Seriously!
What about workflow? How do I minimize a window? Can I run my cpu and weather applet on top bar? What about having more than one window open on the desktop? What if I want to see all that running while not leaving my libraoffice out of view or closed? Can I move my cursor over the icons and get a shrunken preview? Windows and gnome 2 had these abilities for years with the exception of the gpu accelerated preview. Windows NT 4 and win95 had these for over 15 years. Even Grandma would be frustrated by the limitations of gnome shell. It is not a resistant to change. It is the worst gui ever made. Even windows 1.0 made it easier to find things. It is so horrible and so unusable that I switched back to Windows and will leave Unix on a VM. If gnome 2 wont be updated it means it will eventually not compile. That makes us angry as we dont want linux to fade away but kde and gnome killed it on the desktop. Thats why there is so much hate
I can replace nacl with IE 6 in your post and mention css box model as a way to optimize w3c standards too. Doesnt mean its ok because its not from Microsoft. Implementing something your own way is evil and proprietary. I did a search and read comments 9 years ago on slashdot and IE 6 was better and supported more standards but things were starting to get monopolized as a result. I seethis and Googles cloud ecosystem as no different than MS. I dont like it
I am a little uneasy of making a web browser a proprietary platform. PcMag had an article about Chrome being the next IE 6 of the browser wars 2.0.
IE 6 was a great browser in 2001 regardless of its security shortcomings found years later. Everyone on slashdot back then admitted to using it but were scared and assumed the WWW would die soon because of it. Everyone seems to be oblivious that Google is another evil big corporation no different than Microsoft. Actually synergy is behind Google now, like it was with MS a decade ago.
Dart is chrome only, the javascript libraries are Chrome only or particulary run much better on Chrome (google ones like V8), this and many other proprietary HTML 5 code like that site with the band a few months ago that only work in Chrome. This game will use HTML 5 but has other proprietary hooks to make sure it wont run in any browser.
Google is making it clear they look at the browser as an operating system. At least Microsoft today is running away from ActiveX and trying to do good with IE 10 which will be the most open and standards compliant browser to date. Firefox is dying and is losing popularity. In a year or two from now it will be a IE vs Chrome world.
Anyone else bugged or am I just paranoid? I just want a great browser and not a simple fast one, but with the real goodies underneath it that are dependent on Chrome.
You are right a few comments back up. Your wage is $12 an hour if that was shaquel's in India is willing to work for. You can't compete with cost alone and if that is all employers look at then you move in with your parents and try to figure out how to pay for your student loans when that is all there is.
If I only had a $100,000 budget and needed 3 programmers I would set these wages too. Accountants see this and drool and sigh ... I do not need to go further. It is our culture.
I am trying to leave I.T. by starting a business. I do not know if I have the drive or not to see it through but as I see it the only way to get money is hiring these programmers and support contractors yourself and sell your solution to others, or specialize in something like the medical field or marketing where image is everything and a guy who barely speaks english wont cut it. I saw ads on Craigslist where they wanted a contractor for Phostoshop and Dreamweaver work and MUST HAVE OWN LICENSED versions for $9.00/hr! Do these guys know much these packages cost for someone working for so very low?
I do agree witht he assholish part of me that people need to work harder and employers have a right to do constant checks because people at home work even less than the office, but you have to look after yourself as your boss clearly does not. I hope my business suceeds and I make it with my product if I ever get it working. I do not see a way out otherwise sadly unless you already got the 8 years experience. JR programmers from India will just come here when mid level work is needed sadly
Not the jobs I worked at. I was paid by the hour. One of them did try not to pay me overtime. I did not complain but another contractor did and ended up getting us fired. :-) ... but that is a whole other story. Every ad in my area for IT work is all contract 1040 and pays by the hour and you are treated like an employee but with no benefits. With over 10% unemployment in my area you have to do it. Infact, everyone where I am at does this for at least 90 days. Sucks for the contractors but it is a big win for employers.
I am curious where you got that idea with the IRS. I surely was always paid by the hour except for one job.
YOu can't just take over a drone and land it that way on a whim if someone invaded your air space. This was deliberate and very well planned. My hunch is the drone controller in California ... remember the one with malware/rootkit on it that hit the news as no one could remove it ... ahem ... might have been planted by the Iranians and when it was shipped to Pakistan the Iranians waited until it close enough to take it over and rooted into it.
Yeah such a pussy.
Never mind the US has a good probability of having a repeat of 2008 thanks to irresponsible spending from wars and a bloated military budget and the fact we funded Libya, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
Would do you suggest? Bombing a foreign country? Yeah I am sure there will not be any repurcussions or a call for sanctions agaisnt the US from all muslim countries, Russia, China, and Syria. If anything the people will rally in support of the nuclear bomb and view it neccessary to anhiliate Israel and bomb US cities before they bomb us, etc.
It is not that simple and besides even if you do bomb it enough material from the skin will still give the Iranians knowledge of how it works and how to amke their own stealth nuclear missles anyway.
Remember a month ago it hit the news that the drone testing facility in California had a virus and malware that the government couldn't remove? Programs were loaded from thumb drives?
So if Israel or the US can make Stuxnet to infliltrate their nuclear facilities what makes you think the Iranians didn't do the same with US technology and reverse the protocol? Or simply they infected the drones computer with a rootkit and as soon as the computer heard a signal it disabled the US's subroutines in it and turned them into zombies.
My guess is the Iranians/Russians were responsible and simply remoted into the aircrafts computer and landed it in Iran. This is troubling as Israel and the US would surely use these drones before the attack on Iran's nuclear facilities begen very soon.
If one is paying by the hour he or she sure as well can dictate how it is being used whether it is a contract or not.
I do not work minimum wage anymore thank you with the exception of a 2nd job last year to help my family out. Why cant people work hard all the time until exhaustion? Many do but statistics dont lie. Investors need you to work full capacity like you did at UPS. I stand by my words as companies productivity actually went UP after layoffs when told do more for less. The employees were goofing or not working super hard.
Mcdonalds they sure do and in factories and call centers. Tough work and your getting paid 4x as much so why not? Someone out of work will be happy to if you wont. Thats capitalism
You mean not a printed pic of the goatse guy? I think one incident of that would change official policy ASAP. Sexual harassment suits galore scare employers more than anything
Because most people are thieves. People on average work only 60% of the time. Water cooler chat, lunch, texting, web browsing, stretching, add up. This recession is focusing on less producing more and the fact its working shows people were not as committed.
I had shitty minimum wage jobs where I had to clock in before if your getting paid many times more why cant you? Its not fair to the entry level grunts at your company or client
Even not by the hour it is still theft. If you are capable of Y per week but produce y.7 that is a 30% loss times your salary.
But the employer has a right to know he is not flushing money down the toilet in paying you not to work and stealing his time away.
He owns the equipment and has a right to do whatever he wants with it.
Suck it up or dont work. If you were paying out of pocket your opinion would change drastically. It is no different than a work pc anyway.
OpenDNS does have an appeal. However it is such a high target for malware writters. If you can poison it you get tons of bussiness andeCommerce bank logins who go out of there way to use openDNS for security. I am nervous switching to it. Especially after CA keeo getting hacked into
Except in the US businessmen are cheap and have more interest in cutting costs than following safety rules. Fukashima had the same attitude of costs and could have avoided the meltdown. I would feel better if governments ran them rather than for profit deregulated corporations who have brainwashed the populace that anything else is evil socialism.
Since shareholders do not pay anyting, you better damn well increase the shareprice so they can profit. That is why they buy them in the first place
That is standard GAAP reporting. Accountants could lose their CPA if they reclassified it otherwise. Accountants just follow rules and do not think. These guys are the ones who run the companies and Wall Street hedge funds who determine if the CEO gets his bonus or gets canned.
I have just a Bachelors in Business Administration, but I have to tell you I worked my damn ass off. The MBA program at my school is even tougher with the finance final 8 hours long all essay with 100 questions with a 1-2 page answer for each one! That is crazy.
You may disagree with me and AK Marc's assesment on focusing on share prices and cutting I.T. because accounting labels it a cost center rather than an investment/asset, but it is valuable knowledge because the shareholders do look at that. Infact, that is all they look at if you work for a publically traded company. That my friend is a view of reality.
Not eveyone thinks so shallow but you are required by law at any public company. I just explain it as it is and MBA's are valuable for business people that teach you a lot. Before you smirk on how they should start all businesses I have to say if you have a family that is selfish. Same is true if you owe student loans or need a steady paycheck as 80% of businesses fail within 2 years. MBA is the next step where you do not want to go that far until the kids have moved out and you have more savings to use for co-lateral for small business loans.
Want to earn more than go work and better yourself.
Court cases determined that it is indeed the fidiciary duty of every CEO to raise the stock price as its only job it needs to focus on. You can disagree all you want but this is why we outsource and why it makes sense to put money for sales by cutting I.T. Anyone who invests wants it to be like real estate where they put in $100,000 and sell it for $150,000 6 months later for $50,000 profit.
That is the name of the game.
What I said about a company's sole job I really meant it which came from a CFO who teaches accounting and finance in college. It was important to just look at the ratios and utilizing the right debt and having the right expenses and assets on hand. Do that they will go far. If they make money but mess that up they need to be fired. It was taught the very first day of class sadly.
Do not like it? Then go work for a private company or small business. The CEO frankly could care less about you or how you want to increase productivity with money. He wants his bonus and so do the shareholders who are the true owners of the corporation.
Those reports are what determines your company's stock price. It is not money why a public company exists. That is a private compay's job. Public companies exist soley to raise their stock price any means necessary by utilizing creative financial ratios. CEOs get their raises or get fired by them.
Home Depot fired their rockstar CEO who increased profits by 30%. Why? Shareprice didn't move because the financial spreadsheets were not in Wall Streets liking. These shareholders and not the customer is what pays your salary.
I wrote the post about value but I do understand software can save money and increase efficiency. But accountants consider them cost centers and that is the problem rather than investments. SIgh
The GAAP accounting rules is what is hurting I.T. If you want to say BS then join a private company seriously. Apple and Goolge are the only ones who give a finger to Wall Street and focus on profit but they have the massive cash reserves to do so while most other businesses do not.
BOA and Chase all use 40 year old software running in 3 emulators. They refuse to upgrade as it adds no shareholder value and aren utilizing them just fine.