Besides alot of people will do alot of things for money, if your sister doesn't do what that company wants, I bet there are hundred of other in line behind her for that job.
Another way to put that is: If you make people submit to invasive tests to get a job, you'll ensure that only people who can't get a job elsewhere will work for you.
So yes, you eliminate the bottom 20% of the applicant pool, but you also probably eliminate the top 20%.
And yes, I've turned down jobs because they required a drug test, even though I don't take illegal drugs.
What exactly does having someone's fingerprints gain you in financial security? So Sister embezzles $1m by wiring it to Switzerland... now what? What do those fingerprints get you?
Seems to me it's a great way to weed out good people in favor of people who can't get any other job.
I'm a little surprised that IBM didn't manage to sell them on a new mainframe, or at least on its own clustered solution; or that they didn't ditch IBM completely and go with somebody else (what I'd suspect if somehow someone at IBM had really stepped on the wrong foot).
Indeed. It's a bit of a strange migration. To pick another detail, why are they switching system management software at the same time? The Tivoli software they were using will manage Linux and AIX just as well as it manages mainframes. Throwing an extra software migration in to the mix just adds risk, surely?
My Kubuntu (Edgy) unmounts removable disks when I right click the disk and choose "Put away safely". I don't know what's wrong with yours, but it's not a normal problem.
(It also mounts them automatically when I plug them in, of course.)
((And the same is true of the newer Feisty release I have on another machine.))
Freeway speeds such as 70mph will IN FACT put you into the SUV mpg territory. And that is a single person no load condition. Load 4 passengers and all their gear for a 4 day weekend- and you are in fact at SUV MPG.
Utter horsehit. I drove a Prius from MA to TX, it was almost all freeway driving at 55-70 mph. Not only that, there were two of us in the car, and the back was entirely filled with cargo, seats folded flat. (We were moving.)
Go install the default ATI or Nvidia driver on a recent linux distro then upgrade it to a non open source one from the company. It's like day and night.
It certainly is. When I install the proprietary ATI drivers on my FireGL T2, textures no longer load properly in OpenGL applications and eventually the machine locks up.
Contractors are let go without notice after almost a decade of service.
That's pretty much the point of your being a contractor, from the company's point of view.
Eight years ago, contractors were telling me I was an idiot to be a full time employee, because you could make so much more as a contractor. Well, now that the other aspects of being a contractor are becoming apparent, excuse me for not even playing a small violin.
The one characteristic that I've noticed is consistent across scientologist interviews I've seen is that they all have a creepy boneheadedness when it comes to answering any question, no matter how innocuous it may be. It's as if every moment in life has to be a confirmation of their beliefs.
Doing a Scientology-bashing documentary these days is like criticizing Michael Jackson for being weird. It's not thought-provoking, and it isn't really informing anyone, regardless of how fundamentally true it might be.
I disagree. Even amongst college-educated friends, there are a lot of people who don't know anything about what Scientologists believe, don't know about things like Operation Snow White, and so on.
I think that educating people about all the cults and religions out there is a public service.
I'd put money on Mono infringing significant Microsoft patents, i.e. non-trivial techniques for which there wasn't a huge amount of prior art.
Mono is part of the standard release of the GNOME desktop, and hence a required dependency of the standard releases of Ubuntu and SuSE. In fact, YaST and Xen in SuSE require Mono, so you have to use Microsoft patented techniques to admin your SuSE system effectively.
So I think Microsoft probably have a plausible legal case against Novell and Canonical, for starters.
"I love to go down to the schoolyard and watch all the little children jump up and down and run around yelling and screaming... They don't know I'm only using blanks."
Did you take fire drills serious at school? I didn't. The only way to get us out of the building was to threaten with "extra work" should you still be in the building after 5 Minutes.
I take fire drills seriously, because I've seen graphic footage of how fast an actual fire progresses and how little warning you get. Everything can look perfectly safe, yet you can be 4 minutes from death by asphyxiation.
But hey, go ahead, ignore the alarms, let Darwin's work be done.
It still pisses me off that it's so blurry and indisticint in some games and it makes them much less pleasant [...] Zelda has graphically been a big disappointment and is very murky and instinct in places, it's murky color pallet doesn't help. The gameplay is okay, but it's not always easy to navigate the world or identify potential points of interest because of the low fidelity
You need to get a component video cable.
If you have one, I can only assume that your TV is badly calibrated--did you go through Zelda's calibration screen?
On my HDTV, Zelda is beautiful--even the twilit world, which looks like TRON at sunset. I don't have any trouble spotting (and collecting) insects either.
Lucas was a genius. He made one truly stunning film, THX 1138.
The tragedy is that he's not a brave man. THX 1138 was so hated by Warner Brothers that Lucas and friends literally had to steal it from the screening to stop Warner's from grabbing it and editing it into something they liked. When the movie failed to be a big commercial success, it almost destroyed American Zoetrope, his friends' movie company.
As a result, Lucas became incredibly risk averse and set out to make the most populist movies he could come up with. Hence the warm nostalgia of American Graffiti, followed by the nostalgic "Saturday serial" formula of Star Wars.
What I don't understand is why he's still playing the shameless populist today. Maybe he's just lost that fire.
Last time I checked, Bash was the only POSIX sh replacement that had working Unicode support.
If you know of an alternative, I'd be delighted to hear about it. Otherwise, it seems to me that Bash is the best choice for the standard interactive shell, and should be a standard feature of/bin on any Unix.
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Presumably you're one of the rare free software folk who has no ethical problem with what Microsoft does, then?
Huh? Link speaks? Is this just in the Japanese version or something?
Another way to put that is: If you make people submit to invasive tests to get a job, you'll ensure that only people who can't get a job elsewhere will work for you.
So yes, you eliminate the bottom 20% of the applicant pool, but you also probably eliminate the top 20%.
And yes, I've turned down jobs because they required a drug test, even though I don't take illegal drugs.
What exactly does having someone's fingerprints gain you in financial security? So Sister embezzles $1m by wiring it to Switzerland... now what? What do those fingerprints get you?
Seems to me it's a great way to weed out good people in favor of people who can't get any other job.
Indeed. It's a bit of a strange migration. To pick another detail, why are they switching system management software at the same time? The Tivoli software they were using will manage Linux and AIX just as well as it manages mainframes. Throwing an extra software migration in to the mix just adds risk, surely?
(Opinions mine, not IBM's.)
"Hmm, feces or chocolate? Which shall I choose?"
OpenOffice's presentation module has an outliner. Just FYI.
Of course, there are other outliners for Linux. (Personally I use vim...)
My Kubuntu (Edgy) unmounts removable disks when I right click the disk and choose "Put away safely". I don't know what's wrong with yours, but it's not a normal problem.
(It also mounts them automatically when I plug them in, of course.)
((And the same is true of the newer Feisty release I have on another machine.))
So basically, even if I come up with counterexamples, you'll claim that they ultimately depend on patented technologies.
In other words, you're carefully framing the terms of debate so that you're correct by definition, making your original claim vacuous.
That doesn't help Canonical, or any other distribution that's shipping GNOME and Mono.
Whether it helps SuSE I don't know; I haven't seen the terms of the deal.
Utter horsehit. I drove a Prius from MA to TX, it was almost all freeway driving at 55-70 mph. Not only that, there were two of us in the car, and the back was entirely filled with cargo, seats folded flat. (We were moving.)
We averaged 47mpg.
Take your Detroit astroturf FUD elsewhere.
It certainly is. When I install the proprietary ATI drivers on my FireGL T2, textures no longer load properly in OpenGL applications and eventually the machine locks up.
That's pretty much the point of your being a contractor, from the company's point of view.
Eight years ago, contractors were telling me I was an idiot to be a full time employee, because you could make so much more as a contractor. Well, now that the other aspects of being a contractor are becoming apparent, excuse me for not even playing a small violin.
[Opinions mine, not IBM's.]
Sounds like Randroids too.
I disagree. Even amongst college-educated friends, there are a lot of people who don't know anything about what Scientologists believe, don't know about things like Operation Snow White, and so on.
I think that educating people about all the cults and religions out there is a public service.
Horseshit. Where do you think all those RFCs came from? The lack of patent protection hasn't stopped Ogg Vorbis or Theora, PNG, or SVG.
I'd put money on Mono infringing significant Microsoft patents, i.e. non-trivial techniques for which there wasn't a huge amount of prior art.
Mono is part of the standard release of the GNOME desktop, and hence a required dependency of the standard releases of Ubuntu and SuSE. In fact, YaST and Xen in SuSE require Mono, so you have to use Microsoft patented techniques to admin your SuSE system effectively.
So I think Microsoft probably have a plausible legal case against Novell and Canonical, for starters.
(Opinions mine, most definitely *not* IBM's.)
You mean Microsoft almost started a nuclear war, but by chance some Russian guy prevented it?
Being shot was the smartest thing JFK ever did to boost his reputation.
My guess is that all the copies sitting unpurchased on store shelves are counted as "sales", because Microsoft sold them to the store.
"I love to go down to the schoolyard and watch all the little children jump up and down and run around yelling and screaming... They don't know I'm only using blanks."
Actually, the Mooninite agents have been released, and all charges have been dropped. (Just thought I'd keep you up to date on current events.)
I take fire drills seriously, because I've seen graphic footage of how fast an actual fire progresses and how little warning you get. Everything can look perfectly safe, yet you can be 4 minutes from death by asphyxiation.
But hey, go ahead, ignore the alarms, let Darwin's work be done.
You need to get a component video cable.
If you have one, I can only assume that your TV is badly calibrated--did you go through Zelda's calibration screen?
On my HDTV, Zelda is beautiful--even the twilit world, which looks like TRON at sunset. I don't have any trouble spotting (and collecting) insects either.
Lucas was a genius. He made one truly stunning film, THX 1138.
The tragedy is that he's not a brave man. THX 1138 was so hated by Warner Brothers that Lucas and friends literally had to steal it from the screening to stop Warner's from grabbing it and editing it into something they liked. When the movie failed to be a big commercial success, it almost destroyed American Zoetrope, his friends' movie company.
As a result, Lucas became incredibly risk averse and set out to make the most populist movies he could come up with. Hence the warm nostalgia of American Graffiti, followed by the nostalgic "Saturday serial" formula of Star Wars.
What I don't understand is why he's still playing the shameless populist today. Maybe he's just lost that fire.
Last time I checked, Bash was the only POSIX sh replacement that had working Unicode support.
/bin on any Unix.
If you know of an alternative, I'd be delighted to hear about it. Otherwise, it seems to me that Bash is the best choice for the standard interactive shell, and should be a standard feature of