I got that when I worked in a supplemental staffing contractor shop a number of years ago, even though I myself was on salary with them. All time worked went toward your general "time bank", normal hours at a 1/8 rate and overtime at a 1/1 rate. This was possible because they were already billing me for every hour I worked for the customer, anyway.
For instance, working 60 hour weeks for 8 weeks would have netted
The logo of Heinlein's Space Patrol was three circles, representing Peace, Law, and Freedom. They were interlinked so that if any one were removed the other two would fall apart.
So when a War on Terrorism occurs, Peace fails and Freedom and Law fall apart? Sounds about right.
As a USER of email, I find the need to maintain a white-list simply because spammers are fucking assholes is UNACCEPTABLE.
It's unfortunate, but part of life is figuring out how to get along while dealing with those who deliberately or carelessly waste your time. Taking an idealist stance on this is only likely to stress you out unnecessarily, as the ones who waste your time simply DON'T CARE how you feel about it.
Do you consider yourself above average intelligence? If you are, that means that by definition most (i.e. more than half) of the people you meet are dumber than you.
Installing certain AVI codecs on my laptop gave Windows XP hissy-fits. It would bluescreen whenever I tried to play videos encoded with those.
However, it would pause, create a dump, and THEN reboot, not just instantly reboot.
Upon rebooting and logging in, it would prompt me to submit the dump to Microsoft for debugging. Uninstalling those codecs (actually, rolling back to a previous save point) fixed the problem.
Space was never any different than all the other areas that man has adapted to -- sooner or later it was always going to be used to fight wars.
It is different in the sense that a hostile nation could send WMDs to within 150 miles of the target in LEO. It makes it a lot more difficult to defend against.
However, since it would be so much easier and cheaper to put a dirty mini-nuke in a cargo box in the bowels of one of the immense cargo ships that come to the US on a regular basis, I'm curious why the focus on orbital and ballistic missile defense...
The only Moria I've run across was a 2-D non-graphical overhead view. That Moria was created in the early 1980s, loosly based on Rogue. Is that at all similar to the one you're describing?
Everyone else has already pointed this out, but I thought I'd throw in my $0.02 and rephrase it.
The RIAA and MPAA cannot tell the difference between whether Joe Shmoe violated a copyright and kept an illicit copy of one of their works or not.
The only difference is whether, by doing this, Joe may change whether he would buy that work later in the future. If he would or wouldn't either way, it affects their bottom line exactly not at all.
However, if it changes his mind, there are two options:
He buys something he wouldn't have bought before. This is GOOD for the RIAA and MPAA.
He doesn't buy something he would have bought and then shelved because he didn't like it.
Therefore, the only reasons the RIAA and MPAA could possibly be railing against this is if
they believe (or want YOU to believe) the fallacy about "stealing" their works, or
they want to prevent people from making informed decisions and consequently not buying their crap.
Cingular/ATTWS haven't used a non-850MHz phone for a long time.
Er, huh? My AT&T Wireless GSM phone (Nokia 6800) supposedly only works on the 900/1800 MHz frequencies. I daily use both ATTWS/Cingular and T-Mobile GSM towers.
The actual information is stored on the backside of the substrate at the TOP of the disk, and even a shallow scratch through that will destroy data.
Since most everyone tries to protect the bottom and doesn't care about the top, you can guess which side gets scratched most of the time. (This is similar to the Dropped Buttered Bread effect.)
Using the usual motivators for animals in our experience (including human beings): pleasure and pain. Map meeting goals to pleasure reinforcement, missing goals to discomfort, and damage to the aircraft or its cargo to pain.
I bet I could find more information on Clinton...particularly in his second term.
Does this excuse the current President's behavior, comparing him to his predecessor? Surely we have higher standards than that for our Commander-in-Chief.
Flow control seems to belong on the network rather than in the stack.
TCP is very valuable for network streams that need a byte-by-byte reliable FIFO. It's just a poor choice for streams that can tolerate lost packets or very large transmissions where lost packets in the short term aren't important.
And that only works within the TCP window size. For discretely-sized data transfers on the order of megabytes and gigabytes, delaying transfer of one TCP window (on the order of dozens of kilobytes) is not the best way to get maximum throughput.
I've never seen a room-full of drooling programmers whose job was to fill in the blanks after the software engineers spec'd it all out for them.
While I've not seen actual hires doing this, I've seen consultants/contractors hired to do programming to a well-designed specification.
In one case, the contractor couldn't produce what the spec called for to save his life. It wasn't apparently due to any specific, well-thought-out objection with the design, at least none he could articulate. He just thought he could come up with something better. He produced a steaming pile of crap. It wasn't even molded to look like what we asked for, it was just a round, steaming pile. Amazingly enough, he got paid for this and moved on to this next gig. (Granted, it may have been damage control, as he had already been paid and getting it back would have been very expensive.)
I wonder how many companies who are outsourcing to cheap overseas firms are getting burned and laying off the technical people who could have actually done the work properly the first time, albeit for more money?
Did the problem make it to customers, though? You'd think that low-battery conditions would have been tested by their QA department, since that's a very common failure mode for battery-powered equipment.
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Is this even legal to let people work for 12 hours every day ??
After all, the poor employees are shackled to their desks and not allowed to leave.
Especially paid overtime -- who gets that?
Many contractors and consultants.
I got that when I worked in a supplemental staffing contractor shop a number of years ago, even though I myself was on salary with them. All time worked went toward your general "time bank", normal hours at a 1/8 rate and overtime at a 1/1 rate. This was possible because they were already billing me for every hour I worked for the customer, anyway.
For instance, working 60 hour weeks for 8 weeks would have netted
8 * ( 40/8 + 20 ) = 40 + 160 = 200 hours = 25 days
of time off. I could use that for vacation or even cash it out at an hourly rate equivalent to my salary.
Of course, even though they allegedly had a "bench" for those not working, the first time I was going to land there, they laid me off.
The logo of Heinlein's Space Patrol was three circles, representing Peace, Law, and Freedom. They were interlinked so that if any one were removed the other two would fall apart.
So when a War on Terrorism occurs, Peace fails and Freedom and Law fall apart? Sounds about right.
As a USER of email, I find the need to maintain a white-list simply because spammers are fucking assholes is UNACCEPTABLE.
It's unfortunate, but part of life is figuring out how to get along while dealing with those who deliberately or carelessly waste your time. Taking an idealist stance on this is only likely to stress you out unnecessarily, as the ones who waste your time simply DON'T CARE how you feel about it.
Do you consider yourself above average intelligence? If you are, that means that by definition most (i.e. more than half) of the people you meet are dumber than you.
I think you're mistaking mean for median.
Installing certain AVI codecs on my laptop gave Windows XP hissy-fits. It would bluescreen whenever I tried to play videos encoded with those.
However, it would pause, create a dump, and THEN reboot, not just instantly reboot.
Upon rebooting and logging in, it would prompt me to submit the dump to Microsoft for debugging. Uninstalling those codecs (actually, rolling back to a previous save point) fixed the problem.
Space was never any different than all the other areas that man has adapted to -- sooner or later it was always going to be used to fight wars.
It is different in the sense that a hostile nation could send WMDs to within 150 miles of the target in LEO. It makes it a lot more difficult to defend against.
However, since it would be so much easier and cheaper to put a dirty mini-nuke in a cargo box in the bowels of one of the immense cargo ships that come to the US on a regular basis, I'm curious why the focus on orbital and ballistic missile defense...
The only Moria I've run across was a 2-D non-graphical overhead view. That Moria was created in the early 1980s, loosly based on Rogue. Is that at all similar to the one you're describing?
The RIAA and MPAA cannot tell the difference between whether Joe Shmoe violated a copyright and kept an illicit copy of one of their works or not.
The only difference is whether, by doing this, Joe may change whether he would buy that work later in the future. If he would or wouldn't either way, it affects their bottom line exactly not at all.
However, if it changes his mind, there are two options:
- He buys something he wouldn't have bought before. This is GOOD for the RIAA and MPAA.
- He doesn't buy something he would have bought and then shelved because he didn't like it.
Therefore, the only reasons the RIAA and MPAA could possibly be railing against this is ifCingular/ATTWS haven't used a non-850MHz phone for a long time.
Er, huh? My AT&T Wireless GSM phone (Nokia 6800) supposedly only works on the 900/1800 MHz frequencies. I daily use both ATTWS/Cingular and T-Mobile GSM towers.
Some people have different ideas what morality is.
To me,
- imprisoning people for years without legal representation or trial--expressly forbidden by the United States Constitution, by the way--and
- invading a sovereign nation on false pretenses, killing over a hundred thousand people
do NOT seem like moral acts to me, at least not on the scale of two people of the same sex deciding to get hitched.I disagree. I truly believe members of each party want to help out the "common man".
Unfortunately, they cannot agree on who the "common man" is.
http://www.azom.com/news.asp?newsID=917
(too lazy to use html)
Too lazy to type <URL:url> around your URL?
If you want to find new failure modes, just give something to a toddler...
Depending on the child, this doesn't stop when they get past "toddler".
The actual information is stored on the backside of the substrate at the TOP of the disk, and even a shallow scratch through that will destroy data.
Since most everyone tries to protect the bottom and doesn't care about the top, you can guess which side gets scratched most of the time. (This is similar to the Dropped Buttered Bread effect.)
Using the usual motivators for animals in our experience (including human beings): pleasure and pain. Map meeting goals to pleasure reinforcement, missing goals to discomfort, and damage to the aircraft or its cargo to pain.
...and to repartition it, you had to find yourself a volcano.
I bet I could find more information on Clinton...particularly in his second term.
Does this excuse the current President's behavior, comparing him to his predecessor? Surely we have higher standards than that for our Commander-in-Chief.
It's still funny--you just have to change the punchline to "The love of money is the root of all women."
Not derivable from those equations, but perhaps just as insightful, "The love of women is the root of all money."
Flow control seems to belong on the network rather than in the stack.
TCP is very valuable for network streams that need a byte-by-byte reliable FIFO. It's just a poor choice for streams that can tolerate lost packets or very large transmissions where lost packets in the short term aren't important.
That's what selective ack is for.
And that only works within the TCP window size. For discretely-sized data transfers on the order of megabytes and gigabytes, delaying transfer of one TCP window (on the order of dozens of kilobytes) is not the best way to get maximum throughput.
The death of the net has been a frequent cry over the past couple decades.
I've never seen a room-full of drooling programmers whose job was to fill in the blanks after the software engineers spec'd it all out for them.
While I've not seen actual hires doing this, I've seen consultants/contractors hired to do programming to a well-designed specification.
In one case, the contractor couldn't produce what the spec called for to save his life. It wasn't apparently due to any specific, well-thought-out objection with the design, at least none he could articulate. He just thought he could come up with something better. He produced a steaming pile of crap. It wasn't even molded to look like what we asked for, it was just a round, steaming pile. Amazingly enough, he got paid for this and moved on to this next gig. (Granted, it may have been damage control, as he had already been paid and getting it back would have been very expensive.)
I wonder how many companies who are outsourcing to cheap overseas firms are getting burned and laying off the technical people who could have actually done the work properly the first time, albeit for more money?
I don't see how this is "Flamebait", unless a knee-jerk moderator happened along.
Oh, wait, this is Slashdot. Never mind...
Did the problem make it to customers, though? You'd think that low-battery conditions would have been tested by their QA department, since that's a very common failure mode for battery-powered equipment.