Besides, as a parent I can honestly say that I'd rather have my child die in a space-shuttle tragedy than by getting shot in the head because he was beating a dog with the butt of a loaded shotgun. We all die. It's how stupid the death is, rather than how tragic that is important.
Not that simple of a fix. Won't work correctly when it's supposed to be used to delineate a query-string. PHP and most cgi's will allow you to use a ; though.
When it comes to employment, there are no wrong decisions, because you can never know for sure what might happen. It's not worth kicking yourself over if you turn out to be wrong.
That said, BAIL OUT NOW! I was in the same type of position a while ago, and I stayed around because of the people I worked with (not for). When the company finally did go under, I was out of work for a month. If the company morale is low, it will fail. Morale is the single most important thing in keeping a company afloat. And low morale means everyone knows the inevitable is coming.
Uhg...too early...must have caffeine. Upon a second read I realize that a) that bits is with a lower-case b and b) I connect at 1.5Mb/s, not 100Mb/s.:-(
Bah! I connect at 150MB/s, and I only pay $40 per month. Ok,ok, so it's a cable modem, but I really do see that much bandwidth as a rule, so who cares?
First of all, the company needs to pay people to stay. Just have them take a look at what other companies in the area are paying for similar positions, and give your employees more than that (whether through base salary or other benefits). If you do this, than it is acceptable to ask them to sign a contract of a year or so in return for the training.
Having senators popularly elected is one of the most stupid amendments ever to be applied to our constitution. The senate's original purpose was to protect states' interests in the federal government, not to cater to the current popular whims of the masses (and more to the point -- special interests). The latter is the purpose of the House of Representatives.
It was an important part of our constitutions "checks and balances" system that this country did away with on the premise of eliminating railroad corruption.
The purpose of life is to either become or create your successor. Throughout Earth's history, species have done the former through a process called evolution. Now, humanity is on the verge of becoming the first species on Earth to create our successor -- the inteligent computer.
It may not turn out the way many science-fiction stories depict it, however. It could be that the computers (recognizing humans as their creators) think of us the way many humans think of God -- our creator.
Then again, since we never see God, maybe the computers would eventually never see us...
Which is why you only short on overvalued stocks that are going to fall steeply in a short amount of time. If you know what you're doing, it can make you a shitload of money in a short amount of time.
How does this guy figure that just because you are using NAT you can't accept incoming connections? I had DSL for about a year before switching to higher speed cable. I used a Cisco 675 DSL modem just like the author's. The DSL provider used NAT, so my computer was assigned a 10.x.x.x address via DHCP that was translated to a real-world address before it left their network.
With that setup I was able to:
Share files via Napster
Run a web server
Run an IRC server
Run a DNS server
and do pretty much anything I could with a regular connection with the exception of Samba.
I'm not saying that there wasn't something preventing these services from working for him. I'm just saying that whatever it was, it wasn't NAT.
If text were really the best way to get information across, the "big-bucks" behind web marketing would have kept the web in that form. Advertisers aren't stupid. Those flashy images are there to present a message, and they work. Just because it's a commercial message that you didn't particularly want doesn't mean that it's not an effective form of communication.
If there were to be some revolution that took us back to a completely text-based protocol, don't for one second think that commercial interests wouldn't bastardize it for their own purposes as well.
If there was an IE for Linux, I would be in heaven. I can't stand Netscape. At a job I used to work at, one of my colleagues and I were constantly bantering over which browser was better. He preffered Netscape saying that it was more stable. Yeah right. I'd say if I looked through my.bash_history file, 70% of it is probably "killall -9 netscape-navigator".
Half the pages on the Internet that use javascript cause Netscape to stop working, it doesn't fully support CSS, and nested tables can cause it to render pages in some 'unexpected' ways. The only reason I have a machine running Windows is for MS's browser. Web browsing is literally the only thing I do on that machine, as it is the only activity that I haven't been able to satisfactorily migrate to Linux. (Well, OK...That and MechWarrior 3!)
I remember saying they should do it this way about three months ago. But if they are going to charge a flat subscription fee, they had better insure that I will be able to find any song I've ever wanted on the service.
I stopped reading the article after about the third time he stated that the US is supposed to be a "democracy". We live in a Constitutional Republic, not a democracy. If you don't have enough political knowledge to get that right, the rest of your statements are invalid to me.
Unfortunately, minors also can't own property. Doesn't matter if he bought it, it's yours. It is also your responsibilty to know about that license agreement on your property whether you physicly clicked on the agreement or not. Nice try though.
This bank is 100% online. Their transactions are all real time (online transactions post with zero time delay), and their interest rates are outstandidng. At one time they had an incompatibility with linux (when they were first starting out) but they fixed this with a pretty good response time. Another important issue -- their customer service is excellent. http://www.firstib.com
"I can't understand how an OS, other than Linux (or other free OS) could just sneak in. OSes cost money, someone has to approve the investment. Surely workers don't pay for the software
they need to use at the job themselves? And not paying would be piracy. So there."
And no one would ever think of commiting software piracy, right? Ugh...
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Besides, as a parent I can honestly say that I'd rather have my child die in a space-shuttle tragedy than by getting shot in the head because he was beating a dog with the butt of a loaded shotgun. We all die. It's how stupid the death is, rather than how tragic that is important.
Not that simple of a fix. Won't work correctly when it's supposed to be used to delineate a query-string. PHP and most cgi's will allow you to use a ; though.
Just keep this in mind -- if you only read/listen to people you agree with, you're already as wise as you'll ever be.
Napster Forever! RIAA Never!
Just so long as NASA doesn't get involved. It's probably not a good time to be rounding pi off to 3.
When it comes to employment, there are no wrong decisions, because you can never know for sure what might happen. It's not worth kicking yourself over if you turn out to be wrong.
That said, BAIL OUT NOW! I was in the same type of position a while ago, and I stayed around because of the people I worked with (not for). When the company finally did go under, I was out of work for a month. If the company morale is low, it will fail. Morale is the single most important thing in keeping a company afloat. And low morale means everyone knows the inevitable is coming.
Because the only way Netcrap can become the superior browser is if IE were to no longer exist.
Uhg...too early...must have caffeine. Upon a second read I realize that a) that bits is with a lower-case b and b) I connect at 1.5Mb/s, not 100Mb/s. :-(
Bah! I connect at 150MB/s, and I only pay $40 per month. Ok,ok, so it's a cable modem, but I really do see that much bandwidth as a rule, so who cares?
First of all, the company needs to pay people to stay. Just have them take a look at what other companies in the area are paying for similar positions, and give your employees more than that (whether through base salary or other benefits). If you do this, than it is acceptable to ask them to sign a contract of a year or so in return for the training.
Yeah, well, their techs are probably all just MCSE's ;). Get 'em some CCIE's and they'll turn things around.
<note>This wasn't seriously meant to offend any of you MCSE's out there.</note>
Having senators popularly elected is one of the most stupid amendments ever to be applied to our constitution. The senate's original purpose was to protect states' interests in the federal government, not to cater to the current popular whims of the masses (and more to the point -- special interests). The latter is the purpose of the House of Representatives.
It was an important part of our constitutions "checks and balances" system that this country did away with on the premise of eliminating railroad corruption.
The purpose of life is to either become or create your successor. Throughout Earth's history, species have done the former through a process called evolution. Now, humanity is on the verge of becoming the first species on Earth to create our successor -- the inteligent computer.
It may not turn out the way many science-fiction stories depict it, however. It could be that the computers (recognizing humans as their creators) think of us the way many humans think of God -- our creator.
Then again, since we never see God, maybe the computers would eventually never see us...
Which is why you only short on overvalued stocks that are going to fall steeply in a short amount of time. If you know what you're doing, it can make you a shitload of money in a short amount of time.
How does this guy figure that just because you are using NAT you can't accept incoming connections? I had DSL for about a year before switching to higher speed cable. I used a Cisco 675 DSL modem just like the author's. The DSL provider used NAT, so my computer was assigned a 10.x.x.x address via DHCP that was translated to a real-world address before it left their network.
With that setup I was able to:
- Share files via Napster
- Run a web server
- Run an IRC server
- Run a DNS server
and do pretty much anything I could with a regular connection with the exception of Samba.I'm not saying that there wasn't something preventing these services from working for him. I'm just saying that whatever it was, it wasn't NAT.
If text were really the best way to get information across, the "big-bucks" behind web marketing would have kept the web in that form. Advertisers aren't stupid. Those flashy images are there to present a message, and they work. Just because it's a commercial message that you didn't particularly want doesn't mean that it's not an effective form of communication.
If there were to be some revolution that took us back to a completely text-based protocol, don't for one second think that commercial interests wouldn't bastardize it for their own purposes as well.
Then you, sir, are an ass.
If there was an IE for Linux, I would be in heaven. I can't stand Netscape. At a job I used to work at, one of my colleagues and I were constantly bantering over which browser was better. He preffered Netscape saying that it was more stable. Yeah right. I'd say if I looked through my .bash_history file, 70% of it is probably "killall -9 netscape-navigator".
Half the pages on the Internet that use javascript cause Netscape to stop working, it doesn't fully support CSS, and nested tables can cause it to render pages in some 'unexpected' ways. The only reason I have a machine running Windows is for MS's browser. Web browsing is literally the only thing I do on that machine, as it is the only activity that I haven't been able to satisfactorily migrate to Linux. (Well, OK...That and MechWarrior 3!)
apparently he can change history:
Really? And I thought the text-based browsers were around before Mosaic.
I remember saying they should do it this way about three months ago. But if they are going to charge a flat subscription fee, they had better insure that I will be able to find any song I've ever wanted on the service.
Ahh yes -- The American Inquisition.
I stopped reading the article after about the third time he stated that the US is supposed to be a "democracy". We live in a Constitutional Republic, not a democracy. If you don't have enough political knowledge to get that right, the rest of your statements are invalid to me.
Unfortunately, minors also can't own property. Doesn't matter if he bought it, it's yours. It is also your responsibilty to know about that license agreement on your property whether you physicly clicked on the agreement or not. Nice try though.
This bank is 100% online. Their transactions are all real time (online transactions post with zero time delay), and their interest rates are outstandidng. At one time they had an incompatibility with linux (when they were first starting out) but they fixed this with a pretty good response time. Another important issue -- their customer service is excellent. http://www.firstib.com
And no one would ever think of commiting software piracy, right? Ugh...