how can he reconcile his new position with the new licenses MS are attaching to their development tools
That's easy. He does this every time he reconciles his checkbook, now replete with lots of M$ digits in front of the decimal point. Good for him, by the way.
Sacramento (AP) - The California State Legislature today authorized the state's revenue department to serve Oracle executive Larry Ellison and several other members of Oracle's senior management and board of directors with a series of tax bills totalling some $95 million dollars.
"What goes around comes around," an anonymous resident of the Governor's private residence was quoted as saying this morning.
and by all means, if you think you can do the job better give it a try!
I accept. Please turn in your resignation. I'll be in Monday morning to take the company car back from you. I hope you didn't spend that annual bonus yet, I've got my eye on some stuff at Best Buy and I'll need every cent. What's the lockup on your, excuse me, my options again?:-)
I like my manager. But his job consists of the following:
Go to meetings
Delegate tasks received in those meetings to staff
Tell staff that sales have increased dramatically this year, but expenses haven't changed, so forget about training or anything more than a miniscule raise
If a cool task comes around, be sure to hog it for yourself. After all, staff are too busy doing all the uncool stuff like sysadmin, etc.
Get paid double what a staffer makes, plus all the bennies the serfs don't get (car, bonus, options)
You'll note items like 'motivate staff' or 'push for training budget' don't appear. In my experience, managers don't do those things.
Please don't tell me this is hard to do. If it was difficult, managers wouldn't be managers.
So when it's only half filled, will the chip see it as half empty or half full??
More like this obscure Pratchett paraphrasing: "Excuse me? Excuse me! Is this my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full, and what's this? Does this look like Guinness? No it does not. Who's been stealing my beer?
I like all of my IT cow-orkers, even the bosses, but I don't want to drink with them. My workplace has many departments, and I have drinking buddies throughout them. Just not in my own department.
The graphic designers and the sales droids tend to be easier to socialize with, for some reason. Well, a couple of reasons: the designers are demented partiers and fun to be around, and the sales droids tend to be attractive women. Also, they don't talk work or computing when the Guinness is being poured. I almost feel obligated to speak geek with my direct cow-orkers.
My introduction to the world of Unix (Solaris in my case) was by way of a brief conversation with my boss, the IT department head:
Boss: "Hey, you know that web site we've got, running on NT?"
Me: "Yes?"
Boss: "Well, the developers have built the new site on Solaris. The new boxes will be here in a month."
Me: "Yes?"
Boss: "You're going to have to learn Solaris by then."
That was over two years ago. Since then I've learned more, to the point where I can install Solaris, Linux, or FreeBSD on a new box, configure networking, install applications, setup user access, secure what's not secure, patch and upgrade as necessary, etc.
Age has nothing to do with it. I was 31 when I started with Solaris, with a background in business and marketing, plus creative writing. I've always been a gadget fiend, but never a hard-core coder or OS guru. Now I've learned some Perl and some shell scripting. The only way age is a factor is if you think you're too old to do it.
Someone suggested the wonderful world of academia; I'd at least suggest taking a course in Unix admin if you can find it. Get an old PC and install Linux or FreeBSD on it. Spend more money on O'Reilly books; I like 'Essential System Administration', and 'Learning the Unix OS' was very helpful in the early days, along with Sobell's 'A Practical Guide to Solaris'. Others will recommend Nemeth's 'Unix System Administration' and other titles.
Are you sure you want to do this?:-) The hours are long, you get paged a lot, you'll develop a caffeine addiction you never thought humanly possible. You'll find yourself longing for the good old days of cluelessness, where the computer was just a tool at your disposal.
You have to love the comments from managers who 'weed out' the best programmers because of so-called attitude problems. Management cares about one thing only: looking good to the higher-ups. No manager wants brilliant staffers, because if their bosses start noticing that things are getting done in spite of the manager's work instead of due to the manager's work, guess who's facing the axe?
Companies should do a better job of grooming techies, or at least people conversant in technical issues beyond launching M$ Outlook, to be managers. You don't have prima donnas when the boss knows his or her stuff; it only happens when the manager is an over-promoted moron.
Some shrink's kid doesn't want to eat her vegetables, throws a fit when forced to eat them, and the shrink writes a book about it, circa 1989. Parents and non-parents rejoice, because now it's not their fault they or their children have the attention span of a rabid ferret on a triple espresso. We can treat this with a pill!
This so-called disorder wasn't diagnosed, it was created. Somehow humanity went a few millennium without having to administer Ritalin like M&Ms. Now the first time a child demonstrates boredom or pique, parents and teachers want to start the prescriptions.
And the grown-ups "affected by ADD" are even worse. Sheesh.
Here's a cure for ADD, and in the spirit of the Net I offer it gratis: go out and do a month's worth of manual labor, 7 days a week, 12 hours a day, regardless of weather or other environmental variables. You'll emerge with a laser-like focus for the most minute aspects of life. And no ADD.
I submitted this on Tuesday and had it rejected. Three days later it's posted by Hemos. I'm sorry, but that's just plain wrong. Give credit where it's due. This is the sort of action one expects from our dear friends in Redmond; isn't it?
If the company thought it could improve itself by firing you, it would do so without hesitation. Life goes on, but only you can look out for your own life effectively. Take a new offer and move on while you can.
I dont think you can argue that Stan Lee didn't participate in the creation.
I'm not. I am pointing out a view of Lee's conduct over the years that has been well-circulated among comic industry types and fans. Kirby did most of the work, and Lee took and continues to take all the credit. Think of Al Gore's claim to birthing the internet. Other people have written the rfcs and everything else that makes it work, but it's Gore's name you hear in the news. How's that fair to Tim Berners-Lee and everyone else over the past 30 years?
Lee gets credit(or more credit) because he was the main writer and Editor in Chief at marvel at the time and spends/spent more time promoting himself than Jack Kirby did.
That makes him a creator? Self-promotion? I can't accept that.
Besides how much is involved in creation?
Obviously more than I can muster. Have you created any comic characters with an enduring 40 odd year history? I sure haven't.
Besides some these particular x men were created by Chris Claremont, John Romita jr, Dave Cockrum,John Romita sr(he designed wolverine) and probably others(paul Smith and Len Wein maybe)
And Stan Lee is taking the credit. Thanks for making my point.:-) Jack
If there was a recent outage, I've missed it, and I check two accounts on Hotmail almost daily. They have had their screwups, but when they did wipe out a couple dozen messages in my box, they were restored within a couple of days. No critical stuff, but at least I got it back.
"We take our craft... very seriously, as do most artists. It is therefore sickening to know that our art is being traded like a commodity rather than the art that it is."
Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich, explaining his band's decision to sue fans who trade song files over a CRT screen, E! Online, 14 April 2000
"We really felt -- and ultimately were proven right -- that this would be the first major creative marriage between a song, a rock band and a film."
Ulrich, explaining the band's decision to commodify its art for the silver screen in the upcoming Mission: Impossible 2, Metallica.com, 14 April 2000 ---------
As you can see, it's only ok to cheapen one's art as a commodity so long as it's your pockets being enriched.:-) That's what copyright does: it provides a convenient shield for artists when they alienate their fan base by declaring war on them.
Metallica stopped being relevant musically about four CDs ago. AFA what artists make from CD sales, it's not a huge slice of that $16.99 price tag. Most of the proceeds go to the label, and a portion of those proceeds indeed go toward paying for promotional costs incurred by the labels when new bands don't catch on with the public. We pay for the failures of A&R reps everytime we buy a new CD.
And those CDs you get from BMG or Columbia House? Guess how much artists get from those sales. Try zero. It's pure profit for the labels, because music club sales apparently don't count as direct sales.
The average music contract is 40-50 pages long. Sony's is from 70-80, as reported in a long ago article in Musician magazine IIRC. Most of that contract is devoted to screwing over the artist.
And that's the real issue here, the issue Metallica and Dre have either missed, or are choosing to ignore. The labels aren't protecting the artists; they're protecting themselves. How much is Sony's stock going to plunge when the next Offspring comes along and decides that, instead of jumping from Epitaph to Sony, they're going to publish electronically?
But until they smarten up and purchase a clue with those fat MI2 checks, Metallica needs to get back in the damned studio and write some Metallica songs.
Ah, of course. Instead of being logged in, I could be out in the world, being actively ignored by other humans. Yeah, that's a great substitute for the web and all the connections I've made with intelligent, literate people on a variety of interests.
To think, the money I spend on my ISP could be money spent in a bar while listening to my RL friends drone on about work and bad relationships, all the while inhaling second-hand smoke and toxifying my liver!
I spend a lot of time in Real Life, and except for being a parent the rest of it is highly overrated. Unless you're much more fortunate than I am, daily life is tedious, the diversions are way too few and very far between. Responsibilities, for I'm a responsible Jack, don't allow for the sort of life-enriching experience I'm guessing the researchers at Stanford think we should have. There's no time for it.
And please, no argument about 'you'd have time if you weren't online.' As my online time is carved out of my work day, that isn't the case for me. Batch processes run, and Jack can slip into/. and it's ok because otherwise I'd be staring at a blank monitor. Kind of hard to work a trip to the Cote d'Azur into an eight hour day and be back in time to make dinner for the little one.
If that necessary RL interaction could be with my online friends, that would be great! But the Net is going to have to be a substitute for that.
I have known Scott Kurtz for the last 10 years and his success to date is the result of a lot of hard work.
His has been a very stealthy success, then. Why does he need to bash UF or anyone else if he's such a success? A troll is a troll. If his work was so great, he'd have the word-of-mouth play UF has. If he was any kind of professional, he wouldn't be bashing fellow cartoonists. Nuff said.
This troll was so obvious I'm surprised no one else has called him on it. User Friendly gets lots of publicity; how many of you even heard of PvP until now?Nice try, Scott. And too bad, because I actually enjoyed your DnD rant. Why stoop to something like this? IPO envy? Jack
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I doubt Lucas is anti-Christian. Pure concentrated evil for foisting TPM on us, now that's another thing...
Jack
That's easy. He does this every time he reconciles his checkbook, now replete with lots of M$ digits in front of the decimal point. Good for him, by the way.
Jack
Sacramento (AP) - The California State Legislature today authorized the state's revenue department to serve Oracle executive Larry Ellison and several other members of Oracle's senior management and board of directors with a series of tax bills totalling some $95 million dollars.
"What goes around comes around," an anonymous resident of the Governor's private residence was quoted as saying this morning.
I accept. Please turn in your resignation. I'll be in Monday morning to take the company car back from you. I hope you didn't spend that annual bonus yet, I've got my eye on some stuff at Best Buy and I'll need every cent. What's the lockup on your, excuse me, my options again? :-)
I like my manager. But his job consists of the following:
- Go to meetings
- Delegate tasks received in those meetings to staff
- Tell staff that sales have increased dramatically this year, but expenses haven't changed, so forget about training or anything more than a miniscule raise
- If a cool task comes around, be sure to hog it for yourself. After all, staff are too busy doing all the uncool stuff like sysadmin, etc.
- Get paid double what a staffer makes, plus all the bennies the serfs don't get (car, bonus, options)
You'll note items like 'motivate staff' or 'push for training budget' don't appear. In my experience, managers don't do those things.Please don't tell me this is hard to do. If it was difficult, managers wouldn't be managers.
Jack
More like this obscure Pratchett paraphrasing: "Excuse me? Excuse me! Is this my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full, and what's this? Does this look like Guinness? No it does not. Who's been stealing my beer?
Jack
Don't you mean "less like a cathedral and more like a bazaar"?
Jack
The graphic designers and the sales droids tend to be easier to socialize with, for some reason. Well, a couple of reasons: the designers are demented partiers and fun to be around, and the sales droids tend to be attractive women. Also, they don't talk work or computing when the Guinness is being poured. I almost feel obligated to speak geek with my direct cow-orkers.
Jack
Boss: "Hey, you know that web site we've got, running on NT?"
Me: "Yes?"
Boss: "Well, the developers have built the new site on Solaris. The new boxes will be here in a month."
Me: "Yes?"
Boss: "You're going to have to learn Solaris by then."
That was over two years ago. Since then I've learned more, to the point where I can install Solaris, Linux, or FreeBSD on a new box, configure networking, install applications, setup user access, secure what's not secure, patch and upgrade as necessary, etc.
Age has nothing to do with it. I was 31 when I started with Solaris, with a background in business and marketing, plus creative writing. I've always been a gadget fiend, but never a hard-core coder or OS guru. Now I've learned some Perl and some shell scripting. The only way age is a factor is if you think you're too old to do it.
Someone suggested the wonderful world of academia; I'd at least suggest taking a course in Unix admin if you can find it. Get an old PC and install Linux or FreeBSD on it. Spend more money on O'Reilly books; I like 'Essential System Administration', and 'Learning the Unix OS' was very helpful in the early days, along with Sobell's 'A Practical Guide to Solaris'. Others will recommend Nemeth's 'Unix System Administration' and other titles.
Are you sure you want to do this? :-) The hours are long, you get paged a lot, you'll develop a caffeine addiction you never thought humanly possible. You'll find yourself longing for the good old days of cluelessness, where the computer was just a tool at your disposal.
Oh hell. Good luck with it.
Jack
Companies should do a better job of grooming techies, or at least people conversant in technical issues beyond launching M$ Outlook, to be managers. You don't have prima donnas when the boss knows his or her stuff; it only happens when the manager is an over-promoted moron.
Jack
This so-called disorder wasn't diagnosed, it was created. Somehow humanity went a few millennium without having to administer Ritalin like M&Ms. Now the first time a child demonstrates boredom or pique, parents and teachers want to start the prescriptions.
And the grown-ups "affected by ADD" are even worse. Sheesh.
Here's a cure for ADD, and in the spirit of the Net I offer it gratis: go out and do a month's worth of manual labor, 7 days a week, 12 hours a day, regardless of weather or other environmental variables. You'll emerge with a laser-like focus for the most minute aspects of life. And no ADD.
Jack
Jack
How about Secure Login Access Shell, and the OpenSSH folks can call it SLASH. :-)
Jack
Micro$oft got slashdotted? :-)
Jack
If the company thought it could improve itself by firing you, it would do so without hesitation. Life goes on, but only you can look out for your own life effectively. Take a new offer and move on while you can.
Jack
Is education all about gaining income?
Yes. In America, anyway. That's exactly it. What we do with the education, as individuals, that's the real issue.
Jack
I dont think you can argue that Stan Lee didn't participate in the creation.
:-)
I'm not. I am pointing out a view of Lee's conduct over the years that has been well-circulated among comic industry types and fans. Kirby did most of the work, and Lee took and continues to take all the credit. Think of Al Gore's claim to birthing the internet. Other people have written the rfcs and everything else that makes it work, but it's Gore's name you hear in the news. How's that fair to Tim Berners-Lee and everyone else over the past 30 years?
Lee gets credit(or more credit) because he was the main writer and Editor in Chief at marvel at the time and spends/spent more time promoting himself than Jack Kirby did.
That makes him a creator? Self-promotion? I can't accept that.
Besides how much is involved in creation?
Obviously more than I can muster. Have you created any comic characters with an enduring 40 odd year history? I sure haven't.
Besides some these particular x men were created by Chris Claremont, John Romita jr, Dave Cockrum,John Romita sr(he designed wolverine) and probably others(paul Smith and Len Wein maybe)
And Stan Lee is taking the credit. Thanks for making my point.
Jack
How is it Stan Lee continues to get credit for *creating* all these Marvel characters when all he did was rip them off from Jack Kirby?
Jack
If there was a recent outage, I've missed it, and I check two accounts on Hotmail almost daily. They have had their screwups, but when they did wipe out a couple dozen messages in my box, they were restored within a couple of days. No critical stuff, but at least I got it back.
Jack
Welcome my son, welcome to the machine
Where have you been?
It's alright we know where you've been
You've been in the pipeline, filling in time...
That's ok Jon, you're only 25 years behind on this story :)
Jack
Originally for 17 April 2000
NO BOWIE BONDS FOR YOU, MISTER
"We take our craft ... very seriously, as do most artists. It is therefore sickening to know that our art is being traded like a commodity rather than the art that it is."
Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich, explaining his band's decision to sue fans who trade song files over a CRT screen, E! Online, 14 April 2000
"We really felt -- and ultimately were proven right -- that this would be the first major creative marriage between a song, a rock band and a film."
Ulrich, explaining the band's decision to commodify its art for the silver screen in the upcoming Mission: Impossible 2, Metallica.com, 14 April 2000
---------
As you can see, it's only ok to cheapen one's art as a commodity so long as it's your pockets being enriched. :-) That's what copyright does: it provides a convenient shield for artists when they alienate their fan base by declaring war on them.
Metallica stopped being relevant musically about four CDs ago.
AFA what artists make from CD sales, it's not a huge slice of that $16.99 price tag. Most of the proceeds go to the label, and a portion of those proceeds indeed go toward paying for promotional costs incurred by the labels when new bands don't catch on with the public. We pay for the failures of A&R reps everytime we buy a new CD.
And those CDs you get from BMG or Columbia House? Guess how much artists get from those sales. Try zero. It's pure profit for the labels, because music club sales apparently don't count as direct sales.
The average music contract is 40-50 pages long. Sony's is from 70-80, as reported in a long ago article in Musician magazine IIRC. Most of that contract is devoted to screwing over the artist.
And that's the real issue here, the issue Metallica and Dre have either missed, or are choosing to ignore. The labels aren't protecting the artists; they're protecting themselves. How much is Sony's stock going to plunge when the next Offspring comes along and decides that, instead of jumping from Epitaph to Sony, they're going to publish electronically?
But until they smarten up and purchase a clue with those fat MI2 checks, Metallica needs to get back in the damned studio and write some Metallica songs.
Jack
To think, the money I spend on my ISP could be money spent in a bar while listening to my RL friends drone on about work and bad relationships, all the while inhaling second-hand smoke and toxifying my liver!
I spend a lot of time in Real Life, and except for being a parent the rest of it is highly overrated. Unless you're much more fortunate than I am, daily life is tedious, the diversions are way too few and very far between. Responsibilities, for I'm a responsible Jack, don't allow for the sort of life-enriching experience I'm guessing the researchers at Stanford think we should have. There's no time for it.
And please, no argument about 'you'd have time if you weren't online.' As my online time is carved out of my work day, that isn't the case for me. Batch processes run, and Jack can slip into /. and it's ok because otherwise I'd be staring at a blank monitor. Kind of hard to work a trip to the Cote d'Azur into an eight hour day and be back in time to make dinner for the little one.
If that necessary RL interaction could be with my online friends, that would be great! But the Net is going to have to be a substitute for that.
Jack
His has been a very stealthy success, then. Why does he need to bash UF or anyone else if he's such a success? A troll is a troll. If his work was so great, he'd have the word-of-mouth play UF has. If he was any kind of professional, he wouldn't be bashing fellow cartoonists. Nuff said.
Jack
This troll was so obvious I'm surprised no one else has called him on it. User Friendly gets lots of publicity; how many of you even heard of PvP until now?Nice try, Scott. And too bad, because I actually enjoyed your DnD rant. Why stoop to something like this? IPO envy?
Jack
The Command Line Interface. Kills mice dead.
Happy holidays,
Jack
Do you think that's air you're breathing?