Yea, because anyone who can't identify security attack vectors, recompile kernels, or rewrite their phone's OS source code shouldn't be operating an Android phone.
Bullshit. I learned SQL 17 years ago using Access. You setup the query in the QBE grid and then click the SQL button/tab and see what your query looks like in SQL. Pretty soon you write the queries in SQL and then move to SQL Server and stored procedures, triggers, indexes, etc. Access won't make you a superstar DBA but it's a great entry point.
Slashdot used the Bill Gates Borg icon years after Gates was gone from Microsoft, so expect them to use the old logo for at least the next six years or so.
I think that PBS is every bit as biased as Fox and MSNBC.
What are the equivalencies to Beck, Fox and Friends, Hannity, Maddow, or Olbermann on PBS? PBS is appealing to left leaning upper middle class because the content doesn't cater to political wingnuts like Fox and MSNBC. You're confusing content with bias. When a Fox producer gets caught on the job riling up a crowd at a Tea Party event, Beck promotes "Fox Tea Parties", or FoxNews.com reports the ACA being upheld as affirmation of ObamaTax, that's bias.
There is no expectation of privacy on an employer's network, and any company worth its salt these days informs employees of this in policies and usually its employee handbook. The network is the company's property and is there for employees to get their jobs done. If you're using company equipment, time, and electricity to put packets on the company network, they can do whatever they want with the packets, including breaking the encryption.
It's that simple. If you have to ask the question about whether it's worth leaving a job that is providing you money to have food, housing, and healthcare over concerns about having your employer see your personal business you're doing over the company Internet connection on company time, you probably have your priorities screwed up and you're going to be a problem for your employer later. Save yourself and your company time and quit now. Make sure you ask all your prospective new employers in interviews if they do HTTP snooping so you can do personal web surfing over the company Internet connection in privacy and let us know how that works out.
Don't worry about the money, you'll be a hero and hopefully get rewarded later with a promotion and perhaps that higher pay grade that you're capable of. If you're really that hung up on a short term shot of cash versus a potentially bigger upside long term, by all means demand money and shoot yourself in the foot. It sounds like you have the potential to do more at this company, but when you talk about meeting all your outlined goals and you have a lot of "downtime", those are some danger signs, IMO. I've found throughout my career that the rewards come to those who go beyond their outlined goals and are humble about it. Those who just meet their goals, demand to be paid or recognized for every little thing they do, and have a lot of down time tend to be gone when layoffs happen. Good luck and choose wisely.
You're complaining about MS Office based on one item, ODF support. In nearly all regards it is a superb office suite. Ignoring your one beef with MS Office, it beats the crap out of OpenOffice / LibreOffice. Just looking at the user interface for OO, it looks ten years old. Calc is very good, but it's clearly a knock off of Excel. But Writer is like MS Wordpad on steroids and can't hold a candle to Word.
I didn't say life or business was fair, or law enforcement was competent, or that any of it was your fault. If you got a criminal working for your company, like it or not, you and your company just got sucked into a situation that blows and it's going to cost you something no matter what. It's your job to minimize the exposure and do what's ethical. If you decide to take the situation into your own hands with reckless amateur forensics and delayed law enforcement involvement and not engage your legal department or outside legal resources, you've just increased your exposure. Even the employee accused of the crime could come back and sue you. Anecdotes, your suspicions about law enforcement, and your good intentions to protect employees mean nothing in court. In what is clearly a legal situation, even as the highest IT professional in your company you're out of your area of expertise and risk doing damage.
While you have a point, I would still determine if company resources were simply being used as a dump, or if the employee was actively involved.
I don't trust cops, and I trust the FBI even less. Many companies I have worked for can't take the hit, and you just have no idea if the cops are going to seize all your equipment, specific equipment, etc.
Wow. You just gave an attorney the basis for the defense. Prior to calling the police you took it upon yourself to go through the evidence, possibly tainting it, wrecking key log entries, or even planting evidence. Perhaps you had a little argument with the defendant a few days before? You had a reason to frame him. Also, since you represent "the company" you also have exposed them to liability in the process and you've jeopardized your job. Not doing the right thing just to avoid equipment seizure also may expose you to legal action.
You're an IT professional. Act like one. You stop what you're doing, lock your workstation, and go to your supervisor's office ASAP. If he's smart, he calls HR and Legal. Get a coffee and keep your mouth shut and stay out of the IT system until you're asked a question by your boss, HR, or Legal.
Conversely, I find myself bemused by the people who call the wealthy "job creators" and use that as a ploy to not raise their taxes at all then place the entire burden of the debt on the middle class, all the while totally refusing to cut defense spending. I don't think anyone wants to keep spending like we have, but there needs to be an increase in tax revenue as well. There needs to be some compromise, and the Republicans continually say "no".
They are gaining acceptance in the business world, but I think you'll find they're more an ancillary tool, not a primary computing device, at least in Windows shops. I use mine to take notes in meetings, and access email when I'm not at my desktop or I'm on the road. When I'm working on a document or spreadsheet, it's back to the laptop running Windows 7. Apple still has a ways to go until the iPad or any tablet can be a primary device for business.
It's not a quiz, I'm trying to get someone who promotes Google Apps to tell me they've actually done something beyond a grocery or todo list in Google Apps spreadsheets. That's great that you can do stuff with the API and Ruby, but 99% of office suite users don't do that kind of stuff. Can you do multiple models for a business plan or a complicated financial spreadsheet? I've tried. It's downright painful and makes Excel look like a walk in the park. If you want to gauge an office suite, talk with people who actually use office suites in business, not guys who use Emacs and vi as word processors.
Please describe the most complex spreadsheet you've ever done in Google Apps. Please include the number of graphs and pivotables and how many tens or hundreds of meg of data that's in it. Bonus points if you used the solve function.
Google apps is like the Fisher Price of office suites.
Anyone who calls SharePoint a "business suite" or complains that it takes six months to make it useful clearly doesn't understand what SharePoint is about.
Dilution isn't necessarily dishonest or done by those who are untrustworthy. It's most always a fact of life with a very young company seeking capital because in the early stages equity financing is all they can get. You have to evaluate the upside versus the amount of dilution and determine if it's worthwhile. And as far them diluting "someone else's share", that's also a fact of life when you don't have the most senior equity. Even the founders can find themselves in this position when they get an equity investor who wants a more senior position.
What makes the TI board so damn interesting? Oh, that's right; TI price whored themselves and sell the board at a loss just to gain market share and try to artificially develop a community around it.
It's funny when people claim this or that microcontroller is better than the other. Get over it. They all do the same damn basic functions.
Can we stop the flood of microcontroller snobery?
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That's how I would describe the summary for this article. Does anyone interview candidate Slashdot editors before offering them jobs?
Yea, Obama shouldn't have started those two wars and enacted the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy, otherwise we wouldn't have that huge debt.
Yea, because anyone who can't identify security attack vectors, recompile kernels, or rewrite their phone's OS source code shouldn't be operating an Android phone.
Bullshit. I learned SQL 17 years ago using Access. You setup the query in the QBE grid and then click the SQL button/tab and see what your query looks like in SQL. Pretty soon you write the queries in SQL and then move to SQL Server and stored procedures, triggers, indexes, etc. Access won't make you a superstar DBA but it's a great entry point.
Slashdot used the Bill Gates Borg icon years after Gates was gone from Microsoft, so expect them to use the old logo for at least the next six years or so.
He's right. Tariffs and USF are two totally different things. But people here love to slam USF.
I think that PBS is every bit as biased as Fox and MSNBC.
What are the equivalencies to Beck, Fox and Friends, Hannity, Maddow, or Olbermann on PBS? PBS is appealing to left leaning upper middle class because the content doesn't cater to political wingnuts like Fox and MSNBC. You're confusing content with bias. When a Fox producer gets caught on the job riling up a crowd at a Tea Party event, Beck promotes "Fox Tea Parties", or FoxNews.com reports the ACA being upheld as affirmation of ObamaTax, that's bias.
There is no expectation of privacy on an employer's network, and any company worth its salt these days informs employees of this in policies and usually its employee handbook. The network is the company's property and is there for employees to get their jobs done. If you're using company equipment, time, and electricity to put packets on the company network, they can do whatever they want with the packets, including breaking the encryption.
It's that simple. If you have to ask the question about whether it's worth leaving a job that is providing you money to have food, housing, and healthcare over concerns about having your employer see your personal business you're doing over the company Internet connection on company time, you probably have your priorities screwed up and you're going to be a problem for your employer later. Save yourself and your company time and quit now. Make sure you ask all your prospective new employers in interviews if they do HTTP snooping so you can do personal web surfing over the company Internet connection in privacy and let us know how that works out.
Don't worry about the money, you'll be a hero and hopefully get rewarded later with a promotion and perhaps that higher pay grade that you're capable of. If you're really that hung up on a short term shot of cash versus a potentially bigger upside long term, by all means demand money and shoot yourself in the foot. It sounds like you have the potential to do more at this company, but when you talk about meeting all your outlined goals and you have a lot of "downtime", those are some danger signs, IMO. I've found throughout my career that the rewards come to those who go beyond their outlined goals and are humble about it. Those who just meet their goals, demand to be paid or recognized for every little thing they do, and have a lot of down time tend to be gone when layoffs happen. Good luck and choose wisely.
They might as well copy iTunes. How are those knock-offs of Facebook and Microsoft Office working out?
You're complaining about MS Office based on one item, ODF support. In nearly all regards it is a superb office suite. Ignoring your one beef with MS Office, it beats the crap out of OpenOffice / LibreOffice. Just looking at the user interface for OO, it looks ten years old. Calc is very good, but it's clearly a knock off of Excel. But Writer is like MS Wordpad on steroids and can't hold a candle to Word.
No, he puts personal *interests* above the law. There's a difference.
I didn't say life or business was fair, or law enforcement was competent, or that any of it was your fault. If you got a criminal working for your company, like it or not, you and your company just got sucked into a situation that blows and it's going to cost you something no matter what. It's your job to minimize the exposure and do what's ethical. If you decide to take the situation into your own hands with reckless amateur forensics and delayed law enforcement involvement and not engage your legal department or outside legal resources, you've just increased your exposure. Even the employee accused of the crime could come back and sue you. Anecdotes, your suspicions about law enforcement, and your good intentions to protect employees mean nothing in court. In what is clearly a legal situation, even as the highest IT professional in your company you're out of your area of expertise and risk doing damage.
While you have a point, I would still determine if company resources were simply being used as a dump, or if the employee was actively involved.
I don't trust cops, and I trust the FBI even less. Many companies I have worked for can't take the hit, and you just have no idea if the cops are going to seize all your equipment, specific equipment, etc.
Wow. You just gave an attorney the basis for the defense. Prior to calling the police you took it upon yourself to go through the evidence, possibly tainting it, wrecking key log entries, or even planting evidence. Perhaps you had a little argument with the defendant a few days before? You had a reason to frame him. Also, since you represent "the company" you also have exposed them to liability in the process and you've jeopardized your job. Not doing the right thing just to avoid equipment seizure also may expose you to legal action.
You're an IT professional. Act like one. You stop what you're doing, lock your workstation, and go to your supervisor's office ASAP. If he's smart, he calls HR and Legal. Get a coffee and keep your mouth shut and stay out of the IT system until you're asked a question by your boss, HR, or Legal.
That's one way you could improve the Slashdot for me. You think maybe 9 years is long enough for this petty bullshit you guys pulled?
Fun fact #2 is misleading. You need to divide it by GDP to get a meaningful statistic.
Conversely, I find myself bemused by the people who call the wealthy "job creators" and use that as a ploy to not raise their taxes at all then place the entire burden of the debt on the middle class, all the while totally refusing to cut defense spending. I don't think anyone wants to keep spending like we have, but there needs to be an increase in tax revenue as well. There needs to be some compromise, and the Republicans continually say "no".
They are gaining acceptance in the business world, but I think you'll find they're more an ancillary tool, not a primary computing device, at least in Windows shops. I use mine to take notes in meetings, and access email when I'm not at my desktop or I'm on the road. When I'm working on a document or spreadsheet, it's back to the laptop running Windows 7. Apple still has a ways to go until the iPad or any tablet can be a primary device for business.
It's not a quiz, I'm trying to get someone who promotes Google Apps to tell me they've actually done something beyond a grocery or todo list in Google Apps spreadsheets. That's great that you can do stuff with the API and Ruby, but 99% of office suite users don't do that kind of stuff. Can you do multiple models for a business plan or a complicated financial spreadsheet? I've tried. It's downright painful and makes Excel look like a walk in the park. If you want to gauge an office suite, talk with people who actually use office suites in business, not guys who use Emacs and vi as word processors.
Please describe the most complex spreadsheet you've ever done in Google Apps. Please include the number of graphs and pivotables and how many tens or hundreds of meg of data that's in it. Bonus points if you used the solve function. Google apps is like the Fisher Price of office suites.
Anyone who calls SharePoint a "business suite" or complains that it takes six months to make it useful clearly doesn't understand what SharePoint is about.
This project sucks because it's not using a cheaper TI board and TI's free-as-in-beer development software....
Dilution isn't necessarily dishonest or done by those who are untrustworthy. It's most always a fact of life with a very young company seeking capital because in the early stages equity financing is all they can get. You have to evaluate the upside versus the amount of dilution and determine if it's worthwhile. And as far them diluting "someone else's share", that's also a fact of life when you don't have the most senior equity. Even the founders can find themselves in this position when they get an equity investor who wants a more senior position.
What makes the TI board so damn interesting? Oh, that's right; TI price whored themselves and sell the board at a loss just to gain market share and try to artificially develop a community around it. It's funny when people claim this or that microcontroller is better than the other. Get over it. They all do the same damn basic functions. Can we stop the flood of microcontroller snobery?