True, but I think the level of power they have is disproportionate. Say there's 20 people interviewing for a position. That's 20 people who need to convince the employer that they're the best person for the job. The employer only has to try really hard to get the one employee that they really want, but even that one interviewee makes it easy on them.
Partly because he or she doesn't know they're "the one," but largely because that's "just not how it's done."
You're trying to sell yourself to the company, but you also need to make the company sell themselves to you. The situation doesn't need to be this unequal.
Oh, I love this question so much. I've never gotten a straight answer out of asking it, but that doesn't surprise me.
Interviewees go far too easy on prospective employers. Companies get to ask all sorts of difficult questions, but interviewees are expected to keep their questions vapidly upbeat? Shenanigans.
How consistently does your company give cost-of-living adjustments? Do you often have freezes on hiring and raises? How likely is it for an employee to receive a raise if they Exceed Expectations consistently and are below the average wage for their position? Do office politics frequently prevent timely resolution of issues?
I don't think any of these questions are more pointed or impertinent than the questions interviewers frequently ask, but if people asked them, they'd have a hard time getting a job.
Instead of asking how often people are promoted, I ask what percentage of their management comes from people promoted within the company. I think it mitigates the idea that you're just using a position as a stepping stone while still getting you the answer you want.
Plus, I think it's important to know that there's a good possibility that your manager was at one point capable of doing the job you're applying for. Honestly, knowing my potential manager doesn't have unrealistic expectations is a lot more important to me than hypotheticals about whether I'm getting his job when he moves up or on.
If I'm set up for failure, I'm not going to get his job either way. Effective schmoozers might, but I'm not one of them.
This stuff does go into the public record, and oh what fun it will be to show my hypothetical offspring my comments on Real ID. "See, kids. This is why we don't live in America anymore, and daddy can't get a passport.";)
That, and it will help cancel out some ignorant comments I made to the feds (still available on the internet somewhere) about the plausibility of downloading movies over the internet.
The real reason we're in this bind right now is that we didn't make a huge stink about it a few years back when Congress and the Executive Branch were playing their games. Admittedly, if I (or anyone else who had known about it) had gotten on the evening news and made a bazillion websites about it, something actually could have been done about it when we had a chance. My bad.
I don't see how it's a bad thing to speak up now just because we didn't speak up loudly enough back when it might have made a difference.
Whether or not the current Supreme Court would strike it down is immaterial to what the constitution allows. You may recall the 10th Amendment. "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
The states are allowed to prohibit the federal government from doing things. As in the case of the Kentucky and Virginia Resolves, the states should in this case stand up against the Fed. The Real ID laws are atrocious, and must be stopped.
And this is why Fleb asked if you read the article. The files were not on a "server maintained by someone else." They were on the screenwriter's home PC.
I, personally, would really like to know why the technician was deleting files (even if it's just an icon to AOL, it's the client's computer... maybe they want AOL broadband?) if the specific files weren't malware. It wasn't the tech's job to clean up the writer's computer. It was his job to get the DSL working.
Also, it sounds like the technician told the writer that the writer didn't need the files. Why didn't the writer say "hold on a minute, that random folder is where I store my important files!"?
There's a lot of fishiness going on in both directions.
Okay, you drew a parallel between the notion of sequels (among other techniques) and the apparently objectionable notion of squeezing every last penny out of games.
Actually, he didn't. That was his background information so that we know he's not just talking, but that he has actual experience in indie game making.
But, hey, if you prefer to antagonize potential customers, I guess that's one way of going about it. Good job!
Pot to kettle, pot to kettle. Come in please. Nothing he said was antagonistic at all. I'm not sure why you're all riled up, but there's no reason to be.
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Why not make some DBAN discs? The CDs load up faster than Knoppix, require less user intervention, have more options than shred (AFAIK anyway -- does shred let you use a seed file?), and you can start wiping the next machine less than 45 seconds after you start wiping.
I hate to have my Knoppix discs tied up on hardware I'm about to get rid of anyway.
I started using Firefox (was Firebird at the time) when it was.6, and, after about a week, I began using it exclusively for everything except sites with flash, etc. that I wanted to see (Firefox still seems to be a bit slow with flash, etc). I've had few problems with bugs, and the added functionality and speed is spectacular.
Maybe my setup is ideal for it (Win98, official binaries), but I haven't had any problems with bugs, and I certainly wouldn't classify it as "extremely buggy."
John Markov is the reporter that has essentially harassed Kevin Mitnick via articles. Mitnick essentially says that Markov bent the truth (or even outright lied) about Mitnick in order to sell more articles, etc. Having watched Operation Takedown, I'm fairly certain Mitnick is right.
I'm giving up the possibility of modding in this topic in order to respond. Hehe, I'm an example for future generations!
Every USB pen drive I have encountered so far is bootable, as long as you have a system that will see it when you boot to a MS/PC-DOS environment.
Hmmmn, maybe this is why my computer halts if I try to boot with my pen drive connected (not trying to boot from the pen drive either, so it gets on my nerves a bit)... Don't know why I didn't think of that myself. I know you didn't enlighten me in this respect on purpose, but thank you!
Oh, and to make sure I don't get modded -1 Offtopic:
I keep music, some pictures, and e-books on my pen drive.
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...you are attempting to deny your countrymen the right to democratic process via the rule of law.
Protest isn't a disruption of the democratic process. When people are uninformed, they vote out of ignorance. This is assuming they bother to vote at all, most don't.
Protesting is one way of making your opinions heard. Is it effective? I don't know that it is, but you try getting your opinions on the news if your opinions aren't already status quo on the station in question.
And to all of you neomarxists spoiled by wealthy living, quit your bitching and HELP PEOPLE. Don't destroy public or corporate structures, feed people.
I can't speak for pfafrich, but I'm a libertarian, which isn't anything like marxism, communism, or "neomarxism" (not sure what you meant by that). Getting to my point, chaining yourself to a public building in protest is not a crime. Pfafrich was right when he said he was arrested for his beliefs. Or, nearly right anyway. He was arrested for expressing his beliefs in an extremely visible way.
you have to somehow convince everyone to make a change in their attitudes, behaviour and choices (1). [...] not ONE problem has been solved by student activists(2).
I put these two together because they are so obviously contradictory. How do you intend to change people's opinions without making them aware that there are opinions other than theirs? Let's pass a law then, shall we? "Everyone is required to have [x] opinion," Thus Sayeth Uncle Sam.
I'm pretty sure that wouldn't help anything.
Specifically in response to #2: It could be argued that the reason the Vietnam war ended when it did was because student activists gradually changed the opinions of enough people to make it politically necessary to end that war. By politically necessary, I mean, "If we don't put an end to this right now, people might not vote for us."
I should point out that I wasn't alive during the Vietnam War. If the previous paragraph was grossly inaccurate, I apologize.
Perhaps I'm going through a little too much trouble to respond to what seems to be an obvious troll.
I joined the Electronic Frontier Foundation to stand up for my rights. The ACLU is too biased to properly stand up for my rights. They'll stand up for kids wearing "F*** USA" t-shirts (it's free speech and in that sense, fine by me. not a real-life example btw), but won't life a finger for a Christian kid who wears a "Jesus Saves" shirt to school (also free speech, and is pretty close to a real life example).
As far as I can tell, EFF seems to support free speech/freedom of expression pretty evenly.
Before you think, "Oh no! My ears ring, maybe it's because of all those MP3/Oggs, video games, and my dvd player," consider what effects caffeine might be having on your system. "Large" amounts of caffeine have been known to cause ringing in the ears (among other things). It's probably pretty safe to say that on average, geeks and slashdotters tend to consume a lot of caffeine. Christian Oliver has some interesting ideas, but perhaps his concerns are unwarranted.
My 15 yr old sister and 11 yr old brother get a real kick out of harassing those bots. I don't know why, but they're always thinking up new ways to insult them. My guess is that most everyone in their target demographic is going to be like that. Perhaps it's just human nature, my customers harass me just about as badly, and I'm human. Anyway, what the articles didn't seem to mention was that these two particular bots (SmarterChild and LindsayBuddy) don't seek out people to talk to. At least not that I've seen. They'll talk to you as long as you are willing to talk, but they don't initiate anything.
Actually, the Japanese are more capitalist than Americans at least in one respect. When the U.S. Government places environmental restrictions on vehicles, it prohibits, say, GM from selling it's device's designs to any other company. Each company has to develop the devices seperately. Free market, or capitalism, would allow the sale of such designs between companies, but no, not in America. However, in Japan, this isn't the case. Not only does the Japanese government allow the sale of such designs between companies, it often assists companys making deals with foreign corporations. America is behind because it is less capitalistic, not more. BTW, there are other reasons why America is behind, not just the capitalism thing. We Americans have become lazy, not just physically, but also mentally.
is to patent the process whereby one obtains a patent. If we do that, perhaps we can end this nonsense. But in all seriousness, how many of these trully absurd patents have ever made it to court? Has the British telco that patented hyperlinks attempted to sue anyone for the use of them? The funniest part of all this is that the companies would waste the money to apply for such worthless patents in the first place.
Yeah, Robert A. Heinlein wrote it. Basic plotline: Manuel Davis (computer geek) finds out that the Lunar Colony computer system (Mike) is sentient and convinces Mike to help him free the colony. It's a very liberterian work. I enjoyed it;)
Stiller's portrayal of fitness gurus was spot on in Heavyweights! Absolutely hilarious. Between his acting and the costumes they had for him I almost didn't realise that it was him. Of course, I sometimes miss the obvious;)
Well, I don't know about Bebop, but Gundam (at least 08th MS Team and Wing) doesn't have any sex in it. Violence, yes, but mostly "big metal robots." Besides, from what I've seen, Gundam always shows just how real war is. There's a strong pacifistic message in Gundam Wing, and Shiro Amada (of 08th) doesn't enjoy killing either. It would be really disappointing to me if CN cancelled its airing of these shows for such shallow reasons.
Hahaha, I've got more than I know what to do with. I end up checking one of them every few minutes, and the others once or twice a week. The real reason I have more than one isn't so much to keep work and personal seperate (though I do that also), it's to have an e-mail address or so for spam bait. Nearly everything you can sign up for online begs for an e-mail address, and everyone's trying to load your box up with junk. Well, I'm sure you get the point.
Hate to point this out, but Gnome isn't a part of the Linux OS. It is a window manager, and most of those are bound to be bloated anyway. You may think this is splitting hairs, but Linux functions without a window manager, Windows (not counting the DOS side) does not function without a window manager.
Jah, they have this new thing, I think it's called IRC. You can talk to a lot of people at once. If you're running a bloatware OS (like Windows), it can be downright easy to use (with mIRC or the like). You should try it.
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True, but I think the level of power they have is disproportionate. Say there's 20 people interviewing for a position. That's 20 people who need to convince the employer that they're the best person for the job. The employer only has to try really hard to get the one employee that they really want, but even that one interviewee makes it easy on them.
Partly because he or she doesn't know they're "the one," but largely because that's "just not how it's done."
You're trying to sell yourself to the company, but you also need to make the company sell themselves to you. The situation doesn't need to be this unequal.
Oh, I love this question so much. I've never gotten a straight answer out of asking it, but that doesn't surprise me.
Interviewees go far too easy on prospective employers. Companies get to ask all sorts of difficult questions, but interviewees are expected to keep their questions vapidly upbeat? Shenanigans.
How consistently does your company give cost-of-living adjustments? Do you often have freezes on hiring and raises? How likely is it for an employee to receive a raise if they Exceed Expectations consistently and are below the average wage for their position? Do office politics frequently prevent timely resolution of issues?
I don't think any of these questions are more pointed or impertinent than the questions interviewers frequently ask, but if people asked them, they'd have a hard time getting a job.
Instead of asking how often people are promoted, I ask what percentage of their management comes from people promoted within the company. I think it mitigates the idea that you're just using a position as a stepping stone while still getting you the answer you want.
Plus, I think it's important to know that there's a good possibility that your manager was at one point capable of doing the job you're applying for. Honestly, knowing my potential manager doesn't have unrealistic expectations is a lot more important to me than hypotheticals about whether I'm getting his job when he moves up or on.
If I'm set up for failure, I'm not going to get his job either way. Effective schmoozers might, but I'm not one of them.
This stuff does go into the public record, and oh what fun it will be to show my hypothetical offspring my comments on Real ID. "See, kids. This is why we don't live in America anymore, and daddy can't get a passport." ;)
That, and it will help cancel out some ignorant comments I made to the feds (still available on the internet somewhere) about the plausibility of downloading movies over the internet.
The real reason we're in this bind right now is that we didn't make a huge stink about it a few years back when Congress and the Executive Branch were playing their games. Admittedly, if I (or anyone else who had known about it) had gotten on the evening news and made a bazillion websites about it, something actually could have been done about it when we had a chance. My bad.
I don't see how it's a bad thing to speak up now just because we didn't speak up loudly enough back when it might have made a difference.
Whether or not the current Supreme Court would strike it down is immaterial to what the constitution allows. You may recall the 10th Amendment. "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
The states are allowed to prohibit the federal government from doing things. As in the case of the Kentucky and Virginia Resolves, the states should in this case stand up against the Fed. The Real ID laws are atrocious, and must be stopped.
And this is why Fleb asked if you read the article. The files were not on a "server maintained by someone else." They were on the screenwriter's home PC.
... maybe they want AOL broadband?) if the specific files weren't malware. It wasn't the tech's job to clean up the writer's computer. It was his job to get the DSL working.
I, personally, would really like to know why the technician was deleting files (even if it's just an icon to AOL, it's the client's computer
Also, it sounds like the technician told the writer that the writer didn't need the files. Why didn't the writer say "hold on a minute, that random folder is where I store my important files!"?
There's a lot of fishiness going on in both directions.
Pot to kettle, pot to kettle. Come in please. Nothing he said was antagonistic at all. I'm not sure why you're all riled up, but there's no reason to be.
Why not make some DBAN discs? The CDs load up faster than Knoppix, require less user intervention, have more options than shred (AFAIK anyway -- does shred let you use a seed file?), and you can start wiping the next machine less than 45 seconds after you start wiping.
I hate to have my Knoppix discs tied up on hardware I'm about to get rid of anyway.
I started using Firefox (was Firebird at the time) when it was .6, and, after about a week, I began using it exclusively for everything except sites with flash, etc. that I wanted to see (Firefox still seems to be a bit slow with flash, etc). I've had few problems with bugs, and the added functionality and speed is spectacular.
Maybe my setup is ideal for it (Win98, official binaries), but I haven't had any problems with bugs, and I certainly wouldn't classify it as "extremely buggy."
Heh, you can run lynx on Windows. I do once or twice a day.
Me too, whoops. It's the same guy though. All those years of watching Star Trek did it to us. Checkov!
John Markov is the reporter that has essentially harassed Kevin Mitnick via articles. Mitnick essentially says that Markov bent the truth (or even outright lied) about Mitnick in order to sell more articles, etc. Having watched Operation Takedown, I'm fairly certain Mitnick is right.
I'm giving up the possibility of modding in this topic in order to respond. Hehe, I'm an example for future generations!
Hmmmn, maybe this is why my computer halts if I try to boot with my pen drive connected (not trying to boot from the pen drive either, so it gets on my nerves a bit)
Oh, and to make sure I don't get modded -1 Offtopic:
I keep music, some pictures, and e-books on my pen drive.
Protest isn't a disruption of the democratic process. When people are uninformed, they vote out of ignorance. This is assuming they bother to vote at all, most don't.
Protesting is one way of making your opinions heard. Is it effective? I don't know that it is, but you try getting your opinions on the news if your opinions aren't already status quo on the station in question.
I can't speak for pfafrich, but I'm a libertarian, which isn't anything like marxism, communism, or "neomarxism" (not sure what you meant by that). Getting to my point, chaining yourself to a public building in protest is not a crime. Pfafrich was right when he said he was arrested for his beliefs. Or, nearly right anyway. He was arrested for expressing his beliefs in an extremely visible way.
I put these two together because they are so obviously contradictory. How do you intend to change people's opinions without making them aware that there are opinions other than theirs? Let's pass a law then, shall we? "Everyone is required to have [x] opinion," Thus Sayeth Uncle Sam.
I'm pretty sure that wouldn't help anything.
Specifically in response to #2: It could be argued that the reason the Vietnam war ended when it did was because student activists gradually changed the opinions of enough people to make it politically necessary to end that war. By politically necessary, I mean, "If we don't put an end to this right now, people might not vote for us."
I should point out that I wasn't alive during the Vietnam War. If the previous paragraph was grossly inaccurate, I apologize.
Perhaps I'm going through a little too much trouble to respond to what seems to be an obvious troll.
I joined the Electronic Frontier Foundation to stand up for my rights. The ACLU is too biased to properly stand up for my rights. They'll stand up for kids wearing "F*** USA" t-shirts (it's free speech and in that sense, fine by me. not a real-life example btw), but won't life a finger for a Christian kid who wears a "Jesus Saves" shirt to school (also free speech, and is pretty close to a real life example). As far as I can tell, EFF seems to support free speech/freedom of expression pretty evenly.
Before you think, "Oh no! My ears ring, maybe it's because of all those MP3/Oggs, video games, and my dvd player," consider what effects caffeine might be having on your system. "Large" amounts of caffeine have been known to cause ringing in the ears (among other things). It's probably pretty safe to say that on average, geeks and slashdotters tend to consume a lot of caffeine. Christian Oliver has some interesting ideas, but perhaps his concerns are unwarranted.
My 15 yr old sister and 11 yr old brother get a real kick out of harassing those bots. I don't know why, but they're always thinking up new ways to insult them. My guess is that most everyone in their target demographic is going to be like that. Perhaps it's just human nature, my customers harass me just about as badly, and I'm human. Anyway, what the articles didn't seem to mention was that these two particular bots (SmarterChild and LindsayBuddy) don't seek out people to talk to. At least not that I've seen. They'll talk to you as long as you are willing to talk, but they don't initiate anything.
Actually, the Japanese are more capitalist than Americans at least in one respect. When the U.S. Government places environmental restrictions on vehicles, it prohibits, say, GM from selling it's device's designs to any other company. Each company has to develop the devices seperately. Free market, or capitalism, would allow the sale of such designs between companies, but no, not in America. However, in Japan, this isn't the case. Not only does the Japanese government allow the sale of such designs between companies, it often assists companys making deals with foreign corporations. America is behind because it is less capitalistic, not more. BTW, there are other reasons why America is behind, not just the capitalism thing. We Americans have become lazy, not just physically, but also mentally.
is to patent the process whereby one obtains a patent. If we do that, perhaps we can end this nonsense. But in all seriousness, how many of these trully absurd patents have ever made it to court? Has the British telco that patented hyperlinks attempted to sue anyone for the use of them? The funniest part of all this is that the companies would waste the money to apply for such worthless patents in the first place.
Yeah, Robert A. Heinlein wrote it. Basic plotline: Manuel Davis (computer geek) finds out that the Lunar Colony computer system (Mike) is sentient and convinces Mike to help him free the colony. It's a very liberterian work. I enjoyed it ;)
Stiller's portrayal of fitness gurus was spot on in Heavyweights! Absolutely hilarious. Between his acting and the costumes they had for him I almost didn't realise that it was him. Of course, I sometimes miss the obvious ;)
Well, I don't know about Bebop, but Gundam (at least 08th MS Team and Wing) doesn't have any sex in it. Violence, yes, but mostly "big metal robots." Besides, from what I've seen, Gundam always shows just how real war is. There's a strong pacifistic message in Gundam Wing, and Shiro Amada (of 08th) doesn't enjoy killing either. It would be really disappointing to me if CN cancelled its airing of these shows for such shallow reasons.
Hahaha, I've got more than I know what to do with. I end up checking one of them every few minutes, and the others once or twice a week. The real reason I have more than one isn't so much to keep work and personal seperate (though I do that also), it's to have an e-mail address or so for spam bait. Nearly everything you can sign up for online begs for an e-mail address, and everyone's trying to load your box up with junk. Well, I'm sure you get the point.
Hate to point this out, but Gnome isn't a part of the Linux OS. It is a window manager, and most of those are bound to be bloated anyway. You may think this is splitting hairs, but Linux functions without a window manager, Windows (not counting the DOS side) does not function without a window manager.
Jah, they have this new thing, I think it's called IRC. You can talk to a lot of people at once. If you're running a bloatware OS (like Windows), it can be downright easy to use (with mIRC or the like). You should try it.