Well I'm not sure that there is an actually legal definition of being fired but in most sane instances go something like being told you're fired or permanently laid off, being told to stop working, being asked to remove any personal property and to return any company property, then leaving the premises and being informed when and how any compensation owed to you would be made. I on the other hand was in a psychotic instance where I was frequently told I was fired, but expected to remain on the premises and doing my job for the agreed upon compensation. Being told "you're fired" seemed to translate into "I'm really angry because you didn't this sow's ear into a silk purse in the ridiculously short period of time I gave you to do it in."
Once I got fired five times in one day, after one of the firings I tried to leave the premises and was physically blocked! It really blows an employer's credibility when they say your fired and then not make you leave, I think I got half my pay raises immediately after being fired.
The problem is the computer is better at supervising and directing the other robots so the few highly skilled robot supers are SOL; and the humans are still better at hand-eye coordination and compensating for minor variences than the robots are. That means we are good at what we don't want to do and poorer at the things we do want to do. My cousin used to run group homes for retarded citizens, some of them had fine motor skills that were mind-boggling.
Seti used to use a tag-a-long receivers that just recorded in whatever direction somebody else happened to point the telescope, now they have their own telescope. I'm sure if an other astronomer wanted data from seti they'd be more than happy to provide it. SETI@home really was done to develop the distributed computing methods, you can now install BOINC and allocate resources to numerous projects from pure science, to computing to provide a commercial company a potential financial gain like cancer research
After I posted that I went back and installed Gimp and it does have CMYK support as well as ICC profiles, but from what I understand is the new "latest and greatest" presses are being inputed directly in RGB, not CMYK so if you really need the bleeding edge you need to work in RGB. When I do the work like that, I get the colors to what I think are perfect on my monitor, everything layed out exactly in scribus, then it's sent out to the printer who then sends back a faxed "proof" which my idiot boss approves after they tweek things which means any color is changed to spot-colors in what ever they have the most unused ink in and I get back a 1000 brochures with the gate-folded panels out of order.
Gimp supports CMYK, and profiles. Use cinepaint for movies, has a flipbook, handles 8/16/32 bit fixed and floating point color, cimeron and EXR file formats, when Glasgow ever gets released there will be a brand new light weight GUI designed by the professionals you claim to be so your computer uses more resources for work and less for an eyecandy UI.
I even used Film Gimp on a couple of movies because it was my only choice to paint in 32bpc. it's been many, many years since you could get software named film Gimp, it's been Cinepaint for a decade or so. Why is CMYK so important, don't the new, modern presses use RGB natively now?
don't say that GIMP should orientate on Adobe Photoshop. But at least it should also do a complete redesign of the GUI. For a complex program like that they also shouldn't go to tight with the Gnome UI definitions, it is completely okay to go the "blender way" - a own UI for a program like the blender 3D program. They did and you got it backwards, they made the GTK, Gimp Tool KitMiguel de Icaza, used that for the basis for Gnome. De Icaza used GTK because it was GPLed and the Qt toolkit from Trolltech was free as in free beer at the time. The Gnome supporters started a Holy-war against KDE because of this and now de Icaza is a Microsoft shill, ain't life strange?
Do you honestly think everyone switching to a different OS would solve the problem? now that would be pretty silly; better to have several different well secured OSes and letting people choose between them, have each computer having it's own different OS would stop the malware, but it would also limit desired software
The NIH has been know to research a drug, run the trials and gain FDA approval and then give it away to a manufacturer who in turn sells the drug to patients for $6400.00 a day for the rest of their lives. We could say the research was a work for hire and all your bases belong to us.
How is the business model of those or any journals harmed? Do the scientists have an obligation to publish in those journals? Do those journals consider the researchers chattle, employees or independent investigators? These scientists need to rebel against this system before they find themselves in a situation similar to what you find with the musicians, the record labels and the RIAA. These scientists have some pretty advanced degrees, I would presume that they can weight the costs and benefits of excepting NIH grant money.
dude you screwed up and posted that to/., you know News for Nerds, the few of us that aren't anti-social whacko's getting too many wedgies from the jocks around here pretend to be just to fit in!
Actually from what I've read it's a case of less than astutue public officals being repeatedly embarassed for wasting and squandering public funds and failing to take advantage or having knowlege of federal grant money. take a look at the Blog and see if you agree. would you think this is libelous?
I wonder what the school Principals and teachers think about how much money they are spending to silence us. Especially when they promised each teacher a $250 stipend for their classroom and then took the amounts out of the teachers' budgets, rather than out of the "big" budget. Where exactly is the Board and the Administration's priority?
You have to be a pretty major dirtbag and really piss of the judge to get sequential rather than concurent sentences, I know a guy that wrote letters to judges pleading guilty to his traffic tickets and asked for a concurent sentence with his felon conviction and got it!
Yeah the difference between Hollywood fantasy and reality is pretty extreme, just ask Paris Hilton I bet she never imagined that the judge would get that pissed just because she showed up late for court, I mean like the director never got attitude for it did he?
it's flamebait if your a homophobe, it sickens me what happened to Alan Turring especialy after the contribution he made to the world; he easily saved millions of lives by leading the team that broke the enigma cade.
She was a translator for a Russian "Dating Service" or one of it's clients, seems a few "seasoned" freinds could be pretty easy fot her to aquire along the way. As likely as not a few parasitic "seasoned" freinds would be hard to avoid around that business.
There are four countries that border the US, Canada, Mexico, Cuba and Russia; you can almost drive a car to Russia. The last little bit is by boat plane or snowmobile. A Japonese compnay has offered to dig a tunnel between Russia and the US for half-price. It would be very cool to travel from New York to England by rail the long way!
I don't know but marrying the rich American or the GI stationed overseas to get a green card isn't exactly an original thought. Then she discovers she can skim a small fortune off the books which is a huge fortune back home, so the whole thing seems very plausable, who's going to believe the computer nerd, especially if she manages to provoke some violence in public and get a restraining order. Even if they catch her it'll be "BooHoo I was so afraid; I only took the half that was mine BooHoo!" then it'll be a pity-party for her; that is if she really isn't sleeping with the fishes.
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Well I'm not sure that there is an actually legal definition of being fired but in most sane instances go something like being told you're fired or permanently laid off, being told to stop working, being asked to remove any personal property and to return any company property, then leaving the premises and being informed when and how any compensation owed to you would be made. I on the other hand was in a psychotic instance where I was frequently told I was fired, but expected to remain on the premises and doing my job for the agreed upon compensation. Being told "you're fired" seemed to translate into "I'm really angry because you didn't this sow's ear into a silk purse in the ridiculously short period of time I gave you to do it in."
Once I got fired five times in one day, after one of the firings I tried to leave the premises and was physically blocked! It really blows an employer's credibility when they say your fired and then not make you leave, I think I got half my pay raises immediately after being fired.
The problem is the computer is better at supervising and directing the other robots so the few highly skilled robot supers are SOL; and the humans are still better at hand-eye coordination and compensating for minor variences than the robots are. That means we are good at what we don't want to do and poorer at the things we do want to do. My cousin used to run group homes for retarded citizens, some of them had fine motor skills that were mind-boggling.
No it's like pimping your sister and having a leper tell you she too ugly to have sex with.
But that's the reason bribery has such a stronghold Everyone who does isn't starving. Think of it like tipping.
Most everybody does.
Yeah didn't the author warn us that the bablefish caused more and bloodier war than anything else?
Hey I only do that stuff behind closed doors, Miguel went from being the pitbull attack dog for RMS to saying .NET and OOXML are good in public
Seti used to use a tag-a-long receivers that just recorded in whatever direction somebody else happened to point the telescope, now they have their own telescope. I'm sure if an other astronomer wanted data from seti they'd be more than happy to provide it. SETI@home really was done to develop the distributed computing methods, you can now install BOINC and allocate resources to numerous projects from pure science, to computing to provide a commercial company a potential financial gain like cancer research
Exactly the colors shift a bit, there is no conversions in the latest work-flows, the press runs on the same RGB as the computer monitors feeding them
After I posted that I went back and installed Gimp and it does have CMYK support as well as ICC profiles, but from what I understand is the new "latest and greatest" presses are being inputed directly in RGB, not CMYK so if you really need the bleeding edge you need to work in RGB. When I do the work like that, I get the colors to what I think are perfect on my monitor, everything layed out exactly in scribus, then it's sent out to the printer who then sends back a faxed "proof" which my idiot boss approves after they tweek things which means any color is changed to spot-colors in what ever they have the most unused ink in and I get back a 1000 brochures with the gate-folded panels out of order.
Gimp supports CMYK, and profiles. Use cinepaint for movies, has a flipbook, handles 8/16/32 bit fixed and floating point color, cimeron and EXR file formats, when Glasgow ever gets released there will be a brand new light weight GUI designed by the professionals you claim to be so your computer uses more resources for work and less for an eyecandy UI.
I even used Film Gimp on a couple of movies because it was my only choice to paint in 32bpc.
it's been many, many years since you could get software named film Gimp, it's been Cinepaint for a decade or so. Why is CMYK so important, don't the new, modern presses use RGB natively now?
don't say that GIMP should orientate on Adobe Photoshop. But at least it should also do a complete redesign of the GUI. For a complex program like that they also shouldn't go to tight with the Gnome UI definitions, it is completely okay to go the "blender way" - a own UI for a program like the blender 3D program.
They did and you got it backwards, they made the GTK, Gimp Tool KitMiguel de Icaza, used that for the basis for Gnome. De Icaza used GTK because it was GPLed and the Qt toolkit from Trolltech was free as in free beer at the time. The Gnome supporters started a Holy-war against KDE because of this and now de Icaza is a Microsoft shill, ain't life strange?
Do you honestly think everyone switching to a different OS would solve the problem? now that would be pretty silly; better to have several different well secured OSes and letting people choose between them, have each computer having it's own different OS would stop the malware, but it would also limit desired software
The NIH has been know to research a drug, run the trials and gain FDA approval and then give it away to a manufacturer who in turn sells the drug to patients for $6400.00 a day for the rest of their lives. We could say the research was a work for hire and all your bases belong to us.
How is the business model of those or any journals harmed? Do the scientists have an obligation to publish in those journals? Do those journals consider the researchers chattle, employees or independent investigators? These scientists need to rebel against this system before they find themselves in a situation similar to what you find with the musicians, the record labels and the RIAA. These scientists have some pretty advanced degrees, I would presume that they can weight the costs and benefits of excepting NIH grant money.
dude you screwed up and posted that to /., you know News for Nerds, the few of us that aren't anti-social whacko's getting too many wedgies from the jocks around here pretend to be just to fit in!
You have to be a pretty major dirtbag and really piss of the judge to get sequential rather than concurent sentences, I know a guy that wrote letters to judges pleading guilty to his traffic tickets and asked for a concurent sentence with his felon conviction and got it!
Yeah the difference between Hollywood fantasy and reality is pretty extreme, just ask Paris Hilton I bet she never imagined that the judge would get that pissed just because she showed up late for court, I mean like the director never got attitude for it did he?
it's flamebait if your a homophobe, it sickens me what happened to Alan Turring especialy after the contribution he made to the world; he easily saved millions of lives by leading the team that broke the enigma cade.
She was a translator for a Russian "Dating Service" or one of it's clients, seems a few "seasoned" freinds could be pretty easy fot her to aquire along the way. As likely as not a few parasitic "seasoned" freinds would be hard to avoid around that business.
There are four countries that border the US, Canada, Mexico, Cuba and Russia; you can almost drive a car to Russia. The last little bit is by boat plane or snowmobile. A Japonese compnay has offered to dig a tunnel between Russia and the US for half-price. It would be very cool to travel from New York to England by rail the long way!
I don't know but marrying the rich American or the GI stationed overseas to get a green card isn't exactly an original thought. Then she discovers she can skim a small fortune off the books which is a huge fortune back home, so the whole thing seems very plausable, who's going to believe the computer nerd, especially if she manages to provoke some violence in public and get a restraining order. Even if they catch her it'll be "BooHoo I was so afraid; I only took the half that was mine BooHoo!" then it'll be a pity-party for her; that is if she really isn't sleeping with the fishes.