I've personally been *demoted* for asking about funding continuous education!
My manager was OK with it, he even submitted the request to HR, who then submitted it to his boss for approval. His boss had an issue with it, and came to me and said, "If you think you need additional education, you're not as sharp as we need you to be." and then, since Texas is an at-will state (as in, they can fire you, at will, for any reason any time), I was summarily dismissed.
I'm sure this happens everywhere. I read your post as Insightful, not Funny. Your WHOOOSH was just disappointing.
I **seriously** doubt that Pilot Corp. would go out of their way to sue someone for buying that model in Japan and selling them, at profit, in America. And even if they did, I seriously doubt they'd win!
That's why I choose PHP on the LAPP stack (postgres vs mysql). I have the entire source code for my stuff and they're all permissively licensed (much more lenient than GPL) so the odds of them ever being abandoned are very remote.
No... I just register each Kindle device myself. I never would give someone my Amazon password!! Then they could surreptiously buy stuff on my credit cards so easily I'd end up bankrupt!
I won't even friend my lover on Facebook. She can get really jealous over crazy stuff.
The other day she said, casually, "Maybe I should get you to friend me on Facebook. Then I could see who all your friends are and which pretty ladies you're flirting with."::sigh::
That the White House is against SOPA/PIPA is *such* a joke since it alone could veto both bills. Do you really think both houses have the 66% plurality to override the President? I sure don’t! Not in an election year with such horrible pieces of legislation!
Obama could end it now just by saying, affirmatively, that he’d veto it.
Instead he pussyfoots around enough that every libtard believes he’s “against” it. No, he’s not really against it. And if the recent legislation is any guide, he doesn’t like it because it doesn’t let him unilaterally shut down sites himself.
It's not possible with modern optics to view the presumed Moon landing sites with any telescope currently in existence, for various claimed reasons.
Otherwise, I could guaran-fucking-tee you there'd be pictures from said telescope(s) to shut up the people who have limited faith in a government prone to genocide, rigged elections, lack of due process, and epic misdirections and subterfuge used to invade helpless and innocent countries, worldwide.
There are 45,240 people with my name. Many have the same middle initial.
At a hospital in Houston, where I go, there's two of us with the exact same name, born on the same day, at the same hospital, and our social security numbers are offset by 3 numbers (just 1 digit). It's very confusing and I get a ton of bills directed for that guy.
Scientific spiritualism means that I am not willing to state, authoritatively, that there is nothing but atoms and energy.
It means that I must -- out of open mind and an earnest search for Truth, wherever it may lead -- examine every belief system I have, regularly, and cast out that which I can disprove and accept that I do not have many answers at all.
I am not a materialist, I am not a god worshipper (I have absolutely no proof that there's some cosmic being anything like a god), but I also do not discount synchronicities, the possibility that consciousness affects and may even pervade the Cosmos.
There probably is something bigger than Me. But I'm just not positive! Ergo, I'm a scientific spiritualist.
Corporations love the GPL because it looks like it's freely available code when in reality it's the HIV of software licenses...
If you ever get intimately familiar with the code, you'll find all your children (derivative works) are infected, and if you distribute their compiled works without giving away your entire intellectual property for free, you'll find yourself killed off in the courts by FSF fanatics.
Most religions have been superseded in the 21st Century by finding several Seem-To-Be-Truths by and through Yourself, also known as rational, open-minded, scientific Spiritualism.
If you want to stick to old, close-minded, blind-faith-based, Zero Century religious institutions, be my guest, but please don't talk about it openly as if it's a good or even acceptable thing to do.
A *real* thorny question is, "What counts as distribution?"
I work at a place with numerous servers. Development, qa, staging, and numerous production servers. We create a package to release to the various servers, which we upload, unpack, and build on disparate boxes. It's almost the same as my GPL'd (unfortunately!) C++ app.
Now, does that count as distribution? The GPL is not clear, and I bet a zealot, if pressed, would say yes. Therefore, the company I work for (and thousands of others) seems to be at risk of losing its source code due to GPL zealotry.
The GPL harms the overall free software movement by attempting to be a morality license that requires it to be viral and 100% complete.
By doing so it alienates people who want to hold on to their own valuable code *and* prohibits them from sharing *any* changes they make to said code. It also stifles creativity, as the economic benefit from writing GPLed code is near zero (by design), and estranges the greater population of expert software engineers from the open source society.
Look, Obama's going to say something *this year* like, "IPv4 is over, we need IPv6 now but there's no killer app. I want to take over the Commerce Department [he just said this], and I want to create an Internet ID for every U.S. citizen and require that for buying and selling [he just said that, too]."
The next step is to create an IPv6 registry and assign every person their own little subnet of, say, 1024 addresses. Then it will be mandated into law that people must only use their IPv6 address (no proxies, etc.) when making online purchases. Or perhaps it will just tie into the algorithms that way: IPv6 doesn't match name, no sale. Later, more legislation can extend this to all online activities and even logging into local computer accounts (they may call it "Verified Computing").
The IPv6 could, for bonus points, include a checksum of the person's DNA, thus allowing for easy IDing later, as the police state encloses further.
Scary scifi or prescient horror? We're going to find out, and soon!
I'm not skilled in embedded systems at all. I didn't see the word "embedded" in his comment at all, and I didn't even know you could have databases in embedded apps, either. What? it must be SQLite or something similar, right?
I see evidence of his route all the time, however, in my world of dynamic website languages, however, and my advice is worth something there.
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I've personally been *demoted* for asking about funding continuous education!
My manager was OK with it, he even submitted the request to HR, who then submitted it to his boss for approval. His boss had an issue with it, and came to me and said, "If you think you need additional education, you're not as sharp as we need you to be." and then, since Texas is an at-will state (as in, they can fire you, at will, for any reason any time), I was summarily dismissed.
I'm sure this happens everywhere. I read your post as Insightful, not Funny. Your WHOOOSH was just disappointing.
Do you have a link on this subject? I'd like to know more.
Why the hell is this modded "Funny"?! It's very true on every level!
You're an absolute fool if you don't think the /ncr link won't be blocked by every government and corporate firewall on the planet!!
IT IS NOT A WORKAROUND IN PLACES THAT BLOCK STUFF LIKE TOR! (e.g. China).
So?!?!
I **seriously** doubt that Pilot Corp. would go out of their way to sue someone for buying that model in Japan and selling them, at profit, in America. And even if they did, I seriously doubt they'd win!
OMG! There's also the very inappropriate extra apostrophe in "Nazis".
No pictures were included, so how can we form our own, uneducated, opinions???
That's why I choose PHP on the LAPP stack (postgres vs mysql). I have the entire source code for my stuff and they're all permissively licensed (much more lenient than GPL) so the odds of them ever being abandoned are very remote.
No... I just register each Kindle device myself. I never would give someone my Amazon password!! Then they could surreptiously buy stuff on my credit cards so easily I'd end up bankrupt!
I won't even friend my lover on Facebook. She can get really jealous over crazy stuff.
The other day she said, casually, "Maybe I should get you to friend me on Facebook. Then I could see who all your friends are and which pretty ladies you're flirting with." ::sigh::
OH, but I **do** create hypotheses, experiments and tests for everything I can, and I rely on evidence to guide me everywhere.
You're just close-minded and/or out dated.
That the White House is against SOPA/PIPA is *such* a joke since it alone could veto both bills. Do you really think both houses have the 66% plurality to override the President? I sure don’t! Not in an election year with such horrible pieces of legislation!
Obama could end it now just by saying, affirmatively, that he’d veto it.
Instead he pussyfoots around enough that every libtard believes he’s “against” it. No, he’s not really against it. And if the recent legislation is any guide, he doesn’t like it because it doesn’t let him unilaterally shut down sites himself.
It's not possible with modern optics to view the presumed Moon landing sites with any telescope currently in existence, for various claimed reasons.
Otherwise, I could guaran-fucking-tee you there'd be pictures from said telescope(s) to shut up the people who have limited faith in a government prone to genocide, rigged elections, lack of due process, and epic misdirections and subterfuge used to invade helpless and innocent countries, worldwide.
There are 45,240 people with my name. Many have the same middle initial.
At a hospital in Houston, where I go, there's two of us with the exact same name, born on the same day, at the same hospital, and our social security numbers are offset by 3 numbers (just 1 digit). It's very confusing and I get a ton of bills directed for that guy.
Scientific spiritualism means that I am not willing to state, authoritatively, that there is nothing but atoms and energy.
It means that I must -- out of open mind and an earnest search for Truth, wherever it may lead -- examine every belief system I have, regularly, and cast out that which I can disprove and accept that I do not have many answers at all.
I am not a materialist, I am not a god worshipper (I have absolutely no proof that there's some cosmic being anything like a god), but I also do not discount synchronicities, the possibility that consciousness affects and may even pervade the Cosmos.
There probably is something bigger than Me. But I'm just not positive! Ergo, I'm a scientific spiritualist.
Corporations love the GPL because it looks like it's freely available code when in reality it's the HIV of software licenses...
If you ever get intimately familiar with the code, you'll find all your children (derivative works) are infected, and if you distribute their compiled works without giving away your entire intellectual property for free, you'll find yourself killed off in the courts by FSF fanatics.
Most religions have been superseded in the 21st Century by finding several Seem-To-Be-Truths by and through Yourself, also known as rational, open-minded, scientific Spiritualism.
If you want to stick to old, close-minded, blind-faith-based, Zero Century religious institutions, be my guest, but please don't talk about it openly as if it's a good or even acceptable thing to do.
Straight from the horse's mouth:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html
A *real* thorny question is, "What counts as distribution?"
I work at a place with numerous servers. Development, qa, staging, and numerous production servers. We create a package to release to the various servers, which we upload, unpack, and build on disparate boxes. It's almost the same as my GPL'd (unfortunately!) C++ app.
Now, does that count as distribution? The GPL is not clear, and I bet a zealot, if pressed, would say yes. Therefore, the company I work for (and thousands of others) seems to be at risk of losing its source code due to GPL zealotry.
That's why everyone should stay away from it.
The GPL harms the overall free software movement by attempting to be a morality license that requires it to be viral and 100% complete.
By doing so it alienates people who want to hold on to their own valuable code *and* prohibits them from sharing *any* changes they make to said code. It also stifles creativity, as the economic benefit from writing GPLed code is near zero (by design), and estranges the greater population of expert software engineers from the open source society.
Um not since the patent law was changed in late 2011!
Now it's first to file, bud.
That's what personalized IPv6 addresses are for!!
Look, Obama's going to say something *this year* like, "IPv4 is over, we need IPv6 now but there's no killer app. I want to take over the Commerce Department [he just said this], and I want to create an Internet ID for every U.S. citizen and require that for buying and selling [he just said that, too]."
The next step is to create an IPv6 registry and assign every person their own little subnet of, say, 1024 addresses. Then it will be mandated into law that people must only use their IPv6 address (no proxies, etc.) when making online purchases. Or perhaps it will just tie into the algorithms that way: IPv6 doesn't match name, no sale. Later, more legislation can extend this to all online activities and even logging into local computer accounts (they may call it "Verified Computing").
The IPv6 could, for bonus points, include a checksum of the person's DNA, thus allowing for easy IDing later, as the police state encloses further.
Scary scifi or prescient horror? We're going to find out, and soon!
I'm not skilled in embedded systems at all. I didn't see the word "embedded" in his comment at all, and I didn't even know you could have databases in embedded apps, either. What? it must be SQLite or something similar, right?
I see evidence of his route all the time, however, in my world of dynamic website languages, however, and my advice is worth something there.
That's why noobs use editors while professionals use IDEs.
True Debugging (with breakpoints, etc.) is *essential* for any medium+ sized Object Oriented project.
Give them time.